Almost certainly an apple fanboy (Google keyboard autocorrected that to faggot, which seems a bit aggressive) since they are more easily triggered than the Chinese, and because they can feel Apple's desperation. Have you tried to watch YouTube lately? Apple has four or five different ads on heavy rotation there, on their primary competitor's service. One is for the new iPhone, one for the pre-bent iPad... Apple clearly is concerned that they will lose their mystique if they can't maintain ever-rising sales figures.
Given that people like new stuff, and that Apple fanboys (got it right that time, good work Google) will buy Apple kit whether it makes sense or not, I conclude that people just can't actually afford their new devices. Whether that's because they priced them too much higher, or because people have less money, I'm not sure. I'd think it's a bit of both.
"Most people use their phones for messaging, calling people and scrolling through websites or looking up information. That can be done well on even the cheapest modern phones."
Disagree. It takes at LEAST 2GB RAM to have a halfway decent web experience, and more is better. All this JavaScript used as a crutch by incompetent web developers who refuse to understand CSS has really ruined low-memory devices. Cheap phones still often come with 1GB, and most mid range phones still have 2, while high end phones have 3 or 4.
A couple of cores is enough, but a couple of gigs is barely sufficient.
Gasoline keeps for a few years at best. Diesel, maybe ten if you've got a good fungicide. But if you were a real threat, Skynet would just bomb you, and your microwave emissions would be a handy bullseye.
Every single commercial Java application I have installed came with its own JRE, and wasn't offered without. The most complex Java app I've installed that didn't was probably eclipse.
I use Windows AND Linux, and I usually pay the minimum because I'm cheap and most bundle games suck anyway. I buy from Windows, so I'm a windows user, right? Those stats are skewed.
Just like how if you turn in an empty propane tank to exchange it for a filled one, and all the refurbished ones are garbage because they're rusty and leaky,
Nah. Only about 2/3 of them are like that. You exchange them until you get a good one, then get that one refilled thereafter.
So, I see a better use case for stainless steel than for glass.
Stainless doesn't handle acidic contents well, so they either have to line it with plastic in which case we might as well just use plastic. If you do use a liner then it will eventually be damaged and you'll have to recycle the container. Or if you don't want to line them, you're going to need to use plastic or glass for acidic products anyway.
Glass and metal are both easier to recycle than plastic. Plastic takes less energy, but unless you start with clean plastic, you can only produce inferior plastic. Glass recycles pretty much perfectly, but it takes just as much energy as making new stuff. Steel recycles pretty well, but carbon is lost in the process so you have to put carbon back into it if you want it to have the same characteristics. Aluminum recycles better than any of this stuff, with lower energy expenditure and characteristics identical to the original alloy, but you have to use a plastic or epoxy liner to prevent the contents from interacting with it.
The cost of transporting glass is only a problem if you're transporting it over long distances. For anything which is produced locally, there's no problem. So for example, dairy products, or soda pop, using glass is great.
TL;DR: Stainless is not ideal for all circumstances.
So... bitcoin takes less power than internet porn and internet games...both unessential things.
Take those away and see how quick you get riots.
Bitcoin is shit because there are better ways to handle that problem which don't consume nearly so much electricity, therefore that energy is purely wasted. You can't have porn and games without spending power on them, but you can have cryptocurrency while spending much less power, or by spending that power to do genuinely useful work.
Not in my experience. I've had crushed rolls of drawings with tire prints delivered to my office by UPS, nothing ever that bad from USPS.
Yeah, my friend who worked at UPS back in college described his work environment. The packages came sliding down a chute, and regularly got stuck on a bolt sticking down from the top that would tear them open. They didn't have time to load trucks properly, so they'd basically build a wall of boxes at the back, then throw the remaining packages over the wall, into the truck.
On the other hand, the postmaster of the main PO in Kelseyville would stand around jaw-jacking with long lines at the counter, actually making things slower, and when I complained that the USPS doesn't know where things are even though they scan everything, he claimed that data was being thrown away. That was about two weeks before we all found out that the USPS is handing literally all of that data to the FBI... so the FBI knows where your mail is, but the USPS doesn't. And that's what I'm talking about... the technical competence, not the give a fuck factor.
You speak as if battery technology is something that appears out of thin air or that somehow Tesla licensed, not developed in-house.
The battery is the easy part, the cells themselves (and their chemistry) are the hard part, and Tesla didn't design the cells. Tesla has the best battery, but not by a wide margin any more with the new EVs coming out. Remember when the height of cell technology was NiMH? That was enough for a good hybrid, but not a good EV. Now we have Li-Ion, and hopefully ere long we'll have solid electrolyte batteries that are good enough for EVs.
I don't want the slowdowns on compute machines though. It's not like there's remote access from anything untrusted anyway so the security holes aren't an issue.
This is what's so great about Linux, or for that matter *BSD. Sane defaults, but you control your computer. That's worth a whole lot of hassle.
The problem is that's most sites now. Even loads of blogs which are basically static text and images won't even render anythng without JavaScript.
