You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step. Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet
As to it not being able to know what is in it without you manually entering the data have you.ever heard of bar codes? You can put a hell of a lot of stuff in qr codes. As for knowing that something went bad soon just mark it as bad or gone if something isn't bad at experation click the not bad button that adds a week
Barcodes don't contain expiration dates, and they won't ever for many products due to the way they are packaged and labelled. So you want me to do more work to tell me smart fridge how to be smart? Why not just skip the hassle and I buy shit when I need it because I already have the pertinent information in my brain?
False. 4 way stops do not function as "yield to right".
4 way stops function as a stop regardless of the presence of any other cars. A yield sign does not.
False. That's not what he said.
False. He said "four way stops are for idiots who cannot figure out the "yield to right" rule.", meaning he considers them to be of no functional benefit compared to yield signs. I demonstrated that to be completely incorrect.
Your usage of "false" is also incorrect. I made an objective statement which is true.
Problem here is that you cannot ethically send anybody to certain death just to go explore Mars first hand.
Sure you can. "Ethics" doesn't come into play when all parties involved accept the situation willingly.
And lets be clear: "Ethics" are nothing but morals that the masses hold and wish to foist on everyone else as definitive, sacred, authoritative, etc. Something is only ethical/unethical if the majority agree that it is moral/immoral. A few decades ago it was "unethical" for a doctor to perform abortions that weren't medically necessary. Today the majority say it's a personal moral choice.
What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?
Well a smart oven can be set to cook your meal when you hit a button on an app before you head home. A smart fridge can keep track of what food you have when it expires what you use then compile meal plans and grocery lists add to it a link to your smart bathroom scale, and smart shoes to measue the amount of physical activity you have throughout the day and it it opens up dynamic dieting meal plans. A houses light and sound system could detect what room you are in and turn on and off lights and speakers as you enter/leave. Given time I could come up with more applications but those were just the first ones to pop into my head.
You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step. Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet.
Every single suggestion I've seen about the "Internet of Things" has been solving problems that don't exist, and it's a long, long stretch to say they're actually solving anything. If you think smart watches bombed, wait til you see how the rest of this shit does in the market.
Stop trying to make the "internet of things" happen. Fuck your shitty marketing terms. Fuck them from "1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes" to "* as a Service" to "Cloud" to "Business Solutions" to "Internet of Things" to the next shitty fucking thing you come up with and decide to market, require job applicants to have experience with, etc.
If you can't describe a service or product with concrete terminology then you're selling a bag of marketing fluff and I will not be giving you money for it. Until you can actually tell me what you're selling and why it's useful please SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Isn't that a given with Wil Wheaton? Why do nerds love him so much? His was the most annoying person in Star Trek and basically anything else he's in. His character in Leverage was extremely groan-worthy.
Nerds hate him.
The media think nerds love him, so they keep trying to market him as some sort of elite nerd. The same goes for all the other "nerd" "celebrities" - from Felicia Day to Adam Sessler / Morgan Webb to Olivia Munn.
I hate roundabouts in any way, shape or form. They're for idiots who can't figure out a four way stop.
And four way stops are for idiots who cannot figure out the "yield to right" rule. Here in the US, almost all intersections are regulated, which means people don't know about the yield to right rule, and everybody has to stop as a result, even when it's wasteful.
False. 4 way stops do not function as "yield to right".
4 way stops function as a stop regardless of the presence of any other cars. A yield sign does not. A 4 way stop means you wait for at most 1 set of adjacent cars from 3 directions of traffic once you reach the limit line. A yield sign means you wait for one direction of traffic, but there is no limit on how many cars you'll have to wait for. A yield sign also does not properly address opposing traffic crossing your path via a left turn - "yield to right" does not apply since you're facing each other. You'd have to add on "if turning, yield to non-turner" and "if both turning and paths intersect, both yield until someone decides to go after an awkward moment of "I'm going, no they're going so I'll stop and wait, but now he stopped to wait for me again so I'm going".
