Lots of things are non-essential. That doesn't mean we should tax them at ridiculous rates and that people don't deserve to be able to use them. Toasters and microwaves aren't essential. You can do all the stuff you'd normally use them for in an oven or on a stove. Let's tax toasters and microwaves 50 cents for each minute used. Most people could probably walk 2 kilometers. Let's implement a tax on all car trips that are less than 2 kilometers.
The fact that people will find ways of routing around the problem is exactly why this is a bad idea. Having Linux Install-Fests was exactly what people did 15 years ago, which just goes to show that taxing internet usage will actually stifle technology. The amount of work required to update a Windows machine without going straight through Windows Update mean most people just won't do it.
Streaming videos isn't the only use of the internet. At $0.62 per gigabyte, it will not cost $0.62 cents every time you want to download a Linux ISO (usually about 1 GB). CentOS is about 4 GB, meaning it would cost about $2.50 just download that. Downloading updates and security patches would also cost you extra. Perhaps people will turn off updates in order to save money, which would create all kinds of security issues. Want to download the latest game? That's going to cost you extra. Even if you only used 25 GB a month, it would still cost you and extra $15.50 a month on your internet bill. I would agree that the internet is not an essential service, but the tax seems way out of line with how much people want to use and how much people are used to paying for internet.
I looks like there's a some assembly code there from my browsing, which might be difficult to cross-compile. I would guess from the age of the code that a fair amount of it is assembly code. It would be possible to run it on an emulator. Even that could yield some serious speed gains.
My thoughts exactly. It's obvious that Netflix can track you across devices because you are signed into your account and profile. They've been able to do this since they started streaming videos. I don't see how this has anything to do with advertisements though, as Netflix is a pay service and does not show any ads.
They created their own problem. By making it so easy to avoid late fees, they've made people pay less late fees. They send you an email to remind you before your books are late, and you can renew them online. Unless somebody has reserved a book you already had, or you've had a book out for 9 weeks, which I think is the limit on renewals, it's quite difficult to get dinged with a late fee. Plus you can drop your books off at any branch, and there are many small branches all over the city. So it's not hard to drop off a book even if you only have a day or two notice.
Hollywood has always had a different standard. I was rewatching Good Morning, Vietnam. I was a little surprised to see child nudity in a major Hollywood film. Mind you, it was an innocent shot of some Vietnamese kids playing in the fire hydrant, but it was full frontal nudity of children nonetheless. And it's also hard to argue intent. Something that was meant to be innocent by the artist could still be arousing to other people looking at the content.
Good to know. I was under the impression that updates came from MS, and that the carriers and manufacturers were completely out of the loop on updates. I plan to buy an unlocked version anyway, so perhaps that will help with the situtation.
Especially for an embedded/mobile device. My phone came out with Android 2.3, and Android 4.0 was released 6 months later. It never saw an update. Less than 6 months of updates for my phone. iOS is a no go for me, because I don't like being locked into one vendor, and their phones are expensive, at least of bought new. Android is really my preferred choice, but I really don't want to be screwed over on updates again. I'm seriously considering going with Windows phone for my next phone, as there are multiple manufacturers supporting them, and the updates come directly from MS.
Why should it not be? As long as the Koreans can build the ship to the same specs as the Danes, I don't see why the jobs should go to one country over the other. Giving the jobs to Danes might mean that they have more jobs and more money to spend, but it would also mean that shipping costs would go up. As a country that is highly reliant on trade with other countries, they should want shipping costs to remain low.
While obviously not as impressive in size (441 ft.), the Liberty ship could be built surprisingly fast. As a publicity stunt, they built one in 4 days, 15.5 hours. The average build time was 42 days, and in 1940, they produced 200 ships in a year. Impressive what countries can do during wartime.
If it's anything like the rest of Android development, if you haven't used it in a few months, it's most likely completely changed from the way you did it last time.
