That's some nice Internet Tough Guy but life doesn't always work that way. I know a few people who are working jobs they loathe in order to support their families. Jobs that were awesome 5 years ago and have gone to shit recently with outsourcing of everything that isn't nailed down, forced "vacations" where the company shuts down for weeks and you can use PTO or go hungry, no bonuses, no raises, pay cuts, etc. If they were single and had nobody depending on their income, they'd bolt in a heartbeat even if it meant they'd likely be sleeping on a friend's couch in a few months but who wants to explain to their kids why they have to live in Auntie Jill's garage for a while?
So it's "Thank you, sir. May I have another?" until they can line up something better.
GTA4 was my first thought. Christ, what a clusterfuck that was to get installed and configured. I must have spent over two hours on that. Didn't help that my "live" account was actually an XBoxLive account created during the installation of Gears of War. (Yes, installing Gears of War on the PC involved creating an XBoxLive account even though there was no XBox involved.) So I dig up that login info, get GTA4 linked, create the Rockstar account, get GTA4 linked to it, then link those two accounts together. NOW can I play the damn game??? Oh. No. See, it turns out I need to be running a specific beta version of the video drivers for my card. Not the latest beta. The one a few patches back that I have to download from some rapidshare link gtad00d set up. Lemme just run that through about 10 virus scanners, thankyouverymuch. NOW can I play? Sure. But not with THAT game pad. Only the $50 Microsoft game pad is supported unless you install this hack...
I can't wait for the next generation of consoles. The ones that will support true 1920x1080p (not the upscaled image today's consoles put out). The ones where all online activity will be managed through a single portal. The ones that don't break down every 6 months.
It's not talking on your cell phone that's rude. It's TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE ABOUT THAT SLUT WHO GAVE YOU GONORRHEA LAST WEEK AND... and I had to cut off the rest of that because the slashdot filter won't let me have that many caps in a single post BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE I'M YELLING.
The purpose of a class action is never to benefit or provide relief for the class. The purpose of such actions is to punish the corporation. Period. The beneficiary is irrelevant as long as the target suffers.
A couple years ago, I migrated a company to a new mail host and set up all of their clients to use encrypted connections. A few months later, I got reports that people all over the main office were reporting problems sending and receiving mail. Turn off the encryption, everything flows fine. Turn it on, throttled to uselessness. Remote offices weren't seeing this problem and the mail host said their systems were running fine. All I could figure was some BOFH between the main office and the mail hosting company decided to take out those P2P bandits and throttle encrypted traffic across the board. The ISP claimed there was a "configuration error" with one of their peers that was causing problems and that it shouldn't happen again. I haven't seen it since from that ISP.
I suspect that kind of throttling can't last long when it impacts business customers using VPN to bridge offices, SSL/TLS to move email, encrypted video streams, etc. to move legitimate data. ISPs are trying to keep the top 0.1% of their $50/month cablemodem people under control but, if their monkeying messes with the traffic of business customers who are paying 20x the residential rate for 99.9+ SLAs, it should stop quick. I imagine Google has anticipated this and will be keeping a close eye on the throttling situation. They should have more than enough weight to throw around to get encryption throttling shut down.
Oh, and just to be clear since you seem a little dense. I didn't give you attitude. (Tho I am now, obviously.) I gave you a search string that should lead you to the information you need. I don't have all of the information needed to provide direct links to a solution for your specific configuration. I did, however, provide an example of the platform with which I'm most familiar and pointed out that, even in this single environment which represents a very small subset of the number of possible phone/carrier combinations, there are a number of possibilities that make it impossible to give you a 1-2-3 list of steps to follow. Even within the WinMo family of products, the process of enabling band selection varies.
So instead of sending you down some random road, I gave you the search string you would need to find the appropriate information as quickly as possible. And you come back and give me shit. Right back atcha.
Your mouth is smarter than your brain. "Sort by fastest" is not the same as "fastest only". If you can't figure out the difference, it's no wonder you can't work google.