Wouldn't an external USB drive be more practical? You can even make your own by simply buying a $10 case and 2.5" disk drive. Anything up to 500 Gigabytes of storage in your pocket.
The days of buying your enclosure and disk separately to save a few bucks are long gone. And 500 GB? Multi-TB USB 3.0 drives from Hitachi/Seagate/WD can be had on the slim and cheap.
None of which would prevent Og the Destroyer from cracking your skull open with a big rock.
Sure it would. You'd have Ugg, Grug, and Steve on your side because you taught them how to put a splint on their broken bones, how to clean and dress a wound, and how to boil water before drinking it so they don't shit themselves to death.
Throughout all of human history wise men, medicine men, etc. have been revered and honored. Even if Og and his clan came in and wiped out your clan (unlikely since you'd have the benefit of modern knowledge), you'd likely be spared, if only because you can patch up some of Og's wounded.
Maybe he already has. If so, it's called pump and dump.
I've only ever mined, traded, and sold BTC - I've never purchased any. I currently hold almost 0 BTC. If I wanted to pump and dump I'd be telling people to buy Dogecoin. (I mined about 750,000 of those and I burned them all on one of those gambling sites for lulz - I'm afraid to see what they're "worth" now).
If you're going to get 50-80% profit in the short term why on earth would you not invest in this? Unless you don't believe your own advice?
Because I'd have to liquidate assets to do so in any meaningful amount, find a reputable exchange, get my money over to it, buy Bitcoins, wait, sell, get my money back out to my other accounts/investments, and report it all on my taxes next year. I'm a very lazy man. That said, if I find a reputable exchange in the next few days I absolutely will be putting money in.
It's going mainstream. Buy now - this is the last push before it gets to $800 - $1000 per Bitcoin (again) and settles for quite some time. If you're looking to speculate on BTC, this is the last chance to buy in and get near-guaranteed profits of 50-80% in the short term.
I currently hold zero Bitcoins, but I may pick some up again. (I mined all my previous BTC.)
The subject says Wi-Fi, then the article mentions wireless and also the 700 MHz auction (basically old tv channels 51 to 83 although they also banned channel 50 so it wouldn't interfere with channel 51). The 700 MHz band went to wireless phones, not Wi-Fi. Also, 'wireless' means phones, and Wi-Fi means devices connected to the internet for free. These things are *NOT* the same. Where I live, people can now 'stream' tv channels to their phones and other wireless devices via the 700 MHz spectrum for a data fee to their cell provider, instead of getting that yukky old TV (now in HD digital) for free ---not wireless but over the air--- for free. Said one phone user: "Its so much better to have to pay for Digital TV rather than receive it for free, I love my phone bill! Its so much better to get tv wireless, rather than over the air! Nobody likes free!"
I don't think you understand what the word wireless means.
This allows 100 MHz of additional spectrum to be used for WiFi. WiFi is a wireless communications standard. It has nothing to do with cell phones. It has nothing to do with 700 MHz band - that was only mentioned because it's the most notable release of spectrum in recent history with regards to consumer impact.
Anyone read the actual journal article. NSMB is one I do not have access to.
Is that the one where 4 people can play copetitively? I always hated Toad, so being able to ditch him was tons of fun. The incessant "wah wah"s in the music was pretty annoying though.
Really? Ever see someone in their manic mode of manic depression? I have a sister with this as well as schizophrenia because many mental disorders rarely come alone, it is something like a smorgasbord. Anyhow, one evening she took exception to the wall-to-wall carpeting in Ma's bedroom while Ma was in the hospital. She ripped up that carpeting in the bedroom and an adjacent room, moving several pieces of large furniture out of the way to do it. I asked her how long it took, it took a few hours in the evening and a few the following morning.
She ripped up the carpeting with her bare hands. That's what can happen when she doesn't take her meds. And that was during a manic episode, the schizophrenic episodes are stranger.
Unless you've lived with someone with mental illness, you don't know squat about it.
