So it is an extra $400? You will make more than that by keeping it in your pocket when the value of the dollar is higher. You could invest that and actually have it cost even less. $400 over 10 years is an extra $3.33 per month or so. You could literally bank that and make up the difference. That is hardly a compelling argument in other words. I still want an EV. I just can not justify one at this time. They lack the range for my personal, non-typical, situation.
You should read what I wrote. I indicated a belief in neither and just shared what I have read many other people offer as the excuse as to why it is a religion. They state it that you are believing in no god. It is a fine argument for their side but I much prefer to be honest and call it my belief system and be grateful my belief system changes with strong new evidence.
My *best* hack is not a hack by some definitions. I built a 10BASE2 (cheapnet) hub to pipe data out from a number of computers and into a plotter as such had not been invented yet. It took a few weeks to get it working and then some code changes to pipe it out over the ethernet instead of the printer port. It was a decent hack I suppose. This was a long time ago and in a galaxy far far away (North Carolina). I was pretty poor back then so even if they had made one I'd have built it. It even had a nice case that someone in the office made out of wood. Those were the days... No, they were. They were the days.
I do not have it any more. I imagine it still lives somewhere but it most surely is not used and has not been used for a lifetime. Actually, it managed to survive quite well. It was fairly simple. I doubt that it was ever thrown away so I am assuming it is somewhere on this planet still. I should try to find it.
And, according to a documentary with the dude from that BBC automobile show (I do not watch much TV but I like documentaries), it is a word that is meant to sound like it is interpreted. (I forgot that word too. Like moo, woof, etc... I am too lazy to look it up.) Anyhow, the claim was that the word was from 'bar bar" which is how a gibberish speaking foreigner would have sounded to them. The dude was the one that they fired from the BBC show, Clarkson maybe? The documentary was something like The Brainy Barbarians or The Barbarians or some crap. It obviously was not that memorable to me.
Is there a compelling reason to avoid it now? It was a bit turbulent for a bit, some of the beta builds were interesting, but it is stable and quite refreshed now. I am, of course, assuming that you have upgraded your hardware.
I love me some Fentanyl. I prefer the Mylar patches - it is easy to extract with **** and **** plus it is easier to control your dose. The jelly patches are thick so you have to dilute them and diluting them with **** just makes it burn and an **** alcohol solution just takes too damned long and wastes too much. Remember, you can put more drugs in you but you can not take them back out.
...but then again I'm not taking any drugs right now.
So, what are you doing later? Say, 10 o'clock?/s
I am clean today. I have not always been. I am just open about it. I was a functional abuser for years, multiple times daily - opiates is my DoC/addiction with a needle fixation. I lost my ability to be a functional user sometime after I retired and had the money to just spend on whatever felt like it was going to make me content. So, I quit with a detox center's help. I am open and honest about it. Meh... It is not like I have to get a job or anything so I do not need to hide it. It started when I was 13 - I got cluster headaches (odd for a male) and they gave me codeine. I'd used daily, pretty much, until I was getting close to the age of 60. I miss 'em. Meh...
I have used cocaine. I have used a lot of coke. I have snorted it, smoked it, and even shot it. It, in and of itself, does indeed tend to drive one to want more and be willing to do stuff like spend the house payment, wake up a dealer at 5:00 in the morning by banging on his door until he answers, and then wanting another eight-ball by 8:00 in the morning. This is without even being physically addicted to it... You just do not want to come down.
I can not imagine being addicted to it. I do not do it now though if I have done it in the past 10 years, I had more money to spend, then it has always been away from home and having only brought x-amount of cash with me. Avoid the coke... It is so not worth it for the expense and it can be pretty expensive.
The 80s were a... fun, yes, fun... time. The 90s were not too bad either. Hell, the 2000s did alright too. This decade is a bit more mundane.
When was the last time you tried Opera? Disclosure: I am biased but not affiliated. I really enjoy Opera and have for years. It gets the good features long before the other major browsers. Opera actually has a decent share of the market now and, for whatever reason, they just bought a VPN service if what someone told me is true. Lemme Google...
They are a pretty decent company and treat your data with respect. I am not sure what sort of legitimate complaints you can make about them but I am willing to listen.
That makes sense. We crammed the office full of P4s at 1.2ghz as I recall. I also seem to recall they were miniature space heaters and not very efficient. I also seem to recall that the times were changing with a quickness at this point and we did not stay on them for long but moved back to an AMD offering not much later and then stayed with AMD after that until I sold the company a number of years ago. I have no idea what they have now.
