Dude. I did not mean that exact phone. My comment was one universal reply to all the "people still talk on phones" comments and how and why a feature phone has a use for me.
I am business customer with T-Mobile. Like most carriers they no longer advertise feature\flip phones on their website, but they still have them. Beginning soon and through Easter or so, I will be needing a single phone for CS calls. I need voice and voice only and only for a few hours a day. Sure, I could resurrect a no longer used smartphone or BlackBerry, but why pay for a full plan when I need just a few hours of voice a day? This type of phone is just what I need and the dirt cheap plan is just what I need.
A good dystopian novel lacks heroic characters. Or at least they all get broken by big brother. Re-read 1984 as a reference. Fahrenheit 451 kinda sorta but I've always been a critic of the ending which seemed like a "how the fuck to finish this story" cop out.
The great thing about keeping up with English subtitles derived from German dialog is that you get the challenge of keeping up with 500 words per minute. You could make a brain game or some such thing out of it.
Someone gave my a Galaxy S2 Smartwatch. It was neat for a few days. Once the novelty wore off, it seemed like nothing more than a solution looking for problem. I don't think smartwatches any sort of critical mass appeal. They are really nothing more than an overpriced status symbol. Smartwatches will be remembered as a failed innovation after something new and actually useful comes along.
It's kind of like The Walking Dead, minus the zombies. It's really very pleasant. By day, there is this giant yellowish orange thing in the sky. Sometimes it is obscured by what I can only describe as cotton candy. It is very comforting though. By night, there is this big piece of cheese in the sky that I can never quite reach. Cotton candy applies here to on occasion. The only creepy thing about it is all the people around you are constantly staring down. It's unsettling at first. There are strange animated gifs everywhere, creatures animated on the ground and even in flight. It's all very HD. All in all it was very therapeutic after getting over the initial shock.
Once I reactivated my connected reality, once again it was like The Walking Dead, only this time with zombies.
Awhile back I used up a couple weeks of vacation time I had accumulated. First I got the idea in my head, why don't try powering my phone off for awhile?. After a few days of withdraw I started to feel liberated. From there I abandoned email and the internet entirely. More withdraw was followed by an even greater sense of liberation. It was like breathing for the first time. After a hair over a week, I grudgingly came back to virtual reality. But damn was that disconnected time wonderful.
Just before the dot com collapse of the last century, I was just getting started with a couple years of freelance PC tech stuff and minor web design under my belt as I worked my way up the business desktop support chain at Gateway dreaming of more challenging things. These "schools" were hot stuff then. I foolishly decided to go for it. I don't remember the name of the place, although a lady friend of mine I met there insists to this day it was a satellite office for Stanford University. Needless to say it is not, she does not work in IT, and the school went poof shortly thereafter.
As a testament to their teaching, in the Linux class, I had to show the instructor how to compile source code and so on. By the time I was thinking about calling quits, it was obvious that I was now effectively teaching the more general A+, Network, 50+ student class. The day before an open note test, the lady mentioned above asked to xerox my notes. When I came in the next day, every last student had a copy of my notes. Why? Because they had zero confidence. I walked right out.
So now I am just reminiscing but you get the idea.
During the great plague that decimated Europe, someone had the brilliant idea that it was those evil-eyed cats causing the plague. There were cat bonfires until the cats themselves dwindled in number. Unfortunately it was the fleas indigenous to rats that were spreading the plague. Needless to say there was a rat population explosion. It did not work out well.
"Unless you delete that data before you return the car, other people may view it, including hackers, rental car employees or even future renters."
There, fixed that. It would be fun to see this in Mr. Robot, the least (but not without) face-palming I have ever had to do when it comes to the fictional portrayal of "hackers".
This is not much of a surprise as we deny fostering growth in areas that would lead us in the right direction, which is to say that I am a citizen of the United States. Instead we are so short sided that we make our talent train their talent just to get our severance. It is no fucking wonder.
As far as hacking strictly for military might? That is where this becomes what I like to call a "magical metric". We have the talent, and our government is afraid of it. Now, what does that say about the state of affairs.
I too have been hoping for stunning and terrifying up close images of Jupiter, however it comes as no surprise that they are not so incredible. They sent the probe into the harshest space environment in the solar system: the fierce radiation at the north pole of Jupiter. They sent the probe to do hard science, not send back inspiring photos - although we have eighteen months of mission left so we will see. A large part of the mission follows the mantra, "Get in and get the hell out". Which is to say before they lose the probe to radiation. The entirety of the mission is 18 months, so we will have to wait and see what follows.
A few months ago I gave a copy of 1984 to a pretty smart friend of mine who I know otherwise seriously lacks in literacy and thinks he at least some what understands the implications of something like what this stories summary is offering but really doesn't. When I offered it I tried to explain that it is very timely and why. He cut me off while thumbing through it to say "That's a lot of words". He never read it and used it as kindling a couple of months later.
