The normal news in the radio or TV are mind numbing.
They also do not have the wisdom in the radio to including regular updates about traffic to get my interest while driving. Anyway, the technology is making them quickly redundant.
The music is also pretty insipid/bland and horribly commercial, and there is zero incentives to listen to that garbage...
I have RDS in my car now for more than one decade. Though in the previous country I was expat it did not do any good. The thing with RDS is that is only transmitted in certain frequencies, and you must be listening to radios stations in that frequency for it to work, if I am not wrong.
If I am, I would be thankful if someone knows better.
The comment is not off car...having alternatives where I do not pay, I prefer to use them *unless* I have some kind of incentive.
I have too many shopping centers/malls with a 5/10 minutes drive from my house, too many to count without exaggerating. Obviously we choose the ones with better and free parks.
Once in a while, we got to one where we pay for parking, but get two hours for free if we make there the shopping of groceries for the month.
Just a word of caution for physical TomTom users -. I also used to have a physical Tomtom - quite simple. Tried Tomtom in iphone, it sucks big time, but I do sure love the Navigon interface.
Do you know that are already technology in your Android and iPhone to display the maps in your car dashboard?
It can be actually more safer people doing the right turns, than realising mid-turn they are turning in the wrong direction, and being idiots to the point of trying to correct the situation atm.
Or worse, starting to back away in the motorway/freeway/highway after passing their exit. Because often local signs are idiotically placed to the point that when you see them the damage is done.
GPS/Maps can be quite useful and actually improved the security in the road *if used* properly.
Plus, it also reduces the stress of driving in unfamiliar locations.
Coffee is far from pure, and they mix up a lot of other stuff to even boost a already *very* profitable industry. Many people also mix coffee with sugar, sweeteners or cream, which make you fat and fuck up your brain, and if I sincerely doubt that it helps in something pure, it will surely wont help when mixed with that garbage. Not to mention that most creams are made of chemicals and not actually milk, but that is a bed time horror story.
Not really, but you are not far from truth. I have already bought aspirins with added caffeine, god only knows why. The kids must love it. Or maybe it is a ruse to sell the adult version+ the kids version. Strange.
700% for resellers (aka normal coffee shops - cheap expressos - plenty of them here, it is a culture), 2000%-3000% for distributors, 3000%-4000% for starbucks.
How frequently we hear studies how certain lucrative industries, like one where there is a margin of 700%-2000% in the product, "it is amazing for your health".
What a coincidence this was broadcast in the news earlier on today too.
Someone must be paying $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Bah, I call this story bullshit. I am contemporary to the powerPCs era of 10 years ago, and in fact the main responsible for implemented them in the Office of a major telco.
All our marketing people used Apple desktops, and the 17'' notebook was colossal and a heck of a machine; every photographer, marketing drone, and graphical people had one.
The XP was long due by that time; and frankly if that particular people jumped to Windows they were not Mac heads at all.
What I suspect is besides technology limitations, is that there is zero interest in giving you too fast machines, and consequently reducing the artificial small window of the longevity of your machine.
Unfortunately, this is not an Apple specific strategy.
Have you not got the memo? What it matters today is diversity in the WWDC keynotes and in the people directing the enterprise. Apparently, the rest is secondary. Signed, an Apple ex-fanboi
Doctors are too expensive. Lets teach all the kids...
Lets teach all the kids plumbing...
Hey, politicians are too expensive...lets teach all the kids politics...
I do not know in what world you live, but in my mine they feed antibiotics to cattle and farmed sea food "preemptively" to fatten it in the former, and for it to not drop dead from infections and parasites in the latter. And OMS has been saying for too many years antibiotics are ten years away from failing to being effective, but money speaks higher.
If a guy leaving his stuff for 5 years in the house of his ex-wife loses the ownership of his former property, I wonder the sanity of claiming to the heirs stuff hidden/abandoned so long ago. How long is too long ago? By that logic, we should start searching the heirs of that roman coins or pirate treasure...
bah. Me and my wife are out of home all day working, and we reach easily 200GB-300GB per month without doing much besides streaming our favourite series, and the occasional movie - and no 4K videos involved. The data needs have been growing steadily over time, get over it.
I would be an analyst too within Gartners parameters: "Grass will be green in two years time, mobile use will increase by 30%, and cars will have round wheels in the future.
I rarely have to deal with a Windows 10 at work. The most I dealt with them was writing a bit of powershell for VPN deployment and VPN tests...
Wife got a Windows 10 at home, and she is not too technical. I would have bought her a MacBook, however her laptop died suddenly right before xmas, and I sure as hell and not paying the local Apple representation 500-600USD more than I would pay in USA for a Macbook, f*** the greedy bastards
I bought her a Windows 10, and while she having a major in IT, she is not very computer savvy. Helping her is still an exercise in frustration. Windows 10 is non-intuitive and damn ugly.
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The normal news in the radio or TV are mind numbing.
They also do not have the wisdom in the radio to including regular updates about traffic to get my interest while driving. Anyway, the technology is making them quickly redundant.
