Give it another 2-5 decades and that quality-level may be reached. At this time, the smartphone software makers are just making all the mistakes that have been made on desktops.
A decade ago phones were stable. Now they aren't. How does it follow that by giving more decades things will improve?
I had a Blackberry Storm for awhile. It never crashed once. For me crashes only became a reality when I got an Android. I'd been used to the old dumb phones and the Blackberry, and I heard rumblings of people complaining of their Androids and IPhones crashing, but I didn't really listen. My brain didn't register that a phone could actually crash. A phone is a phone. Phones don't crash. Not even smartphones, or at least not my smartphone. It took converting to android for my senses to be dulled and my expectations lowered to be happy if my phone only crashed once or twice a month.
Superior technology = market share? That must explain why 90% of people use MS windows and 2% use Linux. Of course.
90% of people are not "using" an OS at all, and so Microsoft fits the bill perfectly. Linux is not really a great desktop OS, so most "users" don't use it. Many of those that do use Linux on the desktop are just neckbeards patting themselves on the back for being able to do the automated install of linux and the GUI (and probably Wine as well) and couldn't even figure out how to open a shell, let alone use it. As far as I am concerned Linux is the Microsoft of Unixes.
Microsoft also happens to make a much better server OS than their desktop offering. It is good enough that many people overlook the fact that Linux is free and will actually pay for a Microsoft Server OS.
I don't know, carrying multiple devices might make sense if the devices perform their task well and the single device does not. Before I owned a smartphone, I literally never had a phone reboot on me. Rebooting is not a feature, it indicates that the phone is not working correctly and needs to be fixed or replaced. If no smartphone works without rebooting, then all smartphones need to be replaced. The absolute most poorly performing feature on any smartphone I have used is the phone, and the phone is not a feature, it is the primary function. If it cannot do that well, then the entire phone is rubbish.
My desktop computer's the same way though. Every 2-3 weeks it just needs a reboot to clean house.
My desktop computer doesn't need to be rebooted every 2-3 weeks, and no I don't run linux. Its probably your applications and not your OS that needs the reboot.
My Droid S3 also had the similar problem of spontaneously rebooting every couple of days due to an incoming or outgoing call. And that reboot didn't clear the issue either. You had to Power Cycle it all the way off and then back on and then it would work for another couple of days. I am not in the habit of installing huge amounts of apps. I might have had 3 apps on that phone.
24kWh/day = 24kWh/24h = 1kW. Which is a completely ridiculous amount of electricity.
How is that a ridiculous amount of electricity? That is about the amount of electricity a 1.5HP motor uses. That is about 1/24th of he amount of electricity required to charge a Nissan Leaf battery. You people love to chastise people for driving gas guzzlers, and then when people change to electric cars, you chastise them for using too much electricity. At least if we go back to driving gas guzzlers our electric usage will go down.
The average daily usage in the United States is 24kwh.The United States experiences extremes of heat and cold which most European countries don't have to deal with. Also, many houses are heated by electricity rather than coal or natural gas. Ironic that burning a more environmentally sound fuel (electricity) gets you roundly criticized by others for using too much electricity.
48kwh pr day???
Holy crap. We use 12kwh pr day(no ac) for light, cooking, cleaning, washing machine, dryer, 4 drive NAS always running, home server(NUC) always running, 4 ip cameras, exterior lightning when dark, 3 computers, fridge, freezer, 50 bottle wine fridge, internet router, 2xwifi routers, 3 switches. When it gets hotter (32 Celsius) we add 10-12kWh for the AC(Mitsubishi with inverter controlled compressor), the house are properly insulated to keep the cold or heat inside.
48kwh on average are just wasteful.
That's amazing. How were you able to tell GP was being "wasteful" and not just using a lot of electricity? I guess I should not point out that the amount that GP used was only 50% more than the average household in the U.S. and about on par with the average use in an extreme southern state.
