I'm in Denver, and I've been with AT&T since they were originally AT&T (before they were Cingular for awhile). My fiancee and I both have iPhone 3GSs (32 Gb).
We haven't experienced a lot of trouble with the service. I get the occasional dropped call when I'm driving, but it's not enough to be more than a nuisance. I did see a significant network slowdown in terms of data while I was at a Rockies game, but, well, it was at Coors Field with thousands of people there, and many of them probably had AT&T phones, so the network was probably a leetle bit stressed. For the most part, the service is unobtrusive.
This time around, for some reason, one of our phone numbers was eligible for a full-subsidized upgrade to iPhone 4, but the other was not, so we elected to wait and stick with the 3GS another year; in the meantime, iOS 4 would give us many of the advantages of the new phone without having to switch hardware. We made this decision before the antenna flap started, which just made it look all the more intelligent afterwards. It's my opinion that the next iPhone will almost certainly do something about the antenna problems we've seen on the iPhone 4, and it's likely that Apple will take a look at all aspects of the unit's RF performance. When they do, and when they release a new model that incorporates these improvements, we'll upgrade.
I voted for "Serenity." 'Cos you can't take the sky from me.
But "Tranquility" is also good. Not only is it a reference to the first moon landing, but "Tranquility" is also the name of EVE Online's primary server cluster. And the view from that cupola would leave a Gallente sighing with contentment, an Amarr reverently praying, and a Minmatar rejoicing in the freedom. (The Caldari would probably be too busy fretting about how much it all cost...)
Does the Federal Government really want to "facilitate and encourage the [citizens'] use and understanding of financial information?" After all, if citizens do that, they just MIGHT figure out how the Wall Street banksters and fraudsters, and their bought-and-paid-for friends in the government (at all levels and in both parties), have been fleecing them for years, while milking off massive bonuses for themselves at taxpayer expense.
And if that happens, I foresee a big jump in the sales of torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers, and boiled rope.
See the writings of Karl Denninger for more information.
I was lucky enough to see Stewart do his one-man show of "A Christmas Carol" (at Campbell Hall, UCSB), so, when TNT announced their new version starring him as Ebenezer Scrooge, I knew he could pull it off brilliantly. Of course, he did.
And there was a nice TNG echo of that in the teaser of one episode, where Data plays Scrooge on the holodeck, and Picard critiques his performance.
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To which Riker gives the single most appropriate answer you could possibly give to that statement:
My thought exactly. I don't want to presume to speak for Linus, but I'd hope he'd be insulted by the thought of being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, since the track record of its awardees (not just Obama, he's merely the most recent example) shows that the prize itself is meaningless at best.
Does it hurt the book's (and Spolsky's) thesis to note that JWZ isn't a professional programmer anymore?
"But now I've taken my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer." (Source)
I had some old hard disks I needed to destroy a while back, so I thought I'd just open up the cases and then pound the platters into submission with a hammer. I did this on the kitchen floor.
Unfortunately, the first drive I opened was an old IBM DeskStar. I had forgotten what DeskStar drive platters were made of...
One swing and I had to call a halt to the whole operation while I swept a metric buttload of treacherous fragments of shattered glass up off my kitchen floor.
I conducted the rest of the destruction outside, near the Dumpster.
The GRE had a paragraph that needed to be written in cursive, too, on its application form. I actually had to find a letter guide somewhere and practice for a couple days until I could get that paragraph out correctly.
And then it was all wasted effort, as I never bothered with grad school. Go figure...
The theaters charge you insane prices at the snack bar because that's about the only way they actually make any money. They don't get hardly any of the insane prices you pay for tickets, because the movie studios screw them out of it. The theaters just have to pass the screwing on to you.
The cell carriers, however, seem to originate most of their own screwing.
Actually, the carriers could just buy the Congressmen to avoid this sort of thing. If Verizon is making $850 million a year off people waiting through 15-second voice mail system prompts, as Pogue claims, surely that will buy off enough Reps/Senators to let them keep doing it indefinitely.
Good on you, Mr. Woz. I know I have a good reason to watch this season of the show now, and I hope you do as well as John O'Hurley (my "gold standard" for DWTS competitors).
Oh, my two servers here at home are named after women, too...Delenn (Ambassador of the Minbari Federation) and Jamyl (Empress of the Amarr Empire). I don't think small.:-)
At work, when I got a new dual-quad-core workstation, I thought of my friend's equally-powerful gaming rig, which she'd named "Skynet." So the workstation became BILOS--"Brother-In-Law Of Skynet." (The dual-core Lenovo laptop, on the other hand, just became "MiniMe.")
The conventional wisdom these days seems to be, "don't try to upgrade a working XP machine to Vista, but if you get a new machine and it has Vista on it, it's OK to use." Which is basically Joel Spolsky's advice from two years ago, but he also says "don't buy a new computer just to get Vista, if your old one is working well enough." Good advice at any time.
It remains to be seen how Win7 will change the balance of this equation. Will it be a viable upgrade path from XP on XP boxes? Best answer for that seems to be "watch and wait for the production release."
