I think that at least "making an effort" to be clean is one of the things that keeps us civilized.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Since you're typically not frobbing your belt and pants on a regular basis once you leave the bathroom, it probably does still make things more sanitary than just "oh fuck it I won't wash my hands."
These people are making money hands-over-fist. Billions of dollars flowing into their pockets.
Why do they feel they "need" to do anything about piracy? The vast majority of people will pay for their content. Even I, who used to pirate things like crazy when I was a teenager (due to complete lack of funds) now pay for my stuff since I can afford it.
They should instead find ways to make it easier for customers to buy their media. Look what they did for music; it's DRM free now and so convenient to buy from numerous places, and it all plays on pretty much every device out there. They should do the same thing for video content. Make it so when I pay $10 to download a movie, that it's truly MINE, and I'll gladly buy more movies online.
It's not hard. Yet they are stubborn jackasses and continue with this war of theirs. Reminds me of the equally pointless "war on drugs".
In a dense area you might pick up 15 different access points, 2-3 of them open. Unless they have sophisticated RF locating equipment the letters are just going to be out based on a best guess scenario.
The only place I can see this working is suburbs with wide spacing between homes, or rural areas.
Yep, the upgrade isn't mandatory. Also, the Google Maps website seems to work fine on iOS 6, so you're not really losing it. However, the website will never perform as well as a native app so hopefully Google will have one for us soon.
They're cheap because they're mass market items. A lot more people buy TV dongles to watch TV than they do to mess around with SDRs.
The hobbyist market for SDRs is tiny, and thus it would be very cost-ineffective to manufacture them for just this market. Instead we're taking something that already exists (TV tuners), is mass market, and by coincidence, just happens to be a software-defined radio, and re-purposing it.
A good analogy would be modifying an existing bicycle to be an electric bicycle, as opposed to manufacturing a dedicated electric bicycle from scratch. Sure, the latter will probably perform better and look nicer but it would be orders of magnitude more expensive, because the market for electric bicycles is small.
(99% of the electric bikes on the market are just modified mountain bikes)
Actually generic data compression algorithms don't work very well on audio files. Lossless audio codecs like ALAC and FLAC do waveform analysis and "know more" about the nature of audio files so that they can be compressed more than your typical compression algorithm like gzip would do.
For the love of ghod, let's not start encouraging the creation of MKV files with new audio codecs that won't be supported on existing embedded devices that play MKV.
Oh gods yes. I miss my Palm Pre's wireless charging. I used one from 2009 until sometime in 2010 when I upgraded to an iPhone because the Pre was becoming a bit of a dead end.
The wireless Touchstone charging is one thing that Palm Inc. (I refuse to give HP credit) got very, very right. Why can't the other manufacturers copy from them or license the tech? It was so wonderful and elegant to be able to just place the phone on the stand and have it charge. It worked very reliably and I never had a lick of trouble with it.
The best part about this tech is it takes almost no space. The coil is completely flat and barely adds to the thickness of the device! Apple/Samsung/HTC/Motorola/etc. could integrate one into their products effortlessly and ditch cables completely by combining it with Wi-Fi syncing of data.
The biggest problem here is not controlling usage so there's less congestion. Providers already do that plenty with data caps.
The problem is providers telling you what application you can use that 2GB or 4GB you purchased for.
AT&T for instance, says that if you have a 2GB smart phone data plan, you can't tether your laptop. But if you have a 4GB plan, you can. What business do they have telling you if you can tether your laptop? If you want to sit there and use 30GB tethered, that should be okay; you'll just have to pay for the additional usage. This is understandable and makes sense.
They're doing it again with iOS 6, saying you can't do Facetime over cellular unless you upgrade to one of their sharing plans. They shouldn't CARE if you use facetime over cellular, because if you use too much data, you'll have to pay for it anyway.
Charge me $xx for $yy GB. That's fine. Just don't tell me what I can do with those GB. They're MINE, I paid for them!
At some point you just have to account for the laws of physics.
Pushing a vehicle at 80MPH down the highway is going to be hard to do and get 54.5 MPG. No matter how "hybrid" the car is, no matter how good your regenerative breaking.. once you're at highway speeds, air resistance becomes insurmountable.
Dial-up isn't really useful anymore on today's Internet.
The voice equivalent would be a phone line you have to scream really loud for the other person to hear you, and that has so much static you can barely understand the other person.
You probably haven't used dial-up since the 1990s, and don't realize just how relatively useless it is now. Heck, I had ISDN until 2004, and even that was starting to get unbearable back *then*.
If it means universal service provisions for broadband internet access, then yes.
There are people in rural areas right now that don't have Internet access because telcos aren't willing to spend the money to run it out to them.
Universal service provisions allowed telephone service to reach every single person in the entire country back in the day. The same thing should happen for broadband internet access today.
