Like you have a choice... (or, if you do, you're far luckier than I am. My choices are: do I want cable (which sucks), or would I prefer dsl (which also sucks)? I certainly don't have any choice of *providers* of either of those services.
That said, I just wikipedia'd it, and amazingly enough, Charter is not (currently) on the list. I can't believe Charter is actually doing something better than Verizon. Too bad I went with verizon.
Every so often, slashdot decides to uncheck the "Disable advertising" checkbox for me, and I have to go recheck it (after I notice, several days later, when an ad gets through adblock). All totally worth it for this moment: this very page has a banner ad at the top for me, wherein MetroPCS is advertising unlimited 4G-LTE for 60 bucks a month. (Which still seems a -tad- pricey, but then, I don't have 4G yet anyway.)
They are, though they also allow free roaming to verizon in the US for text and voice (data is still limited to Sprint's network; it sounded like Verizon was going to charge them up the rear for voice roaming, and they said screw you.)
Note: if I had paid for a 4g phone, which I didn't cause I preferred buying a perfectly good refurb 3g phone for 25 bucks instead, but if I had, that also would have been "unlimited" 4g, too (i.e. pay for the amount of data you use, but no extra cost for it being at 4g instead of 3g, or any limit to the amount of it that can be 4g.)
60 dollars for 500mb of 3g data. I suppose that's cheap for verizon, the king of overcharging you, but considering MetroPCS and TMobile give you unlimited 3g for significantly less (along with potentially not-unlimited 4g), that's still pretty hilarious. Why would anyone pay more for less? It's not like verizon has better customer service (hah!) or even significantly better coverage.
(That said, I'm actually using a much smaller provider called Ting. It's not unlimited anything, but I'm on target to spend a whopping 15 bucks a month on phone service, including data (because I don't use very much data, or very much anything else.))
I would say that the difference is: any religion will have crazy fringe sects encouraging their members to do completely absurd things, and punishing those who choose not to in horrible ways... but Scientology is one of a rather small number of religions where that isn't a fringe sect, but the entire body. (By which I mean recently - several hundred years ago, the world was a very different, far more violent place. Yes, mainstream religions were going around killing everyone, but *everyone* was going around killing everyone.)
That and, while all religions have some absurdities in their holy works... to my knowledge, no other religions feature alien space ships that just happen to look almost identical to modern commercial airliners.
Having a phone connection is *exactly* as crucial to everyday life as internet access around here... because Verizon won't let you not pay for a phone line if you want internet around here. (Or rather, if you really insist, they will, but they'll charge you about 10 dollars more for not having a phone line than for having one.)
I'm not sure about both, but I would probably give one of them for Joss Whedon to write and direct a screenplay based on the Thrawn trilogy. Not sure what Joss Whedon would do with a giant pile of balls, but I'm sure he could think of something. He's pretty creative.
I can certainly vouch for their incompetence: my girlfriend recently started watching Bones, which is apparently only available (at least without paying more) on Netflix. Every time she starts watching it, our internet becomes basically unuseable for any other purpose until she quits netflix. After suffering this for a couple months, I said I'd just torrent the rest of it for her even though she can get it legally, because it is seriously driving me crazy. Now she just streams it off my computer while I'm home.
On the other hand, when she streams the same quality video from Amazon, Hulu, or any of a number of other smaller remote streaming video sources Roku supports, I can still use our internet without any issue. And it's not like I have awful internet. Well, I do, it's verizon, so it's not exactly the most reliable, but it's *supposed* to be 7mpbs, and lives up to that is at least a majority of the time that Netflix isn't running.
A large space, but still an easily searchable one, given enough time, and a system that allows dictionary attacks, which many do, even though it would be easy enough to disallow it.
So why do that, when it's easy enough to use words that are still words, but not words in standard dictionaries? (i.e. names of fictional characters, words made up by the company you work for or that are specific jargon of your field, internet memes, etc.)
Yep, me too. I thought about modding it up, but decided instead to let everyone know that the parent's link is a link to an extremely good short story and/or novel, and that they should therefore all read one or both of them.
Good thing we're just talking about cloning, not time travel. Or at least not the time travel of that book.
I dunno what you're talking about... seems to me, every time I've turned on a regular cable news station, doesn't matter which one, it seems the format you described is already one they've adopted. So people *must* like watching crap like that, or why would they all be pushing it, instead of actual news?
I don't see any particular issue with having touchscreen-enabled laptops, assuming a. they still have a standard input device as well, b. you can turn off the touchscreen if it's getting in the way, and c. it doesn't universally raise the prices on everything. That's the biggest issue - I can see laptop companies colluding to tell everyone, guess what, touchscreens cost 200 dollars over the base, and also, you can't buy a laptop without a touchscreen anymore, you just have to pay 200 dollars more than last year. But you want a touchscreen, so it works out!
