I also agree with you. At this point, it's kind of crazy that you would be buying an computer with an SSD. Of course SSD can't really be summed up with a nice big number. When they see one laptop with 1TB storage, and another laptop with 240 GB storage, most unaware users aren't going to really understand just how big the performance difference is between the two, but they will grasp the difference between 1 TB and 240 GB.
I guess it depends on what you're doing with it. The full install of Visual Studio Community 2017 was up around 50 GB when I checked all the boxes. I ended up unchecking a few because I didn't want to use the space, and bringing the install somewhere close to 15 GB. Just the base install of Windows can get quite large once you add in things like the paging file and hiberfile.sys, and assuming your laptop has about 8 GB of RAM, you've already used up a significant portion of that 128 GB. If you just use your laptop for office and web browsing, then 128 GB will probably suffice anyway, but it's amazing how fast that space can get used up once you start using the space for a few other things.
Not everybody needs complex spreadsheets, but even simple ones can be made a lot better with couple key features from Excel that seem to be missing in Open/Libre Office. The major missing thing is defining tables. It makes things so much easier to work with in Excel and OpenOffice has no equivalent feature.
But even streaming it becomes a problem when the blockchain gets big enough. Bitcoin is vanishingly small compared to something like a visa, master card, paypal, or even m-pesa. If you needed to stream terabytes of transactions just to begin verifying transactions, it's a complete non-starter for most of the world's population. If only a few key players have the resources to verify the block chain, then it is open to collusion between those parties.
Considering it's a portable device with a built in screen it's not such a bad deal. The iPad Mini 4 is $500 in Canada. Sure the iPad Mini has a better screen, but as far as pricing goes in the tablet market, $400 is pretty much right on par with other devices. The 3DS XL $239 and has been out for 5 years.
Yeah, kind of what I expected. It still shows 1 in 5 people aren't on the newest version, which is not insignificant. Probably not anywhere near as bad as Android, but still not as good as I would hope.
Are there statistics on this? I know a lot of people who aren't on the most recent release either because they are too worried that their phone will slow down or because they can't clear off enough free space on their phone to undergo the upgrade process.
Here are some methods I use to determine if they are doing a good job.
1. Defect rate - If they are constantly fixing bugs or you are required to have other developers go over their code and are constant finding basic problems, the developer isn't doing a good job.
2. Taking more time than expected/estimated to do a job. Obviously there's cases where requirements change or unknown issues pop up in the project. But if it's a constant issue, then there is either a problem with management/planning, or the developer isn't making good use of their time.
3. They constantly say "I'm (almost) done, just need to test". A good developer will test as they go along. Once the coding is done there should be very little additional testing that needs to be done. You reasonably certain that everything will work by the time coding is completed.
4. Constant needing to have stuff explained to them. If you constantly need to explain how something is supposed to be done, or have to explain the project 3 or 4 times, then the developer may have a problem. It may also be the case that you aren't explaining the project properly, however, a good developer will ask for clarification up-front instead of nodding yes, and coming back 3 days later with a bunch of questions, no code to show for the passage of time, or maybe even worse, a bunch of code that doesn't do what it's supposed to.
5. Finally, sleeping on the job, constantly late, or going home early or a combination of the above. You wouldn't think that sleeping on the job would be a big thing, but I've seen it happen more often than not. The causes of this could be anything from just bad time management to other things that are more understandable like a personal illness or a sick child/spouse or other personal problem. But the reason doesn't change the fact that the person is going to have performance problems. The employer should identify the problem and work with the employee to resolve the issue.
Finally. It's all about taking metrics in terms of defect rates and whether or not projects are completed on schedule. If they are doing well in these areas, they are probably doing a good job. The other stuff like showing up late or sleeping on the job really shouldn't matter that much as long as the person is getting their work done. But I haven't met a whole lot of people who can sleep/slack off at work while still getting the job done.
The more I learn about physical locks, the less I'm convinced they are up to the job. I don't think locks should be all electric, but a lot of locks that use physical keys are laughably insecure.
The MP3 file didn't create the phenomenon of sharing music. There were other competing formats at the time. MP3 just happened to be the one that everyone latched on to. I remember downloading music in many other formats including RealAudio, TwinVQ, MP2, OGG, and WMA. The home internet connection itself let to the explosive growth of music sharing online. The format didn't really matter all that much, and without MP3, another of the available formats would have easily taken its place.
Not sure what state you live in, but based on these numbers the highest cost state is New Hampshire with a rate of $15K for each year at a 4 years institution. The US average was $9650. So if you saved $73K based on the median family income of $50K, you would easily have education paid for. For those who don't make as much, you could do your first two years at a community college to save money and then transfer your courses to a 4 year university. I hear this is a great way to save on the costs of education.
