Having used my phone while driving for the past 20 years (even when it was a brick phone), I wonder about this law. Here in the Socialist Republic of California, there is a similar law. I wonder if we shouldn't just ban holding the steering wheel. After all, I'd wager that 99% of crashes occur to drivers using the steering wheel.
...I need to see faster charging, longer range, and better battery management.
I have wanted an electric vehicle for some time. Almost bought a Volt when then Gen II came out, but the thing is a small 2+2. With me at 6'4" (190cm) and my two 6' tall teenagers, there's no way to fit in the vehicle. (I had the same issue in my Jetta TDI.) Recently bought a Malibu hybrid, which contains the Voltec engine albeit with a much smaller battery. At least I can fit by young boys, though still can't take four passengers comfortably, like in my Avalanche.
Now - if an electric can have the midsize of my 2006 Avalanche and the range (500+ miles) with the ability to recharge in 10 minutes, and the guarantee that the battery won't be sitting in a landfill after losing charge ability in five years, I'm sold.
My son bought himself one of these. Nice UI for an Android device, it wasn't the TouchWiz. My fears of a glass back came true, when he was switching from a case and dropped it two feet onto his desk. The entire back was shattered.
Fortunately, the phone was already recalled. Who's stupid enough to make a handheld computer with a glass back?
FWIW, I have both a 950xl and a EliteX3. I replaced my Galaxy and Ios devices with the Windows Mobile devices because they work so much more intuitively for me.
However, it wasn't too long ago, when I was using my Galaxy S2, that I never tired of bashing Windows Phone 6 and the prior iteration - Windows CE. They were terrible in my opinion. With the advent of windows 8, the game changed. The UI finally surpassed both Android and Iphones and I found the devices worked great. Windows 10 is even better.
However, by this time, the proverbial ship had sailed and the world uses Android. (Some folks in the US still cling to Iphones, though I cannot figure out why.)
I don't care if people laugh. Never have. I actually prefer GIMP to Photoshop. (I have both.) Thought I'm still annoyed at GIMP for removing the "save as" feature and making "export" the same option.
As for Acrobat, there is no alternative. I do much of my work - performance evaluations, my evaluations, time off requests, overtime requests, purchase requests - in Adobe Experience Manager. Not only do I need to be on Windows (7, 8, 10) but I need to have IE. I used to hack this stuff together using WINE (http://perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090614_wine_excel_2007.jpg) but gave up around 2011, with it becoming increasingly impossible.
That said - we have several hundred servers running RHEL, and several dozen of our web servers run on various zLinux servers. I believe many of our Cisco servers are Linux also (though I'm not sure).
Keep in mind, I used Linux since the late '90s - http://www.perfectreign.com/2014/08/15-years-of-linux/ - so am somewhat proficient. I still use BASH on my Windows OSX machine - https://twitter.com/PerfectReign/status/724771094566072320
Yes, Linux distributions suck less than Windows. However, there becomes increasingly less one can do in *nix. Besides I use bash on Windows 10 pretty much daily.
If I were a kernel dev or even just a website admin I might be able to get by. However, people just like to use commercial software. People laugh at me when they see me use GIMP. Could I use Photoshop? Sure. However, there's zero alternative to Acrobat. Yes, I could cobble together Evince, CUPS, and Inkscape, but they just don't do the trick well. Even when running on Ubuntu, I would prefer to fire up a VM of Windows 7 and run Acrobat.
So, I read this on my Windows 10 Surface Pro 3 (running the latest fast ring build) while having my TRS-80 model one, my Apple IIe, and my Mac SE/30 on my side table.
Yes, the mainstream of computing is different. I no longer have to worry about dip switches or whether I can address memory above 4 MB of RAM.
However, my teenage son is now designing 3D printed objects on his homebrew PC (dual-boot Win10 and Mint) which he then sends to his MonoPrice 3D printer, which he built from a kit then - not liking the print head - grafted one from an XYZ model. Let's not forget the IoT devices he's been hacking together using his Raspberry Pi.
As an LAC employee, I cannot believe the hit this has taken. I got the email and dumped it, Still, I'm waiting on the $10,000 inheritance check from the former deposed Nigerian prince. I only had to submit my credit card.
I have a Windows Mobile 10 device, an HP Elite X3. i love the device. All told, I'd say it sucks less than my Android devices did.
