Thats a horrible example, the janitor clearly does far more work than the majority of CEOs and should not be eating cat food to survive.
I don't think we'll have to worry about janitors eating cat food. Have you seen what it costs these days?? The days of old people and janitors living on cat food is long gone.
Nah, my 83 y/o mother gets along fine without this new-fangled internet. Except for all the stuff I order for her online, or the discounts she gets for providing the email I set up for her, or, hmm.
That said - 30 days is plenty of time to setup a new account and use an IMAP transfer utility to migrate every single message - even if it is 20 years worth. It's also plenty of time to change all of his online accounts for services (about 6 months ago I decided to switch primary email addresses and I was able to list and transfer every account I could think of within 2 evenings).
The only real problem would be personal acquaintances that contact him via that address. In that case though I'd setup an "out of office" or the equivalent immediately and just have it respond with a message indicating that his address will be changing soon.
The problem isn't the accounts you can think of. The problem is the accounts you don't. According to Murphy's Law, I would remember several important accounts on Day 31.
The answer to your question is in your lifestyle. How often do you take trips that are out of the range of the Tesla? How much could you save between long trips with the Tesla, and is the cost of occasional rental worth it? Could you trade cars with a spouse or borrow one when needed?
Most non-EV owners suffer from range anxiety. My solution is simple. For 90% or more of my driving, I use my 80 mile range Nissan Leaf (great car, love it). For the remainder of my driving (long trips), I use my internal combustion engine cars.
Being married with teenage children provides ample vehicles (4), and the Leaf is saving me tons of money on fuel and maintenance. A spreadsheet and meticulous records personally verify this as fact.
My daily trips to work aren't a problem. My weekend trips, however, easily exceed 100 miles. Still within the Tesla's range, but consider the hills and the temperature (almost always too hot or too cold) and it's probably pushing the limits.
I often go over 100 miles on the weekend. The max, excluding vacations, is 180. Barely within 215, but I live where there's weather and hills. It probably is almost good enough for me, but almost isn't good enough.
They called at 10 PM. I don't remember why I answered the phone at that ungodly hour. Someone mumbled something I didn't understand because of his accent. I mumbled something back that he probably didn't understand since I wasn't really awake, then I hung up. The next morning I woke up and realized that that was the Microsoft scam I'd heard about.
No there wasn't. There is zero evidence that code quality was better decades ago. In many ways it was worse, because of crappy or nonexistent libraries, a lack of memory protection, and poor static and dynamic analysis tools.
Anyone who had to work with Fortran spaghetti code from the 1980s would laugh at the notion that code quality is worse today.
As someone who has worked with COBOL code from the 80s, I agree. And COBOL was supposed to be readable.
I don't mind the phone if I need a complicated real-time conversation. The thing is, I usually don't. Sometimes I need something in writing, not just to check on the other person, but also to be sure I remember correctly what he said. And I usually don't need real-time. If I get 6 emails, I can merge that into my workflow without disrupting everything. 6 phone calls? Arrggghhhh!!!!!
Well, if you want to use the damn thing, you already have to plug it in. I can see them trying to force you to connect their crap to wifi or not be able to use them.
I've never had that problem. It does take awhile for DB to index and download the stuff from my other machine, but everything else works okay while I'm waiting.
Awhile back, I got free ID protection due to a breech, and one of their services was to notify me whenever someone on the sex offender list moved into the area. I was always getting those notifications, and I wondered how many of those were cases like your friend, or an 18-15 romance, or even someone taking a whiz behind the bush.
My problem with e-commerce is that there are 3 choices with delivery.
1. They leave my $1,000 computer out where the locals can steal it. 2. I have to drive to the middle of nowhere to pick it up. 3. I have to take off work.
The odds of them delivering after I get home from work, or on my day off are about the same as me getting eaten by a shark (I live in the Midwest).
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"If I threw [you] into an M.R.I. machine right now... I can tell you what words you're about to say
Yeah. "Help, let me out of this !@#$ thing!"
None, at least not in the way you're probably thinking, because Google Home & the Amazon Echo can't call 911 directly.
That's what They (tm) want you to think.
Work less and fuck more.
Thats a horrible example, the janitor clearly does far more work than the majority of CEOs and should not be eating cat food to survive.
I don't think we'll have to worry about janitors eating cat food. Have you seen what it costs these days??
The days of old people and janitors living on cat food is long gone.
