There was never any approval. This display just happens to use the unicorn port that Apple has festooned their latest notebooks with, rather than the standard Mini-DisplayPort that used to be good enough, and still is good enough for the rest of the world. You know, the connector that Apple created and gave to VESA royalty-free in order to increase the rate of adoption...
Because Apple decided to use unicorn ports on their new MacBook, and this is the one display that has a matching unicorn plug that doesn't require an adapter.
Except that apparently LG didn't bother to build it right. Oops.
You know, there is some gray area between your two extremes.
It's perfectly plausible to establish a career and household, and then once you are making a good salary with decent benefits, you travel.
I'm in my 30s, own two houses (one is a rental) and my girlfriend and I are going to Thailand for three weeks this fall, and it's already paid for. Because we both have careers where we are working for stable companies, have job security, and make over $100K a year. And we are hardly "old and tired".
Sometimes it's about being smarter and looking a little further down the road than the next two months.
There are actually some situations where taking a loss on the rental can be advantageous, because of the way tax laws work, and differentials in cost of living between geographic areas.
In 2010, I moved across the country because I took a new job. They were paying my moving expenses, but I would have been selling my house at a loss at the time. So I kept it and hired a property management company to rent it and take care of all the marketing and administrivia associated with that, for 7% of the rent. What came back to me was not enough to cover the mortgage, taxes, insurance... but it covered the new rent I was paying in the place I moved to, plus about $200 a month. And, since the mortgage interest and property taxes became "expenses" now rather than deductions, they subtracted directly from my taxable income rather than being a deduction, lowering the tax bracket that I fell into.
I was actually keeping $200/mo more than I was before, with less tax liability to boot. Even though I was "taking a loss" on the rental home that I still own. Then, I bought a house here too, so now I get the deductions for my personal home too. All the while building assets and keeping that second income which for the first time in 2016 resulted in a "profit" - the rent income paid more than the mortgage interest, property management fees, and property taxes paid out. I owed that state a whole $20 in taxes.
Now that I am "making a profit" it's time for the rent to go up, I guess. My current tenants are well below market rates, so I doubt they'll complain - they've been living there since 2010 without an increase, because it didn't make financial sense for me to raise it until now.
You don't need the capability to plug 8 antennae into your phone, but you may want that for an access point. Also, your phone would drain the battery if running with the wattage that a normal AP does, from either PoE or a wall wart.
Don't forget modems that didn't have guard time between +++ and actually entering command mode.
There was a good amount of time when you could get on IRC or something similar and type +++ATH and watch 1/3 of the channel disappear because they hadn't updated their firmware, or had a shitty modem that couldn't update firmware to fix it.
Soft modems were garbage, no doubt. But Rockwell still made some amazing modem chipsets. A lot of people forget that K56Flex (Rockwell's proprietary 57,600 bps encoding) could actually get to 56k on phone lines due to superior error correction, where USR's proprietary version topped at 53,000. When the V.90 standard came out, it used the lesser encoding and topped at 53,000; the Rockwell V.90 modem chipsets would still do K56Flex if you configured them to with your initialization string (AT commands, woo!) and your ISP supported it - you could squeeze a little more out.
US Robotics was great in the 28.8 / 33.6 days, but mostly traded on their name after that, and completely ruined their name with their garbage "soft" modems. The SupraExpress modems were superior in the 56k days, especially if you could find one of the international "memory" modems that could do digital voice mail even with the computer turned off.
Even the "controller-less" modems sucked, but were still better than those soft modems. On today's computers it wouldn't matter because there's so much extra power available that you don't need the hardware data pump anymore, but in those days it really mattered for connection stability.
GM went bankrupt because they are a pension company that also makes cars that nobody wanted to buy.
After the bailout, to their credit, they've stepped their game up a bit. Now they actually make a car or two that aren't total piles of shit that will just end up being crushed 6 or 7 years after sale.