A long time ago I used to wait for these events with a quite a bit of excitement. I remember one event in particular when they practically created a new industry overnight by releasing the iPhone. Then at the next event they really wowed me with the all new iPhone. The next event was pretty spectacular when they released the iPhone. By then I had stopped paying attention. I was really only invested in OS X, and by then they had pretty much mutilated the interface as far as my own usability concerns go. Last year they released something called the iPhone. It looked interesting, if not a bit on the Fisher Price side of things as far as the interface goes. Besides, I'm happy swapping sim cards between multiple devices as I please. I gather there was a tablet in there at some point but Apple product releases have been pretty lost on me.
And I am a FreeBSD fanboy : ) But I agree with everything you say. This is a big challenge and I have the highest respect for the team pursuing. I have never bothered running it (until tomorrow), but I feel like it is part of my life for how long I have been watching it.
For the longest time, article after article of slow progress I did not even think the developers took this seriously beyond beyond some coding fun. Color me impressed. This might take off in a few years. Now that I think of it, I am reminded of another OS that was relegated "maybe someday".
When we first started exo planet hunting the possibilities of red dwarf stars and their potential to harbor life was a topic due to so many of their qualities that I don't think I need to cover in this community. Over time astrophysicists, including Dr. Tyson, shed considerable doubt on this possibility saying that a planet orbiting a red dwarf star close enough to have liquid water would by default also be so close that the levels of radiation would prohibit the formation of complex organic molecules.
Did I miss a revision to that over the last decade or something?
My girlfriend and I finally reached the breaking point with Time Warner and cancelled our "working when it wants to be" 100 megabit service for a perfectly stable 7 megabit DSL connection. It was a matter of maintaining sanity and we are much happier with it. Also, no more burning up mobile hotspot bandwidth every time it flaked out.
Seriously though, are we not heading to a future where we have robot fighting robot on behalf of humans, and killing humans in the process of domination and conquest? The implications of this future do not sound like they could ever play out well. War worse than war? Insert skynet remark here I suppose.
The United States tried implementing autonomous killer bots in Iraq. They never saw action and one day starting targeting, but not firing on Marines. The were removed with quickness.
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Dude. I did not mean that exact phone. My comment was one universal reply to all the "people still talk on phones" comments and how and why a feature phone has a use for me.
I am business customer with T-Mobile. Like most carriers they no longer advertise feature\flip phones on their website, but they still have them. Beginning soon and through Easter or so, I will be needing a single phone for CS calls. I need voice and voice only and only for a few hours a day. Sure, I could resurrect a no longer used smartphone or BlackBerry, but why pay for a full plan when I need just a few hours of voice a day? This type of phone is just what I need and the dirt cheap plan is just what I need.
A good dystopian novel lacks heroic characters. Or at least they all get broken by big brother. Re-read 1984 as a reference. Fahrenheit 451 kinda sorta but I've always been a critic of the ending which seemed like a "how the fuck to finish this story" cop out.
On second thought, North Korea is such a dystopian nightmare of human misery there is no humor to be had here.
In North Korea nameserver... nope, not that either.
It does not matter where I personally stand on any of this politically. That is torture and the authorities backing and authorizing it know it.
The great thing about keeping up with English subtitles derived from German dialog is that you get the challenge of keeping up with 500 words per minute. You could make a brain game or some such thing out of it.
Someone gave my a Galaxy S2 Smartwatch. It was neat for a few days. Once the novelty wore off, it seemed like nothing more than a solution looking for problem. I don't think smartwatches any sort of critical mass appeal. They are really nothing more than an overpriced status symbol. Smartwatches will be remembered as a failed innovation after something new and actually useful comes along.
Oh, my S2 ended up on Craigslist.
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It's kind of like The Walking Dead, minus the zombies. It's really very pleasant. By day, there is this giant yellowish orange thing in the sky. Sometimes it is obscured by what I can only describe as cotton candy. It is very comforting though. By night, there is this big piece of cheese in the sky that I can never quite reach. Cotton candy applies here to on occasion. The only creepy thing about it is all the people around you are constantly staring down. It's unsettling at first. There are strange animated gifs everywhere, creatures animated on the ground and even in flight. It's all very HD. All in all it was very therapeutic after getting over the initial shock.
Once I reactivated my connected reality, once again it was like The Walking Dead, only this time with zombies.
Awhile back I used up a couple weeks of vacation time I had accumulated. First I got the idea in my head, why don't try powering my phone off for awhile?. After a few days of withdraw I started to feel liberated. From there I abandoned email and the internet entirely. More withdraw was followed by an even greater sense of liberation. It was like breathing for the first time. After a hair over a week, I grudgingly came back to virtual reality. But damn was that disconnected time wonderful.
No. But I also never mentioned it for fear it would represent bad judgement.
