Not necessarily poorer quality control. The main issue with miniaturization is accuracy. On really old media (e.g. A vinyl record or even old floppy disks) a human can see and even control the position of the read header. As things started getting more dense, the accuracy had to go up to a point that even slight misalignments can cause data issues. Especially with the 3.5" floppys you sometimes need the exact same hardware to read a floppy because other manufacturers had different stepper motors with slightly different steps and the read head would be misaligned over the data track.
OP is using Windows. Any other OS has never experienced the issues. It's funny that even though Windows 10 can detect a HDPI now, the scaling of it's fonts is uneven that even the configuration panel has items that look 150% enlarged and bold while others are 'correct'.
That's not how analogies work. You are defining an Internet that doesn't require electrons, allows bigger packets to require the same bandwidth as smaller packets, has multiple providers and allows you to schedule the necessary packets in advance.
You can already hit data caps in less than 2 days, on mobile connections, you can hit data caps in as little as two hours.
The amount of bandwidth available to an average individual is obviously not the problem or Netflix wouldn't survive.
As I said before, data caps are entirely artificial, they have no grounds in technical reasoning. You can DO data caps correctly, it's called Token Buckets and the only data cap that is not only technically correct but also fair.
For most people though here is only one road. It's the road they HAVE to take to get to anyplace. The problem is physically moving often doesn't help, you'd have to move to an entirely different state just to get better Internet.
The Internet is a perfect example of the relative inelasticity of demand. Demand grows irregardless of an individual's provider. Sure you can try to curb your usage to a point but I'm wasting several GB's in bandwidth on my mobile plan just doing simple things like e-mail. A 2GB data cap vs. a 10GB data cap neither makes sense nor does it influence my usage.
The problem is most people don't even know they're hitting a data cap until they get the bill (which by then you've likely gone over the limits for a good month) and they don't understand the reason either because it's not rational to limit data usage per month. People will put up with slower traffic (to a point) but you can easily get over the data caps without even using your allotted limits.
If data caps were relevant, you'd have to almost do a Token Ring-like approach. You get a number of 'slots' which automatically refill over time and if you run out, you have to wait until they refill. But that's not how the Internet works.
The red states are no longer allowing the monopoly the Media Cartels have made and are promoting and fostering competition. The blue states (eg. New York) is supporting and enforcing the cartels.
Congestion is not related to data caps. Data caps are a way of charging for the amount of data someone uses over a long period of time. Congestion is related to bandwidth.
It's like justifying charging a toll on the only single lane road from place a to place b because there are daily traffic jams. It doesn't matter whether or not you charge a toll, the traffic jams cannot be 'fixed' by a toll booth if you need more lanes. If you hike the price high enough, someone will eventually come along and build the necessary two lane road, but until then, your toll booth just pisses people off even more.
With the Internet it's the same, except that a two lane highway costs almost no money (Netflix and Internet Exchanges have even offered extra lanes at no cost) and Comcast-and-co is conspiring from anyone else building a second lane.
Not just the way it worked, to Jobs it was the whole experience. From buying it to disposing it, you felt good about your purchase. It was similarly priced, had all the latest features (Bluetooth, WiFi AND Data) AND a finished OS with free apps for mail and web browsing that weren't just scaled down Desktop versions.
Compared to other "actual" smartphones (there were barely ANY), the iPhone was slightly cheaper and a hell of a lot better then either WiMo (not really all that hard, the thing showed a "Start" menu on a 4" screen, try pecking at that and Outlook was just scaled to fit the screen) but Symbian, Palm or Ericsson didn't fare much better. Palm thought that using IR to sync with their PC was just as "wireless" as Bluetooth was.
A picture at an angle and a lot of shadow (this was an eagle's nest so it must be relatively high) can mask the difference between something standing and going on all fours. Either way, it's not like humans don't go there (hence the camera), so a hunter or a military/militia training is an equally good answer.
Not going to grant the ad revenue of the sensational video but 10 frames or ~.5-1s of noise can't confirm much but there are a lot of non-ape alternatives. Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time.
So what does the sapphire on the watch use? I highly doubt the testing was done accurately. First of all, it's a YouTube video, not a paper with accurate reproduction parameters but from the few things I can see it seems more like he's shattering layers of the glass. I've done hobby geology and used these tools, you're not supposed to scratch them like a toddler with a pen, you put a little bit of pressure and slide it across the material and measure the your results, rubbing them that way will always get a result, either by destroying your tools or destroying (cracking) the material.
