What about a possibly bigger supply of construction workers? Some people might quit their hopeless shit job (say call center), get some training and get hired to build stuff. Without UBI, same person runs the risks of ending homeless if quitting the shit job. That's how people think in high unemployment countries. And if you're "unskilled" you won't get a minimum wage job in construction or something like that anymore.
For this sort of person have a referee (i.e. some sort of care professional) control the money i.e. pay the rent directly to the land owner, the bills, and hand out the rest as a weekly trickle. This is what happens in my country, typically these are people on disability - getting a shitty low income that would be about what the UBI would be. Or it's the system for adorable very old retired ladies who can't deal with money and bills anymore (or not everyday)
What if someone lives on $500 per month (welfare etc.) then is suddenly given $1000 of UBI per month instead? You've made that person a lot more employable and removed a disencentive to work (possibility of losing the welfare / starting over six monthes down the line)
That's what the people in suits probably have no idea of. If there's high unemployment and the welfare guy has to compete with e.g. the minimum wage guys that have a lot more experience on paper, are better fed and can pay for laundry and such.. Guess who the employer will choose?
So you'll have people not bothering to work anymore (not that many) and people who will bother to work but didn't before, perhaps not that many either but you'd be surprised.
What if there's insufficient housing? I'm in a country that is rich and perhaps closer to those principles than most. There's years of waiting for that 500 sq ft flat and if you're single and childless, that'll be more of a pointless decade wait for a 200 sq ft one. Subsidized housing not 100% free. What happens is rents are subsidized for regular non-subsidized housing too. That works but in turn housing is high priced and it sucks for full time workers. A lot more housing is needed but if you make it state-owned, for poors only that's instant ghettoization.
I suppose Thunderbolt 3 stuff will run at Thunderbolt 2 speed. 5K screen would remain a technical possibility, esp. if it's for displaying something dumb like excel spreadsheets, text, Photoshop, audio software or some lightweight 3D thing such as Google Earth.
For decades game studios have supported multiple resolutions. Flight Simulator 4 had many of them and it's old as fuck. In particular, Quake 1 had a very large selection including 360x240, 360x350, 400x300, 512x384 and all the way up to 1600x1200. The OpenGL version supported arbitrary custom res. Quake 3 added 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio though that's a console/command line switch. Then in the last 15 years games have tended to show the same list of reses the OS offers for its desktop.
I've wanted to point it out in reply to more than one comment above. We can have our reservations, but what it does is to allow the 5K display to run on existing Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Macbook Pro. (iMac 5K, if this one has a Thunderbolt out?)
If it did not, a lot of bitching there would be. Does an old GPU suck? Not really as long as it's a bit properly supported. AMD did disappoint some but gets better. Nvidia and Intel are good to go for a decade basically. When/if you won't use the monitor's GPU, by then you'll use it (the monitor) in monitor mode at full res on hardware that supports DP 1.3 such as a future low end desktop PC with integrated graphics.
Perhaps those hills run the battery down faster (and the stated range is rather low to begin with). Then the dead weight of the battery is not a problem on the flat but it is uphill, even more so if the weight is on the back. Perhaps there are less cyclists in the first place.
It's technically possible to replace a broken screen, depending on design. That's also why broken shit should be shipped to Africa (contrary to what propaganda from the Basel network says)
FM radio is location dependant, but here it is awesome thanks. No dataplan needed, quality often better than the internet streaming from same stations, works with the dumbphone too. Checking out another stations takes a few milliseconds too.
