Amen. I never understood how people stand for it here. If the telcos in Europe announced they'd be charging for incoming anything, there would be blood in the streets.
Here they just bend over and accept it. Makes me sick.
I used to have a pay as you go setup with rogers. they raped 15c per text, which was ridiculous but almost bearable. Then they decided they'd charge for incoming too, effectively raising the price to 30 cents. (40c round trip to US, and 50c to ROTW) For something that costs them essentially nothing.
Fuck that, it's almost cheaper to mail a letter.
Other little BS nickel and dime attacks: If you add less than $100 credit at a time, and you don't add more within 30 days, they seize the balance. Not sure how that is anything but criminal. When you get a SIM in the first place, they charge $35 for one, for the pleasure of using their horribly overpriced service.
Damn right. Almost every story I see these days crediting social networks would have happened without cellphones or the internet... Hell, without print for that matter. Sure, they may have made it marginally easier, but if enough people are upset about something, they'll organize the good old fashioned way.
Something like 30% of folks in Egypt are illiterate. Fat lot of good twitter is going to be doing them. I assume some of them are among the protesters?
Lead being good at shielding RF is a common misconception it seems. Plain steel is far, far better, and mu-metal and similar compounds are really the way to go.
Now, if the iPhone receives gamma rays, it would be a different situation.
"No longer functional" is generally somewhat less damaged than ' body so badly mangled that the wires have broken off the pedals', the way I figure it...
If seconds after impact, the driver still has the pedal on full throttle... it could be somewhat insightful, don't you think? Or how close to / trailing the impact they applied the brakes, etc.
Not every accident involves a car being ripped to 30 pieces. Seems perfectly feasible that the brake and gas pedal are still connected to the ECU shortly after the accident.
They came up with marvellous inventions like UNIX and C, not to mention the transistors to run them on. I don't think you'd be doing much gaming on a UNIVAC.
Generally when people make comments about situations/issues that generally only exist in the US, or misconceptions that are commonly held in the US, on a US based site, with a considerable amount of American users... people assume the aforementioned posters are in the US.
From what I remember, click on the 'cashew', select 'remove this workspace' or some such, and bingo, plain-ass desktop. Seems easier than typing all that complaint up;-)
so your car uses 4.85L/100km. When the light comes on, you have a ~4.5L, so you can go almost 100km. On a 45L topup you can go close to 1000km. Same thing.
It's not really easier one way or the other. I usually use UK MPG myself, out of habit, but it is hardly superior to l/100km.
My assumption, which may very well be wrong, is that all the software bits are separate from the radio bits, and presumably talk to each other with AT commands or so. I seem to recall that's how a lot of older devices were set up, at least.
exactly, my code usually has this. But does it stand up?
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
There is a ton of different pharmaceutical opiods. Primarily for the reason that nothing else can really come close for pain management. They're the best option, even with the problems they have (dependence, constipation, etc).
I seem to recall that heroin was developed as a less dependency-causing alternative to morphine. I guess that didn't quite pan out, did it...
It's kind of funny when you think how far we've come in medicine, with some incredible breakthroughs - and yet our heavy painkillers haven't much changed in centuries. Poppy sap, and similar synthesized compounds.
I know criminals (at least the type that steal cars) are generally fairly daft, but are there no thieves in the US with an IQ higher than 50? It isn't exactly rocket science.
Well, except the American setup is even more inefficient, because the corporations have to turn a profit. I guess you could say "competition" in the US will improve efficiency, but the small amount of players with some items, like aerospace... not so much.
I don't think the Russians had $200 hammers. But they had other problems, of course.
I meant OS, not the applications, should have been more clear.
I don't think nintendo makes much on DSes (?), HW & OS portion at least. and if a third party made a different "DS OS" I couldn't see them being able to sell it for much. Games though, big money, sure.
If they want to keep relevant on cheap, portable devices - they'd better support ARM.
Even the atoms use a lot more juice, and for simple appliances ARM can be enough horsepower.
Although - they might be advised not to put too much into it, as I don't think there will be much margin on SW for $200 devices and whatnot... And good luck with getting manufacturers to make ARM drivers, I think they'll be needing it.
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Amen. I never understood how people stand for it here. If the telcos in Europe announced they'd be charging for incoming anything, there would be blood in the streets.
Here they just bend over and accept it. Makes me sick.
I used to have a pay as you go setup with rogers. they raped 15c per text, which was ridiculous but almost bearable. Then they decided they'd charge for incoming too, effectively raising the price to 30 cents. (40c round trip to US, and 50c to ROTW) For something that costs them essentially nothing.
Fuck that, it's almost cheaper to mail a letter.
Other little BS nickel and dime attacks:
If you add less than $100 credit at a time, and you don't add more within 30 days, they seize the balance. Not sure how that is anything but criminal.
When you get a SIM in the first place, they charge $35 for one, for the pleasure of using their horribly overpriced service.
completely ridiculous.
That doesn't fit the syntax. ANA NAN. A being an alpha and N being a numeral.
