I agree that the number is a red herring, but I do wonder where all those people are that don't have personal cell phones. I don't carry a cell phone myself, but I can't think of a single adult that I know who doesn't. The only people other than myself that I can think of are teenagers in large families and other children that are just too young to have a cell phone.
So what data do you have that says otherwise? I know in my neighborhood, the kids on each side (all between the ages of 7 and 17) have cellphones. And the retired couple (in their 80s) two houses down have cellphones too...
Well, the average age for the start of phone ownership is 10 years. Now, let's look at a population graph. Oops, we're at 6.1% already just with people under the age of five. That "95%" figure is already bullshit. Even if everyone over the age of 10 owned a cell phone we're only at 87.6% of the population, and we haven't removed the the top end (which is very sparse, I admit) or the scattered people in the middle (poverty, fear of radio waves, etc).
Says about 327MM in the US so right around 95%. Sure, many people have two or even more cell phones, but there is still about one cellphone per person in the US, and it's been a LONG time since I've ever ran into a person who did not have a cellphone - even the elderly.
Your figures are a red herring here. The statement is "95% of the U.S. population owns a cell phone". You don't get to use the additional phones some individuals have and apply them to the segment that does not have a phone, so a chart counting active lines is useless. Lots of those phones are corporate plans that may not even be owned by an individual person, or will be a secondary line to their own personal phone.
Think about the very elderly that do not have a cell phone because they missed that technological boom. Now think about children below the average age kids get their first mobile phone. Am I really supposed to believe those two groups together make up less than 5% of the population? We haven't even added in people in "normal cell phone ownership range" who don't have one for other reasons.
What is it with these websites pushing through terrible "redesigns"?
I think they all believe the only way to grow their userbase is to make themselves "hip" by changing their appearance to a "fresh new look". The obvious problem is their existing userbase is used to the old design (and features) and have learned to navigate it efficiently at that point. Change is generally what they don't want, at least not the kind of change that the company management wants to make. If you annoy the current users they might start leaving and you could ultimately end up with a net shrinkage in market-share. The management wants the site to be "easier to use" to attract people, and that gets interpreted as "remove customization and settings". In some cases they probably don't care if it scares off the old userbase because those people are likely -- old. They want new younger users to help drive more young people to their platform.
It's kinda like Firefox's development. There certainly are people who want to see changes in the product, but those changes are bug fixing and performance improvements. Changes like that aren't visual enough to make people want to code them. The developers want to do sexy coding that makes the app different in a very noticeable way. They look at Chrome and its rising popularity and think "that must be what people want, because they are changing to that". So they make Firefox like Chrome and completely ignore the users they still have who don't want a browser like Chrome.
Just have everything done through Apple - pay with ApplePay, subscribe to all the apps you use through the App Store, perpetually pay for iCloud storage....
Yup, don't give up your personal data... just give up your freedom to use other services. It's warm and sunny in the Garden, there's nothing for you out there. Trust us.
They will still need a plastic support structure, will still need to be the same physical wavelength, and will still need to be mounted away from other metal.
Imagine painting an antenna onto the support structure for the roof of a building, and then overlaying non-metallic roofing material on top of it, or painting over it on the inside.
Driver's license and Social Security number are the most commonly used documents for the I-9 form. Basically, the government doesn't want you hiring aliens and visitors without a work visa, but don't have a system in place for an employer to verify if someone is authorized to work in the country (is a citizen or has a work visa).
I would jump at the chance to move back to the midwest and pay $200k for a 5 bedroom, 3000 square ft. house on 2 acres of land. But despite my work being almost entirely remote, my boss has a hardon for daily face to face meetings and won't allow "telecommuting."
1) LOL. Houses aren't that cheap anymore, even in the Midwest. I'd estimate you're going to pay $350k at least for that setup now. Btw, remember that area with this kind of cheap housing are normally in areas with crappy internet offerings. Keep that mind if you plan on telecommuting.
2) If your boss is such a douchebag and you're so skilled, why don't you change jobs to someone who does allow telecommuting?
Okay, I figured it out now, it's a picture of just the visorphone portion with its cord attached -- which is really worthless with it being mostly out of frame with no context.
WTH's with that picture? It just appears to be the backside or maybe a charging cradle. Ignoring the low quality, it doesn't even show the front of the device.
The Leaf was only driving 15 mph. Sounds like the driver was looking somewhere besides what was right right in front of him (like maybe over his shoulder at oncoming traffic from up the way) and didn't notice the Apple vehicle had slowed down/stopped while waiting for an opening to merge.
(only one broadband provider here, I can't even get a DSL line, I'm stuck with cable internet)
If you had the choice, you would still be on cable. I know VDSL2 is a thing, but few DSL providers are offering it or ever plan to. Cable is generally where you upgrade to to get away from slow ADSL. And DSL providers that are actually trying to upgrade and be competitive are doing so by rolling out fiber.
