Anytime I use eBay, I avoid accounts with few reviews and filter by "USA Only." I assume other parts of the world can filter by their own countries as well. I don't necessarily care where an item comes from, but shipping times can vary wildly and I've learned that dealing with customer service in another country can make it more difficult to resolve issues.
I haven't bought a new phone since my first Samsung G5. I tried a G7 Edge, but was always activating apps accidentally, so I switched to a G7, but bought both refurbished, I just bought my daughter a used iPhone 7. My wife, however, bought a new Note 5 and my son bought a new G9. It's interesting because my wife mostly emails and facebooks, and my son almost exclusively watched video. He's preferred the phone to the big screen TV going back to his S6.
I got an HTC Thunderbolt (the first and only 4G phone in my area on Verizon) on the last day to be grandfathered into unlimited data. Of course years later unlimited data is the norm. But will it be unlimited on 5G?
So... Chromium will be the new IE6? It was a pain to move on from that. I would rather never wind up in that situation again. But history repeats itself, and the winners pick the path, and blah blah blah.
We STILL have to use MS-IE to access MS-Excel from MS-Sharepoint as even MS-Edge won't work. You would think (or maybe you wouldn't) all MS products would play nice together.
Agreed. Most services I've canceled have told me to enjoy the rest of my pay cycle, It will expire on mm/dd and I will not be billed further. Now if I have a contract and cancel, I may need to pay a cancellation fee to avoid further billing. It also could end immediately or at the end of the next pay cycle..
I have a friend who works at my local affiliate to whom I've mentioned it. He told me which antenna he uses, but can't help beyond that. I'm just in a weird reception hole in conjunction with their broadcast antenna. I've tried 4 or 5 brands similar to the Leaf antenna, but they just don't pick up NBC at my house. I can get ABC and CBS, but that's not my wife's network "flavor." I could try a pole with an antenna on top, which worked great at my last home, except my current HOA won't allow that.
I get Spectrum through their TV app. It was unreliable to start, but I had them replace my modem/router with separate, faster devices and I can occasionally get over the "up to 100 Mbps" they promise. I called them up to cancel and, of course, they cut me a deal. I called back later and got a free month. I then had the Trim app contact them, and it did manage to get me a one-time $10 retention discount. But lately, I've forgotten their failings as everything stays up all the time. They do have a 200 Mbps service, but to their credit, they told me not to bother upgrading. I don't know if that speaks to their lack of faith in the service, or their lack of desire to upsell me. Once my local co-op finishes putting in their 1 Gbps lines, I may switch and just stream everything, but for now my wife is happy with what we have and she watches a lot more TV than me. She is my biggest impediment to cutting the cord for good. She "needs" the Today show and an antenna just isn't getting that for me right now.
I meant to mark this Insightful, but my clumsy finger hit Flambait, so I'm commenting to remove it since I can't correct it. The prisons here have been fighting to be allowed to jam mobile phones, but so far the Feds won't allow it.
I've used the kiosks at several McDonald's locations. At the end of my order it tells me to take a number, find a table, and my food will be brought out to me. This has never (ever) happened. I sit awhile and then go the counter where they give me my food. When I point out that the kiosk told me they would bring it out they tell me every single time that they were not aware of any such a thing, and I should just come get it.
Technically jaywalking is crossing where there is not a crosswalk, or in a dangerous manner. So crossing against the red light is jaywalking. Just as it is to cross when you have the light, but choose to weave through the stopped vehicles instead of at the crosswalk, or when you risk running across the highway because you can probably beat the next car.
While I used the word "all" I never said that YOU did, although with no clarifer like "some" or "most" you could be interpreted as such. Having done consulting from Massachusetts to Hawaii over the past 20 years I'm not entirely sure you are correct about more thAn half, although I don't have statistics to support either case.
All that said, I agree with your general premise, if not your opinion on political leanings.
Not all tech workers lean left. Where I work here in South Carolina, most (not all) of our programmers and systems staff lean not only right, but far right. But then again so does much of the state.
Any time my bill goes over $100 I call to see what my options are. They always assure me that is the best they can do, so I can cancel and they transfer me where that tier can get me back to $84.32, which pays for 100/10 internet, local channels, and 10 cable channels. No set top box and no charge for the router or modem. Internet alone costs over $60. I also have Netflix, Hulu, and Prime, But I grow weary of the game. My electric co-op is laying gig fiber now so maybe I'll give them a shot when they reach me and ditch cable for good.
Here in South Carolina, Spectrum provides a free modem and a free wireless router with no contract. They initially gave me a combined unit, but after I called to complain a few times they brought out separate devices that work much better.
I was paid by check one time and stopped next door at the bank from which the check was written. They wanted to charge me a $7 fee because I did not have an account at that bank. Insanity! Instead I took a photo and deposited it into my own back via the app. I had to wait a day for it clear, but there was no way I was paying a fee for a bank to cash their own check.
