Don't forget functional visual voicemail either. Its fun to go back and rewatch the old release keynote to see the gasps and remember just how much of what was being released with the first iPhone really was staggeringly more advanced and usable than the competition. If anything the other "smart phones" were really just PDAs with a scary "internet" button.
There's an interesting Venn diagram there though. Anyone who's a developer can drop software that they compile onto their iPhone. Anyone who's part of the general public gets a remarkably secure (and surprisingly spacious) Walled Garden. The gap that Android etc do fill better can be represented by folk who think they want to disable all of the safeties but don't actually want to (or know how to) take the simple steps to show that they understand them.
Which is also a problem. The article should be talking about a power source. By tying the power source to a particular use of that power, the conversation gets muddled to say the least.
Actually the owners of PM own slightly less than half of it, 5/12 to the Snopes 7/12 (ish), since 1 of the people that held part of the divorcing member's shares went from PM to Snopes.
The claim that Snopes was supposed to judge was whether the man was a registered Democrat, not if he had voted recently, and not if he committed the crime in the name of the Democratic party.
Well, by the standards you claimed, voter registration in 2006, President Donald J. Trump is also a registered Democrat.
What could possibly go wrong?
They admitted he was a registered Democrat, then lied and said "His U.S. political affiliation (if any) at the time of the shooting is unknown."
This is called BIAS.
They told the exact truth, led with it in fact, and then pointed out that it was 10 years out of date and could easily have changed. This is called responsible reporting.
It also depends on our continued insistence that payroll taxes - while being a proportional tax assessed on what 99.99% of the population considers income - are never included in the term "income taxes" for the purpose of calculations like these.
Note as a relative comparison that we spent approximately $1,000 billion in direct costs on the recent Iraq war. The money is there if we choose to prioritize energy and fossil fuel independence.
The number one reason is the rapid rate of change. You can go from full heat output to minimal stored heat output and back very quickly using a gas cooktop. The electric ones have far higher hysteresis, which matters when you're, e.g., trying to keep something from boiling.
The pan is a non-issue though. In real world practical terms, I can go from boiling to quiet to boiling a reasonable amount of sauce with about 2-3 seconds of reaction time, just by turning the burner knob. Gas is still far more convenient for many cooks than induction electric.
Then its HTC's problem. Whether or not their keyboard was developed in-house is exactly the kind of BS that their customers shouldn't have to deal with, in exchange for them paying HTC lots of money. That's how these things traditionally work in business.
One square mile of batteries Is all that's needed to store the energy for the entire US?
Nah, just to store enough to cover the dips in solar production - although I'd think that lake storage would be easier. Then again I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, and Musk is (although he's also biased in that he does own a pretty big battery company):)
I didn't do the maths myself beyond the back of a mental napkin, but these folks have http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/energy/... and apparently the overall space checks out. Its far from the first time that similar scale claims have been made, and no, consolidating our entire solar grid into a single spot wouldn't make much sense from a security standpoint, but its interesting to think that we could get from here to there with no more (or less) effort for the country than, say, the Apollo program took.
If you sign up for Facebook, you have no expectation of privacy.
When using their site - with that caveat I'd agree with you. Affirmatively and explicitly choosing to log out of Facebook should restore that expectation of privacy, even if at some random point in the past you had indeed signed up.
It shouldn't be unreasonable to expect that logging out of Facebook caused them to stop treating that browser window as being "you" for their purposes as well as yours.
Yup. I've never seen any double-blind study that showed anything like that either. One thing that I really appreciate about music is that the current formats have indeed reached the "good enough" level. Sure, when I was younger and had a room in my house devoted to a massively high quality stereo I might have been able to hear a difference in soundstage between the original and a high quality rip, but even if I still had that setup I'm not convinced that I actually could. Now, there's literally no way, and I'm okay with that. The absolute value of convenience in being able to play basically any song at any time far outweighs a theoretical minor 99.99->99.999% qualitative improvement.
No, he was ranting about an issue brought up by the post to which he was directly replying, which suggested that he switch to PC gaming. Not quite the same thing.
It's one of the few times when a technology hit the market when it was actually at least mostly ready.
This technology has been hitting the market badly for a couple of decades now. What's astonishing is that people have persisted as many, many companies have gone under until now, when the market is indeed mostly ready.
. . . . . . reminding us that those buying IoT devices don't own anything useful, and that your f**cking GARAGE DOOR OPENER could be dependent not only on Internet connectivity but the continued willingness of a service provider (Garage Door Operation As a Service--GDOAAS?) to provide service, at whatever cost they deem fit. I'll leave my light bulbs, refrigerator, door locks, garage door opener, and thermostat off the Internet, thank you very much.
Worse than being dependent on it - any operator who's this publicly petty shouldn't really be trusted with the option of opening any of their customers' doors whenever they feel like it either.
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Don't forget functional visual voicemail either. Its fun to go back and rewatch the old release keynote to see the gasps and remember just how much of what was being released with the first iPhone really was staggeringly more advanced and usable than the competition. If anything the other "smart phones" were really just PDAs with a scary "internet" button.
