Then why can't I find any good phones with full qwerty wide format slider keyboards?
I don't know nor have access to statistics, but my hunch is that the demand is quite low. I don't particularly want one, but I think they're cool enough that some phones should have them.
Wish I could upmod you. Brilliant insight. Thank you, and for that link. Awesome article; dovetails with much of my observation and thinking.
I've only dabbled in economics (college minor) and it's obvious that the major assumptions are false, and / or are based in illogic. I still say that something's wrong when there's much demand for 3.5mm jacks and suppliers are willing to risk the loss in sales, especially when newer phones don't really have gigantic offsetting advantages. I think the world needs much better and updated economics classes.
I know I'm being unrealistic, but I wish free-market economics worked the way they theorize it should: that very few people would buy a product that doesn't have a 3.5mm port, and the demand would be filled by other manufacturers (unless you're Apple-addicted, then you're at their mercy). It bugs me to no end when the market bends and adapts to the supplier.
Battery life is mostly to do with charge-discharge cycles.
Also, please read TFA- battery was replaced under warranty:
The Model S has had its high voltage battery replaced twice under warranty at 194,000 and 324,000 miles. Battery degradation over the course of the first 194,000 miles was ~6% with multiple supercharges a day to 95-100%, instead of the recommended 90-95%. Between 194,000 and 324,000 miles Tesloop experienced battery degradation of ~22% (see below for details).
It goes on to say there have been software updates which corrected some battery (life) problems.
Yes, no question, I agree completely. I was just thinking about the physical device construction. Fortunately (hopefully) the software can be fixed if someone cares to. Might aught to be some laws, but it would be very tricky to set standards, and they'd have to be changed frequently as security / encryption is being enhanced. I hope I never need to rely on anything like that, well, unless I have some say and review of the software, network settings, etc.
Props for the abort system which apparently did its job flawlessly, but... it's a bit worrying that one bent pin on a sensor can do in the entire system.
You know there is a reason that "rocket science" is the standard analogy phrase used for a difficult endeavor. Rockets are chock full of seemingly mundane things that can result in disaster if they don't perform perfectly in extremely high stress conditions. Aside from maybe military combat equipment I can't think of any devices we make which experience tougher conditions with less safety margin.
Hopefully medical equipment, especially life-support and implants, are made to very high standards.
Yup! I've got several machines still running XP. MS keeps releasing lots of updates. My feeling is: hopefully someday all the bugs will be found and patched. I know, dream on! But XP _has_ to be more mature, right?
XP updating can be tricky. Sometimes it won't update if you wait too long- I suspect the updater / encryption mechanism gets changed at the MS servers. I've had to go to the MS update catalog, search for the updates, download and manually install them, then the automatic updates work again. Search for "posready".
I used to use "autopatcher.net" for Win98SE. I visited there recently but didn't get a clear idea if they're doing XP.
I'm on 10 a lot and fully grasp it, but it bugs me that they just rearrange things, change the UI, etc, and call it a "new" OS. My only real gripe is that I can not turn off automatic updating. That's a deal-breaker for any long-term computer use for me.
Thanks for that info. This computer, running Windows 7 "ultimate", seems to have Defender installed. I don't remember being given a choice, nor any warnings.
That said, I rarely run mainstream AV software- I can't stand what it does to the machine (boggs to a crawl). I don't visit virulent websites. I remove the HD and run complete scans with McAfee Stinger, Clam AV, and others from time-to-time and I've never had a virus that I was not aware of. A few false positives, and some AV software doesn't like Nirsoft and a few predictable others.
I DO run McAfee "Real Protect" and it's awesome. It did catch a few potential problems, so I know it works, and I think they have the right philosophy.
Most videos including HTML5, Flash, etc., play very well on Opera 12.18 including in XP. Much less of a pig than Chrome. Starts up fast, fans generally stay quieter. Shame they stopped developing it, but it still works.
A year or so ago I had a cop on a bike give me the finger because I blew my horn. It was where a trail crosses a road, and the trail has very clear multiple STOP signs. The cop did not stop nor even slow down. The trail emerges from behind a hill, trees, bushes. It's not possible to see them coming, and again, trail riders have a STOP sign. I also ride bikes occasionally, including on the aforementioned trail, and I take my safety very seriously. I would stop even if there was no stop sign. I just don't understand the mentality of a pedestrian or bicyclist barging out in front of 2 tons of moving steel and other stuff.
Even if you tighten the numbers, that fine will still only buy you 4 or 5 IT security analysts for 1 year. Maybe that would have made a difference, maybe not.
