Just like with passenger airplanes, a "water landing" is known as a crash.
It didn't though, it landed fairly softly in the water and so is reusable.
A plane water landing is a "crash" because (A) it was never a target for landing (where water landing is the backup landing spot for the booster) and (B) the plane is pretty much unusable after a "water landing", along with great risk to those inside.
With the Falcon9 water landing, there was not much risk to the craft. It's just harder to collect.
Sure, hence the other idea of a slide switch to activate/deactivate fob.
That still means you have to dig it out, especially annoying in the winter. I like my keyless entry because as stated, I can just walk up to the door and press a button (on the door) and it unlocks without having to dig the key out of my pocket or jacket.
Now if you are really wanting this, this you could easily hack it up yourself - the wireless key fobs have batteries, so you could just rig some simple outside switch to disconnect the battery. I'll be the people able to make that happen and the people actually wanting this feature is a nearly complete overlap.
Turns out the thief is an autonomous AI as well, that figured out making money for new GPU's to increase processing power was a lot easier stealing cars!
I'm convinced that social media use is generally unhealthy
I can hit myself in the head with a hammer but it doesn't mean I foreswear all hammers.
Use Facebook for what it is - a tool. Not even that great a tool honestly (as you mentioned about feed priorities, the end effects comes off as a hostile flavor of random since if you refresh a page you will never see the same update again). But it's nice to spread the word every now and then about something you did that was interesting, or catch occasional glimpses of friend's lives through the hell-fog that is the New Feed.
Actually what is a bit more useful seems to be groups, I don't think they mangle the feed as much and you can find a more devoted group of people on some subject there. That's a decent tool even for photo sharing.
While they're undoubtedly inflating those numbers, there's no denying their market share. This sure seems like anticompetitive behavior
Successful is not the same as anti-competitive. Honestly you could argue that Facebook is so hopelessly inept at UI there's no way to consider them a monopoly as literally anyone could do a better job than they do. In fact if Facebook were not such a mess they would have very likely absorbed all Twitter users long ago.
I do see where you are gong with the insider info of users of other platforms potentially being used to gain users, but again I think Facebook is so poorly run there's no way they made any successful use of that understanding to gain users... all users Facebook has is purely due to network effect.
Also just because Facebook gained users does not mean other platforms lost them, so I'm also not sure from that angle you could make an anti-competitive case.
Looks like someone cannot read what I wrote - I knew they would be using data generically from a VPN feed, whatever they could - this particular exact confirmation is just a subset of what I knew they would be using.
Don't worry kid, someday you'll be smart enough to figure out how to login, then maybe you'll be able to hand with your intellectual betters.
Almost no-one cares that Facebook is doing all this.
I knew they were doing stuff as mentioned in the summary, as soon as I heard they had a VPN offering. It was obvious. They would because they could.
So I still use Facebook, I'm just mindful of what they are collecting (which is everything possible). I probably would not use the VPN because that is a step to revelatory for me, but on a platform dedicated to over-sharing with others, why are you surprised to find people do not also mind sharing all kinds of data with Facebook?
Face it: you have to leave Facebook. You cannot un-know things like this. There's no rules anymore, they do whatever they want
I would ask the people of Slashdot to face something else; the truth that most people do not care about privacy. At all.
Continuing news like this from Facebook just makes it ever more obvious.
You have to figure out how to live in the world, knowing this fundamental truth and the truth that follows - even if you leave Facebook, there will always be another Facebook like milking of your privacy, because it doesn't bother most people.
However if you feel this phone (without 5G) is worth it and you're the type to upgrade only every 2-3 years, maybe being 5G capable is a tie-breaker and helps future proof the phone a bit.
I'm actually thinking the other way on this one - I was thinking about getting another phone next year (generally try to get a new one every other year). But what I don't want to do is buy first-get hardware with a new technology, just as the networks will be growing and tested through next year, so too will the chips inside be... I'd like to wait just a bit and let someone develop a second generation of 5G chips at least before I brought that into the phone.
So right now I'm leaning to a new phone in 2020 instead of 2019.
That's honestly what I'm really getting at here, because some of the worst battery life I've had from phones is when they are switching between network modes - I travel to Utah a lot and it varies all over between 2G, 3G, LTE and so on. All of that switching really drains the battery to the point where in an area it will be changing a lot I sometimes just go into airplane mode so it will not be spending a lot of effort trying to maintain a connection.
Very probably the first batch of 5G phones will get a lot of reports of poor battery life that are kind of unwarranted in terms of what the phones could normally do with a stable connection.
Apple had the courage to push USB ports on people before they were popular, and had the courage to remove the headphone jack despite protests from an army of losers.
iPhone owners sure do appreciate you all beta testing spotty 5G networks for year or so before an iPhone starts to include them...
