I'd prefer to pick the size of my battery than have it dictated by the design of the phone. Back in the day, I had three batteries for my old Nokia. The stock battery that I never used but kept charged as a spare, a very thin/light battery for day-to-day use that I charged each night, and a gigantic brick of a battery that could go for a week between charges which I used when travelling. That was normal back in the analog days and I wish manufacturers would bring it back.
I came here to say the same thing. A decade ago, my phones had power/data connections designed so the plug would fail, protecting the phone, and could be replaced cheaply. Look at the business end of an Ericsson T28 for an example. You could drop it from several feet up directly on the plug and the plug itself would absorb much of the impact's energy as it popped free from the phone. Same with my Motorola iDEN phone. My favorite early phone, a Sony Z100, had a charger that used pogo pins to charge the phone. My current phone has that capability but Verizon hasn't seen fit to provide US customers with a way to use the contacts.
Of course, it doesn't take much imagination to figure out why manufacturers and carriers have switched to these more fragile connections. They need to ensure that people are driven to replace their phones every couple years. I've managed to not break any of my USB-charged/connected phones yet but it's certainly more likely with mini/micro-USB plugs than it was with the old style.
My last phone still worked but was getting picky about which USB cable I used by the time I replaced it after 27 months and that was with just one or two plug cycles per day. I only plugged it in at work and left it at my desk all day unless I went to lunch. My current phone gets more plug cycles, tho I try to minimize them by leaving the cord plugged in and moving it from one power source to another. I'd love to have a wireless power delivery method that can give it the full amp at 5 volts that the AC charger provides. Even if I had to use a pad, it would be better than the micro-USB plug. Heck, just having cradles that use pogo pins on the power contacts would be an improvement.
Reminds me of the time in high school when someone ran down a corridor yelling that the math teacher was bald. His response was, [sarcasm]"Why didn't anyone tell me???"[/sarcasm] Of course, hypertext markup language hadn't been invented yet.
Small cooler with dry ice. Put it in the trunk. No worries about melt-water as it sublimates straight from solid to gas. Oh, and crack the windows FFS.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying it doesn't make sense. NASA should have just handled the death benefits. Setting up annuities would have been a minuscule part of their total budget. My grandpa was working in the industry in that era and once the space race was declared "on", the money flowed like wine.
I see only one issue with this: copyright holders making their content cost $5,000 for the super duper limited edition directors cut edition on Betamax just to say it's technically for sale, instead of having it available for a modest cost for download in a universal format.
I wouldn't really have a problem with that as long as they're actually producing it and have it available for purchase. I suppose a clause could be added requiring a minimum number of units be produced and sold (to consumers) each quarter. Miss the target for 8 consecutive quarters and forfeit the right to control distribution. Numbers drop for 6 quarters, dump ten thousand units in $0.99 bins at Walmart and reset the clock. Even if the usual price is $5,000 quite a few copies would get into the hands of the public every couple years.
The limited availability model works for Disney. People lose their shit when Disney movies hit the shelves for a few months at a time.
Holders of trademarks and such are required to go after every infringer they're aware of or they lose the right to protect their IP. Flip it around and make it necessary for content owners to provide their content for sale in order to make an infringement claim. If they're not currently selling or licensing their content, they should lose the right to protect it from unauthorized distribution.
Back in the before time, I knew a guy who ran a BBS who came about a DAT drive by some method or another. I assume he stole it from work. Anywho, that was a lot of storage back then and he wanted to use it to store files for the BBS. What he came up with was a caching system where people tagged the files they wanted, the files would be copied from tape to temp storage on the hard drive, would be downloaded by the user, then deleted from the hard drive. I had a similar system for the CD-ROM changer on my multi-line BBS. If someone on line 3 wanted file from Disc_2 and someone on line 1 wanted a file from Disc_7, the poor thing would just thrash back and forth between discs until I added the caching system.
