I think the IoT will change this trend for higher income households. I was just recently lamenting that both my 8-port switch upstairs and my 4-port WiFi router downstairs are full and I have so many wireless devices I have lost count. I have a DIY security system, home automation (temp and lights), and remote video surveillance all accessed and controlled from my phone when I am away from home. All of that, and my wife and I combined barely make over the $100k threshold. I would hate to give up either home or mobile internet at this point.
Not necessarily. There have been many examples of cloned animals having very different color patterns on their genetically identical bodies. Google "cloned cats look different"
The silly US show "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" did one really good episode where the 2 guys each built their own octocopter and armed them with paintball guns and smoke bombs and then had to pilot them via onboard cameras and essentially did a race along an outdoor course where they were trying to disable each other to win. Although hitting each other with their paintball guns on such a big course proved to be quite challenging, I thought that single episode was far more entertaining than most of the Robot Wars type shows. I think having to pilot the robot via onboard cameras really added an interesting new dimension to the battle. With some refinement upon their 2 dudes in a garage designs, they could really have something there.
I think this removal of NPAPI is highly premature. Chrome removed it earlier this year leaving Firefox as the best non-IE choice for my needs. Our company relies on 2 different browser based products, one for our thousand employees remotdesktopping into our company and another for our employees remote VPN connecting into thousands of customer servers. Both of these products require NPAPI to function. So, I will either have to stay on an old version of Firefox or be forced to use IE until the providers of these products get their software updated.
Exactly. Being able to root my phone is very important to me, but full on ROMing is not. Currently the only reliable way to be able to root a phone without using some obscure exploit is to be able to unlock the bootloader and go from there. I wish Android would just support an official and highly secured way of getting root access (2 key authentication or something even better) to allow us to run a few root apps such as Titanium Backup and a proxy app that lets me connect to my company's network without having to either get one of the few unlockable phones, or rely on some exploit that is likely to be fixed.
Actually, in many states and on many highways, they do often have different speed limits for Trucks that are 5 or 10 mph lower than the normal speed limits. Also, just because a high performance sports car can handle higher speeds and sharper turns, doesn't mean their driver can. Most truck drivers have had a lot more training and certifications to drive their big rigs plus they also have a lot more incentive to drive carefully when driving their expensive rigs with expensive cargoes. Whereas any idiot with enough money can buy a sports car and weave in out of traffic until they run someone else or themselves off of the road. If it wouldn't be so hard to enforce fairly, I would almost argue that people should have to pass a special high performance driving test before they are even allowed to drive a sports car just like truckers have to pass a special CDL test before they are allowed to drive trucks.
My advice is to always buy at at least an X60 card in the series and avoid any of the X50 or less series unless you are really trying to save a buck. Architecturally, the X60/X70 is usually much better than the X50, where the difference between X60 and X70 is usually just clock speeds. So, in short, get at least a 760.
As a fan of both authors, I find that to be one of the funniest and most insightful posts I have read on here in a long time. I don't have mod points to give you, so you will have to settle for my kudos to you.
What Moto phone do you have anyway? The OG Moto X recently got the fix along the with the Lollipop update and the Moto Droid Turbo just began soak tests today so it is probably coming to everyone within a week or two.
I am a Computer Systems Engineer and an Android developer as well as the proud owner of an OG Moto X DE, and I was utterly unconcerned about the 1st Stagefright vulnerability because of ASLR protection. With Stagefright 2.0 they claim they can get around ASLR, but this has yet to be proven by a 3rd party as far as I am aware. Anyway, it can all be mitigated by disabling auto-loading of MMS, which is what I assume you mean by "disabled functionality", which is how I have always configured my phones because I hate when someone texts you any random video and it automatically starts playing without your approval.
It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
- Serenity
At first, art imitates life. Then, life will imitate art.
These are not all necessarily "very low cost network devices". I have the Netgear R7000 which is in the list and at the time I bought it it was one of the highest rated and most expensive home WiFi routers available. Granted, these are not corporate infrastructure level devices, but they are certainly not all "very low cost" ones either.
