Since that's on the FAQ for Existing Xfinity Customers page, my reading of it is that you can't just switch over to the Amazon service if you're a current customer, you'd still have to deal with Comcast directly. So I'd hope that any changes as an Amazon customer would be through them.
Does anyone know how the "No term" thing works? I see the following options for 25mpbs:
$34.99/month for the first 12 months
$49.99/month after 12 months
$69.95/month after 24 months
Could I just switch to the 10mbps plan after 2 years & stay at $50? For my purposes 10mbps is fine really. I would really rather not deal with Comcast directly.
I don't call it that, but that's how I use mine too. In fact, my oldest is using it right now since she lost her iPhone. She's saving her pennies to get another iPhone asap. I can't convince them to go Android, but if it's their own money I don't really care.
Right now, it's not really cheaper, since most people have a lot of cases where the taxi ride would be expensive, and commutes which aren't well served by other forms of public transport. And taxis aren't always that quick to arrive. So if the cost dropped significantly, especially for longer trips, and you could count on it showing up, I can see it displacing private ownership. Certainly a lot of families might decide to only have one car rather than two or three.
I'm old, but not that old. I regularly end up in places (mostly WV and especially near the radio quiet zone) where cell data is non existent. Google Maps is a pain to keep on top of for offline maps, and Waze borks when it tries to recalculate without data. Plus, when a call comes in just as I need the navigation the most, I'm very glad for the standalone. I have lifetime maps and traffic (not very good traffic, but it does come through sometimes), searching for the nearest coffee is quick and easy, and the screen is easy to read. I have the HERE app too, and it does a great job offline, but the standalone is still better.
I have used the HERE app on Android while in Europe, and I found it to be a reasonable replacement for a standalone device. I had limited data, so I was almost always using it offline, and it did everything I wanted. At home I have a Garmin, and while the app isn't as good as that, it's reasonably close.
Ok, this isn't the best deal for TB/$, but it's not just a normal drive. I found the WD page: http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/... and it's a native USB drive, no SATA connectors. So that's pretty neat.
Even if San Francisco did allow more housing, developers will want to build more luxury housing and apartments to maximize their profits.
That just shows how much demand there is. At some point, there will be no more rich people who want to live in San Francisco, and developers will start to concentrate on moderately priced housing. It really does seem like the problem is simple - more people want to live there than the existing housing supply can support. So you can either build more housing or (as the article suggests) hope to crater the economy so fewer people want to live there. If it were me, I'd choose building more housing.
A pair of Quiet Comfort noise cancelling headphones would have been a better idea, especially since he had been caught with a jammer before. Must not have been paying attention in kindergarten when they discussed making good choices.
They can get into *their* phone, which they are letting you use, without your pin if they are doing it right. They can't get into *your* phone, which you bought yourself and manage yourself, without your pin.
IOW - If your employer provides you with a phone, it's not really yours.
I'm not saying you shouldn't buy AAA, but I personally view them just like extended warrantys. Sure, I'm rolling the dice, and maybe I'll end up needing an expensive tow one day. When I was driving around in my mid-70s Caddy I did have AAA, but these days I don't bother.
Maryland is wrong. Guns like the AK47 are military arms, and whether you think the second amendment describes a right of the people or not (the supreme court says it does) it describes a well-regulated militia, which requires military arms.
Require a training course? Registration for military arms? Membership in a shooting club or militia? Arguably allowable. Ban the military arms we're supposed to keep and bear? Tyranny.
I am not saying I agree, I was simply pointing out that the poster was incorrect in assuming that owning an AK47 is necessarily a right in the US. I think that the MD law is pointless, but it exists.
I have been on a 747 which landed on auto-pilot. It was a harder landing than any other I can recall, hard enough to make all the oxygen masks pop out, but it was just fine. And this was back in the late 70s. I still want a pilot, but the autopilots could probably get you there safely for the vast majority of flights. It's the exceptional times when you want to have a Sully at the controls. And statistically, there are probably a lot more pilot error induced crashes then there are great saves like that.
Sure, if you have an antique Porsche or an MG AAA absolutely makes sense, but most newer cars are pretty reliable. My two cars are both over 10 years old, and I have never needed to have them towed, so I have saved $1000 over the last 10 years by not having that peace of mind. I did need to get a tow company out once to get a seized rim off, but that was less than $100. Most people are better off financially just paying for the service they need when they need it.
TFA says most people don't want them. I understand this is a nerd forum, and nerds love technology even when it makes no sense, but you have to accept that a lot of people probably don't care for automated cars*..
