You went about it the wrong way with Vonage. I had them for more than a decade because calls overseas are pretty cheap. I never had a problem with them, but the service steady increased in price over the years and I was getting annoyed with it. We have been using FaceTime for international calls for a few years now and I moved over to another VoIP company and all I pay them is about $4.70 in taxes for their free service.
What I did was port my number over. The second it completed, bye-bye Vonage. They didn't even send me an email about it, they just cancelled the auto-pay, my account vanished off their site, and we wound up essentially ghosting each other.
At that time the Republicans were in control of the senate and the Democrats held a large majority in the house. That's why they mention it as an "upset victory".
The Democrats could have easily put the brakes on Reagan's policies, but they chose not to. This was never mentioned in the study materials.*
* Just to be fair, I'm not claiming left-wing indoctrination in this class. I'm just pointing out an example. I am fully aware that Reagan was also responsible for the debt run up - it was his policies congress voted to approve, after all.
The game of nuclear brinksmanship pretty much ended. The iron curtain fell as Eastern Bloc puppet states broke away from Soviet control. Millions of people gained freedom. The Berlin Wall fell. The Solidarity Union in Poland. Relations between the US and Russia improved considerably - yeah, relations with Russia now are not all that good, but it is far better than it was in the 1950's - 1980's.
If people want to lay the blame on Reagan for the debt he rang up bankrupting the USSR, it was worth it.
An article I read called the data "sensitive", which in itself does not mean anything.
What I gleaned is that the data was unclassified, but when aggregated together, classified information can be gleaned from it.
You seem to have the idea, but for the sake of others here, this is an example that is not a car analogy:
Materials A & B, processes C, C', & C'' and product D are all unclassified
Which process you use affects the end quality/effectiveness/cost of D.
So we have a list of studies on A and B on the server, with D being the desired result. Some process studies over C, C' and C'' and a bill from accounts payable for purchasing equipment to manufacture unspecified items via process C that coincide with the lifecycle of the contract to manufacture D. With all that together, we know what limitations are on D and can work on effective countermeasures.
Even better, when driving with the hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the wheel, they are easily within your field of view* ticket her every time she puts her hands on the steering wheel. If you feel some mercy, just wait until the screen activates then do it.
* unless you are one of those granny drivers. Those of you who are old enough remember them well - 1970's huge car with whitewall tires and a huge steering wheel. Look in your rearview mirror and see it lumbering behind you and all you see are two disembodied hands grasping the wheel.
This went to the SCOTUS, and they said that it was constitutional as long as they did not grant copyright in perpetuity, they can keep on extending piecemeal it as long as they want to.
I think the reason Disney always gets mentioned is that every time Steamboat Wille gets close to going into the public domain, Congress adds another extension to the copyright.
That's what happened last time this came up. There was a big fight brewing over this, Sonny Bono - a former entertainer, ex-husband of Cher, and then a politician, wrapped himself around a tree at a ski slope and died. They then attached his name to the legislation and got it passed. The other name for the legislation was the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" - because it was quite clear on why exactly they were passing this and why they were in such a rush to do so.
A Chinese scholar just discovered a long lost 14th century docx file declaring the sea around Japan as Chinese sovereign territory, pushing aside a Korean waving a 15th century PDF file claiming it was theirs.
Back when he battery slowdown fiasco was coming to a head, I elected to take my out-of-warranty iPhone 6+ and swap the battery (iFixit brand) myself.
This went well and good until Apple decided to announce their own program 2 weeks later.
iOS 11.3 with the new battery diagnostics is a new problem. While the phone is perfectly able to report the charge amount of the battery, and it dutifully reports low battery notifications, it does not apparently work the same when the battery is near exhaustion. Now when the phone powers off due to a depleted battery, it no longer displays the "empty battery" symbol and shuts off. No, it tries to reboot itself and goes into a boot loop - which cannot be good for the phone or the battery. Once that happens, all you can do is plug it in and let it go until it gets enough of a charge to stop doing it.
iOS 11.3 also helpfully says the phone/battery requires service. Which they won't do now because there's a 3rd party battery installed. Doubly screwing the owner and killing the resale/trade-in market at the same time.
What was really interesting is that for a while when TRU went online, they did not run their own website - weren't they originally hosted on Amazon back in 2000?
The latency is not 45 seconds, it's more like 2-3 seconds. The Mac app is very quick and shows the slowdown isn't in the cloud service.
