If it is an anti-cheat device then why don't the schools provide them then collect them after the exam. The criminal waste is requiring just about every student to buy their own.
Because then the student doesn't get the ability to use the device on homework or really learn to use it. You can't just throw a calculator at them during test time and expect them to be proficient.
If you want, buy a used calculator and save some money. They're not that expensive second hand, and as long as you take care of it you can probably make back whatever it cost if you resell it after the class is done anyways.
I think to some degree though the "antiquated device" is a an anti-cheating tool. A smartphone is so powerful that it's hard to allow them in a classroom without rampant cheating being easily accomplished. I mean heck you could even send pictures of questions to another person and have them doing them and sending answers back.
With a graphing calculator you're limited to at most unapproved programs (or storing equations into the programming mode).
That depends on your definition of "decent". How does your $25 device integrate with the steering wheel controls and the car audio system?
My $15 device in my 2006 Tiburon integrates with the car audio system just fine - I just plug it into the aux port. I can easily answer a phone call but pressing the button on the device which is glued beside the radio.
It doesn't integrate with "steering wheel controls" but not all cars even use those - even newer ones. I've also got a brand new 2017 Colorado that has integrated bluetooth but the controls for answering and hanging up are still on the entertainment system's touch screen. There's nothing on the steering wheel except cruise control.
State laws vary though. In my state it's illegal to "text" while driving (with text meaning use the phone for anything but driving), but that law explicitly exempts people who are stopped at a traffic light.
It's also hard to tell sometimes. My car's in dash display links up with the phone so that I can do a lot of stuff from the dash while driving and never even have to touch the phone. Certain features like looking through playlists are disabled while the car is in motion (which it seems to deduce from the GPS).
Indeed with Bluetooth if you're looking to completely eliminate phone usage (even talking) you'd need to just pull over anyone who you saw speaking while driving.
In the end - to a large degree I think it comes down to the fact that not a) not are problems are solveable, and b) sometimes the solution isn't worth it. Sometimes you just identify a problem and say "Hey, that sucks, but that's life.".
My first home computer was a Commodore 128, though it was a bit disappointing as I'd already used IBM 8088's at school in typing class.
Truthfully I spent 99% of my time in the C-64 emulation mode as the computer was bought used and almost all the software that came with it was actually for a Commodore 64. It was where I learned to tinker around in BASIC though. Eventually the disk drive broke; for a while after that I would just never turn off the computer so the memory wouldn't clear (until a power outage would lose all my work:)). I found out my aunt had an old C64 in her attic and I managed to scavenge a cassette drive from that that allowed me to store my programs for a while until I got my first PC.
Those were the "good old days". Computer are definitely more useful now but back then it still felt like you were messing with something new that most people weren't familiar with.
I tow with my truck only on the weekends for fishing. It wasnt some crazy expensive vehicle. It's a work Truck trimmed Colorado with a v6 that was $25k brand new. I also use it as a daily driver because while a more fuel efficient vehicle might be more efficient, BUYING a second vehicle just for fuel efficiency will take forever (if ever) to break even on.
If you need to tow aand nd haul, then you're best bet is to get a relatively exp
I wouldn't really look at the bed of trucks coming down the highways as to whether or not they're used. I get plenty of use out of mine, but the bed is still empty most of the time. My truck is my daily transportation first and foremost, but occasionally I'll need to haul something. I tow a boat fishing at least every other weekend, and I'll end up needing to haul something at least every 3 or 4 weeks, but still, the most common time you'll see my truck is when it's empty and I'm just driving it to work.
Generally though, it's ok. I live within 3 miles of the office so my daily fuel use isn't that big of an expense. Still, if an electric was available that would also perform the tasks I need, AND it was priced well, I'd certainly look into it.
I get that this could be useful, but where if they can make a semi-truck it seems like they could make an electric pickup. Something capable of hauling around a family, the occasional lumber load or appliance, and towing trailers in the 3000-4000 lb range (a LOT lighter than a semi).
At least in my area it seems like at least half the vehicles on the roads are trucks, and most of those people actually use them for doing "truck things". Even the most efficient trucks on the road though are still not getting better than ~30mpg highway.
That's good, and MOST of the time I'd happily be willing to accept a delay too. However, there are people who may be flying somewhere for a funeral. They may absolutely have to be back at work the next day or face termination. As the man in the latest United scam claimed (maybe truthfully, maybe not), they may be a doctor that has patients they must attend to.