Let's see how the poll looks in a few years when some of these people may have actually even seen a self driving car. When they're stuck in traffic and look over to see the guy in the next car over watching a movie or working or napping, I'm willing to bet that a bunch of them will change their minds. Maybe you live somewhere where driving is still fun, but I live in the mid-Atlantic and most of the time, it's just a chore.
Yet owning an AK47 is. Don't you find that absurd?
Actually, owning an AK47 is specifically not a right in many states. For instance, Maryland.
I'll know because it'll cost more. Or do you think all cameras, radar, sonar, liability insurance etc is free?
The liability insurance, at least, should be almost negligible, and far below the rates I'm currently paying. And in the case of a teenager, that could well end up easily reducing the TCO over the current state of affairs, given that insurance for a new driver is often in the $2k/year range. A few years of not paying that will cover a pretty good amount of fancy equipment.
Encrypted DVDs don't play out of the box on Ubuntu, you have to manually install libdvd-pkg. Which admittedly isn't hard, but it is an extra step. And there may well be other codecs they don't support I'm not aware of.
I don't see a reason right now to upgrade from my 2013 Moto X, since I don't see any phones out there with any compelling advantages. However, there are a number of issues with responsiveness, usability and voice recognition which, if they were addressed, would cause me to switch. If I could be using Waze and reliably tell my phone to open Pandora and pick a station, or have it actually get my spoken texts right more than 50%, those are the types of things I'd be looking for. It's that kind of stuff which requires more processing power and better software, and I'm sure that in a couple of years something will come out which does everything I want.
I agree, I told my kids to ask a mother or female for help first. It's sexist, but it's also playing the odds. Admittedly the chance of a random male wanting to harm your kid is minuscule, but a random female is even more minuscule. And just the fact that they are given some guidance may make them more likely to ask for help in the first place.
When you say "I can't claim to be knowledgeable or even comfortable with Linux" I agree with the ac, Mint is a good choice. I claim to be reasonably knowledgeable about and comfortable with Linux, but I don't have time to want to mess with every little thing. Mint gives me a reasonable desktop quickly, with good hardware support, so that I can spend time doing the things I actually use a computer for rather than troubleshooting drivers and suchlike.
For servers I use CentOS, for desktops I use Mint. But if you prefer Debian for either, you should use that.
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Since that's on the FAQ for Existing Xfinity Customers page, my reading of it is that you can't just switch over to the Amazon service if you're a current customer, you'd still have to deal with Comcast directly. So I'd hope that any changes as an Amazon customer would be through them.
Does anyone know how the "No term" thing works? I see the following options for 25mpbs:
$34.99/month for the first 12 months
$49.99/month after 12 months
$69.95/month after 24 months
Could I just switch to the 10mbps plan after 2 years & stay at $50? For my purposes 10mbps is fine really. I would really rather not deal with Comcast directly.
I don't call it that, but that's how I use mine too. In fact, my oldest is using it right now since she lost her iPhone. She's saving her pennies to get another iPhone asap. I can't convince them to go Android, but if it's their own money I don't really care.
Right now, it's not really cheaper, since most people have a lot of cases where the taxi ride would be expensive, and commutes which aren't well served by other forms of public transport. And taxis aren't always that quick to arrive. So if the cost dropped significantly, especially for longer trips, and you could count on it showing up, I can see it displacing private ownership. Certainly a lot of families might decide to only have one car rather than two or three.
I'm old, but not that old. I regularly end up in places (mostly WV and especially near the radio quiet zone) where cell data is non existent. Google Maps is a pain to keep on top of for offline maps, and Waze borks when it tries to recalculate without data. Plus, when a call comes in just as I need the navigation the most, I'm very glad for the standalone. I have lifetime maps and traffic (not very good traffic, but it does come through sometimes), searching for the nearest coffee is quick and easy, and the screen is easy to read. I have the HERE app too, and it does a great job offline, but the standalone is still better.
I have used the HERE app on Android while in Europe, and I found it to be a reasonable replacement for a standalone device. I had limited data, so I was almost always using it offline, and it did everything I wanted. At home I have a Garmin, and while the app isn't as good as that, it's reasonably close.
Huh, I had no idea. Good to know. I haven't ever opened one of those mypassport drives up.
Ok, this isn't the best deal for TB/$, but it's not just a normal drive. I found the WD page:
http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/...
and it's a native USB drive, no SATA connectors. So that's pretty neat.
Even if San Francisco did allow more housing, developers will want to build more luxury housing and apartments to maximize their profits.
That just shows how much demand there is. At some point, there will be no more rich people who want to live in San Francisco, and developers will start to concentrate on moderately priced housing.
It really does seem like the problem is simple - more people want to live there than the existing housing supply can support. So you can either build more housing or (as the article suggests) hope to crater the economy so fewer people want to live there. If it were me, I'd choose building more housing.
