Can you get Earthlink in your area? It runs on the same modem, same lines, etc. You even pay the bills to TWC still. By switching back and forth between Earthlink and TWC every 6 months to 1 year I have not had to pay more than $40 for cable in a long time. I am in an area with virtually no broadband competition either.
Very similar (one might say almost identical). On the OSX doc minimized windows/documents are to the right, running programs are indicated as compared to application icons.
Ah, usually I see megabytes per second abbreviated mb/s rather than MBps, thus the confusion
I did miss that. So let me get this straight--you're complaining about ~16mbps connection? That's pretty fast...admittedly $66/month isn't that great, but pretty good compared to a lot of the country. I'm paying $35 for 10/1.
My office had a DSL connection for years from Speakeasy that had been rock solid. we even upgraded it several years ago to 6mbps down/1.5mbps up. All of a sudden, about 10-12 months ago, the connection went to hell. After some VERY painful technical support calls, missed appointments etc, someone finally told us the distance from the CO was like 12,000 feet. Funny, it used to be 6,000 feet. They also claimed that 75ms pings to google/other internet sites were normal and 10% packet loss in pings wasn't that bad.
Mostly I was disappointed with Speakeasy. They used to be such a great ISP, but through mergers and buyouts they're awful now.
Wow, if that's all you're getting than why not downgrade to Road Runner basic? Couldn't be worse, right? Is your performance typical of others in the area?
I'm in a part of NC where the DSL options are awful (like MAX of 1mbps down 768kbps up), no Uverse, no FIOS, and Time Warner is the only show in town. I get solid ~9.5+mbps down/.9mbps up on a 10/1 connection (the cheapest RR tier).
Funny you say it that way, upon googling one of the first hits I found was a Canadian blog arguing that--legally--bikes are pedestrians and shouldn't have to obey the same road signs.
I'm very sympathetic to cyclists and can't imagine why anyone in a several ton vehicle would harass a bike, but, I can see the frustration when cyclists regularly ignore/flout traffic laws. I've seen a biker run through a red before and very nearly cause a terrible accident as a car swerved to avoid him/her. Traffic laws cut both ways!
Ugh, that sounds horrible. I'm not a biker, and perhaps not living in an urban environment I don't have issues on a regular basis. My community is fairly bike friendly as well. The only behavior that REALLY pisses me off is when bicyclists just go sailing through stop signs, red lights, etc. Dangerous (more dangerous for them though!) and irritating. I can't imagine road-raging against a bicyclist like you describe though...that's appalling.
Also, I have heard of Critical Mass, and quite frankly just hearing this one person I know describing it made me feel quite a bit of rage towards bicyclists!
Or any comments / forums / blogs / sites that remotely touch on law, politics, religion, or society? It's a jungle out there. I think it's getting worse. I don't remember nearly the same prevalence such things 15 years ago. Even when flaming/trolling, there was a higher average level of respect! Now that every slob in the world is on the Internet, people show each other about the same amount of respect they show to others in real life!
I bought a Samsung LNT4069 tv about 3-4 years ago. Within 2 years of buying it, it completely died...wouldn't turn on. Luckily the problem was busted caps and after a trip to *3* different radio shacks (er, "The Shacks") to find the proper capacitors I was easily able to replace them and the TV is still working perfectly today.
Most people would not be able to fix that kind of problem. Most people would not take their tv to a repair shop anymore (doesn't make sense most of the time). Most people who have ANY kid of electronics failure are just going to ditch the device. Doesn't matter that the technology should inherently be longer lasting, one shoddy cap is all it takes. Shoddy caps are no rarity today!!
Is that true? I have very limited experience with rollouts of software in large environments (as I currently work at a small company) but our volume licensing setup for Adobe protects is tied to the machine, not the user. I thought that was fairly common?
Poettering: "You're not welcome to complain if it's free"
On how the speaker got feedback from various mailing lists/communities: Poettering: "You didn't ask the right people...next time just ask me, thank you very much."
Poettering: "I'm sorry your mindset from the 1970s unix is not up-to-date anymore...*booos*...I see, lots of UNIX lovers here...*cheers*
Speaker: (after talking about hald) Poettering: "Ok, hald has been deprecated for 2 years, not my fault people still use it." speaker: Yes, but it's got these limitations, we should get rid of it, do you agree Poettering: No, when we designed it it was great, it did all these things that could never be done before speaker: but it never worked Poettering: you're doing it wrong, it worked great.
