and can achieve up to about 10 Mbit for around 80-90 dollars per month (unlimited bandwidth). Not great, but usable.
And that is a big reason WiMax failed. The WiMax forum was promising years ago that we would see speeds of 1gbps by the end of 2011. That of course never materialized. Of course the WiMax forum was always promising this and that. The actual speeds were massively less than promised.
My company also spent a lot of resources on WiMax in the early days. We even had a couple of test systems in house. Luckily they were on loan only. When the time came to buy or not, we chose not to spend the 1.2 million USD on the WiMax system. By that time, it became clear that Europe would not adapt a non 3GPP standard for their cellular backbone. It was also clear that the major test system manufactures were not going to build WiMax systems. One of my friends who works for one of the largest test equipment makers told me they looked into but, but the fee structure imposed by the WiMax forum caused them to tell WiMax to go F themselves.
At the moment, I would totally agree that speeds are fast enough for mobile users. Hell LTE-A with category 24 will be faster than your network card. So, unless you have a 10gbps NIC at home, there is no need for more. Unless of course it is a shared connection with a lot of other folks.
Of course... the bigger issue is that a massive increase in speed will not yield a comparable increase in data caps in the US. So, you would be able to bust your limits in a couple of minutes.
In the US there will be no outcry. Fuckers are too lazy. However, there has been massive protests about it in Europe. Several politicians over here have promised to kill it no matter what.
You are correct in saying that government can buy WAY more guns, but you are forgetting something very important. I, perhaps like some of you, served in the military. There is one thing which I would say at least 90% of the military members would not do. Turn their guns on Americans. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I would say that the military members are MORE likely to turn their guns on the government if such an order was ever given. I know I would have.
Stop being so damn defeatist. You don't need a gun and you don't need violence, you need a pen.
.... and the American public has been undereducated for decades.
Well, that is dictatorship 101. That is literally step 1. Keep you people too stupid to understand what's going on. Limit education to the ruling class. If you allow the dirty masses to become educated, ensure that it enslaves them in a mountain of dept.
Seriously, that is so freaken cute that you think your government gives one single fuck what you write or think. They don't. You think they give a single fuck if they are voted out? Why should they? They get their pay for life. They will always have a high paying job when they are out of office because of the favors that they sold to their corporate masters. There are VERY few politicians who are willing to go against ruling class. Regardless of your letters. No, your letter will make no difference at all. They system is too far gone. Too long corrupted. The checks and balances are gone. The people now fear the government and with good reason. ?Look at all the court rulings lately. Warrant needed for you bank card? Nope. Warrant needed to take your money? Nope. Criminal charges needed to take your money? Nope. It goes on and on. Too long has the population sat on their collective asses while the power was consolidated. Too long were the masses so blinded by shiny gadgets that they would not look behind the curtain. No fellow citizen, the time for letters has passed. It falls unfortunately to the young ones to get back on track. Most sadly, see nothing wrong with the current system.
I am sure that on the surface it seemed like a good idea to try and blame the car for the couple. No doubt they wanted to avoid the major increase in insurance premiums and the long wait time for a replacement car.
Nowadays though, with all the tech in cars, it is much easier to check what happened. Technically, they could now be on the hook for filing a false police report and insurance fraud.
On the other hand, it is possible that it was an honest mistake. It happens regularly that someone "thinks" they have slammed on the brakes, only to have actually smashed the accelerator to the floor. I have even caught the my shoe on the accelerator before on a particular car which the two peddles were very close together. Another time, I had a cheap ass floor mat that slid up and got stuck in the linkage causing a wide open throttle. Luckily that was a manual shift car.
If you have nothing to hide, you should not be worried, they said. The government is there to protect us, they said. The government has a right to do those things, they said. The government would never cross the line, they said. Well, I would say at this point it is probably past the "too late" stage and you are stuck with the monster which decades of apathy and "blind misplaced patriotism" has created. The US government has so much power at this point, I find it hard to imagine the people could ever take it back without a lot of bloodshed. I hope I am wrong.
Disclaimer, I do use Windows 10 on my machines at home and especially my gaming rig. The laptops, because that was what came installed, but the gaming rig, obviously since it is actually pretty good for gaming.
