To some extent, that's true. He's young enough that play with friends is still a bit managed (in large part because his friends are in different neighborhoods, so driving is involved). I expect the lack of exposure will reduce the impact they have on him when he does see them.
On the other hand, he often gets excited about seeing ads the few times it happens because they're so rare.
We have been using MythTV for over a decade. The automatic commercial detection is pretty good, but we usually take a minute to set cutpoints (tweaking the detected commercials), and then transcode the recording to drop the commercials. Our son *never* sees commercials. I'm sure that has saved us tons of begging for toys and whatnot.
My desktop system at work is a Core 2 Duo from February of 2007. At the time I had been waiting for a 64-bit PC, and this was one of the first that were available at work (about 6 months after Intel released the CPU). It works fine for almost everything I need. I'm looking to upgrade soon, though, as it maxes out at 8GB, the hard drive is mostly full, and it's too slow when running VMWare when I need to run Microsoft Windows.
Google tells me that Windows Vista was released in November 2006, and my company skipped it (like everyone else), so I'm definitely still using a Core 2 Duo from the XP days.
I agree, but with one change. There's no good reason to tax investment income based on transactions in the middle of investing. Why should the government care if you shift your money from stock in FOO to BAR? Let people create investment accounts. If you've put $1000 into the account, you can take $1000 out tax free. After that, anything you take out is regular income. Close the account with less money than you stated with? Then (and only then) do you claim a loss.
If I'm doing my math correctly, 1TB is about 4Mb/s over a month. Or closer to 3, depending on the definitions they're using (base-2 TB vs. base-10, etc.).
I run a tor relay at over 1MB/s, so that alone would more than double the new cap. I've very glad I'm on FiOS. Though I suppose I'm at the mercy of Verizon if they start doing the same thing.
From the description (I didn't read the article since there wasn't a link), this sounds like an advocacy group to deal with legal matters and public opinion. This has nothing to do with working together to actually develop the technology. We'll likely also get some patent pool groups much like the MPEG licensing group.
Certainly the group they're forming could be expanded to include both patent pool licensing and technology development, but for now, they're just talking advocacy.
I expect lots of people will buy: *) all-wheel drive *) larger battery *) Auto Pilot *) Supercharging (if not standard)
Less popular options will include: *) air suspension *) cold weather *) higher performance
Of course, the exact options and the prices aren't clear, but the above is quite likely. The Auto Pilot and Supercharging are both features where the hardware is included, but it may be disabled in software unless you pay an additional fee (Supercharging was extra in the lower-end Model S at one point).
If you can get the 300-mile range battery and all-wheel drive for an extra $7K, then that would put the average price at $42K. I could easily see the average being higher, depending on the available options and prices. Of course, Tesla probably has a much better idea of what they will charge and what people will pay.
Tesla doesn't do model years. They make small changes to the cars all the time. They make big changes several times a year. Tesla follows a model much more like what you would expect from a software company putting out weekly bug fixes, only they're changing their hardware.
They certainly could unbundle all the options. I'm sure the factory would have no difficulty building what the configuration said to build. The software undoubtedly already handles it, as the software writers don't know how the bundles might change in the future, so each option they have to manage must be a separate configuration flag.
It would, however, make the configuration process more complicated for the buyers. It might reduce the average selling price. Neither of those are things the company wants. The bundling of options is very much a marketing decision, not a technical one.
Tesla has always had bundles of options where most people had to choose whether to buy the whole bundle when they only wanted one or two items. Last year the power liftgate was part of the premium interior package. It was the only item there that many people cared about. That's just the way they do business.
If the NTSB agreed and the various state laws that specifically require a side mirror (not camera) could be changed, then yes. The prototype Model X had cameras, but the lawyers made them switch to mirrors.
To be fair, some people might not realize how easy it is; this is a chance for them to learn. Also, in some cases, Comcast will bundle phone service such that you pay less with it than without. I did that once and never hooked it up.
Oh, yes, we Google Voice does send numeric Caller ID, but not the much-more-useful names. All I really want is names from my contacts.
My understanding of how the system works in the USA is that your telephone company (Verizon, Google Voice, etc.) does a database lookup on the phone number and adds the name to the Caller ID information sent with the first ring. I think there are only one or two providers of that database, and their terms are that you pay per lookup and can't cache the results. (I believe in Canada, the name is added on the outgoing side at the same time the number is sent, so there's no database issue. Too bad it doesn't work that way here.)
Because you don't get caller-ID names or E911 that way.
