"Modern records typically contain around 135g of PVC material with a carbon footprint of 0.5kg of carbon dioxide (based on 3.4kg of CO per 1kg of PVC). Sales of 4.1m records would produce 1.9 thousand tonnes of CO – not taking transport and packaging into account. That is the entire carbon footprint of almost 400 people per year."
if you don't count transport, buying the actual physical music might be better for the environment in some cases. you know what, i'll just continue to stream...
expect the same tricks from the MS chrome based browser, another reason just to not use it. changing rendering engines will not make me change my mind.
i would be very surprised if it would be a free service. perhaps you'll get free access to some free games or a week free play, just to warm you up to paying for the full experience.
regarding adventure games, a lot of those are being released these days, and a lot of them are really good and high quality. as you say, these are indie releases, but i don't see what the issue is with that. they make the games, the games are good, i suppose that's all that matters.
it's just a template sentence that everybody uses when something goes wrong with their product/company.
car company has issues with airbags - we take your safety very seriously tv broadcast company has outage - we take your leisure time very seriously etc.
you can find the reason why in the legal department's extensive writing excuses guide.
you can make it to mean whatever you want it to mean. the emoji's have their 'official' meaning, but that can change depending on its use (create a movie title only using emoji, etc). or you could create a secret code book made out of emoji characters and then only other people having the code book will be able to 'read' your text.
it's basically impossible to prove a series of emoji's mean anything.
depending on the usage it's damn near perfect. as the example given in the summary, if this tech would be used in games for example, you would barely notice these defects nor would they matter that much.
coal use will flatline and not decrease, oil consumption will increase 50%? all by 2030! i thought the plan was to make sure the use of all those energy sources would have been decreased dramatically by then, or the earth is lost.
the only thing i hear is google and facebook and who else invinting all these weird constructions to get 'poor' people in those countries onto internet. that money would be better spend on other basic needs, like curtains etc.
and that is only possible because all the apps on fdroid are open source. if the app is not open, you run into problems as we see now with both stores on android and iphone.
let that be a lesson for all those people who say more 'commercial' (read closed) software should be available for linux desktop. you don't really want that.
this just sucks, as we all know a lot of phones are not going to get any fix for this and even the ones that do will have to wait for a longer then normal time. i'm used to almost always same-day fixes on my linux desktop/servers, which is nothing more then normal.
how do we fix this for devices other then pc's/servers?
in this case i see no other way but to make it a law. if, for example, the EU can dictate the standard connector to use for phone-chargers, they should be able to do the same for something way more serious.
make it a law that all devices must get a lot of years of security updates (i don't even care about OS upgrades at this point), make it a long enough time, something like 6 to 8 years.
what will happen is that companies MUST design the software part better otherwise it will be too expensive to maintain all these security fixes for all these different devices with different implementations. to keep their costs down, they will have to have one build that can be installed and used on their whole range. again, don't tell me it is impossible, we've been doing it with linux distro's for more than 20 years.
of all the social platforms available, i find reddit to be the best one. yet, it is of lowest value, that says a lot. we could probably link the 'ARPU' to a site's quality and use it as a way to determine the most 'honest' social network.
tesla should hire this guy, let him do his thing, make sure that his works gets officially released to your vehicles. people who don't care about it, wont mind and those that do, will be thrilled and happy to promote your vehicles to others.
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from tfa
"Modern records typically contain around 135g of PVC material with a carbon footprint of 0.5kg of carbon dioxide (based on 3.4kg of CO per 1kg of PVC). Sales of 4.1m records would produce 1.9 thousand tonnes of CO – not taking transport and packaging into account. That is the entire carbon footprint of almost 400 people per year."
if you don't count transport, buying the actual physical music might be better for the environment in some cases.
you know what, i'll just continue to stream...
run a browser in your browser!
expect the same tricks from the MS chrome based browser, another reason just to not use it.
changing rendering engines will not make me change my mind.
not much difference between Steam and Stream.
i would be very surprised if it would be a free service.
perhaps you'll get free access to some free games or a week free play, just to warm you up to paying for the full experience.
what kind of psychopath do you have to be to think like that?
regarding adventure games, a lot of those are being released these days, and a lot of them are really good and high quality.
as you say, these are indie releases, but i don't see what the issue is with that. they make the games, the games are good, i suppose that's all that matters.
Not Invented Here syndrome at work?
People want to keep using Python, it must be doing something right.
can you believe those apple fans?
unless it's a screen with an apple logo on it, it's imperfect.
only a real apple thunderbolt display will do!
pure lunacy
the title needs to be adjusted to;
Stop saying, 'We take your seriously'
it's just a template sentence that everybody uses when something goes wrong with their product/company.
car company has issues with airbags - we take your safety very seriously
tv broadcast company has outage - we take your leisure time very seriously
etc.
you can find the reason why in the legal department's extensive writing excuses guide.
you can make it to mean whatever you want it to mean.
the emoji's have their 'official' meaning, but that can change depending on its use (create a movie title only using emoji, etc).
or you could create a secret code book made out of emoji characters and then only other people having the code book will be able to 'read' your text.
it's basically impossible to prove a series of emoji's mean anything.
depending on the usage it's damn near perfect.
as the example given in the summary, if this tech would be used in games for example, you would barely notice these defects nor would they matter that much.
for the demographic you describe the smartphone is already their desktop.
how they see it, windows/macos/linux is for work.
i see monsanto has been reading the old tobacco industries playbook and how they handled the cancer claims (until they no longer could).
coal use will flatline and not decrease, oil consumption will increase 50%? all by 2030!
i thought the plan was to make sure the use of all those energy sources would have been decreased dramatically by then, or the earth is lost.
the only thing i hear is google and facebook and who else invinting all these weird constructions to get 'poor' people in those countries onto internet.
that money would be better spend on other basic needs, like curtains etc.
by solving one problem, it seems we've just created another...
on April 6, planes will fall out of the sky!
elevators won't know if they need to go up or down!
and that is only possible because all the apps on fdroid are open source.
if the app is not open, you run into problems as we see now with both stores on android and iphone.
let that be a lesson for all those people who say more 'commercial' (read closed) software should be available for linux desktop.
you don't really want that.
i love it!
this just sucks, as we all know a lot of phones are not going to get any fix for this and even the ones that do will have to wait for a longer then normal time. i'm used to almost always same-day fixes on my linux desktop/servers, which is nothing more then normal.
how do we fix this for devices other then pc's/servers?
in this case i see no other way but to make it a law. if, for example, the EU can dictate the standard connector to use for phone-chargers, they should be able to do the same for something way more serious.
make it a law that all devices must get a lot of years of security updates (i don't even care about OS upgrades at this point), make it a long enough time, something like 6 to 8 years.
what will happen is that companies MUST design the software part better otherwise it will be too expensive to maintain all these security fixes for all these different devices with different implementations. to keep their costs down, they will have to have one build that can be installed and used on their whole range.
again, don't tell me it is impossible, we've been doing it with linux distro's for more than 20 years.
"...Apple is resistant to changing the included accessories to maintain production costs."
understandable, they barely make a profit with selling price they're asking for those phones.
of all the social platforms available, i find reddit to be the best one.
yet, it is of lowest value, that says a lot.
we could probably link the 'ARPU' to a site's quality and use it as a way to determine the most 'honest' social network.
there are 2 different companies in the world;
those that have been hacked
and those that have been hacked, but don't know it yet.
tesla should hire this guy, let him do his thing, make sure that his works gets officially released to your vehicles.
people who don't care about it, wont mind and those that do, will be thrilled and happy to promote your vehicles to others.