Around here there's a 50Mbps option, which is about right for my usage along with my wife and her friend (who's renting with us). I recently dropped down to 30Mbps and that seems OK thus far. Lower than that probably wouldn't work well, not necessarily because of the lower bitrate but because it drops the monthly download/upload limit to the point where I risk overages.
Of course, around here 50Mbps is also around $95 so the pricing sucks. The one thing I can say about my ISP (Shaw) is that they do tend to have good uptime and/or tech support though, certainly better than any of their competitors I've dealt with among the big ISP's.
Except that while Trump is talking about building a wall against Mexicans or those from the middle-east, these aren't where the jobs are going. Instead, it's companies that make plenty of money that are hiding from taxation via foreign subsidiaries and then firing local domestic workers in favour of lower-paid imports all while claiming it's because they can't find talent. Additionally, it's in-sourcing companies providing low-budget labour at reduced quality overrunning the domestic mid-level workers while doing an end-run around labor laws.
Kinda puts an interesting wrench on the idea that guys are the main ones who send unsolicited nudes. Perhaps it's more of a case where women tend to do so in different circumstances (or most guys just don't comment/complain about it).
My grandmother was the same, except it was a small stroke that impaired her leg movement. Thankfully - unlike my grandfather - she willingly gave up the keys when she realized it just wasn't safe anymore (my grandfather stopped driving when cancer made him bedridden prior to passing away, but he was getting ketchy before that).
There's also "crashes" where a vehicle is significantly damages, and then bumps, scrapes, dings, etc. I won't say that younger people are greater drivers - it seems each general has its issues - but the problems are different. Keep in mind also that older persons often have capacity to pay for minor fender-benders out-of-pocket, keeping the insurance corps out-of-the-loop and thus incidents off-record.
Younger males tend do to drive faster in general, and if most of the people I see driving with a f***ing cellphone up to the ear tend to be under 30 and/or female. However, the issues I've seen with older drivers are: * Inattention to detail: wrong way on a 1-way street, failing to notice speed changes, not watching blind spots * Poor reaction times/movement: This is a combined issue of mental function and things like arthritis etc that impair movement. * Privilege due to history: "I haven't had an accident in over 20 years so I should be able to X" (drive without a belt, speed, etc) * I'll drive at my own speed: Fast when there's a passing lane, slow when there's not, and generally f***ing up all the traffic behind them. Especially true for RV's or night-driving
But the worst is a combination of the above and more just due to not wanting to give up the fucking keys. One of the proudest moments I had of my grandmother was when she realized on her own she wasn't safe to drive anymore, hung up the keys, and sold the cars. Countless others suffering from mental/physical impairment due to age aren't willing to give up the privilege freedom of a vehicle, and ultimately it can cost them or others dearly.
My last experience along this line was a senior who spent several minutes backing in and out of a stall, hit a car parked across from her, then moved around the lot trying various other stalls. I'm not even sure what she was trying or if she was simply demented, but I called the police and the officer - after noting her lack of mobility (we're talking, can barely turn the wheel and can't turn her neck to shoulder check) and a myriad of other scratches/dints indicating multiple parking-lot hit-and-runs - pulled her license on the spot.
Now I'm not saying all seniors are bad drivers, but frankly, age is not kind to most of us. Cognitive ability takes a hit, slowing reactions. Physical impairment slows it further, and causes loss of eyesight, night-vision etc as well. Bones break easier in accidents. Stamina also becomes a consideration. A lot of older drivers do OK during daylight hours for measured trips, since they can pace themselves and rest as needed. Young people are often in situations where they can't really avoid driving even if they're under-the-weather, because they need to get to work etc regardless of having a head-cold during rush-hour or that freak snow-storm, or at 7am when coffee hasn't quite kicked in.
When gramps is trying to make that last run at 2am in order to get that surge-pricing bonus from the bar-rush...well suddenly "older = less crashes" may ring a lot less true
I'm fairly sure the people visiting the site were going there regardless of whether or not the FBI had control of it, so in this case it's not entrapment.
Now if they were running targeted ads against a group group advertising the site, that would be entrapment. This is simply bait.
