SOME people like sports. All I say is that those people who do should cover the 100% of the costs of what they watch, and not get need to get a subsidy from the rest of us.
Ahh, but I don't want to each sports. Ever. And even if I did, ESPN effectively only has basketball and football - if there are other sports you want you are almost always out of luck as well. And yet I have to pay for it whether I want it or not.
And what do they do with all of the money that they pick from our pockets? They overpay for the rights to televise sports. The scandals involving the huge amounts of money out there for both college football and basketball are directly related to how much TV money is floating around out there.
And I would venture a guess that there are a far more people out there who don't watch sports that you might think there are.
There isn't a single cable or satellite provider that doesn't include ESPN as a part of the basic package. That's the whole point - ESPN insists that these terms be in the contract so that they can spread the costs to the myriad of people that don't watch sports.
The other thing that torques me about Verizon is that they recently dropped the Weather Channel in favor of McWeather. Most of the time TWC is boring and repetitive, but when there is a tropical storm or snowstorm, you can get very good and useful information. I didn't have a choice about that either. And the only way to get that back is to switch providers and in the process give up some other channels that those other providers don't offer.
So then what do you do? Sign up with multiple providers (and pay the ESPN tax for each of them)?
There is absolutely nothing innovative about what they do other than pick the pockets of every cable/satellite subscriber in the country. It is attitudes like theirs that are pushing more and more people to just cut the cord and build their own a-la-carte bundles from Netflix or Hulu.
Say some kid doesn't quite get what they were talking about in the lesson, and has additional questions. Where would that kid go? The local tech wouldn't be of any use - the kid's family would need to hire an outside tutor or some such. And if the family can't afford a tutor, well that's too bad.
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Just for grins, I downloaded all of the sounds that an iPhone makes onto my Android phone. In a quiet room, I can play the 'bing' noise that indicates an incoming message, or the noise that an iPhone makes when the battery is low. And then watch to see what kind of reaction there is from the people who are nearby.
I would have taken the phone and then sat back and watched the guy fall to pieces. Only after the match was complete (and the guy presumably lost) would I have busted him.
Define "stupid." Would you be able to tell when an auto mechanic is BSing you? When your contractor does a half-assed job building your home but still charges you full price?
Generally yes. I know enough about these things that I already have a pretty good idea what is going on with a car that I can take it to a mechanic and not get ripped. For example, does your car make a funny noise? Well you can do simple tests to try and narrow down what makes the noise change, and this gives you a good idea of what the problem might be. I just don't have the time, the tools, or the shop space to do a lot of these jobs myself, so I pay someone to actually do what I need them to do.
Same on the house. Simple jobs I do myself, other ones I will hire someone to finish things out. In many cases I might not know exactly how a tradesman would do a particular job, so I will watch for a bit so I can learn something.
That's ultimately it - how much is your own time worth. If you could construct some sort of Siri-like thing that just acted dumb, asked inane questions, and generally ran them in circles, it could be quite funny.
I suppose you could just tell them you need to let the dog out, set down the phone and not pick it up again until they give up.
An interesting problem. You might have an individual who was out drinking heavily, with the expectation that the car can drive him home. But if the car comes across something it can't handle, the car owner would be in no condition to take over control.
I mean, what is good about the changes that they make?
A lot of us use our computers for work - they aren't playthings, and we aren't using the machine for entertainment. So when Microsoft randomly changes the UI on a whim, all it creates for me is aggravation with no upside.
Yes, but this was with Google Wallet. Is that credit or debit? The underlying card that is funding wallet? But if you answer "Debit", it will ask for a PIN number, and that makes even less sense.
To me the question seems to be a bit of a non-sequitor.
That's what my Galaxy S5 does. I do have to unlock the phone, but you hold it over the reader and the app comes up. The only thing that slows me down is when the payment terminal asks irrelevant and/or annoying questions. When I was at the vet the other day it wanted to know "Credit or Debit"? WTF? And at the grocery store it wanted to know if I wanted cash back. If they stop asking questions like these, the transactions would be quicker.
My preferences (excluding online purchases) are:
1) EMV credit card. 2) NFC via Wallet. 3) Cash. 4) Write a check (rarely)
I refuse to use my debit at any machine other than an ATM, and even then I am picky about which ATM machines I will use. If the crooks get your debit card number, they can create all sorts of headaches for you.