Although I agree that 'something has to be done', the chip cards in the US at least are no more secure than mag stripes. If you ever have the chance to hook a chip reader to a computer, you can read most of the data from a chip, unencrypted, the same way you do from a mag stripe (primarily for compatibility reasons). Hell, I have a fully encrypted card and it's useless at many large retailers in the US, my parents came here from Europe with their non-magstripe card which was completely useless even though it was issued as international by MasterCard, except for Tim Hortons (for whatever reason) the readers at Walmart and other places simply refused to work and the machine asked to swipe (on a non-magstripe card lol)
Additionally, there have been papers that describe how to abuse and crack the chip cards, the encryption on these things is about 2-3 decades old by now. On the other hand there are hundreds if not thousands of reports of these chip-and-pin countries (like Netherlands and France) of people that got fraudulently charged but because it was 'chip and pin' now the consumer has to eat the cost.
There is no reason to upgrade to chip cards except to benefit the card cartels. Forcing a small business owner to eat the fraudulent card charges is a big middle finger to these businesses, you can still fraudulently charge a chip card and the cost-benefit is just too insane for a business. Chip card transactions often not only cost more, but the readers and associated systems are a magnitude more expensive than their mag-stripe counterparts, for no good reason, I can get a Chinese chip card reader for $25, but the bank doesn't certify units under $250 and charge hefty monthly fees to use 'their' (same model) units.
At least with a mag stripe, a developer could interface with a verifiable fully secure API, now you have to trust the banks and manufacturers not to screw with the system. To the strict letter, they can't even be considered PCI compliant because the owners have no control to change the passphrase or keys on them.
You mean Apple's e-mail service. The e-mail client doing something nefarious like forwarding e-mails to the NSA would be quite noticeable. The solution, as always, is to decentralize and do your own e-mail service. It's not that hard.
Except that a lot of 'our' fish is (especially cheap seafood like tilapia and processed food like fish sticks), like everything else, imported from China and surrounding nations
You think you have a choice? That's cute. There is a reason Trump didn't bring up the emails during the debates, he's been throwing the election since day 1. He single handedly made the Republican Party unelectable. And it doesn't matter if he gets the vote, random straw polls put the amount of people voting for him at 75% yet CNN gives him a less than 30% chance of winning and official polls have them neck to neck. Trump has already cashed in, he laughs all the way to the bank while Clinton laughs all the way to the White House.
Your VID/PID can/should be a non transferable part of your system, GPL covers code not design, look into a Creative Commons that fits (e.g. Non commercial use etc) . Clones don't really care about licensing anyway and you can't stop the clones from China in court.
Exactly this. I am building an application, slowly building it up and taking my time and there are minimal amounts of bugs in it. I test after each section. It's a rebuild of an application I built years ago under extreme time and budget pressure, needless to say the thing is held together with metal wire and duct tape at this point. Now I have the opportunity to rebuild it on my own time frame, it's so much better.
The other problem is that things are trying to be too much. They are following the weirdest constructions in the name of simplicity, extensibility and portability that it ends up being so complex it is impossible to learn the framework if you're not already a core developer of the framework. And as a commercial programmer, if you can't read and understand the core of the framework in less than an hour, you can't effectively use the thing, sitting and studying for days or weeks to get your head wrapped around some quirky methodology is for CS, not feasible in a commercial setting.
You can safely code in PHP or JavaScript if you're careful but then you have monstrosities like Angular or.NET that make a language feel and act an entirely different language.
You pretty much have to be a sociopath or psychopath to make it to the level Trump/Clinton make it. There have been numerous studies proving that C-level executives and politicians are exponentially more likely to exhibit those signs.
Whether or not he actually got the tax break, it indeed makes him smart. If you knew how to game the system the way Trump, Gates, Jobs or Clinton did, you would do it too. Jobs purportedly never drove with a license plate on his vehicles, Gates did the overseas tax dodge, they found and used the loophole. Trump did the same, sure he screwed people over but he didn't cause the crisises Madoff, Bank of America, Wells Fargo have gotten involved in. It's not like he sold access to a US government office he held through a charity.
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Not necessarily poorer quality control. The main issue with miniaturization is accuracy. On really old media (e.g. A vinyl record or even old floppy disks) a human can see and even control the position of the read header. As things started getting more dense, the accuracy had to go up to a point that even slight misalignments can cause data issues. Especially with the 3.5" floppys you sometimes need the exact same hardware to read a floppy because other manufacturers had different stepper motors with slightly different steps and the read head would be misaligned over the data track.
