These App store "apps" require a 365 subscription. They are not the downloadable non-subscription versions that Microsoft made available recently. The in-app purchases seem to be for the 365 subscription.
I would pay double what they are asking before I would continue to subscribe to a service with ads. I can't describe how much I hate them -- enough that I have never paid for "cable" or even watched over-the-air television. I've been waiting for ad-free over-the-top services my whole life.
Right. This doesn't sound like gaming the system to me. This sounds like encouraging people with positive experiences to write a review. Because generally people are moved to write reviews out of anger.
I'm trying to figure out why the people who want the device but are worried about their privacy don't use the mute button on the top of their Echo. Is there some conspiracy about this not working that I'm unaware of? Why would I replace the mute button with another device that may also be listening to me?
At least one USA company is already selling water in a box. It's not a matter of coming up with something better, it is a matter of slapping a tax or a deposit on something that is undesirable.
Good point. They have 1.3 billion people in their country, over 60% of whom do not have access to a toilet and yet they are launching satellites that weight as much as a full size pickup truck into orbit. Are they a developing nation? What's the metric?
I'm sure that every phone will support 5G in the future, but for me the exciting possibility is that it becomes realistic competition for the telco's broadband services. With 5G on its way and SpaceX getting the green light for its LEO satellite constellation, I think the writing is on the wall for crappy telco package deals and bandwidth caps. We can hope anyway...
I don't bet against NASA anymore. After Curiosity used the "Sky Crane" to land on Mars I had to sing the Star-Spangled Banner naked on the roof of an office building in Ohio. Which meant that it was just another day in Ohio, but I was certain that that thing was going to be a smoking hole in Mars...
Great question. Pisa was the very last thing on my list of things to see in Tuscany because it is a tourist trap. But I went anyway and it was my favorite place. Awesome things about the cathedral at Piza:
1. Fibonacci is buried there. I turned around and there was his grave. I nearly cried. 2. The tower is a bell tower. It has very narrow stairs that wind up and down the tower and are made of marble. So many people have climbed the tower that all of the stairs are worn down in the middle from peoples shoes. I would say the middle of the steps has been worn off by 2-3 inches. 3. The "baptismal" is a third building on the site and is a feat of sound engineering. Every 30 minutes a person will go into the baptismal and "sing a chord". This is possible because a note that is sung in the building echoes around the interior so long it is possible to get three notes out and hear them all interact with each other. 4. The Italians at Pisa are friendly. That is not true of all Italians in Italy...
When I was there they had a sort of scaffolding at the base of the tower which was clearly designed to slowly straighten it over many years. I'm glad it worked. I asked if they would straighten it completely and I was told: "That would make it less famous".
Highly recommended if you ever get the chance to go.
Did you check out Audiâ(TM)s big e-tron release? Did you find the actual vehicle as underwhelming as I did? How much money have they poured into that? Formula-e and everything?
The e-golf. The i3. Whatâ(TM)s the range on these? These are not serious competitors to Tesla. Weâ(TM)ll have to see if the Porsche Taycan is a real contender. Iâ(TM)m hopeful, but I am beginning that think that these massive automotive corporate dinosaurs canâ(TM)t do it.
Ya, I totally agree with you. The word vaporware needs to be used on the endless stream of press releases from mainstream auto manufacturers about their real-soon-now EVs. âoeWeâ(TM)re going to do this too, real soon nowâ was a Microsoft tactic back in the day when they needed time to build a competing product with their slow moving monopolistic behemoth of a company.
Big changes are coming to the auomotive market over the next few years. Not going to be pretty.
Not following you. The biosphere you speak of has, at any given time, a finite capacity for transforming CO2 and Oxygen to each other. If I put you in a plastic bag with a houseplant you could both, in theory, survive, but because your ability to convert Oxygen to CO2 is greater than the ability of the houseplant to convert your CO2 to Oxygen, you would eventually pass out.
You can't discount any source of CO2 in this biosphere because of where you think it came from. The problem is that CO2 generators are eclipsing CO2 sinks and human breathing is part of the generator.
Fossil fuels are part of the problem because they use to be CO2 sinks. Until we dragged them out of the ground and burnt them to turn them into CO2 generators.
We're fucked no matter what the Repulicans or anybody else does. Human breathing creates 0.9kg per day. The population of the earth is 7.7 billion, so just the lot of us stupid hairless monkeys running around breathing the air contributes 2.53 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere every year. This is the equivalent of about 1/4 of all of China's emissions (and they are the top emitter by far).