Another vote for Avira AntiVir here. I learned about it from my ex-wife, who learned about it from her Finnish friends. Yes, it pops up the ad window when it updates, but it's a small price to pay for an anti-virus package that (a) works, (b) is far more usable than McAfee, and (c) I don't have to pay for AGAIN every year. One of these days, I may have to send them some money and get rid of the ad windows...
'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly make you pay through the nose for our executives' six-martini lunches, their limos and Learjets full of blonde bimbos, and all the cocaine they stuff up their noses,' Warner said in a statement.
FTFY, Warner.
(And why can't I seem to use S or STRIKE tags on Slashdot? That would have made the above MUCH funnier...)
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Online multiplayer: Requires N consoles, plus N copies of the game, plus N online service subscription fees.
Which scenario do you think the console and game manufacturers like better?
We haven't experienced a lot of trouble with the service. I get the occasional dropped call when I'm driving, but it's not enough to be more than a nuisance. I did see a significant network slowdown in terms of data while I was at a Rockies game, but, well, it was at Coors Field with thousands of people there, and many of them probably had AT&T phones, so the network was probably a leetle bit stressed. For the most part, the service is unobtrusive.
This time around, for some reason, one of our phone numbers was eligible for a full-subsidized upgrade to iPhone 4, but the other was not, so we elected to wait and stick with the 3GS another year; in the meantime, iOS 4 would give us many of the advantages of the new phone without having to switch hardware. We made this decision before the antenna flap started, which just made it look all the more intelligent afterwards. It's my opinion that the next iPhone will almost certainly do something about the antenna problems we've seen on the iPhone 4, and it's likely that Apple will take a look at all aspects of the unit's RF performance. When they do, and when they release a new model that incorporates these improvements, we'll upgrade.
But "Tranquility" is also good. Not only is it a reference to the first moon landing, but "Tranquility" is also the name of EVE Online's primary server cluster. And the view from that cupola would leave a Gallente sighing with contentment, an Amarr reverently praying, and a Minmatar rejoicing in the freedom. (The Caldari would probably be too busy fretting about how much it all cost...)
And if that happens, I foresee a big jump in the sales of torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers, and boiled rope.
See the writings of Karl Denninger for more information.
And there was a nice TNG echo of that in the teaser of one episode, where Data plays Scrooge on the holodeck, and Picard critiques his performance.
"I'll alert the crew."
Would you like to know more?
(Longtime AT&T customer since they were AT&T before they were Cingular, thankyouverymuch)
My thought exactly. I don't want to presume to speak for Linus, but I'd hope he'd be insulted by the thought of being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, since the track record of its awardees (not just Obama, he's merely the most recent example) shows that the prize itself is meaningless at best.
"But now I've taken my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer." (Source)
Heh...I love those silly little games :-)
Unfortunately, the first drive I opened was an old IBM DeskStar. I had forgotten what DeskStar drive platters were made of...
One swing and I had to call a halt to the whole operation while I swept a metric buttload of treacherous fragments of shattered glass up off my kitchen floor.
I conducted the rest of the destruction outside, near the Dumpster.
And then it was all wasted effort, as I never bothered with grad school. Go figure...
The cell carriers, however, seem to originate most of their own screwing.
Actually, the carriers could just buy the Congressmen to avoid this sort of thing. If Verizon is making $850 million a year off people waiting through 15-second voice mail system prompts, as Pogue claims, surely that will buy off enough Reps/Senators to let them keep doing it indefinitely.
My ex-wife, currently living in Kemi, attending a university there, and learning the language, would disagree with you.
Actually, so would I, otherwise I'd find it easier to understand what Tarja Turunen is singing as she performs "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan."
Cron job? Nah. Just lucky to spot it, I guess.
GO WOZ! GEEK CULTURE REPRESENT!
Heh...I'll out-lose the both of ya :-)
At work, when I got a new dual-quad-core workstation, I thought of my friend's equally-powerful gaming rig, which she'd named "Skynet." So the workstation became BILOS--"Brother-In-Law Of Skynet." (The dual-core Lenovo laptop, on the other hand, just became "MiniMe.")
It remains to be seen how Win7 will change the balance of this equation. Will it be a viable upgrade path from XP on XP boxes? Best answer for that seems to be "watch and wait for the production release."
Another vote for Avira AntiVir here. I learned about it from my ex-wife, who learned about it from her Finnish friends. Yes, it pops up the ad window when it updates, but it's a small price to pay for an anti-virus package that (a) works, (b) is far more usable than McAfee, and (c) I don't have to pay for AGAIN every year. One of these days, I may have to send them some money and get rid of the ad windows...
Came for the Portal references. Was not disappointed.
FTFY, Warner.
(And why can't I seem to use S or STRIKE tags on Slashdot? That would have made the above MUCH funnier...)
Attention on deck! Honors...HUT!
(From somewhere, a set of bagpipes start playing "Amazing Grace.")