The music is also pretty insipid/bland and horribly commercial, and there is zero incentives to listen to that garbage...
I have RDS in my car now for more than one decade. Though in the previous country I was expat it did not do any good.
The thing with RDS is that is only transmitted in certain frequencies, and you must be listening to radios stations in that frequency for it to work, if I am not wrong.
If I am, I would be thankful if someone knows better.
Talking at the phone and writing...Navigon is way better than Google Maps AND Tomtom.
Navigon is way better than Google Maps.
The comment is not off car...having alternatives where I do not pay, I prefer to use them *unless* I have some kind of incentive.
I have too many shopping centers/malls with a 5/10 minutes drive from my house, too many to count without exaggerating. Obviously we choose the ones with better and free parks.
Once in a while, we got to one where we pay for parking, but get two hours for free if we make there the shopping of groceries for the month.
Just a word of caution for physical TomTom users -. I also used to have a physical Tomtom - quite simple. Tried Tomtom in iphone, it sucks big time, but I do sure love the Navigon interface.
Do you know that are already technology in your Android and iPhone to display the maps in your car dashboard?
It can be actually more safer people doing the right turns, than realising mid-turn they are turning in the wrong direction, and being idiots to the point of trying to correct the situation atm.
Or worse, starting to back away in the motorway/freeway/highway after passing their exit. Because often local signs are idiotically placed to the point that when you see them the damage is done.
GPS/Maps can be quite useful and actually improved the security in the road *if used* properly.
Plus, it also reduces the stress of driving in unfamiliar locations.
Coffee is far from pure, and they mix up a lot of other stuff to even boost a already *very* profitable industry. Many people also mix coffee with sugar, sweeteners or cream, which make you fat and fuck up your brain, and if I sincerely doubt that it helps in something pure, it will surely wont help when mixed with that garbage. Not to mention that most creams are made of chemicals and not actually milk, but that is a bed time horror story.
bah. never mind.
engrish alert... drunk?
Not really, but you are not far from truth. I have already bought aspirins with added caffeine, god only knows why. The kids must love it. Or maybe it is a ruse to sell the adult version+ the kids version. Strange.
700% for resellers (aka normal coffee shops - cheap expressos - plenty of them here, it is a culture), 2000%-3000% for distributors, 3000%-4000% for starbucks.
How frequently we hear studies how certain lucrative industries, like one where there is a margin of 700%-2000% in the product, "it is amazing for your health".
What a coincidence this was broadcast in the news earlier on today too.
Someone must be paying $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Bah, I call this story bullshit. I am contemporary to the powerPCs era of 10 years ago, and in fact the main responsible for implemented them in the Office of a major telco.
All our marketing people used Apple desktops, and the 17'' notebook was colossal and a heck of a machine; every photographer, marketing drone, and graphical people had one.
The XP was long due by that time; and frankly if that particular people jumped to Windows they were not Mac heads at all.
What I suspect is besides technology limitations, is that there is zero interest in giving you too fast machines, and consequently reducing the artificial small window of the longevity of your machine.
Unfortunately, this is not an Apple specific strategy.
Have you not got the memo? What it matters today is diversity in the WWDC keynotes and in the people directing the enterprise. Apparently, the rest is secondary. Signed, an Apple ex-fanboi
Doctors are too expensive. Lets teach all the kids...
Lets teach all the kids plumbing...
Hey, politicians are too expensive...lets teach all the kids politics...
I do not know in what world you live, but in my mine they feed antibiotics to cattle and farmed sea food "preemptively" to fatten it in the former, and for it to not drop dead from infections and parasites in the latter. And OMS has been saying for too many years antibiotics are ten years away from failing to being effective, but money speaks higher.
What going to MS after using OS/X? are you fucking nuts? Maybe Linux, I wont go from a rock to a hard place.
Exactly my point, but please read the parent post.
This should be modded up as insightful.
If a guy leaving his stuff for 5 years in the house of his ex-wife loses the ownership of his former property, I wonder the sanity of claiming to the heirs stuff hidden/abandoned so long ago. How long is too long ago? By that logic, we should start searching the heirs of that roman coins or pirate treasure...
bah. Me and my wife are out of home all day working, and we reach easily 200GB-300GB per month without doing much besides streaming our favourite series, and the occasional movie - and no 4K videos involved. The data needs have been growing steadily over time, get over it.
I would be an analyst too within Gartners parameters: "Grass will be green in two years time, mobile use will increase by 30%, and cars will have round wheels in the future.
I rarely have to deal with a Windows 10 at work. The most I dealt with them was writing a bit of powershell for VPN deployment and VPN tests...
Wife got a Windows 10 at home, and she is not too technical. I would have bought her a MacBook, however her laptop died suddenly right before xmas, and I sure as hell and not paying the local Apple representation 500-600USD more than I would pay in USA for a Macbook, f*** the greedy bastards
I bought her a Windows 10, and while she having a major in IT, she is not very computer savvy. Helping her is still an exercise in frustration. Windows 10 is non-intuitive and damn ugly.