The reason we went with AMD is that they were faster for some of what we did. We did a lot of raw data crunching, lots of numbers, and huge files. We were dealing with TB and larger sets back in the mid-to-late 2000s. (We did traffic modeling, started with vehicular and then also modeled pedestrian traffic for things like malls and single retail outlets.) The AMDs, even when "slower" dealt with the data better than the Intel offerings at a similar price point. Thus it was more economical, especially with multi-CPU installs, to crunch numbers on the AMDs and the AMDs threaded better for us anyhow. Graphics were not an issue and our internal testing showed the above results (better at the same price point) so we went with AMD and stuck with them.
I could probably find out what they are running now but I am not sure if I would be able to discuss it. I am still covered by an NDA and still covered by a non-compete. I signed those rights away for a longer period than I should have, in retrospect. I would not like to compete so much as I would like to consult which would give me the motivation to learn the many changes that have been made. As it is, I am bored. I am currently learning the Rust language for no good reason other than to poke at it and call it names. I am pretty sure I can write a 'Hello World' in at least 4 dozen languages if we count scripting languages. Maybe even more... Alas, I can think of nothing to do with them. I'd like to make an open source traffic modeling application with a spiffy GUI for small store owners to use - including things like profit scales to assist with product placement. It would be nice if the small owners could make use of this instead of the big companies getting the good "end cap" slots at the most beneficial pricing. Small owners have no idea what they are doing... Straightening out the playing field would be nice.
You, on the other hand, need your own damned custom browser! LOL I am impressed. I think you have some sort of record (for intentional use) with the number of BHOs that you have going.
You can also check the form autofill for Opera - it is very nice and rather full featured. It seems to support multiple profile type things as well. Also, if you use Opera you can install an extension that allows you to use Opera extensions and Chrome extensions so you get the best of both worlds.
As I mentioned above, I would recommend giving Opera a try. It can not hurt to try and it is harmless. I have been happy with it for a very long time and have used it since its early, as in v0.9x version. At least I think that was the first version I tried. Something like 0.9.1 IIRC.
Opera is built in Chromium and is very nice. They have always been cutting edge, usually adding features long before other browsers get them, and this current build is very good. You can get a stable version or the build version. I have not tried the Linux beta version at this time - assuming one is available. This partition is a Windows OS and is using the beta version and it is very stable and nice.
One of the hidden tricks is that you can cheat. There is an extension for Opera that allows you to use any of the Chrome extensions. So far I have been able to use every Chrome extension that I wanted to use and had nary a hiccup or a complaint. They have all worked well and have worked as advertised. I find that Opera seems to be a little heavier than Chrome but, somehow, it seems to run better than Chrome does. I suspect that they have tweaked the threaded processing a bit but I am not certain.
Either way, it is free and easy to try. I have been an Opera fan for a long time and am happy with it (or I would not be using it) so I figured I would share the information. I am not, obviously, affiliated and do not benefit if you use or do not use it. I do wish it were possible to use the sync function to sync settings, history, cookies, saved passwords, extensions, and extension settings. That would be excellent.
Honestly, I had not put much further thought into it but it seems you are likely correct. Perhaps someone should be looking into the planning board and the approvals committee? I wonder if there is a conflict of interest, taxation reasons, or if there is a straight up bribery system in place...
There could, I suppose, be actual laws that are in place that are not motivated by greed but prevent new housing (or renovations) projects from being started. I do not know and it is not my area of expertise.
There could be regulations about health, safety, or environmental impacts that may be a consideration but, honestly, it is probably grift and graft. Another could be some sort of zoning laws that made sense at the time. Stereotypical California would be prime for any one of these considerations.
Hmm... You do not think the companies supplying these millions and millions (across the globe) generators are going to reduce prices with their new higher demand? I do not think it will happen right away but it seems only logical that the price will go down. Of course, if it goes down enough then more people could own them outright and they may not be needed much if there is a crisis where power is lost so you may have a point there.
Additionally, I suspect that the generator and all of its bracing and attachments would weigh much less than the trailer plus all the attachments. The trailer plus the steering mechanisms and suspension is going to weigh quite a bit even before you add the weight of the generator.
As for stealing them... Err... As for securing them... (That is better worded.) There is a variety of ways. Hardened steel rods to secure it to the receiver hitch which is also placed back into the hole when it is not in use and then locked in both positions, that is one way. Another, applicable to towing, would be a combination of the above and a personal wheel-lock device similar to the boot one can get attached for parking violations. There are technological things that can be added, even simple tech, such as starting it with a key or requiring a key fob.
