Not sure what the point of your rant is. Are you stating that the population will decline in the future? Are you stating that landlords lose money?
The math is very simple. Rent = mortgage + maintenance expenses + taxes + operating costs + provision for future repairs + profits + inflation
The return for the landlord is (provided you did the research and didn't buy into the bubble); profit each year, value of the house appreciates with at least inflation, mortgage payments stop after 20-30 years.
It also has some benefits depending on your situation such as; no noisy kids jumping on your head in the apartment above.
Some disadvantages like dealing with idiots who don't respect other people. Make sure you vet the potential tenants.
Now most people compare 2000 square foot house ownership with a 500 square foot apartment and then claim it's obviously more expensive to own.
As a landlord I would like to thank you because without people like you I wouldn't be making 50% annual operating profit or over 20% on initial investment, and still growing. Not to mention the appreciation in value when the day comes that I sell. Even if it burns and the insurance refuses to pay I still have enough squared away to rebuild.
Again thank you that you can't see that after time owning a house is considerably cheaper than renting.
I understand your point but you haven't shown how not patching on bare metal is less secure than not patching on the cloud. Unless you are saying to completely outsource all your IT to the cloud service providers including your business logic and getting rid of your IT department.
The other thing you haven't mentioned is why it would be more secure to host an OS which is hosted on a OS which is hosted on bare metal. The added layer of complexity adds potential avenues of attack.
The assumption that someone else can better manage your needs perplexes me. I use cloud services and bare metal. What I found is that cloud services tend to be less expensive as a point of entry but 3 to 4 times more expensive than bare metal when considering the whole investment. There is an assumption that the cloud service provider will take the same care as you would in preparing the network. While I can't vouch for every provider or judge them all. I found that in most cases, if you care about your business, you will take the time to ensure that all is in place but there is no way you can ensure that the cloud provider did.
With all that being said my last 5 outages were due to my cloud provider while my bare metal problems didn't result in any outages. Now I am not sure what caused their outages. Is it equipment failure? Was it a miss-configuration? Was it a security breach? I was told that it was always equipment failures but I thought and was sold the solution that the cloud can mitigate such issues better than bare metal.
My point in all this is that when you pass control to someone who you can't completely evaluate, it may come to bite you in the ass if you don't have a backup up plan. The other thing is, I am sure that Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon et al don't disclose all their security breaches that affect their clients and that is speaking from past experiences.
But your mileage may vary. I am just speaking from my anecdotal experience.
In my experience Airbnb couldn't care about the renter. When a renter has a terrible experience they do not display the comments they post. If you travel using Airbnb you are rolling the dice. I found myself stranded thousands of kilometers away from home and Aitbnb's response was that is was my though luck.
An artist who has monthly revenue from Patreon is most likely being paid to produce art that can be sold and sometimes resold over and over again. It's a means to support your local artist to produce more of the material that you like.
If your tax rate is 50% then your cost of youtube red is not $9 it is $18. You need first to pay the taxman and then have enough to pay for youtube red unless you can deduct it fro you income.The cost of what you are purchasing is the effort required to purchase it. What we need to do is make basic cost of living expenses, (rent, food, clothes) tax deductible. We can also set a limit at $10k per person or a value that is reasonable for an individual to live in a given location. This way there is motivation to work and you pay taxes on the luxury of life.
Or a liability depending on who you are. The value that money holds depends on the work required to acquire the money as well as the value which you realize when you part with it.
As a protest, the minute this law is passed, all content providers should choose an ISP and reduce/delay/congest access from said provider for a given week. Then roll to the next ISP the following week until the law is repealed or Pai gets fired. This would be the perfect example as to the consequences of this law and if I am not mistaken, the right to protest is a form of speech so it would be perfectly legal.
I would think if there is enough noise the politicians will remember how the got into power. Ramming unpopular, undemocratic regulations down peoples throats should result in some discomfort. After all, with all that we fought for a few months of social discomfort should remind all that our illusion of democracy or our fake democracy still exists.
If you don't know how to revoke email privileges on a mail server without retaining the email then you shouldn't even call yourself an admin. This was solved 30 years ago....
It's becoming more difficult to dispute a CC charge. When a merchant fails to deliver the product, when Airbnb sends you to a unreachable or rat infested destination. When a product is not as advertised and the merchant doesn't care about making a second sale you are left holding the bag. This is about shifting responsibility to the consumer.
