And then Chrome turned around and finished Firefox.
I think Mozilla is doing that themselves. With each FF upgrade, I seem to loose more and more functionality and it gets slower and slower. I find I'm starting use Chrome more and more lately, even though I know I'm loosing some privacy in doing so.
No, but it adds an considerable element of security. If you disagree with me then feel free to attack my PC via the internet, it's IP address is 192.168.1.60
Hey! How dare you use my printer as your PC. No wonder it takes forever to process and print a PDF file.
Not that we don't need a totally revamped copyright law, just that it doesn't seem likely any time soon considering who is in charge.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
You complain about "being branded with poverty-net", but how would people know? Are they going to check the IP you're connecting from and link it up with your plan to see whether you're on the free service?
They probably would. I'll bet Google will use it when considering what ads to serve to people.
Why shouldn't they? Why show an add for a Rolex to someone who can't even afford a Timex?
Btw, all VOIP installs by an ISP require having a UPS so your 'POTS is da best' argument is a bit moot. I agree on some of your points, but hating on optical has very valid reasons.
POTS phones, as well as DSL, will keep working indefinitely. Good luck with that VOIP call when your UPS battery dies.
You're parsing this wrong. Try "the 107k/year includes salary + the employer's cost to provide benefits to the employee". The benefits/fringe do sound excessive - most places they're more like 25-30% of the salary, here it looks to be more like 60%.
OK, maybe I did parse it wrong, now that I reread the original, I see it. But $170k is $170k, even if some of it is in benefits. That 25 to 30 percent for health/dental/retirement/whatever is money you'd be spending on those things anyway, and most likely a lot cheaper than you'd get on your own. So my statement sill stands on the economic situation, the rent gouging, and over inflated real estate going on there needs to be stopped.
Silly. How about less than 68k/year? Because the 107k/year includes salary + the cost of the employees benefits to the employer.
Are you telling me California has legalized kickbacks? WTF are "employees benefits to the employer", and how can it be legal to require an employee to pay his employer part of his salary to work? Especially if that employer is the state government.
Now back to the story ~$9000.00 a fucking month, and you can't live off that? Seriously, if someone making over a hundred thousand dollars a year is living in poverty there is a serious economic problem there, and THAT needs to be dealt with before more tax dollars are thrown into the economy
Fighter pilots go through countless hours of training to learn how to deal with a HUD during air combat. During the other 90% of flight time there's nothing for them to hit if they're not paying attention to the sky. Drivers, on the other hand, go through a few hours of just barley paying attention in drivers ed., and/or a few minutes skimming the book just to pass the test before taking to the road. Automobile driving requires constant attention to the road, and with no training what so ever what do you think joe sixpack will be paying attention to because "I thought I was supposed to focus on the HUD, and it would tell me what to do"?
Remember, 50% of the population is below average intelligence, and I'm sure a good 25 to 30 percent of the above average think they can handle texting while driving as well. HUDs for automobiles is a very bad idea, and there's no reason for them.
Or hold the carriers legally responsible for breaches when they don't pass the update through. Or, better yet, the FCC should hold them financially responsible and fine them for not passing a security update on to the devise, regardless of age.
Still doesn't make it a footnote, and since Fallout isn't even mentioned in the title, it could've been left out of the summary altogether.
I haven't been following E3, but I knew Fallout 4 was going to be announced last week. This is the first I've heard of Doom and Dishonored 2. New news should be mentioned first.
It's a summary of an article, and two sentences at the end of a five sentence paragraph is not a minor footnote.
Perhaps if you'd get over the idea that what's the most important to you is not what's the most important to others, you might consider that they may have left the best for last to get you to read the whole summary?
These places are not ISPs, and shouldn't be treated as such. They're businesses offering a service in addition to whatever it was you purchased, so don't be a leach. It costs them money, and if you're one to even think of reporting an establishment offering free WiFi for cutting you off from or throttling your torrent, then fuck you. Go pay for your own connection.
Public libraries may be a different story, however, but I don't think they'd fall under ISP either. They are tax payer funded though, so leach away.
