You want to kill-off your iPhone? Put some bullshit greymarket battery in it. There really IS a difference!
A third-party replacement batteries can't realistically be as bad as the piece of s**t battery that Apple put in the phone to begin with. I've been tolerating early shutdowns for more than two years now, which is to say that the factory battery only really lasted for an appallingly short nine months.
Hmm. It looks like Apple expanded the serial number range for their recall, and mine is now within the range. The only question is whether it is worth switching back to my iPhone 5 for a week to have them do it or... nah. Still easier to just do it myself.
Value is not determined by how much people would have to be paid to give something up, but rather by how much people would spend to have it. Want to prove that they're not the same? Ask someone how much they would be reasonably able to spend on food for a year. Then ask how much you'd have to pay them to go without food for a year.:-)
And with Facebook, the disparity is even greater because it isn't something that you have to have to survive, and more importantly, because there are other alternatives that existed prior to Facebook, and there will be other alternatives that will come into existence after Facebook eventually falls apart. This makes giving up Facebook more like giving up eating out at restaurants for a year. It's a hassle, so they'll make you pay a lot for the hassle, and that cost is likely to be way more than the actual cost difference between eating out and cooking food for themselves. But if you made the cost of restaurants higher based on that, people would eat out less often.
To further compound the problem, the only thing keeping Facebook going is network effects, i.e. people use Facebook because everybody they talk to uses Facebook. One person leaving Facebook while everybody else stays is painful. If everybody flees from Facebook to something else at the same time, that's much less painful.
What this means is that if Facebook suddenly decided to charge a subscription fee — particularly the $80 per month subscription fee suggested by this analysis ($1,000 annually), Facebook would implode. I doubt they would be left with even a single subscriber at that rate by the end of the first year. I doubt they would do well at even $10 per month.
Now if Facebook offered an optional $5 per month subscription that gets you ad-free, no-tracking access, some people might do that. But even that would only work if it were optional, because the value of Facebook comes from nearly everyone you communicate with being willing to pay whatever the cost is to access it, and if that cost is too high, the value plummets.
Mine is great except the battery. It keeps degrading further and further, despite it claiming to still have 95% of its life (I've seen it lose 50% of its battery capacity in single-digit minutes). I can't afford to waste two or three hours at an Apple store to get the battery replaced, so I'm going to order one and swap it myself (~15 minutes, assuming it is similar to the iPhone 5) after the holidays. I figure that should give me another three or four years.
They are using special flash that nobody else is using in competing devices. They developed a standard for NAND longevity and only implement NAND flash in iOS devices that conform to that standard.
Nope. NAND flash itself doesn't implement wear leveling. The flash controller does. And although it is possible to get NAND flash parts with an integrated controller in the same package, in practice, any large-capacity device like an iPhone or iPad is likely to use a separate flash controller chip instead so that it can drive multiple flash parts, because AFAIK any integrated design basically limits you to the capacity of a single flash part.
Apple might elect to use a larger number of lower-density parts with a lower number of levels on each flash cell than what you might get in an SD card. (AFAIK, Apple uses either MLC or TLC, whereas some SD cards *might* be using QLC.) But other than that, the actual NAND flash silicon is bog standard NAND flash.
The only LED bulbs I've ever had burn out were the cheap ones bought at the dollar store.
Then you haven't bought as many as I have. I've had a fair number go bad including some expensive ones.
To be pedantic, LEDs themselves fail remarkably close to never. (In all my life, I've never seen even one single LED that failed for any reason other than the leads physically getting snapped off or someone deliberately/accidentally applying massive over-voltage.)
However, the cheap electronics that they use to convert household current to low-voltage DC fail pretty frequently, mostly because many electrolytic capacitors have a half-life measured in months.:-)
That would be fine if the cancer risk of bacon was anywhere near as bad as tobacco. Media sensationalism tried to push that narrative for clicks, namely by equating the certainty of nitrate cured meats being a carcinogen with tobacco's potency as a carcinogen, and a bunch of tards (especially militant vegans) still think that is the case, even though the WHO long since clarified their position (and stated that they don't think it needs the same response that tobacco needs.)
Not only is it not nearly as carcinogenic, it also does not kill people merely for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What makes cigarettes so heinous is not that it kills smokers, but that it disproportionately kills innocent bystanders.