I wanted to run SUA a.k.a. Services for Unix on Windows 7 but it was only allowed on Enterprise and Ultimate (and old, tired, deprecated). With that and the OS running like a pig on 2GB RAM and a fast (but noisy) 1TB hard drive I hated Windows 7 more than average. Cygwin is useful but not super great (very slow installation through setup.exe and to install new packages how do you do that without starting over? )
I hate Microsoft for that time wasted. I should have wasted more time to install a warez Enterprise or Ultimate. A backwards semi-proprietary Unix as an NT subsystem?, with whatever non-bash shell? I was definitely willing to try that:)
There is an actual non-proprietary standard too : audio on USB type C, and this includes both analog and digital sound. So what Apple does would be sort of ok, if they drop their "Lightning" jack and use USB instead. Then you would only need a standard dongle instead of a proprietary one (what a fucking pain, still)
As for a bluetooth receiver, instead of an audio jack you now need a jack and power, plus the receiver itself.
It actually runs a special version of MS-DOS which can run up to 20 programs concurrently (up to 20 users). In that mode though, each program is limited to 64K memory. One trick is to reserve a 64K ramdisk for several programs to communicate with although you can run 19 programs then. Failing that, just plug null-modem cables between some of the COM ports on the back of the PC and call it done..
Even without GMO there's likely endless scientific work to be done, e.g. what are the next 1000 unknown species will we discover? Given 1000 crop varieties and 50 different soil types and 100 climates, which crops should we plant nect to each other and which one after another? Can we plant fruit trees or something here and there to get rid of megafloods while still having high enough yields? Can we get 10% lower yield here but use 50% less pesticides and leave the soil in slightly better shape etc.
I don't know much in that field but I know there are likely tons of things we don't know or poorly know.
... it's a mildly good thing that mobile SoC get support for high refresh and display bandwith. A higher refresh is better, even just for displaying white on black scrolling text. If you plug a cell phone into a monitor and run a linux-like desktop etc. (while charging from the same cable) it's a least a bit useful and the increase in power use is not a problem. I'd even play the old Quake 3 (back then, games were games!)
The only problem is high refresh monitors are also high margin ones, so you may well be able to get a low end 4k 60Hz monitor at $200 or a high end 4k 120Hz at $750.
Do you like Gnome 2 enough? That's what Open Solaris and its updated clones come with. Still alive and well w/ e.g. Mint 18 hopefully coming in a week or so. Cinnamon 3.0 might run well but I'm not too interested (likely good if you have reliable and low power 3D on the machines you use, or for 3200x1800 laptop) The only complaint I have with linux/nix GUIs is how harder it is to create shortcuts to binaries and scripts compared to Windows. (why yes, binaries are "evil" but if I want to run that handful evil games or that free software music player distributed as a static binary, I'll do). So you have to use different shortcut/launcher editing software for the desktop and start menu etc.
It makes no sense to not install fiber, which is likely cheaper and is so much better for long range anyway. So in any new wired rural deployment the last mile at least ought to be capable of a gigabit (could it hit some cable network or even microwave so what comes after/before the last mile is actually slower?)
Let's spend billions to run new copper instead.. With a good enough deployment you might have e.g. reliable long range 512k ADSL. Your pride is safe but it's more expensive and 2000x slower.
I just read somewhere that they have no real medicines in their hospitals, so they make do with readily available heroin instead. It wouldn't surprise me but I have to wonder how could be verified that information.
To be clear I wasn't suggesting them releasing Metro tiles with Windows 7 (2009), but rather backporting the stuff to Windows 7 when they released 8 (2012). That of course would have required that Windows 8 doesn't force Metro tiles on their users, e.g. allowing a start menu.
Had Windows 98SE melt when I tried three network cards rather than two (at least two of them were ISA) but otherwise I always got lucky. Later on I had a motherboard with USB 2.0 ports, still with 98SE. Did that work? I have no idea, since I had no peripherals or drives to plug in there! I used the game port a bit and even the parallel port for some doodad.
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What about a possibly bigger supply of construction workers?
Some people might quit their hopeless shit job (say call center), get some training and get hired to build stuff.
Without UBI, same person runs the risks of ending homeless if quitting the shit job. That's how people think in high unemployment countries. And if you're "unskilled" you won't get a minimum wage job in construction or something like that anymore.
