Get a dropbox account. Store it online, make a secure password. Or buy a TB usb3 drive, encrypt your data, copy your data and take it with you and keep it at a 2nd location. Dont burn a bunch of dvd's to lock up in a firebox, that was good in 2003.
For years broadcasters have been trying to kill alternative radio(streaming, satellite) by saying they must pay fees much higher than they do. Now it's their turn. If radio stations are making a profit of playing music, then a percentage of the profit is due back. If the station is small or makes little to no income then their money paid would be much lower or zero.
They need to base it on each stations income and make the same rules apply to all (broadcast, streaming, satellite, podcasts). They can't charge a small online radio station something like $500, but a major market radio station would be different.
Because it's super expensive and you don't get much data.
Someone working from home, especially if they vpn, will go though a 15gb plan in a few days. Sure you can buy a 80GB+ plan from verizon for $600 per month. We are stuck using verizon lte for internet and its sucks. You have to bring all your laptops into work to download updates, bring everything else home on usb drives. Block youtube, itunes, netflix, windows update and all those sites on your router to keep kids from burning though your monthly plan in 4 days.
Comcast stops a few miles down the road, Centurylink dosent offer dsl. Brodband.gov says we are served by 6 providers, we are not. Satellite and 4G internet from a hotspot should not count as broadband. One good windows update or 20 minutes of youtube will use up a entire day's of data on satellite, 4g data is no better unless you want a bill from verizon for 800$.
For about the last 7 years SPD has been parking license plate reading cars around the city and just lets them start scanning everything that passes by. They said it is to look for stolen vehicles, but the records are kept forever even if the plates come up clean.
All the labels will soon want their own streaming service where they control they songs played, ads you listen to and what your favorite songs are. If you search for an artist not on their label, you will not be able to hear it and it will direct you to their own music you might like.
Just like with their phones, tablets and bing, they should have learned there isn't much demand for a 3rd or 4th place product. People who like Chrome will stick with it, people who like Firefox will stick with it. They may get a few people who switch from IE to this, but many of them will just keep using the newest version of IE. In the end, I won't use it or put it on any of our workplace computers. Any browser by microsoft will be tied to closely to the operating system, keeping the doorway unlocked for viruses.
Companies like verizon think bandwidth is scarce and charge crazy overage fees if you even think of going over. I can't even math that well, but seems with 100% saturation, you would use up a 4gb data plan, use another 121gb in overages in 1 second. At their current rate of 15$ per gb, that first 1 second would costs you little over $1800.
I want a basic car, with user replaceable parts. Not an all in one system that will not be supported after 2 years. Thats why so many people have little 80$ gps units stuck on their dash even though their car has gps. Either it doesn't work and to repair it would cost 800$, it needs a map update and the dealer wants $250 for a 3 year old map set or its useability is so bad the owners do not want to mess with it.
European cars are terrible at useability, they say some bmw's and audi's take 7 steps to go from changing the heater setting to get back to the radio menu to change the preset to another station. I want separate heater controls, with knobs and buttons and not goto 2 menus and a submenu on a touchscreen. I also want a radio unit, standard din sizing, easily replaceable.
Pretty much. Our kids just listen to songs off youtube all the time on their phones, don't really care if they actually have the song stored on their device or just stream it. Kids now a days have a hard time telling the difference between local and cloud storage and playing or streaming.
But youtube does not have HD audio, even their HD sized video streams still have a very low audio bandwidth, about the same audio bitrate as a typical itunes song. And the small mobile sized video streams have pretty low audio quality. But then again most people don't care. What was the joke a few years ago; $250,000 recording session, $100,000 mixing, $70,000 mastering session to a 99 cent song played though $4.99 earbuds grabbed at the market next to the gum and candy.
In Seattle they have patrol cars parked around the city with special license plate reader equipment than scan and record all passing cars. They say its only for finding stolen cars and wanted felons. But when asked by news media how long they keep these records, they said forever. They don't see a reason why they should not keep a database where a person drives and how often.
http://seattletimes.com/html/l...