Plus there are many other factors. A large house uses much more than a small house. An all electric house uses more than an electric and gas house. Maybe GP is environmentally conscious and drives an EV and has to charge it every day. That alone would account for about half of the usage.
big negative there. it's more distracting to try to read a text on an ultra small screen than it is to just pull our your phone.
You shouldn't be doing either one of those things while driving. I really doubt that anyone texting you has something so important to say that it is worth you and those in your car or nearby cars dying for.
Later in life, some time after you leave your parents' basement, you'll find that free-time comes at a premium.
Ah, so rather than get a smartphone or smartwatch and have to peck out tiny misspelled messages on a tiny inefficient keyboard, the current generation instead waits until they are at a full computer with keyboard where they can return messages more quickly and also efficiently since they are not having to task switch constantly.
What? You didn't understand that? Grammar rules are a fiction and a way the ruling class imposes control on others by establishing an arbitrary "right way to do things" then castigating those who do not kowtow to it.
I should be able to use any spelling, punctuation or grammar and everybody somehow will understand it even without any established grammar rules.
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I don't think anyone's going into debt over the 10K watch. It's for people with more money than they know what to do with, and the desire to spend it all on themselves instead of helping others.
People who have more money than they know what to do with don't buy crap like this. People who want to pretend like they have more money than they know what to do with buy this kind of crap. People who temporarily have more money than they know what to do with and will broke in a few years buy this kind of crap.
Yes, about every 5 years the centralization consultants are let go and the decentralization consultants are brought in. Then 5 years later, the decentralization consultants are let go and the centralization consultants brought in. The key to eternal riches is to know how to do both.
Do you know this for a fact? I know that not all electric cars are created equal in much the same way that a tractor is not equal to a ferrari is not equal to a ford fiesta (or worse a "hybrid"), but when compared to an electric engine... my understanding was that generally an equivalent 3 phase electric motor should have better and flatter torque curve compared to combustion engine, hence the high potential for performance compared to combustion... it should also make it pretty good for hauling stuff in theory.
Well, I was speaking more in terms of space. Most of the EVs are pretty tiny, except for the hybrid versions of larger cars and SUVs. They probably in theory could haul a trailer full of stuff, but I have never seen one doing so, and am not familiar with their towing specs. I looked up a few. For the Chevy Volt towing is not allowed. For the Toyota Prius, towing is not allowed. For the Nissan Leaf, you can now get an available hitch, but the specs all say Not Applicable. Towing anything with an EV is dumb anyway. You are going to be adding weight, which means less distance, and normally when you are towing, you are going for more distance.
we do not have to tolerate hypocritical Christians that like to pretend that they are the victims while demonstrating how un-Christ-like they really are.
Exactly my point. We don't have to tolerate Christians, but we do have to tolerate Jihadists and terrorists.
And France, the UK,... Spreading racial/religious hatred is forbidden in most places in Europe.
Well, that kind of depends on which religion doesn't it? I mean we have to be tolerant of those who hate us, even if they want to kill us, or even if they do kill us. It would be wrong to stifle their spreading of hatred throughout the world.
For most people, especially ones with NEW cars, the cost of fuel is such a small portion of TCO that gas mileage is almost inconsequential within reason. People get psychotic when gas swings one way or another because people are idiots, who cannot ignore the 20-80 dollars they spent today in favor of focusing on the 500 dollars they pay every month.
Maybe they shouldn't assume that fuel cost is the reason people got rid of their electrics. Maybe they got tired of the low range, or the length of recharge times, or the inability to haul large items (they are in for a surprise on how little you can put in an SUV, though). Maybe they got tired of having one car for fuel economy and one car for everything else.
The article is trying to paint a picture that people who switch are shortsighted idiots, but there are many other far more likely reasons that people switched.
It does make one feel better about one's own inferior intellect if one paints everybody else as an idiot.
