Yes, its a big conspiracy between the cell phone companies and the FCC. Last year I had this discussion with a professor who specializes in wireless communication and ad-hoc networks and they were fairly certain that is not an issue. Perhaps it wouldnt work, but it definately would not be a load issue given you already get signals from a lot of towers at once anyways. Their theory? You wouldnt use that expensive airphone on the seat in front of you if you had a cell phone (planes still have those anymore?), and people dont need another annoyance (such as your "party-up" ringtone) on an airplane.
Please try to refrain from posting theories and opinions as facts unless your also willing to present them as exactly what they are.
Well, they've had bugs where people were mis-identified, but in the long run, yeah no false positives after those are worked out.
I think in this situation, they give you an hour of usability so that the user can look up and contact technical support if there is a false-positive bug or a situation they didn't consider. As far as businesses go, having to reboot every hour kills your productivity.
Despite what these FUD-slinging linux trolls think, its a good move, and perfectly fair if it works as it should.
You get charged for the advertisements they send you. The advertisements that say they are directly from Cingular telling you to go upgrade your plan for only a few dozen bucks more. You don't get charged for "system" messages that tell you, for example, how many minutes you have remaining. I'm sure an official (and experienced) AT&T / Cingualar representative who taught me how to get around that advertisement issue is correct, and my girlfriend's bill also clearly agrees with that. My girlfriend also has a PTT phone that, if it has a lock, we dont know where it is. You press the easy to push button and it asks you if you want to enable it. Whether or not it actually enables it when you chose not to have it in your plan is unknown to us because we're not going to try it.
And the Razr is one of the most popular phones, and having mediaNet being just a double-push away and having a URL function always more difficult to find has been a standard for every cingular phone I've come across. Now, of course I'm aware there are a lot of phones and I haven't seen them all, but I've come across like 7 different phones and they've all been that way. Have yet to see the iphone.
This doesn't surprise me. AT&T / Cingular will do whatever they can to make sure you accidentally get charged for things. For example, on my Razr phone, they hide the URL function in their phones under settings / web access (at the very bottom) Go To URL (3rd from the bottom) and try to trick you into thinking you have to go into their mediaNet (which is like 100 kB of data usage on it's own), which you dont. MediaNet is by default just an accidental double click on the main scroll pad. The phone freezes and wont allow you to cancel mid-way through transferring. Then they send you text messages which are just from wierd numbers which you get charged for if you open them. Then they try to trick people into downloading things and hide the true costs of doing so (which varies based on your data usage plan). Phones with the push to talk button cannot disable that function and yes, if you have the service you can be accidentally charged for that too.
I guess the only surprising thing is the phone bill was that much, tack off two zeros and I really wouldn't be surprised at all.
Honestly this should be a crime on AT&T / Cingular's part if they do not fully reimburse that. All of this "accidental" crap should be a crime. Every time they spam a text message to their users it's like they are stealing from every person who does not have free text messaging. How much money does a million nickels add up to?
Java kills itself by being inferior to other languages in some shape or form. Need a cross-platform scripting language? Use perl or python. Need something that runs fast? Use something native. Want nice web content? Use flash.
Want something that when it shows up on a webpage your computer spends 5 seconds loading it, only to give you a very simple applet that eats up all of your CPU time? Use java.
getting a gift pufferfish to eat from China. Dont accidentally install Direct X 3.0 , or adobe, or...
Also it doesn't appear to work with XP Service Pack 2. I had to crank out my old laptop to play it. On my newer computer, it kept freezing anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes into the game even after fiddling with all the settings and compatability.
How many people prefer the large volume difference in DVDs? Like, where you have a scene where people are whispering and you can't hear what they are saying, so you turn it up only to STILL not understand what they whispering (perhaps hearing that monotonic static from your speakers), and then suddenly BANG! BANG! go gunshots in your movie and its extremely loud. Makes a movie difficult to watch at night when someone nearby is sleeping, so generally you have to play the movie at the volume of the loudest parts- meaning you dont hear the whispering parts. Its even more frustrating when the damned background music is twice as loud as all the talking.
