I don't want to be "cool", whatever the f. you mean with that word. I want to satisfy my mobile communication needs. Plus, I'm happy to be not so so idiot as you are.
It's better to be a plain idiot than a so so idiot.
Dollar General is advertising a Samsung Galaxy Centura Android phone for $9.99, compatible only with the Tracfone system. As far as I know, this Android phone would make a passable (but small) tablet without ever needing to be activated as a cell phone.
Where can I buy R-Pi in a B&M store in the USA, so that I can actually get it for $5? And when will it actually be available? You left out the necessity to pay sales tax in most US states at B&M stores. So I had to pay $5.40 US Cash for mine, 20:30 EST on 27 Nov 2015 at a MicroCenter in Ohio. Of course they had already been sold out for hours, the only reason I got one was I ordered it online the previous day as soon as I learned the Zero was available.
Chances are you will own: a spare SD card, a spare keyboard, a spare mouse, an old monitor (if you don't use a TV), and even an old USB hub I already had multiple versions of all these items when I bought my Zero yesterday.
The Pi Zero magazine offer costs 5.99 British Pounds, NOT $5. The cost in U.S. dollars is ~$13.
I paid $5.40 US (Ohio sales tax included) for a RPI Zero I bought in person in Cleveland (actually Mayfield Heights MicroCenter) the evening of Nov. 27.
the bare board costs $5 while options with SD card, adapters and all kinds of extras reach the prices like the one you listed.
I fool around with computer electronics, and so have most of the required "extras" for the RPI Zero laying around here,somewhere. The only thing I didn't already have that the RPI Zero needs was a HDMI type C (mini) video cable.
Yesterday evening I bought a RPI Zero in person, at my nearest MicroCenter for $5.40, tax included. They had sold out many hours before that. I only got it because I placed an online order the day before as soon as I read about the Zero. Up until a few weeks ago, MC was selling USB 2.0 WiFi adapters for $5.99 before sales tax. Cheapest USB WiFi adapter they sell at the moment costs $9.99. My only grip in the HDMI type C (or mini) video socket, which is trivially smaller than an HDMI type A socket. An HDMI type C adapter or cable will cost far more than the Zero.
In my neighborhood, a dead refrigerator doesn't last more than 30 minutes, laying out by the curb, before a scrap metal scavenger hoists it up, up and away.
I can dispose of an old tire for $1, about the cost of that combination lock mentioned earlier.
I once had a "check engine light" go on in my 2001 F150 pickup a short time before it was due for an emissions test. I didn't have time to fully correct the problem in the time available, I did some online research and found that simply reversing the exhaust gas hose connections on the engine's Differential Feedback Pressure Sensor (no tools necessary) fooled the car's computer and temporarily corrected the error condition. Later I corrected the underlying problem.
No one has mentioned this. Surely a hefty amount of insurance will be mandatory for all such vehicles, under existing rules that apply to existing freight trucks. I suspect the risk premium ( being unknown at the start of this innovation) will prove to be extremely expensive, maybe as high was $40,000 per year per 125,000 miles of truck travel. Of course the corporations owning the trucks can probably pressure / bribe our esteemed legislators to exempt them from all liability, similar to what the ownership of for-profit nuclear reactors did many years ago. The first mass casualty incident in which a robotic semitruck kills a few dozen people will upset everyone.
My solution is also me. I answer all robocalls (even the pre-recorded ones) with "Hello. This call is being recorded". I've quickly gone from around 3 or 4 a day to almost zero. Guess they're scared of the fines, and it looks like they share information on who's after them.
I wonder how this works when robo fax calls ring you up.
Clock times are not merely a social convention, they are a societal requirement. I don't think my boss would accept my excuse of "I changed all my clocks" when I roll into work 4 hours late.
Societal requirements are another type of social conventions, utterly arbitrary. Showing up on time to please your boss is another convention, although probably necessary if you wish to stay employed.
Does that really make it easier? Seems like it just exchanges one problem for another. You might know what "time" it is everywhere, but you don't know when they're working, sleeping, etc."
You don't know that now.
You just assume that everyone is on your schedule.
