Which is why I keep my MP3 library, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Prime Music on my phone, to bluetooth
when I'm in the car. It's the SAME 5-6 songs by the same artists over and over and over, not to mention
the commercials. We even have one station, a "classic rock" type station, that has a couple times a day
a so called commercial free hour of music. Yep, not one advertisement...BUT! After every song, they have
to tell you that you are listening to a commercial free hour of music, followed by their call sign, followed
by them telling you to enjoy this commercial free hour of music, followed by the call sign again.
And then you have the stations that seem to want to play over the music until the person(s) start singing.
I gave up on commercial radio LONG ago. First started out with XM satellite radio, but, after they merged
with Sirus, I gave up. They don't have commercials on some of their music stations, but they have to tell
you what you are missing on some of the other channels...then they hired a bunch of sad MTV music VJ's
that have to tell you they remember when so and so showed up stoned, drunk or whatever yack yack yack.
Got rid of that and just use streaming through the radio now.
"Movie-theater attendance is down to a 19-year low, with revenues hovering slightly above $10 billion,"
There is a simple problem...you pay your so called talent WAY TOO MUCH, the price of tickets is WAY TOO HIGH,
the price of concessions is WAY TOO HIGH. For your typical family of 4 to go see a movie, not counting gas to get
there and back, it's EASILY over 100.00 PER MOVIE. Not to mention, I for one am fed up with the lazy ass attitude
of hollyWEIRD agencies/movie production companies making nothing more than remake/reboots and part 4,5,6 of
a stupid movie. How about SOMETHING ORIGINAL.
I can stay home, watch 2nd run movies on netflix/Amazon Prime or what not for little to nothing, compared to what it
cost to go to a movie.
4K screen on a phone....morons...like you can really have a "better user experience"
between a good 1080p screen and a 1,000,000,000,000,000p screen.
Just sucking more battery life and money out of your wallet.
You'd think scientist would be pushing for LOWERING the lifespan of humans...well, the "right" humans that is.
The so called "smart" people would be exempt from it of course.
Only work 8 hours LOL.
There are a lot of 12 hour shifts...some 24 hour like fire/ems, granted they aren't busy all the time, but
8-10 hours is usually enough for most people, without driving them insane.
It's almost like they just want to live for the moment...instead of plan for the future.
How many times do you see young adults saying they don't have enough money for
a new phone, but will buy one anyway?
Never save, never put off until you can afford it...it's all now now now.
BOTH have been perfect.
My first Huawei phone was the Mate2, less than $300 dollars off Amazon. I bought it sort of as a joke. I was waiting for the stupid invite for the
Oppo/OnePlus phone. I had the Mate2 for about a week before the OnePlus One invite came. Ordered it with the intention of sending the Mate2
back, since the specs for the mate2 were: 720p screen, SD400 chip, 2gb ram, 4,000mAH battery, Adroid 4.3 Jelly Bean, and the OnePlus had
a HUGE advantage in specs. I got the OnePlus, and yes it was a good phone, but the battery life of the Mate2 won me over, along with the larger
screen. Yes, from a BENCHMARK, the OnePlus blew it out of the water, but, running the same apps, same launcher (Nova Prime) on both phones
I couldn't see a huge difference. Both were snappy, but the Mate2 had a 2-3 day battery life. I don't run games, just phone, text, web, Mp3's, streaming
music etc. In that aspect, the Mate2 was perfect. Sold the OnePlus One about a week later.
But...but...but...the Mate2 was "saddled" with an older version of Android. So? It was rock solid, very smooth, stable, which I take over bleeding edge any
day of the week. My company uses the web for service calls and what not, so I don't have time to deal with force close, reboots and what not. I never turn
my phone off. It runs 24/7 and I'd run for 3-4 months easy between reboots. Huawei skipped KitKat and went straight to Lollipop 5.1 for the Mate2.
When the Mate8 was announced/released in 2015, the price was NUTS...600 bucks or more. I said no way. When the Mate9 was released this past
November, the price on the 8 dropped to around 399/425 so I bought one. It's just as rock solid and stable on Marshmellow 6 as the Mate2 was on
5.1 Lollipop. Granted, with the faster processor and brighter screen, I don't get 2-3 days battery life, but you can get 2 days usually.
Android 7 is suppose to come within the next 30-60 days for my version, but I'll hold off a bit. The reports on XDA show some of the early releases are having
a glitch here and there with bluetooth, which I use 100% of the time.
Huawei has a great phone, and should be considered when making a decision on a new phone.
Guess I'm old fashioned...pretty much any email I send, regardless...ends in thank you.
