Why not? When windows compatible NES emulators became useful I was happy to toss my NES. When Playstation (1&2) emulators became good enough I was happy to toss those too. When faster hardware is cheap enough that I can run all my currently win7 software in an emulator (i.e. virtual machine) on a linux box (including games) then I will be happy to toss win7. Are you saying people should cling to every software platform/OS they've ever owned even if something better AND backwards-compatible replaces it?
2.) The cost of digital space is decreasing with time because it's practically infinite.
3.) The cost of physical space is increasing with time because it's finite.
4.) Search functions are excellent, if you tag things correctly and/or use the right search terms, finding one email in millions takes seconds. Much easier than searching for things in physical space (which is why warehouses have digital records of where everything is).
Therefore no need to worry about digital hoarding. Everyone stop stressing. Problem solved, go home, get off my lawn.
That's nothing, I have a spam account (an email address I give out to people/websites I know will spam me) with over 6000 emails in the inbox, nearly all of them unread. That storage is better than cheap, its free, ads pay the bills but I don't see them on my android email client.
...unless it can replace/complement the existing center channel of an existing sound system
I find it interesting you should mention this. When I first tried to put together a 5.1 surround system on a tight budget I thought I could use the TV speakers as the centre channel meaning one less speaker to buy. Back when all domestic AV was analogue it would have been trivial, just take the 'centre channel output' from the amplifier (line level if possible, but if only high-level available then use resistors to attenuate) and connect it to the TV's 'audio input'.
However now that everything is HDMI-only, sending only the centre channel sound to the TV along the same HDMI connection as the video is impossible without specialist (expensive) equipment. All it would take to make it so easy would be for the TV to have an option to output only the centre channel sound. Or alternatively for AVR manufacturers (e.g. Denon/Onkyo/Marantz) to create an option to send only centre channel audio to the TV. The only minor difficulty would be volume control, matching the output of the TV speaker to your others speakers at all volume levels with a minimum of user input. Or even if the TV had the option to display video from a HDMI input but play sound from a separate analogue (or digital) input at the same time.
I would argue that the point where most users do not notice further visual improvement in standard TV/Movies is 1080p or 4K, depending on your eyesight quality, distance to screen and size of screen. Gaming is a slightly different story, I personally prefer as much resolution as I can get to display more HUD info without obstructing my view of the scene, whereas for movies I'm happy with 1080p.
The extra bandwidth will be used (its already started) initially for more colour information, i.e. HDR functionality that has started showing up on high-end TVs. After that it'll be about time for the return of another '3D' fad, which will fail miserably (as ever) unless someone finally figures how to do 3D properly (read: holography instead of photography)
If someone has the good sense to use a FOSS browser, why are they still relying on google services when there are plenty of FOSS alternatives for every (useful) service that google offers? Or if not (e.g. youtube) there are useful (often FOSS) wrapper-apps that will let you view the google content without being tracked or subjected to tons of ads. For example for viewing youtube I use Newpipe (available on fdroid).
The plan of "Keeping people poor and not letting them own anything" has not, historically, worked out well for the rich. It might work OK-ish for the first generation, but then the subsequent generations become increasingly criminal, depraved, undisciplined, abusive, sadistic and masochistic. Lots of historical precident there of tragedy repeating over and over and things happening we can't have a very unpolite conversation about.
I am very skeptical about the "Rich screwing the poor" by force line due to that; I would assume the rich are very motivated not to have their entire blood line made extinct.
Whilst 'the rich' may appear intelligent, cunning and inventive in their methods to screw the rest of us over in the ways Rick mentioned (and they are screwing all of us exactly as Rick says), they are still too dumb to learn from the basic lessons of history. It's also complacence, they feel so powerful that nothing bad will ever happen. I can't wait for the day history does come around again and bite them in the ass.
I am still on windows 7 purely for gaming reasons, I will never go near windows 10. My sincere hope is that AAA-games will run natively on linux (with similar or superior performance to windows) before they stop supporting DirectX11 (i.e. windows 7). At that point I will happily switch to linux and never look back.
However, if this phone had a 3.5mm headphone jack and an AMOLED display I'd buy it immediately (I'd prefer it smaller, 5 inch screen is perfect for me). I like the hardware specs (plenty of RAM) and I love they have retained a microSD slot (my biggest gripe with my OnePlus 5) and I love that they have not included a notch (I'd throw money at them just for that choice alone if I could afford to). I would never game on it for reasons stated by parent, but I like to have a device with top-end hardware specs so I know it won't feel painfully slow even after 3-4 years
Don't you remember teen/tween girls going ga-ga for boy-bands or whomever the heart throb at the moment was?
