The story is fishy, anyway. This friend wasn't disciplined enough to occasionally sync their phone, but they would have made sure all of their apps were saving to the SD card (which isn't always easy or universally supported)?
MicroSD cards are tiny, but the slot and mounting space on the motherboard is fairly substantial - certainly room that could be filled with more battery.
The slots are mechanical in nature, and represent another failure point.
The cards themselves are of varying quality and so I have to test the integrity of the card myself.
The phones themselves have a limit as to the size of the card they can take. I maxed my phone out with 32GB the same day I bought it, and even if there is a 1TB card my phone will never see anything better than the 32GB card.
So for me, a hard-soldered memory card would be better.
But I cannot increase the life of the phone by purchasing a larger card... I already bought the biggest one. If I'd bought a phone with 32GB built in I'd be in the exact same position.
They are pretty stupid. The first thing I did when I bought my phone was spend even more money on the biggest SD card it would take. I will, in all probability, never remove it from the phone - or at least, I never have removed them from my previous phones.
That means for me, the SD card just makes the phone bulkier, more expensive, and more prone to failure. I'm sure there are people who actually use the removable storage, but certainly it appears that I'm not alone.
I don't think you've read any Libertarian literature or even had a serious discussion with a thoughtful Libertarian. They think that government is not an efficient way to help the unfortunate - that does not mean they oppose helping the unfortunate.
From what I've read, they have some excess capacity, so they just have to be more careful about turning things on at the same time. It will certainly keep some people busy.
The Bush plan to Mars would have supposedly cost $120 billion over 15 years. Double that, because the government can never come in on-budget, and you still are talking about $16 billion / year. That's an absolute pittance by Federal government standards, and nowhere near the pitchforks-in-the-streets hundreds of billions per year you suggest. Bush's father proposed a plan that would have cost far more, but when NASA ran the numbers it was abandoned.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. Libertarians genuinely believe that their ideology is best for society. They also have some very different ideas from conservatives on social issues. I think where Libertarian ideals fall down is on non-local issues, or issues involving large groups of people.
Pollution is the classic problem. If I get sick drinking some polluted water downstream, the libertarian answer is to sue the guy upstream. The "guy" upstream could be hundreds, thousands, or millions of people dumping raw sewage and garbage into the river. How the heck am I supposed to prove whose shit made me sick?
I find that Libertarians also get mixed up when discussing corporations and intellectual property (IP). Both things exist only in law and depend on a strong government (note I said "strong" and not "large"). Both corporations and IP represent huge intrusions of the government upon the "free market". I'm always taken a bit aback when they talk about deregulation but in the same breath seem to ignore the elephants in the room.
You could also stitch all the images together in a grid and then use CSS to display different portions of the same image. JQuery does this for widgets.
The ISS is neither screwed nor paralyzed with indecision. They have the luxury of time, they are not in any immediate danger, and they have an escape pod back to Earth. The situation is in no way analogous to Apollo 13.
When I was in Manhattan I was lucky enough to live in a subsidized (by my wife's employer) apartment. When the subsidy ran out, we moved. You are totally right. If I were single, I'd accept living in the closet for the quality of life that Manhattan affords, but with kids I needed more space.
That said, if you work in Downtown, Brooklyn is not a bad commute. If you work in Midtown, Queens is a good commute. Hell, Astoria is actually a happening place...
If you like Korean food, North Philly is really good these days - all up 5th North of Rt. 1 is bona fide Korea Town. There are also some decent Caribbean options, and of course Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill are nearby. The Northeast has some incredible diners and bakeries, and naturally there is Steve's Prince of Steaks. But that's all Philly:) The Northeast is sort of suburban, but it also is not sprawly at all... it has a grid system of streets. Public transit is shameful, but in a lot of ways it reminds me of a California city - everything is low-rise.
In Cheltenham we have (half of) Glenside. Glenside has a few places that are all right.
naBrasa is pretty good - but Horsham is kind of a haul for me...
Neighbors! (Well, almost. I'm in Cheltenham - but I used to live in Willow Grove and work in Fort Washington).
