Please don't stop them, I haven't lived in my phone's area code in 10+ years, any time I get a call from my area code and exchange, I know it's spam/scam caller. Makes it super easy to filter them out.
Is the speed of light in space a constant? Does it get affected by gravity? If i try jumping upwards my velocity decreases to zero and then instsrt falling. Does a black hole affect light velocity?
Outer space is part of the Firmanent, and God was pretty clear that humans shouldn't be messing with that, so that question is best left unanswered.
Psalm 115:6 - "The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men."
Color is how we distinguish light frequency. That's what color is!
Who said anything about frequency? These glasses filter by wavelength, not frequency. Totally different thing.
LOL.
For those who are missing the joke: frequency * wavelength = speed of light = constant
The speed of light is not constant. You don't need to take my word for it, it's in the bible:
“Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember that the refractive index showeth the varying speed of light in different materials and the covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
The kickstarter is asking $39 for a pair of these. I bought a pair of these 5 years ago for $2.99 by accident - I forgot my sunglasses and bought a cheap pair of polarized sunglasses from a Chinatown merchant - the polarization was in the wrong direction, so instead of blocking glare from roads and water, they made it worse... and they blacked out LCD's.
I threw them away after that day, and never realized what a goldmine I was sitting on.
Who expects 5 years of free support for a consumer computer hardware product?
Unless you're a large vendor who is willing to pay for extended support from the manufacturer, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding any vendor that will guarantee 5 years of support.
Did you ask the manufacturer how much they would charge for a custom BIOS? Get a few thousand other people together who also want support for that product, and you can probably even afford it, though it's probably still going to cost more than replacing the motherboard with a newer one. Can't find 1000 other people that also want to use that 5 year old product? Well, that's the same reason the manufacturer doesn't support it - that's a lot of
Wrong. I bitch about all of it. Until the US has negative unemployment, we don't need to import ANY labor.
Mexicans do a lot of the jobs teenagers and folks in their early 20s should be doing.
Back in the real world, the economy can't function with a 0 unemployment rate, around 3% is about the lowest it can do an still have a healthy economy.
Immigrants (legal and illegal) are doing the jobs that teenagers and folks in their 20's don't want to do.
They aren't "managers". They are "management employees." Basically, at Verizon any non-exempt, non-union employee at Verizon is considered management.
Source: took my package 4 years ago.
Calling a "non-exempt non-union" employee without management responsibilities a "management employee" seems as misleading as selling an unlimited plan with limits.
Every time this topic comes up people complain that "Well now I have to buy N number of services at the same time and that adds up to more than I used to pay for cable!". I call BS. Why don't you just subscribe to one (or two) services, exhaust all of their exclusive content that you're interested in, then cancel and move on to another service. Rinse and repeat. By the time you get back to the first service they should have a bunch of new content for you.
For the small handful of times that you need to watch a SPECIFIC movie or show RIGHT NOW you can temporarily subscribe to a service that has it, or buy the BlueRay or DVD.
Every time this topic comes up people complain that "Well now I have to buy N number of services at the same time and that adds up to more than I used to pay for cable!". I call BS. Why don't you just subscribe to one (or two) services, exhaust all of their exclusive content that you're interested in,
Because if I'm going to do the research to track down which streaming service has the content I want, I might as well make the extra click to download it.
Prior to Starz leaving, Netflix had a pretty decent catalog -- plenty of movies and TV shows I wanted to see. After that, their catalog has been getting steadily worse, except for Netflix produced content (some of which is really good). But when I want to watch something in particular, I don't want to have to go figure out which streaming provider it's on and then potentially have to sign up for that provider just for that content.
If it's easier to find content for free download than to purchase it legally, many people will chose to download it.
Or if you want to commit a crime, don't turn on features that call the cops.
How would you even know if you're committing a crime? No one can keep track of all of the laws, there are over 300,000 federal laws and regulations that can result in criminal prosecution and over 70% of people have comitted one or more jailable offenses.
Some may seem innocuous like 'If a doctor gave you a prescription for the common painkiller vicodin and your spouse brings it to you as you lie in bed, "your spouse is dispensing a controlled substance without a license,"' but if a cop sees it and is looking for an excuse to arrest you, he's got the legal justification to do so and it may cost you many thousands of dollars to clear the charges.
I think the whole point of the article is that you *would* care if you drop your watch and don't notice that it just invited the police into your house while you left your joint on the kitchen table in plain sight. If you don't smoke pot, then maybe you don't care about this particular risk, but nearly everyone is in violation of *some* law, like maybe your mom left her vicodin prescription in your bathroom, oops, now you're guilty of possession of a controlled drug without a prescription.
The purpose of the watch feature is for dirty cops/DEA to plant on the scene *after* they have already illegally entered and violated 4th amendment rights, duh.
