Seriously, this is about the biggest straw-man argument around. And, it's complete bullshit. People who buy computers don't give a single fuck if it's Windows 8 or 7 or 10 or 20.They dont care. It's windows to them! It will run their old programs. They can use it more or less in the same way they are used to. Americans dont fucking care about privacy at all. Seriously, most of those morons think it's the governments job to spy on everyone and if you do not have something to hide, then there is no need to worry. I would assume that most folks here build their own machine. Assuming it's not a laptop.
The reason PC sales are declining has fuck all to do with Windows and everything to do with the fact that a computer purchased in 2010 or 2011 works totally fine for modern software and there is no reason at all to upgrade.
When I think of Amazon, I think of buying stuff online. Perhaps even the upcoming new Top gear. I cannot imagine thinking...hey.. I'll go to amazon a look at lol catz. There is no way they can compete with youtube. Just like there was never any chance that google+ was going to take off. People think of Google as the place to go to search for what you want or to get your email, but not to post social media. Same is true for Amazon and personal content. Hell, I am even a Prime member and have not watched a single show their site. Why? Because while they have loads of shows, nearly everything I want to see is "extra" and I will never pay 3 dollars to watch a single episode of a TV show. Ever. Maybe if it was like 10 cents, but 3 bucks? Nope. And most folks I know think the same. Youtube for random videos and Netflix or Hulu for streaming. Though... I would use amazon to buy the router I would use to connect to those other services.
Well, not exactly the carriers. Or the manufactures either.
Most people who use cell phones in the US are totally unaware of the certification process in place for those phones.
The main game in town is PTCRB. This makes up most of the GSM/UMTS and LTE carriers in the US and Canada. Verizon has their own program, which by and large follows GCF, the European counterpart to PTCRB, but based on open standards. Though, VzW mixes in proprietary standards.
The certification for PTCRB has a LOT of testing involved. For a modern phone supporting 2G/3G/LTE, we are talking in excess of 15k separate tests which are run for conformance testing. This doesn't even include Field testing. Now, the manufactures cannot run these tests on their own, unless they are a PTCRB lab, which is very uncommon. Normally, they need to use a test house, which will determine the testing scope, run the tests, create the reports and then upload the test reports to PTCRB who will then approve the product. Now.. that certified product is linked to a SVN number. That is the last 2 digits after the IMEI number. That lets the network know which version of HW/SW your phone is. Every single time a new SW version comes out, they need to certify it again. Normally, this is done via an ECO (engineering change order) and the testing scope is pretty small. It still can take weeks though, depending on how busy the labs are. That's only PTCRB! If they also have VzW it's way more of a pain.
The GCF model is a lot better IMO. It is self certification. The tests need to be run in the lab though, but there is no need to go through all the paper work stuff for a software update. Just some due diligence to ensure you didnt break anything and you will not harm the network. Though, if they want to change the feature set or add a band... that's a whole new ball of wax. Actually, if they enabled a band, they would technically need to get a new FCC ID as well. Then the model name would also need to change and it would be considered a variant product as far as PTCRB is concerned. Similar story for Bluetooth SW/HW as well. Except that goes through the BT SIG.
If this thing would really cost 35 billion, there is no way in hell it would be built! It makes no sense at all. For that amount of money, you could cover the entire Sahara desert in Solar cells. You could build loads of gas plants and wind farms which would generate massively more energy than one nuclear plant. You could launch a bunch of cells into space and transmit the power back to earth for less money than that. You could build a wall at the Mexico / USA border and cover it with solar cells for less money. You could install gas bags on the ass of every cow on the planet to catch the methane gas to power a gas turbine plant than it would cost to build that thing. It make NO damn sense.
Obviously, I am not a physicist, so I genuinely asking this. I get that the change of the state would be random and thus there is no way to predict how the state will change. But do you need to know? I mean lets say the ship was 10 light years away and the partner was here on earth. Let's say that we figured out a way to both measure a change in state instantly. How it changed isnt important, only that it did change. We also figured out a way to change the state when we want to. Could we not just use frequency of the change like mores code? I also seems not correct to say it cannot work because we would violate a law. As I understand it, no one has a clue how quantum works. Hell, maybe those little suckers just make a tunnel that connects right through space time to the partner. Who knows!
