Who has unlimited data with tethering in the US for $15 a month? Or is it $15 a month on top of your $70 unlimited talk and text? I pay $100 for three lines, one being an iPhone. I have wifi at work and home, my largest data month in the last 3 years was 180Megs. I will happily take my %15 discount to go to the 200M plan.
The NFL has a package where you can watch all the games in "Stunning HD quality" (Actually not that bad, roughly netflix HD quality) . The big BUT is that you can't watch online when ANY other game is playing, which means no football til after midnight EST on Sunday and then blocked again for Mon night game. I got it this year but couldn't keep free of enough news/facebook updates/etc to watch it the next day.
how to troubleshoot and resolve hardware incompatibility issues with this installation.
Not to troll too hard, but this is why I left linux after 7 years of using it as my only desktop. Although if half the kids drop out it will be less tests to grade later!
I think this depends how informed the gamer is. Every month or so I troll thru the demo section on the PS3 and download a few that look interesting. More often than not the demo shows me the game sucks and I should save my money. But sometimes I find a gem. As a moderate gamer, I don't follow all the releases. Sure I know about the big ticket ones, but not the other 30 games that come out every month.
I remember buying mission packs at the store for the original Wing Commander series, must have been 1992 or 93. The difference to me is that with modern games (Looking at you bioshock 2). I really didn't feel like I got my $60 worth, and then right away they are pushing expansions. I feel like the value eqaution has changed.
It was advertised quite heavily at launch. Tons of people use playstations as cell development platforms because they are about 1/10th the cost of a "real" cell computer. Sony itself made a yellow dog release of linux for it. Here is a link talking about YDL from 2006 : http://ps3.ign.com/articles/748/748255p1.html
Does anyone else look at these with the same awe as the pyramids. Like "Look what those primitive people could do with only boatloads of cash". It makes me sad the state of our local space exploration.
Congratulations! We're now in a state of permanent war. There was some "war on something", I think it was after drugs, and a reporter asked the White House press guy if he was going to ask congress for an actual declaration of war on it. The look back was priceless.
You know I would have said that before I got one, but I haven't hooked my kindle up to a computer in months. It's much easier to just download from the device itself. Certainly this is true on trips where I don't bring a computer, but even around the house. It's one less step. Sure it's not hard to hook up a cable and drag a file, but it's easier to just click on it.
It's a bargin in terms of time compared to nothing, but that's not the space we're in. I have a Windows 7 Media center box (Only windows box I own). It does DVR functions, plays netflix and DVDs. It gets free guides forever, and can sleep, saving me $10 a month in power costs over my old TiVo. (Electricity is very expensive where I live). This box was $300 at walmart + a $70 tuner. It's onboard HDMI outputs 1080p video flawlessly and overall it is more "snappy" than my old TiVo HD. This to me is more a bargin than any Tivo. And this without the fact that I can dig out the keyboard and have a full computer (which I don't use it for often, but still)
#3 is taken care of by the little known mac command line "say". I just tried and "ls | say" read out my directory from the terminal. #1 I totally agree with, I understand about modern disk caches and the like, but hitting the button and walking away would be nice.
I'll fly in when it's passed the full year of flight and safety tests the FAA requires for certification. It flew today certified as an experimental flight, which requires much less rigorous testing than a commercial flight. I have every confidence it will fly eventually, but I'd like all the bugs to be worked out.
Just to correct you on one point, the kindle 2 and DS read PDF natively. Only the Kindle 1 needs you to send it thru Amazon. Books are transferable to up to 5 kindles on one account, not to a stranger. Although most of the ebooks that claim this as a feature have it crippled. (For example the Nook lets you lend a book only one time for 14 days).
Your other points are all valid; however, I like my families kindles and they treat us well. YMMV
Yes but Vonage is horrible company. They have horrible customer service and will commit fraud to get early termination fees from you. Worse than AT&T by far!
Did he put on all the filler that the studios do? I recall there was something called like "Silverscreen" edition DVDs that were just the movie (no bonus stuff, no extra tracks, nothing) and advertised better quality. I'm guessing as much as a Gig is dedicated to this stuff on a typical movie release, meaning you would get better quality with your own rip and recompress.
The razor industry has learned though. Go to your local mega-mart/drug store/ etc and go to the razor section. I think you'll find that not only does a 10 pack of blades cost $10, but a razor with one or 2 blades costs about the same. Now this razor is not some mahogany wood with inlaid ivory, it's a piece of plastic made in china. I claim that there is no way they don't make money on both.
The new analogy is ink jet printers!
