I live within the EPZ of a nuclear plant and have no problem with it whatsoever. If anything, our area is far more prepared for a generic emergency than most, and that's actually a good thing.
Carriers already tell you the amount of the subsidy. It's called the "No Contract" price. Simply subtract the subsidized price from this price for the amount of the subsidy.
Carriers will already unlock your phone simply for the asking.
It is not unreasonable to require that you reimburse the subsidy they gave you if you fail to abide by your side of the contract and terminate your service early. They are giving you the subsidy in exchange for your agreement to maintain service for a minimum amount of time.
Carriers will already use a device you bring to them, so long as it will work properly on their network.
Carriers will already sell a device at the "No Contract" price to anyone who walks in the door, even if it is not activated with new service.
The consumers are already in control. Most of them just fail to exert any of it.
Every carrier will sell you an unsubsidized phone, and every carrier will unlock your GSM phone upon request (AT&T unlocked my HTC Inspire right there in the store when I bought it, simply for the asking). Every carrier will also put you on a no-contract, month to month plan.
What you want is available to you today. All you have to do is ask for it. Although there isn't much point in turning down the "subsidy in exchange for contract" model unless you are a obsessive compulsive carrier-changer.
Do you issue laptops or do people use their own computers while telecommuting?
What I did was issue laptops with a VNC server installed, so I can look at anyone's monitor any time. I can also record the session to collect evidence of non-productivity.
When I have a low-performing employee, or one who "works" at home as a means to goof off and get paid for not working, it is usually pretty easy to get them to resign in disgrace when I have a recorded session of them surfing porn on a company-owned laptop while on my dime.
Is my understanding of this correct? I think that's a really bad move. When you have to rely on someone else to manufacture your product, only bad things can happen. When it's something as complex as a CPU, the risk shoots up several orders of magnitude.
Having uncompressed, lossless audio of YOUR music (yes, you buy it, it's yours, and you own it, and you can do what you want with it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera) allows you to do post-processing that you otherwise would not be able to do with a shitty compressed AAC.
Let's say I wanted to dub a song I own over a home video I took of my kid sledding. Let's say I wanted to add some effects to it. I could do this if I had high-quality sampling of the original. It would sound like shit if my source was a 128kbit MP3.
No, but it does say you can't use the network in a way that prevents others being able to use it. There are specific disclaimers saying there are no guarantees of speed or availability.
"Unlimited" only means there is no cap on the amount of data you can use in a month. There is still no cap, even with the throttling. AT&T has every right to ensure availability to all users by limiting speeds to those who, in their opinion, use the network in a way that is detrimental to other users.
There is not now nor has there ever been a promise, advertisement, or guarantee of 100% speed 100% of the time to 100% of the users.
They never offered 100/100/100. Not one piece of advertising from AT&T said "You can get 10Mbits 100% of the time with no data limit"
The marketing literature and the terms of service say that speeds are not guaranteed and that you may not use the network in such a way that causes it to be less available to other customers.
It's not fraud at all. It's customers making assumptions about things and failing to read the terms of service before signing. I have no sympathy for them.
The real analogy is that gas stations have the absolute right to ration purchases to make sure everyone has at least some gas.
If you buy a car, you do have to pay more for how far you drive, by purchasing more gas, and paying for more maintenance, and paying higher insurance, and paying tolls in some places. People who use more should have to pay for.
In any case, if you would go read your AT&T terms of service, you would find that you are not paying for unlimited service. You are paying for use of the network on an as-available bases without a set data cap. You are not paying for and are not entitled to 100% utilization 100% of the time to the detriment of other users of the network.
If they were not allowed to "oversell" their network, and were forced to provide 100% utilization 100% of the time to 100% of the users, cell data would cost $5000/month to pay for the cost of rolling out such a network.
Alternatively, if AT&T can convince the network abusers to leave and go to another network, they will be able to avoid spending billions on network improvements just to cater to the 1% of customers who use 90% of the network capacity. They have a legal and fiduciary duty to do that, and as the beneficiary of AT&T's profits (i.e. shareholder to whom they pay the majority of their profits), I am all for that.