I can see the use case for offshore platforms using such a thing for energy, but other than that, what is the point? I mean, how is this better than putting a crap ton of cells in the desert where there is almost never clouds? Not to mention land based installations are really pretty simple. I am sure I am missing something, but I do not see why this is a worthwhile endeavor when there are other plans floating around like covering the Sahara with solar.
Sorry, but what does our trust in the media have to do with anything? The government does not give a single fuck what the people thing or believe. Not a single fuck. The people are not the ones prosecuting people. The only outcome is what you always get. Your Clintons and what not say, OH NO!! We are gonna solve this together and those who responsible parties shall be looked at very closely, blah blah blah. In the then nothing at all will happen. How could it? The ones who make he laws are the ones breaking the laws and fucking over the general population time and time again. Do you think they are going to go after themselves? Of course they wont. Then entire system is rigged.
Expensive does NOT always mean better. Though yes, very often you get what you pay for.
Case in point. Dyson vacuum cleaners. Even though they are significantly more expensive than other brands in the US, they are crap. The hard plastics used, especially at the handle for the dirt trap break after a comparatively short amount of time. Admittedly, I am only going by anecdotal evidence here. My sister went through three in two years, though she still likes it when it's working. I had one for about two weeks and returned it. I thought it was broken because the suction was so poor. Turns out it was normal though. You see, I had just moved to the US from Germany at that time, where I had always owned Miele vacuum. These are, admittedly massively over priced in the US. What I paid 300€ for in Germany costs $900 in the US. That thing would suck up everything even when the bag was full.. no change in suction. We beat the crap out of it and never had any issues. Though, I learned that the motor wattage used in Europe is higher that what is used in the US for some reason. So.. I guess that explains it. So.. what's my point again? No idea. Something about expensive stuff being better than cheap stuff i guess.;)
Dude, if you feel so passionate about it, why do you post AC? Are you not willing to stand behind what you say?
BTW, Hydroelectric power, ecologically speaking is a nightmare. Also, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about... at all. From the EIA site.
In 2015, the United States generated about 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity.1 About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).
Major energy sources and percent share of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015:1
Coal = 33%
Natural gas = 33%
Nuclear = 20%
Hydropower = 6%
Other renewables = 7%
Biomass = 1.6%
Geothermal = 0.4%
Solar = 0.6%
Wind = 4.7%
Petroleum = 1%
Other gases = 1%
Strictly speaking, If you are so concerned about the environment you would not buy a fancy new electric car, but rather buy and older used car. Even better, drive your current car until it has reached its end of life. The amount of carbon used to make a new car far exceeds that of what you would use to drive your already produced car. Not to mention that lithium mining is messy business. Plus the battery pack is only good for 10 years, after which you need to replace the car or buy a new battery pack. There is currently no way to get rid of those battery packs. What do you propose to do with a mountain of old batteries, Mr. "I love the planet more than everyone else"? If you really really love the environment, you could get a hipster fixed gear bike and ride that everywhere. You could even keep your hemp products inside your messenger bag!
I have both the gmail app and outlook installed. If I look into permissions, they have exactly the same level of permissions. With the latest version of android you can even turn off those with a simple toggle.
On my android phone I use the MS Outlook app and find it to be actually pretty good. I can turn off the conversation view, which I hate and I get access to all the same folders I have at my desktop. Plus, it's free with office. I know there are a lot of people who would like to put everything into one bucket, but personally I do not want my private emails anywhere near my work emails. The worst part of having my MS Exchange emails going to my gmail inbox would be the weekends. I would see that there are emails from work when I checked my gmail and then I would feel obligated to read them and the feel obligated to actually do something. No... I prefer to not know I have an email until Monday, when I turn notifications back on.
Dear assholes, thanks a lot for waiting until we had to pay a crap ton of money to confess that everyone has been doing the same type of things more or less forever. yours truly, Volkswagen.
I noticed you are a coward. Not surprising. You'll also notice that my post made no mention of my support for democratic or republican or any policies. Simply the undeniably appearance of the race. You should consider not hiding behind AC if you feel so strongly about something.
