These days, I keep all my music on a USB thumb drive which plugs into the car's infotainment system, and just listen to that.
Provided that somebody buying a used car can find a car that supports USB thumb drives in addition to the buyer's other criteria.
I'm honestly shocked by how many people haven't discovered the concept of having their own recorded music on portable storage devices, and seem to think that the only way to listen to music is through some kind of radio (whether it's old-fashioned AM/FM or cellular data).
That's because renting the music for $10/mo plus cellular data charges is far cheaper than buying a permanent copy of each song for $1.29 per four minutes. Even the cellular data charges might not be much: assuming 64 kbps Opus audio through a $0.01 per MB connection, the cellular airtime for an hour of music costs 29 cents.* Talk radio at half the bitrate would cost half that. Besides, many apps that offer such a subscription include offline support, which stores a playlist's worth of music in the app's encrypted storage folder on the phone's file system and syncs when on an unmetered or lightly metered** connection at a home, public library, or restaurant.
* 64 kbit/s * 3600 s/hr * 1 MB/8000 kbit * 0.01 USD/MB = 0.288 USD/hr ** Such as the Comcast-owned cable ISP Xfinity Internet, whose 1000 GB/mo cap is far higher than that of any cellular ISP.
I bought [a Subaru] car in 2014 w/ [a navigation] system, and it usually serves me well, but when I come across roads that were more recently extended, it obviously doesn't show on the maps. Unfortunately, there is no way to update the maps over the air, nor does there seem to be any server that has all the updated maps.
Ask the Subaru dealer. But don't be surprised if the dealer asks you to whip out your payment method to renew your subscription to map changes.
The guidelines for smartphones call for features able to differentiate between drivers and passengers within cars, so that only the driver is shown a simplified and restricted view.
Gription wrote:
How does a smart phone know what seat you are sitting in? If you want to hear a big outcry put the restrictions in place and wait for the passengers in cars, buses, and trains start to whine.with a new driving-safe mode.
I haven't read the guidelines yet, to see what these "features able to differentiate" are supposed to be. Are you claiming that the driving mode trigger will misdetect often and fail closed?
These "mistakes" are also citizens. In a similar way, people with disabilities are also "mistakes", but that didn't keep Republican President George H. W. Bush from signing the Americans with Disabilities Act to improve the plight of said "mistakes". His son even signed a revision in 2008.
Can cost be lowered without rationing or death panels or QALY metrics? Without any sort of rationing, care per patient (and thus cost) can in theory increase without bound. Or what am I missing?
Some bathroom bills are constructed such that one is considered male if either having XY chromosomes or assigned male at birth, or female if XX or assigned female. Thus if chromosomes don't match assignment at birth, one is both male and female. It goes on to ban females from men's rooms and vice versa. By a literal interpretation of the bill, people who have both sexes are banned from both bathrooms. Source: Indiana House Bill 1079
According to the lead section of this article, Michael Foley defines paleocon as support for, among other things, "recovering old lines of distinction and in particular the assignment of roles in accordance with traditional categories of gender, ethnicity, and race". Because intersex individuals don't fit into "traditional categories of gender," they'd likely end up with the proverbial short end.
The range over which ACA tax subsidy phases out depends on the size of your tax household: Someone with income at the federal poverty level gets the full subsidy, decreasing toward 4*FPL which gets none. (Below FPL, you instead get either Medicaid or an exemption from the ISR tax, depending on how red your state is.) So it mostly depends on how many dependents you have. If AC #53339571 is single with no dependents, 4*FPL is close to $48,000. But if you're married with two dependents, it's about twice that. So if your spouse has no significant income, and you have two dependents also not earning (especially due to child labor laws), a $65,000 income still qualifies for a subsidy.
Hopefully with the election of Trump and the destruction of the Republican and Democrat establishments we can relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history, along with the worst of leftist identity politics.
Would you support paleoconservative "bathroom bill" policies that discriminate against people with the disability of having been born intersex?
Without the TPP, Congress could roll back Hollywood's bought and paid for copyright law changes. For example, Congress could make some of the exemptions from anti-circumvention law pursuant to LoC's triennial rulemaking permanent. Or it could expand compulsory licenses for orphan works. Or it could establish an "Eminent Public Domain" program that allows free use of a work of authorship while compensating its author, by estimating a copyright's fair market value and letting the people crowdfund a "taking" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
The link "Sign In to Your Provider" at the top of this page makes me think HGTV streaming is yet another "TV Everywhere" that requires authenticating a subscription to a package on a traditional multichannel pay television (that is, cable or satellite) provider that includes HGTV. The FAQ backs this up.
