I finally managed to wean my wife and kids off iPhones, which were ruining me with each upgrade cycle / theft / breakage. Android has finally gotten "good enough" to be a viable iPhone competitor, and the Huawei phones are great at less than half the price.
It's been discussed here a lot; apart from stinging your customers for replacement costs, there are actually some very good reasons - lower BoM and manufacturing costs, smaller volume (so thinner phone) for a given capacity plus potential for greater reliability even waterproofing (can have a hermetic case more easily if you glue it shut).
Unfortunately actually getting all those benefits requires competent & like-minded bosses, marketeers, engineers and suppliers. (Of the sort that used to exist at Nokia, but don't seem to anymore...maybe because people flock to buy overpriced crap from Apple and others.)
Yes, but have a high-speed accident that completely wrecks your car (and several others) then just get out and walk away, and you'll thank all those airbags. (Happened to me).
...need to open the Allo app on your device and use that to scan a QR code you can generate at this link. Once you've scanned the code, Allo pulls up your chat history and mirrors all the conversations you have on your phone....
and iMessage, both of which already have a gazillion users already. Not counting FB messenger... How Google continues to screw up this lucrative sector amazes me, with Android and Chrome as a base they should be cleaning up, especially since M$ as essentially killed-off Skype by making it unusable (except for business users).
Oh FFS; there's nothing wrong with eating meat, especially in moderation and from sustainable sources. Over-population in many countries, (who are now moving towards a more meat-intensive diet), intensive & abusive agriculture, over-fishing etc. are the real villains.
From the fine article:
"But despite what you may have heard, the evidence as to whether cultured meat is better for the environment is inconclusive. “On the environmental studies, the work that’s been done is very preliminary,” Hampton Creek’s Fischer said. A 2011 study estimated that the product might produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, but use about the same amount of energy as the European pork industry. One 2015 study found potential environmental benefits in China, but another 2015 estimate found it could use just as much energy as animal-based meats. The common theme is uncertainty."
So, the financial viability and environmental impact of all this seems most vague at this point.
Well, I guess that technically since it's never "alive" then it does not need one (an immune system); the synmeat is grown in an artificial ecosystem, not a "body". However, yes, more than most food factories the place would have to be impeccably clean / sterile for the meat not to get infected.
You do raise an interesting question in that I guess the "meat" has the potential to be infected with a lot of things that might not naturally occur in "normal" meat, since either (a) it would have killed the host or (b) the host would have killed it. Of course, the producers will claim that such new infections will be "impossible" due to their rigorous quality control techniques. Ahem.
Yes, you could do it on a PR1ME... could also embed backspaces in messages to other users which would then crawl backwards across the screen deleting themselves...ah...the 1980s
Indeed, but their pension funds are all also bust; (except for Norway, a special case), hence in those (few) countries that are facing reality, they're hiking retirement age...so you live longer, but pay for it.
You're right...except it's called "swarf". Takes time and effort to remove materiels - rather than adding - and you have other issues such as work-hardening & stressing the piece. Plus swarf is a bitch - sharp and dangerous and hard to recycle unless you're always working the same alloy on the machine.
people will be asking questions like, "how much would that cost?" (hundreds of billions), "do we need to do it?" (no; balanced supply is best), and "is this a good idea as described?" (again, no, putting all your solar stuff in one SPOF plus the transmission costs & losses would be awful).
But yeah, gotta like Musk's vision and his way of putting things over to the politicos in a simple way. Don't forget, even dumb-ass "professional" wrestlers get to be Governors...
Betteridge wins this one. No special snowflakes or unicorns could "fix" India's traffic, because of:
(a) The hilariously complex and incompetent bureaucracy, which leads to (b) Rampant corruption at all levels, plus (c) Totally dysfunctional government at local, state and national level (so no effective urban planning) and of course (d) India's drivers - people who are normally friendly when you meet them at social events but who collectively transform into total psychopaths when you put them in charge of any form of motorised transportation...(especially the bus drivers...)
Congestion charging? Carpool lanes? In India? Good luck with that.
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This is a shocking and ghastly turn of affairs, one that takes us back to the dark ages. /quote
Well, guess I missed the news about the Black Death being back in town...last I looked we still had aircon and running water too.
"Maybe we wouldn't be getting two-day shipping."
Yeah, and even with a Prime account I still don't get that half the time, which sucks because I specifically needed that for my wife's business.
The videos are a bonus, however, some good original content.
I finally managed to wean my wife and kids off iPhones, which were ruining me with each upgrade cycle / theft / breakage.
Android has finally gotten "good enough" to be a viable iPhone competitor, and the Huawei phones are great at less than half the price.