Having bought a new car with Android Auto, I fired up my Galaxy S6 and connected, thinking to myself that Windows is missing another app. Well, not so much. Other than being able to control the device from a larger screen I immediately was less than impressed. Not only was the functionality less but the same fuzzy blah graphics that I so hated on Gnome (vs KDE) were present.
I need to check out an Iphone 6. I have a few dozen here at work. Maybe i'll slip my AT&T SIM into one and take it for a test drive.
Having grown very tired of Android and still not liking Iphones (I tried, trust me), I'm sticking with Windows Mobile. While i enjoy my shiny new Elite X3, I'm curious what a Surface Phone will bring to the table.
I honestly saw this and thought it odd as I figured Facebook was becoming irrelevant. Most of my peers and my kids and their peers no longer even use the site or the apps. Surprised to see the outcry.
Here we go again, with the "it isn't secure, and we're gonna hack the election" conspiracy. Funny how our entire banking system is online and secure enough, yet voting isn't. We're still forced to accept 1800's era paper trails. Even the multi-million LA County voting system (last designed in 1969) is being redone with a paper balloting process.http://vsap.lavote.net/
...actually it is valid for quick prototyping. Though client/server is very old-school (not as old as cobol) at least for a quick-and-dirty app, it can work.
I would love to see it become OSS and then have it running under the radar like IBM sort of did with eComStation.
Of course, being a PHB, i don't actually do any programming any more, so I have no stake in this. All our stuff is either Java or C# these days.
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Having used my phone while driving for the past 20 years (even when it was a brick phone), I wonder about this law. Here in the Socialist Republic of California, there is a similar law. I wonder if we shouldn't just ban holding the steering wheel. After all, I'd wager that 99% of crashes occur to drivers using the steering wheel.
I remember wanting to run Office and Visual Studio on WINE. It worked for the most part.
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090614_wine_excel_2007.jpg
LOL
...and my name must be Rockefeller.
https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-x/2016/st-200674639/review/
Still, can I "fill it up" - ie charge it - in five minutes? Are those seven adults all six feet tall?
Also, is the electric infrastructure renewable like it is here in SoCal?
Just playing devil's advocate here. Give me an electric vehicle with a diesel powered charge sustaining generator and I'm sold.
...I need to see faster charging, longer range, and better battery management.
I have wanted an electric vehicle for some time. Almost bought a Volt when then Gen II came out, but the thing is a small 2+2. With me at 6'4" (190cm) and my two 6' tall teenagers, there's no way to fit in the vehicle. (I had the same issue in my Jetta TDI.) Recently bought a Malibu hybrid, which contains the Voltec engine albeit with a much smaller battery. At least I can fit by young boys, though still can't take four passengers comfortably, like in my Avalanche.
Now - if an electric can have the midsize of my 2006 Avalanche and the range (500+ miles) with the ability to recharge in 10 minutes, and the guarantee that the battery won't be sitting in a landfill after losing charge ability in five years, I'm sold.
Fascinating! I had no idea. I did like the metal back on my HTC One M8. However I've always had plastic otherwise on my android, Windows, and IPhone
My son bought himself one of these. Nice UI for an Android device, it wasn't the TouchWiz. My fears of a glass back came true, when he was switching from a case and dropped it two feet onto his desk. The entire back was shattered.
Fortunately, the phone was already recalled. Who's stupid enough to make a handheld computer with a glass back?
https://twitter.com/PerfectReign/status/778987256652587008
The comment was focused more on usability. I find Iphone and Ios the antithesis of logical and user friendliness.
FWIW, I have both a 950xl and a EliteX3. I replaced my Galaxy and Ios devices with the Windows Mobile devices because they work so much more intuitively for me.
However, it wasn't too long ago, when I was using my Galaxy S2, that I never tired of bashing Windows Phone 6 and the prior iteration - Windows CE. They were terrible in my opinion. With the advent of windows 8, the game changed. The UI finally surpassed both Android and Iphones and I found the devices worked great. Windows 10 is even better.
However, by this time, the proverbial ship had sailed and the world uses Android. (Some folks in the US still cling to Iphones, though I cannot figure out why.)
I don't care if people laugh. Never have. I actually prefer GIMP to Photoshop. (I have both.) Thought I'm still annoyed at GIMP for removing the "save as" feature and making "export" the same option.
As for Acrobat, there is no alternative. I do much of my work - performance evaluations, my evaluations, time off requests, overtime requests, purchase requests - in Adobe Experience Manager. Not only do I need to be on Windows (7, 8, 10) but I need to have IE. I used to hack this stuff together using WINE (http://perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090614_wine_excel_2007.jpg) but gave up around 2011, with it becoming increasingly impossible.
