I have used TaxCut for years and have had very few issues with it. The one year I tried the online variant of it was horrible. There was one particularly nasty bug that caused my return to be rejected twice before I had to go over the print out with a fine tooth comb. I found they were inserting a bogus figure into one of the fields instead of leaving it blank. I finally was able to work around the system to get the issue fixed, but it caused way more work and aggravation than it should have. I did try calling their "help" line, but the person on the other end was completely useless.
I use K9 on my older Android phone and it works great with my Gmail accounts. I use Thunderbird at home and it also works just as well. I have no issues with the way Gmail "Labels" messages. K9 and Thunderbird treat them as folders and shows me the messages I have flagged.
Man I hope there tech support improves. It's next to impossible to get anyone on the phone and I even have their Tech certification. Our company just switched to HP due to the cost and there horrible support.
Radio announcer: "Well there's a traffic jam on I90. The power to that section of the city went out during a thunderstorm. The electric company has said power will be restored within 6 - 8 hours."
The City of Houston was doing this crap. Yellows that were so short there was no way to stop or you'd be in the middle of the intersection. A petition got the cameras on the ballot and they were defeated. The City was whining about safety, but there were several studies done at intersections in the city by independent auditors that found rear end accidents increased due to the shortened yellows and the RL cameras. From what I read the city was pulling in $2 - $3 million per year on the fines.
You can get an HDMI to SVGA/DVI/Display port converters for pretty cheap so you can hook it to any monitor you want. I also picked up a 802.11N 2.4Ghz WiFi adapter from AirLink for less than $10. I got both at Amazon.
Got my PI Monday and got it setup with Asterisk 11 and FreePBX 3 beta. The site raspberry-asterisk.org has a prebuilt image and from there you can easily update to the latest versions. This is going to be mainly for testing/playing at home, but I may deploy one to setup a small 4 DID/10 extenstion FreePBX install to supplement an old POTS pbx.
"Amazon is also facing criticism right now for allegedly shutting down a woman's account and remotely wiping her Kindle, then refusing to provide information about why it did so."
This is the exact reason why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy and then store them in my own offline repository. Should Amazon ever decide to wipe my account I'll still have the books I purchased. The other advantage is I can use any e-reader I want w/o being locked to a Kindle.
You see how well that went with Verizon's FIOS service. That is exactly what they were on track to do, but it finally became to expensive to run new fiber every and fighting with local governments to get the rights to even lay the fiber.
If you want to read then get an e-reader. I have a Kindle for reading, not surfing the web, not checking email, etc. If I want to do something else besides read I pull out my phone or use my laptop. When reading with a tablet you'll end up getting distracted by new emails, something that pops into your head and you want to quickly look it up, but in reality you end up doing everything else except reading. With an e-reader you can focus on the book your reading and keep the distractions to a minimum.
A device with a 4" - 4.2" display, decent dual/quad core processor running around 1.2 - 1.5 Ghz, and the ability to obtain root on the device if I choose. I have no need to carry around a beast of a deivce with a 5" display or a device that so locked down that I can't unlock features the phone has, but the carrier decided to disable.
Example, to transfer FSMO roles there are three places in the GUI that you have to go to vs via the command line I can easily execute the command to transfer roles and after every command I get the response to verify it successfully completed.
Another example, I have a PowerShell script and a batch script to install windows hotfixes on standalone non-internet connected machines in the field. I can install 100+ hotfixes onto a new station in 20 mins or so. Also the script queries the system for installed hotfixes and skips them if they are already installed which equates into a major time savings. Try doing that via the GUI and see how far you would get w/o accidently rebooting or just giving up cause it takes so long.
Over the years the FCC has granted to local stations the right to charge for their product. Cable companies pay about 1 cent per station (per household)* for the rights to rebroadcast local stations over their wires. This "Aereo" service may have to abide by the same rules.
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Sounds fair to me, if they are sending 10 stations then they pay.10 cents per user to the content provider.
So what's the issue here? It's not like they are removing/skipping the TV ads, they are just converting the broadcast to play on a persons digital device. They even have a dedicated antenna for each user. So, that means more people are now seeing the same commercials equaling more ad impressions which means the TV execs can charge more for the ads.
