Not only that, but everyone hated floppy's. They were slow, had poor capacity, and were unreliable. When USB storage came on the scene it was a massive improvement and has only continued to get better.
By comparison I dont know many people who have a problem with wired headphones. I've had a few wireless sets over the year and for portable applications they've mostly sucked due to having two batteries to worry about.
Gee, we better give up on it now. It's not like any other difficult task ever made incremental progress towards a comprehensive solution by leveraging real world experience.
Shocked! I say I'm shocked that a boutique car made by a startup company directed by an eccentric tycoon could possibly have had a supplier or design change. Unfathomable!
It's rare to say that Australia has better internet but I'm guessing Verizon sets the bar quite low.
Anyway, I'm on a mid-tier ADSL plan with my ISP iiNet for AU$60 per month. Initially it started around 100+100GB monthly quota, but every year or so they email me to let me know they are increasing the quote. First it went to 200+200GB, then 1TB anytime.
Just two days ago they emailed me to let me know they were removing all limits. Apparently 1TB per month wasn't competitive enough and want to give me extra!!
I've probably used about 3 different wireless bluetooth audio devices and had varying levels of quality, some of them approach the analog audio out but none have been better:
- Bluetooth hands-free headset about 7 years ago. Phone calls were OK, PC audio was a shockingly bad. - Bluetooth sports headphones, before A2DP. Noticable compression and distortion - UE Boom bluetooth speaker. Uses A2DP I assume, quality is OK but hard to tell on such a limited speaker. Fine for ambience. - JVC Bluetooth car head unit. Uses A2DP, and since the speakers/amp are better i can hear some of the compression. Like a low end MP3 I guess, noticeably worse than the high bitrate MP3's stored on the phone. It's a reasonable compromise for convenience though.
So yes, things are improving, but it's not great yet.
It's a massively valid complaint to me. I have owned several wireless headphones before and charging is a real annoyance.
The only reason I tolerate my current wireless PC headphones is I built a custom docking station with induction charger, but that's not realistic option with mobile devices.
I'd argue that Bluetooth is not great, and despite having shitty amps inside phones, the analog audio is still significantly higher quality than that Bluetooth audio. Not to mention that Bluetooth is noticeably laggy for anything interactive.
Also dont forget that Bluetooth needs a powered receiver and I dont want to have to charge another farking device every few hours.
Sure, Bluetooth has it's place, but I would be disappointed if it was the only option.
They understand tech alright, we get reports every week of a manufacturer making a complete arse of security and or remote updates. Even if it works, we cant trust them not to monetise our private info or remove already paid features.
Hmm, is that why the Australia government quietly released a report on Christmas eve 2015 showing a 1% increase. I'm sure they were hoping no-one was watching.
To further highlight the farce, 3 months ago the Australian environment minister Greg Hunt was awarded "Best Minister in the World".
Meanwhile under his watch we've: - Abolished the Carbon Tax - Increased our Carbon emmissions - Approved the biggest coal mine in the country - Approved additional dredging to allow for increased coal exports - Passed legislation to prevent environmentalists from legally challenging his rulings. - Did nothing whilst big chunks of the Great Barrier Reef died. - Called out the opposition leader on not offering support for communities that depend of reef tourism. I mean, WTF??
The Google / Double Irish equivalent for widgets would be making a subsidiary company in another country, that then licenses the design of your widgets to you. You then claim a large business cost and pay taxes on a lower profit, whilst your overseas subsidiary laughs all the way to the bank.
I found a good compromise with a smaller 256GB SSD for the OS, and a 2TB hybrid SSHD for games & extended storage. Prices were decent and the performance improvement is phenomenal.
Total installed price in Australia is well below $4 per watt.
Including both rebates and tax, it's as low as $1.34 AUD per watt for a residential 5kW system. That's freaking awesome!! http://www.solarchoice.net.au/...
Large commercial installs dont get the same rebates but save on tax and volume. On average it's $1.22 AUD per watt for 100kW installs. http://www.solarchoice.net.au/...
You do realise that inside many DC-DC converters, and indeed inside all of the power transformers between the power station and your house, there are magnetically coupled coils that effectively transfer the energy "wirelessly".
The difference in this case is using an air cored coil at a greater distance. It's definitely harder to make them efficient but they have clearly shown great potential here, with 90% efficiency versus DC-DC converters at 95% and regular transformers at 98%.
These days you can buy individual 2 port firewall modules, often designed for industrial equipment but would be equally suited to medical devices. Every single device can have a firewall in front of it an only allow specific ingress AND egress traffic.
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Is it where you bang until a nut falls off???
Not only that, but everyone hated floppy's. They were slow, had poor capacity, and were unreliable. When USB storage came on the scene it was a massive improvement and has only continued to get better.
By comparison I dont know many people who have a problem with wired headphones. I've had a few wireless sets over the year and for portable applications they've mostly sucked due to having two batteries to worry about.
Gee, we better give up on it now. It's not like any other difficult task ever made incremental progress towards a comprehensive solution by leveraging real world experience.
I'm quite certain that the ABS (you now, professional statisticians) could have and should have predicted the load.
Logitech solved that problem with their Harmony remotes quite some time ago. Very reasonably priced and they just plain work.
