For my FiOS, if I were to buy their phone service, they would use a VOIP converter built into their network interface device (the box on your wall). When the power goes out, their battery continues to power their VOIP line and the copper loop into your residence, but not the broadband Ethernet and CATV interfaces.
"fighting back" against the dangers posed by new face-swapping technologies that have been used to digitally superimpose the faces of its members onto the bodies of minimum scale movie extras.
Plate tectonics might very well destroy all traces of us on Earth. But there would be a couple of lunar landing stages plus some other junk on the Moon. Plus a poor little Mars rover running around collecting samples.
I guess I don't understand this part. I don't keep money in my PayPal account. Never have. It is linked to a credit card, through which they can transfer charges. But I assume that funds remain 'in' PayPal for only a matter of seconds. Money going the other way (which I don't do) would require a linked bank account. Into which PayPal would immediately deposit funds due me.
PayPal is not a bank. And were they to act as one (by holding onto funds on someone's behalf) that would open up a whole can of legal and regulatory worms. Which I assume their T&C are aimed at avoiding.
Instead of a carrier lock, I'll have a device lock. How can I be sure that I can move my network ID from one phone to another? And what about that pocket full of SIM cards that I can just plug in when I go overseas?
The Verizon provided FiOS battery backup only supports the phone function. They drop broadband (and TV?) when the power goes out at your home interface. So I ended up plugging the FiOS interface into my router/PC UPS anyway.
50 years ago, there was already a pretty good foundation of solution space search techniques. No need to 'trial and error' stuff. Put these together with things like Bayes classifiers and you've got a pretty good start at AI. Just not in real time, with the slow processors of the day.
often uncompensated occupation of righteous indignation
Not as often uncompensated as you'd think. The ability to deliver a mindless voter base motivated by blind rage is worth quite a lot. And if paid enough, their leaders will happily look the other way while the customer fondles a few altar boys.
You are responsible for your own vacations. They are the time between gigs. If you can't afford to take some time off, you are just bad at budgeting and planning.
An advantage: At the end of your contract term, when your customer asks to renew, you just say, "I have a two week job to take care of right now. See you when that's over." When they scream about the inconvenience, you just tell them that this wouldn't have happened if you had been a direct employee.
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Is not the phone a VOIP?
For my FiOS, if I were to buy their phone service, they would use a VOIP converter built into their network interface device (the box on your wall). When the power goes out, their battery continues to power their VOIP line and the copper loop into your residence, but not the broadband Ethernet and CATV interfaces.
"fighting back" against the dangers posed by new face-swapping technologies that have been used to digitally superimpose the faces of its members onto the bodies of minimum scale movie extras.
FTFY.
Plate tectonics might very well destroy all traces of us on Earth. But there would be a couple of lunar landing stages plus some other junk on the Moon. Plus a poor little Mars rover running around collecting samples.
That looks a lot like my screen saver.
Ask the folks in Georgia who've been paying about $100/year extra
But that's a small price to pay to protect the environment. I mean Global Warming, Think of the Fishes, etc.
Why are green power subsidies OK when they go to Al Gore's tree fund but not General Electric?
Coal is not clean at all. It causes lots of air pollution
This, exactly.
It's time to double down on nuclear plant construction.
We can just train some bots to handle that.
And I don't mean Groucho.
I never kept more than ~$50 or so in it
I guess I don't understand this part. I don't keep money in my PayPal account. Never have. It is linked to a credit card, through which they can transfer charges. But I assume that funds remain 'in' PayPal for only a matter of seconds. Money going the other way (which I don't do) would require a linked bank account. Into which PayPal would immediately deposit funds due me.
PayPal is not a bank. And were they to act as one (by holding onto funds on someone's behalf) that would open up a whole can of legal and regulatory worms. Which I assume their T&C are aimed at avoiding.
Would you all please just look this way for a sec?
Once you've agreed, how do you change agreement?
If you were under 18 when you clicked 'I Agree', that contract is voidable. Even years later. Nothing was changed. You just got caught.
Instead of a carrier lock, I'll have a device lock. How can I be sure that I can move my network ID from one phone to another? And what about that pocket full of SIM cards that I can just plug in when I go overseas?
The public library is free.
What do you do for a living? Are you willing to give it away for free?
In most cases there is a specific need for that one tool or service
Not really. You need food, water and a place to sleep. Everything else is optional.
The Verizon provided FiOS battery backup only supports the phone function. They drop broadband (and TV?) when the power goes out at your home interface. So I ended up plugging the FiOS interface into my router/PC UPS anyway.
In this case, the restrictions are on US companies.
This.
Time for everyone to pack their bags and move their corporate home to Ireland.
50 years ago, there was already a pretty good foundation of solution space search techniques. No need to 'trial and error' stuff. Put these together with things like Bayes classifiers and you've got a pretty good start at AI. Just not in real time, with the slow processors of the day.
often uncompensated occupation of righteous indignation
Not as often uncompensated as you'd think. The ability to deliver a mindless voter base motivated by blind rage is worth quite a lot. And if paid enough, their leaders will happily look the other way while the customer fondles a few altar boys.
2 sales reps
What were they selling? The last two Windows phones?
One of my past employers paid me a huge sum just to go away and never come back.
Unfortunately (for them) the state department of labor and industries still found me and I filled them in on the working conditions there.
I'd rather support my local pasta farmers.
The woes of being a IT contractor
You are responsible for your own vacations. They are the time between gigs. If you can't afford to take some time off, you are just bad at budgeting and planning.
An advantage: At the end of your contract term, when your customer asks to renew, you just say, "I have a two week job to take care of right now. See you when that's over." When they scream about the inconvenience, you just tell them that this wouldn't have happened if you had been a direct employee.