Put simply: pagers are amazingly reliable, and have nearly perfect coverage.
This is true, but after carrying a pager for years I switched to a phone and never missed it. If I get a text message it'll pop up as soon as I'm back in coverage.
For critical notifications, yes, it would be (is) better, but I think that relatively few people overall require that kind of service. Doctors and other emergency personnel, people on 24-hour call...sure. But for 99.999% of use cases I think it's not an issue. I'm not telling anyone not to carry a pager, I just think that it's a niche requirement these days for the most part.
The summary makes as much sense as: I find that my bottled water frequently runs out since I've started shampooing on the go. I am about to start hiking in the desert and I wonder if I should carry saline IV bags to try to treat my inevitable dehydration that will occur after I've shampooed 3 times in the morning. Will you make me feel better about my analysis?
Smart hikers will just recycle their urine. Carry some powdered Kool-Aid to give it some flavor, and you'll be all set.
What a blast we had with that. It still took forever to render a zoom, but exploring the Mandelbrot was one of the cool things you could do with a PC back then.
Actually, that *is* how it works...Senate staffers "request guidance" from industry execs, they write up whatever wet-dream they want for legislation and it is often incorporated *exactly* as written. If you think this isn't how it works, you've not been paying attention. No, not every time, but often.
If I recall correctly it was supposed to be useful for Sim City, but I might be mistaken. There were one or two games that used it but hell if I remember what they were.
Yep, back in the 80s the idea of owning a gigabyte of hard drive space was fucking ludicrous...you might have well dreamed of owning your own Space Shuttle. No one had a clue as to what you would possibly do with that much space.
And of course the idea of having a whole gigabyte of RAM was something we used to laugh about hilariously. I mean, the idea was just ridiculously insane. It was more likely that Kelly LeBrock or Cheryl Tiegs would ring your doorbell in the next 5 minutes and demand to have hot, sleazy sex with you.
Yeah, I remember buying a tube of 16-pin DIP memory chips for an IBM AT clone...1 meg of memory for ~$300 if I remember correctly. And there wasn't a goddamn thing you could do with it except make a big ass disk cache. Yes, a 1M disk cache, enough for roughly 2 cat pictures today.
And I think I paid ~$200 for the math co-processor, which was even more useless. Talk about tits on a boar, it did nothing at all for anything I ran but it did fill the empty socket nicely.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
This is, sadly, an extremely accurate description of how things work now. The corporations provide "advice" and "policy position consulting" in the form of fully-written bills and treaty amendments, and the law makers just staple them into the binder.
I'm not kidding in the least, this is literally how it woks these days.
You wouldn't believe the amount of noobs complaining that "the price has dropped since I bought in, this wasn't supposed to happen"
Wait, there's risk involved?:) lol
Seriously, though...I know the dollar fluctuates and that's normal, but the value of Bitcoin (for example) seems to be wildly variable. Over the last 4 or 5 years it's gone from under $10 up to ~$1200 and is now (today) under $400...that kind of volatility seems crazy scary to me....if my bank balance was subject to that kind of real-world fluctuation I'd be freaking out every day. "I had $10,000 in the bank yesterday and today it's down to $2800...WTF?"
or "I forgot my wallet password, can you help me?". That's the most common "bad things" that can happen.
I hear you (and that's good advice) but if I lose my wallet somehow, no matter what, my money will still be in the bank. Even if someone uses my bankcard I'll still get my money back. Losing a wallet, virtual or otherwise, should never result in a financial disaster or an irrecoverable loss of funds.
99.99999999999999% a GPS will take you exactly where you want to go. It's dunderheads that take off on a 10-mile trip and 800 miles later they finally "realize" that something's wrong. That's not really the fault of the GPS.
Or some idiot drives into a lake or down a jogging trail because he or she is just TOO STUPID to understand that they're not driving on a road anymore.
The GPS and its related gadgets are one of the great success stories of modern technology, so stop with these "Your GPS Will Kill You!" stories.
... but how does that one QUALIFY her for this job?
Nothing she has ever done has qualified her to be president of the United States, not even close.
She's a repulsive person, an unrepentant liar, a dissembler, a demagogue, an arrogant authoritarian, a bully, a dreadful CEO, a horrible human being, and a living example of the "uncanny valley".
