Sounds like you and I have the same bandwidth habits. I have a 200MB plan I have never come close to going over. Why would you pay for something you aren't using? Why wouldn't you reduce your data plan?
I am an old Cingular customer, who became an AT&T wireless customer when the former bought the latter. I still have my old minute rate from the Cingular days.
Basically I have 500 minutes per month plus rollover for $30. Then the unlimited data and SMS for another $30.
With a little over 6000 minutes saved up in the rollover queue, that's way more minutes than I could ever hope to exceed.
A year ago when I last looked, the smallest package they had was 700 minutes for $45. I obviously haven't checked on it myself recently, but I could have sworn someone told me they don't even have the 700 package anymore either.
I just don't see lowering my data bill by $10, just to raise my voice bill by at least $15 (if not more) on top of needing a 2 year contract.
Only good for WiFi networks as it doesn't provide voice cell service.
Indeed. He asked for a wifi-only device, that can't access the 3g network... So yes, a wifi only device is sorta wifi only, as it's a bit hard to place voice cell calls without being on a cellular network.
But voice calls != cellular voice calls
Wanting to be on the 3g network for voice and not data (not what was asked, but still) would be as simple as buying a 3g plan with voice only and no data (Only AT&T and Verizon do this bundled forced-data thing on 3G in the US that I am aware)
You want a device not on the 3g network, but still to place 3g calls? Or do you mean a device that IS on the 3g network, and just using it for voice and not data?
Either of those seem way too obvious to warrant a post to ask, so I pretty much ruled both out heh
The first is not physically possible. The second just requires a voice only plan with no data, aka avoid AT&T and Verizon and just purchase such a plan...
If you are really wanting to route voice calls over wifi first and fall back to 3g, then I can see what you mean.
That would be 'possible' but extremely complex and expensive. This is possible, by the slimmest definition of the word too, and I wouldn't bother doing it as it works fairly poorly and the price is outrageous with the current types of services that would be needed. Likely even as much as 3x a normal phone plan, let alone a smart phone plan!
Seriously, I would love to have a Wifi-only Smartphone that can't access a 3G Data network.
Those exist.
On the Apple side, it's called iPod Touch + VoIP / SIP / Skype apps.
On the Android side, you used to be able to get a Nexus One this way, I believe they were intended for developers to test apps on but didn't want/need a data plan.
I bet a lot of smart phones will operate without a SIM in them as well. You can buy a used Android phone off ebay or what ever, and pop the SIM out (assuming it came with one in the first place)
Data throttling is happening after 1.5GB to people on an unlimited plan whereas it doesn't happen to people who have 2GB or 3GB plans.
In Ohio, AT&T throttles unlimited plans down to 128kbps, while limited plans can reach speeds near a megabit.
I tested this on my phone (3gs) with a friends SIM. My plan is unlimited, and I never could get speeds above 128kbps, even if I only used <100mb that month. My friends SIM/plan is 2gb, and when put in my phone I peeked just a touch under 1mbit, and most of that time of testing was getting around 600kbps average, over a 30 minute period.
Ironically, I purchased the phone in LasVegas (Poker winnings FTW!) and I did get faster data service there. Unfortunately I didn't think to do any speed tests at the time, but I was happy enough with the bandwidth at the time. I just assumed it would remain the same once I got back home. Oops.
I am extremely far from a heavy data user. Automated email checking on two accounts is all that is 'normal'. Perhaps 4-5 times a month I will do a Google look up for something. Most all of my high bandwidth needs are done on wifi. Note that this is directly because of the throttling, on top of the normal latency. A google query can easily take 2-3 minutes to just get the listing of search results, never mind tapping the first link to read it. It's just that painful.
My bill date was the 10th, so my plan reset just 6 days ago. In the past 6 days, I've used 13.3 MB. Last month I used a total of 88.747 MB
So I can confirm that for my city they throttle purely based on plan type, not how much you use.
That tells me that AT&T is coercing customers with an unlimited plan to drop it and go with a limited plan.
The sad thing is, it is working too. A 2gb cap on my usage would pretty much not require ANY changes in my data habits what so ever, although it will only lower my bill by $10/month. Once I renew my contract, I just know there will be more than $10 in random mystery fees to make up the difference, and likely my bill will go up.
At least I can get them to pay for part of a new phone this way I guess:/
I think the FCC should step in and stop this abuse of consumer rights.
I very much concur. Sadly, there isn't much of a chance in hell the FCC will do anything about it.
I also notice the Public Safety Minister has not installed a camera in each room of his home set to live streaming. As he himself stated, only pedophiles would reject such a thing.
He may be immune from a libel suit, but once the facts get out that he himself is a child molester and has proven it by admission and lack of action, I wonder how immune from an angry mob he will be.
After all, it can't be too bad of a crime to beat to death a person who admits to molesting children!
So instead of only 20 people per million, you admit out right that you would rather see 100 or 200 people out of a million dead, and then say that is a GOOD thing?
You *actually desire* 80-180 MORE PEOPLE had killed themselves, is the exact statement you are making... and you have the nerve to call someone else heartless??
When you wish death on more people for no reason, your claim to morality goes out the window. Fuck you, and your sick perverted wish for more people to kill themselves. I hope you die.
Remember the old Sierra adventure games like King's Quest and Space Quest?
*snip*
Those games could have easily been published as printed stories,
Just an FYI, at least for King's Quest, that exact thing happened. If you really loved the story in that series, I would highly recommend The King's Quest Companion
It tells the story of the game series as a novelization, as well as filling in some plot holes, and acting as a decent walk-through guide.
