They are unfortunate in that they are such a huge business; while customer and user satisfaction is still at the top of their list, nothing will ever be a higher priority than profit (as it should be with a business).
I also recently switched to sprint and I've been really satisfied with their service. I got an unlimited data plan for a lower price than anyone else, and they had 3G in my town while AT&T still doesn't. I'd prefer to be on a GSM network, but theres absolutely no tangible difference to my day to day use. Their customer support has been pretty decent, but that might be because I'm working through a corporate account rather than a normal one.
Pretty sure that for the girl to be a Deus Ex Machina, it would have had to have been a secret that she was lucky, rather than directly stated early on from practically the first moment she's met. The fact that she was lucky (or unlucky, or really lucky, or her descendants are really lucky, or however Niven's retroactively redefined it this year) was always to me the whole point of the book.
Close, except that zer01 isn't an MVNO. The story about them using AT&T's 3G network was incorrect, the interviewer made some assumptions about what they're doing.
I was a MythTV proponent for YEARS. I built my own box, and I've run with both Gentoo and Ubuntu based backends. When my video card blew out last month after 3+ years of constant running (including through some very bad power outages which were hard on the entire houses electrical system) I couldn't afford to replace the video card and motherboard which was also fried.
I pulled the drive and stuck it in the computer in the other room, and decided to try XBox Media Center an my old xbox I had sitting around. To my surprise, XBMC completely blows MythTV out of the water. For about $30 in hardware (the equipment necessary to do the mod, which is entirely software based and done through a memory card and ftp) and 2 hours labor, I was up and running with a user interface that is one of the easiest to use I've ever seen.
It outputs in 720p or 1080i (doesn't have the power to decode actual 720p content without some heavy hardware modding.) It streams all the content over my network, so all the storage is in the office right where I download it in the first place. It uses mplayer, so it can play anything mplayer can. It can do 5.1 sound, plus I can put a ton of emulators on there to play my old super-nes games with actual controllers, including multiplayer.
For about $100 and a bit of searching online, a person could pick up a used XBox and be off and running, as long as they're just looking for a MEDIA CENTER and don't care about PVR capabilities that is.
It's a bit late for this comments, but just to follow up:
Yes, they are required to carry it unencrypted, if they carry it. I've had direct experience with companies that either "accidently" encrypt it, as well as at least one that flat out stated that if since they weren't allowed to encrypt it, they wouldn't carry it either. My statement was intended to cover both.
The Zap2It Labs service receives all the data from the networks, typically directly, and aggregates it all into a customizable feed which users set up by signing up for an account and selecting the cable provider or broadcast area of their choice.
Many different applications, besides just MythTV, use this data. Some people have individually negotiated with their local stations to get the data they need, but that's extremely hit or miss, and about as convenient as attempting to negotiate with your Cable company to get them to carry broadcast networks in HD unencrypted - Not very, and most people in most areas won't bother.
I would have really expected Secret of Mana to be released around the same time as the recent DS game. They're most likely not releasing things like Secret of Mana and the Final Fantasy games for fear of cannibalizing their portable version sales.
Look at this from the point of view of the gas co's for a moment. When everyone has a high fuel economy car, everyone will be able to:
1) Drive to work 2) Go to the Mall 3) Watch Drive-in Movies 4) Visit their relatives 5) Go to paying sporting events with their friends 6) Carpool to work 7) etc. etc.
And what will the service stations be able to charge? $2.99 a gallon (or whatever) for the gas?
Wanted to post a respnse in here, even though its a bit late.
If the blood vessels truely do not involve blood itself, then a Jehovah's Witness would most likely be willing to accept, however it would be a personal decision, and would vary from one Witness to another, depending on their personal conscience.
Witnesses do NOT believe the blood contains a part of a person's soul. They don't believe in the soul as being separate from the person at all. When a person dies, they do not believe there is any "soul" that continues to exist separately. Witnesses do not accept blood because they were explicitly told to abstain from it, and because God declared blood sacred. It has nothing to do with judgement day (other than that a Witness deliberately accepting a blood transfusion would be intentionally going against God's commandment), and Witnesses certainly don't think God would have any problem sorting people out.
Witnesses do not accept stored blood transfusions of any kind, regardless of whose blood it is, even their own. Recent advances of medical technology have created some possible medical treatments such as autotransfusion and dialysis (sp?) treatments that are considered personal decisions. More information on Witnesses stand on blood should be available at their website. I just checked, and it's right on the front page.
I myself usually have both a regular book and an audiobook in progress, but Audiobooks, even the well acted kind, don't hold a candle to the likes of:
Big Finish http://www.bigfinish.com/ Fantastic scifi audio (mostly Doctor Who related) or Noise Monster http://www.noisemonster.com/.
Anyone wanting something more than an audiobook, but still staying in the audio medium should check out their stuff. It's written and produced directly for the audio, and in the case of Doctor Who from Big Finish, is licensed by the BBC and uses the original cast.
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Some of us get up later in the day and still need invites. Anyone out there still listening and handing them out? jarrodmiller (at) gmail
and we've got suggestions of Female Terminators, robotic dildo's, and Japanese robotic tentacle hentai. Is there anything else left to say?
They are unfortunate in that they are such a huge business; while customer and user satisfaction is still at the top of their list, nothing will ever be a higher priority than profit (as it should be with a business).
Not. True.
I also recently switched to sprint and I've been really satisfied with their service. I got an unlimited data plan for a lower price than anyone else, and they had 3G in my town while AT&T still doesn't. I'd prefer to be on a GSM network, but theres absolutely no tangible difference to my day to day use. Their customer support has been pretty decent, but that might be because I'm working through a corporate account rather than a normal one.
