It seems as if xeno is just itching for a reason to complain, when it would have been easier for everyone involved if he just had cash on hand. The vendor obviously isn't forcing him to charge the transaction, or even preferring it. Otherwise they'd have the dongle already attached to their iPhone or iPad, have the app running, and likely have been using it without incident (gasp! Even sending SMS/email reciepts!) many times that day and before.
I have a Square dongle, and a GoPayment one. I've used the Square to clear the remaining oddball balance from a Visa gift card into my checking account, and it was easy as "Open app, plug dongle. Enter amount, swipe card, sign something, click "Continue to receipt". Type a phone number or email, click Submit (or skip receipt)." That's it.
In fact, I just charged myself $1 from another bank's card...which will cost me $0.03 (no big deal). It took not even 30 seconds from when I unlocked my phone, to getting the confirmation text. For someone who has used it before to run transactions, or even many times as a small vendor should have, it's not that complicated!
Most stores I've encountered in Iowa don't bother with the mag stripe. Actually, the new licenses don't even have one, just a 1D and a 2D barcode. They scan that and get everything they need.
That's the problem with being too specific in your laws...they don't keep up with changes.
Would that be a Celeron processor EEE PC? I have a 701 and a 900, and if the battery is connected it'll be drained within a week, even if it's been sitting off in my bag the whole time. I just have to remember to take out the battery when I put it away, and I'm more likely to have a charge the next time I use it.
On topic to the original discussion though, my 1st gen Kindle only runs out of battery when I leave it sitting around, maybe with 3G on, in between vacations (when I generally read). I've never run it dead though usage, which is good enough for me.
Not only a better lifespan for a STB, but they're a fraction of the price of a TV with integrated STB functionality. That way, when they're no longer supported, it's not such a big deal to replace it with the new one that is.
I haven't used the digital audio out on my TV (vizio xvt323sv), let alone from an app or USB/network playback, so I can't help you there. I agree on not wanting the TV to be obsolete, but I'm using it 99% so far as a PC monitor through HDMI, so that's less of a concern.
I bought a Vizio XVT323SV about a month ago, which includes the "Vizio Internet Apps." It was $500 bucks at Sams Club, but I needed a new TV/PC monitor anyway. Out of the box it plays Netflix (advertised on the box actually), but not Hulu. This has been added since then, as I just installed the widget from the "Yahoo Gadget Gallery" last night and watched "House". I haven't tried plugging in my USB hard drive full of DVD rips to see if it'll play those or the MKV container BD rips of a TV show I have on there, but I have an appliance box for that; the Brite-View Cinema-Tube mini. It'll do USB playback and network playback of media (NFS, SMB, UPNP), but no commercial services. Between the two I'm rather set for most video playback though.
If I hadn't gotten the TV, it seems as if Vizio (among others) has a blu-ray player or two that has the same Internet Apps selection as my TV, for $100-$150. That seems to be a good way to go to get the 2 streaming services I care about, plus DVD/blu-ray playback. Another box would need to be added for LAN/USB media playback, but it'd still probably cost less, use less power, and an "appliance" box would probably have more Wife Acceptance Factor than a PC would.
Lost? Don't know about you, but my unlimited iPhone plan is still going strong. I'll see if they allow me to keep it when the iPhone 4GS/5 comes out, like they did for folks when the 4 came out (which I skipped).
Faster? Depends on your internet connection, although having a cam the day it comes out in theatres is certainly faster than waiting 28 days after it comes out in the retail/rental market, for it to show up in Netflix/Redbox (due to their agreements to get some movies 28 days after retail release in exchange for cheaper copies of the disc).
Easier? Yes, it's easier, to GET the movie by tossing Movie.torrent at your client, than it is to open your mailbox (or go to red machine, punch screen, swipe card, grab disc), pop disc into PC, rip, convert, then put back in the mailbox (or go to red machine, punch screen, insert disc). However, once you've returned your disc, you're done! With torrenting, you may find out a year later they were forming an copyright infringement case and come after you for money.