Would these things, attached or towed, have an additional battery? That may not be a bad idea. It would, most likely, need a small battery anyhow (though it could draw starting power from the vehicle but to use it separately would require a battery as people are not going to be pulling on a cord and the compression would likely be quite high with a generator this strong) so just making it a larger battery could have some benefits.
There is the issue of cost. Renting them is likely to be the first option. I could see vendors offering them along with the car, as an added option at the dealer. People could buy one that matched their paint job and would have extra car-specific/model-specific features. While trivial I think that, to a number of people, there is going to be the vanity thing. Getting the generator as OEM would help adoption rates perhaps and then they could be covered by warranties and insurance.
As for stop-and-go traffic that is less of a worry with an EV but there is a lot of energy lost in heat, resistance, and then in getting the mass moving again. The trailer adds a lot of mass but has less friction than the attached battery/generator. Which reminds me of a different conversation I have had in the not-too-distant past.
Another idea that I have heard a few people mention is a towed large-scale battery without the generator... I probably should not bring a new idea in to the conversation as we are already so far removed from the original topic but... Oh well... I think we are the only two paying attention to the thread so we needn't worry about disrupting anyone and, besides, the conversation is a fine one. It makes me pine for the Usenet days when we would sometimes have a multi-topic conversation that would extend for months.
Anyhow, the idea was that the trailer (could also be attached) would hold a very large combination of batteries or a large single battery. The idea was that they could also be stacked so you could tow, for example, four additional charged batteries. This would make it easier to go much further AND ease the changing of batteries at something akin to a gas station. So, where regular people would go for a recharge you would also be able to go and get additional batteries loaded up. Because they are open and exposed you could easily have robotic or machine assisted loading without having to worry about the automobile itself. There could already be trailers sitting there fully loaded that you could just exchange for the one that is partially used. One of the issues that I raised was that safety would be a major (but not insurmountable) risk with these batteries being fairly exposed to damages in case of an accident.
So, there are choices like that which can also be considered. T
To be fair, and honest, the NSA (while detestable) is not going to come knocking on your door unless you are doing something horribly inappropriate according to their rules. I strongly suspect you are not doing anything that they care about. They, on the other hand, are doing something YOU care about and what they are doing is wrong. But, no... They are not going to come knocking on your door at this point in time. Not even if you are pirating software or music. Not even if you badmouth them online - NSA is a bunch of goat fuckers (I will test it and let you know). So you are safe. Hyperbole is not going to help. Just be honest and call them the assholes that they are.
Sorry. I just got done reading the Reddit thread and that needed to come out somewhere. I have absolutely no idea how to solve your problem nor do I know if Google has the answers. I truly am sorry but not enough to not post this. I hope you understand. I am not sure what has come over me but I think it is the Reddit drama and, maybe, futzing about with Linux Mint all morning. It is like a Linux For Dummies operating system, which is nice, I guess... Anyhow, again, sorry for the interruption and name calling. I truly do not mean it personally. Also, I am either a horrible troll or I am trolling horribly. I will that up to you as an exercise of the mind. I am not very good at this trolling stuff...
I hate the practice BUT I think that they should be allowed to include these things provided they are open and honest with the potential customer. They should be required to include the information (outside of the packaging and on advertisements) that says how much space is actually free and how many applications are not able to be removed. I am not a fan of limiting what a business can do by default. So, if they make it clear then I would be okay with it.
Now, not as a demand but as an opinion, I think it would be wise to move to the above type of system. I think that this should also be coupled with an open version which has no applications installed (or can be easily removed) and is easily updated to the newest Android versions as well. They could charge extra for these features. Those phones should also say exactly how much internal storage is available as well. I had an HTC that had something like 32 GB of internal storage and 1/8 or so was already used up with the various applications and whatnot that came with it. Those figures are not, of course, exact but it was kind of surprising how much data was already on the phone and there was not much that I could uninstall.
I would hop on it today if it were an option. Get the price down to $50,000 USD and let me spend at least a week at the ISS and I will go. I will even get a bit more fit, if needed, so that I qualify. I accept the risks that the current gen will blow up and kill me. Where do I sign?
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Wait a minute... Why are you counting gasoline and not electricity expenses?
So it is an extra $400? You will make more than that by keeping it in your pocket when the value of the dollar is higher. You could invest that and actually have it cost even less. $400 over 10 years is an extra $3.33 per month or so. You could literally bank that and make up the difference. That is hardly a compelling argument in other words. I still want an EV. I just can not justify one at this time. They lack the range for my personal, non-typical, situation.
