this is what they want us to believe to keep costs down.
You won't believe how old the technology is in a SIM card. It's actually quite ancient.
Think about it - your SIM probably has a 32k storage area, yet if you saw the actual die, it's remarkably big for what it is (just an 8-bit microcontroller and storage) - something that would in normal circumstances literally the size of a grain of sand if you used recent, but not cutting edge, fab technology.
Instead, the dies are relatively big (measured in the mm scale) - it's because SIMs are so disposable so the manufacturers basically buy up ancient fabs and equipment for basically nothing. (It's probably sub-micron by now, but not the deep-sub-micron we use for bleeding edge stuff). Students in VLSI design often use micron-scale technology as it's basically extremely cheap to run. Even the masks used don't have to be particularly precise (a modern mask for a fab is on the order of $100K, each, and you often need 20 or more masks) so those are really cheap. And probably reused in the end, as well.
SIM cards are stupidly cheap because of this - which is the entire point - that $10 they charge for a SIM card is pure profit for the most part.
Recently, I saw a picture of a diamond-encrusted Apple watch band / case. I'm sure there will be a market for third parties, catering to people with more money than either common sense or fashion sense to 'improve' their smart watch in one way or the other.
Don't laugh. Turns out custom straps actually are quite important, and it's a mistake many Swiss watchmakers forget about. The fact that Apple provides a wide range from the get go signals other manufacturers to step their game up.
A horologist's take on the Apple Watch. It's not perfect, and it's still a digital watch, but the Swiss need to get their heads out of their asses, and take a look at what Apple brought to the table because there is genuine improvements Apple did.
This is a fight that doesn't need to be dealt with. Just call it a CNC mill, which is designed for fabricating automotive parts. Hoppes calls their #9 product, "lubricating oil", instead of "gun oil." Might as well not have to deal with a wedge issue when it comes to business if one doesn't have to.
Unless the whole point is to create publicity by deliberately creating wedge issues. In other words, it doesn't matter what FedEx said, because now I have a great advertising platform - buy my stuff!.
Like Apple developers who deliberately code something that will not pass muster to cry foul and say "oh, we have an Android version buy that!".
The goal is not force companies to act in ways you want them to act so you can create attention for yourself. "Poor me, the big bad FedEx won't ship my stuff! Oh, btw, I have a new gunsmithing machine! You can buy it today!". That's how I read this advertisement.
That's what it really is - an ad. Creating a wedge gives you publicity that can be worth several million dollars and be far more effective.
This bill would move forward with the XL portion of the pipeline. The Keystone pipeline currently terminates at the refineries near Chicago, Il. The XL portion of the pipeline would extends the line to the Gulf Coast, allowing for the oil to be more easily re-sold on the world market as opposed to being land locked into the US market.
Exactly.
In fact, the US has tried to compromise with Canada on this issue. They asked if they could buy the oil and refine it on the gulf coast (more refineries) - we said no. They asked if they could buy it and sell it - again, we said no. Also asked if they could buy capacity to ship oil around - no. Absolutely no benefit other than having a big fat pipe through your land that you can look at and practically not touch.
Etc.
In effect, Keystone XL is less about US oil interests and more about getting Canadian oil to the sea. There will be a small US benefit in the form of construction jobs and maybe the odd person for monitoring, but that's it - most of the benefit goes to Canada who can sell their oil at higher prices. If a leak happens, too bad, so sad.
It's quite funny what a wedge issue it is, when it's clear that other than a few jobs, the US is getting shafted by having this pipeline that not only can the US not use, but is basically just for another country's benefit. Which is a completely strange situation since it's usually the other way around and it's the US throwing its weight around.
Hell, gas prices could very well go UP because of this - think Canada would want to sell to Chicago when they could sell to oil tankers in the gulf coast?
I'm thinking some people really don't understand what they're agreeing to by accepting Keystone XL. Yeah, pipelines are generally better, but what good is a pipeline that's a look-but-don't-touch? You can't get at the oil inside, you can't use it move your oil, you can't even go and buy/sell the oil inside.
No, The real issue (I believe) is that they can't find engineers willing to work for less than other engineers (2/3rd the pay and no benefits).
I've seen when they do a postings for H1B jobs, Its tailored specifically to that person for THAT job, then its posted for just long enough to meet the legal requirement to "prove" they tried to find a qualified US engineer but nope, They didn't find any so the H1B person is kept
Just because a law can be exploited, doesn't mean it's always exploited.
Engineers are more than just computer or electrical - they span the range from mechanical, civil, chemical, etc., Even electrical engineering has a bunch of specialities.
In fact, if you can avoid computers, there are real shortages in engineering (because everyone sees the glitz of the internet, video games, computers and goes for that.). I mean, if you want to stay close to the field, there's analog IC designers where the pay is practically 6 digits as a new grad, power engineering is similar (power utilities all over the globe can't find enough people to just replace retirements, nevermind trying to expand their systems).
Oh yeah, the math is a lot harder and you better have a good grasp of your EM equations and calculus, but the work is out there.
Just because the tech industry is known for abusing its employees (unpaid interns? that's practically a tech invention since interns in other fields, including medical, are paid. Poorly paid, perhaps, but still paid), doesn't necessarily apply to other occupations.
I suppose the biggest question is why tech employees let themselves be as mistreated as they are. (My gut says it's because most tech workers feel "superior" over the everyday Joe so they overestimate their knowledge of the world - why bother with unions and labor laws - they're for people who aren't as "smart" and employers know that.).
Hell, a workweek isn't necessarily 40 hours - it can easily be 35 (7 hrs/day) or 37.5 (7.5hrs/day) and overtime is compensated for. And this is in North America, not Europe.
Of course, there are terrible employers everywhere who do take advantage of their employees, but there are also plenty of companies where the need for H1-Bs is valid and they often will pay a premium just to get someone to fill the position (and often do anything they can to convert the to full citizen as a two way perk - to both attract someone willing to immigrate, and as a way to hang onto the employee).
Yes Martha, there ARE people who do use laws the way they were intended to be used.
I'm not an electrical engineer or anything close, but I live in a developing country and notice that the biggest problem here is not 3G or LTE speed (which just works fine everywhere) but that when a zone gets a little crowded, even if the signal strength is high, connectivity drops to E and stops working.
