Let's suppose you're getting ready to play a board game like say, monopoly.
Only once you set your racecar on "Go", you find out that that one guy already owns all of the properties and has put hotels on all of them... and then had the rules changed so even the railroads have hotels. Oh, and the Income Tax square has been rewritten so you pay 20% of your "Second Prize in a Beauty Contest" money, but he only pays 10% of his hotel earnings money, minus the amortized cost of buying the hotels and upkeep on his thimble.
I'm sick and tired of people saying I make too much money, and I don't pay enough in taxes. Especially ones that don't earn anything and don't pay any taxes.
BTW, between all state, federal, local and misc taxes and fees I pay each year, it is pretty much close to 50%. My salary is 50K year. If YOU want to pay more in taxes, by all means do, there is a line on your tax form to do just that.
And the rich guy on the hill who sits around drinking and playing polo makes all of his money on capital gains. Between all state, federal, local and misc taxes and fees he pays every year, it is pretty much close to 10%. And that's if he can't find any loopholes. Where's the fairness in that, again?
... if this technique could save you so much money by shifting your power consumption to off-peak hours and providing a good backup power source during outages, then the car just seems like an unnecessary middleman. why not just have the battery cell and power converter tucked away in your garage, happily charging at night and dispensing during the day and clicking on when the mains disappears?
We'll see that when the current generation of EV batteries finally get to the point that they need to be replaced. When that Leaf battery finally gets down to 6kWh capacity, it will only drive the car 15-20 miles, but would be able to basically provide all of my peak power, while recharging itself off-peak. (Or, as a UPS, it could run the equipment in my office's server room for two hours.)
Now, the 30A 220/240V supply can be useful. But little things add up quick. Fridges can draw a lot more than 1.5 amps, though usually less than 5. Add in a computer, a satellite dish, a TV, lights, etc. and you'll hit that 30A cap a lot faster than you think.
I was able to run a gas furnace, 27" CRT, DVD player, Wii, desktop with LCD monitor, satellite DVR, fridge, chest freezer, gas stove/oven and several lights on my 5500 watt Home Depot Special without even a hiccup from the motor. I could swap out the furnace for a 15,000 BTU window A/C unit or a 1,500 watt space heater and still not have a problem. With the above load, the generator would stumble a bit when turning on the microwave, but it continued to run.
At an intersection by my house, we had a particularly egregious asshole who found a way to fill his quota: he parked his car 45 degrees down an alley to make sure his dashboard camera wasn't covering the neighborhood entrance's stop sign, then would jump out and stop people claiming they "ran the stop sign" and fill out a ticket.
I finally got fed up with that shit, as well as assholes who magically come up with "witnesses" when they plow into me. So, I wedged my old HTC Touch Pro2 between the passenger seat and its headrest, and started filming.
In the past year, I've recorded every kind of violation, from idiots massively running red lights to a big rig climbing a dirt embankment to get to the exit ramp he missed. I plan on permanently installing something with a GPS speed and time stamp, but in the meantime, I get over 5 hours of passable quality recording on a 2GB SD.
Netflix did this because their costs went up. If you haven't been paying attention, studios have become more ambitious with asking for more money for less content. Unfortunately this meant an inevitable price increase.
That's fine, increase prices, make your excuses and throw yourself on the mercy of the subscriber base. Don't post bullshit on your blog about "our lowest prices ever" and "great value," and try to convince us that it's a good thing.
Ah, but the technology isn't there for everyone. Only a select few. Once IP TV gets beyond an early adopter stage it is doomed because the systems for delivering Internet content simply can't handle sending even 1 or 2 Mbps streams to every single house off the same DSLAM or neighborhood node.
You mean that DSLAM that Verizon installed back in 2001? Yes, but that problem has a fix.
My only option from the phone company is still the same shitty 3.0Mbps/768kbps ADSL service that was introduced to our town in 1999. Where's that innovation I've been hearing about again?
What does how many lines there are have to do with anything? Answer: nothing. You say hi to the cop, he sees you are sober and waves you through.
