Why would someone go way out of their way to find your house just so they could make themselves conspicuous while they get their kiddie porn when they could park outside of a Starbucks or McDonald's and be less conspicuous? Sounds about as likely that they would splice into the phone lines on your house to make their drug deals while they are at it.
Fear that you are going to get arrested because of an open WiFi is pure paranoia.
Clearly that is not how it works. If it was, every McDonald's, Starbucks, and half the other retail stores out there would not be offering free unencrypted WiFi. Fear that some criminal is going to drive around town looking for your open WiFi so that they can commit a crime is complete paranoia. There are open WiFi hotspots everywhere that wouldn't draw attention if a stranger was sitting in their car using it. They are even put on maps, and advertised by the businesses offering the open WiFi.
Not only that, the Amiga's multiple desktops didn't even have to run at that same resolution. Even when displayed on the same screen at the same time. I can't think of any reason to do that in this day and age, but back then it made your e-peen wage long and far.
The "real" Amiga was 68K based. PowerPC was just a hacky add on. Commodore never made a PowerPC-based Amiga. They did ship Amigas with x86 processors though.
What does this do to data integrity? Since the drive needs to be heated to flip a bit, does this mean that the data integrity of the drive will dramatically increase? If the laser goes out, does the drive become read only?
If the drives work like it sounds like they do, even for current densities, this sounds like a boon for backups.
And people getting together to watch 'sportsball' are also playing pretend. How often have you heard "WE won"? They frequently even like to play dress up when they do it.
Around these parts, the cops will just tell you no if you call them about a fender bender. Heck, I have personally heard cops tell the victims of a hit and run that they wouldn't even take a report because 'it was a civil matter'. There is no money it for the police department when cops take reports on accidents.
While there are plenty of people that fit your descriptions of 1 and 2, the idea that coffee tastes bad because some people don't drink it straight is like saying that salt tastes bad because some people don't eat it straight. I like the taste of coffee, just like I like the taste of salt. I don't want to drink coffee straight any more than I want to drink salt water.
It always cracked me up as a kid during the height of the "Just Say No" era, to listen to adults decry the evils of drugs in one breath, and then rave about the caffeine they were drinking in the next.
That always seems funny, but I have been that guy. Soda is my big vice. (I know, pretty tame for a vice.) I switched to diet soda when I changed the rest of my diet for weight lose. It took months for me to teach my taste buds to ignore the diet after taste. Over the years, I have a had periods when I eat well, and periods when I eat badly. Even when I am eating badly, I still drink diet soda because I know that if I switched back to regular soda, it would be hard to go back to diet soda when I wanted to avoid the sugar.
What this means is that I have been that guy buying a chocolate bar and a Diet Coke at the quiky-mart.
I only drink coffee for the taste. Caffeine has very little effect on me, so drinking it for the drug would be a waste of time. The thing is, coffee is kind of like salt. I love the taste, but I don't want to drink coffee straight any more than I want to eat a bowl of salt straight. Some salt on my steak, and some coffee in my sugared cream.. Now that is tasty.
Verizon's coverage seems to only be better than T-Mobile in really out of the way places. If you are going to primarily be in even moderately populated areas, T-Mobile is just as good as Verizon. Summer of 2010 I took a family road trip between California and Wisconsin. We drove the southern part of the country on the way there, and the northern part of the country on the way back. While my wife drove, I worked with my laptop tethered to a remote desktop at the office. The coverage was great except for the national parks and Wyoming.
Driverless cars ARE search. When people search, they frequently want to find places. They find places by having maps as one of the things the search engine lets you search on. The driverless cars are a way to collect map data to feed into the search engine so that Google remains the most popular search engine. The same goes for Android. The OS is there to make sure that someone like Apple can't unilaterally cut Google's profits in half by switching all of their phones to an alternative search engine.
Your stretching. If your goal with a light bulb is to force irresponsible people to fix a problem, you have already failed. Your irresponsible person that changes the light bulb is more likely to change a burned out bulb with the first bulb they can get their hands on. That would be a CFL. Now you not only are not heating the room, but your indicator system is telling everyone that it is working. That isn't even taking into account that incandescent bulbs are high failure items. Thus we can determine that the use of the light as a motivator to keep the heat on is a straw man.
I'm pretty sure that light producing devices will continue to be made well after the incandescent bulbs are gone.;) Again, if the bulb works for her now, it works, but it doesn't make a huge amount of sense for incandescent bulbs to continue to be made for fringe cases that have alternative solutions.
Given how little heat is produced by a 60-watt bulb, an electric blanket would likely work just as well if not better, and be just as safe. I'm not saying the light bulb should be replaced in her use case, but if incandescent disappear, she will be just fine with the widely available replacements.
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That must be why every McDonald's, Starbucks, and all of the other businesses in town have been locked up after huge police raids.
Why would someone go way out of their way to find your house just so they could make themselves conspicuous while they get their kiddie porn when they could park outside of a Starbucks or McDonald's and be less conspicuous? Sounds about as likely that they would splice into the phone lines on your house to make their drug deals while they are at it.
