I was under the impression that real estate ownership was a public record. Have you located the owner of each such rental unit? Have you located the bank owning each empty house under foreclosure? Have you informed them of the vote and polled them about how they plan to vote? What was their reply?
Every packet transmitted for you is a packet that could not be transmitted for someone else.
Only when the network is operating at capacity. When the network is operating at less than capacity, every packet can be transmitted, meaning the opportunity cost of transmitting someone's packet is zero. The demand for the service of transmitting a packet is cyclic on a daily and weekly basis, lowest in the early mornings in a given time zone. Satellite carriers realize this and don't run the meter between, say, midnight and 5 AM (source: exede.com) So why do cellular carriers charge a flat rate for airtime regardless of demand?
Exactly how many times have *you* personally been admonished for using the wrong pronoun or the like.
I have personally been admonished once that I can remember in the past year, for having used "tranny" when "trans" was appropriate. But I have read about situations in which being admonished once is enough to get fired.
PC is essentially consideration. Sure, there are some people whose needs are so out there that I probably won't afford them the consideration they would like
Perhaps some of the anti-PCers have seen the euphemism treadmill run long enough that they look at the history of "no, it's handicapped; no, it's disabled; no, it's physically challenged; no, it's differently abled; no, person first, it's person with a disability" and conclude that their "needs are so out there".
Which could be rephrased as "unless you're willing to search for jobs in the city where you want to live."
If you see home Internet as an essential utility, and the best home Internet offer in your city is as intolerable as the leaded water in Flint, Michigan, then your city is intolerable. If your city is intolerable, than any job available only in your city is likewise intolerable.
I thought net neutrality meant no preferential treatment to a particular source of traffic. Data caps apply equally to all sources of traffic. To which provision of the legislation do you refer?
I'm not sure how they can unilaterally do this without revisiting the contract.
If you're on month-to-month service, as opposed to a 12- or 24-month commitment, the provider alters the contract by sending the new terms to you along with your bill. If you pay it without canceling service, you accept the offer of continued service.
I just thought of a passive-aggressive way for a design firm to fight clients that demand excessive scripted animation.
1. Clarify to the client that some design firms also run websites offering reviews of random sites' usability. Name-drop "Web Pages That Suck", "Tab Closed Didn't Read", and "Plain Text Offenders". 2. Remind the client that disability discrimination laws may apply. Name-drop National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp. 3. Provide a view of the same information with a similar look but less bling, and link to it from the main site with a wheelchair symbol (alt="Accessible version of this page"). Follow best practices for accessibility and usability on this view. 4. To disguise this site's connection to the design firm, use a shell company and/or review other firms' sites. 5. If a client insists on bling that harms the user experience, and particularly if the client requests removal of the accessible version, review the site and mention the harmful UX and possibility for lawsuits from an advocate for the disabled.
If your website takes more than 4 seconds to load on a 5mbps internet connection, then it's designed by a freaking noob that should not be allowed near a webserver.
Converting from bits to bytes and subtracting protocol overhead produces a limit around 2 MB, even if a site keeps its scripts under, say, 10 kB. If a single document has more than 2 MB of illustrations and photos, such as a long how-to article, how should it be sent? Should all images after the first 2 MB use "lazy loading", where an image doesn't load until the user has scrolled to it and thus can't be viewed without turning scripts on for the site or after going offline?
Strings are also unicode by default which sucks on backend.
What about Unicode in general necessarily "sucks on backend"? Or are you confusing Unicode with its UTF-16 binary form, which arguably does suck compared to UTF-8?
Server side and client side design patterns are different.
But sometimes you want the prevalidation logic on the client to have the same behavior as the authoritative validation logic on the server. There are two common ways to keep the logic in sync without violating Don't Repeat Yourself: either write the server in the client-side language or transpile the logic from the server-side language to the client-side language.
While a case like this could certainly end up in the US legal system if it happened here, eventually at some level a court would likely find it to be a freedom of speech issue, rule in favor of the lady who made the review, and it would be done.
In addition, making this sort of false claim of authorship in the United States is likely a tort and/or crime. A rider to the DMCA (17 USC 1202) made it illegal to conceal or falsify a copyrighted work's attribution. Such "copyright management information" definitely includes the author's name, and depending on the judge, "other information identifying the work" may include the date of publication.