Apparently you have never worked in a job where you are on call 24/7 even when you only work in the office 9-5. I am a Sr. Systems Engineer, but when things go really bad somewhere, I am supposed to be reachable at all times except when I specifically am "on vacation". Fortunately, I get to use my own phone with no obnoxious company software on it.
Although those are impressively scary looking pictures, I just thought it should be clarified that was the 2012 Nexus 7 and not the 2013 Nexus 7 the article is talking about. It looks like it had a catastrophic Lithium battery pack failure which has been documented with many different devices made back in that time frame.
I know that many will disagree with me, but I still think that the Nexus 7 (2013) was the best all around tablet ever made. I have owned 5 tablets (3 different 7", 2 different 10") and my Nexus 7 (2013) is the only one that I still use on a daily basis and I would recommend it to anyone to buy (if they still can). I just bought my mom one last month. It has been the perfect size for me, just small enough that I can easily throw it in a jacket pocket or palm it while walking down the hall to a meeting, and big enough that I can show a coworker some information on the screen during the meeting or a watch a movie on a plane. The price/performance ratio has been unmatched by any other tablet that I have ever encountered. Nice wide full HD high resolution screen and stereo speakers for movies, 2GB of RAM, plenty fast processor, and no unnecessary bloated custom software. My only complaint ever has been the lack of a MicroSD slot that 3 of my other tablets had. Due to the 4:3 resolution the Nexus 9 never interested me. I really hope that Google will be announcing a suitable successor at I/O this year.
I don't know what the Apple Watch can do for you, but I have loved my Moto 360 watch since I got it last year. I can quickly view/dismiss notifications, appointments, and calls without taking out my phone, Track my steps and heart rate throughout the day, and many others things, plus it is an attractive timepiece with an infinitely customizable face that is far more useful than my previous watch which cost a lot more.
Apparently, and the other thing that they don't seem to understand is that if I am the type of person who would take the time and effort to install an ad blocker, I am probably not going to look at or click on their ads anyway even if I could not block them, so in essence I am doing them a favor and saving them bandwidth. If they don't want me seeing their content without also seeing their ads, then they can just block my ad blocking browser and I will go elsewhere.
People who aren't cheap I guess? My current laptop is an ASUS with an aluminum body, a 15.6" FHD touch screen, nVidia graphics, Intel i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD main drive and 1TB 7200 rpm secondary drive. I paid around $1800 for it on 10/1/2013 and it will still trounce any cheap laptop. The only compromise I made was on the drives. My next one will have at least 1TB of SSD. I usually buy a new one every few years or so and consider it a minimum 3 year investment. If it is still useful after that time, then bonus!
It all comes to your choice in phones and if they have a locked boot loader (or an unlockable one) or not. Phones without one like Nexus devices, Google Play Editions, or my personal favorite the Moto X Developer Edition are simple to root and don't even require ROMing. My Verizon Moto X Dev has even stayed rooted through 3 Over The Air updates without having to do anything special.
Look for a "Demo Mode" in the manual. When I first got my older non-smart Samsung TV it would reset to defaults every time it was power cycled. This got really annoying really quick if you wanted to tune your color temperatures at all, but might be great in your situation.
Of course, they are not lowering the price of my grandfathered in Unlimited Data plan, so I guess I will just have to be happy with paying $40 a month for Unlimited Data. /s
By default I get texts and emails on my watch, can set reminders and alarms and text by voice, and of course answer and dismiss calls which is surprising useful with a BT ear piece. But with some good apps like Coffee I can easily send texts, with a custom face I can see my steps and weather outside at a glance (important where I live in the winter). I hardly take out my phone a fraction as much as I used to except to type long texts or emails or occasional web browsing.
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I think the IoT will change this trend for higher income households. I was just recently lamenting that both my 8-port switch upstairs and my 4-port WiFi router downstairs are full and I have so many wireless devices I have lost count. I have a DIY security system, home automation (temp and lights), and remote video surveillance all accessed and controlled from my phone when I am away from home. All of that, and my wife and I combined barely make over the $100k threshold. I would hate to give up either home or mobile internet at this point.