Datacenters are mostly remotely managed now anyway. You have a few people working there to make sure it's secure and to switch out a hard drive if you need to, but there's really no reason for a datacenter to be located where most of your employees are, unless you are doing research and development and are constantly adding and removing machines and changing the hardware configuration. Servers can even be completely powered down and powered back up over the network.
Even as somebody who doesn't have a car and cycles just about everywhere, I find that spending $10 million dollars on bike repair stands to be ridiculous. First, if I get a flat, I don't want to walk even 500 meters to get to the repair stand, because that would take 8 minutes or so, by which time I could almost be done fixing the tire with the tools I bring with me. And it's not likely that they are going to have a repair stand every 500 meters. A high estimate of what it would cost to supply yourself with the tools is probably around $50, so for $10 million, you could outfit 200,000 cyclists with their own repair gear. Which is 10-20% of the population depending on if you just count the city, or metro area.
Probably need to do too much work to make them wired and well ventilated. As far as I'm aware, there isn't much electricity in jail cells, maybe enough for a few lights, but nowhere near enough for racks full of servers. And ventilation is pretty sparse. If the roofs were high enough, I guess you could retrofit them with raised floors and put all that stuff in. You have to be careful who you sell it to though, it might end up in the wrong hands.
I think that most users didn't really care about those features. They saw $200 and laptop, and the choice was obvious. Most people don't have any clue what secure boot, or sandbox is. When there's a Windows laptop sitting right beside it at the same price, people are going to pick the Windows machine, because it can run everything they want.
Yeah, they definitely aren't the first, but the fact that the new HP ones are 11.6 and 13 inches changes things a bit. the 10.1 inch and 1024x600 resolution of the EeePC is something that very much constrains what you can do with it. Also, I remember them being a bit more than $200, at least when they were initially released.
Personally, I think that Android (and iOS for that matter) sucks on anything bigger than a phone screen. They just about work for a 7 inch tablet. With a 10 inch tablet, they really start to show their weaknesses. The fact that you can't show 2 apps on the screen is a major downfall. Also, the default on-screen keyboard has all this extra space, but doesn't display important keys like arrows or ctrl that are quite useful if you want to copy/paste text. Copy and paste on a Windows 10 inch tablet works a lot better than on Android. No more futzing around with the touch screen trying to tap on a specific character. tap in the general area you want to highlight, and use the left/right arrow keys to home in on exactly where you want to be. And Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just work even on the onscreen keyboard.
I think the coming Windows laptops with Atom processors are going to obsolete the whole reason for getting a ChromeBook. When you can get a laptop that runs full Windows for $200-$250 and get's 8 hours of battery life. To make it clear, these are full Windows 8 Laptops, not Windows RT. I'm waiting for the reviews to come out to see how they will perform in real life, and how durable they are, but I'm definitely looking into getting a couple for my kids if they are decent. Even in grades 2 and 3, all their homework is done on the computer. So I either have to get them computers, or let them use mine. I'd much rather let my kid have their own computer.
But they'd probably get a lot more subscribers. There's a lot of people cutting the cable, especially the younger generation. They don't care if you throw in ESPN, they aren't paying $80 a month for television,even if they really like to watch sports. If you make it $10 a month, you'd probably get a lot of college guys signing up. A house with 4 guys in it would probably split the cost of the subscription and it would cost almost nothing for them. And since they may want to watch the game together anyway, it probably wouldn't matter if they could only watch one stream at a time. I hardly watch sports at all, but I'd at least consider paying $10 a month to get ESPN. Sports is something that's great to watch when you have a few people over. Movies and TV require that you actually pay attention to what's going on.
I have a Surface 2, and I really like the trial option that MS worked into their store. Apps can be time limited, feature limited, or have many other limitations. With Android apps, it's usually possible to trick the trial version of the app into giving you a longer trial by uninstalling and then reinstalling the trial app. The way MS has designed it, once you've tried an app, you're no longer eligible for the trial. You can either purchase it or uninstall it, but there's no way to revert the trial back and get the functionality back. It allows apps to give you a full trial with all functionality, without having to worry about people cheating the system and getting the entire app for free.
