I buy my kid Apple because they help her fit in with the kinds of folks I want her associating with. Having an iPhone with iMessage lets her network with other kids. Moreover those kids are at least well enough off to afford an iPhone (well, their parents are). I know there's lots and lots of exceptions, but as screwed up as it is to say this they're still exceptions. It's not about snobbery, it's about keeping her away from crazies. They girls with $100 pre-paid cells and $300 celeron laptops are just plain more likely to have issues.
If there's one and only one thing I've learned in life it's you need to learn to spot and keep crazies out of your life. And one (rather nasty) way to do that is to use money as a gatekeeper. This goes for everything. Where you life, what you drive, what schools you go to. The mentally ill have a hard time being stable long enough to afford nice things.
Wealthy people do not have mental illnesses? Citation please!
"All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them,"
As in: once you delete them, they no longer store them securely, they just store them normally in AWS. Or they store them somewhere else.
And then:
"You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App."
As in: What if they make copies that they don't associate with your account? I.e. in aggregate with all metadata stripped out? Is my naked backside metadata?
...executives from Amazon headquarters in Seattle spoke to the unit's 250-plus workers and affirmed the parent company's commitment to Quidsi's business...
When high level execs come out to tell you how important you are, they are massaging your ego until they can afford to layoff/fire you. Been there, had that done to me, it sucks and we should all feel sorry for the gullible suckers at Quidsi.
Remember how selfish these types of services actually are. They exploit tragedies to make a % of the money donated.
Every time I've had a friend or family member ask for money through similar means (and I actually cared enough to donate), I pull out the old checkbook and spend a few cents on a stamp or give them cash in person. Done, no tracking, no skimming 5% off the top, and its much more personal.
One father who live-streamed his partner's labour on Facebook last May,
Ok, usually they use "partner" when referencing gay guys these days...so, are we really worrying so much about a private video going public, when we have here, apparently...new of the first man on earth GIVING BIRTH?!?!
I've never heard of a normal heterosexual couple being referred to as "partners" before...girlfriend, wife, sister (in KY)....but never partner, I thought that was the pure domain of the homosexual set...?
In the realm of political correctness, 'partner' is the preferred term to cover all possible words that could be use to describe the person or persons that one would consider them self to be 'with'.
Something something, its not discriminatory.
Source: Enlightened friends in the collegiate world that insist on re-educating me regularly.
Desktop architect here with a user base of 350ish.
We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize. My feelings for the Surface Pro 4 are still a bit 'meh', I was gung-ho to buy one for myself at the beginning of the year, but after using one professionally for the last 8 months and deploying the rest to other users, I went with a traditional laptop instead. Too many flashy features for an enterprise device and I'm not a fan of flashy features for my personal devices.
And I wasn't even logged in. The above is my comment.
Make yourself familiar with the help system in PowerShell. Just like any decent Linux admin should be adept with man, any decent Windows admin should be adept with Get-Help.
When asked if it’s "inconsistent" for the MacBook Pro to retain the traditional headphone jack (another widely-used connector that Apple has dropped from the iPhone) Schiller says that professionals still need that on a laptop for other types of audio gear that doesn't work wirelessly.
Did Phill miss that there was a dongle for that?
He adds that he’s been surprised by the criticism, but says the decision to only use Thunderbolt ports was a "bold risk" and Apple will "help people through these changes."
He also forgot to mention how they were going to help: By providing expensive dongles at a high margin.
Unless of course they meant G80 and G90 as base-17 numbers, in which case, the G90 is really only.357% 'better' than the G80. Probably not worth the added cost.
Clinton replied, "Let's get [a] separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal [e-mail] being accessible."
Though the bigger question is why would Clinton be using her employer's email system for personal emails? Here in the private sector that is explicitly forbidden in every employee handbook I've ever read.
They should sue the car manufacturer for making a car that could go 107MPH.
The DOT for making a road that is decent enough for a car to travel 107MPH.
The cell company for allowing connections to their cell towers while the user is traveling 107MPH.
The phone maker for not detecting that the car was traveling 107MPH.
The police for not pulling him over before he crashed into their car while traveling at 107MPH.
As I recall, near the end of the movie, the antagonist senator is making fun of Mark Wahlberg's character because the senator got away with illegal activity and he says:
"I have concern about a PlayStation that my grandchildren might use," she said, "and a predator getting on the other end, and talking to them, and it's all encrypted. I think there really is reason to have the ability, with a court order, to be able to get into that."
If you are so worried about a predator talking to your grandchildren through the Playstation network, why are they using it unsupervised?
Take care of your own problems, don't make the government do it for you.
