> Instead consumers have, in droves, chosen to buy MORE RELIABLE > sealed devices that they do not have to screw with... I'm talking about > cars, about appliances, almost everything is more more contained, > much better sealed, and much harder to repair.
Except that most appliances I own, major or minor, from toasters to home AC units, are LESS reliable now than they were decades ago.
Yup. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." (Or 3 hours, if someone thinks they saw a bomb.)
"In the three hours that followed, more than 100 law enforcement officers gathered near the club to assess the situation and wait. People were still inside, calling 911 from a bathroom, wanting to be rescued."
Remember, it is not the police's job to save lives. Seriously. They do what they can, and most of them are good people, but contrary to what you see in movies, it is not their job to put themselves into harm's way to save you. They are not Bruce Willis or Kiefer Sutherland. If the situation looks bad, you're probably on your own.
Re-read that quote. I want to bold the whole thing. ONE HUNDRED officers showed up... and waited. People were continually calling 911 and hoping to be rescued.
I paid about $4,000 to fill my iPod when I ripped the ~250 CDs I had purchased over the course of 20 years. I got a few singles from Napster etc., but maybe 50-100 songs total. If Napster had never existed, I still would have bought my first iPod. (And my second.)
Furthermore, TFA itself has been updated* to say "UPDATE: After installing iOS 10's first beta build, you are able to remove Maps, Videos, Watch, Reminders, Contacts, Weather, Podcasts, FaceTime, Calculator, iCloud Drive, Voice Memos, Tips, Mail, Compass, Stocks, Find Friends." It's almost as if the editors here don't actually read the stories they link to.
* Although god forbid they would put that at the TOP of the page...:-|
Things were getting boring while Steve was still alive. So much of the low-hanging fruit has been taken care of, now all that's left are things like thinking up more and more ways to integrate messaging and calendaring.
Things like the shared clipboard are nice, but for the most part, I don't want my phone and desktop integrated any more than I want my bathroom and kitchen integrated, or a bicycle and a moving van. They are different devices that I use for different things.
Reading the headline, my first thought was a guy saying "I spent all day searching with Google and could not find any evidence that Google is manipulating searches."
Are you a train executive from the early 1900s? Because you sound like one. They could have OWNED the airline industry, but they didn't. They did some studies and said "Yes, it will be feasible to fly from coast to coast in 5 hours, but it will be expensive. No one will want to pay for that when they could simply sit on a train FOR THREE DAYS." They thought airline travel would never take off. (Pardon the pun.) And look where they are now.
Do you really never take trips shorter than 23 minutes? (Fun fact: my commute is 10.) Do you think that these will never get more powerful and more efficient?
"this is virtually useless for any serious travel."
Yeah. I would only use it 500 times a year -- to commute to and from work every day. (1,000 times, if you include going to and from lunch.) You're right, that's not serious at all. This guy should just close the company and then kill himself for wasting your time.
Yeah, that billion dollars worth of patents has done a lot for them -- they've managed to grow their market share to OVER ONE TENTH of Google's, with only a four-year head start.
But hey, if you want to buy the secret recipe to a glistening 1998-style "portal", be my guest. A billion dollars is a small price to pay to get into a competitive position against Netscape/AOL!
Unless one of those patents is for a working time machine, the only value you'll get out of them will the the warm fuzzy feeling of helping Marissa buy her eight and ninth yachts when she quits/gets fired/closes the company later this year.
Totally not copying. I'm sure they had this in the works for months, and it's just unfortunate timing that the day they planned to announce this was exactly one day after Apple happened to make the exact same announcement.
In all seriousness, this isn't exactly rocket science. Just like companies lower the prices of their products every so often to compete, and then other companies lower theirs in response, it's been obvious since Day 1 that *someone* would eventually offer better than 70-30. I'm only surprised that 1) it took this long and 2) that Apple was the first to do it.