The guy interrupted the speaker for the entire talk and then got up and stage after him and took the mic. What an asshole. Completely regardless of whether or not you disagree with the speaker, it's just plain rude to interrupt a talk like that.
Yeah, we're a lot more used to that stuff in the south. I scoff are your 80% humidity:-)
I went to college in North Carolina and only had AC two years there. You definitely get used to life without AC (but then it's easier to get used to life WITH AC)
For me personally I have a heatpump and so my heating bills were awful last winter--when we got down into the single digits/teens the heat pump is just horrible inefficient. One month of last winter (Dec/Jan) was far more electricity than any month this summer. Running the AC at 79 during the day and 75 at night doesn't seem to be that bad, even when the temperatures are in the 90s. My MN-mother-in-law keeps their summer AC on about 74 during the day! I get cold there! We also go probably 4 months of the year without any (or very minimal) heating/cooling. Probably not typical of most people, but I hate running AC/heat if I don't have to.
Personally about the only reason I jailbreak is to use BiteSMS now (very nice text messaging program/interface overhaul). Very nice Mobile Terminal program available. I also have been using the cleverly named iSwipe keyboard. Some good games too, like a very well done port of Quake (use your own data files).
If you like themes and all that's another reason, though that doesn't float my boat.
You're making the same mistakes the other posters did. Just because a patent is idiotic doesn't mean everything infringes. Go read the patent--or even part of the patent. There's absolutely no way your example would be covered by the patent.
Look, I'm with you that patents like this are awful. That doesn't absolve you of making yourself informed of the details before posting.
None of your pre-2000 email clients allowed you to click "reply" and automatically used the From: (or Reply-to:) header to determine who to reply to?
My reading of that patent is that that is a different scenario, pretty much exactly akin to the MS Smart Tags I mentioned.
The patent describes taking a block of data and using multiple parsing patterns to match data. That is, the pattern matches the data itself--a data pattern finds date, a telephone pattern finds telephone numbers, etc. In the scenario you describe, the pattern matches a field name in header and then reads the data from the field--not the same thing. Very similar yes, but not the same. It's unclear to me if automatic URL highlighting would fit this patent. I would think so, but then Apple puts in claims about "multiple patterns" and "multiple actions" so it's possible that auto-URLs don't count either as they just linkify something--don't do any kind of content analysis, etc.
I think software patents are retarded and this is a perfect example of a BS patent, and I remain surprised there's no prior art, but I don't think your understanding of what is claimed/infringed is correct.
Your post won't stand up to scrutiny either -- that patent was filed in 1996 before the first Blackberry was conceived.
Having said that, it seems like a fairly obvious patent? I can't say I read the whole thing though... I'm also surprised there's no prior art; the only similar thing I could personally think of was Microsoft Smart Tags and they don't seem to have arrived before ~2000.
Releasing ebooks for the Kindle is somewhat frustrating... The mobipocket format that Amazon has used up until this point is several limited compared to epub (and especially the forthcoming epub3). It has all sorts of bizarre limitations like, on one visible page, you can't have specify multiple left margins (that is margin-left in the css) -- only one will be visible. No right margins. No nested lists. Little typographic control. Beyond weird limitations like that, mobipocket itself is like a bastardized HTML 3.2. One almost expects to see tags at any second. Really, if you have to do any complicated formatting at all, an image is your best option.
Things that matter not at all for novels, but make a big difference technical, academic, etc books.
Beyond that, as you said, there are pretty big differences between an eink kindle, an iPhone kindle reader, and Kindle for the PC.
But, the Kindle is far and away the most popular platform. The publishing company I work for primarily focuses on Kindle because iPad, nook, etc books just don't sell at nearly the same rate.
Apple is due to report quarterly earnings next week. Guesses are that they will have sold around 18 million iphones and 8 million ipads, maybe 5-6 million iPod touches. Comes out to a ballpark of roughly 360k activations a day.
Is it just me or is it almost unbelievable that between iOS and Android there are almost a million devices being activated every day? Amazing...
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Can you get Earthlink in your area? It runs on the same modem, same lines, etc. You even pay the bills to TWC still. By switching back and forth between Earthlink and TWC every 6 months to 1 year I have not had to pay more than $40 for cable in a long time. I am in an area with virtually no broadband competition either.
Very similar (one might say almost identical). On the OSX doc minimized windows/documents are to the right, running programs are indicated as compared to application icons.
Ditto on OSX, no? Running programs are clearly indicated in the doc.
