In particular there have been some improvements along those lines recently. Likewise just last year new batteries with silicon electrodes increased energy density over anything seen before, and smartphone manufacturers are already using them for their newest toys.
There has been no revolution in batteries, no completely new chemistry that changes everything, but there has been steady development.
Here an Associate Professor has tenure. If you are tenure track you are hired as an Assistant Professor, and become an Associate when you are granted tenure. So it means you've been around for some time and passed your big milestone. Becoming a full professor does not happen for a long time after that, generally at least 10 years, sometimes longer. As a practical matter departments usually only have so many lines for full professors.
So an associate isn't some junior level position or anything. It means a tenured professor with their own research lab, at least where I work.
With nVidia alone maybe the argument is that they won't release open source drivers just because they are dicks. Ok, yet AMD has thrown in with open source, however they still have a faster proprietary driver. Why? Perhaps the licensed code has something to do with that. They license various things they can't open source, and those things are some of what help make it faster. AMD didn't just release the Catalyst source because they can't. It contains code they paid licenses for and can't open up.
The situation isn't quite as simple as some people would like to make it. If it was, well then the OSS AMD drivers would have full support, be faster than Windows, perfectly stable, etc, etc. However it turns out that writing a graphics driver is REALLY HARD and very complex.
I don't know if they are supposed to, but they do. It was annoying. The last of them finally quit a couple of years ago after getting a little threateny and my then saying I was going to get the general council on the line. Went on for years though.
I've gotten a lot of debt collection calls, at work and at home. Thing is, they've never been for me. I have never defaulted on any debt in my life. Yet these people would call and call trying to get a hold of someone else. Telling them "That's not me, you have the wrong number," didn't work.
The phone still rings, and you need to stop what you are doing and check it. With robocalls, they just don't stop either. They call day after day after day because it doesn't cost anything. So message or no (and they do leave messages) they'll just keep bothering you for years.
I had that problem with a home phone line that I had to ditch. The number it was assigned belonged to someone who had skipped on medical bills. Well these retarded collectors would just NOT get the message that I wasn't the person and didn't know the person. Nope, just keep calling back every single day. I finally had enough of the thing ringing all the time and just had it disconnected.
Also some places you have to answer the phone. We had real issues with this at work. Our helpdesk line kept getting calls from debt collectors looking for some employee who had worked here 20 years ago. Got real old telling them to fuck off, and having to tie up the line taking the calls.
They should be public utilities for sure (at least the actual lines that go to people's houses) but that wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. The issue is that it can just be very expensive to run infrastructure. In cities, not a real big deal. While the cost per mile is more you have plenty of people so it is worth it. However rural costs more. Of course this is an issue for a public utility. People will get mad if their tax dollars are paying for really high dollar runs so someone out in the sticks can have fast Internet.
Still would be better than private companies, but wouldn't be a cure-all.
Particularly since many of the places I see that get talked about for having super-fast Internet seem to post speedtest results for a short distance, on network. That's not really useful because that can just mean that you basically have a big WAN with fast access to your own stuff, but no backhaul to support it. To really have a connection that you can claim gets the speeds advertised, you need to be seeing that speed to a server that is off of the ISP's network, and a few hundred miles/km away in another state/country. If you can get your speeds with tests like that, then you are actually getting what is advertised. If you see great results on the ISP's speedtest server that is 10 miles away but crap to everywhere else, they've sold you a fast link with no backhaul.
I'm real happy with my connection for that reason. It's 300mbit for $100/month but it really gets that. I see those speeds not just to my ISP's server, but to servers all over the US. Steam downloads go at like 40MB+/sec. So it is expensive to an extent, but I really get the speed I pay for, and I get it to anywhere that can handle it (when you start to talk fast lines the other end is the problem sometimes).
A fast last-mile means nothing if there isn't sufficient backhaul and peering at all level to support it.
AMD has never been able to write OpenGL drivers worth a damn. I dunno why they have so much trouble, but it has been that way forever. Holds true on Windows too. nVidia cards run equal speed in DX and OpenGL on Windows, AMD cards run was faster in DX mode.
