As a counter example, as you apparently have a shitty carrier that can't manage their own networks:
Shortly before getting married, my wife and I decided to switch to a family plan. I was on Sprint, she was on Verizon, and we were in desperate area codes. We had no problem keeping our numbers on a new family plan on AT&T. In fact, the numbers were ported within about 30 minutes of us placing the transaction, even though the sales reps said it could be up to a day.
Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.
He may have used two spaces. HTML display specs require all whitespace be reduced to only a single character unless you specifically insert the non-breaking space entity.
People often talk about how wasteful Americans are and the problems of a throw-away society. If people were more willing to repair their devices, especially complex electronic devices (most of which fail because of simple and repairable problems, like a broken lead), we would be better off
Hmmm... I have a car charger that has a broken lead. I accidentally snapped it while dissasembling to figure out why it was giving me problems charging. Now, it could be that lead, or one of the other minor parts. My options are:
Spend $30-50 bucks and many hours of my time to acquire the necessary tools and expertise to fix it (voltmeter and soldering iron)
Spend hours locating someone willing to fix it. Pay them exorbitant amounts to fix it (at least 1 hour at $50/hr + shipping or travel).
Buy a new one on amazon for $5-10 including shipping and get on with my life
It's not that we're unwilling to fix our devices. We are willing, and we feel guilty for not doing so. However, it now costs significantly more (in both time and money) to fix most electronics than to replace them. Long gone are the local TV/Stereo repair shops that could fix most electronics. Hell, even old appliance repair shops have become a niche specialty that can be extremely hard to find.
Get contact lenses. They're cheaper than glasses and you might even get laid.
Bullshit. My wife and I have both worn corrective lenses since childhood, and have very similar vision problems. We just did the math a couple of weeks ago. Over 3 years usage*, my very expensive "designer" glasses from a boutique shop are less than her average-priced daily contacts** from a low-cost source. And that's not counting the fact that eye exams for contact lenses are significantly more expensive. In fact, my wife is considering laser surgery because it would be significantly cheaper than contacts in the long run.
* 3 years is the standard warranty on my glasses ** My wife had to switch from 2-week lenses to dailies because of a corneal infection
I'm having trouble understanding how the Cherynobl meltdown has anything to do with wild boar populations in southern Germany. The article specifically mentions Bavaria, a region a thousand miles (and several countries) away. I admit I'm just an ignorant American, but surely this doesn't make any sense?
And that's exactly why I declined AT&T's free wifi modem/router and opted for the generic single port modem/router instead. I then figured out to login, switch it to dumb "pass through" mode and enabled PPOE on my own wireless router. So I could avoid security issues and tier-one techs like you on a power trip.
Wordstar - Never took Windows 3 seriously and lost out to Word
WordPerfect - Never took Windows seriously and lost out to Word
Lotus 1-2-3 - Never took Windows seriously and lost out to Excel
dBaseIII - Never took Windows seriously and lost out to Access
Netscape - Lost out to Internet Explorer
With the exception of Netscape, every single one of the examples screwed themselves by underestimating the popularity of Windows, and produced shoddy implementations at best. Also notice how every single one of these lost out to MS products that were being bundled at little to no cost on just about every machine sold?
Kids did, and still do, say Hot Wheels, and Barbies is socially acceptable, even if not an authorized use of the trademark.
Legos is a hell of a lot more convenient to say and remember than Lego Bricks® and if Lego® the company was smart, they'd simply trademark that as well instead of fighting it.
The beautiful thing about language not being static, is that people can refer to products in ways other than what the manufacturer specifies. How would you like it if you couldn't say "Windows" or "MS", you always had to say "Microsoft Windows®" and "Microsoft®".
I don't know if this is sound logic. If I were to believe your reasoning, I would assume that we would see a lower average of obesity in a city like New York City where walking is a large part of transportation but it turns out to be similar to other places:
New York City's adult obesity rate was 20% in 2003, compared to 23% nationwide in 2004. The national average has nearly doubled from 12% in 1993.
