I wonder how much data one would need to push back and forth. Look it up on Facebook, Look it up on Google Earth. Upload a pic of soup and a system somewhere does the comparison? Sounds expensive and who's system do you trust. Download soup info and have your phone figure it out...Sounds worse.
Sounds like a way to blast thru data caps in record time !
No ideas here tho, i don't even need a smartphone yet (til i hook up the security cameras, then being able to check on them seems useful)
Thank goodness! It was gettting to be Soooooo much work to press a button to answer or decide to do nothing to get it into voicemail....
I am sure the occasional error from this will be much less stressful than having to choose to press a button or not:O
sigh
whatever, I still use my vintage (that is correct for a 4 year old cell phone, right? not antique til next year..) flip phone. Got a good laugh yesterday when our salesman got a call on my line and said it sounds so much better than his smartphone!
And none of the above note the fact that there is more to the battery than JUST those alum plates. How much is the other plates in there? The electrolyte? The water? Something to hold them together and a box to contain it all? Maybe even some hardware to enable those swaps?
But copy A would be the copy in the temporary cache. If Copy B != Copy A then the copy it (iTunes, etc) put in my music folder is not the one i bought....
I don't think i got the copy i paid for and their downloader deleted my 'original' copy! So none of us would actually have legit files according to that:O
So even though no one will ever be able to use the land again you are ok with it?
- you clearly think that a land owner is incapable of doing his own cost benefit analysis. There are lands that are not going to be mined on, they are very good for agriculture. There are lands that will have miners on them, there are resources there that will be mined one way or another.
By only allowing people to do business on their own private property we get rid of the externalities, which means of the ability to socialise costs. Once a person owns the land, it's his. If it's not, then we don't have rights. By buying and destroying a piece of property the owner makes a calculation that it will be more profitable to do that rather than to maintain that property. If he is right, then he allowed the economy to get the maximum effective output from that property at that time.
Yes, if a person buys and "destroys" a piece of property, he should have the right to do that, he paid for it.
Somebody will have to hold those nuclear barrels. Somebody will own that property at any time, it's not like once the owner disappears there is no other owner.
Stop paying taxes....
So you plan on eliminating property taxes...I'll forget to pay the excise taxes on what i take out.
Let me guess you don't plan on having those taxes either.
I'll just dump my barrels on your land when you take a vacation, or maybe put your name on em and dump em elsewhere. You don't mind using your resources to prove it was me. Even then so what..i have no money (accessable to YOU) I do have a piece of land you could take................
LOL, like they said it isn't worth it as a rule. You needed 22k miles per year to make it work which is waaaay past average.
shesh guys, if your gonna jump all over his figures at least grab the low hanging fruit;p
Also agree the 22mpg seems a little low. Unless one drives at least TWICE as much as average i have never seen these calc work. Gonna need a good value for the hippie chick factor i fear.....
hehe, back in the day my locker partner and I both joined one of those music clubs and made sure we didn't duplicate any choices both for the intial stuff and the required 3 purchases. They aren't such a bad deal under the right conditions:)
PS, most of those cassettes lasted longer than much of our digital stuff will... still have some over 30 years later. I think the extra few cents i spent on good tape was worth it.
At the rate we are going the pirates will have become shoplifters to minimize risk;O
Is this even possible? I don't see anything that one needs to use the right pinky for except possibly/. Swap the 'P' with something, perhaps 'Z' ? Shift your home keys over one? If you're learning new layouts anyways, this seems easier.
There is only one letter involved, swap 'P' with ',' and there are none. Not sure how you can avoid it more changing all the other letters around.
Besides, whatever works for you. Not like i used more than 4-5 fingers to type this. Like someone else above my hands move more than my fingers.
So, with the bazillion safety devices required in cars noone requires an actual OFF switch?? As soon as one country does, they would no doubt spread.
Seems simple enough, require a cutoff switch like even the cheasiest race cars do. We now install like a dozen airbags, surely one decent toggle switch wouldn't make much of a dent in the price.
After dealing with a flaky HD this week i got to see some even flakier progress bars.