But it's just totally impractical today. I've got a 26tb array for my bulk storage. Even with hard drive prices still a bit inflated, it could be built for $2500 with nice drive cages. $3200 for 39tb using 3tb drives.
An LTO 5 library is going to run you $5000 for just the drive/library. You weren't going to stand there swapping tapes by hand, were you? Another $550ish to fill it with tapes. And that's only 1.5tb gigs per cartridge. (Native capacity is what you should be using for this type of data.) 16*1.5=24tb online for around $5500. Nevermind the cost of the caching system that would be needed just to make it work in even the most crude manner with a minimum of 5 minutes between initial request and the file being available for use. More than double if it spans tapes.
So roughly double the cost for a similar amount of storage with horrendous access times. Sounds like a plan. You should totally do it and report back.
They'll survive it the way they've survived the iPod Touch all this time.
I honestly don't understand the 7" tablet market. If I want small, I've got my smartphone. If I want big, I can use a 10" tablet. WTF am I supposed to do with something that's too big to fit comfortably in my pocket but so small it's still hard to read?
It's getting closer but there's still a gap. It's about $0.20/gig vs $1.00/gig for the 3rd gen Seagate vs. SSDs that can do 500/500 mb/sec read/write. That's rounding hybrid up and SSD down. You're talking 5x cost for a similar amount of storage.
Bingo. One of the major benefits of writing notes is that it helps imprint the information in your brain. You're not only listening, you're passing that information through to other parts of your brain as you convert the words to physical motion and yet another part of your brain as you watch yourself write. The easier and more efficient you make your note-taking, the less you're using your brain and the less material you'll retain. Until we have Matrix or Battlefield Earth technology, we aren't going go have effective shortcuts for learning. You just have to put in the time and effort necessary to re-map your brain.
Reminds me of the time I took a throwaway class just because it seemed interesting. The lectures and test were based entirely on the textbooks. The only real reason to go to class was the Q&A. I "studied" for the test by re-typing the relevant portions of the textbooks in the week before the test. I friggin' nailed those tests. 100%. Simply typing those chapters locked the relevant info into my head. Of course, a year later, I would have failed the same tests miserably because I never used the info again after the final. Doesn't matter how deep your knowledge is if you don't constantly refresh it.
There's too much happening. What was that? A turtle stole my teeth!
If he doesn't want so much detail, he's free to turn down the resolution and quality settings until it looks like he's back on the NES.
My first console was a 2600. (A friend's parents had Pong.) I've had many consoles since and played games on my computers since the Z80 days. I've never played a game and said, "Gosh, I wish the environment wasn't so detailed." Even IF needs room descriptions. I'm building a 7680x1440 rig right now and I want those pixels to sparkle. If I want to imagine everything in my head, I'll read a book.
...it looks like they originally expected to take 6 years to roll out their plan. Even if they'd been on schedule, by the time everything was in place, it would have been obsolete.
Longtrip is loooooooooong. I've made a similar trip on the 'trak a couple times and only did it the second time because I got a deal on a sleeper "cabin" and wanted to try it.
BTW, Amtrak's code for Sac'to is SAC. PDX to SAC is 15 hours and 50 minutes if the train doesn't get delayed. ProTip: The train always gets delayed. You should plan to be on that train for 17 hours minimum. After 8 hours or so in an upright seat, it starts feeling like the intro to Dead Man. The Coast Starlight is scheduled to leave Portland at 2:25pm so you're going to be spending the entire night on that train, arriving at 6:15 according to the schedule, more like 7:00 according to reality. Add the cheapest sleeper room and you're at around $400. One way. Or do you really want to try to sleep in a chair?
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That would be great if I had an iphone.
I'd prefer to pick the size of my battery than have it dictated by the design of the phone. Back in the day, I had three batteries for my old Nokia. The stock battery that I never used but kept charged as a spare, a very thin/light battery for day-to-day use that I charged each night, and a gigantic brick of a battery that could go for a week between charges which I used when travelling. That was normal back in the analog days and I wish manufacturers would bring it back.