I have Bluetooth headphones and although I don't use them when I really want audio fidelity, they are quite useful for certain situations. I mostly listen to podcasts and find that my enjoyment of the podcast is completely unaffected by whether or not I'm using Bluetooth. The other situation where I use them is when working out. In this case, I just don't want my headphones tethered to my phone. I guess the audio quality is a bit worse, but I'm really not too worried about it as I just need something to fill in the background noise and provide a beat to keep me on rhythm. Most of the time audio quality doesn't matter at all, and if it did, I wouldn't be playing the audio off of my phone. I would never buy a phone without a headphone jack, but similarly, I'd never be willing to give up Bluetooth either.
It would be acceptable if they had a phone with a big enough battery that people didn't have to charge it throughout the day. If you could get 2-3 full days out of your phone, I bet people wouldn't care that you couldn't charge and use the phone at the same time. The problem is that people feel the need to charge their phone multiple times throughout the day just so the battery doesn't die.
Microsoft has already started doing this with Edge. Mind you they are only doing it on the Enterprise version of Windows, but I could definitely see this happening on the consumer versions in the near future. It definitely makes sense considering all the stuff the browser is doing to make sure that it doesn't interfere with the security of the system.
If you put away 5% of your money from the time the kids are born until they go to college, you are well on your way to covering tuition anyway. Even if you only make $25,000 a year, 5% is $1250 a year, or $22,500 by the time they are 18. That's without even calculating interest on the investment over time. You could save over $35,000 if you invest it at 5% interest which is reasonable to assume if you find a good index fund. Assuming you make $50,000 a year, and invest 5%, with interest your savings are up at $73,000
No, that's why it's important to make training people something that is provided by the government. The solution isn't to make businesses pay somebody more than the value they bring to the company. We should be using tax dollars to provide better training to citizens. If that requires collecting more tax dollars from businesses and well off individuals, then that's fine. But forcing high wages definitely won't fix the problem because the cost of the items they are producing will go up, or the jobs will become non-existent entirely.
I'm sorry, but there are certain jobs in society that really aren't meant for a person to fully support themselves. Even moreso when the person is trying to support themselves and their family. Delivering the local newspaper was great job when I was 12 and I wanted to buy some hockey cards and music CDs. It's not a job that really requires any skills, and even if you are doing it full time, I couldn't see it being a job that's likely to pay a living wage.
Same with the job I had flipping burgers at McDonald's. I was making minimum wage and even if I was working full time, there's no way that I really deserved to make a living wage in that job. Again, it required very little skill and they didn't really expect much from me other than to show up and make some hamburgers. But that's fine because I was in highschool and just wanted some money for CDs, computer games, and going out to the movies.
Theses were great jobs to get me used to working, and if they weren't allowed to pay me such low wages, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work at all. Especially in the year 2016. They will just get a robot to do your job if it becomes too expensive for a person to do it.
If you want to make a living wage, be prepared to get some real skills. You don't deserve money for doing nothing, or for doing a job that requires almost no skills.
What's to stop people from going to Venezuela and buying 10 copies of Final Cut Pro and bringing it back to the US? Unless you are suggesting that they start region locking software, controlling which country you can use software in depending on where you bought it.
Once the damage is done, it's often irreversible, short of something like a heart transplant. Diet and exercise can help you lose weight and strengthen the hert and lungs, but only if the system isn't already broken.
Sometimes quality doesn't matter. I use my Bluetooth when I'm on the bus. Going back and forth to work. I'm mostly listening to voice podcasts, do I really couldn't care about audio quality. Music is usually streamed from Spotify, so the quality isn't amazing, and with all the background noise on the bus, the sound quality isn't going to be good. I got a Bluetooth dongle that can hook up to any pair of headphones. That way I only have to buy a single set of headphones, and I can plug them in if I want to, Sure, the headphones still have a cable coming from them, but for me the advantage is mostly about having the phone cable-free and not having to take it out of my pocket to answer calls.
To be fair, the new iPhone comes with standard bluetooth so you can use whichever wireless headphones you want. There's a lot of wireless headphones that are a lot cheaper and better sounding than the AirPods. Also, you could use ear buds that were included in the box. And last but not least, you could buy the dongle and use whatever wired headphones you want with the iPhone. There are a lot of other alternatives for people who don't want to shell out $160 for the AirPods.
Yep. I've been using Plex for years without a subscription. I don't use the feature for viewing outside my house, so I just never really had a need to subscribe. Using a VPN to connect into your home network would be the perfect way to avoid the whole Plex Cloud for authenticating to get access to your own stuff.
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How does one swap a controller on an SSD? The entire unit is a single solid chip board with everything soldered together.
