Having physical buttons for things means you can do things by feel and not have to take your eyes off the road. I replaced the stereo in my 10 year old Pathfinder with a Kenwood that had a touch screen. I hate it. It's impossible and dangerous to use while driving owing to the location of the radio at the bottom of the stack in the dash.
My Armada and my Altima both still have the factory radios, which are both knob-and-button. No touchscreens for me, ever again.
Your credit rating, payment history, and other details; however, are NOT public record. The government wants that information now so it can "help" people.
"Oh hey, we notice you haven't paid your mortgage in three months. We'll just send your tax refund to the bank to help you stay in your house."
That's what this is all about - helping government help its corporate overlords.
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA November 10, 2007
They just refuse to tell anyone what it is, or give you any warning that you have violated it before they disconnect you.
The thing that is most amusing about these people is that, out of one side of their mouths they whine about how they don't have the capacity to give everyone truly unlimited Internet like they advertise, but out of the other side they have as much as anyone is willing to pay for, with no limit.
It really is time to label Internet service as a public utility and place it under proper regulation.
1) There is no such thing as spy-proof 2) If you can install an app on it, it is not secure 3) If you can connect it to a network, it is not secure 4) If you do not own and have complete access to audit all firmware, including the radio, then it is not secure 5) The Blackphone looks like nothing more than a platform from which to sell expensive annual subscriptions to quasi-private services
Yep, I have DOS 6.22 and WFW running in a VM along with QEMM. It works quite nicely except for the lack of vmtools and the lack of high res graphics. There's a patched driver out there that supposedly allows 1024x768, but I have never been able to get it to work without crashing the VM when starting Windows.
I don't have a dedicated DOS box. I have a DOS VM running on my server, complete with Wordstar 4.0 and many other programs I used to use back in the 80s and 90s. He's right that Wordstar is a word processor and nothing else. It's really quite powerful at it, too. He's also right that it does exactly what you tell it to do. It does not assume it knows better than you what you are trying to do.
Yep. It's tried, true, efficient, cheap (if you dispense with all of the unnecessary emissions controls that have been foisted upon diesel engines in a transparent attempt to kill them as a viable source of locomotion), and super-reliable.
When faced with the choice between a $19k Jetta TDI that gets 55 on the highway and can go 700 miles on a tank, and a $40,000 electric that can go 50-75 miles between 2-8 hour charge cycles, the choice becomes rather clear, doesn't it?
As soon as I had a machine that was capable, I started ripping all of my CDs to uncompressed digital format. Shockingly I've managed to get my rips to survive from 1997 to today thanks to good practices in backups and fault tolerance.
Does anyone remember when CDs finally went 100% DDD? Most of the CDs I got in the 80s were AAD, and some ADD in the mid 90s. I haven't bought a CD in a great many years and have long since disposed of the ones I had... so I don't remember when DDD finally became the norm..
Internet STARTED OUT as a "common carrier" service, which is how we were able to buy DSL service from a CLEC instead of the ILEC. Common carrier status was done away with about the time Verizon took a billion dollars from the taxpayer and started rolling out Fios.
I used to buy DSL from a CLEC in Philadelphia that rode on top of Verizon's copper. When Fios rolled out, I remember discussing with the CLEC that they would not be able to serve me because Fios was not considered a common carrier, and Verizon did not have to sell capacity on its lines at a cut rate to competitive carriers.
That CLEC exited consumer broadband shortly thereafter.
Reclassifying modern broadband as a common carrier is absolutely going to create more competition and more choice for consumers. Yes, it will mean a tiny bit less profit for the majors, because they will have to sell capacity to CLECs again at a discount, but whatever.
Honestly, and I'm hardly ever one to talk about nationalization, but the taxpayer has paid for almost all of the Internet infrastructure that has been laid out since about 2004. It should belong to them and be used for their benefit. If Verizon et al want to be considered media providers and not common carriers, then let them pay the taxpayer for access to the network that the taxpayers paid for. Yes, I know, socialism. So what? A lot of what we do is socialized, because it's better for everyone that way.
In reality, this idea would never fly because it empowers students with their own destiny and heaps piles of accountability upon the education system. Accountability is something teachers and administrators (and people in general these days) do not like.
Wow, that's a lot of current - 20A at 5V. So, unless they change the voltage spec for this version, they'll have to use 14AWG wire under 6ft, and 12AWG up to 10 feet. That's going to be a big cable.
The US education system is defective by design. It is designed to do anything but produce smart Americans. In fact, I would say it is designed to produce dumb, dependent Americans who will be loyal voters for the party most established throughout that system. It is no secret that the Democrat party controls the public education system top to bottom, and is interested only in producing Democrat voters.
It is not surprising in the least that Zuck's $100M did absolutely nothing to increase the quality of students leaving New Jersey's schools.
There are many, MANY hotspots available with external antenna ports, and running one off of a 5V in-car supply is trivial.
My Armada has a Netgear Unite Pro hotspot in it with a roof-mounted antenna. I just drilled the 3/8" hole in the roof for the antenna mount right above one of the overhead console boxes, and ran a 12V line to a 5V power supply. It took less than two hours to install, and works fantastically. Any time I need to take it with me I just grab it out of the console box.
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"it is their job to protect and to serve the public"
Not according to hundreds of court rulings, including Supreme Court rulings, that say that police have no duty to protect or serve anyone.
Because vaccines are not 100% effective, just like no other medical treatment or preventive is 100% effective.
Google "herd immunity," too.
Having physical buttons for things means you can do things by feel and not have to take your eyes off the road. I replaced the stereo in my 10 year old Pathfinder with a Kenwood that had a touch screen. I hate it. It's impossible and dangerous to use while driving owing to the location of the radio at the bottom of the stack in the dash.
