Why not just buy a pre-paid phone in the other country when you get there? Having a phone for each state in the US would be annoying, especially in the north-east, but how often do cross planet-spanning bodies of water? Is it really so frequent that it matters?
Well, in chicago, the weather isn't the most important thing to know. Or the hardest thing to predict. How many different ways can you say, "Cold and dreary" anyway?
The GP was complaining about the amount of scrutiny that the DEA gives, interfering with "real medicine", but basically they just care about tracking where every pill produced ends up, and catching drug seekers.
But the thing is.. what do they do when they catch them?
Yeah, I'm sure "planned obsolescence" is the reason why you can't separate the screen from the mobo in the iPad, and not the fact that to make something modular and still sturdy, it would have to be much thicker and heaver, and not really be the same device at all..
Sprint phones have had Telenav since before the iPhone came out. Like.. years before the iPhone came out. And not just the smartphones either. All the regular flip-phones where everything was java.
They had shit phones. They worked but Verizon and ATT had all the newest shit. My friends on Verizon and T-Mobile were getting decent Android handsets before me.
Had sprint for a long time (technically still do, but I'm much happier with the price I'm paying for Virgin..), and except for a few exceptional models, I agree with your statement with one caveat: sprint eventually got the models that VZ and ATT had, but months later. This turned out to be a feature - at the time the mobile industry's policy on software updates was to have a "check for updates" menu item that never did anything.
So, the Sprint phones, by being later to market, ironically had the most up-to-date software and firmware, at least for the model that I happened to try when temporarily switching to verizon and back (the contract ending fee was well worth the price to get away from verizon) and getting the same phone on sprint when I came back.
The regulators weren't put in place to save you from the meat industry's shady practices. They were put in place to protect the meat industry from the public's fear and outrage....
... this feature which can give double-digit percentage speedup because it takes a lot of memory" is stupid. LTO is costly -- period. It's just very worth it.
That's it?? That's kind of meh, when you think about it. "Speed up" shouldn't be measured in percents. It should be measured in decibels, to match the way users experience it.
Are we talking arc welding? The goggles you wear for acetylene don't blind you in the daylight and might work ok against non-green lasers... I imagine you could get something a little more notched for laser protection... there are only so many frequencies you need to attenuate....
I would do the same thing, but the possibility of multiple winners screws up the expectation value calculations. My gut feeling is that most people underestimate the risk:reward ratio, and therefore there is no jackpot level at which the expectation value is over unity - there will always be enough people playing that the risk of a split jackpot cuts the expectation value sufficiently to counter any increase in the pot.
That was going to be the original plan. Before we realized that flash memory was going to be cheaper than the equivalent amount of "e-paper memory"....
In fact, you cannot. You can get selected questions from the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade tests for a several years. The 10th grade questions are not on there. I tried some of the "HARD" 12th grade questions... I can see getting some of those wrong, even forgetting most of what you need to solve them, but 100% guessing on all levels? That's either incompetence or laziness masquerading as incompetence.
More jaywalking tickets should probably be issued. The crosswalks are there for a reason, only part of which is to protect pedestrians. They're also there to improve the flow of traffic.
If I lose 5 minutes a day because you can't be arsed to cross properly, you're robbing me of time. You're robbing me of a day a year. In a sleepy town of 20,000 inhabitants, you're nearly killing a numerical person every year...
I think the key here is the question of what is it you plan to sell. If you plan to sell the software.. opening up the source would probably be counter-productive. If you plan to sell a solution, of which the software is a part.. then, you might have some advantage.
Red hat, for instance, does not sell operating systems. They sell support. Indeed, most of the software they ship isn't even theirs, but by going open source, they have the license to ship it all together and support the whole package.
I think your argument makes a lot of sense to be used against a lottery. At least.. against a state-run lottery. Government shouldn't be in the business of protecting people from their own decisions, but neither should it be in the business of encouraging people to make decisions that are harmful to themselves.
If we're not going to allow non state-run lotteries, then we shouldn't have any lotteries at all.
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aside from the pre-paid plans, where are these magical plans where you don't pay the price of a phone subsidy whether your phone is subsidized or not?
Why not just buy a pre-paid phone in the other country when you get there? Having a phone for each state in the US would be annoying, especially in the north-east, but how often do cross planet-spanning bodies of water? Is it really so frequent that it matters?
Well, in chicago, the weather isn't the most important thing to know. Or the hardest thing to predict. How many different ways can you say, "Cold and dreary" anyway?