Money is part of it, but it's important to look at it from the other side too. Just getting started in iOS development costs quite a bit of money. The minimum you must spend is $600 on a Mac Mini. You could spend a little less and get a used Mac Mini, but you'd still be out close to $400. That let's you write code and run it on the simulator. The simulator is good, but doesn't really give you the experience of what it's like to run on an actual iOS device you hold in your hand. For that, the minimum you could buy is an iPod Touch, for $200. So, you've spent $800 just to start developing the app. Compare that with Android development where all you need is a $100 tablet and a Windows/Linux computer you probably already own. Maybe it's not fair for me to count the price of buying the initial computer for Mac and not count it for Android. But then maybe Apple shouldn't be dictating which hardware and OS I have to use to develop software for iOS.
The only way to make sure people truly listen to the pre-flight emergency training is if you go Clockwork Orange on them, by strapping them down and forcing their eyelids open. Otherwise they will find something else to do, regardless of if they have access to an electronic device or not.
The problem is that not everybody lives at the same standard as they did in 1969. In 1969, most people didn't have cable, cell phones, and internet. They saved over $200 a month (in today's value) simply by things not being invented yet. They also didn't have access to a lot of things like out of season fruits and vegetables. They might have spent more on other things, but I doubt it. The truth is, that we may feel poorer than we did 50-60 years ago, but only because we consume a whole lot more. We have much more stuff and many more amenities than we did back then.
On one hand, I can see where you're coming from. Breaking changes should not happen in this way. At the very least, it should detect that you're trying to open an old file and either continue to work the way it did on the old system without the new features, or have an automated upgrade tool that does the work of upgrading the file for you.
On the other hand, I would say that's what you get for using something like Access or FoxPro as a tool for developing ongoing projects. They are great for things like whipping up a quick program because you need some numbers and a quick report for this afternoon, but they fail when you have to use the resulting application on a day-to-day basis.
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Lots of things are non-essential. That doesn't mean we should tax them at ridiculous rates and that people don't deserve to be able to use them. Toasters and microwaves aren't essential. You can do all the stuff you'd normally use them for in an oven or on a stove. Let's tax toasters and microwaves 50 cents for each minute used. Most people could probably walk 2 kilometers. Let's implement a tax on all car trips that are less than 2 kilometers.
The fact that people will find ways of routing around the problem is exactly why this is a bad idea. Having Linux Install-Fests was exactly what people did 15 years ago, which just goes to show that taxing internet usage will actually stifle technology. The amount of work required to update a Windows machine without going straight through Windows Update mean most people just won't do it.
Streaming videos isn't the only use of the internet. At $0.62 per gigabyte, it will not cost $0.62 cents every time you want to download a Linux ISO (usually about 1 GB). CentOS is about 4 GB, meaning it would cost about $2.50 just download that. Downloading updates and security patches would also cost you extra. Perhaps people will turn off updates in order to save money, which would create all kinds of security issues. Want to download the latest game? That's going to cost you extra. Even if you only used 25 GB a month, it would still cost you and extra $15.50 a month on your internet bill. I would agree that the internet is not an essential service, but the tax seems way out of line with how much people want to use and how much people are used to paying for internet.
I looks like there's a some assembly code there from my browsing, which might be difficult to cross-compile. I would guess from the age of the code that a fair amount of it is assembly code. It would be possible to run it on an emulator. Even that could yield some serious speed gains.
My thoughts exactly. It's obvious that Netflix can track you across devices because you are signed into your account and profile. They've been able to do this since they started streaming videos. I don't see how this has anything to do with advertisements though, as Netflix is a pay service and does not show any ads.
They created their own problem. By making it so easy to avoid late fees, they've made people pay less late fees. They send you an email to remind you before your books are late, and you can renew them online. Unless somebody has reserved a book you already had, or you've had a book out for 9 weeks, which I think is the limit on renewals, it's quite difficult to get dinged with a late fee. Plus you can drop your books off at any branch, and there are many small branches all over the city. So it's not hard to drop off a book even if you only have a day or two notice.