Disk was broke and only running at 1/1000 speed or so for some reason trying to reinstall windows. The progress bar moved from 37 minutes remaining to 35 minutes after at least 30 mins of attempted work. The estimate is fixed i assume as it always starts out about the same.
The progress bar on the disk diag was the opposite with aggressive recalculating. 6min, 60min, 27min, 1min, 100min, 13min, 50min, 7min, 90min, 27sec (HAHA), 39min....AAARRGGHH
Not sure which was more annoying, but at least the diag one was more entertaining:(
Newegg had 144 hits (lots of refurb, but better than craigslist suggested below!) on win 7 home premium alone. Dell, Tigerdirect, even Walmart all had them.
I think this was meant to be posted next year.........and all those refurbs will still be there, even if new isn't....
hmm, the info on the 'buy' page says "connect any appliance or device" but very little actual spec info.
I really doubt they intend for me to controll my 1975W minicomputer with this..of course i am chicken to turn it on without this gizmo but still:) Someday i'll find out if it gets up to speed before the breaker trips.
(1975W is the startup power, but that is what they are talking about)
I am thinking that this relay is gonna fry before a device can do damage however. Can't believe Belkin would use good enough relays to switch enough power to do as suggested before it dies.
I considered these, basically Nettops, low to medium speed, no Raid, graphics card is probably good enough for now, but who knows what 5 years will bring. Not even close. Often no optical drive, sometimes no card readers.
At the other end, when I priced an i7 HP desktop, for $1300 they didn't even give me a RAID!! All the money was for the i7 and Windows 8, and the rest of the hardware could have been a $200 Chinese craptastic desktop.
And huge too, it seems as you went up in spec, you went up in size. Smaller is surely better!? Why provide a bigger case with more wasted space? Yet that's what they do!
Anyway, I've said my piece, I think they're missing an opportunity, but believe they'll be history soon enough anyway.
lol, my gaming computer came with a nice processor, a mid-range GPU, a bunch of RAM....and an itty bitty (cheap) MB in a HUGE case. In fact tonight project is to start the transfer to my (prettier) desktop case. Wasted space is an understatement on mine, there is only one slot on MB but like 5-6 holes in the case. There is literally NOTHING in 9 inches of the case. Yup, gave in and bought premade this time as the price was the same for components or system. I'd have bought a better MB and no case but the premade meant it cost like $5 to have them assemble and install Windows and if something is broke i know who to yell at;)
Low tech answer is the alarms for elderly people getting up out of bed/chair. Just an alarm box with magnet on a string clipped to person. If they get up it pulls the magnet off the string and sets off the alarm. Should be $50 or less. Clip the string to bottom of bag and hook the alarm to a chair leg or fixture nearby.
Or a GPS device with the tracker app and a tablet...of course if the tablet is in the bag.....
Needed to print thermal labels from the website interface. For some reason it uninstalled itsaelf or i got away without it for a year. But had to install java to get it to work again, pretty much on the day all this started but noone there had a clue. sigh....custom driver, activeX control, java all needed to be install to print the damned label.
It is not even in the damn instructions...it is just ASSUMED to be on the machine these days. That machine does nothing but UPS labels so the usual browsing baggage was not installed.
Not much real geek art myself besides the clock made from a platter of our old computer system. Do have a few old disks hung up like someone else. I framed my dead MMO disks, lol. I used my vintage music collection more as a focus than my computers as my door trim is old album covers and the framed pictures are a mosaic(Judas Priest logo, and picture of a 45rpm record) of all my album covers (no pilfering pics either, i shot my actual album covers myself)
Coffee table is a 1980 Wang minicomputer tho:)
Saving up to 'wallpaper' one wall of my computer room in PCB..halfway there.. Did frame some of the free posters from old games. My old game boxes are stacked to appear to hold up a crack in the ceiling, 9 foot stack of retail boxes actually looks kinda cool. The privacy curtain of CDROMs never got finished yet...someday:( Prefer stuff i made but i guess the silver statue of the signature creature in my favorite MMORPG is art..and is even worth what i paid for it now!
lol, i saw the 13 year old kid we race with log onto Steam the night before last....1:00 am his time and not the 1st time and i am rarely logged into Steam. So i suspect he does it quite a bit, hehe. Resisted the urge to tell him to go back to bed and didn't even look what he was playing. Tho he may get comment or two on race night (those he's allowed to attend, seems to be grounded alot.........)
