Then those people should move to Austria. What's your point?
My point is that the US plans are very overpriced for a lot of users. As for your other comment... <shakes head>.
The point I was trying to make is that US plans *aren't* necessarily overpriced when you consider all factors
I don't think the original poster was claiming that all US plans are a bad deal for all possible US users. To interpret it that way would be very pedantic. The only point you made is that you don't think they are overpriced for you. I suspect that comparatively they are badly overpriced for what I would guess is one of the largest, if not the largest, cell phone user demographic - teenagers - who seem mostly to have them pasted to their ears or are furiously texting away. But that's only my opinion.
I certainly wouldn't use up 300 minutes per month. But lot s and lots and lots of people would use that up very quickly - so the fact that you are paying about 6 times as much for your vice time is a huge difference. As for data a lot of people wouldn't get anywhere near 3GB a month so for them 3GB for about half the price is again a huge difference.
Man we had to touch read the holes in the paper tape and then punch new holes with a ballpoint pen to modify the binary machine code. Of course the lights were off when we did that. But we had it easy compared to the previous guys - they had to start by making the paper tape by chewing on reeds and then pounding them with dead power supplies.
That's interesting - almost a reverse of a situation in Canada. In Canada the government was convinced by lobbyists that it was a social ill for women to know the sex of their fetus until late in the pregnancy (can't remember - maybe before third trimester). However the lobbyists didn't want a woman to be held responsible (punished) for trying to access this illicit knowledge about their body so the only one held responsible is the doctor administering the test requested by the woman. The fine is on the order of $250,000 and IIRC there is jail time attached as well.
No wonder doctors don't like giving straight answers about what they think or do.
(Can't run it through the wall without cutting into drywall and drilling through the fire block... and this is an apartment...)
I live in an apartment I own (saying it like that in case "condo" is not a universally recognized term) - is your problem that you don't own it and so can't alter it? Or is there some other reason? What is the "fire block" you mention? The only fire protection we have is fire resistant grade drywall (thicker and more fire resistant than the drywall for interior walls) but it has many penetrations in it from wall sockets for phone/power/cable to picture hangers sunk into wood studs.
I've been thinking of running cable myself so I'm curious as to what you see it as a problem - unless it's just the ownership thing?
I agree they would probably get better performance out of multi-threading - and they should have done that even on a single processor model just so things with simple content could finish without waiting for more complex content to render. If they had gone multi-threaded long ago then the shift to multi-process would likely be a lot easier to do now.
Hmmmm, well assuming for a moment your statistics were accurate... so what? Does an English speaking person not count if they are living in an industrialized country where less than half the population speaks English? A large percentage of the/. contributors/readers aren't in the US. If you want to make it a site for Americans only then go ahead, that is certainly your right. Failing that then making sweeping statements that are incorrect for a large percentage of the/. contributors/readers seems like a rather parochial thing to do. Then bristling at people who then attempt to improve the accuracy of such statements is... well let's just say it doesn't put one in the best light.
Now as to your statistics... assuming that by English speaking country you mean countries where >50% of the population speaks English, and that by industrialized you mean not strictly agrarian... then you are wrong. A quick visit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population will show (millions):
US: 251
India: 90
UK: 60
Germany: 46
Canada: 25
Australia: 17
Netherlands: 14
Sweden: 8
Belgium: 6
Austria: 5
Denmark: 5
Switzerland: 5
Ireland: 5
As you can see the US accounts for less than half of the English speaking industrialized world. Note that I have excluded countries with any chance you might argue aren't industrialized or where the English is a dialect or pidgin English; and the population numbers are those of the actual English speakers - all of which benefits your claim. I did include India even though the majority don't speak English because I felt that 90 Million English speakers was just too many to ignore.
I have quite a few different mail accounts through a couple of different ISPs and access them all with Thunderbird. I get maybe 10 spams a week that I have to manually identify - all the rest Thunderbird catches and I can't remember the last time I got a false positive.
