Actually on Verizon switching phones is as easy as calling an activation number and waiting about 2 minutes for your old phone to be disconnected and your new one to be set up.
Yes, that's what I mean. You were not able to switch it on your own.
You had to call a number and they had to switch your service for you. They could have denied switching the service to your new phone based on the model or some fine print in their contract terms, or they could have made you pay an "activation fee".
Only in the Americas do CDMA2000 networks still use MEID for authentication, as far as I know.
So... you're agreeing with me then? Yes, perhaps there are some versions of CDMA that have the flexibility of SIMs, but that's not what the U.S. carriers deployed. That still jives with my idea the choice was entirely deliberate to help carriers maintain control of hardware (and customers) and boost contract re-ups, etc.
It's just another method of creating artificial business barriers in an increasingly small world. Like region encoding DVDs and the U.S. adopting ATSC for HD broadcasting instead of using DVB-T or ISDB.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM.... Take that giant leap into the year 2000.
What are you talking about? GSM has been available in the U.S. since before 2000. It's not our fault some carriers hold onto CDMA. But really, you can't blame them when it worked perfectly well for their purposes. Me, I think a lot of it was to make it more difficult for people to use second-hand phones, since you can't just swap your service from one phone to another on your own like you can GSM.
The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote the reporting of these activities.
Let's see the government put it's authority where its mouth is. Outlaw VPNs and encryption at all, watch what happens in the business world next when suddenly companies aren't allowed to secure anything. I believe a lot of congressional brib^H^H^H^H campaign donors will be on the phone with their chosen representatives real fast.
My question is how many people with a salary of approximately $150k do not have health insurance?
Doesn't this only exemplify how very fucked up the entire healthcare system in this country is? Insurance isn't something you should have to have to be able to afford medical treatments, because everyone is not guaranteed to be able to get insurance to begin with. I don't believe any insurance companies would jump at the chance to sign up a new customer with a pre-existing CF diagnosis. Medical care should be at prices people can half-way afford without insurance. Otherwise all you really have is medical providers milking insurance companies for every dollar they can (raising premiums for everyone, healthy or not) and the uninsured are just SOL.
From a radio report, apparently they will also provide it free for uninsured people who earn less than $150k, so they'll be treating more than they'll be getting paid for.
So if you earn $151,000/yr you're expected to pay for a medicine that costs almost twice your entire yearly income? Okaaay....
With all the pictures of people doing illegal substances I'm sure are on Facebook, I would think having the DEA raid the place for evidence isn't that far of a stretch.
And with GPU assist an Atom with a low-end GPU can happily play 1080P H.264.
Actually that depends on the bitrate of the encoding far more than whether it's "1080p" or not. I've seen plenty of "1080p H.264 video" that's got lousy quality the moment there's any action.
Not to mention the what profile of h264 was being used. High Profile requires much more computational power than Main. We're also assuming the video can be GPU accelerated. You can't just take any h264 video and get hardware acceleration, the video has to be encoded following certain rules about bitrate, b-frames, etc otherwise it will be all decoded in software.
Why the hell do these morons keep tabling impossible and/or extremely EXPENSIVE (compute-wise) proposals without talking to someone who knows ANYTHING about IT and technology FIRST?
They probably did, they just didn't like the answers they got.
That and they don't see figuring out how to do it or paying for it as their problem -- it's for the search engines to deal with.
Drat, I was trying to mod this Funny as I was just imaging a bunch of people in a coffeehouse myself, and chose Overrated by accident. But I can't blame a Kinect interface for that.. yet./replying to undo mod
I meant on a touch screen, not with a keyboard/mouse.
I was replying to unixisc's idea there are separate Windows 8 versions for tablets and desktops. While I suppose you could have an Intel-powered touch tablet (like the BUILD hardware) run the legacy Desktop, I was saying the small screen size would make it hard to control because fine pointing is harder with your fingers than a mouse, and the Desktop interface has small elements like the triangles you flip to burrow into nested folders sometimes.
