You might want to look at your phone. T-mobile has been investing in its LTE network, but many phones can't operate on the newer LTE band frequencies. I just replaced my wife's phone with a Motorola g5 plus because it has a new radio and gets these LTE bands. It was a huge improvement over the Nexus 4 she was using. Lookup your phone's LTE band capabilities and see if that isn't your problem.
I don't really get how carrier stores of any brand makes any sense.
The only occasion I've had to go in one is to get my old, larger SIM transferred to my new smaller SIM for some new phone I bought online. That's happened twice in my history with mobile phones and the cards are now so small I doubt it will happen again, so I'm fine if they just close them all down now.
Time? What time? It appears as a balance on a card you swipe at checkout. There is no "time" involved; it's faster than handling cash. The balance refills with the sort of military precision I wish I could take for granted with my paychecks. No one drawing these bennies are mystified by the schedule.
This Propel thing looks like a marketing platform; pushing ads for "deals." Great. More power to them. But if it vanished tomorrow it wouldn't matter at all. And nothing is being "rescued;" Propel or not the bennies on the EBT cards will get spent.
So the progressive echo chamber is disappointed that Facebook isn't feeding them enough Trump-Russia red meat.
Sad.
Remember kids; Facebook is a private corporation, a concept these same people expressing their disappointment with Facebook today we're breathlessly repeating when Facebook got caught grooming their news feed; Facebook is not obligated to help you erect your Russia Did It! narrative.
No slowdown here, and I'm not in a high pop urban area. Obscure titles sometimes ship from more distant sites and take a little longer. Stuff listed as long/short wait will block the queue; reorder to keep it moving. The system is highly automated; they would have to deliberately introduce delay.
and many improvements and changes have been made to prevent the same from recurring.
Oh horsepucky. 2003 wasn't the first cascade failure and it won't be the last. It's been 14 years and these power companies are padding their exec bonus packages like nothing ever happened and the unions are padding the pension schemes and the grid rots. Meanwhile developers develop and lines get extended and plants get uprated and the margins get incrementally smaller and smaller until ping! Some tree branch outside Deplorableville, PA shorts a high tension line or a long overdue for service transformer welds itself together and the North East goes dark for a day.
And then we'll have ourselves another "investigation" that concludes with nothing of note beyond "Moare Money!" and another round of "never let this happen again" from the prevailing notables. Rinse. Repeat. All this story contributes is a possible reordering of the list of failure modes; sabotage jumps up a few notches and perhaps approaches the level of neglect and incompetence.
The EU apologists are downplaying this by pointing out that the current EU president (Estonia) is merely agenda setting and not a powerful executive. People that understand the malice of big government recognize this for what it is; the camel's nose. It will survive the transition to the next unelected EU president, and the one after and so on, until its on the docket in Brussel's various commissions and parliament.
Fashion. Fashion is what prevails when the stakes are low; the companies behind stuff like "Material Design" are living la vida loca, swimming in billions, and the horde of design debutantes they employ are running riot.
And the fashionistas aren't going to take this laying down either. Besides making anemic and ambiguous UIs they are also really good at shouting down critics. Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman have let themselves in for several years of flames, at least.
All Trump has done is obligate Congress to perform its duty; if the (R)s and whatever (D)s that care to join them wish to express their beltway "values" they can write a damn bill and pass it.
VirtualBox is difficult to explain. Oracle has never seriously tried to monetize it. They've never inflicted a Java installer on VirtualBox users. Most of it is still Open Source and they haven't driven off the entire user base to some fork. They haven't done any of the damage this sociopath or a corporation does to everything else they acquire.
I pointed this out to a moderately clever person once. He suggested that perhaps Oracle forgot about it. Maybe there is a small team of dedicated developers quietly enhancing their work, filling out their TPS reports and successfully avoiding notice.
75% of Duke's generation mix is coal or natural gas. So, rather than offset any of that base load with a 2.2 GW nuclear facility, they'll supplement demand growth and cover peaks with solar and keep burning the coal and gas. It's cheaper and they get to wave the green flag etc.
No one is buying SPARC. Solaris is fading away. OpenOffice is forked and everyone runs the fork. About the only thing of value Oracle has after buying Sun is Java; $7.4 billion for a language they can't really monetize. ZFS I suppose... another thing 90% of its users don't pay for.
The Chu Limit applies to passive antennas. The antenna described in your citation isn't passive; that "non-Foster" term means it's an active antenna. The phys.org title implying some sort of breakthrough physics is click bait.
Audio is the Longer wave (more physical distance between peaks)
Avoid the term "audio"; 60 MHz acoustic waves (as described in this paper) are not audible.
