Well, you have to start with Gb somewhere, and the most profitable areas seem logical. If the telecos won't, then someone else has to. And, TBH, the telco's (and cable) have been doing everything they can to move away from common carrier rules. If the telcos stop serving the rest of the community (hint - the major cost was in laying copper, not in running it) then I suppose the municipality can go ahead and pick that service up too. It wouldn't be a bad thing. Don't forget that fed universal fee, the municipalities may be better off running it themselves if they want decent service.
You don't move to AWS if you care about budget, uptime, control, security, nor ownership of your data and software.
* Budget - cheap to free to develop on, rapidly escalating costs for enterprise usage.
* uptime - AWS has had notable outages with relatively long recovery times. It's happened more than once.
* control - see uptime - you had no options when that happened.
* security - ultimately, you cannot control security if you don't have the hardware, or even software, under your control
* ownership - since you don't own the hardware nor software, all your data and software placed on the server is there for anyone with access to see. And there are people with access.
You seem to be implying they should fire an H1B programmer and keep the factory worker or middle manager, but unless one of the latter two can step up and do the programming, it's not going to work very well.
At least I'm guessing most of the H1B employees aren't doing middle management or factory work. I could be wrong.
It bugs me that my more expensive LED can't render dark scenes without blocking, on any content, BD or otherwise. In fact, any relatively lightly varying gradient has blockiness to it. It also bugs me that contrast is far too high, even dialed down to the point it starts to degrade lesser contrasting images. And then there's the ghosting, even on a 240Hz (claimed) refresh. Didn't notice it at first, but it got worse as I watched it more, and in comparison to the plasma, it's now almost unwatchable except for maybe cartoons and the like. Maybe kids will like it while they're young, but once you notice these things, you just can't get away from it. It's like that bug bite you discovered itches when you touched it by accident, and now it is the worst itchy bug bite ever. What's worse is the 4K LEDs have these same issues, the color depth just isn't there. It remains to be seen if OLED is any better, but at 10-20K for a screen, I think I'll be watching my plasma for a while longer, and maybe pick up a Samsung before they sell out as a backup.
Coal is baseload solar is not a replacement for baseload. The only good renewable replacement for baseload is hydro "the original baseload source of power". Wind is a marginal replacement for baseload but you really need large natural gas peaking plants to back up wind.
That's a false premise. You can build large cisterns that store excess energy by pumping in water, then using that during peak periods to meet demand. It's 100% solar. These could be built on the coast or even slightly in the sea, so there's no shortage of water until we run out of sea water. It also serves to level demand, since all excess demand can always go to the cisterns, even if they're full, since they'd just overflow and form a nice waterfall or similar water feature. The same could be used to store excess wind generated power, completing removing the need for fossil fuel or nuclear energy. Maybe keep one plant as a museum piece.
I have a 2013 plasma, and can pause a picture for an hour without a problem. Yes, sometimes people leave something on pause instead of turning it off when leaving for a while. No burn in issues at all, and I checked. Again, this is not a problem with new modern plasmas. Cheap or old, yes, they probably have problems. So do LCD/LED/OLEDS. CRTs do too. So it's not a unique problem for plasmas.
That said, as CRTs are dead, I do love the plasma's picture. In comparison, my 2010 top rated LED looks cheap, flat, lacking in depth, the criticisms could go on. As soon as you scale up to larger screens, the flaws for each become more obvious. The plasma generates more heat. I'll accept that for a picture I can actually watch.
The thing with plasmas is that the first generations, and some of the cheap ones in later generations too, have very bad burn-in prevention..
So it is a myth, for a new modern screen. If you look for the cheapest you can buy, you'll succeed in getting less than you want. Or, you get what you pay for, really.
This is a myth. I have a plasma, and there's no issue with burn-in during anything approximating normal use. Maybe if you leave a static image on the TV for days. But who does that?
Note that copyright has nothing to do with established industries. When copyright was placed into the Constitution, it was frequently common for authors to self-publish. Copyright protected these authors from unscrupulous printers who might print out a few extra (thousand) copies to sell on the side, or from some individual in another part of the country from grabbing your work and selling it elsewhere. Note that this was mostly on the individual level, since companies that were involved in publishing were few and quite small.
I'm pretty sure Aero can get around the antenna issue. The DVR in the cloud is a different issue, and may be fixable by streaming from antenna to home located device to cloud device. The ISPs will scream at the increased load, which could also be solved technically, by having the stream done via multicast. The only problem here are the broadcasters like FOX that don't want you to have this control.
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909."
Essentially correct, and still true today. They might look nicer and be more comfortable now, but practical top speed has barely increased since.
