AT&T offers them free with a 2 year unlimited fuel contract. But, if you use too much fuel, they’ll limit your cooking temperature. They won’t tell you how much fuel you can use, just eat your food as rare as possible and you should be fine.
My Steam directory alone is 270GB, and just glancing through my library that's roughly half of the licenses I have actually purchased on Steam. No, I don't play them all, but why should I constantly redownload them? When I do decide to play, I want to play NOW, not tomorrow after it's done re-downloading.
Add to that my non-steam games, which are still often 5-20GB per title, though I've only got 3-4 of those installed usually. My DVD library, of DVD's I actually own and are on shelves in my living room: I have about 1.5TB right there. At 1.5TB, that's all MP4, it would be much higher if I also stored special features and raw images. Why put them on HD instead of using the DVD's? Well, I've already got 4 DVD's that I can no longer play without issues, and 2 of them had never even been out of the case before. I bought the DVD years ago and haven't watched it yet . ..because it's long... and I have a short attention span. . . . and there's a squirrel outside my window looking for acorns. In addition, I run XBMC in the living room, which gives me a wonderful catalog when everything is in MP4. I travel a lot. Ever tried to travel with DVD's? It sucks. I don't carry my entire digital collection, but it's simple enough to just load up my phone or my laptop with some movies and TV shows for while I'm on the road and don't have netflix access.
Then I've got my DVR, which is also in my computer. Dual HD tuners can fill up space pretty quick, and I only allocated 500GB to that with space recycled as the content ages or gets watched. Now, add 50% to everything for a Raid 5 array.
There's plenty of legitimate uses of that kind of hard drive space. But the **AA doesn't want THAT usage to be allowed either. My movies are not DRM'd and will play on Windows, my Android phone, my iPod classic, my linux machine, my Wii, and at a friends house off a thumb drive if we have a movie night. I don't have to worry about what is compatible with what, what DRM this device can play, etc. It just works!
I would point out that you're arguing the same point as Lumpy, just in a slightly different way. You're both sacrificing potential salary in exchange for things that make you happy and mean something important to you, whether that's family and travel, or helping people when they need it most.
During the day, I'm a software developer. I work 40 hours a week pretty routinely, writing number crunching tools for big businesses. I have friends that do roughly the same thing, for more pay, but they may work 50-60 hours a week. They try to recruit me, but the bottom line is I'm happy where I'm at, I make a good living, I'm treated well and respected, and they happily support my personal life. I'm a volunteer firefighter / medical responder, which my company is supportive of, and it does mean something to me to be able to make a difference. I chose to do that, which is meaningful to me and makes an impact in the community, rather than work 60-80 hours. I work in a rural midwest town, instead of a big city. Some of my friends have actually commented on how much cooler my life is, and how great my dog is. . . . none of which they have time for, but they make more money than I do.
When I take vacation, I can leave for a few weeks without having to be "always connected". I just leave with absolutely no plans and see where I end up. I've eaten breakfast out of a cooler in the back of my pickup with a retired couple traveling in an RV. I've literally slept on the beach at Cape Cod. I've driven down the Enchanted Highway, a rural destination that no air travelers would ever see. I've slept in hammocks in the desert. I've watched a pod of humpback wales jump and dive with their calves. I've been to over 40 states and 4 Canadian territories by car. I've biked across Martha's Vineyard with a group of friends from 3 different countries. I'll take all of that over a doubled salary but 80 hour weeks and "always connected" vacations I can't enjoy. Now, having said that and having at times in my life struggled to pay bills, I will say that decision can only really come after you're able to confidently pay your rent and groceries on a regular basis.
I got spankings, sometimes with a belt, but never like that. He was yelling, cussing, and swinging that belt with his entire arm to hit anything that was open. There is a fine line between spanking and beating. This was beating, no question.
My bank account used to be 6-8 with no special characters. Such a joke. I complained about it, and probably 6 months later it went up to like 24 characters with special characters allowed. It was a small privately owned bank though, and I have no idea if my complaint actually mattered. I know they use Shazaam for the website, which appears to not be uncommon among smaller banks.
How does that bear any resemblance to a) how things are already done on Windows/OS X/Gnome/KDE/etc.
