No, But that didn't stop people with nothing but a a panning pan to rush to California over a century ago hunting for gold. While they needed mining equipment to really be successful.
Unless you are the few that got into bitcoins early on. You are not going to make it rich off of them now.
I expect it to be worse. If bit coin prices fall further, to a point where the cost of the Cards and power doesn't make it worth it to mine bitcoins. Then there will be a glut of Cards on the market, being sold a used for below market price for a new one. Then to make it worse, these cards may have been heavily used under maximum strain for long periods of time, so Gamers getting these used cards can have a card with a shorten life span, decreased performance, or have bugs appearing, from a burned out part from heavy data mining. So they will put the blame on Nvidia for selling a shotty product and their reputation will go down.
If BitCoin prices have kept on going up, then they may have worked to meet demand, because a sale is a sale. If you use it for gaming, mining bitcoins, or as Modern Art that you hang on the wall, it doesn't matter to them. However The Gaming market is their core customer, and if BitCoin, causes it to shift away, they will try to keep that market.
I mean this is an Apples vs Oranges comparison there. You can take the top of nearly any (professional) profession and compare it to the average of others and you see that the best of the best makes more then the average guy does.
That is assuming that you buy such hardware with the initial intent of using such ports.
While it is ironic that the iPhone was just a phone added to a mobile music player the iPod. However listening to music off the device isn't my main purpose of it. And wireless standards such a bluetooth are good enough for my usages.
The problem is we are taking ports away from multi-purpose products. So the need for any one of the ports can be removed from the devices without hurting sales in any major way, and they can keep on repeating it, until we have a fully sealed device.
We can keep this argument for older technology as well. Parallel port, Serial Port, SCSI, VGA.... Sure they may be big and bulky, but heck you can get nearly anything to work with them. They key argument against having a 3.5mm jack is the amount of space it takes up. Like having a 25pin parallel port on the back of your phone.
To a smart person with they see the world in a particular way. So when they try to explain themselves to the public they are talking above their comprehension. This is often insulting to the other person because it sounds like you are using your vocabulary and more advanced reasoning to show that you are better then them. Someone else with a lower intelligence, works more off of instincts, which does have the advantage of making faster decisions which are more often then not correct. However to a higher IQ person this is just ignoring factors which should be addressed. And such reactions is insulting for not listening to the rational argument. A high IQ person leading people with low IQ often creates conflict because the low IQ people just fail to see the big picture or know to follow the more abstract steps. They want right and wrong. Not careful balance of what is going on and actions based on situations.
I need to agree, As much as I fear getting rid of net neutrality. Just running speed checks from that app could lead to a lot of false positives. My ISP offered a feature even during the good old days of Net Neutrality where it would speed it connection by an additional 10-20mbs for about 5 minutes if a connection is using a lot of data. Then it would slow back down to the rate that I had paid for. It didn't care where I was connecting too. However it messed up speed check apps, I needed to run it once, then wait about 5 minutes to see my true speed. Also such services could be having issue where their performance is slower. Different volume of time of days, having to take a different network path.
In short I need to agree with Apple on this product, also pinging against services for a speed test is just wasting these services bandwidth as well.
There are a few factors. First there is the multiply by 12 rule. Where every dollar spent, will be Multiplied by 12 benefit to the economy.
So that brings it down to 1.46 Million per person being spent. Then this is over 5 years so we get 292 thousand a year. Roughly 1/3 spent goes to benefits outside of ones salary, so that bring $194 Thousand per year on average per employee in raw salary. Which is still on the high side, and I bet Apple is calculating some other bogus numbers such as community starting businesses such as restaurants and stores to accommodate these people.
More like a point that it isn't affordable anymore. The Rate of mining new bit-coins gets exponentially more complex, while demand more or less had a linear increase. This creates bitcoins which are too valuable to trade, because they are growing too fast. (Like the guy who once bought a pizza for 20 bitcoins). So people are not trading them, so its value goes further up.
