Does anyone know average electricity prices in India? How much the average Indian home uses for power and approximate maintenance of this entire plant? (I'd assume, robots or no, they have at least 30 staff?)
I want to believe in solar, heck I do believe in solar but the cost right now,... If only the god damn panels didn't degrade (assuming that's not some kind of republican myth?) if the panels were consistently reliable or lived for 100 years, it would make much more sense economically. "Free" power sounds fantastic, especially if it's not damaging the planet.
My paid account ends then, let's see if Oracle somehow manage to fuck it entirely before then,...?
I really like the HUGE amount of modems / routers / cable boxes etc which support Dyn. Does anyone know of a product which even comes close? The closest I can think of is no-ip.com, they seem to be fairly common on a handful of cheap and pricey routers but still not as many as Dyn.
I use a desktop wireless charging stand for my Note 5 and an app called (IIRC) "desk clock". Due to the OLED display being totally pure black, I can set the desk clock to be ridiculously dim and not illuminate my entire bedroom, it really does look like a bedside desk clock, except it moves around to prevent screen damage.
I believe OLED still has burn in, but it's getting better - the colours are ridiculously good and the blacks essentially perfect.
We had one for near a decade which has mostly subsided the last few years, sadly
As an asthmatic and hayfever sufferer, the difference is night and day. I honestly thought I'd 'grown out' of my asthma and hayfever as I basically didn't have symptoms for near a decade, or exceedingly rare / lite symptoms.
Last 2 years and especially this year, just a disaster, not fun at all.
If anything, the vast vast majority of information I've encountered online is extremely pro left, facebook, twitter, news articles. It is exceedingly difficult to not stumble across article upon article how ghastly Donald Trump is, be it lies, truth or 'opinion posted as news' which is all too common.
I can't stand either of them, but the amount of misrepresentation I saw of Trump online was so intense and so vehement, frankly I'd have to agree with Zuckerberg, for different reasons. It's clear that whatever has been endlessly posted online with a leftist slant, seemingly hasn't had enough impact to win an election. The media are clearly out of touch with 'the little people' and very much in touch with a young, hip, far better off demographic than they realise.
No, I voted for neither, I'm not even in your country, FWIW I think he's clearly a complete fucking Doofus but she would not have been some miraculous beacon of hope either, I think she wouldn't have been as good as people think and he won't be as bad as people think. It's all status quo bullshit.
Can someone clued up here, please explain to me more about the figures of this thing in regards to propulsion?
It's obviously generating very little propulsion, but it's "free" if electricity is free, right? So if we had a massive reactor shoveling power into it, would it generate more, or the device need to be larger or we need more of them?
Could we build a ship with the existing one, assume again unlimited power reactor somehow and then fire the thing up, would I be right in thinking this thing would incredibly slowly start moving the ship and over a ridiculous amount of time, eventually be moving very rapidly and in theory (?) just keep on accelerating?
I get the no fuel and I get the very little force but I can't imagine the implications for it.
Actually this is a new (fucking stupid) change by Microsoft back to the old system.
Windows 10 is the only OS (that I know of) which employed very very large updates, effectively re-installing Windows over the top of itself, breaking all kinds of 'under the hood' settings that tinkerers may have set up AND more likely to cause risks to the PC (I support only 3 Windows 10 machines, the anniversary update took out one of them)
Windows 10 is proper garbage, so many issues with it. At least they are fixing one of them.
I used to play video games and be a benchmark nerd, I know hardware fairly well and I always figured more than 16GB was a waste of money. Ever since I STOPPED playing games and did a little graphics work or fired up some VMs I realised you really can require a lot of memory in a system. I've now got 24GB in my machine, despite an upper mid range 2013 CPU, regular business style desktop model, nothing but onboard, but I do exceed 16GB fairly regularly.
If you want to future proof a machine for developers or graphics people (previously Apples bread and butter!? years ago) then you need to be able to go to 32GB I must admit I figure exceeding 32GB would be rare but I'm sure some video editing guys could / would need it.
They really are just making devices for the average consumer to feel cool now.
Mod this guy right up, the messaging on Android is atrocious, Google have CONSISTENTLY fucked this up for years. The apple options are sadly VASTLY superior
Most of these trackers are glorified pedometers. The heart rate measurement on the newer models (to my knowledge) is quite inaccurate, especially when sweaty or in certain weather.
I would love to know: heart rate blood pressure breathing rate blood sugar level
At least those 4 quite accurate would be pretty nice or at least within a true 5%. I imagine this is basically impossible without some kind of small implant (then how do you charge it? is it safe? how long does it last?)
