The RF filters do exist, but the technicians are either too smart or too lazy (I'm not sure which) to install them. When I have spoken to the technicians, they have flat out told me that with Internet-only, if you have trouble with your connection and complain that they will come back and remove the filter.
I'm probably being naive, but I'd think that a la cart pricing would be a huge negotiating benefit to the cable companies. When the PDGG channel (Paint Drying and Grass Growing) calls up and demands triple their current fees. The cable companies could retort with something akin to "Polling data indicates that 80% of consumers are only willing to spend 25 cents for your channel. We ain't gonna pay triple for your crappy content."
It works with banks, but not with Time Warner. Two months ago my wife called to try to negotiate a lower price. Over the past year they have repeatedly cut channels and raise prices. They steadfastly refused. They apparently would rather loose a customer than cave to demands. The best they would do was to reduce us to broadcast channel package at $17 per month.
Contractors are in it for the money. Outsourcing vendors are in it for the money. Everyone is looking to get their cut of the cash. With an independent contractor the real person doing the work is going to charge more to compensate for the fact that they have no job security and may spend months between jobs and they pay more for individual health care plans than a large employer does for their employee health plans. With an outsourcing company that highers the contractors, the individuals may get paid less because they get a group rate on health insurance, but the outsourcing company charges more and takes a percentage for themselves. Unless it's something you can outsource to India or China or anywhere the labor costs are low, outsourcing costs more.
Congress must act now! I propose an immediate ban on some-assembly-required furniture. With fast action, the IKEA disease will only exist in history books.
One of the important properties of neutrinos is that they react very weakly with matter. They can shoot straight through air, stone, metal, or the entire earth without appreciably slowing down or being absorbed or deflected. Light is slowed by physical media because it interacts strongly with matter. It is even possible for ionizing radiation to exceed the speed of light through a medium. When it does it produces Cherenkov radiation, the blue glow we associate with nuclear reactors, which is analogous to a sonic boom. In this experiment, they were shooting the neutrinos at a detector 732 km away, which, due to the curvature of the Earth, would mean angling the emitter down and shooting neutrinos through the Earth's crust. So, exceeding the speed of light through what is basically stone is nothing to write home about.
No one is saying wired does not have it's issues. All ISP's oversell their bandwidth, even the cell phone companies. However, the telcos can, quite literally, throw money at the problem and dramatically upgrade effective bandwidth. That is not always possible with the physical realities of wireless, where virtually any electrical device can spew interference and every client device is competing for access to a shared transmission medium. As wireless technologies improve, the telco's and cable operators will improve their networks in order to keep ahead. They will have to provide some advantage to outweigh the mobility of a wireless connection.
Except that this is not furry porn and the anthropomorphized cat was not pleasuring himself, he was being socially awkward. it was no different that picking your nose in public. This was certainly not in the same context as a grown human exposing himself or herself in a park. That fact that you think it was furry porn speaks more to your hangups than to the intent of the artists.
The point of anthropomorphizing is that you get to make jokes playing off the traits between human or animal characteristics. Kids have no problem with this. Sure, your pubescent early-teen age kids may see it the way you do, but they are sex-obsessed and see sex everywhere. You just didn't get the joke. Your logic of Puss = human, therefore action = masturbation is wrong because Puss is not a cat or a human. The character is both and neither. Your starting assumptions are incorrect, there for your logical conclusion is incorrect. Likewise, comparing to Goofy is not relevant because had zero animistic behaviors. Most of the Disney characters did not. To compare the Disney Shorts universe to Shrek is as irrelevant as declaring the the Enterprise could take out a Star Destroyer. It's a fun mental exercise, but ultimately holds no weight because the base assumptions are different.
If you really want to bitch about cartoons, why don't you complain about the rampant use of brutal violence and overt racism. Insensitizing children to violence and racism is certainly worse that an ambiguously depicted, possible masturbation scene. Especially since I can guarantee that every kid over the age of ten has masturbation all sorted out and will not be mentally scarred for life by this.
I'm not sure what your point here is. Shrek 2 was not a G rated film. I agree that too many parents fail to understand realize that all animation is not made for toddlers. But you can't claim the movie was misrepresented. In the case of this specific scene, A: You see it as human, kids view it as talking cat in clothes. You interpret this scene through the eyes of a cynical adult. Children interpret it through the wide eyes of naivete. B: He was not blowing himself. He was cleaning himself. And cats do that. And cat owners are frequently embarrassed when their friends come over and the cat's in the middle of the living room cleaning his balls.
