Premium gasoline is different from regular, and some cars do require it to keep working properly. That many people improperly think it's worth the price in their 15 year old Civic isn't the fault of the people selling the gas. That's like saying SSDs aren't worth the money just because some idiot stuck it in a budget system running Vista on a Pentium II.
Personally, we get enterprise grade drives at work for performance and support reasons more than reliability. As long as the RAID is configured properly, swapping out dead drives doesn't even rank "nuisance" on my list of common tasks.
Anyone trying to run Vista on a Pentium II, even without a "capacitor plague" bedeviled motherboard, needs all the help they can get.
The only people who can migrate are the people who only do Facebook/Youtube.
Reason: People who do any kind of job/work need a screen bigger than 10".
The PC market will stabilize again once those people are out of the way.
While we're at it, can we get rid of people watching TV and movies on their PCs so that tall screen (as opposed to wide screen) monitors can flourish and come down to commodity prices?
The WORST connectors are the trapezoidal HDMI connectors. Not only are they orientation specific, but they are often used on heavy cables that pull on the connector causing it to lose contact, and even bend the pins in the socket.
Add in the fact that the data rate is like a zillion bytes per second and there is an encryption handshake that must go just right at the start and you have a clusterfuck.
HDMI connectors seriously need an upgrade.
I've never even used an HDMI port or cable, and I still know that it's the spawn of Satan.
I do love the headphone jack. Simple, easy, and universal.
It was, at least the 1/8th" version, until they came up with a tip, ring, second ring, sleeve version to add video to the 2 audio channels and then some companies decided not to leave ground where it's been for the last half century or so.
I'm not really in favor of people being taken out and shot, but it's stuff like that which causes the thought to cross my mind.
... Currently the situation is that people have to listen one song for roughly two thousand times on Spotify for it to make me equal amount of profit that I get from one CD sold."
So, if the buyer of the cd doesn't listen to that same song at least 2,000 times, they overpaid, right?
One of the articles today covering this compared the royalty rates to those paid by radio, which were about 10x what spotify pays. The problem is a) how many indie artists get ANY radio play and b) Radio royalties are per play, spotify royalties are per play per user. Sounds to me like radio stations are the ones giving them the shaft.
Yeah, well either that or radio is giving that song free advertising by playing it in the first place.
There's a reason record companies send radio stations free promotional copies of records, even if they're in some form other than vinyl these days.
They lobby with their friends at ministry of culture and get royalties on blank media from people that have never heard of them doing backups of their data! Yay! Never have to work again!
I thought it was the record labels and/or publishing companies and/or ASCAP/BMI who got that money (on blank tapes to begin with, regardless of what was to be recorded on them).
At least under the version of the law they bribed into existence here in the U.S.
Without analog phone service sucking up the wire's bandwidth, wouldn't DSL be capable of greater speeds and reaching customer's farther away from the switching center than now can't receive service? DSL in Galesburg, IL, using speedtest.net, downloads at roughly 8.5 Mb/s, This is much faster than DSL sharing analog phone lines in other nearby towns.
It uses somewhere vaguely in the neighborhood of 0.4% of that bandwidth, around 4,000 cycles per second out of 1,000,000, very approximately speaking.
From my perspective, then that's just too bad for the telcos. They received 200 billion dollars and were partially deregulated during the 90's under the guise that we'd all get fiber optic our homes. Guess what. The telcos broke that promise and the government has absolutely nothing. The telcos did however, take our money. They are simply going to have to pony up the cash to upgrade to fiber like they promised unless they can bribe congress and the FCC enough to let themselves walk away.
We went into Iraq for oil, but it has very little to do with the oil in Iraq. That may sound contradictory, but consider this. Saddam gassed his people and otherwise played the brutal dictator...we sold him weapons. He had a dispute with a neighboring nation where he, quite literally, stepped over the line...we gave him a slap on the wrist, but allowed him to stay in power. He floated a plan to sell oil in Euros instead of dollars...a month later US troops were toppling statues in Baghdad and he was hiding in a hole.
Invading Iraq was always about protecting the US Dollar. Our currency is far more valuable than it should be due in large part to OPEC's policy of using the US dollar as its sole exchange currency. That policy is unlikely to change given what happened to the last guy who suggested changing it.
See...it's all about oil, but not the supply in Iraq.
