I was watching a sporting event from a local broadcast channel the other day on cable TV and there was a permanent scroll on the bottom of the screen that overrode the network feed providing advertisements. It's here, guys, and not from the TV manufacturer. Samsung will need to put their ads at the top of the screen because the locals, and probably cable, will have them on the bottom of the screen.
I have an "old" Sharp, non-smart LCD TV with an expected lifetime of 60,000 hours of use. At five hours per day it should last 12,000 days or 32 years. Newer LED back lit TVs will last longer - 50 years? No wonder sales are down. and prices are way down from a few years ago so profits gotta' be down. Besides, why would folks (the majority of owners) who are happy with what they have replace it.? Also, millennials aren't watching TV either.
Or an $80 dongle to connect your headphones and charger at the same time. This dongle may or may not have a 3.5 mm connector for the headphones requiring new phones with a proprietary connector.
Just go all the way and hang-up the phone business. It appears that Microsoft apps work better on Android phones than Windows phones and they are making lots of money on the Android OS, so just do the best thing.
Changing the clothes doesn't change the person wearing the clothes. The products sold in the stores are the same now as they were before the stores were remade or available on the web.
I'm not sure there are comparable Windows computers to Macs. Recent OS X laptops have only one port for charging and external connections requiring some kind of hardware for standard USB, ethernet, video, etc. connections and perhaps special kinds of cables from Apple for these connections all at extra cost. And what about that thing called the Mac Pro? Very expensive low powered device compared to various high end desktop systems from the usual cast of manufacturers. We can also bring up the option of touch screens on Windows laptops and net books which is not an option on Mac laptops. Macs are different from Windows PCs making comparisons difficult. I'm not making any statement about which is better or more useful, just that they are different.
These single level DVDs will hold about 450 GB of data, although not as a single item, not in such a small volume, not erasable, and less convenient to use but for about 1/12 the price. Both may have their place, though.
According to one US presidential candidate, now out of the race, the pyramids were used to store grain. I could add a large number of comments regarding the state of a lot of things in the US, but they're pretty obvious.
Why do companies put their most secret and important intellectual property (IP) on servers connected to the Internet? What they should do is put phony, but looking somewhat reasonable, IP on their "secure" servers. The IP thieves should have some significant difficulty getting at it to make them feel like it's the real stuff. When they spend millions or billions building a factory to duplicate the stuff and then find out it was bogus, so much the better. Maybe the thieves will stop stealing and spend their money and time on innovation.
When Apple iPhone users have a phone that does more than they need or want to do and it does it well, why would they buy a upgraded version that does a little more things they won't use it for?
Sounds like school children will learn a lot about security in their Internet use and perhaps the details of encryption. Not too soon to become educated.
If the RF transmitter uses several watts of power to put RF energy over a large volume of space and the device (or even multiple devices) uses only milli watts (micro watts?) it sounds like a terribly inefficient use of energy. If one is walking around with these things and no transmitter is nearby, they won't work and if no one is near a transmitter with one of these things it's just wasted use of energy. Even if they're in a fixed position there's a lot of waste. Batteries are are pretty useful as is plugging things into a wall outlet.
I have a Dell laptop (XPS 15 L502x) that Dell says I shouldn't update to Win 10 from Win 7 Sp 1. Furthermore, I have never seen any of the nagging popups or other notices from Microsoft encouraging an update even though I manually install 2nd Tuesday updates. Looking around the web I find folks who have upgraded this model have a variety of problems as various hardware features no longer work with Win 10. The problem seems to to be that Dell has deigned not to provide critical hardware drivers and I've also seen that there's some glitch with the version of Intel's processors used in these machines. Some posts here suggest that Microsoft should also extend the free update to Win 10 to users of Win XP. The situation with the machines using those OSs may be similar to mine: they're likely using processors that won't work well with Win 10.
I'm not sure what my options will be in four years when Win 7 will not have security updates. This laptop is built like a tank, is my daily driver and shows no sign of hardware failure. I'm wondering when MS will decide some or all today's sold computers cannot be updated to future security patches. Will MS force new hardware purchases on something like a three year or five year cycle? Hardware providers would love it. Not so their customers.
Sort of what I was thinking. Who is running the simulation? Must be a pretty big simulation hardware consuming enormous amounts of energy.. And the software? It must be quite a job to kill bugs.
