She'd be better off getting one of the old W8 tablets (http://deals.n1wireless.com/unbranded-windows-8-10-1in-tablet-32gb-gray.html) for $60 and a second hand keyboard/mouse.
But you're right - without internet they're going to be pretty limited.
Yeah. TSA sucks. Unless, of course, you are GOES approved. Did it this year, would never go back. (Note: I have been cleared in the past to TS-SCI, it's not like the government hasn't already crawled up my ass with a microscope).
Now I skip the millimieter, keep my shoes and belt on, the liquids never come out of my (admittedly small) overnight bag in my carry-on, and I have yet to wait in a line at the TSA checkpoints.
That doesn't keep them from rifling through my checked luggage, of course, but it clears up most of your objections.
Is this a topic for those with access to the university's shop with the $100,000 laser all the students get to use for free, or is there an actual CO2 laser that can cut 1/4 or 3/8" delrin and plywood that's affordable for occasional home use?
Not the screen or the phone, but how is it possible to play games on a 4k phone at any reasonable speed. Are they 16x upscaling?
I ask because we see how 4k multi-head (say 3x4k, or even 8k) gaming is nearly impossible without 1000W of parallel GPU horsepower and a shitload of GPU RAM, and even then it's not great. Yet you can fit 4K into a 5W thermal envelope in a phone?
Insurance is more believable than Citibank - which relies on loans and investment in capital growth areas for income. (of which Coal and other established utilities are not)
Insurance has it's own flaws. Many of the WTF provisions in the building code (wired, networked smoke alarms without requiring a central management point or cutoff, residential sprinkler systems, head heights, deck railing requirements, etc.) have been written by the insurance industry to reduce their risk. Still, on a long term, overview approach to reducing risk and costs, they're pretty astute.
So in looking at the landscape of 3 major operating systems, Macs are in 4th, headed to 5th shortly, and Linux places 7th, behind people who are too lazy to upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 and Vista. That's gotta sting.
I'd make some lousy crack about XP still having such strong numbers but, to be honest, I have a machine running XP too. I can't upgrade - it won't run anything later - but I haven't replaced it yet (it's replacement is, however, being prepped as I type.)
Shut down my business, buy a winter home, hire a maid. Tell people I'd inherited about 1% of the wealth I had and set up an anonymous non-profit to parse out most the money for education and arts projects I like.
Then go do everything I'm already already doing, except I'd never bother to look for sales. 'Cause, really, I kind of like my life.
I honestly haven't tried one. The specs are pretty basic - you'd have to burn quite a bit to charge a laptop (40Wh/2W = pretty much all day for a 6-8 hr charge), but it should keep a phone running if you're not pounding away - an iPhone or an Android without wifi/gps will probably stay "even" with a 2W charge. And a good phablet with a bt keyboard is passable for some tasks. It's better than having nothing if the sun takes a multi-day holiday.
"android device last 3+ years with continued OS support and also not slow to a crawling POS"
Well, that's difficult for iOS devices, too. iPhone 4 devices were sold until September 2013 and can't be updated to iOS 8, which was released in September 2014. One year to obsolescence. My daughter's iPod Touch stopped getting updates after about 2 years. Same with the iPad1 I have. (both were, admittedly, bough near the release of the next model).
I actually gave up all my paid apps in iOS to move to Android. Compared to the cost of the phone, the apps really aren't that expensive. I'm running "last year's" version of the OS by choice - I just don't have time to mess with 5, and there are no clear advantages to me. As for hardware quality, I have not once thought "I like my G3, but it's just not built as well as the iPhone 5 it replaced". On the contrary - it's camera is wildly superior to my wife's 5s (she borrows my phone for taking pictures now), and it's got a plethora of other advantages.
Now that I have a rooted Android phone, I can't imagine going back to even a jailbroken iOS device. I can just do more with it, and many apps in the official stores are written for those with root permissions so I don't have to go nosing around in Cydia to find apps that do things which Steve has forbidden.
Look, if the CEO is infinitely concerned about the finish and feel, and says nothing about the system, then it better be a piece of jewelry he's talking about - not a phone. Getting a nice finish isn't hard - all the majors are doing it. Getting a nice interface is much more difficult - almost nobody is getting it right. But he's not crowing about how he's talking every effort to make usability the number one goal - he's just polishing the fenders and hoping you don't ask about what's under the hood.
