From what I understand, Google hands over bits to the carriers, and the carriers then choose a timetable for automatic updates. The argument that saturating (really, how big are these updates and how many devices that this is a major concern?) networks makes sense here, but the number of models does not. The issues stemming from number of models will be caught by Google's testing before the release bits get sent to the carriers.
In my area, my options are Comcast and DSL. I opted DSL because I didn't want to directly fund Comcast's vision for our future. DSL is not as fast as Comcast, but it's fast enough to stream video, play games and download large files overnight. We get by.
I am not aware (though undoubltly there are some places) where there is cable yet no POTS. My POTS carries a 20Mbps downstream connection, which while not as fast as Comcast, means I don't have to deal with them.
I agree with you that writing fair and sensible tax regulation is difficult, but I feel like your example, being specifically contrived to make your point, weakens your argument. Your purchase of coffee from is one transaction. Starbucks UK buying beans from Starbucks Luxembourg is a different transaction. Starbucks Luxembourg buying beans from Jamaica is a different transaction. Starbucks Ireland providing HR services to Starbucks UK is a different transaction. One could write regulation on a per-transaction basis. By pointing out that a simple cup of coffee purchase can be broken down to a lot of supporting transactions, while true, you are adding complexity which hides the really insidious complexity of webs of corporate entity ownership.
> you're better off googling for it (not binging).
Why, other than anti-Microsoft bias? If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
Why? Because I've found Google to provide better search results than Bing. That's why. Do you believe that the only reason people use Google instead of Bing is that they have an anti-Microsoft bias?
If I'd been in that jury room, I wouldn't have let that cop get away with it, if I had probable cause.
I am plenty white, and the assertion that I am unable to listen to evidence and come to an impartial decision is ridiculous.
I do not know who made this assertion but it does not seem ridiculous since just a few sentences above you seem to have already have a partial opinion before having heard all of the evidence presented to the jury.
No one I know in my industry in the United States has two weeks of vacation. Three and four are the most common, with some long-term company-people getting five.
I was not trying to be pedantic. In fact, the ratio itself is not relevant. If someone says X% of a population does Y but I don't do Y then why should I be offended, they weren't calling me out for doing Y.
There are more gender issues than pay parity. My comment was in fact about a totally different and unrelated issue to pay parity. The fact that he felt the need to justify why he was not the breadwinner points to the issue of society assuming a male in a relationship be a breadwinner (regardless of what desires each partner has for their life).
10 seconds to comply... 8 seconds to comply... 9 seconds to comply... 8 seconds to comply... 4 seconds to comply... 4 seconds to comply... 6 seconds to comply... 1 second to comply...
(Their estimated time to completion was coded by Microsoft).
My wife and I are both programmers, and she makes pretty much the same money I do (more right now - I was out of the workforce for a while dealing with cancer).
The fact that you feel the need to justify why your wife makes more money than you do illustrates some of the problems we have with gender issues. It should be perfectly normal for a woman to make more than a man.
While you are entitled to your own self-loathing, but please count me out of your bogus statistics.
He did. He said half. He never said which half belong to. You can claim his 50% is wrong, but it's clearly a SWAG and he stated so. I don't understand how you can be offended here. If someone told me 50% of men are jerks to women, I'm not going to be offended unless they said 50% of men are jerks to women and I am a man so I must be a jerk to women, but no such claim was made here.
I think gstoddart meant "There's so much good toys out there for kinds that unless the child is asking for Barbie, you can skip it altogether", which is what he or she wrote. The implication there is that if the child asks for Barbie, you can't skip it. You seemed to imply that he or she would do all sorts of horrible things to the child and that seems unfair based on what we know of him or her.
Yes, because if each user paid for each connection from his computer to another computer, it would be far more expensive than pooling resources and wiring everyone up and routing traffic. It's the same reason I don't have a road only I own and use to go to work, another to go to the store, etc. Roads are pooled and funded differently than a private ISP but the concept is similar.
Which is a very different thing than government-issued IDs being illegal. Without free, government-issued IDs, voter-ID laws are unfair and the reason I posted my original statement: "The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of." I did not say why we don't have free, government-issued IDs (I was aware of the reason). I only meant to say that because we don't, voter ID laws are all terribly unfair.
Good God, do these people attended school ? It's depressing to hear such stupid statements.
No kidding!
Yeah no shit man. I was typing too fast and an error is always excusable.
It would be far more excusable if Slashdot did not give you a preview of your comment before you commit it. Type as fast as you want, but read what you wrote slower. You'll find your error rate reduced.
There is no country that engages in so much propaganda and spying on monumental levels as the U.S; if it comes out of the mouth of the U.S government, be skeptical.
Depends on what you mean by large. Amazon does offer a wide variety of EC2 machines running Windows but I am unsure how large of a pie Windows EC2 instances take away from the non-Windows EC2 instances.
Fair enough, but you are but one user of the service and we should probably look at why they have their policy from their perspective rather than one user's.
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Which makes the Nexus experience no longer free from Carrier Crap, which is a shame.
And that's why you should be using HTTPS everywhere you browse.