I came here to say the same thing. A decade ago, my phones had power/data connections designed so the plug would fail, protecting the phone, and could be replaced cheaply. Look at the business end of an Ericsson T28 for an example. You could drop it from several feet up directly on the plug and the plug itself would absorb much of the impact's energy as it popped free from the phone. Same with my Motorola iDEN phone. My favorite early phone, a Sony Z100, had a charger that used pogo pins to charge the phone. My current phone has that capability but Verizon hasn't seen fit to provide US customers with a way to use the contacts.
Of course, it doesn't take much imagination to figure out why manufacturers and carriers have switched to these more fragile connections. They need to ensure that people are driven to replace their phones every couple years. I've managed to not break any of my USB-charged/connected phones yet but it's certainly more likely with mini/micro-USB plugs than it was with the old style.
My last phone still worked but was getting picky about which USB cable I used by the time I replaced it after 27 months and that was with just one or two plug cycles per day. I only plugged it in at work and left it at my desk all day unless I went to lunch. My current phone gets more plug cycles, tho I try to minimize them by leaving the cord plugged in and moving it from one power source to another. I'd love to have a wireless power delivery method that can give it the full amp at 5 volts that the AC charger provides. Even if I had to use a pad, it would be better than the micro-USB plug. Heck, just having cradles that use pogo pins on the power contacts would be an improvement.
OMG, he's rich! Yeah, we kinda know that already.
Reminds me of the time in high school when someone ran down a corridor yelling that the math teacher was bald. His response was, [sarcasm]"Why didn't anyone tell me???"[/sarcasm] Of course, hypertext markup language hadn't been invented yet.
Trick question! You can't have an air battle in space.
Yep. A thin rectangle with rounded corners...and the icons are arranged in a grid!
Small cooler with dry ice. Put it in the trunk. No worries about melt-water as it sublimates straight from solid to gas. Oh, and crack the windows FFS.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying it doesn't make sense. NASA should have just handled the death benefits. Setting up annuities would have been a minuscule part of their total budget. My grandpa was working in the industry in that era and once the space race was declared "on", the money flowed like wine.
I'll bet it's crane style.
I see only one issue with this: copyright holders making their content cost $5,000 for the super duper limited edition directors cut edition on Betamax just to say it's technically for sale, instead of having it available for a modest cost for download in a universal format.
I wouldn't really have a problem with that as long as they're actually producing it and have it available for purchase. I suppose a clause could be added requiring a minimum number of units be produced and sold (to consumers) each quarter. Miss the target for 8 consecutive quarters and forfeit the right to control distribution. Numbers drop for 6 quarters, dump ten thousand units in $0.99 bins at Walmart and reset the clock. Even if the usual price is $5,000 quite a few copies would get into the hands of the public every couple years.
The limited availability model works for Disney. People lose their shit when Disney movies hit the shelves for a few months at a time.
Holders of trademarks and such are required to go after every infringer they're aware of or they lose the right to protect their IP. Flip it around and make it necessary for content owners to provide their content for sale in order to make an infringement claim. If they're not currently selling or licensing their content, they should lose the right to protect it from unauthorized distribution.
Marge: Homer, has the weight loss tape reduced your appetite?
Homer: Ah, lamentably no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satieties.
That was one of the first things I noticed. Same car would cost $20-25k in the US. And I'm probably low-balling that.
Someone launch a Kickstarter project to buy this then put the ROMs out for the rest of the world to use on emulators.
...If anything like that ever happens, nobody will give a shit about your indie game.
Back in the before time, I knew a guy who ran a BBS who came about a DAT drive by some method or another. I assume he stole it from work. Anywho, that was a lot of storage back then and he wanted to use it to store files for the BBS. What he came up with was a caching system where people tagged the files they wanted, the files would be copied from tape to temp storage on the hard drive, would be downloaded by the user, then deleted from the hard drive. I had a similar system for the CD-ROM changer on my multi-line BBS. If someone on line 3 wanted file from Disc_2 and someone on line 1 wanted a file from Disc_7, the poor thing would just thrash back and forth between discs until I added the caching system.