Allegedly the open source drivers would fix it, however it turns out that programming graphics drivers is really hard, particularly when you can't use licensed code, and the drivers have not provided impressive features and performance yet.
So, as ever, nVidia is the winner because their proprietary Linux drivers are just as fast as their proprietary Windows drivers which is to say damn fast.
Employers aren't required to give you anything when they let you go, other than your final paycheck for whatever time you've worked but they haven't yet paid. However sometimes they will give you a "severance" which is additional pay. It can range anything for a meager token to a pretty hefty chunk of change. Generally better employers will offer one. Also employers will sometimes use them as a way to get people to leave voluntarily to avoid forced layoffs.
Usually, they don't come with strings attached. This one is extremely irregular. Either the severance package is really good so they expect people will take it despite the shit condition, they figure their employees are really desperate for money and will take it anyhow, or they are really out of touch.
Personally in a situation like that I'd be really tempted to do as other have suggested and take it, but then act like a completely forgetful idiot whenever I'm called in and generally be completely useless. Realistically I'd probably strike the availability cause in the contract and sign it. If they countersigned, great I get money with no strings, if they refuse I'd walk without the extra money because I don't need those conditions over my head.
The idea is basically that,despite all evidence to the contrary, stone age people actually lived longer than we do now and the reason is their diet. So if you "eat like a caveman" you'll be way healthier.
For whatever reason anything that gets done using one of those is somehow "news". Doesn't matter if it is the same sort of thing does all the time, if you use a Rift to do it that somehow makes it newsworthy. Most likely because Facebook hypes it.
I'm not sure how much of a problem there really is. I haven't researched it, but we don't hear much news on it so that leads me to wonder. Also an anecdotal story, but still: One of our students likes playing with drones and has a mid sized one with a camera. However, he lives near a military air base, and the airspace surrounding it is all controlled, as it is around any such installation. He doesn't want to get in trouble so he called them to try and obtain permission to fly his drone. ATC laughed and said given its size, they didn't care, if it was under 50 pounds they weren't concerned. They promised to talk to the base commander anyhow to try and get him permission, but felt it was a total non-issue.
So who knows, this may be more of a politicians wanting to Do Something(tm) and attacking some problem that exists more in their heads than in the world, particularly since it is easy and low impact.
The Wii did well, but not because of its low spec visuals, rather in spite of them. People found it to be an interesting gimmick, and bought them in droves. However the attach rate (amount of games bought per console) wasn't that great so while it was a good money maker, it wasn't the dominant force they might hope.
With the Wii U they decided to go for a gimmick again, this time the tablet controller. However people don't seem to be interested. Everyone who wants a tablet has a tablet and it just doesn't seem to bring much to games. So Wii U sales have been slow. None of the current gen consoles have been flying off the shelves, but the Wii U is lagging in third place at less than half of the PS4's sales. That is despite being on the market for a year longer than the PS4.
So I'm sure Nintendo is doing some serious thinking about what they want to do with their next system. Particularly since unlike Sony and MS, they don't really have other markets to fall back on. That doesn't mean they'll go with high spec graphics, but it may be a consideration particularly since the Xbone and PS4 were more modest this time around and the PC gaming uptick has been pushing some better looking games.
They need to do something different at any rate, because the Wii U just isn't doing all that well.
Also the spam thing would require Google to sell your information, which is very much what Google doesn't like to do. What they know about people and their ability to gather it is their value, and they hold on to it jealously. They want companies to sell ads through them, they are not interested in handing out your info so people can advertise to you directly and cut them out of the loop.
Everyone I know has a G-mail account (no surprise, they are common with tech users) and none of them experience anything like this. While it is still all anecdotal, it is a lot more data points than one crazy guy, who has questionable data security practices.
Even with HD cameras, making out a license plate at any distance can be difficult. Try it sometime. Put your phone up at an angle a security camera might be, and see how readable things are at a distance. To do a good job of reading license plates you either need something mounted specifically for that (at a gate or something) or you need really high rez cameras, like the still cameras used at red light cameras.
General security cameras aren't much use for license plates.