What makes me hesitate purchasing online is experiences with online merchants. With Airbnb I found myself in a situation far from home in a dangerous rental. It was not as advertised. Airbnb couldn't care less about my situation. Amazon third party market adding additional charges. At least Amazon reverses the charges. The credit company refused to do so. These are unauthorized charges.
The problem with online is the lack of consumer protection and it's getting to the point that unless I have an established relationship with the merchant who I'm dealing with it's going to be COD.
Not sure if you read the article but that is not what he is saying. He is saying that regardless of what you do you are breached. whether you know it or not. Which tells me that he is an idiot.
The only way this could happen is if the wire were managed by the city and any ISP which desired to use it could connect to it. This raises other questions such as; Will this be financed through taxes or service provider fees?
But again there is an aspect that is not part of the free market.
I honestly don't believe the free market works. The incumbent always seems to have the ear of the politicians who puts stumbling blocks to new entrants. Or we play yo-yo with every new election.
"Their network" passes through land which they were granted access right of way to in order to provide a common carrier service. If they are not a common carrier then, I as a landowner, can revoke access. Their network, my land.
How can you tell that reviews are real? At least at the store I can touch the product even if the employee is clueless. Also some sites like Airbnb don't post negative reviews. If it's too disgusting to stay in or not as advertised or even dangerous to get to. You will never see the review.
There's a lot of scams out there. Especially for services like Airbnb (yes I'm speaking from experiance) Airbnb doesn't care. In retail, so far, Amazon seems to be better than most brick and mortar stores with their product returns.
The summary quotes marketing hype, "the highest quality and most durable devices. We do this because it's better for the customer, for the iPhone, and for the planet." and then quotes Apple's defense when the phone doesn't meet marketing hype. "the highest quality and most durable devices" tells me that the phone should last between 5 years and 20 years. That's how long "most" of my devices last. Most of the devices that I purchase get replaced by newer, better, more efficient products and not because they break.
I am not saying that a company needs to warranty their product forever but when your marketing states something like the above it better be better than average. Should they be compensated now that is another matter.
I put up an antennae and I get all the major networks and then some (29 channels in all). I added HDHomeRun to it and can now stream to all computers and Smart TVs in the House. Added MythTV and can also record.
Now the basic setup is about $100. the additional features added another another $500. I was paying over $110 a month. I buy the movies I want, which I already did before so that's not an added cost.
The first year I saved about $700 and today my plan would have cost me over $120 a month. So if you are going to cut the cable cord to save, you are looking at it the wrong way.
Sony forgot that this was supposed to be fun. I have 2 PS4s in the house and they are both gathering dust. How about that a family account can have up to 10 PS4s on one account and they can share the games and have LAN parties. Now that would be a cool feature....Sorry, but a yearly subscription for multiplayer games per PS4 just makes it too expensive for a crippled system.
It's cheaper to game on a PC than on a PS4 and the advantage is that you can also work and create with the PC.
Yes there is some exaggeration in this post but there are cooler features that people have been asking for than $0.50 to confirm that I'm an adult. I'm an adult because I paid the yearly charge on my CC to use the PS4 online.
The first IBM PC was release in 1981 with an 8088 processor and optional 8087 math co-processor. While I may be wrong on the date, I am sure of the CPU because I have one of the original system right here.
All these larger 27" and 32" 4k monitors are just awkward for scaling, unless you plan is to sit really far back from them.
If you want an actual 27" monitor, you need 5k. Those monitors are really expensive but starting to come down.
My 28" 4K monitor with a gnome scaling factor of 2 and xrandr scale factor of 1.5x1.5 or 1.6x1.6 gives identical results as my iMac 5K setup. Since Gnome factors all screens the same you need to scale regular displays at 2x2 in xrandr for dual monitor support. Again my dual monitor Fedora setup looks identical to my iMac dual monitor setup.
It is very workable as a desktop. Some applications may need fine tuning. On Fedora 25 I've had a very satisfying experience so far. I've been running it for at least 2 weeks at these settings.
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How many meals will these new cashiers purchase.
I should have added if it's by ASUS another triple No since they seldom support a product of this nature more than 2 years.
If its with iOS or Android OS or Windows.... No! No! Hell triple NO! No spyware OS. No closed garden.
Cellular is useless with the limits imposed in my country. No unlimited packages available. So hell triple NO! screamed out from the rooftop.