Sound (in any normal medium) is far slower than light, so sound waves at some frequency are much shorter than radio waves of the same frequency. They're describing antenna that oscillate acoustically at millions of hertz; the same frequency as the EM waves being received, not thousands of hertz as in audible sound.
But millennials and stuff don't you know.... they hate big-cow and big-chicken and big-pig and want clean organic vat meat. So you just stop it with your "labels" and your anti-vat meat anxiety because Bloomberg says that millennials have decided what they will and won't tolerate you eating.
The flaw in vscode should have cost this guy no more than a day or so worth of work. The fact that in this case the consequence of the flaw was the loss of three months of work is entirely the his fault.
I recommend he ask for his money back and then learn about revision control tools and source repositories and why competent people use them.
Why else did the federal regulation prohibiting exclusive franchises not result in a burst of competitive cable companies?
Well we're reading a story about this very thing aren't we? Incumbents hindering deployments; you have to take ma bell to court to achieve anything. You need Google's deep pockets to even get started. The market has shown there is demand for alternatives; ever notice all the satellite dishes? If the incumbents could prevent rocket launches they would, but they can't so you get an alternative.
The costs you believe prevent alternatives are mostly legal and bureaucratic, not the infrastructure. Low voltage wiring and optical systems have very low maintenance costs; a small crew can maintain a large area just fine. I see that were I am now; small fiber companies profitably deploying to rural and semi-rural areas. They get good at boring and trenching and where they can find a friendly township council (often populated by people that are sick of being neglected) that will give them right-of-way they move in and do it. They are appearing the in huge gaps the incumbents have neglected for two decades now, and they are not being overwhelmed by maintenance costs.
Suburbs and exurbs are an almost uniquely American thing.
There's a bunch of bunk. I lived with coworkers in a suburb of Lyon in France. The minute people have the means to leave your treeless urban hellscapes they do it; nothing uniquely murican about it. The fact that it is harder to get the means in Europe making it less common is orthogonal; when they can they do. Full stop.
IBM did that for most of a century
Arguing with success right there. IBM dominated its field for most of that century and is still a mighty force offering full stack solutions from chips to bodies. When you get above the world of hipster startups and investor funny money you find IBM. IBM is still distributed in nearly all 50 states. One wonders whether a hypothetical IBM — stupidly consolidated in the SF — could have expected all of their employees to show up at the office, as they've done recently.
I think I prefer the lots of cables spaghetti approach. Redundancy is a thing; it has real value. Also, it's a lot harder for big brother to put a microscope on multiple alternative services their inevitable churn.
If there is only one cable and alternatives can't emerge then there will always be some rent seeker with control over it, and that rent seeker will eventually find some rationalization for jacking up rates and getting owned by some big vertical interest that wants monetize is harder. The magical competition fairy could fix this permanently.
And your parade of horribles "spaghetti" probably isn't a legitimate concern. Once you have more than about 3 alternatives the margins are so low that 4 and 5 won't bother unless it really becomes necessary.
Skyscraper apartment buildings don't "carpet" the land
Haven't traveled much have you? Visit Paris some time.
But most people don't like telecommuting.
People don't like commuting for hours either. Guess what else people don't like; they don't like your "lowest-footprint, least-impactful" apartment block hellscapes and living in a glorified bedroom in a tower. That's why anywhere that geography and the prevailing laws allow high density urbanity doesn't emerge. Suburbs and exburbs emerge. So when you're dealing in what people do and don't like try to keep that in mind.
And I never mentioned telecommuting. That was you inferring something based on your own predilections and further evidence of your limited world view. If Sheila James and her ilk would like an office somewhere then so be it, but perhaps we could simple not try to pile all those offices into the same few square miles of la-la land.
I don't think that's really the solution. I agree that SF et al. are BANANA hells and have impeded development and caused prices to explode and all sorts of other distortions but, ultimately, carpeting the land with skyscraper apartment buildings to house all these people would just alleviate one pressure point in a dysfunctional system.
Sheila James is a bureaucrat. She writes stuff and reads stuff and participates in conference calls. Is there any actual reason Sheila James needs to be in SF proper to operate her email inbox in 2017? Why must all the Sheila James of the world converge on a couple coastal CA cities by the millions? Probably 90% of the people working in SF could just live somewhere else with no noticeable loss of capability.
Slashdot Mirror
You might want to look at your phone. T-mobile has been investing in its LTE network, but many phones can't operate on the newer LTE band frequencies. I just replaced my wife's phone with a Motorola g5 plus because it has a new radio and gets these LTE bands. It was a huge improvement over the Nexus 4 she was using. Lookup your phone's LTE band capabilities and see if that isn't your problem.
