Uh, every smart person buys an extra box of tile, shingles, and laminate flooring to replace the inevitable later damage. Of course, sun fades color over time, so the new ones don't quite match anyway. I bought a finish-it-yourself pine cabinet that was a store demo for about a year, which meant the spot where the tag was on it was several shades darker than the rest of the unit. But it was cheap...
I'm sure they are strong enough to walk on. I have a different worry: on a steep roof, they would be a lot more slippery than asphalt shingles, especially here in the northwest where is rain so much that moss grows on our roofs! Yes, it seems like you would need to pressure wash them several times a year to keep dirt from lowering their efficiency, so you would spend a lot more time cleaning off your roof. Asphalt tile, you basically pay someone $300 to pressure wash the roof every 8 years.
Did you watch Musk's video of a weight dropping on 4 different types of ceiling tile, and smashing all but the Telsa one? When he says "glass", think "fiberglass".
First obvious drawback: solar cells are only useful on south-facing slopes, meaning non-matching tiles on the north-facing slope of the roof. Of course, I want a wedge shaped house where the entire roof is a north-facing slope, so that the southern exposure shines light through high windows then reflects down off the ceiling. In other words, solar ceiling tiles are only good in the situation where you have no other space to put them in -- but then, most new suburban lots are like that.
Used MacBooks sell for $350 to $1300, i.e. some MacBooks are worth a lot more than the $650 they are offering. I wonder if they'll take my ex-wife's broken Mac Book...
Yeah, those "watch pockets" they've been putting in trousers for like 100 years? Clothing manufacturers have started calling them "phone pockets" now. Weird how things go in circles. "Imagine, a timepiece attached to your wrist, so you don't have to pull it out of your pocket to glance at it!" Watch sales are way down too, which makes digital watches a lot more expensive, as they have to amortize the fixed costs over far fewer units.
1) There were 5000 people total there. Obviously not all of them were trying to use Wifi, close enough to the hotspots, or even knew they existed. But I'd still estimate a few hundred trying to connect at the same time to the one on the main stage, so obviously oversaturated.
2) The stadiums would obviously have a separate network and AP for the coaches for security reasons, but there are only a finite number of WiFi channels, so you still get interference from other access points, and likely from people using phones are portable hotspots.
Summary: they'd be better off hooking up a cable to each tablet.
If they are getting data off a server, then the problem may be the WiFi link, not the tablet. If all the data is kept locally on the tablet, then yes, the surface pro sucks.
The "threatening to move" really pisses me off, because they only do that to convince the public to pay for a more lavish stadium that they should be paying for themselves, How does it make sense to anyone to pay $500 million for a stadium in order to subsidize a billionaire's football team? (Seahawks, I'm looking at you. Even worse because they used taxes from all of Washington state, so people in Eastern Washington who could care less about the Seahawks are still paying for their stadium.) This payment of welfare to billionaires has got to stop!
We had a similar problem at a bluegrass festival with just 5000 people, 4 different free WiFi access points, all unusable because connections timed out due to being so overloaded. Of course, cellular reception was virtually non-existent, so everybody there was trying to call over WiFi too. I'd say if you're trying to do anything over WiFi in a football stadium, you're gonna have a bad time!
Based on my experience with WiFi, which is nowhere near a mature standard, I'd really expect to have problems with WiFi communication in a stadium with 50,000 people in it, regardless of what type of hardware is used. However, the problems they are describing don't sound like WiFi problems. I would expect communications with a server to be slow and perhaps stall for several seconds while the connection is reestablished. The software should be smart enough to recover without rebooting. Perhaps doing everything locally instead of over the network would help.
Easier to implement then that. Iris scan is already a working technology, as is eye-following so you could just look at dots in a pattern in sequence to unlock your phone. At which point, it's back to them compelling you to type in a passcode in order to unlock the phone.
