I didn't have those problems when I lived in a major metropolitan area.
Hard resets "fix" my problems only 20% of the time. My hypothesis is that I live in an area with relatively little AT&T market penetration and so much fewer resources are dedicated to making things "just work" here. Looking up AT&T stores within my zip lead to only 1 store which isn't even an AT&T store, just a "provider". Hell, I haven't yet seen a single iPhone here, and this is a place where people love to flaunt their toys.
I feel your pain. I was with Cingular before AT&T swallowed 'em up and I didn't feel the need to change since I use basic phones with barebones plans.
I moved to a more rural area and now my coverage is intermittent no matter where I drive. The tower is 1.5 miles from my house with no forests or other obstructions in the way, and yet it's as if they arbitrarily turn the transmitters on and off at random no matter how close I get to the tower.
My phone will show 5 bars of reception but it will throw "no service" warnings when I try to make calls. I have to re-send text messages 5 times before they finally go through. Yep, looks like it's time to switch after my obligation is up since I don't have an army of lawyers to contest an early termination fee. God bless America.
Flip phones == more fragile moving parts for hinges and flip sensors or extra LCD on outer clamshell == break in two if dropped while open. Kind of a hassle when you open your phone and it dosen't even know it's open. Meanwhile my ugly slab has a cracked screen but is otherwise fully serviceable and will stay that way for the forseeable future.
Agree with you 100% on the battery life issue, though.
I knew a couple folks in my small development shop (~20 people) who were always being rewarded because the informal metric was lines of output. I had to take over for one of the top performers after she left for vacation. Looking through her code, I discovered that the code was merely average, much like mine. I asked another top performer if I could look through his code because I wanted to better understand his interface. His was also mediocre code with roughly the same ratio of lines to output as my code was.
When the other top performer came back from vacation, I took the two of them into the break room and asked them why they are getting undue credit based on the "lines of output metric". They both chuckled and gave each other knowing glances before one of them said, "No, silly, it's how many lines of cocaine we bust out to the boss...see?" The woman pulled out a small bag of whitish powder, a razor blade, and a scratched-up mirror tile. The guy rolled up a 20 dollar bill, tight as a drum, and passed it to me. "Go! Go! Go!", they whispered as I bent down with the tooter in my nostril, snorting 3 medium-sized lines of sweet Columbian. I had felt a strong euphoria like 1,000 cups of coffee overwhelm my body. The guy giggled sheepishly in a high-pitched voice as he went back to work. The woman who was still with me chopped up 3 more gaggers and snorted them up before we fucked madly in the utility closet like wild beasts during the rut. Oh, what a day that was!
For you electronics geeks out there who are into this kind of thing and want some cool posters to decorate your thinking space, There's this,this, , and this which are all made by Synthesys Reasearch. They will send you a poster for free if you ask.
You know, it's quite possible that many of us who played football were nerds, dorks, fatsos, thugs, and other scrubs. We all got to play, too. We all had mutual respect for each other no matter what our sports skills were. The ugliest, lankiest, most uncoordinated dork would earn the team's respect just because he manned the fuck up and made it through hell week. We treated our dorks with respect and gave them slaps on the ass whenever they got through the Oklahomas on their feet.
Instead of manning up and leaving your comfort zone, people like you become vengeful, unhappy assholes who won't accomplish much in life. You'll try to make a name for yourself by joining Perverted Justice with all the other fat neckbeards, pretending to be 8 year old girls in chatrooms. You won't ever become a manager, but you will still continue to hang out by the timeclock and let the boss know who comes in late every day. You'll dedicate your life to ratting and backstabbing your way to the top, bitterly projecting your jock stereotype on every chisel-jawed engineer with a hot wife. Women will size you up at a glance and avoid you like the plague.
Punk. If Jocktroll were here he'd shit on your face.
How is properly teaching a child about sex different than teaching a child about shitting or pissing?
They obviously learn that there's a time and a place for it. Boys are taught to not go up to the nearest female and try to mount her, and they're taught to not go up to the nearest tree or fire hydrant to urinate or defecate. What's the problem? It's not like you have to tell them about masturbation, and when they discover masturbation, you can always let them know that it is as inappropriate as public urinating or crapping are.
Why does a "vagina" have to be taboo?! If parents with 14th-century mentalities had spines and didn't make everything a "forbidden fruit", then kids wouldn't have a reason to become obsessed with finding the "meaning" of sex. A vagina is a part of the body like an arm or a leg. It performs one or more functions. Sex is a process, it performs a function. Sex takes raw materials and uses other natural bodily processes to build something. What's so funny about that?