From some of these replies I'm getting here I think some people (not referring to you) have the wrong idea Windows 8 is a "Tablet OS" and therefore I'm being unfair by judging it with a desktop-size display and keyboard/mouse for input instead of a touchscreen I can make gestures on. Windows 8 is simply the next version of Windows. It will be used on all computing devices tablet, laptop, and desktop. If I think it stinks as a non-touchscreen interface, that is a valid issue for Microsoft since they expect me to use it whether I have a touchscreen or not.
Not sure why you feel they are "obviously written under the assumption your screen is 13" or smaller."
Because the UI elements are larger than needed on a desktop-sized screen and waste space? Which I said in the very next sentence after the one you're referencing. When I'm viewing the weather app I don't need the temperature displayed in 200 pt type or whatever ungodly size it really it. Interfaces that use elements this size relative to the display size are commonly called 10-foot UIs in other words, they aren't appropriately sized for desktop PC use, because you sit much closer to a PC screen than that. It's the same thing here, I call it "tablet PC sized" because the elements are made to be easier to use on a touch screen. Buttons and text are bigger because the screen size may be small and harder to read. Precise pointing is more difficult when you're using a finger instead of a stylus or mouse, and controls are spaced further apart to avoid accidentally activating the wrong item for the same reason.
Your comments about IE seem to indicate you don't understand how to use Peek. Meaning, you can touch the left side of the screen and Peek at apps in Memory.
The point is I can't view more than one app simultaneously by arranging windows because every Metro App wants to have all my attention by hiding everything else. Some of us like to multitask.
Apps don't "exit", they are suspended. Have you not looked at the Task Manager to learn this?
Have you actually read my post before replying to it?
"I've also been unable to find a way to actually Exit any of these Metro apps, either. I can click out of them and back to the Launcher, but I cannot stop the process without actually End Tasking them from the Process Manager. They eventually go into a "hibernation"-like state instead if you don't use them."
And really, Plugins like Flash are nagware anymore anyway.HTML5 is native in Windows 8.
Never expressed an opinion on plugins or flash.
Why would you wants apps that "can't be Windowed" while running in Metro? You want to switch between them? Why not use Peek or SnapView or Charms like Search or Share?
Does not Peek require me to hover the mouse in the lower right corner or use an activation keybinding? I kinda need to be able to use my keyboard and mouse while I am working and looking at both windows at once. That's why it's called "peek". It's only for a quick glance.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you haven't really experienced Windows 8 Developer Preview on a Touch Device.
No, I haven't. Because I'm examining Windows 8's ability to be a desktop computer OS, which is one of it's intended uses by Microsoft. If you think I'm using Windows 8 "wrong" by experiencing it on a desktop PC and not a touch device, well then you're only agreeing with me that Windows 8 (or to be more precise Metro) is a bad interface for traditional computers and Microsoft should be making separate desktop and tablet OS offerings, instead of doing this.
Another observation, Adobe CS4 adding 25 tiles to the Metro Desktop isn't an indictment of Windows 8 rather an editorial on the bloatware of said software suite.
Half those tiles are the major applications themselves, most others are the minor ones. There are not many uninstaller/readme/support files in the group. You obviously haven't researched what's actually included in the Master Collection (hint: everything).
And I'm afraid it is an indictment of Windows 8 when all these files aren't an issue in Windows 7 and before. The launcher design itself is the problem, because it doesn't hide things until needed. I don't see (and have to scroll through) 25 menu items of CS4 to reach an item after them on
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If I buy one of those two models my data will be eaten alive, and boy will I have egg on my face then.
NewEgg is actually having sales on something besides "recertfied" drives.
Well, there's also the stop sign at the corner of the street, too.
Was anyone else amused the news article is titled "U.S. Attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia", but the video thumbnail shows tanks driving through snow?
Actually on Verizon switching phones is as easy as calling an activation number and waiting about 2 minutes for your old phone to be disconnected and your new one to be set up.
Yes, that's what I mean. You were not able to switch it on your own.
You had to call a number and they had to switch your service for you. They could have denied switching the service to your new phone based on the model or some fine print in their contract terms, or they could have made you pay an "activation fee".
Only in the Americas do CDMA2000 networks still use MEID for authentication, as far as I know.
