I personally wouldn't mind having a "plug in quick charger" big honking thing to connect to a special plug on the battery, and a second smaller brick to connect when I just want to maintain/trickle charge the battery while at home. One to prep for leaving the house (plug it in 10 minutes before leaving) and one to use around the house. Sounds perfect.
I was getting 3000+ spam messages a month for a personal email address that I had never signed up for anything (they obviously used a dictionary attack, as the address was simply my last name @ my email provider). I gave up and started using it online for convenience. I get about the same amount of spam now as I did before (actually, a little less now), so... meh.
SPAM is the meat. Spam is the email problem (there have actually been lawsuits about this). SPAM either stands for Spiced Ham (the original name of the product was Hormel Spiced Ham), or, if we believe the recorded Hormel official's statement, it could be an acronym for: "Shoulder of Pork And haM"
I never said prejudice... you missed the point entirely. People, for convenience sake, assume concepts about vast swaths of humanity - they put these stereotypes out there for convenience sake. I never said prejudice, and I never will. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" or in this case, ignorance.
Um, for the DSL companies, there are laws requiring that the major telcos "wholesale" DSL to independent companies so that there is competition. This is pretty much exactly like "allowing [me] to sell the milk from [your] cows so [I] can pursue [my] trade in milk" because you have the only farm in town and a monopoly on cows. Basically, the government has required that you "sell your milk" to the independent company at cost plus a very small margin of profit. You still profit, but if I can sell your "milk" at a price lower than your retail, and provide better service (likely with a smaller profit margin), then people will buy from me instead of you, yet you still get a cut. Forced competition.
There was no round table... they just figured out what they were spending 50% of their time doing, put together a paper on it, and said it was about all of us.:-P
I have an espresso machine at work... My boss likes espresso. I have never had an issue having it at my desk, providing that I make more than one cup on a regular basis.
If you don;t like it, take a pay cut and go work for the other guy...
Funny thing is, you run a shop like that, and when you need that developer to work 80 hours a week for the next 3 weeks to get a project done on time, and he says "Hell no! I get paid for 40, and you make absolutely sure you get that 40 out of me. Why should I give you anything extra?"
So, you fire them, and your project tanks.
Then they get a job elsewhere, where they are free to do whatever, but have deadlines. They meet every deadline at their new job and still have the freedom to enjoy their life. Their new job has a project, and the manager says "hey, I know it's been nice and easy for the last couple of months, but we have a biggie that just came through - a nasty bug in the code needs to be fixed by friday so it can be QA'd for the release... We're gonna have to pull a few all nighters." This "problem employee" that you fired responds "No problem. I'll get right on it." and that company does better than yours.
People are people. Take away freedoms and treat them like hired cattle, and they will look for other jobs, even lower paying jobs, so that they have the freedom to be human.
DISCLAIMER: I have friends from each of the countries mentioned below, and do not think this of them or their countries of origin.
It is not xenophobia, it is simply stereotyping other cultures. Not that this is the best behavior, but it is common. Here are a few others that are often seen bandied about:
French: Stuck up snobs who run away from any fight.
German: Stubborn amoral mules who are in denial of Hitler and the Nazi regimes atrocities.
Australian: Down-under hicks who always say "G'Day mayte"
Americans: Fat slobs who think they're better than everyone else
British: Inbred, with bad teeth
Africa: Everyone is poor, hungry, and lives in a mud hut.
Now that I've evenly offended pretty much everyone, please read the following before modding me into oblivion:
Stereotyping is what happens when somenoe only sees what little they see in the news or what little they see from video games or movies.
People from France are people (some nice, some not). People from Germany are people (some nice, some not). Etc., etc...
Point being - People are just people, but often, for convenience, people latch onto the stereotypes and just repeat those.
To be honest, for many Americans, their understanding of Russia is likely as follows: AllOfMP3.com, Russian Mafia from movies, and the Cold War in the history books.
This actually seems a good option that will provide more flexibility than a standard document editor.
