It is also important to note that Verizon Wireless does NOT offer unlimited data usage in its data plans (I'm a subscriber).
I am also a subscriber. I am on their unlimited data plan. From my bill : "Unlimited Monthly Kilobytes". It is $20 per month.
I do not know what they consider a heavy user. I think that I am probably not one. I get e-mail and stuff forwarded to the phone, but as far as browsing the internet goes, 3G is abysmally slow. It compares to a 28k Modem. Also, browsing the internet on a smartphone is extremely inefficient. I can find what I am looking for 20 times faster on a computer than on a smartphone. As such, I rarely use the web browser at all.
Once you master the basics, Asteroids is simply a game of endurance: Can you keep from falling asleep?
I agree with this statement. I got good enough at Asteroids where I could keep a game going indefinitely, but my thumbs got tired and nature called and whatnot. I would get it up the maximum number of lives (I think it was 99, but this was long ago, so I may be wrong), and then let someone else play for awhile until they started to get low on lives, and then I would run it back up again. But to beat the record, it has to be all the same player, which really does make it a "who can stay awake the longest" game.
I was taught the same thing, that you should drive as though everyone else on the road was out to get you. Later, I taught my wife this principle. She learned to drive relatively late by U.S. standards (about 25), and tended to obey all the traffic rules and assume that other people would to. As such, she had been involved in 3 or 4 accidents in the space of as many years, none of which were her fault. After I taught her to believe that everyone was out to get her, she has been accident free for about 15 years.
I don't know what people's problem is here in Oklahoma, but 9 times out of 10, anyone walking on the road in the middle of the night will be completely dressed in dark clothing.
On the other side of that fence, I have to be very careful to reign in my girls when I cross the parking lot to go into a store here. About 2/3 of the time, even if you are halfway across the parking lot road in front of the store, people will not stop to let you cross, even though you are in a crosswalk and you have small children. They are normally driving about 20 or 25 miles per hour in a parking lot within a few feet of outdoor displays that could block their view of people coming out of the building.
A friend of mine was hit by a drunk pedestrian. Yes, that is right, he was driving down the (4 lane) road (in the inner or "fast" lane), and a drunk guy ran out into the road, into the side of my friend's vehicle. The guy broke his arm and put a very large dent in the rear passenger door of my friend's vehicle. My friend was not charged, but the guy did file civil charges and my friend had to spend money on a lawyer. He was very lucky that the guy eventually dropped the case, because this was in the liberal north where the jury likely would have sided with the drunk.
A misdemeanor conviction, jail or probation, 6+ month loss of license, $375+ fine [jdrlaw.com] for the first offense mean nothing?
Apparently it does mean nothing, otherwise they wouldn't continue to do it. It seems some drunk guy discovered that your vehicle still starts even if they took away your license, so it doesn't inhibit them at all.
I've heard the bluetooth over car stereo. Crappy sound over car stereo is definitely at least 25% better than crappy sound over crappy built in speaker.BR
I don't have bluetooth in my car, and I have definitely also played the 'phone on speakerphone but still have to hold it right up by my face to hear it' game. Mine's not an iPhone though.
they aren't going to forget they are talking on the phone.
Are you kidding? I forget all the time. I'll be sitting there chatting away, and reach down to do my customary pat of the holster and when the phone is not in it's holster my heart skips a beat. Trouble is I am distracted by the conversation in my conscious part of the brain, and the subconscious is still doing background tasks like checking that my cell phone is not missing from its holster. Of course, this triggers my conscious part to put everything on hold for a second while it thinks about where the phone may be.
Simply deactivate the screen keypad, and ringer and send all calls to voice mail if the phone is traveling faster than walking speed.
Studies have also shown that is not safe to walk and use the cell phone.
Unfortunately, driving poorly is not an infraction that brings enough money in, so the police generally don't police for those infractions and instead concentrate on speeding, which brings in lots of revenue. I'd happily offer this service to the police department for free. This very morning I had someone pull out in front of me without sufficient room to do so, then drive 30% under the speed limit, then run a stop sign - in a school zone, and continue on at 30% under the speed limit, then turn right without using a turn signal. That's gotta be $300 worth of infractions right there, in less than 1/2 a mile.
I doubt that the city would have been able to find a company willing to give them a fixed bid. Just the discovery process would cost probably $20 million. I doubt that any company would front that kind of money unless the contract was already a shoe-in, or the city agreed to pay for discovery.
Even with free software, what do you suppose the cost of getting hundreds of different agencies with different needs onto this free software would be? And the cost of writing add-ons to handle the functionality required by the city that the open source solution doesn't currently have? My estimate would be about $700 million.
Perhaps in New York this is true, but in the three states I have lived and worked in, private sector paid much more than government jobs. While government workers tended to have better benefits, the overall package was still somewhat lower.
Private industry already solved the claim problem by requiring that claims submitted to them be in one of a couple of different electronic or paper formats. Of course, the burden of producing said formats is greater than the vats majority of healthcare providers is able to shoulder, so a host of middlemen was created to take forms from the providers and submit them to the insurance carriers in their desired formats. Of course, this increased the cost of doing business, so the cost of healthcare went up.
