I never had anything but five bars in Manhattan in my two years with AT&T, (I moved abroad a couple of weeks ago) and I had good bandwidth whenever I could get data, but I never latency anywhere under a second. They probably ARE doing something very wrong.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to explain that. I almost never got any useful data in 0.62 seconds, (NYC) not even from something like twitter.
I wouldn't put it past AT&T to have fast download speeds, quick latency for the first byte, but to make you sit and wait for 10 seconds for the second and third byte.
The problem with AT&T isn't speed, it's latency. I often had to wait ten seconds or more for a data request to be met, and often the software would timeout before that happened (which meant I would get no data at all). Once a download actually started, it was very fast, but so what?
Apple will never put an HDTV tuner in any product, because it commits the product to a bad user experience - either when reception is bad (for mobile products) or when the UX from the cable provider is bad (for plugged-in products).
2001. It's more competitive than the Zune, sure, but it hasn't won in any market, with either the original or the 360. I guess they've won the online competitive gaming space.
In any case, I see the xbox as being a Gates strategy rather than a Ballmer one.
It seems to me he's just slowly, gently, running Microsoft into the ground. He's not a horrible failure, but there seems to be a complete lack of inspiration and mojo.
Has Microsoft had any major hits since 2000? Like, real killer apps or disruptive new technologies?
People who bitch about how stupid twitter is Do Not Get Twitter. Twitter is not for broadcasting the fact that you're on the toilet. It's for disseminating news (and yes, this includes advertising and PR) more quickly than any other medium, ever. Twitter is quickly obsoleting one particular hook of 24-hour cable news networks: the ability to be the first to report a major event.
why bother with clothes at all? It would save money on those fancy new millimeter-wave scanners if they just forced you to check your clothing with your bags.
Sometimes I wish the MPAA would go the whole hog and just block everyone from viewing any of their content outside of a cinema. I don't think we'd all die of grief. TV stations would have nothing to just broadcast but news and youtube clips. Then the whole recorded-images industry would collapse and die. But I suspect we might come up with something really great to replace its cultural role.
No I agree with you, the current law is very unjust. Part of the problem nobody wants to deal with is that children become sexualized quite gradually starting at a very young age.
Having said that, wanting to have sex is not the same as being able to give valid consent to have sex. These are two separate issues. To give valid consent (so the theory goes) you have to be able to assess the likely consequences of an action in light of an understanding of your true desires and intentions. The orthodox view is that 13-year-olds don't know what's good for them.
Well, it's a bit harder than that because the consensus view is that people under 14 can't give consent. Personally, I don't think it makes sense to have a universal age limit for that, but most people disagree with me.
> what I already own (as it's better than what's been recently released)
Everyone starts to think that when they reach middle age. It's not actually true though - plenty of good stuff has come out recently, it's just that your mind has gotten narrow and you dislike change.
Not that this gives you a reason to change your buying habits! If your mind is narrow, you should by all means buy records like a narrow-minded person would.
> If anything, in the early days gopher was more convenient for multimedia than the web.
This is only true for a very small subset of 'convenient'.
This is the same sense in which 'apt-get' is a convenient way to get software. It's the same sense in which LaTeX is a convenient way to write an article for social sciences. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type:wq or ^x^w^x^c to save and quit your document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to use svn to collaborate with others on a text document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type "./configure" and then "make home" and then "make install" in order to install a binary executable. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to distribute source code without the required dependencies so that anyone who downloads it has to locate, build and install nine different packages just to find out that there's a fatal bug in the source code which prevents compilation. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to leave out documentation because there's comments in the source code. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to use the 'move' command for renaming files.
I sense... a great disturbance. It's as if millions of mixers, boom ops, and sound editors screamed out in frustration and were suddenly silenced.
I don't mean to minimize the skill or effort involved in getting a good recording. I've done a good amount of professional sound editing myself. But nobody can deny that modern films have most of their sound painstakingly put together in a studio from various recordings and foley sources, rather than recorded in a single take on set. Film critics used to complain about the hyper-real sound in new movies, but now it is the norm.
OOh, how scary, a British film about Indians won an American awards ceremony! First the president, now this! Soon EVERYONE will be brown! The extinction of the goths is imminent!
I think you are overestimating how much of a difference there is between the processes for animated and live film. Any major film now has a soundtrack that is almost entirely pieced together in the studio. Also, you hardly ever reshoot a scene because the sound was bad... you keep the take with the best visuals and fix the sound later.
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I never had anything but five bars in Manhattan in my two years with AT&T, (I moved abroad a couple of weeks ago) and I had good bandwidth whenever I could get data, but I never latency anywhere under a second. They probably ARE doing something very wrong.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to explain that. I almost never got any useful data in 0.62 seconds, (NYC) not even from something like twitter.
