I totally agree with you. I have my 3 year old 128GB iPhone 6S Plus and it's going strong. I see no need to upgrade really. I figured I'd switch when they switched to USB-C and brought back the finger print reader (in display finger print reader preferably). I'll miss the headphone jack though, as I still use it to plug into my wife's car, but I figure it's going the way of the floppy disk. Anyway, with this news, it seems that I'll be waiting longer before I upgrade (cue more poor iPhone sales until Apple figures out what people want).
I think it was a bit more than two years ago that most carriers stopped offering two year contracts that gave a nice discount on the phones. I bet the phone industry is just starting to see the slowdown from that as everyone who might be shopping for something new is seeing the high price tags of a brand new phone. I have an iPhone 6S Plus and it still works great, does all I need it to do. Sure, the new one has a faster CPU and better camera... but it's not $800-$1000 out of my pocket better. If there were two year contracts again and I could get a new phone for half the price, I might consider an upgrade. Till then, I'll stick with what I have.
But if they were liquidated, then patent trolls would buy all of their IP and then they'd be in court going after the money. So... I guess it's bound to happen?
While I'm all for getting rid of sex traffickers, the line "eliminate a provision that shields operators of websites from being liable for content posted by third-party users" could be a bit scary if it leaves the narrow scope specified. I mean, if it's ONLY applied to sex trafficking websites cool, but I could totally see companies jumping on this bandwagon and holding web hosts responsible for content posted by third-party users. Imagine the copyright lawsuits that would happen. Maybe it's just the cynic in me, but corporations/congress have done this kinda "Look, we're doing something good" with something really terrible as the real intention before.
So... why not make cars out of this stuff? Think, if it's as strong as steel, if the car body was made out of this then it would be like having a armored car, or at least a 50's American car. Then with the lighter weight it should improve gas mileage quite a bit. As long as the manufacturing process isn't too costly or cost goes down with more production, this sounds like it would be great.
I actually do some work for this professor. The whole thing with UCI is that he came from UCI last year and now works at UCSD, so there's some collaboration between the two universities and they share some of the same grads.
I asked the professor if he was going to play games on this and he laughed, but I guess he's played some FPS games in the day.
I have to agree with this... I am a semi-professional photographer and I've never seen anything from a home printer compare to what you could get done at a service bureau (or select photo stores, sometimes costco[which uses fuji crystal archive] which offers a 11x14 for $3). Also, I've moved on from the 8x10 prints to larger prints (11x14 or 16x20) and if you want a printer to do that then it's gonna cost a whole lot more money. I wonder how the comparison with the "high street" stores was done. What paper was used by them and what printing machines did they use? That's a big factor... perhaps the article says, but I don't care to purchase the magazine to find out.
So installed XP SP2 on my laptop and it broke internet explorer as well as dhcp over wireless. So I figure with no internet (since I connect with a wireless connection and most non-geeks would know nothing about static ip addresses) and IE not working that must be as secure as Windows XP can get.
This actually reminds me of something I read recently in the book Culture Jam...
"Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the earth's climate? Yes. Ok, that being the case, let's undermine that by finding and funding those few contrarians who believe otherwise. Promote their message widely and it will accumulate in the mental environment, just as toxic mercury accumulates in the biological ecosystem. Once enough of the toxin has been dispersed, the balance of public understanding will shift."
That's been there for awhile now, but it just checks for updates and prompts the user when there is a new update. I don't think it will automatically download updates on its own. Most users I know would just ignore the message that there are updates and probably get annoyed by the prompts (especially if prompted every month for a new release).
One nice thing would be if Mozilla could somehow do automatic updates. Or just prompt the user to download updates when they have them... make some sort of small update instead of downloading the whole thing (for those poor souls still stuck on dialup). I install mozilla on many computers my friends use and tell them to use mozilla rather than IE, but I'm not there to update the browser for them. So they run versions that can be up to 4 months old... or older depending on how often I visit the person. I think in a way this is one place where IE has mozilla beat, even though Microsoft usually lags pretty bad with the updates, at least the automatic updater can get the update and run without any user intervention if it is enabled to do so (since a lot of the people I know would never get their windows updates otherwise).
Because when you question everything it allows you to understand the meaning behind whatever you're questioning. Thus, making you a wiser person. It also allows you to evaluate those reasons and make up your own mind for what you believe to be true.
Now, if you're questioning my post... because I'm broke and could use some money... and aside from that, I think it'd be fun.
I totally wanna join this game just so I can be a virtual drunk and homeless person.... perhaps people will give me real money? Ehh, if not I'll just run around naked shouting out things that make no sense...
Oh crap, do I have to pay for virtual booze too?? Damn it!
Great... so how long will it be till guys start sending messages to the volcano asking it to get naked and make out with Dino? Oh wait... that'd be bad...
So like... 999 of 1000 votes wouldn't get anything, but then one person (or say a lobbyist/special interest group) would be a lucky winner and win 700 votes (the house would keep like 300)? Ehh, well sounds about like what we have now... I wonder if the democrats would get any negative votes with this one.... and at least this is probably more accurate than the Diebold machines.
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I totally agree with you. I have my 3 year old 128GB iPhone 6S Plus and it's going strong. I see no need to upgrade really. I figured I'd switch when they switched to USB-C and brought back the finger print reader (in display finger print reader preferably). I'll miss the headphone jack though, as I still use it to plug into my wife's car, but I figure it's going the way of the floppy disk. Anyway, with this news, it seems that I'll be waiting longer before I upgrade (cue more poor iPhone sales until Apple figures out what people want).