Let’s work it out. KE= 0.5xmv2 We can use your example of.5 C. So, that’s 14989622900 m / s. Let’s say the package has a mass of only 2 kg. (would be more like 10 though) Then we get KE= 0.5 x 2kg x 224688794684204410000m2/s2
= 224688794684204410000 joules. I don’t know 2.2468879468420442e+20 J seems like a lot. Hiroshima was “only” 6.3xE+13 In case you are wondering, 10kg would take it to 5.61721986710511e+20J. Also a lot;)
I don't really get the tone of this article. It seems to imply that it's not fair LTE-U isnt being used simply because it will ruin your WiFi connection. LTE-U never had a hope in hell. If you live in an apartment complex or even a crowded neighborhood, think about how many routers you can see from your laptop. The spectrum is already packed! Bring in LTE-U, which just blasts out a 20MHz bandwidth signal without respecting other devices and your already flacky wifi connection just died.
Think of it like the Republican race. 802.11 devices are like the normal Republicans all in a room debating about some thing two to a table. Everyone can talk to their partner without raising their voice too much. LTE-U is Donald Trump. He walks in and says , "Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?".....
Listening to NASA talk about how they would like to have these in Mars in a "couple of decades" is just depressing. Seriously, when did America become the country of thinking small?
A couple of decades? For F's sake, we went to the moon nearly 60 years ago! 60 freaking years later and we are not even up to the same level as before the microprocessor was invented.
The thing about aliens They are alien. It’s unknowable. The aliens could be totally hive minded with only a tiny portion of creatures controlling everything else. No individuality. No personal greed. No personal ambition. Only serving the “hive”. Such a species would be hyper aggressive towards any perceived threat. If they happened on Earth, what would they see? They would see a species that is very aggressive internally and hyper aggressive towards anything perceived as different from the norm. A species on the verge of developing the technology to leave the planet. Who already has the technology to destroy an entire world. Most likely such a species would lay waste to Earth by dropping rocks on it.
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Seriously, this is about the biggest straw-man argument around. And, it's complete bullshit. .They dont care. It's windows to them! It will run their old programs. They can use it more or less in the same way they are used to.
People who buy computers don't give a single fuck if it's Windows 8 or 7 or 10 or 20
Americans dont fucking care about privacy at all.
Seriously, most of those morons think it's the governments job to spy on everyone and if you do not have something to hide, then there is no need to worry.
I would assume that most folks here build their own machine. Assuming it's not a laptop.
The reason PC sales are declining has fuck all to do with Windows and everything to do with the fact that a computer purchased in 2010 or 2011 works totally fine for modern software and there is no reason at all to upgrade.
When I think of Amazon, I think of buying stuff online. Perhaps even the upcoming new Top gear.
I cannot imagine thinking...hey.. I'll go to amazon a look at lol catz.
There is no way they can compete with youtube. Just like there was never any chance that google+ was going to take off. People think of Google as the place to go to search for what you want or to get your email, but not to post social media.
Same is true for Amazon and personal content.
Hell, I am even a Prime member and have not watched a single show their site. Why? Because while they have loads of shows, nearly everything I want to see is "extra" and I will never pay 3 dollars to watch a single episode of a TV show. Ever.
Maybe if it was like 10 cents, but 3 bucks? Nope.
And most folks I know think the same.
Youtube for random videos and Netflix or Hulu for streaming.
Though... I would use amazon to buy the router I would use to connect to those other services.
Well, not exactly the carriers. Or the manufactures either.
Most people who use cell phones in the US are totally unaware of the certification process in place for those phones.
The main game in town is PTCRB. This makes up most of the GSM/UMTS and LTE carriers in the US and Canada. Verizon has their own program, which by and large follows GCF, the European counterpart to PTCRB, but based on open standards. Though, VzW mixes in proprietary standards.
The certification for PTCRB has a LOT of testing involved. For a modern phone supporting 2G/3G/LTE, we are talking in excess of 15k separate tests which are run for conformance testing. This doesn't even include Field testing. Now, the manufactures cannot run these tests on their own, unless they are a PTCRB lab, which is very uncommon. Normally, they need to use a test house, which will determine the testing scope, run the tests, create the reports and then upload the test reports to PTCRB who will then approve the product.
Now.. that certified product is linked to a SVN number. That is the last 2 digits after the IMEI number. That lets the network know which version of HW/SW your phone is.
Every single time a new SW version comes out, they need to certify it again. Normally, this is done via an ECO (engineering change order) and the testing scope is pretty small. It still can take weeks though, depending on how busy the labs are. That's only PTCRB!
