And, it wouldn't even be that new to most of the people involved. It's called a 'core charge' in the automobile service industry - anything that is highly recyclable has one to incentivize getting that recyclable thing back.
It depends on the transport being used for the Bluetooth audio. If you're using the ass-old first generation SBC codecs in the A2DP profile, yeah it's terrible. If you're using the new aptX stuff in Bluetooth 4.0, it's better.
Yeah, so Apple is going to not only ditch the analog TRS connector, but also going to get rid of the DRM-less Bluetooth A2DP standard we've all been using for years, because they want to throw their entire music strategy in reverse and go BACK to DRM, inviting useability hassles and customer complaints, and instantly making their devices incompatible with 100% of all playback devices on the market today?
Seems like a legit strategy. Or a lot of paranoid hand waving.
I don't understand how people take anything the man says seriously. Are the things he says in incredibly poor taste? Absolutely. Is he the most unfit person to run for President since Aaron Burr? Probably, and Burr shot a guy.
But some things he says are clearly meant to be sarcastic jokes. Like the thing about the Russians finding Hillary's missing emails. Anyone with half a brain knows that was just a sardonic comment, and not meant as an invitation for Russia to hack into the State Department. Yet we have 3 days of stories that were complete horseshit because an idiot said something stupid. Again.
Because apparently it's breaking news when stupid people say stupid things.
My company uses a particular video conference software that is developed by people that apparently won some kind of bet to NOT use any of the hardware accelerated codecs for video and audio. Join a meeting, watch the CPU spike, the fans spin up. Leave the meeting, fans turn off after about 15 seconds.
No, you shouldn't. But that's the direction Apple seems to be willing to go.
I used Mac Pro for 7 years, but built a workstation PC that I'm using now - the 'trash can' Mac Pro just didn't have decent GPU options, and they haven't changed in two years. Is there anyone actually buying that thing right now?
Oh, good idea. Because it's incredibly easy to just get on a plane to Tokyo any time my girlfriend wants to have a face-to-face chat with her uncle or cousin.
What sort of asshole posts the kind of drivel you do?
On the other hand, if we waited for the first version of every product to be perfect before shipping, nothing would ever ship.
Complex product design is an iterative process. The first cars didn't ship with airbags, 300 horsepower engines, antilock brakes, and power steering.
Sometimes it's useful to release a product that is useful to a significant market segment, and then get usage statistics and product feedback in order to make it far more useful to a much larger market. And you get some revenue that you can reinvest into making the product better.
Swimming in cash or not, if your entire enterprise hits the pause button stranding thousands of people in places they don't want to be because of a failure of your disaster recovery / business continuity plan, that's a universally bad thing, and an abject failure to plan or realize the potential of a multi-hour data center loss.
I've been watching the HDHomeRun DVR software with some interest, but it means buying a different tuner (one made by SiliconDust) and it still isn't shipping. Their "beta" does everything but encrypted streams, so it's useless to me at this time.
My whole point is that I shouldn't have to throw away perfectly working hardware because Time Warner is run by fucking assholes.
The Ceton tuner is just a tuner - it grabs the QAM stream from the RF channel on the coax and sends it up the stack to the software decoder. The software layer above it is doing the PlayReady decryption if present. E.g. Windows Media Center.
This fight is about opening up that software layer above so that you aren't stuck with the 3 whole options available today for encrypted content.
And some cable providers (read: all but Time Warner) are actually not asshats when it comes to CCI flagging, and don't CopyOnce every single god damn show they legally can.
Time Warner can eat a dumpster full of dicks for that.
I am a Time Warner subscriber. Because of their abuse of the CCI "CopyOnce" flag that they put on every single show that they legally can, it reduces my options for a decoder box to the following, due to the CableLabs certification for decrypting the content:
1. Rented box from Time Warner that is horrible, and they charge obscene amounts of monthly fees for; 2. Tivo; 3. Windows Media Center, which is now EOL and doesn't exist in Microsoft's current operating system.
No other cable company abuses the CCI flag this way. Not Charter. Not Cox. Not Comcast. Clearly there are not contractual obligations with the content providers, or the other cable operators would have to do the same thing. Time Warner does this specifically to limit customer choice, and lock subscribers into option #1, which is a cash cow for them.
