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Comment Antietam Alternatives (Score 1) 25

Depending on where you live (yes, in Hagerstown), you might have access options from Comcast (shudder), Telegia (wireless, LOS required), Hagerstown Fiber (chunk of the north end and out Salem Ave.) and even painful Verizon (1998 called and wants their DSL back).

What would be nice to have a hybrid solution...fiber where available, some wireless mesh to build out and figure expansion routes.

Believe Wireless (https://www.believebroadband.com/) has a nice solution for parts of Baltimore...

Comment Finally (Score 1) 25

Speaking as an Antietam (https://www.antietambroadband.com/) customer...

This is probably as much to try and fend off the growing fiber competition...as a gesture of good will.

Wish/Fishing I still lived in a neighborhood with Hagerstown Fiber (https://hagerstownfiber.com/) as an option. Guess the $10/month I'll save now... will cover VPN service.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 132

if/when some of these "kids" have their own 13y/o daughters, they will think differently.

funny how we old people have clear lines about nudity and age.

Comment About the only possibly way to botch Glass more (Score 2) 193

Don't forget that after abandoning Glass and the Explorers who paid a significant overcharge with the expectation of above-average service and support, Glass was "transitioned" to Fadell.

Look where that got Glass - even more dead than it was when the Explorers program was canned with a device that was LESS functional than it was when it shipped to most users. (KitKat on Glass was a clusterfuck of epic proportions, it destroyed battery life, stability, and performance, and they never got it to perform anywhere close to what it delivered when running ICS. What's worse, the fixes they DID managed to get in over the summer of 2014 to make it suck less all got reverted out for the final software update in September/October 2014 or so, which rendered units near-useless. When delivered, my Glass unit easily got 24 hours of battery life with my typical usage patterns. After the final software update - my unit would usually run out of battery in 8 hours of sitting on a shelf doing absolutely nothing.)

Comment Doomed from the beginning (Score 3, Informative) 62

"One aspect of its refreshed strategy is to have two co-presidents, with two distinct strategies for China and the rest of the world."

This should have been the strategy from the beginning. The Chinese domestic market and the global market are vastly different. Cheap unmaintained crap with a glossy UI painted over a broken core does great in China, but Westerners hate it.

Similarly, the "clean" UI preferred by Westerners is hated in Asian countries, especially China.

Moto declined because its customers began seeing evidences of "Chinaficiation" - Lenovo fired Motorola's applications team who knew how to make "value add" additions to Android without falling into the "Touchwiz Trap", and then continued with a rapid-fire string of early EOLs from a manufacturer whose recent successes in the West entirely were due to a reputation of "affordable but not crap with rapid updates".

Comment Re:If not now... (Score 5, Insightful) 1023

Yup. This isn't really a valid argument against increasing the minimum wage.

At worst, it merely hastens the inevitable by a few years, but this is going to happen.

This is relevant to the current election cycle for multiple reasons - free trade agreements are a major source of contention, and Trump talks about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US - the problem is, as the recent massive Foxconn layoffs proved, the majority of those jobs are NEVER coming back no matter what you do, unless you enact a New Jersey-style law against automation. (New Jersey requires all gas stations to be full-service, you cannot pump your own gas. One of the reasons for this rather unique law is to create jobs.)

Comment Re:Zuckerman suppresses evidence? (Score 1) 346

Everything about this story is that it's a hit attempt by someone who got laid off.

1) FORMER employees
2) ANONYMOUS former employees - even though they are no longer employed by the company, they are not willing to identify themselves. It's pretty clear they know they would lose a libel lawsuit if their identity became known.

Comment Re:So how do they plain to fix wronged people? (Score 2) 177

I don't think there's any "record" for parking tickets unless they are chronically unpaid.

Also, as the article author states, when these erroneous tickets have been challenged, the city did not fight them.

Of course, there are the people who didn't realize the rule changed and thought they were parking illegally...

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