The self-service kiosks are better than cashiers - because you don't rely on a minimum-wage employee to put your order in correctly. The preparation may still be sloppy, but at least you can clearly point out that you didn't order it that way. Also handy when traveling, because there's basically no limit to the number of languages supported.
It's a Kroger, but as of 2012 they still hadn't integrated all their sub-chains' loyalty programs, so you couldn't use phone number lookup to get the value price. Don't know if they've fixed it since; I did get it to work at a City Market this year, so in the interim they've done it on at least one of their sub-chains.
It only exists in SoCal, and frankly I wasn't impressed much by the place.
Pay phones can receive calls just fine, fwiw. Used to do it to have unlimited-length conversations - call someone, give them your number, let them call you back.
That's definitely an ancient one. Never saw one of those in the wild. IIRC, and judging by the text that tells you to put money in after the caller answered, this was the style that could call for free - but you had to pay to activate the microphone. I heard they had these in rural New York until the early nineties.
Dime, I can recall (though mostly through phrases like "drop a dime", as it was a quarter by the time I used them in any frequency)... how long ago was the nickel?
Still SOP at big academic centers, as I noted elsewhere. People come and go every year, so building a comprehensive and up-to-date phone list is a challenge. Residents come from all over the country, so unless you're going to open up unlimited nationwide calling from every landline in the hospital, you won't be able to call most of their numbers without long-distance authorization (which is going to be granted, but will be annoying for a nurse who has to get it ten times in a night). A pager has great service (they have repeaters all over campus), it has a local number, and it lasts for a month on a AA battery.
Plenty of academic hospitals still use them too... roles change all the time, it's too hard to keep track of what doctor is in charge of which role on any given night, but a pager can be handed off from one person to another. Staff doctor pager, senior resident pager, junior resident pager. Cheap, and they already have repeaters all over the hospital so that signals are propagated everywhere (many hospitals are reasonably good Faraday cages as far as external signals are concerned).
Well, small children can't, but practically anyone else can. You don't need latest and greatest. You could easily make do with a five-year-old smartphone. Allowing incoming VOIP calls will really murder your battery, so an older one with a removable battery actually might be a big plus.
I have service people in my house a lot, but the trusted list is pretty short. I'm still not letting random delivery drivers in unless someone I trust is there to monitor them.
Right, but... how are you going to make a profit? Unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of five-cent pieces - the sort of transaction that might raise a few flags at the Mint - you probably don't have enough potential profit to pay for melting them down and separating the metals.
If you need a million-dollar bankroll to make a hundred dollars, you're in the wrong business.
I believe his point was that we're not going to run short on supply anytime soon; what we'll run out of is cheap supply. A bit like petroleum: while there's a big price spike when disruption occurs, there's a lot of supply out there that can be profitably produced if the long-term average price will stay up.
Yeah, that's pretty much the exact solution I and everyone I work with uses. If it's more valuable than some paper towels, ship it to the office. Secretary signs for it, shoots me a text, I put it in my car at some point during the day. Bonus: no unexpected "we tried to leave your package but nobody was available to sign for it, we will try again or you can drive across town to the UPS depot" messages.
In a marked crosswalk, or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection without traffic controls, yes. Otherwise, not really. A jaywalker really can be cited for failure to yield to a vehicle in many states.
There are a few more, as I found out while looking one time. Most are limited to specific tourist districts, though. Wiki article. Note that almost all of the linked mention that you have to have your alcohol in a plastic container, so it's still illegal to have a bottle of wine at a picnic in public.
Frosted-up back window (can't see inside), doesn't pull over in response to lights? Yeah, that's not suspicious at all. I'm no fan of cops, but in that circumstance, if I were one, I'd probably approach with my gun drawn as well.
If you want a phone that's just a phone, you can still buy one very cheaply. If you want a 1440p-display pocket computer with an OLED screen and an always-on connection to the Internet, the phone part is basically free.
Jazz is famous for improvisation/jamming and having many, many recordings of any given song. By comparison, a few notes and some rhythm will pretty much nail most commercial pop songs. Different style of music.
The only reason to pay $$$ is for the monitor or the looks. Or both.
I recently bought a cheap HP Stream laptop for about $200. 4GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. Not fast, but very lightweight, and it's good enough for light work when you're traveling. And it has Windows, which for all its faults is still a real OS (unlike what you get on Chromebooks, e.g.).
That said, where'd you get it? I use an iMac most of the time at home (great monitor, great looks, fast enough for everything I do), but my old PC could use an update.
I own one of those, and mine hasn't had the problems that have plagued thousands of users (like the early shutdown), but let's face it: if this was supposed to be an iPhone killer, it utterly fucking failed. The screen is amazing. The rest of it? What a joke. Let me know when I can expect real software upgrades for more than two years.
I don't want to switch to an iPhone, because there are a few features of Android that I really like and use often, but I feel like I'm going to be forced into it by Google's complete refusal to provide a stable platform. My wife's emergency backup phone - her old iPhone 4S - was released in October 2011 and got its last OS update in August 2016. If you want a nearly-five-year-old phone updated on Android, you'd better hope LineageOS supports it and that it has an unlocked bootloader. I'm comfortable with using ADB and flashing ROMs, but Joe Public isn't (and shouldn't be).
Office gave you a word processor, a spreadsheet, and presentation software for what the other guys charged for just one of those.
That said, Ami Pro came as part of the Lotus SmartSuite, and version 3 had the best equation editor I've ever used. Saved me tons of time in college typing up chemistry reports.
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The self-service kiosks are better than cashiers - because you don't rely on a minimum-wage employee to put your order in correctly. The preparation may still be sloppy, but at least you can clearly point out that you didn't order it that way. Also handy when traveling, because there's basically no limit to the number of languages supported.
