You should look at Cricket. I have their basic plan, $35/mo on autopay; unlimited talk and text, and 2.5GB of 4G data over AT&T towers. Now, that data is limited to something like 8Mbps I think, which is plenty fast for me, and if I ever hit the limit (I never have, but my kids have on theirs) I'll be throttled to 128kbps which is still enough to stream Pandora or run Waze. I know exactly how much I'm going to be paying each month, I can use whatever unlocked GSM phone I want, and i can switch at the drop of a hat if something better comes along.
Are you talking about the 38,000 lives which are lost every year in car crashes? I think we'd have been way ahead of the game if we had taken half of the money we have poured into the TSA since 9/11 and used it to push this technology. We would have saved way more lives than the TSA will ever hope to.
Sure, but Uber will be testing in Pittsburgh this winter, Volvo is doubtless working on it in Sweden, etc. Sure, maybe when the first models come out they may not have mapped every back alley, but I bet within 10 years they'll be able to handle any situation as well as an average driver, and most situations a hell of a lot better. You still may want to put snow tires on in the winter though.
Is this a multi line plan or grandfathered something? I have 3 lines for $30 each, 2.5Gb 4g data each then throttled unlimited, and that seemed to be about as good as one could get.
I bet the tipping point will be way less than that. Even 50% of the vehicles keeping a proper gap, not randomly braking, not piling into the vehicle in front would be a big improvement. If the cars behind are aware of an event ahead and can slow down to give it time to clear, all the non-aware traffic around will also be helped by the smoother flow.
People seem to think that self driving cars are driving like people and that they will freak out when they can't see the lane markings. 360 degree sensors of all different types, tied to a 3d map of the area, means that they should be way better at staying on the road in those types of situations. See this article for just one example: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/... Sure, they need to figure out ways to keep the sensors clear etc, but that can be done pretty easily. And at some point, if the weather gets too bad, maybe having your car say "I'm not going out there" isn't the worst thing. Way too many people around me overestimate what they and their all-weather radials can handle and end up blocking the roads when they get stuck.
Yeah, I have been paying for years and this is good news, but I have also signed up for the family Spotify plan and if I decide to drop one, I think it will be Pandora. Playing the same songs too often is my only real gripe, especially if this means you'll be able to skip more often.
They're not unheard of in the US - I got a box at Costco last year, just to try them out and because the box looked cool. I brought it into work and the consensus was that it's Chinese fruitcake - something everyone has to buy and give, but that no one really likes.
I guess back in the day it was actually a good gift to get because it seems like about the most calorie dense food you can get. To a peasant farmer that's going to be manna, but for modern affluent folks, it's just too rich.
You have a driver sitting in the thing, with a big red button to hit or an easy way to take back control by moving the wheel or tapping the brakes. That doesn't seem to be putting human lives at much more risk than anyone else out on the road. And the payoff of this testing is that every mistake, in theory, should only be made once.
It's good to see more real world testing of these systems in a challenging environment. It will be interesting to see how they handle Pittsburgh's winter. I was hoping that they'd be ready by now, since my kid is about to get a driver's license, but at least I should be able to buy one in 5 or 6 years.
Yep, I used one for a week because I was between phones and I really liked the interface but the lack of certain apps made it not work for me. Android, for all its flaws, at least mostly works and has all the apps I want to use.
TFA says that since they had already determined that the driver was dead, they were extra cautious. They do have protocols for dealing with electric cars, and would doubtless have acted quicker if there had been a chance to save the driver. As it was, they waited for an expert to come and give it a once over, which seems prudent.
I have to say, this reminds me of when they ditched serial ports on the iMac. It wasn't really the end of the world, and this won't be either. For one, I don't have to buy an iPhone, just like I never bought an iMac, so it doesn't affect me directly.
Secondly, the existing situation is less than ideal; for example, my daughter's phone is in an Otterbox, and the aux-in cable in my car is too big for her to plug it in. Some sort of wireless solution would, in fact, be better; even though my car hasn't got built-in Bluetooth, I'm sure I can add something for under $50.
So you should probably get the new LG V20 and be happy!
They actually want to kick appliances off. When the load is high, your blender quits working, basically.