We're getting closer to this stuff but the current toys are a gimmick.
What % of slashdot posters actually trust google? Even the mildly paranoid ones rather than the full tinfoil nutters?
Even if you don't mind them having some information on you, if you like a service they offer, they'll/probably/ shut it down within 12 to 36 months, or they'll re-brand the product, adjust it heavily, integrate it with something else or redesign it so horrifically it's a shadow of its former self.
I regret to admit I use 4 google products pretty heavily, being Android, Gmail, Youtube and Chrome (in that order of use too) I could probably ditch Chrome if bloody firefox would up their game on performance, but sadly, if anything Firefox is getting slower and losing marketshare to Chrome.
Seriously, they have significant information on people over the years and they continue to gather and link more and more. Furthermore they are pretty incompetent at some things (look at the messaging systems for Android, they still STILL haven't come close to just plain old cloning imessage) they've just released a 3'rd chat application which is just a mess.
Would you really want MORE google stuff in the house? Routers, Wifi equipment, Chromecasts? Thank god they aren't as amazing and competent as they used to be, back in the day we 'gave up' our stuff, willingly because god damn they simply had the best stuff, now, I'm not even sure it's worth doing for their diluted products.
No need for a DAC in every set of headphones. They get their space savings they want. Adapter is cheap and already exists. Potentially a universal standard.
I used to defend these guys for 'copying' the iPhone back in the day (to an extent) since that's just how smart phones 'work best'
That being said, these dozy bastards continue to basically copy Apple every god damned turn. They neuter phones (removing SD cards) they neuter phones (non removable battery) they make obstinate Apple like decisions (cuved only display on the Note 7, UGH) I think one of the only good things they do is wireless charging and the continued support of a _physical_ fucking home button (remove that and we are DONE Samsung)
I like my headphone port, you wanna be smart? Make it 2.5mm like Blackberry tried, let's take another shot at it, see if Nokia, HTC, LG follow suit - let's switch all 3.5mm jacks to 2.5mm over the next decade? But this no headphone thing is bunk.
I also got into editing (images) and using VMs and so on, fiddling, but stopped gaming, my desktop PC is now a regular slimline HP business machine, just with a half decent SSD and 24GB, I get my 3 monitors out with the onboard stuff.
No need for a huge GPU, I don't have a premium CPU. That being said I do have a NAS and couldn't live without it - but I am still the nerdy demographic I mentioned in my post. My NAS has been the best tech thing I've done in years, maybe a decade, should've done it sooner.
As much as I denied it and thought people were crazy 7 years ago, desktop computing is on the ropes, if not laptop as well. Sure SSDs might be finally beating HDDs inside your laptop purchases and some mid to high end Dell / HP desktop purchases but the computing era has changed finally and it's a little sad for the enthusiasts.
25 years ago, a nice desktop PC was $2000 to $3000, nerdy families might have one 20 years ago a nice desktop PC was $2000 and you know semi-common for the family 15 years ago it was $1500, many people had one 10 years ago, it was $1000 and reached the point where there might be the family PC and one each for the kids 7 years ago, everyone in the family had a laptop, maybe still kept 1 family PC
and now? Tablets and cell phones. The desktop doesn't have a spot in the house anymore, for the most part of course,... sure we have one, but we're back to where we were, as nerds 25 years ago, we're the niche guys with some tricked out computer, we run a full desktop (!!) and sadly we're paying for it again, the common consumer is no longer subsidising us as they did in the 90s and 00s. The enthusiast HDD, CPU, motherboard, case the whole lot, all the top tier stuff was 'only' 50% more expensive or even 30%more expensive when everyone was buying desktops, but now - well sadly Western Digital, Intel, Gigabyte, AMD, nVidia, these guys aren't selling an epic boatload of mid-tier stuff to everyone, no they are selling some low low low end stuff because it's all people need (if a desktop at all.................) so the high end stuff is back to pricey.
To bring this around to SSDs - sure, a 128 / 256 and maybe a 512GB SSD on special are all pretty competitive now, but for us storage enthusiasts? Well the $ to GB ratio is still quite out. I don't see me replacing 6x5TB HDDs in my NAS any time soon with a nice cheap or even 'slightly pricey' 8TB SSD. I still don't think you can buy any larger than a 4TB SSD in a 2.5" form factor and that's (I think $1200) and only released recently.
Personally, for my needs? I totally want a "slow tier" SSD, 400MB read / write and 150MB random, but silent, cool, low power and 8 to 10TB for under $500 US I don't expect to see it for 2 to 3 years.
