Dude, I'm not a network technician but I've been putting computers together since the late 80s and have been running Linux OSs as my desktop OS for over a decade now...
And I couldn't set up the network you described without some serious googling.
How are we supposed to expect normal people to do it? Do routers come with VLAN set up out of the box, jailed so that it doesn't send data out of your network? Somehow I doubt it.
Normal people are screwed, until routers are set up to manage IoT networks by default.
And let's be real: Normal people aren't going to buy a separate access point if their router has Wifi built in.
62 percent of consumers plan to buy a consumer electronics viewing device in the next 12 months; 33 percent plan to buy a smartphone, and 29 percent plan to buy a TV. "Consumers are showing a strong preference for 4K,"
Did they just include mobile phones in their 4K penetration data? If so, it seems somewhat misleading.
I would certainly like more pixels in my mobile phone and computer screen. 4K TV? Not so much.
A couple weeks ago I was in a Wells Fargo to deposit a check (I hate going to banks for numerous reasons). It wasn't busy and I overheard a teller dealing with a client next to me.
The client spoke broken English and I heard the teller explaining to him that he was being charged a fee because the balance in his checking account was below the required minimum. No compassion. No effort to try to mitigate the fee or move him into a no-fee account. The individual was sheepish and thanked the teller and just left.
Frankly I wish banks were required to insist on individuals to keep open a no-fee checking account in order to open any other accounts with them. And if they don't offer no-feee checking, they should refer the individual to a competitor or a credit union (and be obligated to tell the individual that a credit union can offer all the benefits to an individual with low income that a bank could).
The bank agreed to pay $185 million in fines, along with $5 million to refund customers.
So they created millions of fake accounts and charged them fees... and now they're required to only refund $5million to customers? Is each account only going to be refunded $5, or am I missing something here.
If this was an individual and not a bank, he (or she) would be going to jail. This sounds like a collaborative effort. Why isn't a racketeering investigation taking place?
On my Model S, I get about 29 miles for every hour of charge. At 10 hours a night, that's 290 miles.
So, true, for home charging you're getting close to the upper limit... and it's quite rare that I travel > 200 miles in a day.
But it's so comforting to know that I have a lot of extra wiggle room on those road trips with the family, when we don't know exactly which place we're going.
BTW, on the supercharger it's pretty common to get >190 miles for at least the first hour of charge. It slows down dramatically as you get close to the full charge, of course.
I went with a friend when he picked up his Tesla about 6 months ago. Even at that time the delivery specialist told him that he should not take his hands of the steering wheel and that it's essentially adaptive cruise control which also helps keeps the vehicle in the lane.
Why customers think they can absolve responsibility is beyond me.
The idea that I could watch the latest five episodes of a TV show with associated commercials baked in (and unskipable) was quite nice. I certainly stopped pirating those shows.
The problem with Hulu was that they slowly made more of their stuff behind paywalls. This move to a different website is a good solution. Keep the free stuff on Yahoo and paywalled stuff on Hulu.
Will Trump being president be a disaster, probably.. but at least it would shake things up[...]
Yeah. I've been gaining some weight lately and need a shake up. But there's no way I'm injecting myself with HIV to do it.
No, I don't think Trump would cause World War 3. There are too many safeguards to prevent a president from going 'rogue'. But I also don't think his policies would be good for either the country or the world.
I'd happily trade the ability to remove stock Apple apps to be able to open addresses directly in Google Maps...
Perhaps if you don't have the Apple Maps app installed and you have another app that exposes the same functionality, it will be allowed to be opened by default when an address is selected? (Just like in most other operating systems.)
Apple will have to be very careful about this.
It's cool if it's Google Maps or Waze as the mapping application. Not so cool if it's Fandango or Angry Birds.
Sure you can get a smart TV with everything built into it. And complain that the TV is dreadfully slow at running it's 'Apps'.
Or you can stick all your devices on the TV's 4-5 HDMI ports. And complain of all the wires in a tangled mess behind the TV.
Or spend a few minutes and understand what a receiver does. At which time you will understand that you can plug all your media devices into the receiver and a single HDMI cord from the receiver to the TV and do just about whatever you want. If you want to get rid of most of the remote controls, then get the Logitech Harmony 650 or similar universal remote control with lots of hardware buttons on it.
I have Cinnamon/Debian on one machine and Cinnamon/Mint on another. I have no idea what you mean by "added troubleshooting". You understand that most of Mint's packages are pulled directly from upstream, yes? And that the major distros do not generally have a preferred DE? Other distributions also have their own testing and QA processes;
What I meant to imply was that the other distributions' testing and QA processeses may not include Cinnamon as well as Mint's does.
Now, you're right. I've never installed a non-distribution sanctioned DE. Maybe it will work just as good as the original with no added polishing needed. I'm just skeptical things will be that smooth. (And I'd find it hard to believe any of the desktop environments have zero bugs.)
