I fail to see how the 13-year-old story about game design, "A 'Vow of Chastity' For Game Designers", is a related story, as indicated in the panel below the story between the "previous story" and "next story" links. Seriously, WTF? Less than worthless.
$50 = 1 GB data, unlimited talk and text. NO OVERAGE CHARGES -- they just throttle you after you hit your limit. Isn't that nicer than being throttled at some mystery point by another carrier?
$60 = 3 GB. $70 = 5 GB. $80 = unlimited, and since they're honest about the other stuff, I'm *almost* inclined to believe them. Feel like experimenting? Sign up and post the results in a couple months.
Do the math: if she goes through 1 GB in 2-3 days, she needs 10-15 GB per month. Either pay for a lot of cellular data, or pay for Internet access in her room. I don't know why you're expecting to get 10 GB of data at a price no one offers. Are they all dicks for putting limits on what they call "unlimited" service? OF COURSE. Take your argument to the FCC, the FTC, and the supreme court if you want, it's not gonna do you any good. At best, you'll get them to stop calling it "unlimited" but they'll still charge THE EXACT SAME THING THEY'RE CURRENTLY CHARGING.
The best thing to do, of course, would be to pay for internet access to her room, then give her an AP and charge a discounted rate to a couple neighboring rooms.:D
> I'm not sure how much it was an over reaction. > Seemed reasonable to me.
No, this was an overreaction. Raise your hands if you *really* think Al-Quida would NAME THEIR ACCESS POINT "Al-Quida". I'm not a member, but I'm PRETTY SURE they're into secrecy, and wouldn't do something so obvious. I'd bet my next paycheck that you could walk by their headquarters with a laptop and not see that SSID.
Speaking of NASCAR, life-sized these would be awesome, and a great demo. A dozen races on every track with full 33-car fields without a single crash would be a good first step. Hell, run'em 'till the tires blow and see how well they cope. No humans at risk, right?
The GP was talking about IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft. IBM did invent a lot of early computer stuff, but Cisco didn't invent networking and Microsoft didn't invent software or the operating system. "Invent" is not the threshold here.
Apple used to be a very brave company that dare to come up with strange products that people crave for. Used to. Now Apple, much like Microsoft, is a company clingong onto new versions of legacy hardware
Has ANYONE else made that many new categories of hardware that fast, that well, and that successfully? Did any other PC maker EVER do anything more than "just like last year's, but faster/bigger/smaller/cheaper/color/sound/video/etc"? Who -- Dell? HP? Compaq? Asus? Lenovo? IBM? Packard Bell? Palm? Sony? I'm asking seriously -- what companies, in your opinion, did or are doing things right?
Good work! I *knew* this wasn't a complex problem with multiple related causes spanning decades. Now we know The Truth: One cause, from a small span of years. IN YOUR FACE, everyone else!
Apple ditches the floppy drive, SCSI, and ADB in the late 90s, and a mere 15 years later you realize that they aren't concerned with legacy things? Good work.
That was exactly my thought too. But at least it's better than the original headline, which was trimmed due to length: "Tesla teardown reveals driver-facing electronics built by suppliers for the iPhone 6, made by Apple, who uses Foxconn, home of underage mistreated slave laborers who kill themselves."
> There is a good possibility that the new iMacs can also be used as a monitor as well.
Likely not. The old Mac had a totally typical display. But now it's 5k, and...
Thunderbolt at 10 Gbit/s wasn't fast enough to drive 4K, which needs about 16 Gbit/s. Thunderbolt 2 at 20 Gbit/s can drive 4K, but not 5120Ã--2880, which needs 28 Gbit/s.1 The only promising standard on the horizon is DisplayPort 1.3 at 32 Gbit/s, but that spec is being finalized later in 2014, which means we're probably still years away from anything supporting it.
Wikipedia now says "DisplayPort version 1.3 was released on September 15, 2014." So yeah, no way is this iMac is supporting input based on a month-old spec.
Wow, you're right, I didn't catch that. I thought the Mini 3 got the A8X like the Air, since last year Apple made such a big deal that the only difference between the Mini and the Air was the size. Very disappointing, and yeah, definitely not worth $100.
