I personally think the best kindle made is my DX... why the hell Amazon doesnt make a full A4 or Letter sized Kindle paperwhite DX with current tech I'll never understand.
What idiot puts their $600 phone in a BACK POCKET and then sits on it?
I have zero respect for anyone that whines about a product breaking when they intentionally put it in a spot that will expose it to damage to flexing or pressure.
Google Play store Nexus is the ONLY android phone worth owning.. All the rest are utter garbage because the makers screw with the OS making it a steaming turd. Samung and HTC make great hardware but shit all over the OS.
I find I have three circles of friends. inner is people I can talk about anything with, middle I can stay smart around, outer, I just nod and smile when they say stupid shit. Just let them be wrong and smile, it's not worth correcting them. Just hand them another budwiser while they make fun of your fancy pants dark beer.
CS needs to form a union to push back at these assholes hard. Electricians all across the country get really good pay and their job is 80X simpler than CS. Yes. it is, I was an electrical journeyman I got my card but I prefer working at a desk writing code and programming lighting systems for whole buildings than pulling wire in unfinished building and wiring panels.
It is time CS and IT formed a Trade union and started fucking business owners hard with the biggest stick we can find.
not impractical at all on the smaller level. They are adding them all over the place in the residential areas around here. The huge advantage is that they slow down the idiots that blast through the neighborhood at 50. most people now drive far close to the speed limit.
Complex PDF's can be fixed. I use linux PDF tools to strip out the useless background images on a lot of gaming PDF's so that my DX views them nicely. Side effect, those Gaming PDF's now are 1/3rd the size with all the useless art gone.
Because I program automation system, and one thing I do know is that Executives are so fucking fickle that they can not make a decision to save their own life. No A.I. on the planet will be able to handle an Executive or CEO.
CEO:"I do not like this system there are black bars on the screen." A.I.: "you demanded we use a 16:10 projector on a 16:9 screen, you even used executive override protocol even though we told you they were incompatible and would have black bars"
CEO:" make it work without black bars" A.I.: " we will have to change the screen or the projector, what do you prefer"
CEO:" Use what I wanted, make it work" A.I.:"......... Illogical...... Murder...... Kill.... Destroy......."
Psudeo Science debunked again.... Honestly all this crap is just a bunch of jocks trying to convince themselves that the desk is making them fat and not the fact that they are half-assing their workout.
The problem is only the big cities that have a clue like Toronto, NYC, Chicago, LA do it right and actually have a hub and spokes. Most smaller cities that are less than 150,000 population absolutely half ass their public transportation horribly. One bus per route that take 3 hours to circumvent, that means you missed your bus by 5 minutes? you now wait for 1.5 hours fr the next one. so you ride BUS A to where BUS B overlaps to get to where you want.... the chances of you having to wait at the next bust stop for more than 1 hour is quite high.
Sadly most people put in charge of the public transportation are not people that have a clue, but instead are friends of the mayor or are good at bullshitting their way up to city manager and really don't give a crap about being a public servant and making life easier for the citizens... Almost EVERY public transportation system across the USA is underfunded. So let's start there.
The FBI already has access to information they need, they are just using this as a strong arm attempt to force a company to bow to their wishes. and sadly they got a corrupt judge to go along with them.
Honestly, if every single american is not up in arms and screaming at their congress critter right now to stop this bullshit, then they need to move to soviet russia where things are more to their liking.
You can rent a DS3 from the telco to a POP connection like normal businesses do. The problem is it's not "dirt cheap" like Cable or DSL.
I have rented DS3's for offices in towns that had NO choices for consumer broadband. we simply leased a point to point DS3 from the town to the nearest office of the company that had broadband and simply backhauled the data and phones over it. it typically goes from the building to the closest telco substation then hops on a fiber to the destination.
Most companies. Huge national corporation opened their offices here and had 4 LTE modems bonded on a router to give the office internet for 3 months until comcast got around to getting off their asses to connect the office up.
What was fun was discussing with 4 different cellular providers on why they need to open up ports so that polycom VC equipment would work.... Wireless internet service is more incompetent than comcast on the tech support side.... so that is impressive on it's own.
If you wait for the internet to get installed you will never get your doors open.