Be aware that electric arcs produce intense ultra-violet light. Do not look at the light without UV-filtering sunglasses, or better, a welding mask. Sunburnt eyes hurt like hell after a few hours and there is a potential for permanent damage.
The good news is that all the in-air dust in the five boroughs is now ionized and stuck to nearby structures, where it should remain until the next rain washes it away. The bad news is that all of New York now has a permanent afro.:-D
What we need is more gov't oversight on these old transformers and other decrepit infrastructure... Someone is probably getting cancer right now as we speak because of this exploded PCB laden blue smoking transformer. This could have been prevented with an army of inspectors looking into these things monthly.
You're half right. What we need is more government regulation on the manufacture and installation of the hardware, not oversight into its day-to-day operation. A lot of people lost power because of this failed transformer, and if it was really old, some people *might* have been exposed to chemicals that would not be allowed in modern hardware, though whether that represents a significant risk or not is debatable.
Either way, this and other similar failures probably could be prevented with regular replacement of the transformers' oil so that the moisture content won't get too high, and almost certainly could be prevented with the addition of a fifty-cent dipstick sensor down in the transformer oil to continuously monitor temperature, moisture, and oil level, reporting back via BPL networking. Make such sensors a requirement in all new hardware, and over time, it will all get replaced as hardware fails (hopefully less spectacularly than this). Optionally, add a retrofit requirement for transformers big enough or old enough to cause serious problems.
I’m not saying Apple’s strict walled garden is a good approach, because the inability to trust new certs actually can make this sort of attack easier by causing third-party app stores to be unsigned until installation, but there is something to be said about ensuring that any app
that was code signed by a different cert loses access to app data.
The only problems I've had have involved the actual delivery people being borderline incompetent — getting other people's packages, getting packages delivered to a porch that is clearly under construction (no steps leading up to it) where it sat out in the elements for two weeks before I noticed it was there, etc.
Do you work for Amazon? Of course it's news. When prime came out, and when most people signed up for it, guaranteed two day shipping was the hook. Now you are lucky to get Prime orders in 3 days. Was this the bait and switch plan all along? Is Amazon doing anything about this? The public wants to know.
Funny, anecdotally, this is the opposite of my experience. I almost always get things in two days, and lately, I've been getting a lot of free one-day deliveries, with some of them even arriving on a Sunday.
My suspicion is that the quality of service varies widely based on which distribution center is the primary center for your geographical area and on how far away you are from that distribution center.
I've been thinking about starting a small business reselling all the unexpected Amazon Logistics packages that they mistakenly drop on my porch instead of random neighbors. All attempts to get Amazon to pick up the packages and deliver them to the right address fail consistently, so I have an ever-growing pile of random crap.
I can't imagine that they could possibly be saving money, given what a complete disaster their in-house logistics seems to be.
On the topic of humorous books... well, I could be tactless and shill to try to get my own sci-fi/humor books into the double digits reader-wise (or, since it's Christmas, the historical-sci-fi short story involving a robot Santa traveling back in time to meet Saint Nicholas), but instead I'll talk about a different series of books containing Latin humor, the Liturgical Mysteries series by Mark Schweizer.
In the Liturgical Mysteries books, Hayden Konig is the chief of police and church choir director in the small town of St. Germaine, North Carolina. Saint Germaine, although normally a sleepy mountain town, also happens to have gotten a reputation as the murder capital of the state, so in addition to the usual music, Chief Konig keeps a handgun in the organ bench, both because of the ever-present danger and because he has "always found that tenors can use a bit of encouragement."
Each book in the series combines a traditional (but often humorous) murder mystery with tales of church disasters. From Christmas programs involving live animals that go horribly wrong to the church burning down, the absurd characters and situations will make you laugh so hard you'll cry. The Liturgical Mysteries series is a great read for anybody who has any connection to church liturgy or music or both.
In general, no. Steam kills Amoebas, because boiling water is too hot for them.
That said, by lowering the ambient air pressure, you can make water boil at a lower temperature. Amoebas can survive sustained temperatures of 46 C. An online calculator tells me that water boils at 46C at.11 bar, and another one says that.11 bar is the air pressure at about 51,000 feet above sea level.
Of course, merely being able to survive Steam may still not be sufficient to run Crysis. To determine that with certainty, we need to devise a proper experiment.
Anybody have an SR-71 handy? We need to test this theory. This important question demands an answer.
