Propane cylinder exchange is a complete ripoff. It only "works" because it is convenient and often available 24/7 and people generally suck at doing practical math.
Students will get a laptop just like they do now, or use school-provided resources. And [most] people don't stay students for very long.
As working adults still code if they find a coding job, and in that event their employer will provide a PC.
Plenty of people are good at coding, but don't like doing it or don't want to do it in their free time, and who have zero desire to take their work home with them...and plenty of people take an art class but never do anything related that is creative outside of it.
Lots of people I know who used to slog around laptops or have a desktop at home now rely entirely on their pocket computer (whatever OS it is running) for everything.
As I see it, it's desktop-vs-pocket, not Windows vs Android: Android is not [intended to be] a desktop operating system.
Maybe I'm just shitty at being a human, but I have a hard time remembering to do any/all of the things on your list. I've been trying for decades.
It's impossible that I'm the only person who has a hard time settling into any sort of routine.
So, yes: Sometimes I wake up (usually not at the right time), find my phone battery mostly flat, and then put my shoes on before my pants, and only realize after I've left for the day that I haven't brushed my teeth. Or my hair.
Charging my watch? Hahaha. Last time I wore a watch it was a simple mechanical thing with a battery that would last for years, and I never took it off because I'd forget to put it back on.
The Ma Bell microwave towers are magnificent structures. Many of them have their electronics mounted underground in a bunker that is mounted on springs -- even in tectonically boring regions.
They're part of the Long Lines project, which was paid for in part by Cold War fears (and funding). They didn't create this robust microwave infrastructure for consumer profit; they created it for government cheese.
The cell phone networks could be upgraded to be similarly robust/redundant, but we don't have any cheese to hand out right now.
Droid 4 had a keyboard, too. And a battery that was easy-ish to swap. And MHL. And HDMI. And an FM radio. And USB OTG. And CyanogenMod. And that was the end of the line for non-shitty phones, IMHO.
I changed the two alkaline AAA cells in my favorite Palm device about once a month, or a bit more if I was using it a lot to read books with the backlight on.
It always responded instantly to commands. My S7 feels like a turd in comparison.
Even my current "low-end" card (an RX 460) can drive six normal-ish displays: One HDMI, one DVI-D, and four HDMI on its singular DisplayPort output using an adapter. And then the motherboard itself sports three more outputs (DVI-D, VGA, HDMI), which (in many OSs) also all get rendered by the discrete GPU.
That's nine fucking independant, concurrent screens on a low-end budget-built PC from last year. How many do you want?
I have no idea how it behaves at 4k-ish resolutions, or with high refresh rates, but it seems unlikely that I'd be disappointed by it in my particular use-case.
Events need to have things. Bathrooms, for instance: Someone needs to figure out how many porta johns to rent. Figuring out the quantity of things like is the job of an event planner.
This event needed bandwidth and none was provided. That's a pretty gnarly failure, and being a "software company" instead of some other type of company does not excuse this guffaw.
tl;dr, this is like organizing an Oktoberfest event and forgetting to bring beer.
The theory behind the certificate chains is a web-of-trust sort of theory.
In practice, it doesn't really work that way: Users are either greeted with no prompt and an unsecured connection, a prompt with a secured connection, or no prompt with a secured connection.
That's all the user knows...and that's if they're even paying attention.
(There's a fourth user-case of "The key has changed!!!2!!," but that's something that doesn't generally happen because DNS hijacking is uncommon these days.)
I mean, I'm here at/.. Chrome says "Secure" on the address bar. I can dig deeper and make sure that I'm talking to the/. that I want to be talking to, but I could've done that before with DNS...and I won't bother in any case, since I do not care who sees my/. rants (else, I would not be posting them).
All I really know is that the connection between myself and/. is encrypted, and that eavesdropping is limited.
And that's all I really know about any website, whether banking or otherwise.
Yes, as far as I can tell the discount applies to all creeds.
It's absurd, though. The other day I needed oil for my car, so (fucking yay) this means Walmart. I scoped out the prices of the other places that stock motor oil first, just to make sure that there wasn't a better price to be had (and there wasn't). So I get to the store and, lo! The shelf price of Mobil-1 is a dollar or so more than the online price (with "free pickup today").
It's cheaper for me, a consumer, to shop at home, pay in advance, and have an employee pull the stock, than it is for me to shop in person and pay on my way out.
It's absurd. But since the only thing I generally buy at Wal-Mart is motor oil (and mostly because shipping motor oil is a non-starter), and this is a thing that happens, I guess I'll just start doing abusing them. (Both because I'm a frugal prick, and because fuck Walmart. I hope they lose money on each sale, and given the prices the competitors charge, this might actually be the case.)