Not to mention everyone skipping over the little detail that one of the kids isn't even yours!
So many of you are really ok with your kid's friend drugging you ?:O Let's go drug Jamie's parents again, i hear there is a cool concert on their pay TV tonight.
Which kid would you guess to be the instigator? Your's or the other kid? Are you really ok with either answer?
I am itchin to fire up the old minicomputer and see what it thinks of 2013..of course i have been saying that since Y2K. Too bad it would mean turning off all the electrical stuff in my house to get enough juice to spin up the HD:O
1983 Wang computer..the login screen had calenders loaded until 2030 was always curious if it really would have been ok but noone wanted to risk it and it was retired in 1998. Can't believe it's been 14 years and i haven't even seen if it still works, altho that 1960 watts draw on the HD alone and the 5 lb transformer on the CPU box are a little intimidating. Time sucks
We had 7 people in billing dept produce around 100,000 a year for an office average of over 50,000.
Outliers are fun...........
What about someone like UPS? I think they still send out a few invoices. Utility companies with million customers. Heck i get a Comcast invoice (plus 6 ads) each month, i bet there are few pieces of paper used there.
PS..i always wanted to see the UPS invoices printer setup that spits out a couple million invoices on Saturday:)
lol, previous office here did Medicare/Medicaid billing on paper. Still have severals pallets of paperwork to hold to for a couple more years. On the upside...if anyone needs a nice dot-matrix printer i have a lifetime supply that print 5 copies at once. No counters on those but my Laserjet5 is up to 764382 pages now. I think we may have made up for a couple of you paperless people;)
Add in regular invoices in 3-parts, reports, and month-end processes(an extra ream of paper) plus copies of documentation sent for Medicare and we were in the millions i am sure and we were one of the small players. Altho the big boys had gone electronic by then.
Even most of our electronic billing was printed. For one, maintaining an old system for another 7 years required for record keeping after we quit was awkward.
Just go with the false advertising claim. Might want to have kept the evidence tho as it was obviously not recond/refurb. That implies value-added by the store which was not present.
I would not expect to have to check a recond/refurb device. It should behave as new for the most part except for cosmetic damage. I wouldn't expect to get treated so well with no proof either, maybe they know what their recondioning is worth.
"Angry, with long memories, which even the market cannot understand -> revenge botches all calculations"
hehe, i stuck with my old SLOW 3rd party DSL for over 12 YEARS.. and.. resisted ordering cable TV. All because they sold me 'lightning fast' internet service that was slower than dial-up at 6pm. Neglected to tell me that 'lightning fast' (1.5M at the time vs 640k DSL max) only applied between 2-6 AM:/ I had the 1998 CAP dsl line (and same modem!) up until 2 years ago or so!
Least it was easy to get out of with it that ad phrase. 28K may be 'upto' 1500K but they put up a billboard 1/2 block away for 'lightning fast' internet... they didn't seem willing to find out if that was false advertisment.
Only went to cable internet when the inevitable happened, albeit years after i expected. My Dsl stopping working and the 2 companies just pointed their finger at the other. 4th day down with no ETA or why it's broken I ordered cable...what did they expect me to do. Fixed on the 5th day of course, but, neither company told me it ws fixed, nor why it broke or who to blame. Sorry, your both gone then i guess.
Still considering cable TV....
Predict that for marketing...sending me hundreds of advertisements and promos wasn't going to do anything;P
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Sounds like a wet dream for wireless companies.
I wonder how much data one would need to push back and forth. Look it up on Facebook, Look it up on Google Earth. Upload a pic of soup and a system somewhere does the comparison? Sounds expensive and who's system do you trust. Download soup info and have your phone figure it out...Sounds worse.
