People have been doing the same thing with cars, the difference being that they'll crank the bass way up and not give a damn about anyone else. Is it really that difficult just to drive your damn car?
OMG, how did I not know about this feature. One of my complaints has been how impossible it is to get the cursor on the word I want. It seems like trying to tap into the right spot is like a dog next to a door, always on the wrong side. You, sir, our a hero.
3D touch seems like a feature that could be cool if app developers got behind it more and made some innovative features with it.... Okay, just tested a bunch of apps on my home screen, its adoption seems to be coming along, quite a few have a quick access menu. It's just that these features have been trickling in so slowly that after the initial release I got bored because so few apps had anything to do with 3D touch. Guess I have something to play with again until I get bored of the feature, but I am starting to find some interesting shortcuts.
To that end it would be nice to have a "Menu items last changed on May 1st, 2013" instead of the ambiguous "Menu options have recently changed" that some companies have chosen to employ. I've complained time and again to AA that can't seem to make a system that understands JCJ, part of my frequent flyer number. Or the annoyance with credit card companies that insist on speaking a 16 digit number and inevitably getting it wrong. Even if they could get it right, I don't really like speaking out loud the last four of my social and my credit card number. Sure, the DTMF codes are easily decoded from someone tapping the line, but not as easy for a person two desks down overhearing it, especially with BT headphones on.
Where did you find health insurance for a single person that has a deductible of $5500 yet still costs $862 per month? Mine is $256 per month with $5500 deductible and allows me to have an HSA to put away $3450 tax free each year. My wife's plan through her job was $300/mo, but only $52/mo out of her paycheck with the employer covering the rest and putting $34/fortnight into her HSA, and us contributing up to the limit again. That means that for two of us on single person plans we paid $302, or $556 if including the employers portion, for our plans both with $5500 deductibles.
It's time to stop making everything thinner, lighter, with less of this, with more of that just because it's possible. The whole fab of making phones, laptops, and tablets as thin as possible has to stop. Go back a couple of years in thickness and give us the extra space in battery. We'll more than be able to manage in coping with the extra grams it'll add to the phone. And maybe you won't have to need the camera sticking out of the phone.
Also give us the extra space for cooling so we can up the performance now that we can have more battery.
The bank does know it can get its money back as their loans cannot be dismissed through bankruptcy, unlike most other kinds of debt that the bank can hand out.
That's precisely what I'm doing right now, and I checked with BOTH the CC and the University about which courses will transfer and which courses are needed. There was often a disconnect between the information that our CC had about the program requirements of the University that they are a feeder school for. Just blindly taking classes and hoping for the best at transfer time is a recipe for disaster.
The idea is that if there was a limited amount of money that students could pay for tuition then the colleges couldn't have such high tuition rates because the number of students would drop. If students could only get $5,000 in loans a year and schools kept their tuition, say at $15,000, then only ones that had enough funding to start with, worked enough to make up the difference while going to school, or took much fewer courses (depending on tuition structure) and spent twice as long to complete a degree.
Once you remove the "free money" from the universities eyes then they would need to find ways to lower tuition, get more state or federal funding to make up the difference, or keep the tuition the same but lose probably a significant amount of the student body.
One way to lower tuition is cutting out a lot of the administrative overhead that universities seem to be piling up these days, opening more and more executive positions, while driving up class sizes and tuition rates.
Thanks for the correction, momentarily forgot the collective term. I did not try using it when in Japan. I would assume they should work with foreign currency as well as credit cards do. I'll have to try in December during my layover.
I've spent a lot of time in Taiwan which has been largely a cash society, with few credit cards, and only ATM cards, no debit cards (that I know of). I have never heard of someone there getting, or writing, a check, as all employers require workers to setup an account at their preferred bank to receive their salary. Wire transfers are about as cashless as they get.
I wonder if some places may make the leap straight from cash to digital without going through plastic.
Perhaps you don't get out much. Many POS systems have contact payments already built-in. With Apple Pay I've paid T-Mobile at their store, and bought items at New Seasons, Walgreens, McDonalds, and vending machines at the Community College and University in town. Those are just the ones off the top of my head. Admittedly, I haven't noticed cryptocurrency payments being accepted anywhere than online, but since I don't have any I haven't really bothered to look or inquire.