Pretty sure that for the girl to be a Deus Ex Machina, it would have had to have been a secret that she was lucky, rather than directly stated early on from practically the first moment she's met. The fact that she was lucky (or unlucky, or really lucky, or her descendants are really lucky, or however Niven's retroactively redefined it this year) was always to me the whole point of the book.
Close, except that zer01 isn't an MVNO. The story about them using AT&T's 3G network was incorrect, the interviewer made some assumptions about what they're doing.
http://www.dennispr.com/zer01.html
According to them, they've got interconnect agreements that eliminate the need to lease bandwidth the way an MVNO typically does.
Nah. He got it write the first time.
I was a MythTV proponent for YEARS. I built my own box, and I've run with both Gentoo and Ubuntu based backends. When my video card blew out last month after 3+ years of constant running (including through some very bad power outages which were hard on the entire houses electrical system) I couldn't afford to replace the video card and motherboard which was also fried.
I pulled the drive and stuck it in the computer in the other room, and decided to try XBox Media Center an my old xbox I had sitting around. To my surprise, XBMC completely blows MythTV out of the water. For about $30 in hardware (the equipment necessary to do the mod, which is entirely software based and done through a memory card and ftp) and 2 hours labor, I was up and running with a user interface that is one of the easiest to use I've ever seen.
It outputs in 720p or 1080i (doesn't have the power to decode actual 720p content without some heavy hardware modding.) It streams all the content over my network, so all the storage is in the office right where I download it in the first place. It uses mplayer, so it can play anything mplayer can. It can do 5.1 sound, plus I can put a ton of emulators on there to play my old super-nes games with actual controllers, including multiplayer.
For about $100 and a bit of searching online, a person could pick up a used XBox and be off and running, as long as they're just looking for a MEDIA CENTER and don't care about PVR capabilities that is.
It's a bit late for this comments, but just to follow up:
Yes, they are required to carry it unencrypted, if they carry it. I've had direct experience with companies that either "accidently" encrypt it, as well as at least one that flat out stated that if since they weren't allowed to encrypt it, they wouldn't carry it either.
My statement was intended to cover both.
The Zap2It Labs service receives all the data from the networks, typically directly, and aggregates it all into a customizable feed which users set up by signing up for an account and selecting the cable provider or broadcast area of their choice.
Many different applications, besides just MythTV, use this data. Some people have individually negotiated with their local stations to get the data they need, but that's extremely hit or miss, and about as convenient as attempting to negotiate with your Cable company to get them to carry broadcast networks in HD unencrypted - Not very, and most people in most areas won't bother.
Bugs in a beta version of a program thats being incredibly heavily scrutinized by everyone looking for something to crow about!?
That's unpossible!
I would have really expected Secret of Mana to be released around the same
time as the recent DS game. They're most likely not releasing things like Secret of Mana and the Final Fantasy games for fear of cannibalizing their portable version sales.
WoW !> Civil Liberties.
If U2 agreed to do this endorsement pro Bono...
Look at this from the point of view of the gas co's for a moment. When everyone has a high fuel economy car, everyone will be able to:
1) Drive to work
2) Go to the Mall
3) Watch Drive-in Movies
4) Visit their relatives
5) Go to paying sporting events with their friends
6) Carpool to work
7) etc. etc.
And what will the service stations be able to charge? $2.99 a gallon (or whatever) for the gas?
See what I did there?
Wow...that is a BAD analogy..
What kind of a person would come up with a.... oh...
nevermind.
Would it be informative, or Insightful to say "ABOUT F-ING TIME!" ?
Wanted to post a respnse in here, even though its a bit late.
If the blood vessels truely do not involve blood itself, then a Jehovah's Witness would most likely be willing to accept, however it would be a personal decision, and would vary from one Witness to another, depending on their personal conscience.
Witnesses do NOT believe the blood contains a part of a person's soul. They don't believe in the soul as being separate from the person at all. When a person dies, they do not believe there is any "soul" that continues to exist separately.
Witnesses do not accept blood because they were explicitly told to abstain from it, and because God declared blood sacred. It has nothing to do with judgement day (other than that a Witness deliberately accepting a blood transfusion would be intentionally going against God's commandment), and Witnesses certainly don't think God would have any problem sorting people out.
Witnesses do not accept stored blood transfusions of any kind, regardless of whose blood it is, even their own.
Recent advances of medical technology have created some possible medical treatments such as autotransfusion and dialysis (sp?) treatments that are considered personal decisions. More information on Witnesses stand on blood should be available at their website. I just checked, and it's right on the front page.
Dude, you just called his mom a whore.
whoah. I'm pretty sure this whole conversation can go nowhere but down.
Yes but, does it run Linux?
ow! ow! OW! STOP HITTING ME!
I myself usually have both a regular book and an audiobook in progress, but Audiobooks, even the well acted kind, don't hold a candle to the likes of:
Big Finish http://www.bigfinish.com/ Fantastic scifi audio (mostly Doctor Who related)
or
Noise Monster http://www.noisemonster.com/.
Anyone wanting something more than an audiobook, but still staying in the audio medium should check out their stuff. It's written and produced directly for the audio, and in the case of Doctor Who from Big Finish, is licensed by the BBC and uses the original cast.
Anyone else wondering exactly how you market Mirrormask brand gravel?
Actually, I think it says rsvp_media@apple.com, which would actually make sense.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left...?
Repeat.
That's a viscious lie! the_raptor has never even touched marijuana.