I'm in the Boise metro area, and I've recently started selling Clear WiMAX. In my biased opinion, it's awesome. You would not believe how well it sells. All you have to do is give the customer a demo and they fork over. Which is really easy - just plug the modem's MAC into the system and activate it as a demo, and it works. Hand customer modem - they plug it into a power socket and the Ethernet into a PC or router. Presto. Not a click more. (We don't usually do USB modem demos, probably because of theft.) When they actually order they keep the equipment and get a splash page that walks them through entering account info. It SO much easier than cable/dsl setup.
Both the USB and the desk modem get down speeds around 4mbs with bursting up to 10, and upload maxes at 1mbs. That's better than the cable company's premium consumer plan, and it's cheaper too. Coverage is pretty near seamless, and 10 new towers are going up here in this quarter. I'm pretty sure WiMAX is going to steamroll 3G. Especially if Nokia wakes up and puts a WiMAX chip in the N900. THAT would be awesome!
I am an amateur "sound engineer", if you will, doing stuff for a religious institution. I hate electronic music with a passion. There is no substitute for a real violin. I'm a big fan of making music the old way. Have everyone play/sing with a metronome or each other until they get it right, then mix it at your leisure. If it's live, you just mix it on a real mixer.
I cannot enjoy listening to synthesized music. It sounds cheap. Like you couldn't afford to have real instruments, or you were in too big of a hurry to do it right. I also hate hearing voice processing. If you can do it well enough that I can't tell what you did I've no grounds to complain, but that's another topic.
I hope "real instrument you have to learn to play" classical styles come back soon so I can stop being bombarded by electronica everywhere I go without earplugs.
I went to a small, poor (as in money) religious academy for most of my elementary years, and my teacher or someone had the foresight to start a typing class. We only did it every other Tuesday in an MS-DOS typing program on ancient computers (and we still had to take turns), but I owe her much for teaching me the home row. We never got very far in that class (there were too many students), but I continued to learn on my own and now I can touch-type the entire keyboard, although I'm pretty sure my fingering isn't perfect. Am I supposed to use my left index finger for the letter "y"? Even that little bit launched me out of hunt-and-peck,and for that I am grateful.
If you're talking politics, much of what current liberals want has been tried before, and it officially collapsed Christmas Day, 1991. I think they're too young to recall the bad old days, or else they didn't read their history books enough.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Einstein
-From a conservative who is tired of re-trying things that didn't work last time.
I'm curious. How would you do an initial distro install on that? Boot from USB and use the headers to control the install? (I'm a Linux noob wanting to make a cheap RAID 1 NAS.
No, the sweatiness is a serious factor here. I rode 5 miles one way on a regular bike to my high school when it was cool outside, and I still needed to spend a few minutes outside before walking into the heated building or I would break out a serious sweat. The other options were to go slow, which is time consuming and boring, or get some snazzy outfit, which would be expensive and time consuming to change into/out of.
In a business environment this factor is even more important. It's simply unacceptable to be sweating and panting in a suit.
I personally find it really nice to be cut off from the world when you aren't at home (on those rare occasions when we can get out). More people should try it.
I'm blowing several mod points to post this, but I recently graduated from high school. I was homeschooled for nearly all my education and I have never owned a phone. I do have a driver's license and take the family phone sometimes, but texting is verboten because of our cheapskate plan. My parents never bought me so much a computer. I earned this one by doing computer work. I still don't have a cell phone. I think the cost is outrageous.
As far as a social life and acceptance goes, I know almost every single person under 18 in my ~270 house development by name, simply because I go outside and talk to people. And I do it without a phone. Interestingly enough, I am much happier to interact with younger kids (10-15 ish) than the older ones. 99% of the kids my age are complete morons. They have no lives. They've never done anything with their hands or mind. They don't ever get humor that doesn't involve body parts. If I tell them about the math teacher who tried to carry a calculator and protractor an airplane and was arrested for carrying weapons of math instruction, they just blink. I have to ask them to regurgitate back things I say, because they don't understand my vocabulary. But, you can bet your boots they all have cell phones. (Even the 9-year-olds.) They sit in groups at the park in total silence as they text EACH OTHER. This is why I highly recommend going to dealextreme.com and getting a tiny cell phone jammer. They are the most entertaining devices you will ever buy.