You carry odd stuff to an art show.
You should read what I wrote. I indicated a belief in neither and just shared what I have read many other people offer as the excuse as to why it is a religion. They state it that you are believing in no god. It is a fine argument for their side but I much prefer to be honest and call it my belief system and be grateful my belief system changes with strong new evidence.
That would have been one of the bigfoots, yes?
My *best* hack is not a hack by some definitions. I built a 10BASE2 (cheapnet) hub to pipe data out from a number of computers and into a plotter as such had not been invented yet. It took a few weeks to get it working and then some code changes to pipe it out over the ethernet instead of the printer port. It was a decent hack I suppose. This was a long time ago and in a galaxy far far away (North Carolina). I was pretty poor back then so even if they had made one I'd have built it. It even had a nice case that someone in the office made out of wood. Those were the days... No, they were. They were the days.
I do not have it any more. I imagine it still lives somewhere but it most surely is not used and has not been used for a lifetime. Actually, it managed to survive quite well. It was fairly simple. I doubt that it was ever thrown away so I am assuming it is somewhere on this planet still. I should try to find it.
And, according to a documentary with the dude from that BBC automobile show (I do not watch much TV but I like documentaries), it is a word that is meant to sound like it is interpreted. (I forgot that word too. Like moo, woof, etc... I am too lazy to look it up.) Anyhow, the claim was that the word was from 'bar bar" which is how a gibberish speaking foreigner would have sounded to them. The dude was the one that they fired from the BBC show, Clarkson maybe? The documentary was something like The Brainy Barbarians or The Barbarians or some crap. It obviously was not that memorable to me.
Is there a compelling reason to avoid it now? It was a bit turbulent for a bit, some of the beta builds were interesting, but it is stable and quite refreshed now. I am, of course, assuming that you have upgraded your hardware.
I love me some Fentanyl. I prefer the Mylar patches - it is easy to extract with **** and **** plus it is easier to control your dose. The jelly patches are thick so you have to dilute them and diluting them with **** just makes it burn and an **** alcohol solution just takes too damned long and wastes too much. Remember, you can put more drugs in you but you can not take them back out.
Purposefully censored.
You should sue. Not to win money but to bring exposure and to get a formal apology. That is unacceptable.
...but then again I'm not taking any drugs right now.
So, what are you doing later? Say, 10 o'clock? /s
I am clean today. I have not always been. I am just open about it. I was a functional abuser for years, multiple times daily - opiates is my DoC/addiction with a needle fixation. I lost my ability to be a functional user sometime after I retired and had the money to just spend on whatever felt like it was going to make me content. So, I quit with a detox center's help. I am open and honest about it. Meh... It is not like I have to get a job or anything so I do not need to hide it. It started when I was 13 - I got cluster headaches (odd for a male) and they gave me codeine. I'd used daily, pretty much, until I was getting close to the age of 60. I miss 'em. Meh...
I'm not scared. I will admit it.
I have used cocaine. I have used a lot of coke. I have snorted it, smoked it, and even shot it. It, in and of itself, does indeed tend to drive one to want more and be willing to do stuff like spend the house payment, wake up a dealer at 5:00 in the morning by banging on his door until he answers, and then wanting another eight-ball by 8:00 in the morning. This is without even being physically addicted to it... You just do not want to come down.
I can not imagine being addicted to it. I do not do it now though if I have done it in the past 10 years, I had more money to spend, then it has always been away from home and having only brought x-amount of cash with me. Avoid the coke... It is so not worth it for the expense and it can be pretty expensive.
The 80s were a... fun, yes, fun... time. The 90s were not too bad either. Hell, the 2000s did alright too. This decade is a bit more mundane.
Opera is up to ver. 31.0 so you may want to update your opinions.
When was the last time you tried Opera? Disclosure: I am biased but not affiliated. I really enjoy Opera and have for years. It gets the good features long before the other major browsers. Opera actually has a decent share of the market now and, for whatever reason, they just bought a VPN service if what someone told me is true. Lemme Google...
Yup. They bought SurfEasy.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/...
They are a pretty decent company and treat your data with respect. I am not sure what sort of legitimate complaints you can make about them but I am willing to listen.
That makes sense. We crammed the office full of P4s at 1.2ghz as I recall. I also seem to recall they were miniature space heaters and not very efficient. I also seem to recall that the times were changing with a quickness at this point and we did not stay on them for long but moved back to an AMD offering not much later and then stayed with AMD after that until I sold the company a number of years ago. I have no idea what they have now.
