As someone who worked previously in the Flash memory industry, I can tell you that is patently false. Flash memory companies, like others, are always looking to increase sales, and have capacity capable of addressing that. More often than not, they use the same fabs as DRAM fabs, so that utilization remains high. If production capacity hadn't existed, flash would not have created the SSD market. Besides, have you seen the prices on 64GB USB sticks? In a phone, you are talking about just the flash & controller.
The issue is not just whether one can delete apps. Assuming that a phone has an SD card slot that can take, say, 128GB, songs, photos & videos more often than not go into that. But if one uses apps like WhatsApp, that data can't go to an SD card. So if one is in the habit of messaging, after a while, either the storage will fill, or one will have to start deleting messages. I know a number of people - including myself - who don't wanna do that. With a 64GB storage, it'll at least take a while.
Reasons for 'Internet on a phone'? I can think of a few - VOIP, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Maps, Lyft, (Your banking app),... You could say you simply go to your bank, which I do as well. However, there are some banks like E*TRADE bank that have only 1 branch, and so a phone app would be the only way to directly deposit a check there.
FaceTime Audio? Why come up w/ a glorified name for voice calls?
One instance this watch might be useful - if one has clothes w/o pockets (for phones). One of the rare moments that happens is while swimming, so such a thing should ideally be waterproof as well, for those people who can't live a minute w/o their phones.
Sounds to me like this will have issues similar to the just discontinued iPod Nano. I just got one, and it has barely 6 apps, and nothing else can be installed on it. To transfer songs or data, one has to connect it to a PC or Mac via iTunes. This watch will probably have similar constraints, and one will have to connect it to a computer to do anything on it. I'm guessing typing will be out of the question, so it will probably be some speech recognition that would have to convert to iMessages, assuming that it can do Messaging at all. So for a watch, I'm guessing the only things one can do would be Calls, Weather (local temp reading?), Music & maybe Maps. The circuitry would be really packed, and one would have all sorts of packaging within the 1 sq inch area of that watch.
Aside from the fact that Apple's watches are semi-functional jewellery pieces, there is no reason for me to want one of these.
Whenever I get a phone, I make it a point to give it a wallet case, so that my cards & phone go together. If I get called, I typically pick up the phone, put it on speaker and start talking. Or near my ear, if I'm surrounded by others. But holding my wrists near my ear would be rather inconvenient. Yeah, Apple might decide to encourage people to use their iPhone 7 Bluetooth headphones to connect w/ the watch, and I guess it could be done that way. But I doubt that I could do FaceTime well w/ the watch, and I'd probably lose many of the phone apps that I use, like Costco, WhatsApp, Vonage and so on.
I'd pick Russia any day. The other day, read about a group of Muslim rapefugees who were dropped by the Norwegians into Murmansk. They tried doing their usual stuff, and got beaten up by the Russians. If the Russkies had any sense, they'd have subsequently flown them to Turkmenistan. One thing Stalin did well - deport the Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan.
Say what you want about Putin, or for that matter, the Russians, but they know how to deal with Muslims. Having historically had to live w/ the Tatars doing things like burning down Moscow on 2 occasions, the Kazakhs raiding their borders and taking slaves & raping women, and the Chechens. Which is why Europe is pretty clueless on how to handle them, but Russia ain't.
Most interesting thing I notice - even while the former Warsaw Pact countries are doing everything to distance themselves from Russia and ingratiate themselves w/ Europe, there is one place where they draw the line: throwing open their countries to Muslim rapefugees. Which is why, even while in Germany, there are signs in public places in Arabic telling people not to grope women, none of that has had to happen in places like Krakow, Bratislava, Timisoara, Ostrava or other such places. And people of Western Europe are just looking at them in envy, while the EU is fuming at them being relative rape free zones.
By expats, the only people you can mean are the Hollywood crowd - the Johnny Depps of the world! Incidentally, when will Hollywood fulfil their promise and move from Beverley Hills to Paris, Milan, Majorca, Nice and all those other lovely places?
Just deport the Silicon Valley crowd & their minions to Bangalore, and let them have all the foreign workers that they want there. They'll then either enjoy the lower costs, or realize why US workers are worth more
Why not use Wordpad instead, which saves you from those formats? I know that Notepad has that annoying scrollovers that won't go to the next line until carriage return. But Wordpad does it right
Yeah, but that's not automatically available from any device. Lastpass allows that. I adapted LastPass but do not need any of the extra features, just the simple logins & passwords. Note, however, that LastPass also allows you to store things like Credit Card information (in case one gets stolen), DMV, WiFi SSIDs, Bank Accounts, Router info, et al. All of it quite handy. I don't need emergency access, tech support, ability to share, multi factor authentication or ability to share or any of that.
