48 years, still no cable. I had it for free when I bought a house once, took them about 5 months to get around to disconnecting it. Came home one day, no cable, bought an antenna and never looked back. Moved to another house in 2003, didn't bother with an antenna there or anywhere since.
Local ISP "bundled" cable w/HBO with our internet for cheaper than internet alone, gave me a box and HBO GO access - watched half of a movie on HBO GO once, never bothered again, never hooked up the cable box.
I got tired of my WDTV Live and replaced it with a NUC running KODI + Chrome for Netflix + VLC for camera viewing (see the entrance gate on TV) on Ubuntu. House is mostly wired CAT5, but one of the kids has a WiFi connected BluRay player that also does Netflix.
I was keeping my media on USB connected 2TB drives for the WDTV, and just moved them over to the NUC where they are shared better than the WDTV could manage.
I was amazed how the infrastructure continued to degrade in the weeks after Hurricane Andrew. Particularly wired telephone was better for a week or two before the "repairs" started. Natural gas did pretty well, but I think some service was suspended during the repair phase. Of course, if your propane tank didn't blow away, you were good until it came time to refill it.
The smart people whose homes were totaled did move out after Andrew - making a go of it in that environment was pointlessly difficult.
I doubt that anyone disclosed the use of large diesel generators in a residential neighborhood. If they made that clear at the outset, they wouldn't have gotten a go ahead.
I'm getting on toward old and crusty, and my cost to the company is certainly closer to $250K/yr than $25K/yr. Dunno what they pay the whelps coming out of school these days, but I never worked for $25K/yr after I got out of school.
I think there are instances where indentation is best left in the hands of the author, instead of following a strict "style guide."
If you want "strictly styled indentation," run the code through a processor and see it in "alle ist in ordnung" fashion - I find it hard to believe that the author has nothing to offer beyond pedantically following the rules.
So, if you can use a "Maxi-van," how about parking a trailer on the spot instead? A 24x8' trailer would give >160sqft of living space and could be double-decked. That's enough room for a composting toilet, and a solar powered mini-fridge.
I had somebody put a non-compete for 20 years in front of me. I said "ain't no way" they said "we all signed it" I said "I'm not in your position, I might need to work again after this is over" we agreed that I didn't need to sign it, at all.
I've been asked to sign "unconscionable" severance papers before, including ones that forbid me from revealing the existence of such agreements - obviously, I didn't sign - and there were no negative consequences for me.
If nothing of value is offered in return, it's not a contract. Goodwill of my former employer who has stopped employing me with minimal notice and no promise of future return doesn't count as "of value."
My grandmother learned to drive before there were licenses (1930s, rural Tennessee) - her first car had no functioning brakes, if you came to an intersection and there was cross traffic: veer into the field and come around again, there weren't that many cars out there, she almost never had to circle around twice before proceeding.
All this droning about drones really does beg the question: what is a drone?
Is it anything bigger than 30cm in length? Is it anything heavier than 1kg? How about helium filled balloons with an RC fan and rudder on them? Does it have to be autonomous capable, or do LOS only vehicles still count? Does it have to fly? What if it never flies above 400'? What if it never flies above 50'? How about "high jumping" ground robots?
There needs to be some sensible definition, and at the end of the day, the word "drone" is forever tainted by public perception - we're going to end up with a 6 dimensional matrix of remote and autonomous vehicle classifications, and specific regulations based on the classification categories.
Human quality of life would be better without so much efficiency and global trade, which doesn't raise quality of life
Nonsense. China opened to world trade in 1980. Since then, income has increased eight-fold, and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty. The poorest countries in the world today are sub-Saharan African countries with near zero trade. The world's richest countries are those with the most open economies.
And that's been AWESOME for their cities' air quality, hasn't it? Rich (skyscrapers & lots of busy people) does not equal quality of life.
We bought Speed Queens in 2006, they were lemons - especially the dryer. The repair guy came out like 6 times for separate issues. On the other hand, they were ultimately repairable, unlike some stuff that's sold today.
