Right - Lincoln and Mercury have been part of Ford for about as long as Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Buick have been part of GM. Platform sharing between subsidiaries have been going on since the 50s, and became increasingly possible. Ever wonder why mid-size GMs always looked very similar between brands, why the Mercury Capri and Ford Mustang looked almost exactly alike, and why the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Laser looked exactly the same? Competitors often rebadge each others' models. The Mitsubishi Precis was nothing more than a Hyundai Precis. The last-generation Chevy Nova was a rebadged Toyota Corolla.
Heck, Dodge subsidiaries even sold the same platform under the same model name through different brands at times (Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth). Platform and even model sharing is nothing new in the automotive industry.
There were also reports yesterday that the Swedish government is holding an emergency meeting to discuss options to rescue Saab. See the reports on Saab United and Saab Central boards.
I hope this second Spyker offer works out but I am not getting my hopes up. After Koeningsegg discussing their failed attempt as if it were a done deal and mentioning future plans for the X and the 9-3, and with other deals having failed, I'm not going to believe anything short of a joint announcement from Saab and the Swedish government.
Honestly I think GM is sabotaging the talks, since GM is now controlled in large part by the UAW. Why would they support the continued existence of a competitor which employs non-union workers, when set free of GM beancounters will be able to produce better performing, higher quality and more efficient product pp all while not paying UAW protection fees, er, union dues?
Now, there is a man who will never get laid - at least not with a woman. He'll never even get to kiss a girl. I'll bet he even has B.O. and sounds like Comic Book Guy or maybe Professor Frink (both from The Simpsons) when he talks. I'm shooting for "funny" here but I think this post might somehow be more "informative" in real life.:(
Adding to that, Comcast's programming is 720p, with much of it upscaled. The Blu-Ray source you see at the stores are often 1080p, or at least 1080i. You're comparing rotten wormy apples to nice juicy oranges, where Comcast's feeds are the rotten wormy apples.
Christians and Jews "have faith" and are mocked for it.
Global warming alarmists and political activists "have faith" with evidence proving the contrary and are cheered on for it.
How is believing in man-induced global warming without evidence to back it up more credible than the claims of Christians or Jews? How is it any less of a religion, especially since when global warming alarmists are questioned they go on a Muslim-style jihad against unbelievers (skeptics)?
I hate to break it to you but neither side has given me data.
Let's take a look at the situation, shall we?
The alarmists have the data and won't share it
Skeptics have shown that many/most NOAA stations' sensors are installed on or next to heat islands
Skeptical activists hacked the alarmists' data and showed/shared conclusive evidence that the data has been forged, or at best, massaged, which one does not do if one is taking a scientific approach
Lots of raw data was destroyed making an accurate, scientific analysis near impossible
The leaked/hacked data has shown that not only is global warming a farce, but averages have more recently been on the decline
For a while other planets (Jupiter, Mars) were shown to have been warming. Is this due to too many SUVs on the road?
Many time throughout Earth's history the entire globe was much, much warmer (possibly warm enough for there to be no ice caps).
Many time throughout Earth's history the entire globe was much, much colder, with glaciers reaching past the 40 latitude mark.
Just show us the facts; the raw data, without any spin of "ZOMG! GLOBAL WARMING!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCLIMATE CHANGE! OH NOES!!" bullshit editorializing. If you want to be taken seriously and convince even those who are not merely skeptical, but "won't" believe even in the face of evidence, then show us the raw fucking data without any tweaking - and accompany that data with a history of each temperature sensor (for example, if a parking lot went up next to it, and the temperature spiked the next few years and gradually increased, don't obfuscate that fact). That way, if there really is an issue, one can come to a scientific conclusion rather than political.
Until then, count me among the skeptics who consider this a political rather than scientific issue, especially in light of the fact that it is believed that the Antarctic and arctic shelves are breaking from stress (from "overgrowth"), not due to heat, since they are larger than they have been during recorded history, and that when the alarmists are proven conclusively to be wrong, they change the terminology ("global cooling" to "global warming" to "global climate change" - face it, the global climate always has been and always will be very dynamic).
