That's the key finding in a survey released this week by Yankee Group, which reports that 73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T's service.
The satisfaction rate of AT&T subscribers as a whole is 68%, and only 69% of smartphone users say they are satisfied with their mobile provider, Yankee Group found.
So... a whopping 5% (4% if you confine yourself to smartphones, which they rather broadly defined) more iPhone users are satisfied with AT&T than the aggregate of all subscribers? What was the margin of error on this? Why is it a story that a tiny bit more iPhone users are satisfied with their provider than non-iPhone users?
I'd say the problem is the preponderance of squeaky-voiced racist children. Multiplayer games need better filters to keep out the riff-raff.
That's one of the things that is driving me away from multiplayer games. This problem used to be more or less solved; I'd only play on servers with active admins that would kick/ban people like that. Sadly the major developers/publishers seem to have decided that this is somehow bad, and instead like to match me up with random fuckwads with no way of getting rid of them or choosing a specific server to play on. They all seem to be taking a step backwards in this respect, apparently thinking that a server list is way too complicated for us "consumers", allowing people to set up their own dedicated hosts is evil, and generally sacrificing my ability to play where and how I see fit in the name of idiocies such as global "accomplishments" and stat tracking (seriously? Does anyone actually care about that crap?).
Why do they need to include the stuffed animals. Just drink enough of this beer, and you will see all sorts of things without having to pay the outrageous price.
And, what do you do with all the embalmed animals once you have drained them? You're drunk, there's a bunch of other drunk guys with you, there's a pile of fuzzy dead animals laying around. It all sounds like a perfect setting for something that's going to show up on COPS.
Well, I think we all know what Richard Gere would do...
Perhaps Congress could pass a law guaranteeing that "abusive legal practices in foreign countries [the US] do not prevent non-Americans from fully exercising their rights to play legally purchased audio/video content and write code without paying protection money to US patent trolls".
The United States Congress is offended and hurt by your libelous 'wit'. Seeing as how Slashdot is directed towards English-speaking peoples, clearly including people living in England, we will shortly be filing charges under English law requiring a retraction and payment for our pain, suffering, and loss of reputation caused by your irresponsible act.
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The amount of objections that citizens raise doesn't appear to be related to the size of a nuclear plant. They just seem to object to its very existence. Therefore it makes sense, that once you've got through the planning process, reviews, delays, hostility and protests you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb and make the plant as large as practically possible.
Making a plant as large as practically possible may be the pertinent point here. Large nuke stations create a hell of a lot of power, but also require a hell of a lot of water to cool. One of the primary constraints on siting a nuke plant is providing sufficient water for cooling. In the western U.S. at least, this is a major constraint on where you can site them, as water is often a very limited resource. If it is economically feasible to build smaller plants, with lower water requirements, then all of a sudden there may be a lot more places that you can put them.
I have two Nooks... believe me, I did not buy them for the "lend" feature, which is nearly pointless in it's implementation...
SOME publishers "allow" some books to be lent... ONE TIME ONLY, and ONLY for fourteen days. After that, you can not lend it anymore.
By buying into e-books (which I've done, I had my reasons why I ultimately thought it was a good way to go), you are removing any right to resale/donate you have with other books.
Because of this fact, cost of books should not enter the equation for determining whether to buy an e-book reader or not... most of the paperbacks I looked into cost less than a dollar more than the e-book version, and you didn't give up your rights.
I'm considering purchasing an e-reader, but it is unlikely I will purchase any content for it if I do. There are too many limitations that have been imposed by the distributors for it to be worthwhile to me... my family has always been pretty big on reading, so most books get passed around at least three or four times soon after purchase.
However, an e-reader does offer a convenient way of hauling many different books around. Fortunately, I don't ever need to purchase a book (or resort to illegal means) to fill such a device. Between Google Books and Project Gutenberg (among others) there are several lifetimes worth of literature freely available. No need to deal with the draconian terms on modern e-book releases; I'll just stick with classics on my e-reader, and dead trees for my new stuff.
More or less the same thing happened to a friend of mine while I was in the car with him. Getting off the freeway the throttle stuck wide open. Doing what any sane person did, he put his foot on the brake and slowed it to a stop (yes, the engine was whining away, and no, the engine is not more powerful than the brakes). He actually decided not to put it into neutral because he didn't think the engine had a rev-limiter and didn't want to kill it, and decided that the torque-converter could probably take the strain for a few minutes - of course, he went through this thought process after stopping the car. Then he did what fewer sane people would do, he decided that since we happened to be very close to his mechanic anyway, he would just drive it the mile or so to the mechanic. So, he rode the brakes for a mile with the engine howling (and probably me howling at him to pull over, kill the engine, and call a tow-truck), but we made it fine to the mechanic.
