Indeed, AT&T has made me seriously consider going back to Sprint. The only reason I don't is that I'm on a family plan because it's cheaper than getting my own plan. But, around here Sprint and T-Mobile seem to have the best reception.
AT&T is just a pathetic pile of dog shit that's been eaten re-shit a few times before being pissed on. For a while I had a 3G capable phone and the service was so bad that I ended up disabling the 3G support in the phone so that I could get a consistent connection. It was pretty pathetic being in the middle of a major city and not being able to get a connection at all.
The local bus service was doing that for a while. Not sure what happened with it. But it was a WAP on the bus hooked up to a cell signal. They were experimenting with a few of the longer routes, but I think they may have cut the experiment due to lack of funding.
I'm curious when AT&T is going to be rolling out 3G service. They claim to have it, but I ended up trading in my 3G capable phone because the service was almost non-existent. And I live in a major city. I found myself disabling it most of the time because it wouldn't be available and would take forever to drop down to edge.
The diseases that catch the imagination aren't necessarily the bad ones. Breast cancer gets considerably more funding and attention than is justified when compared with the mortality rate and ability to treat it.
Which is reasonable. HIV isn't exactly something that is typically spread without some participation on the part of the person contracting the virus. Sure some people genuinely do get it via rape, but the numbers aren't a significant portion of the population.
Messing around with genes is risky business and at this point HIV is similar in danger to diabetes. But, it's also easily preventable and mainly spreads because people are too ignorant and lazy to protect themselves.
We don't get to vote for Social Intelligence Corp's executive officers. We do get to vote for the various politicians that voted for the Patriot Act, on top of that those politicians appointed most of the judges that are responsible for hearing suits and appeals relevant to it. I'm not aware of any similar power with SIC.
You'll notice that it's only a couple Senators that are looking into it, far fewer than the 51 Senators needed to pass a repeal or the 60 that are needed with the GOP's inevitable filibuster.
I don't know if most do, but mine doesn't. And I'll likely cancel my card if they try to force it on me. The last thing I need is somebody lifting my wallet without lifting it.
None of those are advantages. The authentication isn't something that should be unique to this service. The folks at the store are supposed to be authenticating that you are who you say you are.
Linking hundreds of accounts to one is risky business. If somebody manages to break into that one account, then you're SOL.
As for the prepaid nature of it, for folks that really need that, you can get a prepaid credit card, and I'm sure there are other methods of doing that such as a debit card.
Ultimately, this is just a solution in search of a problem.
But, unlike email which served a theoretical purpose at that time, this serves no particular use. We have credit cards that do all that, and the only situations I can think of where it would be useful to have it built into the phone are the same instances where one is likely to not have their cell phone.
Progress is great, but progress for the sake of progress is best left to researchers.
As far as x86-64 goes, isn't that mainly because AMD trotted out a 64bit processor that was backwards compatible with 32bit programs and whomped Intel's 64bit processors which required specially compiled programs to work with?
I had to look into it, because it seemed to be a bit of a stretch, even for PETA. But damned if you weren't correct about that. Here's one of the links for folks interested. http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/eight-animals/
I'm guessing that the materials will be widely pirated as nobody with any sense is going to go to their site. Except perhaps for individuals that are into crush videos and mutilating animals.
Not quite, the biggest fragmentation comes from Google not forcing handset makers to allow the handsets to be unlocked by the end user without having special keys.
No, you're not. They may find other benefits, and probably will, but even if it just advances tracking technology for telescopes that would be sufficient, IMHO, to justify the expenditure. Worst case you've got better technology for spotting asteroids that might impact the Earth.
No, I didn't pay $13k, but that was roughly what the insurance company paid. I had insurance so I only spent a small fraction of the total out of my pocket.
The costs there are lower than in the US, but they're not that much lower, and some of the costs there are actually higher than in the US. Consultations typically get billed at $180 or so when they pop up on my summary, where as in that list the similar service is apparently $235 or so.
Hospital care and the large number of services required for something that's complicated is going to be expensive, and there's only so much cost cutting you can do. The system over there isn't that much cheaper than it is over here.
For bypass surgery you're looking at around $20k if things go well. Even in places like Canada you're still talking at least $10k, which is well over a years worth of premiums in the US.