When I send an email to a company, I always try to say something like thank you for
taking your time to read my email, or thank you for your attention in this matter or something
professional.
You get more flies with sugar than vinegar.
Your post has to be trolling?
NO ONE has a right to come to this country. You may apply for immigrant status, but you have no right
to enter this country.
Also, the H1B crap is causing the lowering of wages. It needs to be stopped. How many times just in the
past couple years have we heard, an employer outsources their I.T. or support jobs to H1B visa holders, and
FORCE the current employees to train their replacements.
I'm conservative...have been all my life, but, I do not watch Fox News Channel...99% of it is just opinion driven, as is MSNBC, CNN et al.
I get my news from various places & websites, INCLUDING some extremely liberal sites.
I find some of the best sources for news for where I live, the USA, come from OUTSIDE my country. Some of the Asian, European & Russian
sites, along with Australia & Japan, can offer a different opinion/spin/story than inside the USA.
I like to form my own opinion, based on my belief system, but I will listen to a different opinion, just to see if there might be something of interest.
The problem is, on BOTH sides of the political isle, the "rabid" types want to shut you down, if you differ from them, regardless if it is a left or
right issue.
Dump some of the H1B visas, send those people back to where they came from, hire U.S. citizens at a good wage.
The other issue is there are too many "startups" that do nothing but drain money. They don't PRODUCE anything.
Been in the copier/printer business for over 35 years. Every major brand, has tried the "erasable" trick before, with terrible
results. Mainly, the powder toner, reacts differently under a specific temperature. At one temperature, you can read the print.
At another temperature, it turns the toner crystals/powder "clear". You can reuse the same paper about 3-5 times, before there
is so much toner "clear" on the paper, that it leaves blank spots in areas where the toner is suppose to be, but can't adhere to the
paper. Plus, even on clean paper, once erased, if you hold it to the light just right, you can barely make out the old print. These
things were designed for simple inter-office memo type things I guess.
The other drawback, is the erasable toner, is VERY VERY expensive. One manufacturer, could not sell them, so they took it in
the rear, gave them away to school systems. We set up a bunch, at no charge, gave them to a bunch of schools. By the time they
started replacing the empty toner, and paying for it, they gave them all back. The manufacturer didn't want them back, so we stripped
out any usable things, then sent the rest to a e-waste recycle company for disposal.
This idea, using the paper, will probably be expensive, since it will take "special" paper.
The other problem, is, with special paper, and the many variable temperature ranges that most printers and photocopiers fuse the
toner into the paper, usually in a range of 300-400 degrees, and the many curves that paper must make during its travel, not to mention
will it work on duplexing (2 sided) copying, I don't really see anything other than a "niche" market for something like this.
I've been in the printer, copier, fax, computer business for almost 36 years.
We sell more fax modules that connect inside a copier/printer than we ever did
with stand alone fax machines.
We have a LOT of healthcare related customers, and their common answer is
"because of HIPAA" we have to use fax machines. They cannot guarantee the
safety and security of an email, if it lands into the hands of the wrong email address.
Plus, we run into "we can't give up fax machines...we've ALWAYS had fax machines".
I use to run into that mentality in the early 80's when fax machines started getting
popular. They wouldn't get a fax, because they always had a messenger service.
I agree. Last one I did was the LCD monitor one. Got around 100 bucks for doing nothing more
than filling out a web form...about a minute of time.
If this one pans out, it's another easy 90 bucks or so for me.
I'll spend a minute of time, to get easy money. May not be much, but it's more than I had.
When I post photos that have personal information, license plates on cars, house numbers, names etc,
I will do a two fold thing. Use the lens blur to blur them out, then go back over them with a masking
color. Pretty simple in photoshop.
Most drugs, just treat the SYMPTOMS, not the cause.
If you constantly have headaches, "aspirin" might get rid of the headache, but the headache
comes back. You need to treat WHY you are getting the headache.
Same with some of these stomach drugs. Yeah, they might get rid of your ache, but it keeps
coming back. Is it masking an underlying problem?
More fake news from the left.
It isn't a BAN, it's a PAUSE, until people are CHECKED PROPERLY.
But that's ok...the left is still ticked off the winner of the popular election
didn't win, even though we've NEVER in the history of the USA ever elected
someone via the popular election. That's not surprising since the Constitution
and the real history of the USA isn't taught anymore.
Poor little snowflakes...go to your safe space. Adults are in charge of government.
