They claim that less than 1% of their customers still have unlimited data. As if nobody remembers this time last year when they were talking about throttling grandfathered LTE service. Let me see if I can find the info from then...There it is. In August of 2014, they claimed that 20% of their customers still had unlimited data and 95% of those customers use less than 5 gigs of data.
So I'm supposed to believe that they've managed to cull 95% of their grandfathered customers in the last year? Or were they lying a year ago when they claimed that 20% of their customers still had a data plan that hadn't been offered since, if memory serves, 2009. I signed up just before they stopped offering it then bought my next phone in 2011 just before they stopped renewing contracts and subsidizing phones.
And, if they did manage to cut 95% of their unlimited customers in just a year by doing nothing but waiting, why would they bother taking additional action? If the holdouts are down to less than 1%, do they think $20 is going to be what pushes them over the edge?
If it was an IPS (or PLS or some other equivalently premium panel type), I would expect them to say so in the specs and/or product overview. It seems unlikely that they'd fail to brag if their tiny 4k panel was IPS.
You know what else has a lot of your personal information in plain text? Your driver's license. Your credit cards. Your insurance card. Do you know why no1curz? Because they don't put them on display for the world to see.
I'm not 5. I don't walk around the airport with my boarding pass pinned to my shirt. It's only visible when I hand it to the TSA groper or the gate agent. When I'm done using it, it gets shredded like any other mildly sensitive document.
The car is the result of "extensive" surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
No, it shouldn't! It should be a time for concentrating on driving. What the fuck is wrong with you???
My grandpa worked for Lockheed's space and missile division way back in the day. He said the attitude sensors for one of the rockets could be installed (or connected; I forget which) backwards and the rocket would think it was pointed in the opposite direction of its actual orientation and try to turn around. The bureaucracy involved in redesigning that single part was so cumbersome they just added a new pre-flight check. Send someone up the gantry to push the rocket and verify that the readings matched the push.
Fast-forward a few decades and one of my roommates worked for Lockheed. This was when they had a series of failed launches and were trying to figure out what the heck was going on. My roommate was on the team investigating one of the botched launches and they came to the conclusion that the rocket decided it was pointed 180 degrees from its actual orientation and it tried to turn around.
CSB, I have some telemetry strips from the Discoverer launches way back in the day. Found them when cleaning out my grandpa's garage a few years ago. Almost threw them out because they'd clearly been defiled by mice but I unrolled one a little bit and realized what they were.
"My did didn't like computers so I sent her to computer camp and she still doesn't like computers. Something is wrong with the camp."
Seriously??? My God. Somebody with that kind of mentality is a CEO?
MAYBE YOUR KID JUST DOESN'T LIKE COMPUTERS!!!
If your kid doesn't like broccoli, are you going to send her to broccoli camp? And if she comes back from camp still not liking broccoli, will it clearly be the fault of the camp?
Do kids even use computers these days? I thought they did everything on their phones.
I've tried to use tablets as a primary computing device while travelling but it's always more of a PITA than just taking a laptop. If I need something more than my phone, it's because I need an efficient input device. If I'm carrying a tablet, I'm also carrying a keyboard and maybe a mouse. If I'm going to carry a tablet and a keyboard, I may as well just take a laptop.
Right now, my travel computer is an Asus X205T. Not the fastest in the world but it's small, light, and plays 1080p video on an external monitor just fine so I can bring movies with me and play them on a TV. Handles 128 gig MicroSD cards. And it's fanless so I don't have to worry about blocking vents. Cost less than the keyboard for my Tab S 10.5.
I dunno. I didn't see iPhones as a viable business phone but I was wrong. People wanted them because they were so easy to use. I didn't think the iPod was going to revolutionize portable music but then Apple went and made it so easy to buy music.
Apple has a way of making things that already exist simpler and more attractive. They've got Adobe products and Microsoft Office on the iPad. Assuming you can connect to network shares from the iPad, it's just a matter of convincing people it's better than sliced bread and Apple's good at that.