This reminds me of what Gary Larson wrote about one of his more well known Far Side cartoons. The cartoon "When car chasers dream" depicts a dog, having caught a car and flipped it on it's top, standing on the car, head thrown back, and howling. I saw this as a triumphant canine reveling in the thrill of the hunt. Others saw a dog fucking a car. In both cases, how you interpret the scene probably speaks more about you than about the artist. And far from scarring children, with these sorts of ambiguous images, small children are not capable of sexualizing them the way adults can. Any child who does interpret them as sexual images only does it because they are mature enough to begin to understand sexuality, or have been exposed to overt sexuality elsewhere. In either case, you still can't blame the artists for corrupting the youth.
Earthquakes mark the history of L'Aquila, as the city is situated partially on an ancient lake-bed that amplifies seismic activity.[1][2]
On December 3, 1315, the city was struck by an earthquake which seriously damaged the San Francesco Church. Another earthquake struck on January 22, 1349, killing about 800 people. Other earthquakes struck in 1452, then on November 26, 1461, and again in 1501 and 1646. On February 3, 1703 a major earthquake struck the town. More than 3.000 people died and almost all the churches collapsed; Rocca Calascio, the highest fortress in Europe was also ruined by this event, yet the town survived. L'Aquila was then repopulated by decision of Pope Clement XI. The town was rocked by earthquake again in 1706. The most serious earthquake in the history of the town struck on July 31, 1786, when more than 6.000 people died. On June 26, 1958 an earthquake of 5.0 magnitude struck the town.
On April 6, 2009, at 01:32 GMT (03:32 CEST) an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy with its epicentre near L'Aquila, at 42.4228N 13.3945E.[3] The earthquake caused damage to between 3,000 and 11,000 buildings in the medieval city of L'Aquila.[4] Several buildings also collapsed. 308 people were killed by the earthquake, and approximately 1,500 people were injured. Twenty of the victims were children.[5] Around 65,000 people were made homeless.[6] There were many students trapped in a partially collapsed dormitory.[7] The April 6 earthquake was felt throughout Abruzzo; as far away as Rome, other parts of Lazio, Marche, Molise, Umbria, and Campania.
Large earthquakes have killed thousands of people in this town. The people must have known about it. It doesn't take a Geologist to tell you that if a major earthquake killed 3000 in the town 300 years ago that it could happen again.
But really, "making sure they never work in geology again seems like an acceptable solution."? It seems reasonable to strip a scientist of his livelyhood because government officials misunderstood and made an incorrect announcement? It's reasonable to punish a scientist when the people, rather than walking outside during an earthquake as they have done in the town for thousands of years, stayed indoors because the government told them they were safe? It's reasonable to prosecute seismologists for the town's buildings collapsing in on them selves due to old age, disrepair, or insufficient building codes?
I've used several URL tracking systems. None of them were entirely open source, but there are some available. The real costs come in with the URL database. These databases are complied and maintained by real people. There are some community driven databases that are free to use, Untangle has one, but they will not be as complete or consistent.
There is no need to pirate anything. Download the ISO from a reputable source and register using the license code stuck to the computer links
I just did this last week for my niece on her brand new HP laptop. The license code was under the battery. I did have to call Microsoft to activate manually.
But at the price for used you can buy double the number of switches, keep the spares on hand for quick replacements, and still pay 1/4 what you would have for new gear. And that's not even including what SMARTnet coverage would cost you.
Yes things can go wrong, and TFA talks about that as well. The 3 patients who underwent this treatment are at higher risk of infection because the reprogrammed T-Cells suppress part of the immune system and will forever have to receive infusions of immune globulin. TFA also mentions a woman who received similar treatment to fight colon cancer and the reprogrammed T-cells attacked her lung tissue and killed her. Another trial to reprogram T-cells to kill leukemia may have contributed to a patient's death from sepsis. Not to mention, the treatment itself can kill a patient as their body is stressed by it's efforts to kill the cancer. It's all in TFA.
I can't really disagree with your points, but I must point out that Labor Unions also are contributing to their own demise. I have friends in the UAW who talk about how many times a month they can show up drunk without getting fired. The US Postal service is prohibited from laying off any workers based on their agreement with the union. No employer can last forever against employee contracts that allow those kinds of abuses.
He never said anything about a vacuum. Yes, all HD's use the Bernoulli principal, so they must have some sort of gas inside. Commercial hard drives just use air because it is cheap and plentiful, and the venting is so that the HD's don't pop with air pressure changes. As a result, common hard drives don't work well at high altitude as the air is too thin to cushion the heads properly. But, with a sealed, stronger case, you could engineer a denser gas medium with a higher speed of sound.
