Yeah, but with Google's plan, every packet of data goes through network equipment they own, and are likely inspecting and indexing to their heart's content!
Exactly. My TV came with a little USB WiFi thing that I absolutely did not plug in, and "apps" for YouTube, NetFlix, Pandora which I have never used. Now the YouTube one is likely broken, and while that makes me slightly annoyed it was also the world's most predictable occurrence of something being made obsolete.
I'll continue using YouTube on my laptop or my tablet where the experience isn't atrocious (I can TYPE on them), NetFlix and Amazon Video from the media PC stashed in the cabinet that also serves as DVR and PLEX client, and not using Pandora at all.
If I could have bought the TV without that useless crap, I would have. But apparently all the manufacturers felt they needed to add it to compete with each other once one of them added it. Somehow I doubt we'll be seeing a wave of firmware updates for all these devices in order to bend to Google's wishes?
All those motors, plus the space for the disk and it's insert / extract mechanism are big in comparison to the total volume of today's notebooks.
The days of optical media are over except for archival purposes. I've been living there for about 3 years now - all my video is streamed on my network from a FreeBSD box. All my software installs are on that same FreeBSD box as installers in folders, or disk images. All CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs have been ripped and are sitting in a cardboard box in a storage room under the stairs. I used to keep Blu-Ray handy for the lossless audio, but I got that working out of MKV files too; into storage they go.
Good thing I have a Blu-Ray drive in my PC, and a PLEX server.
If for whatever reason my standalone Blu-Ray player stops working, that's when I plug some other class of device into that HDMI cable. I will not award a company that decides I need to buy a new thing, when the only added feature is that it's younger than the device I already have.
Never mind that there is exactly zero chance that you could build a 10-meter wide pipeline across the State of Oregon without piling up enough legal paperwork to dwarf Mount Shasta.
There's bigger problems than that with what he's proposing here, like the fact that Oregon is between Washington and California.
Oregon doesn't like massive pipelines of stuff spanning their state - they don't even like the pipelines if they get a piece of the action, such as the proposed LNG terminal on the coast.
Well shit, I guess if that 1.5 billion gallons a day that 30 desalinization plants would produce doesn't completely fix the problem, better not pursue it at all. We can't have multiple solutions that all add up, can we?!
Yeah, because the government absolutely did not get paid back the principle, did not get the interest on the loan, and absolutely is not collecting further taxes from the company, it's sales, it's employee salaries, or it's investments.
Or, they did get all of those things, and everyone is better off - including the so-called struggling average Joes.
This is actually a case of "corporate welfare" where it worked.
Everyone seems to forget that Apple had a smoking gun in the $1B+ QuickTime vs. Windows Media lawsuit, and one of the conditions of Gates and Jobs making a deal was cross-licensing all patents.
THAT is what Gates wanted. Jobs needed the cash to keep Apple afloat (which he got far more of by liquidating Apple's holdings in ARM after killing Newton), but also needed the legal squabbles to go away and needed a reason for people to continue buying Mac, and Office was that reason.
One of the reasons NeXT never went anywhere is because Microsoft refused to write Office for NeXTSTEP. Jobs learned from that.
Most of the industrial hydrogen available is created by extracting it from hydrocarbons.
So you can either refine the oil into gasoline / petrol / diesel, or you can extract the hydrogen from it and burn that. Either way, you still are pumping oil from the ground, and still dealing with the carbon waste.
If we were cracking hydrogen from water at industrial scale, then there might be something to hydrogen-based transportation; but that takes energy on a scale of nuclear reactors and apparently nobody is interested in doing that.
You may not have come across it in a while, because you don't have a clue what the sunk cost fallacy is.
The sunk cost fallacy is "throwing good money after bad" which is in no way what I described. I was describing "cost to benefit" or "return on investment."
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Yeah, but with Google's plan, every packet of data goes through network equipment they own, and are likely inspecting and indexing to their heart's content!
Exactly. My TV came with a little USB WiFi thing that I absolutely did not plug in, and "apps" for YouTube, NetFlix, Pandora which I have never used. Now the YouTube one is likely broken, and while that makes me slightly annoyed it was also the world's most predictable occurrence of something being made obsolete.
I'll continue using YouTube on my laptop or my tablet where the experience isn't atrocious (I can TYPE on them), NetFlix and Amazon Video from the media PC stashed in the cabinet that also serves as DVR and PLEX client, and not using Pandora at all.
If I could have bought the TV without that useless crap, I would have. But apparently all the manufacturers felt they needed to add it to compete with each other once one of them added it. Somehow I doubt we'll be seeing a wave of firmware updates for all these devices in order to bend to Google's wishes?
Not so much lighter, but thinner.
All those motors, plus the space for the disk and it's insert / extract mechanism are big in comparison to the total volume of today's notebooks.
