I think this may be the last iteration of the design pioneered by the iPhone 5S. We may see in 2019 what amounts to an "iPhone X writ small" that has a 4.7" edge-to-edge screen but is physically only a little bigger than the iPhone SE.
We may be seeing the last "hurrah" of coal over the next 20 years. The development of new nuclear reactor technologies such as the molten salt reactor fueled by plentiful thorium-232 could end the age of coal within 40 years.
It already is. Thanks to "fracking," the USA has now discovered massive reserves of oil and natural gas domestically, and allowed the revival of many supposedly "tapped out" oilfields. The USA is set to become one of the world's largest producers of natural gas--and we have such a surplus supply that Shell's Pennzoil division is making motor oil from natural gas!
Community-based Internet could have been AWESOME had the WiMax (802.16 series) technology--one that could handle thousands of wireless connections from one transceiving tower--taken off in the USA. WiMax could have made it possible for community Internet, especially in rural areas where the "last mile" connection would have been very expensive to do.
I think THE issue with the iPhone comes down to the silly high price for the phone. US$1,149 for the 256 GB version makes even the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 look like a bargain in comparison.
I think in the end, Twitter won't ban President Trump because Twitter very well feels the fallout from such a ban could be HUGELY negative for the company, and they know it.
I mean, the Left may celebrate short term, but in the longer term will wonder why Twitter fell into financial hard times and got taken over by another company (for example, Naver Corporation of South Korea, which already runs the LINE messaging service).
Here's the question: just how vulnerable are Apple's A7 to A11 SoC chips to the Spectre attack? While it may based on ARM instruction set, Apple's customization of their SoC design makes it a real unknown just vulnerable the iPhone 5S/iPad Air and everything newer are to the Spectre exploit.
I think there is a real chance that someone will seriously look at acquiring Twitter in 2018. It's not likely to be Facebook, Google or Apple, because of the prospect of a major antitrust fight with the FTC and DoJ. And it definitely will not be the Chinese companies that operate Sina Weibo and WeChat.
One possibility I've thought about personally is someone like Naver Corporation of South Korea, who runs the LINE messaging service that is very popular in eastern Asia.
Tokyo actually has nice rail connections to both Haneda and Narita Airports.
This is why they really need to extend the Las Vegas Monorail directly to McCarran Airport. Just that would massively increase ridership, to say the least.
And that is to incorporate malware protection literally at the router level. Problem is, the only devices I know that can do that are the Norton Core router and the eero mesh routers running their subscription malware protection service.
I think people forget that with today's modern jet airliners capable of flying over 7,000 nautical miles easily, these long-range airline flights--especially over the higher northern latitudes--can expose passengers to quite a lot of radiation. Good examples of this: New York City to eastern Asia, Tokyo to western Europe, and continental USA to Dubai. With flight times of 10 to 16 hours, the exposure could be considerable.
I wouldn't be surprised that Apple will soon announce price cuts on the iPhone X. A US price of US$899 for the 64 GB model and $1,049 for the 256 GB model could happen as early as January 2018, and anyone who bought an iPhone X after December 1, 2017 couple possibly (though probably not likely) even get monetary compensation (either $100 rebate, $100 Apple Store gift certificate, or $100 iTunes card).
Remember, China's land mass is only slightly larger than the land mass of the USA, but holds more than fives times the population of the USA. That's a recipe for a potential health crisis, especially given the persistent air pollution problem plaguing many Chinese cities now and the water pollution problem from industrial waste.
China has to address this problem over the next 20 years, and that's going to take very serious amounts of monetary resources to do so.
But they did it the hard way: shuttering a lot of industries in the northeastern quadrant of Ohio. That's why northeastern Ohio has never really recovered once those industries started shutting down in the 1970's and 1980's.
They'll try, but given the persistent PM2.5 air pollution problem that still plagues many Chinese cities even as I type this (China will essentially have to either adopt US-style air pollution controls on its innumerable coal-fired power plants and/or switch to natural gas as primary fuel for electric power generation to drastically reduce this problem), that's not going to be easy to solve. And that's on top of water pollution from industrial wastes, too.
Let's face it. Those who think China can replace the USA as the next superpower don't realize China has two issues they have to deal with:
1. Feeding, clothing and sheltering around 1.7 billion people--around 20% of Earth's human population. 2. A massive air and water pollution problem that is already affecting the health of many Chinese.
It's these issues that could result in health issues so gigantic that it could bankrupt that country within 20-25 years. This article is symptomatic of what will soon happen to China down the road.
The best solution has always been mark-sense ballots done with _permanent_ ink. That way, the ballots are both hand-count and machine-count readable and we don't have the nasty "hanging chad" issue that plagued punched paper ballots.
I think in the end, all the electric car manufacturers should agree on a _single_ AC and DC charging standard. That way, everyone won't have to hunt around for a charging station--especially DC charging--compatible with their electric car.