OTOH, in the glass-is-half-full land, look how cheap the awesome iPad Mini 2 is!:D
If rich companies like Apple and FB want to burn cash seeing what it's like to do large solar deployments, for fuck's sake SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET THEM! "Oh no, this problem can't be 100% solved overnight, so no one should be trying anything at all!" No, they won't cover 100% of their power bill on the first day, but they'll cover some of it, and they'll learn a lot along the way, and it's only going to get better over time. By the time it IS viable, they will have already reached capacity and paid off all their costs and they'll be reaping the rewards while the next companies are just starting to get set up.
It's called INVESTING and LEARNING. Look into it. "Thought leader" or not, maybe -- JUST MAYBE -- the folks at Apple and FB know something about data centers too. Or maybe they just don't give a shit. It's like people who buy Teslas -- no, you're not going to save money over buying a gas-powered Civic. But that's not the point.
Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States, high-denomination bills were last printed on December 27, 1945, and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System. The $5,000 and $10,000 effectively disappeared well before then.
The Federal Reserve began taking high-denomination bills out of circulation in 1969, after an executive order by President Nixon (rather than actual legislation passed by Congress). As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist; 342 remaining $5,000 bills; and 165,372 remaining $1,000 bills. Due to their rarity, collectors will pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them. Some are even in other parts of the world in museums.
For the most part, these bills were used by banks and the Federal Government for large financial transactions. This was especially true for gold certificates from 1865 to 1934. However, the introduction of the electronic money system has made large-scale cash transactions obsolete. When combined with concerns about counterfeiting and the use of cash in unlawful activities such as the illegal drug trade and money laundering, it is unlikely that the U.S. government will re-issue large denomination currency in the near future, despite the amount of inflation that has occurred since 1969. (A $500 bill is now worth less, in real terms, than a $100 bill was worth in 1969) [emphasis mine]
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I fail to see how the 13-year-old story about game design, "A 'Vow of Chastity' For Game Designers", is a related story, as indicated in the panel below the story between the "previous story" and "next story" links. Seriously, WTF? Less than worthless.
http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-p...
$50 = 1 GB data, unlimited talk and text. NO OVERAGE CHARGES -- they just throttle you after you hit your limit. Isn't that nicer than being throttled at some mystery point by another carrier?
$60 = 3 GB. $70 = 5 GB. $80 = unlimited, and since they're honest about the other stuff, I'm *almost* inclined to believe them. Feel like experimenting? Sign up and post the results in a couple months.
Do the math: if she goes through 1 GB in 2-3 days, she needs 10-15 GB per month. Either pay for a lot of cellular data, or pay for Internet access in her room. I don't know why you're expecting to get 10 GB of data at a price no one offers. Are they all dicks for putting limits on what they call "unlimited" service? OF COURSE. Take your argument to the FCC, the FTC, and the supreme court if you want, it's not gonna do you any good. At best, you'll get them to stop calling it "unlimited" but they'll still charge THE EXACT SAME THING THEY'RE CURRENTLY CHARGING.
The best thing to do, of course, would be to pay for internet access to her room, then give her an AP and charge a discounted rate to a couple neighboring rooms. :D
> I'm not sure how much it was an over reaction.
> Seemed reasonable to me.
No, this was an overreaction. Raise your hands if you *really* think Al-Quida would NAME THEIR ACCESS POINT "Al-Quida". I'm not a member, but I'm PRETTY SURE they're into secrecy, and wouldn't do something so obvious. I'd bet my next paycheck that you could walk by their headquarters with a laptop and not see that SSID.
... it spelled "Antares", as in the title, not "Anatares", as in the summary.
My rocket gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it!
Speaking of NASCAR, life-sized these would be awesome, and a great demo. A dozen races on every track with full 33-car fields without a single crash would be a good first step. Hell, run'em 'till the tires blow and see how well they cope. No humans at risk, right?
For California, at least: CHiPs Detector
The GP was talking about IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft. IBM did invent a lot of early computer stuff, but Cisco didn't invent networking and Microsoft didn't invent software or the operating system. "Invent" is not the threshold here.
... just don't make me smell Uranus. :D
Apple used to be a very brave company that dare to come up with strange products that people crave for. Used to. Now Apple, much like Microsoft, is a company clingong onto new versions of legacy hardware
iPod: 2001. iPhone: 2007. iPad: 2010. Watch: 2014.
Has ANYONE else made that many new categories of hardware that fast, that well, and that successfully? Did any other PC maker EVER do anything more than "just like last year's, but faster/bigger/smaller/cheaper/color/sound/video/etc"? Who -- Dell? HP? Compaq? Asus? Lenovo? IBM? Packard Bell? Palm? Sony? I'm asking seriously -- what companies, in your opinion, did or are doing things right?