The Internet ecosystem is changing constantly and we decided back in May 2012 to replace our static 250GB usage threshold with more flexible data usage management approaches that offer more choice, flexibility and fairness for all customers. Customers can choose to use as much Internet as they want, and those who choose to use more pay more, while those who use less can pay less. The vast majority of ISPs, large and small, have some version of data usage plans in place.
You are right, when everyone is using the pipe at the same time, there will be degradation. So why not charge for internet access like electricity? Make it cheaper during non-peak hours and convert to fully usage-based billing. No flat fee for access, or at most a very small one.
To answer my own question here with part of your comment: it would be really confusing to customers.
Preparing and delivering the food actually costs a relatively high amount of money (price paid compared to cost to prepare and deliver). For an ISP, once they have all of their infrastructure in place, it costs them pennies per customer per GB to deliver that data and the data itself doesn't cost anything since they are just the conduit.
A better comparison is that the ISP is a company that manages the piping for you to get water. You pay a arbitrarily high price dependent on the size of that pipe. Now, this company doesn't create or manage the water (as much as they might want to), they just manage the infrastructure for getting it to you.They then decide to also start charging you for the amount of water that flows through that pipe.
Does that make sense to you?
Don't forget that this company receives millions in federal funding and they also wanted to charge the water making companies for being able to use the pipes.
You are giving into the propaganda put out by ISPs!
There is a big difference between consuming a large amount of an 'unlimited' or 'free' finite resource and consuming a large amount of data on your internet connection. It costs ISPs pennies per GB to get you that data and guess what? Comcast will never run out of 1s and 0s to send you, unless the whole internet collapses or some such catastrophic event.
Comcast themselves have even admitted that there is no business reason to charge for circumventing the data cap beyond making more money for them. Which, now that I think about it, could likely be considered a business reason.
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Spoiler alert: that's the whole point.
AAA also has a lot of city maps as well, at least the big ones. Saved me many times!
Southern US border = 1989 miles (source)
100 miles x 100 miles = 10,000 sq miles (source)
Thickness of solar wall needed: 10,000sq miles / 1989 miles = 5.03 miles
I buy my kid Apple because they help her fit in with the kinds of folks I want her associating with. Having an iPhone with iMessage lets her network with other kids. Moreover those kids are at least well enough off to afford an iPhone (well, their parents are). I know there's lots and lots of exceptions, but as screwed up as it is to say this they're still exceptions. It's not about snobbery, it's about keeping her away from crazies. They girls with $100 pre-paid cells and $300 celeron laptops are just plain more likely to have issues.
If there's one and only one thing I've learned in life it's you need to learn to spot and keep crazies out of your life. And one (rather nasty) way to do that is to use money as a gatekeeper. This goes for everything. Where you life, what you drive, what schools you go to. The mentally ill have a hard time being stable long enough to afford nice things.
Wealthy people do not have mental illnesses? Citation please!
"All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them,"
As in: once you delete them, they no longer store them securely, they just store them normally in AWS. Or they store them somewhere else.
And then:
"You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App."
As in: What if they make copies that they don't associate with your account? I.e. in aggregate with all metadata stripped out? Is my naked backside metadata?
Too paranoid?
...executives from Amazon headquarters in Seattle spoke to the unit's 250-plus workers and affirmed the parent company's commitment to Quidsi's business...
When high level execs come out to tell you how important you are, they are massaging your ego until they can afford to layoff/fire you. Been there, had that done to me, it sucks and we should all feel sorry for the gullible suckers at Quidsi.
GoFundMe.com charges a 5% fee on contributions.
Remember how selfish these types of services actually are. They exploit tragedies to make a % of the money donated.
Every time I've had a friend or family member ask for money through similar means (and I actually cared enough to donate), I pull out the old checkbook and spend a few cents on a stamp or give them cash in person. Done, no tracking, no skimming 5% off the top, and its much more personal.
Hell, THIS is the part that's confusing me...
Ok, usually they use "partner" when referencing gay guys these days...so, are we really worrying so much about a private video going public, when we have here, apparently...new of the first man on earth GIVING BIRTH?!?!
I've never heard of a normal heterosexual couple being referred to as "partners" before...girlfriend, wife, sister (in KY)....but never partner, I thought that was the pure domain of the homosexual set...?
In the realm of political correctness, 'partner' is the preferred term to cover all possible words that could be use to describe the person or persons that one would consider them self to be 'with'.
Something something, its not discriminatory.
Source: Enlightened friends in the collegiate world that insist on re-educating me regularly.
Desktop architect here with a user base of 350ish.
