I really wish they had a "Stable" branch, The last updated literally killed my use of IE & Edge, both of which grew a "this web page has stopped responding" dialog that pops up and results in the tab being reloaded, which of course just pops the dialog box back up in 2 seconds or whatever the timeout is.
I doubt most baby boomers paid as much for tecom services per month as your average cell phone/home internet connection costs.
IIRC when I was younger my parents were paying something like $10 a month for phone service that's $30 in today dollars (assume 1980 for CPI calculation).
Today a family can easily spend north of $200 a month providing a cell phone + home internet. Skimping it might be possible to get that for less, but i'm betting most families spend more than $30 a month in telcom services. Sure they are getting more service, but having internet access is even more critical today than having a phone was in 1970...
SS was never meant to be a savings plan, more like a pyramid scheme where you collected something from everyone working and divvied it up among those that weren't. Which worked well as long as each generation did better than the last. The problem was that the baby boomers were a bubble in the pipeline and the prediction was that those of us working when they retired would get screwed. The Regan fix would have actually fixed it, if congress could have actually balanced the budget between ~85-15 rather than just deficit spending more than the trust fund took in. So taken at a face value the fact that the government continues to spend more than it takes in has little to do with SS, which is a separate tax with a separate funding model.
Again by itself, SS is fine, the trust fund is ok too from the perspective of it having a lot of spare cash, and with just minor tweaks (removal of the SS wage cap for starters) fixes it for another generation or two. Not paying people with a net worth > $1 million is another tweak, things that are all fairly pedestrian but for some reason can't get any traction in congress. I leave you to reason about that....
There are valid reasons to have licensed spectrum and communications systems that don't have to be at the mercy of a yahoo with an unlicensed source of interference.
Sure there are, but by percentage what portion of all the spectrum the FCC allocates is open? There are what the ISM bands and CB. The ham guys have a little more, but we aren't really talking a complete free for all. Licensed devices != licensed operators.
Wifi is 2 way, you need a way to be able to receive signals from the other wifi devices on the network. Boosting the power through the sky on the AP, and attaching large MMIO antennas won't really get you that far picking up signals from someones cheap cellphone. Yah, you will boost your range, but not by much.
If your not, then the school isn't doing their duty. Its probably pretty easy to determine if this is the case, simply take the grades of all the students and see if they resemble any kind of standard distribution.
Opps, did I say something wrong?
I remember being in school, and I graduated probably because of sheer stubbornness (although my GPA actually was pretty decent when compared with my peers, now days its probably considered bad). There were 5-6 classes that were absolute killers, mostly because the professors teaching them had high standards. A couple were the get a "B" with a 25% type of classes, a couple were personal issues, and there were a couple that I actually retook with another professor and did fine in (aka mismatch between the professors teaching methodology and my ability to learn it like that/by myself from the book).
It seems a huge part of what the FCC doesn't like are people setting their radios to other regulatory areas and using the nice "clean" spectrum allocated for commercial/government use. None of their proposed solutions really solve the problem, as motivated individuals can just pick up a device next time they are out of the country and put it in their apartment building anyway. Given how low power wifi is already, its likely they would never catch you.
But all this is just BS, because running an out of spec wifi AP doesn't really solve anything. Its not like anyone is going to go to the trouble of modifying all their devices to talk to an AP using a licensed band, or can communicate back to a wifi device attached to an amplifier.
The FCC/congress though is the real problem. Their corprate first attitude, has basically sold/given all the spectrum to organizations which hate the idea of individuals not having to be locked into paying monthly extortion..
Just imagine what the US would be like if instead of selling the spectrum used for just one of the recent spectrum auctions (take wimax for starters) they had instead allowed unlicensed use... The explosion of technologies in the extremely limited ISM bands suggests at just how useful this spectrum could be, instead of sitting around mostly unused.
