I can replace the battery on an iphone in a couple of minutes, and I'm certainly not some expert. It's far easier to replace an iPhone battery than change my oil and I don't think I ever heard someone refer to my oil filter as "not being user replaceable".
I'm really surprised so few people on Slashdot understand the difference between open source software (and "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow") and closed source software being reviewed by a select few actors who have a motive to hide their findings.
I speak of raising actively running components and having them continue to work after moving them. I think perhaps people are thinking of this stuff as just wires. They aren't. Trunk, bridge, distribution and extender amplifiers, eternal power supplies to feed them. Taps to the customers. If Google is doing this with no problems, as you insinuate, Comcast should hire them, because the Google people are better Field Techs and engineers than exist at the moment.
This is already done by AT&T and Comcast technicians without interruption. The problem is they can drag their feet which significantly slows down the Google Fiber deployment. This isn't some black art. The whole point of OTMR was just to accelerate the process. Googles techs, ironically, probably sopme of the same subcontractors AT&T and Comcast uses in many instances, would just perform the work instead of asking AT&T and Comcast to do it. That's it.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not arguing over what's legal, but you're spreading FUD.
The reason Google isn't fighting this, in my opinion, is for three reasons. One, they've switched to microtrenching which has been a viable alternative and two Google has backed away from fiber deployments anyway. Second, wireless is a better option long term for Google, with 5G right around the corner delivering extremely high speeds for fixed mobile broadband, if they want to continue to try to provide internet service. Third, the goal of Google Fiber was just to force carriers into providing high speed internet, which has obviously been very successful. Where I live (in Nashville) I have three gigabit options (AT&T U-Verse, Comcast and Google Fiber). We're seeing massive fiber deployments all over the country and I think the initial driver was Google Fiber, which scared the shit out of the ISPs. But now the primary driver is high speed wireless service (e.g., Gigabit LTE and 5G).
Perhaps higher costs will help create a cure for entertainment addiction and social media narcissism, but I highly doubt it.
You're right, maybe this will be enough for the average person to pick up a book every once in a while. But I expect that as speeds and capacities from 5G continue to expand we'll see prices come down and more and more people migrate to those services, and then the device radios will follow. Wireless will only win if it's cheaper and faster.
I'm not talking about television service, I'm talking about internet access. I'm a "cable cutter" that hasn't had cable in more than a decade. If you need a dopamine drip of television that's your problem. Opt out, that's my advice.
More likely that we'd see 5G (or 6G) fixed broadband (or LEO satellite, like Musk's plan) replace most consumer wireline services in 10-20 years, at gigabit or multi-gigabit speeds. So you'll just be able to use one connection you already pay for (i.e., internet service) for all your devices, anywhere. You won't want or need to deal with Wi-Fi anymore, and that will be a good thing.
Wi-Fi probably wouldn't go away entirely but you might see it removed from some devices. Most consumers wouldn't really need it any more.
At what point do we admit that Facebook (which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp) has a monopoly on social media and require government intervention? My (probably naive, incorrect) understanding of the laws in US vs EU is that in the US they must abuse their market position to harm other companies but in the EU merely having a monopoly could invite government intervention.
Personally I couldn't care less, I'm 35 and I haven't logged into Facebook in years and everyone younger than me is using it even less.
"He gave me and my team the mission of basically finding or creating a system for free Web-based email for the whole world that Microsoft would offer," DeMello said.
Which sounds really impressive except 1) he got the idea from hotmail and other free services that already existed, this was obviously another "embrace, extend and extinguish" attempt and 2) the "whole world" meant people connected to the internet in 1996, not the billions we have today. The smartphone revolution wasn't even a fantasy in 1996 and even billy gates's wildest dream was only that we'd get as far as "a computer in every home" not one in every pocket.
Sort of. Kodi isn't client/server it's just a client that streams content from a network source (NFS, CIFS, etc). Plex consists of a server component that performs transcoding to various clients (so is client/server), including a really great web client.
