That might be one of the attractions of having such a bill acceptor (for stores) -- keeps customers coming back. Or just use a pre-paid debit card bought with cash linked to the account.
Paying cash is perfectly doable in such a system. You have a bill acceptor in store that "refills" your account after you touch your smartphone or smart card. Same as a contactless transit card or even refill systems for pre-paid phone accounts.
Since it refills the account and isn't a means of payment, it can be very simple -- it doesn't have to give change, just take 5's, 10's, and 20's.
"Safety" is for cowards. It would have been nice if China had been less safe during the Tiananmen Square protests 30 years ago -- tank drivers getting the Mussolini treatment from students would have been a sight for sore eyes.
Higher ed seems to be a 30:30:30:10 mix... 30% Apple laptops, 30% Windows laptops, 30% Chromebooks, 10% "other", where "other" equals tablets, Linux devices, and whatever other odd stuff people bring to the classroom. Tablets are terrible for doing real work -- try writing an equation-heavy paper on one. Can be done, but why bother?
Oh, and I'm not in the Bay Area or CA, no interest in living there.
I've never quite gotten used to the "ribbon" interface in MS Office apps since 2007. Which is why I prefer LibreOffice, a menu system (accessible with keyboard shortcuts) seems much more logical to me than a mess of icons up top.
I'd love to see a right/middle button context menu that can be popped up.
LOL. My "luggable" is 2.5lb, which is about the same as a Smurface Pro + keyboard + case to protect the fragile glass screen is. And yes, I've upgraded the memory. As well as moving the SSD to an identical laptop when I dropped one and it broke.
"Use the cloud," you say. I prefer to be cloudfree -- I don't want my data to be MS's or Google's to mine and play with without me consent. And yes, I do make backups, but it's a lot faster to swap an SSD than restoring from backup...
Honestly: I'd rather see opioids legalized, controlled in strength, and addicts given treatment. Cheaper than running a prison-industrial complex and incarcerating en masse.
Guess what? The majority (or even a plurality) of Americans didn't vote for Trump. Only a fluke of a skewed electoral system allowed him to win. And fortunately, the wealthier states are swinging more and more left. Criminal justice reform. Bail reform. Drug law reform. You may not like it, but that's the trend.
Hate to break it to 'ya, but Europe/UK have more freedom for the average citizen, as measured by their lower rates of incarceration and police shootings. US "freedumbs" are mostly for the rich and/or corporations.
I was replying to A.C., not to you. The post that I was replying to specifically mentioned racial issues. I'm betting you're getting up there in years -- hopefully, conservative voters like you will croak out from opioid OD's in the next few years...
Rural cops tend to be poorly trained, have an inbred culture (hired because of family), and no media oversight. Makes for a lot of corruption and bad times if they see you as an "outsider."
By "being an asshole", I mean abuse of power and/or physical harm to people without good reason, which are neither legal nor ethical. BTW - in most civilized countries, a simple traffic stop isn't a reason for some overly-steroided pig in a uniform to try to kill you. Even if you're less than perfectly polite.
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That might be one of the attractions of having such a bill acceptor (for stores) -- keeps customers coming back. Or just use a pre-paid debit card bought with cash linked to the account.
Paying cash is perfectly doable in such a system. You have a bill acceptor in store that "refills" your account after you touch your smartphone or smart card. Same as a contactless transit card or even refill systems for pre-paid phone accounts.
Since it refills the account and isn't a means of payment, it can be very simple -- it doesn't have to give change, just take 5's, 10's, and 20's.
I don't know about all - Europe/EU seems to have done a great job restricting itself with data protection rules.
"Safety" is for cowards. It would have been nice if China had been less safe during the Tiananmen Square protests 30 years ago -- tank drivers getting the Mussolini treatment from students would have been a sight for sore eyes.
US has EZ-Pass, which is a defacto tracking system, even if not originally designed as such.
Higher ed seems to be a 30:30:30:10 mix... 30% Apple laptops, 30% Windows laptops, 30% Chromebooks, 10% "other", where "other" equals tablets, Linux devices, and whatever other odd stuff people bring to the classroom. Tablets are terrible for doing real work -- try writing an equation-heavy paper on one. Can be done, but why bother?
Oh, and I'm not in the Bay Area or CA, no interest in living there.
Millennial idiots feel that way until there's some actual work to be done... Better to be old than being stupid, son.
Fuck the cloud. Some people work on confidential data that doesn't need to be on "someone else's computer."
I'm not saying they should, but doing actual work on a "tablet" interface is a fucking disaster.
And they were frankly often right -- a GUI is often a distraction from typing and writing, not an aid.
There used to be unofficial extensions that restored a usable interface not designed for numpties -- not sure if they work on 365/2016/2019 though
But ... how will tablet users use the app without a keyboard? Braaaawk! Awwwwwwk! Touch-enabled! Modern app! Braaaaaaawk!
I've never quite gotten used to the "ribbon" interface in MS Office apps since 2007. Which is why I prefer LibreOffice, a menu system (accessible with keyboard shortcuts) seems much more logical to me than a mess of icons up top.
I'd love to see a right/middle button context menu that can be popped up.
LOL. My "luggable" is 2.5lb, which is about the same as a Smurface Pro + keyboard + case to protect the fragile glass screen is. And yes, I've upgraded the memory. As well as moving the SSD to an identical laptop when I dropped one and it broke.
"Use the cloud," you say. I prefer to be cloudfree -- I don't want my data to be MS's or Google's to mine and play with without me consent. And yes, I do make backups, but it's a lot faster to swap an SSD than restoring from backup...
You say this like the 90s were a bad thing...
Nominal incomes have also gone up since the 1950s, so no. Econ 101.
Honestly: I'd rather see opioids legalized, controlled in strength, and addicts given treatment. Cheaper than running a prison-industrial complex and incarcerating en masse.
Guess what? The majority (or even a plurality) of Americans didn't vote for Trump. Only a fluke of a skewed electoral system allowed him to win. And fortunately, the wealthier states are swinging more and more left. Criminal justice reform. Bail reform. Drug law reform. You may not like it, but that's the trend.
Hate to break it to 'ya, but Europe/UK have more freedom for the average citizen, as measured by their lower rates of incarceration and police shootings. US "freedumbs" are mostly for the rich and/or corporations.
US income tax also decreased from a top marginal rate of 90% in the 1950s to under 50% today. Taxes do get rolled back.
I was replying to A.C., not to you. The post that I was replying to specifically mentioned racial issues. I'm betting you're getting up there in years -- hopefully, conservative voters like you will croak out from opioid OD's in the next few years...
Can you cite any such policy, or are you just spewing racist tripe?
Rural cops tend to be poorly trained, have an inbred culture (hired because of family), and no media oversight. Makes for a lot of corruption and bad times if they see you as an "outsider."
By "being an asshole", I mean abuse of power and/or physical harm to people without good reason, which are neither legal nor ethical. BTW - in most civilized countries, a simple traffic stop isn't a reason for some overly-steroided pig in a uniform to try to kill you. Even if you're less than perfectly polite.
How small does the group need to be to get you shaking in your suburbanite boots?
Both are problems. And it's a lot easier to get people supposedly acting within the law (i.e. cops) to not be assholes.