Hollywood has always had a different standard. I was rewatching Good Morning, Vietnam. I was a little surprised to see child nudity in a major Hollywood film. Mind you, it was an innocent shot of some Vietnamese kids playing in the fire hydrant, but it was full frontal nudity of children nonetheless. And it's also hard to argue intent. Something that was meant to be innocent by the artist could still be arousing to other people looking at the content.
Good to know. I was under the impression that updates came from MS, and that the carriers and manufacturers were completely out of the loop on updates. I plan to buy an unlocked version anyway, so perhaps that will help with the situtation.
Especially for an embedded/mobile device. My phone came out with Android 2.3, and Android 4.0 was released 6 months later. It never saw an update. Less than 6 months of updates for my phone. iOS is a no go for me, because I don't like being locked into one vendor, and their phones are expensive, at least of bought new. Android is really my preferred choice, but I really don't want to be screwed over on updates again. I'm seriously considering going with Windows phone for my next phone, as there are multiple manufacturers supporting them, and the updates come directly from MS.
Why should it not be? As long as the Koreans can build the ship to the same specs as the Danes, I don't see why the jobs should go to one country over the other. Giving the jobs to Danes might mean that they have more jobs and more money to spend, but it would also mean that shipping costs would go up. As a country that is highly reliant on trade with other countries, they should want shipping costs to remain low.
While obviously not as impressive in size (441 ft.), the Liberty ship could be built surprisingly fast. As a publicity stunt, they built one in 4 days, 15.5 hours. The average build time was 42 days, and in 1940, they produced 200 ships in a year. Impressive what countries can do during wartime.
If it's anything like the rest of Android development, if you haven't used it in a few months, it's most likely completely changed from the way you did it last time.
Datacenters are mostly remotely managed now anyway. You have a few people working there to make sure it's secure and to switch out a hard drive if you need to, but there's really no reason for a datacenter to be located where most of your employees are, unless you are doing research and development and are constantly adding and removing machines and changing the hardware configuration. Servers can even be completely powered down and powered back up over the network.
Even as somebody who doesn't have a car and cycles just about everywhere, I find that spending $10 million dollars on bike repair stands to be ridiculous. First, if I get a flat, I don't want to walk even 500 meters to get to the repair stand, because that would take 8 minutes or so, by which time I could almost be done fixing the tire with the tools I bring with me. And it's not likely that they are going to have a repair stand every 500 meters. A high estimate of what it would cost to supply yourself with the tools is probably around $50, so for $10 million, you could outfit 200,000 cyclists with their own repair gear. Which is 10-20% of the population depending on if you just count the city, or metro area.
Probably need to do too much work to make them wired and well ventilated. As far as I'm aware, there isn't much electricity in jail cells, maybe enough for a few lights, but nowhere near enough for racks full of servers. And ventilation is pretty sparse. If the roofs were high enough, I guess you could retrofit them with raised floors and put all that stuff in. You have to be careful who you sell it to though, it might end up in the wrong hands.
I think that most users didn't really care about those features. They saw $200 and laptop, and the choice was obvious. Most people don't have any clue what secure boot, or sandbox is. When there's a Windows laptop sitting right beside it at the same price, people are going to pick the Windows machine, because it can run everything they want.
Yeah, they definitely aren't the first, but the fact that the new HP ones are 11.6 and 13 inches changes things a bit. the 10.1 inch and 1024x600 resolution of the EeePC is something that very much constrains what you can do with it. Also, I remember them being a bit more than $200, at least when they were initially released.