The days of optical media are over except for archival purposes. I've been living there for about 3 years now - all my video is streamed on my network from a FreeBSD box. All my software installs are on that same FreeBSD box as installers in folders, or disk images. All CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs have been ripped and are sitting in a cardboard box in a storage room under the stairs. I used to keep Blu-Ray handy for the lossless audio, but I got that working out of MKV files too; into storage they go.
Good thing I have a Blu-Ray drive in my PC, and a PLEX server.
If for whatever reason my standalone Blu-Ray player stops working, that's when I plug some other class of device into that HDMI cable. I will not award a company that decides I need to buy a new thing, when the only added feature is that it's younger than the device I already have.
I was wondering when a reference to The Wire would pop up.
Remember - they actually caught Stringer by using a cell tower snooper in Season 3.
Perhaps the sharks are still in there, but they're afraid of clowns too?
Clearly you CAN make up for quality with quantity.
You mean like this? http://www.cnet.com/news/oh-no...
Samsung's response to this testing: "You're bending it wrong."
I'm not even kidding. They told SquareTrade to test it differently, as if that somehow invalidates the bent ones they have laying around the lab.
He was probably in a completely different geographical area. The one WinPhone Fanboy can't be everywhere!
Only if I ever take it back to the stealership. Good thing there are plenty of other shops out there that can turn wrenches just as good.
Fuck you.
Show me a car that I'm not allowed to fix, and I'll show you a car that I won't allow myself to buy.
So don't build a 50+ year old design without passive convection cooling in a tsunami zone that doesn't exist in California.
Thanks for the input, but I'm pretty sure that was off the table already.
Never mind that there is exactly zero chance that you could build a 10-meter wide pipeline across the State of Oregon without piling up enough legal paperwork to dwarf Mount Shasta.
Please ask the residents of Washington and Oregon what they think of this 1500 mile water pipe before you start throwing money at Kickstarter.
There's exactly zero chance this thing gets built.
And a $30B pipe is cheaper to run? Maybe, but it still takes power to run the pumps.
Pumps? Look at a map! Oregon and Washington are above California, and we all know that water flows down...
No pumps necessary!
There's bigger problems than that with what he's proposing here, like the fact that Oregon is between Washington and California.
Oregon doesn't like massive pipelines of stuff spanning their state - they don't even like the pipelines if they get a piece of the action, such as the proposed LNG terminal on the coast.
Better file this under "Good Luck With that."
Well shit, I guess if that 1.5 billion gallons a day that 30 desalinization plants would produce doesn't completely fix the problem, better not pursue it at all. We can't have multiple solutions that all add up, can we?!
Yeah, because the government absolutely did not get paid back the principle, did not get the interest on the loan, and absolutely is not collecting further taxes from the company, it's sales, it's employee salaries, or it's investments.
Or, they did get all of those things, and everyone is better off - including the so-called struggling average Joes.
This is actually a case of "corporate welfare" where it worked.
Everyone seems to forget that Apple had a smoking gun in the $1B+ QuickTime vs. Windows Media lawsuit, and one of the conditions of Gates and Jobs making a deal was cross-licensing all patents.
THAT is what Gates wanted. Jobs needed the cash to keep Apple afloat (which he got far more of by liquidating Apple's holdings in ARM after killing Newton), but also needed the legal squabbles to go away and needed a reason for people to continue buying Mac, and Office was that reason.
One of the reasons NeXT never went anywhere is because Microsoft refused to write Office for NeXTSTEP. Jobs learned from that.
Most of the industrial hydrogen available is created by extracting it from hydrocarbons.
So you can either refine the oil into gasoline / petrol / diesel, or you can extract the hydrogen from it and burn that. Either way, you still are pumping oil from the ground, and still dealing with the carbon waste.
If we were cracking hydrogen from water at industrial scale, then there might be something to hydrogen-based transportation; but that takes energy on a scale of nuclear reactors and apparently nobody is interested in doing that.
I haven't seen any evidence yet that Google isn't interested in huge distractions from their primary business.
They are one of the most schizophrenic companies there is - starting up random projects just to cull them after they actually start to make traction.
So because one wrong policy is wrong, we should make all other policies that are remotely related wrong too? Is that what you are arguing here?
How about we just fix the wrong one (higher-than-mortgage-rates interest-bearing student loans)?
It is the Bay Area, so $892,000 per house isn't too far off...
You may not have come across it in a while, because you don't have a clue what the sunk cost fallacy is.
The sunk cost fallacy is "throwing good money after bad" which is in no way what I described. I was describing "cost to benefit" or "return on investment."
First, it's not my point - it's the EU's.
Second, Samsung isn't under investigation; Google is.
But go ahead and keep deflecting, the good news is that the people directly involved are far more knowledgeable about the circumstances than you are.