Ps. get off my lawn.
There are quite a few linux hacks for the kindle one. Including I think someone got a terminal running on it. I leave finding the hacks as an exercise to the avid googler.
This is a truly interesting question. Google indexes the pirate bay. A few tests of "thepiratebay batman" on google will show you all the torrenty goodness you might want.
So enlightenment has been hanging around almost non-updated for 10 years (seems like anyway, I ran it in 2000 on Mandrake). Back then I was running a 500MHz Celeron. They were just waiting for cell phones to catch up to pick back up on development. Brilliant!
Depends where you live. The listings simply need to be updated to include a miles/kWh. Then you can calculate. I live in Hawaii which has the highest electric in he country (I think) right now at almost 38 cents a kWh. Gas is running right about $4.00 a gallon at Costco. For easy math lets say a Prius gets 50 miles to the gallon and 3 miles to the kWh(I saw this number on a conversion website, I'm guessing it's generous). Your dollar per mile on gas is 4/50 =.08, on electric it.38/3=.13 . So while I understand that electric is much cheaper on the mainland (I think I was paying 18 cents a kWh in the northeast, which makes it.06 dollars/mile) you can see that plug in cars don't offer you that much in savings over a gas, and depending where you live may cost more. All these articles seem to think power is free. Maybe someday it will be all solar and wind at 5 cents a kWh, but I doubt it.
Everyone that has ever promised to save me money didn't. I've filled out out tons of online auto insurance applications only to have them end in tears.
You can have degraded digital, in fact Sirius and XM do this right now. It's a bit complicated but the basic idea is similar to a progressive JPEG image that loads in low frequency data, then updates with higher frequency data. Giving you a fuzzy picture that gets more clear after each refresh. The way they do this with audio is spreading out the signal over time. If you have or know someone with XM give this a try, turn on the radio from power off and listen very closely. Likely over the first 4 seconds you'll notice the sound quality increase. You can also place a metal sheet over the antenna to play with this. There are some tricks here, I'm sure it's described better somewhere on the web.
Verizion used to do this (they may still) crippled the phone so you could only get the pictures off with 25 cent mms fee. There were hacks, but it was a pain compared to just swapping cards.
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Who has unlimited data with tethering in the US for $15 a month? Or is it $15 a month on top of your $70 unlimited talk and text? I pay $100 for three lines, one being an iPhone. I have wifi at work and home, my largest data month in the last 3 years was 180Megs. I will happily take my %15 discount to go to the 200M plan.
The NFL has a package where you can watch all the games in "Stunning HD quality" (Actually not that bad, roughly netflix HD quality) . The big BUT is that you can't watch online when ANY other game is playing, which means no football til after midnight EST on Sunday and then blocked again for Mon night game. I got it this year but couldn't keep free of enough news/facebook updates/etc to watch it the next day.
how to troubleshoot and resolve hardware incompatibility issues with this installation. Not to troll too hard, but this is why I left linux after 7 years of using it as my only desktop. Although if half the kids drop out it will be less tests to grade later!
I think this depends how informed the gamer is. Every month or so I troll thru the demo section on the PS3 and download a few that look interesting. More often than not the demo shows me the game sucks and I should save my money. But sometimes I find a gem. As a moderate gamer, I don't follow all the releases. Sure I know about the big ticket ones, but not the other 30 games that come out every month.
I remember buying mission packs at the store for the original Wing Commander series, must have been 1992 or 93. The difference to me is that with modern games (Looking at you bioshock 2). I really didn't feel like I got my $60 worth, and then right away they are pushing expansions. I feel like the value eqaution has changed.
It was advertised quite heavily at launch. Tons of people use playstations as cell development platforms because they are about 1/10th the cost of a "real" cell computer. Sony itself made a yellow dog release of linux for it. Here is a link talking about YDL from 2006 : http://ps3.ign.com/articles/748/748255p1.html
Does anyone else look at these with the same awe as the pyramids. Like "Look what those primitive people could do with only boatloads of cash". It makes me sad the state of our local space exploration.
Congratulations! We're now in a state of permanent war. There was some "war on something", I think it was after drugs, and a reporter asked the White House press guy if he was going to ask congress for an actual declaration of war on it. The look back was priceless.
You know I would have said that before I got one, but I haven't hooked my kindle up to a computer in months. It's much easier to just download from the device itself. Certainly this is true on trips where I don't bring a computer, but even around the house. It's one less step. Sure it's not hard to hook up a cable and drag a file, but it's easier to just click on it.
