....to keep my Cherry keyboard from the 90s. It is not OS dependent and does not have these extra buttons that just get in the way. That Cortana button seems to be tucked into the upper corner, I wish keyboard manufacturers would do the same with these dumb Windows keys. They constantly get in the way and really serve little purpose with Windows not being that easy to use purely with keyboard navigation.
Eich was fired because he sucked as a CEO. The board made a mistake to promote him to that position and he did plenty of objectionable and outright dumb stuff even before dropping his comment.
Any article I want to read later I drag to the bookmark toolbar. Done! Can even stuff a folder with multiple links in there. With sync enabled I can access it on any one of my systems. Not sure what the need is for yet another tool? Is it because people do not know how to bookmark pages? Or is it that by default all the helpful UI controls are hidden and turned off?
The Mozillas should work on getting a handle of the still excessive memory leaks in FF. That would do everyone more good than some 3rd party proprietary service.
Not being able to grasp climate change is not a weakness of the human brain. Decision makers are mainly interested in power and money. When industry lobbyists cry that a new EPA ruling would cost too much to implement the folks at the EPA get fired and their budget cut. This all is not a matter of not grasping the crisis, but that a handful in charge are exclusively interested in their own good.
Just look at the "history" books they use in schools and how twisted and wrong even more current events are described in there. Some backwoods conservatives insisting on teaching creationism is the least of our concerns here! There is generally too much influence from the pseudoreligious fundamentalists on public life.
Tuition is too high and most of the money goes to administration, landscaping, posh buildings, or money pits like college athletics (only very very few programs make money for the university). Split off college athletics, cut down admin staff, and invest tuition mainly into academia to get not only much better education, but also cheaper education.
Still, students need to take care that they stay or get employable. Not sure if a Masters in Philosophy or Psychology or Art History really opens that wide field of job opportunities. Sure, many subjects are fun to learn, but do they help you earn a living?
Verizon quotes a price online, confirms said price in an email...and the charges more citing a 'computer glitch'. I pointed out that glitch to them. Instead of thanking me and honoring the quoted price they give me the runaround and a measly 15$ discount, which in the end still does not come anywhere near the quoted price. The only other option Verizon offered was to cancel services and go away. Which I would gladly do if the alternative around here would not be TWC, which is another utterly inept bunch of morons. I switched from TWC after they repeatedly failed to fix TV service blaming it on my in house wiring (which works perfectly fine with FiOS!), even after hooking up a TV straight to the line coming in from the street and demonstrating that half of the analog channels have snow, noise, and distortion in them. Since the digital channels are in the same spectrum it is obvious why digital TV barely worked. They just didn't get it and instead jacked up the rate by 80$ per month at the end of the term. Oh, and with either VOD just does not work. It either never starts claiming some error or it cuts out right in the middle. That would be only mildly annoying if there were an option to fast forward....which there isn't.
The big problem is that it is even a luxury to have the option of two service providers, many places only have the cable company because the phone company does not do fibre to their neighbourhood. There is absolutely no competition. It would be much better when there are at least half a dozen providers trying to woo me. In my case neither one needs to excel at anything because the other one is not any better. So how did splitting up Bell and opening markets do us any good? Service is craptastic and ridiculously expensive!
I know, not new tech, but sorely missed from most US homes. Even new construction can be done with office supplies and there are so many cracks and gaps right from the start that it is not even funny.
Because everyone in the US is so well versed in the English system (which even the English no longer use) that we all know exactly how many yards are in a mile and how many feet that is and how to quickly and accurately add up 23/32th, 7/8th, and 17/16th of an inch. The biggest idiotic unit is AWG...good luck calculating wire resistance without using a chart translating AWG to cross section.
The English system is utterly complicated and only the US, Burma, and Liberia still use it. The rest figured out that using multiples of 10 is tremendously easier to use. Also, we should ditch the dumb AM/PM crap and the idiotic date notation. Nobody I ask can accurately tell me if 12AM is noon or midnight. As if it is so difficult to count to 24.
I agree that the expense for switching over will be incredibly huge and that gradually shifting over will cause confusion for generations. That is thanks to the tardy morons that decades and even centuries ago didn't have the foresight to ditch the worst unit system ever invented.
This would be awesome for rechargeable batteries, especially AA. I have a bunch of them and plenty of devices outright reject to work with them even when they are fully loaded.
The frackers pump highly poisonous chemicals into the ground to crack the stone. That stuff might bubble up into aquifers decades from now. The EPA is a bit fast on calling fracking to have no major impact on drinking water...unless they invented time travel. If that is the case I'd be interested in that technology.