Could you share her reason she cares about such floofy things? I've always wondered, myself.
From my perspective it all seems to be about who can spend more money on their outfit, like a prestige thing. I don't think the "hottest, newest fashions" really look "better" than the stuff on clearance.
Is this the case? Or is there a genuine art appreciation or something similar behind it? At least I could respect it slightly more if it's the latter.
This is why vaccinations need to be mandatory. If you want to live in society, you have to follow society's rules and that includes rules that keep you from putting others at serious risk.
In OS X, socket connections are tied to the IP address, not the interface. They also don't automatically close when the interface goes down, like they do under Windows (which is annoying because all your SSH sessions die if there's so much as a burp in your Wifi connection)
This is the way it should be. Shit happens to interfaces, but generally an IP will remain the same unless you physically move to another network.
Considering how low-density rural areas and how congestion isn't a big deal there, telcos should offer special "rural LTE access" plans. They would have reasonably high caps, much like cable and DSL (250-300GB, maybe more), with the proviso that you can only use them at one location. If you roam to a different tower outside the rural area, the normal caps apply.
This would be a great way for telcos to serve these customers and provide real service without having to run wires. And if the LTE modem is fixed in one location, they can use directional antennas and such to increase range. Congestion isn't an issue in an area where you might have five people in a square mile.
That's not going to work. Web scrapers break when you make the slightest changes to the way the web page is delivered.
If Twitter notices a lot of scraping going on? Tweak the page slightly. Then 573 scraper developers have to update their code. How many times will this happen before they give up? I'm betting not many.
I'm extremely pissed off at the way Twitter is trying to push away third party clients. TweetBot is AMAZING, and FAR superior to Twitter's own client. If they put as much effort into developing their client as they are restricting the API and whining about this, it could probably better. But of course they don't.
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I think that at least "making an effort" to be clean is one of the things that keeps us civilized.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Since you're typically not frobbing your belt and pants on a regular basis once you leave the bathroom, it probably does still make things more sanitary than just "oh fuck it I won't wash my hands."
These people are making money hands-over-fist. Billions of dollars flowing into their pockets.
Why do they feel they "need" to do anything about piracy? The vast majority of people will pay for their content. Even I, who used to pirate things like crazy when I was a teenager (due to complete lack of funds) now pay for my stuff since I can afford it.
They should instead find ways to make it easier for customers to buy their media. Look what they did for music; it's DRM free now and so convenient to buy from numerous places, and it all plays on pretty much every device out there. They should do the same thing for video content. Make it so when I pay $10 to download a movie, that it's truly MINE, and I'll gladly buy more movies online.
It's not hard. Yet they are stubborn jackasses and continue with this war of theirs. Reminds me of the equally pointless "war on drugs".
In a dense area you might pick up 15 different access points, 2-3 of them open. Unless they have sophisticated RF locating equipment the letters are just going to be out based on a best guess scenario.
The only place I can see this working is suburbs with wide spacing between homes, or rural areas.
Simply pocket your phone before you engage in "paperwork" so to speak, and don't touch it again until you've washed your hands. Not difficult. :)
Would you like to take a survey?
Do you like beans? Do you like George Wendt?
Would you eat beans with George Wendt?
Yep, the upgrade isn't mandatory. Also, the Google Maps website seems to work fine on iOS 6, so you're not really losing it. However, the website will never perform as well as a native app so hopefully Google will have one for us soon.
They're cheap because they're mass market items. A lot more people buy TV dongles to watch TV than they do to mess around with SDRs.
The hobbyist market for SDRs is tiny, and thus it would be very cost-ineffective to manufacture them for just this market. Instead we're taking something that already exists (TV tuners), is mass market, and by coincidence, just happens to be a software-defined radio, and re-purposing it.
A good analogy would be modifying an existing bicycle to be an electric bicycle, as opposed to manufacturing a dedicated electric bicycle from scratch. Sure, the latter will probably perform better and look nicer but it would be orders of magnitude more expensive, because the market for electric bicycles is small.
(99% of the electric bikes on the market are just modified mountain bikes)
The unit you're looking for (energy) is watt-hours.
Amp-hours * Battery voltage = watt hours.
1 amp from a 3.7V battery = 3.7 watts. Utilize that for an hour, that's 1 amp hour, or 3.7 watt hours.
Actually generic data compression algorithms don't work very well on audio files. Lossless audio codecs like ALAC and FLAC do waveform analysis and "know more" about the nature of audio files so that they can be compressed more than your typical compression algorithm like gzip would do.
For the love of ghod, let's not start encouraging the creation of MKV files with new audio codecs that won't be supported on existing embedded devices that play MKV.
Oh gods yes. I miss my Palm Pre's wireless charging. I used one from 2009 until sometime in 2010 when I upgraded to an iPhone because the Pre was becoming a bit of a dead end.
