It's because 95% of the USA cant have FiOS. I would pay for it, they tell me that I suck and they have no plans of rolling out around here. I'm in a tiny city of only 230,000 people. so small towns like this have to miss out.
A typical home central AIR unit will use MORE electricity than charging a EV at the higher 220V charging rate. I've got friends with EV's for decades and they laugh hard at the news reports floating around.
IT will rock if it has a 1.5ghz processor. anything less than 1ghz is dog slow on an android tablet. I also hope they do not end up stupid and cripple it with a low amount of ram.
Both of those make almost all the current android tablets suck bad.
I honestly cant believe that people bitch about paying $200.00 a month for PROMISED speeds comparable to an OC3, with throttling and bandwidth caps as well as a raft full of conditions that are NOT on a OC3.
There, I fixed that for you.
Honestly, it's a marketing gimmick. An OC3 is a specified bandwidth I can saturate 24/7/365/1000 That OC3 has 150meg UP and DOWN. No bandwidth caps, no ports blocked, no throttling, etc.....
Plus, if you think that slashdot will load faster on 150M compared to even a 768K entry DSL, then you need an education about the internet. 99% of where I surf and bandwidth I use, this includes Netflix HD streaming movies, uses less than 3mbit.. I upgraded to 7.5Mbit and saw NO difference on anything but bittorrent downloads. Most of the internet is slow as hell, a faster pipe to you will not make anything faster, it just makes it so you can do 10 things at a time at the same speeds.
Problem is, those that can afford this tier typically do not use it at all.
Not kill them, I think what his point is we do too much to make it safe for the stupid people.
WE don't "cull the herd" anymore. The complete morons of the world are protected from danger. And the ones that do hurt themselves from being stupid, they are saved from death.
I do a Lot of LEED certified building programming and I can tell you some real facts about this "Green" stuff...
Solar: effective in southern climates ONLY. Solar installations in Michigan, Northern Illinois like Chicago and Detroit are nothing but dog and pony shows. The numbers given to the Building customers as to the output and savings are at least 80% higher than the readings I am getting off the equipment directly. One customer has the entire building covered in solar panels on the roof and was told the solar has a 15 year payback. After 6 months of collecting realtime data from the building, I am calculating the Solar installation payback to be over 150 years. Their projected solar days is far FAR lower than actual. PLUS you have to send a crew up to the roof on the 8th floor to clean them every 2 months. AND do it after every snowfall in the winter. Now you have workers on an icy roof cleaning snow off of the solar panels after every storm. Yay...
LEED certification is for MARKETING only. it's a "look I'm green" badge and nothing more. Load shedding and consumption reduction will do 900% more to "save the environment" than any solar or wind installation. If you use 1,000,000 watts of power and you reduce it by 10% that is 10,000 watts saved, a 10% reduction in your bill, and far more C02 saved than installing $180,000 in solar panels and wind turbines that are made with nasty heavy metals and incredibly dangerous manufacturing processes.
Skylights, lots of windows, Proper building design (no not this cookie cutter crap) proper insulation and proper design of the workspaces and building saves way more than any "lok at me I'm greeen" add on crap you can make.
Problem is it requires major changes in business culture.
I though this was true as well until I found that a LOT of camera apps hold onto the camera and stay running. Trying a different apps crashes until I go in there and close the other camera apps and suddenly the original app works.
Apple NEEDS to give me the ability to tell other apps to die when closed on an app per app basis and default to DIE when closed.
This is not the only time I have discovered this, many times I have found apps running because system memory was full and an app complained about that fact. Closing out apps freed that memory.
Allowing law abiding citizens to open carry in the plane will do even more.ake the sky Marshall obvious with a assult rifle in his lap also would stop them.
I played many a Quake III tourneys as Barney the dinosaur. It usually made it more fun for me as everyone would gang up to kill me and that made it far more interesting and a challenge.
Plus nothing like getting Rocket jump ambushed as you come around the corner by a purple dinosaur.
Honestly, I use an alternative pdf reader that will not play Mpeg4, launch my CAd program, etc.. and it works perfectly.
Adobe; cut out all the useless crap and make the thing once again RENDER A PDF FILE AND ONLY A PDF FILE.
I will not use Acrobat Reader, it's slow, bloated and because of the really stupid design of allowing it to launch an external app to render encoded data, it's a major security risk.
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I agree. A 4 year old should start with something simpler.
Give him Maya first.
It's because 95% of the USA cant have FiOS. I would pay for it, they tell me that I suck and they have no plans of rolling out around here. I'm in a tiny city of only 230,000 people. so small towns like this have to miss out.
A typical home central AIR unit will use MORE electricity than charging a EV at the higher 220V charging rate. I've got friends with EV's for decades and they laugh hard at the news reports floating around.
And a Single well run NUCLEAR plant is better than 5000 Coal plants.
Yet we still have large numbers of idiots running around fighting against building new nuclear power plants.
About the same amount that will have Near $40,000 Chevy volts and Nissan Leafs.
The two cars price points are absurd. they need to be HALF what they are selling at for an average american to afford one.
and the prices will not come down, Hybrids are no cheaper than when they were introduced.
nobody but the rich will own them, as they are intentionally priced to be out of reach of the average american.
Yet the Acer will cost as MUCH as a ipad...
IT will rock if it has a 1.5ghz processor. anything less than 1ghz is dog slow on an android tablet. I also hope they do not end up stupid and cripple it with a low amount of ram.
Both of those make almost all the current android tablets suck bad.
Netflix HD works great on a 3Mbit DSL connection.
