If I had mod points you'd get them. Almost all election law is so written that you can't mount a credible third party without the infrastructure of the big two. Only Ross Perot had a shot, he was painfully rich, and the big two deferred hardball a few times as not to look bad.
Try to run a new third party for any other seat, and you'd better have a squad of election lawyers, and even then it's iffy.
So What ? If I really need to see the movie I go to the theater. There, you have no choice but to put up with 15 minutes of excessively loud-fast action commercials which bombard and oversaturate your senses before a movie some folks worked very hard to make.
Watching at home on Blu Ray on the widescreen is a better call than that for most films. I'll wait.
Does it matter ? I don't have a corporate world, so when my XP machine died, I went shopping. I found only the pre SP1 Vista machines on the shelf. This site and others were screaming about it. Wanting more stability than I had (with three users none of whom were savvy) I went to OSX.
Three years later, I retire another XP machine. Living with OSX, I go straight back to the apple store and buy a mini. OSX has crashed, I think, once, in three years...and World of Warcraft patches were involved.
One the iPhone goes CDMA, my life will be complete.
I still have one XP machine, the travel netbook I use and am writing this on now. If Apple had a @$500 netbook.........
Great idea. Any BMW requires a GT-1 Service computer to read any and all of the fault codes. The car has a very comprehensive set of internal diagnostics, but you can't see them without the $40k computer, usually only available at the stealership.
My independent pays @ 15k per year for a service tool that reads these codes.
There is NO reason why the codes can't be read in english on the car's existing readouts.
This applies to every car out there not just Bavarian Wonder Machines.
I was faced with replacement of a seven year old Toshiba XP which gave good service.
Choices were either a MacBook or a netbook. With kids using them the computer had to be either indestructible or disposable.
I don't worry so much when my kids pound away IM'ing on the netbook. Converted DVD's from another machine play quite nicely so I don't miss the optical drive.
A netbook is a good second computer, or satellite computer. I'd not want to write my great american novel on it, but for reading the news, or this site, does good.
Yes, it did displace a $1K computer.
You clearly have never litigated (as I have) against the insurance companies that take "assigned risks" and insure the yellow cabs in NYC. Every game is played...partially because these are insurers of last resort, so unfortunately your positive view of business does not apply here.
Lego is clearly in charge of the business.
Here's how it works. A kid sees a lego kit. The branding (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc) sells the kit. The child assembles the X wing fighter, or the Pirate ship. The toy then flies/sails to the corner of the room with all the other legos.
The pirate ends up in the X wing. The cannons from the pirate ship end up on the x wing fighter but the nav console from the x wing becomes part of something else. The Ferrari mechanic is wearing a horned helmet and in the battlements of the castle.
By the time the child is done, the "branded toy" has morphed and blended with all the other legos. Our lego chess set is guarding a castle. Bits of X wing and Imperial Walkers are outbuildings.
From the children I've observed, the branded lego kit is a way to sell the blocks at the highest possible price. To the adult. The kids play with the blocks like kids.
Lego is still one of the few toys with real play value, not just a prepackaged fantasy with no where to go. Also, for those of you worried about the "gun" issue, kids can make guns out of anything....and do.
HDMI cables are a huge scam. You do not, however, have them laying around in your toolbox or parts draw, unlike the ubiquitous RCA cable.
I recently had to buy one to go with a BluRay player. As the gods of content protections decree that analog shall never see 1080p, I had to get a cable despite analog connections on all gadgets. The first one the nice person at BestBuy showed me was a $120.00 monster cable. I politely declined, and left with a $29.00 cable from WalMart. Yes, I still paid twice too much but didn't want to wait for mail order.
My Sat Box feeds one set 1080i with analog cables. No difference between the HDMI and the analog.
After analog sunset, we will see this price drop, but for now, the early adopter (who is fading fast here) after 1.5K for the set and $300-$500 for the Blu Ray player, $120 for the cable seems a mere add-on.
Yes, but the problem with sats is that everyone knows when they go by. A fast plane is not predictable. Mach five with stealth, even minimal stealth, will be in and out before the enemy can do anything.
At some point, some of the Black projects bear fruit.
We now need to admit that this can happen, now that we want to go big with it. Sorta like stealth, we had it for a while but at some point needed to go "white" with it.
If it is ready for prime time, cool. You didn't think the SR 71 wasn't replaced, did you ?
Funny, for those of us who are old, ham radio was the entry point into technology. Are you aware that there was a world before computers ? Indeed, my first real job had a realtime voice recognition system which could convert to text with few errors. You went to lunch and an hour later, when you returned (no calls during lunch..no cell phones) your letter was typed and ready for signature. We called it a secretary who could take shorthand.