A pair of Quiet Comfort noise cancelling headphones would have been a better idea, especially since he had been caught with a jammer before.
Must not have been paying attention in kindergarten when they discussed making good choices.
In China it is subsidized.
Except it's actually just a tube leading to a canal which provides the cooling water for the plant.
They can get into *their* phone, which they are letting you use, without your pin if they are doing it right.
They can't get into *your* phone, which you bought yourself and manage yourself, without your pin.
IOW - If your employer provides you with a phone, it's not really yours.
I'm not saying you shouldn't buy AAA, but I personally view them just like extended warrantys. Sure, I'm rolling the dice, and maybe I'll end up needing an expensive tow one day. When I was driving around in my mid-70s Caddy I did have AAA, but these days I don't bother.
No. This is for employer provided/managed phones.
Maryland is wrong. Guns like the AK47 are military arms, and whether you think the second amendment describes a right of the people or not (the supreme court says it does) it describes a
well-regulated militia, which requires military arms.
Require a training course? Registration for military arms? Membership in a shooting club or militia? Arguably allowable. Ban the military arms we're supposed to keep and bear? Tyranny.
I am not saying I agree, I was simply pointing out that the poster was incorrect in assuming that owning an AK47 is necessarily a right in the US. I think that the MD law is pointless, but it exists.
I have been on a 747 which landed on auto-pilot. It was a harder landing than any other I can recall, hard enough to make all the oxygen masks pop out, but it was just fine. And this was back in the late 70s.
I still want a pilot, but the autopilots could probably get you there safely for the vast majority of flights. It's the exceptional times when you want to have a Sully at the controls. And statistically, there are probably a lot more pilot error induced crashes then there are great saves like that.
Sure, if you have an antique Porsche or an MG AAA absolutely makes sense, but most newer cars are pretty reliable. My two cars are both over 10 years old, and I have never needed to have them towed, so I have saved $1000 over the last 10 years by not having that peace of mind. I did need to get a tow company out once to get a seized rim off, but that was less than $100. Most people are better off financially just paying for the service they need when they need it.
TFA says most people don't want them. I understand this is a nerd forum, and nerds love technology even when it makes no sense, but you have to accept that a lot of people probably don't care for automated cars*. .
Let's see how the poll looks in a few years when some of these people may have actually even seen a self driving car. When they're stuck in traffic and look over to see the guy in the next car over watching a movie or working or napping, I'm willing to bet that a bunch of them will change their minds. Maybe you live somewhere where driving is still fun, but I live in the mid-Atlantic and most of the time, it's just a chore.
Yet owning an AK47 is. Don't you find that absurd?
Actually, owning an AK47 is specifically not a right in many states. For instance, Maryland.
I'll know because it'll cost more. Or do you think all cameras, radar, sonar, liability insurance etc is free?
The liability insurance, at least, should be almost negligible, and far below the rates I'm currently paying. And in the case of a teenager, that could well end up easily reducing the TCO over the current state of affairs, given that insurance for a new driver is often in the $2k/year range. A few years of not paying that will cover a pretty good amount of fancy equipment.
Encrypted DVDs don't play out of the box on Ubuntu, you have to manually install libdvd-pkg. Which admittedly isn't hard, but it is an extra step. And there may well be other codecs they don't support I'm not aware of.
I don't see a reason right now to upgrade from my 2013 Moto X, since I don't see any phones out there with any compelling advantages. However, there are a number of issues with responsiveness, usability and voice recognition which, if they were addressed, would cause me to switch. If I could be using Waze and reliably tell my phone to open Pandora and pick a station, or have it actually get my spoken texts right more than 50%, those are the types of things I'd be looking for. It's that kind of stuff which requires more processing power and better software, and I'm sure that in a couple of years something will come out which does everything I want.
I agree, I told my kids to ask a mother or female for help first. It's sexist, but it's also playing the odds. Admittedly the chance of a random male wanting to harm your kid is minuscule, but a random female is even more minuscule. And just the fact that they are given some guidance may make them more likely to ask for help in the first place.
That may be so, but my experience with the 3TB Seagates mirrors theirs - they were the worst drives we ever used in our RAIDs.
When you say "I can't claim to be knowledgeable or even comfortable with Linux" I agree with the ac, Mint is a good choice. I claim to be reasonably knowledgeable about and comfortable with Linux, but I don't have time to want to mess with every little thing. Mint gives me a reasonable desktop quickly, with good hardware support, so that I can spend time doing the things I actually use a computer for rather than troubleshooting drivers and suchlike.
For servers I use CentOS, for desktops I use Mint. But if you prefer Debian for either, you should use that.