Aye, they'd do best targeting this toward the commercial market. If they are even thinking of aiming it to consumers, well, that's another layer of fail on the device.
If they're pricey, insecure, and can't be used outside of the normal AT&T range, what's the point, really? About the only usage I can think of would be providing interior building cell phone service in massive structures, such as conference hotels, where the signal from outside is too weak to penetrate twenty layers of concrete.
I write to my Congressmen pretty frequently. Unfortunately, my two Senators and my local representative are all typical examples of the very worst the Republican party has to offer, and their answers are clearly written by interns and are standard talking points without any indication they actually read my letter and are addressing my concerns honestly.
Leaving the country is scary. Most of us who are considering it are doing so even loving the America that we grew up in. It isn't difficulty that stops us, it's fear.
If you read the actual case that caused this, it wasn't an inmate who was strip searched, it was someone who was mistakenly arrested for failure to pay a fine that he'd already paid and had PROOF that he paid. He was detained illegally for 6 days because no one believed his perfectly valid receipt, and during that time he was strip searched not once, but twice. To me, it smacks of totally ignoring "innocent until proven guilty" in favor of "we know you're innocent of the crime we arrested you for so we're going to try to find something else you're guilty of instead."
Patent that and sell it NOW and make a lot of money off the gullible idiots. Homeopathy makes my eyes roll, but it's not my place to tell a moron they can't Darwin themselves while spending ridiculous amounts of cash on purified water.
My family got our first computer when I was 16 back in 1996. I was farting around with HTML within a few months. My own personal aptitude turned out to be on the hardware side, but there were quite a few of my classmates who did serious coding as a hobby when I was in high school.
It's all fun and games until the child creates a website that explains the entire operation has been cancelled, changes to the password to mommy's account, and never is held accountable for grades again.
Then again, such a child probably would do better outside of traditional schools anyway.
Of course it's the digitable distribution model that is killing traditional music sales. Every week, I get 10 hours of free music in the form of podcasts from my favorite DJs. Why would I go out and pay for music when I can legally get it for free? And the DJs rake in their big bucks not from CD sales, but from their world tours.
We regret not getting the extended warranty on our first over the stove microwave because damned if the magnatron didn't die after 1.5 years... $400 later, we have it on our second one. They tend to die early because all the steam from the cooking underneath corrodes them, even if you run the vent.
For me, Best Buy is a matter of convenience. If I don't need it RIGHT THIS MINUTE, I will order it online from Newegg or Amazon and get it in a few days. But sometimes, you need something right now, and you're willing to pay a premium for it. For me, that premium is $10 or so more than what I could get online, assuming the product is under a hundred dollars. About a year ago, I needed an HDMI cable. Amazon had it for ten bucks. So I said, all right, going to Best Buy, if they have it for around twenty they've got my business. The cheapest six foot HDMI cable they had, from their own house brand, was forty dollars. And that's not even touching on the sales tax.
My town is nicknamed "a drinking town with a football problem" and Saturday afternoons in the fall is like some sort of religious cult. The icons are everywhere, man. It's the same in any university city, really - the rest of the city is drenched in the colors and dripping with the mascot. Cheering for another team is considered blasphemy and wearing the wrong colors on a game day will probably get you burned at the steak (or at the very least harassed and heckled a little bit.)
I keep my steering wheel high, and just keep one hand comfortably on the bottom unless I'm actively turning or in tricky traffic requiring lots of lane changes.
I haven't pirated music in many, many years. I haven't bought any US based music, either. I usually listen to podcasts and radio shows imported from Europe, because I like it. The last song I bought on iTunes was from a Japanese composer. The last album I bought was from Armin van Buuren, and that was more out of a wish to contribute to the artist than a need to have the music (since I already had the album in podcast format!) This means my "music library" is deleted and recreated on a regular basis, sometimes as frequently as once a week, without ever downloading anything illegally - as free podcasts are meant to be downloaded and the DJs and artists encourage it.
The RIAA just needs to realize that in today's modern world, like all globalized industries, their customers are going to sometimes prefer products from other countries. Tough noogies.
We set ours up for once a day (local to cloud or local to tape, for the most part.) What we've found is that losing one day's worth of data is a major headache and annoyance, it's something that is survivable. Anything more than that, as you said, eats up too much bandwidth, and anything less than that could cause irrecoverable disasters from the business perspective. But we're medical, not finance or anything else where real time backups are probably the best bet.
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Aye, they'd do best targeting this toward the commercial market. If they are even thinking of aiming it to consumers, well, that's another layer of fail on the device.
- to the US, sort of a belated apology for hacking the FBI.
Naw, they probably did it for the lulz.
If they're pricey, insecure, and can't be used outside of the normal AT&T range, what's the point, really? About the only usage I can think of would be providing interior building cell phone service in massive structures, such as conference hotels, where the signal from outside is too weak to penetrate twenty layers of concrete.
