But these AT&T hotspots are intended for AT&T's paying customers. They're not free hotspots for freeloaders. They don't need the side income to pay for the bandwidth since they already claimed in their marketing that these hotspots were a part of their customer ISP and mobile phone packages. This marketing undoubtedly attracted customers who otherwise would have chosen other providers.
But I pay for AT&T service and as part of that service they claim access to free wi-fi hotspots of theirs. I think this means that I PAY for these hotspots. So having advertisements in a paid service is obscene (well, more obscene than general purpose advertising). They don't need this side income from their paying customers.
The ones I use transmit off and on, rather than waiting for a van, so you have periodic updates during the day. I think it's more popular than the cellular stuff (which can be expensive) though we support that for some remote areas.
Yes, it can interfere with the baby monitor. That's the irony and the joke; they were worried about the new smart meter and RF allergies even though the baby monitor was using the RF at the same frequencies.
I work in a building full of equipment broadcasting on several different bands all day long, not just the few piddly wi-fi routers. It seems that every day I come to work I spend the day completely depressed, but I cheer up again when I go home at night. My only conclusion is that RF causes depression.
Last I checked, the RF allergy believers tend to be from very liberal areas. For instance, complaints about smart electric meters on forums from people in conservative parts of California tended to be about unreasonable increases in rates or government intrusion, but from people in liberal parts complained about RF exposure and headaches the same time every night.
This is a California thing in general. There are some additional California rules that go beyond ADA requirements that tend to be abused. There is essentially no enforcement though, except by roving bands of lawyers who threaten to sue people. This is by design because it is cheaper than hiring regulators paid by the state (and it's also Republican friendly to have private enterprise suing people). It's cheaper to pay off the lawyer than to go to court and get an exemption or time extension or clarification of the rules.
You don't need much. 1.5 MBPS is enough to get good internet, it's vastly better than dial up when dial up is your only option. You go from a painful web viewing experience to one that is usable. A page loads in a couple of seconds instead of a couple of minutes. Add some ad block and the page loads in less than a second. Now you can finally browse the web.
DSL is cheaper than cable, slower than cable but faster than dialup, and good enough for most people who are just browsing facebook to see what the grandkids are up to.
Then there's VDSL which can give you usable video streaming services like Netflix, but more expensive than DSL while only slightly cheaper than cable. But when you can't get cable or refuse to touch anything from Comcast then it's a good choice.
Videos are just not always a good stuff to present information. They can be boring and time intensive. But people love to make videos because they pay back a few cents over time, whereas writing a concise description in text that takes ten seconds to read earns you zero cents. A good lecture has questions and answers, a video does not do that. A good lecturer can tell when the audience is getting confused or is nodding off, a video lecturer can not do that. A video lecture is the modern day equivalent of the elementary school film projector.
That's bullshit. When you look at an outsourced company in India itself it is not staffed with the best and brightest people, but people from IT specific schools and not computer science or engineering and definitely not a broad based education. That is, you get someone from a school with a highly focused curriculum based upon the job requirements for the next year only. You also don't get the best graduates from those schools. Because the best and brighest Indians are already in America or Europe, there's a huge brain drain problem that is going to seriously affect India in the next generation.
This isn't because of republicans, but corporations. They put intense pressure on universities to stop teaching a broad subject and teach job specific skills, like the big name schools are supposed to be nothing more than mere trade schools. And the universities fall for this, because they hope for some extra funding for a new lab from IBM, or an endowment from Intel, an extra faculty position paid for by SAP. Some day there may be the Taco Bell Chair in Culinary Engineering.
Democrat or Republican politicians, the majority have never held a real job outside of law or politics, a small number have had jobs in teaching or medicine, but I can't think of more than a handful who've started in engineering or science. So these politicians do whatever corporations tell them, and then end up believing the charts that say there are no qualified American citizens who can handle engineering/programming/technician jobs.
Credentials are worthless and have always been worthless, unless you're in a grunt job like an IT helpdesk. I've been a grader and a teaching assistant at a university, and the same attitudes were there as well. Students whose parents paid a lot of money would gripe and moan about the deadlines and asking for extension with flimsy excuses; but it was third world, first world, rich, poor, male, female, etc.
This is why teacher's pets exist. One student who appears to want to actually learn, and learn more than the syllabus encompasses, can make it all worthwhile to someone who is trying to teach.
I can never tell if Clarkson is a smart person pretending to be stupid, or a stupid person pretending to be smart. Because a stupid person could never pretend to be that stupid.
You need to ensure that blocks are written to the media in the correct order. Or at least that everying before a synchronization point was completely written to the media. But even that is not always true because devices will lie and claim to have flushed data when they have not. So you also need to ensure that your underlying block based device is operating correctly, and that can be tricky when it's a third party device.
Write a block to the storage device. Apply all necessary flush and synchronization commands, and a few unnecessary ones. Power off the storage device. Power the device back on. Read back the block to ensure it was actually written. Repeat as necessary until block is confirmed as having been written. Continue with block number two...
Many consumer devices generally conform to an unwritten standard, not a written one. That unwritten standard is "do whatever is needed to make it work on Windows". This means that mandatory commands might not be fully tested, or sometimes not even implemented. And because these are consumer devices, the manufacturers generally aren't concerned about rare end-user problems, since whoever bought the flash thumb drive on sale isn't going to complain, and the margins are way too small to waste time on reliability. All that matters is getting it to work for most people most of the time.
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But these AT&T hotspots are intended for AT&T's paying customers. They're not free hotspots for freeloaders. They don't need the side income to pay for the bandwidth since they already claimed in their marketing that these hotspots were a part of their customer ISP and mobile phone packages. This marketing undoubtedly attracted customers who otherwise would have chosen other providers.
Sanity.