That only appears to be true if you're not a Corp. Otherwise, they had blackmail you in corpspeak: "It appears you have been downloading file X. You don't need to face legal penalties of $Y or involve the courts, just send us $Z instead"
So maybe the blackmailer just needs to start an LLC "marital investigations Inc" and state:
We found these details on this website. We'd be happy to offer our services to remove them for $X. If you refuse, we take you to public court for expenses due to Y (and yes, Y is b.s.)
Now I like both (some of) Star Trek and (some of) Star Wars. Some things to keep in mind are that : * Trek was *many* series with some movies. SW was movies with a cartoon series, both had books * Trek had some abysmal episodes, but there's a lot more to pick from when digging for gold * Meesa Jar-Jar Bin... SHUT UP WESLEY! * Both had some exceptional actors. I don't think many can say Patrick Stuart is pretty awesome, and Ford rocks
Most comparisons are likely going to be between STTOS and SW. I think overall Trek had more (quantity wise) memorable characters, but again it was a SERIES so there was more time for development. In the end though, some scenarios come to mind:
William Shatner gets VD and misses the audition, so another actor takes Kirk. Would it be better or worse?
Harrison Ford breaks his leg while saving a kitten from a tree, missing his audition. Better or worse?
In the above, I'd say Trek might do better or the same, but SW would be worse off. To me that means SW's main actor was better, but also that a lot of what made it good was due to Ford.
Now last scenario to drive it home: Shatner gets kicked off set when he's caught banging the director' s assistant. Instead, they cast as Kirk... Harrison Ford. Which one is the winner now? â
Well, for one thing with Netflix "original series", they probably want to get a good idea of what's popular and what *could be* popular. Maybe they notice that "show X" - despite being old - gets a LOT of views. With this in mind, they surreptitiously buy the rights to the show from whomever owns it, and then creates a sequel, remake, etc. Imagine if Firefly - instead of tons of people bitching about the cancellation, and the rather crappy movie - had ended up on Netflix after the poor airing, proved to be popular, and then Netflix continued it as in-house series. There are probably a lot of popular shows/movies that got squashed prematurely and could be given new life. That's good for fans and Netflix's budgets.
Or non-obvious product-placement. This is a big - but not always obvious thing - for soft-drinks, mobile devices, computers, and sometimes cars. As for redefining programming, well hell the movie studios seem to have already done that to some extent where they've taken what is clearly a single episode and cut it in half with the first section having a to-be-continued ending (LOTR, Hunger Games, etc etc)
My transcoding machine is an FX-8350. It may not has as much raw per-core power as the i5, but on a multi-threaded transcode job (or multiple simultaneous transcode jobs) it does very nicely. It does get hot as shit during a heavy workload though, so it's got a big case with lots of fans and room for air moment.
Really, because on my recently purchased Honda Civic the electronics are a pain in the ass. Specifically, the damn "entertainment unit" which is supposed to accept "Miracast 1.1" connections but only does so on certain versions of iOS devices (despite my Android device being perfectly compliant). Of course I could replace it with a 3rd-party deck... if I wanted all the *other* stuff that goes through it (backup/side camera, notifications, etc) to break.
Technology lock-in is real on all recent automotive manufacturers
I think that part of the problem is that people are mixing up the issues with GMO, herbicides, and pesticides etc.
For example, "roundup resistant" crops are GMO in a way that allows them to flourish while the roundup pesticide kills unwanted plants. Thus, you can drench an area in roundup and your crop will still happily grow. The problem is not in the GMO, but there may be an issue with the chemicals - e.g. roundup - that are used in conjunction with the GMO plants.
A lot of GMO is basically an accelerated and/or more scientifically advanced way of doing what otherwise would require a long-term breeding program. That's not to say that GMO doesn't have issues. I'm personally not a fan of things like certain transgenic tomatoes or other fruits that are made to appear "ripe" for longer periods of time, but realistically they're watery and much less flavourful than their predecessors. At the same time though we have transgenic fruits that can be made to live on-the-shelf longer after they're ripe.
Scarier may be things like the "fish tomato" (which didn't make market) where they were attempting to make longer-lived fruits by combining DNA from non-fruits. That's something that we can't do naturally and could have serious repercussions for people with allergies, etc.
