Well yes assuming the channels are available and the wifi is the limiting factor...... Actually verizon often just wheels in more towers to handle big events. http://www.verizonwireless.com...
Yep! Thats right thats why both Verizon and At&t are not investing in landline broadband because wireless is more profitable.
Verizon "The fiber network was profitable, but nowhere near as profitable as their wireless network" https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Sure but my home wifi is a verizon t1114 router with a unlimited sim its sitting at 133GB today and there are 23 days left on this cycle.
Why? Because the only alternative is satellite or dialup (or another cell provider). If I could get a 10Mbps unmetered connection out here for $200/mo I would have that instead but no can be bothered to bring service out here.'
One of my 3 unlimited lines is actually still in contract through the end of september so we shall see how that goes.
I received a phone call from the vzw loyalty team this morning they wanted to do an account review but as was on the way to work (talking on cellphones while driving is still legal here) I said not right now and they left it at that.
I suppose this must be what they wanted to talk about. My home line is over 133GB this month and I still have 23 days left on this billing cycle. So I suppose i'll be switching to one of att's unlimited plans this month I figure that will run me about $2,000 to buy one but still no one else will bring internet out here for that price so oh well.
I seem to remember being told at the time that as a current subscriber I would be able to keep my current rate for a rather long period of time...ah yes here it is 5/9/14 "Hi user,
In order to continue adding more movies and TV shows, we are increasing our price from $7.99 to $8.99 for new members. As a thank you for being a member of Netflix already, we guarantee that your plan and price will not change for two years.
You can review your membership details at any time by visiting Your Account. As always, if you have questions, we are happy to answer them. Please call us at any time at 1-888-357-1516.
â"The Netflix Team"
So a bunch of people just forgot they had a very generous 2 year warning of a price hike and were caught unawares? I wouldn't call it ungrandfathering as It was a time limited price guarantee.
Ungrandfathering is when the city decides your house built in the 1850's is too close to the road and must be demolished in 2016 dispite being grandfathered in on the new rules in 1975.
Well i'm pretty sure verizons grandfathered plans are true unlimited as the mifi i'm using to post this is sitting at 76GB and the one I use for internet at home is sitting at 330GB and the bill doesn't reset until the 13th
With that kind of usage I'm pretty sure i'd have gotten a phone call or at the very least a stern letter if it wasn't unlimited.
last I checked tmobile didn't offer unlimited plans for mifi's and even if they did most places have a cap or throttle after 20GB or so iirc tmobile hits you at 26GB and att hits you at 22GB
Just looked at pokemon go on the appstore I see it offers in app purchases from $0.99 to $99.99.
When I first heard about it I just assumed it was $25 or something and you just had the app to play with considering its nintendo and thats how console games ususally work.
Is it like the other micropayment games where it is technically possible to win without paying but would take several years because of the way the game is weighted?
Verizon still allows unlimited data to exist which is much nicer than what sprint did imho. (IIRC you got canceled outright or switched to a metered plan and billed overage)
Verizon also appears to allow new unlimited lines on enterprise accounts although grandfathered voice/data and data only plans are much cheaper.
Att also has some true unlimited plans that still exist (the ipad unlimited plans)
AFAIK there are no true unlimited plans in existence on any other providers.
More so they can go to the theater and play candy crush on their phone instead of watching whatever it was they paid to see and degrading the experience of everyone sitting by and behind them.
Years ago I got to work with some machines running cyber sitter.
It was great at blocking things you needed to look at updates software or maybe the news?
BBS flamewar? Blocked!
The trick was it was a url and text based filter so you had to use websites that weren't in its database. And didn't have any ad's on the page that would trigger the filter.
I do not believe that you can have a web filter that is both effective and not a PITA for normal daily use of things that really are no relation to what's intended to be blocked.
No I can't its something apple has done internationally as the storage space is the only defining difference in any model line.
I've seen first hand with a few apps installed and a few pictures there is not enough space left on an iphone 8gb model to update the software.
As it is apple could probably just sell each model in just one size say 128GB for the same price as the 32GB model now. without significantly changing their profit. My understanding is that they do it because people want a variety (and someone complained that they would never need that much space and should have to pay less) but no one ever stopped to think that flash memory is not actually a sigificant cost of the device.
Personally I think 32GB is a very reasonable amount of storage for a base model.
I'm still using a ipad 2 16gb model (ios 6.1.3 jailed) and a ipod touch 4th gen 32GB (ios 5.0.1 jb)
I hate what they did to the UI in ios 7 so I'm not sure what they will get replaced with.
For a phone I have a samsung convoy 3 because I need mmy phone to work as a phone.
