Call it the "Prime" effect. All my neighbors have Prime, so the beat up "Amazon Logistics" van is at the complex everyday anyway. Their supply chain has gotten so good that all my "free shipping" orders (I don't have Prime) show up in 2 days instead of the 5-7 day estimate. Intentionally slowing down orders to my area likely costs them money at this point.
Some of them finally take the hint and hire other people to do things like editing. Problem is most of these folks still treat it as a "hobby" and not as a "business". I still wonder how these people file their income taxes or realize how much in taxes they will be paying on all that income to begin with?
The shift to requiring public speaking in class happened rather abruptly when I was in high school 20 years ago. I seem to recall a teacher having to make a very quick curriculum change to incorporate presentations into class assignments. Someone up top was pushing it due to getting feedback that the school was "lacking" in preparing students for the real world.
Watching speakers giving speeches on stuff they have no clue about is what took alot of fear out of public speaking for me. Standing in front of an audience no longer bothers me and I have to teach from time to time in front of large classes. I'm more worried about being wrong about something, or worse, putting everyone to sleep.
The alternative is what one sees in NJ. $10,000+/year property taxes on 1000sq/ft capes on 50x100 lots. Good luck selling with that tax bill if the town has lousy schools.
I ran across this purchasing old computer books. Often its even the same seller with multiple accounts with different prices. I remember finally finding an out of print technical manual for $10. When I purchased it, the higher priced listings quickly vanished off half.com and abbooks (they all list on multiple sites).
There IS an open standard and it is used by both Android and Windows Mobile. LTE has video calling as part of the spec (ViLTE). Apple decided to not play ball and not allow video calling to anything that isn't an Apple product.
You can do it for a little as 5% down in the US with a FHA loan if you quality...but you also have to pay personal mortgage insurance (usually between 0.5% to 5% of the loan amount per year) on any loan you make with under 20% down payment. That PMI doesn't go away once you reach 80% loan-to-value ratio on FHA loans anymore, it sticks around until you pay it off or refinance with a traditional loan (a quick search says loans between 10 to 20% pay it for 11 years on a 30 year mortgage). PMI is basically throwing money away as it does nothing for you. It's solely to cover the bank's risk if you default on the loan.
There was an anime that specifically covered this called "Osomatsu-San". It was hilarious and even had an episode that covered rental girlfriends.
Anyway, a friend of a friend is a real life NEET. Hasn't held a job as long as I've know the person (more then eight years). Any time I asked him how the job hunt was going, I get excuses that basically amount to him just not wanting to work. The kicker is his parents still support him at 36 and he somehow always has a pack of cigarettes. The best by far have to be the excuses why he doesn't work. He likes to claim that nobody wants to hire him and that he is on some sort of "no-hire" blacklist. I usually don't get more then that, and he basically has stopped applying for jobs.
CDMA was a superior (and much newer) standard to GSM, but that is a moot point as everyone is moving to voice-over-LTE. Of all the carriers, Sprint is the one lagging behind in this transition. The company itself doesn't appear to be well managed, seemingly having never recovered from that disastrous Nextel merger.
The Powerbook 190 shares nothing with the rest of the Powerbook 100 series (160,165,170,180) and is more like the 5300. It was a stopgap "value" model until PPC machines came down in price. All the rest of the 100 series (except for the original 100) have a MMU equipped 68030 CPU in them.
I was actually expecting the 1812 Overture recording by Telarc. It was digitally mastered and is a well known torture test for audio systems. The cannon blasts have been known to blast your stylus off the record. https://www.stereophile.com/co...
Except that, unlike a credit card, your account is directly debited of the fraudulent charges and the money doesn't re-appear in the account until its reported (and the bank slowly gets around to handling it) and usually after some important auto-pay or checks bounce. In the case of credit card fraud, its the bank's money that goes missing.
By default, Windows 10 associates PDFs with..... Microsoft Edge. Annoyingly, it restores this default association after any one of those big Windows 10 updates...... grrr.
The hardware accelerated rendering is horribly broken in 59 leading to half rendered web pages. This is reproducible across several machines/configurations, so it isn't a bad video driver. Turning it off fixes the problem. On one older machine, turning off hardware acceleration actually lowered CPU usage and sped up browsing! It also seems to have fixed the broken printing problem I've been having on one machine (FF only outputs blank pages after multiprocess/e10s is turned on).
