The in-room TV did have direct support for a few streaming services (including Netflix), but I'm a bit hesitant to be entering my Netflix password on an untrusted public device.
Netflix still supports Chromecast, what part of your setup did they stop supporting?
I recently tried to do Netflix AirPlay from my phone in a hotel. It was a very poor implementation of AirPlay on the hotel TV, and Netflix showed up with a blank solid coloured screen with only the audio playing. For that matter, no other video app worked either. YouTube just crashed, Crunchyroll froze, and Infuse played audio/video well enough but with chunky scaling, jittery motion, and no subtitles.
On the other hand, I'm not sure why that would stop Netflix from supporting AirPlay, since it presumably works fine on actual Apple devices.
How, exactly? If you put 3,236 satellites into a 300km orbit and spread them evenly over the surface of the planet, you'll still only have one satellite per 172,816 square kilometers. The chances of collision for something passing through to a higher orbit would be very small, particularly if you timed the launch to reduce the chances further.
Most plug-in hybrids can't handle normal day-to-day driving without using any gas, because most plug-in hybrids don't have enough electric range for that. The average American commutes 52 kilometers to work, round trip. Toyota's PHEV has an electric range of 40 kilometers. It can't even handle the *average* commute. Most PHEVs seem to be in a similar situation. There are a few that can actually deliver "no gas for normal daily use". The Chevy Volt, with its 85 kilometer electric range, can probably do it for most people.
Toyota is putting a tiny 8.8 kWh battery in their PHEV. Chevy puts 18.4 kWh in theirs. Chevrolet reportedly pays $205 per kWh, and Tesla is supposedly around half that, so Toyota is only saving between one and two thousand dollars by skimping on the range...
Windows-tab does not, by itself, switch between applications. You must also use the arrow keys to select a window and then hit enter. That's a lot less quick to switch back and forth between two windows than alt-tab.
Except your money in a bank account is protected by the CDIC (if you're in Canada, or the FDIC if you're in the US), and there are all sorts of regulations to make sure that banks have enough money on hand to cover withdrawals under normal circumstances.
In addition to the reasons mentioned by religionofpeas, they decided that it would be expensive to develop and certify, and that the vehicle itself wasn't going to see much use for manned spaceflight (Crew Dragon is probably only ever going to be used for ISS flights). They decided to shift those resources to Starship development, which is also going to land propulsively, and have a lot more potential missions. Starship should be capable of handling the manned ISS flights, but also the manned lunar gateway flights, manned lunar landing flights, manned Mars flights, etc.
I don't think "successfully launched" is too outlandish of a definition to be considered "contrived". Russia never built a working rocket that was more powerful than the Saturn V.
Not for crewed flights it isn't. Boeing's Starliner will be re-used for crewed flights, but Dragon2 will not. Used capsules will be repurposed for unmanned cargo flights only.
This is because dry landings are a requirement for re-use, and SpaceX decided to discontinue propulsive landing development in favour of parachutes and water landings. They did this because they wanted to spend the resources on Starship instead.
I'm not sure those parents were all that relevant to begin with. Apple introduced their own CPU in 2012, before any patents would have expired, and there hasn't been anything in the development of their subsequent chips that would scream "Patents expired here!"
Their A12X chip is definitely capable of powering a laptop, since it's more powerful than the vast majority of x86 laptops on the market, but they've arguably been in a position to replace at least their lower-end laptops with ARM chips since the A8X (their first 64-bit "X" chip) in 2014, and that's not to say they couldn't have introduced an "XX" variant with more cores had they felt a need to do so.
Personally, I think the 2020 date does make sense, because the A12X leaped past most mobile Intel CPUs, and there's no reason to think Apple wouldn't be able to get something fast enough for a MacBook pro by 2020. However people have been saying similar things to this for years now.
I'm not saying it's NOT happening, but everybody should remember that we've been seeing similar reports to this every year since at least 2011, when it was reported that Apple had internal prototypes of ARM-based MacBooks running OS X. All of the current talk about a 2020 shift to ARM can be traced back to this single unverified Axios article.
This is the same government that recently banned secure encryption in Australia (by mandating backdoors in all secure systems). The fact that said government just got hacked is simply delicious irony.
Who cares what Allstate saves or charges? If their lobbying helps in enshrining the right to repair in law, everybody gets better and cheaper access to the materials necessary to repair the products.
Right to Repair bills typically do things like prevent companies from restricting access to repair documentation and replacement parts to "authorized" repair centres, allowing consumers and independent repair shops to get the information and parts needed to repair products.
Whether it's by warranty claims or insurance claims, it's cheaper for Allstate to repair a customer's phone than replace it outright. How is this move anything but a good thing for consumers?