TSA screeners often get paid minimum wage. With that little compensation I wouldn't care either. Also, with 20 of those gnomes hanging around at each checkpoint it is difficult to pinpoint the single one who eventually screwed up. It would be much more effective if the US guvments stopped p*ssing off so many people, maybe they do not hold a grudge then.
Just look at the GEMA in Germany. Artists playing their own songs on their own instruments at their self-organized concert have to pay GEMA fees to cover copyright requirements. The artists don't get a cent unless they are a member of GEMA...which of course costs money.
Copyright control organizations like GEMA who operate in a gray area of the law and without any oversight nor transparency are nothing else than government accepted mafia.
Low voltage means high currents to get the same load...and higher currents means bigger losses in the cables that all need to get replaced to not burn up under the higher current. That proposal can come only from people who never wired anything. Dumb idea!
As long as the US writes "In god we trust" on its coins and bills and pledges allegiance to a "nation under god" I am not concerned that the strict religious (as in christian) impact on US affairs is going away. There are way too many backwards pseudo-religious conservative nutbags in politics for that to happen any time soon.
While it is a private agreement, it does have impact on other parties including the governments. So some sort of legal framework might be needed.
As far as decision making in the US is concerned, the two party system is entirely inept and hopelessly outdated to make any political decisions. Decisions are made by judges in courts and once a verdict stands the political bodies might pass a law. The only fix is to stop the black and white (or better to say, red and blue) think in the US. Sadly, no other parties are established enough to compete with Republicans and Democrats.
It is not a matter of the phone price, it is a matter of the monthly plan fees. Dumb phones with prepaid plans can be used for next to nothing. Smartphones need data plans and those cost just way too much, even the prepaid ones. The problem is not with the technology or the initial purchase cost, the issue is with cost of operation. And in that category dumb phones are tremendously cheaper to operate than any smartphone!
Hey, hey, watch out who you call "grandpa" here. I gladly ditch my dumb phone for a smart one when you pay for the insanely expensive data plan. Choosing a dumb phone is not so much a matter of technophobia or age, but plain and simply cost. You twens with tons of excess cash will learn that soon enough once you have family and own a house...or is that too old school for you as well?
I have two dumb phones that I rarely use, mainly meant for emergencies or travel once or twice a year. One is an old Nokia phone with a old T-Mobile prepay plan. When I got the phone I bought minutes for 100 bucks and whatever minutes are left roll over if I buy new minutes before they expire. I string that plan along for years now and it costs me 10 bucks a year. Sadly, T-Mobile no longer offers this plan (boooo!) and solely for that reason I went with an LG 530G from TracFone. They offer a similar plan that T-Mobile has, but it is not as low cost. The LG phone also has a web browser, but I never used it because it eats minutes like there is no tomorrow. It is not entirely dumb, but all I care about is voice service.
I prefer a flip open phone, but they tend to be more 'expensive', I think for either phone I paid 20$ with promos and coupons. That is about as much as I am willing to spend on a mobile phone. The Nokia phone has FM radio in it, but I never used it. I also see no need for FM, but others might.
If you are looking for bargain bin pricing without signing a contract and are interested mainly in voice service then the LG 530G from TracFone isn't a bad choice. It has a full keyboard and that is surprisingly easy to use despite the microscopicly small keys. There are also plans out there, that charge a flat fee for each day you use it. If you use the phone a lot only during a few weeks out of a year then that might be the cheaper option.
I'd get a smartphone if it wasn't for the ridiculously expensive data plans. I wouldn't even mind to drop 200$ for the phone if the monthly access fees would be around 20-30 $ for unlimited service on everything. Still, I'd see it more as a toy that I splurge on than a necessity. There really isn't anything important enough I'd need to get to online that cannot wait until I am back at home. Besides that, who the heck wants to surf the web on a tiny screen anyway?
I started learning Java at the university and found it to be the most complicated and convoluted way of programming. There is a ton of stuff you have to get straight before you can even print your first "Hello World!" to the screen. I dropped the class and changed the major...and apparently I am not human.
I wouldn't mind ads if they were mindful of the audience. Instead, they are everywhere and lots of them totally destroying the page content. Why bother with content when the core purpose of a site is apparently serving up ads? Have a few ads on the side that show static images, nothing flashing and by all means please no autostarting videos with sound! The industry first needs to dial their ad insanity down before I am willing to remove ad blockers.