The commentators are supposed to be professionals and plugging products is part of their profession. Do they fuck up the "Brought to you by Dodge: Take a stand against ordinary." plugs? No. And, if they did, they'd be getting yelled at during the next commercial break. Can you imagine if they said "Brought to you by the Toyota F-150, heartbeat of America." when the dodge logo popped up on the screen? (I just picked Dodge and their slogan out of thin air. I have no idea if Dodge advertises like that during NFL games but you get what I mean.) The tablets are a product and it's being advertised. Microsoft has paid a ton of money for this product placement and I find it hard to believe that their contract doesn't include assurances that their products will be correctly referenced a minimum number of times per game. And it probably has penalties for misidentification. Like calling their devices by the trademarked name of their biggest competitor. You don't need to be an expert on the product you're plugging to get the name right.
Funny you should say that. If I was playing while my tour bus was in motion, I'd want an SSD. But it's funny because I picked up both the PS4 and XBone on their release dates while I was in Texas during my year-long cross-country RV trip. I had a 14 drive media array in that RV full of 3.5" drives that handled the trip just fine. Of course, the drives weren't spinning while I was driving. That'd be dumb. But they all tolerated over 10,000 miles of bumps and bangs without losing a single bit.
But in-motion gaming doesn't seem like a reasonable explanation. That market segment has to be a minuscule fraction of a percent of their target market.
Must have a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers, and special characters. And it can't be any of my last eleventy-six passwords. "It's been a while since you've logged in from the mobile application. Please change your password." What the flying fuck?!? I just wanted to check my balance and now I have to change my password.
Then Microsoft failed because the XBone is huge. My XBone's external drive has to share space in the PS4's nook because there isn't room for it in the XBone's nook. And it needs an external drive because Microsoft decided there's no reason for me to be able to upgrade their piddly 500 gig drive. And, as big as it is, they still gave me a huge, honkin' external power supply. And I can't set anything on top of the XBone because of the huge top vent.
At least Sony hit the target when they aimed for a small size.
Can anyone explain why they insisted on using 2,5" drives in both consoles? It seems like they could have shipped with 1tb for the same price if they'd used 3.5" drives. It's not like a few extra cubic inches of volume would have made people walk away from the deal.
Satellite internet is available in Middle of Nowhere, NV. Also Indiana. I've got a cousin in rural Indiana who uses satellite internet. They're about 30 miles from a major city. I wouldn't live in a place where that was my only option but I also paid a lot more for my smaller and more boring house.
$5,000 to extend internet service to a rural location is cheap. That was what I had earmarked when I was house hunting. It never came into play because I didn't find a rural location I liked where a mere $5k would get me broadband.
You can get a Win8.1 (probably Win10 by now) tablet for $99, OTG USB adapter for $5ish (assuming you can't find a cheap tablet with a USB A port), USB keyboard and USB mouse from goodwill for $5. If you're lucky, you can get a keyboard with a built in hub. If not, another $5 for a hub. So you're looking at $105-115.
However, that's going to be clunky with a tiny screen. A better bet would probably be to watch sites like Yugster and Woot for a netbook on sale. I got a refurbished Asus X205T for $130. It's small, it's light, it's got great battery life, they keyboard's nearly full size (like 95%), the screen is big enough to read. Another option would be to check those sites for refurbished machines. They often sell Core 2 Duo systems with Windows 7 (free upgrade to Win10) for $100-150. $25 for a monitor and keyboard from Goodwill and it's good to go. Neither option is good for gaming but that's not the goal here.
Honestly, you're not going to find much cheaper than that. Even a Goodwill desktop or laptop that's ready to roll will cost more.
And getting them a computer is only half the battle. If the family can't afford to spend $150 on a computer, how are they going to afford $20-50/month for an internet connection?
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but I do no think it means what you think it means. 20 kilograms is hardly "micro". That's a medium sized dog with very hard feet.
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They claim that less than 1% of their customers still have unlimited data. As if nobody remembers this time last year when they were talking about throttling grandfathered LTE service. Let me see if I can find the info from then...There it is. In August of 2014, they claimed that 20% of their customers still had unlimited data and 95% of those customers use less than 5 gigs of data.
