That's simply not true in Verizon's case. They were always happy to do an ESN change for me, they didn't care where the phone came from - and I have used Sprint and Alltel phones on their network in the past. They even had a web page where you could do it yourself. That changed when the FCC rule requiring E911 location services on all phones started, since they had no way of determining that from an ESN. They were forced to meet a legal requirement, and so it went away for a while. Now, with LTE, UICCs with CSIM and USIM are being used, so things are starting to loosen up.
Additionally, the programming codes on the phones are either 000000 or 123456, and they tell you that right up front. At least for Verizon, there's nothing to support your claim that they deliberately try to lock people in by restricting equipment movement.
"They WILL eat the device charges. They have to. Declining a change in your contract and causing Verizon to cancel it is NOT "good cause" to charge an ETF."
Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. What are you going to do with a Verizon phone and no carrier to put it on?
I don't think we're that far apart. I, too, don't think the offered contracts are fair (which is different than agreeable), but I sign up because I get sufficient value for my money.
Fundamentally, I'm a libertarian, which implies free markets in most things. But, wireless carriers make use of airwaves, which are a naturally limited public resource (the completely illegitimate "sale" of spectrum is another discussion), and therefore a proper subject of regulation. It seems reasonable to me that wireless carriers should be forced to be agnostic to the end device, and only charge for actual service use. But, that things aren't the way they should be offers no justification for violating a contract.
"If I'm under the monthly limit for my plan what the fuck does it matter which device got the bits?"
What the fuck does your agreement to a contract mean? Obviously nothing. If it doesn't matter which device gets the bits, then you should have no problem with limiting those bits to your phone.
You're wrong. The carrier sells you what's in the contract. If they sell you "X" Gb per month for on-phone use, and 0 Gb per month tethering, then that's what you bought. If you don't agree with that, then don't agree and don't sign up. But, as long as the terms are "no tethering," and you agree, quit trying to claim it's somehow unfair. That's disingenuous, and not just because it's easier to suck bandwidth from a tethered PC than from a phone.
Many do, but gosh darn it, carriers want you to actually pay more to put a greater burden on their network. What's the fun in that? Darn it, even if I agreed to a contract which doesn't allow tethering, it's not fair, and I should be able to do it anyway! It's just not right that Google would let my carrier enforce their contract terms! Besides, I only use it so friends can tether through my phone when it's connected to the Internet through my WiFi network, and I bought the phone, so I should be able to do anything I want with it.
The 6502 was developed by MOS Technology. That Commodore bought them after it was designed and produced doesn't make it a "Commodore CPU." Either way you look at it, that's the case. You can credit the CPU designer (MOS Technology independent of Commodore), or you can credit the manufacturer (Synertek), but it's not a "Commodore CPU," nor was it ever referred to as such.
If you were to go through old A2 motherboards, I think you'd find that 6502s made by Synertek were predominant. MOS licensed the 6502 to both Synertek and Rockwell.
"How do servers assess whether they've got the translation correct without having a human-in-the-loop to listen to the conversation and concurrently read what the server translated?"
If you log into your Google Voice page, and look at a translated message, in the lower right corner there is the question - "Transcript useful?" along with yes/no checkboxes. If you check one, it asks if you want to "donate" that VM to improve the translations, you can answer yes/no/never:
Want to help Google's automated transcription get better? Donated voicemails will be listened to, manually transcribed, and used to improve our transcribing server's accuracy. They are only used for this purpose.
Huh? If you're an exec with 100K options in Company X it's in your interest to make good decisions which in turn drive up the share value.
If, by "good decisions," you mean illegally cooking the books to show greater profits than actually exist. That's exactly what happened at Nortel, and it was driven by executive compensation incentives. Of course, the ultimate result of those "good decisions" was the failure of the company.
Then we're already screwed. I don't feel compelled to send some government selected Aryan to populate space.
SHRINK: Why were you up in the tree?
YOSSARIAN: Because I don't want to fly any more missions.
SHRINK: Hmmm. But we're at war fighting against a danagerous and ruthless enemy.
YOSSARIAN: Well, while I'm getting shot at here, there are lots of guys back home, going out with girls, drinking and having a good time, and I don't see why I shouldn't too.
SHRINK: But what if everyone felt that way...who'd fight the enemy?
YOSSARIAN: We'll then I'd be fool to feel any different....
Hey, great. You send your dollars to the Space Foundation, or whoever. I choose not to, 'cause the sun isn't going to incinerate the earth in my lifetime, or the lifetime of anyone I'll ever know. Don't presume to use the force of government to make me contribute to your cause, unless you're going to contribute to mine, which is funding my retirement account.
Next time someone makes fun by shouting authentically "Fire! Fire! Run!" in a theater or some other 'suitable' place, and your relatives die there having been crushed by the panicking crowd trying to get out, maybe then you'll remember that there are certain situations where Freedom of Speech is limited, and rightfully so, precisely to prevent panic and to save lives.
If there actually were a fire, I'd hope that someone would indeed let people know, instead of letting them die without even being able to try to get out.
Is the analogy implied by your comment that there is no significant radiation danger from Fukushima, and the reports are just "making fun?"
