It has a big effect on nerds who are now buying all sorts of cool low cost tech from China.
Everything from toy drones to laser cutters to micro RTG batteries to programmable LED strings.
US retailers that specialize in that stuff have already been hit by the tariffs, e.g. Adafruit and Sparkfun. Now even going direct to Chinese retailers like Seeed, Banggood and AliExpress will be more expensive for nerd consumers.
3-9s is under 9 hours of downtime a year. It's hardly terrible, especially compared to what many companies use for in-house DIY solutions.
As for S3 Glacier it is cheap, but I think you are misunderstanding the 11-9s number. It's not an SLA for general availability of your data, in fact it's not even an agreement at all. It's their average reliability per year, in other words a 0.000000001% chance (1 in 1 billion) chance of losing your "archive", which is a zip or tar file up to 40TB. It's a marketing claim, there is no compensation if your data is lost in the service agreement.
Of course you might have to wait while their system is down for maintenance to actually get your data. They don't seem to publish an SLA for the service.
Sure, but it would be better if all the stuff going to the east coast was shipped to the east coast, right? It costs less to ship stuff over sea than over land, even with the longer sea route.
I'm not saying that the relationship with China shouldn't keep evolving and changing, but blunt tactics like this and starting a trade war is not the best way to go about it.
This problem would resolve itself if China was not a developing nation, as China wouldn't be making stuff much cheaper than the US and people living there wouldn't be able to survive on the kind of wages they have to pay to hit those prices. If the Chinese economy was as developed as westerners they would be importing just as much from us.
Some Chinese sellers offer insurance against this now. For a small fee you can buy customs charge insurance at the checkout and if you get charged you simply submit a receipt and they refund you.
Obviously your parents probably won't be offering this service.
You haven't explained why that would make the cost go down for US exporters though.
If the US wants to charge other countries to deliver to it, then other countries will want to charge the US for the same. So costs will go up for everyone, except perhaps domestic shippers who might have to subsidise imports less. Or maybe the postal service will just pocket the extra cash rather than pass the saving on.
That's Trump's goal here, to make domestic sellers more competitive by raising shipping prices for goods coming from outside the US. He doesn't seem too interested in exporters, e.g. his tariffs are all hurting them too. Maybe he thinks the domestic market can make up for those losses or something, it's not very clear.
Sounds like it could be mitigated by having the stuff arrive at a port in Miami. There is canal for just that purpose. A bit of cooperation could sort it out.
China is still in the development phase. Far from everyone has been brought up to a first world standard of living there, in fact the majority have not.
The developing nation status helps those people by making it easier for small businesses and even individuals to sell to relatively wealthy consumers in the west.
I'm sure someone will ask why they should care about people in China or helping China develop. I'll assume that humanitarian arguments won't work so I'll use an economic one. As China develops it opens up opportunities for the US to sell to China. European and Japanese cars are becoming quite popular, for example, not to mention tourism.
It's because all the smaller, lighter packages subsidise the heavier ones. Most of the stuff being shipped is small and not really worth the effort to carefully weigh and measure just to charge some precise amount.
Courier companies in Europe are the same, I'm surprised it's not that way in the US. People complained because they would get a huge box full of space filler and one small item at the bottom, because the courier charges a flat rate up to a certain size/weight and it's cheaper for the warehouse to buy one size of box in bulk.
Of course such cheap shipping takes a long time to come from China, which saves more money because they can often buy cheap space on flights/boats that would otherwise be unused by more time sensitive packages. If they have to send an aircraft today to meet the deadline on 3 day packets it's more economical to fill it up with cheap slow ones than to let it go half full.
The used to... And then everyone decided that they hate UI/UX designers for ruining Gnome and everything else they went near.
Seriously, why would they want to help out when the other people working on the project think they are liberal arts graduates who know nothing and ruin everything? Even lawyers get less flak.
Ah, that's unfortunate. Other services, e.g. Google, allow you to download absolutely everything in one handy.zip archive. That makes it really easy to do a full backup/export and migrate to another service.
Really, dgatwood was comparing the price to Microsoft of a consumer USB 8TB hard drive to tape storage? And Harlequin80's concerns about a HDD spinning up after 10 years sitting on a shelf is something that they have to contend with in Microsoft datacentres?
Polar orbit, like a weather/spy satellite that passes over the same area regularly. Time it so that it covers the early evening hours in the winter when you really need that extra light, and so it has enough visibility over the horizon of the sun.
