My X-10 investment was retired when either a neighbor's system, or dirty power, or smart meters were mistaken for commands by the system, resulting in unacceptable levels of "poltergeisting". I put up with it for years, worked on it for years, and could never get it to reject the noise, even switching between all available housecodes.
X-10, for all the credit you give it, drove me up a goddamn tree. While it worked, I loved it, but when it quit...
Find me a prepaid card without fees, then. I want it to avoid exposing my bank account to dubious gas-machine readers that might have been tampered with when I need gas to get home or I don't, and storing one with $50 loaded on it in the glove box does me no good if six months later the fees have reduced my balance to $5.
Or, more likely, you're discovering that you bit off more than you can chew, and you're hoping the IRS doesn't want to see last year's tax records again.
DoE bought grenade launchers. DHS bought hollowpoints.
The grenade launchers were deemed useless and returned to the army for a refund, but the hollowpoints are about what it takes to certify every law enforcement officer on their service weapon and do a little training. Not even enough training to be really safe with their sidearms, but a little training is still a definite improvement.
Remember - violence doesn't need much ammo, but proficiency will eat as much as you can shoot.
Another clear clue should be that fleshlights try to mimic a human vagina
Baddragon would like some words with you.
Also, a lot of guys apparently buy dildos too.
Bumping for truth, and the people who browse at +2.
They take the idea of sexual "fantasy" a little further than most. You'll find more dongs than penetrables, but if you want head (or tail) from creatures that nature couldn't imagine, they can provide the novelty you want. And they're certainly not the only ones doing it - even the eponymous Fleshlight was available in an attempt to imagine "What does a Na'Vi look like down there?" And frankly, a lot of them look like pretty bland, utilitarian cylinders.
You neatly ignore my point: measured atmospheric CO2 is increasing at *less than* the rates at which it is emitted by humans - logically if we stopped emitting fossil CO2 we could reasonably expect atmospheric CO2 levels to begin dropping.
Carbonic acid is dissolved CO2. That the ocean is acidifying is well known, and should nicely account for the discrepancy.
If Amazon wanted to establish some bona fides as a phone maker, they could consider creating a pure-Android ROM that takes advantage of the flick gestures and perspective tracking cameras. Not like they have much to lose at this point.
Apple tells the FBI to pound sand; Google logs every keystroke with the default keyboard. Privacy costs something - you can't have your stuff subsidized by content partners, who want to make up their subsidies later.
Apple's done the same thing with their AC compatible Airport devices - from the specs page, "Six-element beamforming antenna array"
It's getting rather more common in high-end SOHO gear all over, though I trust certain implementations more than others. Didn't the TOS for the D-Link Cloud indirectly ban viewing pornography under penalty of bricking your router?
I dunno what you're doing, but every time my router falls over, it's dead. Every time I replace it, it's with an Airport product.
Why would I keep replacing them with Airports if they keep dying?
Typically, it's because there's several years of reliable service punctuated by a lightning storm, or because a hard drive inside has more than met its MTBF.
If yours is falling over every couple days, call AppleCare. They'll send you a new router if it's under warranty, and provide prepaid postage to recover your old one for forensic analysis. You might have to push a little bit, but they've never been shy about replacing their hardware when its fallen short of their - or my - standards.
Let's play a hypothetical game: Google knows what you watch, because the HBO app spills data to the router. They also know that the new Game of Thrones episode is out today, and since lunch or so, it's been downloading a cached version of this episode. When you get home, and the cable modem slows to a crawl, you can still stream your show without any hesitation, blockiness, or downscaling. This has the side benefit of reducing the bandwidth used in prime time, as well as earlier - TCP multicast allowed them to distribute the data they anticipated you would want with shocking efficiency.
Amazon does it with their Fire platform's ASAP technology (Advanced Streaming and Prediction), and it's marketed as a major selling point. Amazon is using the Apple strategy here - dumb pipes, smart endpoints - but Google's strategy is the polar opposite - dumb glass, smart cloud. Moving the stream prediction to a more centralized architecture where they can iterate faster without selling you new hardware for each new feature is Google's style, phone handset makers/cellular networks' interference aside.
They have space suits* on the Soyuz, so when the whole thing is opened to space by a large hole made by space rocks, they can close off the depressurized model and repressurize the rest of the station.
*At least those orange survival suits used for mitigating loss-of-pressure accidents on takeoff and landing.
I still haven’t figured out how to do that without Plex. DLNA is a hot mess, and I gave up in frustration trying to find a free, software-only DLNA server. Even if it’s just a demo.
