I bet you think I ought to buy a new Windows key and media every time I Have to reinstall windows too.
Microsoft stopped laminating the key labels so you can't even read most of them anymore.
How many people are on your netflix account? Netflix now sells service on this fact. In fact if you say you are the only one that uses the netflix account you are penalized with no hd video.
Amazon allows sharing and now that i'm looking into it more it looks like amazon now lets you share content through "Family Library". Exactly like what I wanted to do.
Its not stealing its not theft its not illegal its not even morally wrong and amazon even provides an easy way to do it now: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/... So apparently they're ok with it too.
So is there any reason why I shouldn't be able to use multiple accounts? Nope not really. Like I said its just android thats screwed up. It works fine on everything else It even shows on amazon's website that I am supposed to be able to do it just for some reason I can't. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/....
On a single verizon lte connection ive run 2 netflix streams and youtube without issue it often runs in the 20mbps range yet it has trouble smoothly streaming a single twitch stream.
Yeah when amazon bumped the price from $79 to $99 shoprunner ran a special all you had to do was send them your amazon prime receipt and they would give you a free year of shoprunner.
Shoprunner only covers 3 stores I have ever bought online from newegg, tiger direct and staples.
I did not even bother to sign up since then ive bought 5 ink ribbons from staples (that was enough to qualify for free ship) because I haven't found anywhere else that can keep fresh dot matrix ink ribbons.
But that's about it I just don't need the things they sell all that often.
Yeah thats one of the problems with buying from amazon instead of ebay.
On amazon you always get a stock photo if you get a photo at all.
On ebay you always get a picture of the item itself unless the seller has a bunch of whatever it is.
Also with amazon you have no idea how fresh food items are Twizzlers are often dry and hard wish I could get them fresh for as cheap as amazon but the local sam's club never seems to have any and they are not well sealed so they don't keep well.
A screwed up listing I can think of off hand is the listing for the 180 ct tub of twizzlers. Twizzlers also makes a 180ct cardboard box and some nitwits have taken up selling them under the same listing. Id fix it myself but i think you have to have a seller account to do that now. I seem to remember being able to fix them years ago without one.
I have also had good luck with returns. Just fyi amazon a single sealed air packing bag on one side is not sufficient protection for 4 fluorescent bulbs but I still don't know how ups only broke one of them on the way.
I had amazon to loose one of my packages between the fulfillment center and ups (I had paid extra for 1 day shipping) about 2 months ago after it hadn't arrived a week later I contacted amazon and they refunded my shipping cost and the full cost of the order but they could only reorder one of the items I had purchased I had to reorder the rest my self.
I wonder what happened to that box. I don't think amazon was ever able to find it...it still shows to be in transit now.
I did receive a sim card cutter that was missing some parts and amazon sent me a second one free of charge.
Thats all the problems I can think of that I have had getting things in the mail from amazon.
Keep in mind I am up to 99 orders this year and I have had problems with 3 in the since ive been using amazon I think they are doing pretty good on average.
Well I didn't use to buy much of anything from amazon because their standard shipping is much slower than the standard shipping methods on ebay.
Even if you pay extra for "expedited" ebay's "fast and free" is still faster.
The fact that amazon sellers can call usps priority mail expedited is BS.
What do I buy? well whatever I happen to need at the time for example the last 10 things I bought on amazon.
1 trunk lift support. (yep had one to break)
1 lithium jump starter. (never had lithium type before should be interesting)
10 ballasts for f96t12 lights.
10 ballasts for f32t8 lights.
3 usb on the go cables.
1 network cable tester.
1 usb otg adapter for a galaxy tab.
1 usb htpc keyboard.
1 replacement laptop screen. (mines not broken it just has these dark spots that are spreading through the screen never seen anything like it)
1 toshiba laptop battery.
the last 10 things I bought on ebay.
3 galaxy note chargers. (used all the other 3)
1 toshiba laptop battery.
1 sanyo tv remote. (another model)
1 sanyo tv remote.
4 lowering blocks for a trailer.
4 10" long u bolts w/nuts and washers.
1 set of guitar string through ferrules.
3 galaxy note chargers.
1 spring assisted pocket knife.
1 philips tv remote.
Neither amazon or ebay have been able to figure out what I like to buy but that doesn't stop them from making recommendations.
Amazon seems to think I need some hdmi cables. I already have plenty.
Ebay seems to think I need a new set of clothes. But I don't like to buy clothes online no one ever bothered to standardise the sizes.....someone really really needs to standardise the clothing sizes. At the very least If I buy 3 shirt brand shirts in 3 different colors they should all be the same size.
Wow Im up to 99 amazon orders this year only 85 last year.....I didn't realise i had been using it that much more.
