Yeah, I read up on it and you are pretty much right - they rely on gypsum. But this engineered wood also is naturally fire resistant because of the way it chars, apparently. I haven't found a lot of detail but it seems like the cross laminated timber that they use has a pretty good fire rating.
Not to mention that these devices - despite the pain that Kodi can cause in finding dead streams - work better than the cable box. You just plug the fire stick or whatever into the HDMI slot, hook it to your WiFi, and go. Somehow Comcast can't seem to get things working without a visit from a contractor who - after arriving at some 4 hour window (maybe) - drills holes through the side of your house. And for this honor you pay $100+ per month.
I feel for the companies competing with the grey market, but not too badly. It's like taxi companies... how bad am I supposed to feel for companies that couldn't figure out how to make a smartphone dispatching app?
But if all of those people instead purchased a legal TV package for $50 per month
Let me stop you right there...
These devices cost like $50 - I don't think people would suddenly come up with 12x that just because the little device they picked up on the street was not working.
If you focus only on CO2 and ignore the annoying forest critters and such, then cutting down (and replanting!) trees is good because young growth sucks up more CO2, which you are going to harvest and use in a building indefinitely.
He does address cable pricing in the first half of his message. However, if you had held off replying at that point and continued reading he also addresses TV component price.
I don't think it would be extra cost. A TV is already chock-a-block full of audio processing circuitry - encoding to HDMI or whatever is going to be just another task added to that circuitry. If it does cost extra, it is likely a few pennies. More is probably saved by removing the TOSLINK emitter, driver circuitry, and jack .
Qualcomm will be fine supplying its chips to other manufacturers
No, they won't "be fine". MediaTek is the low-cost king with their system-on-a-chip solutions that are bulkier but cheaper for the lower-end phones. Apple owns the high-end and losing their business will bite Qualcomm hard. Samsung also sells in the high end, and with that as their only significant customer, how much price pressure do you think Samsung can bring?
Are you confusing boomers with "greatest generation"? Boomers are in their 60s or 70s (my parent's generation), and every one I can think of has an iPhone - maybe a very old iPhone, but an iPhone.
Except that it's hosted on GitHub and has an Apache license. You could quite literally fork it, make changes to it, and sell it if you wanted to. It's hard to understand how much more open it could be?
I think the criticism here is more about how much weight Google has in de-facto web standards. That's valid, but this the open source isn't open source nonsense is a red herring.
The ISP can easily tell when large numbers of people are without power and who they are
Can you dig up a reference to this claim? My google-fu skills are weak and I cannot find corroboration to your story about the fiber optic lines being paid for in a year.
Local hospitals over here
Again, I'd like more information. I've heard about this idea before but would love to read about how it works in real life.
I live in a neighborhood with shitty rat-eaten copper in 100+ year old homes. We have FiOS. I've helped neighbors with their internet. It's a simple combination of sending TV signals over existing coax, WiFi, repeaters (WiFi and powerline), and even the occasional CAT6 cable. One nice thing about old houses is balloon framing! You can get all the way down to the foundation from almost anywhere in the wall. From what I remember of SF (spent a lot of time out there in the early 2000s), there is a ton of prewar housing built after the earthquake and a lot of it is balloon framing. Just cut a hole in the plaster, drop a fishing weight down the hole and pull up your wire from the basement.
Yeah I read that as "the one or two companies that we granted exclusive rights to the city in exchange for a cash payment has no incentive to spend a shitload of capital".
Infrastructure is the one use of debt that I approve of. I don't know how much of SF's debt is for infrastructure bonds and how much is for things like underfunded pensions or debt for recurring expenses, but debt to build out communications infrastructure is OK.
advanced healthcare, the emergence of new forms of industries, a chance for every child to get an education, managed use of energy,
All those things listed... not one of them has low hanging fruit that is addressed by "faster internet". Healthcare is a big, expensive mess - and that is not because hospitals and doctors' offices can't get fast internet. Education is an absolute shitshow in all but a few states, and that has nothing to do with the internet. Energy use monitoring consists of low-bandwidth wireless meters that benefit not at all from fiber. I'm sure that industries will pop up to take advantage of subsidized internet, just as industries pop up when there is subsidized water, electricity, etc. Even subsidized shit.
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Yeah, I read up on it and you are pretty much right - they rely on gypsum. But this engineered wood also is naturally fire resistant because of the way it chars, apparently. I haven't found a lot of detail but it seems like the cross laminated timber that they use has a pretty good fire rating.
Well, an amatuer wouldn't know to wrap the cable around the outside of the attic fan once or twice so that it stays in place when the wind picks up.
