I'd say no, because you need an HD box, and that's where the $10 comes from, but they gave me the HD box and said for $10 I could upgrade to HD without changing anything but the size of the payment I make each month. Because fuck you, that's why.
Okay, calculate your cost to build your house. Take off work for the several months required, along with 2 your buddies. Pay all of their salaries plus benefits. Buy all of the materials. Rent or buy all of the tools.
By my eye, her house looks like a 24x48 two story, or about 2200 finished square feet that took 9 months of construction time. That kind of house, with careful shopping, could be contracted out for about $200k in many Arkansas markets, not including land but including service installation (water/septic/elec. connections). Three of you for 3/4 of a year at average arkansas wages and tax/insurance rates is about $120k total. Figure 10k for cheap water/sewer or well/septic. 1k for permitting. 1k for power main. You've got $68,000 left for 16000BF of lumber, 14000SF of wood siding/sheathing/misc, 20 cubes of brick, 15 square of shingles & underlayment, plus 30 yds of concrete for footings and a few cubes of CMU. And at that point you only have a shell of a house without electrical, heating, plumbing, bathrooms or kitchen, and no finishes.
It's quite safe, actually. The codes may be voluminous but they are designed with a HS education level in mind. A basic house is actually quite easy to build if you dedicate the time required to understand how the parts go together and have good instructional materials.
That's not what he said - he said he was legally allowed to do the work, not that it didn't require permitting and inspections. The latter two are to ensure that the work that is done is compliant with the building code. As a homeowner/builder you don't get a free pass to ignore the codes, you just get an allowance to do the work yourself. If you do it wrong, the inspectors can make you tear it all out and do it over again. This is primarily a safety issue, but it's also wrapped up in saleability as, at some point, the building is almost certain to be sold and the expectation of burs (and underwriters) is that the house followed the codes in force at the time of construction.
Their pricing is pretty much inline with other cloud services. What they lack is tiers of service. You get 1TB for $100 and unlimited for $750 plus $150/user for users>5 on a single account. Nothing below (save the basic free tier), nor in between.
Holy shit - how incompetent can you be as an engineer to design an electrical connector interface which is specifically intended to negotiate a power delivery rate and not put in a way to prevent the remote device from exceeding your power supply capabilities? AFAIK, there has never been a sink device* that has failed, only the supply devices (Apple and Google/Chrome), which is exactly the side that should be controlling the maximum capacity of the connection.
*if someone has a link to a confirmed case of a charged device failing due to this, I would love to see it as I have been unable to find one.
Perhaps, more importantly, it's (distance/second)distance. Why not just put the unit in s^-01, or would the electrical engineers in the room mistake it for a frequency?
Indeed, though I had the Note 7 and it had very, very good edge touch rejection. I have the S7E now and I mostly keep it in a thin case to prevent edge touches (and to keep it in good shape - I'm pretty clumsy). My biggest beef with both it mis-touches when picking it up - it's so thin and the case so slippery that to grip it almost requires you touch the screen. My second is the optical distortion at the edges - the Note 7 wasn't bad, the S7E is pretty significant.
I'm a little disappointed that the Note 8 variant (or whatever the call it to make it "not the one that blew up") isn't on the docket. I won't get a replacement phone until there is one with a stylus. Man, I loved that thing. The quick notes / screen-off notes was the killer app for me.
Last year they had only 422,000 jobs in the US, but this year they will be increasing that to 397,000 jobs! It's a win for everyone - more jobs, more cost savings, and 397,000 US jobs. How can you possibly argue with that?
Oh, and chocolate rations are going up again, too.
But it turned out that the batteries were the problem and it took 4 months to determine what the problem was. So you would have been batteryless and phoneless for 4 months. Given the shitstorm of people wanting same-day replacements for the first recall (ironically leading to the flaw in the second round of batteries), I don't think having a batteryless phone for 4 months would have set well with the users. And if it were a recall issue, CPSC and FAA would have still had the ban in place until a proper, safe, OEM replacement was found. In this case (no pun intended), a removable battery wouldn't have made a stitch of difference.
Have you never heard of ANSI Y14.5? Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing? Manufacturing since the last 19th century?