So... you're agreeing with me then? Yes, perhaps there are some versions of CDMA that have the flexibility of SIMs, but that's not what the U.S. carriers deployed. That still jives with my idea the choice was entirely deliberate to help carriers maintain control of hardware (and customers) and boost contract re-ups, etc.
It's just another method of creating artificial business barriers in an increasingly small world. Like region encoding DVDs and the U.S. adopting ATSC for HD broadcasting instead of using DVB-T or ISDB.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM. ... Take that giant leap into the year 2000.
What are you talking about? GSM has been available in the U.S. since before 2000. It's not our fault some carriers hold onto CDMA. But really, you can't blame them when it worked perfectly well for their purposes. Me, I think a lot of it was to make it more difficult for people to use second-hand phones, since you can't just swap your service from one phone to another on your own like you can GSM.
She should have had new titanium dentures built into it as well. She could have starred in the next James Bond movie.
The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote the reporting of these activities.
Let's see the government put it's authority where its mouth is. Outlaw VPNs and encryption at all, watch what happens in the business world next when suddenly companies aren't allowed to secure anything. I believe a lot of congressional brib^H^H^H^H campaign donors will be on the phone with their chosen representatives real fast.
My question is how many people with a salary of approximately $150k do not have health insurance?
Doesn't this only exemplify how very fucked up the entire healthcare system in this country is? Insurance isn't something you should have to have to be able to afford medical treatments, because everyone is not guaranteed to be able to get insurance to begin with. I don't believe any insurance companies would jump at the chance to sign up a new customer with a pre-existing CF diagnosis. Medical care should be at prices people can half-way afford without insurance. Otherwise all you really have is medical providers milking insurance companies for every dollar they can (raising premiums for everyone, healthy or not) and the uninsured are just SOL.
1) Pass law making cell phone use while operating a vehicle illegal.
2) Release mobile app promising to show motorists where to find available parking spots in real time.
3) ...
4) Profit!
From a radio report, apparently they will also provide it free for uninsured people who earn less than $150k, so they'll be treating more than they'll be getting paid for.
So if you earn $151,000/yr you're expected to pay for a medicine that costs almost twice your entire yearly income? Okaaay....
Japan should merge the Nuclear Science department with the Zoology group.
What could possibly go wrong?
With all the pictures of people doing illegal substances I'm sure are on Facebook, I would think having the DEA raid the place for evidence isn't that far of a stretch.
a source of pollution both on the Net and off.
Lots of free time in India??
Well..
Rs. 15,000 is one week's wages for a programmer at a top IT company in India
Maybe there's a glut of programming talent over there and they're targeting the unemployed.
And with GPU assist an Atom with a low-end GPU can happily play 1080P H.264.
Actually that depends on the bitrate of the encoding far more than whether it's "1080p" or not. I've seen plenty of "1080p H.264 video" that's got lousy quality the moment there's any action.
Not to mention the what profile of h264 was being used. High Profile requires much more computational power than Main. We're also assuming the video can be GPU accelerated. You can't just take any h264 video and get hardware acceleration, the video has to be encoded following certain rules about bitrate, b-frames, etc otherwise it will be all decoded in software.
Why the hell do these morons keep tabling impossible and/or extremely EXPENSIVE (compute-wise) proposals without talking to someone who knows ANYTHING about IT and technology FIRST?
They probably did, they just didn't like the answers they got.
That and they don't see figuring out how to do it or paying for it as their problem -- it's for the search engines to deal with.
Drat, I was trying to mod this Funny as I was just imaging a bunch of people in a coffeehouse myself, and chose Overrated by accident. But I can't blame a Kinect interface for that.. yet. /replying to undo mod
So did I and I only clicked the link because I highly doubted what the headline was suggesting.
So would that make this "getting clicks via reverse-psychology"?
Looks like a classic case of "Push the red button and then then run into hiding to avoid the angry mob".
Yeah. Teenagers should stop buying video games and instead save up for a car.
When was the last time you heard of someone getting laid with their new video game, anyway?
I meant on a touch screen, not with a keyboard/mouse.