Not necessarily.
There have been many examples of cloned animals having very different color patterns on their genetically identical bodies.
Google "cloned cats look different"
I know you can get a barebones XBOne for $300 or so, but for around $400 you can build a gaming PC that will outperform it and be capable of so much more. Here are a few links I found after just a quick Google:
http://www.toptengamer.com/top...
http://gamingbolt.com/how-to-m...
http://www.cheatsheet.com/tech...
http://bgr.com/2014/09/11/chea...
The silly US show "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" did one really good episode where the 2 guys each built their own octocopter and armed them with paintball guns and smoke bombs and then had to pilot them via onboard cameras and essentially did a race along an outdoor course where they were trying to disable each other to win. Although hitting each other with their paintball guns on such a big course proved to be quite challenging, I thought that single episode was far more entertaining than most of the Robot Wars type shows. I think having to pilot the robot via onboard cameras really added an interesting new dimension to the battle. With some refinement upon their 2 dudes in a garage designs, they could really have something there.
I think this removal of NPAPI is highly premature. Chrome removed it earlier this year leaving Firefox as the best non-IE choice for my needs. Our company relies on 2 different browser based products, one for our thousand employees remotdesktopping into our company and another for our employees remote VPN connecting into thousands of customer servers. Both of these products require NPAPI to function. So, I will either have to stay on an old version of Firefox or be forced to use IE until the providers of these products get their software updated.
Exactly. Being able to root my phone is very important to me, but full on ROMing is not. Currently the only reliable way to be able to root a phone without using some obscure exploit is to be able to unlock the bootloader and go from there. I wish Android would just support an official and highly secured way of getting root access (2 key authentication or something even better) to allow us to run a few root apps such as Titanium Backup and a proxy app that lets me connect to my company's network without having to either get one of the few unlockable phones, or rely on some exploit that is likely to be fixed.
I use Tab Memory which works pretty well for adding a little usage count to the top of every tab.
http://mybrowseraddon.com/tab-...
Actually, in many states and on many highways, they do often have different speed limits for Trucks that are 5 or 10 mph lower than the normal speed limits.
Also, just because a high performance sports car can handle higher speeds and sharper turns, doesn't mean their driver can. Most truck drivers have had a lot more training and certifications to drive their big rigs plus they also have a lot more incentive to drive carefully when driving their expensive rigs with expensive cargoes. Whereas any idiot with enough money can buy a sports car and weave in out of traffic until they run someone else or themselves off of the road. If it wouldn't be so hard to enforce fairly, I would almost argue that people should have to pass a special high performance driving test before they are even allowed to drive a sports car just like truckers have to pass a special CDL test before they are allowed to drive trucks.
My advice is to always buy at at least an X60 card in the series and avoid any of the X50 or less series unless you are really trying to save a buck. Architecturally, the X60/X70 is usually much better than the X50, where the difference between X60 and X70 is usually just clock speeds. So, in short, get at least a 760.
As a fan of both authors, I find that to be one of the funniest and most insightful posts I have read on here in a long time.
I don't have mod points to give you, so you will have to settle for my kudos to you.
What Moto phone do you have anyway? The OG Moto X recently got the fix along the with the Lollipop update and the Moto Droid Turbo just began soak tests today so it is probably coming to everyone within a week or two.
I am a Computer Systems Engineer and an Android developer as well as the proud owner of an OG Moto X DE, and I was utterly unconcerned about the 1st Stagefright vulnerability because of ASLR protection. With Stagefright 2.0 they claim they can get around ASLR, but this has yet to be proven by a 3rd party as far as I am aware. Anyway, it can all be mitigated by disabling auto-loading of MMS, which is what I assume you mean by "disabled functionality", which is how I have always configured my phones because I hate when someone texts you any random video and it automatically starts playing without your approval.
It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
- Serenity
At first, art imitates life. Then, life will imitate art.
As insane as this sounds, I would love to watch a debate between McAfee and Trump. I think it would be some form of epic.