The batteries were too big, the case was sized properly.
Imagine this: You order a Large hat. The company sends you a hat with a Large tag in it, but it doesn't fit because the manufacturer actually sent you a Medium with a Large tag sewn into it. Who's fault is it that your hat doesn't fit? Blaming the Note 7 case is the same as saying that your head is just too fucking big for the hat they sent.
When you specify that a batteries maximum envelope is X, and the supplier provides a battery which has a maximum envelope greater than X then, yes, it's a supplier problem.
When you request 2 million batteries instead of 200,000, and your supplier changes the process which induces a flaw into the product then, yes, it's a supplier problem.
This is critical because the "engineers" (idiots) over at ExtremeTech published "findings" (a middle school essay on their thought experiment backed up with zero observed failures) said that the problem was in the case and had nothing to do with the design of the battery. Blaming the phone case for the problem is like blaming users hands for the iPhone antenna problem. It's not a problem with what it holding the (iPhone, battery) but rather that the (iPhone, battery) was not designed properly for the specified requirements.
In both cases, it's imperative that the overall product producer take responsibility to the end users for products which do not work as intended. Which they did - recalling the devices, offer full refunds and - in many cases - a credit for accessories that you didn't even purchase from them.
People living in SF are fantastically rich compared to the rest of the country because the salaries are outrageous. And the salaries are outrageous because the supply of the talent they want is low. Jobs are NOT the problem in SF.
If you want to know what will happen, at the 6 month mark you have to tell them that the trajectory for mars orbit insertion is too dangerous, and they will need to take the free-return trip which is 18 months back, and the rationing of supplies and provisions has to start immediately. After they eat the second person, you tell the reaming crew that the Mars gravity assist was not completely successful and, while we're doing what we can to create a rendezvous rescue mission, there'a a 75% chance that they will miss Earth gravity capture on the return leg by more than the allowable and their trajectory following the miss will take them just beyond Venus' orbit, but that they will have to ensure excessive heat and will die slowly as they cook in the capsule.
That's why my payment method was a gift card with just enough on it to get the first three months. They can charge that card number all they want, but they're not getting another dime out of it. Nearly-used-up gift cards are great for Netflix and Hulu trials, too.
We all just signed up for the reduced price hardware. $100 for an ATV4 is a great price. Getting an extra outlet to stream ESPN for 3 months was just a bonus.
1 square mile actually is almost 700 acres (640 to be exact). 20 acres is actually a pretty small tract for viewshed protection, unless you're in a forest. Heck, the Walmart in Albany, NY is 12 acres, and that doesn't include the parking lot.
Cortana is better than Google at answering questions. Unfortunately, unless the question is very simple, she dumps you into a Bing search, which is even less helpful than Now always dumping you into a Google search. If you're interacting via voice, you shouldn't have to look at your phone or press links. At least in Google, you can often read the answer (after you stop driving/doing whatever it was that prevented you from typing in the first place, of course); with Bing, you end up copying the search text so you can paste it into Chrome to get useful links to answers.
Same here. Uploaded a choral concert, private link only, and it got flagged in less than an hour. I'm not sure whether I'm mad that it was flagged or pleased that the performance was good enough to produce a match.;-) I believe they have a monetization agreement in place with the publishers, so the video stayed. I've had a couple of short clips I uploaded (which were clearly infinging, but just meant to show some examples of ideas to friends) flagged and taken down, while other, similar clips (clearly not by the content producer) have stayed up - sometimes for years.
Most of what's in the (originally) Reuters blurb is in the airbus link, except the 2017 date to get a prototype in the air, and doesn't contain that silly Shutterstock photo that has nothing to do with the Airbus group at all.
If I could afford one of these, I'd definitely get on, even if it had limited takeoff/landing allowables. Now, that's partly because the nearest gen aviation airport is ~1 mile from my house, and partly because I live in the mountains where the air miles to a mid-range destination (30-100 miles) can be less than half the road distance. But, alas, not being in the 0.1% means it's likely I will not be able to afford one.
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I'd say no, because you need an HD box, and that's where the $10 comes from, but they gave me the HD box and said for $10 I could upgrade to HD without changing anything but the size of the payment I make each month. Because fuck you, that's why.
