Back in 1998, when the internet was still pretty new to most people, I overheard a conversation about how someone's website was loading extremely slowly (even for dial-up) on certian pages, and he couldn't figure out why. When I asked him about it, it turned out to be the owner and chief-editor of the (very long running) local newspaper, and I offered my help since I had just finished a computer support degree. (Which included classes in HTML, back when people still hand-coded HTML).
Turned out he was sizing the on-page images using HTML code (with a wysiwyg editor), which was hiding the fact that he had uploaded the images as un-resized, un-compressed, 2MB-each,.BMPs
The two hosts should have let the representative give his demonstration in peace, instead of constantly interrupting him mid-sentence. It made the whole presentation nearly unwatchable
When my normal 2 year contract (with subsidized phone) ended with T-mobile, and I switched to their new (at the time) no-contract plan, my monthly service bill immediately (pro-rated) dropped by $20
It's Verizon and at&t that charge the same price regardless of where you got your phone from, not t-mobile
In defense of t-mobiles pricing (which isn't great, but better than the other options) the amount of service you receive for that money has increased.
Over the last year they have added free PC wifi-tethering on the 5gb and 10gb 4g plans, and actual unlimited 4g download on the non-tethering plan (which can still be used for tethering, if you know the tricks)
you can save around $10 if you go with the 450 minute voice plan instead of the unlimited minute plan they usually push, if you are the kind of person that doesn't talk on the phone much
I never said at&t bought the baby bells, just that the company currently known as at&t consists of all the baby bells that don't already belong to Verizon.
My point was that, despite the many changes in names over the years, both companies still posses the same "we own the network, we own the phones, we own you" mentality that people hated so much about the old AT&T. The kind of mentality where changing your plan (to a plan with more or less minutes) automatically extended your contract to a minimum of one year from the date of the plan change, regardless of the number of months still remaining on the original 2 year contract; or intentionally locking the phone such that you couldn't buy ringtones from anywhere except through the official Verizon ringtone "app" . This is the same kind of behavior that the old AT&T would do, except their particular twist was forcing you to lease your telephone direct from the company (which was hardwired into the wall so it couldn't even be unplugged), and refusing to let ANY 3rd party or customer owned telephones onto the phone network.
(We also know that AT&T invented the magnetic tape answering machine in 1934 and then immediately buried the research out of fear, what else has been buried that we don't yet know about?)
I have no problem keeping Ma Bell Part A (Verizon and every baby bell they bought) and Ma Bell Part B (at&t and every baby bell that verizon didn't already own) from cheating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by running a duopoly instead of their original monopoly
There were no actual grammar problems, just punctuation mistakes. The word immediately preceding your two examples should have been followed by a comma instead of a period.
Punctuation, especially commas, is hard even for native english speakers.
You don't have to actually KNOW dutch to answer his question for him, and there are far more english-only geeks than dutch-speaking geek, so asking in english is THE best way to get the most high quality answers.
The craziest thing about stock trading as pseudo science is that it doesn't matter. On a system that is mostly human-driven, the simple fact that everyone is using the same pseudo science (same algorithms) creates self-fulfilling "prophesies", forming a feedback loop which confirms the pseudo science.
The system only works because everyone follows the same sets of rules, but the ACTUAL rules themselves don't really matter (much like language, it doesn't matter what the words actually sound like, as long as we all agree on the same set of rules).
You know you have screwed up on a truly grand scale when you not only end up in prison (which isn't particularly hard nowadays), but also manage to completely destroy the company you work for, all in the same step. (Impressive for a non-executive anyway, CEOs do this sort of thing on an almost daily basis)
If the program was such a quick "fix", it would indicate that the device-specific limitations were either intentionally added by the higher-ups, or Facebook Home was written by a complete idiot (considering how buggy it is reported to be, this might be the more likely possibility)
There is nothing wrong with "buy this buy this!", that is the legitimate basis of healthy capitalism, and not why corporations are dangerous.
When corporations got out of control in the past, we ended up with things like company towns (where you are paid in "company dollars" that are only valid at the company store and the company apartment buildings), and violent oppressions of labor movements and labor strikes.
You know what saved us from those things? the Government.
