I've had more than 90GB of music for over a decade. Then there are pictures, and books, and if this thing is supposed to be a bit of my own personal entertainment while I'm away from a proper desktop computer or my own entertainment system, movies, TV shows, and all sorts of other things that I don't want to have to stream in order to use.
You're assuming that the end owner of the safe even has access to the Windows Shell in a meaningful way. I expect they've replaced the shell with something of their own devising.
I also expect that they spent as little as possible on making the computer-side of the device and didn't even consider the digital security aspects of their choices. Pretty stupid for a security company, but it wouldn't be the first time that such decisions have been made.
I think that's part of the point, lots of people want different things in their phones, but very few manufacturers are respecting those wants.
I want storage expansion and dual-SIM. I wouldn't mind front-mounted speakers. I actually want a real, physical keyboard but I know that's simply not in the cards. I want about double the battery capacity compared to most phones, with a removable battery. I want the LTE bands for my carrier in my area to all be supported. I want a camera capable of about 5MP pictures as I have a real camera that I use when I want ultra high quality photos.
It's really the removal of the memory expansion that upsets me. They're doing it to force consumers to buy new phones in a couple of years instead of simply adding more torage capacity to their existing phones.
MythBuster's is so full of junk science that I feel dumber after watching an episode and find myself wondering things like the will the great ball of fire in the sky rise tomorrow and is the earth flat.
Really? I just enjoy watching the inevitable mechanical carnage from something they missed in their design or build process.
Ion engines push with the amount of force of a piece of paper on one's hand. They still achieve stupendous speeds through doing this indefinitely. If this thing can match that performance over that timescale then it's still useful.
Ion thrusters still consume raw materials, so there's a finite fuel supply. If this does literally turn electricity into thrust without consuming anything then running out of reaction-mass is no longer an issue, and some probes could even be entirely solar powered.
Folks, we get it: 3D is "the wave of the future", and people are printing out custom made 3D dildoes for a custom fit. We get it.
Thanks for the story.
Additive technologies have some rather important limitations, they can't produce anything that needs incredible strength achieved through pressure. Admittedly a lot of products are produced at STP, but if you need forged metal parts for their strength you're not going to get that inexpensively through an additive technology like a 3d printer. Subtractive technolgies, where that pre-hardened lump of material is machined down to the part that one wants is the only way currently to practically achieve that kind of result.
There's a Goodwill next to one of the hardware stores that I shop at regularly, so I'm in there fairly often. There's always lots of otherwise-obsolete computer stuff in there. Never had a problem finding something useful.
Factor college-admissions as a trailing economic indicator too, where people chase what's encouraged as the hot career path, and it's not exactly a surprise to see cyclical enrollments correlating with business.
After watching the doctom and housing bubbles, by the time the average person hears about it, it's too late to enter that trend and come out ahead. I suspect one of the next bubbles will be in health care. We see a lot of discussion of Nursing and careers below nursing on the pecking-order, and I suspect relatively soon there will be a lot of medical grads that can't find work.
SPARC != commodity either. Can't go to the local store and pick up an ATX-form-factor SPARC motherboard and processor off-the-shelf.
Granted, SPARC isn't completely discontinued, but if Debian can't find enough developers to work on the platform then that shows them there isn't enough interest in order to be able to keep it alive.
I was referring to a particular User Friendly comic from fifteen years ago. The AI (Irwin? Erwin?) was talking with Windows NT servers, and they were replying back with just, "I am in my Happy Place. I am in my Happy Place. Reboot! Reboot!" or something like that.
Ah, but there's still a lot of old 32-bit x86 stuff out there, so the barrier to entry is extremely low. We still have 32-bit machines in-production, albeit they're the oldest ones still being used, but there are probably several thousand still running.
Dropping Sparc unfortunately makes sense. Hardware was already exotic and somewhat uncommon when it was new and still supported, and is now even more rare and given its proprietary nature, more likely to simply be permanently removed if it breaks. It's also no entry-level friendly; a kid wanting to play with Linux 'just to see' can go to the Goodwill and buy an old x86 box for $20 and friends can help make things work.
