I'm just wondering whether the Android version will actually be Edge compiled for Android or if it will just be a skin around Chrome / Android WebView.
Because most people don't need anywhere near that amount of battery life. As long as it lasts the day, you can just plug it in as you sleep. Most people don't do more than a few hours on the battery in a day. Most people just cart them back and forth between home and work, and plug them in when actually using them. The main market for people who need extended battery life are students who often can't find a spot to plug in for every class. But they don't have much money to be spending on laptops with 48 hour battery life. A lot of schools do have places to plug in now as they realize that students can't afford a laptop that lasts all day.
Personally I could also see if having detrimental effects if we don't make the cars more energy efficient at the same time. The waste of time spent driving is all that's stopping from people moving out of the city and taking on even longer commutes. Nobody wants to spend 4 hours a day driving back and forth to work, but if the car is driving you, it all of a sudden becomes reasonable.
We should be looking for solutions that help people drive less. Whether that includes autonomous cars or not is open to question. If we had a good network of autonomous cars we might be able to get some people to drop owning a car altogether. Move closer to work and user a combination of public transit, bicycles, and self driving taxis to meet all your transportation needs.
I really don't want self driving cars to turn into a reason for people to spend even more time sitting in cars.
So it may be fun to drive, but it sounds like it's still not the every-day vehicle they were pitching it to be. Very few people want their tires to wear out at 2000 miles because the car has so much torque. Maybe they should have some kind of torque control so that you don't prematurely wear out the tires. This goes along with other reviews I've seen on the Model S, where the basic advice is to always get the all wheel drive model if you live anywhere there is snow, because if you not, it's going to be sliding all over the place. There is simply too much torque. While that may make it fun to drive under certain conditions, it makes it a pain as an every day driver.
You don't need a rooted phone. You can easily change the DNS Settings on your phone to use whatever DNS server you want, or you can connect through a VPN if you so desire. What kind of phone are you using that doesn't allow you to change your DNS Server?
Which will cause even more problems than it solves. People will go through great lengths to get around the blockages. Installing various nefarious programs or visiting web sites promising to deliver content and then just infecting their computer. I'm not saying pirating is right, but I've seen it happen time and time again, where people who want content that isn't easily available will do really stupid things directed by websites that promise the content.
And Uber isn't really that profitable. As far as I know they are still operating at a loss. Also, there's nothing preventing somebody coming along and taking a piece of the pie. I could install 3 or 4 different ride hailing services on my phone and check the best price from each, and the drivers could also be working for multiple companies at the same time with relative ease.
Compare that to something like Microsoft. It's not so easy to make a competing operating system or office suite because by their nature they have to be compatible with everyone else's computer for it to be really useful. There's no problem introduced when Lyft isn't compatible with Uber, but if I send my friend an MS Office Document, he's going to need MS Office to open it or it might not show quite right.
Personally, I'm the exact opposite. I specifically picked my provider because they give me unlimited usage in the city and then charge me by the minute/message/KB when I'm outside of the city. It works out much cheaper for me in the end because I almost never leave the city, and when I do, I don't use my phone for extended periods of time. Music and maps can all be stored on the phone, so I actually find very little reason to connect to the internet between cities.
People who really want high speed and plentiful internet in the middle of nowhere should be willing to pay for the cost of it, because that is the part of the network that is truly expensive to build and maintain. They will easily recoup the cost of building a tower in the middle of a city. Not so when you are 50 km out of town on some random country road. As somebody who could care less if I have data service on the highway, I don't want to be subsidizing other people who find they can't live without it for some reason.
They bake it into the price of the unit. In the UK, te new iPhone X is going to cost 999 GBP, which is equivalent to 1,320 USD. The price in France will be 1159 Euros, which is equivalent to 1379 USD. The price in Germany will be 1149 Euros, or 1367 USD. Sure some of that is accounted for by the VAT, but the VAT in Germany is 19%, which doesn't completely account for the entire price difference. The price in Germanyu based on the US price of 999 USD should be 839.71 Euros + 19% VAT = 999 Euros.
They are basically making the people pay for the warranty mandated by law in the price of the device. If American laws demanded a higher warranty, they would also have to pay for it in the cost of the product. America has a pretty good deal going, as the initial price is lower, and you can buy an extended warranty if you really see it being worth it.
Canada, which has similar warranties to the US, has a much closer price, at 1319 CAD which is equivalent to 1080.71 USD.
Having tried both (althought not for a long time), I always remember NetBeans being much more polished and never understood why Eclipse was so popular.
