When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world.
US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote. The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
Uh, you do realize that in most of the civilized world what you derisively call "voter registration" laws are the norm, right? The only way the USA is behind the civilized world in that regard is that we have idiots trying to claim that requiring an ID to vote disenfranchises people. Admittedly, it *does* disenfranchise the dead people who tend to vote D, but maybe we don't need their votes.
Yes, in continuing the Apple tradition of removing useless external ports with each "upgrade", these will feature a single thunderbolt port and no external power connection. One. Single. Port!
Of course, you have to buy a new laptop after the 10 hour battery life is up.
As the satellites are by coincident nearly exactly 1/10 of a light second away, the round trip is 2/10 of a second and not 1/4th. But well, that is close enough:D probably 1/4th is actually a tick closer than 2/10th, to lazy to do the correct math.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. 22,000 x 2 = 44,000. 44,000 x 4 = 176,000. 44,000 / 186,000 =.236. It's closer to 1/4 than 2/10.
TI is obviously price gouging, I just don't see that part as relevant to the topic. I'm explaining *why* they are still selling a stone-age calculator in volume.
Regardless of the bit rate, there's considerable latency with a geosynchronous orbit. Radio waves travel around 186,000 miles/second, meaning a round trip to the satellite is 1/4 of a second. If you're typing in ssh, double that. Press a key, half a second later the letter appears. If you click a link that has to hit a server, same thing - 1/2 second of overhead. The way some web pages are made those half seconds are going to stack up.
I know there are plenty of places where the latency won't matter, but geosynch satellites will never have widespread usage for internet.
They've had a good run of doing nothing and not updating their hardware or software in any kind of meaningful way for the past couple decades. No other company would have been so neglectful to such a profitable product line.
You don't understand, nor do those who upvoted you. TI has been updating their product lines all along, and that's the problem. What???!!?!?
The newer, better calculators have all sorts of wonderful features, like the ability to totally cheat in several ways. Ultimately, they can store text, so kids can put all kinds of stuff on there.
The TI-84 was basically the last calculator that they made which is good for helping students with calculation but not with cheating.
“We have to keep evolving on this platform, but it can’t be innovation for the sake of innovation,” said Peter Balyta, president of Texas Instruments’ calculator division. “While it’s tempting for us to build in WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, a camera, a whole bunch of things, we could do, but teachers don’t want us to. And it’s because we want to have a tool that kids can use in a classroom, on their way home, at home when they’re doing homework and also a tool they can bring in during their most important exam.”
It's hard to stop using a system when it requires repurchasing the $100,000 hospital X-ray machine that it runs.
Did you think every hospital should just throw out all it's working equipment and purchase new ones?
No, not at all. The reason being that it's not reasonable for them to buy an expensive machine like that which requires a Microsoft operating system in order to run. They shouldn't get into this situation to begin with.
If I were making the purchasing decision, someone using a current version of Windows as an integral part of the system wouldn't even be considered for purchase. I would have to see that the computer side of it would be patchable throughout the expected life of the system at a reasonable cost.
Fission is not cost effective and only works with massive amounts of taxpayers money.
Yeah, unlike solar and wind <eyeroll>
In case you missed it, Germans pay the highest amount for electricity in the world due to their solar/wind investments, which provide less than 10% of their power. They make up for it by burning the world's dirtiest coal. I know, doesn't fit the narrative...
The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
So, for a "rented apartment" they pay a higher heating bill than I do for my 3500 square foot house?
I have no idea how they calculate my home's value, but it's obviously not based on direct comps from recent sales around here. The square foot price that they're using is about 10% lower than what I would easily get. To be fair, home prices have risen by something like 30% in the last 3 years since I bought it, and it looks like zestimate doesn't handle this sort of market very well.
I am not a specialist but looking at the comments it seems that a bot has been posting the same text *against net neutrality* (starting with "The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation..."). It looks like a bot because the messages appear to come from people that posted in alphabetical order of their first name/last name combination: Brittany Mccain, Brittany Proctor, Brittany Sharp, etc. in the view sorted by date posted.
LOL! This is what happens when you contract out your "anti-net-neutrality-posting-bot" to the lowest Indian bidder on Upwork.