Um... no. Are you trolling, or just stupid? If you leave expensive electronics visible inside your car, park your car at the curb in a busy metropolitan area, don't lock the doors, and leave for a few hours, you should not be surprised to find that your expensive electronics aren't there when you return. Did you do anything morally wrong? No. Are the thieves totally at fault for the theft? Legally, yes, but you're still an idiot if you think criminal behavior wasn't likely to be the outcome of that situation.
There's a big difference between the usual retarded "she was asking for it by dressing that way" faux-argument, and getting blackout drunk at a party. Was this rape? Yes. Was she "to blame" for the behavior of other people? No, but if I had a daughter, I would still make sure they realized the harm that she would very likely be opening herself up to by getting riotously drunk in a situation like this. For that matter, I'd make sure any male offspring knew that too. It's not a question of who was to "blame", it's a question of protecting yourself.
That's what I was wondering. Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia are not exactly tech schools. And my alma mater, Harvey Mudd is just as much a tech school as MIT or CalTech, and I'm sure just as hard to get into these days. I was hoping to see it mentioned, too. (Though to be fair, it's quite a bit smaller, so I wasn't terribly surprised to see it wasn't. Still, Harvard. Not a tech school.)
Not always idiocy. Sounds like a project I actually worked on called PhotoDocs (though not the hardware; that was just something the owner of the company thought would be fun to make to show off the software). The software, which did eventually get released as a tool bundled with the main client application (though I don't think it contained any of the code we wrote by that point), would help you batch "scan", import and OCR images taken using a regular digital camera, which was actually a pretty neat idea, if you want to "scan" a bunch of documents (or even other things with textual information on them; we had some great test images of signs, plaques, etc.) while you're not at the office, but you want them in your document repository later when you get back.
As I said, while we were working on the software as a R&D type project, the owner of the company put together basically just a box you could stick a camera in and it would give you the optimal results. Totally silly, but hey, it worked pretty well (sort of defeated the purpose, though, being that the software was supposed to help you OCR pictures taken in *not* totally optimal conditions...)
I'm sure those trolls would try to sue photodocs users just the same if they could, though. Patent trolls don't really work based on "is this infringement", they work on "can we sue people who won't fight back":p.
I'm just a regular boring software developer there, but I'm kind of sad to see we're not on the list of members, now, being that our company is all *about* removing paper from offices. Would have been such a great message for kicking off our annual user conference next week. I'm sure "member" equals "put in bucketloads of money", though.
The Super Mario Brothers space? You sell document management solutions in the mushroom kingdom? That sounds way more exciting than the company I work at; we just sell it to regional governments and school systems and things.:p
Hey, a Santa Cruzian! My first thought at seeing the parent comment was also Rio midnight movies. I haven't lived there in years, but I still remember them, they were lots of fun. Of course, being that they were at midnight, I probably wouldn't ever go to one anymore anyway... (I remember being a teenager, too. When midnight was a perfectly reasonable time to go see a movie with friends.)
"7 mile boots"? I've never heard of those. You mean "7 league boots"? I never heard people talk about "leagues" anywhere else, and don't even know precisely how long a league is, but that's what I've always heard them called. (Which is a great example of exactly what you're talking about, and which I agree with. English is *full* of words and phrases that used to be just standard speech, but now just exist in one particular idiom and would be weird elsewhere.)
I stay loyal to a certain airline (namely Southwest) because they're actually a good airline, "good" in this case being defined as "actually tries a bit to care about their customers, unlike most airlines, and for that matter, most large companies in any business". The fact that I get frequent flier miles is just a nice side bonus. I'm totally willing to pay a little more to fly with them, even when I'm the one paying for it (though only a little more).
Then again, I also don't really care about giving out personal data to really just about anyone who asks (other than stuff they could use to rip me off, like passwords and stuff.)
Really? Generally speaking, when I was in school, when I turned in a homework assignment, I was told where I messed up, and then went on to the next assignment. Only rather rarely was I given even one assignment to fix any of my previous mistakes, as far as coding went, and the only time there was any kind of "keep fixing it until it's fixed" mentality to any school-related project was my whole-year-long senior project... which was part of a program designed to give us real-world experience by giving us actual real-world assignments paid for by companies. (The company I was working for that year hired me when I graduated, and I'm still working there!)
Yes, sometimes due to deadlines (or simple cost-benefit analysis), not everything will always be perfect when it ships, but I'd certainly always take code written by a company and designed to be shipped, over code designed to be written and turned in as a homework assignment...
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Like you have a choice... (or, if you do, you're far luckier than I am. My choices are: do I want cable (which sucks), or would I prefer dsl (which also sucks)? I certainly don't have any choice of *providers* of either of those services.