One movie per calendar day. My wife has seen The Greatest Showman 5 times using her account. A woman in line one day told me it's actually one movie per 24 hours, so when she went back the next morning she was declined, even though the terms say per calendar day. I haven't tested that.
Not the exact price. They put more on the card, which expires after 30 minutes. I assume they do that so they don't have to keep track of individual cinemas' prices which can vary throughout the the day. Theater employees suggested a friend of mine use the excess for his wife, which cut her price in half. When I go alone they suggested he use the excess toward concessions. He complied and MoviePass revoked his account for what they claimed was using the card to see 3D movies (only regular 2D movies are covered by tye plan). They suggest it to me, too, so I obviously decline. I do see 2-4 movies per month now instead of 2-4 per year.
This isn't a pedestrian story, but I had a bicycle pull out in front of me and I managed stop without hitting him, but he fell over as he tried to avoid me. He wanted to sue me for his own recklessness, but the policemen onsite informed us both that it is illegal for a bicycle to be traveling (1) on the sidewalk, and (2) against the flow of traffic. The officers gave me the opportunity to press charges. I declined because my only concern was that he was not injured, But if a car hits (or almost hits) someone it is not necessarily the fault of the car. Neither does it mean that the person in the wrong deserves to be hit. I don't know the circumstances of the incident in the article, but it is quite possible that there was nothing the car could do to avoid the collision. My dad will walk right out in front of a car if he is at the crosswalk because he insists he has the right of way. Maybe so, but stepping out in front of a car at the last minute is a good way to get run over.
For the past couple of years my Prime purchases have been delivered in 2 days every time except one. On that lone occasion I called to inquire, they declared my items lost, and issued a full refund of my $53. And then the package arrived two days later.
I know several people who will buy a shopping cart full of clothes for themselves or their kids and then just return whatever they didn't like or didn't fit rather than make the appropriate decisions before the purchase, not to mention those that buy a fancy outfit for one night and the return it. I hate shopping, especially in brick and mortar stores, but when I do I have seen people carrying in armfulls of "stuff" to return. This costs stores money to repackage/restock. Make no mistake, occasional returns and shoplifting are built into the price, but to avoid building in frequent returns and shoplifting they are cutting off the people who frequently incur these costs. I don't see a legitimate need to regularly return items, so I don't have a problem with it.
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Anytime I use eBay, I avoid accounts with few reviews and filter by "USA Only." I assume other parts of the world can filter by their own countries as well. I don't necessarily care where an item comes from, but shipping times can vary wildly and I've learned that dealing with customer service in another country can make it more difficult to resolve issues.
I haven't bought a new phone since my first Samsung G5. I tried a G7 Edge, but was always activating apps accidentally, so I switched to a G7, but bought both refurbished, I just bought my daughter a used iPhone 7. My wife, however, bought a new Note 5 and my son bought a new G9. It's interesting because my wife mostly emails and facebooks, and my son almost exclusively watched video. He's preferred the phone to the big screen TV going back to his S6.
I got an HTC Thunderbolt (the first and only 4G phone in my area on Verizon) on the last day to be grandfathered into unlimited data. Of course years later unlimited data is the norm. But will it be unlimited on 5G?
So... Chromium will be the new IE6? It was a pain to move on from that. I would rather never wind up in that situation again. But history repeats itself, and the winners pick the path, and blah blah blah.
We STILL have to use MS-IE to access MS-Excel from MS-Sharepoint as even MS-Edge won't work. You would think (or maybe you wouldn't) all MS products would play nice together.
Agreed. Most services I've canceled have told me to enjoy the rest of my pay cycle, It will expire on mm/dd and I will not be billed further.
Now if I have a contract and cancel, I may need to pay a cancellation fee to avoid further billing. It also could end immediately or at the end of the next pay cycle..
I have a friend who works at my local affiliate to whom I've mentioned it. He told me which antenna he uses, but can't help beyond that. I'm just in a weird reception hole in conjunction with their broadcast antenna. I've tried 4 or 5 brands similar to the Leaf antenna, but they just don't pick up NBC at my house. I can get ABC and CBS, but that's not my wife's network "flavor." I could try a pole with an antenna on top, which worked great at my last home, except my current HOA won't allow that.
I get Spectrum through their TV app. It was unreliable to start, but I had them replace my modem/router with separate, faster devices and I can occasionally get over the "up to 100 Mbps" they promise. I called them up to cancel and, of course, they cut me a deal. I called back later and got a free month. I then had the Trim app contact them, and it did manage to get me a one-time $10 retention discount. But lately, I've forgotten their failings as everything stays up all the time. They do have a 200 Mbps service, but to their credit, they told me not to bother upgrading. I don't know if that speaks to their lack of faith in the service, or their lack of desire to upsell me. Once my local co-op finishes putting in their 1 Gbps lines, I may switch and just stream everything, but for now my wife is happy with what we have and she watches a lot more TV than me. She is my biggest impediment to cutting the cord for good. She "needs" the Today show and an antenna just isn't getting that for me right now.