Not a bad idea, if one is afraid of the browser quitting any time and eating that composing time w/ it. A lot of people, after being burned, adapted this policy. And yeah, it's perfectly legitimate to scream about Unicode: Android, iOS and even Windows 10 supports it, but Slashdot doesn't. And renders posts in ridiculous ways out here.
Says someone obviously grammar challenged, & can't tell whether or not a headline is a question. Betteridge's law only applies to headline questions that have a simple yes/no answer
I thought we addressed that this morning in the story about pets. Answer is getting rid of all humans & animals, and letting plants live alone on this earth. They'll do all the photosynthesis & respiration
When did I even begin to suggest that anyone buys coal from OPEC? I was talking about buying oil from OPEC, which India does to fuel their cars. For electricity, it's as you said a combination of coal - which they have plenty of themselves - and renewables. Point I was making is that with all of these, oil is increasingly used exclusively for cars, and even there, trends like hybrids and others would drive down the demand.
How does selling energy to other countries fly in the face of energy independence? The US needs to lower its trade deficits wherever it can, and a good place to do it is w/ energy, which other countries want. The fuels obtained from fracking, as well as offshore reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere are sold within the US, as well as abroad.
Fully agree. Also, it's high time they allow us to remove any of the apps on a device. Like on my Verizon Ellipsis, I can't use that as a phone or to receive messages, so why not let me delete the messaging apps that are there? The primary storage on the device is already a mere 16GB, and the OS occupies something like 70% of it already. And this is w/ Android 5, not 6 or 7, so I can't make my 128GB SD card the primary storage. So allow us to remove any apps - and anything that's a part of the OS itself, don't make it an app (embed it in Settings).
Besides, why would Android phone makers need to apply their own 'skins' to the phones? That's reminiscent of the Windows 3.1 days when companies like Compaq and HP would insert their own UI utilities to beautify Windows, w/ things like HP's Dashboard. Android's UI - at least the one in Lollipop - is pretty good: not sure what the newer ones in 6 & 7 look like.
The best thing that phone makers can do is ensure that their storage is nothing less than 64GB: that ought to be the minimum. After that, have whatever features you want or don't want in a phone - be it camera, removable storage or whatever.
One example - using the IRS to go after the 501(c)(3) status of Conservative groups. Using the NSA to wiretap GOP candidates during the election, and feed the results to the Clinton campaign. Issuing executive orders on his way out designed to sabotage the incoming administration. Problem is enough Republican swamp creatures, like McCain, Graham, Sass, Flake et al have been w/ him in that effort. Undermining of institutions has been happening for 8 years, w/ enough Republican traitors happy to be in for the ride
Western cat food seems to be mostly meat, but Japanese cat food has a lot more fruit, vegetables and seafood in it.
The seafood pretty much compensates any 'lack of meat' that you advocate. Japan is an archipelago w/ not much wildlife in it, so the only native non-vegetarian food they have is seafood, including whales & sharks. That's why seafood makes its way into their pet food, but things like beef or chicken don't.
Yeah, move all humans & animals to Mars, so that only plants are left on earth. Between photosynthesis & respiration, they'll maintain the climate balance. In the meantime, on Mars, since there is no oxygen, people & animals won't create more carbon dioxide. That way, Mars doesn't get warmed up either, even though it could use it
My biggest issue w/ Civ6 is how constrained it has been. In previous versions of the game - aside from I & II, you could name your leader, your civilization, your cities. Civ 4 was the best - they had a scenario editor where you could start all the players you wanted in certain spots, preload them w/ whatever units, money, cities & resources you wanted, including renaming anything right from the base game, and then play. In Civ V, there never was a scenario editor: the closest to it was a mod called IGE (in-game editor), which was buggy: if one wants to do True Starting Locations on a map, one can't do that w/ enemy units.
But Civ 6 is even worse. You can't rename your leader, you can't rename your tribe: you have to depend on other people having already released mods, and the Civ 6 people have been horrible about releasing any scenario editors. And a number of the mods are pretty buggy, and won't allow a game to start if they are enabled. As for the length of the game, the way I've gotten around it somewhat has been to play a game up to a point, save, resume another day from that point and so on.
That's probably b'cos supporting chipsets didn't come even close to 200+MHz CPUs, so they probably had frequency dividers b/w CPU and chipset that took care of this particular issue
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As someone who worked previously in the Flash memory industry, I can tell you that is patently false. Flash memory companies, like others, are always looking to increase sales, and have capacity capable of addressing that. More often than not, they use the same fabs as DRAM fabs, so that utilization remains high. If production capacity hadn't existed, flash would not have created the SSD market. Besides, have you seen the prices on 64GB USB sticks? In a phone, you are talking about just the flash & controller.