That said, I just wikipedia'd it, and amazingly enough, Charter is not (currently) on the list. I can't believe Charter is actually doing something better than Verizon. Too bad I went with verizon.
Every so often, slashdot decides to uncheck the "Disable advertising" checkbox for me, and I have to go recheck it (after I notice, several days later, when an ad gets through adblock). All totally worth it for this moment: this very page has a banner ad at the top for me, wherein MetroPCS is advertising unlimited 4G-LTE for 60 bucks a month. (Which still seems a -tad- pricey, but then, I don't have 4G yet anyway.)
They are, though they also allow free roaming to verizon in the US for text and voice (data is still limited to Sprint's network; it sounded like Verizon was going to charge them up the rear for voice roaming, and they said screw you.)
Note: if I had paid for a 4g phone, which I didn't cause I preferred buying a perfectly good refurb 3g phone for 25 bucks instead, but if I had, that also would have been "unlimited" 4g, too (i.e. pay for the amount of data you use, but no extra cost for it being at 4g instead of 3g, or any limit to the amount of it that can be 4g.)
60 dollars for 500mb of 3g data. I suppose that's cheap for verizon, the king of overcharging you, but considering MetroPCS and TMobile give you unlimited 3g for significantly less (along with potentially not-unlimited 4g), that's still pretty hilarious. Why would anyone pay more for less? It's not like verizon has better customer service (hah!) or even significantly better coverage.
(That said, I'm actually using a much smaller provider called Ting. It's not unlimited anything, but I'm on target to spend a whopping 15 bucks a month on phone service, including data (because I don't use very much data, or very much anything else.))
I would say that the difference is: any religion will have crazy fringe sects encouraging their members to do completely absurd things, and punishing those who choose not to in horrible ways... but Scientology is one of a rather small number of religions where that isn't a fringe sect, but the entire body. (By which I mean recently - several hundred years ago, the world was a very different, far more violent place. Yes, mainstream religions were going around killing everyone, but *everyone* was going around killing everyone.)
That and, while all religions have some absurdities in their holy works... to my knowledge, no other religions feature alien space ships that just happen to look almost identical to modern commercial airliners.
Not sure how exactly you "read" goatse, which I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the top hits got a fair amount of over the weekend...
Having a phone connection is *exactly* as crucial to everyday life as internet access around here... because Verizon won't let you not pay for a phone line if you want internet around here. (Or rather, if you really insist, they will, but they'll charge you about 10 dollars more for not having a phone line than for having one.)
I'm not sure about both, but I would probably give one of them for Joss Whedon to write and direct a screenplay based on the Thrawn trilogy. Not sure what Joss Whedon would do with a giant pile of balls, but I'm sure he could think of something. He's pretty creative.
I can certainly vouch for their incompetence: my girlfriend recently started watching Bones, which is apparently only available (at least without paying more) on Netflix. Every time she starts watching it, our internet becomes basically unuseable for any other purpose until she quits netflix. After suffering this for a couple months, I said I'd just torrent the rest of it for her even though she can get it legally, because it is seriously driving me crazy. Now she just streams it off my computer while I'm home.
On the other hand, when she streams the same quality video from Amazon, Hulu, or any of a number of other smaller remote streaming video sources Roku supports, I can still use our internet without any issue. And it's not like I have awful internet. Well, I do, it's verizon, so it's not exactly the most reliable, but it's *supposed* to be 7mpbs, and lives up to that is at least a majority of the time that Netflix isn't running.
Netflix sucks.
A large space, but still an easily searchable one, given enough time, and a system that allows dictionary attacks, which many do, even though it would be easy enough to disallow it.
So why do that, when it's easy enough to use words that are still words, but not words in standard dictionaries? (i.e. names of fictional characters, words made up by the company you work for or that are specific jargon of your field, internet memes, etc.)
Yep, me too. I thought about modding it up, but decided instead to let everyone know that the parent's link is a link to an extremely good short story and/or novel, and that they should therefore all read one or both of them.
Good thing we're just talking about cloning, not time travel. Or at least not the time travel of that book.
I dunno what you're talking about... seems to me, every time I've turned on a regular cable news station, doesn't matter which one, it seems the format you described is already one they've adopted. So people *must* like watching crap like that, or why would they all be pushing it, instead of actual news?
I don't see any particular issue with having touchscreen-enabled laptops, assuming a. they still have a standard input device as well, b. you can turn off the touchscreen if it's getting in the way, and c. it doesn't universally raise the prices on everything. That's the biggest issue - I can see laptop companies colluding to tell everyone, guess what, touchscreens cost 200 dollars over the base, and also, you can't buy a laptop without a touchscreen anymore, you just have to pay 200 dollars more than last year. But you want a touchscreen, so it works out!