The problem is the bloat/slowdown in their iOS offering. Part of the issue was the battery slowdown, where I was getting 40+ second connection times. After a new battery, it is around 20 seconds - still too slow.
They need to rethink the mobile app and speed it up a bit.
Have you ever seen the DVD/Blu-Ray displays at stores?
I remember when some of the classic Disney animated films came out, the store display said quite plainly that you "own it" - Not license it. See here (top photo) for a Disney Store advertisement for Snow White. Not only do you own it, the display says you own three different versions of it - the physical media, A digital copy, and what I assume is their multi-platform watch anywhere service version.
I'm sure 100% of those 2,000+ movies they dropped were shit. I know that's true because, back then and to this day, 99.9% of all streaming movies on Netflix are shit. That's really the problem.
You sure about that?
Disney is going away soon. Netflix already lost The Criterion Collection, MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. 4-5 years ago.
They won't approve of it for several reasons: 1. They'll have fewer people to tax 2. Most of the areas affected by environmental controls will be lost 3. Can't let another state in the union that will likely add two more republican senators to the US Senate. 4. What happens if you piss off New California? Someone will turn off the water tap.
This is not much different than years ago when they wanted to split into a north and south California. If you draw the border right, you can still keep the Democrat supermajority in both halves and add two more Democrat senators to the US senate.
We had a TV with four tuning dials. Two concentric ones on top, one for channels 2-13 that made a loud "ker-thunk" as you flipped it through the notches. A smaller concentric one to fine-adjust the tuning. TV took a good 20 seconds or so to "turn on and warm up".
Fixing said TV by getting stickers to put on the tubes in the back and taking the tubes to the nearest drugstore to use the tube-tester machine.
Then there was the other set of magic concentric dials. Those were the UHF channels. Those were where the gold was found in the after-school hours: F-Troop, Addams Family, Little Rascals, Three Stooges, Mc Hale's Navy, Dr. Who, Speed Racer, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Kimba. Hell, there was even Abbot and Costello for a while. I miss KBSC-TV, good old channel 52.
Another thing you don't see anymore: Schlocky B movies at 2 or 3 AM. The infomercials killed all that stuff off.
No cable, but we had ONTV and SelectTV. The former used to show screeners for the Oscars back before we had VCRs.
Watching the trailer for Star Wars in the theater and wondering what the what's the big deal about a movie with a big screaming monkey flying a spaceship.
Everyone going apeshit when Star Wars was broadcast on TV for the first time (on ONTV as pay-per-view).
Back in the days it was illegal to hook up anything to the phone line other than the phone you rented from Ma Bell. And when that finally ended, you could buy push-button phones that didn't dial any faster than the old rotary phones - because of pulse dialing.
Paying extra each month to GTE for touch tone dialing that took forever to connect, because GTE converted the tones back to pulse back in the central office in order to connect the call. The joy of typing papers on an IBM Selectric II typewriter - one with the correction tape in it. You knew what a Maxell XL-IIS was for, as well as the TDK SA - and why they were popular. Not only did we have cassettes, the decks we played them in had switches for CrO2 and Metal. These were not for music genres. Dolby used to be all about getting rid of hiss on your tapes. You knew what wow and flutter was.
Facebook connected me with someone I had brief contact with from back in the late 1980â(TM)s and FIDO BBSâ(TM)s. Predating my time on the Internet, this was puzzling to me.
It turned out I contacted them once via hotmail and that was it.
Yet somehow Facebook has this information, and to this day continually lists them in the âoepeople you may knowâ section.
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You went about it the wrong way with Vonage. I had them for more than a decade because calls overseas are pretty cheap. I never had a problem with them, but the service steady increased in price over the years and I was getting annoyed with it. We have been using FaceTime for international calls for a few years now and I moved over to another VoIP company and all I pay them is about $4.70 in taxes for their free service.
What I did was port my number over. The second it completed, bye-bye Vonage. They didn't even send me an email about it, they just cancelled the auto-pay, my account vanished off their site, and we wound up essentially ghosting each other.
They are pretty uniform right now.
If the republicans (or Trump) wants it, then it's a "NO" and they vote pretty much as a single bloc.
And in all fairness, the Republicans did pretty much the same thing when Obama was in office.
Things were not that way 20-30+ years ago, when compromise could be found between moderates on both sides.
At that time the Republicans were in control of the senate and the Democrats held a large majority in the house. That's why they mention it as an "upset victory".