If they turned off that bullshit and used the CCI flag properly (e.g. for premium content where there actually are contractual obligations), then I would have half a dozen other options available to me including open-source MythTV.
"The total installation time for a standard 3-kilowatt solar system of about 20 solar panels is usually somewhere between 1 and 3 days. Average labor time is 75 man-hours, which can be further broken down into electrician installation labor (49 man-hours) and non-electrician installation labor (26 man-hours)." - source
You can do the next one: go ahead and find the numerous references to SolarCity getting installs done in a few hours, or YouTube timelapse videos of the whole thing being done before lunchtime.
If the solar industry themselves are saying 1 to 3 days, and yet one company is able to get it done in less than half a work day, I'd say they are far above the average when it comes to install time. Do you think that massively reducing install labor by having better mounting hardware might have some effect on installed cost per watt?
No, I don't need every city man-in-the-middle attacking HTTP to "provide their own."
Layers 1 and 2 are fine. Let the ISP handle layers above that with their current service offerings and a border router attached to the municipal fiber network.
SolarCity does their own installs, and they are the fastest install you can get in the US. And, they are leading the market in price per watt installed, which is only going to go down once they open their own manufacturing facility in New York next year, and are not beholden to the import tariffs on all the other panels coming from China.
SolarCity gets something out of it too - cheaper access to the same PowerWall energy storage solutions they are already selling. Also, they can more deeply integrate smarter charging of a Tesla car, and use the car as energy storage during off-peak hours. And a retail presence where their target demographic is already walking in the door - eco conscious people with above average annual income.
This really is a smart move if you spend more than 10 seconds to think about it.
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And don't forget space flight. That failed spectacularly too.
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Meteorologists, global communications networks, scientists everywhere, and anyone who watches live TV.
Yeah, because washing vegetables before you eat them is hard.
You can't fix stupid, especially through legislation.
And, it wouldn't even be that new to most of the people involved. It's called a 'core charge' in the automobile service industry - anything that is highly recyclable has one to incentivize getting that recyclable thing back.
Great! Now point out something that actually uses a lithium phosphorus oxynitride electrolyte outside of a lab.
Yeah, except that CANDU reactors are not weapons proliferation resistant. See: India's nuclear weapons program, all because of CANDU.
It depends on the transport being used for the Bluetooth audio. If you're using the ass-old first generation SBC codecs in the A2DP profile, yeah it's terrible. If you're using the new aptX stuff in Bluetooth 4.0, it's better.
Yeah, so Apple is going to not only ditch the analog TRS connector, but also going to get rid of the DRM-less Bluetooth A2DP standard we've all been using for years, because they want to throw their entire music strategy in reverse and go BACK to DRM, inviting useability hassles and customer complaints, and instantly making their devices incompatible with 100% of all playback devices on the market today?
Seems like a legit strategy. Or a lot of paranoid hand waving.
I don't understand how people take anything the man says seriously. Are the things he says in incredibly poor taste? Absolutely. Is he the most unfit person to run for President since Aaron Burr? Probably, and Burr shot a guy.
But some things he says are clearly meant to be sarcastic jokes. Like the thing about the Russians finding Hillary's missing emails. Anyone with half a brain knows that was just a sardonic comment, and not meant as an invitation for Russia to hack into the State Department. Yet we have 3 days of stories that were complete horseshit because an idiot said something stupid. Again.
Because apparently it's breaking news when stupid people say stupid things.
It can also be a difference in software.
My company uses a particular video conference software that is developed by people that apparently won some kind of bet to NOT use any of the hardware accelerated codecs for video and audio. Join a meeting, watch the CPU spike, the fans spin up. Leave the meeting, fans turn off after about 15 seconds.
No, you shouldn't. But that's the direction Apple seems to be willing to go.
I used Mac Pro for 7 years, but built a workstation PC that I'm using now - the 'trash can' Mac Pro just didn't have decent GPU options, and they haven't changed in two years. Is there anyone actually buying that thing right now?
Oh, good idea. Because it's incredibly easy to just get on a plane to Tokyo any time my girlfriend wants to have a face-to-face chat with her uncle or cousin.
