I think in this case, the nature of the food is part of the appeal. It's a niche product, sure, but if people are buying SOYLENT then they expect a certain unidentifiable blandness to it. That's kind of the point.
The earlier media seem to have a kind of timeless longevity while modern media from the 1800s forward seem to have shrinking lifetimes. Just as the monks and Muslims of the Middle Ages preserved content by copying into new media, won't we need to do the same for our modern content...?
Well, I don't know about Vint Cerf, but every time I upgrade my hard drive, the old one gets copied to a subdirectory of the new one. It's "C:\OLD_C_DRIVE\..." all the way down!
Eh, not really. Compression is relative, sure, to the codec/methodology, but Netflix 4k streams require 25Mbps while their 1080p requires a measly 5Mbps...definitely a tremendous amount of additional information in the 4k stream, compressed or not.
It's surprising that 2160p would take 5x the bandwidth of 1080p when it only has 4x the pixels... Is it less compressed to allow for increased decoding time?
Your comment here...is at odds with your comment here
Well that was a different user, but anyway the claims are not conflicting - they are in agreement. By "doesn't mean anything", I obviously don't mean "has no meaning in the English language," rather it has "no technical meaning". The thing is that TVs and monitors are typically characterized by their resolution. VGA monitor, SVGA, HD, FHD, 720p, 1080p; these terms all tell you something about resolution. In the case of TVs, the normal description is number of horizontal lines. But what's being called "4k" is actually 2160p, which logically should be "2K" since its resolution has two thousand lines. This would make sense and be consistent. "4K" sounds like a technical description, but doesn't actually describe capability of the display, and is only close to four thousand of something if you switch from counting horizontal lines to vertical ones, which is silly.
So by virtue of something being marketed it means something... an argument over what to call it is nothing more than companies and businesses waving their penises at each other. If it's close enough to 4k it's good enough as long as the marketing people agree.
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. Saying that all marketing language imbues itself with sufficient meaning to justify its use totally obliterates the concept of false advertising. If Cadillac starts calling their 4-cylinder engine a V12 because it has 12 valves and claims it's better than BMW because they only have a V8, you'd be okay with that? Because the fact that they marketed it as a "V12" means that's what V12 means?
Why does this matter? Because companies misusing technical terms to imply capabilities their products don't have is a dishonest business practice, and hurts the consumer. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go attach some onions to my belt, as is the style, and yell at a cloud.
OK, for the pedants. But for the real world "full HD" was 1920x1080 (called 1080p) and 4 times that is indeed 3840x2160. That is exactly 4 times the pixels, so it is indeed 4k.
No, that would make it "4X". The suffix "k" means "thousand," and neither dimension of 3840 nor 2160 is >4000. What people call 4k should be called 2160p or UHD. "4k" is made up marketing hype that doesn't mean anything.
They are (generally) bulkier than the equivalent USB stick.
I linked to the large one because it supports full-size SD cards, and 1TB SDXC in the article is that form factor. But I have several readers for MicroSD that are barely bigger than the card itself. I've seen readers that fit mostly inside the USB port itself, so there's minimal protrusion.
USB-sticks with 8 gb space for $10, that reach a laughable 10 mb/s transfer speed, because anything else would be too good. Artificial limitations to control the market.
Why would anybody at all use a fixed-memory USB stick when these exist?
Hey, that's great Netflix. Nice to see progress on the horizon in video encoding tech. Now would you please add an option to buffer the start of shows so they don't look like pixelated crap for the first 30 seconds or more on my HDTV? Maybe a checkbox somewhere? Even my wife notices, and she's not usually picky about these things. Thanks.
I'm fed up with the constant removal of useful features from cell phones.
-Fits in the palm of your hand! (screen size < 4.5" for one-handed use (in my case anyway, maybe I have Trump hands?)) -Supports SD cards for storage expansion! -Easily replaceable battery! (both to get new batteries but also to carry more than one) -Wireless charging - just set it down and it stays charged! -Standard USB port so you can use USB accessories like keyboards, mice, game controllers, and thumbdrives! (OTG) -Standard audio jack so it works with all audio accessories!
