What are they currently connecting to? Odds are, it's an existing router with WiFi capability. So when you get the new router, what's stopping you from having the old router connect to the new? It's a waste of power to have 2 routers running, certainly, but it may be a better option than buying everything new.
If your current router is an ISP-supplied one and you have to return it when they send you a new one, then you'd just have to pick up any one cheap by-then-considered-old-but-not-yet-vintage routers.
No you wouldnt, not after all the effort the spend convincing everyone that downloading anything is illegal
Despite the widespread hatred against them, Brein, Stichting Thuiskopie and others don't really do the "downloading is illegal!", and their websites actually make fairly clear what the law says can and cannot be done legally.
They can be faulted for many things, but not for any perceived "omg they're trying to make downloading linux illegal!"
You got moderated Flamebait - I disagree with that moderation, but alas I can't mod on stories in which I've commented.
I understand what you're saying, but I think that you in turn should understand that under your prerequisites for starting a family, you're going to decimate the population of the U.S. rather rapidly. Not that I, in turn, mind - there's certainly too many of us in the first place (and by 'us' I mean people, worldwide, the U.S. is actually not all that bad) - but there would be plenty of people, and government, who disagree with such drastic measures; they don't necessarily want only the moderately rich to have children. Plumbers' kids grow up to be tax payers just as well and the world needs many more plumbers' kids than they do the born-into-money types.
While I think that (financial) support for those who fall pregnant (personally I think that should include happy little accidents borne (pardon the pun) out of unsafe sex) while they don't *currently* have the means to support such a family is a good idea, requiring a (financial) safety net or else be labeled as a child abuser is going overboard.
Your last line seems to agree though that to the donor falls no blame, even though you did blame them in the other post. So that's a tad confusing, but I may be misreading that:)
On the down side... 1. Brein has already put out a bit of newsfluff saying that they're planning to appeal. 2. If this stands, Brein and others will simply put this on the scales to tip in favor of making downloading illegal* - something that the EU says NL should be doing in the first place; NL is one of the few countries where downloading of movies/music/TV series is legal (uploading is illegal, as is downloading of software, etc.) That in turn could lead to a 3-strikes type law (Even though the one in France fails miserably because 1. people avoid getting caught and 2. even when caught, rarely do people actually get cut off.. so it's all bark and no bite.) or direct targeting of downloaders.
* Within the context of 'piracy'. Obviously you're welcome to download the front page of slashdot, or a linux distribution, view whatever you want on YouTube, etc. etc.
I first blame the sperm donor, for not making sure the couple the sperm was being donated to, had the proper means, financial resources, and responsibility raise a child.
What if they did have the proper means, financial resources, and responsibility to raise a child, but one of them gets into a rather serious accident that puts a huge financial burden on them (in medical care and lost income), the other has to take time off work a lot to take care of the first (more lost income), and to top it all off the one who got into an accident doesn't even make it through and now there's a permanent loss of income and a funeral to pay for? The donor couldn't have known that would happen any more than they could have known what happened in this specific case. Still ready to just blame the donor?
AND the couple for applying for public assistance/welfare after artificial insemination, WTF?
So people who go through artificial insemination should not be eligible for assistance/welfare, only those who get naturally pregnant? Or is this only for couples who get artificially inseminated with a third party's sperm? Or only for female/female couples? Now if it were two rich people with great jobs, I could certainly understand the argument.. though the 'artificial insemination' bit remains rather moot.
Besides, the article is on Reddit, a website that currently has, as it's top story, "This actually happened on MSNBC today (youtube.com)"
'Upworthy title' (google it) aside, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. That story is actually about how a major news outlet interrupted an actually interesting segment on privacy and monitoring in the U.S., during an interview with a congresscritter, because Justin Bieber got booked for a DUI. That's exactly the sort of slap-in-the-face that people deserve to realize and think about a lot more - before they conclude that, yep, they do indeed care a lot more when glamour-du-jour farts than they do about things that, you know, actually matter. It wouldn't make a very good top story on Slashdot, of course, but it does deserve to be on the front page of Reddit and deserves to be upvoted.