I don't understand what's so odd about moving furniture and pulling out carpeting. 5-8 hours for 2 rooms is way too long. Did she put new carpeting in? Clean and finish the exposed flooring (or add new hardwood on top)? A tear and toss should take 20-30 minutes per room, tops including cleanup. Add however much time it takes to maneuver furniture out, about, and back in.
with eSATA, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, HDMI, DVI, RJ45, RJ11 and Thunderbolt ports ? With a 40-year upgrade plan for future interface types ?
Terrible choice of ports.
eSATA is useless when we have USB 3.0. Even if you wanted eSata for some reason, you should have gotten eSATAp USB 3.0 is a good choice, but you may as well have listed USB 3.1. FireWire? Is this 1996? HDMI? Displayport, please. DVI? HDMI carries DVI. Again, Displayport, please. RJ45 is a jack, not an interface or standard. 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps Ethernet would be a good choice. RJ11 is a jack, not an interface or standard. Your Ethernet cable can carry PoTS or VoIP for you. Thunderbolt (AKA External PCIe + marketing) is a terrible choice because anyone can just jack in and DMA attack your brain.
Fun fact, if you used two of the same brand VCR, you could copy macrovision "protected" VHS tapes no problem.
Fun fact: Your "fun fact" is a lie. Macrovision implementation varied across manufacturers and models. Some models would record successfully, some would not.
Yeah that'll look great on your 70" 1080P television.
It won't look any shittier than the absolutely horrible Netflix stream.
If you want quality you get the bluray. If you want cheap you rent the bluray from redbox for $0.30 (free dvd rental codes are plentiful, choose the bluray and pay the difference). If you can't afford 30 cents and a short walk you fire up your torrent contraption. Netflix simply doesn't do quality.
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You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step.
Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet
As to it not being able to know what is in it without you manually entering the data have you.ever heard of bar codes? You can put a hell of a lot of stuff in qr codes. As for knowing that something went bad soon just mark it as bad or gone if something isn't bad at experation click the not bad button that adds a week
Barcodes don't contain expiration dates, and they won't ever for many products due to the way they are packaged and labelled.
So you want me to do more work to tell me smart fridge how to be smart? Why not just skip the hassle and I buy shit when I need it because I already have the pertinent information in my brain?
False. 4 way stops do not function as "yield to right".
4 way stops function as a stop regardless of the presence of any other cars. A yield sign does not.
False. That's not what he said.
False. He said "four way stops are for idiots who cannot figure out the "yield to right" rule.", meaning he considers them to be of no functional benefit compared to yield signs. I demonstrated that to be completely incorrect.
Your usage of "false" is also incorrect. I made an objective statement which is true.
Problem here is that you cannot ethically send anybody to certain death just to go explore Mars first hand.
Sure you can. "Ethics" doesn't come into play when all parties involved accept the situation willingly.
And lets be clear: "Ethics" are nothing but morals that the masses hold and wish to foist on everyone else as definitive, sacred, authoritative, etc. Something is only ethical/unethical if the majority agree that it is moral/immoral. A few decades ago it was "unethical" for a doctor to perform abortions that weren't medically necessary. Today the majority say it's a personal moral choice.
What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?
Well a smart oven can be set to cook your meal when you hit a button on an app before you head home. A smart fridge can keep track of what food you have when it expires what you use then compile meal plans and grocery lists add to it a link to your smart bathroom scale, and smart shoes to measue the amount of physical activity you have throughout the day and it it opens up dynamic dieting meal plans. A houses light and sound system could detect what room you are in and turn on and off lights and speakers as you enter/leave. Given time I could come up with more applications but those were just the first ones to pop into my head.
You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step.
Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet.
Every single suggestion I've seen about the "Internet of Things" has been solving problems that don't exist, and it's a long, long stretch to say they're actually solving anything. If you think smart watches bombed, wait til you see how the rest of this shit does in the market.
He's an infamous Star Trek actor. He's not a nerd, though. Almost no one in Hollywood is.
Minimal casualties. It wasn't bloodless.
It was a bloodless coup. All stranglings.
Stop trying to make the "internet of things" happen.
