On top of that Windows Phone 7/8 supports the fantastic developer tools that is Visual Studio. There is no better IDE around and I really wish I would have it on my OS X.
Surprised to see a macfag shilling for Microsoft.
I think it may be a tactic to keep me and the rest of the Apple butt pirates from modding him down. See, we automatically downmod anything pro-MS and pro-Linux. BSD gets a neutral. Pro-Apple is obviously a rainbow colored upmod (or stark white for newfag Macfags).
But, with a pro-MS, Apple owning, slightly negative (in that it points out something that can't be done on a Mac) against Mac post, some people may not know how to mod and leave it alone.
By not having the motorcycle license? Yeah, that would be weird.
You can get a shotgun sans license in all fifty states. This includes single shots, O/U, SxS, pump, and semi-auto. You cannot in the District of Columbia. I have no idea about Puerto Rico and other territories.
In all fifty states, you can get so called 'assault weapons'. You can only buy fully automatic under certain circumstances (an extra tax among other things). Someone said full auto is banned in Washington state. I don't know for sure. I know it's possible in MD.
CA has caliber restrictions on rifles. I know that.50 cal is not allowed.
Wikipedia's page on US gun laws seems reasonable. I'm sure there are some mistakes, but I didn't see any on a quick look.
The craziest laws are a combination of MD, NY, NJ, CA, and IL. HI, CT, and a few other states are a strong second place.
One trick is that there are 50 states plus the district (ignoring territories and possessions) each with unique laws, as well as the Federal government. One state (Montana) maintains that guns manufactured there for the express purpose of sale to residents and use in the state of Montana are exempt from federal firearms laws. Don't know if it has been subjected to the courts.
So, again, there may be a law here or there that is more strict in the US, don't count on it. Saying that parts of the UK 'have looser laws than many US states' is probably inaccurate. Unless you have been here (and gotten off of the coasts and out of the tourist spots) it's really hard to imagine how commonplace firearms are in the US. Just like most Americans are ignorant of the vast variety of foods of different cultures are available in New York City, let alone London, most Europeans and Asians are wholly ignorant of the prevalence of guns in the US. I think the Canadians almost get it. But it really is different over here.
I either wrote my questions poorly or you aren't understanding what I'm getting at.
The person is already using the service on his cell phone: cellular voice and data at whatever rate.
There is a $20 surcharge to tether a laptop or other device to the cellphone to use that data. What did Verizon do to earn the surcharge? There's no more data being used. The data limits and caps process normally. The $20 tethering surcharge doesn't extend the cellular data limits. The $20 tethering surcharge does not make it possible for the phone and laptop to be tethered. Nothing on Verizon's end changes. So why do they get the $20 surcharge.
My son and I just started playing this. We played for a weekend during one of their freebies. We're bored waiting for the WoW expansion. This lets us fill a few hours a day. It's fun. We like the different combat. I like the class stories. But I can tell that once I hit level 50, I've got zero interest in the game.
Of course, once I hit 90 in Wow, I likely won't have any interest.
in fact, the gun laws in the UK are looser than many US states.
I call horseshit. I live in the state that the NRA would probably rank about 46th or 47th out of 50 for gun regulation. It's not at all unusual to have people from the UK comment on how lax our gun laws are.
I'm curious what states in the US you think are more lax than the UK. Or is it the case that one particular law in the UK is not so stringent as some similar law in many US states.
Good post. Consider also: how much trouble have ill-equipped people in the developing world given modern armies with just a little bit of ingenuity in the form of IEDs? How much more effective would a US based 'terrorist' or 'freedom fighter' network be, considering how many people building IEDs in the US would have spent at least a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan detecting them and taking them apart?
The Mexican government faces similar problems. People are hired to be in the police or the military. They get a few years of training and experience. Then they take that to a drug gang and modify the tactics of the drug gang.
In short, the US military would not face a 'pure' guerrilla force. They would face a force with training and knowledge rivaling their own. The weapons may not be able to unleash the sheer level of destruction as the US Army, but they would be light years ahead of anything the Army has faced in decades.
I suggest the comics and graphic novels of DMZ to see how some of this could play out.
Considering how ill informed you are on the difficulty of converting 'most' semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic, it's no wonder you have silly objections.
With a mill, lathe, and a few other tools, there's nothing you can't make at home. The highest quality machine shops of the late 19th and early 20th century have nothing on what a home machinist can do, except perhaps for scale.
If someone blackbox 'engineers' something, doesn't that moot the copyright issue? In the case of the AR style lower receiver the article talks about, just set out with a machinist's rule, some calipers, etc. and design it that way. (The AR style lower isn't protected by patent or copyright any longer, but I chose it just to give a common ground example. Please feel free to substitute something else if it better illustrates the issue).
But what service are they providing? The tethering is a function of the phone, created by someone who is not Verizon. The bandwidth was already paid for. What exactly did Verizon do to earn $20?
