Whoops I forgot to mention that if a cup of raw corn syrup literally knocks you out despite the caffeine you might want to stop doing that until you mention it to your doctor who will probably order a glucose tolerance test to see if you have some insulin issues. That involves chugging a bottle of corn syrup with blood sugar level testing before and periodically after. Note that only an idiot would get official medical advice from/., but this was an accurate and true anecdotal summary of what my wife had to do (result in her case was nothing wrong with her).
Gut clogging quantities of HFCS most likely. Unless you drip a quarter cup of corn syrup into your coffee as a control. The no-cal versions have vast quantities of strange sweeteners.
If you want a real control, assuming you can still legally buy caffeine pills OTC (or maybe over the net) like Vivaran (sp?) you can simply pop pills equal to however many milligrams you'd like. Drink some water to wash it down and maintain hydration and its almost guaranteed to be healthier for your innards than the additives in either drink.
Its rather telling WRT lethal dosages that they used to sell vivarin caffeine pills in 50 packs (implying you can chug them all and live) but sleep aid pills in 5 packs (implying more than a couple and you're dead). Then again they sell tylenol in 500 capsule buckets at sams club so maybe my theory doesn't apply.
Whenever Google updates Android, engineers have to modify it for each phone, chip, radio card that relies on the OS. Hardware vendors must make a unique version for each device and they have scarce resources
How come the cyanogenmod people do a better job than everyone else in the industry?
I just upgraded a LS670 last weekend to cyanogenmod. CM9 if I recall. Its faster, looks better, more features, MUCH newer which would imply fewer holes, overall quite a massive improvement over stock. It no longer has cell service, I'm using this phone as a wifi microtablet, quite happily.
Please note that on a branch count basis, more bank branches have failed during the current second great depression than during the first. That would seem to be direct experimental evidence we were better off with smaller banks last time around.
As opposed to our current system of corporations enslaving us and the.gov
Sounds good to me!
Personally I'd like to see direct participatory democracy wrt granting, renewing, and eliminating corporate charters. Convince all of us that your crooked little monopolistic cabal "deserves" citizenship via individual national referendum every 10 yrs or so... or your corporation is dissolved in one year. You think a certain bank sucks? Vote it out of existence. Sounds good to me. If they behaved themselves, like my local non-profit childrens hospital, they probably wouldn't have much fear of extinction. That also sounds good to me.
The government does the splitting up and selling off over time
Traditionally this has always meant friends of the govt get it cheap. Not sure if handing capital from one group of crooks to another group of crooks is an improvement. Better off with the honest fire sale than the inherently dishonest.gov sale. The other problem is we've merged.gov and.com so pretending they're different people or different groups is kinda questionable policy.
That would explode the interest rate on loans, absolutely cratering real estate prices.
Even worse unless you simply give up on the debt, as the short term notes come due, you need to refinance at the new 20% interest rate, which means the fedgov implodes once interest payments exceed any theoretically possible revenue. Of course we're already bankrupt right now, so facing that fact isn't the real problem, but with political types all that matters is appearance, so the policy would get the blame, even though its just a shoot the messenger thing. If you mean "do something about the debt" as in repudiate it, yeah we could try that for sure.
Someone with more forex experience would have to speak to that. I think a high interest rate / high inflation situation in the.us would have a pretty strange effect on the.jp economy, probably insta-collapsing it. Which is going to happen inevitably anyway. I'm not sure if its been long enough since WWII to eliminate nationalism from.de and.jp, but we could be fighting WW2 again. This time they'd probably win. Not sure if that's necessarily bad.
That's what made is a successful social engineering hack. AKA CIA involvement. Which I'm still sort of inclined to believe.
Lets say you want to get most of the heads of the USSR airforce out of the way or fired or sent to the Gulag because they won't play along in a blackmail deal or whatever.
Solution? Send a kid in a Cessna to land in Red Square. Insta-fired. If they shoot the kid down they're fired because he's just a crazy teen in a civilian GA aircraft, if they don't shoot him down they're fired because a kid landed in red square.
What's the source? Its a/. post of a journalist story about a journalist story about a journalist story then I gave up trying to track back.