From an ethical standpoint, if a company provides you w/ any equipment - be it a laptop, cellphone, printer, or whatever, they have the right to write the rules of its use however they like. One would also be stupid to use that for personal stuff just b'cos one is too cheap to buy a laptop/tablet/phone of their own.
The U.S. worker feels it's their god given right to use company equipment for personal use during working hours, regardless of the hazard to the companies data and network.
I used to work IT for a small county courthouse. I was wiping the same crap off the workstations of the same people and giving the same lectures almost weekly. The County Judge wouldn't let me lock them down for fear of a lawsuit. Theses were machines with access to personal and county records. Kinda scary, now that I think of it.
This is what surprises me. Why don't we have multiple profiles for a given phone so you can pop in a new SIM card and have your company load and manage their stuff seperateely from your personal stuff?
For the same reason we don't have multi-SIM phones in the U.S. The carriers won't sell as many phones, and that's what it's all about. Why do you think they calls us consumers now instead of customers?
This is what happens when you have employees who think they have a god given right to surf the internet and conduct personal business on company time and equipment.
I'm sorry, you would not have that "right" in my shop. Especially these days with smart phones and tablets. You want to check your email or surf the web? Do it on your own god damned device, and it better damn well be after you've completed all your work, or on your break.
Yes employees have rights, but so do employers. They have the right to not have their equipment fucked up by ignorant employees who fall for the latest click-bait headline or flashy-shiny desktop icon thinngymabob that compromise their entire business.
...Verizon and Sprint will be able to keep 30% and 35% of the fees they collected, respectively.
Both companies do something illegal and still get to hold on to 30% or more of the money? They should be paying that 30 to 35 percent in excess to the customers they ripped off, court costs and fees, 100% of lawyer fees, plus a hefty fine. The victims should be getting 130% of their money back.
What kind of shit is this, DOJ? How in hell is this going to deter this type of behavior in the future? I'll tell you how - it's not. It will encourage it as just another revenue stream.
Not a big fan of C# (I used it to develop a program a few years ago, so it may be better now), but it still may be fun to look through for interesting patterns and methodologies though.
You seem to think you know an awful lot about me just because I misused a word (dyeing is spelled correctly, and if I were speaking and used dyeing instead of dying, you'd be none to wiser).
I drink fair trade coffee.
Last year had someone down on his luck mow my lawn, this year, as soon as this damn rain stops, I'll most likely mow it myself.
I don't eat out at all. I cook my own food and don't eat pre-processed crap.
Seriously, this H-1B shit needs to stop now. Until we're at 99% employment rate for whatever field we're importing workers for, they need to be shipped back to whatever country they came from. This is worse than the illegal imigrant, because these guys are diaplacing current American workers and taking jobs we have people dyeing to fill.
Every single one of those fired need to get together and file a class action against Disney, and this needs to be posted all over the social sites. Disney is no more a family company than Jack the Ripper was an exceptional lover. This needs to backlash on them, and hard.
companies to run with minimal staff and still "produce" as much if not more than before. Yet we still run around with the fiction of the "work week" and a "career"... These concepts are obsolete. It's time for the leisure society with resources for all. To deny this is to say we don't have the technology to do so.
Yet we have the technology to outsource everything. But this only benefits the few. If it benefits all, then it's wrong.
We may have the technology, but we don't have the resources. Unless something is done about the population growth, whether or not we fix the climate change, we are done for and we'll take 99.9% of the remaining species with us. I wonder what the next civilization on this planet, or the ETs that find it, will think when they start digging up our artefacts.
Could also be thinking ahead to a Windows 10 TV? Being able to run the current Apple and Android TV apps as soon as it comes out would probibly make people hesitate less on purchasing one, if there ever is such a thing.
if you're just looking for a tablet to browse the Internet and run a couple of simple apps, would you really shell out the extra money buy an iPod?
Because an iPod touch is small enough to put in an armband so you can listen while you jog. Android tablets typically don't run smaller than 7 inches without being designed (and priced) for use with a cellular network. Or should people just buy an entry-level Android phone and use it without a SIM?
The OP was talking about iPads, I think the iPod was a typo. As for your jogging comment, you could just use the phone you currently have to listen to music. Or do you always carry around two overlapping devices?
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And then Chrome turned around and finished Firefox.