Wife bought a car, xm called upto 4 time per day trying to get us to subscribe once the free trial ran out. We flat out said we are not interested stop calling and 15 minutes later they would call back.
That was my first thought as well. Why buy one when you can get a nice pc for 1/3 the price. My second thought was oops, I bought a Mac, maybe I can find something to do with it.
For years companies have been getting billions in incentives to provide high speed access to rural areas, they often just pocked the money and then go ask for more.
We live in one of those areas, no cable service (tv or internet), no dsl, only dial up(yes they still exist), satellite or 4G wireless. We have had both satellite and 4G, both are very expensive for the bandwidth you get and both have small limits or expensive overages. Satellite worse point is the lag, no vonage or skyping (its gets very confusing with a 2 second delay) and its its raining somewhat hard you loose service until it clears up. Also peak time slowdowns were horrible, in early evenings speed would droop down to 10-20k per second, hardly better than dial-up. 4G wireless is fast enough but you can burn though your monthly limit in just days, forcing you to keep raising your plan each week to avoid overages.
Yes, this would actually be of Zero use to us. We live in a rural area and are stuck with vierzon lte @home, tiny bandwidth limits or super expensive overages. No netflix, hulu, amazon streaming and hardly any youtube. Paying $100 a month for internet we cant use sucks.
then get a lower rate ? Ive read espn is the most expensive basic channel to carry, I havent watched it for years (ever ?) along with 80% of the other channels.
It all depends on how its made. Some cars, you pull out 1 or 2 pins and the assembly pulls out, a 10 second job. And yes, some cars you have to pull a battery, bumper, grill. inter fender cover or use a tiny socket on a 2 ft extension trying to get a bolt out you cant see.
But my grandfathers radio's and tv's didnt use surface mount IC's with 20-80+ contacts on a chip. To put a jumper wire over a burned out trace or replace a burned resistor or capacitor isnt that hard and Ive done it many times. But when my motherboard dies, I order a new one.
This story fails to say anything about her hardware, what OS she was using, what browser she typically used or any antivirus software that was running. The title of How My Mom Got Hacked isnt really a good title for this story. More like My Mom Got A Virus.
First, was she using IE ? That probably accounts for a 75% chance of how her machine got infected in the first place. Just running firefox or chrome with an ad blocker plugin will filter out a majority of the malware scripts and sites. Then since its not tied into the OS there is less chance of anything being able to get in to cuase damage. Then keep flash and java updated, if its installed.
Tablets are handy, great for playing games that would be to small on your phone. Great for kids to watch movies on (i have a 32gb card with about 40 movies in the 10 year olds tablet). Good for a coffee stand that has 10 menu items and a credit card swiper plugged into it. But for real work (involving typing, connecting to other devices) they just dont seem to do it well. You can get a flipopen bluetooth keyboard case but then you have 2 seperate devices with 2 different connectors to charge.
My wife school gave her an ipod to use for work, besides watching netflix on it, it never get used. A regular $350 laptop works much better.
Thats why we have 2 separate devices at my office. A non-wifi modem plugged into our own router. Faster, no unwanted traffic, no security issues and no monthly rental fees. Just buy your own equipment then you can stop complaining about what comcast is doing with their router in your home or office. They can not force you to rent from them, if they say so ask to talk to someone else.
Remember this was a long, long time ago. Maybe ion's were heavier back then and could produce more thrust. The ion cannon on the ground at the start of EP 5 seemed to pack quite a bit of punch.
The average new computer being sold today sits on a desk in an office or is a facebook machine at home. It will have in it 500GB to 1TB of storage on average ? Then whats the actual usage, 20% or less ? I have people asking me all the time, my computer is slow do I have too many pictures on it ? I look at their drive, 482GB capacity, 404GB free.
Sure there are some users who have hundreds of movies stored on their computer and businesses and datacenters who would love a drive like that but by number of computers, thats a small percentage. A majority of computers would do much better with just a SSD 1/4 the size of the HDD they currently have. A faster system overall, bootup times cut by 60%, 20-30 minutes more battery life in laptops....