2016 will be the year of Linux on the desktop on the phone.:-)
In all seriousness, I like this idea. Ages ago (wow, 10 years, actually -- this was before I got an iPhone) I got a 624 MHz Dell Axim X50v PDA and I realized that it was comparable to the 150 MHz desktop I still had which ran Windows 95, Photoshop 3, and Netscape 3. Those were dated at the time but still totally usable. For light usage, I could see something like this working. Unfortunately, the #1 use for computers anymore is web browsing, and web pages have gotten REALLY fat in the last 5 years.
Is it feasible in any way to build any kind of worldwide thing without involving companies or governments? Even if it were possible to get everyone to cooperate (read: pay), some yutz would get in near the top and steal all the money anyway.
Furthermore, if it did exist and were open, there would be no way to keep companies and governments off of it. Right?
If people can participate, and control can be had, bad people will figure out how to put themselves into control. Period. There is no way to enforce fairness.
Sorry, TBL. You're a smart guy, and thanks for the WWW, but I can't see this happening.
I always figured it was because radio waves get exponentially weaker as distance increases. Or maybe because space is really fucking big and mostly empty. But sure, maybe the aliens are all dead now, too.
"World" is a generic term. The world on which we live does have a name -- Earth. Which is capitalized. (Lowercase-e earth is also a word -- a synonym for 'dirt'.) "World" is like "person" in that sense. You don't capitalize "person", even if you're referring to someone specific, but you do capitalize their name if you use that.
Everyone has their pet peeves on one side, and things that they don't mind or aren't aware of on the other. For example, something is either unique or it isn't, but I know people who say things like "very unique".;-)
One: the PC vs Mac spec war is basically meaningless, because people who buy Macs want OS X, and people who buy PCs don't want OS X or don't care, and never the twain shall meet.
Two: "At the event, the company's executive said that ZenBook 3 is better than both MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook... it sports a 12.5-inch full-HD display (1920x1080 pixels)..." -- OK then, it's NOT better than the 12" MacBook's 2304 x 1440 screen.
Three: Remember when laptops were as big as a phone books? Like in the 166 MHz ThinkPad 380 days. BACK THEN, making them thinner and lighter was a worthy pursuit. But bragging that your laptop is 11.9mm thick instead of 13.2mm, and 910 grams vs. 920? WHO GIVES A SHIT! That's a difference of 1.3mm and the mass of two US five-cent coins. Are you fucking kidding me? Ugh. They're thin enough now. Quit making them thinner and put some battery or ports back in. (This goes for all OEMs, and double for Apple.)
No, I do in fact *use* data. Data comes from a sever, over the network, into my phone, where it is shown on the screen for a while. When I close that browser window that was showing that text or image or playing that song or movie, that data is *gone*.
Don't worry, though -- the server can make more upon request.
> If you want to impress me, tell how how much fuel per passager > it burn and compare it to others cruise ship.
Um, math? From the summary: "But while the 6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew..."
96000 / ( 6780 + 2100 ) = about 10.8 gallons per person. Although it says *each* of the 3 engines burn that much, so maybe the answer is 32.4 US gallons of fuel per person per day.
At the lower figure, one person would have to drive over 200 miles in a car that gets 20 mpg to use that much fuel in a day. Or 600 miles, if the other number is correct.
I don't know about other ships, but compared to other leisure activities, that's a lot of fuel to burn. A couple would have to drive 7 hrs/day at 60mph to use that much fuel. Not many couples drive 1,600 miles in 4 days on vacation. At 20mpg, a family of 5 people couldn't burn as much fuel even if they drove every hour of the day -- which is not much of a vacation. So no matter which way you slice it, you're using more fuel on a cruise ship than just about anything else you'd be likely to do on trip.
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> Instead consumers have, in droves, chosen to buy MORE RELIABLE
> sealed devices that they do not have to screw with... I'm talking about
> cars, about appliances, almost everything is more more contained,
> much better sealed, and much harder to repair.
Except that most appliances I own, major or minor, from toasters to home AC units, are LESS reliable now than they were decades ago.
Yup. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." (Or 3 hours, if someone thinks they saw a bomb.)
