If they change the terms you can just walk without any early termination fees, that's also in the contract.
I barely use 1GB a month as a power user, although I have a home data connection. Over the past three years DD-WRT tells me I'm using between 80 and 150 GB per month, peaking to ~250 once or twice. I have a hard time believing that those people using > 100GB/mo aren't within wifi range ever, and also won't invest in a land line to better meet their needs.
I had to get my hand looked at after a bicycle accident about 2 years ago that could have impacted my range of movement. The doctor turned on a recorder that had a foot pedal as a sort of "push to talk/record" system. Every time he put his foot down it would start recording, and stop when he let off. This tape then got labeled with my case number and sent off to a transcriptionist/service. I don't know why you need the scribe in the room but whatever. The transcription cost gets passed along to the insurance company. No big deal.
The big bonus here is that me, the patient, gets to hear exactly what is going in to the doctor's notes, not getting the sanitized version. Also the doctor doesn't have to mentally repeat themself hours after the appointment.
Yeah that's the Trillion Dollar question a lot of very smart people are working on. Once city or time-zone scale batteries (or equivilent) are invented, you just need to scale wind/solar at the continental level to about 250%.
Obviously, someone will invent that solution. If it's simply moving billions of tons of rock up a mountain, and then rolling it back down the mountain, then so be it. Emergencies like this will highlight the problem, and someone will solve it. Coal and oil burning plants are not long for this world. 50-60 years, tops.
People will look back at your post and laugh at it's short-sightedness.
Most neighborhood roads have a speed limit of 25-35mph which is generally very safe for bicyclists. As long as you're not the guy in Dallas the other day that was bicycling in the middle lane of I-635 you should be fine.
Twitter claims something like 5% of all accounts are fake/bots
Analysts mostly think that about 15% of all accounts are fake/bots
When was the last time you ever heard anyone say out loud "oh yeah I tweeted that"?
I think closer to 35% of all accounts are simply (mostly) harmless retweet accounts, 5% malicious accounts, 40% inactive accounts (in the last 30 days) and 20% actually login every couple of days, let alone daily or more than once a day.
How Twitter manages to convince advertisers' clients that they have a real audience to sell them is beyond me. On top of all these bot accounts Twitter has reported totally flat (0% year over year) user growth of active users. I can't wait for this massive pyramid scheme to come tumbling down in the next year or so.
Man you are really fishing for something to complain about today, huh? It would be a $2 adapter, or you can just build your own with a $0.05 resistor and an old USB-C cable. It's a really, really simple device. The 3.5mm analog jack is ready to be put out to pasture, long live the 2.4mm analog jack (USB-C).
Re: charging, with fast charging and/or modern battery life it's really not an issue.
USB-C supports using the connector as an analog headphone jack. You just need a specific resistor on a specific pin and it will switch over to analog headphone mode on one of the pins. You wouldn't even need an adapter with the right set of headphones. There's a strong likelihood that they're finally going to kill their proprietary connector on the iPhone in favor of USB-C.
I'm not sure what picture you're trying to paint about the current economic situation by pointing to the worst economic downturn in most slashdotters lives... and happened nearly 7 years ago? So what?
Additionally, only a few shipbuilders worldwide can build the truly large ships. Nobody is buying the smaller panamax sized ships most of these tiny shipyards are capable of building. Your points mostly reinforced the idea that nobody is buying small ships, but rather prefer the dramatically much more economical mega ships which cost something like 50% less per container to operate than a smaller ship. Did you even think your post all the way through to it's logical conclusion?
Boats are even more competitive than rail once you start looking at routes like Hong Kong -> Los Angeles or London -> Mumbai
The bigger the better, growth will continue to feed these monsters, and the larger they get, the more efficient they are. I'm not really sure what the article is blabbering on about, beyond some hand-wavey fear-mongering.
They're subsidized because, as it turns out, modern information-based economies come to a screeching halt when the power goes out unexpectedly, especially for more than 90 seconds. Same reason we do silly things like subsidize agriculture. What do you mean, you can't go an entire winter without eating? You said you wanted to remove subsidies....
I'm sure that those in the great lakes region who rely on electric heat in the winter to keep from freezing to death disagree with your ideas of introducing an interruptible and unreliable electrical grid. Not to mention what's left of our meager manufacturing base.
What kind of futuristic halo phone is this, if it doesn't have a USB-C connector? My year old phone has one, my laptop charges over USB-C, and now you want me to move backwards and use micro USB again? What is this, 2013?
Tango looks cool but until someone finds a killer app for true VR, AR on your phone is going to be lacking.
The stock market, on average, returns 7%, which is about 3-4% after inflation. So a big fat mutual fund is already 20x your investing strategy. Or you could invest in real estate, which, depending on how aggressive you are, can easily double that. Or (if you're feeling frisky) you could buy an existing, healthy business from someone else, and pay someone to manage it for you, for a guaranteed rate of return. Many non-profits offer a 5% guaranteed rate of return. Not to mention all the tax advantaged benefits when you start dealing in seven figures.
TL;DR you're terrible at personal finance, take some classes.
