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I think that ship sailed when Gmail kept a “beta” label for five years.
https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/peripheral...
I had been using the S1300M before that, which had held up since 2010 for me.
It took me a while to figure out an alternative for this because so many of the note tools I had seen were focused on just written notes and not the PDF file use case.
I tried self-hosting Paperless, but that seemed like a lot of work too. When we're talking about my document archive here it's a lot of important files and I don't want to be my own SRE just to save myself $100 or so a year.
The best I have now is I upgraded my scanner to a new Fujitsu that OCRs and pushes the files into Dropbox, and paid Dropbox plans have full text search.
Nope. The poison pill allows everyone but the one who triggered the provision to buy shares at a discount. From Twitter's press release:
>In the event that the rights become exercisable due to the triggering ownership threshold being crossed, each right will entitle its holder (other than the person, entity or group triggering the Rights Plan, whose rights will become void and will not be exercisable) to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, additional shares of common stock having a then-current market value of twice the exercise price of the right.
Incidentally my first new car was a Scion and the sales process wasn’t nearly as smooth as they’d like you to think it was.
The extent of the ”Pure Pricing” system was that a dealership posted a menu of the vehicle and service prices, and that was the price you paid. It wasn’t a nationally set price — the dealer could price the car as they wished, and everyone who walks in pays that price.
All that really changed about the dealership experience was that once I picked a car on the lot, there was no price negotiation to do, so they handed me right off to the Toyota dealership’s F&I guy and it was the standard slimy F&I experience from there.
It certainly was not an experience where I was able to go to Scion Dot Com, choose the car, arrange financing and trade-in online, and the delivery appointment is a quick thing where you drop your trade and go. That was the experience with Tesla; I spent all of 15 minutes physically at the store on delivery day and 10 of it was just me adjusting the seats/mirrors and logging into Spotify.
The F&I office at a car dealership is just such a terrible place. Even if they're not outright trying to cheat you like this, they flood the zone with fast talk about options and numbers, with a healthy dollop of scare tactics to get you to buy "protection plans" you don't need. It's this bizarre mix of complimenting you and insulting your intelligence -- "you seem like a smart guy so I'm sure you're looking at the extended protection plan!"
Everything else aside, buying a Tesla was refreshing because I was able to buy a new car on the internet like I'd buy a new blender on Amazon. No "the price is this if you finance and that if you don't," no push for warranties or prepaid service plans, and no obfuscation around finance rates and payments, etc. I ordered and paid for the car online, went to the store to unlock it with my phone, and drove off.
This way it frees up the space used by the application data, without removing it altogether, so that the associated user data can still remain with it.
It’s the same concept as iOS’ feature to offload unused apps, but this appears to be implemented in a way that is backwards compatible with older devices since the Play Store is able to manage the process of replacing and restoring the app package and not the core OS.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-acquired-neve...
All they had to do was live their trademark tagline, "the network is the computer."
Which I learned today was abandoned by Sun or Oracle and was adopted and re-registered as a trademark by Cloudflare in 2019.
The other one I heard of was similar -- someone went from an old beater car to a new Tesla. The old car only had liability coverage and no collision/comprehensive and they didn't change this when replacing the vehicle. They learned this the hard way when making a claim after a crash and having it denied.
I have to imagine this is the result of using a self-service portal from the insurance company. I gotta think that if you spoke to a live human at the insurance firm to make the change, they would not miss an opportunity to sell you additional coverage.
It was a complicated software package that did nothing out of the box and everything required significant configuration of the rule engine to account for the customer’s needs. It shipped with some building blocks for the rule engine but often/always required custom code to facilitate things the customer needed.
My job was to fly out to customer sites and perform the custom implementation tasks.
If the rumors come true and they offer it as a monthly subscription service, I might buy it for a few months at a time for summer road trips. Navigate on Autopilot would make a long drive like that more comfortable.
But otherwise I made the decision on the feature set it has now, and I can’t justify spending 20% of the car’s price on that.
If they brought out the “enhanced autopilot” feature they offered in the EU for roughly equivalent to USD $4000 I’d jump on that in an instant.
It doesn't tell you anything about HRV in the Breathe app or that it took a new sample for you, but you'll find a new entry in the Health app if you go look right afterward.
I used to be on an 80% travel job for work and that stuff would've been the last thing I wanted for home.
I used to work in a Human Genome Project lab. Two of the 1990s workhorse DNA sequencing machines, the Applied Biosystems models 373 & 377, connected to Mac machines of similar vintage (my recollection is we had a lot of Power Mac 7100s, or at least machines in the 7xxx form factor).
IIRC the sequencing instrument had an interface to plug into the LocalTalk port on the Mac, but I might be wrong on this, it's been 20+ years. And the software needed the classic MacOS.
The ABI 373 and 377 are so old and obsolete at this point that you might find one in your local science museum. I know my city's science museum has a display with an ABI 373 from my old lab.
ABI's successor Sanger sequencing machines, models 3700 (1998) and 3730 (2003), had Windows-based companion computers and connected to the instrument via Ethernet port, so you didn't have as much lock-in to super old hardware.
Part of the $2.9B package was Citibank buying $1B worth of air miles to give to their cardmembers.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/american-airlines-ge...
That created a liability on American's books, but because they controlled the redemption policy and capacity (and had an expiration date on miles once issued to customers) that they had some control on how the liability got called in.
That was a tier 4 repair, which the indie Apple authorized repair shop described to me as the repair category for catastrophic damage and basically just a little less than the full replacement cost.
It was a three month old laptop and so I paid the fee, as it was like $150 less than the original cost of the machine and I would’ve had to buy a new one otherwise anyway.
I was a little beat up from the fall and needed a few stitches in my hand, luckily the ER didn’t also deem that to be a tier 4 repair.
One I bought new in 2012, and another I bought a year later for $300 from a used office furniture store.
I found a manufacture date code sticker on the used chair and it was made in 1998. You couldn’t possibly have convinced me it was a 15 year old chair, it has held up ridiculously well.
They’re also really easy to repair; a metric Allen wrench set is pretty much all you need.
Ultimately I sold the iPad to a coworker for $75 less than the eBay price because it was worth it to not have that hassle (and net of commissions/PayPal fees, it wasn’t that big a difference anyway).
My recollection of how the scam worked was that they messaged me after the sale to say the iPad was a gift and could they send it to some other address than the PayPal confirmed address, and also not include any receipt info in the package that could spoil it as a gift.
It looked like the classic drop shipping eBay scam where I’d find out from PayPal that a stolen card was used, the charges would be reversed, and I’d be out the iPad and the money.
I remember a Nextdoor post in my neighborhood where the author said they were out jogging and a black man in a pickup truck slowed down and asked for directions.
So many replies along the lines of “did you call the police? he could be casing the neighborhood.”
I’m pretty certain there wouldn’t have been a Nextdoor post made if it were a white guy in a sedan.
AT&T's network uses 802.1x authentication and the client certs are burned into ROM on the router.
The router has a crappy passthru mode where it gives your own device the external IP and sends any traffic to it, but under the hood it maintains its own (rather small capacity) NAT table for all the traffic. There's not a real bridge mode.
Some more technically inclined folks have come up with solutions like a proxy that just forwards 802.1x traffic to the router so it can respond, or rooting the AT&T box and pulling the certs out of ROM so you can use them to auth on your own network device.