The bottom of that wiki page links to a video review of the book, and I'm sure Amazon carries it still.
It's nice to know that my tax dollars are being used to teach kids that gay=bad, safe sex=evil and wifi=devil.
That sounds like the answer to the problem!
These people are stating that RF signals can cause health problems, and demanding RF be blocked from entering the building.
The only way to block WiFi, and all equal RF signals, is to remove all transmitters from the building, install faraday shielding in the walls, and remove all existing ethernet and coax wiring (It's the same RF in those cables as comes from an antenna after all)
Additional funding would be required for law enforcement officers to catch and to press 'health endangerment' charges against anyone who enters the building with a cell phone, tablet, or laptop with wifi, cellular, or bluetooth capabilities. Including the parents and staff.
Present the bill for all of that as a tax increase that is required to meet their demand. Watch the request get dropped when no one wants to pay their share of the multi-million dollar refit to comply with the request, on top of the inconvenience it will cause.
Of course expecting these people to understand that "One of these things is just like the other" is expecting quite a lot, I know...
Kinda like the HP Blade server we have running ESX here at work? It costs a lot less than a Z9 as well:).
Kinda, sorta, a lil:} To be fair, there are many features in a mainframe that the HP blade server can't do.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the blade server is a pile of crap or anything. It's pretty damn awesome in fact.
But mainframes have some hardware redundancy features more geared towards assuring data gets from one place to another without error. ECC if not CRC is used in nearly every path data can take through the system. CPUs can be configured in a dual or tri-system state, where 3 procs do the same task, and at the end compare answers. Data can be redundant in memory too, which can do the same odd-man-out verifications on reads.
An HP blade server can emulate Some of this in software, but it is much slower than in hardware, and even that won't necessarily catch every data path.
The closest I think you can get is having 2 or 3 different instances of the same virtual machine processing the same data, using different CPU blades, memory, and ending up putting the results on different SANs each on their own unique bus. Then you need at least two manager VMs to do the feeding of data and comparing the results, both of the instances below it, and with its partner manager. Those two would also be responsible for figuring out which system below it is throwing disagreeing results, and ideally narrowing down from which piece of hardware, in order to raise an alert and hopefully disable the failed hardware at a higher level in ESX. As well as email you to buy it a replacement part of course.
If the two managers disagree with each other, all you can hope for then is a graceful termination of processing, hopefully with a detailed reason why.
You can get pretty close to a similar effect, in that you will not get bad data in the end due to some step in the processing chain going bad in hardware. But you will likely have downtime of processing once something does go bad, depending on how many resources you are willing to throw at what amounts to the same work.
For the niche cases that need that level of data protection, mainframes pretty much do that all transparently, and as I mentioned a lot in hardware which speeds the over all jobs up. Handling failed hardware transparently to the running job, and even the user, means the system disables the hardware flagged as bad, and continues on using other resources, all with no intervention on an admins part.
Of course most of what you are paying for is the IBM support, which is pretty much required to have. One can get such support from HP too of course, at a price. But being optional is nice for those of us that don't really need it. Email alerts of failed hardware are plenty for me to work it into this or the next budget. If I had an active HP rep, it isn't much to hit forward on an email after all;} But on an IBM system like this, the mainframe sends IBM the message directly. 'When' depending on your support contract, an IBM rep shows up at your door either within a couple hours, or a day or two, replacement part in hand, and ready to do the swap under your supervision.
The price on the big iron is definitely about what you get. Thankfully for the wallet, many tasks don't need that level of redundancy, and so HP does quite well in the lower end market, which is of course larger too.
Mainframes serve special niches, and when those details become important for the task at hand, IBM has to make up on the low volume with higher prices. But it's not all for naught, you still get your moneys worth.
So you favour killing a human for no fault of theirs (abortion)
The person you responded to already answered that (As a "no")
When you have a person alive for a number of years, who would be able to live another many decades, if not for one medical issue going wrong... You have two outcomes to choose between:
1) The baby dies, and the mother lives or 2) The baby dies, and the mother dies too.
So as the baby is already going to die, and there is nothing you can do to change that, all that's left on the table is if the mother dies or not, which you have full control over.
Your view suggests that the mother should die, as well as the baby. The person you replied to suggests that the mother should live, while the baby dies.
Only person here making the choice of killing a person is you. At least the GP is trying to save the one and only life that can be saved in the situation given.
Then there is the point on the death penalty. As happens very frequently, it is discovered after the fact that the person originally arrested and tried for the crime turns out to be proven innocent, or another person is proven to be guilty and acting alone, which is itself proof the former person is innocent.
When you put someone to death, as you feel should be done, you can never fix the mistake once found out. With life imprisonment you can. If it turns out the person is guilty after the fact, then they have been in prison all that time and will continue to be.
So once again, you have just put every wrongfully accused person to death, despite evidence after the fact that you got the wrong person. The person you are responding to suggests once evidence comes to light that the one imprisoned was the wrong person, you let them go and attempt to make amends for the time stolen from their life.
So you just put to death many innocent people that did nothing wrong, as well as killed an innocent mother. The person you responded to did neither of those things.
Iâ(TM)ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments donâ(TM)t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
There is a FireFox extension called YouTube Comment Snob. I believe they have a version out for Chrome as well now.
