I want to pay once for data, I want that data to be unlimited, and I want to be able to use it in any fashion I choose
So what, all the mobile and fixed line operators have to merge? How about TV service providers, does every infrastructure provider have to buy one of those too? Fucking idiot.
I'm not a mobile phone company fanboi or anything; I hate their outrageous (esp. sms) fees as much as everyone.
I'm in the UK and I pay £20 per month for a data connection capped at 200MB, 600 minutes of voice calls to any network, and 600 SMS messages on a 1 month rolling contract. How does that compare to costs in the US?
You're paying for the right to use the bandwidth with a mobile device, the expected consumption rate from a full size device is much higher and isn't what you paid for (whether you thought it was or not).
Traffic from smartphones is now about 1/6th the total Internet traffic. Before that, smartphone traffic was basically inconsequential.
It still is pretty inconsequential according to the last figures I saw which are an order of magnitude smaller than yours. 0.2EB per month was the 2010 estimate with total internet traffic at 20EB/month, that gives us 1% rather than the 16-17% figure you quoted.
Unfortunately I've seen too many colleagues think the BOFH is a role model rather than an in joke, none of them found their way to the monastery and true enlightenment:/
However, you can have validation over the internet, but play over LAN instead. I have several bits of software that are "activated" from an Internet connection but then never need an internet connection again.
SC2 requires battle.net to initiate a multiplayer game but gameplay is P2P, if you have a bunch of people on the same LAN they won't be using the internet connection after the game starts.
Blizzard dealt with this one last year, game setup needs battle.net but the gameplay is P2P. If you have 60 people on the same LAN then all traffic will be local, no internet traffic required.
Apple is the second most valuable company in the world behind Exxon. Look it up.
Actually, it's the second most valuable American company in the world, not second overall.
Not even that I'm afraid, it's the second most valuable publicly traded company on the NYSE. I suspect Cargill would have a higher market cap if it were not privately owned.
To be honest, in all of my years as a programmer eventually becoming a full software engineer (meaning I design, implement, and maintain software solutions), doing it "The Right Way" has always lead to bankruptcy. Always. Of course correlation is not causation, but for the times I've seen companies fail when "following the process" vs. "Release early and often", the latter half were the ones to stay in business.
You can do "release early, release often" within an ITIL framework, just because most places implement it poorly doesn't mean it can't be done well.
Praying in school and teachers leading prayers and the pledge of allegiance was standard from the days of the founders until unelected judges disagreed with them ideologically and changed them
As the pledge of allegiance wasn't written until over 100 years after the formation of the union I call bullshit.
So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
Actually the deal is she's our last line of defence against an abusive government. Should she refuse royal assent to a bill then a major constitutional crisis would occur so it would only be done in the most serious of circumstances. In order to do so she would need to be in a position to immediately dissolve parliament, order a general election, and have overwhelming public support for her actions. If she didn't have that overwhelming public support that would be the end of the monarchy. The queen isn't meant to interfere all the time, she's meant to be there in case we REALLY need her.
What, besides "survivors survive" does Darwinism predict? I would still classify it as a scientific theory.
Darwin didn't say that, he didn't even use the phrase survival of the fittest. Darwin's theory is known as natural selection and it states that the incidence of inheritable traits that increase the chance of an organism to survive and reproduce will increase over successive generations. There's falsifiability and there's a prediction, what else do you want?
know that I can't arrest whoever I feel like arresting. And it's even worse, because at least in my case, I don't have permission to arrest any people
I had to check this as I know the UK law but was unsure whether US law followed a similar pattern (it does). You DO have the power of arrest, however several circumstances have to apply and you'd better be absolutely 100% right on every point unless you enjoy being charged with false arrest, kidnapping, etc. In practice it's almost always a foolish thing to do but you DO have the right.
Are you serious? You think one case where someone followed the rules exactly and another case where someone didn't follow the rules then others lied about the evidence are pretty much exactly the same? How's the weather on your planet?
Wrong. A significant amount of Americans foam at the mouth at the thought of a paternalistic government scheming to control more and more of our lives. It *IS* a slippery slope. Social Security and Medicare *ARE* socialism, and both programs *ARE* falling apart.
It's not our fault you're shit at governing yourselves.
That is what we're foaming at the mouth about. You'll have to excuse me, but I don't care to be European. My feeling for European society can be summed up with the words "sniveling" and "weak". I've never been there. My views are derived from discussions that I've had with Europeans. You don't have to agree with me, but neither do I have to agree with you.
I, on the other hand, have first hand experience of the USA so have a rather better basis for my views. Most of you are decent folks individually, it's just collectively that you have your heads shoved up your arses. We did it earlier than you, we did it bigger than you, and we did it better than you, then we got over it and realised that civilised countries care for their poor.
Hell, fuck the poor for a minute, civilised countries care for their veterans! Nothing about the USA annoys me more than the way you treat your veterans, pansy ass motherfuckers thinking your hard because you own a gun? Grow a set and start thinking about the people who REALLY fought for your country.
Germany is a special case with regard to denying the details of that particular era, my grandmother was Austrian and died 20 years ago still believing Hitler knew nothing whatsoever about the concentration camps and that he was a great leader lied to by his generals.
Germans need to know their past so they can move forwards, there can be no muddying of the waters or revionism permitted.
Slashdot Mirror
I want to pay once for data, I want that data to be unlimited, and I want to be able to use it in any fashion I choose
So what, all the mobile and fixed line operators have to merge? How about TV service providers, does every infrastructure provider have to buy one of those too? Fucking idiot.
I'm not a mobile phone company fanboi or anything; I hate their outrageous (esp. sms) fees as much as everyone.
