well, you can get 7" android tablets for $80
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From quite many sources.
Cheapest I have seen have been about $65, though I did pay $108(inclusive shipping) for mine to get capacitive screen, a 8gb internal storage, 1.5ghz processor model.
In a sane banking environment they get loan amount that maxes out at lower than the expected easy resale value of the home.
It is when markets go overheated that people get too high loan amounts compared to what the homes would sell for when times are bad and they often do go insolvent if they lose their income while there is a market disruption.
What easily sellable assets does US goverment have to cover their debts if suddenly there was no further loans incoming? I know they have a lot of assets, some are even resesable, but in such a bust situation, how likely are they to be able to raise the money to pay off all the loans without davaluating the whole currency massively by "printing money"?
The total debt US has is way too high anyway, if a person had same sort of debt load they would be insolvent.
US is ofcourse not alone in the list of countries where the debt is too high, and still many of those other countires have high credit ratings too.
And yes credit rating companies are bad at basic math skills as expected by their previous ratings, but that does not mean that US should have any credit raiting above "Do not lend money at any cost"
Given the "friendliness" that greets new contributors.
I have entered correct information with references and such in few articles where I am somewhat of an expert, like one where I did my masters in the topic and created couple of pages that were in the page request list in topics where I am fairly knowledgable.
End results: >70% of my edits were removed within few days and in several cases replaces with actual WRONG information. Of the created pages one has today totally wrong information, one has been proposed to merge with another page, but nothing has happened in way many months and a third page was just removed.
While the fact that an open source project has open governance is good if you want to continue using the main codebase, the most important factor by far is the right to fork if needed.
It is the ability to take the code, change it and post your version that really will eventually force the "right" things in any open source product that many enough people care about.
Any "open governance" can be stopped at any point, but once given code is out in open source it is "safe" provided enough people care.
While the GPL part is nice, and hack can be fun, the question still arises why start with such a limited platform in the first place if you have the need for more?
There is enough free content that you can make it to maximum level without paying anything, but you will have to run through the same quests way many more times than someone who pays the monthly subscription so it will be more boring in the long run.
Also you can buy things that speed up your level gain by 20% and items that help you to not have to grind to get certain things that people spend a lot of grinding time on like crafting ingredients.
Overall the option to spend money to speed up things that would take really many hours of repetition is fine, as they still allow you to do the grinding as option. This allows both people with little money and lot of time and lot of money and little time to particiapate. But still raid loot is way better than anything in the shop.
The number of people there again helps to keep people intrested as there are groups to adventure with.
If a game that is billed as f2p is too agressive in making things cost more people will be annoyed and leave, on the other hand make it opposite and you do not get enough money.
That balance is ofcourse modified by the way to "force" the user to buy things. For example if the grind without buying some items is way too slow the level of dissatisfied people will likely be higher, than if the grind normally is "slow" and the acceleration items for example change it to "medium"
On the problem of gaps between screens: Just get a big enough room, 6 full HD projectors and place them and the screens properly and you will not have to worry about all those gaps between screens.. ofcourse that does limit you to 5760*2160 resolution, but it is a small price to pay compared to the cost of the 6 HD projectors..
A happy user of only one full HD projector for games. Though the reolution is less, the image size helps immersion tremendously.
I fall in the low usage category in Finland and have paid a total of 8.52eur for all my mobile phone usage since November last year when I switched carriers. I commited to 24 months at 0.66eur/month and I get 50 minutes of normal price calling as bonus. The base cost has thus sofar been 5.94eur and the rest has been mostly international use. Though I went a few minutes over the 50 one month, those calls being billed at 6.9 cents/minute.
Normally one does not commit to any term and can switch carriers in about a week, as I have done couple of times. So the free 50 min/month is an attempt to get some heavy users to get locked into their service.
On the operating system: The included distro was indeed horrible. I switched to eeebuntu. http://eeebuntu.org/ Been very happy with eeebuntu 3.0. The only change I really made was to change to only one toolbar and move it to right side and limit what I have on it, as I find myself limited in height mostly.
I want a netbook again in few years time
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I have an original eee 701 and I am very happy with it. It is about right size, has large enough keyboard to type short notes and so on. The only complaint really is that it is a bit on the thick side and the use time is slightly too short. I really like the use of a solid state disk and lack of windows too, not to mention the 199 euros I paid for it as new.
I am hoping that once the current crazyness of calling ever larger things netbooks is finally over someone will make something revolutionary.. whatever they call it then... something the size of eee PC, though hopefully by then they can make it thinner. I will likely personally need such in about 4-5 years or so.. hope they have again such on the market at that point instead of the current "netbooks"
Basically, no agreement or normal law can infringe on the rights given in the constitution, unless there is a law that is passed either by 5/6 majority of the parliament, or by 2/3 majority by two parliamants(with general election in between) that says that this special case is ok.
One of the rights in the constitution is cummunications privacy.
