This is starting to change with just a couple exceptions but for the most part, here's the situation in my city. I can choose from the CDMA carrier Verizon, CDMA carrier US Cellular, CDMA carrier Airfire, CDMA carrier Cellcom, CDMA carrier Sprint, or several other CDMA carriers. Oh and then there's the GSM carrier, AT&T but who's stupid enough to go with that pile of shit that they call a company. CDMA phones have to be built for a carrier and that's the end of it. So for buying just "a phone" your choices are GSM or GSM. That means 100% AT&T, which is never going to happen. So basically nobody in this town can buy this phone unless they're stupid enough to be an AT&T customer.
That said, somehow we just got an HTC One M8 from Cellcom with a SIM card. No idea how they did that but apparently agreements are being made. So except for the fact that there goes any remote hope of getting coverage more than 2 miles from a major highway (in Wisconsin), that's a step in the right direction. But basically if you bring in a "blank" phone and say activate it and any CDMA carrier, the answer is no.
Oops, it reflect purple beams of light in a different direction. There goes a billion. Maybe they should have tried a prototype. Oh well, they can always lie about it and blame the user.
Yes and the cost of living in each of these places is about triple so they're making $33,333 in my money which means I'm making more than them. This is such a non-story.
Oh wait, that's right, in China you can deploy the military against anyone you want and kill someone for a blog post and in North Korea, they can kill you for absolutely any reason and in most Middle East countries it's very similar and um...yeah, so everywhere else is as or more fucked up than the US.
It'd certainly be a good border security method against Mexicans. In fact, they could start by just targetting drug runners and practically solve the drug problem overnight. Drug dealers cost America more money and kill more americans than terrorism by about 100000x
At least the next election with fix a hell of a lot. Obama really, really, really fucked up because now BOTH parties have 2 options for a candidate.
They can either have the candidate be anti-drone, pro-privacy, anti-NSA spying, and anti-Obamacare
Or
Lose the election
We're not talking about a 1% teetering in the middle. You don't run against Obamacare, you lose 90% of the popular vote.
That's ridiculous. I download firmware patches, software patches, etc on a daily basis. Patching heartbleed wouldn't even be out of the ordinary for my job as CIO. It basically costs IT nothing.
" Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks"
Hell no! You get a 6 ft beach ball and get in a high horsepower cart:-P
Wroooooooong. It's illegal to not accept you as a health insurance customer due to a pre-existing condition. It's not illegal to make you sign a waiver saying they won't cover it, like for example seasonal allergies, like for example my policy.
So you do something stupid like that in the US or Canada or England or any other civilized area and you get caught in like a day. Do it in Russia or Indonesia or Turkey or Israel (mega malware hotbeds) and you might get caught somewhere between 2 years and never. Where is the UN on this one? OHHHHH THAT'S RIGHT it's all old people who don't know a thing about technology. That explains the problem.
Just fight it out with paintball guns or a poker match. Or run through the Wipeout tracks. Or Super Smash brothers. Or Dance Dance Revolution best of 3 dance-off. All this behind the scenes, cloak and dagger, pretend-fair bullshit is getting old. If there's a cap or randomization, some dreamy idiot with some dumb invention wins and doesn't make good use of it. If it's unlimited, the customers end up paying AT&T or whatever for 10 years the 1 trillion dollars or whatever the hell they bid. It's all just passed straight to the customer. If the government runs it, it's a shitstorm.
I don't like the homeless because I met a bunch of them. They sincerely are lazy, unmotivated, and/or drug addicts. There's a temp agency in town where if you show up sober in the morning, you work. The end. If something is preventing you from doing that, it's probably your fault. So that's why I dislike and don't empathize with the homeless. I'm CIO of one company and the rest of the day run a computer repair shop just to make ends meet. I typically work 12 hour days. One of my homeless friends...well, he spends all day playing Magic the Gathering at a hobby shop, hanging out at various locations, bumming rides off people, and stays at the homeless shelter. When we told him to get a job at a temp agency for even just a week, he said he doesn't do that kind of work because he doesn't like it. He's also convinced he's unhireable because he's homeless but it's a cover for being lazy. THAT right there is the homeless. So take your Go Pro and shove it up your ass.
If you're about to say they were correct, hold on a minute. Without the aide of computers, the tax laws wouldn't be this complicated. No human could ever interpret and correctly follow tax law as it sits right now. So all these computers caused it to grow completely insane and waste small business owner's time.
I used to be one of the best players, by sheer coincidence when I was exactly 23, but now I can't stand the game. Here's my summary of SC2. You're super intelligent and have the best strategy. The only thing getting in the way of you doing it is how quickly you can click the mouse and scroll and issue keyboard combinations. That's SO ANNOYING! The game might as well just be called "click the button" and see who can click the button faster. I prefer Realtime Strategy games that focus on strategy in realtime but not that ridiculously realtime. Otherwise it feels like stressful work. Oh and everyone you play against is an arrogant asshole, in case you were wondering what the player culture is like.
Well, someone's getting stabbed and I think it's the bully. That'd be a fitting end. Every staff member, the policeman, and anyone else involved will be fired and sued into bankruptcy.
I figured it out. All Ubisoft games are underbudgeted, glitchy DRM shitstorms so they gave them tablets to enter the rating immediately upon arriving since it was a foregone conclusion.
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This is starting to change with just a couple exceptions but for the most part, here's the situation in my city. I can choose from the CDMA carrier Verizon, CDMA carrier US Cellular, CDMA carrier Airfire, CDMA carrier Cellcom, CDMA carrier Sprint, or several other CDMA carriers. Oh and then there's the GSM carrier, AT&T but who's stupid enough to go with that pile of shit that they call a company. CDMA phones have to be built for a carrier and that's the end of it. So for buying just "a phone" your choices are GSM or GSM. That means 100% AT&T, which is never going to happen. So basically nobody in this town can buy this phone unless they're stupid enough to be an AT&T customer.
