Remember, Hams are folks who have spent their own money to get radio gear, and then use that radio gear to provide emergency communications in the event of a disaster.
And they are wonderful people for doing this. But, keep in mind that the other 99.9% when there is no emergency going on, they are using it to chat with people on the other side of the globe.
So I--and all my neighbors--have to give up on 1Gb/sec Internet so that you can chat with Ivan in Ukraine?
Dare I say it, I think Apple has probably considered these things and have done appropriate things to ameliorate the issues you've raised with the iMac Pro.
My concern is similar to the Trashcan Mac: Yup, it's absolute gorgeous. But what happens in two years when Intel puts out a new line of Xeon CPUs that run a little hotter.
I mean, I'm probably not spending $4999 for it now. But I might be in the market in a couple of years. When I buy a "Pro" machine and I fork over that kind of money, I expect to be getting the latest and greatest. I don't expect to be buying 2-3 year old technology because Apple made the machine spectacularly attractive, yet ran it so close to the limits that they'd have to completely redesign everything in order to make it work with the latest chips.
I appreciate the iMac Pro. But I'll wait and see what happens with the next Xeon CPU upgrade and how quickly Apple can use those before I consider getting one.
You could say the opposite about that Hurricane that hit Florida. It swept around the back end Florida, missing the "blue" areas and hitting the "red" areas.
Well, it depends. I like the concept of Aero. But you're right in that the argument is distribution.
My attitude--which is not necessarily the attitude of the law--is that once I get the signal, I can do whatever I want with it, for my own personal use. That last part is the rub. If I want to set up a streaming server so that I can watch the Rams' game on my phone, it's not a problem. It becomes a problem when I tell everyone else that they can watch the Rams' game because it's no longer for my own personal use.
And, yes, you can draw the analogy of me inviting my buddy over to watch the game and how I should be able to share the address/password with my friend and that might be legit.
Again, as I understand it, it isn't that you can't yell it. You just can't use it as a defense.
If I yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater (while holding up my lighter and pointing at it) and everybody laughs and goes on watching the show, I have committed no crime, nothing bad has happened, and there's no problem. If everybody were to calmly stand up and leave the theater such that no one was injured and immediately head to the manager and demand their money back, the theater owner could then sue me for the money that he lost due to my prank. If I were to refuse to pay because, hey, "Free speech, man!", that wouldn't fly. The first amendment is not a "get out of jail free" card.
What, you live in the boondocks or something? CATV was already a thing in 1971.
Depends on what you mean by CATV.
Cumminity Aantenna TV was quite the thing in "the boondocks." My grandmother lived in a small town located in a valley and there was no way to get TV signals with an antenna on your house. So her tax dollars paid for a "Community Antenna" that they stuck on the top of a hill so that the people in the valley could watch TV.
Actually, last time I flew, I accidentally showed the TSA guy an expired driver's license. He was fine with it--just said that I'd better get it renewed.
I saw BvS in the theater and didn't like it. When I watched the extended version of it, it made more sense.
As an aside, this is one of those things that I haven't liked about the recent set of DC movies: The "Extended Versions."
The distributors will chop up the movie so it fits in a time-slot that will allow a large number of showings. So now I spend $14 to watch the movie and then I have to spend more money for the Blu-Ray to see all the stuff that they chopped out that allowed the movie to make sense. This was true with BvS and Suicide Squad (the even the cut scenes didn't save it).
So why should I spend good money to watch an edited version in a theater when I can just wait a few months and watch the "Extended Version" at home?
Actually, everyone understands english as long as you speak it slowly, clearly, and loudly.
Years ago, I heard a comedian imagining how this would be if others did they same...
French Person:Ou est la salle de bain? American Person: Huh? French Person:Ou. Est. La. Salle. De. Bain. American Person: I'm sorry but I don't-- French Person:OU! EST! LA! SALLE! DE! BAIN!
(By the way, apologies to any francophile for any mistakes I've made. I'm depending on my high school french from quite awhile ago...)
a language (Italian) as spoken by Italian-Americans of several generations, so with a strong accent, regional influences and maybe a few grammatical errors in the mix (I'm Italian-Italian myself so I know what could be expected).
Not to mention that Italian is mostly sign language with some noises thrown in...
As for the Las Vegas shooter, he had scoped, high-powered rifles, bump-stocks, and a 32nd-floor vantage point. Could the crowd have retaliated effectively with hand-held pistols? Not likely.
Of course, the dumb ones would have tried.
To paraphrase, "The bullets go up, who cares where they come down?"
"Currently China is developing its own reusable earth-to-orbit space vehicles that can take off and land horizontally,"
I assume they mean the rockets will take off and then land horizontally. The concept is somewhat like the Space Shuttle--the rocket will go up vertically, release the satellite/space-plane, and rather than falling back and burning up, crashing someplace, or doing a controlled landing (like SpaceX), it will glide like the Space Shuttle and be remote piloted like the Buran back to an airfield where it will land horizontally.
Basically, NASA didn't build re-usable launch vehicles because re-use only becomes practical with more launches. NASA claims they're not in the rocket business, unless a suitable launch vehicle doesn't currently exist for what they want to do. That's why they're building SLS. Yeah, I know...
So the arguments were that (a) they'll never get it to work, (b) even if they get it to work, they won't see the cost savings in the lifetime of the vehicle, and (c) no one will pay to send their multi-million dollar satellite on a "used" rocket.
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The line I always like:
"I works fine on my machine, but I've been told by sales and marketing that my machine is not a sufficiently large market."
I still enjoyed the message on the old IBM 5150s:
"Keyboard not connected. Press any key to continue"
Getting to space isn't the hard part -- the hard part is figuring out why we're there.
To hit golf balls.
Remember, Hams are folks who have spent their own money to get radio gear, and then use that radio gear to provide emergency communications in the event of a disaster.
And they are wonderful people for doing this. But, keep in mind that the other 99.9% when there is no emergency going on, they are using it to chat with people on the other side of the globe.
So I--and all my neighbors--have to give up on 1Gb/sec Internet so that you can chat with Ivan in Ukraine?
I was thinking of something more like this...
Dare I say it, I think Apple has probably considered these things and have done appropriate things to ameliorate the issues you've raised with the iMac Pro.
My concern is similar to the Trashcan Mac: Yup, it's absolute gorgeous. But what happens in two years when Intel puts out a new line of Xeon CPUs that run a little hotter.
I mean, I'm probably not spending $4999 for it now. But I might be in the market in a couple of years. When I buy a "Pro" machine and I fork over that kind of money, I expect to be getting the latest and greatest. I don't expect to be buying 2-3 year old technology because Apple made the machine spectacularly attractive, yet ran it so close to the limits that they'd have to completely redesign everything in order to make it work with the latest chips.
I appreciate the iMac Pro. But I'll wait and see what happens with the next Xeon CPU upgrade and how quickly Apple can use those before I consider getting one.
Oh dear...
You could say the opposite about that Hurricane that hit Florida. It swept around the back end Florida, missing the "blue" areas and hitting the "red" areas.
Well, it depends. I like the concept of Aero. But you're right in that the argument is distribution.
My attitude--which is not necessarily the attitude of the law--is that once I get the signal, I can do whatever I want with it, for my own personal use. That last part is the rub. If I want to set up a streaming server so that I can watch the Rams' game on my phone, it's not a problem. It becomes a problem when I tell everyone else that they can watch the Rams' game because it's no longer for my own personal use.
And, yes, you can draw the analogy of me inviting my buddy over to watch the game and how I should be able to share the address/password with my friend and that might be legit.
Cool. So it's okay if I listen in on your cellphone calls. You're broadcasting, after all. You can't expect to control it.
Again, as I understand it, it isn't that you can't yell it. You just can't use it as a defense.
If I yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater (while holding up my lighter and pointing at it) and everybody laughs and goes on watching the show, I have committed no crime, nothing bad has happened, and there's no problem. If everybody were to calmly stand up and leave the theater such that no one was injured and immediately head to the manager and demand their money back, the theater owner could then sue me for the money that he lost due to my prank. If I were to refuse to pay because, hey, "Free speech, man!", that wouldn't fly. The first amendment is not a "get out of jail free" card.
What, you live in the boondocks or something? CATV was already a thing in 1971.
Depends on what you mean by CATV.
Cumminity Aantenna TV was quite the thing in "the boondocks." My grandmother lived in a small town located in a valley and there was no way to get TV signals with an antenna on your house. So her tax dollars paid for a "Community Antenna" that they stuck on the top of a hill so that the people in the valley could watch TV.
That was probably in the early 1970s.
Actually, last time I flew, I accidentally showed the TSA guy an expired driver's license. He was fine with it--just said that I'd better get it renewed.
I was thinking that it was the lack of Wendy and Marvin...
I saw BvS in the theater and didn't like it. When I watched the extended version of it, it made more sense.
As an aside, this is one of those things that I haven't liked about the recent set of DC movies: The "Extended Versions."
The distributors will chop up the movie so it fits in a time-slot that will allow a large number of showings. So now I spend $14 to watch the movie and then I have to spend more money for the Blu-Ray to see all the stuff that they chopped out that allowed the movie to make sense. This was true with BvS and Suicide Squad (the even the cut scenes didn't save it).
So why should I spend good money to watch an edited version in a theater when I can just wait a few months and watch the "Extended Version" at home?
Actually, everyone understands english as long as you speak it slowly, clearly, and loudly.
Years ago, I heard a comedian imagining how this would be if others did they same...
French Person: Ou est la salle de bain?
American Person: Huh?
French Person: Ou. Est. La. Salle. De. Bain.
American Person: I'm sorry but I don't--
French Person: OU! EST! LA! SALLE! DE! BAIN!
(By the way, apologies to any francophile for any mistakes I've made. I'm depending on my high school french from quite awhile ago...)
a language (Italian) as spoken by Italian-Americans of several generations, so with a strong accent, regional influences and maybe a few grammatical errors in the mix (I'm Italian-Italian myself so I know what could be expected).
Not to mention that Italian is mostly sign language with some noises thrown in...
(Sorry--couldn't resist)
As for the Las Vegas shooter, he had scoped, high-powered rifles, bump-stocks, and a 32nd-floor vantage point. Could the crowd have retaliated effectively with hand-held pistols? Not likely.
Of course, the dumb ones would have tried.
To paraphrase, "The bullets go up, who cares where they come down?"
I don't have a thermometer outside the window, you insensitive clod! :^D
I figure there's some kind of translation error:
"Currently China is developing its own reusable earth-to-orbit space vehicles that can take off and land horizontally,"
I assume they mean the rockets will take off and then land horizontally. The concept is somewhat like the Space Shuttle--the rocket will go up vertically, release the satellite/space-plane, and rather than falling back and burning up, crashing someplace, or doing a controlled landing (like SpaceX), it will glide like the Space Shuttle and be remote piloted like the Buran back to an airfield where it will land horizontally.
That would be impressive to see.
Did you bring enough for everyone?
I don't want good reception. I want an iPhone
I want an iPhone.
I assume you're still upset that nobody watched "Atlas Shrugged."
I think the term was "impractical."
Basically, NASA didn't build re-usable launch vehicles because re-use only becomes practical with more launches. NASA claims they're not in the rocket business, unless a suitable launch vehicle doesn't currently exist for what they want to do. That's why they're building SLS. Yeah, I know...
So the arguments were that (a) they'll never get it to work, (b) even if they get it to work, they won't see the cost savings in the lifetime of the vehicle, and (c) no one will pay to send their multi-million dollar satellite on a "used" rocket.
Well, Star Trek: Enterprise had Pulse & Phase Cannons.
Though I remember a strong desire among many to shoot Rick Berman out of a cannon.