Generally I've bought AMD on price-point for various machines, but I've also played a bit with their APU's in cases where space was more of a consideration and I didn't want to run a discreet card (and Intel's onboard graphics weren't very good).
And yet once upon a time they did not. TV programming was profitable without ads. Then after ads started, they slowly started encroaching more and more on the timeslots that used to be actual programming. Then they got louder. Annoying ads also seem to be a thing because, hey, at least people notice them. Beyond the ads, reality TV became a big thing because it's a lot cheaper to pay some realtor a few bucks extra to drag a camera crew along - or some redneck yokel - than it is to bother with real, skilled actors.
Now, they need this crap more and more in order to show increasing profitability and pay the big bonuses, but that comes at the cost of quality, which - now that there's competition - is costing them customers. They've sacrificed long-term business in exchange for short-term profits, and it's finally biting them in the ass.
How many of those features require that the OS specifically support it, I wonder. I mean, yeah it's nice, but quite often one of the things that comes with a new motherboard is chipset drivers etc. So why couldn't Intel provide a driver which also handles power management, and cut out MS entirely?
It's late, so maybe I'm missing something from the article, but while it went on in length about the case, it didn't mention much about the innards other than the heatsink.
Personally, I think a design like this would be nice for a "mobile desktop". That is, a decently powered desktop that can be plugged in and fully functional (but skip the battery). Most people I know don't often use their laptop on battery anyhow, and a mobile desktop has the advantage of being somewhat up-gradable. Going that route, it also might be cool to re-image the "suitcase PC" with something in a elegant wood design on the exterior but a functioning LCD and board (maybe a slide-out or removable input device) inside.
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Around here there's a 50Mbps option, which is about right for my usage along with my wife and her friend (who's renting with us). I recently dropped down to 30Mbps and that seems OK thus far.
Lower than that probably wouldn't work well, not necessarily because of the lower bitrate but because it drops the monthly download/upload limit to the point where I risk overages.
Of course, around here 50Mbps is also around $95 so the pricing sucks. The one thing I can say about my ISP (Shaw) is that they do tend to have good uptime and/or tech support though, certainly better than any of their competitors I've dealt with among the big ISP's.
Except that while Trump is talking about building a wall against Mexicans or those from the middle-east, these aren't where the jobs are going. Instead, it's companies that make plenty of money that are hiding from taxation via foreign subsidiaries and then firing local domestic workers in favour of lower-paid imports all while claiming it's because they can't find talent. Additionally, it's in-sourcing companies providing low-budget labour at reduced quality overrunning the domestic mid-level workers while doing an end-run around labor laws.
Kinda puts an interesting wrench on the idea that guys are the main ones who send unsolicited nudes. Perhaps it's more of a case where women tend to do so in different circumstances (or most guys just don't comment/complain about it).
My grandmother was the same, except it was a small stroke that impaired her leg movement. Thankfully - unlike my grandfather - she willingly gave up the keys when she realized it just wasn't safe anymore (my grandfather stopped driving when cancer made him bedridden prior to passing away, but he was getting ketchy before that).
There's also "crashes" where a vehicle is significantly damages, and then bumps, scrapes, dings, etc. I won't say that younger people are greater drivers - it seems each general has its issues - but the problems are different. Keep in mind also that older persons often have capacity to pay for minor fender-benders out-of-pocket, keeping the insurance corps out-of-the-loop and thus incidents off-record.
Younger males tend do to drive faster in general, and if most of the people I see driving with a f***ing cellphone up to the ear tend to be under 30 and/or female. However, the issues I've seen with older drivers are:
* Inattention to detail: wrong way on a 1-way street, failing to notice speed changes, not watching blind spots
* Poor reaction times/movement: This is a combined issue of mental function and things like arthritis etc that impair movement.
* Privilege due to history: "I haven't had an accident in over 20 years so I should be able to X" (drive without a belt, speed, etc)
* I'll drive at my own speed: Fast when there's a passing lane, slow when there's not, and generally f***ing up all the traffic behind them. Especially true for RV's or night-driving
But the worst is a combination of the above and more just due to not wanting to give up the fucking keys. One of the proudest moments I had of my grandmother was when she realized on her own she wasn't safe to drive anymore, hung up the keys, and sold the cars. Countless others suffering from mental/physical impairment due to age aren't willing to give up the privilege freedom of a vehicle, and ultimately it can cost them or others dearly.