Drivers? I don't even think the damn things will boot, let alone have the proper drivers.
The only "Universal" OSX discs are the ones you buy in a little box from the store, not the ones you get with the PC. Those are for that model and revision of Mac only.
My neon was stolen. 1995 2.0L SOCH with a manual transmission, windows, and locks. Nothing special about it except an aftermarket deck (which was still there, though busted).
My roommate was throwing a party (which I was at). As best as we could tell, while hanging out in the living room after everyone left, some fucker took my spare key from the garage and drove my car right out of the driveway. Seems they used it to either get home or to the next party, because the next morning my car was ticketed for being parked illegally. I didn't realize it was stolen until a few hours after that happened, then immediately called it in. My car got ticketed twice more before a connection was made, and I was notified they found it. Thinking about it now, I bet they were going to tow it and finally ran the plates, at which point it came up as reported stolen.
Geez guys, all the hullabaloo is a matter of interpretation. I would be correct in saying that 12 gauge (AWG) wire is smaller than 4 gauge (AWG) wire, even when the numbers are inverse in their size. Therefore, a 28 gauge shotgun, with it's higher number, is smaller than a 12 gauge shotgun, with it's smaller number.
Therefore, the OP's typo of a.20 gauge shotgun would indeed be quite powerful, and only needed to be pointed out as a typo. Unfortunately, you then tried to correct him on his correct statement of a.22 caliber rifle (aka, "22 long rifle" I bet), and this got your shit jumped by everyone else about your whole post.
Of course, Buelldozer's comment about "The smaller the gauge of a shotgun the LESS powerful it is" sounds backwards, when you take it at face value (12ga < 28ga) When you take it "correctly", it's correct: A (smaller gauge, bigger#) 28ga shotgun is LESS powerful than a (bigger gauge, smaller#) 12ga shotgun.
<sarcasm> <rant> Holy FSM, it's annoying when someone on the internet is wrong. Even worse when there's 2 of them. </rant> </sarcasm>
It should be, but then (as noted in my other comment here
If you look at the packaging, you can see the name/logo is an anagram AND is a purposeful misspelling of "i poo'd!" (aka: "i pooped!" abbreviated). This gives you "iPood!", which when the package is inverted, still reads as "iPood!" due to the font used.
You wouldn't get to be a witty company by coming up with a clever name...which it turns out bothers Apple Inc.
yeah, but would we even be having this conversation if it was called "!Poodi"?
No...but we speak english here, not spanish, so we put our exclamation points at the end of our sentences. And they're both upside down. Otherwise, you have a good point.
I beg to differ. I was just looking at one of these the other day, and have actually considered getting one in the past when prepping for a camping trip, due in no part to associating it with Apple Computers. If you look at the packaging, you can see the name/logo is an anagram AND is a purposeful misspelling of "i poo'd!" (aka: "i pooped!" abbreviated). This gives you "iPood!", which when the package is inverted, still reads as "iPood!" due to the font used.
The product itself is a well designed solution to the problem of chintzy plastic shovels sold for the purpose of digging a scat hole. It's made of aluminum for light weight, collapsible for small size, and named well for it's intended purpose, "I poo'd (in the woods)!"
Amen to that. There's movies I have on DVD/BD (or::ahem:: a "time-shifted rental") that I can see anytime I want to, but what if I just catch it on TV? Strangely enough, I'll sit there and watch it, even with the commercials added and it having been edited for "time and content". It's not quite the same, but it is still the same story as the uncut, and I still enjoy seeing it again.
