Perhaps the ISP thought the VPN use was pirating because the TV shows' copyright owners' standard terms of trade ban the sort of parallel importing you were doing. Did you exceed 90 GB from Steam alone, or from Steam plus the TV VPN?
Tetris games since 2001 use the "bag" randomizer, which deals out one shuffling of all 7 pieces, then another shuffling of all seven pieces, etc. Thus the maximum gap between two "I" Tetriminos is 12, if one bag begins with an I and the next bag ends with an I. In addition, Tetris games since 2001 have the "hold piece" feature, letting the player save an I and use it later.
In 2007, colour_thief and I proved that the bag randomizer and hold piece make it possible to play forever. Then in 2014, Question_Mark produced a shorter loop.
[Text transmitted as an image] can be a liability for those subject to disability discrimination laws.
Maybe the blind are collateral damage
The Americans with Disabilities Act and foreign counterparts were enacted specifically to prevent businesses from treating the blind as collateral damage.
And have it 1. not support receiving ATSC because ATSC is pretty much U.S.-specific, and 2. probably stopped by customs as a result of an ICE ruling on TiVo's behalf.
buying a phone separately and using it on VZW, AT&T, or Sprint [...] hundreds of dollars
In which country is that?
Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and the company formerly known as American Telephone and Telegraph all serve the United States market.
SIM-only subscription
The CDMA2000 system allows a carrier to provide a subscriber identity in one of two ways. The carrier can provide a removable CSIM, or the carrier can "activate" the phone by programming the subscriber identity directly into the phone. U.S. carriers using CDMA2000, such as Verizon and Sprint, have historically chosen to "activate" phones and even to leave CSIM slots off their branded phones entirely until they added LTE service, as LTE mandates a USIM slot.
Google Chrome development is subsidized by Google Search revenue. Firefox once was as well until Yahoo! offered a better deal to be Firefox's default search provider.
Don't worry, Mozilla is working on breaking [Tree Style Tabs].
How?
By switching from XUL to the Chrome-inspired WebExtensions. This is ostensibly part of the Electrolysis project to add a multi-process model to Firefox in order to keep a long operation in one tab from causing other tabs to lose responsiveness.
I wonder whether the use of proprietary client-side script is a "serious repair" under consideration. Reliance on proprietary client-side script gives SourceForge an F rating among free software project hosts that FSF reviewed, the same as that of GitHub.
You mean there is NO other supplier of recording/ fast-forwarding STB in the US? That's astonishing.
Remember that the United States is the home of software patents. Other makers of DVRs that allow simultaneous playback and recording have to license the "time-warping" patent from TiVo, usually after TiVo files suit. The only other widely used DVRs are those leased by cable TV companies and satellite TV companies.
Information is lost by using images containing text, it isn't searchable, nor can it be copy pasted.
this can be an advantage.
Not for readers who use a speech- or Braille-based screen reader because they are blind or hard of sight. In fact, it can be a liability for those subject to disability discrimination laws.
Because you want to communicate with people who have a Microsoft account but not a Google+ account or people who regularly open Skype but do not regularly open Google Hangouts.
Then how does Microsoft get away with supporting apps for its Windows Phone operating system, which is about as niche within the mobile market as X11/Linux is in the desktop market?
Then why are phones more expensive if you buy them from a mobile network provider?
Until about 2013, buying a phone separately and using it on VZW, AT&T, or Sprint was hundreds of dollars more expensive because there was no discount for not taking a subsidized phone. The carrier would still add $20 or so per month to your bill even after the contract ended or even if you brought your own device. T-Mobile's "Un-carrier" ad campaign in 2013, which promoted the fact that T-Mobile itemizes the service and the installment payment for the phone separately, forced the other carriers to adopt similar price cuts. (T-Mobile had already been doing this for years under the name "Even More Plus", but it wasn't well promoted.)
