Does Fox News, BTW, ever cover the fact that Murdoch is married to a former member of the Chinese Communist Party?
Probably not. When you grow up you'll discover two things: First, it's not a good idea to crumb on the boss's wife. Second, you don't have to agree with someone's political stances in order to love/marry them. It's even easier when you attach "former" to those political stances.
I think you're missing the point. The point isn't whether it's worth $40, but what they're doing in addition to providing the obvious service. There was a time when party-lines were cheaper than single-service lines. But the trade off was that your neighbors could hear all your business. At the time, people were up-front about that. If Magic-Jack's business plan is to allow you to trade your privacy for cheaper phone service and a bombardment of ads, good for them. As you say, more competition. Let the market decide. But they need to be up front about the whole cost including the non-monitary compromises you're making using their service.
Why? 8 bit 64k is perfectly adequate for voice. If we have spare cash to spend on communicaitons, spend it somewhere else, on something that isn't perfectly adequate, or that benefits substantially from improvment. If we get better voice quality as a side effect, great! But it isn't something to focus on.
Now run along. I think I saw some vinyl records in the other room you can play with.
Yeah. How you you know the chest hair is greasy? And remember, your own personal experience running your fingers through the hair doesn't count, nor do other places you've written about the greasy chest hair. You have to site some 3rd party publication which can verify said greasyness...
This artifact from a dot-com flameout was hacked early in the 2000's to allow web surfing and remote desktoping from the underlying MIPS Windows CE impelmentation. A handful of WiFi-b cards were supported. I had one, and everybody thought, at the time, it was really the bee's knees.
the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad were really just incremental innovations of other services and products that people were already offering?!
I'm no Apple Fanboi, but I think it's fair to track the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad paritally back to the Newton. Of all the really old tech, I think they resemble that more than anything else from the early 90's. Was there any other predecessor to the Newton that made it to general-consumer mass production?
Nobody said it was the Linux system. It could have been whatever ECM monitored the Power Button. Normally, you hit the button, and it sends out a message across a bus, typically CAN (or FlexRay in the most modern systems) which tells the other systems to "wake up", and typically also energizes the ignition wire for non-connected systems. If that one ECM was locked up, the car is pretty much hosed until you can reset it. Could well have been a $5 microcontroller imbedded in the dash, and running a fore-ground/background loop, and no real OS.
Exactly. A less sensational headline could have been "XJ Power button kinda flakey". This kinda stuff is what drives technical support people nuts. The technically ignorant public comandeers a technical term, such as BSOD, with a very specific meaning, then generalizes it until it's no more useful than the word "Crash". Less useful, actually, since it makes people familliar with the original meaning infer information that the ludide doesn't mean to imply. For people of this level of technical sophisticaiton (Toughbooks, OBD2 interfaces, etc) to do this is shameful.
While I'm on this rant, can we please, please, stop using the word "Literally" as an intensity modifier for metaphorical descriptions? I swear, the next person who tells me they're "Literally on fire" gets sprayed with a fire-extinguisher as an object lesson. Power or CO2, I haven't decided yet. We'll just see what feels right at the time.
Yeah. And Bob got fired for using the company email for personal use. This isn't the criminal system where crimes have specific elements that must be met, leading to a specific range of senteces. If a corporation wants to fire you, they fire you, then go looking for a way to justify it.
They do care. Because, generally speaking, you want your stock to go up, rather than having an opporunity to dump it just before it falls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, short-selling and all that, but in that case you're talking about speculators, not the BOD.
Interesting thought. What, then, should the government do with various savings accounts such as pensions? (Think in terms of smaller municipal or state retirement management agencies, not Federal, so we don't end up in an argument about the federal reserve, or national debt). In order to earn a return, the money must be "doing" something. Should we literally stack up $100 bills and store them in a warehouse? Or as an alternative, perhaps treasury bonds would be the other non-corporate option?
Because sooner or later, it has to be. You reach a breaking point where the new technology is sufficiently different from the old that they don't represent the same device anymore. I think you'd have to be crazy to think that we're approaching the peak of our ability to solve computational problems, but I don't think its unreasonable to think that we're approaching the limit of what we can do with this technology (transistors).
The problem here is not the fact that the photos are being presented on Facebook. They're public record. Local newspapers have printed booking photos since the beginning of Local Newspapers (or maybe the beginning of booking photos).