I write to my Congressmen pretty frequently. Unfortunately, my two Senators and my local representative are all typical examples of the very worst the Republican party has to offer, and their answers are clearly written by interns and are standard talking points without any indication they actually read my letter and are addressing my concerns honestly.
Leaving the country is scary. Most of us who are considering it are doing so even loving the America that we grew up in. It isn't difficulty that stops us, it's fear.
If you read the actual case that caused this, it wasn't an inmate who was strip searched, it was someone who was mistakenly arrested for failure to pay a fine that he'd already paid and had PROOF that he paid. He was detained illegally for 6 days because no one believed his perfectly valid receipt, and during that time he was strip searched not once, but twice. To me, it smacks of totally ignoring "innocent until proven guilty" in favor of "we know you're innocent of the crime we arrested you for so we're going to try to find something else you're guilty of instead."
Patent that and sell it NOW and make a lot of money off the gullible idiots. Homeopathy makes my eyes roll, but it's not my place to tell a moron they can't Darwin themselves while spending ridiculous amounts of cash on purified water.
My family got our first computer when I was 16 back in 1996. I was farting around with HTML within a few months. My own personal aptitude turned out to be on the hardware side, but there were quite a few of my classmates who did serious coding as a hobby when I was in high school.
It's all fun and games until the child creates a website that explains the entire operation has been cancelled, changes to the password to mommy's account, and never is held accountable for grades again.
Then again, such a child probably would do better outside of traditional schools anyway.
Of course it's the digitable distribution model that is killing traditional music sales. Every week, I get 10 hours of free music in the form of podcasts from my favorite DJs. Why would I go out and pay for music when I can legally get it for free? And the DJs rake in their big bucks not from CD sales, but from their world tours.
We regret not getting the extended warranty on our first over the stove microwave because damned if the magnatron didn't die after 1.5 years... $400 later, we have it on our second one. They tend to die early because all the steam from the cooking underneath corrodes them, even if you run the vent.
These days, you don't really need to know how to change your own oil, but you damn well need to know how to upgrade your own RAM.
Actually, I went to the manager, complained about the horrendous markup, and got a 50% discount. Even she was embarrassed about the price.
Except we don't order blindly. I get more information from starred reviews and ratings than I ever have from a salesperson at Best Buy.
For me, Best Buy is a matter of convenience. If I don't need it RIGHT THIS MINUTE, I will order it online from Newegg or Amazon and get it in a few days. But sometimes, you need something right now, and you're willing to pay a premium for it. For me, that premium is $10 or so more than what I could get online, assuming the product is under a hundred dollars. About a year ago, I needed an HDMI cable. Amazon had it for ten bucks. So I said, all right, going to Best Buy, if they have it for around twenty they've got my business. The cheapest six foot HDMI cable they had, from their own house brand, was forty dollars. And that's not even touching on the sales tax.
The biggest thing about that particular movement: They're willing to pay a premium for organic produce.
My town is nicknamed "a drinking town with a football problem" and Saturday afternoons in the fall is like some sort of religious cult. The icons are everywhere, man. It's the same in any university city, really - the rest of the city is drenched in the colors and dripping with the mascot. Cheering for another team is considered blasphemy and wearing the wrong colors on a game day will probably get you burned at the steak (or at the very least harassed and heckled a little bit.)
Ooh, now there's a configuration for you. Solar panels strapped onto the blades of a wind turbine.
Automatic writing slip - serve, not server. My fingers automatically add in the R whether I intend to or not.
I'd prefer a cold bento-style lunch over the hot gloopy running-together mess they server on planes.
I keep my steering wheel high, and just keep one hand comfortably on the bottom unless I'm actively turning or in tricky traffic requiring lots of lane changes.
I suppose he has some sort of internal chemistry lab to separate the ethanol from the tartaric acid.
It's cool but it's too full of theoretical bits to be truly useful just yet. The one in the video? Still actually powered by electricity.
I haven't pirated music in many, many years. I haven't bought any US based music, either. I usually listen to podcasts and radio shows imported from Europe, because I like it. The last song I bought on iTunes was from a Japanese composer. The last album I bought was from Armin van Buuren, and that was more out of a wish to contribute to the artist than a need to have the music (since I already had the album in podcast format!) This means my "music library" is deleted and recreated on a regular basis, sometimes as frequently as once a week, without ever downloading anything illegally - as free podcasts are meant to be downloaded and the DJs and artists encourage it.
The RIAA just needs to realize that in today's modern world, like all globalized industries, their customers are going to sometimes prefer products from other countries. Tough noogies.
We set ours up for once a day (local to cloud or local to tape, for the most part.) What we've found is that losing one day's worth of data is a major headache and annoyance, it's something that is survivable. Anything more than that, as you said, eats up too much bandwidth, and anything less than that could cause irrecoverable disasters from the business perspective. But we're medical, not finance or anything else where real time backups are probably the best bet.