If it is a lithium ion battery, I don't see the by-product being carbon dioxide: I see it going from Lithium oxide to Lithium carbonate, using a combination of air and moisture i.e. from lithium to lithium oxide to lithium hydroxide to lithium carbonate,
No, you've got it completely backwards. The Android "case" is clearly providing all the actual functionality while the iPhone is there simply so the owner can say they own an iPhone.
The extra 'functionality' that it provides are increased storage (SD slot), extra battery, headphone jack, 2 extra SIMs and the car mount.
I have an iPhone 7, and took the 128GB option, so storage ain't an issue for me like it previously was. I don't need the extra battery or headphone jack, and if it comes w/ an e-SIM, then the extra SIMS are also unneeded. In short, all I am doing is thickening the phone, and probably making it tough to fit in my pocket.
The iPhone's real features come w/ iOS, and not too long ago, it was the only platform for seamless -video calling, w/ FaceTime. Now, WhatsApp has levelled the playing field for all, while Android phones have Hangouts and Duo. In reality, any Android phone from Lollipop onwards is at par w/ iPhones, aside from things like camera resolutions or other hardware niceties. I have an iPhone 7, a Moto X and a Lumia 550, and like all of them. One thing I could use - something that would enable Android apps to run on Windows 10 Mobile
I don't trust SSDs. They always seemed like a ticking time bomb. When a spinning disk fails, you usually get some auditory clues beforehand.
When an SSD fails, you loose everything immediately and all at once. Plus they wear out all too quickly. You can only write to the same region hundreds of times before it fails.
I don't have SSDs, but as a former flash memory guy, I'm fine w/ them, although am skeptical about MLC flash. Nonetheless, I nowadays have OneDrive enabled to back up all my data for my Windows laptop. For my PC-BSD laptop, I have a 500GB drive that I can back up to.
Anyway, the way the semiconductor industry works, things happen in waves. Right now, there's a shortage, prices are rising, that will create a glut in the market as manufacturers try to make money of that demand, bringing down prices, thereby causing them to pull back, lather, rinse, repeat. In other words, SSD prices will drop again, and you'll see 2TB and 4TB SSDs.
For me, I've found 64GB to be adequate, so any laptop that has even 128GB of anything meets my needs. I don't download a ton of movies
I keep it simple and don't add to the problem by using more chat software. I use e-mail for work and longer messages, I use SMS/text for shorter messages with friends. That's it. I'm not going to get bogged down using a dozen different messaging services. If I really need to get in touch with someone I can always call them.
I do add one more to that - WhatsApp, which gives me the option for video calling or voice calling internationally. So I use email for work and longer messages, SMS/text for local short messages, and WhatsApp for texting internationally, where receiving text ain't always free
Also, DST is entirely useless at high latitudes and in equatorial zones.
DST also has less effect if you're located in the western side of the time zone as opposed to the eastern side.
That is to say, people on the western side of the time zone already have the sunset an hour later than people on the eastern side, so the "usefulness" of DST's effects depends greatly upon your latitude and longitude.
Solution to this could be a fuzzy logic approach, which would be that instead of having time zones defined by, among other things, political preferences, have time zones defined only by longitude, and that too, instead of by hourly or half hourly increments, have them increment by minute. In other words, every 4 degrees of longitude, it'll be a new time. In the old days, maintaining a clock would have been cumbersome, but since smartphones, computers and other time pieces are mostly online and can be geo-located, the exact local time at any spot can be determined by a combination of GPS and its reference to the NIST computer.
Take this approach, and you'll know the time. Like, since we are in a MT thread, let me use an example from there. There is a 10 degree difference in longitude b/w Billings and Kalispell. Calculating from 24 hours corresponding to 360 degrees, or 1 hr corresponding to 15 degrees, there would be a 40 minute time difference b/w those 2 towns, so that it won't be the same time in both places due to both of them being MST. And if one flies from one of them to the other, the phone's time will adjust automatically.
The CIA doesn't have the interest of the American public. They're used to committing illegal acts to get things done. Look up Iran Contra.
Iran Contra was not a CIA operation: it was an NSC operation - Ollie North was an NSC guy.
Anyway, right now, the various intel agencies are more dedicated to running a background government of their own, complete w/ their own foreign and defense policies. Which is why they're doing their utmost to undermine the president. Having tasted blood in the form of Lt Gen Flynn, they're now targeting Sessions and anyone else they perceive as a threat, so that they can get their own swamp nominees in.
Doesn't Microsoft have to live w/ this problem as well? With them in the city, one would think that Seattle would be as great as the Bay Area when it came to broadband
In fact, Dell could try something no one else has - offer a high end Chromebook - w/ plenty of CPU, RAM and SSD, but preloaded w/ ChromeOS. Not everybody who wants ChromeOS necessarily wants to put everything on Google Drive. One might want to use Android apps, but in conjunction w/ files that they store on the computer offline
Not a problem given the target platform for Android - phones, phablets and tablets. If you want what you are describing, you should use ChromeOS, which is to Android what OS-X is to iOS
Actually, no. The closest to that that we had, in the late 80s and early 90s - Unix on a variety of computer platforms - we have implementations that were very incompatible w/ each other on a source code level, where compiling, say, a package for SunOS/Solaris was not compatible w/ Ultrix or AIX. In fact, that was one of the early promises of Windows NT - that one would get a common platform that ISVs could compile to multiple platforms. So a CAD package could have been designed for NT/Alpha, an animation package for NT/MIPS and so on.