Until LTE became widespread, subscribers had to buy from a provider because two of the major U.S. carriers (Verizon and Sprint) used CDMA2000, not GSM/UMTS. CDMA2000 allows a carrier to choose to either issue removable CSIM cards or program the subscriber identity directly into the handset. The U.S. CDMA2000 carriers chose the latter and generally refused to activate any handset that they did not sell, ostensibly because no other phones supported the correct bands. Last time I checked, LTE-capable phones on Verizon and Sprint still needed a CDMA2000 subscriber identity for voice calls, text messages, and use in areas that do not yet have LTE coverage. Though LTE-capable phones have a slot for an access card, I don't know whether such phones for the North American market store the CDMA2000 part of the subscriber identity on the card or on the handset.
Does America no longer have broadcast (as in VHF/ UHF radio waves) TV services?
The USA has ATSC broadcasts, and STBs to watch ATSC broadcasts on pre-digital TVs are sold for under $100. But these under-$100 STBs don't support fast-forwarding near-live TV. STBs with this feature are made by TiVo, and a TiVo STB won't work without a subscription.
Last report was over 28,000,000 subscribers with an average of two receivers (I personally have 4). Comcast has fewer customers.
That's because the big C's (Comcast, Cox, and Charter) have chosen to divide the cable market up among themselves by city. Sirius, on the other hand, has a single nationwide market. To compare them fairly, you have to add all C's.
Without regulation of utilities, they would have no way to cross real estate owned by non-subscribers to reach subscribers, or even to cross roads because the city owns the roads. So some regulation by the owner of the roads is needed to let utilities operate in the first place.
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Perhaps the ISP thought the VPN use was pirating because the TV shows' copyright owners' standard terms of trade ban the sort of parallel importing you were doing. Did you exceed 90 GB from Steam alone, or from Steam plus the TV VPN?
Then you didn't plan.
Tetris games since 2001 use the "bag" randomizer, which deals out one shuffling of all 7 pieces, then another shuffling of all seven pieces, etc. Thus the maximum gap between two "I" Tetriminos is 12, if one bag begins with an I and the next bag ends with an I. In addition, Tetris games since 2001 have the "hold piece" feature, letting the player save an I and use it later.
In 2007, colour_thief and I proved that the bag randomizer and hold piece make it possible to play forever. Then in 2014, Question_Mark produced a shorter loop.
[Text transmitted as an image] can be a liability for those subject to disability discrimination laws.
Maybe the blind are collateral damage
The Americans with Disabilities Act and foreign counterparts were enacted specifically to prevent businesses from treating the blind as collateral damage.
If you want some Rush Limbaugh to listen to on your portable music player, Amazon Music is selling the only good part of a Limbaugh show for $1.29.
And have it 1. not support receiving ATSC because ATSC is pretty much U.S.-specific, and 2. probably stopped by customs as a result of an ICE ruling on TiVo's behalf.
buying a phone separately and using it on VZW, AT&T, or Sprint [...] hundreds of dollars
In which country is that?
Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and the company formerly known as American Telephone and Telegraph all serve the United States market.
SIM-only subscription
The CDMA2000 system allows a carrier to provide a subscriber identity in one of two ways. The carrier can provide a removable CSIM, or the carrier can "activate" the phone by programming the subscriber identity directly into the phone. U.S. carriers using CDMA2000, such as Verizon and Sprint, have historically chosen to "activate" phones and even to leave CSIM slots off their branded phones entirely until they added LTE service, as LTE mandates a USIM slot.
But how would a biopic spin Mr. Pajitnov's claim that free software destroys the market?
Then would this video of fast play leading up to Invisible Tetris and this video of Shirase mode in TGM3 make you a card-carrying member of the GOP?
(Hint: The bleeps when each piece spawns signal what the next piece will be.)
Google Chrome development is subsidized by Google Search revenue. Firefox once was as well until Yahoo! offered a better deal to be Firefox's default search provider.
Don't worry, Mozilla is working on breaking [Tree Style Tabs].
How?
By switching from XUL to the Chrome-inspired WebExtensions. This is ostensibly part of the Electrolysis project to add a multi-process model to Firefox in order to keep a long operation in one tab from causing other tabs to lose responsiveness.
