Because a trump-tard would eat shit if he knew a liberal would have to smell his breath....they are that stupid...whatever polling Dumpf got early on showed him he had a stooopid 30%...
I knew it was out of hand when I got a call from my own home phone. I was a state away, so I called my local PD to make sure no one had broken into my house !!!
I have a landline, but wonder why....the home phone is rung 4x per day, spam calls all. I can't totally dump it, the cell is spotty here, but now that I can use wifi for my cell phone, the landline's days are numbered.
The cell phone showed up when I got a real job...actually when I got my second real job.
You could go to lunch. People took messages and you could call them back with no hurt feelings and having digested lunch.
You could go on vacation. Calls on vacation were tough to get, especially at the beach or in another country.
You could go to sleep. No one would send you a message or call you after hours in 99% of situations.
I still get crap from family and friends if I leave my phone in another room or the car.
Yes, there are benefits, but the absolute loss of alone time or solitude isn't worth it.
Also like most advances, the only benefit was had before the entire US moron population got on the web and then the trash got Samsung smartphones.....
How about allowing me to turn on and off location services on the top swipe menu, not 13 swipes down, and LET US PICK OUR PREFERRED WIFI NETWORKS, DAMMIT
Yes, they used to be gatekeepers, and that was the power. You owned the radio...you owned the record plants. You kept everyone on a leash, and it worked really well (Remember $18 CD's?) until it didn't. In school, our student organization wanted to hire a band. We had the money. The band manager turned us down, because in Boston in the 80's, once you hit on radio, you were forbidden to play schools, because the only venue "they" wanted you to play was the ones they owned. Play a school festival, and you'll never be booke in the XXX Arena. So, no, they didn't make the music, but controlled the whole flow chart.
Having recently rented a few late model cars, in every one of them, the "Aux in" with the classic 3.5 mm plug sounded better than the bluetooth. Apple Phone.
And if you have a business, the Govt REQUIRES you to use the net to pay your monthly/quarterly taxes...yes, you HAVE to "visit us on the web".
It's a utility now. If Uncle Sam won't take my money by check, or at my local Bank, only by web, it's friggin utility.
First they scrambled a signal I paid for, and forced me to rent descramblers for each set for $8 per month. Then, they decided that I'd pay $6 per month for Disney-Espn, even though I watch no sports.
ESPN was that straw breaking the camel's back. A repurposed Mac Mini, an antenna, and a lifetime TiVo cover pretty much all bases. I don't miss cable at all. Sometimes, in a hotel, I'll see it, watch for ten minutes, notice I can't FF the commercials, and shut it off... My kids don't even know WHY you'd subscribe to cable....they just need a wifi connection. Guess that's why all the TV commercials are for horrible end-of-life drugs and retirement homes. Since a standard CATV bill in my area is about $220, I've paid for all my toys....about ten times so far.....
Making this the alleged Crown Jewel of CBS online was stupid. I watched a stream from someplace else.
Not putting it out over OTA or via Netlfix, which I already pay for is stupid.
I'll probably find a stream again, but it's not worth an individual subscription.
Each company makes a thing (external HDD, Phone, whatever) then finds a power source, transformer. Cheapest wins. I have two power strips behind the desk, with the various gadgets plugged in four different ways.
Back in the primitive dial up days, I'd look at my local ISP's "web pages". Now, the concept of a page was pretty leading edge, and only one place I knew of had a T1 line, so the web would actually load like we assume today-DSL was still a bit off (ok, I'm old) There was a young woman who posted everything about her life. Nursing Student...graduates...music she likes as MP3....photos of her flying lessons. I had no idea why she would do this-she seemed totally normal, kind of cute, and clearly was smart enough to do HTML before it was easy. I was fascinated as to why, on the anonymous web, she was posting all this stuff. It only stopped after her BF became her fiance....she even posted a ring photo. Again, sounds a lot like FB, but it was in the dial up days. No idea who she is/was, but she was totally ahead of the curve. I only followed it because on the random list of web pages the ISP had, A loaded first, and most web pages were primitive business pages. Today, people do real business on the web, the IRS requires you to pay "on line", and the ultimate way Corporate America tells you your transaction is basically valueless to them is "visit us on the web". I thought she was out of her mind, nuts. Turns out she was about 15 years early.
