I've been a GMail member since you had to get an invite to sign up (bought an invite off of EBay for $0.99) and my email has been inaccessible by both web mail and POP3/IMAP exactly four times. That's just around once a year. Any other email service I've ever had has had that many outages in a single year.
And I can tell from your responses that you are not in the medical field. You wouldn't understand unless you worked in a hospital. My wife runs labs for them and when working blood bank, must type blood for people bleeding out. Sometimes she comes home emotionally wrecked from working all night trying to help save a patient. Sometimes they win and sometimes they don't. Trust me, it makes a difference.
Yeah, So. Fla and Nw. Fla are significantly different weather wise. I think it rains harder up here but less often for some reason. We only tend to get a bad rain storm once every few months, but when it rains it pours like a bitch. Was delivering some flowers for my dad so he could take a day off from running his florist, and had to deliver three arrangements during a torrential downpour to a funeral home. And each was big enough that I had to do them one at a time. Was miserable by the time I got back in the car, but within 30 minutes the sun was shining and I had to crank up the AC because it was getting unbearable.
Well, you must've been living in a cave for those 30 years (or you live in Miami). It usually stays at least reasonably cool until late March/early April, and it generally starts cooling down in mid to late October (I know this because we have a yearly fair here in Pensacola and it always starts cooling around the week of the fair). My point is that the weather is so random from day to day, and I've lived here long enough to know that trying to predict average weather in Florida is a fools game.
Same with my parents' flower shop, which has a metal roof. Just outside the front door I get full bars, inside I cannot even get a good enough signal for text messages or voice mail reminders.
No problem, yeah, you are right, I stand corrected, it isn't complete garbage, but just out-of-date. You are right that they did not promote or advertise that you could get the ports unblocked, as at the time, Clearwire NOC engineers felt that if everyone used VOIP that it might cause massive latency issues with the towers. That's of course with the old tech, as WiMax should be able to handle quite a few more connections per tower due to the increased number of towers per square mile in the coverage area. WiMax also should handle moving around much better (such as in a bus or car), whereas the old tech could not effectively handle movement.
Hah you must live near where I live (Pensacola). Fucking crazy that today it was pouring down raining for god knows how long, and then five minutes after the rain stops it's near 90, feels like 95 and balmy, and the roads are dry within an hour. Gotta love the Florida weather. Don't like it? Wait five minutes.
Well, if someone has an uncontrolled bleeder, 5 minutes usually makes a difference between life or death. I'm not talking about the "Oh my god I broke my leg" situations but the "Oh my god my boyfriend stabbed me in the fucking stomach and now I have an uncontrolled GI bleed." Trust me, it's all too fucking common (which is why my wife wants to get a job with the city's only private hospital that is not a trauma center).
The fact that it was reported by NPR, CNN, and MSNBC tells me all I need to know about the likeliness of it being a legit claim. My only question is which analyst on which of those networks pulled the claim out of their ass and allow the other networks to co opt that info.
But they can be a bitch when it comes to using your cell phone in the house. You laugh, and say "but who uses their cell phone in their house?" Answer: anyone like myself who refuses to pay $50 for a basic house line when I already have a cell phone.
Exactly. Here in Florida, I probably have to run the heat maybe a total of a month out of the whole year. We use a lot more energy during the Summer when the average temperature before the humidity is factored in is about 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tell that to anyone who lives in or near the downtown area of any major city. My wife works as an MT (Medical Technician) near downtown in a city that only has a population of about 200k people, and they get gunshot and trauma victims all the time based on 911 calls (because they are informed by the 911 people that the ambulance is enroute, and they are the priority trauma center for this county) and most of the time these people live. It's the random off the street victims who stumble into the ER where 911 isn't called that die, usually by bleeding out while trying to make it to the hospital rather than having an EMT get them into a state where they can at least survive long enough to get into the capable hands of a trauma surgeon.
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Give me back my 486dx2 and a 2.4 kernel!
Nothing's stopping you from doing just that. It's not like someone has a gun to your head saying you have to use Vista.
It's okay. Slashdot looks equally like ass in Firefox, so it's not just a thumb in MS' eye.
How does $1.99 an invite sound?
I've been a GMail member since you had to get an invite to sign up (bought an invite off of EBay for $0.99) and my email has been inaccessible by both web mail and POP3/IMAP exactly four times. That's just around once a year. Any other email service I've ever had has had that many outages in a single year.