T-Mobile is not going out of business. They are not loosing money. Clearly, they seem to be OK with charging 5 bucks for an extra line on an existing plan. If they wanted to raise that price they could do it. The plan my parents and I fall under is not a contract and they can raise our fees any time they like. I just fail to see how any cell phone company can have the gall to force customers to buy data services based on what kind of phone they have, or why people seem to think that is OK.
If Sprint gets hurt because they see more competition, that is GOOD for the customers.
Do customers get hurt? How do customers get hurt? Nobody forces customers to get out of Sprint and if what AT&T and T-Mobile merger creates is more expensive and worse quality, then it's just better for Sprint.
I get hurt. My monthly cellphone bill will go up 5 fold. Admittedly, I have a sweetheart deal. I bought my smart phone outright and went on my parents' plan as an extra line. And unlike AT&T, T-Mobile does not force smart phone users to pay for a data plan if they own the phone outright. So I'm currently playing 5 bucks per month to my parents for phone service. That would go up to $25 per month under AT&T. I have better things to do with the extra $240 annually.
It's probably true that not that many people bought a Nexus One intending to pay as little as possible by forgoing the data plan. However, I'll bet that many T-Mobile customers are in my parents' position. Years ago, when their old contract ran out they opted to continue to use their older phones rather than start a new contract and get new, subsidized phones. That maneuver saves them around 20 bucks a month. With AT&T, they will not have the option of lower cost using existing phones, and with no other GSM providers around, they can't jump ship to another carrier without getting into another high cost contract.
I watched the video. That is what the reporter said. I'm guessing that someone off camera told her that the technology could scale to a theoretical or estimated 2 Terabytes. At only 16GB I can hardly see the point of putting it on a USB 3.0 interface, except as a proof of concept.
If it's coupon it has cash value. They are selling a retail package to the customer, minus the coupon, which was intended to be part of that package. This is theft.
During a construction project we had a backhoe hit a 2" underground conduit that tied in one building on the peripheral of the campus. The conduit broke open and the cable line was cut, but the fiber, telephone, and fire lines survived. We called the local cable company to splice the cable. The cable repairman arrived and the first thing he did was to whip out his trusty wire cutters and cut everything else in the conduit.
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The RF filters do exist, but the technicians are either too smart or too lazy (I'm not sure which) to install them. When I have spoken to the technicians, they have flat out told me that with Internet-only, if you have trouble with your connection and complain that they will come back and remove the filter.
I'm probably being naive, but I'd think that a la cart pricing would be a huge negotiating benefit to the cable companies. When the PDGG channel (Paint Drying and Grass Growing) calls up and demands triple their current fees. The cable companies could retort with something akin to "Polling data indicates that 80% of consumers are only willing to spend 25 cents for your channel. We ain't gonna pay triple for your crappy content."
It works with banks, but not with Time Warner. Two months ago my wife called to try to negotiate a lower price. Over the past year they have repeatedly cut channels and raise prices. They steadfastly refused. They apparently would rather loose a customer than cave to demands. The best they would do was to reduce us to broadcast channel package at $17 per month.
I second that. After reading Hitch Hikers I have an irrational hatred of talking machines.
This is the logical disconnect in outsourcing.
Contractors are in it for the money. Outsourcing vendors are in it for the money. Everyone is looking to get their cut of the cash. With an independent contractor the real person doing the work is going to charge more to compensate for the fact that they have no job security and may spend months between jobs and they pay more for individual health care plans than a large employer does for their employee health plans. With an outsourcing company that highers the contractors, the individuals may get paid less because they get a group rate on health insurance, but the outsourcing company charges more and takes a percentage for themselves. Unless it's something you can outsource to India or China or anywhere the labor costs are low, outsourcing costs more.
Congress must act now! I propose an immediate ban on some-assembly-required furniture. With fast action, the IKEA disease will only exist in history books.
One of the important properties of neutrinos is that they react very weakly with matter. They can shoot straight through air, stone, metal, or the entire earth without appreciably slowing down or being absorbed or deflected. Light is slowed by physical media because it interacts strongly with matter. It is even possible for ionizing radiation to exceed the speed of light through a medium. When it does it produces Cherenkov radiation, the blue glow we associate with nuclear reactors, which is analogous to a sonic boom. In this experiment, they were shooting the neutrinos at a detector 732 km away, which, due to the curvature of the Earth, would mean angling the emitter down and shooting neutrinos through the Earth's crust. So, exceeding the speed of light through what is basically stone is nothing to write home about.
