| jrwren | zomg t2 nano instances! | 02:08 |
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| rick_h_ | jrwren: :) | 02:17 |
| cscheib | any of you schmucks on a non-AT&T or VZW wireless carrier? I'm told T-Mobile doesn't suck as much any more | 08:32 |
| cscheib | I have a fee-free exit to my contract w/ ATT available, investigating options | 08:32 |
| cscheib | interested in hearing (recent) experiences, especially if you've taken it up north | 08:32 |
| Scary_Guy | I'm a former AT$T customer, fuck them, fuck them hard | 09:10 |
| Scary_Guy | VZW I view as the comcast of the cellphone world too | 09:11 |
| Scary_Guy | I moved the family to MetroPCS like two years ago and have never looked back. They merged with TMO and they're basically two halves of the same coin at this point | 09:11 |
| Scary_Guy | http://opensignal.com before you move anywhere see where you travel and if you're covered | 09:12 |
| Scary_Guy | Also, Metro usually have shit phones. Get unlocked and use that. Everything is GSM now too which is nice | 09:13 |
| cscheib | Probably buying a sim-free (i.e. unlocked) iphone 6s | 09:47 |
| cscheib | gonna do BYOD with one carrier or another | 09:47 |
| cscheib | ATT is offering me a reasonable deal, and they're a known quantity, but I still wanna shop around | 09:47 |
| cscheib | gonna do apple's iphone upgrade program... so amortized phone cost, replace every year | 09:48 |
| cscheib | Scary_Guy: have you traveled much through the state, how often do you NOT have signal | 09:51 |
| Scary_Guy | I haven't traveled much with metro | 09:53 |
| Scary_Guy | there's an event I do up by Houghton Lake. The only people who ever have singal are verizon users | 09:54 |
| Scary_Guy | OSM is great for analysis though. Especially if you don't trust the carriers coverage maps | 09:55 |
| Scary_Guy | which I never do | 09:55 |
| cscheib | yea, I'll probably go with vzw, just because they've got that upper part of the state on lock | 10:02 |
| Scary_Guy | well you have to go to the absolute tip and it vanishes | 10:09 |
| Scary_Guy | like innawoods | 10:09 |
| Scary_Guy | in town I had 3g at least | 10:09 |
| Scary_Guy | also I've heard that "verizon has the most nationwide coverage" is all just marketing and they all have pretty much the same | 10:10 |
| Scary_Guy | hence OSM, real data collected by users | 10:11 |
| cscheib | well, Verizon's pretty dominant as #1 on the map :P | 10:27 |
| cscheib | tmo looks pretty weak in the boonies compared to ATT or VZW | 10:29 |
| Scary_Guy | I said I've heard, which means it could have been BS and research it :P | 10:32 |
| Scary_Guy | Also, they may be #1 but I don't like their business practices so I avoid them. I really like how the CEO of TMO operates | 10:32 |
| cscheib | the nice thing about where I'm headed with this scenario is that I can switch carriers at any time | 10:47 |
| cscheib | of course, there'll be number porting costs, and activation fees | 10:47 |
| cscheib | but I won't be encumbered by a contract, and can bring my phone anywhere | 10:47 |
| Scary_Guy | get a dual-sim phone | 10:47 |
| cscheib | meh | 10:47 |
| cscheib | iphone only. | 10:48 |
| Scary_Guy | boo | 10:48 |
| cscheib | fits my usage perfectly | 10:48 |
| cscheib | plus, I love iMessage. | 10:48 |
| cscheib | and wifi calling from my laptop, etc... | 10:49 |
| Scary_Guy | also it depends on your carrier. sprint/vzw use CDMA and TMO/ATT use GSM (sim) | 10:49 |
| Scary_Guy | plus the rest of the world | 10:49 |
| cscheib | the sim-free iphone's got the super radio that does just about everything | 10:50 |
| cscheib | 6s that is, the 6 is missing a band or two | 10:50 |
| Scary_Guy | I just want something that will run #replicant | 10:51 |
| cscheib | never used it | 10:54 |
| cscheib | my experiences with Android have been mostly negative at worst, neutral at best | 10:54 |
| Scary_Guy | when was the last time you used it? | 10:55 |
| cscheib | well, most recently a Fire tablet, but parents and relatives have android phones I refuse to support | 10:56 |
| Scary_Guy | pretty much how I feel about mac stuff :P But yeah, fire is crap | 10:57 |
| Scary_Guy | most android is crap, only the high end devices are good usually | 10:58 |
| Scary_Guy | nexus is the best, no carrier bloat | 10:58 |
| Scary_Guy | google bloat but you can get rid of that if you want | 10:58 |
| Scary_Guy | custom ROMs etc... | 10:58 |
| cscheib | lack of rapid model iteration is good for me in this context :P | 10:59 |
| cscheib | and I like the value retention of iDevices | 11:00 |
| cscheib | gonna sell my 6 for like 400 probably, heh | 11:01 |
| cscheib | which'll go a long way toward a 6s (espeically if I go with the monthly payment prog) | 11:01 |
| Scary_Guy | I paid 200 for my 1+1, I'm pretty happy | 11:02 |
| cmaloney | Morning | 13:48 |
| rick_h_ | morning | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | cscheib: I'm on Sprint via Ting | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | If you like CDMA they're awesome. | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | Although Ting have partnered with a GSM carrier | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | that is undisclosed but likely TMO | 13:49 |
| cmaloney | http://www.ford.com/server-status | 14:22 |
| _stink_ | yeah | 14:55 |
| _stink_ | weird | 14:55 |
| brousch | http://makeit.netflix.com/ | 15:37 |
| jrwren | brousch: awesome | 15:38 |
| cmaloney | Unrelated, I really hate ODBC | 16:08 |
| jrwren | :) | 16:09 |
| jrwren | windows odbc or other? | 16:09 |
| cmaloney | UNIX | 16:12 |
| cmaloney | Though Windows ODBC is a pain as well | 16:12 |
| brousch | You're making my eye twitch. I never got ODBC on Linux to work | 16:12 |
| jrwren | yuck | 16:12 |
| cmaloney | I understand the concept and I can appreciate how it should worl | 16:13 |
| cmaloney | work | 16:13 |
| cmaloney | but it's made of pain and secret handshake configuration | 16:13 |
| cmaloney | and isn't remotely obvious | 16:13 |
| cmaloney | (I'm sure someone could say the same is true for MySQL / PostgreSQL) | 16:13 |
| brousch | I like pypyodbc on Windows | 16:13 |
| cmaloney | But at least I can replicate it | 16:14 |
| cmaloney | And here's where I find the damn driver that I thought was covered by the 15 other packages | 16:16 |
| cmaloney | *sigh* | 16:16 |
| cmaloney | and now to put the paths into some configuration file because ini files are superior to library paths | 16:17 |
| cmaloney | Databases: not even once. | 16:20 |
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