I'll click my magic shoes together and make a large scale high-speed rail system appear in the US.
Here is a simple answer. Stop wasting money on wars all over the world, and put your unemployed people to work building those highspeed rail lines.
Added bonus to my plan is with all those people working, they will go out and spend their pay on goods and services, which will do a lot to get your stagnating economy moving.
I have never seen one for $250. Here in Canada, they mostly run $350 or more.
Somewhere around $250 is where I think I might take a chance and buy one.
Even better, make them self assemble from raw materials found in the Solar System.
This is already being done. I admit using the rather inefficient organic assemblers is currently slowing the process down a bit. Things should speed up once we get the mechanical assemblers working on the problem.
I think it is the price that is the problem.
I have looked a couple of times. (Planning on dropping a real Linux on it.) But every chrombook I have seen was at least $100 too expensive for what you get. For the same money, or in some cases less, you can get a real full laptop.
I freely admit to being a cheap bastard.
Sounds like a company that is going to pick up a lot of customers very quickly.
Up here in Vancouver Canada there are really only two carriers. Rogers/Fido or Bell/Telus. Wind is here also, but they seem like they are flailing.
Maybe there will be something useable by October when my contract with Bell ends.
Useable = Unlimited TXT, a whack of data, call display, and maybe 200 minutes a month. For less than $90 a month.
Another thing to consider is the community. Using some random phone, may have a small to medium sized community built up around hacking it. The Raspberry PI has a huge community built up and continuing to build up around it.
Also the phones cheep enough for hacking tend to be ones that are out of production, so getting another one, 6 months down the road may not be easy.
I am a fan of the Raspberry PI, but that doesn't make what I have written wrong.
Why not put the chargers on parking meters. Everywhere I go in the downtown core there are parking meters. Put a power port on them, and charge a little more and you can charge while you park. A nice little money maker for the city I would think.
Way ahead of you on that one.:)
I was brought up Roman Catholic, I was an alter boy, went to Catholic school, and seriously considered becoming a priest.
Who knows, if I had decided differently I might have become Pope today.
I don't know about mailing micro SDs, but I was recently involved in trying to send a USB HDD through the mail from the US to Canada. Unsuccessful several times. USPS returned with no explanation.
I do object to a lot of porn out there. The degrading humiliating porn. The stuff where it looks like the female actor is actually not enjoying herself at all. But that does not mean the answer is to ban all porn.
I watched a documentary a couple of months ago called "life after porn" I think, or at least something really close to that title. They interviewed a number of porn actors and actresses, but the thing that stuck with me was how many of them made comments about how it is not like having sex, and how most of them thought of it just as their job. So that woman who looks like she is right into it. She is probably just thinking about her pay cheque.
t was built for the military and the universities.
Based on what I know about military people and university aged people, I would bet that porn found its way onto the the internet very early in its existence.
Here is an idea. Don't sign up with them.
This service is not for most of the people here. It is for our parents. I seriously doubt my mother has ever used a gig of data in any month.
If so, then you need to either run for the office yourself, or change your country of residence.
I have considered running for office, frequently. But I doubt I could lie convincingly enough to get elected. I guess I will just have to wait for the revolution.
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You keep on believing it is just a finger they are fucking you with.
Personally I am pretty sure it is the whole fist.
I will bet good money some of them know exactly how to build/run/design trains.
Here is a simple answer. Stop wasting money on wars all over the world, and put your unemployed people to work building those highspeed rail lines.
Added bonus to my plan is with all those people working, they will go out and spend their pay on goods and services, which will do a lot to get your stagnating economy moving.
I have never seen one for $250. Here in Canada, they mostly run $350 or more.
Somewhere around $250 is where I think I might take a chance and buy one.
Install Linux. Problems solved. At least for me.
This is already being done.
I admit using the rather inefficient organic assemblers is currently slowing the process down a bit.
Things should speed up once we get the mechanical assemblers working on the problem.
I think it is the price that is the problem.
I have looked a couple of times. (Planning on dropping a real Linux on it.) But every chrombook I have seen was at least $100 too expensive for what you get. For the same money, or in some cases less, you can get a real full laptop.
I freely admit to being a cheap bastard.
Probably improve the performance too. :)
Sounds like a company that is going to pick up a lot of customers very quickly.
Up here in Vancouver Canada there are really only two carriers. Rogers/Fido or Bell/Telus. Wind is here also, but they seem like they are flailing.
Maybe there will be something useable by October when my contract with Bell ends.
Useable = Unlimited TXT, a whack of data, call display, and maybe 200 minutes a month. For less than $90 a month.
Three words:
The Motion Picture
I win.
Another thing to consider is the community. Using some random phone, may have a small to medium sized community built up around hacking it. The Raspberry PI has a huge community built up and continuing to build up around it.
Also the phones cheep enough for hacking tend to be ones that are out of production, so getting another one, 6 months down the road may not be easy.
I am a fan of the Raspberry PI, but that doesn't make what I have written wrong.
Good luck convincing anyone that airships are safe.
FTFY
Most people don't care about why it is now safe, they just remember "Oh the Humanity"
For me, if the song is looping, I just need to finish the song, then the loop is broken.
Just listen to the whole song and the loop is broken.
Why not put the chargers on parking meters.
Everywhere I go in the downtown core there are parking meters. Put a power port on them, and charge a little more and you can charge while you park. A nice little money maker for the city I would think.
If your wife doesn't want to have sex with you, maybe you are doing it wrong.
I never could spell. :)
Thank Dog for spell checkers.
Way ahead of you on that one. :)
I was brought up Roman Catholic, I was an alter boy, went to Catholic school, and seriously considered becoming a priest.
Who knows, if I had decided differently I might have become Pope today.
I don't know about mailing micro SDs, but I was recently involved in trying to send a USB HDD through the mail from the US to Canada. Unsuccessful several times. USPS returned with no explanation.
Nope.
I am never having kids! My whole family lives within 100 miles.
I watched a documentary a couple of months ago called "life after porn" I think, or at least something really close to that title. They interviewed a number of porn actors and actresses, but the thing that stuck with me was how many of them made comments about how it is not like having sex, and how most of them thought of it just as their job. So that woman who looks like she is right into it. She is probably just thinking about her pay cheque.
Based on what I know about military people and university aged people, I would bet that porn found its way onto the the internet very early in its existence.
I would bet good money that someone, somewhere is whacking off to this type of porn right now!
Only seems fair. They wouldn't want you to be lonely.
Here is an idea. Don't sign up with them.
This service is not for most of the people here. It is for our parents. I seriously doubt my mother has ever used a gig of data in any month.
I have considered running for office, frequently. But I doubt I could lie convincingly enough to get elected.
I guess I will just have to wait for the revolution.