When you stop getting 5-10% raises each year, it's time to re-certify and begin job hunting anew. I got a 5% raise followed by a 1.5% raise and within three months of that last raise had jumped ship.
I suppose this is not true in two cases
1. You're independently wealthy 2. You've paid off your house and are already maxing out your 401k and have been for at least a decade (see 1. )
No word at all about this at CoreOS Fest just a few weeks earlier?
It was very interesting that all their vendors and tech demos were based on Kubernetes, rather than CoreOS-developed Fleet, actually there was a single Fleet based demo, by the NginX guys, but they seems pretty aware that they were demoing their product with a depreciated system.
Most (all?) pedestrian impacts I've seen, the car hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk, typically they're not barreling through a farmer's market and off in to oncoming traffic. Even in all those crazy traffic videos, I've never seen a car hit a pedestrian and then another car.
Clearly you've never hung around with med school students, then. Or church youth group councilors. There's lots, LOTS of upstanding citizens doing all kinds of crazy drugs behinds closed doors. You're just not privy to that information.
This is why they produce the compute module; you get the 40 pin header, usb etc in a SO-DIMM and commercial users have a standard unit they can design around for several years. The BBB is a superior device though, I agree.
If 40 years there won't be enough people in rural areas to matter any more, it's awfully hard to vote "Fuck You, Got Mine" when you have to live, drive and work in the same area as people much less fortunate than you. Not to mention, all the manufacturing jobs will have disappeared, so we'll likely be on some sort of guaranteed minimum income by that point. There will still be a deeply conservative block, but they will shrink over time as cities grow and rural towns dwindle.
Turns out I've had the same router since 2013, which keeps bandwidth logs.
With one rare exception (where I managed to blow through 150GB in a single day??) I've never exceeded more than 200GB, that exception month being 227GB. I consider myself a power user, but in reality most months floated around about 120GB/mo.
300GB sounds fine for most users, I have to really push it to try and burn up 250GB, let alone four times that amount. Maybe I need to upgrade to a 4K display to stream 4K netflix? Although from across the room I can't see the pixels on my 1080p display so that seems excessive.
Either way 300GB is probably slightly too low, but only just barely. I suppose if you had five kids who each spent a couple hours a day watching netflix you could exceed 300GB in a month?
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On a residential connection? Doing what? Hosting your own linux distro?
If they change the terms you can just walk without any early termination fees, that's also in the contract.
I barely use 1GB a month as a power user, although I have a home data connection. Over the past three years DD-WRT tells me I'm using between 80 and 150 GB per month, peaking to ~250 once or twice. I have a hard time believing that those people using > 100GB/mo aren't within wifi range ever, and also won't invest in a land line to better meet their needs.
I wasn't even aware this was a patent-able idea, I was talking about it here on slashdot 2 years ago... would that count as prior art?
I had to get my hand looked at after a bicycle accident about 2 years ago that could have impacted my range of movement. The doctor turned on a recorder that had a foot pedal as a sort of "push to talk/record" system. Every time he put his foot down it would start recording, and stop when he let off. This tape then got labeled with my case number and sent off to a transcriptionist/service. I don't know why you need the scribe in the room but whatever. The transcription cost gets passed along to the insurance company. No big deal.
The big bonus here is that me, the patient, gets to hear exactly what is going in to the doctor's notes, not getting the sanitized version. Also the doctor doesn't have to mentally repeat themself hours after the appointment.
So, what, six, ten years out? Battlefield 4 isn't photorealistic but it's definitely moving in that direction with just a few tricks.
Yeah that's the Trillion Dollar question a lot of very smart people are working on. Once city or time-zone scale batteries (or equivilent) are invented, you just need to scale wind/solar at the continental level to about 250%.
Obviously, someone will invent that solution. If it's simply moving billions of tons of rock up a mountain, and then rolling it back down the mountain, then so be it. Emergencies like this will highlight the problem, and someone will solve it. Coal and oil burning plants are not long for this world. 50-60 years, tops.
People will look back at your post and laugh at it's short-sightedness.
Better to just dump that $10 billion dollars in to a non profit electric car research institute.
How much better batteries can you design on a $10 billion dollar budget?
The Tesla gigafactory cost $5 billion, for an idea of how much $10.5 billion dollars in research would buy you.
Most neighborhood roads have a speed limit of 25-35mph which is generally very safe for bicyclists. As long as you're not the guy in Dallas the other day that was bicycling in the middle lane of I-635 you should be fine.
Twitter claims something like 5% of all accounts are fake/bots
Analysts mostly think that about 15% of all accounts are fake/bots
When was the last time you ever heard anyone say out loud "oh yeah I tweeted that"?
I think closer to 35% of all accounts are simply (mostly) harmless retweet accounts, 5% malicious accounts, 40% inactive accounts (in the last 30 days) and 20% actually login every couple of days, let alone daily or more than once a day.
How Twitter manages to convince advertisers' clients that they have a real audience to sell them is beyond me. On top of all these bot accounts Twitter has reported totally flat (0% year over year) user growth of active users. I can't wait for this massive pyramid scheme to come tumbling down in the next year or so.