I love my Obi, but we have a low call volume, so we use VoIP.ms specifically to get caller-ID names (free if they're in your address book). There are several options for E911 that cost $1/month, with Google Voice or separately, or you can route 911 directly to the local emergency number, though they won't get your location automatically that way.
If Google Voice gets an upgrade to send Caller ID Names using Google Contacts, I'll switch.
I use an Obi, and I would agree except for a few things. The service they're offering is roughly equivalent to using an Obi with their premium subscription service. Google Fiber Talk customers get caller ID and other features that you don't get directly with Google Voice.
Google will also allow you to port your land line over, which they won't with Google Voice (you have to first port it to a mobile, so it can be done if you're really determined). They also provide E911 service, which is not part of Google Voice. There are add-on services you can use with Google Voice for $1/month to get E911, or you can just map 911 to your local emergency dispatch number (knowing they won't automatically get your address that way).
Our "land" line is VoIP with an Obi (I highly recommend it), but we use voip.ms specifically because it will send Caller ID names from my address book. We don't have enough minutes in monthly calling to make the Obi subscription service make sense or we would switch.
That's actually a good point about asteroid mining. This is in many ways similar: An expensive proposition to exploit resources in a harsh environment. Instead of no atmosphere, you have massive pressure. Instead of rockets, you have submarines. Both present major engineering challenges. Both would likely be done largely if not entirely by robots.
Will Space X reduce the cost of space travel to make asteroid mining economical? Do asteroids have mineral resources that are worth exploiting? Will techniques for undersea mining prove economical?
To some extent, the environmental concerns are the biggest difference between the two.
I use a Proxy Auto Config file. It is a java script program that decides what proxy to use based on the URL. If it's a known ad site, then it uses a proxy that redirects to 1x1 transparent GIFs for all requests, otherwise it goes to the real web site. One great thing about this is that I can block based on the path name, so I can even block ads served by the same host as the real content, which you can't do with a hosts file redirect.
If I notice a page is loading slowly, as I did with a local newspaper site, I'll look at the cookies it sends, and block any off-site domains that send cookies. That greatly improved things there.
The one thing I can't block on is the size of the requested image. If the web browser knows that the image is a 1x1, I would love to block it--those are always a waste of time.
So what this sounds like to me is a standardized docking station.
Just put a standard connector in a standard location that passes through the VESA Local Bus (or whatever newfangled thing is popular these days). Then have a docking station with a card slot, install a standard desktop video card, and you're all set. This lets AMD (and others) sell video cards to end users of laptops just like they have always done for desktops.
Now where this could get really interesting is if they do this right, and create something that ends up getting applied not just to laptops, but to tablets and phones.
This is similar hardware to Magicjack, but it works with whatever VoIP provider you choose.
I'm with voip.ms, which is $.01/minute billed in 6-second increments for all calls (in and out). There's an extra $1/month, plus another $1/month for 911 service. If you want caller ID names, it's an extra $.01/call, but only if it's not in the contacts you set up on their web page. There is a fee for porting numbers.
Another option is Google Voice. All calls (US/Canada) are free, but there's no caller ID names, even from your Google Contacts. Also, Google only lets you port mobile numbers, not land-line numbers, but people have managed to do it by first porting their cell phone to a prepaid cell. (I have our outgoing calls set to a Google Voice number, which can be a bit confusing for people.)
(2) above isn't that different today. The media cooperates with the White House to almost never say anything about our President smoking. It's not really a secret, but it's also something that is hardly ever mentioned.
Sure, drop the rate back to wholesale for the buy-back of net metering, but then price it based on the spot market at that time, not the overall rate. The prices are highest during the day, so net metering for solar would likely pay more than the retail rate if the utilities had to pay for it based on the time.
Overall, utilities are saving money from solar--they're reducing what they have to pay to support peak demand, and now they're coming back and trying to suck more money out of their customers.
This is a money grab by the utilities, plain and simple. This has nothing to do with fairness.
That's absurd. This is a regulated monopoly. If the government wasn't regulating them, they would dramatically raise rates and prohibit solar altogether. When you have a monopoly, you have to regulate.
I use "incognito mode" all the time. Anytime I see some interesting link on Facebook, I always open it in incognito mode. Just one more level of protection against associating the link with my account or leaving behind unwanted trash.
I also find it very useful for news sites that let you have a certain number of articles free before throwing up a paywall. Using incognito mode resets the counter back to zero.
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To some extent, that's true. He's young enough that play with friends is still a bit managed (in large part because his friends are in different neighborhoods, so driving is involved). I expect the lack of exposure will reduce the impact they have on him when he does see them.