I read that as NYC having a 13% (1 - 20% / 23%) better obesity rates, possibly due to its much higher than average amount of walking transportation. When read this way, it's a pretty substantial difference and not something I would call similar.
know I'm not the first to do this, but I can't see anyone else who's provided a detailed step-by-step account of the build, complete with plans and the rest.
That's because every building, no matter how modular or factory-built, is very customized due to local building codes, site-specific issues, and the personal tastes of the owner or builder.
What you're doing sounds cool (London Tube train car into a home) but it's such a niche idea that of course you're not going to find step-by-step how-to guides. It's admirable that you want to share every step of the process online, but truly "open-source" doesn't really make a difference in this situation. Oh, and btw, there are legal issues with releasing your construction documents for others' use. Architects and contractors are licensed because they are taking on liability for the specifications and buildings they produce.
What you forget to point out is that all those pay cuts are because the state can't actually lay off any of the workers due to union protections.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, companies like mine are laying off 30% of their staff and cutting the pay of everyone else by 10% in order to keep fiscally solvent. Of course this means dramatic cuts to the state because of reduced income and sales taxes. But let's make sure that people in state government keep their jobs and mandatory pay raises. Let's not cut spending, we'll just raises taxes. They're already the highest in the country, what's another couple percent?
It's not a myth. After that valid argument was deemed insufficient to get out of the anti-trust lawsuits, Microsoft has made a concerted effort to detach IE from the OS.
For example, since IE7, attempts at FTP gets shunted to Windows Explorer. Windows Update on Vista and Windows 7 no longer use IE. The help system uses Trident, but not IExplore.exe. Windows in the EU now prompts the user for which browser to install.
IE is not inextricably bound to the OS because MS has intentionally been keeping it split. However, just because you can get IE removed/disabled, doesn't mean you can remove the HTML rendering engine (Trident). Just like stripping Safari out of OSX, doesn't completely remove WebKit (used in iTunes and a lot of other things).
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errr.... "desperate" should have been "different"
As a counter example, as you apparently have a shitty carrier that can't manage their own networks:
Shortly before getting married, my wife and I decided to switch to a family plan. I was on Sprint, she was on Verizon, and we were in desperate area codes. We had no problem keeping our numbers on a new family plan on AT&T. In fact, the numbers were ported within about 30 minutes of us placing the transaction, even though the sales reps said it could be up to a day.
He may have used two spaces. HTML display specs require all whitespace be reduced to only a single character unless you specifically insert the non-breaking space entity.
Hmmm... I have a car charger that has a broken lead. I accidentally snapped it while dissasembling to figure out why it was giving me problems charging. Now, it could be that lead, or one of the other minor parts. My options are:
It's not that we're unwilling to fix our devices. We are willing, and we feel guilty for not doing so. However, it now costs significantly more (in both time and money) to fix most electronics than to replace them. Long gone are the local TV/Stereo repair shops that could fix most electronics. Hell, even old appliance repair shops have become a niche specialty that can be extremely hard to find.
Bullshit. My wife and I have both worn corrective lenses since childhood, and have very similar vision problems. We just did the math a couple of weeks ago. Over 3 years usage*, my very expensive "designer" glasses from a boutique shop are less than her average-priced daily contacts** from a low-cost source. And that's not counting the fact that eye exams for contact lenses are significantly more expensive. In fact, my wife is considering laser surgery because it would be significantly cheaper than contacts in the long run.
* 3 years is the standard warranty on my glasses
** My wife had to switch from 2-week lenses to dailies because of a corneal infection
I'm having trouble understanding how the Cherynobl meltdown has anything to do with wild boar populations in southern Germany. The article specifically mentions Bavaria, a region a thousand miles (and several countries) away. I admit I'm just an ignorant American, but surely this doesn't make any sense?
And that's exactly why I declined AT&T's free wifi modem/router and opted for the generic single port modem/router instead. I then figured out to login, switch it to dumb "pass through" mode and enabled PPOE on my own wireless router. So I could avoid security issues and tier-one techs like you on a power trip.