Google is your friend. Each phone and carrier are different. Search for
[carrier] lock [phone_model] in 3g mode
or something similar. Most WinMo phones have bandsel.exe hidden and either unhiding it or creating a shortcut to it will restore its functionality. Tho sometimes it is removed and sometimes it doesn't work properly with that particular phone/carrier combo. And, obviously, that won't help with non-WinMo phones. So do a search for your specific setup.
It's one thing to set the phones to behave in a certain way by default. Every device needs to have some sort of common base configuration that meets the needs of the largest number of customers. It's another thing entirely to hide/disable/remove the utilities that would allow the customer to adjust those settings to meet their individual needs. For me, my device is a data link which I occasionally use for voice calls. Since I make more than 0 calls per month, I need the phone feature but it's a distant second to data. But I have to "hack" my device to gain a level of control over it that makes it useful to me. That just ain't right.:)
This is the same with every 3G phone on every network I've ever used. I've had to add (or un-hide) a band selector on every 3G phone I've ever had because the default settings are always designed to lock onto the STRONGEST signal rather than the FASTEST signal. If I'm going to be doing data-intensive stuff, lock it in 3G. When I'm done, switch it back to auto.
Hell, I can give ANY laptop a 12-hour run time. You might get a hernia carrying the massive battery pack around but it'll run for 12 hours. The "article" says nothing about the weight of this miraculous new laptop. Give me 12 hours under 4 pounds and I'll be impressed. 3 pounds and I'll be astonished.
You assume that there is some theoretical amount of time that will allow a government agency to "get it right". IMHO, the more time a government agency has to complete a task, the worse the result will be.
I'm guessing you've never run an MFM drive on an RLL controller. Or drilled a hole in the case of your 720k floppies. Or cut a notch on your single-sided 5.25" floppy. Or used a TSR that read/wrote a custom format on those floppies that squeezed a couple-three hundred more kilobytes on them. Never heard of the 486-SX. I could go on...but I'm lazy.
Why would many people be hopping on the web to order stuff on Xmas? They're playing with their new toys. A lot of those toys will be Kindles. And a lot of the people firing up their Kindles for the first time will want to get some books on there.
What kills me is the fact that Amazon is still charging TEN DOLLARS PER TITLE for most books. And people are PAYING it! It's pure, unadulterated bullshit. There's no reason (other than greed) for the price of ebooks to be so high. Absolutely none. They should be cheaper than paperbacks. There's very little production cost and, once it's produced, reproduction is virtually free (the cost of the electricity used and wear-and-tear on equipment during the fraction of a second it takes to copy the data). Distribution is pennies per title all the way to the consumer. There's no physical TONS of paper being trucked across the continent, shipped across oceans, etc. There are no glitches in production schedules that leave warehouses of unsold books in Albuquerque while New York has none.
It's waste-free with instant fulfillment. Yet they're charging MORE for this method of delivery than they charge for a paperback.
It's stupid and I refuse to participate in the gouging. I buy the paperbacks then download a pirated electronic version. I use the ethical logic that I've paid for my content in printed form. I'm not downloading an audio version or the movie, both of which are entirely different productions and presentations. I'm downloading text presented the same as a printed book. So the publishers and authors get paid, I don't get gouged, I get a DRM-free ebook, and I have a backup (the printed book).
If ebooks were properly priced at 25-30% of the cost of a paperback (leaving a ton of room for profit!), I'd just buy them directly and strip out the DRM myself. Then they wouldn't need to mess around moving all that paper around.
Right on, bruddah! You can't browse facebook with less than 10mbps. Any slower and it'll take forever for the four videos, two slideshows, background music, and flash animation to load. What were they thinking?!?
What matters to me is the performance I get from the tower I'm connected to at the moment I'm trying to use it. I don't give two shits if the tower five miles up the road is giving 1700/350kbps when the one I'm using is doing 100/300. And I don't care if the one that was giving me 100/300 on Friday afternoon is able to do 1500/320 on Saturday morning because I'm not there Saturday morning. I need their network to function wherever I happen to be at whatever time I need to use it.