I remember this very clearly, but I think that reaction is more involuntary, driven by a kind lust (hormonal-teenager proto-lust). Equally as irrational, but understandable as an involuntary response to stimulus. Kind of like a young teenage boy getting an erection in public the first time he sees a woman sunbathing nude (for example). The reaction of the girls going 'ga-ga' at the boy-band is almost identical, except there is no shame or embarrassment attached so naturally the reaction is amplified by peer pressure.
Honest question: You understand volunteering for political parties?
Yes I understand volunteering for political parties, I have done so myself. The gain was that I thought I was making (in some minuscule fashion) my country a better place. I volunteered for a party that promised to achieve various economic and political goals etc etc. None of those goals, if met would have benefited me directly, I just agreed with them from a moral perspective even though they would not affect me.
Are you saying the people paying to support/spoof plays for this band on spotify to get them higher in charts are doing so because they honestly believe it will make the world a better place? Otherwise I don't see how the situations are relevant to each other at all
Most of YOUR comments might be insightful (but because you posted AC I have no idea which future posts belong to you), but looking at _all_ AC comments, the vast majority of them are trash by trolls. A significant proportion are just apk and his impersonators trolling each other. Another significant fraction are trump-related (when the submission is not even political), and most of the rest are random racist outburts.
I simply cannot comprehend this 'superfandom' phenomenon. I can understand _really_ liking a band, even liking them so much that you encourage, repeatedly, all your friends to listen to them. You buy their merchandise, you go to their concerts, you follow the personal lives of the band members. All understandable, not the type of thing I would do, but I get it.
But paying money out of your own pocket for no personal gain other than your favorite band doing better in the charts? Why? Why not spend that money on more concert tickets, the money will still make it to the band? I just can't understand it
Road wear & tear is proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight. Anything to the 4th power is slightly unusual in Physics. Buses and trucks cause over 90% of the damage. But that doesn't mean only trucks should pay, there is still a significant cost to build the road in the first place and that should be shared equally.
Having to use three or four 3.5mm jacks to get 5.1/7.1 audio was a genuine nuisance (I went to optical S/PDIF as soon I could), consolidating them all PLUS the video signal into one HDMI cable is great, utilising digital because the receiving device has its own power for DAC etc. Oneplus ditching 3.5mm jack is totally different, I don't want to rely on my earphones having power, charging batteries is a bigger hassle than having the cable.
I would mod you up but I've run out of points. When I was a kid in the early 1990s (in the UK) all the other kids were spending tons of money on football trading cards (soccer for you yanks). It was random whether you had bought decent cards or not. How are these loot boxes any different?
As someone who played rugby extensively, I can tell you this is simply false. American football is more of a [i]collision[/i] sport, whilst rugby is a contact sport. In American football a tackle means running into your opponent as fast as possible to take him out (put him to the ground), after that there is very little 'wrestling' for control of the ball, rugby is the exact opposite in that most of the contact involves wrestling for the ball rather than straight impact. High speed collisions between players are less frequent in rugby so less concussions. Also, as others have said there is no hard protective gear worn in rugby, less hard objects to hit means less concussions. Finally, the style of tackling used in rugby means that two heads banging together in a tackle is less common than in American football, so less concussions. I'm not saying rugby has less injuries overall, just a lower proportion of conussions/brain damage.
Have they controlled for the fact that the older doctors were likely trained/qualified years earlier than the younger doctors (assuming all doctors qualify at roughly the same age, in their 20s or early 30s)? I would hypothesise that the quality of doctor-training/teaching has increased over the years/decades, so younger doctors will have been trained better. Age may not actually be a factor at all.
The main problem with all this DNA 'meddling' will be that its very expensive (at least at first) allowing only the very wealthy to improve their genes but not the rest of us, creating an even bigger divide between the super-rich and the rest of humanity. That is a bad thing.
I used to use DVD-Rs for archival storage, I would burn the discs at no more than 8x speed and store them in a large zip-up CD cases holding 320 discs each. When I decided to transfer everything to HDDs 5 years later, about 10% of the discs had errors.
So obviously even after you 'delete' your phone number from facebook they will still retain that information indefinitely and probably trying to link your facebook and whatsapp accounts/information. You have to make them think your number has changed. You do this by registering a second facebook account (using a second email of course, and any random name), register your phone number with that second account (thereby removing it from the first account) then wait a while then delete/deactivate the second account. This way facebook will assume the number has changed hands (don't let them know the two facebook accounts were owned by the same person, use a different IP or at least spoof your user agent) and *hopefully* won't make the link between your original facebook account and whatsapp account (phone number).
