...that don't include anywhere with a marginal (or non-existent power grid) like most of Africa or India outside the major cities.
Or anywhere people can't afford 30K for a new car every few years (as the batteries degrade), but can afford a couple of hundred quid for a junker to keep themselves mobile.
Or anywhere you have to park on-street rather than in a garage - like most UK cities. Ever had you car "keyed" or the radio antenna snapped off by some local yokel with a few drinks in him? How about waking up to find you car unplugged or, better yet, the cable cut and sold for scrap?
Or how about the conversation "Sorry, dear, we can't visit your parents tonight, otherwise the car won't have enough charge to get me to work in the morning..." (actually, that might be an up-side.)
Or anywhere someone might want or need to drive for 300 miles without an hour-long stop to recharge the car?
Or anywhere you might need to carry extra fuel in the boot (trunk) just in case?
Or anywhere the ambient temperature might compromise the battery chemistry?
Realistically, the "world" in this case reduces to a subset of wealthy suburbanites in developed nations.
The reason that the internal combustion engine supplanted horse and steam was "convenience". Even in the pre-Model T Ford days, it was quicker to start a car than to saddle a horse or light the fire and build up a head of steam.
The convenience was present even without the infrastructure we have now of proper roads and fuelling stations, and unless EVs can match that convenience, they'll continue to be a niche player.
Did the judge really think this guy walked out pushing a trolley loaded with boxes of paperwork?
Or that he copied all 14,000 to an external HDD, then deleted all the originals and the backups, including all the off-site tapes?
Or is he so disconnected from contemporary reality that he doesn't know that what constitutes a "file" nowadays is not necessarily the same as when he studied law all those years ago?
So I would argue that a movie only showing in Netflix is as available to the general public as a movie only showing in theaters.
Your argument is ill-conceived.
To watch a one-off movie on Netflix, I need a credit- or debit-card, a reasonably spec'd computer with widescreen monitor, an OS and browser that supports whatever DRM-de-jour is required - or a SmartTV that isn't too old to support the latest NetFlix app - and an uncapped broadband connection. Then I need to trust that Netflix will honour my subscription cancellation request. Of course, this pre-supposes that the NetFlix catalogue in my region actually has the movie available...
Or I could walk to my local cinema, pay some cash, and watch.
I would argue that these alternatives are not equivalent...
And it might have done, but the economics of Concorde were predicated on cheap oil, and it became operational at the same time as the energy crisis of the early 1970's, when the price of oil sky-rocketed.
Because of this, and because Governments typically make policy on a short-term, knee-jerk basis, the revised version of Concorde (which would have been cheaper to operate) was cancelled.
When Concorde flew, it had dedicated check-ins, security, immigration and lounges at either end of the journey, as befitting a premium and exclusive service.
With this in place, even today you'd spend much less time in the airport than the rest of us flying cattle-class...
Concorde wasn't grounded because people wouldn't pay the premium for an ultra-fast trans-Atlantic crossing, it was grounded due to FOD from a shoddily-maintained Boeing owned by United.
Dunno about the price today (CGI-CBA) but, ten or so years ago, the full price of a round-trip business class ticket on British Airways (paid for by my company) from Heathrow to JFK was ~£2,500, and the flight time is about 7 to 8 hours depending on wind speed and direction.
There are lots of people who will pay twice that price to travel in half the time - after all, Concorde wasn't grounded because people wouldn't pay the premium for an ultra-fast trans-Atlantic crossing, it was grounded due to FOD from a shoddily-maintained Boeing owned by United.
That's all very well, right up until your router dies, or your ISP has a wobble, or someone puts a back-hoe through a cable, or screws up a BGP or DNS update, or your host changes their terms of service, or has a power outage, or goes bankrupt, or...
Unlikely, you say? All this, and more besides, has happened in the last twelve months, to every tier of service and provider.
On the other hand, my dev environment (with the exception of any online documentation I don't have a local copy of) will survive all of the above, and more besides.
The only thing that would stop me coding would be locally-applied force majure... or a Firefly marathon.
I've got 15 internet-capable devices in my house already - laptops, tablets, phones and media devices - so (were I clinically insane) I could max out this thing just by putting "smart" light-bulbs in my living room.