Blaming the poor economic situation in Cuba on their socialized healthcare system is a bit silly. The continued cause of their poor economy is more likely rooted in the trade embargo that the USA instituted more than half a century ago.
Right! It has *nothing* to do with the Castros wrecking the economy. I'm sure there's some similar reason that Venezuela is circling the drain about now.
The rule hadn't yet taken effect. Interesting how stuff like this apparently was of no importance to Seattle until they saw an opportunity to "oppose" Trump.
Your water is poisoned, you have no culture, your weather is terrible, your politics ass backwards, your Internet is shit and your schools are terrible.
This isn't the 1960s, but you're advertising like it is.
"According to the website schooldigger.com, which ranks schools and school districts, WCS is first in the nation among public school districts with more than 20,000 students."
Yes, we know <eyeroll> But, you know, there's someplace between "California" and "Papua New Guinea" that still works well and isn't taxed to death.
San Francisco's city budget is about the size of Tennessee's state budget. At what point do we realize that something just isn't right about this? We have roads, sewer, a police force, schools, etc. They're paid for with a state sales tax that's 9.25%, about what CA pays. But we don't have a state income tax. We realize that we don't need it.
CA's tax structure is maniacal, and the wealthy people who set this up have no idea how badly they're screwing the middle and lower classes.
California's GDP kinda disproves your entire premise.
Cali is where Companies go to grow. Conservatives like to think that "big government" (like the kind that paves roads, funds schools, funds fire depts.) are bad...
No conservative is against the sort of things that government is supposed to do, such as paving roads and funding schools. Hello, straw man. They do tend to be against stuff that government shouldn't be doing, like taxing rockets.
You know... MI which is poisoning its citizens with lead and NC which lost over a billion dollars in economic activity over their hate-filled law.
LOL! This is what happens when you believe media matters - you look like an idiot. They were claiming that NC would lose that much money over some period of years, but in fact it had no impact at all. A bunch of people who weren't going to visit there decided to not visit there. It's like the "boycott" the same group of lunatics had against Chick-Fil-A (which resulted in CFA's biggest single day sales ever). I'm actually going to visit NC this year specifically to offset any lunatics that actually did decide not to go, because I know their law wasn't "hate filled".
This is how a well run democratic republic is supposed to operate... Say "we have this idea... what do you think" and people tell them "fuck you, you're nuts".../rant against stupidity which refuses to see things in any way other than the way they want.
The problem in CA is that there are so few people to say "fuck you, you're nuts" that they're not heard. And they don't have the money that the leftist looneys in the state have, and you can't talk to a Democrat without giving it money first.
My city (Franklin, TN, part of the Nashville/Franklin/Murfreesboro metro area) is aggressively recruiting California companies to relocate here. Our two biggest scores within the last couple of years were the Nissan North America headquarters (brought 1300 people from the president down) and the Carl's Jr./Hardees headquarters. CA is bad enough that we're getting companies of that size to literally pack up and move 3000 miles.
It doesn't hurt that we have no geographic boundaries to growth, so land is still pretty cheap. $500K will get you a 3 bedroom 1300 sq ft bungalow in Burbank. Here, it buys you a 3000 sq ft house on an acre, or more house and less land if you'd like.
And we have about the same sales tax rate as CA (9.25%), but no state income tax.
Would it surprise you to know that our economy is thriving?
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When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world.
US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote.
The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
Uh, you do realize that in most of the civilized world what you derisively call "voter registration" laws are the norm, right? The only way the USA is behind the civilized world in that regard is that we have idiots trying to claim that requiring an ID to vote disenfranchises people. Admittedly, it *does* disenfranchise the dead people who tend to vote D, but maybe we don't need their votes.
Yes, in continuing the Apple tradition of removing useless external ports with each "upgrade", these will feature a single thunderbolt port and no external power connection. One. Single. Port!
Of course, you have to buy a new laptop after the 10 hour battery life is up.
As the satellites are by coincident nearly exactly 1/10 of a light second away, the round trip is 2/10 of a second and not 1/4th. But well, that is close enough :D probably 1/4th is actually a tick closer than 2/10th, to lazy to do the correct math.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. 22,000 x 2 = 44,000. 44,000 x 4 = 176,000. 44,000 / 186,000 = .236. It's closer to 1/4 than 2/10.