I just moved to an all electric condo. It was built in 1973, so not exactly well insulated. It has a fairly new heat pump for heat and despite being efficient, its far from cheap to run. Electricity on a per BTU basis here is much more expensive as a heating source then directly burning the natural gas, hence why all those pipes are routed all over the place. Modern gas furnaces are over 90% efficient at converting natural gas to heat, while electricity generation from the same natural gas (primary source here in Northern NJ) is much lower.
One place heat pumps have been making inroads is conversion from oil heat. High heating oil prices made heating with electric economical, but only because folks who are heating with oil are usually far from any sort of natural gas distribution system.
The biggest feature is HD Radio allows for sub-channels with additional programming. FM subcarriers are pretty low quality. One interesting loophole that broadcasters have been exploiting is using HD sub-channels to feed analog LPFM relays (which have different licensing requirements vs. a full power or traditional LPFM feed).
DAB uses the MPEG-1 Layer 2 codec due to being an earlier standard. HD Radio and DAB+ use HE-AAC based codecs. The biggest difference is DAB usually has dedicated spectrum, vs sharing the FM band. Also, HD Radio is patent encumbered and has tons of licensing fees while DAB is an open standard. Norway could be planning on re-farming the FM band for something else, or moving existing DAB broadcasts there and freeing up the current DAB broadcast band.
DAB already uses a different part of the spectrum, particularly L-Band. The US and Canada got around this "problem" (it was mostly howling by the NAB and its members), by cramming in the digital signals with the existing analog AM/FM broadcasts using IBOC/HD Radio..... which hasn't been a success. Its actually harder to find aftermarket HD Radio tuners now then it was when it launched!
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Call it the "Prime" effect. All my neighbors have Prime, so the beat up "Amazon Logistics" van is at the complex everyday anyway. Their supply chain has gotten so good that all my "free shipping" orders (I don't have Prime) show up in 2 days instead of the 5-7 day estimate. Intentionally slowing down orders to my area likely costs them money at this point.
Still running iTunes 10.7 here. Helps to have Apple hardware that supports it. The UI in the new versions is just annoying.
Some of them finally take the hint and hire other people to do things like editing. Problem is most of these folks still treat it as a "hobby" and not as a "business". I still wonder how these people file their income taxes or realize how much in taxes they will be paying on all that income to begin with?
The shift to requiring public speaking in class happened rather abruptly when I was in high school 20 years ago. I seem to recall a teacher having to make a very quick curriculum change to incorporate presentations into class assignments. Someone up top was pushing it due to getting feedback that the school was "lacking" in preparing students for the real world.
Watching speakers giving speeches on stuff they have no clue about is what took alot of fear out of public speaking for me. Standing in front of an audience no longer bothers me and I have to teach from time to time in front of large classes. I'm more worried about being wrong about something, or worse, putting everyone to sleep.
The alternative is what one sees in NJ. $10,000+/year property taxes on 1000sq/ft capes on 50x100 lots. Good luck selling with that tax bill if the town has lousy schools.
It will affect MVNOs using the Verizon network as well.
I ran across this purchasing old computer books. Often its even the same seller with multiple accounts with different prices. I remember finally finding an out of print technical manual for $10. When I purchased it, the higher priced listings quickly vanished off half.com and abbooks (they all list on multiple sites).
USB Type-C equipped devices can also be limited to USB 2.0 speeds.
There IS an open standard and it is used by both Android and Windows Mobile. LTE has video calling as part of the spec (ViLTE). Apple decided to not play ball and not allow video calling to anything that isn't an Apple product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_over_LTE
He is likely referring to HFO-1234yf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You can do it for a little as 5% down in the US with a FHA loan if you quality...but you also have to pay personal mortgage insurance (usually between 0.5% to 5% of the loan amount per year) on any loan you make with under 20% down payment. That PMI doesn't go away once you reach 80% loan-to-value ratio on FHA loans anymore, it sticks around until you pay it off or refinance with a traditional loan (a quick search says loans between 10 to 20% pay it for 11 years on a 30 year mortgage). PMI is basically throwing money away as it does nothing for you. It's solely to cover the bank's risk if you default on the loan.
