The price will come down quickly. A significant percentage of the population, after the price drop, will still feed it SD and rave about how wonderful it looks.
Experience: Like TFA poster, with the exception of my two Apple Routers. While I balked at paying double price for my first one, I gladly paid for the second. The first lasted five years and is puttering away at the inlaws, and the new one (dual band) keeps ten devices running without a blip.
The four cheap routers before those all "went". The only real difference I can see is the Apple is a massive heat sink and the others had none or very little.
I went to private school because we lived in a not-great city area. I then went for one year to that city school, as we were moving to the suburbs. I then went from inner city to nice suburban school.
Private-smart kids, very motivated parents, they taught to the smart kids and made everyone else keep up.
inner city-definitely not as smart, parents not very present, working two full years behind private..taught those who could learn, others warehoused.
Nice suburban-moderately smart kids, very involved parents, taught mostly to the middle of the class.
When the time came for me to provide this, I got my kids to a "good school district" in the burbs. Kids mostly smart and ready to learn. Parents extremely motivated. PTA raises money for "extras".
In the US, it is safe to say that public schools reproduce the parents of the children. Inner City nonsense...that is what will come out. Professionals in Suburbia....that's what you will get from the kids too.
A fair opportunity for all kids ? No, not as long as property taxes finance our schools-you will never consolidate school districts in the US.
Which network is best depends on where you are. I live in the Hudson Valley north of NY and in this sorta rural area, it's verizon or nothing. Literally.
If you will be in a city, and have a consistent commute, you could save money with one of the other carriers.
Based on Caller ID, I get more crappy/unreadable signals to my office from T-Mobile callers than anyone else.
Oh, and be sure you like the smartphone handset. You'll be stuck with it for two years.
Really guys-RIM is not supporting the current users.
OSX with Desktop Manager. Updated to 2.4. Suddenly, the machine hangs, won't synch, needs forced restarts. The Desktop MisManager is the only bit of software that has ever hung my Mac, running 10.6.
Oh, and the Bluetooth in the Bold 9930 kept dropping out in the car. Are we pissed yet ?
Go to Verizon. They replace the Bold, even though I am out of warranty. New Bold still won't synch calendar or contacts. Useless.
Search forums. All have this issue. RIM knows. "No Projected Resolution"
Are you kidding me ? Business user can't synch, forget music or media.....and you aren't on it...? Forums full of this...OSX can't synch, and prior versions of OSX software are not on the RIM website.
I finally found 2.1 from August 2011. A downgrade, along with unchecking every upgrade notifier, fixed the problem.
Every person I asked, said the same thing, and had the same suggestion...."Get an iPhone".
I prefer the keyboard on the BB, but my Palm under XP had no problems synching, so I don't expect you to, either.
Will I care about system 10 when it comes out ? Maybe I'll read about it on my iPhone-and I don't really want one.
A wholly owned subsidiary. Did you miss the Comcast/Verizon split of the market ?
he issue is that technology has finally merged data and "voice". This is the same problem your cable company has when you drop their offerings and subscribe to Netflix or Hulu. Much like the various **AA morons, you may expect the communications providers to fight a rear guard action to support the business model of 1980.
Oh yes. If you wear a suit and look respectable, black cars will stop for you all the time. Negotiate fare before entering.
Also, all the "medallion" cabs, with million dollar medallions, you'll never see the million if you sue them. There is always a mortgage on the medallion, and only the taxi's minimum insurance policy will be available. Taxi companies also have their own insurers, who "don't pay". Period.
Because, at the end of the day, they will have spent 100x the amount of money it would cost to screen previously, and the only thing they have to show for it are a few "tucked to the body" small pot busts.
"mesothelioma" is the most expensive word to buy from a search engine.
I'm sure I'll be modded down but I miss the old internet, the one where you had to have some knowledge and some money to be there.
Things have gotten really bad. Back in the day, I worked in a stereo store. We had products that could be demoed, Salesfolk who knew something about those products, and within the rules of salesmanship, could oft match a customer with the right gadget.
Fast forward to today. Retail electronics sales is dead. When Circuit City died/fired the old timers, that was the last gasp of mass market audio sales. I now go to BB, and they have mass market crap in audio, while the Magnolia side has Meh audio for big audio prices. You either have to go to a top end audio retailer, of which there are few, or buy blind off the net. I bought a HSU subwoofer, which is lovely, but it was the first item I'd bought "UN-auditoned".