The problem is with us, the public. We react to this as if it is a shame to the person. We really need to be working to change the public mindset with the reminder of "Innocent until proven guilty". The proper response to these photos is "Huh. Joe got arrested for DUI. I wonder how it's gonna turn out?" That's how we need to get people thinking. At that point, all this Facebook crap doesn't matter.
Exactly. I got an '86 Cutlass Supreme with a V8, shoddy tires, worn out brakes, a missing front bumper, and a case of PBR in a cooler in the passenger seat. I'll take them odds vs. any Volvo in the world...
Yeah. They work fine for a while. Part of what you're paying for is engineering. It's easy to provide something that looks like 5 volts to a simple multimeter.
But you plug a cheap cigarette lighter USB charger in, and put a scope on it. Then do things like crank the engine, turn your AC blower on/off, etc, and see what happens.
Good quality chargers typically have extra components to filter out the sort of nasty, very fast spikes (often 30 v or more) that come over a car's 12v (13 to 14 really) lines. Some of the knock-offs are good. Other's aren't. Don't be surprised if you open it, and find 4 resistors and an old 7805 regulator inside. At that point you're relying on luck, not engineering, to protect your precious iPhone.
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Does Fox News, BTW, ever cover the fact that Murdoch is married to a former member of the Chinese Communist Party?
Probably not. When you grow up you'll discover two things: First, it's not a good idea to crumb on the boss's wife. Second, you don't have to agree with someone's political stances in order to love/marry them. It's even easier when you attach "former" to those political stances.
I think you're missing the point. The point isn't whether it's worth $40, but what they're doing in addition to providing the obvious service. There was a time when party-lines were cheaper than single-service lines. But the trade off was that your neighbors could hear all your business. At the time, people were up-front about that. If Magic-Jack's business plan is to allow you to trade your privacy for cheaper phone service and a bombardment of ads, good for them. As you say, more competition. Let the market decide. But they need to be up front about the whole cost including the non-monitary compromises you're making using their service.
We ought to have CD-quality telephony by now.
Why? 8 bit 64k is perfectly adequate for voice. If we have spare cash to spend on communicaitons, spend it somewhere else, on something that isn't perfectly adequate, or that benefits substantially from improvment. If we get better voice quality as a side effect, great! But it isn't something to focus on.
Now run along. I think I saw some vinyl records in the other room you can play with.
Yeah. How you you know the chest hair is greasy? And remember, your own personal experience running your fingers through the hair doesn't count, nor do other places you've written about the greasy chest hair. You have to site some 3rd party publication which can verify said greasyness...
Yeah. As an example of good, early tablet use, take a look at hacked ePODs one ' s
http://www.amazon.com/Salton-EP1-ePods-Handheld-Computer/dp/B00004YNWY
http://www.lonnypaul.com/epods-hacking-info-archive/2005/11/29/
This artifact from a dot-com flameout was hacked early in the 2000's to allow web surfing and remote desktoping from the underlying MIPS Windows CE impelmentation. A handful of WiFi-b cards were supported. I had one, and everybody thought, at the time, it was really the bee's knees.
the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad were really just incremental innovations of other services and products that people were already offering?!
I'm no Apple Fanboi, but I think it's fair to track the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad paritally back to the Newton. Of all the really old tech, I think they resemble that more than anything else from the early 90's. Was there any other predecessor to the Newton that made it to general-consumer mass production?
Nobody said it was the Linux system. It could have been whatever ECM monitored the Power Button. Normally, you hit the button, and it sends out a message across a bus, typically CAN (or FlexRay in the most modern systems) which tells the other systems to "wake up", and typically also energizes the ignition wire for non-connected systems. If that one ECM was locked up, the car is pretty much hosed until you can reset it. Could well have been a $5 microcontroller imbedded in the dash, and running a fore-ground/background loop, and no real OS.
Exactly. A less sensational headline could have been "XJ Power button kinda flakey". This kinda stuff is what drives technical support people nuts. The technically ignorant public comandeers a technical term, such as BSOD, with a very specific meaning, then generalizes it until it's no more useful than the word "Crash". Less useful, actually, since it makes people familliar with the original meaning infer information that the ludide doesn't mean to imply. For people of this level of technical sophisticaiton (Toughbooks, OBD2 interfaces, etc) to do this is shameful.
