It doesn't have to be, but you're looking at it wrong anyhow.
Each SD card is not a monolithic flash chip as they've all (afaik) gone with 3D stacking to increase density. Combine that with a bit of overhead AND the magical conversion between x^2 GB and 10^x GB measuring (I usually refuse to use GiB vs GB but it suits the discussion here) and you've got 400GB. A nice round number instead of the 'awkward' but accurate 384GB.
1GiB = 1.07GB
So 6 stacked 64GiB (or 12x32) layers = 384GiB = ~410GB minus some overhead is a 400GB chip*
*Actual capacity is 400GB where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, not 1,024^3 bytes per usual nonsense disclaimer.
Uhm, no...they don't. SD cards do not have an on-card write cache or any magic reason for them to slow down after 16MB.
A CAMERA has a memory buffer to allow burst shots and not lock up while writing to the memory card...and windows will buffer writes as well to external drives/media depending on your configuration.
Larger cards tend to be slower (often bc people go cheap) but there are plenty of large, fast cards as well. Just ask any pro photographer if google is broken.
I don't know if you've used a CC in the US in the last several years but they virtually never look at them. Unless the computer randomly requires the last 4 digits to be verified literally no one bothers checking the signature. I've been asked to show ID occasionally (which is against the merchant agreement but some places insist anyhow) but that's about it.
Going a step further, any place with a self-checkout makes this trivial.
Not to mention there are several products on the market that consolidate multiple credit cards to one 'morphable' card and afaik the CC companies have not objected.
Some states don't allow those card-draining fees thankfully.
And as for draining small balances off Visa/MC gift cards? Go to almost any major retailer. Their systems can and do immediately determine the balance and apply the maximum towards your bill. I've cleared off 3 or 4 cards I had sitting around in one shot quickly and easily a couple times this way.
I'm sure there's ways to do that online (all the green dot card scams mean there's a very simple and quick way to move money off a visa/MC gift card) but it's easier to just use them for a purchase at w-mart or whatever the next time you're there.
I don't know what credit cards you're using, but missing a day of work to file dispute forms doesn't match any of my experiences ever. Maybe 15 years ago?
I've had a few cards compromised over the years (business travel overseas, etc.) and never once had to fill out any actual paperwork. In fact, in the last ~5 years the CC companies have caught the fraudulent purchases even before I did, called me to confirm, and immediately logged them for dispute if they hadn't been denied when processed. All over the phone, and it never took more than 10 minutes. On a rare occasion I had a single charge to dispute for other reasons, it was a 15-ish minute phone call or (more recently) an online web form which took a few minutes at most.
Using a buffer card removes any chargeback protection, fraud protection, and card rewards you could get. Other than being able to purchase semi-anonymously I see very little point in getting one.
3.6 kJ = 1Wh so ~94 EWh (94,000 PWh) in thermal energy proposed being removed by NASA.
The world total primary energy supply is 155 PWh (wiki TPES). Do the math. What NASA proposes is significantly beyond the abilities of humans today, much less possible for a few billion $. Could we build a sizable power plant for a few billion? Probably! In fact, I think we should.
Who let the drooling idiots in the basement at NASA get on the interwebs again and post something though!??!?! This proposal is ridiculous.
According to the article, yellowstone 'leaks' about 6GWT. While significant, it's not even close to the total US power needs.
Now, if you can tap the larger heat reserve as a whole, I expect you'd get a lot more out. 250 billion cubic km of molten rock has to have some kinetic energy hiding in there.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources. If practical, it seems like a low-impact method to get a large amount of power.
For details on the upcoming line of phones from apple, please review the Samsung product announcements from 2016 (sans exploding Note 7 which Apple doesn't have a competitor for anyhow) for the required information. Substitute 'Apple' for 'Samsung' and 'iPhone' for 'Galaxy' as required. You may also try substituting 'courageous' for 'innovative' but that pair will prove less accurate in reality.
Actually no. The larger problem was that you had to swap back for your battery later. It solved the 'icky battery' problem but basically forced you to make a return loop which often wasn't as convenient as simply waiting at a supercharger.
Not 3D, but faux-bokeh. The second lens lets you adjust background blur to simulate bokeh.
Also kinda handy is the ability to capture a wide angle picture along with your close-up. Out of all the nonsense features, this one is actually useful to me. I can't count the number of times I've taken both shots back-to-back.
Samsung has had wireless charging since what, the S5? (ya, i'm too lazy to google) so at least 4 generations...no, there's no problem with heat. Plus, it's super handy and I wish it was incorporated in more things/places. I've been debating hacking one into my car console.
The Note7 issues were due to defective batteries, nothing more, nothing less.