Both Government and Corporations can be evil when allowed to run out of control, but there is a crucial difference between the two. The government (at least in theory) is controlled directly by the people, whereas the people have almost no control at all over private corporations, except in instances where they were able to use the government as a tool to set limits on the behavior of corporations (OSHA, Minimum wage, EPA, FTC, etc).
Yes, I agree that corporations at their worst are nothing compared to a government at it's worst, but that doesn't mean you should fight the government (not while we still have the right to vote anyway).
You can fight the burglar AND the pit bull at the same time, or you can take control of the pit bull and use it against the burglar, which would you rather do?
Nothing in the antenna laws says that the antennas has to be on your property (just your market), so you and your neighbors could all put their own personal antenna on the top of the nearest tall building and individually run a few hundred feet of coax if they wanted. With Aereo each person gets thier own personal antenna that is exclusively theirs for as long as as they pay for it (the antenna sits idle when you aren't watching), so it's no different than using someone elses roof (except using the internet instead of hundreds of feet of coax). The personal antenna aspect was the legal technicality that made Aereo legal
Our healthcare system will change to become one where all health problems are treated by replacing the faulty biological "part" with a robotic implant, until we all eventually become the robots that replaced us.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if North Korea is so isolated and full of itself that their military actually thinks the rest of the world is dumb enough to fall for a trick like that.
Part of me hopes they are, because this could be a REALLY easy win for the US. Maybe we can just send in swarms of drones (in sky-darkening amounts) armed with fake plastic bombs and simply scare them into surrendering, without actually killing anyone.
This test shows that a "preconditioning" of science terms in jury trials could lead to harsher sentences (or even a greater likelihood of guilty verdicts, in cases with hung juries).
There was an earlier case (I don't remember specifics) where someone committed suicide after being teased on facebook for being gay, and the people who did the teasing were charged with a crime
The FAA clearly thinks that radio behaves differently in the air, otherwise there wouldn't need to be a blanket ban on ALL air-born cellphones, including ridiculousness like banning cellphones on hot air balloons. (the ban covers EVERYTHING that the FAA regulates, even unpowered craft)
I bet even those smartphone-on-a-weather-balloon photography projects managed to violate FAA rules too.
My main issue is that the FAA seems highly resistant to the idea of allowing any independent party to run any tests. The only reason the mythbusters were even able to do a ground test is because the FAA lacked the authority to stop them.
Out of all the handhelds I ever owned, none got as much attention from random strangers as the Jornada 720. Everybody always wanted to know what it was (this was before netbooks and smartphones)
Unfortunately it looks like I missed out on the Jornada renaissance, as neither Opie nor JLime have been updated in years.
Let's calculate the chance of one of these devices interfering with the operations of a plane in such a fashion to cause a significant life impacting event on a plane. Now, let's construct a gun that is loaded with a bullet and when you pull the trigger has the same odds of causing a significant life impacting event. Let's aim it at your head.
Go ahead, pull the trigger. If you lose, your head is blown off. If you win, nothing. Absolutely nothing of any significance changes in your life.
OK, you get started on that 10-million-chamber russian roulette. We will check back with you in a decade or so when its done.
You are more like to be struck by lighting TWICE than you are to be in an airplane crash.
They tested a cell tower simulator, which is hundreds of times more powerful than any cell phone.
To put it in perspective, if you could rig a cell phone to generate that kind of power, you would get about 5 minutes of talk time before you completely drained the battery
So, even with a device more powerful than an army of cellphones (and broadcasting on every possible cell frequency too), they were still unable to cause any effect whatsoever on the planes electronics.
You realize that if you did somehow manage to pull a "high-g maneuver" (the kind that the military and aerobatic planes do) in a large commercial jet, you would probably just rip the wings right off the plane, right?
You are far more likely to get hit in the head by a flying book while driving your car than you are while sitting in a plane.
When the FAA has to give orders to an airline or aircraft maker, the FAA waits until AFTER deaths have occurred, but when it involves telling the PUBLIC what to do, then the FAA is all about precaution (a complete ban on cell phones in hot air balloons, for example)
Pretty obvious who the favorite child in this family is (hint: it's not the passengers)
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Back in 1998, when the internet was still pretty new to most people, I overheard a conversation about how someone's website was loading extremely slowly (even for dial-up) on certian pages, and he couldn't figure out why. When I asked him about it, it turned out to be the owner and chief-editor of the (very long running) local newspaper, and I offered my help since I had just finished a computer support degree. (Which included classes in HTML, back when people still hand-coded HTML).