I didn't like the movie at all, but I agree with the point. Some of my favorite movies are either black and white or would have no advantage to being in anything beyond DVD quality. I think they really need to bring the prices down, especially for "renting" digital movies. Back when movie rental shops were a thing, you could rent a movie for $2 or less. Now, renting a single movie costs $4, and they don't even have to deal with worn out, broken, or lost movies. Bring it down to a dollar a rental, and $5 to buy the movie. Put it at the point where it isn't worth your time to find a way to pirate it and will just pay for it in the first place.
I think the only problem here is that the US doesn't have "one person - one vote". They seem to vote on pages worth of issues in each election. It's "one person - one ballot" but that ballot may contain 20 or more questions. I'm not sure if any other countries have this problem. It seems to me that most countries you just elect an MP and that's it, but for some reason in the states they have a huge number of elected offices.
I've also been using RSS feeds and don't know how anybody gets along without them. I've been using TinyTinyRSS on my shared hosting service ever since Google got rid of Google Reader. It works great for me. Probably don't have much more than 20 or so feeds that I watch, but even at that number it saves me a lot of time.
My kids have 7 teachers between them, each with their own blog where they sporadically post information that may or may not be important to know. RSS is the only way to keep on top of them that doesn't waste a ton of time.
A lot of desk jobs don't even require any kind of AI. There are tons of desk jobs out there where people just copy information from one system to another. Or they follow a set of predefined rules about what to do when something happens. They could have been replaced a decade ago with a simple program, but businesses are slow to change. These jobs are slowly being fazed out, and there will be a lot of job losses to office workers who simply aren't actually doing anything that a simple computer program can't replicate. There are side cases that a simple computer program can't handle, but you only need a few workers to click a few buttons and make a decision when the side case arises and then the automation can continue.
There's a lot of stuff floating around about how accounting used to be a very lucrative profession, but due to computer systems finally becoming mature, a single person can do the work of 10. There will still be jobs for accountants, you won't replace them completely, but you'll need a lot less accountants, and it will be hard for those just graduating to find a job, as they don't have the experience necessary for the high level jobs that remain.
For me Windows is kind of like Democracy. It's said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Windows seems the same to me. It's the worst operating system, except for all the others I've tried from time to time.
violating state law and Comcast's constitutional rights
The Constitution of the United States does not protect "corporations", but only "persons", "the people", and "citizens". Enough of this granting protection to corporations. Corporations are a construction of the government and only exist to serve the people.
In my experience, there's already a significant number of people who don't really know how to read. They can read, but they somehow fail to retain any of the information they read and are not able to follow simple step-by-step instructions laid out in front of them. I'm not sure if this is getting any better or worse than in the past, but I find myself constantly getting frustrated in the workplace by people who just don't seem to be able to follow instructions or get information from a piece of text.
I still remember when YouTube had a 10 minute maximum for videos. Should we blame Youtube, or blame the users (both producers and viewers) who pushed for the ability to upload longer videos?
Good idea to future proof it a bit, but I have no plans of upgrading my TV to 4K. I've looked, and sure, I can see the difference, but it's not enough to buy a whole new TV for. When my current set dies, the next one will be 4K, or maybe even 8K depending on how long the current one lasts. But I don't have any need to upgrade the experience. 1080p is entirely sufficient. Going from SD to HD was a huge change and well worth it, although I still waited a while until I could get a TV at a reasonable size for an acceptable amount of money.
Does anybody really truly trust that their phone is waterproof. I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 which is IP68 certified. However, I don't really think I'm willing to deal with the headache that will inevitably come if it does get water damage. For me, it means I really don't worry about it in the rain or if I accidentally drop it in the water, but I'm not going to risk actively submerging it for more than necessary. I've heard enough stories about waterproof phones not being waterproof to know that I really shouldn't be pushing the limits. If it does get water damage, how do you prove that it wasn't due to the device being deeper or longer underwater than it was rated for?
They aren't re-encoding video on the fly. They are limiting the bandwidth of the connection to make the video content provider send a lower quality stream.
Up until a few months ago I was using Netflix at the lowest setting on my 10 inch table (1080p resolution) due to bandwidth concerns and to tell you the truth I really didn't notice much of a difference once I got unlimited internet and started using high quality streams. I mean, there was a difference, but for stuff I watch on my tablet I really couldn't care. I had a separate profile for the TV where I used high quality for the small number of movies I really wanted to experience in HD.
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I'm just wondering whether the Android version will actually be Edge compiled for Android or if it will just be a skin around Chrome / Android WebView.