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....to keep my Cherry keyboard from the 90s. It is not OS dependent and does not have these extra buttons that just get in the way. That Cortana button seems to be tucked into the upper corner, I wish keyboard manufacturers would do the same with these dumb Windows keys. They constantly get in the way and really serve little purpose with Windows not being that easy to use purely with keyboard navigation.
Eich was fired because he sucked as a CEO. The board made a mistake to promote him to that position and he did plenty of objectionable and outright dumb stuff even before dropping his comment.
Any article I want to read later I drag to the bookmark toolbar. Done! Can even stuff a folder with multiple links in there. With sync enabled I can access it on any one of my systems. Not sure what the need is for yet another tool? Is it because people do not know how to bookmark pages? Or is it that by default all the helpful UI controls are hidden and turned off? The Mozillas should work on getting a handle of the still excessive memory leaks in FF. That would do everyone more good than some 3rd party proprietary service.
Not being able to grasp climate change is not a weakness of the human brain. Decision makers are mainly interested in power and money. When industry lobbyists cry that a new EPA ruling would cost too much to implement the folks at the EPA get fired and their budget cut. This all is not a matter of not grasping the crisis, but that a handful in charge are exclusively interested in their own good.
Just look at the "history" books they use in schools and how twisted and wrong even more current events are described in there. Some backwoods conservatives insisting on teaching creationism is the least of our concerns here! There is generally too much influence from the pseudoreligious fundamentalists on public life.
By 2100 there are no fossil fuels left....so "Mission accomplished!"
Tuition is too high and most of the money goes to administration, landscaping, posh buildings, or money pits like college athletics (only very very few programs make money for the university). Split off college athletics, cut down admin staff, and invest tuition mainly into academia to get not only much better education, but also cheaper education. Still, students need to take care that they stay or get employable. Not sure if a Masters in Philosophy or Psychology or Art History really opens that wide field of job opportunities. Sure, many subjects are fun to learn, but do they help you earn a living?
Verizon quotes a price online, confirms said price in an email...and the charges more citing a 'computer glitch'. I pointed out that glitch to them. Instead of thanking me and honoring the quoted price they give me the runaround and a measly 15$ discount, which in the end still does not come anywhere near the quoted price. The only other option Verizon offered was to cancel services and go away. Which I would gladly do if the alternative around here would not be TWC, which is another utterly inept bunch of morons. I switched from TWC after they repeatedly failed to fix TV service blaming it on my in house wiring (which works perfectly fine with FiOS!), even after hooking up a TV straight to the line coming in from the street and demonstrating that half of the analog channels have snow, noise, and distortion in them. Since the digital channels are in the same spectrum it is obvious why digital TV barely worked. They just didn't get it and instead jacked up the rate by 80$ per month at the end of the term. Oh, and with either VOD just does not work. It either never starts claiming some error or it cuts out right in the middle. That would be only mildly annoying if there were an option to fast forward....which there isn't. The big problem is that it is even a luxury to have the option of two service providers, many places only have the cable company because the phone company does not do fibre to their neighbourhood. There is absolutely no competition. It would be much better when there are at least half a dozen providers trying to woo me. In my case neither one needs to excel at anything because the other one is not any better. So how did splitting up Bell and opening markets do us any good? Service is craptastic and ridiculously expensive!
I know, not new tech, but sorely missed from most US homes. Even new construction can be done with office supplies and there are so many cracks and gaps right from the start that it is not even funny.
Because everyone in the US is so well versed in the English system (which even the English no longer use) that we all know exactly how many yards are in a mile and how many feet that is and how to quickly and accurately add up 23/32th, 7/8th, and 17/16th of an inch. The biggest idiotic unit is AWG...good luck calculating wire resistance without using a chart translating AWG to cross section. The English system is utterly complicated and only the US, Burma, and Liberia still use it. The rest figured out that using multiples of 10 is tremendously easier to use. Also, we should ditch the dumb AM/PM crap and the idiotic date notation. Nobody I ask can accurately tell me if 12AM is noon or midnight. As if it is so difficult to count to 24. I agree that the expense for switching over will be incredibly huge and that gradually shifting over will cause confusion for generations. That is thanks to the tardy morons that decades and even centuries ago didn't have the foresight to ditch the worst unit system ever invented.
This would be awesome for rechargeable batteries, especially AA. I have a bunch of them and plenty of devices outright reject to work with them even when they are fully loaded.
The frackers pump highly poisonous chemicals into the ground to crack the stone. That stuff might bubble up into aquifers decades from now. The EPA is a bit fast on calling fracking to have no major impact on drinking water...unless they invented time travel. If that is the case I'd be interested in that technology.
