T-mobile may be bad, but everybody else is worse. Way worse. T-mobile pioneered most of the recent reforms, forcing the old monopolists to play catchup. Sadly, that still leaves the US broadband space in worse shape than any other first world country.
I had to tether my desktop to a t-mobile phone due to failure of all cable and POTS providers to successfully install broadband in a supposedly modern city that I will not name. The POTS providers simply evaded their regulatory obligation through foot dragging and the cable guys failed by pure incompetence. So as a result I got a lot of experience with t-mobile, who I already appreciated as the best of a bunch of extremely pathetic alternatives in the US connectivity market. The way T-mobile caps the data is to stop providing the 4G link after a few GB of data, which is just normal network use these days. You can easily hit that without surfing pron sites or downloading videos or doing Netflix. Just install a few SDKs or watch a how-to video or run Skype video.
The thing that really sucked was not so much the unstated high bandwidth cap, but QoS on the cell network is just awful, with regular latency spikes and bandwidth dropouts. I can't help thinking that shortage of towers is not the biggest reason for that. I think they just have not bothered monitoring the quality of service and there is a lot of broken stuff in their stack that drops packets.
If the A-10 is so great I'm confused as to why they cannot upgrade the hardware like they've continually done with the F15, F18, etc. etc. to evolve its capabilities retire the Harrier and deploy Apaches in their place.
Because blocked by politics. In any case, the A-10 has been upgraded. IMHO the next upgrade should be to turn it into a drone. Keep the titanium bathtub to protect critical systems, lose the windows and add anti-MANPADS hardware.
Different in an in your face, take or leave it way. Which is worse when the central feature of a modern desktop is to stay out of your face and let you get your work done.
Gnome was never the star of the Linux environments, it was always a conglomeration of marginally functional half measures kept on life support by cynical Red Hat strategists and conservative Debian maintainers. Gnome only ever had one reason to exist: QT was not open source but was winning the race to catch up with Microsoft and Apple in desktop functionality. We would have all been better served if the entire Gnome project had been retired after forcing QT into full open source.
Failure to read even the article summary detected. The students expect to add a graphics pipeline in 6 months.
Doing the GPGPU first was a brilliant idea, it gets the project to a state of doing something useful way sooner than going for the graphics pipeline first.
4. If the F35 is also one of the VTOL variants then it is double fucked because the damn thing will have less internal volume for weapons and the added weight of the VTOL system makes the plane handle like a complete pig even when completely unladen.
The sad part is, the capabilities of the other F35 variants were compromised to accommodate the VTOL variant.
The question is, is the F35 as good as a few dozen A10's? Because in terms of cost, that's what we're talking about.
It's a fair question, but the interesting question for me: is the F35 even as good as one A10 for CAS? I'm 99% confident I know what the test result will prove. Unless somebody sabotages the A10...
Question is, how long before their inside boy GregKH use the newly approved kernel social guidelines to get Torvalds to step back from maintainer-in-chief of the kernel.
Right, the worst thing that could ever happen to Linux is, GergKH takes over from Linus. Only an event of that magnitude of crappiness could possibly fork Linux.
Kubuntu works for me, I don't really think about it any more, which is the best compliment for a desktop. The biggest issue is the akonadi idiocy, but that comes from upstream KDE.
I'd consider that quite a big difference. But then I'm not a junglebunny
No, actually you are a knuckledragging slavering imbecile. If it has roofracks and a trailer hitch, is it a different car? Oh wait, it's a different color too!! And there are fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror!!!
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A subscriber agreement is still a contract because it is legally binding. (A contract is nothing more or less than a legally binding agreement.)
T-mobile may be bad, but everybody else is worse. Way worse. T-mobile pioneered most of the recent reforms, forcing the old monopolists to play catchup. Sadly, that still leaves the US broadband space in worse shape than any other first world country.