Teaching children that things which come naturally to them are "taboo" only leads to confusion or worse. Though I understand where you're coming from, I'm one of those poor saps who felt the need during adolescence to acquire porn for the sake of discovery because I was led to believe that sex was something super-secret that only special people knew about.
It's as if parents are afraid of their offspring reaching earlier physical and emotional maturity. Why? It's a natural consequence of improved nutrition and availability of information.
Your Virgin Killer link isnt NSFW because they don't use the "bad" album cover, but I'm speaking from an American perspective.
Looks like we've got a new amusingly painful chapter ahead of us for Chinese internet users.
Serious question here, since trying to Google it brings up too many polluted results(read: Asian porn) -- Is it legal or even possible to buy porn in China? Like, going to a store and buying magazines or videos? I'm trying to determine just how much of a red herring censorship due to "porn" is since most of us grew up in places where buying paper porn is legal(if the buyer is of age, of course).
No, no, no. The people who race American cars know better. They know the WMD they pilot.
99% of deaths due to street racing happen at the hands of kids who watched "The Fast and the Furious" and think that stock Civics or M3's with spoilers and fart-pipes give them over 9000 horsepower with enough cred and experience to race in the middle of traffic.
Not only that, but the assignment statement was valid programming practice. His was the first statement to assign Grigory Perelman to Greta garbo. Without the assignment, the comparison would return false, which would be a logic error if we were expecting Grigory Perelman to be equal to Greta garbo.
It's not even real competition. NvIDIA's Chinese foundry'll just release another bad batch, the vendors' Indian and Filipino tech support will just tell their angry customers that it was the customers' fault and to fuck off, NvIdia'll exit the x86 market, and we'll be back to square one. I know this because I've dealt with HP's Magandas over this issue, and they had no shame.
Point taken, but why are the authors/universities allowing conglomerates to scoop up their taxpayer-funded work and profit from it? If you academics make deals with the devil just to get exposure, then wouldn't Google's availability help and not hurt you? If anything, it would increase "exposure" and may even lower prices.
You're right. This isn't about fair prices for consumers, it's about control. Why should I have to pay just to read a paper which was funded with my tax dollars?
They probably think that people will use Google to "steal" what should be in the public domain to begin with. They think that it will ruin their business, just like how the internet "ruined" the newspaper business.
Agreed, women would be much more interesting if they had her scathing wit.
O girlintraining, if you are actually a female, will you marry me? I have 22 college credits, my own pickup truck, and a studio apartment for nest-building.
Seconded. I ate at a restaurant after seeing good reviews in Yelp and ended up shitting the food out. What a gyp.
Does anybody else find eating out unattractive? I went out to dinner with a hot chick and all I could think about the whole time was the food being enqueued into my bowels, turning into shit, and finally being squirted out my anus into a small pool of water. Then, no matter how well each of us would wipe, there would still be trace amounts of feces in our underleg regions. The plan was to go clubbing afterward, which would cause us to sweat booty juices. I knew for a fact that both of us don't wear underwear on a regular basis.
I tried to explain this all to her to her as she was eating her filet mignon, but she dropped her fork and knife and crossed her legs before she asked me to take her home. She never called again:(
Serves America right for being a bunch of stupid, ignorant, greedy, power-mad thugs who will consume each other from the inside.
Soon America will be just a bunch of vacation property for rich Arabs and Chinamen. The only jobs left will be service jobs which cater to said foreigners. The education system will crumble under its own top-heavy weight while mosques which rival the largest megachurches will pop up everywhere. The American military, continuing to wage unpopular wars, will exhaust its resources and become mercenaries for hire waging wars-by-proxy in behalf of the highest bidders. The Americans' sons and daughters will be shining the shoes and washing the dishes of the very people that their proud parents and grandparents fought. Protesters, kooks, and other loudmouths will be silenced permanently by the Department of Homeland Security and the CIA's clandestine service.
I am an American and proud patriot, but I'll be long-gone before any of the above happens. Noorwegen, hier kom ik!
The way you draw the distinction idiots vs. non-idiots
Hey, Shakrai said it, not me. But now that you mention it, a good computer-wise definition of "idiot vs. non-idiot" would be synonymous with "technophobia vs. open mind to change" rather than I.Q., Slashdot karma, or collection of greased-up Yoda dolls.
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I didn't have those problems when I lived in a major metropolitan area.
Hard resets "fix" my problems only 20% of the time. My hypothesis is that I live in an area with relatively little AT&T market penetration and so much fewer resources are dedicated to making things "just work" here. Looking up AT&T stores within my zip lead to only 1 store which isn't even an AT&T store, just a "provider". Hell, I haven't yet seen a single iPhone here, and this is a place where people love to flaunt their toys.
