It's because they are not willing to install more towers to make 3G work, they have no interest in trying to put in spotty 4G that will also not work there. They have to spend a LOT of money to fix it, they simply would rather spend that cash on executive bonuses instead.
Anything that will knock me off of the grandfathered "unlimited plan" I have no interest in. Plus if it's anything like how they run their 3G, in dense places like NYC, it will be as slow as a 56K modem.
Computers are in use every day, hand crank cars that dont have a safety crank are more rare than the do-do bird. Very bad example. and YES I do know how to do that. I would seek out a safety crank before using a standard crank though. I also know how to start a aircraft safely by prop spinning.
But in today's society a computer is not a curious oddity that very few people have. They are everywhere. and just like knowing how to open a door or how to flush a toilet, using a computer is required knowledge in today's society. But the dumbing down is an American only phenomenon In japan they don't dumb down products unless they are planning on shipping them to the USA. There are fantastic products they sell there that they would never ship here because they are convinced that Americans are too dumb to use them, and they are in fact correct. In Europe you are REQUIRED to know how to drive a Stick shift to get your license... every country requires this. In the USA we dropped that requirement. Stick shift cars and trucks are common, so why do we not require the education for a drivers license?
And sorry, but a power boat is not easier to operate than a canoe. Making something simple when complexity is not needed? sure. making it simple because the majority does not want to bother with learning? no.
I'm all for making all home theater gear work together to have one button turn it all on and do what is commanded. there is no reason to have 10 different remotes simply because the equipment makers are too lazy to make this stuff communicate. It's complexity borne from lazyness and has no useful purpose.
Complexity borne from usefulness like a URL bar that lets me go to a website that google does not know about? that is useful on many levels to everyone. Just like how your car can go in a direction that there is no road. IT's not as easy as the road, but it's still there for you. I'd hate to not be able to pull into my driveway because google maps has not indexed my house yet.
And LordLimecat does not know ANYTHING about mozilla. There are bugs that have been here for TWO major version numbers. they pulled out this 4.0 major change over without bothering to fix a lot of the bugs that cause issues to a lot of people or are plain old rookie mistakes that they let hang because they dont want to bother with fixing it.
Honestly Firefox could crush the others if they focused on speed, reliability, and limited bugs.
And they need to rat out the plugins that cause issues. the browser should be telling me that "Adblock plus is slowing down your session, we recommend disabling it until they get around to fixing it" (For example as the last version before current had a major issue that was freezing firefox.)
And they lead such poor lives.... All they do is give and give and give and go home to their tar paper shack and sleep on wet blankets....
You know what, people USED to hod doctors in high regard, you know the small town type that charged honest rates, lived in a modest but nice house and was a member of the community, they would say things like, "Hi! glad to have you as a neighbor, dont call me doctor, call me Jim".
Today, you get the pirma donnas that demand you call them DOCTOR.. they drive porsche's and BMW's and act like they are blessed by god. Show up for a yearly physical or overall checkup and you get charged $300.00 for the 30 seconds you see him.
Sorry, REAL doctors dont have to worry about this, the greedy assholes that are looking to buy yet another $1000 putter can stuff it in their ass.
You cant sign away your basic rights. Who cares what scumbag lawyer the doctor hired to write up that drivel. It's not enforceable. You can not sign away your rights to free speech.
Yes It's important to me that is why I make INFORMED decisions on buying things instead of being the typical consumer idiot that listens to what the sales guy at Best Buy says. It's why I dont have a bluray player at all. I rip blurays on my computer and play them from a XBMC PC.
Samsung TV's... garbage. their Serial control protocol was written by idiots. Oh and reliability is in the toilet. Samsung Digital cameras - Garbage, low end garbage. Samsung Blu Ray players - rebadged LG. Samsung Phones... can we make a flip phone that does not have connection ribbon problems please?
From my experience, Samsung is lower in quality than LG, that company that used to be Goldstar.
You know that first mars colony museum will have a very cool science wing. they already have a pile of stuff for it, just need to drive around and pick them up.
This would be called the "Not and idiot" mode... it should require some basic math to enable it to keep the typical idiot from accidentally enabling it.
But with mozilla it's , "when you don't want to bother with working on the pile of bug reports to fix the problems that have been there for a while.... Work on a new shiny!
"Many normal users are confused by URL's and the like anyway ".....
And we all know that it's far easier to hide it than to educate someone or GASP! they take effort to learn.
This kind of mentality will bring us the car without access to the engine bay and computers that only let you install software from the AppStore(tm)....
Why are we dumbing things down to cater to the bottom of the pool? What the hell is wrong with society, It's encouraging people to be illiterate and undecuated?
You can do P2P Voip so that there is no central server I have seen it done. Problem is the initial "connect" to the "cloud" take a very long time. Now to make a Skype replacement for voice only would take very little money. you just need the bandwidth. A voice only Open Source version of Skype could be set up overnight if you had several servers set up for people to connect to using ANY SIP/Voip client.