I'm sorry, but if you actually hit the brakes in any car on the road it will come to a stop, assuming there is not a major mechanical problem (which would be relatively easy to discover after the fact). You don't need to switch into neutral or anything else to avoid an accident - you just need to hit the brakes.
Of course, in a car with a manual all you would have to do is depress the clutch pedal (and hope your engine has a rev-limiter), but I guess adding a third pedal might present problems to people who apparently have trouble with two.
According to Dailymail, it should be around £143 million ($214 million for those too lazy to google it yourself).
If you read the article (and others), you will also see that this was a technology demonstrator, and £143 million was the cost to build it. If it went into production it would likely cost significantly less, certainly less than a $191 million JSF. Getting the pilot out of there cuts down a hell of a lot on the cost, as all of a sudden you can replace all sorts of expensive weight, volume, and logistics with relatively cheap computers (theoretically, anyway).
Have you actually tried reading multi-column pages on the web? It is a pain in the ass. Instead of just scrolling down as you read, you scroll down to the bottom of the first column, then scroll back up to the top, then scroll down again to read the next column, etc. It is pointless, and offers zero advantages to the reader. The only people clamoring for it seem to be layout artists raised on print layout; I can't think of a single case as a reader where I would prefer multi-column over single-column layout for an article. Yes, there may be a usability limit to column width - but on the web there is no limit to the vertical dimension, so this really doesn't matter.
The one place multiple columns in an electronic medium makes sense is where you can fit everything on a single page by doing so, and in order to be readable that means knowing the size of the screen your readers will be using - if you can't guarantee that, just use a single column. Pretty much everyone is used to scrolling down as they read, it is quite easy and seamless.
Multi-column has nothing to do with page width - yes, there will be significant space "wasted" in a single-column layout, but so what? It is much better than the alternative of having to scroll up and down as you read.
Still, I welcome ANY type of standardization... right now it is really crazy. At least most of the phones (at least smart phones) have finally standardized on micro-USB connectors and standard USB power levels.
I've been sticking to Motorola phones and Canon cameras my last few generations of purchases for just this reason. Both just use a standard mini-usb connection for data (and charging for the Motorola phones). It is nice to only need one cable for my phones and cameras to sync with my computer, and only one charger for my work and personal phones (which works because each one lasts long enough on a charge that I can alternate days).
Cameras are another device that seem to breed incompatible connectors for no particular reason. Hell, even a single manufacturer would often use a multitude of different connections on different models (Sony was the worst; I think for four or five different Sony point and shoots we had at work there were at least three different cables required). Some standardization in batteries (and chargers) would also be appreciated...
Ok, nevermind me... this was a test/preparation flight before the actual around the world flight, which would certainly take much longer than 24 hours.
Yeah, I'm guessing there aren't too many solar-powered aircraft around that can manage 1,000 miles per hour (well, maybe in a vacuum... straight down).
It also releases all sorts of dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere, so is not generally accepted as a legitimate way to demolish a house. So yes, you could quite possibly be charged with a crime (or at least fined) for burning your own house down.
My freshmen year of college my chemistry prof did this on one of the first days, except he used hydrogen + oxygen + extremely large balloon. That knocked more than a few ceiling tiles down, and brought every other professor in the building over to see what had happened.
He did tell us to cover our ears and open our mouths before he set it off (and opened the windows). That was a fun class (but yeah, a little immature for college-level; I think he just did it for fun).
How many people actually hold individual video conferences? All the ones I've been involved in there have been numerous attendees at each location, so it really wouldn't be feasible for each person to be using their own device - usually it involves a projector and a (relatively) high-quality camera set up in a conference room.
I suppose it would be kind of fun/cool for video chatting, but don't really see much business use for it.
My one capacitor failure event killed everything (except the ancient modem that had no reason to be in the system at the time - go figure). Went out to a movie one night, came back to a really nasty, acrid smell in the room. Opened up the computer, and discovered where the magic smoke had escaped from - one of the capacitors had literally exploded (there were little chunks all over the inside of the computer, along with some scorch marks).