If you use the settings a lot and want them to appear at the top of your menu, change the name from "zPC Settings" to "(space)PC Settings" :D
> Does this make anyone feel bad for Steve Ballmer?
No.
Good work! I *knew* this wasn't a complex problem with multiple related causes spanning decades. Now we know The Truth: One cause, from a small span of years. IN YOUR FACE, everyone else!
> Not everyone can produce meaningful conclusions
> from screenfuls of cascading text.
Blonde, brunette, readhead...
Settings -> Display -> [_] 12-hour time [x] 24-hour time
You will need to reboot for the changes to take effect. Reboot now? [_Yes_] [_No_] [_Cancel_] [_Abort_] [_Retry_] [_Fail_]
1600 words from The Man himself? SIGN ME UP! clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick
Seriously, if we had BH posts daily, that would be enough to push me to learn to write a greasemonkey script with regex to hide them.
Apple ditches the floppy drive, SCSI, and ADB in the late 90s, and a mere 15 years later you realize that they aren't concerned with legacy things? Good work.
That was exactly my thought too. But at least it's better than the original headline, which was trimmed due to length: "Tesla teardown reveals driver-facing electronics built by suppliers for the iPhone 6, made by Apple, who uses Foxconn, home of underage mistreated slave laborers who kill themselves."
But the bigger question is, will a Tesla blend?
> There is a good possibility that the new iMacs can also be used as a monitor as well.
Likely not. The old Mac had a totally typical display. But now it's 5k, and...
Thunderbolt at 10 Gbit/s wasn't fast enough to drive 4K, which needs about 16 Gbit/s. Thunderbolt 2 at 20 Gbit/s can drive 4K, but not 5120Ã--2880, which needs 28 Gbit/s.1 The only promising standard on the horizon is DisplayPort 1.3 at 32 Gbit/s, but that spec is being finalized later in 2014, which means we're probably still years away from anything supporting it.
Marco Arment, January 2014
Wikipedia now says "DisplayPort version 1.3 was released on September 15, 2014." So yeah, no way is this iMac is supporting input based on a month-old spec.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
People who live in flash houses.... :-)
Wow, you're right, I didn't catch that. I thought the Mini 3 got the A8X like the Air, since last year Apple made such a big deal that the only difference between the Mini and the Air was the size. Very disappointing, and yeah, definitely not worth $100.
OTOH, in the glass-is-half-full land, look how cheap the awesome iPad Mini 2 is! :D
Fuck everything, we're doing ten movies.
I blew $25k on a hobby and it didn't work out. LIFE IS SO HORRIBLE!!!!!11
If rich companies like Apple and FB want to burn cash seeing what it's like to do large solar deployments, for fuck's sake SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET THEM! "Oh no, this problem can't be 100% solved overnight, so no one should be trying anything at all!" No, they won't cover 100% of their power bill on the first day, but they'll cover some of it, and they'll learn a lot along the way, and it's only going to get better over time. By the time it IS viable, they will have already reached capacity and paid off all their costs and they'll be reaping the rewards while the next companies are just starting to get set up.
It's called INVESTING and LEARNING. Look into it. "Thought leader" or not, maybe -- JUST MAYBE -- the folks at Apple and FB know something about data centers too. Or maybe they just don't give a shit. It's like people who buy Teslas -- no, you're not going to save money over buying a gas-powered Civic. But that's not the point.
Interesting stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States, high-denomination bills were last printed on December 27, 1945, and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System. The $5,000 and $10,000 effectively disappeared well before then.
The Federal Reserve began taking high-denomination bills out of circulation in 1969, after an executive order by President Nixon (rather than actual legislation passed by Congress). As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist; 342 remaining $5,000 bills; and 165,372 remaining $1,000 bills. Due to their rarity, collectors will pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them. Some are even in other parts of the world in museums.
For the most part, these bills were used by banks and the Federal Government for large financial transactions. This was especially true for gold certificates from 1865 to 1934. However, the introduction of the electronic money system has made large-scale cash transactions obsolete. When combined with concerns about counterfeiting and the use of cash in unlawful activities such as the illegal drug trade and money laundering, it is unlikely that the U.S. government will re-issue large denomination currency in the near future, despite the amount of inflation that has occurred since 1969. (A $500 bill is now worth less, in real terms, than a $100 bill was worth in 1969) [emphasis mine]