You see there's this stuff called the fine print, and it explains that "unlimited" means unlimited time, as opposed to how the ISPs used to work - which was to bill $5 per hour of use and/or limit customers to XX hours per month (like Netzero does). A lot of customers make the false assumption it means unlimited gigabytes, and I suspect marketers LIKE that misinterpretation, but that isn't what your contract states - at least that's not what my Verizon contract states.
Back to article -
Anything amusing, clever, useful is on Apple's kill list. Makes the famous 1984 ad ironic - Apple has become Big Brother. OOPS AN APPLE FANATIC IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY HEAD - What I meant to say is that Apple releases these frequent updates in order to improve the user experience, and if they turn-off certain services, it's because they believe the users will be happier without them. (cough)
They have a culture that is strange from the Amero-European viewpoint - the individual is expected to subsume his desires for the greater benefit of society. In other words, you are expected to put-up with the inconvenience of not being able to play CD-to-MP3 rips on your phone, because it benefits the artists, businessmen, and society overall.
Yeah except that it isn't. I once told MY insurer Nationwide that they either remove the additional $50 fee they tacked-on, or I'm going to cancel and go with another company. The agent removed the fee. That's what happens when you give the consumer multiple choices - you put power in the hands of the average joe. (Even if Nationwide had refused I could have picked many, many other companies like Allstate or Geico or whatever.)
Contrast that with Comcast which IS a monopoly. When they raised my limited locals-only cable from $9 to $19 a month, and I complained because they doubled the cost but did me any new channels, the woman on the phone just laughed and said "That's life". Seriously. They don't give a shit because they know their customers are stuck.
anonymous yellow-belly bastard writes: >>>Time Warner. If you're paying 800 dollars a year for basic cable you're a fucking idiot.
Oh okay well I'll just disconnect Comcast and call T-W. Oh wait. I can't because cable is a *monopoly* and YOU are the fucking idiot for acting as if I have a choice. It's either Comcast or Comcast or Comcast and they charge $64 a month. Stupid shit.
>>>Windows still doesn't have multiple virtual desktops like Linux has had for decades.
Decades? It's only been a little over 1 decade. (shrug). AmigaOS has had, not just multiple desktops, but multiple SCREENS since 1986. Every application can have its own fullscreen display, and in whatever resolution it desires. I don't know why it's taken so long for Mac, Windoze, or Linux OS to implement this useful feature.
Wow. That's not even close to accurate. First off 90% is impossible according to what I studied in Thermodynamics class. Even if you built a perfect cycle with NO friction or heating losses, the best you can get is around 80% due to the limitations of our universe (i.e. "you cannae change the laws of physics!" as Mr. Scott would say).
Furthermore while some of the modern "clean coal" plants can get almost 60% efficiency, the overall national average is only 40% or less. "Subcritical fossil fuel power plants can achieve 36-40% efficiency" - wikipedia.com "Today's coal-fired power plants average 33% efficiency (energy conversion to electricity)" -http://www.healthgoods.com/education/energy_information/General_Energy_Information/fossil_fuel%20coal.htm As I said before that ~40% national average beats most cars, but doesn't beat the efficiency of a well-built engine like the Lupo 3L (50% according to Volkswagen Germany).
>>>pulled your estimate of electric power plan efficiency from some dark place.
No but I suspect you did. >90%??? Yeah that's definitely smelly. I provided citations. Can you? I doubt it.
>>>aerosolized thorium and mercury levels in our waters
Did you know the supposedly "clean" natural gas has those same impurities? Also NG is high in particulate matter (soot). Except while coal plants are scrubbed, natural gas engines/generators aren't required to be filtered for some dumb reason. The EPA needs to get off its rear and start placing emission restrictions upon NG cars and plants.
(rolls eyes). As if the Obamacrats would be any better. They'd probably sell the copyright/trademarks/patents to the RIAA, and then we'd all get sued just for looking at them, or reading about the technical manual on the internet ("Oh noes! You did not pay for that."). R's or D's it makes no difference - they are both the same - just with different corporate masters.
Now let's see if the readers will mod you "insightful" (yay Bush-bashing! +1) and me "troll" (boo Obama-bashing! -1).
Ahhhh. Normally I'd say "thanks for the correction" but since you're acting like a teeny-bopper juvenile ass, I'm just going to give you the finger instead. |
Really? I think you're wrong about that because I have lots of JVC-model VCRs, and they only record in SP (2 hour) or EP (6 hour) modes. The LP 4-hour mode is not even an option. (Please note - I'm talking about U.S. VCRs here using T-120 tapes.)
Ditto. And if you discover the insurance company raised your rates after you install the camera, then just switch companies. That's one of the advantages of not having a monopoly-based system.