I wasn't planning to get a new phone until 2020 anyway so I really appreciate the rest of you spending time, money and sanity to ensure my experience with 5G will be delightful later on.
"Flutter" is what the heart of your battery does when an app with the giant framework loads up.
Kudos for making software development sound erotic though with "stateful hot reloads". You'd pay a few hundred $ for that in Vegas and here it is free!
They donÃ(TM)t take into account the wear, tear of their POV
First as an aside, I would like to point out Slashdot's new level of input nuttiness in how it converted your "don't" to include the TM!!
But in response to your actual response - that part may be a bit fuzzy, but they do get to write of milage on the car as a business expense, and that should cover we are and tear on most vehicles. Most modern vehicles are actually pretty sturdy and you can't be driving some goldbeater working for Lyft/Uber. The drivers I have met mostly have all been at it for a few years so wear and tear issues would have filtered them out if they were really issues.
A number of the drivers I have met are retired, some execs and some engineers... pretty sure they know how to factor in maintenance costs.
Currently, drivers for both Uber and Lyft make negative money
How do we all know you are lying? Two ways:
1) What idiot would work for a day for negative money? Yes there remains tons of Lyft and Uber drivers. Therefore, you are lying.
2) Every Uber or Lyft driver I have talked to (and I talk to all of them) make a fair amount of money, most of them love the job because it's a way they can make extra money and they get to choose when and how often to work. They can easily control for higher rates by choosing to work mostly during peak times where surge pricing nets them a lot more. Therefore, you are lying.
Drivers make not make much at times but all of them are savvy and now how to work the system so they are doing much better than "negative money".
If you want something approaching negative money, try being the owner of.a once valuable taxi license...
No I don't need those things that you mentioned. See, these things SEEM helpful and that, and I'd LOVE to believe that there are developers out there that are willing to spend their time on projects that purely make my life easier. But that's simply not the case.
Dude, I gave you two examples where it is the case already, in phones people use today.
Do you really believe that your phone doesn't send data back to it's servers?
Yes because I am writing apps that use local machine learning models PRECISELY so that we do not have to send data to servers and back. If the model is local it frees you from having to write an API, write a database schema, and secure the whole thing and manage storage/backups.
You don't have to trust developers will avoid sending data to the servers from any kind of altruism. Trust they will use local only models because it is much CHEAPER.
I, and probably others, don't want things like voice recognition, text translation or image content Ids
Laying aside better voice recognition which is very popular, do you also not want:
* Better portrait modes that can accurately blur backgrounds in photos.
* Amazingly improved low light photos for things like Night Shot (that Google has for Android now).
* (most important) Random AI work various apps do to be done on your phone rather than sent to a server?
Besides, I was that guy 10 years ago, telling people to cover the camera on their phones
And now you are railing against technology that moves more processing back onto device instead of being sent off to servers. Who would have thought you would do such a 180!
Because the evidence shows that it remains true as a general proposition.
You can't say that because the bulk of people still go to college and there are no good measurements of what a large number of smart people can do without college.
Because they make a LOT more money
No they do not. That's what I am telling you - that USED TO BE TRUE. It is not true any longer,
Even if you use the studies from your link, it has the average wage for college earners at ~40k, and the college grads at ~65k (from 2014). Although I would argue that is not true any more, lets pretend it is - the value of having 3-4 more years of income plus the value of not having $300k debt is already $420k to the positive for not going to college (really more because I have not added any interest to that debt that real college debt would have) - now when you considering the compounding effect of investment and the college graduate spending quite a lot of income early on servicing debt instead of investing, the value of going to college is utterly gone. Instead of a million more, it's more like the college graduate is earring a million less, and poor during the prime of physical shape when they should be more free to figure out where to live and who to date...
That all assumes that not going to college you still study a decent subject or even just get really good at writing), if you do that you can easily beat that $40k income. Thats what I am telling everyone, if you just buckle down and study something on your own you can probably exceed the average college graduate salary and start your career years earlier to boot, and have no debt.
You'd sure think they could have figured out an ad strategy that would have worked, but then I always imagined the Venn diagram between Tumblr users and AdBlock users would be rather high...
Slashdot Mirror
Just like with passenger airplanes, a "water landing" is known as a crash.
It didn't though, it landed fairly softly in the water and so is reusable.
A plane water landing is a "crash" because (A) it was never a target for landing (where water landing is the backup landing spot for the booster) and (B) the plane is pretty much unusable after a "water landing", along with great risk to those inside.
With the Falcon9 water landing, there was not much risk to the craft. It's just harder to collect.
Sure, hence the other idea of a slide switch to activate/deactivate fob.
