Apparently there is some GSM service in those areas, so AT&T has partner coverage, but I can't get an AT&T plan where I live. I also don't know who the supposed home provider is of these GSM hot spots (which don't extend far beyond the edge of the interstate highways, BTW). I don't know anyone in my city who has anything but Verizon or Alltel.
Hello from your northern neighbor! I love the Black Hills - best motorcycling canyon roads in nation, as long as you go when it's at least 2 weeks before or 1 week after the rally and can evade the RV's. At any rate, I wonder how GSM service is up here. AT&T claims 'partner' service in parts of ND, but not even close to all of it - definitely not at my parents' house, for instance. But I do know that I can't even get an AT&T plan because of where I live. Supposedly, they're buying out Alltel in our area, but we'll have to wait and see whether they get us transitioned to GSM before the iPhone becomes obsolete.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, I'm not in remote reaches of Alaska. I'm in the Midwest. The simple fact is that GSM service is only available in metropolitan areas in the USA, and AT&T 'home' service (where you can actually get a phone number on their network) is limited to major metropolitan areas. I don't know of a metro under 1 million people that has AT&T home service. I'm sure they're out there, but there are none even remotely close to where I am. And I'm not that remote: I'm in my state's capital.
It really isn't, though. At least not for any areas that I checked. The AT&T map just includes roaming, partner, and shitty service in its orange zone. They have not made any inroads in my area in those 6 years.
Seems unlikely. 30 markets going live in 2010... how many "markets" are there in total in the continental USA? How long until my parents' farm (which gets perfect coverage for Verizon and Alltel CDMA users at present) is iPhone-friendly?
I did. Which spec are you referring to that implies it will be offered on CDMA networks? If you are referring to WCDMA, you should follow your own advice and read up on it. It's not the same thing.
From Wikipedia's WCDMA article, it looks like it'd be the same amount of work to change from CDMA to WCDMA as it is to change from CDMA to GSM. But I could be wrong. All I know is that this phone won't work wherever I am 99% of the time.
Your experience is limited. Verizon coverage is even better than Alltel coverage in some areas here in the upper Midwest. And I'm talking about areas where you can look in every direction and not find any solid evidence of civilization. Both providers have amazing CDMA coverage out here. There is no GSM.
I should add that I am with Alltel and everyone here I know who isn't with them is with Verizon. All CDMA service. And I can place a call from anywhere in that vast empty area except for places where the terrain doesn't prevent it (which happens in the bottom of the Badlands). I can even use the Gmail and other apps on my BlackBerry from those areas.
AT&T's coverage map. See all that vast, empty area? Here's a map from AT&T themselves. Still lots of empty areas, and if you zoom in on their interactive coverage map you'll find that the additional orange is actually "partner" service. What that means is that you can't get AT&T 'home' service if you are in those areas.
Also, I happen to live in one of the supposedly "Best" AT&T service islands in the middle of the vast empty area on the first map, and typing in my ZIP code on the AT&T "build your package" wizard returns a message that "this is one of the few areas we haven't reached yet."
*snooze* Wake me when there's a CDMA phone worth getting. I live in a place with next to zero GSM service and absolutely zero 'home' GSM service. AT&T won't even let me get an iPhone with a number local to anywhere in my own state, for instance.
That reminds me of a programming competition in college (not the same one from the Fucksort Incident, posted below), in which we were deducted points on one of the problems, which was to find the minimum amount of cable to connect several points on the surface of Mars, assuming it to be a perfect sphere of whatever radius. We appealed their ruling but were ignored. I never did figure out how the one team that got full points for that problem or the judges came up with their answers. For every other set of input, we had the same results as they did, but for the one set of input we gave an answer less than theirs by a few meters. We proved ourselves mathematically in a long letter to the appeals board and would have settled for being told how they came up with the "correct" answer, but to no avail. Thanks for reminding me, too. Now I get to lose sleep over that 2003 incident all over again.