OP is using Windows. Any other OS has never experienced the issues. It's funny that even though Windows 10 can detect a HDPI now, the scaling of it's fonts is uneven that even the configuration panel has items that look 150% enlarged and bold while others are 'correct'.
That's not how analogies work. You are defining an Internet that doesn't require electrons, allows bigger packets to require the same bandwidth as smaller packets, has multiple providers and allows you to schedule the necessary packets in advance.
You can already hit data caps in less than 2 days, on mobile connections, you can hit data caps in as little as two hours.
The amount of bandwidth available to an average individual is obviously not the problem or Netflix wouldn't survive.
As I said before, data caps are entirely artificial, they have no grounds in technical reasoning. You can DO data caps correctly, it's called Token Buckets and the only data cap that is not only technically correct but also fair.
For most people though here is only one road. It's the road they HAVE to take to get to anyplace. The problem is physically moving often doesn't help, you'd have to move to an entirely different state just to get better Internet.
The Internet is a perfect example of the relative inelasticity of demand. Demand grows irregardless of an individual's provider. Sure you can try to curb your usage to a point but I'm wasting several GB's in bandwidth on my mobile plan just doing simple things like e-mail. A 2GB data cap vs. a 10GB data cap neither makes sense nor does it influence my usage.
The problem is most people don't even know they're hitting a data cap until they get the bill (which by then you've likely gone over the limits for a good month) and they don't understand the reason either because it's not rational to limit data usage per month. People will put up with slower traffic (to a point) but you can easily get over the data caps without even using your allotted limits.
If data caps were relevant, you'd have to almost do a Token Ring-like approach. You get a number of 'slots' which automatically refill over time and if you run out, you have to wait until they refill. But that's not how the Internet works.
The red states are no longer allowing the monopoly the Media Cartels have made and are promoting and fostering competition. The blue states (eg. New York) is supporting and enforcing the cartels.
Congestion is not related to data caps. Data caps are a way of charging for the amount of data someone uses over a long period of time. Congestion is related to bandwidth.
It's like justifying charging a toll on the only single lane road from place a to place b because there are daily traffic jams. It doesn't matter whether or not you charge a toll, the traffic jams cannot be 'fixed' by a toll booth if you need more lanes. If you hike the price high enough, someone will eventually come along and build the necessary two lane road, but until then, your toll booth just pisses people off even more.
With the Internet it's the same, except that a two lane highway costs almost no money (Netflix and Internet Exchanges have even offered extra lanes at no cost) and Comcast-and-co is conspiring from anyone else building a second lane.
Not just the way it worked, to Jobs it was the whole experience. From buying it to disposing it, you felt good about your purchase. It was similarly priced, had all the latest features (Bluetooth, WiFi AND Data) AND a finished OS with free apps for mail and web browsing that weren't just scaled down Desktop versions.
Compared to other "actual" smartphones (there were barely ANY), the iPhone was slightly cheaper and a hell of a lot better then either WiMo (not really all that hard, the thing showed a "Start" menu on a 4" screen, try pecking at that and Outlook was just scaled to fit the screen) but Symbian, Palm or Ericsson didn't fare much better. Palm thought that using IR to sync with their PC was just as "wireless" as Bluetooth was.
A picture at an angle and a lot of shadow (this was an eagle's nest so it must be relatively high) can mask the difference between something standing and going on all fours. Either way, it's not like humans don't go there (hence the camera), so a hunter or a military/militia training is an equally good answer.
Not going to grant the ad revenue of the sensational video but 10 frames or ~.5-1s of noise can't confirm much but there are a lot of non-ape alternatives. Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time.
So what does the sapphire on the watch use? I highly doubt the testing was done accurately. First of all, it's a YouTube video, not a paper with accurate reproduction parameters but from the few things I can see it seems more like he's shattering layers of the glass. I've done hobby geology and used these tools, you're not supposed to scratch them like a toddler with a pen, you put a little bit of pressure and slide it across the material and measure the your results, rubbing them that way will always get a result, either by destroying your tools or destroying (cracking) the material.
But it's so anti-feminine to use curse words. It turns women away from computer engineering.
