A cheap easy way for me was to remove the old drywall on walls that faced the road. It comes in standard sizes and goes in between your studs and then a thin layer of drywall. My local Menards carries the product and its not insanely priced.
http://www.homasote.com/produc...
If you already have steam and some games, why on earth would you want to downgrade into a console ? You can build your own "steam machine" for under 500$ and it will have twice the horsepower of any console. For 25$ on Amazon you can but some xbox 360 controllers. Steam living room mode makes it look like a console except you are not locked into that platform. Steam now has native support ofr Kodi and can all be controlled from a remote or joystick. Unless there is some console exclusive game you have to have, I cant think of a single reason to buy either. just google "build a steam machine" for ideas and then involve the kids in the buying choices and building process. They will appreciate their home build console and dad time more then anything you can buy.
I have a lot luck going through the companies facebook page. For example, I had an problem where I was losing over 25% of my packets to their gateway. I posted this on their facebook page along with a screen shot. A few hours later a real technician contacted me. I also had a strange issues with my cable companies clear QAM channels. the channel had the same # but was now broadcasting QVC instead of NBC. I knew explaining this to some 1st level tech would be pointless. So I posted it on their FB page, where another user confirmed it. The issue was quickly resolved publicly.
I assume the person who manages the Facebook page has the ability to skip level one and get an answer. Also, by using their public page, It helps shame them into working quickly for large high level issues. It's probably not going to work if you have a billing question or a company that does not care about public perception.
Setup a synology server and use the community app OS ticket. that would be the easiest thing to do. If you want to go cheaper then setup your own Xpenology server with the same OS ticket.
my family thought AOL was all there was until i bought a copy of mozilla and got to show them the whole web that they had been missing. i bought a book about the internet (it may have been internet for dummies). a local ISP finally got a connection and we dropped AOL around version 2. thank you mozilla. it still makes me chuckle thinking about buying netscape... good times.
exactly ! my cable company has a local monopoly on broadband... because of the local government. service always goes down as government involvement goes up.
i didn't say i was glad to see canada represented on/. , i was referring to all the nutty leftists who drop these stories. apparently if canada is doing/not doing something, then America should jump in and follow their lead. nutty, yes.
its just canada, its not like its a real country.
seriously don't terrorists just use canada as a staging point to get to the U.S.
anyway, i am glad to see the nutty left are still well represented on slant.!
Look, these class action lawsuits don't cost consumers a thing....
WTF ? do you think these companies absorb the cost of the settlement ? hell no , they pass the cost off to the consumer.
sheesh, could the story be any more biased ? the opening line
"In yet another attempt to create legitimacy for the Bush Administration's many questionable legal practices"
man, just post the story and let me be the judge.i don't need to be spoon fed your ideology in every damn story on/.
the Fairness Doctrine, what a joke. life is not fair you screwballs. learn to compete in the open markets like the rest of us and quit relying on the government to silence your competition.
for years these wannabe musicians (hip-hop DJ's) have been stealing tracks and music from people who actually make music and then going back and paying them after the fact.i hate to be on the side of the RIAA, but this is one time i am.
at first glance i wondered why the OP placed this into the story
"Sen. Barbara Baxter (D-California) is one of the supporters of the system"
I had assumed it was a bit of the now typical slashdot political bias to show that a democrat can publicly be tough on national security.
As i read further it seems to have backfired as the Pork label got thrown into the mix. Bless you level headed people for pointing this out.
i wish we could get/. back to news about tech without the preachy leftist spin on every story.
or better yet does the electrical system short out during any rain storm.
Oh, snap!!
hopefully they have a different engineering team then the typical UK automakers.
we could remove the people in school who dont want to be in school, and give parents a choice as to where to send their kids. here is a review of an excellent book about it.
http://www.schoolchoices.org/roo/market.htm
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A cheap easy way for me was to remove the old drywall on walls that faced the road. It comes in standard sizes and goes in between your studs and then a thin layer of drywall. My local Menards carries the product and its not insanely priced. http://www.homasote.com/produc...
