How many tears does he think we shed with the current system? Hopefully the new plans will decrease sadness.
No, you doofus. Do you even English? He wants to create a two-tear system... as in a tear in space and a tear in time, which deliver video without the normal data constraints.
If you make video unlimited, you might as well just make all data unlimited. Video is the thing that's using data already. Everything else (for the majority of people) is incidental.
I think you overestimate the size of the market of people like you. Buuuut I digress. Have you looked at any of the OnePlus phones? The 3+ doesn't have everything you're looking for, but it's probably the closest you'll get.
The G6 is really not any better than the G5. They have the same CPU, same GPU, same amount of RAM, the G6 has a slightly better screen but the G5 has a slightly better camera and of course the G5 has a replaceable battery.
Hell, I still have a G3 and I don't see any need to upgrade any time soon.
At least in my part of the world, G5s are super cheap right now. I just got one for $250 CAD (no contract). It's a great phone. Problem is, instead of marketing it as a great phone, they marketed the gimmicky "friends" modular attachments, and by all accounts it flopped. Their failure is my gain, I guess.
They might not be for socializing, but they can be a social experience. When I saw Sean of the Dead it was WAY funnier in theatre than when I watched it at home. Part of that can be attributed to the fact that I had seen the movie once already, but a big part is due to the fact that in the theatre I was surrounded by other people who were laughing their asses off. Humans are fundamentally social beings, and we often take our cues from the people around us (even if we like to think we don't).
How about a law making any profit margin greater than 5% illegal and punishable by prison time?
And how the eff would that actually work? Unless the whole world does it, there's no incentive to make anything.
"Okay company, we have $1,000,000 in seed funding. We could make a product and sell it at the legislated 5% margin. Oooor we could just not make a product and invest that money in that mining company in Australia that's returning 6%."
Even if you somehow worked out that kink, there would be zero incentives for anyone to take risks.
Okay company. We have a product making the legislated 5% margin. We coullllllld take a huge risk and develop this portfolio of new products. Some of them will fail, but the margins on the others will hopefully make up for that. Oh wait, we can't legally get those margins. Guess we'll stick to making the same old."
Because you're still on the hook for a $700 or $800 phone or whatever. The interest rate isn't the only factor to take into account.
Well if you have any other debt at all, you're better off being on the hook for $800 at 0% interest and applying that $800 to your other debt. Most mortgages will permit extra payments. You've basically taken a 0% loan from your cell provider and used it to reduce the balance of your 3.5% loan.
Even if you have no debt, if you're half financially competent you should still take the 0% phone loan and put that $800 into an investment.
Where you burn yourself is if you take the 0% phone loan, and then use the $800 to buy yourself another shiny trinket.
ask your employer to "hire" you as a "contractor,"
At least in Canada, CRA has some pretty strict definitions of what a contractor is. If you're basically going back to full time employment for one employer, you are not a contractor and CRA will catch that if you're ever audited./p
Living wages most certainly exist. I make one. I have ever since I graduated university. And it's not at a union shop.
In my fair town the poverty activists have calculated the living wage as just under $20/hr. There are tons of jobs that pay that much. Though to be fair, there are also tons that don't.
Blame yourself. Every single day of the rest of your life blame yourself.
Or blame your daughter for drunk driving. Or even better, don't bother (she's dead). Just grieve, accept that shit happens, and accept that throwing blame around doesn't really fix anything in this case.
They obviously felt they could make more money on their own or at different companies.
Or they wanted the excitement and self-determination that can come from creating a startup, and now they have the war chest to do it without having to risk their family stability or eat ramen for every meal.
>> encourages a culture of optimizing for short term showmanship instead of making something people want and creating lasting value.
You've just described the entire US business culture for at least the last 50 years. No-one builds quality products designed to last any more. Everything is actively designed to ensure it needs replacing every 3-5 years now, and to be sold through marketing (push) rather than need (pull).
I know this is a popular thing about which people like to complain, but I'm not sure the alternative is preferable. Technology moves fast, and does offer desirable advantages. What I mean by that is: what is the point of designing things to physically last forever if they become technologically obsolete anyways? Sure, there are some things that will never advance technologically. My 100-year-old hunting knife is just as good as one I could pick up today. But look at most things we use in our daily lives and tell me our current versions don't have advantages over old models. Yes, you can build a washing machine to last for 25 years, but our standards for water efficiency (for example) still advance.