I meant to mark this Insightful, but my clumsy finger hit Flambait, so I'm commenting to remove it since I can't correct it.
The prisons here have been fighting to be allowed to jam mobile phones, but so far the Feds won't allow it.
I've used the kiosks at several McDonald's locations. At the end of my order it tells me to take a number, find a table, and my food will be brought out to me. This has never (ever) happened. I sit awhile and then go the counter where they give me my food. When I point out that the kiosk told me they would bring it out they tell me every single time that they were not aware of any such a thing, and I should just come get it.
I get paid to be in commercials, so I like to see how they turned out.
Technically jaywalking is crossing where there is not a crosswalk, or in a dangerous manner.
So crossing against the red light is jaywalking. Just as it is to cross when you have the light, but choose to weave through the stopped vehicles instead of at the crosswalk, or when you risk running across the highway because you can probably beat the next car.
While I used the word "all" I never said that YOU did, although with no clarifer like "some" or "most" you could be interpreted as such. Having done consulting from Massachusetts to Hawaii over the past 20 years I'm not entirely sure you are correct about more thAn half, although I don't have statistics to support either case.
All that said, I agree with your general premise, if not your opinion on political leanings.
Not all tech workers lean left. Where I work here in South Carolina, most (not all) of our programmers and systems staff lean not only right, but far right. But then again so does much of the state.
Any time my bill goes over $100 I call to see what my options are. They always assure me that is the best they can do, so I can cancel and they transfer me where that tier can get me back to $84.32, which pays for 100/10 internet, local channels, and 10 cable channels. No set top box and no charge for the router or modem. Internet alone costs over $60. I also have Netflix, Hulu, and Prime, But I grow weary of the game. My electric co-op is laying gig fiber now so maybe I'll give them a shot when they reach me and ditch cable for good.
Headline: "English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now"
Synopsis: "But, while English is highly unlikely to be dethroned"
So for now and probably always?
Here in South Carolina, Spectrum provides a free modem and a free wireless router with no contract. They initially gave me a combined unit, but after I called to complain a few times they brought out separate devices that work much better.
Possibly a made up stat, but also possible he simply rounded up to 2%
I was paid by check one time and stopped next door at the bank from which the check was written. They wanted to charge me a $7 fee because I did not have an account at that bank. Insanity! Instead I took a photo and deposited it into my own back via the app. I had to wait a day for it clear, but there was no way I was paying a fee for a bank to cash their own check.
$23.05? Hang on. I have a nickel here somewhere.
Hey now! Let's be fair. Not everyone is in it for the praise. Some people like to talk about awful their lives are.
One movie per calendar day. My wife has seen The Greatest Showman 5 times using her account. A woman in line one day told me it's actually one movie per 24 hours, so when she went back the next morning she was declined, even though the terms say per calendar day. I haven't tested that.
Not the exact price. They put more on the card, which expires after 30 minutes. I assume they do that so they don't have to keep track of individual cinemas' prices which can vary throughout the the day. Theater employees suggested a friend of mine use the excess for his wife, which cut her price in half. When I go alone they suggested he use the excess toward concessions. He complied and MoviePass revoked his account for what they claimed was using the card to see 3D movies (only regular 2D movies are covered by tye plan). They suggest it to me, too, so I obviously decline. I do see 2-4 movies per month now instead of 2-4 per year.
This isn't a pedestrian story, but I had a bicycle pull out in front of me and I managed stop without hitting him, but he fell over as he tried to avoid me. He wanted to sue me for his own recklessness, but the policemen onsite informed us both that it is illegal for a bicycle to be traveling (1) on the sidewalk, and (2) against the flow of traffic. The officers gave me the opportunity to press charges. I declined because my only concern was that he was not injured, But if a car hits (or almost hits) someone it is not necessarily the fault of the car. Neither does it mean that the person in the wrong deserves to be hit. I don't know the circumstances of the incident in the article, but it is quite possible that there was nothing the car could do to avoid the collision. My dad will walk right out in front of a car if he is at the crosswalk because he insists he has the right of way. Maybe so, but stepping out in front of a car at the last minute is a good way to get run over.
For the past couple of years my Prime purchases have been delivered in 2 days every time except one. On that lone occasion I called to inquire, they declared my items lost, and issued a full refund of my $53. And then the package arrived two days later.
I know several people who will buy a shopping cart full of clothes for themselves or their kids and then just return whatever they didn't like or didn't fit rather than make the appropriate decisions before the purchase, not to mention those that buy a fancy outfit for one night and the return it. I hate shopping, especially in brick and mortar stores, but when I do I have seen people carrying in armfulls of "stuff" to return. This costs stores money to repackage/restock. Make no mistake, occasional returns and shoplifting are built into the price, but to avoid building in frequent returns and shoplifting they are cutting off the people who frequently incur these costs. I don't see a legitimate need to regularly return items, so I don't have a problem with it.