My last experience along this line was a senior who spent several minutes backing in and out of a stall, hit a car parked across from her, then moved around the lot trying various other stalls. I'm not even sure what she was trying or if she was simply demented, but I called the police and the officer - after noting her lack of mobility (we're talking, can barely turn the wheel and can't turn her neck to shoulder check) and a myriad of other scratches/dints indicating multiple parking-lot hit-and-runs - pulled her license on the spot.
Now I'm not saying all seniors are bad drivers, but frankly, age is not kind to most of us. Cognitive ability takes a hit, slowing reactions. Physical impairment slows it further, and causes loss of eyesight, night-vision etc as well. Bones break easier in accidents. Stamina also becomes a consideration. A lot of older drivers do OK during daylight hours for measured trips, since they can pace themselves and rest as needed. Young people are often in situations where they can't really avoid driving even if they're under-the-weather, because they need to get to work etc regardless of having a head-cold during rush-hour or that freak snow-storm, or at 7am when coffee hasn't quite kicked in.
When gramps is trying to make that last run at 2am in order to get that surge-pricing bonus from the bar-rush...well suddenly "older = less crashes" may ring a lot less true
I'm fairly sure the people visiting the site were going there regardless of whether or not the FBI had control of it, so in this case it's not entrapment.
Now if they were running targeted ads against a group group advertising the site, that would be entrapment. This is simply bait.
Does this count as one of those faces?
"From neglect or from hackers?"
The former also makes the latter more likely.
That only appears to be true if you're not a Corp. Otherwise, they had blackmail you in corpspeak:
"It appears you have been downloading file X. You don't need to face legal penalties of $Y or involve the courts, just send us $Z instead"
So maybe the blackmailer just needs to start an LLC "marital investigations Inc" and state:
We found these details on this website. We'd be happy to offer our services to remove them for $X. If you refuse, we take you to public court for expenses due to Y (and yes, Y is b.s.)
The issue at hand seems to be more regarding what people do in somebody else's bedroom...
Now I like both (some of) Star Trek and (some of) Star Wars. Some things to keep in mind are that :
* Trek was *many* series with some movies. SW was movies with a cartoon series, both had books
* Trek had some abysmal episodes, but there's a lot more to pick from when digging for gold
* Meesa Jar-Jar Bin... SHUT UP WESLEY!
* Both had some exceptional actors. I don't think many can say Patrick Stuart is pretty awesome, and Ford rocks
Most comparisons are likely going to be between STTOS and SW. I think overall Trek had more (quantity wise) memorable characters, but again it was a SERIES so there was more time for development. In the end though, some scenarios come to mind:
William Shatner gets VD and misses the audition, so another actor takes Kirk. Would it be better or worse?
Harrison Ford breaks his leg while saving a kitten from a tree, missing his audition. Better or worse?
In the above, I'd say Trek might do better or the same, but SW would be worse off. To me that means SW's main actor was better, but also that a lot of what made it good was due to Ford.
Now last scenario to drive it home:
Shatner gets kicked off set when he's caught banging the director' s assistant. Instead, they cast as Kirk... Harrison Ford.
Which one is the winner now? â
Well, for one thing with Netflix "original series", they probably want to get a good idea of what's popular and what *could be* popular. Maybe they notice that "show X" - despite being old - gets a LOT of views. With this in mind, they surreptitiously buy the rights to the show from whomever owns it, and then creates a sequel, remake, etc.
Imagine if Firefly - instead of tons of people bitching about the cancellation, and the rather crappy movie - had ended up on Netflix after the poor airing, proved to be popular, and then Netflix continued it as in-house series. There are probably a lot of popular shows/movies that got squashed prematurely and could be given new life. That's good for fans and Netflix's budgets.
Or non-obvious product-placement.