The bottom line is that is there is something inherently just not right about a business being able to sell you a ticket on a plane that is taking off but then deny you a seat on that plane because they sold too many of them.
Which is indeed how many auto makers how gotten around tariffs.
If you look into the "Chicken Tax", from the 1960's, you'll notice that there's a 25% tariff imposed on "light trucks", however you'll notice that the Nissan Frontier is still cheapest light truck on the market right now and the Toyota Tacoma is the best selling.
How are their prices still competitive? They built plants here in the US and build the trucks here. To me that's a win/win. They still provide good competition, they can still do business for their shareholders (regardless of their homes), and the construction of those vehicles being sold here employs American workers.
Funnily enough, that's also why at the moment Ford isn't selling the Ranger in the US anymore (and Nissan is still selling the aforementioned Frontier instead of their much newer design, the Navara, available globally). They're only produced outside of the US right now and they wouldn't be profitable to import.
When it comes to our economy, I'm all for making it so that if something is imported, it better be either so cheap to import that the tariffs still mean it's not profitable to make here, or it's a luxury good that people don't mind paying extra for.
Hacking involves a computer. People have been trying to sway public opinion in the way they want since the creation of the concept of an election. That doesn't make it "social hacking".
I think what they're getting at is anything that says you can't legally repair something is an artificial market protection.
In a completely free market, no such clause would be legally enforceable, and any secondary market vendor who wanted to hack the system and repair it for a lower charge than the manufacturer could do so without any legal headaches.
All the trouble that comes along with the DMCA or things like Monsanto copyrighting seeds and such is most certainly NOT free market capitalism.
The 10k views threshhold is for the CHANNEL - not individual videos. Realistically this won't affect anyone who has made more than $20 off of Youtube before.
The way to improve a product isn't to scrap it and build a new one every 6 months,
Lets not exaggerate. Google Talk was introduced 12 years go. Hangouts came 8 years later. Allo, 3 years after that.
I understand that it can be tough to let go of old applications, but sometimes a software company can no longer support it.
For old desktop programs, that just meant that it may or may not work anymore as systems are upgraded (as long it it uses only local resources and just isn't a client for an internet service). For web based applications though, it means they go away. Either embrace web based software and accept that or stick to traditional style desktop software.
$30 is ~ what you would pay for two tickets during non-prime hours, without the popcorn, soda, and goobers.
Maybe if I was intentionally trying to go to the most expensive theater in town.
I can easily purchase non-prime hour tickets at a value theater for $3.50 per ticket ($6 later in the evening) and even just picking a random theater few will break $10 each.
Granted - ticket prices vary by region of the country you may be in but if the movie studios aren't planning to ALSO vary this $30 rate they still are going to have to compete against cheaper tickets in those regions.
If you're used to satellite TV or Netflix - yeah, it's pretty barren. Compared to what WAS available though, in the modern age there's a lot more channels available then "back in the day".
Since the mid 1990's the amount of over the air channels available here has more than tripled (5 channels to now 16). I mostly stick to Netflix but I do occasionally use the OTA antenna for things like football games and such.
I've got Amazon Prime mostly for the free shipping deal, but I also keep the app installed on my Roku "just in case".
It never, EVER gets used, and I still find it completely worthwhile to pay for Netflix separately.
Netflix's library is better, and their interface is better - with the exception that Netflix recently has started this "feature" where anything you stop on for more than a few seconds starts playing a video preview in the background. That sounds like it'd be a minor annoyance but it's gotten so bad that I typically mute my TV until I actually find what I want to watch, or I use it like a minefield - trying to move between items quickly enough that I don't set off the preview.
No - though the Linux desktop "OS" has truly become thought of as being called "Linux" (despite containing a lot of other software - though even I can't possibly be bothered to call it GNU/Linux), in this case Linux truly is just the kernel, and Android is the OS.
I remember WAY back in the early 2000's when LCD flat panels first started getting cheap enough for the average consumer (I bought my first as a 17" for $300 back around 2001) it was common for there to be at least 1 dead pixel - and they generally wouldn't consider it a warranty item unless there were more than 10 or more than 2 within a few cm of each other.
That is pretty much of thing of the past now though. In the last ~7 years I can't recall having a single display with a dead pixel, and in today's age I certainly would return a display (or device) that had one.
I get your point, but for this particular case I think it warrants the business model.
Sometimes if your car is broken it's simply not capable of being driven to a service shop (either it simply won't do it, it's not safe, or doing so would cause further damage to the car).
In those cases you either have to 1) use a service like this, or 2) have it towed to the shop.