There's a surprising bit here which you didn't touch on, nor did the other AC. You had one cable modem active on your account, then bought the new modem at the store. Activated it, used it, then returned it and started using your old modem. You could have just left out the part about having to re-activate the old modem, but considering the new purchasers of the modem were able to get online and it was tied to your account still, makes me think you didn't have to. I can see the new owners actions...plug in the modem, go online to activation page..."Hey, it works already! Sweet!". If they were smart enough to put 2&2 together, they would have realized they're now getting free internet AND won't have to worry about any DCMA notices for P2P usage.
Once it stopped working, they could get a new modem and activate it normally. Obviously since they just called in to cust service...that wasn't the case.
To summarize, bad cable company.
I [snip] found that I was unable to feed it to my playstation because the BD+ DRM was too new for my ripper to support.
What?? Sorry, I started responding before I finished reading your comment...
I haven't even bothered to put the bluray in the PS3, so I don't even know if it will play properly.
You're complaining why?? I don't expect AnyDVD HD, DVDFab, or any other DRM cracking software to support new DRM the day the disk is released. As it turns out, http://www.dvdfab.com/en/news/7 DVDFab does. But the fact that your software didn't work? Sounds like the DRM was working just fine, nothing to complain about there. If it didn't work on your PS3? Well, then get your soapbox out.
The iPhone can't be switched to "Disk mode", or whatever it is where you can drag and drop music onto it. It only functions in "Managed/sync mode", where you have to select playlists or criteria of songs to sync to the phone. This also means that since that particular iTunes library is managing those playlists, you can't plug it into another PC with iTunes and drag and drop (or copy a playlist...say a new CD you bought over lunch or borrowed from a coworker and ripped at work) to your phone.
That seems unlikely. In my experience as a tax preparer (and tax filer), you get your federal refund a week after the Friday after you file your return. You file on Thursday, it'll be a week'ish before you see your money. You file on Friday, you won't see it for nearly 2 weeks.
You can get _money_ earlier, but it's not your 'Refund' from the IRS...it's generally a loan product from somewhere, then they get the refund to pay off the loan.
Correction, the last few generations of component desktop CPUs from Intel don't use "pins" on the processor per se, they are in the socket. The CPU has a bunch of contacts on the bottom; LGA == Land Grid Array.
It is possible to correctly stop and start on a hill without rolling and without using the gas and the brakes simultaneously. It is harder to master, but it's the correct way to do it.
Agreed. When I first started driving a standard transmission car (4 door Plymouth neon, admittedly a light car) I had trouble starting from stops on slopes. To regain motion, I would need to hold the car in place with the parking brake while:
1) increasing RPM 2) releasing the clutch far enough to get tension against the brake
At this point, I could release the parking brake more to allow forward motion. Once I was moving, I could release it completely and continue on my way.
I couldn't tell you when I got good enough, but I remember that one day a few years later, when I was at a hilly driveway exit I had previously needed the above mentioned technique for. This time, I was able to swap my feet around quickly and precisely apply the cluch such that I did not need to apply the parking brake to prevent noticeable rearward motion of the car.
Don't forget about the nVidia graphics chip problems the D620s and D630s are having. We've been getting into those pretty heavily for the last year or so; it seems the chip lasts for about 2 years before dying. It's certainly heat related though, the fan cooled portion of the heatsink is covered with crap on a significant percentage of the failed systems, and given the way they're assembled there is no good way for the user to clean it out.
I jailbroke my iPhone before the App Store started up. Then I un-jailbroke it. I just didn't see the need, even though it is really easy.
I tried jailbreaking mine with a laptop in the parking lot before leaving the store. Hung it halfway through, got home (120 miles/2hrs later), then finished jailbreaking on my desktop. At the time I didn't feel it necessary, just wanted to check it out. Now that I use SBSettings, I find it nearly invaluable.
...but people can pirate apps from the App Store?! I thought Apple had it pretty much locked up.