You left out the part where, after being greeted as liberators and having flowers strewn in our path by the grateful natives, we'd have a massive military presence there as far into the future as the imagination could see, smack dab in the middle of the Middle East and handy to put the smackdown on any other "towelheads" in the countries around there who dared to interfere with our getting "our" oil out from underneath their sands.
Yeah, Chinese dumping of solar cells on the market below cost had nothing to do with Solyndra's problems, just like Japanese dumping of television sets on the American market in the early '70s had no deleterious effects on U.S. television manufacturers.
"Oil came into its own without a ton of federal help..."
Too young to remember Drew Pearson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" syndicated column and his many mentions of the "Oil Depletion Allowance" tax break giveaway to the oil companies and how in about '66 or '67 Texaco payed less in Federal Income Tax than just one of the cleaning ladies at its New York headquarters, I take it.
Ah, crud, yeah, I heard about the book, but I have been living in China since just before it came out and don't pay much attention to decadent Western media.;-)
One example: my Nexus 7 draws so much power, even when sleeping...
OK, we can stop right here and determine what the hell the problem is...and it's occurring before you even find a power source.
Go fix or replace your tablet. One should not be trying to power a black hole.
I may have accidentally modded the above "redundant" by starting to mod it "informative" and then deciding to read the rest of the thread to see if I was going to want to comment instead of modding.
By chance I happen to have been able to right up to the point of hitting submit on this post, but as for actually modding that post, I'm thwarted by the lack of an "insightful interesting informative funny flamebait troll" option.
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Premium gasoline is different from regular, and some cars do require it to keep working properly. That many people improperly think it's worth the price in their 15 year old Civic isn't the fault of the people selling the gas. That's like saying SSDs aren't worth the money just because some idiot stuck it in a budget system running Vista on a Pentium II.
Personally, we get enterprise grade drives at work for performance and support reasons more than reliability. As long as the RAID is configured properly, swapping out dead drives doesn't even rank "nuisance" on my list of common tasks.
Anyone trying to run Vista on a Pentium II, even without a "capacitor plague" bedeviled motherboard, needs all the help they can get.
Rubbish.
The only people who can migrate are the people who only do Facebook/Youtube.
Reason: People who do any kind of job/work need a screen bigger than 10".
The PC market will stabilize again once those people are out of the way.
While we're at it, can we get rid of people watching TV and movies on their PCs so that tall screen (as opposed to wide screen) monitors can flourish and come down to commodity prices?
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The WORST connectors are the trapezoidal HDMI connectors. Not only are they orientation specific, but they are often used on heavy cables that pull on the connector causing it to lose contact, and even bend the pins in the socket.
Add in the fact that the data rate is like a zillion bytes per second and there is an encryption handshake that must go just right at the start and you have a clusterfuck.
HDMI connectors seriously need an upgrade.
I've never even used an HDMI port or cable, and I still know that it's the spawn of Satan.
I'd just as soon see QWERTY itself redesigned.
The question mark gets used more often than than the "frontslash", but you have to hit shift for it.
The colon gets used more than the semi-colon, but you have to hit shift for it.
And why doesn't the number pad have a backspace key?
And if it's not going to be in alphabetical order, M and N should be nowhere near each other.
...
I do love the headphone jack. Simple, easy, and universal.
It was, at least the 1/8th" version, until they came up with a tip, ring, second ring, sleeve version to add video to the 2 audio channels and then some companies decided not to leave ground where it's been for the last half century or so.
I'm not really in favor of people being taken out and shot, but it's stuff like that which causes the thought to cross my mind.
Can't you just weave the cables in then?
That could even save you the extra expense of paying to have the wires twisted into pairs in the first place.
It's genius, genius I tells ya!
... Currently the situation is that people have to listen one song for roughly two thousand times on Spotify for it to make me equal amount of profit that I get from one CD sold."
So, if the buyer of the cd doesn't listen to that same song at least 2,000 times, they overpaid, right?
... most of the payment goes to the writer of the song, not the performer...
Well, actually it goes to whoever owns the publishing rights, whether that's the composer or someone to whom they transferred those rights.
One of the articles today covering this compared the royalty rates to those paid by radio, which were about 10x what spotify pays. The problem is a) how many indie artists get ANY radio play and b) Radio royalties are per play, spotify royalties are per play per user. Sounds to me like radio stations are the ones giving them the shaft.
Yeah, well either that or radio is giving that song free advertising by playing it in the first place.
There's a reason record companies send radio stations free promotional copies of records, even if they're in some form other than vinyl these days.
Well, what happens when they can't tour?
