Wireless charging is great. Just set the phone down on the pad and it charges. No fiddling with a plug and socket. Of course, Apple probably will want to invent their own charging pad so they can charge big bucks for it and stop others from making competing chargers (lots of charge in that sentence). Everyone else has settled on Qi standard. I have these in the car and several spots at home and they work great.
Rich people make lots of money from "defense". It's just another way of transferring public money to the rich. If you're not rich already, you might be able to afford a few shares of stock and get a few crumbs thrown your way.
The construction vehicle fires are suspicious. They weren't anywhere near the encampment and there are no suspects. Could be false agents. OTOH, the construction company private army has attacked peaceful protesters with dogs, batons, tear gas, etc.
Wikipedia has a good article with lots of specific details: The treaty produced a brief period of peace, but it was broken by the failure of the United States to prevent the mass emigration of miners and settlers into Colorado during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. They took over Indian lands in order to mine them, "against the protests of the Indians,"[12] and founded towns, started farms, and improved roads. Before 1861 the Cheyenne and Arapahoe "had been driven from the mountain regions down upon the waters of the Arkansas."[12] Such emigrants competed with the tribal nations for game and water, straining limited resources and resulting in conflicts with the emigrants. The U.S. government did not enforce the treaty to keep out the emigrants.[12] In 1864 came the Sand Creek massacre on a camp of mostly Cheyennes by Colonel John M. Chivingtons army of one hundred days volunteers. The consequence was years of war between the Cheyennes and the United States.
I think the point of obstructing the pipeline is to make it more difficult and expensive to burn the fossil fuel. This could be thought of as a carbon tax which we really need to compensate for the subsidies that fossil fuels enjoy to make them cheaper than renewables.
A couple of problems here: - The Standing Rock tribe says the land is theirs. It was given to them in an 1851 treaty. Of course, the treaty was quickly violated as soon as the white folks wanted the land but at some point they should get their land back - "Defacing property" is spray painting on the blades of bulldozers... not really any damage... more like freedom of speech - "Interfering with a police investigation"... this is actually interfering with the police unlawful snooping on private individuals but they deny they are doing it so not really interfering with anything
"to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices," I've observed that a cattle prod is an effective motivator to enhance learning. It works really well on programmers.
I agree. Extrapolate energy use out 500 years at 3% (when it's actually been declining recently)? Extrapolate our current 6 billion population out 500 years at 3% and you get 15,731,263,000,000,000. Stupid Jeff Bezos.
I think the reverse is true. Macbook is now a niche product for the few people who absolutely must have Adobe, Autodesk, Maya and can't use one of the FOSS alternatives. Everyone else will do fine with Linux on a PC or Chromebook.
We have two MacBooks in our family and both are old, slow, out of date. I was waiting for the "refresh"... however, it's just underwhelming. I bought a Chromebook a few months ago because my 2010 Macbook was getting to the point where it was unusable. Very happy with the Chromebook at a fraction of the price of the Macbook. It's much more responsive than the Macbook. I've also set up Crouton so I have native Ubuntu with just a tab key screen shift when I need it. This Chromebook also has a touch screen which I like. I'll replace the other Macbook with a Chromebook also. Sorry Apple.
Of course, we all know how this will turn out... Both plane programs will continue forever. We need to keep sending money to defense contractors... lots of money and it doesn't really matter if things work or not. They have a blank check to spend as much as they want and they bribe Congress to keep the money flowing. We can't appear to be "soft on defense".
I might do this if I could install Linux on it. Since my MacBook became old and sluggish, I've been using a Chromebook and love the touch screen. Now that Apple has revealed it's long overdue (and underwhelming) MacBook updates, I'm looking for an alternative but I just won't ever use Windows... ever.
Exxon (and other fossil fuel companies) knew about global warming many years ago and lied to everyone to protect their profits. This is a clear violation of SEC rules.
The problem I have is that my local stores don't have most of the stuff I buy. Only the grocery store has a near adequate stock. For the rest of the stuff, I would have to drive an hour each way and go to a big box store which as far as I am concerned, is as bad (or worse) than Amazon. Much easier to just buy from Amazon or eBay, etc. since I can almost always find exactly what I need at a good price without spending hours driving and shopping.
My Tesla uses about 300 Wh/mile. At 12,000 miles a year, that's 3600 kWh/year. My solar panels generate about 9000 kWh/year. That's enough to keep my car charged and my house running with a zero electric bill. My solar system is rather small, only 6.2 kW. I can easily add more capacity if necessary.
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I think they should call it "OttoPilot" in Germany.
Every OSX update has made them slower (and uglier).
Memory upgrade didn't help.
Did that. Still a pig.
OTOH, today someone set a prairie fire near the encampment. Fortunately it burned itself out.
Wireless charging is great. Just set the phone down on the pad and it charges. No fiddling with a plug and socket.