While a mechanic's time may be valuable, towing cars can be rather expensive too. If it's cheaper to pay a mechanic to bring the tools out to the driveway than to have the car towed, then it's a financial win.
Also - very few mechanics are going to make $100 per hour. A full shop might be able to CHARGE $100 per hour for their time, but they're not paying the labor that. Remember the mechanic typically isn't the business owner. If they can do this on the side for extra money then they could still make more per hour than at their regular job.
Which - BTW - if you get in good with mechanics in a shop, is a good way to get things done cheaper anyways. I've known guys who work a regular 8 hour shift at a garage. The price at their job for something might be $500 . . . but if you are willing to bring it by their house they'll do it that weekend for $200. On a 3-4 hour job they weren't going to make much of that $500 price anyways.
They kinda do. Apple has be seen as a trendsetter. We were the FIRST to remove the old outdated headphone jack.
If the other companies buck the trend, then there is the public perception to think of iPhones as "those stupid phones that don't even have a headphone jack" instead of "those cool phones that did away with that outdated tech".
If they public's opinion doesn't sway I'd expect to see the headphone jack back on the iPhone by the time the iPhone 9 comes out.
That's pretty much what I've done. When I lived at home with my parents I had a 32" in my bedroom that I used a good deal. 32" to me is about as large as you can go in a bedroom setting.
I bought my own place about 5 years ago and continued with that 32" in the living room for about 4 months before I bought a 46" and the 32" TV went back to the bedroom again. Truthfully though since it's went to the bedroom I have barely used it. For a while I hooked up my PS4 and played upstairs but I've taken to connecting my game consoles to my computer monitor on an HDMI switcher - I'd just prefer to play games sitting at my desk.
A TV is just a display device, and IMHO though I don't subscribe to any cable or satellite services, I still find kicking back on my couch a LOT more comfortable than trying to hold up my smartphone in front of my face (much less 12" away - the eye strain from that would be horrible).
Probably 90% of the video I watch these days is Youtube (with the reamining 10% Netflix) but I still do so on a Roku stick on my TV downstairs.
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If it is an anti-cheat device then why don't the schools provide them then collect them after the exam. The criminal waste is requiring just about every student to buy their own.
Because then the student doesn't get the ability to use the device on homework or really learn to use it. You can't just throw a calculator at them during test time and expect them to be proficient.
If you want, buy a used calculator and save some money. They're not that expensive second hand, and as long as you take care of it you can probably make back whatever it cost if you resell it after the class is done anyways.
I think to some degree though the "antiquated device" is a an anti-cheating tool. A smartphone is so powerful that it's hard to allow them in a classroom without rampant cheating being easily accomplished. I mean heck you could even send pictures of questions to another person and have them doing them and sending answers back.
With a graphing calculator you're limited to at most unapproved programs (or storing equations into the programming mode).
That depends on your definition of "decent". How does your $25 device integrate with the steering wheel controls and the car audio system?
My $15 device in my 2006 Tiburon integrates with the car audio system just fine - I just plug it into the aux port. I can easily answer a phone call but pressing the button on the device which is glued beside the radio.
It doesn't integrate with "steering wheel controls" but not all cars even use those - even newer ones. I've also got a brand new 2017 Colorado that has integrated bluetooth but the controls for answering and hanging up are still on the entertainment system's touch screen. There's nothing on the steering wheel except cruise control.
State laws vary though. In my state it's illegal to "text" while driving (with text meaning use the phone for anything but driving), but that law explicitly exempts people who are stopped at a traffic light.
It's also hard to tell sometimes. My car's in dash display links up with the phone so that I can do a lot of stuff from the dash while driving and never even have to touch the phone. Certain features like looking through playlists are disabled while the car is in motion (which it seems to deduce from the GPS).
Indeed with Bluetooth if you're looking to completely eliminate phone usage (even talking) you'd need to just pull over anyone who you saw speaking while driving.
In the end - to a large degree I think it comes down to the fact that not a) not are problems are solveable, and b) sometimes the solution isn't worth it. Sometimes you just identify a problem and say "Hey, that sucks, but that's life.".
My first home computer was a Commodore 128, though it was a bit disappointing as I'd already used IBM 8088's at school in typing class.
Truthfully I spent 99% of my time in the C-64 emulation mode as the computer was bought used and almost all the software that came with it was actually for a Commodore 64. It was where I learned to tinker around in BASIC though. Eventually the disk drive broke; for a while after that I would just never turn off the computer so the memory wouldn't clear (until a power outage would lose all my work :)). I found out my aunt had an old C64 in her attic and I managed to scavenge a cassette drive from that that allowed me to store my programs for a while until I got my first PC.
