No. Anyone who knew there were $2000 of phones in it would get the package. Something quite obvious really based on your own surprise that he used something expensive.
Also why the quotation marks around star? You're talking about a person with enough followers to almost have a Diamond play button, who by estimates likely earned somewhere upwards of $80k (general estimates for a video of 45m views) for his video with his "expensive" phones. Are you jealous? Also see that word expensive? That is correct use of question marks.
Since when do you give a shit about the lives of American working class?
And yet 99% of my criticism of America is the way their policies act on their own people.
You hate stupid people!
Nope, I hate stupidity. There's a big difference. In general I don't hate people, and I certainly don't hate generic groups of people. But really you don't seem to know me at all if you think I hate stupid people, which is a shame. I thought we had "a thing" but clearly this relationship was one sided.
LTE might be more efficient, but HSPA+ still wins by pure brute force when you're in a moving vehicle speeding through an area at 80-150mph if you value uninterrupted realtime connectivity.
but in urban areas with dense tower deployment
Look you're swinging wildly between arbitrary and incoherent arguments all the while ignoring that your provider has a coverage problem and blaming the technology instead. Don't do that.
I would have hit back hard at AT&T and run ads calling them "LTE Lemmings"
Why because you have one tiny little use case on a single metric that happens to be better for you while being worse for everyone else (tower congestion was a bigger problem with HSDPA+ for precisely this reason).
You're complaining about coverage, not a technology. LTE is superior to HSDPA+ in nearly every way and the sensible users are glad to see the back of it. If you have problems with your connection then maybe you should be blaming the modem in your phone or the carrier not providing the coverage required. In the mean time the rest of the world is happy with the better speeds, faster connection times, better reliability, lower cost, and far lower battery drain that LTE provide, to mention just a few of the things the technology is superior at.
--If a carrier can achieve the required performance
They won't. There's an order of magnitude difference. Just like there was a huge frigging difference between HSDPA+ and LTE.
It's false and fraudulent marketing, nothing more. And AT&T will get away with it because in America suing a mega corporation is pointless, some stupid judge will rule that 5G(tinye) could never be confused with 5G, and no one will uphold marketing rules.
This has nothing to do with America's space power and everything to do with an American company using American airwaves refusing to follow the rules laid out by the regulator for this sort of thing.
What you're saying does not invalidate anything the GP said. In fact it reinforces it. Screwing the workers, poor holidays, long hours, and a culture of living to work is one of the reasons the economy is as dynamic, healthy and advanced as it is.
People often like to say: "We are the most efficient". To which I reply: "Yeah but we are happy"
Sigh, your pedantry has been noted and filed in the big bin where it belongs.
"Big Ben" is commonly used to refer to the tower just as much as the bells themselves. Hell type Big Ben into Wikipedia you not only get a picture of the tower first, but this declaration that it's commonly used to refer to multiple things as the first line on the Wiki.
Or maybe you prefer a more legitimate reference like the UK Parliament's page: https://www.parliament.uk/bigb... First line: "The name Big Ben is often used to describe the tower, the clock and the bell but the name was first given to the Great Bell."
Actually it cost him a small amount of credibility. The fact that the device is open source, has full designs available and still works as intended helps retain his credibility a lot.
Mind you my first reaction was: a) this video will be boring. b) did it take him 5 months to get all those packages stolen or does he live in a really shitty neighbourhood. c) some of those are probably actors.
Yeah brain problems all around. Like the people who don't understand that there are people making a living of designing funky things on Youtube, and then declare not only that the person has brain problems but also decide they know about their worklife in detail.
Speaking of attention whore... Where do you fit in on the grand scheme of things? "Never done Jack and two thumbs Bob, and sidekick don't say Dick, will laugh at other's failures though they have not done shit."
Yes they do make $200 smartphones. The LG G5 is not one of them. However the second hand option could be likely, as is the possibility that LG donated them for the video.
No one one do that because you probably wouldn't get them back.
Unless it is you have GPS tracking and a sure fire way to ensure that the would be thief would get rid of the package as quickly as possible without investigating further, e.g. smells like a devils arsehole.