(a) If it's using a Debian-based repo and hence SystemD (unless they replace(d) it in PureOS? Don't think so...
(b) If the phone firmware is not also "free / open / whatever RMS is calling it these days..."
If you want a *NIX 'phone, get an iPhone...
Well said.
It's been discussed here a lot; apart from stinging your customers for replacement costs, there are actually some very good reasons - lower BoM and manufacturing costs, smaller volume (so thinner phone) for a given capacity plus potential for greater reliability even waterproofing (can have a hermetic case more easily if you glue it shut).
Unfortunately actually getting all those benefits requires competent & like-minded bosses, marketeers, engineers and suppliers.
(Of the sort that used to exist at Nokia, but don't seem to anymore...maybe because people flock to buy overpriced crap from Apple and others.)
Many countries still have 'em; some test monthly. Quite weird the first time you hear them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, but have a high-speed accident that completely wrecks your car (and several others) then just get out and walk away, and you'll thank all those airbags. (Happened to me).
What's Facebook?
and iMessage, both of which already have a gazillion users already. Not counting FB messenger...
How Google continues to screw up this lucrative sector amazes me, with Android and Chrome as a base they should be cleaning up, especially since M$ as essentially killed-off Skype by making it unusable (except for business users).
Eh, the magic cow plant. Simples.
"We will continue to fight to protect our profits and our ability to control and sell the information they make available on LinkedIn "
further translates to:
"sell the information they make available for free on LinkedIn
Oh FFS; there's nothing wrong with eating meat, especially in moderation and from sustainable sources.
Over-population in many countries, (who are now moving towards a more meat-intensive diet), intensive & abusive agriculture, over-fishing etc. are the real villains.
From the fine article:
"But despite what you may have heard, the evidence as to whether cultured meat is better for the environment is inconclusive. “On the environmental studies, the work that’s been done is very preliminary,” Hampton Creek’s Fischer said. A 2011 study estimated that the product might produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, but use about the same amount of energy as the European pork industry. One 2015 study found potential environmental benefits in China, but another 2015 estimate found it could use just as much energy as animal-based meats. The common theme is uncertainty."
So, the financial viability and environmental impact of all this seems most vague at this point.
Well, I guess that technically since it's never "alive" then it does not need one (an immune system); the synmeat is grown in an artificial ecosystem, not a "body".
However, yes, more than most food factories the place would have to be impeccably clean / sterile for the meat not to get infected.
You do raise an interesting question in that I guess the "meat" has the potential to be infected with a lot of things that might not naturally occur in "normal" meat, since either (a) it would have killed the host or (b) the host would have killed it. Of course, the producers will claim that such new infections will be "impossible" due to their rigorous quality control techniques. Ahem.
Yes, you could do it on a PR1ME... could also embed backspaces in messages to other users which would then crawl backwards across the screen deleting themselves...ah...the 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Indeed, but their pension funds are all also bust; (except for Norway, a special case), hence in those (few) countries that are facing reality, they're hiking retirement age...so you live longer, but pay for it.
Well actually yes...it's called "the ground"
Nice one Bruce. Most always appreciate your posts.
You're right...except it's called "swarf".
Takes time and effort to remove materiels - rather than adding - and you have other issues such as work-hardening & stressing the piece.
Plus swarf is a bitch - sharp and dangerous and hard to recycle unless you're always working the same alloy on the machine.
From one BSD neckbeard to another; well played sir
people will be asking questions like, "how much would that cost?" (hundreds of billions), "do we need to do it?" (no; balanced supply is best), and "is this a good idea as described?" (again, no, putting all your solar stuff in one SPOF plus the transmission costs & losses would be awful).
But yeah, gotta like Musk's vision and his way of putting things over to the politicos in a simple way. Don't forget, even dumb-ass "professional" wrestlers get to be Governors...
Actually, local Chinese companies already dominate the EV market; informative article in link below.
http://www.eiu.com/industry/ar...
Betteridge wins this one. No special snowflakes or unicorns could "fix" India's traffic, because of:
(a) The hilariously complex and incompetent bureaucracy, which leads to
(b) Rampant corruption at all levels, plus
(c) Totally dysfunctional government at local, state and national level (so no effective urban planning) and of course
(d) India's drivers - people who are normally friendly when you meet them at social events but who collectively transform into total psychopaths when you put them in charge of any form of motorised transportation...(especially the bus drivers...)
Congestion charging? Carpool lanes? In India? Good luck with that.
Which were easy to spot, since they were full of chinks...
*ducks*
and bizarrely, in Switzerland prostitution is legal...