I don't think that you and I have the same definition of, "performance." For me, "performance," is where the act meets the audience as much as where the act is carried-out. One could even ask if there even was a performance if the actor had no audience to see it; if it's in a studio with only those associated with producing the act present then it might not even constitute a performance until the recorded act is displayed for the audience.
I'm a little surprised with the commentary on Slashdot. I see a lot of people getting very passionate when they're probably not terribly knowledgeable about the situation. I don't know what the man's warrants are for, though given the culture surrounding rap and hip-hop I'm guessing that they're not for the same kinds of things that Edward Snowden is wanted for. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not going to stake my argument on the freedom of speech and abuse versus surpression under these circumstances. There are plenty of examples where someone isn't continuing to remain a fugitive to defend.
...if they can collect enough physical information on the subject to make a virtual dressing-room possible without crossing the line into an unacceptable amount of information being collected on the subject. After all, people were very upset by the data collected by the TSA using the Rapiscan machines that essentially saw through clothes to the skin layer, and in order to make a virtual-try-on actually provide meaningful feedback beyond just hanging a picture of clothes in front of a picture of a subject it'd have to have fairly detailed information on the subject.
I also wonder if enough consumers would actually like this, there are a lot of people that enjoy trying on clothes and this would remove that aspect. For the rest of us that don't like trying on clothes there's a trend toward re-buying the same clothing lines anyway, so we'd almost have to try-on clothes to know how they truly fit if we buy something from a new product line.
Except that a mechanic works with his hands, so barring the use of gloves it makes sense why his hands would possibly be dirty or calloused or scarred.
Most technical work doesn't create a visual means to tell that someone works in the field. Sure, there are self-imposed stereotypes like long hair and clothing with nerdy subject matter printed on, but I've seen people with strong technical abilities that were also fitness freaks and wore fitness clothing (and I don't mean sweatpants), I've seen ubertechs wearing sports-memorabilia clothes like commemorative football jerseys, others wearing hunting/outdoorsy stuff, others that were goth or punk, etc. There literally is no visual means to tell.
I have seen workplaces degenerate away from professionalism, and a form of dress-code or uniform helped correct that. Almost everyone was pissed when they did it, but people also stopped screwing around during the workday too, so in the end it did help solve some of the problems, more than it created.
That argument wouldn't hold up in court. Prostitutes try to use it and get convicted anyway. Even "escorts" get busted if they're actually caught engaging in sexual acts, it's just that they're more discreet so they're harder targets.
It isn't just poor people that are irresponsible, it's that people are irresponsible when things do not cost them very much. People do not respect things that are inexpensive to them.
I'm not so sure it is FUD. If the most common conditions from exposure to a toxin manifest 30-40 years after that exposure, and if there really aren't many other conditions that result from that exposure, then it's good sense for people in their twenties to avoid exposure that could hurt or kill them in their fifties or sixties. For someone in their fifties or sixties the symptoms won't manifest until upwards of a century, and the rest of their bodies are probably already breaking-down or they're already dead, so it doesn't matter.
We're seeing that now. Asbestos exposure 30-50 years ago is giving people Asbestosis or Mesothelioma now. These patients didn't really see any symptoms for three decades; now their lungs either don't work efficiently enough or are growing tumors. My father-in-law has it a bit; when I started dealing with cabling in old buildings I made a point of being careful to minimize my exposure.
Those kinds of suspension settings, at least on most vehicles, are slow. While I don't doubt that a car accident could be caused in specific circumstances, I doubt that most drivers would even experience that, let alone some kind of harmonic resonance that causes them to lose control.
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I've had more than 90GB of music for over a decade. Then there are pictures, and books, and if this thing is supposed to be a bit of my own personal entertainment while I'm away from a proper desktop computer or my own entertainment system, movies, TV shows, and all sorts of other things that I don't want to have to stream in order to use.