Walmart, these days, is also offering a discount on things that are already on the shelf at the store if you buy them online and have them pull them from stock for you, vs selecting it yourself.
I was accomplishing this on 486DX2 hardware using OS/2 in ~1994, and by 1995 on a P120.
Several years ago I stopped by a buddy's retail establishment. He was transitioning network to Ubuntu on more modern hardware (with OS/2 in a VM), but still had an old and crusty OS/2 machine (probably a K6-2, but maybe a DX4) on the bench by the back door.
This was the last time I ever saw such a thing in the wild.
It was remarkably snappy doing normal, productive things -- scanning documents, browsing web pages, writing and viewing proposals -- just like it was when it was built. (And what window tearing?)
Sometimes I think that the more abstraction layers we add, the slower things get. I think this coupled with programmer laziness (and/or pay based on lines of code), makes human-interactive things continue to behave just as slow as they have been for ~20 years.
Do we even use accelerated 2D desktop graphics anymore, or are we completely back to the bad old days of every application drawing into a dumb framebuffer?
I am completely uneducated, and recently moved to a new city in the Midwest because I wanted to.
The very first job I applied for found pays $38k (which is adequate here), and has excellent benefits that far outweigh anything that might seem lacking in payscale. They hired me immediately.
Am I doing something wrong, or doing something right?
So far in my adult life, nobody has questioned my education or lack thereof.
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"The most popular provider" where? AFAIK, Facebook was not included on the S5, S6, or S7 with "the most popular provider" in the US (Verizon).
Propane cylinder exchange is a complete ripoff. It only "works" because it is convenient and often available 24/7 and people generally suck at doing practical math.
The tanks aren't even full.
LIDAR, by definition, is restricted to using light. All wavelengths of light from IR to UV are reflected by fog.
That said one can simply use a different wavelength and see through fog just fine, indeed. But in doing so one has developed radar, not LIDAR.
Light is not a very large part of the spectrum.
No worries, Gramps.
Don't forget to take your Geritol with your orange wedges, mmkay? Do you need me to help you open the bottle?
Students will get a laptop just like they do now, or use school-provided resources. And [most] people don't stay students for very long.
As working adults still code if they find a coding job, and in that event their employer will provide a PC.
Plenty of people are good at coding, but don't like doing it or don't want to do it in their free time, and who have zero desire to take their work home with them...and plenty of people take an art class but never do anything related that is creative outside of it.
Eh?
Consumer have largely left the desktop, period.
Lots of people I know who used to slog around laptops or have a desktop at home now rely entirely on their pocket computer (whatever OS it is running) for everything.
As I see it, it's desktop-vs-pocket, not Windows vs Android: Android is not [intended to be] a desktop operating system.
There was at least one 64-bit Atom iteration which could do x64 just fine, but which did not ever have appropriate drivers available for Windows.
"Slower" in 64-bit here can be for a variety of reasons.
When I turn on the radio, I'm the product? How?
So don't bottle it at the source. Nestlé doesn't.
Just deliver water to a local bottling plant using a tanker truck and pay them to put it into fancy-printed bottles on your behalf.
For the right price, chances are good that they'll handle distribution, too.
Now you're left with marketing and shelf space as unsolved problems.
Maybe I'm just shitty at being a human, but I have a hard time remembering to do any/all of the things on your list. I've been trying for decades.
It's impossible that I'm the only person who has a hard time settling into any sort of routine.
So, yes: Sometimes I wake up (usually not at the right time), find my phone battery mostly flat, and then put my shoes on before my pants, and only realize after I've left for the day that I haven't brushed my teeth. Or my hair.
Charging my watch? Hahaha. Last time I wore a watch it was a simple mechanical thing with a battery that would last for years, and I never took it off because I'd forget to put it back on.
Some people suck at routines.
The Ma Bell microwave towers are magnificent structures. Many of them have their electronics mounted underground in a bunker that is mounted on springs -- even in tectonically boring regions.
They're part of the Long Lines project, which was paid for in part by Cold War fears (and funding). They didn't create this robust microwave infrastructure for consumer profit; they created it for government cheese.
The cell phone networks could be upgraded to be similarly robust/redundant, but we don't have any cheese to hand out right now.
Droid 4 had a keyboard, too. And a battery that was easy-ish to swap. And MHL. And HDMI. And an FM radio. And USB OTG. And CyanogenMod. And that was the end of the line for non-shitty phones, IMHO.
I changed the two alkaline AAA cells in my favorite Palm device about once a month, or a bit more if I was using it a lot to read books with the backlight on.