I used to use the normal credit card swipe for some things like gas stations, but I had my card # stolen at either a parking garage or a gas station, so from now on it is cash all the way for those things. Yeah, it is a pain, but I am still pretty steamed about the horrible cyber security at some of these places. If the attendant steals from the till or the store gets robbed - well, that's not my problem. If they want fewer cash transactions, then they can add support for #1 or #2.
People say you have no liability if your card gets stolen, and while that is sort of true, it can take several weeks before you get a replacement card unless you insist that they overnight the thing to you (like if you are on the road somewhere). My card was stolen on the 6th of the month, and the replacement *finally* arrived today. I had called to complain last week about why it was taking so long - apparently some nonspecific upgrades to their system caused the request to be stuck in a queue for 10 days. And it was a pain in the interim. Check into a hotel - do they take AMEX, or not? Pay for car repairs - they don't take AMEX, so I had to write a check to the guy. I could try and get yet another card, which I wouldn't need/use once the replacement arrives, and realistically the other card wouldn't have arrived before the replacement.
Little retailers still face the liability shift, so they will likely upgrade as well. The problem with CurrentC is that they will still be obligated to support EMV, so they can't completely block progress.
Our local veterinarian a brand new reader there. I have used both EMV and NFC payment methods there.
Many years ago I worked on several parts of the kernel. But I got hired by a start-up and simply had no time, so I had to step away.
But I still fondly remember meeting all of the people involved. When I was doing things, I don't recall Linus being verbally abusive. Maybe it happened and I don't remember.
I have complained for years about memory leaks, all to no avail. I have asked for a way to enumerate memory/cpu usage on a per-tab basis - all of this also goes on deaf ears. They just turn around and pass the buck and blame the addins. In the meantime I routinely have to kill firefox and then restart it. It apologizes about how embarrassing it is that Firefox has "crashed", but the real embarrassment are the memory leaks.
I use Chrome some, but I can't say that I really like it that much. But I am increasingly disgusted with Firefox, and as time goes on, I use it less and less..
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SOME people like sports. All I say is that those people who do should cover the 100% of the costs of what they watch, and not get need to get a subsidy from the rest of us.
Ahh, but I don't want to each sports. Ever. And even if I did, ESPN effectively only has basketball and football - if there are other sports you want you are almost always out of luck as well. And yet I have to pay for it whether I want it or not.
And what do they do with all of the money that they pick from our pockets? They overpay for the rights to televise sports. The scandals involving the huge amounts of money out there for both college football and basketball are directly related to how much TV money is floating around out there.
And I would venture a guess that there are a far more people out there who don't watch sports that you might think there are.
There isn't a single cable or satellite provider that doesn't include ESPN as a part of the basic package. That's the whole point - ESPN insists that these terms be in the contract so that they can spread the costs to the myriad of people that don't watch sports.
The other thing that torques me about Verizon is that they recently dropped the Weather Channel in favor of McWeather. Most of the time TWC is boring and repetitive, but when there is a tropical storm or snowstorm, you can get very good and useful information. I didn't have a choice about that either. And the only way to get that back is to switch providers and in the process give up some other channels that those other providers don't offer.
So then what do you do? Sign up with multiple providers (and pay the ESPN tax for each of them)?
There is absolutely nothing innovative about what they do other than pick the pockets of every cable/satellite subscriber in the country. It is attitudes like theirs that are pushing more and more people to just cut the cord and build their own a-la-carte bundles from Netflix or Hulu.
Say some kid doesn't quite get what they were talking about in the lesson, and has additional questions. Where would that kid go? The local tech wouldn't be of any use - the kid's family would need to hire an outside tutor or some such. And if the family can't afford a tutor, well that's too bad.
That could monitor all kinds of body vitals, with the added bonus that nobody would ever want to steal the thing. They could call it the "aPhone".
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Take it to the airport, or take it on the subway.
Just for grins, I downloaded all of the sounds that an iPhone makes onto my Android phone. In a quiet room, I can play the 'bing' noise that indicates an incoming message, or the noise that an iPhone makes when the battery is low. And then watch to see what kind of reaction there is from the people who are nearby.
I knew we were at the peak when I saw a 3d printer for sale at Home Depot. Oooh - I can make a crescent wrench out of plastic. How ... useful?
I would have taken the phone and then sat back and watched the guy fall to pieces. Only after the match was complete (and the guy presumably lost) would I have busted him.
But so far I only have them using sandboxing. The next steps are going to be harder.
Define "stupid." Would you be able to tell when an auto mechanic is BSing you? When your contractor does a half-assed job building your home but still charges you full price?