There seems to be a lot of radio stations but after awhile I find myself not even listening to it. It's the same repetitive songs and commercials every hour or so. It's like a Clear Channel station.
Rockstar strives for high realism in their game universe!
Most of these legacy add-ons are not being developed anymore because they are not compatible with the currently-shipping mainstream Firefox and their authors knew this day would come.
It would make more sense to download the XPI files for the extensions you use and you can manually reinstall them as needed, rather than wait for a "grey-market" extension site to appear and have to worry about malware,
Torrent Status -- Can monitor and control a torrent client on the local LAN or remote network. Will upload clicked torrent and magnet links automatically to the client (no need to go visit the web interface), and gives a persistent readout of current download/upload usage stats as a toolbar item. I get the impression the monitoring stats is something that cannot be duplicated with Web Extensions from comments by the developer.
Private Tab -- add a private browsing tab to a window full of all non-private tabs. Also can toggle an existing tab between private mode and normal with ctrl-alt-t.
I'm sure he's perfectly fine with the government regulating social media, and the press for that matter. Things will be full of the correct facts then... just like in China and North Korea.
...you can pick up a pretty nice used car for 5 grand or so.
Have you ever actually tried to buy a $5k car? The major dealerships won't touch 'em, because they generally won't sell anything that can't be financed (the finance companies won't deal with anything too old/cheap). Your remaining options are buy-here-pay-here lots, and private sellers.
Not quite that cheap, but I'm two payments away from paying off my car. It was about $7k.
I was originally going to do my own financing from a local bank. That bank would finance up to 10 years old, or 100,000 miles. The car I bought was a little older, though (11 y.o., 112k miles). I had the dealership set me up financing, and they got me a good rate (for a first-time financed car buyer) with another area bank, not a finance company. They said if I hadn't been a first-time auto-loan applicant I would have gotten a 3% APR.
A lot of the new Millennial hipster types don't even own their house or car.
I feel like that has more to do with the ballooning price of new cars and homes verses the stagnant growth in wages the last few decades than anything.
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I agree that the number is a red herring, but I do wonder where all those people are that don't have personal cell phones. I don't carry a cell phone myself, but I can't think of a single adult that I know who doesn't. The only people other than myself that I can think of are teenagers in large families and other children that are just too young to have a cell phone.
https://www.populationpyramid....
More than 20% of the population is under 18, it's very, very easy to hit over 5% with what you just said. ;-)
So what data do you have that says otherwise? I know in my neighborhood, the kids on each side (all between the ages of 7 and 17) have cellphones. And the retired couple (in their 80s) two houses down have cellphones too...
Well, the average age for the start of phone ownership is 10 years. Now, let's look at a population graph. Oops, we're at 6.1% already just with people under the age of five. That "95%" figure is already bullshit. Even if everyone over the age of 10 owned a cell phone we're only at 87.6% of the population, and we haven't removed the the top end (which is very sparse, I admit) or the scattered people in the middle (poverty, fear of radio waves, etc).
Says about 327MM in the US so right around 95%. Sure, many people have two or even more cell phones, but there is still about one cellphone per person in the US, and it's been a LONG time since I've ever ran into a person who did not have a cellphone - even the elderly.
Your figures are a red herring here. The statement is "95% of the U.S. population owns a cell phone". You don't get to use the additional phones some individuals have and apply them to the segment that does not have a phone, so a chart counting active lines is useless. Lots of those phones are corporate plans that may not even be owned by an individual person, or will be a secondary line to their own personal phone.
Think about the very elderly that do not have a cell phone because they missed that technological boom. Now think about children below the average age kids get their first mobile phone. Am I really supposed to believe those two groups together make up less than 5% of the population? We haven't even added in people in "normal cell phone ownership range" who don't have one for other reasons.
With 95% of Americans owning a cellphone...
Source for that? I'm kinda doubting it's that high given general age distribution.
What is it with these websites pushing through terrible "redesigns"?
I think they all believe the only way to grow their userbase is to make themselves "hip" by changing their appearance to a "fresh new look". The obvious problem is their existing userbase is used to the old design (and features) and have learned to navigate it efficiently at that point. Change is generally what they don't want, at least not the kind of change that the company management wants to make. If you annoy the current users they might start leaving and you could ultimately end up with a net shrinkage in market-share. The management wants the site to be "easier to use" to attract people, and that gets interpreted as "remove customization and settings". In some cases they probably don't care if it scares off the old userbase because those people are likely -- old. They want new younger users to help drive more young people to their platform.
It's kinda like Firefox's development. There certainly are people who want to see changes in the product, but those changes are bug fixing and performance improvements. Changes like that aren't visual enough to make people want to code them. The developers want to do sexy coding that makes the app different in a very noticeable way. They look at Chrome and its rising popularity and think "that must be what people want, because they are changing to that". So they make Firefox like Chrome and completely ignore the users they still have who don't want a browser like Chrome.