In your case, I would have told the professor "My code worked correctly but the input was corrupted, as you know. So I added a feature to correct for that by outputting the desired output. It was the only way to get the correct output given the input, and I stand by my method. However, if you correct the input and remove that feature the code will work as intended and, again, produce the correct output." Don't be so ashamed of slaying the horse correctly and then beating it a bit with a kludge afterwards. You did the right thing.
Back in college, we were at a programming competition and I was the on-the-keyboard coder for one of the problems. We had 10 minutes for the problem and I coded it quickly, having decided on the best algorithm before sitting down. Part of the solution was a sorting routine on a list. We were using Visual C++ although we were all not C++ experts at the time, and so rather than mess with the STL and the possibility of having to read documentation, I did it all from scratch. I knew that sort was already in use by the standard library, so I called my routine mysort.
Apparently, however, Visual C++ includes a mysort in its standard library. So, with the clock ticking down and the solution's only impediment to our victory being an identifier conflict, I renamed the routine the way that any one of us would have: myfuckingsort. We won the competition.
In this particular competition, the judges were not supposed to read our code - they just run the output of your code on the input and check for correct output - so I felt safe when I typed what I did. However, one of them came up to us afterwards and told us that they do in fact usually read the code of the winning team to see if we did anything unique in our solution. Yep. Sure did. And my classmates and professors never did let me live down what was affectionately nicknamed the fucksort algorithm.
Actually, in the US you'd see three points of view on that (assuming both laws are federal statutes):
1. The new law is invalid because the prior law says so
2. The new law supersedes any prior, conflicting law to the extent of the conflict
3. The Constitution and nothing else determines the process by which something becomes law, and therefore the old law is unconstitutional and unenforceable to the extent that it puts additional requirements on the government in passing laws (similar to the argument that Congress can't pass a law that permits one house or the other of it to enact new laws without the other voting on them)
I never said anything about the wisdom and restraint to avoid multitasking. That's a whole other level above self-awareness, and definitely above where I am at.
People in general suck at multitasking. The people who arrogantly but mistakenly believe they can multitask well only believe so out of a lack of self-awareness. People who are more self-aware and able to recognize that they are not good at multitasking will have a tendency, on average, to be better at organizing their thoughts and therefore better at preventing their multiple tasks from interfering with each other to the same extent that the arrogant, un-self-aware person experiences. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect mentioned in the summary. Nothing to see here.
So put some old hardware in the time capsule, too. If you want to be able to retrieve the data, set it up with 100Mbps ethernet, DHCP for IPv4 and IPv6, and a web server. Some technologies are more likely to remain backwards-compatible than others (ethernet standards, IP, and DHCP), and other technologies are nearly too simple to evolve in a truly incompatible direction (HTTP).
I'd be more concerned about file formats than about getting the data onto 2025-era hardware. Use UTF-8 text or HTML4 and you should be fine. Those aren't going to change much and are likely to remain backwards compatible longer than, say, OpenOffice files have a chance of doing.
But even so, don't give data as a gift. Do you know how disappointing it's going to be when she turns 17 and discovers that nobody loved her enough to put pen to paper?
Alanis* says it's ironic that people fear using the word to refer to actual irony. In this case, you're good. It fits the definition stated by Merriam-Webster as 'incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.'
* - Not really, but I am being ironic by using an appeal to authority when the authority in question is the canonical example of a counter-authority. This footnote dropped for the benefit of the moderators who didn't get that. By insulting them to their faces, I am doing them a favor because they now won't have to waste valuable time considering whether what I said is wrong or just unfunny, and can go straight for Flamebait.
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Apparently there is some GSM service in those areas, so AT&T has partner coverage, but I can't get an AT&T plan where I live. I also don't know who the supposed home provider is of these GSM hot spots (which don't extend far beyond the edge of the interstate highways, BTW). I don't know anyone in my city who has anything but Verizon or Alltel.