Same thing here. The difference is that it has more to do with people in general prefer to listen to a song at a constant volume. Likewise, many people listen to music over the sound of something else, so any quieter parts wouldn't be heard at all if there was too much volume range. If I cannot comfortably listen to an entire song at the volume I enjoy then I'm going to turn it up or down or have to fiddle with it throughout the song, which is annoying and takes away from the point of listening to music (which is to have it going while you do something else).
So who's actually met someone who WASN'T inconvienced by the HDR of DVD's? Unless you only watch movies in home theater, I can't imagine why you wouldn't be.
Last year, a British nurse was blackmailed by hackers who had used a Trojan to access her personal e-mails. I'll let you guys stew on how ambiguiously funny that sentence is.
Now i see where the complaints about the unreal engine come into play. Even with the demo's heavily handicapped graphics, it plays on my 3 Ghz 1Gig 6800 like Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries did years ago on my 100 Mghz machine on 640 x 480 mode. True I left shadows on, but thats a large part of the atmosphere. Then it locked up my computer after that confusing part with the alarms and such. Guess I'll have to get the 360 version even though I prefer FPS's on the PC.
Somethingawful.com has good way of getting people to see ads- they serve funny spoof ads most of the time and occassionally serve a legitimate ad every once in a while. Spoof ads like "Follow the circle with a quarter and win a new monitor!"
All these attempts at renewable energy remind me of when inventors all went crazy trying to create a flying machine in the late 19th early 20th century (or whatever timeframe I dont feel like looking up but). A lot of ideas, but virtually all of them do not work in practice. Plants just simply are too inefficient at storing energy to liken giving up our precious earth to use them to fuel our cars (I'd much rather we planted more PERMANENT trees and plants anyways to absorb this increase in heat and CO2). No renewable energy source will work without population controls either, because our petri dish we call Earth is running out of room. Quite simply, our population continues to grow to infinity (unless we get in some serious war) and we have a finite amount of space to harness renewable energy.
This version is only a slight improvement over the original prototype, which could beam scenes from Gigli directly into a person's retina from up to 2 miles. Apparently a new design requirement came up: "Make sure it works on Jennifer Lopez"
My girlfriend's MySpace page became hijacked fairly recently and was forced to post advertisements for some website. Needless to say, she knows better than to give out her username and password to any website. I also called up namecheap.com, the domain provider and complained about the website that was being advertised. Nothing will probably be done, and how this happened will probably remain a mystery. I've always wondered if myspace actually uses a challenge token to log in, and if all it takes is a replay attack to log in.
I spin in my office chair and go "weeee!!" as I count up the dollars I earn each minute! Ah yes, the do-nothing months of training...
I guess to make a contribution to this conversation though, most individuals who get business degrees find themselves screwed for a job and find themselves in debt because:
1. They got a degree in business but didn't have any business sense to be thrifty during college
2. They didn't meet anyone in their frat drinking games who knew a business owner who needed a manager
3. Daddy doesn't own a business nor does he know anyone who does
4. They are one of millions of graduates this year trying to fill one of thousands of available positions
5. McDonald's isn't hiring
So really, engineering is still a pretty good deal because you dont need any family background to make decent money. Essentially, as long as your willing to move where the job is, its a safe major if you have the talent. I think the irony here is all the people with business sense already know that.
And just for the record, my brother got a degree in business, realized there was no opportunity, so he went into law school and became a lawyer. So there's hope for you if you meet criteria 2 - 5.
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Yes, its a big conspiracy between the cell phone companies and the FCC. Last year I had this discussion with a professor who specializes in wireless communication and ad-hoc networks and they were fairly certain that is not an issue. Perhaps it wouldnt work, but it definately would not be a load issue given you already get signals from a lot of towers at once anyways. Their theory? You wouldnt use that expensive airphone on the seat in front of you if you had a cell phone (planes still have those anymore?), and people dont need another annoyance (such as your "party-up" ringtone) on an airplane.