Two years older than the XR, and since we've reached something of a point of diminishing returns for phone performance for the sort of things most people do with a phone, it should be perfectly functional for most people.
That said, I think the XR, XS, and XS Max are overpriced. The XS Max, in particular, should cost $200 to $300 less and have 128GB instead of 64GB in the base model. So, a 128GB model for $799 USD or $899 USD instead of the current 64GB for $1,099.
Lest you think I'm anti-Apple, I bought a 256GB XS Max. I very much like the phone. I also think it was overpriced and should have cost $500 CAD less.
It's also not Apple's cheapest iPhone. The cheapest iPhone currently being manufactured is the 7, currently selling for $449 USD. This has been Apple's pricing tier strategy for phones for more than a decade now, people shouldn't still be unable to figure this out.
He'd have to convert it back to real money at some point, so he's not avoiding any costs involved in that. There'd always be a certain small loss going from USD -> Crypto -> CAD. What he was trying to do was save the $58 in wire transfer fees. For the sake of that, he risked $560,000 by giving it to a shady startup company.
Taxes? No, but it's illegal to bring more than $10,000 into Canada without declaring it to customs. There's no charge or fee or tax to do so, they just need to have it on file. If you don't declare it, then they'll seize it and levy fines (and then return to you the money less the fines). If you declare it, it costs you nothing.
In any event, transfer fees are infinitesimal compared to the amount he was sending. My bank would charge a total of $58 CAD (combined from both ends) to do this in the opposite direction, which on that sum of money would be a roughly 0.01% transfer fee. For the same of saving that 0.01%, he risked (and lost) his life savings. It was an extraordinarily dumb thing to do, and while it sucks, he should have known better.
You're going to be able to see multiple satellites at once, so the load can be spread around somewhat.
IIRC the per-satellite throughput was to be roughly 20 gigabit, but would increase over time as the plan was for the satellites to have a five year lifespan.
They've never planned to be able to fully serve dense urban populations. IIRC Musk was quoted as saying that they would only be able to handle around 10% of the potential demand in a big urban area. A significant proportion of the world population lives outside of dense urban cores, however.
If the network is successful, it's possible they may increase the total number of satellites in the future.
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The in-room TV did have direct support for a few streaming services (including Netflix), but I'm a bit hesitant to be entering my Netflix password on an untrusted public device.
Netflix still supports Chromecast, what part of your setup did they stop supporting?
I recently tried to do Netflix AirPlay from my phone in a hotel. It was a very poor implementation of AirPlay on the hotel TV, and Netflix showed up with a blank solid coloured screen with only the audio playing. For that matter, no other video app worked either. YouTube just crashed, Crunchyroll froze, and Infuse played audio/video well enough but with chunky scaling, jittery motion, and no subtitles.
On the other hand, I'm not sure why that would stop Netflix from supporting AirPlay, since it presumably works fine on actual Apple devices.
How, exactly? If you put 3,236 satellites into a 300km orbit and spread them evenly over the surface of the planet, you'll still only have one satellite per 172,816 square kilometers. The chances of collision for something passing through to a higher orbit would be very small, particularly if you timed the launch to reduce the chances further.
USA: Caught and proven to be bugging US-made routers for spying.
China: Accused of but not proven to be bugging China-made routers for spying.
Remind me again why we shouldn't trust Chinese hardware?
Most plug-in hybrids can't handle normal day-to-day driving without using any gas, because most plug-in hybrids don't have enough electric range for that. The average American commutes 52 kilometers to work, round trip. Toyota's PHEV has an electric range of 40 kilometers. It can't even handle the *average* commute. Most PHEVs seem to be in a similar situation. There are a few that can actually deliver "no gas for normal daily use". The Chevy Volt, with its 85 kilometer electric range, can probably do it for most people.
Toyota is putting a tiny 8.8 kWh battery in their PHEV. Chevy puts 18.4 kWh in theirs. Chevrolet reportedly pays $205 per kWh, and Tesla is supposedly around half that, so Toyota is only saving between one and two thousand dollars by skimping on the range...
Windows-tab does not, by itself, switch between applications. You must also use the arrow keys to select a window and then hit enter. That's a lot less quick to switch back and forth between two windows than alt-tab.
Except your money in a bank account is protected by the CDIC (if you're in Canada, or the FDIC if you're in the US), and there are all sorts of regulations to make sure that banks have enough money on hand to cover withdrawals under normal circumstances.
In addition to the reasons mentioned by religionofpeas, they decided that it would be expensive to develop and certify, and that the vehicle itself wasn't going to see much use for manned spaceflight (Crew Dragon is probably only ever going to be used for ISS flights). They decided to shift those resources to Starship development, which is also going to land propulsively, and have a lot more potential missions. Starship should be capable of handling the manned ISS flights, but also the manned lunar gateway flights, manned lunar landing flights, manned Mars flights, etc.
