... when the replacement has the reliability of PSTN. At a minimum, the battery backup for the fiber box in my house must run longer than the worst-case power outage in my area.
I could switch to FIOS right now, and they'd give me an interface box they claim is good for up to 12 hours.
I live in the Washington DC metro area. Neighborhoods in this area have lost power for DAYS within the past few years.
I have been taking my kids to science-fiction conventions ever since the early 1990's. Kids programing tracks were rare at SF cons until fairly recently, and now they're pretty common, in part because more SF fans are reproducing with other fans - the alternative is dumping the kids at Grandma's for the weekend.
Yes, you can get MobileMe services elsewhere for free, and they work better.
However, I can trust Apple to keep my data private, and not sell it or give it away to third parties - I pay them for services, I have a contract, I can sue them if they violate it.
Gmail is great, but they explicitly tell you they mine it for data, if only to target their ads. If that information leaks out somehow, or is given out intentionally, you have no recourse. Don't know about their calendar.
* The fuel tax is removed * The miles-traveled box does NOTHING but record mileage (on a per-state basis, to keep states that impose their own taxes happy) * In particular, the box does NOT record time-stamped locations * The miles-traveled box has open-source firmware (so the non-logging properties can be validated by all)
The chances of such a non-intrusive system being implemented are near zero, of course.
Apple went to the major printer manufacturers and said "You should support Rendesvous/Bonjour". And they did it.
Apple went to the music labels and said "You should sell your stuff through iTunes - it's safe with our DRM". They later said "You guys should drop this DRM jazz". Both times they were heard, and Apple got the rights it needed.
Until Canonical can do something similar, they're not an Apple replacement candidate.
... the WWW was not created primarily with the interests of content creators in mind. You've said this repeatedly over the last 40 years. Some of us even agree with you, but your vision would never have taken off on its own like the WWW did.
The WWW was built by engineers, who knew that requiring global two-way links was a complete non-starter. From building and running the pre-WWW internet, they knew that two-way linking would have been too fragile - requiring the cooperation of a remote server when linking to its content? Yikes!
... as my gateway router / print server / wifi node / backup for all notebooks in the house.
The good news is that it's one device, drawing little power.
The bad news is that it's a single point of failure. After my first one died just outside of warranty, my current one sits on top of a cheap USB-powered notebook cooling fan.
The Java/C++ model of O-O pretty much forces side effects and object mutation on you.
Other models of O-O exist. CMU is using "O-O" as shorthand for "pedestrian, non-academic coding".
Which has some degree of truth, but is also academic snobbery.
If they wanted to advance the conversation without flamebait, they could have labeled their stuff as "modern O-O" or "O-O without mutation" so they could not look like they were throwing out the useful aspects of O-O.
I've had both AT&T and T-Mobile in the Washington DC area. T-Mobile had less areal coverage, but when your phone had minimal signal, it typically kept it and didn't drop your call. AT&T has more bars in more places, but using those bars to make a phone call is always a crap shoot - you can have what looks like a strong signal and get kicked off anyway, or be unable to connect at all.
Much of this experience was before the iPhone - AT&T just got worse after that.
The earthquake and the follow-on tsunami caused serious problems with several reactors. The problems built up over hours and days, requiring a lot of effort to mitigate them.. They are going to be expensive to fix, and to date have killed tens of people.
The earthquake also caused a dam to collapse, destroying 1800 houses in an essentially unstoppable catastrophe. Right now, nobody knows how many people were in those homes - if 1% of them were occupied, that dam has killed more people than all the reactors.
People on slashdot favor nuclear power because a lot of them have an engineering mindset - everything we do has tradeoffs, and nuclear in general has the best ones for big sources of electricity.
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What you say is true today. Given the iPad's growth and its dominance of the niche it essentially created, I doubt it will be true a year from now.
... when the replacement has the reliability of PSTN. At a minimum, the battery backup for the fiber box in my house must run longer than the worst-case power outage in my area.
I could switch to FIOS right now, and they'd give me an interface box they claim is good for up to 12 hours.
I live in the Washington DC metro area. Neighborhoods in this area have lost power for DAYS within the past few years.
I've heard for years that Apple stuff isn't worth the premium price because "it's made out of the same components everyone else uses".
So, some of Apple's hardware is literally made from unobtanium?
They also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
It's anyone's guess as to which WebOS is.
I have been taking my kids to science-fiction conventions ever since the early 1990's. Kids programing tracks were rare at SF cons until fairly recently, and now they're pretty common, in part because more SF fans are reproducing with other fans - the alternative is dumping the kids at Grandma's for the weekend.
Or at least the ones who can't afford a phone solely devoted to running beta iOS releases.
