The reason ISP's use the word "unlimited" in their advertisements is because it sells more accounts than if they don't.
The fact that they are lying is really not a relevant point.
Bullshit. That is the point. If there's a cap, fine. 100gig? OK, fine. Then simply tell us about it. And explain, with pretty pictures if necessary, that 100Gb is waaaay more than the average person uses per month, so there's nothing to worry about. We're not stupid people.
But don't advertise unlimited if it's not really unlimited.
If the police were to bust you for speeding, on a road that the police have said has no speed limit, you'd take them to court. I know I would.
How would it be different if he had been named Shawn Brown, instead of LaShawn Petus-Brown? He'd still be 'wanted', there would still be numerous news articles about him, including his picture, and she still might have called the FBI to check him out. The only difference is that there would have been more hits on that name.
When I was a little kid, a little girl named Emma would have been snickered at. That was an 'old lady' name. Today, that's a very common girls name.
Or even in a corporate environment. Oracle Forms and Reports uses the http://username:password construct in a standard 3-tier setup to pass user info back and forth to the DB.
Well...I asked about the 'average Iraqi', because I figured that's what the target of these questions would have the most experience with.
Sure, some are far worse off (former Ba'ath party members), and some are better off (potential new politicians).
If it had been posted as "A former political prisoner in Iraq wants to know about using computers as a knowledge multiplier...", I might have worded it differently.
Again..."How is the average, on the street, Iraqi citizen doing? Better or worse than a year ago. How will they be a year (or 5) from now?"
I may sound offtopic but its important to define your question if you want a proper answer. Otherwise it can both be true and false with varying interpretations.
No. You brought up a very valid qualifier. And I hope, if this question gets submitted, that the responder will target different segments of society in his answer. "These guys are doing ok, those guys are screwed, etc, etc"
Yes, I think it is. Various entities have said no, they're worse off. others have said they are better off.
I'd like to hear it from someone on the ground.
And you can keep your Dr Dean innuendos at home. If you can derive my political leanings from one simple question, you are truly a master.
Personally, I think they are much better off today. However, a real opinion from someone actually there would seem to count for much more that your or my opinion from thousands of miles away.
You obviously don't have enough stuff. You need enough stuff to provide a solid face on the desk. Multiple PC's and monitors.
All the cables are tangled up out of sight behind the big boxes. All I have visible is mouse/keyboard cables, and a camera connection cable, tucked under a monitor until I need it.
#1 motor transport stopped #2 Broken in the box. One of the buttons was pushed inside the case
#3 died after a couple of weeks.
When I took the last one back, I even made a coupla dollars profit. I had bought it on sale, ($350?), and they gave me current sticker price ($399) in refund.
My guess is that they got this number by comparing the sum of the populations of all the states which voted for Bush with the sum of the populations of all the states which voted for Gore.
Probably. Actually, I think County was the variable, not State.
I must say I don't know what you hope to demonstrate by the map you linked.
Only to show there are vastly differing ways of representing the data. I knew there would be a few here that would step up and condemn that map. For all we know... at the total population county level, that picture is accurate. Or it may be the scrawlings of demented monkeys. I did not go through the rigors of checking it. I did find it interesting, though.
The popular, individual vote(of those that chose to vote) slightly favored Gore. The populations those votes represent, in this particular instance, swing the other way.
That graphic could look vastly different, depending on what level of granularity you choose.
At the popular vote State level, it might look one way. At the individual household, it might look something completely different.
This number is basically meaningless. Imagine you have two states which vote 50.1% for Bush and 49.9% for Gore. Then the "population voting for Bush" would be the sum of the populations of each state, and the "population voting for Gore" would be 0.
Exactly
You cannot convince me this is a reasonable representation of the situation.
#4. For everyone else, I can choose to receive massive amounts of phone spam (unless #2). Why anyone would choose this option is beyond me.
It will be opt-out. And routinely, your phone service will reset your preferences. "We're giving you new features, blah de blah".
And it should be easily implemented in software.
Not a chance. Buried 4 menus deep (and off the main screen), with probably very misleading verbiage. "Do you want to turn on the negative notification refusal option? Y/N."
It is in their (not our) best interests for you to have it on.
I can see how driving past Restarant A's location with the location software on might be annoying, but, at the same time, if I'm specifically looking for something to eat, then, to me, it's extremely useful.
No, you should be driving, instead of dicking around around with your cellphone. Why not figure out where you want to go first, then just go there.
is already in use, albeit in a different form, than a regular email service.