Recently in Oregon with recreational marijuana, they will sell you a gram for $5.00, then under that they list out how much local and state taxes are already included. This way the price you see advertised is the correct price, and you get to know how much of it is taxes.
Many things are also not enforced until a grievance has been had. For example, my wife works at an Asian supermarket in Oregon where there are laws for the number of sick hours given, and how they are deducted. By law they are required to be deducted in increments of 1 hour, but the employee handbook states that an employee must take them in increments of 2 hours. No amount of complaining to the Oregon Bureau of Labor would get them to do anything until someone had been denied taking an odd houred sick leave.
How I understand it they did the numbered tests to train them, and once they were trained they were then tested for the first time with the empty card, not repeatedly with the empty card.
Sorry if I seemed to have hurt your feelings, causing you to impulsively reduce yourself to ad hominem attacks, but the evidence seems to be in my favor that you are an AC troll.
Your "rules" don't match with my reality, which is that in my family it is tradition to change the middle name while maintaining the same initial. My father's birth certificate shows Jr., my brothers shows III, same as their drivers license. There is no legal requirement that they have their first, middle, and last name the same.
It does seem common that people try to affix the definition of true junior as having exactly all the same names, and that seems to be how most people do it, but as I've stated, this is a family tradition, which did away with others tradition. It's also not me doing it wrong, but my grandfather, my father, and my older brother, along with all the hospital staff and government workers that registered the names and allowed them on the birth certificate.
But thanks for taking my fun fact and turning into a shit slinging fest.
I know this is just feeding a troll, but what the hell. There is no law that every name must be exactly the same, his birth certificate shows Jr, and my older brothers, whose middle name is Wescott, while my grandfather's is Wilbur, shows III. As I said, it is family tradition, but perhaps not your tradition.
Not to do with email addresses, but interesting names with dub. In my family the tradition is to name Jr's with First and Last name the same, and middle initial the same but different middle name. My father got the middle initial W, but they couldn't decide on a middle name at birth, so just left it as W.
They never did get around to giving him a middle name, so it has been W, no ".". Causes some trouble at places that want his middle name, but that's how it is on his birth certificate and drivers license.
He has the most syllables per letter for a middle name, "Double U".
Except that if you have your concealed carry permit then you get to walk out with a gun that day. At least that's how it worked when I bought one in Washington.
I do a lot of cycling and use Strava, but last year they decided to do a similar thing and instead of a chronological feed of rides that other users that I have chosen to follow in my feed, I get a jumbled mess of others users rides in a random order. I used to use it to see who had ridden today, maybe call them up for a ride, now I can't know if I've seen everybody's rides as scrolling until I see an activity I've already seen, or one from yesterday, no longer means anything.
Their support is taking the stance that they aren't going back to chronological order, though after 6 months they have put out a satisfaction and feedback survey.
I hated it when Facebook did it, and their endless scrolling. I'm pissed that Strava did and have stopped being a paying premium member and let them know exactly why. I don't want an algorithm predicting what I want to see, I would rather have filters for depending on the task I'm doing at the time, whether looking at various riding buddies from different groups, or specific riding buddies from the group I ride with most. That might change day to day, hell, even minute to minute as I switch tasks. They can't possibly know exactly what I would like to see.
The only, somewhat valid, argument I have ever heard for it are people who may have gone on an epic ride but couldn't upload it for a couple days, so when they do nobody sees it. But for that the solution may be to float new uploads to the top, until I've seen them, or x amount of time has gone by, then return them to chronological order, not fuck with the feed so it is useless 99% of the time.
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People have been doing the same thing with cars, the difference being that they'll crank the bass way up and not give a damn about anyone else. Is it really that difficult just to drive your damn car?
OMG, how did I not know about this feature. One of my complaints has been how impossible it is to get the cursor on the word I want. It seems like trying to tap into the right spot is like a dog next to a door, always on the wrong side. You, sir, our a hero.
