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Comment expensive but worth it (Score 1) 95

Any of the Sennheiser or Shure wireless packs.

Countryman E6 type headset. Best every

For $700-$800+ you've solved the microphone problem. Look for used, maybe save half.

Maybe a Shure BLX14, $300

An Audio-Technica System 8 might satisfy your needs, $200 +/-

Then go fix your speaker placement and EQ the room. The Countryman likes a slight cut at 600Hz for vocals, choose the capsule cover carefully. The A-T mic I don't know well.

Comment No. Just no. (Score 1) 185

I got to pile on about this.

".dev, .lol, .app, .blog, .cloud and .search." .dev certainly has usefulness well beyond Google. ICANN should refuse this outright. .app? After the fight with Apple, let ICANN deny both of them. .cloud? See .dev for the explanation. .lol? More of the same. .search? Ask Yahoo, Microsoft, and Steve Wolfram about this. .blog? Remarkably tone deaf.

ICANN should specifically refuse not only Google, but any Google-related applicant.

Unimaginable. I'll be looking to file comments on these with the relevant parties.

Comment Re:Not unambiguously bad (Score 2) 318

You obviously are neither a commander nor a soldier.

Soldiers want to kill as easily as possible, lest they be killed.

Commanders want killing to be as easy as possible for their troops, to both win and get troops back.

From the movie 'Patton': "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."

If only Patton had said that.

Comment Re:The banned weapons (Score 2) 318

"If you wound someone, one of their comrades has to drag them back to cover."

This is not universally true. Sometimes killing is an excellent outcome.

And then there is the problem of roles. You can wound a MRAP driver and cause problems, but you'll want to kill the sniper with the first shot, lest they continue shooting.

Comment Re:The biggest challenge? (Score 1) 186

Ditto. My phone is handier than my wallet, and I can pull up Softcard, PIN in, and tap faster than you say 'oh, please....'. And you're gonna be fishing for another penny to save time with exact change.

Disclaimer - I work for a Softcard partner, and am sort of sad to see it go to Google. But hopefully it will become the main competitor to Apple Pay, which is for us an interesting problem. All is not bliss in Apple Pay land.

Comment Re:Cash is so much better. (Score 1) 186

Major retailers track auth processing on the order of milliseconds. Online retailers track them down to tens of microseconds. Most acquirers commit to no more than a 2 second response. Varying from this regularly by 100 milliseconds is a three-alarm emergency. These retailers call them on the carpet when they see this. It's considered 'friction', and they want 'frictionless' transactions. Once you click 'buy', they want this to happen fast fast fast.

In the old days, sonny, a 10 second auth was the goal when your terminal DIALED UP THE AUTH SYSTEM THROUGH A MODEM. USR made a killing selling Total Control model pools with a special warble that would train the terminal modem in 3 seconds. Every other modem struggled to train up a 110 baud connection in 3-6 seconds. With a TC hub, you could hope for a 6 second auth.

If you're waiting more than 6 seconds to see 'APPROVED' on the terminal screen, something is not working as it should. Most likely the retailer.

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