Nah, my 83 y/o mother gets along fine without this new-fangled internet. Except for all the stuff I order for her online, or the discounts she gets for providing the email I set up for her, or, hmm.
Maybe the people who noticed that didn't reply. ;)
That said - 30 days is plenty of time to setup a new account and use an IMAP transfer utility to migrate every single message - even if it is 20 years worth. It's also plenty of time to change all of his online accounts for services (about 6 months ago I decided to switch primary email addresses and I was able to list and transfer every account I could think of within 2 evenings).
The only real problem would be personal acquaintances that contact him via that address. In that case though I'd setup an "out of office" or the equivalent immediately and just have it respond with a message indicating that his address will be changing soon.
The problem isn't the accounts you can think of. The problem is the accounts you don't. According to Murphy's Law, I would remember several important accounts on Day 31.
Absolutely this! My GF is too old to have kids, and I'm too old to raise kids. We still have a great relationship.
The answer to your question is in your lifestyle. How often do you take trips that are out of the range of the Tesla? How much could you save between long trips with the Tesla, and is the cost of occasional rental worth it? Could you trade cars with a spouse or borrow one when needed?
Most non-EV owners suffer from range anxiety. My solution is simple. For 90% or more of my driving, I use my 80 mile range Nissan Leaf (great car, love it). For the remainder of my driving (long trips), I use my internal combustion engine cars.
Being married with teenage children provides ample vehicles (4), and the Leaf is saving me tons of money on fuel and maintenance. A spreadsheet and meticulous records personally verify this as fact.
My daily trips to work aren't a problem. My weekend trips, however, easily exceed 100 miles. Still within the Tesla's range, but consider the hills and the temperature (almost always too hot or too cold) and it's probably pushing the limits.
I often go over 100 miles on the weekend. The max, excluding vacations, is 180. Barely within 215, but I live where there's weather and hills. It probably is almost good enough for me, but almost isn't good enough.
What's really bad is when Monday comes and I realize I didn't get half my weekend stuff done.
This proves my belief that we Americans are tougher than the rest of the world. You guys have trouble if it gets above 40. We can take it up over 100.
They called at 10 PM. I don't remember why I answered the phone at that ungodly hour. Someone mumbled something I didn't understand because of his accent. I mumbled something back that he probably didn't understand since I wasn't really awake, then I hung up. The next morning I woke up and realized that that was the Microsoft scam I'd heard about.
No there wasn't. There is zero evidence that code quality was better decades ago. In many ways it was worse, because of crappy or nonexistent libraries, a lack of memory protection, and poor static and dynamic analysis tools.
Anyone who had to work with Fortran spaghetti code from the 1980s would laugh at the notion that code quality is worse today.
As someone who has worked with COBOL code from the 80s, I agree. And COBOL was supposed to be readable.
Might be a problem if I'm driving to relatives in Iowa. One ear of corn looks like any other.
OTOH, one bad billing fuckup will screw up your phone, TV, ISP, home security, and wireless phone.
"Alexa, ask Google this".
I don't mind the phone if I need a complicated real-time conversation. The thing is, I usually don't. Sometimes I need something in writing, not just to check on the other person, but also to be sure I remember correctly what he said. And I usually don't need real-time. If I get 6 emails, I can merge that into my workflow without disrupting everything. 6 phone calls? Arrggghhhh!!!!!
Well, if you want to use the damn thing, you already have to plug it in. I can see them trying to force you to connect their crap to wifi or not be able to use them.
I have triple-play. It's reasonably fast and reliable. It's worth 80-100 bucks. The problem is, it costs twice that!
Never heard of them. Do you watch the show and then it disappears?
I've never had that problem. It does take awhile for DB to index and download the stuff from my other machine, but everything else works okay while I'm waiting.
Awhile back, I got free ID protection due to a breech, and one of their services was to notify me whenever someone on the sex offender list moved into the area. I was always getting those notifications, and I wondered how many of those were cases like your friend, or an 18-15 romance, or even someone taking a whiz behind the bush.
I think successful suicide should be a capital offense.
My problem with e-commerce is that there are 3 choices with delivery.
1. They leave my $1,000 computer out where the locals can steal it.
2. I have to drive to the middle of nowhere to pick it up.
3. I have to take off work.
The odds of them delivering after I get home from work, or on my day off are about the same as me getting eaten by a shark (I live in the Midwest).