Posted on 03/18/2017 6:04:20 PM PDT by upchuck
It will happen more often in the next 10 yrs.
Power Quality and Internet of Things compromise one another as much as they help each other.
I have a cell phone, but it is almost ALWAYS turned completely off. We need it when there is a power outage and the REAL phone is out. Otherwise, I only use a landline.
I bet that there are many people like us, out there.
They’re typical Jeep products.
The Willys is the closest to roadworthy and the CJ7 us a long term thing.
Parts are murder and being a working person who goes to the office doesn’t help.
16. Raoul Castro.
I not quite sure about Keith Richards though...
5.56mm
“I was talking about the list, what was also talked about on this thread, and what you predicted.”
I will repeat the relevant item on the list. An electronic fob is NOT a piece of brass cut to a specific shape.
Again, I am not making predictions. I am talking about my ‘now’.
1. Keys - Keys, at least in the sense of a piece of brass cut to a specific shape, are going away.
“Call me a Luddite, I don’t care, reading a book, a REAL BOOK, is better than reading on a machine ( iPad and phone, or anything else that they may dream up ),”
Before a trip I can check out several books and albums and they are available on both my tablet and phone.
eBooks can be blue-toothed to my car system. Can you get your wife to read your book to you while you are cruising down the interstate?
Though few people have them now, new "smart houses", supposedly allow one to not only turn on heat, air conditioning, lights, and yes, even unlock doors, prior to the owner reaching the house. I have no idea if this really works/works well, or not. But the opener is still a KEY!
“A key is a key is a key is a key...no matter what it is made out of, nor how it is shaped.”
The author defined a ‘key’. A keyfob does NOT fit his definition.
” But the opener is still a KEY! “
NO. It is a switch!
If I want to hear a story, my spouse would read it to me. But driving needs concentration and I am NOT a big proponent of distractions, whilst driving.
Nor do I ever "listen" to books. I READ THEM!
As I said in another post, I own and have read books that are NOT available on any modern device and probably never shall be. Two, in particular, are extremely special, in that one is about the Court of Emperor Franz Joseph of Hungary. The first owner of that book, was a member of his Court and wrote in the book, refuting some of the parts of it and in other parts, wrote of her own observations re what was being described. The woman left the book to my great grandmother, which is how I have it.
The second book, which belonged to my mother, who bought it second hand, is a First Edition of W.S. Gilbert's BAB BALLADS". In the front of the books, the original owner had cut out and pasted into it, the obits, from many different newspaper, of Sir William's obits.
Lots of luck replicating this, in ANY way, using an eBook or whatever else there is! LOL
Also....when listening to a book ( which I haven't ever done and why I'm now asking this question ), what do they do about footnotes? Do they read them out loud, in the middle of a sentence, or what, when you listen to someone reading the book?
What about books that are from other countries? Can you get books that were written and printed in South Africa, the UK, etc.? What about long out of print books?
What about older things that are opened or locked with a key? Will everyone be made, by law, to throw such things away? If not...there will ALWAYS be keys!
An "opener" only OPENS something. A KEY does both; opens and locks things.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN.
“Also....when listening to a book ( which I haven’t ever done and why I’m now asking this question ), what do they do about footnotes?”
I can’t say 100% but generally footnotes are spoken after a punctionation and typically at the end of a sentence.
“nopardons to TexasGator
What about locking? LOL
An “opener” only OPENS something. A KEY does both; opens and locks things. “
YOU used ‘opener’ not me.
“Lots of luck replicating this, in ANY way, using an eBook or whatever else there is! LOL “
I have all my family photos on my phone. Complete with all the old names, etc., written on the front and back.
>>Power Quality and Internet of Things compromise one another as much as they help each other.
How do they do that?
YUCK...no thanks.
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