On the other hand, he often gets excited about seeing ads the few times it happens because they're so rare.
My ad blocking is successful at blocking Youtube ads, so at least at home, he's safe there.
We have been using MythTV for over a decade. The automatic commercial detection is pretty good, but we usually take a minute to set cutpoints (tweaking the detected commercials), and then transcode the recording to drop the commercials. Our son *never* sees commercials. I'm sure that has saved us tons of begging for toys and whatnot.
My desktop system at work is a Core 2 Duo from February of 2007. At the time I had been waiting for a 64-bit PC, and this was one of the first that were available at work (about 6 months after Intel released the CPU). It works fine for almost everything I need. I'm looking to upgrade soon, though, as it maxes out at 8GB, the hard drive is mostly full, and it's too slow when running VMWare when I need to run Microsoft Windows.
Google tells me that Windows Vista was released in November 2006, and my company skipped it (like everyone else), so I'm definitely still using a Core 2 Duo from the XP days.
I agree, but with one change. There's no good reason to tax investment income based on transactions in the middle of investing. Why should the government care if you shift your money from stock in FOO to BAR? Let people create investment accounts. If you've put $1000 into the account, you can take $1000 out tax free. After that, anything you take out is regular income. Close the account with less money than you stated with? Then (and only then) do you claim a loss.
The solution here is to make Boaty McBoatface a real scientist. Anytime anyone publishes a scientific paper, they should add him as a coauthor.
If I'm doing my math correctly, 1TB is about 4Mb/s over a month. Or closer to 3, depending on the definitions they're using (base-2 TB vs. base-10, etc.).
I run a tor relay at over 1MB/s, so that alone would more than double the new cap. I've very glad I'm on FiOS. Though I suppose I'm at the mercy of Verizon if they start doing the same thing.
From the description (I didn't read the article since there wasn't a link), this sounds like an advocacy group to deal with legal matters and public opinion. This has nothing to do with working together to actually develop the technology. We'll likely also get some patent pool groups much like the MPEG licensing group.
Certainly the group they're forming could be expanded to include both patent pool licensing and technology development, but for now, they're just talking advocacy.
I expect lots of people will buy:
*) all-wheel drive
*) larger battery
*) Auto Pilot
*) Supercharging (if not standard)
Less popular options will include:
*) air suspension
*) cold weather
*) higher performance
Of course, the exact options and the prices aren't clear, but the above is quite likely. The Auto Pilot and Supercharging are both features where the hardware is included, but it may be disabled in software unless you pay an additional fee (Supercharging was extra in the lower-end Model S at one point).
If you can get the 300-mile range battery and all-wheel drive for an extra $7K, then that would put the average price at $42K. I could easily see the average being higher, depending on the available options and prices. Of course, Tesla probably has a much better idea of what they will charge and what people will pay.
Tesla doesn't do model years. They make small changes to the cars all the time. They make big changes several times a year. Tesla follows a model much more like what you would expect from a software company putting out weekly bug fixes, only they're changing their hardware.
They certainly could unbundle all the options. I'm sure the factory would have no difficulty building what the configuration said to build. The software undoubtedly already handles it, as the software writers don't know how the bundles might change in the future, so each option they have to manage must be a separate configuration flag.
It would, however, make the configuration process more complicated for the buyers. It might reduce the average selling price. Neither of those are things the company wants. The bundling of options is very much a marketing decision, not a technical one.
Tesla has always had bundles of options where most people had to choose whether to buy the whole bundle when they only wanted one or two items. Last year the power liftgate was part of the premium interior package. It was the only item there that many people cared about. That's just the way they do business.
If the NTSB agreed and the various state laws that specifically require a side mirror (not camera) could be changed, then yes. The prototype Model X had cameras, but the lawyers made them switch to mirrors.
To be fair, some people might not realize how easy it is; this is a chance for them to learn. Also, in some cases, Comcast will bundle phone service such that you pay less with it than without. I did that once and never hooked it up.
Oh, yes, we Google Voice does send numeric Caller ID, but not the much-more-useful names. All I really want is names from my contacts.
My understanding of how the system works in the USA is that your telephone company (Verizon, Google Voice, etc.) does a database lookup on the phone number and adds the name to the Caller ID information sent with the first ring. I think there are only one or two providers of that database, and their terms are that you pay per lookup and can't cache the results. (I believe in Canada, the name is added on the outgoing side at the same time the number is sent, so there's no database issue. Too bad it doesn't work that way here.)
Because you don't get caller-ID names or E911 that way.