I think it was a bit more than two years ago that most carriers stopped offering two year contracts that gave a nice discount on the phones. I bet the phone industry is just starting to see the slowdown from that as everyone who might be shopping for something new is seeing the high price tags of a brand new phone. I have an iPhone 6S Plus and it still works great, does all I need it to do. Sure, the new one has a faster CPU and better camera... but it's not $800-$1000 out of my pocket better. If there were two year contracts again and I could get a new phone for half the price, I might consider an upgrade. Till then, I'll stick with what I have.
Yup, that's exactly what I thought too!
But if they were liquidated, then patent trolls would buy all of their IP and then they'd be in court going after the money. So... I guess it's bound to happen?
While I'm all for getting rid of sex traffickers, the line "eliminate a provision that shields operators of websites from being liable for content posted by third-party users" could be a bit scary if it leaves the narrow scope specified. I mean, if it's ONLY applied to sex trafficking websites cool, but I could totally see companies jumping on this bandwagon and holding web hosts responsible for content posted by third-party users. Imagine the copyright lawsuits that would happen. Maybe it's just the cynic in me, but corporations/congress have done this kinda "Look, we're doing something good" with something really terrible as the real intention before.
RepRap soon to rename itself "Skynet"
So... why not make cars out of this stuff? Think, if it's as strong as steel, if the car body was made out of this then it would be like having a armored car, or at least a 50's American car. Then with the lighter weight it should improve gas mileage quite a bit. As long as the manufacturing process isn't too costly or cost goes down with more production, this sounds like it would be great.
I actually do some work for this professor. The whole thing with UCI is that he came from UCI last year and now works at UCSD, so there's some collaboration between the two universities and they share some of the same grads.
I asked the professor if he was going to play games on this and he laughed, but I guess he's played some FPS games in the day.
This is all I could think of when reading this.
"...we've got a KEG... of worms... and phytoplankton"
I have to agree with this... I am a semi-professional photographer and I've never seen anything from a home printer compare to what you could get done at a service bureau (or select photo stores, sometimes costco[which uses fuji crystal archive] which offers a 11x14 for $3). Also, I've moved on from the 8x10 prints to larger prints (11x14 or 16x20) and if you want a printer to do that then it's gonna cost a whole lot more money.
I wonder how the comparison with the "high street" stores was done. What paper was used by them and what printing machines did they use? That's a big factor... perhaps the article says, but I don't care to purchase the magazine to find out.
Ok everyone... here's the quick fix for rising CO2 levels. Everyone, all at once... just stop breathing! That should work.
Perhaps David Blaine was on this commission?
So installed XP SP2 on my laptop and it broke internet explorer as well as dhcp over wireless. So I figure with no internet (since I connect with a wireless connection and most non-geeks would know nothing about static ip addresses) and IE not working that must be as secure as Windows XP can get.
This actually reminds me of something I read recently in the book Culture Jam...
"Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the earth's climate? Yes. Ok, that being the case, let's undermine that by finding and funding those few contrarians who believe otherwise. Promote their message widely and it will accumulate in the mental environment, just as toxic mercury accumulates in the biological ecosystem. Once enough of the toxin has been dispersed, the balance of public understanding will shift."
That's been there for awhile now, but it just checks for updates and prompts the user when there is a new update. I don't think it will automatically download updates on its own. Most users I know would just ignore the message that there are updates and probably get annoyed by the prompts (especially if prompted every month for a new release).
One nice thing would be if Mozilla could somehow do automatic updates. Or just prompt the user to download updates when they have them... make some sort of small update instead of downloading the whole thing (for those poor souls still stuck on dialup). I install mozilla on many computers my friends use and tell them to use mozilla rather than IE, but I'm not there to update the browser for them. So they run versions that can be up to 4 months old... or older depending on how often I visit the person.
I think in a way this is one place where IE has mozilla beat, even though Microsoft usually lags pretty bad with the updates, at least the automatic updater can get the update and run without any user intervention if it is enabled to do so (since a lot of the people I know would never get their windows updates otherwise).
Because when you question everything it allows you to understand the meaning behind whatever you're questioning. Thus, making you a wiser person.
It also allows you to evaluate those reasons and make up your own mind for what you believe to be true.
Now, if you're questioning my post... because I'm broke and could use some money... and aside from that, I think it'd be fun.
I totally wanna join this game just so I can be a virtual drunk and homeless person.... perhaps people will give me real money? Ehh, if not I'll just run around naked shouting out things that make no sense...
Oh crap, do I have to pay for virtual booze too?? Damn it!
Great... so how long will it be till guys start sending messages to the volcano asking it to get naked and make out with Dino? Oh wait... that'd be bad...
Damn it! Women don't have Adam's apples!! Repeat: Damn it!
So does this mean that a 2.8GHz celeron is going to have a PR rating of 1200 (or less)?
So like... 999 of 1000 votes wouldn't get anything, but then one person (or say a lobbyist/special interest group) would be a lucky winner and win 700 votes (the house would keep like 300)?
Ehh, well sounds about like what we have now... I wonder if the democrats would get any negative votes with this one.... and at least this is probably more accurate than the Diebold machines.
That little thing would totally get it's ass kicked on battlebots...
This science is brought to you by the Bush & Cheney energy commission...
I listen to punk and hardcore music, so I don't think it matters what kinda compression is on my music, my hearing is gonna be lost either way!