As Linus bitched about a few years ago, the state of ARM/Linux is truly a sad thing. Mostly because of lack of hardware and software standards. Meaning that every device is basically running a custom kernel with a bunch of custom drivers. The push to use DT is cleaning up some of this, but its happening at a glacial pace. Partially because by itself, DT doesn't fundamentally solve the problem of hacked up drivers that differ from device to device that need DT properties to switch behaviors. AKA someone has to write "unified" drivers without upsetting the apple card on any of the the dozens of buggy hardware devices.
So, if google updates android it takes massive effort by the manufactures to go through their backlog of products (could be thousands of variations) and port their non upstream changes into the latest versions of android.
Worse yet, because of the "hacker" mentality of get it working, ship it move on to the next thing, frequently the code bases are all forked for every single device, so there isn't even a unified code base to apply common changes at a number of these companies. At one point the rumor was that one of the large vendors actually had more out of kernel code than the size of the kernel+drivers running on your average x86 machine.
So, with a capacity factor of ~20% that means that the wind farms are a feel good effort to green wash the natural gas peaker plants and the 45% coal base production spewing carbon and radioactive waste into the atmosphere that actually provides the vast majority of the energy.
Two decades of aggressive government programs to install solar and wind and the carbon reductions are hardly noticeable. I suspect if the idiots screaming renewables woke up and realized that their solution isn't solving anything and supported nukes as well as renewable, we could actually solve the global climate change problem before it destroys us.
Yah, for people running laptops and doing any kind of compute intensive work the difference between a desktop workstation and a laptop are again huge. From the 4+Ghz clock rates, to the fact that its possible to buy a E5 based machine with 44 cores or a 100+GB of RAM, 10Gbit+ ethernet, or attach multiple 4k monitors driven by GPU's that can process orders of magnitude more complex models than is possible on the power constrained laptop GPUs.
Bottom line, there are a lot of people who are inflicting a subpar computing experience on themselves because they want to carry around a workstation class machine, which fails on both accounts (its marginally portable, while being a relatively poor compute platform).
Sure some of that could be offloaded to a server somewhere, but frequently the latency between a machine in a rack somewhere and a latop "terminal" is pretty annoying. Even running NFS or doing git pushes to a remote server to run compile tasks can be painful enough to encourage the use of a decent desktop.
Right, which drives the prices up, and when presented with a less expensive pretty looking product the less expensive one will be chosen over the one with "proper engineering". The doctors aren't going to be technicality proficient enough to analyze the differences, which in theory the FDA will be doing for them. But the FDA, like most other government regulators is understaffed/etc because close to 2/3rds of the legislature believes that the government shouldn't be regulating stuff like this. So its better to spend 1.3T on couple hundred planes than provide reasonable secondary education, or competent regulation that keeps fertilizer plants (and other heavy industries) away from residential areas, monitors drinking water quality, or rebuilds bridges before they collapse.
Which was put there before they started collecting taxes. I'm betting if they have a do over on positioning their warehouses they would put them in low population states (aka just move it across the border to OK or NM).
Of course, collecting sales tax probably didn't hurt their business, but I personally know that I frequently check for alternatives on large purchases because saving $20-50 is worth the 30 seconds it takes to find another online retailer that doesn't charge taxes in TX.
here still isn't an way to search a list of movies that are new, old, popular or just look at all of the movies in an alphabetized list.
Back in the DVD days they had options like that, they removed them when they started to settle all the law suits they were fighting with the movie studios. Those options never appeared for streaming probably for the same reasons they removed them for DVDs...
But, I put the blame for climate just as strongly at the feet of Green Peace and similar ignorant environmentalist who cry louder about nuclear energy than they do about coal and NG plants. If they actually supported Nukes rather than throwing years of lawsuits at them, then we wouldn't still be talking about climate change, we would have converted huge swaths of our power generation to nukes, gone through a few growing pains/generation of technology and by now the resulting economies of scale and control systems would have been worked out to the point where buying electric cars and such were a no brainier.