No, they weren't. Per Copyright circular #3, notice was required with either a (C) mark for all visually perceptible copies of a non-auditory work or a (P) mark for phonorecords up until March 1, 1989, for works made in the United States, and anything published without a notice is considered to be in the public domain. (There are a few rare exceptions for works published after 1978, mostly involving situations where only a few copies were distributed without notice, where the notice was removed without the permission of the copyright holder, etc., but AFAIK, those works were not retroactively protected.)
AFAIK, the only retroactive additions or reinstatements of copyright have involved works originally created overseas. For example, NAFTA allowed copyright protection for works published without notice to works created in Canada or Mexico between January 1, 1978 and March 1, 1989, and GATT/URAA retroactively restored/added copyright protection in the U.S. for works published overseas that were previously not recognized in the U.S.
Pretty sure the original post was correct. First, the Democrats have to find a way to fry Trump, and then they can work across the aisle with their Republican colleagues to unanimously pass a retroactive copyright reinstatement.
Of course, but that's probably 1% of users, at most. There's no way that a large enough percentage of users would shut off connectivity for the company to incorrectly believe that nearly all of the devices are sitting on the shelf when they're really in use. The average person doesn't even think about privacy, much less think about it enough to monkey around with cell phone settings to ensure it.
1. They have kids in America. Their kids are native born American citizens, and grow up to vote mostly Democratic.
Just a decade ago, the legal Hispanic vote in California was heavily Republican because of their pro-life position. These days, I don’t know any Republicans out there, and historically Republican districts are going to the Democrats.
Could it be that appealing to the basest of their base and turning the Republican Party into the party of neo-Nazis and racism is a bad way to win the minority vote? The Republicans like to blame illegal immigrants for a lot of things, including their losses, but IMO, they have only themselves to blame for pretty much all of those things.
My point was that for an app whose sole purpose is to control a specific device, if the app even so much as phones home on launch, they can tell whether the user is still using the app, and if they aren't getting those pings, that's a pretty strong indication that the device is sitting on a shelf.:-)
You're both right. And so is Ellison. Just because everybody who uses Oracle wants to get away from it doesn't mean that there's an easy path for doing so. People don't use Oracle because they want to. They use it because they don't think there's a viable alternative, and because their business logic is built around the sorts of consistency guarantees provided by SQL and transactions and all that other fun stuff that alternatives either don't provide or don't provide as well.
Slashdot Mirror
A third-party replacement batteries can't realistically be as bad as the piece of s**t battery that Apple put in the phone to begin with. I've been tolerating early shutdowns for more than two years now, which is to say that the factory battery only really lasted for an appallingly short nine months.
Hmm. It looks like Apple expanded the serial number range for their recall, and mine is now within the range. The only question is whether it is worth switching back to my iPhone 5 for a week to have them do it or... nah. Still easier to just do it myself.
Value is not determined by how much people would have to be paid to give something up, but rather by how much people would spend to have it. Want to prove that they're not the same? Ask someone how much they would be reasonably able to spend on food for a year. Then ask how much you'd have to pay them to go without food for a year. :-)
And with Facebook, the disparity is even greater because it isn't something that you have to have to survive, and more importantly, because there are other alternatives that existed prior to Facebook, and there will be other alternatives that will come into existence after Facebook eventually falls apart. This makes giving up Facebook more like giving up eating out at restaurants for a year. It's a hassle, so they'll make you pay a lot for the hassle, and that cost is likely to be way more than the actual cost difference between eating out and cooking food for themselves. But if you made the cost of restaurants higher based on that, people would eat out less often.
To further compound the problem, the only thing keeping Facebook going is network effects, i.e. people use Facebook because everybody they talk to uses Facebook. One person leaving Facebook while everybody else stays is painful. If everybody flees from Facebook to something else at the same time, that's much less painful.
What this means is that if Facebook suddenly decided to charge a subscription fee — particularly the $80 per month subscription fee suggested by this analysis ($1,000 annually), Facebook would implode. I doubt they would be left with even a single subscriber at that rate by the end of the first year. I doubt they would do well at even $10 per month.
Now if Facebook offered an optional $5 per month subscription that gets you ad-free, no-tracking access, some people might do that. But even that would only work if it were optional, because the value of Facebook comes from nearly everyone you communicate with being willing to pay whatever the cost is to access it, and if that cost is too high, the value plummets.
