Depends on the room. If I could have a bathroom-cleaning robot I would be very happy. My bathroom has a countertop with two sinks, a toilet, a shower with a glass wall and a glass door, and tub, and a couple of towel racks. It also has a scale, a small seat that can be used when sitting at the counter for certain hygiene procedures, a trash can, and some supplies on the counter, in the shower on a shelf, and on a shelf next to the tub. We do not add extra furniture to the bathroom and if we had a robot whose sole purpose was to clean the bathroom we could maintain a routine of where non-fixed objects belong so that they don't interfere with the robot's job.
I don't get why vacuuming robots have to be flat disks. Sure, they don't necessarily have to be incredibly tall like an upright, but it seems like they sacrifice real cleaning power for appearances sake. I want a nice middle-ground, where the robot is bigger and more effect, and like you say, made out of durable materials instead of cheap plastic.
Not everyone likes or dislikes doing the same chores. I don't like cleaning bathrooms. Mopping the floor, scrubbing the walls, floor, and door of the shower, scrubbing the tub, cleaning the toilet, clearing the counter and cleaning it and the sinks, not my idea of fun. It still gets done, but probably not as often as it should.
I want a robot to do household cleaning chores. Clean the bathroom, or at least the flat surfaces. Mop the tiled floors. Vacuum the carpets. Clean the windows. Possibly clean the patio and the sidewalks. Possibly deal with some of the kitchen cleaning. If the robot did this kind of cleaning daily then it never would be all that bad and consequently the robot wouldn't have to work very hard on any given day so long as it started out relatively clean.
Stuff like laundry? Not that big a deal when the machine does all of the work and I just have to load the wash, move the washed clothes to the dryer, and put them away when they're dry. Can do that off and on while I'm otherwise just watching TV. Cooking dinner? I'd rather do that my self for the moment as I like variety, which I don't think a robot would be as good at compared to extremely repetitive cleaning tasks.
We picked up a Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen for my wife, with 8GB RAM and the Core i7 processor, it's a very nice computer. Not as fast as my dual-quad Xeon Precision Workstation, but certainly no slouch...
I like virtualbox. Yes, I know, it's Oracle's now. But, I can move the VM files easily from computer to computer if I have to so long as the VM is down when I do it.
Wasn't that one of the last non-Intel commercial-grade Macintoshes? I expect that it's a matter of being a niche product for a niche that is willing to spend the money when it's necessary. If one has commercial software for a specific purpose, like video or audio editing, one might have to stick with a certain platform.
Besides, asking price and transaction price are not the same thing. Someone is soliciting $150 for it, but that doesn't mean they'll find buyers.
We use numerous highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except MS Office, and have occasionally had problems over the years even with MS Office and problems as features are tweaked by Microsoft.
Part of the problem is that users that are extremely proficient with MS Office do not want to change, much like users that were extremely proficient with WordPerfect didn't want to change either.
This isn't some Betamax vs VHS debate. This is a very niche group of enthusiasts that have managed to attract some attention from speculators. If they break the standard the speculators will go find something else to try to get rich off-of, the corporations that have appeased the market by accepting Bitcoin will stop accepting it, and it'll crash.
Donno if it'd be any better. That's the problem. If one could prove that the device would be reliable then it'd be worth spending the money for it, but I've seen plenty of devices that seemed like they'd be good that aren't.
That's because it's a Linksys cablemodem with Cisco sticker on it.
Cisco made HWIC adapters for Cablemodem too, but my cable provider won't allow the subscriber to register it on the network. Probably gives too much control to the subscriber. They're DOCSIS 2.0 too, so they're obsolete unfortunately.
Go buy a Cisco router and the WIFI HWIC modules for it. Granted, you'll spend 10x what that consumer-grade POS costs and you'll have to spend a considerable amount of time learning how to properly configure and secure it, but it will be reliable. And 802.11g.
This means people have to plan LAN parties in advance. They can't gather for a reason other to play video games and then just spontaneously decide to break out the video games.
They also can't start their tabletop role playing games unless they bring their books and dice and character sheets. They can't go target shooting unless they bring their guns and ammunition.
Most everyone I know has habits and tends to do things that fall into those habits. If people regularly game on weekends they bring the games. If they go put a few rounds through some aluminum cans they bring guns and ammo and targets. If they play computer games together they bring computers or have left a rig at the friend's house that they regularly play at.
This is true. The main reason I mentioned it is that the people that made the manuals would often have people offer a book to them, not having any idea how much work it takes and how it destroys the original, and how even relatively-common specialized equipment is needed that most people do not have ready access to.
I've got a Windows VM for the corporate stuff that I have to do that has 2GB allocated to it. The box that the VM used to be on has 8GB, which is more than enough for the purposes it's used for. I've got other boxes that are basically just dummy console aggregators that have 2GB and could probably get away with more like 128MB given the lack of GUI.