I had to tether my desktop to a t-mobile phone due to failure of all cable and POTS providers to successfully install broadband in a supposedly modern city that I will not name. The POTS providers simply evaded their regulatory obligation through foot dragging and the cable guys failed by pure incompetence. So as a result I got a lot of experience with t-mobile, who I already appreciated as the best of a bunch of extremely pathetic alternatives in the US connectivity market. The way T-mobile caps the data is to stop providing the 4G link after a few GB of data, which is just normal network use these days. You can easily hit that without surfing pron sites or downloading videos or doing Netflix. Just install a few SDKs or watch a how-to video or run Skype video.
The thing that really sucked was not so much the unstated high bandwidth cap, but QoS on the cell network is just awful, with regular latency spikes and bandwidth dropouts. I can't help thinking that shortage of towers is not the biggest reason for that. I think they just have not bothered monitoring the quality of service and there is a lot of broken stuff in their stack that drops packets.
way far removed.
If the A-10 is so great I'm confused as to why they cannot upgrade the hardware like they've continually done with the F15, F18, etc. etc. to evolve its capabilities retire the Harrier and deploy Apaches in their place.
Because blocked by politics. In any case, the A-10 has been upgraded. IMHO the next upgrade should be to turn it into a drone. Keep the titanium bathtub to protect critical systems, lose the windows and add anti-MANPADS hardware.
Windows 8 isn't worse just different.
Different in an in your face, take or leave it way. Which is worse when the central feature of a modern desktop is to stay out of your face and let you get your work done.
Gnome was never the star of the Linux environments, it was always a conglomeration of marginally functional half measures kept on life support by cynical Red Hat strategists and conservative Debian maintainers. Gnome only ever had one reason to exist: QT was not open source but was winning the race to catch up with Microsoft and Apple in desktop functionality. We would have all been better served if the entire Gnome project had been retired after forcing QT into full open source.
mods, see the troll who says black is white
Congratulations, you just reinvented the modern graphics pipeline.
Failure to read even the article summary detected. The students expect to add a graphics pipeline in 6 months.
Doing the GPGPU first was a brilliant idea, it gets the project to a state of doing something useful way sooner than going for the graphics pipeline first.
Having to run Windows is more than enough punishment to make up for that.
4. If the F35 is also one of the VTOL variants then it is double fucked because the damn thing will have less internal volume for weapons and the added weight of the VTOL system makes the plane handle like a complete pig even when completely unladen.
The sad part is, the capabilities of the other F35 variants were compromised to accommodate the VTOL variant.
Your comparison is an insult to the swiss army knife.
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10 years from now the F35 will be hopelessly obsolete.
It's arguably already obsolete. Failed Harrier respin?
Is that why F35 already got its tail kicked by every other current gen fighter in existence, and some previous gen?
Obvious would be, introduce an A10 derivative that is a drone.
The question is, is the F35 as good as a few dozen A10's? Because in terms of cost, that's what we're talking about.
It's a fair question, but the interesting question for me: is the F35 even as good as one A10 for CAS? I'm 99% confident I know what the test result will prove. Unless somebody sabotages the A10...
One word: brrrrrrttt
I think you are overlooking the brains behind the machine.
Why should great brains be crippled by a crappy airframe?
Question is, how long before their inside boy GregKH use the newly approved kernel social guidelines to get Torvalds to step back from maintainer-in-chief of the kernel.
Right, the worst thing that could ever happen to Linux is, GergKH takes over from Linus. Only an event of that magnitude of crappiness could possibly fork Linux.
I wouldn't be glad if he died, but I would be glad if he disappeared.
Kubuntu works for me, I don't really think about it any more, which is the best compliment for a desktop. The biggest issue is the akonadi idiocy, but that comes from upstream KDE.
After all, business is business
I'd consider that quite a big difference. But then I'm not a junglebunny
No, actually you are a knuckledragging slavering imbecile. If it has roofracks and a trailer hitch, is it a different car? Oh wait, it's a different color too!! And there are fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror!!!
How is Ubuntu Server a desktop OS?
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop