You think governments around the world, who have mandated computers be on cars, GPS navigation
and what not was for YOUR benefit? Just wait til the day comes, that they start handing out speeding
tickets, based on data from your onboard computer/GPS system, or, in the event of a "national emergency"
or whatever, turn off all the cars. Think it can't happen? Guess again.
I think a lot of the reason the removable battery, is due to them turning a useful device, into a fashion accessory.
Now, we have to have "dazzling colors", "slim & stylish". With that "slim" part, they had to remove the plastic
shell that protects the battery from damage, to squeeze as much as possible into the slim design (Note 7). Also,
removing the shell of the battery, allows for an even more thin design, removing the connections for the removable
battery. Until this obsession with the PHONE being a fashion icon is over, don't look for them to gain some weight
for a while.
Yeah, sadly they are, or, instead of them being called slim, sexy, stylish, in designer colors,
they would be a black slab of glass, plastic, metal with a LARGER battery, and a CHEAPER
price, but, because they make them "status symbol-ish", we're stuck with phones that are so
thin, you can easily bend/break them, have small batteries, and stupid expensive prices.
Heck, it amazes me, you can walk in a mall, or around a college campus, and 3/4 of the people?
Are they carrying it in a bag or case? Nope, gripped in their hands. I think that they need to
splice some DNA and alter people to have a 3rd arm. The normal 2, plus a "cell phone" hand LOL.
If you lease, your option, if you want, to "do with it as you please" can be or may be limited.
Can you root it? Can you install a custom rom without the block/lockdown/features removed?
Plus, leasing will most likely be more expensive than outright purchasing it. Also, it puts you
on an endless treadmill.
Granted, if you are one of those that "has to have a new one every year", leasing it probably
better for you, but, I typically buy a new phone, AFTER a new one comes out, then buy last years
new model, typically for 1/2 of the price, keep it 1-2 years, then do it all over again. Less expensive,
I can sell/trade/give the old one away.
Partially because of wait times, which, at times is the FAULT of the public. Playing with their phones instead of looking at the menu,
playing with their phones instead of EATING, taking selfies at the table, taking photos of their food.
On the OTHER side...food prices are too high, portions are too small, people don't want to wait for poor service, people don't want
to wait for the food. Our society has become accustomed to INSTANT everything. They don't want to wait for anything.
I don't like putting up with rude people that can't put their stupid phones down WHILE EATING. It's just rude to the ones you are
with, rude to the staff that has to wait for you to PUT THE PHONE DOWN.
Manners have gone out the window, as has respect. For what places charge for dinner, I'd expect GREAT food & service. I have
one or two places I frequent. NON chain stores, and, if you saw the outside of the buildings, you'd say to yourself there is NO WAY
I'd go in there! The staff is VERY friendly, will come to your table just to chat, if they aren't busy, the food is great, price is right, and
portions are acceptable. I think the NON chains, most of the time, have better food and experience.
The earth warms, the earth cools...and we aren't "warming up" but are heading to a COOLING DOWN
period. Just ask any ham radio operator how the bands have sucked the last year. Sunspots are void,
CME's are low, if at all. We ended the modern maximum around 2008-09. It's called A CYCLE and has
nothing to do with man. One good burp from a stupid volcano throws more so called greenhouse gas in
the air than Algore or Leo deCRAPrio can flying all over the place warning us that we are all going to die
unless we change OUR lifestyle (but not theirs of course).
When a police officer says HAULT, or, STOP RESISTING...DO THAT and you won't get
tased. Better to fight it out IN COURT, than have your head bashed in by multiple police
officers, no matter how no guilty you think you are.
It's called COMMON SENSE. But, today, everything thinks that you should get your own
way, do your own thing, to hell with morals, respect and other values shot to hell thanks to
the stupidity of the (un)education system in the USA.
Crowdfunding...just another way to mostly fool people out of their money. Narcissist types that "just gotta be first" to show their other shallow friends "look, I got something you don't".
If it's such a good idea, there would be venture capitalist that would be willing to back it.
Usually, these things fail because the "startup owners" have no business plan, spend the money on crap, and then, whoops, too bad, we're broke! If I can't walk into a store, Amazon, Wally World etc...forget it. I don't "need" to have it yesterday...I can wait.