The advantage of the watch is that there's a 3rd party record of when it dials out, so the police *can't* fake the dial out record after the fact without getting Apple's cooperation.
This is a safety feature. Much like call 911 if the collision sensor in a car goes off.
Most people that turn on such features, believe the features benefit outweighs any potential liability if they live.
People other than independent seniors do not need fall detection. They can turn it on if they live alone âoejust in caseâ, but in most cases if you are choking and hit the ground, you want 911 , not your sibling to drive over and check.
I keep the "call 911 after a collision" feature turned on in my car since I trust that if my airbag deploys, then I really was in an accident, it's not likely that I hit my hand on the table and accidentally invited the police into my house.
If I'm choking and hit the ground unconscious, it's unlikely that 911 is going to get there on time, but if the watch dialed my wife who was upstairs in the bedroom, maybe she could.
I am alive, and healthy, and can enjoy life. So why should I give up money now, so that I can have more when I am dead?
Also, why would I want my wife to think I am worth more dead than alive?
I think you're being facetious, but my life insurance policy is not for me, it's so my wife won't have to dip into our retirement funds to pay the mortgage if I die. We have a decent retirement portfolio, so if I were worried about her killing me off for money, it doesn't take insurance for that.
It's kind of the same reason I have an action-cam on my bike -- it's not really for me, it's so my wife can go after the guy that ran me down and hopefully get a good settlement.
Great, I look forward to my dashboard crashing while I drive with no instruments until (if?) it reboots, maybe it'll get stuck in a reboot loop like my last Android phone.
I don't care if they want to make an android display for secondary information, but I hope they keep some traditional gauges for things like the speedometer, gas gauge, and highbeam/turn signal indicators.
Not to mention all this shit is on somebody else's computer. Sorry, but AWS performance is dogshit compared to bare metal. Cheaper in the long run and at massive scale, of course, but you get what you pay for.
If you want bare metal at AWS, you can have it. But with nvme drives and ehhanced networking that gives the VM nearly direct disk and network hardware access, there's not a whole lot of overhead in an AWS VM.
Being dependent upon "the cloud" is not a good thing, and yet so many companies are throwing out their brains and signing up in the hope to reduce costs. The company that recently purchased my previous employer is in whole hog for Microsoft, Microsoft 360, Microsoft cloud, and anything with the word Microsoft attached, most of it all online only. To read some corporate announcements I have to log into a third party site which just seems absurd to me. When the cloud servers eventually get their inevitable downtime, I predict a lot of hand wringing.
I haven't seen this level of slavish devotion to a single vendor since the IBM administration.
For most small to mid-sized businesses, "the cloud" is more reliable than any solution they'd be willing to pay for. I don't know Microsoft's redundancy model, but AWS's multi-AZ model gives much more redundancy than most businesses would build themselves -- even more so for multi-region redundancy since most companies aren't going to spend the money to duplicate their production environment in another region on the other side of the country (or world).
Though the side effect of using a cloud provider is that when a major cloud provider goes down, so do a *lot* of businesses -- but that doesn't mean they would have been better off building their own datacenter.
46% of Bay Area residents said they planned to leave in "the next few years,"
I'd like to see some followup to see how many actually did leave. Moving is hard, staying is easy.
I've been "going to move out of the bay area in the next few years" for about 15 years. I finally did move out of the area earlier this year, but kept my house so I can move back if I want to.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home, sitting in traffic in my car is no fun.
Then again if you bike to work, you are among the few who have very short commutes. I have a 40 minute commute, but it would be an 175 minute commute by bike.
In this country, a bike friendly commute doesn't usually happen by accident. My wife and I chose where to live based on our commutes -- we live a 10 minute walk from a train station for her, and a 10 mile ride to work for me. Hopefully to become a 5 mile ride early next year when my employer moves to a new office.
My bike commute is a consistent 45 minutes (mostly on little used neighborhood streets and dedicated trails), my car commute is 30 - 60 minutes.
Method of travel also matters -- you can read a book on a train or bus. You can't in a (not self-driving) car stuck in traffic.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home, sitting in traffic in my car is no fun.
My Wifi network is already several times faster than my internet speed, and due to the lack of competition (only one broadband provider here, I can't even get a DSL line, I'm stuck with cable internet), I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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Ok fine, so the FCC says it has no legal standing to enforce net neutrality, then it ought to step aside and let the states do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Please don't stop them, I haven't lived in my phone's area code in 10+ years, any time I get a call from my area code and exchange, I know it's spam/scam caller. Makes it super easy to filter them out.
Is the speed of light in space a constant? Does it get affected by gravity? If i try jumping upwards my velocity decreases to zero and then instsrt falling. Does a black hole affect light velocity?
Outer space is part of the Firmanent, and God was pretty clear that humans shouldn't be messing with that, so that question is best left unanswered.