Yeah, it's definitely a lot of them. UPS leaps to mind. Their site takes ages to load on our satellite connection. USPS, on the other hand, pops up in a reasonably prompt fashion. How strange to see USPS be more competent than UPS...
Or there are the other anecdotes, such as that we have been with AAA for over 30 years, had multiple tows/dead batteries, and never had anything but prompt and reliable service.
I've used them successfully for many short tows, and they have literally never been prompt. They have literally always taken longer to get someone to me than claimed, and it has never been less than 30 additional minutes. But in this last event, which was the reason we cancelled our AAA membership, I was stranded on the side of the highway for hours and they never dispatched a truck.
AAA is a scam, and the way they do business is deliberately fraudulent. Now that they've cancelled most of their maps and you have to pay extra for DMV services, there is no reason whatsoever to use them. We dropped AAA and got a FMCA membership to go with our RV, and that includes roadside assistance which can't be any more worthless than AAA.
Tow operators are largely predatory businesses that are absolutely against consumer's interests. Only AAA is half-decent,
1) AAA is not a tow operator. They own zero of their own trucks. They're a tow dispatcher. Except... 2) AAA is a fucking fraud. Here's how they work. You're a customer for over 20 years, and you have AAA plus which includes a 100 mile tow. They claim to have dispatched a tow when they actually haven't. Then you call them back 20 minutes after the tow truck was supposed to be there according to the texts they send you, and they tell you that they can't find anyone to tow you more than 5 miles, so IF you can find someone who is willing to tow you, they will reimburse you later. Maybe. Fuck AAA and the horse that rode in on them.
That's of minimal help. If you have any experience with satellite internet you know how much it sucks. Latency is a bitch.
It's a big problem for gaming or ssh sessions, and for pathetically poorly designed sites that require a bunch of back-and-forth with AJAX to fill in a page, but it doesn't really make a big difference in any other case.
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Almost certainly an apple fanboy (Google keyboard autocorrected that to faggot, which seems a bit aggressive) since they are more easily triggered than the Chinese, and because they can feel Apple's desperation. Have you tried to watch YouTube lately? Apple has four or five different ads on heavy rotation there, on their primary competitor's service. One is for the new iPhone, one for the pre-bent iPad... Apple clearly is concerned that they will lose their mystique if they can't maintain ever-rising sales figures.
Given that people like new stuff, and that Apple fanboys (got it right that time, good work Google) will buy Apple kit whether it makes sense or not, I conclude that people just can't actually afford their new devices. Whether that's because they priced them too much higher, or because people have less money, I'm not sure. I'd think it's a bit of both.
"Most people use their phones for messaging, calling people and scrolling through websites or looking up information. That can be done well on even the cheapest modern phones."
Disagree. It takes at LEAST 2GB RAM to have a halfway decent web experience, and more is better. All this JavaScript used as a crutch by incompetent web developers who refuse to understand CSS has really ruined low-memory devices. Cheap phones still often come with 1GB, and most mid range phones still have 2, while high end phones have 3 or 4.
A couple of cores is enough, but a couple of gigs is barely sufficient.
Gasoline keeps for a few years at best. Diesel, maybe ten if you've got a good fungicide. But if you were a real threat, Skynet would just bomb you, and your microwave emissions would be a handy bullseye.
Every single commercial Java application I have installed came with its own JRE, and wasn't offered without. The most complex Java app I've installed that didn't was probably eclipse.
Write once, debug everywhere.
I use Windows AND Linux, and I usually pay the minimum because I'm cheap and most bundle games suck anyway. I buy from Windows, so I'm a windows user, right? Those stats are skewed.
Problem is, cloud providers only deliver on their promise when they're big...
Deflation encourages cash hoarding. And the ultra-rich are ALREADY hoarding cash!
Just like how if you turn in an empty propane tank to exchange it for a filled one, and all the refurbished ones are garbage because they're rusty and leaky,
Nah. Only about 2/3 of them are like that. You exchange them until you get a good one, then get that one refilled thereafter.
'Course, you won't be able to do that with milk.
Is someone paying anti-NN trolls to mod down comments here, or what?
Kid, you don't even know what troll means. The above is the honest truth, which you appear to be afraid of. Run along and let the adults moderate.
So, I see a better use case for stainless steel than for glass.
Stainless doesn't handle acidic contents well, so they either have to line it with plastic in which case we might as well just use plastic. If you do use a liner then it will eventually be damaged and you'll have to recycle the container. Or if you don't want to line them, you're going to need to use plastic or glass for acidic products anyway.
Glass and metal are both easier to recycle than plastic. Plastic takes less energy, but unless you start with clean plastic, you can only produce inferior plastic. Glass recycles pretty much perfectly, but it takes just as much energy as making new stuff. Steel recycles pretty well, but carbon is lost in the process so you have to put carbon back into it if you want it to have the same characteristics. Aluminum recycles better than any of this stuff, with lower energy expenditure and characteristics identical to the original alloy, but you have to use a plastic or epoxy liner to prevent the contents from interacting with it.
The cost of transporting glass is only a problem if you're transporting it over long distances. For anything which is produced locally, there's no problem. So for example, dairy products, or soda pop, using glass is great.