I love my Obi, but we have a low call volume, so we use VoIP.ms specifically to get caller-ID names (free if they're in your address book). There are several options for E911 that cost $1/month, with Google Voice or separately, or you can route 911 directly to the local emergency number, though they won't get your location automatically that way.
If Google Voice gets an upgrade to send Caller ID Names using Google Contacts, I'll switch.
I use an Obi, and I would agree except for a few things. The service they're offering is roughly equivalent to using an Obi with their premium subscription service. Google Fiber Talk customers get caller ID and other features that you don't get directly with Google Voice.
Google will also allow you to port your land line over, which they won't with Google Voice (you have to first port it to a mobile, so it can be done if you're really determined). They also provide E911 service, which is not part of Google Voice. There are add-on services you can use with Google Voice for $1/month to get E911, or you can just map 911 to your local emergency dispatch number (knowing they won't automatically get your address that way).
Our "land" line is VoIP with an Obi (I highly recommend it), but we use voip.ms specifically because it will send Caller ID names from my address book. We don't have enough minutes in monthly calling to make the Obi subscription service make sense or we would switch.
That's actually a good point about asteroid mining. This is in many ways similar: An expensive proposition to exploit resources in a harsh environment. Instead of no atmosphere, you have massive pressure. Instead of rockets, you have submarines. Both present major engineering challenges. Both would likely be done largely if not entirely by robots.
Will Space X reduce the cost of space travel to make asteroid mining economical? Do asteroids have mineral resources that are worth exploiting? Will techniques for undersea mining prove economical?
To some extent, the environmental concerns are the biggest difference between the two.
I use a Proxy Auto Config file. It is a java script program that decides what proxy to use based on the URL. If it's a known ad site, then it uses a proxy that redirects to 1x1 transparent GIFs for all requests, otherwise it goes to the real web site. One great thing about this is that I can block based on the path name, so I can even block ads served by the same host as the real content, which you can't do with a hosts file redirect.
If I notice a page is loading slowly, as I did with a local newspaper site, I'll look at the cookies it sends, and block any off-site domains that send cookies. That greatly improved things there.
The one thing I can't block on is the size of the requested image. If the web browser knows that the image is a 1x1, I would love to block it--those are always a waste of time.
So what this sounds like to me is a standardized docking station.
Just put a standard connector in a standard location that passes through the VESA Local Bus (or whatever newfangled thing is popular these days). Then have a docking station with a card slot, install a standard desktop video card, and you're all set. This lets AMD (and others) sell video cards to end users of laptops just like they have always done for desktops.
Now where this could get really interesting is if they do this right, and create something that ends up getting applied not just to laptops, but to tablets and phones.
Combine that with dropping GeoIP restrictions on iPlayer, and they might suddenly find that a lot of foreigners would start paying their license fee.
For phone services, I would suggest looking into an OBi100 or similar device. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-T...
This is similar hardware to Magicjack, but it works with whatever VoIP provider you choose.
I'm with voip.ms, which is $.01/minute billed in 6-second increments for all calls (in and out). There's an extra $1/month, plus another $1/month for 911 service. If you want caller ID names, it's an extra $.01/call, but only if it's not in the contacts you set up on their web page. There is a fee for porting numbers.
Another option is Google Voice. All calls (US/Canada) are free, but there's no caller ID names, even from your Google Contacts. Also, Google only lets you port mobile numbers, not land-line numbers, but people have managed to do it by first porting their cell phone to a prepaid cell. (I have our outgoing calls set to a Google Voice number, which can be a bit confusing for people.)
(2) above isn't that different today. The media cooperates with the White House to almost never say anything about our President smoking. It's not really a secret, but it's also something that is hardly ever mentioned.
Sure, drop the rate back to wholesale for the buy-back of net metering, but then price it based on the spot market at that time, not the overall rate. The prices are highest during the day, so net metering for solar would likely pay more than the retail rate if the utilities had to pay for it based on the time.
Overall, utilities are saving money from solar--they're reducing what they have to pay to support peak demand, and now they're coming back and trying to suck more money out of their customers.
This is a money grab by the utilities, plain and simple. This has nothing to do with fairness.
That's absurd. This is a regulated monopoly. If the government wasn't regulating them, they would dramatically raise rates and prohibit solar altogether. When you have a monopoly, you have to regulate.
I use "incognito mode" all the time. Anytime I see some interesting link on Facebook, I always open it in incognito mode. Just one more level of protection against associating the link with my account or leaving behind unwanted trash.
I also find it very useful for news sites that let you have a certain number of articles free before throwing up a paywall. Using incognito mode resets the counter back to zero.