Just out of curiosity, when do the treason trials begin? Any politician of either party that signed that pledge ought to be put on trial for treason. Norquist isn't a representative of the US, nor does he have any power under the constitution to accept such pledges of fealty.
No, the reason why they pay 15% of capital gains is because the government needed a bubble to get them out of a recession. It's time we fixed the problem and looked for a more stable solution rather than one that's just kicking the problem down the line.
It also assumes that they're paying that tax rate, rarely if ever do corporations end up paying that much, and when they do it's usually because they only do business in the US. The largest corporations invest in infrastructure for their businesses outside of the US and book those losses against profits in the US, allowing them to avoid paying any taxes to the US government. What little tax they pay is usually for things like property and B&O where applicable.
That's how it works in a down economy. We've got a 9% unemployment rate that ignores the people that have given up looking for work or are chronically underemployed. The government making the spending cuts necessary to balance the budget is just going to make that worse.
On top of that, they're talking about taxing the folks whose tax breaks were a significant part of the circumstance which led us to be in so much debt. People making more than $250k a year account for about 1.5% of the country, and those making more than $1m per year are a fraction of that.
A national sales tax would ensure that they moved all of their operations off shore rather than just a portion. It astonishes me how folks trot out the sales tax line all the time without comprehending that it's even easier to circumvent than the income tax is.
The easiest way to make corporations pay their taxes is to prevent them from booking losses without first booking profits, require that any losses only counter act gains and remove all the stupid subsidies that they're given to create jobs in the US without requiring them to follow through.
Probably because we have better things to do than to hit defrag whenever the fragmentation hits 15% or so and that the built in defrag can't defrag files that are in use at the time. A lot of the 3rd party utilties will allow you to have them run automatically every week or two so that you don't have to pay attention to that. Additionally, some of the 3rd party utilities use the same algorithms that the official defragger uses to accomplish the task.
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Indeed, AT&T has made me seriously consider going back to Sprint. The only reason I don't is that I'm on a family plan because it's cheaper than getting my own plan. But, around here Sprint and T-Mobile seem to have the best reception.
AT&T is just a pathetic pile of dog shit that's been eaten re-shit a few times before being pissed on. For a while I had a 3G capable phone and the service was so bad that I ended up disabling the 3G support in the phone so that I could get a consistent connection. It was pretty pathetic being in the middle of a major city and not being able to get a connection at all.
The local bus service was doing that for a while. Not sure what happened with it. But it was a WAP on the bus hooked up to a cell signal. They were experimenting with a few of the longer routes, but I think they may have cut the experiment due to lack of funding.
I'm curious when AT&T is going to be rolling out 3G service. They claim to have it, but I ended up trading in my 3G capable phone because the service was almost non-existent. And I live in a major city. I found myself disabling it most of the time because it wouldn't be available and would take forever to drop down to edge.
But ironically autism makes it harder to get HIV.
The diseases that catch the imagination aren't necessarily the bad ones. Breast cancer gets considerably more funding and attention than is justified when compared with the mortality rate and ability to treat it.
Which is reasonable. HIV isn't exactly something that is typically spread without some participation on the part of the person contracting the virus. Sure some people genuinely do get it via rape, but the numbers aren't a significant portion of the population.
Messing around with genes is risky business and at this point HIV is similar in danger to diabetes. But, it's also easily preventable and mainly spreads because people are too ignorant and lazy to protect themselves.
We don't get to vote for Social Intelligence Corp's executive officers. We do get to vote for the various politicians that voted for the Patriot Act, on top of that those politicians appointed most of the judges that are responsible for hearing suits and appeals relevant to it. I'm not aware of any similar power with SIC.
You'll notice that it's only a couple Senators that are looking into it, far fewer than the 51 Senators needed to pass a repeal or the 60 that are needed with the GOP's inevitable filibuster.
I don't know if most do, but mine doesn't. And I'll likely cancel my card if they try to force it on me. The last thing I need is somebody lifting my wallet without lifting it.
None of those are advantages. The authentication isn't something that should be unique to this service. The folks at the store are supposed to be authenticating that you are who you say you are.
