That's right up there with the names of video standards: 240p - SD 480p - SD 720p - HD 1080p - Full HD ( *should* technically be "2k" referring to the total amount of horizontal pixels - 1920px. ) 2160p - 4K Ultra HD 4320p - 8k Ultra HD
Nevermind the fact that the human eye with 20/20 vision couldn't differentiate the pixels of a 65" 1080p TV from 10 feet away, but I digress.
People DON'T pay for Android. Not even the big vendors like Samsung. Where Google makes its money is via OEM lock-in with the play store and assorted data collection and advertising revenue that results from that. The play store is also free, but OEM's cannot provide their own app store and expect to have the fully-featured android. It's ingenious really, subsidizing the cost of OS development by forcing everyone who has your OS to use only your store. It's exactly what MS wants to do with Windows 10 - and why Valve was up-in-arms about the Windows Store and Win10, then developed SteamOS.
Google moved most of their stuff outside of Android proper years ago, now they can handle a majority of the updates directly with the Play Store.
Someone else already solved it to my satisfaction - it's methane out-gassing. It takes takes very little to stall an airplane engine, the bubbling capsizes boats, and there's a large underground deposit in the area.
Nintendo has long had a stance about protecting it's own IP. That's part of why they had the "Officially Licensed by Nintendo" on their NES cartridges - complete with the locking chip. They bought the rights to the two adult film parodies of the Super Mario Bros so the films wouldn't be distributed. They issued a DMCA take-down to the developer of AM2R just prior to their release of Metroid: Samus Returns.
Sony, Sega and Microsoft have all used similar tactics to try to keep their IP within their walls. The only argument I have with them being ham-handed with the NES/SNES/N64 romsets is *it's not all theirs*. Nintendo *shouldn't* have any right to cease distribution of an NES Rom of Castlevania - that's Konami's job.
On the flip side, Digital music distribution has shown that if you make it easier for the public to get what they want, piracy becomes a (mostly) non-issue. If Nintendo had followed in the footsteps of iTunes and released the entire NES/SNES/N64 library via virtual console and made it crazy cheap and simple to get classic games I'm sure we wouldn't be seeing this nonsense. Instead they did away with the VC and it's stupid "nintendo points" currency.
I'm sure there's hundreds, if not thousands, of people out there that have no idea what to buy for Christmas unless Steve Jobs (now Tim Cook) tell them at the annual iPhone minor upgrade party.
As for me, I'm still content with my iPhone 6s+. There's just not enough incentive to get a newer phone. None are a significant enough upgrade - CPU speeds don't matter since I don't game, no larger storage for my music, no bandwidth speed increases. Why *should* I bother? Hmm, Apple? Samsung?
What is so special about this years phone over my own that I need to drop $1k on it?
I remember reading somewhere that some conditions - particularly heart attacks - present differently between men and women. We typically think of chest pain and burning around the upper-left chest and shoulder area with a heart attack. Symptoms in women are often that and more - they might experience jaw/back pain, nausea and shortness of breath. Things that could be confused with a common cold or flu pretty easily.
It's the docs job to know the symptoms and correlate, they can't help much if they don't know the whole picture.
"Hey, if it helps me win, I'm okay with it" - All Senators that opposed the issue.
Honestly though, lots of money has been dumped into making ballots secure, and they have never really been that well protected from hacking/interference. A $250 mil earmark may be a waste of money compared to having some IV&V with blackhats prior to making purchases of ballot systems.
Symptom: Kids are on their phones (playing games and/or worrying about why they didn't get a 'Like')
There's much more wrong than 'screen time'. Our society pushes image and celebrity down everyone's throat. We value athletes, reality stars and 'likes' more than intelligence, accomplishment, and being yourself. There isn't any "learning" from their cell phone, it's all in a pursuit of instant stimulus and gratification. Small children would rather play dress-up or build a virtual cake than recite their ABC's. Older children would rather BS with friends or pursue likes than work toward some goal. You can blame parenting, but there is a huge societal component too.
I've known a number of really bright kids that love to learn about the world around them, but as soon as a screen is on the rest of the world disappears. Remove the screen, and they will gladly go back to playing with puzzles, building with Legos, or whatever. It's not realistic to expect every kid to love every subject, so naturally there are going to be things that are boring to some and exciting to others.