People I have known, who worked the night shift, would sometimes be tormented by acquaintances who habitually called them (and woke them up from a sound sleep) at 1100, and who would then make the feeble excuse "I forgot you were a day sleeper." One ingenious 3rd shift worker I knew dealt with the worst offenders by calling their house at 0300 and then saying "Oh, I forgot you were a night sleeper."
When I worked the 3rd shift I shut off the ringer on my phone, let my answering machine handle calls, and did not answer knocks on the door.
"Without DST where I live, it would get light at like 3:30 or 4 AM. I have no desire to have sunlight streaming into my bedroom at that hour."
Clock times are only a social convention. If you don't want sunlight streaming into your bedroom at 0400, simply adjust all your clocks so that it streams in 0800, or you can become a very late riser and make the adjustment so that your room lights up at 1030.
Combustion engine driven compressors are similar to electric motor driven ones, but are more complicated and certainly have plenty of moving parts.
Adsorption/absorption refrigeration systems have fewer moving parts, as they use heat as the main driving force and so don't have compressors. But they still have moving parts like pumps and fans, and they are completely dissimilar in design to mechanical compressor driven refrigeration.
My old 1975-era RV fridge had no moving parts at all, no pump, no fan. Just a propane driven pilot light which switched off & on as it heated the ammonia in a sealed system. The ammonia circulated passively. The fridge had to be kept in a more or less vertical orientation for the circulation to work properly. Too much off level, it wouldn't work. When the RV was rolling down the road, the orientation of the fridge was less important, the constant shifting back & forth of the fridge would allow the refrigerant to circulate quite well. Its main point of breakdown was the pilot light / thermocouple mechanism, kept either getting dirty or corroded, otherwise it was extremely reliable.
The propane supply could be switched off and the fridge could run on "shore power" - 110VAC when the RV was plugged in. The 110VAC was simply used as a heat source, again, no pumps, no fan, electricity was solely used as a heat source.
I took 2 semesters of 1st year college Mandarin last year. Got a virtual B+, but I was just auditing the course. Putting the same effort I expended on learning Mandarin into learning Spanish, I would have been much further along as a Spanish speaker. However, I really enjoy what little I know about Mandarin & that will continue the rest of my life. I now have a window into the cultures of the Middle Kingdom I could have not otherwise gotten.
The first one was for my brother-in-law, who died of ALS. He was very close to one of his nieces, but she was in the Army in Germany, and they didn't consider the relationship close enough for leave. So she watched my webcast via Ustream. The interesting thing is that Ustream stores the webcast, and it has been watched more than 200 times. I suspect most of those views were my sister - and why not? Here is a recording of their family and friends talking about how much they loved the man she lost.
In another case, a friend's husband died of a massive stroke. His wife and kids were in the Midwest, but his mom and the rest of his family was back east, and his mother was too old and ill to travel, so she watched the webcast.
What would keep friends & family of the deceased from doing the same, using their own skills & equipment? A broadband internet connection at the site of the funeral, decent lighting. decent miking, & a few 110VAC outlets would be enough, IIRC.
Funerals aren't for the dead - they're for the living. Try giving the eulogy at your parents' funeral, with your sisters and your uncles and aunts there. You'll "get it.".
I agree about the purpose of funerals. I wrote my mother's obituary, stored her ashes at my home for a couple of days, transported them 500 miles to her town of origin, gave her eulogy at her funeral and actually buried her ashes in the same plot with 2 of her sisters, with my own two hands. A great many people reading this thread will just not "get it", and will never "get it" even after they die. Denial is not only a river in Egypt.
you can dispense with the funeral services almost entirely. There might still be a gathering, but it could be anywhere. There might still be a religious service, but it might not include tens of thousands of dollars worth of embalming and equipment.
Cremation already gives families that option. Crematoriums often have options for viewing the body prior to cremation, probably for an extra charge. The cremated remains can be transported without special permits & methods of storage are up to the custodian of the ashes.
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I don't want to be "cool", whatever the f. you mean with that word. I want to satisfy my mobile communication needs. Plus, I'm happy to be not so so idiot as you are.
It's better to be a plain idiot than a so so idiot.
Dollar General is advertising a Samsung Galaxy Centura Android phone for $9.99, compatible only with the Tracfone system. As far as I know, this Android phone would make a passable (but small) tablet without ever needing to be activated as a cell phone.