I do not really mind the OS itself, but I am growing tired of this constant crap they are pulling. Like forcing my to use Bing! I fucking hate Bing. If I accidentally search with Bing, I will go to google and search again even if the Bing answer may have been correct. I HATE Bing!
I really hope that this year, with Vulcan coming online, my biggest reason for not switching to Linux will be gone. I can imagine that Steam can really help to push Linux on gaming with the HTC vive. I have ordered it myself. I'll need to update my graphics card, but I need to see what's on tap from AMD first. It could finally be time for the Linux desktop.
I guess it further illustrates your point that tablet sales and use are way down. They seem to be going away. I am not too sad to be honest. Nowadays, laptops are so thin and light there is no reason to use a crippled product when you could have a real computer with all its extra use cases.
They will certainly try. It is not likely that any company they buy will have anything like Google's machine learning capabilities. Then again, Google used to be a couple of guys with an algorithm better than anyone else and just look what happened. So..who know!
You think so? I should point out of course, that Siri is NOT an Apple invention. They bought it. I agree though, it does work reasonably well. I personally find the "OK Google" more useful as it more fits the way that I use my phone day to day. Especially when in the car. My head unit supports Carplay and Android Auto. Honestly, Apple's current state of Carplay is why I switched back to Android. After doing so is when I discovered that "OK Goggle" is pretty damn good in the car. Then again, machine learning is a core competence of Google. It would be silly to think that Apple would be able to roll out a product of similar polish.
I don't recall that Apple has ever pretended to care about people's privacy. They do when such actions happen to align with maximizing profits.
Don't get me wrong, I like Apple product. Always have. But, I have never understood peoples insistence to apologies and excuse them for everything. As if their own self worth is somehow tied up in Apple being thought of as a benevolent overlord. (not implying you think that) Apple fucks their customers all the time just like every other company. They are just a maker of "stuff" at the end of the day.
It happens to nearly all companies. Once on top of the world, the next moment hanging on to survive. Who have we got? Motorola RIM Palm braodcom yahoo AOL Nokia Sony. Remember when everyone wanted SONY gear? Hell, it has even happened to Apple before. People are fickle. If some hot new thing comes along with a better way of doing things, then people will generally follow the trend. If the old guard is too slow, then they get left in the dust, living off their cash reserves until eventually, the die. Apple is no exception. Innovate or die.
Having an open RF stack is illegal for a licensed transmitter. The FCC does not allow any changes at all to the conditions to which the device was approved. Small changes can be made via a class 2 permissive change, but allowing you, the user access to change the RF properties is very illegal. And with good reason too. You would be surprised to know how much damage to a network just one fucked up phone can cause.
I mean honestly, if there is one thing we know, it is that the police would never violate our right to privacy. http://www.theguardian.com/com... I cannot imagine them logging onto random "hot girl" cams to monitor their "safety". Knock knock... Are you OK miss? Yes, but how did you know I slipped in the shower?
Personally, I think that Stephen Elop should be in prison for what he did. From every action he took it was clear that he was a plant from MS to devalue the Nokia brand as much as possible so that MS could purchase it for pennies on the dollar. I do not think that MS was ever too serious about producing phones, but they were very serious about acquiring Nokia's patent portfolio. To think about 1000's of jobs lost and lives ruined because of that ass hat. That, to me, is criminal.
Would Nokia have turned things around eventually? Personally, I think they would have. At the time, I was in a position to see many of the models Nokia had in the pipeline. I thought they looked fantastic. Then the came Elop and Windows phone. Then came the speedy end.
Now, I am not saying that I would condone such actions, but it has always surprised me guys like him don't get murdered by some former employees. I mean, looks at the amount of lives these guys screw up. Like Chris Galvan at Motorola in the early 2000's. This guy fired 10's of thousands of people and made one ridiculous decision after another. The year he kicked out 40k employees, he saw fit to give himself an 8 million dollar bonus. I was a lower level manager at the time as send him an email asking how much he would get when he fires the rest of the workers. I got an email back from his secretary saying his bonus was inline with the industry, to which I responded that other CEO's don't lose half their market value in 2 years.
Just this morning, as I was reading an article on MS 10's latest update, which includes more adds, I was pondering; is it finally time to give linux another chance?