BB is the last one standing. The rest of us have to read internet forums and buy based on that.....it's crowdsourcing, but for audio, everyone's ears are different.
There's nowhere to go to audition mid to low high end audio anymore.
Ditto on the Bold 9930. Good camera, great email, decent phone. Touch screen dislikes being in the sun. I already have ipad/ipod, but the buttons make a difference....I'm not good with touch screen typing. Music player means no ipod required, and you can download music for friends too ! For work, still better than the I-gadgets......
Every article I see about spectrum is vague....like "Pepsi is thinking of buying land in New Jersey". We never hear which bands of frequencies the company in question covets, who has it, or what, specifically they intend to do with it.
How hard is it to put in the specific channels/frequencies in articles...this drives me nuts...OK, I am a ham, and have some idea what/where the frequencies are, but article after article omits what is being sought and or fought over.
I've an older home, where there is horsehair plaster on metal lath. That metal lath is the best wifi blocker I've ever seen......
I'd think the world's intelligence agencies have sensitive rooms covered with something like this anyway.
The US tax system is truly progressive. If you live on a coast (high tax area), make low to mid six figures, expect to lost 40% of that to income tax, if you can't shelter anything or run it through a corporate entity. If you have a really good year, expect to hit AMT, a tax device designed to hit the Romneys in 1970 but left unindexed so it now hits the upper income professionals.
Once you break through (think warp threshold) from merely well off to truly rich, THEN you get the 15% tax rates of the plutocrat. It is almost as if they don't want you to break that barrier, from the top 10% to the top.5%.
Until then, between income tax, obscene property/school taxes, etc, about half of your income will be tossed right out of the airlock into the vacuum. Oh, and if you choose to live somewhere (on the coasts) with cheap property taxes, you will have to do private school for the children, as we've de funded the concept of good education for all, and must choose housing based on school ratings.
So, when a mega corp, of any stripe, legally evades taxes, those of us with less ability to work in the Cayman Islands and offshore our household expenses to Ireland will be unhappy-or envious.
DRM. The various chips and virtual machines are having a conference to determine if you are worthy to watch the movie before scrambling it again on the way to your screen. DVD got cracked and is now trivial with modern computers. They realized that any standard would have to be flexible, so yes, you are waiting while your player is running totally unnecessary code. This is courtesy the same folks who removed your "record in' inputs.
I have a VERY fast internet connection with a VERY fast wifi node. I get Netflix best HD stream but Blu Rays still look better. Netflix also sends down a stereo audio feed, not 5.1 or Master
Mass market won't care, they are still watching fat people (stretch) on the HD set, but if you do care, Netlfix is a movie, but the Blu Ray can be an experience. Depends on the movie if that matters.
I'm a Murican. Gas is now about $4.00 in my area, the northeast. This summer I went to Germany, where gas is $10.00 per gallon, both due to cost and the useless dollar.
We rented a BMW 320d, which got a verified 49 mpg on diesel, and still ran hard at autobahn speed that would get me jail time in the US.
Most cars in Germany are diesel, 2.0 liter with a manual transmission. We even saw the Chrysler minivans outside a school picking up kids, just like here at home. They all had a diesel.
I'd love to buy a modern turbodiesel instead of a Hybrid. There aren't any for sale, save VW/Audi, backordered to 2014, or very expensive MB/BMW. You can get 50 mpg...it can be done...they don't sell those cars here.
Wasn't RFID the subject of the Mythbusters episode that was "squelched" by Visa ? Adam made a few comments and the issue was clamped down upon by all. The credit card companies (huge advertisers-when you get 29% interest you have lots of money) made it clear that RFID weaknesses were not a subject to be discussed in public to a lay audience.
Not free to buy, but fee free to use. Now, you can build a htpc, but you cannot find a fee free DVR which records ota and cablecard. Sony made one briefly, the hdd 250 and 500, but you CANNOT buy your own box.
TiVo, which is the closest thing, is useless even for ota if you don't buy the service. Every other DVR is held on a string by big content through the catv company or sat broadcaster. You cannot walk into any big box store and buy the son of the VCR off the shelf.
Any smart tv will be so DRM ed as to be useless.
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Imagine the old Mercedes-Benz. Then it turns into the "new Chrysler". That is how I feel.
yeah, i got stuck behind you today... I prefer three pedals, thank you. Drivers like this. Appliance users dont.