We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize. My feelings for the Surface Pro 4 are still a bit 'meh', I was gung-ho to buy one for myself at the beginning of the year, but after using one professionally for the last 8 months and deploying the rest to other users, I went with a traditional laptop instead. Too many flashy features for an enterprise device and I'm not a fan of flashy features for my personal devices.
And I wasn't even logged in. The above is my comment.
Make yourself familiar with the help system in PowerShell. Just like any decent Linux admin should be adept with man, any decent Windows admin should be adept with Get-Help.
When asked if it’s "inconsistent" for the MacBook Pro to retain the traditional headphone jack (another widely-used connector that Apple has dropped from the iPhone) Schiller says that professionals still need that on a laptop for other types of audio gear that doesn't work wirelessly.
Did Phill miss that there was a dongle for that?
He adds that he’s been surprised by the criticism, but says the decision to only use Thunderbolt ports was a "bold risk" and Apple will "help people through these changes."
He also forgot to mention how they were going to help: By providing expensive dongles at a high margin.
Is inversely related to ones ability to math.
.357% 'better' than the G80. Probably not worth the added cost.
90 is actually 12.5% bigger than 80.
Unless of course they meant G80 and G90 as base-17 numbers, in which case, the G90 is really only
whereas other glasses-less 3D displays carry cots in terms of image resolution.
So that begs the question: what kind of bedding can we expect from this glasses-less 3D display?
Clinton replied, "Let's get [a] separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal [e-mail] being accessible."
Though the bigger question is why would Clinton be using her employer's email system for personal emails? Here in the private sector that is explicitly forbidden in every employee handbook I've ever read.
I dare you.
Ten Billion Gigabytes
Ten Million Terabytes
Ten Thousand Petabytes
Ten Exabytes.
0.01 Zettabytes
They should sue the car manufacturer for making a car that could go 107MPH.
The DOT for making a road that is decent enough for a car to travel 107MPH.
The cell company for allowing connections to their cell towers while the user is traveling 107MPH.
The phone maker for not detecting that the car was traveling 107MPH.
The police for not pulling him over before he crashed into their car while traveling at 107MPH.
Snapchat is only the tip of the iceberg here.
As I recall, near the end of the movie, the antagonist senator is making fun of Mark Wahlberg's character because the senator got away with illegal activity and he says:
"The truth is what I say it is!"
Don't forget the MRS degree.
I didn't realize there was such a thing.
"I have concern about a PlayStation that my grandchildren might use," she said, "and a predator getting on the other end, and talking to them, and it's all encrypted. I think there really is reason to have the ability, with a court order, to be able to get into that."
If you are so worried about a predator talking to your grandchildren through the Playstation network, why are they using it unsupervised?
Take care of your own problems, don't make the government do it for you.
Comcast themselves have even admitted
reference?
ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/busines...
Why are you trialing usage-based billing?
The Internet ecosystem is changing constantly and we decided back in May 2012 to replace our static 250GB usage threshold with more flexible data usage management approaches that offer more choice, flexibility and fairness for all customers. Customers can choose to use as much Internet as they want, and those who choose to use more pay more, while those who use less can pay less. The vast majority of ISPs, large and small, have some version of data usage plans in place.
You are right, when everyone is using the pipe at the same time, there will be degradation. So why not charge for internet access like electricity? Make it cheaper during non-peak hours and convert to fully usage-based billing. No flat fee for access, or at most a very small one.
To answer my own question here with part of your comment: it would be really confusing to customers.
That is a poor comparison in my opinion.
Preparing and delivering the food actually costs a relatively high amount of money (price paid compared to cost to prepare and deliver). For an ISP, once they have all of their infrastructure in place, it costs them pennies per customer per GB to deliver that data and the data itself doesn't cost anything since they are just the conduit.
A better comparison is that the ISP is a company that manages the piping for you to get water. You pay a arbitrarily high price dependent on the size of that pipe. Now, this company doesn't create or manage the water (as much as they might want to), they just manage the infrastructure for getting it to you.They then decide to also start charging you for the amount of water that flows through that pipe.
Does that make sense to you?
Don't forget that this company receives millions in federal funding and they also wanted to charge the water making companies for being able to use the pipes.
You are giving into the propaganda put out by ISPs!
There is a big difference between consuming a large amount of an 'unlimited' or 'free' finite resource and consuming a large amount of data on your internet connection. It costs ISPs pennies per GB to get you that data and guess what? Comcast will never run out of 1s and 0s to send you, unless the whole internet collapses or some such catastrophic event.
Comcast themselves have even admitted that there is no business reason to charge for circumventing the data cap beyond making more money for them. Which, now that I think about it, could likely be considered a business reason.