Roger Ebert has never actually played any games. And he's too stubborn now to admit he was completely wrong after probably friends exposed him to modern games.
Oh whoops wrong thread. Drat... uh.... next time we have a solar eclipse we can blame it on all the solar-powered air balloons sucking up the sun's rays!
When the entire public hates the media with such passion as it seems to do now, shouldn't that be a sign to the powers that be that the system needs to be reworked? I know some people are deathly afraid of The Fairness Doctrine, but do you honestly believe our country could be more divided, mislead, and corporate-controlled than it is now? I certainly don't.
They come up with ideas that only ultra-geeks and science fiction nerds could come up with, and then they get billions in funding for it! It's like paradise. The fact that they're actually successful at advancing human technology is just icing on the cake.
This is what Hollywood should really be worried about. People downloading movies and music likely would never have bought those media if they hadn't had access to free versions of them. But these mob-run pay-sites are funneling money from customers to their illegal operations. Unfortunately the RIAA and MPAA seem to be more interested in punishing normal people than actual criminals.
Wait a second. Doesn't the US have its own rocky deserts that are far, far safer and politically stabler from which to extract energy? Isn't the US the biggest economy in the world, *by far*? We should be the ones announcing these kinds of initiatives. This is the kind of infrastructure nation-building that would leap us to the forefront of alternative energy research, development, and exports, ensuring the growth of our economy for decades to come.
I'm also kind of surprised the EU is able to pony up this much money.
If showing near homicidal anger is what the teeth-gnashing American public wants, than that is what it will get. While I'm glad that Obama extracted a $20 billion escrow account out of BP, it's unfortunate that it requires the entire country to become this passionate and angry before any real progress occurs.
I think people focus their criticism more on those that make errors that seem glaringly obvious to everyone else. We tend to call those "stupid" errors. It's true however people tend to become far too critical of others who seem to be unable to reach the same conclusions at a high speed that we have already come to.
On the other hand, there are obvious mistakes that should not be conflated with probabilistic errors due to inductive reasoning. When the heads of BP cut corners that result in a giant explosion, a several month long oil leak, and billions of dollars in damage to the environment and people's lives, we can attribute that to gross negligence.
When a politician decides to engage in 2 costly wars while lowering taxes for the rich, or when a majority of society elects politicians who repeatedly punish the poor and middle class while rewarding the rich, and then complain about not having enough money to support their expensive lifestyles, you can attribute that to stupidity.
This will save the government billions of dollars in trench digging and pole construction. This is a great sign that the NBN won't be scrapped by any upcoming parties.
On the other hand since the NBN is essentially going to either make Telstra's service a niche product or drive the company into bankruptcy, you'd think they'd just nationalize their assets anyways. But at least this way the shareholders, most of which are common Australian families, will get something out of it.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely. Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are the corporations. The taxpayers and the government will never see any of that money.
That one dude who said people skim too much on the internet... what's his name? Yeah whatever. Anyways I think he has a point. Ever since I started reading slashdot I can't seem to focus on important details. Kind of like BP's execs and their oil rig's safety mechanisms.
You don't understand that capacity *has* been increasing. HSPA+ is a much more spectrally efficient system than AT&T's old 3G. 4G will blow even HSPA+ out of the water. The issue here is that video consumption has been growing steadily, and AT&T wants to clamp down on this innovation so that they don't have to provision their networks to prepare for the future.
Demand expands at a constant and predictable rate. In fact wireless annual rate of growth has decreased over the years. The real issue for AT&T was running fiber to their towers, instead of the pathetic hodgepodge of T1s that they've been using for years. AT&T has been experiencing record profits for years. They are completely able to handle any increase in traffic by upgrading their networks.
What the heck? AT&T's costs aren't based on how many GBs are used. They pay for throughput. If no one uses the bandwidth they provide to the cell tower, AT&T's costs are the same. There's no bucket of GBs that are used up. There's no finite resource, except for spectrum, which isn't the issue here.
Obviously 3.9G (WiMAX and LTE) are more efficient with spectrum, and true 4G (LTE Advanced and WiMAX 2) blows everything out of the water. So in other words as AT&T's costs to provide bandwidth drop, they have lowered caps and increases prices. Gotta love corporate America.
Uh, no it doesn't make sense. Shockingly you wrote so much about something you know nothing about. If you read some of the other comments on here you'd understand why bandwidth is nothing like electricity, and the two simply can't be compared. Metered billing makes absolutely no sense based on how the ISP pays and provisions for bandwidth.
Well voice has to be separate because it's running on a separate network than data, but once carriers move to true 4G (LTE Advanced and WiMAX 2), everything will be done over packet switched networks.
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Roger Ebert has never actually played any games. And he's too stubborn now to admit he was completely wrong after probably friends exposed him to modern games.
Consolidate living room hardware? I also still have some PS2 games I haven't yet finished. It has such a huge catalog.
Oh whoops wrong thread. Drat... uh.... next time we have a solar eclipse we can blame it on all the solar-powered air balloons sucking up the sun's rays!
I bet it can't record video at 720p like my cell phone!