Okay, calculate your cost to build your house. Take off work for the several months required, along with 2 your buddies. Pay all of their salaries plus benefits. Buy all of the materials. Rent or buy all of the tools.
By my eye, her house looks like a 24x48 two story, or about 2200 finished square feet that took 9 months of construction time. That kind of house, with careful shopping, could be contracted out for about $200k in many Arkansas markets, not including land but including service installation (water/septic/elec. connections). Three of you for 3/4 of a year at average arkansas wages and tax/insurance rates is about $120k total. Figure 10k for cheap water/sewer or well/septic. 1k for permitting. 1k for power main. You've got $68,000 left for 16000BF of lumber, 14000SF of wood siding/sheathing/misc, 20 cubes of brick, 15 square of shingles & underlayment, plus 30 yds of concrete for footings and a few cubes of CMU. And at that point you only have a shell of a house without electrical, heating, plumbing, bathrooms or kitchen, and no finishes.
It's quite safe, actually. The codes may be voluminous but they are designed with a HS education level in mind. A basic house is actually quite easy to build if you dedicate the time required to understand how the parts go together and have good instructional materials.
That's not what he said - he said he was legally allowed to do the work, not that it didn't require permitting and inspections. The latter two are to ensure that the work that is done is compliant with the building code. As a homeowner/builder you don't get a free pass to ignore the codes, you just get an allowance to do the work yourself. If you do it wrong, the inspectors can make you tear it all out and do it over again. This is primarily a safety issue, but it's also wrapped up in saleability as, at some point, the building is almost certain to be sold and the expectation of burs (and underwriters) is that the house followed the codes in force at the time of construction.
Their pricing is pretty much inline with other cloud services. What they lack is tiers of service. You get 1TB for $100 and unlimited for $750 plus $150/user for users>5 on a single account. Nothing below (save the basic free tier), nor in between.
Whomever installs the software is going to be on the hook.
THIS!!
Holy shit - how incompetent can you be as an engineer to design an electrical connector interface which is specifically intended to negotiate a power delivery rate and not put in a way to prevent the remote device from exceeding your power supply capabilities? AFAIK, there has never been a sink device* that has failed, only the supply devices (Apple and Google/Chrome), which is exactly the side that should be controlling the maximum capacity of the connection.
*if someone has a link to a confirmed case of a charged device failing due to this, I would love to see it as I have been unable to find one.
Perhaps, more importantly, it's (distance/second)distance. Why not just put the unit in s^-01, or would the electrical engineers in the room mistake it for a frequency?
Slashdot is just full of uncultured swine. ;-)
Indeed, though I had the Note 7 and it had very, very good edge touch rejection. I have the S7E now and I mostly keep it in a thin case to prevent edge touches (and to keep it in good shape - I'm pretty clumsy). My biggest beef with both it mis-touches when picking it up - it's so thin and the case so slippery that to grip it almost requires you touch the screen. My second is the optical distortion at the edges - the Note 7 wasn't bad, the S7E is pretty significant.
I'm a little disappointed that the Note 8 variant (or whatever the call it to make it "not the one that blew up") isn't on the docket. I won't get a replacement phone until there is one with a stylus. Man, I loved that thing. The quick notes / screen-off notes was the killer app for me.
Last year they had only 422,000 jobs in the US, but this year they will be increasing that to 397,000 jobs! It's a win for everyone - more jobs, more cost savings, and 397,000 US jobs. How can you possibly argue with that?
Oh, and chocolate rations are going up again, too.
But it turned out that the batteries were the problem and it took 4 months to determine what the problem was. So you would have been batteryless and phoneless for 4 months. Given the shitstorm of people wanting same-day replacements for the first recall (ironically leading to the flaw in the second round of batteries), I don't think having a batteryless phone for 4 months would have set well with the users. And if it were a recall issue, CPSC and FAA would have still had the ban in place until a proper, safe, OEM replacement was found. In this case (no pun intended), a removable battery wouldn't have made a stitch of difference.
Have you never heard of ANSI Y14.5? Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing? Manufacturing since the last 19th century?
The batteries were too big, the case was sized properly.