You can embed media in the page or store it externally, you can create 'documents', tag them by usage, set edit permissions rather specifically (depending on the wiki backend chosen), it is fully open source (depending on the wiki backend chosen), it can be easily viewed by others who do not have write access, and easily navigated as a reference - many doc sharing softwares, such as Google Docs, make cross referencing and hierarchical referencing frustrating, and for those who are only invited to view the doc, it can be downright difficult.
For an Anonymous Coward, this person's got a good common sense suggestion.
Many white space devices are used inside auditoriums where the natural layout of the bricks, walls, concrete, etc. blocks most signals. This means that your tv station cannot be received inside there (you obviously need the antenna, as would I if I wanted the signal inside that building) and that the white space devices will not interfere with your viewing (the lavs I work with weekly have roughly a 100-150 foot distance before their signal degrades, and they do not push through a concrete wall very well, which 90% of the wall structure in the building I use them in consists of. So, in other words, my use of the white space does, in no way, interfere with your ability to watch this TV.
Now, the question is, if the spectrum is used for a new purpose, will this new purpose make my $3000 in wireless equipment suddenly unable to punch through the noise and effectively make it as worthless as a doorstop unless I build a friggin Faraday cage around our auditorium? It's a valid thing to test, and if the test was rigged (or if there is even a possibility that it was rigged), I most certainly want it to be retested by an outside non-partial observer.
I don't think that Google is non-partial, nor is the FCC... someone not financially interested in the outcome at all needs to test this.
Perhaps we can pay a non-interested government to run the tests, and all who are interested in the results (google, FCC, wireless mic manufacturers, etc.) can foot the bill, gaining access to the full report (while the rest of us get the succinct findings for free), with the final report being released at a later date for public review.
Seems to me the only "non-biased" third parties would be governments who have no financial stake whatsoever in what happens to this spectrum in the US.
Who cares what her name is if she's fun and really attractive?
I mean, in my pappy's day... they had gals named Latrina, George, Gurtrude, and Zerelda, and they still managed to catch a man and have dozens of children by them.
Oh, and in honor of my pappy's generation - get offa his lawn!
sorry to reply to myself, but wanted to add this:
I hate the current system of internet providers and believe that true competition is needed to really gain us the services we desire (FIOS vs Cable is a good start, but we need a realistic 3rd option to keep the market as free as possible).
I agree with you for the most part, but I would argue that the car and the truck are direct competitors in the transportation market (just as satellite radio was deemed to be a direct competitor to AM/FM radio in the Music Entertainment market). The jet? Yeah, another class altogether, but having one company that makes various cars, one that makes various trucks, and one that provides city-wide transportation via buses and trains would provide some competition (albeit not too much).
Look at those three competitors: If you just want to get somewhere, you have choices (car, truck, train/bus, i.e. cable internet, DSL, satellite). If you want to get there with some choice in how fast you get there, you still have a couple of options (car, truck, i.e. Cable, DSL). If, however, you want a particular package (4 door sedan / cable internet plus cable TV package) you have to go with the company that offers that particular package. The truck and car companies would not be able to just arbitrarily double or triple their prices... people would just say "the truck's not 100% what I want, but it's cheaper and gets the job done" and will jump ship - so not 100% monopoly, but not 100% what a free market should be, but having the choices brings it closer to a free market than to a monopoly.
Basically, I believe that the more microscopic you look at a market, the more monopolistic it may seem and the more macroscopically you look at a market, the more freedom you will see (though not in all markets, and not in all circumstances, but in most).
When both offer High Speed Internet (of differing speeds and differing options), then yes, in this one area, it is a free market. You can choose to get cellphone based internet from a couple of companies, can get dial up, can get satellite, can get Cable Internet, can get DSL, can get FIOS. It all depends on where you live.
Some areas are monopolies (Cable only with unrealistic alternative of really slow Dialup), while other areas are free markets.
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I personally wouldn't mind having a "plug in quick charger" big honking thing to connect to a special plug on the battery, and a second smaller brick to connect when I just want to maintain/trickle charge the battery while at home. One to prep for leaving the house (plug it in 10 minutes before leaving) and one to use around the house. Sounds perfect.