To be fair, how can we expect things to be done the same way? My phone suffers limitations that don't exist on my computer, such as no keyboard, no mouse with a right click, etc. I don't WANT things done the same way. Sure, I log into my computer with a 16 character password containing letters, numbers, and symbols. Typing this in on a keyboard is easy for me and contained in muscle memory, so I don't really even have to think about it. On my phone though, even on my old G1 which had, in my opinion, the best mobile keyboard ever, typing in that password is a pain the rear, and the on screen keyboard cannot present me the full layout of a traditional keyboard in a very usable way.
The interface HAS to be revisited, and things can't be done the same way, so now we've got the pattern lock on Android. Yeah, it probably doesn't provide the same level of security, but it meets a compromise in that risk vs security vs usability analysis.
I had to use task killers more on my G1, which was severely underpowered and I milked it out to Android 2.2 until just a couple weeks ago. It didn't have the resources it needed, so force closing things helped. On my Atrix and gTab, I've only used the task kill when an app hung up to restart it. Otherwise it seems to manage itself just fine.
The only gestures I'm familiar with in the base android system are if you count moving pages or opening the notification shade. To me, that doesn't qualify because it's not cryptic shapes that translate into meanings, it's just directions that are quite literal.
Is this maybe Carrier dependent, or has it changed somewhat recently? Last I knew it was an extra $10 Blackberry service charge on top of the regular data plan. If I am outdated or misinformed, I guess I will have to retract my statement.
You do the same thing on an Android. The only difference is that, out of the box, the Android platform will only install signed apk's from known sources. It's a crude attempt at maintaining "trusted" apps, as you can't just visit a page and get a malicious app installed. The option is available without rooting (unless the carrier has locked the device down themselves).
I'm just glad that I don't have to pay a separate monthly fee to access my e-mail through some Blackberry service in another country. That's not very PC like at all.
AMD has only been maintaining backwards compatibility so well since the AM2 socket. Then AM2+, then AM3, all backwards compatible. So, you can run an AM2+ chip in an AM2 socket, but it may not get all the features. Now we're getting AM3+, and it can support an AM3 chip, and an AM3+ chip can run in an AM3 socket, but without full feature support. It's AMD's 4th generation socket in this model, and somehow it's news now? I'd hardly call it a "shift".
Phone number and address? Public information in the phone book. Personally I don't have my address shared and my phone number is Google Voice that directs unknown numbers to voice mail, but that's just a preference really.
Date of birth? We hold parties, show our ID containing it to every bar tender that has some alcohol to offer, and for many people even if they don't list it, friends will still post happy birthday.
Email? Since when is that private? I trust facebook and my "friends" with it a lot more than most companies that require it to register an account.
I think the only real news worth noting here is that 41% of users will accept ANY friend request, and that's not really that much of a surprise. The real problem is any system that considers this information (or knowledge of mothers Maiden name or location of birth) to be proof of identity.
That's like asking why it's called the 100 meter dash instead of the 1 hectometer dash. Despite it being a valid measurement, when was the last time you saw the measurement used in the real world? Most people know what a centimeter is. We all had rulers in grade school that had inches and centimeters. Most people only know millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. All the other units are pretty much left to scientists.
And that would be a better choice for them under the current system, but with this it may actually cost them votes thanks to people that will vote for/against someone purely due to party affiliation.
Regardless, it all comes down to the intelligence of the voter. Maybe we could get Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell and Coke to team up for the 2012 debut of "American President." It won't raise the intelligence at all, but at least I won't have conversations with my neighbor like:
Friend: "Do you want to play video games tonight?" Me: "I have to go vote" Friend: "What are you voting on?" Me: [Explain the ballot issues] Friend: "Where do you do that?" Me: [Tell Location]" Friend: "Can I go vote too?" Me: "Are you registered?" Friend: "I don't know. I have to register?"
I do agree with your scenario as the most likely, that the third party candidates will still be overrun by the "safe" votes for the main two. However, there is still a small bit of hope here.
Imagine 3 candidates, R, D, and O(ther). Now, let's say R and D are neck and neck, but O had a 75% approval rating divided among both parties (I know, it's not likely, but you have to admit that would be a strong candidate). The problem is that his approval is also split fairly evenly between R and D. Under the current system, most people will not "throw away" their vote for fear that O will still not receive enough votes and the opposing party will win. With this system, the R and D population can both throw their safe votes toward their own candidates, and also throw a vote towards O. In this case, O would win, because he has a stronger following, but the people still go to vote for their safe R and D candidates to prevent the ever feared problem of splitting the voting base.