As others have said why not working the company to work out a fee instead of trying to sue them into the ground.
The state of Texas tried to do something like this away back. They were going to pass a law that made it a crime to do patdowns that involved touching sensitive areas of people. The TSA threatened to shut down all air traffic in and out of Texas airports if the law was passed. The guy who introduced the bill backed down from the TSA.
Our local PD shares a trunking system with 4 other PD's and FD's in the area. Each group has a set of encrypted channels they can and do use in situations when they don't want the average person listening in. This provides the security during crisis situations, but still maintains the openness that the community wants. Win/Win and they are not having hand out hardware to non-gov people that need to listen in.
The extra.20 doesn't matter to me. It's still cheaper than going to a big box store to rent a movie and there's only been once when I didn't the movie returned by the next day.
Same here, Firefox used to be the default browser I installed any time I got a new machine or setup a new account. I'm now using chrome, it starts quicker, is faster rendering pages, and has all of the plugins I use. On machines that I work on I still recommend FF over IE, but that's mainly due to the security issues.
Well, I just got a new PS3 that I'm using for a media center manager and I had planned to signup for Netflix in the next week, but in the wake of this news I'm going to be holding off to see what the heck they are doing. First the 50% increase in the plans and now a complete divergence of the company. I'm sorry I only give money to a company that I feel I can actually get service from and right now that Isn't Netflix/Qwikster.
You've never been to Houston, Tx have you? Our public transit system down here is the pits, buses are pretty much it and they are never on schedule if they show up at all. We also have a train, but has one small line that runs from a parking area in to downtown. Yes you can take a Taxi, but if you are going to the other side of town, 1 hour + drive, then thats a very expensive ride. So short story, if you don't have your own vehicle in Houston it is very difficult to get around.
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I have used TaxCut for years and have had very few issues with it. The one year I tried the online variant of it was horrible. There was one particularly nasty bug that caused my return to be rejected twice before I had to go over the print out with a fine tooth comb. I found they were inserting a bogus figure into one of the fields instead of leaving it blank. I finally was able to work around the system to get the issue fixed, but it caused way more work and aggravation than it should have. I did try calling their "help" line, but the person on the other end was completely useless.
I use K9 on my older Android phone and it works great with my Gmail accounts. I use Thunderbird at home and it also works just as well. I have no issues with the way Gmail "Labels" messages. K9 and Thunderbird treat them as folders and shows me the messages I have flagged.
Man I hope there tech support improves. It's next to impossible to get anyone on the phone and I even have their Tech certification. Our company just switched to HP due to the cost and there horrible support.
Radio announcer: "Well there's a traffic jam on I90. The power to that section of the city went out during a thunderstorm. The electric company has said power will be restored within 6 - 8 hours."
The City of Houston was doing this crap. Yellows that were so short there was no way to stop or you'd be in the middle of the intersection. A petition got the cameras on the ballot and they were defeated. The City was whining about safety, but there were several studies done at intersections in the city by independent auditors that found rear end accidents increased due to the shortened yellows and the RL cameras. From what I read the city was pulling in $2 - $3 million per year on the fines.
You can get an HDMI to SVGA/DVI/Display port converters for pretty cheap so you can hook it to any monitor you want. I also picked up a 802.11N 2.4Ghz WiFi adapter from AirLink for less than $10. I got both at Amazon.
Got my PI Monday and got it setup with Asterisk 11 and FreePBX 3 beta. The site raspberry-asterisk.org has a prebuilt image and from there you can easily update to the latest versions. This is going to be mainly for testing/playing at home, but I may deploy one to setup a small 4 DID/10 extenstion FreePBX install to supplement an old POTS pbx.
"Amazon is also facing criticism right now for allegedly shutting down a woman's account and remotely wiping her Kindle, then refusing to provide information about why it did so."
This is the exact reason why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy and then store them in my own offline repository. Should Amazon ever decide to wipe my account I'll still have the books I purchased. The other advantage is I can use any e-reader I want w/o being locked to a Kindle.
You see how well that went with Verizon's FIOS service. That is exactly what they were on track to do, but it finally became to expensive to run new fiber every and fighting with local governments to get the rights to even lay the fiber.
