Nope. He needs to retire NOW. He has to sell the house NOW before he can retire NOW. With the mortgage underwater, he has no money to relocate to a cheaper area and buy a less expensive. Although his younger wife has another 20 years before she retires, her income alone and his future income from Social Security won't support paying off the mortgage. In short, they're screwed. But, hey, that's the American Dream!
The Raspberry Pi was meant to be an affordable, educational computer for children. Not a $35 replacement for a $300 media box. Windows 10 isn't going to change that.
Microsoft's contribution to this kit is Windows 10 Lite OS installed on the memory card. Jameco sells a similar kit for $60. If you're willing to scrounge around for individual parts, you might put together a identical kit that cost less.
Apple reportedly has the Mac OS X running on the ARM processor. If Intel ever becomes an reliable partner as IBM was with the PowerPC, Apple would switch over to their CPUs. Intel's development cycles aren't always in sync with Apple's marketing cycles.
I liked the movie as a kid. Not so much as an adult. Yes, I saw the end credit scene in Guardians. I look forward to seeing the remake, if they ever do a remake.
You're making the assumption that I'm blowing money on tech toys because I own an iPhone. Not true in my case. The iPhone is the only "luxury" item that I own, as I live a very frugal lifestyle.
The iPhone is FREE. Cellular and data service is EXTRA. That extra $75 per month I'm is well worth it. Before the iPhone, I used to pay that much for a land-line and a voice-only cellphone.
If you're a developer, you sign up for the program and learn the ecosystem. If you're a consumer, you don't care about the hardware specs and want a good user interface experience.
Under the Sprint iPhone Forever program, the monthly lease is $22 per month for the 16GB iPhone 6s. (The 128GB iPhone 6s+ probably has a higher lease payment.) Since I've been a Sprint customer for 20+ years, I get a loyalty credit that reduces my lease payment to $5 per month until I upgrade to the next iPhone. I also get a 10% discount on my monthly bill for being a AAA member, which cancels out the lease payment entirely. In short, I get the current iPhone for FREE!
You mean I should be like my brother who doesn't own an iPhone? He lives in a large house that he bought at the height of the real estate market, has an underwater mortgage, pays both the mortgage payment and the loan payment from his wife's 401K for down payment, and can't retire because he can't sell the house. On top of that, he buys $180 designer blue jeans from Macy's and leases a new car every three years. He's living the American Dream — and paying the price for the privilege.
I gave up the American Dream years ago by living a frugal lifestyle. The iPhone is the only "luxury" item that I own. Although my brother looks down on me for being "poor," I'm far more happier than he is since my money isn't tied up in competing with the Jones.
After ten years in the same studio apartment in the heart of Silicon Valley, I'm thinking about moving to a different place. However, I fail to see how having an iPhone has anything to do with my living situation. Please proceed.
My roommate claims that the iPhone 6s is faster than the iPhone 5c I traded in. The Amazon Kindle app doesn't appear to be running any faster than before. Then again, email, news and text don't require that much speed.
I didn't become a better programmer until I learned and mastered algebra. In particular, functions (i.e., f(x) = x + 1). I understood mathematical functions better than computer functions. Technically, they're the same. The mathematic instructor explained it better than the early computer courses that I took.
I fell in love with the IBM Selectric typewriter when I was in kindergarten in mid-1970's, watching the little metal ball spin to put black letters on white paper. I thought it was magic. By the time I was in college, I had a toy typewriter, two manual typewriters and an electronic typewriter. Although I had a Commodore 64 with a Near Letter Quality printer, many college instructors wouldn't accept a printout in the early 1990's and I had to type my term papers. These days I can touch type on the keyboard without looking at the keyboard.
Meanwhile, my cursive handwriting went to hell. I can print my letters when I need to write on paper forms. Most kids today don't know how to write or read cursive writing. Writing on paper is a lost art these days for the younger generation.
However, programming languages and human languages are not even close to being the same thing.
While browsing through college catalogs in the early 1990's, I was somewhat amused to see that I could satisfy a foreign language requirement with a programming language. Alas, my eight years of experience in using Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify as a programming language.
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I'm still waiting to getting my FREE government-issued iPhone that the tea party nuts always talk about. You know, the FREE STUFF.
Nope. He needs to retire NOW. He has to sell the house NOW before he can retire NOW. With the mortgage underwater, he has no money to relocate to a cheaper area and buy a less expensive. Although his younger wife has another 20 years before she retires, her income alone and his future income from Social Security won't support paying off the mortgage. In short, they're screwed. But, hey, that's the American Dream!