You have 10 different fingers you can use to fingerprint-lock your phone. Most phones lock up after 5 tries. Can they compel you to use the correct finger? How many times can they force you to try and fail before it is effectively unlawful detention?
When first turned on, my Samsung phone won't unlock by fingerprint, it requires a passcode. Just turn your phone off upon seeing the warrant! Seems strange that they can compel a fingerprint but not a password.
Finally, one of the prime problems with the secret orders authorized under the Patriot Act is beginning to come out: "We'd like to reassure our rapidly shrinking customer base that we no longer do this, but under the law, we are subject to arrest for saying ANYTHING about it!" Clumsy attempt to avoid legal sanctions by asking the FBI to come clean about it so they don't have to won't work because the FBI has no incentive to say anything.
Sure, autonomous vehicles are dangerous, but they are orders of magnitude less dangerous than the assholes you already see on the road every day! Like the moron I saw trying to ride his bicycle down I-5 in downtown Portland during rush hour the other day...
Very good point... why not get a warrant before scanning the cards? Suspect doesn't want to wait around for the warrant, they can go ahead and give you permission to scan the cards, can't they?
That's one of my problems with the rules of evidence: the only penalty for unlawfully obtaining evidence is that the evidence is thrown out. That protects only the guilty, innocent people who's rights are violated have zero recourse! I thinks cops should be penalized for violating the rules, but if you got evidence of a crime, unless you have reason to suspect that the cops themselves planted the evidence, it should be admissible in court.
Gift cards use such a bad hash algorithm that you can guess the numbers to rewrite them with, and have them actually work? Seems like 99% of the time you'd be guessing a number that had never been activated or had already been used up, unless these things are much stupider than I think they are.
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Uh, every smart person buys an extra box of tile, shingles, and laminate flooring to replace the inevitable later damage. Of course, sun fades color over time, so the new ones don't quite match anyway. I bought a finish-it-yourself pine cabinet that was a store demo for about a year, which meant the spot where the tag was on it was several shades darker than the rest of the unit. But it was cheap...
I'm sure they are strong enough to walk on. I have a different worry: on a steep roof, they would be a lot more slippery than asphalt shingles, especially here in the northwest where is rain so much that moss grows on our roofs! Yes, it seems like you would need to pressure wash them several times a year to keep dirt from lowering their efficiency, so you would spend a lot more time cleaning off your roof. Asphalt tile, you basically pay someone $300 to pressure wash the roof every 8 years.
Did you watch Musk's video of a weight dropping on 4 different types of ceiling tile, and smashing all but the Telsa one? When he says "glass", think "fiberglass".
First obvious drawback: solar cells are only useful on south-facing slopes, meaning non-matching tiles on the north-facing slope of the roof. Of course, I want a wedge shaped house where the entire roof is a north-facing slope, so that the southern exposure shines light through high windows then reflects down off the ceiling. In other words, solar ceiling tiles are only good in the situation where you have no other space to put them in -- but then, most new suburban lots are like that.
I checked the fine print, it's MacBook Air MacBook _Pro_ only, not regular old MacBook. Most of the Pros are probably worth more than $650 used.
Thanks for the Douglas Adams quote, but I _still_ think digital watches are a neat idea!
Used MacBooks sell for $350 to $1300, i.e. some MacBooks are worth a lot more than the $650 they are offering. I wonder if they'll take my ex-wife's broken Mac Book...
Yeah, those "watch pockets" they've been putting in trousers for like 100 years? Clothing manufacturers have started calling them "phone pockets" now. Weird how things go in circles. "Imagine, a timepiece attached to your wrist, so you don't have to pull it out of your pocket to glance at it!" Watch sales are way down too, which makes digital watches a lot more expensive, as they have to amortize the fixed costs over far fewer units.
People finally realized most smart watches are useless unless you're also carrying the phone it's connected to, in which case, yeah, what's the point?