I also agree with you. At this point, it's kind of crazy that you would be buying an computer with an SSD. Of course SSD can't really be summed up with a nice big number. When they see one laptop with 1TB storage, and another laptop with 240 GB storage, most unaware users aren't going to really understand just how big the performance difference is between the two, but they will grasp the difference between 1 TB and 240 GB.
I guess it depends on what you're doing with it. The full install of Visual Studio Community 2017 was up around 50 GB when I checked all the boxes. I ended up unchecking a few because I didn't want to use the space, and bringing the install somewhere close to 15 GB. Just the base install of Windows can get quite large once you add in things like the paging file and hiberfile.sys, and assuming your laptop has about 8 GB of RAM, you've already used up a significant portion of that 128 GB. If you just use your laptop for office and web browsing, then 128 GB will probably suffice anyway, but it's amazing how fast that space can get used up once you start using the space for a few other things.
Not everybody needs complex spreadsheets, but even simple ones can be made a lot better with couple key features from Excel that seem to be missing in Open/Libre Office. The major missing thing is defining tables. It makes things so much easier to work with in Excel and OpenOffice has no equivalent feature.
But even streaming it becomes a problem when the blockchain gets big enough. Bitcoin is vanishingly small compared to something like a visa, master card, paypal, or even m-pesa. If you needed to stream terabytes of transactions just to begin verifying transactions, it's a complete non-starter for most of the world's population. If only a few key players have the resources to verify the block chain, then it is open to collusion between those parties.
Considering it's a portable device with a built in screen it's not such a bad deal. The iPad Mini 4 is $500 in Canada. Sure the iPad Mini has a better screen, but as far as pricing goes in the tablet market, $400 is pretty much right on par with other devices. The 3DS XL $239 and has been out for 5 years.
Yeah, kind of what I expected. It still shows 1 in 5 people aren't on the newest version, which is not insignificant. Probably not anywhere near as bad as Android, but still not as good as I would hope.
Are there statistics on this? I know a lot of people who aren't on the most recent release either because they are too worried that their phone will slow down or because they can't clear off enough free space on their phone to undergo the upgrade process.
Here are some methods I use to determine if they are doing a good job.
1. Defect rate - If they are constantly fixing bugs or you are required to have other developers go over their code and are constant finding basic problems, the developer isn't doing a good job.
2. Taking more time than expected/estimated to do a job. Obviously there's cases where requirements change or unknown issues pop up in the project. But if it's a constant issue, then there is either a problem with management/planning, or the developer isn't making good use of their time.
3. They constantly say "I'm (almost) done, just need to test". A good developer will test as they go along. Once the coding is done there should be very little additional testing that needs to be done. You reasonably certain that everything will work by the time coding is completed.
4. Constant needing to have stuff explained to them. If you constantly need to explain how something is supposed to be done, or have to explain the project 3 or 4 times, then the developer may have a problem. It may also be the case that you aren't explaining the project properly, however, a good developer will ask for clarification up-front instead of nodding yes, and coming back 3 days later with a bunch of questions, no code to show for the passage of time, or maybe even worse, a bunch of code that doesn't do what it's supposed to.
5. Finally, sleeping on the job, constantly late, or going home early or a combination of the above. You wouldn't think that sleeping on the job would be a big thing, but I've seen it happen more often than not. The causes of this could be anything from just bad time management to other things that are more understandable like a personal illness or a sick child/spouse or other personal problem. But the reason doesn't change the fact that the person is going to have performance problems. The employer should identify the problem and work with the employee to resolve the issue.
Finally. It's all about taking metrics in terms of defect rates and whether or not projects are completed on schedule. If they are doing well in these areas, they are probably doing a good job. The other stuff like showing up late or sleeping on the job really shouldn't matter that much as long as the person is getting their work done. But I haven't met a whole lot of people who can sleep/slack off at work while still getting the job done.
The more I learn about physical locks, the less I'm convinced they are up to the job. I don't think locks should be all electric, but a lot of locks that use physical keys are laughably insecure.
The MP3 file didn't create the phenomenon of sharing music. There were other competing formats at the time. MP3 just happened to be the one that everyone latched on to. I remember downloading music in many other formats including RealAudio, TwinVQ, MP2, OGG, and WMA. The home internet connection itself let to the explosive growth of music sharing online. The format didn't really matter all that much, and without MP3, another of the available formats would have easily taken its place.
Not sure what state you live in, but based on these numbers the highest cost state is New Hampshire with a rate of $15K for each year at a 4 years institution. The US average was $9650. So if you saved $73K based on the median family income of $50K, you would easily have education paid for. For those who don't make as much, you could do your first two years at a community college to save money and then transfer your courses to a 4 year university. I hear this is a great way to save on the costs of education.