It hides comments if they fail a certain number of rules:
* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker. * All capital letters * No capital letters * Doesn't start with a capital letter * Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????) * Excessive capitalization * Profanity
Ever since I installed that add-on, set to "5 or more spelling mistakes and 4 or more rules fail", most video comment sections average out to 2-3% (That is: 2 or 3 out of every 100 comments) that I can still see.
It's almost as comical as the comments themselves, except at the end I don't want to slit my wrists as much.
Don't worry, tomorrow they are going to put TWO mentally deficient children in the electric chair to balance everything out.
Apparently the two children were in the leg-up program at their school, and finger painted a red bus on an otherwise white sheet of paper, and so committed gross copyright infringement. If they don't rehabilitate them now and teach them a lesson, next they might move on to downloading sesame street!
The FBI is partnered up with GoDaddy, who historically they let handle these types of things.
They can let GoDaddy host the page, and their network wouldn't even notice it next to the other billion and a half parked and expired domain auction pages.
I'd be a little surprised of GoDaddy isn't who is currently providing the DNS infrastructure for what they are already doing anyway.
A tiny text web page with no graphics could easily come in at under 2kb. Their servers support Z compression, so at least for all non-IE6 browsers the data transferred over the wire will be even less than that.
Of course if the FBI is logging all the DNS lookups from infected computers, to add that data to their massive database-of-such-things, then perhaps they will renew the court order and keep silently redirecting people like they have been, to continue recording...
So, my excuses to you. You couldn't know. However, take this as an example why oldtimers matter: At the first sign of going wrong, I disregarded who you are, what you are and how good your are... I said: "Stop right there, your understanding is not right... It's not even wrong!" We "old" guys do this because it's a very efficient way of working. Not always friendly, but efficient.
Hey, no argument from me on experience being importaint!:} I agree 100%, and am not above being corrected, or learning something new.
The first thing I did after posting was look up the difference between float and money data types, which lead me to the IEEE wiki page, which I admit was a bit over my head in the end. That and too much math for a weekend evening to truly follow along and understand. However I have no doubt my mind will wander back to the subject later, now that I know what I'm looking for.
I've already read through the Java related link, and that answers so many questions I've had seeing similar odd behavior with floating point numbers, and was an excellent beginners explanation. The oracle page is still open in another tab for later when I have more time.
But believe me, I would never inflict my code on someone else, and don't even claim I am a programmer. I had a huge interest when I was younger, and was mostly self taught. But later along in life it did not get my full attention as other things interested me more.
But I fully know my limits, and generally try to learn to fill in the blanks, but when it seems too long hard or complex for me to understand (lacking the prerequisite knowledge) I just find an alternative solution to the problem. Thankfully I have the luxury of not having a due date or paycheck depending on it;}
As an example (though not valid in this case, but still shows the point), a more experienced person would know to avoid using floats to save monetary values
It sucks you posted anon, as I am really curious and would love an answer in reply...
Being an non-experienced person (Not a programmer by profession, and barely one for hobby), using an X.2 precision float for a monetary value would be my First assumption! Just one requiring some extra exception handling.
I'm curious to know why that is bad practice.
I have never been in a position to need to do such a thing so have never looked into it. I do recall seeing both 'float' and 'money' types in SQL definitions, I just assumed 'money' was a shortcut to the specific precision of float needed, but thinking about it now, that doesn't make sense either.
I assume it's the rounding thing? I just figured one would have to handle that as an exception. Attempting to divide a penny into two should raise an error, unless you also specified which of the two you are dividing for is to get the extra penny.
So it wouldn't be : 1.51 / 2 = 0.755 It would need to be : 1.51 --> 0.755 + 0.755 which should fail, unless for example you specify the First value gets the extra penny. Then the answer is : 1.51 --> 0.76 + 0.75
I don't see how the above exception could not be handled with a float still... Is it just most people fail to do so? Or something more I'm not noticing? I also don't see how a simple data type of 'money' would solve the half a penny problem either.
His solution seems to be "Give everything away for free, then it won't get stolen". Nothing wrong with that business model.
Who's solution? Yours? Well no one else mentioned any of those things, so yea it must be your idea...
Well you have a really stupid idea there then! That would never work, how do you expect to make money when you give it away for free?? By definition you are making nothing then. That's really the dumbest idea for making money I've ever heard. You should be ashamed.
He also rationalizes that downloading is okay because it's not like you actually stole a physical object - so it's not really stealing, right?
You claimed I said something I didn't, which makes you a child molester. (No, I don't care that the law says it is "slander")
Why do you keep shrugging of that being a child molester isn't a bad thing? You deserve the full punishment of law for child molesting from what you have done, which is to remove your post about me and pay a small fine. You should really stop molesting children in the future, you might get taken to small claims court in another state or something annoying!
Fucking child molester, always trying to argue I should call it "slander" in stead, as if the two had nothing to do with each other or something!
If it's possible to make a movie and sell it cheaply online, with no DRM, and still make a profit as the article suggests why hasn't anyone done that successfully?
They have. Many times in fact. It is the fault of the media cartels that you have never heard of any of them.
In some respects despite not being pack animals cats are actually quite social. I haven't seen dogs teaching one another advanced behaviors like this.
To add to your informative comment, I can say I have at least in one case seen this with two dogs as well, both previous pets of mine.
I had an older lab, actually she was my step fathers originally, but became mine once he passed away.
Now I must admit, she was a retired police dog when my step father got her, and already knew quite a few verbal and physical commands. She was quite bright for a dog.
