Yup, I was looking at something on Amazon and called a local shop to see if they had it and for what price. Sure enough they had it, I asked "how much?" and I was informed that they do not give out prices over the phone. In turn I told them I was looking at the exact same item on Amazon with free shipping and if they feel that price comparing customers are not something they are interested I can just hit the 1-click on Amazon. He said "whatever, we don't give out prices over the phone, you have to come in to find out how much it is". I am not going to do business with that kind of shop, clearly they are only looking for uninformed customers.
Been to a Bed Bath and Beyond? Their prices on so much are out of line. I only go there for K-Cups and those prices are fine, but just about everything else is 30% higher (according to my bar code app that shows local and online prices of the exact same item) and they refuse to match prices from my phone even after I show them how it works.
I had some ebay items removed for "violating" a trademark. They were HK (Heckler & Koch) auto decals that I legally obtained. HK filed a complant with ebay. Pretty lame when you can't sell stuff you bought and own because someone else made it.
But it's pretty hard to see how "media" companies can't see that the future is in web streaming and TV programming with was the norm from the 1930's-2008 is just not the future. It's plain to see that that is not what consumers want, regardless it may be harder to push a new show, but I don't have cable and I have found many new shows using the "what's popular" on Hulu. Not that Hulu is the answer but it's a better direction then the Live TV or even TEVO type model. And remember that the "networks" fought hard against TEVO even to the point that advertisers were working on commercials that had visual cues at marked points in the fast forward stream. It's just not possible to conceive of an video future that the old model fits. NBC may push them selves into forced irrelevance if they try to force what remaining viewers they have into an archaic model of broadcasting.
I have an offgrid place 8 miles from an ATT tower and that's the best there will ever be. Not only is my area zoned AG3 (agriculture lots, not less then 3 acres) I am surrounded by forest reserves, the closest paved road is 5 miles away. I can get 1 meg down on ATT's 3G but the options for even a simple network off the shelf are almost none. I have read about ATT's MiFi service that offers a wireless router at 2G but it's not available.
In all that was done to get the net going the pay as you go model will undermine it. FCC is approving this? My ISP already has then ONLY as the option, I live in a 1 ISP town and have no choice....
Great use of resources. Why don't we cut back on the 100 million+ salaries and stop with the crazy expenditures and pay our people a bit better and maybe through in a few "personal" days.
The bumper on my Nissan Titan is 1/4 steel with a winch inside, it spans from one side of my truck to the other. My truck has a 6" lift. I am pretty sure the only lives to be saved with my "bigger bumper" is mine, it's at head hight of someone in a car, the bottom of it is at my mid thigh and I am 6 ft tall. Now in gereral bumpers of light tucks and SUVs have been lowered and made larger to lower the impact zone in SUV vs Car collisions, so I get what you're saying.
I noticed that almost no one remarked on you tip (in my skim of responses. I too use the method you outline, it takes a bit to be used to but is really useful. If you dive like everyone is trying to kill you or get run over you will increase your ability to nit file an insurance claim many fold.
If drivers are not looking in the review, and side views now, why would we think they will look at some screen in the dash? On a further note I try to drive in black out mode at night, all instruments turned to the lowest setting. Of couse I have never backed over someone.
well done, Now we need to re-educate consumers that faster is not better in all but a few cases. Sustained and usable speed is very important. I have a 40 gig cap, I used all 40 over the Thanksgiving weekend with kids watching Netflix. Kids don't care if you have a plan cap (I have the biggest cap for non cable TV subscribers possible) and Netflix does not care that I have a cap. All Netflix knows is that I have a 10 Meg connection and they think I want HD quality streaming (so do I, but not my cable company, er ISP). I would rather have 2 meg quality and not have an extra $100 bill added on each month I go over.
To route burglaries. I no longer need to sit outside in my El Camino watching people and trying to guess when they will be gone. no all I need is a entry level programmer to parse all the "places" info in my target area. No longer will our street crew need to be on the street surveilling.
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Yup, I was looking at something on Amazon and called a local shop to see if they had it and for what price. Sure enough they had it, I asked "how much?" and I was informed that they do not give out prices over the phone. In turn I told them I was looking at the exact same item on Amazon with free shipping and if they feel that price comparing customers are not something they are interested I can just hit the 1-click on Amazon. He said "whatever, we don't give out prices over the phone, you have to come in to find out how much it is". I am not going to do business with that kind of shop, clearly they are only looking for uninformed customers.