Most laptops are pretty power hungry (7-10W). Can you work web and iOS app-only? The iPad air sucks less than 3W when running. Which means you can work pretty long without needing to recharge. Obviuosly a macbook air if you need a laptop or a MS Surface is fairly power-efficient if you need a windows machine, and they'll burn closer to 5-6W. Grab a solar charger (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G6CDTGS) and a Biolite stove (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQHET9O/) for recharge and cloudy-weather just-in-case charging.
If you're close enough to civilization for mobile/cell data, that's your best bet (and where the iPad would really shine, tho the Surface 3 has an LTE version). If not, there's more costly solutions like Iridium Go! (http://www.bluecosmo.com/iridium-go/rate-plans $125/mo for unlimited data, but at 2.4kbps rates...you're just telnetting, right?), but still fully portable.
235 million registered voters, barely over half of which voted.
Still an anomoly? At the presidential level, possibly. Though 74,000 votes separated Obama from Romney over 29 electors in Florida, for example.
But you don't even have to drop to the state legislature to see small numbers matter. In 2014, Martha McSally beat Ron Barber in Arizona for the US House of Representatives by 219 votes. That's a pretty slim margin for a district with 640,000 residents.
" quality of finish, all of these little details that make a beautiful design"
Yeah, that's nice and all, but what we really want is usability. Freedom from the advertising deluge. Control. Everybody and their brother can make a svelte 3D mockup that looks beautiful. But in the end it's going to come down to software. It's why Apple ruled the roost early on. A beautiful piece of garbage is still a piece of garbage. And, tbh, we have enough of that out here at the moment.
It depends on how the law is actually worded. A prohibition on lethal weapons is not a legalization of non-lethal weapons. FTFA:
"Then Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer’s Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. “Less than lethal” weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones." (emph mine)
While it's true that anything that is not prohibited is permitted, this bill does not somehow make non-lethal weapons "legal" where they weren't yesterday. Aside form the FAA having a few things to say on this topic (including "NO!"), unless the statute defines lethal weapon narrowly, any weapon which *can* kill, even if that is not the sole purpose or design, is still a "lethal" weapon. Usually, the definitions of those things go something like "can result in death," which would include anything which has ever caused, or could be reasonably considered to potentially cause death.
tl:dr, this story isn't about weapons on drones, it's about corrupt politicians watering down restrictive in laws for their friends at the expense of public safety.
Modular is practical in PCs because there is s much extra space it's easy to fit things in, there are few structural loads, and power is almost never a limiting factor. The modular laptop market, where these things matter more, the options are fewer. Move into ultra-books and your options shrink again. Tablets even more. Phones - well, up until smart watches came out, phones were the end point for miniaturization of portable computers in mainstream usage.
Interest will always be there, but the need/desire for modularity in phones is almost always going to be sidelined for size, weight, and battery life.
"for some reason the car companies are very obsessed and hell bent on adding every piece of tech to a car they can."
with the previous sentence
"To me this is all marketing crap. And I don't need Google or Microsoft or Apple in my dashboard, collecting analytics..."
If your grocery store is getting a cut of revenue enhancement by selling your data, you can but the car companies are trying to figure out how to get in on the game.
I'm not opposed to the tech for the most part. What I am opposed to is poorly designed UIs and inexplicable operational choices which make the operation cumbersome or dangerous/distracting.
Why would they need to? You're in a self driving car that's going to obey traffic laws - they can just follow you to your destination without fear of loss in pursuit. It's not like you're going to "get away" in a self driving car or the car will be operated in an unsafe manner. If it's a single officer, you'll be followed until the car stops. If it's multiple officers, all the have to do is get in front of and to the left and they can "guide" your car onto the shoulder and stop safely.
There's no operating condition where they actually need an electronic remote disable.
It's a shame they don't live near a major technology hub. These little backwater towns just don't have the resources to lure competent IT staffers away from the cities where you have large computer-savvy people.
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add a mouse and keyboard ($10, maybe $15 if you're lucky) or go second hand.
She'd be better off getting one of the old W8 tablets (http://deals.n1wireless.com/unbranded-windows-8-10-1in-tablet-32gb-gray.html) for $60 and a second hand keyboard/mouse.
But you're right - without internet they're going to be pretty limited.
Yeah. TSA sucks. Unless, of course, you are GOES approved. Did it this year, would never go back. (Note: I have been cleared in the past to TS-SCI, it's not like the government hasn't already crawled up my ass with a microscope).
Now I skip the millimieter, keep my shoes and belt on, the liquids never come out of my (admittedly small) overnight bag in my carry-on, and I have yet to wait in a line at the TSA checkpoints.
That doesn't keep them from rifling through my checked luggage, of course, but it clears up most of your objections.
Is this a topic for those with access to the university's shop with the $100,000 laser all the students get to use for free, or is there an actual CO2 laser that can cut 1/4 or 3/8" delrin and plywood that's affordable for occasional home use?
Yes, but eating the grad students in the dark is really no easier, and the ravioli tends to taste better.
Not the screen or the phone, but how is it possible to play games on a 4k phone at any reasonable speed. Are they 16x upscaling?
I ask because we see how 4k multi-head (say 3x4k, or even 8k) gaming is nearly impossible without 1000W of parallel GPU horsepower and a shitload of GPU RAM, and even then it's not great. Yet you can fit 4K into a 5W thermal envelope in a phone?
Insurance is more believable than Citibank - which relies on loans and investment in capital growth areas for income. (of which Coal and other established utilities are not)
Insurance has it's own flaws. Many of the WTF provisions in the building code (wired, networked smoke alarms without requiring a central management point or cutoff, residential sprinkler systems, head heights, deck railing requirements, etc.) have been written by the insurance industry to reduce their risk. Still, on a long term, overview approach to reducing risk and costs, they're pretty astute.
So in looking at the landscape of 3 major operating systems, Macs are in 4th, headed to 5th shortly, and Linux places 7th, behind people who are too lazy to upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 and Vista. That's gotta sting.
I'd make some lousy crack about XP still having such strong numbers but, to be honest, I have a machine running XP too. I can't upgrade - it won't run anything later - but I haven't replaced it yet (it's replacement is, however, being prepped as I type.)
Wait...what was the question again?
I had animals as a kid. That's waaaaay too tied down.
Shut down my business, buy a winter home, hire a maid. Tell people I'd inherited about 1% of the wealth I had and set up an anonymous non-profit to parse out most the money for education and arts projects I like.
Then go do everything I'm already already doing, except I'd never bother to look for sales. 'Cause, really, I kind of like my life.
I honestly haven't tried one. The specs are pretty basic - you'd have to burn quite a bit to charge a laptop (40Wh/2W = pretty much all day for a 6-8 hr charge), but it should keep a phone running if you're not pounding away - an iPhone or an Android without wifi/gps will probably stay "even" with a 2W charge. And a good phablet with a bt keyboard is passable for some tasks. It's better than having nothing if the sun takes a multi-day holiday.
"android device last 3+ years with continued OS support and also not slow to a crawling POS"
Well, that's difficult for iOS devices, too. iPhone 4 devices were sold until September 2013 and can't be updated to iOS 8, which was released in September 2014. One year to obsolescence. My daughter's iPod Touch stopped getting updates after about 2 years. Same with the iPad1 I have. (both were, admittedly, bough near the release of the next model).
I actually gave up all my paid apps in iOS to move to Android. Compared to the cost of the phone, the apps really aren't that expensive. I'm running "last year's" version of the OS by choice - I just don't have time to mess with 5, and there are no clear advantages to me. As for hardware quality, I have not once thought "I like my G3, but it's just not built as well as the iPhone 5 it replaced". On the contrary - it's camera is wildly superior to my wife's 5s (she borrows my phone for taking pictures now), and it's got a plethora of other advantages.
Now that I have a rooted Android phone, I can't imagine going back to even a jailbroken iOS device. I can just do more with it, and many apps in the official stores are written for those with root permissions so I don't have to go nosing around in Cydia to find apps that do things which Steve has forbidden.
Look, if the CEO is infinitely concerned about the finish and feel, and says nothing about the system, then it better be a piece of jewelry he's talking about - not a phone. Getting a nice finish isn't hard - all the majors are doing it. Getting a nice interface is much more difficult - almost nobody is getting it right. But he's not crowing about how he's talking every effort to make usability the number one goal - he's just polishing the fenders and hoping you don't ask about what's under the hood.
