I thought mozilla was not for profit, so who's getting the money ? Then whats next, suggested (sponsored ) web pages, killing extensions like ad blockers and more annoyances. It just takes a second to say make chrome the default browser.
Thats why I buy from newegg, they never charge me tax. Amazon charges tax but not newegg, if they both have the same price I order from newegg since Im saving almost 10% in tax.
Ive seen that as well. But I have had drives that report a SMART error at boot for years and still never failed (nothing important on that drive, thats why I didnt care) Maybe they would just rather the end user surprisingly looses all their data one day, rather then be troubled by a message at boot up when a problem us suspected.
I would like to see SMART tools built into Windows and other OS's (maybe there are some I don't know about). Especially since some of my computers are up for 6 months or more at a time, a drive could be fine 4 or 5 months ago when it was last booted, but I wont get a smart message until next reboot, maybe a month or two from now, after it's to late.
What are there, maybe 4 school shootings per year in the US ? And 98,000 public schools. What does that make the odds of a school actually having a shooting, about 1 in 25,000 ?
How they work is the are hidden under the dash, usually with a Y cable running off the OBD2 port just for the power feed. Just plug and play, about a 5 minute install. The devices cost around $100. For a bit more you can get one with a battery back-up, so if the car is left abandoned, it will signal the dealer the vehicle battery is now dead and here is the location. usually once a day (often 23 hours apart) they send their location, so after a few weeks you know the car's typical location day and night.
Many times the customer is not told at all. It's still a grey area if this is legal since the car is property of the dealer. Once the car is paid off the device (and monthly service charge) is disabled. If the customer is told, it's not made clear what the device is used for. There will be a line in the sales contract saying - your vehicle may include an anti-theft device - That's all. What's not said is the anti-theft device only benefits the dealer, and will be used so the repoman can come pick up your car.
In the dealer defense, buy here - pay here customers are the bottom of the credit barrel and no big name dealer would touch them. They will have 1 or more repossessions, maybe 5 or more accounts in collections, a bunch more of charged off accounts they just gave up on and maybe an eviction from their last apartment. So the dealer knows they don't like to pay for things they buy. There is only about a 50% chance they will actually pay off the car they are buying.
Good. I was worried Android was getting ready to loose expandable storage, likely under pressure from manufactures, so they can charge ridiculous amount of money for extra storage. Like Apple has always done of course.
I still have and use an eee pc 1000hd. It has an extended battery and SSD, boots up very fast and runs a long time. For web, facebook, slashdot and youtube (not HD) its fine. I even have some games on it, warcraft 2 & 3, they run great on 8 year old hardware.
This machine with non expandable 2gb ram and 32gb drive is just not going to do it for me. I can spend another 75$ and get a real mini laptop thats upgradeable for the future.
Eventually states like Kentucky will see supporting this kind of thing makes them look pretty out of date. No place the younger generations will want to move or stay to raise their family and not a place to bring high tech businesses. Just a place where old white factory workers live and work, who do the same job for 50 years with just above basic work skills.
We still have no cable/dsl service near our house. My current setup is a Pantech uml295 4G usb modem, plugged into a cradelpoint mbr95 router, using a 20gb monthly plan from millenicom. They use Verizon's network, its the strongest where we live. They do throttle the speeds though, I get about 250-300k per second max, if I swap in a real verizon sim, I get around 750-1000k downloads.
No problem with voip, we use vonage for our home phone and wifi calling on our tmobile phones.
What are the odds your plane will crash, 1 in 10 million ? What are the odds the 4 year old bedhind your seat till throw a fit when their ipod ges taken away when they want to watch a movie, 1 in 2 ? Im for keeping the kids and passengers happy. Their speech is pretty useless anyway, if you have been in a car since 1952 then you know how to use a seatbelt.
The wifi owners are lying to you and you want to block them, so you want to block them from their own network ? Not how it works...Y,ou will be end up banned from their wifi for blocking traffic. If your that worried about it, buy your own hotspot.
Local governments (under pressure their utilities) will pass some 'neighborhood improvement act'. It will say something like to prevent eyesores solar and wind installs must not be visible, need special permits, will be taxed to prevent their users from getting power at a lower rate than everyone else. Just like how some states have extra tax on hybrid and EV vehicles, because they dont pay their fair share of fuel taxes.
