It's not a restriction to need a certain browser. To use their service, I'll use the appropriate software. You can't say that Netflix isn't supported on a platform just because every single piece of software on that platform isn't capable of connecting.
Then it would be getting in the way. But Netflix supports every device that I own that would even be capable of the performance requirements in the first place. It even supports some devices that I think are kind of poorly suited, like the 3DS.
There are probably some niche devices out there that don't have any support for Netflix, but it runs on every game console, it runs on every smartphone platform that you can buy where I live, it runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, and Chrome OS... I think I'd actually be hard pressed to identify a device that doesn't support Netflix... Maybe the RPi.
The pressure applied by this sort of niche is going to be negligible. For example, Steve Jobs bitching about DRM to the music companies probably did more to combat DRM than any number of anti-DRM activists did.
In the mean time, the activists would be applying pressure on the companies at the expense of anybody who disagrees with them, such as myself. I suspect most people are like me: we don't think DRM is something that we would actively want, but we don't really care if it's there if it stays out of the way. Netflix' DRM tends to stay out of the way.
You don't want me to have to use DRM, so you're going to block me from watching the content that I want? Who exactly is the one placing the restrictions here? The media companies who give you the option of watching DRM'd content, or people like yourself who want to remove any choice in the matter?
Or maybe the small number of idealistic programmers will refuse to participate in the DRM culture, resulting in them being isolated while the rest of the world moves on without them.
Don't like it, don't use it. There's a version of Mozilla available without the plugin. Your beliefs should not infringe on my ability to enjoy the content I want.
Oh sure, the Pi has lots of additional expenses, but the Chip has a lot of the same ones too, and some things (like USB power) most people probably already have. I'm sure by now everybody has tons of USB phone chargers, those work fine for the Pi.
You're quoting Solar City's pricing, not Tesla's, which would include various markup. That is not Tesla's pricing, and other installers may use different pricing for install and inverters.
More like tests keep showing that it IS working, and nobody is sure why. Either the problem is with the test, or there's something else happening that we don't understand, but either way, nobody is sure yet what's going on.
I think it's likely that the test is faulty, but they need to figure out why or how the test is faulty.
The round trip power loss in the batteries is 8%. The charging efficiency isn't relevant, because solar during the day would be wasted/lost anyhow. If we assume the discharge loss is half that at 4%, then instead of getting 7 kWh per day, you're getting 6.72 kWh per day. It would still take around 6 years to pay off. Just 6.1 years instead of 5.9 years.
A far bigger impact would be loss in capacity over time.
It depends on how much you pay for power. Say you pay $3000 (it'd be more after the installation costs and markup, but let's just pick that). That lets you move 7 kWh of power from off-peak (when you're not using it) to peak (when you need it). You're therefore saving 7 kWh per day that would otherwise be pulled from the grid. Say you're paying $0.20 per kWh. You would save $511 per year, so the battery pack would pay for itself after roughly 6 years. The remaining four years, it's actual savings.
Of course, the cost would be more than $3k, and who knows what your power company charges. Mine charges way less than $0.20, but I've got one of the lowest power costs in the world, so it's not really a good comparison to a place like California.
No, you turn them all on at the same time and you draw the extra power from the grid. You're not going off the grid on a single 7 kWh battery pack. If you want to do that, they're stackable, up to nine of them.
Yes, but if something goes wrong in-flight, and you lose the approach plate, it's not something that is necessarily dangerous because the controller can provide the same information. However, if your emergency handbook is on the tablet and you lose it, then you're in a real bind.
They still carry a paper copy of their emergency handbook, the one with all the emergency procedures in it. The iPads failing in the air wouldn't be a safety issue so long as the radio didn't fail, since I don't think there's any information in the iPad that the controller can't talk the aircraft through.
And how many of those phones have been sold? Making sapphire screens is not impossible, it's just very hard to do in large quantities. When you sell as many phones as Apple does, you can't afford to let one component bottleneck production.
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That's false, Netflix has software available for Android 2.0 or later:
https://help.netflix.com/en/no...
It's not a restriction to need a certain browser. To use their service, I'll use the appropriate software. You can't say that Netflix isn't supported on a platform just because every single piece of software on that platform isn't capable of connecting.
Then it would be getting in the way. But Netflix supports every device that I own that would even be capable of the performance requirements in the first place. It even supports some devices that I think are kind of poorly suited, like the 3DS.