Unfortunately my step father did not treat her particularly well. I mean he loved her to death and was wonderful in playing with her and giving attention. But he basically fed her whatever he was eating. Very bad for a dog:/
She developed diabetes, and from that further problems. She was over weight, and had a tendency to develop bed sores from inactivity. At one point she seemed ready to give up on life, as dogs tend to do when they know their time is near. But she was still relatively young, and had hope left. I exercised her as much as she would stand for, and had a very hard time adjusting her diet to something more healthy. She all but refused most dry dog food, and with her weight wanted to be lazy, which just makes the problem worse...
Anyways, after awhile i got the idea that perhaps getting another puppy would help matters in a few ways. Both motherly instincts to kick in, as well as competing for more attention. The new dog was a pound puppy, and I got her very young, only a few weeks old. Low and behold, the plan actually worked! She lived another 3 years, and was a little over 10 when I had to have her put down due to a tumor growing behind her brain:{
One of the skills she had and taught the puppy, was knowing where our yard boundary was. The back yard is fenced, but the front is not at all. My house also shares a front yard with the house to my south (Each of our driveways are on the far side, and other than mow lines, no distinction between them.) No sidewalk between yard and street either.
The older dog knew where she could go, and where not to go. She knew where the mow line should be and would Not cross it without looking back at me for my OK.
She taught the puppy the yard rules, taught her the same way to get attention to be let out back, and the puppy mostly learned the same furniture rules from the older dogs actions.
I did teach the puppy some verbal commands, although she never had the same vocabulary as the police dog. Also another strange thing, when I gave the older dog hand orders, the puppy would copy them. She didn't exactly learn the hand orders, as after Brandy was put down, she never really followed them again. Instead she would look around for Brandy, I assume to copy what she was doing. I quickly stopped the few she did recognize, as it wasn't a pleasant memory for the either of us... But it seemed she learned to do the same action, even if only as expected from the older dog.
But other than a tiny amount of reeducation on furniture rules when puppy grew up (after my other dog was gone), everything she learned had stayed with her through out her life. By reeducation, that is to say puppys on your lap on the couch is cute. Bigger dogs, not at all so much heh
The puppy lived to a ripe age of 12, and those were two of the smartest dogs I've ever interacted with and had the pleasure of having in my life.
So maybe not a common case, but I wanted to toss my experience out there to share.
I gather you are more a cat person than a dog person, but in case you were curious: Puppy , and when older (Yes that was her couch!:) Sadly I have no digital pictures of the older retired police dog, and seems a bit much to scan one in just for this post
Oh, and please don't think I am calling you an "extremist" or anything. I don't even mean to imply any negative connotations using that term, as there might be with other subjects.
If you or anyone else reading that is against DRM on principle, then that is a perfectly valid opinion, and by all means avoid any and all such software. More power to you!
I'm not here to say your opinion is wrong, or to claim mine is more right in any way at all. You just implied asking about the opinion of someone who doesn't see Steam as unacceptable, and I wanted to be as detailed on why as possible.
I don't get why people who normally hate DRM see Steam as acceptable.
That one is easy! People who hate DRM do not buy Steam games. At all.
Most people do not hate DRM specifically, what they hate is not being able to play a game they paid money for. If DRM is the thing stopping you from playing it, then DRM is the cause of the problem. If it is another thing stopping you, then the other thing is the cause of the problem. In this sense, Steam has never been a problem, as this doesn't happen.
Will that remain so for all of eternity? I can't say, and don't know. But they have so far given me no reason to think otherwise. If they ever do change to more restrictive DRM, I will simply krack what games I do have and never make another purchase from them again. They are fully aware of this, and don't want to lose me and others like me as a customer, so they have plenty of reason NOT to make such a change, and exactly zero reason to do so.
I'll even give you my latest example. Skyrim, the all new hotness of RPGs. I bought mine off Steam.
I can either run the SkyrimLauncher.exe that the shortcut points to (As does the Steam submenu item) and access the steam community while playing. OR I can launch TESV.exe in the same directory, and bypass everything steam related.
In fact I have mods installed, one of which is a scripting extender (SKSE for those curious), which is a wrapper around TESV.exe. I do not have default-allow rules for any executable in that folder, my firewall asks me each time. It has never done this in three months. In fact a week from tomorrow will be exactly three months to the day. There is no checking in, there is no verification, no Internet needed.
Obviously I needed connectivity to download the thing, and it was activated and registered with them then for updates. It won't be connecting to Steam again until the next major 1.4 patch is released, and only then because I want the update.
Other than multiplayer only games, which obviously must be online to even use, Steam does not prevent you from running games you buy. And that is what most of us hate. Most don't hate DRM because it is DRM. We hate DRM when it prevents us from using what we purchased.
Ubisoft is a different ballpark all together, as this article shows. I don't mind activating or registering a game after downloading it. I'm clearly already online, so it's not a problem. If the company doesn't bug me after the purchase, then there is no problem.
Some people are far extreams. Either they hate all DRM with a passion and avoid all DRM.. Or they could care less and buy whatever has the most pretty graphic on the box. But I believe most people are more in the middle, and would agree with me on this.
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Sounds like you and I have the same bandwidth habits. I have a 200MB plan I have never come close to going over. Why would you pay for something you aren't using? Why wouldn't you reduce your data plan?
I am an old Cingular customer, who became an AT&T wireless customer when the former bought the latter. I still have my old minute rate from the Cingular days.
Basically I have 500 minutes per month plus rollover for $30. Then the unlimited data and SMS for another $30.
With a little over 6000 minutes saved up in the rollover queue, that's way more minutes than I could ever hope to exceed.