It demonstrates how lazy publishers have become with regards to ads online. With an actual paper, or TV show, the publisher gets and curates ads. They have a staff who sells the ad space, they work with production to determine where the ad fill will go and so on. So the only ads are ones they approved, and they are mixed in with the content in ways they chose.
Online, they just say "Fuck it, I don't wanna." They include links directly back to ad network servers and let those people serve up whatever they want which can include malware, as you noted. They aren't willing to spend any time doing curation, they just want to hand it all to someone else and collect money. Well guys, the result of that is really annoying things like pop ups and dangerous things like malware. The result of those are people turning to blocking ads.
Companies should regularly update their products to use the latest tech. There is no reason to freeze a product and not update it for a long time just to make owners feel like they still have the "latest". Rather they should update as often as changes in available technology/manufacturing/etc dictate. Customers then buy new ones as often as they feel it useful.
That's how it has been with desktop computers, excluding Apple, forever. Few, if any, people upgrade every time something new comes out because the changes are usually minor. They buy something, stick with it for a few years, then buy something new when they feel like they want or need it.
The problem is that Apple devices seem to be something that some people wrap their ego in. They feel a need to have the newest device to be "cool" or some such and thus get mad when a newer device comes out that they cannot or do not wish to purchase since they feel it somehow lessens what they do have.
Everyone I know, even the cheap types, keeps some kind of wired Internet. It is usually faster than wireless and always cheaper per GB. If you were an EXTREMELY light user I suppose you could go all wireless all the time, but even for the casual user who likes to surf the web on a daily basis and watch cat videos, you'll easily use more data than a wireless provider is interested in letting you have cheap and they'll charge and/or throttle.
Simple example: T-Mobile gives me phone, text, and 1GB of data for $50/month. It would run me $30/month more to get unlimited data (they'll throttle if you get too excessive though). That's for a single device, and gives 7GB of tethering. Speeds are in the realm of 40mbits max, 20-30mbits normally. So that'd work only if your phone is going to be the one-and-only device you use for most things, and do a little surfing on something else. If you want to add a tablet to it you'd be talking adding another line/device which brings it up to about $100/month with 10GB of data per device.
Ok well then having a look at the cable company for about $60/month they'll sell you a 50mbit connection with a 350GB soft cap (meaning if you go over they complain at you and try to upsell you, they don't charge or throttle). You'll really get those kinds of speeds too, pretty much all the time.
That's more money, but not a ton more. Presuming you would have the basic phone plan anyhow you pay about $30/month more than the unlimited or $10/month more than the two devices. With that you get a faster connection, the ability to connect as many devices as you like, enough data to watch Netflix, download games, and so on. Also, you can, of course, upgrade your speed. They'll happily sell you 100mbit or 300mbit for a bit more per month (about $75 and $100 respectively) whereas the mobile speed is what it is.
Not surprising then that all the people I know keep a wired connection. Personally I don't find I need much LTE data, I use WiFi most of the time at work and home, so the 1GB cap is fine for me (more than fine actually) but I need a lot more on another connection. Looking at my usage I used about 350GB last month. Not the kind of thing a wireless provider would be ok with.
Most fruit juices have a lot of sugar. Fruit contains a lot of fructose, water, and fiber. So squeeze out the water that contains the fructose, the fiber gets left behind, and you have something that is by volume and weight a tons of sugar.
Apple juice is a good example. If you go and have a look at the Simply Apple stuff at a grocer you can see easily. It really is 100% pure apple juice. They don't add any sweetener or anything else, they just squeeze the juice out of apple and bottle that shit up... and it is as high calorie as soda. 180 calories per 12 oz (355ml). For comparison Pepsi is 150 and Mountain Dew is 170.
I love apple juice, it tastes fantastic, but you can't fool yourself in to thinking that because it is juice it is magically good.
Because it seems the US likes technology plenty. The US is a bastion of high tech research and production. Intel, AMD, nVidia, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Broadcom, IBM, most of the big names in chip technology are US companies with US R&D centers, and many of them have a lot of US production. That's just one example, you can point to plenty of other technologies that the US does a ton in, it is just a good one since those chips tend to underlie our digital devices these days.
