If your disk is slower than your network connection then either you have terrible disks, or your network connection is just peachy and you should stop worrying about it.
Either just say, "... my ISP, Comcast..." or don't name them at all. Trying to be cute just muddles the conversation and gains absolutely nothing.
Why do you care about other people's results, too? Just upload a large file to somewhere with known good bandwidth (amazon S3 might be a good choice, or FTP it to Dreamhost, or whatever), time it, then pull it back down again (and time that). You'll get a pretty accurate "actual bandwidth" there.
If you're paranoid - and it appears that you are - make the file something unique and check the checksums in both places (or just record a brand new 60 second video, timed upload it from one machine, then timed download it to another and play it). No way that anyone can optimize that transfer - if they could, they wouldn't be wasting the technology on you (and, quite frankly, if they could move 7 megabits/second over a "5 megabit/second pipe" then they'd be entitled to say that they had a 7mpbs pipe.
(10) The final stage of fuel processing that will lead the most energy while greatly reducing the waste will be prohibited because someone might be able to steal it and process it further into a bomb.
They could do so, yes, at a small yet non-zero cost to every other user of the device (a tiny amount of money, a larger amount of missing space resulting in a larger phone, less physical battery, or some other similar cost). No design decision is without an impact.
The fact that they don't attempt to please everyone but aim to please a large percentage of the population just a little bit more than would otherwise be possible has contributed in no small way to their success over the past decade.
2 months in the wilderness, hiking so you're packing light. Solar charger strapped to the back of your pack provides enough juice during the day to keep your phone charged. Hoe many photos might one take in 2 months? How much video? microSD cards are lightweight enough that you can carry a few TB with you if you so choose.
Yup. And yet, oddly enough, rather than design their high-end mass-market product for that guy, they chose to design for people with more common lifestyles.
That's like complaining that your new BMW doesn't go everywhere that your Unimog-based camper with powered trailer can. It may be true, but it shouldn't imply that the BMW was poorly designed for its intended purpose.
And the 'saving lives' part I will believe when the ashes are cooled down in 200.000 years without hurting anybody. And if the sites and the guards will have been paid by the energy companies for those 200.000 years.
Right now if they ground up the waste and vented it into the atmosphere it would be less damaging than that caused by coal mining, megawatt for megawatt.
I'll believe that "traditional" power is fine in 200,000 years when the oil reserves are replenished and the mountain ranges we've ground down have been regrown.
Or is it just possible that you might need more time than that?
The cost for wind and solar is coming down a little as technology improves, but it is still very high compared to gas or coal fired plants.
Although it gets even cheaper by comparison when you add in the future cleanup costs that gas and coal leave for our descendants to pay - not to mention things like the fact that we're literally destroying mountains to keep up with the demand.
Its funny - being "too spread out" is often used as a reason why renewable energy wouldn't work too.
Renewable energy is one of those areas where we could make significant progress a lot faster if half the crowd would stop sitting around coming up with reasons why it would "never work" (we've long since passed many of the impossible thresholds) and start helping to solve the problem.
WTF is wrong with wanting a clean, perpetual (in human terms) source of power FFS?
Its a pity that we have to rely on one guy changing out all of that hardware and can't scale the changeover with the population as we do the user base.
That's missing the biggest piece of the ApplePay announcement; in-app purchase support at below-card-present rates for the merchant, without having Apple as a direct participant in the payment chain. That's absolutely massive and has far more potential to be a game changer.
Its the same reason that when you go to a shopping mall, even though presence in the mall lends an air of "respectability" to the stores within the mall, even if you bought and then used a mall-wide gift card, the property management company isn't under any responsibility to make sure that an individual store ships you your purchases.
If only the Gigafactory could figure out some way to store electrical energy until its needed. That'd be awesome! Not really something they're equipped for though, I guess...
This is really nothing more than Google Wallet but for the iPhone. That is a good thing IMHO since it means more stores will start taking NFC. The folks at the 7/11 where so impressed when I paid with my phone 2 years ago.
Not at all. Google - like Paypal - actually inserts itself into the midst of the payment flow. Apple does not. They may be getting a couple of points on the backend, but that's a completely different technical and financial relationship than Google and the others have been trying to get.
Sure, I just read about a deaf kid that wasn't allowed to sign his own name at school because the sign language gesture for his name included something that looked like a gun, and the school had a strict "no guns" policy. It lasted about two weeks. That's both more significant and longer in duration because this embargo (and any embargo) isn't a human rights violation. It's the equivalent of a store saying, "No, you threw rocks at our window last year, and you were given a lifetime ban. We refuse to do business with you ever again."
Or rather, "Your uncle through rocks at our window 50 years ago, and you and your family were given lifetime bans." Which begins to trend much closer to institutionalized racism than any kind of even theoretically reasonable policy.