I was replying to unixisc's idea there are separate Windows 8 versions for tablets and desktops. While I suppose you could have an Intel-powered touch tablet (like the BUILD hardware) run the legacy Desktop, I was saying the small screen size would make it hard to control because fine pointing is harder with your fingers than a mouse, and the Desktop interface has small elements like the triangles you flip to burrow into nested folders sometimes.
From some of these replies I'm getting here I think some people (not referring to you) have the wrong idea Windows 8 is a "Tablet OS" and therefore I'm being unfair by judging it with a desktop-size display and keyboard/mouse for input instead of a touchscreen I can make gestures on. Windows 8 is simply the next version of Windows. It will be used on all computing devices tablet, laptop, and desktop. If I think it stinks as a non-touchscreen interface, that is a valid issue for Microsoft since they expect me to use it whether I have a touchscreen or not.
Not sure why you feel they are "obviously written under the assumption your screen is 13" or smaller."
Because the UI elements are larger than needed on a desktop-sized screen and waste space? Which I said in the very next sentence after the one you're referencing. When I'm viewing the weather app I don't need the temperature displayed in 200 pt type or whatever ungodly size it really it. Interfaces that use elements this size relative to the display size are commonly called 10-foot UIs in other words, they aren't appropriately sized for desktop PC use, because you sit much closer to a PC screen than that. It's the same thing here, I call it "tablet PC sized" because the elements are made to be easier to use on a touch screen. Buttons and text are bigger because the screen size may be small and harder to read. Precise pointing is more difficult when you're using a finger instead of a stylus or mouse, and controls are spaced further apart to avoid accidentally activating the wrong item for the same reason.
Your comments about IE seem to indicate you don't understand how to use Peek. Meaning, you can touch the left side of the screen and Peek at apps in Memory.
The point is I can't view more than one app simultaneously by arranging windows because every Metro App wants to have all my attention by hiding everything else. Some of us like to multitask.
Apps don't "exit", they are suspended. Have you not looked at the Task Manager to learn this?
Have you actually read my post before replying to it?
"I've also been unable to find a way to actually Exit any of these Metro apps, either. I can click out of them and back to the Launcher, but I cannot stop the process without actually End Tasking them from the Process Manager. They eventually go into a "hibernation"-like state instead if you don't use them."
And really, Plugins like Flash are nagware anymore anyway.HTML5 is native in Windows 8.
Never expressed an opinion on plugins or flash.
Why would you wants apps that "can't be Windowed" while running in Metro? You want to switch between them? Why not use Peek or SnapView or Charms like Search or Share?
Does not Peek require me to hover the mouse in the lower right corner or use an activation keybinding? I kinda need to be able to use my keyboard and mouse while I am working and looking at both windows at once. That's why it's called "peek". It's only for a quick glance.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you haven't really experienced Windows 8 Developer Preview on a Touch Device.
No, I haven't. Because I'm examining Windows 8's ability to be a desktop computer OS, which is one of it's intended uses by Microsoft. If you think I'm using Windows 8 "wrong" by experiencing it on a desktop PC and not a touch device, well then you're only agreeing with me that Windows 8 (or to be more precise Metro) is a bad interface for traditional computers and Microsoft should be making separate desktop and tablet OS offerings, instead of doing this.
Another observation, Adobe CS4 adding 25 tiles to the Metro Desktop isn't an indictment of Windows 8 rather an editorial on the bloatware of said software suite.
Half those tiles are the major applications themselves, most others are the minor ones. There are not many uninstaller/readme/support files in the group. You obviously haven't researched what's actually included in the Master Collection (hint: everything).
And I'm afraid it is an indictment of Windows 8 when all these files aren't an issue in Windows 7 and before. The launcher design itself is the problem, because it doesn't hide things until needed. I don't see (and have to scroll through) 25 menu items of CS4 to reach an item after them on
"oh yeah, you have to have a touch-screen to swipe! That might be a problem for people who don't (like almost all desktop users)".
Now here is a use for Kinect...
This is one step away from either looking foolish at the office, or the Minority Report UX. I can't tell which.