Turned out he was sizing the on-page images using HTML code (with a wysiwyg editor), which was hiding the fact that he had uploaded the images as un-resized, un-compressed, 2MB-each, .BMPs
The two hosts should have let the representative give his demonstration in peace, instead of constantly interrupting him mid-sentence. It made the whole presentation nearly unwatchable
When my normal 2 year contract (with subsidized phone) ended with T-mobile, and I switched to their new (at the time) no-contract plan, my monthly service bill immediately (pro-rated) dropped by $20
It's Verizon and at&t that charge the same price regardless of where you got your phone from, not t-mobile
In defense of t-mobiles pricing (which isn't great, but better than the other options) the amount of service you receive for that money has increased.
Over the last year they have added free PC wifi-tethering on the 5gb and 10gb 4g plans, and actual unlimited 4g download on the non-tethering plan (which can still be used for tethering, if you know the tricks)
you can save around $10 if you go with the 450 minute voice plan instead of the unlimited minute plan they usually push, if you are the kind of person that doesn't talk on the phone much
I never said at&t bought the baby bells, just that the company currently known as at&t consists of all the baby bells that don't already belong to Verizon.
My point was that, despite the many changes in names over the years, both companies still posses the same "we own the network, we own the phones, we own you" mentality that people hated so much about the old AT&T.
The kind of mentality where changing your plan (to a plan with more or less minutes) automatically extended your contract to a minimum of one year from the date of the plan change, regardless of the number of months still remaining on the original 2 year contract; or intentionally locking the phone such that you couldn't buy ringtones from anywhere except through the official Verizon ringtone "app" .
This is the same kind of behavior that the old AT&T would do, except their particular twist was forcing you to lease your telephone direct from the company (which was hardwired into the wall so it couldn't even be unplugged), and refusing to let ANY 3rd party or customer owned telephones onto the phone network.
(We also know that AT&T invented the magnetic tape answering machine in 1934 and then immediately buried the research out of fear, what else has been buried that we don't yet know about?)
I have no problem keeping Ma Bell Part A (Verizon and every baby bell they bought) and Ma Bell Part B (at&t and every baby bell that verizon didn't already own) from cheating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by running a duopoly instead of their original monopoly
There were no actual grammar problems, just punctuation mistakes. The word immediately preceding your two examples should have been followed by a comma instead of a period.
Punctuation, especially commas, is hard even for native english speakers.
You don't have to actually KNOW dutch to answer his question for him, and there are far more english-only geeks than dutch-speaking geek, so asking in english is THE best way to get the most high quality answers.
The craziest thing about stock trading as pseudo science is that it doesn't matter. On a system that is mostly human-driven, the simple fact that everyone is using the same pseudo science (same algorithms) creates self-fulfilling "prophesies", forming a feedback loop which confirms the pseudo science.
The system only works because everyone follows the same sets of rules, but the ACTUAL rules themselves don't really matter (much like language, it doesn't matter what the words actually sound like, as long as we all agree on the same set of rules).
You know you have screwed up on a truly grand scale when you not only end up in prison (which isn't particularly hard nowadays), but also manage to completely destroy the company you work for, all in the same step. (Impressive for a non-executive anyway, CEOs do this sort of thing on an almost daily basis)
If the program was such a quick "fix", it would indicate that the device-specific limitations were either intentionally added by the higher-ups, or Facebook Home was written by a complete idiot (considering how buggy it is reported to be, this might be the more likely possibility)
There is nothing wrong with "buy this buy this!", that is the legitimate basis of healthy capitalism, and not why corporations are dangerous.
When corporations got out of control in the past, we ended up with things like company towns (where you are paid in "company dollars" that are only valid at the company store and the company apartment buildings), and violent oppressions of labor movements and labor strikes.
You know what saved us from those things? the Government.