I know this since I had both in my hand earlier today at the launch. Granted the screen is only.1" larger than the S8+ so that's not hugely shocking.
From what I can tell, the two reasons to buy the Note8 over the S8+ (or S8 and smaller screen) are because 1) the s-pen is a major feature for you or 2) you want the dual-lens camera.
Otherwise they all support multi-tasking, high res screen, 64GB memory + expansion, dual-quad core CPU, water-resistant, high quality camera, wireless charging/USB3, edge screen, DeX docking...
I've never liked (or used) otterboxes. Cases make phones larger and heavier, but that's a whole different level.
In general, I pick up a $10 knock-off case that I make sure covers the 4 corners and has a lip slightly higher than the screen (i.e. if face-down on a table, only the case touches the table.
Number of phones I've cracked since the original iPhone days (or blackberry preceding but they were plastic cases) is exactly zero. This despite dropping them many times and having my phone with me pretty much 24/7. I did manage to crack one iPad but that lacked a case at the time.
While my evidence is purely anecdotal, I don't understand how people manage to crack so many phone screens. Maybe if I dropped one while flying down the highway on my motorcycle?
Each roll of the dice is completely independent. The odds of getting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are exactly the same on any given day - even if they come in yesterday. Equally, each possibility is equally possible. It doesn't matter at all what you pick......except for commonly played numbers. If one of those do come in, you split the jackpot with many other people.
If they had to build a whole new multi-billion dollar, research-intensive car plant every time they refreshed a car line, then yes.
Intel is talking a bit further out than usual but each litho generation is being stretched longer now as well. They're talking about fab plans they're finishing research on and/or starting to build NOW so they're online and working in 2019.
There aren't many large venues or events that DONT use TM. While there's nothing technically stopping people from going elsewhere, TM has pretty much grabbed up everything because they're the 800 pound gorilla in their market.
Luckily amazon is many times larger and not a one-trick pony.
I'd still like to see Amazon absorb ticketmaster. They're a one trick pony and have way outgrown their usefulness. To the point they facilitate ticket resale and grab a piece of that...scalpers grab all the tickets the moment they go on sale (TM profits), then resell them via TM subsidy (TM profits again) and so on. Pretty ridiculous.
A $5-20 'ticketing surcharge' is ridiculous. Particularly when it's a digital ticket to begin with.
There's no possible way for you to confirm yourself before buying, when you're buying online
Actually, I don't believe there's any way to actually confirm AFTER RECEIVING in this case either. Virtually no one has even rudimentary testing equipment to verify UV filtering on glasses. You can make an approximation for the visible light using a bright bulb but that's only half the equation.
Which is why Amazon is turning into a cesspool in their quest to sell everything to everyone. All the 3rd party sellers that afforded them that opportunity without having to sink all their own money...now have exactly the same quality as randos selling nonsense on fleabay.
Shade #14. Not especially common, but not difficult to find (normally at least).
AFAIK, the plastic film isn't the filter so the thickness doesn't matter. It's the deposition layer on the plastic that does the filtering and that's a very well established technology. Not to mention, the vast majority of legitimate solar film comes from two manufacturers who have been in the business (and certified) for quite a long time. There's plenty of people who study the sun and want to look at it on non-eclipse days after all!
You don't have these little things called EYES focusing the UV light.
Oh, and you might not realize but excessive UV does damage your skin. Luckily for you, skin heals quickly and easily except in extreme cases.
Your retina? Does. Not. Heal. Any damage is permanent and, while your eye will adapt and 'fill in' blank spaces of damaged retina you will forever have a demonstrable blind spot. Go google laser eye injuries for some funtastic examples of how well that goes over.
Wow, flimsy paper and solar film going for $10+ each now...not a week ago it was a buck a piece for the cheapy (and probably non-certified) glasses.
I got 3 pairs of nice plastic ones for maybe 10 bucks...guaranteed certified except I probably have a recall notice too. FML.
B&H included a 5-pack for free when I bought a lens recently...I almost refused them (returns are complicated by 'free' items) but now it sounds like I could sell them for $20 each!
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It doesn't have to be, but you're looking at it wrong anyhow.
Each SD card is not a monolithic flash chip as they've all (afaik) gone with 3D stacking to increase density. Combine that with a bit of overhead AND the magical conversion between x^2 GB and 10^x GB measuring (I usually refuse to use GiB vs GB but it suits the discussion here) and you've got 400GB. A nice round number instead of the 'awkward' but accurate 384GB.
1GiB = 1.07GB
So 6 stacked 64GiB (or 12x32) layers = 384GiB = ~410GB minus some overhead is a 400GB chip*
*Actual capacity is 400GB where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, not 1,024^3 bytes per usual nonsense disclaimer.