I'm in the UK and I pay £20 per month for a data connection capped at 200MB, 600 minutes of voice calls to any network, and 600 SMS messages on a 1 month rolling contract. How does that compare to costs in the US?
You're paying for the right to use the bandwidth with a mobile device, the expected consumption rate from a full size device is much higher and isn't what you paid for (whether you thought it was or not).
Traffic from smartphones is now about 1/6th the total Internet traffic. Before that, smartphone traffic was basically inconsequential.
It still is pretty inconsequential according to the last figures I saw which are an order of magnitude smaller than yours. 0.2EB per month was the 2010 estimate with total internet traffic at 20EB/month, that gives us 1% rather than the 16-17% figure you quoted.
Unfortunately I've seen too many colleagues think the BOFH is a role model rather than an in joke, none of them found their way to the monastery and true enlightenment :/
However, you can have validation over the internet, but play over LAN instead. I have several bits of software that are "activated" from an Internet connection but then never need an internet connection again.
SC2 requires battle.net to initiate a multiplayer game but gameplay is P2P, if you have a bunch of people on the same LAN they won't be using the internet connection after the game starts.
Blizzard dealt with this one last year, game setup needs battle.net but the gameplay is P2P. If you have 60 people on the same LAN then all traffic will be local, no internet traffic required.
I've already removed the Times as a news RSS feed, switching to the Guardian instead.
Good luck with that, if I ever read the Guardian I end up shouting at it.
A high PE ratio suggests bad value.
P/E and value are not related.
I know what you mean... Warren Buffet preaches this method (buy and hold things you like and use). We see how well that has worked out for him.
He doesn't own any Apple stock though.
Apple is the second most valuable company in the world behind Exxon. Look it up.
Actually, it's the second most valuable American company in the world, not second overall.
Not even that I'm afraid, it's the second most valuable publicly traded company on the NYSE. I suspect Cargill would have a higher market cap if it were not privately owned.
On /. ???
Compared to 4chan this place is a model of civilised behaviour.
To be honest, in all of my years as a programmer eventually becoming a full software engineer (meaning I design, implement, and maintain software solutions), doing it "The Right Way" has always lead to bankruptcy. Always. Of course correlation is not causation, but for the times I've seen companies fail when "following the process" vs. "Release early and often", the latter half were the ones to stay in business.
You can do "release early, release often" within an ITIL framework, just because most places implement it poorly doesn't mean it can't be done well.
Praying in school and teachers leading prayers and the pledge of allegiance was standard from the days of the founders until unelected judges disagreed with them ideologically and changed them
As the pledge of allegiance wasn't written until over 100 years after the formation of the union I call bullshit.
I don't know about your broker but when I click "sell" I'm told the price I'll get and have 15 seconds to accept or decline the trade.
So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
Actually the deal is she's our last line of defence against an abusive government. Should she refuse royal assent to a bill then a major constitutional crisis would occur so it would only be done in the most serious of circumstances. In order to do so she would need to be in a position to immediately dissolve parliament, order a general election, and have overwhelming public support for her actions. If she didn't have that overwhelming public support that would be the end of the monarchy. The queen isn't meant to interfere all the time, she's meant to be there in case we REALLY need her.
What, besides "survivors survive" does Darwinism predict? I would still classify it as a scientific theory.
Darwin didn't say that, he didn't even use the phrase survival of the fittest. Darwin's theory is known as natural selection and it states that the incidence of inheritable traits that increase the chance of an organism to survive and reproduce will increase over successive generations. There's falsifiability and there's a prediction, what else do you want?
know that I can't arrest whoever I feel like arresting. And it's even worse, because at least in my case, I don't have permission to arrest any people
I had to check this as I know the UK law but was unsure whether US law followed a similar pattern (it does). You DO have the power of arrest, however several circumstances have to apply and you'd better be absolutely 100% right on every point unless you enjoy being charged with false arrest, kidnapping, etc. In practice it's almost always a foolish thing to do but you DO have the right.
Pretty much exactly what has gone on here, then.
Are you serious? You think one case where someone followed the rules exactly and another case where someone didn't follow the rules then others lied about the evidence are pretty much exactly the same? How's the weather on your planet?
As the GP stated, I don't think you understood what he was saying. Go read the OP again, it says the opposite of what you think it does.
This is insane.
This is already in every consumer router out there.
Not genetically you're not, you're caucasoid whereas the native American indians are mongoloid.
Wrong. A significant amount of Americans foam at the mouth at the thought of a paternalistic government scheming to control more and more of our lives. It *IS* a slippery slope. Social Security and Medicare *ARE* socialism, and both programs *ARE* falling apart.
It's not our fault you're shit at governing yourselves.
That is what we're foaming at the mouth about. You'll have to excuse me, but I don't care to be European. My feeling for European society can be summed up with the words "sniveling" and "weak". I've never been there. My views are derived from discussions that I've had with Europeans. You don't have to agree with me, but neither do I have to agree with you.
I, on the other hand, have first hand experience of the USA so have a rather better basis for my views. Most of you are decent folks individually, it's just collectively that you have your heads shoved up your arses. We did it earlier than you, we did it bigger than you, and we did it better than you, then we got over it and realised that civilised countries care for their poor.
Hell, fuck the poor for a minute, civilised countries care for their veterans! Nothing about the USA annoys me more than the way you treat your veterans, pansy ass motherfuckers thinking your hard because you own a gun? Grow a set and start thinking about the people who REALLY fought for your country.
Germany is a special case with regard to denying the details of that particular era, my grandmother was Austrian and died 20 years ago still believing Hitler knew nothing whatsoever about the concentration camps and that he was a great leader lied to by his generals.
Germans need to know their past so they can move forwards, there can be no muddying of the waters or revionism permitted.
music
In your dreams boys, the UK is king of that particular hill.