I feel your pain. I was with Cingular before AT&T swallowed 'em up and I didn't feel the need to change since I use basic phones with barebones plans.
I moved to a more rural area and now my coverage is intermittent no matter where I drive. The tower is 1.5 miles from my house with no forests or other obstructions in the way, and yet it's as if they arbitrarily turn the transmitters on and off at random no matter how close I get to the tower.
My phone will show 5 bars of reception but it will throw "no service" warnings when I try to make calls. I have to re-send text messages 5 times before they finally go through. Yep, looks like it's time to switch after my obligation is up since I don't have an army of lawyers to contest an early termination fee. God bless America.
Everybody outside of the tech world knows what an iPhone is.
Not everybody outside of the tech world knows what the E55, Hero, or GW620 are.
Flip phones == more fragile moving parts for hinges and flip sensors or extra LCD on outer clamshell == break in two if dropped while open. Kind of a hassle when you open your phone and it dosen't even know it's open. Meanwhile my ugly slab has a cracked screen but is otherwise fully serviceable and will stay that way for the forseeable future.
Agree with you 100% on the battery life issue, though.
More importantly, I'm going to fuck my ex-girlfriend tonight. The entire hotel room is going to be tackified with pecker-snot and vaginal secretions.
I knew a couple folks in my small development shop (~20 people) who were always being rewarded because the informal metric was lines of output. I had to take over for one of the top performers after she left for vacation. Looking through her code, I discovered that the code was merely average, much like mine. I asked another top performer if I could look through his code because I wanted to better understand his interface. His was also mediocre code with roughly the same ratio of lines to output as my code was.
When the other top performer came back from vacation, I took the two of them into the break room and asked them why they are getting undue credit based on the "lines of output metric". They both chuckled and gave each other knowing glances before one of them said, "No, silly, it's how many lines of cocaine we bust out to the boss...see?" The woman pulled out a small bag of whitish powder, a razor blade, and a scratched-up mirror tile. The guy rolled up a 20 dollar bill, tight as a drum, and passed it to me. "Go! Go! Go!", they whispered as I bent down with the tooter in my nostril, snorting 3 medium-sized lines of sweet Columbian. I had felt a strong euphoria like 1,000 cups of coffee overwhelm my body. The guy giggled sheepishly in a high-pitched voice as he went back to work. The woman who was still with me chopped up 3 more gaggers and snorted them up before we fucked madly in the utility closet like wild beasts during the rut. Oh, what a day that was!
For you electronics geeks out there who are into this kind of thing and want some cool posters to decorate your thinking space, There's this, this, , and this which are all made by Synthesys Reasearch. They will send you a poster for free if you ask.
Mmmmmm, but can it be warm honey running down Brittany Murphy's body instead?
Nom nom nom.
Troll detected, but I'll bite.
You know, it's quite possible that many of us who played football were nerds, dorks, fatsos, thugs, and other scrubs. We all got to play, too. We all had mutual respect for each other no matter what our sports skills were. The ugliest, lankiest, most uncoordinated dork would earn the team's respect just because he manned the fuck up and made it through hell week. We treated our dorks with respect and gave them slaps on the ass whenever they got through the Oklahomas on their feet.
Instead of manning up and leaving your comfort zone, people like you become vengeful, unhappy assholes who won't accomplish much in life. You'll try to make a name for yourself by joining Perverted Justice with all the other fat neckbeards, pretending to be 8 year old girls in chatrooms. You won't ever become a manager, but you will still continue to hang out by the timeclock and let the boss know who comes in late every day. You'll dedicate your life to ratting and backstabbing your way to the top, bitterly projecting your jock stereotype on every chisel-jawed engineer with a hot wife. Women will size you up at a glance and avoid you like the plague.
Punk. If Jocktroll were here he'd shit on your face.
How is properly teaching a child about sex different than teaching a child about shitting or pissing?
They obviously learn that there's a time and a place for it. Boys are taught to not go up to the nearest female and try to mount her, and they're taught to not go up to the nearest tree or fire hydrant to urinate or defecate. What's the problem? It's not like you have to tell them about masturbation, and when they discover masturbation, you can always let them know that it is as inappropriate as public urinating or crapping are.
Why does a "vagina" have to be taboo?! If parents with 14th-century mentalities had spines and didn't make everything a "forbidden fruit", then kids wouldn't have a reason to become obsessed with finding the "meaning" of sex. A vagina is a part of the body like an arm or a leg. It performs one or more functions. Sex is a process, it performs a function. Sex takes raw materials and uses other natural bodily processes to build something. What's so funny about that?
