Bought a laptop 16 months ago, now the backlight is dead. Of course, they scrapped that division and nobody makes replacement parts. When you get tired of something, just ditch it - no need to concern yourself with support.
The loading and unloading time of an aircraft is extended by 20 minutes or more just to accommodate those who want to carry on their luggage. I say make a checked bag free, but charge the $25 for anything other than a personal carry-on (purse, laptop). That will stop a lot of this delay and save money/schedule as well as ease security lines.
And that's the problem with parts which cost pennies (or dollars) to make. It's cheaper to replace than repair. If you lose a coil on an aircraft carrier, you're probably not going to replace the whole deck. For one, these things are made to be repairable (it's generally part of the specification, though exceptions do exist). Two, there's a surplus of labor on any ship.
If you're paying $0 extra per hour of labor, as you are with an aircraft carrier, and your budget for operation and maintenance is in the range of 8 figures, it's a lot different than when you're paying someone $100/hr out of pocket to fix a tertiary item on a $40,000 vehicle and asking them to fix a SMD device and they've never used a soldering iron in their lives, much less a full-up rework station.
I worked with the group who built and operated the optical sensor which discovered the hole in the ozone. Except that they didn't know they had. Every time the sensor took optical data over the poles there was an "anomaly" in the data and they got uncharacteristically low numbers. For three years, this was written off as an unexplained anomaly when viewing down towards the polar ice. Until they looked up from below and found out that there really was no ozone there. Going back to the old data resulted in a fairly large change to the interpretation of the existing data which had been thrown out as unexplained.
No, they wouldn't. CableCos are doing fine where GF has rolled out. Of course, in those areas the consumers are paying 1/2 the cost for 10x the bandwidth because there's actual competition. And they're making money there just fine - they're just not making *as much* money as they are where there aren't competitive markets.
They can provide higher speeds at lower rates - especially for internet where there is no "content" fee involved (as it is with programming) - with very little affect on their bottom line. They just don't.
Yeah, but what if a Canadian had a friend buy an Egg McMuffin in the US and then sent it to them to be consumed in Canada. Before you answer, I should remind you that the standard Egg McMuffin includes *Canadian* bacon on it, so be careful how you word your response.;-)
The challenge is the non-standard homophones. As the smart-ass AC showed, Waze is not a typically recognized homophone (of anything) because it's not a word. Recognition works great with core speech, but anything specialized usually gets mangled. Try "what is the size of a double you twelve by fifty-three." The answer is, of course, is 12 inches by 10 inches. It may be one of the most common sections used in building construction. I'm not sure it would help even if you prefaced it with an "ay eye ess sea" (AISC). And that's just one of thousands of areas it would fall flat.
This kind of thing is fine for sending a text about common, everyday things - but the breadth of knowledge required for anything more than idle chat is still way outside of its abilities. It will be a while before it's refering to Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates as morons.
I tried replying to a work text with something like "It's okay to use a W12x14 in place of the C section. Just make sure that it's AISC A992 grade 50" What came out was unusable, while "yo, bitch, put the dinner on the table I'll be home in 5" was transcribed verbatim. Thank goodness I had the same problem with voice send or I would have been picking up McDonalds on my way to sleep with the dog.
Actually, it really needs to automatically read it back to you, otherwise you have to read what it typed - and that defeats the purpose of being voice activated if you're driving.
"Now let those who bought those $50 Thunderbolt cable cry about bloody murder."
Those would mostly be Apple users. Just make the new cables in prettier colors and they'll happily buy the new version and throw the old, un-stylish one away.
Depends on your application. Most of us that would appreciate faster CPU speeds have already moved to SSDs and Gb for local network storage. Transcoding is processor intensive with local SSD, and lots of media center applications - running on desktop hardware - are now transcoding for remote viewing devices. I appreciate the desire to reduce part count and beat costs down, but stealing from the CPU performance for on-board GPU sounds like low-end chip work, not high end i7 stuff.
So at $5/day x 30 days in a month, and assuming that each tattoo lasts one month, plus the convenience, says that they should retail in the $200-250 each range. Sounds about right?
Well, as long as your space travel goal is 40cm or less, we've got you covered!
It's kind of like expecting to do work on an iPad. Sure, you can do all sorts of things, as long as your standards are low enough and your definition of "work" is exceptionally loose.
It's impossible to stop all terrorists. We're simply reacting to the last attack, because there's no realistic way to stop the next one.
Profiling might be somewhat useful, but it's doubtful. Disallowing large/serious weapons on a plane is a good thing simply because, without some amplification of strength, the numbers are wildly against any single attacker. Simple security is sufficient.
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Bought a laptop 16 months ago, now the backlight is dead. Of course, they scrapped that division and nobody makes replacement parts. When you get tired of something, just ditch it - no need to concern yourself with support.
"You can't have it both ways, greedy bastards."
You can if you have enough money to buy the legal process.
The loading and unloading time of an aircraft is extended by 20 minutes or more just to accommodate those who want to carry on their luggage. I say make a checked bag free, but charge the $25 for anything other than a personal carry-on (purse, laptop). That will stop a lot of this delay and save money/schedule as well as ease security lines.