Despite the insurance carriers forcing healthcare providers to submit in a standardized format, when the insurance carriers send back their explanation of benefits forms, they all have their own unique format, so healthcare providers have to have someone manually plugging this information into the patient accounting system.
There already exists a standard electronic remittance form for insurance companies to send back to providers, but many insurance companies have not implemented this, and the vast majority of providers do not have the IT staff to handle receiving this format. If doctors are forced to receive this format, then a host of middlemen companies will need to be created to integrate with the healthcare providers, which will drive up the cost of healthcare.
I work for one such company that will likely benefit from ObamaCare, but I still feel that the government is swimming in waters that don't concern them, and that they know nothing about. This bill will be great for insurance companies, bad for healthcare providers, bad for the rich, will destroy the middle class, and will be bad for the poor.
This reminds me of something I saw in either Sky-Mall or Sharper Image or some trendy store like that. A device that used electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen, and then burned the result hydrogen and oxygen to produce heat and then claimed it was more efficient than an electric heater. Ye gods!
Well, we could start in on Dun and Bradstreet, who used to be a reasonably reputable organization, but now they have resorted to the same kind of "important message" scams to get you to sign up as Classmates.com. I needed to get a Duns number from them for my business in order to secure a contract with a customer. I called up to get my free number, and I was unable to get one. The agent tried to sell me something I didn't want, but which i couldn't come up with an acceptable (to him) answer as to why I didn't want the service. He said he would give me a free duns number as soon as I could give him an acceptable reason why I wouldn't purchase their service that I didn't want. I got increasingly firm, and finally belligerent, but he was not to be swayed. Finally after 5 minutes, I hung up in frustration. I did not get the contract with the customer, and now I avoid doing business with any customer that is so far behind the times that they think a DBS number is something worthwhile to have.
More importantly, the editors know they can cause another evolution versus creationism argument that is sure to generate lots of advertisement revenue.
This reminds me of the rover on Planet 51, which was just absolutely nuts for collecting rocks, while seemingly unaware of the intelligent species and the thriving civilization all around it.
You'll have to excuse me, I have young children.
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It is also important to note that Verizon Wireless does NOT offer unlimited data usage in its data plans (I'm a subscriber).
I am also a subscriber. I am on their unlimited data plan. From my bill : "Unlimited Monthly Kilobytes". It is $20 per month.
I do not know what they consider a heavy user. I think that I am probably not one. I get e-mail and stuff forwarded to the phone, but as far as browsing the internet goes, 3G is abysmally slow. It compares to a 28k Modem. Also, browsing the internet on a smartphone is extremely inefficient. I can find what I am looking for 20 times faster on a computer than on a smartphone. As such, I rarely use the web browser at all.
If he is emancipated from his mom, are they still considered brother and sister?
What the heck is happening in the U.S. these days? I've heard at least half of my kids friends' utter the phrase "I have to ask my grandma".
Once you master the basics, Asteroids is simply a game of endurance: Can you keep from falling asleep?
I agree with this statement. I got good enough at Asteroids where I could keep a game going indefinitely, but my thumbs got tired and nature called and whatnot. I would get it up the maximum number of lives (I think it was 99, but this was long ago, so I may be wrong), and then let someone else play for awhile until they started to get low on lives, and then I would run it back up again. But to beat the record, it has to be all the same player, which really does make it a "who can stay awake the longest" game.
I was taught the same thing, that you should drive as though everyone else on the road was out to get you. Later, I taught my wife this principle. She learned to drive relatively late by U.S. standards (about 25), and tended to obey all the traffic rules and assume that other people would to. As such, she had been involved in 3 or 4 accidents in the space of as many years, none of which were her fault. After I taught her to believe that everyone was out to get her, she has been accident free for about 15 years.
I don't know what people's problem is here in Oklahoma, but 9 times out of 10, anyone walking on the road in the middle of the night will be completely dressed in dark clothing.
On the other side of that fence, I have to be very careful to reign in my girls when I cross the parking lot to go into a store here. About 2/3 of the time, even if you are halfway across the parking lot road in front of the store, people will not stop to let you cross, even though you are in a crosswalk and you have small children. They are normally driving about 20 or 25 miles per hour in a parking lot within a few feet of outdoor displays that could block their view of people coming out of the building.
A friend of mine was hit by a drunk pedestrian. Yes, that is right, he was driving down the (4 lane) road (in the inner or "fast" lane), and a drunk guy ran out into the road, into the side of my friend's vehicle. The guy broke his arm and put a very large dent in the rear passenger door of my friend's vehicle. My friend was not charged, but the guy did file civil charges and my friend had to spend money on a lawyer. He was very lucky that the guy eventually dropped the case, because this was in the liberal north where the jury likely would have sided with the drunk.
Hopefully that pedestrian was carrying walking insurance and paid for all the damages she caused.