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Which is why I keep my MP3 library, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Prime Music on my phone, to bluetooth when I'm in the car. It's the SAME 5-6 songs by the same artists over and over and over, not to mention the commercials. We even have one station, a "classic rock" type station, that has a couple times a day a so called commercial free hour of music. Yep, not one advertisement...BUT! After every song, they have to tell you that you are listening to a commercial free hour of music, followed by their call sign, followed by them telling you to enjoy this commercial free hour of music, followed by the call sign again. And then you have the stations that seem to want to play over the music until the person(s) start singing. I gave up on commercial radio LONG ago. First started out with XM satellite radio, but, after they merged with Sirus, I gave up. They don't have commercials on some of their music stations, but they have to tell you what you are missing on some of the other channels...then they hired a bunch of sad MTV music VJ's that have to tell you they remember when so and so showed up stoned, drunk or whatever yack yack yack. Got rid of that and just use streaming through the radio now.
"Movie-theater attendance is down to a 19-year low, with revenues hovering slightly above $10 billion," There is a simple problem...you pay your so called talent WAY TOO MUCH, the price of tickets is WAY TOO HIGH, the price of concessions is WAY TOO HIGH. For your typical family of 4 to go see a movie, not counting gas to get there and back, it's EASILY over 100.00 PER MOVIE. Not to mention, I for one am fed up with the lazy ass attitude of hollyWEIRD agencies/movie production companies making nothing more than remake/reboots and part 4,5,6 of a stupid movie. How about SOMETHING ORIGINAL. I can stay home, watch 2nd run movies on netflix/Amazon Prime or what not for little to nothing, compared to what it cost to go to a movie.
4K screen on a phone....morons...like you can really have a "better user experience" between a good 1080p screen and a 1,000,000,000,000,000p screen. Just sucking more battery life and money out of your wallet.
We don't want them to be self aware ;)
Well, count me in.... I was BORN here. That makes ME a NATIVE American.
You'd think scientist would be pushing for LOWERING the lifespan of humans...well, the "right" humans that is. The so called "smart" people would be exempt from it of course.
Only work 8 hours LOL. There are a lot of 12 hour shifts...some 24 hour like fire/ems, granted they aren't busy all the time, but 8-10 hours is usually enough for most people, without driving them insane.
It's almost like they just want to live for the moment...instead of plan for the future. How many times do you see young adults saying they don't have enough money for a new phone, but will buy one anyway? Never save, never put off until you can afford it...it's all now now now.
I could care less how this or that makes mice into super mice... How about studying humans? (yes I know why they do the studies on mice)
Russians hacked the election. NOPE, fake news...just because the LIBERAL QUEEN Hillary LOST THE ELECTION.
BOTH have been perfect. My first Huawei phone was the Mate2, less than $300 dollars off Amazon. I bought it sort of as a joke. I was waiting for the stupid invite for the Oppo/OnePlus phone. I had the Mate2 for about a week before the OnePlus One invite came. Ordered it with the intention of sending the Mate2 back, since the specs for the mate2 were: 720p screen, SD400 chip, 2gb ram, 4,000mAH battery, Adroid 4.3 Jelly Bean, and the OnePlus had a HUGE advantage in specs. I got the OnePlus, and yes it was a good phone, but the battery life of the Mate2 won me over, along with the larger screen. Yes, from a BENCHMARK, the OnePlus blew it out of the water, but, running the same apps, same launcher (Nova Prime) on both phones I couldn't see a huge difference. Both were snappy, but the Mate2 had a 2-3 day battery life. I don't run games, just phone, text, web, Mp3's, streaming music etc. In that aspect, the Mate2 was perfect. Sold the OnePlus One about a week later. But...but...but...the Mate2 was "saddled" with an older version of Android. So? It was rock solid, very smooth, stable, which I take over bleeding edge any day of the week. My company uses the web for service calls and what not, so I don't have time to deal with force close, reboots and what not. I never turn my phone off. It runs 24/7 and I'd run for 3-4 months easy between reboots. Huawei skipped KitKat and went straight to Lollipop 5.1 for the Mate2. When the Mate8 was announced/released in 2015, the price was NUTS...600 bucks or more. I said no way. When the Mate9 was released this past November, the price on the 8 dropped to around 399/425 so I bought one. It's just as rock solid and stable on Marshmellow 6 as the Mate2 was on 5.1 Lollipop. Granted, with the faster processor and brighter screen, I don't get 2-3 days battery life, but you can get 2 days usually. Android 7 is suppose to come within the next 30-60 days for my version, but I'll hold off a bit. The reports on XDA show some of the early releases are having a glitch here and there with bluetooth, which I use 100% of the time. Huawei has a great phone, and should be considered when making a decision on a new phone.