1) There were 5000 people total there. Obviously not all of them were trying to use Wifi, close enough to the hotspots, or even knew they existed. But I'd still estimate a few hundred trying to connect at the same time to the one on the main stage, so obviously oversaturated. 2) The stadiums would obviously have a separate network and AP for the coaches for security reasons, but there are only a finite number of WiFi channels, so you still get interference from other access points, and likely from people using phones are portable hotspots. Summary: they'd be better off hooking up a cable to each tablet.
This just supports my theory: Trump has been lying so much for so long that he doesn't even know he's lying anymore.
If they are getting data off a server, then the problem may be the WiFi link, not the tablet. If all the data is kept locally on the tablet, then yes, the surface pro sucks.
So going from calling "iPads" to "fucking surface tablets!" is an improvement, then?
The "threatening to move" really pisses me off, because they only do that to convince the public to pay for a more lavish stadium that they should be paying for themselves, How does it make sense to anyone to pay $500 million for a stadium in order to subsidize a billionaire's football team? (Seahawks, I'm looking at you. Even worse because they used taxes from all of Washington state, so people in Eastern Washington who could care less about the Seahawks are still paying for their stadium.) This payment of welfare to billionaires has got to stop!
We had a similar problem at a bluegrass festival with just 5000 people, 4 different free WiFi access points, all unusable because connections timed out due to being so overloaded. Of course, cellular reception was virtually non-existent, so everybody there was trying to call over WiFi too. I'd say if you're trying to do anything over WiFi in a football stadium, you're gonna have a bad time!
Based on my experience with WiFi, which is nowhere near a mature standard, I'd really expect to have problems with WiFi communication in a stadium with 50,000 people in it, regardless of what type of hardware is used. However, the problems they are describing don't sound like WiFi problems. I would expect communications with a server to be slow and perhaps stall for several seconds while the connection is reestablished. The software should be smart enough to recover without rebooting. Perhaps doing everything locally instead of over the network would help.
Easier to implement then that. Iris scan is already a working technology, as is eye-following so you could just look at dots in a pattern in sequence to unlock your phone. At which point, it's back to them compelling you to type in a passcode in order to unlock the phone.
You have 10 different fingers you can use to fingerprint-lock your phone. Most phones lock up after 5 tries. Can they compel you to use the correct finger? How many times can they force you to try and fail before it is effectively unlawful detention?
When first turned on, my Samsung phone won't unlock by fingerprint, it requires a passcode. Just turn your phone off upon seeing the warrant! Seems strange that they can compel a fingerprint but not a password.
Finally, one of the prime problems with the secret orders authorized under the Patriot Act is beginning to come out: "We'd like to reassure our rapidly shrinking customer base that we no longer do this, but under the law, we are subject to arrest for saying ANYTHING about it!" Clumsy attempt to avoid legal sanctions by asking the FBI to come clean about it so they don't have to won't work because the FBI has no incentive to say anything.
Sure, autonomous vehicles are dangerous, but they are orders of magnitude less dangerous than the assholes you already see on the road every day! Like the moron I saw trying to ride his bicycle down I-5 in downtown Portland during rush hour the other day...
Very good point... why not get a warrant before scanning the cards? Suspect doesn't want to wait around for the warrant, they can go ahead and give you permission to scan the cards, can't they?
That's one of my problems with the rules of evidence: the only penalty for unlawfully obtaining evidence is that the evidence is thrown out. That protects only the guilty, innocent people who's rights are violated have zero recourse! I thinks cops should be penalized for violating the rules, but if you got evidence of a crime, unless you have reason to suspect that the cops themselves planted the evidence, it should be admissible in court.
Gift cards use such a bad hash algorithm that you can guess the numbers to rewrite them with, and have them actually work? Seems like 99% of the time you'd be guessing a number that had never been activated or had already been used up, unless these things are much stupider than I think they are.
Words have lost all their original meaning? Good thing that can never happen here! http://thepublicslate.com/2015...