The main driver is for the ability to pick up a cheap PAYG SIM when visiting another country and use it side-by-side with your own - cheap local calls and not going bankrupt paying for data roaming, while still having your own number active.
I spend a few months every year in another country, so my last two phones have been dual-SIM for exactly this reason.
I realise most Americans never travel more than 50 miles from their home, and so this is a non-issue, but for the rest of us it's rather handy.
Beginning with series 22, Top Gear was available to re-broadcasters worldwide at the end of each original broadcast on BBC2, thus giving them the option to be able to show it before it appeared as a torrent.
Not sure if this continued with series 23, and I expect no-one will much care if it is or not with series 24.
Well, I downloaded three different torrents of E01 until I found one where both the audio and video were of acceptable quality, for E02, the second torrent was good enough, and by E03 I'd worked out which sources were not screwing up the encoding...
I suspect I'm not alone in this, so unless the "illegal download" figures have already taken this into account, extrapolating anything from the trend is a waste of time.
...if the box is owned by the content providers and just co-located at the ISP, then the ISP isn't actually doing the monitoring...
That said, by providing the box with a copy of *all* the ISPs traffic, they could fall foul of whatever wiretapping laws are in place - but a few "campaign contributions" could sidestep any litigation.
...this will only be effective if the software is installed on the backbone/tier 1 switches and routers. I can't see operators at that level willingly paying for this.
Maybe the goal is to have the content producers pay for extra boxes, and have them installed by court order...
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I think this qualifies as an edge case...
"are" not "is", and you probably meant "dumb" not "dump"...
It's not rocket science - many people still use PCs that have 32-bit processors.
...that don't include anywhere with a marginal (or non-existent power grid) like most of Africa or India outside the major cities.
Or anywhere people can't afford 30K for a new car every few years (as the batteries degrade), but can afford a couple of hundred quid for a junker to keep themselves mobile.
Or anywhere you have to park on-street rather than in a garage - like most UK cities. Ever had you car "keyed" or the radio antenna snapped off by some local yokel with a few drinks in him? How about waking up to find you car unplugged or, better yet, the cable cut and sold for scrap?
Or how about the conversation "Sorry, dear, we can't visit your parents tonight, otherwise the car won't have enough charge to get me to work in the morning..." (actually, that might be an up-side.)
Or anywhere someone might want or need to drive for 300 miles without an hour-long stop to recharge the car?
Or anywhere you might need to carry extra fuel in the boot (trunk) just in case?
Or anywhere the ambient temperature might compromise the battery chemistry?
Realistically, the "world" in this case reduces to a subset of wealthy suburbanites in developed nations.
The reason that the internal combustion engine supplanted horse and steam was "convenience". Even in the pre-Model T Ford days, it was quicker to start a car than to saddle a horse or light the fire and build up a head of steam.
The convenience was present even without the infrastructure we have now of proper roads and fuelling stations, and unless EVs can match that convenience, they'll continue to be a niche player.
Return the files?
Did the judge really think this guy walked out pushing a trolley loaded with boxes of paperwork?
Or that he copied all 14,000 to an external HDD, then deleted all the originals and the backups, including all the off-site tapes?
Or is he so disconnected from contemporary reality that he doesn't know that what constitutes a "file" nowadays is not necessarily the same as when he studied law all those years ago?
So I would argue that a movie only showing in Netflix is as available to the general public as a movie only showing in theaters.
Your argument is ill-conceived.
To watch a one-off movie on Netflix, I need a credit- or debit-card, a reasonably spec'd computer with widescreen monitor, an OS and browser that supports whatever DRM-de-jour is required - or a SmartTV that isn't too old to support the latest NetFlix app - and an uncapped broadband connection. Then I need to trust that Netflix will honour my subscription cancellation request. Of course, this pre-supposes that the NetFlix catalogue in my region actually has the movie available...
Or I could walk to my local cinema, pay some cash, and watch.
I would argue that these alternatives are not equivalent...
And it might have done, but the economics of Concorde were predicated on cheap oil, and it became operational at the same time as the energy crisis of the early 1970's, when the price of oil sky-rocketed.
