Yeah, I got a 32 gig Tab S 10.5 when it was released last year and it's pretty nice. Especially the 2560x1600 OLED display. Takes MicroSDXC cards, has OTG and MHL, decent battery life. I got it after having used a Nexus 10 since it was released. Comparing the two, the Tab S is much thinner and lighter. It's also faster and the display is better. There's just no comparing LCD to OLED. The tradeoff is that I don't get a clean installation of Android and it's way behind the Nexus 10. The Tab S is running 5.0.2 and the ancient Nexus 10 is running 5.1.1.
I wish phone tablet manufacturers wouldn't orphan their devices a few months after they're released. It's not like the Tab S devices are budget items from some no-name manufacturer but both my flagship Samsung tablet and phone are lagging behind.
I'm not joking. I've been on the business side of buying high-availability internet access and some businesses will assume that such a low price means they can expect lots of downtime and/or extended periods of reduced performance. While the price of three nines has gone down from "my day", it hasn't gone down that much and I would be wary of a service provider who undercut the competition by such a significant amount.
You realize that not everyone can be so picky about their location, right? Maybe they bought their house back in the olden times like 1993 when there was no such thing as broadband. You can hardly expect people to anticipate technological changes 10-20 years down the road.
They can't even claim that the usage is unexpected. It's been an issue for every wireless data provider using every type of wireless technology ever since the first ISP offered wireless service. I spent 2 years fighting DirecPC back in the late 90s. Didn't get my unlimited service restored but at least the restrictions were explained to new customers.
The best thing that ever happened to my personal wireless data delivery was Verizon buying a huge chunk 700Mhz spectrum. The FCC slipped a little clause into the contract that prevented Verizon from throttling LTE service. Verizon made noise about throttling grandfathered unlimited LTE accounts last year, spouting the usual "protecting our network" crap. They quietly backed down at the last minute with no explanation. Probably got a reminder from the FCC that they're not allowed to do that. Customers using the service they pay for isn't an attack on Verizon's network.
I traveled the US for a year from 2013 to 2014 and my [unlimited] LTE service from Verizon was better than any WiFi service I got from resorts and hotels except at three locations For the first half of the trip, I tethered through my Galaxy Nexus phone. For the second half, I used a Galaxy S5. My switch to the S5 happened around the time Verizon started rolling out XLTE in major cities and the speed increase was noticeable. I got up to 80 megs down and 40 up near Atlanta. Verizon's expensive but they have the best coverage. I've also used T-Mobile and AT&T but T-Mobile's coverage was miserable and AT&T couldn't reliably deliver data.
I pushed the low-PPI display concept at my last job because we had a lot of people in their 50s and 60s who were always leaning in and squinting to see their standard-PPI monitors. 1366x768 on a 27" display can really reduce eye strain for people who have trouble reading a standard display. And it completely eliminates the issues of inconsistent scaling and requires no special support from the OS or applications. My boss threw out the usual "if we give Frank a 27" monitor, everybody will want one" rejection. God forbid we give people tools that make their job easier or more pleasant. Even back then you could get a 27" 720p TV with HDMI and VGA inputs for under $200. About what we were paying for the standard 19" monitors at the time. The only trick was finding one that reported its native resolution to the computer. Some would report 1280x720, others 1920x1080, and even 1360x768. Sooo close!
The software probably is pre-installed and they don't know it because they skipped the training sessions that were offered and didn't even read the memo that listed the linux equivalent and showed which icons to click.
If I had a dollar for every time someone emailed me to tell me that email wasn't working, I could have retired even sooner.
For some reason, that reminded me of a friend's blind dog. He loved when everyone came over for poker night but he hated that we moved all the furniture in the living room. He'd bump into a couple things then sigh and wait for someone to lead him to the yard or sofa or wherever he was trying to get.
There are a few small devices that can be upgraded or come with a decent amount of memory. Acer's E3-112-C1T9 is a celery-based 11.6" that comes with 4 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig hard drive for $260ish. There's also the ES1-111M-C40S with a 32 gig eMMC drive for $145 on Newegg right now. Specs say both can have their stock memory upgraded to 8 gigs. One stick in single-channel mode, tho.