Uhm, no...they don't. SD cards do not have an on-card write cache or any magic reason for them to slow down after 16MB.
A CAMERA has a memory buffer to allow burst shots and not lock up while writing to the memory card...and windows will buffer writes as well to external drives/media depending on your configuration.
Larger cards tend to be slower (often bc people go cheap) but there are plenty of large, fast cards as well. Just ask any pro photographer if google is broken.
I don't know if you've used a CC in the US in the last several years but they virtually never look at them. Unless the computer randomly requires the last 4 digits to be verified literally no one bothers checking the signature. I've been asked to show ID occasionally (which is against the merchant agreement but some places insist anyhow) but that's about it.
Going a step further, any place with a self-checkout makes this trivial.
Not to mention there are several products on the market that consolidate multiple credit cards to one 'morphable' card and afaik the CC companies have not objected.
Some states don't allow those card-draining fees thankfully.
And as for draining small balances off Visa/MC gift cards? Go to almost any major retailer. Their systems can and do immediately determine the balance and apply the maximum towards your bill. I've cleared off 3 or 4 cards I had sitting around in one shot quickly and easily a couple times this way.
I'm sure there's ways to do that online (all the green dot card scams mean there's a very simple and quick way to move money off a visa/MC gift card) but it's easier to just use them for a purchase at w-mart or whatever the next time you're there.
I don't know what credit cards you're using, but missing a day of work to file dispute forms doesn't match any of my experiences ever. Maybe 15 years ago?
I've had a few cards compromised over the years (business travel overseas, etc.) and never once had to fill out any actual paperwork. In fact, in the last ~5 years the CC companies have caught the fraudulent purchases even before I did, called me to confirm, and immediately logged them for dispute if they hadn't been denied when processed. All over the phone, and it never took more than 10 minutes. On a rare occasion I had a single charge to dispute for other reasons, it was a 15-ish minute phone call or (more recently) an online web form which took a few minutes at most.
Using a buffer card removes any chargeback protection, fraud protection, and card rewards you could get. Other than being able to purchase semi-anonymously I see very little point in getting one.
Aww crap. I misconverted km^3 to 1,000 m^3 when it should be 1,000,000,000 m^3 (250 billion cubic km of molten rock from the article)
250 billion km^3 is 250 billion billion m^3 (not 250 billion thousand) so my answer is off by a factor of a million.
On the bright side, it makes NASA's idea even stupider.
Theory: NASA is more likely to make it to Mars in 2017 than pull this off by 2117.
250 Tm^3 of magma at ~1000C with a 35% delta (call it 350C and roughly 1.5kJ/kg*C) and magma at ~2600 kg/m^3
250 Tm^3 * 2600 kg/m^3 = 650 quadrillion kg (650*10^18g) * 350C * 1.5J/G*C = ~.34*10^24 J (.34YJ)
3.6 kJ = 1Wh so ~94 EWh (94,000 PWh) in thermal energy proposed being removed by NASA.
The world total primary energy supply is 155 PWh (wiki TPES). Do the math. What NASA proposes is significantly beyond the abilities of humans today, much less possible for a few billion $. Could we build a sizable power plant for a few billion? Probably! In fact, I think we should.
Who let the drooling idiots in the basement at NASA get on the interwebs again and post something though!??!?! This proposal is ridiculous.
According to the article, yellowstone 'leaks' about 6GWT. While significant, it's not even close to the total US power needs.
Now, if you can tap the larger heat reserve as a whole, I expect you'd get a lot more out. 250 billion cubic km of molten rock has to have some kinetic energy hiding in there.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources. If practical, it seems like a low-impact method to get a large amount of power.
For details on the upcoming line of phones from apple, please review the Samsung product announcements from 2016 (sans exploding Note 7 which Apple doesn't have a competitor for anyhow) for the required information. Substitute 'Apple' for 'Samsung' and 'iPhone' for 'Galaxy' as required. You may also try substituting 'courageous' for 'innovative' but that pair will prove less accurate in reality.
Actually no. The larger problem was that you had to swap back for your battery later.
It solved the 'icky battery' problem but basically forced you to make a return loop which often wasn't as convenient as simply waiting at a supercharger.
Not 3D, but faux-bokeh. The second lens lets you adjust background blur to simulate bokeh.
Also kinda handy is the ability to capture a wide angle picture along with your close-up. Out of all the nonsense features, this one is actually useful to me. I can't count the number of times I've taken both shots back-to-back.
Samsung has had wireless charging since what, the S5? (ya, i'm too lazy to google) so at least 4 generations...no, there's no problem with heat. Plus, it's super handy and I wish it was incorporated in more things/places. I've been debating hacking one into my car console.
The Note7 issues were due to defective batteries, nothing more, nothing less.