Unless you're doing it to make a video which is expected to bring in revenue, or especially in this case: recognition and new viewers too.
Also it may surprise you that Youtubers actually get products donated for free in exchange for advertising, such as holding up a phone with a prominent LG logo and talking about "Wide Angle lenses" By the way Those are LG G5s, they are only $2k worth if bought new. You can get certified refurbished ones for $1200 total and second hand even less, that said I will bet you a Marsbar that the phones were donated by LG.
I never thought it possible Statista would publish such a sloppily defined metric.
Statista publishes metrics from 3rd parties and unfortunately in terms of comparing terrorism there isn't really much other stuff out there than the Institute for Economics report, however that doesn't make the metric useless. Looking at individual rankings and their changes over years relative to other countries still provides some insight into the terrorism landscape. While the ability to side by side compare countries like the USA to countries like Iraq, the comparison between say France and Germany still is quite accurate.
for the innumerate general public to have a meaningful dialogue with a data scientist without the data scientist having to bend over backwards into trite, kindergarten narratives
And that's where I fundamentally disagree with your requirement. You're effectively saying someone needs to be a data scientist to talk to a data scientist rather than simply understanding what it is the data scientist does and the significance of it. e.g. Knowing what integration does is orders of magnitude more important than being able to calculate an integral. That sort of knowledge is fundamental compared to the ability to actually do an integral, and it's this line of thinking that underpins basic general knowledge of all fields.
Specialists are specialists for a reason and part of being a specialist is having to communicate your specialty.
Considering that Linux is traditionally community driven
Yes, but you're relying on a community to keep alive the very thing the community is deciding is no longer important. Communities are great for bigger projects and important projects. They won't help you much with edge cases and niche products.
Seems to me to be such a shame to condemn perfectly good working hardware
Perfectly good 10 year old portable hardware is becoming an ever increasing minority. Hardware fails, and the 64bit consumer processor was announced 2 decades ago and released 15 years ago. The Atom is a curious CPU released at a time where all other consumer CPUs (Even Apple mad the move before then) had already incorporated 64-bit support.
I would LOVE to be an advocate, but let's face it, it hasn't exactly taken the consumer level market by storm
Why is that a reason not to be an advocate? There's technical problems with Linux on desktops, it's worth sticking to that as a reason rather than simple consumer popularity.
As such, I'm not familiar with Lubuntu. This is the first time I've heard about it.
Lubuntu is one of the flavours of Ubuntu that uses the LXQT desktop environment. Effectively it's a fully feature OS including all software that is blazingly fast, sits in under 3GB of disk space and is quite comfortable running in 512MB RAM environments. Compared to other "lite" distributions it's incredibly polished and fully featured with the same capabilities as any modern distribution.
Personally I use it for VMs because I can quickly spin up full desktop environments using barely any RAM or diskspace. For comparison my KVM server which runs multiple instances of headless Ubuntu Servers with no GUI environment at all won't even install if the installer detects less than 768MB of RAM and less than 8GB Disk space, and that's for a headless box with essentially no functionality.
How do these extremely small distribution companies stay financially sustainable?
For some of them, finances has nothing to do with it. In this case though the heavy lifting is done primarily by the LXDE team which worked on the desktop environment and built ontop of Ubuntu. Therefore there isn't actually very much effort required for a distribution like this.
Now where do you get that silly idea? Just because something is available doesn't mean it's automatically current or supported. In fact there is zero requirements for any software developer to support anything that put anywhere for free, and you'll find the license reflects that fact.
Support is a soft promise, it's not a warranty enshrined into some law.
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but the YT "star" would go and get the package
No. Anyone who knew there were $2000 of phones in it would get the package. Something quite obvious really based on your own surprise that he used something expensive.
Also why the quotation marks around star? You're talking about a person with enough followers to almost have a Diamond play button, who by estimates likely earned somewhere upwards of $80k (general estimates for a video of 45m views) for his video with his "expensive" phones. Are you jealous? Also see that word expensive? That is correct use of question marks.
Really do you even think before posting?
Since when do you give a shit about the lives of American working class?