Instead we are still having this conversation, and in 5/10 years when gas is back at $5-8/gallon and NG prices spike back up, we will be experiencing rolling blackouts as we fight to stabilize wind/etc or still wondering why the air quality sucks and we still haven't' cut back on our greenhouse gas emissions.Likely a bit of both if the wind farms in TX are an example.
I heard the same thing nearly two years ago in the form "we are going to produce a 10TB 2.5" drive this year that will kill flash based devices".
I was skeptical then, because I could see someone making the device, I just couldn't see them making it for a price where all the flash vendors up and gave up.
As no one has actually seen a xpoint device, I suspect its still a couple years out for high end applications. Once intel/micron/etc milk that market for a couple years you might see one for your PC, maybe... Thats assuming they don't decide to be like 10Gbit ethernet and keep the price/markup outrageously high because they don't have anything to replace it with.. Then when a replacement comes out, and the price starts to fall no one in the consumer space is interested because they have moved on to other things (aka Wifi).
I don't think Sanders is that extreme, I might be wrong, but by himself (especially with a republican congress) he won't be effective enough to create the kind of environment you envision. In that regard as president he would be a good counterbalance to the crap that we have been living with for the last 40 years, that has resulted in massive shifts in wealth in this country. Just reversing or stopping that trend (and no, more tax cut's aren't the answer to our shitty infrastructure, and shrinking middle class) a little would make him massively successful in my book.
I was sitting across from a couple guys sitting in the BBQ joint in Texas two weeks ago. And they were badmouthing the iran prisoner exchange, and then they started agreeing with each other they that bringing the "terrorists" to the US for prison was a terrible idea. I basically asked them "So your afraid of a couple unarmed guys guarded 24/7, who for the most part have less than a high school education who grew up in caves?"
The thing that kills me about gitmo is the all the "brave mericans" running around crying about how dangerous it is to bring the remaining guys from gitmo to the US. What happened to "land of the free, home of the brave?" I guess that went out of style when GW Bush told everyone to go shopping.
I put in the little effort to setup classic IE on my win10 tablet because edge was basically unusable due to the fact it doesn't have an ad blocker. I really have no idea how people can surf the modern internet without an ad blocker, the auto-playing videos and popups everywhere make it completely insane.
Great plan until systemd started putting its "unit" files (great non descriptive name eh? its hard to come up with a less descriptive name) in/lib and then overriding them with/run and/etc.
The problem is that UEFI missed the KISS principal and is basically an OS itself. In that way, the principals (not necessarily the implementation) of the original PC BIOS are actually a much better target for for an OS bootloader. See uboot (which actually probably goes a little to far the in opposite direction because it lacks the ability to run option rom/support 3rd party plug in devices). You complain about BIOS, but you have to understand that the BIOS design evolved from PCs with 8/16 bit processors and a few KB of ram, all the way to 64-bit computers with hundreds of GB of ram, along the way supported thousands of different peripherals. By comparison UEFI is a tiny slice of the modern computing ecosystem, and most non PC devices abandoned UEFI and instead went for simpler boot mechanisms more reminiscent of BIOS (see cellphones, etc).
BTW; UEFI still does POST (in the generic sense, often with POST codes), its also configures PCIe interrupts and the APIC, which is required for ACPI which remains in UEFI as much as it was in BIOS. Only on ARM64 can you get away from UEFI requiring ACPI to be useful, in the form of UEFI/DT. Which makes one question why run UEFI at all instead of uboot/DT which go together better. (just to be clear ARM64 also "supports" UEFI/ACPI).
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I really wish they had a "Stable" branch, The last updated literally killed my use of IE & Edge, both of which grew a "this web page has stopped responding" dialog that pops up and results in the tab being reloaded, which of course just pops the dialog box back up in 2 seconds or whatever the timeout is.
I doubt most baby boomers paid as much for tecom services per month as your average cell phone/home internet connection costs.