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Well, I am pretty sure that anything that makes you perform beyond your norm is likely to lead to burnout at some point. As some have mentioned, some people use this to get by on only a few hours sleep, but it doesn't replace sleep, so there is bound to be a crash at some point. Not to mention, short term memory loss.
Of course, to your point, enhanced productivity for a quarter or two followed by the employee dropping dead is just fine with the Job Creators.
I bet we would win back more civil rights if even half of these cases that went to the supreme court were ones where they guy whose rights were violated was not ACTUALLY GUILTY of a FELONY.
I mean I've got a lot more sympathy for a guy who was pulled over, run through the dog test for an hour and not found to have any drugs, then a guy who actually did have drugs.
Why can't these be locked down to a single IMEI or Sim or whatever? Anything else tries to connect just gets shunted on to the real tower. The court order should allow only one phone to be monitored, not anybody that happens to be in the neighborhood.
You don't do "affordable housing" at cost. It is almost always below cost. He will lose money on this unless he makes it section 8, in which case he will get government vouchers. Not that making money is his goal.
If he is smart he won't do Section 8. The agencies which approve houses for Section 8 housing have ridiculous requirements which basically mean that people who get housing paid for the government are entitled to better housing than people who pay their own way. Also, Section 8 renters can skip out on the lease with no punishment from the Section 8 agency. They also will not assist you in collecting rent or collecting balances due. They refuse to be responsible for the damage their clients cause or for unpaid rents, utilities, etc. Their clients are also more likely to leave with no notice than other renters. If their client leaves without giving proper notice according to the terms of the lease, Section 8 stops paying at the same time, even though the lease indicates 30 days (or more) notice. They will even assist their clients in finding a new place to live prior to the end date of the lease, in violation of the lease. They also take several weeks to schedule an appointment to inspect the house, during which time you are losing money by not having the house rented.
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Give it another 2-5 decades and that quality-level may be reached. At this time, the smartphone software makers are just making all the mistakes that have been made on desktops.
A decade ago phones were stable. Now they aren't. How does it follow that by giving more decades things will improve?
So the more you pay for something, the crappier you should expect it to perform?
I had a Blackberry Storm for awhile. It never crashed once. For me crashes only became a reality when I got an Android. I'd been used to the old dumb phones and the Blackberry, and I heard rumblings of people complaining of their Androids and IPhones crashing, but I didn't really listen. My brain didn't register that a phone could actually crash. A phone is a phone. Phones don't crash. Not even smartphones, or at least not my smartphone. It took converting to android for my senses to be dulled and my expectations lowered to be happy if my phone only crashed once or twice a month.
Superior technology = market share? That must explain why 90% of people use MS windows and 2% use Linux. Of course.
90% of people are not "using" an OS at all, and so Microsoft fits the bill perfectly. Linux is not really a great desktop OS, so most "users" don't use it. Many of those that do use Linux on the desktop are just neckbeards patting themselves on the back for being able to do the automated install of linux and the GUI (and probably Wine as well) and couldn't even figure out how to open a shell, let alone use it. As far as I am concerned Linux is the Microsoft of Unixes.
Microsoft also happens to make a much better server OS than their desktop offering. It is good enough that many people overlook the fact that Linux is free and will actually pay for a Microsoft Server OS.
I don't know, carrying multiple devices might make sense if the devices perform their task well and the single device does not. Before I owned a smartphone, I literally never had a phone reboot on me. Rebooting is not a feature, it indicates that the phone is not working correctly and needs to be fixed or replaced. If no smartphone works without rebooting, then all smartphones need to be replaced. The absolute most poorly performing feature on any smartphone I have used is the phone, and the phone is not a feature, it is the primary function. If it cannot do that well, then the entire phone is rubbish.
My desktop computer's the same way though. Every 2-3 weeks it just needs a reboot to clean house.