Please note that a significant majority did not vote for #45. We are as horrified as you are. Imagine you are seven years old, in the back seat of the family car. Dad is seriously drunk, talking about how great a driver he is, and it's beginning to snow and the road is freezing. Mom asking him to slow down is met with downshifts and wilder driving. Some hillbillies in a clapped out pickup truck next to him are racing with him and encouraging him. We are sorry, we hope to correct this error shortly.
Already there in the US. In the NYC area, cross a bridge ? EZ pass and photos. Use most highways ? EZ pass readers "for statistical tracking". Lose your 95 yo Grandparent and they have a car ? "Elderly male missing, White Nissan Sentra, LPR hit on plate at XX location two hours ago".
In my area, you get a random number dialer (two of my phones are close, and A will always ring before B a few minutes later), so blocking in advance won't work. It is a business line, so you CANNOT whitelist. The CID ranges from an Apple Store local number to MS service center....pick up results in a quick handoff complete with "non US" phone noise. You then end up in the call center, which usually has a non english primary accent, or often "brit english". I will act old, and somewhat demented. (just like reality) and get things wrong. The key is act sufficently that it takes them a while to realize they are being baited. Toss in some racist or anti-religious nonsense while you're at it...
I still have a fax machine. If they have a callback # I will just leave the machine on autodial. The machine will bang back at them for hours at a time, and many of the millenials don't know what a fax recogniton beeeep is. IF I SAVED ONE OLD PERSON, IT'S ALL WORTH IT.
I can take the expensive food, I don't care if other folks text. What keeps me OUT of a movie is the actual experience. Before the feature, you get a reel of ads. you get another reel of promos. then, you get a few more ads. Lastly, before the actual move, another long roll of previews....so
If I want to get a good seat, I have to show up early, and sit through a half hour of loud promos, or show up around the time of the movie, and end up stuck in the back. The bang ! Loud ! Flash ! is like trying to eat a gourmet meal after being forced to suck a lemon, eat sugar, and follow up with bitters, then have the appetizer.
the mandatory 30 minutes of loud adverts after I've paid for the experience means I really have to want to see the film......
The current cable box has to get permission from a head end every time it powers back on. It also gets your list of channels. The cable co's could al la carte the current system today.
For years, Detroit taught us small cars are cheap cars, and all small cars were cheap and not cheerful. Eventually the euros/japanese sent up small and NOT cheap cars, so that went away. Still, Detroit was able to charge 10K extra for a larger sedan for a long time. When the CUV/SUV became a thing, suddenly you could get your car super sized, be it a Q5 or Q7, or a Nissan Rogue or a Honda HR-V. At any price point, you can now get a "bigger" car. Most people will go for the larger car, at least in the US.
I work with my local town. We have had cell phone issues, in that we are hilly, so there are dead spots.
A Tower was proposed in a location that would be optimal. Every single resident for a mile showed up to protest the State Sanctioned Crack Den, er, new cell phone tower. No one admitted it was about property values, no, they all complained it was about safety, and claimed that it would cause disease. I pointed out that every single one of them had a router in their home, transmitting 24/7, and the RF from the router was going to be much higher than a cell tower a half mile away. Eventually, the cell was put in a place where there are already a few antennas. Public outcry ? crickets....
better yet, when "the IRS" or "microsoft tech support" are calling, put them on redial on the fax machine. All day.....great background entertainment listening to the six or so folks running the scam curse and bluster at your fax boop....booop....boop. Keeping at least one of their CSR's line tied up at all times is the lord's work.
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Because a trump-tard would eat shit if he knew a liberal would have to smell his breath....they are that stupid...whatever polling Dumpf got early on showed him he had a stooopid 30%...