So I'm supposed to believe that they've managed to cull 95% of their grandfathered customers in the last year? Or were they lying a year ago when they claimed that 20% of their customers still had a data plan that hadn't been offered since, if memory serves, 2009. I signed up just before they stopped offering it then bought my next phone in 2011 just before they stopped renewing contracts and subsidizing phones.
And, if they did manage to cut 95% of their unlimited customers in just a year by doing nothing but waiting, why would they bother taking additional action? If the holdouts are down to less than 1%, do they think $20 is going to be what pushes them over the edge?
How am I supposed to take them seriously?
If it was an IPS (or PLS or some other equivalently premium panel type), I would expect them to say so in the specs and/or product overview. It seems unlikely that they'd fail to brag if their tiny 4k panel was IPS.
I thought that said "hitability".
You know what else has a lot of your personal information in plain text? Your driver's license. Your credit cards. Your insurance card. Do you know why no1curz? Because they don't put them on display for the world to see.
I'm not 5. I don't walk around the airport with my boarding pass pinned to my shirt. It's only visible when I hand it to the TSA groper or the gate agent. When I'm done using it, it gets shredded like any other mildly sensitive document.
The car is the result of "extensive" surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
No, it shouldn't! It should be a time for concentrating on driving. What the fuck is wrong with you???
My grandpa worked for Lockheed's space and missile division way back in the day. He said the attitude sensors for one of the rockets could be installed (or connected; I forget which) backwards and the rocket would think it was pointed in the opposite direction of its actual orientation and try to turn around. The bureaucracy involved in redesigning that single part was so cumbersome they just added a new pre-flight check. Send someone up the gantry to push the rocket and verify that the readings matched the push.
Fast-forward a few decades and one of my roommates worked for Lockheed. This was when they had a series of failed launches and were trying to figure out what the heck was going on. My roommate was on the team investigating one of the botched launches and they came to the conclusion that the rocket decided it was pointed 180 degrees from its actual orientation and it tried to turn around.
CSB, I have some telemetry strips from the Discoverer launches way back in the day. Found them when cleaning out my grandpa's garage a few years ago. Almost threw them out because they'd clearly been defiled by mice but I unrolled one a little bit and realized what they were.
The please to explain why the caps didn't increase significantly (at all!) when we went from 3G to 4G.
Increased speed is pointless if they keep choking it with ridiculously low caps. "Oh, wow. I can hit my monthly cap in 19.3 seconds."
You realize all the privacy-rapist features of Win10 have been added to 7/8, right?
There goes my side job of writing birthday jingles for chain restaurants. :(
"My did didn't like computers so I sent her to computer camp and she still doesn't like computers. Something is wrong with the camp."
Seriously??? My God. Somebody with that kind of mentality is a CEO?
MAYBE YOUR KID JUST DOESN'T LIKE COMPUTERS!!!
If your kid doesn't like broccoli, are you going to send her to broccoli camp? And if she comes back from camp still not liking broccoli, will it clearly be the fault of the camp?
Do kids even use computers these days? I thought they did everything on their phones.
I've tried to use tablets as a primary computing device while travelling but it's always more of a PITA than just taking a laptop. If I need something more than my phone, it's because I need an efficient input device. If I'm carrying a tablet, I'm also carrying a keyboard and maybe a mouse. If I'm going to carry a tablet and a keyboard, I may as well just take a laptop.
Right now, my travel computer is an Asus X205T. Not the fastest in the world but it's small, light, and plays 1080p video on an external monitor just fine so I can bring movies with me and play them on a TV. Handles 128 gig MicroSD cards. And it's fanless so I don't have to worry about blocking vents. Cost less than the keyboard for my Tab S 10.5.
I dunno. I didn't see iPhones as a viable business phone but I was wrong. People wanted them because they were so easy to use. I didn't think the iPod was going to revolutionize portable music but then Apple went and made it so easy to buy music.
Apple has a way of making things that already exist simpler and more attractive. They've got Adobe products and Microsoft Office on the iPad. Assuming you can connect to network shares from the iPad, it's just a matter of convincing people it's better than sliced bread and Apple's good at that.