For the most part I agree with you. I do find occasions like the following occur though:
Me: Well XYZ.
Them: citation needed!!!
Now XYZ is usually something I have read in the past and, like most people, I haven't memorized the source in case I need it 5 years down the road. Sometimes I may remember the general agency but not exactly when etc. I don't consider it my duty to do someone else's research for them. I'm putting out what I know from my experience, research etc. and if the person wants to make use of that then they are welcome to and if they don't that really doesn't bother me at all. The latter bit tends to freak some people out or piss them off or both. Usually if the person has been polite etc. then I try to give as much information to help them as I can. But if they have been rude or my "this is a zealot" detector goes off then I tell them to look for themselves if they are genuinely interested.
Now if XYZ were something like "Obviously the speed of light is a local constraint and a simple warping of the time-space continuum will allow information transfer at >C." then yeah, I'd expect to provide either some logic or a citation or both.
And sometimes you know it's just plain pointless right away, as in:
Me: You are a bigot.
Them: No I'm not.
Me: Do you discriminate against people based on any of: sex, race etc.?
Them: Yes - but I think it's justified!
Me: Then you are a bigot.
Them: No I'm not!
Me: go look it up, bye bye, have a nice life, cya...
Well on/. it seems to get used a lot by people who want to disagree with you but can't find any way to do that in a way that doesn't make them look bad so they try to cast doubt on what you are saying, or waste your time, by asking for pointless "citations".
I don't know about its use with manic depression or schizophrenia but ECT is not the tool of choice for chronic depression. It is sometimes used in cases of severe depression that are drug and therapy resistant. In those cases it is more or less ECT or depression which may lead to suicide. And apparently it frequently does completely do away with the depression,and produces the negative effects you mention, but only lasts about 6 months and has to be repeated.
Like lithium I think that a lot of the anti-depressants, perhaps most or even all, aren't so much anti-depressants as they are mood stabilizers. They act to compress your emotional range... they so no more big lows, but also no more big highs either... life becomes less sad but it also becomes less joyful. Better than ending up suicidal but a poor solution at best.
And I agree, mental health issues should not be embarrassing or a stigma any more than is a malfunctioning bile duct or arthritis. Unfortunately they still are a magnet for discrimination of all sorts. So good for you for being non-anonymous.
Olympus does something similar with their E-Volt DSLR cameras. The panorama/stitch mode will not work unless you are using an Olympus brand memory card. There isn't anything special about the card that facilitates that camera function, it's just BS. Although I like my 520 my next DSLR will almost certainly be a Canon or a Pentax.
I have the tx2100 so I'm not sure how that compares to the tx2500 but my experience is this:
All the features are not really well supported by Ubuntu as of 8.10
I get 2.5 hours battery life
It is heavy!
It runs hot!
I looked at the new Neo based DV series in Costco... nice looking, very light, good battery life, battery doesn't stick way out like with the tx2100. I almost bought but for two reasons, 1) I do like the tx2100 rotating touch screen (if only Ubuntu supported it better), 2) The Neo based system was woefully slow and I could foresee problems getting it to run all my apps acceptably.
Well he stated what he was asking... I think the ability to ask clear questions has something to do with the answers you get. You have no way of knowing if he was around, was willing to answer questions etc. so all we can assume is that this is all the information they had. Anyhow you're certainly entitled to your opinion and I don't think this is worth a lot of effort discussing.
Ummm yeah, I know what he thought he was asking for but that isn't what he was asking for. If someone can't ask a question clearly then perhaps they aren't someone who should be blaming others for not being able to answer questions.
And sorry but I do not believe that anyone can earn two CS degrees and not know how to step through an array and add 5 to each element.
2) How would you add 5 to each element in an array of integers?
I would use the + operator. Or did you mean something else?
5) In your language of choice, take a variable containing the value 5 and construct a sentence that says "I have 5 children".
Hmmm, I guess I'd choose English and my answer would be "I have 5 children"... hey, what do I need that variable for? Oh, or did you mean something else?