Generally yes. I know enough about these things that I already have a pretty good idea what is going on with a car that I can take it to a mechanic and not get ripped. For example, does your car make a funny noise? Well you can do simple tests to try and narrow down what makes the noise change, and this gives you a good idea of what the problem might be. I just don't have the time, the tools, or the shop space to do a lot of these jobs myself, so I pay someone to actually do what I need them to do.
Same on the house. Simple jobs I do myself, other ones I will hire someone to finish things out. In many cases I might not know exactly how a tradesman would do a particular job, so I will watch for a bit so I can learn something.
That's ultimately it - how much is your own time worth. If you could construct some sort of Siri-like thing that just acted dumb, asked inane questions, and generally ran them in circles, it could be quite funny.
I suppose you could just tell them you need to let the dog out, set down the phone and not pick it up again until they give up.
Let's say you need to tweak an old MFC app, and you search for "CString". Many of the results you get back are now NSFW :-(.
I tried using my phone to search for the nearest Kinkos. The spellcheck changed it to "Kinky".
I guess this tells me a lot about the sorts of things that average people search for.
An interesting problem. You might have an individual who was out drinking heavily, with the expectation that the car can drive him home. But if the car comes across something it can't handle, the car owner would be in no condition to take over control.
If there is on Silicon Heaven, then where would all of the calculators go?
I mean, what is good about the changes that they make?
A lot of us use our computers for work - they aren't playthings, and we aren't using the machine for entertainment. So when Microsoft randomly changes the UI on a whim, all it creates for me is aggravation with no upside.
Yes, but this was with Google Wallet. Is that credit or debit? The underlying card that is funding wallet? But if you answer "Debit", it will ask for a PIN number, and that makes even less sense.
To me the question seems to be a bit of a non-sequitor.
That's what my Galaxy S5 does. I do have to unlock the phone, but you hold it over the reader and the app comes up. The only thing that slows me down is when the payment terminal asks irrelevant and/or annoying questions. When I was at the vet the other day it wanted to know "Credit or Debit"? WTF? And at the grocery store it wanted to know if I wanted cash back. If they stop asking questions like these, the transactions would be quicker.
My preferences (excluding online purchases) are:
1) EMV credit card.
2) NFC via Wallet.
3) Cash.
4) Write a check (rarely)
I refuse to use my debit at any machine other than an ATM, and even then I am picky about which ATM machines I will use. If the crooks get your debit card number, they can create all sorts of headaches for you.
I used to use the normal credit card swipe for some things like gas stations, but I had my card # stolen at either a parking garage or a gas station, so from now on it is cash all the way for those things. Yeah, it is a pain, but I am still pretty steamed about the horrible cyber security at some of these places. If the attendant steals from the till or the store gets robbed - well, that's not my problem. If they want fewer cash transactions, then they can add support for #1 or #2.
People say you have no liability if your card gets stolen, and while that is sort of true, it can take several weeks before you get a replacement card unless you insist that they overnight the thing to you (like if you are on the road somewhere). My card was stolen on the 6th of the month, and the replacement *finally* arrived today. I had called to complain last week about why it was taking so long - apparently some nonspecific upgrades to their system caused the request to be stuck in a queue for 10 days. And it was a pain in the interim. Check into a hotel - do they take AMEX, or not? Pay for car repairs - they don't take AMEX, so I had to write a check to the guy. I could try and get yet another card, which I wouldn't need/use once the replacement arrives, and realistically the other card wouldn't have arrived before the replacement.
Little retailers still face the liability shift, so they will likely upgrade as well. The problem with CurrentC is that they will still be obligated to support EMV, so they can't completely block progress.
Our local veterinarian a brand new reader there. I have used both EMV and NFC payment methods there.
And it is even better if you run a green magic marker around the edge of your ears. And your eyes too for extra credit.
Many years ago I worked on several parts of the kernel. But I got hired by a start-up and simply had no time, so I had to step away.
But I still fondly remember meeting all of the people involved. When I was doing things, I don't recall Linus being verbally abusive. Maybe it happened and I don't remember.
Or maybe "Heritage"?
I am not going to take any shit from you.
I have complained for years about memory leaks, all to no avail. I have asked for a way to enumerate memory/cpu usage on a per-tab basis - all of this also goes on deaf ears. They just turn around and pass the buck and blame the addins. In the meantime I routinely have to kill firefox and then restart it. It apologizes about how embarrassing it is that Firefox has "crashed", but the real embarrassment are the memory leaks.
I use Chrome some, but I can't say that I really like it that much. But I am increasingly disgusted with Firefox, and as time goes on, I use it less and less..