67% is the figure for overweight or obese American adults. I don't know how many children live here, but let's assume 1 per household. 300 million total - 100 million kids == 200 * 0.67 == 134 million overweight or obese American adults.
37% is the figure for obese American adults. That's 74 million obese American adults.
>>>We have no realistic health care system at a point where a 100 million people born between 1945 and 1970 are nearing retirement.
What are you talking about? We have Medicare and Medicaid for these retirees so they will be covered by the government. We also have SCHIP for the children. In total there are only 8 million citizens without either private or government health insurancee. (Note I said citizens.) I wish people would stop exaggerating the health problem. It needs tweaking but it's not that bad overall.
>>>the rest of the world is talking behind our backs about not continuing to buy our Ponzi Federal Reserve bonds.
Now THIS is a serious problem. I've actually considered investing my wealth in Chinese stock since they have a manufacturing industry, and carry no debt. I'm thinking my wealth is safer in Chinese Index Fund rather than an S&P500 fund.
>>>3 trillion dollars on the PEW (permanent endles worthless war)
It's actually 0.9 trillion for the Iraw/Afghan War..... which is a heck of a lot smaller than the 3 trillion given-away to fat, rich CEOs in bailouts. and the estimated extra 8 trillion to be spent during Obama's eight year span. Yes we need to end the war but that's just a small 0.1 trillion per year expenditure and doesn't solve the extreme amount of spending happening right now for other projects.
The inefficiency in an electric car is not in the car itself.
It's in the "engine" that converts coal or natural gas into electricity at the central plant. So if you're going to compare EVs versus gasoline cars, you need to compare the efficiency of the electric plant versus the gasoline engine. Most plants achieve 40% which is better than most gas-powered cars, but not as good as some (like the Lupo 3L or Insight hybrid operating at >50% efficiency)
Another flaw with EVs is recharge time. It takes 8 hours while a gas/diesel car only takes 5 minutes.
- Floppies ranged in size from 8 inch to 5 inch to 3.5 inch to 3 inch - Computers were available from Atari, Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments and not compatible with one another - Movies might be sold on videotape, or videorecord, or laserdisc, or film - Music might be sold on records, or 45s, or 78s, or compact cassettes, or 8-tracks - Game systems were Odyssey, Atari,Intellivision, Magnavox - VCRs could be either VHS or Betamax or Umatic
Any view that the 70s were somehow free of format problems is merely nostalgia. There were plenty of of problems with formats.
>>>If i were a tape player manufacturer, i would try to "enhance" the features by offering non-standard features: like LP recording (twice the capacity at half the speed, thus making it unplayable on any other system), >>>
This is what RCA did when they first introduced the VHS format: An SP 2 hour mode and an LP 4 hour mode. The owner of the format JVC was annoyed but what could they do? Even today JVC refuses to recognize LP as a valid recording format, although they do allow playback of those tapes.
>>>Because [1970s] Open Standards were harsh. Like the standards for an audio tape or even an audio CD.
You wrote a nice soliloquy but it's based on a false premise. The examples you list were Not standards. Audio tapes and CDs were *proprietary* formats owned by Philips and Sony/Philips respectively. And in the 1970s there was a giant war between 8-track and compact cassette. Also Betamax and VHS. Also 3" versus 3.2" versus 3.5" floppies.
You are seeing in the golden haze of nostalgia a time period when "everything just worked" but that never existed. Format wars and differing formats have always been a problem. (Yes even the inventor of the phonograph Edison had to deal with rival formats.)
Sounds like a lousy time for selling, but a great time for BARGAINS. If half the buyers can't access the new pages then that's half as much competition on the bidding.
Ahhh well then I learned something new. I thought they were pay-per-view just like television operates. Maybe I'll start clicking on more ads just to help out my favorite websites.
What life? Janitorial duties? Last guy I met online who spoke like that, claiming to have secret knowledge about government procedures, was just an elementary school janitor. He was making shit up.
Yes I'd rather have one of those RARE once-in-200-years events, than to have cameras in my house, or wiretaps on my PC, constantly spying on everything I do. And it's not non-sequitor... it's already happening in the UK where it's justified as crime prevention.
Sorry but I'd rather have the right to privacy even if that meant another WTC was attacked in the year 2200. The former is more important to me than the latter.
I just meant I think you are a guy sitting in a basement and making-up shit. I used to know a fellow like you, who came onto 80s BBSes and claimed to have all kinds of secret knowledge about the government...... and then I found out he was just a janitor. He was just spouting fiction.
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You see there's this stuff called the fine print, and it explains that "unlimited" means unlimited time, as opposed to how the ISPs used to work - which was to bill $5 per hour of use and/or limit customers to XX hours per month (like Netzero does). A lot of customers make the false assumption it means unlimited gigabytes, and I suspect marketers LIKE that misinterpretation, but that isn't what your contract states - at least that's not what my Verizon contract states.