I got an Asus T205XA for $130 that's good enough and it's smaller and lighter than either of those Acers. Also has a much longer run time on battery. But the Acers have gigabit ethernet, USB3, and full size SD and HDMI. You can have cheap, small, or perfect specs. Pick any two.:) I've only bumped against the 2 gigs in the X205TA a few times.
You really charge your friends gas money? Why don't you just do the normal "I pay for the gas, you pay for the food" arrangement if funds are that tight?
So they're going to build a bridge from Nowhere, Russia to Nowhere, Alaska. So the 50 people on each end can visit each other, I guess. Because there's in infrastructure in place to get anything of significance to or from either end point of the bridge.
From an old CNN article: "Relatively isolated even by Alaska standards, no road connects Nome with the rest of the state's road system. About 836 road-less kilometers (520 miles) across desolate terrain separates Nome from the closest major city and road network in Fairbanks, the unofficial northern terminus of the Alaska Highway.
My littlest quad with a camera is 4 3/4" from rotor tip to rotor tip. Takes 1280x720 video. Not very high quality but good enough to check the gutters this afternoon. Way less than 5 pounds. While I wouldn't want it to fall on my head, I strongly doubt its lethality. I've also got a non-camera quad that's 2 5/8" from tip to tip. I'm sure that size range will have cameras soon. I doubt it would even sting if it fell on my head.
You don't need a special new law for that. Such an event is already covered by the same laws that make a person liable if they throw a ball and it hits you, causing injury. It doesn't matter what injures you. A specific law for every potential cause of injury isn't necessary.
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Yeah, I got a 32 gig Tab S 10.5 when it was released last year and it's pretty nice. Especially the 2560x1600 OLED display. Takes MicroSDXC cards, has OTG and MHL, decent battery life. I got it after having used a Nexus 10 since it was released. Comparing the two, the Tab S is much thinner and lighter. It's also faster and the display is better. There's just no comparing LCD to OLED. The tradeoff is that I don't get a clean installation of Android and it's way behind the Nexus 10. The Tab S is running 5.0.2 and the ancient Nexus 10 is running 5.1.1.
I wish phone tablet manufacturers wouldn't orphan their devices a few months after they're released. It's not like the Tab S devices are budget items from some no-name manufacturer but both my flagship Samsung tablet and phone are lagging behind.
You just quoted the residential 10 gig rate. :facepalms:
I thought they already had this covered with unsecured floor mats or something.
I'm not joking. I've been on the business side of buying high-availability internet access and some businesses will assume that such a low price means they can expect lots of downtime and/or extended periods of reduced performance. While the price of three nines has gone down from "my day", it hasn't gone down that much and I would be wary of a service provider who undercut the competition by such a significant amount.
Not me. I'm still grandfathered on a plan Verizon isn't allowed to throttle. :D
Of course, this phone probably won't be available on Verizon's network. :(
I you buy, your house is a pile of money that you can get back when you move. If you rent, the money is gone.
You realize that not everyone can be so picky about their location, right? Maybe they bought their house back in the olden times like 1993 when there was no such thing as broadband. You can hardly expect people to anticipate technological changes 10-20 years down the road.
They can't even claim that the usage is unexpected. It's been an issue for every wireless data provider using every type of wireless technology ever since the first ISP offered wireless service. I spent 2 years fighting DirecPC back in the late 90s. Didn't get my unlimited service restored but at least the restrictions were explained to new customers.
The best thing that ever happened to my personal wireless data delivery was Verizon buying a huge chunk 700Mhz spectrum. The FCC slipped a little clause into the contract that prevented Verizon from throttling LTE service. Verizon made noise about throttling grandfathered unlimited LTE accounts last year, spouting the usual "protecting our network" crap. They quietly backed down at the last minute with no explanation. Probably got a reminder from the FCC that they're not allowed to do that. Customers using the service they pay for isn't an attack on Verizon's network.