If you have some way to make boring subjects exciting (and safe) for the 5-15 year olds out there while getting them to the same level of understanding, you're sitting on a gold mine.
I dunno,there are a lot of really helpful reviews out there. For example: This one, or this one, or even this one about gummy bears. These are the types of reviews people NEED to know.
They talk to hackers about securing systems. Though hackers like money and staying out of jail. I don't think we can get these greedy CEO's to work in the public's best interest.
Another suggestion: Urban planning is crap in a lot of locations. People turn to the easiest alternative. Cars have the best convenience since you're free to go at your own schedule, no waiting 30 min for a bus or train. Uber fills that gap for a lot of folks who would rather wait 5 minutes and get *exactly* where they are going than wait in a cattle car to get *close* to where they want to be.
I live in a city with no real mass transit *AND* all the roads suck. Millions of people stuck on two-lane roads with speed limits between 40 and 45 mph. Rush hour is miserable - if there's a wreck (and there is at least one on every road i take weekly) then can easily add an hour to your commute. I'd love to be able to bike to work, but I'm not brave enough to share a lane with drivers that don't pay attention on a good day flying by at 50+ mph (what speed limit?) 3 feet from me.
Embrace - They've integrated Bash and X-Windows into MS Windows with they Linux subsystem work in the past couple years. Extend - Lets take the most god-awful approach to system administration and add it to a simple (mostly) straight-forward shell. Extinguish - ??? How are they going to snub out 100+ distros and millions (billions?) of lines of open source floating in the ether?
I agree wholeheartedly. the *Nix world has a focus on multiple simple tools that can be combined in interesting ways to do what you need. Think data piping, xargs, and as someone else mentioned - string operations. Because of these we have a lot of short commands that do simple things "ls" , "cd", "sed", "grep", and so on.
Microsoft, on the other hand, opted to nest things in obscure objects. So now you have java-namespace-like objects to do tasks. Its not editing a configuration file, it's instantiating a specific class to handle some configuration setting - likely in the registry somewhere. The result is long-ass commands to do really simple things and having to remember which obscure class of the.NET component tree you need to invoke to start the toaster.
I bought a Gazelle some 4-5 years ago - it has a 4000 series i7 inside and no dedicated graphics card.
I've installed Fedora and Ubuntu on it, I've run virtual machines, I've developed code, built stuff in Unity 3D, played a handful of games (on lower settings). Overall it has been a very solid laptop and I've not had any problems with it. The battery doesn't live like it used to, but that's always the case over years of use and abuse.
The plastic of the Clevo-built laptop does feel a bit flimsy, but I've never had anything break or crack. The screen still looks crisp and sharp. I've had HP, Toshiba and Dell laptops that basically self-destruct after 2-3 years. Overall, I'd buy System76 again, though next time around I'd get a dedicated graphics card built-in. Intel just doesn't have their act together when it comes to pushing polygons.
As much as I'd love to see a good witch burning, I think a more realistic expectation isn't fire or even jail time. It'll be a couple million dollar fine and a shameful finger wave.
If and until fines become greater than profits for corporations bad behavior, this cycle of crap will continue.
Cheap knock-off drugs posing as the real-deal. I can see the reviews now: "This pill is slightly blue-er than my typical prescription. Normally I just spend the afternoon having full conversations with my dog. This time I he actually talked back! Added bonus the lawn was on fire and walls were swirling. 3 stars."
I always wonder why people use AT&T as their mobile operator in the first place. It is consistently more expensive, and doesn't have the best coverage either. There must be something I am missing.
I agree it's expensive, I disagree about coverage. I consistently get a better signal with AT&T than with T-Mobile or Sprint - whether I'm in the city or in a rural area. I'm typically opposed to mega-corporations getting bigger, but so far with AT&T I haven't had any BOHICA situations.
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That's right up there with the names of video standards:
240p - SD
480p - SD
720p - HD
1080p - Full HD ( *should* technically be "2k" referring to the total amount of horizontal pixels - 1920px. )
2160p - 4K Ultra HD
4320p - 8k Ultra HD
Nevermind the fact that the human eye with 20/20 vision couldn't differentiate the pixels of a 65" 1080p TV from 10 feet away, but I digress.