If bit coins price is too low, people don't want them because they are too worthless for the effort, if they are too valuable, people do not want to spend them. For bitcoins to really replace traditional currency, its effort in mining needs to match the value of the effort.
I don't thing the biodegradability of the clothing is the biggest issue, but the process of making new clothing from scratch is cheaper then recycling, however it is more of an environmental impact.
"Go with Toshiba. They've remained solid and reliable machines for nearly a quarter-century now." Except for the keyboards. In order for me to type on a Toshiba keyboard laptop I will need to have at least a mild concussion.
Like today, any moral policy idea can be explained away. However, even for the people at the time, They would be much happier to convert people to Christianity, then killing them off. We all like a good dose of confirmation bias. While a few of us actually like seeing mass murder.
In modern times, we more or less would condemn violence against and atheist group, also condemn violence against a church. Even if you are against the ideas of such a group. However you love to hear stories if you are an Atheist, about the Minister who realized the absurdity in religion and became an atheist. If you are religious about the harden atheist, who found emptiness in a godless world, and turned to your brand of religion.
No I got the vindictive vibe from your comment too. There is an old phrase, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." So while a lot of Trump presidency is broken, every once in a while something right gets out. So voting just because you don't like the guy and what he is doing, just because he is mostly wrong, will prevent taking advantage of good when it comes out.
That said, from my experience with jerks like Trump, they are actually easily manipulated. You just stroke their Ego, and protect them, and they will let you do whatever you want.
The problem that I see is that loyalty has swapped. Where Senators and Representatives should have their loyalty in the following order. To their State, to their Country finally to their Party. Their loyalty seems to show they are more loyal to their party, then to the country and finally to the State they represent.
The few considered moderate republicans, are not necessarily moderate, but comprehend how such laws will effect their state, and their country first, vs the party line.
Actually cutting costs is a game to prolong failure. Gateway 2000 back in the early to mid 1990s were well known for its quality. Sure they cost a bit more but it was worth the extra price. Then they started to cust costs and make cheaper products which made people to hate the product. Dell in the mid 1990s to mid 00. Play the same story. Mid 00 - mid teens Apple has the spot. Now the question what is the quality computer line up that is coming up next? Lenovo the think pad line has consistently kept its quality. HP? Acer? Microsoft?
In general while the tech crowd is more or less happy with getting a lot of cheap hardware. Most consumers want a good piece of hardware even if it costs extra money and even if it has a higher total cost of ownership. Because we can get a computer at half the cost and during its lifetime we just need to replace half of its components. We still save money. But that is for the people who likes to fix these things. For average person such issues stress them out and having to fix their box is scary and resent having bought the product in the first place.
There may also be a factor on where it lies in the uncanny valley curve. Cars have a vaguely living like appearance. Headlights for eyes, bumper for a mouth, Grill for the noes, and is in a roughly living like positions. So we have more of a connection to a car, vs an ATM which is just a TV with buttons.
It depends on the person. For me, I wake up like I had a good night sleep, until it fully wears off and I pass out from exhaustion. My Wife on the other-hand is miserable for 72 hours after. And is often violent to the staff when she wakes up.
There is a line between discussion and Trolling. Normally if there is a conflict between rights of the minority, vs the rights of the majority to oppress the minority. The minority group will win.
There was a discussion on how to improve diversity. The guys discussion was about stating such discussion is necessary.
There are a lot of technology that never made it. Just because the niche it tried to fill, wasn't popular enough with enough people. It isn't that the product was bad, or it was useless. Just that not enough people could use it. This often happens with devices that are meant to be cheap. Because people are willing to spend more for something better.
I think the main issue, is the public comments on the news. A lot of news, while interesting and useful isn't very worthy of comments or reactions of people. However nearly anything that goes on there will be a number of people with a strong feelings towards it, but with the size of a population a small minority will make a lot of noise. So there is a lot of noise from these small groups making them seem like the larger community is more polarized then they really are. Then this unfortunately loops back on people instinct to belong to a group, so they will support the nut jobs that they will side with on that topic, and they will support your or my crazy ideas on the topics I feel strongly about. Then we isolate the other guys and push them away from supporting details on your side.