O yes, I forgot it's Apple. They can charge $100 for each 16gb of additional storage. Silly Andriod users like myself just go buy a 64GB mirco sd card for $39.
If the format is drm locked, in the end, there is always a headphone jack or line out. Sure not a lossless conversion but most people won't notice or care. The older age of U2 fans won't want to be forced to play some dumb game to unlock a new song. They want to plug their phone into their car, press play.
They shut the service down along time ago, shortly after they bought skype. If you try to sign it it just fails and says you must upate to skype. I know, we had a problem with my wifes work only allowing messenger on her pc, they wouldnt install skype or any other messenger. I ended up putting skype portable on a usb drive and she ran it from there.
A few months ago I added some car parts to my wish list and never bought them. When visiting some web sites on my phone I get amazon ads for these exact same items along with other items I looked at and never bought. I say on my phone because I have ad block on all my desktops and laptop and never see these ads.
Why are all these people still looking at ads ? Ive been using firefox with adblock for I dont know how long, must been someplace like 8 or 10 years. As as bonus you don't get any virus or malware or super loud video ads popping up while your at work.
There are many websites now you copy and paste a youtube link, then gives you an mp3 file. And there are browser ad-ons that download full videos for later viewing and can also do conversion to mp3 audio. Anyway, I don't like how this is sounding, next youtube will want money to view videos in HD or some other type of premium feature. Thats how XM radio started, you pay a low price for ad free music, then after several years more and more channels started playing ads and prices went up.
The boss is the only one at my work who still uses IE on his computer, he is also the only one who gets viruses on his computer several times per year. One of his last viruses came from a pop-up on MSN, so it's not just back ally web sites. IE is just an open gateway for all kinds of malware from even trusted sites.
Why keep paying 30$ - 50$ for each game the kids may play for a few hours to a few weeks at most. They can download tons of free to 3$ games on their tablets or phone.
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I thought mozilla was not for profit, so who's getting the money ? Then whats next, suggested (sponsored ) web pages, killing extensions like ad blockers and more annoyances. It just takes a second to say make chrome the default browser.
Thats why I buy from newegg, they never charge me tax. Amazon charges tax but not newegg, if they both have the same price I order from newegg since Im saving almost 10% in tax.
Ive seen that as well. But I have had drives that report a SMART error at boot for years and still never failed (nothing important on that drive, thats why I didnt care) Maybe they would just rather the end user surprisingly looses all their data one day, rather then be troubled by a message at boot up when a problem us suspected.
I would like to see SMART tools built into Windows and other OS's (maybe there are some I don't know about). Especially since some of my computers are up for 6 months or more at a time, a drive could be fine 4 or 5 months ago when it was last booted, but I wont get a smart message until next reboot, maybe a month or two from now, after it's to late.
What are there, maybe 4 school shootings per year in the US ? And 98,000 public schools. What does that make the odds of a school actually having a shooting, about 1 in 25,000 ?
Ive been running Waterfox (64 bit firefox) for several years now. I'm not sure what difference it really makes but makes me feel better.
How they work is the are hidden under the dash, usually with a Y cable running off the OBD2 port just for the power feed. Just plug and play, about a 5 minute install. The devices cost around $100. For a bit more you can get one with a battery back-up, so if the car is left abandoned, it will signal the dealer the vehicle battery is now dead and here is the location. usually once a day (often 23 hours apart) they send their location, so after a few weeks you know the car's typical location day and night.
Many times the customer is not told at all. It's still a grey area if this is legal since the car is property of the dealer. Once the car is paid off the device (and monthly service charge) is disabled. If the customer is told, it's not made clear what the device is used for. There will be a line in the sales contract saying - your vehicle may include an anti-theft device - That's all. What's not said is the anti-theft device only benefits the dealer, and will be used so the repoman can come pick up your car.
In the dealer defense, buy here - pay here customers are the bottom of the credit barrel and no big name dealer would touch them. They will have 1 or more repossessions, maybe 5 or more accounts in collections, a bunch more of charged off accounts they just gave up on and maybe an eviction from their last apartment. So the dealer knows they don't like to pay for things they buy. There is only about a 50% chance they will actually pay off the car they are buying.
Good. I was worried Android was getting ready to loose expandable storage, likely under pressure from manufactures, so they can charge ridiculous amount of money for extra storage. Like Apple has always done of course.