No one is saying wired does not have it's issues. All ISP's oversell their bandwidth, even the cell phone companies. However, the telcos can, quite literally, throw money at the problem and dramatically upgrade effective bandwidth. That is not always possible with the physical realities of wireless, where virtually any electrical device can spew interference and every client device is competing for access to a shared transmission medium. As wireless technologies improve, the telco's and cable operators will improve their networks in order to keep ahead. They will have to provide some advantage to outweigh the mobility of a wireless connection.
Except that this is not furry porn and the anthropomorphized cat was not pleasuring himself, he was being socially awkward. it was no different that picking your nose in public. This was certainly not in the same context as a grown human exposing himself or herself in a park. That fact that you think it was furry porn speaks more to your hangups than to the intent of the artists.
The point of anthropomorphizing is that you get to make jokes playing off the traits between human or animal characteristics. Kids have no problem with this. Sure, your pubescent early-teen age kids may see it the way you do, but they are sex-obsessed and see sex everywhere. You just didn't get the joke. Your logic of Puss = human, therefore action = masturbation is wrong because Puss is not a cat or a human. The character is both and neither. Your starting assumptions are incorrect, there for your logical conclusion is incorrect. Likewise, comparing to Goofy is not relevant because had zero animistic behaviors. Most of the Disney characters did not. To compare the Disney Shorts universe to Shrek is as irrelevant as declaring the the Enterprise could take out a Star Destroyer. It's a fun mental exercise, but ultimately holds no weight because the base assumptions are different.
If you really want to bitch about cartoons, why don't you complain about the rampant use of brutal violence and overt racism. Insensitizing children to violence and racism is certainly worse that an ambiguously depicted, possible masturbation scene. Especially since I can guarantee that every kid over the age of ten has masturbation all sorted out and will not be mentally scarred for life by this.
I'm not sure what your point here is. Shrek 2 was not a G rated film. I agree that too many parents fail to understand realize that all animation is not made for toddlers. But you can't claim the movie was misrepresented. In the case of this specific scene, A: You see it as human, kids view it as talking cat in clothes. You interpret this scene through the eyes of a cynical adult. Children interpret it through the wide eyes of naivete. B: He was not blowing himself. He was cleaning himself. And cats do that. And cat owners are frequently embarrassed when their friends come over and the cat's in the middle of the living room cleaning his balls.
This reminds me of what Gary Larson wrote about one of his more well known Far Side cartoons. The cartoon "When car chasers dream" depicts a dog, having caught a car and flipped it on it's top, standing on the car, head thrown back, and howling. I saw this as a triumphant canine reveling in the thrill of the hunt. Others saw a dog fucking a car. In both cases, how you interpret the scene probably speaks more about you than about the artist. And far from scarring children, with these sorts of ambiguous images, small children are not capable of sexualizing them the way adults can. Any child who does interpret them as sexual images only does it because they are mature enough to begin to understand sexuality, or have been exposed to overt sexuality elsewhere. In either case, you still can't blame the artists for corrupting the youth.
Earthquakes mark the history of L'Aquila, as the city is situated partially on an ancient lake-bed that amplifies seismic activity.[1][2]
On December 3, 1315, the city was struck by an earthquake which seriously damaged the San Francesco Church. Another earthquake struck on January 22, 1349, killing about 800 people. Other earthquakes struck in 1452, then on November 26, 1461, and again in 1501 and 1646. On February 3, 1703 a major earthquake struck the town. More than 3.000 people died and almost all the churches collapsed; Rocca Calascio, the highest fortress in Europe was also ruined by this event, yet the town survived. L'Aquila was then repopulated by decision of Pope Clement XI. The town was rocked by earthquake again in 1706. The most serious earthquake in the history of the town struck on July 31, 1786, when more than 6.000 people died. On June 26, 1958 an earthquake of 5.0 magnitude struck the town.
On April 6, 2009, at 01:32 GMT (03:32 CEST) an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy with its epicentre near L'Aquila, at 42.4228N 13.3945E.[3] The earthquake caused damage to between 3,000 and 11,000 buildings in the medieval city of L'Aquila.[4] Several buildings also collapsed. 308 people were killed by the earthquake, and approximately 1,500 people were injured. Twenty of the victims were children.[5] Around 65,000 people were made homeless.[6] There were many students trapped in a partially collapsed dormitory.[7] The April 6 earthquake was felt throughout Abruzzo; as far away as Rome, other parts of Lazio, Marche, Molise, Umbria, and Campania.
Large earthquakes have killed thousands of people in this town. The people must have known about it. It doesn't take a Geologist to tell you that if a major earthquake killed 3000 in the town 300 years ago that it could happen again.