Still that's way behind my ebay account with 147 orders this year and I am well on my way to beating last years record of 236 orders.
Netflix/Prime sub for 1 year 8 months.
I order a lot of things I would otherwise get on ebay on amazon with the 2day ship and if I can't get it with the faster shipping I get it on ebay for the cheaper rate because amazons shipping from 3rd parties is very slow compared to the standard 3 day shipping on ebay. (ebay fast and free, us only)
Ever thought about sharing the parts of amazon prime you don't use?
I don't use prime music the selection sucks but my sister likes it and she has a lot of expensive ebooks for school on her amazon account.
Lucky for her one of those ebooks was so expensive it came with a free one year prime sub. SSO is a rarther moot point for the next 8 months or so.
Also amazon likes to remind you of the prime benefits you aren't using or can't use.
For instance the kindle owners lending library is a prime benefit I have a kindle app on my ipad but since it is not a "kindle" I am not allowed to use the library despite having paid for it.
What RDW said about stripping the drm from the books and having them saved on the device is the best idea I have heard so far.
Yeah I would expect a minimum accuracy to be +-100ft. Ideal would be +-10ft most equipment won't do that especially none of the cheaper stuff.
And I would hope that a gov't requirement would bring the cost's down due to volume like it did with the led light bulbs.
But as a poster noted above unlevel terrain would be a problem in places (grand canyon).
While it should be cheap enough to geofence around areas the height limit may be a bit of a problem.
Height above ground seems silly in some places and height above sea level would just be ridiculous.
Maybe a mean height for a area? Or maybe you could have it self calibrate on take off for ground level. Although that would mean if you landed it on the bottom of the grand canyon you would have to walk it back up the walls if you could find a ledge big enough to sit it on 500ft at a time.
Having the drone self set the ground level on take off seems most likely as its both cheap and easy to implement and it has its downsides. If you were to launch your drone from a 500ft cell tower you could get to 1000ft.
A mean geographical average would be harder to implement but shouldn't have as wide a variance as self setting.
I was going to ask you where you were getting led's so cheaply. But I checked the math first.
I can get one 65w equivalent led bulb for $7.84 or I can get four 65w bulbs for $7.88.
Assuming energy cost of $0.10/kwh and 4hr/day usage the 55w difference in power usage adds up to a savings of $8.01/year.
I'm replacing mine as they burn out even with their low cost it seems a waste to throw out a perfectly good lightbulb and the newer led bulbs are a near perfect match to the incandescent bulbs I have 6 recessed fixtures in my living room and one of them is a led but you can't tell which one it is!
I Have got to say I really didn't think the turn around time would be that short. Thanks for pointing that out.
I would like my cellphone to be able to answer calls itself and play music while letting you know if my phone is on silent or not and ring at the same time.
I suppose you could set it up to do voicemail locally but who uses voicemail anyway?
Since they came out with ethanol added gasoline I have found it more important to get ethanol free fuel than get a cheaper price.
Have you seen what ethanol does when it sits?
It separates and trashes lawnmowers/chainsaws/weedeaters/generators and anything that goes any length of time between starts.
What ive noticed is high traffic areas tend to have ethanol added (near walmart) and everywhere else that actually needs the fuel to bring the traffic has ethanol free fuel.
I can't figure out why the advertisers themselves don't have a problem with this. They paid a premium to place their ad on the front page and they are getting shafted by YouTube as you have to watch another companies ad beforehand.
You think I'm going to watch an ad just so I can watch another ad? No your crazy but Chevrolet should be pissed that I had to watch a ad for orkin before I could see the ad they paid for on the YouTube homepage.
I was just trying to point out that even if the spying is done on regular civilians it can still put them in harms way not as commonly as if you were spying on the military but harm still the same.
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Why yes I can now that I know it exists. I didn't yesterday. Thanks for the tip.
I bet you think I ought to buy a new Windows key and media every time I Have to reinstall windows too.
Microsoft stopped laminating the key labels so you can't even read most of them anymore.
How many people are on your netflix account?
Netflix now sells service on this fact.
In fact if you say you are the only one that uses the netflix account you are penalized with no hd video.
Amazon allows sharing and now that i'm looking into it more it looks like amazon now lets you share content through "Family Library". Exactly like what I wanted to do.
Its not stealing its not theft its not illegal its not even morally wrong and amazon even provides an easy way to do it now: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/... So apparently they're ok with it too.
So is there any reason why I shouldn't be able to use multiple accounts? Nope not really. Like I said its just android thats screwed up. It works fine on everything else It even shows on amazon's website that I am supposed to be able to do it just for some reason I can't. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/....
So Facebook you.
On a single verizon lte connection ive run 2 netflix streams and youtube without issue it often runs in the 20mbps range yet it has trouble smoothly streaming a single twitch stream.
