Be careful with your comparisons, today's TV's have more differences than just number of pixels... hence the whole "HDR" bandwagon these days, which is all about setting a standard for color space for TV's that is comparable between manufacturers. The real "Wow" factor is not resolution, it's color reproduction and speed.
The resolution of the human eye is measured in arc seconds, not pixels. Someone with 20/20 vision cannot differentiate 1080p from a higher resolution 50" T.V. when seated 6 feet away. That's the same as roughly 15" for a 24 inch 1080p monitor. So, unless you're sitting really close, or you just have a simply massive screen, those extra pixels are pretty useless.
Slightly off-topic, but this seems to be the nature of business these days. I've noticed Amazon Prime's "2-day guarantee" is only barely better than UPS Ground (Free shipping). In order to make it 2 business days involves chatting with customer support and complaining. I'm not entirely sure where the blame lies, but if two big names whose shipping is a significant part of business can't manage to keep a 2-day promise, then maybe it's FedEx, UPS and USPS to blame.
Sure, they are typically only for *new* customers. But a phone call and 30-60 min of time after that grace period will likely get you to the retention folks. While you may not get quite the same deal as the new guys, you may get something comparable. I had Qwest back in the day and had their ~50Mb plan for $35 and they wanted to raise it to $70. Comcast had a deal for ~50Mb for $40, and when I called Qwest out on it, they kept me on the $35 plan for another year.
I'm not sure why anyone would want a RAZR... I had one, it survived maybe 6 months before it started failing at everything. Responsiveness went down the toilet, lots of dropped calls, those calls that did make it were low volume and/or filled with white noise.
Personally, I have a short list of requirements:
1) Lasts longer than a day on one charge (preferably two or three).
2) Responsive. If I touch a button or the screen, it shouldn't take 3 seconds before it does something.
3) Not riddled with crapware that A) is the same as some built-in software, B) serves tons of ads, C) auto-starts or D) slows the phone down to a crawl
4) I can browse the internet, send texts and make phone calls easily (this is a phone, after all)
Moore's law was never about processing power, just transistor size. It ignores all other things that make a computer "powerful", such as clock speed, IOPS, FLOPS, multiprocessors/concurrency, bandwidth, on-chip cache size, etc...
I don't want to say I am psychic or anything... but there's some proof.
Okay, maybe the price was wrong... though it's interesting that you can get two replacement earpods for less than retail of new...
Riiigggghhhttt... and when our planets core ceases to be liquid and shifting around, then our planet stops turning and we turn into a frigid ice-ball like Mars... I'm gonna blame Iceland.;-)
I never thought of it like that, it's some backward-ass logic.
"You know what? We have people that want to watch the game but we are only getting $1 from their cable company for that privilege. Solution! Force them to buy a ticket to the game for the low-low price of $65 a seat! Why? Because fuck them and their football parties, we need that extra $60 a person because reasons!"
Or you can just add a small disclaimer to the prompt. If only we had a word that meant "uncertain, but here's our best guess given what we know right now." Or does Microsoft have a patent on the phrase "Estimated Time Left"?
Yes, there's lots of uncertainty when it comes to computers since the environment is always changing. Microsoft's file copy time estimate is notoriously bad (3 minutes, 5 hours, 357 days, 2 minutes 30 seconds...). Maybe people just need to be a little bit smarter and realize that if they hammer the battery with stuff like video games, video processing, compiling, encoding and other intensive tasks, then the charge won't last as long. Sure, I'd love 10 hours of Far Cry 4 on one charge, but I know that's not realistic.
Redaction and destruction are almost never intended to make recovery impossible. Even GSA Safes have specifications based on how long it would take someone to break in. Destruction is based on an expectation of how long it would take to put pages back together (if shredded, burning/smelting is another deal altogether).
The Middle East is unfortunately still "developing" and doesn't really have a lot of stable nation states. They have a very difficult transition. And they are actively weaponising religion. But that doesn't mean that the the millions of people who are part of those groups culturally, are intent on any of that crap themselves.
They've been "developing" for over 100 years. Part of the big problem in the Middle East is you have several religions (Christianity, Judaism, Sunni and Shiite Islam, etc...) and all consider Jerusalem to be theirs. If you only consider Jerusalem, you've got a much longer history of conflict.
The strange part is all religions teach that they are the one true religion. Christianity is known to be in-your-face and even some sects believe they are the one true Christianity - talk to any devout Catholic about whether a Baptist should take communion. Many years ago we had the Crusades, where Catholicism was spread to the masses through fear and violence... but nowhere in the Bible (that I'm aware of) does it say "though shalt convert as many as possible". Even the most hard-core Catholics I've met will stop at "I've accepted you're going to hell, you can be saved and I can help you", but no threat of violence.
Today we have what the press sometimes calls the "Islamic Threat", which is a great way to spread fear and animosity toward Islam. The scary part is the extremists, that take the "every non-believer is a heathen" and "die for your religion and be welcomed to heaven with 100 virgins" to mean "Kill everyone, yell Allah, and you'll be forgiven and martyred".
... And then I realized I forgot to include a jab at Trump in there....
"Any internet discussion regarding a controversial topic and the inaction to prevent will invariably result in a comparison to Trump's election in 2016"
The psychological parallels between the systemd debacle and the Trump debacle are surprisingly deep. Both are cases where the existence of dire flaws in a proposed solution caused the judgment centers in brains of most detractors (or at least the most of the vocal detractors) to short-circuit.
Wait, is this some sort of 2016 version of Godwin's law?
It's through the inaction of the influential masses that a poor decision has been made and now the community suffers. This is opposite of the Tragedy of the Commons, instead of the selfish actions of a few to the detriment of all, we have the inaction of a few to the detriment of all.
I knew a guy that was a seasonal worker. He'd work for ~6 months in the spring/summer so he could hit the slopes wherever and whenever he wanted for the rest of the year. While I like my job and coworkers, I'm actually a bit envious that he was able to do that.
Go ahead and ask any retiree too, that "free time" gets filled up quick.
1) Get in touch with Apple customer care where you can buy a new earPod for $100. After receiving it, you can take it to an Apple Store, or call customer support again, and in 4-5 business days your new earPod will be synced with the other and you can get back to enjoying all that wonderful iTunes music.
2) Buy another pair, for $160.
It still dumbfounds me that anyone, even audiophiles, would spend more than $50 on *any* pair of headphones. Maybe if you're a professional and have more money than common sense... But I maintain that $160 is simply too expensive for something so small that is easily lost, and likely easily damaged.
Incidentally, why is it that, given the American propensity for a good spree killing, you never hear about unpleasant things happening to the people behind schemes like this? Occasionally somebody shoots up their workplace and kills an immediate supervisor or the like; but nobody ever seems to go any higher up the food chain.
Because those large corporations are wide-spread and the worker bees that are disgruntled are working in a shed out in the boonies... far removed from the HQ ivory tower with all the C-Men making 7 digits. Though Undercover Boss would get a lot more interesting if it turned into a murder-mystery reality show.
Most people keep it short, most people keep a normal conversation volume and most of those who don't will take a hint.
And a few are the kind you want to strangle. But long before the flight was up I'd make a really loud "call" like "YES HELLO... OVER THE ATLANTIC NOW, DOING FINE. EXCEPT THERE'S THIS GUY WHO KEEPS TALKING REALLY, REALLY LOUND ON HIS CELL PHONE FOR AGES NOW, DOESN'T HAVE ANY SOCIAL ANTENNAS AT ALL. I HOPE HE HANGS UP SOON. SEE YOU SOON, LOVE YA" Fighting fire with fire usually works, if he goes psycho with luck they'll cuff him and throw him off the plane. Win-win either way.
Sony "lost" the previous generation which turned them into a leaner, meaner competitor this time around. Just like how Microsoft "won" and became complacent.