Same deal on the purely digital side of things, namely software. The US is a mainstay in virtually every segment of software.
So what is this "digital agenda" that the US so desperately supposedly needs to not fall behind? Because they seem to be doing well.
Also as an aside, what's wrong with being #2 or #3 in something? I've visited a number of other countries, and by definition not all of them are #1 at most things. They are still very nice places to live and I have no issues. Seems that between #1 and "stone age shithole" there is a whole range of "quite nice places to live". So who cares if China is #1 at something?
Well, sounds like a great plan except for the fact that you clearly have the details wrong since there is no 5G wireless yet. So thanks, but I'll take my info from someone who is able to give me accurate info.
She'll be happy to know that her cell plan is much cheaper than she thinks it is, because some random dude on the Internet is convinced US cell plans have to be more expensive.
I'm going to guess you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, and are just hating on the Us because that's trendy to do. My cell plan is 50 USD/month. For that I get unlimited calls to and from any number in the US, Canada, and Mexico, landline or cellphone. I get unlimited text to and from any cellphone in about 140 countries (including Europe). I get 1GB of data at 4G speeds (meaning about 30-40mbit/sec where I live) and then 2G speeds after that (meaning about 100k/sec) unless I choose to buy more.
When traveling internationally I can continue to use my text and data just like in the US, no extra charge. Voice calls are $.20/minute when roaming, though as mentioned not in Canada or Mexico.
My sister couldn't believe it. She lives in the UK and we were discussing my trip to visit and she was mentioning getting a prepaid SIM, which I told her I don't need. I told her my plan and she was stunned.
This isn't some super-secret service or anything, it is just T-Mobile's normal post-paid plan. They are happy to sell it to anyone and advertise it heavily.
So how's your plan compare? Also please remember when talking about roaming and long distance that the US is almost certainly a bit larger than your country. Roaming and calls in all 50 US states would more be the equivalent of roaming and calls in all of Europe, than all of one European country.
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In particular there have been some improvements along those lines recently. Likewise just last year new batteries with silicon electrodes increased energy density over anything seen before, and smartphone manufacturers are already using them for their newest toys.
There has been no revolution in batteries, no completely new chemistry that changes everything, but there has been steady development.
Here an Associate Professor has tenure. If you are tenure track you are hired as an Assistant Professor, and become an Associate when you are granted tenure. So it means you've been around for some time and passed your big milestone. Becoming a full professor does not happen for a long time after that, generally at least 10 years, sometimes longer. As a practical matter departments usually only have so many lines for full professors.
So an associate isn't some junior level position or anything. It means a tenured professor with their own research lab, at least where I work.
With nVidia alone maybe the argument is that they won't release open source drivers just because they are dicks. Ok, yet AMD has thrown in with open source, however they still have a faster proprietary driver. Why? Perhaps the licensed code has something to do with that. They license various things they can't open source, and those things are some of what help make it faster. AMD didn't just release the Catalyst source because they can't. It contains code they paid licenses for and can't open up.
The situation isn't quite as simple as some people would like to make it. If it was, well then the OSS AMD drivers would have full support, be faster than Windows, perfectly stable, etc, etc. However it turns out that writing a graphics driver is REALLY HARD and very complex.
We are a phone company, as in we have a 5ESS that serves our 3 prefixes. As such, I don't control the phone system and get to choose what we do.
This is not uncommon for people who work for companies: Most don't have you get your own phone service, you use what is provided.
I don't know if they are supposed to, but they do. It was annoying. The last of them finally quit a couple of years ago after getting a little threateny and my then saying I was going to get the general council on the line. Went on for years though.
I've gotten a lot of debt collection calls, at work and at home. Thing is, they've never been for me. I have never defaulted on any debt in my life. Yet these people would call and call trying to get a hold of someone else. Telling them "That's not me, you have the wrong number," didn't work.
So what is the solution?
The phone still rings, and you need to stop what you are doing and check it. With robocalls, they just don't stop either. They call day after day after day because it doesn't cost anything. So message or no (and they do leave messages) they'll just keep bothering you for years.