And this is before you think about having those 7.7 billion stupid humans eat stuff, heat their homes, fart, make more stupid humans, etc.
The only hope for the human race is that some disease comes along and wipes most of us out. There is nothing you or anybody else can do to save us and even our deaths create CO2 (bonus points if you go for cremation).
It's sad but it's true. If we want to save the earth we need to stop breeding like it's our right to procreate beyond control. But we have no fucking self-control at all so we won't. I for one am looking forward to seeing our Mad Max future. I want to be the guy with the flaming guitar.
And swapping gas for electric vehicles reduces both NOx and CO2 pollution at the same time, as long as the car is recharged with solar or renewables, and not a coal fired power station.
I did the math on this some time ago and can't put my finger on the sources this instant, but it turns out that (because of the economies of scale) an electric car using electricity produced by a coal power generating station emits less CO2 than an equivalent-sized gasoline vehicle. Obviously, power generation with renewables is clearly better for the environment, but electric vehicles are better for the environment no matter what source the power generation comes from.
In addition to the issues you very eloquently described is also the problem of the process and mat heating up the handset. Lithium Ion batteries are particularly susceptible to heat and Apple doesnâ(TM)t need more people complaining about shortened battery life because their chargers are cooking their phones.
I just purchased a Thinkpad in favor of a mac laptop (I've been using the Apple brand exclusively for about a decade) because of their shitty keyboards, and I will be replacing my iPhone 7 plus with something non-Apple unless their new phones have much better battery life. I don't know what they are thinking, but a phone that lasts a solid day is more important than slightly faster graphics performance for the game you can play for an hour before your phone is dead.
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These App store "apps" require a 365 subscription. They are not the downloadable non-subscription versions that Microsoft made available recently. The in-app purchases seem to be for the 365 subscription.
Oh and here I am without mod points...
I would pay double what they are asking before I would continue to subscribe to a service with ads. I can't describe how much I hate them -- enough that I have never paid for "cable" or even watched over-the-air television. I've been waiting for ad-free over-the-top services my whole life.
Right. This doesn't sound like gaming the system to me. This sounds like encouraging people with positive experiences to write a review. Because generally people are moved to write reviews out of anger.
No doubt the big money will be in Data Scientist training programs.
Just for the record, I had nothing to do with this.
Doesn't have to be a "conspiracy". How do you KNOW the mute button works or what it does?
Because it is a hardware switch which cuts off electricity to the microphone. This has been explored by many many tear-downs. Search for yourself.
So unless someone has sneaked into your house/office and swapped it for some elaborate bypass it is not going to hear anything when it is activated.
I'm trying to figure out why the people who want the device but are worried about their privacy don't use the mute button on the top of their Echo. Is there some conspiracy about this not working that I'm unaware of? Why would I replace the mute button with another device that may also be listening to me?
It's listening devices all the way down!
At least one USA company is already selling water in a box. It's not a matter of coming up with something better, it is a matter of slapping a tax or a deposit on something that is undesirable.
Because the World Health Organization told us I guess:
"India with 626 million people who practice open defecation, has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined"
They seem to define Toilet as not practicing open defecation.
Good point. They have 1.3 billion people in their country, over 60% of whom do not have access to a toilet and yet they are launching satellites that weight as much as a full size pickup truck into orbit. Are they a developing nation? What's the metric?
I'm sure that every phone will support 5G in the future, but for me the exciting possibility is that it becomes realistic competition for the telco's broadband services. With 5G on its way and SpaceX getting the green light for its LEO satellite constellation, I think the writing is on the wall for crappy telco package deals and bandwidth caps. We can hope anyway...
I don't bet against NASA anymore. After Curiosity used the "Sky Crane" to land on Mars I had to sing the Star-Spangled Banner naked on the roof of an office building in Ohio. Which meant that it was just another day in Ohio, but I was certain that that thing was going to be a smoking hole in Mars...
Great question. Pisa was the very last thing on my list of things to see in Tuscany because it is a tourist trap. But I went anyway and it was my favorite place. Awesome things about the cathedral at Piza:
1. Fibonacci is buried there. I turned around and there was his grave. I nearly cried.
2. The tower is a bell tower. It has very narrow stairs that wind up and down the tower and are made of marble. So many people have climbed the tower that all of the stairs are worn down in the middle from peoples shoes. I would say the middle of the steps has been worn off by 2-3 inches.
3. The "baptismal" is a third building on the site and is a feat of sound engineering. Every 30 minutes a person will go into the baptismal and "sing a chord". This is possible because a note that is sung in the building echoes around the interior so long it is possible to get three notes out and hear them all interact with each other.