Just before the dot com collapse of the last century, I was just getting started with a couple years of freelance PC tech stuff and minor web design under my belt as I worked my way up the business desktop support chain at Gateway dreaming of more challenging things. These "schools" were hot stuff then. I foolishly decided to go for it. I don't remember the name of the place, although a lady friend of mine I met there insists to this day it was a satellite office for Stanford University. Needless to say it is not, she does not work in IT, and the school went poof shortly thereafter.
As a testament to their teaching, in the Linux class, I had to show the instructor how to compile source code and so on. By the time I was thinking about calling quits, it was obvious that I was now effectively teaching the more general A+, Network, 50+ student class. The day before an open note test, the lady mentioned above asked to xerox my notes. When I came in the next day, every last student had a copy of my notes. Why? Because they had zero confidence. I walked right out.
So now I am just reminiscing but you get the idea.
During the great plague that decimated Europe, someone had the brilliant idea that it was those evil-eyed cats causing the plague. There were cat bonfires until the cats themselves dwindled in number. Unfortunately it was the fleas indigenous to rats that were spreading the plague. Needless to say there was a rat population explosion. It did not work out well.
"Unless you delete that data before you return the car, other people may view it, including hackers, rental car employees or even future renters."
There, fixed that. It would be fun to see this in Mr. Robot, the least (but not without) face-palming I have ever had to do when it comes to the fictional portrayal of "hackers".
This is not much of a surprise as we deny fostering growth in areas that would lead us in the right direction, which is to say that I am a citizen of the United States. Instead we are so short sided that we make our talent train their talent just to get our severance. It is no fucking wonder.
As far as hacking strictly for military might? That is where this becomes what I like to call a "magical metric". We have the talent, and our government is afraid of it. Now, what does that say about the state of affairs.
I too have been hoping for stunning and terrifying up close images of Jupiter, however it comes as no surprise that they are not so incredible. They sent the probe into the harshest space environment in the solar system: the fierce radiation at the north pole of Jupiter. They sent the probe to do hard science, not send back inspiring photos - although we have eighteen months of mission left so we will see. A large part of the mission follows the mantra, "Get in and get the hell out". Which is to say before they lose the probe to radiation. The entirety of the mission is 18 months, so we will have to wait and see what follows.
I was kind of expecting that, but this is relatively speaking and I am an American.
A few months ago I gave a copy of 1984 to a pretty smart friend of mine who I know otherwise seriously lacks in literacy and thinks he at least some what understands the implications of something like what this stories summary is offering but really doesn't. When I offered it I tried to explain that it is very timely and why. He cut me off while thumbing through it to say "That's a lot of words". He never read it and used it as kindling a couple of months later.
This is part of the problem. Extrapolate at will.
A long time ago I used to wait for these events with a quite a bit of excitement. I remember one event in particular when they practically created a new industry overnight by releasing the iPhone. Then at the next event they really wowed me with the all new iPhone. The next event was pretty spectacular when they released the iPhone. By then I had stopped paying attention. I was really only invested in OS X, and by then they had pretty much mutilated the interface as far as my own usability concerns go. Last year they released something called the iPhone. It looked interesting, if not a bit on the Fisher Price side of things as far as the interface goes. Besides, I'm happy swapping sim cards between multiple devices as I please. I gather there was a tablet in there at some point but Apple product releases have been pretty lost on me.
I'll just ask my watch.
And I am a FreeBSD fanboy : ) But I agree with everything you say. This is a big challenge and I have the highest respect for the team pursuing. I have never bothered running it (until tomorrow), but I feel like it is part of my life for how long I have been watching it.
For the longest time, article after article of slow progress I did not even think the developers took this seriously beyond beyond some coding fun. Color me impressed. This might take off in a few years. Now that I think of it, I am reminded of another OS that was relegated "maybe someday".
When we first started exo planet hunting the possibilities of red dwarf stars and their potential to harbor life was a topic due to so many of their qualities that I don't think I need to cover in this community. Over time astrophysicists, including Dr. Tyson, shed considerable doubt on this possibility saying that a planet orbiting a red dwarf star close enough to have liquid water would by default also be so close that the levels of radiation would prohibit the formation of complex organic molecules.
Did I miss a revision to that over the last decade or something?
My girlfriend and I finally reached the breaking point with Time Warner and cancelled our "working when it wants to be" 100 megabit service for a perfectly stable 7 megabit DSL connection. It was a matter of maintaining sanity and we are much happier with it. Also, no more burning up mobile hotspot bandwidth every time it flaked out.
Seriously though, are we not heading to a future where we have robot fighting robot on behalf of humans, and killing humans in the process of domination and conquest? The implications of this future do not sound like they could ever play out well. War worse than war? Insert skynet remark here I suppose.
The United States tried implementing autonomous killer bots in Iraq. They never saw action and one day starting targeting, but not firing on Marines. The were removed with quickness.
tongue-in-cheek adjective & adverb with ironic or flippant intent.