In fact, what's happening now is that all the best creative work is being done for _television_, of all things. Besides the obvious success of "Game of Thrones," don't forget once AMC showed you can create great TV shows like "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," it showed that the best creative stuff in Hollywood were high production value TV shows of 9-12 episodes per season. And once Netflix and Amazon jumped in with their shows that (mostly) drop with a whole season all at the same time (and can be streamed in HD), interest in movie theaters have dropped quite a bit.
By the way, you're correct about HDTV being a major killer of movie theaters. Especially now when 60-plus inch (diagonal) HDTV sets are dirt cheap and you can get very good surround-sound systems along with it at reasonable prices. And with a home theater, you can easily pause and even rewind to a favorite scene, even in streaming. Not to mention making your own snacks for really cheap, too.
Also, why deal with having to run fiber optics into the home when Comcast is just about ready to do the national rollout of DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit-speed cable modem service? Comcast recently changed the video compression of their HD channels nationally from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, which frees up enough bandwidth to start implementing DOCSIS 3.1. In short, a swap from a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem to one supporting DOCSIS 3.1 will get you Internet speeds you normally see in South Korea and Japan.
Actually, here in the USA, Amtrak locomotives and locomotives used by commuter railroads use a system called "head-end power," where a diesel-powered generator in a diesel-electric locomotives provides power to all the attached passenger cars through a special power cable system. I believe something like that have been around since the late 1930's.
I think Apple is avoiding trying to incorporate Gigabit LTE (for now) due to the same issue that made Apple avoid LTE in 2011: the Gigabit LTE radio could result in very fast battery drain running in Gigabit LTE mode.
Remember, in 2011 the iPhone 4S did not incorporate LTE, which was starting to become available at the time on Android phones (starting with the HTC ThunderBolt). Anyone who remembers using the ThunderBolt remembers how fast the battery drained running in LTE mode, given the state of the art of LTE radio chipsets at the time. It wasn't until Qualcomm rolled out a far more power-efficient LTE chipset (MDM9615) in the spring of 2012 that Apple was finally able to incorporate LTE into the iPhone 5. I believe that Apple is waiting for new generation of more power-efficient Gigabit LTE radio chipsets now in early development at Qualcomm and Intel that will allow Apple to incorporate Gigabit LTE on the iPhone in 2018.
I think Firefox blew it because they should have "sandboxed" each browser tab a long, long time ago. Because Chrome (and interestingly Internet Explorer 10.0 and 11.0) does that, it means if web browsing starts to have problems, closing the tab would fix the problem.
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I think this may be the last iteration of the design pioneered by the iPhone 5S. We may see in 2019 what amounts to an "iPhone X writ small" that has a 4.7" edge-to-edge screen but is physically only a little bigger than the iPhone SE.
We may be seeing the last "hurrah" of coal over the next 20 years. The development of new nuclear reactor technologies such as the molten salt reactor fueled by plentiful thorium-232 could end the age of coal within 40 years.
It already is. Thanks to "fracking," the USA has now discovered massive reserves of oil and natural gas domestically, and allowed the revival of many supposedly "tapped out" oilfields. The USA is set to become one of the world's largest producers of natural gas--and we have such a surplus supply that Shell's Pennzoil division is making motor oil from natural gas!
Community-based Internet could have been AWESOME had the WiMax (802.16 series) technology--one that could handle thousands of wireless connections from one transceiving tower--taken off in the USA. WiMax could have made it possible for community Internet, especially in rural areas where the "last mile" connection would have been very expensive to do.
I think THE issue with the iPhone comes down to the silly high price for the phone. US$1,149 for the 256 GB version makes even the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 look like a bargain in comparison.
I think in the end, Twitter won't ban President Trump because Twitter very well feels the fallout from such a ban could be HUGELY negative for the company, and they know it.
I mean, the Left may celebrate short term, but in the longer term will wonder why Twitter fell into financial hard times and got taken over by another company (for example, Naver Corporation of South Korea, which already runs the LINE messaging service).
Here's the question: just how vulnerable are Apple's A7 to A11 SoC chips to the Spectre attack? While it may based on ARM instruction set, Apple's customization of their SoC design makes it a real unknown just vulnerable the iPhone 5S/iPad Air and everything newer are to the Spectre exploit.
I think there is a real chance that someone will seriously look at acquiring Twitter in 2018. It's not likely to be Facebook, Google or Apple, because of the prospect of a major antitrust fight with the FTC and DoJ. And it definitely will not be the Chinese companies that operate Sina Weibo and WeChat.
One possibility I've thought about personally is someone like Naver Corporation of South Korea, who runs the LINE messaging service that is very popular in eastern Asia.
Tokyo actually has nice rail connections to both Haneda and Narita Airports.
This is why they really need to extend the Las Vegas Monorail directly to McCarran Airport. Just that would massively increase ridership, to say the least.
And that is to incorporate malware protection literally at the router level. Problem is, the only devices I know that can do that are the Norton Core router and the eero mesh routers running their subscription malware protection service.