Linking hundreds of accounts to one is risky business. If somebody manages to break into that one account, then you're SOL.
As for the prepaid nature of it, for folks that really need that, you can get a prepaid credit card, and I'm sure there are other methods of doing that such as a debit card.
Ultimately, this is just a solution in search of a problem.
But, unlike email which served a theoretical purpose at that time, this serves no particular use. We have credit cards that do all that, and the only situations I can think of where it would be useful to have it built into the phone are the same instances where one is likely to not have their cell phone.
Progress is great, but progress for the sake of progress is best left to researchers.
What are you up to with all that power? I hope you're not planning to hack a Gibson...
As far as x86-64 goes, isn't that mainly because AMD trotted out a 64bit processor that was backwards compatible with 32bit programs and whomped Intel's 64bit processors which required specially compiled programs to work with?
I had to look into it, because it seemed to be a bit of a stretch, even for PETA. But damned if you weren't correct about that. Here's one of the links for folks interested. http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/eight-animals/
I'm guessing that the materials will be widely pirated as nobody with any sense is going to go to their site. Except perhaps for individuals that are into crush videos and mutilating animals.
Not quite, the biggest fragmentation comes from Google not forcing handset makers to allow the handsets to be unlocked by the end user without having special keys.
I'm just waiting for some troll to get PEDAPORN.COM to show them PETA people.
Or worse, movie careers...
No, you're not. They may find other benefits, and probably will, but even if it just advances tracking technology for telescopes that would be sufficient, IMHO, to justify the expenditure. Worst case you've got better technology for spotting asteroids that might impact the Earth.
They finally added that with 7? I'll have to look into that. I've only been using it for a couple months.
No, I didn't pay $13k, but that was roughly what the insurance company paid. I had insurance so I only spent a small fraction of the total out of my pocket.
The costs there are lower than in the US, but they're not that much lower, and some of the costs there are actually higher than in the US. Consultations typically get billed at $180 or so when they pop up on my summary, where as in that list the similar service is apparently $235 or so.
Hospital care and the large number of services required for something that's complicated is going to be expensive, and there's only so much cost cutting you can do. The system over there isn't that much cheaper than it is over here.
For bypass surgery you're looking at around $20k if things go well. Even in places like Canada you're still talking at least $10k, which is well over a years worth of premiums in the US.
Just out of curiosity, when do the treason trials begin? Any politician of either party that signed that pledge ought to be put on trial for treason. Norquist isn't a representative of the US, nor does he have any power under the constitution to accept such pledges of fealty.
No, the reason why they pay 15% of capital gains is because the government needed a bubble to get them out of a recession. It's time we fixed the problem and looked for a more stable solution rather than one that's just kicking the problem down the line.
It also assumes that they're paying that tax rate, rarely if ever do corporations end up paying that much, and when they do it's usually because they only do business in the US. The largest corporations invest in infrastructure for their businesses outside of the US and book those losses against profits in the US, allowing them to avoid paying any taxes to the US government. What little tax they pay is usually for things like property and B&O where applicable.
That's how it works in a down economy. We've got a 9% unemployment rate that ignores the people that have given up looking for work or are chronically underemployed. The government making the spending cuts necessary to balance the budget is just going to make that worse.
On top of that, they're talking about taxing the folks whose tax breaks were a significant part of the circumstance which led us to be in so much debt. People making more than $250k a year account for about 1.5% of the country, and those making more than $1m per year are a fraction of that.
A national sales tax would ensure that they moved all of their operations off shore rather than just a portion. It astonishes me how folks trot out the sales tax line all the time without comprehending that it's even easier to circumvent than the income tax is.
The easiest way to make corporations pay their taxes is to prevent them from booking losses without first booking profits, require that any losses only counter act gains and remove all the stupid subsidies that they're given to create jobs in the US without requiring them to follow through.
Probably because we have better things to do than to hit defrag whenever the fragmentation hits 15% or so and that the built in defrag can't defrag files that are in use at the time. A lot of the 3rd party utilties will allow you to have them run automatically every week or two so that you don't have to pay attention to that. Additionally, some of the 3rd party utilities use the same algorithms that the official defragger uses to accomplish the task.