Hello from your northern neighbor! I love the Black Hills - best motorcycling canyon roads in nation, as long as you go when it's at least 2 weeks before or 1 week after the rally and can evade the RV's. At any rate, I wonder how GSM service is up here. AT&T claims 'partner' service in parts of ND, but not even close to all of it - definitely not at my parents' house, for instance. But I do know that I can't even get an AT&T plan because of where I live. Supposedly, they're buying out Alltel in our area, but we'll have to wait and see whether they get us transitioned to GSM before the iPhone becomes obsolete.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, I'm not in remote reaches of Alaska. I'm in the Midwest. The simple fact is that GSM service is only available in metropolitan areas in the USA, and AT&T 'home' service (where you can actually get a phone number on their network) is limited to major metropolitan areas. I don't know of a metro under 1 million people that has AT&T home service. I'm sure they're out there, but there are none even remotely close to where I am. And I'm not that remote: I'm in my state's capital.
Mod parent down, -1 Ridiculous.
It really isn't, though. At least not for any areas that I checked. The AT&T map just includes roaming, partner, and shitty service in its orange zone. They have not made any inroads in my area in those 6 years.
Ugh. Bad proofreading after editing my sentence. In the incoherent part, "except for places where the terrain prevents it" was the intended meaning.
Seems unlikely. 30 markets going live in 2010 ... how many "markets" are there in total in the continental USA? How long until my parents' farm (which gets perfect coverage for Verizon and Alltel CDMA users at present) is iPhone-friendly?
I did. Which spec are you referring to that implies it will be offered on CDMA networks? If you are referring to WCDMA, you should follow your own advice and read up on it. It's not the same thing.
From Wikipedia's WCDMA article, it looks like it'd be the same amount of work to change from CDMA to WCDMA as it is to change from CDMA to GSM. But I could be wrong. All I know is that this phone won't work wherever I am 99% of the time.
Your experience is limited. Verizon coverage is even better than Alltel coverage in some areas here in the upper Midwest. And I'm talking about areas where you can look in every direction and not find any solid evidence of civilization. Both providers have amazing CDMA coverage out here. There is no GSM.
Nah. You made a valid point. You just failed to consider the ramifications of the Slashdot mentality before you posted your valid piont.
I should add that I am with Alltel and everyone here I know who isn't with them is with Verizon. All CDMA service. And I can place a call from anywhere in that vast empty area except for places where the terrain doesn't prevent it (which happens in the bottom of the Badlands). I can even use the Gmail and other apps on my BlackBerry from those areas.
AT&T's coverage map. See all that vast, empty area? Here's a map from AT&T themselves. Still lots of empty areas, and if you zoom in on their interactive coverage map you'll find that the additional orange is actually "partner" service. What that means is that you can't get AT&T 'home' service if you are in those areas.
Also, I happen to live in one of the supposedly "Best" AT&T service islands in the middle of the vast empty area on the first map, and typing in my ZIP code on the AT&T "build your package" wizard returns a message that "this is one of the few areas we haven't reached yet."
I was actually being 100% facetious. I had hoped that would be clear, but I take responsibility for my failure in meeting that hope.
*snooze* Wake me when there's a CDMA phone worth getting. I live in a place with next to zero GSM service and absolutely zero 'home' GSM service. AT&T won't even let me get an iPhone with a number local to anywhere in my own state, for instance.
You spelled depressasauruses wrong. How can we trust you to correctly report something as complicated as a three-digit number?
That reminds me of a programming competition in college (not the same one from the Fucksort Incident, posted below), in which we were deducted points on one of the problems, which was to find the minimum amount of cable to connect several points on the surface of Mars, assuming it to be a perfect sphere of whatever radius. We appealed their ruling but were ignored. I never did figure out how the one team that got full points for that problem or the judges came up with their answers. For every other set of input, we had the same results as they did, but for the one set of input we gave an answer less than theirs by a few meters. We proved ourselves mathematically in a long letter to the appeals board and would have settled for being told how they came up with the "correct" answer, but to no avail. Thanks for reminding me, too. Now I get to lose sleep over that 2003 incident all over again.
