Internet is different because the ISP's are asking for something different.
They're not saying "We want to charge you $0.10/gb" or whatever. They're saying. We want to charge you $60, and give you a puny plan with 10GB. THEN, we want to charge you $0.25/GB (or whatever rate is astronomically more than what it might actually cost them), so that your actual bill ends up more like $100+ We won't tell you how much bandwidth you're actually using, you'll have to guess. We want to charge you more during peak hours (the newest scheme)
If they were *keeping* the limits they had and considering reasonable overages, that would be one thing. They're not. They've upped the base cost, lowered the bandwidth ceiling, and then tried to tack additional charges on top of that.
In my experience, they don't on cable either, or at least not enough to be a nuisance. If my speed is jumping between 3mbps and 8mbps, that's still better than getting an average of 1.5mbps....
How about near-impossible things with average persons? Either due to your own lack of attractiveness, the difficulty of the act, or the impossibility of getting permission to perform said act...
In some cases, the testing, and who you can sue when a battery goes bad an burns down your house/car/etc. Batches that come in from local corporations have to undergo standards-agency approval. Batteries that come in via ebay, not so much.
One should keep in mind the cost of things in regards to this quote. In some places, a crap-ton of manpower may cost around the same as heavy equipment, still be fairly fast, and also supplied needed jobs etc.
Judging by how long some construction work etc takes around here, sometimes a few dozen well-motivated guys with shovels may not be a bad way to go...
Not everything needs a customer... (unless you count customers as those who also contribute) Unfortunately a lot of scamware tends to put people off the concept that there are plenty of good things out there that are clean and free.
Omniscience is an odd topic. Some possibilities might include:
- As soon as a person does something, $deity could foresee a branch of consequences to his/her action. However, one does not know whether the person will do that action (or which of multiple actions he/she may choose). This is similar in concept to the chess machine that bases strategy on predicting future chess moves, it "looks" into the future of possible game ends a move may result in, and calculates a move. A person may choose many paths, but the result is at least partly predetermined. Hard to comprehend an almost infinite amount of branching probabilities with a human brain, but then again so is the concept of time in general.
- Humans have free will, but some events out of their control are predetermined up to a given point. For example, an asteroid heading towards earth, a volcanic eruption, or an outbreak of disease.
Perhaps if they disable the "history" feature. My GF has a much different taste in movies than I do, and sometimes watches shows with my niece as well, so my history and suggestions are often skewed towards musicals and cartoons. It took me awhile to figure out how "my big gay wedding" ended up in the list. I'm pretty sure many husbands wouldn't want to share with their wives that they watched the latest "girls gone wild" last Friday, or have the relatives come over and then pop on Netflix, only to have the history display with bold titles and a nice graphic that the last watched show was "Barely legal co-eds 3" or something of the sort.
Well, with video chains falling like flies, perhaps they media corps will have to reconsider a bit. Many small chains have disappeared over the past few years. Blockbuster is gone. I've heard rumours that some of the other bigger chains are set to follow.
Sure they can screw with Netflix now, they still control the content. But when Netflix becomes the major source of distribution, they'll have a lot of push back against the media corps, similar to what has happened with iTunes and CD's, etc.
The biggest bane of my existence is apps that start up and run in the background, much like the gazillion things that start up with windows in the "run" subsection of the registry and pepper you with tray icons or background apps.
Games, media players, etc DO NOT need to start up with my damn phone and background. I've uninstalled plenty of apps just for doing so (when they don't have an option to select that disabled autostart).
A.K.A services, where you pay to have something done (or sometimes not done). You may sometimes get to keep the result of a service, but it's fairly obvious the GP was talking about tangible goods.
Who said anything about unpaid on-call? Plenty of place I've worked have rotating on-call etc. There are first-level support tiers, but you have the guys that tend to really know the systems rotate for when the really bad/unexpected stuff happens. Whomever is on-call gets paid an on-call wage. It's not the same as the regular hours wage, but it's enough to give a visible bump to the ol' paycheque when it's your turn at rotation.
Rotated on-call is actually nice. 24/7/365 on-call sucks though.
You can save encrypted databases of passwords. You need the master PW to access the database, from which you can then save/load a list of URL's, userid's, passwords, etc.
Depends on how you interpret it. Perhaps it's loaded up somewhere hidden and encrypted, and then quickly loads into memory in a hidden ramdisk or something similar without any identifiable files otherwise on the filesystem.
One of things that amazes me about the US legal system is the ability to attach unrelated "riders" to laws. Cut off the riders and things might clean up a fair bit, or at least slow the spread of corruption and pork-bills.
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Internet is different because the ISP's are asking for something different.
They're not saying "We want to charge you $0.10/gb" or whatever. They're saying. We want to charge you $60, and give you a puny plan with 10GB. THEN, we want to charge you $0.25/GB (or whatever rate is astronomically more than what it might actually cost them), so that your actual bill ends up more like $100+
We won't tell you how much bandwidth you're actually using, you'll have to guess.