I'm sure it's not a small, in ear device, as it uses external ear buds, more like those old fashioned devices that hung from a shirt or coat. Not sure about its frequency range, frequency distribution or amplification. Someone might like to help the kid miniaturize his device. Kick Starter, anyone?
I'm not sure about the frequency distribution, range or amplification. It not likely a miniature device, perhaps like those old fashioned devices that people hung on their shirt or coat, but, who knows, some good guys could help him out to miniaturize it. Kick starter any one?
Not just one congress critter. Defense equipment manufacturers make sure that there are parts factories in as many congressional districts as possible insuring that a big project will be funded. And the critter will be reelected because jobs were brought to the district or not lost in the district. The more features add to the device the more jobs there will be.
... and JPGs and other photo compression algorithms. It might shut down all broadcast and pay TV or radio systems as well. And what about digital voice transmissions over cell, VOIP and traditional land line communications? Prepare to eliminate telephone communication, movie production, DVD, TV, and movie theater entertainment.
Um... IIRC, a southern state (Tennessee?) passed a law defining pi as exactly 3 because it made calculations easier. This explains a lot about the mental capacities of legislators.
The current CIA director will someday be replaced by someone else who may reinstate torture. The other possibility is that the CIA will hire folks in foreign countries to torture whomever the CIA wants tortured.
I can't see much benefit owning Yahoo! would be to Google. Many of Yahoo!'s features would likely be shut down such as mail and the home page. Google has mail, probably the most used web mail app on the planet and would transfer Yahoo! mail users to Gmail. Yahoo!'s home page consisting of horrible click bait links is pretty bad and there's already Google News. (Google should bring back Google Reader.) One thing I find much more useful is Yahoo!'s financial sites particularly it's portfolio management. Google's feature is cumbersome and hard to use so that would be a gain for Google. I can't see much else of use for Google. They'd get Marissa back but she might be damaged goods.
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I was watching a sporting event from a local broadcast channel the other day on cable TV and there was a permanent scroll on the bottom of the screen that overrode the network feed providing advertisements. It's here, guys, and not from the TV manufacturer. Samsung will need to put their ads at the top of the screen because the locals, and probably cable, will have them on the bottom of the screen.
I have an "old" Sharp, non-smart LCD TV with an expected lifetime of 60,000 hours of use. At five hours per day it should last 12,000 days or 32 years. Newer LED back lit TVs will last longer - 50 years? No wonder sales are down. and prices are way down from a few years ago so profits gotta' be down. Besides, why would folks (the majority of owners) who are happy with what they have replace it.? Also, millennials aren't watching TV either.
Or an $80 dongle to connect your headphones and charger at the same time. This dongle may or may not have a 3.5 mm connector for the headphones requiring new phones with a proprietary connector.
Just go all the way and hang-up the phone business. It appears that Microsoft apps work better on Android phones than Windows phones and they are making lots of money on the Android OS, so just do the best thing.
Changing the clothes doesn't change the person wearing the clothes. The products sold in the stores are the same now as they were before the stores were remade or available on the web.
I'm waiting for temperatures in some places in Texas and Arizona to reach 150 deg F and some climate change deniers change their tune.
I'm not sure there are comparable Windows computers to Macs. Recent OS X laptops have only one port for charging and external connections requiring some kind of hardware for standard USB, ethernet, video, etc. connections and perhaps special kinds of cables from Apple for these connections all at extra cost. And what about that thing called the Mac Pro? Very expensive low powered device compared to various high end desktop systems from the usual cast of manufacturers. We can also bring up the option of touch screens on Windows laptops and net books which is not an option on Mac laptops. Macs are different from Windows PCs making comparisons difficult. I'm not making any statement about which is better or more useful, just that they are different.
These single level DVDs will hold about 450 GB of data, although not as a single item, not in such a small volume, not erasable, and less convenient to use but for about 1/12 the price. Both may have their place, though.
According to one US presidential candidate, now out of the race, the pyramids were used to store grain. I could add a large number of comments regarding the state of a lot of things in the US, but they're pretty obvious.
Why do companies put their most secret and important intellectual property (IP) on servers connected to the Internet? What they should do is put phony, but looking somewhat reasonable, IP on their "secure" servers. The IP thieves should have some significant difficulty getting at it to make them feel like it's the real stuff. When they spend millions or billions building a factory to duplicate the stuff and then find out it was bogus, so much the better. Maybe the thieves will stop stealing and spend their money and time on innovation.