3D touch seems like a feature that could be cool if app developers got behind it more and made some innovative features with it. ... Okay, just tested a bunch of apps on my home screen, its adoption seems to be coming along, quite a few have a quick access menu. It's just that these features have been trickling in so slowly that after the initial release I got bored because so few apps had anything to do with 3D touch. Guess I have something to play with again until I get bored of the feature, but I am starting to find some interesting shortcuts.
To that end it would be nice to have a "Menu items last changed on May 1st, 2013" instead of the ambiguous "Menu options have recently changed" that some companies have chosen to employ.
I've complained time and again to AA that can't seem to make a system that understands JCJ, part of my frequent flyer number. Or the annoyance with credit card companies that insist on speaking a 16 digit number and inevitably getting it wrong. Even if they could get it right, I don't really like speaking out loud the last four of my social and my credit card number. Sure, the DTMF codes are easily decoded from someone tapping the line, but not as easy for a person two desks down overhearing it, especially with BT headphones on.
Where did you find health insurance for a single person that has a deductible of $5500 yet still costs $862 per month? Mine is $256 per month with $5500 deductible and allows me to have an HSA to put away $3450 tax free each year. My wife's plan through her job was $300/mo, but only $52/mo out of her paycheck with the employer covering the rest and putting $34/fortnight into her HSA, and us contributing up to the limit again. That means that for two of us on single person plans we paid $302, or $556 if including the employers portion, for our plans both with $5500 deductibles.
Why lump unemployment into this? That is insurance that we pay into, not a handout.
It's time to stop making everything thinner, lighter, with less of this, with more of that just because it's possible. The whole fab of making phones, laptops, and tablets as thin as possible has to stop. Go back a couple of years in thickness and give us the extra space in battery. We'll more than be able to manage in coping with the extra grams it'll add to the phone. And maybe you won't have to need the camera sticking out of the phone.
Also give us the extra space for cooling so we can up the performance now that we can have more battery.
The bank does know it can get its money back as their loans cannot be dismissed through bankruptcy, unlike most other kinds of debt that the bank can hand out.
An educated populace with highly trained workers including doctors and nurses has no benefit to the taxpayer?
That's precisely what I'm doing right now, and I checked with BOTH the CC and the University about which courses will transfer and which courses are needed. There was often a disconnect between the information that our CC had about the program requirements of the University that they are a feeder school for. Just blindly taking classes and hoping for the best at transfer time is a recipe for disaster.
The idea is that if there was a limited amount of money that students could pay for tuition then the colleges couldn't have such high tuition rates because the number of students would drop. If students could only get $5,000 in loans a year and schools kept their tuition, say at $15,000, then only ones that had enough funding to start with, worked enough to make up the difference while going to school, or took much fewer courses (depending on tuition structure) and spent twice as long to complete a degree.
Once you remove the "free money" from the universities eyes then they would need to find ways to lower tuition, get more state or federal funding to make up the difference, or keep the tuition the same but lose probably a significant amount of the student body.
One way to lower tuition is cutting out a lot of the administrative overhead that universities seem to be piling up these days, opening more and more executive positions, while driving up class sizes and tuition rates.
Thanks for the correction, momentarily forgot the collective term. I did not try using it when in Japan. I would assume they should work with foreign currency as well as credit cards do. I'll have to try in December during my layover.
I've spent a lot of time in Taiwan which has been largely a cash society, with few credit cards, and only ATM cards, no debit cards (that I know of). I have never heard of someone there getting, or writing, a check, as all employers require workers to setup an account at their preferred bank to receive their salary. Wire transfers are about as cashless as they get.
I wonder if some places may make the leap straight from cash to digital without going through plastic.
Perhaps you don't get out much. Many POS systems have contact payments already built-in. With Apple Pay I've paid T-Mobile at their store, and bought items at New Seasons, Walgreens, McDonalds, and vending machines at the Community College and University in town. Those are just the ones off the top of my head. Admittedly, I haven't noticed cryptocurrency payments being accepted anywhere than online, but since I don't have any I haven't really bothered to look or inquire.