Then why the hell are you calling them "guilty" with 100% certainty. Isn't it up to a judge and jury to call them guilty?
Minimal. Gasoline doesn't explode the way cars do in movies.
When you buy them included in a new computer, yes.
Great list. Let's take a look.
With the exception of Netscape, every single one of the examples screwed themselves by underestimating the popularity of Windows, and produced shoddy implementations at best. Also notice how every single one of these lost out to MS products that were being bundled at little to no cost on just about every machine sold?
Quick search result although I think we have slightly older black and white versions.
Your copier providers probably already include this in the package you have. It just hasn't been enabled.
Our direct-to-pdf document scanners include copies of Acrobat Pro (both Windows and OSX), automatically do OCR, and were less than $400 each.
Fucking hell. What about the need for fundamental reform to protect citizens?
I'm glad my elected officials feel they need speak up for consumers, and not constituents.
Great satire... and I'd love to push it to people I know on Facebook.
However, the linked blog is slashdotted, and the link to the app on Facebook (via a cache of the page) is empty.
Has Facebook already removed this app?
1) The oldest password, my "insecure" one, I've used for at least 15 years.
2) None of my usernames would show up in dictionary lists.
That password has been compromised exactly 1 time in 15 years.
But yet Pizza Hut online ordering requires usernames and passwords with more stringent rules than my bank.
Kids did, and still do, say Hot Wheels, and Barbies is socially acceptable, even if not an authorized use of the trademark.
Legos is a hell of a lot more convenient to say and remember than Lego Bricks® and if Lego® the company was smart, they'd simply trademark that as well instead of fighting it.
The beautiful thing about language not being static, is that people can refer to products in ways other than what the manufacturer specifies. How would you like it if you couldn't say "Windows" or "MS", you always had to say "Microsoft Windows®" and "Microsoft®".
Actually it's probably more likely that making it hydrogen-based qualifies it for earmarked expenditures in Congressional appropriations.
If this technology becomes widespread, I'll eat my shoe!
The Hong Kong example does charge a toll. It uses the same Octopus Card system as the subways.
I read that as NYC having a 13% (1 - 20% / 23%) better obesity rates, possibly due to its much higher than average amount of walking transportation. When read this way, it's a pretty substantial difference and not something I would call similar.
Be careful what you do with statistics.
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That's because every building, no matter how modular or factory-built, is very customized due to local building codes, site-specific issues, and the personal tastes of the owner or builder.
What you're doing sounds cool (London Tube train car into a home) but it's such a niche idea that of course you're not going to find step-by-step how-to guides. It's admirable that you want to share every step of the process online, but truly "open-source" doesn't really make a difference in this situation. Oh, and btw, there are legal issues with releasing your construction documents for others' use. Architects and contractors are licensed because they are taking on liability for the specifications and buildings they produce.
What you forget to point out is that all those pay cuts are because the state can't actually lay off any of the workers due to union protections.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, companies like mine are laying off 30% of their staff and cutting the pay of everyone else by 10% in order to keep fiscally solvent. Of course this means dramatic cuts to the state because of reduced income and sales taxes. But let's make sure that people in state government keep their jobs and mandatory pay raises. Let's not cut spending, we'll just raises taxes. They're already the highest in the country, what's another couple percent?
It's not a myth. After that valid argument was deemed insufficient to get out of the anti-trust lawsuits, Microsoft has made a concerted effort to detach IE from the OS.
For example, since IE7, attempts at FTP gets shunted to Windows Explorer. Windows Update on Vista and Windows 7 no longer use IE. The help system uses Trident, but not IExplore.exe. Windows in the EU now prompts the user for which browser to install.
IE is not inextricably bound to the OS because MS has intentionally been keeping it split. However, just because you can get IE removed/disabled, doesn't mean you can remove the HTML rendering engine (Trident). Just like stripping Safari out of OSX, doesn't completely remove WebKit (used in iTunes and a lot of other things).