For sushi and Japanese in general, I really like Ooka in Willow Grove (didn't know they had other locations) - I haven't tried MInado. Still, it takes me 25 minutes to drive to Willow Grove or 25 minutes on the train to get downtown... most of the suburban spots are like that. I'm faced with a long drive and no booze.
The closest Fridays in the suburbs is Willow Grove - it's about a 20 minute drive to the Fridays. But you'd pass a Chiles and an Applebees on the way there, as well as a bunch of non-chain places on 611 that offer a similar experience. I've only ever been there with co-workers who have no taste:)
I don't make it out as far as Perkasie very often... is that still a Philly suburb? LOL. If I'm out there looking for eats, I'll have to try Maize. Google tells me that will take me 50 minutes to drive... I guess I could stay over in Quakertown:)
Conshohocken qualifies as an "accidental" suburb IMHO... it's been there a long time as a standalone community, and then it kind of got absorbed and surrounded by the sprawl. Conshohocken itself is kind of cool, but it is a 25 minute car ride:( King of Prussia is even further away - I'm in the northern suburbs just across from North Philly and next to the Northeast.
Much better to hop on the train, which is 25-minutes to downtown. It quits at midnight, so sometimes you need to suck it up and pay the $40 taxi fare back, but with kids and a babysitter on the clock that rarely happens.
These days I'm mostly dead at night because of the kids. I was always a bar man myself - liked McGillan's, McGlinchy's to get started, Bob and Barbara's, Fergies, Sugar Mom's, and the occasional venture into Dirty Franks. Monks is cool, but I'm allergic to muscles. My friends always wanted to go to the Irish Pub but I never liked it. Cavanaughs was the college spot back in the day. I never really relished the club scene, but mostly stuck to the clubs along Delaware Ave and Spring Garden. When my girlfriend was a lawyer, I spent more time at the Continental than I would have liked. Now we usually go out for dinner when we head downtown, and our favorite place lately has been Talula's Garden on Washington Square. Going to college in a big city was really fun.:)
In droves? Name some of these droves. Last I heard, the "internet" companies opening in Detroit were those working with Ford to get stuff installed in cars.
Anyway, I didn't bash Detroit. I think you are overly sensitive. I just said Detroit isn't where was being discussed.
I made the mistake when I was new to NYC of transferring from the 6 to the E at that station on my way to a job interview in a full wool suit. I was a mess when I showed up. I started transferring to the 7 a stop lower after that:)
The worst thing I ever did at the 51st St station was absentmindedly get on a completely empty train car. Well, it wasn't completely empty - there was a homeless guy taking a dump on the seat. I only get on crowded cars now...
I just want to know what suburb you live in with good food!:) Mine has all of the fast food places, an Applebees, a Chiles, an Outback, a couple of pretend Mexican places (Baja Fresh, Qdoba, Chipotle), a bunch of terrible Chinese, and some mediocre pizza places. Shockingly, no Fridays. The one bright spot is this fantastic Korean crispy chicken wing place, but it is technically inside Philly city limits... We generally hop on the train and go to Philly for our food.
But food is subjective. One thing that is missing for me in the suburbs is diversity. My suburb is old and relatively diverse, but I like the flavor of the city - exposing my kids not just to blacks and whites, but the whole range of cultures - even crazy people, homeless, etc. I'd like them to be exposed to people of different economic classes so they aren't like some of my friends who grew up in a rich white suburb and seem awkward around people not like them.
The car is a mixed bag. In general, I hate driving around. I like having it for trips, but it's an expensive luxury. When we were in NYC we had a Zip car membership and spent nowhere near what we currently spend on insurance for two cars, let alone the cost of the cars themselves plus upkeep and gas. I have a very easy commute right now, so the driving isn't too much of a burden - but in the past I've been known to rent an apartment right next to my office park to avoid commuting.
It was easy to meet new friends in the city. This isn't important if you are living near where you grew up, but if you are new to an area, a city is much more fertile ground for meeting new friends than the suburbs where everyone is already doing their own thing.