Recently in Oregon with recreational marijuana, they will sell you a gram for $5.00, then under that they list out how much local and state taxes are already included. This way the price you see advertised is the correct price, and you get to know how much of it is taxes.
Many things are also not enforced until a grievance has been had. For example, my wife works at an Asian supermarket in Oregon where there are laws for the number of sick hours given, and how they are deducted. By law they are required to be deducted in increments of 1 hour, but the employee handbook states that an employee must take them in increments of 2 hours. No amount of complaining to the Oregon Bureau of Labor would get them to do anything until someone had been denied taking an odd houred sick leave.
Pretty sure they'll already have one there doing the other 40 minutes of work. Now they'll do 41 minutes of work and still charge 1 hour.
How I understand it they did the numbered tests to train them, and once they were trained they were then tested for the first time with the empty card, not repeatedly with the empty card.
Sorry if I seemed to have hurt your feelings, causing you to impulsively reduce yourself to ad hominem attacks, but the evidence seems to be in my favor that you are an AC troll.
Your "rules" don't match with my reality, which is that in my family it is tradition to change the middle name while maintaining the same initial. My father's birth certificate shows Jr., my brothers shows III, same as their drivers license. There is no legal requirement that they have their first, middle, and last name the same.
It does seem common that people try to affix the definition of true junior as having exactly all the same names, and that seems to be how most people do it, but as I've stated, this is a family tradition, which did away with others tradition. It's also not me doing it wrong, but my grandfather, my father, and my older brother, along with all the hospital staff and government workers that registered the names and allowed them on the birth certificate.
But thanks for taking my fun fact and turning into a shit slinging fest.
I know this is just feeding a troll, but what the hell. There is no law that every name must be exactly the same, his birth certificate shows Jr, and my older brothers, whose middle name is Wescott, while my grandfather's is Wilbur, shows III. As I said, it is family tradition, but perhaps not your tradition.
Not to do with email addresses, but interesting names with dub. In my family the tradition is to name Jr's with First and Last name the same, and middle initial the same but different middle name. My father got the middle initial W, but they couldn't decide on a middle name at birth, so just left it as W.
They never did get around to giving him a middle name, so it has been W, no ".". Causes some trouble at places that want his middle name, but that's how it is on his birth certificate and drivers license.
He has the most syllables per letter for a middle name, "Double U".
Except that if you have your concealed carry permit then you get to walk out with a gun that day. At least that's how it worked when I bought one in Washington.
... but I'd hope we don't have trains more than 3-4 years late.
That would be one hell of a trip, and probably a little worrisome. Will my trip insurance cover lost wages during that time?
The Intel CPU already predicted he would thank them.
I do a lot of cycling and use Strava, but last year they decided to do a similar thing and instead of a chronological feed of rides that other users that I have chosen to follow in my feed, I get a jumbled mess of others users rides in a random order. I used to use it to see who had ridden today, maybe call them up for a ride, now I can't know if I've seen everybody's rides as scrolling until I see an activity I've already seen, or one from yesterday, no longer means anything.
Their support is taking the stance that they aren't going back to chronological order, though after 6 months they have put out a satisfaction and feedback survey.
I hated it when Facebook did it, and their endless scrolling. I'm pissed that Strava did and have stopped being a paying premium member and let them know exactly why. I don't want an algorithm predicting what I want to see, I would rather have filters for depending on the task I'm doing at the time, whether looking at various riding buddies from different groups, or specific riding buddies from the group I ride with most. That might change day to day, hell, even minute to minute as I switch tasks. They can't possibly know exactly what I would like to see.
The only, somewhat valid, argument I have ever heard for it are people who may have gone on an epic ride but couldn't upload it for a couple days, so when they do nobody sees it. But for that the solution may be to float new uploads to the top, until I've seen them, or x amount of time has gone by, then return them to chronological order, not fuck with the feed so it is useless 99% of the time.
Or make it user-settable.
Lol, This is Apple, you can't even set how long the snooze function is for the alarm clock.
China's effort to switch to Simplified. Vietnam's conversion from some form of Chinese to Latin.