I spent many years trying out various incarnations of streaming to my speakers (admittedly gave up before Chromecasts arrived) and Sonos is, for me, the answer.
- BlueTooth is just a pain for me, too many glitches; Sonos makes its own connection to the streaming source so its independent of your device - The fact that I can start a stream on my Android phone in one or several areas of the house, then my wife can use her iPhone to change the volumes or add an remove zones, is really great - It's easy to use, and pretty much always just works.
There are some downsides - can't play from just any app you want without using a line in, and setting up a system is expensive. I'm generally a tightwad, so it took me some time to bite the bullet. Now, it's our most used system and I can't see not having it. If you like to listen to music, and want a whole house system, you really need to check it out.
I'm with you on this - my last TV I bought because my old tube number got fried. I bought the biggest tv Costco had in my price range. It won't be coming off the wall until it dies.
Yes, the first time I used iOS I knew that they had nailed it. Think of the Palms and Blackberries of the time - they were clunky and hard to use, even for a geek. I still prefer Android, but credit where credit's due.
When you're comparing the US to EU phone plans, you need to take into account the different models which they evolved from. When mobiles first came out in the EU, it was always the caller who paid (quite a lot) for a call to a mobile, the person with the mobile paid nothing. This worked in Europe where people were used to paying per call they made. In the US, where people mostly had (even back then) free unlimited local calling, the owner of the mobile phone got a normal area code and bore all the costs of the calls, incoming and outgoing. In many ways the US system makes more sense to me, but whatever.
I have unlimited calls and unlimited slow data after 2.5GB of fast data for $30 a month, which seems ok to me. So not all Americans would consider paying that much either.
Virgin Mobile in the US is a reseller of T-Mobile and still offer prepaid plans.
Virgin in the US uses Sprint, (CDMA) not T-Mobile (GSM). Around me Sprint has ok coverage (I used to have Virgin), but T-Mobile is better (had them for a couple of years). I now use Cricket prepaid with an unlocked phone and the coverage (AT&T) is pretty good, maybe just a bit better than T-Mo most places.
Late '90s Grand Caravan. But I've driven friends' recent Grand Cherokees etc and even the newer ones seem to have crappy long term quality. Like a Grand Cherokee with 50k miles which feels like it's falling apart.
Sure, I'd reconsider if I read a few years of reviews saying they're now built well. But so far, that's not what I'm seeing.
Sure, but we're talking about a shed here. The mini split will be nicer than a window unit, and if it's properly sized (ie not too big for the space) should help with humidity.
Except that the reason most residential towers don't build parking if they can get away with it is that underground parking garages are expensive, even if you just need to dig a hole in the ground to build them in. Building them underneath existing stuff is not going to be feasible most places.
A super efficient AC/Heat pump mini split system should be less than $2000, probably less than $1500. Some places sell kits closer to $1000. That's the way I'd go.
If something is high dollar, I have it sent to my office. Otherwise, it can be left at my door. In 20 years I haven't had a problem, so I'm not going to change my system.
Plus, really, Amazon can have a replacement to me in a couple of days worst case.
If you look for Tiny Houses you'll find lots of info on what works and what doesn't. For example, check out http://microshowcase.com/ - he has a shed similar to what you're describing, and is using a highly efficient mini-split ductless system.
The new proposed standards require that desktop computers reduce power draw by half when idle (with no user activity), and establishes more modest power reductions for notebooks/laptops, which already are much more efficient when operating on battery mode, but that is not always the case when they are plugged in.
My R8000 running V1.0.3.4_1.1.2 (latest available) is vulnerable from the inside. However my inside network does not use the 192.x.x.x address space so good luck figuring out my inside interface IP.
You don't need to bother trying to figure it out - as I posted above, on my R6400 there's a magic address which the router will grab and use for its interface. So all the malicious code needs is to try http://routerlogin.net/ - if you're using one of the Netgears, that's the admin interface.
I have the R6400 - there's some magic address (like mynetgearrouter.net or something) which the router will use for itself so you don't need to know the ip address. If you can get dhcp and type that in, you can start to configure it. Makes a lot of sense really if you're trying to make things easy for the masses.