"In the three hours that followed, more than 100 law enforcement officers gathered near the club to assess the situation and wait. People were still inside, calling 911 from a bathroom, wanting to be rescued."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com...
Remember, it is not the police's job to save lives. Seriously. They do what they can, and most of them are good people, but contrary to what you see in movies, it is not their job to put themselves into harm's way to save you. They are not Bruce Willis or Kiefer Sutherland. If the situation looks bad, you're probably on your own.
Re-read that quote. I want to bold the whole thing. ONE HUNDRED officers showed up... and waited. People were continually calling 911 and hoping to be rescued.
Video demonstration here.
... no sense mentioning I'm sure they've made their own private mirror of every tagged photo from Facebook, Instagram, etc.
I paid about $4,000 to fill my iPod when I ripped the ~250 CDs I had purchased over the course of 20 years. I got a few singles from Napster etc., but maybe 50-100 songs total. If Napster had never existed, I still would have bought my first iPod. (And my second.)
Furthermore, TFA itself has been updated* to say "UPDATE: After installing iOS 10's first beta build, you are able to remove Maps, Videos, Watch, Reminders, Contacts, Weather, Podcasts, FaceTime, Calculator, iCloud Drive, Voice Memos, Tips, Mail, Compass, Stocks, Find Friends." It's almost as if the editors here don't actually read the stories they link to.
* Although god forbid they would put that at the TOP of the page... :-|
Things were getting boring while Steve was still alive. So much of the low-hanging fruit has been taken care of, now all that's left are things like thinking up more and more ways to integrate messaging and calendaring.
Things like the shared clipboard are nice, but for the most part, I don't want my phone and desktop integrated any more than I want my bathroom and kitchen integrated, or a bicycle and a moving van. They are different devices that I use for different things.
If you want to solve my space woes, do something about the 2 GB of "other" on my phone. Or up the base model from 16 GB to 32.
> It will be good for these parasites to get a real job.
Gawker, or celebrities?
Reading the headline, my first thought was a guy saying "I spent all day searching with Google and could not find any evidence that Google is manipulating searches."
"Due to a Windows Update server misconfiguration, users who clicked "yes" to upgrade to Windows 10 after 10 June 2016 found themselves running BSD."
Are you a train executive from the early 1900s? Because you sound like one. They could have OWNED the airline industry, but they didn't. They did some studies and said "Yes, it will be feasible to fly from coast to coast in 5 hours, but it will be expensive. No one will want to pay for that when they could simply sit on a train FOR THREE DAYS." They thought airline travel would never take off. (Pardon the pun.) And look where they are now.
Do you really never take trips shorter than 23 minutes? (Fun fact: my commute is 10.) Do you think that these will never get more powerful and more efficient?
"this is virtually useless for any serious travel."
Yeah. I would only use it 500 times a year -- to commute to and from work every day. (1,000 times, if you include going to and from lunch.) You're right, that's not serious at all. This guy should just close the company and then kill himself for wasting your time.
Yeah, that billion dollars worth of patents has done a lot for them -- they've managed to grow their market share to OVER ONE TENTH of Google's, with only a four-year head start.
https://www.netmarketshare.com...
But hey, if you want to buy the secret recipe to a glistening 1998-style "portal", be my guest. A billion dollars is a small price to pay to get into a competitive position against Netscape/AOL!
Unless one of those patents is for a working time machine, the only value you'll get out of them will the the warm fuzzy feeling of helping Marissa buy her eight and ninth yachts when she quits/gets fired/closes the company later this year.
Totally not copying. I'm sure they had this in the works for months, and it's just unfortunate timing that the day they planned to announce this was exactly one day after Apple happened to make the exact same announcement.
In all seriousness, this isn't exactly rocket science. Just like companies lower the prices of their products every so often to compete, and then other companies lower theirs in response, it's been obvious since Day 1 that *someone* would eventually offer better than 70-30. I'm only surprised that 1) it took this long and 2) that Apple was the first to do it.