$21/hour is basically $2,800/month take home after taxes, with no other withholdings (401k, medical, etc.). In the Bay Area where your rent is likely to be $2,500 a month even in Oakland or the South Bay, yeah, that's shitty pay. You would be forced to have a roommate or a spouse just to eat, much less find a way to get from your 'cheap' apartment in the South Bay to Fremont so you can bust your ass all day assembling cars.
You know how investment works, right? You give someone a sum of money, with the expectation that it gets paid back with a margin of profit should the venture succeed. This is exactly what happened. There was a profit paid back to the government on these loans.
Sometimes government investment doesn't even expect the paying back or the profit, expecting the societal result of the investment to be worthwhile. That is what a subsidy is. Money paid by the government in order to reduce the cost of change that the government sees as a good thing.
Why would you have a problem with a subsidy if it's paid back in full, with a profit? I would think that kind of subsidy would beat the shit out of the traditional ones given to oil and coal that never get paid back, and only add additional costs through environmental cleanup.
The pollution from their manufacture happens once, in a local area, for production of panels that will last for 20 years with zero pollution per watt generated.
The pollution from the incumbent energy generation is continuous, airborne, and causing death and disease for miles downwind for every watt generated.
This is why integrating into the roof is a damn good idea. If you need to replace the roof every 20 to 30 years anyway, may as well replace the degraded PV cells for more efficient ones from 20 to 30 years of tech advances. And PV cells are recyclable.
Geothermal heat pumps are a thing already. Heat pumps work great when the 'outside' bit is sitting around 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which is perfect for something buried around 20 feet down.
Atmospheric heat pumps are a lot cheaper to install, but just can't keep a house warm efficiently when the air temperature drops below about 20 degrees F. Geothermal gets around that, but with far higher installation expense.
And how much subsidy is given to the incumbent coal technology in allowing them to spew effluent out the stacks 24/7 with no costs? We're all subsidizing that with increased rates of respiratory disease, to say nothing of climatological effects.
If coal had to pay the costs for the pollution, every plant would shut down tomorrow. Or, at least, that's what the industry says every time cap and trade gets discussed. How is that not a subsidy again?
With coal, you constantly have jobs supporting creating those KWh.
With solar, the panels get installed and they work for decades with minimal labor. It's not like there are guys driving around big containers of sunlight or something.
The number of jobs correlates with the growth of the industry. But you already knew that.
Right. We should support coal because of the ongoing jobs of destroying mountains in order to burn them. And solar panels never ever need to be replaced or serviced.
This might be the dumbest argument I've ever seen.
Yeah, because the Navy wasn't going to continue building aircraft carriers after they proved invaluable in every armed conflict since World War II. Would you rather they continued to burn millions of gallons of oil to move the thing around and generate steam?
This ship proved that nuclear propulsion works, and is far better than diesel. And since the US Navy has had a grand total of zero nuclear reactor accidents in over 50 years of operating dozens of vessels, maybe this was a good thing. Chalk it up to Admiral Rickover's insistence that every officer serving on one of his nuclear ships needed proper training, and got it before taking the post.
Since when are you "not allowed" to register a domain for $15, establish it on one of the many dynamic DNS services available, and then put in an MX record for your domain, and use the port forwarding on your NAT router to send ports 25, 110, 143, 465, 993, and 995 to your old desktop PC or laptop that you don't use anymore, running Linux and Postfix?
I've been hosting my own email for over a decade, on a range of different ISPs. Whoever says you aren't allowed, is lying.
And just to think it was last week when certain people were rushing to the defense of this Telco shill upon his appointment to be FCC Chairman.
I would have loved to have been wrong about him. But alas, I (and many others) were not. Here comes the first crest of a wave of ISPs playing favorites with content (read: content they produce and own) and choking the shit out of their competitors, at the expense of their ignorant customers' experience.
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There was never any approval. This display just happens to use the unicorn port that Apple has festooned their latest notebooks with, rather than the standard Mini-DisplayPort that used to be good enough, and still is good enough for the rest of the world. You know, the connector that Apple created and gave to VESA royalty-free in order to increase the rate of adoption...
FCC Part 15 "Class C" certification says that it emits no interference, and can be effected by already present interference.
There is nothing here that violates Part 15.
