It isn't 15GB max. Think of the 15GB as your free usage. You only have to pay a small fee (per GB) if you exceed your free usage amount.
I'm sure my family probably does several times 15GB at home... one kid or another is constantly watching Hulu or Netflix, there are several hours of video chat going on between kids and their friends each day.
15GB would be eaten in a week easily... My family probably isn't the target demographic here, but not knowing how much extra they charge per GB but I could easily see the bill going into the hundreds if this is to replace an ISP. Only really good for people who haven't cut the cord or use very little internet.
5G rollout is going to go quickly. There are way too many revenue opportunities to exploit with its feature set.
I'm still waiting on Google Fiber, none in my state. We still have the cable monopoly on broadband internet. As long as fiber internet has been around, I'm not optimistic for 5G anytime soon. I hope you're right, but I'm not optimistic. Not that I can afford $70 for 5 people each to get 5G. Probably be some family discounts- but at a base of $350 a month... nah, hard pass... be a while for prices to come down enough.
So based on it arriving next year, it will probably be 2025 before it is both in my mid-sized town, AND affordable enough to actually use for all but the most wealthy of families.
That's OK... faster is always better, but I don't feel a pressing need to do 5G. 4G is good enough for most things.
So many idiots out there, I guarantee that a drone will take out a airliner eventually. Then the whole drone industry will be subject to major lawsuits. This will only get worse as drones become more popular and owned by more idiots.
Are drones going to get more popular? Seems like it is dying out a bit to me. We've hit peak drone. (at least for this generation of drones).
This has been around at least a decade. I don't know if it was a cultural thing or a coincidence, but place I was working at about a decade ago we had three employees do this in the course of 2 months; interestingly they were all Indian (from India not Native American)- I don't know if it is part of their culture.
I remember thinking it was odd then- and I still do. One of them we found out ended up in New York, so I guess he figured what happened in smallish town South Carolina wouldn't bit him in the butt- I don't know what happened to the other two. Around here you want to behave because there are only 3 or 4 big employers. Chances are if you piss one off, when it's time to look next time you will have former co-workers at the other locations ready to say what you did.
Is it just me as the perennial skeptic, or does it almost seem like facebook has a leak or a revelation about something way too often for it to be accidental. It's almost like they're "accidentally on purpose" doing things so that they stay in the news and people don't forget about them.
No news is bad news right? Let's leak some photos so we can patch the bug next week and stay in the news. They wouldn't do that right? Or would they?
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones. The oil age will not end because we run out of oil. The oil age will end because we have better, cheaper sources of energy and we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Peak Oil wasn't about running out of oil though- the theory said we would hit a point where we could no longer get oil cheaply and it would become increasingly expensive.
We stopped using whale blubber for lighting our lamps long before we ran out of whales. If we do indeed hit a point where oil starts becoming more expensive for a long period of time- that would make alternatives that are too expensive now, suddenly look cheaper by comparison.
We're probably at least a couple of decades away from oil no longer being dominant- (I'm only stopping at a couple of decades because anything longer than that is impossible to predict- who knows what technology will be discovered).
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
We did hit a "peak oil" in that it became increasingly more expensive to extract oil- but then new technologies pushed the slide back a little. We will probably see several mini-peaks where what's available becomes harder to extract and more expensive, and then new technology comes along that will make it cheaper again.
AP, LA Times, and that's about it when I get news off of Facebook. Otherwise, I go to the main websites. I can't believe anyone would get their news off Facebook unless they follow the major media there and use Facebook to catch current stories.
It's lazy and easy... and it doesn't matter if someone reads more than a headine on facebook... See information enough times and people start to believe it. (that's why advertising works).
It's not news and there's no reason to bother expanding the point into anything more than those three words. Next article, please.
Of course facebook doesn't care. Sensationalist crap brings in more participation on their site. Both from the camp spreading the fake news and those coming on to argue that it is in fact fake.
Wait what? Who in their right mind buys electronics that have been refurbished by someone other than the manufacturer?
People obviously do because the vast majority of Refurbished Items I see for sale these days are refurbished by third party companies. I suspect they're really "used" not refurbished in that case.
So does this mean American getting a taste of their own medicine? The rest of the world has had to put up with their cultural influence pushing their weirdo values for decades. Now we get Chinese weirdo values instead.
In a way, yes; but surely you would have to agree that the Chinese government's control and influence is not something we would want anywhere in the West? As bad as America may have seemed to you and your country, would you prefer a totalitarian state passing their values around instead?
4-If the item is listed as refurbished, any batteries must have been replaced with brand new batteries...if not, its USED, not refurbished!