TL;DR: Stainless is not ideal for all circumstances.
So... bitcoin takes less power than internet porn and internet games...both unessential things.
Take those away and see how quick you get riots.
Bitcoin is shit because there are better ways to handle that problem which don't consume nearly so much electricity, therefore that energy is purely wasted. You can't have porn and games without spending power on them, but you can have cryptocurrency while spending much less power, or by spending that power to do genuinely useful work.
If you ever sat in a same priced luxury car you would immediately know the difference.
Yeah, it would be broken down and it wouldn't go anywhere. Those cars are unreliable AF, almost without exception.
Shhhh don't let the truthers hear you say that!
They will simply claim that the fire wasn't hot enough, or that the structure was designed to survive it getting that hot...
Maybe he's building another Mars Climate Orbiter ...
s/Orbiter/Impactor/
Not in my experience. I've had crushed rolls of drawings with tire prints delivered to my office by UPS, nothing ever that bad from USPS.
Yeah, my friend who worked at UPS back in college described his work environment. The packages came sliding down a chute, and regularly got stuck on a bolt sticking down from the top that would tear them open. They didn't have time to load trucks properly, so they'd basically build a wall of boxes at the back, then throw the remaining packages over the wall, into the truck.
On the other hand, the postmaster of the main PO in Kelseyville would stand around jaw-jacking with long lines at the counter, actually making things slower, and when I complained that the USPS doesn't know where things are even though they scan everything, he claimed that data was being thrown away. That was about two weeks before we all found out that the USPS is handing literally all of that data to the FBI... so the FBI knows where your mail is, but the USPS doesn't. And that's what I'm talking about... the technical competence, not the give a fuck factor.
You speak as if battery technology is something that appears out of thin air or that somehow Tesla licensed, not developed in-house.
The battery is the easy part, the cells themselves (and their chemistry) are the hard part, and Tesla didn't design the cells. Tesla has the best battery, but not by a wide margin any more with the new EVs coming out. Remember when the height of cell technology was NiMH? That was enough for a good hybrid, but not a good EV. Now we have Li-Ion, and hopefully ere long we'll have solid electrolyte batteries that are good enough for EVs.
The title would have you believe the FCC says internet service isn't telecom. The argument is that internet service is more than telecom.
Telecom: Short for telecommunications
Tele: to or at a distance, "from afar"
Communications: Communications
Internet service == Telecom
Removing the NN rules means we can have ISP provided, network level pi-holes to block ads now.
Yeah, that's right, your ISP is going to route all traffic through a raspi.
I don't want the slowdowns on compute machines though. It's not like there's remote access from anything untrusted anyway so the security holes aren't an issue.
This is what's so great about Linux, or for that matter *BSD. Sane defaults, but you control your computer. That's worth a whole lot of hassle.
The problem is that's most sites now. Even loads of blogs which are basically static text and images won't even render anythng without JavaScript.
Yeah, it's definitely a lot of them. UPS leaps to mind. Their site takes ages to load on our satellite connection. USPS, on the other hand, pops up in a reasonably prompt fashion. How strange to see USPS be more competent than UPS...
Or there are the other anecdotes, such as that we have been with AAA for over 30 years, had multiple tows/dead batteries, and never had anything but prompt and reliable service.
I've used them successfully for many short tows, and they have literally never been prompt. They have literally always taken longer to get someone to me than claimed, and it has never been less than 30 additional minutes. But in this last event, which was the reason we cancelled our AAA membership, I was stranded on the side of the highway for hours and they never dispatched a truck.
AAA is a scam, and the way they do business is deliberately fraudulent. Now that they've cancelled most of their maps and you have to pay extra for DMV services, there is no reason whatsoever to use them. We dropped AAA and got a FMCA membership to go with our RV, and that includes roadside assistance which can't be any more worthless than AAA.
That was my point. Didn't you read it?
Welcome to Slashdot...
Tow operators are largely predatory businesses that are absolutely against consumer's interests. Only AAA is half-decent,
1) AAA is not a tow operator. They own zero of their own trucks. They're a tow dispatcher. Except...
2) AAA is a fucking fraud. Here's how they work. You're a customer for over 20 years, and you have AAA plus which includes a 100 mile tow. They claim to have dispatched a tow when they actually haven't. Then you call them back 20 minutes after the tow truck was supposed to be there according to the texts they send you, and they tell you that they can't find anyone to tow you more than 5 miles, so IF you can find someone who is willing to tow you, they will reimburse you later. Maybe. Fuck AAA and the horse that rode in on them.
That's of minimal help. If you have any experience with satellite internet you know how much it sucks. Latency is a bitch.
It's a big problem for gaming or ssh sessions, and for pathetically poorly designed sites that require a bunch of back-and-forth with AJAX to fill in a page, but it doesn't really make a big difference in any other case.
"Just pass a law" is a lot tougher than "random employee of major telcom makes a decision while taking a poop".
Sometimes the needful is hard. We need a law because anything less is trivial to change, and fuck us over again.