That still means you have to dig it out, especially annoying in the winter. I like my keyless entry because as stated, I can just walk up to the door and press a button (on the door) and it unlocks without having to dig the key out of my pocket or jacket.
Now if you are really wanting this, this you could easily hack it up yourself - the wireless key fobs have batteries, so you could just rig some simple outside switch to disconnect the battery. I'll be the people able to make that happen and the people actually wanting this feature is a nearly complete overlap.
Turns out the thief is an autonomous AI as well, that figured out making money for new GPU's to increase processing power was a lot easier stealing cars!
I'm convinced that social media use is generally unhealthy
I can hit myself in the head with a hammer but it doesn't mean I foreswear all hammers.
Use Facebook for what it is - a tool. Not even that great a tool honestly (as you mentioned about feed priorities, the end effects comes off as a hostile flavor of random since if you refresh a page you will never see the same update again). But it's nice to spread the word every now and then about something you did that was interesting, or catch occasional glimpses of friend's lives through the hell-fog that is the New Feed.
Actually what is a bit more useful seems to be groups, I don't think they mangle the feed as much and you can find a more devoted group of people on some subject there. That's a decent tool even for photo sharing.
While they're undoubtedly inflating those numbers, there's no denying their market share. This sure seems like anticompetitive behavior
Successful is not the same as anti-competitive. Honestly you could argue that Facebook is so hopelessly inept at UI there's no way to consider them a monopoly as literally anyone could do a better job than they do. In fact if Facebook were not such a mess they would have very likely absorbed all Twitter users long ago.
I do see where you are gong with the insider info of users of other platforms potentially being used to gain users, but again I think Facebook is so poorly run there's no way they made any successful use of that understanding to gain users... all users Facebook has is purely due to network effect.
Also just because Facebook gained users does not mean other platforms lost them, so I'm also not sure from that angle you could make an anti-competitive case.
Looks like someone cannot read what I wrote - I knew they would be using data generically from a VPN feed, whatever they could - this particular exact confirmation is just a subset of what I knew they would be using.
Don't worry kid, someday you'll be smart enough to figure out how to login, then maybe you'll be able to hand with your intellectual betters.
This is not a difficult matter of logic.
Well it wasn't until you tried to describe it.
Almost no-one cares that Facebook is doing all this.
I knew they were doing stuff as mentioned in the summary, as soon as I heard they had a VPN offering. It was obvious. They would because they could.
So I still use Facebook, I'm just mindful of what they are collecting (which is everything possible). I probably would not use the VPN because that is a step to revelatory for me, but on a platform dedicated to over-sharing with others, why are you surprised to find people do not also mind sharing all kinds of data with Facebook?
That is hilarious! Way to bring Gomer back to current times. Big thumbs up from me.
Face it: you have to leave Facebook. You cannot un-know things like this. There's no rules anymore, they do whatever they want
I would ask the people of Slashdot to face something else; the truth that most people do not care about privacy. At all.
Continuing news like this from Facebook just makes it ever more obvious.
You have to figure out how to live in the world, knowing this fundamental truth and the truth that follows - even if you leave Facebook, there will always be another Facebook like milking of your privacy, because it doesn't bother most people.
However if you feel this phone (without 5G) is worth it and you're the type to upgrade only every 2-3 years, maybe being 5G capable is a tie-breaker and helps future proof the phone a bit.
I'm actually thinking the other way on this one - I was thinking about getting another phone next year (generally try to get a new one every other year). But what I don't want to do is buy first-get hardware with a new technology, just as the networks will be growing and tested through next year, so too will the chips inside be... I'd like to wait just a bit and let someone develop a second generation of 5G chips at least before I brought that into the phone.
So right now I'm leaning to a new phone in 2020 instead of 2019.
The one case maybe 5G would be more useful for would be when tethering, if your laptop needed some large app update...
But basically I agree with you, that I don't see a pressing need. If I have a good strong LTE signal I will already be getting pretty good speeds.
I'm sure 5G will be nice, I just don't see it as a major selling point for a while.
You do know it'll just drop back to 4G
That's honestly what I'm really getting at here, because some of the worst battery life I've had from phones is when they are switching between network modes - I travel to Utah a lot and it varies all over between 2G, 3G, LTE and so on. All of that switching really drains the battery to the point where in an area it will be changing a lot I sometimes just go into airplane mode so it will not be spending a lot of effort trying to maintain a connection.
Very probably the first batch of 5G phones will get a lot of reports of poor battery life that are kind of unwarranted in terms of what the phones could normally do with a stable connection.
Apple had the courage to push USB ports on people before they were popular, and had the courage to remove the headphone jack despite protests from an army of losers.
iPhone owners sure do appreciate you all beta testing spotty 5G networks for year or so before an iPhone starts to include them...