Is this a problem that the specification does not allow more than a certain amount of frequencies per antenna and more are needed? As in, If it's so easy to saturate an antenna, shouldn't the extra frequencies, speed and bandwidth be used for allowing more connections instead first?
Most likely the control channel gets overloaded. It's the problem AT&T had when the iPhone came out - the iPhone was very aggressive with power management which resulted in it basically setting up and tearing down data connections on an almost per-tcp connection basis. This results in control channel overload, and other devices can't access it when they need it - perhaps when doing a handoff. The end result is the call drops because the phone can't establish communications with the next cell in time. And there is no relation to a cell's load level and its control channel load level - AT&T found that while the control channel was overloaded, they still had plenty of data and voice channels available - resulting in the worst performing carrier having the best data speeds.
The control channel is used to set up and tear down links (voice channels, data channels), perform handoffs, handle SMS, etc. In crowded places, this can easily be overloaded - most providers set up additional micro-cells in densely populated areas to prevent this.
Your phone is likewise seeing the same problem - it can't establish a 3G connection with the tower (overloaded control channel), so it falls back to 2G (which uses a different set of bands and thus has its own set of control channels) which are far less crowded where it can obtain service. Hence the "E" (stands for EDGE).
I mean at the end of the day the result is the same. However I would consider that explanation as "plausible" (I still would not buy it without some verifiable facts posted along with it).
Actually, it's more like a few conservative flash mobs went and complained.
Remember when Apple was forced to remove all porn apps from the App Store? I'm sure it wasn't because they wanted to, but there's a group of dedicated social conservatives who do nothing but complain about anything even remotely explicit.
Think back to the superbowl "wardrobe malfunction" - it probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere if not for the group being vocal in their complaints. When the FCC decided to filter out mass complaints of their nature, well, they went after the next target - Apple.
And you can easily bet they're the ones flagging tons of videos off YouTube, and probably they discovered Blogger.
Hell, I won't be surprised if they discover Android next and start getting all the more explicity apps there removed. (Yes, you can sideload, but that cuts down your visibility tremendously, and sideloading these kind of apps is already sort of questionable, given they're very ripe vectors for getting malware on Android).
These sort of groups will stop at nothing to ensure society is clean and full of "pure Christian values".
SteamOS is still under active development and works quite well. I anticipate we'll see some dedicated hardware halfway through 2015.
That was stated last year. In fact, there were plenty of prototype Steam Machines last year.
The problem is no the idea, but the sales pitch. When people considered the Xbone expensive at $500, and the best machine that was out was an i3 with dedicated graphics, you really start to wonder about its viability. Sure there were competent boxes out there, if you're willing to pay for it (say over $1000), which buys a LOT of PSN or Xbox Live Gold cards (practicaly 10 year's worth).
Then there's the upgrade path - considering the Xbox360 and PS3 are last gen, they still lasted 7-8 years. Will a $500 steam machine running an i3 last 7-8 years or will it require constant upgrading? Will your $1000 one last? You can argue that "you can turn down the graphics!" but will that just cause users to think the graphics are crappy because they have to run it in a virtual VGA upscaled to 1080p graphics mode?
That's the fundamental problem. Valve sees Steam Machines as specialized PCs that sit in the PC section of Best Buy alongside the gaming PCs. Yet the public is likely to see it as a game console that sits beside the PS4 and Xbone with expectations of such.
VR, I see as having other problems. Oculus has had how long to release their VR stuff? It's gotten long enough that the only product is the Galaxy Gear, while plenty of people are using it for development and research. Either the technology will end up dying out as "pie in the sky" - it's out there, but there's nothing for the public to buy so they end up forgetting about it like much vaporware, or low cost ripoffs will come out and people's impressions of the Rift will be from those things that barely work. There's a vacuum in the market and competitors that don't work as well are likely to spoil the market.
The fun of coding is NOT the physical typing in of the code text along with edits, deletions what whatnots. So quite why anyone would want to watch someone *else* do it frankly is beyond me. If you want to learn to code in language XYZ go buy a book or look at some example code online then most importantly try it yourself.
You can argue that about anything.
You can argue that the "fun" in playing videogames is well... playing videogames. Yet for over a decade now, watching others play videogames is popular (ask anyone in South Korea who watch people play StarCraft). And in the past 2-3 years, "Let's Play" style videos have been extremely popular on YouTube (which consists of nothing more than someone recording their play through of a game). And perhaps in the past year, broadcasting of games through Twitch.
It's apparently REALLY popular given Sony's dedicated a whole button on their controller to putting up gaming videos.
And no, we're not talking about quickie "This is where the item is" style videos that basically show you where some object is to save paragraphs of text. We're talking about videos showing a game from start to finish.
The first transistors on a slab of semiconductors were made of GaAS but had trouble with temperature and reliability as Nasa and Boeing at the time were the biggest customers. Silicon was used as it was more stable and can withstand higher temperatures.
I am surprised they are considering GaAS again after it failed
You have to realize that modern technology is quite... wonderful in that it allows us to revisit things that were impractical before, and are practical now.
I mean, back in the early days of microchips, you can't consider the deep-sub-micron technology we have today - the technology and materials know-how we have today just wasn't there. Just putting a few thousand transistors on a single die a few millimeters across was considered state of the art.
I'm sure these days GaAs might be a bit more achievable because our tools, research and understanding of material sciences and IC lithography is far more advanced than the early days.
Especially since GaAs based semiconductors have been around a long time now. It's not generally used as it's been a more expensive technology in general so it was reserved for things that require extremely high speed electronics.
Google wallet uses à virtual card so that every transaction gets sent to google for treatment & then rerouted onto the real cards they people add to GW. Thus Google are getting a copy of every transaction everyone makes using GW. This ingredibly intrusive individually identified transaction history is what Google is using to make money off of GW.
Not to mention the double interchange fees.
Google Wallet creates a debit card, provided by the Bank of America. This debit card is what is presented to the world when you pay over NFC.
That debit card doesn't have anything behind it though - what happens is you do a transaction, but it stops because there's no money in the account, so BoA then passes Google all the details so Google can fund your account and finish the transaction. The retailer pays their debit fee, BoA collects the debit fee, and Google pays the interchange fee (the cost to charge your debit/credit card).
So naturally, Google will want to make up those 30 cents or so which they do by mining your information for advertisers. Because someone has to pay for the fact that Google Wallet incurs double the fees that a normal credit or debit transaction provides.
