On my phone I use about 200MB per month and I use my phone quite regularly. However I am on Wi-Fi for most of the time And if I am out of Wi-Fi Range Then is usually because I am driving and not really using my phone. So for people who use the phone for normal stuff it is actually probably a better deal, But people don't think it is because it is metered but they are probably saving money as a tradeoff of having the same bill every month
Then it stands to reason that they do not need to drop the unlimited plans. They're making more money from it, right?
Personally I'd be less grumpy about it if the tiered plans had some advantage, like improved network coverage etc.
Most of my Facebook friends are colleagues from various studios. We bump into each other from time to time, project to project, and end up using Facebook more or less like Linked-in is intended to be used. Career-wise, Facebook has certainly helped me.
"Twitter is hardly mainstream.... It is the most hyped ".com" I've seen since, well, the dot.com days."
Heh. Seriously? It's more hyped than any.com and it's not mainstream?
Two billion tweets in a 3 month period? Every business and their mother advertising 'follow us on twitter!' The word 'tweet' being widely recognized by most Joe Schmoe's?
It's also worth noting that we're not completely in the dark. I watch Netflix and Hulu on my iPhone using their custom app. I don't have to wait for pages to load so I'm
getting to the point much more quickly. The IMDB app is far more responsive than it is on Safari. I do not look forward to the idea of trying to play everything through the browser when the apps are so much more efficient. Screw Flash.
To be fair, the summary is still more information than a tweet.
To be fair, most people respond to a thread with less than 140 characters worth of unique information in the summary. It's not like we're talking about excerpts that are densely packed. Look at your own post. Here's the pertinent info:
"Summaries and comments have more information than tweets, therefore Twitter is useless".
All the other words were used in an attempt to defend against my inevitable rebuttal.
I use it to keep up to date on writers, scientists, actors, game developers, etc. As a communication tool amongst people I know "in person", I see no use for it. As a tool for staying up to date with various personalities in the geek, gaming, movie, and scientific communities, it's perfect.
But.. but.. but... it's mainstream! And mainstream stuff, especially things that require 'followers' or 'friends', is dumb and stupid and totally beneath us nerds! I prefer to use email and other less ideal solutions that this thing does elegantly!
Or you know, a Google (or any other cloud service) employee access all your data because they own it then... No, cloud services are not more secure. Especially free ones who's business model is to make money off your private information.
Today I send on average about 0.1 texts per day, and hate them. Seriously, 50 a day, what the fuck? Am I alone in feeling this?
With all due respect: palm tops in class, ham radio clubs, early use of the net... is it really a mystery that you'd hate using a form of communication that requires a friend you've personally made on the other end?
I mean, seriously, I was in a similar position in high school and my pager had extraordinary battery life.
But I don't trust my computer anyway. Fuck malware. I'm a good power surge or hardware failure away from data loss anyway. If anything, I'm kept on my toes to do things like have a decent plan for making backups and keeping them fresh.
I don't have a false sense of security, so it's fun witnessing the folly of people that do. In a small way it's a pity that this story is almost certainly sensationalized.
Really old, really crappy lines might have had a problem with DTMF signalling, but then those lines would be sub-par for any other application, too. Including clear voice calls.
Voice was just fine. I think we even had a 2400 baud modem working on it too. My dad couldn't see the point in paying the upgrade fee just to get touch tone.
It's much more likely that the line at the CO end had to be moved from a 50-year-old piece of junk to much better gear in another cabinet.
That wouldn't surprise me. I think it was a money grab.
Slashdot Mirror
On my phone I use about 200MB per month and I use my phone quite regularly. However I am on Wi-Fi for most of the time And if I am out of Wi-Fi Range Then is usually because I am driving and not really using my phone. So for people who use the phone for normal stuff it is actually probably a better deal, But people don't think it is because it is metered but they are probably saving money as a tradeoff of having the same bill every month
Then it stands to reason that they do not need to drop the unlimited plans. They're making more money from it, right?
Personally I'd be less grumpy about it if the tiered plans had some advantage, like improved network coverage etc.
On the other hand, some assholes deserve to be framed. Like my previous boss who fired me because "you were eating too much food at lifetime"...
That's worth 12 years in prison?!
This is why vigilantism is frowned upon.
What makes their comments better than ones on facebook.
Heh. Slashdot doesn't require 'friends'.
Most of my Facebook friends are colleagues from various studios. We bump into each other from time to time, project to project, and end up using Facebook more or less like Linked-in is intended to be used. Career-wise, Facebook has certainly helped me.