No, they sure don't have it locked up. I wanted to try out the Slingplayer app with my 1st gen Slingbox, but didn't feel like paying $30 for the privilege. A few google searches, a download over Bittorrent, and I had an unlocked Slingbox.app to install on my iPhone. Works a treat, though without 3G in my town, I don't feel it's worth paying $30 for. (Though technically it's not supposed to work over 3G, there's a JB app for that:)
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It seems as if xeno is just itching for a reason to complain, when it would have been easier for everyone involved if he just had cash on hand. The vendor obviously isn't forcing him to charge the transaction, or even preferring it. Otherwise they'd have the dongle already attached to their iPhone or iPad, have the app running, and likely have been using it without incident (gasp! Even sending SMS/email reciepts!) many times that day and before.
I have a Square dongle, and a GoPayment one. I've used the Square to clear the remaining oddball balance from a Visa gift card into my checking account, and it was easy as "Open app, plug dongle. Enter amount, swipe card, sign something, click "Continue to receipt". Type a phone number or email, click Submit (or skip receipt)." That's it.
In fact, I just charged myself $1 from another bank's card...which will cost me $0.03 (no big deal). It took not even 30 seconds from when I unlocked my phone, to getting the confirmation text. For someone who has used it before to run transactions, or even many times as a small vendor should have, it's not that complicated!
That's the problem with being too specific in your laws...they don't keep up with changes.
Would that be a Celeron processor EEE PC? I have a 701 and a 900, and if the battery is connected it'll be drained within a week, even if it's been sitting off in my bag the whole time. I just have to remember to take out the battery when I put it away, and I'm more likely to have a charge the next time I use it.
On topic to the original discussion though, my 1st gen Kindle only runs out of battery when I leave it sitting around, maybe with 3G on, in between vacations (when I generally read). I've never run it dead though usage, which is good enough for me.
Not only a better lifespan for a STB, but they're a fraction of the price of a TV with integrated STB functionality. That way, when they're no longer supported, it's not such a big deal to replace it with the new one that is.
I haven't used the digital audio out on my TV (vizio xvt323sv), let alone from an app or USB/network playback, so I can't help you there. I agree on not wanting the TV to be obsolete, but I'm using it 99% so far as a PC monitor through HDMI, so that's less of a concern.
I bought a Vizio XVT323SV about a month ago, which includes the "Vizio Internet Apps." It was $500 bucks at Sams Club, but I needed a new TV/PC monitor anyway. Out of the box it plays Netflix (advertised on the box actually), but not Hulu. This has been added since then, as I just installed the widget from the "Yahoo Gadget Gallery" last night and watched "House". I haven't tried plugging in my USB hard drive full of DVD rips to see if it'll play those or the MKV container BD rips of a TV show I have on there, but I have an appliance box for that; the Brite-View Cinema-Tube mini. It'll do USB playback and network playback of media (NFS, SMB, UPNP), but no commercial services. Between the two I'm rather set for most video playback though.
If I hadn't gotten the TV, it seems as if Vizio (among others) has a blu-ray player or two that has the same Internet Apps selection as my TV, for $100-$150. That seems to be a good way to go to get the 2 streaming services I care about, plus DVD/blu-ray playback. Another box would need to be added for LAN/USB media playback, but it'd still probably cost less, use less power, and an "appliance" box would probably have more Wife Acceptance Factor than a PC would.
Lost? Don't know about you, but my unlimited iPhone plan is still going strong. I'll see if they allow me to keep it when the iPhone 4GS/5 comes out, like they did for folks when the 4 came out (which I skipped).
Faster? Depends on your internet connection, although having a cam the day it comes out in theatres is certainly faster than waiting 28 days after it comes out in the retail/rental market, for it to show up in Netflix/Redbox (due to their agreements to get some movies 28 days after retail release in exchange for cheaper copies of the disc).
Easier? Yes, it's easier, to GET the movie by tossing Movie.torrent at your client, than it is to open your mailbox (or go to red machine, punch screen, swipe card, grab disc), pop disc into PC, rip, convert, then put back in the mailbox (or go to red machine, punch screen, insert disc). However, once you've returned your disc, you're done! With torrenting, you may find out a year later they were forming an copyright infringement case and come after you for money.