The Kodi web client, called Chorus2 technically supports web streaming, but because it just delivers the video to your browser without any transcoding, relies on your browser support for playing video. The web client also isn't anywhere nearly as robust or well laid out as the Plex interface. And I say this as someone who dropped Plex for Kodi a month or two ago. One big tradeoff in the switch was giving up the web client, it's useless to me. Overall I'm still happier and wouldn't switch back.
Let me start by saying I'm not at all a climate change denier, I believe in man made global warming, because that's what the scientists tell me and who am I to argue.
With that said, isn't this how Google's PageRank algorithm (or its successor) works? A sites popularity is determined by the amount of sites linking to it. Unfortunately, I think there's just a lot of people who are climate change deniers who link to these sources.
For my use case, it doesn't matter much. I've got fast (nfs, which I should mention Kodi supports, unlike Plex) storage and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. But there are some instances where it is nice. For example, if you want to be able to remotely watch your content via a mobile device, being able to convert to lower bitrate that is acceptable on a mobile device would be great. A lot of people don't have very fast upstream on their home connections or don't want to waste their 4G/LTE data allowance if they can reduce it to an acceptable level. Also, being able to transcode to a format that worked natively in a browser, so when I'm in my office I didn't have to use the Kodi client to watch my content would be really nice. Multi-monitor setups and the Kodi client don't really play that well together, at least with my window manager (dwm).
I switched recently from Plex which I had been using forever to Kodi. With the right skin Kodi looks fantastic. The problem is it's not a client/server model like Plex is. You just run Kodi on a client and point it at files somewhere. So you can't do transcoding from the server to the client. And with plex the client can also be a web browser. Chorus2, the kodi web client, is pretty poor and the browser streaming is barely functional and in my experience is dependent on the browser support and media type because there's no transcoding.
But the UI is nice, it's highly configurable and using the shared mysql/maria database you can share your watch status and library between devices (I'm using NVIDIA Shields).
Overall Plex offers a far simpler experience and supports transcoding which opens up some options (streaming to small/mobile devices via the internet) but Plex has gotten pretty shady requiring accounts, almost changing their policy until user backlash and it's not open source. So the whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. I'm willing to put in a little extra elbow grease to get Kodi working well to not support Plex because it works well enough for my use case, which is a couple front ends attached to TVs streaming content from a NAS.
The difference is that Linus Pauling was right, and was a Nobel Prize winner. FWIW, recent research (2017) at the University of Iowa (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231716302634) has confirmed that megadoses of Vitamin C do indeed kill cancer cells, but only when taken intravenously rather than orally, as Pauling, Klenner, et al always claimed was essential.
I'm not sure what your point was here. We both agree Pauling was incorrect and I think the fact that both he and his wife were taking massive doses for years and both still died of cancer kind of settles the issue.
After tablets became popular and everyone realized they're not actually that useful beyond entertaining kids
The only threat to tablets for general computing in the short term is large screen phones. We found out that when you have a 5.5"+ phone you can do pretty much everything you can on a 9.7" tablet.
Apple watch has all of those things and I haven't charged mine since yesterday at about 2:00PM and it's still at 68% battery. So it could go three days pretty easily. Why a week? Don't you take off your watch every night when you could set it on the charger?
Linus Pauling was a founder of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology and then went on to tell everyone Vitamin C cured cancer. Expertise in one area doesn't necessarily transfer to another. And in fact, frequently, extremely bright people believe a previous success in one field would make them successful in other areas outside their area of expertise.
people who do have internet gain nothing from this
The, I don't know, 90% of the country that only has a single cable provider as their only ISP certainly have a lot to gain. Just like they do from the deployment of fixed 5G broadband. It's called competition.
Your post has no content or value. If you don't understand how critical someone's motivations are in their actions, there's no point in talking to you. This "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasoning is brainless.
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I don't think so, I think it's more about application compatibility or just general maturity.
I can replace the battery on an iphone in a couple of minutes, and I'm certainly not some expert. It's far easier to replace an iPhone battery than change my oil and I don't think I ever heard someone refer to my oil filter as "not being user replaceable".