I'm sure the data was probably still intact on the hard drive platters, but nothing on there was worth the expense of recovery. So yes, bad capacitors can definitely result in loss of data (although this particular failure mode was not consistent with the widespread problems in 2003-2005).
I'll comment on my own comment...one thing that is interesting is the physical dimensions of the box:
6 x 5 x 2
considering that seagates 3.5" drives are approximately:
1 x 4 x 6
Which seems to eliminate the possibility that this is two 3.5 drives. It could still be multiple 2.5" drives but without looking at pricing I'm not sure how feasible that is (and I don't think Seagate is shipping 1TB 2.5's yet)
Given the dimensions you quote, I think your analysis is 100% wrong. If you put two 1 x 4 x 6 drives together on end the dimensions would be 1 x 4 x 12. On an edge, you would get 1 x 8 x 6. But if you stacked them, the dimensions would be 2 x 4 x 6. You state that the enclosure is 2 x 5 x 6. Now I don't know if this is the case, but that would pretty clearly seem to imply that this drive is two ordinary 3.5" drives in an enclosure - the dimensions work out perfectly. Not sure why you thought those dimensions precluded this being two 3.5" drives.
Heat. Hot rock is less dense than (similar) cold rock, so if you have a lot of hot rock near the surface you are going to have a gravity low (which appears as a "high" elevation on this map). In theory, anyway. I would have expected a much stronger signal all along the MORs; this doesn't appear to be the case.
Obviously there are many other factors too, but that can explain a tendency towards higher elevations (weaker gravity) in volcanic regions.
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That's the key finding in a survey released this week by Yankee Group, which reports that 73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T's service.
The satisfaction rate of AT&T subscribers as a whole is 68%, and only 69% of smartphone users say they are satisfied with their mobile provider, Yankee Group found.
So... a whopping 5% (4% if you confine yourself to smartphones, which they rather broadly defined) more iPhone users are satisfied with AT&T than the aggregate of all subscribers? What was the margin of error on this? Why is it a story that a tiny bit more iPhone users are satisfied with their provider than non-iPhone users?
I'd say the problem is the preponderance of squeaky-voiced racist children. Multiplayer games need better filters to keep out the riff-raff.
That's one of the things that is driving me away from multiplayer games. This problem used to be more or less solved; I'd only play on servers with active admins that would kick/ban people like that. Sadly the major developers/publishers seem to have decided that this is somehow bad, and instead like to match me up with random fuckwads with no way of getting rid of them or choosing a specific server to play on. They all seem to be taking a step backwards in this respect, apparently thinking that a server list is way too complicated for us "consumers", allowing people to set up their own dedicated hosts is evil, and generally sacrificing my ability to play where and how I see fit in the name of idiocies such as global "accomplishments" and stat tracking (seriously? Does anyone actually care about that crap?).
Why do they need to include the stuffed animals. Just drink enough of this beer, and you will see all sorts of things without having to pay the outrageous price.
And, what do you do with all the embalmed animals once you have drained them? You're drunk, there's a bunch of other drunk guys with you, there's a pile of fuzzy dead animals laying around. It all sounds like a perfect setting for something that's going to show up on COPS.
Well, I think we all know what Richard Gere would do...
According to the original article, all of the squirrels and stoats used were roadkill (damn drunk drivers).
Obviously you don't have the BP Business Marketing graphics set for OpenTTD.
Perhaps Congress could pass a law guaranteeing that "abusive legal practices in foreign countries [the US] do not prevent non-Americans from fully exercising their rights to play legally purchased audio/video content and write code without paying protection money to US patent trolls".
The United States Congress is offended and hurt by your libelous 'wit'. Seeing as how Slashdot is directed towards English-speaking peoples, clearly including people living in England, we will shortly be filing charges under English law requiring a retraction and payment for our pain, suffering, and loss of reputation caused by your irresponsible act.
Sincerely,
The People Who Wish To Be Protected From Foreign Laws While Simultaneously Using Those Laws Against Others
The amount of objections that citizens raise doesn't appear to be related to the size of a nuclear plant. They just seem to object to its very existence. Therefore it makes sense, that once you've got through the planning process, reviews, delays, hostility and protests you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb and make the plant as large as practically possible.