Personally, I think that Android (and iOS for that matter) sucks on anything bigger than a phone screen. They just about work for a 7 inch tablet. With a 10 inch tablet, they really start to show their weaknesses. The fact that you can't show 2 apps on the screen is a major downfall. Also, the default on-screen keyboard has all this extra space, but doesn't display important keys like arrows or ctrl that are quite useful if you want to copy/paste text. Copy and paste on a Windows 10 inch tablet works a lot better than on Android. No more futzing around with the touch screen trying to tap on a specific character. tap in the general area you want to highlight, and use the left/right arrow keys to home in on exactly where you want to be. And Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just work even on the onscreen keyboard.
I think the coming Windows laptops with Atom processors are going to obsolete the whole reason for getting a ChromeBook. When you can get a laptop that runs full Windows for $200-$250 and get's 8 hours of battery life. To make it clear, these are full Windows 8 Laptops, not Windows RT. I'm waiting for the reviews to come out to see how they will perform in real life, and how durable they are, but I'm definitely looking into getting a couple for my kids if they are decent. Even in grades 2 and 3, all their homework is done on the computer. So I either have to get them computers, or let them use mine. I'd much rather let my kid have their own computer.
But they'd probably get a lot more subscribers. There's a lot of people cutting the cable, especially the younger generation. They don't care if you throw in ESPN, they aren't paying $80 a month for television,even if they really like to watch sports. If you make it $10 a month, you'd probably get a lot of college guys signing up. A house with 4 guys in it would probably split the cost of the subscription and it would cost almost nothing for them. And since they may want to watch the game together anyway, it probably wouldn't matter if they could only watch one stream at a time. I hardly watch sports at all, but I'd at least consider paying $10 a month to get ESPN. Sports is something that's great to watch when you have a few people over. Movies and TV require that you actually pay attention to what's going on.
I have a Surface 2, and I really like the trial option that MS worked into their store. Apps can be time limited, feature limited, or have many other limitations. With Android apps, it's usually possible to trick the trial version of the app into giving you a longer trial by uninstalling and then reinstalling the trial app. The way MS has designed it, once you've tried an app, you're no longer eligible for the trial. You can either purchase it or uninstall it, but there's no way to revert the trial back and get the functionality back. It allows apps to give you a full trial with all functionality, without having to worry about people cheating the system and getting the entire app for free.
Money is part of it, but it's important to look at it from the other side too. Just getting started in iOS development costs quite a bit of money. The minimum you must spend is $600 on a Mac Mini. You could spend a little less and get a used Mac Mini, but you'd still be out close to $400. That let's you write code and run it on the simulator. The simulator is good, but doesn't really give you the experience of what it's like to run on an actual iOS device you hold in your hand. For that, the minimum you could buy is an iPod Touch, for $200. So, you've spent $800 just to start developing the app. Compare that with Android development where all you need is a $100 tablet and a Windows/Linux computer you probably already own. Maybe it's not fair for me to count the price of buying the initial computer for Mac and not count it for Android. But then maybe Apple shouldn't be dictating which hardware and OS I have to use to develop software for iOS.
The only way to make sure people truly listen to the pre-flight emergency training is if you go Clockwork Orange on them, by strapping them down and forcing their eyelids open. Otherwise they will find something else to do, regardless of if they have access to an electronic device or not.
The problem is that not everybody lives at the same standard as they did in 1969. In 1969, most people didn't have cable, cell phones, and internet. They saved over $200 a month (in today's value) simply by things not being invented yet. They also didn't have access to a lot of things like out of season fruits and vegetables. They might have spent more on other things, but I doubt it. The truth is, that we may feel poorer than we did 50-60 years ago, but only because we consume a whole lot more. We have much more stuff and many more amenities than we did back then.
On one hand, I can see where you're coming from. Breaking changes should not happen in this way. At the very least, it should detect that you're trying to open an old file and either continue to work the way it did on the old system without the new features, or have an automated upgrade tool that does the work of upgrading the file for you.
On the other hand, I would say that's what you get for using something like Access or FoxPro as a tool for developing ongoing projects. They are great for things like whipping up a quick program because you need some numbers and a quick report for this afternoon, but they fail when you have to use the resulting application on a day-to-day basis.