In this era, technology was made up of discrete components, instead of "all in one chips". Some of us wondered what those components did. We learned that they all had a job and you could easily figure it out. Better yet, people often tossed items full of these components away. We called those "dead TV's" and they were full of FREE components, which re-jiggered, would allow you to talk to Europe with a wire in the backyard. Back when the per minute cost of an international phone call was more than the hourly wage, this was big stuff.
OK, today hams use four or five digital modes on HF, using little power and less bandwidth. Ham radios are smaller than a deck of cards. A 12 volt power source and small HF rig will fit in a small tool box, and can work the world on a 135 foot bit of wire.
As much as I love technology, I was there on 9-11 and the entire cell net in lower manhattan just crashed. Period. The internet is tissue paper-and the current web of communications is not very hard or resilient.
The old guy cranking 1500 watts in the basement with tubes is an old stereotype, and except for a few guys "keeping the AM flame alive" on 3885 mhz, gone.
The knowledge you obtain hamming does translate to computers-take it apart, try to make it work, modify it.
I wonder if the TFA author can discuss frequency hopping spread spectrum digital communicators....er, cell phones.
Here in Westchester, NY one of our local utilites tried a system in Briarcliff Manor, NY.
It totally wiped out any HF reception within 3 tenths of a mile. Your normal background static was replaced by a 30/+9 digital hash.
(For you non radio folks, and wi-fi does NOT count, that means the meter is pinned and you can't hear sh#&.) A broad rollout of BPL would mean that for the vast majority of radio amateurs, model railroading would be a better idea-sell you equipment to the illegal CB ops.
The systems cannot coexist. I'd be very afraid of BPL when the sunspot numbers are high, as you'd then get interference from BPL somewhere in the world-making all of HF useless. While HF is not where your magik cell phone or Blackberry live, and it is not currently in style, does not mean that it is the toxic waste dump of the RF spectrum.
Wi-Max, if the intere$ted partie$ involved could ever get their act together, would be a much better idea. BPL also wipes out CB, which is meaningless unless you are a trucker...or use anything trucks deliver.
So, I'm considering an MacBook. I already have lotsa horsepower on my desktop, so I don't need another "ferrari". After looking about, I end up with a $300 Aspire One. I would have gone for the 11 inch next to it, but it had Vista. Good thing too, this machine runs really well once I purged some Startups. The Vista machine on the Atom chip, not so much.
I can't get XP on the bigger machine (11 inch) due to MS rules. So, why is anyone surprised that laptop makers are trying to keep the "laptop" market higher end than the "netbook" markets.
It cannot cost more to make a bigger computer than the netbook. If so, it is not very much. This is all about maintaining margins and artificial product segmentation.
A typical Fox "news" person, happily swallowing the swill the elites pump out, can't afford to pay, as his life is limited and defined by the world those elites suggest.
The folks most protesting "obamacare" would most benefit.
Charge a lot !
Sorry to hear that. I just got the same unit for $299 and after updating XP and one trip through the startup folder to remove extra stuff, this unit is fast and seems solid. It replaced a huge Toshiba laptop that died a natural death. The tosh had 30 gb, 512 mb and a 800 mhz pentium.
Cost about 1200 new. This thing IS moore's law.
Return it and get another.
I'm a ham. We worked with an Airshow a few years back. We coordinated between NYSP (155 mhz), the local fire brigade (46 mhz), the County Sheriff (46? mhz). The ambulance crew was on still another frequency.
While this clearly was not an emergency, the person between them all was a ham, relaying messages between the agencies. All the ham equipment at the main table cost less than one walkie talkie from the mighty motorola.
Some cop cars will have channels from adjoining jurisdictions, but it is patchwork and if you are on VHF and your other agency is on UHF, there will have to be phone calls between dispatchers to co ordinate.
See, an agency has a budget. They then get sold by Motorola the best and latest, no matter what the actual needs of the agency are. This results in everyone having different stuff as they all buy at different times. Once an agency gets working radio, they almost never change it, as it can be a life or death thing. Bureaucratic Ossification takes over.
Here in NY, there was an attempt by Tyco to come up with an IP radio system. It was met with great distrust by the police and other agencies that were supposed to toss the patchwork radios and all use the MA/COM system. You can easier change a service pistol on cops than their radios.
It is far, far too simple and cheap to designate a few VHF or UHF channels, in FM and have everyone program them in...we have to buy new equipment and re invent wheels. You don't need encryption for the vast majority of "interops". So, let's come up with a new system, at great cost...it is what Motorola is selling today. Whether you need it or not.
