I've read that claim before and think it's kinda crap, from my experience. In fact I'm connected right now via bluetooth and ev-do and went to dslreprorts and ran a speed test. Here it is...
Your download speed : 483 kbps or 60.4 KB/sec.
That is 14.4% better than an average user on myvzw.com
Your upload speed : 38 kbps or 4.7 KB/sec.
That is 81% worse than an average user on myvzw.com
This is over bluetooth from a Powerbook to a motorola e815 and then out via ev-do.
Bluetooth can be used as a link in internet access using a mobile phone, e.g. laptop -> bt -> cell phone -> (GPRS, EDGE, or EVDO) -> Internet
Bluetooth slows down net access for users of ev-do for example, so verizon only "supports" access this way using a usb cable. Pulling out a usb cable to connect between laptop and cell phone is, well, so 20th Century.
8. Businesses sold on the "Software Assurance" and other licensing gimmicks are getting very aggervated at was could be considered bait-and-switch (get SA, get updates.. oh wait, we don't have updates because we are delaying ALL of our major products..)
Actually that's a pretty big one. With 5 years between releases, unless SA is less than 20% of retail price (which it isn't) then it really has been a "bad deal."
There was a story in our local paper a while back about someone who had the vehicle vanity tag of "UNKNOWN" and the owner started getting issued all sorts of automated red light camera tickets shortly after the city started installing red light cameras. Turns out the system that would OCR scan the violaters would enter the word UNKNOWN in the license field for the ticket if the car that was photographed running the light was missing its tags or they were otherwise illegible.
40,000 people are killed in auto accidents every year in the U.S. and the only news it creates is the story about the traffic jam that it causes. But if a plane or train has one and a few people die, it makes big news and people become afraid to travel of plane or train.
Thanks for that post since I've been seeing loads of CPU overload issues too. I thought all this time it must be just me, and even figured must be an extension I used since no way the core code could have this problem all these years. I often get CPU hitting 100% when doing absolutely nothing. I do tend to have loads of tabs open. It hits 100% and stays there for what seems like ages (15-30 minutes) before calming down. I have quit all tabs but one but it rarely helps. I usually just quit the program and restart.
My 12" G4 lacks one and I've missed it because Verizon won't sell their broadband wireless net access except by using a PC Card.
What pisses me off was, through a hack, I got my e815 bluetooth Verizon phone to connect in to their broadband network just fine, but they apparently can't add the $60 unlimited package price to my account because accessing their broadband EV-DO network through my phone like that is unsupported and I hence have to buy the card and have the ESN of it authorized for it.
That is something I never quite understood about Blizzard. They should do more for the casual player. When you think about the resources each kind of player consumes, hard-core 16-hour-day guys demanding new and greater epic world events or casual players just logging in a few hours a week that would be thrilled to see it rain (for example), by far the latter group is the more profitable ones and should be encouraged to stay.
WoW addiction is a real danger, so I agree with you, but I also think with some self-control it can be fine. In my personal experience, what has suffered for me is TV viewing mainly. Both activities are quite a bit mindless!
Then again, I've been playing since January last year and my three chars are only up to 36, 40, and 47. I have never gone on a RAID, play mostly solo because I don't have the time to commit several hours to a raid without dropping out of it early and pissing off everyone. So guess I'm just not playing enough!
I do feel a bit bummed I'll never experience the end game content, but if this AQ thing has these bug things flying all through the rest of the world destroying stuff, I think that'd be fun enough for me to witness!
Without a service provider to back it, the phone is dead-on-arrival
With GSM, all is possible. They could either just sell an unlocked GSM phone and any GSM based user can move their SIM into it (providing it's not locked, not sure if us carriers lock their sims -- I know they lock their phones)
Or they could just enter a resell agreement with several GSM providers. T-mobile goes for the younger crowd for example.
GSM is very flexible. I think there are many avenues they could go this route, whether parterning outright or reselling service. Do you think Virgin pre-paid service in U.S. means Virgin has their own cell towers all over the U.S.?