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Why not? When windows compatible NES emulators became useful I was happy to toss my NES. When Playstation (1&2) emulators became good enough I was happy to toss those too. When faster hardware is cheap enough that I can run all my currently win7 software in an emulator (i.e. virtual machine) on a linux box (including games) then I will be happy to toss win7. Are you saying people should cling to every software platform/OS they've ever owned even if something better AND backwards-compatible replaces it?
A few years after win7 stops supporting most new games it'll be dead to a lot of diehard users. Hopefully games will run on linux by then.
1.) Digital space is cheaper than physical space.
2.) The cost of digital space is decreasing with time because it's practically infinite.
3.) The cost of physical space is increasing with time because it's finite.
4.) Search functions are excellent, if you tag things correctly and/or use the right search terms, finding one email in millions takes seconds. Much easier than searching for things in physical space (which is why warehouses have digital records of where everything is).
Therefore no need to worry about digital hoarding. Everyone stop stressing. Problem solved, go home, get off my lawn.
That's nothing, I have a spam account (an email address I give out to people/websites I know will spam me) with over 6000 emails in the inbox, nearly all of them unread. That storage is better than cheap, its free, ads pay the bills but I don't see them on my android email client.
...unless it can replace/complement the existing center channel of an existing sound system
I find it interesting you should mention this. When I first tried to put together a 5.1 surround system on a tight budget I thought I could use the TV speakers as the centre channel meaning one less speaker to buy. Back when all domestic AV was analogue it would have been trivial, just take the 'centre channel output' from the amplifier (line level if possible, but if only high-level available then use resistors to attenuate) and connect it to the TV's 'audio input'.
However now that everything is HDMI-only, sending only the centre channel sound to the TV along the same HDMI connection as the video is impossible without specialist (expensive) equipment. All it would take to make it so easy would be for the TV to have an option to output only the centre channel sound. Or alternatively for AVR manufacturers (e.g. Denon/Onkyo/Marantz) to create an option to send only centre channel audio to the TV. The only minor difficulty would be volume control, matching the output of the TV speaker to your others speakers at all volume levels with a minimum of user input. Or even if the TV had the option to display video from a HDMI input but play sound from a separate analogue (or digital) input at the same time.
I would argue that the point where most users do not notice further visual improvement in standard TV/Movies is 1080p or 4K, depending on your eyesight quality, distance to screen and size of screen. Gaming is a slightly different story, I personally prefer as much resolution as I can get to display more HUD info without obstructing my view of the scene, whereas for movies I'm happy with 1080p.
The extra bandwidth will be used (its already started) initially for more colour information, i.e. HDR functionality that has started showing up on high-end TVs. After that it'll be about time for the return of another '3D' fad, which will fail miserably (as ever) unless someone finally figures how to do 3D properly (read: holography instead of photography)
If someone has the good sense to use a FOSS browser, why are they still relying on google services when there are plenty of FOSS alternatives for every (useful) service that google offers? Or if not (e.g. youtube) there are useful (often FOSS) wrapper-apps that will let you view the google content without being tracked or subjected to tons of ads. For example for viewing youtube I use Newpipe (available on fdroid).
The plan of "Keeping people poor and not letting them own anything" has not, historically, worked out well for the rich. It might work OK-ish for the first generation, but then the subsequent generations become increasingly criminal, depraved, undisciplined, abusive, sadistic and masochistic. Lots of historical precident there of tragedy repeating over and over and things happening we can't have a very unpolite conversation about.
I am very skeptical about the "Rich screwing the poor" by force line due to that; I would assume the rich are very motivated not to have their entire blood line made extinct.
Whilst 'the rich' may appear intelligent, cunning and inventive in their methods to screw the rest of us over in the ways Rick mentioned (and they are screwing all of us exactly as Rick says), they are still too dumb to learn from the basic lessons of history. It's also complacence, they feel so powerful that nothing bad will ever happen. I can't wait for the day history does come around again and bite them in the ass.
I am still on windows 7 purely for gaming reasons, I will never go near windows 10. My sincere hope is that AAA-games will run natively on linux (with similar or superior performance to windows) before they stop supporting DirectX11 (i.e. windows 7). At that point I will happily switch to linux and never look back.
Genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm, but if it was its not terribly funny. B+ trolling.
I completely agree with you on every point.
However, if this phone had a 3.5mm headphone jack and an AMOLED display I'd buy it immediately (I'd prefer it smaller, 5 inch screen is perfect for me). I like the hardware specs (plenty of RAM) and I love they have retained a microSD slot (my biggest gripe with my OnePlus 5) and I love that they have not included a notch (I'd throw money at them just for that choice alone if I could afford to). I would never game on it for reasons stated by parent, but I like to have a device with top-end hardware specs so I know it won't feel painfully slow even after 3-4 years
Don't you remember teen/tween girls going ga-ga for boy-bands or whomever the heart throb at the moment was?