Because of this, and because Governments typically make policy on a short-term, knee-jerk basis, the revised version of Concorde (which would have been cheaper to operate) was cancelled.
3 hours of my time is not worth proposed ticket price
This is certainly true, but there are many people for whom those same three hours are worth the ticket price.
Or are you suggesting that 3-star restaurants should price their food to compete with McDonalds?
When Concorde flew, it had dedicated check-ins, security, immigration and lounges at either end of the journey, as befitting a premium and exclusive service.
With this in place, even today you'd spend much less time in the airport than the rest of us flying cattle-class...
Exactly like that - the sort that requires you to enter your PIN number...
Concorde wasn't grounded because people wouldn't pay the premium for an ultra-fast trans-Atlantic crossing, it was grounded due to FOD from a shoddily-maintained Boeing owned by United.
Dunno about the price today (CGI-CBA) but, ten or so years ago, the full price of a round-trip business class ticket on British Airways (paid for by my company) from Heathrow to JFK was ~£2,500, and the flight time is about 7 to 8 hours depending on wind speed and direction.
There are lots of people who will pay twice that price to travel in half the time - after all, Concorde wasn't grounded because people wouldn't pay the premium for an ultra-fast trans-Atlantic crossing, it was grounded due to FOD from a shoddily-maintained Boeing owned by United.
When was the last time Ford, Smith&Wesson or even a maker of ammunition were sued when someone was killed by their products?
OSMAnd has had this feature for ages, and the maps don't eat into your data allowance...
That's all very well, right up until your router dies, or your ISP has a wobble, or someone puts a back-hoe through a cable, or screws up a BGP or DNS update, or your host changes their terms of service, or has a power outage, or goes bankrupt, or...
Unlikely, you say? All this, and more besides, has happened in the last twelve months, to every tier of service and provider.
On the other hand, my dev environment (with the exception of any online documentation I don't have a local copy of) will survive all of the above, and more besides.
The only thing that would stop me coding would be locally-applied force majure... or a Firefly marathon.
Twenty devices?
I've got 15 internet-capable devices in my house already - laptops, tablets, phones and media devices - so (were I clinically insane) I could max out this thing just by putting "smart" light-bulbs in my living room.
Are we supposed to have one of these per room?
The main driver is for the ability to pick up a cheap PAYG SIM when visiting another country and use it side-by-side with your own - cheap local calls and not going bankrupt paying for data roaming, while still having your own number active.
I spend a few months every year in another country, so my last two phones have been dual-SIM for exactly this reason.
I realise most Americans never travel more than 50 miles from their home, and so this is a non-issue, but for the rest of us it's rather handy.
...his name was Appleby, not Applegate.
Evans has bailed out, but LeBlanc has been retained by the BBC to do another series. No idea if EJ, Sabine and the rest have signed on.
Also, no transmission date has been announced for it yet...
Beginning with series 22, Top Gear was available to re-broadcasters worldwide at the end of each original broadcast on BBC2, thus giving them the option to be able to show it before it appeared as a torrent.
Not sure if this continued with series 23, and I expect no-one will much care if it is or not with series 24.
Well, I downloaded three different torrents of E01 until I found one where both the audio and video were of acceptable quality, for E02, the second torrent was good enough, and by E03 I'd worked out which sources were not screwing up the encoding...
I suspect I'm not alone in this, so unless the "illegal download" figures have already taken this into account, extrapolating anything from the trend is a waste of time.
You fly a test mission, and do it using a "dummy" bomb that contains TNT and uranium???
Is it just me, or does this sound like complete bollocks?
Of course, actually telling everyone, "Oopsy, we *lost* a live nuke" would be quite embarrassing...
...if the box is owned by the content providers and just co-located at the ISP, then the ISP isn't actually doing the monitoring...
That said, by providing the box with a copy of *all* the ISPs traffic, they could fall foul of whatever wiretapping laws are in place - but a few "campaign contributions" could sidestep any litigation.
...this will only be effective if the software is installed on the backbone/tier 1 switches and routers. I can't see operators at that level willingly paying for this.
Maybe the goal is to have the content producers pay for extra boxes, and have them installed by court order...
...but what a fantastic source of free spare parts!