This is why I only use 2D payment systems. I'm not paying extra for those silly glasses.
They didn't at first. Somewhere along the way, they got the name on them in big letters on the hand-hold strap.
The commentators are supposed to be professionals and plugging products is part of their profession. Do they fuck up the "Brought to you by Dodge: Take a stand against ordinary." plugs? No. And, if they did, they'd be getting yelled at during the next commercial break. Can you imagine if they said "Brought to you by the Toyota F-150, heartbeat of America." when the dodge logo popped up on the screen? (I just picked Dodge and their slogan out of thin air. I have no idea if Dodge advertises like that during NFL games but you get what I mean.) The tablets are a product and it's being advertised. Microsoft has paid a ton of money for this product placement and I find it hard to believe that their contract doesn't include assurances that their products will be correctly referenced a minimum number of times per game. And it probably has penalties for misidentification. Like calling their devices by the trademarked name of their biggest competitor. You don't need to be an expert on the product you're plugging to get the name right.
Funny you should say that. If I was playing while my tour bus was in motion, I'd want an SSD. But it's funny because I picked up both the PS4 and XBone on their release dates while I was in Texas during my year-long cross-country RV trip. I had a 14 drive media array in that RV full of 3.5" drives that handled the trip just fine. Of course, the drives weren't spinning while I was driving. That'd be dumb. But they all tolerated over 10,000 miles of bumps and bangs without losing a single bit.
But in-motion gaming doesn't seem like a reasonable explanation. That market segment has to be a minuscule fraction of a percent of their target market.
Really? Everywhere you pay with cash, they give you a 3% discount? That's amazing!
You're reading it wrong. You don't understand how Google Wallet works at all.
Must have a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers, and special characters. And it can't be any of my last eleventy-six passwords. "It's been a while since you've logged in from the mobile application. Please change your password." What the flying fuck?!? I just wanted to check my balance and now I have to change my password.
Then Microsoft failed because the XBone is huge. My XBone's external drive has to share space in the PS4's nook because there isn't room for it in the XBone's nook. And it needs an external drive because Microsoft decided there's no reason for me to be able to upgrade their piddly 500 gig drive. And, as big as it is, they still gave me a huge, honkin' external power supply. And I can't set anything on top of the XBone because of the huge top vent.
At least Sony hit the target when they aimed for a small size.
Can anyone explain why they insisted on using 2,5" drives in both consoles? It seems like they could have shipped with 1tb for the same price if they'd used 3.5" drives. It's not like a few extra cubic inches of volume would have made people walk away from the deal.
Satellite internet is available in Middle of Nowhere, NV. Also Indiana. I've got a cousin in rural Indiana who uses satellite internet. They're about 30 miles from a major city. I wouldn't live in a place where that was my only option but I also paid a lot more for my smaller and more boring house.
$5,000 to extend internet service to a rural location is cheap. That was what I had earmarked when I was house hunting. It never came into play because I didn't find a rural location I liked where a mere $5k would get me broadband.
You can get a Win8.1 (probably Win10 by now) tablet for $99, OTG USB adapter for $5ish (assuming you can't find a cheap tablet with a USB A port), USB keyboard and USB mouse from goodwill for $5. If you're lucky, you can get a keyboard with a built in hub. If not, another $5 for a hub. So you're looking at $105-115.
However, that's going to be clunky with a tiny screen. A better bet would probably be to watch sites like Yugster and Woot for a netbook on sale. I got a refurbished Asus X205T for $130. It's small, it's light, it's got great battery life, they keyboard's nearly full size (like 95%), the screen is big enough to read. Another option would be to check those sites for refurbished machines. They often sell Core 2 Duo systems with Windows 7 (free upgrade to Win10) for $100-150. $25 for a monitor and keyboard from Goodwill and it's good to go. Neither option is good for gaming but that's not the goal here.
Honestly, you're not going to find much cheaper than that. Even a Goodwill desktop or laptop that's ready to roll will cost more.
And getting them a computer is only half the battle. If the family can't afford to spend $150 on a computer, how are they going to afford $20-50/month for an internet connection?