I poked around fcc.gov and found almost nothing, so its either really old, really new, or really made up / out of context / unofficial daydream.
I'm an old time reader of FCC part 97 (and others!) so don't try to scare me off with "we need non-technical journalists to translate into prole-speak" I'm quite sure I could handle the primary source... if it actually exists.
Another thing is it won't be wifi although journalists confuse any wireless internet access with wifi. Lets say you get UHF tv channel 46 vacated and reassigned. That doesn't mean a magic firmware download, even to a SDR, will necessarily magically start working in that 662-668 MHz channel.
And in America or other 3rd world locales, that means you're easily wealthy enough to afford multiple consoles and laptops...
So you can't afford a $200 one time xbox but can afford $150/month to the cable company, plus your access device which probably costs more than the xbox anyway. Hmm.
if he can't make the finances work by renting one pc for a guy.
This is the best question about their whole business model. The stereotypical gamer is supposed to be a lumbering herd animal, right? Everyone plays the same game at the same time together online? So you can't make money off over subscription. So instead of the user directly financing a gaming PC, they'll intermediate themselves in between that transaction by providing.... Um...
I can't see the health club model working either, where you get people to sign up for new years resolution and then never see them again.
So when you strip away the tech angle, what is their business model exactly?
Ah I see. I clicked on the article and video started playing so I closed it. I hate that. The MSM infotainment providers I saw the story on this morning either didn't go into the "why" or they went all crazy about value judgments about monarchies as a political system blah blah blah.
I haven't gotten a straight answer from MSM accounts as to why they even suspected this might be KR3.
Certainly, every time someone is dug up they don't say, "Oh look we found a body, better test it to see if this one is King Richard III maybe its him this time?"
American Sign Language? Oh wait you mean something else.
Seriously whats wrong with ASL? Large installed base, lots of training, could be pretty darn useful as a translator when someone without ASL "talks" to someone with ASL.
My guess is MS would try to embrace extend and extinguish ASL... make it just like ASL but upside down and backwards, just to make it hard for everyone.
Doesn't matter. Lets play jeopardy, what model aircraft landed in Red Square on May 28, 1987? As a kid getting into aviation at that time, I got lectured by numerous relatives just to make sure I didn't get any ideas by that story... Yes yes I know that despite the legends of sneaking in, he got detected multiple times, but no one could agree what to do about him, so they logged it, did nothing, and eventually lots of bosses heads rolled (you can tell this happened in the USSR, in the USA we'd have given them promotions)
I can trivially avoid radar detection merely by keeping far away. Your modern fighter isn't going to look-down and see me 300 NM away... Now its very challenging to avoid a skin painting radar at 10 NM but further away. Thats part of the weasel wording. I'm guessing this Iranian experiment would be an epic fail at 10 NM but maybe at 50 NM it might work?
built with "advanced materials" and to have a very low radar signature
So all we really know for certain is its not the "Spruce Goose". Well that's not saying much.
can evade radar
Yeah so can the Cessna 172 I trained in. Now doing it well, and doing it easily, and being optimized for that task, that's a whole nother topic.
Perhaps a little overly ambitious. For people who know nothing about aerospace the best I can do is a standardized slashdot car analogy: This is like Henry Ford hand building his first model T engineering demonstrator but declaring he's going to skip a couple steps and start shipping Tesla model S RSN.
I've even spent the last 6 months borrowing my local library's CDs and ripping them to Mp3.
Something I've noticed with library disks is you really get to see how the seething masses really treat optical media, and it isn't pretty. I have cds that are over 20 years old and still looking good (no aluminum bit rot, thankfully) but the library disks are apparently used by people with sandpaper fingertips. Even my kids can't savage disks like library patrons.
I'm sure its very annoying to have a skip in one musical song, but its infuriating when the last 30 minutes of a DVD is unwatchable or you can only listen to half an audiobook.
I'm surprised how well paper degrades gracefully and slowly in a public library environment but optical media get insta-trashed.
In the early 00s I would take my laptop to the library and before checking out a disk I'd scan it to see if I'd even be able to use it at home.