If you talk to a politically polarized person, about a problem that hasn't been politicized yet, they often would think of rather moderate solutions for an off the cuff problem. However once it has been politicized their stance will change to be inline with their team.
Why do you think we have Flat Earthers? Evolution Deniers lead to Global Warming Deniers lead to Moon Landing Deniers to Flat Earthers. Because it became a competition on who is more Anti-Science enough to join the Anti-Science group. There are many other types of group of people who seem to want to be the most of that group, despite going too far.
We really need to put our nationalism aside when evaluating security. The FBI willing billions of dollars behind them, may not be any more effective at breaking into a phone then some guy living in his Moms basement. Is isn't Apple being a Jerk, or evil. They are trying to protect their customer base as well as they can. Because if word leaks out that their phones are insecure, Apple can be doomed.
It will not wear out your connectors. You do not strane your wires causing you to get new ones. You can move your device without getting the jerk when you reach your end. When not I. Use you don’t have bare connectors floating around getting dust, dirt or corrosion. Having the cable not plug in just right. It can allow some devices to become more sealed. Being that qi is now standard that allows many makes and models to charge freely without different connectors (This seems to be mostly on Apple in 2018)
In my experience with phones over the last 20 years is that the main problem that I experience forcing an upgrade is the connector wears out on the device. And I often get damaged cable plugs I need to replace.
I expect that the guy was trying to argue my assertion that “On a 486 you can do nearly anything you can do on any other 32bit computer.” Except for the fact that I stated “nearly” a 486 can decode h264. It just can’t do it in real time or even close to it. Yes there are exceptions, and some thing will be slow. But given enough ram and time it can be processed. I can say the same about the 386 too as it was a 32bit cpu.
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But that didn't stop people with nothing but a a panning pan to rush to California over a century ago hunting for gold. While they needed mining equipment to really be successful.
Unless you are the few that got into bitcoins early on. You are not going to make it rich off of them now.
I expect it to be worse.
If bit coin prices fall further, to a point where the cost of the Cards and power doesn't make it worth it to mine bitcoins. Then there will be a glut of Cards on the market, being sold a used for below market price for a new one. Then to make it worse, these cards may have been heavily used under maximum strain for long periods of time, so Gamers getting these used cards can have a card with a shorten life span, decreased performance, or have bugs appearing, from a burned out part from heavy data mining. So they will put the blame on Nvidia for selling a shotty product and their reputation will go down.
If BitCoin prices have kept on going up, then they may have worked to meet demand, because a sale is a sale. If you use it for gaming, mining bitcoins, or as Modern Art that you hang on the wall, it doesn't matter to them. However The Gaming market is their core customer, and if BitCoin, causes it to shift away, they will try to keep that market.
I mean this is an Apples vs Oranges comparison there.
You can take the top of nearly any (professional) profession and compare it to the average of others and you see that the best of the best makes more then the average guy does.
Because it makes sense to suck up to rich Uncle Tim who doesn't have a next of kin.
That is assuming that you buy such hardware with the initial intent of using such ports.
While it is ironic that the iPhone was just a phone added to a mobile music player the iPod. However listening to music off the device isn't my main purpose of it. And wireless standards such a bluetooth are good enough for my usages.
The problem is we are taking ports away from multi-purpose products. So the need for any one of the ports can be removed from the devices without hurting sales in any major way, and they can keep on repeating it, until we have a fully sealed device.
We can keep this argument for older technology as well. Parallel port, Serial Port, SCSI, VGA.... Sure they may be big and bulky, but heck you can get nearly anything to work with them.
They key argument against having a 3.5mm jack is the amount of space it takes up. Like having a 25pin parallel port on the back of your phone.
To a smart person with they see the world in a particular way. So when they try to explain themselves to the public they are talking above their comprehension. This is often insulting to the other person because it sounds like you are using your vocabulary and more advanced reasoning to show that you are better then them.