I think people forget that with today's modern jet airliners capable of flying over 7,000 nautical miles easily, these long-range airline flights--especially over the higher northern latitudes--can expose passengers to quite a lot of radiation. Good examples of this: New York City to eastern Asia, Tokyo to western Europe, and continental USA to Dubai. With flight times of 10 to 16 hours, the exposure could be considerable.
I wouldn't be surprised that Apple will soon announce price cuts on the iPhone X. A US price of US$899 for the 64 GB model and $1,049 for the 256 GB model could happen as early as January 2018, and anyone who bought an iPhone X after December 1, 2017 couple possibly (though probably not likely) even get monetary compensation (either $100 rebate, $100 Apple Store gift certificate, or $100 iTunes card).
I have to disagree here.
Remember, China's land mass is only slightly larger than the land mass of the USA, but holds more than fives times the population of the USA. That's a recipe for a potential health crisis, especially given the persistent air pollution problem plaguing many Chinese cities now and the water pollution problem from industrial waste.
China has to address this problem over the next 20 years, and that's going to take very serious amounts of monetary resources to do so.
But they did it the hard way: shuttering a lot of industries in the northeastern quadrant of Ohio. That's why northeastern Ohio has never really recovered once those industries started shutting down in the 1970's and 1980's.
They'll try, but given the persistent PM2.5 air pollution problem that still plagues many Chinese cities even as I type this (China will essentially have to either adopt US-style air pollution controls on its innumerable coal-fired power plants and/or switch to natural gas as primary fuel for electric power generation to drastically reduce this problem), that's not going to be easy to solve. And that's on top of water pollution from industrial wastes, too.
Let's face it. Those who think China can replace the USA as the next superpower don't realize China has two issues they have to deal with:
1. Feeding, clothing and sheltering around 1.7 billion people--around 20% of Earth's human population.
2. A massive air and water pollution problem that is already affecting the health of many Chinese.
It's these issues that could result in health issues so gigantic that it could bankrupt that country within 20-25 years. This article is symptomatic of what will soon happen to China down the road.
The best solution has always been mark-sense ballots done with _permanent_ ink. That way, the ballots are both hand-count and machine-count readable and we don't have the nasty "hanging chad" issue that plagued punched paper ballots.
I think in the end, all the electric car manufacturers should agree on a _single_ AC and DC charging standard. That way, everyone won't have to hunt around for a charging station--especially DC charging--compatible with their electric car.
It may sound like a retort pouch, but I think the food processing technology to put the food in the bag might be new.
AMEN!!
In fact, what's happening now is that all the best creative work is being done for _television_, of all things. Besides the obvious success of "Game of Thrones," don't forget once AMC showed you can create great TV shows like "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," it showed that the best creative stuff in Hollywood were high production value TV shows of 9-12 episodes per season. And once Netflix and Amazon jumped in with their shows that (mostly) drop with a whole season all at the same time (and can be streamed in HD), interest in movie theaters have dropped quite a bit.
By the way, you're correct about HDTV being a major killer of movie theaters. Especially now when 60-plus inch (diagonal) HDTV sets are dirt cheap and you can get very good surround-sound systems along with it at reasonable prices. And with a home theater, you can easily pause and even rewind to a favorite scene, even in streaming. Not to mention making your own snacks for really cheap, too.
I wonder is Amazon trying a new variant of the retort pouch developed in the 1970's that became immensely popular in Japan by the late 1980's?
Also, why deal with having to run fiber optics into the home when Comcast is just about ready to do the national rollout of DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit-speed cable modem service? Comcast recently changed the video compression of their HD channels nationally from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, which frees up enough bandwidth to start implementing DOCSIS 3.1. In short, a swap from a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem to one supporting DOCSIS 3.1 will get you Internet speeds you normally see in South Korea and Japan.
Actually, here in the USA, Amtrak locomotives and locomotives used by commuter railroads use a system called "head-end power," where a diesel-powered generator in a diesel-electric locomotives provides power to all the attached passenger cars through a special power cable system. I believe something like that have been around since the late 1930's.
I think Apple is avoiding trying to incorporate Gigabit LTE (for now) due to the same issue that made Apple avoid LTE in 2011: the Gigabit LTE radio could result in very fast battery drain running in Gigabit LTE mode.
Remember, in 2011 the iPhone 4S did not incorporate LTE, which was starting to become available at the time on Android phones (starting with the HTC ThunderBolt). Anyone who remembers using the ThunderBolt remembers how fast the battery drained running in LTE mode, given the state of the art of LTE radio chipsets at the time. It wasn't until Qualcomm rolled out a far more power-efficient LTE chipset (MDM9615) in the spring of 2012 that Apple was finally able to incorporate LTE into the iPhone 5. I believe that Apple is waiting for new generation of more power-efficient Gigabit LTE radio chipsets now in early development at Qualcomm and Intel that will allow Apple to incorporate Gigabit LTE on the iPhone in 2018.
I think Firefox blew it because they should have "sandboxed" each browser tab a long, long time ago. Because Chrome (and interestingly Internet Explorer 10.0 and 11.0) does that, it means if web browsing starts to have problems, closing the tab would fix the problem.