You need to balance the time spent vs the reward vs the opportunity cost. The delta of adding item #2 (or #30) to an existing sale is very low, so find someone who's a seller, and trade them say $10 for them. You get a free lunch at the labor expense of perhaps 5 minutes, which is a decent rate of pay, or at least a free drink or two, and they get $20 for an extra 10 minutes labor.
I will say if you're not a seller, the fixed costs of being a seller are a killer. My local post office is at least an hour round trip, no matter if I ship one or 50 boxes, for example. Finding the tape dispenser after its been misplaced takes 15 minutes no matter if I'm wrapping one box or 50 boxes.
Another issue is I'm not really eligible for overtime. It doesn't matter if I'm getting "pretty good rate" 40 hours per week, if I want to work a 41st hour either it isn't happening or I'd have to go to McDonalds or something. Suddenly my labor equivalent pay rate drops from more than skilled tradesmen get to minimum wage flunkie pushing a broom. There are way too many unemployed people to seriously consider contracting and I don't want a long term contract I just want to work one hour this week and thats it, blah blah blah.
There's a zero sum collector metagame going on with ebay too. Trade trade trade just like a stock exchange daytrader with the optimistic goal of always improving your collection without losing too much money in bad trades, ebay fees, and postage. My dad played that as a hobby for many years after retirement, most likely everyone in the general field of antique radios did business with him in the early 00s. About a decade ago I inherited some rather exotic machinery like a R390 and some other stuff, note that he used and greatly enjoyed this stuff, it didn't just get "collected". Everyone's got a hobby, except the really boring people anyway, and there's certainly worse ways to spend your time and money.
Finally I know people who can't admit ebay selling is no longer profitable, but they enjoy it anyway as a hobby. What I mean is, that in the late 90s you could practically earn a retirement income selling for other people on consignment (essentially turning yourself into a data entry clerk / shipping clerk), but no longer. So earning $1/hr equivalent isn't any inherently stupider than earning 1M ISK/hr on eve or whatever the economic system is on WoW. If you're trying to live off that you'll be looked at as a moron, but as a literal game where the only reward is beating the other guy, its not a bad "sport". I will publicly admit that for about one summer a couple years back, probably around 05 or 06, I was a small time Eve Online commodities daytrader, and I had my ups and downs but based on claimed goldfarmer exchange rates I was earning at least twenty cents per hour long term average, although I never turned my ISK into $. As a hobby it was fun and competitive. I had "friends" doing much better so I'm not going to brag. None the less an enjoyable economic simulation. Lots of the same with ebay, they wanna WIN that POS or they wanna SELL that POS more than anything having to do with either the POS itself or the $ involved.
So what would you do if you needed to copy and paste between the web and your laptop? Do phones support clipboard sharing on an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network yet?
I've never had to do that, and don't think I ever would. But the solution would probably involve something insane like setting up an adhoc wifi link with static ip addrs between the phone and laptop, then a vnc server on the laptop, and use my phone's VNC client to hopefully vnc compatible cut and paste.
Supposedly you can send files via bluetooth. That would be interesting to see. Stick the cut and paste into a file, send the file via bluetooth, cut and paste outta the file.
Also using less than one month of contract phone cost (or at most, two), you can buy a wifi flash drive, which is pretty much what it sounds like, a wifi accessible micro-nas with a tiny little flash drive. A weird niche product to be sure. Conceptually its the same as a apple airport with a flash drive stuck in the usb port, file sharing turned on, and a battery, in practice its much more portable.
Its USB support isn't free. Donno why, don't care, just find it to be a PITA.
Whats the one reason a linux guy wants to run virtual windows, besides games? Well, weirdo USB hardware like programming proprietary radio memories, or burning eproms in a USB eprom burner or whatever other USB peripheral madness you can imagine. I've got an old Windoze only USB film scanner. Not that I have much film left to scan.... Come on guys, make it easier?
It should not be the case but lets face reality here there thousands of Java applications out there that only work correctly on specific platform releases. If you depend on these and your main system is a Mac you might be really screwed by this.
Here let me help summarize
It should not be the case but lets face reality here there thousands of Java applications out there that only work correctly on specific platform releases. If you depend on these... you might be really screwed....