The BBC is a good bet. The international site of CNN is fairly solid. And actually, MSNBC - while they're far more left-leaning than Fox - would be considered neutral by most of the rest of the West and fair far better on fact checking than you might expect. The "liberal media" generally leans right (as happens when consolidation allows it to be mostly owned by a few billionaires), so it ends up looking far more "biased" than it actually is.
Its a very different proposition to have an "always on" proximity-activtated chip (such as those embedded into your credit cards) and one that's only active for a single transaction based on a physical finger-swipe. The whole point is that even when (not if) the communication is intercepted, what you end up with is like sniffing SSL traffic - you could replay the "Please pay Target $20 to fulfill exactly this invoice" conversation, certainly, but that's not particularly useful to a thief. Having the physical TouchID in the middle also ensures that the phone isn't chatting to just anyone at random times.
Actually, they're not - they're storing a newly created token that represents the combination of the card and your phone's "fingerprint" (pun intended). Due to the way that the NFC card payment handshaking works, its useless without the phone (or an emulator for the phone) and can be trivially marked as invalid.
To put it bluntly, while it isn't perfect its an order of magnitude better than an unchanging magstripe is, which is why Apple is rumored to have convinced Visa et al to approve "card present" rates for Apple Pay transactions which will greatly increase adoption - especially with the combination of app purchases and card-present rates. That's huge.
Once again, its not about the technology, its about combining the technology with a smashingly good business relationship.
Uber is really two different service providers. There's "Uber Black" that provides usually very nice black car services with professional drivers at 20-40% higher rates than a taxi - I love this personally and use it a ton when I travel. Then there's UberX which tries to do the same with random individuals who own a car for 20-40% lower rates than a taxi. These two services have almost nothing to do with each other, and its the second one that everyone basically has a problem with.
I have both MIUI and iOS devices and can confidently say they are very different to use. MIUI is incredibly clever and intuitive, truly thoughtful touches like a zoom bubble when you're editing text pervade the whole UI. iOS feels quite dated and primitive by comparison.
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If your disk is slower than your network connection then either you have terrible disks, or your network connection is just peachy and you should stop worrying about it.
They all count... on the one hand you're testing your local loop, on the other you're testing your ISPs peering. Both are valid tests.
Really?
Either just say, "... my ISP, Comcast..." or don't name them at all. Trying to be cute just muddles the conversation and gains absolutely nothing.
Why do you care about other people's results, too? Just upload a large file to somewhere with known good bandwidth (amazon S3 might be a good choice, or FTP it to Dreamhost, or whatever), time it, then pull it back down again (and time that). You'll get a pretty accurate "actual bandwidth" there.
If you're paranoid - and it appears that you are - make the file something unique and check the checksums in both places (or just record a brand new 60 second video, timed upload it from one machine, then timed download it to another and play it). No way that anyone can optimize that transfer - if they could, they wouldn't be wasting the technology on you (and, quite frankly, if they could move 7 megabits/second over a "5 megabit/second pipe" then they'd be entitled to say that they had a 7mpbs pipe.
Not everything needs a dedicated app.
If only it didn't take so damn long to melt down a dinosaur.
Of course now we have the classic problem of re-creating dinosaurs to melt also.
(10) The final stage of fuel processing that will lead the most energy while greatly reducing the waste will be prohibited because someone might be able to steal it and process it further into a bomb.
They could do so, yes, at a small yet non-zero cost to every other user of the device (a tiny amount of money, a larger amount of missing space resulting in a larger phone, less physical battery, or some other similar cost). No design decision is without an impact.
The fact that they don't attempt to please everyone but aim to please a large percentage of the population just a little bit more than would otherwise be possible has contributed in no small way to their success over the past decade.
2 months in the wilderness, hiking so you're packing light. Solar charger strapped to the back of your pack provides enough juice during the day to keep your phone charged. Hoe many photos might one take in 2 months? How much video? microSD cards are lightweight enough that you can carry a few TB with you if you so choose.
Yup. And yet, oddly enough, rather than design their high-end mass-market product for that guy, they chose to design for people with more common lifestyles.
That's like complaining that your new BMW doesn't go everywhere that your Unimog-based camper with powered trailer can. It may be true, but it shouldn't imply that the BMW was poorly designed for its intended purpose.
Surprisingly on-topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And the 'saving lives' part I will believe when the ashes are cooled down in 200.000 years without hurting anybody.
And if the sites and the guards will have been paid by the energy companies for those 200.000 years.
Right now if they ground up the waste and vented it into the atmosphere it would be less damaging than that caused by coal mining, megawatt for megawatt.
I'll believe that "traditional" power is fine in 200,000 years when the oil reserves are replenished and the mountain ranges we've ground down have been regrown.
Or is it just possible that you might need more time than that?