Carl Icahn loves to gut companies and personally profit from the carnage. He took over TWA and drove them into the ground while profiting greatly from the fun. True, they were in trouble when he took it over, but his goal is never to fix a company, but to profit from the chaos. Kind of like a payday loan store, he does offer a service to those desperate for cash, but it's not about helping them rise out of debt. He provided the same "service" to Texaco.
How do you think he got the handle "Corporate Raider?"
I love t-mobile and the coverage isn't as bad as many make it out to be. I also have Verizon and carry both and have traveled a lot across the U.S. There are many places that t-mobile picks up a roaming signal where Verizon has none (like the High Line in Montana and large parts of rural Iowa) -- and they don't charge extra for roaming.
With t-mobile I can install loads of apps for my Symbian handset, has a decent imap email client, I can bluetooth files in and out of the phone, it has slow (GPRS) wireless net access, but it's only $20/mo unlimited, and they will sim-unlock a subsidized phone after just three months on request.
With Verizon, bluetooth is crippled, they won't sell me the data service for their bluetooth phones (even though you can hack the e815 to make dialup and some bluetooth profiles work), apps are charged on a monthly bases. If I want an imap email app it's $5/mo PLUS AIRTIME FOR USAGE, and SMS costs twice what t-mobile charges.
Oh, and t-mobile's roaming rates in Europe are reasonable (99c/min) -- can't roam there with Verizon at all.
He was supporting and funding the idea of a public Internet back when the Internet was educational/research only with strict rules against commercial activity.
He saw a similar network being able to be used by the public and for a while it was assumed that it would not be the then Internet but a separate one based on OSI protocol.
Instead the Internet rules were changed to allow commercial activity and it took off.
Gore popularized the term "Information Superhighway" to try to describe what it was to a populace that had no clue what the Internet was or capable of being.
Even today many politicians just don't get the net. That one saw the potential so well back 12 years ago is pretty impressive.
Nevada brothels are almost begging the state to tax them. They know full well that once the state is hooked on an income stream, they are not going to do something to get rid of it, like decide that prostitution should not be legal.
So maybe this is a good thing for the porn industry.
I have a dual-processor dual-core VMWare ESX server that doesn't emulate SMP so to each host it looks like a single processor. So I figure if I have 8 hosts running on that ESX server, each averages out to half a CPU so Oracle and others should only charge me half price since I'm only using half a processor Right?!
Actually the upper limit on early models was 4 megs, not 16 megs. Bits 30 and 31 were mapped into ROM and hardware addresses (respectively, if i recall correctly).
Still, a great machine. I bought one in April 1984 and was a Mac freak until System 7, at which point I switch to Windows. Back then the OS was just stagnating. Once boxes with OS X came out, I went out and got an iMac and fell back in love with Macs.
I started a druid and got it up to 29 and have grouped with quite a few people. I'm putting points into restoration and so far it's providing good healer services in groups. It also has the advantage of being decent soloing (so far) for when I don't have much time to play.
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Horde is also working on an AJAX rev of the mail client, called DIMP. Should be very nice whenever it's released.
Your download speed : 483 kbps or 60.4 KB/sec. That is 14.4% better than an average user on myvzw.com
Your upload speed : 38 kbps or 4.7 KB/sec. That is 81% worse than an average user on myvzw.com
This is over bluetooth from a Powerbook to a motorola e815 and then out via ev-do.
Bluetooth slows down net access for users of ev-do for example, so verizon only "supports" access this way using a usb cable. Pulling out a usb cable to connect between laptop and cell phone is, well, so 20th Century.
I use firefox most of the time when on a PC but when I gotta use IE for some reason this setting has proved to be very useful and comforting.
There was a story in our local paper a while back about someone who had the vehicle vanity tag of "UNKNOWN" and the owner started getting issued all sorts of automated red light camera tickets shortly after the city started installing red light cameras. Turns out the system that would OCR scan the violaters would enter the word UNKNOWN in the license field for the ticket if the car that was photographed running the light was missing its tags or they were otherwise illegible.
