It's not like purely mechanical accelerators never stuck though. Cables would freeze up or the return spring would wear out/snap and bam, full throttle. I actually learned to drive on a car that had this problem, which led to some rather scary moments--luckily it was a manual, so just hitting the clutch was enough to stop the car from going out of control.
That said, why is it in these stories of runaway acceleration, that nobody slaps the thing into neutral and hits the brakes? The stories always read like "I was powerless to stop my deathcar!" but drivers have lots of options in situations like that. You can even just turn the car off and hope you haven't picked up a vacuum leak.
I don't think anyone would be claiming that actually Google are fighting the good fight for internet freedom
That's exactly what we're claiming. Google believes that information should be free, not controlled by those in power for their own ends, and it has shown a willingness to fight for that freedom.
Before you say "But it's only kiddy porn!" just ask yourself how often bad and self serving legislation is passed under the mantra that it's "for the children"?
It is my experience that congested roadways are considerably more dangerous than ones with free flowing traffic, and when you slow down traffic you also increase congestion. It may be the case that free flowing traffic has more deadly accidents (due to the higher speeds involved) than accidents on congested roads, but the congested roads have a much much higher rate of accidents.
But as a person who actually drives, it always bugs me when I see these studies that invariably conclude that the worse you make driving, the safer it is. First it was cities with no street signs, and pointless traffic circles, and zigzags in the road, or just traffic lights programmed to jam up traffic as much as possible. Now we're going to remove the safety margins between vehicles and magically improve safety.
Maybe I'm nuts, but it seems like city planners would prefer it if just nobody drove at all and just took mass transit everywhere, which would be wonderful if they actually had usable mass transit outside of the city center.
In my experience, it's rare for SQL Servers to be CPU bound, they're almost invariably IO bound, and having more cores won't help you when your disks are the bottleneck. I could see excitement over lowering per-machine costs for something like a renderfarm, but it doesn't seem likely to materialize for Databases.
1. What is the battery life.
2. What is the price.
I'm slightly concerned that this will be like those Japanese or European phones that have a huge laundry list of features, but skimp out on basic usability and essentials like good radio paths and battery life; plus half of the features don't work properly (camera has a lot of pixels, but a worthless lens; screen is dim or difficult to read; interface requires 15 button presses to do anything; front camera can't be used for teleconferencing because the carrier disabled that feature, etc...). There's a definite concern that this will be priced at the "enthusiast" level as well, meaning almost nobody can afford it or the plan required to drive it.
The ball is in your court Sprint. What are you going to do with it?
OTOH, it's very easy for governments to simply "classify away" embarrassing secrets that are in fact no danger to national security. That's exactly the sort of thing that Wikileaks is built for. It's a national security risk only in that it risks the jobs of the people who fucked up, who may be in charge of security.
I'll give it a pass if it boots up into ROM BASIC by default, and you have to flip a switch or something to get it to boot into Windows. I'll even be so generous as to give it bonus points if the ROM BASIC has a programmable sound chip (emulator) and sprite generator accessible. Double bonus points if the manual is thick and informative. They win the grand prize if the power supply is a cheap piece of crap that breaks every 6 months.
They still have a niche for people who pull the tapes out and ship them offsite everyday. HDD hot swap connectors aren't really meant to be used every day, and they weigh a lot.
That's the point though, the government can't stand any business that offers up even token resistance to their control. Google is smart enough not to let some penny-ante bureaucrats mess with them, and as a result they're basically getting kicked out of the country.
But that's the beauty of the MP3. You don't have to choose ahead of time which music you're going to listen to, you just bring it all and choose on the fly. You also don't have to organize your music collection, that's all done for you as well. And creating a mixtape is as easy as dragging and dropping instead of grabbing CDs, ripping one song at a time, and then burning the result to another CD. People think that MP3s are poorer value for the money because it's not "digitally perfect", but they always overlook the wide variety of other benefits that come from having all of your music in one spot and portable.
Well, lets compare. Say you have an iPod that can hold 20,000 songs. Assume an average album is 12 songs. That's 1,667 albums. A CD weighs about 16g. Your collection of music weighs about 26kg. Compared to the 140g iPod that's substantial. It gets worse if you're carrying them with the booklets and inside the jewel case, then the weight goes up to about 60g per album, for a total weight of right about 100kg. When your jogging music is a 4 man lift, I wouldn't call it portable anymore.
Yeah, I've seen basically this article about once every 5 years for 20 years now. IIRC they've never figured out a way to make it reliable and cost effective.
Heck, on some of the really old IBM PCs we had back in school, there was a ROM BASIC that would load if you didn't have a bootable floppy in the drive. You could have an adding program cranked out in about 5-10 seconds after hitting the power switch. I'm not sure what this proves though. How often do you crank on your computer to add two numbers together?
