I still use a dumbphone (very much on purpose, too. It has talk, text, calendar. That is *all* I need, and I save a bundle on my no-data plan
If the cost of adding data to your cellular service is your main worry, I'm told these steps will work:
1. If you live in the United States, prepare to give up your CDMA2000 network (Verizon or Sprint) in favor of a GSM network (AT&T or T-Mobile). 2. Buy an unlocked low-end Android phone. 3. Connect your Android phone to the Internet using Wi-Fi and disable cellular data in Settings. 4. Buy a voice-only prepaid SIM, such as AT&T GoPhone. Do not insert the SIM. 5. Activate service on your SIM over the Internet using a web browser. 6. Now put the SIM in your phone.
If you don't follow these steps, especially if you insert the SIM before service activation completes, you may get crammed.
and if the phone falls in a river, I am out $20 instead of $400-$600).
If hardware replacement cost is your main worry, there are Android phones under $100.
[PC users whose knowledge I have not yet assessed get] a PIII with 4GB of RAM, and a 27GB HD; when they can make a coherent argument for needing a more modern machine, even if it's unflattering, they will be further upgraded.
Would you consider any of the following arguments "coherent"?
When I edit video from my camcorder, my video editing application takes seconds to react to a click, and my previews are a slideshow. While that's happening, the CPU is pegged at 100%. Would a faster CPU help?
When I edit video from my camcorder, I keep running out of space for intermediates. Would a larger drive help?
When I enable web ads, Firefox takes seconds to react to a click. I opened the script console, and I noticed a bunch of hits from ad networks, including many that appear related to real-time bidding. But when I disable web ads, some websites such as WIRED put up a paywall. What's a better idea: a faster CPU or a subscription to each of those websites?
Where's the 4 GB you promised? All I see is 3.2 GB because the Pentium III can't run a 64-bit operating system. Would a more recent CPU help?
4 GB is fine, but every time I start the computer, it still needs to load the operating system from HDD. Would an SSD help?
Willow bark has been used for thousands of years. Once modern medicine came around, the active ingredients (salicin and flavonoids) were characterized, and one of these was refined into Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). This was practical because there wasn't nearly as much federal red tape associated with research on willow bark as there is today with research on Schedule I controlled substances.
what you're saying is so flagrantly at odds with reality that making sense of it requires invention. Private citizens are not competition for large growing operations
That invention is so old its patent has expired several times over. Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
Rollers or road, the wheels have still turned that many times, and the odometer is still accurately measuring this. Aren't fuel consumption tests done on rollers as well?
Cite a source for how "mileage" is defined, in particular the effects of importing a used car from a country with a different definition, and I'll take it into account in my reply.
[Use of rollers] is done to misrepresent the amount of kilometres a car has actually travelled
"Travel" relative to what? The earth is rotating around its core, revolving around the Sun, and revolving around the galaxy's center. When a car is run on rollers, the odometer accurately measures how far the car has traveled relative to the surface of the rollers. If "travel" is motion relative to the earth, then why doesn't being carried on a car carrier trailer count?
Cite a source for how "travel" is defined, and I'll take it into account in my reply.
Until you hit a high school English teacher who assigns a book report: "you can pick whichever book you want, so long as it's won award X, Y, or Z, and no other student requested the book first."
How is "odometers run forward on rollers" manipulation? The wheels have actually turned that many times, though on a set of rollers rather than an actual road.
I think Javascript is a great language to learn to program. It ships with *every* computer, tablet, phone on the planet.
You need not only the interpreter but also a text editor so that you can make the HTML and CSS and JS files. Notepad is fine to start with on a PC, but does a text editor ship with every iPhone and iPad? I thought iOS was designed to hide the concept of a "file".
Something "driving adoption and demand" solely among mass copyright infringers may lack the "substantial noninfringing use" needed for a defense to contributory copyright infringement.
Remote SSH without X is still more far efficient with the typical home or small-business Internet connection than remote X, especially when administering a virtual server with limited RAM and disk space.
Yes, both RPM and deb distributions of Linux that I've used come with GNU nano.
And if you're on a *BSD, it probably comes with Pico, the Alpine Composer. It feels like nano because nano was a functional clone of Pico back before Pico was free software.
That tone is not appreciated, especially when the names are presumably variant spellings of the same name. I'd prefer that you back up your assertion with etymology rather than with name-calling, and I imagine others reading this would agree.
Sharing your Internet connection with a close neighbor.
Then you can each use only 0.5 TB per month. It's not quite like carpooling, where two people going to the same place in one vehicle use half the road space as the same two people going to the same place in separate vehicles. Or were you referring to the aggressive caching proxy that I alluded to earlier? In that case, it's going to be difficult to get the close neighbor to trust the proxy's root CA. (MITM is required to cache HTTPS connections.)
You appear to have been sidetracked by the analogy, as the implied workarounds don't apply so well to Internet access.
What would they substitute for (1) driving
What alternative to driving were you considering, and what would its Internet counterpart be?
(2) alone
What's the Internet counterpart to carpooling? Visiting a public library that offers Wi-Fi access to patrons and uses aggressive caching proxy to aggregate cookieless retrievals of the same resource?
the only single lane road from place a to place b
(3) on that particular road
The stipulation in this analogy was that no other practical road exists.
(4) during rush hour when the congestion toll is highest?
Comcast does not vary the factor at which data transfer affects your quota based on time of day. As far as I'm aware, only satellite ISPs such as Exede do that.
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I still use a dumbphone (very much on purpose, too. It has talk, text, calendar. That is *all* I need, and I save a bundle on my no-data plan
If the cost of adding data to your cellular service is your main worry, I'm told these steps will work:
1. If you live in the United States, prepare to give up your CDMA2000 network (Verizon or Sprint) in favor of a GSM network (AT&T or T-Mobile).