I've begrudgingly sacrificed most of these features, but I'm holding the line on the headphone jack. In fact, I recently installed Cyanogenmod to get Marshmallow on my wife's old Galaxy S2, a 5-year old phone. My Google Nexus 4 is still stuck on Lollipop. The S2 supports SD cards, and I can get a new battery on Amazon for 10USD (including same-day delivery).
I would pay full price in a heartbeat for a phone that had all the features from the above list, all of which I have made use of with various different devices. Now I find myself hacking and modding to keep old devices alive (I've replaced the screen on the Nexus4 twice) just for their superior features.
BMW does this, and it's awesome. The first digit is the body style (3 is small, 5 is mid, 7 is large), and the next 2 digits are the engine displacement. They add letters on the end for extra little features: i for Fuel Injection, s for Sport Package, L for Luxury Package, etc. So a 328is is a small car with a 2.8L engine, fuel injection and sport package.
Except when they don't, and put a 2.0 liter engine in a *30, or a 3.0 liter engine in a *28.
They recently added even numbers to denote 2-door variants, and left odd numbers for 4-doors. They've also started putting x or i in front for SUVs or Electric/Hybrids respectively, but the concept holds. The alphanumeric scheme serves a purpose.
The odd/even thing is stupid, especially when the 4 series is just a 3 series with 2 fewer doors, but the 6 series is not related to the 5 series stylistically (other than sharing a platform). The fact is that BMW is prone to marketing nonsense in their names like every other manufacturer. Hyundai is switching to alphanumeric model names, because that's what all mass-production luxury car makers do (it's true of BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti).
The bigger question is, where the hell are you allowed to download a 5GB movie? It sounds to me like the Comcast arm is catering to torrenters while the Universal arm is busy preparing to sue anyone who uses it.
Comcast's own mobile apps allow subscribers to download movies from their On Demand service for offline viewing. You can't export or copy it, but it does actually download the whole thing.
I first played GoldenEye after having already played Quake deathmatch on the PC, and found it to be a frustrating experience, although at least they had a semi-decent control scheme for those used to WASD. "What do you mean you start without a weapon?"
Nobody can outrun remote mines if you know the quick-detonation trick. Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! You get the timing right very quickly after the first couple of deaths, and then you're an unstoppable explosion-throwing machine. To the point that most of my friends would rather play Power Weapons against me. Even though I always remember which doors/windows/surfaces the bullets go through and which ones they don't... and even though I actively track everyone's position by watching their screens. Simultaneously.
I don't particularly care if you're Oddjob or not. I know every weapon and armor spawn and timing with every combination of weapons. I know every blind corner and every defensible camping spot. I use control scheme 1.3. I will kill you repeatedly until you curse my name. Wear brown pants, especially if we face off in the Library.
I read this in Vizzini's voice. But have you developed an immunity to iocane powder?
Real space colonists know only cloudy clouds can cloud clouds. The latest reports from the Venus Communal Cloud Computing Continuity Cluster Clan only add further weight to the growing body of evidence that all attempts to cloud without clouds are doomed to failure. Unless you want to be left behind as the human race hurtles onward and outward into the cosmos, you'd best get clouding today. Clouds! -PCP
Clouds are for spherical cows! MOO say the spherical cloud cows!
Now the fun bit. It's too late to do anything about it. We passed the point of no return back in the 1990s. It's a genuine "bend over and kiss your ass goodbye" situation.
And the good news... Many of us will be dead by 2040-2050 when it starts to get nasty tho we may see some signs as early as 2035 (I'll be 74 then-- my most likely lifespan is to 2038).
Don't be so pessimistic - at the rate medical science is advancing, you'll be able to live well into the apocalypse!
If you don't think AGW is real, why don't you explain where all the energy being absorbed by CO2 in the atmosphere is going. Are you advocating the "magic heat sink back into space" theory?