Someone else with a lower intelligence, works more off of instincts, which does have the advantage of making faster decisions which are more often then not correct. However to a higher IQ person this is just ignoring factors which should be addressed. And such reactions is insulting for not listening to the rational argument.
A high IQ person leading people with low IQ often creates conflict because the low IQ people just fail to see the big picture or know to follow the more abstract steps. They want right and wrong. Not careful balance of what is going on and actions based on situations.
I need to agree,
As much as I fear getting rid of net neutrality. Just running speed checks from that app could lead to a lot of false positives.
My ISP offered a feature even during the good old days of Net Neutrality where it would speed it connection by an additional 10-20mbs for about 5 minutes if a connection is using a lot of data. Then it would slow back down to the rate that I had paid for. It didn't care where I was connecting too. However it messed up speed check apps, I needed to run it once, then wait about 5 minutes to see my true speed.
Also such services could be having issue where their performance is slower. Different volume of time of days, having to take a different network path.
In short I need to agree with Apple on this product, also pinging against services for a speed test is just wasting these services bandwidth as well.
There are a few factors.
First there is the multiply by 12 rule. Where every dollar spent, will be Multiplied by 12 benefit to the economy.
So that brings it down to 1.46 Million per person being spent. Then this is over 5 years so we get 292 thousand a year. Roughly 1/3 spent goes to benefits outside of ones salary, so that bring $194 Thousand per year on average per employee in raw salary. Which is still on the high side, and I bet Apple is calculating some other bogus numbers such as community starting businesses such as restaurants and stores to accommodate these people.
More like a point that it isn't affordable anymore. The Rate of mining new bit-coins gets exponentially more complex, while demand more or less had a linear increase. This creates bitcoins which are too valuable to trade, because they are growing too fast. (Like the guy who once bought a pizza for 20 bitcoins). So people are not trading them, so its value goes further up.
If bit coins price is too low, people don't want them because they are too worthless for the effort, if they are too valuable, people do not want to spend them.
For bitcoins to really replace traditional currency, its effort in mining needs to match the value of the effort.
I don't thing the biodegradability of the clothing is the biggest issue, but the process of making new clothing from scratch is cheaper then recycling, however it is more of an environmental impact.
"Go with Toshiba. They've remained solid and reliable machines for nearly a quarter-century now."
Except for the keyboards. In order for me to type on a Toshiba keyboard laptop I will need to have at least a mild concussion.
Like today, any moral policy idea can be explained away. However, even for the people at the time, They would be much happier to convert people to Christianity, then killing them off.
We all like a good dose of confirmation bias. While a few of us actually like seeing mass murder.
In modern times, we more or less would condemn violence against and atheist group, also condemn violence against a church. Even if you are against the ideas of such a group. However you love to hear stories if you are an Atheist, about the Minister who realized the absurdity in religion and became an atheist. If you are religious about the harden atheist, who found emptiness in a godless world, and turned to your brand of religion.
No I got the vindictive vibe from your comment too.
There is an old phrase, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." So while a lot of Trump presidency is broken, every once in a while something right gets out. So voting just because you don't like the guy and what he is doing, just because he is mostly wrong, will prevent taking advantage of good when it comes out.
That said, from my experience with jerks like Trump, they are actually easily manipulated. You just stroke their Ego, and protect them, and they will let you do whatever you want.
The problem that I see is that loyalty has swapped.
Where Senators and Representatives should have their loyalty in the following order.
To their State, to their Country finally to their Party.
Their loyalty seems to show they are more loyal to their party, then to the country and finally to the State they represent.
The few considered moderate republicans, are not necessarily moderate, but comprehend how such laws will effect their state, and their country first, vs the party line.
Actually cutting costs is a game to prolong failure.
Gateway 2000 back in the early to mid 1990s were well known for its quality. Sure they cost a bit more but it was worth the extra price. Then they started to cust costs and make cheaper products which made people to hate the product.
Dell in the mid 1990s to mid 00. Play the same story.