Yes adsl is for cows http://www.flexit.co.uk/case_s... Maybe someday fiber will be for humans.
Yeah when amazon bumped the price from $79 to $99 shoprunner ran a special all you had to do was send them your amazon prime receipt and they would give you a free year of shoprunner.
Shoprunner only covers 3 stores I have ever bought online from newegg, tiger direct and staples.
I did not even bother to sign up since then ive bought 5 ink ribbons from staples (that was enough to qualify for free ship) because I haven't found anywhere else that can keep fresh dot matrix ink ribbons.
But that's about it I just don't need the things they sell all that often.
Third party listing's.
Yeah thats one of the problems with buying from amazon instead of ebay.
On amazon you always get a stock photo if you get a photo at all.
On ebay you always get a picture of the item itself unless the seller has a bunch of whatever it is.
Also with amazon you have no idea how fresh food items are Twizzlers are often dry and hard wish I could get them fresh for as cheap as amazon but the local sam's club never seems to have any and they are not well sealed so they don't keep well.
A screwed up listing I can think of off hand is the listing for the 180 ct tub of twizzlers. Twizzlers also makes a 180ct cardboard box and some nitwits have taken up selling them under the same listing. Id fix it myself but i think you have to have a seller account to do that now. I seem to remember being able to fix them years ago without one.
I have also had good luck with returns. Just fyi amazon a single sealed air packing bag on one side is not sufficient protection for 4 fluorescent bulbs but I still don't know how ups only broke one of them on the way.
I had amazon to loose one of my packages between the fulfillment center and ups (I had paid extra for 1 day shipping) about 2 months ago after it hadn't arrived a week later I contacted amazon and they refunded my shipping cost and the full cost of the order but they could only reorder one of the items I had purchased I had to reorder the rest my self.
I wonder what happened to that box.
I don't think amazon was ever able to find it...it still shows to be in transit now.
I did receive a sim card cutter that was missing some parts and amazon sent me a second one free of charge.
Thats all the problems I can think of that I have had getting things in the mail from amazon.
Keep in mind I am up to 99 orders this year and I have had problems with 3 in the since ive been using amazon I think they are doing pretty good on average.
Well I didn't use to buy much of anything from amazon because their standard shipping is much slower than the standard shipping methods on ebay.
Even if you pay extra for "expedited" ebay's "fast and free" is still faster.
The fact that amazon sellers can call usps priority mail expedited is BS.
What do I buy? well whatever I happen to need at the time
for example the last 10 things I bought on amazon.
1 trunk lift support. (yep had one to break)
1 lithium jump starter. (never had lithium type before should be interesting)
10 ballasts for f96t12 lights.
10 ballasts for f32t8 lights.
3 usb on the go cables.
1 network cable tester.
1 usb otg adapter for a galaxy tab.
1 usb htpc keyboard.
1 replacement laptop screen. (mines not broken it just has these dark spots that are spreading through the screen never seen anything like it)
1 toshiba laptop battery.
the last 10 things I bought on ebay.
3 galaxy note chargers. (used all the other 3)
1 toshiba laptop battery.
1 sanyo tv remote. (another model)
1 sanyo tv remote.
4 lowering blocks for a trailer.
4 10" long u bolts w/nuts and washers.
1 set of guitar string through ferrules.
3 galaxy note chargers.
1 spring assisted pocket knife.
1 philips tv remote.
Neither amazon or ebay have been able to figure out what I like to buy but that doesn't stop them from making recommendations.
Amazon seems to think I need some hdmi cables.
I already have plenty.
Ebay seems to think I need a new set of clothes.
But I don't like to buy clothes online no one ever bothered to standardise the sizes.....someone really really needs to standardise the clothing sizes. At the very least If I buy 3 shirt brand shirts in 3 different colors they should all be the same size.
Wow Im up to 99 amazon orders this year only 85 last year.....I didn't realise i had been using it that much more.
Still that's way behind my ebay account with 147 orders this year and I am well on my way to beating last years record of 236 orders.
Netflix/Prime sub for 1 year 8 months.
I order a lot of things I would otherwise get on ebay on amazon with the 2day ship and if I can't get it with the faster shipping I get it on ebay for the cheaper rate because amazons shipping from 3rd parties is very slow compared to the standard 3 day shipping on ebay. (ebay fast and free, us only)
Ever thought about sharing the parts of amazon prime you don't use?
I don't use prime music the selection sucks but my sister likes it and she has a lot of expensive ebooks for school on her amazon account.
Lucky for her one of those ebooks was so expensive it came with a free one year prime sub.
SSO is a rarther moot point for the next 8 months or so.
Also amazon likes to remind you of the prime benefits you aren't using or can't use.