In my dumb phone $8/mo era that bought about 80 minutes of 10 cent per minute voice. My commute wasn't long enough to physically use more than about 20 minutes per day even if I literally didn't stop talking the whole way, and I really don't want to be "that guy" who's talking loudly on his phone in the movie theater, or at the nice restaurant, etc. So 80 a month was about right for me. 80 minutes a month is a long term average in that some months were nearly zero while some months were much higher, depends how much I was coordinating travel arrangements while traveling, and whats going on in my life that's "urgent" enough to use an old fashioned phone call.
My current $20/mo provider (republic wireless), basically yes to your questions. Well, I can't physically watch netflix while driving my commute. Mostly I listen to audiobooks which download just fine while on the road, although they download faster on wifi and I can't fool around shopping for any buying while I'm supposed to be driving anyway. I've watched youtube videos while waiting in line, offices, waiting rooms, etc, and its worked just fine. If only I could find more worth watching, then I'd probably watch more videos. SMS is for suckers who like to pay 10 cents per short-email, that's a subculture I actively intentionally avoid, but it does supposedly have unlimited texting although as mentioned I'm not a texter at all. I know it receives texts pretty well because I get about one mistaken and/or moron and/or spammer text per week.
One big difference from your "requirements" is no tethering, but I haven't used a laptop in a non-wifi environment since at least the mid 00s (maybe early 00s, its been awhile) so I haven't missed tethering very much. If I'm in the middle of nowhere, I'm absolutely certain not to be in front of a laptop, but if I really needed web access, I would just use my phone. Cruddy keyboard and tiny display but it'll get the job done... I suppose, however unlikely, if I ever had a need, I'd find a way to tether, even if the provider doesn't like it very much.
Sure I could pay more for stuff I don't want, but that could be said about a lot of things.
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Whoops I forgot to mention that if a cup of raw corn syrup literally knocks you out despite the caffeine you might want to stop doing that until you mention it to your doctor who will probably order a glucose tolerance test to see if you have some insulin issues. That involves chugging a bottle of corn syrup with blood sugar level testing before and periodically after. Note that only an idiot would get official medical advice from /., but this was an accurate and true anecdotal summary of what my wife had to do (result in her case was nothing wrong with her).
Gut clogging quantities of HFCS most likely. Unless you drip a quarter cup of corn syrup into your coffee as a control.
The no-cal versions have vast quantities of strange sweeteners.
If you want a real control, assuming you can still legally buy caffeine pills OTC (or maybe over the net) like Vivaran (sp?) you can simply pop pills equal to however many milligrams you'd like. Drink some water to wash it down and maintain hydration and its almost guaranteed to be healthier for your innards than the additives in either drink.
Its rather telling WRT lethal dosages that they used to sell vivarin caffeine pills in 50 packs (implying you can chug them all and live) but sleep aid pills in 5 packs (implying more than a couple and you're dead). Then again they sell tylenol in 500 capsule buckets at sams club so maybe my theory doesn't apply.
No no no AC we're talking about caffeine here not taco bell. Get with the program!
Whenever Google updates Android, engineers have to modify it for each phone, chip, radio card that relies on the OS. Hardware vendors must make a unique version for each device and they have scarce resources
How come the cyanogenmod people do a better job than everyone else in the industry?
I just upgraded a LS670 last weekend to cyanogenmod. CM9 if I recall. Its faster, looks better, more features, MUCH newer which would imply fewer holes, overall quite a massive improvement over stock. It no longer has cell service, I'm using this phone as a wifi microtablet, quite happily.
Please note that on a branch count basis, more bank branches have failed during the current second great depression than during the first. That would seem to be direct experimental evidence we were better off with smaller banks last time around.
he wants corporations to be enslaved.
As opposed to our current system of corporations enslaving us and the .gov
Sounds good to me!
Personally I'd like to see direct participatory democracy wrt granting, renewing, and eliminating corporate charters. Convince all of us that your crooked little monopolistic cabal "deserves" citizenship via individual national referendum every 10 yrs or so ... or your corporation is dissolved in one year. You think a certain bank sucks? Vote it out of existence. Sounds good to me. If they behaved themselves, like my local non-profit childrens hospital, they probably wouldn't have much fear of extinction. That also sounds good to me.
