Then why doesn't AT&T provide better customer service and automatically adjust your bill to give you the lowest cost plan each month based on usage for text messages, cellular data and voice minutes?
Because changing your bill for you without your consent is illegal.
I prefer to pay by the text message. It's great, I only pay for 160 bytes at a time and I can be certain I will never pay for more than 159 bytes worth of unused data.
MetroPCS has done this in a very reasonable way-- they have an algorithm that determines if you are "downloading" something. I don't know the details but we estimate it's simply derived from continuous traffic above some given threshold. They basically say, you can do unlimited internet surfing, but we'll sell you different connection tiers for "Youtube and downloads". The "Youtube" part is so people understand it's about bandwidth. Technically all they're really saying is "downloads", which a fat youtube stream gets algorithmically tagged as. This is on their 4G LTE network. This allows you to stream Netflix or Youtube if you want, and when you run out of bandwidth, you can continue doing normal web surfing. They currently sell 2 tiers, 1GB and Unlimited, with talks of a 4GB plan to bridge the $10 gap between those two. Other carriers should do this too. Some content-provider agnostic algorithm that simply determines if you are "streaming/downloading" and then meters you for it.
What if they separated AT&T into two private companies-- one that managed the hardware (fiber, backhaul, towers, spetrum) and one that ran everything else? Kinda like what they were going to do to Microsoft way back.
Yeah very large change. How about 300 million lightbulbs' worth of raw mercury making it into our water after being tossed into dumpsters every year because we 95% of your America doesn't have a proper recycling plan for these new bulbs. Can you guess how many 2-liter bottles worth of mercury that is every year? As if pregnant women being advised against eating Tuna wasn't bad enough, your stupid laws have to make it even worse.
I disagree with that underlying assumption these days. The market couldn't absorb the extra supply of "stuff" that we don't need, and nobody is investing what with the uncertain future of the economy. Besides, a decent college education that will guarantee a job in this economic climate costs 6 figures.
well the math isn't necessarily bad, only the assumption that if all those people had degrees that the government would be making more money. You only need 50 people or so to run a company that can design and release a super-hi-tech cellphone. Educating more to do the same isn't going to increase your tax revenue. If anything it could decrease your revenue because the new graduates will be hired in place of the existing 50 workers, at a lower cost to employ.
well up until very recently, the homeless were the lazy, entitlement seeking, dirty, smelly, socialist, parasitic trash. That's what this is about, teaching us that "but for the grace of God, there would I be". Nobody learns that if only the lazy are unemployed.
"Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. wiki).
I think you're jumping to conclusions here. The Old People have other latent resistances such as -2d6--"get off my lawn". An effective threat, likely to ward off any weaker viruses. -3d4--"when I was your age". Confuses virus into trying to remember the 1918 pandemic, which it was not around for. -1d12--alzheimers. Even if it infects the patient, (absent?)mind over matter is an effective strategy. You can't be sick unless you know you've got something. -2d10--complaining. No virus wants to have to put up with a senile complainer. -???
Now IANAV but IMHO if I WERE I would stay the HELL AWAY from anyone with these kind of skills. As a virus, I would see no point in killing off the (theoretically) living half of me.
No its ok we should allow all nations to have it. It's absurd to think that the US should be allowed to have it while other nations also in search of pandemic-capable lethal super flu viruses FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES ONLY* would be denied access.
*we promise guys its only for peaceful purposes! plz plz lol kthx. --Iran
A few years ago, I gave my friends and family gifts like this. They each got a 256 MB USB stick with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org and some other open source software I thought they might find useful. Well, they didn't appreciate it at all.
Right after getting it, one of my nieces threw it back at me, calling it useless, and then she called me a "nerd ass faggot". I found out later that her brothers deleted everything on theirs without even bothering to try them.
My older relatives had no idea at all what they were. Some of them thought they were supposed to put them on their keychains, as decorations!
I'm not sure who, but some of my relatives didn't even bother to bring them home with them after they left the Christmas gathering. I found several of them lying on the floor after everyone had left for the night.
I hoped it would be a learning experience for them, but it was really a learning experience for me. Most people don't give a fuck about open source software. They just don't care. And they surely don't want to receive it as a gift.
the problem is you were trying to give a gift that you liked, not one they liked. Any normal person would see this. We don't. This is how far slashdot is disconnected from the real world.
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silicon lattice constant is like 4.5 angstroms or something I believe not 2.35...and apparently that puts the wall at about 5nm, "with tweaking maybe 4nm". Maybe we can play with carbon nanotubes then but we'll hit a wall regardless, can't go much smaller...will be interesting to see what happens to intel's stock and employment. If I had to guess they will just lay everybody off except the actual fabrication workers and continue selling the chips...
