Here's a review from a reviewer I trust. Compared to heart rate straps, wrist based HRMs seem to be not very good at tracking heart rate during intense workouts. It also seems like it has trouble tracking changes that occur quickly during such as during interval training.
Good to see some actual studies done on this, but I think that many people who work out already knew about this. Here's a review of the Fitbit Charge HR which shows that during periods of intense exercise, that the fitbit doesn't track very well. It seems to do a pretty good job when you aren't exercising, but compared even to a heart rate strap worn on the chest, the accuracy is lacking.
That's the free market economy plain and simple. If two companies are selling comparable hamburgers, and one is selling for $3 and the other one is selling for $5, I'm going to buy the $3 one. If two programmers have comparable skill, and one will work for $60,000 a year, while the other one is asking for $80,000 a year, then I'm going to hire the guy who will work for $60,000. Even if skill levels aren't equal, if you're have $1,000,000 to spend on salaries, are you going to hire 16 of the $60,000 guys, or 12 $80,000 guys, or maybe 3 of the $80,000 guys and 12 of the $60,000 guys.
The mix of programmers you choose at what salaries they demand and what skills they provide isn't really what each individual programmer things is best. Granted, they don't always make the best decisions, and often times end up hiring inferior programmers who make the project fail, but you also don't want to pay too much for more talent than you could possibly use. You really don't want to be paying guys $120,000 a year and then have them sit around browsing slashdot all day because you ran out of work for them to do.And if the only work you have for them is menial coding work that doesn't require much skill, then they aren't going to be happy, and you'll have to hire and retrain somebody else, or you could have had 2 people doing the menial work and getting more done than the highly paid person.
Today's Mathcounts national championship for middle-school mathletes aired on ESPN3, and it was definitely the best live sports anyone could be watching at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning.
Must have been a slow day for sports. Given that there's international sports, you should probably be able to find something interesting to watch at any time of the day. Maybe the Giro D'Italia shouldn't have had a rest day.
You can set up different quality settings for each profile. I have a high quality profile that I use when I want to watch a movie on my TV. But when I'm watching TV shows on my phone or tablet, I use my main profile which is set to the lowest quality, since I can't see the difference anyway. The kids always use the lowest quality setting when watching cartoons on the TV and the quality seems to be good enough.
There's only 1.8 million people in all of Nebraska. It doesn't really mattter that the Tesla concept doesn't work for every single person in the country. As long as they can get it to work for the large population centers like California, New York, etc, they can probably cover 60% of the US population.
Also, for People doing that one trip a year where to visit family, they would probably be better off renting a gasoline car and saving money year round by paying less to operate the electric car for the year.
This is one of the things I love about the.Net platform. A lot of the common problems have been solved. I don't have to worry about writing code to solve problems that have been solved for decades. I can focus on writing new code to solve the new problems are specific to the domain I am working in.
My phone does all those other things you mentioned as well. The local bus company doesn't even have an app, they just have a web site. They actually opened up the API so other people could provide a better experience and have real time bus locations without the bus company needing to pay for expensive development fees. My bank app works on my phone, although I hardly use it because I don't really see much need for banking on my phone.
But that doesn't give a reasonable limit. Even a 10 Mbit connection going fill throttle could transfer over 3 terabytes in a month. 10 Mbit is probably about as slow as you want if you want to be able to stream an HD movie. Most people want faster connections like 30 Mbit or 100 Mbit, and those would yield 9 and 30 terabytes if you used them to their full potential. This is why you need some other limit. If you only limit on line speed, then most people would only be able to afford 1 Mbit or less and they would be unable to stream video.
She only took the treatment 7 months ago. How much could we really know about it's efficacy in such a short period? Unless she reverted to looking like a 20 year old person (she doesn't), then I have a hard time believing that it's really working. Also, we don't know how it will effect her long term.
I have a Windows phone and I haven't really found the apps lacking. But that may depend on my limited uses for a phone. It makes calls, sends text messages, manages my calendar, lets me read and reply to email, lets me browse the web, browse reddit with one of the best redder clients out there (Readit), lets me check the weather, connect to Facebook, twitter and other major social networks, record my bike rides, look up maps and get directions and download maps for offline use, listen to music, watch videos, take pictures and record videos. I can't think of anything I've wanted to do on my phone that isn't covered by an available app or built into the phone.
Not only does it require that you assign a root password, it also requires you to change the config to listen on an ip address other than localhost. You also have to create a new user, as the default root user can only connect from local host.
First, I don't buy carrier tied phones anymore. I've learned my lesson from getting carrier locked phones that never got the update when other unlocked phones did. Also, this is part of the reason that I went with Windows phone this time around. Microsoft is much more in control of the updates and you are much more likely to receive the updates, even on the $200 phones. They are very similar to Apple in this regard.