I attended a few classes at the local HS and was shocked at the low quality of the education. I was in the TV broadcasting class that made the school news, similar to a school newspaper. While the class was very cool, I refused to use the scripts, because most of the lines weren't even complete sentences. It was disgraceful. The kids also texted each other covertly all day about the stupidest things.
A cell phone is nice, but I am not going to buy my kids phones. If they pay for their own they can have one. Life is far more important than sitting around informing each other about who dumped who. I lay the blame for my mindless goo of a generation squarely at the feet of parents and the public school system. Parents spend too much time chasing money and things and then feel bad about not spending time with their kids. The remedy, of course, is to buy them stuff. They're also too busy to educate their children, so they leave it to the government. Schools don't educate kids. Parents do. My mother taught me to read, and I've read thousands of books. None of the kids around me read books without being forced.
I know a boy, 11 I think, who has trouble in school. He goes to a public school because he can't get admittance to a private one, and his parents are too busy to homeschool him. His grandmother takes care of him much of the time. Every day that she has him after school, she forces him to do his homework, and then she checks his answers and makes him do it again. She told me she does it because she knows his mom won't. A kid like that has a far, far better chance at success in life than a smart kid who texts all day, if for no other reason than that fact that he will have a real work ethic. There is no substitute for good parenting. None, not even the best phone money can buy.
One of the aforementioned kids, a 12 year-old, was over at my house yesterday, and I was trying to teach him Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. In the lobby he used phone shorthand! Why would you do that when you have a full-sized keyboard? I believe texting drags everyone down to the lowest common denominator. The shortening of everything into sound/text bytes is ruining our society. People can't be bothered to read anything long and complicated, even when it comes to their government or a long Slashdot post like this. I know sometimes I get lazy mentally and skip the longer posts on Slashdot. It's pretty bad.
How's that for a clear example? And what's up with Slashdot's preview dumping my linebreaks?
The Supreme Court is part of the judicial branch, as outlined in your nearest US Constitution. The Fed is a central bank created by Congress. Congress was specifically granted the power to do this in the Constitution. Now, they also have the power to destroy that central bank or do just about anything else to it. That's why you should support HR 1207 and S 604, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, also known as Audit the Fed, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul [R-Tex]. http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/ Make sure ALL your congresscritters are on that list.
HAMs have made data networks for a long time, but they are really, really slow. And expensive. The problem is that it's such a niche market that economies of scale never did for it what they did for WiFi equipment. Now, ICOM's new STAR radios can achieve speeds in the megabits IIRC, but they're $1k a pop.
IAAH, although not a very knowledgeable or active one.
I'm guessing it's because all the frontlash/backlash about everything and everybody in politics these days. I think people woke up a little to politics and what's going on in government. Before, things were "good enough," now everything is in an upheaval and people are paying attention.
Price fixing and taxation are not the same. Twisting the terminology to bash people you disagree with only makes you look deceptive. On another note, who are the oligarchs in charge of telemarketing?
Government regulation is often needed. Government services almost never are. Go ahead and regulate, but don't create more offices and busywork programs.
I'm blowing mod points to reply to this, but this is THE reason your ISP is so expensive. Some friends and I are interested in getting into the ISP business, and in our calculations phone support costs will make our break our endeavor. A single support call can wipe out the margin on a customer for an entire month or more. If you can find a way to remotely help people who tripped over their modem without paying someone an hourly rate and hideous toll-free rates, you can have the broadband service of your dream. The problem seems to revolve around the fact that you can't use the Internet to help someone who's Internet doesn't work.
Minors have been executed in Texas within the last decade.
Citation please? Also, I support the death penalty for minors in some cases. A 12-year-old who kidnaps, rapes, and kills a younger child has earned the death penalty.
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Curiosity question: how do we know that it was a mutation, and not just a normal gene that some people groups lost a while ago?
Does downloading as KML fit the bill? (The View in Google Earth link.)
I'm in the Boise metro area, and I've recently started selling Clear WiMAX. In my biased opinion, it's awesome. You would not believe how well it sells. All you have to do is give the customer a demo and they fork over. Which is really easy - just plug the modem's MAC into the system and activate it as a demo, and it works. Hand customer modem - they plug it into a power socket and the Ethernet into a PC or router. Presto. Not a click more. (We don't usually do USB modem demos, probably because of theft.) When they actually order they keep the equipment and get a splash page that walks them through entering account info. It SO much easier than cable/dsl setup.