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Then those people should move to Austria. What's your point?
My point is that the US plans are very overpriced for a lot of users. As for your other comment... <shakes head>.
The point I was trying to make is that US plans *aren't* necessarily overpriced when you consider all factors
I don't think the original poster was claiming that all US plans are a bad deal for all possible US users. To interpret it that way would be very pedantic. The only point you made is that you don't think they are overpriced for you. I suspect that comparatively they are badly overpriced for what I would guess is one of the largest, if not the largest, cell phone user demographic - teenagers - who seem mostly to have them pasted to their ears or are furiously texting away. But that's only my opinion.
I certainly wouldn't use up 300 minutes per month. But lot s and lots and lots of people would use that up very quickly - so the fact that you are paying about 6 times as much for your vice time is a huge difference. As for data a lot of people wouldn't get anywhere near 3GB a month so for them 3GB for about half the price is again a huge difference.
You had keypads!?! And LED displays!?!
Man we had to touch read the holes in the paper tape and then punch new holes with a ballpoint pen to modify the binary machine code. Of course the lights were off when we did that. But we had it easy compared to the previous guys - they had to start by making the paper tape by chewing on reeds and then pounding them with dead power supplies.
That's interesting - almost a reverse of a situation in Canada. In Canada the government was convinced by lobbyists that it was a social ill for women to know the sex of their fetus until late in the pregnancy (can't remember - maybe before third trimester). However the lobbyists didn't want a woman to be held responsible (punished) for trying to access this illicit knowledge about their body so the only one held responsible is the doctor administering the test requested by the woman. The fine is on the order of $250,000 and IIRC there is jail time attached as well.
No wonder doctors don't like giving straight answers about what they think or do.
(Can't run it through the wall without cutting into drywall and drilling through the fire block... and this is an apartment...)
I live in an apartment I own (saying it like that in case "condo" is not a universally recognized term) - is your problem that you don't own it and so can't alter it? Or is there some other reason? What is the "fire block" you mention? The only fire protection we have is fire resistant grade drywall (thicker and more fire resistant than the drywall for interior walls) but it has many penetrations in it from wall sockets for phone/power/cable to picture hangers sunk into wood studs.
I've been thinking of running cable myself so I'm curious as to what you see it as a problem - unless it's just the ownership thing?
I agree they would probably get better performance out of multi-threading - and they should have done that even on a single processor model just so things with simple content could finish without waiting for more complex content to render. If they had gone multi-threaded long ago then the shift to multi-process would likely be a lot easier to do now.
Now as to your statistics... assuming that by English speaking country you mean countries where >50% of the population speaks English, and that by industrialized you mean not strictly agrarian... then you are wrong. A quick visit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population will show (millions):
US: 251
India: 90
UK: 60
Germany: 46
Canada: 25
Australia: 17
Netherlands: 14
Sweden: 8
Belgium: 6
Austria: 5
Denmark: 5
Switzerland: 5
Ireland: 5
As you can see the US accounts for less than half of the English speaking industrialized world. Note that I have excluded countries with any chance you might argue aren't industrialized or where the English is a dialect or pidgin English; and the population numbers are those of the actual English speakers - all of which benefits your claim. I did include India even though the majority don't speak English because I felt that 90 Million English speakers was just too many to ignore.
So, what was your point anyway?
Ummm, if you won't hear them until you know they have valid criticisms then how do you know whether or not their criticisms are valid?
Apparently that's not enough then, is it?
I have quite a few different mail accounts through a couple of different ISPs and access them all with Thunderbird. I get maybe 10 spams a week that I have to manually identify - all the rest Thunderbird catches and I can't remember the last time I got a false positive.
For the most part I agree with you. I do find occasions like the following occur though:
Me: Well XYZ.
Them: citation needed!!!