The other thing I miss is that people used to visit us. Yeah, they were just using us for the free NYC crash pad, but I liked having guests all the time. We get occasional guests now, but not like when we were in the city.
But if you are happy, don't let anyone talk you out of it. Like I said, my neighbors retired to the suburbs from NYC:)
I'm mostly concerned about keeping myself mostly healthy... I've always gone with mostly cardio with weight training only on my problem spots (my knees). Weight is not an issue... I mean, I'm overweight by around 15 lbs, but I can control it by eating a bit less. My knees are why I swim/bike rather than treadmill. The home bikes are not too expensive, but I'm not as happy with them as I am the gym equipment. Plus, I'm out in the car anyhow - the LA Fitness is on my way home from work. I used to do free weights with a friend, but decided that I didn't care about muscles:)
Even though it's so dirty, I'm surprised u left. Short of the dirt, I think it's a superior city.
I'm back:)
with how hot it is down there and basically everyone being homeless rubbing up again you, it ain't that bad!
The newer cars have AC that works, so things have improved a bit. Some of the stations are miserably hot - I think the 51st St station under the Citibank building on Lexington (the E and M) might be a portal to hell. Fortunately, at rush hour the trains usually come at nearly 1 minute intervals.
I can attest to NYC never sleeping. I lived in the mostly-residential Upper East Side, and would sometimes stay out until 4AM on a weeknight without having any trouble finding places that are open. Once my wife and I tried to get dessert at Serendipity at 10:30 PM on a Tuesday and the wait was more than 1 hour... we, um, reconsidered. San Francisco is sleepy compared to NYC. Though once late-night I did encounter a homeless guy shouting "MacArthur was right! MacArthur was right! There is no difference between the 38th parallel and the 37th!"
I'm in Philly now, which is pretty fun but clears out after the bars are forced to close at 2AM.
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The story is fishy, anyway. This friend wasn't disciplined enough to occasionally sync their phone, but they would have made sure all of their apps were saving to the SD card (which isn't always easy or universally supported)?
Of course, they could sell a maxed out version for the people like me and an expandable version for the more budget minded.
Which is what Nokia did.
I thought I was clear...
MicroSD cards are tiny, but the slot and mounting space on the motherboard is fairly substantial - certainly room that could be filled with more battery.
The slots are mechanical in nature, and represent another failure point.
The cards themselves are of varying quality and so I have to test the integrity of the card myself.
The phones themselves have a limit as to the size of the card they can take. I maxed my phone out with 32GB the same day I bought it, and even if there is a 1TB card my phone will never see anything better than the 32GB card.
So for me, a hard-soldered memory card would be better.
But I cannot increase the life of the phone by purchasing a larger card... I already bought the biggest one. If I'd bought a phone with 32GB built in I'd be in the exact same position.
They are pretty stupid. The first thing I did when I bought my phone was spend even more money on the biggest SD card it would take. I will, in all probability, never remove it from the phone - or at least, I never have removed them from my previous phones.
That means for me, the SD card just makes the phone bulkier, more expensive, and more prone to failure. I'm sure there are people who actually use the removable storage, but certainly it appears that I'm not alone.
I don't think you've read any Libertarian literature or even had a serious discussion with a thoughtful Libertarian. They think that government is not an efficient way to help the unfortunate - that does not mean they oppose helping the unfortunate.
From what I've read, they have some excess capacity, so they just have to be more careful about turning things on at the same time. It will certainly keep some people busy.
The Bush plan to Mars would have supposedly cost $120 billion over 15 years. Double that, because the government can never come in on-budget, and you still are talking about $16 billion / year. That's an absolute pittance by Federal government standards, and nowhere near the pitchforks-in-the-streets hundreds of billions per year you suggest. Bush's father proposed a plan that would have cost far more, but when NASA ran the numbers it was abandoned.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. Libertarians genuinely believe that their ideology is best for society. They also have some very different ideas from conservatives on social issues. I think where Libertarian ideals fall down is on non-local issues, or issues involving large groups of people.