IIRC when I was younger my parents were paying something like $10 a month for phone service that's $30 in today dollars (assume 1980 for CPI calculation).
Today a family can easily spend north of $200 a month providing a cell phone + home internet. Skimping it might be possible to get that for less, but i'm betting most families spend more than $30 a month in telcom services. Sure they are getting more service, but having internet access is even more critical today than having a phone was in 1970...
SS was never meant to be a savings plan, more like a pyramid scheme where you collected something from everyone working and divvied it up among those that weren't. Which worked well as long as each generation did better than the last. The problem was that the baby boomers were a bubble in the pipeline and the prediction was that those of us working when they retired would get screwed. The Regan fix would have actually fixed it, if congress could have actually balanced the budget between ~85-15 rather than just deficit spending more than the trust fund took in. So taken at a face value the fact that the government continues to spend more than it takes in has little to do with SS, which is a separate tax with a separate funding model.
Again by itself, SS is fine, the trust fund is ok too from the perspective of it having a lot of spare cash, and with just minor tweaks (removal of the SS wage cap for starters) fixes it for another generation or two. Not paying people with a net worth > $1 million is another tweak, things that are all fairly pedestrian but for some reason can't get any traction in congress. I leave you to reason about that....
There are valid reasons to have licensed spectrum and communications systems that don't have to be at the mercy of a yahoo with an unlicensed source of interference.
Sure there are, but by percentage what portion of all the spectrum the FCC allocates is open? There are what the ISM bands and CB. The ham guys have a little more, but we aren't really talking a complete free for all. Licensed devices != licensed operators.
Wifi is 2 way, you need a way to be able to receive signals from the other wifi devices on the network. Boosting the power through the sky on the AP, and attaching large MMIO antennas won't really get you that far picking up signals from someones cheap cellphone. Yah, you will boost your range, but not by much.
If your not, then the school isn't doing their duty. Its probably pretty easy to determine if this is the case, simply take the grades of all the students and see if they resemble any kind of standard distribution.
Opps, did I say something wrong?
I remember being in school, and I graduated probably because of sheer stubbornness (although my GPA actually was pretty decent when compared with my peers, now days its probably considered bad). There were 5-6 classes that were absolute killers, mostly because the professors teaching them had high standards. A couple were the get a "B" with a 25% type of classes, a couple were personal issues, and there were a couple that I actually retook with another professor and did fine in (aka mismatch between the professors teaching methodology and my ability to learn it like that/by myself from the book).
Lime + carbon dioxide = limestone..
AKA
Ca0 + C02 = CaC03
Crap-load of the stuff lying around already. And, oh golly someone already thought of it.
https://www.technologyreview.c...
It seems a huge part of what the FCC doesn't like are people setting their radios to other regulatory areas and using the nice "clean" spectrum allocated for commercial/government use. None of their proposed solutions really solve the problem, as motivated individuals can just pick up a device next time they are out of the country and put it in their apartment building anyway. Given how low power wifi is already, its likely they would never catch you.
But all this is just BS, because running an out of spec wifi AP doesn't really solve anything. Its not like anyone is going to go to the trouble of modifying all their devices to talk to an AP using a licensed band, or can communicate back to a wifi device attached to an amplifier.
The FCC/congress though is the real problem. Their corprate first attitude, has basically sold/given all the spectrum to organizations which hate the idea of individuals not having to be locked into paying monthly extortion..
Just imagine what the US would be like if instead of selling the spectrum used for just one of the recent spectrum auctions (take wimax for starters) they had instead allowed unlicensed use... The explosion of technologies in the extremely limited ISM bands suggests at just how useful this spectrum could be, instead of sitting around mostly unused.