It's another thing that Intel obliterated the performance advantage of RISC w/ their core architecture, as well as all the FUD about Itanium. Even though the latter failed to ever gain any traction, it did manage to obliterate any interest in the RISC CPUs, and drive them into oblivion.
This would be absolutely great. In fact, it was something I was rooting for since the 90s. Had it panned out, we could have run HDL programs on Windows 7 on DEC Alphastations (adjusted for NT/Alpha never being abandoned), or Adobe Photoshop on Silicon Graphics workstations, or something like FaceTime running on iOS running on a MIPS based cellphone. We would have had a much healthier competitive environment - DEC, Silicon Graphics, Sun, et al would still be around.
All of the stuff described above - Java, VMs, et al - are an extra layer on the CPUs, but are minimized due to the multi-core architectures out there, and the fact that all the OSs - Linux/Android, BSD/MacOS/iOS and Windows - are multi-core capable - make it even more feasable
If they could automate the crop plucking process, people won't complain that losing illegal immigrants will leave them w/ half or more of their crop unplucked
If you never want to leave your home. But why stop at that? Why not drug yourself strapped to the bed and get nutrition via IV? As long as the obese pay more for plane tickets and healthcare, I'm good.
Yeah, this is why I still like physically shopping over Amazon. But as far as some shopping goes, especially if it means big crowds, this could be better.
The cooking however - we were discussing this in the Wendy's thread yesterday, where I pointed out that it would be more useful to automate the cooking, as opposed to the ordering.
Are they talking only about laptops, or tablets/phones as well? Microsoft liked to conflate the 2 when reporting Windows 10 numbers. If we do the same here, then Safari grows bigly thanks to iPhones alone, as well as iPads
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If it is a lithium ion battery, I don't see the by-product being carbon dioxide: I see it going from Lithium oxide to Lithium carbonate, using a combination of air and moisture i.e. from lithium to lithium oxide to lithium hydroxide to lithium carbonate,
No, you've got it completely backwards. The Android "case" is clearly providing all the actual functionality while the iPhone is there simply so the owner can say they own an iPhone.
The extra 'functionality' that it provides are increased storage (SD slot), extra battery, headphone jack, 2 extra SIMs and the car mount.
I have an iPhone 7, and took the 128GB option, so storage ain't an issue for me like it previously was. I don't need the extra battery or headphone jack, and if it comes w/ an e-SIM, then the extra SIMS are also unneeded. In short, all I am doing is thickening the phone, and probably making it tough to fit in my pocket.
The iPhone's real features come w/ iOS, and not too long ago, it was the only platform for seamless -video calling, w/ FaceTime. Now, WhatsApp has levelled the playing field for all, while Android phones have Hangouts and Duo. In reality, any Android phone from Lollipop onwards is at par w/ iPhones, aside from things like camera resolutions or other hardware niceties. I have an iPhone 7, a Moto X and a Lumia 550, and like all of them. One thing I could use - something that would enable Android apps to run on Windows 10 Mobile
I don't trust SSDs. They always seemed like a ticking time bomb. When a spinning disk fails, you usually get some auditory clues beforehand.
When an SSD fails, you loose everything immediately and all at once. Plus they wear out all too quickly. You can only write to the same region hundreds of times before it fails.
I don't have SSDs, but as a former flash memory guy, I'm fine w/ them, although am skeptical about MLC flash. Nonetheless, I nowadays have OneDrive enabled to back up all my data for my Windows laptop. For my PC-BSD laptop, I have a 500GB drive that I can back up to.
Anyway, the way the semiconductor industry works, things happen in waves. Right now, there's a shortage, prices are rising, that will create a glut in the market as manufacturers try to make money of that demand, bringing down prices, thereby causing them to pull back, lather, rinse, repeat. In other words, SSD prices will drop again, and you'll see 2TB and 4TB SSDs.
For me, I've found 64GB to be adequate, so any laptop that has even 128GB of anything meets my needs. I don't download a ton of movies
I keep it simple and don't add to the problem by using more chat software. I use e-mail for work and longer messages, I use SMS/text for shorter messages with friends. That's it. I'm not going to get bogged down using a dozen different messaging services. If I really need to get in touch with someone I can always call them.
I do add one more to that - WhatsApp, which gives me the option for video calling or voice calling internationally. So I use email for work and longer messages, SMS/text for local short messages, and WhatsApp for texting internationally, where receiving text ain't always free
Also, DST is entirely useless at high latitudes and in equatorial zones. DST also has less effect if you're located in the western side of the time zone as opposed to the eastern side. That is to say, people on the western side of the time zone already have the sunset an hour later than people on the eastern side, so the "usefulness" of DST's effects depends greatly upon your latitude and longitude.