So the content providers sue the cable company for remote caching of shows.
They really won this. Now, if the show is on a server somewhere, things like ad skip can't be disabled. There's no web page of hacks and work arounds for the "cable box". While the cable company was looking at this as two million remote boxes in homes versus a server farm, the content providers, stuck in 1965 where they played and you watched when they said to, freaked.
They will figure out they won this as soon as they charge 5 cents per delayed broadcast...all passed on to the viewer, of course.
Oh yes, that "dvr" fee is not going away, even if the DVR does.
For those who have not been to Montana, the BoZone is a bit of Seattle surrounded by Georgia, politically. Most folks who move out there full time do so out of love for the beauty of the area. I've a relative out there so have done some time there. Ski Bridger Bowl !
There are about two dozen overqualified people for each paying job. Your 7-11 clerk not only speaks english but has a PhD in English. It is probably the most competitive area for a job...and when you get one, you also get "Bozeman salary shock" where you make what in any city would qualify you for Food Stamps and Medicaid.
I'm not at all surprised that in such an "employer's market" that someone would be this intrusive-Still, I love Bozeman, and if I somehow ever got a job with a pension (my pension is dying at my desk), I'd move out there. Did I say Ski Bridger Bowl ? I'd say Ski Discovery but I don't want anyone else to find it. (anaconda, MT)
I'm sure you all know the defendant's next stop will be on the very long line outside the Bankruptcy Court, where the Trustee will do a double-take at the Petition, and then approve it, as no normal person could pay that back.
Once the Chapter 7 is behind the defendant, they can go on with their lives, with only a smoking crater where the credit rating used to be.....
As instructed, my children know....swap hard drives of music. Rip discs to your heart's content. Don't upload to the internet, ever, ever, ever.
Then they told me that they could swap songs via Chat. I went back to my Victrola and listened to some Perry Como.
I picked up an Onkyo AVR for $299, when it listed for $580 and "net retailed" for $450, so I did really well.
The problem is this...The Best Buy up the street now has zero competition for many items.
When Home Depot came into the area, there was good stuff for competitive prices. Once they wiped out the two other retailers, none of whom could match loss-leader competition, the prices went way up, and the quality dropped a lot.
I will miss the competition and the lower prices.
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If I had mod points you'd get them. Almost all election law is so written that you can't mount a credible third party without the infrastructure of the big two. Only Ross Perot had a shot, he was painfully rich, and the big two deferred hardball a few times as not to look bad. Try to run a new third party for any other seat, and you'd better have a squad of election lawyers, and even then it's iffy.
So What ? If I really need to see the movie I go to the theater. There, you have no choice but to put up with 15 minutes of excessively loud-fast action commercials which bombard and oversaturate your senses before a movie some folks worked very hard to make. Watching at home on Blu Ray on the widescreen is a better call than that for most films. I'll wait.
I always remember faces, but names are tough. Here I could finally know everyone's name (combined with some facial recognition software).
For those of us who like having some defense against revenuers, note that this glass will also block radar detectors.
wish i had mod points for you...thanks.
Does it matter ? I don't have a corporate world, so when my XP machine died, I went shopping. I found only the pre SP1 Vista machines on the shelf. This site and others were screaming about it. Wanting more stability than I had (with three users none of whom were savvy) I went to OSX.
Three years later, I retire another XP machine. Living with OSX, I go straight back to the apple store and buy a mini. OSX has crashed, I think, once, in three years...and World of Warcraft patches were involved.
One the iPhone goes CDMA, my life will be complete.
I still have one XP machine, the travel netbook I use and am writing this on now. If Apple had a @$500 netbook.........
Great idea. Any BMW requires a GT-1 Service computer to read any and all of the fault codes. The car has a very comprehensive set of internal diagnostics, but you can't see them without the $40k computer, usually only available at the stealership. My independent pays @ 15k per year for a service tool that reads these codes. There is NO reason why the codes can't be read in english on the car's existing readouts. This applies to every car out there not just Bavarian Wonder Machines.
I was faced with replacement of a seven year old Toshiba XP which gave good service. Choices were either a MacBook or a netbook. With kids using them the computer had to be either indestructible or disposable. I don't worry so much when my kids pound away IM'ing on the netbook. Converted DVD's from another machine play quite nicely so I don't miss the optical drive. A netbook is a good second computer, or satellite computer. I'd not want to write my great american novel on it, but for reading the news, or this site, does good. Yes, it did displace a $1K computer.
You clearly have never litigated (as I have) against the insurance companies that take "assigned risks" and insure the yellow cabs in NYC. Every game is played...partially because these are insurers of last resort, so unfortunately your positive view of business does not apply here.