Google Translate?
I was getting 3000+ spam messages a month for a personal email address that I had never signed up for anything (they obviously used a dictionary attack, as the address was simply my last name @ my email provider). I gave up and started using it online for convenience. I get about the same amount of spam now as I did before (actually, a little less now), so... meh.
Your mileage may vary.
SPAM is the meat. Spam is the email problem (there have actually been lawsuits about this). SPAM either stands for Spiced Ham (the original name of the product was Hormel Spiced Ham), or, if we believe the recorded Hormel official's statement, it could be an acronym for: "Shoulder of Pork And haM"
You, sir, scare me. Please never go to the dark side!
They need to update that song, though "Put another $1.25 in the jukebox, baby" just doesn't have quite the ring to it.
Perhaps it is based on IP, and the slower company used NAT?
I never said prejudice... you missed the point entirely. People, for convenience sake, assume concepts about vast swaths of humanity - they put these stereotypes out there for convenience sake. I never said prejudice, and I never will. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" or in this case, ignorance.
Um... left out orientals because I don't know any, and, well, you got me there... Vodka should have made the list for standard Russia stereotype.
"you jealous foreigners" ?? I'm American, and I know we are not better than everyone else.
It's amazing, the arrogance of those around me. It makes me sick.
Um, for the DSL companies, there are laws requiring that the major telcos "wholesale" DSL to independent companies so that there is competition. This is pretty much exactly like "allowing [me] to sell the milk from [your] cows so [I] can pursue [my] trade in milk" because you have the only farm in town and a monopoly on cows. Basically, the government has required that you "sell your milk" to the independent company at cost plus a very small margin of profit. You still profit, but if I can sell your "milk" at a price lower than your retail, and provide better service (likely with a smaller profit margin), then people will buy from me instead of you, yet you still get a cut. Forced competition.
There was no round table... they just figured out what they were spending 50% of their time doing, put together a paper on it, and said it was about all of us. :-P
I have an espresso machine at work... My boss likes espresso. I have never had an issue having it at my desk, providing that I make more than one cup on a regular basis.
If you don;t like it, take a pay cut and go work for the other guy...
Funny thing is, you run a shop like that, and when you need that developer to work 80 hours a week for the next 3 weeks to get a project done on time, and he says "Hell no! I get paid for 40, and you make absolutely sure you get that 40 out of me. Why should I give you anything extra?"
So, you fire them, and your project tanks.
Then they get a job elsewhere, where they are free to do whatever, but have deadlines. They meet every deadline at their new job and still have the freedom to enjoy their life. Their new job has a project, and the manager says "hey, I know it's been nice and easy for the last couple of months, but we have a biggie that just came through - a nasty bug in the code needs to be fixed by friday so it can be QA'd for the release... We're gonna have to pull a few all nighters." This "problem employee" that you fired responds "No problem. I'll get right on it." and that company does better than yours.
People are people. Take away freedoms and treat them like hired cattle, and they will look for other jobs, even lower paying jobs, so that they have the freedom to be human.
It is not xenophobia, it is simply stereotyping other cultures. Not that this is the best behavior, but it is common. Here are a few others that are often seen bandied about:
Now that I've evenly offended pretty much everyone, please read the following before modding me into oblivion:
Stereotyping is what happens when somenoe only sees what little they see in the news or what little they see from video games or movies.
People from France are people (some nice, some not). People from Germany are people (some nice, some not). Etc., etc...
Point being - People are just people, but often, for convenience, people latch onto the stereotypes and just repeat those.
To be honest, for many Americans, their understanding of Russia is likely as follows:
AllOfMP3.com, Russian Mafia from movies, and the Cold War in the history books.
It's sad, I know.
Real disk writers use butterflies.
This actually seems a good option that will provide more flexibility than a standard document editor.