I remember this very clearly, but I think that reaction is more involuntary, driven by a kind lust (hormonal-teenager proto-lust). Equally as irrational, but understandable as an involuntary response to stimulus. Kind of like a young teenage boy getting an erection in public the first time he sees a woman sunbathing nude (for example). The reaction of the girls going 'ga-ga' at the boy-band is almost identical, except there is no shame or embarrassment attached so naturally the reaction is amplified by peer pressure.
Honest question: You understand volunteering for political parties?
Yes I understand volunteering for political parties, I have done so myself. The gain was that I thought I was making (in some minuscule fashion) my country a better place. I volunteered for a party that promised to achieve various economic and political goals etc etc. None of those goals, if met would have benefited me directly, I just agreed with them from a moral perspective even though they would not affect me.
Are you saying the people paying to support/spoof plays for this band on spotify to get them higher in charts are doing so because they honestly believe it will make the world a better place? Otherwise I don't see how the situations are relevant to each other at all
Most of YOUR comments might be insightful (but because you posted AC I have no idea which future posts belong to you), but looking at _all_ AC comments, the vast majority of them are trash by trolls. A significant proportion are just apk and his impersonators trolling each other. Another significant fraction are trump-related (when the submission is not even political), and most of the rest are random racist outburts.
I simply cannot comprehend this 'superfandom' phenomenon. I can understand _really_ liking a band, even liking them so much that you encourage, repeatedly, all your friends to listen to them. You buy their merchandise, you go to their concerts, you follow the personal lives of the band members. All understandable, not the type of thing I would do, but I get it.
But paying money out of your own pocket for no personal gain other than your favorite band doing better in the charts? Why? Why not spend that money on more concert tickets, the money will still make it to the band? I just can't understand it
Road wear & tear is proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight. Anything to the 4th power is slightly unusual in Physics. Buses and trucks cause over 90% of the damage. But that doesn't mean only trucks should pay, there is still a significant cost to build the road in the first place and that should be shared equally.
Rare insightful AC. Mod up.
Having to use three or four 3.5mm jacks to get 5.1/7.1 audio was a genuine nuisance (I went to optical S/PDIF as soon I could), consolidating them all PLUS the video signal into one HDMI cable is great, utilising digital because the receiving device has its own power for DAC etc. Oneplus ditching 3.5mm jack is totally different, I don't want to rely on my earphones having power, charging batteries is a bigger hassle than having the cable.
I would mod you up but I've run out of points. When I was a kid in the early 1990s (in the UK) all the other kids were spending tons of money on football trading cards (soccer for you yanks). It was random whether you had bought decent cards or not. How are these loot boxes any different?
As someone who played rugby extensively, I can tell you this is simply false. American football is more of a [i]collision[/i] sport, whilst rugby is a contact sport. In American football a tackle means running into your opponent as fast as possible to take him out (put him to the ground), after that there is very little 'wrestling' for control of the ball, rugby is the exact opposite in that most of the contact involves wrestling for the ball rather than straight impact. High speed collisions between players are less frequent in rugby so less concussions. Also, as others have said there is no hard protective gear worn in rugby, less hard objects to hit means less concussions. Finally, the style of tackling used in rugby means that two heads banging together in a tackle is less common than in American football, so less concussions. I'm not saying rugby has less injuries overall, just a lower proportion of conussions/brain damage.
Have they controlled for the fact that the older doctors were likely trained/qualified years earlier than the younger doctors (assuming all doctors qualify at roughly the same age, in their 20s or early 30s)? I would hypothesise that the quality of doctor-training/teaching has increased over the years/decades, so younger doctors will have been trained better. Age may not actually be a factor at all.
The main problem with all this DNA 'meddling' will be that its very expensive (at least at first) allowing only the very wealthy to improve their genes but not the rest of us, creating an even bigger divide between the super-rich and the rest of humanity. That is a bad thing.
"is entirely compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights."
I like how they said "compatible" and not "compliant". How clever.
I used to use DVD-Rs for archival storage, I would burn the discs at no more than 8x speed and store them in a large zip-up CD cases holding 320 discs each. When I decided to transfer everything to HDDs 5 years later, about 10% of the discs had errors.
So obviously even after you 'delete' your phone number from facebook they will still retain that information indefinitely and probably trying to link your facebook and whatsapp accounts/information. You have to make them think your number has changed. You do this by registering a second facebook account (using a second email of course, and any random name), register your phone number with that second account (thereby removing it from the first account) then wait a while then delete/deactivate the second account. This way facebook will assume the number has changed hands (don't let them know the two facebook accounts were owned by the same person, use a different IP or at least spoof your user agent) and *hopefully* won't make the link between your original facebook account and whatsapp account (phone number).