Mine is great except the battery. It keeps degrading further and further, despite it claiming to still have 95% of its life (I've seen it lose 50% of its battery capacity in single-digit minutes). I can't afford to waste two or three hours at an Apple store to get the battery replaced, so I'm going to order one and swap it myself (~15 minutes, assuming it is similar to the iPhone 5) after the holidays. I figure that should give me another three or four years.
Nope. NAND flash itself doesn't implement wear leveling. The flash controller does. And although it is possible to get NAND flash parts with an integrated controller in the same package, in practice, any large-capacity device like an iPhone or iPad is likely to use a separate flash controller chip instead so that it can drive multiple flash parts, because AFAIK any integrated design basically limits you to the capacity of a single flash part.
Apple might elect to use a larger number of lower-density parts with a lower number of levels on each flash cell than what you might get in an SD card. (AFAIK, Apple uses either MLC or TLC, whereas some SD cards *might* be using QLC.) But other than that, the actual NAND flash silicon is bog standard NAND flash.
The only LED bulbs I've ever had burn out were the cheap ones bought at the dollar store.
Then you haven't bought as many as I have. I've had a fair number go bad including some expensive ones.
To be pedantic, LEDs themselves fail remarkably close to never. (In all my life, I've never seen even one single LED that failed for any reason other than the leads physically getting snapped off or someone deliberately/accidentally applying massive over-voltage.)
However, the cheap electronics that they use to convert household current to low-voltage DC fail pretty frequently, mostly because many electrolytic capacitors have a half-life measured in months. :-)
Not only is it not nearly as carcinogenic, it also does not kill people merely for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What makes cigarettes so heinous is not that it kills smokers, but that it disproportionately kills innocent bystanders.
I have a few questions:
1) is there surfing in Vermont? 2) will I have to wear socks when I go outside in December? 3) is pot legal?
If you can't answer "yes" to all three of these questions, it's going to take more than $10k to get me to go there.
1. Yes. You can go windsurfing in Burlington.
2. Yes. You absolutely will need socks in December. In fact, you'll probably need more than one pair.
3. As of July, also yes.
When can we expect your application?
Unless you're a bacterium. :-)
The good news is that all the in-air dust in the five boroughs is now ionized and stuck to nearby structures, where it should remain until the next rain washes it away. The bad news is that all of New York now has a permanent afro. :-D
You're half right. What we need is more government regulation on the manufacture and installation of the hardware, not oversight into its day-to-day operation. A lot of people lost power because of this failed transformer, and if it was really old, some people *might* have been exposed to chemicals that would not be allowed in modern hardware, though whether that represents a significant risk or not is debatable.
Either way, this and other similar failures probably could be prevented with regular replacement of the transformers' oil so that the moisture content won't get too high, and almost certainly could be prevented with the addition of a fifty-cent dipstick sensor down in the transformer oil to continuously monitor temperature, moisture, and oil level, reporting back via BPL networking. Make such sensors a requirement in all new hardware, and over time, it will all get replaced as hardware fails (hopefully less spectacularly than this). Optionally, add a retrofit requirement for transformers big enough or old enough to cause serious problems.
I’m not saying Apple’s strict walled garden is a good approach, because the inability to trust new certs actually can make this sort of attack easier by causing third-party app stores to be unsigned until installation, but there is something to be said about ensuring that any app that was code signed by a different cert loses access to app data.
The only problems I've had have involved the actual delivery people being borderline incompetent — getting other people's packages, getting packages delivered to a porch that is clearly under construction (no steps leading up to it) where it sat out in the elements for two weeks before I noticed it was there, etc.
Funny, anecdotally, this is the opposite of my experience. I almost always get things in two days, and lately, I've been getting a lot of free one-day deliveries, with some of them even arriving on a Sunday.
My suspicion is that the quality of service varies widely based on which distribution center is the primary center for your geographical area and on how far away you are from that distribution center.
I've been thinking about starting a small business reselling all the unexpected Amazon Logistics packages that they mistakenly drop on my porch instead of random neighbors. All attempts to get Amazon to pick up the packages and deliver them to the right address fail consistently, so I have an ever-growing pile of random crap.
I can't imagine that they could possibly be saving money, given what a complete disaster their in-house logistics seems to be.