As Linus bitched about a few years ago, the state of ARM/Linux is truly a sad thing. Mostly because of lack of hardware and software standards. Meaning that every device is basically running a custom kernel with a bunch of custom drivers. The push to use DT is cleaning up some of this, but its happening at a glacial pace. Partially because by itself, DT doesn't fundamentally solve the problem of hacked up drivers that differ from device to device that need DT properties to switch behaviors. AKA someone has to write "unified" drivers without upsetting the apple card on any of the the dozens of buggy hardware devices.
So, if google updates android it takes massive effort by the manufactures to go through their backlog of products (could be thousands of variations) and port their non upstream changes into the latest versions of android.
Worse yet, because of the "hacker" mentality of get it working, ship it move on to the next thing, frequently the code bases are all forked for every single device, so there isn't even a unified code base to apply common changes at a number of these companies. At one point the rumor was that one of the large vendors actually had more out of kernel code than the size of the kernel+drivers running on your average x86 machine.
Yah, disney fastplay, does a great job of teaching kids about doublespeak.
http://www.ew.com/article/2007...
So, with a capacity factor of ~20% that means that the wind farms are a feel good effort to green wash the natural gas peaker plants and the 45% coal base production spewing carbon and radioactive waste into the atmosphere that actually provides the vast majority of the energy.
Two decades of aggressive government programs to install solar and wind and the carbon reductions are hardly noticeable. I suspect if the idiots screaming renewables woke up and realized that their solution isn't solving anything and supported nukes as well as renewable, we could actually solve the global climate change problem before it destroys us.
Yah, for people running laptops and doing any kind of compute intensive work the difference between a desktop workstation and a laptop are again huge. From the 4+Ghz clock rates, to the fact that its possible to buy a E5 based machine with 44 cores or a 100+GB of RAM, 10Gbit+ ethernet, or attach multiple 4k monitors driven by GPU's that can process orders of magnitude more complex models than is possible on the power constrained laptop GPUs.
Bottom line, there are a lot of people who are inflicting a subpar computing experience on themselves because they want to carry around a workstation class machine, which fails on both accounts (its marginally portable, while being a relatively poor compute platform).
Sure some of that could be offloaded to a server somewhere, but frequently the latency between a machine in a rack somewhere and a latop "terminal" is pretty annoying. Even running NFS or doing git pushes to a remote server to run compile tasks can be painful enough to encourage the use of a decent desktop.
Right, which drives the prices up, and when presented with a less expensive pretty looking product the less expensive one will be chosen over the one with "proper engineering". The doctors aren't going to be technicality proficient enough to analyze the differences, which in theory the FDA will be doing for them. But the FDA, like most other government regulators is understaffed/etc because close to 2/3rds of the legislature believes that the government shouldn't be regulating stuff like this. So its better to spend 1.3T on couple hundred planes than provide reasonable secondary education, or competent regulation that keeps fertilizer plants (and other heavy industries) away from residential areas, monitors drinking water quality, or rebuilds bridges before they collapse.
Eh plenty of solent green you just have to figure out how to freeze it so it lasts a couple decades...
Sitting next to the ugly android phone. Now that they have uglified the UI, it looks like crap too.
Maybe their next innovation will be bringing the glass look back and creating icons that don't look like they are running on an 8 bit device.
Which was put there before they started collecting taxes. I'm betting if they have a do over on positioning their warehouses they would put them in low population states (aka just move it across the border to OK or NM).
Of course, collecting sales tax probably didn't hurt their business, but I personally know that I frequently check for alternatives on large purchases because saving $20-50 is worth the 30 seconds it takes to find another online retailer that doesn't charge taxes in TX.
Or maybe its just that they don't control that standard?
here still isn't an way to search a list of movies that are new, old, popular or just look at all of the movies in an alphabetized list.
Back in the DVD days they had options like that, they removed them when they started to settle all the law suits they were fighting with the movie studios. Those options never appeared for streaming probably for the same reasons they removed them for DVDs...