Apple Pay, OTOH, is just a virtualized credit card. As far as the merchant is concerned, you paid with a fancy credit card, and only one interchange fee is paid (merchant pays it per merchant agreement) as it's billed straight to your card. It's why the Apple Pay model is not likely to be adopted by Google - because it means Google will not be able to collect that valuable transaction information.
(And remember, it only takes 4 transactions to positively identify you - so if Google gets anonymous expanded transaction history, they can link the transactions to your Google Wallet ones to positively identify you)
Besides, whatever you may think of corporate efforts to pierce through your anonymity online, you are certainly not anonymous to the nice librarian ladies â" without any efforts on their part.
Except librarians typically are of the freedom loving kind - they see the government intrusions are doing what they can to stop them.
Your signing In on the library computers is likely destroyed by the librarians as soon as you leave, if not by the end of the day - by not having the records, it means the librarian can honestly answer that they have no idea who used it yesterday.
It's happened with book lending records - after a bunch of government requests on lender history, libraries started routinely destroying the record after the book is returned.
I thought the first playstation came about when Nintendo decided not to have Sony make a CD drive for their console. Did Sega really have a chance to make the same mistake?
Correct. Nintendo partnered with Sony to come up with a CD-ROM based platform, which ultimately Nintendo abandoned, and Sony continued development on.
Sega, however, let Sony's marketing on the PS2 overwhelm them - the DreamCast came out about a year before the PS2 and was by all accounts a fairly capable at the time machine. Sony, whose dominance with the PlayStation was already prevalent saw the DreamCast as competition and basically hyped up the PS2's technical specs as being superior to the DreamCast. Sega didn't counter the move and people ended up waiting for the PS2 instead of getting a DreamCast, perceiving the PS2 as a better machine to get.
Though, one effect of going software only is availability - have to admit it's nice to be able to play all the games on multiple platforms.
Maybe there is space in the political spectrum for a political party
Perhaps, but you have to break through the two party system first.
No, what you need to do is realize that when the Founding Fathers stated that there should be no less than 1 member per 30,000 people, there really should be no less than 1 per 30,000.
Sure the logistics are tough, but guess what? Plenty of problems get solved.
First - we don't need all 10,000 people to attend in person - it's just not possible. And since they're supposed to represent their local jurisdiction, they should do just that. Votes and everything can be done through telepresence. We certainly have the technology to manage 10,000 members easily enough. Hell, let's have them work from home - saves the need to pay for office space.
Second - we're not going to pay 10,000 members the outrageous salaries they currently get. No, we want them to be representative of their area - so we pay them based on the mean/median/mode of the earnings in their area. They work from home anyways, and their earnings reflect the region they're in. if it results in barely a living wage, well, extra incentive to bring up employment and earnings in their region, no?
Third, bribing 5001 people spread out geographically is a lot tougher. I mean, a billion dollar campaign contribution spread out over 5001 people is just under $200k each. Or $6.66 per person in their area. This means local funding is a lot easier to accomplish - if you have 10,000 people, and can get them to contribute an average of $50 each towards your cause, then that can easily override that $200K industry contribution.
And better yet, all you need is to get the courts to enforce it.
Using the existing rules to your advantage is the best way to enact change.
So you should be able to copy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle (I.e., copy the bourbon, bottle, and label), tie a label to the bottle that reads "made by J. McDonald" and sell it?
Sure. Why not? Who would be harmed? Certainly not the buyer, who knows exactly what they're getting. Who else would have any standing?
The buyer's buyer.
The problem is not the buyer who is informed, it's the buyer who isn't. And face it, you think drug dealers are alone in cutting up superior product to make inferior clones to sell to unsuspecting people?
So a buyer buys a ton of counterfeits, then proceeds to sell them as "discounted originals", perhaps even cutting it with water or other things to turn 100 bottles of fake stuff into 200 bottles of diluted fake stuff to make more profit.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right, melamine in Chinese milk. And that wasn't even passing off yet.
Though, no new laws are needed - it still goes under the laws of passing off or trademark infringement (if you try to pass off something fake as someone else's) and fraud (selling something that it's not).
I think if the plaintiff truly believe that unbundle google serach would have the phone cost less. then I think everyone should sue Apple instead. It would have make an easier win.
Except Google pays Apple a few tens of millions of dollars each year to have iOS use Google by default.
Unbundling Google is like unbundling the crapware on a new PC - you're removing the subsidy that's making the stuff cheaper in the end, so you're actually likely going to pay more.
Yeah, because armies of users come to post on Apple forums to let people know the update's working fine for them.:)
Exactly.
Plus, is it the buggiest ever, or are just just a lot of users?
Apple sells like 20M computers a year, Even if 15M of them go and run Windows till they die, that's still 5M OS X installs a year. If a bug affects just 0.1% of users, that's still 5000 users a year. And given Yosemite works on Macs that are say, 5 years old, that's 25M users, or 25,000 people. If 10% complain on Apple's forums, that's still 2,500 people making a lot of noise.
And that's how it is - a bug that affects 1 in 1000 users is still a lot of noise.
And Apple users generally are the most vocal of the lot. Windows users on the whole generally accept the problem as "it's a computer thing - wifi is not supposed to work all the time" or "I'll reboot when I need it to work". In the Apple world, if the user has to reboot to get their gizmo to work, it's considered a Major Bug.
Over time, as Linux has gotten more and funding, it has gotten worse and worse. I initially switched to Linux because it generally just worked, and it worked better than many of the alternatives. But now it's just getting fucking horrible. I mean, look at systemd. Normal users, and especially power users, don't want it. It just causes problem after problem for many people.
No, it hasn't gotten worse. It has gotten responsive to user demands.
Back in the 90s when life was simple, users were simple. Unless you used an Amiga or MacOS, if you played a sound, that was it - no one else could play a sound (MacOS and Amiga had software mixers so you could listen to music AND hear application generated sounds - you could use exclusive mode if you needed it, though).
Likewise, you logged in and you rarely had things starting up just for you.
And your networking options were... single. You either had Ethernet, or a modem, and only one IP per host. And rarely did you move - I mean, if you were on Ethernet, it was assumed you were on the same network permanently, or at least changes were rare.
Nowadays, user demands have gone way up. Audio has to be mixed by the OS because the user may listen to tunes, start yakking on VoIP, and having sound effects played while gaming, all simultaneously. The VoIP call goes over say, a Bluetooth headset or the communications path, while the music and sound effects play through the main speakers. Oh, and no application is to dare use the HDMI port to send audio as it's hooked to a monitor with no speakers. A modern PC can easily have 4 or 5 different ways to play audio.
