Comment Re:They might have a problem with this in NYS.... (Score 1) 562
And thanks to Visa for getting that law passed! Now they just raise everyone's prices!
Amazon's primary driver to their market is a free app a day. The catch is that you cannot use these apps (at least none of the 30 differnet ones I tested) unless (a)you're online and logged into the amazon app store.
That's interesting to hear. Perhaps it's not as widespread as it used to be, because I've claimed several of those free apps and have no problem running them while in airplane mode. The apps I've tried are Gem Spinner, infeCCt, Seven Stars, Pig Blaster, and Candy Swipe. Gem Spinner did have a point where I had to reconnect to the network to download additional levels, but that's the only issue I've run in to so far.
Amazon App Store is terrible, both for consumers (try using apps offline), and developers (too much to even start mentioning.)
I'm curious what exactly you mean by this. I'll admit that I'm no developer and have no idea how developers are treated, but I have the Amazon App Store on my Galaxy Tab and have had zero problems with any of the apps running when offline. I'll admit that I only have a little over a dozen apps from them so far but with how widespread you make the problems sound, I would expect that would be enough to encounter the problem.
The DOE has a report showing that 77% of the light vehicle fleet in the US could switch over to electric and could be charged at night without any additional base load generation facilities. So, nobody is going to need to build additional coal fired power plants.
Yeah, so you just need to stop at the charging station overnight in order to be able to drive from LA to SF.
"The top apps at Chomp for the search terms 'restaurant guide': Yelp, Urbanspoon, and Zagat, just as you'd expect."
I think you're confusing what we hope for with what we expect. Those are what we hope for, but the army survival guide really is what we expect from a search.
It was only fairly recently that it became impossible to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, yet up to that point somehow the situation you described never came to pass.
It was also only fairly recently that the prospect of being able to earn enough money through work in order to pay for college became impossible. The cost of education ballooning so high has caused the amount of debt to become unreasonable, which is why the banks had to force the loans to be lifelong.
Allow discharge in bankruptcy (which is Constitutional, by the way; the current state is not). Suddenly two things happen:
Actually only one thing will happen. Students who graduate, who typically have little to no assets, and tens (to hundreds) of thousands of dollars in debt will all declare bankruptcy immediately upon graduation to discharge that debt. Sure, they'll have credit problems for a while, but the benefits from discharging that debt will far outweigh the costs. Yeah, great plan, until all lending institutions completely stop all student lending.
Frankly we need to raise the retirement age to 80 NOW. Make the boomers work for another 25 years or retire on their own money.
What do you suppose the younger people who would have taken those jobs will do?
Maybe they'll go back for some arithmatic lessons.
But still, at least it was complex enough that the housekeeping staff wouldn't ordinarily be able to do it.
Depends on where you go and what you're doing. My brother was at a wedding in Mexico at a resort, and during the wedding, everyone who was registered as a guest for the wedding had their rooms and safes cleaned out. It was mainly laptops that were taken, as cameras were at the wedding and people were wearing their jewelry. Sure they all filed a report with the hotel, but it didn't matter.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