Where can I buy R-Pi in a B&M store in the USA, so that I can actually get it for $5? And when will it actually be available? You left out the necessity to pay sales tax in most US states at B&M stores. So I had to pay $5.40 US Cash for mine, 20:30 EST on 27 Nov 2015 at a MicroCenter in Ohio. Of course they had already been sold out for hours, the only reason I got one was I ordered it online the previous day as soon as I learned the Zero was available.
it's 2015 and some people have never heard of USB wifi adapters about 4 years ago I informed my niece with her MSEE about their existence.
Chances are you will own: a spare SD card, a spare keyboard, a spare mouse, an old monitor (if you don't use a TV), and even an old USB hub I already had multiple versions of all these items when I bought my Zero yesterday.
The Pi Zero magazine offer costs 5.99 British Pounds, NOT $5. The cost in U.S. dollars is ~$13. I paid $5.40 US (Ohio sales tax included) for a RPI Zero I bought in person in Cleveland (actually Mayfield Heights MicroCenter) the evening of Nov. 27.
the bare board costs $5 while options with SD card, adapters and all kinds of extras reach the prices like the one you listed. I fool around with computer electronics, and so have most of the required "extras" for the RPI Zero laying around here,somewhere. The only thing I didn't already have that the RPI Zero needs was a HDMI type C (mini) video cable.
Yesterday evening I bought a RPI Zero in person, at my nearest MicroCenter for $5.40, tax included. They had sold out many hours before that. I only got it because I placed an online order the day before as soon as I read about the Zero. Up until a few weeks ago, MC was selling USB 2.0 WiFi adapters for $5.99 before sales tax. Cheapest USB WiFi adapter they sell at the moment costs $9.99. My only grip in the HDMI type C (or mini) video socket, which is trivially smaller than an HDMI type A socket. An HDMI type C adapter or cable will cost far more than the Zero.
In my neighborhood, a dead refrigerator doesn't last more than 30 minutes, laying out by the curb, before a scrap metal scavenger hoists it up, up and away. I can dispose of an old tire for $1, about the cost of that combination lock mentioned earlier.
Microcenter is currently offering 13 Thinkpad models at its retail outlets. Sometimes they even sell refurbs of older models.
I once had a "check engine light" go on in my 2001 F150 pickup a short time before it was due for an emissions test. I didn't have time to fully correct the problem in the time available, I did some online research and found that simply reversing the exhaust gas hose connections on the engine's Differential Feedback Pressure Sensor (no tools necessary) fooled the car's computer and temporarily corrected the error condition. Later I corrected the underlying problem.
No one has mentioned this. Surely a hefty amount of insurance will be mandatory for all such vehicles, under existing rules that apply to existing freight trucks. I suspect the risk premium ( being unknown at the start of this innovation) will prove to be extremely expensive, maybe as high was $40,000 per year per 125,000 miles of truck travel. Of course the corporations owning the trucks can probably pressure / bribe our esteemed legislators to exempt them from all liability, similar to what the ownership of for-profit nuclear reactors did many years ago. The first mass casualty incident in which a robotic semitruck kills a few dozen people will upset everyone.
My solution is also me. I answer all robocalls (even the pre-recorded ones) with "Hello. This call is being recorded". I've quickly gone from around 3 or 4 a day to almost zero. Guess they're scared of the fines, and it looks like they share information on who's after them.
I wonder how this works when robo fax calls ring you up.
Clock times are not merely a social convention, they are a societal requirement. I don't think my boss would accept my excuse of "I changed all my clocks" when I roll into work 4 hours late.
Societal requirements are another type of social conventions, utterly arbitrary. Showing up on time to please your boss is another convention, although probably necessary if you wish to stay employed.
Does that really make it easier? Seems like it just exchanges one problem for another. You might know what "time" it is everywhere, but you don't know when they're working, sleeping, etc."
You don't know that now.
You just assume that everyone is on your schedule.
People I have known, who worked the night shift, would sometimes be tormented by acquaintances who habitually called them (and woke them up from a sound sleep) at 1100, and who would then make the feeble excuse "I forgot you were a day sleeper." One ingenious 3rd shift worker I knew dealt with the worst offenders by calling their house at 0300 and then saying "Oh, I forgot you were a night sleeper." When I worked the 3rd shift I shut off the ringer on my phone, let my answering machine handle calls, and did not answer knocks on the door.