Was there a guaranteed minimum speed on the old contract? That seems to be the crux of your complaint, but you don't indicate what the minimum guaranteed speed was originally. You also kind of walked past the fact that the original contract says they can adjust things on their own, arbitrarily, and without your input.
I agree it's a shitty contract, but it doesn't sound like they have violated it or that they are outside of industry norms.
I'd be willing to bet a few billion dollars that a competent group of people could implement QB in under a quarter of the lines of code while both improving the quality and making it significantly faster in every regard.
So then why has nobody come up with a better product, then, Mr. Billionaire?
People who own Macs don't understand technical geeky things like numbers and are way too cool for accounting.
Considering we overpay for everything and buy new iShinies every 3-6 months, I'd say keeping track of our finances is even more important for us than for you bottom feeding 99%ers and your 'PCs'.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
They kept it on a floppy drive. They weren't sure how to access it when they got their new iMacs. They got someone to copy it to a CD, but that was at the same time their MacBook Airs showed up.
I have the sense to know that this site has had NSFW links posted without notice for ~10 years. And far from a 'little clique', I'm one of a representative sample of the 1.5 million or so users (ok, probably 1/10 that number due to dupes, sock puppets, etc.) who were using this site before you showed up. Are you infected with so much 'special snowflake syndrome' that you think we should change to meat your neo-puritan standards of what is and is not acceptable behaviour?
They announced their plans 6 years earlier. People shouldn't buy expensive things unless they know how to use them. $3000 worth of computer and software or $3000 worth of rifle or $3000 worth of car.
BTW, I bet if she still had that computer and still has that software, they work just fine together. Might require her to reinstall from the media that came with the computer, but if she has backups, that's a piece of cake. Nobody held a gun to her head and made her upgrade.
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On top of that Windows Phone 7/8 supports the fantastic developer tools that is Visual Studio. There is no better IDE around and I really wish I would have it on my OS X.
Surprised to see a macfag shilling for Microsoft.
I think it may be a tactic to keep me and the rest of the Apple butt pirates from modding him down. See, we automatically downmod anything pro-MS and pro-Linux. BSD gets a neutral. Pro-Apple is obviously a rainbow colored upmod (or stark white for newfag Macfags).
But, with a pro-MS, Apple owning, slightly negative (in that it points out something that can't be done on a Mac) against Mac post, some people may not know how to mod and leave it alone.
By not having the motorcycle license? Yeah, that would be weird.
You can get a shotgun sans license in all fifty states. This includes single shots, O/U, SxS, pump, and semi-auto. You cannot in the District of Columbia. I have no idea about Puerto Rico and other territories.
In all fifty states, you can get so called 'assault weapons'. You can only buy fully automatic under certain circumstances (an extra tax among other things). Someone said full auto is banned in Washington state. I don't know for sure. I know it's possible in MD.
CA has caliber restrictions on rifles. I know that .50 cal is not allowed.
Wikipedia's page on US gun laws seems reasonable. I'm sure there are some mistakes, but I didn't see any on a quick look.
The craziest laws are a combination of MD, NY, NJ, CA, and IL. HI, CT, and a few other states are a strong second place.
One trick is that there are 50 states plus the district (ignoring territories and possessions) each with unique laws, as well as the Federal government. One state (Montana) maintains that guns manufactured there for the express purpose of sale to residents and use in the state of Montana are exempt from federal firearms laws. Don't know if it has been subjected to the courts.
So, again, there may be a law here or there that is more strict in the US, don't count on it. Saying that parts of the UK 'have looser laws than many US states' is probably inaccurate. Unless you have been here (and gotten off of the coasts and out of the tourist spots) it's really hard to imagine how commonplace firearms are in the US. Just like most Americans are ignorant of the vast variety of foods of different cultures are available in New York City, let alone London, most Europeans and Asians are wholly ignorant of the prevalence of guns in the US. I think the Canadians almost get it. But it really is different over here.
I either wrote my questions poorly or you aren't understanding what I'm getting at.
The person is already using the service on his cell phone: cellular voice and data at whatever rate.
There is a $20 surcharge to tether a laptop or other device to the cellphone to use that data. What did Verizon do to earn the surcharge? There's no more data being used. The data limits and caps process normally. The $20 tethering surcharge doesn't extend the cellular data limits. The $20 tethering surcharge does not make it possible for the phone and laptop to be tethered. Nothing on Verizon's end changes. So why do they get the $20 surcharge.
My son and I just started playing this. We played for a weekend during one of their freebies. We're bored waiting for the WoW expansion. This lets us fill a few hours a day. It's fun. We like the different combat. I like the class stories. But I can tell that once I hit level 50, I've got zero interest in the game.
Of course, once I hit 90 in Wow, I likely won't have any interest.
in fact, the gun laws in the UK are looser than many US states.
I call horseshit. I live in the state that the NRA would probably rank about 46th or 47th out of 50 for gun regulation. It's not at all unusual to have people from the UK comment on how lax our gun laws are.