And that's the problem with parts which cost pennies (or dollars) to make. It's cheaper to replace than repair. If you lose a coil on an aircraft carrier, you're probably not going to replace the whole deck. For one, these things are made to be repairable (it's generally part of the specification, though exceptions do exist). Two, there's a surplus of labor on any ship.
If you're paying $0 extra per hour of labor, as you are with an aircraft carrier, and your budget for operation and maintenance is in the range of 8 figures, it's a lot different than when you're paying someone $100/hr out of pocket to fix a tertiary item on a $40,000 vehicle and asking them to fix a SMD device and they've never used a soldering iron in their lives, much less a full-up rework station.
It's been several years since I bought an opener...and even then I can't remember seeing a major brand that wasn't a paired-system remote.
I worked with the group who built and operated the optical sensor which discovered the hole in the ozone. Except that they didn't know they had. Every time the sensor took optical data over the poles there was an "anomaly" in the data and they got uncharacteristically low numbers. For three years, this was written off as an unexplained anomaly when viewing down towards the polar ice. Until they looked up from below and found out that there really was no ozone there. Going back to the old data resulted in a fairly large change to the interpretation of the existing data which had been thrown out as unexplained.
Science learns as it goes.
No, they wouldn't. CableCos are doing fine where GF has rolled out. Of course, in those areas the consumers are paying 1/2 the cost for 10x the bandwidth because there's actual competition. And they're making money there just fine - they're just not making *as much* money as they are where there aren't competitive markets.
They can provide higher speeds at lower rates - especially for internet where there is no "content" fee involved (as it is with programming) - with very little affect on their bottom line. They just don't.
Yeah, but what if a Canadian had a friend buy an Egg McMuffin in the US and then sent it to them to be consumed in Canada. Before you answer, I should remind you that the standard Egg McMuffin includes *Canadian* bacon on it, so be careful how you word your response. ;-)
Oh, sure, but what happens when I say I need a Lyft to the airport and it brings up Uber? ;-)
Yeah,
remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can waze show me the way to a place where I can weigh my cargo of whey?
The challenge is the non-standard homophones. As the smart-ass AC showed, Waze is not a typically recognized homophone (of anything) because it's not a word. Recognition works great with core speech, but anything specialized usually gets mangled. Try "what is the size of a double you twelve by fifty-three." The answer is, of course, is 12 inches by 10 inches. It may be one of the most common sections used in building construction. I'm not sure it would help even if you prefaced it with an "ay eye ess sea" (AISC). And that's just one of thousands of areas it would fall flat.
This kind of thing is fine for sending a text about common, everyday things - but the breadth of knowledge required for anything more than idle chat is still way outside of its abilities. It will be a while before it's refering to Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates as morons.
It also only works with casual conversation.
I tried replying to a work text with something like "It's okay to use a W12x14 in place of the C section. Just make sure that it's AISC A992 grade 50" What came out was unusable, while "yo, bitch, put the dinner on the table I'll be home in 5" was transcribed verbatim. Thank goodness I had the same problem with voice send or I would have been picking up McDonalds on my way to sleep with the dog.
Actually, it really needs to automatically read it back to you, otherwise you have to read what it typed - and that defeats the purpose of being voice activated if you're driving.
And it works about as well as a fiver year old trying to translate. But the video made it look freaking awesome.
You've proven my point. It doesn't exist for the computer because it doesn't really understand speech.
https://youtu.be/Gqdy1jLlf50?t... is how it's pronounced by it's creators, but don't just take their word for it - try google translate and have it pronounce the two for you: https://translate.google.com/?...
It's identical. It's a problem that will occur with most "hip" app names which sound like a common word, but which are spelled differently.
Or does it just stare at you stupidly because using ways to give you directions means nothing if it doesn't recognize the homophone.
Timothy is actually just a bot.
Because then you wouldn't have a reason to buy new cables when the next version is released.
"Now let those who bought those $50 Thunderbolt cable cry about bloody murder."
Those would mostly be Apple users. Just make the new cables in prettier colors and they'll happily buy the new version and throw the old, un-stylish one away.
Depends on your application. Most of us that would appreciate faster CPU speeds have already moved to SSDs and Gb for local network storage. Transcoding is processor intensive with local SSD, and lots of media center applications - running on desktop hardware - are now transcoding for remote viewing devices. I appreciate the desire to reduce part count and beat costs down, but stealing from the CPU performance for on-board GPU sounds like low-end chip work, not high end i7 stuff.
So at $5/day x 30 days in a month, and assuming that each tattoo lasts one month, plus the convenience, says that they should retail in the $200-250 each range. Sounds about right?
Well, as long as your space travel goal is 40cm or less, we've got you covered!
It's kind of like expecting to do work on an iPad. Sure, you can do all sorts of things, as long as your standards are low enough and your definition of "work" is exceptionally loose.
It's impossible to stop all terrorists. We're simply reacting to the last attack, because there's no realistic way to stop the next one.
Profiling might be somewhat useful, but it's doubtful. Disallowing large/serious weapons on a plane is a good thing simply because, without some amplification of strength, the numbers are wildly against any single attacker. Simple security is sufficient.
Customers in the Windows Store.
See how easy that was?
" And everything they added to Windows 8.1 was a step backwards."
Based on the success of 7, that's a good thing, right?