All the 18-29 year olds that I know will sit there and text and facebook and whatnot while they're talking to you. I don't think they would be polite enough to fake a phone call to not want to talk to me... I'd think they would just get up and leave.
Then again, maybe I'm just a lot of fun to talk to
Huh? Oh, are you still here? I was doing something else. What were you talking about? Oh, wait, I have this important text message to read, hold that thought.
If we allow considering this "disruption of services", companies will start having crappy e-mail systems on purpose just so they have the option open to sue people.
You mean, more people will switch to Exchange? Bite your tongue!
And on tonight's news, climate scientists all over the globe are decrying a report that claims the research and models of the climate scientists are wrong. Alarmist all over the world have shaken their fists in anger and retorted with angry words while trying to avoid having to explain how their current climate models don't match up with reality.
I work in a manufacturing environment, a realm of time forgotten, where software once written never changes and geek has to keep an active reference machine alive for every Microsoft OS. I am still actively using MS-DOS 6.22 on machines that running test diagnostics. The old QuickBASIC program uses the serial port and does some simple things to the system to which it is connected. And I cannot escape this fate.
If you were that bothered you'd get another job. Real life is different from studying computer science at college.
I work in a manufacturing environment, a realm of time forgotten, where software once written never changes and geek has to keep an active reference machine alive for every Microsoft OS. I am still actively using MS-DOS 6.22 on machines that running test diagnostics. The old QuickBASIC program uses the serial port and does some simple things to the system to which it is connected. And I cannot escape this fate.
You cannot compare competition within wireless to wired. For one, the wireless folks only need to build one tower to serve hundreds. The wired providers has to run hundreds of physical lines. The cost of implementation is the key factor, it is a barrier to entry. Wireless does not have this problem. That said, no consumer wins in fights like this. The few remaining providers will hike prices up, knowing that there is no other competition. The government is needed in a case like this limit the abuse that has already happened.
We shall now call an object in solar orbit, a Solar Orbiting Object. Size will be a secondary classification, with descriptive terms like Large (LaSOO), Medium (MeSOO) and Small (SmaSOO). If it is the object has cleared its orbit, it is the primary object of that orbit, so we have Primary (Pri) and Shared (Sha). Under this system, Pluto is a ShaSmaSOO and Jupiter is a PriLaSOO.
For the objects that orbit a SOO, it is a SOOOO, a Solar Orbiting Object Orbiting Object. Primary and Shared designations morph a bit to mean that the object is the only "moon" (Primary) or one of many (Shared). The size classification for a "moon" would be relative to a "moon" scale. Earth has a PriLaSOOOO. Mars, with its two small SOOOO, would be ShaSmaSOOOO's.
since it's been acting like an jealous ex ever since G+ showed up...
And so they should. I mean, when someone is a valid thread to your dominant position, the SOP is do everything in your power to protect your position, thus insuring that you remain in power. It's worked for so many companies!/sarcasm
Still running XP SP3, and happily so. Vista, Win7...not a single feature I've seen has been compelling enough to encourage an upgrade. Office 2000...guess what, it writes text documents just as well as Office 2010. Upgrade-itis. It isn't always a good thing. The factory floor is humming along with no crashes. I would like to keep it that way.
In my prior experiments with VoIP from my computer, the audio quality was the suck and keeping a clean connection was difficult. I could never keep a connection for more than 30 seconds. Everything sounded "hollow", like the person talking to me was in a big metal box. Maybe a dedicated VoIP phone would solve that problem.
It needs to be either/or due to the cost. Maybe some of y'all have the money to spend on PSTN+Crappy DSL AND Mobile+Data plan. I do not. I can afford one, or the other, but not both at the same time. The plans by US mobile carriers don't fit me. I have, maybe, 60 minutes of talk time per month. But I need massive data. There is no mobile+data plan that fits that. They are hugely expensive plans that give you 3G/4G and 2000 minutes per month with "limited" data after a certain number per month. My DSL is unlimited, as in, only limited by the number of hours in a month.
I don't want to check my e-mail at McDonalds, or while on the road. I don't need to be that connected to the world, and I pity the people that feel they must.