Possible it's changed in 10.7, I haven't upgraded.
You mean pre-Windows 7, right?
The Windows 7 start bar seems to be fairly analogous to the OSX dock.
Ah, usually I see megabytes per second abbreviated mb/s rather than MBps, thus the confusion
I did miss that. So let me get this straight--you're complaining about ~16mbps connection? That's pretty fast...admittedly $66/month isn't that great, but pretty good compared to a lot of the country. I'm paying $35 for 10/1.
My office had a DSL connection for years from Speakeasy that had been rock solid. we even upgraded it several years ago to 6mbps down/1.5mbps up. All of a sudden, about 10-12 months ago, the connection went to hell. After some VERY painful technical support calls, missed appointments etc, someone finally told us the distance from the CO was like 12,000 feet. Funny, it used to be 6,000 feet. They also claimed that 75ms pings to google/other internet sites were normal and 10% packet loss in pings wasn't that bad.
Mostly I was disappointed with Speakeasy. They used to be such a great ISP, but through mergers and buyouts they're awful now.
Wow, if that's all you're getting than why not downgrade to Road Runner basic? Couldn't be worse, right? Is your performance typical of others in the area?
I'm in a part of NC where the DSL options are awful (like MAX of 1mbps down 768kbps up), no Uverse, no FIOS, and Time Warner is the only show in town. I get solid ~9.5+mbps down/.9mbps up on a 10/1 connection (the cheapest RR tier).
Funny you say it that way, upon googling one of the first hits I found was a Canadian blog arguing that--legally--bikes are pedestrians and shouldn't have to obey the same road signs.
I'm very sympathetic to cyclists and can't imagine why anyone in a several ton vehicle would harass a bike, but, I can see the frustration when cyclists regularly ignore/flout traffic laws. I've seen a biker run through a red before and very nearly cause a terrible accident as a car swerved to avoid him/her. Traffic laws cut both ways!
Ugh, that sounds horrible. I'm not a biker, and perhaps not living in an urban environment I don't have issues on a regular basis. My community is fairly bike friendly as well. The only behavior that REALLY pisses me off is when bicyclists just go sailing through stop signs, red lights, etc. Dangerous (more dangerous for them though!) and irritating. I can't imagine road-raging against a bicyclist like you describe though...that's appalling.
Also, I have heard of Critical Mass, and quite frankly just hearing this one person I know describing it made me feel quite a bit of rage towards bicyclists!
What the heck are you doing that people _regularly_ threatened you? That you _regularly_ had to deal with the police?
Or any comments / forums / blogs / sites that remotely touch on law, politics, religion, or society? It's a jungle out there. I think it's getting worse. I don't remember nearly the same prevalence such things 15 years ago. Even when flaming/trolling, there was a higher average level of respect! Now that every slob in the world is on the Internet, people show each other about the same amount of respect they show to others in real life!
IIRC, warranty was one year. This was maybe 1.5 years after I bought the TV.
I bought a Samsung LNT4069 tv about 3-4 years ago. Within 2 years of buying it, it completely died...wouldn't turn on. Luckily the problem was busted caps and after a trip to *3* different radio shacks (er, "The Shacks") to find the proper capacitors I was easily able to replace them and the TV is still working perfectly today.
Most people would not be able to fix that kind of problem. Most people would not take their tv to a repair shop anymore (doesn't make sense most of the time). Most people who have ANY kid of electronics failure are just going to ditch the device. Doesn't matter that the technology should inherently be longer lasting, one shoddy cap is all it takes. Shoddy caps are no rarity today!!
Is that true? I have very limited experience with rollouts of software in large environments (as I currently work at a small company) but our volume licensing setup for Adobe protects is tied to the machine, not the user. I thought that was fairly common?
Not arguing that iPad doesn't have problems in large corporate/institutional environments, but of the two reasons you list, one is clearly invalid:
https://volume.itunes.apple.com/
Poettering:
"You're not welcome to complain if it's free"
On how the speaker got feedback from various mailing lists/communities:
Poettering: "You didn't ask the right people...next time just ask me, thank you very much."
Poettering:
"I'm sorry your mindset from the 1970s unix is not up-to-date anymore...*booos*...I see, lots of UNIX lovers here...*cheers*
Speaker:
(after talking about hald)
Poettering: "Ok, hald has been deprecated for 2 years, not my fault people still use it."
speaker: Yes, but it's got these limitations, we should get rid of it, do you agree
Poettering: No, when we designed it it was great, it did all these things that could never be done before
speaker: but it never worked
Poettering: you're doing it wrong, it worked great.