I wasn't planning to get a new phone until 2020 anyway so I really appreciate the rest of you spending time, money and sanity to ensure my experience with 5G will be delightful later on.
"Flutter" is what the heart of your battery does when an app with the giant framework loads up.
Kudos for making software development sound erotic though with "stateful hot reloads". You'd pay a few hundred $ for that in Vegas and here it is free!
They donÃ(TM)t take into account the wear, tear of their POV
First as an aside, I would like to point out Slashdot's new level of input nuttiness in how it converted your "don't" to include the TM!!
But in response to your actual response - that part may be a bit fuzzy, but they do get to write of milage on the car as a business expense, and that should cover we are and tear on most vehicles. Most modern vehicles are actually pretty sturdy and you can't be driving some goldbeater working for Lyft/Uber. The drivers I have met mostly have all been at it for a few years so wear and tear issues would have filtered them out if they were really issues.
A number of the drivers I have met are retired, some execs and some engineers... pretty sure they know how to factor in maintenance costs.
Currently, drivers for both Uber and Lyft make negative money
How do we all know you are lying? Two ways:
1) What idiot would work for a day for negative money? Yes there remains tons of Lyft and Uber drivers. Therefore, you are lying.
2) Every Uber or Lyft driver I have talked to (and I talk to all of them) make a fair amount of money, most of them love the job because it's a way they can make extra money and they get to choose when and how often to work. They can easily control for higher rates by choosing to work mostly during peak times where surge pricing nets them a lot more. Therefore, you are lying.
Drivers make not make much at times but all of them are savvy and now how to work the system so they are doing much better than "negative money".
If you want something approaching negative money, try being the owner of.a once valuable taxi license...
No I don't need those things that you mentioned. See, these things SEEM helpful and that, and I'd LOVE to believe that there are developers out there that are willing to spend their time on projects that purely make my life easier. But that's simply not the case.
Dude, I gave you two examples where it is the case already, in phones people use today.
Do you really believe that your phone doesn't send data back to it's servers?
Yes because I am writing apps that use local machine learning models PRECISELY so that we do not have to send data to servers and back. If the model is local it frees you from having to write an API, write a database schema, and secure the whole thing and manage storage/backups.
You don't have to trust developers will avoid sending data to the servers from any kind of altruism. Trust they will use local only models because it is much CHEAPER.
And how much do they expect advertisers to pay for ads that people are guaranteed not be watching
Isn't that pretty much the case today? Seems like I already get a lot of ads I am not looking at already. :-)
I, and probably others, don't want things like voice recognition, text translation or image content Ids
Laying aside better voice recognition which is very popular, do you also not want:
* Better portrait modes that can accurately blur backgrounds in photos.
* Amazingly improved low light photos for things like Night Shot (that Google has for Android now).
* (most important) Random AI work various apps do to be done on your phone rather than sent to a server?
Besides, I was that guy 10 years ago, telling people to cover the camera on their phones
And now you are railing against technology that moves more processing back onto device instead of being sent off to servers. Who would have thought you would do such a 180!
Now they have almost unlimited ways of being productive
That would be great, except that it takes an infinite amount of time to evaluate an unlimited number of productivity apps. :-)
Because the evidence shows that it remains true as a general proposition.
You can't say that because the bulk of people still go to college and there are no good measurements of what a large number of smart people can do without college.
Because they make a LOT more money
No they do not. That's what I am telling you - that USED TO BE TRUE. It is not true any longer,
Even if you use the studies from your link, it has the average wage for college earners at ~40k, and the college grads at ~65k (from 2014). Although I would argue that is not true any more, lets pretend it is - the value of having 3-4 more years of income plus the value of not having $300k debt is already $420k to the positive for not going to college (really more because I have not added any interest to that debt that real college debt would have) - now when you considering the compounding effect of investment and the college graduate spending quite a lot of income early on servicing debt instead of investing, the value of going to college is utterly gone. Instead of a million more, it's more like the college graduate is earring a million less, and poor during the prime of physical shape when they should be more free to figure out where to live and who to date...
That all assumes that not going to college you still study a decent subject or even just get really good at writing), if you do that you can easily beat that $40k income. Thats what I am telling everyone, if you just buckle down and study something on your own you can probably exceed the average college graduate salary and start your career years earlier to boot, and have no debt.
Perfect time to re-enact "C'était un rendez-vous" with a Tesla and the streets of Madrid.
Get ready for "Era una cita"!!!
You'd sure think they could have figured out an ad strategy that would have worked, but then I always imagined the Venn diagram between Tumblr users and AdBlock users would be rather high...
Can't monetize cheap I guess.
At first I read that as "Obsequious Flatulence", and I thought - you know, China probably does have sensors monitoring even that now.