Likewise, when you log in, you probably have a few per-user services you like to have - either from the environment you're using or other services. It would be a shame if logging in again restarted those services (e.g., you log in locally, then log in remotely over ssh) or if those multiple sessions couldn't communicate with each other (e.g., you make a change remotely, and it fails to propagate through the rest of the logins).
And networks... well, an Ethernet port or WiFi? A user may connect to many different networks in a single day, and have more than a few ways to send a packet around. Perhaps they're hooked to their same network multiple ways - either dual Ethernet, or Ethernet plus WiFi. And maybe the next time the connection is re-established, those ports need to be firewalled because it went from private network to public.
Back in the old days, well, audio was simple because your PC couldn't really do multiple things at once. Networks were generally safe so it didn't matter that you didn't bring up the firewall on the public Ethernet connection. And users didn't run too many things in the background because no one could imagine needing to log into the console AND over ssh simultaneously, or they could just remotely kill the session because there wasn't important stuff to save.
And it's perfectly fine on a server that sits in a rack and never moves until it's powered down and retired. But modern users need this complexity just to manage their normal use case. Sure you can force the user to tell you what kind of network is at the other end, or to re-establish the VPN, but users want computers to do stuff automatically - I mean, why should I tell the computer this coffeeshop WiFi is public over and over again - can't it remember?
Or to reconfigure my VoiIP app because I attach my Bluetooth headset to my computer so it now uses that - why can't it ask for a communications headset, and if one isn't available right now, use the default audio hardware. Then when one suddenly appears (Bluetooth!), automagically use that? Zero reconfiguration, event he app doesn't have to reopen the audio device because the audio core did it internally.
It should be telling that the most popular Linux "distribution" in the world is Android, which has its own init system (like systemd, it manages processes, events, and other things), its own audio
In space, weight's analogue is called mass, and it does matter.
No, there is no weight in space. Weight is a force that pulls in the direction of local gravity. Yes, we use the wrong units for weight - weight is mass times acceleration (usually gravitational). So the real unit for weight is actually the newton.
Mass is conserved, but as you enter and leave acceleration, the weight changes as the acceleration changes.
Strap a laptop to your head on Earth and you still have to contend with the mass of the laptop (thanks, inertia!).
You hope. That's the idea, but components with thermal throttling still die the death of heat. The thermal throttling is controlled by software, and each card (or laptop) vendor has the opportunity to dick around with the maps.
No, software controlled thermals are never working alone. The software one allows a more gentle performance rampdown and fan control, but there's always a hardware override because software to control temps can go missing or simply not be present at certain stages.
In this case, if it overheats so badly the hardware kicks in, they basically kick the fan into high speed and halt the GPU (usually by blocking the core clock). Usually that's enough to cool it down to a safe zone where it re-enables the clock, so what was once a nice super smooth gameplay turns into a horrendous slideshow.
Or, sometimes if it gets really critical, it disables the clock until reset, which basically halts your PC as the busses lock up.
LoopPay works by basically cloning the credit card.
Is that even permitted under PCI DSS? I know other projects, like Coin, get hung up on this, for good reason.
Has nothing to do with PCI-DSS, really. Your old style credit card has a magnetic strip on it that can be trivially cloned with only a few dollars worth of hardware. All LoopPay does is emulate that strip. In fact, the encoding is well known that you don't have to clone the strip - if you have the data that's on the strip, you can make up your own version.
In fact, it'll be important come October because chip cards have a bit on the strip that indicate it's a chip card - so if you swipe it on a chip-capable (and chip-enabled) reader, the bit tells the reader to reject the swipe and display "Please insert card" because swiping is no longer allowed. If LoopPay isn't emulating that bit, the user can be In for a nasty surprise when they find out they were the least secure part and are therefore liable - if you have a chip card and not only didn't use it, but forced the swipe instead
The shift is supposed to be pretty much in effect beginning of 2016 but there really is little movement in either the part of the banks or the merchants. The banks don't want to spend money to quickly replace the cards with something nobody yet takes and merchants don't want to spend money to take cards that haven't been issued yet.
Actually, the shift is in October, when a bill comes into force that liability shifts to the least secure thing in the chain. If the bank supports it, and the customer has a chip card, but the merchant got a swipe reader, then the merchant is responsible for the fraud.
If the bank gives the cardholder a non-chip card, well, liability goes to the bank. (If you have non-chip cards, most banks will probably issue you new cards out of cycle, so if you still use your swipe card instead of your new chip card, you're going to be liable).
Ironically, Apple Pay might have kickstarted the process because upgrading to support NFC means you get a chip reader too. (Apple Pay is just an implementation of EMV, so Apple Pay support comes "for free" with a new reader)
Merchants will want to delay delay and delay, but they run the real risk of the readers being out of stock and being stuck with the liability while they wait for new readers because they didn't upgrade when there was plenty of time.
I have a lot of audio patch cords that clearly come from the same factory as the Monster cables, just with a "DaytonAudio" label instead, that sold for $3-5. It's not like they bad cables or anything. I can't match your price though.
I've bought a bunch of Monster cables for around that price, only because that was all they had on sale. Basically a store that bought up a bunch of overstock and sold it at huge discounts in original sealed Monster packaging.
They are nice cables since they don't snag nor have insulation that binds up so you are pulling one out through a rats nest, they slide easily.
Of course, I won't pay $100 for them, but at $5-10 each, why not.
My typical experience as a traveller - I walk up to checkout with an item, present my card, it's swiped, I scrawl a signature on a (usually broken) digital capture device but the cashier never bothers to authenticate the card, or look at the name on it, or ask for id, or match the signature to the card. In a restaurant, the card might even be taken away to be swiped and it doesn't occur to either the restaurant or customers why this might be a bad thing.
You don't understand what the signature is for.
Signing the slip does nothing - the cashier is neither an expert in handwriting nor is expected to be one.
The purpose of signing the card is to enable a contract - the card signature signals that you agree to your cardholder terms and conditions (aka cardholder agreement). Cashiers are required to check the panel to make sure a valid signature is present (to be reasonably sure that such a transaction is valid).