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Current sneaks through the part of the channel that's farthest from the gate and also through the underlying silicon substrate
big "huh" at this article excerpt, the point of Intel's 3d gate transistors is it allows for a fully depleted region of silicon in the channel. IE, the gate is so close to the silicon, NO electrons exist in the channel when it is off. The only leakage current you can have then through the channel is quantum tunneling, and that's basically nil; bringing the total current consumption of the transistor down by a factor of 10. Ho hum silly slashdot summary, get off my lawn!
There should be such a law. You show me an efficient government and I will show you an oppressive one.
Show me a government constrained by finances and the dissent of the people and I'll show you a government that both doesn't have the money to be oppressive and has to be efficient.
He may have a drug dealing cousin, but the police should need a warrant for this type of intrusive tracking.
Papers please.
double plus good comment. This certainly sounds suspicious enough for a judge to grant a warrant.
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we are negative because it still can't scale to more than 1 core when you're rending multiple tabs. When someone has 6 cores, there's no reason they should have to enable GPU acceleration to keep smoothscroll on the foreground page smooth while other pages render in the background.
I'll be damned if I EVER give someone a free hand in beating me for prolonged periods. And I expect no less from ANYONE, adult or child.
If my parents had treated me like that, I'd have killed them. Flat out. No exceptions.
Try growing up under that and tell me you would have the will to kill them, LOL. Depending on your personality (lion, or lamb; lamb here) it's been beaten out of you long ago. Perhaps you're a lion and it wouldn't have broken you. For a girl I imagine it would have? We'll never know. Only the person themselves knows the answers to these things.
This is actually a pretty good way to discourage people from using the larger banks. Viola, smaller big banks that aren't so big they can't fail anymore....
When the moveyourmoney.info campaign was in full swing. Bank of America flat out lied to me about my mortgage, defrauded me on escrow fees, and conned me on a car loan. It was so bad I wrote my congressman and senators as well as the BBB.I went so far as to refinance my house to sever all ties to that organization. For some reason, business culture from this country has gone from "take care of our customers" to "squeeze those suckers for every drop of blood, then if they pack up and leave try to kiss and make up."
and why shouldn't BOA have? Under what moral code should they oblige to being "nice"? Life is about power, ???, and profit. It's not like there's some old man in the sky to keep people interested in being honest anymore.
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Then why doesn't AT&T provide better customer service and automatically adjust your bill to give you the lowest cost plan each month based on usage for text messages, cellular data and voice minutes?
Because changing your bill for you without your consent is illegal.
ftfy.
sorry, you're making it sound like AT&T is being reasonable. This won't do, we need a click-generator-headline instead.
I prefer to pay by the text message. It's great, I only pay for 160 bytes at a time and I can be certain I will never pay for more than 159 bytes worth of unused data.
psych-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion
MetroPCS has done this in a very reasonable way-- they have an algorithm that determines if you are "downloading" something. I don't know the details but we estimate it's simply derived from continuous traffic above some given threshold.
They basically say, you can do unlimited internet surfing, but we'll sell you different connection tiers for "Youtube and downloads".
The "Youtube" part is so people understand it's about bandwidth. Technically all they're really saying is "downloads", which a fat youtube stream gets algorithmically tagged as.
This is on their 4G LTE network. This allows you to stream Netflix or Youtube if you want, and when you run out of bandwidth, you can continue doing normal web surfing.
They currently sell 2 tiers, 1GB and Unlimited, with talks of a 4GB plan to bridge the $10 gap between those two.
Other carriers should do this too. Some content-provider agnostic algorithm that simply determines if you are "streaming/downloading" and then meters you for it.
What if they separated AT&T into two private companies-- one that managed the hardware (fiber, backhaul, towers, spetrum) and one that ran everything else? Kinda like what they were going to do to Microsoft way back.
...since 2005.
Nice tabloiding, Slashdot.
how does one tabloid to nerds? Hm, a paradox...
Yeah very large change. How about 300 million lightbulbs' worth of raw mercury making it into our water after being tossed into dumpsters every year because we 95% of your America doesn't have a proper recycling plan for these new bulbs.
Can you guess how many 2-liter bottles worth of mercury that is every year? As if pregnant women being advised against eating Tuna wasn't bad enough, your stupid laws have to make it even worse.
I disagree with that underlying assumption these days. The market couldn't absorb the extra supply of "stuff" that we don't need, and nobody is investing what with the uncertain future of the economy.
Besides, a decent college education that will guarantee a job in this economic climate costs 6 figures.
well the math isn't necessarily bad, only the assumption that if all those people had degrees that the government would be making more money.
You only need 50 people or so to run a company that can design and release a super-hi-tech cellphone. Educating more to do the same isn't going to increase your tax revenue. If anything it could decrease your revenue because the new graduates will be hired in place of the existing 50 workers, at a lower cost to employ.
well up until very recently, the homeless were the lazy, entitlement seeking, dirty, smelly, socialist, parasitic trash.