Oh, to have some mod points right now... You'll have to accept this virtual "+1 Funny" instead.
Um... no. Are you trolling, or just stupid? If you leave expensive electronics visible inside your car, park your car at the curb in a busy metropolitan area, don't lock the doors, and leave for a few hours, you should not be surprised to find that your expensive electronics aren't there when you return. Did you do anything morally wrong? No. Are the thieves totally at fault for the theft? Legally, yes, but you're still an idiot if you think criminal behavior wasn't likely to be the outcome of that situation.
There's a big difference between the usual retarded "she was asking for it by dressing that way" faux-argument, and getting blackout drunk at a party. Was this rape? Yes. Was she "to blame" for the behavior of other people? No, but if I had a daughter, I would still make sure they realized the harm that she would very likely be opening herself up to by getting riotously drunk in a situation like this. For that matter, I'd make sure any male offspring knew that too. It's not a question of who was to "blame", it's a question of protecting yourself.
That's what I was wondering. Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia are not exactly tech schools. And my alma mater, Harvey Mudd is just as much a tech school as MIT or CalTech, and I'm sure just as hard to get into these days. I was hoping to see it mentioned, too. (Though to be fair, it's quite a bit smaller, so I wasn't terribly surprised to see it wasn't. Still, Harvard. Not a tech school.)
Not always idiocy. Sounds like a project I actually worked on called PhotoDocs (though not the hardware; that was just something the owner of the company thought would be fun to make to show off the software). The software, which did eventually get released as a tool bundled with the main client application (though I don't think it contained any of the code we wrote by that point), would help you batch "scan", import and OCR images taken using a regular digital camera, which was actually a pretty neat idea, if you want to "scan" a bunch of documents (or even other things with textual information on them; we had some great test images of signs, plaques, etc.) while you're not at the office, but you want them in your document repository later when you get back.
As I said, while we were working on the software as a R&D type project, the owner of the company put together basically just a box you could stick a camera in and it would give you the optimal results. Totally silly, but hey, it worked pretty well (sort of defeated the purpose, though, being that the software was supposed to help you OCR pictures taken in *not* totally optimal conditions...)
I'm sure those trolls would try to sue photodocs users just the same if they could, though. Patent trolls don't really work based on "is this infringement", they work on "can we sue people who won't fight back" :p.
I'm just a regular boring software developer there, but I'm kind of sad to see we're not on the list of members, now, being that our company is all *about* removing paper from offices. Would have been such a great message for kicking off our annual user conference next week. I'm sure "member" equals "put in bucketloads of money", though.
The Super Mario Brothers space? You sell document management solutions in the mushroom kingdom? That sounds way more exciting than the company I work at; we just sell it to regional governments and school systems and things. :p
Hey, a Santa Cruzian! My first thought at seeing the parent comment was also Rio midnight movies. I haven't lived there in years, but I still remember them, they were lots of fun. Of course, being that they were at midnight, I probably wouldn't ever go to one anymore anyway... (I remember being a teenager, too. When midnight was a perfectly reasonable time to go see a movie with friends.)
"7 mile boots"? I've never heard of those. You mean "7 league boots"? I never heard people talk about "leagues" anywhere else, and don't even know precisely how long a league is, but that's what I've always heard them called. (Which is a great example of exactly what you're talking about, and which I agree with. English is *full* of words and phrases that used to be just standard speech, but now just exist in one particular idiom and would be weird elsewhere.)
Should really be in idle.
I stay loyal to a certain airline (namely Southwest) because they're actually a good airline, "good" in this case being defined as "actually tries a bit to care about their customers, unlike most airlines, and for that matter, most large companies in any business". The fact that I get frequent flier miles is just a nice side bonus. I'm totally willing to pay a little more to fly with them, even when I'm the one paying for it (though only a little more).
Then again, I also don't really care about giving out personal data to really just about anyone who asks (other than stuff they could use to rip me off, like passwords and stuff.)
Really? Generally speaking, when I was in school, when I turned in a homework assignment, I was told where I messed up, and then went on to the next assignment. Only rather rarely was I given even one assignment to fix any of my previous mistakes, as far as coding went, and the only time there was any kind of "keep fixing it until it's fixed" mentality to any school-related project was my whole-year-long senior project... which was part of a program designed to give us real-world experience by giving us actual real-world assignments paid for by companies. (The company I was working for that year hired me when I graduated, and I'm still working there!)
Yes, sometimes due to deadlines (or simple cost-benefit analysis), not everything will always be perfect when it ships, but I'd certainly always take code written by a company and designed to be shipped, over code designed to be written and turned in as a homework assignment...