If you already have steam and some games, why on earth would you want to downgrade into a console ? You can build your own "steam machine" for under 500$ and it will have twice the horsepower of any console. For 25$ on Amazon you can but some xbox 360 controllers. Steam living room mode makes it look like a console except you are not locked into that platform. Steam now has native support ofr Kodi and can all be controlled from a remote or joystick. Unless there is some console exclusive game you have to have, I cant think of a single reason to buy either. just google "build a steam machine" for ideas and then involve the kids in the buying choices and building process. They will appreciate their home build console and dad time more then anything you can buy.
I have a lot luck going through the companies facebook page. For example, I had an problem where I was losing over 25% of my packets to their gateway. I posted this on their facebook page along with a screen shot. A few hours later a real technician contacted me. I also had a strange issues with my cable companies clear QAM channels. the channel had the same # but was now broadcasting QVC instead of NBC. I knew explaining this to some 1st level tech would be pointless. So I posted it on their FB page, where another user confirmed it. The issue was quickly resolved publicly. I assume the person who manages the Facebook page has the ability to skip level one and get an answer. Also, by using their public page, It helps shame them into working quickly for large high level issues. It's probably not going to work if you have a billing question or a company that does not care about public perception.
Setup a synology server and use the community app OS ticket. that would be the easiest thing to do. If you want to go cheaper then setup your own Xpenology server with the same OS ticket.
my family thought AOL was all there was until i bought a copy of mozilla and got to show them the whole web that they had been missing. i bought a book about the internet (it may have been internet for dummies). a local ISP finally got a connection and we dropped AOL around version 2. thank you mozilla. it still makes me chuckle thinking about buying netscape... good times.
exactly ! my cable company has a local monopoly on broadband... because of the local government. service always goes down as government involvement goes up.
start with something easy like http://www.mikesmath.com/tribune.htm
i didn't say i was glad to see canada represented on /. , i was referring to all the nutty leftists who drop these stories. apparently if canada is doing/not doing something, then America should jump in and follow their lead. nutty, yes.
its just canada, its not like its a real country. seriously don't terrorists just use canada as a staging point to get to the U.S. anyway, i am glad to see the nutty left are still well represented on slant.!
Look, these class action lawsuits don't cost consumers a thing.... WTF ? do you think these companies absorb the cost of the settlement ? hell no , they pass the cost off to the consumer.
sheesh, could the story be any more biased ? the opening line "In yet another attempt to create legitimacy for the Bush Administration's many questionable legal practices" man, just post the story and let me be the judge.i don't need to be spoon fed your ideology in every damn story on /.
the Fairness Doctrine, what a joke. life is not fair you screwballs. learn to compete in the open markets like the rest of us and quit relying on the government to silence your competition.
for years these wannabe musicians (hip-hop DJ's) have been stealing tracks and music from people who actually make music and then going back and paying them after the fact.i hate to be on the side of the RIAA, but this is one time i am.
at first glance i wondered why the OP placed this into the story "Sen. Barbara Baxter (D-California) is one of the supporters of the system" I had assumed it was a bit of the now typical slashdot political bias to show that a democrat can publicly be tough on national security. As i read further it seems to have backfired as the Pork label got thrown into the mix. Bless you level headed people for pointing this out. i wish we could get /. back to news about tech without the preachy leftist spin on every story.
too bad the Cuban shipping and delivery system is fleet of 1963 ford fairlanes. the words Cuba and cutting edge just don't go together.
this story has black helicopters written all over it, un-news worthy, if thats a word.
start over with an instant runoff system http://www.instantrunoff.com/
or better yet does the electrical system short out during any rain storm. Oh, snap!! hopefully they have a different engineering team then the typical UK automakers.
they are, as long as you agree with them :)
we could remove the people in school who dont want to be in school, and give parents a choice as to where to send their kids. here is a review of an excellent book about it. http://www.schoolchoices.org/roo/market.htm