It's always a balance. This one almost hits my sweet spot. I had an 7" 800x480 netbook but the screen's resolution was too low to handle a surprisingly large number of standard dialogue boxes. My 8.9" 1024x600 display is better but still cuts off some boxes. Also, the keyboard is a smidge smaller than standard. Just that teeny little bit of extra width would make it so much better for typing. I think an 11" 1366x768 display would be perfect. It would require a case that's ever so slightly wider, making room for full size keys and 99.44% of dialogue boxes are designed to fit in 768 lines of vertical space. For me, that would be the ideal combination of input and output. And the dual-core atom processor is an important addition. I've got a few things that push the single-core Atom to its limits. It would be nice to have a little headroom. It'd also be nice to be able to play HD media in its native resolution without stuttering. Say, hook up to a flat panel in the hotel room and watch that copy of Heroes (or whatever it is the kids watch these days) I grabbed off the Tivo.
I think this size machine fills a critical gap between current netbooks and the $1500-2500 subnotebooks. Shaving an inch off the display size and getting it under 3 pounds would get me to consider digging out my wallet.
That sounds like AT&T 3G service on ANY Friday afternoon around here. As well as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. That's why I'm no longer an AT&T customer. Every weekday, I'd see data speeds start to fall off around mid-morning. By 10-10:30, 3G data service was virtually unusable and stayed like that for the rest of the day. I couldn't even keep a telnet session open reliably. (And, yes, I was paying damn good money for tethering using a non-iphone 3G smartphone.)
How 'bout the fact that they CAN flip through notebooks which would seem to be a very similar type of non-container. If they can't flip through the digital contents of a phone, they shouldn't be able to flip through the analog contents of a notebook.
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That's some nice Internet Tough Guy but life doesn't always work that way. I know a few people who are working jobs they loathe in order to support their families. Jobs that were awesome 5 years ago and have gone to shit recently with outsourcing of everything that isn't nailed down, forced "vacations" where the company shuts down for weeks and you can use PTO or go hungry, no bonuses, no raises, pay cuts, etc. If they were single and had nobody depending on their income, they'd bolt in a heartbeat even if it meant they'd likely be sleeping on a friend's couch in a few months but who wants to explain to their kids why they have to live in Auntie Jill's garage for a while?
So it's "Thank you, sir. May I have another?" until they can line up something better.
GTA4 was my first thought. Christ, what a clusterfuck that was to get installed and configured. I must have spent over two hours on that. Didn't help that my "live" account was actually an XBoxLive account created during the installation of Gears of War. (Yes, installing Gears of War on the PC involved creating an XBoxLive account even though there was no XBox involved.) So I dig up that login info, get GTA4 linked, create the Rockstar account, get GTA4 linked to it, then link those two accounts together. NOW can I play the damn game??? Oh. No. See, it turns out I need to be running a specific beta version of the video drivers for my card. Not the latest beta. The one a few patches back that I have to download from some rapidshare link gtad00d set up. Lemme just run that through about 10 virus scanners, thankyouverymuch. NOW can I play? Sure. But not with THAT game pad. Only the $50 Microsoft game pad is supported unless you install this hack...
I can't wait for the next generation of consoles. The ones that will support true 1920x1080p (not the upscaled image today's consoles put out). The ones where all online activity will be managed through a single portal. The ones that don't break down every 6 months.
It's not talking on your cell phone that's rude. It's TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE ABOUT THAT SLUT WHO GAVE YOU GONORRHEA LAST WEEK AND... and I had to cut off the rest of that because the slashdot filter won't let me have that many caps in a single post BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE I'M YELLING.
Just FYI:
The purpose of a class action is never to benefit or provide relief for the class. The purpose of such actions is to punish the corporation. Period. The beneficiary is irrelevant as long as the target suffers.