The biggest controversy about this law is that it is going to be passed as normal law, not constitutional law.
The second controversy is that it gives organisations, not only companies by places like libraries and such so much more rights than the police has. (There has to be a reason to believe that a serious crime is being commited for the police to get the same info)
The whole free wireless internet access is not going to be all that cheap to build to the requirements of 95% of the population in 10 years.
If you give free 768k access, it is going to be enough for quite a lot of people. For people who need more, you are normally competing with existing solutions in the market, thus you will have hard time selling them.
Maybe FCC hopes for someone to be stupid enough to build it and go bankrupt and then someone else to buy it for a small fraction of the building cost. In such scenario that followup company might make enough money to cover the operating costs and make some profit as they do not have to pay for the infrastructure.
I mean, their current methods have apparently atleast been in breach of investigative laws in several states and they may still end up in mess because of it, but ending the thing will atleast lessen the exposure..
Alternative explanation is that they have actually understood that extortion is bad.. nah.. not likely.
Ofcourse anyone might become a victim of these types of things, but the probability of someone becoming a target is greatly influenced by the really basic security things to do.
In many other types of things it is the stupid(ie. one not taking care of own part) that pays, but unfortunately in most of these types of things, it is the bank or other institution that had to stay for the costs, leading them to be part of the costs spread out on everyone.
Thus there really should be some sort of competence required to get on internet, the same way there is some way there is some sort a competence requirement to drive a car on public roads.
The main parts of such requirement would be basic questions of security and basic demonstrated competence to operate.. the same way drivers lisence is about security and ability to operate the tool..
While knowing that you should run your own DNS server helps those who know how to do it, it will not help the majority of the victims if the police blocks some even more important site in the future.
Though noone will likely die or even loose any large ammounts of money or similar due to this particular case, it should still be seen as a clear warning.
As next time it might be something very important that gets accidentally blocked.
Both a direct warning to use a ISP that does not do the filtering(all ISPs in Finland do not use it).
And on second level a warning to reverse the clearly bad law where the Police is allowed to block sites without accountability and
There are also other solutions, starting from dualbooting similar that allow you to keep things separate on a single computer... if done right...
But, yes in general it is a good idea to do dangerous things like run spyware in a totally separate computer from the one you use for any real work or banking or such...
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From quite many sources.
Cheapest I have seen have been about $65, though I did pay $108(inclusive shipping) for mine to get capacitive screen, a 8gb internal storage, 1.5ghz processor model.
In a sane banking environment they get loan amount that maxes out at lower than the expected easy resale value of the home.
It is when markets go overheated that people get too high loan amounts compared to what the homes would sell for when times are bad and they often do go insolvent if they lose their income while there is a market disruption.
What easily sellable assets does US goverment have to cover their debts if suddenly there was no further loans incoming? I know they have a lot of assets, some are even resesable, but in such a bust situation, how likely are they to be able to raise the money to pay off all the loans without davaluating the whole currency massively by "printing money"?
The total debt US has is way too high anyway, if a person had same sort of debt load they would be insolvent.
US is ofcourse not alone in the list of countries where the debt is too high, and still many of those other countires have high credit ratings too.
And yes credit rating companies are bad at basic math skills as expected by their previous ratings, but that does not mean that US should have any credit raiting above "Do not lend money at any cost"
Given the "friendliness" that greets new contributors.
I have entered correct information with references and such in few articles where I am somewhat of an expert, like one where I did my masters in the topic and created couple of pages that were in the page request list in topics where I am fairly knowledgable.
End results: >70% of my edits were removed within few days and in several cases replaces with actual WRONG information. Of the created pages one has today totally wrong information, one has been proposed to merge with another page, but nothing has happened in way many months and a third page was just removed.
While the fact that an open source project has open governance is good if you want to continue using the main codebase, the most important factor by far is the right to fork if needed.
It is the ability to take the code, change it and post your version that really will eventually force the "right" things in any open source product that many enough people care about.
Any "open governance" can be stopped at any point, but once given code is out in open source it is "safe" provided enough people care.
Yes, that is indeed called progress as defined by much of the software industry.
While the GPL part is nice, and hack can be fun, the question still arises why start with such a limited platform in the first place if you have the need for more?
Said by a lawyer: "Not all lawyers are crooks, it is just the 99% that make the rest of us have a bad reputation."
Personally I think DDO gets it about right.
There is enough free content that you can make it to maximum level without paying anything, but you will have to run through the same quests way many more times than someone who pays the monthly subscription so it will be more boring in the long run.
Also you can buy things that speed up your level gain by 20% and items that help you to not have to grind to get certain things that people spend a lot of grinding time on like crafting ingredients.
Overall the option to spend money to speed up things that would take really many hours of repetition is fine, as they still allow you to do the grinding as option. This allows both people with little money and lot of time and lot of money and little time to particiapate. But still raid loot is way better than anything in the shop.
The number of people there again helps to keep people intrested as there are groups to adventure with.