Touché. Thank you. But because Chess and Call of Duty aren't entirely close substitutes, can you think of any major video game that uses "open formats" for saved games and isn't a port of a pre-1923 board game?
What is with all the hate towards JavaScript and Python, especially JavaScript?
Criminals have used major web advertisement networks to push ransomware to machines running web browsers. Blocking execution of JavaScript blocks the execution of the script that surreptitiously downloads and installs the malware.
It should be "...not enough to support a household at their current standard of living.
I'll change it further: "at the minimum lawful standard of living in the region." If you try raising your own vegetables in a garden, you get fined for operating an unlicensed garden, as Oak Park once did to Julie Bass. If you give up your apartment and instead live on the street, you get arrested for violating the sit/lie law.
Or, for that matter, an open source equivalent to Visio.
I run Xubuntu 14.04 on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop, and apart from a slightly clunky configuration interface, I've had little problem using a Vizio TV as a second monitor through the laptop's VGA output.
Oh, you meant that Visio. Is KDE's Calligra Flow any good?
Flow is a flowcharting and diagramming application for the Calligra Suite and has a user interface that is similar to Microsoft Visio. It is fully integrated into Calligra and can for example be embedded into Calligra Words.
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I was under the impression that real estate ownership was a public record. Have you located the owner of each such rental unit? Have you located the bank owning each empty house under foreclosure? Have you informed them of the vote and polled them about how they plan to vote? What was their reply?
Every packet transmitted for you is a packet that could not be transmitted for someone else.
Only when the network is operating at capacity. When the network is operating at less than capacity, every packet can be transmitted, meaning the opportunity cost of transmitting someone's packet is zero. The demand for the service of transmitting a packet is cyclic on a daily and weekly basis, lowest in the early mornings in a given time zone. Satellite carriers realize this and don't run the meter between, say, midnight and 5 AM (source: exede.com) So why do cellular carriers charge a flat rate for airtime regardless of demand?
Exactly how many times have *you* personally been admonished for using the wrong pronoun or the like.
I have personally been admonished once that I can remember in the past year, for having used "tranny" when "trans" was appropriate. But I have read about situations in which being admonished once is enough to get fired.
PC is essentially consideration. Sure, there are some people whose needs are so out there that I probably won't afford them the consideration they would like
Perhaps some of the anti-PCers have seen the euphemism treadmill run long enough that they look at the history of "no, it's handicapped; no, it's disabled; no, it's physically challenged; no, it's differently abled; no, person first, it's person with a disability" and conclude that their "needs are so out there".
unless you're willing to risk your job.
Which could be rephrased as "unless you're willing to search for jobs in the city where you want to live."
If you see home Internet as an essential utility, and the best home Internet offer in your city is as intolerable as the leaded water in Flint, Michigan, then your city is intolerable. If your city is intolerable, than any job available only in your city is likewise intolerable.
No, you should move if you work from home and AT&T makes it impossible to do your job where you live.
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to say here. That people unhappy with their ISP should pack up all their things and move to a different city
If you work from home, and the best Internet connection available in your city makes it impossible to do your job, then Thanshin seems to believe moving is warranted, as do sglewis100, Zero__Kelvin, allquixotic, Bengie, FlyHelicopters, and several Anonymous Cowards.
possibly far enough away they need to find a different job
If you work from home, you can take your job with you.
and new social circle?
New in-person social circle, same social media social circle.
I thought net neutrality meant no preferential treatment to a particular source of traffic. Data caps apply equally to all sources of traffic. To which provision of the legislation do you refer?
Are business plans even available in residentially zoned blocks? Some ISPs don't understand telecommuting.
I'm not sure how they can unilaterally do this without revisiting the contract.
If you're on month-to-month service, as opposed to a 12- or 24-month commitment, the provider alters the contract by sending the new terms to you along with your bill. If you pay it without canceling service, you accept the offer of continued service.
Too much of what I do at home relies on an internet connection and AT&T is the only company that can be bothered to supply one.
More than one entity supplies a home, including landlords located in cities that aren't beholden to AT&T.