Of course, Apple probably will want to invent their own charging pad so they can charge big bucks for it and stop others from making competing chargers (lots of charge in that sentence). Everyone else has settled on Qi standard. I have these in the car and several spots at home and they work great.
Rich people make lots of money from "defense". It's just another way of transferring public money to the rich.
If you're not rich already, you might be able to afford a few shares of stock and get a few crumbs thrown your way.
The construction vehicle fires are suspicious. They weren't anywhere near the encampment and there are no suspects. Could be false agents.
OTOH, the construction company private army has attacked peaceful protesters with dogs, batons, tear gas, etc.
Wikipedia has a good article with lots of specific details:
The treaty produced a brief period of peace, but it was broken by the failure of the United States to prevent the mass emigration of miners and settlers into Colorado during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. They took over Indian lands in order to mine them, "against the protests of the Indians,"[12] and founded towns, started farms, and improved roads. Before 1861 the Cheyenne and Arapahoe "had been driven from the mountain regions down upon the waters of the Arkansas."[12] Such emigrants competed with the tribal nations for game and water, straining limited resources and resulting in conflicts with the emigrants. The U.S. government did not enforce the treaty to keep out the emigrants.[12] In 1864 came the Sand Creek massacre on a camp of mostly Cheyennes by Colonel John M. Chivingtons army of one hundred days volunteers. The consequence was years of war between the Cheyennes and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think the point of obstructing the pipeline is to make it more difficult and expensive to burn the fossil fuel. This could be thought of as a carbon tax which we really need to compensate for the subsidies that fossil fuels enjoy to make them cheaper than renewables.
A couple of problems here:
- The Standing Rock tribe says the land is theirs. It was given to them in an 1851 treaty. Of course, the treaty was quickly violated as soon as the white folks wanted the land but at some point they should get their land back
- "Defacing property" is spray painting on the blades of bulldozers... not really any damage... more like freedom of speech
- "Interfering with a police investigation"... this is actually interfering with the police unlawful snooping on private individuals but they deny they are doing it so not really interfering with anything
(I agree that the "no fly" list is BS)
"to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices,"
I've observed that a cattle prod is an effective motivator to enhance learning. It works really well on programmers.
I agree.
Extrapolate energy use out 500 years at 3% (when it's actually been declining recently)?
Extrapolate our current 6 billion population out 500 years at 3% and you get 15,731,263,000,000,000.
Stupid Jeff Bezos.
I think the reverse is true. Macbook is now a niche product for the few people who absolutely must have Adobe, Autodesk, Maya and can't use one of the FOSS alternatives.
Everyone else will do fine with Linux on a PC or Chromebook.
We have two MacBooks in our family and both are old, slow, out of date. I was waiting for the "refresh"... however, it's just underwhelming.
I bought a Chromebook a few months ago because my 2010 Macbook was getting to the point where it was unusable. Very happy with the Chromebook at a fraction of the price of the Macbook. It's much more responsive than the Macbook. I've also set up Crouton so I have native Ubuntu with just a tab key screen shift when I need it. This Chromebook also has a touch screen which I like. I'll replace the other Macbook with a Chromebook also.
Sorry Apple.
Maybe they could scrap the variations which don't perform well and just produce those which are effective.
Of course, we all know how this will turn out... Both plane programs will continue forever.
We need to keep sending money to defense contractors... lots of money and it doesn't really matter if things work or not. They have a blank check to spend as much as they want and they bribe Congress to keep the money flowing.
We can't appear to be "soft on defense".
Here's an attack that can be used on Wifi
http://makezine.com/projects/b...
I might do this if I could install Linux on it.
Since my MacBook became old and sluggish, I've been using a Chromebook and love the touch screen. Now that Apple has revealed it's long overdue (and underwhelming) MacBook updates, I'm looking for an alternative but I just won't ever use Windows... ever.
Electric cars have zero tailpipe emissions (no tailpipe). So how are they faking it?
Exxon (and other fossil fuel companies) knew about global warming many years ago and lied to everyone to protect their profits.
This is a clear violation of SEC rules.
The problem I have is that my local stores don't have most of the stuff I buy. Only the grocery store has a near adequate stock. For the rest of the stuff, I would have to drive an hour each way and go to a big box store which as far as I am concerned, is as bad (or worse) than Amazon. Much easier to just buy from Amazon or eBay, etc. since I can almost always find exactly what I need at a good price without spending hours driving and shopping.
Or... they could just do this:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
My Tesla uses about 300 Wh/mile. At 12,000 miles a year, that's 3600 kWh/year.
My solar panels generate about 9000 kWh/year. That's enough to keep my car charged and my house running with a zero electric bill.
My solar system is rather small, only 6.2 kW. I can easily add more capacity if necessary.
I added solar panels to my home installation to cover my Tesla electricity usage... zero emissions (and zero electricity bill).
Jesus drives a Tesla