Sounds like a way to blast thru data caps in record time !
No ideas here tho, i don't even need a smartphone yet (til i hook up the security cameras, then being able to check on them seems useful)
Thank goodness!
It was gettting to be Soooooo much work to press a button to answer or decide to do nothing to get it into voicemail....
I am sure the occasional error from this will be much less stressful than having to choose to press a button or not :O
sigh
whatever, I still use my vintage (that is correct for a 4 year old cell phone, right? not antique til next year..) flip phone. Got a good laugh yesterday when our salesman got a call on my line and said it sounds so much better than his smartphone!
sigh
And none of the above note the fact that there is more to the battery than JUST those alum plates. How much is the other plates in there? The electrolyte? The water? Something to hold them together and a box to contain it all? Maybe even some hardware to enable those swaps?
But copy A would be the copy in the temporary cache. If Copy B != Copy A then the copy it (iTunes, etc) put in my music folder is not the one i bought....
I don't think i got the copy i paid for and their downloader deleted my 'original' copy! :O
So none of us would actually have legit files according to that
So even though no one will ever be able to use the land again you are ok with it?
- you clearly think that a land owner is incapable of doing his own cost benefit analysis. There are lands that are not going to be mined on, they are very good for agriculture. There are lands that will have miners on them, there are resources there that will be mined one way or another.
By only allowing people to do business on their own private property we get rid of the externalities, which means of the ability to socialise costs. Once a person owns the land, it's his. If it's not, then we don't have rights. By buying and destroying a piece of property the owner makes a calculation that it will be more profitable to do that rather than to maintain that property. If he is right, then he allowed the economy to get the maximum effective output from that property at that time.
Yes, if a person buys and "destroys" a piece of property, he should have the right to do that, he paid for it.
Somebody will have to hold those nuclear barrels. Somebody will own that property at any time, it's not like once the owner disappears there is no other owner.
Stop paying taxes....
So you plan on eliminating property taxes...I'll forget to pay the excise taxes on what i take out.
Let me guess you don't plan on having those taxes either.
I'll just dump my barrels on your land when you take a vacation, or maybe put your name on em and dump em elsewhere. You don't mind using your resources to prove it was me. Even then so what..i have no money (accessable to YOU) I do have a piece of land you could take................
LOL, like they said it isn't worth it as a rule. You needed 22k miles per year to make it work which is waaaay past average.
shesh guys, if your gonna jump all over his figures at least grab the low hanging fruit ;p
Also agree the 22mpg seems a little low. Unless one drives at least TWICE as much as average i have never seen these calc work. Gonna need a good value for the hippie chick factor i fear.....
hehe, back in the day my locker partner and I both joined one of those music clubs and made sure we didn't duplicate any choices both for the intial stuff and the required 3 purchases. They aren't such a bad deal under the right conditions :)
PS, most of those cassettes lasted longer than much of our digital stuff will ... still have some over 30 years later. I think the extra few cents i spent on good tape was worth it.
At the rate we are going the pirates will have become shoplifters to minimize risk ;O
Is this even possible? I don't see anything that one needs to use the right pinky for except possibly /.
Swap the 'P' with something, perhaps 'Z' ?
Shift your home keys over one? If you're learning new layouts anyways, this seems easier.
There is only one letter involved, swap 'P' with ',' and there are none. Not sure how you can avoid it more changing all the other letters around.
Besides, whatever works for you. Not like i used more than 4-5 fingers to type this. Like someone else above my hands move more than my fingers.
Starting to wonder about Ask Slashdot myself....
So, with the bazillion safety devices required in cars noone requires an actual OFF switch??
As soon as one country does, they would no doubt spread.
Seems simple enough, require a cutoff switch like even the cheasiest race cars do. We now install like a dozen airbags, surely one decent toggle switch wouldn't make much of a dent in the price.
After dealing with a flaky HD this week i got to see some even flakier progress bars.
Disk was broke and only running at 1/1000 speed or so for some reason trying to reinstall windows. The progress bar moved from 37 minutes remaining to 35 minutes after at least 30 mins of attempted work. The estimate is fixed i assume as it always starts out about the same.