I still have and use an eee pc 1000hd. It has an extended battery and SSD, boots up very fast and runs a long time. For web, facebook, slashdot and youtube (not HD) its fine. I even have some games on it, warcraft 2 & 3, they run great on 8 year old hardware. This machine with non expandable 2gb ram and 32gb drive is just not going to do it for me. I can spend another 75$ and get a real mini laptop thats upgradeable for the future.
Eventually states like Kentucky will see supporting this kind of thing makes them look pretty out of date. No place the younger generations will want to move or stay to raise their family and not a place to bring high tech businesses. Just a place where old white factory workers live and work, who do the same job for 50 years with just above basic work skills.
That will work great for a few years, until hit a recession or slowdown in taxes and first thing they will do is jack up the rates.
We still have no cable/dsl service near our house. My current setup is a Pantech uml295 4G usb modem, plugged into a cradelpoint mbr95 router, using a 20gb monthly plan from millenicom. They use Verizon's network, its the strongest where we live. They do throttle the speeds though, I get about 250-300k per second max, if I swap in a real verizon sim, I get around 750-1000k downloads. No problem with voip, we use vonage for our home phone and wifi calling on our tmobile phones.
What are the odds your plane will crash, 1 in 10 million ? What are the odds the 4 year old bedhind your seat till throw a fit when their ipod ges taken away when they want to watch a movie, 1 in 2 ? Im for keeping the kids and passengers happy. Their speech is pretty useless anyway, if you have been in a car since 1952 then you know how to use a seatbelt.
The wifi owners are lying to you and you want to block them, so you want to block them from their own network ? Not how it works...Y,ou will be end up banned from their wifi for blocking traffic. If your that worried about it, buy your own hotspot.
Local governments (under pressure their utilities) will pass some 'neighborhood improvement act'. It will say something like to prevent eyesores solar and wind installs must not be visible, need special permits, will be taxed to prevent their users from getting power at a lower rate than everyone else. Just like how some states have extra tax on hybrid and EV vehicles, because they dont pay their fair share of fuel taxes.
O yes, I forgot it's Apple. They can charge $100 for each 16gb of additional storage. Silly Andriod users like myself just go buy a 64GB mirco sd card for $39.
If the format is drm locked, in the end, there is always a headphone jack or line out. Sure not a lossless conversion but most people won't notice or care. The older age of U2 fans won't want to be forced to play some dumb game to unlock a new song. They want to plug their phone into their car, press play.
I agree. We have wifi of course, but on GB lan I get 80-100 MB/second on transfers.
like after every other time he updates his iphone his emails all stop working. Have to delete and readd them and he has about 4 or 5 accounts.
They shut the service down along time ago, shortly after they bought skype. If you try to sign it it just fails and says you must upate to skype. I know, we had a problem with my wifes work only allowing messenger on her pc, they wouldnt install skype or any other messenger. I ended up putting skype portable on a usb drive and she ran it from there.
A few months ago I added some car parts to my wish list and never bought them. When visiting some web sites on my phone I get amazon ads for these exact same items along with other items I looked at and never bought. I say on my phone because I have ad block on all my desktops and laptop and never see these ads.
Why are all these people still looking at ads ? Ive been using firefox with adblock for I dont know how long, must been someplace like 8 or 10 years. As as bonus you don't get any virus or malware or super loud video ads popping up while your at work.
There are many websites now you copy and paste a youtube link, then gives you an mp3 file. And there are browser ad-ons that download full videos for later viewing and can also do conversion to mp3 audio. Anyway, I don't like how this is sounding, next youtube will want money to view videos in HD or some other type of premium feature. Thats how XM radio started, you pay a low price for ad free music, then after several years more and more channels started playing ads and prices went up.
The boss is the only one at my work who still uses IE on his computer, he is also the only one who gets viruses on his computer several times per year. One of his last viruses came from a pop-up on MSN, so it's not just back ally web sites. IE is just an open gateway for all kinds of malware from even trusted sites.
For the past year or two more and more drive are stuck at the 550mb/second mark. Where is sata 4, running at 1200mb/s or better ?
Why keep paying 30$ - 50$ for each game the kids may play for a few hours to a few weeks at most. They can download tons of free to 3$ games on their tablets or phone.