But really, "making sure they never work in geology again seems like an acceptable solution."? It seems reasonable to strip a scientist of his livelyhood because government officials misunderstood and made an incorrect announcement? It's reasonable to punish a scientist when the people, rather than walking outside during an earthquake as they have done in the town for thousands of years, stayed indoors because the government told them they were safe? It's reasonable to prosecute seismologists for the town's buildings collapsing in on them selves due to old age, disrepair, or insufficient building codes?
I've used several URL tracking systems. None of them were entirely open source, but there are some available. The real costs come in with the URL database. These databases are complied and maintained by real people. There are some community driven databases that are free to use, Untangle has one, but they will not be as complete or consistent.
Unobtanium? Anyone?
There is no need to pirate anything. Download the ISO from a reputable source and register using the license code stuck to the computer links
I just did this last week for my niece on her brand new HP laptop. The license code was under the battery. I did have to call Microsoft to activate manually.
But at the price for used you can buy double the number of switches, keep the spares on hand for quick replacements, and still pay 1/4 what you would have for new gear. And that's not even including what SMARTnet coverage would cost you.
Yes things can go wrong, and TFA talks about that as well. The 3 patients who underwent this treatment are at higher risk of infection because the reprogrammed T-Cells suppress part of the immune system and will forever have to receive infusions of immune globulin. TFA also mentions a woman who received similar treatment to fight colon cancer and the reprogrammed T-cells attacked her lung tissue and killed her. Another trial to reprogram T-cells to kill leukemia may have contributed to a patient's death from sepsis. Not to mention, the treatment itself can kill a patient as their body is stressed by it's efforts to kill the cancer. It's all in TFA.
Not to sound snarky, but don't you just reformat and reinstall the OS? Yeah, it's a big step for your average Joe, but this is Slashdot.
I can't really disagree with your points, but I must point out that Labor Unions also are contributing to their own demise. I have friends in the UAW who talk about how many times a month they can show up drunk without getting fired. The US Postal service is prohibited from laying off any workers based on their agreement with the union. No employer can last forever against employee contracts that allow those kinds of abuses.
He never said anything about a vacuum. Yes, all HD's use the Bernoulli principal, so they must have some sort of gas inside. Commercial hard drives just use air because it is cheap and plentiful, and the venting is so that the HD's don't pop with air pressure changes. As a result, common hard drives don't work well at high altitude as the air is too thin to cushion the heads properly. But, with a sealed, stronger case, you could engineer a denser gas medium with a higher speed of sound.
T-Mobile is not going out of business. They are not loosing money. Clearly, they seem to be OK with charging 5 bucks for an extra line on an existing plan. If they wanted to raise that price they could do it. The plan my parents and I fall under is not a contract and they can raise our fees any time they like. I just fail to see how any cell phone company can have the gall to force customers to buy data services based on what kind of phone they have, or why people seem to think that is OK.
WHO GETS HURT?
If Sprint gets hurt because they see more competition, that is GOOD for the customers.
Do customers get hurt? How do customers get hurt? Nobody forces customers to get out of Sprint and if what AT&T and T-Mobile merger creates is more expensive and worse quality, then it's just better for Sprint.
I get hurt. My monthly cellphone bill will go up 5 fold. Admittedly, I have a sweetheart deal. I bought my smart phone outright and went on my parents' plan as an extra line. And unlike AT&T, T-Mobile does not force smart phone users to pay for a data plan if they own the phone outright. So I'm currently playing 5 bucks per month to my parents for phone service. That would go up to $25 per month under AT&T. I have better things to do with the extra $240 annually.
It's probably true that not that many people bought a Nexus One intending to pay as little as possible by forgoing the data plan. However, I'll bet that many T-Mobile customers are in my parents' position. Years ago, when their old contract ran out they opted to continue to use their older phones rather than start a new contract and get new, subsidized phones. That maneuver saves them around 20 bucks a month. With AT&T, they will not have the option of lower cost using existing phones, and with no other GSM providers around, they can't jump ship to another carrier without getting into another high cost contract.
I watched the video. That is what the reporter said. I'm guessing that someone off camera told her that the technology could scale to a theoretical or estimated 2 Terabytes. At only 16GB I can hardly see the point of putting it on a USB 3.0 interface, except as a proof of concept.
No, why would there be?
If it's coupon it has cash value. They are selling a retail package to the customer, minus the coupon, which was intended to be part of that package. This is theft.
two words: Luggable Computer
During a construction project we had a backhoe hit a 2" underground conduit that tied in one building on the peripheral of the campus. The conduit broke open and the cable line was cut, but the fiber, telephone, and fire lines survived. We called the local cable company to splice the cable. The cable repairman arrived and the first thing he did was to whip out his trusty wire cutters and cut everything else in the conduit.