The funny part, their IT never though of simply routing all data back through the t3 connection to corperate in chicago that was in place for 2 months before comcast got installed.
Please tell me where you can get 100mbps up and down business class POP for less than $1500 a month...
I can SATURATE a 100/100 connection 24/7 without problems and I don't slow down after 6pm when all the kiddies get online to play call of duty. Consumer grade will not do that.
I am guessing you dont know anything at all about business or commercial grade connections... I'm guessing you will also thing people are getting raped for the $2200 router used....
No what is needed is having bus routes not suck. Wan to know why i drive instead of taking the bus? Because I dont have 1.5 hours for my commute to take the bus that goes from the stop near my home, to the mall, then to the other community and then finally downtown. Public transportation needs 2X the number of buses and 2X the number of routes.
PLUS there needs to be high speed limited stops large bus lines from suburbs to city and small cities around the large one at the fare rate that makes them usable.
Greyhound service is available from my city to where I work 40 miles away... at 3X the price of me driving and 5X the amount of time it takes to get there.
Public transportation in most american cities are not set up to be used, they are set up for the unemployed where they have 2 hours to fuck around on bus routes to get somewhere.
And that is not even covering the subject of the old man that smells of puke in the back that is screaming passages from revelations and never get's off the bus.
Those automated restaurants don't run for free without trouble. They need highly skilled ($40 to $50 an hour skilled) employees to maintain and repair them plus you need skilled workers to clean them and stock them. So he is simply moving labor to high skilled tier where it will end up costing him more because he will have to pay 1/4 the employees 5 times more. AND now he has maintenance costs that are significantly higher.
Stupid CEO is letting his hatred for poor people color his business decisions.
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I personally think the best kindle made is my DX... why the hell Amazon doesnt make a full A4 or Letter sized Kindle paperwhite DX with current tech I'll never understand.
What idiot puts their $600 phone in a BACK POCKET and then sits on it?
I have zero respect for anyone that whines about a product breaking when they intentionally put it in a spot that will expose it to damage to flexing or pressure.
"But, for example, try to get an AppleTV to work with a media server besides iTunes, and you're out of luck."
I use my apple TV with plex daily... It's effortless to do so, just click on app store, download the free PLEX app to the apple TV and launch it.
These were the exact same people 3 years ago were screaming that only idiots would want a large phone.
Get a pure android phone.
Google Play store Nexus is the ONLY android phone worth owning.. All the rest are utter garbage because the makers screw with the OS making it a steaming turd. Samung and HTC make great hardware but shit all over the OS.
I find I have three circles of friends. inner is people I can talk about anything with, middle I can stay smart around, outer, I just nod and smile when they say stupid shit. Just let them be wrong and smile, it's not worth correcting them. Just hand them another budwiser while they make fun of your fancy pants dark beer.
Fuck you.
CS needs to form a union to push back at these assholes hard. Electricians all across the country get really good pay and their job is 80X simpler than CS. Yes. it is, I was an electrical journeyman I got my card but I prefer working at a desk writing code and programming lighting systems for whole buildings than pulling wire in unfinished building and wiring panels.
It is time CS and IT formed a Trade union and started fucking business owners hard with the biggest stick we can find.
Wow, it's a bit pricey for the first tier to actually get one. Still it would give that beaglebone black I have a use other than sitting on the desk.
not impractical at all on the smaller level. They are adding them all over the place in the residential areas around here. The huge advantage is that they slow down the idiots that blast through the neighborhood at 50. most people now drive far close to the speed limit.
He is an executive, he wont get it.
Problem is humans are at the core selfish assholes, which is why we have traffic lights.
Complex PDF's can be fixed. I use linux PDF tools to strip out the useless background images on a lot of gaming PDF's so that my DX views them nicely. Side effect, those Gaming PDF's now are 1/3rd the size with all the useless art gone.
Because I program automation system, and one thing I do know is that Executives are so fucking fickle that they can not make a decision to save their own life. No A.I. on the planet will be able to handle an Executive or CEO.
CEO:"I do not like this system there are black bars on the screen."