But it's just totally impractical today. I've got a 26tb array for my bulk storage. Even with hard drive prices still a bit inflated, it could be built for $2500 with nice drive cages. $3200 for 39tb using 3tb drives.
An LTO 5 library is going to run you $5000 for just the drive/library. You weren't going to stand there swapping tapes by hand, were you? Another $550ish to fill it with tapes. And that's only 1.5tb gigs per cartridge. (Native capacity is what you should be using for this type of data.) 16*1.5=24tb online for around $5500. Nevermind the cost of the caching system that would be needed just to make it work in even the most crude manner with a minimum of 5 minutes between initial request and the file being available for use. More than double if it spans tapes.
So roughly double the cost for a similar amount of storage with horrendous access times. Sounds like a plan. You should totally do it and report back.
They'll survive it the way they've survived the iPod Touch all this time.
I honestly don't understand the 7" tablet market. If I want small, I've got my smartphone. If I want big, I can use a 10" tablet. WTF am I supposed to do with something that's too big to fit comfortably in my pocket but so small it's still hard to read?
It's getting closer but there's still a gap. It's about $0.20/gig vs $1.00/gig for the 3rd gen Seagate vs. SSDs that can do 500/500 mb/sec read/write. That's rounding hybrid up and SSD down. You're talking 5x cost for a similar amount of storage.
Damn straight. It's Zulu time.
Bingo. One of the major benefits of writing notes is that it helps imprint the information in your brain. You're not only listening, you're passing that information through to other parts of your brain as you convert the words to physical motion and yet another part of your brain as you watch yourself write. The easier and more efficient you make your note-taking, the less you're using your brain and the less material you'll retain. Until we have Matrix or Battlefield Earth technology, we aren't going go have effective shortcuts for learning. You just have to put in the time and effort necessary to re-map your brain.
Reminds me of the time I took a throwaway class just because it seemed interesting. The lectures and test were based entirely on the textbooks. The only real reason to go to class was the Q&A. I "studied" for the test by re-typing the relevant portions of the textbooks in the week before the test. I friggin' nailed those tests. 100%. Simply typing those chapters locked the relevant info into my head. Of course, a year later, I would have failed the same tests miserably because I never used the info again after the final. Doesn't matter how deep your knowledge is if you don't constantly refresh it.
There's too much happening. What was that? A turtle stole my teeth!
If he doesn't want so much detail, he's free to turn down the resolution and quality settings until it looks like he's back on the NES.
My first console was a 2600. (A friend's parents had Pong.) I've had many consoles since and played games on my computers since the Z80 days. I've never played a game and said, "Gosh, I wish the environment wasn't so detailed." Even IF needs room descriptions. I'm building a 7680x1440 rig right now and I want those pixels to sparkle. If I want to imagine everything in my head, I'll read a book.
...it looks like they originally expected to take 6 years to roll out their plan. Even if they'd been on schedule, by the time everything was in place, it would have been obsolete.
Longtrip is loooooooooong. I've made a similar trip on the 'trak a couple times and only did it the second time because I got a deal on a sleeper "cabin" and wanted to try it.
BTW, Amtrak's code for Sac'to is SAC. PDX to SAC is 15 hours and 50 minutes if the train doesn't get delayed. ProTip: The train always gets delayed. You should plan to be on that train for 17 hours minimum. After 8 hours or so in an upright seat, it starts feeling like the intro to Dead Man. The Coast Starlight is scheduled to leave Portland at 2:25pm so you're going to be spending the entire night on that train, arriving at 6:15 according to the schedule, more like 7:00 according to reality. Add the cheapest sleeper room and you're at around $400. One way. Or do you really want to try to sleep in a chair?
Like building new reactors to replace the old ones.
Oh, I'm sure the link was valid. Anyone who clicked it is banned for life from all future events.