Imagine this: You order a Large hat. The company sends you a hat with a Large tag in it, but it doesn't fit because the manufacturer actually sent you a Medium with a Large tag sewn into it. Who's fault is it that your hat doesn't fit? Blaming the Note 7 case is the same as saying that your head is just too fucking big for the hat they sent.
When you specify that a batteries maximum envelope is X, and the supplier provides a battery which has a maximum envelope greater than X then, yes, it's a supplier problem.
When you request 2 million batteries instead of 200,000, and your supplier changes the process which induces a flaw into the product then, yes, it's a supplier problem.
This is critical because the "engineers" (idiots) over at ExtremeTech published "findings" (a middle school essay on their thought experiment backed up with zero observed failures) said that the problem was in the case and had nothing to do with the design of the battery. Blaming the phone case for the problem is like blaming users hands for the iPhone antenna problem. It's not a problem with what it holding the (iPhone, battery) but rather that the (iPhone, battery) was not designed properly for the specified requirements.
In both cases, it's imperative that the overall product producer take responsibility to the end users for products which do not work as intended. Which they did - recalling the devices, offer full refunds and - in many cases - a credit for accessories that you didn't even purchase from them.
People living in SF are fantastically rich compared to the rest of the country because the salaries are outrageous. And the salaries are outrageous because the supply of the talent they want is low. Jobs are NOT the problem in SF.
If you want to know what will happen, at the 6 month mark you have to tell them that the trajectory for mars orbit insertion is too dangerous, and they will need to take the free-return trip which is 18 months back, and the rationing of supplies and provisions has to start immediately. After they eat the second person, you tell the reaming crew that the Mars gravity assist was not completely successful and, while we're doing what we can to create a rendezvous rescue mission, there'a a 75% chance that they will miss Earth gravity capture on the return leg by more than the allowable and their trajectory following the miss will take them just beyond Venus' orbit, but that they will have to ensure excessive heat and will die slowly as they cook in the capsule.
That's why my payment method was a gift card with just enough on it to get the first three months. They can charge that card number all they want, but they're not getting another dime out of it. Nearly-used-up gift cards are great for Netflix and Hulu trials, too.
We all just signed up for the reduced price hardware. $100 for an ATV4 is a great price. Getting an extra outlet to stream ESPN for 3 months was just a bonus.
1 square mile actually is almost 700 acres (640 to be exact). 20 acres is actually a pretty small tract for viewshed protection, unless you're in a forest. Heck, the Walmart in Albany, NY is 12 acres, and that doesn't include the parking lot.
68% of US adults lie about watching pirated content.
Cortana is better than Google at answering questions. Unfortunately, unless the question is very simple, she dumps you into a Bing search, which is even less helpful than Now always dumping you into a Google search. If you're interacting via voice, you shouldn't have to look at your phone or press links. At least in Google, you can often read the answer (after you stop driving/doing whatever it was that prevented you from typing in the first place, of course); with Bing, you end up copying the search text so you can paste it into Chrome to get useful links to answers.
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If you didn't turn it in, you didn't get a refund. Those that have them have paid for them (though some may have been at subsidized prices).
Same here. Uploaded a choral concert, private link only, and it got flagged in less than an hour. I'm not sure whether I'm mad that it was flagged or pleased that the performance was good enough to produce a match. ;-) I believe they have a monetization agreement in place with the publishers, so the video stayed. I've had a couple of short clips I uploaded (which were clearly infinging, but just meant to show some examples of ideas to friends) flagged and taken down, while other, similar clips (clearly not by the content producer) have stayed up - sometimes for years.
http://www.airbusgroup.com/int...
Most of what's in the (originally) Reuters blurb is in the airbus link, except the 2017 date to get a prototype in the air, and doesn't contain that silly Shutterstock photo that has nothing to do with the Airbus group at all.
If I could afford one of these, I'd definitely get on, even if it had limited takeoff/landing allowables. Now, that's partly because the nearest gen aviation airport is ~1 mile from my house, and partly because I live in the mountains where the air miles to a mid-range destination (30-100 miles) can be less than half the road distance. But, alas, not being in the 0.1% means it's likely I will not be able to afford one.