Please try to refrain from posting theories and opinions as facts unless your also willing to present them as exactly what they are.
Hey Ben, congrats on getting your name on a site that gets like a million page views a day! -James
Microsoft may earn some profit due to fair-use. Thus all of their profits must benefit from fair-use. Thats the disertion this article seems to make.
Well, they've had bugs where people were mis-identified, but in the long run, yeah no false positives after those are worked out. I think in this situation, they give you an hour of usability so that the user can look up and contact technical support if there is a false-positive bug or a situation they didn't consider. As far as businesses go, having to reboot every hour kills your productivity. Despite what these FUD-slinging linux trolls think, its a good move, and perfectly fair if it works as it should.
You get charged for the advertisements they send you. The advertisements that say they are directly from Cingular telling you to go upgrade your plan for only a few dozen bucks more. You don't get charged for "system" messages that tell you, for example, how many minutes you have remaining. I'm sure an official (and experienced) AT&T / Cingualar representative who taught me how to get around that advertisement issue is correct, and my girlfriend's bill also clearly agrees with that. My girlfriend also has a PTT phone that, if it has a lock, we dont know where it is. You press the easy to push button and it asks you if you want to enable it. Whether or not it actually enables it when you chose not to have it in your plan is unknown to us because we're not going to try it.
And the Razr is one of the most popular phones, and having mediaNet being just a double-push away and having a URL function always more difficult to find has been a standard for every cingular phone I've come across. Now, of course I'm aware there are a lot of phones and I haven't seen them all, but I've come across like 7 different phones and they've all been that way. Have yet to see the iphone.
This doesn't surprise me. AT&T / Cingular will do whatever they can to make sure you accidentally get charged for things. For example, on my Razr phone, they hide the URL function in their phones under settings / web access (at the very bottom) Go To URL (3rd from the bottom) and try to trick you into thinking you have to go into their mediaNet (which is like 100 kB of data usage on it's own), which you dont. MediaNet is by default just an accidental double click on the main scroll pad. The phone freezes and wont allow you to cancel mid-way through transferring. Then they send you text messages which are just from wierd numbers which you get charged for if you open them. Then they try to trick people into downloading things and hide the true costs of doing so (which varies based on your data usage plan). Phones with the push to talk button cannot disable that function and yes, if you have the service you can be accidentally charged for that too.
I guess the only surprising thing is the phone bill was that much, tack off two zeros and I really wouldn't be surprised at all.
Honestly this should be a crime on AT&T / Cingular's part if they do not fully reimburse that. All of this "accidental" crap should be a crime. Every time they spam a text message to their users it's like they are stealing from every person who does not have free text messaging. How much money does a million nickels add up to?
I love scavenger hunts!
Java kills itself by being inferior to other languages in some shape or form. Need a cross-platform scripting language? Use perl or python. Need something that runs fast? Use something native. Want nice web content? Use flash. Want something that when it shows up on a webpage your computer spends 5 seconds loading it, only to give you a very simple applet that eats up all of your CPU time? Use java.
getting a gift pufferfish to eat from China. Dont accidentally install Direct X 3.0 , or adobe, or... Also it doesn't appear to work with XP Service Pack 2. I had to crank out my old laptop to play it. On my newer computer, it kept freezing anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes into the game even after fiddling with all the settings and compatability.
A week later an auditor is fired for not noticing that a majority of those shipments went to "warehouse corporation".
How many people prefer the large volume difference in DVDs? Like, where you have a scene where people are whispering and you can't hear what they are saying, so you turn it up only to STILL not understand what they whispering (perhaps hearing that monotonic static from your speakers), and then suddenly BANG! BANG! go gunshots in your movie and its extremely loud. Makes a movie difficult to watch at night when someone nearby is sleeping, so generally you have to play the movie at the volume of the loudest parts- meaning you dont hear the whispering parts. Its even more frustrating when the damned background music is twice as loud as all the talking.