Making a plant as large as practically possible may be the pertinent point here. Large nuke stations create a hell of a lot of power, but also require a hell of a lot of water to cool. One of the primary constraints on siting a nuke plant is providing sufficient water for cooling. In the western U.S. at least, this is a major constraint on where you can site them, as water is often a very limited resource. If it is economically feasible to build smaller plants, with lower water requirements, then all of a sudden there may be a lot more places that you can put them.
I have two Nooks... believe me, I did not buy them for the "lend" feature, which is nearly pointless in it's implementation...
SOME publishers "allow" some books to be lent... ONE TIME ONLY, and ONLY for fourteen days. After that, you can not lend it anymore.
By buying into e-books (which I've done, I had my reasons why I ultimately thought it was a good way to go), you are removing any right to resale/donate you have with other books.
Because of this fact, cost of books should not enter the equation for determining whether to buy an e-book reader or not... most of the paperbacks I looked into cost less than a dollar more than the e-book version, and you didn't give up your rights.
I'm considering purchasing an e-reader, but it is unlikely I will purchase any content for it if I do. There are too many limitations that have been imposed by the distributors for it to be worthwhile to me... my family has always been pretty big on reading, so most books get passed around at least three or four times soon after purchase.
However, an e-reader does offer a convenient way of hauling many different books around. Fortunately, I don't ever need to purchase a book (or resort to illegal means) to fill such a device. Between Google Books and Project Gutenberg (among others) there are several lifetimes worth of literature freely available. No need to deal with the draconian terms on modern e-book releases; I'll just stick with classics on my e-reader, and dead trees for my new stuff.
More or less the same thing happened to a friend of mine while I was in the car with him. Getting off the freeway the throttle stuck wide open. Doing what any sane person did, he put his foot on the brake and slowed it to a stop (yes, the engine was whining away, and no, the engine is not more powerful than the brakes). He actually decided not to put it into neutral because he didn't think the engine had a rev-limiter and didn't want to kill it, and decided that the torque-converter could probably take the strain for a few minutes - of course, he went through this thought process after stopping the car. Then he did what fewer sane people would do, he decided that since we happened to be very close to his mechanic anyway, he would just drive it the mile or so to the mechanic. So, he rode the brakes for a mile with the engine howling (and probably me howling at him to pull over, kill the engine, and call a tow-truck), but we made it fine to the mechanic.
I'm sorry, but if you actually hit the brakes in any car on the road it will come to a stop, assuming there is not a major mechanical problem (which would be relatively easy to discover after the fact). You don't need to switch into neutral or anything else to avoid an accident - you just need to hit the brakes.
Of course, in a car with a manual all you would have to do is depress the clutch pedal (and hope your engine has a rev-limiter), but I guess adding a third pedal might present problems to people who apparently have trouble with two.
“The program is moving quickly, and it’s exciting to be part of such a unique aircraft,” said Drew Mallow, Phantom Eye program manager for Boeing.
He sounds like a bolt.
it has a 150-foot wingspan, will cruise at approximately 150 knots...
...and will only be deployed in places where Surface to Air Missiles are unavailable and the natives don't have radar.
So, pretty much all of the conflicts the U.S. and allies are currently embroiled in.
According to Dailymail, it should be around £143 million ($214 million for those too lazy to google it yourself).
If you read the article (and others), you will also see that this was a technology demonstrator, and £143 million was the cost to build it. If it went into production it would likely cost significantly less, certainly less than a $191 million JSF. Getting the pilot out of there cuts down a hell of a lot on the cost, as all of a sudden you can replace all sorts of expensive weight, volume, and logistics with relatively cheap computers (theoretically, anyway).
Have you actually tried reading multi-column pages on the web? It is a pain in the ass. Instead of just scrolling down as you read, you scroll down to the bottom of the first column, then scroll back up to the top, then scroll down again to read the next column, etc. It is pointless, and offers zero advantages to the reader. The only people clamoring for it seem to be layout artists raised on print layout; I can't think of a single case as a reader where I would prefer multi-column over single-column layout for an article. Yes, there may be a usability limit to column width - but on the web there is no limit to the vertical dimension, so this really doesn't matter.
The one place multiple columns in an electronic medium makes sense is where you can fit everything on a single page by doing so, and in order to be readable that means knowing the size of the screen your readers will be using - if you can't guarantee that, just use a single column. Pretty much everyone is used to scrolling down as they read, it is quite easy and seamless.