Sony "lost" the previous generation in the beginning in part due to their following the same path of the PS2. Sony went for a powerful custom chip (that 8 'core' cell processor) in the PS3 that no developer really understood while the XB360 ran a custom x86 chip. It wasn't for a few years that developers finally caught up and were able to do a lot with the PS3, and some of those awesome games starting coming around. Uncharted, Last of Us, etc... The XB360 was in the lead for many years, then Sony snuck up behind them and took the lead.
Now that the roles have switched, Microsoft's offering has gotten better, while Sony's starting to rest on their laurels. (In fact, The xbone has begun outselling the ps4).
Yes, Sony does have a habit of becoming complacent. They've reported something like 50Mil+ PS4's sold. Microsoft hasn't truly reported how many XB1's have been sold (XB includes XB1 and XB360, which has only recently been phased out). If you look at the best-selling console lists, the top is only listed at something like 60Mil, which hints that Sony is getting close to market saturation (okay, that's a big assumption). Of course the rate of sales is going down, everybody already has one. Microsoft is trying to catch up by listening to the customer base (imagine that!) and they removed the kinect, they've lowered prices, "project scorpio" is supposed to be much more powerful than the PS4 Pro for a comparable price. Only time will tell who really wins this round.
Around here the cheapest movie tickets on weekends are $6.25 a person (including kids). Add in ~$20 for snacks and you're looking at near $50 for 4 people. If it's just the Mrs. and I, then we're looking at something more like $8 a person for a nicer theater, $30 in food/drink, plus a good $40+ for a babysitter.
Yes, it's still good to get out of the house and do dinner and a movie... but with 2 kids it's just cheaper and easier to stay home.
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Be careful with your comparisons, today's TV's have more differences than just number of pixels... hence the whole "HDR" bandwagon these days, which is all about setting a standard for color space for TV's that is comparable between manufacturers. The real "Wow" factor is not resolution, it's color reproduction and speed.
The resolution of the human eye is measured in arc seconds, not pixels. Someone with 20/20 vision cannot differentiate 1080p from a higher resolution 50" T.V. when seated 6 feet away. That's the same as roughly 15" for a 24 inch 1080p monitor. So, unless you're sitting really close, or you just have a simply massive screen, those extra pixels are pretty useless.
Slightly off-topic, but this seems to be the nature of business these days. I've noticed Amazon Prime's "2-day guarantee" is only barely better than UPS Ground (Free shipping). In order to make it 2 business days involves chatting with customer support and complaining. I'm not entirely sure where the blame lies, but if two big names whose shipping is a significant part of business can't manage to keep a 2-day promise, then maybe it's FedEx, UPS and USPS to blame.
Sure, they are typically only for *new* customers. But a phone call and 30-60 min of time after that grace period will likely get you to the retention folks. While you may not get quite the same deal as the new guys, you may get something comparable. I had Qwest back in the day and had their ~50Mb plan for $35 and they wanted to raise it to $70. Comcast had a deal for ~50Mb for $40, and when I called Qwest out on it, they kept me on the $35 plan for another year.
I'm not sure why anyone would want a RAZR... I had one, it survived maybe 6 months before it started failing at everything. Responsiveness went down the toilet, lots of dropped calls, those calls that did make it were low volume and/or filled with white noise.
Personally, I have a short list of requirements:
1) Lasts longer than a day on one charge (preferably two or three).
2) Responsive. If I touch a button or the screen, it shouldn't take 3 seconds before it does something.
3) Not riddled with crapware that A) is the same as some built-in software, B) serves tons of ads, C) auto-starts or D) slows the phone down to a crawl 4) I can browse the internet, send texts and make phone calls easily (this is a phone, after all)
Is it really that hard?
Moore's law was never about processing power, just transistor size. It ignores all other things that make a computer "powerful", such as clock speed, IOPS, FLOPS, multiprocessors/concurrency, bandwidth, on-chip cache size, etc...
You mean like these?. I mean, with Amazons 10,274 results there has to be something like what you're describing. ;-)
Not to mention the Zelda CDI games... which were all kinds of terrible. Here's some description and video for those mario games released on other platforms.