It always responded instantly to commands. My S7 feels like a turd in comparison.
I recognize that this post will be unpopular, but:
Both of those numbers are stupidly-large.
Even my current "low-end" card (an RX 460) can drive six normal-ish displays: One HDMI, one DVI-D, and four HDMI on its singular DisplayPort output using an adapter. And then the motherboard itself sports three more outputs (DVI-D, VGA, HDMI), which (in many OSs) also all get rendered by the discrete GPU.
That's nine fucking independant, concurrent screens on a low-end budget-built PC from last year. How many do you want?
I have no idea how it behaves at 4k-ish resolutions, or with high refresh rates, but it seems unlikely that I'd be disappointed by it in my particular use-case.
It also had no heatsink, and it ran hot enough to boil water. And it did not give a fuck, pumping out frames like nothing a PC had ever seen before.
(That said... neither my Voodoo3 2000 nor the 3500TV I scored somewhat later had any auxiliary power connectors.)
But these things are done.
49% of the attendees at the last Superbowl used the in-house Wifi, with over 27,000 connected simultaneously at one point.
It's not unprecedented, and it certainly was not unexpected.
Competent in...planning events?
Events need to have things. Bathrooms, for instance: Someone needs to figure out how many porta johns to rent. Figuring out the quantity of things like is the job of an event planner.
This event needed bandwidth and none was provided. That's a pretty gnarly failure, and being a "software company" instead of some other type of company does not excuse this guffaw.
tl;dr, this is like organizing an Oktoberfest event and forgetting to bring beer.
Are software companies somehow immune from hiring competent event planners?
The theory behind the certificate chains is a web-of-trust sort of theory.
In practice, it doesn't really work that way: Users are either greeted with no prompt and an unsecured connection, a prompt with a secured connection, or no prompt with a secured connection.
That's all the user knows...and that's if they're even paying attention.
(There's a fourth user-case of "The key has changed!!!2!!," but that's something that doesn't generally happen because DNS hijacking is uncommon these days.)
I mean, I'm here at /.. Chrome says "Secure" on the address bar. I can dig deeper and make sure that I'm talking to the /. that I want to be talking to, but I could've done that before with DNS...and I won't bother in any case, since I do not care who sees my /. rants (else, I would not be posting them).
All I really know is that the connection between myself and /. is encrypted, and that eavesdropping is limited.
And that's all I really know about any website, whether banking or otherwise.
Yes, as far as I can tell the discount applies to all creeds.
It's absurd, though. The other day I needed oil for my car, so (fucking yay) this means Walmart. I scoped out the prices of the other places that stock motor oil first, just to make sure that there wasn't a better price to be had (and there wasn't). So I get to the store and, lo! The shelf price of Mobil-1 is a dollar or so more than the online price (with "free pickup today").
It's cheaper for me, a consumer, to shop at home, pay in advance, and have an employee pull the stock, than it is for me to shop in person and pay on my way out.
It's absurd. But since the only thing I generally buy at Wal-Mart is motor oil (and mostly because shipping motor oil is a non-starter), and this is a thing that happens, I guess I'll just start doing abusing them. (Both because I'm a frugal prick, and because fuck Walmart. I hope they lose money on each sale, and given the prices the competitors charge, this might actually be the case.)
Walmart, these days, is also offering a discount on things that are already on the shelf at the store if you buy them online and have them pull them from stock for you, vs selecting it yourself.
I was accomplishing this on 486DX2 hardware using OS/2 in ~1994, and by 1995 on a P120.
Several years ago I stopped by a buddy's retail establishment. He was transitioning network to Ubuntu on more modern hardware (with OS/2 in a VM), but still had an old and crusty OS/2 machine (probably a K6-2, but maybe a DX4) on the bench by the back door.
This was the last time I ever saw such a thing in the wild.
It was remarkably snappy doing normal, productive things -- scanning documents, browsing web pages, writing and viewing proposals -- just like it was when it was built. (And what window tearing?)
Sometimes I think that the more abstraction layers we add, the slower things get. I think this coupled with programmer laziness (and/or pay based on lines of code), makes human-interactive things continue to behave just as slow as they have been for ~20 years.
Do we even use accelerated 2D desktop graphics anymore, or are we completely back to the bad old days of every application drawing into a dumb framebuffer?
I am completely uneducated, and recently moved to a new city in the Midwest because I wanted to.
The very first job I applied for found pays $38k (which is adequate here), and has excellent benefits that far outweigh anything that might seem lacking in payscale. They hired me immediately.
Am I doing something wrong, or doing something right?
So far in my adult life, nobody has questioned my education or lack thereof.
On this great day, we all have herpes.