For a brief moment of my life, I got up as soon as my alarm went off. It was always exciting to see what MP3s were downloaded overnight from the queue.
In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?
Too many, I'm afraid. But do you remember the first time you had broadband and the time needed to download an mp3 was so short that you can't queue up the next download.
Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up.
I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an upgrade is on my todo list. ;)
I moved dorms almost entirely for this reason when I was in College. The new dorms were being built with a broadband Internet connection straight into the College network.
It was leecher heaven!
That is until some wiseass thought it'd be a good idea to run a private ftp site for a piracy group from their dorm room. The damn thing saturated the entire network until they got caught.
I didn't have internet in my dorm, so I was downloading mp3s at university and retrieving them at home by floppy disk. That is, 128kbps mp3s, which is about 1MB per minute (iirc), on 1.44MB floppy disks. split(1) to the rescue. I did the same for (short) videos too. Crazy days.
I think i pissed off some kids in the neighborhood when i started doing CDRs for the cost of the disc (or bring your own and i'll fill it up), when they had been selling them at a 100% (or more) markup...
For me the phone bill was even bigger issuer than slow download speed. Our local telephone company charged more than $1 per hour for all calls. I remember my parents being furious after seeing the bills.
Restaurants need opinions from customers to influence other customers. Tripadvisor, and a bit less Yelp, are the main tools in internet to promote their business.
We started to use Slack in our company but it wasn't adopted by most of the people. Desktop version requires too much resources and it was unacceptable. We backed to Skype again. Has anyone ever had same experience?
I would like to know whether you believe that there is any possibility of create SCADA systems using InfluxData platform. I was looking for examples in Google but I found only a pair of websites. Nothing serious.
Someone made studies about running in summer or winter? Because if you go out in winter and you are exposure to low temperatures you would burn more calories. I think my Strava is not taking account this factor. Always I'm having same calories burnt in same distance.
It looks amazing but getting data from a twitter mainstream with geolocalized tweets as other social data as well is not difficult to implement. In my opinion the key is how to create that map from scratch.
