I am very suprised by your experience, I've had a couple of HDs fail over the years, but only after a very long life.
Case in point, my four year old desktop had two drives, an 80Gb Maxtor and an 18Gb Seagate, I can't remember the models off the top of my head. When a steampipe ruptured in our apartment last winter, the system was running in a steam-filled studio apartment for aprox. 18 hours (we were out of town). The steam warped a TV, destroyed my flatscreen monitor and totally killed my GF's laptop, not to mention ruining a lot of Ikea furniture. But my system still boots and I have yet to find a corrupted file. Every fifth boot or so it hangs while loading the bios, but honestly I think that's a motherboard problem. (The laptop's HD didn't make it, we tried plugging it into an external usb kit.)
of course the only reason I know the box still runs is because I'm still waiting for the insurance payment nine months later...
A reviewer who knows anything about analogue audio tech. There are things like impedances, voltages and signal to noise ratios involed in a task like this. Few devices can actually output a signal which is truly suitable for amplification.
Even "us kids" understand that you need a clean signal to amplify, but if that's truely what he was talking about then TFA should have been clearer, I mean, he's a tech reviewer for pete's sake! "packed with plenty of audio power" is not the same as "has excellent sound quality".
US cellphone users are billed at the same rate for incoming and outgoing calls (except international calls, which are billed at higher rate, except Canada. ~insert US-Canadian relations joke here~). If you call my cell, we are both billed for the call.
The flip side to this is that the cost for calling cell lines and land lines is the same for everyone. So calling my cell phone and my landline phone is the rate for you. And calling a land line or a cell line from a cell is the same rate. This is also why SMS is nowhere near as popular in the US. When it doesn't cost 90 cents a minute, there's no reason not to just call the other person's mobile phone then pay 20 cents to text them.
I find this much nicer than the European model of charging the caller based on the type of phone they are calling; I don't have to keep track of what type of phone I am calling. Essentially, cell phone users pay a premium for the mobility. But that's just my opinion:)
wow slashenomics...
Deciding actually "pays" when costs change depends on a bunch of factors, like elasticities of demand and supply.
not being an economist, I have no idea who actually pays in this case.
Actually, Verizon allows "naked DSL" (sadly they don't call it that) is some locations.
My parents own a small store in NH, and in making the switch to voip and a local DSL provider, they discovered that they could ditch both of their verizon phone lines.
dont' know how it works exactly, but they have DSL and no phone lines. It doesn't make any sense to me from a business perspective, but....
This really seems like their domain. If Wi-Fi will bring in tourism, neighborhood businesses should be more than will to chip in $10 or $20 a month. Heck, it's cheap enough that many business would probably try it even if they aren't sure.
Plus, (and please correct me if I'm wrong) aren't the costs of administrating a city-wide network going to be far higher than the costs for a group of small (2-3 AP on a standard residential or business broadband connection) networks covering the same area?
In most of the examples you listed the government does (or did until recently) get to decide who could provide those services and how much they could charge, so it's not a big jump....
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I am very suprised by your experience, I've had a couple of HDs fail over the years, but only after a very long life.
Case in point, my four year old desktop had two drives, an 80Gb Maxtor and an 18Gb Seagate, I can't remember the models off the top of my head. When a steampipe ruptured in our apartment last winter, the system was running in a steam-filled studio apartment for aprox. 18 hours (we were out of town). The steam warped a TV, destroyed my flatscreen monitor and totally killed my GF's laptop, not to mention ruining a lot of Ikea furniture. But my system still boots and I have yet to find a corrupted file. Every fifth boot or so it hangs while loading the bios, but honestly I think that's a motherboard problem. (The laptop's HD didn't make it, we tried plugging it into an external usb kit.)
of course the only reason I know the box still runs is because I'm still waiting for the insurance payment nine months later...
A reviewer who knows anything about analogue audio tech. There are things like impedances, voltages and signal to noise ratios involed in a task like this. Few devices can actually output a signal which is truly suitable for amplification.
Even "us kids" understand that you need a clean signal to amplify, but if that's truely what he was talking about then TFA should have been clearer, I mean, he's a tech reviewer for pete's sake! "packed with plenty of audio power" is not the same as "has excellent sound quality".
The nano actually allows a car stereo sytem to amplify the sound! What will Apple think of next?
Seriously, what kind of reviewer is impressed by this?
I'd settle for just the Western Hemisphere (that's the good hemisphere)...
will they be able to outmarket AMD again?
US cellphone users are billed at the same rate for incoming and outgoing calls (except international calls, which are billed at higher rate, except Canada. ~insert US-Canadian relations joke here~). If you call my cell, we are both billed for the call.
:)
The flip side to this is that the cost for calling cell lines and land lines is the same for everyone. So calling my cell phone and my landline phone is the rate for you. And calling a land line or a cell line from a cell is the same rate. This is also why SMS is nowhere near as popular in the US. When it doesn't cost 90 cents a minute, there's no reason not to just call the other person's mobile phone then pay 20 cents to text them.
I find this much nicer than the European model of charging the caller based on the type of phone they are calling; I don't have to keep track of what type of phone I am calling. Essentially, cell phone users pay a premium for the mobility. But that's just my opinion
wow slashenomics... Deciding actually "pays" when costs change depends on a bunch of factors, like elasticities of demand and supply. not being an economist, I have no idea who actually pays in this case.
Actually, Verizon allows "naked DSL" (sadly they don't call it that) is some locations. My parents own a small store in NH, and in making the switch to voip and a local DSL provider, they discovered that they could ditch both of their verizon phone lines. dont' know how it works exactly, but they have DSL and no phone lines. It doesn't make any sense to me from a business perspective, but....
This really seems like their domain. If Wi-Fi will bring in tourism, neighborhood businesses should be more than will to chip in $10 or $20 a month. Heck, it's cheap enough that many business would probably try it even if they aren't sure. Plus, (and please correct me if I'm wrong) aren't the costs of administrating a city-wide network going to be far higher than the costs for a group of small (2-3 AP on a standard residential or business broadband connection) networks covering the same area?
In most of the examples you listed the government does (or did until recently) get to decide who could provide those services and how much they could charge, so it's not a big jump....