For peculiar business reasons, Americans n Canadians hv historically paid 2 receive txt messages (although much of Canada has shifted away from this). This creates a stilted social dynamic whereby a friend forces u 2 pay $.10 (o use up a precious token msg in yr plan) simply by deciding 2 send u something. You hv n choice. There's n blocking, n opt-out. Direct 2 jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Needless 2 say, this alters d culture of txtin. From d getgo, Americans hv bn vri cautious about txtin. To b on d safe side, many Americans did not add txtin 2 their plan so sending a txt msg was often futile cuz it was never clear if a txt msg would b received by d fone in question o just disappear into d ether. Slowly, mob users figured out who had SMS n who didn't, but they were still super cautious about sending messages. It just felt rude, o wrong, o risky. Teens, of course, never had this filter. They were perfectly happy 2 txt. So much so that their parents refused 2 get them plans that supported it cuz, not surprisingly, there were all sorts of horror stories about teens who had texted up $700 fone bills. Sure enough, every family that I spoke w told me their version of d horror story n. In d U.S., we don't hv pay-as-u-go so going ova minutes o texts just gets added 2 yr monthly bill. If u're not careful, that bill cn get mighty costly. Unable 2 declare a max cost upfront, parents hv bn tremendously wary of teen txtin simply for economic costs (although d occasional predator o cheating-in-school scare story does surface). Slowly, things hv turned around, primarily w d introduction of cheap all-u-cn-eat txt messaging plans (n those that r so ridiculously high that it's hard 2 go ova). Once d barrier 2 participation s dropped, sending n receiving txt messages switches from bn potentially traumatic 2 outright fun. What a difference those plans make in user practice. The brick leash suddenly turns into an extension of d thumb for negotiating full-time intimate communities. I'm fascinated by how U.S. teens build intricate models of which f? r available via mob n which aren't. Teens know who s on wot plan, who cn b called after 7PM, who cn b called after 9PM, who cn receive texts, who s ova their txtin for d month, etc. It's part of their mental model of their social network n knowing this s a core exchange of friendship. Psychologically, all-u-cn-eat plans change everything. Rather than having 2 mentally calculate d number of texts sent n received (cuz d phones rarely do it for u n d carriers like 2 make that info obscure), a floodgate of opportunities s suddenly opened. The weights r lifted n freedom reigns. The result? Zero 2 a thousand txt messages in under a month! Those on all-u-cn-eat plans go hog wild. Every mundane thought s transmitted n d phones go buzz buzz buzz. Those w restrictive plans r treated w caution, left out of d fluid communication flow n brought in for more practical o content-filled purposes (o by sig others who ignore these norms n face d ire of parents). All-u-cn-eat plans r still relatively rare in Europe. For that matter, plans r relatively rare (while pay-as-u-go options were introduced in d U.S. relatively l8 n r not nearly as common as monthly plans). When a European youth runs out of texts n cn't afford 2 top up, they simply don't txt. But they cn still receive texts w/o cost so they aren't actually kept out of d loop; they just hv 2 call 2 respond if they still hv minutes o borrow a friend's fone. What u c in Europe s a muffled fluidity of communication, comfortable but not excessive. As d U.S. goes from 0 2 all-u-cn-eat in one foul swoop, American txtin culture s beginning 2 look quite different than wot exists in Europe. Whenever I walk into a T-Mobile n ask who goes ova their $10/1000 txt msg plan, d answer s uniform: "every teenager." Rather than averaging a relatively conservative number of texts per month (like 200), gluttonous teen America s already on route 2 thousands of texts per month. They txt like they IM, a practice mastered in middle school. Rather th
You see it is now late Friday afternoon here and I had a challenging work week, tired, etc... I read the title as Russia's New Condomdome Approved. I got excited but like you, the excitement had been dashed by the blurb...
Wouldn't that mean they would wash up on shore sooner or later much like what happened to the rubber duckies spill incident? If so they would end up constantly replacing those things but they seem to be cheap to make though.
Yup and TFA really had nothing much to do or even related with NSA's officially sanction random number generator. Mr. Shamir is talking about math error in our processor's ever increasing complexities, much like what happened in Intel back then.
There are no terrorist mentioned!! Sensationalist networkworld...
Aha! That's the missing link, now my theory have support. Not all humans living today are of the same species... clever dinosaur genes, trying to mimic homo sapiens...
They should just stick to those two rules or else we would see a different Google logo everyday. I guess they caved in to this particular request since it wouldn't hurt much to add it.
Well if they would include you in the payroll for another 6 months after your resignation then all the better.