Multi-column has nothing to do with page width - yes, there will be significant space "wasted" in a single-column layout, but so what? It is much better than the alternative of having to scroll up and down as you read.
Still, I welcome ANY type of standardization... right now it is really crazy. At least most of the phones (at least smart phones) have finally standardized on micro-USB connectors and standard USB power levels.
I've been sticking to Motorola phones and Canon cameras my last few generations of purchases for just this reason. Both just use a standard mini-usb connection for data (and charging for the Motorola phones). It is nice to only need one cable for my phones and cameras to sync with my computer, and only one charger for my work and personal phones (which works because each one lasts long enough on a charge that I can alternate days).
Cameras are another device that seem to breed incompatible connectors for no particular reason. Hell, even a single manufacturer would often use a multitude of different connections on different models (Sony was the worst; I think for four or five different Sony point and shoots we had at work there were at least three different cables required). Some standardization in batteries (and chargers) would also be appreciated...
If only they'd included the Lone Starr module, they'd have had no trouble making her go from 'suck' to 'blow'.
I heard Paul Newman did some research in this area back in the 1960s.
Ok, nevermind me... this was a test/preparation flight before the actual around the world flight, which would certainly take much longer than 24 hours.
Yeah, I'm guessing there aren't too many solar-powered aircraft around that can manage 1,000 miles per hour (well, maybe in a vacuum... straight down).
It also releases all sorts of dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere, so is not generally accepted as a legitimate way to demolish a house. So yes, you could quite possibly be charged with a crime (or at least fined) for burning your own house down.
My freshmen year of college my chemistry prof did this on one of the first days, except he used hydrogen + oxygen + extremely large balloon. That knocked more than a few ceiling tiles down, and brought every other professor in the building over to see what had happened.
He did tell us to cover our ears and open our mouths before he set it off (and opened the windows). That was a fun class (but yeah, a little immature for college-level; I think he just did it for fun).
Text, the most widely used and open of all.
Just make sure you use a non-copyrighted typeface, or you're in trouble.
At some pivotal point in the near future we will have more pictures of planets outside our solar system than within it!
I doubt it. There are an awful lot of people taking pictures of (portions) of the Earth.
Or did you mean pictures of more planets outside our solar system than within?
How many people actually hold individual video conferences? All the ones I've been involved in there have been numerous attendees at each location, so it really wouldn't be feasible for each person to be using their own device - usually it involves a projector and a (relatively) high-quality camera set up in a conference room.
I suppose it would be kind of fun/cool for video chatting, but don't really see much business use for it.
My one capacitor failure event killed everything (except the ancient modem that had no reason to be in the system at the time - go figure). Went out to a movie one night, came back to a really nasty, acrid smell in the room. Opened up the computer, and discovered where the magic smoke had escaped from - one of the capacitors had literally exploded (there were little chunks all over the inside of the computer, along with some scorch marks).
I'm sure the data was probably still intact on the hard drive platters, but nothing on there was worth the expense of recovery. So yes, bad capacitors can definitely result in loss of data (although this particular failure mode was not consistent with the widespread problems in 2003-2005).
I'll comment on my own comment...one thing that is interesting is the physical dimensions of the box:
6 x 5 x 2
considering that seagates 3.5" drives are approximately:
1 x 4 x 6
Which seems to eliminate the possibility that this is two 3.5 drives. It could still be multiple 2.5" drives but without looking at pricing I'm not sure how feasible that is (and I don't think Seagate is shipping 1TB 2.5's yet)
Given the dimensions you quote, I think your analysis is 100% wrong. If you put two 1 x 4 x 6 drives together on end the dimensions would be 1 x 4 x 12. On an edge, you would get 1 x 8 x 6. But if you stacked them, the dimensions would be 2 x 4 x 6. You state that the enclosure is 2 x 5 x 6. Now I don't know if this is the case, but that would pretty clearly seem to imply that this drive is two ordinary 3.5" drives in an enclosure - the dimensions work out perfectly. Not sure why you thought those dimensions precluded this being two 3.5" drives.
Heat. Hot rock is less dense than (similar) cold rock, so if you have a lot of hot rock near the surface you are going to have a gravity low (which appears as a "high" elevation on this map). In theory, anyway. I would have expected a much stronger signal all along the MORs; this doesn't appear to be the case.
Obviously there are many other factors too, but that can explain a tendency towards higher elevations (weaker gravity) in volcanic regions.