I wonder how much of it will be wrong in the end? 90% 95% 99%?
I'm personally not sold on the iPad yet, but then it rarely pays to buy the first generation product of anything. Who can forget the initial reaction to the iPod? What was the phrase? "Too expensive? No WiFi? Lame?" You know what? That was right on the money. It would take Apple a couple of generations to really make the iPod a household name.
How well it clobbers the Kindle and Nook depend entirely on how easy Apple makes it to buy and read books on the thing. Obviously Amazon and B&N have a pretty good setup already and Apple is going to have to play catchup. It's certainly a possibility that the iPad completely fizzles as an eBook reader, potentially because too many publishers decide not to play ball and make it difficult to find books you actually want to read.
The "Linux clone" argument misses the point entirely as well. Apple isn't selling a device, they're selling an ecology; a lifestyle. It's the same way they don't sell a music player, it sells an integrated portable storefront with a highly polished and easy to use interface. It's completely different, and it's the reason all of those clones are going to sit in tiny niches while the iPad outsells them all.
If you have a "special OEM" card, then the comparison is simple. Just take the card with the smallest bar and cut it in half. Basically, if you're at all serious about gaming, don't buy an OEM machine with one of those cards, and especially don't buy any Intel graphics cards. Discrete GPUs can be had for $100 easy and will give you a much much better experience.
You need it because unless there is a driver for the device, it can't draw on the full 500mA that USB can provide. You're stuck in a low power mode, which is obviously no good for a battery charger (frankly though, USB is terrible for a battery charger anyway).
Sadly, unlike mass storage (usb sticks, HDDs), keyboards, and mice, there is no standard "high power, no functionality" device built into the USB specs, so everybody who wants that needs to write their own driver. This affects anything that wants to charge over USB, including cell phones, cameras, bluetooth devices, etc... Maybe USB3 fixes this, I don't know. IIRC the maximum power draw in USB3 is still pathetic, so maybe not. The standards committee is apparently not impressed by devices charging over USB.
Yeah, that's great when he's using it in the confined sewer level, but what about opening a portal on an opposite rooftop during the chase scene at the start of HL2? That's literally game breaking.
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I think he's probably a Chinese government astroturfer. They've been attacking Google ferociously on the web for the past few weeks.
You know, that's a risk I'd be willing to take if it meant I could drive a Space Shuttle...
It's not like purely mechanical accelerators never stuck though. Cables would freeze up or the return spring would wear out/snap and bam, full throttle. I actually learned to drive on a car that had this problem, which led to some rather scary moments--luckily it was a manual, so just hitting the clutch was enough to stop the car from going out of control.
That said, why is it in these stories of runaway acceleration, that nobody slaps the thing into neutral and hits the brakes? The stories always read like "I was powerless to stop my deathcar!" but drivers have lots of options in situations like that. You can even just turn the car off and hope you haven't picked up a vacuum leak.
That's exactly what we're claiming. Google believes that information should be free, not controlled by those in power for their own ends, and it has shown a willingness to fight for that freedom.
Before you say "But it's only kiddy porn!" just ask yourself how often bad and self serving legislation is passed under the mantra that it's "for the children"?
It is my experience that congested roadways are considerably more dangerous than ones with free flowing traffic, and when you slow down traffic you also increase congestion. It may be the case that free flowing traffic has more deadly accidents (due to the higher speeds involved) than accidents on congested roads, but the congested roads have a much much higher rate of accidents.
But as a person who actually drives, it always bugs me when I see these studies that invariably conclude that the worse you make driving, the safer it is. First it was cities with no street signs, and pointless traffic circles, and zigzags in the road, or just traffic lights programmed to jam up traffic as much as possible. Now we're going to remove the safety margins between vehicles and magically improve safety.
Maybe I'm nuts, but it seems like city planners would prefer it if just nobody drove at all and just took mass transit everywhere, which would be wonderful if they actually had usable mass transit outside of the city center.
In my experience, it's rare for SQL Servers to be CPU bound, they're almost invariably IO bound, and having more cores won't help you when your disks are the bottleneck. I could see excitement over lowering per-machine costs for something like a renderfarm, but it doesn't seem likely to materialize for Databases.
So this phone is only for European A-holes? Is that what you're saying?
1. What is the battery life.
2. What is the price.
I'm slightly concerned that this will be like those Japanese or European phones that have a huge laundry list of features, but skimp out on basic usability and essentials like good radio paths and battery life; plus half of the features don't work properly (camera has a lot of pixels, but a worthless lens; screen is dim or difficult to read; interface requires 15 button presses to do anything; front camera can't be used for teleconferencing because the carrier disabled that feature, etc...). There's a definite concern that this will be priced at the "enthusiast" level as well, meaning almost nobody can afford it or the plan required to drive it.