I think a condorcet voting system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) would actually be better, because it can actually factor in degrees of approval. However, The logistics are more complicated as well as explaining it to the masses, which in some states can't even handle the current "choose one" directions.
Not to mention, libraries or directory assistance as listed below.
Also, lets think about this. . . . are we seriously suggesting that it's not a big deal if the guy on the other side of town (or on the other side of a city the size of Chicago or New York) is NOT a problem when I post that I'm out of town, but the guy on the other side of the COUNTRY is? C'mon - Nobody in NY is going to hop on a plane to go rob a guy in Chicago that posts that he's out of town for New Years and he just got a nice home theater for Christmas. That guy on the other side of town very well might rent a U-Haul though.
The information is already public (though I don't like them sharing it, I've never though the security options were that freaking difficult). The problem is a lot less to do with facebook and a lot more to do with users that post every tiny detail in their lives, don't bother even TRYING to understand the security options, and friend every single person they've ever met or that has a "hot" profile pic. Used to be that thieves had to observe the news papers and mail piling up to figure out you're gone. Now, they just sit back and watch the news feed. I'll admit, I've posted when I'm out of town, but I also don't friend everybody I've ever met and use the privacy options.
Hackers, please stop lying to our computers and telling them you have permission to do things when you know you don't. There. . . . now nobody will get anymore spam or viruses.
I love when people say something "cannot be hacked". I also like the idea of security by requiring the client to tell the truth about what it is and what it can do. If everything would just tell the truth. . . we'd have better security. Sounds like the EA boss saying "To take the market back from Call of Duty, you just have to make a better game"
The judge didn't find Google guilty of invasion of privacy. Those charges were thrown out due to the Boring's obvious lack of concern toward privacy in the other examples (sealed records, public pictures already online, etc). Google was found guilty of trespassing. A minimum damage for privacy laws would still not apply in this case.
I'm not familiar with the area in which the Boring's private drive is on, but here in the rural midwest it can sometimes be quite hard to tell a private drive from a county road, or even from a public road which is privately maintained. I had a professional appraiser make that mistake on a house I was trying to purchase, so it's quite likely a hired driver could make that mistake.
I've used Touchdown since the G1, prior to Android actually supporting exchange out of the box. I still prefer it over the built in client. The calendars are better, the address book is complete, the mail delivery is faster, and now just one more point to add in its favor.
Performance cars and race cars don't care much about tire wear, and it's well known that negative camber improves cornering. However if you look at the article they show a tire of "continually decreasing diameter", allowing a negative cambered tire to maintain a flat contact patch with the road. This means different parts of the tire have a different lateral speed when moving in a straight line. Even though it may be microscopic amounts, the tire would be creating continuous additional drag and tread wear.
As for performance, my real world experience is limited to 1/10 RC cars, but part of the benefit was that in cornering as the car rolls the contact patch of the outside tire is increased, which this tire would also negate. My pan (on road cars) always had hard suspension and practically no camber, while my off road cars with soft suspension benefited from more negative camber. If someone has more expertise to offer, I'd love to be educated.
I'm currently running Thunderbird 3 to access 4 IMAP e-mail servers containing over 11,000 e-mails in the inbox. I have not noticed any problems over Thunderbird 2, and in fact appreciate the significantly improved junk mail management, aggregate inbox, and improved indexed search. If those come with a small performance hit, I'll accept it, because by no means is my system being slowed down by Thunderbird 3.
So glad to see some people thinking about that. I hate how often the ham community shuns CB and the mere mention of it. Yes, it certainly has it's own problems, but nearly EVERY truck and a good amount of touring motorcycles are equipped with CB. Considering how many charity bike rides that ARS covers that make use of motorcycles, this also seems overlooked. I've never thought of it from the delivery, but I'll certainly keep that in mind in the future.
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AT&T offers them free with a 2 year unlimited fuel contract. But, if you use too much fuel, they’ll limit your cooking temperature. They won’t tell you how much fuel you can use, just eat your food as rare as possible and you should be fine.