Fear that you are going to get arrested because of an open WiFi is pure paranoia.
Clearly that is not how it works. If it was, every McDonald's, Starbucks, and half the other retail stores out there would not be offering free unencrypted WiFi. Fear that some criminal is going to drive around town looking for your open WiFi so that they can commit a crime is complete paranoia. There are open WiFi hotspots everywhere that wouldn't draw attention if a stranger was sitting in their car using it. They are even put on maps, and advertised by the businesses offering the open WiFi.
Not only that, the Amiga's multiple desktops didn't even have to run at that same resolution. Even when displayed on the same screen at the same time. I can't think of any reason to do that in this day and age, but back then it made your e-peen wage long and far.
I would say that the non-stategy morons are almost as rare as unicorns.
The "real" Amiga was 68K based. PowerPC was just a hacky add on. Commodore never made a PowerPC-based Amiga. They did ship Amigas with x86 processors though.
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What does this do to data integrity? Since the drive needs to be heated to flip a bit, does this mean that the data integrity of the drive will dramatically increase? If the laser goes out, does the drive become read only?
If the drives work like it sounds like they do, even for current densities, this sounds like a boon for backups.
The claim that Apple engineers are too incompetent to make the batteries replaceable wasn't believable with the iPhone 1 and it isn't with the iPad 3.
And people getting together to watch 'sportsball' are also playing pretend. How often have you heard "WE won"? They frequently even like to play dress up when they do it.
Funny. I took the Kinect to be MS next gen console.
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3) Most people are bad at math so they think PC gaming is more expensive than console gaming.
Around these parts, the cops will just tell you no if you call them about a fender bender. Heck, I have personally heard cops tell the victims of a hit and run that they wouldn't even take a report because 'it was a civil matter'. There is no money it for the police department when cops take reports on accidents.
If this had happened in the US, I would feel inclined to point out the recent story about the police searching homes for Apple products. http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/iphone_5_apple_police.php
You must not have insurance, because you don't seem to understand how it works.
While there are plenty of people that fit your descriptions of 1 and 2, the idea that coffee tastes bad because some people don't drink it straight is like saying that salt tastes bad because some people don't eat it straight. I like the taste of coffee, just like I like the taste of salt. I don't want to drink coffee straight any more than I want to drink salt water.
It always cracked me up as a kid during the height of the "Just Say No" era, to listen to adults decry the evils of drugs in one breath, and then rave about the caffeine they were drinking in the next.
That always seems funny, but I have been that guy. Soda is my big vice. (I know, pretty tame for a vice.) I switched to diet soda when I changed the rest of my diet for weight lose. It took months for me to teach my taste buds to ignore the diet after taste. Over the years, I have a had periods when I eat well, and periods when I eat badly. Even when I am eating badly, I still drink diet soda because I know that if I switched back to regular soda, it would be hard to go back to diet soda when I wanted to avoid the sugar.
What this means is that I have been that guy buying a chocolate bar and a Diet Coke at the quiky-mart.
More likely the exact opposite.
I only drink coffee for the taste. Caffeine has very little effect on me, so drinking it for the drug would be a waste of time. The thing is, coffee is kind of like salt. I love the taste, but I don't want to drink coffee straight any more than I want to eat a bowl of salt straight. Some salt on my steak, and some coffee in my sugared cream.. Now that is tasty.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't solve their problem.
http://www.habitburger.com/
Verizon's coverage seems to only be better than T-Mobile in really out of the way places. If you are going to primarily be in even moderately populated areas, T-Mobile is just as good as Verizon. Summer of 2010 I took a family road trip between California and Wisconsin. We drove the southern part of the country on the way there, and the northern part of the country on the way back. While my wife drove, I worked with my laptop tethered to a remote desktop at the office. The coverage was great except for the national parks and Wyoming.
Driverless cars ARE search. When people search, they frequently want to find places. They find places by having maps as one of the things the search engine lets you search on. The driverless cars are a way to collect map data to feed into the search engine so that Google remains the most popular search engine. The same goes for Android. The OS is there to make sure that someone like Apple can't unilaterally cut Google's profits in half by switching all of their phones to an alternative search engine.
Your stretching. If your goal with a light bulb is to force irresponsible people to fix a problem, you have already failed. Your irresponsible person that changes the light bulb is more likely to change a burned out bulb with the first bulb they can get their hands on. That would be a CFL. Now you not only are not heating the room, but your indicator system is telling everyone that it is working. That isn't even taking into account that incandescent bulbs are high failure items. Thus we can determine that the use of the light as a motivator to keep the heat on is a straw man.
I'm pretty sure that light producing devices will continue to be made well after the incandescent bulbs are gone. ;) Again, if the bulb works for her now, it works, but it doesn't make a huge amount of sense for incandescent bulbs to continue to be made for fringe cases that have alternative solutions.
Given how little heat is produced by a 60-watt bulb, an electric blanket would likely work just as well if not better, and be just as safe. I'm not saying the light bulb should be replaced in her use case, but if incandescent disappear, she will be just fine with the widely available replacements.