Lego is clearly in charge of the business. Here's how it works. A kid sees a lego kit. The branding (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc) sells the kit. The child assembles the X wing fighter, or the Pirate ship. The toy then flies/sails to the corner of the room with all the other legos. The pirate ends up in the X wing. The cannons from the pirate ship end up on the x wing fighter but the nav console from the x wing becomes part of something else. The Ferrari mechanic is wearing a horned helmet and in the battlements of the castle. By the time the child is done, the "branded toy" has morphed and blended with all the other legos. Our lego chess set is guarding a castle. Bits of X wing and Imperial Walkers are outbuildings. From the children I've observed, the branded lego kit is a way to sell the blocks at the highest possible price. To the adult. The kids play with the blocks like kids. Lego is still one of the few toys with real play value, not just a prepackaged fantasy with no where to go. Also, for those of you worried about the "gun" issue, kids can make guns out of anything....and do.
HDMI cables are a huge scam. You do not, however, have them laying around in your toolbox or parts draw, unlike the ubiquitous RCA cable. I recently had to buy one to go with a BluRay player. As the gods of content protections decree that analog shall never see 1080p, I had to get a cable despite analog connections on all gadgets. The first one the nice person at BestBuy showed me was a $120.00 monster cable. I politely declined, and left with a $29.00 cable from WalMart. Yes, I still paid twice too much but didn't want to wait for mail order. My Sat Box feeds one set 1080i with analog cables. No difference between the HDMI and the analog. After analog sunset, we will see this price drop, but for now, the early adopter (who is fading fast here) after 1.5K for the set and $300-$500 for the Blu Ray player, $120 for the cable seems a mere add-on.
Yes, but the problem with sats is that everyone knows when they go by. A fast plane is not predictable. Mach five with stealth, even minimal stealth, will be in and out before the enemy can do anything.
At some point, some of the Black projects bear fruit. We now need to admit that this can happen, now that we want to go big with it. Sorta like stealth, we had it for a while but at some point needed to go "white" with it. If it is ready for prime time, cool. You didn't think the SR 71 wasn't replaced, did you ?
Funny, for those of us who are old, ham radio was the entry point into technology. Are you aware that there was a world before computers ? Indeed, my first real job had a realtime voice recognition system which could convert to text with few errors. You went to lunch and an hour later, when you returned (no calls during lunch..no cell phones) your letter was typed and ready for signature. We called it a secretary who could take shorthand. In this era, technology was made up of discrete components, instead of "all in one chips". Some of us wondered what those components did. We learned that they all had a job and you could easily figure it out. Better yet, people often tossed items full of these components away. We called those "dead TV's" and they were full of FREE components, which re-jiggered, would allow you to talk to Europe with a wire in the backyard. Back when the per minute cost of an international phone call was more than the hourly wage, this was big stuff. OK, today hams use four or five digital modes on HF, using little power and less bandwidth. Ham radios are smaller than a deck of cards. A 12 volt power source and small HF rig will fit in a small tool box, and can work the world on a 135 foot bit of wire. As much as I love technology, I was there on 9-11 and the entire cell net in lower manhattan just crashed. Period. The internet is tissue paper-and the current web of communications is not very hard or resilient. The old guy cranking 1500 watts in the basement with tubes is an old stereotype, and except for a few guys "keeping the AM flame alive" on 3885 mhz, gone. The knowledge you obtain hamming does translate to computers-take it apart, try to make it work, modify it. I wonder if the TFA author can discuss frequency hopping spread spectrum digital communicators....er, cell phones.
Here in Westchester, NY one of our local utilites tried a system in Briarcliff Manor, NY. It totally wiped out any HF reception within 3 tenths of a mile. Your normal background static was replaced by a 30/+9 digital hash. (For you non radio folks, and wi-fi does NOT count, that means the meter is pinned and you can't hear sh#&.) A broad rollout of BPL would mean that for the vast majority of radio amateurs, model railroading would be a better idea-sell you equipment to the illegal CB ops. The systems cannot coexist. I'd be very afraid of BPL when the sunspot numbers are high, as you'd then get interference from BPL somewhere in the world-making all of HF useless. While HF is not where your magik cell phone or Blackberry live, and it is not currently in style, does not mean that it is the toxic waste dump of the RF spectrum. Wi-Max, if the intere$ted partie$ involved could ever get their act together, would be a much better idea. BPL also wipes out CB, which is meaningless unless you are a trucker...or use anything trucks deliver.