They really should have spent more on CarlyBot's skin and facial expressions if they wanted people to think she was human. I mean, you could tell right away that it was all just animatronics.
"Important tweets", and it's said with a straight face as if such a thing actually exists.
"Important tweets" are like "important theological questions"....they basically don't exist, although I'd bet there are definitely tweets that are more important than any theological question.
Win 10 is basically spyware, and it would be the NSA's wet dream to have it installed on computers within the Russian government's offices.
I mean, how much easier could it get? No more having to spear-phish Russian officials and trick them into installing malware or spyware, just turn on the "Spy On Me" feature and paw through all their documents, emails, chats, forms, and file stores at will. Download nightly "backups" of their PCs and have a field day.
I don't want Win 10 installed on my PC, and I hardly have any secrets to keep.
I closed all but one window, and set the last window to "about:blank." Memory usage didn't even budge.
Yep. On my PC after a while Firefox routinely climbs to gobble up 1.9 GB of RAM and then starts to screw up. I close all the windows and leave just one tab loaded, and it's still sucking up 1.9 GB. I close that last window and it frees up all the memory.
Firefox has been doing this for years with no end or fix in sight. If they were going to fix just one problem, this would be the one I'd suggest.
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Put simply: pagers are amazingly reliable, and have nearly perfect coverage.
This is true, but after carrying a pager for years I switched to a phone and never missed it. If I get a text message it'll pop up as soon as I'm back in coverage.
For critical notifications, yes, it would be (is) better, but I think that relatively few people overall require that kind of service. Doctors and other emergency personnel, people on 24-hour call...sure. But for 99.999% of use cases I think it's not an issue. I'm not telling anyone not to carry a pager, I just think that it's a niche requirement these days for the most part.
The summary makes as much sense as: I find that my bottled water frequently runs out since I've started shampooing on the go. I am about to start hiking in the desert and I wonder if I should carry saline IV bags to try to treat my inevitable dehydration that will occur after I've shampooed 3 times in the morning. Will you make me feel better about my analysis?
Smart hikers will just recycle their urine. Carry some powdered Kool-Aid to give it some flavor, and you'll be all set.
I know people don't RTFA, but at least RTFS.
Lol, this is slashdot, not some "news" site with interesting and informative articles.
I'd have to give back my "Never Read A Summary" badge if I started reading summaries all willy-nilly.
True, and so 0.0001% of the population will benefit from this.
A faster way to drain the battery is by putting it in the microwave for ~2 minutes on "High".
"Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful?"
"No", and "hell no".
Why not just carry a phone? I really don't see what advantage a pager has over a phone these days, to be honest.
Ah, Fractint....I'd forgotten all about that. :)
What a blast we had with that. It still took forever to render a zoom, but exploring the Mandelbrot was one of the cool things you could do with a PC back then.
Actually, that *is* how it works...Senate staffers "request guidance" from industry execs, they write up whatever wet-dream they want for legislation and it is often incorporated *exactly* as written. If you think this isn't how it works, you've not been paying attention. No, not every time, but often.
If I recall correctly it was supposed to be useful for Sim City, but I might be mistaken. There were one or two games that used it but hell if I remember what they were.
Yep, back in the 80s the idea of owning a gigabyte of hard drive space was fucking ludicrous...you might have well dreamed of owning your own Space Shuttle. No one had a clue as to what you would possibly do with that much space.
And of course the idea of having a whole gigabyte of RAM was something we used to laugh about hilariously. I mean, the idea was just ridiculously insane. It was more likely that Kelly LeBrock or Cheryl Tiegs would ring your doorbell in the next 5 minutes and demand to have hot, sleazy sex with you.
Yeah, I remember buying a tube of 16-pin DIP memory chips for an IBM AT clone...1 meg of memory for ~$300 if I remember correctly. And there wasn't a goddamn thing you could do with it except make a big ass disk cache. Yes, a 1M disk cache, enough for roughly 2 cat pictures today.