What about the SD Card slot? With the cameras on phones getting higher and higher resolutions every iteration for photos and videos, the included storage runs out just as quick, if not quicker than it always did.
Personally, I'll always go with a phone that costs less than $200. With the way they lock the phones down, there's no way to guarantee 100% that you will be getting updates 2 years down the road. And even if you are getting updates, there's no certainty that you'll even want to be on the same operating system in 2 years time.
In the last decade, I've my phones have been running Windows phone 6, Symbian, Android 2.2/2.3, and currently Windows 8/10. When I bought my Android phone, I was sure that I'd never be on Windows phone again, but now I'm at the point where I feel the exact same way about my Windows 10 phone, and wouldn't switch back to Android.
Things are constantly changing so fast with mobile operating systems that It's hard to say from year to year what the most appealing phone is at any time. Things are so chaotic. Android can't figure out from release to release if they are going to support even something as simple as installing an app on an SD card.
Plus, there's always that risk that the phone will break. There are tons of unforeseen things that can happen in your life, even if you are careful with the phone.
The last thing to think about is that the $200 phones are getting nicer every year. I really don't see the appeal of the $700 or even $400 phones at this point. They offer very little in terms of actual noticeable day-to-day performance gains. Perhaps when they get to the point of being able to plug in the phone and run full desktop applications right off the phone I'll have to reconsider. But until that point, the phone is still very limited in its functionality, and I'm only willing to spend a limited amount of money on a device that's really only used for some light web browsing, keeping up with the news, and keeping in touch with friends.
Since they are talking about bandwidth, I would guess that what they really mean is 16 GB/s. Although I don't see any reference to bandwidth in the article and the only reference I see to 16 is the 16 nm fabrication process.
What I don't get is why having a different desktop environment requires a whole different distribution. Why not just give the option when installing it instead of having all these supposedly different distributions with different names?
The only thing that sounds similar to this is Windows machines (XP included) coming with WordPad which is a very cut down word processor which can read MS Word files, but can't write to them. It's a basic word processor and was of no competition to any other word processor on the market at any point in time.
This is the reason I dropped Bell many years ago back in Canada. The audacity of asking for a $35 fee to activate my new phone that I just paid full price for. And activation consists of no more than scanning a few bar codes into their computer. I will never go with another provider that doesn't use SIM cards. I should have the freedom to use the device that I choose, and upgrade when I feel like it, with no cost other than paying for the phone.. I'm pretty sure Bell has switched over to using SIM cards now.
Exactly. Microsoft had to go through a lot of trouble and annoy a lot of users to make their OS tablet friendly. But they did it because they knew it would have to be done eventually if they ever wanted Windows to work properly on tablets. I don't think that Ubuntu has made enough changes to make Linux really usable as a tablet.
Also, depends on where you live. In Ontario there's quite a few shots given to infants. According to Wikipedia, infant is usually defined as up to 12 months old. Here's the Ontario vaccine schedule for the first year.
At 2 and 4 months old, babies should receive the following vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, haemophilus influenza type b pneumococcal conjugate rotavirus
At 6 months old, babies should receive the following vaccine: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, haemophilus influenza type b
At 12 months old, babies should receive the following vaccines: pneumococcal conjugate meningococcal conjugate (Men-C-C) measles, mumps and rubella
It doesn't have to be pirate bay, but I would definitely pay $20 (or more) a month for a service like Netflix with "All The Content". All the movies and major tv shows would be a great thing to have access to. Let all the services (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, etc) have all the content for the same price, and let them compete on who can deliver the best experience.
But what if there aren't any local artists playing the kind of music I like? They've basically been selling recorded music since they figured out how to record sound. Recorded music does have it's place. There are albums that I have bought that I've definitely got my money out of. Concert tickets don't really allow everybody to really see the concert anyway. A musician can only spend a finite amount of time touring, and can only do a finite amount of shows. You can't afford to go to a show for every band you like.
Exactly this. Let the open market decide on what is the fair market value for buying an older game. Even if they had the stipulation that all money exchanged was simply store credit, it would at least be more fair than Microsoft deciding that 10% is enough. A game that I just bought a month ago and I'm already finished with could easily be worth 50% of the original price. Used CD stores will often sell popular used games at close to 80% of the price of the new game.
Perhaps have an open bidding system on used games/content, and then take 10% of the sale price for themselves. Original game price is $70. Microsoft already gets a portion of that, let's say $10 (I made the number up). Then you are done with the game and sell it for $50 because they are still selling it new for $70. Microsoft collects $5 from that sale, and gives $45 to the person who sold it in store credit. The game is then sold by the second hand owner for $30 in another couple of months and MS makes another $3. They have made $18 off the original game. Theoretically you could keep on selling that original game for $20 multiple times assuming it was a decent game. Maybe they should cut the publishers in on the profits to get them to come along. MS and the publishers get money for every subsequent sale. Which is much better than the current system with physical discs where they only make money off the first sale.
