Yea just saw that too. Kind of disappointed. I think it will be a popular card but if they had come in with a rate below what you can get with most cards (13.24 seems kind of average for good credit these days outside credit union cards) or even just fixed rates instead of variable (can't wait for that bomb to go off when interest rates start going up) it would be more interesting. The rewards are OK but nothing to write home about, and the extra features are nice but not amazing.
Yea the interest rates will make or break it. If they come out of the gate with low fixed rates it would be enticing. I suspect if they were amazing rates they would have shown them though.
I'll be curious to see how this turns out. It has implications for other cases outside of police dogs if it works*. For instance thoroughbred horses, prize bulls, and other fields where high-price breeding fees are in play.
*By works, I mean produce an animal with the same physical abilities, temperament, and other genetic traits without any undesirable side effects of the cloning process. Obviously no one thinks the clones will come out of the womb pre-trained.
I don't have to subscribe to a video game service if I want to play the newest video game. I can just buy whatever game interests me. I don't have to subscribe to a musical venue service if I want to go to the newest concert. I can just buy a ticket to the concert that interests me.
I don't have to subscribe to a movie ticket service if I want to go to the newest movie. I can just buy a ticket for whatever movie interests me.
Neither of those examples are "buying" either. The person I replied to is obviously OK with that.
And yes, even games, it's almost impossible to buy physical copies of games not tied to Steam or another always-on DRM. Your only choice is GOG or related DRM free vendors, but their selection is a tiny sliver of the overall available games on PC. Console single player games are about the only ones still buyable and playable without relying on a internet DRM or game server, and even those have a set lifespan of the console itself.
There's also the changes made from the broadcast version to the one which is sold, particularly in the music choices.
This happened in the past due to licenses and the contracts at the time not covering streaming and home media (since neither really existed at the time). It's pretty rare for current shows to have to alter music anymore since they write the contracts with streaming and home media rights in them now.
Are you confusing these for the compute sticks with the compute cards? The cards are different. They are basically a cartridge you plugged into a POS system, laptop, or all-in-one, or a little dock using their NexDock interface. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/compute-card.html
You CAN buy most TV shows a la carte. Apple, Google, Vudu, Amazon all carry shows you can buy digitally. You can also get most on DVD or Blu-ray (many with digital copies that end up costing less than just buying digital). Even some Netflix shows are on physical media (Marvel shows and Stranger Things for example).
Sure, but you still need a cable bill worth of streaming services to get most of the content out there.
No, you don't. I keep Hulu, Netflix, and Prime (and that's more for shipping than video) year round. If a show I want to watch comes on HBO, Shotime, Starz, CBS, whatever, I'll sub for a month, watch the show, and un-sub. Most people don't need every service every month of the year.
Most people will never need more than 16GB of RAM to play video games
Not to mention no one* is buying these for playing games in the first place. Plus the upgrades are available for people who think they have workloads that require it. They are OPTIONAL. I can spec out a $90,000 server blade as well. Doesn't mean I spend $90K every time I order a new blade.
*Yes, I know some idiot will, but overall, no one is buying them for games!
If they want to get paid, they can get day jobs. They knew when they contributed to an open source project there was right to expect to be paid anything.
Yea the only people who seem to really love the Pixelbook are Linux and Android devs. For everyone else, I just can't see how a $1,000 chrome book makes any sense at all.
Now for the cheaper ones, there are markets for those. Schools and businesses (we sell a ton of them to retail chains in place of laptops) will keep at least a few players in business.
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Getting invested in a Google product is like putting a paper clip in an outlet. Every kid has to do it once to learn not to do it again.
Google kills off pretty much anything they put out.
To be fair, they haven't put out much worth keeping lately.
Seems like that's not much of an issue: https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-40-Watt-Equivalent-B11-Candle-Dimmable-Energy-Star-Clear-Glass-Filament-Vintage-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-3-Pack-FG-03128/303742219
That never stopped them from doing it before now.
By the music industry's logic, they could also sue electric companies for powering pirate-enabling devices, right?
Hey, don't go giving them any ideas!
They said they won't charge you a late fee or penalty interest rate. They never said they won't sue you if you never pay.