In your case, I would have told the professor "My code worked correctly but the input was corrupted, as you know. So I added a feature to correct for that by outputting the desired output. It was the only way to get the correct output given the input, and I stand by my method. However, if you correct the input and remove that feature the code will work as intended and, again, produce the correct output." Don't be so ashamed of slaying the horse correctly and then beating it a bit with a kludge afterwards. You did the right thing.
Back in college, we were at a programming competition and I was the on-the-keyboard coder for one of the problems. We had 10 minutes for the problem and I coded it quickly, having decided on the best algorithm before sitting down. Part of the solution was a sorting routine on a list. We were using Visual C++ although we were all not C++ experts at the time, and so rather than mess with the STL and the possibility of having to read documentation, I did it all from scratch. I knew that sort was already in use by the standard library, so I called my routine mysort.
Apparently, however, Visual C++ includes a mysort in its standard library. So, with the clock ticking down and the solution's only impediment to our victory being an identifier conflict, I renamed the routine the way that any one of us would have: myfuckingsort. We won the competition.
In this particular competition, the judges were not supposed to read our code - they just run the output of your code on the input and check for correct output - so I felt safe when I typed what I did. However, one of them came up to us afterwards and told us that they do in fact usually read the code of the winning team to see if we did anything unique in our solution. Yep. Sure did. And my classmates and professors never did let me live down what was affectionately nicknamed the fucksort algorithm.
Actually, in the US you'd see three points of view on that (assuming both laws are federal statutes):
1. The new law is invalid because the prior law says so
2. The new law supersedes any prior, conflicting law to the extent of the conflict
3. The Constitution and nothing else determines the process by which something becomes law, and therefore the old law is unconstitutional and unenforceable to the extent that it puts additional requirements on the government in passing laws (similar to the argument that Congress can't pass a law that permits one house or the other of it to enact new laws without the other voting on them)
Each of these points of view has merit.
I never said anything about the wisdom and restraint to avoid multitasking. That's a whole other level above self-awareness, and definitely above where I am at.
People in general suck at multitasking. The people who arrogantly but mistakenly believe they can multitask well only believe so out of a lack of self-awareness. People who are more self-aware and able to recognize that they are not good at multitasking will have a tendency, on average, to be better at organizing their thoughts and therefore better at preventing their multiple tasks from interfering with each other to the same extent that the arrogant, un-self-aware person experiences. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect mentioned in the summary. Nothing to see here.
So put some old hardware in the time capsule, too. If you want to be able to retrieve the data, set it up with 100Mbps ethernet, DHCP for IPv4 and IPv6, and a web server. Some technologies are more likely to remain backwards-compatible than others (ethernet standards, IP, and DHCP), and other technologies are nearly too simple to evolve in a truly incompatible direction (HTTP).
I'd be more concerned about file formats than about getting the data onto 2025-era hardware. Use UTF-8 text or HTML4 and you should be fine. Those aren't going to change much and are likely to remain backwards compatible longer than, say, OpenOffice files have a chance of doing.
But even so, don't give data as a gift. Do you know how disappointing it's going to be when she turns 17 and discovers that nobody loved her enough to put pen to paper?
Don't tell me most account ids were variants of 'Goldman Sachs'
Don't be silly. About half of them were registered by the Department of the Treasury. We have to pay back that debt somehow.
Alanis* says it's ironic that people fear using the word to refer to actual irony. In this case, you're good. It fits the definition stated by Merriam-Webster as 'incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.'
* - Not really, but I am being ironic by using an appeal to authority when the authority in question is the canonical example of a counter-authority. This footnote dropped for the benefit of the moderators who didn't get that. By insulting them to their faces, I am doing them a favor because they now won't have to waste valuable time considering whether what I said is wrong or just unfunny, and can go straight for Flamebait.
I'm really wondering this. What is the relationship between real-world trading of in-game resources and CPU usage?