Back to article -
Anything amusing, clever, useful is on Apple's kill list. Makes the famous 1984 ad ironic - Apple has become Big Brother. OOPS AN APPLE FANATIC IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY HEAD - What I meant to say is that Apple releases these frequent updates in order to improve the user experience, and if they turn-off certain services, it's because they believe the users will be happier without them. (cough)
I suspect the Japanese won't protest.
They have a culture that is strange from the Amero-European viewpoint - the individual is expected to subsume his desires for the greater benefit of society. In other words, you are expected to put-up with the inconvenience of not being able to play CD-to-MP3 rips on your phone, because it benefits the artists, businessmen, and society overall.
>>>Insurance is a monopoly
Yeah except that it isn't. I once told MY insurer Nationwide that they either remove the additional $50 fee they tacked-on, or I'm going to cancel and go with another company. The agent removed the fee. That's what happens when you give the consumer multiple choices - you put power in the hands of the average joe. (Even if Nationwide had refused I could have picked many, many other companies like Allstate or Geico or whatever.)
Contrast that with Comcast which IS a monopoly. When they raised my limited locals-only cable from $9 to $19 a month, and I complained because they doubled the cost but did me any new channels, the woman on the phone just laughed and said "That's life". Seriously. They don't give a shit because they know their customers are stuck.
Monopolies suck.
Choice is better.
anonymous yellow-belly bastard writes:
>>>Time Warner. If you're paying 800 dollars a year for basic cable you're a fucking idiot.
Oh okay well I'll just disconnect Comcast and call T-W. Oh wait. I can't because cable is a *monopoly* and YOU are the fucking idiot for acting as if I have a choice. It's either Comcast or Comcast or Comcast and they charge $64 a month. Stupid shit.
>>>Windows still doesn't have multiple virtual desktops like Linux has had for decades.
Decades? It's only been a little over 1 decade. (shrug). AmigaOS has had, not just multiple desktops, but multiple SCREENS since 1986. Every application can have its own fullscreen display, and in whatever resolution it desires. I don't know why it's taken so long for Mac, Windoze, or Linux OS to implement this useful feature.
>>>greater than 90% efficiency
Wow. That's not even close to accurate. First off 90% is impossible according to what I studied in Thermodynamics class. Even if you built a perfect cycle with NO friction or heating losses, the best you can get is around 80% due to the limitations of our universe (i.e. "you cannae change the laws of physics!" as Mr. Scott would say).
Furthermore while some of the modern "clean coal" plants can get almost 60% efficiency, the overall national average is only 40% or less. "Subcritical fossil fuel power plants can achieve 36-40% efficiency" - wikipedia.com "Today's coal-fired power plants average 33% efficiency (energy conversion to electricity)" -http://www.healthgoods.com/education/energy_information/General_Energy_Information/fossil_fuel%20coal.htm As I said before that ~40% national average beats most cars, but doesn't beat the efficiency of a well-built engine like the Lupo 3L (50% according to Volkswagen Germany).
>>>pulled your estimate of electric power plan efficiency from some dark place.
No but I suspect you did. >90%??? Yeah that's definitely smelly. I provided citations. Can you? I doubt it.
>>>aerosolized thorium and mercury levels in our waters
Did you know the supposedly "clean" natural gas has those same impurities? Also NG is high in particulate matter (soot). Except while coal plants are scrubbed, natural gas engines/generators aren't required to be filtered for some dumb reason. The EPA needs to get off its rear and start placing emission restrictions upon NG cars and plants.
(rolls eyes). As if the Obamacrats would be any better. They'd probably sell the copyright/trademarks/patents to the RIAA, and then we'd all get sued just for looking at them, or reading about the technical manual on the internet ("Oh noes! You did not pay for that."). R's or D's it makes no difference - they are both the same - just with different corporate masters.
Now let's see if the readers will mod you "insightful" (yay Bush-bashing! +1) and me "troll" (boo Obama-bashing! -1).
I suspect they will.
Ahhhh. Normally I'd say "thanks for the correction" but since you're acting like a teeny-bopper juvenile ass, I'm just going to give you the finger instead. |
Really? I think you're wrong about that because I have lots of JVC-model VCRs, and they only record in SP (2 hour) or EP (6 hour) modes. The LP 4-hour mode is not even an option. (Please note - I'm talking about U.S. VCRs here using T-120 tapes.)
Ditto. And if you discover the insurance company raised your rates after you install the camera, then just switch companies. That's one of the advantages of not having a monopoly-based system.
67% is the figure for overweight or obese American adults. I don't know how many children live here, but let's assume 1 per household. 300 million total - 100 million kids == 200 * 0.67 == 134 million overweight or obese American adults.
37% is the figure for obese American adults. That's 74 million obese American adults.