The cost for wind and solar is coming down a little as technology improves, but it is still very high compared to gas or coal fired plants.
Although it gets even cheaper by comparison when you add in the future cleanup costs that gas and coal leave for our descendants to pay - not to mention things like the fact that we're literally destroying mountains to keep up with the demand.
Its funny - being "too spread out" is often used as a reason why renewable energy wouldn't work too.
Renewable energy is one of those areas where we could make significant progress a lot faster if half the crowd would stop sitting around coming up with reasons why it would "never work" (we've long since passed many of the impossible thresholds) and start helping to solve the problem.
WTF is wrong with wanting a clean, perpetual (in human terms) source of power FFS?
You could even use Kickstarter to finance the building of Kickstarter's replacement, were you so inclined.
Thanks, that's a useful summary/contrast between the two models, especially the second page.
Its a pity that we have to rely on one guy changing out all of that hardware and can't scale the changeover with the population as we do the user base.
I mean, really?
That's missing the biggest piece of the ApplePay announcement; in-app purchase support at below-card-present rates for the merchant, without having Apple as a direct participant in the payment chain. That's absolutely massive and has far more potential to be a game changer.
Its the same reason that when you go to a shopping mall, even though presence in the mall lends an air of "respectability" to the stores within the mall, even if you bought and then used a mall-wide gift card, the property management company isn't under any responsibility to make sure that an individual store ships you your purchases.
If only the Gigafactory could figure out some way to store electrical energy until its needed. That'd be awesome! Not really something they're equipped for though, I guess...
This is really nothing more than Google Wallet but for the iPhone. That is a good thing IMHO since it means more stores will start taking NFC. The folks at the 7/11 where so impressed when I paid with my phone 2 years ago.
Not at all. Google - like Paypal - actually inserts itself into the midst of the payment flow. Apple does not. They may be getting a couple of points on the backend, but that's a completely different technical and financial relationship than Google and the others have been trying to get.
Sure, I just read about a deaf kid that wasn't allowed to sign his own name at school because the sign language gesture for his name included something that looked like a gun, and the school had a strict "no guns" policy. It lasted about two weeks. That's both more significant and longer in duration because this embargo (and any embargo) isn't a human rights violation. It's the equivalent of a store saying, "No, you threw rocks at our window last year, and you were given a lifetime ban. We refuse to do business with you ever again."
Or rather, "Your uncle through rocks at our window 50 years ago, and you and your family were given lifetime bans." Which begins to trend much closer to institutionalized racism than any kind of even theoretically reasonable policy.
Cuba has maintained unfriendly to the US ties. This has not changed. Thus the embargo status has remained.
Of course, right now with the US not putting any kind of friendly relations on the table, Cuba doesn't really have much of a choice, do they?
The BBC is a good bet. The international site of CNN is fairly solid. And actually, MSNBC - while they're far more left-leaning than Fox - would be considered neutral by most of the rest of the West and fair far better on fact checking than you might expect. The "liberal media" generally leans right (as happens when consolidation allows it to be mostly owned by a few billionaires), so it ends up looking far more "biased" than it actually is.
Its a very different proposition to have an "always on" proximity-activtated chip (such as those embedded into your credit cards) and one that's only active for a single transaction based on a physical finger-swipe. The whole point is that even when (not if) the communication is intercepted, what you end up with is like sniffing SSL traffic - you could replay the "Please pay Target $20 to fulfill exactly this invoice" conversation, certainly, but that's not particularly useful to a thief. Having the physical TouchID in the middle also ensures that the phone isn't chatting to just anyone at random times.
Actually, they're not - they're storing a newly created token that represents the combination of the card and your phone's "fingerprint" (pun intended). Due to the way that the NFC card payment handshaking works, its useless without the phone (or an emulator for the phone) and can be trivially marked as invalid.
To put it bluntly, while it isn't perfect its an order of magnitude better than an unchanging magstripe is, which is why Apple is rumored to have convinced Visa et al to approve "card present" rates for Apple Pay transactions which will greatly increase adoption - especially with the combination of app purchases and card-present rates. That's huge.
Once again, its not about the technology, its about combining the technology with a smashingly good business relationship.
Uber is really two different service providers. There's "Uber Black" that provides usually very nice black car services with professional drivers at 20-40% higher rates than a taxi - I love this personally and use it a ton when I travel. Then there's UberX which tries to do the same with random individuals who own a car for 20-40% lower rates than a taxi. These two services have almost nothing to do with each other, and its the second one that everyone basically has a problem with.
I have both MIUI and iOS devices and can confidently say they are very different to use. MIUI is incredibly clever and intuitive, truly thoughtful touches like a zoom bubble when you're editing text pervade the whole UI. iOS feels quite dated and primitive by comparison.
Only on /. does one of the few on-topic posts in a thread get modded -1, Offtopic.