That's the actual math.
TI is obviously price gouging, I just don't see that part as relevant to the topic. I'm explaining *why* they are still selling a stone-age calculator in volume.
Regardless of the bit rate, there's considerable latency with a geosynchronous orbit. Radio waves travel around 186,000 miles/second, meaning a round trip to the satellite is 1/4 of a second. If you're typing in ssh, double that. Press a key, half a second later the letter appears. If you click a link that has to hit a server, same thing - 1/2 second of overhead. The way some web pages are made those half seconds are going to stack up.
I know there are plenty of places where the latency won't matter, but geosynch satellites will never have widespread usage for internet.
They've had a good run of doing nothing and not updating their hardware or software in any kind of meaningful way for the past couple decades. No other company would have been so neglectful to such a profitable product line.
You don't understand, nor do those who upvoted you. TI has been updating their product lines all along, and that's the problem. What???!!?!?
The newer, better calculators have all sorts of wonderful features, like the ability to totally cheat in several ways. Ultimately, they can store text, so kids can put all kinds of stuff on there.
The TI-84 was basically the last calculator that they made which is good for helping students with calculation but not with cheating.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
“We have to keep evolving on this platform, but it can’t be innovation for the sake of innovation,” said Peter Balyta, president of Texas Instruments’ calculator division. “While it’s tempting for us to build in WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, a camera, a whole bunch of things, we could do, but teachers don’t want us to. And it’s because we want to have a tool that kids can use in a classroom, on their way home, at home when they’re doing homework and also a tool they can bring in during their most important exam.”
That last line is the key.
This shouldn't be news here, by the way:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
It's hard to stop using a system when it requires repurchasing the $100,000 hospital X-ray machine that it runs.
Did you think every hospital should just throw out all it's working equipment and purchase new ones?
No, not at all. The reason being that it's not reasonable for them to buy an expensive machine like that which requires a Microsoft operating system in order to run. They shouldn't get into this situation to begin with.
If I were making the purchasing decision, someone using a current version of Windows as an integral part of the system wouldn't even be considered for purchase. I would have to see that the computer side of it would be patchable throughout the expected life of the system at a reasonable cost.
... and this proves it too.
Fission is not cost effective and only works with massive amounts of taxpayers money.
Yeah, unlike solar and wind <eyeroll>
In case you missed it, Germans pay the highest amount for electricity in the world due to their solar/wind investments, which provide less than 10% of their power. They make up for it by burning the world's dirtiest coal. I know, doesn't fit the narrative...
Yeah, I wouldn't call a country shutting down nuclear power plants and building new coal plants "progressive".
Yeah, remember that people who screech that loudest about being "progressive" are usually the most regressive people you'll meet.
The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
So, for a "rented apartment" they pay a higher heating bill than I do for my 3500 square foot house?
Impressssssiiiivvvveeee.
I have no idea how they calculate my home's value, but it's obviously not based on direct comps from recent sales around here. The square foot price that they're using is about 10% lower than what I would easily get. To be fair, home prices have risen by something like 30% in the last 3 years since I bought it, and it looks like zestimate doesn't handle this sort of market very well.
I've driven a bunch of times lately in Europe and its amazing how long you can go without ever coming across a traffic light.
Holy crap! How do the cities there generate revenue?
I am not a specialist but looking at the comments it seems that a bot has been posting the same text *against net neutrality* (starting with "The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation..."). It looks like a bot because the messages appear to come from people that posted in alphabetical order of their first name/last name combination: Brittany Mccain, Brittany Proctor, Brittany Sharp, etc. in the view sorted by date posted.
LOL! This is what happens when you contract out your "anti-net-neutrality-posting-bot" to the lowest Indian bidder on Upwork.
The leader of Austria's Green Party is an idiot. A moron. Etc.
There, he's been insulted on slashdot, too.
These people take themselves way too seriously, which is one reason the first amendment in the US is so important.
Wait, what am I doing? They're Austrians.
Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek ist Scheisskopf! Ja, die ganze Partei sind Scheisskoepfen. Und Arschlochen.
Okay, now they're properly insulted.
The leader of Austria's Green Party is an idiot. A moron. Etc.
There, he's been insulted on slashdot, too.