I had that problem with a home phone line that I had to ditch. The number it was assigned belonged to someone who had skipped on medical bills. Well these retarded collectors would just NOT get the message that I wasn't the person and didn't know the person. Nope, just keep calling back every single day. I finally had enough of the thing ringing all the time and just had it disconnected.
Also some places you have to answer the phone. We had real issues with this at work. Our helpdesk line kept getting calls from debt collectors looking for some employee who had worked here 20 years ago. Got real old telling them to fuck off, and having to tie up the line taking the calls.
They should be public utilities for sure (at least the actual lines that go to people's houses) but that wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. The issue is that it can just be very expensive to run infrastructure. In cities, not a real big deal. While the cost per mile is more you have plenty of people so it is worth it. However rural costs more. Of course this is an issue for a public utility. People will get mad if their tax dollars are paying for really high dollar runs so someone out in the sticks can have fast Internet.
Still would be better than private companies, but wouldn't be a cure-all.
Particularly since many of the places I see that get talked about for having super-fast Internet seem to post speedtest results for a short distance, on network. That's not really useful because that can just mean that you basically have a big WAN with fast access to your own stuff, but no backhaul to support it. To really have a connection that you can claim gets the speeds advertised, you need to be seeing that speed to a server that is off of the ISP's network, and a few hundred miles/km away in another state/country. If you can get your speeds with tests like that, then you are actually getting what is advertised. If you see great results on the ISP's speedtest server that is 10 miles away but crap to everywhere else, they've sold you a fast link with no backhaul.
I'm real happy with my connection for that reason. It's 300mbit for $100/month but it really gets that. I see those speeds not just to my ISP's server, but to servers all over the US. Steam downloads go at like 40MB+/sec. So it is expensive to an extent, but I really get the speed I pay for, and I get it to anywhere that can handle it (when you start to talk fast lines the other end is the problem sometimes).
A fast last-mile means nothing if there isn't sufficient backhaul and peering at all level to support it.
AMD has never been able to write OpenGL drivers worth a damn. I dunno why they have so much trouble, but it has been that way forever. Holds true on Windows too. nVidia cards run equal speed in DX and OpenGL on Windows, AMD cards run was faster in DX mode.
Allegedly the open source drivers would fix it, however it turns out that programming graphics drivers is really hard, particularly when you can't use licensed code, and the drivers have not provided impressive features and performance yet.
So, as ever, nVidia is the winner because their proprietary Linux drivers are just as fast as their proprietary Windows drivers which is to say damn fast.
Employers aren't required to give you anything when they let you go, other than your final paycheck for whatever time you've worked but they haven't yet paid. However sometimes they will give you a "severance" which is additional pay. It can range anything for a meager token to a pretty hefty chunk of change. Generally better employers will offer one. Also employers will sometimes use them as a way to get people to leave voluntarily to avoid forced layoffs.
Usually, they don't come with strings attached. This one is extremely irregular. Either the severance package is really good so they expect people will take it despite the shit condition, they figure their employees are really desperate for money and will take it anyhow, or they are really out of touch.
Personally in a situation like that I'd be really tempted to do as other have suggested and take it, but then act like a completely forgetful idiot whenever I'm called in and generally be completely useless. Realistically I'd probably strike the availability cause in the contract and sign it. If they countersigned, great I get money with no strings, if they refuse I'd walk without the extra money because I don't need those conditions over my head.
The idea is basically that,despite all evidence to the contrary, stone age people actually lived longer than we do now and the reason is their diet. So if you "eat like a caveman" you'll be way healthier.
For whatever reason anything that gets done using one of those is somehow "news". Doesn't matter if it is the same sort of thing does all the time, if you use a Rift to do it that somehow makes it newsworthy. Most likely because Facebook hypes it.
I'm not sure how much of a problem there really is. I haven't researched it, but we don't hear much news on it so that leads me to wonder. Also an anecdotal story, but still: One of our students likes playing with drones and has a mid sized one with a camera. However, he lives near a military air base, and the airspace surrounding it is all controlled, as it is around any such installation. He doesn't want to get in trouble so he called them to try and obtain permission to fly his drone. ATC laughed and said given its size, they didn't care, if it was under 50 pounds they weren't concerned. They promised to talk to the base commander anyhow to try and get him permission, but felt it was a total non-issue.