What do you think trees and other plants breath?
Theoretically, there is a maximum amount of CO2 plants can absorb in a given year. Theoretically, our output could exceed that, even assuming all the CO2 gets where it needs to go to be absorbed. It's worth looking into.
What do you think the earth did before humans existed when a volcano erupted spewing many times more so-called "greenhouse" gasses into the atmosphere?
Nature occasionally killed nearly every living thing on the planet.
To calculate the date for Earth Overshoot Day, the group crunches UN data on thousands of economic sectors such as fisheries, forestry, transport and energy production.
Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, it said, are now the fastest-growing contributor to ecological overshoot, making up 60 percent of humanity's demands on nature -- what is called the ecological "footprint".
I've never even heard of this metric. Is this based on real science or climate activism?
Well, it's based on empirical data.... Because, there's no double blind study where we instantiated multiple Earth's on January 1st and then removed all humans from one to use as the control variable....No, it's not truly falsifiable -- then again you don't have multiple runs at this.
Well, obviously, but falsifiability and such apply to theories, not empirical observations.
...(evidently you aren't). The part where you said "climate activism" means you're just going into confirmation bias here anyway so even though it won't help... Even though it doesn't matter because you've clearly already made up your mind.
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I think in this case, the nature of the food is part of the appeal. It's a niche product, sure, but if people are buying SOYLENT then they expect a certain unidentifiable blandness to it. That's kind of the point.
Ingredient list:
97% Formerly affected customers, 3% corn syrup.
That's what I think of every time I see "made from 35% post consumer content".
The earlier media seem to have a kind of timeless longevity while modern media from the 1800s forward seem to have shrinking lifetimes. Just as the monks and Muslims of the Middle Ages preserved content by copying into new media, won't we need to do the same for our modern content...?
Well, I don't know about Vint Cerf, but every time I upgrade my hard drive, the old one gets copied to a subdirectory of the new one. It's "C:\OLD_C_DRIVE\..." all the way down!
Power limits meant 53.3kbps max. I clocked a few downloads north of 50, so it was possible.
Eh, not really. Compression is relative, sure, to the codec/methodology, but Netflix 4k streams require 25Mbps while their 1080p requires a measly 5Mbps...definitely a tremendous amount of additional information in the 4k stream, compressed or not.
It's surprising that 2160p would take 5x the bandwidth of 1080p when it only has 4x the pixels... Is it less compressed to allow for increased decoding time?
Your comment here...is at odds with your comment here
Well that was a different user, but anyway the claims are not conflicting - they are in agreement. By "doesn't mean anything", I obviously don't mean "has no meaning in the English language," rather it has "no technical meaning". The thing is that TVs and monitors are typically characterized by their resolution. VGA monitor, SVGA, HD, FHD, 720p, 1080p; these terms all tell you something about resolution. In the case of TVs, the normal description is number of horizontal lines. But what's being called "4k" is actually 2160p, which logically should be "2K" since its resolution has two thousand lines. This would make sense and be consistent. "4K" sounds like a technical description, but doesn't actually describe capability of the display, and is only close to four thousand of something if you switch from counting horizontal lines to vertical ones, which is silly.
So by virtue of something being marketed it means something ... an argument over what to call it is nothing more than companies and businesses waving their penises at each other. If it's close enough to 4k it's good enough as long as the marketing people agree.
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. Saying that all marketing language imbues itself with sufficient meaning to justify its use totally obliterates the concept of false advertising. If Cadillac starts calling their 4-cylinder engine a V12 because it has 12 valves and claims it's better than BMW because they only have a V8, you'd be okay with that? Because the fact that they marketed it as a "V12" means that's what V12 means?
Why does this matter? Because companies misusing technical terms to imply capabilities their products don't have is a dishonest business practice, and hurts the consumer. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go attach some onions to my belt, as is the style, and yell at a cloud.
OK, for the pedants. But for the real world "full HD" was 1920x1080 (called 1080p) and 4 times that is indeed 3840x2160. That is exactly 4 times the pixels, so it is indeed 4k.
