But 5G is fast for everyone on the same tower. Really fast all the time. One tower, many users.
Ok, then sell me a contract where I get an uncapped bandwidth all the time of 0.001 times the bandwidth that one tower can transfer - should be fair enough, right?
In reality, you will find that no provider will sell you such a contract. They still want back to the days were every 140 byte short message earned them 29 cents.
Given the scarce data volumes sold at outrageous prices, 3G was already fast enough to exploit one's "included volume" quickly. When 4G became active, I hardly noticed any difference - the phone was usable for the same kinds of use cases as before, and unusable because of price per volume for everything else. I do not see how 5G is going to change that. Does it matter if it takes a few minutes or a few seconds to burn through your traffic-per-month?
I think this increase in incidents may very well be caused primarily by the introduction of new laws (called "KRITIS" in Germany, based on EU-Regulation 2008/114/EG) that require companies (from an increasing number of industry sectors) to report security incidents.
In the past, the default reaction of companies to security events has always been to be silent about them and tell no one in fear of bad PR. Now, there is a legal risk involved with that strategy, so more events get reported.
As much as I appreciate AMD's efforts to implement the "amdgpu" driver, the result is still so far away from being stable enough for serious 24/7 production use (rather than just gaming), that I really hope Intel will do better and provide an alternative for buyers.
After all, the i915 has been very reliable for me in recent years.
I guess you are referring to ridiculous examples like "Mission Impossible - Fall Out", where many of the "portrait" scenes were blurred to the point that it felt painful to watch. Reminded me of "Bilitis", where the reason for the blurring was a different one.
I don't know where you get the 'nowhere near 4k' from.
From reality. The scanners are not the limiting factor, it's rather the film itself. Take "Bad Times as the El Royale" as an example - it was shot on Kodak film of which you can read the specs at https://www.kodak.com/uploaded...
Look at the logarithmic scale of the spatial resolution diagram - the contrast of the higher spatial frequencies drops very quickly, while granularity quickly increases under all but the most ideal lighting conditions. In reality, the resolution you will get from such a film, even when using good scanners and 4k digital intermediates, is nowhere near the resolution of a decent digital camera (like let's say an Arri Alexa 65).
What makes you think that the "cleanup cost" of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters is yet known in its entirety?
Also, there are not only costs for disaster clean-ups, but currently completely unknown costs for the safe storage of the nuclear waste produced. The Asse II mine alone, which was attempted to be used for nuclear waste storage during 11 years, has cost ~9 billion Euro as of today, with no end of additional costs in sight. And that was just one small site.
What market do you expect to develop when not only all the initial UHD discs released but also the vast majority of all UHD discs released right now contain "fake 4k" content, that is, content just up-scaled from 2k, devoid of any actual additional details?
There are laudable exceptions (like for example "Lucy", which was produced in excellent 4k quality), but among all the UHD releases in 2018, very few reached actual 4k quality. Many were from 3.4k resolving cameras at best, many used 2k digital intermediates, and surprisingly many were filmed on grainy 35mm analog film, which is nowhere near actual 4k quality.
"Streaming" services like Netflix may produce material at 4k, but then compress it into such low bandwidths that ultimately, any significantly complex/moving scene looks worse than a 2k BluRay.
I really hope this ugly trend will change - one glimmer of hope is that the increasing number of productions from China seem to more frequently employ decent cameras and 4k digital intermediates.
Seriously? There are pretty feature-complete washing machines sold for < 200,- EUR, here's a link to a manual of one, what do you miss? https://data2.manualslib.com/p...
There are plenty of games on f-droid, I cannot comment on their quality though as I have no use for games on a smartphone - which neither has a display nor the sound or a controller I would consider usable for gaming. If I want to play video games, I sit down in front of my large 4k TV and start up a console.
Foreign agencies only have to wait for the next ritual "shutdown" and make a friendly offer to any government employees no longer paid - e.g. at your locale garage sale or at public soup kitchen.