A couple years ago, I migrated a company to a new mail host and set up all of their clients to use encrypted connections. A few months later, I got reports that people all over the main office were reporting problems sending and receiving mail. Turn off the encryption, everything flows fine. Turn it on, throttled to uselessness. Remote offices weren't seeing this problem and the mail host said their systems were running fine. All I could figure was some BOFH between the main office and the mail hosting company decided to take out those P2P bandits and throttle encrypted traffic across the board. The ISP claimed there was a "configuration error" with one of their peers that was causing problems and that it shouldn't happen again. I haven't seen it since from that ISP.
I suspect that kind of throttling can't last long when it impacts business customers using VPN to bridge offices, SSL/TLS to move email, encrypted video streams, etc. to move legitimate data. ISPs are trying to keep the top 0.1% of their $50/month cablemodem people under control but, if their monkeying messes with the traffic of business customers who are paying 20x the residential rate for 99.9+ SLAs, it should stop quick. I imagine Google has anticipated this and will be keeping a close eye on the throttling situation. They should have more than enough weight to throw around to get encryption throttling shut down.
I don't need to be civil. I'm on the Internet. I know I'm a jerk and I'm good with that.
Oh, and just to be clear since you seem a little dense. I didn't give you attitude. (Tho I am now, obviously.) I gave you a search string that should lead you to the information you need. I don't have all of the information needed to provide direct links to a solution for your specific configuration. I did, however, provide an example of the platform with which I'm most familiar and pointed out that, even in this single environment which represents a very small subset of the number of possible phone/carrier combinations, there are a number of possibilities that make it impossible to give you a 1-2-3 list of steps to follow. Even within the WinMo family of products, the process of enabling band selection varies.
So instead of sending you down some random road, I gave you the search string you would need to find the appropriate information as quickly as possible. And you come back and give me shit. Right back atcha.
Your mouth is smarter than your brain. "Sort by fastest" is not the same as "fastest only". If you can't figure out the difference, it's no wonder you can't work google.
Google is your friend. Each phone and carrier are different. Search for
[carrier] lock [phone_model] in 3g mode
or something similar. Most WinMo phones have bandsel.exe hidden and either unhiding it or creating a shortcut to it will restore its functionality. Tho sometimes it is removed and sometimes it doesn't work properly with that particular phone/carrier combo. And, obviously, that won't help with non-WinMo phones. So do a search for your specific setup.
It's one thing to set the phones to behave in a certain way by default. Every device needs to have some sort of common base configuration that meets the needs of the largest number of customers. It's another thing entirely to hide/disable/remove the utilities that would allow the customer to adjust those settings to meet their individual needs. For me, my device is a data link which I occasionally use for voice calls. Since I make more than 0 calls per month, I need the phone feature but it's a distant second to data. But I have to "hack" my device to gain a level of control over it that makes it useful to me. That just ain't right. :)
This is the same with every 3G phone on every network I've ever used. I've had to add (or un-hide) a band selector on every 3G phone I've ever had because the default settings are always designed to lock onto the STRONGEST signal rather than the FASTEST signal. If I'm going to be doing data-intensive stuff, lock it in 3G. When I'm done, switch it back to auto.
Hell, I can give ANY laptop a 12-hour run time. You might get a hernia carrying the massive battery pack around but it'll run for 12 hours. The "article" says nothing about the weight of this miraculous new laptop. Give me 12 hours under 4 pounds and I'll be impressed. 3 pounds and I'll be astonished.
Ow, my balls!
You assume that there is some theoretical amount of time that will allow a government agency to "get it right". IMHO, the more time a government agency has to complete a task, the worse the result will be.
I'm guessing you've never run an MFM drive on an RLL controller. Or drilled a hole in the case of your 720k floppies. Or cut a notch on your single-sided 5.25" floppy. Or used a TSR that read/wrote a custom format on those floppies that squeezed a couple-three hundred more kilobytes on them. Never heard of the 486-SX. I could go on...but I'm lazy.
Why would many people be hopping on the web to order stuff on Xmas? They're playing with their new toys. A lot of those toys will be Kindles. And a lot of the people firing up their Kindles for the first time will want to get some books on there.