A year ago when I last looked, the smallest package they had was 700 minutes for $45.
I obviously haven't checked on it myself recently, but I could have sworn someone told me they don't even have the 700 package anymore either.
I just don't see lowering my data bill by $10, just to raise my voice bill by at least $15 (if not more) on top of needing a 2 year contract.
Only good for WiFi networks as it doesn't provide voice cell service.
Indeed. He asked for a wifi-only device, that can't access the 3g network...
So yes, a wifi only device is sorta wifi only, as it's a bit hard to place voice cell calls without being on a cellular network.
But voice calls != cellular voice calls
Wanting to be on the 3g network for voice and not data (not what was asked, but still) would be as simple as buying a 3g plan with voice only and no data (Only AT&T and Verizon do this bundled forced-data thing on 3G in the US that I am aware)
I guess I just don't understand what you want.
You want a device not on the 3g network, but still to place 3g calls?
Or do you mean a device that IS on the 3g network, and just using it for voice and not data?
Either of those seem way too obvious to warrant a post to ask, so I pretty much ruled both out heh
The first is not physically possible.
The second just requires a voice only plan with no data, aka avoid AT&T and Verizon and just purchase such a plan...
If you are really wanting to route voice calls over wifi first and fall back to 3g, then I can see what you mean.
That would be 'possible' but extremely complex and expensive. This is possible, by the slimmest definition of the word too, and I wouldn't bother doing it as it works fairly poorly and the price is outrageous with the current types of services that would be needed. Likely even as much as 3x a normal phone plan, let alone a smart phone plan!
Seriously, I would love to have a Wifi-only Smartphone that can't access a 3G Data network.
Those exist.
On the Apple side, it's called iPod Touch + VoIP / SIP / Skype apps.
On the Android side, you used to be able to get a Nexus One this way, I believe they were intended for developers to test apps on but didn't want/need a data plan.
I bet a lot of smart phones will operate without a SIM in them as well.
You can buy a used Android phone off ebay or what ever, and pop the SIM out (assuming it came with one in the first place)
Data throttling is happening after 1.5GB to people on an unlimited plan whereas it doesn't happen to people who have 2GB or 3GB plans.
In Ohio, AT&T throttles unlimited plans down to 128kbps, while limited plans can reach speeds near a megabit.
I tested this on my phone (3gs) with a friends SIM.
My plan is unlimited, and I never could get speeds above 128kbps, even if I only used <100mb that month.
My friends SIM/plan is 2gb, and when put in my phone I peeked just a touch under 1mbit, and most of that time of testing was getting around 600kbps average, over a 30 minute period.
Ironically, I purchased the phone in LasVegas (Poker winnings FTW!) and I did get faster data service there. Unfortunately I didn't think to do any speed tests at the time, but I was happy enough with the bandwidth at the time. I just assumed it would remain the same once I got back home. Oops.
I am extremely far from a heavy data user. Automated email checking on two accounts is all that is 'normal'. Perhaps 4-5 times a month I will do a Google look up for something. Most all of my high bandwidth needs are done on wifi.
Note that this is directly because of the throttling, on top of the normal latency. A google query can easily take 2-3 minutes to just get the listing of search results, never mind tapping the first link to read it. It's just that painful.
My bill date was the 10th, so my plan reset just 6 days ago.
In the past 6 days, I've used 13.3 MB. Last month I used a total of 88.747 MB
So I can confirm that for my city they throttle purely based on plan type, not how much you use.
That tells me that AT&T is coercing customers with an unlimited plan to drop it and go with a limited plan.
The sad thing is, it is working too. A 2gb cap on my usage would pretty much not require ANY changes in my data habits what so ever, although it will only lower my bill by $10/month. Once I renew my contract, I just know there will be more than $10 in random mystery fees to make up the difference, and likely my bill will go up.
At least I can get them to pay for part of a new phone this way I guess :/
I think the FCC should step in and stop this abuse of consumer rights.
I very much concur. Sadly, there isn't much of a chance in hell the FCC will do anything about it.
I also notice the Public Safety Minister has not installed a camera in each room of his home set to live streaming.
As he himself stated, only pedophiles would reject such a thing.
He may be immune from a libel suit, but once the facts get out that he himself is a child molester and has proven it by admission and lack of action, I wonder how immune from an angry mob he will be.
After all, it can't be too bad of a crime to beat to death a person who admits to molesting children!
So instead of only 20 people per million, you admit out right that you would rather see 100 or 200 people out of a million dead, and then say that is a GOOD thing?
You *actually desire* 80-180 MORE PEOPLE had killed themselves, is the exact statement you are making... and you have the nerve to call someone else heartless??
When you wish death on more people for no reason, your claim to morality goes out the window. Fuck you, and your sick perverted wish for more people to kill themselves. I hope you die.
Remember the old Sierra adventure games like King's Quest and Space Quest?
*snip*
Those games could have easily been published as printed stories,
Just an FYI, at least for King's Quest, that exact thing happened.
If you really loved the story in that series, I would highly recommend The King's Quest Companion
It tells the story of the game series as a novelization, as well as filling in some plot holes, and acting as a decent walk-through guide.
The bottom of that wiki page links to a video review of the book, and I'm sure Amazon carries it still.
It's nice to know that my tax dollars are being used to teach kids that gay=bad, safe sex=evil and wifi=devil.
That sounds like the answer to the problem!
These people are stating that RF signals can cause health problems, and demanding RF be blocked from entering the building.