I can vouch for the AP-AC-LR - I'm using one with my old router (way down in the basement) and it's really improved the wifi situation. It this case I pretty much just told it the SSID & password of the existing router and that was it.
My take from the summary is that the car is talking over 4G to the company controlling the lights, and getting the counts from them. So you'd need to worry about some kid hacking the company and messing with all connected cars, not some kid on a corner messing with one.
I have to say, I'm not that shocked. I got a good deal on one of the original Pebbles and, while it's kind of neat, I really don't use it much. It's too goofy to use as man-jewelry with a suit (which I rarely wear anyway), and I just don't usually need to know the time from a watch - I can look at my screen when I'm orking, and my phone is a fancy pocket watch too. I don't need to see notifications on my wrist, since I can just look at the phone99% of the time. So that leaves the novelty faces, and the novelty soon wears off.
I may be totally wrong, but iirc the previous exploit tricked the browser into visiting a non-tor site controlled by the FBI which then collected the information.
If you take Windows Phone, where we are differentiated on Windows Phone is on manageability. It's security, it's Continuum capability -- that is, the ability to have a phone that can act like a PC. So we're going to double-down on those points of differentiation."
Seems to me that the primary point of differentiation is that Windows phones have far fewer apps available than the big two, and jamming the store onto PCs hasn't fixed that.
I just this weekend saw my first 15% pump - it clearly had a warning that you should only use it in 2002 & later vehicles. It was only $1.49 a gallon, so I can see it would tempt some people to give it a try voluntarily.
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I spent many years trying out various incarnations of streaming to my speakers (admittedly gave up before Chromecasts arrived) and Sonos is, for me, the answer.
- BlueTooth is just a pain for me, too many glitches; Sonos makes its own connection to the streaming source so its independent of your device
- The fact that I can start a stream on my Android phone in one or several areas of the house, then my wife can use her iPhone to change the volumes or add an remove zones, is really great
- It's easy to use, and pretty much always just works.
There are some downsides - can't play from just any app you want without using a line in, and setting up a system is expensive. I'm generally a tightwad, so it took me some time to bite the bullet. Now, it's our most used system and I can't see not having it. If you like to listen to music, and want a whole house system, you really need to check it out.
I'm with you on this - my last TV I bought because my old tube number got fried. I bought the biggest tv Costco had in my price range. It won't be coming off the wall until it dies.
Yes, the first time I used iOS I knew that they had nailed it. Think of the Palms and Blackberries of the time - they were clunky and hard to use, even for a geek. I still prefer Android, but credit where credit's due.
When you're comparing the US to EU phone plans, you need to take into account the different models which they evolved from. When mobiles first came out in the EU, it was always the caller who paid (quite a lot) for a call to a mobile, the person with the mobile paid nothing. This worked in Europe where people were used to paying per call they made. In the US, where people mostly had (even back then) free unlimited local calling, the owner of the mobile phone got a normal area code and bore all the costs of the calls, incoming and outgoing. In many ways the US system makes more sense to me, but whatever.
I have unlimited calls and unlimited slow data after 2.5GB of fast data for $30 a month, which seems ok to me. So not all Americans would consider paying that much either.
Virgin Mobile in the US is a reseller of T-Mobile and still offer prepaid plans.
Virgin in the US uses Sprint, (CDMA) not T-Mobile (GSM). Around me Sprint has ok coverage (I used to have Virgin), but T-Mobile is better (had them for a couple of years). I now use Cricket prepaid with an unlocked phone and the coverage (AT&T) is pretty good, maybe just a bit better than T-Mo most places.
From https://www.smallnetbuilder.co...:
The AC2200 classification (400 MHz @ 2.4 GHz + 2 x 867 Mbps @ 5 GHz) and "tri-band" description mean Velop has a dedicated 5 GHz backhaul radio.
Late '90s Grand Caravan. But I've driven friends' recent Grand Cherokees etc and even the newer ones seem to have crappy long term quality. Like a Grand Cherokee with 50k miles which feels like it's falling apart.