I don't really get how carrier stores of any brand makes any sense.
The only occasion I've had to go in one is to get my old, larger SIM transferred to my new smaller SIM for some new phone I bought online. That's happened twice in my history with mobile phones and the cards are now so small I doubt it will happen again, so I'm fine if they just close them all down now.
reduces time for the EBT customers
Time? What time? It appears as a balance on a card you swipe at checkout. There is no "time" involved; it's faster than handling cash. The balance refills with the sort of military precision I wish I could take for granted with my paychecks. No one drawing these bennies are mystified by the schedule.
This Propel thing looks like a marketing platform; pushing ads for "deals." Great. More power to them. But if it vanished tomorrow it wouldn't matter at all. And nothing is being "rescued;" Propel or not the bennies on the EBT cards will get spent.
I still don't see why the AT&T workers would feel this is Apples fault though.
It's not about 'fault.' It's about eyeballs. They're trying to hijack an Apple product launch and get some media attention.
So the progressive echo chamber is disappointed that Facebook isn't feeding them enough Trump-Russia red meat.
Sad.
Remember kids; Facebook is a private corporation, a concept these same people expressing their disappointment with Facebook today we're breathlessly repeating when Facebook got caught grooming their news feed; Facebook is not obligated to help you erect your Russia Did It! narrative.
No slowdown here, and I'm not in a high pop urban area. Obscure titles sometimes ship from more distant sites and take a little longer. Stuff listed as long/short wait will block the queue; reorder to keep it moving. The system is highly automated; they would have to deliberately introduce delay.
Well, that's quite a ranting list of assumptions.
And every single one is individually more plausible than any part of your "prevent the same from recurring" platitude.
and many improvements and changes have been made to prevent the same from recurring.
Oh horsepucky. 2003 wasn't the first cascade failure and it won't be the last. It's been 14 years and these power companies are padding their exec bonus packages like nothing ever happened and the unions are padding the pension schemes and the grid rots. Meanwhile developers develop and lines get extended and plants get uprated and the margins get incrementally smaller and smaller until ping! Some tree branch outside Deplorableville, PA shorts a high tension line or a long overdue for service transformer welds itself together and the North East goes dark for a day.
And then we'll have ourselves another "investigation" that concludes with nothing of note beyond "Moare Money!" and another round of "never let this happen again" from the prevailing notables. Rinse. Repeat. All this story contributes is a possible reordering of the list of failure modes; sabotage jumps up a few notches and perhaps approaches the level of neglect and incompetence.
The EU apologists are downplaying this by pointing out that the current EU president (Estonia) is merely agenda setting and not a powerful executive. People that understand the malice of big government recognize this for what it is; the camel's nose. It will survive the transition to the next unelected EU president, and the one after and so on, until its on the docket in Brussel's various commissions and parliament.
How...?
Fashion. Fashion is what prevails when the stakes are low; the companies behind stuff like "Material Design" are living la vida loca, swimming in billions, and the horde of design debutantes they employ are running riot.
And the fashionistas aren't going to take this laying down either. Besides making anemic and ambiguous UIs they are also really good at shouting down critics. Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman have let themselves in for several years of flames, at least.
This. Right here.
All Trump has done is obligate Congress to perform its duty; if the (R)s and whatever (D)s that care to join them wish to express their beltway "values" they can write a damn bill and pass it.
This. Solaris could have gone far, but for the people that owned it.
VirtualBox is difficult to explain. Oracle has never seriously tried to monetize it. They've never inflicted a Java installer on VirtualBox users. Most of it is still Open Source and they haven't driven off the entire user base to some fork. They haven't done any of the damage this sociopath or a corporation does to everything else they acquire.
I pointed this out to a moderately clever person once. He suggested that perhaps Oracle forgot about it. Maybe there is a small team of dedicated developers quietly enhancing their work, filling out their TPS reports and successfully avoiding notice.
75% of Duke's generation mix is coal or natural gas. So, rather than offset any of that base load with a 2.2 GW nuclear facility, they'll supplement demand growth and cover peaks with solar and keep burning the coal and gas. It's cheaper and they get to wave the green flag etc.
Zombie 'openings' that expect senior rock-star level experience for H1-B level wages. Pay more. Train people. KTHXBYE.
No one is buying SPARC. Solaris is fading away. OpenOffice is forked and everyone runs the fork. About the only thing of value Oracle has after buying Sun is Java; $7.4 billion for a language they can't really monetize. ZFS I suppose... another thing 90% of its users don't pay for.
The Chu Limit applies to passive antennas. The antenna described in your citation isn't passive; that "non-Foster" term means it's an active antenna. The phys.org title implying some sort of breakthrough physics is click bait.