Because Apple decided to use unicorn ports on their new MacBook, and this is the one display that has a matching unicorn plug that doesn't require an adapter.
Except that apparently LG didn't bother to build it right. Oops.
You know, there is some gray area between your two extremes.
It's perfectly plausible to establish a career and household, and then once you are making a good salary with decent benefits, you travel.
I'm in my 30s, own two houses (one is a rental) and my girlfriend and I are going to Thailand for three weeks this fall, and it's already paid for. Because we both have careers where we are working for stable companies, have job security, and make over $100K a year. And we are hardly "old and tired".
Sometimes it's about being smarter and looking a little further down the road than the next two months.
There are actually some situations where taking a loss on the rental can be advantageous, because of the way tax laws work, and differentials in cost of living between geographic areas.
In 2010, I moved across the country because I took a new job. They were paying my moving expenses, but I would have been selling my house at a loss at the time. So I kept it and hired a property management company to rent it and take care of all the marketing and administrivia associated with that, for 7% of the rent. What came back to me was not enough to cover the mortgage, taxes, insurance... but it covered the new rent I was paying in the place I moved to, plus about $200 a month. And, since the mortgage interest and property taxes became "expenses" now rather than deductions, they subtracted directly from my taxable income rather than being a deduction, lowering the tax bracket that I fell into.
I was actually keeping $200/mo more than I was before, with less tax liability to boot. Even though I was "taking a loss" on the rental home that I still own. Then, I bought a house here too, so now I get the deductions for my personal home too. All the while building assets and keeping that second income which for the first time in 2016 resulted in a "profit" - the rent income paid more than the mortgage interest, property management fees, and property taxes paid out. I owed that state a whole $20 in taxes.
Now that I am "making a profit" it's time for the rent to go up, I guess. My current tenants are well below market rates, so I doubt they'll complain - they've been living there since 2010 without an increase, because it didn't make financial sense for me to raise it until now.
At least here in the US, most mortgage interest, and property taxes is deductible from your Federal taxes.
Rent sure as fuck isn't.
Wattage on the radio, and antenna inputs.
You don't need the capability to plug 8 antennae into your phone, but you may want that for an access point. Also, your phone would drain the battery if running with the wattage that a normal AP does, from either PoE or a wall wart.
If you can afford a 5,000 square foot home, you can afford the more advanced networking gear necessary to have wireless coverage in that same home.
Now only if that AP that has capability of 4.something Gbps would be connected by more than a single 1Gbps ethernet line.
10GbE is still prohibitively expensive for most build-outs of wireless networks.
Don't forget modems that didn't have guard time between +++ and actually entering command mode.
There was a good amount of time when you could get on IRC or something similar and type +++ATH and watch 1/3 of the channel disappear because they hadn't updated their firmware, or had a shitty modem that couldn't update firmware to fix it.
Soft modems were garbage, no doubt. But Rockwell still made some amazing modem chipsets. A lot of people forget that K56Flex (Rockwell's proprietary 57,600 bps encoding) could actually get to 56k on phone lines due to superior error correction, where USR's proprietary version topped at 53,000. When the V.90 standard came out, it used the lesser encoding and topped at 53,000; the Rockwell V.90 modem chipsets would still do K56Flex if you configured them to with your initialization string (AT commands, woo!) and your ISP supported it - you could squeeze a little more out.
US Robotics was great in the 28.8 / 33.6 days, but mostly traded on their name after that, and completely ruined their name with their garbage "soft" modems. The SupraExpress modems were superior in the 56k days, especially if you could find one of the international "memory" modems that could do digital voice mail even with the computer turned off.
Even the "controller-less" modems sucked, but were still better than those soft modems. On today's computers it wouldn't matter because there's so much extra power available that you don't need the hardware data pump anymore, but in those days it really mattered for connection stability.
GM went bankrupt because they are a pension company that also makes cars that nobody wanted to buy.
After the bailout, to their credit, they've stepped their game up a bit. Now they actually make a car or two that aren't total piles of shit that will just end up being crushed 6 or 7 years after sale.
