SCART is a pretty crappy connector, but it benefited from French Government mandating its use. It was good to have a standard, and it did the job adequately - at least as long as the cable remains in place.
I see that toslink has its uses. I use one to connect my PS2 for those times I feel like retrogaming, but I think you and I are the rare exceptions.
I don't waste an HDMI ports for ARC. I have several HDMI ports on my TV and my amp, so "wasting" one for ARC actually gives me more inputs to play with. The bigger problem is poorly implemented CEC.
Is the cable length limit a problem for most people? My amp is in the cabinet along with the rest of my media equipment. None of my cables are longer than 1m.
I think it's less of a challenge. They know exactly where it is. They could probably get it with a little effort, but why bother? There's not a lot of bragging rights for that.
It's not a huge amount. Several countries have similar levels of nuclear and gas power generation. France has that sort of level just from nuclear - although this is unusually large. Other European countries do generate most of their power from gas and nuclear though.
I thought about this before. If you look at the cost of hiring a renderfarm, you're looking at a few cents per core-hour. This was a few seconds of googling. I presume there are companies that will sell generic number crunching by the CPU-hour at a similar cost. But if you're mining commercially you'd presumably find it cheaper to have your own farm than lease one.
How much CPU time are people willing to give for a page? They're only willing to handle reduced utility for the time spent looking at a page; for a few minutes at most. they're not going to want their entire PC, and certainly not their entire phone's CPU dedicated to running the app.
Throw in the additional overhead of javascript and you're getting a tiny fraction of a cent worth of CPU power.
If you are a contractor then they don't own your code. Even as an employee you still own the moral right to your code.
Generally they do. It's a work for hire. You don't even automatically get the right to be credited. The only moral right you really have here is that it can't be attributed to another person.
I used to think this, but compared with a lot of the software I used on a daily basis, Office was one of the better pieces of software. No idea how it compared to the competition, because by that point there wasn't really any.
Sure, it wasn't brilliant, but it didn't need to be. For the most part, not crashing too often was adequate.
I suspect that wasn't the only problem, or just the most visible of a number of problems of inept company management not being able to handle the transition from startup to multinational.
Yeah, okay. You don't need to remove it. You can just replace it, but (assuming the hurricane destroyed the actual power stations; which I'm now uncertain about) there's not really a good business case to decommission a working power station and building a new one. If you are buildng a new one then it makes sense to consider alternatives.
Battery tech has been 'good enough' for 50 years, just not cost effective. Its still costly.
And becoming less so... At some point we get to a point where it becomes cost effective. Musk is claiming that this point is now.
Which would cost even more.
Yes. Hence doing this when the grid has already been destroyed means that it's more cost effective.
Before, the cost of existing infrastructure was zero. Now the cost of that infrastructure is the rebuild cost. It makes sense to explore more cost effective alternatives.
Even the best batteries suck in terms of energy density. Planes require a lot of fuel. Batteries are heavy. Planes need light loads. The carbon composite airframes help to a degree but this is something that can be applied to traditional aircraft.
I could see fuel cells working. Or electric generation. Nothing wrong with electric motors. Batteries seem like a dead end though.
Maybe forgetful people aren't a key demographic, but I can get a replacement set of headphones for £5, from a shop in the station. Yes, they're cheap, and they're rubbish, and they're great for audiobooks.
People who think they want a la carte are working on an assumption that they buy channels on an individual basis at a fixed price, and resell them like coffee beans. If they could get a bundle of this and a bunch of others, for a little more than just one or the other they'd probably leap at it, even if they don't currently pay for any of them.
I guess they're selling to a small niche with a lot of spending power, and a need to justify the initial expenditure. Honestly, I'm surprised 4k was pushed so soon. 1080p still feels pretty new.
Alan Sugar grew up in a council house. Oprah Winfrey was born to a single mother.
Yes, there is a survivorship bias, but you'll also see this trait in people with multiple successful ventures. They also have a lot of failures, they know how to deal with risk.
Bill Gates did have a bit of luck. But that accounts for the difference between being a billionaire, and being the richest man in the world.
He has certain personality traits that make him successful in business. You see this amongst a lot of successful people. A lot of it comes down to arrogance, competitiveness, and aggression, as well as a a certain level of intelligence, and low aversion to risk. You'll see this in other people who are successful too. Not just other silicon valley millionaires, like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg but people like Richard Branson, and Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad. It's a mentality thing.
The only time anyone makes that comparison is to complain about it.
Nobody think media pirates and pirates are remotely similar. It's about as sensible a correlation as horses and seahorses.
But even if they did, pirates in the public perception are romantic figures - The Dread Pirate Roberts; Jack Sparrow; even the villains like Captain Hook have charisma.
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Wikileaks exposed the war crimes. Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning just leaked a load of information with no idea what was included.
I don't care what she thinks. Doing the right thing doesn't count for much if you do it my accident.
SCART is a pretty crappy connector, but it benefited from French Government mandating its use. It was good to have a standard, and it did the job adequately - at least as long as the cable remains in place.