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That's simply not true in Verizon's case. They were always happy to do an ESN change for me, they didn't care where the phone came from - and I have used Sprint and Alltel phones on their network in the past. They even had a web page where you could do it yourself. That changed when the FCC rule requiring E911 location services on all phones started, since they had no way of determining that from an ESN. They were forced to meet a legal requirement, and so it went away for a while. Now, with LTE, UICCs with CSIM and USIM are being used, so things are starting to loosen up.
Additionally, the programming codes on the phones are either 000000 or 123456, and they tell you that right up front. At least for Verizon, there's nothing to support your claim that they deliberately try to lock people in by restricting equipment movement.
Verizon's CDMA phones don't use SIMs. The other US CDMA carrier, Sprint, doesn't allow phones they didn't sell onto their network.
I have my own well, you ignorant slut.
"They WILL eat the device charges. They have to. Declining a change in your contract and causing Verizon to cancel it is NOT "good cause" to charge an ETF."
Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. What are you going to do with a Verizon phone and no carrier to put it on?
Well, some people are simply reprobates. You're one of them.
I don't think we're that far apart. I, too, don't think the offered contracts are fair (which is different than agreeable), but I sign up because I get sufficient value for my money.
Fundamentally, I'm a libertarian, which implies free markets in most things. But, wireless carriers make use of airwaves, which are a naturally limited public resource (the completely illegitimate "sale" of spectrum is another discussion), and therefore a proper subject of regulation. It seems reasonable to me that wireless carriers should be forced to be agnostic to the end device, and only charge for actual service use. But, that things aren't the way they should be offers no justification for violating a contract.
"If I'm under the monthly limit for my plan what the fuck does it matter which device got the bits?"
What the fuck does your agreement to a contract mean? Obviously nothing. If it doesn't matter which device gets the bits, then you should have no problem with limiting those bits to your phone.
You're wrong. The carrier sells you what's in the contract. If they sell you "X" Gb per month for on-phone use, and 0 Gb per month tethering, then that's what you bought. If you don't agree with that, then don't agree and don't sign up. But, as long as the terms are "no tethering," and you agree, quit trying to claim it's somehow unfair. That's disingenuous, and not just because it's easier to suck bandwidth from a tethered PC than from a phone.
Perhaps a UICC, or he has a CDMA phone?
Many do, but gosh darn it, carriers want you to actually pay more to put a greater burden on their network. What's the fun in that? Darn it, even if I agreed to a contract which doesn't allow tethering, it's not fair, and I should be able to do it anyway! It's just not right that Google would let my carrier enforce their contract terms! Besides, I only use it so friends can tether through my phone when it's connected to the Internet through my WiFi network, and I bought the phone, so I should be able to do anything I want with it.
The 6502 was developed by MOS Technology. That Commodore bought them after it was designed and produced doesn't make it a "Commodore CPU." Either way you look at it, that's the case. You can credit the CPU designer (MOS Technology independent of Commodore), or you can credit the manufacturer (Synertek), but it's not a "Commodore CPU," nor was it ever referred to as such.
Well, it was filed on April 29, so the judge may have made up his mind on April 27, Opposite Day.
If you were to go through old A2 motherboards, I think you'd find that 6502s made by Synertek were predominant. MOS licensed the 6502 to both Synertek and Rockwell.
If you log into your Google Voice page, and look at a translated message, in the lower right corner there is the question - "Transcript useful?" along with yes/no checkboxes. If you check one, it asks if you want to "donate" that VM to improve the translations, you can answer yes/no/never:
If, by "good decisions," you mean illegally cooking the books to show greater profits than actually exist. That's exactly what happened at Nortel, and it was driven by executive compensation incentives. Of course, the ultimate result of those "good decisions" was the failure of the company.
this means that there's an even better backdoor for the NSA in Win7?
when they have this?
Domain names are case-insensitive. It was originally Icloud.com. :)
Simply get rid of all non-Constitutional spending, then "vote" with the money that stays in your pocket.
Then we're already screwed. I don't feel compelled to send some government selected Aryan to populate space.
SHRINK: Why were you up in the tree?
YOSSARIAN: Because I don't want to fly any more missions.
SHRINK: Hmmm. But we're at war fighting against a danagerous and ruthless enemy.
YOSSARIAN: Well, while I'm getting shot at here, there are lots of guys back home, going out with girls, drinking and having a good time, and I don't see why I shouldn't too.
SHRINK: But what if everyone felt that way...who'd fight the enemy?
YOSSARIAN: We'll then I'd be fool to feel any different....
Hey, great. You send your dollars to the Space Foundation, or whoever. I choose not to, 'cause the sun isn't going to incinerate the earth in my lifetime, or the lifetime of anyone I'll ever know. Don't presume to use the force of government to make me contribute to your cause, unless you're going to contribute to mine, which is funding my retirement account.
no backups.
If there actually were a fire, I'd hope that someone would indeed let people know, instead of letting them die without even being able to try to get out.
Is the analogy implied by your comment that there is no significant radiation danger from Fukushima, and the reports are just "making fun?"
Mathtard.
The OP said latency wasn't an issue because he was on a 100 Mbps link, obviously contrasting that with slower links.
Serialization delay for a max length Ethernet frame on a 10 Mbps link is over 1 ms, only a million times greater than you claim.
And of course, the other point is that bandwidth does have an effect on latency, despite your clueless statement implying otherwise.
"What does bandwidth have to do with latency?"
Serialization delay.