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Get a dropbox account. Store it online, make a secure password. Or buy a TB usb3 drive, encrypt your data, copy your data and take it with you and keep it at a 2nd location. Dont burn a bunch of dvd's to lock up in a firebox, that was good in 2003.
Pretty much. They look better than many real "what does this company do ?" websites Ive seen.
For years broadcasters have been trying to kill alternative radio(streaming, satellite) by saying they must pay fees much higher than they do. Now it's their turn. If radio stations are making a profit of playing music, then a percentage of the profit is due back. If the station is small or makes little to no income then their money paid would be much lower or zero. They need to base it on each stations income and make the same rules apply to all (broadcast, streaming, satellite, podcasts). They can't charge a small online radio station something like $500, but a major market radio station would be different.
Because it's super expensive and you don't get much data.
Someone working from home, especially if they vpn, will go though a 15gb plan in a few days. Sure you can buy a 80GB+ plan from verizon for $600 per month. We are stuck using verizon lte for internet and its sucks. You have to bring all your laptops into work to download updates, bring everything else home on usb drives. Block youtube, itunes, netflix, windows update and all those sites on your router to keep kids from burning though your monthly plan in 4 days.
Comcast stops a few miles down the road, Centurylink dosent offer dsl. Brodband.gov says we are served by 6 providers, we are not. Satellite and 4G internet from a hotspot should not count as broadband. One good windows update or 20 minutes of youtube will use up a entire day's of data on satellite, 4g data is no better unless you want a bill from verizon for 800$.
For about the last 7 years SPD has been parking license plate reading cars around the city and just lets them start scanning everything that passes by. They said it is to look for stolen vehicles, but the records are kept forever even if the plates come up clean.
All the labels will soon want their own streaming service where they control they songs played, ads you listen to and what your favorite songs are. If you search for an artist not on their label, you will not be able to hear it and it will direct you to their own music you might like.
Just like with their phones, tablets and bing, they should have learned there isn't much demand for a 3rd or 4th place product. People who like Chrome will stick with it, people who like Firefox will stick with it. They may get a few people who switch from IE to this, but many of them will just keep using the newest version of IE. In the end, I won't use it or put it on any of our workplace computers. Any browser by microsoft will be tied to closely to the operating system, keeping the doorway unlocked for viruses.
Companies like verizon think bandwidth is scarce and charge crazy overage fees if you even think of going over. I can't even math that well, but seems with 100% saturation, you would use up a 4gb data plan, use another 121gb in overages in 1 second. At their current rate of 15$ per gb, that first 1 second would costs you little over $1800.
I want a basic car, with user replaceable parts. Not an all in one system that will not be supported after 2 years. Thats why so many people have little 80$ gps units stuck on their dash even though their car has gps. Either it doesn't work and to repair it would cost 800$, it needs a map update and the dealer wants $250 for a 3 year old map set or its useability is so bad the owners do not want to mess with it. European cars are terrible at useability, they say some bmw's and audi's take 7 steps to go from changing the heater setting to get back to the radio menu to change the preset to another station. I want separate heater controls, with knobs and buttons and not goto 2 menus and a submenu on a touchscreen. I also want a radio unit, standard din sizing, easily replaceable.
Pretty much. Our kids just listen to songs off youtube all the time on their phones, don't really care if they actually have the song stored on their device or just stream it. Kids now a days have a hard time telling the difference between local and cloud storage and playing or streaming. But youtube does not have HD audio, even their HD sized video streams still have a very low audio bandwidth, about the same audio bitrate as a typical itunes song. And the small mobile sized video streams have pretty low audio quality. But then again most people don't care. What was the joke a few years ago; $250,000 recording session, $100,000 mixing, $70,000 mastering session to a 99 cent song played though $4.99 earbuds grabbed at the market next to the gum and candy.
In Seattle they have patrol cars parked around the city with special license plate reader equipment than scan and record all passing cars. They say its only for finding stolen cars and wanted felons. But when asked by news media how long they keep these records, they said forever. They don't see a reason why they should not keep a database where a person drives and how often. http://seattletimes.com/html/l...