The only way to block WiFi, and all equal RF signals, is to remove all transmitters from the building, install faraday shielding in the walls, and remove all existing ethernet and coax wiring (It's the same RF in those cables as comes from an antenna after all)
Additional funding would be required for law enforcement officers to catch and to press 'health endangerment' charges against anyone who enters the building with a cell phone, tablet, or laptop with wifi, cellular, or bluetooth capabilities. Including the parents and staff.
Present the bill for all of that as a tax increase that is required to meet their demand.
Watch the request get dropped when no one wants to pay their share of the multi-million dollar refit to comply with the request, on top of the inconvenience it will cause.
Of course expecting these people to understand that "One of these things is just like the other" is expecting quite a lot, I know...
Kinda like the HP Blade server we have running ESX here at work? It costs a lot less than a Z9 as well :).
Kinda, sorta, a lil :}
To be fair, there are many features in a mainframe that the HP blade server can't do.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the blade server is a pile of crap or anything. It's pretty damn awesome in fact.
But mainframes have some hardware redundancy features more geared towards assuring data gets from one place to another without error.
ECC if not CRC is used in nearly every path data can take through the system.
CPUs can be configured in a dual or tri-system state, where 3 procs do the same task, and at the end compare answers. Data can be redundant in memory too, which can do the same odd-man-out verifications on reads.
An HP blade server can emulate Some of this in software, but it is much slower than in hardware, and even that won't necessarily catch every data path.
The closest I think you can get is having 2 or 3 different instances of the same virtual machine processing the same data, using different CPU blades, memory, and ending up putting the results on different SANs each on their own unique bus.
Then you need at least two manager VMs to do the feeding of data and comparing the results, both of the instances below it, and with its partner manager.
Those two would also be responsible for figuring out which system below it is throwing disagreeing results, and ideally narrowing down from which piece of hardware, in order to raise an alert and hopefully disable the failed hardware at a higher level in ESX. As well as email you to buy it a replacement part of course.
If the two managers disagree with each other, all you can hope for then is a graceful termination of processing, hopefully with a detailed reason why.
You can get pretty close to a similar effect, in that you will not get bad data in the end due to some step in the processing chain going bad in hardware.
But you will likely have downtime of processing once something does go bad, depending on how many resources you are willing to throw at what amounts to the same work.
For the niche cases that need that level of data protection, mainframes pretty much do that all transparently, and as I mentioned a lot in hardware which speeds the over all jobs up.
Handling failed hardware transparently to the running job, and even the user, means the system disables the hardware flagged as bad, and continues on using other resources, all with no intervention on an admins part.
Of course most of what you are paying for is the IBM support, which is pretty much required to have. ;}
One can get such support from HP too of course, at a price. But being optional is nice for those of us that don't really need it.
Email alerts of failed hardware are plenty for me to work it into this or the next budget.
If I had an active HP rep, it isn't much to hit forward on an email after all
But on an IBM system like this, the mainframe sends IBM the message directly. 'When' depending on your support contract, an IBM rep shows up at your door either within a couple hours, or a day or two, replacement part in hand, and ready to do the swap under your supervision.
The price on the big iron is definitely about what you get. Thankfully for the wallet, many tasks don't need that level of redundancy, and so HP does quite well in the lower end market, which is of course larger too.
Mainframes serve special niches, and when those details become important for the task at hand, IBM has to make up on the low volume with higher prices. But it's not all for naught, you still get your moneys worth.
So you favour killing a human for no fault of theirs (abortion)
The person you responded to already answered that (As a "no")
When you have a person alive for a number of years, who would be able to live another many decades, if not for one medical issue going wrong...
You have two outcomes to choose between:
1) The baby dies, and the mother lives
or
2) The baby dies, and the mother dies too.
So as the baby is already going to die, and there is nothing you can do to change that, all that's left on the table is if the mother dies or not, which you have full control over.
Your view suggests that the mother should die, as well as the baby.
The person you replied to suggests that the mother should live, while the baby dies.
Only person here making the choice of killing a person is you.
At least the GP is trying to save the one and only life that can be saved in the situation given.
Then there is the point on the death penalty.
As happens very frequently, it is discovered after the fact that the person originally arrested and tried for the crime turns out to be proven innocent, or another person is proven to be guilty and acting alone, which is itself proof the former person is innocent.
When you put someone to death, as you feel should be done, you can never fix the mistake once found out. With life imprisonment you can.
If it turns out the person is guilty after the fact, then they have been in prison all that time and will continue to be.
So once again, you have just put every wrongfully accused person to death, despite evidence after the fact that you got the wrong person.
The person you are responding to suggests once evidence comes to light that the one imprisoned was the wrong person, you let them go and attempt to make amends for the time stolen from their life.
So you just put to death many innocent people that did nothing wrong, as well as killed an innocent mother.
The person you responded to did neither of those things.
Hmm indeed!
Iâ(TM)ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments donâ(TM)t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
There is a FireFox extension called YouTube Comment Snob.
I believe they have a version out for Chrome as well now.
It hides comments if they fail a certain number of rules:
* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker.
* All capital letters
* No capital letters
* Doesn't start with a capital letter
* Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
* Excessive capitalization
* Profanity
Ever since I installed that add-on, set to "5 or more spelling mistakes and 4 or more rules fail", most video comment sections average out to 2-3% (That is: 2 or 3 out of every 100 comments) that I can still see.
It's almost as comical as the comments themselves, except at the end I don't want to slit my wrists as much.