The issue is not just whether one can delete apps. Assuming that a phone has an SD card slot that can take, say, 128GB, songs, photos & videos more often than not go into that. But if one uses apps like WhatsApp, that data can't go to an SD card. So if one is in the habit of messaging, after a while, either the storage will fill, or one will have to start deleting messages. I know a number of people - including myself - who don't wanna do that. With a 64GB storage, it'll at least take a while.
Reasons for 'Internet on a phone'? I can think of a few - VOIP, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Maps, Lyft, (Your banking app),... You could say you simply go to your bank, which I do as well. However, there are some banks like E*TRADE bank that have only 1 branch, and so a phone app would be the only way to directly deposit a check there.
FaceTime Audio? Why come up w/ a glorified name for voice calls?
One instance this watch might be useful - if one has clothes w/o pockets (for phones). One of the rare moments that happens is while swimming, so such a thing should ideally be waterproof as well, for those people who can't live a minute w/o their phones.
Sounds to me like this will have issues similar to the just discontinued iPod Nano. I just got one, and it has barely 6 apps, and nothing else can be installed on it. To transfer songs or data, one has to connect it to a PC or Mac via iTunes. This watch will probably have similar constraints, and one will have to connect it to a computer to do anything on it. I'm guessing typing will be out of the question, so it will probably be some speech recognition that would have to convert to iMessages, assuming that it can do Messaging at all. So for a watch, I'm guessing the only things one can do would be Calls, Weather (local temp reading?), Music & maybe Maps. The circuitry would be really packed, and one would have all sorts of packaging within the 1 sq inch area of that watch.
Your wrists would get pretty hot, if a watch needs to replace the phone and have as powerful a CPU as well as much of the functionality.
Aside from the fact that Apple's watches are semi-functional jewellery pieces, there is no reason for me to want one of these.
Whenever I get a phone, I make it a point to give it a wallet case, so that my cards & phone go together. If I get called, I typically pick up the phone, put it on speaker and start talking. Or near my ear, if I'm surrounded by others. But holding my wrists near my ear would be rather inconvenient. Yeah, Apple might decide to encourage people to use their iPhone 7 Bluetooth headphones to connect w/ the watch, and I guess it could be done that way. But I doubt that I could do FaceTime well w/ the watch, and I'd probably lose many of the phone apps that I use, like Costco, WhatsApp, Vonage and so on.
I'd pick Russia any day. The other day, read about a group of Muslim rapefugees who were dropped by the Norwegians into Murmansk. They tried doing their usual stuff, and got beaten up by the Russians. If the Russkies had any sense, they'd have subsequently flown them to Turkmenistan. One thing Stalin did well - deport the Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan.
Say what you want about Putin, or for that matter, the Russians, but they know how to deal with Muslims. Having historically had to live w/ the Tatars doing things like burning down Moscow on 2 occasions, the Kazakhs raiding their borders and taking slaves & raping women, and the Chechens. Which is why Europe is pretty clueless on how to handle them, but Russia ain't.
Most interesting thing I notice - even while the former Warsaw Pact countries are doing everything to distance themselves from Russia and ingratiate themselves w/ Europe, there is one place where they draw the line: throwing open their countries to Muslim rapefugees. Which is why, even while in Germany, there are signs in public places in Arabic telling people not to grope women, none of that has had to happen in places like Krakow, Bratislava, Timisoara, Ostrava or other such places. And people of Western Europe are just looking at them in envy, while the EU is fuming at them being relative rape free zones.
By expats, the only people you can mean are the Hollywood crowd - the Johnny Depps of the world! Incidentally, when will Hollywood fulfil their promise and move from Beverley Hills to Paris, Milan, Majorca, Nice and all those other lovely places?
Don't they have to be citizens in order to be able to vote for Trump?
Just deport the Silicon Valley crowd & their minions to Bangalore, and let them have all the foreign workers that they want there. They'll then either enjoy the lower costs, or realize why US workers are worth more
It's happened to me occasionally w/ both FireFox and Chrome. Not on Slashdot, though, but other sites.
Why not use Wordpad instead, which saves you from those formats? I know that Notepad has that annoying scrollovers that won't go to the next line until carriage return. But Wordpad does it right
Yeah, but that's not automatically available from any device. Lastpass allows that. I adapted LastPass but do not need any of the extra features, just the simple logins & passwords. Note, however, that LastPass also allows you to store things like Credit Card information (in case one gets stolen), DMV, WiFi SSIDs, Bank Accounts, Router info, et al. All of it quite handy. I don't need emergency access, tech support, ability to share, multi factor authentication or ability to share or any of that.