For instance the kindle owners lending library is a prime benefit I have a kindle app on my ipad but since it is not a "kindle" I am not allowed to use the library despite having paid for it.
What RDW said about stripping the drm from the books and having them saved on the device is the best idea I have heard so far.
Having a single login for 30 websites is somehow better?
I rather take my chances with a unique combo for each site.
I Always figured it just meant they were just too lazy to set something up in house and or secure it.
That does sound plausible although I think it protects the company more so than the user.
I wanted to use one account for ebooks and another for everything else. Works fine on ios but android has single sign on that can't be disabled.
So.....Now i have two $99 amazon prime subs.
Can anyone please tell me how to break single sign on on android?
Yeah I would expect a minimum accuracy to be +-100ft.
Ideal would be +-10ft most equipment won't do that especially none of the cheaper stuff.
And I would hope that a gov't requirement would bring the cost's down due to volume like it did with the led light bulbs.
But as a poster noted above unlevel terrain would be a problem in places (grand canyon).
While it should be cheap enough to geofence around areas the height limit may be a bit of a problem.
Height above ground seems silly in some places and height above sea level would just be ridiculous.
Maybe a mean height for a area? Or maybe you could have it self calibrate on take off for ground level. Although that would mean if you landed it on the bottom of the grand canyon you would have to walk it back up the walls if you could find a ledge big enough to sit it on 500ft at a time.
Having the drone self set the ground level on take off seems most likely as its both cheap and easy to implement and it has its downsides. If you were to launch your drone from a 500ft cell tower you could get to 1000ft.
A mean geographical average would be harder to implement but shouldn't have as wide a variance as self setting.
I can't seem to login to my account anymore.
Apparently they don't believe my name really is Ikate Facebork.
Why do so many sites require facebook for login? Why can't they setup their own login system?
I was going to ask you where you were getting led's so cheaply.
But I checked the math first.
I can get one 65w equivalent led bulb for $7.84 or I can get four 65w bulbs for $7.88.
Assuming energy cost of $0.10/kwh and 4hr/day usage the 55w difference in power usage adds up to a savings of $8.01/year.
I'm replacing mine as they burn out even with their low cost it seems a waste to throw out a perfectly good lightbulb and the newer led bulbs are a near perfect match to the incandescent bulbs I have 6 recessed fixtures in my living room and one of them is a led but you can't tell which one it is!
I Have got to say I really didn't think the turn around time would be that short. Thanks for pointing that out.
Many ad networks ignore the DNT flag as microsoft made it the default on new installations. So they don't consider it a valid user opt out
Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
I would like my cellphone to be able to answer calls itself and play music while letting you know if my phone is on silent or not and ring at the same time.
I suppose you could set it up to do voicemail locally but who uses voicemail anyway?
Text or call back later. No voicemail!
what does the fox say?
Where do you find information on the internet?
Its full of trolls.
Yesterday I needed to find the windows setting to turn off the critical battery level shutoff.
The full first page of google "disable low battery shutdown windows 7" (with exception of superuser.com)
consists of OMG WHY WANT DO THAT U SO STUPID.
Just fyi its required to calibrate the battery meter on many computers.
If google sent you here this is what you need;
powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_BATTERY BATACTIONCRIT 0
and
powercfg -H off
Your welcome.
Since they came out with ethanol added gasoline I have found it more important to get ethanol free fuel than get a cheaper price.
Have you seen what ethanol does when it sits?
It separates and trashes lawnmowers/chainsaws/weedeaters/generators and anything that goes any length of time between starts.
What ive noticed is high traffic areas tend to have ethanol added (near walmart) and everywhere else that actually needs the fuel to bring the traffic has ethanol free fuel.
Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/951/
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Its kind of like the classic control panel.
Also if your looking for the windows updates settings in windows 10 they moved it into the settings app it can't be found by search.
I can't figure out why the advertisers themselves don't have a problem with this. They paid a premium to place their ad on the front page and they are getting shafted by YouTube as you have to watch another companies ad beforehand.
You think I'm going to watch an ad just so I can watch another ad? No your crazy but Chevrolet should be pissed that I had to watch a ad for orkin before I could see the ad they paid for on the YouTube homepage.
Yes you are correct.
I was just trying to point out that even if the spying is done on regular civilians it can still put them in harms way not as commonly as if you were spying on the military but harm still the same.
Lets call these people A B and C.
A works for the nsa.
B is A's Girlfriend who is cheating on A with C.
C is the other guy.
A uses the nsa's database to keep track of B during the day.
I imagine that when A discovers B's calls to C's number there might be a murder.
"NSA analysts spied on spouses, girlfriend"
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
But they are just imaginary people so I suppose its ok.