This is a big - but not always obvious thing - for soft-drinks, mobile devices, computers, and sometimes cars. As for redefining programming, well hell the movie studios seem to have already done that to some extent where they've taken what is clearly a single episode and cut it in half with the first section having a to-be-continued ending (LOTR, Hunger Games, etc etc)
My transcoding machine is an FX-8350. It may not has as much raw per-core power as the i5, but on a multi-threaded transcode job (or multiple simultaneous transcode jobs) it does very nicely. It does get hot as shit during a heavy workload though, so it's got a big case with lots of fans and room for air moment.
Really, because on my recently purchased Honda Civic the electronics are a pain in the ass. Specifically, the damn "entertainment unit" which is supposed to accept "Miracast 1.1" connections but only does so on certain versions of iOS devices (despite my Android device being perfectly compliant). Of course I could replace it with a 3rd-party deck... if I wanted all the *other* stuff that goes through it (backup/side camera, notifications, etc) to break.
Technology lock-in is real on all recent automotive manufacturers
I think that part of the problem is that people are mixing up the issues with GMO, herbicides, and pesticides etc.
For example, "roundup resistant" crops are GMO in a way that allows them to flourish while the roundup pesticide kills unwanted plants. Thus, you can drench an area in roundup and your crop will still happily grow. The problem is not in the GMO, but there may be an issue with the chemicals - e.g. roundup - that are used in conjunction with the GMO plants.
A lot of GMO is basically an accelerated and/or more scientifically advanced way of doing what otherwise would require a long-term breeding program.
That's not to say that GMO doesn't have issues. I'm personally not a fan of things like certain transgenic tomatoes or other fruits that are made to appear "ripe" for longer periods of time, but realistically they're watery and much less flavourful than their predecessors. At the same time though we have transgenic fruits that can be made to live on-the-shelf longer after they're ripe.
Scarier may be things like the "fish tomato" (which didn't make market) where they were attempting to make longer-lived fruits by combining DNA from non-fruits. That's something that we can't do naturally and could have serious repercussions for people with allergies, etc.
Most normal people don't lick or grow food on the roads.
Just add to the end of that sentence
"by making taxes and wages so low that local jobs are attractive" (but suck)
Generally I've bought AMD on price-point for various machines, but I've also played a bit with their APU's in cases where space was more of a consideration and I didn't want to run a discreet card (and Intel's onboard graphics weren't very good).
they depend on the ad revenues
And yet once upon a time they did not. TV programming was profitable without ads. Then after ads started, they slowly started encroaching more and more on the timeslots that used to be actual programming. Then they got louder. Annoying ads also seem to be a thing because, hey, at least people notice them.
Beyond the ads, reality TV became a big thing because it's a lot cheaper to pay some realtor a few bucks extra to drag a camera crew along - or some redneck yokel - than it is to bother with real, skilled actors.
Now, they need this crap more and more in order to show increasing profitability and pay the big bonuses, but that comes at the cost of quality, which - now that there's competition - is costing them customers. They've sacrificed long-term business in exchange for short-term profits, and it's finally biting them in the ass.
Sounds like Quebec in Canada.
How many of those features require that the OS specifically support it, I wonder. I mean, yeah it's nice, but quite often one of the things that comes with a new motherboard is chipset drivers etc. So why couldn't Intel provide a driver which also handles power management, and cut out MS entirely?
If it's simply that - yeah - newer OS's won't take advantage of any new tech embedded in the chip (video/crypto accel, etc), then whatever
If that starts to include recent GPU's and APU's not working on the older OS because MS in some way breaks it, not cool.
Or it could just be a patch like
if ( $CPU == "intel" && version >= "19" )
{
die("Sorry, that chip isn't supported on this OS. Please upgrade to windows 11");
}
It's late, so maybe I'm missing something from the article, but while it went on in length about the case, it didn't mention much about the innards other than the heatsink.
Personally, I think a design like this would be nice for a "mobile desktop". That is, a decently powered desktop that can be plugged in and fully functional (but skip the battery). Most people I know don't often use their laptop on battery anyhow, and a mobile desktop has the advantage of being somewhat up-gradable. Going that route, it also might be cool to re-image the "suitcase PC" with something in a elegant wood design on the exterior but a functioning LCD and board (maybe a slide-out or removable input device) inside.
Well one nice result would be if they move back tax operations to North America/USA, seeing as though they're paying it anyways.