I think Mozilla is doing that themselves. With each FF upgrade, I seem to loose more and more functionality and it gets slower and slower. I find I'm starting use Chrome more and more lately, even though I know I'm loosing some privacy in doing so.
And it's a momentary push button, not a switch, so the user can't leave it enabled.
Yeah, Scotch has a fix for that.
No, but it adds an considerable element of security. If you disagree with me then feel free to attack my PC via the internet, it's IP address is 192.168.1.60
Hey! How dare you use my printer as your PC. No wonder it takes forever to process and print a PDF file.
Not that we don't need a totally revamped copyright law, just that it doesn't seem likely any time soon considering who is in charge.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
You complain about "being branded with poverty-net", but how would people know? Are they going to check the IP you're connecting from and link it up with your plan to see whether you're on the free service?
They probably would. I'll bet Google will use it when considering what ads to serve to people.
Why shouldn't they? Why show an add for a Rolex to someone who can't even afford a Timex?
Btw, all VOIP installs by an ISP require having a UPS so your 'POTS is da best' argument is a bit moot. I agree on some of your points, but hating on optical has very valid reasons.
POTS phones, as well as DSL, will keep working indefinitely. Good luck with that VOIP call when your UPS battery dies.
Also, I didn't get a UPS with my VOIP setup.
You're parsing this wrong. Try "the 107k/year includes salary + the employer's cost to provide benefits to the employee". The benefits/fringe do sound excessive - most places they're more like 25-30% of the salary, here it looks to be more like 60%.
OK, maybe I did parse it wrong, now that I reread the original, I see it. But $170k is $170k, even if some of it is in benefits. That 25 to 30 percent for health/dental/retirement/whatever is money you'd be spending on those things anyway, and most likely a lot cheaper than you'd get on your own. So my statement sill stands on the economic situation, the rent gouging, and over inflated real estate going on there needs to be stopped.
Silly. How about less than 68k/year? Because the 107k/year includes salary + the cost of the employees benefits to the employer.
Are you telling me California has legalized kickbacks? WTF are "employees benefits to the employer", and how can it be legal to require an employee to pay his employer part of his salary to work? Especially if that employer is the state government.
Now back to the story ~$9000.00 a fucking month, and you can't live off that? Seriously, if someone making over a hundred thousand dollars a year is living in poverty there is a serious economic problem there, and THAT needs to be dealt with before more tax dollars are thrown into the economy
Fighter pilots go through countless hours of training to learn how to deal with a HUD during air combat. During the other 90% of flight time there's nothing for them to hit if they're not paying attention to the sky. Drivers, on the other hand, go through a few hours of just barley paying attention in drivers ed., and/or a few minutes skimming the book just to pass the test before taking to the road. Automobile driving requires constant attention to the road, and with no training what so ever what do you think joe sixpack will be paying attention to because "I thought I was supposed to focus on the HUD, and it would tell me what to do"?
Remember, 50% of the population is below average intelligence, and I'm sure a good 25 to 30 percent of the above average think they can handle texting while driving as well. HUDs for automobiles is a very bad idea, and there's no reason for them.
This is what texting on meth looks like.
Or hold the carriers legally responsible for breaches when they don't pass the update through. Or, better yet, the FCC should hold them financially responsible and fine them for not passing a security update on to the devise, regardless of age.
Still doesn't make it a footnote, and since Fallout isn't even mentioned in the title, it could've been left out of the summary altogether.
I haven't been following E3, but I knew Fallout 4 was going to be announced last week. This is the first I've heard of Doom and Dishonored 2. New news should be mentioned first.
It's a summary of an article, and two sentences at the end of a five sentence paragraph is not a minor footnote.
Perhaps if you'd get over the idea that what's the most important to you is not what's the most important to others, you might consider that they may have left the best for last to get you to read the whole summary?
These places are not ISPs, and shouldn't be treated as such. They're businesses offering a service in addition to whatever it was you purchased, so don't be a leach. It costs them money, and if you're one to even think of reporting an establishment offering free WiFi for cutting you off from or throttling your torrent, then fuck you. Go pay for your own connection.
Public libraries may be a different story, however, but I don't think they'd fall under ISP either. They are tax payer funded though, so leach away.