I don't think "successfully launched" is too outlandish of a definition to be considered "contrived". Russia never built a working rocket that was more powerful than the Saturn V.
Not to mention Dragon2 is reusable
Not for crewed flights it isn't. Boeing's Starliner will be re-used for crewed flights, but Dragon2 will not. Used capsules will be repurposed for unmanned cargo flights only.
This is because dry landings are a requirement for re-use, and SpaceX decided to discontinue propulsive landing development in favour of parachutes and water landings. They did this because they wanted to spend the resources on Starship instead.
Good thing this supports Chrome, then.
The movie isn't out yet, none of the people voting know if the product is good or bad.
I'm not sure those parents were all that relevant to begin with. Apple introduced their own CPU in 2012, before any patents would have expired, and there hasn't been anything in the development of their subsequent chips that would scream "Patents expired here!"
Their A12X chip is definitely capable of powering a laptop, since it's more powerful than the vast majority of x86 laptops on the market, but they've arguably been in a position to replace at least their lower-end laptops with ARM chips since the A8X (their first 64-bit "X" chip) in 2014, and that's not to say they couldn't have introduced an "XX" variant with more cores had they felt a need to do so.
Personally, I think the 2020 date does make sense, because the A12X leaped past most mobile Intel CPUs, and there's no reason to think Apple wouldn't be able to get something fast enough for a MacBook pro by 2020. However people have been saying similar things to this for years now.
I'm not saying it's NOT happening, but everybody should remember that we've been seeing similar reports to this every year since at least 2011, when it was reported that Apple had internal prototypes of ARM-based MacBooks running OS X. All of the current talk about a 2020 shift to ARM can be traced back to this single unverified Axios article.
Air Force, Space Force. Would you rather call it the Space Navy? The Space Corps? The Space Guard?
This is the same government that recently banned secure encryption in Australia (by mandating backdoors in all secure systems). The fact that said government just got hacked is simply delicious irony.
Who cares what Allstate saves or charges? If their lobbying helps in enshrining the right to repair in law, everybody gets better and cheaper access to the materials necessary to repair the products.
Right to Repair bills typically do things like prevent companies from restricting access to repair documentation and replacement parts to "authorized" repair centres, allowing consumers and independent repair shops to get the information and parts needed to repair products.
Whether it's by warranty claims or insurance claims, it's cheaper for Allstate to repair a customer's phone than replace it outright. How is this move anything but a good thing for consumers?
Two years older than the XR, and since we've reached something of a point of diminishing returns for phone performance for the sort of things most people do with a phone, it should be perfectly functional for most people.
That said, I think the XR, XS, and XS Max are overpriced. The XS Max, in particular, should cost $200 to $300 less and have 128GB instead of 64GB in the base model. So, a 128GB model for $799 USD or $899 USD instead of the current 64GB for $1,099.
Lest you think I'm anti-Apple, I bought a 256GB XS Max. I very much like the phone. I also think it was overpriced and should have cost $500 CAD less.
It's also not Apple's cheapest iPhone. The cheapest iPhone currently being manufactured is the 7, currently selling for $449 USD. This has been Apple's pricing tier strategy for phones for more than a decade now, people shouldn't still be unable to figure this out.
He'd have to convert it back to real money at some point, so he's not avoiding any costs involved in that. There'd always be a certain small loss going from USD -> Crypto -> CAD. What he was trying to do was save the $58 in wire transfer fees. For the sake of that, he risked $560,000 by giving it to a shady startup company.
Taxes? No, but it's illegal to bring more than $10,000 into Canada without declaring it to customs. There's no charge or fee or tax to do so, they just need to have it on file. If you don't declare it, then they'll seize it and levy fines (and then return to you the money less the fines). If you declare it, it costs you nothing.
In any event, transfer fees are infinitesimal compared to the amount he was sending. My bank would charge a total of $58 CAD (combined from both ends) to do this in the opposite direction, which on that sum of money would be a roughly 0.01% transfer fee. For the same of saving that 0.01%, he risked (and lost) his life savings. It was an extraordinarily dumb thing to do, and while it sucks, he should have known better.
Earth stations in this context mean individual customers.
A flat phased antenna array roughly the size and shape of a pizza box or laptop computer.
You're going to be able to see multiple satellites at once, so the load can be spread around somewhat.
IIRC the per-satellite throughput was to be roughly 20 gigabit, but would increase over time as the plan was for the satellites to have a five year lifespan.
They've never planned to be able to fully serve dense urban populations. IIRC Musk was quoted as saying that they would only be able to handle around 10% of the potential demand in a big urban area. A significant proportion of the world population lives outside of dense urban cores, however.
If the network is successful, it's possible they may increase the total number of satellites in the future.