Amazon is as profitable as they want to be. Anyone who's paid even the slightest attention knows that their growth has been funded pretty much from the beginning by pumping any excess money (AKA potential profit) back into the company. They could have pulled off enormous profits quite some time ago, if they wanted to.
Well, yes. That's how businesses operate, and you get what you pay for. If you don't want to risk someone pulling the plug on you at a moments notice for whatever criteria they decide is important at the time, then you pay the money to get a legally binding service contract that specifically lays out the specific conditions under which that can or can't happen.
They're too weak (and unoriginal) to create their own original banner, so they rely on some idea of they past they've glorified instead.
What I really don't get is why they're so enamoured of the banners of the losing sides? I mean, the confederates and nazis did a lot of damage, but even the most charitable histories can't help but notice that in the end they got whupped.
If you don't care about really high speeds, coax-to-ethernet bridges (designed for retrofitting surveillance cameras to IP devices) aren't expensive. If you don't have ethernet to those rooms then it's less hassle than running new wire and less prone to interference than powerline networking.
All the display is to the side - so you have to look sidways and down to find out anything about the vehicle, even its speed. That means you are not looking at the road for longer.
It's at steering wheel height, even slightly higher than a typical console sits, so it's probably not that bad. The center gauge layout isn't unique... the Nissan X-Trail (and probably some other models) used to have that layout and you do get used to it rather quickly.
The bigger concern I'd have is that screen is freaking busy with a lot of small details... Unless that's just a secondary mode and the real driving screen is more like a typical gauge layout I have a feeling the eye will linger on it a lot longer than is safe.
I know, I know... I tried to talk to him about it, but it's right next to the barn and he's so lazy he doesn't want to haul the hay bales any further than necessary.
In order for those ads to appear, some poor developer had to be given the task of adding that feature.
I suspect that HTC is just rebranding a third-party keyboard app which has an ad-supported version on some app store (possibly even the Play store) and uses the same code base across versions. I don't think the stock Android keyboard is that horrible, but I'm sure HTC has their reasons for not using it. So the dev probably just left the flag on and never noticed the glitch.
Then some other poor fools had to test it and qualify it across multiple hardware platforms. Then it had to get bundled into the software update, and then pushed out to users.
How exactly does giving raises to poor performers, or making it incredibly difficult to fire employees that hurt the functionality of a group, equate to greasing the gears of a smooth operation?
No argument that there's problems with unions. Personally, I think that sort of bullshit does more harm to the employees that unions are supposed to protect than anyone else and it's something I'm strongly against.
On the other hand, if you seriously think you can depend on the competence and fairness of upper management of the government (including elected officials) to treat employees well enough that government services remain functional then I do hope you live in one of the states where you can legally sell whatever it is you're smoking.
All public sector unions need to be abolished. These unions work against the public interests.
The public interests are to have a smoothly working government. Unions help grease the gears.
Do you think that there's some magic pixie powder in the government buildings that makes the average bureaucrat a fundamentally better and fairer kind of manager and employer than private sectors?
Bureaucrats are people, and in any organization you always have a certain number of people who, if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Except in the government these fuckers can (and do) get laws passed to take that mile.
Not to say that public sector unions are perfect, either; like any other union they thrive on the appearance of actual and open conflict with the employer and tend to promote their own organization interests over the interests of the actual employees they supposedly represent.
Yeah, no GPU. You need to use a USB-to-TTL adapter to bring them up the first time or you have to put in the effort in setting up the SD card to boot it headless.
Once they're up and running, NEO's are decent little units. Armbian installs painlessly.
A major problem with the NEO's is that their documentation and tools for using the GPIO's is, apparently, shit. I've got some NEO's, but I haven't tried to do anything with the GPIO's so it hasn't been a problem for me.
I would never pay $25 for one, though. At $10 each it's an attractive buy. At $25 it's worth the extra $10 to get the real thing.
But I want to bring your attention to another, more despicable, more disgusting, more heartbreaking, and damn right more obscene perversion that is just out of control in our society: Robotic Sex Horses.
If you think that's perverted, you're going to be in for a shock when you see what the Japanese are going to do with sexbots. I anticipate that it starts with "Robotic Sex Unicorns", adds tentacles, and.. uh. Well.
Even in tropical places like Vietnam where a little shit box on wheels could be light, cheap, and therefore a practical alternative, the savings on fuel with a motorcycle can't be that great.
In some places, it's less about fuel consumption and more about the fact that you can drive it through a doorway, park it in the bedroom, and perform all the necessary maintenance with basic hand tools. Not to mention filter through stopped traffic, drive on sidewalks, off-road where needed (on on-road where roads suck), etc.
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Back in the 80's after my grandfather passed away, they found old dynamite in the attic of his house.
