But I wish some of this stuff would provide enough power to be useful (let my phone last longer on a charge), but would be only slightly inconvenient, maybe imperceptibly slow. In other words, getting extra exercise throughout the day. Yeah, I realize it's probably impossible to get enough power without being noticeable (e.g. don't make it feel like I'm walking on the beach to get some power out of the walking).
#4 is the one I'm more interested in though. There HAVE been many anti-gun laws, including during colonial times.
This specific one isn't mentioned in that article, but I did see the author of a book called "The Second Amendment: A Biography" on Charlie Rose a while ago (it was from a late 2014 episode I think).. There were laws AGAINST having loaded guns in the house in the late 1700s.
That's funny, because BART seems fairly convenient to me (even moreso than Caltrain). IF I were often going to places that BART went, I'd take it more. (I took it to SF earlier this year for a Darwin Day talk.)
Umm, I'm about 15 minutes from work, in the SF Bay area. Yeah, my house was way more than your condo, but it's a house for one... (I like the idea of a condo for low maintenance reasons, not for the condo fee reasons even though I realize your retort is going to be that your condo + fee is still way way less..)
With the moniker "Live Free or Die," New Hampshire gives residents a double-tax break, with no sales tax and an income tax that applies only to interest and dividend income.
Wow, usually interest & dividend income is what has a LOWER tax rate..
But still, how does the state pay for things, with low income tax and no sales tax?
Plus, you've got snow in the winter.. I like the weather here better.
That's completely ridiculous. $108K is more than enough to buy a house in the SF Bay Area... You just have to be "willing" (put in quotes since it's no problem) to live in suburbia.
Yeah, I explained that it *could* be.. You explained how you moved to a worse UI...
(No, I don't work there, though I'm a big fan of Tivos, and complain about some things -- e.g. I have big problems with the downloading/streaming to the iOS app, and have been working with them to get it fixed.)
Umm, Tivo is "still" around (and I think in their recent quarter they actually did much much better than they have in a long time). I put quotes around still, since most people for some reason don't think
Even *they* have changed UI in *some* ways that IMHO are inferior, but overall are generally better (fit far more stuff, but still readably, on a TV nowadays)... and it's still recognizable as a Tivo interface.
Many more tuners than previously, for OTA or cable, and I think you can still buy the HD DirecTV/Tivo combo, but it IIRC is the oldest hardware wise, and it only has 2 tuners IIRC.
It already happened.. On _new_ keyboards, "control" used to be left of "a", and escape used to be in the upper left of the main section of the keyboard (next to '1').
Thankfully, via software I can make the useless caps lock key control when I have to use OTHER keyboards.. Those other keyboards still don't have the right key feel, so I am using an "Apple Keyboard" with an ADBUSB converter on this retina iMac.. (Along with a Kensington TurboMouse..)
It's not just computers. Plastic measuring cups have their sizes in raised plastic numbers, almost impossible to see.
Though Devil's Advocate on this one -- what are you going to do? If you print them, the print will wear off. Somehow 'printing' them in different colored plastic makes them cost more.
I wish there was a culture of designers taking their work home to their mothers and grandmothers to see how their stuff operates in the real world.
*I* think they're way too expensive, and don't benefit me.. but this is SORT of what Nest (now owned by Google) seems to be doing, even though they're ALSO doing the "high tech gee whiz" thing.
like they walked away from Atari going 'huh, video games are dumb'.
Are you referring to the early 1980s video game crash? After Atari made TONS AND TONS AND TONS of money?.. and there were tons of really junky cartridges being put out.
but I still have to recharge my phone every night, and a decent range in an electric car will still set you back to the tune of nearly $100K.
Your phone nowadays does way more than the one you used 10 years ago... and if you want to get a flip phone with a long battery time, you still can.
You are apparently one of the VERY few people who needs to drive a LONG distance every single day. Even removing the subsidy, you can get electric cars that easily do double the average commuter distance for 1/4 of your stated price. (Subtract $10K if you count subsidies for some states, e.g. CA + federal.)