Because most people don't need anywhere near that amount of battery life. As long as it lasts the day, you can just plug it in as you sleep. Most people don't do more than a few hours on the battery in a day. Most people just cart them back and forth between home and work, and plug them in when actually using them. The main market for people who need extended battery life are students who often can't find a spot to plug in for every class. But they don't have much money to be spending on laptops with 48 hour battery life. A lot of schools do have places to plug in now as they realize that students can't afford a laptop that lasts all day.
Personally I could also see if having detrimental effects if we don't make the cars more energy efficient at the same time. The waste of time spent driving is all that's stopping from people moving out of the city and taking on even longer commutes. Nobody wants to spend 4 hours a day driving back and forth to work, but if the car is driving you, it all of a sudden becomes reasonable.
We should be looking for solutions that help people drive less. Whether that includes autonomous cars or not is open to question. If we had a good network of autonomous cars we might be able to get some people to drop owning a car altogether. Move closer to work and user a combination of public transit, bicycles, and self driving taxis to meet all your transportation needs.
I really don't want self driving cars to turn into a reason for people to spend even more time sitting in cars.
So it may be fun to drive, but it sounds like it's still not the every-day vehicle they were pitching it to be. Very few people want their tires to wear out at 2000 miles because the car has so much torque. Maybe they should have some kind of torque control so that you don't prematurely wear out the tires. This goes along with other reviews I've seen on the Model S, where the basic advice is to always get the all wheel drive model if you live anywhere there is snow, because if you not, it's going to be sliding all over the place. There is simply too much torque. While that may make it fun to drive under certain conditions, it makes it a pain as an every day driver.
You don't need a rooted phone. You can easily change the DNS Settings on your phone to use whatever DNS server you want, or you can connect through a VPN if you so desire. What kind of phone are you using that doesn't allow you to change your DNS Server?
Which will cause even more problems than it solves. People will go through great lengths to get around the blockages. Installing various nefarious programs or visiting web sites promising to deliver content and then just infecting their computer. I'm not saying pirating is right, but I've seen it happen time and time again, where people who want content that isn't easily available will do really stupid things directed by websites that promise the content.
And Uber isn't really that profitable. As far as I know they are still operating at a loss. Also, there's nothing preventing somebody coming along and taking a piece of the pie. I could install 3 or 4 different ride hailing services on my phone and check the best price from each, and the drivers could also be working for multiple companies at the same time with relative ease.
Compare that to something like Microsoft. It's not so easy to make a competing operating system or office suite because by their nature they have to be compatible with everyone else's computer for it to be really useful. There's no problem introduced when Lyft isn't compatible with Uber, but if I send my friend an MS Office Document, he's going to need MS Office to open it or it might not show quite right.
Personally, I'm the exact opposite. I specifically picked my provider because they give me unlimited usage in the city and then charge me by the minute/message/KB when I'm outside of the city. It works out much cheaper for me in the end because I almost never leave the city, and when I do, I don't use my phone for extended periods of time. Music and maps can all be stored on the phone, so I actually find very little reason to connect to the internet between cities.
People who really want high speed and plentiful internet in the middle of nowhere should be willing to pay for the cost of it, because that is the part of the network that is truly expensive to build and maintain. They will easily recoup the cost of building a tower in the middle of a city. Not so when you are 50 km out of town on some random country road. As somebody who could care less if I have data service on the highway, I don't want to be subsidizing other people who find they can't live without it for some reason.
Relevant XKCD.
To find a solution to this problem, just take a tip from Mr. Paul Anka
Better be careful, or someone will figure out how to mine BitCoins using WebGL in the background while you're playing a browser based game.
They bake it into the price of the unit. In the UK, te new iPhone X is going to cost 999 GBP, which is equivalent to 1,320 USD. The price in France will be 1159 Euros, which is equivalent to 1379 USD. The price in Germany will be 1149 Euros, or 1367 USD. Sure some of that is accounted for by the VAT, but the VAT in Germany is 19%, which doesn't completely account for the entire price difference. The price in Germanyu based on the US price of 999 USD should be 839.71 Euros + 19% VAT = 999 Euros.
They are basically making the people pay for the warranty mandated by law in the price of the device. If American laws demanded a higher warranty, they would also have to pay for it in the cost of the product. America has a pretty good deal going, as the initial price is lower, and you can buy an extended warranty if you really see it being worth it.
Canada, which has similar warranties to the US, has a much closer price, at 1319 CAD which is equivalent to 1080.71 USD.