Not sure how they got it out, but they didn't burn the house down.
Amazon is as profitable as they want to be. Anyone who's paid even the slightest attention knows that their growth has been funded pretty much from the beginning by pumping any excess money (AKA potential profit) back into the company. They could have pulled off enormous profits quite some time ago, if they wanted to.
It's just like "lactose intolerant", but with Twitter.
Well, yes. That's how businesses operate, and you get what you pay for. If you don't want to risk someone pulling the plug on you at a moments notice for whatever criteria they decide is important at the time, then you pay the money to get a legally binding service contract that specifically lays out the specific conditions under which that can or can't happen.
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What I really don't get is why they're so enamoured of the banners of the losing sides? I mean, the confederates and nazis did a lot of damage, but even the most charitable histories can't help but notice that in the end they got whupped.
I think there's a tipping point where the process is more like removing the phone from the battery than the battery from the phone...
It may also be a reference to the late leader of Apple, who killed himself by trying to cure cancer using quack remedies rather than actual medicine.
If you don't care about really high speeds, coax-to-ethernet bridges (designed for retrofitting surveillance cameras to IP devices) aren't expensive. If you don't have ethernet to those rooms then it's less hassle than running new wire and less prone to interference than powerline networking.
It's at steering wheel height, even slightly higher than a typical console sits, so it's probably not that bad. The center gauge layout isn't unique... the Nissan X-Trail (and probably some other models) used to have that layout and you do get used to it rather quickly.
The bigger concern I'd have is that screen is freaking busy with a lot of small details... Unless that's just a secondary mode and the real driving screen is more like a typical gauge layout I have a feeling the eye will linger on it a lot longer than is safe.
I know, I know... I tried to talk to him about it, but it's right next to the barn and he's so lazy he doesn't want to haul the hay bales any further than necessary.
Well, shit. That's going to be a kick in the pants come property tax time.
I can stand on my front porch and throw a rock into my neighbour's hay field. I won't, though, because it'd probably bother the horses.
And that is precisely why they're bankrupt.
I suspect that HTC is just rebranding a third-party keyboard app which has an ad-supported version on some app store (possibly even the Play store) and uses the same code base across versions. I don't think the stock Android keyboard is that horrible, but I'm sure HTC has their reasons for not using it. So the dev probably just left the flag on and never noticed the glitch.
Yeah, HTC definitely owns that fuckup.
No argument that there's problems with unions. Personally, I think that sort of bullshit does more harm to the employees that unions are supposed to protect than anyone else and it's something I'm strongly against.
On the other hand, if you seriously think you can depend on the competence and fairness of upper management of the government (including elected officials) to treat employees well enough that government services remain functional then I do hope you live in one of the states where you can legally sell whatever it is you're smoking.
The public interests are to have a smoothly working government. Unions help grease the gears.
Do you think that there's some magic pixie powder in the government buildings that makes the average bureaucrat a fundamentally better and fairer kind of manager and employer than private sectors?
Bureaucrats are people, and in any organization you always have a certain number of people who, if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Except in the government these fuckers can (and do) get laws passed to take that mile.
Not to say that public sector unions are perfect, either; like any other union they thrive on the appearance of actual and open conflict with the employer and tend to promote their own organization interests over the interests of the actual employees they supposedly represent.
I'd be willing to bet that they were the ones who told the networks (AKA their clients) about that little exploit.
Yeah, no GPU. You need to use a USB-to-TTL adapter to bring them up the first time or you have to put in the effort in setting up the SD card to boot it headless.
Once they're up and running, NEO's are decent little units. Armbian installs painlessly.
A major problem with the NEO's is that their documentation and tools for using the GPIO's is, apparently, shit. I've got some NEO's, but I haven't tried to do anything with the GPIO's so it hasn't been a problem for me.
I would never pay $25 for one, though. At $10 each it's an attractive buy. At $25 it's worth the extra $10 to get the real thing.
If you think that's perverted, you're going to be in for a shock when you see what the Japanese are going to do with sexbots. I anticipate that it starts with "Robotic Sex Unicorns", adds tentacles, and.. uh. Well.
Okay, I need to go take a shower.
In some places, it's less about fuel consumption and more about the fact that you can drive it through a doorway, park it in the bedroom, and perform all the necessary maintenance with basic hand tools. Not to mention filter through stopped traffic, drive on sidewalks, off-road where needed (on on-road where roads suck), etc.
It's not really breaking news when Kansas does it.
It's a wave of bullshit, obviously.
Good idea. Building a time machine sounds exactly like the sort of goal that would bring "eudaimonic" happiness.
Unless you're making your own pet food, that level of precision is massive overkill. Heck, it's overkill even if you are making your own pet food.