In the public's defense, At&t's 4g is a joke that's lost all humor, & they drop calls like it's going out of style. Sounds more like they're saying "we can't compete without this merger". My advice = fix your customer service then your revenue margins.
Better advice: Dump Randall Stephenson and replace him with someone interested in growing the company from inside, through superiour product and service, rather than buying into near-monopoly position.
This right after receiving, yet another 'Wow! Save on bundled services!' offer in the mail. I'm happy with my cheapskate Pre-Paid mobile and basic DSL at home. Ugly enough bill when it arrives anyway. All the better reason to route the AT&T offers directly to the shreader.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
I can see it now, a Ken Burns-esque narrative flashing up pictures of people playing beer pong and puking, and a deep voiced narrator saying with the utmost gravitas:
"Oh Em Gee, I can't believe I got so super smashed last night. Wut did I do? Seriously? Who's got the pics? El Oh El"
- Bob Henderson, August 5th, 2012
Weird. Not like I'm going to continue building the empire in Chemical Engineering my father began...
Honestly, that's about all we're good at - people in the rest of the world want some ephemeral connection to Hollywood, Disneyland, Motown, New York City, etc., so they buy some brand, watch some movies or listen to some music. Give the impression you can't be a hip, cool & happening fool without an iDoodad and they'll gobble it up.
"...news that asteroid 2012 BX34, 11 meters wide..."
Size is one thing, what's it made of? If it were iron/nickel it could be "interesting times" should it come to earth. Rocky wouldn't be as bad. Frozen gasses would be pretty exciting, but as it's not trailing a coma, it's likely one of the former. If you're looking for a place it's likely to land, probability seems to favour Canada - consider these craters and how many are in the GWN
Hope people have some sanity, but with the shape of the world today, I have my doubts.
If that's a rocky asteroid, as opposed to mostly frozen gasses, I expect it could still present a sizeable dent. Lots of old craters on this world, just covered up mostly by erosion, plant life, etc.
I was a little surprised that everyone got excited when the first exoplanets were discovered. I've had the conviction that there must be millions of other planets out there since childhood. The main reason is that it's a logical assumption. Since there are so many planets in our own solar system, why should other stars systems be different? The other reason is probably Star Wars.
But yes, I do realize it's nice that we now have actual proof that they are really there.
And that's good enough.. until such time as we make contact (or are made contact with.) Inhabitants of those planets could come here and say, "Wow! Let's take some of that water, they don't need it all!" Yep. Careful wishing for alien contact.
"Finally you can afford to satisfy your lust for power."
Well, it's about time!
I love looking at old advertising. Shows what a crotchety old geezer I'm turning into now that was when a programmer was a programmer - fit a whole suite of applications in 16K of memory and stored on cassette tapes.. kids these days have it easy.. sloppy bloated code with no optimization.. hmmph! I have a small stack of Apple Insider magazine from 1980 and 81, alas, binned the heavy old Byte magazines from the mid-80's, which showed blistering performance of 6 MHz!!!* and you could get a 5 Meg HDD for a few thousand zorkmids.
The one thing they do convince me of -- you can have fun with pretty much any generation's hardware and software, because I know I stayed up late at night coding or playing games on computers which my cellphone could utterly smoke.
Some government, maybe even China, could embrace Autonomous Vehicles and press the technology forward (as an Authoritarian regime can) and find it improves public safety immensely (China has a high mortality rate on a high accident rate), further revealing other great benefits to their society - while people continue to wrestle with it in the US, over concerns as stated above.
When I traveled around Europe on trains I was thrilled how carefree I could be about intercity travel and how fast and comfortable TGV/ICE can be. Then return to the US and arrive at the decision it is a backward country for dismantling most of its once far-reaching rail network in favor of a car (or two) for every adult - but that's how you get around, which means long trips are a major drag - you have to focus on the most tedius of activities for hours at a time - driving. Ugh. Autonomous Vehicles could alleviate some of this tedium.
One has the sinking feeling that the window is closing on open source. There are fewer incentives to contribute and enormous incentives to create intellectual property, which is all that interests venture capitalists.