What he is proposing is returning to a 18th century style economy....except we have robots..
You say that like its bad. The alternative our masters are currently implementing is basically feudalism. I much prefer 1850 to 850.
The government does the splitting up and selling off over time
Traditionally this has always meant friends of the govt get it cheap. Not sure if handing capital from one group of crooks to another group of crooks is an improvement. Better off with the honest fire sale than the inherently dishonest .gov sale. The other problem is we've merged .gov and .com so pretending they're different people or different groups is kinda questionable policy.
That would explode the interest rate on loans, absolutely cratering real estate prices.
Even worse unless you simply give up on the debt, as the short term notes come due, you need to refinance at the new 20% interest rate, which means the fedgov implodes once interest payments exceed any theoretically possible revenue. Of course we're already bankrupt right now, so facing that fact isn't the real problem, but with political types all that matters is appearance, so the policy would get the blame, even though its just a shoot the messenger thing. If you mean "do something about the debt" as in repudiate it, yeah we could try that for sure.
Someone with more forex experience would have to speak to that. I think a high interest rate / high inflation situation in the .us would have a pretty strange effect on the .jp economy, probably insta-collapsing it. Which is going to happen inevitably anyway. I'm not sure if its been long enough since WWII to eliminate nationalism from .de and .jp, but we could be fighting WW2 again. This time they'd probably win. Not sure if that's necessarily bad.
That's what made is a successful social engineering hack. AKA CIA involvement. Which I'm still sort of inclined to believe.
Lets say you want to get most of the heads of the USSR airforce out of the way or fired or sent to the Gulag because they won't play along in a blackmail deal or whatever.
Solution? Send a kid in a Cessna to land in Red Square. Insta-fired. If they shoot the kid down they're fired because he's just a crazy teen in a civilian GA aircraft, if they don't shoot him down they're fired because a kid landed in red square.
What's the source? Its a /. post of a journalist story about a journalist story about a journalist story then I gave up trying to track back.
I poked around fcc.gov and found almost nothing, so its either really old, really new, or really made up / out of context / unofficial daydream.
I'm an old time reader of FCC part 97 (and others!) so don't try to scare me off with "we need non-technical journalists to translate into prole-speak" I'm quite sure I could handle the primary source... if it actually exists.
Another thing is it won't be wifi although journalists confuse any wireless internet access with wifi. Lets say you get UHF tv channel 46 vacated and reassigned. That doesn't mean a magic firmware download, even to a SDR, will necessarily magically start working in that 662-668 MHz channel.
As long as you have a 8mb+ connection
And in America or other 3rd world locales, that means you're easily wealthy enough to afford multiple consoles and laptops...
So you can't afford a $200 one time xbox but can afford $150/month to the cable company, plus your access device which probably costs more than the xbox anyway. Hmm.
if he can't make the finances work by renting one pc for a guy.
This is the best question about their whole business model. The stereotypical gamer is supposed to be a lumbering herd animal, right? Everyone plays the same game at the same time together online? So you can't make money off over subscription. So instead of the user directly financing a gaming PC, they'll intermediate themselves in between that transaction by providing .... Um...
I can't see the health club model working either, where you get people to sign up for new years resolution and then never see them again.
So when you strip away the tech angle, what is their business model exactly?
Ah I see. I clicked on the article and video started playing so I closed it. I hate that. The MSM infotainment providers I saw the story on this morning either didn't go into the "why" or they went all crazy about value judgments about monarchies as a political system blah blah blah.
I haven't gotten a straight answer from MSM accounts as to why they even suspected this might be KR3.
Certainly, every time someone is dug up they don't say, "Oh look we found a body, better test it to see if this one is King Richard III maybe its him this time?"
American Sign Language? Oh wait you mean something else.
Seriously whats wrong with ASL? Large installed base, lots of training, could be pretty darn useful as a translator when someone without ASL "talks" to someone with ASL.
My guess is MS would try to embrace extend and extinguish ASL... make it just like ASL but upside down and backwards, just to make it hard for everyone.