While I'm on this rant, can we please, please, stop using the word "Literally" as an intensity modifier for metaphorical descriptions? I swear, the next person who tells me they're "Literally on fire" gets sprayed with a fire-extinguisher as an object lesson. Power or CO2, I haven't decided yet. We'll just see what feels right at the time.
If you RTFA, there' no mention of Windows. The Car just wouldn't start. They disconnected the battery, and reconnected it.
The 1 billion gallons figure, distributed across 40 years and the population, works out to about 1/10th of a gallon per person per year.
harrumph
Wrong thread, dude...
Yeah. And Bob got fired for using the company email for personal use. This isn't the criminal system where crimes have specific elements that must be met, leading to a specific range of senteces. If a corporation wants to fire you, they fire you, then go looking for a way to justify it.
They do care. Because, generally speaking, you want your stock to go up, rather than having an opporunity to dump it just before it falls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, short-selling and all that, but in that case you're talking about speculators, not the BOD.
Interesting thought. What, then, should the government do with various savings accounts such as pensions? (Think in terms of smaller municipal or state retirement management agencies, not Federal, so we don't end up in an argument about the federal reserve, or national debt). In order to earn a return, the money must be "doing" something. Should we literally stack up $100 bills and store them in a warehouse? Or as an alternative, perhaps treasury bonds would be the other non-corporate option?
why will it be any different this time?
Because sooner or later, it has to be. You reach a breaking point where the new technology is sufficiently different from the old that they don't represent the same device anymore. I think you'd have to be crazy to think that we're approaching the peak of our ability to solve computational problems, but I don't think its unreasonable to think that we're approaching the limit of what we can do with this technology (transistors).
Really? I got a Core i5-750 in January, and I have been happier with it for the money than any chip I've ever had.
The problem here is not the fact that the photos are being presented on Facebook. They're public record. Local newspapers have printed booking photos since the beginning of Local Newspapers (or maybe the beginning of booking photos).
The problem is with us, the public. We react to this as if it is a shame to the person. We really need to be working to change the public mindset with the reminder of "Innocent until proven guilty". The proper response to these photos is "Huh. Joe got arrested for DUI. I wonder how it's gonna turn out?" That's how we need to get people thinking. At that point, all this Facebook crap doesn't matter.
Get healthy steady relationship, buy pill..
use more than one type if you don't want little ones.
They have a pill that stops crabs?
Get healthy steady relationship, buy pill and you don't have to simulate the sensation of touching the insides of a vagina sans rubber.
But in the mean-time, consider buying the textured kind. Then turn them inside out so you get all the pleasure.
Nothing beats it for what? I'll grant you security if you're absolutely worried that an unmarked van is going to be tailing you for miles
This doesn't happen to Audis A8's. Only to BMW 7 series driven by Clive Owen.
Yeah. The whole "Coalition of the Willing" is in danger of falling apart at this point. Are we still calling it that?
(BTW, I know it's an Iraq reference, not Afghanistan, but I like saying it...)
Since the names started showing up on Wikileaks.
If we don't track people, TERRORISTS will KIDNAP your KIDS and use DRUGS to turn them into GAY SUICIDE BOMBERS!
Or worse yet, they might share music. Oh, think of the artists! What will the poor artists do if we don't track people?
Exactly. I got an '86 Cutlass Supreme with a V8, shoddy tires, worn out brakes, a missing front bumper, and a case of PBR in a cooler in the passenger seat. I'll take them odds vs. any Volvo in the world...
Yeah. They work fine for a while. Part of what you're paying for is engineering. It's easy to provide something that looks like 5 volts to a simple multimeter.
But you plug a cheap cigarette lighter USB charger in, and put a scope on it. Then do things like crank the engine, turn your AC blower on/off, etc, and see what happens.
Good quality chargers typically have extra components to filter out the sort of nasty, very fast spikes (often 30 v or more) that come over a car's 12v (13 to 14 really) lines. Some of the knock-offs are good. Other's aren't. Don't be surprised if you open it, and find 4 resistors and an old 7805 regulator inside. At that point you're relying on luck, not engineering, to protect your precious iPhone.
Yep. But does she run Linux?