People DON'T pay for Android. Not even the big vendors like Samsung. Where Google makes its money is via OEM lock-in with the play store and assorted data collection and advertising revenue that results from that. The play store is also free, but OEM's cannot provide their own app store and expect to have the fully-featured android. It's ingenious really, subsidizing the cost of OS development by forcing everyone who has your OS to use only your store. It's exactly what MS wants to do with Windows 10 - and why Valve was up-in-arms about the Windows Store and Win10, then developed SteamOS.
Google moved most of their stuff outside of Android proper years ago, now they can handle a majority of the updates directly with the Play Store.
Someone else already solved it to my satisfaction - it's methane out-gassing. It takes takes very little to stall an airplane engine, the bubbling capsizes boats, and there's a large underground deposit in the area.
What if the pilot lights a match?
Nintendo has long had a stance about protecting it's own IP. That's part of why they had the "Officially Licensed by Nintendo" on their NES cartridges - complete with the locking chip. They bought the rights to the two adult film parodies of the Super Mario Bros so the films wouldn't be distributed. They issued a DMCA take-down to the developer of AM2R just prior to their release of Metroid: Samus Returns.
Sony, Sega and Microsoft have all used similar tactics to try to keep their IP within their walls. The only argument I have with them being ham-handed with the NES/SNES/N64 romsets is *it's not all theirs*. Nintendo *shouldn't* have any right to cease distribution of an NES Rom of Castlevania - that's Konami's job.
On the flip side, Digital music distribution has shown that if you make it easier for the public to get what they want, piracy becomes a (mostly) non-issue. If Nintendo had followed in the footsteps of iTunes and released the entire NES/SNES/N64 library via virtual console and made it crazy cheap and simple to get classic games I'm sure we wouldn't be seeing this nonsense. Instead they did away with the VC and it's stupid "nintendo points" currency.
It sure worked wonders for Blackberry...
I'm sure there's hundreds, if not thousands, of people out there that have no idea what to buy for Christmas unless Steve Jobs (now Tim Cook) tell them at the annual iPhone minor upgrade party.
As for me, I'm still content with my iPhone 6s+. There's just not enough incentive to get a newer phone. None are a significant enough upgrade - CPU speeds don't matter since I don't game, no larger storage for my music, no bandwidth speed increases. Why *should* I bother? Hmm, Apple? Samsung?
What is so special about this years phone over my own that I need to drop $1k on it?
I remember reading somewhere that some conditions - particularly heart attacks - present differently between men and women. We typically think of chest pain and burning around the upper-left chest and shoulder area with a heart attack. Symptoms in women are often that and more - they might experience jaw/back pain, nausea and shortness of breath. Things that could be confused with a common cold or flu pretty easily.
It's the docs job to know the symptoms and correlate, they can't help much if they don't know the whole picture.
any time big gov't contracts are awarded it's typical for non-selected vendors to launch formal protests
See the KC-135 kerfluffle between Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman.
Chicken-poking typists UNITE!
Apple already went the G-rated route with emojis.
Now the DoD is going to have "critical tweets" like:
(US Flag)(Water gun) (water gun) -> (enemy flag) (X face).
(US Flag)(airplane)(airplane)(airplane) -> (enemy flag)(mushroom)(mushroom)
(US Flag)(sailboat) + (enemy flag)(sailboat) -> (US flag)(sailboat) + (enemy flag)(water drop)
Apple.. something... something... courage.
I'll counter with my plan:
1. Create genius idea
2. Get bought by facebook
3. Swim in my money
"Hey, if it helps me win, I'm okay with it" - All Senators that opposed the issue.
Honestly though, lots of money has been dumped into making ballots secure, and they have never really been that well protected from hacking/interference. A $250 mil earmark may be a waste of money compared to having some IV&V with blackhats prior to making purchases of ballot systems.
Symptom: Kids are on their phones (playing games and/or worrying about why they didn't get a 'Like')
There's much more wrong than 'screen time'. Our society pushes image and celebrity down everyone's throat. We value athletes, reality stars and 'likes' more than intelligence, accomplishment, and being yourself. There isn't any "learning" from their cell phone, it's all in a pursuit of instant stimulus and gratification. Small children would rather play dress-up or build a virtual cake than recite their ABC's. Older children would rather BS with friends or pursue likes than work toward some goal. You can blame parenting, but there is a huge societal component too.
I've known a number of really bright kids that love to learn about the world around them, but as soon as a screen is on the rest of the world disappears. Remove the screen, and they will gladly go back to playing with puzzles, building with Legos, or whatever. It's not realistic to expect every kid to love every subject, so naturally there are going to be things that are boring to some and exciting to others.
If you have some way to make boring subjects exciting (and safe) for the 5-15 year olds out there while getting them to the same level of understanding, you're sitting on a gold mine.
I dunno,there are a lot of really helpful reviews out there. For example: This one, or this one, or even this one about gummy bears. These are the types of reviews people NEED to know.
They talk to hackers about securing systems. Though hackers like money and staying out of jail. I don't think we can get these greedy CEO's to work in the public's best interest.
Another suggestion: Urban planning is crap in a lot of locations.
People turn to the easiest alternative. Cars have the best convenience since you're free to go at your own schedule, no waiting 30 min for a bus or train. Uber fills that gap for a lot of folks who would rather wait 5 minutes and get *exactly* where they are going than wait in a cattle car to get *close* to where they want to be.
I live in a city with no real mass transit *AND* all the roads suck. Millions of people stuck on two-lane roads with speed limits between 40 and 45 mph. Rush hour is miserable - if there's a wreck (and there is at least one on every road i take weekly) then can easily add an hour to your commute. I'd love to be able to bike to work, but I'm not brave enough to share a lane with drivers that don't pay attention on a good day flying by at 50+ mph (what speed limit?) 3 feet from me.
Embrace - They've integrated Bash and X-Windows into MS Windows with they Linux subsystem work in the past couple years.
Extend - Lets take the most god-awful approach to system administration and add it to a simple (mostly) straight-forward shell.
Extinguish - ??? How are they going to snub out 100+ distros and millions (billions?) of lines of open source floating in the ether?
But what if I want to watch 300 HD streams at once?
I agree wholeheartedly. the *Nix world has a focus on multiple simple tools that can be combined in interesting ways to do what you need. Think data piping, xargs, and as someone else mentioned - string operations. Because of these we have a lot of short commands that do simple things "ls" , "cd", "sed", "grep", and so on.
Microsoft, on the other hand, opted to nest things in obscure objects. So now you have java-namespace-like objects to do tasks. Its not editing a configuration file, it's instantiating a specific class to handle some configuration setting - likely in the registry somewhere. The result is long-ass commands to do really simple things and having to remember which obscure class of the .NET component tree you need to invoke to start the toaster.
I bought a Gazelle some 4-5 years ago - it has a 4000 series i7 inside and no dedicated graphics card.
I've installed Fedora and Ubuntu on it, I've run virtual machines, I've developed code, built stuff in Unity 3D, played a handful of games (on lower settings). Overall it has been a very solid laptop and I've not had any problems with it. The battery doesn't live like it used to, but that's always the case over years of use and abuse.
The plastic of the Clevo-built laptop does feel a bit flimsy, but I've never had anything break or crack. The screen still looks crisp and sharp. I've had HP, Toshiba and Dell laptops that basically self-destruct after 2-3 years. Overall, I'd buy System76 again, though next time around I'd get a dedicated graphics card built-in. Intel just doesn't have their act together when it comes to pushing polygons.
As much as I'd love to see a good witch burning, I think a more realistic expectation isn't fire or even jail time. It'll be a couple million dollar fine and a shameful finger wave.
If and until fines become greater than profits for corporations bad behavior, this cycle of crap will continue.
Cheap knock-off drugs posing as the real-deal.
I can see the reviews now: "This pill is slightly blue-er than my typical prescription. Normally I just spend the afternoon having full conversations with my dog. This time I he actually talked back! Added bonus the lawn was on fire and walls were swirling. 3 stars."
I know the CARB is basically the kick-start to nation-wide regulations. Here's hoping CA can pave the way for privacy for the rest of us.
I always wonder why people use AT&T as their mobile operator in the first place. It is consistently more expensive, and doesn't have the best coverage either. There must be something I am missing.
I agree it's expensive, I disagree about coverage.
I consistently get a better signal with AT&T than with T-Mobile or Sprint - whether I'm in the city or in a rural area. I'm typically opposed to mega-corporations getting bigger, but so far with AT&T I haven't had any BOHICA situations.