Even toasters, a simple machine, have advanced. Used to be that they used a thermometer to trigger the pop-up. This would burn your toast if you only had one slice. Now they use capacitors to time the pop-up; the mechanism is uncoupled from the amount of bread you've placed in the toaster. If you build things to last forever, you stick them with the technology of the day forever.
Not to mention "idle hands make for mischief". Paying people to sit around and do nothing is dangerous for any society.
Except how many people will sit around doing nothing? I know I'd get pretty depressed doing that. If I didn't have to work, I'd probably travel, write a book, maybe develop that video game I've been planning in my head. UBI would be amazing for society's cultural pursuits, for research, for innovative design; it would take the risk out of moonshots for sure.
"A rational NIMBY argument would be a bit difficult to come by."
I worked as a planner in a community that was developing a bylaw to permit (land-based) large-scale wind turbines. I heard every reason under the sun for why we shouldn't have them, but the one that really took the cake was one of the main opponents standing up and screaming, "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES!!!" (keep in mind that this was for land-based turbines).
It took all my strength in the world to not blurt out, "Lady, you don't give a flying F**K about the whales!"
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How many tears does he think we shed with the current system? Hopefully the new plans will decrease sadness.
No, you doofus. Do you even English? He wants to create a two-tear system... as in a tear in space and a tear in time, which deliver video without the normal data constraints.
If you make video unlimited, you might as well just make all data unlimited. Video is the thing that's using data already. Everything else (for the majority of people) is incidental.
Well I'd go for that phone he wants. So there's at least 2 of us. :)
I suspect many people on this site would. But Slashdot is its own little niche.
I made a photo booth for my wedding.
I think you overestimate the size of the market of people like you. Buuuut I digress. Have you looked at any of the OnePlus phones? The 3+ doesn't have everything you're looking for, but it's probably the closest you'll get.
The G6 is really not any better than the G5. They have the same CPU, same GPU, same amount of RAM, the G6 has a slightly better screen but the G5 has a slightly better camera and of course the G5 has a replaceable battery.
Hell, I still have a G3 and I don't see any need to upgrade any time soon.
At least in my part of the world, G5s are super cheap right now. I just got one for $250 CAD (no contract). It's a great phone. Problem is, instead of marketing it as a great phone, they marketed the gimmicky "friends" modular attachments, and by all accounts it flopped. Their failure is my gain, I guess.
Movies aren't for socializing.
They might not be for socializing, but they can be a social experience. When I saw Sean of the Dead it was WAY funnier in theatre than when I watched it at home. Part of that can be attributed to the fact that I had seen the movie once already, but a big part is due to the fact that in the theatre I was surrounded by other people who were laughing their asses off. Humans are fundamentally social beings, and we often take our cues from the people around us (even if we like to think we don't).
How about a law making any profit margin greater than 5% illegal and punishable by prison time?
And how the eff would that actually work? Unless the whole world does it, there's no incentive to make anything.
"Okay company, we have $1,000,000 in seed funding. We could make a product and sell it at the legislated 5% margin. Oooor we could just not make a product and invest that money in that mining company in Australia that's returning 6%."
Even if you somehow worked out that kink, there would be zero incentives for anyone to take risks.
Okay company. We have a product making the legislated 5% margin. We coullllllld take a huge risk and develop this portfolio of new products. Some of them will fail, but the margins on the others will hopefully make up for that. Oh wait, we can't legally get those margins. Guess we'll stick to making the same old."
Because you're still on the hook for a $700 or $800 phone or whatever. The interest rate isn't the only factor to take into account.
Well if you have any other debt at all, you're better off being on the hook for $800 at 0% interest and applying that $800 to your other debt. Most mortgages will permit extra payments. You've basically taken a 0% loan from your cell provider and used it to reduce the balance of your 3.5% loan.
Even if you have no debt, if you're half financially competent you should still take the 0% phone loan and put that $800 into an investment.
Where you burn yourself is if you take the 0% phone loan, and then use the $800 to buy yourself another shiny trinket.