911 saves lives. Period. You can keep trying to talk around that fact, but it's not going to change it.
Well, just laptops without good graphics cards. I'm working on an FX series Gateway laptop that has an 8800 GT card.
And I can tell from your responses that you are not in the medical field. You wouldn't understand unless you worked in a hospital. My wife runs labs for them and when working blood bank, must type blood for people bleeding out. Sometimes she comes home emotionally wrecked from working all night trying to help save a patient. Sometimes they win and sometimes they don't. Trust me, it makes a difference.
Yeah, So. Fla and Nw. Fla are significantly different weather wise. I think it rains harder up here but less often for some reason. We only tend to get a bad rain storm once every few months, but when it rains it pours like a bitch. Was delivering some flowers for my dad so he could take a day off from running his florist, and had to deliver three arrangements during a torrential downpour to a funeral home. And each was big enough that I had to do them one at a time. Was miserable by the time I got back in the car, but within 30 minutes the sun was shining and I had to crank up the AC because it was getting unbearable.
Well, half of January 15th, anyways.
Well, you must've been living in a cave for those 30 years (or you live in Miami). It usually stays at least reasonably cool until late March/early April, and it generally starts cooling down in mid to late October (I know this because we have a yearly fair here in Pensacola and it always starts cooling around the week of the fair). My point is that the weather is so random from day to day, and I've lived here long enough to know that trying to predict average weather in Florida is a fools game.
Same with my parents' flower shop, which has a metal roof. Just outside the front door I get full bars, inside I cannot even get a good enough signal for text messages or voice mail reminders.
No problem, yeah, you are right, I stand corrected, it isn't complete garbage, but just out-of-date. You are right that they did not promote or advertise that you could get the ports unblocked, as at the time, Clearwire NOC engineers felt that if everyone used VOIP that it might cause massive latency issues with the towers. That's of course with the old tech, as WiMax should be able to handle quite a few more connections per tower due to the increased number of towers per square mile in the coverage area. WiMax also should handle moving around much better (such as in a bus or car), whereas the old tech could not effectively handle movement.
0 < all too fucking common <= 100
Hah you must live near where I live (Pensacola). Fucking crazy that today it was pouring down raining for god knows how long, and then five minutes after the rain stops it's near 90, feels like 95 and balmy, and the roads are dry within an hour. Gotta love the Florida weather. Don't like it? Wait five minutes.
Well, if someone has an uncontrolled bleeder, 5 minutes usually makes a difference between life or death. I'm not talking about the "Oh my god I broke my leg" situations but the "Oh my god my boyfriend stabbed me in the fucking stomach and now I have an uncontrolled GI bleed." Trust me, it's all too fucking common (which is why my wife wants to get a job with the city's only private hospital that is not a trauma center).
Hell, in Florida we can have all three simultaneously.
Absolutely awesome. I love that website. It's more entertaining than the real fake news.
Because anyone who hasn't seen a UPS truck from above just isn't living a fulfilling life.
Who wants to bet he just invested in a roofing supply company?
Proven fact, eh? Link?
The fact that it was reported by NPR, CNN, and MSNBC tells me all I need to know about the likeliness of it being a legit claim. My only question is which analyst on which of those networks pulled the claim out of their ass and allow the other networks to co opt that info.
But they can be a bitch when it comes to using your cell phone in the house. You laugh, and say "but who uses their cell phone in their house?" Answer: anyone like myself who refuses to pay $50 for a basic house line when I already have a cell phone.
Exactly. Here in Florida, I probably have to run the heat maybe a total of a month out of the whole year. We use a lot more energy during the Summer when the average temperature before the humidity is factored in is about 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
In Florida, we have only one season:
#RandomWeatherPattern
Tell that to anyone who lives in or near the downtown area of any major city. My wife works as an MT (Medical Technician) near downtown in a city that only has a population of about 200k people, and they get gunshot and trauma victims all the time based on 911 calls (because they are informed by the 911 people that the ambulance is enroute, and they are the priority trauma center for this county) and most of the time these people live. It's the random off the street victims who stumble into the ER where 911 isn't called that die, usually by bleeding out while trying to make it to the hospital rather than having an EMT get them into a state where they can at least survive long enough to get into the capable hands of a trauma surgeon.