The progress bar on the disk diag was the opposite with aggressive recalculating. 6min, 60min, 27min, 1min, 100min, 13min, 50min, 7min, 90min, 27sec (HAHA), 39min....AAARRGGHH
Not sure which was more annoying, but at least the diag one was more entertaining :(
Get out of the stores with 3 choices, perhaps?
here
http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-14-G4-2149se-Butterfly-Blossom-Design-Laptop-PC-with-AMD-A6-4400M-Processor-and-Windows-7-Home-Premium-with-Windows-8-Upgrade-Option-bundled-with/21191020
Newegg had 144 hits (lots of refurb, but better than craigslist suggested below!) on win 7 home premium alone.
Dell, Tigerdirect, even Walmart all had them.
I think this was meant to be posted next year...... ...and all those refurbs will still be there, even if new isn't....
How about:
The relay or relay contacts on this gadget give out.
hmm, the info on the 'buy' page says "connect any appliance or device" but very little actual spec info.
I really doubt they intend for me to controll my 1975W minicomputer with this..of course i am chicken to turn it on without this gizmo but still :) Someday i'll find out if it gets up to speed before the breaker trips.
(1975W is the startup power, but that is what they are talking about)
I am thinking that this relay is gonna fry before a device can do damage however. Can't believe Belkin would use good enough relays to switch enough power to do as suggested before it dies.
I considered these, basically Nettops, low to medium speed, no Raid, graphics card is probably good enough for now, but who knows what 5 years will bring. Not even close. Often no optical drive, sometimes no card readers.
At the other end, when I priced an i7 HP desktop, for $1300 they didn't even give me a RAID!! All the money was for the i7 and Windows 8, and the rest of the hardware could have been a $200 Chinese craptastic desktop.
And huge too, it seems as you went up in spec, you went up in size. Smaller is surely better!? Why provide a bigger case with more wasted space? Yet that's what they do!
Anyway, I've said my piece, I think they're missing an opportunity, but believe they'll be history soon enough anyway.
lol, my gaming computer came with a nice processor, a mid-range GPU, a bunch of RAM....and an itty bitty (cheap) MB in a HUGE case. In fact tonight project is to start the transfer to my (prettier) desktop case. Wasted space is an understatement on mine, there is only one slot on MB but like 5-6 holes in the case. There is literally NOTHING in 9 inches of the case. Yup, gave in and bought premade this time as the price was the same for components or system. I'd have bought a better MB and no case but the premade meant it cost like $5 to have them assemble and install Windows and if something is broke i know who to yell at ;)
Low tech answer is the alarms for elderly people getting up out of bed/chair. Just an alarm box with magnet on a string clipped to person. If they get up it pulls the magnet off the string and sets off the alarm. Should be $50 or less. Clip the string to bottom of bag and hook the alarm to a chair leg or fixture nearby.
Or a GPS device with the tracker app and a tablet...of course if the tablet is in the bag.....
ups.com
Needed to print thermal labels from the website interface. For some reason it uninstalled itsaelf or i got away without it for a year. But had to install java to get it to work again, pretty much on the day all this started but noone there had a clue. sigh....custom driver, activeX control, java all needed to be install to print the damned label.
It is not even in the damn instructions...it is just ASSUMED to be on the machine these days. That machine does nothing but UPS labels so the usual browsing baggage was not installed.
Not much real geek art myself besides the clock made from a platter of our old computer system. Do have a few old disks hung up like someone else. I framed my dead MMO disks, lol. I used my vintage music collection more as a focus than my computers as my door trim is old album covers and the framed pictures are a mosaic(Judas Priest logo, and picture of a 45rpm record) of all my album covers (no pilfering pics either, i shot my actual album covers myself)
Coffee table is a 1980 Wang minicomputer tho :)
Saving up to 'wallpaper' one wall of my computer room in PCB..halfway there.. :(
Did frame some of the free posters from old games. My old game boxes are stacked to appear to hold up a crack in the ceiling, 9 foot stack of retail boxes actually looks kinda cool.