CapeScience built an email interface to the search engine. Send an email, get your Google search results back via email. Lots of places around are calling it GoogleMail
In light of the impending IPO from Google, this is an obvious, but sad, move.
Sure, they could add GoogleMail, and not really change anything. You see a link on their search page, maybe. That's it. But trying to become more of a portal will screw it up. Has any former search engine sucessfully turned itself into a sticky portal? Yahoo? AltaVista? Go? I can't thnk of one. The DotBust had a lot to do with those, but maybe they were a part of causing it.
...and offered to sell them the name. To lawyers, that means that he had no real intention of ever using the name, merely profiting from it.
They offered first ($10), he countered with $10,000.
Plus, he had been using the domain name, in an actual website, for several months. Mostly a personal stuff it appears, but also to showcase a portfolio, and maybe get some parttime work out of it. Not merely squatting on it.
They should have split the difference, and offered $5k. He probably would have taken it. End of story.
...this isn't an elective surgery targeted towards geeks who want to get one step closer to their machines.
It'll probably be a long time (if ever) before this moves into being an elective procedure for entertainment purposes;
Just like plastic surgery was only used for birth defects and accident reconstruction Just like stomach stapling was only to be used on the morbidly obese Just like Viagara was only to be used for serious erectile problems
Given a procedure, there will be some who want it (and very early on) simply because it's 'cool'. And there will be doctors who will supply it for the right sum.
And some places will specifically not accept that. The Post Office, for instance. Big sign on the counter: "Credit cards MUST be signed. The words "Ask for ID" are not acceptable."
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The reason ISP's use the word "unlimited" in their advertisements is because it sells more accounts than if they don't. The fact that they are lying is really not a relevant point.
Bullshit. That is the point. If there's a cap, fine. 100gig? OK, fine. Then simply tell us about it. And explain, with pretty pictures if necessary, that 100Gb is waaaay more than the average person uses per month, so there's nothing to worry about. We're not stupid people.
But don't advertise unlimited if it's not really unlimited.
If the police were to bust you for speeding, on a road that the police have said has no speed limit, you'd take them to court. I know I would.
Insightful? Balls
How would it be different if he had been named Shawn Brown, instead of LaShawn Petus-Brown? He'd still be 'wanted', there would still be numerous news articles about him, including his picture, and she still might have called the FBI to check him out.
The only difference is that there would have been more hits on that name.
When I was a little kid, a little girl named Emma would have been snickered at. That was an 'old lady' name. Today, that's a very common girls name.
Times change. Names change. Live with it.
Naaa. Maintaining enough of a 'presence' to convince a city council to give you almost 200 large costs money to begin with.
I expect it's mostly gone.
Or even in a corporate environment. Oracle Forms and Reports uses the http://username:password construct in a standard 3-tier setup to pass user info back and forth to the DB.
Methinks Larry and Bill will have 'words'.
Here's a current auction for a Tandum Recumbant. BikeE, but it never says that. If it didn't have a starting bid of $1000, I'd go for it.
Well...I asked about the 'average Iraqi', because I figured that's what the target of these questions would have the most experience with.
Sure, some are far worse off (former Ba'ath party members), and some are better off (potential new politicians).
If it had been posted as "A former political prisoner in Iraq wants to know about using computers as a knowledge multiplier...", I might have worded it differently.
Again..."How is the average, on the street, Iraqi citizen doing? Better or worse than a year ago. How will they be a year (or 5) from now?"
I may sound offtopic but its important to define your question if you want a proper answer. Otherwise it can both be true and false with varying interpretations.
No. You brought up a very valid qualifier. And I hope, if this question gets submitted, that the responder will target different segments of society in his answer. "These guys are doing ok, those guys are screwed, etc, etc"
Is this really necessary to ask?
Yes, I think it is. Various entities have said no, they're worse off. others have said they are better off.
I'd like to hear it from someone on the ground.
And you can keep your Dr Dean innuendos at home. If you can derive my political leanings from one simple question, you are truly a master.
Personally, I think they are much better off today. However, a real opinion from someone actually there would seem to count for much more that your or my opinion from thousands of miles away.
Is the average Iraqi better off today than one year ago?
How do you think they will be one year (or 5 years) in the future?
You obviously don't have enough stuff. You need enough stuff to provide a solid face on the desk. Multiple PC's and monitors.
All the cables are tangled up out of sight behind the big boxes. All I have visible is mouse/keyboard cables, and a camera connection cable, tucked under a monitor until I need it.
