I see them as targeting restaurants mainly and generally screwing those businesses over when they "advertise" for them.
Groupon exists to advertise for itself. Its userbase is loyal to Groupon, not the businesses advertised. When that userbase is exhausted (and it will be) it will become junk.
I use 2+ GB a month on my phone simply from Netflix on the bus for 30 minutes a day in addition to my usual web/e-mail/Pandora/XM habits.
I can burn through more than 250MB in 42 minutes on the treadmill with Netflix only. They better not claim I'm fucking tethering or I'm going to tell them to get stuffed.
To make it the slowest possible PDF reader available. I recently switched to FoxIt after Adobe's shitty software continually hung Windows for MINUTES at a time searching for disconnected network printers I only access when I'm at the office.
No problems with FoxIt and thus I haven't bothered to look back.
The single biggest issue was that residents, especially those in cities around me in Dakota County, Minnesota, were unwilling to permit the antennas to be placed where Clearwire wanted them.
Clearwire planned to place the 125 foot tower in a city park and residents surrounding the park became motivated and forced the city to deny the request.
Kinda hard for them to provide the speeds they want to their customers when residents won't allow the infrastructure to be built out as the ISP originally planned.
Sucks for all involved regardless of your place in it.
Mine has stayed relatively stable. Couple dollars more like usual. While I'm sure it depends on the type of content that drives revenue to your site, I have a feeling that very little has changed for those who make more than a couple dollars a day.
The divergence grows as you get more experience and seniority. Show me one job in the civil sector where you run a department or bureau with 500 employees and make less than $150K.
How many levels of management/managers exist between a leader overseeing 500 people in the public sector vs that of the private sector?
I think you'd be surprised, especially at lower levels such as city and/or county government at just how many people make more than $100k/year to do a job which is handled by far fewer people in the private sector.
You're joking right? Those students who do this are already truants. They have little interest in actually responding properly to authority and I'd be absolutely and utterly shocked if, in a decade when they're adults, if they have any more respect for the laws of society.
I am not saying it's not an invasion of privacy, it is, but those outfitted with these tracking devices aren't exactly the types you're making them out to be.
So I have to wonder if this will be very similar to the wired broadband initiatives done years ago which have only started to provide benefits to the people many years later and at a much higher cost than our tax dollars should have required?
And what is '4G'? Is this wireless broadband definition going to be rooted in 2011 or will it be an ever increasing amount which will be viable in 2025 or 2050?
The spectrum is owned by the PEOPLE Mr. President, not you, not the government, and certainly not those you license it to. If they are not performing up to the very flexible definition I am sure you won't create because it wouldn't be at all advantageous to the wireless carriers, can we remove that license from them immediately?
Yeah, I didn't think so. Let's rethink this before you do something insanely stupid and let 'broadband' history repeat itself.
I don't get mad about it. I think that they should be free to ask just as I should be free to say, "no thank you," which I do every time. In most cases when you say this to them they punch in some default (Kohl's seems to do all 0s but other businesses just put in the city's zip code).
When pressured I provide 90210. The only time I've had a problem was at a RadioShack store in OH during college when I was trying to buy batteries. The dude asked for my zip code and I went through the spiel and then he laid into me, got his manger to yell at me, and finally told me never to come back into the store or they'd call the police for falsifying records.
I paid cash. No records about ME should have been kept. Ridiculous.
People who are concerned with more current software, easy installers, and flashing GUIs out of the box.
For those of us that want a very stable and reliable server and don't want to have to deal with a bunch of garbage, Debian is the way to go. However, I say this as I just finally finished up hunting down all the script issues which arose for me (for the first time) following my upgrade to Squeeze.
It's been a fun week to say the least and yet, for whatever reason, I still cannot upload one of my many CSVs to Google Docs for backup via the API. I'll get around to figuring it out eventually I guess.
This is simply the fact that people think that everything on the Internet is fair game for them to copy and use without the author's consent. If a bunch of people working at a newspaper, a respected magazine, and rag which have been around for 20+ years each don't know the laws in this country how are those from outside our boundaries to know?
AT&T moving to tiered pricing on their mobile internet saved me $240/year
That's awesome. I'm glad that option was available for you to save money. However, tiered pricing would not save me money and would severely limit how I prefer to use my mobile device.
For example I ride the bus to and from work and work out several times a week. During the commute and while on the treadmill I enjoy watching Netflix on my phone. 45 minutes of Netflix appears to create about 250MB of data transfer. I'd wipe out AT&T's monthly limit right off the bat.
So while it works for you and you find it to be useless to have an unlimited account, I'm glad that the option existed when I signed up for a contract and that it continues for me to this day.
It was commonplace for tolls to be required to pay for the bridge/road system under the guise that the tolls would be removed after the bonds were paid. Unfortunately, as with any tax, the government never has any intention of making them temporary and does whatever it can to justify the influx of dollars they have done nothing to prepare for a time without.