The price will come down quickly. A significant percentage of the population, after the price drop, will still feed it SD and rave about how wonderful it looks.
Experience: Like TFA poster, with the exception of my two Apple Routers. While I balked at paying double price for my first one, I gladly paid for the second. The first lasted five years and is puttering away at the inlaws, and the new one (dual band) keeps ten devices running without a blip. The four cheap routers before those all "went". The only real difference I can see is the Apple is a massive heat sink and the others had none or very little.
I went to private school because we lived in a not-great city area. I then went for one year to that city school, as we were moving to the suburbs. I then went from inner city to nice suburban school. Private-smart kids, very motivated parents, they taught to the smart kids and made everyone else keep up. inner city-definitely not as smart, parents not very present, working two full years behind private..taught those who could learn, others warehoused. Nice suburban-moderately smart kids, very involved parents, taught mostly to the middle of the class. When the time came for me to provide this, I got my kids to a "good school district" in the burbs. Kids mostly smart and ready to learn. Parents extremely motivated. PTA raises money for "extras". In the US, it is safe to say that public schools reproduce the parents of the children. Inner City nonsense...that is what will come out. Professionals in Suburbia....that's what you will get from the kids too. A fair opportunity for all kids ? No, not as long as property taxes finance our schools-you will never consolidate school districts in the US.
Which network is best depends on where you are. I live in the Hudson Valley north of NY and in this sorta rural area, it's verizon or nothing. Literally. If you will be in a city, and have a consistent commute, you could save money with one of the other carriers. Based on Caller ID, I get more crappy/unreadable signals to my office from T-Mobile callers than anyone else. Oh, and be sure you like the smartphone handset. You'll be stuck with it for two years.
At least it wasn't Pedobear at the Olympics.
Really guys-RIM is not supporting the current users. OSX with Desktop Manager. Updated to 2.4. Suddenly, the machine hangs, won't synch, needs forced restarts. The Desktop MisManager is the only bit of software that has ever hung my Mac, running 10.6. Oh, and the Bluetooth in the Bold 9930 kept dropping out in the car. Are we pissed yet ? Go to Verizon. They replace the Bold, even though I am out of warranty. New Bold still won't synch calendar or contacts. Useless. Search forums. All have this issue. RIM knows. "No Projected Resolution" Are you kidding me ? Business user can't synch, forget music or media.....and you aren't on it...? Forums full of this...OSX can't synch, and prior versions of OSX software are not on the RIM website. I finally found 2.1 from August 2011. A downgrade, along with unchecking every upgrade notifier, fixed the problem. Every person I asked, said the same thing, and had the same suggestion...."Get an iPhone". I prefer the keyboard on the BB, but my Palm under XP had no problems synching, so I don't expect you to, either. Will I care about system 10 when it comes out ? Maybe I'll read about it on my iPhone-and I don't really want one.
A wholly owned subsidiary. Did you miss the Comcast/Verizon split of the market ? he issue is that technology has finally merged data and "voice". This is the same problem your cable company has when you drop their offerings and subscribe to Netflix or Hulu. Much like the various **AA morons, you may expect the communications providers to fight a rear guard action to support the business model of 1980.
Oh yes. If you wear a suit and look respectable, black cars will stop for you all the time. Negotiate fare before entering. Also, all the "medallion" cabs, with million dollar medallions, you'll never see the million if you sue them. There is always a mortgage on the medallion, and only the taxi's minimum insurance policy will be available. Taxi companies also have their own insurers, who "don't pay". Period.
Wait, let me get my phone out, and post this to facebook !
Because, at the end of the day, they will have spent 100x the amount of money it would cost to screen previously, and the only thing they have to show for it are a few "tucked to the body" small pot busts.
"mesothelioma" is the most expensive word to buy from a search engine. I'm sure I'll be modded down but I miss the old internet, the one where you had to have some knowledge and some money to be there.
Things have gotten really bad. Back in the day, I worked in a stereo store. We had products that could be demoed, Salesfolk who knew something about those products, and within the rules of salesmanship, could oft match a customer with the right gadget. Fast forward to today. Retail electronics sales is dead. When Circuit City died/fired the old timers, that was the last gasp of mass market audio sales. I now go to BB, and they have mass market crap in audio, while the Magnolia side has Meh audio for big audio prices. You either have to go to a top end audio retailer, of which there are few, or buy blind off the net. I bought a HSU subwoofer, which is lovely, but it was the first item I'd bought "UN-auditoned". BB is the last one standing. The rest of us have to read internet forums and buy based on that.....it's crowdsourcing, but for audio, everyone's ears are different. There's nowhere to go to audition mid to low high end audio anymore.