No really, I'm quite happy with my 3.5" port which is on my PC, PS4 controller, ipad (currently....) old spare phone, etc.
Hell, I was trying to figure out how to wire one of these up for my deskphone at my old job https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB... when I worked in a job with a fair few support calls, so I could go from music to phone call, simply by moving a cable and answering the phone.
I can't stand Chromes "my way or the highway" attitude on stuff. I spent over an hour last night, looking for a tool or function which will stop Chrome shrinking tabs to literally 1/4 of an inch in width if you are an extreme browser and exceed 80 or 100 tabs open.
You think I can find a simple "fix tab width" plugin? of course I found a heap of posts from people dating back through 2012, 2011, 2009 asking for a "hey, how can I stop Chrome making my tab width miniscule when I open a shitload of tabs?" Typically (much like an apple question actually) a heap of people told the person their 'workflow was wrong'. A few actually helped, some of the solutions didn't sound perfect but they would've worked, you know if the features weren't removed from the program..... (well the instructions I found to enable stacked tabs are no longer relevant anyhow, the option appears to be missing)
God damn I wish Firefox performed faster, I love it as my primary browser but it runs like molasses with an extreme amount of tabs open, even with 24GB of ram and 4 cores. As for Firefox mobile? Gotta hand it to Chrome mobile there, the UI was so much easier to use and more common sense that I just stopped trying eventually, It felt like a late 90's GUI for the 18 months I tried it. It is (was?) an atrocious UI for mobile browsing.
Well ok, not under load, but when scrolling the display in any capacity. Noise comes from a chip just near the volume rocker. I've got pretty good hearing for 38 and it drives me batty if I use the thing in bed on a quiet night. I was almost tempted to return the thing to be honest, my iPad air 2, no such issue.
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Does anyone know average electricity prices in India? How much the average Indian home uses for power and approximate maintenance of this entire plant? (I'd assume, robots or no, they have at least 30 staff?)
I want to believe in solar, heck I do believe in solar but the cost right now,...
If only the god damn panels didn't degrade (assuming that's not some kind of republican myth?) if the panels were consistently reliable or lived for 100 years, it would make much more sense economically.
"Free" power sounds fantastic, especially if it's not damaging the planet.
Could you TOR to a VPN?
I imagine your internet connection would run appallingly but still it would solve it, right?
My paid account ends then, let's see if Oracle somehow manage to fuck it entirely before then,...?
I really like the HUGE amount of modems / routers / cable boxes etc which support Dyn. Does anyone know of a product which even comes close? The closest I can think of is no-ip.com, they seem to be fairly common on a handful of cheap and pricey routers but still not as many as Dyn.
I use a desktop wireless charging stand for my Note 5 and an app called (IIRC) "desk clock".
Due to the OLED display being totally pure black, I can set the desk clock to be ridiculously dim and not illuminate my entire bedroom, it really does look like a bedside desk clock, except it moves around to prevent screen damage.
I believe OLED still has burn in, but it's getting better - the colours are ridiculously good and the blacks essentially perfect.
We had one for near a decade which has mostly subsided the last few years, sadly
As an asthmatic and hayfever sufferer, the difference is night and day. I honestly thought I'd 'grown out' of my asthma and hayfever as I basically didn't have symptoms for near a decade, or exceedingly rare / lite symptoms.
Last 2 years and especially this year, just a disaster, not fun at all.
I thought all their fucking wealth was tied up in property at Vancouver, LA, SF, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland? ,..........
Fucking decimating a generation over here, fuck our politicians allowing this, fuck them to fucking death.
I guess their wallets truly are endless.
If anything, the vast vast majority of information I've encountered online is extremely pro left, facebook, twitter, news articles. It is exceedingly difficult to not stumble across article upon article how ghastly Donald Trump is, be it lies, truth or 'opinion posted as news' which is all too common.
I can't stand either of them, but the amount of misrepresentation I saw of Trump online was so intense and so vehement, frankly I'd have to agree with Zuckerberg, for different reasons. It's clear that whatever has been endlessly posted online with a leftist slant, seemingly hasn't had enough impact to win an election.
The media are clearly out of touch with 'the little people' and very much in touch with a young, hip, far better off demographic than they realise.
No, I voted for neither, I'm not even in your country, FWIW I think he's clearly a complete fucking Doofus but she would not have been some miraculous beacon of hope either, I think she wouldn't have been as good as people think and he won't be as bad as people think. It's all status quo bullshit.