The reason we went with AMD is that they were faster for some of what we did. We did a lot of raw data crunching, lots of numbers, and huge files. We were dealing with TB and larger sets back in the mid-to-late 2000s. (We did traffic modeling, started with vehicular and then also modeled pedestrian traffic for things like malls and single retail outlets.) The AMDs, even when "slower" dealt with the data better than the Intel offerings at a similar price point. Thus it was more economical, especially with multi-CPU installs, to crunch numbers on the AMDs and the AMDs threaded better for us anyhow. Graphics were not an issue and our internal testing showed the above results (better at the same price point) so we went with AMD and stuck with them.
I could probably find out what they are running now but I am not sure if I would be able to discuss it. I am still covered by an NDA and still covered by a non-compete. I signed those rights away for a longer period than I should have, in retrospect. I would not like to compete so much as I would like to consult which would give me the motivation to learn the many changes that have been made. As it is, I am bored. I am currently learning the Rust language for no good reason other than to poke at it and call it names. I am pretty sure I can write a 'Hello World' in at least 4 dozen languages if we count scripting languages. Maybe even more... Alas, I can think of nothing to do with them. I'd like to make an open source traffic modeling application with a spiffy GUI for small store owners to use - including things like profit scales to assist with product placement. It would be nice if the small owners could make use of this instead of the big companies getting the good "end cap" slots at the most beneficial pricing. Small owners have no idea what they are doing... Straightening out the playing field would be nice.
You, on the other hand, need your own damned custom browser! LOL I am impressed. I think you have some sort of record (for intentional use) with the number of BHOs that you have going.
Have you tried:
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
You can also check the form autofill for Opera - it is very nice and rather full featured. It seems to support multiple profile type things as well. Also, if you use Opera you can install an extension that allows you to use Opera extensions and Chrome extensions so you get the best of both worlds.
As I mentioned above, I would recommend giving Opera a try. It can not hurt to try and it is harmless. I have been happy with it for a very long time and have used it since its early, as in v0.9x version. At least I think that was the first version I tried. Something like 0.9.1 IIRC.
Opera is built in Chromium and is very nice. They have always been cutting edge, usually adding features long before other browsers get them, and this current build is very good. You can get a stable version or the build version. I have not tried the Linux beta version at this time - assuming one is available. This partition is a Windows OS and is using the beta version and it is very stable and nice.
One of the hidden tricks is that you can cheat. There is an extension for Opera that allows you to use any of the Chrome extensions. So far I have been able to use every Chrome extension that I wanted to use and had nary a hiccup or a complaint. They have all worked well and have worked as advertised. I find that Opera seems to be a little heavier than Chrome but, somehow, it seems to run better than Chrome does. I suspect that they have tweaked the threaded processing a bit but I am not certain.
Either way, it is free and easy to try. I have been an Opera fan for a long time and am happy with it (or I would not be using it) so I figured I would share the information. I am not, obviously, affiliated and do not benefit if you use or do not use it. I do wish it were possible to use the sync function to sync settings, history, cookies, saved passwords, extensions, and extension settings. That would be excellent.
Honestly, I had not put much further thought into it but it seems you are likely correct. Perhaps someone should be looking into the planning board and the approvals committee? I wonder if there is a conflict of interest, taxation reasons, or if there is a straight up bribery system in place...
There could, I suppose, be actual laws that are in place that are not motivated by greed but prevent new housing (or renovations) projects from being started. I do not know and it is not my area of expertise.
There could be regulations about health, safety, or environmental impacts that may be a consideration but, honestly, it is probably grift and graft. Another could be some sort of zoning laws that made sense at the time. Stereotypical California would be prime for any one of these considerations.
Hmm... You do not think the companies supplying these millions and millions (across the globe) generators are going to reduce prices with their new higher demand? I do not think it will happen right away but it seems only logical that the price will go down. Of course, if it goes down enough then more people could own them outright and they may not be needed much if there is a crisis where power is lost so you may have a point there.
Additionally, I suspect that the generator and all of its bracing and attachments would weigh much less than the trailer plus all the attachments. The trailer plus the steering mechanisms and suspension is going to weigh quite a bit even before you add the weight of the generator.
