jdeibele

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by jdeibele 11y ago
The one thing that drives me mad about the Chromebooks is Google Cloud Print. We don't use it very often and every time we do, it's broken. I don't know if it's something in our Brother printer or on the Chromebooks
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I never tried FireFox Portable ... hmmm, looks like it requires a Windows machine (or a Linux box running Wine) That might have been interesting if Mozilla had been able to get it to run on Macs. We have a spare/guest Chromebook and it
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by jdeibele 11y ago
My daughter lost a morning's work because she didn't save her composition in Microsoft Word (I think) on a MacBook. She's used to Google Docs automatically saving everything for her on her Chromebook. I'm sure that Mic
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by jdeibele 11y ago
In your experience, what makes a Chromebook break? My two daughters love their Chromebooks but they both cracked their screens. I suspect one was picked up by the lid, which you can do with a tablet but not a laptop. I ended up replacin
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Diesel in the US has a red dye added if it's for agricultural use. "Detection of red-dyed fuel in the fuel system of an on-road vehicle will incur substantial penalties." Presumably you have to piss off a cop in your diesel
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Wow. Many people don't want to try and keep up with the absolute latest security issues and don't have the bandwidth for even the most trivial DDOS attack. You can host with companies a lot smaller than Google or Amazon. Let some
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Columbia House Owner Files for Bankruptcy(wsj.com)
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by jdeibele 11y ago
One concern would be connectivity. Maybe you could read Hacker News via an (expensive) satellite hookup but it seems like it would be more difficult to have streaming video. Areas that are depopulating wouldn't seem like good candi
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by jdeibele 11y ago
One of the reasons that taxis are licensed is that they're supposed to pick up everyone and anyone. Uber and Lyft don't seem to have that problem with race (AFAIK) but there are two other situations where people have trouble: (1
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by jdeibele 11y ago
My understanding is that they use http://www.yodlee.com for getting information from your accounts. That's pretty much what everybody does. I turned it off and deleted my data because the bank or brokerage would change so
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I pay for the NY Times and use an ad blocker. They cover a lot of subjects that wouldn't be covered any other way. I agree it'd be nice to not have ads but there are other people who find them interesting. That's one of t
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by jdeibele 11y ago
The caller didn't get the new number, they repeatedly called the old number until it was changed. Or that's how I read it. The wording is a little confusing.
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by jdeibele 12y ago
That seems simplistic. What I've seen is the jack-of-all-trades is necessary at the start. As things progress, another person - or multiple people - are assigned to each of those "trades". But it's not just that it&#
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by jdeibele 12y ago
I have more trouble understanding what my daughters are saying than my son. My daughters are in Spanish Immersion programs while he's in Japanese. My oldest says that she's just used to using Spanish and that's why her En
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by jdeibele 12y ago
Thanks for calling attention to this. I've been frustrated by it. One thing that I did was let LastPass generate 32 random characters for the password but used it to change the username. I depend on LastPass to remember that. It&
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by jdeibele 12y ago
Surprised that nobody has mentioned BatteriesPlus. Checking their website, they have at least 586 stores selling batteries - cell phone, laptop, car, etc. - and light bulbs. Focusing in those areas seems exactly what RadioShack could and
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by jdeibele 12y ago
Anecdotally: My 12-year-old daughter uses her phone to text friends and her Android tablet (Nook running Cyanogenmod) to read books from the library in the Kindle app. She's constantly dragging around a Chromebook because "it ha
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by jdeibele 12y ago
I've also found it the worst at handling temporary connection issues. Dropbox, Box, etc. will start up as soon as they see internet without a problem but Google Drive will just sit there until I quit and restart it.
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by jdeibele 13y ago
The companies could have not conspired to keep salaries down and the people could buy things with their own money.
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by jdeibele 13y ago
I think a big let-down is that there's still no pricing available for the car. I see estimates from third parties that it's expected to be 5-10% more than a comparable Model S but there's nothing official that I can find. T
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by jdeibele 13y ago
I've only rented a storage unit a couple of times but for me there were two factors: one was knowing the history of everything that was in it. And the other was that I had chosen those items. I liked knowing that nothing was damaged i
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by jdeibele 13y ago
I have two daughters, a niece and a nephew who might be moving from Spanish Immersion this fall to classes that are more rigorous in math, science, etc. Maybe I'm your target audience., maybe not. When I look at your website, the la
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by jdeibele 13y ago
In Texas? IANAL, let alone a Texas attorney but http://www.bhlaw.net/articles/basics_of_zoning_in_texas.pdf seems to say yes.
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by jdeibele 13y ago
Right. And you can add "+whatever" to the end. But he mentions that the other person has a hyphen in their address. More info from Google on "." and "+" at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008
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by jdeibele 13y ago
Siblings of the aunt.
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by jdeibele 13y ago
That's the estimated cost to build it. I'd guess double it for operating expenses - maintenance, security personnel, etc.
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by jdeibele 13y ago
It would be interesting to know how the process would go - if he just accepted an offer, then Nissan might take him to court saying he was squatting on the name. Or he might be OK if they approached him first. IANAL. http:/&#x2F
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by jdeibele 13y ago
So why is a woman from Canada looking at this kid's facebook page?
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by jdeibele 13y ago
Or it goes to the CEO. Locally the head of OnPoint - formerly Portland Teachers Credit Union - makes $2 million a year. http://www.oregoncreditunionfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/OnP...
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by jdeibele 13y ago
Yeah, except that the cost of power to run those machines can be significant. The most obvious difference would be reducing consumption by replacing a CRT monitor with an LCD. That should have minor effect on Ubuntu ... today ... maybe.

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