Can someone clued up here, please explain to me more about the figures of this thing in regards to propulsion?
It's obviously generating very little propulsion, but it's "free" if electricity is free, right?
So if we had a massive reactor shoveling power into it, would it generate more, or the device need to be larger or we need more of them?
Could we build a ship with the existing one, assume again unlimited power reactor somehow and then fire the thing up, would I be right in thinking this thing would incredibly slowly start moving the ship and over a ridiculous amount of time, eventually be moving very rapidly and in theory (?) just keep on accelerating?
I get the no fuel and I get the very little force but I can't imagine the implications for it.
Rectum that is.
While I admit there isn't enough ports on the damn thing, I've done a quick google and USB-C flash drives do exist in the 128gb range.
Actually this is a new (fucking stupid) change by Microsoft back to the old system.
Windows 10 is the only OS (that I know of) which employed very very large updates, effectively re-installing Windows over the top of itself, breaking all kinds of 'under the hood' settings that tinkerers may have set up AND more likely to cause risks to the PC (I support only 3 Windows 10 machines, the anniversary update took out one of them)
Windows 10 is proper garbage, so many issues with it. At least they are fixing one of them.
I used to play video games and be a benchmark nerd, I know hardware fairly well and I always figured more than 16GB was a waste of money.
Ever since I STOPPED playing games and did a little graphics work or fired up some VMs I realised you really can require a lot of memory in a system.
I've now got 24GB in my machine, despite an upper mid range 2013 CPU, regular business style desktop model, nothing but onboard, but I do exceed 16GB fairly regularly.
If you want to future proof a machine for developers or graphics people (previously Apples bread and butter!? years ago) then you need to be able to go to 32GB
I must admit I figure exceeding 32GB would be rare but I'm sure some video editing guys could / would need it.
They really are just making devices for the average consumer to feel cool now.
Also, doesn't HDR require 10bit on top of that?
I dare you, try it. I'll switch brands if the 8 is curved ONLY.
Don't pull an apple and be brave or courageous, damn well give us options
Android guy here,....
Mod this guy right up, the messaging on Android is atrocious, Google have CONSISTENTLY fucked this up for years.
The apple options are sadly VASTLY superior
Most of these trackers are glorified pedometers.
The heart rate measurement on the newer models (to my knowledge) is quite inaccurate, especially when sweaty or in certain weather.
I would love to know:
heart rate
blood pressure
breathing rate
blood sugar level
At least those 4 quite accurate would be pretty nice or at least within a true 5%.
I imagine this is basically impossible without some kind of small implant (then how do you charge it? is it safe? how long does it last?)
We're getting closer to this stuff but the current toys are a gimmick.
What % of slashdot posters actually trust google? Even the mildly paranoid ones rather than the full tinfoil nutters?
Even if you don't mind them having some information on you, if you like a service they offer, they'll /probably/ shut it down within 12 to 36 months, or they'll re-brand the product, adjust it heavily, integrate it with something else or redesign it so horrifically it's a shadow of its former self.
I regret to admit I use 4 google products pretty heavily, being Android, Gmail, Youtube and Chrome (in that order of use too) I could probably ditch Chrome if bloody firefox would up their game on performance, but sadly, if anything Firefox is getting slower and losing marketshare to Chrome.
Seriously, they have significant information on people over the years and they continue to gather and link more and more. Furthermore they are pretty incompetent at some things (look at the messaging systems for Android, they still STILL haven't come close to just plain old cloning imessage) they've just released a 3'rd chat application which is just a mess.
Would you really want MORE google stuff in the house? Routers, Wifi equipment, Chromecasts?
Thank god they aren't as amazing and competent as they used to be, back in the day we 'gave up' our stuff, willingly because god damn they simply had the best stuff, now, I'm not even sure it's worth doing for their diluted products.
In conclusion? Yeah, not a chance.
No need for a DAC in every set of headphones.
They get their space savings they want.
Adapter is cheap and already exists.
Potentially a universal standard.
I used to defend these guys for 'copying' the iPhone back in the day (to an extent) since that's just how smart phones 'work best'
That being said, these dozy bastards continue to basically copy Apple every god damned turn. They neuter phones (removing SD cards) they neuter phones (non removable battery) they make obstinate Apple like decisions (cuved only display on the Note 7, UGH) I think one of the only good things they do is wireless charging and the continued support of a _physical_ fucking home button (remove that and we are DONE Samsung)
I like my headphone port, you wanna be smart? Make it 2.5mm like Blackberry tried, let's take another shot at it, see if Nokia, HTC, LG follow suit - let's switch all 3.5mm jacks to 2.5mm over the next decade? But this no headphone thing is bunk.