Wife bought a car, xm called upto 4 time per day trying to get us to subscribe once the free trial ran out. We flat out said we are not interested stop calling and 15 minutes later they would call back.
That was my first thought as well. Why buy one when you can get a nice pc for 1/3 the price. My second thought was oops, I bought a Mac, maybe I can find something to do with it.
For years companies have been getting billions in incentives to provide high speed access to rural areas, they often just pocked the money and then go ask for more.
We live in one of those areas, no cable service (tv or internet), no dsl, only dial up(yes they still exist), satellite or 4G wireless. We have had both satellite and 4G, both are very expensive for the bandwidth you get and both have small limits or expensive overages. Satellite worse point is the lag, no vonage or skyping (its gets very confusing with a 2 second delay) and its its raining somewhat hard you loose service until it clears up. Also peak time slowdowns were horrible, in early evenings speed would droop down to 10-20k per second, hardly better than dial-up. 4G wireless is fast enough but you can burn though your monthly limit in just days, forcing you to keep raising your plan each week to avoid overages.
Yes, this would actually be of Zero use to us. We live in a rural area and are stuck with vierzon lte @home, tiny bandwidth limits or super expensive overages. No netflix, hulu, amazon streaming and hardly any youtube. Paying $100 a month for internet we cant use sucks.
then get a lower rate ? Ive read espn is the most expensive basic channel to carry, I havent watched it for years (ever ?) along with 80% of the other channels.
It all depends on how its made. Some cars, you pull out 1 or 2 pins and the assembly pulls out, a 10 second job. And yes, some cars you have to pull a battery, bumper, grill. inter fender cover or use a tiny socket on a 2 ft extension trying to get a bolt out you cant see.
But my grandfathers radio's and tv's didnt use surface mount IC's with 20-80+ contacts on a chip. To put a jumper wire over a burned out trace or replace a burned resistor or capacitor isnt that hard and Ive done it many times. But when my motherboard dies, I order a new one.
This story fails to say anything about her hardware, what OS she was using, what browser she typically used or any antivirus software that was running. The title of How My Mom Got Hacked isnt really a good title for this story. More like My Mom Got A Virus.
First, was she using IE ? That probably accounts for a 75% chance of how her machine got infected in the first place. Just running firefox or chrome with an ad blocker plugin will filter out a majority of the malware scripts and sites. Then since its not tied into the OS there is less chance of anything being able to get in to cuase damage. Then keep flash and java updated, if its installed.
Tablets are handy, great for playing games that would be to small on your phone. Great for kids to watch movies on (i have a 32gb card with about 40 movies in the 10 year olds tablet). Good for a coffee stand that has 10 menu items and a credit card swiper plugged into it. But for real work (involving typing, connecting to other devices) they just dont seem to do it well. You can get a flipopen bluetooth keyboard case but then you have 2 seperate devices with 2 different connectors to charge. My wife school gave her an ipod to use for work, besides watching netflix on it, it never get used. A regular $350 laptop works much better.
Thats why we have 2 separate devices at my office. A non-wifi modem plugged into our own router. Faster, no unwanted traffic, no security issues and no monthly rental fees. Just buy your own equipment then you can stop complaining about what comcast is doing with their router in your home or office. They can not force you to rent from them, if they say so ask to talk to someone else.
Remember this was a long, long time ago. Maybe ion's were heavier back then and could produce more thrust. The ion cannon on the ground at the start of EP 5 seemed to pack quite a bit of punch.
Not a reason to upgrade to Win 10. A tiny (180k ?) free download adds support for these if you want to use WMP.
The average new computer being sold today sits on a desk in an office or is a facebook machine at home. It will have in it 500GB to 1TB of storage on average ? Then whats the actual usage, 20% or less ? I have people asking me all the time, my computer is slow do I have too many pictures on it ? I look at their drive, 482GB capacity, 404GB free.
Sure there are some users who have hundreds of movies stored on their computer and businesses and datacenters who would love a drive like that but by number of computers, thats a small percentage. A majority of computers would do much better with just a SSD 1/4 the size of the HDD they currently have. A faster system overall, bootup times cut by 60%, 20-30 minutes more battery life in laptops....