When Apple iPhone users have a phone that does more than they need or want to do and it does it well, why would they buy a upgraded version that does a little more things they won't use it for?
“Our team executed extremely well in the face of strong macroeconomic headwinds,” Apple CEO Tim Cook, said.
Stock price is down $6 in early after close trading. I'd hate to see what the result would have been if the team had average performance.
Sounds like school children will learn a lot about security in their Internet use and perhaps the details of encryption. Not too soon to become educated.
If the RF transmitter uses several watts of power to put RF energy over a large volume of space and the device (or even multiple devices) uses only milli watts (micro watts?) it sounds like a terribly inefficient use of energy. If one is walking around with these things and no transmitter is nearby, they won't work and if no one is near a transmitter with one of these things it's just wasted use of energy. Even if they're in a fixed position there's a lot of waste. Batteries are are pretty useful as is plugging things into a wall outlet.
I have a Dell laptop (XPS 15 L502x) that Dell says I shouldn't update to Win 10 from Win 7 Sp 1. Furthermore, I have never seen any of the nagging popups or other notices from Microsoft encouraging an update even though I manually install 2nd Tuesday updates. Looking around the web I find folks who have upgraded this model have a variety of problems as various hardware features no longer work with Win 10. The problem seems to to be that Dell has deigned not to provide critical hardware drivers and I've also seen that there's some glitch with the version of Intel's processors used in these machines. Some posts here suggest that Microsoft should also extend the free update to Win 10 to users of Win XP. The situation with the machines using those OSs may be similar to mine: they're likely using processors that won't work well with Win 10.
I'm not sure what my options will be in four years when Win 7 will not have security updates. This laptop is built like a tank, is my daily driver and shows no sign of hardware failure. I'm wondering when MS will decide some or all today's sold computers cannot be updated to future security patches. Will MS force new hardware purchases on something like a three year or five year cycle? Hardware providers would love it. Not so their customers.
Sort of what I was thinking. Who is running the simulation? Must be a pretty big simulation hardware consuming enormous amounts of energy.. And the software? It must be quite a job to kill bugs.
Here's a link:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
I'm sure it's not a small, in ear device, as it uses external ear buds, more like those old fashioned devices that hung from a shirt or coat. Not sure about its frequency range, frequency distribution or amplification. Someone might like to help the kid miniaturize his device. Kick Starter, anyone?
Here's a link:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
I'm not sure about the frequency distribution, range or amplification. It not likely a miniature device, perhaps like those old fashioned devices that people hung on their shirt or coat, but, who knows, some good guys could help him out to miniaturize it. Kick starter any one?
Not just one congress critter. Defense equipment manufacturers make sure that there are parts factories in as many congressional districts as possible insuring that a big project will be funded. And the critter will be reelected because jobs were brought to the district or not lost in the district. The more features add to the device the more jobs there will be.
... and JPGs and other photo compression algorithms. It might shut down all broadcast and pay TV or radio systems as well. And what about digital voice transmissions over cell, VOIP and traditional land line communications? Prepare to eliminate telephone communication, movie production, DVD, TV, and movie theater entertainment.
Um... IIRC, a southern state (Tennessee?) passed a law defining pi as exactly 3 because it made calculations easier. This explains a lot about the mental capacities of legislators.
The current CIA director will someday be replaced by someone else who may reinstate torture. The other possibility is that the CIA will hire folks in foreign countries to torture whomever the CIA wants tortured.
Volt isn't a unit of power..
Exactly. What was the current? No current, no power.
Unless you're a farmer
... growing potatoes on Mars.
I can't see much benefit owning Yahoo! would be to Google. Many of Yahoo!'s features would likely be shut down such as mail and the home page. Google has mail, probably the most used web mail app on the planet and would transfer Yahoo! mail users to Gmail. Yahoo!'s home page consisting of horrible click bait links is pretty bad and there's already Google News. (Google should bring back Google Reader.) One thing I find much more useful is Yahoo!'s financial sites particularly it's portfolio management. Google's feature is cumbersome and hard to use so that would be a gain for Google. I can't see much else of use for Google. They'd get Marissa back but she might be damaged goods.