I used to buy refurbished products but I don't anymore. Refurbished doesn't always mean refurbished anymore. Quite frequently used products are sold as refurbished. Unless it is refurbished by the manufacturer itself, I don't trust that Refurbished actually means Refurbished.
One user might not equal one human being. One human being might actually hold 1000 accounts. With all the hacking and stealing going on in the bitcoin community, it would be smart not to have all your holdings in one wallet. If I were inclined to hold bitcoin, I would spread out the risk as much as I could.
Bitcoin especially, will always have a base of users - because there is no alternative that offers the same features (well other than other digital currencies), not even cash (and cash is in theory less universal, though the dollar comes closest to working everywhere).
Sometimes I wonder if anti-Bitcoin propaganda and manipulation may not be some kind of U.S. intervention, to keep the value of the dollar propped up since it's used around most of the world as a supported currency.
Indeed, a lot of people were calling it a tulip investment and that always seemed wrong. Yeah, the bottom fell out of the market but it didn't totally collapse. Bitcoin is still stronger than it was a year ago. Too late for the get rich quick schemers, but it still holds some value.
Never lived up to the tulip predictions that some on here espoused.
There are more people than ever using Bitcoin as "banknotes and coins",
Is that a fact or a suspicion?
I kind of suspect using as money has gone out of favour because fewer places want to take it now- 6 months ago there were a lot more places that accepted bitcoin than there is now.
The number of wallets may have grown- but I would suspect that it is still almost exclusively an investment and [almost] no one is getting into bitcoin with the pure intention of using it as a currency.
If I've learnt anything about IT; it's almost impossible to predict anything so sweeping accurately; and for a field based in logic it can be very illogical.
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It isn't 15GB max. Think of the 15GB as your free usage. You only have to pay a small fee (per GB) if you exceed your free usage amount.
I'm sure my family probably does several times 15GB at home... one kid or another is constantly watching Hulu or Netflix, there are several hours of video chat going on between kids and their friends each day.
15GB would be eaten in a week easily... My family probably isn't the target demographic here, but not knowing how much extra they charge per GB but I could easily see the bill going into the hundreds if this is to replace an ISP. Only really good for people who haven't cut the cord or use very little internet.
5G rollout is going to go quickly. There are way too many revenue opportunities to exploit with its feature set.
I'm still waiting on Google Fiber, none in my state. We still have the cable monopoly on broadband internet. As long as fiber internet has been around, I'm not optimistic for 5G anytime soon. I hope you're right, but I'm not optimistic. Not that I can afford $70 for 5 people each to get 5G. Probably be some family discounts- but at a base of $350 a month... nah, hard pass... be a while for prices to come down enough.
So based on it arriving next year, it will probably be 2025 before it is both in my mid-sized town, AND affordable enough to actually use for all but the most wealthy of families.
That's OK... faster is always better, but I don't feel a pressing need to do 5G. 4G is good enough for most things.
Definitely built by Huawei, it's highly likely...
Probably, we should ask our allies to randomly extradite Chinese people to the US without any real evidence of a crime needed.
So many idiots out there, I guarantee that a drone will take out a airliner eventually. Then the whole drone industry will be subject to major lawsuits. This will only get worse as drones become more popular and owned by more idiots.
Are drones going to get more popular? Seems like it is dying out a bit to me. We've hit peak drone. (at least for this generation of drones).
This has been around at least a decade. I don't know if it was a cultural thing or a coincidence, but place I was working at about a decade ago we had three employees do this in the course of 2 months; interestingly they were all Indian (from India not Native American)- I don't know if it is part of their culture.
I remember thinking it was odd then- and I still do. One of them we found out ended up in New York, so I guess he figured what happened in smallish town South Carolina wouldn't bit him in the butt- I don't know what happened to the other two. Around here you want to behave because there are only 3 or 4 big employers. Chances are if you piss one off, when it's time to look next time you will have former co-workers at the other locations ready to say what you did.
Would passengers have access to their own missile launchers? I'd pay extra.
Yes, but I wouldn't recommend using it to target the family with the crying baby three rows up. The explosion might have repercussions for you too.
Is it just me as the perennial skeptic, or does it almost seem like facebook has a leak or a revelation about something way too often for it to be accidental. It's almost like they're "accidentally on purpose" doing things so that they stay in the news and people don't forget about them.
No news is bad news right? Let's leak some photos so we can patch the bug next week and stay in the news. They wouldn't do that right? Or would they?
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.
The oil age will not end because we run out of oil.
The oil age will end because we have better, cheaper sources of energy and we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Peak Oil wasn't about running out of oil though- the theory said we would hit a point where we could no longer get oil cheaply and it would become increasingly expensive.
We stopped using whale blubber for lighting our lamps long before we ran out of whales. If we do indeed hit a point where oil starts becoming more expensive for a long period of time- that would make alternatives that are too expensive now, suddenly look cheaper by comparison.
