My daughters' phones are $10 (each) every four months on a VZW MVNO (PagePlus, winds up being 25min/mo with rollover) & I only recently upgraded my phone from $10/mo (Airvoice) to $20.93 (Lyca Mobile) so I could have unlimited voice/text/data
Yes, I am throttled to edge speed after 100MB LTE, but it is fast enough to listen to Pandora and use navigation at the same time (not fast enough for Netlix, but I have wifi everywhere but the car & I don't watch TV while driving:)).
Best part is these are not 'before we tax and fee you to death' prices, but what I actually pay each month. People spending too much are either not shopping around or think looking at the "popular" plans (read: popular for the phone companies so they are the plans that are pushed) of the big-4 is shopping around.
I've never felt like there was a conservative or liberal majority on Slashdot, but a very well represented (albeit oft-trolling) pool of each. Occasionally each side is well represented with intelligent discourse, but not as often as I'd like.
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It's a good way to get trans fat in the middle of a ban, though:)
I read that, many (most? all? duhno) artificial sweeteners do, but according to the Japanese (I am too lazy to look it up for you), Stevia (not an artificial sweetener) does not. There is evidence it may be good for Diabetics beyond replacing sugar with it.
I have to say, I found this post refreshing (and I don't think it's offtopic, as it has a tonne of replies... maybe we need a new +1 'topic changing') as I expected to see nothing but people complaining about how it wasn't really 3D printing.:)
A GV phone number not forwarded to your number can only generate emails/text messages - you see one you want to deal with, you listen to the recorded message.
I completely get not dealing with a company with policies you don't approve of, but unless it is a moral objection, it is a trivial one to bypass with technology.
No pre-teen pregnancies in my family that I know of.
My mother was 30 when she had me (I'm not the eldest) and her mother was 28 (when she had my mother). Now her mother was 19 (when she had my grandmother, married at 18), but an average of over 25 years old for birth and my great-grandmother was alive when I was 19 (briefly, she passed that year). My eldest is 11 and my grandmother is still alive (I was 28 when she was born, increasing the average to almost 29).
TL;DR Lots of people know their great-grand parents without pre-teen pregnancies.
Oh, and yeah, my grandparents / great grandparents (only one of mine passed before I knew them) would never drop by unannounced. Heh, my father's father wouldn't even let the phone ring more than 3 times, thinking if you couldn't answer it that fast you were busy & he didn't want to intrude.
Duhno about buk above, but I got my Prime account free (just for 1 year & I prolly won't pay for it when it runs out, but I have it & didn't pay for it).
I'm impressed, 64MB RAM is pretty good for an early Pentium. You should be able to use the mouse and play MP3s, but make sure the screensaver is disabled (I remember when I finally retired my 486 DX 100 (99mhz), was because it took a Pentium to play MP3s). Good times.
This changed my life (only slight exaggeration). Roughly 150DPI, it is amazing for Photoshop & Fallout NV never looked better (yeah, there's better games visually, but I'm a FO junkie - FO4 later this year, woot!). I don't even use anti-aliasing in games anymore (in part because when you quadruple the pixels, 16x AA takes a LOT of GPU), it's dense enough I don't feel like I need it.
It actually gets worse: You and I can have a gun on the school grounds in our cars, but my daughters' teachers (along with the rest of TX [at least public, not I believe Charter it's up to the administration] teachers) cannot. So, if they are working late (not likely in elementary, but more common in HS), they have to just hope for the best. It's a really horribly written law.
I don't know how it is in Lynn, but down here in Texas, weapons are banned in school zones. Walking through a school zone with a real gun, or even having one in your car while parked on school premises, is grounds for an arrest, last I checked.
Accidental hack, but in probably early to mid 90's, I took an old analogue VCR (it had push buttons, but if you pulled the plate off the front, there were dials to fine tune), connected it to at least 100" of speakerwire that I ran from my bedroom to the (adjacent) garage & around (the inside of) the garage... after fiddling with the dials for a while (I was a bored teenager), I found I could occasionally pick up cellphone calls (a rare thing in my town at the time). I thought it was cordless phones at first, but on one call people were discussing how to get somewhere and eventually they faded out of my range. Someone that knows old cellphone tech can probably narrow when down further.
*Obviously for varying degrees of 'just fine' - I set my AA really low (like 2x) or sometimes even off because doubling/quadrupling (depending on how you're counting) the resolution (over my 1080p) I find it still looks way better than 1080p + 8-16x AA. My 4k is also 24" (price came down since I bought it, dang it!) so that helps, I'm sure. Oh, and yes, it is gorgeous for Photoshop:)
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My daughters' phones are $10 (each) every four months on a VZW MVNO (PagePlus, winds up being 25min/mo with rollover) & I only recently upgraded my phone from $10/mo (Airvoice) to $20.93 (Lyca Mobile) so I could have unlimited voice/text/data
:)).
Yes, I am throttled to edge speed after 100MB LTE, but it is fast enough to listen to Pandora and use navigation at the same time (not fast enough for Netlix, but I have wifi everywhere but the car & I don't watch TV while driving
Best part is these are not 'before we tax and fee you to death' prices, but what I actually pay each month. People spending too much are either not shopping around or think looking at the "popular" plans (read: popular for the phone companies so they are the plans that are pushed) of the big-4 is shopping around.