Silly nerd, look at all that time you wasted trying to repair something, when you could have just gone down to the store and bought a new one. Even if you succeeded in fixing it, what were you thinking? Did you even save $10/hr of your time invested? Kids can go get a job at McD's saying "you want fries with that" and make $10/hr./sarcasm
I just spent $200 fixing up my driveway, $50 on tools, $150 on materials, and about 6 hours spread across 2 saturdays - the "professional" quote I got to do the same thing was $1200 - so I figure I'm getting $160+/hr return on that job, plus the kids got to help and see the results of the job they helped do every day. I also have a tree that fell and needs some chainsaw work, had the chainsaw for 12+ years now, so I figure it's cost is amoratized away, 2 hours labor, plus 2 hours getting myself clean and rested afterwards, $0.50 for the fuel and bar oil, maybe another $1 worth of chain sharpening ($5 to have someone sharpen it for you, usually get about 5 jobs like this done before it needs a sharpening.) Getting a schmo to show up with a chainsaw is usually $200+, having them do this whole job including hauling away the wood we're going to burn in our fire pit would have easily been over $500.
I'm no fan of over-regulation, but we need some kind of "kleenex tax" that tilts the playing field in favor of building things that can be repaired. If there are two washing machines at the store and it "cost" $100 to make the throwaway variety that is expected to last 5 years and $300 to make the repairable one that is expected to need $25 in parts every 5 years and ultimately last 50+ years if properly cared for, that's $1000 cost for the first option and $550 cost for the second option. Something should be done to encourage consumers to take the second option, but, instead, we're selling ever larger disposable units and sending ever more scrap to the "recycling landfill."
Dollars don't always tell the story, but I'm finding it cheaper, and often almost as fast, to order electronic components out of Hong Kong via Amazon as from DigiKey.
But somebody probably has tried patenting "a method for inducing self sustaining combustion of combustible materials comprising a spark inducing apparatus disposed in proximity to a combustible material holding vessel."
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And then the whole concept is rendered irrelevant, like streaming.
48 years, still no cable. I had it for free when I bought a house once, took them about 5 months to get around to disconnecting it. Came home one day, no cable, bought an antenna and never looked back. Moved to another house in 2003, didn't bother with an antenna there or anywhere since.
Local ISP "bundled" cable w/HBO with our internet for cheaper than internet alone, gave me a box and HBO GO access - watched half of a movie on HBO GO once, never bothered again, never hooked up the cable box.
And, Dr. Strangelove is still available for streaming on Netflix.
Unless you pay for your electricity...
I got tired of my WDTV Live and replaced it with a NUC running KODI + Chrome for Netflix + VLC for camera viewing (see the entrance gate on TV) on Ubuntu. House is mostly wired CAT5, but one of the kids has a WiFi connected BluRay player that also does Netflix.
I was keeping my media on USB connected 2TB drives for the WDTV, and just moved them over to the NUC where they are shared better than the WDTV could manage.
I was amazed how the infrastructure continued to degrade in the weeks after Hurricane Andrew. Particularly wired telephone was better for a week or two before the "repairs" started. Natural gas did pretty well, but I think some service was suspended during the repair phase. Of course, if your propane tank didn't blow away, you were good until it came time to refill it.
The smart people whose homes were totaled did move out after Andrew - making a go of it in that environment was pointlessly difficult.
I doubt that anyone disclosed the use of large diesel generators in a residential neighborhood. If they made that clear at the outset, they wouldn't have gotten a go ahead.
We had a neighbor who did just that: RV across the SE US from job to job, doing medical records stuff for various hospitals.
I think he's saying that he costs $250K/year.
I'm getting on toward old and crusty, and my cost to the company is certainly closer to $250K/yr than $25K/yr. Dunno what they pay the whelps coming out of school these days, but I never worked for $25K/yr after I got out of school.
I think there are instances where indentation is best left in the hands of the author, instead of following a strict "style guide."
If you want "strictly styled indentation," run the code through a processor and see it in "alle ist in ordnung" fashion - I find it hard to believe that the author has nothing to offer beyond pedantically following the rules.
So, if you can use a "Maxi-van," how about parking a trailer on the spot instead? A 24x8' trailer would give >160sqft of living space and could be double-decked. That's enough room for a composting toilet, and a solar powered mini-fridge.
I had somebody put a non-compete for 20 years in front of me. I said "ain't no way" they said "we all signed it" I said "I'm not in your position, I might need to work again after this is over" we agreed that I didn't need to sign it, at all.
>and to do so without compensation
Would seem unenforceable.
