"The term web application is not often applied to Java any more. The term "web app" these days often refers to AJAX "...and what do you think is more often than not receiving those asynchronous XMLHttpRequests?
Where has anyone offered residential data as "unlimited?" I haven't heard that term used since the majority of people were on dialup. The only place I see Verizon using that term is with their "VIRTUALLY unlimited 2GB email." Well, at least all those shrill voices screaming "b-b-b-ut if they'd just tell me the limit" now have what they want and they can now move on to getting the SLAs that actually do provide the service they're looking for.
No, what's scary is not the notion that the red shirts were referred to as "best in their field" but that people can with a straight face say they think $11/hour is highly paid. If they reduced all those people to minimum-wage, they'd only save $40M. That works out to a per-store savings of a whopping $167/day. How much do you think the profit margin is on a $7500 TV? These "overpaid" (now non-commissioned) salespeople could make up that "savings" in revenue by selling a single damned stereo per day
There's a few people in my organization that face-to-face or telephone, though the thought is nauseating, in the end is probably better. I've found myself wordsmithing emails on some occasions for over an hour, each sentence generating fifty potential misinterpretations and some exponential number of horrifyingly tedious imaginary follow-ups. The adrenaline-surge knee-jerk first response in person would probably be every bit as valid and might be reduced to a simple hand gesture, which would save everyone involved a great deal of time.
And that's the point. If you want a metered account with guaranteed service, they are available and not for that much more money and from damn near every provider out there.
Those accounts that are not metered by guaranteed bandwidth do not guarantee, well, ANYTHING and state their limitations in behavioral terms e.g. "thou shalt not run file servers," ergo, you're lucky they don't just cancel your f'ing account entirely if you're running torrents 24/7.
You want stated limits? Get an account that has them and stop trying to screw over everyone else because you're too cheap to spend the extra twenty bucks to get what you want.
The accounts are designed for burst speed, not sustained. If you want to run your maximum bandwidth 24x7 and you have the "entry-level" $39/month residential plan, you are falling out side the stated limitations of the account.
Your $39 package explicitly states that there is absolutely, positively no guaranteed service level whatsoever.
Face it, folks, you're not buying an "unlimited" package when your contract has a 42-point bold oblique heading titled "LIMITATIONS." It also generally states quite clearly in those contracts that the sort of activity people usually bitch about in these threads should be performed under a business SLA account where they explicitly do not put any limitations on your usage...and you probably pay more for the cable TV portion of your bill than the business data line would cost anyway, so stfu already.
That he's a completely self-involved disdainful jackass.
"A good portion of the public with cell phones that can access the Net cannot grasp the concept in their brain, since going on the Net usually means sitting at a keyboard, looking at a big screen, and typing stuff."
Perhaps his brain simply cannot grasp that most people couldn't care less about being net-accessible 24/7--for ANY purpose.
"What does Ockham's razor imply? I find it curious they never entertain the possibility."
Actually, "they" do consider this -- using precisely that principle.
It is simpler to conceive that the universe itself in all its complexity has just always existed than to suppose it must have been created by something even larger and more complex...that has itself just always existed. The notion of a creator-god necessarily at least doubles the complexity of the explanation, which is why many people find it curious when Occam's razor is used as a defense of the notion of god.
"Who wants to spend $3 on shipping for a $5 cable?"
For most things, the time+mileage expense of going to the store far exceeds the cost of shipping...then that $5 cable is being marked-up to $23.50 in the brick-and-mortar shop. Unless it's something that weighs a ton, and ergo costs a fortune to ship, I find it just isn't worth the schlep.
I needed a stack of smallish cat-5 leads, a couple TV cards, a few extra USB cables, a few sticks of RAM, etc. Total weight was practically nothing, so my shipping was $15. The excess markup on the cables alone was about $85 and the rest was about 10% more expensive at the "big box," which would have cost me $90 is time and $5 in mileage to boot. That is to say, the hassle of immediate gratification would have cost more than the final invoice, shipping included.
A) Most VB applications are tightly linked to OS and application-specific libraries. B) Most applications that do not require those libraries are not written in VB. C) Anyone versed enough in languages to be using MONO is probably not married to any language--and certainly not VB
This presumes that the person in question is more interesting after their death than and to those who are alive at the time of their proposed "resurrection." This is highly unlikely.