My point stands, and we see many similar stories here and in IT news: corporations would rather take the higher-profit route of minimizing hiring IT security, frequently "outsourcing" it, rather than build and support a strong permanent team.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. The way I see it reminds me of an analogy: in a town near me the local parking authority finally figured out that people were knowingly parking illegally because the fine was only $2 or $5 / day, and parking lots were $10 - $25. This UK fine is roughly the cost of 2 or 3 IT security employees, and with those employees there's still no guarantee of security. So they spend as little as possible on IT security, and take the risk of paying the relatively tiny fine. The fine needs to be big enough to really hurt them.
The problem: the public is complacent, and largely because we have no choice in the whole credit reporting / database system.
You know, that kind of reminds me of my reaction to seeing all the tabloid and magazine articles about the British royal family in my American supermarket checkout. I wouldn't buy a magazine about the royal family if I were British FFS. I don't see why anybody cares about them. But evidently people do.
So here we [have] an article about the impact of technology on poor people and you have exactly the same reaction: why would anybody care about these people? I can only answer the same way: it may be mystifying to you, but evidently people do.
Because for many reasons, anyone could become a poor person.
This is a good point. There are still dialup internet providers so someone who wants to keep using TIVO without broadband could subscribe to a dialup ISP and then set up a Linux box with the modem and configure a NAT router between the modem/PPP and their ethernet network.
As a Linux admin I love it and had it that way for years, then as a backup for broadband outages (which have been rare). But, most average people run Windows, and Windows will do NAT through "Internet Connection Sharing" which is pretty easy to setup and run and seems to work with dialup modem Ethernet/WiFi.
My only takeaway from that quote is that Ms. Moore is most definitely not someone to go to for tech advice.
I'll add: Ms. Moore should not, in any way, be making hiring decisions. I've had verizon.net email addresses for more than 10 years. Verizon recently bought AOL and Yahoo! and moved all verizon.net email to AOL and now Yahoo! addresses ("Oath"). They allowed us to keep our verizon.net addresses but it's still AOL servers and AOL webmail if you use webmail.
Tell Ms. Moore to look under the hood when buying a used car. Better yet, find a different job for Ms. Moore.
Agreed, which I fear makes me sound like a "back in my day" curmudgeon. The liquid cooled Crays were the coolest thing and way cooler than sci-fi stuff. But I was a kid, dreaming of the day I'd program a Cray, not knowing I'd have more than Cray-1 power under my fingers in a laptop. But with far more code for it to wade through...
I don't see it in TFA, but a quick search reveals it appears to be a huge pile of Dell blades, which makes sense they'd buy from Dell. It'd be nice to see some specs: Intel or AMD CPUs? Or something else? GPUs? More searching later...
In spite of how most people talk and write these days, none of this is absolute. It's shades of gray.
It's not just stupid / ignorant; many contracts are not understandable by top legal experts. At some point someone needs to establish the rules of the language used.
I agree in principal: I wish people would not agree to ANY contract that has fine print. The sad fact is that people do, and it sets a precedent that hypothetically some people understand and agree with the terms (even when they likely do not).
Sounds like any ads I receive from any cable or internet company. The lure is in 72pt font. The limits are on the third page in 6pt font.
Sadly this has been business practice for probably thousands of years, certainly well established in modern times and is precedent.
_I_ think it need to be criminally illegal.
At the very least, you should be able to drop the subscription at any time with no penalty if any terms, conditions, changeability are written in a small font, or are in a separate document.
And NO contract should EVER be enforceable if it contains "we reserve the right to change these terms...".
When you sent in a resume and didn't even receive a reply telling you that you weren't selected. If you hear nothing, we weren't interested. Must be painful to find the shoe's on the other foot now...
The thing is: time I once got and accepted an offer that came months after I sent in my info. The trouble is: there are no rules for timing with HR / jobsearch, so we don't know if we should keep sending resumes.
What they're forcing us to do is keep sending resumes and applications, take the first offer that comes, but feel no remorse if we jump to the better offer that comes a week later.
It's a game of chess with few rules and each side continues to adapt.
It would be helpful overall if company executives knew about how messy HR has become.
I remember running the 1.44 MB floppy QNX demo. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html It booted to a GUI, web browser, ppp stack and modem dialer and a few tiny utilities. QNX boasted its microkernel would stay in 486 internal cache.
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Then why can't I find any good phones with full qwerty wide format slider keyboards?
I don't know nor have access to statistics, but my hunch is that the demand is quite low. I don't particularly want one, but I think they're cool enough that some phones should have them.
How about bluetooth KB?
Wish I could upmod you. Brilliant insight. Thank you, and for that link. Awesome article; dovetails with much of my observation and thinking.