Most laptops are pretty power hungry (7-10W). Can you work web and iOS app-only? The iPad air sucks less than 3W when running. Which means you can work pretty long without needing to recharge. Obviuosly a macbook air if you need a laptop or a MS Surface is fairly power-efficient if you need a windows machine, and they'll burn closer to 5-6W. Grab a solar charger (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G6CDTGS) and a Biolite stove (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQHET9O/) for recharge and cloudy-weather just-in-case charging.
If you're close enough to civilization for mobile/cell data, that's your best bet (and where the iPad would really shine, tho the Surface 3 has an LTE version). If not, there's more costly solutions like Iridium Go! (http://www.bluecosmo.com/iridium-go/rate-plans $125/mo for unlimited data, but at 2.4kbps rates...you're just telnetting, right?), but still fully portable.
Remember, we're just looking our for your safety*.
*and by "your safety" we really mean "our own jobs."
Much more likely to actually be used.
235 million registered voters, barely over half of which voted.
Still an anomoly? At the presidential level, possibly. Though 74,000 votes separated Obama from Romney over 29 electors in Florida, for example.
But you don't even have to drop to the state legislature to see small numbers matter. In 2014, Martha McSally beat Ron Barber in Arizona for the US House of Representatives by 219 votes. That's a pretty slim margin for a district with 640,000 residents.
So, yes...it actually does matter.
" quality of finish, all of these little details that make a beautiful design"
Yeah, that's nice and all, but what we really want is usability. Freedom from the advertising deluge. Control. Everybody and their brother can make a svelte 3D mockup that looks beautiful. But in the end it's going to come down to software. It's why Apple ruled the roost early on. A beautiful piece of garbage is still a piece of garbage. And, tbh, we have enough of that out here at the moment.
It depends on how the law is actually worded. A prohibition on lethal weapons is not a legalization of non-lethal weapons. FTFA:
"Then Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer’s Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. “Less than lethal” weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones." (emph mine)
While it's true that anything that is not prohibited is permitted, this bill does not somehow make non-lethal weapons "legal" where they weren't yesterday. Aside form the FAA having a few things to say on this topic (including "NO!"), unless the statute defines lethal weapon narrowly, any weapon which *can* kill, even if that is not the sole purpose or design, is still a "lethal" weapon. Usually, the definitions of those things go something like "can result in death," which would include anything which has ever caused, or could be reasonably considered to potentially cause death.
tl:dr, this story isn't about weapons on drones, it's about corrupt politicians watering down restrictive in laws for their friends at the expense of public safety.
Modular is practical in PCs because there is s much extra space it's easy to fit things in, there are few structural loads, and power is almost never a limiting factor. The modular laptop market, where these things matter more, the options are fewer. Move into ultra-books and your options shrink again. Tablets even more. Phones - well, up until smart watches came out, phones were the end point for miniaturization of portable computers in mainstream usage.
Interest will always be there, but the need/desire for modularity in phones is almost always going to be sidelined for size, weight, and battery life.
You answered
"for some reason the car companies are very obsessed and hell bent on adding every piece of tech to a car they can."
with the previous sentence
"To me this is all marketing crap. And I don't need Google or Microsoft or Apple in my dashboard, collecting analytics..."
If your grocery store is getting a cut of revenue enhancement by selling your data, you can but the car companies are trying to figure out how to get in on the game.
I'm not opposed to the tech for the most part. What I am opposed to is poorly designed UIs and inexplicable operational choices which make the operation cumbersome or dangerous/distracting.
Daytime too. It's helps with targetting, especially for cyclists. Those bastards can move so fast sometimes it's hard to pick them off manually.
Why would they need to? You're in a self driving car that's going to obey traffic laws - they can just follow you to your destination without fear of loss in pursuit. It's not like you're going to "get away" in a self driving car or the car will be operated in an unsafe manner. If it's a single officer, you'll be followed until the car stops. If it's multiple officers, all the have to do is get in front of and to the left and they can "guide" your car onto the shoulder and stop safely.
There's no operating condition where they actually need an electronic remote disable.
It's a shame they don't live near a major technology hub. These little backwater towns just don't have the resources to lure competent IT staffers away from the cities where you have large computer-savvy people.
Where did they say this was?