I do not like cell phones. They are devilish devices that encourage the stupid to be even more stupid behind the wheel of a car. They are possibly the worst invention thrust upon mankind. That said, I do own a pay-as-you-go cell phone for cases of road-side assistance. I spend about $20 a year for it. The mobile phone plans in the USA are monstrosities. They are convoluted and expensive. I keep my old telephone because it works, even when the power goes out. When the hurricane blew through Ohio and places lost power for days and weeks, I still had phone service while my neighbor's cell phones died and the local cell towers lost power. My big old phone has excellent voice quality, a big old speaker in the handset to hear the caller.
I will not go quietly. You will not take my phone service.
The broadband quality in my rural area sucks, big time. I can barely stream Netflix movies, let alone consider making phone calls with it.
With confusing names like Picasa and Blogger, I was at a loss to understand what those products were and who owned them. Thank goodness Google has cleared up this mystery. Now I can go back to sorting my pocket lint by color and size.
The fact is the FBI should be required to have a warrant for this kind of intrusive surveillance.
How do you know they didn't? A secret warrant, issued by a secret court, the very one responsible for secret warrants, which by acknowledging having a secret warrant, would be a felony offense. That is what the secret court is set up for, because some investigations are so sensitive, as to require a cloak from the public, for the protection of the investigation.
The system exists for good reasons, but can be used for bad reasons. It is hoped that the good outweighs the bed in the long-term.
Note that the FBI has not claimed anything of the kind.
Ya don't get it, do ya. Of course they aren't going to admit A SECRET INVESTIGATION. They will come up with any other excuse to shunt the attention elsewhere. The whole idea of a secret investigation to root out terrorists, who also never come out and admit their plots ahead of time, is never actually revealing the secret.
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All the 18-29 year olds that I know will sit there and text and facebook and whatnot while they're talking to you. I don't think they would be polite enough to fake a phone call to not want to talk to me... I'd think they would just get up and leave.
Then again, maybe I'm just a lot of fun to talk to
Huh? Oh, are you still here? I was doing something else. What were you talking about? Oh, wait, I have this important text message to read, hold that thought.
...trying hard to avoid a pirate joke. Trying...so...hard...
If we allow considering this "disruption of services", companies will start having crappy e-mail systems on purpose just so they have the option open to sue people.
You mean, more people will switch to Exchange? Bite your tongue!
And on tonight's news, climate scientists all over the globe are decrying a report that claims the research and models of the climate scientists are wrong. Alarmist all over the world have shaken their fists in anger and retorted with angry words while trying to avoid having to explain how their current climate models don't match up with reality.
Back to you, Wendy.
I work in a manufacturing environment, a realm of time forgotten, where software once written never changes and geek has to keep an active reference machine alive for every Microsoft OS. I am still actively using MS-DOS 6.22 on machines that running test diagnostics. The old QuickBASIC program uses the serial port and does some simple things to the system to which it is connected. And I cannot escape this fate.
If you were that bothered you'd get another job. Real life is different from studying computer science at college.
This fate pays well for the now.
And the majority of the software folk go "we need a language that's not stewarded by Beelzebub himself"
Will these be the same developers using Visual Studio?
I work in a manufacturing environment, a realm of time forgotten, where software once written never changes and geek has to keep an active reference machine alive for every Microsoft OS. I am still actively using MS-DOS 6.22 on machines that running test diagnostics. The old QuickBASIC program uses the serial port and does some simple things to the system to which it is connected. And I cannot escape this fate.
You cannot compare competition within wireless to wired. For one, the wireless folks only need to build one tower to serve hundreds. The wired providers has to run hundreds of physical lines. The cost of implementation is the key factor, it is a barrier to entry. Wireless does not have this problem. That said, no consumer wins in fights like this. The few remaining providers will hike prices up, knowing that there is no other competition. The government is needed in a case like this limit the abuse that has already happened.
Let's make it even more confusing.
We shall now call an object in solar orbit, a Solar Orbiting Object. Size will be a secondary classification, with descriptive terms like Large (LaSOO), Medium (MeSOO) and Small (SmaSOO). If it is the object has cleared its orbit, it is the primary object of that orbit, so we have Primary (Pri) and Shared (Sha). Under this system, Pluto is a ShaSmaSOO and Jupiter is a PriLaSOO.