The little slip you sign again isn't for verification. If you look closely, it has a line that states "By signing this slip, cardholder agrees to pay the amount shown". This means that you agree that the amount billed is correct, so if a dispute happens, the merchant can reasonably show that yes, you did agree to that amount (in case they transcribed the price wrong, say the slip was marked $13.10 instead of $11.30 - by signing the slip. you agree that $13.10 is the right amount). It's why if they ever bill you incorrectly, you can sign the slip and sign a refund slip, or tear the slip up and contest the charge (without a signed slip, there's no proof of the transaction - merchant loses).
This is more about contracts than actual security (which there is none).
That's because only a vanishingly small percentage of the population really cares about hacking on their devices. I know this is heresy here on Slashdot, but it's true. 99+% of the population simply don't give a shit whether or not they can build their own applications for the device.
Why?
Because 99+% of the population does not have the necessary time, skill, and interest to do so. It's not that people are dumb - it's that they just don't care about replacing the existing software that lets them do all the things they want to do with their devices.
More correctly, the computer is no longer an object of interaction but now a tool of modern life. In other words, people don't "use the computer" anymore. They "online shop/bank" or "research" and stuff like that. The computer has gone from something people "did stuff on" to something people "use to do stuff".
And it's something that has embedded itself into modern life so deeply, there is choice but to use a computer.
Back when we were playing video games and futzing with EMS and EMM and XMS and other settings for the fun of it, life was such that you didn't need a computer for most things. Or they had easily avoided alternatives.
Nowadays, modern life demands you use a computer - you can't get away from it.
That's both a good and bad thing. It's good in that computers really fundamentally changed the way people interact.
But the bad thing is that groups like the FSF have lost power because what was once an elite group of narrow users who used and understood the computer is now expanded into the public who pretty much are forced to use a computer. Instead of an environment where users were competent and can administer their own systems, we've incorporated the general public into the group.
And just like other technologies that had mass market acceptance, like the car, it turns that technology from a means unto itself into a tool that people use. The car, the telephone (remember phone phreaking?), computers. They're just tools used to help us accomplish a goal, and basically should do enough to protect us from ourselves (e.g., safety features in cars, anti malware tools, etc) so the majority can go about their day and doing stuff those tools accomplish (going from point A to point B, banking, etc).
It's a fundamental change that has happened in the past couple of decades. Sure, there will always be the hard core who love their tools and will tweak them to the envelope and beyond, but the majority just want their tools to be transparent and get out of the way, and to not bother them as much as possible.
If you could give the user a different tool that does things they want to do without as many hassles, they'll pick it. Hence the rise of smartphones, tablets, and internet streaming devices - why watch Netflix on a computer monitor when those things let you do it on the go, or on the nice big livingroom TV.
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You won't believe how old the technology is in a SIM card. It's actually quite ancient.
Think about it - your SIM probably has a 32k storage area, yet if you saw the actual die, it's remarkably big for what it is (just an 8-bit microcontroller and storage) - something that would in normal circumstances literally the size of a grain of sand if you used recent, but not cutting edge, fab technology.
Instead, the dies are relatively big (measured in the mm scale) - it's because SIMs are so disposable so the manufacturers basically buy up ancient fabs and equipment for basically nothing. (It's probably sub-micron by now, but not the deep-sub-micron we use for bleeding edge stuff). Students in VLSI design often use micron-scale technology as it's basically extremely cheap to run. Even the masks used don't have to be particularly precise (a modern mask for a fab is on the order of $100K, each, and you often need 20 or more masks) so those are really cheap. And probably reused in the end, as well.
SIM cards are stupidly cheap because of this - which is the entire point - that $10 they charge for a SIM card is pure profit for the most part.
Don't laugh. Turns out custom straps actually are quite important, and it's a mistake many Swiss watchmakers forget about. The fact that Apple provides a wide range from the get go signals other manufacturers to step their game up.
A horologist's take on the Apple Watch. It's not perfect, and it's still a digital watch, but the Swiss need to get their heads out of their asses, and take a look at what Apple brought to the table because there is genuine improvements Apple did.
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Unless the whole point is to create publicity by deliberately creating wedge issues. In other words, it doesn't matter what FedEx said, because now I have a great advertising platform - buy my stuff!.
Like Apple developers who deliberately code something that will not pass muster to cry foul and say "oh, we have an Android version buy that!".
The goal is not force companies to act in ways you want them to act so you can create attention for yourself. "Poor me, the big bad FedEx won't ship my stuff! Oh, btw, I have a new gunsmithing machine! You can buy it today!". That's how I read this advertisement.
That's what it really is - an ad. Creating a wedge gives you publicity that can be worth several million dollars and be far more effective.
Exactly.
In fact, the US has tried to compromise with Canada on this issue. They asked if they could buy the oil and refine it on the gulf coast (more refineries) - we said no. They asked if they could buy it and sell it - again, we said no. Also asked if they could buy capacity to ship oil around - no. Absolutely no benefit other than having a big fat pipe through your land that you can look at and practically not touch.
Etc.
In effect, Keystone XL is less about US oil interests and more about getting Canadian oil to the sea. There will be a small US benefit in the form of construction jobs and maybe the odd person for monitoring, but that's it - most of the benefit goes to Canada who can sell their oil at higher prices. If a leak happens, too bad, so sad.
It's quite funny what a wedge issue it is, when it's clear that other than a few jobs, the US is getting shafted by having this pipeline that not only can the US not use, but is basically just for another country's benefit. Which is a completely strange situation since it's usually the other way around and it's the US throwing its weight around.
Hell, gas prices could very well go UP because of this - think Canada would want to sell to Chicago when they could sell to oil tankers in the gulf coast?
I'm thinking some people really don't understand what they're agreeing to by accepting Keystone XL. Yeah, pipelines are generally better, but what good is a pipeline that's a look-but-don't-touch? You can't get at the oil inside, you can't use it move your oil, you can't even go and buy/sell the oil inside.
Just because a law can be exploited, doesn't mean it's always exploited.
Engineers are more than just computer or electrical - they span the range from mechanical, civil, chemical, etc., Even electrical engineering has a bunch of specialities.
In fact, if you can avoid computers, there are real shortages in engineering (because everyone sees the glitz of the internet, video games, computers and goes for that.). I mean, if you want to stay close to the field, there's analog IC designers where the pay is practically 6 digits as a new grad, power engineering is similar (power utilities all over the globe can't find enough people to just replace retirements, nevermind trying to expand their systems).