Those were the "good old days". Computer are definitely more useful now but back then it still felt like you were messing with something new that most people weren't familiar with.
I tow with my truck only on the weekends for fishing. It wasnt some crazy expensive vehicle. It's a work Truck trimmed Colorado with a v6 that was $25k brand new. I also use it as a daily driver because while a more fuel efficient vehicle might be more efficient, BUYING a second vehicle just for fuel efficiency will take forever (if ever) to break even on.
If you need to tow aand nd haul, then you're best bet is to get a relatively exp
I wouldn't really look at the bed of trucks coming down the highways as to whether or not they're used. I get plenty of use out of mine, but the bed is still empty most of the time. My truck is my daily transportation first and foremost, but occasionally I'll need to haul something. I tow a boat fishing at least every other weekend, and I'll end up needing to haul something at least every 3 or 4 weeks, but still, the most common time you'll see my truck is when it's empty and I'm just driving it to work.
Generally though, it's ok. I live within 3 miles of the office so my daily fuel use isn't that big of an expense. Still, if an electric was available that would also perform the tasks I need, AND it was priced well, I'd certainly look into it.
I get that this could be useful, but where if they can make a semi-truck it seems like they could make an electric pickup. Something capable of hauling around a family, the occasional lumber load or appliance, and towing trailers in the 3000-4000 lb range (a LOT lighter than a semi).
At least in my area it seems like at least half the vehicles on the roads are trucks, and most of those people actually use them for doing "truck things". Even the most efficient trucks on the road though are still not getting better than ~30mpg highway.
You do know that semi-trucks are supposed to carry cargo right? If the trailer is full of batteries you don't have room for that cargo.
That's good, and MOST of the time I'd happily be willing to accept a delay too. However, there are people who may be flying somewhere for a funeral. They may absolutely have to be back at work the next day or face termination. As the man in the latest United scam claimed (maybe truthfully, maybe not), they may be a doctor that has patients they must attend to.
The bottom line is that is there is something inherently just not right about a business being able to sell you a ticket on a plane that is taking off but then deny you a seat on that plane because they sold too many of them.
Which is indeed how many auto makers how gotten around tariffs.
If you look into the "Chicken Tax", from the 1960's, you'll notice that there's a 25% tariff imposed on "light trucks", however you'll notice that the Nissan Frontier is still cheapest light truck on the market right now and the Toyota Tacoma is the best selling.
How are their prices still competitive? They built plants here in the US and build the trucks here. To me that's a win/win. They still provide good competition, they can still do business for their shareholders (regardless of their homes), and the construction of those vehicles being sold here employs American workers.
Funnily enough, that's also why at the moment Ford isn't selling the Ranger in the US anymore (and Nissan is still selling the aforementioned Frontier instead of their much newer design, the Navara, available globally). They're only produced outside of the US right now and they wouldn't be profitable to import.
When it comes to our economy, I'm all for making it so that if something is imported, it better be either so cheap to import that the tariffs still mean it's not profitable to make here, or it's a luxury good that people don't mind paying extra for.
"Social" hacking doesn't exist.
Hacking involves a computer. People have been trying to sway public opinion in the way they want since the creation of the concept of an election. That doesn't make it "social hacking".
I think what they're getting at is anything that says you can't legally repair something is an artificial market protection.
In a completely free market, no such clause would be legally enforceable, and any secondary market vendor who wanted to hack the system and repair it for a lower charge than the manufacturer could do so without any legal headaches.
All the trouble that comes along with the DMCA or things like Monsanto copyrighting seeds and such is most certainly NOT free market capitalism.
The 10k views threshhold is for the CHANNEL - not individual videos. Realistically this won't affect anyone who has made more than $20 off of Youtube before.
The way to improve a product isn't to scrap it and build a new one every 6 months,
Lets not exaggerate. Google Talk was introduced 12 years go. Hangouts came 8 years later. Allo, 3 years after that.
I understand that it can be tough to let go of old applications, but sometimes a software company can no longer support it.
For old desktop programs, that just meant that it may or may not work anymore as systems are upgraded (as long it it uses only local resources and just isn't a client for an internet service). For web based applications though, it means they go away. Either embrace web based software and accept that or stick to traditional style desktop software.
Why not wait 6 months and pay $1 at the Redbox? Or if you can't be bothered to travel to a Redbox rent it for $5 off Amazon?