The absence of a green lock should be more than enough
Not sure what the point of your rant is. Are you stating that the population will decline in the future? Are you stating that landlords lose money?
The math is very simple. Rent = mortgage + maintenance expenses + taxes + operating costs + provision for future repairs + profits + inflation
The return for the landlord is (provided you did the research and didn't buy into the bubble); profit each year, value of the house appreciates with at least inflation, mortgage payments stop after 20-30 years.
It also has some benefits depending on your situation such as; no noisy kids jumping on your head in the apartment above.
Some disadvantages like dealing with idiots who don't respect other people. Make sure you vet the potential tenants.
Now most people compare 2000 square foot house ownership with a 500 square foot apartment and then claim it's obviously more expensive to own.
As a landlord I would like to thank you because without people like you I wouldn't be making 50% annual operating profit or over 20% on initial investment, and still growing. Not to mention the appreciation in value when the day comes that I sell. Even if it burns and the insurance refuses to pay I still have enough squared away to rebuild.
Again thank you that you can't see that after time owning a house is considerably cheaper than renting.
I have mod points but I prefer to post on this.
I understand your point but you haven't shown how not patching on bare metal is less secure than not patching on the cloud. Unless you are saying to completely outsource all your IT to the cloud service providers including your business logic and getting rid of your IT department.
The other thing you haven't mentioned is why it would be more secure to host an OS which is hosted on a OS which is hosted on bare metal. The added layer of complexity adds potential avenues of attack.
The assumption that someone else can better manage your needs perplexes me. I use cloud services and bare metal. What I found is that cloud services tend to be less expensive as a point of entry but 3 to 4 times more expensive than bare metal when considering the whole investment. There is an assumption that the cloud service provider will take the same care as you would in preparing the network. While I can't vouch for every provider or judge them all. I found that in most cases, if you care about your business, you will take the time to ensure that all is in place but there is no way you can ensure that the cloud provider did.
With all that being said my last 5 outages were due to my cloud provider while my bare metal problems didn't result in any outages. Now I am not sure what caused their outages. Is it equipment failure? Was it a miss-configuration? Was it a security breach? I was told that it was always equipment failures but I thought and was sold the solution that the cloud can mitigate such issues better than bare metal.
My point in all this is that when you pass control to someone who you can't completely evaluate, it may come to bite you in the ass if you don't have a backup up plan. The other thing is, I am sure that Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon et al don't disclose all their security breaches that affect their clients and that is speaking from past experiences.
But your mileage may vary. I am just speaking from my anecdotal experience.
In my experience Airbnb couldn't care about the renter. When a renter has a terrible experience they do not display the comments they post. If you travel using Airbnb you are rolling the dice. I found myself stranded thousands of kilometers away from home and Aitbnb's response was that is was my though luck.
An artist who has monthly revenue from Patreon is most likely being paid to produce art that can be sold and sometimes resold over and over again. It's a means to support your local artist to produce more of the material that you like.
If your tax rate is 50% then your cost of youtube red is not $9 it is $18. You need first to pay the taxman and then have enough to pay for youtube red unless you can deduct it fro you income.The cost of what you are purchasing is the effort required to purchase it. What we need to do is make basic cost of living expenses, (rent, food, clothes) tax deductible. We can also set a limit at $10k per person or a value that is reasonable for an individual to live in a given location. This way there is motivation to work and you pay taxes on the luxury of life.
Or a liability depending on who you are. The value that money holds depends on the work required to acquire the money as well as the value which you realize when you part with it.
As a protest, the minute this law is passed, all content providers should choose an ISP and reduce/delay/congest access from said provider for a given week. Then roll to the next ISP the following week until the law is repealed or Pai gets fired. This would be the perfect example as to the consequences of this law and if I am not mistaken, the right to protest is a form of speech so it would be perfectly legal.
I would think if there is enough noise the politicians will remember how the got into power. Ramming unpopular, undemocratic regulations down peoples throats should result in some discomfort. After all, with all that we fought for a few months of social discomfort should remind all that our illusion of democracy or our fake democracy still exists.
If you don't know how to revoke email privileges on a mail server without retaining the email then you shouldn't even call yourself an admin. This was solved 30 years ago....
This.