Took my camera to work, stepped outside to snap photos about every 10-15 minutes.
Took about 30, then stitched the photos together from start to finish.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm3hyXWX
Nikon D7200, cheap Tamron 70-300mm lens, snap-on-the-lens solar filter, all hand held.
They'll "corner the market", and won't release them, like they do with Earth diamonds, thus keeping
the price artificially HIGH on nothing more than compressed/heated carbon rocks.
Diamonds...yeah, that will shut her up! (Ron White)
Like they don't know everything about you anyway!
Considering people HAND OVER their privacy every time they install software, apps, and what not,
figured google would send YOU an email saying "from the activity and posts we have found on the web,
we have declared you clinically depressed. We also note that you have many sharp objects, firearms and
small children. The appropriate agencies will be in contact with you to provide: corks for all sharp objects,
removal of all firearms & children from your home".
Government mandated "kill" switch to remotely ground them?
Government mandated "kill" switch if they fly too high/too close where they aren't?
Nice...you WILL install this update, or we'll BRICK your device.
Sorry, I would never buy a product, that they say, you install this update, or we'll destroy property that you purchased.
Just so they can act all smug that they have a "hybrid" Those silly vehicle cost more to produce, and
have more of a carbon footprint than a traditional vehicle, have more toxic materials...but, because they
are "green" everyone overlooks that!
While the moslems continue to change "European lifestyle", making more and more areas "off limits" to non moslems.
With their birth rate like rabbits, they will completely OWN Europe in a couple decades. Once you Europeans figure it out and the war starts, we'll just stay here.
Oh, thanks to help from the USA and others, we pulled your sorry azz out of TWO world wars.
Took 4 years, over the course of 6 months per year, they give you shots of the things you are allergic
to. After that, I'm pretty much allergy free from flowers, trees, weeds (ragweed is the killer!).
Oh, if the pollen count gets stupid, it might bother me a bit, but nothing like it did. Once when I was 18,
I ended up in the hospital ER, with anaphylaxis. Couldn't breathe, heart rate nuts, eyes swelling. After
a treatment, was good as new. Use to keep an epi-pen with me for a while.
The shots were WORTH it. The doctor was a customer of mine, and so I knew the staff pretty well.
When they would usher me into the room right off the lobby, I would have some "fun" if there were kids
in the lobby. As I came out, to sit in the lobby (required for 20-30 minutes after the shot), I would hold
my arm and say OUCH and rub my arm...Looks on the kids eyes. The staff kept saying they would stash
all their "rusty dirty, bent" needles if I didn't stop it.
I guess that is "normal" for those on the east/west coast.
I'm in flyover country, and have a 5 mile to work daily.
I get pissed off if it takes more than 20 minutes to get to work,
in a city of just over 200,000
I remember in the mid 80's, the paperwork reduction act came along...printing went UP.
Computers, have been the biggest asset to printing/copying more, as more and more data in detail
is available.
When the HIPPA health law came along, my volumes went UP. As long as you have lawyers & government,
there WILL be paperwork.
Our FM audit tracking program counts "the clicks" on all of our clients, and quarter after quarter, the volumes
continue to increase.
Just about every photocopier manufacturer, at one point or another has introduced "erasable" copiers. Most
bomb because the cost of the toner is way out of line. What it does is melts the toner at a LOWER heat rate.
The "ink" on the paper, is a blue color. To "erase" it, you run it through a separate box, about the size of a paper
shredder. The "eraser" passes the paper through a special set of fuser rollers (heat & pressure), at a HIGHER
temperature. It changes the dye in the ink on the page, from a blue color, to a transparent color. If you look
at the paper under the correct lighting, you can see where the print was, you just cant read it. It's good for about
3-4 passes before so many layers have been deposited on the paper, that it can't add anymore through the normal
copy process. It's good for "throwaway" stuff, meetings and what not, but still too expensive to make it mainstream.
We have A LOT of people now, scanning and archiving store documents, but they continue to PRINT hard copies of
new stuff. I really don't see "the copier" going away anytime soon, since now, most are what is known as multi function
printers (MFP). Print, copy, scan, fax, email, web all from one box. And with cloud printing, you can print to the machine
from your smartphone, or store it on a private box to print later, or you can pull documents remotely. Most have contactless
touch to print using your phone also.