Fuck your shitty marketing terms. Fuck them from "1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes" to "* as a Service" to "Cloud" to "Business Solutions" to "Internet of Things" to the next shitty fucking thing you come up with and decide to market, require job applicants to have experience with, etc.
If you can't describe a service or product with concrete terminology then you're selling a bag of marketing fluff and I will not be giving you money for it. Until you can actually tell me what you're selling and why it's useful please SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Isn't that a given with Wil Wheaton? Why do nerds love him so much? His was the most annoying person in Star Trek and basically anything else he's in. His character in Leverage was extremely groan-worthy.
Nerds hate him.
The media think nerds love him, so they keep trying to market him as some sort of elite nerd. The same goes for all the other "nerd" "celebrities" - from Felicia Day to Adam Sessler / Morgan Webb to Olivia Munn.
I hate roundabouts in any way, shape or form. They're for idiots who can't figure out a four way stop.
And four way stops are for idiots who cannot figure out the "yield to right" rule.
Here in the US, almost all intersections are regulated, which means people don't know about the yield to right rule, and everybody has to stop as a result, even when it's wasteful.
False. 4 way stops do not function as "yield to right".
4 way stops function as a stop regardless of the presence of any other cars. A yield sign does not.
A 4 way stop means you wait for at most 1 set of adjacent cars from 3 directions of traffic once you reach the limit line. A yield sign means you wait for one direction of traffic, but there is no limit on how many cars you'll have to wait for. A yield sign also does not properly address opposing traffic crossing your path via a left turn - "yield to right" does not apply since you're facing each other. You'd have to add on "if turning, yield to non-turner" and "if both turning and paths intersect, both yield until someone decides to go after an awkward moment of "I'm going, no they're going so I'll stop and wait, but now he stopped to wait for me again so I'm going".
Wouldn't an external USB drive be more practical? You can even make your own by simply buying a $10 case and 2.5" disk drive. Anything up to 500 Gigabytes of storage in your pocket.
The days of buying your enclosure and disk separately to save a few bucks are long gone.
And 500 GB? Multi-TB USB 3.0 drives from Hitachi/Seagate/WD can be had on the slim and cheap.
BitTorrent Sync.
Simple, reliable, fast and free.
And not an option because the company behind it is untrustworthy.
No one asked him about The Office, that shitty whale movie, or the annoying esurance insurance commercials?
None of which would prevent Og the Destroyer from cracking your skull open with a big rock.
Sure it would.
You'd have Ugg, Grug, and Steve on your side because you taught them how to put a splint on their broken bones, how to clean and dress a wound, and how to boil water before drinking it so they don't shit themselves to death.
Throughout all of human history wise men, medicine men, etc. have been revered and honored.
Even if Og and his clan came in and wiped out your clan (unlikely since you'd have the benefit of modern knowledge), you'd likely be spared, if only because you can patch up some of Og's wounded.
Maybe he already has. If so, it's called pump and dump.
I've only ever mined, traded, and sold BTC - I've never purchased any. I currently hold almost 0 BTC.
If I wanted to pump and dump I'd be telling people to buy Dogecoin. (I mined about 750,000 of those and I burned them all on one of those gambling sites for lulz - I'm afraid to see what they're "worth" now).
If you're going to get 50-80% profit in the short term why on earth would you not invest in this? Unless you don't believe your own advice?
Because I'd have to liquidate assets to do so in any meaningful amount, find a reputable exchange, get my money over to it, buy Bitcoins, wait, sell, get my money back out to my other accounts/investments, and report it all on my taxes next year. I'm a very lazy man. That said, if I find a reputable exchange in the next few days I absolutely will be putting money in.
It's going mainstream. Buy now - this is the last push before it gets to $800 - $1000 per Bitcoin (again) and settles for quite some time.
If you're looking to speculate on BTC, this is the last chance to buy in and get near-guaranteed profits of 50-80% in the short term.
I currently hold zero Bitcoins, but I may pick some up again. (I mined all my previous BTC.)
It should be the brain.
Anything else is wrong.
Actually it's the genitals.