That's what this is about, teaching us that "but for the grace of God, there would I be". Nobody learns that if only the lazy are unemployed.
yay public school!!!
they probably just need more funding
"Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. wiki).
I think you're jumping to conclusions here. The Old People have other latent resistances such as
-2d6--"get off my lawn". An effective threat, likely to ward off any weaker viruses.
-3d4--"when I was your age". Confuses virus into trying to remember the 1918 pandemic, which it was not around for.
-1d12--alzheimers. Even if it infects the patient, (absent?)mind over matter is an effective strategy. You can't be sick unless you know you've got something.
-2d10--complaining. No virus wants to have to put up with a senile complainer.
-???
Now IANAV but IMHO if I WERE I would stay the HELL AWAY from anyone with these kind of skills. As a virus, I would see no point in killing off the (theoretically) living half of me.
Unless it cripples us. People always forget about the cripples.
that's ok I think we have a vaccine against getting the cripples now too right??
No its ok we should allow all nations to have it. It's absurd to think that the US should be allowed to have it while other nations also in search of pandemic-capable lethal super flu viruses FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES ONLY* would be denied access.
*we promise guys its only for peaceful purposes! plz plz lol kthx.
--Iran
A few years ago, I gave my friends and family gifts like this. They each got a 256 MB USB stick with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org and some other open source software I thought they might find useful. Well, they didn't appreciate it at all.
Right after getting it, one of my nieces threw it back at me, calling it useless, and then she called me a "nerd ass faggot". I found out later that her brothers deleted everything on theirs without even bothering to try them.
My older relatives had no idea at all what they were. Some of them thought they were supposed to put them on their keychains, as decorations!
I'm not sure who, but some of my relatives didn't even bother to bring them home with them after they left the Christmas gathering. I found several of them lying on the floor after everyone had left for the night.
I hoped it would be a learning experience for them, but it was really a learning experience for me. Most people don't give a fuck about open source software. They just don't care. And they surely don't want to receive it as a gift.
the problem is you were trying to give a gift that you liked, not one they liked.
Any normal person would see this. We don't.
This is how far slashdot is disconnected from the real world.
Well, yes and no. It's not that easy.
silicon lattice constant is like 4.5 angstroms or something I believe not 2.35...and apparently that puts the wall at about 5nm, "with tweaking maybe 4nm". Maybe we can play with carbon nanotubes then but we'll hit a wall regardless, can't go much smaller...will be interesting to see what happens to intel's stock and employment. If I had to guess they will just lay everybody off except the actual fabrication workers and continue selling the chips...
Current sneaks through the part of the channel that's farthest from the gate and also through the underlying silicon substrate
big "huh" at this article excerpt, the point of Intel's 3d gate transistors is it allows for a fully depleted region of silicon in the channel. IE, the gate is so close to the silicon, NO electrons exist in the channel when it is off. The only leakage current you can have then through the channel is quantum tunneling, and that's basically nil; bringing the total current consumption of the transistor down by a factor of 10. Ho hum silly slashdot summary, get off my lawn!
There should be such a law. You show me an efficient government and I will show you an oppressive one.
Show me a government constrained by finances and the dissent of the people and I'll show you a government that both doesn't have the money to be oppressive and has to be efficient.
He may have a drug dealing cousin, but the police should need a warrant for this type of intrusive tracking.
Papers please.
double plus good comment.
This certainly sounds suspicious enough for a judge to grant a warrant.
we are negative because it still can't scale to more than 1 core when you're rending multiple tabs.
When someone has 6 cores, there's no reason they should have to enable GPU acceleration to keep smoothscroll on the foreground page smooth while other pages render in the background.
I'll be damned if I EVER give someone a free hand in beating me for prolonged periods. And I expect no less from ANYONE, adult or child.
If my parents had treated me like that, I'd have killed them. Flat out. No exceptions.
Try growing up under that and tell me you would have the will to kill them, LOL. Depending on your personality (lion, or lamb; lamb here) it's been beaten out of you long ago. Perhaps you're a lion and it wouldn't have broken you. For a girl I imagine it would have? We'll never know. Only the person themselves knows the answers to these things.
This is actually a pretty good way to discourage people from using the larger banks. Viola, smaller big banks that aren't so big they can't fail anymore....
When the moveyourmoney.info campaign was in full swing. Bank of America flat out lied to me about my mortgage, defrauded me on escrow fees, and conned me on a car loan. It was so bad I wrote my congressman and senators as well as the BBB.I went so far as to refinance my house to sever all ties to that organization. For some reason, business culture from this country has gone from "take care of our customers" to "squeeze those suckers for every drop of blood, then if they pack up and leave try to kiss and make up."
and why shouldn't BOA have? Under what moral code should they oblige to being "nice"? Life is about power, ???, and profit. It's not like there's some old man in the sky to keep people interested in being honest anymore.