Sure, I'd reconsider if I read a few years of reviews saying they're now built well. But so far, that's not what I'm seeing.
Sure, but we're talking about a shed here. The mini split will be nicer than a window unit, and if it's properly sized (ie not too big for the space) should help with humidity.
I'm torn - on the one hand, I really want a self driving car. On the other hand, I hope to never own a Chrysler again. Oh, the humanity!
Except that the reason most residential towers don't build parking if they can get away with it is that underground parking garages are expensive, even if you just need to dig a hole in the ground to build them in. Building them underneath existing stuff is not going to be feasible most places.
HVAC is a tricky beast.
A super efficient AC/Heat pump mini split system should be less than $2000, probably less than $1500. Some places sell kits closer to $1000. That's the way I'd go.
If something is high dollar, I have it sent to my office. Otherwise, it can be left at my door. In 20 years I haven't had a problem, so I'm not going to change my system.
Plus, really, Amazon can have a replacement to me in a couple of days worst case.
Woah - this is a workspace - yes? So you know what's going to be in there, yes? So what do you want WiFi for?
Even if it's on a separate VLAN or something, most people today will want WiFi for stuff like phones.
If you look for Tiny Houses you'll find lots of info on what works and what doesn't. For example, check out http://microshowcase.com/ - he has a shed similar to what you're describing, and is using a highly efficient mini-split ductless system.
TFS & TFA are light on details, but here gives a little more info:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/p...
The new proposed standards require that desktop computers reduce power draw by half when idle (with no user activity), and establishes more modest power reductions for notebooks/laptops, which already are much more efficient when operating on battery mode, but that is not always the case when they are plugged in.
My R8000 running V1.0.3.4_1.1.2 (latest available) is vulnerable from the inside. However my inside network does not use the 192.x.x.x address space so good luck figuring out my inside interface IP.
You don't need to bother trying to figure it out - as I posted above, on my R6400 there's a magic address which the router will grab and use for its interface. So all the malicious code needs is to try http://routerlogin.net/ - if you're using one of the Netgears, that's the admin interface.
I have the R6400 - there's some magic address (like mynetgearrouter.net or something) which the router will use for itself so you don't need to know the ip address. If you can get dhcp and type that in, you can start to configure it. Makes a lot of sense really if you're trying to make things easy for the masses.
I can vouch for the AP-AC-LR - I'm using one with my old router (way down in the basement) and it's really improved the wifi situation. It this case I pretty much just told it the SSID & password of the existing router and that was it.
My take from the summary is that the car is talking over 4G to the company controlling the lights, and getting the counts from them. So you'd need to worry about some kid hacking the company and messing with all connected cars, not some kid on a corner messing with one.
I have to say, I'm not that shocked. I got a good deal on one of the original Pebbles and, while it's kind of neat, I really don't use it much. It's too goofy to use as man-jewelry with a suit (which I rarely wear anyway), and I just don't usually need to know the time from a watch - I can look at my screen when I'm orking, and my phone is a fancy pocket watch too. I don't need to see notifications on my wrist, since I can just look at the phone99% of the time. So that leaves the novelty faces, and the novelty soon wears off.
I may be totally wrong, but iirc the previous exploit tricked the browser into visiting a non-tor site controlled by the FBI which then collected the information.
If you take Windows Phone, where we are differentiated on Windows Phone is on manageability. It's security, it's Continuum capability -- that is, the ability to have a phone that can act like a PC. So we're going to double-down on those points of differentiation."
Seems to me that the primary point of differentiation is that Windows phones have far fewer apps available than the big two, and jamming the store onto PCs hasn't fixed that.
Every hotel I've been in for the past few years has had a TV with HDMI in.
The ones where I've tried it had the HDMI blocked - you couldn't switch to it in the menu.
Yeah, The Moscow Times is a rabidly pro-NASA rag for sure.
I just this weekend saw my first 15% pump - it clearly had a warning that you should only use it in 2002 & later vehicles. It was only $1.49 a gallon, so I can see it would tempt some people to give it a try voluntarily.