Logged in just to comment on this without being taken as a shill. (seriously - check my karma.) In much the same way that CryptoCat’s dev team have realized that usability is a core feature of security, and not a nice-to-have, so too has the Plex team made usability a core feature of their product in ways the XBMC team was late to implement.
Plex’s lack of extensibility, scraper support, and local storage support drive me up a goddamn tree, but Plex works and XBMC doesn’t. I’m not a linux person, but I am a nerd - code is not my day job, but I’m teaching myself at night. Sweet baby Jesus, I tried XBMC so many freaking times that eventually I just gave up. And when my certified-Mac-tech friend showed me this miraculous XBMC fork that worked on OSX, with his remote control, and without fucking around, I spent a few years not looking back. I think I got myself banned from the TVDB trying to get Plex to identify shows properly, but it offered me the ability to play back home videos and fansubbed anime on the TV when I could not afford a dedicated HTPC - and that included salvage, scrounged laptops, and selling my body for transistors. (it was a rough patch in my life)
Ironically, I more or less quit watching even foreign television about when I got Plex to sit down and play nice and XBMC became Kodi and began to make setup less infuriating for people who didn’t hack C in their spare time.
More ironically - nay, infuriatingly - I spent most of my free time a couple weeks ago trying to sideload Kodi on my FireTV to try it out, and only found out there was an official app for it after the app was taken down. Way to piss in my cheerios, Bezos.:(
Then being told any sexual act with a girl could end up with you in jail.
I was pretty literally told that at my college orientation - 10 minutes after it was pointed out that campus security was entirely handled by local police with arrest powers, and orders to enforce campus policies, we were taken to the dorms and it was casually mentioned that the university policy on sexual consent allowed the female partner to revoke consent retroactively, and one had to get verbal permission every time some new kind or level of intimacy was reached during a sexual encounter.
Standards were relaxed twice in my last two years, but I sure wasn’t interested in dating on-campus - any time I had any passing interest, I flashed back to the dorms, and the interest quickly passed.
Strictly speaking, Apple shipped 4-lane PCIe2 SSDs in the Mac Pro. The Macbooks' motherboards are wired for it, in the name of future proofing perhaps, so the switch to 3x4 is only a single doubling over the state of the art, even if most people didn't realize what the state of the art was.
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My X-10 investment was retired when either a neighbor's system, or dirty power, or smart meters were mistaken for commands by the system, resulting in unacceptable levels of "poltergeisting". I put up with it for years, worked on it for years, and could never get it to reject the noise, even switching between all available housecodes.
X-10, for all the credit you give it, drove me up a goddamn tree. While it worked, I loved it, but when it quit...
Find me a prepaid card without fees, then. I want it to avoid exposing my bank account to dubious gas-machine readers that might have been tampered with when I need gas to get home or I don't, and storing one with $50 loaded on it in the glove box does me no good if six months later the fees have reduced my balance to $5.
I do believe that's exactly what they did.
Or, more likely, you're discovering that you bit off more than you can chew, and you're hoping the IRS doesn't want to see last year's tax records again.
Piracetam works. Google Scholar is your friend.
DoE bought grenade launchers. DHS bought hollowpoints.
The grenade launchers were deemed useless and returned to the army for a refund, but the hollowpoints are about what it takes to certify every law enforcement officer on their service weapon and do a little training. Not even enough training to be really safe with their sidearms, but a little training is still a definite improvement.
Remember - violence doesn't need much ammo, but proficiency will eat as much as you can shoot.
Bad-Dragon already makes a line of pony-themed sex toys, offering both poles and holes.
You know, if you intended to consider them in more than a purely academic way.
Bumping for truth, and the people who browse at +2.
They take the idea of sexual "fantasy" a little further than most. You'll find more dongs than penetrables, but if you want head (or tail) from creatures that nature couldn't imagine, they can provide the novelty you want. And they're certainly not the only ones doing it - even the eponymous Fleshlight was available in an attempt to imagine "What does a Na'Vi look like down there?" And frankly, a lot of them look like pretty bland, utilitarian cylinders.
Carbonic acid is dissolved CO2. That the ocean is acidifying is well known, and should nicely account for the discrepancy.
If Amazon wanted to establish some bona fides as a phone maker, they could consider creating a pure-Android ROM that takes advantage of the flick gestures and perspective tracking cameras. Not like they have much to lose at this point.
http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
Apple tells the FBI to pound sand; Google logs every keystroke with the default keyboard. Privacy costs something - you can't have your stuff subsidized by content partners, who want to make up their subsidies later.
Encouraging fishing them for food seems to be a major thrust (heh) of the attempt to exterminate lionfish here, or at least knock down their numbers.
Clearly, someone's figured out how to make them tasty.