$30 is ~ what you would pay for two tickets during non-prime hours, without the popcorn, soda, and goobers.
Maybe if I was intentionally trying to go to the most expensive theater in town.
I can easily purchase non-prime hour tickets at a value theater for $3.50 per ticket ($6 later in the evening) and even just picking a random theater few will break $10 each.
Granted - ticket prices vary by region of the country you may be in but if the movie studios aren't planning to ALSO vary this $30 rate they still are going to have to compete against cheaper tickets in those regions.
It depends on how you look at it.
If you're used to satellite TV or Netflix - yeah, it's pretty barren. Compared to what WAS available though, in the modern age there's a lot more channels available then "back in the day".
Since the mid 1990's the amount of over the air channels available here has more than tripled (5 channels to now 16). I mostly stick to Netflix but I do occasionally use the OTA antenna for things like football games and such.
Really - there's not much of a comparison.
I've got Amazon Prime mostly for the free shipping deal, but I also keep the app installed on my Roku "just in case".
It never, EVER gets used, and I still find it completely worthwhile to pay for Netflix separately.
Netflix's library is better, and their interface is better - with the exception that Netflix recently has started this "feature" where anything you stop on for more than a few seconds starts playing a video preview in the background. That sounds like it'd be a minor annoyance but it's gotten so bad that I typically mute my TV until I actually find what I want to watch, or I use it like a minefield - trying to move between items quickly enough that I don't set off the preview.
No - though the Linux desktop "OS" has truly become thought of as being called "Linux" (despite containing a lot of other software - though even I can't possibly be bothered to call it GNU/Linux), in this case Linux truly is just the kernel, and Android is the OS.
I remember WAY back in the early 2000's when LCD flat panels first started getting cheap enough for the average consumer (I bought my first as a 17" for $300 back around 2001) it was common for there to be at least 1 dead pixel - and they generally wouldn't consider it a warranty item unless there were more than 10 or more than 2 within a few cm of each other.
That is pretty much of thing of the past now though. In the last ~7 years I can't recall having a single display with a dead pixel, and in today's age I certainly would return a display (or device) that had one.
I get your point, but for this particular case I think it warrants the business model.
Sometimes if your car is broken it's simply not capable of being driven to a service shop (either it simply won't do it, it's not safe, or doing so would cause further damage to the car).
In those cases you either have to 1) use a service like this, or 2) have it towed to the shop.
While a mechanic's time may be valuable, towing cars can be rather expensive too. If it's cheaper to pay a mechanic to bring the tools out to the driveway than to have the car towed, then it's a financial win.
Also - very few mechanics are going to make $100 per hour. A full shop might be able to CHARGE $100 per hour for their time, but they're not paying the labor that. Remember the mechanic typically isn't the business owner. If they can do this on the side for extra money then they could still make more per hour than at their regular job.
Which - BTW - if you get in good with mechanics in a shop, is a good way to get things done cheaper anyways. I've known guys who work a regular 8 hour shift at a garage. The price at their job for something might be $500 . . . but if you are willing to bring it by their house they'll do it that weekend for $200. On a 3-4 hour job they weren't going to make much of that $500 price anyways.
They kinda do. Apple has be seen as a trendsetter. We were the FIRST to remove the old outdated headphone jack.
If the other companies buck the trend, then there is the public perception to think of iPhones as "those stupid phones that don't even have a headphone jack" instead of "those cool phones that did away with that outdated tech".
If they public's opinion doesn't sway I'd expect to see the headphone jack back on the iPhone by the time the iPhone 9 comes out.
That's pretty much what I've done. When I lived at home with my parents I had a 32" in my bedroom that I used a good deal. 32" to me is about as large as you can go in a bedroom setting.
I bought my own place about 5 years ago and continued with that 32" in the living room for about 4 months before I bought a 46" and the 32" TV went back to the bedroom again. Truthfully though since it's went to the bedroom I have barely used it. For a while I hooked up my PS4 and played upstairs but I've taken to connecting my game consoles to my computer monitor on an HDMI switcher - I'd just prefer to play games sitting at my desk.
Don't confuse a TV with "TV" the service.
A TV is just a display device, and IMHO though I don't subscribe to any cable or satellite services, I still find kicking back on my couch a LOT more comfortable than trying to hold up my smartphone in front of my face (much less 12" away - the eye strain from that would be horrible).
Probably 90% of the video I watch these days is Youtube (with the reamining 10% Netflix) but I still do so on a Roku stick on my TV downstairs.