You're assuming that the end owner of the safe even has access to the Windows Shell in a meaningful way. I expect they've replaced the shell with something of their own devising.
I also expect that they spent as little as possible on making the computer-side of the device and didn't even consider the digital security aspects of their choices. Pretty stupid for a security company, but it wouldn't be the first time that such decisions have been made.
I think that's part of the point, lots of people want different things in their phones, but very few manufacturers are respecting those wants.
I want storage expansion and dual-SIM. I wouldn't mind front-mounted speakers. I actually want a real, physical keyboard but I know that's simply not in the cards. I want about double the battery capacity compared to most phones, with a removable battery. I want the LTE bands for my carrier in my area to all be supported. I want a camera capable of about 5MP pictures as I have a real camera that I use when I want ultra high quality photos.
It's really the removal of the memory expansion that upsets me. They're doing it to force consumers to buy new phones in a couple of years instead of simply adding more torage capacity to their existing phones.
I'd like to see a breakdancing porpoise. Sounds novel.
MythBuster's is so full of junk science that I feel dumber after watching an episode and find myself wondering things like the will the great ball of fire in the sky rise tomorrow and is the earth flat.
Really? I just enjoy watching the inevitable mechanical carnage from something they missed in their design or build process.
Or is that Thorem simply incomplete?
Ion engines push with the amount of force of a piece of paper on one's hand. They still achieve stupendous speeds through doing this indefinitely. If this thing can match that performance over that timescale then it's still useful.
Ion thrusters still consume raw materials, so there's a finite fuel supply. If this does literally turn electricity into thrust without consuming anything then running out of reaction-mass is no longer an issue, and some probes could even be entirely solar powered.
Folks, we get it: 3D is "the wave of the future", and people are printing out custom made 3D dildoes for a custom fit. We get it.
Thanks for the story.
Additive technologies have some rather important limitations, they can't produce anything that needs incredible strength achieved through pressure. Admittedly a lot of products are produced at STP, but if you need forged metal parts for their strength you're not going to get that inexpensively through an additive technology like a 3d printer. Subtractive technolgies, where that pre-hardened lump of material is machined down to the part that one wants is the only way currently to practically achieve that kind of result.
There's a Goodwill next to one of the hardware stores that I shop at regularly, so I'm in there fairly often. There's always lots of otherwise-obsolete computer stuff in there. Never had a problem finding something useful.
Factor college-admissions as a trailing economic indicator too, where people chase what's encouraged as the hot career path, and it's not exactly a surprise to see cyclical enrollments correlating with business.
After watching the doctom and housing bubbles, by the time the average person hears about it, it's too late to enter that trend and come out ahead. I suspect one of the next bubbles will be in health care. We see a lot of discussion of Nursing and careers below nursing on the pecking-order, and I suspect relatively soon there will be a lot of medical grads that can't find work.
It's kind of amusing to read a complaint about poor use of English that contains a typo.
Slashdot's editors typically don't do much to user submissions. I'm not surprised that an otherwise language-poor summary is published.
SPARC != commodity either. Can't go to the local store and pick up an ATX-form-factor SPARC motherboard and processor off-the-shelf.
Granted, SPARC isn't completely discontinued, but if Debian can't find enough developers to work on the platform then that shows them there isn't enough interest in order to be able to keep it alive.
I was referring to a particular User Friendly comic from fifteen years ago. The AI (Irwin? Erwin?) was talking with Windows NT servers, and they were replying back with just, "I am in my Happy Place. I am in my Happy Place. Reboot! Reboot!" or something like that.
Ah, but there's still a lot of old 32-bit x86 stuff out there, so the barrier to entry is extremely low. We still have 32-bit machines in-production, albeit they're the oldest ones still being used, but there are probably several thousand still running.
