If he's the senior guy and he's getting the job done, then I suspect he knows what he's doing and knows which aspects of the job to focus on and which to ignore because they are useless trivialities. Just stay out of his way.
It's actually much less abusive to the poor than the plans offered by other cell service companies.
With ATT or Verizon, you
Pay approximately the same amount per month in total as with TMobile (getting service AND a phone), whether you got a "subsidized" phone or not
Are on the hook for 2 years no matter what (with TMobile, you at least have the option of avoiding any sort of two year commitment -- just don't finance your phone on a two year schedule through TMobile)
If you decide that you can't afford the service anymore (for instance because you're too poor), you get stuck with an "abusive" early termination fee which never changes amount -- if you cancel after one month, it is the same amount as if you cancel with only one month left. This is in contrast to TMobile, where you can avoid having any sort of two year commitment in the first place, or if you do have such a commitment, the penalty for early leaving decreases steadily to zero over time.
So, all told, it sure looks like TMobile is *substantially less* abusive to the poor than other phone companies.
You seem to be very worked up about this. Perhaps you should take a few minutes to sit and take some deep breaths.
Let's be completely clear about one thing: The suit in question is NOT alleging, as you seem to be doing, that TMobile's practice here is unfair or unlawful. Instead, the suit is alleging that TMobile has not described their practice adequately in advertisement.
UID nearly 3 million... you're probably mistaken. "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Take a look at the history of the site. It's been around for a long time and covered a lot of ground.
If the HOLES in the MEMBRANES are large enough to allow viruses and bacteria through, then they're large enough to allow salt ions through in much greater numbers, and then the membrane would not be doing it's job of desalination. I'm sure that this is not difficult to understand.
They used an unsigned int -- how could they possibly validate against a negative value? It's not their fault that the computer on the other end of the network was using a signed int./sarc
Let me 'splain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up.
So, when you collide high-energy particles, you get lots of outgoing particles. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer. One thing that you can do to study the outgoing particles is to look at all pairs of tracks in the event (the combinatorics get very large, but you can still do it), and make a histogram of how close together all the pairs were. When you do this, you find that there is a proliferation of tracks that are very close to one another. This is because the outgoing particles tend to come in clusters (we call them "jets"), all moving in approximately the same direction. This happens, more or less, because if you get one outgoing particle with very high energy, but it is an unstable particle, its decay products will tend to be moving in roughly the same direction as the original particle.
Now, you can also do something slightly more sophisticated: instead of just looking at the angle (in any direction) between two tracks, you can use spherical coordinates, and look separately at the angular distance *around* the beamline (azimuth / phi) and the angular distance *from* the beamline (polar angle / theta) (although we actually convert the polar angle into a strange quantity called "pseudorapidity" instead... this is unimportant for this discussion). When you do that, if you look at events with relatively few outgoing tracks (<35), you see exactly what you expect: an proliferation of tracks that are close in both azimuth and polar angle -- jets again.
On the other hand, if you look at events with lots of outgoing tracks (>= 110), you still see the excess of tracks that are close in both azimuth and polar angle from jets, but you also see a "ridge" -- an excess of tracks that have almost exactly the same azimuth as one another, but have very different polar angles. This is unexpected, and unexpected results == SCIENCE!
So, we expect particles to appear tightly clustered together, but what we see (in some events) is more like a flat spray of particles that goes from one beamline to the other, but is very tightly constrained in one azimuthal slice.
Terrible analogy: We expect cities to occupy a roughly circular area of the earth's surface -- tightly constrained in both latitude (polar angle) and longitude (azimuth). This is like finding a planet that has a city that stretches from pole to pole, but only along a single meridian -- tightly constrained in longitude but totally unconstrained in latitude. It's just plain weird.
Yes, and every thread will be investigated by the Secret Service.
I don't think that this guy's blog will have any impact on Secret Service investigations. If they felt there was a sufficient threat to merit investigation in any particular case, then they are more than able to discover the information this guy has uncovered (and more!) without his help. If they felt that some other particular case was not worthy of investigation, then this guy's blog will not convince them to investigate.
The blog is a complete non-factor as regards the Secret Service.
Self-driving vehicles may make EVs much more practical. Imagine, if you will, a world in which car ownership is rare for the simple reason that you can rent a self-driving vehicle of nearly any configuration from a fleet. This is markedly cheaper than renting a car now, because, when you are not using the vehicle, somebody else is (contrast with flying for a business trip and renting a car to go from airport to hotel to office to airport -- most of the time the car is sitting idle).
It also removes the "second vehicle" economics from the equation. When you need a short distance trip with little to no cargo (say a shopping trip or a commute), you get a subsubcompact EV. If you need a slightly longer trip, then you get a hybrid or gas car. If you need cargo or towing, you get an appropriately configured truck or SUV. Etc.
Suddenly, you can always use a vehicle that is appropriate to your immediate needs without every household owning many different cars (commute EV for her, commute EV for him, family car, old beater for the 16yo, SUV for the boat, whatever else you might think of).
Of course, self-driving tech is also still a few years off. It will be interesting to see whether EV tech or self-driving tech can advance fast enough to make non-gas cars feasible for a substantial portion of driving before rising gas prices cause economic havoc...
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Tesla has made a map of where they intend to put the stations and how far you can drive from them. http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
The video reminds me of Snow Crash. Be careful. It could eat your brain!
Hence why I said "If he's the senior guy and he's getting the job done." Logical conjunctions are important.