I wouldn't put it past AT&T to have fast download speeds, quick latency for the first byte, but to make you sit and wait for 10 seconds for the second and third byte.
The problem with AT&T isn't speed, it's latency. I often had to wait ten seconds or more for a data request to be met, and often the software would timeout before that happened (which meant I would get no data at all). Once a download actually started, it was very fast, but so what?
Better yet, change your password to "do you have a pen?" and then call your IT person to say that you've forgotten what your password is.
Apple will never put an HDTV tuner in any product, because it commits the product to a bad user experience - either when reception is bad (for mobile products) or when the UX from the cable provider is bad (for plugged-in products).
2001. It's more competitive than the Zune, sure, but it hasn't won in any market, with either the original or the 360. I guess they've won the online competitive gaming space.
In any case, I see the xbox as being a Gates strategy rather than a Ballmer one.
It seems to me he's just slowly, gently, running Microsoft into the ground. He's not a horrible failure, but there seems to be a complete lack of inspiration and mojo.
Has Microsoft had any major hits since 2000? Like, real killer apps or disruptive new technologies?
Nothing about modern physics is true in this sense. It's all just mathematical models which fit data to a greater or lesser extent.
People who bitch about how stupid twitter is Do Not Get Twitter. Twitter is not for broadcasting the fact that you're on the toilet. It's for disseminating news (and yes, this includes advertising and PR) more quickly than any other medium, ever. Twitter is quickly obsoleting one particular hook of 24-hour cable news networks: the ability to be the first to report a major event.
doy.
OBL is most likely dead. So you are most likely right.
why bother with clothes at all? It would save money on those fancy new millimeter-wave scanners if they just forced you to check your clothing with your bags.
>A solution in search of a problem.
What are you complaining about?? Many wonderful problems have been discovered that way!
Sometimes I wish the MPAA would go the whole hog and just block everyone from viewing any of their content outside of a cinema. I don't think we'd all die of grief. TV stations would have nothing to just broadcast but news and youtube clips. Then the whole recorded-images industry would collapse and die. But I suspect we might come up with something really great to replace its cultural role.
No I agree with you, the current law is very unjust. Part of the problem nobody wants to deal with is that children become sexualized quite gradually starting at a very young age.
Having said that, wanting to have sex is not the same as being able to give valid consent to have sex. These are two separate issues. To give valid consent (so the theory goes) you have to be able to assess the likely consequences of an action in light of an understanding of your true desires and intentions. The orthodox view is that 13-year-olds don't know what's good for them.
Well, it's a bit harder than that because the consensus view is that people under 14 can't give consent. Personally, I don't think it makes sense to have a universal age limit for that, but most people disagree with me.
Well, you got no excuse then. Go and give some new music a chance, by god!
> what I already own (as it's better than what's been recently released)
Everyone starts to think that when they reach middle age. It's not actually true though - plenty of good stuff has come out recently, it's just that your mind has gotten narrow and you dislike change.
Not that this gives you a reason to change your buying habits! If your mind is narrow, you should by all means buy records like a narrow-minded person would.
Proper Latin would be feti.
> If anything, in the early days gopher was more convenient for multimedia than the web.
This is only true for a very small subset of 'convenient'.
This is the same sense in which 'apt-get' is a convenient way to get software. It's the same sense in which LaTeX is a convenient way to write an article for social sciences. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type :wq or ^x^w^x^c to save and quit your document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to use svn to collaborate with others on a text document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type "./configure" and then "make home" and then "make install" in order to install a binary executable. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to distribute source code without the required dependencies so that anyone who downloads it has to locate, build and install nine different packages just to find out that there's a fatal bug in the source code which prevents compilation. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to leave out documentation because there's comments in the source code. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to use the 'move' command for renaming files.
You flexed your keyboard, not your screen! Watcg thia: I;m flezing my LCS screeen now...
He's having a tough time, since kjoey and kpacey started dating and spent the summer together on a yacht. Boy did that make him look stupid!
I sense... a great disturbance. It's as if millions of mixers, boom ops, and sound editors screamed out in frustration and were suddenly silenced.
I don't mean to minimize the skill or effort involved in getting a good recording. I've done a good amount of professional sound editing myself. But nobody can deny that modern films have most of their sound painstakingly put together in a studio from various recordings and foley sources, rather than recorded in a single take on set. Film critics used to complain about the hyper-real sound in new movies, but now it is the norm.
OOh, how scary, a British film about Indians won an American awards ceremony! First the president, now this! Soon EVERYONE will be brown! The extinction of the goths is imminent!
I think you are overestimating how much of a difference there is between the processes for animated and live film. Any major film now has a soundtrack that is almost entirely pieced together in the studio. Also, you hardly ever reshoot a scene because the sound was bad... you keep the take with the best visuals and fix the sound later.