Some acquaintances of mine were the authorized distributor of electronic Mopar factory service manuals. The act of creating the electronic manual from the paper manual to professional standards is extremely involved. Flawless or nearly-flawless books have to be found, then they have to be cut apart with precision paper-handling equipment to separate the pages from the spines while leaving the pages of a uniform size. They're scanned, but since they're old the scanning process has to be baby-sat to deal with feed errors, and once they're scanned they have to be reviewed for any optical issues, then to be indexed they're OCRed, that proof-read by machine and spot-checked by a human (remember, machines do not handle technical formatting well) and then tables-of-contents for the book and the chapters have to be created.
That's why it's easy for a popular FSM to cost $100, and for less popular titles to easily cross $200, and explains why some models never get good electronic documentation if there's little to no demand. Remember, this is for cars that were produced in the tens or hundreds of thousands in a single model-year.
Each player is obligated to bring their own computer, power strip, extension cord, ethernet station cable, and chair. Players are expected to coordinate tables.
I used to host my friends for LAN parties twice a month when I was a teenager. My parents are saints.
Commercial insurance to cover the medical expenses of severely injured passengers for the rest of their lives or to pay life insurance claims to their dependents if they should die as a result of an auto accident involving the vehicle they're riding in.
I'm not sure that I believe your claims about yourself. You talk about a Commercial Driver's License but fail to use terms like "medium," "heavy," or "class" in your describing your pursuit. I also don't believe that it would be that hard to have a truck pass, especially if one runs through a quick course at a truck-driving school where the school would provide the truck for the driver's test.
Quite simply, if you're driving yourself around you're putting yourself at risk. If you have a passenger you're putting that passenger at risk.
Commercial insurance for passenger livery is to ensure that when the inevitable accident happens, that commercial insurance pays for the medical treatment and loss-of-livelihood for that passenger regardless of how badly they're injured, or pays a life-insurance claim to dependents if they're killed. That's a teensy bit higher than the $50,000 coverage levels that are required for consumer automotive policies.
I bascailly stopped gaming when so many titles became online-only. I enjoyed hunting down computer-controlled enemies to go through the level until I got to the exit door, and while I enjoyed multiplayer deathmatch, playing alone for awhile to learn the particulars of the game before coming up against experienced players made it a lot more fun to eventually play against them, as it's not fun to just be fragged and fragged and fragged.
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Depends on the room. If I could have a bathroom-cleaning robot I would be very happy. My bathroom has a countertop with two sinks, a toilet, a shower with a glass wall and a glass door, and tub, and a couple of towel racks. It also has a scale, a small seat that can be used when sitting at the counter for certain hygiene procedures, a trash can, and some supplies on the counter, in the shower on a shelf, and on a shelf next to the tub. We do not add extra furniture to the bathroom and if we had a robot whose sole purpose was to clean the bathroom we could maintain a routine of where non-fixed objects belong so that they don't interfere with the robot's job.
I don't get why vacuuming robots have to be flat disks. Sure, they don't necessarily have to be incredibly tall like an upright, but it seems like they sacrifice real cleaning power for appearances sake. I want a nice middle-ground, where the robot is bigger and more effect, and like you say, made out of durable materials instead of cheap plastic.
Not everyone likes or dislikes doing the same chores. I don't like cleaning bathrooms. Mopping the floor, scrubbing the walls, floor, and door of the shower, scrubbing the tub, cleaning the toilet, clearing the counter and cleaning it and the sinks, not my idea of fun. It still gets done, but probably not as often as it should.
I want a robot to do household cleaning chores. Clean the bathroom, or at least the flat surfaces. Mop the tiled floors. Vacuum the carpets. Clean the windows. Possibly clean the patio and the sidewalks. Possibly deal with some of the kitchen cleaning. If the robot did this kind of cleaning daily then it never would be all that bad and consequently the robot wouldn't have to work very hard on any given day so long as it started out relatively clean.
Stuff like laundry? Not that big a deal when the machine does all of the work and I just have to load the wash, move the washed clothes to the dryer, and put them away when they're dry. Can do that off and on while I'm otherwise just watching TV. Cooking dinner? I'd rather do that my self for the moment as I like variety, which I don't think a robot would be as good at compared to extremely repetitive cleaning tasks.
We picked up a Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen for my wife, with 8GB RAM and the Core i7 processor, it's a very nice computer. Not as fast as my dual-quad Xeon Precision Workstation, but certainly no slouch...
I was an outsider before it was popular...
I like virtualbox. Yes, I know, it's Oracle's now. But, I can move the VM files easily from computer to computer if I have to so long as the VM is down when I do it.
That's why they can have my Alienware M17 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Wasn't that one of the last non-Intel commercial-grade Macintoshes? I expect that it's a matter of being a niche product for a niche that is willing to spend the money when it's necessary. If one has commercial software for a specific purpose, like video or audio editing, one might have to stick with a certain platform.
Besides, asking price and transaction price are not the same thing. Someone is soliciting $150 for it, but that doesn't mean they'll find buyers.