Hmmm, my current car cruises comfortably at 130+ mph and a past one topped out around 180 mph. Not sure a 1909 vehicle even makes 100 mph reliably, although they did exist, as the top speed set in 1909 was roughly 120mph. Wonder what the gas mileage was, not to mention the teeth loosening adrenaline rush.
"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." - The New York Times, January 13, 1920"
Incorrect obviously, but only marginal improvements in efficiency have been made since the 1960's.
TBH, there's not much you can do to increase the efficiency of the most efficient simple chemical fuel combo in existence. In a thrust based concept, if you're using all the energy available as thrust, you're done.
The problem with judge's discretion in sentencing is that it is applied so subjectively. Take a drunk driver for instance - one hits and kills a (drunk) bum and goes to prison for 20 years, another kills 4 people and severely injures 2 with no remorse and gets sent to "rehab" for 6 months. Those are hugely different outcomes and were based on judges discretion for sentencing. (The second case is being reviewed, btw, because it did fall so far out of the norm) Having strict guidelines for some actions is good, IMHO. That said, the level of offense admittedly needs some tweaking to at least be more than 'x' level of offense, such as violence or certain age thresholds being met with discretion below those levels.
The problem in Africa is that there is no semi-stable large state. Until a stable and large enough state exists to support the infrastructure and provide security for shipping goods internationally, I doubt you'll see a flocking of businesses to Africa. And then there's the political aspects.
Barring Anguirel's post, this is not true for everyone. I've seen people drift while chewing gum, talking to people, looking in the rearview mirror, etc. Some people literally cannot do 2 things at once, with one of those being breathing.
For these types of people, a conversation with a passenger is no different than talking on the phone, or even having kids in the car. They will be distracted in all cases if there's anything at all that can catch their attention.
Other people, however, will tune a conversation out when driving conditions warrant it. They fall outside that distracted group. Part of this is realizing that no phone conversation requires catching everything the first time, and that asking for clarification or repetition is valid, since you're taking the call while driving in the first place.
The entire CA chain? Only if the private keys of all the root servers were subject to the exploit. But, honestly, patching and updating the entire set would probably be the safest thing to do since it is likely at least one was compromised, and that would be the only way to be sure.
obviously you don't stream, so you don't know the fuck you're talking about.
Nice projection, if you'd read and comprehended even what was in these 2 posts much less , you'd note that I am quite aware of what's on streaming services. In fact, I used several since they first came out and they all had crap quality and that includes the "better" premium services, including Vudu, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
here's the deal, honky:
Nice ad-hominem,
1)streaming services carry different movies, and all have some "diamond in the roughs"
Almost all available on disks of some sort
2) movies are changing all the time, so you never know what new thing could be available
Funny, the selection of disk based movies seems only to grow and is always available, plus the quality is far superior in all ways. (And yes, that's a side argument for another day - the quality of streaming is abysmal unless you're running it yourself, like I do. A 3 Mbps streaming service has nowhere near the picture quality of a 35Mbps BD or 12+ MBps OTA HD stream, nor the typically 5 Mbps for DVDs, and the differences are painfully obvious on anything above a 40" screen)
3) the UI of each service makes it hard to find new good stuff, let alone compare to other services.
The real problem here is that all of these services are generally somewhat bad at suggesting movies, unless someone has personally added a suggestion list that you happen to agree with. How on earth is a 3rd party going to make a better suggestion list out of the limited data available from the primary service? They can't.
you should check it out yourself, go to canistream.it and click through the top movies on each service. you'll see that a lot jumps out at you and it's really easy to do.
I have no need to check yet another service for "top movies" as those are well known and advertised. So this service does nothing for me. Running through the next month's releases available from any of the many sources including official ones takes < 15 min once a month, and I'm done.
after you do that, return here and kiss my ass for being a jerk.
I count 7 failures on your part without a single valid point. I'm sure you've had lots of practice puckering.
Even if I did stream, odds are I'd have 1 or 2 services I'd use, and have no need for a kayak search of streaming videos. I also almost never care about what's "trending" currently, as I've either already seen it or don't want to watch it. Rarely does anything that makes such a list spark the thought that "Hey, I might want to watch this".
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Well, you have to start with Gb somewhere, and the most profitable areas seem logical. If the telecos won't, then someone else has to. And, TBH, the telco's (and cable) have been doing everything they can to move away from common carrier rules. If the telcos stop serving the rest of the community (hint - the major cost was in laying copper, not in running it) then I suppose the municipality can go ahead and pick that service up too. It wouldn't be a bad thing. Don't forget that fed universal fee, the municipalities may be better off running it themselves if they want decent service.