I'm really surprised so few people on Slashdot understand the difference between open source software (and "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow") and closed source software being reviewed by a select few actors who have a motive to hide their findings.
If one of their launch partners was JP (who I've personally never even heard of) I don't expect this to go well.
and considering this iphone X debacle
Huh? I'm using an iPhone X and it's great. What's the debacle?
Every tried ReactOS ?
The irony of a java application requiring an OS is pretty painful.
I speak of raising actively running components and having them continue to work after moving them. I think perhaps people are thinking of this stuff as just wires. They aren't. Trunk, bridge, distribution and extender amplifiers, eternal power supplies to feed them. Taps to the customers. If Google is doing this with no problems, as you insinuate, Comcast should hire them, because the Google people are better Field Techs and engineers than exist at the moment.
This is already done by AT&T and Comcast technicians without interruption. The problem is they can drag their feet which significantly slows down the Google Fiber deployment. This isn't some black art. The whole point of OTMR was just to accelerate the process. Googles techs, ironically, probably sopme of the same subcontractors AT&T and Comcast uses in many instances, would just perform the work instead of asking AT&T and Comcast to do it. That's it.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not arguing over what's legal, but you're spreading FUD.
The reason Google isn't fighting this, in my opinion, is for three reasons. One, they've switched to microtrenching which has been a viable alternative and two Google has backed away from fiber deployments anyway. Second, wireless is a better option long term for Google, with 5G right around the corner delivering extremely high speeds for fixed mobile broadband, if they want to continue to try to provide internet service. Third, the goal of Google Fiber was just to force carriers into providing high speed internet, which has obviously been very successful. Where I live (in Nashville) I have three gigabit options (AT&T U-Verse, Comcast and Google Fiber). We're seeing massive fiber deployments all over the country and I think the initial driver was Google Fiber, which scared the shit out of the ISPs. But now the primary driver is high speed wireless service (e.g., Gigabit LTE and 5G).
Perhaps higher costs will help create a cure for entertainment addiction and social media narcissism, but I highly doubt it.
You're right, maybe this will be enough for the average person to pick up a book every once in a while. But I expect that as speeds and capacities from 5G continue to expand we'll see prices come down and more and more people migrate to those services, and then the device radios will follow. Wireless will only win if it's cheaper and faster.
I'm not talking about television service, I'm talking about internet access. I'm a "cable cutter" that hasn't had cable in more than a decade. If you need a dopamine drip of television that's your problem. Opt out, that's my advice.
More likely that we'd see 5G (or 6G) fixed broadband (or LEO satellite, like Musk's plan) replace most consumer wireline services in 10-20 years, at gigabit or multi-gigabit speeds. So you'll just be able to use one connection you already pay for (i.e., internet service) for all your devices, anywhere. You won't want or need to deal with Wi-Fi anymore, and that will be a good thing.
Wi-Fi probably wouldn't go away entirely but you might see it removed from some devices. Most consumers wouldn't really need it any more.
At what point do we admit that Facebook (which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp) has a monopoly on social media and require government intervention? My (probably naive, incorrect) understanding of the laws in US vs EU is that in the US they must abuse their market position to harm other companies but in the EU merely having a monopoly could invite government intervention.
Personally I couldn't care less, I'm 35 and I haven't logged into Facebook in years and everyone younger than me is using it even less.
"He gave me and my team the mission of basically finding or creating a system for free Web-based email for the whole world that Microsoft would offer," DeMello said.
Which sounds really impressive except 1) he got the idea from hotmail and other free services that already existed, this was obviously another "embrace, extend and extinguish" attempt and 2) the "whole world" meant people connected to the internet in 1996, not the billions we have today. The smartphone revolution wasn't even a fantasy in 1996 and even billy gates's wildest dream was only that we'd get as far as "a computer in every home" not one in every pocket.
Sort of. Kodi isn't client/server it's just a client that streams content from a network source (NFS, CIFS, etc). Plex consists of a server component that performs transcoding to various clients (so is client/server), including a really great web client.