Having tried both (althought not for a long time), I always remember NetBeans being much more polished and never understood why Eclipse was so popular.
I didn't like the movie at all, but I agree with the point. Some of my favorite movies are either black and white or would have no advantage to being in anything beyond DVD quality. I think they really need to bring the prices down, especially for "renting" digital movies. Back when movie rental shops were a thing, you could rent a movie for $2 or less. Now, renting a single movie costs $4, and they don't even have to deal with worn out, broken, or lost movies. Bring it down to a dollar a rental, and $5 to buy the movie. Put it at the point where it isn't worth your time to find a way to pirate it and will just pay for it in the first place.
I think the only problem here is that the US doesn't have "one person - one vote". They seem to vote on pages worth of issues in each election. It's "one person - one ballot" but that ballot may contain 20 or more questions. I'm not sure if any other countries have this problem. It seems to me that most countries you just elect an MP and that's it, but for some reason in the states they have a huge number of elected offices.
I've also been using RSS feeds and don't know how anybody gets along without them. I've been using TinyTinyRSS on my shared hosting service ever since Google got rid of Google Reader. It works great for me. Probably don't have much more than 20 or so feeds that I watch, but even at that number it saves me a lot of time.
My kids have 7 teachers between them, each with their own blog where they sporadically post information that may or may not be important to know. RSS is the only way to keep on top of them that doesn't waste a ton of time.
A lot of desk jobs don't even require any kind of AI. There are tons of desk jobs out there where people just copy information from one system to another. Or they follow a set of predefined rules about what to do when something happens. They could have been replaced a decade ago with a simple program, but businesses are slow to change. These jobs are slowly being fazed out, and there will be a lot of job losses to office workers who simply aren't actually doing anything that a simple computer program can't replicate. There are side cases that a simple computer program can't handle, but you only need a few workers to click a few buttons and make a decision when the side case arises and then the automation can continue.
There's a lot of stuff floating around about how accounting used to be a very lucrative profession, but due to computer systems finally becoming mature, a single person can do the work of 10. There will still be jobs for accountants, you won't replace them completely, but you'll need a lot less accountants, and it will be hard for those just graduating to find a job, as they don't have the experience necessary for the high level jobs that remain.
For me Windows is kind of like Democracy. It's said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Windows seems the same to me. It's the worst operating system, except for all the others I've tried from time to time.
The Constitution of the United States does not protect "corporations", but only "persons", "the people", and "citizens". Enough of this granting protection to corporations. Corporations are a construction of the government and only exist to serve the people.
In my experience, there's already a significant number of people who don't really know how to read. They can read, but they somehow fail to retain any of the information they read and are not able to follow simple step-by-step instructions laid out in front of them. I'm not sure if this is getting any better or worse than in the past, but I find myself constantly getting frustrated in the workplace by people who just don't seem to be able to follow instructions or get information from a piece of text.
I still remember when YouTube had a 10 minute maximum for videos. Should we blame Youtube, or blame the users (both producers and viewers) who pushed for the ability to upload longer videos?
Good idea to future proof it a bit, but I have no plans of upgrading my TV to 4K. I've looked, and sure, I can see the difference, but it's not enough to buy a whole new TV for. When my current set dies, the next one will be 4K, or maybe even 8K depending on how long the current one lasts. But I don't have any need to upgrade the experience. 1080p is entirely sufficient. Going from SD to HD was a huge change and well worth it, although I still waited a while until I could get a TV at a reasonable size for an acceptable amount of money.
Does anybody really truly trust that their phone is waterproof. I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 which is IP68 certified. However, I don't really think I'm willing to deal with the headache that will inevitably come if it does get water damage. For me, it means I really don't worry about it in the rain or if I accidentally drop it in the water, but I'm not going to risk actively submerging it for more than necessary. I've heard enough stories about waterproof phones not being waterproof to know that I really shouldn't be pushing the limits. If it does get water damage, how do you prove that it wasn't due to the device being deeper or longer underwater than it was rated for?
They aren't re-encoding video on the fly. They are limiting the bandwidth of the connection to make the video content provider send a lower quality stream.
Up until a few months ago I was using Netflix at the lowest setting on my 10 inch table (1080p resolution) due to bandwidth concerns and to tell you the truth I really didn't notice much of a difference once I got unlimited internet and started using high quality streams. I mean, there was a difference, but for stuff I watch on my tablet I really couldn't care. I had a separate profile for the TV where I used high quality for the small number of movies I really wanted to experience in HD.