$21/hour is basically $2,800/month take home after taxes, with no other withholdings (401k, medical, etc.). In the Bay Area where your rent is likely to be $2,500 a month even in Oakland or the South Bay, yeah, that's shitty pay. You would be forced to have a roommate or a spouse just to eat, much less find a way to get from your 'cheap' apartment in the South Bay to Fremont so you can bust your ass all day assembling cars.
Yeah, god damn it how dare the Environmental Protection Agency actually do something to protect the environment.
Fucking fascists!
You know how investment works, right? You give someone a sum of money, with the expectation that it gets paid back with a margin of profit should the venture succeed. This is exactly what happened. There was a profit paid back to the government on these loans.
Sometimes government investment doesn't even expect the paying back or the profit, expecting the societal result of the investment to be worthwhile. That is what a subsidy is. Money paid by the government in order to reduce the cost of change that the government sees as a good thing.
Why would you have a problem with a subsidy if it's paid back in full, with a profit? I would think that kind of subsidy would beat the shit out of the traditional ones given to oil and coal that never get paid back, and only add additional costs through environmental cleanup.
My goodness will you use the preview button for more than just an extra click between you typing and hitting submit?
The pollution from their manufacture happens once, in a local area, for production of panels that will last for 20 years with zero pollution per watt generated.
The pollution from the incumbent energy generation is continuous, airborne, and causing death and disease for miles downwind for every watt generated.
I'll go with the solar panels.
This is why integrating into the roof is a damn good idea. If you need to replace the roof every 20 to 30 years anyway, may as well replace the degraded PV cells for more efficient ones from 20 to 30 years of tech advances. And PV cells are recyclable.
Geothermal heat pumps are a thing already. Heat pumps work great when the 'outside' bit is sitting around 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which is perfect for something buried around 20 feet down.
Atmospheric heat pumps are a lot cheaper to install, but just can't keep a house warm efficiently when the air temperature drops below about 20 degrees F. Geothermal gets around that, but with far higher installation expense.
And how much subsidy is given to the incumbent coal technology in allowing them to spew effluent out the stacks 24/7 with no costs? We're all subsidizing that with increased rates of respiratory disease, to say nothing of climatological effects.
If coal had to pay the costs for the pollution, every plant would shut down tomorrow. Or, at least, that's what the industry says every time cap and trade gets discussed. How is that not a subsidy again?
With coal, you constantly have jobs supporting creating those KWh.
With solar, the panels get installed and they work for decades with minimal labor. It's not like there are guys driving around big containers of sunlight or something.
The number of jobs correlates with the growth of the industry. But you already knew that.
Right. We should support coal because of the ongoing jobs of destroying mountains in order to burn them. And solar panels never ever need to be replaced or serviced.
This might be the dumbest argument I've ever seen.
Yeah, because the Navy wasn't going to continue building aircraft carriers after they proved invaluable in every armed conflict since World War II. Would you rather they continued to burn millions of gallons of oil to move the thing around and generate steam?
This ship proved that nuclear propulsion works, and is far better than diesel. And since the US Navy has had a grand total of zero nuclear reactor accidents in over 50 years of operating dozens of vessels, maybe this was a good thing. Chalk it up to Admiral Rickover's insistence that every officer serving on one of his nuclear ships needed proper training, and got it before taking the post.
Since when are you "not allowed" to register a domain for $15, establish it on one of the many dynamic DNS services available, and then put in an MX record for your domain, and use the port forwarding on your NAT router to send ports 25, 110, 143, 465, 993, and 995 to your old desktop PC or laptop that you don't use anymore, running Linux and Postfix?
I've been hosting my own email for over a decade, on a range of different ISPs. Whoever says you aren't allowed, is lying.
And just to think it was last week when certain people were rushing to the defense of this Telco shill upon his appointment to be FCC Chairman.
I would have loved to have been wrong about him. But alas, I (and many others) were not. Here comes the first crest of a wave of ISPs playing favorites with content (read: content they produce and own) and choking the shit out of their competitors, at the expense of their ignorant customers' experience.