My desktop computer doesn't need to be rebooted every 2-3 weeks, and no I don't run linux. Its probably your applications and not your OS that needs the reboot.
My Droid S3 also had the similar problem of spontaneously rebooting every couple of days due to an incoming or outgoing call. And that reboot didn't clear the issue either. You had to Power Cycle it all the way off and then back on and then it would work for another couple of days. I am not in the habit of installing huge amounts of apps. I might have had 3 apps on that phone.
24kWh/day = 24kWh/24h = 1kW. Which is a completely ridiculous amount of electricity.
How is that a ridiculous amount of electricity? That is about the amount of electricity a 1.5HP motor uses. That is about 1/24th of he amount of electricity required to charge a Nissan Leaf battery. You people love to chastise people for driving gas guzzlers, and then when people change to electric cars, you chastise them for using too much electricity. At least if we go back to driving gas guzzlers our electric usage will go down.
The average daily usage in the United States is 24kwh.The United States experiences extremes of heat and cold which most European countries don't have to deal with. Also, many houses are heated by electricity rather than coal or natural gas. Ironic that burning a more environmentally sound fuel (electricity) gets you roundly criticized by others for using too much electricity.
48kwh pr day??? Holy crap. We use 12kwh pr day(no ac) for light, cooking, cleaning, washing machine, dryer, 4 drive NAS always running, home server(NUC) always running, 4 ip cameras, exterior lightning when dark, 3 computers, fridge, freezer, 50 bottle wine fridge, internet router, 2xwifi routers, 3 switches. When it gets hotter (32 Celsius) we add 10-12kWh for the AC(Mitsubishi with inverter controlled compressor), the house are properly insulated to keep the cold or heat inside. 48kwh on average are just wasteful.
That's amazing. How were you able to tell GP was being "wasteful" and not just using a lot of electricity? I guess I should not point out that the amount that GP used was only 50% more than the average household in the U.S. and about on par with the average use in an extreme southern state.
Plus there are many other factors. A large house uses much more than a small house. An all electric house uses more than an electric and gas house. Maybe GP is environmentally conscious and drives an EV and has to charge it every day. That alone would account for about half of the usage.
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big negative there. it's more distracting to try to read a text on an ultra small screen than it is to just pull our your phone.
You shouldn't be doing either one of those things while driving. I really doubt that anyone texting you has something so important to say that it is worth you and those in your car or nearby cars dying for.
Later in life, some time after you leave your parents' basement, you'll find that free-time comes at a premium.
Ah, so rather than get a smartphone or smartwatch and have to peck out tiny misspelled messages on a tiny inefficient keyboard, the current generation instead waits until they are at a full computer with keyboard where they can return messages more quickly and also efficiently since they are not having to task switch constantly.
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What? You didn't understand that? Grammar rules are a fiction and a way the ruling class imposes control on others by establishing an arbitrary "right way to do things" then castigating those who do not kowtow to it.
I should be able to use any spelling, punctuation or grammar and everybody somehow will understand it even without any established grammar rules.
I don't think anyone's going into debt over the 10K watch. It's for people with more money than they know what to do with, and the desire to spend it all on themselves instead of helping others.
People who have more money than they know what to do with don't buy crap like this. People who want to pretend like they have more money than they know what to do with buy this kind of crap. People who temporarily have more money than they know what to do with and will broke in a few years buy this kind of crap.
Yes, about every 5 years the centralization consultants are let go and the decentralization consultants are brought in. Then 5 years later, the decentralization consultants are let go and the centralization consultants brought in. The key to eternal riches is to know how to do both.
...or the inability to haul large items.
Do you know this for a fact? I know that not all electric cars are created equal in much the same way that a tractor is not equal to a ferrari is not equal to a ford fiesta (or worse a "hybrid"), but when compared to an electric engine... my understanding was that generally an equivalent 3 phase electric motor should have better and flatter torque curve compared to combustion engine, hence the high potential for performance compared to combustion... it should also make it pretty good for hauling stuff in theory.