I traveled the US for a year from 2013 to 2014 and my [unlimited] LTE service from Verizon was better than any WiFi service I got from resorts and hotels except at three locations For the first half of the trip, I tethered through my Galaxy Nexus phone. For the second half, I used a Galaxy S5. My switch to the S5 happened around the time Verizon started rolling out XLTE in major cities and the speed increase was noticeable. I got up to 80 megs down and 40 up near Atlanta. Verizon's expensive but they have the best coverage. I've also used T-Mobile and AT&T but T-Mobile's coverage was miserable and AT&T couldn't reliably deliver data.
And I'm off to GIS.
Why would the kid want to live with the people who sent them to boarding school?
Works on contingency? No, money down!
(I know the punctuation is wrong but I didn't write the bit.)
Jeanne is generally a woman's name.
I pushed the low-PPI display concept at my last job because we had a lot of people in their 50s and 60s who were always leaning in and squinting to see their standard-PPI monitors. 1366x768 on a 27" display can really reduce eye strain for people who have trouble reading a standard display. And it completely eliminates the issues of inconsistent scaling and requires no special support from the OS or applications. My boss threw out the usual "if we give Frank a 27" monitor, everybody will want one" rejection. God forbid we give people tools that make their job easier or more pleasant. Even back then you could get a 27" 720p TV with HDMI and VGA inputs for under $200. About what we were paying for the standard 19" monitors at the time. The only trick was finding one that reported its native resolution to the computer. Some would report 1280x720, others 1920x1080, and even 1360x768. Sooo close!
Just because there are worse places to work doesn't make Amazon a good place to work.
The software probably is pre-installed and they don't know it because they skipped the training sessions that were offered and didn't even read the memo that listed the linux equivalent and showed which icons to click.
If I had a dollar for every time someone emailed me to tell me that email wasn't working, I could have retired even sooner.
For some reason, that reminded me of a friend's blind dog. He loved when everyone came over for poker night but he hated that we moved all the furniture in the living room. He'd bump into a couple things then sigh and wait for someone to lead him to the yard or sofa or wherever he was trying to get.
How you doin'?
There are a few small devices that can be upgraded or come with a decent amount of memory. Acer's E3-112-C1T9 is a celery-based 11.6" that comes with 4 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig hard drive for $260ish. There's also the ES1-111M-C40S with a 32 gig eMMC drive for $145 on Newegg right now. Specs say both can have their stock memory upgraded to 8 gigs. One stick in single-channel mode, tho.
I got an Asus T205XA for $130 that's good enough and it's smaller and lighter than either of those Acers. Also has a much longer run time on battery. But the Acers have gigabit ethernet, USB3, and full size SD and HDMI. You can have cheap, small, or perfect specs. Pick any two. :) I've only bumped against the 2 gigs in the X205TA a few times.
You really charge your friends gas money? Why don't you just do the normal "I pay for the gas, you pay for the food" arrangement if funds are that tight?
It'll go great with my BTTF2 shoes and holographic hat.
So they're going to build a bridge from Nowhere, Russia to Nowhere, Alaska. So the 50 people on each end can visit each other, I guess. Because there's in infrastructure in place to get anything of significance to or from either end point of the bridge.
From an old CNN article: "Relatively isolated even by Alaska standards, no road connects Nome with the rest of the state's road system. About 836 road-less kilometers (520 miles) across desolate terrain separates Nome from the closest major city and road network in Fairbanks, the unofficial northern terminus of the Alaska Highway.
My littlest quad with a camera is 4 3/4" from rotor tip to rotor tip. Takes 1280x720 video. Not very high quality but good enough to check the gutters this afternoon. Way less than 5 pounds. While I wouldn't want it to fall on my head, I strongly doubt its lethality. I've also got a non-camera quad that's 2 5/8" from tip to tip. I'm sure that size range will have cameras soon. I doubt it would even sting if it fell on my head.
You don't need a special new law for that. Such an event is already covered by the same laws that make a person liable if they throw a ball and it hits you, causing injury. It doesn't matter what injures you. A specific law for every potential cause of injury isn't necessary.
They're working on "follow" drones. Set it to lead, follow, or orbit and it'll track you. Or, more accurately, it'll track the device you're carrying.