If he's the senior guy and he's getting the job done, then I suspect he knows what he's doing and knows which aspects of the job to focus on and which to ignore because they are useless trivialities. Just stay out of his way.
Correction: we have the technology today to travel to another solar system in a few hundred years, give or take.
Welp, so much for rule of law. It was nice while it lasted.
Who watches watcher watchers watch watchers watch?
It's actually much less abusive to the poor than the plans offered by other cell service companies.
With ATT or Verizon, you
So, all told, it sure looks like TMobile is *substantially less* abusive to the poor than other phone companies.
You seem to be very worked up about this. Perhaps you should take a few minutes to sit and take some deep breaths.
Let's be completely clear about one thing: The suit in question is NOT alleging, as you seem to be doing, that TMobile's practice here is unfair or unlawful. Instead, the suit is alleging that TMobile has not described their practice adequately in advertisement.
I would assume that they created a GUI interface in Visual Basic... sheesh.
UID nearly 3 million... you're probably mistaken. "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Take a look at the history of the site. It's been around for a long time and covered a lot of ground.
Comparable, perhaps, to forty million simultaneous Youtube watchers? Given that they can handle Youtube, I expect they could probably handle Glass.
If the HOLES in the MEMBRANES are large enough to allow viruses and bacteria through, then they're large enough to allow salt ions through in much greater numbers, and then the membrane would not be doing it's job of desalination. I'm sure that this is not difficult to understand.
Which viruses or bacteria are you worried about that are smaller than salt ions?
sudo -s is fewer characters than sudo bash.
sudo make me a sammich
They'd be better off using Monster Cables.
"This. Is. SPARTA!"
They used an unsigned int -- how could they possibly validate against a negative value? It's not their fault that the computer on the other end of the network was using a signed int. /sarc
Our chief weapon is Quarks! And Gluons! Our two chief weapons are Quarks and Gluons! And Plasma! ...
Let me 'splain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up.
So, when you collide high-energy particles, you get lots of outgoing particles. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer. One thing that you can do to study the outgoing particles is to look at all pairs of tracks in the event (the combinatorics get very large, but you can still do it), and make a histogram of how close together all the pairs were. When you do this, you find that there is a proliferation of tracks that are very close to one another. This is because the outgoing particles tend to come in clusters (we call them "jets"), all moving in approximately the same direction. This happens, more or less, because if you get one outgoing particle with very high energy, but it is an unstable particle, its decay products will tend to be moving in roughly the same direction as the original particle.
Now, you can also do something slightly more sophisticated: instead of just looking at the angle (in any direction) between two tracks, you can use spherical coordinates, and look separately at the angular distance *around* the beamline (azimuth / phi) and the angular distance *from* the beamline (polar angle / theta) (although we actually convert the polar angle into a strange quantity called "pseudorapidity" instead ... this is unimportant for this discussion). When you do that, if you look at events with relatively few outgoing tracks (<35), you see exactly what you expect: an proliferation of tracks that are close in both azimuth and polar angle -- jets again.
On the other hand, if you look at events with lots of outgoing tracks (>= 110), you still see the excess of tracks that are close in both azimuth and polar angle from jets, but you also see a "ridge" -- an excess of tracks that have almost exactly the same azimuth as one another, but have very different polar angles. This is unexpected, and unexpected results == SCIENCE!
So, we expect particles to appear tightly clustered together, but what we see (in some events) is more like a flat spray of particles that goes from one beamline to the other, but is very tightly constrained in one azimuthal slice.
Terrible analogy: We expect cities to occupy a roughly circular area of the earth's surface -- tightly constrained in both latitude (polar angle) and longitude (azimuth). This is like finding a planet that has a city that stretches from pole to pole, but only along a single meridian -- tightly constrained in longitude but totally unconstrained in latitude. It's just plain weird.
Yes, and every thread will be investigated by the Secret Service.
I don't think that this guy's blog will have any impact on Secret Service investigations. If they felt there was a sufficient threat to merit investigation in any particular case, then they are more than able to discover the information this guy has uncovered (and more!) without his help. If they felt that some other particular case was not worthy of investigation, then this guy's blog will not convince them to investigate. The blog is a complete non-factor as regards the Secret Service.
WHHHOOOOOOOOOoooooosssssshhhhhh
Self-driving vehicles may make EVs much more practical. Imagine, if you will, a world in which car ownership is rare for the simple reason that you can rent a self-driving vehicle of nearly any configuration from a fleet. This is markedly cheaper than renting a car now, because, when you are not using the vehicle, somebody else is (contrast with flying for a business trip and renting a car to go from airport to hotel to office to airport -- most of the time the car is sitting idle).
It also removes the "second vehicle" economics from the equation. When you need a short distance trip with little to no cargo (say a shopping trip or a commute), you get a subsubcompact EV. If you need a slightly longer trip, then you get a hybrid or gas car. If you need cargo or towing, you get an appropriately configured truck or SUV. Etc.
Suddenly, you can always use a vehicle that is appropriate to your immediate needs without every household owning many different cars (commute EV for her, commute EV for him, family car, old beater for the 16yo, SUV for the boat, whatever else you might think of).
Of course, self-driving tech is also still a few years off. It will be interesting to see whether EV tech or self-driving tech can advance fast enough to make non-gas cars feasible for a substantial portion of driving before rising gas prices cause economic havoc...
Oh, you must be talking about the Boston Molasses Disaster, then!
Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.