Wait, is this some sort of 2016 version of Godwin's law?
On that note: Can we call this "Shane's Law"? I only propose it because I'm fairly certain no one is going to remember "ausekilis".
You came up with it, I just tried to write a definition. Now lets see if we can spread it.
I don't want to say I am psychic or anything... but there's some proof. Okay, maybe the price was wrong... though it's interesting that you can get two replacement earpods for less than retail of new...
Riiigggghhhttt... and when our planets core ceases to be liquid and shifting around, then our planet stops turning and we turn into a frigid ice-ball like Mars... I'm gonna blame Iceland. ;-)
I never thought of it like that, it's some backward-ass logic.
"You know what? We have people that want to watch the game but we are only getting $1 from their cable company for that privilege. Solution! Force them to buy a ticket to the game for the low-low price of $65 a seat! Why? Because fuck them and their football parties, we need that extra $60 a person because reasons!"
Or you can just add a small disclaimer to the prompt. If only we had a word that meant "uncertain, but here's our best guess given what we know right now." Or does Microsoft have a patent on the phrase "Estimated Time Left"?
Yes, there's lots of uncertainty when it comes to computers since the environment is always changing. Microsoft's file copy time estimate is notoriously bad (3 minutes, 5 hours, 357 days, 2 minutes 30 seconds...). Maybe people just need to be a little bit smarter and realize that if they hammer the battery with stuff like video games, video processing, compiling, encoding and other intensive tasks, then the charge won't last as long. Sure, I'd love 10 hours of Far Cry 4 on one charge, but I know that's not realistic.
Redaction and destruction are almost never intended to make recovery impossible. Even GSA Safes have specifications based on how long it would take someone to break in. Destruction is based on an expectation of how long it would take to put pages back together (if shredded, burning/smelting is another deal altogether).
The Middle East is unfortunately still "developing" and doesn't really have a lot of stable nation states. They have a very difficult transition. And they are actively weaponising religion. But that doesn't mean that the the millions of people who are part of those groups culturally, are intent on any of that crap themselves.
They've been "developing" for over 100 years. Part of the big problem in the Middle East is you have several religions (Christianity, Judaism, Sunni and Shiite Islam, etc...) and all consider Jerusalem to be theirs. If you only consider Jerusalem, you've got a much longer history of conflict.
The strange part is all religions teach that they are the one true religion. Christianity is known to be in-your-face and even some sects believe they are the one true Christianity - talk to any devout Catholic about whether a Baptist should take communion. Many years ago we had the Crusades, where Catholicism was spread to the masses through fear and violence... but nowhere in the Bible (that I'm aware of) does it say "though shalt convert as many as possible". Even the most hard-core Catholics I've met will stop at "I've accepted you're going to hell, you can be saved and I can help you", but no threat of violence.
Today we have what the press sometimes calls the "Islamic Threat", which is a great way to spread fear and animosity toward Islam. The scary part is the extremists, that take the "every non-believer is a heathen" and "die for your religion and be welcomed to heaven with 100 virgins" to mean "Kill everyone, yell Allah, and you'll be forgiven and martyred".
... And then I realized I forgot to include a jab at Trump in there.... "Any internet discussion regarding a controversial topic and the inaction to prevent will invariably result in a comparison to Trump's election in 2016"
The psychological parallels between the systemd debacle and the Trump debacle are surprisingly deep. Both are cases where the existence of dire flaws in a proposed solution caused the judgment centers in brains of most detractors (or at least the most of the vocal detractors) to short-circuit.
Wait, is this some sort of 2016 version of Godwin's law?
It's through the inaction of the influential masses that a poor decision has been made and now the community suffers. This is opposite of the Tragedy of the Commons, instead of the selfish actions of a few to the detriment of all, we have the inaction of a few to the detriment of all.
My mod points, they do nothing!
I knew a guy that was a seasonal worker. He'd work for ~6 months in the spring/summer so he could hit the slopes wherever and whenever he wanted for the rest of the year. While I like my job and coworkers, I'm actually a bit envious that he was able to do that.