*sigh* Corrected link.
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2224243_-1
After ten years in one place, I'm ready to move on. So don't worry.
I'll add that to my to-do list as soon as I get finished writing a chess engine in Python.
The Raspberry Pi was meant to be an affordable, educational computer for children. Not a $35 replacement for a $300 media box. Windows 10 isn't going to change that.
If I don't have pay for it, it's FREE!
Microsoft's contribution to this kit is Windows 10 Lite OS installed on the memory card. Jameco sells a similar kit for $60. If you're willing to scrounge around for individual parts, you might put together a identical kit that cost less.
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2156164_-1
Apple reportedly has the Mac OS X running on the ARM processor. If Intel ever becomes an reliable partner as IBM was with the PowerPC, Apple would switch over to their CPUs. Intel's development cycles aren't always in sync with Apple's marketing cycles.
Build your own Raspberry Pi kit. It will be cheaper.
Nope. American.
I liked the movie as a kid. Not so much as an adult. Yes, I saw the end credit scene in Guardians. I look forward to seeing the remake, if they ever do a remake.
This is where George Lucas buried Howard the Duck after the movie bombed.
You're making the assumption that I'm blowing money on tech toys because I own an iPhone. Not true in my case. The iPhone is the only "luxury" item that I own, as I live a very frugal lifestyle.
The iPhone is FREE. Cellular and data service is EXTRA. That extra $75 per month I'm is well worth it. Before the iPhone, I used to pay that much for a land-line and a voice-only cellphone.
If you're a developer, you sign up for the program and learn the ecosystem. If you're a consumer, you don't care about the hardware specs and want a good user interface experience.
Under the Sprint iPhone Forever program, the monthly lease is $22 per month for the 16GB iPhone 6s. (The 128GB iPhone 6s+ probably has a higher lease payment.) Since I've been a Sprint customer for 20+ years, I get a loyalty credit that reduces my lease payment to $5 per month until I upgrade to the next iPhone. I also get a 10% discount on my monthly bill for being a AAA member, which cancels out the lease payment entirely. In short, I get the current iPhone for FREE!
http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-customers-can-upgrade-their-iphone-anytime-included-in-their-monthly-rate.htm
You mean I should be like my brother who doesn't own an iPhone? He lives in a large house that he bought at the height of the real estate market, has an underwater mortgage, pays both the mortgage payment and the loan payment from his wife's 401K for down payment, and can't retire because he can't sell the house. On top of that, he buys $180 designer blue jeans from Macy's and leases a new car every three years. He's living the American Dream — and paying the price for the privilege.
I gave up the American Dream years ago by living a frugal lifestyle. The iPhone is the only "luxury" item that I own. Although my brother looks down on me for being "poor," I'm far more happier than he is since my money isn't tied up in competing with the Jones.
After ten years in the same studio apartment in the heart of Silicon Valley, I'm thinking about moving to a different place. However, I fail to see how having an iPhone has anything to do with my living situation. Please proceed.
My roommate claims that the iPhone 6s is faster than the iPhone 5c I traded in. The Amazon Kindle app doesn't appear to be running any faster than before. Then again, email, news and text don't require that much speed.
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I didn't become a better programmer until I learned and mastered algebra. In particular, functions (i.e., f(x) = x + 1). I understood mathematical functions better than computer functions. Technically, they're the same. The mathematic instructor explained it better than the early computer courses that I took.
I fell in love with the IBM Selectric typewriter when I was in kindergarten in mid-1970's, watching the little metal ball spin to put black letters on white paper. I thought it was magic. By the time I was in college, I had a toy typewriter, two manual typewriters and an electronic typewriter. Although I had a Commodore 64 with a Near Letter Quality printer, many college instructors wouldn't accept a printout in the early 1990's and I had to type my term papers. These days I can touch type on the keyboard without looking at the keyboard.
Meanwhile, my cursive handwriting went to hell. I can print my letters when I need to write on paper forms. Most kids today don't know how to write or read cursive writing. Writing on paper is a lost art these days for the younger generation.
Latin is like C++: use a small subset of the language, everything works out well.
However, programming languages and human languages are not even close to being the same thing.
While browsing through college catalogs in the early 1990's, I was somewhat amused to see that I could satisfy a foreign language requirement with a programming language. Alas, my eight years of experience in using Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify as a programming language.