That side, fine comment. Google did indeed fail in their pursuit of an online payment system to rival PayPal - which is unfortunate, as PayPal and credit cards are now just about the only way to pay for things online outside of nation-specific solutions (e.g. the Dutch iDeal system, or the odd store in the U.S. accepting bank cheques). Bitcoin could change that, but I'm not seeing the adoption rate have quite enough momentum for that to happen just yet.
I look forward to a cure for sleep, and a cure for meals.
While I realize that some find the activity quite enjoyable, like a little oasis of peace from the usual busy day, I for one would add "a cure for having to go potty" to that list.
IIRC, Backblaze was running all around the bay area (and farther afield) buying external drives at Costco and shucking the external cases.
That almost doesn't really surprise me.
The last few times I looked at pricing some drives, the ones that come in enclosures are just a few Euro more expensive than the internal ones. So for a few Euro, I get a pretty well-made enclosure and, typically, a power supply. They make great project boxes after you rip out the SATA interface board.
Do this as a business venture.. buy 500 external drives, disassemble, take the drives for your own use, sell the 500 enclosures+power supplies on amazon or ebay or whatever, and get yourself an added discount.
Except that I really think they could probably squeeze out better volume pricing for just the bare HDDs. Running around retail stores seems like it should really be inefficient.
Good luck. You're in the minuscule minority of people that consumes content only through an API, scraping, or unauthorized piggybacking on data feeds.
Somebody hasn't been paying attention to how content is actually 'consumed' for most of these services.
Where are tweets mostly read? At people's private clients. Be that an official twitter client, or a great number of other clients that interface with the API. Where next? probably twitter.com directly. After that? A whole ton of websites that include a twitter feed in their layout. Facebook? Same thing. Facebook even has a whole commenting-on-whatever API for websites. Google+ ditto.
News websites also generally offer a feed. Not just for the people reading them in their reader, but so that others can embed their feeds into a website. Put in an audience-capturing title, let the visitor to site X click-through to your site. That's a visitor you otherwise probably wouldn't have had. These are the things that are worth the effort even if "li'l ol' me" is not.
That said, I never said I wasn't willing to A. play ball (twitter, for example, has very strict rules on how you actually use their API and due to the unique nature of one of my clients (purely text-only with minimal text formatting) had to talk with them on how I could adhere to their rules given the limited medium), and/or B. pay up when it's reasonable to do so.
When it's not reasonable or simply unavailable, then for my own personal purposes, heck yeah I'll scrape. I actually don't see that as any different from me going to the actual page and hitting F5, except that I actually cost them less bandwidth since I'm not loading a bunch of CSS, images, etc. Sure, I'll also not be seeing their non-content ads.. but then, they're likely blocked by ABP/noscript anyway. But that's me - there's going to be plenty others who will scrape and have a commercial interest in doing so - and it's easier for a site to monetize on that if they offer an API, or a feed, that they can largely control.
Okay, so say I want to 'follow' a 'channel' on Trove.. but I have no interest in using the website. I know, I know.. using the website is what's actually desired - the same applies to Twitter and facebook and google+ and etc. - but nonetheless I set things up so that I can 'follow' people on them anyway by using either...
1. The feed provided for me, which means I can just get posts in any feed reader, including my custom one. 2. The API they make available - even if they do make me jump through hoops with OAuth and a ton of other things that have everything to do with 'posing on behalf of a user' crap when really all I want is read-only access to already public things - so that I can include it in my custom one. 3. Yoink whatever data source they're using, sometimes having to impersonate the site or prior access because they got wise to people using that data source, didn't want them to, and put up artificial roadblocks. 4. Scrape. Yeah, that's right, Google. You don't provide a feed, you make the API limited to just a few dozen queries per day, while serving the desired content to a bajillion people every day? I'll just waste bandwidth and scrape.
So, where does Trove fit in? I'm not seeing a feed anywhere in the page source, I'm not seeing anything about an API (read-only or otherwise), I see I can grab the datasource through e.g. http://trove.com/me/channels/C... and get a tidy little json packet - but maybe Trove frowns upon doing so, or I could scrape (but would have to use the js-enabled scraper and boy do I ever not want to do that).
Please tell me the Trove developers know better.. or at least plan to know better with an announcement of API/feeds 'coming soon'.. or an official "developers: grab the json datasources if you just want read-only access of public data, that's cool with us - peace out."