>>>We have no realistic health care system at a point where a 100 million people born between 1945 and 1970 are nearing retirement.
What are you talking about? We have Medicare and Medicaid for these retirees so they will be covered by the government. We also have SCHIP for the children. In total there are only 8 million citizens without either private or government health insurancee. (Note I said citizens.) I wish people would stop exaggerating the health problem. It needs tweaking but it's not that bad overall.
>>>the rest of the world is talking behind our backs about not continuing to buy our Ponzi Federal Reserve bonds.
Now THIS is a serious problem. I've actually considered investing my wealth in Chinese stock since they have a manufacturing industry, and carry no debt. I'm thinking my wealth is safer in Chinese Index Fund rather than an S&P500 fund.
>>>3 trillion dollars on the PEW (permanent endles worthless war)
It's actually 0.9 trillion for the Iraw/Afghan War..... which is a heck of a lot smaller than the 3 trillion given-away to fat, rich CEOs in bailouts. and the estimated extra 8 trillion to be spent during Obama's eight year span. Yes we need to end the war but that's just a small 0.1 trillion per year expenditure and doesn't solve the extreme amount of spending happening right now for other projects.
The inefficiency in an electric car is not in the car itself.
It's in the "engine" that converts coal or natural gas into electricity at the central plant. So if you're going to compare EVs versus gasoline cars, you need to compare the efficiency of the electric plant versus the gasoline engine. Most plants achieve 40% which is better than most gas-powered cars, but not as good as some (like the Lupo 3L or Insight hybrid operating at >50% efficiency)
Another flaw with EVs is recharge time. It takes 8 hours while a gas/diesel car only takes 5 minutes.
Yep:
- Floppies ranged in size from 8 inch to 5 inch to 3.5 inch to 3 inch
- Computers were available from Atari, Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments and not compatible with one another
- Movies might be sold on videotape, or videorecord, or laserdisc, or film
- Music might be sold on records, or 45s, or 78s, or compact cassettes, or 8-tracks
- Game systems were Odyssey, Atari,Intellivision, Magnavox
- VCRs could be either VHS or Betamax or Umatic
Any view that the 70s were somehow free of format problems is merely nostalgia. There were plenty of of problems with formats.
>>>If i were a tape player manufacturer, i would try to "enhance" the features by offering non-standard features: like LP recording (twice the capacity at half the speed, thus making it unplayable on any other system),
>>>
This is what RCA did when they first introduced the VHS format: An SP 2 hour mode and an LP 4 hour mode. The owner of the format JVC was annoyed but what could they do? Even today JVC refuses to recognize LP as a valid recording format, although they do allow playback of those tapes.
>>>Because [1970s] Open Standards were harsh. Like the standards for an audio tape or even an audio CD.
You wrote a nice soliloquy but it's based on a false premise. The examples you list were Not standards. Audio tapes and CDs were *proprietary* formats owned by Philips and Sony/Philips respectively. And in the 1970s there was a giant war between 8-track and compact cassette. Also Betamax and VHS. Also 3" versus 3.2" versus 3.5" floppies.
You are seeing in the golden haze of nostalgia a time period when "everything just worked" but that never existed. Format wars and differing formats have always been a problem. (Yes even the inventor of the phonograph Edison had to deal with rival formats.)
Sounds like a lousy time for selling, but a great time for BARGAINS. If half the buyers can't access the new pages then that's half as much competition on the bidding.
Windows 3 was trash. Even less user-friendly than my Commodore GEOS or AmigaOS.
Windows 95 and 98 were more Maclike in appearance and usage, but they crashed a lot.
Windows XP is nice and solid. I turn-on my computer and never reboot it for months-and-months.
Ahhh well then I learned something new. I thought they were pay-per-view just like television operates. Maybe I'll start clicking on more ads just to help out my favorite websites.
>>>So dive into the source and fix it yourself. What? You can't? Huh.
Even if I could fix it I'd rather spend three hours overtime, take the $120 earned, and buy Windoze or MacOS. That's less time consuming.
>>>I'm getting it from my life.
What life? Janitorial duties? Last guy I met online who spoke like that, claiming to have secret knowledge about government procedures, was just an elementary school janitor. He was making shit up.
Yes I'd rather have one of those RARE once-in-200-years events, than to have cameras in my house, or wiretaps on my PC, constantly spying on everything I do. And it's not non-sequitor... it's already happening in the UK where it's justified as crime prevention.
Sorry but I'd rather have the right to privacy even if that meant another WTC was attacked in the year 2200. The former is more important to me than the latter.
I just meant I think you are a guy sitting in a basement and making-up shit. I used to know a fellow like you, who came onto 80s BBSes and claimed to have all kinds of secret knowledge about the government...... and then I found out he was just a janitor. He was just spouting fiction.