A misdemeanor conviction, jail or probation, 6+ month loss of license, $375+ fine [jdrlaw.com] for the first offense mean nothing?
Apparently it does mean nothing, otherwise they wouldn't continue to do it. It seems some drunk guy discovered that your vehicle still starts even if they took away your license, so it doesn't inhibit them at all.
I've heard the bluetooth over car stereo. Crappy sound over car stereo is definitely at least 25% better than crappy sound over crappy built in speaker.BR I don't have bluetooth in my car, and I have definitely also played the 'phone on speakerphone but still have to hold it right up by my face to hear it' game. Mine's not an iPhone though.
they aren't going to forget they are talking on the phone.
Are you kidding? I forget all the time. I'll be sitting there chatting away, and reach down to do my customary pat of the holster and when the phone is not in it's holster my heart skips a beat. Trouble is I am distracted by the conversation in my conscious part of the brain, and the subconscious is still doing background tasks like checking that my cell phone is not missing from its holster. Of course, this triggers my conscious part to put everything on hold for a second while it thinks about where the phone may be.
Simply deactivate the screen keypad, and ringer and send all calls to voice mail if the phone is traveling faster than walking speed.
Studies have also shown that is not safe to walk and use the cell phone.
Unfortunately, driving poorly is not an infraction that brings enough money in, so the police generally don't police for those infractions and instead concentrate on speeding, which brings in lots of revenue. I'd happily offer this service to the police department for free. This very morning I had someone pull out in front of me without sufficient room to do so, then drive 30% under the speed limit, then run a stop sign - in a school zone, and continue on at 30% under the speed limit, then turn right without using a turn signal. That's gotta be $300 worth of infractions right there, in less than 1/2 a mile.
If it was really a smart phone, it would eject itself out of the dangerous situation that the driver was attempting to put it in.
I doubt that the city would have been able to find a company willing to give them a fixed bid. Just the discovery process would cost probably $20 million. I doubt that any company would front that kind of money unless the contract was already a shoe-in, or the city agreed to pay for discovery.
Even with free software, what do you suppose the cost of getting hundreds of different agencies with different needs onto this free software would be? And the cost of writing add-ons to handle the functionality required by the city that the open source solution doesn't currently have? My estimate would be about $700 million.
Perhaps in New York this is true, but in the three states I have lived and worked in, private sector paid much more than government jobs. While government workers tended to have better benefits, the overall package was still somewhat lower.
Private industry already solved the claim problem by requiring that claims submitted to them be in one of a couple of different electronic or paper formats. Of course, the burden of producing said formats is greater than the vats majority of healthcare providers is able to shoulder, so a host of middlemen was created to take forms from the providers and submit them to the insurance carriers in their desired formats. Of course, this increased the cost of doing business, so the cost of healthcare went up.
Despite the insurance carriers forcing healthcare providers to submit in a standardized format, when the insurance carriers send back their explanation of benefits forms, they all have their own unique format, so healthcare providers have to have someone manually plugging this information into the patient accounting system.
There already exists a standard electronic remittance form for insurance companies to send back to providers, but many insurance companies have not implemented this, and the vast majority of providers do not have the IT staff to handle receiving this format. If doctors are forced to receive this format, then a host of middlemen companies will need to be created to integrate with the healthcare providers, which will drive up the cost of healthcare.
I work for one such company that will likely benefit from ObamaCare, but I still feel that the government is swimming in waters that don't concern them, and that they know nothing about. This bill will be great for insurance companies, bad for healthcare providers, bad for the rich, will destroy the middle class, and will be bad for the poor.
I'll go one better. Even without knowing my account number, for one dollar I will tell you my balance.
This reminds me of something I saw in either Sky-Mall or Sharper Image or some trendy store like that. A device that used electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen, and then burned the result hydrogen and oxygen to produce heat and then claimed it was more efficient than an electric heater. Ye gods!
Well, we could start in on Dun and Bradstreet, who used to be a reasonably reputable organization, but now they have resorted to the same kind of "important message" scams to get you to sign up as Classmates.com. I needed to get a Duns number from them for my business in order to secure a contract with a customer. I called up to get my free number, and I was unable to get one. The agent tried to sell me something I didn't want, but which i couldn't come up with an acceptable (to him) answer as to why I didn't want the service. He said he would give me a free duns number as soon as I could give him an acceptable reason why I wouldn't purchase their service that I didn't want. I got increasingly firm, and finally belligerent, but he was not to be swayed. Finally after 5 minutes, I hung up in frustration. I did not get the contract with the customer, and now I avoid doing business with any customer that is so far behind the times that they think a DBS number is something worthwhile to have.
More importantly, the editors know they can cause another evolution versus creationism argument that is sure to generate lots of advertisement revenue.
This reminds me of the rover on Planet 51, which was just absolutely nuts for collecting rocks, while seemingly unaware of the intelligent species and the thriving civilization all around it.
You'll have to excuse me, I have young children.
I'm picturing some animated thing called Atom.
Nuclear is just yesterday's solar anyway. Seems to fit with Microsoft's business strategy.