I could go for some global warming about now, by the way. It'd be nice for winter to just go away.:-)
Ted Alvin Klaudt cannot copyright a title.Ted Alvin Klaudt cannot copyright a name. Ted Alvin Klaudt is mistaken on this matter and Ted Alvin Klaudt is not only proving himself (Ted Alvin Klaudt) to be a pedophile douchebag but a moron as well. If Ted Alvin Klaudt had half a clue Ted Alvin Klaudt would trademark his name. However, as Ted Alvin Klaudt would quickly discover, the trademark 'Ted Alvin Klaudt' would be indefensible in the manner which Ted Alvin Klaudt desires. Even when a phrase is trademarked anyone and everyone would have the legal right to use the name (Ted Alvin Klaudt) to refer to that douchebag sex offender.
In summary: Ted Alvin Klaudt is a retard in addition to a douchebag, and Ted Alvin Klaudt has no legal basis for his moronic claim.
Mine is jailbroken for the following reasons: 1) so I can background (not suspend) TomTom when answering a call 2) so I could customize springboard with a 5x5 layout and skin it to MY liking rather than Steve Jobs' liking and 3) so I can get a bash script and SSH for running shell scripts I wrote for server monitoring and maintenance.
I don't use voip clients over 3G with my iPhone, and I don't otherwise abuse the network despite having jailbroken it, nor am I running any unauthorised services. I merely customized my phone, just as the first sale doctrine allows.
I watch video and listen to streamed music constantly. However I have used WiFi whenever possible. My current monthly use is 116.23MB, 21 days into the 30-day billing cycle. My average is around 250MB or so, nowhere near the unpublished caps on the "unlimited" service. My highest to date is around 900MB or so, when I was downloading apps constantly. My peak came months before I did the jailbreak (I did the jailbreak Thanksgiving weekend), so jailbreaking it has nothing to do with the bandwidth I use.
Although I am nowhere near any unpublished limit, I am very angry that AT&T is even considering blaming the customer for their network problems. THEY are the ones who ADVERTISED an OFFER to me, and they unashamedly accepted the money from me for their advertised service. Why should they be shocked when customers like me actually take advantage of the service that AT&T is so willing to sell? For the customers they plan to terminate, are they going to unlock those smartphones since AT&T the customer is acting in good faith, and it is AT&T breaking the contract? Or, could the customer sue AT&T for breach of contract and win punitive damages on top of the cost of a locked smartphone?
I've got an idea for you ATT to resolve your "network problems"... upgrade the fucking thing. You've had a POS network for years, it's no wonder it's struggling.
I have it on good authority (AT&T ads) that AT&T has the fastest wireless 3G network, and they sold me unlimited data service, so I fail to see the problem. Having anticipated the tremendously huge uptake of the iPhone and other smart phones, they have upgraded their network to maintain their fastest 3G wireless network claims. Right? Haven't they?
Or, are the verizon ads comparing the AT&T network to Verizon's right on target?
Implementing bandwidth caps and/or dropping users who actually take advantage of the product you advertised only goes to prove that Verizon's ad campaign is spot on.
AT&T: You offered me unlimited data services in exchange for a fee. How dare you be surprised or blame me for your network inadequacies when I and other customers like me actually use the services you sold to us? Guess what? Around noon on Friday I will be watching videos on my iPhone, with the wifi adapter turned off. Will I be doing anything wrong? Of course not! I will merely be running one single Apple and AT&T-authorised application for its advertised purpose. If millions of other customers happen to do the same thing at the same time, well, I guess you had better get cracking on building the fastest 3G network you've been babbling on about in your ads!
That's 4 years before win95 came to the market without a TCP/IP stack
When Windows 95 was in very early Beta I was on the phone with Microsoft tech support trying to get SLIP to work with a proprietary system - with Microsoft's TCP/IP stack. I don't remember having had to install anything extra to get it.
Filed in Nov., 1990, and they're just noticing these alleged "infringements" now, 19 years later? So, they waited until just before 20 years were up in order to submarine this and collect big. This is the kind of douchebag move is exactly why the laches defense exists. The execs of BetaNet deserve to have their collective asses handed to them.
Oh, you mean "piracy"[sic] not piracy. Sorry, my bad. Now I understand why Obama is so concerned; guns and gonads are not involved in helping save lives where "piracy"[sic] is concerned.
Because some banks' security is so weak, the answer is yes. However, the bank has legal and ethical responsibilities to keep that information private.
Now, where Facebook is concerned: they offered security settings to keep various types of content private, at fairly granular levels. Given that, even if policies change, they have ethical and moral responsibilities to continue to maintain that privacy - doing otherwise is a breach of trust, and worst, it's actually violating copyright because they are distributing your content without your consent.