Guess I'm old fashioned...pretty much any email I send, regardless...ends in thank you. When I send an email to a company, I always try to say something like thank you for taking your time to read my email, or thank you for your attention in this matter or something professional. You get more flies with sugar than vinegar.
Your post has to be trolling? NO ONE has a right to come to this country. You may apply for immigrant status, but you have no right to enter this country. Also, the H1B crap is causing the lowering of wages. It needs to be stopped. How many times just in the past couple years have we heard, an employer outsources their I.T. or support jobs to H1B visa holders, and FORCE the current employees to train their replacements.
THAT'S how it is suppose to work! Competition helps to spur better products.
I'm conservative...have been all my life, but, I do not watch Fox News Channel...99% of it is just opinion driven, as is MSNBC, CNN et al. I get my news from various places & websites, INCLUDING some extremely liberal sites. I find some of the best sources for news for where I live, the USA, come from OUTSIDE my country. Some of the Asian, European & Russian sites, along with Australia & Japan, can offer a different opinion/spin/story than inside the USA. I like to form my own opinion, based on my belief system, but I will listen to a different opinion, just to see if there might be something of interest. The problem is, on BOTH sides of the political isle, the "rabid" types want to shut you down, if you differ from them, regardless if it is a left or right issue.
Dump some of the H1B visas, send those people back to where they came from, hire U.S. citizens at a good wage. The other issue is there are too many "startups" that do nothing but drain money. They don't PRODUCE anything.
Probably caused it to sink eh?
Been in the copier/printer business for over 35 years. Every major brand, has tried the "erasable" trick before, with terrible results. Mainly, the powder toner, reacts differently under a specific temperature. At one temperature, you can read the print. At another temperature, it turns the toner crystals/powder "clear". You can reuse the same paper about 3-5 times, before there is so much toner "clear" on the paper, that it leaves blank spots in areas where the toner is suppose to be, but can't adhere to the paper. Plus, even on clean paper, once erased, if you hold it to the light just right, you can barely make out the old print. These things were designed for simple inter-office memo type things I guess. The other drawback, is the erasable toner, is VERY VERY expensive. One manufacturer, could not sell them, so they took it in the rear, gave them away to school systems. We set up a bunch, at no charge, gave them to a bunch of schools. By the time they started replacing the empty toner, and paying for it, they gave them all back. The manufacturer didn't want them back, so we stripped out any usable things, then sent the rest to a e-waste recycle company for disposal. This idea, using the paper, will probably be expensive, since it will take "special" paper. The other problem, is, with special paper, and the many variable temperature ranges that most printers and photocopiers fuse the toner into the paper, usually in a range of 300-400 degrees, and the many curves that paper must make during its travel, not to mention will it work on duplexing (2 sided) copying, I don't really see anything other than a "niche" market for something like this.
I've been in the printer, copier, fax, computer business for almost 36 years. We sell more fax modules that connect inside a copier/printer than we ever did with stand alone fax machines. We have a LOT of healthcare related customers, and their common answer is "because of HIPAA" we have to use fax machines. They cannot guarantee the safety and security of an email, if it lands into the hands of the wrong email address. Plus, we run into "we can't give up fax machines...we've ALWAYS had fax machines". I use to run into that mentality in the early 80's when fax machines started getting popular. They wouldn't get a fax, because they always had a messenger service.
I agree. Last one I did was the LCD monitor one. Got around 100 bucks for doing nothing more than filling out a web form...about a minute of time. If this one pans out, it's another easy 90 bucks or so for me. I'll spend a minute of time, to get easy money. May not be much, but it's more than I had.
Problem solved!
When I post photos that have personal information, license plates on cars, house numbers, names etc, I will do a two fold thing. Use the lens blur to blur them out, then go back over them with a masking color. Pretty simple in photoshop.
He's got enough money, retire early, enjoy life with your wife.
Most drugs, just treat the SYMPTOMS, not the cause. If you constantly have headaches, "aspirin" might get rid of the headache, but the headache comes back. You need to treat WHY you are getting the headache. Same with some of these stomach drugs. Yeah, they might get rid of your ache, but it keeps coming back. Is it masking an underlying problem?
More fake news from the left. It isn't a BAN, it's a PAUSE, until people are CHECKED PROPERLY. But that's ok...the left is still ticked off the winner of the popular election didn't win, even though we've NEVER in the history of the USA ever elected someone via the popular election. That's not surprising since the Constitution and the real history of the USA isn't taught anymore. Poor little snowflakes...go to your safe space. Adults are in charge of government.