If they also have VzW it's way more of a pain.
The GCF model is a lot better IMO. It is self certification. The tests need to be run in the lab though, but there is no need to go through all the paper work stuff for a software update. Just some due diligence to ensure you didnt break anything and you will not harm the network.
Though, if they want to change the feature set or add a band... that's a whole new ball of wax.
Actually, if they enabled a band, they would technically need to get a new FCC ID as well. Then the model name would also need to change and it would be considered a variant product as far as PTCRB is concerned.
Similar story for Bluetooth SW/HW as well. Except that goes through the BT SIG.
Damn. That has got to be the most obscure TV references I have ever seen. I wonder if there are more than 50 people what would not have to google it.
Well.. I better get going now! Should not take too long. What 170k years? That's not bad. We can use one of those new 1700 generations ships!
If this thing would really cost 35 billion, there is no way in hell it would be built! It makes no sense at all.
For that amount of money, you could cover the entire Sahara desert in Solar cells. You could build loads of gas plants and wind farms which would generate massively more energy than one nuclear plant.
You could launch a bunch of cells into space and transmit the power back to earth for less money than that.
You could build a wall at the Mexico / USA border and cover it with solar cells for less money.
You could install gas bags on the ass of every cow on the planet to catch the methane gas to power a gas turbine plant than it would cost to build that thing.
It make NO damn sense.
Obviously, I am not a physicist, so I genuinely asking this.
I get that the change of the state would be random and thus there is no way to predict how the state will change. But do you need to know?
I mean lets say the ship was 10 light years away and the partner was here on earth.
Let's say that we figured out a way to both measure a change in state instantly. How it changed isnt important, only that it did change.
We also figured out a way to change the state when we want to.
Could we not just use frequency of the change like mores code?
I also seems not correct to say it cannot work because we would violate a law. As I understand it, no one has a clue how quantum works. Hell, maybe those little suckers just make a tunnel that connects right through space time to the partner. Who knows!
I can see the use case for offshore platforms using such a thing for energy, but other than that, what is the point?
I mean, how is this better than putting a crap ton of cells in the desert where there is almost never clouds? Not to mention land based installations are really pretty simple.
I am sure I am missing something, but I do not see why this is a worthwhile endeavor when there are other plans floating around like covering the Sahara with solar.
Sorry, but what does our trust in the media have to do with anything? The government does not give a single fuck what the people thing or believe. Not a single fuck.
The people are not the ones prosecuting people.
The only outcome is what you always get. Your Clintons and what not say, OH NO!! We are gonna solve this together and those who responsible parties shall be looked at very closely, blah blah blah.
In the then nothing at all will happen. How could it? The ones who make he laws are the ones breaking the laws and fucking over the general population time and time again.
Do you think they are going to go after themselves? Of course they wont. Then entire system is rigged.
Expensive does NOT always mean better. Though yes, very often you get what you pay for.
Case in point. Dyson vacuum cleaners. Even though they are significantly more expensive than other brands in the US, they are crap. The hard plastics used, especially at the handle for the dirt trap break after a comparatively short amount of time. Admittedly, I am only going by anecdotal evidence here. My sister went through three in two years, though she still likes it when it's working. ;)
I had one for about two weeks and returned it. I thought it was broken because the suction was so poor. Turns out it was normal though. You see, I had just moved to the US from Germany at that time, where I had always owned Miele vacuum. These are, admittedly massively over priced in the US. What I paid 300€ for in Germany costs $900 in the US. That thing would suck up everything even when the bag was full.. no change in suction. We beat the crap out of it and never had any issues. Though, I learned that the motor wattage used in Europe is higher that what is used in the US for some reason. So.. I guess that explains it.
So.. what's my point again? No idea. Something about expensive stuff being better than cheap stuff i guess.
Dude, if you feel so passionate about it, why do you post AC? Are you not willing to stand behind what you say?
BTW, Hydroelectric power, ecologically speaking is a nightmare.
Also, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about... at all.
From the EIA site.
In 2015, the United States generated about 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity.1 About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).