These people take themselves way too seriously, which is one reason the first amendment in the US is so important.
Blaming the poor economic situation in Cuba on their socialized healthcare system is a bit silly. The continued cause of their poor economy is more likely rooted in the trade embargo that the USA instituted more than half a century ago.
Right! It has *nothing* to do with the Castros wrecking the economy. I'm sure there's some similar reason that Venezuela is circling the drain about now.
No idea what you think is dirty here, but I don't live in Nashville, I live in Franklin. Here's what we scored with Nissan:
https://goo.gl/maps/bRPKok5iYz...
The rule hadn't yet taken effect. Interesting how stuff like this apparently was of no importance to Seattle until they saw an opportunity to "oppose" Trump.
Your water is poisoned, you have no culture, your weather is terrible, your politics ass backwards, your Internet is shit and your schools are terrible.
This isn't the 1960s, but you're advertising like it is.
LOL! Wrong on every count.
Here's how bad our education is:
http://www.wcs.edu/infocus-arc...
Oh, wait:
"According to the website schooldigger.com, which ranks schools and school districts, WCS is first in the nation among public school districts with more than 20,000 students."
The rest of what you say is similarly bullshit.
Is that the full sales tax cost? Here in oklahoma after the county and city taxes are added in its 9.975%
It's 7.0% to the state, with the localities adding between 2.25% and 2.75%. There are some places where the total rate is 9.75%, not sure where.
With taxes you buy - civilisation
Yes, we know <eyeroll> But, you know, there's someplace between "California" and "Papua New Guinea" that still works well and isn't taxed to death.
San Francisco's city budget is about the size of Tennessee's state budget. At what point do we realize that something just isn't right about this? We have roads, sewer, a police force, schools, etc. They're paid for with a state sales tax that's 9.25%, about what CA pays. But we don't have a state income tax. We realize that we don't need it.
CA's tax structure is maniacal, and the wealthy people who set this up have no idea how badly they're screwing the middle and lower classes.
California's GDP kinda disproves your entire premise.
Cali is where Companies go to grow. Conservatives like to think that "big government" (like the kind that paves roads, funds schools, funds fire depts.) are bad...
No conservative is against the sort of things that government is supposed to do, such as paving roads and funding schools. Hello, straw man. They do tend to be against stuff that government shouldn't be doing, like taxing rockets.
You know... MI which is poisoning its citizens with lead and NC which lost over a billion dollars in economic activity over their hate-filled law.
LOL! This is what happens when you believe media matters - you look like an idiot. They were claiming that NC would lose that much money over some period of years, but in fact it had no impact at all. A bunch of people who weren't going to visit there decided to not visit there. It's like the "boycott" the same group of lunatics had against Chick-Fil-A (which resulted in CFA's biggest single day sales ever). I'm actually going to visit NC this year specifically to offset any lunatics that actually did decide not to go, because I know their law wasn't "hate filled".
This is how a well run democratic republic is supposed to operate... Say "we have this idea... what do you think" and people tell them "fuck you, you're nuts"... /rant against stupidity which refuses to see things in any way other than the way they want.
The problem in CA is that there are so few people to say "fuck you, you're nuts" that they're not heard. And they don't have the money that the leftist looneys in the state have, and you can't talk to a Democrat without giving it money first.
My city (Franklin, TN, part of the Nashville/Franklin/Murfreesboro metro area) is aggressively recruiting California companies to relocate here. Our two biggest scores within the last couple of years were the Nissan North America headquarters (brought 1300 people from the president down) and the Carl's Jr./Hardees headquarters. CA is bad enough that we're getting companies of that size to literally pack up and move 3000 miles.
It doesn't hurt that we have no geographic boundaries to growth, so land is still pretty cheap. $500K will get you a 3 bedroom 1300 sq ft bungalow in Burbank. Here, it buys you a 3000 sq ft house on an acre, or more house and less land if you'd like.
And we have about the same sales tax rate as CA (9.25%), but no state income tax.
Would it surprise you to know that our economy is thriving?
All of this "hate speech" is actually right wing and groups like BAMN are just social clubs, right?
I have to call BS on that one - 128 lbs and 6 feet tall? I was 122 lbs and 5 foot 6 and I was thin.
I wasn't "thin", I was skinny. I don't know how I survived.