It's a bargin in terms of time compared to nothing, but that's not the space we're in. I have a Windows 7 Media center box (Only windows box I own). It does DVR functions, plays netflix and DVDs. It gets free guides forever, and can sleep, saving me $10 a month in power costs over my old TiVo. (Electricity is very expensive where I live). This box was $300 at walmart + a $70 tuner. It's onboard HDMI outputs 1080p video flawlessly and overall it is more "snappy" than my old TiVo HD. This to me is more a bargin than any Tivo. And this without the fact that I can dig out the keyboard and have a full computer (which I don't use it for often, but still)
#3 is taken care of by the little known mac command line "say". I just tried and "ls | say" read out my directory from the terminal. #1 I totally agree with, I understand about modern disk caches and the like, but hitting the button and walking away would be nice.
I'll fly in when it's passed the full year of flight and safety tests the FAA requires for certification. It flew today certified as an experimental flight, which requires much less rigorous testing than a commercial flight. I have every confidence it will fly eventually, but I'd like all the bugs to be worked out.
Just to correct you on one point, the kindle 2 and DS read PDF natively. Only the Kindle 1 needs you to send it thru Amazon. Books are transferable to up to 5 kindles on one account, not to a stranger. Although most of the ebooks that claim this as a feature have it crippled. (For example the Nook lets you lend a book only one time for 14 days). Your other points are all valid; however, I like my families kindles and they treat us well. YMMV
Yes but Vonage is horrible company. They have horrible customer service and will commit fraud to get early termination fees from you. Worse than AT&T by far!
Did he put on all the filler that the studios do? I recall there was something called like "Silverscreen" edition DVDs that were just the movie (no bonus stuff, no extra tracks, nothing) and advertised better quality. I'm guessing as much as a Gig is dedicated to this stuff on a typical movie release, meaning you would get better quality with your own rip and recompress.
The razor industry has learned though. Go to your local mega-mart/drug store/ etc and go to the razor section. I think you'll find that not only does a 10 pack of blades cost $10, but a razor with one or 2 blades costs about the same. Now this razor is not some mahogany wood with inlaid ivory, it's a piece of plastic made in china. I claim that there is no way they don't make money on both. The new analogy is ink jet printers! Ps. get off my lawn.
There are quite a few linux hacks for the kindle one. Including I think someone got a terminal running on it. I leave finding the hacks as an exercise to the avid googler.
This is a truly interesting question. Google indexes the pirate bay. A few tests of "thepiratebay batman" on google will show you all the torrenty goodness you might want.
So enlightenment has been hanging around almost non-updated for 10 years (seems like anyway, I ran it in 2000 on Mandrake). Back then I was running a 500MHz Celeron. They were just waiting for cell phones to catch up to pick back up on development. Brilliant!
Depends where you live. The listings simply need to be updated to include a miles/kWh. Then you can calculate. I live in Hawaii which has the highest electric in he country (I think) right now at almost 38 cents a kWh. Gas is running right about $4.00 a gallon at Costco. For easy math lets say a Prius gets 50 miles to the gallon and 3 miles to the kWh(I saw this number on a conversion website, I'm guessing it's generous). Your dollar per mile on gas is 4/50 = .08, on electric it .38/3= .13 . So while I understand that electric is much cheaper on the mainland (I think I was paying 18 cents a kWh in the northeast, which makes it .06 dollars/mile) you can see that plug in cars don't offer you that much in savings over a gas, and depending where you live may cost more. All these articles seem to think power is free. Maybe someday it will be all solar and wind at 5 cents a kWh, but I doubt it.
Everyone that has ever promised to save me money didn't. I've filled out out tons of online auto insurance applications only to have them end in tears.
You can have degraded digital, in fact Sirius and XM do this right now. It's a bit complicated but the basic idea is similar to a progressive JPEG image that loads in low frequency data, then updates with higher frequency data. Giving you a fuzzy picture that gets more clear after each refresh. The way they do this with audio is spreading out the signal over time. If you have or know someone with XM give this a try, turn on the radio from power off and listen very closely. Likely over the first 4 seconds you'll notice the sound quality increase. You can also place a metal sheet over the antenna to play with this.
There are some tricks here, I'm sure it's described better somewhere on the web.
Verizion used to do this (they may still) crippled the phone so you could only get the pictures off with 25 cent mms fee. There were hacks, but it was a pain compared to just swapping cards. -Chris
billions of years ago "scientists" turned on a LHC searching for darkmatter. It's a warning to us all! (kidding)
IAARA you insensitive clod! (No really, I work for the SMA)