There was an anime that specifically covered this called "Osomatsu-San". It was hilarious and even had an episode that covered rental girlfriends.
Anyway, a friend of a friend is a real life NEET. Hasn't held a job as long as I've know the person (more then eight years). Any time I asked him how the job hunt was going, I get excuses that basically amount to him just not wanting to work. The kicker is his parents still support him at 36 and he somehow always has a pack of cigarettes. The best by far have to be the excuses why he doesn't work. He likes to claim that nobody wants to hire him and that he is on some sort of "no-hire" blacklist. I usually don't get more then that, and he basically has stopped applying for jobs.
The failed AT&T merger is what likely saved T-Mobile. It gave them the needed cash to buy the additional spectrum they needed to be competitive.
CDMA was a superior (and much newer) standard to GSM, but that is a moot point as everyone is moving to voice-over-LTE. Of all the carriers, Sprint is the one lagging behind in this transition. The company itself doesn't appear to be well managed, seemingly having never recovered from that disastrous Nextel merger.
The Powerbook 190 shares nothing with the rest of the Powerbook 100 series (160,165,170,180) and is more like the 5300. It was a stopgap "value" model until PPC machines came down in price. All the rest of the 100 series (except for the original 100) have a MMU equipped 68030 CPU in them.
I was actually expecting the 1812 Overture recording by Telarc. It was digitally mastered and is a well known torture test for audio systems. The cannon blasts have been known to blast your stylus off the record. https://www.stereophile.com/co...
Except that, unlike a credit card, your account is directly debited of the fraudulent charges and the money doesn't re-appear in the account until its reported (and the bank slowly gets around to handling it) and usually after some important auto-pay or checks bounce. In the case of credit card fraud, its the bank's money that goes missing.
By default, Windows 10 associates PDFs with..... Microsoft Edge. Annoyingly, it restores this default association after any one of those big Windows 10 updates...... grrr.
You left out the 80F day in February, first in recorded history and that cold spell in the beginning of January.
The hardware accelerated rendering is horribly broken in 59 leading to half rendered web pages. This is reproducible across several machines/configurations, so it isn't a bad video driver. Turning it off fixes the problem. On one older machine, turning off hardware acceleration actually lowered CPU usage and sped up browsing! It also seems to have fixed the broken printing problem I've been having on one machine (FF only outputs blank pages after multiprocess/e10s is turned on).
I just moved to an all electric condo. It was built in 1973, so not exactly well insulated. It has a fairly new heat pump for heat and despite being efficient, its far from cheap to run. Electricity on a per BTU basis here is much more expensive as a heating source then directly burning the natural gas, hence why all those pipes are routed all over the place. Modern gas furnaces are over 90% efficient at converting natural gas to heat, while electricity generation from the same natural gas (primary source here in Northern NJ) is much lower.
One place heat pumps have been making inroads is conversion from oil heat. High heating oil prices made heating with electric economical, but only because folks who are heating with oil are usually far from any sort of natural gas distribution system.
The biggest feature is HD Radio allows for sub-channels with additional programming. FM subcarriers are pretty low quality. One interesting loophole that broadcasters have been exploiting is using HD sub-channels to feed analog LPFM relays (which have different licensing requirements vs. a full power or traditional LPFM feed).
DAB uses the MPEG-1 Layer 2 codec due to being an earlier standard. HD Radio and DAB+ use HE-AAC based codecs. The biggest difference is DAB usually has dedicated spectrum, vs sharing the FM band. Also, HD Radio is patent encumbered and has tons of licensing fees while DAB is an open standard. Norway could be planning on re-farming the FM band for something else, or moving existing DAB broadcasts there and freeing up the current DAB broadcast band.
DAB already uses a different part of the spectrum, particularly L-Band. The US and Canada got around this "problem" (it was mostly howling by the NAB and its members), by cramming in the digital signals with the existing analog AM/FM broadcasts using IBOC/HD Radio..... which hasn't been a success. Its actually harder to find aftermarket HD Radio tuners now then it was when it launched!