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Here's a review from a reviewer I trust. Compared to heart rate straps, wrist based HRMs seem to be not very good at tracking heart rate during intense workouts. It also seems like it has trouble tracking changes that occur quickly during such as during interval training.
Good to see some actual studies done on this, but I think that many people who work out already knew about this. Here's a review of the Fitbit Charge HR which shows that during periods of intense exercise, that the fitbit doesn't track very well. It seems to do a pretty good job when you aren't exercising, but compared even to a heart rate strap worn on the chest, the accuracy is lacking.
That's the free market economy plain and simple. If two companies are selling comparable hamburgers, and one is selling for $3 and the other one is selling for $5, I'm going to buy the $3 one. If two programmers have comparable skill, and one will work for $60,000 a year, while the other one is asking for $80,000 a year, then I'm going to hire the guy who will work for $60,000. Even if skill levels aren't equal, if you're have $1,000,000 to spend on salaries, are you going to hire 16 of the $60,000 guys, or 12 $80,000 guys, or maybe 3 of the $80,000 guys and 12 of the $60,000 guys.
The mix of programmers you choose at what salaries they demand and what skills they provide isn't really what each individual programmer things is best. Granted, they don't always make the best decisions, and often times end up hiring inferior programmers who make the project fail, but you also don't want to pay too much for more talent than you could possibly use. You really don't want to be paying guys $120,000 a year and then have them sit around browsing slashdot all day because you ran out of work for them to do.And if the only work you have for them is menial coding work that doesn't require much skill, then they aren't going to be happy, and you'll have to hire and retrain somebody else, or you could have had 2 people doing the menial work and getting more done than the highly paid person.
Must have been a slow day for sports. Given that there's international sports, you should probably be able to find something interesting to watch at any time of the day. Maybe the Giro D'Italia shouldn't have had a rest day.
You can set up different quality settings for each profile. I have a high quality profile that I use when I want to watch a movie on my TV. But when I'm watching TV shows on my phone or tablet, I use my main profile which is set to the lowest quality, since I can't see the difference anyway. The kids always use the lowest quality setting when watching cartoons on the TV and the quality seems to be good enough.
There's only 1.8 million people in all of Nebraska. It doesn't really mattter that the Tesla concept doesn't work for every single person in the country. As long as they can get it to work for the large population centers like California, New York, etc, they can probably cover 60% of the US population.
Also, for People doing that one trip a year where to visit family, they would probably be better off renting a gasoline car and saving money year round by paying less to operate the electric car for the year.
This is one of the things I love about the .Net platform. A lot of the common problems have been solved. I don't have to worry about writing code to solve problems that have been solved for decades. I can focus on writing new code to solve the new problems are specific to the domain I am working in.
Ontario has also gone completely coal free. They still have a few gas plants, but we're on the path to getting rid of those as well.
The breakdown is as follows
57.4% Nuclear
27.4% Hydro Electric
8.1% Gas
5.1% Wind
1.3% Biofuel
0.7% Solar
Values on that page are apparently updated in real time based on current load on the system.
My phone does all those other things you mentioned as well. The local bus company doesn't even have an app, they just have a web site. They actually opened up the API so other people could provide a better experience and have real time bus locations without the bus company needing to pay for expensive development fees. My bank app works on my phone, although I hardly use it because I don't really see much need for banking on my phone.
But that doesn't give a reasonable limit. Even a 10 Mbit connection going fill throttle could transfer over 3 terabytes in a month. 10 Mbit is probably about as slow as you want if you want to be able to stream an HD movie. Most people want faster connections like 30 Mbit or 100 Mbit, and those would yield 9 and 30 terabytes if you used them to their full potential. This is why you need some other limit. If you only limit on line speed, then most people would only be able to afford 1 Mbit or less and they would be unable to stream video.
She only took the treatment 7 months ago. How much could we really know about it's efficacy in such a short period? Unless she reverted to looking like a 20 year old person (she doesn't), then I have a hard time believing that it's really working. Also, we don't know how it will effect her long term.
I have a Windows phone and I haven't really found the apps lacking. But that may depend on my limited uses for a phone. It makes calls, sends text messages, manages my calendar, lets me read and reply to email, lets me browse the web, browse reddit with one of the best redder clients out there (Readit), lets me check the weather, connect to Facebook, twitter and other major social networks, record my bike rides, look up maps and get directions and download maps for offline use, listen to music, watch videos, take pictures and record videos. I can't think of anything I've wanted to do on my phone that isn't covered by an available app or built into the phone.
Not only does it require that you assign a root password, it also requires you to change the config to listen on an ip address other than localhost. You also have to create a new user, as the default root user can only connect from local host.