Audio is the Longer wave (more physical distance between peaks)
Avoid the term "audio"; 60 MHz acoustic waves (as described in this paper) are not audible.
Sound (in any normal medium) is far slower than light, so sound waves at some frequency are much shorter than radio waves of the same frequency. They're describing antenna that oscillate acoustically at millions of hertz; the same frequency as the EM waves being received, not thousands of hertz as in audible sound.
But millennials and stuff don't you know.... they hate big-cow and big-chicken and big-pig and want clean organic vat meat. So you just stop it with your "labels" and your anti-vat meat anxiety because Bloomberg says that millennials have decided what they will and won't tolerate you eating.
Vat-to-table, pal.
The flaw in vscode should have cost this guy no more than a day or so worth of work. The fact that in this case the consequence of the flaw was the loss of three months of work is entirely the his fault.
I recommend he ask for his money back and then learn about revision control tools and source repositories and why competent people use them.
Why else did the federal regulation prohibiting exclusive franchises not result in a burst of competitive cable companies?
Well we're reading a story about this very thing aren't we? Incumbents hindering deployments; you have to take ma bell to court to achieve anything. You need Google's deep pockets to even get started. The market has shown there is demand for alternatives; ever notice all the satellite dishes? If the incumbents could prevent rocket launches they would, but they can't so you get an alternative.
The costs you believe prevent alternatives are mostly legal and bureaucratic, not the infrastructure. Low voltage wiring and optical systems have very low maintenance costs; a small crew can maintain a large area just fine. I see that were I am now; small fiber companies profitably deploying to rural and semi-rural areas. They get good at boring and trenching and where they can find a friendly township council (often populated by people that are sick of being neglected) that will give them right-of-way they move in and do it. They are appearing the in huge gaps the incumbents have neglected for two decades now, and they are not being overwhelmed by maintenance costs.
Suburbs and exurbs are an almost uniquely American thing.
There's a bunch of bunk. I lived with coworkers in a suburb of Lyon in France. The minute people have the means to leave your treeless urban hellscapes they do it; nothing uniquely murican about it. The fact that it is harder to get the means in Europe making it less common is orthogonal; when they can they do. Full stop.
IBM did that for most of a century
Arguing with success right there. IBM dominated its field for most of that century and is still a mighty force offering full stack solutions from chips to bodies. When you get above the world of hipster startups and investor funny money you find IBM. IBM is still distributed in nearly all 50 states. One wonders whether a hypothetical IBM — stupidly consolidated in the SF — could have expected all of their employees to show up at the office, as they've done recently.
Telecommuting has been tried.
More arguing with success. IBM has its reasons, but the rest of the US is going another way. The Growing Army of Americans Who Work From Home
single fiber cable
I think I prefer the lots of cables spaghetti approach. Redundancy is a thing; it has real value. Also, it's a lot harder for big brother to put a microscope on multiple alternative services their inevitable churn.
If there is only one cable and alternatives can't emerge then there will always be some rent seeker with control over it, and that rent seeker will eventually find some rationalization for jacking up rates and getting owned by some big vertical interest that wants monetize is harder. The magical competition fairy could fix this permanently.
And your parade of horribles "spaghetti" probably isn't a legitimate concern. Once you have more than about 3 alternatives the margins are so low that 4 and 5 won't bother unless it really becomes necessary.
Skyscraper apartment buildings don't "carpet" the land
Haven't traveled much have you? Visit Paris some time.
But most people don't like telecommuting.
People don't like commuting for hours either. Guess what else people don't like; they don't like your "lowest-footprint, least-impactful" apartment block hellscapes and living in a glorified bedroom in a tower. That's why anywhere that geography and the prevailing laws allow high density urbanity doesn't emerge. Suburbs and exburbs emerge. So when you're dealing in what people do and don't like try to keep that in mind.
And I never mentioned telecommuting. That was you inferring something based on your own predilections and further evidence of your limited world view. If Sheila James and her ilk would like an office somewhere then so be it, but perhaps we could simple not try to pile all those offices into the same few square miles of la-la land.
I don't think that's really the solution. I agree that SF et al. are BANANA hells and have impeded development and caused prices to explode and all sorts of other distortions but, ultimately, carpeting the land with skyscraper apartment buildings to house all these people would just alleviate one pressure point in a dysfunctional system.
Sheila James is a bureaucrat. She writes stuff and reads stuff and participates in conference calls. Is there any actual reason Sheila James needs to be in SF proper to operate her email inbox in 2017? Why must all the Sheila James of the world converge on a couple coastal CA cities by the millions? Probably 90% of the people working in SF could just live somewhere else with no noticeable loss of capability.