Are you saying wireless chargers don't work, in which case you are wrong, or are just being an idiot without even trying to make a point? These are the only two options.
It isn't the reason I stopped using a particular LG phone (the reason was ultimately LG's refusal to update us to ICS or provide us with the necessary code to do it ourselves), but it sure was a major inconvenience until I retired it. And it wasn't so much worn out as made finicky by a small crack in the surrounding housing that wouldn't stay glued, a weak point of which I know I was not the only victim.
If my LG G2x was capable of wireless charging then the housing around the port might not be cracked today, and it might charge without me having to wedge it under something so the cord stays in just the right position. Of course I retired that phone in favor of an Optimus G anyway, but it was a pain for a while. I never thought wireless charging was more than a gimmick but now I'm having similar trouble with a tablet. It may not be a hug convenience or a big time saver, but it is a way to eliminate one potential source of wear and tear, so there is a distinction, however slight in the minds of some.
I won't buy my next mobile device based on wireless charging capabilities or lack thereof, but I will certainly use it if the device I choose offers it (probably a Nexus 5 in a few months, coincidentally).
I love the idea of a canary/dead man's switch, just as much as I hate how our constitutional rights (in the USA) have really begun to disappear. But given the NSA's recent behavior, do you really think they are going to let anyone get around gag orders with a technicality? Once they ransack your servers and tell you to STFU or else, they aren't going to let you blow the whistle with a loophole, I'd bet. If they seize your servers and lock you out there would be nothing to stop them from changing the code and making it look like all is well.
That means this is even more intriguing than I initially thought. Things like Ensure are not intended to be complete, every meal, every day meal replacements, though it looks like Soylent could be. And your info means it also looks like it is becoming affordable. I'm American and spend a lot more than $154/month on food, though that would still be beyond steep in some locales. But soylent is still in its infancy, so when scaled up dramatically the cost should come down even further. It does not sound particularly desirable to me personally today, but in tough times it could literally be a life saver. I'd certainly take it over starvation if reasonably nutritious food suddenly became unavailable.
The difference, if you don't doing a quick search or taking a minute to RTFA, is that the substance in question is far more balanced. It is a complete nutrition solution, not a protein or vitamin supplement. Big difference. It looks like it works, and there's no reason it shouldn't completely satisfy a person's nutritional needs, but I like food way, way too much to use it by choice. Of course if I had no access to interesting food I might change my tune, but eating a variety of foods is very pleasurable to most people.
In poor countries, only the rich can afford to get fat.
In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin.
Nice try at saying something catchy or clever there, but you are very, very wrong. Obesity is in fact a problem in some developing countries, due to poor nutrition (no lack of calories) and a lack of education and/or diet alternatives. And many of us po' folks in the west manage to stay thin on our own, by making informed decisions about what we eat.
And since Daniel Tosh is in the title, I must mention that I think he's not only unfunny but more than a little date rapey, at best. As far as his comedic prowess, he is a master of the lowest common denominator. Sophomoric rubbish. That's not a compliment.
Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are all drugs to which numerous people are addicted. If your statement is true, probably half the adult population of the western world are idiot drug users. Try using facts rather than just making up what you want to believe and people might take you more seriously.
Facilitating numerous transactions of contraband is a hell of a way to run a honeypot. I'll assume you were attempting to be funny rather than assume you are just very, very wrong.
Okay smarty pants, how many people have gone to jail due to dealings with Silk Road? I only know of one American, and I think one bloke down under who was pretty dumb.
Can we please force Coke to bring back Surge? So much talk about surges, and I just want Surge! The attempt to placate us with Vault failed - we want Surge!
They have admitted "cells" in California, Texas, and perhaps elsewhere in the USA - they are rather secretive though. Their top leaders are believed to be operating out of Dublin, Ireland, so that's where we should send the stealth bombers and cruise missiles, I guess. Let's save the SEALs to go after individuals and bring them to justice once we have obliterated their main bases and means of conducting their ongoing acts of terror against the American people. Pity the poor folks of Dublin who will be caught in the middle of the war, but we never think much about that sort of thing anyway, do we?
They have weather, weed and women that people from all around the world flock to California for as well, or so I was told by a doctor I trust. He goes by Dr. Dre. And I'm sure North Korean women are wonderful, but the weather stink,s and I bet there are no medical cannabis dispensaries. And there are no good burrito joints, so I'll consider CA first.