You don't move to AWS if you care about budget, uptime, control, security, nor ownership of your data and software.
* Budget - cheap to free to develop on, rapidly escalating costs for enterprise usage.
* uptime - AWS has had notable outages with relatively long recovery times. It's happened more than once.
* control - see uptime - you had no options when that happened.
* security - ultimately, you cannot control security if you don't have the hardware, or even software, under your control
* ownership - since you don't own the hardware nor software, all your data and software placed on the server is there for anyone with access to see. And there are people with access.
In the game you can get antibiotics resistance to your deadly virus,.
No you can't. A virus is not affected by antibiotics.
I'd tell you, but I got a National Security Letter telling me I can't.
Epic
Fail
With the keys we readily hand over when warranted.... o_O
Who needs a warrant? Just a couple of bucks for our "anonymized" (wink wink) data.
You seem to be implying they should fire an H1B programmer and keep the factory worker or middle manager, but unless one of the latter two can step up and do the programming, it's not going to work very well.
At least I'm guessing most of the H1B employees aren't doing middle management or factory work. I could be wrong.
You are wrong.
It bugs me that my more expensive LED can't render dark scenes without blocking, on any content, BD or otherwise. In fact, any relatively lightly varying gradient has blockiness to it. It also bugs me that contrast is far too high, even dialed down to the point it starts to degrade lesser contrasting images. And then there's the ghosting, even on a 240Hz (claimed) refresh. Didn't notice it at first, but it got worse as I watched it more, and in comparison to the plasma, it's now almost unwatchable except for maybe cartoons and the like. Maybe kids will like it while they're young, but once you notice these things, you just can't get away from it. It's like that bug bite you discovered itches when you touched it by accident, and now it is the worst itchy bug bite ever. What's worse is the 4K LEDs have these same issues, the color depth just isn't there. It remains to be seen if OLED is any better, but at 10-20K for a screen, I think I'll be watching my plasma for a while longer, and maybe pick up a Samsung before they sell out as a backup.
Coal is baseload solar is not a replacement for baseload. The only good renewable replacement for baseload is hydro "the original baseload source of power". Wind is a marginal replacement for baseload but you really need large natural gas peaking plants to back up wind.
That's a false premise. You can build large cisterns that store excess energy by pumping in water, then using that during peak periods to meet demand. It's 100% solar. These could be built on the coast or even slightly in the sea, so there's no shortage of water until we run out of sea water. It also serves to level demand, since all excess demand can always go to the cisterns, even if they're full, since they'd just overflow and form a nice waterfall or similar water feature. The same could be used to store excess wind generated power, completing removing the need for fossil fuel or nuclear energy. Maybe keep one plant as a museum piece.
I have a 2013 plasma, and can pause a picture for an hour without a problem. Yes, sometimes people leave something on pause instead of turning it off when leaving for a while. No burn in issues at all, and I checked. Again, this is not a problem with new modern plasmas. Cheap or old, yes, they probably have problems. So do LCD/LED/OLEDS. CRTs do too. So it's not a unique problem for plasmas.
That said, as CRTs are dead, I do love the plasma's picture. In comparison, my 2010 top rated LED looks cheap, flat, lacking in depth, the criticisms could go on. As soon as you scale up to larger screens, the flaws for each become more obvious. The plasma generates more heat. I'll accept that for a picture I can actually watch.
The thing with plasmas is that the first generations, and some of the cheap ones in later generations too, have very bad burn-in prevention..
So it is a myth, for a new modern screen. If you look for the cheapest you can buy, you'll succeed in getting less than you want. Or, you get what you pay for, really.
This is a myth. I have a plasma, and there's no issue with burn-in during anything approximating normal use. Maybe if you leave a static image on the TV for days. But who does that?
And take a look at how many of those were "big" by today's standards. None.
Note that copyright has nothing to do with established industries. When copyright was placed into the Constitution, it was frequently common for authors to self-publish. Copyright protected these authors from unscrupulous printers who might print out a few extra (thousand) copies to sell on the side, or from some individual in another part of the country from grabbing your work and selling it elsewhere. Note that this was mostly on the individual level, since companies that were involved in publishing were few and quite small.
I'm pretty sure Aero can get around the antenna issue. The DVR in the cloud is a different issue, and may be fixable by streaming from antenna to home located device to cloud device. The ISPs will scream at the increased load, which could also be solved technically, by having the stream done via multicast. The only problem here are the broadcasters like FOX that don't want you to have this control.
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909."