Apple's done the same thing with their AC compatible Airport devices - from the specs page,
"Six-element beamforming antenna array"
It's getting rather more common in high-end SOHO gear all over, though I trust certain implementations more than others. Didn't the TOS for the D-Link Cloud indirectly ban viewing pornography under penalty of bricking your router?
I dunno what you're doing, but every time my router falls over, it's dead. Every time I replace it, it's with an Airport product.
Why would I keep replacing them with Airports if they keep dying?
Typically, it's because there's several years of reliable service punctuated by a lightning storm, or because a hard drive inside has more than met its MTBF.
If yours is falling over every couple days, call AppleCare. They'll send you a new router if it's under warranty, and provide prepaid postage to recover your old one for forensic analysis. You might have to push a little bit, but they've never been shy about replacing their hardware when its fallen short of their - or my - standards.
Actually, it does have basic ACL functionality. It's under a heading called "timed access", however.
Let's play a hypothetical game: Google knows what you watch, because the HBO app spills data to the router. They also know that the new Game of Thrones episode is out today, and since lunch or so, it's been downloading a cached version of this episode. When you get home, and the cable modem slows to a crawl, you can still stream your show without any hesitation, blockiness, or downscaling. This has the side benefit of reducing the bandwidth used in prime time, as well as earlier - TCP multicast allowed them to distribute the data they anticipated you would want with shocking efficiency. Amazon does it with their Fire platform's ASAP technology (Advanced Streaming and Prediction), and it's marketed as a major selling point. Amazon is using the Apple strategy here - dumb pipes, smart endpoints - but Google's strategy is the polar opposite - dumb glass, smart cloud. Moving the stream prediction to a more centralized architecture where they can iterate faster without selling you new hardware for each new feature is Google's style, phone handset makers/cellular networks' interference aside.
They have space suits* on the Soyuz, so when the whole thing is opened to space by a large hole made by space rocks, they can close off the depressurized model and repressurize the rest of the station. *At least those orange survival suits used for mitigating loss-of-pressure accidents on takeoff and landing.
Do they, now?
I still haven’t figured out how to do that without Plex. DLNA is a hot mess, and I gave up in frustration trying to find a free, software-only DLNA server. Even if it’s just a demo.
Logged in just to comment on this without being taken as a shill. (seriously - check my karma.) In much the same way that CryptoCat’s dev team have realized that usability is a core feature of security, and not a nice-to-have, so too has the Plex team made usability a core feature of their product in ways the XBMC team was late to implement.
Plex’s lack of extensibility, scraper support, and local storage support drive me up a goddamn tree, but Plex works and XBMC doesn’t. I’m not a linux person, but I am a nerd - code is not my day job, but I’m teaching myself at night. Sweet baby Jesus, I tried XBMC so many freaking times that eventually I just gave up. And when my certified-Mac-tech friend showed me this miraculous XBMC fork that worked on OSX, with his remote control, and without fucking around, I spent a few years not looking back. I think I got myself banned from the TVDB trying to get Plex to identify shows properly, but it offered me the ability to play back home videos and fansubbed anime on the TV when I could not afford a dedicated HTPC - and that included salvage, scrounged laptops, and selling my body for transistors. (it was a rough patch in my life)
Ironically, I more or less quit watching even foreign television about when I got Plex to sit down and play nice and XBMC became Kodi and began to make setup less infuriating for people who didn’t hack C in their spare time.
More ironically - nay, infuriatingly - I spent most of my free time a couple weeks ago trying to sideload Kodi on my FireTV to try it out, and only found out there was an official app for it after the app was taken down. Way to piss in my cheerios, Bezos. :(
20 gbps Thunderbolt will function over USB-C passive cables.
I'd posit that "the rest of us" as you use it represents not the "rest of us" but "the lucky few".
Each other.
I was pretty literally told that at my college orientation - 10 minutes after it was pointed out that campus security was entirely handled by local police with arrest powers, and orders to enforce campus policies, we were taken to the dorms and it was casually mentioned that the university policy on sexual consent allowed the female partner to revoke consent retroactively, and one had to get verbal permission every time some new kind or level of intimacy was reached during a sexual encounter.
Standards were relaxed twice in my last two years, but I sure wasn’t interested in dating on-campus - any time I had any passing interest, I flashed back to the dorms, and the interest quickly passed.
The market solution to being allowed to die for want of medical care is...
Well, some fairly unpleasant things become rational when you have noting to lose.
Strictly speaking, Apple shipped 4-lane PCIe2 SSDs in the Mac Pro. The Macbooks' motherboards are wired for it, in the name of future proofing perhaps, so the switch to 3x4 is only a single doubling over the state of the art, even if most people didn't realize what the state of the art was.
OWC provides proof!