As for ios from my experience you can update at most 2 major ios versions before it slows down terribly ipad stopped at 6.1.3 (last before new ui) ipod stopped at ios 5.0.1 (jb mainly but they screwed up the app store browing in ios 6 on the ipod touch in ios 5 and below you got 5 results per page but in ios 6+ it was changed to just one result per page)
Whatever the lowest GB model is always seems to outsell any of the others by like a 10 to 1 ratio. This has to do with people buying on price alone. Ooo it's the new one who cares if it only has 8GB of memory it's $50 cheaper than the one that has a usable 16GB.
It's probably much less than a 1$ cost for apple.
But this is a case of everyone getting charged a bit more and having something that will still be usable in 2 years.
Like I know some people personally that don't understand broadband speeds. for example here ATT 0.512Mbps dsl is $5 cheaper than $30/mo 6Mbps so they have the cheaper one.
By contrast the city decided that no one should have less than a 10Mbps connection so they hiked their lowest plan $1 and made it 10Mbps $35/mo uncapped.
I keep trying to tell them that's why their computer is so much faster here at the shop than at their house but oh well.
There are 3 WRT54GL's here in use one of them handles the static dhcp config then we have a variety of other much faster routers throughout the building providing wifi as well. I think there are still a couple new in box that we bought for spare years ago somewhere.
Although AFAIK there is no homebrew firmware still being updated for it.
We also have a microline 186 that's used every day and a 185 and a second 186 in back for spare.
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Well yes assuming the channels are available and the wifi is the limiting factor...... Actually verizon often just wheels in more towers to handle big events.
http://www.verizonwireless.com...
Yep! Thats right thats why both Verizon and At&t are not investing in landline broadband because wireless is more profitable.
Verizon
"The fiber network was profitable, but nowhere near as profitable as their wireless network"
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
ATT
"AT&T's focus is on more profitable wireless"
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
What was your phone 12 years old? IIRC the motorola talkabout had a wap browser back in 2000.
Sure but my home wifi is a verizon t1114 router with a unlimited sim its sitting at 133GB today and there are 23 days left on this cycle.
Why? Because the only alternative is satellite or dialup (or another cell provider).
If I could get a 10Mbps unmetered connection out here for $200/mo I would have that instead but no can be bothered to bring service out here.'
One of my 3 unlimited lines is actually still in contract through the end of september so we shall see how that goes.
I received a phone call from the vzw loyalty team this morning they wanted to do an account review but as was on the way to work (talking on cellphones while driving is still legal here) I said not right now and they left it at that.
I suppose this must be what they wanted to talk about.
My home line is over 133GB this month and I still have 23 days left on this billing cycle. So I suppose i'll be switching to one of att's unlimited plans this month I figure that will run me about $2,000 to buy one but still no one else will bring internet out here for that price so oh well.
IKR one of the things I hate the most is when they have missing seasons like season 1 2 3 x x x 7 x 9
Its almost as bad when they have a series with missing episodes. 1 2 3 4 5 6 x 8 9 10 11 x 13.
And why didn't anyone think to deinterlace star trek? its not the only one but thats a lot of screwed up episodes.
I seem to remember being told at the time that as a current subscriber I would be able to keep my current rate for a rather long period of time...ah yes here it is 5/9/14 "Hi user,
In order to continue adding more movies and TV shows, we are increasing our price from $7.99 to $8.99 for new members. As a thank you for being a member of Netflix already, we guarantee that your plan and price will not change for two years.
You can review your membership details at any time by visiting Your Account. As always, if you have questions, we are happy to answer them. Please call us at any time at 1-888-357-1516.
â"The Netflix Team"
So a bunch of people just forgot they had a very generous 2 year warning of a price hike and were caught unawares? I wouldn't call it ungrandfathering as It was a time limited price guarantee.
Ungrandfathering is when the city decides your house built in the 1850's is too close to the road and must be demolished in 2016 dispite being grandfathered in on the new rules in 1975.
Well i'm pretty sure verizons grandfathered plans are true unlimited as the mifi i'm using to post this is sitting at 76GB and the one I use for internet at home is sitting at 330GB and the bill doesn't reset until the 13th
With that kind of usage I'm pretty sure i'd have gotten a phone call or at the very least a stern letter if it wasn't unlimited.
last I checked tmobile didn't offer unlimited plans for mifi's and even if they did most places have a cap or throttle after 20GB or so iirc tmobile hits you at 26GB and att hits you at 22GB
Just looked at pokemon go on the appstore I see it offers in app purchases from $0.99 to $99.99.
When I first heard about it I just assumed it was $25 or something and you just had the app to play with considering its nintendo and thats how console games ususally work.