So who knows, this may be more of a politicians wanting to Do Something(tm) and attacking some problem that exists more in their heads than in the world, particularly since it is easy and low impact.
The Wii did well, but not because of its low spec visuals, rather in spite of them. People found it to be an interesting gimmick, and bought them in droves. However the attach rate (amount of games bought per console) wasn't that great so while it was a good money maker, it wasn't the dominant force they might hope.
With the Wii U they decided to go for a gimmick again, this time the tablet controller. However people don't seem to be interested. Everyone who wants a tablet has a tablet and it just doesn't seem to bring much to games. So Wii U sales have been slow. None of the current gen consoles have been flying off the shelves, but the Wii U is lagging in third place at less than half of the PS4's sales. That is despite being on the market for a year longer than the PS4.
So I'm sure Nintendo is doing some serious thinking about what they want to do with their next system. Particularly since unlike Sony and MS, they don't really have other markets to fall back on. That doesn't mean they'll go with high spec graphics, but it may be a consideration particularly since the Xbone and PS4 were more modest this time around and the PC gaming uptick has been pushing some better looking games.
They need to do something different at any rate, because the Wii U just isn't doing all that well.
Also the spam thing would require Google to sell your information, which is very much what Google doesn't like to do. What they know about people and their ability to gather it is their value, and they hold on to it jealously. They want companies to sell ads through them, they are not interested in handing out your info so people can advertise to you directly and cut them out of the loop.
Everyone I know has a G-mail account (no surprise, they are common with tech users) and none of them experience anything like this. While it is still all anecdotal, it is a lot more data points than one crazy guy, who has questionable data security practices.
Even with HD cameras, making out a license plate at any distance can be difficult. Try it sometime. Put your phone up at an angle a security camera might be, and see how readable things are at a distance. To do a good job of reading license plates you either need something mounted specifically for that (at a gate or something) or you need really high rez cameras, like the still cameras used at red light cameras.
General security cameras aren't much use for license plates.
It demonstrates how lazy publishers have become with regards to ads online. With an actual paper, or TV show, the publisher gets and curates ads. They have a staff who sells the ad space, they work with production to determine where the ad fill will go and so on. So the only ads are ones they approved, and they are mixed in with the content in ways they chose.
Online, they just say "Fuck it, I don't wanna." They include links directly back to ad network servers and let those people serve up whatever they want which can include malware, as you noted. They aren't willing to spend any time doing curation, they just want to hand it all to someone else and collect money. Well guys, the result of that is really annoying things like pop ups and dangerous things like malware. The result of those are people turning to blocking ads.
Companies should regularly update their products to use the latest tech. There is no reason to freeze a product and not update it for a long time just to make owners feel like they still have the "latest". Rather they should update as often as changes in available technology/manufacturing/etc dictate. Customers then buy new ones as often as they feel it useful.
That's how it has been with desktop computers, excluding Apple, forever. Few, if any, people upgrade every time something new comes out because the changes are usually minor. They buy something, stick with it for a few years, then buy something new when they feel like they want or need it.
The problem is that Apple devices seem to be something that some people wrap their ego in. They feel a need to have the newest device to be "cool" or some such and thus get mad when a newer device comes out that they cannot or do not wish to purchase since they feel it somehow lessens what they do have.
Everyone I know, even the cheap types, keeps some kind of wired Internet. It is usually faster than wireless and always cheaper per GB. If you were an EXTREMELY light user I suppose you could go all wireless all the time, but even for the casual user who likes to surf the web on a daily basis and watch cat videos, you'll easily use more data than a wireless provider is interested in letting you have cheap and they'll charge and/or throttle.
Simple example: T-Mobile gives me phone, text, and 1GB of data for $50/month. It would run me $30/month more to get unlimited data (they'll throttle if you get too excessive though). That's for a single device, and gives 7GB of tethering. Speeds are in the realm of 40mbits max, 20-30mbits normally. So that'd work only if your phone is going to be the one-and-only device you use for most things, and do a little surfing on something else. If you want to add a tablet to it you'd be talking adding another line/device which brings it up to about $100/month with 10GB of data per device.