Man you are really fishing for something to complain about today, huh? It would be a $2 adapter, or you can just build your own with a $0.05 resistor and an old USB-C cable. It's a really, really simple device. The 3.5mm analog jack is ready to be put out to pasture, long live the 2.4mm analog jack (USB-C).
Re: charging, with fast charging and/or modern battery life it's really not an issue.
USB-C supports using the connector as an analog headphone jack. You just need a specific resistor on a specific pin and it will switch over to analog headphone mode on one of the pins. You wouldn't even need an adapter with the right set of headphones. There's a strong likelihood that they're finally going to kill their proprietary connector on the iPhone in favor of USB-C.
So there is your precious analog headphone jack.
I'm not sure what picture you're trying to paint about the current economic situation by pointing to the worst economic downturn in most slashdotters lives... and happened nearly 7 years ago? So what?
Additionally, only a few shipbuilders worldwide can build the truly large ships. Nobody is buying the smaller panamax sized ships most of these tiny shipyards are capable of building. Your points mostly reinforced the idea that nobody is buying small ships, but rather prefer the dramatically much more economical mega ships which cost something like 50% less per container to operate than a smaller ship. Did you even think your post all the way through to it's logical conclusion?
Boats are even more competitive than rail once you start looking at routes like Hong Kong -> Los Angeles or London -> Mumbai
The bigger the better, growth will continue to feed these monsters, and the larger they get, the more efficient they are. I'm not really sure what the article is blabbering on about, beyond some hand-wavey fear-mongering.
That must be why I've never, ever heard of iMessage before.
Why would I want another text messaging app?
They're subsidized because, as it turns out, modern information-based economies come to a screeching halt when the power goes out unexpectedly, especially for more than 90 seconds. Same reason we do silly things like subsidize agriculture. What do you mean, you can't go an entire winter without eating? You said you wanted to remove subsidies....
I'm sure that those in the great lakes region who rely on electric heat in the winter to keep from freezing to death disagree with your ideas of introducing an interruptible and unreliable electrical grid. Not to mention what's left of our meager manufacturing base.
What kind of futuristic halo phone is this, if it doesn't have a USB-C connector? My year old phone has one, my laptop charges over USB-C, and now you want me to move backwards and use micro USB again? What is this, 2013?
Tango looks cool but until someone finds a killer app for true VR, AR on your phone is going to be lacking.
Pass.
The stock market, on average, returns 7%, which is about 3-4% after inflation. So a big fat mutual fund is already 20x your investing strategy. Or you could invest in real estate, which, depending on how aggressive you are, can easily double that. Or (if you're feeling frisky) you could buy an existing, healthy business from someone else, and pay someone to manage it for you, for a guaranteed rate of return. Many non-profits offer a 5% guaranteed rate of return. Not to mention all the tax advantaged benefits when you start dealing in seven figures.
TL;DR you're terrible at personal finance, take some classes.
When you stop getting 5-10% raises each year, it's time to re-certify and begin job hunting anew. I got a 5% raise followed by a 1.5% raise and within three months of that last raise had jumped ship.
I suppose this is not true in two cases
1. You're independently wealthy
2. You've paid off your house and are already maxing out your 401k and have been for at least a decade (see 1. )
Thank you! I was going to jump in and correct him, but then I scrolled down to see you had taken care of it.
No word at all about this at CoreOS Fest just a few weeks earlier?
It was very interesting that all their vendors and tech demos were based on Kubernetes, rather than CoreOS-developed Fleet, actually there was a single Fleet based demo, by the NginX guys, but they seems pretty aware that they were demoing their product with a depreciated system.
Most (all?) pedestrian impacts I've seen, the car hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk, typically they're not barreling through a farmer's market and off in to oncoming traffic. Even in all those crazy traffic videos, I've never seen a car hit a pedestrian and then another car.
Clearly you've never hung around with med school students, then. Or church youth group councilors. There's lots, LOTS of upstanding citizens doing all kinds of crazy drugs behinds closed doors. You're just not privy to that information.
This is why they produce the compute module; you get the 40 pin header, usb etc in a SO-DIMM and commercial users have a standard unit they can design around for several years. The BBB is a superior device though, I agree.
If 40 years there won't be enough people in rural areas to matter any more, it's awfully hard to vote "Fuck You, Got Mine" when you have to live, drive and work in the same area as people much less fortunate than you. Not to mention, all the manufacturing jobs will have disappeared, so we'll likely be on some sort of guaranteed minimum income by that point. There will still be a deeply conservative block, but they will shrink over time as cities grow and rural towns dwindle.
Turns out I've had the same router since 2013, which keeps bandwidth logs.
With one rare exception (where I managed to blow through 150GB in a single day??) I've never exceeded more than 200GB, that exception month being 227GB. I consider myself a power user, but in reality most months floated around about 120GB/mo.
300GB sounds fine for most users, I have to really push it to try and burn up 250GB, let alone four times that amount. Maybe I need to upgrade to a 4K display to stream 4K netflix? Although from across the room I can't see the pixels on my 1080p display so that seems excessive.
Either way 300GB is probably slightly too low, but only just barely. I suppose if you had five kids who each spent a couple hours a day watching netflix you could exceed 300GB in a month?