Oh yeah, the math is a lot harder and you better have a good grasp of your EM equations and calculus, but the work is out there.
Just because the tech industry is known for abusing its employees (unpaid interns? that's practically a tech invention since interns in other fields, including medical, are paid. Poorly paid, perhaps, but still paid), doesn't necessarily apply to other occupations.
I suppose the biggest question is why tech employees let themselves be as mistreated as they are. (My gut says it's because most tech workers feel "superior" over the everyday Joe so they overestimate their knowledge of the world - why bother with unions and labor laws - they're for people who aren't as "smart" and employers know that.).
Hell, a workweek isn't necessarily 40 hours - it can easily be 35 (7 hrs/day) or 37.5 (7.5hrs/day) and overtime is compensated for. And this is in North America, not Europe.
Of course, there are terrible employers everywhere who do take advantage of their employees, but there are also plenty of companies where the need for H1-Bs is valid and they often will pay a premium just to get someone to fill the position (and often do anything they can to convert the to full citizen as a two way perk - to both attract someone willing to immigrate, and as a way to hang onto the employee).
Yes Martha, there ARE people who do use laws the way they were intended to be used.
Most likely the control channel gets overloaded. It's the problem AT&T had when the iPhone came out - the iPhone was very aggressive with power management which resulted in it basically setting up and tearing down data connections on an almost per-tcp connection basis. This results in control channel overload, and other devices can't access it when they need it - perhaps when doing a handoff. The end result is the call drops because the phone can't establish communications with the next cell in time. And there is no relation to a cell's load level and its control channel load level - AT&T found that while the control channel was overloaded, they still had plenty of data and voice channels available - resulting in the worst performing carrier having the best data speeds.
The control channel is used to set up and tear down links (voice channels, data channels), perform handoffs, handle SMS, etc. In crowded places, this can easily be overloaded - most providers set up additional micro-cells in densely populated areas to prevent this.
Your phone is likewise seeing the same problem - it can't establish a 3G connection with the tower (overloaded control channel), so it falls back to 2G (which uses a different set of bands and thus has its own set of control channels) which are far less crowded where it can obtain service. Hence the "E" (stands for EDGE).
Actually, it's more like a few conservative flash mobs went and complained.
Remember when Apple was forced to remove all porn apps from the App Store? I'm sure it wasn't because they wanted to, but there's a group of dedicated social conservatives who do nothing but complain about anything even remotely explicit.
Think back to the superbowl "wardrobe malfunction" - it probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere if not for the group being vocal in their complaints. When the FCC decided to filter out mass complaints of their nature, well, they went after the next target - Apple.
And you can easily bet they're the ones flagging tons of videos off YouTube, and probably they discovered Blogger.
Hell, I won't be surprised if they discover Android next and start getting all the more explicity apps there removed. (Yes, you can sideload, but that cuts down your visibility tremendously, and sideloading these kind of apps is already sort of questionable, given they're very ripe vectors for getting malware on Android).
These sort of groups will stop at nothing to ensure society is clean and full of "pure Christian values".
That was stated last year. In fact, there were plenty of prototype Steam Machines last year.
The problem is no the idea, but the sales pitch. When people considered the Xbone expensive at $500, and the best machine that was out was an i3 with dedicated graphics, you really start to wonder about its viability. Sure there were competent boxes out there, if you're willing to pay for it (say over $1000), which buys a LOT of PSN or Xbox Live Gold cards (practicaly 10 year's worth).
Then there's the upgrade path - considering the Xbox360 and PS3 are last gen, they still lasted 7-8 years. Will a $500 steam machine running an i3 last 7-8 years or will it require constant upgrading? Will your $1000 one last? You can argue that "you can turn down the graphics!" but will that just cause users to think the graphics are crappy because they have to run it in a virtual VGA upscaled to 1080p graphics mode?
That's the fundamental problem. Valve sees Steam Machines as specialized PCs that sit in the PC section of Best Buy alongside the gaming PCs. Yet the public is likely to see it as a game console that sits beside the PS4 and Xbone with expectations of such.
VR, I see as having other problems. Oculus has had how long to release their VR stuff? It's gotten long enough that the only product is the Galaxy Gear, while plenty of people are using it for development and research. Either the technology will end up dying out as "pie in the sky" - it's out there, but there's nothing for the public to buy so they end up forgetting about it like much vaporware, or low cost ripoffs will come out and people's impressions of the Rift will be from those things that barely work. There's a vacuum in the market and competitors that don't work as well are likely to spoil the market.
You can argue that about anything.
You can argue that the "fun" in playing videogames is well... playing videogames. Yet for over a decade now, watching others play videogames is popular (ask anyone in South Korea who watch people play StarCraft). And in the past 2-3 years, "Let's Play" style videos have been extremely popular on YouTube (which consists of nothing more than someone recording their play through of a game). And perhaps in the past year, broadcasting of games through Twitch.
It's apparently REALLY popular given Sony's dedicated a whole button on their controller to putting up gaming videos.
And no, we're not talking about quickie "This is where the item is" style videos that basically show you where some object is to save paragraphs of text. We're talking about videos showing a game from start to finish.
You have to realize that modern technology is quite... wonderful in that it allows us to revisit things that were impractical before, and are practical now.
I mean, back in the early days of microchips, you can't consider the deep-sub-micron technology we have today - the technology and materials know-how we have today just wasn't there. Just putting a few thousand transistors on a single die a few millimeters across was considered state of the art.
I'm sure these days GaAs might be a bit more achievable because our tools, research and understanding of material sciences and IC lithography is far more advanced than the early days.
Especially since GaAs based semiconductors have been around a long time now. It's not generally used as it's been a more expensive technology in general so it was reserved for things that require extremely high speed electronics.
Not to mention the double interchange fees.
Google Wallet creates a debit card, provided by the Bank of America. This debit card is what is presented to the world when you pay over NFC.
That debit card doesn't have anything behind it though - what happens is you do a transaction, but it stops because there's no money in the account, so BoA then passes Google all the details so Google can fund your account and finish the transaction. The retailer pays their debit fee, BoA collects the debit fee, and Google pays the interchange fee (the cost to charge your debit/credit card).
So naturally, Google will want to make up those 30 cents or so which they do by mining your information for advertisers. Because someone has to pay for the fact that Google Wallet incurs double the fees that a normal credit or debit transaction provides.