From what I understand, Google hands over bits to the carriers, and the carriers then choose a timetable for automatic updates. The argument that saturating (really, how big are these updates and how many devices that this is a major concern?) networks makes sense here, but the number of models does not. The issues stemming from number of models will be caught by Google's testing before the release bits get sent to the carriers.
In my area, my options are Comcast and DSL. I opted DSL because I didn't want to directly fund Comcast's vision for our future. DSL is not as fast as Comcast, but it's fast enough to stream video, play games and download large files overnight. We get by.
I am not aware (though undoubltly there are some places) where there is cable yet no POTS. My POTS carries a 20Mbps downstream connection, which while not as fast as Comcast, means I don't have to deal with them.
I agree with you that writing fair and sensible tax regulation is difficult, but I feel like your example, being specifically contrived to make your point, weakens your argument. Your purchase of coffee from is one transaction. Starbucks UK buying beans from Starbucks Luxembourg is a different transaction. Starbucks Luxembourg buying beans from Jamaica is a different transaction. Starbucks Ireland providing HR services to Starbucks UK is a different transaction. One could write regulation on a per-transaction basis. By pointing out that a simple cup of coffee purchase can be broken down to a lot of supporting transactions, while true, you are adding complexity which hides the really insidious complexity of webs of corporate entity ownership.
> you're better off googling for it (not binging).
Why, other than anti-Microsoft bias? If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
Why? Because I've found Google to provide better search results than Bing. That's why. Do you believe that the only reason people use Google instead of Bing is that they have an anti-Microsoft bias?
Indeed. People cringe when you archive data on consumer DVD-Rs, for example.
Most people seem to have a definition of archival that's different than yours?
Sad, but true. Firefox calls the address bar the Awesome bar just so pedants don't confuse it with an address bar. https://support.mozilla.org/en...
If I'd been in that jury room, I wouldn't have let that cop get away with it, if I had probable cause.
I am plenty white, and the assertion that I am unable to listen to evidence and come to an impartial decision is ridiculous.
I do not know who made this assertion but it does not seem ridiculous since just a few sentences above you seem to have already have a partial opinion before having heard all of the evidence presented to the jury.
No one I know in my industry in the United States has two weeks of vacation. Three and four are the most common, with some long-term company-people getting five.
I was not trying to be pedantic. In fact, the ratio itself is not relevant. If someone says X% of a population does Y but I don't do Y then why should I be offended, they weren't calling me out for doing Y.
There are more gender issues than pay parity. My comment was in fact about a totally different and unrelated issue to pay parity. The fact that he felt the need to justify why he was not the breadwinner points to the issue of society assuming a male in a relationship be a breadwinner (regardless of what desires each partner has for their life).
10 seconds to comply...
8 seconds to comply...
9 seconds to comply...
8 seconds to comply...
4 seconds to comply...
4 seconds to comply...
6 seconds to comply...
1 second to comply...
(Their estimated time to completion was coded by Microsoft).
My wife and I are both programmers, and she makes pretty much the same money I do (more right now - I was out of the workforce for a while dealing with cancer).
The fact that you feel the need to justify why your wife makes more money than you do illustrates some of the problems we have with gender issues. It should be perfectly normal for a woman to make more than a man.
While you are entitled to your own self-loathing, but please count me out of your bogus statistics.
He did. He said half. He never said which half belong to. You can claim his 50% is wrong, but it's clearly a SWAG and he stated so. I don't understand how you can be offended here. If someone told me 50% of men are jerks to women, I'm not going to be offended unless they said 50% of men are jerks to women and I am a man so I must be a jerk to women, but no such claim was made here.
I think gstoddart meant "There's so much good toys out there for kinds that unless the child is asking for Barbie, you can skip it altogether", which is what he or she wrote. The implication there is that if the child asks for Barbie, you can't skip it. You seemed to imply that he or she would do all sorts of horrible things to the child and that seems unfair based on what we know of him or her.
Yes, because if each user paid for each connection from his computer to another computer, it would be far more expensive than pooling resources and wiring everyone up and routing traffic. It's the same reason I don't have a road only I own and use to go to work, another to go to the store, etc. Roads are pooled and funded differently than a private ISP but the concept is similar.
Which is a very different thing than government-issued IDs being illegal. Without free, government-issued IDs, voter-ID laws are unfair and the reason I posted my original statement: "The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of." I did not say why we don't have free, government-issued IDs (I was aware of the reason). I only meant to say that because we don't, voter ID laws are all terribly unfair.
No kidding!
Yeah no shit man. I was typing too fast and an error is always excusable.
It would be far more excusable if Slashdot did not give you a preview of your comment before you commit it. Type as fast as you want, but read what you wrote slower. You'll find your error rate reduced.
There is no country that engages in so much propaganda and spying on monumental levels as the U.S; if it comes out of the mouth of the U.S government, be skeptical.
You should travel the world more.
Depends on what you mean by large. Amazon does offer a wide variety of EC2 machines running Windows but I am unsure how large of a pie Windows EC2 instances take away from the non-Windows EC2 instances.
... The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of.
Government issued IDs are illegal, in the USA. For good reason...
So, my US passport is illegal?!
Fair enough, but you are but one user of the service and we should probably look at why they have their policy from their perspective rather than one user's.