Don't worry, tomorrow they are going to put TWO mentally deficient children in the electric chair to balance everything out.
Apparently the two children were in the leg-up program at their school, and finger painted a red bus on an otherwise white sheet of paper, and so committed gross copyright infringement. If they don't rehabilitate them now and teach them a lesson, next they might move on to downloading sesame street!
Keep it down with the "P"s, willya? My shirt is soaked, I had to wipe my face, and I had to disinfect my keyboard.
Wow, talk about missing the rim by not keeping it down! That is some spectacularly bad aim sir!
I wonder if they answer their toll free number with "Hello, you've reach the sextuple A! How may we help you?"
I would sure love to hear the hilarious confusion that should ensue...
You know how the new saying goes
There are eight planets, unless of course you still count Pluto in which case there are nine million planets.
The FBI is partnered up with GoDaddy, who historically they let handle these types of things.
They can let GoDaddy host the page, and their network wouldn't even notice it next to the other billion and a half parked and expired domain auction pages.
I'd be a little surprised of GoDaddy isn't who is currently providing the DNS infrastructure for what they are already doing anyway.
A tiny text web page with no graphics could easily come in at under 2kb.
Their servers support Z compression, so at least for all non-IE6 browsers the data transferred over the wire will be even less than that.
Of course if the FBI is logging all the DNS lookups from infected computers, to add that data to their massive database-of-such-things, then perhaps they will renew the court order and keep silently redirecting people like they have been, to continue recording...
So, my excuses to you. You couldn't know. However, take this as an example why oldtimers matter: At the first sign of going wrong, I disregarded who you are, what you are and how good your are... I said: "Stop right there, your understanding is not right... It's not even wrong!" We "old" guys do this because it's a very efficient way of working. Not always friendly, but efficient.
Hey, no argument from me on experience being importaint! :}
I agree 100%, and am not above being corrected, or learning something new.
The first thing I did after posting was look up the difference between float and money data types, which lead me to the IEEE wiki page, which I admit was a bit over my head in the end. That and too much math for a weekend evening to truly follow along and understand. However I have no doubt my mind will wander back to the subject later, now that I know what I'm looking for.
I've already read through the Java related link, and that answers so many questions I've had seeing similar odd behavior with floating point numbers, and was an excellent beginners explanation. The oracle page is still open in another tab for later when I have more time.
But believe me, I would never inflict my code on someone else, and don't even claim I am a programmer. I had a huge interest when I was younger, and was mostly self taught. But later along in life it did not get my full attention as other things interested me more.
But I fully know my limits, and generally try to learn to fill in the blanks, but when it seems too long hard or complex for me to understand (lacking the prerequisite knowledge) I just find an alternative solution to the problem. Thankfully I have the luxury of not having a due date or paycheck depending on it ;}
First, thanks for the link, I will definitely read that.
But second, you DID read the part where I said I am not a programmer, right?
Of COURSE I didn't take that class in college, that isn't what I do.
I learned basic on an Apple//, and ever since done nothing more than fuck around with my own stuff.
So there is no need to be so rude.
As an example (though not valid in this case, but still shows the point), a more experienced person would know to avoid using floats to save monetary values
It sucks you posted anon, as I am really curious and would love an answer in reply...
Being an non-experienced person (Not a programmer by profession, and barely one for hobby), using an X.2 precision float for a monetary value would be my First assumption! Just one requiring some extra exception handling.
I'm curious to know why that is bad practice.
I have never been in a position to need to do such a thing so have never looked into it.
I do recall seeing both 'float' and 'money' types in SQL definitions, I just assumed 'money' was a shortcut to the specific precision of float needed, but thinking about it now, that doesn't make sense either.
I assume it's the rounding thing? I just figured one would have to handle that as an exception.
Attempting to divide a penny into two should raise an error, unless you also specified which of the two you are dividing for is to get the extra penny.
So it wouldn't be : 1.51 / 2 = 0.755
It would need to be : 1.51 --> 0.755 + 0.755
which should fail, unless for example you specify the First value gets the extra penny.
Then the answer is : 1.51 --> 0.76 + 0.75
I don't see how the above exception could not be handled with a float still... Is it just most people fail to do so? Or something more I'm not noticing?
I also don't see how a simple data type of 'money' would solve the half a penny problem either.
His solution seems to be "Give everything away for free, then it won't get stolen". Nothing wrong with that business model.
Who's solution? Yours? Well no one else mentioned any of those things, so yea it must be your idea...
Well you have a really stupid idea there then!
That would never work, how do you expect to make money when you give it away for free?? By definition you are making nothing then.
That's really the dumbest idea for making money I've ever heard. You should be ashamed.
He also rationalizes that downloading is okay because it's not like you actually stole a physical object - so it's not really stealing, right?
You claimed I said something I didn't, which makes you a child molester.
(No, I don't care that the law says it is "slander")
Why do you keep shrugging of that being a child molester isn't a bad thing? You deserve the full punishment of law for child molesting from what you have done, which is to remove your post about me and pay a small fine.
You should really stop molesting children in the future, you might get taken to small claims court in another state or something annoying!
Fucking child molester, always trying to argue I should call it "slander" in stead, as if the two had nothing to do with each other or something!
If it's possible to make a movie and sell it cheaply online, with no DRM, and still make a profit as the article suggests why hasn't anyone done that successfully?
They have. Many times in fact.
It is the fault of the media cartels that you have never heard of any of them.
In some respects despite not being pack animals cats are actually quite social. I haven't seen dogs teaching one another advanced behaviors like this.