You can use H0H 0H0 on forms. "Santa"s post code.
If you want bleeding edge, you run sid, not stable.
Damn right. Almost every story I see these days crediting social networks would have happened without cellphones or the internet... Hell, without print for that matter. Sure, they may have made it marginally easier, but if enough people are upset about something, they'll organize the good old fashioned way.
Something like 30% of folks in Egypt are illiterate. Fat lot of good twitter is going to be doing them. I assume some of them are among the protesters?
grrr. forgot slashdot drops angle brackets. The sheevaplug has a JTAG interface that exists over USB. USB-"DOUBLE_ENDED_ARROW"-JTAG
Nothing with JTAG or whatnot is really brickable at all, it's just a brick to folks that don't have the proper tools.
Anyway, seems like a non-story to me. The sheevaplug having built in USBJTAG was one of the selling features.
(and possibly put the phone in a lead box).
Lead being good at shielding RF is a common misconception it seems. Plain steel is far, far better, and mu-metal and similar compounds are really the way to go.
Now, if the iPhone receives gamma rays, it would be a different situation.
"No longer functional" is generally somewhat less damaged than ' body so badly mangled that the wires have broken off the pedals', the way I figure it...
If seconds after impact, the driver still has the pedal on full throttle... it could be somewhat insightful, don't you think? Or how close to / trailing the impact they applied the brakes, etc.
Not every accident involves a car being ripped to 30 pieces. Seems perfectly feasible that the brake and gas pedal are still connected to the ECU shortly after the accident.
Whereas planes generally end up in pieces...
That could be related to the fact that Germany, France, et al are actually sovereign states...
How about the boys at bell labs?
They came up with marvellous inventions like UNIX and C, not to mention the transistors to run them on.
I don't think you'd be doing much gaming on a UNIVAC.
Generally when people make comments about situations/issues that generally only exist in the US, or misconceptions that are commonly held in the US, on a US based site, with a considerable amount of American users... people assume the aforementioned posters are in the US.
From what I remember, click on the 'cashew', select 'remove this workspace' or some such, and bingo, plain-ass desktop. Seems easier than typing all that complaint up ;-)
Konqueror is still there, doesn't take much to make it default if you'd like.
That said, I run KDE 4, and I use Thunar (from XFCE) as the file manager, most of the time. I like it's simplicity, I guess.
so your car uses 4.85L/100km. When the light comes on, you have a ~4.5L, so you can go almost 100km. On a 45L topup you can go close to 1000km. Same thing.
It's not really easier one way or the other. I usually use UK MPG myself, out of habit, but it is hardly superior to l/100km.
Quick trick for converting l/100km:
4.5L = 1gal/62mi = 62mpg
9L = 2gal/62mi = 31mpg
13.5L = 3gal/62mi = 20MPG
18L = 4 gal/62mi = 15MPG
So If I see a car is getting 12l/100km, i say.. well, that's about half way between 2 and 3 gallons, so somewhere between 20 and 30MPG, closer to 20.
Need a different conversion for US gal, of course...
Pretty much. Anything with enough demand just ends up turning into a game of Whack-a-Mole, internet or otherwise.
See the war on drugs as an example.
My assumption, which may very well be wrong, is that all the software bits are separate from the radio bits, and presumably talk to each other with AT commands or so. I seem to recall that's how a lot of older devices were set up, at least.
Anyone know how it's set up on android rigs?
One step closer to a single outfit controlling^Wsupplying all your media needs.
exactly, my code usually has this. But does it stand up?
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
There is a ton of different pharmaceutical opiods. Primarily for the reason that nothing else can really come close for pain management. They're the best option, even with the problems they have (dependence, constipation, etc).
I seem to recall that heroin was developed as a less dependency-causing alternative to morphine. I guess that didn't quite pan out, did it...
It's kind of funny when you think how far we've come in medicine, with some incredible breakthroughs - and yet our heavy painkillers haven't much changed in centuries. Poppy sap, and similar synthesized compounds.
I know criminals (at least the type that steal cars) are generally fairly daft, but are there no thieves in the US with an IQ higher than 50? It isn't exactly rocket science.
I'm not sure I follow your argument here. Big cities pre-date telephone, and even telegraphy. Never mind cell phones and pagers.
Well, except the American setup is even more inefficient, because the corporations have to turn a profit. I guess you could say "competition" in the US will improve efficiency, but the small amount of players with some items, like aerospace... not so much.
I don't think the Russians had $200 hammers. But they had other problems, of course.
I meant OS, not the applications, should have been more clear.
I don't think nintendo makes much on DSes (?), HW & OS portion at least. and if a third party made a different "DS OS" I couldn't see them being able to sell it for much. Games though, big money, sure.
If they want to keep relevant on cheap, portable devices - they'd better support ARM.
Even the atoms use a lot more juice, and for simple appliances ARM can be enough horsepower.
Although - they might be advised not to put too much into it, as I don't think there will be much margin on SW for $200 devices and whatnot... And good luck with getting manufacturers to make ARM drivers, I think they'll be needing it.