Well, I was speaking more in terms of space. Most of the EVs are pretty tiny, except for the hybrid versions of larger cars and SUVs. They probably in theory could haul a trailer full of stuff, but I have never seen one doing so, and am not familiar with their towing specs. I looked up a few. For the Chevy Volt towing is not allowed. For the Toyota Prius, towing is not allowed. For the Nissan Leaf, you can now get an available hitch, but the specs all say Not Applicable. Towing anything with an EV is dumb anyway. You are going to be adding weight, which means less distance, and normally when you are towing, you are going for more distance.
we do not have to tolerate hypocritical Christians that like to pretend that they are the victims while demonstrating how un-Christ-like they really are.
Exactly my point. We don't have to tolerate Christians, but we do have to tolerate Jihadists and terrorists.
And France, the UK,... Spreading racial/religious hatred is forbidden in most places in Europe.
Well, that kind of depends on which religion doesn't it? I mean we have to be tolerant of those who hate us, even if they want to kill us, or even if they do kill us. It would be wrong to stifle their spreading of hatred throughout the world.
For most people, especially ones with NEW cars, the cost of fuel is such a small portion of TCO that gas mileage is almost inconsequential within reason. People get psychotic when gas swings one way or another because people are idiots, who cannot ignore the 20-80 dollars they spent today in favor of focusing on the 500 dollars they pay every month.
Maybe they shouldn't assume that fuel cost is the reason people got rid of their electrics. Maybe they got tired of the low range, or the length of recharge times, or the inability to haul large items (they are in for a surprise on how little you can put in an SUV, though). Maybe they got tired of having one car for fuel economy and one car for everything else.
The article is trying to paint a picture that people who switch are shortsighted idiots, but there are many other far more likely reasons that people switched.
It does make one feel better about one's own inferior intellect if one paints everybody else as an idiot.
Slashdot Quote: The first version always gets thrown away.
Well, I am pretty sure that anything that makes you perform beyond your norm is likely to lead to burnout at some point. As some have mentioned, some people use this to get by on only a few hours sleep, but it doesn't replace sleep, so there is bound to be a crash at some point. Not to mention, short term memory loss.
Of course, to your point, enhanced productivity for a quarter or two followed by the employee dropping dead is just fine with the Job Creators.
I bet we would win back more civil rights if even half of these cases that went to the supreme court were ones where they guy whose rights were violated was not ACTUALLY GUILTY of a FELONY.
I mean I've got a lot more sympathy for a guy who was pulled over, run through the dog test for an hour and not found to have any drugs, then a guy who actually did have drugs.
Why can't these be locked down to a single IMEI or Sim or whatever? Anything else tries to connect just gets shunted on to the real tower. The court order should allow only one phone to be monitored, not anybody that happens to be in the neighborhood.
You don't do "affordable housing" at cost. It is almost always below cost. He will lose money on this unless he makes it section 8, in which case he will get government vouchers. Not that making money is his goal.
If he is smart he won't do Section 8. The agencies which approve houses for Section 8 housing have ridiculous requirements which basically mean that people who get housing paid for the government are entitled to better housing than people who pay their own way. Also, Section 8 renters can skip out on the lease with no punishment from the Section 8 agency. They also will not assist you in collecting rent or collecting balances due. They refuse to be responsible for the damage their clients cause or for unpaid rents, utilities, etc. Their clients are also more likely to leave with no notice than other renters. If their client leaves without giving proper notice according to the terms of the lease, Section 8 stops paying at the same time, even though the lease indicates 30 days (or more) notice. They will even assist their clients in finding a new place to live prior to the end date of the lease, in violation of the lease. They also take several weeks to schedule an appointment to inspect the house, during which time you are losing money by not having the house rented.
all that brine has to go somewhere
How about back where it came from?
I say let the sit in prison.
And on their dime too.