Recently I signed up for an account at healthcare.gov, and upon trying to login for the first time, I was given an error message. The message directed me to call the Experian help desk at 888-xxx-xxxx! So Experian is too busy selling my info to identity thieves to bother verifying it for the Federal government so I can buy health insurance? I'm not sure which is more troubling, that the government has put me at Experian's mercy or that the system is so broken.
Personally, I'd prefer never to deal with Experian ever again, after how much trouble they gave me when I pointed out that they had all sorts of incorrect information about me on file. First they screw up my credit, then they sell my info to thieves (again?), and now they are preventing me from knowing whether I will be able to see a doctor or not in a few months. Great job Experian, and great job using them, Dept. of HHS.
They acknowledge that they should have done better and claim that they will develop procedures for the future.
Sometimes these excuses are acceptable, and other times heads need to roll. As an avid Sci Am reader for 20+ years I am appalled. The content is becoming a bit less serious and has been heading a little too much toward something more like Popular Science, and now with this crap I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription. I have always liked Sci Am because it was a layman's science magazine with a sense of humor but without as much unnecessary fluff as Discover, Pop Sci, etc. Hmm...
Tonight I tried to see what the site had to offer. First it took me an hour+ and three tries with the "Live" chat to get real responses from a human. Then while verifying my account and trying to login I was given an error code and told to contact Experian by phone. Experian! Hilarious fail, except for wasting my time and being completely useless.
I like to hire smart employees: the ones who are loyal first to themselves, and their paychecks. We work in "Corporate America" to make money and fund the rest of our lives, not for some vague corporate "mission" that has no intrinsic value of its own. Yes, my employees better do their jobs and do them well, and they know that. They also know they will continue to be paid fairly well as long as they do their jobs. I don't screw them, they mostly don't try to screw me, and we skip all the superficial BS. If they find jobs that pay them more than I can, I wish them well. I've never had anyone leave for a company with a fancy mission statement - just money I can't compete with.
"Yeah, we're not going to pay you enough to own a nice place nearby, but we'll lease you a mediocre place where it will be hard for you to call off or seek better employment, okay?"
As a would-be mugger, I already use something very similar. The "app" users install is called "Microsoft WIndows," and it is effective at transferring their banking information to me, preventing any physical muggings. Your suggested system sounds as if it could gain real traction given sufficient marketing, but the competition already has a large, apparently theft-tolerant user base established. My MS-based mugging-prevention system requires no user interaction, and in fact thrives on inaction once Windows is installed.
It will be a great help while I am on the way to the hospital to find out that I was just struck by a vehicle. Nice to see T-Mobile will be there to clue me in as to what happened after the fact, since my texts often arrive too late to function as an effective preventive measure.
This is kind of idiotic if used for anything larger than microlending. CAPS for general communication is dumb, but when filling in blanks on a form it shouldn't matter. I guarantee that at least three quarters of the snail mail I receive includes improper and unnecessary use of CAPS, especially but not exclusively in the address fields of envelopes. If you are that picky, why stop there? You should try to avoid an long-hairs, people with hidden tattoos (gotta look closely to be sure), fatties, immigrants, Democrats, brown people, folks who attend NASCAR races in person, youngins under 50, and divorcees too, since they're obviously more likely to be deadbeats.
Ideas like that are interesting, and you are right that they don't scale well. That is because at larger scales they don't adhere to laws enacted to protect minorities.
I did not RTFA, but this sounds like some of the practices mentioned could possibly be illegal in Ohio. Ohio law requires that credit histories of individuals be maintained separately. I don't think it would be going too far to argue that considering someone else's history (just because you are Facebook friends) when determining credit worthiness runs afoul of the law. The law also requires that credit be extended equally to all who are creditworthy and, again, considering the payment history of someone else could be determined to be illegal.
What's next, checking your cupboards to see your choice of breakfast cereal? GrapeNuts or Shredded Wheat (unfrosted)? Approved. Frankenberry AND Fruity Pebbles? Denied. Blacklisting by zip code is considered discriminatory and is already illegal, isn't it? Judging based on the payment history of acquaintances should be as well. Shall we revert to concepts of family honor, too?
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I'll give you a dollar to cover the efficiency you lose charging your phone over the course of a year, and you can keep the change.
As this is a new-ish consumer technology I fully expect the 70% figure you mention to change significantly in the near future.