You probably mean PS4, but I filled up my stock PS3 drive with various games bought on the PSN sales... and I would say I'm a "prefers disk" person.. but when a game gets down to $5, I'll get it on PSN.
So eventually I'll probably replace my PS3 drive with a bigger one.
Also, backward compatibility only supports a handful of games.
Is that part referring to the newly announced Xbox One backwards compatibility?
If so, didn't they announce a *hundred* to start with, with hundreds more to come? Even if you totally discount the "hundreds more" part (don't count on vaporware), that's likely to be 100 of the most popular games.
Seems like a win to me.. (and even though I already have far too many games I've already bought (cheaply) that I haven't finished, the backwards compatibility DOES make me curious about getting an Xbox One at some point -- to play the various Xbox exclusive games I've never been able to play.. even if they're "last" generation.) So their spin has piqued my interest, and I'll be paying attention to the backwards compatibility list!
No. In fact, to play a game (or actually get a "game"'s worth of content), it requires hundreds of dollars of DLC.
Ridiculous, it doesn't require that. Just wait 6 months to a year (there's plenty of games to play in the meantime), and the game'll fall to $20 with all of the DLC included.
Heck, I got the Mass Effect Trilogy for $5 in one of the PSN sales.. (No, I'm not one of the people who pays for the continuous account.)
At least MS isn't as bad as Apple where the literally force you to buy new hardware along with the new O/S (Ipad 1 anyone?)
Huh? Your "all that embedded technology" comment likely refers to *old hardware* too. It's (likely) not that they're trying to continue to run XP on completely new hardware... They're trying to run it on whatever ancient hardware (including weird custom peripherals)...
Which is JUST like keeping an original iPad running to run some old iOS app that doesn't run on the current OS on current hardware.
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Wait, weren't they already on the perfect site for that?
Unless you are ripping the DVDs, there definitely are some that have unskippable ads.
*USUALLY*, one of the following will work:
FF
skip forward
MENU
STOP then MENU
Not always though..
Eat extra? Sure, that would be a *benefit*..
But I wish some of this stuff would provide enough power to be useful (let my phone last longer on a charge), but would be only slightly inconvenient, maybe imperceptibly slow. In other words, getting extra exercise throughout the day. Yeah, I realize it's probably impossible to get enough power without being noticeable (e.g. don't make it feel like I'm walking on the beach to get some power out of the walking).
In other words, burn off what I'm already eating.
That's funny, because BART seems fairly convenient to me (even moreso than Caltrain). IF I were often going to places that BART went, I'd take it more. (I took it to SF earlier this year for a Darwin Day talk.)
If I lived near the stop AND work was near a stop, then I'd use it IF it were frequent.
Yes, that's a lot of "ifs".
If we get cheap driverless cars (e.g. Uber without the driver), THEN I could see not using my own car often.
Wait, the infamous bus incident happened in 1955.
Umm, I'm about 15 minutes from work, in the SF Bay area. Yeah, my house was way more than your condo, but it's a house for one... (I like the idea of a condo for low maintenance reasons, not for the condo fee reasons even though I realize your retort is going to be that your condo + fee is still way way less..)
I wish I were a lot closer to work, actually.
Well, you have *some* income tax..
From http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/05/05/the-5-states-with-no-sales-tax/
Wow, usually interest & dividend income is what has a LOWER tax rate..
But still, how does the state pay for things, with low income tax and no sales tax?
Plus, you've got snow in the winter.. I like the weather here better.
That's completely ridiculous. $108K is more than enough to buy a house in the SF Bay Area... You just have to be "willing" (put in quotes since it's no problem) to live in suburbia.
Did they? Didn't they simply require them to be in-office employees instead, and the employee chose to quit if that was so important to them?
I'm not saying it doesn't suck/isn't unfair if the previous agreement with their management was that they were remote.
Can't blame spelling correction on that.
The term is "milquetoast".