My Steam directory alone is 270GB, and just glancing through my library that's roughly half of the licenses I have actually purchased on Steam. No, I don't play them all, but why should I constantly redownload them? When I do decide to play, I want to play NOW, not tomorrow after it's done re-downloading.
Add to that my non-steam games, which are still often 5-20GB per title, though I've only got 3-4 of those installed usually. My DVD library, of DVD's I actually own and are on shelves in my living room: I have about 1.5TB right there. At 1.5TB, that's all MP4, it would be much higher if I also stored special features and raw images. Why put them on HD instead of using the DVD's? Well, I've already got 4 DVD's that I can no longer play without issues, and 2 of them had never even been out of the case before. I bought the DVD years ago and haven't watched it yet . . .because it's long. .. and I have a short attention span. . . . and there's a squirrel outside my window looking for acorns. In addition, I run XBMC in the living room, which gives me a wonderful catalog when everything is in MP4. I travel a lot. Ever tried to travel with DVD's? It sucks. I don't carry my entire digital collection, but it's simple enough to just load up my phone or my laptop with some movies and TV shows for while I'm on the road and don't have netflix access.
Then I've got my DVR, which is also in my computer. Dual HD tuners can fill up space pretty quick, and I only allocated 500GB to that with space recycled as the content ages or gets watched. Now, add 50% to everything for a Raid 5 array.
There's plenty of legitimate uses of that kind of hard drive space. But the **AA doesn't want THAT usage to be allowed either. My movies are not DRM'd and will play on Windows, my Android phone, my iPod classic, my linux machine, my Wii, and at a friends house off a thumb drive if we have a movie night. I don't have to worry about what is compatible with what, what DRM this device can play, etc. It just works!
Yeah, they're called sun glasses. . . . not all of them are tinted.
I would point out that you're arguing the same point as Lumpy, just in a slightly different way. You're both sacrificing potential salary in exchange for things that make you happy and mean something important to you, whether that's family and travel, or helping people when they need it most.
During the day, I'm a software developer. I work 40 hours a week pretty routinely, writing number crunching tools for big businesses. I have friends that do roughly the same thing, for more pay, but they may work 50-60 hours a week. They try to recruit me, but the bottom line is I'm happy where I'm at, I make a good living, I'm treated well and respected, and they happily support my personal life. I'm a volunteer firefighter / medical responder, which my company is supportive of, and it does mean something to me to be able to make a difference. I chose to do that, which is meaningful to me and makes an impact in the community, rather than work 60-80 hours. I work in a rural midwest town, instead of a big city. Some of my friends have actually commented on how much cooler my life is, and how great my dog is. . . . none of which they have time for, but they make more money than I do.
When I take vacation, I can leave for a few weeks without having to be "always connected". I just leave with absolutely no plans and see where I end up. I've eaten breakfast out of a cooler in the back of my pickup with a retired couple traveling in an RV. I've literally slept on the beach at Cape Cod. I've driven down the Enchanted Highway, a rural destination that no air travelers would ever see. I've slept in hammocks in the desert. I've watched a pod of humpback wales jump and dive with their calves. I've been to over 40 states and 4 Canadian territories by car. I've biked across Martha's Vineyard with a group of friends from 3 different countries. I'll take all of that over a doubled salary but 80 hour weeks and "always connected" vacations I can't enjoy. Now, having said that and having at times in my life struggled to pay bills, I will say that decision can only really come after you're able to confidently pay your rent and groceries on a regular basis.
I got spankings, sometimes with a belt, but never like that. He was yelling, cussing, and swinging that belt with his entire arm to hit anything that was open. There is a fine line between spanking and beating. This was beating, no question.
My bank account used to be 6-8 with no special characters. Such a joke. I complained about it, and probably 6 months later it went up to like 24 characters with special characters allowed. It was a small privately owned bank though, and I have no idea if my complaint actually mattered. I know they use Shazaam for the website, which appears to not be uncommon among smaller banks.
How does that bear any resemblance to a) how things are already done on Windows/OS X/Gnome/KDE/etc.