TSA screeners often get paid minimum wage. With that little compensation I wouldn't care either. Also, with 20 of those gnomes hanging around at each checkpoint it is difficult to pinpoint the single one who eventually screwed up. It would be much more effective if the US guvments stopped p*ssing off so many people, maybe they do not hold a grudge then.
Just look at the GEMA in Germany. Artists playing their own songs on their own instruments at their self-organized concert have to pay GEMA fees to cover copyright requirements. The artists don't get a cent unless they are a member of GEMA...which of course costs money. Copyright control organizations like GEMA who operate in a gray area of the law and without any oversight nor transparency are nothing else than government accepted mafia.
Low voltage means high currents to get the same load...and higher currents means bigger losses in the cables that all need to get replaced to not burn up under the higher current. That proposal can come only from people who never wired anything. Dumb idea!
And that takes place in a state where polygamy is illegal...says a lot about law enforcement over there.
As long as the US writes "In god we trust" on its coins and bills and pledges allegiance to a "nation under god" I am not concerned that the strict religious (as in christian) impact on US affairs is going away. There are way too many backwards pseudo-religious conservative nutbags in politics for that to happen any time soon.
While it is a private agreement, it does have impact on other parties including the governments. So some sort of legal framework might be needed. As far as decision making in the US is concerned, the two party system is entirely inept and hopelessly outdated to make any political decisions. Decisions are made by judges in courts and once a verdict stands the political bodies might pass a law. The only fix is to stop the black and white (or better to say, red and blue) think in the US. Sadly, no other parties are established enough to compete with Republicans and Democrats.
....as Surveillance Barbie from Matel.
It is not a matter of the phone price, it is a matter of the monthly plan fees. Dumb phones with prepaid plans can be used for next to nothing. Smartphones need data plans and those cost just way too much, even the prepaid ones. The problem is not with the technology or the initial purchase cost, the issue is with cost of operation. And in that category dumb phones are tremendously cheaper to operate than any smartphone!
Hey, hey, watch out who you call "grandpa" here. I gladly ditch my dumb phone for a smart one when you pay for the insanely expensive data plan. Choosing a dumb phone is not so much a matter of technophobia or age, but plain and simply cost. You twens with tons of excess cash will learn that soon enough once you have family and own a house...or is that too old school for you as well?
I have two dumb phones that I rarely use, mainly meant for emergencies or travel once or twice a year. One is an old Nokia phone with a old T-Mobile prepay plan. When I got the phone I bought minutes for 100 bucks and whatever minutes are left roll over if I buy new minutes before they expire. I string that plan along for years now and it costs me 10 bucks a year. Sadly, T-Mobile no longer offers this plan (boooo!) and solely for that reason I went with an LG 530G from TracFone. They offer a similar plan that T-Mobile has, but it is not as low cost. The LG phone also has a web browser, but I never used it because it eats minutes like there is no tomorrow. It is not entirely dumb, but all I care about is voice service. I prefer a flip open phone, but they tend to be more 'expensive', I think for either phone I paid 20$ with promos and coupons. That is about as much as I am willing to spend on a mobile phone. The Nokia phone has FM radio in it, but I never used it. I also see no need for FM, but others might. If you are looking for bargain bin pricing without signing a contract and are interested mainly in voice service then the LG 530G from TracFone isn't a bad choice. It has a full keyboard and that is surprisingly easy to use despite the microscopicly small keys. There are also plans out there, that charge a flat fee for each day you use it. If you use the phone a lot only during a few weeks out of a year then that might be the cheaper option. I'd get a smartphone if it wasn't for the ridiculously expensive data plans. I wouldn't even mind to drop 200$ for the phone if the monthly access fees would be around 20-30 $ for unlimited service on everything. Still, I'd see it more as a toy that I splurge on than a necessity. There really isn't anything important enough I'd need to get to online that cannot wait until I am back at home. Besides that, who the heck wants to surf the web on a tiny screen anyway?
I started learning Java at the university and found it to be the most complicated and convoluted way of programming. There is a ton of stuff you have to get straight before you can even print your first "Hello World!" to the screen. I dropped the class and changed the major...and apparently I am not human.
Mr. K is one of the sauna buddies of Putin...so that makes me wonder which villains he wants to fight and which ones he wants to protect.
I wouldn't mind ads if they were mindful of the audience. Instead, they are everywhere and lots of them totally destroying the page content. Why bother with content when the core purpose of a site is apparently serving up ads? Have a few ads on the side that show static images, nothing flashing and by all means please no autostarting videos with sound! The industry first needs to dial their ad insanity down before I am willing to remove ad blockers.