What kills me is the fact that Amazon is still charging TEN DOLLARS PER TITLE for most books. And people are PAYING it! It's pure, unadulterated bullshit. There's no reason (other than greed) for the price of ebooks to be so high. Absolutely none. They should be cheaper than paperbacks. There's very little production cost and, once it's produced, reproduction is virtually free (the cost of the electricity used and wear-and-tear on equipment during the fraction of a second it takes to copy the data). Distribution is pennies per title all the way to the consumer. There's no physical TONS of paper being trucked across the continent, shipped across oceans, etc. There are no glitches in production schedules that leave warehouses of unsold books in Albuquerque while New York has none.
It's waste-free with instant fulfillment. Yet they're charging MORE for this method of delivery than they charge for a paperback.
It's stupid and I refuse to participate in the gouging. I buy the paperbacks then download a pirated electronic version. I use the ethical logic that I've paid for my content in printed form. I'm not downloading an audio version or the movie, both of which are entirely different productions and presentations. I'm downloading text presented the same as a printed book. So the publishers and authors get paid, I don't get gouged, I get a DRM-free ebook, and I have a backup (the printed book).
If ebooks were properly priced at 25-30% of the cost of a paperback (leaving a ton of room for profit!), I'd just buy them directly and strip out the DRM myself. Then they wouldn't need to mess around moving all that paper around.
Guess who's got two thumbs and won't pay extra for visual voicemail. THIS GUY!
Right on, bruddah! You can't browse facebook with less than 10mbps. Any slower and it'll take forever for the four videos, two slideshows, background music, and flash animation to load. What were they thinking?!?
What matters to me is the performance I get from the tower I'm connected to at the moment I'm trying to use it. I don't give two shits if the tower five miles up the road is giving 1700/350kbps when the one I'm using is doing 100/300. And I don't care if the one that was giving me 100/300 on Friday afternoon is able to do 1500/320 on Saturday morning because I'm not there Saturday morning. I need their network to function wherever I happen to be at whatever time I need to use it.
It's always a balance. This one almost hits my sweet spot. I had an 7" 800x480 netbook but the screen's resolution was too low to handle a surprisingly large number of standard dialogue boxes. My 8.9" 1024x600 display is better but still cuts off some boxes. Also, the keyboard is a smidge smaller than standard. Just that teeny little bit of extra width would make it so much better for typing. I think an 11" 1366x768 display would be perfect. It would require a case that's ever so slightly wider, making room for full size keys and 99.44% of dialogue boxes are designed to fit in 768 lines of vertical space. For me, that would be the ideal combination of input and output. And the dual-core atom processor is an important addition. I've got a few things that push the single-core Atom to its limits. It would be nice to have a little headroom. It'd also be nice to be able to play HD media in its native resolution without stuttering. Say, hook up to a flat panel in the hotel room and watch that copy of Heroes (or whatever it is the kids watch these days) I grabbed off the Tivo.
I think this size machine fills a critical gap between current netbooks and the $1500-2500 subnotebooks. Shaving an inch off the display size and getting it under 3 pounds would get me to consider digging out my wallet.
That sounds like AT&T 3G service on ANY Friday afternoon around here. As well as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. That's why I'm no longer an AT&T customer. Every weekday, I'd see data speeds start to fall off around mid-morning. By 10-10:30, 3G data service was virtually unusable and stayed like that for the rest of the day. I couldn't even keep a telnet session open reliably. (And, yes, I was paying damn good money for tethering using a non-iphone 3G smartphone.)
Okay, I'm a little less annoyed.
How 'bout the fact that they CAN flip through notebooks which would seem to be a very similar type of non-container. If they can't flip through the digital contents of a phone, they shouldn't be able to flip through the analog contents of a notebook.
The privacy advocate in me is thrilled. The critical thinking side of me feels the logic used to arrive at that ruling is asinine.
I don't see any Leather Goddesses. Maybe I need to set the naughtiness level to "lewd".