I have Bluetooth headphones and although I don't use them when I really want audio fidelity, they are quite useful for certain situations. I mostly listen to podcasts and find that my enjoyment of the podcast is completely unaffected by whether or not I'm using Bluetooth. The other situation where I use them is when working out. In this case, I just don't want my headphones tethered to my phone. I guess the audio quality is a bit worse, but I'm really not too worried about it as I just need something to fill in the background noise and provide a beat to keep me on rhythm. Most of the time audio quality doesn't matter at all, and if it did, I wouldn't be playing the audio off of my phone. I would never buy a phone without a headphone jack, but similarly, I'd never be willing to give up Bluetooth either.
It would be acceptable if they had a phone with a big enough battery that people didn't have to charge it throughout the day. If you could get 2-3 full days out of your phone, I bet people wouldn't care that you couldn't charge and use the phone at the same time. The problem is that people feel the need to charge their phone multiple times throughout the day just so the battery doesn't die.
Microsoft has already started doing this with Edge. Mind you they are only doing it on the Enterprise version of Windows, but I could definitely see this happening on the consumer versions in the near future. It definitely makes sense considering all the stuff the browser is doing to make sure that it doesn't interfere with the security of the system.
If you put away 5% of your money from the time the kids are born until they go to college, you are well on your way to covering tuition anyway. Even if you only make $25,000 a year, 5% is $1250 a year, or $22,500 by the time they are 18. That's without even calculating interest on the investment over time. You could save over $35,000 if you invest it at 5% interest which is reasonable to assume if you find a good index fund. Assuming you make $50,000 a year, and invest 5%, with interest your savings are up at $73,000
No, that's why it's important to make training people something that is provided by the government. The solution isn't to make businesses pay somebody more than the value they bring to the company. We should be using tax dollars to provide better training to citizens. If that requires collecting more tax dollars from businesses and well off individuals, then that's fine. But forcing high wages definitely won't fix the problem because the cost of the items they are producing will go up, or the jobs will become non-existent entirely.
I'm sorry, but there are certain jobs in society that really aren't meant for a person to fully support themselves. Even moreso when the person is trying to support themselves and their family. Delivering the local newspaper was great job when I was 12 and I wanted to buy some hockey cards and music CDs. It's not a job that really requires any skills, and even if you are doing it full time, I couldn't see it being a job that's likely to pay a living wage.
Same with the job I had flipping burgers at McDonald's. I was making minimum wage and even if I was working full time, there's no way that I really deserved to make a living wage in that job. Again, it required very little skill and they didn't really expect much from me other than to show up and make some hamburgers. But that's fine because I was in highschool and just wanted some money for CDs, computer games, and going out to the movies.
Theses were great jobs to get me used to working, and if they weren't allowed to pay me such low wages, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work at all. Especially in the year 2016. They will just get a robot to do your job if it becomes too expensive for a person to do it.
If you want to make a living wage, be prepared to get some real skills. You don't deserve money for doing nothing, or for doing a job that requires almost no skills.
What's to stop people from going to Venezuela and buying 10 copies of Final Cut Pro and bringing it back to the US? Unless you are suggesting that they start region locking software, controlling which country you can use software in depending on where you bought it.
Once the damage is done, it's often irreversible, short of something like a heart transplant. Diet and exercise can help you lose weight and strengthen the hert and lungs, but only if the system isn't already broken.
Sometimes quality doesn't matter. I use my Bluetooth when I'm on the bus. Going back and forth to work. I'm mostly listening to voice podcasts, do I really couldn't care about audio quality. Music is usually streamed from Spotify, so the quality isn't amazing, and with all the background noise on the bus, the sound quality isn't going to be good. I got a Bluetooth dongle that can hook up to any pair of headphones. That way I only have to buy a single set of headphones, and I can plug them in if I want to, Sure, the headphones still have a cable coming from them, but for me the advantage is mostly about having the phone cable-free and not having to take it out of my pocket to answer calls.
Sounds like the people in charge of the MyDemocracy.ca took a few pointers from the Apple marketing handbook
To be fair, the new iPhone comes with standard bluetooth so you can use whichever wireless headphones you want. There's a lot of wireless headphones that are a lot cheaper and better sounding than the AirPods. Also, you could use ear buds that were included in the box. And last but not least, you could buy the dongle and use whatever wired headphones you want with the iPhone. There are a lot of other alternatives for people who don't want to shell out $160 for the AirPods.
I imagine that a lot of the stuff that's changed such as images and sounds doesn't really work well with diff anyway.
Yep. I've been using Plex for years without a subscription. I don't use the feature for viewing outside my house, so I just never really had a need to subscribe. Using a VPN to connect into your home network would be the perfect way to avoid the whole Plex Cloud for authenticating to get access to your own stuff.