While that might be true, you don't generally go into the kitchen of a restaurant, if you come to my home, you will.
There is a world of difference between a for-profit restaurant run by hourly employees who may or may not care, and a non-profit dinner hosted in my home for 8-12 guests.
If you come into my home and it is clean and tidy and you know that your money is going to chip in for the food, it is reasonable to assume that I also don't throw the chicken on the floor before serving it to you.
Well then, good luck buying anything new these days... You'll be hard pressed to find a car or truck that doesn't come with power windows and door locks these days...
As a side note, besides being able to open the truck using a phone (either via app or calling OnStar), you can open it using the hidden physical key in the keyless fob (they all have one as a backup)...
On top of that... you can find a CR2016 battery... well, just about everywhere... So getting a replacement is not exactly hard...
It will alert you that it can't detect the key, but the engine isn't going to shut off.
If you take the key inside when the truck is running, it will ding at you every minute and if you try and turn the truck off, it will warn you that a restart will require the key.
If the battery dies in the fob, there is a small physical key inside that can be used to get in the truck if required.
Keep in mind also that OnStar can remotely start the truck for you as well if you have a problem, and you can drive it that way without the key fob if you know the password.
Just get in (unlock it either by using your phone, or calling OnStar, then press the blue button and tell the adviser that your key fob isn't working, they'll ask you your security question then turn the truck on for you.
It really isn't as hard as many people make it out to be.
The future? Heck, my truck doesn't use keys today! I just walk up, put my hand in the handle and press the button on the door, it unlocks. The seat knows who I am and moves to my position, then I just press the button on the panel and the truck turns on, then I go drive.
When I stop and get out, the truck autolocks about 30 seconds after the last person leaves, it will even warn me if I leave the little key fob thing in the truck by flashing the lights and honking the horn.
I can also turn it on and off using my phone and I can remote start and stop it using my phone, about the only thing the phone won't do is drive it via remote control.
The iPad 4 actually is a nice upgrade over the 3. If you haven't used them side by size, which I have since I own both, you wouldn't notice.
The 4 is quite simply double the speed of the 3, it feels much snappier and loads programs much faster than the 3 does.
The Air? It is 40% lighter, which is tempting, but not enough to spend another $500.
The Air 2 or Air 3, probably will get me to upgrade, but I'm moving to a 3 year upgrade cycle now and I'm unlikely to go back to buying a new one every year.
Everyone I know has more or less reached this point with tablets and phones.
We had a pair of Galaxy S3 phones, and upgraded to S4 phones to get the better CPU, 1080p screen, and a few other features.
The S5? Meh, nothing to see there, move along...
The S6? Meh, what can they add, a 1440p screen? for the size, 1080p is just fine, media hasn't grown all that much, maybe when it has a 4k screen and the world moves to 4k content.
It is fast, runs everything I throw at it, I have no reason to replace it.
Will I? Yes, probably for the S6 or S7, probably every 3 years now, when I used to replace every year.
While I agree with you in principle, in practice you are mistaken.
The whole idea of states rights and limited federal government ended after the Civil War and during Reconstruction.
We really aren't the same country that we were when we were founded, even if we use the same name and the same constitution.
The South fought exactly what you're talking about, and lost. It will take another war to change it. I'm not suggesting that is a good thing, I'm just saying that is what it would take.
That is corporate speak for, "we decided we could make more money this way, so here is a bs reason for us to change, when we really just want more money."
Photon torpedoes are from Star Trek, they are matter/anti-matter missile weapons fired from the ship in a torpedo casing. They have guidance and a warp sustainer engine so if fired at warp they can maintain warp speed for a short period of time. (Phasers are directed energy weapons and thus can't be used at warp)
Proton torpedoes are from Star Wars, they also are a cased missile weapon, much smaller than photon torpedoes, the X-Wing carries 6 of them, 3 per launcher. They are anti-capital ship weapons, unable to target most fighters, they are designed to penetrate thick durasteel hulls and explode inside the ship.
That is true, but you can generally tell by looking at someone's home if they are clean or not.
You come to my house, you'll get a safe, well cooked meal on modern applicanaces using safe food practices. If not, I have homeowners insurance to cover you, since I'm hosting guests and not running a restaurant.
If I hosted such an event, it wouldn't be about the money, but about having a nice evening with people who love great quality food.
The challenge is that while I could grow my own tomatoes, my time is not free, they would cost me more to grow than they would cost me from a local farmers market.