Ok well then having a look at the cable company for about $60/month they'll sell you a 50mbit connection with a 350GB soft cap (meaning if you go over they complain at you and try to upsell you, they don't charge or throttle). You'll really get those kinds of speeds too, pretty much all the time.
That's more money, but not a ton more. Presuming you would have the basic phone plan anyhow you pay about $30/month more than the unlimited or $10/month more than the two devices. With that you get a faster connection, the ability to connect as many devices as you like, enough data to watch Netflix, download games, and so on. Also, you can, of course, upgrade your speed. They'll happily sell you 100mbit or 300mbit for a bit more per month (about $75 and $100 respectively) whereas the mobile speed is what it is.
Not surprising then that all the people I know keep a wired connection. Personally I don't find I need much LTE data, I use WiFi most of the time at work and home, so the 1GB cap is fine for me (more than fine actually) but I need a lot more on another connection. Looking at my usage I used about 350GB last month. Not the kind of thing a wireless provider would be ok with.
This post is a prime candidate for /r/iamverysmart :P.
Most fruit juices have a lot of sugar. Fruit contains a lot of fructose, water, and fiber. So squeeze out the water that contains the fructose, the fiber gets left behind, and you have something that is by volume and weight a tons of sugar.
Apple juice is a good example. If you go and have a look at the Simply Apple stuff at a grocer you can see easily. It really is 100% pure apple juice. They don't add any sweetener or anything else, they just squeeze the juice out of apple and bottle that shit up... and it is as high calorie as soda. 180 calories per 12 oz (355ml). For comparison Pepsi is 150 and Mountain Dew is 170.
I love apple juice, it tastes fantastic, but you can't fool yourself in to thinking that because it is juice it is magically good.
Because it seems the US likes technology plenty. The US is a bastion of high tech research and production. Intel, AMD, nVidia, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Broadcom, IBM, most of the big names in chip technology are US companies with US R&D centers, and many of them have a lot of US production. That's just one example, you can point to plenty of other technologies that the US does a ton in, it is just a good one since those chips tend to underlie our digital devices these days.
Same deal on the purely digital side of things, namely software. The US is a mainstay in virtually every segment of software.
So what is this "digital agenda" that the US so desperately supposedly needs to not fall behind? Because they seem to be doing well.
Also as an aside, what's wrong with being #2 or #3 in something? I've visited a number of other countries, and by definition not all of them are #1 at most things. They are still very nice places to live and I have no issues. Seems that between #1 and "stone age shithole" there is a whole range of "quite nice places to live". So who cares if China is #1 at something?
Well, sounds like a great plan except for the fact that you clearly have the details wrong since there is no 5G wireless yet. So thanks, but I'll take my info from someone who is able to give me accurate info.
She'll be happy to know that her cell plan is much cheaper than she thinks it is, because some random dude on the Internet is convinced US cell plans have to be more expensive.
I'm going to guess you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, and are just hating on the Us because that's trendy to do. My cell plan is 50 USD/month. For that I get unlimited calls to and from any number in the US, Canada, and Mexico, landline or cellphone. I get unlimited text to and from any cellphone in about 140 countries (including Europe). I get 1GB of data at 4G speeds (meaning about 30-40mbit/sec where I live) and then 2G speeds after that (meaning about 100k/sec) unless I choose to buy more.
When traveling internationally I can continue to use my text and data just like in the US, no extra charge. Voice calls are $.20/minute when roaming, though as mentioned not in Canada or Mexico.
My sister couldn't believe it. She lives in the UK and we were discussing my trip to visit and she was mentioning getting a prepaid SIM, which I told her I don't need. I told her my plan and she was stunned.
This isn't some super-secret service or anything, it is just T-Mobile's normal post-paid plan. They are happy to sell it to anyone and advertise it heavily.
So how's your plan compare? Also please remember when talking about roaming and long distance that the US is almost certainly a bit larger than your country. Roaming and calls in all 50 US states would more be the equivalent of roaming and calls in all of Europe, than all of one European country.