Essentially correct, and still true today. They might look nicer and be more comfortable now, but practical top speed has barely increased since.
Hmmm, my current car cruises comfortably at 130+ mph and a past one topped out around 180 mph. Not sure a 1909 vehicle even makes 100 mph reliably, although they did exist, as the top speed set in 1909 was roughly 120mph. Wonder what the gas mileage was, not to mention the teeth loosening adrenaline rush.
"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." - The New York Times, January 13, 1920"
Incorrect obviously, but only marginal improvements in efficiency have been made since the 1960's.
TBH, there's not much you can do to increase the efficiency of the most efficient simple chemical fuel combo in existence. In a thrust based concept, if you're using all the energy available as thrust, you're done.
The problem with judge's discretion in sentencing is that it is applied so subjectively. Take a drunk driver for instance - one hits and kills a (drunk) bum and goes to prison for 20 years, another kills 4 people and severely injures 2 with no remorse and gets sent to "rehab" for 6 months. Those are hugely different outcomes and were based on judges discretion for sentencing. (The second case is being reviewed, btw, because it did fall so far out of the norm) Having strict guidelines for some actions is good, IMHO. That said, the level of offense admittedly needs some tweaking to at least be more than 'x' level of offense, such as violence or certain age thresholds being met with discretion below those levels.
Perhaps because it was a comedy?
The problem in Africa is that there is no semi-stable large state. Until a stable and large enough state exists to support the infrastructure and provide security for shipping goods internationally, I doubt you'll see a flocking of businesses to Africa. And then there's the political aspects.
Own a cellphone, leave it in random locations, share it with friends, make things really confusing.
which is why blacklisting both google and facebook locally is a good practice, just like washing your hands.
Taser. It's effective and non lethal. Gun nuts always forget about tasers because of their blood lust.
Untrue - Taser's can still be lethal.
Barring Anguirel's post, this is not true for everyone. I've seen people drift while chewing gum, talking to people, looking in the rearview mirror, etc. Some people literally cannot do 2 things at once, with one of those being breathing.
For these types of people, a conversation with a passenger is no different than talking on the phone, or even having kids in the car. They will be distracted in all cases if there's anything at all that can catch their attention.
Other people, however, will tune a conversation out when driving conditions warrant it. They fall outside that distracted group. Part of this is realizing that no phone conversation requires catching everything the first time, and that asking for clarification or repetition is valid, since you're taking the call while driving in the first place.
The entire CA chain? Only if the private keys of all the root servers were subject to the exploit. But, honestly, patching and updating the entire set would probably be the safest thing to do since it is likely at least one was compromised, and that would be the only way to be sure.
obviously you don't stream, so you don't know the fuck you're talking about.
Nice projection, if you'd read and comprehended even what was in these 2 posts much less , you'd note that I am quite aware of what's on streaming services. In fact, I used several since they first came out and they all had crap quality and that includes the "better" premium services, including Vudu, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
here's the deal, honky:
Nice ad-hominem,
1)streaming services carry different movies, and all have some "diamond in the roughs"
Almost all available on disks of some sort
2) movies are changing all the time, so you never know what new thing could be available
Funny, the selection of disk based movies seems only to grow and is always available, plus the quality is far superior in all ways. (And yes, that's a side argument for another day - the quality of streaming is abysmal unless you're running it yourself, like I do. A 3 Mbps streaming service has nowhere near the picture quality of a 35Mbps BD or 12+ MBps OTA HD stream, nor the typically 5 Mbps for DVDs, and the differences are painfully obvious on anything above a 40" screen)
3) the UI of each service makes it hard to find new good stuff, let alone compare to other services.
The real problem here is that all of these services are generally somewhat bad at suggesting movies, unless someone has personally added a suggestion list that you happen to agree with. How on earth is a 3rd party going to make a better suggestion list out of the limited data available from the primary service? They can't.
you should check it out yourself, go to canistream.it and click through the top movies on each service. you'll see that a lot jumps out at you and it's really easy to do.
I have no need to check yet another service for "top movies" as those are well known and advertised. So this service does nothing for me. Running through the next month's releases available from any of the many sources including official ones takes < 15 min once a month, and I'm done.
after you do that, return here and kiss my ass for being a jerk.
I count 7 failures on your part without a single valid point. I'm sure you've had lots of practice puckering.
Even if I did stream, odds are I'd have 1 or 2 services I'd use, and have no need for a kayak search of streaming videos. I also almost never care about what's "trending" currently, as I've either already seen it or don't want to watch it. Rarely does anything that makes such a list spark the thought that "Hey, I might want to watch this".