If I can't return my wife's iPhone to its supported state after loading a beta release, I can't load that release.
There's got to be an entertaining story behind your business. Or am I being awesomely dense today by not being able to name it?
... the system can buffer $500 worth of power (5 MWh = 5000 KWh, $0.10/KWh wholesale).
And it cost $40 million to build (at least that's the size of the loan)? That's 40,000 times the value of the energy it can hold.
If the buffering keeps an expensive peaking source off-line, it might pay for itself in a few years of continuous use.
... that there is a lot of intra-state airplane traffic - that's how Southwest got their start.
Does TSA have any authority over air traffic that doesn't cross state boundaries?
Yes, you can get MobileMe services elsewhere for free, and they work better.
However, I can trust Apple to keep my data private, and not sell it or give it away to third parties - I pay them for services, I have a contract, I can sue them if they violate it.
Gmail is great, but they explicitly tell you they mine it for data, if only to target their ads. If that information leaks out somehow, or is given out intentionally, you have no recourse. Don't know about their calendar.
Privacy or convenience - your choice.
Keyboards are electromechanical nightmares anyway, so there would have to be a BIG advantage to anything that made them more mechanically complex.
Consider that the failure modes on this would make individual keys have different sensitivity when typing.
Bleah. Count me out until they've had a few years in harsh environments.
BTW, here is another link to a similar story - the submission seems slashdotted as I type this.
... although "fermented" does work here, come to think of it.
* The fuel tax is removed
* The miles-traveled box does NOTHING but record mileage (on a per-state basis, to keep states that impose their own taxes happy)
* In particular, the box does NOT record time-stamped locations
* The miles-traveled box has open-source firmware (so the non-logging properties can be validated by all)
The chances of such a non-intrusive system being implemented are near zero, of course.
... saying Lion would be available only through the App Store?
No, there wasn't.
Stop hyperventiating, folks.
... or we would have broadcast "we have the computers, but they're encrypted" already, instead of TFA above.
Apple went to the major printer manufacturers and said "You should support Rendesvous/Bonjour". And they did it.
Apple went to the music labels and said "You should sell your stuff through iTunes - it's safe with our DRM". They later said "You guys should drop this DRM jazz". Both times they were heard, and Apple got the rights it needed.
Until Canonical can do something similar, they're not an Apple replacement candidate.
There is at least one notorious outlier.
... the WWW was not created primarily with the interests of content creators in mind. You've said this repeatedly over the last 40 years. Some of us even agree with you, but your vision would never have taken off on its own like the WWW did.
The WWW was built by engineers, who knew that requiring global two-way links was a complete non-starter. From building and running the pre-WWW internet, they knew that two-way linking would have been too fragile - requiring the cooperation of a remote server when linking to its content? Yikes!
... as my gateway router / print server / wifi node / backup for all notebooks in the house.
The good news is that it's one device, drawing little power.
The bad news is that it's a single point of failure. After my first one died just outside of warranty, my current one sits on top of a cheap USB-powered notebook cooling fan.
Urban legends aside, NASA did not throw the plans for the Saturn V away.
Falcon Heavy is cool, but it's still a factor of two away from the LEO capacity of a Saturn V.
The Java/C++ model of O-O pretty much forces side effects and object mutation on you.
Other models of O-O exist. CMU is using "O-O" as shorthand for "pedestrian, non-academic coding".
Which has some degree of truth, but is also academic snobbery.
If they wanted to advance the conversation without flamebait, they could have labeled their stuff as "modern O-O" or "O-O without mutation" so they could not look like they were throwing out the useful aspects of O-O.
... how much of Apple's /8 block is still unused? There were advantages to being there at the dawn of time.
That's 2**24 or 16 million addresses.
I've had both AT&T and T-Mobile in the Washington DC area. T-Mobile had less areal coverage, but when your phone had minimal signal, it typically kept it and didn't drop your call. AT&T has more bars in more places, but using those bars to make a phone call is always a crap shoot - you can have what looks like a strong signal and get kicked off anyway, or be unable to connect at all.
Much of this experience was before the iPhone - AT&T just got worse after that.
Go read the link in this comment:
The earthquake and the follow-on tsunami caused serious problems with several reactors. The problems built up over hours and days, requiring a lot of effort to mitigate them.. They are going to be expensive to fix, and to date have killed tens of people.
The earthquake also caused a dam to collapse, destroying 1800 houses in an essentially unstoppable catastrophe. Right now, nobody knows how many people were in those homes - if 1% of them were occupied, that dam has killed more people than all the reactors.
People on slashdot favor nuclear power because a lot of them have an engineering mindset - everything we do has tradeoffs, and nuclear in general has the best ones for big sources of electricity.
Pity ... it was such a good joke for a long time.