I've never felt like there was a conservative or liberal majority on Slashdot, but a very well represented (albeit oft-trolling) pool of each. Occasionally each side is well represented with intelligent discourse, but not as often as I'd like.
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It's a good way to get trans fat in the middle of a ban, though :)
I read that, many (most? all? duhno) artificial sweeteners do, but according to the Japanese (I am too lazy to look it up for you), Stevia (not an artificial sweetener) does not. There is evidence it may be good for Diabetics beyond replacing sugar with it.
Fair point, they can be used as a BS number, but they are also awesome (I agree 100%).
I have to say, I found this post refreshing (and I don't think it's offtopic, as it has a tonne of replies ... maybe we need a new +1 'topic changing') as I expected to see nothing but people complaining about how it wasn't really 3D printing. :)
A GV phone number not forwarded to your number can only generate emails/text messages - you see one you want to deal with, you listen to the recorded message.
I completely get not dealing with a company with policies you don't approve of, but unless it is a moral objection, it is a trivial one to bypass with technology.
You could just give them a BS phone number (like a Google Voice number - one they can verify, but never actually call you at).
Palm (PalmOS, not WebOS) did this very well (and the way they did it would be trivial to copy).
I would *totally* buy a Nokia WebOS phone ...
Incidentally, how were you born on 8/00? :)
I have to live to be 7811 years old to get mine ... at least I'm not Jewish, then I'd have to live to be 65,905!
Yup, my ATI Rage was 4 upgraded to 8 :)
No pre-teen pregnancies in my family that I know of.
My mother was 30 when she had me (I'm not the eldest) and her mother was 28 (when she had my mother). Now her mother was 19 (when she had my grandmother, married at 18), but an average of over 25 years old for birth and my great-grandmother was alive when I was 19 (briefly, she passed that year). My eldest is 11 and my grandmother is still alive (I was 28 when she was born, increasing the average to almost 29).
TL;DR Lots of people know their great-grand parents without pre-teen pregnancies.
Oh, and yeah, my grandparents / great grandparents (only one of mine passed before I knew them) would never drop by unannounced. Heh, my father's father wouldn't even let the phone ring more than 3 times, thinking if you couldn't answer it that fast you were busy & he didn't want to intrude.
Duhno about buk above, but I got my Prime account free (just for 1 year & I prolly won't pay for it when it runs out, but I have it & didn't pay for it).
I'm impressed, 64MB RAM is pretty good for an early Pentium. You should be able to use the mouse and play MP3s, but make sure the screensaver is disabled (I remember when I finally retired my 486 DX 100 (99mhz), was because it took a Pentium to play MP3s). Good times.
Meh, it isn't science until you are tinkering with the DNA of the butterflies
Well, they are all bad except my congressman. He's the only one fighting for us.
For those with faulty sarcasm detection, this is an incredibly common notion that I do not share but helps explain why we're in this mess.
This changed my life (only slight exaggeration). Roughly 150DPI, it is amazing for Photoshop & Fallout NV never looked better (yeah, there's better games visually, but I'm a FO junkie - FO4 later this year, woot!). I don't even use anti-aliasing in games anymore (in part because when you quadruple the pixels, 16x AA takes a LOT of GPU), it's dense enough I don't feel like I need it.
No worries, it's been known to happen to me too :)
It actually gets worse: You and I can have a gun on the school grounds in our cars, but my daughters' teachers (along with the rest of TX [at least public, not I believe Charter it's up to the administration] teachers) cannot. So, if they are working late (not likely in elementary, but more common in HS), they have to just hope for the best. It's a really horribly written law.
I don't know how it is in Lynn, but down here in Texas, weapons are banned in school zones. Walking through a school zone with a real gun, or even having one in your car while parked on school premises, is grounds for an arrest, last I checked.
Here's a handy link so you can check again :)
I have a Texas CHL; if I am called in to pick up my daughter at school (sick, whatever), I can have my gun in my car, but I must lock it in the car.
master bedroom as a panic room
carjackings
My solution is to not drive in my bedroom.
House notices
Accidental hack, but in probably early to mid 90's, I took an old analogue VCR (it had push buttons, but if you pulled the plate off the front, there were dials to fine tune), connected it to at least 100" of speakerwire that I ran from my bedroom to the (adjacent) garage & around (the inside of) the garage ... after fiddling with the dials for a while (I was a bored teenager), I found I could occasionally pick up cellphone calls (a rare thing in my town at the time). I thought it was cordless phones at first, but on one call people were discussing how to get somewhere and eventually they faded out of my range. Someone that knows old cellphone tech can probably narrow when down further.
My GTX680 pushes my 4k just fine* in games.
:)
*Obviously for varying degrees of 'just fine' - I set my AA really low (like 2x) or sometimes even off because doubling/quadrupling (depending on how you're counting) the resolution (over my 1080p) I find it still looks way better than 1080p + 8-16x AA. My 4k is also 24" (price came down since I bought it, dang it!) so that helps, I'm sure. Oh, and yes, it is gorgeous for Photoshop