It isn't that, it's yet-another-operating system. I'm sure it has some nice features, which people would like to incorporate into other enviroments, but how much have you heard about BeOS lately? It largely ran out of gas about 10 years back.
with enough evolution it could fly and fold even more into a (not heavy) briefcase.
I'm more interested in a Kit. Something which is a basic frame (meeting the usual saftety requirements) where I can ad-on features, change the way it rides, etc, from a box of parts I keep in storage.
Probably has something to me growing up with Heath-Kits...
Unless it lacks a safety to prevent it from folding while you're in it!:D
At issue is how it holds up with the moron tailgating you in an SUV, because you're not speeding fast enough for them, runs into you because you came to, of all things a STOP sign/light.
So far the old fears of small cars not being safe are proving unfounded as they're typically safer than larger vehicles, particularly in rollovers. Still, it looks like an egg.
The one liner/. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.
Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)
They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.
If he had worked carbon nanotubes into the process it would have also received the Good Slashkeeping Seal of Approval
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In the public's defense, At&t's 4g is a joke that's lost all humor, & they drop calls like it's going out of style. Sounds more like they're saying "we can't compete without this merger". My advice = fix your customer service then your revenue margins.
Better advice: Dump Randall Stephenson and replace him with someone interested in growing the company from inside, through superiour product and service, rather than buying into near-monopoly position.
Investors too.
This right after receiving, yet another 'Wow! Save on bundled services!' offer in the mail. I'm happy with my cheapskate Pre-Paid mobile and basic DSL at home. Ugly enough bill when it arrives anyway. All the better reason to route the AT&T offers directly to the shreader.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
Or if you find a way to harvest energy more efficiently, i.e. nuclear power powering my matter compiler.
In the future all energey will be generated by Quantum
Oook
"Which is why Facebook has introduced timelines"
I can see it now, a Ken Burns-esque narrative flashing up pictures of people playing beer pong and puking, and a deep voiced narrator saying with the utmost gravitas:
"Oh Em Gee, I can't believe I got so super smashed last night. Wut did I do? Seriously? Who's got the pics? El Oh El"
- Bob Henderson, August 5th, 2012
Weird. Not like I'm going to continue building the empire in Chemical Engineering my father began...
Honestly, that's about all we're good at - people in the rest of the world want some ephemeral connection to Hollywood, Disneyland, Motown, New York City, etc., so they buy some brand, watch some movies or listen to some music. Give the impression you can't be a hip, cool & happening fool without an iDoodad and they'll gobble it up.
But, will it have games geared for people OVER 5 years old?
Games for people over 5 are called school and career, where winning and losing have a deeper meaning and there are few second chances.
"...news that asteroid 2012 BX34, 11 meters wide..."
Size is one thing, what's it made of? If it were iron/nickel it could be "interesting times" should it come to earth. Rocky wouldn't be as bad. Frozen gasses would be pretty exciting, but as it's not trailing a coma, it's likely one of the former. If you're looking for a place it's likely to land, probability seems to favour Canada - consider these craters and how many are in the GWN
Hope people have some sanity, but with the shape of the world today, I have my doubts.
If that's a rocky asteroid, as opposed to mostly frozen gasses, I expect it could still present a sizeable dent. Lots of old craters on this world, just covered up mostly by erosion, plant life, etc.
I was a little surprised that everyone got excited when the first exoplanets were discovered. I've had the conviction that there must be millions of other planets out there since childhood. The main reason is that it's a logical assumption. Since there are so many planets in our own solar system, why should other stars systems be different? The other reason is probably Star Wars.
But yes, I do realize it's nice that we now have actual proof that they are really there.
And that's good enough .. until such time as we make contact (or are made contact with.) Inhabitants of those planets could come here and say, "Wow! Let's take some of that water, they don't need it all!" Yep. Careful wishing for alien contact.
This isn't going well. Every month there are new planets, new solar systems.
Soon we'll be surrounded!
Hollywood must be salivating at the prospect of forcing SOPA upon each and every one of them, too.