They actually mean "the equivalent of adding a gas-fired power plant by subtracting users who can damn well wait for their smoothies.
Hopefully no one is stupid enough to buy a Nest dialysis machine...
These kinds of programs are fairly common, although usually they make you use a special thermostat which can be triggered via radio. When it gets the message on high demand days, it turns your AC off for an hour. I used to do the local program, and usually it meant that 3 or 4 times a year the temperature in the house would go up 5 degrees or so. I thought it was a reasonable way to avoid brownouts or building another gas plant, but I got an ecobee which they don't yet support. If they do, I'll sign back up.
Yeah, I find it easier to burn the iso sometimes too. And some BIOSes are picky about the USB boot media; I have a couple of 1GB sticks I keep around for those times I don't feel like hooking up an external DVD to whatever I'm booting. I've had issues with larger sticks. So I still get my desktop machines with a dvd. Laptops I don't care one way or the other.
Since they are talking about many devices connecting to multiple routers it's not going to do much for the average home user then. I may have a couple of devices but only the one router.
More and more mesh router systems are coming out - Netgear's Orbi was just announced; Ubiquiti's Amplifi, Luma and Eemo are also out there. Your next router may well have multiple base stations. I know that's something I'm thinking of, but I want to see how these all shake out for a bit first.
Probably not too well. I know a guy who can buy whatever car he wants, pretty much loaded. He just bought a BMW M2 because it's small and light and he loves the way it handles. He tried the Tesla and just found it too ponderous for his taste. It is a heavy family car, after all.
Yet when Deepwater proposed to sell its wind energy to National Grid, the cost was more than twice the going rate for electricity.
My understanding is that this was built where it was because it is replacing local diesel generation on Block Island, and so the barrier to entry was lower since the costs locally were much higher than in the national grid.
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Does Infuse work by copying to your device? That's what it seems like. Not sure if that would work for a Fire Stick.
You should look at Cricket. I have their basic plan, $35/mo on autopay; unlimited talk and text, and 2.5GB of 4G data over AT&T towers. Now, that data is limited to something like 8Mbps I think, which is plenty fast for me, and if I ever hit the limit (I never have, but my kids have on theirs) I'll be throttled to 128kbps which is still enough to stream Pandora or run Waze. I know exactly how much I'm going to be paying each month, I can use whatever unlocked GSM phone I want, and i can switch at the drop of a hat if something better comes along.
Are you talking about the 38,000 lives which are lost every year in car crashes? I think we'd have been way ahead of the game if we had taken half of the money we have poured into the TSA since 9/11 and used it to push this technology. We would have saved way more lives than the TSA will ever hope to.
Sure, but Uber will be testing in Pittsburgh this winter, Volvo is doubtless working on it in Sweden, etc. Sure, maybe when the first models come out they may not have mapped every back alley, but I bet within 10 years they'll be able to handle any situation as well as an average driver, and most situations a hell of a lot better.
You still may want to put snow tires on in the winter though.
Is this a multi line plan or grandfathered something? I have 3 lines for $30 each, 2.5Gb 4g data each then throttled unlimited, and that seemed to be about as good as one could get.
I bet the tipping point will be way less than that. Even 50% of the vehicles keeping a proper gap, not randomly braking, not piling into the vehicle in front would be a big improvement. If the cars behind are aware of an event ahead and can slow down to give it time to clear, all the non-aware traffic around will also be helped by the smoother flow.
People seem to think that self driving cars are driving like people and that they will freak out when they can't see the lane markings. 360 degree sensors of all different types, tied to a 3d map of the area, means that they should be way better at staying on the road in those types of situations. See this article for just one example:
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/...
Sure, they need to figure out ways to keep the sensors clear etc, but that can be done pretty easily. And at some point, if the weather gets too bad, maybe having your car say "I'm not going out there" isn't the worst thing. Way too many people around me overestimate what they and their all-weather radials can handle and end up blocking the roads when they get stuck.
Yeah, I have been paying for years and this is good news, but I have also signed up for the family Spotify plan and if I decide to drop one, I think it will be Pandora. Playing the same songs too often is my only real gripe, especially if this means you'll be able to skip more often.