To add to your informative comment, I can say I have at least in one case seen this with two dogs as well, both previous pets of mine.
I had an older lab, actually she was my step fathers originally, but became mine once he passed away.
Now I must admit, she was a retired police dog when my step father got her, and already knew quite a few verbal and physical commands. She was quite bright for a dog.
Unfortunately my step father did not treat her particularly well. :/
I mean he loved her to death and was wonderful in playing with her and giving attention. But he basically fed her whatever he was eating. Very bad for a dog
She developed diabetes, and from that further problems. She was over weight, and had a tendency to develop bed sores from inactivity.
At one point she seemed ready to give up on life, as dogs tend to do when they know their time is near. But she was still relatively young, and had hope left.
I exercised her as much as she would stand for, and had a very hard time adjusting her diet to something more healthy. She all but refused most dry dog food, and with her weight wanted to be lazy, which just makes the problem worse...
Anyways, after awhile i got the idea that perhaps getting another puppy would help matters in a few ways. Both motherly instincts to kick in, as well as competing for more attention. The new dog was a pound puppy, and I got her very young, only a few weeks old. :{
Low and behold, the plan actually worked! She lived another 3 years, and was a little over 10 when I had to have her put down due to a tumor growing behind her brain
One of the skills she had and taught the puppy, was knowing where our yard boundary was.
The back yard is fenced, but the front is not at all. My house also shares a front yard with the house to my south (Each of our driveways are on the far side, and other than mow lines, no distinction between them.) No sidewalk between yard and street either.
The older dog knew where she could go, and where not to go. She knew where the mow line should be and would Not cross it without looking back at me for my OK.
She taught the puppy the yard rules, taught her the same way to get attention to be let out back, and the puppy mostly learned the same furniture rules from the older dogs actions.
I did teach the puppy some verbal commands, although she never had the same vocabulary as the police dog.
Also another strange thing, when I gave the older dog hand orders, the puppy would copy them. She didn't exactly learn the hand orders, as after Brandy was put down, she never really followed them again. Instead she would look around for Brandy, I assume to copy what she was doing. I quickly stopped the few she did recognize, as it wasn't a pleasant memory for the either of us...
But it seemed she learned to do the same action, even if only as expected from the older dog.
But other than a tiny amount of reeducation on furniture rules when puppy grew up (after my other dog was gone), everything she learned had stayed with her through out her life.
By reeducation, that is to say puppys on your lap on the couch is cute. Bigger dogs, not at all so much heh
The puppy lived to a ripe age of 12, and those were two of the smartest dogs I've ever interacted with and had the pleasure of having in my life.
So maybe not a common case, but I wanted to toss my experience out there to share.
I gather you are more a cat person than a dog person, but in case you were curious: :)
Puppy , and when older
(Yes that was her couch!
Sadly I have no digital pictures of the older retired police dog, and seems a bit much to scan one in just for this post
Oh, and please don't think I am calling you an "extremist" or anything.
I don't even mean to imply any negative connotations using that term, as there might be with other subjects.
If you or anyone else reading that is against DRM on principle, then that is a perfectly valid opinion, and by all means avoid any and all such software. More power to you!
I'm not here to say your opinion is wrong, or to claim mine is more right in any way at all.
You just implied asking about the opinion of someone who doesn't see Steam as unacceptable, and I wanted to be as detailed on why as possible.
I don't get why people who normally hate DRM see Steam as acceptable.
That one is easy!
People who hate DRM do not buy Steam games. At all.
Most people do not hate DRM specifically, what they hate is not being able to play a game they paid money for. If DRM is the thing stopping you from playing it, then DRM is the cause of the problem. If it is another thing stopping you, then the other thing is the cause of the problem.
In this sense, Steam has never been a problem, as this doesn't happen.
Will that remain so for all of eternity? I can't say, and don't know. But they have so far given me no reason to think otherwise.
If they ever do change to more restrictive DRM, I will simply krack what games I do have and never make another purchase from them again.
They are fully aware of this, and don't want to lose me and others like me as a customer, so they have plenty of reason NOT to make such a change, and exactly zero reason to do so.
I'll even give you my latest example. Skyrim, the all new hotness of RPGs. I bought mine off Steam.
I can either run the SkyrimLauncher.exe that the shortcut points to (As does the Steam submenu item) and access the steam community while playing.
OR
I can launch TESV.exe in the same directory, and bypass everything steam related.
In fact I have mods installed, one of which is a scripting extender (SKSE for those curious), which is a wrapper around TESV.exe.
I do not have default-allow rules for any executable in that folder, my firewall asks me each time. It has never done this in three months. In fact a week from tomorrow will be exactly three months to the day. There is no checking in, there is no verification, no Internet needed.
Obviously I needed connectivity to download the thing, and it was activated and registered with them then for updates.
It won't be connecting to Steam again until the next major 1.4 patch is released, and only then because I want the update.
Other than multiplayer only games, which obviously must be online to even use, Steam does not prevent you from running games you buy.
And that is what most of us hate. Most don't hate DRM because it is DRM. We hate DRM when it prevents us from using what we purchased.
Ubisoft is a different ballpark all together, as this article shows.
I don't mind activating or registering a game after downloading it. I'm clearly already online, so it's not a problem. If the company doesn't bug me after the purchase, then there is no problem.
Some people are far extreams. Either they hate all DRM with a passion and avoid all DRM.. Or they could care less and buy whatever has the most pretty graphic on the box.
But I believe most people are more in the middle, and would agree with me on this.