From an ethical standpoint, if a company provides you w/ any equipment - be it a laptop, cellphone, printer, or whatever, they have the right to write the rules of its use however they like. One would also be stupid to use that for personal stuff just b'cos one is too cheap to buy a laptop/tablet/phone of their own.
The U.S. worker feels it's their god given right to use company equipment for personal use during working hours, regardless of the hazard to the companies data and network.
I used to work IT for a small county courthouse. I was wiping the same crap off the workstations of the same people and giving the same lectures almost weekly. The County Judge wouldn't let me lock them down for fear of a lawsuit. Theses were machines with access to personal and county records. Kinda scary, now that I think of it.
This is what surprises me. Why don't we have multiple profiles for a given phone so you can pop in a new SIM card and have your company load and manage their stuff seperateely from your personal stuff?
For the same reason we don't have multi-SIM phones in the U.S. The carriers won't sell as many phones, and that's what it's all about. Why do you think they calls us consumers now instead of customers?
This is what happens when you have employees who think they have a god given right to surf the internet and conduct personal business on company time and equipment.
I'm sorry, you would not have that "right" in my shop. Especially these days with smart phones and tablets. You want to check your email or surf the web? Do it on your own god damned device, and it better damn well be after you've completed all your work, or on your break.
Yes employees have rights, but so do employers. They have the right to not have their equipment fucked up by ignorant employees who fall for the latest click-bait headline or flashy-shiny desktop icon thinngymabob that compromise their entire business.
...Verizon and Sprint will be able to keep 30% and 35% of the fees they collected, respectively.
Both companies do something illegal and still get to hold on to 30% or more of the money? They should be paying that 30 to 35 percent in excess to the customers they ripped off, court costs and fees, 100% of lawyer fees, plus a hefty fine. The victims should be getting 130% of their money back.
What kind of shit is this, DOJ? How in hell is this going to deter this type of behavior in the future? I'll tell you how - it's not. It will encourage it as just another revenue stream.
It doesn't absorb more from the Sun...
absorb (verb) take in or soak up (energy, or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action, typically gradually.Not a big fan of C# (I used it to develop a program a few years ago, so it may be better now), but it still may be fun to look through for interesting patterns and methodologies though.
You seem to think you know an awful lot about me just because I misused a word (dyeing is spelled correctly, and if I were speaking and used dyeing instead of dying, you'd be none to wiser).
Seriously, this H-1B shit needs to stop now. Until we're at 99% employment rate for whatever field we're importing workers for, they need to be shipped back to whatever country they came from. This is worse than the illegal imigrant, because these guys are diaplacing current American workers and taking jobs we have people dyeing to fill.
Every single one of those fired need to get together and file a class action against Disney, and this needs to be posted all over the social sites. Disney is no more a family company than Jack the Ripper was an exceptional lover. This needs to backlash on them, and hard.
companies to run with minimal staff and still "produce" as much if not more than before. Yet we still run around with the fiction of the "work week" and a "career"... These concepts are obsolete. It's time for the leisure society with resources for all. To deny this is to say we don't have the technology to do so.
Yet we have the technology to outsource everything. But this only benefits the few. If it benefits all, then it's wrong.
We may have the technology, but we don't have the resources. Unless something is done about the population growth, whether or not we fix the climate change, we are done for and we'll take 99.9% of the remaining species with us. I wonder what the next civilization on this planet, or the ETs that find it, will think when they start digging up our artefacts.
Could also be thinking ahead to a Windows 10 TV? Being able to run the current Apple and Android TV apps as soon as it comes out would probibly make people hesitate less on purchasing one, if there ever is such a thing.
if you're just looking for a tablet to browse the Internet and run a couple of simple apps, would you really shell out the extra money buy an iPod?
Because an iPod touch is small enough to put in an armband so you can listen while you jog. Android tablets typically don't run smaller than 7 inches without being designed (and priced) for use with a cellular network. Or should people just buy an entry-level Android phone and use it without a SIM?
The OP was talking about iPads, I think the iPod was a typo. As for your jogging comment, you could just use the phone you currently have to listen to music. Or do you always carry around two overlapping devices?