"Without DST where I live, it would get light at like 3:30 or 4 AM. I have no desire to have sunlight streaming into my bedroom at that hour." Clock times are only a social convention. If you don't want sunlight streaming into your bedroom at 0400, simply adjust all your clocks so that it streams in 0800, or you can become a very late riser and make the adjustment so that your room lights up at 1030.
"my spam trap is called me" Every moment I spend handling junk calls is a complete waste of my time.
Combustion engine driven compressors are similar to electric motor driven ones, but are more complicated and certainly have plenty of moving parts. Adsorption/absorption refrigeration systems have fewer moving parts, as they use heat as the main driving force and so don't have compressors. But they still have moving parts like pumps and fans, and they are completely dissimilar in design to mechanical compressor driven refrigeration.
My old 1975-era RV fridge had no moving parts at all, no pump, no fan. Just a propane driven pilot light which switched off & on as it heated the ammonia in a sealed system. The ammonia circulated passively. The fridge had to be kept in a more or less vertical orientation for the circulation to work properly. Too much off level, it wouldn't work. When the RV was rolling down the road, the orientation of the fridge was less important, the constant shifting back & forth of the fridge would allow the refrigerant to circulate quite well. Its main point of breakdown was the pilot light / thermocouple mechanism, kept either getting dirty or corroded, otherwise it was extremely reliable. The propane supply could be switched off and the fridge could run on "shore power" - 110VAC when the RV was plugged in. The 110VAC was simply used as a heat source, again, no pumps, no fan, electricity was solely used as a heat source.
I took 2 semesters of 1st year college Mandarin last year. Got a virtual B+, but I was just auditing the course. Putting the same effort I expended on learning Mandarin into learning Spanish, I would have been much further along as a Spanish speaker. However, I really enjoy what little I know about Mandarin & that will continue the rest of my life. I now have a window into the cultures of the Middle Kingdom I could have not otherwise gotten.
I got that covered buddy. I am not planning to get older.
Are you STILL alive? If so, then so much for your 'plans'. You GOT older, like it or not.
The first one was for my brother-in-law, who died of ALS. He was very close to one of his nieces, but she was in the Army in Germany, and they didn't consider the relationship close enough for leave. So she watched my webcast via Ustream. The interesting thing is that Ustream stores the webcast, and it has been watched more than 200 times. I suspect most of those views were my sister - and why not? Here is a recording of their family and friends talking about how much they loved the man she lost. In another case, a friend's husband died of a massive stroke. His wife and kids were in the Midwest, but his mom and the rest of his family was back east, and his mother was too old and ill to travel, so she watched the webcast.
What would keep friends & family of the deceased from doing the same, using their own skills & equipment? A broadband internet connection at the site of the funeral, decent lighting. decent miking, & a few 110VAC outlets would be enough, IIRC.
Funerals aren't for the dead - they're for the living. Try giving the eulogy at your parents' funeral, with your sisters and your uncles and aunts there. You'll "get it.".
I agree about the purpose of funerals. I wrote my mother's obituary, stored her ashes at my home for a couple of days, transported them 500 miles to her town of origin, gave her eulogy at her funeral and actually buried her ashes in the same plot with 2 of her sisters, with my own two hands. A great many people reading this thread will just not "get it", and will never "get it" even after they die. Denial is not only a river in Egypt.
I bet you think you have a hard life graced with wit and insight. You'd be wrong.
I think I lead a valuable life. I don't care what you think about THAT.
you can dispense with the funeral services almost entirely. There might still be a gathering, but it could be anywhere. There might still be a religious service, but it might not include tens of thousands of dollars worth of embalming and equipment.
Cremation already gives families that option. Crematoriums often have options for viewing the body prior to cremation, probably for an extra charge. The cremated remains can be transported without special permits & methods of storage are up to the custodian of the ashes.
My office building is next to the pathology department, and I can't go to lunch without seeing a hearse loading or unloading.
Don't be so morbid. That is just lunch getting delivered to the staff there.