As for moving to a better neighborhood, that costs a lot of money, more than I have. Right now I live in one of the best public school districts in Texas. There is another one about 20 miles away I could move to, also one of the best, and all the homes there are on one acre lots, but they also cost a million dollars each, which I do not have. My current home is about $320k and that is the limit of what I can afford. I live here for the schools, I could easily get lots of land for that much money, but it wouldn't be in the best school system.
I don't want everyone else to do anything, I'm just saying that most people in western civilization have moved beyond the time when you could live off the land and be free of modern technology.
To try and go back there would be a nasty mess involving a lot of dead people.
I would prefer that we retain our modern civilization and make sure that we preserve our knowledge so that it may never be lost.
That is a nice idea, but there are problems with it and it doesn't solve the core problem.
I live in a nice suburb, our population density is much lower than many urban areas, but still WAY too high to live in the 19th century.
We generate a ton of trash, we need a working water and sewer system, and the power needs to be on or we'd all be standing around in the dark and cold (or heat).
Having a small vegetable garden is nice, but wouldn't feed my family and it doesn't scale up to the size that would. First, I don't have the land. Second, I don't have the skills and tools to grow that much food, having a small 10x10 (or even 20x20) vegetable garden in the back yard is not at all the same thing as having an acre of crops to feed the family all year and knowing how and when to harvest them to be a sole food source.
My point was that we have moved beyond that time, we aren't going back there short of disaster and war, and the population would be thinned by quite a bit in the process.
Yes, and this is why the preservation of civilization and knowledge are so important.
The vast majority of people are no longer able to take basic care of themselves without modern society. Or do you know how to grow crops? Because I sure don't, I do however know how to shop at Walmart for food.
Could I figure it out? Yea, sure... in the time required if food left store shelves? No, not really...
A bigger issue? We now have too many people to go back to living off the land, so we need civilization, or we'd have... an interesting day...
Yes, but generally the FBI cannot go into an office in Ireland and physically take something, the local security forces would be correct in stopping them.
And I'd be shocked if MS's main server hubs are not guarded by real security forces.
Frankly, in 2014, any transsexuals and one-legged midgets should be prepared to have a tougher go of it than the majority.
Is it fair? No, the fair is in October, that's just life...
Anyone who is very different from the mean is simply going to have a harder time in life. But life is what you make of it, you can bitch and moan about it, or find your place and be accepted there and move on.
You lost me there. There was almost no difference between these two models, and they were released six months from each other. Just a slightly faster processor, but nothing near what it would take to upgrade if you passed on the iPad 3 or already had one.
Actually, the iPad 4 is outright twice as fast as the iPad 3 is, and it shows. I've loaded and run several games and apps on both of them side by side, Bejeweled HD being one of my favorites, and it really does load twice as fast on the 4 as it does on the 3.
In truth, I didn't buy the 4 to "really" replace the 3, I bought it because we owned a 2 and a 3 and I wanted the kids to have the Retina display, so I gave them my 3, sold the 2, and bought a 4 for myself.
The Air? Yea, it is nice, but I'm skipping that one.
The irony is that I'm totally married to my iPad, but can't stand the iPhone. I have a Galaxy S4 and love it. I will replace it with a Note 4 when it comes out in 6 months, I want a larger screen. The 4" screen on the iPhone 5 is unusable to me.
Both are true and fair points, but neither Amazon nor e-mail are going to go out of sync with the iPad 3 any time soon.
Both will support the iPad 3 for at least 3 more years, there are simply too many of them to do otherwise.
But yes, at some point we'll replace them, probably every 3 years or so, give or take. After all, the batteries will stop holding a good charge after awhile, so I don't expect to use them 10 years or anything like that.
The price for the 128GB is almost the most reasonable, since each $100 jump in price also doubles your memory. The $100 to jump from 16GB to 32GB is just insulting in terms of value.
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While that might be true, you don't generally go into the kitchen of a restaurant, if you come to my home, you will.
There is a world of difference between a for-profit restaurant run by hourly employees who may or may not care, and a non-profit dinner hosted in my home for 8-12 guests.
If you come into my home and it is clean and tidy and you know that your money is going to chip in for the food, it is reasonable to assume that I also don't throw the chicken on the floor before serving it to you.
Well then, good luck buying anything new these days... You'll be hard pressed to find a car or truck that doesn't come with power windows and door locks these days...
As a side note, besides being able to open the truck using a phone (either via app or calling OnStar), you can open it using the hidden physical key in the keyless fob (they all have one as a backup)...