Solution to this could be a fuzzy logic approach, which would be that instead of having time zones defined by, among other things, political preferences, have time zones defined only by longitude, and that too, instead of by hourly or half hourly increments, have them increment by minute. In other words, every 4 degrees of longitude, it'll be a new time. In the old days, maintaining a clock would have been cumbersome, but since smartphones, computers and other time pieces are mostly online and can be geo-located, the exact local time at any spot can be determined by a combination of GPS and its reference to the NIST computer.
Take this approach, and you'll know the time. Like, since we are in a MT thread, let me use an example from there. There is a 10 degree difference in longitude b/w Billings and Kalispell. Calculating from 24 hours corresponding to 360 degrees, or 1 hr corresponding to 15 degrees, there would be a 40 minute time difference b/w those 2 towns, so that it won't be the same time in both places due to both of them being MST. And if one flies from one of them to the other, the phone's time will adjust automatically.
Whoosh!!!
The CIA doesn't have the interest of the American public. They're used to committing illegal acts to get things done. Look up Iran Contra.
Iran Contra was not a CIA operation: it was an NSC operation - Ollie North was an NSC guy.
Anyway, right now, the various intel agencies are more dedicated to running a background government of their own, complete w/ their own foreign and defense policies. Which is why they're doing their utmost to undermine the president. Having tasted blood in the form of Lt Gen Flynn, they're now targeting Sessions and anyone else they perceive as a threat, so that they can get their own swamp nominees in.
Actually, 1984 was an Oracle or Nostradamus prediction - only thing - happened to be off by 32 years
George who?
Doesn't Microsoft have to live w/ this problem as well? With them in the city, one would think that Seattle would be as great as the Bay Area when it came to broadband
Which enemy?
The 80's called. They want their anti-Soviet meme back!
Translation: Soviet != Russian
In fact, Dell could try something no one else has - offer a high end Chromebook - w/ plenty of CPU, RAM and SSD, but preloaded w/ ChromeOS. Not everybody who wants ChromeOS necessarily wants to put everything on Google Drive. One might want to use Android apps, but in conjunction w/ files that they store on the computer offline
Not a problem given the target platform for Android - phones, phablets and tablets. If you want what you are describing, you should use ChromeOS, which is to Android what OS-X is to iOS
Phones are computers, generically speaking, but not quite 'PCs', the way we've come to recognize them
Not just that, there are things that don't work on Chromium on TrueOS, which do work on Chrome on Windows
Actually, no. The closest to that that we had, in the late 80s and early 90s - Unix on a variety of computer platforms - we have implementations that were very incompatible w/ each other on a source code level, where compiling, say, a package for SunOS/Solaris was not compatible w/ Ultrix or AIX. In fact, that was one of the early promises of Windows NT - that one would get a common platform that ISVs could compile to multiple platforms. So a CAD package could have been designed for NT/Alpha, an animation package for NT/MIPS and so on.
It's another thing that Intel obliterated the performance advantage of RISC w/ their core architecture, as well as all the FUD about Itanium. Even though the latter failed to ever gain any traction, it did manage to obliterate any interest in the RISC CPUs, and drive them into oblivion.
You mean, like Microsoft tried doing w/ Windows RT?
This would be absolutely great. In fact, it was something I was rooting for since the 90s. Had it panned out, we could have run HDL programs on Windows 7 on DEC Alphastations (adjusted for NT/Alpha never being abandoned), or Adobe Photoshop on Silicon Graphics workstations, or something like FaceTime running on iOS running on a MIPS based cellphone. We would have had a much healthier competitive environment - DEC, Silicon Graphics, Sun, et al would still be around.
All of the stuff described above - Java, VMs, et al - are an extra layer on the CPUs, but are minimized due to the multi-core architectures out there, and the fact that all the OSs - Linux/Android, BSD/MacOS/iOS and Windows - are multi-core capable - make it even more feasable
Actually, 540GB, since HDD densities tend to be multiples of 6, while SSDs are powers of 2
If they could automate the crop plucking process, people won't complain that losing illegal immigrants will leave them w/ half or more of their crop unplucked
Which brings up the whole saga of Uber vs Cabs/Lyft vs renting
If you never want to leave your home. But why stop at that? Why not drug yourself strapped to the bed and get nutrition via IV? As long as the obese pay more for plane tickets and healthcare, I'm good.
Yeah, this is why I still like physically shopping over Amazon. But as far as some shopping goes, especially if it means big crowds, this could be better.
The cooking however - we were discussing this in the Wendy's thread yesterday, where I pointed out that it would be more useful to automate the cooking, as opposed to the ordering.
Are they talking only about laptops, or tablets/phones as well? Microsoft liked to conflate the 2 when reporting Windows 10 numbers. If we do the same here, then Safari grows bigly thanks to iPhones alone, as well as iPads
Or they may have so little storage that they don't wanna waste any space w/ redundant apps, like browsers