OK how exactly was I a troll? I'm making fun of the USPTO, which damn well deserves it given all of the non-invention/"discovery" patents it has granted (such as the human gene sequence), and issues patents for devices which are obvious to those skilled in respective trades, and so forth. I was shooting for "funny" but my post is all too close to the truth.
Oh good, now I can get my patent on "process for deploying biological devices to convert CO2 into oxygen and sugar using various enzymes in combination with solar power." I call this invention "plants."
TFS and TFA grossly underestimate the data stream, at least for people who are not blind. The whole time our eyes are open, you and I are consuming terabytes' worth of high definition "video" per hour, and it is all processed in realtime. What is the resolution of the human eye equivalent to in terms of pixels at a given viewing distance, what would the color depth be, and what would that stream be uncompressed? That doesn't take into account the equivalent data produced by your other four senses.
TFS and TFA grossly underestimate the data stream, at least for people who are not blind. The whole time our eyes are open, you and I are consuming terabytes' worth of high definition "video" per hour, and it is all processed in realtime. What is the resolution of the human eye equivalent to in terms of pixels at a given viewing distance, what would the color depth be, and what would that stream be uncompressed? That doesn't take into account the equivalent data produced by your other four senses.
However, there is a more crucial issue at stake here, and it is one I haven't yet seen addressed in TFA:
What is the quantity of data if measured in/. standard units, i.e., either Libraries of Congress or Volkswagens? THAT is what I want to know!
No, they stop calling when you tell them "My rate is $300 per hour with a $3,000 deposit up front." I had to tell a former employer this when they kept calling me with questions, and didn't take no for an answer. They later had a recruiter call me offering almost $40K more to come back. Sorry, you burned a bridge when you fucked me and others over to hire cheap Indian labor - and it ended up being $23 million they threw into the dumpster because the product they ended up with was a pile of shit that ran slower than the legacy code they never gave us the go-ahead to rearchitect and rewrite from scratch. The product has long since been shitcanned (they spend two weeks a year on maintenance on it - That's IT) and the company has since been bought and the original CEO fired. I guess the VC firms finally had enough after they burned through about $100mil.
But yet, I buy CD (nearly always used so I am not helping the RIAA!). Certain LPs may be mastered so well that they sound better than a CD, but after playing it a few times it will sound like crud unless you have your turntable in a clean room. The simple act of playing a record turns an LP into an electrostatic dust magnet, then click sizzle click pop sizzle click pop
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Explain the Mercury Capri. ;) The r^HMustang has been whored out before by Ford.
Right - Lincoln and Mercury have been part of Ford for about as long as Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Buick have been part of GM. Platform sharing between subsidiaries have been going on since the 50s, and became increasingly possible. Ever wonder why mid-size GMs always looked very similar between brands, why the Mercury Capri and Ford Mustang looked almost exactly alike, and why the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Laser looked exactly the same? Competitors often rebadge each others' models. The Mitsubishi Precis was nothing more than a Hyundai Precis. The last-generation Chevy Nova was a rebadged Toyota Corolla.
Heck, Dodge subsidiaries even sold the same platform under the same model name through different brands at times (Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth). Platform and even model sharing is nothing new in the automotive industry.
There were also reports yesterday that the Swedish government is holding an emergency meeting to discuss options to rescue Saab. See the reports on Saab United and Saab Central boards.
I hope this second Spyker offer works out but I am not getting my hopes up. After Koeningsegg discussing their failed attempt as if it were a done deal and mentioning future plans for the X and the 9-3, and with other deals having failed, I'm not going to believe anything short of a joint announcement from Saab and the Swedish government.
Honestly I think GM is sabotaging the talks, since GM is now controlled in large part by the UAW. Why would they support the continued existence of a competitor which employs non-union workers, when set free of GM beancounters will be able to produce better performing, higher quality and more efficient product pp all while not paying UAW protection fees, er, union dues?
Now, there is a man who will never get laid - at least not with a woman. He'll never even get to kiss a girl. I'll bet he even has B.O. and sounds like Comic Book Guy or maybe Professor Frink (both from The Simpsons) when he talks. I'm shooting for "funny" here but I think this post might somehow be more "informative" in real life. :(
Adding to that, Comcast's programming is 720p, with much of it upscaled. The Blu-Ray source you see at the stores are often 1080p, or at least 1080i. You're comparing rotten wormy apples to nice juicy oranges, where Comcast's feeds are the rotten wormy apples.