The Democrats could have easily put the brakes on Reagan's policies, but they chose not to. This was never mentioned in the study materials.*
* Just to be fair, I'm not claiming left-wing indoctrination in this class. I'm just pointing out an example. I am fully aware that Reagan was also responsible for the debt run up - it was his policies congress voted to approve, after all.
Seriously?
The game of nuclear brinksmanship pretty much ended. The iron curtain fell as Eastern Bloc puppet states broke away from Soviet control. Millions of people gained freedom. The Berlin Wall fell. The Solidarity Union in Poland. Relations between the US and Russia improved considerably - yeah, relations with Russia now are not all that good, but it is far better than it was in the 1950's - 1980's.
If people want to lay the blame on Reagan for the debt he rang up bankrupting the USSR, it was worth it.
Sure. This is why my kid had on their history final that Reagan ran up the national debt and turned the US from the #1 creditor to a debtor nation.
The difference from Obama was the political parties running congress and the executive were swapped. So - the blame got swapped too.
Smell-O-Vision?
I prefer Feel-Around
Man as woman?
Is it possible that it is just trying to be PC and substitute woman for man when the context isn't necessarily important?
Like the phrase "Every man for himself" would occasionally translate to "Every woman for herself" - you know, for the sake of inclusiveness.
Does it ever screw up the other way around?
An article I read called the data "sensitive", which in itself does not mean anything.
What I gleaned is that the data was unclassified, but when aggregated together, classified information can be gleaned from it.
You seem to have the idea, but for the sake of others here, this is an example that is not a car analogy:
Materials A & B, processes C, C', & C'' and product D are all unclassified
Which process you use affects the end quality/effectiveness/cost of D.
So we have a list of studies on A and B on the server, with D being the desired result. Some process studies over C, C' and C'' and a bill from accounts payable for purchasing equipment to manufacture unspecified items via process C that coincide with the lifecycle of the contract to manufacture D. With all that together, we know what limitations are on D and can work on effective countermeasures.
This is what the stink is about.
Oh I agree she was distracted. But how is this going to pan out in the future? Will this extend to dumb watches as well? Digital and analog?
Can't use the wireless excuse for distracted driving watch-use since more and more dumb watches are synching time via radio or GPS now.
Even better, when driving with the hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the wheel, they are easily within your field of view* ticket her every time she puts her hands on the steering wheel. If you feel some mercy, just wait until the screen activates then do it.
* unless you are one of those granny drivers. Those of you who are old enough remember them well - 1970's huge car with whitewall tires and a huge steering wheel. Look in your rearview mirror and see it lumbering behind you and all you see are two disembodied hands grasping the wheel.
This went to the SCOTUS, and they said that it was constitutional as long as they did not grant copyright in perpetuity, they can keep on extending piecemeal it as long as they want to.
I think the reason Disney always gets mentioned is that every time Steamboat Wille gets close to going into the public domain, Congress adds another extension to the copyright.
That's what happened last time this came up. There was a big fight brewing over this, Sonny Bono - a former entertainer, ex-husband of Cher, and then a politician, wrapped himself around a tree at a ski slope and died. They then attached his name to the legislation and got it passed. The other name for the legislation was the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" - because it was quite clear on why exactly they were passing this and why they were in such a rush to do so.
So bots will build a wall around us and make us pay for it?
He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking.
A Chinese scholar just discovered a long lost 14th century docx file declaring the sea around Japan as Chinese sovereign territory, pushing aside a Korean waving a 15th century PDF file claiming it was theirs.
Back when he battery slowdown fiasco was coming to a head, I elected to take my out-of-warranty iPhone 6+ and swap the battery (iFixit brand) myself.
This went well and good until Apple decided to announce their own program 2 weeks later.
iOS 11.3 with the new battery diagnostics is a new problem. While the phone is perfectly able to report the charge amount of the battery, and it dutifully reports low battery notifications, it does not apparently work the same when the battery is near exhaustion. Now when the phone powers off due to a depleted battery, it no longer displays the "empty battery" symbol and shuts off. No, it tries to reboot itself and goes into a boot loop - which cannot be good for the phone or the battery. Once that happens, all you can do is plug it in and let it go until it gets enough of a charge to stop doing it.
iOS 11.3 also helpfully says the phone/battery requires service. Which they won't do now because there's a 3rd party battery installed. Doubly screwing the owner and killing the resale/trade-in market at the same time.