Well, it's alpine nowadays..
and it *does* handle at least some of the "new stuff", like Unicode, and lets you open URLs and attachments in your browser, etc.
Yeah, I explained that it *could* be.. You explained how you moved to a worse UI...
(No, I don't work there, though I'm a big fan of Tivos, and complain about some things -- e.g. I have big problems with the downloading/streaming to the iOS app, and have been working with them to get it fixed.)
Umm, Tivo is "still" around (and I think in their recent quarter they actually did much much better than they have in a long time). I put quotes around still, since most people for some reason don't think
Even *they* have changed UI in *some* ways that IMHO are inferior, but overall are generally better (fit far more stuff, but still readably, on a TV nowadays)... and it's still recognizable as a Tivo interface.
Many more tuners than previously, for OTA or cable, and I think you can still buy the HD DirecTV/Tivo combo, but it IIRC is the oldest hardware wise, and it only has 2 tuners IIRC.
It already happened.. On _new_ keyboards, "control" used to be left of "a", and escape used to be in the upper left of the main section of the keyboard (next to '1').
Thankfully, via software I can make the useless caps lock key control when I have to use OTHER keyboards.. Those other keyboards still don't have the right key feel, so I am using an "Apple Keyboard" with an ADBUSB converter on this retina iMac.. (Along with a Kensington TurboMouse..)
Though Devil's Advocate on this one -- what are you going to do? If you print them, the print will wear off. Somehow 'printing' them in different colored plastic makes them cost more.
*I* think they're way too expensive, and don't benefit me.. but this is SORT of what Nest (now owned by Google) seems to be doing, even though they're ALSO doing the "high tech gee whiz" thing.
Are you referring to the early 1980s video game crash? After Atari made TONS AND TONS AND TONS of money? .. and there were tons of really junky cartridges being put out.
Your phone nowadays does way more than the one you used 10 years ago... and if you want to get a flip phone with a long battery time, you still can.
You are apparently one of the VERY few people who needs to drive a LONG distance every single day. Even removing the subsidy, you can get electric cars that easily do double the average commuter distance for 1/4 of your stated price. (Subtract $10K if you count subsidies for some states, e.g. CA + federal.)
Don't you mean: "Don't know why they want to keep the poor and middle class..."?
If so, I'll answer: I don't want to keep them from anything THAT THEY PAY FOR (or get as a side effect of their job, etc.).
You probably mean PS4, but I filled up my stock PS3 drive with various games bought on the PSN sales... and I would say I'm a "prefers disk" person.. but when a game gets down to $5, I'll get it on PSN.
So eventually I'll probably replace my PS3 drive with a bigger one.
Is that part referring to the newly announced Xbox One backwards compatibility?
If so, didn't they announce a *hundred* to start with, with hundreds more to come? Even if you totally discount the "hundreds more" part (don't count on vaporware), that's likely to be 100 of the most popular games.
Seems like a win to me.. (and even though I already have far too many games I've already bought (cheaply) that I haven't finished, the backwards compatibility DOES make me curious about getting an Xbox One at some point -- to play the various Xbox exclusive games I've never been able to play.. even if they're "last" generation.) So their spin has piqued my interest, and I'll be paying attention to the backwards compatibility list!
Ridiculous, it doesn't require that. Just wait 6 months to a year (there's plenty of games to play in the meantime), and the game'll fall to $20 with all of the DLC included.
Heck, I got the Mass Effect Trilogy for $5 in one of the PSN sales.. (No, I'm not one of the people who pays for the continuous account.)
Huh? Your "all that embedded technology" comment likely refers to *old hardware* too. It's (likely) not that they're trying to continue to run XP on completely new hardware... They're trying to run it on whatever ancient hardware (including weird custom peripherals)...
Which is JUST like keeping an original iPad running to run some old iOS app that doesn't run on the current OS on current hardware.
So your slam was completely inaccurate.
The only DHCP server I've "operated" is the one in my WiFi router... What failure modes are you talking about?