Although I agree that 'something has to be done', the chip cards in the US at least are no more secure than mag stripes. If you ever have the chance to hook a chip reader to a computer, you can read most of the data from a chip, unencrypted, the same way you do from a mag stripe (primarily for compatibility reasons). Hell, I have a fully encrypted card and it's useless at many large retailers in the US, my parents came here from Europe with their non-magstripe card which was completely useless even though it was issued as international by MasterCard, except for Tim Hortons (for whatever reason) the readers at Walmart and other places simply refused to work and the machine asked to swipe (on a non-magstripe card lol)
Additionally, there have been papers that describe how to abuse and crack the chip cards, the encryption on these things is about 2-3 decades old by now. On the other hand there are hundreds if not thousands of reports of these chip-and-pin countries (like Netherlands and France) of people that got fraudulently charged but because it was 'chip and pin' now the consumer has to eat the cost.
As far as USian sources: http://www.washingtontimes.com...
There is no reason to upgrade to chip cards except to benefit the card cartels. Forcing a small business owner to eat the fraudulent card charges is a big middle finger to these businesses, you can still fraudulently charge a chip card and the cost-benefit is just too insane for a business. Chip card transactions often not only cost more, but the readers and associated systems are a magnitude more expensive than their mag-stripe counterparts, for no good reason, I can get a Chinese chip card reader for $25, but the bank doesn't certify units under $250 and charge hefty monthly fees to use 'their' (same model) units.
At least with a mag stripe, a developer could interface with a verifiable fully secure API, now you have to trust the banks and manufacturers not to screw with the system. To the strict letter, they can't even be considered PCI compliant because the owners have no control to change the passphrase or keys on them.
The constitution doesn't agree. The government has to have (a) cause, (b) due process and (c) the right for an open defense in a public court
You mean Apple's e-mail service. The e-mail client doing something nefarious like forwarding e-mails to the NSA would be quite noticeable. The solution, as always, is to decentralize and do your own e-mail service. It's not that hard.
NSL is not a legal channel and is exactly what Yahoo quotes as following.
~30 Belgiums.
Except that a lot of 'our' fish is (especially cheap seafood like tilapia and processed food like fish sticks), like everything else, imported from China and surrounding nations
Most of the early computer programmers were women. Women got out of the computing world when it became more time consuming, abstracted and complex.
You think you have a choice? That's cute. There is a reason Trump didn't bring up the emails during the debates, he's been throwing the election since day 1. He single handedly made the Republican Party unelectable. And it doesn't matter if he gets the vote, random straw polls put the amount of people voting for him at 75% yet CNN gives him a less than 30% chance of winning and official polls have them neck to neck. Trump has already cashed in, he laughs all the way to the bank while Clinton laughs all the way to the White House.
You'd voluntarily overpay your taxes? You're the idiot. I'll do your taxes and keep the balance if it's the same to you.
Your VID/PID can/should be a non transferable part of your system, GPL covers code not design, look into a Creative Commons that fits (e.g. Non commercial use etc) . Clones don't really care about licensing anyway and you can't stop the clones from China in court.
Exactly this. I am building an application, slowly building it up and taking my time and there are minimal amounts of bugs in it. I test after each section. It's a rebuild of an application I built years ago under extreme time and budget pressure, needless to say the thing is held together with metal wire and duct tape at this point. Now I have the opportunity to rebuild it on my own time frame, it's so much better.
The other problem is that things are trying to be too much. They are following the weirdest constructions in the name of simplicity, extensibility and portability that it ends up being so complex it is impossible to learn the framework if you're not already a core developer of the framework. And as a commercial programmer, if you can't read and understand the core of the framework in less than an hour, you can't effectively use the thing, sitting and studying for days or weeks to get your head wrapped around some quirky methodology is for CS, not feasible in a commercial setting.
You can safely code in PHP or JavaScript if you're careful but then you have monstrosities like Angular or .NET that make a language feel and act an entirely different language.
You pretty much have to be a sociopath or psychopath to make it to the level Trump/Clinton make it. There have been numerous studies proving that C-level executives and politicians are exponentially more likely to exhibit those signs.
Whether or not he actually got the tax break, it indeed makes him smart. If you knew how to game the system the way Trump, Gates, Jobs or Clinton did, you would do it too. Jobs purportedly never drove with a license plate on his vehicles, Gates did the overseas tax dodge, they found and used the loophole. Trump did the same, sure he screwed people over but he didn't cause the crisises Madoff, Bank of America, Wells Fargo have gotten involved in. It's not like he sold access to a US government office he held through a charity.