I've only dabbled in economics (college minor) and it's obvious that the major assumptions are false, and / or are based in illogic. I still say that something's wrong when there's much demand for 3.5mm jacks and suppliers are willing to risk the loss in sales, especially when newer phones don't really have gigantic offsetting advantages. I think the world needs much better and updated economics classes.
I know I'm being unrealistic, but I wish free-market economics worked the way they theorize it should: that very few people would buy a product that doesn't have a 3.5mm port, and the demand would be filled by other manufacturers (unless you're Apple-addicted, then you're at their mercy). It bugs me to no end when the market bends and adapts to the supplier.
Battery life is mostly to do with charge-discharge cycles.
Also, please read TFA- battery was replaced under warranty:
The Model S has had its high voltage battery replaced twice under warranty at 194,000 and 324,000 miles. Battery degradation over the course of the first 194,000 miles was ~6% with multiple supercharges a day to 95-100%, instead of the recommended 90-95%. Between 194,000 and 324,000 miles Tesloop experienced battery degradation of ~22% (see below for details).
It goes on to say there have been software updates which corrected some battery (life) problems.
Yes, no question, I agree completely. I was just thinking about the physical device construction. Fortunately (hopefully) the software can be fixed if someone cares to. Might aught to be some laws, but it would be very tricky to set standards, and they'd have to be changed frequently as security / encryption is being enhanced. I hope I never need to rely on anything like that, well, unless I have some say and review of the software, network settings, etc.
Props for the abort system which apparently did its job flawlessly, but... it's a bit worrying that one bent pin on a sensor can do in the entire system.
You know there is a reason that "rocket science" is the standard analogy phrase used for a difficult endeavor. Rockets are chock full of seemingly mundane things that can result in disaster if they don't perform perfectly in extremely high stress conditions. Aside from maybe military combat equipment I can't think of any devices we make which experience tougher conditions with less safety margin.
Hopefully medical equipment, especially life-support and implants, are made to very high standards.
Yup! I've got several machines still running XP. MS keeps releasing lots of updates. My feeling is: hopefully someday all the bugs will be found and patched. I know, dream on! But XP _has_ to be more mature, right?
XP updating can be tricky. Sometimes it won't update if you wait too long- I suspect the updater / encryption mechanism gets changed at the MS servers. I've had to go to the MS update catalog, search for the updates, download and manually install them, then the automatic updates work again. Search for "posready".
I used to use "autopatcher.net" for Win98SE. I visited there recently but didn't get a clear idea if they're doing XP.
I'm on 10 a lot and fully grasp it, but it bugs me that they just rearrange things, change the UI, etc, and call it a "new" OS. My only real gripe is that I can not turn off automatic updating. That's a deal-breaker for any long-term computer use for me.
Thanks for that info. This computer, running Windows 7 "ultimate", seems to have Defender installed. I don't remember being given a choice, nor any warnings.
That said, I rarely run mainstream AV software- I can't stand what it does to the machine (boggs to a crawl). I don't visit virulent websites. I remove the HD and run complete scans with McAfee Stinger, Clam AV, and others from time-to-time and I've never had a virus that I was not aware of. A few false positives, and some AV software doesn't like Nirsoft and a few predictable others.
I DO run McAfee "Real Protect" and it's awesome. It did catch a few potential problems, so I know it works, and I think they have the right philosophy.
If IBM kills CentOS a new one will pop up in a week, that's the beauty of the GPL.
Probably, but would you rely on it for a production server?
I need to build up a new server. We've had several RedHat and now CentOS running quite well. Looks like it won't be CentOS; future too uncertain.
php 6 was only supported on Windows 9.
Most videos including HTML5, Flash, etc., play very well on Opera 12.18 including in XP. Much less of a pig than Chrome. Starts up fast, fans generally stay quieter. Shame they stopped developing it, but it still works.
A year or so ago I had a cop on a bike give me the finger because I blew my horn. It was where a trail crosses a road, and the trail has very clear multiple STOP signs. The cop did not stop nor even slow down. The trail emerges from behind a hill, trees, bushes. It's not possible to see them coming, and again, trail riders have a STOP sign. I also ride bikes occasionally, including on the aforementioned trail, and I take my safety very seriously. I would stop even if there was no stop sign. I just don't understand the mentality of a pedestrian or bicyclist barging out in front of 2 tons of moving steel and other stuff.
Actually lots, especially sw dev. managers and IT security. It's been in the news here and elsewhere and you can do your own search.
But more importantly, I said the "cost" of IT security. The total cost of an employee is usually 1.25 - 1.4 times the base salary. Again, you can do a search, but here's one reference: http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html
Even if you tighten the numbers, that fine will still only buy you 4 or 5 IT security analysts for 1 year. Maybe that would have made a difference, maybe not.
