T-Mobile is aware of their shortcomings: http://explore.t-mobile.com/test-drive-free-trial
T-Mobile has been making a huge push in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) on the 700 MHz band
nd I imagine that as everyone switches over, it won't matter which carrier you have,
since eventually you'll be able to roam on any network.
Sorry, what part of paying you to do a job requires me to give a shit about whether or not your failed third-world culture doesn't like answering direct fucking questions?
The part about you paying them far less than you would pay someone culturally compatible. If you want to pay peanuts, you need to deal with the cultural consequences. I have dealt with Indians for years, and have learned how to ask questions so that I get the answer I am looking for. It is not that hard.
A lot of Slashdot back end code is being rewritten, and HTML5 is supposed to be part of the deal. All the people who actually work on the site and read your comments agree that Flash video is [insert bad word here].
Sounds like your IT has been outsourced to India, who as a culture, literally does not know how to say "no".
It takes two to fail to communicate. You should not be asking questions that require a direct "yes or no" answer. In many cultures, that is considered rude.
Everyone has different needs. I like a silent computer, although I do like having one HDD in addition to the SSD. The HDD does backups late at night, then stays powered down when not in use.
Since I like running VMs, I prefer having a good number of cores and RAM. That way, the VM can be by itself, and not affect other items on the system, even when playing games or running something fairly heavy like Photoshop. Plus, when I browse the Web in a VM, if the VM gets compromised, it will just hose up itself and maybe the NAT segment it is attached to, not much else. Of course, using a SSD (I prefer Intel, but other brands are probably just as good) doesn't hurt either.
I have been toying with the idea of building a box with a lot of RAM, drives, and using it for iSCSI. That machine would be where I move most of my VMs to, as well as handle backup server duty. If I ever so chose, I could drop in a SAS card and go with tape for permanent backups.
Point ceded.
> No. Not even close. At that rate, we would be adding a billion people every 6.8 years.
Yeah, that sounds about right. So I'm going to disagree, hundreds of thousands is close, regardless of what numbers you want to pick from.
Because, and this is important, jargon familiarity isn't always equivalent to available insight. It's what popular culture uses as fictional markers for insight, but the reality is that not only is expertise a continuum, but it often involves ideas from multiple realms of knowledge.
No, I can just use context to realize it's mostly irrelevant to the actual question.
Always fucking expand the first instance of your acronym in your summary. Always.
Many of have absolutely nothing to do with Enterprise resource planning in our day-to-day lives. A lot of us don't care about a strategic business unit. Most slashdotters are in the field of making software, not babbling almost-but-not-quite-meaningless business jargon about software.
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that's why a naval blockade is a terrorist act of war, and why Japan was justified in attacking Pearl Harbor
A naval blockade is indeed an act of war. I guess you threw the word "terrorist" in there because - you like to abuse what words mean?
But the U.S. had imposed no naval blockade on Japan before the Pearl Harbor attack. The U.S. had halted U.S. trade with Japan in oil and scrap metal (but nothing else), but this is not what the word "blockade" means. A blockade is using armed force to prevent shipping (or other forms of transport) from third parties from getting entering the blockaded nation. Nothing like that was happening. The U.S. had also closed the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping, but again, not a blockade. Japan was free to go 'round the Horn and on to Japan without interference.
Uh... no. If I wanted to play games, I would have invested in an actual decent FX card rather than the cheapest POC I could find that would allow me to run D3D. I use Windows for three small applications whose authors never bothered to write Linux software or ensure Wine compatibility. Two of the three are pieces of software that came bundled with specialty USB devices.
As for me being a "Linux whore," I don't pay for Linux, and Linux certainly doesn't pay me, so I think that analogy fails.
I mean, if they can spy on congress they can spy on anybody and we'll get new laws protecting our individual freedoms now. Right?
*crickets*
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