Are you saying wireless chargers don't work, in which case you are wrong, or are just being an idiot without even trying to make a point? These are the only two options.
It isn't the reason I stopped using a particular LG phone (the reason was ultimately LG's refusal to update us to ICS or provide us with the necessary code to do it ourselves), but it sure was a major inconvenience until I retired it. And it wasn't so much worn out as made finicky by a small crack in the surrounding housing that wouldn't stay glued, a weak point of which I know I was not the only victim.
If my LG G2x was capable of wireless charging then the housing around the port might not be cracked today, and it might charge without me having to wedge it under something so the cord stays in just the right position. Of course I retired that phone in favor of an Optimus G anyway, but it was a pain for a while. I never thought wireless charging was more than a gimmick but now I'm having similar trouble with a tablet. It may not be a hug convenience or a big time saver, but it is a way to eliminate one potential source of wear and tear, so there is a distinction, however slight in the minds of some.
I won't buy my next mobile device based on wireless charging capabilities or lack thereof, but I will certainly use it if the device I choose offers it (probably a Nexus 5 in a few months, coincidentally).
Had a bad week, so all that is on my workbench right now is a big freaking hammer and some debris.
I love the idea of a canary/dead man's switch, just as much as I hate how our constitutional rights (in the USA) have really begun to disappear. But given the NSA's recent behavior, do you really think they are going to let anyone get around gag orders with a technicality? Once they ransack your servers and tell you to STFU or else, they aren't going to let you blow the whistle with a loophole, I'd bet. If they seize your servers and lock you out there would be nothing to stop them from changing the code and making it look like all is well.
That means this is even more intriguing than I initially thought. Things like Ensure are not intended to be complete, every meal, every day meal replacements, though it looks like Soylent could be. And your info means it also looks like it is becoming affordable. I'm American and spend a lot more than $154/month on food, though that would still be beyond steep in some locales. But soylent is still in its infancy, so when scaled up dramatically the cost should come down even further. It does not sound particularly desirable to me personally today, but in tough times it could literally be a life saver. I'd certainly take it over starvation if reasonably nutritious food suddenly became unavailable.
The difference, if you don't doing a quick search or taking a minute to RTFA, is that the substance in question is far more balanced. It is a complete nutrition solution, not a protein or vitamin supplement. Big difference. It looks like it works, and there's no reason it shouldn't completely satisfy a person's nutritional needs, but I like food way, way too much to use it by choice. Of course if I had no access to interesting food I might change my tune, but eating a variety of foods is very pleasurable to most people.
In poor countries, only the rich can afford to get fat.
In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin.
Nice try at saying something catchy or clever there, but you are very, very wrong. Obesity is in fact a problem in some developing countries, due to poor nutrition (no lack of calories) and a lack of education and/or diet alternatives. And many of us po' folks in the west manage to stay thin on our own, by making informed decisions about what we eat.
And since Daniel Tosh is in the title, I must mention that I think he's not only unfunny but more than a little date rapey, at best. As far as his comedic prowess, he is a master of the lowest common denominator. Sophomoric rubbish. That's not a compliment.
Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are all drugs to which numerous people are addicted. If your statement is true, probably half the adult population of the western world are idiot drug users. Try using facts rather than just making up what you want to believe and people might take you more seriously.
Facilitating numerous transactions of contraband is a hell of a way to run a honeypot. I'll assume you were attempting to be funny rather than assume you are just very, very wrong.
Okay smarty pants, how many people have gone to jail due to dealings with Silk Road? I only know of one American, and I think one bloke down under who was pretty dumb.
Can we please force Coke to bring back Surge? So much talk about surges, and I just want Surge! The attempt to placate us with Vault failed - we want Surge!
They have admitted "cells" in California, Texas, and perhaps elsewhere in the USA - they are rather secretive though. Their top leaders are believed to be operating out of Dublin, Ireland, so that's where we should send the stealth bombers and cruise missiles, I guess. Let's save the SEALs to go after individuals and bring them to justice once we have obliterated their main bases and means of conducting their ongoing acts of terror against the American people. Pity the poor folks of Dublin who will be caught in the middle of the war, but we never think much about that sort of thing anyway, do we?
They have weather, weed and women that people from all around the world flock to California for as well, or so I was told by a doctor I trust. He goes by Dr. Dre. And I'm sure North Korean women are wonderful, but the weather stink,s and I bet there are no medical cannabis dispensaries. And there are no good burrito joints, so I'll consider CA first.