I just thought of a passive-aggressive way for a design firm to fight clients that demand excessive scripted animation.
1. Clarify to the client that some design firms also run websites offering reviews of random sites' usability. Name-drop "Web Pages That Suck", "Tab Closed Didn't Read", and "Plain Text Offenders".
2. Remind the client that disability discrimination laws may apply. Name-drop National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp.
3. Provide a view of the same information with a similar look but less bling, and link to it from the main site with a wheelchair symbol (alt="Accessible version of this page"). Follow best practices for accessibility and usability on this view.
4. To disguise this site's connection to the design firm, use a shell company and/or review other firms' sites.
5. If a client insists on bling that harms the user experience, and particularly if the client requests removal of the accessible version, review the site and mention the harmful UX and possibility for lawsuits from an advocate for the disabled.
If your website takes more than 4 seconds to load on a 5mbps internet connection, then it's designed by a freaking noob that should not be allowed near a webserver.
Converting from bits to bytes and subtracting protocol overhead produces a limit around 2 MB, even if a site keeps its scripts under, say, 10 kB. If a single document has more than 2 MB of illustrations and photos, such as a long how-to article, how should it be sent? Should all images after the first 2 MB use "lazy loading", where an image doesn't load until the user has scrolled to it and thus can't be viewed without turning scripts on for the site or after going offline?
Strings are also unicode by default which sucks on backend.
What about Unicode in general necessarily "sucks on backend"? Or are you confusing Unicode with its UTF-16 binary form, which arguably does suck compared to UTF-8?
Server side and client side design patterns are different.
But sometimes you want the prevalidation logic on the client to have the same behavior as the authoritative validation logic on the server. There are two common ways to keep the logic in sync without violating Don't Repeat Yourself: either write the server in the client-side language or transpile the logic from the server-side language to the client-side language.
While a case like this could certainly end up in the US legal system if it happened here, eventually at some level a court would likely find it to be a freedom of speech issue, rule in favor of the lady who made the review, and it would be done.
In addition, making this sort of false claim of authorship in the United States is likely a tort and/or crime. A rider to the DMCA (17 USC 1202) made it illegal to conceal or falsify a copyrighted work's attribution. Such "copyright management information" definitely includes the author's name, and depending on the judge, "other information identifying the work" may include the date of publication.
Which major game uses "open formats"
chess [...] Go
Touché. Thank you. But because Chess and Call of Duty aren't entirely close substitutes, can you think of any major video game that uses "open formats" for saved games and isn't a port of a pre-1923 board game?
How do "well-designed P2P systems" handle the case where both peers are behind CGNAT?
At least in VB6 you have the _possibility_ of declaring a variable type.
The same is true of mypy, a static type checker for Python.
What is with all the hate towards JavaScript and Python, especially JavaScript?
Criminals have used major web advertisement networks to push ransomware to machines running web browsers. Blocking execution of JavaScript blocks the execution of the script that surreptitiously downloads and installs the malware.
The problem here is that the attorney's fees and court costs associated with due process are often cost-prohibitive.
It should be "...not enough to support a household at their current standard of living.
I'll change it further: "at the minimum lawful standard of living in the region." If you try raising your own vegetables in a garden, you get fined for operating an unlicensed garden, as Oak Park once did to Julie Bass. If you give up your apartment and instead live on the street, you get arrested for violating the sit/lie law.
Hundreds of Millions of computer users around the world can barely or not at all afford to pay $100 for a piece of software.
in this day and age you can find perfectly good & capable computers lying around curbs, dumpsters, etc. for anyone to take
Are computers found in dumpsters even in low-exchange-rate countries where 100 USD is a lot of money?
Which major game uses "open formats" for its saved campaign states?
Once you get a taste of libre software, there is simply no going back to the proprietary crap.
I prefer Dark Souls and Bloodborne
So what's the viable free alternative to Dark Souls or Bloodborne?
Or, for that matter, an open source equivalent to Visio.
I run Xubuntu 14.04 on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop, and apart from a slightly clunky configuration interface, I've had little problem using a Vizio TV as a second monitor through the laptop's VGA output.
Oh, you meant that Visio. Is KDE's Calligra Flow any good?