Obviously, you don't live in my town. You have to show license, registration and insurance, explain who is in your car and where you came from and are heading to, and if they don't like your passengers, they have to show their licenses as well. (Papers, please!) In the meantime, they are circling your car with flashlights looking inside and blinding your passengers. This is after you've spent 15 minutes in a line of cars that you can't get around while they interrogate everybody. Oh, and you might get a $75 ticket because one of the FOUR front marker lights on your car is burned out.
Yeah, thanks. I'll avoid their money trap, and use my Constitutionally-protected right of free speech to warn others of the same.
I was told that I couldn't add another phone to my share-plan account unless I converted all of my existing phones from AT&T to Cingular, which meant all new phones and new contracts.
It is embezzlement as well as tax fraud as consumer callers are taxed differently. But it's such a low level of theft most employers will ignore it. It's like taking stationary home. If you take one sheet of paper it's OK, if you take 10 reams it's not. There is no real guidance on where you draw the line.
When I worked in IT for, ironically, a cellular provider, the word came down from IT management that we no longer could use our company-issued cell phones for any personal calls. My manager then sent us an email, copied to the same upper management suits, that told us to turn off our cell phones at 5:00pm and put them in a drawer before we left, and not to turn them back on until 8:00 the next morning. When upper management realized that they had been trading a few minutes of extra airtime for, essentially, free after-hours on-call support, they quickly changed their policy.
Just logged into my (throwaway) Hotmail for the first time in a month and sure enough, all 1,625 spam messages are still in my inbox. (And only 25 spam messages in the Junk folder.)
So by your logic, setting up a USB printer is more complicated than setting up a computer. Even though plug and play typically means you don't have to do anything more than plugging the printer in.
Clearly your argument is nonsense. But then you knew that already.
I'll try to use small words so you'll understand. The original poster I replied to claimed that an iPad is a better computer because it is easier to set up and use than a desktop. He then gave a faulty set of setup instructions: "turn the damn iPad on, tyoe [sic] in their wifi password, and they are off and away." That is completely and patently false. You have to plug it into a working computer, install iTunes, and activate it through iTunes. If you don't ALSO buy a computer, it's a shiny paperweight.
And yes, if somebody is telling people that they should buy a USB printer instead of a computer because the printer is easier to use, then that person is going to be very disappointed when they get home and realize that it wasn't an either/or question.
And yet you didn't respond to the request to estimate how many iPad purchasers don't already have a computer. OK I'll offer you multi-choice.
The number is tiny. And you know why? Because you have to have a computer to make an iPad start working. In what universe is something "easier to use than a computer" if you have to know how to use a computer before you can make it work?
And what proportion of iPad purchasers would you estimate don't already have a PC or Mac?
The point of the OP is that the iPad is easier to set up and start using than a computer. If it requires a computer and iTunes, then how is it easier to set up and use again?
And BTW, a lot of people (older people, especially) would be happy to have one as a bookreader or casual gaming machine, and don't own a computer.
It is not necessary to own a computer, and hasn't been for a long time. This flaw was brought to Apple's attention and remedied.
Somebody needs to tell their iPad team that, then. The current iPad manual (updated 10/29/2010 for IOS 4.2) still says, "Before you can use iPad, you must use iTunes to set it up."
Interesting. I have an E6500 and don't really have any complaints about it. I suppose it could be because I absolutely loathed the D820 it replaced, and the D610 that the D820 replaced was even worse. Low expectations prevent dissatisfaction.
It goes further back than that. When I worked for a certain large three-letter outsourcing company, the leasing company actually RECALLED our C640s before the lease was up and replaced them with D610s because the failure rate on the C640s was enormously high.
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Let's suppose you're getting ready to play a board game like say, monopoly.
Only once you set your racecar on "Go", you find out that that one guy already owns all of the properties and has put hotels on all of them... and then had the rules changed so even the railroads have hotels. Oh, and the Income Tax square has been rewritten so you pay 20% of your "Second Prize in a Beauty Contest" money, but he only pays 10% of his hotel earnings money, minus the amortized cost of buying the hotels and upkeep on his thimble.