These are not all necessarily "very low cost network devices". I have the Netgear R7000 which is in the list and at the time I bought it it was one of the highest rated and most expensive home WiFi routers available. Granted, these are not corporate infrastructure level devices, but they are certainly not all "very low cost" ones either.
Apparently you have never worked in a job where you are on call 24/7 even when you only work in the office 9-5. I am a Sr. Systems Engineer, but when things go really bad somewhere, I am supposed to be reachable at all times except when I specifically am "on vacation". Fortunately, I get to use my own phone with no obnoxious company software on it.
Although those are impressively scary looking pictures, I just thought it should be clarified that was the 2012 Nexus 7 and not the 2013 Nexus 7 the article is talking about. It looks like it had a catastrophic Lithium battery pack failure which has been documented with many different devices made back in that time frame.
I know that many will disagree with me, but I still think that the Nexus 7 (2013) was the best all around tablet ever made. I have owned 5 tablets (3 different 7", 2 different 10") and my Nexus 7 (2013) is the only one that I still use on a daily basis and I would recommend it to anyone to buy (if they still can). I just bought my mom one last month. It has been the perfect size for me, just small enough that I can easily throw it in a jacket pocket or palm it while walking down the hall to a meeting, and big enough that I can show a coworker some information on the screen during the meeting or a watch a movie on a plane. The price/performance ratio has been unmatched by any other tablet that I have ever encountered. Nice wide full HD high resolution screen and stereo speakers for movies, 2GB of RAM, plenty fast processor, and no unnecessary bloated custom software. My only complaint ever has been the lack of a MicroSD slot that 3 of my other tablets had. Due to the 4:3 resolution the Nexus 9 never interested me.
I really hope that Google will be announcing a suitable successor at I/O this year.
I don't know what the Apple Watch can do for you, but I have loved my Moto 360 watch since I got it last year. I can quickly view/dismiss notifications, appointments, and calls without taking out my phone, Track my steps and heart rate throughout the day, and many others things, plus it is an attractive timepiece with an infinitely customizable face that is far more useful than my previous watch which cost a lot more.
Apparently, and the other thing that they don't seem to understand is that if I am the type of person who would take the time and effort to install an ad blocker, I am probably not going to look at or click on their ads anyway even if I could not block them, so in essence I am doing them a favor and saving them bandwidth.
If they don't want me seeing their content without also seeing their ads, then they can just block my ad blocking browser and I will go elsewhere.
People who aren't cheap I guess? My current laptop is an ASUS with an aluminum body, a 15.6" FHD touch screen, nVidia graphics, Intel i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD main drive and 1TB 7200 rpm secondary drive. I paid around $1800 for it on 10/1/2013 and it will still trounce any cheap laptop. The only compromise I made was on the drives. My next one will have at least 1TB of SSD. I usually buy a new one every few years or so and consider it a minimum 3 year investment. If it is still useful after that time, then bonus!
It all comes to your choice in phones and if they have a locked boot loader (or an unlockable one) or not. Phones without one like Nexus devices, Google Play Editions, or my personal favorite the Moto X Developer Edition are simple to root and don't even require ROMing. My Verizon Moto X Dev has even stayed rooted through 3 Over The Air updates without having to do anything special.
Look for a "Demo Mode" in the manual. When I first got my older non-smart Samsung TV it would reset to defaults every time it was power cycled. This got really annoying really quick if you wanted to tune your color temperatures at all, but might be great in your situation.
True, I only have 700 minutes (but I hardly come close to using them), but I do have unlimited Texting as well.
Of course, they are not lowering the price of my grandfathered in Unlimited Data plan, so I guess I will just have to be happy with paying $40 a month for Unlimited Data.
/s
By default I get texts and emails on my watch, can set reminders and alarms and text by voice, and of course answer and dismiss calls which is surprising useful with a BT ear piece. But with some good apps like Coffee I can easily send texts, with a custom face I can see my steps and weather outside at a glance (important where I live in the winter). I hardly take out my phone a fraction as much as I used to except to type long texts or emails or occasional web browsing.