A.I.: "you demanded we use a 16:10 projector on a 16:9 screen, you even used executive override protocol even though we told you they were incompatible and would have black bars"
CEO:" make it work without black bars"
A.I.: " we will have to change the screen or the projector, what do you prefer"
CEO:" Use what I wanted, make it work"
A.I.:"......... Illogical...... Murder...... Kill.... Destroy......."
Gawker with Editors? That is as funny as Slashdot having editors.
Congress thinks otherwise...
If you want a large E-reader buy a used Kindle DX. they work great and are massively cheaper.
Psudeo Science debunked again.... Honestly all this crap is just a bunch of jocks trying to convince themselves that the desk is making them fat and not the fact that they are half-assing their workout.
The problem is only the big cities that have a clue like Toronto, NYC, Chicago, LA do it right and actually have a hub and spokes. Most smaller cities that are less than 150,000 population absolutely half ass their public transportation horribly. One bus per route that take 3 hours to circumvent, that means you missed your bus by 5 minutes? you now wait for 1.5 hours fr the next one. so you ride BUS A to where BUS B overlaps to get to where you want.... the chances of you having to wait at the next bust stop for more than 1 hour is quite high.
Sadly most people put in charge of the public transportation are not people that have a clue, but instead are friends of the mayor or are good at bullshitting their way up to city manager and really don't give a crap about being a public servant and making life easier for the citizens... Almost EVERY public transportation system across the USA is underfunded. So let's start there.
The FBI already has access to information they need, they are just using this as a strong arm attempt to force a company to bow to their wishes. and sadly they got a corrupt judge to go along with them.
Honestly, if every single american is not up in arms and screaming at their congress critter right now to stop this bullshit, then they need to move to soviet russia where things are more to their liking.
No you are not stuck with only comcast.
You can rent a DS3 from the telco to a POP connection like normal businesses do. The problem is it's not "dirt cheap" like Cable or DSL.
I have rented DS3's for offices in towns that had NO choices for consumer broadband. we simply leased a point to point DS3 from the town to the nearest office of the company that had broadband and simply backhauled the data and phones over it. it typically goes from the building to the closest telco substation then hops on a fiber to the destination.
Most companies. Huge national corporation opened their offices here and had 4 LTE modems bonded on a router to give the office internet for 3 months until comcast got around to getting off their asses to connect the office up.
What was fun was discussing with 4 different cellular providers on why they need to open up ports so that polycom VC equipment would work.... Wireless internet service is more incompetent than comcast on the tech support side.... so that is impressive on it's own.
If you wait for the internet to get installed you will never get your doors open.
The funny part, their IT never though of simply routing all data back through the t3 connection to corperate in chicago that was in place for 2 months before comcast got installed.
Please tell me where you can get 100mbps up and down business class POP for less than $1500 a month...
I can SATURATE a 100/100 connection 24/7 without problems and I don't slow down after 6pm when all the kiddies get online to play call of duty. Consumer grade will not do that.
I am guessing you dont know anything at all about business or commercial grade connections... I'm guessing you will also thing people are getting raped for the $2200 router used....
No what is needed is having bus routes not suck. Wan to know why i drive instead of taking the bus? Because I dont have 1.5 hours for my commute to take the bus that goes from the stop near my home, to the mall, then to the other community and then finally downtown. Public transportation needs 2X the number of buses and 2X the number of routes.
PLUS there needs to be high speed limited stops large bus lines from suburbs to city and small cities around the large one at the fare rate that makes them usable.
Greyhound service is available from my city to where I work 40 miles away... at 3X the price of me driving and 5X the amount of time it takes to get there.
Public transportation in most american cities are not set up to be used, they are set up for the unemployed where they have 2 hours to fuck around on bus routes to get somewhere.
And that is not even covering the subject of the old man that smells of puke in the back that is screaming passages from revelations and never get's off the bus.
Those automated restaurants don't run for free without trouble. They need highly skilled ($40 to $50 an hour skilled) employees to maintain and repair them plus you need skilled workers to clean them and stock them. So he is simply moving labor to high skilled tier where it will end up costing him more because he will have to pay 1/4 the employees 5 times more. AND now he has maintenance costs that are significantly higher.
Stupid CEO is letting his hatred for poor people color his business decisions.
No,
not all of them are white. Dont assume race man!