I'm sick and tired of people saying I make too much money, and I don't pay enough in taxes. Especially ones that don't earn anything and don't pay any taxes. BTW, between all state, federal, local and misc taxes and fees I pay each year, it is pretty much close to 50%. My salary is 50K year. If YOU want to pay more in taxes, by all means do, there is a line on your tax form to do just that.
And the rich guy on the hill who sits around drinking and playing polo makes all of his money on capital gains. Between all state, federal, local and misc taxes and fees he pays every year, it is pretty much close to 10%. And that's if he can't find any loopholes. Where's the fairness in that, again?
True, but those 4 car tires probably contain 100x more rubber and steel than two bicycle tires.
Well, since Mozilla ended security patch support for Firefox 4 just three months after releasing it, who's throwing out what again?
Plus, if it's located at the house, you can use it to generate hot water for your house, pool, jacuzzi...
...a flashmugging?
... if this technique could save you so much money by shifting your power consumption to off-peak hours and providing a good backup power source during outages, then the car just seems like an unnecessary middleman. why not just have the battery cell and power converter tucked away in your garage, happily charging at night and dispensing during the day and clicking on when the mains disappears?
We'll see that when the current generation of EV batteries finally get to the point that they need to be replaced. When that Leaf battery finally gets down to 6kWh capacity, it will only drive the car 15-20 miles, but would be able to basically provide all of my peak power, while recharging itself off-peak. (Or, as a UPS, it could run the equipment in my office's server room for two hours.)
Now, the 30A 220/240V supply can be useful. But little things add up quick. Fridges can draw a lot more than 1.5 amps, though usually less than 5. Add in a computer, a satellite dish, a TV, lights, etc. and you'll hit that 30A cap a lot faster than you think.
I was able to run a gas furnace, 27" CRT, DVD player, Wii, desktop with LCD monitor, satellite DVR, fridge, chest freezer, gas stove/oven and several lights on my 5500 watt Home Depot Special without even a hiccup from the motor. I could swap out the furnace for a 15,000 BTU window A/C unit or a 1,500 watt space heater and still not have a problem. With the above load, the generator would stumble a bit when turning on the microwave, but it continued to run.
At an intersection by my house, we had a particularly egregious asshole who found a way to fill his quota: he parked his car 45 degrees down an alley to make sure his dashboard camera wasn't covering the neighborhood entrance's stop sign, then would jump out and stop people claiming they "ran the stop sign" and fill out a ticket.
I finally got fed up with that shit, as well as assholes who magically come up with "witnesses" when they plow into me. So, I wedged my old HTC Touch Pro2 between the passenger seat and its headrest, and started filming.
In the past year, I've recorded every kind of violation, from idiots massively running red lights to a big rig climbing a dirt embankment to get to the exit ramp he missed. I plan on permanently installing something with a GPS speed and time stamp, but in the meantime, I get over 5 hours of passable quality recording on a 2GB SD.
Netflix did this because their costs went up. If you haven't been paying attention, studios have become more ambitious with asking for more money for less content. Unfortunately this meant an inevitable price increase.
That's fine, increase prices, make your excuses and throw yourself on the mercy of the subscriber base. Don't post bullshit on your blog about "our lowest prices ever" and "great value," and try to convince us that it's a good thing.
Ah, but the technology isn't there for everyone. Only a select few. Once IP TV gets beyond an early adopter stage it is doomed because the systems for delivering Internet content simply can't handle sending even 1 or 2 Mbps streams to every single house off the same DSLAM or neighborhood node.
You mean that DSLAM that Verizon installed back in 2001? Yes, but that problem has a fix.
Add Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Java to Windows Automatic Updates. That will resolve 90% of the issues.
My only option from the phone company is still the same shitty 3.0Mbps/768kbps ADSL service that was introduced to our town in 1999. Where's that innovation I've been hearing about again?
I liked Pierce in Goldeneye; I haven't actually gotten a chance to see anything newer.
What does how many lines there are have to do with anything? Answer: nothing. You say hi to the cop, he sees you are sober and waves you through.