As for stealing them... Err... As for securing them... (That is better worded.) There is a variety of ways. Hardened steel rods to secure it to the receiver hitch which is also placed back into the hole when it is not in use and then locked in both positions, that is one way. Another, applicable to towing, would be a combination of the above and a personal wheel-lock device similar to the boot one can get attached for parking violations. There are technological things that can be added, even simple tech, such as starting it with a key or requiring a key fob.
Would these things, attached or towed, have an additional battery? That may not be a bad idea. It would, most likely, need a small battery anyhow (though it could draw starting power from the vehicle but to use it separately would require a battery as people are not going to be pulling on a cord and the compression would likely be quite high with a generator this strong) so just making it a larger battery could have some benefits.
There is the issue of cost. Renting them is likely to be the first option. I could see vendors offering them along with the car, as an added option at the dealer. People could buy one that matched their paint job and would have extra car-specific/model-specific features. While trivial I think that, to a number of people, there is going to be the vanity thing. Getting the generator as OEM would help adoption rates perhaps and then they could be covered by warranties and insurance.
As for stop-and-go traffic that is less of a worry with an EV but there is a lot of energy lost in heat, resistance, and then in getting the mass moving again. The trailer adds a lot of mass but has less friction than the attached battery/generator. Which reminds me of a different conversation I have had in the not-too-distant past.
Another idea that I have heard a few people mention is a towed large-scale battery without the generator... I probably should not bring a new idea in to the conversation as we are already so far removed from the original topic but... Oh well... I think we are the only two paying attention to the thread so we needn't worry about disrupting anyone and, besides, the conversation is a fine one. It makes me pine for the Usenet days when we would sometimes have a multi-topic conversation that would extend for months.
Anyhow, the idea was that the trailer (could also be attached) would hold a very large combination of batteries or a large single battery. The idea was that they could also be stacked so you could tow, for example, four additional charged batteries. This would make it easier to go much further AND ease the changing of batteries at something akin to a gas station. So, where regular people would go for a recharge you would also be able to go and get additional batteries loaded up. Because they are open and exposed you could easily have robotic or machine assisted loading without having to worry about the automobile itself. There could already be trailers sitting there fully loaded that you could just exchange for the one that is partially used. One of the issues that I raised was that safety would be a major (but not insurmountable) risk with these batteries being fairly exposed to damages in case of an accident.
So, there are choices like that which can also be considered. T
To be fair, and honest, the NSA (while detestable) is not going to come knocking on your door unless you are doing something horribly inappropriate according to their rules. I strongly suspect you are not doing anything that they care about. They, on the other hand, are doing something YOU care about and what they are doing is wrong. But, no... They are not going to come knocking on your door at this point in time. Not even if you are pirating software or music. Not even if you badmouth them online - NSA is a bunch of goat fuckers (I will test it and let you know). So you are safe. Hyperbole is not going to help. Just be honest and call them the assholes that they are.
Google, you cunt!
Sorry. I just got done reading the Reddit thread and that needed to come out somewhere. I have absolutely no idea how to solve your problem nor do I know if Google has the answers. I truly am sorry but not enough to not post this. I hope you understand. I am not sure what has come over me but I think it is the Reddit drama and, maybe, futzing about with Linux Mint all morning. It is like a Linux For Dummies operating system, which is nice, I guess... Anyhow, again, sorry for the interruption and name calling. I truly do not mean it personally. Also, I am either a horrible troll or I am trolling horribly. I will that up to you as an exercise of the mind. I am not very good at this trolling stuff...
Umm... Unless I am mistaken that is what they said. Maybe I am reading it wrong? It is in the first sentence...
I hate the practice BUT I think that they should be allowed to include these things provided they are open and honest with the potential customer. They should be required to include the information (outside of the packaging and on advertisements) that says how much space is actually free and how many applications are not able to be removed. I am not a fan of limiting what a business can do by default. So, if they make it clear then I would be okay with it.
Now, not as a demand but as an opinion, I think it would be wise to move to the above type of system. I think that this should also be coupled with an open version which has no applications installed (or can be easily removed) and is easily updated to the newest Android versions as well. They could charge extra for these features. Those phones should also say exactly how much internal storage is available as well. I had an HTC that had something like 32 GB of internal storage and 1/8 or so was already used up with the various applications and whatnot that came with it. Those figures are not, of course, exact but it was kind of surprising how much data was already on the phone and there was not much that I could uninstall.
I would hop on it today if it were an option. Get the price down to $50,000 USD and let me spend at least a week at the ISS and I will go. I will even get a bit more fit, if needed, so that I qualify. I accept the risks that the current gen will blow up and kill me. Where do I sign?