I knew it was out of hand when I got a call from my own home phone. I was a state away, so I called my local PD to make sure no one had broken into my house !!! I have a landline, but wonder why....the home phone is rung 4x per day, spam calls all. I can't totally dump it, the cell is spotty here, but now that I can use wifi for my cell phone, the landline's days are numbered.
The cell phone showed up when I got a real job...actually when I got my second real job. You could go to lunch. People took messages and you could call them back with no hurt feelings and having digested lunch. You could go on vacation. Calls on vacation were tough to get, especially at the beach or in another country. You could go to sleep. No one would send you a message or call you after hours in 99% of situations. I still get crap from family and friends if I leave my phone in another room or the car. Yes, there are benefits, but the absolute loss of alone time or solitude isn't worth it. Also like most advances, the only benefit was had before the entire US moron population got on the web and then the trash got Samsung smartphones.....
How about allowing me to turn on and off location services on the top swipe menu, not 13 swipes down, and LET US PICK OUR PREFERRED WIFI NETWORKS, DAMMIT
Yes, they used to be gatekeepers, and that was the power. You owned the radio...you owned the record plants. You kept everyone on a leash, and it worked really well (Remember $18 CD's?) until it didn't. In school, our student organization wanted to hire a band. We had the money. The band manager turned us down, because in Boston in the 80's, once you hit on radio, you were forbidden to play schools, because the only venue "they" wanted you to play was the ones they owned. Play a school festival, and you'll never be booke in the XXX Arena. So, no, they didn't make the music, but controlled the whole flow chart.
Doesn't every chip have one. Kudos to the researcher, but he found last year's NSA hack.
Having recently rented a few late model cars, in every one of them, the "Aux in" with the classic 3.5 mm plug sounded better than the bluetooth. Apple Phone.
And if you have a business, the Govt REQUIRES you to use the net to pay your monthly/quarterly taxes...yes, you HAVE to "visit us on the web". It's a utility now. If Uncle Sam won't take my money by check, or at my local Bank, only by web, it's friggin utility.
First they scrambled a signal I paid for, and forced me to rent descramblers for each set for $8 per month. Then, they decided that I'd pay $6 per month for Disney-Espn, even though I watch no sports. ESPN was that straw breaking the camel's back. A repurposed Mac Mini, an antenna, and a lifetime TiVo cover pretty much all bases. I don't miss cable at all. Sometimes, in a hotel, I'll see it, watch for ten minutes, notice I can't FF the commercials, and shut it off... My kids don't even know WHY you'd subscribe to cable....they just need a wifi connection. Guess that's why all the TV commercials are for horrible end-of-life drugs and retirement homes. Since a standard CATV bill in my area is about $220, I've paid for all my toys....about ten times so far.....
Making this the alleged Crown Jewel of CBS online was stupid. I watched a stream from someplace else. Not putting it out over OTA or via Netlfix, which I already pay for is stupid. I'll probably find a stream again, but it's not worth an individual subscription.
and Vlad Smiles...or more likely gets an erection, and cues up the "pee tape" yet again... All Going according to plan...
Each company makes a thing (external HDD, Phone, whatever) then finds a power source, transformer. Cheapest wins. I have two power strips behind the desk, with the various gadgets plugged in four different ways.
Back in the primitive dial up days, I'd look at my local ISP's "web pages". Now, the concept of a page was pretty leading edge, and only one place I knew of had a T1 line, so the web would actually load like we assume today-DSL was still a bit off (ok, I'm old) There was a young woman who posted everything about her life. Nursing Student...graduates...music she likes as MP3....photos of her flying lessons. I had no idea why she would do this-she seemed totally normal, kind of cute, and clearly was smart enough to do HTML before it was easy. I was fascinated as to why, on the anonymous web, she was posting all this stuff. It only stopped after her BF became her fiance....she even posted a ring photo. Again, sounds a lot like FB, but it was in the dial up days. No idea who she is/was, but she was totally ahead of the curve. I only followed it because on the random list of web pages the ISP had, A loaded first, and most web pages were primitive business pages. Today, people do real business on the web, the IRS requires you to pay "on line", and the ultimate way Corporate America tells you your transaction is basically valueless to them is "visit us on the web". I thought she was out of her mind, nuts. Turns out she was about 15 years early.