That said - we have several hundred servers running RHEL, and several dozen of our web servers run on various zLinux servers. I believe many of our Cisco servers are Linux also (though I'm not sure).
Keep in mind, I used Linux since the late '90s - http://www.perfectreign.com/2014/08/15-years-of-linux/ - so am somewhat proficient. I still use BASH on my Windows OSX machine - https://twitter.com/PerfectReign/status/724771094566072320
I had tried it several times. Too much work.
Yes, Linux distributions suck less than Windows. However, there becomes increasingly less one can do in *nix. Besides I use bash on Windows 10 pretty much daily.
If I were a kernel dev or even just a website admin I might be able to get by. However, people just like to use commercial software. People laugh at me when they see me use GIMP. Could I use Photoshop? Sure. However, there's zero alternative to Acrobat. Yes, I could cobble together Evince, CUPS, and Inkscape, but they just don't do the trick well. Even when running on Ubuntu, I would prefer to fire up a VM of Windows 7 and run Acrobat.
So, I read this on my Windows 10 Surface Pro 3 (running the latest fast ring build) while having my TRS-80 model one, my Apple IIe, and my Mac SE/30 on my side table.
Yes, the mainstream of computing is different. I no longer have to worry about dip switches or whether I can address memory above 4 MB of RAM.
However, my teenage son is now designing 3D printed objects on his homebrew PC (dual-boot Win10 and Mint) which he then sends to his MonoPrice 3D printer, which he built from a kit then - not liking the print head - grafted one from an XYZ model. Let's not forget the IoT devices he's been hacking together using his Raspberry Pi.
Yes, things are different.
My son will say the same in 30 years.
Was hearing from my son yesterday that the "inflation" in bitcoin is causing it to be less profitable to mine.
Ahh, well.
As an LAC employee, I cannot believe the hit this has taken. I got the email and dumped it, Still, I'm waiting on the $10,000 inheritance check from the former deposed Nigerian prince. I only had to submit my credit card.
I have a Windows Mobile 10 device, an HP Elite X3. i love the device. All told, I'd say it sucks less than my Android devices did.
Having bought a new car with Android Auto, I fired up my Galaxy S6 and connected, thinking to myself that Windows is missing another app. Well, not so much. Other than being able to control the device from a larger screen I immediately was less than impressed. Not only was the functionality less but the same fuzzy blah graphics that I so hated on Gnome (vs KDE) were present.
I need to check out an Iphone 6. I have a few dozen here at work. Maybe i'll slip my AT&T SIM into one and take it for a test drive.
Man, seems like everyone is wanting to spread FUD on elections items.
Let's see, OH, yes, Wired ran a guide yesterday to how to rig an election in 10,000 easy steps:
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rigging-presidential-election/?mbid=social_twitter
Way easier just to pay off your special interest groups.
In spite of having a SGS 6 and having used S2, Note 2, Iphone 6s+, I bought a new HP Elite X3 Windows Mobile device.
I'll have to check myself into the hospital.
lol
Having grown very tired of Android and still not liking Iphones (I tried, trust me), I'm sticking with Windows Mobile. While i enjoy my shiny new Elite X3, I'm curious what a Surface Phone will bring to the table.
I honestly saw this and thought it odd as I figured Facebook was becoming irrelevant. Most of my peers and my kids and their peers no longer even use the site or the apps. Surprised to see the outcry.
I love these "sky is falling" videos. Kind of reminds me when Microsoft was bashing Linux.
I hope emperor Trump takes care of this with his death squads. No more voting!
Here we go again, with the "it isn't secure, and we're gonna hack the election" conspiracy. Funny how our entire banking system is online and secure enough, yet voting isn't. We're still forced to accept 1800's era paper trails. Even the multi-million LA County voting system (last designed in 1969) is being redone with a paper balloting process.http://vsap.lavote.net/
Sheesh!
...actually it is valid for quick prototyping. Though client/server is very old-school (not as old as cobol) at least for a quick-and-dirty app, it can work.
I would love to see it become OSS and then have it running under the radar like IBM sort of did with eComStation.
Of course, being a PHB, i don't actually do any programming any more, so I have no stake in this. All our stuff is either Java or C# these days.
Oh, that's right. My younger son is on Instagram all day long.
I must remember to make something stupid. People will want it.
I keep wanting to make something intelligent, stupid me.