I avoid toll roads, like the god awful ones in Chicago, like the plague. In fact when I drive from Minnesota to any states east of here, I drive down to I-80 in Iowa and across rather than go through Chicago. Sure it adds 50 miles but I end up saving time, gas (no traffic), and the aggravation of seeing tolls continue to allow for awful roads.
This is exactly the problem. The spammers have been ramping up efforts to spam websites, forums, etc which then pollute search engines and have a higher likelihood of reaching more people who they may not have been able to spam via e-mail (due to filtering, etc).
While I'm still getting just as much spam to my various e-mail accounts as I ever was before, the volume of referrer and comment spam has gone through the roof.
I think knowing you can walk out at any time makes the reality of this experiment far less stressful on those inside the test capsule than if they were actually traveling through space and had no opportunity to leave.
If you think that marijuana and prostitution are the only to crimes which are leading to the most ridiculous prison population in the world you're wrong. These are crimes which definitely need to be prosecuted but not require jail time and thus tax dollars to pay for the individual to be incarcerated.
The drone isn't going to find important crimes in 40 minute flights. It's going to find every day run of the mill crime which honestly isn't worth the cost of operating this drone.
You're right private cameras are there. The cops have to jump through additional hoops to get the footage. If a business owner was aware of his (and his fellow citizens' rights) he'd tell the cops to get a warrant. Being that even public video footage isn't even worth watching to prosecute most crime because there is so much of it to go through, I'm guessing they'd ignore it for most crime unless it was super serious.
But hey, if the drone is flying they probably have someone watching the thing during its 40 minute flights and finding the crime going on. All this is going to do is pack our prisons with more unnecessary prisons while claiming it's protecting society.
Umm, if I call my wife she'll know what to do when I tell her I'm in jail. So while they may put the phone is a Faraday cage (which likely doesn't exist in most local jurisdictions--where I would most likely land), I believe the rest of your comment, while informative, is pointless in this context.
Nothing worse than in the Midwest where we're only delayed an hour and yet we watch the ball go down in NY and then wait through an hour of more after-ball-dropped third string acts to see the ball drop again. God it's painful.
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I see them as targeting restaurants mainly and generally screwing those businesses over when they "advertise" for them.
Groupon exists to advertise for itself. Its userbase is loyal to Groupon, not the businesses advertised. When that userbase is exhausted (and it will be) it will become junk.
I use 2+ GB a month on my phone simply from Netflix on the bus for 30 minutes a day in addition to my usual web/e-mail/Pandora/XM habits.
I can burn through more than 250MB in 42 minutes on the treadmill with Netflix only. They better not claim I'm fucking tethering or I'm going to tell them to get stuffed.
To make it the slowest possible PDF reader available. I recently switched to FoxIt after Adobe's shitty software continually hung Windows for MINUTES at a time searching for disconnected network printers I only access when I'm at the office.
No problems with FoxIt and thus I haven't bothered to look back.
Better stop watching sporting events on TV because that's what channelsurfing.net was really used for finding.
The single biggest issue was that residents, especially those in cities around me in Dakota County, Minnesota, were unwilling to permit the antennas to be placed where Clearwire wanted them.
Clearwire planned to place the 125 foot tower in a city park and residents surrounding the park became motivated and forced the city to deny the request.
Kinda hard for them to provide the speeds they want to their customers when residents won't allow the infrastructure to be built out as the ISP originally planned.
Sucks for all involved regardless of your place in it.
Mine has stayed relatively stable. Couple dollars more like usual. While I'm sure it depends on the type of content that drives revenue to your site, I have a feeling that very little has changed for those who make more than a couple dollars a day.
How many levels of management/managers exist between a leader overseeing 500 people in the public sector vs that of the private sector?
I think you'd be surprised, especially at lower levels such as city and/or county government at just how many people make more than $100k/year to do a job which is handled by far fewer people in the private sector.
You're joking right? Those students who do this are already truants. They have little interest in actually responding properly to authority and I'd be absolutely and utterly shocked if, in a decade when they're adults, if they have any more respect for the laws of society.
I am not saying it's not an invasion of privacy, it is, but those outfitted with these tracking devices aren't exactly the types you're making them out to be.
'4G' networks do exist and are already being speed tested with T-mobile leading the way. So yeah, I don't want them to be rooted in those definitions.
So I have to wonder if this will be very similar to the wired broadband initiatives done years ago which have only started to provide benefits to the people many years later and at a much higher cost than our tax dollars should have required?
And what is '4G'? Is this wireless broadband definition going to be rooted in 2011 or will it be an ever increasing amount which will be viable in 2025 or 2050?
The spectrum is owned by the PEOPLE Mr. President, not you, not the government, and certainly not those you license it to. If they are not performing up to the very flexible definition I am sure you won't create because it wouldn't be at all advantageous to the wireless carriers, can we remove that license from them immediately?
Yeah, I didn't think so. Let's rethink this before you do something insanely stupid and let 'broadband' history repeat itself.