For the objects that orbit a SOO, it is a SOOOO, a Solar Orbiting Object Orbiting Object. Primary and Shared designations morph a bit to mean that the object is the only "moon" (Primary) or one of many (Shared). The size classification for a "moon" would be relative to a "moon" scale. Earth has a PriLaSOOOO. Mars, with its two small SOOOO, would be ShaSmaSOOOO's.
There. Are we clear as mud now?
since it's been acting like an jealous ex ever since G+ showed up...
And so they should. I mean, when someone is a valid thread to your dominant position, the SOP is do everything in your power to protect your position, thus insuring that you remain in power. It's worked for so many companies! /sarcasm
It's the internet! Your sins will always be there!
I will give you that, yes. But, G+ is chance to create all new sins!
You have my sympathies for having to use Safari.
Just ignore anything from FaceBook and Twitter, and start anew. Treat G+ as a chance to wipe away the sins of the past.
Still running XP SP3, and happily so. Vista, Win7...not a single feature I've seen has been compelling enough to encourage an upgrade. Office 2000...guess what, it writes text documents just as well as Office 2010. Upgrade-itis. It isn't always a good thing. The factory floor is humming along with no crashes. I would like to keep it that way.
*whoosh*
That was the Jet Fighter of Sarcasm flying over someone's head.
In my prior experiments with VoIP from my computer, the audio quality was the suck and keeping a clean connection was difficult. I could never keep a connection for more than 30 seconds. Everything sounded "hollow", like the person talking to me was in a big metal box. Maybe a dedicated VoIP phone would solve that problem.
It needs to be either/or due to the cost. Maybe some of y'all have the money to spend on PSTN+Crappy DSL AND Mobile+Data plan. I do not. I can afford one, or the other, but not both at the same time. The plans by US mobile carriers don't fit me. I have, maybe, 60 minutes of talk time per month. But I need massive data. There is no mobile+data plan that fits that. They are hugely expensive plans that give you 3G/4G and 2000 minutes per month with "limited" data after a certain number per month. My DSL is unlimited, as in, only limited by the number of hours in a month.
I don't want to check my e-mail at McDonalds, or while on the road. I don't need to be that connected to the world, and I pity the people that feel they must.
I do not like cell phones. They are devilish devices that encourage the stupid to be even more stupid behind the wheel of a car. They are possibly the worst invention thrust upon mankind. That said, I do own a pay-as-you-go cell phone for cases of road-side assistance. I spend about $20 a year for it. The mobile phone plans in the USA are monstrosities. They are convoluted and expensive. I keep my old telephone because it works, even when the power goes out. When the hurricane blew through Ohio and places lost power for days and weeks, I still had phone service while my neighbor's cell phones died and the local cell towers lost power. My big old phone has excellent voice quality, a big old speaker in the handset to hear the caller.
I will not go quietly. You will not take my phone service.
The broadband quality in my rural area sucks, big time. I can barely stream Netflix movies, let alone consider making phone calls with it.
With confusing names like Picasa and Blogger, I was at a loss to understand what those products were and who owned them. Thank goodness Google has cleared up this mystery. Now I can go back to sorting my pocket lint by color and size.
Forget taxing by the mile, tax by weight. That should make extract from the EV owners the gas taxes they are no long paying.
...the King's English shall be for thee to hide thine criminal ways.
What? You have no faith. These are geeks designing this. Surely, one of them wished they had a Daggit of their own.
You do know that FISA is real, right?
The fact is the FBI should be required to have a warrant for this kind of intrusive surveillance.
How do you know they didn't? A secret warrant, issued by a secret court, the very one responsible for secret warrants, which by acknowledging having a secret warrant, would be a felony offense. That is what the secret court is set up for, because some investigations are so sensitive, as to require a cloak from the public, for the protection of the investigation.
The system exists for good reasons, but can be used for bad reasons. It is hoped that the good outweighs the bed in the long-term.
Note that the FBI has not claimed anything of the kind.
Ya don't get it, do ya. Of course they aren't going to admit A SECRET INVESTIGATION. They will come up with any other excuse to shunt the attention elsewhere. The whole idea of a secret investigation to root out terrorists, who also never come out and admit their plots ahead of time, is never actually revealing the secret.