It's becoming more difficult to dispute a CC charge. When a merchant fails to deliver the product, when Airbnb sends you to a unreachable or rat infested destination. When a product is not as advertised and the merchant doesn't care about making a second sale you are left holding the bag. This is about shifting responsibility to the consumer.
What makes me hesitate purchasing online is experiences with online merchants. With Airbnb I found myself in a situation far from home in a dangerous rental. It was not as advertised. Airbnb couldn't care less about my situation. Amazon third party market adding additional charges. At least Amazon reverses the charges. The credit company refused to do so. These are unauthorized charges.
The problem with online is the lack of consumer protection and it's getting to the point that unless I have an established relationship with the merchant who I'm dealing with it's going to be COD.
You are not but the browser is. This is Google's browser that is handling other peoples CC's
Not sure if you read the article but that is not what he is saying. He is saying that regardless of what you do you are breached. whether you know it or not. Which tells me that he is an idiot.
The only way this could happen is if the wire were managed by the city and any ISP which desired to use it could connect to it. This raises other questions such as; Will this be financed through taxes or service provider fees?
But again there is an aspect that is not part of the free market.
I honestly don't believe the free market works. The incumbent always seems to have the ear of the politicians who puts stumbling blocks to new entrants. Or we play yo-yo with every new election.
"Their network" passes through land which they were granted access right of way to in order to provide a common carrier service. If they are not a common carrier then, I as a landowner, can revoke access. Their network, my land.
How can you tell that reviews are real? At least at the store I can touch the product even if the employee is clueless. Also some sites like Airbnb don't post negative reviews. If it's too disgusting to stay in or not as advertised or even dangerous to get to. You will never see the review.
There's a lot of scams out there. Especially for services like Airbnb (yes I'm speaking from experiance) Airbnb doesn't care. In retail, so far, Amazon seems to be better than most brick and mortar stores with their product returns.
No.
The summary quotes marketing hype, "the highest quality and most durable devices. We do this because it's better for the customer, for the iPhone, and for the planet." and then quotes Apple's defense when the phone doesn't meet marketing hype. "the highest quality and most durable devices" tells me that the phone should last between 5 years and 20 years. That's how long "most" of my devices last. Most of the devices that I purchase get replaced by newer, better, more efficient products and not because they break.
I am not saying that a company needs to warranty their product forever but when your marketing states something like the above it better be better than average. Should they be compensated now that is another matter.
How about something useful like GPG/PGP in mail. Rather than have to wait for some third party to do it.
So frustrating current users is a good business model?
I put up an antennae and I get all the major networks and then some (29 channels in all). I added HDHomeRun to it and can now stream to all computers and Smart TVs in the House. Added MythTV and can also record.
Now the basic setup is about $100. the additional features added another another $500. I was paying over $110 a month. I buy the movies I want, which I already did before so that's not an added cost.
The first year I saved about $700 and today my plan would have cost me over $120 a month. So if you are going to cut the cable cord to save, you are looking at it the wrong way.
Sony forgot that this was supposed to be fun. I have 2 PS4s in the house and they are both gathering dust. How about that a family account can have up to 10 PS4s on one account and they can share the games and have LAN parties. Now that would be a cool feature....Sorry, but a yearly subscription for multiplayer games per PS4 just makes it too expensive for a crippled system.
It's cheaper to game on a PC than on a PS4 and the advantage is that you can also work and create with the PC.
Yes there is some exaggeration in this post but there are cooler features that people have been asking for than $0.50 to confirm that I'm an adult. I'm an adult because I paid the yearly charge on my CC to use the PS4 online.
The first IBM PC was release in 1981 with an 8088 processor and optional 8087 math co-processor. While I may be wrong on the date, I am sure of the CPU because I have one of the original system right here.
All these larger 27" and 32" 4k monitors are just awkward for scaling, unless you plan is to sit really far back from them.
If you want an actual 27" monitor, you need 5k. Those monitors are really expensive but starting to come down.
My 28" 4K monitor with a gnome scaling factor of 2 and xrandr scale factor of 1.5x1.5 or 1.6x1.6 gives identical results as my iMac 5K setup. Since Gnome factors all screens the same you need to scale regular displays at 2x2 in xrandr for dual monitor support. Again my dual monitor Fedora setup looks identical to my iMac dual monitor setup.
It is very workable as a desktop. Some applications may need fine tuning. On Fedora 25 I've had a very satisfying experience so far. I've been running it for at least 2 weeks at these settings.