If a game that is billed as f2p is too agressive in making things cost more people will be annoyed and leave, on the other hand make it opposite and you do not get enough money.
That balance is ofcourse modified by the way to "force" the user to buy things. For example if the grind without buying some items is way too slow the level of dissatisfied people will likely be higher, than if the grind normally is "slow" and the acceleration items for example change it to "medium"
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog..
On the problem of gaps between screens: Just get a big enough room, 6 full HD projectors and place them and the screens properly and you will not have to worry about all those gaps between screens.. ofcourse that does limit you to 5760*2160 resolution, but it is a small price to pay compared to the cost of the 6 HD projectors..
A happy user of only one full HD projector for games. Though the reolution is less, the image size helps immersion tremendously.
I fall in the low usage category in Finland and have paid a total of 8.52eur for all my mobile phone usage since November last year when I switched carriers. I commited to 24 months at 0.66eur/month and I get 50 minutes of normal price calling as bonus. The base cost has thus sofar been 5.94eur and the rest has been mostly international use. Though I went a few minutes over the 50 one month, those calls being billed at 6.9 cents/minute.
Normally one does not commit to any term and can switch carriers in about a week, as I have done couple of times. So the free 50 min/month is an attempt to get some heavy users to get locked into their service.
On the operating system: The included distro was indeed horrible. I switched to eeebuntu. http://eeebuntu.org/ Been very happy with eeebuntu 3.0. The only change I really made was to change to only one toolbar and move it to right side and limit what I have on it, as I find myself limited in height mostly.
I have an original eee 701 and I am very happy with it. It is about right size, has large enough keyboard to type short notes and so on. The only complaint really is that it is a bit on the thick side and the use time is slightly too short. I really like the use of a solid state disk and lack of windows too, not to mention the 199 euros I paid for it as new.
I am hoping that once the current crazyness of calling ever larger things netbooks is finally over someone will make something revolutionary.. whatever they call it then... something the size of eee PC, though hopefully by then they can make it thinner. I will likely personally need such in about 4-5 years or so.. hope they have again such on the market at that point instead of the current "netbooks"
Well.. in many places it is illegal to use an open accesspoint without permission.
Basically, no agreement or normal law can infringe on the rights given in the constitution, unless there is a law that is passed either by 5/6 majority of the parliament, or by 2/3 majority by two parliamants(with general election in between) that says that this special case is ok.
One of the rights in the constitution is cummunications privacy.
The biggest controversy about this law is that it is going to be passed as normal law, not constitutional law.
The second controversy is that it gives organisations, not only companies by places like libraries and such so much more rights than the police has. (There has to be a reason to believe that a serious crime is being commited for the police to get the same info)
Once you start censoring internet things it tends to snowball until it gets in the way of agtually getting information.
Not really, it is still only a proposal, meaning there is still time to modify it to be stupid before it becomes official policy.
The whole free wireless internet access is not going to be all that cheap to build to the requirements of 95% of the population in 10 years.
If you give free 768k access, it is going to be enough for quite a lot of people. For people who need more, you are normally competing with existing solutions in the market, thus you will have hard time selling them.
Maybe FCC hopes for someone to be stupid enough to build it and go bankrupt and then someone else to buy it for a small fraction of the building cost. In such scenario that followup company might make enough money to cover the operating costs and make some profit as they do not have to pay for the infrastructure.
I mean, their current methods have apparently atleast been in breach of investigative laws in several states and they may still end up in mess because of it, but ending the thing will atleast lessen the exposure..
Alternative explanation is that they have actually understood that extortion is bad.. nah.. not likely.
Ofcourse anyone might become a victim of these types of things, but the probability of someone becoming a target is greatly influenced by the really basic security things to do.
In many other types of things it is the stupid(ie. one not taking care of own part) that pays, but unfortunately in most of these types of things, it is the bank or other institution that had to stay for the costs, leading them to be part of the costs spread out on everyone.
Thus there really should be some sort of competence required to get on internet, the same way there is some way there is some sort a competence requirement to drive a car on public roads.
The main parts of such requirement would be basic questions of security and basic demonstrated competence to operate.. the same way drivers lisence is about security and ability to operate the tool..
Most people lack the knowhow to do this.
While knowing that you should run your own DNS server helps those who know how to do it, it will not help the majority of the victims if the police blocks some even more important site in the future.
Though noone will likely die or even loose any large ammounts of money or similar due to this particular case, it should still be seen as a clear warning.
As next time it might be something very important that gets accidentally blocked.
Both a direct warning to use a ISP that does not do the filtering(all ISPs in Finland do not use it).
And on second level a warning to reverse the clearly bad law where the Police is allowed to block sites without accountability and
There are also other solutions, starting from dualbooting similar that allow you to keep things separate on a single computer... if done right...
But, yes in general it is a good idea to do dangerous things like run spyware in a totally separate computer from the one you use for any real work or banking or such...