Shocked! I say I'm shocked that a boutique car made by a startup company directed by an eccentric tycoon could possibly have had a supplier or design change. Unfathomable!
First world problems mate.
It's rare to say that Australia has better internet but I'm guessing Verizon sets the bar quite low.
Anyway, I'm on a mid-tier ADSL plan with my ISP iiNet for AU$60 per month. Initially it started around 100+100GB monthly quota, but every year or so they email me to let me know they are increasing the quote. First it went to 200+200GB, then 1TB anytime.
Just two days ago they emailed me to let me know they were removing all limits. Apparently 1TB per month wasn't competitive enough and want to give me extra!!
I've probably used about 3 different wireless bluetooth audio devices and had varying levels of quality, some of them approach the analog audio out but none have been better:
- Bluetooth hands-free headset about 7 years ago. Phone calls were OK, PC audio was a shockingly bad.
- Bluetooth sports headphones, before A2DP. Noticable compression and distortion
- UE Boom bluetooth speaker. Uses A2DP I assume, quality is OK but hard to tell on such a limited speaker. Fine for ambience.
- JVC Bluetooth car head unit. Uses A2DP, and since the speakers/amp are better i can hear some of the compression. Like a low end MP3 I guess, noticeably worse than the high bitrate MP3's stored on the phone. It's a reasonable compromise for convenience though.
So yes, things are improving, but it's not great yet.
It's a massively valid complaint to me. I have owned several wireless headphones before and charging is a real annoyance.
The only reason I tolerate my current wireless PC headphones is I built a custom docking station with induction charger, but that's not realistic option with mobile devices.
I'd argue that Bluetooth is not great, and despite having shitty amps inside phones, the analog audio is still significantly higher quality than that Bluetooth audio. Not to mention that Bluetooth is noticeably laggy for anything interactive.
Also dont forget that Bluetooth needs a powered receiver and I dont want to have to charge another farking device every few hours.
Sure, Bluetooth has it's place, but I would be disappointed if it was the only option.
Do they not have serial / IMEI numbers and can block the phones? This would eliminate a fair proportion of lost sales.
They understand tech alright, we get reports every week of a manufacturer making a complete arse of security and or remote updates. Even if it works, we cant trust them not to monetise our private info or remove already paid features.
DO NOT WANT.
Still 20mm high and 11mm wide.
At a guess that's still several orders of magnitude larger than modern power transistor junctions.
I just read up on it, and the SigFox protocol is 12 bytes per message, max of 140 messages per day.
That's tiny. Kindergarten kids can write faster than that.
Hmm, is that why the Australia government quietly released a report on Christmas eve 2015 showing a 1% increase. I'm sure they were hoping no-one was watching.
http://www.theguardian.com/aus...
It's just appalling.
To further highlight the farce, 3 months ago the Australian environment minister Greg Hunt was awarded "Best Minister in the World".
Meanwhile under his watch we've:
- Abolished the Carbon Tax
- Increased our Carbon emmissions
- Approved the biggest coal mine in the country
- Approved additional dredging to allow for increased coal exports
- Passed legislation to prevent environmentalists from legally challenging his rulings.
- Did nothing whilst big chunks of the Great Barrier Reef died.
- Called out the opposition leader on not offering support for communities that depend of reef tourism. I mean, WTF??
Don't try to understand women. Women understand women, and they hate each other.
The Google / Double Irish equivalent for widgets would be making a subsidiary company in another country, that then licenses the design of your widgets to you. You then claim a large business cost and pay taxes on a lower profit, whilst your overseas subsidiary laughs all the way to the bank.
I found a good compromise with a smaller 256GB SSD for the OS, and a 2TB hybrid SSHD for games & extended storage. Prices were decent and the performance improvement is phenomenal.
Pretty sure that if a computer doesn't know what to do, it can always just apply the bakes and stop.
Brilliant! Problem solved! Wasn't so hard now was it?
Total installed price in Australia is well below $4 per watt.
Including both rebates and tax, it's as low as $1.34 AUD per watt for a residential 5kW system. That's freaking awesome!!
http://www.solarchoice.net.au/...
Large commercial installs dont get the same rebates but save on tax and volume. On average it's $1.22 AUD per watt for 100kW installs.
http://www.solarchoice.net.au/...
Usually it's a good idea to pay attention when filling your car with explosively volatile hydrocarbons.
I know we get desensitized because it's an everyday thing, but I'm not convinced that letting people chat on their phones at the pump is prudent.
You do realise that inside many DC-DC converters, and indeed inside all of the power transformers between the power station and your house, there are magnetically coupled coils that effectively transfer the energy "wirelessly".
The difference in this case is using an air cored coil at a greater distance. It's definitely harder to make them efficient but they have clearly shown great potential here, with 90% efficiency versus DC-DC converters at 95% and regular transformers at 98%.
These days you can buy individual 2 port firewall modules, often designed for industrial equipment but would be equally suited to medical devices. Every single device can have a firewall in front of it an only allow specific ingress AND egress traffic.
It's really not difficult to fix.
Unfortunately, 10BaseT and 100BaseT Ethernet dont use the centre 4 pins. They use 1,2,3&6, so your 4P4C to 8C adapter wont be backwards compatible.