Both the USB and the desk modem get down speeds around 4mbs with bursting up to 10, and upload maxes at 1mbs. That's better than the cable company's premium consumer plan, and it's cheaper too. Coverage is pretty near seamless, and 10 new towers are going up here in this quarter. I'm pretty sure WiMAX is going to steamroll 3G. Especially if Nokia wakes up and puts a WiMAX chip in the N900. THAT would be awesome!
I am an amateur "sound engineer", if you will, doing stuff for a religious institution. I hate electronic music with a passion. There is no substitute for a real violin. I'm a big fan of making music the old way. Have everyone play/sing with a metronome or each other until they get it right, then mix it at your leisure. If it's live, you just mix it on a real mixer.
I cannot enjoy listening to synthesized music. It sounds cheap. Like you couldn't afford to have real instruments, or you were in too big of a hurry to do it right. I also hate hearing voice processing. If you can do it well enough that I can't tell what you did I've no grounds to complain, but that's another topic.
I hope "real instrument you have to learn to play" classical styles come back soon so I can stop being bombarded by electronica everywhere I go without earplugs.
He was one of my father's students. Weirdo.
I went to a small, poor (as in money) religious academy for most of my elementary years, and my teacher or someone had the foresight to start a typing class. We only did it every other Tuesday in an MS-DOS typing program on ancient computers (and we still had to take turns), but I owe her much for teaching me the home row. We never got very far in that class (there were too many students), but I continued to learn on my own and now I can touch-type the entire keyboard, although I'm pretty sure my fingering isn't perfect. Am I supposed to use my left index finger for the letter "y"?
Even that little bit launched me out of hunt-and-peck,and for that I am grateful.
I knew a kid who kicked a pebble ~1x3x1cm into a glass school door and shattered the whole thing.
If you're talking politics, much of what current liberals want has been tried before, and it officially collapsed Christmas Day, 1991. I think they're too young to recall the bad old days, or else they didn't read their history books enough.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Einstein
-From a conservative who is tired of re-trying things that didn't work last time.
I'm curious. How would you do an initial distro install on that? Boot from USB and use the headers to control the install? (I'm a Linux noob wanting to make a cheap RAID 1 NAS.
In 2006 PETA found new homes for a grand total of 12 animals on a $31m budget. The rest were killed.
Source: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?id=288&issue=021
No, the sweatiness is a serious factor here. I rode 5 miles one way on a regular bike to my high school when it was cool outside, and I still needed to spend a few minutes outside before walking into the heated building or I would break out a serious sweat. The other options were to go slow, which is time consuming and boring, or get some snazzy outfit, which would be expensive and time consuming to change into/out of.
In a business environment this factor is even more important. It's simply unacceptable to be sweating and panting in a suit.
Tabs on top make me move my mouse further to get to them (although I usually Ctrl+Tab anyway). Tab on bottom, now that's worth a look.
Mint.com gives very nice pie chart with lines coming from the slices to the labels. Much better than a colored squares key.
I'm a big fan of flat pie charts. Also, something like a 3D pie chart makes it easier to spin the appearance for whatever reason.
What patent? I'm curious...
I personally find it really nice to be cut off from the world when you aren't at home (on those rare occasions when we can get out). More people should try it.
Spot on!
I'm blowing several mod points to post this, but I recently graduated from high school. I was homeschooled for nearly all my education and I have never owned a phone. I do have a driver's license and take the family phone sometimes, but texting is verboten because of our cheapskate plan. My parents never bought me so much a computer. I earned this one by doing computer work. I still don't have a cell phone. I think the cost is outrageous.
As far as a social life and acceptance goes, I know almost every single person under 18 in my ~270 house development by name, simply because I go outside and talk to people. And I do it without a phone. Interestingly enough, I am much happier to interact with younger kids (10-15 ish) than the older ones. 99% of the kids my age are complete morons. They have no lives. They've never done anything with their hands or mind. They don't ever get humor that doesn't involve body parts. If I tell them about the math teacher who tried to carry a calculator and protractor an airplane and was arrested for carrying weapons of math instruction, they just blink. I have to ask them to regurgitate back things I say, because they don't understand my vocabulary. But, you can bet your boots they all have cell phones. (Even the 9-year-olds.) They sit in groups at the park in total silence as they text EACH OTHER. This is why I highly recommend going to dealextreme.com and getting a tiny cell phone jammer. They are the most entertaining devices you will ever buy.