There's an interesting Venn diagram there though. Anyone who's a developer can drop software that they compile onto their iPhone. Anyone who's part of the general public gets a remarkably secure (and surprisingly spacious) Walled Garden. The gap that Android etc do fill better can be represented by folk who think they want to disable all of the safeties but don't actually want to (or know how to) take the simple steps to show that they understand them.
If you traveled though, couldn't you see the appeal of having new-to-you restaurants deliver a similarly awesome dining experience, if they wanted to?
As one option. The other option is using their relatively inexpensive SMB service that does.
Which is also a problem. The article should be talking about a power source. By tying the power source to a particular use of that power, the conversation gets muddled to say the least.
Actually the owners of PM own slightly less than half of it, 5/12 to the Snopes 7/12 (ish), since 1 of the people that held part of the divorcing member's shares went from PM to Snopes.
The claim that Snopes was supposed to judge was whether the man was a registered Democrat, not if he had voted recently, and not if he committed the crime in the name of the Democratic party.
Well, by the standards you claimed, voter registration in 2006, President Donald J. Trump is also a registered Democrat.
What could possibly go wrong?
They admitted he was a registered Democrat, then lied and said "His U.S. political affiliation (if any) at the time of the shooting is unknown."
This is called BIAS.
They told the exact truth, led with it in fact, and then pointed out that it was 10 years out of date and could easily have changed. This is called responsible reporting.
And no less than Vint Cerf came to his defense and agreed that he was fundamental in getting it the attention and funding that it deserved.
Nobody discounts the technological achievement but in the end it changed very little on planet Earth.
Except for that whole computerization/miniaturization thing. Turned out that was pretty useful in the end.
It also depends on our continued insistence that payroll taxes - while being a proportional tax assessed on what 99.99% of the population considers income - are never included in the term "income taxes" for the purpose of calculations like these.
Note as a relative comparison that we spent approximately $1,000 billion in direct costs on the recent Iraq war. The money is there if we choose to prioritize energy and fossil fuel independence.
The number one reason is the rapid rate of change. You can go from full heat output to minimal stored heat output and back very quickly using a gas cooktop. The electric ones have far higher hysteresis, which matters when you're, e.g., trying to keep something from boiling.
The pan is a non-issue though. In real world practical terms, I can go from boiling to quiet to boiling a reasonable amount of sauce with about 2-3 seconds of reaction time, just by turning the burner knob. Gas is still far more convenient for many cooks than induction electric.
Then its HTC's problem. Whether or not their keyboard was developed in-house is exactly the kind of BS that their customers shouldn't have to deal with, in exchange for them paying HTC lots of money. That's how these things traditionally work in business.
Good thing that coal, gas, and other fossil fuel energies require no investment and no ongoing maintenance then. Phew! Really dodged a bullet there...
One square mile of batteries Is all that's needed to store the energy for the entire US?
Nah, just to store enough to cover the dips in solar production - although I'd think that lake storage would be easier. Then again I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, and Musk is (although he's also biased in that he does own a pretty big battery company) :)
I didn't do the maths myself beyond the back of a mental napkin, but these folks have http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/energy/... and apparently the overall space checks out. Its far from the first time that similar scale claims have been made, and no, consolidating our entire solar grid into a single spot wouldn't make much sense from a security standpoint, but its interesting to think that we could get from here to there with no more (or less) effort for the country than, say, the Apollo program took.
If you sign up for Facebook, you have no expectation of privacy.
When using their site - with that caveat I'd agree with you. Affirmatively and explicitly choosing to log out of Facebook should restore that expectation of privacy, even if at some random point in the past you had indeed signed up.
It shouldn't be unreasonable to expect that logging out of Facebook caused them to stop treating that browser window as being "you" for their purposes as well as yours.
Yup. I've never seen any double-blind study that showed anything like that either. One thing that I really appreciate about music is that the current formats have indeed reached the "good enough" level. Sure, when I was younger and had a room in my house devoted to a massively high quality stereo I might have been able to hear a difference in soundstage between the original and a high quality rip, but even if I still had that setup I'm not convinced that I actually could. Now, there's literally no way, and I'm okay with that. The absolute value of convenience in being able to play basically any song at any time far outweighs a theoretical minor 99.99->99.999% qualitative improvement.
Since he didn't include cheetos, I'm going to assume the normal ones.
No, he was ranting about an issue brought up by the post to which he was directly replying, which suggested that he switch to PC gaming. Not quite the same thing.
It's one of the few times when a technology hit the market when it was actually at least mostly ready.
This technology has been hitting the market badly for a couple of decades now. What's astonishing is that people have persisted as many, many companies have gone under until now, when the market is indeed mostly ready.
. . . . . . reminding us that those buying IoT devices don't own anything useful, and that your f**cking GARAGE DOOR OPENER could be dependent not only on Internet connectivity but the continued willingness of a service provider (Garage Door Operation As a Service--GDOAAS?) to provide service, at whatever cost they deem fit. I'll leave my light bulbs, refrigerator, door locks, garage door opener, and thermostat off the Internet, thank you very much.
Worse than being dependent on it - any operator who's this publicly petty shouldn't really be trusted with the option of opening any of their customers' doors whenever they feel like it either.
Eh, it matches your chosen username well ;)