Obviously, you don't live in my town. You have to show license, registration and insurance, explain who is in your car and where you came from and are heading to, and if they don't like your passengers, they have to show their licenses as well. (Papers, please!) In the meantime, they are circling your car with flashlights looking inside and blinding your passengers. This is after you've spent 15 minutes in a line of cars that you can't get around while they interrogate everybody. Oh, and you might get a $75 ticket because one of the FOUR front marker lights on your car is burned out.
Yeah, thanks. I'll avoid their money trap, and use my Constitutionally-protected right of free speech to warn others of the same.
Agreed. Maybe it's because he was the first Doctor I saw, but I still think he was the best.
Then again, I like Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton as Bond for the same reason, so maybe my judgment isn't the best in these matters.
I was told that I couldn't add another phone to my share-plan account unless I converted all of my existing phones from AT&T to Cingular, which meant all new phones and new contracts.
because you'd need about a thousand of them. You do the best dollar/effort cuts first and go until you balance the budget.
If you can cut $20 million in a couple of hours by writing an executive order and bypassing the legislature, that sounds like decent dollar/effort.
It is embezzlement as well as tax fraud as consumer callers are taxed differently. But it's such a low level of theft most employers will ignore it. It's like taking stationary home. If you take one sheet of paper it's OK, if you take 10 reams it's not. There is no real guidance on where you draw the line.
When I worked in IT for, ironically, a cellular provider, the word came down from IT management that we no longer could use our company-issued cell phones for any personal calls. My manager then sent us an email, copied to the same upper management suits, that told us to turn off our cell phones at 5:00pm and put them in a drawer before we left, and not to turn them back on until 8:00 the next morning. When upper management realized that they had been trading a few minutes of extra airtime for, essentially, free after-hours on-call support, they quickly changed their policy.
Just logged into my (throwaway) Hotmail for the first time in a month and sure enough, all 1,625 spam messages are still in my inbox. (And only 25 spam messages in the Junk folder.)
If you don't drink alcohol at all, you can't false positive.
Yes, you can.
So by your logic, setting up a USB printer is more complicated than setting up a computer. Even though plug and play typically means you don't have to do anything more than plugging the printer in. Clearly your argument is nonsense. But then you knew that already.
I'll try to use small words so you'll understand. The original poster I replied to claimed that an iPad is a better computer because it is easier to set up and use than a desktop. He then gave a faulty set of setup instructions: "turn the damn iPad on, tyoe [sic] in their wifi password, and they are off and away." That is completely and patently false. You have to plug it into a working computer, install iTunes, and activate it through iTunes. If you don't ALSO buy a computer, it's a shiny paperweight. And yes, if somebody is telling people that they should buy a USB printer instead of a computer because the printer is easier to use, then that person is going to be very disappointed when they get home and realize that it wasn't an either/or question.
And yet you didn't respond to the request to estimate how many iPad purchasers don't already have a computer. OK I'll offer you multi-choice.
The number is tiny. And you know why? Because you have to have a computer to make an iPad start working. In what universe is something "easier to use than a computer" if you have to know how to use a computer before you can make it work?
And what proportion of iPad purchasers would you estimate don't already have a PC or Mac?
The point of the OP is that the iPad is easier to set up and start using than a computer. If it requires a computer and iTunes, then how is it easier to set up and use again? And BTW, a lot of people (older people, especially) would be happy to have one as a bookreader or casual gaming machine, and don't own a computer.
It is not necessary to own a computer, and hasn't been for a long time. This flaw was brought to Apple's attention and remedied.
Somebody needs to tell their iPad team that, then. The current iPad manual (updated 10/29/2010 for IOS 4.2) still says, "Before you can use iPad, you must use iTunes to set it up."
Interesting. I have an E6500 and don't really have any complaints about it. I suppose it could be because I absolutely loathed the D820 it replaced, and the D610 that the D820 replaced was even worse. Low expectations prevent dissatisfaction.
It goes further back than that. When I worked for a certain large three-letter outsourcing company, the leasing company actually RECALLED our C640s before the lease was up and replaced them with D610s because the failure rate on the C640s was enormously high.