We're probably at least a couple of decades away from oil no longer being dominant- (I'm only stopping at a couple of decades because anything longer than that is impossible to predict- who knows what technology will be discovered).
I misread the title as "WordPress Plugs Butt" - chuckled to myself when realized my brain made a mistake and thought I'd share.
I guess we should just call off all the green initiative stuff (hippy liberal anyway) and fire up more coal plants.
I'm buying all the beachfront property in Oregon for when it becomes the new tropical tourist hot-spot.
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
We did hit a "peak oil" in that it became increasingly more expensive to extract oil- but then new technologies pushed the slide back a little. We will probably see several mini-peaks where what's available becomes harder to extract and more expensive, and then new technology comes along that will make it cheaper again.
AP, LA Times, and that's about it when I get news off of Facebook. Otherwise, I go to the main websites. I can't believe anyone would get their news off Facebook unless they follow the major media there and use Facebook to catch current stories.
It's lazy and easy... and it doesn't matter if someone reads more than a headine on facebook... See information enough times and people start to believe it. (that's why advertising works).
Facebook doesn't care.
It's not news and there's no reason to bother expanding the point into anything more than those three words. Next article, please.
Of course facebook doesn't care. Sensationalist crap brings in more participation on their site. Both from the camp spreading the fake news and those coming on to argue that it is in fact fake.
Wait what? Who in their right mind buys electronics that have been refurbished by someone other than the manufacturer?
People obviously do because the vast majority of Refurbished Items I see for sale these days are refurbished by third party companies. I suspect they're really "used" not refurbished in that case.
So does this mean American getting a taste of their own medicine? The rest of the world has had to put up with their cultural influence pushing their weirdo values for decades. Now we get Chinese weirdo values instead.
In a way, yes; but surely you would have to agree that the Chinese government's control and influence is not something we would want anywhere in the West? As bad as America may have seemed to you and your country, would you prefer a totalitarian state passing their values around instead?
I knew this because my quantum ai blockchain device from Elon Musk had already told me.
4-If the item is listed as refurbished, any batteries must have been replaced with brand new batteries...if not, its USED, not refurbished!
I used to buy refurbished products but I don't anymore. Refurbished doesn't always mean refurbished anymore. Quite frequently used products are sold as refurbished. Unless it is refurbished by the manufacturer itself, I don't trust that Refurbished actually means Refurbished.
One user might not equal one human being. One human being might actually hold 1000 accounts. With all the hacking and stealing going on in the bitcoin community, it would be smart not to have all your holdings in one wallet. If I were inclined to hold bitcoin, I would spread out the risk as much as I could.
I don't see any reason why Bitcoin won't go extinct once a better alternative is implemented.
I can give you two reasons why Bitcoin isn't on the chopping block anytime soon (despite better alternatives already existing).
1) Inertia.
2) "Brand" awareness.
Nothing lasts forever of course, and Bitcoin will no longer exist one day, but I don't think we will see an imminent demise.
Bitcoin especially, will always have a base of users - because there is no alternative that offers the same features (well other than other digital currencies), not even cash (and cash is in theory less universal, though the dollar comes closest to working everywhere).
Sometimes I wonder if anti-Bitcoin propaganda and manipulation may not be some kind of U.S. intervention, to keep the value of the dollar propped up since it's used around most of the world as a supported currency.
Indeed, a lot of people were calling it a tulip investment and that always seemed wrong. Yeah, the bottom fell out of the market but it didn't totally collapse. Bitcoin is still stronger than it was a year ago. Too late for the get rich quick schemers, but it still holds some value.
Never lived up to the tulip predictions that some on here espoused.
There are more people than ever using Bitcoin as "banknotes and coins",
Is that a fact or a suspicion?
I kind of suspect using as money has gone out of favour because fewer places want to take it now- 6 months ago there were a lot more places that accepted bitcoin than there is now.
The number of wallets may have grown- but I would suspect that it is still almost exclusively an investment and [almost] no one is getting into bitcoin with the pure intention of using it as a currency.
$3,770 for my own personal Russian slave sounds pretty cheap.
Until you open it up for service and discover an angry, thick-ankled babushka with a vodka habit...
Who says that wasn't what I was hoping for?
If I've learnt anything about IT; it's almost impossible to predict anything so sweeping accurately; and for a field based in logic it can be very illogical.
This "robot" actually retails for 250,000 rubles (about $3,770), as first reported by the Guardian, and is made by a company called Show Robots.
Does it come with a human inside? This might be the only employment open to anyone in the future.
Funny. That was my first thought too. $3,770 for my own personal Russian slave sounds pretty cheap.