On the topic of humorous books... well, I could be tactless and shill to try to get my own sci-fi/humor books into the double digits reader-wise (or, since it's Christmas, the historical-sci-fi short story involving a robot Santa traveling back in time to meet Saint Nicholas), but instead I'll talk about a different series of books containing Latin humor, the Liturgical Mysteries series by Mark Schweizer.
In the Liturgical Mysteries books, Hayden Konig is the chief of police and church choir director in the small town of St. Germaine, North Carolina. Saint Germaine, although normally a sleepy mountain town, also happens to have gotten a reputation as the murder capital of the state, so in addition to the usual music, Chief Konig keeps a handgun in the organ bench, both because of the ever-present danger and because he has "always found that tenors can use a bit of encouragement."
Each book in the series combines a traditional (but often humorous) murder mystery with tales of church disasters. From Christmas programs involving live animals that go horribly wrong to the church burning down, the absurd characters and situations will make you laugh so hard you'll cry. The Liturgical Mysteries series is a great read for anybody who has any connection to church liturgy or music or both.
(Note for anybody who doesn't get the meta-joke, 46 C is C64 backwards, and the (Commodore) Amiga killed the C64/128, not the other way around.)
Dyslexic much?
but can it run Crysis?
In general, no. Steam kills Amoebas, because boiling water is too hot for them.
That said, by lowering the ambient air pressure, you can make water boil at a lower temperature. Amoebas can survive sustained temperatures of 46 C. An online calculator tells me that water boils at 46C at .11 bar, and another one says that .11 bar is the air pressure at about 51,000 feet above sea level.
Of course, merely being able to survive Steam may still not be sufficient to run Crysis. To determine that with certainty, we need to devise a proper experiment.
Anybody have an SR-71 handy? We need to test this theory. This important question demands an answer.
No, they weren't. Per Copyright circular #3, notice was required with either a (C) mark for all visually perceptible copies of a non-auditory work or a (P) mark for phonorecords up until March 1, 1989, for works made in the United States, and anything published without a notice is considered to be in the public domain. (There are a few rare exceptions for works published after 1978, mostly involving situations where only a few copies were distributed without notice, where the notice was removed without the permission of the copyright holder, etc., but AFAIK, those works were not retroactively protected.)
AFAIK, the only retroactive additions or reinstatements of copyright have involved works originally created overseas. For example, NAFTA allowed copyright protection for works published without notice to works created in Canada or Mexico between January 1, 1978 and March 1, 1989, and GATT/URAA retroactively restored/added copyright protection in the U.S. for works published overseas that were previously not recognized in the U.S.
Pretty sure the original post was correct. First, the Democrats have to find a way to fry Trump, and then they can work across the aisle with their Republican colleagues to unanimously pass a retroactive copyright reinstatement.
Of course, but that's probably 1% of users, at most. There's no way that a large enough percentage of users would shut off connectivity for the company to incorrectly believe that nearly all of the devices are sitting on the shelf when they're really in use. The average person doesn't even think about privacy, much less think about it enough to monkey around with cell phone settings to ensure it.
How do illegal immigrants vote?
They shift votes blueward in two ways:
1. They have kids in America. Their kids are native born American citizens, and grow up to vote mostly Democratic.
Just a decade ago, the legal Hispanic vote in California was heavily Republican because of their pro-life position. These days, I don’t know any Republicans out there, and historically Republican districts are going to the Democrats.
Could it be that appealing to the basest of their base and turning the Republican Party into the party of neo-Nazis and racism is a bad way to win the minority vote? The Republicans like to blame illegal immigrants for a lot of things, including their losses, but IMO, they have only themselves to blame for pretty much all of those things.
My point was that for an app whose sole purpose is to control a specific device, if the app even so much as phones home on launch, they can tell whether the user is still using the app, and if they aren't getting those pings, that's a pretty strong indication that the device is sitting on a shelf. :-)
You're both right. And so is Ellison. Just because everybody who uses Oracle wants to get away from it doesn't mean that there's an easy path for doing so. People don't use Oracle because they want to. They use it because they don't think there's a viable alternative, and because their business logic is built around the sorts of consistency guarantees provided by SQL and transactions and all that other fun stuff that alternatives either don't provide or don't provide as well.
You are aware that the vast majority of users don't bother to turn off their network access just to keep apps from phoning home on launch, right? :-)