I've had discussions here and elsewhere on whether home Internet access is a necessity or a luxury. I claim that Internet access is a necessity to find and keep a job because so many employers offer email or a web form as their preferred if not only means of application. But others claim that visiting a public library during its normal hours of operation ought to be enough for anyone, even if the nearest library branch is open only 9 AM to 6 PM on some days or not at all on weekends (source: acpl.info), or even if public transportation between your home or work and the nearest library branch is inconvenient or nonexistent.
And watch every service take 200 times longer to reach the market as the provider has to negotiate a sublicense with exclusive licensees under contracts that date back well over a decade, to before even 1.5 Mbps home Internet access was in wide use.
Think about it: Would it be a good thing to ban something in the United States because it happens to be unavailable in, say, Rwanda?
sub-$300 tiny underpowered laptops are still offered by the usual suspects. In my experience netbooks are a waste of money, and I usually recommend people save up until they have around $650 to spend for a laptop
I have a 10" Dell netbook from six and a half years ago, but it's showing its age, and I fear not being able to find replacement parts once it finally does bite the dust. Is there a market for laptops that are smaller than 12" but not underpowered?
But companies are still actively making and marketing 12" laptops
Therein lies the rub. A 12" screen starts to climb out of the size class where a laptop can fit in a bag that doesn't scream "this is an expensive laptop; please steal it and take it to a pawn shop".
Is there anything about this better than an RDP solution now?
You mean other than not having to pay hundreds of dollars per year to a cellular carrier for a data plan so that you can run RDP while riding the city bus or otherwise out of range of Wi-Fi?
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If that's true, it'd suck for the sanity of parents taking their kids on long car trips or long Greyhound motor coach trips.
These days, I keep all my music on a USB thumb drive which plugs into the car's infotainment system, and just listen to that.
Provided that somebody buying a used car can find a car that supports USB thumb drives in addition to the buyer's other criteria.
I'm honestly shocked by how many people haven't discovered the concept of having their own recorded music on portable storage devices, and seem to think that the only way to listen to music is through some kind of radio (whether it's old-fashioned AM/FM or cellular data).
That's because renting the music for $10/mo plus cellular data charges is far cheaper than buying a permanent copy of each song for $1.29 per four minutes. Even the cellular data charges might not be much: assuming 64 kbps Opus audio through a $0.01 per MB connection, the cellular airtime for an hour of music costs 29 cents.* Talk radio at half the bitrate would cost half that. Besides, many apps that offer such a subscription include offline support, which stores a playlist's worth of music in the app's encrypted storage folder on the phone's file system and syncs when on an unmetered or lightly metered** connection at a home, public library, or restaurant.
* 64 kbit/s * 3600 s/hr * 1 MB/8000 kbit * 0.01 USD/MB = 0.288 USD/hr
** Such as the Comcast-owned cable ISP Xfinity Internet, whose 1000 GB/mo cap is far higher than that of any cellular ISP.
I bought [a Subaru] car in 2014 w/ [a navigation] system, and it usually serves me well, but when I come across roads that were more recently extended, it obviously doesn't show on the maps. Unfortunately, there is no way to update the maps over the air, nor does there seem to be any server that has all the updated maps.
Ask the Subaru dealer. But don't be surprised if the dealer asks you to whip out your payment method to renew your subscription to map changes.
From the featured article:
The guidelines for smartphones call for features able to differentiate between drivers and passengers within cars, so that only the driver is shown a simplified and restricted view.
Gription wrote:
How does a smart phone know what seat you are sitting in? If you want to hear a big outcry put the restrictions in place and wait for the passengers in cars, buses, and trains start to whine.with a new driving-safe mode.
I haven't read the guidelines yet, to see what these "features able to differentiate" are supposed to be. Are you claiming that the driving mode trigger will misdetect often and fail closed?
intersex people are natures' mistakes.
These "mistakes" are also citizens. In a similar way, people with disabilities are also "mistakes", but that didn't keep Republican President George H. W. Bush from signing the Americans with Disabilities Act to improve the plight of said "mistakes". His son even signed a revision in 2008.
Can cost be lowered without rationing or death panels or QALY metrics? Without any sort of rationing, care per patient (and thus cost) can in theory increase without bound. Or what am I missing?
No. But airfare and lodging are also available a la carte.