For some things it won't help.
We use numerous highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except MS Office, and have occasionally had problems over the years even with MS Office and problems as features are tweaked by Microsoft.
Part of the problem is that users that are extremely proficient with MS Office do not want to change, much like users that were extremely proficient with WordPerfect didn't want to change either.
So, neither then?
This isn't some Betamax vs VHS debate. This is a very niche group of enthusiasts that have managed to attract some attention from speculators. If they break the standard the speculators will go find something else to try to get rich off-of, the corporations that have appeased the market by accepting Bitcoin will stop accepting it, and it'll crash.
Donno if it'd be any better. That's the problem. If one could prove that the device would be reliable then it'd be worth spending the money for it, but I've seen plenty of devices that seemed like they'd be good that aren't.
That's because it's a Linksys cablemodem with Cisco sticker on it.
Cisco made HWIC adapters for Cablemodem too, but my cable provider won't allow the subscriber to register it on the network. Probably gives too much control to the subscriber. They're DOCSIS 2.0 too, so they're obsolete unfortunately.
Go buy a Cisco router and the WIFI HWIC modules for it. Granted, you'll spend 10x what that consumer-grade POS costs and you'll have to spend a considerable amount of time learning how to properly configure and secure it, but it will be reliable. And 802.11g.
Now now, you're attempting to offend with style. Try offending with substance instead.
This means people have to plan LAN parties in advance. They can't gather for a reason other to play video games and then just spontaneously decide to break out the video games.
They also can't start their tabletop role playing games unless they bring their books and dice and character sheets. They can't go target shooting unless they bring their guns and ammunition.
Most everyone I know has habits and tends to do things that fall into those habits. If people regularly game on weekends they bring the games. If they go put a few rounds through some aluminum cans they bring guns and ammo and targets. If they play computer games together they bring computers or have left a rig at the friend's house that they regularly play at.
This is true. The main reason I mentioned it is that the people that made the manuals would often have people offer a book to them, not having any idea how much work it takes and how it destroys the original, and how even relatively-common specialized equipment is needed that most people do not have ready access to.
Because the nature of the demand for the product allows them to charge that for it.
Someone operating in a little bubble.
I've got a Windows VM for the corporate stuff that I have to do that has 2GB allocated to it. The box that the VM used to be on has 8GB, which is more than enough for the purposes it's used for. I've got other boxes that are basically just dummy console aggregators that have 2GB and could probably get away with more like 128MB given the lack of GUI.
Some acquaintances of mine were the authorized distributor of electronic Mopar factory service manuals. The act of creating the electronic manual from the paper manual to professional standards is extremely involved. Flawless or nearly-flawless books have to be found, then they have to be cut apart with precision paper-handling equipment to separate the pages from the spines while leaving the pages of a uniform size. They're scanned, but since they're old the scanning process has to be baby-sat to deal with feed errors, and once they're scanned they have to be reviewed for any optical issues, then to be indexed they're OCRed, that proof-read by machine and spot-checked by a human (remember, machines do not handle technical formatting well) and then tables-of-contents for the book and the chapters have to be created.
That's why it's easy for a popular FSM to cost $100, and for less popular titles to easily cross $200, and explains why some models never get good electronic documentation if there's little to no demand. Remember, this is for cars that were produced in the tens or hundreds of thousands in a single model-year.
Each player is obligated to bring their own computer, power strip, extension cord, ethernet station cable, and chair. Players are expected to coordinate tables.
I used to host my friends for LAN parties twice a month when I was a teenager. My parents are saints.
Commercial insurance to cover the medical expenses of severely injured passengers for the rest of their lives or to pay life insurance claims to their dependents if they should die as a result of an auto accident involving the vehicle they're riding in.
I'm not sure that I believe your claims about yourself. You talk about a Commercial Driver's License but fail to use terms like "medium," "heavy," or "class" in your describing your pursuit. I also don't believe that it would be that hard to have a truck pass, especially if one runs through a quick course at a truck-driving school where the school would provide the truck for the driver's test.
Quite simply, if you're driving yourself around you're putting yourself at risk. If you have a passenger you're putting that passenger at risk.
Commercial insurance for passenger livery is to ensure that when the inevitable accident happens, that commercial insurance pays for the medical treatment and loss-of-livelihood for that passenger regardless of how badly they're injured, or pays a life-insurance claim to dependents if they're killed. That's a teensy bit higher than the $50,000 coverage levels that are required for consumer automotive policies.
...of him wanting our AOL cds...
Good luck to him, but it's hard to say how valuable instruction manuals are if the machines they instruct in the use of no longer exist.
I bascailly stopped gaming when so many titles became online-only. I enjoyed hunting down computer-controlled enemies to go through the level until I got to the exit door, and while I enjoyed multiplayer deathmatch, playing alone for awhile to learn the particulars of the game before coming up against experienced players made it a lot more fun to eventually play against them, as it's not fun to just be fragged and fragged and fragged.