Psalm 115:6 - "The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men."
Color is how we distinguish light frequency. That's what color is!
Who said anything about frequency? These glasses filter by wavelength, not frequency. Totally different thing.
LOL.
For those who are missing the joke: frequency * wavelength = speed of light = constant
The speed of light is not constant. You don't need to take my word for it, it's in the bible:
“Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember that the refractive index showeth the varying speed of light in different materials and the covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
The kickstarter is asking $39 for a pair of these. I bought a pair of these 5 years ago for $2.99 by accident - I forgot my sunglasses and bought a cheap pair of polarized sunglasses from a Chinatown merchant - the polarization was in the wrong direction, so instead of blocking glare from roads and water, they made it worse... and they blacked out LCD's.
I threw them away after that day, and never realized what a goldmine I was sitting on.
Who expects 5 years of free support for a consumer computer hardware product?
Unless you're a large vendor who is willing to pay for extended support from the manufacturer, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding any vendor that will guarantee 5 years of support.
Did you ask the manufacturer how much they would charge for a custom BIOS? Get a few thousand other people together who also want support for that product, and you can probably even afford it, though it's probably still going to cost more than replacing the motherboard with a newer one. Can't find 1000 other people that also want to use that 5 year old product? Well, that's the same reason the manufacturer doesn't support it - that's a lot of
Wrong. I bitch about all of it. Until the US has negative unemployment, we don't need to import ANY labor.
Mexicans do a lot of the jobs teenagers and folks in their early 20s should be doing.
Back in the real world, the economy can't function with a 0 unemployment rate, around 3% is about the lowest it can do an still have a healthy economy.
Immigrants (legal and illegal) are doing the jobs that teenagers and folks in their 20's don't want to do.
They aren't "managers". They are "management employees." Basically, at Verizon any non-exempt, non-union employee at Verizon is considered management.
Source: took my package 4 years ago.
Calling a "non-exempt non-union" employee without management responsibilities a "management employee" seems as misleading as selling an unlimited plan with limits.
44,000 managers? Da fuq?!!
They only have 160,000 employees, so 1 out of every 4 employees is a manager? No wonder they want to lay them off.
Every time this topic comes up people complain that "Well now I have to buy N number of services at the same time and that adds up to more than I used to pay for cable!". I call BS. Why don't you just subscribe to one (or two) services, exhaust all of their exclusive content that you're interested in, then cancel and move on to another service. Rinse and repeat. By the time you get back to the first service they should have a bunch of new content for you.
For the small handful of times that you need to watch a SPECIFIC movie or show RIGHT NOW you can temporarily subscribe to a service that has it, or buy the BlueRay or DVD.
Every time this topic comes up people complain that "Well now I have to buy N number of services at the same time and that adds up to more than I used to pay for cable!". I call BS. Why don't you just subscribe to one (or two) services, exhaust all of their exclusive content that you're interested in,
Because if I'm going to do the research to track down which streaming service has the content I want, I might as well make the extra click to download it.
Prior to Starz leaving, Netflix had a pretty decent catalog -- plenty of movies and TV shows I wanted to see. After that, their catalog has been getting steadily worse, except for Netflix produced content (some of which is really good). But when I want to watch something in particular, I don't want to have to go figure out which streaming provider it's on and then potentially have to sign up for that provider just for that content.
If it's easier to find content for free download than to purchase it legally, many people will chose to download it.
Or if you want to commit a crime, don't turn on features that call the cops.
How would you even know if you're committing a crime? No one can keep track of all of the laws, there are over 300,000 federal laws and regulations that can result in criminal prosecution and over 70% of people have comitted one or more jailable offenses.
https://www.politifact.com/pun...
Some may seem innocuous like 'If a doctor gave you a prescription for the common painkiller vicodin and your spouse brings it to you as you lie in bed, "your spouse is dispensing a controlled substance without a license,"' but if a cop sees it and is looking for an excuse to arrest you, he's got the legal justification to do so and it may cost you many thousands of dollars to clear the charges.
Who cares? Not me. Take a chill pill, man.
I think the whole point of the article is that you *would* care if you drop your watch and don't notice that it just invited the police into your house while you left your joint on the kitchen table in plain sight. If you don't smoke pot, then maybe you don't care about this particular risk, but nearly everyone is in violation of *some* law, like maybe your mom left her vicodin prescription in your bathroom, oops, now you're guilty of possession of a controlled drug without a prescription.
The purpose of the watch feature is for dirty cops/DEA to plant on the scene *after* they have already illegally entered and violated 4th amendment rights, duh.
The advantage of the watch is that there's a 3rd party record of when it dials out, so the police *can't* fake the dial out record after the fact without getting Apple's cooperation.
This is a safety feature. Much like call 911 if the collision sensor in a car goes off.
