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They reported that their systems improved their overall peace of mind. If you’re prone to fretting late at night or while away on vacation, home security systems deliver on their promise of reassurance. That’s not to say there weren’t annoyances — which can become major sore points if you’re interacting with your system every time you leave the house. LiveWatch’s piercing, impossible to mute beeps drew complaints from one tester, as did Link Interactive’s inaccurate digital display. Others, like Vivint and ADT, were easier to incorporate unobtrusively into our daily routines. The majority of home security companies recommend or require you to call when ordering your service. We recommend this as well, because regardless of whether calling beforehand is required, having an attentive lineup of customer service comes in handy, especially when self installing or encountering difficulty with the system. You can often get a lower price by discussing your quote with a salesperson. Sometimes home security systems require an installation fee, equipment fees, or an activation fee. It’s quite common that special deals can waive or lower those. In fact, sales reps from eight of the nine security companies we considered offered us a discount over the phone — we didn’t even have to ask.

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I'll take civility, Cole Porter and clean shaven men over the shorts wearing, two days of stubble, foul mouthed feminists any day yeah, I'm looking at you SharpSince the expression "to hunker down" is fairly new, I guess it will mean whatever people choose it to mean, at least for a while. 11D defined hunkered down as "hid out. " Posts added nuances: Loren: "settle in and get serious"; Anon. 6. 24: "settle in and not emerge"; Hartley70: "gird oneself for a long siege. " All of these additions, I think, suggest not doing anything rash or risky. Thus if you hunker down with studies you will not take on new projects; if you hunker down in a siege you will not lead forays in an attempt to break it. I've heard the term in football. A team, leading by four touchdowns in the third quarter, will hunker down conservative defense, no risky passes on offense and play for the clock to run out. Anon. i.

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Similarly, some aspects of the present technology may be described from the perspective of a client device or a video source, and the corresponding actions performed by the video server would be apparent to one of skill in the art. Furthermore, some aspects of the present technology may be performed by the server system 164, a client device 220, and a video source 222 cooperatively. In some implementations, a video source 222 e. g. , a camera 118 or 106 transmits one or more streams of video data to the server system 164. In some implementations, the one or more streams may include multiple streams, of respective resolutions and/or frame rates, of the raw video captured by the camera 118 or 106.