Is it like the other micropayment games where it is technically possible to win without paying but would take several years because of the way the game is weighted?
Verizon still allows unlimited data to exist which is much nicer than what sprint did imho. (IIRC you got canceled outright or switched to a metered plan and billed overage)
Verizon also appears to allow new unlimited lines on enterprise accounts
although grandfathered voice/data and data only plans are much cheaper.
Att also has some true unlimited plans that still exist (the ipad unlimited plans)
AFAIK there are no true unlimited plans in existence on any other providers.
Well something like that https://entertainment.slashdot...
More so they can go to the theater and play candy crush on their phone instead of watching whatever it was they paid to see and degrading the experience of everyone sitting by and behind them.
That sounds like a fun project android phone + vnc + rc quadcopter.
Someone reset my Apple ID password on February 27th 2016 do you think it could be related?
Account has since been recovered and as far as I can tell nothing else was changed.
Years ago I got to work with some machines running cyber sitter.
It was great at blocking things you needed to look at updates software or maybe the news?
BBS flamewar? Blocked!
The trick was it was a url and text based filter so you had to use websites that weren't in its database. And didn't have any ad's on the page that would trigger the filter.
http://www.spectacle.org/alert...
I do not believe that you can have a web filter that is both effective and not a PITA for normal daily use of things that really are no relation to what's intended to be blocked.
You mean like this: "U.S. prisons play pirated movies to inmates" https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-p... ?
No I can't its something apple has done internationally as the storage space is the only defining difference in any model line.
I've seen first hand with a few apps installed and a few pictures there is not enough space left on an iphone 8gb model to update the software.
As it is apple could probably just sell each model in just one size say 128GB for the same price as the 32GB model now. without significantly changing their profit. My understanding is that they do it because people want a variety (and someone complained that they would never need that much space and should have to pay less) but no one ever stopped to think that flash memory is not actually a sigificant cost of the device.
Personally I think 32GB is a very reasonable amount of storage for a base model.
I'm still using a ipad 2 16gb model (ios 6.1.3 jailed) and a ipod touch 4th gen 32GB (ios 5.0.1 jb)
I hate what they did to the UI in ios 7 so I'm not sure what they will get replaced with.
For a phone I have a samsung convoy 3 because I need mmy phone to work as a phone.
As for ios from my experience you can update at most 2 major ios versions before it slows down terribly ipad stopped at 6.1.3 (last before new ui) ipod stopped at ios 5.0.1 (jb mainly but they screwed up the app store browing in ios 6 on the ipod touch in ios 5 and below you got 5 results per page but in ios 6+ it was changed to just one result per page)
Is this directed at the GPU article from earlier today?
Otherwise while i've never owned a "hoverboard" most lithium batteries aren't 12v.
lithium chargers are typically some oddball voltage 4 4.1 4.2 15v or something hard to find like that.
Whatever the lowest GB model is always seems to outsell any of the others by like a 10 to 1 ratio. This has to do with people buying on price alone. Ooo it's the new one who cares if it only has 8GB of memory it's $50 cheaper than the one that has a usable 16GB.
It's probably much less than a 1$ cost for apple.
But this is a case of everyone getting charged a bit more and having something that will still be usable in 2 years.
Like I know some people personally that don't understand broadband speeds.
for example here ATT 0.512Mbps dsl is $5 cheaper than $30/mo 6Mbps so they have the cheaper one.
By contrast the city decided that no one should have less than a 10Mbps connection so they hiked their lowest plan $1 and made it 10Mbps $35/mo uncapped.
I keep trying to tell them that's why their computer is so much faster here at the shop than at their house but oh well.
While it really should to be able to detect a semitrailer parked in front of it AFAIK no one died in that incident.
Anyone have a link to a article on the other one? I can't seem to find any other fatal incidents involving the autopilot.
Well they might not even notice. Did you notice when they disconnected the crosswalk buttons?
Get the GWX control panel. It makes telling microsoft no significantly less of a PITA.
Also it doesn't require installation which is nice.
There are 3 WRT54GL's here in use one of them handles the static dhcp config then we have a variety of other much faster routers throughout the building providing wifi as well. I think there are still a couple new in box that we bought for spare years ago somewhere.
Although AFAIK there is no homebrew firmware still being updated for it.
We also have a microline 186 that's used every day and a 185 and a second 186 in back for spare.
Like I keep saying if you didn't think they were reasonably safe to be around other people why did you let them out?
That's still pretty impressive if it's twice as safe as letting a human drive.
Even more so after seeing all the videos on youtube with people in the back of the car letting tesla drive.
What area does spring cover? Ive never heard of them before. Then again maybe they ment sprint.