Be careful of your chosen names!
40,000 people are killed in auto accidents every year in the U.S. and the only news it creates is the story about the traffic jam that it causes. But if a plane or train has one and a few people die, it makes big news and people become afraid to travel of plane or train.
Thanks for that post since I've been seeing loads of CPU overload issues too. I thought all this time it must be just me, and even figured must be an extension I used since no way the core code could have this problem all these years. I often get CPU hitting 100% when doing absolutely nothing. I do tend to have loads of tabs open. It hits 100% and stays there for what seems like ages (15-30 minutes) before calming down. I have quit all tabs but one but it rarely helps. I usually just quit the program and restart.
What pisses me off was, through a hack, I got my e815 bluetooth Verizon phone to connect in to their broadband network just fine, but they apparently can't add the $60 unlimited package price to my account because accessing their broadband EV-DO network through my phone like that is unsupported and I hence have to buy the card and have the ESN of it authorized for it.
That is something I never quite understood about Blizzard. They should do more for the casual player. When you think about the resources each kind of player consumes, hard-core 16-hour-day guys demanding new and greater epic world events or casual players just logging in a few hours a week that would be thrilled to see it rain (for example), by far the latter group is the more profitable ones and should be encouraged to stay.
Then again, I've been playing since January last year and my three chars are only up to 36, 40, and 47. I have never gone on a RAID, play mostly solo because I don't have the time to commit several hours to a raid without dropping out of it early and pissing off everyone. So guess I'm just not playing enough!
I do feel a bit bummed I'll never experience the end game content, but if this AQ thing has these bug things flying all through the rest of the world destroying stuff, I think that'd be fun enough for me to witness!
How do you think he got the handle "Corporate Raider?"
With t-mobile I can install loads of apps for my Symbian handset, has a decent imap email client, I can bluetooth files in and out of the phone, it has slow (GPRS) wireless net access, but it's only $20/mo unlimited, and they will sim-unlock a subsidized phone after just three months on request.
With Verizon, bluetooth is crippled, they won't sell me the data service for their bluetooth phones (even though you can hack the e815 to make dialup and some bluetooth profiles work), apps are charged on a monthly bases. If I want an imap email app it's $5/mo PLUS AIRTIME FOR USAGE, and SMS costs twice what t-mobile charges.
Oh, and t-mobile's roaming rates in Europe are reasonable (99c/min) -- can't roam there with Verizon at all.
Ginger.
He saw a similar network being able to be used by the public and for a while it was assumed that it would not be the then Internet but a separate one based on OSI protocol.
Instead the Internet rules were changed to allow commercial activity and it took off.
Gore popularized the term "Information Superhighway" to try to describe what it was to a populace that had no clue what the Internet was or capable of being.
Even today many politicians just don't get the net. That one saw the potential so well back 12 years ago is pretty impressive.
They tax all illegal income, not a specific tax on the sale of the product.
OMG, I hate to just reply ROFL but I can't resist. Your post had me rolling!
Interesting. Like busting the mob through the IRS, not the criminal system. Gessh.
So maybe this is a good thing for the porn industry.
I have a dual-processor dual-core VMWare ESX server that doesn't emulate SMP so to each host it looks like a single processor. So I figure if I have 8 hosts running on that ESX server, each averages out to half a CPU so Oracle and others should only charge me half price since I'm only using half a processor Right?!
Looks like the 68000 only had a 24-bit address bus.
Thanks for the correction. (Insert standard Homer d'oh sound here).
Still, a great machine. I bought one in April 1984 and was a Mac freak until System 7, at which point I switch to Windows. Back then the OS was just stagnating. Once boxes with OS X came out, I went out and got an iMac and fell back in love with Macs.
I started a druid and got it up to 29 and have grouped with quite a few people. I'm putting points into restoration and so far it's providing good healer services in groups. It also has the advantage of being decent soloing (so far) for when I don't have much time to play.