When the entire public hates the media with such passion as it seems to do now, shouldn't that be a sign to the powers that be that the system needs to be reworked? I know some people are deathly afraid of The Fairness Doctrine, but do you honestly believe our country could be more divided, mislead, and corporate-controlled than it is now? I certainly don't.
They come up with ideas that only ultra-geeks and science fiction nerds could come up with, and then they get billions in funding for it! It's like paradise. The fact that they're actually successful at advancing human technology is just icing on the cake.
This is what Hollywood should really be worried about. People downloading movies and music likely would never have bought those media if they hadn't had access to free versions of them. But these mob-run pay-sites are funneling money from customers to their illegal operations. Unfortunately the RIAA and MPAA seem to be more interested in punishing normal people than actual criminals.
Wait a second. Doesn't the US have its own rocky deserts that are far, far safer and politically stabler from which to extract energy? Isn't the US the biggest economy in the world, *by far*? We should be the ones announcing these kinds of initiatives. This is the kind of infrastructure nation-building that would leap us to the forefront of alternative energy research, development, and exports, ensuring the growth of our economy for decades to come.
I'm also kind of surprised the EU is able to pony up this much money.
If showing near homicidal anger is what the teeth-gnashing American public wants, than that is what it will get. While I'm glad that Obama extracted a $20 billion escrow account out of BP, it's unfortunate that it requires the entire country to become this passionate and angry before any real progress occurs.
Maybe you haven't found a proper teacher? A lot of people in the West teach it improperly, ruining any positive effects it can have.
Man way to be myopic about his comment.
Yes, just like in every other developed country, right? Oh wait...
I think people focus their criticism more on those that make errors that seem glaringly obvious to everyone else. We tend to call those "stupid" errors. It's true however people tend to become far too critical of others who seem to be unable to reach the same conclusions at a high speed that we have already come to.
On the other hand, there are obvious mistakes that should not be conflated with probabilistic errors due to inductive reasoning. When the heads of BP cut corners that result in a giant explosion, a several month long oil leak, and billions of dollars in damage to the environment and people's lives, we can attribute that to gross negligence.
When a politician decides to engage in 2 costly wars while lowering taxes for the rich, or when a majority of society elects politicians who repeatedly punish the poor and middle class while rewarding the rich, and then complain about not having enough money to support their expensive lifestyles, you can attribute that to stupidity.
This will save the government billions of dollars in trench digging and pole construction. This is a great sign that the NBN won't be scrapped by any upcoming parties.
On the other hand since the NBN is essentially going to either make Telstra's service a niche product or drive the company into bankruptcy, you'd think they'd just nationalize their assets anyways. But at least this way the shareholders, most of which are common Australian families, will get something out of it.
Like a giant EMP bomb.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely. Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are the corporations. The taxpayers and the government will never see any of that money.
That one dude who said people skim too much on the internet... what's his name? Yeah whatever. Anyways I think he has a point. Ever since I started reading slashdot I can't seem to focus on important details. Kind of like BP's execs and their oil rig's safety mechanisms.
You don't understand that capacity *has* been increasing. HSPA+ is a much more spectrally efficient system than AT&T's old 3G. 4G will blow even HSPA+ out of the water. The issue here is that video consumption has been growing steadily, and AT&T wants to clamp down on this innovation so that they don't have to provision their networks to prepare for the future.
Demand expands at a constant and predictable rate. In fact wireless annual rate of growth has decreased over the years. The real issue for AT&T was running fiber to their towers, instead of the pathetic hodgepodge of T1s that they've been using for years. AT&T has been experiencing record profits for years. They are completely able to handle any increase in traffic by upgrading their networks.
This is a good article to grasp some of what's going on: http://dslprime.com/a-wireless-cloud/61-w/2823-mobile-data-growth-down-to-60-from-5000
What the heck? AT&T's costs aren't based on how many GBs are used. They pay for throughput. If no one uses the bandwidth they provide to the cell tower, AT&T's costs are the same. There's no bucket of GBs that are used up. There's no finite resource, except for spectrum, which isn't the issue here.
T-Mobile has done this. There are no overage charges anymore on their 3G network. They will simply throttle you after your first 10 GB.
It's estimated AT&T's 3G network costs them $3/GB. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100215_absolutely_no_wireless_spectrum_shortage_in_2010/
Obviously 3.9G (WiMAX and LTE) are more efficient with spectrum, and true 4G (LTE Advanced and WiMAX 2) blows everything out of the water. So in other words as AT&T's costs to provide bandwidth drop, they have lowered caps and increases prices. Gotta love corporate America.
Uh, no it doesn't make sense. Shockingly you wrote so much about something you know nothing about. If you read some of the other comments on here you'd understand why bandwidth is nothing like electricity, and the two simply can't be compared. Metered billing makes absolutely no sense based on how the ISP pays and provisions for bandwidth.
Well voice has to be separate because it's running on a separate network than data, but once carriers move to true 4G (LTE Advanced and WiMAX 2), everything will be done over packet switched networks.
Funny. I get truly unlimited wireless in Japan for $40/month. Been using it all month for 3 months non-stop- no complaints.