But, I put the blame for climate just as strongly at the feet of Green Peace and similar ignorant environmentalist who cry louder about nuclear energy than they do about coal and NG plants. If they actually supported Nukes rather than throwing years of lawsuits at them, then we wouldn't still be talking about climate change, we would have converted huge swaths of our power generation to nukes, gone through a few growing pains/generation of technology and by now the resulting economies of scale and control systems would have been worked out to the point where buying electric cars and such were a no brainier.
Instead we are still having this conversation, and in 5/10 years when gas is back at $5-8/gallon and NG prices spike back up, we will be experiencing rolling blackouts as we fight to stabilize wind/etc or still wondering why the air quality sucks and we still haven't' cut back on our greenhouse gas emissions.Likely a bit of both if the wind farms in TX are an example.
I heard the same thing nearly two years ago in the form "we are going to produce a 10TB 2.5" drive this year that will kill flash based devices".
I was skeptical then, because I could see someone making the device, I just couldn't see them making it for a price where all the flash vendors up and gave up.
As no one has actually seen a xpoint device, I suspect its still a couple years out for high end applications. Once intel/micron/etc milk that market for a couple years you might see one for your PC, maybe... Thats assuming they don't decide to be like 10Gbit ethernet and keep the price/markup outrageously high because they don't have anything to replace it with.. Then when a replacement comes out, and the price starts to fall no one in the consumer space is interested because they have moved on to other things (aka Wifi).
I don't think Sanders is that extreme, I might be wrong, but by himself (especially with a republican congress) he won't be effective enough to create the kind of environment you envision.
In that regard as president he would be a good counterbalance to the crap that we have been living with for the last 40 years, that has resulted in massive shifts in wealth in this country. Just reversing or stopping that trend (and no, more tax cut's aren't the answer to our shitty infrastructure, and shrinking middle class) a little would make him massively successful in my book.
I was sitting across from a couple guys sitting in the BBQ joint in Texas two weeks ago. And they were badmouthing the iran prisoner exchange, and then they started agreeing with each other they that bringing the "terrorists" to the US for prison was a terrible idea. I basically asked them "So your afraid of a couple unarmed guys guarded 24/7, who for the most part have less than a high school education who grew up in caves?"
The thing that kills me about gitmo is the all the "brave mericans" running around crying about how dangerous it is to bring the remaining guys from gitmo to the US. What happened to "land of the free, home of the brave?" I guess that went out of style when GW Bush told everyone to go shopping.
I put in the little effort to setup classic IE on my win10 tablet because edge was basically unusable due to the fact it doesn't have an ad blocker. I really have no idea how people can surf the modern internet without an ad blocker, the auto-playing videos and popups everywhere make it completely insane.
Great plan until systemd started putting its "unit" files (great non descriptive name eh? its hard to come up with a less descriptive name) in /lib and then overriding them with /run and /etc.
The problem is that UEFI missed the KISS principal and is basically an OS itself. In that way, the principals (not necessarily the implementation) of the original PC BIOS are actually a much better target for for an OS bootloader. See uboot (which actually probably goes a little to far the in opposite direction because it lacks the ability to run option rom/support 3rd party plug in devices). You complain about BIOS, but you have to understand that the BIOS design evolved from PCs with 8/16 bit processors and a few KB of ram, all the way to 64-bit computers with hundreds of GB of ram, along the way supported thousands of different peripherals. By comparison UEFI is a tiny slice of the modern computing ecosystem, and most non PC devices abandoned UEFI and instead went for simpler boot mechanisms more reminiscent of BIOS (see cellphones, etc).
BTW; UEFI still does POST (in the generic sense, often with POST codes), its also configures PCIe interrupts and the APIC, which is required for ACPI which remains in UEFI as much as it was in BIOS. Only on ARM64 can you get away from UEFI requiring ACPI to be useful, in the form of UEFI/DT. Which makes one question why run UEFI at all instead of uboot/DT which go together better. (just to be clear ARM64 also "supports" UEFI/ACPI).