I've been asked to sign "unconscionable" severance papers before, including ones that forbid me from revealing the existence of such agreements - obviously, I didn't sign - and there were no negative consequences for me.
If nothing of value is offered in return, it's not a contract. Goodwill of my former employer who has stopped employing me with minimal notice and no promise of future return doesn't count as "of value."
>right now a drone is going to give someone a bad cut or maybe take out an eye
See, and I've always thought the Predator mounted hellfire missiles were overpriced for what they can do.
My grandmother learned to drive before there were licenses (1930s, rural Tennessee) - her first car had no functioning brakes, if you came to an intersection and there was cross traffic: veer into the field and come around again, there weren't that many cars out there, she almost never had to circle around twice before proceeding.
All this droning about drones really does beg the question: what is a drone?
Is it anything bigger than 30cm in length?
Is it anything heavier than 1kg?
How about helium filled balloons with an RC fan and rudder on them?
Does it have to be autonomous capable, or do LOS only vehicles still count?
Does it have to fly?
What if it never flies above 400'?
What if it never flies above 50'?
How about "high jumping" ground robots?
There needs to be some sensible definition, and at the end of the day, the word "drone" is forever tainted by public perception - we're going to end up with a 6 dimensional matrix of remote and autonomous vehicle classifications, and specific regulations based on the classification categories.
>Checking drone registration is going to be at the very bottom of LE's list.
Not if they get to confiscate toys when they're not registered properly.
I'm sure we'd all be O.K. with HDMI out instead of RF video. And, you could include an Atari 800 and whatever other emulators you want in there, too.
Human quality of life would be better without so much efficiency and global trade, which doesn't raise quality of life
Nonsense. China opened to world trade in 1980. Since then, income has increased eight-fold, and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty. The poorest countries in the world today are sub-Saharan African countries with near zero trade. The world's richest countries are those with the most open economies.
And that's been AWESOME for their cities' air quality, hasn't it? Rich (skyscrapers & lots of busy people) does not equal quality of life.
Rails are boring, who wants to condemn real-estate via eminent domain just so you can take jobs away from "real 'murican" truck drivers?
We bought Speed Queens in 2006, they were lemons - especially the dryer. The repair guy came out like 6 times for separate issues. On the other hand, they were ultimately repairable, unlike some stuff that's sold today.
Silly nerd, look at all that time you wasted trying to repair something, when you could have just gone down to the store and bought a new one. Even if you succeeded in fixing it, what were you thinking? Did you even save $10/hr of your time invested? Kids can go get a job at McD's saying "you want fries with that" and make $10/hr. /sarcasm
I just spent $200 fixing up my driveway, $50 on tools, $150 on materials, and about 6 hours spread across 2 saturdays - the "professional" quote I got to do the same thing was $1200 - so I figure I'm getting $160+/hr return on that job, plus the kids got to help and see the results of the job they helped do every day. I also have a tree that fell and needs some chainsaw work, had the chainsaw for 12+ years now, so I figure it's cost is amoratized away, 2 hours labor, plus 2 hours getting myself clean and rested afterwards, $0.50 for the fuel and bar oil, maybe another $1 worth of chain sharpening ($5 to have someone sharpen it for you, usually get about 5 jobs like this done before it needs a sharpening.) Getting a schmo to show up with a chainsaw is usually $200+, having them do this whole job including hauling away the wood we're going to burn in our fire pit would have easily been over $500.
I'm no fan of over-regulation, but we need some kind of "kleenex tax" that tilts the playing field in favor of building things that can be repaired. If there are two washing machines at the store and it "cost" $100 to make the throwaway variety that is expected to last 5 years and $300 to make the repairable one that is expected to need $25 in parts every 5 years and ultimately last 50+ years if properly cared for, that's $1000 cost for the first option and $550 cost for the second option. Something should be done to encourage consumers to take the second option, but, instead, we're selling ever larger disposable units and sending ever more scrap to the "recycling landfill."
Dollars don't always tell the story, but I'm finding it cheaper, and often almost as fast, to order electronic components out of Hong Kong via Amazon as from DigiKey.
But somebody probably has tried patenting "a method for inducing self sustaining combustion of combustible materials comprising a spark inducing apparatus disposed in proximity to a combustible material holding vessel."
when will I see a reduced workweek because of it?
When you move to Germany or France.