And yet 99% of my criticism of America is the way their policies act on their own people.
You hate stupid people!
Nope, I hate stupidity. There's a big difference. In general I don't hate people, and I certainly don't hate generic groups of people. But really you don't seem to know me at all if you think I hate stupid people, which is a shame. I thought we had "a thing" but clearly this relationship was one sided.
A description of every phone with the first generation of their new modem, ever.
LTE might be more efficient, but HSPA+ still wins by pure brute force when you're in a moving vehicle speeding through an area at 80-150mph if you value uninterrupted realtime connectivity.
but in urban areas with dense tower deployment
Look you're swinging wildly between arbitrary and incoherent arguments all the while ignoring that your provider has a coverage problem and blaming the technology instead. Don't do that.
I would have hit back hard at AT&T and run ads calling them "LTE Lemmings"
Why because you have one tiny little use case on a single metric that happens to be better for you while being worse for everyone else (tower congestion was a bigger problem with HSDPA+ for precisely this reason).
You're complaining about coverage, not a technology. LTE is superior to HSDPA+ in nearly every way and the sensible users are glad to see the back of it. If you have problems with your connection then maybe you should be blaming the modem in your phone or the carrier not providing the coverage required. In the mean time the rest of the world is happy with the better speeds, faster connection times, better reliability, lower cost, and far lower battery drain that LTE provide, to mention just a few of the things the technology is superior at.
--If a carrier can achieve the required performance
They won't. There's an order of magnitude difference. Just like there was a huge frigging difference between HSDPA+ and LTE.
It's false and fraudulent marketing, nothing more. And AT&T will get away with it because in America suing a mega corporation is pointless, some stupid judge will rule that 5G(tinye) could never be confused with 5G, and no one will uphold marketing rules.
Just my 2 cents ;)
It's going to cost you a lot more than 2 cents.
This has nothing to do with America's space power and everything to do with an American company using American airwaves refusing to follow the rules laid out by the regulator for this sort of thing.
Errr no. Bypassing the FCC's requirements and breaking their rules would have happened in the pre Villain of the Internet FCC as well.
What you're saying does not invalidate anything the GP said. In fact it reinforces it. Screwing the workers, poor holidays, long hours, and a culture of living to work is one of the reasons the economy is as dynamic, healthy and advanced as it is.
People often like to say: "We are the most efficient".
To which I reply: "Yeah but we are happy"
Sigh, your pedantry has been noted and filed in the big bin where it belongs.
"Big Ben" is commonly used to refer to the tower just as much as the bells themselves. Hell type Big Ben into Wikipedia you not only get a picture of the tower first, but this declaration that it's commonly used to refer to multiple things as the first line on the Wiki.
Or maybe you prefer a more legitimate reference like the UK Parliament's page: https://www.parliament.uk/bigb...
First line: "The name Big Ben is often used to describe the tower, the clock and the bell but the name was first given to the Great Bell."
You knew it was fake when the first "thief" didn't stomp the glitter-bot into the ground in frustration and anger.
Remember it smells like shit. I'll be you a dollar your first reaction would not be to use your foot to determine where the smell came from.
Damn, that cost him all his credibility.
Actually it cost him a small amount of credibility. The fact that the device is open source, has full designs available and still works as intended helps retain his credibility a lot.
Mind you my first reaction was:
a) this video will be boring.
b) did it take him 5 months to get all those packages stolen or does he live in a really shitty neighbourhood.
c) some of those are probably actors.
Yeah brain problems all around. Like the people who don't understand that there are people making a living of designing funky things on Youtube, and then declare not only that the person has brain problems but also decide they know about their worklife in detail.
Speaking of attention whore... Where do you fit in on the grand scheme of things? "Never done Jack and two thumbs Bob, and sidekick don't say Dick, will laugh at other's failures though they have not done shit."
Someone has a future in politics . . .
Delivering something that works while not fully disclosing the campaign contributions? Then admitting fault?
Nope, he's way too good for politics.
Yes they do make $200 smartphones. The LG G5 is not one of them.
However the second hand option could be likely, as is the possibility that LG donated them for the video.