Agree with you 100%. Good to know I was not and will not affected in any way. Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
... Uh yeah you're being way more productive sitting here on Slashdot taking potshots at a site that requires having friends.
Does it run on DC?
Intel still charges insane money for their chips.. they only lower it to a fair price after AMD forces them ...
This is why you don't want *either* company to 'win'.
Who else can you award it to? The state? So that the state would then have an interest in finding for one side?
At least there'd be fewer frivolous lawsuits.
Apple is coming out with a easy to swallow capsule.
Oh that'd be just lovely, 10 years of Slashdot jokes about how Apple customers swallow.
That depends on what the listener of the information you're offering is trying to gain from it.
"Twitter is hardly mainstream.... It is the most hyped ".com" I've seen since, well, the dot.com days."
Heh. Seriously? It's more hyped than any .com and it's not mainstream?
Two billion tweets in a 3 month period? Every business and their mother advertising 'follow us on twitter!' The word 'tweet' being widely recognized by most Joe Schmoe's?
Okie doke. Not mainstream at all.
It's also worth noting that we're not completely in the dark. I watch Netflix and Hulu on my iPhone using their custom app. I don't have to wait for pages to load so I'm
getting to the point much more quickly. The IMDB app is far more responsive than it is on Safari. I do not look forward to the idea of trying to play everything through the browser when the apps are so much more efficient. Screw Flash.
To be fair, the summary is still more information than a tweet.
To be fair, most people respond to a thread with less than 140 characters worth of unique information in the summary. It's not like we're talking about excerpts that are densely packed. Look at your own post. Here's the pertinent info:
"Summaries and comments have more information than tweets, therefore Twitter is useless".
All the other words were used in an attempt to defend against my inevitable rebuttal.
Is it really better than reading a well thought out and reasoned article about something?
I like how you ask this on a site that routinely uses the term "RTFA".
How complicated is it to write somewhat secure software that processes 140 character messages?
Yeah, they should shorten it to 70 characters and make it twice as secure.
The scene in the documentary with him playing DK while his kids were asking for his help really depressed me.
I bolded the key word, there. ;)
I use it to keep up to date on writers, scientists, actors, game developers, etc. As a communication tool amongst people I know "in person", I see no use for it. As a tool for staying up to date with various personalities in the geek, gaming, movie, and scientific communities, it's perfect.
But.. but.. but... it's mainstream! And mainstream stuff, especially things that require 'followers' or 'friends', is dumb and stupid and totally beneath us nerds! I prefer to use email and other less ideal solutions that this thing does elegantly!
Considering IGNs competence I would want to know if the TV or the Move system added this lag.
If the lag is between the motion (top of the swing...) and the button, then it's not the TV.
Or you know, a Google (or any other cloud service) employee access all your data because they own it then... No, cloud services are not more secure. Especially free ones who's business model is to make money off your private information.
Oh shush. Google fans value freedom.
Today I send on average about 0.1 texts per day, and hate them. Seriously, 50 a day, what the fuck? Am I alone in feeling this?
With all due respect: palm tops in class, ham radio clubs, early use of the net... is it really a mystery that you'd hate using a form of communication that requires a friend you've personally made on the other end?
I mean, seriously, I was in a similar position in high school and my pager had extraordinary battery life.
you don't buy many groceries at one time do you? How many items can you list in 140 characters?
You could easily list off 15 and with a little cramming you can get it to 20. More than enough.
You can also just use email. That's what my gf and I do. Fitting a list of groceries in a text message is easy, typing it is hard. :P
Without a doubt.
But I don't trust my computer anyway. Fuck malware. I'm a good power surge or hardware failure away from data loss anyway. If anything, I'm kept on my toes to do things like have a decent plan for making backups and keeping them fresh.
I don't have a false sense of security, so it's fun witnessing the folly of people that do. In a small way it's a pity that this story is almost certainly sensationalized.
Microsoft and their associated Windows shills are loving this.
You lot stopped just short of calling Linux 'unsinkable'. Of course people are going to have fun with it, it's just not limited to shills.
Really old, really crappy lines might have had a problem with DTMF signalling, but then those lines would be sub-par for any other application, too. Including clear voice calls.
Voice was just fine. I think we even had a 2400 baud modem working on it too. My dad couldn't see the point in paying the upgrade fee just to get touch tone.
It's much more likely that the line at the CO end had to be moved from a 50-year-old piece of junk to much better gear in another cabinet.
That wouldn't surprise me. I think it was a money grab.
Since when is a helicopter crash surreal?
When it's placed in a context where the one expected to succeed fails and the one expected to fail succeeds?
The summary was very short, why didn't you read it?