Doesn't matter. Lets play jeopardy, what model aircraft landed in Red Square on May 28, 1987? As a kid getting into aviation at that time, I got lectured by numerous relatives just to make sure I didn't get any ideas by that story... Yes yes I know that despite the legends of sneaking in, he got detected multiple times, but no one could agree what to do about him, so they logged it, did nothing, and eventually lots of bosses heads rolled (you can tell this happened in the USSR, in the USA we'd have given them promotions)
I can trivially avoid radar detection merely by keeping far away. Your modern fighter isn't going to look-down and see me 300 NM away... Now its very challenging to avoid a skin painting radar at 10 NM but further away. Thats part of the weasel wording. I'm guessing this Iranian experiment would be an epic fail at 10 NM but maybe at 50 NM it might work?
Note the intense weasel wording...
built with "advanced materials" and to have a very low radar signature
So all we really know for certain is its not the "Spruce Goose". Well that's not saying much.
can evade radar
Yeah so can the Cessna 172 I trained in. Now doing it well, and doing it easily, and being optimized for that task, that's a whole nother topic.
Perhaps a little overly ambitious. For people who know nothing about aerospace the best I can do is a standardized slashdot car analogy: This is like Henry Ford hand building his first model T engineering demonstrator but declaring he's going to skip a couple steps and start shipping Tesla model S RSN.
I've even spent the last 6 months borrowing my local library's CDs and ripping them to Mp3.
Something I've noticed with library disks is you really get to see how the seething masses really treat optical media, and it isn't pretty. I have cds that are over 20 years old and still looking good (no aluminum bit rot, thankfully) but the library disks are apparently used by people with sandpaper fingertips. Even my kids can't savage disks like library patrons.
I'm sure its very annoying to have a skip in one musical song, but its infuriating when the last 30 minutes of a DVD is unwatchable or you can only listen to half an audiobook.
I'm surprised how well paper degrades gracefully and slowly in a public library environment but optical media get insta-trashed.
In the early 00s I would take my laptop to the library and before checking out a disk I'd scan it to see if I'd even be able to use it at home.
You need to balance the time spent vs the reward vs the opportunity cost. The delta of adding item #2 (or #30) to an existing sale is very low, so find someone who's a seller, and trade them say $10 for them. You get a free lunch at the labor expense of perhaps 5 minutes, which is a decent rate of pay, or at least a free drink or two, and they get $20 for an extra 10 minutes labor.
I will say if you're not a seller, the fixed costs of being a seller are a killer. My local post office is at least an hour round trip, no matter if I ship one or 50 boxes, for example. Finding the tape dispenser after its been misplaced takes 15 minutes no matter if I'm wrapping one box or 50 boxes.
Another issue is I'm not really eligible for overtime. It doesn't matter if I'm getting "pretty good rate" 40 hours per week, if I want to work a 41st hour either it isn't happening or I'd have to go to McDonalds or something. Suddenly my labor equivalent pay rate drops from more than skilled tradesmen get to minimum wage flunkie pushing a broom. There are way too many unemployed people to seriously consider contracting and I don't want a long term contract I just want to work one hour this week and thats it, blah blah blah.
There's a zero sum collector metagame going on with ebay too. Trade trade trade just like a stock exchange daytrader with the optimistic goal of always improving your collection without losing too much money in bad trades, ebay fees, and postage. My dad played that as a hobby for many years after retirement, most likely everyone in the general field of antique radios did business with him in the early 00s. About a decade ago I inherited some rather exotic machinery like a R390 and some other stuff, note that he used and greatly enjoyed this stuff, it didn't just get "collected". Everyone's got a hobby, except the really boring people anyway, and there's certainly worse ways to spend your time and money.
Finally I know people who can't admit ebay selling is no longer profitable, but they enjoy it anyway as a hobby. What I mean is, that in the late 90s you could practically earn a retirement income selling for other people on consignment (essentially turning yourself into a data entry clerk / shipping clerk), but no longer. So earning $1/hr equivalent isn't any inherently stupider than earning 1M ISK/hr on eve or whatever the economic system is on WoW. If you're trying to live off that you'll be looked at as a moron, but as a literal game where the only reward is beating the other guy, its not a bad "sport". I will publicly admit that for about one summer a couple years back, probably around 05 or 06, I was a small time Eve Online commodities daytrader, and I had my ups and downs but based on claimed goldfarmer exchange rates I was earning at least twenty cents per hour long term average, although I never turned my ISK into $. As a hobby it was fun and competitive. I had "friends" doing much better so I'm not going to brag. None the less an enjoyable economic simulation. Lots of the same with ebay, they wanna WIN that POS or they wanna SELL that POS more than anything having to do with either the POS itself or the $ involved.