Both Government and Corporations can be evil when allowed to run out of control, but there is a crucial difference between the two. The government (at least in theory) is controlled directly by the people, whereas the people have almost no control at all over private corporations, except in instances where they were able to use the government as a tool to set limits on the behavior of corporations (OSHA, Minimum wage, EPA, FTC, etc).
Yes, I agree that corporations at their worst are nothing compared to a government at it's worst, but that doesn't mean you should fight the government (not while we still have the right to vote anyway).
You can fight the burglar AND the pit bull at the same time, or you can take control of the pit bull and use it against the burglar, which would you rather do?
Nothing in the antenna laws says that the antennas has to be on your property (just your market), so you and your neighbors could all put their own personal antenna on the top of the nearest tall building and individually run a few hundred feet of coax if they wanted. With Aereo each person gets thier own personal antenna that is exclusively theirs for as long as as they pay for it (the antenna sits idle when you aren't watching), so it's no different than using someone elses roof (except using the internet instead of hundreds of feet of coax). The personal antenna aspect was the legal technicality that made Aereo legal
So you are saying that the government "stole" a range of radio frequencies from someone when they formed the FCC?
Who did they steal it from? Marconi? Tesla?
All I can say is..... OMG Ponies!
Our healthcare system will change to become one where all health problems are treated by replacing the faulty biological "part" with a robotic implant, until we all eventually become the robots that replaced us.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if North Korea is so isolated and full of itself that their military actually thinks the rest of the world is dumb enough to fall for a trick like that.
Part of me hopes they are, because this could be a REALLY easy win for the US. Maybe we can just send in swarms of drones (in sky-darkening amounts) armed with fake plastic bombs and simply scare them into surrendering, without actually killing anyone.
This test shows that a "preconditioning" of science terms in jury trials could lead to harsher sentences (or even a greater likelihood of guilty verdicts, in cases with hung juries).
There was an earlier case (I don't remember specifics) where someone committed suicide after being teased on facebook for being gay, and the people who did the teasing were charged with a crime
The FAA clearly thinks that radio behaves differently in the air, otherwise there wouldn't need to be a blanket ban on ALL air-born cellphones, including ridiculousness like banning cellphones on hot air balloons. (the ban covers EVERYTHING that the FAA regulates, even unpowered craft)
I bet even those smartphone-on-a-weather-balloon photography projects managed to violate FAA rules too.
My main issue is that the FAA seems highly resistant to the idea of allowing any independent party to run any tests. The only reason the mythbusters were even able to do a ground test is because the FAA lacked the authority to stop them.
Out of all the handhelds I ever owned, none got as much attention from random strangers as the Jornada 720. Everybody always wanted to know what it was (this was before netbooks and smartphones)
Unfortunately it looks like I missed out on the Jornada renaissance, as neither Opie nor JLime have been updated in years.
Let's calculate the chance of one of these devices interfering with the operations of a plane in such a fashion to cause a significant life impacting event on a plane. Now, let's construct a gun that is loaded with a bullet and when you pull the trigger has the same odds of causing a significant life impacting event. Let's aim it at your head.
Go ahead, pull the trigger. If you lose, your head is blown off. If you win, nothing. Absolutely nothing of any significance changes in your life.
OK, you get started on that 10-million-chamber russian roulette. We will check back with you in a decade or so when its done.
You are more like to be struck by lighting TWICE than you are to be in an airplane crash.
They tested a cell tower simulator, which is hundreds of times more powerful than any cell phone.
To put it in perspective, if you could rig a cell phone to generate that kind of power, you would get about 5 minutes of talk time before you completely drained the battery
So, even with a device more powerful than an army of cellphones (and broadcasting on every possible cell frequency too), they were still unable to cause any effect whatsoever on the planes electronics.
You realize that if you did somehow manage to pull a "high-g maneuver" (the kind that the military and aerobatic planes do) in a large commercial jet, you would probably just rip the wings right off the plane, right?
You are far more likely to get hit in the head by a flying book while driving your car than you are while sitting in a plane.
The difference is easy to see.
When the FAA has to give orders to an airline or aircraft maker, the FAA waits until AFTER deaths have occurred, but when it involves telling the PUBLIC what to do, then the FAA is all about precaution (a complete ban on cell phones in hot air balloons, for example)
Pretty obvious who the favorite child in this family is (hint: it's not the passengers)