Been to a Bed Bath and Beyond? Their prices on so much are out of line. I only go there for K-Cups and those prices are fine, but just about everything else is 30% higher (according to my bar code app that shows local and online prices of the exact same item) and they refuse to match prices from my phone even after I show them how it works.
Define irony? Maybe not, maybe it's to help you avoid sites that are overly simplistic?
I had some ebay items removed for "violating" a trademark. They were HK (Heckler & Koch) auto decals that I legally obtained. HK filed a complant with ebay. Pretty lame when you can't sell stuff you bought and own because someone else made it.
But it's pretty hard to see how "media" companies can't see that the future is in web streaming and TV programming with was the norm from the 1930's-2008 is just not the future. It's plain to see that that is not what consumers want, regardless it may be harder to push a new show, but I don't have cable and I have found many new shows using the "what's popular" on Hulu. Not that Hulu is the answer but it's a better direction then the Live TV or even TEVO type model. And remember that the "networks" fought hard against TEVO even to the point that advertisers were working on commercials that had visual cues at marked points in the fast forward stream. It's just not possible to conceive of an video future that the old model fits. NBC may push them selves into forced irrelevance if they try to force what remaining viewers they have into an archaic model of broadcasting.
I have an offgrid place 8 miles from an ATT tower and that's the best there will ever be. Not only is my area zoned AG3 (agriculture lots, not less then 3 acres) I am surrounded by forest reserves, the closest paved road is 5 miles away. I can get 1 meg down on ATT's 3G but the options for even a simple network off the shelf are almost none. I have read about ATT's MiFi service that offers a wireless router at 2G but it's not available.
I still use Google as a spellcheck sometimes.
I am waiting for the punch line.....
In all that was done to get the net going the pay as you go model will undermine it. FCC is approving this? My ISP already has then ONLY as the option, I live in a 1 ISP town and have no choice....
Great use of resources. Why don't we cut back on the 100 million+ salaries and stop with the crazy expenditures and pay our people a bit better and maybe through in a few "personal" days.
That is a heck of a weak link in the chain. No redundancy? I had better go RTFA soI know if the weather channel will survive this datapocolipse.
The bumper on my Nissan Titan is 1/4 steel with a winch inside, it spans from one side of my truck to the other. My truck has a 6" lift. I am pretty sure the only lives to be saved with my "bigger bumper" is mine, it's at head hight of someone in a car, the bottom of it is at my mid thigh and I am 6 ft tall. Now in gereral bumpers of light tucks and SUVs have been lowered and made larger to lower the impact zone in SUV vs Car collisions, so I get what you're saying.
I noticed that almost no one remarked on you tip (in my skim of responses. I too use the method you outline, it takes a bit to be used to but is really useful. If you dive like everyone is trying to kill you or get run over you will increase your ability to nit file an insurance claim many fold.
If drivers are not looking in the review, and side views now, why would we think they will look at some screen in the dash? On a further note I try to drive in black out mode at night, all instruments turned to the lowest setting. Of couse I have never backed over someone.
well done, Now we need to re-educate consumers that faster is not better in all but a few cases. Sustained and usable speed is very important. I have a 40 gig cap, I used all 40 over the Thanksgiving weekend with kids watching Netflix. Kids don't care if you have a plan cap (I have the biggest cap for non cable TV subscribers possible) and Netflix does not care that I have a cap. All Netflix knows is that I have a 10 Meg connection and they think I want HD quality streaming (so do I, but not my cable company, er ISP). I would rather have 2 meg quality and not have an extra $100 bill added on each month I go over.
To route burglaries. I no longer need to sit outside in my El Camino watching people and trying to guess when they will be gone. no all I need is a entry level programmer to parse all the "places" info in my target area. No longer will our street crew need to be on the street surveilling.
One of the "victims" was really a man with an Israeli passport. I don't know if that's anything other then a rumor, but that's good enough for me.
Best I can do in my town is 6 mb/s with unlimited. Nothing faster for consumers.