So I shouldn't buy a washer or dryer? Dishwasher? Stove? No car, no smartphone..
If you have reason to believe that they are overpriced due to price fixing or "collusion", then yes, do not buy them.
I own a dishwasher, a washing machine, a stove and a smartphone, and I cannot say I saw any indication of them being overpriced - in fact all these household appliances where available at prices ranging from ~ 100 to 3000 Euros, so not much "fixing" but great flexibility in terms of different offerings from many different manufacturers.
I do not own a dryer or a car, but because I have no need for them, not because I see indications of their prices being fixed.
In comparison to the actually useful and thorough checks that are mandatory for an app to be published in the free open source repository https://f-droid.org/ Google is a shady shack of scam apps with few exceptions among the malware.
If Equifax had easy automated access to your SAT scores, they would certainly store them. The attitude of corporations in the "big data age" is "collect first, figure out what it might be good for, later". Even if they never had any use for that data on their own, they would assume the pennies it takes them to store these few bytes per person may pay off later, if someone comes along who wants to buy that data (like advertisers intending to target people with different SAT scores with different ads).
Many people seem to assume that potential customers are powerless against price collusion - but they are not. "Not buying" is almost always an option, so just show sellers of things you consider overpriced the finger and do not buy.
After some time, either those who fixed prices will notice their revenue goes downhill, or somebody will realize there is a market gap to fill when offering at a lower price.
There are plenty of things that I never bought all my life, for the simple reason that I do not consider them worth the price they are offered at (like built-in navigation systems for cars).
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But 5G is fast for everyone on the same tower. Really fast all the time. One tower, many users.
Ok, then sell me a contract where I get an uncapped bandwidth all the time of 0.001 times the bandwidth that one tower can transfer - should be fair enough, right?
In reality, you will find that no provider will sell you such a contract. They still want back to the days were every 140 byte short message earned them 29 cents.
Given the scarce data volumes sold at outrageous prices, 3G was already fast enough to exploit one's "included volume" quickly. When 4G became active, I hardly noticed any difference - the phone was usable for the same kinds of use cases as before, and unusable because of price per volume for everything else. I do not see how 5G is going to change that. Does it matter if it takes a few minutes or a few seconds to burn through your traffic-per-month?
... while this abomination is a way too large and too heavy phablet that you can unfold into a tablet.
Wake me when there are actually small devices that unfold into a normal size smartphone.
I think this increase in incidents may very well be caused primarily by the introduction of new laws (called "KRITIS" in Germany, based on EU-Regulation 2008/114/EG) that require companies (from an increasing number of industry sectors) to report security incidents.
In the past, the default reaction of companies to security events has always been to be silent about them and tell no one in fear of bad PR. Now, there is a legal risk involved with that strategy, so more events get reported.
Just asking, because otherwise declaring a state of emergency on the moon might be the only way to get this funded.
As much as I appreciate AMD's efforts to implement the "amdgpu" driver, the result is still so far away from being stable enough for serious 24/7 production use (rather than just gaming), that I really hope Intel will do better and provide an alternative for buyers.
After all, the i915 has been very reliable for me in recent years.
... videos coming up, I guess?
... and daughter colliding at the local supermarket checkout. :-)
Their masses really qualifies this for being an "extreme cosmic event"
... he should be at the right age for the risks of a Mars flight when it starts, and he's such a good comedian!
No, sorry, but D-VHS won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, many reviews agree that the Panasonic UHD players are fine - even their lower-end models.
I guess you are referring to ridiculous examples like "Mission Impossible - Fall Out", where many of the "portrait" scenes were blurred to the point that it felt painful to watch. Reminded me of "Bilitis", where the reason for the blurring was a different one.
I don't know where you get the 'nowhere near 4k' from.
From reality. The scanners are not the limiting factor, it's rather the film itself. Take "Bad Times as the El Royale" as an example - it was shot on Kodak film of which you can read the specs at https://www.kodak.com/uploaded...