If people spend craploads of money hiring people and equipment to record the most significant moments of their lives and then shelve them never to be viewed again...what the hell is the point of recording all the insignificant moments? Oh, yes, I really must relive that lunchtime subway ride back in August.
Our solution is pretty simple. Those users that are allowed to modify their configurations and install applications and/or hardware at their own discretion also receive support that amounts to "we'd be happy to wipe your machine and return it to you in the original standard configuration."
...an anarcho-capitalist solution where there would be no speed limit and when these people felt threatened by others driving too fast, they'd just shoot them, problem solved?
If the rest of the facility looks like Rober Propst's worst nightmare. I don't care how much goddamned sushi and free candy you stuff down my gullet if I have to work in a gunmetal-grey, quarter-wall cube farm with unfinished ceilings and flourescent lighting. Oh, but I get a communal razor scooter to get to the bathroom!
Yeah, uhm, thanks but no. It must look great to a 20-something who has never worked anywhere else and for whom free Red Bull sounds like a genuine perq, but that "don't be evil" bear is pretty discordant standing in the middle of an environment that most adults recognize as the absolute most abusively evil standard in existence.
If this was Fark, I'd half expect a Photoshop contest to include medievally-garbed Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda to be pasted in with dancing fauna and falling chains.
Apply the "utterly without redeeming social importance" standard across the board. We could be rid of half what masquerades as "news," 3/4 of "reality" TV, 8/10 of the current sitcom and drama, 99% of "daytime T.V." and the entirety of the "WWE" all in one fell swoop. By the end of the process there'd be so little left on T.V., people would stop channel surfing and just turned the damned things off.
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None that weren't already stated in numerous terms thousands of years ago in virtually every culture.
"The term web application is not often applied to Java any more. The term "web app" these days often refers to AJAX " ...and what do you think is more often than not receiving those asynchronous XMLHttpRequests?
Where has anyone offered residential data as "unlimited?" I haven't heard that term used since the majority of people were on dialup. The only place I see Verizon using that term is with their "VIRTUALLY unlimited 2GB email." Well, at least all those shrill voices screaming "b-b-b-ut if they'd just tell me the limit" now have what they want and they can now move on to getting the SLAs that actually do provide the service they're looking for.
No, what's scary is not the notion that the red shirts were referred to as "best in their field" but that people can with a straight face say they think $11/hour is highly paid. If they reduced all those people to minimum-wage, they'd only save $40M. That works out to a per-store savings of a whopping $167/day. How much do you think the profit margin is on a $7500 TV? These "overpaid" (now non-commissioned) salespeople could make up that "savings" in revenue by selling a single damned stereo per day
The "truly rich" people don't buy gimmicky million dollar laptops, they buy gimmicky $200 million yachts that cost $35k a day to keep afloat.
One cell would suffice.
/My captcha was "Pounded"
Boy is this one going to piss them of no end...
There's a few people in my organization that face-to-face or telephone, though the thought is nauseating, in the end is probably better. I've found myself wordsmithing emails on some occasions for over an hour, each sentence generating fifty potential misinterpretations and some exponential number of horrifyingly tedious imaginary follow-ups. The adrenaline-surge knee-jerk first response in person would probably be every bit as valid and might be reduced to a simple hand gesture, which would save everyone involved a great deal of time.
And that's the point. If you want a metered account with guaranteed service, they are available and not for that much more money and from damn near every provider out there.
Those accounts that are not metered by guaranteed bandwidth do not guarantee, well, ANYTHING and state their limitations in behavioral terms e.g. "thou shalt not run file servers," ergo, you're lucky they don't just cancel your f'ing account entirely if you're running torrents 24/7.
You want stated limits? Get an account that has them and stop trying to screw over everyone else because you're too cheap to spend the extra twenty bucks to get what you want.
The accounts are designed for burst speed, not sustained. If you want to run your maximum bandwidth 24x7 and you have the "entry-level" $39/month residential plan, you are falling out side the stated limitations of the account.
This issue is so fucking tired it's stupid.
Your $39 package explicitly states that there is absolutely, positively no guaranteed service level whatsoever.