Teaching children that things which come naturally to them are "taboo" only leads to confusion or worse. Though I understand where you're coming from, I'm one of those poor saps who felt the need during adolescence to acquire porn for the sake of discovery because I was led to believe that sex was something super-secret that only special people knew about.
It's as if parents are afraid of their offspring reaching earlier physical and emotional maturity. Why? It's a natural consequence of improved nutrition and availability of information.
Serious question here, since trying to Google it brings up too many polluted results(read: Asian porn) -- Is it legal or even possible to buy porn in China? Like, going to a store and buying magazines or videos? I'm trying to determine just how much of a red herring censorship due to "porn" is since most of us grew up in places where buying paper porn is legal(if the buyer is of age, of course).
It happens when you divide integers instead of floating-point numbers.
No, no, no. The people who race American cars know better. They know the WMD they pilot.
99% of deaths due to street racing happen at the hands of kids who watched "The Fast and the Furious" and think that stock Civics or M3's with spoilers and fart-pipes give them over 9000 horsepower with enough cred and experience to race in the middle of traffic.
Not only that, but the assignment statement was valid programming practice. His was the first statement to assign Grigory Perelman to Greta garbo. Without the assignment, the comparison would return false, which would be a logic error if we were expecting Grigory Perelman to be equal to Greta garbo.
Hah, that's rich.
It's not even real competition. NvIDIA's Chinese foundry'll just release another bad batch, the vendors' Indian and Filipino tech support will just tell their angry customers that it was the customers' fault and to fuck off, NvIdia'll exit the x86 market, and we'll be back to square one. I know this because I've dealt with HP's Magandas over this issue, and they had no shame.
Mods, meet my middle finger.
Point taken, but why are the authors/universities allowing conglomerates to scoop up their taxpayer-funded work and profit from it? If you academics make deals with the devil just to get exposure, then wouldn't Google's availability help and not hurt you? If anything, it would increase "exposure" and may even lower prices.
You're right. This isn't about fair prices for consumers, it's about control. Why should I have to pay just to read a paper which was funded with my tax dollars?
They probably think that people will use Google to "steal" what should be in the public domain to begin with. They think that it will ruin their business, just like how the internet "ruined" the newspaper business.
Psystar's computers and other hackintoshes are the electronic equivalent of closet homosexuals.
Agreed, women would be much more interesting if they had her scathing wit.
O girlintraining, if you are actually a female, will you marry me? I have 22 college credits, my own pickup truck, and a studio apartment for nest-building.
Back off, chumps. She's mine.
Maybe it would be nicer to you if you made it a sandwich and brought it a cold beer once in a while.
Seconded. I ate at a restaurant after seeing good reviews in Yelp and ended up shitting the food out. What a gyp.
:(
Does anybody else find eating out unattractive? I went out to dinner with a hot chick and all I could think about the whole time was the food being enqueued into my bowels, turning into shit, and finally being squirted out my anus into a small pool of water. Then, no matter how well each of us would wipe, there would still be trace amounts of feces in our underleg regions. The plan was to go clubbing afterward, which would cause us to sweat booty juices. I knew for a fact that both of us don't wear underwear on a regular basis.
I tried to explain this all to her to her as she was eating her filet mignon, but she dropped her fork and knife and crossed her legs before she asked me to take her home. She never called again
Wait, wait a minute...ALL OF YOU! Hold on a sec...how do you know that the page wasn't satire?!
Looks like y'all may have been mega-trolled.
Serves America right for being a bunch of stupid, ignorant, greedy, power-mad thugs who will consume each other from the inside.
Soon America will be just a bunch of vacation property for rich Arabs and Chinamen. The only jobs left will be service jobs which cater to said foreigners. The education system will crumble under its own top-heavy weight while mosques which rival the largest megachurches will pop up everywhere. The American military, continuing to wage unpopular wars, will exhaust its resources and become mercenaries for hire waging wars-by-proxy in behalf of the highest bidders. The Americans' sons and daughters will be shining the shoes and washing the dishes of the very people that their proud parents and grandparents fought. Protesters, kooks, and other loudmouths will be silenced permanently by the Department of Homeland Security and the CIA's clandestine service.
I am an American and proud patriot, but I'll be long-gone before any of the above happens. Noorwegen, hier kom ik!
Hey, Shakrai said it, not me. But now that you mention it, a good computer-wise definition of "idiot vs. non-idiot" would be synonymous with "technophobia vs. open mind to change" rather than I.Q., Slashdot karma, or collection of greased-up Yoda dolls.
-- Frank Zappa