My Armada and my Altima both still have the factory radios, which are both knob-and-button. No touchscreens for me, ever again.
BofA has never turned off my cards when I've traveled, and I've never informed them ahead of time.
Of course they have. Nothing you do on the Internet is anonymous.
So there was ONE email, and then SPECULATION by Andrea Mitchell that there COULD have been others.
That is not evidence that Snowden repeatedly attempted to blow the whistle on spying.
Like general surveillance over an unsuspecting public.
That is not even close to what "public record" means.
Your credit rating, payment history, and other details; however, are NOT public record. The government wants that information now so it can "help" people.
"Oh hey, we notice you haven't paid your mortgage in three months. We'll just send your tax refund to the bank to help you stay in your house."
That's what this is all about - helping government help its corporate overlords.
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
November 10, 2007
Can we please stop trying to insinuate that electric vehicles do not have a carbon footprint?
When I was going to Georgia Tech, I would have given anything for a 1.3:1 ratio.
They just refuse to tell anyone what it is, or give you any warning that you have violated it before they disconnect you.
The thing that is most amusing about these people is that, out of one side of their mouths they whine about how they don't have the capacity to give everyone truly unlimited Internet like they advertise, but out of the other side they have as much as anyone is willing to pay for, with no limit.
It really is time to label Internet service as a public utility and place it under proper regulation.
1) There is no such thing as spy-proof
2) If you can install an app on it, it is not secure
3) If you can connect it to a network, it is not secure
4) If you do not own and have complete access to audit all firmware, including the radio, then it is not secure
5) The Blackphone looks like nothing more than a platform from which to sell expensive annual subscriptions to quasi-private services
Yep, I have DOS 6.22 and WFW running in a VM along with QEMM. It works quite nicely except for the lack of vmtools and the lack of high res graphics. There's a patched driver out there that supposedly allows 1024x768, but I have never been able to get it to work without crashing the VM when starting Windows.
I don't have a dedicated DOS box. I have a DOS VM running on my server, complete with Wordstar 4.0 and many other programs I used to use back in the 80s and 90s. He's right that Wordstar is a word processor and nothing else. It's really quite powerful at it, too. He's also right that it does exactly what you tell it to do. It does not assume it knows better than you what you are trying to do.
Yep. It's tried, true, efficient, cheap (if you dispense with all of the unnecessary emissions controls that have been foisted upon diesel engines in a transparent attempt to kill them as a viable source of locomotion), and super-reliable.
When faced with the choice between a $19k Jetta TDI that gets 55 on the highway and can go 700 miles on a tank, and a $40,000 electric that can go 50-75 miles between 2-8 hour charge cycles, the choice becomes rather clear, doesn't it?
As soon as I had a machine that was capable, I started ripping all of my CDs to uncompressed digital format. Shockingly I've managed to get my rips to survive from 1997 to today thanks to good practices in backups and fault tolerance.
Does anyone remember when CDs finally went 100% DDD? Most of the CDs I got in the 80s were AAD, and some ADD in the mid 90s. I haven't bought a CD in a great many years and have long since disposed of the ones I had... so I don't remember when DDD finally became the norm..
That makes a whole lot more sense. Thanks.
Internet STARTED OUT as a "common carrier" service, which is how we were able to buy DSL service from a CLEC instead of the ILEC. Common carrier status was done away with about the time Verizon took a billion dollars from the taxpayer and started rolling out Fios.
I used to buy DSL from a CLEC in Philadelphia that rode on top of Verizon's copper. When Fios rolled out, I remember discussing with the CLEC that they would not be able to serve me because Fios was not considered a common carrier, and Verizon did not have to sell capacity on its lines at a cut rate to competitive carriers.
That CLEC exited consumer broadband shortly thereafter.
Reclassifying modern broadband as a common carrier is absolutely going to create more competition and more choice for consumers. Yes, it will mean a tiny bit less profit for the majors, because they will have to sell capacity to CLECs again at a discount, but whatever.
Honestly, and I'm hardly ever one to talk about nationalization, but the taxpayer has paid for almost all of the Internet infrastructure that has been laid out since about 2004. It should belong to them and be used for their benefit. If Verizon et al want to be considered media providers and not common carriers, then let them pay the taxpayer for access to the network that the taxpayers paid for. Yes, I know, socialism. So what? A lot of what we do is socialized, because it's better for everyone that way.
Stop making so much sense.
In reality, this idea would never fly because it empowers students with their own destiny and heaps piles of accountability upon the education system. Accountability is something teachers and administrators (and people in general these days) do not like.
Wow, that's a lot of current - 20A at 5V. So, unless they change the voltage spec for this version, they'll have to use 14AWG wire under 6ft, and 12AWG up to 10 feet. That's going to be a big cable.
The US education system is defective by design. It is designed to do anything but produce smart Americans. In fact, I would say it is designed to produce dumb, dependent Americans who will be loyal voters for the party most established throughout that system. It is no secret that the Democrat party controls the public education system top to bottom, and is interested only in producing Democrat voters.
It is not surprising in the least that Zuck's $100M did absolutely nothing to increase the quality of students leaving New Jersey's schools.
Update: 05/13 16:37 GMT by T : Oops -- I missed this earlier, substantially similar story.
You don't say...
There are many, MANY hotspots available with external antenna ports, and running one off of a 5V in-car supply is trivial.
My Armada has a Netgear Unite Pro hotspot in it with a roof-mounted antenna. I just drilled the 3/8" hole in the roof for the antenna mount right above one of the overhead console boxes, and ran a 12V line to a 5V power supply. It took less than two hours to install, and works fantastically. Any time I need to take it with me I just grab it out of the console box.