But isn't an interest rate really just a late fee? So if the card really has no late fees then there shouldn't be any interest either. 8^)
No. Don't be an idiot.
Cool story but what does this have to do with where the card is accepted?
Yea just saw that too. Kind of disappointed. I think it will be a popular card but if they had come in with a rate below what you can get with most cards (13.24 seems kind of average for good credit these days outside credit union cards) or even just fixed rates instead of variable (can't wait for that bomb to go off when interest rates start going up) it would be more interesting. The rewards are OK but nothing to write home about, and the extra features are nice but not amazing.
It's a Master Card so if they don't take Apple Pay you can use the physical card and get 1%.
Yea the interest rates will make or break it. If they come out of the gate with low fixed rates it would be enticing. I suspect if they were amazing rates they would have shown them though.
I'll be curious to see how this turns out. It has implications for other cases outside of police dogs if it works*. For instance thoroughbred horses, prize bulls, and other fields where high-price breeding fees are in play.
*By works, I mean produce an animal with the same physical abilities, temperament, and other genetic traits without any undesirable side effects of the cloning process. Obviously no one thinks the clones will come out of the womb pre-trained.
And enjoy being prosecuted for destruction of evidence if you give them the 2nd code.
I don't have to subscribe to a video game service if I want to play the newest video game. I can just buy whatever game interests me.
I don't have to subscribe to a musical venue service if I want to go to the newest concert. I can just buy a ticket to the concert that interests me.
I don't have to subscribe to a movie ticket service if I want to go to the newest movie. I can just buy a ticket for whatever movie interests me.
Neither of those examples are "buying" either. The person I replied to is obviously OK with that.
And yes, even games, it's almost impossible to buy physical copies of games not tied to Steam or another always-on DRM. Your only choice is GOG or related DRM free vendors, but their selection is a tiny sliver of the overall available games on PC. Console single player games are about the only ones still buyable and playable without relying on a internet DRM or game server, and even those have a set lifespan of the console itself.
There's also the changes made from the broadcast version to the one which is sold, particularly in the music choices.
This happened in the past due to licenses and the contracts at the time not covering streaming and home media (since neither really existed at the time). It's pretty rare for current shows to have to alter music anymore since they write the contracts with streaming and home media rights in them now.
Are you confusing these for the compute sticks with the compute cards? The cards are different. They are basically a cartridge you plugged into a POS system, laptop, or all-in-one, or a little dock using their NexDock interface. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/compute-card.html
You CAN buy most TV shows a la carte. Apple, Google, Vudu, Amazon all carry shows you can buy digitally. You can also get most on DVD or Blu-ray (many with digital copies that end up costing less than just buying digital). Even some Netflix shows are on physical media (Marvel shows and Stranger Things for example).
Sure, but you still need a cable bill worth of streaming services to get most of the content out there.
No, you don't. I keep Hulu, Netflix, and Prime (and that's more for shipping than video) year round. If a show I want to watch comes on HBO, Shotime, Starz, CBS, whatever, I'll sub for a month, watch the show, and un-sub. Most people don't need every service every month of the year.
Most people will never need more than 16GB of RAM to play video games
Not to mention no one* is buying these for playing games in the first place. Plus the upgrades are available for people who think they have workloads that require it. They are OPTIONAL. I can spec out a $90,000 server blade as well. Doesn't mean I spend $90K every time I order a new blade.
*Yes, I know some idiot will, but overall, no one is buying them for games!
You should have bought a Dell then! Dell used to sell a 18.4 inch "tablet" PC. I almost bought it just for the utter ridiculousness of it.
If they want to get paid, they can get day jobs. They knew when they contributed to an open source project there was right to expect to be paid anything.
Yea the only people who seem to really love the Pixelbook are Linux and Android devs. For everyone else, I just can't see how a $1,000 chrome book makes any sense at all.
Now for the cheaper ones, there are markets for those. Schools and businesses (we sell a ton of them to retail chains in place of laptops) will keep at least a few players in business.
So you can share an unlimited amount of data if you do not register an account but only 2.5Gb if you do? That sounds strange.
It's a single file limit, not an account limit.
Doesn't look like it's published yet, but here is the paper. https://permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/23_19-Type2Diabetes_March2019.pdf.
It's up to the individual applications to implement it.