Face it, folks, you're not buying an "unlimited" package when your contract has a 42-point bold oblique heading titled "LIMITATIONS." It also generally states quite clearly in those contracts that the sort of activity people usually bitch about in these threads should be performed under a business SLA account where they explicitly do not put any limitations on your usage...and you probably pay more for the cable TV portion of your bill than the business data line would cost anyway, so stfu already.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,61890-0.html
That he's a completely self-involved disdainful jackass.
"A good portion of the public with cell phones that can access the Net cannot grasp the concept in their brain, since going on the Net usually means sitting at a keyboard, looking at a big screen, and typing stuff."
Perhaps his brain simply cannot grasp that most people couldn't care less about being net-accessible 24/7--for ANY purpose.
"Can one imagine a religion which believes "There are chosen people, but they're not us"
For everyone but Jews for Jesus, it's called "Christianity."
"What does Ockham's razor imply? I find it curious they never entertain the possibility."
Actually, "they" do consider this -- using precisely that principle.
It is simpler to conceive that the universe itself in all its complexity has just always existed than to suppose it must have been created by something even larger and more complex...that has itself just always existed. The notion of a creator-god necessarily at least doubles the complexity of the explanation, which is why many people find it curious when Occam's razor is used as a defense of the notion of god.
"Who wants to spend $3 on shipping for a $5 cable?"
For most things, the time+mileage expense of going to the store far exceeds the cost of shipping...then that $5 cable is being marked-up to $23.50 in the brick-and-mortar shop. Unless it's something that weighs a ton, and ergo costs a fortune to ship, I find it just isn't worth the schlep.
I needed a stack of smallish cat-5 leads, a couple TV cards, a few extra USB cables, a few sticks of RAM, etc. Total weight was practically nothing, so my shipping was $15. The excess markup on the cables alone was about $85 and the rest was about 10% more expensive at the "big box," which would have cost me $90 is time and $5 in mileage to boot. That is to say, the hassle of immediate gratification would have cost more than the final invoice, shipping included.
But,
A) Most VB applications are tightly linked to OS and application-specific libraries.
B) Most applications that do not require those libraries are not written in VB.
C) Anyone versed enough in languages to be using MONO is probably not married to any language--and certainly not VB
So, other than being novel, what's the point?
This presumes that the person in question is more interesting after their death than and to those who are alive at the time of their proposed "resurrection." This is highly unlikely.
If people spend craploads of money hiring people and equipment to record the most significant moments of their lives and then shelve them never to be viewed again...what the hell is the point of recording all the insignificant moments? Oh, yes, I really must relive that lunchtime subway ride back in August.
Our solution is pretty simple. Those users that are allowed to modify their configurations and install applications and/or hardware at their own discretion also receive support that amounts to "we'd be happy to wipe your machine and return it to you in the original standard configuration."
...an anarcho-capitalist solution where there would be no speed limit and when these people felt threatened by others driving too fast, they'd just shoot them, problem solved?
If the rest of the facility looks like Rober Propst's worst nightmare. I don't care how much goddamned sushi and free candy you stuff down my gullet if I have to work in a gunmetal-grey, quarter-wall cube farm with unfinished ceilings and flourescent lighting. Oh, but I get a communal razor scooter to get to the bathroom!
Yeah, uhm, thanks but no. It must look great to a 20-something who has never worked anywhere else and for whom free Red Bull sounds like a genuine perq, but that "don't be evil" bear is pretty discordant standing in the middle of an environment that most adults recognize as the absolute most abusively evil standard in existence.
If this was Fark, I'd half expect a Photoshop contest to include medievally-garbed Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda to be pasted in with dancing fauna and falling chains.
Apply the "utterly without redeeming social importance" standard across the board. We could be rid of half what masquerades as "news," 3/4 of "reality" TV, 8/10 of the current sitcom and drama, 99% of "daytime T.V." and the entirety of the "WWE" all in one fell swoop. By the end of the process there'd be so little left on T.V., people would stop channel surfing and just turned the damned things off.
1000x the processing power for 4x the consumption.
Looking the other way, in 16 years, we've reduced the power consumption to computing power by 99.6%.
...in Enumclaw.
Lovely. My Captcha was "trough."
"Making files available on the web is brodcasting"
Americans don't seem to grok that one. "Sharing" to them extends to handing out a copy to every resident of the planet.