So, I'm considering an MacBook. I already have lotsa horsepower on my desktop, so I don't need another "ferrari". After looking about, I end up with a $300 Aspire One. I would have gone for the 11 inch next to it, but it had Vista. Good thing too, this machine runs really well once I purged some Startups. The Vista machine on the Atom chip, not so much. I can't get XP on the bigger machine (11 inch) due to MS rules. So, why is anyone surprised that laptop makers are trying to keep the "laptop" market higher end than the "netbook" markets. It cannot cost more to make a bigger computer than the netbook. If so, it is not very much. This is all about maintaining margins and artificial product segmentation.
A typical Fox "news" person, happily swallowing the swill the elites pump out, can't afford to pay, as his life is limited and defined by the world those elites suggest. The folks most protesting "obamacare" would most benefit. Charge a lot !
Sorry to hear that. I just got the same unit for $299 and after updating XP and one trip through the startup folder to remove extra stuff, this unit is fast and seems solid. It replaced a huge Toshiba laptop that died a natural death. The tosh had 30 gb, 512 mb and a 800 mhz pentium. Cost about 1200 new. This thing IS moore's law. Return it and get another.
Into the Memory Hole. We'll call the Firemen to help you out...wait wrong book.
I'm a ham. We worked with an Airshow a few years back. We coordinated between NYSP (155 mhz), the local fire brigade (46 mhz), the County Sheriff (46? mhz). The ambulance crew was on still another frequency. While this clearly was not an emergency, the person between them all was a ham, relaying messages between the agencies. All the ham equipment at the main table cost less than one walkie talkie from the mighty motorola. Some cop cars will have channels from adjoining jurisdictions, but it is patchwork and if you are on VHF and your other agency is on UHF, there will have to be phone calls between dispatchers to co ordinate. See, an agency has a budget. They then get sold by Motorola the best and latest, no matter what the actual needs of the agency are. This results in everyone having different stuff as they all buy at different times. Once an agency gets working radio, they almost never change it, as it can be a life or death thing. Bureaucratic Ossification takes over. Here in NY, there was an attempt by Tyco to come up with an IP radio system. It was met with great distrust by the police and other agencies that were supposed to toss the patchwork radios and all use the MA/COM system. You can easier change a service pistol on cops than their radios. It is far, far too simple and cheap to designate a few VHF or UHF channels, in FM and have everyone program them in...we have to buy new equipment and re invent wheels. You don't need encryption for the vast majority of "interops". So, let's come up with a new system, at great cost...it is what Motorola is selling today. Whether you need it or not.
So the content providers sue the cable company for remote caching of shows. They really won this. Now, if the show is on a server somewhere, things like ad skip can't be disabled. There's no web page of hacks and work arounds for the "cable box". While the cable company was looking at this as two million remote boxes in homes versus a server farm, the content providers, stuck in 1965 where they played and you watched when they said to, freaked. They will figure out they won this as soon as they charge 5 cents per delayed broadcast...all passed on to the viewer, of course. Oh yes, that "dvr" fee is not going away, even if the DVR does.
For those who have not been to Montana, the BoZone is a bit of Seattle surrounded by Georgia, politically. Most folks who move out there full time do so out of love for the beauty of the area. I've a relative out there so have done some time there. Ski Bridger Bowl ! There are about two dozen overqualified people for each paying job. Your 7-11 clerk not only speaks english but has a PhD in English. It is probably the most competitive area for a job...and when you get one, you also get "Bozeman salary shock" where you make what in any city would qualify you for Food Stamps and Medicaid. I'm not at all surprised that in such an "employer's market" that someone would be this intrusive-Still, I love Bozeman, and if I somehow ever got a job with a pension (my pension is dying at my desk), I'd move out there. Did I say Ski Bridger Bowl ? I'd say Ski Discovery but I don't want anyone else to find it. (anaconda, MT)
I'm sure you all know the defendant's next stop will be on the very long line outside the Bankruptcy Court, where the Trustee will do a double-take at the Petition, and then approve it, as no normal person could pay that back. Once the Chapter 7 is behind the defendant, they can go on with their lives, with only a smoking crater where the credit rating used to be.....
As instructed, my children know....swap hard drives of music. Rip discs to your heart's content. Don't upload to the internet, ever, ever, ever. Then they told me that they could swap songs via Chat. I went back to my Victrola and listened to some Perry Como.
I picked up an Onkyo AVR for $299, when it listed for $580 and "net retailed" for $450, so I did really well. The problem is this...The Best Buy up the street now has zero competition for many items. When Home Depot came into the area, there was good stuff for competitive prices. Once they wiped out the two other retailers, none of whom could match loss-leader competition, the prices went way up, and the quality dropped a lot. I will miss the competition and the lower prices.