On the tech side of it, we really like these new machines. We can remote into them, check error logs, remotely change
settings if needed, update the software and do all sorts of things, that before, you would have to respond to the location,
see what it needs, either bring a bunch of stuff with you, or make a return trip. Now you can do a lot of it right from your
phone. I tell people that sometimes, I don't even get my tools out, I just plug my laptop into the machines, or, whip out
my phone.
When I look for a place to eat, I ask my FRIENDS...and by friends I mean those that share my sense of values, not these social media apps, "likes" and what not. A lot of my "good eatin' places" look like dives, ready to fall apart, sometimes you think how the hell did the health department pass this place? Established places. One BBQ place I frequent, has been around since the late 1920's! When I first went there in 1981, they had a few playing cards & dollar bills tacked onto the ceiling tiles. By the early 2000's, they mostly had turned solid black from cigarette smoke (smoking isn't allowed in businesses in our city anymore). Plus, you are likely to see people that appear to be homeless, along with people in suits during the lunch rush. It's a down home place, friendly. Another one is a chili place, been around since the early 50's. Building was made out of an old metal quonset hut. Decorations inside look like something out of a psycho movie. Posters of just about anything, paint splatters all over the place. The chili is purposely spilled over the top of the bowl onto the dish underneath. Owner decades ago had someone thing the bowl wasn't full enough, so he filled it to the top and it spilled over. He then did that on purpose and to this day, if your bowl doesn't have spilled chili, they will fill it.
THOSE are the kind of places I like to frequent. You know , the broken neon sign that says "EATS" out of the way hole in the wall places, not the trendy ones where everyone inside isn't talking to each other, but TEXTING each other.
You can have those overpriced, over hyped, shallow places...I'll stick with the off the wall hole in the wall places that know how to slap a steak on the grill, fry up a greasy cheeseburger, fat dripping BBQ, stick to your ribs food.
Not many movies, for me anyway, are worth:
Loading up the car, driving across town, parking (rain, snow, heat, cold), standing in line if I don't buy the tickets early,
Overpaying on the concessions, finding a seat (when I don't pay extra for a "lazy boy" seat), dealing with morons in the
theater that talk and still continue to check their phones, dealing with people wanting to get by you to go to the concession
stand/bathroom, waiting in line to use the bathroom, waiting to get OUT of the parking lot, dealing with traffic to get home,
unwinding then going to bed if it is late enough.
Or...I can wait til it hits netflix/redbox, buy it, play/stream it in the comfort of my own home, for "pennies", eat my own
snacks, lounge around in my PJ's, and drink whatever I want.
Gee, and other than the HUGE screen, what's the advantage of going TO the theater again?
LOL...big ubber liberal mecca. The city probably didn't want uber/lyft because it might impact their: bus, taxi, registration
fees too much.
In LARGER cities, I could see some benefit to these services, but, out here in what is known as flyover country (midwest)
sometimes you have to drive 20-30 miles, just to get TO a larger town.
Instead of getting the BEST for anything, they will end up watering down their hiring process
more likely, just to "look good" in the eyes of the public (and at their meetings). They can say
see...see...see...we have minorities working here! Look at us! We are good because we have
hired minorities!
Just one example of what happens when you water down something, just to be politically correct.
In the 70's...Miami-Metro Dade watered down the hiring process for police officers. They wanted
to be politically correct, and hire more minorities, in response to the "cuban boat lift" garbage thanks
to Jimmy Carter. Ole Castro dumped a bunch of losers, criminals on the Florida coast. Minorities
said it wasn't fair to have an all white police force. So, they LOWERED THE STANDARDS, allowed
more unqualified people to be an officer.
In the 80's the Metro-Dade was one of the more corrupt police departments around. Drugs, murders,
extortion, prostitution and on and on.
Instead of what most likely will happen, they hire people who are not qualified, or, are not the best & brightest
in their field, they should look for qualified people.
You watch their business suffer, because of this. Happens every time you water things down.