I don't get mad about it. I think that they should be free to ask just as I should be free to say, "no thank you," which I do every time. In most cases when you say this to them they punch in some default (Kohl's seems to do all 0s but other businesses just put in the city's zip code).
When pressured I provide 90210. The only time I've had a problem was at a RadioShack store in OH during college when I was trying to buy batteries. The dude asked for my zip code and I went through the spiel and then he laid into me, got his manger to yell at me, and finally told me never to come back into the store or they'd call the police for falsifying records.
I paid cash. No records about ME should have been kept. Ridiculous.
People who are concerned with more current software, easy installers, and flashing GUIs out of the box.
For those of us that want a very stable and reliable server and don't want to have to deal with a bunch of garbage, Debian is the way to go. However, I say this as I just finally finished up hunting down all the script issues which arose for me (for the first time) following my upgrade to Squeeze.
It's been a fun week to say the least and yet, for whatever reason, I still cannot upload one of my many CSVs to Google Docs for backup via the API. I'll get around to figuring it out eventually I guess.
Or how about newspapers? http://www.lazylightning.org/thisweek-ignores-creative-commons-licensing
Or rag mags? http://www.lazylightning.org/citypages-feels-copyright-infringement-deserves-a-one-time-pass
Or Esquire? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_roehl/5173042830/
Or restaurants? http://www.lazylightning.org/pardon-my-french-uses-photo-without-permission
This is simply the fact that people think that everything on the Internet is fair game for them to copy and use without the author's consent. If a bunch of people working at a newspaper, a respected magazine, and rag which have been around for 20+ years each don't know the laws in this country how are those from outside our boundaries to know?
Basically it sucks all around.
Periods are meaningless for GMail accounts--just like the +. So I'm not sure what your point is?
I worked for a college and coded around those filters to get at the real address. I'm sure any intelligent marketer would too.
That's awesome. I'm glad that option was available for you to save money. However, tiered pricing would not save me money and would severely limit how I prefer to use my mobile device.
For example I ride the bus to and from work and work out several times a week. During the commute and while on the treadmill I enjoy watching Netflix on my phone. 45 minutes of Netflix appears to create about 250MB of data transfer. I'd wipe out AT&T's monthly limit right off the bat.
So while it works for you and you find it to be useless to have an unlimited account, I'm glad that the option existed when I signed up for a contract and that it continues for me to this day.
It was commonplace for tolls to be required to pay for the bridge/road system under the guise that the tolls would be removed after the bonds were paid. Unfortunately, as with any tax, the government never has any intention of making them temporary and does whatever it can to justify the influx of dollars they have done nothing to prepare for a time without.
I avoid toll roads, like the god awful ones in Chicago, like the plague. In fact when I drive from Minnesota to any states east of here, I drive down to I-80 in Iowa and across rather than go through Chicago. Sure it adds 50 miles but I end up saving time, gas (no traffic), and the aggravation of seeing tolls continue to allow for awful roads.
This is exactly the problem. The spammers have been ramping up efforts to spam websites, forums, etc which then pollute search engines and have a higher likelihood of reaching more people who they may not have been able to spam via e-mail (due to filtering, etc).
While I'm still getting just as much spam to my various e-mail accounts as I ever was before, the volume of referrer and comment spam has gone through the roof.
I think knowing you can walk out at any time makes the reality of this experiment far less stressful on those inside the test capsule than if they were actually traveling through space and had no opportunity to leave.
The problem is when the price is set to $10 and Amazon decides to set the price to free.
If you think that marijuana and prostitution are the only to crimes which are leading to the most ridiculous prison population in the world you're wrong. These are crimes which definitely need to be prosecuted but not require jail time and thus tax dollars to pay for the individual to be incarcerated.
The drone isn't going to find important crimes in 40 minute flights. It's going to find every day run of the mill crime which honestly isn't worth the cost of operating this drone.
You're right private cameras are there. The cops have to jump through additional hoops to get the footage. If a business owner was aware of his (and his fellow citizens' rights) he'd tell the cops to get a warrant. Being that even public video footage isn't even worth watching to prosecute most crime because there is so much of it to go through, I'm guessing they'd ignore it for most crime unless it was super serious.
But hey, if the drone is flying they probably have someone watching the thing during its 40 minute flights and finding the crime going on. All this is going to do is pack our prisons with more unnecessary prisons while claiming it's protecting society.
Umm, if I call my wife she'll know what to do when I tell her I'm in jail. So while they may put the phone is a Faraday cage (which likely doesn't exist in most local jurisdictions--where I would most likely land), I believe the rest of your comment, while informative, is pointless in this context.
Glad I use an iPhone. My first call will be to my wife to remotely wipe the phone and then call a lawyer.
Nothing worse than in the Midwest where we're only delayed an hour and yet we watch the ball go down in NY and then wait through an hour of more after-ball-dropped third string acts to see the ball drop again. God it's painful.