Not a bad idea, if one is afraid of the browser quitting any time and eating that composing time w/ it. A lot of people, after being burned, adapted this policy. And yeah, it's perfectly legitimate to scream about Unicode: Android, iOS and even Windows 10 supports it, but Slashdot doesn't. And renders posts in ridiculous ways out here.
Says someone obviously grammar challenged, & can't tell whether or not a headline is a question. Betteridge's law only applies to headline questions that have a simple yes/no answer
I thought we addressed that this morning in the story about pets. Answer is getting rid of all humans & animals, and letting plants live alone on this earth. They'll do all the photosynthesis & respiration
When did I even begin to suggest that anyone buys coal from OPEC? I was talking about buying oil from OPEC, which India does to fuel their cars. For electricity, it's as you said a combination of coal - which they have plenty of themselves - and renewables. Point I was making is that with all of these, oil is increasingly used exclusively for cars, and even there, trends like hybrids and others would drive down the demand.
How does selling energy to other countries fly in the face of energy independence? The US needs to lower its trade deficits wherever it can, and a good place to do it is w/ energy, which other countries want. The fuels obtained from fracking, as well as offshore reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere are sold within the US, as well as abroad.
Fully agree. Also, it's high time they allow us to remove any of the apps on a device. Like on my Verizon Ellipsis, I can't use that as a phone or to receive messages, so why not let me delete the messaging apps that are there? The primary storage on the device is already a mere 16GB, and the OS occupies something like 70% of it already. And this is w/ Android 5, not 6 or 7, so I can't make my 128GB SD card the primary storage. So allow us to remove any apps - and anything that's a part of the OS itself, don't make it an app (embed it in Settings).
Besides, why would Android phone makers need to apply their own 'skins' to the phones? That's reminiscent of the Windows 3.1 days when companies like Compaq and HP would insert their own UI utilities to beautify Windows, w/ things like HP's Dashboard. Android's UI - at least the one in Lollipop - is pretty good: not sure what the newer ones in 6 & 7 look like.
The best thing that phone makers can do is ensure that their storage is nothing less than 64GB: that ought to be the minimum. After that, have whatever features you want or don't want in a phone - be it camera, removable storage or whatever.
One example - using the IRS to go after the 501(c)(3) status of Conservative groups. Using the NSA to wiretap GOP candidates during the election, and feed the results to the Clinton campaign. Issuing executive orders on his way out designed to sabotage the incoming administration. Problem is enough Republican swamp creatures, like McCain, Graham, Sass, Flake et al have been w/ him in that effort. Undermining of institutions has been happening for 8 years, w/ enough Republican traitors happy to be in for the ride
Western cat food seems to be mostly meat, but Japanese cat food has a lot more fruit, vegetables and seafood in it.
The seafood pretty much compensates any 'lack of meat' that you advocate. Japan is an archipelago w/ not much wildlife in it, so the only native non-vegetarian food they have is seafood, including whales & sharks. That's why seafood makes its way into their pet food, but things like beef or chicken don't.
Yeah, move all humans & animals to Mars, so that only plants are left on earth. Between photosynthesis & respiration, they'll maintain the climate balance. In the meantime, on Mars, since there is no oxygen, people & animals won't create more carbon dioxide. That way, Mars doesn't get warmed up either, even though it could use it
My biggest issue w/ Civ6 is how constrained it has been. In previous versions of the game - aside from I & II, you could name your leader, your civilization, your cities. Civ 4 was the best - they had a scenario editor where you could start all the players you wanted in certain spots, preload them w/ whatever units, money, cities & resources you wanted, including renaming anything right from the base game, and then play. In Civ V, there never was a scenario editor: the closest to it was a mod called IGE (in-game editor), which was buggy: if one wants to do True Starting Locations on a map, one can't do that w/ enemy units.
But Civ 6 is even worse. You can't rename your leader, you can't rename your tribe: you have to depend on other people having already released mods, and the Civ 6 people have been horrible about releasing any scenario editors. And a number of the mods are pretty buggy, and won't allow a game to start if they are enabled. As for the length of the game, the way I've gotten around it somewhat has been to play a game up to a point, save, resume another day from that point and so on.
So are ALi, Via and SiS out of the chipset market?
That's probably b'cos supporting chipsets didn't come even close to 200+MHz CPUs, so they probably had frequency dividers b/w CPU and chipset that took care of this particular issue