I see that toslink has its uses. I use one to connect my PS2 for those times I feel like retrogaming, but I think you and I are the rare exceptions.
I don't waste an HDMI ports for ARC. I have several HDMI ports on my TV and my amp, so "wasting" one for ARC actually gives me more inputs to play with. The bigger problem is poorly implemented CEC.
Is the cable length limit a problem for most people? My amp is in the cabinet along with the rest of my media equipment. None of my cables are longer than 1m.
I think it's less of a challenge. They know exactly where it is. They could probably get it with a little effort, but why bother? There's not a lot of bragging rights for that.
It's not a huge amount. Several countries have similar levels of nuclear and gas power generation. France has that sort of level just from nuclear - although this is unusually large. Other European countries do generate most of their power from gas and nuclear though.
Really surprised CBS didn't offer a better line-up for launch. They have what, 3 exclusive shows; and none of them really have crossover appeal.
Okay, I see what you're getting at, but I think you could probably have said much the same about TNG after season 1.
Nobody writes direct to hardware anymore, surely. It's all DirectX library calls.
I thought about this before. If you look at the cost of hiring a renderfarm, you're looking at a few cents per core-hour. This was a few seconds of googling. I presume there are companies that will sell generic number crunching by the CPU-hour at a similar cost. But if you're mining commercially you'd presumably find it cheaper to have your own farm than lease one.
How much CPU time are people willing to give for a page? They're only willing to handle reduced utility for the time spent looking at a page; for a few minutes at most. they're not going to want their entire PC, and certainly not their entire phone's CPU dedicated to running the app.
Throw in the additional overhead of javascript and you're getting a tiny fraction of a cent worth of CPU power.
Generally they do. It's a work for hire. You don't even automatically get the right to be credited. The only moral right you really have here is that it can't be attributed to another person.
Rival apps from mainstream developers were largely okay. It's the more specialised tools, like UML software, for example.
I used to think this, but compared with a lot of the software I used on a daily basis, Office was one of the better pieces of software. No idea how it compared to the competition, because by that point there wasn't really any.
Sure, it wasn't brilliant, but it didn't need to be. For the most part, not crashing too often was adequate.
I suspect that wasn't the only problem, or just the most visible of a number of problems of inept company management not being able to handle the transition from startup to multinational.
Yeah, okay. You don't need to remove it. You can just replace it, but (assuming the hurricane destroyed the actual power stations; which I'm now uncertain about) there's not really a good business case to decommission a working power station and building a new one. If you are buildng a new one then it makes sense to consider alternatives.
And becoming less so... At some point we get to a point where it becomes cost effective. Musk is claiming that this point is now.
Yes. Hence doing this when the grid has already been destroyed means that it's more cost effective.
Before, the cost of existing infrastructure was zero. Now the cost of that infrastructure is the rebuild cost. It makes sense to explore more cost effective alternatives.
How about potassium ion? There's even research in Silicon based batteries, and I doubt we'll run out of that any time soon.
Someone has to be first.
Battery technology has only recently become good enough.
It does involve removing the entire power grid, and rebuilding. They would have wanted to keep the infrastructure they already have.
Someplace else on the whole damn earth has done it by now. Kauai has.
Even the best batteries suck in terms of energy density. Planes require a lot of fuel. Batteries are heavy. Planes need light loads. The carbon composite airframes help to a degree but this is something that can be applied to traditional aircraft.
I could see fuel cells working. Or electric generation. Nothing wrong with electric motors. Batteries seem like a dead end though.
Maybe forgetful people aren't a key demographic, but I can get a replacement set of headphones for £5, from a shop in the station. Yes, they're cheap, and they're rubbish, and they're great for audiobooks.
Unless you live in Germany. Norway and the Netherlands both score pretty well on those three as well.
People who think they want a la carte are working on an assumption that they buy channels on an individual basis at a fixed price, and resell them like coffee beans. If they could get a bundle of this and a bunch of others, for a little more than just one or the other they'd probably leap at it, even if they don't currently pay for any of them.
I guess they're selling to a small niche with a lot of spending power, and a need to justify the initial expenditure. Honestly, I'm surprised 4k was pushed so soon. 1080p still feels pretty new.
Alan Sugar grew up in a council house. Oprah Winfrey was born to a single mother.
Yes, there is a survivorship bias, but you'll also see this trait in people with multiple successful ventures. They also have a lot of failures, they know how to deal with risk.
Bill Gates did have a bit of luck. But that accounts for the difference between being a billionaire, and being the richest man in the world.
He has certain personality traits that make him successful in business. You see this amongst a lot of successful people. A lot of it comes down to arrogance, competitiveness, and aggression, as well as a a certain level of intelligence, and low aversion to risk. You'll see this in other people who are successful too. Not just other silicon valley millionaires, like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg but people like Richard Branson, and Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad. It's a mentality thing.
The only time anyone makes that comparison is to complain about it.
Nobody think media pirates and pirates are remotely similar. It's about as sensible a correlation as horses and seahorses.
But even if they did, pirates in the public perception are romantic figures - The Dread Pirate Roberts; Jack Sparrow; even the villains like Captain Hook have charisma.