On top of that... you can find a CR2016 battery... well, just about everywhere... So getting a replacement is not exactly hard...
That does not happen, or it shouldn't anyway...
It will alert you that it can't detect the key, but the engine isn't going to shut off.
If you take the key inside when the truck is running, it will ding at you every minute and if you try and turn the truck off, it will warn you that a restart will require the key.
If the battery dies in the fob, there is a small physical key inside that can be used to get in the truck if required.
Keep in mind also that OnStar can remotely start the truck for you as well if you have a problem, and you can drive it that way without the key fob if you know the password.
Just get in (unlock it either by using your phone, or calling OnStar, then press the blue button and tell the adviser that your key fob isn't working, they'll ask you your security question then turn the truck on for you.
It really isn't as hard as many people make it out to be.
The future? Heck, my truck doesn't use keys today! I just walk up, put my hand in the handle and press the button on the door, it unlocks. The seat knows who I am and moves to my position, then I just press the button on the panel and the truck turns on, then I go drive.
When I stop and get out, the truck autolocks about 30 seconds after the last person leaves, it will even warn me if I leave the little key fob thing in the truck by flashing the lights and honking the horn.
I can also turn it on and off using my phone and I can remote start and stop it using my phone, about the only thing the phone won't do is drive it via remote control.
The iPad 4 actually is a nice upgrade over the 3. If you haven't used them side by size, which I have since I own both, you wouldn't notice.
The 4 is quite simply double the speed of the 3, it feels much snappier and loads programs much faster than the 3 does.
The Air? It is 40% lighter, which is tempting, but not enough to spend another $500.
The Air 2 or Air 3, probably will get me to upgrade, but I'm moving to a 3 year upgrade cycle now and I'm unlikely to go back to buying a new one every year.
Everyone I know has more or less reached this point with tablets and phones.
The phones are going that direction as well.
We had a pair of Galaxy S3 phones, and upgraded to S4 phones to get the better CPU, 1080p screen, and a few other features.
The S5? Meh, nothing to see there, move along...
The S6? Meh, what can they add, a 1440p screen? for the size, 1080p is just fine, media hasn't grown all that much, maybe when it has a 4k screen and the world moves to 4k content.
It is fast, runs everything I throw at it, I have no reason to replace it.
Will I? Yes, probably for the S6 or S7, probably every 3 years now, when I used to replace every year.
Likewise with the iPad.
While I agree with you in principle, in practice you are mistaken.
The whole idea of states rights and limited federal government ended after the Civil War and during Reconstruction.
We really aren't the same country that we were when we were founded, even if we use the same name and the same constitution.
The South fought exactly what you're talking about, and lost. It will take another war to change it. I'm not suggesting that is a good thing, I'm just saying that is what it would take.
That is corporate speak for, "we decided we could make more money this way, so here is a bs reason for us to change, when we really just want more money."
There is totally room to do weird stuff...
Right up until you endanger someone else (like me!)
Now, I don't like tons of regulations either, but I also don't want people crashing drones into me.
So yea, if someone is an idiot and crashes a drone in a city, that should be a crime.
Nerd hat on...
Photon torpedoes are from Star Trek, they are matter/anti-matter missile weapons fired from the ship in a torpedo casing. They have guidance and a warp sustainer engine so if fired at warp they can maintain warp speed for a short period of time. (Phasers are directed energy weapons and thus can't be used at warp)
Proton torpedoes are from Star Wars, they also are a cased missile weapon, much smaller than photon torpedoes, the X-Wing carries 6 of them, 3 per launcher. They are anti-capital ship weapons, unable to target most fighters, they are designed to penetrate thick durasteel hulls and explode inside the ship.
That, and the idea that automatics are "much slower" is old outdated nonsense.
Modern automatic transmissions are, with few exceptions, just as fast, if not faster, than manuals.
That is true, but you can generally tell by looking at someone's home if they are clean or not.
You come to my house, you'll get a safe, well cooked meal on modern applicanaces using safe food practices. If not, I have homeowners insurance to cover you, since I'm hosting guests and not running a restaurant.
If I hosted such an event, it wouldn't be about the money, but about having a nice evening with people who love great quality food.
Since it is secure via remote hack and secure again a USB drop, then your only remaining option is a local intrusion.
That is when the guys with guns come in handy, and the military is good at that. :)
Are places like Ft. Hood secure? No. Is a nuclear missile silo secure? I dam well hope so...