I give it a shot every couple years in hopes that I can finally ditch Windows, but invariably, I format the drive and go back to windows.
Now, to be honest, I did try Mint a couple weeks ago running on a live USB disk. It was reasonably snappy and looks "ok". However, there are definitely still big issues with High resolution displays, so that the scaling looks all wonky. Some elements look ok, but the icons on the launcher bar are so tiny I could hardly see them. But... I could live with that. What I cannot live with is the lack of games. Real games. New release titles. I am hoping that can and will change with the release a Vulcan, though only time will tell. As I get old though, the biggest issue for me is the lack of MS office. Yes I know there are open source alternatives, but these are not the same. I know people who are not big office users same it can be a one to one swap, but it cant. If MS released a linux version of office, I would switch to Linux as my main OS and just boot to windows when gaming.
Really, can't tell the cops from the criminals these days.
Sure you can. It's really easy. You are allowed to fight back against an unwarranted attack by a criminal. If the cop starts beating you randomly, you need to let him do it and hope he doesnt also want to kill you. Then you go to the station, get hand cuffed to a chair, beaten some more. I mean.. you accidentally fall from your chair. Then later, you can go home. See? Easy!
Maybe I am wrong, but I didnt think that freight delivery was ever the point of the hyperloop. There is nothing which can beat a 1 mile long freight train in terms of cost for shipping cargo. The hyperloop is a people mover. I would love to see people use this "train in a tube" to travel from place to place. Not because it would be faster, but because I am sick of hearing air planes until 11pm every damn night. This hyperloop should be silent or near enough to the people outside of the tube.
For freight though, it makes zero sense. What they should do to dig a canal from the gulf of Baja CA to the Salton Sea and use that as a distribution hub for rails and automated trucks.
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and can achieve up to about 10 Mbit for around 80-90 dollars per month (unlimited bandwidth). Not great, but usable.
And that is a big reason WiMax failed. The WiMax forum was promising years ago that we would see speeds of 1gbps by the end of 2011. That of course never materialized. Of course the WiMax forum was always promising this and that. The actual speeds were massively less than promised.
My company also spent a lot of resources on WiMax in the early days. We even had a couple of test systems in house. Luckily they were on loan only. When the time came to buy or not, we chose not to spend the 1.2 million USD on the WiMax system.
By that time, it became clear that Europe would not adapt a non 3GPP standard for their cellular backbone.
It was also clear that the major test system manufactures were not going to build WiMax systems. One of my friends who works for one of the largest test equipment makers told me they looked into but, but the fee structure imposed by the WiMax forum caused them to tell WiMax to go F themselves.
At the moment, I would totally agree that speeds are fast enough for mobile users. Hell LTE-A with category 24 will be faster than your network card. So, unless you have a 10gbps NIC at home, there is no need for more. Unless of course it is a shared connection with a lot of other folks.
Of course... the bigger issue is that a massive increase in speed will not yield a comparable increase in data caps in the US. So, you would be able to bust your limits in a couple of minutes.
I'd say it's more casual racism.
It has long been understood that Google can, on their own, massively influence the outcome of any election.
In the US there will be no outcry. Fuckers are too lazy.
However, there has been massive protests about it in Europe. Several politicians over here have promised to kill it no matter what.
You are correct in saying that government can buy WAY more guns, but you are forgetting something very important.
I, perhaps like some of you, served in the military. There is one thing which I would say at least 90% of the military members would not do. Turn their guns on Americans. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
I would say that the military members are MORE likely to turn their guns on the government if such an order was ever given. I know I would have.
Stop being so damn defeatist. You don't need a gun and you don't need violence, you need a pen.
.... and the American public has been undereducated for decades.
Well, that is dictatorship 101. That is literally step 1. Keep you people too stupid to understand what's going on. Limit education to the ruling class. If you allow the dirty masses to become educated, ensure that it enslaves them in a mountain of dept.
Seriously, that is so freaken cute that you think your government gives one single fuck what you write or think. They don't.
You think they give a single fuck if they are voted out? Why should they? They get their pay for life. They will always have a high paying job when they are out of office because of the favors that they sold to their corporate masters.