Christians and Jews "have faith" and are mocked for it.
Global warming alarmists and political activists "have faith" with evidence proving the contrary and are cheered on for it.
How is believing in man-induced global warming without evidence to back it up more credible than the claims of Christians or Jews? How is it any less of a religion, especially since when global warming alarmists are questioned they go on a Muslim-style jihad against unbelievers (skeptics)?
Let's take a look at the situation, shall we?
Just show us the facts; the raw data, without any spin of "ZOMG! GLOBAL WARMING!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCLIMATE CHANGE! OH NOES!!" bullshit editorializing. If you want to be taken seriously and convince even those who are not merely skeptical, but "won't" believe even in the face of evidence, then show us the raw fucking data without any tweaking - and accompany that data with a history of each temperature sensor (for example, if a parking lot went up next to it, and the temperature spiked the next few years and gradually increased, don't obfuscate that fact). That way, if there really is an issue, one can come to a scientific conclusion rather than political.
Until then, count me among the skeptics who consider this a political rather than scientific issue, especially in light of the fact that it is believed that the Antarctic and arctic shelves are breaking from stress (from "overgrowth"), not due to heat, since they are larger than they have been during recorded history, and that when the alarmists are proven conclusively to be wrong, they change the terminology ("global cooling" to "global warming" to "global climate change" - face it, the global climate always has been and always will be very dynamic).
I could go for some global warming about now, by the way. It'd be nice for winter to just go away. :-)
Ted Alvin Klaudt cannot copyright a title.Ted Alvin Klaudt cannot copyright a name. Ted Alvin Klaudt is mistaken on this matter and Ted Alvin Klaudt is not only proving himself (Ted Alvin Klaudt) to be a pedophile douchebag but a moron as well. If Ted Alvin Klaudt had half a clue Ted Alvin Klaudt would trademark his name. However, as Ted Alvin Klaudt would quickly discover, the trademark 'Ted Alvin Klaudt' would be indefensible in the manner which Ted Alvin Klaudt desires. Even when a phrase is trademarked anyone and everyone would have the legal right to use the name (Ted Alvin Klaudt) to refer to that douchebag sex offender.
In summary: Ted Alvin Klaudt is a retard in addition to a douchebag, and Ted Alvin Klaudt has no legal basis for his moronic claim.
No, it's a very practical way to tell AT&T:
"You think we're using excessive bandwidth now? We'll show you what excessive bandwidth usage really is!"
Mine is jailbroken for the following reasons: 1) so I can background (not suspend) TomTom when answering a call 2) so I could customize springboard with a 5x5 layout and skin it to MY liking rather than Steve Jobs' liking and 3) so I can get a bash script and SSH for running shell scripts I wrote for server monitoring and maintenance.
I don't use voip clients over 3G with my iPhone, and I don't otherwise abuse the network despite having jailbroken it, nor am I running any unauthorised services. I merely customized my phone, just as the first sale doctrine allows.
I watch video and listen to streamed music constantly. However I have used WiFi whenever possible. My current monthly use is 116.23MB, 21 days into the 30-day billing cycle. My average is around 250MB or so, nowhere near the unpublished caps on the "unlimited" service. My highest to date is around 900MB or so, when I was downloading apps constantly. My peak came months before I did the jailbreak (I did the jailbreak Thanksgiving weekend), so jailbreaking it has nothing to do with the bandwidth I use.
Although I am nowhere near any unpublished limit, I am very angry that AT&T is even considering blaming the customer for their network problems. THEY are the ones who ADVERTISED an OFFER to me, and they unashamedly accepted the money from me for their advertised service. Why should they be shocked when customers like me actually take advantage of the service that AT&T is so willing to sell? For the customers they plan to terminate, are they going to unlock those smartphones since AT&T the customer is acting in good faith, and it is AT&T breaking the contract? Or, could the customer sue AT&T for breach of contract and win punitive damages on top of the cost of a locked smartphone?
Or, you could stream video at noon for eastern, central, mountain, and pacific time! :)
I have it on good authority (AT&T ads) that AT&T has the fastest wireless 3G network, and they sold me unlimited data service, so I fail to see the problem. Having anticipated the tremendously huge uptake of the iPhone and other smart phones, they have upgraded their network to maintain their fastest 3G wireless network claims. Right? Haven't they?
Or, are the verizon ads comparing the AT&T network to Verizon's right on target?