The privacy curtain of CDROMs never got finished yet...someday
Prefer stuff i made but i guess the silver statue of the signature creature in my favorite MMORPG is art..and is even worth what i paid for it now!
I thought that sounded a bit rich. $1400 for ONE class ?!?
I don't really think we need to say much more.
lol, i saw the 13 year old kid we race with log onto Steam the night before last....1:00 am his time and not the 1st time and i am rarely logged into Steam. So i suspect he does it quite a bit, hehe. Resisted the urge to tell him to go back to bed and didn't even look what he was playing. Tho he may get comment or two on race night (those he's allowed to attend, seems to be grounded alot.........)
Not to mention everyone skipping over the little detail that one of the kids isn't even yours!
So many of you are really ok with your kid's friend drugging you ? :O
Let's go drug Jamie's parents again, i hear there is a cool concert on their pay TV tonight.
Which kid would you guess to be the instigator? Your's or the other kid? Are you really ok with either answer?
I am itchin to fire up the old minicomputer and see what it thinks of 2013..of course i have been saying that since Y2K. Too bad it would mean turning off all the electrical stuff in my house to get enough juice to spin up the HD :O
1983 Wang computer..the login screen had calenders loaded until 2030 was always curious if it really would have been ok but noone wanted to risk it and it was retired in 1998. Can't believe it's been 14 years and i haven't even seen if it still works, altho that 1960 watts draw on the HD alone and the 5 lb transformer on the CPU box are a little intimidating. Time sucks
We had 7 people in billing dept produce around 100,000 a year for an office average of over 50,000.
Outliers are fun...........
What about someone like UPS? I think they still send out a few invoices.
Utility companies with million customers. Heck i get a Comcast invoice (plus 6 ads) each month, i bet there are few pieces of paper used there.
PS..i always wanted to see the UPS invoices printer setup that spits out a couple million invoices on Saturday :)
lol, previous office here did Medicare/Medicaid billing on paper. Still have severals pallets of paperwork to hold to for a couple more years. On the upside...if anyone needs a nice dot-matrix printer i have a lifetime supply that print 5 copies at once. No counters on those but my Laserjet5 is up to 764382 pages now. I think we may have made up for a couple of you paperless people ;)
Add in regular invoices in 3-parts, reports, and month-end processes(an extra ream of paper) plus copies of documentation sent for Medicare and we were in the millions i am sure and we were one of the small players. Altho the big boys had gone electronic by then.
Even most of our electronic billing was printed. For one, maintaining an old system for another 7 years required for record keeping after we quit was awkward.
Screw the porn.....
Just go with the false advertising claim. Might want to have kept the evidence tho as it was obviously not recond/refurb. That implies value-added by the store which was not present.
I would not expect to have to check a recond/refurb device. It should behave as new for the most part except for cosmetic damage. I wouldn't expect to get treated so well with no proof either, maybe they know what their recondioning is worth.
"Angry, with long memories, which even the market cannot understand -> revenge botches all calculations"
hehe, i stuck with my old SLOW 3rd party DSL for over 12 YEARS .. and.. resisted ordering cable TV. All because they sold me 'lightning fast' internet service that was slower than dial-up at 6pm. Neglected to tell me that 'lightning fast' (1.5M at the time vs 640k DSL max) only applied between 2-6 AM :/ I had the 1998 CAP dsl line (and same modem!) up until 2 years ago or so!
Least it was easy to get out of with it that ad phrase. 28K may be 'upto' 1500K but they put up a billboard 1/2 block away for 'lightning fast' internet... they didn't seem willing to find out if that was false advertisment.
Only went to cable internet when the inevitable happened, albeit years after i expected. My Dsl stopping working and the 2 companies just pointed their finger at the other. 4th day down with no ETA or why it's broken I ordered cable...what did they expect me to do. Fixed on the 5th day of course, but, neither company told me it ws fixed, nor why it broke or who to blame. Sorry, your both gone then i guess.
Still considering cable TV....
Predict that for marketing ...sending me hundreds of advertisements and promos wasn't going to do anything ;P