If the feature doesn't exist (which it probably does, considering a co-commenter noted the name is at least used in one of their official documents), then it merely turns into a story of network solutions' official twitter account (as pointed to from network solutions' website) stating that a document that would be completely false, is in fact completely authentic, and make it rather strange that they would tell the guy to contact them directly so that they could explain.
After all this research, Backblaze still pick the highest failing drive
They're looking for 4TB models. They only cite two models without any further information.
Seagate ST4000DM000 vs Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630
You can look up technical details, benchmarks, etc. but perhaps the decision is simply in the price. Seagate: $164.99 Hitachi: $295.00
For the Hitachi model to start making sense, price-wise, that Seagate model would have to fail a lot more than their numbers are currently showing,
( And yes, I'd imagine they can squeeze better deals than regular consumer prices out of the companies - but then, they could do that for either brand, and probably through an intermediary anyway. )
Until everybody with an affinity for gaming and possession of an iPhone 5 throws one of these types on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
( A 'sleeve' for an iPhone 5 that works as a controller, with physical buttons, making use of iOS's new controller API. )
Sure, it's a bit like taking a gaming device and throwing a phone function on it - but I bet it'd fare better than the NGage nonetheless.
( Controllers aren't too popular on Android - but then that's usually separate BT-mated things, not quite as slick.. the same applies to older iPhones, of course. )
I'd say there's still a disposal issue. While it's not on the level of the nasties in a CFL, it's still more than just some metal, ceramic, and glass in an incandescent - and I'd still take it in when buying a new one.
That said, I haven't had to buy a new one, and I bought my first one back in 2001 (it was actually a DIY kit). The only one that failed it was actually the cap, which was easily replaced; though I acknowledge that not everybody can or wants to do that.
I remember the first few times I flew out to the U.S., and almost all of the seats actually had phones in the headrest of the chair in front (where later they would put some nice monitors for in-flight entertainment, or nothing at all if you fly cheap). The only barrier to using them was that you'd need to slide a credit card through a slot and pay up the wazoo to use them. Even so, there were sure to be plenty of busy business people aboard, and they didn't use them either.
As it is, the only instance that I recall even seeing them used is on two movies: Red Eye, and Inception.
Though I agree that airlines should probably ban their use unless on the ground, just making it stupendously expensive to use them (and I see no technical reason they couldn't - just call it roaming charges) seems like a pretty good deterrent.
Which I certainly won't contest. I will say, though, that if somebody puts that forth as an argument against a certain technology - given that you such reasonably convenient options available - I'd say they're letting their laziness show.
I'd wonder how often their drains clog from them just throwing out solid fats (at room temperature) through their sink instead of collecting it and throwing it out in the trash. After all, that's more things to think about than just dunking it into the sink. Of course, once clogged, they have to directly deal with the consequences - they wouldn't have to directly deal with the consequences of a CFL bulb, battery, or any chemical nastiness being on a trash heap somewhere.
The difference is that it's 'plugins' that anything can use, rather than your specific choice of media player.
E.g. instead of having one h.264 plugin for winamp, one for VLC, one for MPC, one for iTunes or whatever, you just have something that the system (some media playing framework or other facility in the OS) handles and thus any media player can poke at.. and not even care that it's h.264.
You can still call it a plugin for the OS, if you'd like, but that's quite different from winamp's idea of its own native input plugins, output plugins, effects plugins, etc.
There was no decent media players (in some regards, it was a new concept) Winamp brought skinning, plugins, visualizations and a whole slew of things that most folks never even knew they wanted or needed.
It's funny that you mention those. In a way, we've come full circle. I get the feeling that most people don't really care about whether or not they can skin their music player anymore (the more out of the way it is, the better.. it's something for the background, not to show off to friends), nevermind visualizations (I don't see much demand for visualizations for Pandora on any of the platforms that have a Pandora app). Maybe that still sees some use with some (self-proclaimed) DJs, but I can't say I've seen it used in a very long time. Plugins are similarly dying a slow death. Think of video players.. how many have plugins to support some manner of format? Most of them either read them out of the box (think VLC) or rely on a 'codec pack' (with FFDShow or LAV) being installed to read everything.. and let practically any other media player read them as well.
I used to like CFL, but disposing of them in an environment friendly manner is a pain,
That's not a pain that you should have to endure. In The Netherlands, you can either...