That said, somehow we just got an HTC One M8 from Cellcom with a SIM card. No idea how they did that but apparently agreements are being made. So except for the fact that there goes any remote hope of getting coverage more than 2 miles from a major highway (in Wisconsin), that's a step in the right direction. But basically if you bring in a "blank" phone and say activate it and any CDMA carrier, the answer is no.
Yeah, I'm sure cloud service providers will be lined up outside the court rooms to shut themselves down due to precedent. Lots of motivation there.
Oops, it reflect purple beams of light in a different direction. There goes a billion. Maybe they should have tried a prototype. Oh well, they can always lie about it and blame the user.
Yes and the cost of living in each of these places is about triple so they're making $33,333 in my money which means I'm making more than them. This is such a non-story.
Oh wait, that's right, in China you can deploy the military against anyone you want and kill someone for a blog post and in North Korea, they can kill you for absolutely any reason and in most Middle East countries it's very similar and um...yeah, so everywhere else is as or more fucked up than the US.
It'd certainly be a good border security method against Mexicans. In fact, they could start by just targetting drug runners and practically solve the drug problem overnight. Drug dealers cost America more money and kill more americans than terrorism by about 100000x
At least the next election with fix a hell of a lot. Obama really, really, really fucked up because now BOTH parties have 2 options for a candidate.
They can either have the candidate be anti-drone, pro-privacy, anti-NSA spying, and anti-Obamacare
Or
Lose the election
We're not talking about a 1% teetering in the middle. You don't run against Obamacare, you lose 90% of the popular vote.
That's ridiculous. I download firmware patches, software patches, etc on a daily basis. Patching heartbleed wouldn't even be out of the ordinary for my job as CIO. It basically costs IT nothing.
" Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks" :-P
Hell no! You get a 6 ft beach ball and get in a high horsepower cart
Well, $41,950 of that $42,000 is government medical approval, licensing, paperwork, other assorted lawyer and FDA crap, etc.
Wroooooooong. It's illegal to not accept you as a health insurance customer due to a pre-existing condition. It's not illegal to make you sign a waiver saying they won't cover it, like for example seasonal allergies, like for example my policy.
Sorry, heartbleed is actually a pre-existing condition so it's not covered.
So you do something stupid like that in the US or Canada or England or any other civilized area and you get caught in like a day. Do it in Russia or Indonesia or Turkey or Israel (mega malware hotbeds) and you might get caught somewhere between 2 years and never. Where is the UN on this one? OHHHHH THAT'S RIGHT it's all old people who don't know a thing about technology. That explains the problem.
I just upgraded my 1TB to a 480GB Crucial M500 for $220 so I totally agree. A year ago it was closer to $500
A 480GB Crucial M500 is slightly cheaper per GB than a 4TB spinning drive right now. I think the 960GB SSD is as well.
Just fight it out with paintball guns or a poker match. Or run through the Wipeout tracks. Or Super Smash brothers. Or Dance Dance Revolution best of 3 dance-off. All this behind the scenes, cloak and dagger, pretend-fair bullshit is getting old. If there's a cap or randomization, some dreamy idiot with some dumb invention wins and doesn't make good use of it. If it's unlimited, the customers end up paying AT&T or whatever for 10 years the 1 trillion dollars or whatever the hell they bid. It's all just passed straight to the customer. If the government runs it, it's a shitstorm.
I don't like the homeless because I met a bunch of them. They sincerely are lazy, unmotivated, and/or drug addicts. There's a temp agency in town where if you show up sober in the morning, you work. The end. If something is preventing you from doing that, it's probably your fault. So that's why I dislike and don't empathize with the homeless. I'm CIO of one company and the rest of the day run a computer repair shop just to make ends meet. I typically work 12 hour days. One of my homeless friends...well, he spends all day playing Magic the Gathering at a hobby shop, hanging out at various locations, bumming rides off people, and stays at the homeless shelter. When we told him to get a job at a temp agency for even just a week, he said he doesn't do that kind of work because he doesn't like it. He's also convinced he's unhireable because he's homeless but it's a cover for being lazy. THAT right there is the homeless. So take your Go Pro and shove it up your ass.
If you're about to say they were correct, hold on a minute. Without the aide of computers, the tax laws wouldn't be this complicated. No human could ever interpret and correctly follow tax law as it sits right now. So all these computers caused it to grow completely insane and waste small business owner's time.
Now they'll have to melt all their bitcoins into liquid bitcoins. Darn.
I have an idea. Just hire the laughing man to hack an overlay on top of your face into their glasses in realtime. Come on, who got that reference? :-P
I used to be one of the best players, by sheer coincidence when I was exactly 23, but now I can't stand the game. Here's my summary of SC2. You're super intelligent and have the best strategy. The only thing getting in the way of you doing it is how quickly you can click the mouse and scroll and issue keyboard combinations. That's SO ANNOYING! The game might as well just be called "click the button" and see who can click the button faster. I prefer Realtime Strategy games that focus on strategy in realtime but not that ridiculously realtime. Otherwise it feels like stressful work. Oh and everyone you play against is an arrogant asshole, in case you were wondering what the player culture is like.
Well, someone's getting stabbed and I think it's the bully. That'd be a fitting end. Every staff member, the policeman, and anyone else involved will be fired and sued into bankruptcy.
You mean the Criver?
I figured it out. All Ubisoft games are underbudgeted, glitchy DRM shitstorms so they gave them tablets to enter the rating immediately upon arriving since it was a foregone conclusion.
Or it's their unbelievable number of screw ups that ended up in downtime making people not respect them.