Ditto on the Bold 9930. Good camera, great email, decent phone. Touch screen dislikes being in the sun. I already have ipad/ipod, but the buttons make a difference....I'm not good with touch screen typing. Music player means no ipod required, and you can download music for friends too ! For work, still better than the I-gadgets......
Yup. *AA scammed by the Russians. This one time I'm pulling for Ivan.
Every article I see about spectrum is vague....like "Pepsi is thinking of buying land in New Jersey". We never hear which bands of frequencies the company in question covets, who has it, or what, specifically they intend to do with it. How hard is it to put in the specific channels/frequencies in articles...this drives me nuts...OK, I am a ham, and have some idea what/where the frequencies are, but article after article omits what is being sought and or fought over.
I've an older home, where there is horsehair plaster on metal lath. That metal lath is the best wifi blocker I've ever seen...... I'd think the world's intelligence agencies have sensitive rooms covered with something like this anyway.
The US tax system is truly progressive. If you live on a coast (high tax area), make low to mid six figures, expect to lost 40% of that to income tax, if you can't shelter anything or run it through a corporate entity. If you have a really good year, expect to hit AMT, a tax device designed to hit the Romneys in 1970 but left unindexed so it now hits the upper income professionals. Once you break through (think warp threshold) from merely well off to truly rich, THEN you get the 15% tax rates of the plutocrat. It is almost as if they don't want you to break that barrier, from the top 10% to the top .5%.
Until then, between income tax, obscene property/school taxes, etc, about half of your income will be tossed right out of the airlock into the vacuum. Oh, and if you choose to live somewhere (on the coasts) with cheap property taxes, you will have to do private school for the children, as we've de funded the concept of good education for all, and must choose housing based on school ratings.
So, when a mega corp, of any stripe, legally evades taxes, those of us with less ability to work in the Cayman Islands and offshore our household expenses to Ireland will be unhappy-or envious.
DRM. The various chips and virtual machines are having a conference to determine if you are worthy to watch the movie before scrambling it again on the way to your screen. DVD got cracked and is now trivial with modern computers. They realized that any standard would have to be flexible, so yes, you are waiting while your player is running totally unnecessary code. This is courtesy the same folks who removed your "record in' inputs.
Same in the US. Don't feel put upon. Good for old TV series, though. You still need a disc for anything you may actually want to watch, movie-wise.
I have a VERY fast internet connection with a VERY fast wifi node. I get Netflix best HD stream but Blu Rays still look better. Netflix also sends down a stereo audio feed, not 5.1 or Master Mass market won't care, they are still watching fat people (stretch) on the HD set, but if you do care, Netlfix is a movie, but the Blu Ray can be an experience. Depends on the movie if that matters.
I'm a Murican. Gas is now about $4.00 in my area, the northeast. This summer I went to Germany, where gas is $10.00 per gallon, both due to cost and the useless dollar. We rented a BMW 320d, which got a verified 49 mpg on diesel, and still ran hard at autobahn speed that would get me jail time in the US. Most cars in Germany are diesel, 2.0 liter with a manual transmission. We even saw the Chrysler minivans outside a school picking up kids, just like here at home. They all had a diesel. I'd love to buy a modern turbodiesel instead of a Hybrid. There aren't any for sale, save VW/Audi, backordered to 2014, or very expensive MB/BMW. You can get 50 mpg...it can be done...they don't sell those cars here.
Wasn't RFID the subject of the Mythbusters episode that was "squelched" by Visa ? Adam made a few comments and the issue was clamped down upon by all. The credit card companies (huge advertisers-when you get 29% interest you have lots of money) made it clear that RFID weaknesses were not a subject to be discussed in public to a lay audience.
Not free to buy, but fee free to use. Now, you can build a htpc, but you cannot find a fee free DVR which records ota and cablecard. Sony made one briefly, the hdd 250 and 500, but you CANNOT buy your own box. TiVo, which is the closest thing, is useless even for ota if you don't buy the service. Every other DVR is held on a string by big content through the catv company or sat broadcaster. You cannot walk into any big box store and buy the son of the VCR off the shelf. Any smart tv will be so DRM ed as to be useless.