With the el-cheapo carriers heavily advertising their cut-rate plans, how long can AT&T and Verizon keep it up? Why would anyone pay $80/month when they can get the same service from another carrier for less than $50?
Unless the big boys start offering either better service or lower prices, how will they stay in business?
Seems like both Silicon Valley companies have had a recent rash of childish, unprofessional behavior in the boardroom. Don't they realize that this shit scares investors away?
If there's one thing I've learned from programming, it's that quick fixes are always the best. Why bother trying to understand the details of a problem when you can just band-aid over it?
If the problem is that porn sites are more heavily monetized, that means the religions need to catch up. They could offer all kinds of services online for a price -- even eternal salvation.
I've been watching my UPS power load meter since I upgraded from a GTX 560 to a GTX 680. I'd estimate the 680 uses a bit less than half the power of the 560 when idle. At peak usage the 680 uses more, but only by a hair.
I was never happy with the 560 in general. The 3D performance was surprisingly glitchy at 1080p. Even though I wasn't too keen on trying NVIDIA again after that, I gotta admit they won me back with the 680.
And as for people who run unlocked wireless routers and let anybody in the neighborhood utilize their bandwidth, I have zero sympathy.
Right, because we should expect 100% of the US population to understand network security and know how to properly secure a wifi router. Makes perfect sense!
Except that's not what happened. A protest is not "an emergency." Their justification was that too many people might enter the station, not that an emergency had happened.
If you think all emergencies in and around Bart service areas occur within reach of the emergency callbox inside a train, and that those callboxes always work, I'm afraid you're the one being naive.
Frankly Bart doesn't have a justification for cutting off service. Protests like this first occurred decades before cell phones were invented. If people really are rushing the station for a protest, guess what? Stations have doors that can be closed. Big heavy ones that can't be kicked down.
Look, if you're going to troll that's fine. But at least make your trolling remarks internally consistent; first you complain that Mono requires Windows to run, then you claim it's unnecessary to create a fully FOSS CLR runtime.
Well, Windows is obviously not FOSS, so your two claims are mutually exclusive.
No, that's not how it works. There are more workers than employers, so without any external force employers are free to set the rules as they see fit. When many employers adopt a policy, workers have to band together if they want to fight it; and that's exactly what we're seeing here.
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With the el-cheapo carriers heavily advertising their cut-rate plans, how long can AT&T and Verizon keep it up? Why would anyone pay $80/month when they can get the same service from another carrier for less than $50?
Unless the big boys start offering either better service or lower prices, how will they stay in business?
You must not be familiar with Celine's Third Law: "An honest politician is a national calamity."
Sounds crazy until you start thinking of politicians who weren't sellouts, then it suddenly makes a lot of sense.
Seems like both Silicon Valley companies have had a recent rash of childish, unprofessional behavior in the boardroom. Don't they realize that this shit scares investors away?
...that we gave you both Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon!
I'd just like to point out that Jerry Brown is a lifelong Democrat, and I bet he'd be shocked that you think he's a Republican.
Saying NYT made an incorrect calculation and explaining why is fine. But what was Apple's tax rate, then?
If you can't answer that, then you can't say the figure itself is incorrect, only the means used to arrive at it.
How about lead paint? My apartment is covered in the stuff!
Security is one problem -- the other being that you'll get sued for using it. Just ask Microsoft and Google.
Simple in theory, incredibly complex in practice. Not to mention expensive.
But these guys are still working on it.
I could claim that my phone "charges" in 30 seconds, and I'd be correct. Of course, it only charges ~1% in 30 seconds, so that's not very useful.
When they say this charger will charge your car in 15 minutes, I'm assuming they don't mean a full charge. But what DO they mean?
If there's one thing I've learned from programming, it's that quick fixes are always the best. Why bother trying to understand the details of a problem when you can just band-aid over it?
Sure, all religions are getting money from their... "believers."
But how many religions are collecting money online?
If the problem is that porn sites are more heavily monetized, that means the religions need to catch up. They could offer all kinds of services online for a price -- even eternal salvation.
Some religions already offer this, of course. Looks like a good deal to me!
I've been watching my UPS power load meter since I upgraded from a GTX 560 to a GTX 680. I'd estimate the 680 uses a bit less than half the power of the 560 when idle. At peak usage the 680 uses more, but only by a hair.
I was never happy with the 560 in general. The 3D performance was surprisingly glitchy at 1080p. Even though I wasn't too keen on trying NVIDIA again after that, I gotta admit they won me back with the 680.
Not to mention Minesweeper!
Wow, I guess my friends who spent years becoming certified in various network specialties were just doing their duties as citizens. Who knew?
Right, because we should expect 100% of the US population to understand network security and know how to properly secure a wifi router. Makes perfect sense!
Look Google I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish. But Facebook is the BIGGEST IPO OF ALL TIME!
Except that's not what happened. A protest is not "an emergency." Their justification was that too many people might enter the station, not that an emergency had happened.
If you think all emergencies in and around Bart service areas occur within reach of the emergency callbox inside a train, and that those callboxes always work, I'm afraid you're the one being naive.
Frankly Bart doesn't have a justification for cutting off service. Protests like this first occurred decades before cell phones were invented. If people really are rushing the station for a protest, guess what? Stations have doors that can be closed. Big heavy ones that can't be kicked down.
Look, if you're going to troll that's fine. But at least make your trolling remarks internally consistent; first you complain that Mono requires Windows to run, then you claim it's unnecessary to create a fully FOSS CLR runtime.
Well, Windows is obviously not FOSS, so your two claims are mutually exclusive.
Or to put it another way: lern2trol.
Well, relatively easy, since at a bytecode level Java is a subset of CLR.
Now just try going from C# to Java.
Of course we are!
Yes, I wouldn't want to work there.
No, that's not how it works. There are more workers than employers, so without any external force employers are free to set the rules as they see fit. When many employers adopt a policy, workers have to band together if they want to fight it; and that's exactly what we're seeing here.
Or how about an ad-supported free computer?
Also, note the date on that article. Steve Jobs was way behind on this one.