Just have everything done through Apple - pay with ApplePay, subscribe to all the apps you use through the App Store, perpetually pay for iCloud storage....
Yup, don't give up your personal data... just give up your freedom to use other services.
It's warm and sunny in the Garden, there's nothing for you out there. Trust us.
They will still need a plastic support structure, will still need to be the same physical wavelength, and will still need to be mounted away from other metal.
Imagine painting an antenna onto the support structure for the roof of a building, and then overlaying non-metallic roofing material on top of it, or painting over it on the inside.
Driver's license and Social Security number are the most commonly used documents for the I-9 form. Basically, the government doesn't want you hiring aliens and visitors without a work visa, but don't have a system in place for an employer to verify if someone is authorized to work in the country (is a citizen or has a work visa).
Yes, why doesn't the government have a system like that...
I would jump at the chance to move back to the midwest and pay $200k for a 5 bedroom, 3000 square ft. house on 2 acres of land. But despite my work being almost entirely remote, my boss has a hardon for daily face to face meetings and won't allow "telecommuting."
1) LOL. Houses aren't that cheap anymore, even in the Midwest. I'd estimate you're going to pay $350k at least for that setup now. Btw, remember that area with this kind of cheap housing are normally in areas with crappy internet offerings. Keep that mind if you plan on telecommuting.
2) If your boss is such a douchebag and you're so skilled, why don't you change jobs to someone who does allow telecommuting?
No. They should not temporarily bring back the "www". They should permanently bring back the full address display.
Okay, I figured it out now, it's a picture of just the visorphone portion with its cord attached -- which is really worthless with it being mostly out of frame with no context.
WTH's with that picture? It just appears to be the backside or maybe a charging cradle. Ignoring the low quality, it doesn't even show the front of the device.
The Leaf was only driving 15 mph. Sounds like the driver was looking somewhere besides what was right right in front of him (like maybe over his shoulder at oncoming traffic from up the way) and didn't notice the Apple vehicle had slowed down/stopped while waiting for an opening to merge.
(only one broadband provider here, I can't even get a DSL line, I'm stuck with cable internet)
If you had the choice, you would still be on cable. I know VDSL2 is a thing, but few DSL providers are offering it or ever plan to. Cable is generally where you upgrade to to get away from slow ADSL. And DSL providers that are actually trying to upgrade and be competitive are doing so by rolling out fiber.
There seems to be a lot of radio stations but after awhile I find myself not even listening to it. It's the same repetitive songs and commercials every hour or so. It's like a Clear Channel station.
Rockstar strives for high realism in their game universe!
Westley Snipes, is that you?
Seriously, the irony...
Yeah, I'm sure there's no way this was deliberate for a third-party or three-letter agency to collect info.
Most of these legacy add-ons are not being developed anymore because they are not compatible with the currently-shipping mainstream Firefox and their authors knew this day would come.
It would make more sense to download the XPI files for the extensions you use and you can manually reinstall them as needed, rather than wait for a "grey-market" extension site to appear and have to worry about malware,
For me the two big ones are:
Torrent Status -- Can monitor and control a torrent client on the local LAN or remote network. Will upload clicked torrent and magnet links automatically to the client (no need to go visit the web interface), and gives a persistent readout of current download/upload usage stats as a toolbar item. I get the impression the monitoring stats is something that cannot be duplicated with Web Extensions from comments by the developer.
Private Tab -- add a private browsing tab to a window full of all non-private tabs. Also can toggle an existing tab between private mode and normal with ctrl-alt-t.
The stock market? That is about the only thing that can make a difference.
Yup, if there's one thing we can depend on as a moral compass, it's the actions of large corporations. /s
I'm sure he's perfectly fine with the government regulating social media, and the press for that matter.
Things will be full of the correct facts then... just like in China and North Korea.
... prevent one from (eg) photographing the screen?
Is a photograph of an email on a monitor admissible as evidence?
...you can pick up a pretty nice used car for 5 grand or so.
Have you ever actually tried to buy a $5k car? The major dealerships won't touch 'em, because they generally won't sell anything that can't be financed (the finance companies won't deal with anything too old/cheap). Your remaining options are buy-here-pay-here lots, and private sellers.
Not quite that cheap, but I'm two payments away from paying off my car. It was about $7k.
I was originally going to do my own financing from a local bank. That bank would finance up to 10 years old, or 100,000 miles. The car I bought was a little older, though (11 y.o., 112k miles). I had the dealership set me up financing, and they got me a good rate (for a first-time financed car buyer) with another area bank, not a finance company. They said if I hadn't been a first-time auto-loan applicant I would have gotten a 3% APR.
I didn't hear about the first two. Sounds like Apple fans need to rethink their tired Samsung Note 7 jokes.
A lot of the new Millennial hipster types don't even own their house or car.
I feel like that has more to do with the ballooning price of new cars and homes verses the stagnant growth in wages the last few decades than anything.