4. The Italians at Pisa are friendly. That is not true of all Italians in Italy...
When I was there they had a sort of scaffolding at the base of the tower which was clearly designed to slowly straighten it over many years. I'm glad it worked. I asked if they would straighten it completely and I was told: "That would make it less famous".
Highly recommended if you ever get the chance to go.
This seems like a problem that SpaceX is going to solve for them.
The Canadian government will follow this up with funding for First Nations to get on board and then claim victory.
Did you check out Audiâ(TM)s big e-tron release? Did you find the actual vehicle as underwhelming as I did? How much money have they poured into that? Formula-e and everything?
The e-golf. The i3. Whatâ(TM)s the range on these? These are not serious competitors to Tesla. Weâ(TM)ll have to see if the Porsche Taycan is a real contender. Iâ(TM)m hopeful, but I am beginning that think that these massive automotive corporate dinosaurs canâ(TM)t do it.
Ya, I totally agree with you. The word vaporware needs to be used on the endless stream of press releases from mainstream auto manufacturers about their real-soon-now EVs. âoeWeâ(TM)re going to do this too, real soon nowâ was a Microsoft tactic back in the day when they needed time to build a competing product with their slow moving monopolistic behemoth of a company.
Big changes are coming to the auomotive market over the next few years. Not going to be pretty.
Not following you. The biosphere you speak of has, at any given time, a finite capacity for transforming CO2 and Oxygen to each other. If I put you in a plastic bag with a houseplant you could both, in theory, survive, but because your ability to convert Oxygen to CO2 is greater than the ability of the houseplant to convert your CO2 to Oxygen, you would eventually pass out.
You can't discount any source of CO2 in this biosphere because of where you think it came from. The problem is that CO2 generators are eclipsing CO2 sinks and human breathing is part of the generator.
Fossil fuels are part of the problem because they use to be CO2 sinks. Until we dragged them out of the ground and burnt them to turn them into CO2 generators.
Here is the Wikipedia article on breathing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
"The gas exhaled is 4% to 5% by volume of carbon dioxide, about a 100 fold increase over the inhaled amount."
So we effectively expel 100x the amount of CO2 we take in.
Here is a really good breakdown of the math which lines up with Wikipedia:
https://www.globe.gov/explore-...
We're fucked no matter what the Repulicans or anybody else does. Human breathing creates 0.9kg per day. The population of the earth is 7.7 billion, so just the lot of us stupid hairless monkeys running around breathing the air contributes 2.53 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere every year. This is the equivalent of about 1/4 of all of China's emissions (and they are the top emitter by far).
And this is before you think about having those 7.7 billion stupid humans eat stuff, heat their homes, fart, make more stupid humans, etc.
The only hope for the human race is that some disease comes along and wipes most of us out. There is nothing you or anybody else can do to save us and even our deaths create CO2 (bonus points if you go for cremation).
It's sad but it's true. If we want to save the earth we need to stop breeding like it's our right to procreate beyond control. But we have no fucking self-control at all so we won't. I for one am looking forward to seeing our Mad Max future. I want to be the guy with the flaming guitar.
And swapping gas for electric vehicles reduces both NOx and CO2 pollution at the same time, as long as the car is recharged with solar or renewables, and not a coal fired power station.
I did the math on this some time ago and can't put my finger on the sources this instant, but it turns out that (because of the economies of scale) an electric car using electricity produced by a coal power generating station emits less CO2 than an equivalent-sized gasoline vehicle. Obviously, power generation with renewables is clearly better for the environment, but electric vehicles are better for the environment no matter what source the power generation comes from.
Indeed. It probably began with Jethro Tull.
the fine is only 500,000 Pound (roughly $6,62,000)
Damn, I will never get used to the way the Europeans use commas and decimal points.
In addition to the issues you very eloquently described is also the problem of the process and mat heating up the handset. Lithium Ion batteries are particularly susceptible to heat and Apple doesnâ(TM)t need more people complaining about shortened battery life because their chargers are cooking their phones.
Nice try Tim. We know who you really are.
I just purchased a Thinkpad in favor of a mac laptop (I've been using the Apple brand exclusively for about a decade) because of their shitty keyboards, and I will be replacing my iPhone 7 plus with something non-Apple unless their new phones have much better battery life. I don't know what they are thinking, but a phone that lasts a solid day is more important than slightly faster graphics performance for the game you can play for an hour before your phone is dead.