You want to use Linux Mint if you want to use Cinnamon as your Desktop Environment and want an OS which is made to use that DE. And that's why I'm eagerly awaiting Linux Mint 18. (Sounds like the official release is going to be in July, at this rate.)
If you're comfortable installing Cinnamon on top of whichever OS you are using (whether Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, or other) and accept that some added troubleshooting will be needed since you're not using the preferred DE that comes with the OS, have at it and go crazy.
I am a physician who practices in the U.S. as well, and I mirror your sentiment.
Things have really gone from bad to worse in the last five years. The number of patients we each have to see has dramatically increased, and the level of staffing is either the same as or worse than five years ago. Certainly staffing is worse than ten years ago.
I'm hoping that more money gets put into the system for physician extenders and that society as a whole realizes that the extenders are 'good enough' for the vast majority of patients. (Knock on wood, I'm relatively healthy. My primary care physician is actually a nurse practitioner. The only reason his supervising physician even knows I exist is that he refers a lot of patients to me -- I'm a cardiologist.)
As a physician, I've become exhausted over the past few years. I think you're going to see a lot more physicians take earlier retirement or dramatically cut back hours or something. The stresses are horrible at this point.
Another outlet for physicians is to stop going to hospitals and extricate themselves from the hospital-employed model. But that's going to be impossible, as reimbursement for private physicians has dramatically dropped. We need the economics of scale a hospital can bring in order to stay solvent.
What's wrong with admitting that you got it right and no need to completely reinvent the wheel? What should have happened with XP, Vista, 7, etc. is that they cleaned up classic theme a little with each upgrade rather than replacing it time and again. The constant replacement of the UI led to moving around configuration options, instead of unifying everything in a single control panel which would be extensible in an intelligent manner.
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Dude, I'm not a network technician but I've been putting computers together since the late 80s and have been running Linux OSs as my desktop OS for over a decade now...
And I couldn't set up the network you described without some serious googling.
How are we supposed to expect normal people to do it? Do routers come with VLAN set up out of the box, jailed so that it doesn't send data out of your network? Somehow I doubt it.
Normal people are screwed, until routers are set up to manage IoT networks by default.
And let's be real: Normal people aren't going to buy a separate access point if their router has Wifi built in.
62 percent of consumers plan to buy a consumer electronics viewing device in the next 12 months; 33 percent plan to buy a smartphone, and 29 percent plan to buy a TV. "Consumers are showing a strong preference for 4K,"
Did they just include mobile phones in their 4K penetration data? If so, it seems somewhat misleading.
I would certainly like more pixels in my mobile phone and computer screen. 4K TV? Not so much.
A couple weeks ago I was in a Wells Fargo to deposit a check (I hate going to banks for numerous reasons). It wasn't busy and I overheard a teller dealing with a client next to me.
The client spoke broken English and I heard the teller explaining to him that he was being charged a fee because the balance in his checking account was below the required minimum. No compassion. No effort to try to mitigate the fee or move him into a no-fee account. The individual was sheepish and thanked the teller and just left.
Frankly I wish banks were required to insist on individuals to keep open a no-fee checking account in order to open any other accounts with them. And if they don't offer no-feee checking, they should refer the individual to a competitor or a credit union (and be obligated to tell the individual that a credit union can offer all the benefits to an individual with low income that a bank could).
Bastards.
The bank agreed to pay $185 million in fines, along with $5 million to refund customers.
So they created millions of fake accounts and charged them fees ... and now they're required to only refund $5million to customers? Is each account only going to be refunded $5, or am I missing something here.
If this was an individual and not a bank, he (or she) would be going to jail. This sounds like a collaborative effort. Why isn't a racketeering investigation taking place?
You would think that with all the telemetry data Microsoft is getting from Windows 10 installations they would have figured this out quite quickly.
What are Uber's expenses? I can't imagine it costs $1 billion+ to run a phone app. Let along lose that much when they make money on every ride.
Exactly how much cocaine are they paying their execs?
Or is all in court cases and bribes to local officials?
On my Model S, I get about 29 miles for every hour of charge. At 10 hours a night, that's 290 miles.
So, true, for home charging you're getting close to the upper limit ... and it's quite rare that I travel > 200 miles in a day.
But it's so comforting to know that I have a lot of extra wiggle room on those road trips with the family, when we don't know exactly which place we're going.
BTW, on the supercharger it's pretty common to get >190 miles for at least the first hour of charge. It slows down dramatically as you get close to the full charge, of course.
I went with a friend when he picked up his Tesla about 6 months ago. Even at that time the delivery specialist told him that he should not take his hands of the steering wheel and that it's essentially adaptive cruise control which also helps keeps the vehicle in the lane.
Why customers think they can absolve responsibility is beyond me.
ISIS came from Al Qaeda In Iraq.
