Comment Re:We need competition, not mergers (Score 1) 63
You know that Time-Warner Cable got spun off from Time-Warner and is a separate company now, right?
Comment Re:What does RIF mean? (Score 2) 282
Reduction In Force
Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 217
'In living memory'? Ask George Takei what he remembers from his childhood.
Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be 291
Bennett Haselton writes My LG Optimus F3Q was the lowest-end phone in the T-Mobile store, but a
cheap phone is supposed to suck in specific ways that make you want to
upgrade to a better model. This one is plagued with software bugs that
have nothing to do with the cheap hardware, and thus lower one's confidence
in the whole product line. Similar to the suckiness of the Stratosphere and Stratosphere 2 that I
was subjected to before this one, the phone's shortcomings actually raise
more interesting questions — about why the free-market system rewards companies
for pulling off miracles at the hardware level, but not for fixing software
bugs that should be easy to catch. Read below to see what Bennett has to say.
Comment Re:Nevada is the only candidate (Score 2) 172
Now if only trucks or trains could be used to transport lithium...
Comment Re:What are the other 99% supposed to do? (Score 1) 172
How many factory workers were middle class, during this heyday of which you speak?
In the 50's and 60's? Most of them.
Comment Re:No Advertising does not power the Internet. (Score 4, Insightful) 418
Notice that the guy who said it is an advertising guy. That's his whole worldview. That's the way he thinks it is and the way he thinks it should be. Meanwhile for the rest of us, we have lots of alternatives. Paid sites, community-supported sites, ad-blocked sites, sites run by people who love what they are running a site about.
Basically this is a little advertiser wanting us to support clubbing a big advertiser, Google. He'd like us to get mad at his competition. What he wouldn't like is for us to start noticing just how much what he is advocating is in his self-interest.
I recommend we all switch to ad-block and screw them all. If some sites die or have to switch funding models, works great for me.
Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 121
"Heads, I win, tails, you lose" isn't a new scenario.
Comment Re:To me it's pretty clear. (Score 1) 503
The militaries of the world take people who are 'just' farmers all the time. Most equipment is made to be operated by and maintained by average guys of average intelligence. (Depending on the level of mechanization of the farm, the proverbial farmer may be overqualified to operate some machinery)
Comment Re:If only... (Score 4, Informative) 503
He's one cowboy away from a Brokeback Mountain.
Comment Re:Available food ... (Score 1) 253
How do you lose the advantage of the skin when it is cut prior to cooking? I'm seriously at a loss here.
(As far as your other observations, I don't know. Seems odd to me that you couldn't find something considerably better than TH for considerably less than $100. I suspect part of the problem is not knowing the area and which non-chain restaurants to hit. Chains are almost invariably aimed at the lowest common denominator)
Comment Re:Available food ... (Score 1) 253
There's a helluva lot of territory between Tim Horton's and $100 meals.
And what's wrong with fries fried with skin on? Most of the nutritive value of a potato is in the skin.
Comment Re:There's another treatment that stops most T2 (Score 1) 253
"Works for me. Close ticket"
That's not how science works.
Submission + - Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa (level3.com)
Barryke writes: Verizon has blamed Netflix for the streaming slowdowns their customers have been seeing. It seems the Verizon ">blog post defending this has backfired in a spectacular way: The chief has clearly admitted that Verizon has capacity to spare, and is deliberately constraining capacity from network providers.
The Level3 blog posted in reply to Verizon show a diagram visualising underpowered interconnect problem, and offer a free upgrade for Verizon hardware: the interconnect network cables and ports to plug them in.
"(..) these cards are very cheap, a few thousand dollars for each 10 Gbps card which could support 5,000 streams or more. If that’s the case, we’ll buy one for them. Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it." It seems there isn't much more to say, although i am very curious to the response of the ISP about this straight forward accusation of throttling paying users.
Comment Re:Car analogy? (Score 4, Funny) 81
Can someone explain this with a car analogy?
Star Trek Into Darkness:Star Trek The Wrath of Khan
No idea about the laser.