The wireless Touchstone charging is one thing that Palm Inc. (I refuse to give HP credit) got very, very right. Why can't the other manufacturers copy from them or license the tech? It was so wonderful and elegant to be able to just place the phone on the stand and have it charge. It worked very reliably and I never had a lick of trouble with it.
The best part about this tech is it takes almost no space. The coil is completely flat and barely adds to the thickness of the device! Apple/Samsung/HTC/Motorola/etc. could integrate one into their products effortlessly and ditch cables completely by combining it with Wi-Fi syncing of data.
FOR THE EMPIRE!!!
*does the Terran Empire salute*
The biggest problem here is not controlling usage so there's less congestion. Providers already do that plenty with data caps.
The problem is providers telling you what application you can use that 2GB or 4GB you purchased for.
AT&T for instance, says that if you have a 2GB smart phone data plan, you can't tether your laptop. But if you have a 4GB plan, you can. What business do they have telling you if you can tether your laptop? If you want to sit there and use 30GB tethered, that should be okay; you'll just have to pay for the additional usage. This is understandable and makes sense.
They're doing it again with iOS 6, saying you can't do Facetime over cellular unless you upgrade to one of their sharing plans. They shouldn't CARE if you use facetime over cellular, because if you use too much data, you'll have to pay for it anyway.
Charge me $xx for $yy GB. That's fine. Just don't tell me what I can do with those GB. They're MINE, I paid for them!
The Nissan Leaf does not burn gasoline. How in the heck can they assign an MPG rating to it?
At some point you just have to account for the laws of physics.
Pushing a vehicle at 80MPH down the highway is going to be hard to do and get 54.5 MPG. No matter how "hybrid" the car is, no matter how good your regenerative breaking.. once you're at highway speeds, air resistance becomes insurmountable.
Wow, this page is so incredibly slow and clunky. Google, you can do SO MUCH better. Come on.
Meanwhile, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ provides all the information you could want about the storm, and it loads instantly.
Sometimes all you need is the content.
Dial-up isn't really useful anymore on today's Internet.
The voice equivalent would be a phone line you have to scream really loud for the other person to hear you, and that has so much static you can barely understand the other person.
You probably haven't used dial-up since the 1990s, and don't realize just how relatively useless it is now. Heck, I had ISDN until 2004, and even that was starting to get unbearable back *then*.
If it means universal service provisions for broadband internet access, then yes.
There are people in rural areas right now that don't have Internet access because telcos aren't willing to spend the money to run it out to them.
Universal service provisions allowed telephone service to reach every single person in the entire country back in the day. The same thing should happen for broadband internet access today.
Could you share her reason she cares about such floofy things? I've always wondered, myself.
From my perspective it all seems to be about who can spend more money on their outfit, like a prestige thing. I don't think the "hottest, newest fashions" really look "better" than the stuff on clearance.
Is this the case? Or is there a genuine art appreciation or something similar behind it? At least I could respect it slightly more if it's the latter.
This is why vaccinations need to be mandatory. If you want to live in society, you have to follow society's rules and that includes rules that keep you from putting others at serious risk.
In OS X, socket connections are tied to the IP address, not the interface. They also don't automatically close when the interface goes down, like they do under Windows (which is annoying because all your SSH sessions die if there's so much as a burp in your Wifi connection)
This is the way it should be. Shit happens to interfaces, but generally an IP will remain the same unless you physically move to another network.
Considering how low-density rural areas and how congestion isn't a big deal there, telcos should offer special "rural LTE access" plans. They would have reasonably high caps, much like cable and DSL (250-300GB, maybe more), with the proviso that you can only use them at one location. If you roam to a different tower outside the rural area, the normal caps apply.
This would be a great way for telcos to serve these customers and provide real service without having to run wires. And if the LTE modem is fixed in one location, they can use directional antennas and such to increase range. Congestion isn't an issue in an area where you might have five people in a square mile.
It will, you just have to set up your DHCP server to assign the same IP address to both the MAC address of your wifi interface and wired interface.
I do this on my Macbook Pro. At home I can move seamlessly between Wifi and wired without missing a beat, even mid-transfer.
That's not going to work. Web scrapers break when you make the slightest changes to the way the web page is delivered.
If Twitter notices a lot of scraping going on? Tweak the page slightly. Then 573 scraper developers have to update their code. How many times will this happen before they give up? I'm betting not many.
I'm extremely pissed off at the way Twitter is trying to push away third party clients. TweetBot is AMAZING, and FAR superior to Twitter's own client. If they put as much effort into developing their client as they are restricting the API and whining about this, it could probably better. But of course they don't.
I need coffee. I meant to NOT make the mistake of CHOOSING an encumbered standard.