There are VERY few politicians who are willing to go against ruling class. Regardless of your letters.
No, your letter will make no difference at all. They system is too far gone. Too long corrupted. The checks and balances are gone. The people now fear the government and with good reason.
?Look at all the court rulings lately. Warrant needed for you bank card? Nope. Warrant needed to take your money? Nope. Criminal charges needed to take your money? Nope. It goes on and on.
Too long has the population sat on their collective asses while the power was consolidated. Too long were the masses so blinded by shiny gadgets that they would not look behind the curtain.
No fellow citizen, the time for letters has passed. It falls unfortunately to the young ones to get back on track. Most sadly, see nothing wrong with the current system.
I am sure that on the surface it seemed like a good idea to try and blame the car for the couple.
No doubt they wanted to avoid the major increase in insurance premiums and the long wait time for a replacement car.
Nowadays though, with all the tech in cars, it is much easier to check what happened.
Technically, they could now be on the hook for filing a false police report and insurance fraud.
On the other hand, it is possible that it was an honest mistake. It happens regularly that someone "thinks" they have slammed on the brakes, only to have actually smashed the accelerator to the floor. I have even caught the my shoe on the accelerator before on a particular car which the two peddles were very close together.
Another time, I had a cheap ass floor mat that slid up and got stuck in the linkage causing a wide open throttle. Luckily that was a manual shift car.
So, 54% do not trust AI? The same way a couple hundred years ago people did no trust the science and medicine..
What the hell are you talking about? Americans still don't trust science.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
If you have nothing to hide, you should not be worried, they said. The government is there to protect us, they said. The government has a right to do those things, they said. The government would never cross the line, they said.
Well, I would say at this point it is probably past the "too late" stage and you are stuck with the monster which decades of apathy and "blind misplaced patriotism" has created.
The US government has so much power at this point, I find it hard to imagine the people could ever take it back without a lot of bloodshed. I hope I am wrong.
Disclaimer, I do use Windows 10 on my machines at home and especially my gaming rig.
The laptops, because that was what came installed, but the gaming rig, obviously since it is actually pretty good for gaming.
I do not really mind the OS itself, but I am growing tired of this constant crap they are pulling. Like forcing my to use Bing! I fucking hate Bing. If I accidentally search with Bing, I will go to google and search again even if the Bing answer may have been correct. I HATE Bing!
I really hope that this year, with Vulcan coming online, my biggest reason for not switching to Linux will be gone. I can imagine that Steam can really help to push Linux on gaming with the HTC vive. I have ordered it myself.
I'll need to update my graphics card, but I need to see what's on tap from AMD first.
It could finally be time for the Linux desktop.
Tablet computing was always perfectly plausible.
I guess it further illustrates your point that tablet sales and use are way down. They seem to be going away. I am not too sad to be honest.
Nowadays, laptops are so thin and light there is no reason to use a crippled product when you could have a real computer with all its extra use cases.
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Search for ANYTHING + Rule 34. There is porn of it.
They will certainly try. It is not likely that any company they buy will have anything like Google's machine learning capabilities.
Then again, Google used to be a couple of guys with an algorithm better than anyone else and just look what happened. So..who know!
You think so?
I should point out of course, that Siri is NOT an Apple invention. They bought it. I agree though, it does work reasonably well.
I personally find the "OK Google" more useful as it more fits the way that I use my phone day to day. Especially when in the car.
My head unit supports Carplay and Android Auto. Honestly, Apple's current state of Carplay is why I switched back to Android. After doing so is when I discovered that "OK Goggle" is pretty damn good in the car.
Then again, machine learning is a core competence of Google. It would be silly to think that Apple would be able to roll out a product of similar polish.
I don't recall that Apple has ever pretended to care about people's privacy. They do when such actions happen to align with maximizing profits.
Don't get me wrong, I like Apple product. Always have. But, I have never understood peoples insistence to apologies and excuse them for everything. As if their own self worth is somehow tied up in Apple being thought of as a benevolent overlord. (not implying you think that) Apple fucks their customers all the time just like every other company.
They are just a maker of "stuff" at the end of the day.
It happens to nearly all companies.
Once on top of the world, the next moment hanging on to survive.