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You think governments around the world, who have mandated computers be on cars, GPS navigation and what not was for YOUR benefit? Just wait til the day comes, that they start handing out speeding tickets, based on data from your onboard computer/GPS system, or, in the event of a "national emergency" or whatever, turn off all the cars. Think it can't happen? Guess again.
Next week, fat will be bad, and carbs good. MODERATION, unless you have an underlying disease...is the key.
I think a lot of the reason the removable battery, is due to them turning a useful device, into a fashion accessory. Now, we have to have "dazzling colors", "slim & stylish". With that "slim" part, they had to remove the plastic shell that protects the battery from damage, to squeeze as much as possible into the slim design (Note 7). Also, removing the shell of the battery, allows for an even more thin design, removing the connections for the removable battery. Until this obsession with the PHONE being a fashion icon is over, don't look for them to gain some weight for a while.
Yeah, sadly they are, or, instead of them being called slim, sexy, stylish, in designer colors, they would be a black slab of glass, plastic, metal with a LARGER battery, and a CHEAPER price, but, because they make them "status symbol-ish", we're stuck with phones that are so thin, you can easily bend/break them, have small batteries, and stupid expensive prices. Heck, it amazes me, you can walk in a mall, or around a college campus, and 3/4 of the people? Are they carrying it in a bag or case? Nope, gripped in their hands. I think that they need to splice some DNA and alter people to have a 3rd arm. The normal 2, plus a "cell phone" hand LOL.
If you lease, your option, if you want, to "do with it as you please" can be or may be limited. Can you root it? Can you install a custom rom without the block/lockdown/features removed? Plus, leasing will most likely be more expensive than outright purchasing it. Also, it puts you on an endless treadmill. Granted, if you are one of those that "has to have a new one every year", leasing it probably better for you, but, I typically buy a new phone, AFTER a new one comes out, then buy last years new model, typically for 1/2 of the price, keep it 1-2 years, then do it all over again. Less expensive, I can sell/trade/give the old one away.
Partially because of wait times, which, at times is the FAULT of the public. Playing with their phones instead of looking at the menu, playing with their phones instead of EATING, taking selfies at the table, taking photos of their food. On the OTHER side...food prices are too high, portions are too small, people don't want to wait for poor service, people don't want to wait for the food. Our society has become accustomed to INSTANT everything. They don't want to wait for anything. I don't like putting up with rude people that can't put their stupid phones down WHILE EATING. It's just rude to the ones you are with, rude to the staff that has to wait for you to PUT THE PHONE DOWN. Manners have gone out the window, as has respect. For what places charge for dinner, I'd expect GREAT food & service. I have one or two places I frequent. NON chain stores, and, if you saw the outside of the buildings, you'd say to yourself there is NO WAY I'd go in there! The staff is VERY friendly, will come to your table just to chat, if they aren't busy, the food is great, price is right, and portions are acceptable. I think the NON chains, most of the time, have better food and experience.
The earth warms, the earth cools...and we aren't "warming up" but are heading to a COOLING DOWN period. Just ask any ham radio operator how the bands have sucked the last year. Sunspots are void, CME's are low, if at all. We ended the modern maximum around 2008-09. It's called A CYCLE and has nothing to do with man. One good burp from a stupid volcano throws more so called greenhouse gas in the air than Algore or Leo deCRAPrio can flying all over the place warning us that we are all going to die unless we change OUR lifestyle (but not theirs of course).
When a police officer says HAULT, or, STOP RESISTING...DO THAT and you won't get tased. Better to fight it out IN COURT, than have your head bashed in by multiple police officers, no matter how no guilty you think you are. It's called COMMON SENSE. But, today, everything thinks that you should get your own way, do your own thing, to hell with morals, respect and other values shot to hell thanks to the stupidity of the (un)education system in the USA.
What a joke...oh well, suckers born every day I guess. SPORTS...waste of time & money, but, at least it ain't my money.
Crowdfunding...just another way to mostly fool people out of their money. Narcissist types that "just gotta be first" to show their other shallow friends "look, I got something you don't". If it's such a good idea, there would be venture capitalist that would be willing to back it. Usually, these things fail because the "startup owners" have no business plan, spend the money on crap, and then, whoops, too bad, we're broke! If I can't walk into a store, Amazon, Wally World etc...forget it. I don't "need" to have it yesterday...I can wait.