Please note that a significant majority did not vote for #45. We are as horrified as you are. Imagine you are seven years old, in the back seat of the family car. Dad is seriously drunk, talking about how great a driver he is, and it's beginning to snow and the road is freezing. Mom asking him to slow down is met with downshifts and wilder driving. Some hillbillies in a clapped out pickup truck next to him are racing with him and encouraging him. We are sorry, we hope to correct this error shortly.
Already there in the US. In the NYC area, cross a bridge ? EZ pass and photos. Use most highways ? EZ pass readers "for statistical tracking". Lose your 95 yo Grandparent and they have a car ? "Elderly male missing, White Nissan Sentra, LPR hit on plate at XX location two hours ago".
In my area, you get a random number dialer (two of my phones are close, and A will always ring before B a few minutes later), so blocking in advance won't work. It is a business line, so you CANNOT whitelist. The CID ranges from an Apple Store local number to MS service center....pick up results in a quick handoff complete with "non US" phone noise. You then end up in the call center, which usually has a non english primary accent, or often "brit english". I will act old, and somewhat demented. (just like reality) and get things wrong. The key is act sufficently that it takes them a while to realize they are being baited. Toss in some racist or anti-religious nonsense while you're at it... I still have a fax machine. If they have a callback # I will just leave the machine on autodial. The machine will bang back at them for hours at a time, and many of the millenials don't know what a fax recogniton beeeep is. IF I SAVED ONE OLD PERSON, IT'S ALL WORTH IT.
Head of NSA. The guy cleared to see EVERYTHING.
I can take the expensive food, I don't care if other folks text. What keeps me OUT of a movie is the actual experience. Before the feature, you get a reel of ads. you get another reel of promos. then, you get a few more ads. Lastly, before the actual move, another long roll of previews....so If I want to get a good seat, I have to show up early, and sit through a half hour of loud promos, or show up around the time of the movie, and end up stuck in the back. The bang ! Loud ! Flash ! is like trying to eat a gourmet meal after being forced to suck a lemon, eat sugar, and follow up with bitters, then have the appetizer. the mandatory 30 minutes of loud adverts after I've paid for the experience means I really have to want to see the film......
The current cable box has to get permission from a head end every time it powers back on. It also gets your list of channels. The cable co's could al la carte the current system today.
For years, Detroit taught us small cars are cheap cars, and all small cars were cheap and not cheerful. Eventually the euros/japanese sent up small and NOT cheap cars, so that went away. Still, Detroit was able to charge 10K extra for a larger sedan for a long time. When the CUV/SUV became a thing, suddenly you could get your car super sized, be it a Q5 or Q7, or a Nissan Rogue or a Honda HR-V. At any price point, you can now get a "bigger" car. Most people will go for the larger car, at least in the US.
subspace relay, and Transwarp conduit
half speed masters ?
I work with my local town. We have had cell phone issues, in that we are hilly, so there are dead spots. A Tower was proposed in a location that would be optimal. Every single resident for a mile showed up to protest the State Sanctioned Crack Den, er, new cell phone tower. No one admitted it was about property values, no, they all complained it was about safety, and claimed that it would cause disease. I pointed out that every single one of them had a router in their home, transmitting 24/7, and the RF from the router was going to be much higher than a cell tower a half mile away. Eventually, the cell was put in a place where there are already a few antennas. Public outcry ? crickets....
better yet, when "the IRS" or "microsoft tech support" are calling, put them on redial on the fax machine. All day.....great background entertainment listening to the six or so folks running the scam curse and bluster at your fax boop....booop....boop. Keeping at least one of their CSR's line tied up at all times is the lord's work.
Cap'n, is that you. ?