No, that would make it "4X". The suffix "k" means "thousand," and neither dimension of 3840 nor 2160 is >4000. What people call 4k should be called 2160p or UHD. "4k" is made up marketing hype that doesn't mean anything.
They are (generally) bulkier than the equivalent USB stick.
I linked to the large one because it supports full-size SD cards, and 1TB SDXC in the article is that form factor. But I have several readers for MicroSD that are barely bigger than the card itself. I've seen readers that fit mostly inside the USB port itself, so there's minimal protrusion.
USB-sticks with 8 gb space for $10, that reach a laughable 10 mb/s transfer speed, because anything else would be too good. Artificial limitations to control the market.
Why would anybody at all use a fixed-memory USB stick when these exist?
Let me guess, you use your "PIN number" at "ATM machines".
Built on NT Technology.
Available at the stadium where I watch my favorite baseball team, The Los Angeles Angels.
Hey, that's great Netflix. Nice to see progress on the horizon in video encoding tech. Now would you please add an option to buffer the start of shows so they don't look like pixelated crap for the first 30 seconds or more on my HDTV? Maybe a checkbox somewhere? Even my wife notices, and she's not usually picky about these things. Thanks.
I'm fed up with the constant removal of useful features from cell phones.
-Fits in the palm of your hand! (screen size < 4.5" for one-handed use (in my case anyway, maybe I have Trump hands?))
-Supports SD cards for storage expansion!
-Easily replaceable battery! (both to get new batteries but also to carry more than one)
-Wireless charging - just set it down and it stays charged!
-Standard USB port so you can use USB accessories like keyboards, mice, game controllers, and thumbdrives! (OTG)
-Standard audio jack so it works with all audio accessories!
I've begrudgingly sacrificed most of these features, but I'm holding the line on the headphone jack. In fact, I recently installed Cyanogenmod to get Marshmallow on my wife's old Galaxy S2, a 5-year old phone. My Google Nexus 4 is still stuck on Lollipop. The S2 supports SD cards, and I can get a new battery on Amazon for 10USD (including same-day delivery).
I would pay full price in a heartbeat for a phone that had all the features from the above list, all of which I have made use of with various different devices. Now I find myself hacking and modding to keep old devices alive (I've replaced the screen on the Nexus4 twice) just for their superior features.
BMW does this, and it's awesome. The first digit is the body style (3 is small, 5 is mid, 7 is large), and the next 2 digits are the engine displacement. They add letters on the end for extra little features: i for Fuel Injection, s for Sport Package, L for Luxury Package, etc. So a 328is is a small car with a 2.8L engine, fuel injection and sport package.
Except when they don't, and put a 2.0 liter engine in a *30, or a 3.0 liter engine in a *28.
They recently added even numbers to denote 2-door variants, and left odd numbers for 4-doors. They've also started putting x or i in front for SUVs or Electric/Hybrids respectively, but the concept holds. The alphanumeric scheme serves a purpose.
The odd/even thing is stupid, especially when the 4 series is just a 3 series with 2 fewer doors, but the 6 series is not related to the 5 series stylistically (other than sharing a platform). The fact is that BMW is prone to marketing nonsense in their names like every other manufacturer. Hyundai is switching to alphanumeric model names, because that's what all mass-production luxury car makers do (it's true of BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti).
It says a lot about you if your Autocorrect turns Voltaire into Voltaren or the other way round....
That's the opposite of what Voltaire was trying to achieve, wasn't it?
Infinite places does not mean everywhere. This is a common misconception when dealing with infinite sets.
It's probably not unreasonable to assume there are a finite number of rooms in North Korea.
Which is why ewhac is pointing out the lack of upload speed listed. Likely the upload is pathetically slow. 30 mbit would be impressive for Comcast.
http://www.xfinity.com/interne...
You will notice, nowhere on that page do they list the upload speeds, that is because it is slower than 1/10th the speed of the download.