I'm not surprised... TSA is a cancer.
TSA THREAT LEVEL ORANGE
Talk like that will elevated it to PLAID
"Finally you can afford to satisfy your lust for power."
Well, it's about time!
I love looking at old advertising. Shows what a crotchety old geezer I'm turning into now that was when a programmer was a programmer - fit a whole suite of applications in 16K of memory and stored on cassette tapes .. kids these days have it easy .. sloppy bloated code with no optimization .. hmmph! I have a small stack of Apple Insider magazine from 1980 and 81, alas, binned the heavy old Byte magazines from the mid-80's, which showed blistering performance of 6 MHz!!!* and you could get a 5 Meg HDD for a few thousand zorkmids.
The one thing they do convince me of -- you can have fun with pretty much any generation's hardware and software, because I know I stayed up late at night coding or playing games on computers which my cellphone could utterly smoke.
Some government, maybe even China, could embrace Autonomous Vehicles and press the technology forward (as an Authoritarian regime can) and find it improves public safety immensely (China has a high mortality rate on a high accident rate), further revealing other great benefits to their society - while people continue to wrestle with it in the US, over concerns as stated above.
When I traveled around Europe on trains I was thrilled how carefree I could be about intercity travel and how fast and comfortable TGV/ICE can be. Then return to the US and arrive at the decision it is a backward country for dismantling most of its once far-reaching rail network in favor of a car (or two) for every adult - but that's how you get around, which means long trips are a major drag - you have to focus on the most tedius of activities for hours at a time - driving. Ugh. Autonomous Vehicles could alleviate some of this tedium.
One has the sinking feeling that the window is closing on open source. There are fewer incentives to contribute and enormous incentives to create intellectual property, which is all that interests venture capitalists.
It isn't that, it's yet-another-operating system. I'm sure it has some nice features, which people would like to incorporate into other enviroments, but how much have you heard about BeOS lately? It largely ran out of gas about 10 years back.
Yet another large open source project to further tax the talent pool? I wonder how much attention it will get.
It's the Privacy Policy equiv of All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
Now if they had a built in game and it was fun, they'd pwn half the web by now.
with enough evolution it could fly and fold even more into a (not heavy) briefcase.
I'm more interested in a Kit. Something which is a basic frame (meeting the usual saftety requirements) where I can ad-on features, change the way it rides, etc, from a box of parts I keep in storage.
Probably has something to me growing up with Heath-Kits...
cause the occupants of an SUV wont be killed if they hit a brick in the road
But they are more likely to suffer injury/fatality in rollover accidents. Funny that. Guess it has something to do with all that mass.
Unless it lacks a safety to prevent it from folding while you're in it! :D
At issue is how it holds up with the moron tailgating you in an SUV, because you're not speeding fast enough for them, runs into you because you came to, of all things a STOP sign/light.
So far the old fears of small cars not being safe are proving unfounded as they're typically safer than larger vehicles, particularly in rollovers. Still, it looks like an egg.
still pretty cool and smart (no pun intended)
Perhaps something useful for large campuses; industrial, educational or cult.
Because now the IT director of the state can put a cloud project on his CV and double his income at his next job.
Sounds cromulent. Sommun just remind him/her it's not spelled C-L-O-W-D
Ill go one better, the system gets hacked and the following returns are kicked out
Barack Obama (D) 0%
Mitt Romney (R) 0%
Ron Paul (I) 0%
Anonymous (A) 100%
With honourable mention for LOL WUT Party candidate
I think this is a link to Masato Sagawa's magnet patent:
http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20110324ptan20110070118.php
The one liner /. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.
Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)
They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.
If he had worked carbon nanotubes into the process it would have also received the Good Slashkeeping Seal of Approval
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Peasants, do not revolt. You can select from one 1%er corporate purchased candidate or the other 1%er corporate purchased candidate. They do have slightly different marketing messages/lies and you get to select which identical candidate hired the better PR agency and/or you get to select which lies you prefer to hear.
You can vote for [] Bashar al-Assad [] Tank come to your door and blow you up