Go ahead and ask any retiree too, that "free time" gets filled up quick.
What about junk texts?
I get the occasional crap text, no idea how they got my number... but if its tied to email or appleID instead... then apple has more work to do.
The solution is simple:
1) Get in touch with Apple customer care where you can buy a new earPod for $100. After receiving it, you can take it to an Apple Store, or call customer support again, and in 4-5 business days your new earPod will be synced with the other and you can get back to enjoying all that wonderful iTunes music.
2) Buy another pair, for $160.
It still dumbfounds me that anyone, even audiophiles, would spend more than $50 on *any* pair of headphones. Maybe if you're a professional and have more money than common sense... But I maintain that $160 is simply too expensive for something so small that is easily lost, and likely easily damaged.
Incidentally, why is it that, given the American propensity for a good spree killing, you never hear about unpleasant things happening to the people behind schemes like this? Occasionally somebody shoots up their workplace and kills an immediate supervisor or the like; but nobody ever seems to go any higher up the food chain.
Because those large corporations are wide-spread and the worker bees that are disgruntled are working in a shed out in the boonies... far removed from the HQ ivory tower with all the C-Men making 7 digits. Though Undercover Boss would get a lot more interesting if it turned into a murder-mystery reality show.
Most people keep it short, most people keep a normal conversation volume and most of those who don't will take a hint.
And a few are the kind you want to strangle. But long before the flight was up I'd make a really loud "call" like "YES HELLO... OVER THE ATLANTIC NOW, DOING FINE. EXCEPT THERE'S THIS GUY WHO KEEPS TALKING REALLY, REALLY LOUND ON HIS CELL PHONE FOR AGES NOW, DOESN'T HAVE ANY SOCIAL ANTENNAS AT ALL. I HOPE HE HANGS UP SOON. SEE YOU SOON, LOVE YA" Fighting fire with fire usually works, if he goes psycho with luck they'll cuff him and throw him off the plane. Win-win either way.
You mean like this? Big Cell Phone Guy
Sony "lost" the previous generation which turned them into a leaner, meaner competitor this time around. Just like how Microsoft "won" and became complacent.
Sony "lost" the previous generation in the beginning in part due to their following the same path of the PS2. Sony went for a powerful custom chip (that 8 'core' cell processor) in the PS3 that no developer really understood while the XB360 ran a custom x86 chip. It wasn't for a few years that developers finally caught up and were able to do a lot with the PS3, and some of those awesome games starting coming around. Uncharted, Last of Us, etc... The XB360 was in the lead for many years, then Sony snuck up behind them and took the lead.
Now that the roles have switched, Microsoft's offering has gotten better, while Sony's starting to rest on their laurels. (In fact, The xbone has begun outselling the ps4).
Yes, Sony does have a habit of becoming complacent. They've reported something like 50Mil+ PS4's sold. Microsoft hasn't truly reported how many XB1's have been sold (XB includes XB1 and XB360, which has only recently been phased out). If you look at the best-selling console lists, the top is only listed at something like 60Mil, which hints that Sony is getting close to market saturation (okay, that's a big assumption). Of course the rate of sales is going down, everybody already has one. Microsoft is trying to catch up by listening to the customer base (imagine that!) and they removed the kinect, they've lowered prices, "project scorpio" is supposed to be much more powerful than the PS4 Pro for a comparable price. Only time will tell who really wins this round.
No no... that's the manufacturing cost. When you add in the "Apple Tax" it becomes $6 per person. /s
Around here the cheapest movie tickets on weekends are $6.25 a person (including kids). Add in ~$20 for snacks and you're looking at near $50 for 4 people. If it's just the Mrs. and I, then we're looking at something more like $8 a person for a nicer theater, $30 in food/drink, plus a good $40+ for a babysitter.
Yes, it's still good to get out of the house and do dinner and a movie... but with 2 kids it's just cheaper and easier to stay home.