A. drop them off at major grocery stores (where you can also drop off batteries, btw - I was semi-shocked when I realized that most people in the U.S. just throw their batteries out with the regular trash. Same with glass, for that matter. I suppose the glass gets sorted out somewhere - not sure how they're handling batteries).
B. drop them off at special handling places or at a touring special handling bus - they also take in volatile materials, old electronics, etc.
C. When you go buy a new light bulb at a store, leave the CFL with that store. It's considered an electronic product and you can always leave your old electronic device when you buy a new one in the same category (so no dumping a giant CRT on them when you go buy a cheapy cellphone).
. At full brightness, they are still dimmer than incandesants
Can't really make that statement without some figures.
I.e. are you talking about a run-of-the-mill incandescent 60W bulb and comparing it to a run-of-the-mill CFL at 9W* (*60W equivalent)?
If so, hey, maybe the manufacturer was lying. Maybe your 60W bulb is throwing out 800lm while the CFL is throwing out 700lm. So perhaps you need to get th 11W* model (*70W equivalent) that throws out 850lm.
But then you'd be on the other side of the aisle, saying that the CFL is brighter. Unless, of course, you got a high efficiency incandescent that's actually throwing out 900lm.
There's a reason that they want to add actual light output to bulbs. That's a good thing for exactly this reason. Now add distribution pattern and a little spectrograph (with a CRI number for those who feel CRI is good enough), and things can start to be compared fairly.
a 1982 Dodge Ram Pickup. No tracking Well, no tracking technology on your car, at least. You rightfully pointed out that you'd also have to switch off your phone.
You'll also have to pre-plan your route to only take those roads that do not have license plate scanners. You'll have to be vigilant of mobile license plate scanners used as well. You'll have to make sure that you get some cash out of an ATM near your home so that you do not have to pay for gas or goods anywhere along your route and/or at your destination. And those are just the low-hanging fruit on the paranoia tree.
1. People don't prefer streaming, they prefer downloading. 2. Ask anyone if they get annoyed by "buffering" messages, 3. especially when they're skipping *backwards*. (numbering mine) 1. We must know different people. 2. They see them for half a second, a little longer if they're using a crappy site and go through a proxy out of paranoia. 3. The site you're using there needs a fine granularity in their stream chopping. Not all streams restart at frame 0 and force you to grab the stream all the way back up to an hour in. More often than not this is just a configuration on the server's side to begin with.
* Why would you need to start a download 12 hours before watching it if you have enough bandwidth to stream it?
I'm confused... isn't that exactly the point I was making?
Parent poster suggested that the industry is displeased with content providers because they don't offer download options and people tend to do their downloading (I guess they meant streaming) at peak hours. Assume they do offer downloading, and I wanted to do the industry a favor, I might start a download 12 hours earlier because that's when I leave the house.
Doesn't that only makes sense if there isn't already an established set of defacto projects?
Let's use Photoshop as an example. The GIMP team can't hope to take down Photoshop anytime soon, so instead they foster an environment where more and more graphics editors are created. As of now, I've probably at least installed and ran 25 of them.
Yet I still know that Photoshop is what I need if I need to work with other companies, The GIMP is my main go-to, Paint.NET is what I might recommend to those who don't like The GIMP for whatever reason, and if you're not really editing images but just messing around with them, cropping, scaling,etc., then IrfanView will do quite nicely.
There could be 75 more authored out there, and it would be very hard for any of them to break into that 'top' list.
The same applies with Bitcoin/Litecoin. Yes, there's alternatives - but none of them are being seriously looked at as something to contend so strongly with either of them, that btc/ltc were to wane in popularity, let alone be discredited, as a result. Even if you take something like Dogecoin - which some claim was created to basically make fun of cryptocurrencies - it does little to discredit btc/ltc - if anything, it just got people more interested, while having a good bit of fun on the side.
Now the differences between the graphics software packages tend to be vast and quite measurable on the technical end - while for cryptocurrencies, you could make a 1:1 (almost, need a different identifier) clone which would be technically the same thing. But you'd have to somehow get everybody currently backing the popular options to at least add yours, and then somehow get people to actually prefer yours.. at which point you have added only 1.. not much of a dilution.
When can these things get up enough horsepower to allow my laptop more space for battery and disk?