Apple Pay, OTOH, is just a virtualized credit card. As far as the merchant is concerned, you paid with a fancy credit card, and only one interchange fee is paid (merchant pays it per merchant agreement) as it's billed straight to your card. It's why the Apple Pay model is not likely to be adopted by Google - because it means Google will not be able to collect that valuable transaction information.
(And remember, it only takes 4 transactions to positively identify you - so if Google gets anonymous expanded transaction history, they can link the transactions to your Google Wallet ones to positively identify you)
Except librarians typically are of the freedom loving kind - they see the government intrusions are doing what they can to stop them.
Your signing In on the library computers is likely destroyed by the librarians as soon as you leave, if not by the end of the day - by not having the records, it means the librarian can honestly answer that they have no idea who used it yesterday.
It's happened with book lending records - after a bunch of government requests on lender history, libraries started routinely destroying the record after the book is returned.
Correct. Nintendo partnered with Sony to come up with a CD-ROM based platform, which ultimately Nintendo abandoned, and Sony continued development on.
Sega, however, let Sony's marketing on the PS2 overwhelm them - the DreamCast came out about a year before the PS2 and was by all accounts a fairly capable at the time machine. Sony, whose dominance with the PlayStation was already prevalent saw the DreamCast as competition and basically hyped up the PS2's technical specs as being superior to the DreamCast. Sega didn't counter the move and people ended up waiting for the PS2 instead of getting a DreamCast, perceiving the PS2 as a better machine to get.
Though, one effect of going software only is availability - have to admit it's nice to be able to play all the games on multiple platforms.
Perhaps, but you have to break through the two party system first.
No, what you need to do is realize that when the Founding Fathers stated that there should be no less than 1 member per 30,000 people, there really should be no less than 1 per 30,000.
Sure the logistics are tough, but guess what? Plenty of problems get solved.
First - we don't need all 10,000 people to attend in person - it's just not possible. And since they're supposed to represent their local jurisdiction, they should do just that. Votes and everything can be done through telepresence. We certainly have the technology to manage 10,000 members easily enough. Hell, let's have them work from home - saves the need to pay for office space.
Second - we're not going to pay 10,000 members the outrageous salaries they currently get. No, we want them to be representative of their area - so we pay them based on the mean/median/mode of the earnings in their area. They work from home anyways, and their earnings reflect the region they're in. if it results in barely a living wage, well, extra incentive to bring up employment and earnings in their region, no?
Third, bribing 5001 people spread out geographically is a lot tougher. I mean, a billion dollar campaign contribution spread out over 5001 people is just under $200k each. Or $6.66 per person in their area. This means local funding is a lot easier to accomplish - if you have 10,000 people, and can get them to contribute an average of $50 each towards your cause, then that can easily override that $200K industry contribution.
And better yet, all you need is to get the courts to enforce it.
Using the existing rules to your advantage is the best way to enact change.
The buyer's buyer.
The problem is not the buyer who is informed, it's the buyer who isn't. And face it, you think drug dealers are alone in cutting up superior product to make inferior clones to sell to unsuspecting people?
So a buyer buys a ton of counterfeits, then proceeds to sell them as "discounted originals", perhaps even cutting it with water or other things to turn 100 bottles of fake stuff into 200 bottles of diluted fake stuff to make more profit.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right, melamine in Chinese milk. And that wasn't even passing off yet.
Though, no new laws are needed - it still goes under the laws of passing off or trademark infringement (if you try to pass off something fake as someone else's) and fraud (selling something that it's not).
Except Google pays Apple a few tens of millions of dollars each year to have iOS use Google by default.
Unbundling Google is like unbundling the crapware on a new PC - you're removing the subsidy that's making the stuff cheaper in the end, so you're actually likely going to pay more.
Exactly.
Plus, is it the buggiest ever, or are just just a lot of users?
Apple sells like 20M computers a year, Even if 15M of them go and run Windows till they die, that's still 5M OS X installs a year. If a bug affects just 0.1% of users, that's still 5000 users a year. And given Yosemite works on Macs that are say, 5 years old, that's 25M users, or 25,000 people. If 10% complain on Apple's forums, that's still 2,500 people making a lot of noise.
And that's how it is - a bug that affects 1 in 1000 users is still a lot of noise.
And Apple users generally are the most vocal of the lot. Windows users on the whole generally accept the problem as "it's a computer thing - wifi is not supposed to work all the time" or "I'll reboot when I need it to work". In the Apple world, if the user has to reboot to get their gizmo to work, it's considered a Major Bug.
No, it hasn't gotten worse. It has gotten responsive to user demands.
Back in the 90s when life was simple, users were simple. Unless you used an Amiga or MacOS, if you played a sound, that was it - no one else could play a sound (MacOS and Amiga had software mixers so you could listen to music AND hear application generated sounds - you could use exclusive mode if you needed it, though).
Likewise, you logged in and you rarely had things starting up just for you.
And your networking options were... single. You either had Ethernet, or a modem, and only one IP per host. And rarely did you move - I mean, if you were on Ethernet, it was assumed you were on the same network permanently, or at least changes were rare.
Nowadays, user demands have gone way up. Audio has to be mixed by the OS because the user may listen to tunes, start yakking on VoIP, and having sound effects played while gaming, all simultaneously. The VoIP call goes over say, a Bluetooth headset or the communications path, while the music and sound effects play through the main speakers. Oh, and no application is to dare use the HDMI port to send audio as it's hooked to a monitor with no speakers. A modern PC can easily have 4 or 5 different ways to play audio.
Likewise, when you log in, you probably have a few per-user services you like to have - either from the environment you're using or other services. It would be a shame if logging in again restarted those services (e.g., you log in locally, then log in remotely over ssh) or if those multiple sessions couldn't communicate with each other (e.g., you make a change remotely, and it fails to propagate through the rest of the logins).
And networks... well, an Ethernet port or WiFi? A user may connect to many different networks in a single day, and have more than a few ways to send a packet around. Perhaps they're hooked to their same network multiple ways - either dual Ethernet, or Ethernet plus WiFi. And maybe the next time the connection is re-established, those ports need to be firewalled because it went from private network to public.
Back in the old days, well, audio was simple because your PC couldn't really do multiple things at once. Networks were generally safe so it didn't matter that you didn't bring up the firewall on the public Ethernet connection. And users didn't run too many things in the background because no one could imagine needing to log into the console AND over ssh simultaneously, or they could just remotely kill the session because there wasn't important stuff to save.