I wonder whether the use of proprietary client-side script is a "serious repair" under consideration. Reliance on proprietary client-side script gives SourceForge an F rating among free software project hosts that FSF reviewed, the same as that of GitHub.
From the featured article:
The page you linked supports this:
You mean there is NO other supplier of recording/ fast-forwarding STB in the US? That's astonishing.
Remember that the United States is the home of software patents. Other makers of DVRs that allow simultaneous playback and recording have to license the "time-warping" patent from TiVo, usually after TiVo files suit. The only other widely used DVRs are those leased by cable TV companies and satellite TV companies.
Information is lost by using images containing text, it isn't searchable, nor can it be copy pasted.
this can be an advantage.
Not for readers who use a speech- or Braille-based screen reader because they are blind or hard of sight. In fact, it can be a liability for those subject to disability discrimination laws.
Then why not treat the 140 character Tweet as a "headline" and allow the user to attach a text or Markdown file containing the "body"?
Because you want to communicate with people who have a Microsoft account but not a Google+ account or people who regularly open Skype but do not regularly open Google Hangouts.
It costs money to support software on a niche OS.
Then how does Microsoft get away with supporting apps for its Windows Phone operating system, which is about as niche within the mobile market as X11/Linux is in the desktop market?
On which browsers for which operating systems does the web-based client support audio calls and video calls? Or do you only use the IM part?
Then why are phones more expensive if you buy them from a mobile network provider?
Until about 2013, buying a phone separately and using it on VZW, AT&T, or Sprint was hundreds of dollars more expensive because there was no discount for not taking a subsidized phone. The carrier would still add $20 or so per month to your bill even after the contract ended or even if you brought your own device. T-Mobile's "Un-carrier" ad campaign in 2013, which promoted the fact that T-Mobile itemizes the service and the installment payment for the phone separately, forced the other carriers to adopt similar price cuts. (T-Mobile had already been doing this for years under the name "Even More Plus", but it wasn't well promoted.)
Until LTE became widespread, subscribers had to buy from a provider because two of the major U.S. carriers (Verizon and Sprint) used CDMA2000, not GSM/UMTS. CDMA2000 allows a carrier to choose to either issue removable CSIM cards or program the subscriber identity directly into the handset. The U.S. CDMA2000 carriers chose the latter and generally refused to activate any handset that they did not sell, ostensibly because no other phones supported the correct bands. Last time I checked, LTE-capable phones on Verizon and Sprint still needed a CDMA2000 subscriber identity for voice calls, text messages, and use in areas that do not yet have LTE coverage. Though LTE-capable phones have a slot for an access card, I don't know whether such phones for the North American market store the CDMA2000 part of the subscriber identity on the card or on the handset.
Does America no longer have broadcast (as in VHF/ UHF radio waves) TV services?
The USA has ATSC broadcasts, and STBs to watch ATSC broadcasts on pre-digital TVs are sold for under $100. But these under-$100 STBs don't support fast-forwarding near-live TV. STBs with this feature are made by TiVo, and a TiVo STB won't work without a subscription.
Last report was over 28,000,000 subscribers with an average of two receivers (I personally have 4). Comcast has fewer customers.
That's because the big C's (Comcast, Cox, and Charter) have chosen to divide the cable market up among themselves by city. Sirius, on the other hand, has a single nationwide market. To compare them fairly, you have to add all C's.
HD Radio on the FM band has been more controversial due to the negative impact on long range DX reception of AM clear channel stations
That and the fact that iBiquity never published a complete spec for the audio codec used in the NRSC-5 receiver and transmitter.
a [ferrite] rod is more [substantial] than a telescoping FM antenna?
Yes. A lot of FM radios get away with using the earbuds as an antenna that telescopes all the way up from your pocket to your ears.
Without regulation of utilities, they would have no way to cross real estate owned by non-subscribers to reach subscribers, or even to cross roads because the city owns the roads. So some regulation by the owner of the roads is needed to let utilities operate in the first place.