Yup.
More RAM, smaller battery to account for the pen, and (maybe) a minor CPU revision though the core count is identical.
If you don't need the s-pen and aren't trying to take "professional photographs" with a smartphone then the S8+ is a better bet TBH.
Actually, it's only slightly bigger than the S8+
I know this since I had both in my hand earlier today at the launch. Granted the screen is only .1" larger than the S8+ so that's not hugely shocking.
From what I can tell, the two reasons to buy the Note8 over the S8+ (or S8 and smaller screen) are because 1) the s-pen is a major feature for you or 2) you want the dual-lens camera.
Otherwise they all support multi-tasking, high res screen, 64GB memory + expansion, dual-quad core CPU, water-resistant, high quality camera, wireless charging/USB3, edge screen, DeX docking...
I've never liked (or used) otterboxes. Cases make phones larger and heavier, but that's a whole different level.
In general, I pick up a $10 knock-off case that I make sure covers the 4 corners and has a lip slightly higher than the screen (i.e. if face-down on a table, only the case touches the table.
Number of phones I've cracked since the original iPhone days (or blackberry preceding but they were plastic cases) is exactly zero. This despite dropping them many times and having my phone with me pretty much 24/7. I did manage to crack one iPad but that lacked a case at the time.
While my evidence is purely anecdotal, I don't understand how people manage to crack so many phone screens. Maybe if I dropped one while flying down the highway on my motorcycle?
No.
Each roll of the dice is completely independent. The odds of getting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are exactly the same on any given day - even if they come in yesterday. Equally, each possibility is equally possible. It doesn't matter at all what you pick... ...except for commonly played numbers. If one of those do come in, you split the jackpot with many other people.
If they had to build a whole new multi-billion dollar, research-intensive car plant every time they refreshed a car line, then yes.
Intel is talking a bit further out than usual but each litho generation is being stretched longer now as well. They're talking about fab plans they're finishing research on and/or starting to build NOW so they're online and working in 2019.
There aren't many large venues or events that DONT use TM. While there's nothing technically stopping people from going elsewhere, TM has pretty much grabbed up everything because they're the 800 pound gorilla in their market.
Luckily amazon is many times larger and not a one-trick pony.
I'd still like to see Amazon absorb ticketmaster. They're a one trick pony and have way outgrown their usefulness. To the point they facilitate ticket resale and grab a piece of that...scalpers grab all the tickets the moment they go on sale (TM profits), then resell them via TM subsidy (TM profits again) and so on. Pretty ridiculous.
A $5-20 'ticketing surcharge' is ridiculous. Particularly when it's a digital ticket to begin with.
Yes, please take over this amazon.
There's no possible way for you to confirm yourself before buying, when you're buying online
Actually, I don't believe there's any way to actually confirm AFTER RECEIVING in this case either. Virtually no one has even rudimentary testing equipment to verify UV filtering on glasses. You can make an approximation for the visible light using a bright bulb but that's only half the equation.
Which is why Amazon is turning into a cesspool in their quest to sell everything to everyone. All the 3rd party sellers that afforded them that opportunity without having to sink all their own money...now have exactly the same quality as randos selling nonsense on fleabay.
Shade #14. Not especially common, but not difficult to find (normally at least).
AFAIK, the plastic film isn't the filter so the thickness doesn't matter. It's the deposition layer on the plastic that does the filtering and that's a very well established technology. Not to mention, the vast majority of legitimate solar film comes from two manufacturers who have been in the business (and certified) for quite a long time. There's plenty of people who study the sun and want to look at it on non-eclipse days after all!
You won't be blinded by glimpsing at the sun briefly...even if you do it a bunch of times over the years. Everyone knows that.
Staring at it for a few minutes straight? Very different story.
Kind of like the 1000's of hours of sun we all get but when we spend 6 hours straight at the beach we turn into a lobster. Skin heals. Retinas do not.
You don't have these little things called EYES focusing the UV light.
Oh, and you might not realize but excessive UV does damage your skin. Luckily for you, skin heals quickly and easily except in extreme cases.
Your retina? Does. Not. Heal. Any damage is permanent and, while your eye will adapt and 'fill in' blank spaces of damaged retina you will forever have a demonstrable blind spot. Go google laser eye injuries for some funtastic examples of how well that goes over.
Wow, flimsy paper and solar film going for $10+ each now...not a week ago it was a buck a piece for the cheapy (and probably non-certified) glasses.
I got 3 pairs of nice plastic ones for maybe 10 bucks...guaranteed certified except I probably have a recall notice too. FML.
B&H included a 5-pack for free when I bought a lens recently...I almost refused them (returns are complicated by 'free' items) but now it sounds like I could sell them for $20 each!