For this sort of person have a referee (i.e. some sort of care professional) control the money i.e. pay the rent directly to the land owner, the bills, and hand out the rest as a weekly trickle. This is what happens in my country, typically these are people on disability - getting a shitty low income that would be about what the UBI would be. Or it's the system for adorable very old retired ladies who can't deal with money and bills anymore (or not everyday)
What if someone lives on $500 per month (welfare etc.) then is suddenly given $1000 of UBI per month instead?
You've made that person a lot more employable and removed a disencentive to work (possibility of losing the welfare / starting over six monthes down the line)
That's what the people in suits probably have no idea of. If there's high unemployment and the welfare guy has to compete with e.g. the minimum wage guys that have a lot more experience on paper, are better fed and can pay for laundry and such.. Guess who the employer will choose?
So you'll have people not bothering to work anymore (not that many) and people who will bother to work but didn't before, perhaps not that many either but you'd be surprised.
What if there's insufficient housing? I'm in a country that is rich and perhaps closer to those principles than most. There's years of waiting for that 500 sq ft flat and if you're single and childless, that'll be more of a pointless decade wait for a 200 sq ft one. Subsidized housing not 100% free.
What happens is rents are subsidized for regular non-subsidized housing too. That works but in turn housing is high priced and it sucks for full time workers. A lot more housing is needed but if you make it state-owned, for poors only that's instant ghettoization.
What to install then? 2008 R2? That's what it takes for an uncrippled version. It's also twice the cost of the hardware needed to run it. (or more)
What does Link Local mean? Simple fact is everyone hates IPv6 because absolutely no one knows what that even means save for a few professionals.
We don't know what's a fe80:: or 2001: address either, following from the first point.
I suppose Thunderbolt 3 stuff will run at Thunderbolt 2 speed. 5K screen would remain a technical possibility, esp. if it's for displaying something dumb like excel spreadsheets, text, Photoshop, audio software or some lightweight 3D thing such as Google Earth.
For decades game studios have supported multiple resolutions. Flight Simulator 4 had many of them and it's old as fuck. In particular, Quake 1 had a very large selection including 360x240, 360x350, 400x300, 512x384 and all the way up to 1600x1200. The OpenGL version supported arbitrary custom res. Quake 3 added 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio though that's a console/command line switch.
Then in the last 15 years games have tended to show the same list of reses the OS offers for its desktop.
I've wanted to point it out in reply to more than one comment above. We can have our reservations, but what it does is to allow the 5K display to run on existing Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Macbook Pro. (iMac 5K, if this one has a Thunderbolt out?)
If it did not, a lot of bitching there would be.
Does an old GPU suck? Not really as long as it's a bit properly supported. AMD did disappoint some but gets better. Nvidia and Intel are good to go for a decade basically.
When/if you won't use the monitor's GPU, by then you'll use it (the monitor) in monitor mode at full res on hardware that supports DP 1.3 such as a future low end desktop PC with integrated graphics.
Perhaps those hills run the battery down faster (and the stated range is rather low to begin with). Then the dead weight of the battery is not a problem on the flat but it is uphill, even more so if the weight is on the back.
Perhaps there are less cyclists in the first place.
It's technically possible to replace a broken screen, depending on design. That's also why broken shit should be shipped to Africa (contrary to what propaganda from the Basel network says)
FM radio is location dependant, but here it is awesome thanks.
No dataplan needed, quality often better than the internet streaming from same stations, works with the dumbphone too.
Checking out another stations takes a few milliseconds too.
I wanted to run SUA a.k.a. Services for Unix on Windows 7 but it was only allowed on Enterprise and Ultimate (and old, tired, deprecated).
With that and the OS running like a pig on 2GB RAM and a fast (but noisy) 1TB hard drive I hated Windows 7 more than average.