There was a specific issue with the Honda hybrid system. They tried to correct it with a software update that practically disabled the hybrid power, and people sued them over it.
The early Leafs had some issues (note that your article is from 6 years ago). They were fixed. There are taxi companies in the UK using them hard, at least one rapid charge per day and 100% charge overnight, 200k miles on the clock and still >80% capacity left.
Most places in China have really poor, inadequate street lighting anyway. I don't know why, maybe there are issues installing it or something. But anything they can do with this is probably better than what they have currently.
Or just pay someone else to do it. Chances are you can't beat services that do this on a massive scale, with wide geographic distribution and duplication, and 3-9s SLAs.
For example Microsoft charges $720/year for 30TB off archive storage, plus a few hundred for bandwidth. I doubt you could do it cheaper with tape, especially when you factor in periodic upgrades, duplication and operating costs.
The cost of developing such technology doesn't justify it. Tape is good enough, companies are used to storing it securely for the long term, and they already have tape drives to read/write it.
You should definitely enable two factor on your account.
Google has had this for many years, nice to see Apple get on board. Question is what format is the data in? Being Apple it will probably be supported by other platforms, but it would be nice if they used open standards and formats.
Kia and Hyundai are offering unlimited mileage warranties on their batteries in the US, or 200k km in other regions. Leaf batteries have proven to be good for 350k km+.
Consumer Reports puts the average lifespan of a car at 250k km (150k miles). Obviously there will be outliers either side. So realistically few people will be wearing out their batteries, and for them the most economical and green option will be to get a used pack from a written off car.
What makes you think it wasn't the intended outcome?
This is what the EU wants. Google can charge a reasonable fee, companies can choose to pay it and offset the cost by bundling their own choice of browser/search engine as default, or they can bundle the Google ones.
There is now competition in the market. Prices will be pushed downwards as Google has to compete with other browser/search vendors to be the default, and other companies have a chance to compete effectively and grow in the EU.
It's a little bit bad for you because now Google has more competition, but I don't think the EU is going to lose much sleep over that.
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It has a big effect on nerds who are now buying all sorts of cool low cost tech from China.
Everything from toy drones to laser cutters to micro RTG batteries to programmable LED strings.
US retailers that specialize in that stuff have already been hit by the tariffs, e.g. Adafruit and Sparkfun. Now even going direct to Chinese retailers like Seeed, Banggood and AliExpress will be more expensive for nerd consumers.
3-9s is under 9 hours of downtime a year. It's hardly terrible, especially compared to what many companies use for in-house DIY solutions.
As for S3 Glacier it is cheap, but I think you are misunderstanding the 11-9s number. It's not an SLA for general availability of your data, in fact it's not even an agreement at all. It's their average reliability per year, in other words a 0.000000001% chance (1 in 1 billion) chance of losing your "archive", which is a zip or tar file up to 40TB. It's a marketing claim, there is no compensation if your data is lost in the service agreement.
Of course you might have to wait while their system is down for maintenance to actually get your data. They don't seem to publish an SLA for the service.
Developing economy != 3rd world
Sure, but it would be better if all the stuff going to the east coast was shipped to the east coast, right? It costs less to ship stuff over sea than over land, even with the longer sea route.
I'm not saying that the relationship with China shouldn't keep evolving and changing, but blunt tactics like this and starting a trade war is not the best way to go about it.
This problem would resolve itself if China was not a developing nation, as China wouldn't be making stuff much cheaper than the US and people living there wouldn't be able to survive on the kind of wages they have to pay to hit those prices. If the Chinese economy was as developed as westerners they would be importing just as much from us.
The EU shipped â16.3 billion worth of vehicles to China last year.
https://www.acea.be/statistics...
Some Chinese sellers offer insurance against this now. For a small fee you can buy customs charge insurance at the checkout and if you get charged you simply submit a receipt and they refund you.
Obviously your parents probably won't be offering this service.
You haven't explained why that would make the cost go down for US exporters though.
If the US wants to charge other countries to deliver to it, then other countries will want to charge the US for the same. So costs will go up for everyone, except perhaps domestic shippers who might have to subsidise imports less. Or maybe the postal service will just pocket the extra cash rather than pass the saving on.
That's Trump's goal here, to make domestic sellers more competitive by raising shipping prices for goods coming from outside the US. He doesn't seem too interested in exporters, e.g. his tariffs are all hurting them too. Maybe he thinks the domestic market can make up for those losses or something, it's not very clear.