So what would you do if you needed to copy and paste between the web and your laptop? Do phones support clipboard sharing on an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network yet?
I've never had to do that, and don't think I ever would. But the solution would probably involve something insane like setting up an adhoc wifi link with static ip addrs between the phone and laptop, then a vnc server on the laptop, and use my phone's VNC client to hopefully vnc compatible cut and paste.
Supposedly you can send files via bluetooth. That would be interesting to see. Stick the cut and paste into a file, send the file via bluetooth, cut and paste outta the file.
Also using less than one month of contract phone cost (or at most, two), you can buy a wifi flash drive, which is pretty much what it sounds like, a wifi accessible micro-nas with a tiny little flash drive. A weird niche product to be sure. Conceptually its the same as a apple airport with a flash drive stuck in the usb port, file sharing turned on, and a battery, in practice its much more portable.
Sorry, can't diss VirtualBox :)
Its USB support isn't free. Donno why, don't care, just find it to be a PITA.
Whats the one reason a linux guy wants to run virtual windows, besides games? Well, weirdo USB hardware like programming proprietary radio memories, or burning eproms in a USB eprom burner or whatever other USB peripheral madness you can imagine. I've got an old Windoze only USB film scanner. Not that I have much film left to scan.... Come on guys, make it easier?
It should not be the case but lets face reality here there thousands of Java applications out there that only work correctly on specific platform releases. If you depend on these and your main system is a Mac you might be really screwed by this.
Here let me help summarize
It should not be the case but lets face reality here there thousands of Java applications out there that only work correctly on specific platform releases. If you depend on these ... you might be really screwed....
If I'm thinking it, you're probably all thinking it too:
yeah the little head teams up with the big head to surf for the best pr0n...
with the addition of another brain it became "crowd intelligence" or "crowd sourced" and is now sufficiently buzzword compliant.
Oh. Yeah. That too.
In my dumb phone $8/mo era that bought about 80 minutes of 10 cent per minute voice. My commute wasn't long enough to physically use more than about 20 minutes per day even if I literally didn't stop talking the whole way, and I really don't want to be "that guy" who's talking loudly on his phone in the movie theater, or at the nice restaurant, etc. So 80 a month was about right for me. 80 minutes a month is a long term average in that some months were nearly zero while some months were much higher, depends how much I was coordinating travel arrangements while traveling, and whats going on in my life that's "urgent" enough to use an old fashioned phone call.
My current $20/mo provider (republic wireless), basically yes to your questions. Well, I can't physically watch netflix while driving my commute. Mostly I listen to audiobooks which download just fine while on the road, although they download faster on wifi and I can't fool around shopping for any buying while I'm supposed to be driving anyway. I've watched youtube videos while waiting in line, offices, waiting rooms, etc, and its worked just fine. If only I could find more worth watching, then I'd probably watch more videos. SMS is for suckers who like to pay 10 cents per short-email, that's a subculture I actively intentionally avoid, but it does supposedly have unlimited texting although as mentioned I'm not a texter at all. I know it receives texts pretty well because I get about one mistaken and/or moron and/or spammer text per week.
One big difference from your "requirements" is no tethering, but I haven't used a laptop in a non-wifi environment since at least the mid 00s (maybe early 00s, its been awhile) so I haven't missed tethering very much. If I'm in the middle of nowhere, I'm absolutely certain not to be in front of a laptop, but if I really needed web access, I would just use my phone. Cruddy keyboard and tiny display but it'll get the job done... I suppose, however unlikely, if I ever had a need, I'd find a way to tether, even if the provider doesn't like it very much.
Sure I could pay more for stuff I don't want, but that could be said about a lot of things.