IMO, upgrading is the key. If you can't easily upgrade (IOT and to an extent Android), you're a target. If you shut off upgrades because you don't trust your vendor (Windows), you're a target.
Except the consequence of following that advice is that it becomes the target market for malware... Which still makes it bad advice. It's like saying, "Hey the Titanic is sinking, thousands of people jump in to my life boat!"
The thing is, the vast majority are sticking with the Titanic, and there's no sign of that changing. So, until it does, you're still better off on the lifeboat.
Install a charger in your garage. A dryer plug will provide enough energy to charge to full overnight. When you get up in the morning, your car is charged.
Barring that, imagine your work parking lot has a charger. Plug your car in when you get to work, and it is charged when you leave. No trips to the gas station necessary.
If you are traveling, you can use the Superchargers. 20 minutes to 50% and 40 minutes to 80%. That is enough time for a nice coffee/bathroom break on a long trip.
Garage? What is this "garage"? My neighborhood is full of 100 y/o houses that don't even have driveways.
As for work, imagination won't charge my car. Maybe they'll actually get chargers in 8 years, but given their track record, I wouldn't bet on that in 80.
I certainly won't say "never", but I do know what I need to switch to electric. For me, a 200 mile range is the minimum. I don't drive that every day, but I drive over half that on some weekend days. And if it says it has 200 mile range, that means with new batteries, in perfect weather, on ground as flat as Kansas.
Unless I can get that, in a car that's at least close to what I pay for a gas car, it's not even an option.
On one of my TV shows, I saw the preview for the following week, and I gave out a spoiler: "They are going to do something really stupid". The response: "Cro, they do something stupid every week! That's no spoiler".
My teacher introduced himself as "Professor Blank", so I called him that. OTOH, I had no problem with him calling me by my first name. I never really thought of myself as a "Mr. Magnon" anyway.
Roundabouts are a massive improvement on 4-way stop signs, which is the default solution in much of the US.
Don't get me started on 4-way stops. A few years ago, TPTB replaced a bunch of perfectly good traffic lights with 4-way stop signs. Nobody knows what to do when traffic gets to multiple corners at the same time. They barely know what to do when it's not at the same time!
They f**k up on the roundabouts too, but it's still much better than the 4-ways.
I don't know about that. My mom bought our first house about 1975, and paid about 7K! My current house, in the same poor neighborhood, and probably around the same age (not even close to new, even in 75), cost 40K, and needs a lot more work than that older one did. Granted, it's significantly bigger than that first house, but there's no way in he** you'd even get a house that size in that area for less than 30K.
I'm sure you can get a crap TV for a low price, but nobody would want a crap car, and good ones cost plenty.
Meantime, the stuff you really need like housing (whether you own or rent), food, and drugs are dramatically costlier than they were in the old days.
The difference is, back then one earner could provide a middle-class life for a family. Nowdays, two earners barely provide a working class life, and that's with at least one working 2-3 jobs.
Are other languages any better? Spanish has about 50 verb tenses. French is almost as strange for pronunciation as English, in fact some of the strangest words in English are FROM French. Mandarin might have easy grammar, but Chinese writing is beyond PITA.
Languages are like computer operating systems; they all suck, but in different ways.
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The police are afraid to step into my neighborhood.
Pretty much the same with me. Of course back then the only screen was on a small B&W TV.
IMO, upgrading is the key. If you can't easily upgrade (IOT and to an extent Android), you're a target. If you shut off upgrades because you don't trust your vendor (Windows), you're a target.
Except the consequence of following that advice is that it becomes the target market for malware... Which still makes it bad advice. It's like saying, "Hey the Titanic is sinking, thousands of people jump in to my life boat!"
The thing is, the vast majority are sticking with the Titanic, and there's no sign of that changing. So, until it does, you're still better off on the lifeboat.
Install a charger in your garage. A dryer plug will provide enough energy to charge to full overnight. When you get up in the morning, your car is charged.