You also would have the advantage of offering something that skype would not. NO-PC handsets in the home. for years I wished I could have a "skype cordless" that did not need a pc running.
Already have this for Voice. there are 90,000 Voip systems and applications that work great. Video calls is what is needed, a dedicated written for video calling from the ground up not a feature duck-taped on top of another application.
Everyone uses random codecs and styles instead of H323. this creates incompatibilities to help keep the separate walled gardens exclusive.
If everyone used H323 Standards then this would not be an issue. Hell you would be able to call a Tandberg video conferencing unit. Thre is no real useable open source cross platform video conferencing "chat" application that works worth a damn. I have tried for years to go OSS for my gaming group and we settled on google video or Skype.
Hopefully the Skype fiasco will cause some Foss developers to stop adding stupid features or GUI redesigns and make the applications do reliable video calls.
Too bad you lost your soul... I kept mine and I still enjoy blasting pixels into different pixels... Bulletstorm is a major stress reliever when I get home. my 19 year old daughter rolls her eyes when her boyfriend comes in and ignores her for a quick multiplayer match on the Xbox.
Then it is true. the end is near.... as was fortold in the old documents....
"And lo, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse will be announce by a messenger, the actual release of Duke Nukem Forever will seal the fate of mankind as they will bask in the light unaware that the horsemen will approach and deliver their doom unto them." -- Speculese 14:10
Not giving out my secret sites as they are already getting full. but I started with searching google for "charter empty leg flights" http://www.chartermatrix.com/Search-Empty-Legs-And-One-Way-Air-Charter-Flights.aspx is one I used to use, but I discovered a couple of sources that are not even online, you have to make phone calls to arrange. Note, you do need flexibility. Flight there may be on a tuesday, flight back may be 2 weeks later. Or if you can swing it, Fly back to Chicago or Minnesota and then have a 1 day layover to catch a different jet back.
Over the past 3 months I have seen a dramatic drop off of Foursquare use. I have about 60 friends that all use it and it has went from a furious competition to only about 4 that actually still use it. In fact I have not checked into anyplace for over a week. It's too much of a bother. Plus any rewards for using it are near invisible. Most of the time you check in AFTER you have ordered so you see the special you now cant use.
They need a major revamping like cache all my places so I dont have to wait for 2 minutes for it to find my location and then pull the location list.
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It's because they are not willing to install more towers to make 3G work, they have no interest in trying to put in spotty 4G that will also not work there. They have to spend a LOT of money to fix it, they simply would rather spend that cash on executive bonuses instead.
Anything that will knock me off of the grandfathered "unlimited plan" I have no interest in. Plus if it's anything like how they run their 3G, in dense places like NYC, it will be as slow as a 56K modem.
Computers are in use every day, hand crank cars that dont have a safety crank are more rare than the do-do bird. Very bad example. and YES I do know how to do that. I would seek out a safety crank before using a standard crank though. I also know how to start a aircraft safely by prop spinning.
But in today's society a computer is not a curious oddity that very few people have. They are everywhere. and just like knowing how to open a door or how to flush a toilet, using a computer is required knowledge in today's society. But the dumbing down is an American only phenomenon In japan they don't dumb down products unless they are planning on shipping them to the USA. There are fantastic products they sell there that they would never ship here because they are convinced that Americans are too dumb to use them, and they are in fact correct. In Europe you are REQUIRED to know how to drive a Stick shift to get your license... every country requires this. In the USA we dropped that requirement. Stick shift cars and trucks are common, so why do we not require the education for a drivers license?
And sorry, but a power boat is not easier to operate than a canoe. Making something simple when complexity is not needed? sure. making it simple because the majority does not want to bother with learning? no.
I'm all for making all home theater gear work together to have one button turn it all on and do what is commanded. there is no reason to have 10 different remotes simply because the equipment makers are too lazy to make this stuff communicate. It's complexity borne from lazyness and has no useful purpose.
Complexity borne from usefulness like a URL bar that lets me go to a website that google does not know about? that is useful on many levels to everyone.
Just like how your car can go in a direction that there is no road. IT's not as easy as the road, but it's still there for you. I'd hate to not be able to pull into my driveway because google maps has not indexed my house yet.
And LordLimecat does not know ANYTHING about mozilla. There are bugs that have been here for TWO major version numbers. they pulled out this 4.0 major change over without bothering to fix a lot of the bugs that cause issues to a lot of people or are plain old rookie mistakes that they let hang because they dont want to bother with fixing it.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Security&resolution=---
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Preferences&resolution=---
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Tabbed%20Browser&resolution=---
Honestly Firefox could crush the others if they focused on speed, reliability, and limited bugs.
And they need to rat out the plugins that cause issues. the browser should be telling me that "Adblock plus is slowing down your session, we recommend disabling it until they get around to fixing it" (For example as the last version before current had a major issue that was freezing firefox.)
And they lead such poor lives.... All they do is give and give and give and go home to their tar paper shack and sleep on wet blankets....