We want to charge you more during peak hours (the newest scheme)
If they were *keeping* the limits they had and considering reasonable overages, that would be one thing. They're not. They've upped the base cost, lowered the bandwidth ceiling, and then tried to tack additional charges on top of that.
In my experience, they don't on cable either, or at least not enough to be a nuisance. If my speed is jumping between 3mbps and 8mbps, that's still better than getting an average of 1.5mbps....
How about near-impossible things with average persons? Either due to your own lack of attractiveness, the difficulty of the act, or the impossibility of getting permission to perform said act...
Wouldn't that be "order 66"?
Hold home?
In some cases, the testing, and who you can sue when a battery goes bad an burns down your house/car/etc. Batches that come in from local corporations have to undergo standards-agency approval. Batteries that come in via ebay, not so much.
One should keep in mind the cost of things in regards to this quote. In some places, a crap-ton of manpower may cost around the same as heavy equipment, still be fairly fast, and also supplied needed jobs etc.
Judging by how long some construction work etc takes around here, sometimes a few dozen well-motivated guys with shovels may not be a bad way to go...
Not everything needs a customer... (unless you count customers as those who also contribute)
Unfortunately a lot of scamware tends to put people off the concept that there are plenty of good things out there that are clean and free.
Omniscience is an odd topic.
Some possibilities might include:
- As soon as a person does something, $deity could foresee a branch of consequences to his/her action. However, one does not know whether the person will do that action (or which of multiple actions he/she may choose). This is similar in concept to the chess machine that bases strategy on predicting future chess moves, it "looks" into the future of possible game ends a move may result in, and calculates a move. A person may choose many paths, but the result is at least partly predetermined. Hard to comprehend an almost infinite amount of branching probabilities with a human brain, but then again so is the concept of time in general.
- Humans have free will, but some events out of their control are predetermined up to a given point. For example, an asteroid heading towards earth, a volcanic eruption, or an outbreak of disease.
So why doesn't he get rid of it?
What's not to like?
Crotch sniffing?
Perhaps if they disable the "history" feature.
My GF has a much different taste in movies than I do, and sometimes watches shows with my niece as well, so my history and suggestions are often skewed towards musicals and cartoons.
It took me awhile to figure out how "my big gay wedding" ended up in the list. I'm pretty sure many husbands wouldn't want to share with their wives that they watched the latest "girls gone wild" last Friday, or have the relatives come over and then pop on Netflix, only to have the history display with bold titles and a nice graphic that the last watched show was "Barely legal co-eds 3" or something of the sort.
Well, with video chains falling like flies, perhaps they media corps will have to reconsider a bit.
Many small chains have disappeared over the past few years. Blockbuster is gone. I've heard rumours that some of the other bigger chains are set to follow.
Sure they can screw with Netflix now, they still control the content. But when Netflix becomes the major source of distribution, they'll have a lot of push back against the media corps, similar to what has happened with iTunes and CD's, etc.
The biggest bane of my existence is apps that start up and run in the background, much like the gazillion things that start up with windows in the "run" subsection of the registry and pepper you with tray icons or background apps.
Games, media players, etc DO NOT need to start up with my damn phone and background. I've uninstalled plenty of apps just for doing so (when they don't have an option to select that disabled autostart).
Or disallow riders that are not related to the primary bill being passed.
A.K.A services, where you pay to have something done (or sometimes not done). You may sometimes get to keep the result of a service, but it's fairly obvious the GP was talking about tangible goods.
Once I can buy the tablet, I'll probably do both
Open your product for sales to Canada!
I will DEFINITELY buy the Nook Tablet if you let me!
Who said anything about unpaid on-call?
Plenty of place I've worked have rotating on-call etc. There are first-level support tiers, but you have the guys that tend to really know the systems rotate for when the really bad/unexpected stuff happens. Whomever is on-call gets paid an on-call wage. It's not the same as the regular hours wage, but it's enough to give a visible bump to the ol' paycheque when it's your turn at rotation.
Rotated on-call is actually nice. 24/7/365 on-call sucks though.
Besides, to kids, "doo doo" is probably fun/amusing.
Try this:
http://keepass.info/
Works in Linux, Windows, and I believe OSX
I believe it also is available as part of portableapps
http://portableapps.com/
You can save encrypted databases of passwords. You need the master PW to access the database, from which you can then save/load a list of URL's, userid's, passwords, etc.
They (Christians) do, however, get rather pissy if you photoshop a picture of the pope kissing an imam...
Depends on how you interpret it. Perhaps it's loaded up somewhere hidden and encrypted, and then quickly loads into memory in a hidden ramdisk or something similar without any identifiable files otherwise on the filesystem.
One of things that amazes me about the US legal system is the ability to attach unrelated "riders" to laws. Cut off the riders and things might clean up a fair bit, or at least slow the spread of corruption and pork-bills.
Yes, but in those cases they're taking risks with other people's money...