There are probably some niche devices out there that don't have any support for Netflix, but it runs on every game console, it runs on every smartphone platform that you can buy where I live, it runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, and Chrome OS... I think I'd actually be hard pressed to identify a device that doesn't support Netflix... Maybe the RPi.
The pressure applied by this sort of niche is going to be negligible. For example, Steve Jobs bitching about DRM to the music companies probably did more to combat DRM than any number of anti-DRM activists did.
In the mean time, the activists would be applying pressure on the companies at the expense of anybody who disagrees with them, such as myself. I suspect most people are like me: we don't think DRM is something that we would actively want, but we don't really care if it's there if it stays out of the way. Netflix' DRM tends to stay out of the way.
You don't want me to have to use DRM, so you're going to block me from watching the content that I want? Who exactly is the one placing the restrictions here? The media companies who give you the option of watching DRM'd content, or people like yourself who want to remove any choice in the matter?
Or maybe the small number of idealistic programmers will refuse to participate in the DRM culture, resulting in them being isolated while the rest of the world moves on without them.
Don't like it, don't use it. There's a version of Mozilla available without the plugin. Your beliefs should not infringe on my ability to enjoy the content I want.
Everything after Win2K was Ballmer, including both Windows Me and Windows XP.
17 years for System Software 1.0 to OS X, and 14 years of OS X. Not quite there yet.
Oh sure, the Pi has lots of additional expenses, but the Chip has a lot of the same ones too, and some things (like USB power) most people probably already have. I'm sure by now everybody has tons of USB phone chargers, those work fine for the Pi.
Let's add it up, shall we?
$9 for the board
$15 for the HDMI board so you can actually hook it up to a monitor
$20 shipping
Total: $44
At that point you're better off getting a Pi. More performance, more support/accessories, more ports, more everything.
Last I checked they just told you to generate a proxy class with the WSDL...
Maybe this will result in a better .NET API from Salesforce? Because right now, they don't have one.
You're quoting Solar City's pricing, not Tesla's, which would include various markup. That is not Tesla's pricing, and other installers may use different pricing for install and inverters.
So I guess Torvalds won when Microsoft became a Linux kernel developer?
More like tests keep showing that it IS working, and nobody is sure why. Either the problem is with the test, or there's something else happening that we don't understand, but either way, nobody is sure yet what's going on.
I think it's likely that the test is faulty, but they need to figure out why or how the test is faulty.
The round trip power loss in the batteries is 8%. The charging efficiency isn't relevant, because solar during the day would be wasted/lost anyhow. If we assume the discharge loss is half that at 4%, then instead of getting 7 kWh per day, you're getting 6.72 kWh per day. It would still take around 6 years to pay off. Just 6.1 years instead of 5.9 years.
A far bigger impact would be loss in capacity over time.
It depends on how much you pay for power. Say you pay $3000 (it'd be more after the installation costs and markup, but let's just pick that). That lets you move 7 kWh of power from off-peak (when you're not using it) to peak (when you need it). You're therefore saving 7 kWh per day that would otherwise be pulled from the grid. Say you're paying $0.20 per kWh. You would save $511 per year, so the battery pack would pay for itself after roughly 6 years. The remaining four years, it's actual savings.
Of course, the cost would be more than $3k, and who knows what your power company charges. Mine charges way less than $0.20, but I've got one of the lowest power costs in the world, so it's not really a good comparison to a place like California.
A single unit does't need to power the entire home. You've got the grid for the rest. If you want to go off-grid, they're stackable up to nine units.
No, you turn them all on at the same time and you draw the extra power from the grid. You're not going off the grid on a single 7 kWh battery pack. If you want to do that, they're stackable, up to nine of them.
Haskell is really far from fringe, and it's what's commonly used to teach functional programming in schools.
That said, it's terrible and I hate it.
Yes, but if something goes wrong in-flight, and you lose the approach plate, it's not something that is necessarily dangerous because the controller can provide the same information. However, if your emergency handbook is on the tablet and you lose it, then you're in a real bind.
They still carry a paper copy of their emergency handbook, the one with all the emergency procedures in it. The iPads failing in the air wouldn't be a safety issue so long as the radio didn't fail, since I don't think there's any information in the iPad that the controller can't talk the aircraft through.
Return to gate to get on wifi to fix it vs return to gate to get backup paper documents. Either way they'd have been in the same boat.
And how many of those phones have been sold? Making sapphire screens is not impossible, it's just very hard to do in large quantities. When you sell as many phones as Apple does, you can't afford to let one component bottleneck production.