Comment Re: Keep reading to see what Bennett has to say. (Score 1) 246
I enjoyed the article the was the prequil to this one, and even this one to a point.
The burning man nonsense was ugh though.
I enjoyed the article the was the prequil to this one, and even this one to a point.
The burning man nonsense was ugh though.
Thank you. It's not a wifi issue, as the laptops actually get it right, but a very helpful post, thanks.
I think it's a personality thing (train vs drive).
I was in long island for a while, and had a 90 minute door to door commute (working in manhatten). I hated it. A couple times I needed my truck in the city and drove, it was two hours each way, but I arrived feeling much better, and having had a much nicer experiance. This is even though you can drink on the lirr.
Well, this explains why I had trouble searching.
W3C is listed as a seperate provider in tables, here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/l... (note, they chopped the direct link in my original post), and here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/g...
Note, in the first link, everything except W3C is listed as correct, which is even more baffling for me, because somewhere the wrong information is being received, and it happened everywhere in the shop at once, across platforms.
Not that smart...
It happened simulteneously on two osx comouters, safari and firefox, and six windows computers ( vista and 7) using Firefox and chrome.
The fact that it happened instantly everywhere is why I assumed it was an ip address in a database related issue.
It also appears to not be a problem for laptops, for which I assume mapped wifi is over-riding ip address
And yes, I have it all so wrong I couldn't even Google a solution (I tried).
I will look into it. I simply was going by the provider column at the linked page.
It's weird to me that providers 'a' through 'd' have my address right and w3c lists it in Ireland. It happened simulteneously to every desktop in the shop.
It's quite annoying. I definitely do not know what's going on, as I couldn't find a solution on Google and resorted to this.
Does iOS have Google Now? that's actually my killer app right now. I LOVE that it scrubs my email to track packages and fight information. It gives me driving times to work, to where Hotels are booked, to friends' houses I frequent, all at approprite times.
Tells me about concerts I want to go to correlating my searches and location, weather where I am and where I want to be.
Essentially it's using all of the information it collects on me for me, and I am happy with the trade.
My recommendation to people until 4.x was get iPhone unless you are into the Google ecosytem on your desktop, now I honestly think it's a wash with pros for both. The last real killer feature of the iPhone for me was size, they eliminated that. When the first retina displays hit, I think they were definitively the best phone until things caught up. Even now, a lot of Android phones seem to have good screens on paper, but when you look at them, they're just a little off, but I think there's actually vibrant competition, and it's not just on price.
And people that already had gmail accounts, and people that wanted larger phones, and people that wanted keyboards.
I think it's more of an admission they'll only give you fast Internet if they can absolutely make sure you can't use it.
Also, the airplane internet is too lame to work on, even when it's well worth it, if I'm going to do work, it would have to be local, or just emailing.
Mozilla M18 was when I switched from Opera, with one of the earlier ones getting usable, Netscape 4.x was horrible by the end though, completely unusable and slow.
On older systems I used Dillo, which was way more pleasant for static HTML, which used to exist.
I found my cross country trips (with change in Denver) had a lot of dead time between take-off to smooth enough air for a laptop and landing.
I am a definite 12 hours or less drive person though, because I can pack sloppy.
I meant worth it as entertainment (op here, I haven't figured out how to post a too level comment on the mobile site, and the main site doesn't login after typing). There's definitely not enough space to do work, but for fucking around in places such as this on a tablet or a phone it's great.
By the time you're allowed to take your laptop out, you practically need to put it away anyway.
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.