I honestly cant believe that people bitch about paying $200.00 a month for PROMISED speeds comparable to an OC3, with throttling and bandwidth caps as well as a raft full of conditions that are NOT on a OC3.
There, I fixed that for you.
Honestly, it's a marketing gimmick. An OC3 is a specified bandwidth I can saturate 24/7/365/1000 That OC3 has 150meg UP and DOWN. No bandwidth caps, no ports blocked, no throttling, etc.....
Plus, if you think that slashdot will load faster on 150M compared to even a 768K entry DSL, then you need an education about the internet. 99% of where I surf and bandwidth I use, this includes Netflix HD streaming movies, uses less than 3mbit.. I upgraded to 7.5Mbit and saw NO difference on anything but bittorrent downloads. Most of the internet is slow as hell, a faster pipe to you will not make anything faster, it just makes it so you can do 10 things at a time at the same speeds.
Problem is, those that can afford this tier typically do not use it at all.
Oppressive government that hates society and is trying to hide something.
It makes it easy to target people that are "journalists" and require fees or kickbacks.
It also eliminates people from having 300+mm telephotos to take photos of "secrets" from a distance.
Why 3? Are your banks ran by complete scumbags that wont use a single common one like the verisign device?
Hell I got an iphone app that also does it so I dont need my keyfob with me.
Dont even need to do that. Pull on the card slot housing, lift on the keypad,etc... , if it comes off, take it.
Dont turn it in, your fingerprints are all over it now. Plus these things go for big $$$ on ebay. $1500 for cheap ones.
Not kill them, I think what his point is we do too much to make it safe for the stupid people.
WE don't "cull the herd" anymore. The complete morons of the world are protected from danger. And the ones that do hurt themselves from being stupid, they are saved from death.
Yes and no.
I do a Lot of LEED certified building programming and I can tell you some real facts about this "Green" stuff...
Solar: effective in southern climates ONLY. Solar installations in Michigan, Northern Illinois like Chicago and Detroit are nothing but dog and pony shows. The numbers given to the Building customers as to the output and savings are at least 80% higher than the readings I am getting off the equipment directly. One customer has the entire building covered in solar panels on the roof and was told the solar has a 15 year payback. After 6 months of collecting realtime data from the building, I am calculating the Solar installation payback to be over 150 years. Their projected solar days is far FAR lower than actual. PLUS you have to send a crew up to the roof on the 8th floor to clean them every 2 months. AND do it after every snowfall in the winter. Now you have workers on an icy roof cleaning snow off of the solar panels after every storm. Yay...
LEED certification is for MARKETING only. it's a "look I'm green" badge and nothing more. Load shedding and consumption reduction will do 900% more to "save the environment" than any solar or wind installation. If you use 1,000,000 watts of power and you reduce it by 10% that is 10,000 watts saved, a 10% reduction in your bill, and far more C02 saved than installing $180,000 in solar panels and wind turbines that are made with nasty heavy metals and incredibly dangerous manufacturing processes.
Skylights, lots of windows, Proper building design (no not this cookie cutter crap) proper insulation and proper design of the workspaces and building saves way more than any "lok at me I'm greeen" add on crap you can make.
Problem is it requires major changes in business culture.
Hey! IT snowed in Argentina last June! and we all know it's HOT down there in South America! and then it happened in the Summer months of June!!!!
SKY FALLING!!!!!!
Facetime 911 calls.
You just nailed what they REALLY need to allow.
That is retarded.
Dial 911, simply do not SAY anything but do not hang up. cops will be on the way.
What moron thinks the 911 dispatcher will go "hello? hello? Nobody there, I'll hang up and ignore it....."
also a lot of people are idiots.
You win the prize! Don Pardo; tell him what he won!
I though this was true as well until I found that a LOT of camera apps hold onto the camera and stay running. Trying a different apps crashes until I go in there and close the other camera apps and suddenly the original app works.
Apple NEEDS to give me the ability to tell other apps to die when closed on an app per app basis and default to DIE when closed.
This is not the only time I have discovered this, many times I have found apps running because system memory was full and an app complained about that fact. Closing out apps freed that memory.
Childs play huh.... Please do an instant rewind with a UPnP media box. it SUCKS.
SMB share is the only way for it to work smoothly. WTF cant they simply do it that way?
What I want, let me CHOOSE what apps stay running. That way I dont have to go into my phone weekly and disable the 60 apps running in the background.
Allowing law abiding citizens to open carry in the plane will do even more.ake the sky Marshall obvious with a assult rifle in his lap also would stop them.
Here's your citation...
Posting on slashdot without a sense of humor or guits to post under your account.
it will cost you 40 karma points for your fine, Judge taco will take bribes to make it go away though.
I played many a Quake III tourneys as Barney the dinosaur. It usually made it more fun for me as everyone would gang up to kill me and that made it far more interesting and a challenge.
Plus nothing like getting Rocket jump ambushed as you come around the corner by a purple dinosaur.
Debloat it?
Honestly, I use an alternative pdf reader that will not play Mpeg4, launch my CAd program, etc.. and it works perfectly.
Adobe; cut out all the useless crap and make the thing once again RENDER A PDF FILE AND ONLY A PDF FILE.
I will not use Acrobat Reader, it's slow, bloated and because of the really stupid design of allowing it to launch an external app to render encoded data, it's a major security risk.
But you can now buy them in COLORS!!!!!!!
My old nasty White wii is going to be replaced with a REd wii...
Oh buy all new red controllers, and new accessories to match!