I'm curious what states in the US you think are more lax than the UK. Or is it the case that one particular law in the UK is not so stringent as some similar law in many US states.
Yeah, you work up that lawsuit on those terms, let me know how it works. I know which side I'll be betting on.
Good post. Consider also: how much trouble have ill-equipped people in the developing world given modern armies with just a little bit of ingenuity in the form of IEDs? How much more effective would a US based 'terrorist' or 'freedom fighter' network be, considering how many people building IEDs in the US would have spent at least a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan detecting them and taking them apart?
The Mexican government faces similar problems. People are hired to be in the police or the military. They get a few years of training and experience. Then they take that to a drug gang and modify the tactics of the drug gang.
In short, the US military would not face a 'pure' guerrilla force. They would face a force with training and knowledge rivaling their own. The weapons may not be able to unleash the sheer level of destruction as the US Army, but they would be light years ahead of anything the Army has faced in decades.
I suggest the comics and graphic novels of DMZ to see how some of this could play out.
Considering how ill informed you are on the difficulty of converting 'most' semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic, it's no wonder you have silly objections.
With a mill, lathe, and a few other tools, there's nothing you can't make at home. The highest quality machine shops of the late 19th and early 20th century have nothing on what a home machinist can do, except perhaps for scale.
If someone blackbox 'engineers' something, doesn't that moot the copyright issue? In the case of the AR style lower receiver the article talks about, just set out with a machinist's rule, some calipers, etc. and design it that way. (The AR style lower isn't protected by patent or copyright any longer, but I chose it just to give a common ground example. Please feel free to substitute something else if it better illustrates the issue).
I understand where you're coming from.
Unfortunately, in an oligopolic situation like we have with mobile phones, there's not much value in improving service of any sort.
The AC to whom you are replying is forcing me to invoke Poe's Law.
I'm sure lots of non-American and non-Caucasoid American scientists want to move into an area controlled by Joe "Papers Please" Arpaio.
Additionally, whoever came up with the name "Uwingu" for a space program should be smacked in the mouth with a rolled-up newspaper.
"Uwingu" sounds like the ookings of a gorilla resting on his haunches and chewing on a grub in the midst of third-world filth.
Doesn't it say it's from a Swahili word?
I donated my time back in the 90s to find ET, but damn it all if the little grey blob never visited my house and ate my butterfingers.
They were Reese's Pieces you dope. There is a bucket near the door, be sure to drop your geek badge in it on the way out.
Damnit, he must be the one who screwed up SETI by putting out the wrong bait.
But what service are they providing? The tethering is a function of the phone, created by someone who is not Verizon. The bandwidth was already paid for. What exactly did Verizon do to earn $20?
Was there a guaranteed minimum speed on the old contract? That seems to be the crux of your complaint, but you don't indicate what the minimum guaranteed speed was originally. You also kind of walked past the fact that the original contract says they can adjust things on their own, arbitrarily, and without your input.
I agree it's a shitty contract, but it doesn't sound like they have violated it or that they are outside of industry norms.
Wait, what now? Slashdot's summaries are starting to get quite childish.
Starting to??? /facepalm
I mention it not to claim any specialness, but to claim a better understanding of the social norms of this website.
And tricking someone about a NSFW link is a tactic that came up about 10 seconds after the first NSFW link was ever posted.
Have fun tilting at windmills. Slashdot is what it is, and you seem to refuse to understand that. I'm done explaining.
I'd be willing to bet a few billion dollars that a competent group of people could implement QB in under a quarter of the lines of code while both improving the quality and making it significantly faster in every regard.
So then why has nobody come up with a better product, then, Mr. Billionaire?
He said 'willing', not 'able'.
People who own Macs don't understand technical geeky things like numbers and are way too cool for accounting.
Considering we overpay for everything and buy new iShinies every 3-6 months, I'd say keeping track of our finances is even more important for us than for you bottom feeding 99%ers and your 'PCs'.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
They kept it on a floppy drive. They weren't sure how to access it when they got their new iMacs. They got someone to copy it to a CD, but that was at the same time their MacBook Airs showed up.
I only hope that ICANN was able to register .assclown for themselves. Anyone else getting it would be unfair.
Not so fast. Several politicians and corporate C?O's have a vested interest in that TLD.
I have the sense to know that this site has had NSFW links posted without notice for ~10 years. And far from a 'little clique', I'm one of a representative sample of the 1.5 million or so users (ok, probably 1/10 that number due to dupes, sock puppets, etc.) who were using this site before you showed up. Are you infected with so much 'special snowflake syndrome' that you think we should change to meat your neo-puritan standards of what is and is not acceptable behaviour?
They announced their plans 6 years earlier. People shouldn't buy expensive things unless they know how to use them. $3000 worth of computer and software or $3000 worth of rifle or $3000 worth of car.
BTW, I bet if she still had that computer and still has that software, they work just fine together. Might require her to reinstall from the media that came with the computer, but if she has backups, that's a piece of cake. Nobody held a gun to her head and made her upgrade.