Who have we got?
Motorola
RIM
Palm
braodcom
yahoo
AOL
Nokia
Sony. Remember when everyone wanted SONY gear?
Hell, it has even happened to Apple before.
People are fickle. If some hot new thing comes along with a better way of doing things, then people will generally follow the trend. If the old guard is too slow, then they get left in the dust, living off their cash reserves until eventually, the die. Apple is no exception. Innovate or die.
Having an open RF stack is illegal for a licensed transmitter. The FCC does not allow any changes at all to the conditions to which the device was approved. Small changes can be made via a class 2 permissive change, but allowing you, the user access to change the RF properties is very illegal.
And with good reason too. You would be surprised to know how much damage to a network just one fucked up phone can cause.
I mean honestly, if there is one thing we know, it is that the police would never violate our right to privacy.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I cannot imagine them logging onto random "hot girl" cams to monitor their "safety".
Knock knock... Are you OK miss?
Yes, but how did you know I slipped in the shower?
They could have been bought by HP.
Personally, I think that Stephen Elop should be in prison for what he did. From every action he took it was clear that he was a plant from MS to devalue the Nokia brand as much as possible so that MS could purchase it for pennies on the dollar.
I do not think that MS was ever too serious about producing phones, but they were very serious about acquiring Nokia's patent portfolio.
To think about 1000's of jobs lost and lives ruined because of that ass hat. That, to me, is criminal.
Would Nokia have turned things around eventually? Personally, I think they would have. At the time, I was in a position to see many of the models Nokia had in the pipeline. I thought they looked fantastic. Then the came Elop and Windows phone. Then came the speedy end.
Now, I am not saying that I would condone such actions, but it has always surprised me guys like him don't get murdered by some former employees. I mean, looks at the amount of lives these guys screw up. Like Chris Galvan at Motorola in the early 2000's. This guy fired 10's of thousands of people and made one ridiculous decision after another. The year he kicked out 40k employees, he saw fit to give himself an 8 million dollar bonus. I was a lower level manager at the time as send him an email asking how much he would get when he fires the rest of the workers. I got an email back from his secretary saying his bonus was inline with the industry, to which I responded that other CEO's don't lose half their market value in 2 years.
Just this morning, as I was reading an article on MS 10's latest update, which includes more adds, I was pondering; is it finally time to give linux another chance?
I give it a shot every couple years in hopes that I can finally ditch Windows, but invariably, I format the drive and go back to windows.
Now, to be honest, I did try Mint a couple weeks ago running on a live USB disk. It was reasonably snappy and looks "ok". However, there are definitely still big issues with High resolution displays, so that the scaling looks all wonky. Some elements look ok, but the icons on the launcher bar are so tiny I could hardly see them.
But... I could live with that.
What I cannot live with is the lack of games. Real games. New release titles.
I am hoping that can and will change with the release a Vulcan, though only time will tell.
As I get old though, the biggest issue for me is the lack of MS office. Yes I know there are open source alternatives, but these are not the same. I know people who are not big office users same it can be a one to one swap, but it cant.
If MS released a linux version of office, I would switch to Linux as my main OS and just boot to windows when gaming.
Really, can't tell the cops from the criminals these days.
Sure you can. It's really easy. You are allowed to fight back against an unwarranted attack by a criminal. If the cop starts beating you randomly, you need to let him do it and hope he doesnt also want to kill you. Then you go to the station, get hand cuffed to a chair, beaten some more. I mean.. you accidentally fall from your chair.
Then later, you can go home.
See? Easy!
thank goodness...since you know..the decals is what everyone is concerned about. Not the mass tracking of the population without any cause.
Maybe I am wrong, but I didnt think that freight delivery was ever the point of the hyperloop. There is nothing which can beat a 1 mile long freight train in terms of cost for shipping cargo.
The hyperloop is a people mover.
I would love to see people use this "train in a tube" to travel from place to place. Not because it would be faster, but because I am sick of hearing air planes until 11pm every damn night. This hyperloop should be silent or near enough to the people outside of the tube.
For freight though, it makes zero sense.
What they should do to dig a canal from the gulf of Baja CA to the Salton Sea and use that as a distribution hub for rails and automated trucks.