Convince the regular laptop makers to adopt pouch battery cells and you'll find there's already quite a bit more space available for battery. The 18650 type cells currently being used leave quite a bit of space even just inbetween themselves, not to mention all the dead space inside the housing where an 18650 simply cannot fit - but pouch cells would. That's what the thin laptops, tablets, etc. already use.
As for storage.. really? I've got a 2TB HDD, a 500GB SSD and another 160GB mSATA SSD in my laptop. Yes, it's a 17" model, but even if you just take a lowly chromebook you can easily fit 2TB. How much more do you need on active storage before it makes more sense to just plug in an external device?
I can use LuxRender to destroy a full-blown i7 that way
Did that i7 just have no cooling at all, was overclocked, or did you disable all the safeties somehow? Even the old pentium mobiles would throttle down and eventually just shut down if they got too hot - saving its own life and a world of hurt for the owner.
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What are they currently connecting to? Odds are, it's an existing router with WiFi capability. So when you get the new router, what's stopping you from having the old router connect to the new? It's a waste of power to have 2 routers running, certainly, but it may be a better option than buying everything new.
If your current router is an ISP-supplied one and you have to return it when they send you a new one, then you'd just have to pick up any one cheap by-then-considered-old-but-not-yet-vintage routers.
Despite the widespread hatred against them, Brein, Stichting Thuiskopie and others don't really do the "downloading is illegal!", and their websites actually make fairly clear what the law says can and cannot be done legally.
They can be faulted for many things, but not for any perceived "omg they're trying to make downloading linux illegal!"
You got moderated Flamebait - I disagree with that moderation, but alas I can't mod on stories in which I've commented.
I understand what you're saying, but I think that you in turn should understand that under your prerequisites for starting a family, you're going to decimate the population of the U.S. rather rapidly. Not that I, in turn, mind - there's certainly too many of us in the first place (and by 'us' I mean people, worldwide, the U.S. is actually not all that bad) - but there would be plenty of people, and government, who disagree with such drastic measures; they don't necessarily want only the moderately rich to have children. Plumbers' kids grow up to be tax payers just as well and the world needs many more plumbers' kids than they do the born-into-money types.
While I think that (financial) support for those who fall pregnant (personally I think that should include happy little accidents borne (pardon the pun) out of unsafe sex) while they don't *currently* have the means to support such a family is a good idea, requiring a (financial) safety net or else be labeled as a child abuser is going overboard.
Your last line seems to agree though that to the donor falls no blame, even though you did blame them in the other post. So that's a tad confusing, but I may be misreading that :)
On the down side...
1. Brein has already put out a bit of newsfluff saying that they're planning to appeal.
2. If this stands, Brein and others will simply put this on the scales to tip in favor of making downloading illegal* - something that the EU says NL should be doing in the first place; NL is one of the few countries where downloading of movies/music/TV series is legal (uploading is illegal, as is downloading of software, etc.) That in turn could lead to a 3-strikes type law (Even though the one in France fails miserably because 1. people avoid getting caught and 2. even when caught, rarely do people actually get cut off.. so it's all bark and no bite.) or direct targeting of downloaders.
* Within the context of 'piracy'. Obviously you're welcome to download the front page of slashdot, or a linux distribution, view whatever you want on YouTube, etc. etc.
What if they did have the proper means, financial resources, and responsibility to raise a child, but one of them gets into a rather serious accident that puts a huge financial burden on them (in medical care and lost income), the other has to take time off work a lot to take care of the first (more lost income), and to top it all off the one who got into an accident doesn't even make it through and now there's a permanent loss of income and a funeral to pay for? The donor couldn't have known that would happen any more than they could have known what happened in this specific case. Still ready to just blame the donor?
So people who go through artificial insemination should not be eligible for assistance/welfare, only those who get naturally pregnant? Or is this only for couples who get artificially inseminated with a third party's sperm? Or only for female/female couples?
Now if it were two rich people with great jobs, I could certainly understand the argument.. though the 'artificial insemination' bit remains rather moot.
'Upworthy title' (google it) aside, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. That story is actually about how a major news outlet interrupted an actually interesting segment on privacy and monitoring in the U.S., during an interview with a congresscritter, because Justin Bieber got booked for a DUI. That's exactly the sort of slap-in-the-face that people deserve to realize and think about a lot more - before they conclude that, yep, they do indeed care a lot more when glamour-du-jour farts than they do about things that, you know, actually matter. It wouldn't make a very good top story on Slashdot, of course, but it does deserve to be on the front page of Reddit and deserves to be upvoted.