If not, then I'd agree there is a problem.
The challenge is that while I could grow my own tomatoes, my time is not free, they would cost me more to grow than they would cost me from a local farmers market.
As for moving to a better neighborhood, that costs a lot of money, more than I have. Right now I live in one of the best public school districts in Texas. There is another one about 20 miles away I could move to, also one of the best, and all the homes there are on one acre lots, but they also cost a million dollars each, which I do not have. My current home is about $320k and that is the limit of what I can afford. I live here for the schools, I could easily get lots of land for that much money, but it wouldn't be in the best school system.
Then you aren't hearing me...
I don't want everyone else to do anything, I'm just saying that most people in western civilization have moved beyond the time when you could live off the land and be free of modern technology.
To try and go back there would be a nasty mess involving a lot of dead people.
I would prefer that we retain our modern civilization and make sure that we preserve our knowledge so that it may never be lost.
That is a nice idea, but there are problems with it and it doesn't solve the core problem.
I live in a nice suburb, our population density is much lower than many urban areas, but still WAY too high to live in the 19th century.
We generate a ton of trash, we need a working water and sewer system, and the power needs to be on or we'd all be standing around in the dark and cold (or heat).
Having a small vegetable garden is nice, but wouldn't feed my family and it doesn't scale up to the size that would. First, I don't have the land. Second, I don't have the skills and tools to grow that much food, having a small 10x10 (or even 20x20) vegetable garden in the back yard is not at all the same thing as having an acre of crops to feed the family all year and knowing how and when to harvest them to be a sole food source.
My point was that we have moved beyond that time, we aren't going back there short of disaster and war, and the population would be thinned by quite a bit in the process.
That all jives with my memory of the case from the 90s...
And I keep thinking the same thing today as I did back then, why would Novell have trusted MS in the first place?
Trust, but verify...
Yes, and this is why the preservation of civilization and knowledge are so important.
The vast majority of people are no longer able to take basic care of themselves without modern society. Or do you know how to grow crops? Because I sure don't, I do however know how to shop at Walmart for food.
Could I figure it out? Yea, sure... in the time required if food left store shelves? No, not really...
A bigger issue? We now have too many people to go back to living off the land, so we need civilization, or we'd have... an interesting day...
Turn the movie around...
Yes, but generally the FBI cannot go into an office in Ireland and physically take something, the local security forces would be correct in stopping them.
And I'd be shocked if MS's main server hubs are not guarded by real security forces.
Frankly, in 2014, any transsexuals and one-legged midgets should be prepared to have a tougher go of it than the majority.
Is it fair? No, the fair is in October, that's just life...
Anyone who is very different from the mean is simply going to have a harder time in life. But life is what you make of it, you can bitch and moan about it, or find your place and be accepted there and move on.
You, sir, deserve mod and karma points for being correct!
BTW, why are blue skinned aliens always the ones we talk about, they tend to be quite pretty (Avatar, Mass Effect, etc...)
You lost me there. There was almost no difference between these two models, and they were released six months from each other. Just a slightly faster processor, but nothing near what it would take to upgrade if you passed on the iPad 3 or already had one.
Actually, the iPad 4 is outright twice as fast as the iPad 3 is, and it shows. I've loaded and run several games and apps on both of them side by side, Bejeweled HD being one of my favorites, and it really does load twice as fast on the 4 as it does on the 3.
In truth, I didn't buy the 4 to "really" replace the 3, I bought it because we owned a 2 and a 3 and I wanted the kids to have the Retina display, so I gave them my 3, sold the 2, and bought a 4 for myself.
The Air? Yea, it is nice, but I'm skipping that one.
The irony is that I'm totally married to my iPad, but can't stand the iPhone. I have a Galaxy S4 and love it. I will replace it with a Note 4 when it comes out in 6 months, I want a larger screen. The 4" screen on the iPhone 5 is unusable to me.
Both are true and fair points, but neither Amazon nor e-mail are going to go out of sync with the iPad 3 any time soon.
Both will support the iPad 3 for at least 3 more years, there are simply too many of them to do otherwise.
But yes, at some point we'll replace them, probably every 3 years or so, give or take. After all, the batteries will stop holding a good charge after awhile, so I don't expect to use them 10 years or anything like that.
The price for the 128GB is almost the most reasonable, since each $100 jump in price also doubles your memory. The $100 to jump from 16GB to 32GB is just insulting in terms of value.