To be fair, how can we expect things to be done the same way? My phone suffers limitations that don't exist on my computer, such as no keyboard, no mouse with a right click, etc. I don't WANT things done the same way. Sure, I log into my computer with a 16 character password containing letters, numbers, and symbols. Typing this in on a keyboard is easy for me and contained in muscle memory, so I don't really even have to think about it. On my phone though, even on my old G1 which had, in my opinion, the best mobile keyboard ever, typing in that password is a pain the rear, and the on screen keyboard cannot present me the full layout of a traditional keyboard in a very usable way.
The interface HAS to be revisited, and things can't be done the same way, so now we've got the pattern lock on Android. Yeah, it probably doesn't provide the same level of security, but it meets a compromise in that risk vs security vs usability analysis.
I had to use task killers more on my G1, which was severely underpowered and I milked it out to Android 2.2 until just a couple weeks ago. It didn't have the resources it needed, so force closing things helped. On my Atrix and gTab, I've only used the task kill when an app hung up to restart it. Otherwise it seems to manage itself just fine.
The only gestures I'm familiar with in the base android system are if you count moving pages or opening the notification shade. To me, that doesn't qualify because it's not cryptic shapes that translate into meanings, it's just directions that are quite literal.
Is this maybe Carrier dependent, or has it changed somewhat recently? Last I knew it was an extra $10 Blackberry service charge on top of the regular data plan. If I am outdated or misinformed, I guess I will have to retract my statement.
You do the same thing on an Android. The only difference is that, out of the box, the Android platform will only install signed apk's from known sources. It's a crude attempt at maintaining "trusted" apps, as you can't just visit a page and get a malicious app installed. The option is available without rooting (unless the carrier has locked the device down themselves).
I'm just glad that I don't have to pay a separate monthly fee to access my e-mail through some Blackberry service in another country. That's not very PC like at all.
AMD has only been maintaining backwards compatibility so well since the AM2 socket. Then AM2+, then AM3, all backwards compatible. So, you can run an AM2+ chip in an AM2 socket, but it may not get all the features. Now we're getting AM3+, and it can support an AM3 chip, and an AM3+ chip can run in an AM3 socket, but without full feature support. It's AMD's 4th generation socket in this model, and somehow it's news now? I'd hardly call it a "shift".
Phone number and address? Public information in the phone book. Personally I don't have my address shared and my phone number is Google Voice that directs unknown numbers to voice mail, but that's just a preference really.
Date of birth? We hold parties, show our ID containing it to every bar tender that has some alcohol to offer, and for many people even if they don't list it, friends will still post happy birthday.
Email? Since when is that private? I trust facebook and my "friends" with it a lot more than most companies that require it to register an account.
I think the only real news worth noting here is that 41% of users will accept ANY friend request, and that's not really that much of a surprise. The real problem is any system that considers this information (or knowledge of mothers Maiden name or location of birth) to be proof of identity.
7. . . . . . ..if you use a really large font.
That's like asking why it's called the 100 meter dash instead of the 1 hectometer dash. Despite it being a valid measurement, when was the last time you saw the measurement used in the real world? Most people know what a centimeter is. We all had rulers in grade school that had inches and centimeters. Most people only know millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. All the other units are pretty much left to scientists.
And that would be a better choice for them under the current system, but with this it may actually cost them votes thanks to people that will vote for/against someone purely due to party affiliation.
Regardless, it all comes down to the intelligence of the voter. Maybe we could get Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell and Coke to team up for the 2012 debut of "American President." It won't raise the intelligence at all, but at least I won't have conversations with my neighbor like:
Friend: "Do you want to play video games tonight?"
Me: "I have to go vote"
Friend: "What are you voting on?"
Me: [Explain the ballot issues]
Friend: "Where do you do that?"
Me: [Tell Location]"
Friend: "Can I go vote too?"
Me: "Are you registered?"
Friend: "I don't know. I have to register?"
True story.
I do agree with your scenario as the most likely, that the third party candidates will still be overrun by the "safe" votes for the main two. However, there is still a small bit of hope here.
Imagine 3 candidates, R, D, and O(ther). Now, let's say R and D are neck and neck, but O had a 75% approval rating divided among both parties (I know, it's not likely, but you have to admit that would be a strong candidate). The problem is that his approval is also split fairly evenly between R and D. Under the current system, most people will not "throw away" their vote for fear that O will still not receive enough votes and the opposing party will win. With this system, the R and D population can both throw their safe votes toward their own candidates, and also throw a vote towards O. In this case, O would win, because he has a stronger following, but the people still go to vote for their safe R and D candidates to prevent the ever feared problem of splitting the voting base.