I have Comcast cable internet in the Chicago area. The speed whenever I test it is 105Mb down, 25 up.
The bigger question is, where the hell are you allowed to download a 5GB movie? It sounds to me like the Comcast arm is catering to torrenters while the Universal arm is busy preparing to sue anyone who uses it.
Comcast's own mobile apps allow subscribers to download movies from their On Demand service for offline viewing. You can't export or copy it, but it does actually download the whole thing.
The have very limited coverage in the Chicago area, and are not an option for the vast majority.
I first played GoldenEye after having already played Quake deathmatch on the PC, and found it to be a frustrating experience, although at least they had a semi-decent control scheme for those used to WASD. "What do you mean you start without a weapon?"
Nobody can outrun remote mines if you know the quick-detonation trick. Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! Throw-BLAM! You get the timing right very quickly after the first couple of deaths, and then you're an unstoppable explosion-throwing machine. To the point that most of my friends would rather play Power Weapons against me. Even though I always remember which doors/windows/surfaces the bullets go through and which ones they don't... and even though I actively track everyone's position by watching their screens. Simultaneously.
I don't particularly care if you're Oddjob or not. I know every weapon and armor spawn and timing with every combination of weapons. I know every blind corner and every defensible camping spot. I use control scheme 1.3. I will kill you repeatedly until you curse my name. Wear brown pants, especially if we face off in the Library.
I read this in Vizzini's voice. But have you developed an immunity to iocane powder?
Real space colonists know only cloudy clouds can cloud clouds. The latest reports from the Venus Communal Cloud Computing Continuity Cluster Clan only add further weight to the growing body of evidence that all attempts to cloud without clouds are doomed to failure. Unless you want to be left behind as the human race hurtles onward and outward into the cosmos, you'd best get clouding today. Clouds! -PCP
Clouds are for spherical cows! MOO say the spherical cloud cows!
Now the fun bit. It's too late to do anything about it. We passed the point of no return back in the 1990s. It's a genuine "bend over and kiss your ass goodbye" situation.
And the good news... Many of us will be dead by 2040-2050 when it starts to get nasty tho we may see some signs as early as 2035 (I'll be 74 then-- my most likely lifespan is to 2038).
Don't be so pessimistic - at the rate medical science is advancing, you'll be able to live well into the apocalypse!
Sadly I am guessing Almitydave is likely over ~40.
Actually under. Do I win something?
If you don't think AGW is real, why don't you explain where all the energy being absorbed by CO2 in the atmosphere is going. Are you advocating the "magic heat sink back into space" theory?
What do you think trees and other plants breath?
Theoretically, there is a maximum amount of CO2 plants can absorb in a given year. Theoretically, our output could exceed that, even assuming all the CO2 gets where it needs to go to be absorbed. It's worth looking into.
What do you think the earth did before humans existed when a volcano erupted spewing many times more so-called "greenhouse" gasses into the atmosphere?
Nature occasionally killed nearly every living thing on the planet.
To calculate the date for Earth Overshoot Day, the group crunches UN data on thousands of economic sectors such as fisheries, forestry, transport and energy production.
Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, it said, are now the fastest-growing contributor to ecological overshoot, making up 60 percent of humanity's demands on nature -- what is called the ecological "footprint".
I've never even heard of this metric. Is this based on real science or climate activism?
Well, it's based on empirical data. ... Because, there's no double blind study where we instantiated multiple Earth's on January 1st and then removed all humans from one to use as the control variable....No, it's not truly falsifiable -- then again you don't have multiple runs at this.
Well, obviously, but falsifiability and such apply to theories, not empirical observations.
...(evidently you aren't). The part where you said "climate activism" means you're just going into confirmation bias here anyway so even though it won't help ... Even though it doesn't matter because you've clearly already made up your mind.
You need to get your internet mind-reading device recalibrated. You could have just posted the link (which wasn't in the article for some reason (a pet peeve of mine regarding science reporting)) without the snark: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/public_data_package.