Pollution is the classic problem. If I get sick drinking some polluted water downstream, the libertarian answer is to sue the guy upstream. The "guy" upstream could be hundreds, thousands, or millions of people dumping raw sewage and garbage into the river. How the heck am I supposed to prove whose shit made me sick?
I find that Libertarians also get mixed up when discussing corporations and intellectual property (IP). Both things exist only in law and depend on a strong government (note I said "strong" and not "large"). Both corporations and IP represent huge intrusions of the government upon the "free market". I'm always taken a bit aback when they talk about deregulation but in the same breath seem to ignore the elephants in the room.
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No, but a schizophrenic may very well hear other people talking to him. Often it's God.
You could also stitch all the images together in a grid and then use CSS to display different portions of the same image. JQuery does this for widgets.
The ISS is neither screwed nor paralyzed with indecision. They have the luxury of time, they are not in any immediate danger, and they have an escape pod back to Earth. The situation is in no way analogous to Apollo 13.
When I was in Manhattan I was lucky enough to live in a subsidized (by my wife's employer) apartment. When the subsidy ran out, we moved. You are totally right. If I were single, I'd accept living in the closet for the quality of life that Manhattan affords, but with kids I needed more space.
That said, if you work in Downtown, Brooklyn is not a bad commute. If you work in Midtown, Queens is a good commute. Hell, Astoria is actually a happening place...
If you like Korean food, North Philly is really good these days - all up 5th North of Rt. 1 is bona fide Korea Town. There are also some decent Caribbean options, and of course Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill are nearby. The Northeast has some incredible diners and bakeries, and naturally there is Steve's Prince of Steaks. But that's all Philly :) The Northeast is sort of suburban, but it also is not sprawly at all... it has a grid system of streets. Public transit is shameful, but in a lot of ways it reminds me of a California city - everything is low-rise.
In Cheltenham we have (half of) Glenside. Glenside has a few places that are all right.
naBrasa is pretty good - but Horsham is kind of a haul for me...
Neighbors! (Well, almost. I'm in Cheltenham - but I used to live in Willow Grove and work in Fort Washington).
For sushi and Japanese in general, I really like Ooka in Willow Grove (didn't know they had other locations) - I haven't tried MInado. Still, it takes me 25 minutes to drive to Willow Grove or 25 minutes on the train to get downtown... most of the suburban spots are like that. I'm faced with a long drive and no booze.
The closest Fridays in the suburbs is Willow Grove - it's about a 20 minute drive to the Fridays. But you'd pass a Chiles and an Applebees on the way there, as well as a bunch of non-chain places on 611 that offer a similar experience. I've only ever been there with co-workers who have no taste :)
I don't make it out as far as Perkasie very often... is that still a Philly suburb? LOL. If I'm out there looking for eats, I'll have to try Maize. Google tells me that will take me 50 minutes to drive... I guess I could stay over in Quakertown :)
Conshohocken qualifies as an "accidental" suburb IMHO... it's been there a long time as a standalone community, and then it kind of got absorbed and surrounded by the sprawl. Conshohocken itself is kind of cool, but it is a 25 minute car ride :( King of Prussia is even further away - I'm in the northern suburbs just across from North Philly and next to the Northeast.
Much better to hop on the train, which is 25-minutes to downtown. It quits at midnight, so sometimes you need to suck it up and pay the $40 taxi fare back, but with kids and a babysitter on the clock that rarely happens.
These days I'm mostly dead at night because of the kids. I was always a bar man myself - liked McGillan's, McGlinchy's to get started, Bob and Barbara's, Fergies, Sugar Mom's, and the occasional venture into Dirty Franks. Monks is cool, but I'm allergic to muscles. My friends always wanted to go to the Irish Pub but I never liked it. Cavanaughs was the college spot back in the day. I never really relished the club scene, but mostly stuck to the clubs along Delaware Ave and Spring Garden. When my girlfriend was a lawyer, I spent more time at the Continental than I would have liked. Now we usually go out for dinner when we head downtown, and our favorite place lately has been Talula's Garden on Washington Square. Going to college in a big city was really fun. :)
In droves? Name some of these droves. Last I heard, the "internet" companies opening in Detroit were those working with Ford to get stuff installed in cars.