2. Buy an unlocked low-end Android phone.
3. Connect your Android phone to the Internet using Wi-Fi and disable cellular data in Settings.
4. Buy a voice-only prepaid SIM, such as AT&T GoPhone. Do not insert the SIM.
5. Activate service on your SIM over the Internet using a web browser.
6. Now put the SIM in your phone.
If you don't follow these steps, especially if you insert the SIM before service activation completes, you may get crammed.
and if the phone falls in a river, I am out $20 instead of $400-$600).
If hardware replacement cost is your main worry, there are Android phones under $100.
[PC users whose knowledge I have not yet assessed get] a PIII with 4GB of RAM, and a 27GB HD; when they can make a coherent argument for needing a more modern machine, even if it's unflattering, they will be further upgraded.
Would you consider any of the following arguments "coherent"?
I'm stating what is the law, not supporting a position on what ought to be the law.
Willow bark has been used for thousands of years. Once modern medicine came around, the active ingredients (salicin and flavonoids) were characterized, and one of these was refined into Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). This was practical because there wasn't nearly as much federal red tape associated with research on willow bark as there is today with research on Schedule I controlled substances.
what you're saying is so flagrantly at odds with reality that making sense of it requires invention. Private citizens are not competition for large growing operations
That invention is so old its patent has expired several times over. Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
Rollers or road, the wheels have still turned that many times, and the odometer is still accurately measuring this. Aren't fuel consumption tests done on rollers as well?
Cite a source for how "mileage" is defined, in particular the effects of importing a used car from a country with a different definition, and I'll take it into account in my reply.
[Use of rollers] is done to misrepresent the amount of kilometres a car has actually travelled
"Travel" relative to what? The earth is rotating around its core, revolving around the Sun, and revolving around the galaxy's center. When a car is run on rollers, the odometer accurately measures how far the car has traveled relative to the surface of the rollers. If "travel" is motion relative to the earth, then why doesn't being carried on a car carrier trailer count?
Cite a source for how "travel" is defined, and I'll take it into account in my reply.
Until you hit a high school English teacher who assigns a book report: "you can pick whichever book you want, so long as it's won award X, Y, or Z, and no other student requested the book first."
How is "odometers run forward on rollers" manipulation? The wheels have actually turned that many times, though on a set of rollers rather than an actual road.
there are also really shitty chunks that appear to have been written by people under the influence of [...] -PCP
Indeed.
You can't fire the dictator.
But you can emigrate. "Of course it runs NetBSD!"
If you have to have a custom editor just to make a language usable its a fail in my books.
Then I'd say the same about something like Lisp or Scheme, which needs parenthesis matching in the editor to be usable.
I think Javascript is a great language to learn to program. It ships with *every* computer, tablet, phone on the planet.
You need not only the interpreter but also a text editor so that you can make the HTML and CSS and JS files. Notepad is fine to start with on a PC, but does a text editor ship with every iPhone and iPad? I thought iOS was designed to hide the concept of a "file".
Something "driving adoption and demand" solely among mass copyright infringers may lack the "substantial noninfringing use" needed for a defense to contributory copyright infringement.
If you like MS-DOS Editor, you may also like GNU nano or Pico, which is a text editor for UNIX systems at a similar level of abstraction.
Remote SSH without X is still more far efficient with the typical home or small-business Internet connection than remote X, especially when administering a virtual server with limited RAM and disk space.
I which /. would add vi keybindings to the comment editor.
The comment editor is a <textarea> element. Find or make a browser extension that adds vi keys to <textarea> elements.
Yes, both RPM and deb distributions of Linux that I've used come with GNU nano.
And if you're on a *BSD, it probably comes with Pico, the Alpine Composer. It feels like nano because nano was a functional clone of Pico back before Pico was free software.
You're just an ignorant idiot
That tone is not appreciated, especially when the names are presumably variant spellings of the same name. I'd prefer that you back up your assertion with etymology rather than with name-calling, and I imagine others reading this would agree.
What's the Internet counterpart to carpooling?
Sharing your Internet connection with a close neighbor.
Then you can each use only 0.5 TB per month. It's not quite like carpooling, where two people going to the same place in one vehicle use half the road space as the same two people going to the same place in separate vehicles. Or were you referring to the aggressive caching proxy that I alluded to earlier? In that case, it's going to be difficult to get the close neighbor to trust the proxy's root CA. (MITM is required to cache HTTPS connections.)
You appear to have been sidetracked by the analogy, as the implied workarounds don't apply so well to Internet access.
What would they substitute for (1) driving
What alternative to driving were you considering, and what would its Internet counterpart be?
(2) alone
What's the Internet counterpart to carpooling? Visiting a public library that offers Wi-Fi access to patrons and uses aggressive caching proxy to aggregate cookieless retrievals of the same resource?
the only single lane road from place a to place b
(3) on that particular road
The stipulation in this analogy was that no other practical road exists.
(4) during rush hour when the congestion toll is highest?
Comcast does not vary the factor at which data transfer affects your quota based on time of day. As far as I'm aware, only satellite ISPs such as Exede do that.
Does GIMP remain horrible after having turned on Windows > Single Window Mode? If so, what's the most horrible thing about it?
Without an image editor, how do you make icons for the graphical application that you make in the development environment?
"Hostage" is a strong word. Customers are free to move to a FiOS-serviced area.
Good luck explaining that to opinionated commenters who insist on being technically correct ("the best kind of correct"). See this thread where John Willkie maintains that the legal definition of "extortion" is the only one that matters, and anyone bringing a colloquial definition into the discussion "sound[s] very immature".