I am paying for 4GB w/ tethering, yet they still throttle me at 3GB. It was like a switch was flipped and my phone is going to be useless for the next few days.
611 denies that I am being throttled, but it's plainly obvious that my phone is, in fact, throttled.
There are good reasons that your corporate use policy most likely prohibits you using their laptop for your own personal use. Here are some of them:
1) Protection from liability. If you use the corporate laptop to do something illegal, it exposes them to liability for providing the means by which the crime was committed.
2) Protection from you: If you use the corporate laptop to do something personal, and you get the machine infected and the company's security is breached, it may very well expose company-sensitive data, and you will be responsible.
There are many more.
Just do yourself a favor and when you're at work, work. Get your own equipment for your own personal activities. They have no place on your company's laptop.
My laptop only has 2GB of RAM, so I can't run Firefox anymore anyway, so I switched to Chrome.
A browser should not consume 1.2GB of RAM (and Firefox 10, 11, 53, 1275, or whatever they're up to now, WILL consume that much if you leave a GMail tab open long enough)
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I live within the EPZ of a nuclear plant and have no problem with it whatsoever. If anything, our area is far more prepared for a generic emergency than most, and that's actually a good thing.
Considering that Soviet Russia ceased to exist 20 years ago, I find that very difficult to believe.
Oh wait, nevermind. You were just playing off of a 10 year old Slashdot meme that nobody finds funny anymore.
It can be extracted using the Dictionary of American Figurative Idioms...
Carriers already tell you the amount of the subsidy. It's called the "No Contract" price. Simply subtract the subsidized price from this price for the amount of the subsidy.
Carriers will already unlock your phone simply for the asking.
It is not unreasonable to require that you reimburse the subsidy they gave you if you fail to abide by your side of the contract and terminate your service early. They are giving you the subsidy in exchange for your agreement to maintain service for a minimum amount of time.
Carriers will already use a device you bring to them, so long as it will work properly on their network.
Carriers will already sell a device at the "No Contract" price to anyone who walks in the door, even if it is not activated with new service.
The consumers are already in control. Most of them just fail to exert any of it.
Every carrier will sell you an unsubsidized phone, and every carrier will unlock your GSM phone upon request (AT&T unlocked my HTC Inspire right there in the store when I bought it, simply for the asking). Every carrier will also put you on a no-contract, month to month plan.
What you want is available to you today. All you have to do is ask for it. Although there isn't much point in turning down the "subsidy in exchange for contract" model unless you are a obsessive compulsive carrier-changer.
I dunno about you, but the last time I ripped an HD movie, it was about 240Gbits.
I would say FOUR HD movies, not FIVE HUNDRED.
Although, as usual, the shitty slashdot summary doesn't give proper units (i.e. 500 HD movies / unit time), so I suppose anything is possible.
We bought a new Fusion last year, and we've done a couple of firmware updates to Sync since then. The process is simple and goes off without a hitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
I have 400 WD5002ABYS in racks out in our computational farm, and we lose one every year or so. 0.25%/year failure rate is pretty good in MyBook..
Do you issue laptops or do people use their own computers while telecommuting?
What I did was issue laptops with a VNC server installed, so I can look at anyone's monitor any time. I can also record the session to collect evidence of non-productivity.
When I have a low-performing employee, or one who "works" at home as a means to goof off and get paid for not working, it is usually pretty easy to get them to resign in disgrace when I have a recorded session of them surfing porn on a company-owned laptop while on my dime.
Is my understanding of this correct? I think that's a really bad move. When you have to rely on someone else to manufacture your product, only bad things can happen. When it's something as complex as a CPU, the risk shoots up several orders of magnitude.
Not to mention that travel budgets are the first to go when the economy goes south or the company isn't doing well.