The guy interrupted the speaker for the entire talk and then got up and stage after him and took the mic. What an asshole. Completely regardless of whether or not you disagree with the speaker, it's just plain rude to interrupt a talk like that.
Yeah, we're a lot more used to that stuff in the south. I scoff are your 80% humidity :-)
I went to college in North Carolina and only had AC two years there. You definitely get used to life without AC (but then it's easier to get used to life WITH AC)
For me personally I have a heatpump and so my heating bills were awful last winter--when we got down into the single digits/teens the heat pump is just horrible inefficient. One month of last winter (Dec/Jan) was far more electricity than any month this summer. Running the AC at 79 during the day and 75 at night doesn't seem to be that bad, even when the temperatures are in the 90s. My MN-mother-in-law keeps their summer AC on about 74 during the day! I get cold there! We also go probably 4 months of the year without any (or very minimal) heating/cooling. Probably not typical of most people, but I hate running AC/heat if I don't have to.
Wow, how heavily do you use your AC? I lived in Chicago for two summers without AC and don't remember it being bad.
Then again, I'm from the south and just rolled my eyes when the midwesterners started talking about how humid Chicago was :)
Personally about the only reason I jailbreak is to use BiteSMS now (very nice text messaging program/interface overhaul). Very nice Mobile Terminal program available. I also have been using the cleverly named iSwipe keyboard. Some good games too, like a very well done port of Quake (use your own data files).
If you like themes and all that's another reason, though that doesn't float my boat.
It doesn't get any worse than patching PDF viewer buffer overruns!! Damn you Apple!!
You're making the same mistakes the other posters did. Just because a patent is idiotic doesn't mean everything infringes. Go read the patent--or even part of the patent. There's absolutely no way your example would be covered by the patent.
Look, I'm with you that patents like this are awful. That doesn't absolve you of making yourself informed of the details before posting.
None of your pre-2000 email clients allowed you to click "reply" and automatically used the From: (or Reply-to:) header to determine who to reply to?
My reading of that patent is that that is a different scenario, pretty much exactly akin to the MS Smart Tags I mentioned.
The patent describes taking a block of data and using multiple parsing patterns to match data. That is, the pattern matches the data itself--a data pattern finds date, a telephone pattern finds telephone numbers, etc. In the scenario you describe, the pattern matches a field name in header and then reads the data from the field--not the same thing. Very similar yes, but not the same. It's unclear to me if automatic URL highlighting would fit this patent. I would think so, but then Apple puts in claims about "multiple patterns" and "multiple actions" so it's possible that auto-URLs don't count either as they just linkify something--don't do any kind of content analysis, etc.
I think software patents are retarded and this is a perfect example of a BS patent, and I remain surprised there's no prior art, but I don't think your understanding of what is claimed/infringed is correct.
Your post won't stand up to scrutiny either -- that patent was filed in 1996 before the first Blackberry was conceived.
Having said that, it seems like a fairly obvious patent? I can't say I read the whole thing though... I'm also surprised there's no prior art; the only similar thing I could personally think of was Microsoft Smart Tags and they don't seem to have arrived before ~2000.
Releasing ebooks for the Kindle is somewhat frustrating... The mobipocket format that Amazon has used up until this point is several limited compared to epub (and especially the forthcoming epub3). It has all sorts of bizarre limitations like, on one visible page, you can't have specify multiple left margins (that is margin-left in the css) -- only one will be visible. No right margins. No nested lists. Little typographic control. Beyond weird limitations like that, mobipocket itself is like a bastardized HTML 3.2. One almost expects to see tags at any second. Really, if you have to do any complicated formatting at all, an image is your best option.
Things that matter not at all for novels, but make a big difference technical, academic, etc books.
Beyond that, as you said, there are pretty big differences between an eink kindle, an iPhone kindle reader, and Kindle for the PC.
But, the Kindle is far and away the most popular platform. The publishing company I work for primarily focuses on Kindle because iPad, nook, etc books just don't sell at nearly the same rate.
Apple is due to report quarterly earnings next week. Guesses are that they will have sold around 18 million iphones and 8 million ipads, maybe 5-6 million iPod touches. Comes out to a ballpark of roughly 360k activations a day.
Is it just me or is it almost unbelievable that between iOS and Android there are almost a million devices being activated every day? Amazing...