Same thing here. The difference is that it has more to do with people in general prefer to listen to a song at a constant volume. Likewise, many people listen to music over the sound of something else, so any quieter parts wouldn't be heard at all if there was too much volume range. If I cannot comfortably listen to an entire song at the volume I enjoy then I'm going to turn it up or down or have to fiddle with it throughout the song, which is annoying and takes away from the point of listening to music (which is to have it going while you do something else).
So who's actually met someone who WASN'T inconvienced by the HDR of DVD's? Unless you only watch movies in home theater, I can't imagine why you wouldn't be.
Now i see where the complaints about the unreal engine come into play. Even with the demo's heavily handicapped graphics, it plays on my 3 Ghz 1Gig 6800 like Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries did years ago on my 100 Mghz machine on 640 x 480 mode. True I left shadows on, but thats a large part of the atmosphere. Then it locked up my computer after that confusing part with the alarms and such. Guess I'll have to get the 360 version even though I prefer FPS's on the PC.
My post was supposed to be a joke about a classic wikiGroan. I guess the numbers I picked were too realistic. Sorry about that.
Sorry I didn't make this obvious enough - this was supposed to be a joke. It appears that wasn't apparent enough.
Other "experiments" kept from us:
Response time for vandalizing Sonic Hedgehog - 8 days
Response time for vandalizing Sonic the Hedgehog - 8 seconds
Somethingawful.com has good way of getting people to see ads- they serve funny spoof ads most of the time and occassionally serve a legitimate ad every once in a while. Spoof ads like "Follow the circle with a quarter and win a new monitor!"
All these attempts at renewable energy remind me of when inventors all went crazy trying to create a flying machine in the late 19th early 20th century (or whatever timeframe I dont feel like looking up but). A lot of ideas, but virtually all of them do not work in practice. Plants just simply are too inefficient at storing energy to liken giving up our precious earth to use them to fuel our cars (I'd much rather we planted more PERMANENT trees and plants anyways to absorb this increase in heat and CO2). No renewable energy source will work without population controls either, because our petri dish we call Earth is running out of room. Quite simply, our population continues to grow to infinity (unless we get in some serious war) and we have a finite amount of space to harness renewable energy.
My girlfriend's MySpace page became hijacked fairly recently and was forced to post advertisements for some website. Needless to say, she knows better than to give out her username and password to any website. I also called up namecheap.com, the domain provider and complained about the website that was being advertised. Nothing will probably be done, and how this happened will probably remain a mystery. I've always wondered if myspace actually uses a challenge token to log in, and if all it takes is a replay attack to log in.
Yes, his house completely disappeared. Good one. There is just a big hole in the ground.
I spin in my office chair and go "weeee!!" as I count up the dollars I earn each minute! Ah yes, the do-nothing months of training...
I guess to make a contribution to this conversation though, most individuals who get business degrees find themselves screwed for a job and find themselves in debt because:
1. They got a degree in business but didn't have any business sense to be thrifty during college
2. They didn't meet anyone in their frat drinking games who knew a business owner who needed a manager
3. Daddy doesn't own a business nor does he know anyone who does
4. They are one of millions of graduates this year trying to fill one of thousands of available positions
5. McDonald's isn't hiring
So really, engineering is still a pretty good deal because you dont need any family background to make decent money. Essentially, as long as your willing to move where the job is, its a safe major if you have the talent. I think the irony here is all the people with business sense already know that.
And just for the record, my brother got a degree in business, realized there was no opportunity, so he went into law school and became a lawyer. So there's hope for you if you meet criteria 2 - 5.
I thought the Seinfeld series finale proves you wrong.
I'd think the dead giveaway to a scam is that laptop batteries cost $120, so this laptop in whole would only be $30.