Now XYZ is usually something I have read in the past and, like most people, I haven't memorized the source in case I need it 5 years down the road. Sometimes I may remember the general agency but not exactly when etc. I don't consider it my duty to do someone else's research for them. I'm putting out what I know from my experience, research etc. and if the person wants to make use of that then they are welcome to and if they don't that really doesn't bother me at all. The latter bit tends to freak some people out or piss them off or both. Usually if the person has been polite etc. then I try to give as much information to help them as I can. But if they have been rude or my "this is a zealot" detector goes off then I tell them to look for themselves if they are genuinely interested.
Now if XYZ were something like "Obviously the speed of light is a local constraint and a simple warping of the time-space continuum will allow information transfer at >C." then yeah, I'd expect to provide either some logic or a citation or both.
And sometimes you know it's just plain pointless right away, as in:
Me: You are a bigot.
Them: No I'm not.
Me: Do you discriminate against people based on any of: sex, race etc.?
Them: Yes - but I think it's justified!
Me: Then you are a bigot.
Them: No I'm not!
Me: go look it up, bye bye, have a nice life, cya...
Well on /. it seems to get used a lot by people who want to disagree with you but can't find any way to do that in a way that doesn't make them look bad so they try to cast doubt on what you are saying, or waste your time, by asking for pointless "citations".
I thought it was both insightful and funny. YMMV.
I don't know about its use with manic depression or schizophrenia but ECT is not the tool of choice for chronic depression. It is sometimes used in cases of severe depression that are drug and therapy resistant. In those cases it is more or less ECT or depression which may lead to suicide. And apparently it frequently does completely do away with the depression,and produces the negative effects you mention, but only lasts about 6 months and has to be repeated.
Like lithium I think that a lot of the anti-depressants, perhaps most or even all, aren't so much anti-depressants as they are mood stabilizers. They act to compress your emotional range... they so no more big lows, but also no more big highs either... life becomes less sad but it also becomes less joyful. Better than ending up suicidal but a poor solution at best.
And I agree, mental health issues should not be embarrassing or a stigma any more than is a malfunctioning bile duct or arthritis. Unfortunately they still are a magnet for discrimination of all sorts. So good for you for being non-anonymous.
At least then the cat won't have to hide every time it sees a razor...
Olympus does something similar with their E-Volt DSLR cameras. The panorama/stitch mode will not work unless you are using an Olympus brand memory card. There isn't anything special about the card that facilitates that camera function, it's just BS. Although I like my 520 my next DSLR will almost certainly be a Canon or a Pentax.
IMO, a bigger travesty of justice has seldom if ever occurred in the United States.
Wow, if you believe that then you really need to know a lot more US history and current events.
I looked at the new Neo based DV series in Costco... nice looking, very light, good battery life, battery doesn't stick way out like with the tx2100. I almost bought but for two reasons, 1) I do like the tx2100 rotating touch screen (if only Ubuntu supported it better), 2) The Neo based system was woefully slow and I could foresee problems getting it to run all my apps acceptably.
I have to agree. I loaded the current build of Ubuntu netbook remix onto my gf's Acer netbook (SSD model) and it is annoyingly slow.
Mmmmno, more likely "anti-down", unless it's my gf asking of course.
Well he stated what he was asking... I think the ability to ask clear questions has something to do with the answers you get. You have no way of knowing if he was around, was willing to answer questions etc. so all we can assume is that this is all the information they had. Anyhow you're certainly entitled to your opinion and I don't think this is worth a lot of effort discussing.
Ummm yeah, I know what he thought he was asking for but that isn't what he was asking for. If someone can't ask a question clearly then perhaps they aren't someone who should be blaming others for not being able to answer questions.
And sorry but I do not believe that anyone can earn two CS degrees and not know how to step through an array and add 5 to each element.
2) How would you add 5 to each element in an array of integers?
I would use the + operator. Or did you mean something else?
5) In your language of choice, take a variable containing the value 5 and construct a sentence that says "I have 5 children".
Hmmm, I guess I'd choose English and my answer would be "I have 5 children"... hey, what do I need that variable for? Oh, or did you mean something else?