Some bathroom bills are constructed such that one is considered male if either having XY chromosomes or assigned male at birth, or female if XX or assigned female. Thus if chromosomes don't match assignment at birth, one is both male and female. It goes on to ban females from men's rooms and vice versa. By a literal interpretation of the bill, people who have both sexes are banned from both bathrooms. Source: Indiana House Bill 1079
So that people in other countries have money to buy your country's exports, perhaps?
According to the lead section of this article, Michael Foley defines paleocon as support for, among other things, "recovering old lines of distinction and in particular the assignment of roles in accordance with traditional categories of gender, ethnicity, and race". Because intersex individuals don't fit into "traditional categories of gender," they'd likely end up with the proverbial short end.
The range over which ACA tax subsidy phases out depends on the size of your tax household: Someone with income at the federal poverty level gets the full subsidy, decreasing toward 4*FPL which gets none. (Below FPL, you instead get either Medicaid or an exemption from the ISR tax, depending on how red your state is.) So it mostly depends on how many dependents you have. If AC #53339571 is single with no dependents, 4*FPL is close to $48,000. But if you're married with two dependents, it's about twice that. So if your spouse has no significant income, and you have two dependents also not earning (especially due to child labor laws), a $65,000 income still qualifies for a subsidy.
Hopefully with the election of Trump and the destruction of the Republican and Democrat establishments we can relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history, along with the worst of leftist identity politics.
Would you support paleoconservative "bathroom bill" policies that discriminate against people with the disability of having been born intersex?
Without the TPP, Congress could roll back Hollywood's bought and paid for copyright law changes. For example, Congress could make some of the exemptions from anti-circumvention law pursuant to LoC's triennial rulemaking permanent. Or it could expand compulsory licenses for orphan works. Or it could establish an "Eminent Public Domain" program that allows free use of a work of authorship while compensating its author, by estimating a copyright's fair market value and letting the people crowdfund a "taking" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
But with the TPP, Congress's hands would be tied.
If there are truly bad aspects to the TPP, then spell those out
Electronic Frontier Foundation has spelled out the TPP's truly bad aspects in a category of articles on its site.
Baseball already offers an a la carte option, though at a price higher than you suggest. It's called buying a ticket.
Eventually I gave up and now I get my hockey through other channels: the sports bar down the road
Which doesn't work for hockey fans whose kids are also hockey fans in states with "too young to drink means too young to enter" laws.
HGTV has its own streaming service
The link "Sign In to Your Provider" at the top of this page makes me think HGTV streaming is yet another "TV Everywhere" that requires authenticating a subscription to a package on a traditional multichannel pay television (that is, cable or satellite) provider that includes HGTV. The FAQ backs this up.
I've had discussions here and elsewhere on whether home Internet access is a necessity or a luxury. I claim that Internet access is a necessity to find and keep a job because so many employers offer email or a web form as their preferred if not only means of application. But others claim that visiting a public library during its normal hours of operation ought to be enough for anyone, even if the nearest library branch is open only 9 AM to 6 PM on some days or not at all on weekends (source: acpl.info), or even if public transportation between your home or work and the nearest library branch is inconvenient or nonexistent.
And watch every service take 200 times longer to reach the market as the provider has to negotiate a sublicense with exclusive licensees under contracts that date back well over a decade, to before even 1.5 Mbps home Internet access was in wide use.
Think about it: Would it be a good thing to ban something in the United States because it happens to be unavailable in, say, Rwanda?
More prospective subscribers give a monkeys than don't.
sub-$300 tiny underpowered laptops are still offered by the usual suspects. In my experience netbooks are a waste of money, and I usually recommend people save up until they have around $650 to spend for a laptop
I have a 10" Dell netbook from six and a half years ago, but it's showing its age, and I fear not being able to find replacement parts once it finally does bite the dust. Is there a market for laptops that are smaller than 12" but not underpowered?
But companies are still actively making and marketing 12" laptops
Therein lies the rub. A 12" screen starts to climb out of the size class where a laptop can fit in a bag that doesn't scream "this is an expensive laptop; please steal it and take it to a pawn shop".
Is there anything about this better than an RDP solution now?
You mean other than not having to pay hundreds of dollars per year to a cellular carrier for a data plan so that you can run RDP while riding the city bus or otherwise out of range of Wi-Fi?
What do apps use to talk to the hardware?
Drivers!
3 year old dual core netbook
I thought the laptop companies had already stopped making netbooks before November 2013. (Source, from 3 years and 10 months ago)