Sounds like it could be mitigated by having the stuff arrive at a port in Miami. There is canal for just that purpose. A bit of cooperation could sort it out.
China is still in the development phase. Far from everyone has been brought up to a first world standard of living there, in fact the majority have not.
The developing nation status helps those people by making it easier for small businesses and even individuals to sell to relatively wealthy consumers in the west.
I'm sure someone will ask why they should care about people in China or helping China develop. I'll assume that humanitarian arguments won't work so I'll use an economic one. As China develops it opens up opportunities for the US to sell to China. European and Japanese cars are becoming quite popular, for example, not to mention tourism.
It's because all the smaller, lighter packages subsidise the heavier ones. Most of the stuff being shipped is small and not really worth the effort to carefully weigh and measure just to charge some precise amount.
Courier companies in Europe are the same, I'm surprised it's not that way in the US. People complained because they would get a huge box full of space filler and one small item at the bottom, because the courier charges a flat rate up to a certain size/weight and it's cheaper for the warehouse to buy one size of box in bulk.
Of course such cheap shipping takes a long time to come from China, which saves more money because they can often buy cheap space on flights/boats that would otherwise be unused by more time sensitive packages. If they have to send an aircraft today to meet the deadline on 3 day packets it's more economical to fill it up with cheap slow ones than to let it go half full.
It almost seems more like tossing darts in terms of successes, and a lot of good UIs are merely refinements on something created ages ago.
So... Just like 90% of software development then.
The used to... And then everyone decided that they hate UI/UX designers for ruining Gnome and everything else they went near.
Seriously, why would they want to help out when the other people working on the project think they are liberal arts graduates who know nothing and ruin everything? Even lawyers get less flak.
Ah, that's unfortunate. Other services, e.g. Google, allow you to download absolutely everything in one handy .zip archive. That makes it really easy to do a full backup/export and migrate to another service.
Really, dgatwood was comparing the price to Microsoft of a consumer USB 8TB hard drive to tape storage? And Harlequin80's concerns about a HDD spinning up after 10 years sitting on a shelf is something that they have to contend with in Microsoft datacentres?
Polar orbit, like a weather/spy satellite that passes over the same area regularly. Time it so that it covers the early evening hours in the winter when you really need that extra light, and so it has enough visibility over the horizon of the sun.
There was a specific issue with the Honda hybrid system. They tried to correct it with a software update that practically disabled the hybrid power, and people sued them over it.
The early Leafs had some issues (note that your article is from 6 years ago). They were fixed. There are taxi companies in the UK using them hard, at least one rapid charge per day and 100% charge overnight, 200k miles on the clock and still >80% capacity left.
Most places in China have really poor, inadequate street lighting anyway. I don't know why, maybe there are issues installing it or something. But anything they can do with this is probably better than what they have currently.
Or just pay someone else to do it. Chances are you can't beat services that do this on a massive scale, with wide geographic distribution and duplication, and 3-9s SLAs.
For example Microsoft charges $720/year for 30TB off archive storage, plus a few hundred for bandwidth. I doubt you could do it cheaper with tape, especially when you factor in periodic upgrades, duplication and operating costs.
The cost of developing such technology doesn't justify it. Tape is good enough, companies are used to storing it securely for the long term, and they already have tape drives to read/write it.
You should definitely enable two factor on your account.
Google has had this for many years, nice to see Apple get on board. Question is what format is the data in? Being Apple it will probably be supported by other platforms, but it would be nice if they used open standards and formats.
You won't be forced to use Bing, it will just be the default. You can then change it to anything you like.
Let's see what the charge for using Play is.
"Every so often" is a bit non-specific.
Kia and Hyundai are offering unlimited mileage warranties on their batteries in the US, or 200k km in other regions. Leaf batteries have proven to be good for 350k km+.
Consumer Reports puts the average lifespan of a car at 250k km (150k miles). Obviously there will be outliers either side. So realistically few people will be wearing out their batteries, and for them the most economical and green option will be to get a used pack from a written off car.
The used packs are also highly recyclable.
What makes you think it wasn't the intended outcome?
This is what the EU wants. Google can charge a reasonable fee, companies can choose to pay it and offset the cost by bundling their own choice of browser/search engine as default, or they can bundle the Google ones.
There is now competition in the market. Prices will be pushed downwards as Google has to compete with other browser/search vendors to be the default, and other companies have a chance to compete effectively and grow in the EU.
It's a little bit bad for you because now Google has more competition, but I don't think the EU is going to lose much sleep over that.