That was my wife. We've had the same Verizon land line for 42 years. Got a bill from them for $89 (we have basic service, with USA long distance). And the line was shorted for a couple days, which it does now every time we get a long rain storm.
I put in an ObiTalk box and signed up for PhonePower for $5 a month. Now I have my phone and she has hers, but I think she's weakening. "Her" land line mostly has telemarketers and "Bridget from Cardholder Services" once a day.
And once I get her ported over, I'll work on her Verizon wireless (probably go to Ting).
If you travel to Canada too, go for Nexus. It costs $50, and INCLUDES Global Entry. It also gets you across the Canada/US border faster (both ways). Global Entry is just back into US.
And they tell you that AFTER you pay the $100 Global Entry fee. Fuckers.
NG is dirt cheap now. But I can't see into the future. Nuclear will always be expensive, and run by big companies. Same with fusion, if they ever actually do it.
In the case of my wife, it's inertia. "But everyone knows our number, and we've had it 42 years." Yeah, so does "Bridget from Cardholder Services" who calls once a day! GRRRRRRR.
But this week, it rained cats&dogs, and our phone was out for two days, as usual. The response from Verizon is "we'll be out in 4 days, after the lines dry up and it works again, and find there's no problem" as usual. Coincidentally, we got a bill for $89 for our bare bones service (no caller ID, forwarding, anything fancy).
I got an Obi and wired it up, and when she tried it out she liked. So I think we're finally free. Sigh.
Now if I can get her to run Linux, life will be great. And no Skype for us, there are plenty of WebRTC services.
Ethnicity, culture, and race are separate things. My wife has a relative who's adopted, and it's interesting to hear a little black girl speaking Flemish.
They probably went many years without failures, and these are not constant wearing devices with a fixed failure rate. The problem came when they got 2000 volt surges in their 1000 volt lines, something that they apparently haven't figured out yet.
Same type of device, but a current production run, and make sure there are several sources. The packaging method is a particularly important part of the spec. These devices run a lot of power, so they need heat sinking. Usually, both sides of the die, with a high pressure clamp to squeeze the sides of the heat sinks onto the die to make thermal contact. Also, different devices need different gate trigger levels. Also, you need carefully designed overvoltage and overcurrent protection and overheating sensors, or else the magic smoke will come out. I speak from experience.
It probably was a standard part back then, but semiconductor technology changes. New designs use different topologies and packaging. Old parts go obsolete. Either you buy an exact replacement or you reengineer a new part to fit, or you replace a higher assembly (the whole inverter instead of just the SCR, or the whole drive train, yikes).
Although a better solution would have been to eliminate the power surges, or at least better protect the train.
My last name is two words. Worse, my cousins have a name which has a punctuation mark (D'Hondt). Either totally screw up a lot of computers. Have some pity on Belgians this week, will you? Bedankt.
Through demagoguery, rally enough votes from the fractured Republican party to get the nomination. Then he loses to his friend Hillary. If he unfortunately wins, he'd just have to do the job for 4 years, but that's unlikely, because most of the Republican-leaning electorate knows he's an asshole and won't vote for him.
Although if you look really hard, you can get a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu for $101 less than with Windows. A real win-win-win (the third win being not paying money to Microsoft to help advertise Windows).
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I know a few Jebbies, and they're all smarter than hell, and fun guys besides.
I don't know Pope Frank personally, but from the stories bout him, he seems he'd make a nice neighbor even with his bad English.
That was my wife. We've had the same Verizon land line for 42 years. Got a bill from them for $89 (we have basic service, with USA long distance). And the line was shorted for a couple days, which it does now every time we get a long rain storm.
I put in an ObiTalk box and signed up for PhonePower for $5 a month. Now I have my phone and she has hers, but I think she's weakening. "Her" land line mostly has telemarketers and "Bridget from Cardholder Services" once a day.
And once I get her ported over, I'll work on her Verizon wireless (probably go to Ting).
See "Microsoft Windows".
If you travel to Canada too, go for Nexus. It costs $50, and INCLUDES Global Entry. It also gets you across the Canada/US border faster (both ways). Global Entry is just back into US.
And they tell you that AFTER you pay the $100 Global Entry fee. Fuckers.
Well, you can train them to use Linux instead.
Yeah, my PC has 5 coin slots on the front. The CF slot takes dollar coins, and the XD slot takes quarters.
Well, I'll be totally Linux when that happens.
4) Good point. Don't get mad, get Linux!
NG is dirt cheap now. But I can't see into the future.
Nuclear will always be expensive, and run by big companies. Same with fusion, if they ever actually do it.
What choice do they have? The competition is free, and better. Handwriting's on the wall. Hasta la Vista, Windows!
Old Soapy Williams joke (or was it LBJ's?), but nice rework.
In the case of my wife, it's inertia. "But everyone knows our number, and we've had it 42 years." Yeah, so does "Bridget from Cardholder Services" who calls once a day! GRRRRRRR.
But this week, it rained cats&dogs, and our phone was out for two days, as usual. The response from Verizon is "we'll be out in 4 days, after the lines dry up and it works again, and find there's no problem" as usual. Coincidentally, we got a bill for $89 for our bare bones service (no caller ID, forwarding, anything fancy).
I got an Obi and wired it up, and when she tried it out she liked. So I think we're finally free. Sigh.
Now if I can get her to run Linux, life will be great. And no Skype for us, there are plenty of WebRTC services.
Ethnicity, culture, and race are separate things. My wife has a relative who's adopted, and it's interesting to hear a little black girl speaking Flemish.
300 feet of cable and a small monthly bribe to your neighbor ought to take care of that.
Except ours all have automatic transmissions.
Well, it's aramaic. Sort of.
True in Detroit.
They probably went many years without failures, and these are not constant wearing devices with a fixed failure rate. The problem came when they got 2000 volt surges in their 1000 volt lines, something that they apparently haven't figured out yet.
Same type of device, but a current production run, and make sure there are several sources. The packaging method is a particularly important part of the spec. These devices run a lot of power, so they need heat sinking. Usually, both sides of the die, with a high pressure clamp to squeeze the sides of the heat sinks onto the die to make thermal contact. Also, different devices need different gate trigger levels. Also, you need carefully designed overvoltage and overcurrent protection and overheating sensors, or else the magic smoke will come out. I speak from experience.
It probably was a standard part back then, but semiconductor technology changes. New designs use different topologies and packaging. Old parts go obsolete. Either you buy an exact replacement or you reengineer a new part to fit, or you replace a higher assembly (the whole inverter instead of just the SCR, or the whole drive train, yikes).
Although a better solution would have been to eliminate the power surges, or at least better protect the train.
My last name is two words. Worse, my cousins have a name which has a punctuation mark (D'Hondt). Either totally screw up a lot of computers.
Have some pity on Belgians this week, will you? Bedankt.
Through demagoguery, rally enough votes from the fractured Republican party to get the nomination. Then he loses to his friend Hillary. If he unfortunately wins, he'd just have to do the job for 4 years, but that's unlikely, because most of the Republican-leaning electorate knows he's an asshole and won't vote for him.
Yeah, if you could actually buy PCs with it.
Although if you look really hard, you can get a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu for $101 less than with Windows. A real win-win-win (the third win being not paying money to Microsoft to help advertise Windows).
Can we just delete the Internet and start over? It's just full of useless crap.
All my PCs are over 5 years old; all run Linux, and do all I need to do.
However, I'm not against apples in general; just ate one for lunch.
I've been there: Vlodrop. The mountains of Holland. Kind of like the mountains of Florida. Been there, too, just about as impressive.