But I pay for AT&T service and as part of that service they claim access to free wi-fi hotspots of theirs. I think this means that I PAY for these hotspots. So having advertisements in a paid service is obscene (well, more obscene than general purpose advertising). They don't need this side income from their paying customers.
The ones I use transmit off and on, rather than waiting for a van, so you have periodic updates during the day. I think it's more popular than the cellular stuff (which can be expensive) though we support that for some remote areas.
Yes, it can interfere with the baby monitor. That's the irony and the joke; they were worried about the new smart meter and RF allergies even though the baby monitor was using the RF at the same frequencies.
What a coincidence, that's why their cat died too.
Her entire page is a buzzword soup of alternative hooey. I'll trust chicken soup before I trust her.
I remember a forum comment complaining about RF from smart meters, how it was causing headaches and also interfered with their baby monitor.
I work in a building full of equipment broadcasting on several different bands all day long, not just the few piddly wi-fi routers. It seems that every day I come to work I spend the day completely depressed, but I cheer up again when I go home at night. My only conclusion is that RF causes depression.
Must be a typo. Instead it is ELVIS that is everywhere.
Last I checked, the RF allergy believers tend to be from very liberal areas. For instance, complaints about smart electric meters on forums from people in conservative parts of California tended to be about unreasonable increases in rates or government intrusion, but from people in liberal parts complained about RF exposure and headaches the same time every night.
This is a California thing in general. There are some additional California rules that go beyond ADA requirements that tend to be abused. There is essentially no enforcement though, except by roving bands of lawyers who threaten to sue people. This is by design because it is cheaper than hiring regulators paid by the state (and it's also Republican friendly to have private enterprise suing people). It's cheaper to pay off the lawyer than to go to court and get an exemption or time extension or clarification of the rules.
You don't need much. 1.5 MBPS is enough to get good internet, it's vastly better than dial up when dial up is your only option. You go from a painful web viewing experience to one that is usable. A page loads in a couple of seconds instead of a couple of minutes. Add some ad block and the page loads in less than a second. Now you can finally browse the web.
DSL is cheaper than cable, slower than cable but faster than dialup, and good enough for most people who are just browsing facebook to see what the grandkids are up to.
Then there's VDSL which can give you usable video streaming services like Netflix, but more expensive than DSL while only slightly cheaper than cable. But when you can't get cable or refuse to touch anything from Comcast then it's a good choice.
Videos are just not always a good stuff to present information. They can be boring and time intensive. But people love to make videos because they pay back a few cents over time, whereas writing a concise description in text that takes ten seconds to read earns you zero cents. A good lecture has questions and answers, a video does not do that. A good lecturer can tell when the audience is getting confused or is nodding off, a video lecturer can not do that. A video lecture is the modern day equivalent of the elementary school film projector.
That's bullshit. When you look at an outsourced company in India itself it is not staffed with the best and brightest people, but people from IT specific schools and not computer science or engineering and definitely not a broad based education. That is, you get someone from a school with a highly focused curriculum based upon the job requirements for the next year only. You also don't get the best graduates from those schools. Because the best and brighest Indians are already in America or Europe, there's a huge brain drain problem that is going to seriously affect India in the next generation.
This isn't because of republicans, but corporations. They put intense pressure on universities to stop teaching a broad subject and teach job specific skills, like the big name schools are supposed to be nothing more than mere trade schools. And the universities fall for this, because they hope for some extra funding for a new lab from IBM, or an endowment from Intel, an extra faculty position paid for by SAP. Some day there may be the Taco Bell Chair in Culinary Engineering.
Democrat or Republican politicians, the majority have never held a real job outside of law or politics, a small number have had jobs in teaching or medicine, but I can't think of more than a handful who've started in engineering or science. So these politicians do whatever corporations tell them, and then end up believing the charts that say there are no qualified American citizens who can handle engineering/programming/technician jobs.
Credentials are worthless and have always been worthless, unless you're in a grunt job like an IT helpdesk. I've been a grader and a teaching assistant at a university, and the same attitudes were there as well. Students whose parents paid a lot of money would gripe and moan about the deadlines and asking for extension with flimsy excuses; but it was third world, first world, rich, poor, male, female, etc.
This is why teacher's pets exist. One student who appears to want to actually learn, and learn more than the syllabus encompasses, can make it all worthwhile to someone who is trying to teach.
DSL has the advantage that it's NOT cable. And DSL is far better than many people have access too, is good enough for many, and is cheaper.
Is there a backup cupboard?
Don't forget the J Edgar Hoover part of this. If he was paranoid about something then the agency was paranoid about it too.
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I can never tell if Clarkson is a smart person pretending to be stupid, or a stupid person pretending to be smart. Because a stupid person could never pretend to be that stupid.
You need to ensure that blocks are written to the media in the correct order. Or at least that everying before a synchronization point was completely written to the media. But even that is not always true because devices will lie and claim to have flushed data when they have not. So you also need to ensure that your underlying block based device is operating correctly, and that can be tricky when it's a third party device.
And yet the FAT16 file system was popular for a very long time.
Write a block to the storage device.
Apply all necessary flush and synchronization commands, and a few unnecessary ones.
Power off the storage device.
Power the device back on.
Read back the block to ensure it was actually written.
Repeat as necessary until block is confirmed as having been written.
Continue with block number two...
Many consumer devices generally conform to an unwritten standard, not a written one. That unwritten standard is "do whatever is needed to make it work on Windows". This means that mandatory commands might not be fully tested, or sometimes not even implemented. And because these are consumer devices, the manufacturers generally aren't concerned about rare end-user problems, since whoever bought the flash thumb drive on sale isn't going to complain, and the margins are way too small to waste time on reliability. All that matters is getting it to work for most people most of the time.