I think a condorcet voting system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) would actually be better, because it can actually factor in degrees of approval. However, The logistics are more complicated as well as explaining it to the masses, which in some states can't even handle the current "choose one" directions.
Seriously? Phonebook.com? Anyone?
Not to mention, libraries or directory assistance as listed below.
Also, lets think about this. . . . are we seriously suggesting that it's not a big deal if the guy on the other side of town (or on the other side of a city the size of Chicago or New York) is NOT a problem when I post that I'm out of town, but the guy on the other side of the COUNTRY is? C'mon - Nobody in NY is going to hop on a plane to go rob a guy in Chicago that posts that he's out of town for New Years and he just got a nice home theater for Christmas. That guy on the other side of town very well might rent a U-Haul though.
The information is already public (though I don't like them sharing it, I've never though the security options were that freaking difficult). The problem is a lot less to do with facebook and a lot more to do with users that post every tiny detail in their lives, don't bother even TRYING to understand the security options, and friend every single person they've ever met or that has a "hot" profile pic. Used to be that thieves had to observe the news papers and mail piling up to figure out you're gone. Now, they just sit back and watch the news feed. I'll admit, I've posted when I'm out of town, but I also don't friend everybody I've ever met and use the privacy options.
Virtual Machines?
Hackers, please stop lying to our computers and telling them you have permission to do things when you know you don't. There. . . . now nobody will get anymore spam or viruses.
I love when people say something "cannot be hacked". I also like the idea of security by requiring the client to tell the truth about what it is and what it can do. If everything would just tell the truth. . . we'd have better security. Sounds like the EA boss saying "To take the market back from Call of Duty, you just have to make a better game"
How's this crap get published?
The judge didn't find Google guilty of invasion of privacy. Those charges were thrown out due to the Boring's obvious lack of concern toward privacy in the other examples (sealed records, public pictures already online, etc). Google was found guilty of trespassing. A minimum damage for privacy laws would still not apply in this case.
I'm not familiar with the area in which the Boring's private drive is on, but here in the rural midwest it can sometimes be quite hard to tell a private drive from a county road, or even from a public road which is privately maintained. I had a professional appraiser make that mistake on a house I was trying to purchase, so it's quite likely a hired driver could make that mistake.
I've used Touchdown since the G1, prior to Android actually supporting exchange out of the box. I still prefer it over the built in client. The calendars are better, the address book is complete, the mail delivery is faster, and now just one more point to add in its favor.
They're $10/month where I live. I consider that expensive for a source of light pollution that I don't want destroying my view of the stars.
Performance cars and race cars don't care much about tire wear, and it's well known that negative camber improves cornering. However if you look at the article they show a tire of "continually decreasing diameter", allowing a negative cambered tire to maintain a flat contact patch with the road. This means different parts of the tire have a different lateral speed when moving in a straight line. Even though it may be microscopic amounts, the tire would be creating continuous additional drag and tread wear.
As for performance, my real world experience is limited to 1/10 RC cars, but part of the benefit was that in cornering as the car rolls the contact patch of the outside tire is increased, which this tire would also negate. My pan (on road cars) always had hard suspension and practically no camber, while my off road cars with soft suspension benefited from more negative camber. If someone has more expertise to offer, I'd love to be educated.
I'm currently running Thunderbird 3 to access 4 IMAP e-mail servers containing over 11,000 e-mails in the inbox. I have not noticed any problems over Thunderbird 2, and in fact appreciate the significantly improved junk mail management, aggregate inbox, and improved indexed search. If those come with a small performance hit, I'll accept it, because by no means is my system being slowed down by Thunderbird 3.
So glad to see some people thinking about that. I hate how often the ham community shuns CB and the mere mention of it. Yes, it certainly has it's own problems, but nearly EVERY truck and a good amount of touring motorcycles are equipped with CB. Considering how many charity bike rides that ARS covers that make use of motorcycles, this also seems overlooked. I've never thought of it from the delivery, but I'll certainly keep that in mind in the future.