And I think I paid ~$200 for the math co-processor, which was even more useless. Talk about tits on a boar, it did nothing at all for anything I ran but it did fill the empty socket nicely.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
This is, sadly, an extremely accurate description of how things work now. The corporations provide "advice" and "policy position consulting" in the form of fully-written bills and treaty amendments, and the law makers just staple them into the binder.
I'm not kidding in the least, this is literally how it woks these days.
You wouldn't believe the amount of noobs complaining that "the price has dropped since I bought in, this wasn't supposed to happen"
Wait, there's risk involved? :) lol
Seriously, though...I know the dollar fluctuates and that's normal, but the value of Bitcoin (for example) seems to be wildly variable. Over the last 4 or 5 years it's gone from under $10 up to ~$1200 and is now (today) under $400...that kind of volatility seems crazy scary to me....if my bank balance was subject to that kind of real-world fluctuation I'd be freaking out every day. "I had $10,000 in the bank yesterday and today it's down to $2800...WTF?"
or "I forgot my wallet password, can you help me?". That's the most common "bad things" that can happen.
I hear you (and that's good advice) but if I lose my wallet somehow, no matter what, my money will still be in the bank. Even if someone uses my bankcard I'll still get my money back. Losing a wallet, virtual or otherwise, should never result in a financial disaster or an irrecoverable loss of funds.
What bullshit.
99.99999999999999% a GPS will take you exactly where you want to go. It's dunderheads that take off on a 10-mile trip and 800 miles later they finally "realize" that something's wrong. That's not really the fault of the GPS.
Or some idiot drives into a lake or down a jogging trail because he or she is just TOO STUPID to understand that they're not driving on a road anymore.
The GPS and its related gadgets are one of the great success stories of modern technology, so stop with these "Your GPS Will Kill You!" stories.
... but how does that one QUALIFY her for this job?
Nothing she has ever done has qualified her to be president of the United States, not even close.
She's a repulsive person, an unrepentant liar, a dissembler, a demagogue, an arrogant authoritarian, a bully, a dreadful CEO, a horrible human being, and a living example of the "uncanny valley".
They really should have spent more on CarlyBot's skin and facial expressions if they wanted people to think she was human. I mean, you could tell right away that it was all just animatronics.
"Important tweets", and it's said with a straight face as if such a thing actually exists.
"Important tweets" are like "important theological questions"....they basically don't exist, although I'd bet there are definitely tweets that are more important than any theological question.
Seriously, who can blame them?
Win 10 is basically spyware, and it would be the NSA's wet dream to have it installed on computers within the Russian government's offices.
I mean, how much easier could it get? No more having to spear-phish Russian officials and trick them into installing malware or spyware, just turn on the "Spy On Me" feature and paw through all their documents, emails, chats, forms, and file stores at will. Download nightly "backups" of their PCs and have a field day.
I don't want Win 10 installed on my PC, and I hardly have any secrets to keep.
The real headline: "Wired Loses Majority of Users"
Wired is okay (eh), but if I can't visit their site, my life won't be adversely affected.
If the question is, "You are a webmaster", then the answer is yes, I run several sites. What's your point?
Yes, I run several sites. What's your point?
I closed all but one window, and set the last window to "about:blank." Memory usage didn't even budge.
Yep. On my PC after a while Firefox routinely climbs to gobble up 1.9 GB of RAM and then starts to screw up. I close all the windows and leave just one tab loaded, and it's still sucking up 1.9 GB. I close that last window and it frees up all the memory.
Firefox has been doing this for years with no end or fix in sight. If they were going to fix just one problem, this would be the one I'd suggest.
"...the man so many people call the real life Tony Stark has done an incredible job of bringing electric vehicles to the mainstream."
Errr, not to quibble, but a base model Tesla costs over $100,000....that's not exactly "mainstream" by any standard I'm aware of.
Lol, it's so easy to push your buttons, APK. All I have to do is...exist. :)
Prove your claim you worked for Microsoft blowhard.
I didn't, I worked for Microsoft Corporation. The Blowhard Division is down in California or someplace.
Here's an idea for a feature...make it stop inexorably sucking up more and more memory until it slows to a crawl and then crashes.
Now that would a cool feature.
QA still needs to test the entire product every single release, no matter what was added or changed.
Ha ha, only in theory.