It's a Kroger, but as of 2012 they still hadn't integrated all their sub-chains' loyalty programs, so you couldn't use phone number lookup to get the value price. Don't know if they've fixed it since; I did get it to work at a City Market this year, so in the interim they've done it on at least one of their sub-chains.
It only exists in SoCal, and frankly I wasn't impressed much by the place.
Pay phones can receive calls just fine, fwiw. Used to do it to have unlimited-length conversations - call someone, give them your number, let them call you back.
That's definitely an ancient one. Never saw one of those in the wild. IIRC, and judging by the text that tells you to put money in after the caller answered, this was the style that could call for free - but you had to pay to activate the microphone. I heard they had these in rural New York until the early nineties.
Dime, I can recall (though mostly through phrases like "drop a dime", as it was a quarter by the time I used them in any frequency)... how long ago was the nickel?
Still SOP at big academic centers, as I noted elsewhere. People come and go every year, so building a comprehensive and up-to-date phone list is a challenge. Residents come from all over the country, so unless you're going to open up unlimited nationwide calling from every landline in the hospital, you won't be able to call most of their numbers without long-distance authorization (which is going to be granted, but will be annoying for a nurse who has to get it ten times in a night). A pager has great service (they have repeaters all over campus), it has a local number, and it lasts for a month on a AA battery.
Plenty of academic hospitals still use them too... roles change all the time, it's too hard to keep track of what doctor is in charge of which role on any given night, but a pager can be handed off from one person to another. Staff doctor pager, senior resident pager, junior resident pager. Cheap, and they already have repeaters all over the hospital so that signals are propagated everywhere (many hospitals are reasonably good Faraday cages as far as external signals are concerned).
Well, small children can't, but practically anyone else can. You don't need latest and greatest. You could easily make do with a five-year-old smartphone. Allowing incoming VOIP calls will really murder your battery, so an older one with a removable battery actually might be a big plus.
If you have a BMW and a Tesla, you have a garage. The only thing parked in my driveway is a 17-year-old SUV that we keep around to haul stuff.
I have service people in my house a lot, but the trusted list is pretty short. I'm still not letting random delivery drivers in unless someone I trust is there to monitor them.
Right, but... how are you going to make a profit? Unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of five-cent pieces - the sort of transaction that might raise a few flags at the Mint - you probably don't have enough potential profit to pay for melting them down and separating the metals.
If you need a million-dollar bankroll to make a hundred dollars, you're in the wrong business.
I believe his point was that we're not going to run short on supply anytime soon; what we'll run out of is cheap supply. A bit like petroleum: while there's a big price spike when disruption occurs, there's a lot of supply out there that can be profitably produced if the long-term average price will stay up.
I'll freely admit my amateur status.
Skip the edibles. They last for five or six hours. Nothing worse than being on the train that you can't get off.
Yeah, that's pretty much the exact solution I and everyone I work with uses. If it's more valuable than some paper towels, ship it to the office. Secretary signs for it, shoots me a text, I put it in my car at some point during the day. Bonus: no unexpected "we tried to leave your package but nobody was available to sign for it, we will try again or you can drive across town to the UPS depot" messages.
In a marked crosswalk, or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection without traffic controls, yes. Otherwise, not really. A jaywalker really can be cited for failure to yield to a vehicle in many states.
There are a few more, as I found out while looking one time. Most are limited to specific tourist districts, though. Wiki article. Note that almost all of the linked mention that you have to have your alcohol in a plastic container, so it's still illegal to have a bottle of wine at a picnic in public.
Poker isn't a pure game of chance, but it's still gambling.
Not everyone lives in California. In most states, reassessment happens whenever the county/city feels like it.
Frosted-up back window (can't see inside), doesn't pull over in response to lights? Yeah, that's not suspicious at all. I'm no fan of cops, but in that circumstance, if I were one, I'd probably approach with my gun drawn as well.
If you want a phone that's just a phone, you can still buy one very cheaply. If you want a 1440p-display pocket computer with an OLED screen and an always-on connection to the Internet, the phone part is basically free.
Jazz is famous for improvisation/jamming and having many, many recordings of any given song. By comparison, a few notes and some rhythm will pretty much nail most commercial pop songs. Different style of music.
The only reason to pay $$$ is for the monitor or the looks. Or both.
I recently bought a cheap HP Stream laptop for about $200. 4GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. Not fast, but very lightweight, and it's good enough for light work when you're traveling. And it has Windows, which for all its faults is still a real OS (unlike what you get on Chromebooks, e.g.).
That said, where'd you get it? I use an iMac most of the time at home (great monitor, great looks, fast enough for everything I do), but my old PC could use an update.
like the Nexus 6P
I own one of those, and mine hasn't had the problems that have plagued thousands of users (like the early shutdown), but let's face it: if this was supposed to be an iPhone killer, it utterly fucking failed. The screen is amazing. The rest of it? What a joke. Let me know when I can expect real software upgrades for more than two years.
I don't want to switch to an iPhone, because there are a few features of Android that I really like and use often, but I feel like I'm going to be forced into it by Google's complete refusal to provide a stable platform. My wife's emergency backup phone - her old iPhone 4S - was released in October 2011 and got its last OS update in August 2016. If you want a nearly-five-year-old phone updated on Android, you'd better hope LineageOS supports it and that it has an unlocked bootloader. I'm comfortable with using ADB and flashing ROMs, but Joe Public isn't (and shouldn't be).
Office gave you a word processor, a spreadsheet, and presentation software for what the other guys charged for just one of those.
That said, Ami Pro came as part of the Lotus SmartSuite, and version 3 had the best equation editor I've ever used. Saved me tons of time in college typing up chemistry reports.