First, I don't buy carrier tied phones anymore. I've learned my lesson from getting carrier locked phones that never got the update when other unlocked phones did. Also, this is part of the reason that I went with Windows phone this time around. Microsoft is much more in control of the updates and you are much more likely to receive the updates, even on the $200 phones. They are very similar to Apple in this regard.
What about the SD Card slot? With the cameras on phones getting higher and higher resolutions every iteration for photos and videos, the included storage runs out just as quick, if not quicker than it always did.
Personally, I'll always go with a phone that costs less than $200. With the way they lock the phones down, there's no way to guarantee 100% that you will be getting updates 2 years down the road. And even if you are getting updates, there's no certainty that you'll even want to be on the same operating system in 2 years time.
In the last decade, I've my phones have been running Windows phone 6, Symbian, Android 2.2/2.3, and currently Windows 8/10. When I bought my Android phone, I was sure that I'd never be on Windows phone again, but now I'm at the point where I feel the exact same way about my Windows 10 phone, and wouldn't switch back to Android.
Things are constantly changing so fast with mobile operating systems that It's hard to say from year to year what the most appealing phone is at any time. Things are so chaotic. Android can't figure out from release to release if they are going to support even something as simple as installing an app on an SD card.
Plus, there's always that risk that the phone will break. There are tons of unforeseen things that can happen in your life, even if you are careful with the phone.
The last thing to think about is that the $200 phones are getting nicer every year. I really don't see the appeal of the $700 or even $400 phones at this point. They offer very little in terms of actual noticeable day-to-day performance gains. Perhaps when they get to the point of being able to plug in the phone and run full desktop applications right off the phone I'll have to reconsider. But until that point, the phone is still very limited in its functionality, and I'm only willing to spend a limited amount of money on a device that's really only used for some light web browsing, keeping up with the news, and keeping in touch with friends.
Since they are talking about bandwidth, I would guess that what they really mean is 16 GB/s. Although I don't see any reference to bandwidth in the article and the only reference I see to 16 is the 16 nm fabrication process.
What I don't get is why having a different desktop environment requires a whole different distribution. Why not just give the option when installing it instead of having all these supposedly different distributions with different names?
The only thing that sounds similar to this is Windows machines (XP included) coming with WordPad which is a very cut down word processor which can read MS Word files, but can't write to them. It's a basic word processor and was of no competition to any other word processor on the market at any point in time.
This is the reason I dropped Bell many years ago back in Canada. The audacity of asking for a $35 fee to activate my new phone that I just paid full price for. And activation consists of no more than scanning a few bar codes into their computer. I will never go with another provider that doesn't use SIM cards. I should have the freedom to use the device that I choose, and upgrade when I feel like it, with no cost other than paying for the phone.. I'm pretty sure Bell has switched over to using SIM cards now.
Exactly. Microsoft had to go through a lot of trouble and annoy a lot of users to make their OS tablet friendly. But they did it because they knew it would have to be done eventually if they ever wanted Windows to work properly on tablets. I don't think that Ubuntu has made enough changes to make Linux really usable as a tablet.
Also, depends on where you live. In Ontario there's quite a few shots given to infants. According to Wikipedia, infant is usually defined as up to 12 months old. Here's the Ontario vaccine schedule for the first year.
It doesn't have to be pirate bay, but I would definitely pay $20 (or more) a month for a service like Netflix with "All The Content". All the movies and major tv shows would be a great thing to have access to. Let all the services (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, etc) have all the content for the same price, and let them compete on who can deliver the best experience.
But what if there aren't any local artists playing the kind of music I like? They've basically been selling recorded music since they figured out how to record sound. Recorded music does have it's place. There are albums that I have bought that I've definitely got my money out of. Concert tickets don't really allow everybody to really see the concert anyway. A musician can only spend a finite amount of time touring, and can only do a finite amount of shows. You can't afford to go to a show for every band you like.
Exactly this. Let the open market decide on what is the fair market value for buying an older game. Even if they had the stipulation that all money exchanged was simply store credit, it would at least be more fair than Microsoft deciding that 10% is enough. A game that I just bought a month ago and I'm already finished with could easily be worth 50% of the original price. Used CD stores will often sell popular used games at close to 80% of the price of the new game.
Perhaps have an open bidding system on used games/content, and then take 10% of the sale price for themselves. Original game price is $70. Microsoft already gets a portion of that, let's say $10 (I made the number up). Then you are done with the game and sell it for $50 because they are still selling it new for $70. Microsoft collects $5 from that sale, and gives $45 to the person who sold it in store credit. The game is then sold by the second hand owner for $30 in another couple of months and MS makes another $3. They have made $18 off the original game. Theoretically you could keep on selling that original game for $20 multiple times assuming it was a decent game. Maybe they should cut the publishers in on the profits to get them to come along. MS and the publishers get money for every subsequent sale. Which is much better than the current system with physical discs where they only make money off the first sale.