I also got into editing (images) and using VMs and so on, fiddling, but stopped gaming, my desktop PC is now a regular slimline HP business machine, just with a half decent SSD and 24GB, I get my 3 monitors out with the onboard stuff.
No need for a huge GPU, I don't have a premium CPU. That being said I do have a NAS and couldn't live without it - but I am still the nerdy demographic I mentioned in my post.
My NAS has been the best tech thing I've done in years, maybe a decade, should've done it sooner.
As much as I denied it and thought people were crazy 7 years ago, desktop computing is on the ropes, if not laptop as well.
Sure SSDs might be finally beating HDDs inside your laptop purchases and some mid to high end Dell / HP desktop purchases but the computing era has changed finally and it's a little sad for the enthusiasts.
25 years ago, a nice desktop PC was $2000 to $3000, nerdy families might have one
20 years ago a nice desktop PC was $2000 and you know semi-common for the family
15 years ago it was $1500, many people had one
10 years ago, it was $1000 and reached the point where there might be the family PC and one each for the kids
7 years ago, everyone in the family had a laptop, maybe still kept 1 family PC
and now? Tablets and cell phones.
The desktop doesn't have a spot in the house anymore, for the most part of course,... sure we have one, but we're back to where we were, as nerds 25 years ago, we're the niche guys with some tricked out computer, we run a full desktop (!!) and sadly we're paying for it again, the common consumer is no longer subsidising us as they did in the 90s and 00s. The enthusiast HDD, CPU, motherboard, case the whole lot, all the top tier stuff was 'only' 50% more expensive or even 30%more expensive when everyone was buying desktops, but now - well sadly Western Digital, Intel, Gigabyte, AMD, nVidia, these guys aren't selling an epic boatload of mid-tier stuff to everyone, no they are selling some low low low end stuff because it's all people need (if a desktop at all.................) so the high end stuff is back to pricey.
To bring this around to SSDs - sure, a 128 / 256 and maybe a 512GB SSD on special are all pretty competitive now, but for us storage enthusiasts? Well the $ to GB ratio is still quite out. I don't see me replacing 6x5TB HDDs in my NAS any time soon with a nice cheap or even 'slightly pricey' 8TB SSD.
I still don't think you can buy any larger than a 4TB SSD in a 2.5" form factor and that's (I think $1200) and only released recently.
Personally, for my needs? I totally want a "slow tier" SSD, 400MB read / write and 150MB random, but silent, cool, low power and 8 to 10TB for under $500 US
I don't expect to see it for 2 to 3 years.
goddamnit, I'm showing my age and lack of morning coffee, you pedantic lads know what I meant though...
No really, I'm quite happy with my 3.5" port which is on my PC, PS4 controller, ipad (currently....) old spare phone, etc.
Hell, I was trying to figure out how to wire one of these up for my deskphone at my old job
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB... when I worked in a job with a fair few support calls, so I could go from music to phone call, simply by moving a cable and answering the phone.
I can't stand Chromes "my way or the highway" attitude on stuff.
I spent over an hour last night, looking for a tool or function which will stop Chrome shrinking tabs to literally 1/4 of an inch in width if you are an extreme browser and exceed 80 or 100 tabs open.
You think I can find a simple "fix tab width" plugin? of course I found a heap of posts from people dating back through 2012, 2011, 2009 asking for a "hey, how can I stop Chrome making my tab width miniscule when I open a shitload of tabs?" ..... (well the instructions I found to enable stacked tabs are no longer relevant anyhow, the option appears to be missing)
Typically (much like an apple question actually) a heap of people told the person their 'workflow was wrong'. A few actually helped, some of the solutions didn't sound perfect but they would've worked, you know if the features weren't removed from the program
God damn I wish Firefox performed faster, I love it as my primary browser but it runs like molasses with an extreme amount of tabs open, even with 24GB of ram and 4 cores. As for Firefox mobile? Gotta hand it to Chrome mobile there, the UI was so much easier to use and more common sense that I just stopped trying eventually, It felt like a late 90's GUI for the 18 months I tried it. It is (was?) an atrocious UI for mobile browsing.
Well ok, not under load, but when scrolling the display in any capacity. Noise comes from a chip just near the volume rocker. I've got pretty good hearing for 38 and it drives me batty if I use the thing in bed on a quiet night. I was almost tempted to return the thing to be honest, my iPad air 2, no such issue.
(It's more of a hiss / hum in one)