And it's perfectly fine on a server that sits in a rack and never moves until it's powered down and retired. But modern users need this complexity just to manage their normal use case. Sure you can force the user to tell you what kind of network is at the other end, or to re-establish the VPN, but users want computers to do stuff automatically - I mean, why should I tell the computer this coffeeshop WiFi is public over and over again - can't it remember?
Or to reconfigure my VoiIP app because I attach my Bluetooth headset to my computer so it now uses that - why can't it ask for a communications headset, and if one isn't available right now, use the default audio hardware. Then when one suddenly appears (Bluetooth!), automagically use that? Zero reconfiguration, event he app doesn't have to reopen the audio device because the audio core did it internally.
It should be telling that the most popular Linux "distribution" in the world is Android, which has its own init system (like systemd, it manages processes, events, and other things), its own audio
No, there is no weight in space. Weight is a force that pulls in the direction of local gravity. Yes, we use the wrong units for weight - weight is mass times acceleration (usually gravitational). So the real unit for weight is actually the newton.
Mass is conserved, but as you enter and leave acceleration, the weight changes as the acceleration changes.
Strap a laptop to your head on Earth and you still have to contend with the mass of the laptop (thanks, inertia!).
No, software controlled thermals are never working alone. The software one allows a more gentle performance rampdown and fan control, but there's always a hardware override because software to control temps can go missing or simply not be present at certain stages.
In this case, if it overheats so badly the hardware kicks in, they basically kick the fan into high speed and halt the GPU (usually by blocking the core clock). Usually that's enough to cool it down to a safe zone where it re-enables the clock, so what was once a nice super smooth gameplay turns into a horrendous slideshow.
Or, sometimes if it gets really critical, it disables the clock until reset, which basically halts your PC as the busses lock up.
Has nothing to do with PCI-DSS, really. Your old style credit card has a magnetic strip on it that can be trivially cloned with only a few dollars worth of hardware. All LoopPay does is emulate that strip. In fact, the encoding is well known that you don't have to clone the strip - if you have the data that's on the strip, you can make up your own version.
In fact, it'll be important come October because chip cards have a bit on the strip that indicate it's a chip card - so if you swipe it on a chip-capable (and chip-enabled) reader, the bit tells the reader to reject the swipe and display "Please insert card" because swiping is no longer allowed. If LoopPay isn't emulating that bit, the user can be In for a nasty surprise when they find out they were the least secure part and are therefore liable - if you have a chip card and not only didn't use it, but forced the swipe instead
Actually, the shift is in October, when a bill comes into force that liability shifts to the least secure thing in the chain. If the bank supports it, and the customer has a chip card, but the merchant got a swipe reader, then the merchant is responsible for the fraud.
If the bank gives the cardholder a non-chip card, well, liability goes to the bank. (If you have non-chip cards, most banks will probably issue you new cards out of cycle, so if you still use your swipe card instead of your new chip card, you're going to be liable).
Ironically, Apple Pay might have kickstarted the process because upgrading to support NFC means you get a chip reader too. (Apple Pay is just an implementation of EMV, so Apple Pay support comes "for free" with a new reader)
Merchants will want to delay delay and delay, but they run the real risk of the readers being out of stock and being stuck with the liability while they wait for new readers because they didn't upgrade when there was plenty of time.
I've bought a bunch of Monster cables for around that price, only because that was all they had on sale. Basically a store that bought up a bunch of overstock and sold it at huge discounts in original sealed Monster packaging.
They are nice cables since they don't snag nor have insulation that binds up so you are pulling one out through a rats nest, they slide easily.
Of course, I won't pay $100 for them, but at $5-10 each, why not.
You don't understand what the signature is for.
Signing the slip does nothing - the cashier is neither an expert in handwriting nor is expected to be one.
The purpose of signing the card is to enable a contract - the card signature signals that you agree to your cardholder terms and conditions (aka cardholder agreement). Cashiers are required to check the panel to make sure a valid signature is present (to be reasonably sure that such a transaction is valid).
The little slip you sign again isn't for verification. If you look closely, it has a line that states "By signing this slip, cardholder agrees to pay the amount shown". This means that you agree that the amount billed is correct, so if a dispute happens, the merchant can reasonably show that yes, you did agree to that amount (in case they transcribed the price wrong, say the slip was marked $13.10 instead of $11.30 - by signing the slip. you agree that $13.10 is the right amount). It's why if they ever bill you incorrectly, you can sign the slip and sign a refund slip, or tear the slip up and contest the charge (without a signed slip, there's no proof of the transaction - merchant loses).
This is more about contracts than actual security (which there is none).
More correctly, the computer is no longer an object of interaction but now a tool of modern life. In other words, people don't "use the computer" anymore. They "online shop/bank" or "research" and stuff like that. The computer has gone from something people "did stuff on" to something people "use to do stuff".
And it's something that has embedded itself into modern life so deeply, there is choice but to use a computer.
Back when we were playing video games and futzing with EMS and EMM and XMS and other settings for the fun of it, life was such that you didn't need a computer for most things. Or they had easily avoided alternatives.
Nowadays, modern life demands you use a computer - you can't get away from it.
That's both a good and bad thing. It's good in that computers really fundamentally changed the way people interact.
But the bad thing is that groups like the FSF have lost power because what was once an elite group of narrow users who used and understood the computer is now expanded into the public who pretty much are forced to use a computer. Instead of an environment where users were competent and can administer their own systems, we've incorporated the general public into the group.
And just like other technologies that had mass market acceptance, like the car, it turns that technology from a means unto itself into a tool that people use. The car, the telephone (remember phone phreaking?), computers. They're just tools used to help us accomplish a goal, and basically should do enough to protect us from ourselves (e.g., safety features in cars, anti malware tools, etc) so the majority can go about their day and doing stuff those tools accomplish (going from point A to point B, banking, etc).
It's a fundamental change that has happened in the past couple of decades. Sure, there will always be the hard core who love their tools and will tweak them to the envelope and beyond, but the majority just want their tools to be transparent and get out of the way, and to not bother them as much as possible.
If you could give the user a different tool that does things they want to do without as many hassles, they'll pick it. Hence the rise of smartphones, tablets, and internet streaming devices - why watch Netflix on a computer monitor when those things let you do it on the go, or on the nice big livingroom TV.