I'd rather deal with the physical disc.
Drivers? I don't even think the damn things will boot, let alone have the proper drivers.
The only "Universal" OSX discs are the ones you buy in a little box from the store, not the ones you get with the PC. Those are for that model and revision of Mac only.
My neon was stolen. 1995 2.0L SOCH with a manual transmission, windows, and locks. Nothing special about it except an aftermarket deck (which was still there, though busted).
My roommate was throwing a party (which I was at). As best as we could tell, while hanging out in the living room after everyone left, some fucker took my spare key from the garage and drove my car right out of the driveway. Seems they used it to either get home or to the next party, because the next morning my car was ticketed for being parked illegally. I didn't realize it was stolen until a few hours after that happened, then immediately called it in. My car got ticketed twice more before a connection was made, and I was notified they found it. Thinking about it now, I bet they were going to tow it and finally ran the plates, at which point it came up as reported stolen.
Geez guys, all the hullabaloo is a matter of interpretation. I would be correct in saying that 12 gauge (AWG) wire is smaller than 4 gauge (AWG) wire, even when the numbers are inverse in their size. Therefore, a 28 gauge shotgun, with it's higher number, is smaller than a 12 gauge shotgun, with it's smaller number.
Therefore, the OP's typo of a .20 gauge shotgun would indeed be quite powerful, and only needed to be pointed out as a typo. Unfortunately, you then tried to correct him on his correct statement of a .22 caliber rifle (aka, "22 long rifle" I bet), and this got your shit jumped by everyone else about your whole post.
Of course, Buelldozer's comment about "The smaller the gauge of a shotgun the LESS powerful it is" sounds backwards, when you take it at face value (12ga < 28ga) When you take it "correctly", it's correct: A (smaller gauge, bigger#) 28ga shotgun is LESS powerful than a (bigger gauge, smaller#) 12ga shotgun.
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Holy FSM, it's annoying when someone on the internet is wrong. Even worse when there's 2 of them.
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It should be, but then (as noted in my other comment here
You wouldn't get to be a witty company by coming up with a clever name...which it turns out bothers Apple Inc.
No...but we speak english here, not spanish, so we put our exclamation points at the end of our sentences. And they're both upside down. Otherwise, you have a good point.
Seriously?? It's a shovel to bury your shit with.
Let me tell you a quick rhetorical story: I had to shit. I poo'd. I buried my poop with an iPood! shovel.
I bet you'll tell me that "Anti Monkey Butt Powder", um, butt powder, and "Cat Crap" anti-fog lens treatment are incredibly tasteless too.
I beg to differ. I was just looking at one of these the other day, and have actually considered getting one in the past when prepping for a camping trip, due in no part to associating it with Apple Computers. If you look at the packaging, you can see the name/logo is an anagram AND is a purposeful misspelling of "i poo'd!" (aka: "i pooped!" abbreviated). This gives you "iPood!", which when the package is inverted, still reads as "iPood!" due to the font used.
The product itself is a well designed solution to the problem of chintzy plastic shovels sold for the purpose of digging a scat hole. It's made of aluminum for light weight, collapsible for small size, and named well for it's intended purpose, "I poo'd (in the woods)!"
Sheep. Not goats, it was sheep he castrated. With. His. Teeth.
Still makes the boys shrivel up just thinking about it.
Amen to that. There's movies I have on DVD/BD (or ::ahem:: a "time-shifted rental") that I can see anytime I want to, but what if I just catch it on TV? Strangely enough, I'll sit there and watch it, even with the commercials added and it having been edited for "time and content". It's not quite the same, but it is still the same story as the uncut, and I still enjoy seeing it again.