I somehow doubt that apple is putting $1200 screens in their $600 tablets....
The GP was complaining about the amount of scrutiny that the DEA gives, interfering with "real medicine", but basically they just care about tracking where every pill produced ends up, and catching drug seekers.
But the thing is.. what do they do when they catch them?
I wonder if any of this is related to the impending potential breakup of the € we keep hearing about, though...
Yeah, I'm sure "planned obsolescence" is the reason why you can't separate the screen from the mobo in the iPad, and not the fact that to make something modular and still sturdy, it would have to be much thicker and heaver, and not really be the same device at all..
Sprint phones have had Telenav since before the iPhone came out. Like.. years before the iPhone came out. And not just the smartphones either. All the regular flip-phones where everything was java.
They had shit phones. They worked but Verizon and ATT had all the newest shit.
My friends on Verizon and T-Mobile were getting decent Android handsets before me.
Had sprint for a long time (technically still do, but I'm much happier with the price I'm paying for Virgin..), and except for a few exceptional models, I agree with your statement with one caveat: sprint eventually got the models that VZ and ATT had, but months later. This turned out to be a feature - at the time the mobile industry's policy on software updates was to have a "check for updates" menu item that never did anything.
So, the Sprint phones, by being later to market, ironically had the most up-to-date software and firmware, at least for the model that I happened to try when temporarily switching to verizon and back (the contract ending fee was well worth the price to get away from verizon) and getting the same phone on sprint when I came back.
The regulators weren't put in place to save you from the meat industry's shady practices. They were put in place to protect the meat industry from the public's fear and outrage....
... this feature which can give double-digit percentage speedup because it takes a lot of memory" is stupid. LTO is costly -- period. It's just very worth it.
That's it?? That's kind of meh, when you think about it. "Speed up" shouldn't be measured in percents. It should be measured in decibels, to match the way users experience it.
... it's otherwise like going to a mechanic and saying, "my car is broken, fix it", if you need to.
I suspect that this analogy will NOT have the effect you're going for...
... but the KDE desktop environment does have...
Wait.. What does the DE stand for?
Are the protestors signatories to the Geneva Convention? That'd be some pretty tremendous foresight...
Are we talking arc welding? The goggles you wear for acetylene don't blind you in the daylight and might work ok against non-green lasers... I imagine you could get something a little more notched for laser protection... there are only so many frequencies you need to attenuate....
Or a list of games including (and especially) existing ones that require a connection to PSN for DRM purposes....
I would do the same thing, but the possibility of multiple winners screws up the expectation value calculations. My gut feeling is that most people underestimate the risk:reward ratio, and therefore there is no jackpot level at which the expectation value is over unity - there will always be enough people playing that the risk of a split jackpot cuts the expectation value sufficiently to counter any increase in the pot.
It means you need more fiber....
That was going to be the original plan. Before we realized that flash memory was going to be cheaper than the equivalent amount of "e-paper memory"....
In fact, you cannot. You can get selected questions from the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade tests for a several years. The 10th grade questions are not on there. I tried some of the "HARD" 12th grade questions... I can see getting some of those wrong, even forgetting most of what you need to solve them, but 100% guessing on all levels? That's either incompetence or laziness masquerading as incompetence.
As a person who occasionally drives..
More jaywalking tickets should probably be issued. The crosswalks are there for a reason, only part of which is to protect pedestrians. They're also there to improve the flow of traffic.
If I lose 5 minutes a day because you can't be arsed to cross properly, you're robbing me of time. You're robbing me of a day a year. In a sleepy town of 20,000 inhabitants, you're nearly killing a numerical person every year...
You realize that this would punish those of us who stayed....
Yeah everyone knows, if you want a +5 Troll, you get it by adding underrated mods, not labeled positive mods...
I think the key here is the question of what is it you plan to sell. If you plan to sell the software.. opening up the source would probably be counter-productive. If you plan to sell a solution, of which the software is a part.. then, you might have some advantage.
Red hat, for instance, does not sell operating systems. They sell support. Indeed, most of the software they ship isn't even theirs, but by going open source, they have the license to ship it all together and support the whole package.
I think your argument makes a lot of sense to be used against a lottery. At least.. against a state-run lottery. Government shouldn't be in the business of protecting people from their own decisions, but neither should it be in the business of encouraging people to make decisions that are harmful to themselves.
If we're not going to allow non state-run lotteries, then we shouldn't have any lotteries at all.