What sort of asshole posts the kind of drivel you do?
On the other hand, if we waited for the first version of every product to be perfect before shipping, nothing would ever ship.
Complex product design is an iterative process. The first cars didn't ship with airbags, 300 horsepower engines, antilock brakes, and power steering.
Sometimes it's useful to release a product that is useful to a significant market segment, and then get usage statistics and product feedback in order to make it far more useful to a much larger market. And you get some revenue that you can reinvest into making the product better.
and can I buy it with Bitcoin?
Swimming in cash or not, if your entire enterprise hits the pause button stranding thousands of people in places they don't want to be because of a failure of your disaster recovery / business continuity plan, that's a universally bad thing, and an abject failure to plan or realize the potential of a multi-hour data center loss.
Someone fucked up.
Yeah, except that they do. Lots of them.
It's called "having a disaster recovery / business continuity plan"
I've been watching the HDHomeRun DVR software with some interest, but it means buying a different tuner (one made by SiliconDust) and it still isn't shipping. Their "beta" does everything but encrypted streams, so it's useless to me at this time.
My whole point is that I shouldn't have to throw away perfectly working hardware because Time Warner is run by fucking assholes.
The Ceton tuner is just a tuner - it grabs the QAM stream from the RF channel on the coax and sends it up the stack to the software decoder. The software layer above it is doing the PlayReady decryption if present. E.g. Windows Media Center.
This fight is about opening up that software layer above so that you aren't stuck with the 3 whole options available today for encrypted content.
And some cable providers (read: all but Time Warner) are actually not asshats when it comes to CCI flagging, and don't CopyOnce every single god damn show they legally can.
Time Warner can eat a dumpster full of dicks for that.
100% correct.
I am a Time Warner subscriber. Because of their abuse of the CCI "CopyOnce" flag that they put on every single show that they legally can, it reduces my options for a decoder box to the following, due to the CableLabs certification for decrypting the content:
1. Rented box from Time Warner that is horrible, and they charge obscene amounts of monthly fees for;
2. Tivo;
3. Windows Media Center, which is now EOL and doesn't exist in Microsoft's current operating system.
No other cable company abuses the CCI flag this way. Not Charter. Not Cox. Not Comcast. Clearly there are not contractual obligations with the content providers, or the other cable operators would have to do the same thing. Time Warner does this specifically to limit customer choice, and lock subscribers into option #1, which is a cash cow for them.
If they turned off that bullshit and used the CCI flag properly (e.g. for premium content where there actually are contractual obligations), then I would have half a dozen other options available to me including open-source MythTV.
Yeah, or I can use Google.
"The total installation time for a standard 3-kilowatt solar system of about 20 solar panels is usually somewhere between 1 and 3 days. Average labor time is 75 man-hours, which can be further broken down into electrician installation labor (49 man-hours) and non-electrician installation labor (26 man-hours)." - source
You can do the next one: go ahead and find the numerous references to SolarCity getting installs done in a few hours, or YouTube timelapse videos of the whole thing being done before lunchtime.
If the solar industry themselves are saying 1 to 3 days, and yet one company is able to get it done in less than half a work day, I'd say they are far above the average when it comes to install time. Do you think that massively reducing install labor by having better mounting hardware might have some effect on installed cost per watt?
They got 40+ years out of the deal. Time to renegotiate.
No, I don't need every city man-in-the-middle attacking HTTP to "provide their own."
Layers 1 and 2 are fine. Let the ISP handle layers above that with their current service offerings and a border router attached to the municipal fiber network.
SolarCity does their own installs, and they are the fastest install you can get in the US. And, they are leading the market in price per watt installed, which is only going to go down once they open their own manufacturing facility in New York next year, and are not beholden to the import tariffs on all the other panels coming from China.
SolarCity gets something out of it too - cheaper access to the same PowerWall energy storage solutions they are already selling. Also, they can more deeply integrate smarter charging of a Tesla car, and use the car as energy storage during off-peak hours. And a retail presence where their target demographic is already walking in the door - eco conscious people with above average annual income.
This really is a smart move if you spend more than 10 seconds to think about it.
Because possibly there are more than just those two outcomes available?