Took my camera to work, stepped outside to snap photos about every 10-15 minutes. Took about 30, then stitched the photos together from start to finish. https://flic.kr/s/aHsm3hyXWX Nikon D7200, cheap Tamron 70-300mm lens, snap-on-the-lens solar filter, all hand held.
They'll "corner the market", and won't release them, like they do with Earth diamonds, thus keeping the price artificially HIGH on nothing more than compressed/heated carbon rocks. Diamonds...yeah, that will shut her up! (Ron White)
Like they don't know everything about you anyway! Considering people HAND OVER their privacy every time they install software, apps, and what not, figured google would send YOU an email saying "from the activity and posts we have found on the web, we have declared you clinically depressed. We also note that you have many sharp objects, firearms and small children. The appropriate agencies will be in contact with you to provide: corks for all sharp objects, removal of all firearms & children from your home".
Government mandated "kill" switch to remotely ground them? Government mandated "kill" switch if they fly too high/too close where they aren't? Nice...you WILL install this update, or we'll BRICK your device. Sorry, I would never buy a product, that they say, you install this update, or we'll destroy property that you purchased.
Just so they can act all smug that they have a "hybrid" Those silly vehicle cost more to produce, and have more of a carbon footprint than a traditional vehicle, have more toxic materials...but, because they are "green" everyone overlooks that!
Yeah, and we had to pay for this nuts chop-a-dic-off-of-me operation!
While the moslems continue to change "European lifestyle", making more and more areas "off limits" to non moslems. With their birth rate like rabbits, they will completely OWN Europe in a couple decades. Once you Europeans figure it out and the war starts, we'll just stay here. Oh, thanks to help from the USA and others, we pulled your sorry azz out of TWO world wars.
"Berkeley environmental engineer Dev Millstein" due to his presumed bias!
Took 4 years, over the course of 6 months per year, they give you shots of the things you are allergic to. After that, I'm pretty much allergy free from flowers, trees, weeds (ragweed is the killer!). Oh, if the pollen count gets stupid, it might bother me a bit, but nothing like it did. Once when I was 18, I ended up in the hospital ER, with anaphylaxis. Couldn't breathe, heart rate nuts, eyes swelling. After a treatment, was good as new. Use to keep an epi-pen with me for a while. The shots were WORTH it. The doctor was a customer of mine, and so I knew the staff pretty well. When they would usher me into the room right off the lobby, I would have some "fun" if there were kids in the lobby. As I came out, to sit in the lobby (required for 20-30 minutes after the shot), I would hold my arm and say OUCH and rub my arm...Looks on the kids eyes. The staff kept saying they would stash all their "rusty dirty, bent" needles if I didn't stop it.
I guess that is "normal" for those on the east/west coast. I'm in flyover country, and have a 5 mile to work daily. I get pissed off if it takes more than 20 minutes to get to work, in a city of just over 200,000
I remember in the mid 80's, the paperwork reduction act came along...printing went UP. Computers, have been the biggest asset to printing/copying more, as more and more data in detail is available. When the HIPPA health law came along, my volumes went UP. As long as you have lawyers & government, there WILL be paperwork. Our FM audit tracking program counts "the clicks" on all of our clients, and quarter after quarter, the volumes continue to increase. Just about every photocopier manufacturer, at one point or another has introduced "erasable" copiers. Most bomb because the cost of the toner is way out of line. What it does is melts the toner at a LOWER heat rate. The "ink" on the paper, is a blue color. To "erase" it, you run it through a separate box, about the size of a paper shredder. The "eraser" passes the paper through a special set of fuser rollers (heat & pressure), at a HIGHER temperature. It changes the dye in the ink on the page, from a blue color, to a transparent color. If you look at the paper under the correct lighting, you can see where the print was, you just cant read it. It's good for about 3-4 passes before so many layers have been deposited on the paper, that it can't add anymore through the normal copy process. It's good for "throwaway" stuff, meetings and what not, but still too expensive to make it mainstream. We have A LOT of people now, scanning and archiving store documents, but they continue to PRINT hard copies of new stuff. I really don't see "the copier" going away anytime soon, since now, most are what is known as multi function printers (MFP). Print, copy, scan, fax, email, web all from one box. And with cloud printing, you can print to the machine from your smartphone, or store it on a private box to print later, or you can pull documents remotely. Most have contactless touch to print using your phone also. On the tech side of it, we really like these new machines. We can remote into them, check error logs, remotely change settings if needed, update the software and do all sorts of things, that before, you would have to respond to the location, see what it needs, either bring a bunch of stuff with you, or make a return trip. Now you can do a lot of it right from your phone. I tell people that sometimes, I don't even get my tools out, I just plug my laptop into the machines, or, whip out my phone.