Mid 00 - mid teens Apple has the spot.
Now the question what is the quality computer line up that is coming up next?
Lenovo the think pad line has consistently kept its quality. HP? Acer? Microsoft?
In general while the tech crowd is more or less happy with getting a lot of cheap hardware. Most consumers want a good piece of hardware even if it costs extra money and even if it has a higher total cost of ownership.
Because we can get a computer at half the cost and during its lifetime we just need to replace half of its components. We still save money. But that is for the people who likes to fix these things. For average person such issues stress them out and having to fix their box is scary and resent having bought the product in the first place.
From the inside, the car doesn't appear human like. Only from the outside.
Al seems to be able to do a lot of stuff lately. It seems this one guy named Al is doing everyone jobs at once. How do I get him on my payroll.
There may also be a factor on where it lies in the uncanny valley curve.
Cars have a vaguely living like appearance. Headlights for eyes, bumper for a mouth, Grill for the noes, and is in a roughly living like positions. So we have more of a connection to a car, vs an ATM which is just a TV with buttons.
It depends on the person. For me, I wake up like I had a good night sleep, until it fully wears off and I pass out from exhaustion. My Wife on the other-hand is miserable for 72 hours after. And is often violent to the staff when she wakes up.
There is a line between discussion and Trolling.
Normally if there is a conflict between rights of the minority, vs the rights of the majority to oppress the minority. The minority group will win.
There was a discussion on how to improve diversity. The guys discussion was about stating such discussion is necessary.
There are a lot of technology that never made it. Just because the niche it tried to fill, wasn't popular enough with enough people.
It isn't that the product was bad, or it was useless. Just that not enough people could use it.
This often happens with devices that are meant to be cheap. Because people are willing to spend more for something better.
I think the main issue, is the public comments on the news.
A lot of news, while interesting and useful isn't very worthy of comments or reactions of people. However nearly anything that goes on there will be a number of people with a strong feelings towards it, but with the size of a population a small minority will make a lot of noise. So there is a lot of noise from these small groups making them seem like the larger community is more polarized then they really are. Then this unfortunately loops back on people instinct to belong to a group, so they will support the nut jobs that they will side with on that topic, and they will support your or my crazy ideas on the topics I feel strongly about. Then we isolate the other guys and push them away from supporting details on your side.
If you talk to a politically polarized person, about a problem that hasn't been politicized yet, they often would think of rather moderate solutions for an off the cuff problem. However once it has been politicized their stance will change to be inline with their team.
Why do you think we have Flat Earthers?
Evolution Deniers lead to Global Warming Deniers lead to Moon Landing Deniers to Flat Earthers. Because it became a competition on who is more Anti-Science enough to join the Anti-Science group.
There are many other types of group of people who seem to want to be the most of that group, despite going too far.
We really need to put our nationalism aside when evaluating security. The FBI willing billions of dollars behind them, may not be any more effective at breaking into a phone then some guy living in his Moms basement. Is isn't Apple being a Jerk, or evil. They are trying to protect their customer base as well as they can. Because if word leaks out that their phones are insecure, Apple can be doomed.
It will not wear out your connectors.
You do not strane your wires causing you to get new ones.
You can move your device without getting the jerk when you reach your end.
When not I. Use you don’t have bare connectors floating around getting dust, dirt or corrosion.
Having the cable not plug in just right.
It can allow some devices to become more sealed.
Being that qi is now standard that allows many makes and models to charge freely without different connectors (This seems to be mostly on Apple in 2018)
In my experience with phones over the last 20 years is that the main problem that I experience forcing an upgrade is the connector wears out on the device. And I often get damaged cable plugs I need to replace.
I expect that the guy was trying to argue my assertion that “On a 486 you can do nearly anything you can do on any other 32bit computer.”
Except for the fact that I stated “nearly” a 486 can decode h264. It just can’t do it in real time or even close to it.
Yes there are exceptions, and some thing will be slow. But given enough ram and time it can be processed.
I can say the same about the 386 too as it was a 32bit cpu.