Most people that turn on such features, believe the features benefit outweighs any potential liability if they live.
People other than independent seniors do not need fall detection. They can turn it on if they live alone âoejust in caseâ, but in most cases if you are choking and hit the ground, you want 911 , not your sibling to drive over and check.
I keep the "call 911 after a collision" feature turned on in my car since I trust that if my airbag deploys, then I really was in an accident, it's not likely that I hit my hand on the table and accidentally invited the police into my house.
If I'm choking and hit the ground unconscious, it's unlikely that 911 is going to get there on time, but if the watch dialed my wife who was upstairs in the bedroom, maybe she could.
Life insurance has never made any sense to me.
I am alive, and healthy, and can enjoy life. So why should I give up money now, so that I can have more when I am dead?
Also, why would I want my wife to think I am worth more dead than alive?
I think you're being facetious, but my life insurance policy is not for me, it's so my wife won't have to dip into our retirement funds to pay the mortgage if I die. We have a decent retirement portfolio, so if I were worried about her killing me off for money, it doesn't take insurance for that.
It's kind of the same reason I have an action-cam on my bike -- it's not really for me, it's so my wife can go after the guy that ran me down and hopefully get a good settlement.
Great, I look forward to my dashboard crashing while I drive with no instruments until (if?) it reboots, maybe it'll get stuck in a reboot loop like my last Android phone.
I don't care if they want to make an android display for secondary information, but I hope they keep some traditional gauges for things like the speedometer, gas gauge, and highbeam/turn signal indicators.
The averageQualcomm based Android Phone has a battery with about the capacity of 3-4 old-Sokol "D" cell flashlight batteries!
A single D cell alkaline battery has a capacity of 10000 - 20000 mAh depending on power draw. Assuming 10000 mAh, that's 15Wh of power.
The Google Pixel 2 has a 2700mAh, 3.85V battery, or 10.4Wh of power.
Even the old carbon-zinc D cells had around 8000mAh of capacity, or around 12Wh of power
So a single D cell battery has a higher capacity than a typical android battery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bingo.
Not to mention all this shit is on somebody else's computer. Sorry, but AWS performance is dogshit compared to bare metal. Cheaper in the long run and at massive scale, of course, but you get what you pay for.
If you want bare metal at AWS, you can have it. But with nvme drives and ehhanced networking that gives the VM nearly direct disk and network hardware access, there's not a whole lot of overhead in an AWS VM.
Being dependent upon "the cloud" is not a good thing, and yet so many companies are throwing out their brains and signing up in the hope to reduce costs. The company that recently purchased my previous employer is in whole hog for Microsoft, Microsoft 360, Microsoft cloud, and anything with the word Microsoft attached, most of it all online only. To read some corporate announcements I have to log into a third party site which just seems absurd to me. When the cloud servers eventually get their inevitable downtime, I predict a lot of hand wringing.
I haven't seen this level of slavish devotion to a single vendor since the IBM administration.
For most small to mid-sized businesses, "the cloud" is more reliable than any solution they'd be willing to pay for. I don't know Microsoft's redundancy model, but AWS's multi-AZ model gives much more redundancy than most businesses would build themselves -- even more so for multi-region redundancy since most companies aren't going to spend the money to duplicate their production environment in another region on the other side of the country (or world).
Though the side effect of using a cloud provider is that when a major cloud provider goes down, so do a *lot* of businesses -- but that doesn't mean they would have been better off building their own datacenter.
46% of Bay Area residents said they planned to leave in "the next few years,"
I'd like to see some followup to see how many actually did leave. Moving is hard, staying is easy.
I've been "going to move out of the bay area in the next few years" for about 15 years. I finally did move out of the area earlier this year, but kept my house so I can move back if I want to.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home, sitting in traffic in my car is no fun.
Then again if you bike to work, you are among the few who have very short commutes. I have a 40 minute commute, but it would be an 175 minute commute by bike.
In this country, a bike friendly commute doesn't usually happen by accident. My wife and I chose where to live based on our commutes -- we live a 10 minute walk from a train station for her, and a 10 mile ride to work for me. Hopefully to become a 5 mile ride early next year when my employer moves to a new office.
My bike commute is a consistent 45 minutes (mostly on little used neighborhood streets and dedicated trails), my car commute is 30 - 60 minutes.
Try setting up a basic sciences lab with multi-million dollar equipment in your home. Try doing other people's plumbing or electrical work from home.
Meth-heads seem to be able to set up home labs, why can't you?
Method of travel also matters -- you can read a book on a train or bus. You can't in a (not self-driving) car stuck in traffic.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home, sitting in traffic in my car is no fun.
My Wifi network is already several times faster than my internet speed, and due to the lack of competition (only one broadband provider here, I can't even get a DSL line, I'm stuck with cable internet), I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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