So you make it harder for yourself... in order to put more burden on an agency that's funded by YOUR tax dollars. WTF kind of immature logic is that?
ask your employer to "hire" you as a "contractor,"
At least in Canada, CRA has some pretty strict definitions of what a contractor is. If you're basically going back to full time employment for one employer, you are not a contractor and CRA will catch that if you're ever audited./p
Battery compartments are really difficult case design for mobile devices.
Somehow pretty much every other mobile manufacturer has done it well at one point or another...
Huh? Where the heck do you live?
Living wages most certainly exist. I make one. I have ever since I graduated university. And it's not at a union shop.
In my fair town the poverty activists have calculated the living wage as just under $20/hr. There are tons of jobs that pay that much. Though to be fair, there are also tons that don't.
Blame yourself. Every single day of the rest of your life blame yourself.
Or blame your daughter for drunk driving. Or even better, don't bother (she's dead). Just grieve, accept that shit happens, and accept that throwing blame around doesn't really fix anything in this case.
They obviously felt they could make more money on their own or at different companies.
Or they wanted the excitement and self-determination that can come from creating a startup, and now they have the war chest to do it without having to risk their family stability or eat ramen for every meal.
But my one complaint is...people these days, rarely seem to respond to a "Thank you" with a "Your Welcome"
That's because they're busy responding with a, "You're welcome."
*ducks*
who needs this much headroom in Wifi?
Local network? Transferring files from my wireless devices to my computer? Streaming from my devices to my TV?
The new plant they are building in Arizona is slated for 7nm dies, so smaller chips are coming eventually.
Those chips are destined for mobile markets, no?
>> encourages a culture of optimizing for short term showmanship instead of making something people want and creating lasting value.
You've just described the entire US business culture for at least the last 50 years. No-one builds quality products designed to last any more. Everything is actively designed to ensure it needs replacing every 3-5 years now, and to be sold through marketing (push) rather than need (pull).
I know this is a popular thing about which people like to complain, but I'm not sure the alternative is preferable. Technology moves fast, and does offer desirable advantages. What I mean by that is: what is the point of designing things to physically last forever if they become technologically obsolete anyways? Sure, there are some things that will never advance technologically. My 100-year-old hunting knife is just as good as one I could pick up today. But look at most things we use in our daily lives and tell me our current versions don't have advantages over old models. Yes, you can build a washing machine to last for 25 years, but our standards for water efficiency (for example) still advance.
Even toasters, a simple machine, have advanced. Used to be that they used a thermometer to trigger the pop-up. This would burn your toast if you only had one slice. Now they use capacitors to time the pop-up; the mechanism is uncoupled from the amount of bread you've placed in the toaster. If you build things to last forever, you stick them with the technology of the day forever.
Not to mention "idle hands make for mischief". Paying people to sit around and do nothing is dangerous for any society.
Except how many people will sit around doing nothing? I know I'd get pretty depressed doing that. If I didn't have to work, I'd probably travel, write a book, maybe develop that video game I've been planning in my head. UBI would be amazing for society's cultural pursuits, for research, for innovative design; it would take the risk out of moonshots for sure.
Electric cars are dying
Electric cars are quickly getting to the point where it's not about the cost of fuel. They're better to drive, and very low maintenance.
"A rational NIMBY argument would be a bit difficult to come by."
I worked as a planner in a community that was developing a bylaw to permit (land-based) large-scale wind turbines. I heard every reason under the sun for why we shouldn't have them, but the one that really took the cake was one of the main opponents standing up and screaming, "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES!!!" (keep in mind that this was for land-based turbines).
It took all my strength in the world to not blurt out, "Lady, you don't give a flying F**K about the whales!"
A lot of northern communities are being hit hard because they're built on permafrost, which these days isn't too "perma"...
Another good point about his presidency is the entertainment value. Popcorn sales should go way up. Hillary would have been dull.
Right. Because entertainment value is what we should be looking for in the most powerful person in the world. /sarcasm
Seriously, isn't that what you Americans have the Kardashians for?
Are you buying these cartridges for their 'collectability' or 'playability'.
Well if you're paying $700 for the original instead of $20 for a report, chances are you're going for collectability.