I always do. I imagine Bilbo Baggins at 123 Main St gets an awful lot of junk mail.
I went through 3 of those in about 2 months.
#1 motor transport stopped
#2 Broken in the box. One of the buttons was pushed inside the case
#3 died after a couple of weeks.
When I took the last one back, I even made a coupla dollars profit. I had bought it on sale, ($350?), and they gave me current sticker price ($399) in refund.
My guess is that they got this number by comparing the sum of the populations of all the states which voted for Bush with the sum of the populations of all the states which voted for Gore.
Probably. Actually, I think County was the variable, not State.
I must say I don't know what you hope to demonstrate by the map you linked.
Only to show there are vastly differing ways of representing the data. I knew there would be a few here that would step up and condemn that map. For all we know... at the total population county level, that picture is accurate. Or it may be the scrawlings of demented monkeys. I did not go through the rigors of checking it. I did find it interesting, though.
The popular, individual vote(of those that chose to vote) slightly favored Gore. The populations those votes represent, in this particular instance, swing the other way.
That graphic could look vastly different, depending on what level of granularity you choose.
At the popular vote State level, it might look one way. At the individual household, it might look something completely different.
This number is basically meaningless. Imagine you have two states which vote 50.1% for Bush and 49.9% for Gore. Then the "population voting for Bush" would be the sum of the populations of each state, and the "population voting for Gore" would be 0.
Exactly
You cannot convince me this is a reasonable representation of the situation.
Lies, damned lies, statistics...
Had it been an election by the people for the people, Gore would be president.
Not necessarily. This graphic puts the 2000 election results in a different light.
All this story about, is making that info availiable to end users.
The real question is, who is the end user.
Hint: It ain't you.
And it ain't "us".
Repeat after me.
"We are not the consumers. We are the product. Advertisers are the consumers."
#4. For everyone else, I can choose to receive massive amounts of phone spam (unless #2). Why anyone would choose this option is beyond me.
It will be opt-out. And routinely, your phone service will reset your preferences. "We're giving you new features, blah de blah".
And it should be easily implemented in software.
Not a chance. Buried 4 menus deep (and off the main screen), with probably very misleading verbiage.
"Do you want to turn on the negative notification refusal option? Y/N."
It is in their (not our) best interests for you to have it on.
I can see how driving past Restarant A's location with the location software on might be annoying, but, at the same time, if I'm specifically looking for something to eat, then, to me, it's extremely useful.
No, you should be driving, instead of dicking around around with your cellphone.
Why not figure out where you want to go first, then just go there.
Then discuss the results. We recently did this. Whether anything good will come out of it is a different story
is already in use, albeit in a different form, than a regular email service.
CapeScience built an email interface to the search engine. Send an email, get your Google search results back via email. Lots of places around are calling it GoogleMail
In light of the impending IPO from Google, this is an obvious, but sad, move.
Sure, they could add GoogleMail, and not really change anything. You see a link on their search page, maybe. That's it. But trying to become more of a portal will screw it up. Has any former search engine sucessfully turned itself into a sticky portal? Yahoo? AltaVista? Go? I can't thnk of one. The DotBust had a lot to do with those, but maybe they were a part of causing it.
Ah, Google, we knew ye well...
...and offered to sell them the name. To lawyers, that means that he had no real intention of ever using the name, merely profiting from it.
They offered first ($10), he countered with $10,000.
Plus, he had been using the domain name, in an actual website, for several months. Mostly a personal stuff it appears, but also to showcase a portfolio, and maybe get some parttime work out of it. Not merely squatting on it.
They should have split the difference, and offered $5k. He probably would have taken it. End of story.
Good luck, dude. Keep your head down.
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This should allow for a smoother transition for consumers to adopt this new format.
I fail to see how them wanting us to buy yet another box can equal a 'smoother transition'.
...this isn't an elective surgery targeted towards geeks who want to get one step closer to their machines.
It'll probably be a long time (if ever) before this moves into being an elective procedure for entertainment purposes;
Just like plastic surgery was only used for birth defects and accident reconstruction
Just like stomach stapling was only to be used on the morbidly obese
Just like Viagara was only to be used for serious erectile problems
Given a procedure, there will be some who want it (and very early on) simply because it's 'cool'. And there will be doctors who will supply it for the right sum.
And some places will specifically not accept that. The Post Office, for instance. Big sign on the counter:
"Credit cards MUST be signed. The words "Ask for ID" are not acceptable."