My point stands, and we see many similar stories here and in IT news: corporations would rather take the higher-profit route of minimizing hiring IT security, frequently "outsourcing" it, rather than build and support a strong permanent team.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. The way I see it reminds me of an analogy: in a town near me the local parking authority finally figured out that people were knowingly parking illegally because the fine was only $2 or $5 / day, and parking lots were $10 - $25. This UK fine is roughly the cost of 2 or 3 IT security employees, and with those employees there's still no guarantee of security. So they spend as little as possible on IT security, and take the risk of paying the relatively tiny fine. The fine needs to be big enough to really hurt them.
The problem: the public is complacent, and largely because we have no choice in the whole credit reporting / database system.
You know, that kind of reminds me of my reaction to seeing all the tabloid and magazine articles about the British royal family in my American supermarket checkout. I wouldn't buy a magazine about the royal family if I were British FFS. I don't see why anybody cares about them. But evidently people do.
So here we [have] an article about the impact of technology on poor people and you have exactly the same reaction: why would anybody care about these people? I can only answer the same way: it may be mystifying to you, but evidently people do.
Because for many reasons, anyone could become a poor person.
This is a good point. There are still dialup internet providers so someone who wants to keep using TIVO without broadband could subscribe to a dialup ISP and then set up a Linux box with the modem and configure a NAT router between the modem/PPP and their ethernet network.
As a Linux admin I love it and had it that way for years, then as a backup for broadband outages (which have been rare). But, most average people run Windows, and Windows will do NAT through "Internet Connection Sharing" which is pretty easy to setup and run and seems to work with dialup modem Ethernet/WiFi.
My only takeaway from that quote is that Ms. Moore is most definitely not someone to go to for tech advice.
I'll add: Ms. Moore should not, in any way, be making hiring decisions. I've had verizon.net email addresses for more than 10 years.
Verizon recently bought AOL and Yahoo! and moved all verizon.net email to AOL and now Yahoo! addresses ("Oath"). They allowed us to keep our verizon.net addresses but it's still AOL servers and AOL webmail if you use webmail.
Tell Ms. Moore to look under the hood when buying a used car. Better yet, find a different job for Ms. Moore.
Agreed, which I fear makes me sound like a "back in my day" curmudgeon. The liquid cooled Crays were the coolest thing and way cooler than sci-fi stuff. But I was a kid, dreaming of the day I'd program a Cray, not knowing I'd have more than Cray-1 power under my fingers in a laptop. But with far more code for it to wade through...
I don't see it in TFA, but a quick search reveals it appears to be a huge pile of Dell blades, which makes sense they'd buy from Dell. It'd be nice to see some specs: Intel or AMD CPUs? Or something else? GPUs? More searching later...
Sounds like the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrink_wrap_contract
Stunningly troubling how our "legal system" still often upholds it.
In spite of how most people talk and write these days, none of this is absolute. It's shades of gray.
It's not just stupid / ignorant; many contracts are not understandable by top legal experts. At some point someone needs to establish the rules of the language used.
I agree in principal: I wish people would not agree to ANY contract that has fine print. The sad fact is that people do, and it sets a precedent that hypothetically some people understand and agree with the terms (even when they likely do not).
Sounds like any ads I receive from any cable or internet company. The lure is in 72pt font. The limits are on the third page in 6pt font.
Sadly this has been business practice for probably thousands of years, certainly well established in modern times and is precedent.
_I_ think it need to be criminally illegal.
At the very least, you should be able to drop the subscription at any time with no penalty if any terms, conditions, changeability are written in a small font, or are in a separate document.
And NO contract should EVER be enforceable if it contains "we reserve the right to change these terms...".
When you sent in a resume and didn't even receive a reply telling you that you weren't selected. If you hear nothing, we weren't interested. Must be painful to find the shoe's on the other foot now...
The thing is: time I once got and accepted an offer that came months after I sent in my info. The trouble is: there are no rules for timing with HR / jobsearch, so we don't know if we should keep sending resumes.
What they're forcing us to do is keep sending resumes and applications, take the first offer that comes, but feel no remorse if we jump to the better offer that comes a week later.
It's a game of chess with few rules and each side continues to adapt.
It would be helpful overall if company executives knew about how messy HR has become.
I remember running the 1.44 MB floppy QNX demo. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html It booted to a GUI, web browser, ppp stack and modem dialer and a few tiny utilities. QNX boasted its microkernel would stay in 486 internal cache.
"Large Twitter Botnet" sounds redundant.