I attended a few classes at the local HS and was shocked at the low quality of the education. I was in the TV broadcasting class that made the school news, similar to a school newspaper. While the class was very cool, I refused to use the scripts, because most of the lines weren't even complete sentences. It was disgraceful. The kids also texted each other covertly all day about the stupidest things.
A cell phone is nice, but I am not going to buy my kids phones. If they pay for their own they can have one. Life is far more important than sitting around informing each other about who dumped who. I lay the blame for my mindless goo of a generation squarely at the feet of parents and the public school system. Parents spend too much time chasing money and things and then feel bad about not spending time with their kids. The remedy, of course, is to buy them stuff. They're also too busy to educate their children, so they leave it to the government. Schools don't educate kids. Parents do. My mother taught me to read, and I've read thousands of books. None of the kids around me read books without being forced.
I know a boy, 11 I think, who has trouble in school. He goes to a public school because he can't get admittance to a private one, and his parents are too busy to homeschool him. His grandmother takes care of him much of the time. Every day that she has him after school, she forces him to do his homework, and then she checks his answers and makes him do it again. She told me she does it because she knows his mom won't. A kid like that has a far, far better chance at success in life than a smart kid who texts all day, if for no other reason than that fact that he will have a real work ethic. There is no substitute for good parenting. None, not even the best phone money can buy.
One of the aforementioned kids, a 12 year-old, was over at my house yesterday, and I was trying to teach him Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. In the lobby he used phone shorthand! Why would you do that when you have a full-sized keyboard? I believe texting drags everyone down to the lowest common denominator. The shortening of everything into sound/text bytes is ruining our society. People can't be bothered to read anything long and complicated, even when it comes to their government or a long Slashdot post like this. I know sometimes I get lazy mentally and skip the longer posts on Slashdot. It's pretty bad.
How's that for a clear example? And what's up with Slashdot's preview dumping my linebreaks?
The Supreme Court is part of the judicial branch, as outlined in your nearest US Constitution. The Fed is a central bank created by Congress. Congress was specifically granted the power to do this in the Constitution. Now, they also have the power to destroy that central bank or do just about anything else to it. That's why you should support HR 1207 and S 604, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, also known as Audit the Fed, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul [R-Tex]. http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/
Make sure ALL your congresscritters are on that list.
HAMs have made data networks for a long time, but they are really, really slow. And expensive. The problem is that it's such a niche market that economies of scale never did for it what they did for WiFi equipment. Now, ICOM's new STAR radios can achieve speeds in the megabits IIRC, but they're $1k a pop.
IAAH, although not a very knowledgeable or active one.
I'm guessing it's because all the frontlash/backlash about everything and everybody in politics these days. I think people woke up a little to politics and what's going on in government. Before, things were "good enough," now everything is in an upheaval and people are paying attention.
Price fixing and taxation are not the same. Twisting the terminology to bash people you disagree with only makes you look deceptive. On another note, who are the oligarchs in charge of telemarketing?
Government regulation is often needed. Government services almost never are. Go ahead and regulate, but don't create more offices and busywork programs.
I'm blowing mod points to reply to this, but this is THE reason your ISP is so expensive. Some friends and I are interested in getting into the ISP business, and in our calculations phone support costs will make our break our endeavor. A single support call can wipe out the margin on a customer for an entire month or more. If you can find a way to remotely help people who tripped over their modem without paying someone an hourly rate and hideous toll-free rates, you can have the broadband service of your dream. The problem seems to revolve around the fact that you can't use the Internet to help someone who's Internet doesn't work.
Minors have been executed in Texas within the last decade.
Citation please?
Also, I support the death penalty for minors in some cases. A 12-year-old who kidnaps, rapes, and kills a younger child has earned the death penalty.
Notice that they fixed it so hastily they forgot to extend the orange bar for the text like they did the first time around.