No one one do that because you probably wouldn't get them back.
Unless it is you have GPS tracking and a sure fire way to ensure that the would be thief would get rid of the package as quickly as possible without investigating further, e.g. smells like a devils arsehole.
Unless you're doing it to make a video which is expected to bring in revenue, or especially in this case: recognition and new viewers too.
Also it may surprise you that Youtubers actually get products donated for free in exchange for advertising, such as holding up a phone with a prominent LG logo and talking about "Wide Angle lenses" By the way Those are LG G5s, they are only $2k worth if bought new. You can get certified refurbished ones for $1200 total and second hand even less, that said I will bet you a Marsbar that the phones were donated by LG.
I never thought it possible Statista would publish such a sloppily defined metric.
Statista publishes metrics from 3rd parties and unfortunately in terms of comparing terrorism there isn't really much other stuff out there than the Institute for Economics report, however that doesn't make the metric useless. Looking at individual rankings and their changes over years relative to other countries still provides some insight into the terrorism landscape. While the ability to side by side compare countries like the USA to countries like Iraq, the comparison between say France and Germany still is quite accurate.
Also the report itself has a huge amount of insight despite the way the rankings are published: http://visionofhumanity.org/ap...
for the innumerate general public to have a meaningful dialogue with a data scientist without the data scientist having to bend over backwards into trite, kindergarten narratives
And that's where I fundamentally disagree with your requirement. You're effectively saying someone needs to be a data scientist to talk to a data scientist rather than simply understanding what it is the data scientist does and the significance of it. e.g. Knowing what integration does is orders of magnitude more important than being able to calculate an integral. That sort of knowledge is fundamental compared to the ability to actually do an integral, and it's this line of thinking that underpins basic general knowledge of all fields.
Specialists are specialists for a reason and part of being a specialist is having to communicate your specialty.
Considering that Linux is traditionally community driven
Yes, but you're relying on a community to keep alive the very thing the community is deciding is no longer important. Communities are great for bigger projects and important projects. They won't help you much with edge cases and niche products.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2011...
Seems to me to be such a shame to condemn perfectly good working hardware
Perfectly good 10 year old portable hardware is becoming an ever increasing minority. Hardware fails, and the 64bit consumer processor was announced 2 decades ago and released 15 years ago. The Atom is a curious CPU released at a time where all other consumer CPUs (Even Apple mad the move before then) had already incorporated 64-bit support.
I would LOVE to be an advocate, but let's face it, it hasn't exactly taken the consumer level market by storm
Why is that a reason not to be an advocate? There's technical problems with Linux on desktops, it's worth sticking to that as a reason rather than simple consumer popularity.
As such, I'm not familiar with Lubuntu. This is the first time I've heard about it.
Lubuntu is one of the flavours of Ubuntu that uses the LXQT desktop environment. Effectively it's a fully feature OS including all software that is blazingly fast, sits in under 3GB of disk space and is quite comfortable running in 512MB RAM environments. Compared to other "lite" distributions it's incredibly polished and fully featured with the same capabilities as any modern distribution.
Personally I use it for VMs because I can quickly spin up full desktop environments using barely any RAM or diskspace. For comparison my KVM server which runs multiple instances of headless Ubuntu Servers with no GUI environment at all won't even install if the installer detects less than 768MB of RAM and less than 8GB Disk space, and that's for a headless box with essentially no functionality.
How do these extremely small distribution companies stay financially sustainable?
For some of them, finances has nothing to do with it. In this case though the heavy lifting is done primarily by the LXDE team which worked on the desktop environment and built ontop of Ubuntu. Therefore there isn't actually very much effort required for a distribution like this.
you are responsible for some level of support
Now where do you get that silly idea? Just because something is available doesn't mean it's automatically current or supported. In fact there is zero requirements for any software developer to support anything that put anywhere for free, and you'll find the license reflects that fact.
Support is a soft promise, it's not a warranty enshrined into some law.
This is where Bittorent comes into play.
Relying on the hope that someone somewhere may have an interest in keeping some random specific version of software alive?
No thanks. I prefer a more dedicated form of archive.