Recently I signed up for an account at healthcare.gov, and upon trying to login for the first time, I was given an error message. The message directed me to call the Experian help desk at 888-xxx-xxxx! So Experian is too busy selling my info to identity thieves to bother verifying it for the Federal government so I can buy health insurance? I'm not sure which is more troubling, that the government has put me at Experian's mercy or that the system is so broken. Personally, I'd prefer never to deal with Experian ever again, after how much trouble they gave me when I pointed out that they had all sorts of incorrect information about me on file. First they screw up my credit, then they sell my info to thieves (again?), and now they are preventing me from knowing whether I will be able to see a doctor or not in a few months. Great job Experian, and great job using them, Dept. of HHS.
They acknowledge that they should have done better and claim that they will develop procedures for the future.
Sometimes these excuses are acceptable, and other times heads need to roll. As an avid Sci Am reader for 20+ years I am appalled. The content is becoming a bit less serious and has been heading a little too much toward something more like Popular Science, and now with this crap I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription. I have always liked Sci Am because it was a layman's science magazine with a sense of humor but without as much unnecessary fluff as Discover, Pop Sci, etc. Hmm...
Tonight I tried to see what the site had to offer. First it took me an hour+ and three tries with the "Live" chat to get real responses from a human. Then while verifying my account and trying to login I was given an error code and told to contact Experian by phone. Experian! Hilarious fail, except for wasting my time and being completely useless.
I like to hire smart employees: the ones who are loyal first to themselves, and their paychecks. We work in "Corporate America" to make money and fund the rest of our lives, not for some vague corporate "mission" that has no intrinsic value of its own. Yes, my employees better do their jobs and do them well, and they know that. They also know they will continue to be paid fairly well as long as they do their jobs. I don't screw them, they mostly don't try to screw me, and we skip all the superficial BS. If they find jobs that pay them more than I can, I wish them well. I've never had anyone leave for a company with a fancy mission statement - just money I can't compete with.
"Yeah, we're not going to pay you enough to own a nice place nearby, but we'll lease you a mediocre place where it will be hard for you to call off or seek better employment, okay?"
Also, you don't backdoor yourself, for fear of someone finding out about your backdoor without you realizing it.
As a would-be mugger, I already use something very similar. The "app" users install is called "Microsoft WIndows," and it is effective at transferring their banking information to me, preventing any physical muggings. Your suggested system sounds as if it could gain real traction given sufficient marketing, but the competition already has a large, apparently theft-tolerant user base established. My MS-based mugging-prevention system requires no user interaction, and in fact thrives on inaction once Windows is installed.
It will be a great help while I am on the way to the hospital to find out that I was just struck by a vehicle. Nice to see T-Mobile will be there to clue me in as to what happened after the fact, since my texts often arrive too late to function as an effective preventive measure.
This is kind of idiotic if used for anything larger than microlending. CAPS for general communication is dumb, but when filling in blanks on a form it shouldn't matter. I guarantee that at least three quarters of the snail mail I receive includes improper and unnecessary use of CAPS, especially but not exclusively in the address fields of envelopes. If you are that picky, why stop there? You should try to avoid an long-hairs, people with hidden tattoos (gotta look closely to be sure), fatties, immigrants, Democrats, brown people, folks who attend NASCAR races in person, youngins under 50, and divorcees too, since they're obviously more likely to be deadbeats.
Ideas like that are interesting, and you are right that they don't scale well. That is because at larger scales they don't adhere to laws enacted to protect minorities.
I did not RTFA, but this sounds like some of the practices mentioned could possibly be illegal in Ohio. Ohio law requires that credit histories of individuals be maintained separately. I don't think it would be going too far to argue that considering someone else's history (just because you are Facebook friends) when determining credit worthiness runs afoul of the law. The law also requires that credit be extended equally to all who are creditworthy and, again, considering the payment history of someone else could be determined to be illegal.
What's next, checking your cupboards to see your choice of breakfast cereal? GrapeNuts or Shredded Wheat (unfrosted)? Approved. Frankenberry AND Fruity Pebbles? Denied. Blacklisting by zip code is considered discriminatory and is already illegal, isn't it? Judging based on the payment history of acquaintances should be as well. Shall we revert to concepts of family honor, too?