Major energy sources and percent share of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015:1
Coal = 33%
Natural gas = 33%
Nuclear = 20%
Hydropower = 6%
Other renewables = 7%
Biomass = 1.6%
Geothermal = 0.4%
Solar = 0.6%
Wind = 4.7%
Petroleum = 1%
Other gases = 1%
Strictly speaking, If you are so concerned about the environment you would not buy a fancy new electric car, but rather buy and older used car.
Even better, drive your current car until it has reached its end of life.
The amount of carbon used to make a new car far exceeds that of what you would use to drive your already produced car. Not to mention that lithium mining is messy business.
Plus the battery pack is only good for 10 years, after which you need to replace the car or buy a new battery pack. There is currently no way to get rid of those battery packs.
What do you propose to do with a mountain of old batteries, Mr. "I love the planet more than everyone else"?
If you really really love the environment, you could get a hipster fixed gear bike and ride that everywhere. You could even keep your hemp products inside your messenger bag!
Hmmm, I am inclined to call bullshit on this.
I have both the gmail app and outlook installed. If I look into permissions, they have exactly the same level of permissions. With the latest version of android you can even turn off those with a simple toggle.
On my android phone I use the MS Outlook app and find it to be actually pretty good. I can turn off the conversation view, which I hate and I get access to all the same folders I have at my desktop. Plus, it's free with office.
I know there are a lot of people who would like to put everything into one bucket, but personally I do not want my private emails anywhere near my work emails.
The worst part of having my MS Exchange emails going to my gmail inbox would be the weekends.
I would see that there are emails from work when I checked my gmail and then I would feel obligated to read them and the feel obligated to actually do something.
No... I prefer to not know I have an email until Monday, when I turn notifications back on.
Dear assholes,
thanks a lot for waiting until we had to pay a crap ton of money to confess that everyone has been doing the same type of things more or less forever.
yours truly,
Volkswagen.
I noticed you are a coward. Not surprising.
You'll also notice that my post made no mention of my support for democratic or republican or any policies. Simply the undeniably appearance of the race.
You should consider not hiding behind AC if you feel so strongly about something.
Let’s work it out. .5 C. So, that’s 14989622900 m / s. ;)
KE= 0.5xmv2
We can use your example of
Let’s say the package has a mass of only 2 kg. (would be more like 10 though)
Then we get KE= 0.5 x 2kg x 224688794684204410000m2/s2
= 224688794684204410000 joules.
I don’t know 2.2468879468420442e+20 J seems like a lot. Hiroshima was “only” 6.3xE+13
In case you are wondering, 10kg would take it to 5.61721986710511e+20J. Also a lot
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I don't really get the tone of this article. It seems to imply that it's not fair LTE-U isnt being used simply because it will ruin your WiFi connection.
LTE-U never had a hope in hell.
If you live in an apartment complex or even a crowded neighborhood, think about how many routers you can see from your laptop. The spectrum is already packed!
Bring in LTE-U, which just blasts out a 20MHz bandwidth signal without respecting other devices and your already flacky wifi connection just died.
Think of it like the Republican race.
802.11 devices are like the normal Republicans all in a room debating about some thing two to a table. Everyone can talk to their partner without raising their voice too much.
LTE-U is Donald Trump. He walks in and says , "Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?".....
Listening to NASA talk about how they would like to have these in Mars in a "couple of decades" is just depressing.
Seriously, when did America become the country of thinking small?
A couple of decades? For F's sake, we went to the moon nearly 60 years ago! 60 freaking years later and we are not even up to the same level as before the microprocessor was invented.
A TSA dungeon master. How much do you not want to go into that basement?
That is why I use firefox in combination with flash and java.
It uses so much system resources it would be impossible for any malware to do anything.
You made a reference to the first macaroni machine brought to the US by Thomas Jefferson on his return from Europe in ... 1789.
Well done Sir.
The thing about aliens They are alien. It’s unknowable.
The aliens could be totally hive minded with only a tiny portion of creatures controlling everything else. No individuality. No personal greed. No personal ambition. Only serving the “hive”.
Such a species would be hyper aggressive towards any perceived threat. If they happened on Earth, what would they see? They would see a species that is very aggressive internally and hyper aggressive towards anything perceived as different from the norm. A species on the verge of developing the technology to leave the planet. Who already has the technology to destroy an entire world.
Most likely such a species would lay waste to Earth by dropping rocks on it.
There are other choices.