The ball is in your court Sprint. What are you going to do with it?
They do know bullshit when they see it.
OTOH, it's very easy for governments to simply "classify away" embarrassing secrets that are in fact no danger to national security. That's exactly the sort of thing that Wikileaks is built for. It's a national security risk only in that it risks the jobs of the people who fucked up, who may be in charge of security.
I'll give it a pass if it boots up into ROM BASIC by default, and you have to flip a switch or something to get it to boot into Windows. I'll even be so generous as to give it bonus points if the ROM BASIC has a programmable sound chip (emulator) and sprite generator accessible. Double bonus points if the manual is thick and informative. They win the grand prize if the power supply is a cheap piece of crap that breaks every 6 months.
They still have a niche for people who pull the tapes out and ship them offsite everyday. HDD hot swap connectors aren't really meant to be used every day, and they weigh a lot.
To be fair, I bet most of those Craigslist entries last more than 10 minutes.
That's the point though, the government can't stand any business that offers up even token resistance to their control. Google is smart enough not to let some penny-ante bureaucrats mess with them, and as a result they're basically getting kicked out of the country.
If your switch has a collision light, you might just have a hub.
But that's the beauty of the MP3. You don't have to choose ahead of time which music you're going to listen to, you just bring it all and choose on the fly. You also don't have to organize your music collection, that's all done for you as well. And creating a mixtape is as easy as dragging and dropping instead of grabbing CDs, ripping one song at a time, and then burning the result to another CD. People think that MP3s are poorer value for the money because it's not "digitally perfect", but they always overlook the wide variety of other benefits that come from having all of your music in one spot and portable.
Well, lets compare. Say you have an iPod that can hold 20,000 songs. Assume an average album is 12 songs. That's 1,667 albums. A CD weighs about 16g. Your collection of music weighs about 26kg. Compared to the 140g iPod that's substantial. It gets worse if you're carrying them with the booklets and inside the jewel case, then the weight goes up to about 60g per album, for a total weight of right about 100kg. When your jogging music is a 4 man lift, I wouldn't call it portable anymore.
Yeah, I've seen basically this article about once every 5 years for 20 years now. IIRC they've never figured out a way to make it reliable and cost effective.
Heck, on some of the really old IBM PCs we had back in school, there was a ROM BASIC that would load if you didn't have a bootable floppy in the drive. You could have an adding program cranked out in about 5-10 seconds after hitting the power switch. I'm not sure what this proves though. How often do you crank on your computer to add two numbers together?
I wonder how much of it will be wrong in the end? 90% 95% 99%?
I'm personally not sold on the iPad yet, but then it rarely pays to buy the first generation product of anything. Who can forget the initial reaction to the iPod? What was the phrase? "Too expensive? No WiFi? Lame?" You know what? That was right on the money. It would take Apple a couple of generations to really make the iPod a household name.
How well it clobbers the Kindle and Nook depend entirely on how easy Apple makes it to buy and read books on the thing. Obviously Amazon and B&N have a pretty good setup already and Apple is going to have to play catchup. It's certainly a possibility that the iPad completely fizzles as an eBook reader, potentially because too many publishers decide not to play ball and make it difficult to find books you actually want to read.
The "Linux clone" argument misses the point entirely as well. Apple isn't selling a device, they're selling an ecology; a lifestyle. It's the same way they don't sell a music player, it sells an integrated portable storefront with a highly polished and easy to use interface. It's completely different, and it's the reason all of those clones are going to sit in tiny niches while the iPad outsells them all.
They could take away his guns.
If you have a "special OEM" card, then the comparison is simple. Just take the card with the smallest bar and cut it in half. Basically, if you're at all serious about gaming, don't buy an OEM machine with one of those cards, and especially don't buy any Intel graphics cards. Discrete GPUs can be had for $100 easy and will give you a much much better experience.
Countdown to the start of blaming the Mac porting effort for the delay of HL2Ep3 starts in 3..2..1..
You need it because unless there is a driver for the device, it can't draw on the full 500mA that USB can provide. You're stuck in a low power mode, which is obviously no good for a battery charger (frankly though, USB is terrible for a battery charger anyway).
Sadly, unlike mass storage (usb sticks, HDDs), keyboards, and mice, there is no standard "high power, no functionality" device built into the USB specs, so everybody who wants that needs to write their own driver. This affects anything that wants to charge over USB, including cell phones, cameras, bluetooth devices, etc... Maybe USB3 fixes this, I don't know. IIRC the maximum power draw in USB3 is still pathetic, so maybe not. The standards committee is apparently not impressed by devices charging over USB.
Yeah, that's great when he's using it in the confined sewer level, but what about opening a portal on an opposite rooftop during the chase scene at the start of HL2? That's literally game breaking.