Barring that, imagine your work parking lot has a charger. Plug your car in when you get to work, and it is charged when you leave. No trips to the gas station necessary.
If you are traveling, you can use the Superchargers. 20 minutes to 50% and 40 minutes to 80%. That is enough time for a nice coffee/bathroom break on a long trip.
Garage? What is this "garage"? My neighborhood is full of 100 y/o houses that don't even have driveways.
As for work, imagination won't charge my car. Maybe they'll actually get chargers in 8 years, but given their track record, I wouldn't bet on that in 80.
There is no charging in my work lot. Maybe there will be in 8 years, but until then, nope.
I don't currently have a place to charge at home. I could have one put in, but most houses in my area don't have off-street parking.
My TV is fine. I watch Netflix & Hulu on my Roku box. And I'm sure that I'll be using that TV for longer than I use the Roku.
I certainly won't say "never", but I do know what I need to switch to electric. For me, a 200 mile range is the minimum. I don't drive that every day, but I drive over half that on some weekend days. And if it says it has 200 mile range, that means with new batteries, in perfect weather, on ground as flat as Kansas.
Unless I can get that, in a car that's at least close to what I pay for a gas car, it's not even an option.
You do realise that the speed limit is the upper limit, not the lower limit?
Not in my area.
On one of my TV shows, I saw the preview for the following week, and I gave out a spoiler: "They are going to do something really stupid". The response: "Cro, they do something stupid every week! That's no spoiler".
My teacher introduced himself as "Professor Blank", so I called him that. OTOH, I had no problem with him calling me by my first name. I never really thought of myself as a "Mr. Magnon" anyway.
Am I the only one who copy pasted the title to check if it includes "fail" with a funky PascalCase?
Nope. :)
Bing is better if you're searching for pr0n.
Roundabouts are a massive improvement on 4-way stop signs, which is the default solution in much of the US.
Don't get me started on 4-way stops. A few years ago, TPTB replaced a bunch of perfectly good traffic lights with 4-way stop signs. Nobody knows what to do when traffic gets to multiple corners at the same time. They barely know what to do when it's not at the same time!
They f**k up on the roundabouts too, but it's still much better than the 4-ways.
You obviously don't live in a place with deer or hedgehogs.
At least they're not there anymore.
There was life before indoor plumbing too.
I don't like Microsoft, but as long as I'm employed, I doubt I could escape them.
I could use Android, but I prefer Apple.
I'd really be hard-pressed to get rid of gmail, and I have a lot on Google Docs.
I can't think of any good alternative to Kindle and Amazon rules online shopping.
Facebook can FOAD. I have little use for it.
at least the honest ones do.
Both of them?
That's still a step up from the ass that was fired.
I don't know about that. My mom bought our first house about 1975, and paid about 7K! My current house, in the same poor neighborhood, and probably around the same age (not even close to new, even in 75), cost 40K, and needs a lot more work than that older one did. Granted, it's significantly bigger than that first house, but there's no way in he** you'd even get a house that size in that area for less than 30K.
I'm sure you can get a crap TV for a low price, but nobody would want a crap car, and good ones cost plenty.
Meantime, the stuff you really need like housing (whether you own or rent), food, and drugs are dramatically costlier than they were in the old days.
The difference is, back then one earner could provide a middle-class life for a family. Nowdays, two earners barely provide a working class life, and that's with at least one working 2-3 jobs.
Missouri (Kansas City, St Louis). Yup, seems to be a common thing.
If Esperanto was easy to learn to pronounce. Then why do all the Esperanto snobs complain about William Shatner in the movie "Incubus"?
I haven't seen the movie, but I suspect that has more to do with Shatner than with Esperanto.
Yeah, and just imagine the size of the keyboard needed for all those characters!
Are other languages any better? Spanish has about 50 verb tenses. French is almost as strange for pronunciation as English, in fact some of the strangest words in English are FROM French. Mandarin might have easy grammar, but Chinese writing is beyond PITA.
Languages are like computer operating systems; they all suck, but in different ways.