That side, fine comment. Google did indeed fail in their pursuit of an online payment system to rival PayPal - which is unfortunate, as PayPal and credit cards are now just about the only way to pay for things online outside of nation-specific solutions (e.g. the Dutch iDeal system, or the odd store in the U.S. accepting bank cheques). Bitcoin could change that, but I'm not seeing the adoption rate have quite enough momentum for that to happen just yet.
While I realize that some find the activity quite enjoyable, like a little oasis of peace from the usual busy day, I for one would add "a cure for having to go potty" to that list.
That almost doesn't really surprise me.
The last few times I looked at pricing some drives, the ones that come in enclosures are just a few Euro more expensive than the internal ones. So for a few Euro, I get a pretty well-made enclosure and, typically, a power supply. They make great project boxes after you rip out the SATA interface board.
Do this as a business venture.. buy 500 external drives, disassemble, take the drives for your own use, sell the 500 enclosures+power supplies on amazon or ebay or whatever, and get yourself an added discount.
Except that I really think they could probably squeeze out better volume pricing for just the bare HDDs. Running around retail stores seems like it should really be inefficient.
Somebody hasn't been paying attention to how content is actually 'consumed' for most of these services.
Where are tweets mostly read? At people's private clients. Be that an official twitter client, or a great number of other clients that interface with the API. Where next? probably twitter.com directly. After that? A whole ton of websites that include a twitter feed in their layout.
Facebook? Same thing. Facebook even has a whole commenting-on-whatever API for websites.
Google+ ditto.
News websites also generally offer a feed. Not just for the people reading them in their reader, but so that others can embed their feeds into a website. Put in an audience-capturing title, let the visitor to site X click-through to your site. That's a visitor you otherwise probably wouldn't have had.
These are the things that are worth the effort even if "li'l ol' me" is not.
That said, I never said I wasn't willing to A. play ball (twitter, for example, has very strict rules on how you actually use their API and due to the unique nature of one of my clients (purely text-only with minimal text formatting) had to talk with them on how I could adhere to their rules given the limited medium), and/or B. pay up when it's reasonable to do so.
When it's not reasonable or simply unavailable, then for my own personal purposes, heck yeah I'll scrape. I actually don't see that as any different from me going to the actual page and hitting F5, except that I actually cost them less bandwidth since I'm not loading a bunch of CSS, images, etc. Sure, I'll also not be seeing their non-content ads.. but then, they're likely blocked by ABP/noscript anyway. But that's me - there's going to be plenty others who will scrape and have a commercial interest in doing so - and it's easier for a site to monetize on that if they offer an API, or a feed, that they can largely control.
Okay, so say I want to 'follow' a 'channel' on Trove.. but I have no interest in using the website. I know, I know.. using the website is what's actually desired - the same applies to Twitter and facebook and google+ and etc. - but nonetheless I set things up so that I can 'follow' people on them anyway by using either...
1. The feed provided for me, which means I can just get posts in any feed reader, including my custom one.
2. The API they make available - even if they do make me jump through hoops with OAuth and a ton of other things that have everything to do with 'posing on behalf of a user' crap when really all I want is read-only access to already public things - so that I can include it in my custom one.
3. Yoink whatever data source they're using, sometimes having to impersonate the site or prior access because they got wise to people using that data source, didn't want them to, and put up artificial roadblocks.
4. Scrape. Yeah, that's right, Google. You don't provide a feed, you make the API limited to just a few dozen queries per day, while serving the desired content to a bajillion people every day? I'll just waste bandwidth and scrape.
So, where does Trove fit in? I'm not seeing a feed anywhere in the page source, I'm not seeing anything about an API (read-only or otherwise), I see I can grab the datasource through e.g. http://trove.com/me/channels/C... and get a tidy little json packet - but maybe Trove frowns upon doing so, or I could scrape (but would have to use the js-enabled scraper and boy do I ever not want to do that).
Please tell me the Trove developers know better.. or at least plan to know better with an announcement of API/feeds 'coming soon' .. or an official "developers: grab the json datasources if you just want read-only access of public data, that's cool with us - peace out."