You can embed media in the page or store it externally, you can create 'documents', tag them by usage, set edit permissions rather specifically (depending on the wiki backend chosen), it is fully open source (depending on the wiki backend chosen), it can be easily viewed by others who do not have write access, and easily navigated as a reference - many doc sharing softwares, such as Google Docs, make cross referencing and hierarchical referencing frustrating, and for those who are only invited to view the doc, it can be downright difficult.
For an Anonymous Coward, this person's got a good common sense suggestion.
You can insert images into docs and spreadsheets. Organize them logically into a doc file and now you have revisions and multi-editing.
Whoosh!
I guess you never were much of a Firefly fan?
Many white space devices are used inside auditoriums where the natural layout of the bricks, walls, concrete, etc. blocks most signals. This means that your tv station cannot be received inside there (you obviously need the antenna, as would I if I wanted the signal inside that building) and that the white space devices will not interfere with your viewing (the lavs I work with weekly have roughly a 100-150 foot distance before their signal degrades, and they do not push through a concrete wall very well, which 90% of the wall structure in the building I use them in consists of. So, in other words, my use of the white space does, in no way, interfere with your ability to watch this TV.
Now, the question is, if the spectrum is used for a new purpose, will this new purpose make my $3000 in wireless equipment suddenly unable to punch through the noise and effectively make it as worthless as a doorstop unless I build a friggin Faraday cage around our auditorium? It's a valid thing to test, and if the test was rigged (or if there is even a possibility that it was rigged), I most certainly want it to be retested by an outside non-partial observer.
I don't think that Google is non-partial, nor is the FCC... someone not financially interested in the outcome at all needs to test this.
Perhaps we can pay a non-interested government to run the tests, and all who are interested in the results (google, FCC, wireless mic manufacturers, etc.) can foot the bill, gaining access to the full report (while the rest of us get the succinct findings for free), with the final report being released at a later date for public review.
Seems to me the only "non-biased" third parties would be governments who have no financial stake whatsoever in what happens to this spectrum in the US.
Who cares what her name is if she's fun and really attractive?
I mean, in my pappy's day... they had gals named Latrina, George, Gurtrude, and Zerelda, and they still managed to catch a man and have dozens of children by them.
Oh, and in honor of my pappy's generation - get offa his lawn!
sorry to reply to myself, but wanted to add this:
I hate the current system of internet providers and believe that true competition is needed to really gain us the services we desire (FIOS vs Cable is a good start, but we need a realistic 3rd option to keep the market as free as possible).
I agree with you for the most part, but I would argue that the car and the truck are direct competitors in the transportation market (just as satellite radio was deemed to be a direct competitor to AM/FM radio in the Music Entertainment market). The jet? Yeah, another class altogether, but having one company that makes various cars, one that makes various trucks, and one that provides city-wide transportation via buses and trains would provide some competition (albeit not too much).
Look at those three competitors: If you just want to get somewhere, you have choices (car, truck, train/bus, i.e. cable internet, DSL, satellite). If you want to get there with some choice in how fast you get there, you still have a couple of options (car, truck, i.e. Cable, DSL). If, however, you want a particular package (4 door sedan / cable internet plus cable TV package) you have to go with the company that offers that particular package. The truck and car companies would not be able to just arbitrarily double or triple their prices... people would just say "the truck's not 100% what I want, but it's cheaper and gets the job done" and will jump ship - so not 100% monopoly, but not 100% what a free market should be, but having the choices brings it closer to a free market than to a monopoly.
Basically, I believe that the more microscopic you look at a market, the more monopolistic it may seem and the more macroscopically you look at a market, the more freedom you will see (though not in all markets, and not in all circumstances, but in most).
When both offer High Speed Internet (of differing speeds and differing options), then yes, in this one area, it is a free market. You can choose to get cellphone based internet from a couple of companies, can get dial up, can get satellite, can get Cable Internet, can get DSL, can get FIOS. It all depends on where you live.
Some areas are monopolies (Cable only with unrealistic alternative of really slow Dialup), while other areas are free markets.
They don't monitor it... they bottleneck it and cap the throughput speeds at the modem end.