They lobby with their friends at ministry of culture and get royalties on blank media from people that have never heard of them doing backups of their data!
Yay! Never have to work again!
I thought it was the record labels and/or publishing companies and/or ASCAP/BMI who got that money (on blank tapes to begin with, regardless of what was to be recorded on them).
At least under the version of the law they bribed into existence here in the U.S.
... Copyright is only a recent phenomena.
For a three hundred year definition of recent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
Since the link to the article seems slashdotted, here's one to another about the same incident.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/34196/google-glass-owner-asked-to-take-his-glass-off-at-seattle-diner/index.html
Same guy owns both places.
Oh, and the glasshole customer tried to make trouble for the waitress who was just implementing the policy established by the owner.
Without analog phone service sucking up the wire's bandwidth, wouldn't DSL be capable of greater speeds and reaching customer's farther away from the switching center than now can't receive service? DSL in Galesburg, IL, using speedtest.net, downloads at roughly 8.5 Mb/s, This is much faster than DSL sharing analog phone lines in other nearby towns.
It uses somewhere vaguely in the neighborhood of 0.4% of that bandwidth, around 4,000 cycles per second out of 1,000,000, very approximately speaking.
From my perspective, then that's just too bad for the telcos. They received 200 billion dollars and were partially deregulated during the 90's under the guise that we'd all get fiber optic our homes. Guess what. The telcos broke that promise and the government has absolutely nothing. The telcos did however, take our money. They are simply going to have to pony up the cash to upgrade to fiber like they promised unless they can bribe congress and the FCC enough to let themselves walk away.
So nothing for them to worry about then?
...I thought that said "even scarier".
Yeah, but Big Oil enjoyed it for half a century before that, which means other people paid more taxes all that time to pick up the slack.
You missed Washington's half-century handjob for Big Oil, the Oil Depletion Allowance.
http://wps.aw.com/aw_carltonper_modernio_4/21/5566/1424998.cw/content/index.html
One year Texaco paid less in Federal Income Tax than just one of the cleaning ladies at its NY headquarters.
We went into Iraq for oil, but it has very little to do with the oil in Iraq. That may sound contradictory, but consider this. Saddam gassed his people and otherwise played the brutal dictator...we sold him weapons. He had a dispute with a neighboring nation where he, quite literally, stepped over the line...we gave him a slap on the wrist, but allowed him to stay in power. He floated a plan to sell oil in Euros instead of dollars...a month later US troops were toppling statues in Baghdad and he was hiding in a hole.
Invading Iraq was always about protecting the US Dollar. Our currency is far more valuable than it should be due in large part to OPEC's policy of using the US dollar as its sole exchange currency. That policy is unlikely to change given what happened to the last guy who suggested changing it.
See...it's all about oil, but not the supply in Iraq.
You left out the part where, after being greeted as liberators and having flowers strewn in our path by the grateful natives, we'd have a massive military presence there as far into the future as the imagination could see, smack dab in the middle of the Middle East and handy to put the smackdown on any other "towelheads" in the countries around there who dared to interfere with our getting "our" oil out from underneath their sands.
Yeah, Chinese dumping of solar cells on the market below cost had nothing to do with Solyndra's problems, just like Japanese dumping of television sets on the American market in the early '70s had no deleterious effects on U.S. television manufacturers.
"Oil came into its own without a ton of federal help..."
Too young to remember Drew Pearson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" syndicated column and his many mentions of the "Oil Depletion Allowance" tax break giveaway to the oil companies and how in about '66 or '67 Texaco payed less in Federal Income Tax than just one of the cleaning ladies at its New York headquarters, I take it.
The writing you could not decipher was Greek
It's all Greek to me.
: - )
Ah, crud, yeah, I heard about the book, but I have been living in China since just before it came out and don't pay much attention to decadent Western media. ;-)
But that's the best kind!
What am I missing from this?
One example: my Nexus 7 draws so much power, even when sleeping...
OK, we can stop right here and determine what the hell the problem is...and it's occurring before you even find a power source.
Go fix or replace your tablet. One should not be trying to power a black hole.
I may have accidentally modded the above "redundant" by starting to mod it "informative" and then deciding to read the rest of the thread to see if I was going to want to comment instead of modding.
If so, my apologies to the PP
I would have wasted a mod point on that post.
By chance I happen to have been able to right up to the point of hitting submit on this post, but as for actually modding that post, I'm thwarted by the lack of an "insightful interesting informative funny flamebait troll" option.