What was really interesting is that for a while when TRU went online, they did not run their own website - weren't they originally hosted on Amazon back in 2000?
It appears so
The latency is not 45 seconds, it's more like 2-3 seconds. The Mac app is very quick and shows the slowdown isn't in the cloud service.
The problem is the bloat/slowdown in their iOS offering. Part of the issue was the battery slowdown, where I was getting 40+ second connection times. After a new battery, it is around 20 seconds - still too slow.
They need to rethink the mobile app and speed it up a bit.
Have you ever seen the DVD/Blu-Ray displays at stores?
I remember when some of the classic Disney animated films came out, the store display said quite plainly that you "own it" - Not license it. See here (top photo) for a Disney Store advertisement for Snow White. Not only do you own it, the display says you own three different versions of it - the physical media, A digital copy, and what I assume is their multi-platform watch anywhere service version.
I'm sure 100% of those 2,000+ movies they dropped were shit. I know that's true because, back then and to this day, 99.9% of all streaming movies on Netflix are shit. That's really the problem.
You sure about that?
Disney is going away soon. Netflix already lost The Criterion Collection, MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. 4-5 years ago.
They won't approve of it for several reasons:
1. They'll have fewer people to tax
2. Most of the areas affected by environmental controls will be lost
3. Can't let another state in the union that will likely add two more republican senators to the US Senate.
4. What happens if you piss off New California? Someone will turn off the water tap.
This is not much different than years ago when they wanted to split into a north and south California. If you draw the border right, you can still keep the Democrat supermajority in both halves and add two more Democrat senators to the US senate.
Wonder if the state legislature will go for that?
That's just to keep the American tourists from stealing them.
Meh,
We had a TV with four tuning dials.
Two concentric ones on top, one for channels 2-13 that made a loud "ker-thunk" as you flipped it through the notches. A smaller concentric one to fine-adjust the tuning. TV took a good 20 seconds or so to "turn on and warm up".
Fixing said TV by getting stickers to put on the tubes in the back and taking the tubes to the nearest drugstore to use the tube-tester machine.
Then there was the other set of magic concentric dials. Those were the UHF channels. Those were where the gold was found in the after-school hours: F-Troop, Addams Family, Little Rascals, Three Stooges, Mc Hale's Navy, Dr. Who, Speed Racer, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Kimba. Hell, there was even Abbot and Costello for a while. I miss KBSC-TV, good old channel 52.
Another thing you don't see anymore: Schlocky B movies at 2 or 3 AM. The infomercials killed all that stuff off.
No cable, but we had ONTV and SelectTV. The former used to show screeners for the Oscars back before we had VCRs.
Watching the trailer for Star Wars in the theater and wondering what the what's the big deal about a movie with a big screaming monkey flying a spaceship.
Everyone going apeshit when Star Wars was broadcast on TV for the first time (on ONTV as pay-per-view).
Back in the days it was illegal to hook up anything to the phone line other than the phone you rented from Ma Bell. And when that finally ended, you could buy push-button phones that didn't dial any faster than the old rotary phones - because of pulse dialing.
Paying extra each month to GTE for touch tone dialing that took forever to connect, because GTE converted the tones back to pulse back in the central office in order to connect the call.
The joy of typing papers on an IBM Selectric II typewriter - one with the correction tape in it.
You knew what a Maxell XL-IIS was for, as well as the TDK SA - and why they were popular.
Not only did we have cassettes, the decks we played them in had switches for CrO2 and Metal. These were not for music genres.
Dolby used to be all about getting rid of hiss on your tapes.
You knew what wow and flutter was.
Not only IP addresses.
Facebook connected me with someone I had brief contact with from back in the late 1980â(TM)s and FIDO BBSâ(TM)s. Predating my time on the Internet, this was puzzling to me.
It turned out I contacted them once via hotmail and that was it.
Yet somehow Facebook has this information, and to this day continually lists them in the âoepeople you may knowâ section.
Women make up 18% of college CS students.
That's a good point, and the basis for a lot of receipting effort to put girls and women in STEM.
On the other hand, women's enrollment in college is outpacing that of men.
So now we see a general trend developing since the 1970's and getting worse, so where's the effort to close this 10 percentage point gap?
If he'd have asked me if I had any alcohol and I said "none of you're f#@king business, pig!" I suspect the outcome would have been very different.
Ah, someone who took Chris Rock's advice on "How not to get your ass kicked by the police" to heart.