Look at the logarithmic scale of the spatial resolution diagram - the contrast of the higher spatial frequencies drops very quickly, while granularity quickly increases under all but the most ideal lighting conditions. In reality, the resolution you will get from such a film, even when using good scanners and 4k digital intermediates, is nowhere near the resolution of a decent digital camera (like let's say an Arri Alexa 65).
What makes you think that the "cleanup cost" of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters is yet known in its entirety?
Also, there are not only costs for disaster clean-ups, but currently completely unknown costs for the safe storage of the nuclear waste produced. The Asse II mine alone, which was attempted to be used for nuclear waste storage during 11 years, has cost ~9 billion Euro as of today, with no end of additional costs in sight. And that was just one small site.
What market do you expect to develop when not only all the initial UHD discs released but also the vast majority of all UHD discs released right now contain "fake 4k" content, that is, content just up-scaled from 2k, devoid of any actual additional details?
There are laudable exceptions (like for example "Lucy", which was produced in excellent 4k quality), but among all the UHD releases in 2018, very few reached actual 4k quality. Many were from 3.4k resolving cameras at best, many used 2k digital intermediates, and surprisingly many were filmed on grainy 35mm analog film, which is nowhere near actual 4k quality.
"Streaming" services like Netflix may produce material at 4k, but then compress it into such low bandwidths that ultimately, any significantly complex/moving scene looks worse than a 2k BluRay.
I really hope this ugly trend will change - one glimmer of hope is that the increasing number of productions from China seem to more frequently employ decent cameras and 4k digital intermediates.
Ah, I remember the good old days of "Morph+" on the Amiga... when this was new & cool. But the effect dropped astonishingly quick out of fashion.
And of course, a display too! Two SIM-slots, replaceable battery, SD-slot, LTE. It cost ~ 110,- EUR when it was new.
Seriously, these so called "flagships" are worse than much older phones in most of the criteria that matter to me.
Seriously? There are pretty feature-complete washing machines sold for < 200,- EUR, here's a link to a manual of one, what do you miss? https://data2.manualslib.com/p...
There are plenty of games on f-droid, I cannot comment on their quality though as I have no use for games on a smartphone - which neither has a display nor the sound or a controller I would consider usable for gaming. If I want to play video games, I sit down in front of my large 4k TV and start up a console.
Foreign agencies only have to wait for the next ritual "shutdown" and make a friendly offer to any government employees no longer paid - e.g. at your locale garage sale or at public soup kitchen.
So I shouldn't buy a washer or dryer? Dishwasher? Stove? No car, no smartphone..
If you have reason to believe that they are overpriced due to price fixing or "collusion", then yes, do not buy them.
I own a dishwasher, a washing machine, a stove and a smartphone, and I cannot say I saw any indication of them being overpriced - in fact all these household appliances where available at prices ranging from ~ 100 to 3000 Euros, so not much "fixing" but great flexibility in terms of different offerings from many different manufacturers.
I do not own a dryer or a car, but because I have no need for them, not because I see indications of their prices being fixed.
In comparison to the actually useful and thorough checks that are mandatory for an app to be published in the free open source repository https://f-droid.org/ Google is a shady shack of scam apps with few exceptions among the malware.
If Equifax had easy automated access to your SAT scores, they would certainly store them. The attitude of corporations in the "big data age" is "collect first, figure out what it might be good for, later". Even if they never had any use for that data on their own, they would assume the pennies it takes them to store these few bytes per person may pay off later, if someone comes along who wants to buy that data (like advertisers intending to target people with different SAT scores with different ads).
Many people seem to assume that potential customers are powerless against price collusion - but they are not. "Not buying" is almost always an option, so just show sellers of things you consider overpriced the finger and do not buy.
After some time, either those who fixed prices will notice their revenue goes downhill, or somebody will realize there is a market gap to fill when offering at a lower price.
There are plenty of things that I never bought all my life, for the simple reason that I do not consider them worth the price they are offered at (like built-in navigation systems for cars).
Even if test scores are not relevant for the Chinese "social scores", you can bet they already go on permanent record.