You know what, people USED to hod doctors in high regard, you know the small town type that charged honest rates, lived in a modest but nice house and was a member of the community, they would say things like, "Hi! glad to have you as a neighbor, dont call me doctor, call me Jim".
Today, you get the pirma donnas that demand you call them DOCTOR.. they drive porsche's and BMW's and act like they are blessed by god. Show up for a yearly physical or overall checkup and you get charged $300.00 for the 30 seconds you see him.
Sorry, REAL doctors dont have to worry about this, the greedy assholes that are looking to buy yet another $1000 putter can stuff it in their ass.
Briliant!
You cant sign away your basic rights. Who cares what scumbag lawyer the doctor hired to write up that drivel. It's not enforceable. You can not sign away your rights to free speech.
Yes It's important to me that is why I make INFORMED decisions on buying things instead of being the typical consumer idiot that listens to what the sales guy at Best Buy says. It's why I dont have a bluray player at all. I rip blurays on my computer and play them from a XBMC PC.
Nope.
Samsung TV's... garbage. their Serial control protocol was written by idiots. Oh and reliability is in the toilet.
Samsung Digital cameras - Garbage, low end garbage.
Samsung Blu Ray players - rebadged LG.
Samsung Phones... can we make a flip phone that does not have connection ribbon problems please?
From my experience, Samsung is lower in quality than LG, that company that used to be Goldstar.
You know that first mars colony museum will have a very cool science wing. they already have a pile of stuff for it, just need to drive around and pick them up.
This would be called the "Not and idiot" mode... it should require some basic math to enable it to keep the typical idiot from accidentally enabling it.
But with mozilla it's , "when you don't want to bother with working on the pile of bug reports to fix the problems that have been there for a while.... Work on a new shiny!
"Many normal users are confused by URL's and the like anyway ".....
And we all know that it's far easier to hide it than to educate someone or GASP! they take effort to learn.
This kind of mentality will bring us the car without access to the engine bay and computers that only let you install software from the AppStore(tm)....
Why are we dumbing things down to cater to the bottom of the pool? What the hell is wrong with society, It's encouraging people to be illiterate and undecuated?
Almost every single person that works here....
OHHH SHINY CLICK IT CLICK IT!
You can do P2P Voip so that there is no central server I have seen it done. Problem is the initial "connect" to the "cloud" take a very long time. Now to make a Skype replacement for voice only would take very little money. you just need the bandwidth. A voice only Open Source version of Skype could be set up overnight if you had several servers set up for people to connect to using ANY SIP/Voip client.
You also would have the advantage of offering something that skype would not. NO-PC handsets in the home. for years I wished I could have a "skype cordless" that did not need a pc running.
Contact Leo Laporte. he is looking to get a group of developers together to do exactly this. And he has a lot more of a chance at getting it done.
Already have this for Voice. there are 90,000 Voip systems and applications that work great. Video calls is what is needed, a dedicated written for video calling from the ground up not a feature duck-taped on top of another application.
Everyone uses random codecs and styles instead of H323. this creates incompatibilities to help keep the separate walled gardens exclusive.
If everyone used H323 Standards then this would not be an issue. Hell you would be able to call a Tandberg video conferencing unit. Thre is no real useable open source cross platform video conferencing "chat" application that works worth a damn. I have tried for years to go OSS for my gaming group and we settled on google video or Skype.
Hopefully the Skype fiasco will cause some Foss developers to stop adding stupid features or GUI redesigns and make the applications do reliable video calls.
Nope not shriveled... just fat.
Too bad you lost your soul... I kept mine and I still enjoy blasting pixels into different pixels... Bulletstorm is a major stress reliever when I get home. my 19 year old daughter rolls her eyes when her boyfriend comes in and ignores her for a quick multiplayer match on the Xbox.
Then it is true. the end is near.... as was fortold in the old documents....
"And lo, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse will be announce by a messenger, the actual release of Duke Nukem Forever will seal the fate of mankind as they will bask in the light unaware that the horsemen will approach and deliver their doom unto them." -- Speculese 14:10
If it's getting THROUGH the tin can, It's a neutron source.
Not giving out my secret sites as they are already getting full. but I started with searching google for "charter empty leg flights" http://www.chartermatrix.com/Search-Empty-Legs-And-One-Way-Air-Charter-Flights.aspx is one I used to use, but I discovered a couple of sources that are not even online, you have to make phone calls to arrange.
Note, you do need flexibility. Flight there may be on a tuesday, flight back may be 2 weeks later. Or if you can swing it, Fly back to Chicago or Minnesota and then have a 1 day layover to catch a different jet back.
Enjoy your groping... Glad to see you put money above your privacy.
Over the past 3 months I have seen a dramatic drop off of Foursquare use. I have about 60 friends that all use it and it has went from a furious competition to only about 4 that actually still use it. In fact I have not checked into anyplace for over a week. It's too much of a bother. Plus any rewards for using it are near invisible. Most of the time you check in AFTER you have ordered so you see the special you now cant use.
They need a major revamping like cache all my places so I dont have to wait for 2 minutes for it to find my location and then pull the location list.