2016 will be the year of Linux on the desktop on the phone. :-)
In all seriousness, I like this idea. Ages ago (wow, 10 years, actually -- this was before I got an iPhone) I got a 624 MHz Dell Axim X50v PDA and I realized that it was comparable to the 150 MHz desktop I still had which ran Windows 95, Photoshop 3, and Netscape 3. Those were dated at the time but still totally usable. For light usage, I could see something like this working. Unfortunately, the #1 use for computers anymore is web browsing, and web pages have gotten REALLY fat in the last 5 years.
Is it feasible in any way to build any kind of worldwide thing without involving companies or governments? Even if it were possible to get everyone to cooperate (read: pay), some yutz would get in near the top and steal all the money anyway.
Furthermore, if it did exist and were open, there would be no way to keep companies and governments off of it. Right?
If people can participate, and control can be had, bad people will figure out how to put themselves into control. Period. There is no way to enforce fairness.
Sorry, TBL. You're a smart guy, and thanks for the WWW, but I can't see this happening.
I always figured it was because radio waves get exponentially weaker as distance increases. Or maybe because space is really fucking big and mostly empty. But sure, maybe the aliens are all dead now, too.
You can write the rendering engine in BASIC for all I care, just quit fucking with the UI.
"World" is a generic term. The world on which we live does have a name -- Earth. Which is capitalized. (Lowercase-e earth is also a word -- a synonym for 'dirt'.) "World" is like "person" in that sense. You don't capitalize "person", even if you're referring to someone specific, but you do capitalize their name if you use that.
Everyone has their pet peeves on one side, and things that they don't mind or aren't aware of on the other. For example, something is either unique or it isn't, but I know people who say things like "very unique". ;-)
ThinkPad 380XD: 2.4" thick.
One: the PC vs Mac spec war is basically meaningless, because people who buy Macs want OS X, and people who buy PCs don't want OS X or don't care, and never the twain shall meet.
Two: "At the event, the company's executive said that ZenBook 3 is better than both MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook... it sports a 12.5-inch full-HD display (1920x1080 pixels)..." -- OK then, it's NOT better than the 12" MacBook's 2304 x 1440 screen.
Three: Remember when laptops were as big as a phone books? Like in the 166 MHz ThinkPad 380 days. BACK THEN, making them thinner and lighter was a worthy pursuit. But bragging that your laptop is 11.9mm thick instead of 13.2mm, and 910 grams vs. 920? WHO GIVES A SHIT! That's a difference of 1.3mm and the mass of two US five-cent coins. Are you fucking kidding me? Ugh. They're thin enough now. Quit making them thinner and put some battery or ports back in. (This goes for all OEMs, and double for Apple.)
No, I do in fact *use* data. Data comes from a sever, over the network, into my phone, where it is shown on the screen for a while. When I close that browser window that was showing that text or image or playing that song or movie, that data is *gone*.
Don't worry, though -- the server can make more upon request.
... to wait until Apple actually *ships* said device before we start shitting all over ourselves in rage? Rumors are often wrong.
That said, they could replace the F keys with a nail file for all I care. I never use them. (Note: I understand that I am not everyone.)
> If you want to impress me, tell how how much fuel per passager
> it burn and compare it to others cruise ship.
Um, math? From the summary: "But while the 6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew..."
96000 / ( 6780 + 2100 ) = about 10.8 gallons per person. Although it says *each* of the 3 engines burn that much, so maybe the answer is 32.4 US gallons of fuel per person per day.
At the lower figure, one person would have to drive over 200 miles in a car that gets 20 mpg to use that much fuel in a day. Or 600 miles, if the other number is correct.
I don't know about other ships, but compared to other leisure activities, that's a lot of fuel to burn. A couple would have to drive 7 hrs/day at 60mph to use that much fuel. Not many couples drive 1,600 miles in 4 days on vacation. At 20mpg, a family of 5 people couldn't burn as much fuel even if they drove every hour of the day -- which is not much of a vacation. So no matter which way you slice it, you're using more fuel on a cruise ship than just about anything else you'd be likely to do on trip.