Seriously, I had seen contracts that prohibits you to be employed with a competitor within 6 months after the termination of your contract but this one is BS. This could/would conflict with your current employer's contract. I don't think the last one is really enforceable, IMHO.
If you won't get into trouble if you don't sign it, then don't. Otherwise as others pointed out, ask a lawyer....
I hate these scripts that utilizes autorun.inf. In my country they are so popular, everyone makes one, script kiddies! On the bright side, it could be easily removed most of the time.
The current (as of writing) Windows Secrets newsletter features an article that would let you at least prevent most kind of autorun.inf scripts from ever running in the first place. It would save me some trouble from all those college girls (errr.. I mean relatives) that gets infected by these sort of things all the time...
1) This one is inevitable, everything changes sooner or later. Same with old arguments related to old interfaces.
2) We would not have a shortage of this one. But at least they could make it a notch or two better than bs, either way I'm sure the talented ones would improve also...
I'm not sure about that, as a saying goes... "curiosity kills a cat"
Now from normal household experience with cats + what I had viewed in those funniest videos show. They should make that robot catproof, only a cat would have the curiosity enough to try to tackle this thing while moving and let it be dragged on the carpet while clutching the robots legs..
Oh my, better get those camcorders ready.. Well, I was just reminded by how much I laughed once because of our cat..
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redundant eh? I guess I should have posted an oblig xkcd reference instead...
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You see it is now late Friday afternoon here and I had a challenging work week, tired, etc... I read the title as Russia's New Condomdome Approved. I got excited but like you, the excitement had been dashed by the blurb...
maybe its a 5-10% moon drop rate... now that's rare...
The link is for registered users only. Here is a google search that will lead you to the pdf file. Google result
Wouldn't that mean they would wash up on shore sooner or later much like what happened to the rubber duckies spill incident? If so they would end up constantly replacing those things but they seem to be cheap to make though.
I did not get it.. could we try it again.. this time using cars...
aha, so they added a cash dispenser, makes sense now...
(*deep breath*... haaayyyy....)
I often experience that too but the solution to the problem is and will always be.. buy new batteries...
So now we know why site admins fear botnet attacks...
Yup and TFA really had nothing much to do or even related with NSA's officially sanction random number generator. Mr. Shamir is talking about math error in our processor's ever increasing complexities, much like what happened in Intel back then.
There are no terrorist mentioned!! Sensationalist networkworld...
Aha! That's the missing link, now my theory have support. Not all humans living today are of the same species... clever dinosaur genes, trying to mimic homo sapiens...
I'm contemplating on what Force power I should use on you.. let me see.. we have
1. That's no moon = Force Choke
2. But does it run Linux = hmmm....
You mean like her? Mrs. Roberts
Okay, someone give them back the mac mouse now...
but all I could get are big drum beats and the occasional pick screech...
Good thing it did not dissolve into a date-rape drug...
at least they got other
They should just stick to those two rules or else we would see a different Google logo everyday. I guess they caved in to this particular request since it wouldn't hurt much to add it.
Well if they would include you in the payroll for another 6 months after your resignation then all the better.
Seriously, I had seen contracts that prohibits you to be employed with a competitor within 6 months after the termination of your contract but this one is BS. This could/would conflict with your current employer's contract. I don't think the last one is really enforceable, IMHO.
If you won't get into trouble if you don't sign it, then don't. Otherwise as others pointed out, ask a lawyer....
Noobs!! You can't mount indoors...
I hate these scripts that utilizes autorun.inf. In my country they are so popular, everyone makes one, script kiddies! On the bright side, it could be easily removed most of the time.
The current (as of writing) Windows Secrets newsletter features an article that would let you at least prevent most kind of autorun.inf scripts from ever running in the first place. It would save me some trouble from all those college girls (errr.. I mean relatives) that gets infected by these sort of things all the time...
One quick trick
1) This one is inevitable, everything changes sooner or later. Same with old arguments related to old interfaces.
2) We would not have a shortage of this one. But at least they could make it a notch or two better than bs, either way I'm sure the talented ones would improve also...
slave labor? (possibly with taskmasters holding chairs)
I'm not sure about that, as a saying goes... "curiosity kills a cat"
Now from normal household experience with cats + what I had viewed in those funniest videos show. They should make that robot catproof, only a cat would have the curiosity enough to try to tackle this thing while moving and let it be dragged on the carpet while clutching the robots legs..
Oh my, better get those camcorders ready.. Well, I was just reminded by how much I laughed once because of our cat..
redundant eh? I guess I should have posted an oblig xkcd reference instead...