Implementing bandwidth caps and/or dropping users who actually take advantage of the product you advertised only goes to prove that Verizon's ad campaign is spot on.
AT&T: You offered me unlimited data services in exchange for a fee. How dare you be surprised or blame me for your network inadequacies when I and other customers like me actually use the services you sold to us? Guess what? Around noon on Friday I will be watching videos on my iPhone, with the wifi adapter turned off. Will I be doing anything wrong? Of course not! I will merely be running one single Apple and AT&T-authorised application for its advertised purpose. If millions of other customers happen to do the same thing at the same time, well, I guess you had better get cracking on building the fastest 3G network you've been babbling on about in your ads!
When Windows 95 was in very early Beta I was on the phone with Microsoft tech support trying to get SLIP to work with a proprietary system - with Microsoft's TCP/IP stack. I don't remember having had to install anything extra to get it.
Filed in Nov., 1990, and they're just noticing these alleged "infringements" now, 19 years later? So, they waited until just before 20 years were up in order to submarine this and collect big. This is the kind of douchebag move is exactly why the laches defense exists. The execs of BetaNet deserve to have their collective asses handed to them.
Obama is finally paying attention to piracy? Just a few months ago he didn't care a whit about it. See:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1637109/obamas_somali_pirate_hostage_crisis.html
Oh, you mean "piracy"[sic] not piracy. Sorry, my bad. Now I understand why Obama is so concerned; guns and gonads are not involved in helping save lives where "piracy"[sic] is concerned.
You answered your own question. ;)
Because some banks' security is so weak, the answer is yes. However, the bank has legal and ethical responsibilities to keep that information private.
Now, where Facebook is concerned: they offered security settings to keep various types of content private, at fairly granular levels. Given that, even if policies change, they have ethical and moral responsibilities to continue to maintain that privacy - doing otherwise is a breach of trust, and worst, it's actually violating copyright because they are distributing your content without your consent.
OK how exactly was I a troll? I'm making fun of the USPTO, which damn well deserves it given all of the non-invention/"discovery" patents it has granted (such as the human gene sequence), and issues patents for devices which are obvious to those skilled in respective trades, and so forth. I was shooting for "funny" but my post is all too close to the truth.
Oh good, now I can get my patent on "process for deploying biological devices to convert CO2 into oxygen and sugar using various enzymes in combination with solar power." I call this invention "plants."
TFS and TFA grossly underestimate the data stream, at least for people who are not blind. The whole time our eyes are open, you and I are consuming terabytes' worth of high definition "video" per hour, and it is all processed in realtime. What is the resolution of the human eye equivalent to in terms of pixels at a given viewing distance, what would the color depth be, and what would that stream be uncompressed? That doesn't take into account the equivalent data produced by your other four senses.
TFS and TFA grossly underestimate the data stream, at least for people who are not blind. The whole time our eyes are open, you and I are consuming terabytes' worth of high definition "video" per hour, and it is all processed in realtime. What is the resolution of the human eye equivalent to in terms of pixels at a given viewing distance, what would the color depth be, and what would that stream be uncompressed? That doesn't take into account the equivalent data produced by your other four senses.
However, there is a more crucial issue at stake here, and it is one I haven't yet seen addressed in TFA:
What is the quantity of data if measured in /. standard units, i.e., either Libraries of Congress or Volkswagens? THAT is what I want to know!
No, they stop calling when you tell them "My rate is $300 per hour with a $3,000 deposit up front." I had to tell a former employer this when they kept calling me with questions, and didn't take no for an answer. They later had a recruiter call me offering almost $40K more to come back. Sorry, you burned a bridge when you fucked me and others over to hire cheap Indian labor - and it ended up being $23 million they threw into the dumpster because the product they ended up with was a pile of shit that ran slower than the legacy code they never gave us the go-ahead to rearchitect and rewrite from scratch. The product has long since been shitcanned (they spend two weeks a year on maintenance on it - That's IT) and the company has since been bought and the original CEO fired. I guess the VC firms finally had enough after they burned through about $100mil.
I miss album art. :-(
But yet, I buy CD (nearly always used so I am not helping the RIAA!). Certain LPs may be mastered so well that they sound better than a CD, but after playing it a few times it will sound like crud unless you have your turntable in a clean room. The simple act of playing a record turns an LP into an electrostatic dust magnet, then click sizzle click pop sizzle click pop