The Kodi web client, called Chorus2 technically supports web streaming, but because it just delivers the video to your browser without any transcoding, relies on your browser support for playing video. The web client also isn't anywhere nearly as robust or well laid out as the Plex interface. And I say this as someone who dropped Plex for Kodi a month or two ago. One big tradeoff in the switch was giving up the web client, it's useless to me. Overall I'm still happier and wouldn't switch back.
Let me start by saying I'm not at all a climate change denier, I believe in man made global warming, because that's what the scientists tell me and who am I to argue.
With that said, isn't this how Google's PageRank algorithm (or its successor) works? A sites popularity is determined by the amount of sites linking to it. Unfortunately, I think there's just a lot of people who are climate change deniers who link to these sources.
Isn't this the obvious, simple answer?
For my use case, it doesn't matter much. I've got fast (nfs, which I should mention Kodi supports, unlike Plex) storage and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. But there are some instances where it is nice. For example, if you want to be able to remotely watch your content via a mobile device, being able to convert to lower bitrate that is acceptable on a mobile device would be great. A lot of people don't have very fast upstream on their home connections or don't want to waste their 4G/LTE data allowance if they can reduce it to an acceptable level. Also, being able to transcode to a format that worked natively in a browser, so when I'm in my office I didn't have to use the Kodi client to watch my content would be really nice. Multi-monitor setups and the Kodi client don't really play that well together, at least with my window manager (dwm).
I switched recently from Plex which I had been using forever to Kodi. With the right skin Kodi looks fantastic. The problem is it's not a client/server model like Plex is. You just run Kodi on a client and point it at files somewhere. So you can't do transcoding from the server to the client. And with plex the client can also be a web browser. Chorus2, the kodi web client, is pretty poor and the browser streaming is barely functional and in my experience is dependent on the browser support and media type because there's no transcoding.
But the UI is nice, it's highly configurable and using the shared mysql/maria database you can share your watch status and library between devices (I'm using NVIDIA Shields).
Overall Plex offers a far simpler experience and supports transcoding which opens up some options (streaming to small/mobile devices via the internet) but Plex has gotten pretty shady requiring accounts, almost changing their policy until user backlash and it's not open source. So the whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. I'm willing to put in a little extra elbow grease to get Kodi working well to not support Plex because it works well enough for my use case, which is a couple front ends attached to TVs streaming content from a NAS.
The difference is that Linus Pauling was right, and was a Nobel Prize winner. FWIW, recent research (2017) at the University of Iowa (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231716302634) has confirmed that megadoses of Vitamin C do indeed kill cancer cells, but only when taken intravenously rather than orally, as Pauling, Klenner, et al always claimed was essential.
I'm not sure what your point was here. We both agree Pauling was incorrect and I think the fact that both he and his wife were taking massive doses for years and both still died of cancer kind of settles the issue.
After tablets became popular and everyone realized they're not actually that useful beyond entertaining kids
The only threat to tablets for general computing in the short term is large screen phones. We found out that when you have a 5.5"+ phone you can do pretty much everything you can on a 9.7" tablet.
Apple watch has all of those things and I haven't charged mine since yesterday at about 2:00PM and it's still at 68% battery. So it could go three days pretty easily. Why a week? Don't you take off your watch every night when you could set it on the charger?
Why do you think that is? Is your income less than your fathers or is the cost of living higher? Or a little of column A and B?
Linus Pauling was a founder of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology and then went on to tell everyone Vitamin C cured cancer. Expertise in one area doesn't necessarily transfer to another. And in fact, frequently, extremely bright people believe a previous success in one field would make them successful in other areas outside their area of expertise.
people who do have internet gain nothing from this
The, I don't know, 90% of the country that only has a single cable provider as their only ISP certainly have a lot to gain. Just like they do from the deployment of fixed 5G broadband. It's called competition.
So you think it was a coordinated effort by "them" to sell all of "their" bitcoin. Your tinfoil hat might be on a little too tight.
In other news bought back in around 12,400 and I've already seen a very nice increase (already back over 14,500).
Your post has no content or value. If you don't understand how critical someone's motivations are in their actions, there's no point in talking to you. This "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasoning is brainless.