Taunting

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
> news:a6268ff63c58cba9bbc96d82e4 at news.digitalmars.com...
> 
>> Hello Nick,
>> 
>>> what they can do is additionally provide a
>>> non-youtube/flash version. Which should be really [censored] easy
>>> since
>>> they had to have already had one in order to upload it to craptube
>>> in
>>> the first place.
> Ha ha, you censored the "f^&*^&*"? :)
> 

And you just proved that not showing something sometimes makes a bigger point 
than showing it <g>

>> If they can, yes, but they might not have access to general file
>> hosting or if they do, the bandwidth to steam video.
>> 
> 1. Sure, some people may not, but considering how cheap and easy good
> hosting packages are these days,

a.k.a. almost but /not/ free.

> I find it hard to believe that, out
> of a group of programmers, any more than a small minority wouldn't
> have reasonable hosting.

I don't because I can't afford it.

> I mean look at me, I can't afford basic
> airfare to go to a conference (or any of the repairs that my car
> currently needs), but I still have a gig or so of hosted space and
> about 100x as much bandwidth as I'm actually using.

The cheapest hosting package I've seen would be about 15-25% of my income 
after expenses; food, rent, power (to run my Intel brand heaters), tuition.

> 2. Torrent

For me that is even less accessible. I don't have a torrent client because 
I'd have to be rude: http://xkcd.com/553/

Torrents has the problem that many places need to throttle them to let other 
stuff thought and for torrents, the only way to throttle them is ban and 
block them completely like my university tries to do.