Cygwin is useful but not super great (very slow installation through setup.exe and to install new packages how do you do that without starting over? )
I hate Microsoft for that time wasted. I should have wasted more time to install a warez Enterprise or Ultimate. A backwards semi-proprietary Unix as an NT subsystem?, with whatever non-bash shell? I was definitely willing to try that :)
There is an actual non-proprietary standard too : audio on USB type C, and this includes both analog and digital sound.
So what Apple does would be sort of ok, if they drop their "Lightning" jack and use USB instead. Then you would only need a standard dongle instead of a proprietary one (what a fucking pain, still)
As for a bluetooth receiver, instead of an audio jack you now need a jack and power, plus the receiver itself.
To name a few that are still around :
* Serial port (if only headers or hidden USB-to-serial chips)
* PCI
* VGA
* PS/2
I'll even add * USB, since it's rather old.
It actually runs a special version of MS-DOS which can run up to 20 programs concurrently (up to 20 users).
In that mode though, each program is limited to 64K memory. One trick is to reserve a 64K ramdisk for several programs to communicate with although you can run 19 programs then. Failing that, just plug null-modem cables between some of the COM ports on the back of the PC and call it done..
Even without GMO there's likely endless scientific work to be done, e.g. what are the next 1000 unknown species will we discover? Given 1000 crop varieties and 50 different soil types and 100 climates, which crops should we plant nect to each other and which one after another?
Can we plant fruit trees or something here and there to get rid of megafloods while still having high enough yields? Can we get 10% lower yield here but use 50% less pesticides and leave the soil in slightly better shape etc.
I don't know much in that field but I know there are likely tons of things we don't know or poorly know.
... it's a mildly good thing that mobile SoC get support for high refresh and display bandwith. A higher refresh is better, even just for displaying white on black scrolling text. If you plug a cell phone into a monitor and run a linux-like desktop etc. (while charging from the same cable) it's a least a bit useful and the increase in power use is not a problem. I'd even play the old Quake 3 (back then, games were games!)
The only problem is high refresh monitors are also high margin ones, so you may well be able to get a low end 4k 60Hz monitor at $200 or a high end 4k 120Hz at $750.
Do you like Gnome 2 enough? That's what Open Solaris and its updated clones come with.
Still alive and well w/ e.g. Mint 18 hopefully coming in a week or so.
Cinnamon 3.0 might run well but I'm not too interested (likely good if you have reliable and low power 3D on the machines you use, or for 3200x1800 laptop)
The only complaint I have with linux/nix GUIs is how harder it is to create shortcuts to binaries and scripts compared to Windows. (why yes, binaries are "evil" but if I want to run that handful evil games or that free software music player distributed as a static binary, I'll do). So you have to use different shortcut/launcher editing software for the desktop and start menu etc.
Isn't the newer Pixel some kind of Android variant of an Ipad Pro or Surface RT?
It makes no sense to not install fiber, which is likely cheaper and is so much better for long range anyway. So in any new wired rural deployment the last mile at least ought to be capable of a gigabit (could it hit some cable network or even microwave so what comes after/before the last mile is actually slower?)
Let's spend billions to run new copper instead.. With a good enough deployment you might have e.g. reliable long range 512k ADSL. Your pride is safe but it's more expensive and 2000x slower.
That's what the plane did till it did not work anymore.
I just read somewhere that they have no real medicines in their hospitals, so they make do with readily available heroin instead. It wouldn't surprise me but I have to wonder how could be verified that information.
To be clear I wasn't suggesting them releasing Metro tiles with Windows 7 (2009), but rather backporting the stuff to Windows 7 when they released 8 (2012). That of course would have required that Windows 8 doesn't force Metro tiles on their users, e.g. allowing a start menu.
Had Windows 98SE melt when I tried three network cards rather than two (at least two of them were ISA) but otherwise I always got lucky.
Later on I had a motherboard with USB 2.0 ports, still with 98SE. Did that work? I have no idea, since I had no peripherals or drives to plug in there! I used the game port a bit and even the parallel port for some doodad.