If the feature doesn't exist (which it probably does, considering a co-commenter noted the name is at least used in one of their official documents), then it merely turns into a story of network solutions' official twitter account (as pointed to from network solutions' website) stating that a document that would be completely false, is in fact completely authentic, and make it rather strange that they would tell the guy to contact them directly so that they could explain.
I'd love to read the explanation, regardless.
They're looking for 4TB models. They only cite two models without any further information.
Seagate ST4000DM000
vs
Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630
You can look up technical details, benchmarks, etc. but perhaps the decision is simply in the price.
Seagate: $164.99
Hitachi: $295.00
For the Hitachi model to start making sense, price-wise, that Seagate model would have to fail a lot more than their numbers are currently showing,
( And yes, I'd imagine they can squeeze better deals than regular consumer prices out of the companies - but then, they could do that for either brand, and probably through an intermediary anyway. )
Until everybody with an affinity for gaming and possession of an iPhone 5 throws one of these types on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
( A 'sleeve' for an iPhone 5 that works as a controller, with physical buttons, making use of iOS's new controller API. )
Sure, it's a bit like taking a gaming device and throwing a phone function on it - but I bet it'd fare better than the NGage nonetheless.
( Controllers aren't too popular on Android - but then that's usually separate BT-mated things, not quite as slick.. the same applies to older iPhones, of course. )
I'd say there's still a disposal issue. While it's not on the level of the nasties in a CFL, it's still more than just some metal, ceramic, and glass in an incandescent - and I'd still take it in when buying a new one.
That said, I haven't had to buy a new one, and I bought my first one back in 2001 (it was actually a DIY kit). The only one that failed it was actually the cap, which was easily replaced; though I acknowledge that not everybody can or wants to do that.
So yes, problem -> solved :)
I remember the first few times I flew out to the U.S., and almost all of the seats actually had phones in the headrest of the chair in front (where later they would put some nice monitors for in-flight entertainment, or nothing at all if you fly cheap). The only barrier to using them was that you'd need to slide a credit card through a slot and pay up the wazoo to use them. Even so, there were sure to be plenty of busy business people aboard, and they didn't use them either.
As it is, the only instance that I recall even seeing them used is on two movies: Red Eye, and Inception.
Though I agree that airlines should probably ban their use unless on the ground, just making it stupendously expensive to use them (and I see no technical reason they couldn't - just call it roaming charges) seems like a pretty good deterrent.
Which I certainly won't contest. I will say, though, that if somebody puts that forth as an argument against a certain technology - given that you such reasonably convenient options available - I'd say they're letting their laziness show.
I'd wonder how often their drains clog from them just throwing out solid fats (at room temperature) through their sink instead of collecting it and throwing it out in the trash. After all, that's more things to think about than just dunking it into the sink. Of course, once clogged, they have to directly deal with the consequences - they wouldn't have to directly deal with the consequences of a CFL bulb, battery, or any chemical nastiness being on a trash heap somewhere.
The difference is that it's 'plugins' that anything can use, rather than your specific choice of media player.
E.g. instead of having one h.264 plugin for winamp, one for VLC, one for MPC, one for iTunes or whatever, you just have something that the system (some media playing framework or other facility in the OS) handles and thus any media player can poke at.. and not even care that it's h.264.
You can still call it a plugin for the OS, if you'd like, but that's quite different from winamp's idea of its own native input plugins, output plugins, effects plugins, etc.
It's funny that you mention those. In a way, we've come full circle. I get the feeling that most people don't really care about whether or not they can skin their music player anymore (the more out of the way it is, the better.. it's something for the background, not to show off to friends), nevermind visualizations (I don't see much demand for visualizations for Pandora on any of the platforms that have a Pandora app). Maybe that still sees some use with some (self-proclaimed) DJs, but I can't say I've seen it used in a very long time. Plugins are similarly dying a slow death. Think of video players.. how many have plugins to support some manner of format? Most of them either read them out of the box (think VLC) or rely on a 'codec pack' (with FFDShow or LAV) being installed to read everything.. and let practically any other media player read them as well.
That's not a pain that you should have to endure. In The Netherlands, you can either...