They're not unheard of in the US - I got a box at Costco last year, just to try them out and because the box looked cool. I brought it into work and the consensus was that it's Chinese fruitcake - something everyone has to buy and give, but that no one really likes.
I guess back in the day it was actually a good gift to get because it seems like about the most calorie dense food you can get. To a peasant farmer that's going to be manna, but for modern affluent folks, it's just too rich.
I read that the Pittsburgh left, the bridges, and the winter were all reasons for choosing Pittsburgh.
You have a driver sitting in the thing, with a big red button to hit or an easy way to take back control by moving the wheel or tapping the brakes. That doesn't seem to be putting human lives at much more risk than anyone else out on the road. And the payoff of this testing is that every mistake, in theory, should only be made once.
It's good to see more real world testing of these systems in a challenging environment. It will be interesting to see how they handle Pittsburgh's winter. I was hoping that they'd be ready by now, since my kid is about to get a driver's license, but at least I should be able to buy one in 5 or 6 years.
Yep, I used one for a week because I was between phones and I really liked the interface but the lack of certain apps made it not work for me. Android, for all its flaws, at least mostly works and has all the apps I want to use.
TFA says that since they had already determined that the driver was dead, they were extra cautious. They do have protocols for dealing with electric cars, and would doubtless have acted quicker if there had been a chance to save the driver. As it was, they waited for an expert to come and give it a once over, which seems prudent.
I have to say, this reminds me of when they ditched serial ports on the iMac. It wasn't really the end of the world, and this won't be either. For one, I don't have to buy an iPhone, just like I never bought an iMac, so it doesn't affect me directly.
Secondly, the existing situation is less than ideal; for example, my daughter's phone is in an Otterbox, and the aux-in cable in my car is too big for her to plug it in. Some sort of wireless solution would, in fact, be better; even though my car hasn't got built-in Bluetooth, I'm sure I can add something for under $50.
So you should probably get the new LG V20 and be happy!
Why don't you just make ten be the top number and make that a little more charged?
And if we're going to go there: you can't be "among one of the victims", you' could be either among the victims or one of the victims.
They actually want to kick appliances off. When the load is high, your blender quits working, basically.
They actually mean "the equivalent of adding a gas-fired power plant by subtracting users who can damn well wait for their smoothies.
Hopefully no one is stupid enough to buy a Nest dialysis machine...
These kinds of programs are fairly common, although usually they make you use a special thermostat which can be triggered via radio. When it gets the message on high demand days, it turns your AC off for an hour. I used to do the local program, and usually it meant that 3 or 4 times a year the temperature in the house would go up 5 degrees or so. I thought it was a reasonable way to avoid brownouts or building another gas plant, but I got an ecobee which they don't yet support. If they do, I'll sign back up.
Yeah, I find it easier to burn the iso sometimes too. And some BIOSes are picky about the USB boot media; I have a couple of 1GB sticks I keep around for those times I don't feel like hooking up an external DVD to whatever I'm booting. I've had issues with larger sticks.
So I still get my desktop machines with a dvd. Laptops I don't care one way or the other.
Since they are talking about many devices connecting to multiple routers it's not going to do much for the average home user then. I may have a couple of devices but only the one router.
More and more mesh router systems are coming out - Netgear's Orbi was just announced; Ubiquiti's Amplifi, Luma and Eemo are also out there. Your next router may well have multiple base stations. I know that's something I'm thinking of, but I want to see how these all shake out for a bit first.
Probably not too well. I know a guy who can buy whatever car he wants, pretty much loaded. He just bought a BMW M2 because it's small and light and he loves the way it handles. He tried the Tesla and just found it too ponderous for his taste. It is a heavy family car, after all.
I did it at 100k miles on my Honda, and I'll probably do it again at 200k.
But that's no longer in production. Are there any faster cars you can buy today?
The price on that Porsche ($850,000+) makes the Teslas seem positively sensible!
What kind of major outlets are you looking for?
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/gr...
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
Hell, even the NY Daily News covered it:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Yet when Deepwater proposed to sell its wind energy to National Grid, the cost was more than twice the going rate for electricity.
My understanding is that this was built where it was because it is replacing local diesel generation on Block Island, and so the barrier to entry was lower since the costs locally were much higher than in the national grid.