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Memorial Day in the USA is not a solemn event.

Sometimes firing the worst 10% of your workforce can be a good thing. However, doing it every year like Jack Welch might be a bit much.

Who is your provider?

I think the Echo will become a lot more powerful when people develop more "skills" for it. We did a hackathon at work to develop echo skills. I was busy, so I didn't participate, but it seemed like it was pretty easy to develop new things pretty easily.

I think I'll just continue to use a mouse or touchscreen to interact with my devices. I use Google Now to setup reminders once in a while and it usually takes longer than just doing it manually.

Amazon User Profile with no purchases.

I'm pretty sure my phone does this also. What if you plug your phone into a charger, does it still happen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#Toyota

I had the G3 before. It definitely is quite a bit faster.

I redeemed it, but haven't gotten it yet.

No G5, that sucks.

The house we bought has a bunch of cat5e runs that I want to make use of. However, they all were used for phone connections and none of them are labeled. I spent several hours on Saturday with a tone generator figuring out where they go. I think I can have an Ethernet jack in every room that I...

Same models I think. I replaced the mouse because my daughter dropped it a few too many times. I can't remember if I replaced the keyboard or not.

Buy a Ubiquiti UniFi AP and disable the WiFi on your router.

What kind of router do you have?

Once the star's energy was gone couldn't the planet use the the energy to move out of the gravitational well somehow?

I have an Eames lounge chair that I sit in and use the mouse on a side table. It works pretty well for me.

I just use a regular Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse.

Did time's account get hacked by Prof.Wizard? Pretty entertaining argument.

Download looks good, upload could definitely use some work.

RCN is a real competitor in the city of Chicago. I could have probably gotten a better deal with them, but it would have been a bigger hassle.

YouTube screw up the mobile view. Instead of going directly to the anchor of the latest post it always scrolls to the top.

I just threatened Comcast and now I'll get a 75Mbps internet connection, Xfinity TV with 220 channels, and phone service I don't want for $110/month + a ton of taxes and fees. All in we were paying ~$180/month for 25Mbps and basically the same channel lineup before. It would be pretty nice if...

You caught me.

Technically, it's a townhouse with one shared wall. There's a 20 story condo building about 50 feet from where I'm sitting. I'm guessing a lot of these signals are coming from there, e.g. apt912 is probably on the 9th floor. My neighborhood is fairly dense as well, especially where we live...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

Yes, I will cover my floor to ceiling windows with tin foil.

Seems like quite a few of my neighbors APs are propagating into my house.

I think a lot of this depends on the home or apartment. My new home is built from reinforced concrete and the propagation is decent with a single Ubiquiti UniFi LR AP, however, there are places upstairs that don't get a good signal.

Higher frequencies have less propagation.

I've had problems getting it to work with IE10 and IE11 also. If you change the user agent it works. I have a join.me subscription, so I usually use that. https://appear.in/ This is free and doesn't require any software to share or view a screenshare. I don't think it can do fullscreen though.

Ideally, I could buy a cheap android tablet as the media appliance. Would any of the software you recommended work with that?

No, I don't want to store anything on the appliance. If it can mount an NFS share that would be best.

We bought a house and moved in on Sunday. We have in ceiling speakers connected to an older Denon receiver. I'd like to get some kind of appliance to play music with that can sit in the cabinet and be remotely controlled from an android phone or computer. I have all my music on a desktop that...

You can use Slack with the webclient, but there's also clients for OSX, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone. Slack is a hosted solution, so you don't have to worry about backup, administration, etc. Email is a terrible solution for group chat or even direct communication. With...

You can use Slack with the webclient, but there's also clients for OSX, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone. Slack is a hosted solution, so you don't have to worry about backup, administration, etc. Email is a terrible solution for group chat or even direct communication. With...

You can setup a free Slack team account. It has limitations on the number of messages that it will store, but it's a good way to test it out. If your team decides they like it, then you can convert your free account to a paid account and get access to all your messages. Hipchat is alright too...

Not all communication tools are created equal. Slack is the best tool I've used.

I hope you saved a ton. I think I'll continue to shop on amazon. Microcenter if they have an amazing price.

You can still tip after the ride if you want to. Install Lyft as well and then if Uber has high surge pricing check Lyft. I switch between them pretty regularly. I also find Lyft drivers to be friendlier in general.

I fly in and out of Midway most of the time. It's closer to the Loop than O'hare and way less of a hassle for me. If you fly in there you can take the Orange Line downtown in about 30-40 minutes.

To expand on that, when I travel for work I never check a bag, sit near the front of the plane, and take cabs or Uber/Lyft. It's really not that bad if you do it right. I just find long flights boring, especially when the plane's WiFi is not working.

Tell your friends to pay for a cab, the train, or an Uber.

Get an android tablet and root it.

Oregon

I flew Chicago to Portland a couple weeks ago and I'm doing it again next week. 4.5hrs on the way out there is quite long for me.

Are you afraid of flying?

What if you want to refinance your mortgage, buy a new house, or finance a car?

Coug, can you now think about moving to Office 365?

I live in Chicago about 2 hours north of Champaign. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs. I've been to Champaign a few times, but not in the last 10 years.