If you want to read then get an e-reader. I have a Kindle for reading, not surfing the web, not checking email, etc. If I want to do something else besides read I pull out my phone or use my laptop. When reading with a tablet you'll end up getting distracted by new emails, something that pops into your head and you want to quickly look it up, but in reality you end up doing everything else except reading. With an e-reader you can focus on the book your reading and keep the distractions to a minimum.
Following Microsoft's trend this one will bomb.
Windows 98 - Good
Windows ME - Bomb
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Bomb
Windows 7 - Good
Windows 8 - ????
A device with a 4" - 4.2" display, decent dual/quad core processor running around 1.2 - 1.5 Ghz, and the ability to obtain root on the device if I choose. I have no need to carry around a beast of a deivce with a 5" display or a device that so locked down that I can't unlock features the phone has, but the carrier decided to disable.
I use the command line to save time.
Example, to transfer FSMO roles there are three places in the GUI that you have to go to vs via the command line I can easily execute the command to transfer roles and after every command I get the response to verify it successfully completed.
Another example, I have a PowerShell script and a batch script to install windows hotfixes on standalone non-internet connected machines in the field. I can install 100+ hotfixes onto a new station in 20 mins or so. Also the script queries the system for installed hotfixes and skips them if they are already installed which equates into a major time savings. Try doing that via the GUI and see how far you would get w/o accidently rebooting or just giving up cause it takes so long.
Over the years the FCC has granted to local stations the right to charge for their product. Cable companies pay about 1 cent per station (per household)* for the rights to rebroadcast local stations over their wires. This "Aereo" service may have to abide by the same rules.
*
Sounds fair to me, if they are sending 10 stations then they pay .10 cents per user to the content provider.
So what's the issue here? It's not like they are removing/skipping the TV ads, they are just converting the broadcast to play on a persons digital device. They even have a dedicated antenna for each user. So, that means more people are now seeing the same commercials equaling more ad impressions which means the TV execs can charge more for the ads.
As others have said why not working the company to work out a fee instead of trying to sue them into the ground.
The state of Texas tried to do something like this away back. They were going to pass a law that made it a crime to do patdowns that involved touching sensitive areas of people. The TSA threatened to shut down all air traffic in and out of Texas airports if the law was passed. The guy who introduced the bill backed down from the TSA.
http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2011/05/patricks-intrusive-touching-bill-junked/
Our local PD shares a trunking system with 4 other PD's and FD's in the area. Each group has a set of encrypted channels they can and do use in situations when they don't want the average person listening in. This provides the security during crisis situations, but still maintains the openness that the community wants. Win/Win and they are not having hand out hardware to non-gov people that need to listen in.
Until it reaches the level of deadliness of the bug in Steven King's The Stand then I'm not worried. :)
The extra .20 doesn't matter to me. It's still cheaper than going to a big box store to rent a movie and there's only been once when I didn't the movie returned by the next day.
Same here, Firefox used to be the default browser I installed any time I got a new machine or setup a new account. I'm now using chrome, it starts quicker, is faster rendering pages, and has all of the plugins I use. On machines that I work on I still recommend FF over IE, but that's mainly due to the security issues.
Well, I just got a new PS3 that I'm using for a media center manager and I had planned to signup for Netflix in the next week, but in the wake of this news I'm going to be holding off to see what the heck they are doing. First the 50% increase in the plans and now a complete divergence of the company. I'm sorry I only give money to a company that I feel I can actually get service from and right now that Isn't Netflix/Qwikster.
My guess would be STIMM, Stacked in-line memory module. :)
This really sounds like an "island" from the movie Waterworld...
You've never been to Houston, Tx have you? Our public transit system down here is the pits, buses are pretty much it and they are never on schedule if they show up at all. We also have a train, but has one small line that runs from a parking area in to downtown. Yes you can take a Taxi, but if you are going to the other side of town, 1 hour + drive, then thats a very expensive ride. So short story, if you don't have your own vehicle in Houston it is very difficult to get around.
I'd be willing to bet the "explosive" they detected coming from the kid was the load that was left in his diaper. When kids explode is really messy!