Anyway, I didn't bash Detroit. I think you are overly sensitive. I just said Detroit isn't where was being discussed.
I made the mistake when I was new to NYC of transferring from the 6 to the E at that station on my way to a job interview in a full wool suit. I was a mess when I showed up. I started transferring to the 7 a stop lower after that :)
The worst thing I ever did at the 51st St station was absentmindedly get on a completely empty train car. Well, it wasn't completely empty - there was a homeless guy taking a dump on the seat. I only get on crowded cars now...
I just want to know what suburb you live in with good food! :) Mine has all of the fast food places, an Applebees, a Chiles, an Outback, a couple of pretend Mexican places (Baja Fresh, Qdoba, Chipotle), a bunch of terrible Chinese, and some mediocre pizza places. Shockingly, no Fridays. The one bright spot is this fantastic Korean crispy chicken wing place, but it is technically inside Philly city limits... We generally hop on the train and go to Philly for our food.
But food is subjective. One thing that is missing for me in the suburbs is diversity. My suburb is old and relatively diverse, but I like the flavor of the city - exposing my kids not just to blacks and whites, but the whole range of cultures - even crazy people, homeless, etc. I'd like them to be exposed to people of different economic classes so they aren't like some of my friends who grew up in a rich white suburb and seem awkward around people not like them.
The car is a mixed bag. In general, I hate driving around. I like having it for trips, but it's an expensive luxury. When we were in NYC we had a Zip car membership and spent nowhere near what we currently spend on insurance for two cars, let alone the cost of the cars themselves plus upkeep and gas. I have a very easy commute right now, so the driving isn't too much of a burden - but in the past I've been known to rent an apartment right next to my office park to avoid commuting.
It was easy to meet new friends in the city. This isn't important if you are living near where you grew up, but if you are new to an area, a city is much more fertile ground for meeting new friends than the suburbs where everyone is already doing their own thing.
The other thing I miss is that people used to visit us. Yeah, they were just using us for the free NYC crash pad, but I liked having guests all the time. We get occasional guests now, but not like when we were in the city.
But if you are happy, don't let anyone talk you out of it. Like I said, my neighbors retired to the suburbs from NYC :)
I'm mostly concerned about keeping myself mostly healthy... I've always gone with mostly cardio with weight training only on my problem spots (my knees). Weight is not an issue... I mean, I'm overweight by around 15 lbs, but I can control it by eating a bit less. My knees are why I swim/bike rather than treadmill. The home bikes are not too expensive, but I'm not as happy with them as I am the gym equipment. Plus, I'm out in the car anyhow - the LA Fitness is on my way home from work. I used to do free weights with a friend, but decided that I didn't care about muscles :)
Even though it's so dirty, I'm surprised u left. Short of the dirt, I think it's a superior city.
I'm back :)
with how hot it is down there and basically everyone being homeless rubbing up again you, it ain't that bad!
The newer cars have AC that works, so things have improved a bit. Some of the stations are miserably hot - I think the 51st St station under the Citibank building on Lexington (the E and M) might be a portal to hell. Fortunately, at rush hour the trains usually come at nearly 1 minute intervals.
I can attest to NYC never sleeping. I lived in the mostly-residential Upper East Side, and would sometimes stay out until 4AM on a weeknight without having any trouble finding places that are open. Once my wife and I tried to get dessert at Serendipity at 10:30 PM on a Tuesday and the wait was more than 1 hour... we, um, reconsidered. San Francisco is sleepy compared to NYC. Though once late-night I did encounter a homeless guy shouting "MacArthur was right! MacArthur was right! There is no difference between the 38th parallel and the 37th!"
I'm in Philly now, which is pretty fun but clears out after the bars are forced to close at 2AM.
Wasn't Greece busy inventing astronomy and democracy while the Germans were still banging rocks together?