Not to mention that these devices - despite the pain that Kodi can cause in finding dead streams - work better than the cable box. You just plug the fire stick or whatever into the HDMI slot, hook it to your WiFi, and go. Somehow Comcast can't seem to get things working without a visit from a contractor who - after arriving at some 4 hour window (maybe) - drills holes through the side of your house. And for this honor you pay $100+ per month.
I feel for the companies competing with the grey market, but not too badly. It's like taxi companies... how bad am I supposed to feel for companies that couldn't figure out how to make a smartphone dispatching app?
But if all of those people instead purchased a legal TV package for $50 per month
Let me stop you right there...
These devices cost like $50 - I don't think people would suddenly come up with 12x that just because the little device they picked up on the street was not working.
They'll coat all the wood in a protective layer of concrete.
If you focus only on CO2 and ignore the annoying forest critters and such, then cutting down (and replanting!) trees is good because young growth sucks up more CO2, which you are going to harvest and use in a building indefinitely.
Well, it's self-evident that we're keeping more alive than we are killing.
He does address cable pricing in the first half of his message. However, if you had held off replying at that point and continued reading he also addresses TV component price.
I have a bunch of 50-something friends who would object quite strongly to being a "boomer"! LOL. :)
Wouldn't a simple HDMI splitter solve your problem?
I don't think it would be extra cost. A TV is already chock-a-block full of audio processing circuitry - encoding to HDMI or whatever is going to be just another task added to that circuitry. If it does cost extra, it is likely a few pennies. More is probably saved by removing the TOSLINK emitter, driver circuitry, and jack .
Qualcomm will be fine supplying its chips to other manufacturers
No, they won't "be fine". MediaTek is the low-cost king with their system-on-a-chip solutions that are bulkier but cheaper for the lower-end phones. Apple owns the high-end and losing their business will bite Qualcomm hard. Samsung also sells in the high end, and with that as their only significant customer, how much price pressure do you think Samsung can bring?
Are you confusing boomers with "greatest generation"? Boomers are in their 60s or 70s (my parent's generation), and every one I can think of has an iPhone - maybe a very old iPhone, but an iPhone.
Wow, full retard.
Except that it's hosted on GitHub and has an Apache license. You could quite literally fork it, make changes to it, and sell it if you wanted to. It's hard to understand how much more open it could be?
I think the criticism here is more about how much weight Google has in de-facto web standards. That's valid, but this the open source isn't open source nonsense is a red herring.
Yeah, CNN isn't the greatest. Tell you what - supply your "source" and we'll compare reputations :)
The "ringing phones" isn't a thing.
It's so old, half the M fell off!
OK, but this particular case was a flaw in Apache Struts - so no matter their OS they would need to apply the patch.
The ISP can easily tell when large numbers of people are without power and who they are
Can you dig up a reference to this claim? My google-fu skills are weak and I cannot find corroboration to your story about the fiber optic lines being paid for in a year.
Local hospitals over here
Again, I'd like more information. I've heard about this idea before but would love to read about how it works in real life.
I live in a neighborhood with shitty rat-eaten copper in 100+ year old homes. We have FiOS. I've helped neighbors with their internet. It's a simple combination of sending TV signals over existing coax, WiFi, repeaters (WiFi and powerline), and even the occasional CAT6 cable. One nice thing about old houses is balloon framing! You can get all the way down to the foundation from almost anywhere in the wall. From what I remember of SF (spent a lot of time out there in the early 2000s), there is a ton of prewar housing built after the earthquake and a lot of it is balloon framing. Just cut a hole in the plaster, drop a fishing weight down the hole and pull up your wire from the basement.
Yeah I read that as "the one or two companies that we granted exclusive rights to the city in exchange for a cash payment has no incentive to spend a shitload of capital".
Infrastructure is the one use of debt that I approve of. I don't know how much of SF's debt is for infrastructure bonds and how much is for things like underfunded pensions or debt for recurring expenses, but debt to build out communications infrastructure is OK.
It doesn't matter what you use if you don't patch it.
advanced healthcare, the emergence of new forms of industries, a chance for every child to get an education, managed use of energy,
All those things listed... not one of them has low hanging fruit that is addressed by "faster internet". Healthcare is a big, expensive mess - and that is not because hospitals and doctors' offices can't get fast internet. Education is an absolute shitshow in all but a few states, and that has nothing to do with the internet. Energy use monitoring consists of low-bandwidth wireless meters that benefit not at all from fiber. I'm sure that industries will pop up to take advantage of subsidized internet, just as industries pop up when there is subsidized water, electricity, etc. Even subsidized shit.