It's a nice option, but IMHO should only really come into play during rare circumstances like that.
Wait a minute. You lead out by saying that the high resolution is a significant upgrade, but then say that increased resolution is pointless.
Which position are you taking?
Having uncompressed, lossless audio of YOUR music (yes, you buy it, it's yours, and you own it, and you can do what you want with it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera) allows you to do post-processing that you otherwise would not be able to do with a shitty compressed AAC.
Let's say I wanted to dub a song I own over a home video I took of my kid sledding. Let's say I wanted to add some effects to it. I could do this if I had high-quality sampling of the original. It would sound like shit if my source was a 128kbit MP3.
No, but it does say you can't use the network in a way that prevents others being able to use it. There are specific disclaimers saying there are no guarantees of speed or availability.
"Unlimited" only means there is no cap on the amount of data you can use in a month. There is still no cap, even with the throttling. AT&T has every right to ensure availability to all users by limiting speeds to those who, in their opinion, use the network in a way that is detrimental to other users.
There is not now nor has there ever been a promise, advertisement, or guarantee of 100% speed 100% of the time to 100% of the users.
They never offered 100/100/100. Not one piece of advertising from AT&T said "You can get 10Mbits 100% of the time with no data limit"
The marketing literature and the terms of service say that speeds are not guaranteed and that you may not use the network in such a way that causes it to be less available to other customers.
It's not fraud at all. It's customers making assumptions about things and failing to read the terms of service before signing. I have no sympathy for them.
The data counter I use is typically accurate to about 1%, the error probably being caused by the delay in used data showing up on my bill.
Your tank of gas analogy is flawed.
The real analogy is that gas stations have the absolute right to ration purchases to make sure everyone has at least some gas.
If you buy a car, you do have to pay more for how far you drive, by purchasing more gas, and paying for more maintenance, and paying higher insurance, and paying tolls in some places. People who use more should have to pay for.
In any case, if you would go read your AT&T terms of service, you would find that you are not paying for unlimited service. You are paying for use of the network on an as-available bases without a set data cap. You are not paying for and are not entitled to 100% utilization 100% of the time to the detriment of other users of the network.
Go read the terms of service in your AT&T contract before you make such stupid statements.
If they were not allowed to "oversell" their network, and were forced to provide 100% utilization 100% of the time to 100% of the users, cell data would cost $5000/month to pay for the cost of rolling out such a network.
Alternatively, if AT&T can convince the network abusers to leave and go to another network, they will be able to avoid spending billions on network improvements just to cater to the 1% of customers who use 90% of the network capacity. They have a legal and fiduciary duty to do that, and as the beneficiary of AT&T's profits (i.e. shareholder to whom they pay the majority of their profits), I am all for that.
So, go fuck yourself, and have a nice day.
I am paying for 4GB w/ tethering, yet they still throttle me at 3GB. It was like a switch was flipped and my phone is going to be useless for the next few days.
611 denies that I am being throttled, but it's plainly obvious that my phone is, in fact, throttled.
There are good reasons that your corporate use policy most likely prohibits you using their laptop for your own personal use. Here are some of them:
1) Protection from liability. If you use the corporate laptop to do something illegal, it exposes them to liability for providing the means by which the crime was committed.
2) Protection from you: If you use the corporate laptop to do something personal, and you get the machine infected and the company's security is breached, it may very well expose company-sensitive data, and you will be responsible.
There are many more.
Just do yourself a favor and when you're at work, work. Get your own equipment for your own personal activities. They have no place on your company's laptop.
My laptop only has 2GB of RAM, so I can't run Firefox anymore anyway, so I switched to Chrome.
A browser should not consume 1.2GB of RAM (and Firefox 10, 11, 53, 1275, or whatever they're up to now, WILL consume that much if you leave a GMail tab open long enough)
They have not suspended sales, duh. They're trying like hell to sell them.
They've suspended PRODUCTION while they try to reduce the backlog of inventory.
Are we living in a world full of illiterates or something?