A. drop them off at major grocery stores (where you can also drop off batteries, btw - I was semi-shocked when I realized that most people in the U.S. just throw their batteries out with the regular trash. Same with glass, for that matter. I suppose the glass gets sorted out somewhere - not sure how they're handling batteries).
B. drop them off at special handling places or at a touring special handling bus - they also take in volatile materials, old electronics, etc.
C. When you go buy a new light bulb at a store, leave the CFL with that store. It's considered an electronic product and you can always leave your old electronic device when you buy a new one in the same category (so no dumping a giant CRT on them when you go buy a cheapy cellphone).
Can't really make that statement without some figures.
I.e. are you talking about a run-of-the-mill incandescent 60W bulb and comparing it to a run-of-the-mill CFL at 9W* (*60W equivalent)?
If so, hey, maybe the manufacturer was lying. Maybe your 60W bulb is throwing out 800lm while the CFL is throwing out 700lm.
So perhaps you need to get th 11W* model (*70W equivalent) that throws out 850lm.
But then you'd be on the other side of the aisle, saying that the CFL is brighter.
Unless, of course, you got a high efficiency incandescent that's actually throwing out 900lm.
There's a reason that they want to add actual light output to bulbs. That's a good thing for exactly this reason. Now add distribution pattern and a little spectrograph (with a CRI number for those who feel CRI is good enough), and things can start to be compared fairly.
That wouldn't by any chance be, well, Apple.. would it?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/25/apple_unlock_patent/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/10/3479550/apple-expands-patent-coverage-on-slide-to-unlock-feature
Though their effort to put it to legal use in Europe fizzled.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/04/apples-slide-to-unlock-patent-invalidated-in-german-litigation
Sure, maybe somebody else popped up with some prior art (like, say, http://www.dailytech.com/Analysis+Neonode+Patented+SwipetoUnlock+3+Years+Before+Apple/article24046.htm ) - but forcing Apple to change theirs just as dozens of others were forced to abandon or pre-emptively stay away from the slide-to-unlock slider button type deal entirely for years seems like just deserts.
Of course it's a stupid patent no matter who 'owns' it, or any variant of it.
Doesn't that only makes sense if there isn't already an established set of defacto projects?
Let's use Photoshop as an example. The GIMP team can't hope to take down Photoshop anytime soon, so instead they foster an environment where more and more graphics editors are created. As of now, I've probably at least installed and ran 25 of them.
Yet I still know that Photoshop is what I need if I need to work with other companies, The GIMP is my main go-to, Paint.NET is what I might recommend to those who don't like The GIMP for whatever reason, and if you're not really editing images but just messing around with them, cropping, scaling,etc., then IrfanView will do quite nicely.
There could be 75 more authored out there, and it would be very hard for any of them to break into that 'top' list.
The same applies with Bitcoin/Litecoin. Yes, there's alternatives - but none of them are being seriously looked at as something to contend so strongly with either of them, that btc/ltc were to wane in popularity, let alone be discredited, as a result. Even if you take something like Dogecoin - which some claim was created to basically make fun of cryptocurrencies - it does little to discredit btc/ltc - if anything, it just got people more interested, while having a good bit of fun on the side.
Now the differences between the graphics software packages tend to be vast and quite measurable on the technical end - while for cryptocurrencies, you could make a 1:1 (almost, need a different identifier) clone which would be technically the same thing. But you'd have to somehow get everybody currently backing the popular options to at least add yours, and then somehow get people to actually prefer yours.. at which point you have added only 1.. not much of a dilution.
Convince the regular laptop makers to adopt pouch battery cells and you'll find there's already quite a bit more space available for battery. The 18650 type cells currently being used leave quite a bit of space even just inbetween themselves, not to mention all the dead space inside the housing where an 18650 simply cannot fit - but pouch cells would. That's what the thin laptops, tablets, etc. already use.
As for storage.. really? I've got a 2TB HDD, a 500GB SSD and another 160GB mSATA SSD in my laptop. Yes, it's a 17" model, but even if you just take a lowly chromebook you can easily fit 2TB. How much more do you need on active storage before it makes more sense to just plug in an external device?
Did that i7 just have no cooling at all, was overclocked, or did you disable all the safeties somehow? Even the old pentium mobiles would throttle down and eventually just shut down if they got too hot - saving its own life and a world of hurt for the owner.