Dropping Sparc unfortunately makes sense. Hardware was already exotic and somewhat uncommon when it was new and still supported, and is now even more rare and given its proprietary nature, more likely to simply be permanently removed if it breaks. It's also no entry-level friendly; a kid wanting to play with Linux 'just to see' can go to the Goodwill and buy an old x86 box for $20 and friends can help make things work.
"I am in my Happy Place. I am in my Happy Place. Reboot! Reboot!"
I don't think that you and I have the same definition of, "performance." For me, "performance," is where the act meets the audience as much as where the act is carried-out. One could even ask if there even was a performance if the actor had no audience to see it; if it's in a studio with only those associated with producing the act present then it might not even constitute a performance until the recorded act is displayed for the audience.
I'm a little surprised with the commentary on Slashdot. I see a lot of people getting very passionate when they're probably not terribly knowledgeable about the situation. I don't know what the man's warrants are for, though given the culture surrounding rap and hip-hop I'm guessing that they're not for the same kinds of things that Edward Snowden is wanted for. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not going to stake my argument on the freedom of speech and abuse versus surpression under these circumstances. There are plenty of examples where someone isn't continuing to remain a fugitive to defend.
...if they can collect enough physical information on the subject to make a virtual dressing-room possible without crossing the line into an unacceptable amount of information being collected on the subject. After all, people were very upset by the data collected by the TSA using the Rapiscan machines that essentially saw through clothes to the skin layer, and in order to make a virtual-try-on actually provide meaningful feedback beyond just hanging a picture of clothes in front of a picture of a subject it'd have to have fairly detailed information on the subject.
I also wonder if enough consumers would actually like this, there are a lot of people that enjoy trying on clothes and this would remove that aspect. For the rest of us that don't like trying on clothes there's a trend toward re-buying the same clothing lines anyway, so we'd almost have to try-on clothes to know how they truly fit if we buy something from a new product line.
Except that a mechanic works with his hands, so barring the use of gloves it makes sense why his hands would possibly be dirty or calloused or scarred.
Most technical work doesn't create a visual means to tell that someone works in the field. Sure, there are self-imposed stereotypes like long hair and clothing with nerdy subject matter printed on, but I've seen people with strong technical abilities that were also fitness freaks and wore fitness clothing (and I don't mean sweatpants), I've seen ubertechs wearing sports-memorabilia clothes like commemorative football jerseys, others wearing hunting/outdoorsy stuff, others that were goth or punk, etc. There literally is no visual means to tell.
I have seen workplaces degenerate away from professionalism, and a form of dress-code or uniform helped correct that. Almost everyone was pissed when they did it, but people also stopped screwing around during the workday too, so in the end it did help solve some of the problems, more than it created.
Who gives a shirt?
Booth babes at trade shows?
Good luck firing the human resources department.
That argument wouldn't hold up in court. Prostitutes try to use it and get convicted anyway. Even "escorts" get busted if they're actually caught engaging in sexual acts, it's just that they're more discreet so they're harder targets.
It isn't just poor people that are irresponsible, it's that people are irresponsible when things do not cost them very much. People do not respect things that are inexpensive to them.
I'm not so sure it is FUD. If the most common conditions from exposure to a toxin manifest 30-40 years after that exposure, and if there really aren't many other conditions that result from that exposure, then it's good sense for people in their twenties to avoid exposure that could hurt or kill them in their fifties or sixties. For someone in their fifties or sixties the symptoms won't manifest until upwards of a century, and the rest of their bodies are probably already breaking-down or they're already dead, so it doesn't matter.
We're seeing that now. Asbestos exposure 30-50 years ago is giving people Asbestosis or Mesothelioma now. These patients didn't really see any symptoms for three decades; now their lungs either don't work efficiently enough or are growing tumors. My father-in-law has it a bit; when I started dealing with cabling in old buildings I made a point of being careful to minimize my exposure.
Those kinds of suspension settings, at least on most vehicles, are slow. While I don't doubt that a car accident could be caused in specific circumstances, I doubt that most drivers would even experience that, let alone some kind of harmonic resonance that causes them to lose control.