There's a surprising bit here which you didn't touch on, nor did the other AC. You had one cable modem active on your account, then bought the new modem at the store. Activated it, used it, then returned it and started using your old modem. You could have just left out the part about having to re-activate the old modem, but considering the new purchasers of the modem were able to get online and it was tied to your account still, makes me think you didn't have to. I can see the new owners actions...plug in the modem, go online to activation page..."Hey, it works already! Sweet!". If they were smart enough to put 2&2 together, they would have realized they're now getting free internet AND won't have to worry about any DCMA notices for P2P usage. Once it stopped working, they could get a new modem and activate it normally. Obviously since they just called in to cust service...that wasn't the case. To summarize, bad cable company.
What?? Sorry, I started responding before I finished reading your comment...
You're complaining why?? I don't expect AnyDVD HD, DVDFab, or any other DRM cracking software to support new DRM the day the disk is released. As it turns out, http://www.dvdfab.com/en/news/7 DVDFab does. But the fact that your software didn't work? Sounds like the DRM was working just fine, nothing to complain about there. If it didn't work on your PS3? Well, then get your soapbox out.
The iPhone can't be switched to "Disk mode", or whatever it is where you can drag and drop music onto it. It only functions in "Managed/sync mode", where you have to select playlists or criteria of songs to sync to the phone. This also means that since that particular iTunes library is managing those playlists, you can't plug it into another PC with iTunes and drag and drop (or copy a playlist...say a new CD you bought over lunch or borrowed from a coworker and ripped at work) to your phone.
That seems unlikely. In my experience as a tax preparer (and tax filer), you get your federal refund a week after the Friday after you file your return. You file on Thursday, it'll be a week'ish before you see your money. You file on Friday, you won't see it for nearly 2 weeks.
You can get _money_ earlier, but it's not your 'Refund' from the IRS...it's generally a loan product from somewhere, then they get the refund to pay off the loan.
YMMV, I've been wrong before, etc, etc.
Correction, the last few generations of component desktop CPUs from Intel don't use "pins" on the processor per se, they are in the socket. The CPU has a bunch of contacts on the bottom; LGA == Land Grid Array.
Agreed. When I first started driving a standard transmission car (4 door Plymouth neon, admittedly a light car) I had trouble starting from stops on slopes. To regain motion, I would need to hold the car in place with the parking brake while:
1) increasing RPM
2) releasing the clutch far enough to get tension against the brake
At this point, I could release the parking brake more to allow forward motion. Once I was moving, I could release it completely and continue on my way.
I couldn't tell you when I got good enough, but I remember that one day a few years later, when I was at a hilly driveway exit I had previously needed the above mentioned technique for. This time, I was able to swap my feet around quickly and precisely apply the cluch such that I did not need to apply the parking brake to prevent noticeable rearward motion of the car.
Fixed that for ya.
Don't forget about the nVidia graphics chip problems the D620s and D630s are having. We've been getting into those pretty heavily for the last year or so; it seems the chip lasts for about 2 years before dying. It's certainly heat related though, the fan cooled portion of the heatsink is covered with crap on a significant percentage of the failed systems, and given the way they're assembled there is no good way for the user to clean it out.
I jailbroke my iPhone before the App Store started up. Then I un-jailbroke it. I just didn't see the need, even though it is really easy.
I tried jailbreaking mine with a laptop in the parking lot before leaving the store. Hung it halfway through, got home (120 miles/2hrs later), then finished jailbreaking on my desktop. At the time I didn't feel it necessary, just wanted to check it out. Now that I use SBSettings, I find it nearly invaluable.
No, they sure don't have it locked up. I wanted to try out the Slingplayer app with my 1st gen Slingbox, but didn't feel like paying $30 for the privilege. A few google searches, a download over Bittorrent, and I had an unlocked Slingbox.app to install on my iPhone. Works a treat, though without 3G in my town, I don't feel it's worth paying $30 for. (Though technically it's not supposed to work over 3G, there's a JB app for that :)