When I look for a place to eat, I ask my FRIENDS...and by friends I mean those that share my sense of values, not these social media apps, "likes" and what not. A lot of my "good eatin' places" look like dives, ready to fall apart, sometimes you think how the hell did the health department pass this place? Established places. One BBQ place I frequent, has been around since the late 1920's! When I first went there in 1981, they had a few playing cards & dollar bills tacked onto the ceiling tiles. By the early 2000's, they mostly had turned solid black from cigarette smoke (smoking isn't allowed in businesses in our city anymore). Plus, you are likely to see people that appear to be homeless, along with people in suits during the lunch rush. It's a down home place, friendly. Another one is a chili place, been around since the early 50's. Building was made out of an old metal quonset hut. Decorations inside look like something out of a psycho movie. Posters of just about anything, paint splatters all over the place. The chili is purposely spilled over the top of the bowl onto the dish underneath. Owner decades ago had someone thing the bowl wasn't full enough, so he filled it to the top and it spilled over. He then did that on purpose and to this day, if your bowl doesn't have spilled chili, they will fill it. THOSE are the kind of places I like to frequent. You know , the broken neon sign that says "EATS" out of the way hole in the wall places, not the trendy ones where everyone inside isn't talking to each other, but TEXTING each other. You can have those overpriced, over hyped, shallow places...I'll stick with the off the wall hole in the wall places that know how to slap a steak on the grill, fry up a greasy cheeseburger, fat dripping BBQ, stick to your ribs food.
Not many movies, for me anyway, are worth: Loading up the car, driving across town, parking (rain, snow, heat, cold), standing in line if I don't buy the tickets early, Overpaying on the concessions, finding a seat (when I don't pay extra for a "lazy boy" seat), dealing with morons in the theater that talk and still continue to check their phones, dealing with people wanting to get by you to go to the concession stand/bathroom, waiting in line to use the bathroom, waiting to get OUT of the parking lot, dealing with traffic to get home, unwinding then going to bed if it is late enough. Or...I can wait til it hits netflix/redbox, buy it, play/stream it in the comfort of my own home, for "pennies", eat my own snacks, lounge around in my PJ's, and drink whatever I want. Gee, and other than the HUGE screen, what's the advantage of going TO the theater again?
LOL...big ubber liberal mecca. The city probably didn't want uber/lyft because it might impact their: bus, taxi, registration fees too much. In LARGER cities, I could see some benefit to these services, but, out here in what is known as flyover country (midwest) sometimes you have to drive 20-30 miles, just to get TO a larger town.
Instead of getting the BEST for anything, they will end up watering down their hiring process more likely, just to "look good" in the eyes of the public (and at their meetings). They can say see...see...see...we have minorities working here! Look at us! We are good because we have hired minorities! Just one example of what happens when you water down something, just to be politically correct. In the 70's...Miami-Metro Dade watered down the hiring process for police officers. They wanted to be politically correct, and hire more minorities, in response to the "cuban boat lift" garbage thanks to Jimmy Carter. Ole Castro dumped a bunch of losers, criminals on the Florida coast. Minorities said it wasn't fair to have an all white police force. So, they LOWERED THE STANDARDS, allowed more unqualified people to be an officer. In the 80's the Metro-Dade was one of the more corrupt police departments around. Drugs, murders, extortion, prostitution and on and on. Instead of what most likely will happen, they hire people who are not qualified, or, are not the best & brightest in their field, they should look for qualified people. You watch their business suffer, because of this. Happens every time you water things down.