Wrong. ISIS was founded by President Obama. I heard it on TV this morning from Donald Trump. Therefore it's true.
I actually loved the original Hulu.
The idea that I could watch the latest five episodes of a TV show with associated commercials baked in (and unskipable) was quite nice. I certainly stopped pirating those shows.
The problem with Hulu was that they slowly made more of their stuff behind paywalls. This move to a different website is a good solution. Keep the free stuff on Yahoo and paywalled stuff on Hulu.
Any heat is dry once it causes your blood to boil off.
Will Trump being president be a disaster, probably.. but at least it would shake things up[...]
Yeah. I've been gaining some weight lately and need a shake up. But there's no way I'm injecting myself with HIV to do it.
No, I don't think Trump would cause World War 3. There are too many safeguards to prevent a president from going 'rogue'. But I also don't think his policies would be good for either the country or the world.
I'd happily trade the ability to remove stock Apple apps to be able to open addresses directly in Google Maps...
Perhaps if you don't have the Apple Maps app installed and you have another app that exposes the same functionality, it will be allowed to be opened by default when an address is selected? (Just like in most other operating systems.)
Apple will have to be very careful about this.
It's cool if it's Google Maps or Waze as the mapping application. Not so cool if it's Fandango or Angry Birds.
Is that a dead link? Or did you just misspell something there?
Sure you can get a smart TV with everything built into it. And complain that the TV is dreadfully slow at running it's 'Apps'.
Or you can stick all your devices on the TV's 4-5 HDMI ports. And complain of all the wires in a tangled mess behind the TV.
Or spend a few minutes and understand what a receiver does. At which time you will understand that you can plug all your media devices into the receiver and a single HDMI cord from the receiver to the TV and do just about whatever you want. If you want to get rid of most of the remote controls, then get the Logitech Harmony 650 or similar universal remote control with lots of hardware buttons on it.
Reading about humanoid robots needing American android programmers got me really confused.
Even if this is all true, why isn't the car using all it's external sensors to make sure it's not hitting another car (or anything else)?
I have Cinnamon/Debian on one machine and Cinnamon/Mint on another. I have no idea what you mean by "added troubleshooting". You understand that most of Mint's packages are pulled directly from upstream, yes? And that the major distros do not generally have a preferred DE? Other distributions also have their own testing and QA processes;
What I meant to imply was that the other distributions' testing and QA processeses may not include Cinnamon as well as Mint's does.
Now, you're right. I've never installed a non-distribution sanctioned DE. Maybe it will work just as good as the original with no added polishing needed. I'm just skeptical things will be that smooth. (And I'd find it hard to believe any of the desktop environments have zero bugs.)
You want to use Linux Mint if you want to use Cinnamon as your Desktop Environment and want an OS which is made to use that DE. And that's why I'm eagerly awaiting Linux Mint 18. (Sounds like the official release is going to be in July, at this rate.)
If you're comfortable installing Cinnamon on top of whichever OS you are using (whether Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, or other) and accept that some added troubleshooting will be needed since you're not using the preferred DE that comes with the OS, have at it and go crazy.
I am a physician who practices in the U.S. as well, and I mirror your sentiment.
Things have really gone from bad to worse in the last five years. The number of patients we each have to see has dramatically increased, and the level of staffing is either the same as or worse than five years ago. Certainly staffing is worse than ten years ago.
I'm hoping that more money gets put into the system for physician extenders and that society as a whole realizes that the extenders are 'good enough' for the vast majority of patients. (Knock on wood, I'm relatively healthy. My primary care physician is actually a nurse practitioner. The only reason his supervising physician even knows I exist is that he refers a lot of patients to me -- I'm a cardiologist.)
As a physician, I've become exhausted over the past few years. I think you're going to see a lot more physicians take earlier retirement or dramatically cut back hours or something. The stresses are horrible at this point.
Another outlet for physicians is to stop going to hospitals and extricate themselves from the hospital-employed model. But that's going to be impossible, as reimbursement for private physicians has dramatically dropped. We need the economics of scale a hospital can bring in order to stay solvent.
A satanist would resent that.
Seriously. A satanist may do bad things or good. But they'll never do it in God's name.
The only reason for super delegates is that the parties are private clubs and make their own rules. Geez, even the Republicans don't have them.
I bet they wish they had them, now.
I've had bison meat and wasn't that enthralled by it. Seemed a little tough, if I recall.
But that was a while ago, and maybe my memory isn't the best. Do people like it? Enough to have them go extinct over it?
Yeah. I love classic theme as well.
What's wrong with admitting that you got it right and no need to completely reinvent the wheel? What should have happened with XP, Vista, 7, etc. is that they cleaned up classic theme a little with each upgrade rather than replacing it time and again. The constant replacement of the UI led to moving around configuration options, instead of unifying everything in a single control panel which would be extensible in an intelligent manner.
(That should be *shrug*)