The subject says Wi-Fi, then the article mentions wireless and also the 700 MHz auction (basically old tv channels 51 to 83 although they also banned channel 50 so it wouldn't interfere with channel 51). The 700 MHz band went to wireless phones, not Wi-Fi. Also, 'wireless' means phones, and Wi-Fi means devices connected to the internet for free. These things are *NOT* the same. Where I live, people can now 'stream' tv channels to their phones and other wireless devices via the 700 MHz spectrum for a data fee to their cell provider, instead of getting that yukky old TV (now in HD digital) for free ---not wireless but over the air--- for free. Said one phone user: "Its so much better to have to pay for Digital TV rather than receive it for free, I love my phone bill! Its so much better to get tv wireless, rather than over the air! Nobody likes free!"
I don't think you understand what the word wireless means.
This allows 100 MHz of additional spectrum to be used for WiFi. WiFi is a wireless communications standard. It has nothing to do with cell phones. It has nothing to do with 700 MHz band - that was only mentioned because it's the most notable release of spectrum in recent history with regards to consumer impact.
Anyone read the actual journal article. NSMB is one I do not have access to.
Is that the one where 4 people can play copetitively? I always hated Toad, so being able to ditch him was tons of fun.
The incessant "wah wah"s in the music was pretty annoying though.
Really? Ever see someone in their manic mode of manic depression? I have a sister with this as well as schizophrenia because many mental disorders rarely come alone, it is something like a smorgasbord. Anyhow, one evening she took exception to the wall-to-wall carpeting in Ma's bedroom while Ma was in the hospital. She ripped up that carpeting in the bedroom and an adjacent room, moving several pieces of large furniture out of the way to do it. I asked her how long it took, it took a few hours in the evening and a few the following morning.
She ripped up the carpeting with her bare hands. That's what can happen when she doesn't take her meds. And that was during a manic episode, the schizophrenic episodes are stranger.
Unless you've lived with someone with mental illness, you don't know squat about it.
I don't understand what's so odd about moving furniture and pulling out carpeting. 5-8 hours for 2 rooms is way too long.
Did she put new carpeting in? Clean and finish the exposed flooring (or add new hardwood on top)? A tear and toss should take 20-30 minutes per room, tops including cleanup. Add however much time it takes to maneuver furniture out, about, and back in.
You wouldn't function in a cavemen society either.
Why the fuck not? With rudimentary knowledge of math, physics, weather, medicine, etc., and basic language skills, you'd be king in no time.
with eSATA, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, HDMI, DVI, RJ45, RJ11 and Thunderbolt ports ? With a 40-year upgrade plan for future interface types ?
Terrible choice of ports.
eSATA is useless when we have USB 3.0. Even if you wanted eSata for some reason, you should have gotten eSATAp
USB 3.0 is a good choice, but you may as well have listed USB 3.1.
FireWire? Is this 1996?
HDMI? Displayport, please.
DVI? HDMI carries DVI. Again, Displayport, please.
RJ45 is a jack, not an interface or standard. 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps Ethernet would be a good choice.
RJ11 is a jack, not an interface or standard. Your Ethernet cable can carry PoTS or VoIP for you.
Thunderbolt (AKA External PCIe + marketing) is a terrible choice because anyone can just jack in and DMA attack your brain.
netflix does 4k if you have the bandwidth. I get great netflix resolution.
4K on netflix will look even worse, lol.
Fun fact, if you used two of the same brand VCR, you could copy macrovision "protected" VHS tapes no problem.
Fun fact: Your "fun fact" is a lie. Macrovision implementation varied across manufacturers and models. Some models would record successfully, some would not.
VGA cable + Audio Patch Cable + Capture Card = rip almost anything.
Yeah that'll look great on your 70" 1080P television.
It won't look any shittier than the absolutely horrible Netflix stream.
If you want quality you get the bluray. If you want cheap you rent the bluray from redbox for $0.30 (free dvd rental codes are plentiful, choose the bluray and pay the difference). If you can't afford 30 cents and a short walk you fire up your torrent contraption. Netflix simply doesn't do quality.