To be honest, the only place it falls down is in the electronics.
Compared to $30 EcoSmart 60W bulb I got from Home Depot, the L Prize starts up slower (about 0.25sec versus instant), can turn red when it dims (sometimes the blue LED driver circuit cuts out and the red stays on) and sometimes when you turn the L Prize off it flashes once about 0.25sec after you turn it off.
Finally, putting both bulbs on an oscilloscope, the L Prize also has a messier current waveform, far more harmonic distortion than the other bulb.
What gives? This is a great bulb, but the electrics seem like they could use some improvement.
Sorry, what you say just doesn't make sense. Apple wants to sell as many iPhones as possible. It's AT&T who wants to hold onto some form of exclusivity. They are under attack from the cheaper companies like MetroPCS, and so they wanted to make sure you had to go to AT&T to get an iPhone.
And now that iPhones are available with select regional carriers (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/05/iphone-4s-to-launch-with-select-regional-carriers-april-20th/) they're starting to unlock devices because with their exclusivity lost, they might as well pretend they care about customers in hopes of keeping them.
Some of us are current customers, just we have had our phone for more than 2 years.
Anyway, I find this ridiculous. Why does AT&T have to wait until the contract is up before unlocking? I already am under contract with an ETF penalty if I try to stop using their service.
Half rate was rolled out over a decade ago and AMR (adaptive rate) is the norm now. Realistically you're talking about 5k-8k for a phone call.
And also, the encodings are not crated to maximize voiceprint analysis, they are created to maximize understandability. The CODEC will guy down on dynamic range, hiding some speech characteristics. All you have to do is listen to audio encoded with AMR at lower and lower rates and see how the speech remains but the voice becomes robotic. At the lowest levels understandability remains but the difference between voices are minimized.
'there are certain characteristics introduced by the physics of your vocal cords, throat, mouth, and nasal passages that are pretty consistent and identifiable'
Yeah, but you have no way of knowing this software uses those.
We actually come back to an RMS argument. This software is a black box. How do you know what it is measuring?
Why would my buffer be never empty? Just because you have more buffers doesn't mean you process anything slower than you have to. It just means if you can't get around to something immediately, you can catch up later.
The problems with bufferbloat seem to me to be at the least greatly exaggerated and poor examples like yours are just one reason why.
You should have separate caps for traffic that goes out through the ISPs backhaul and traffic that doesn't. Because the former costs them more (transit charges) than the latter. And the latter may have no cap at all if that's feasible.
I also think that large ISPs like Comcast should be required to give other services who want to evade the backhaul cap the ability to colocate in the ISP data centers.
The big data companies (like streaming video) would then move into ISP data centers and reduce the load on the internet backbone routes.
What kind of work surface solution do you have for this?
Come on, stop trying to look for ways this is my fault. Apple could have made the device easier to hold and really should do so. They could put a small ridge on back so I don't have to put a much larger case on it just so I can hold it.
They figured out the slippery seed-shaped iPhone 3 was a bad idea eventually and went to something you can hold properly. Maybe they'll figure out with the iPad at some point too.
When I'm holding it vertically, like in bed, I can't just palm it. I have to use two hands to hold it.
And if I use two hands to hold it, do I just use my third hand to tap the screen to use it?
This all could be solved with a small ridge or dent on the back, so there is a smaller feature I can span to grip it one handed. The same principle as a handle, just more integrated.
I know it has bugs in the LTE connection. It's conked out before, and I even had the WiFi connection disappear after I turned LTE off (to save power). Going to airplane mode and back fixed all the problems, at least for now.
Also, the bars in LTE mode don't make much sense, or at least aren't what you're used to. With 5 bars I get 30mbps down, with 1 I get 24mpbs down. We've been trained from 3G that 1 bar is a lot slower than 5, so they should rescale the bars so that when you are at half speed or less you get 1 bar.
I have one, the charge times are quite slow. To be honest, too slow. Don't get me wrong, you can live with it, but it does also matter in some situations. And on top of that if you decide to just use your buddies' iPhone charger instead of the included one, you could charge it all through the work day and only pick up 25% charge or something. With the iPad 2, the iPhone charger was an acceptable back-up plan to the stock charger in a pinch. Unless your battery was almost completely dead the iPad 2 would charge completely off an iPhone charger overnight.
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
The drop situation is the same for all iPads, even if you drop tested an older one and got different results, you just got lucky on the old one. The screen is a huge expanse of glass on any iPad, you have to be careful.
WiFi has been the same on the iPad 3 as the 2. I even used mine side by side with a 2 for a bit and the results were the same.
Are you in the US? What hotels are you staying at that charge you for WiFi?
All of the affordable hotels in the US offer free internet access. And if they didn't, I'm sure you could find a Panera or whatever nearby.
As to your point about the "scam", yep, it's that bad. But to be honest in the US there isn't a lot of alternative. The large carriers don't give you a better deal for not taking a "free phone". So that means in order to save money you have to go to an "off-brand" carrier (or T-Mobile, who unfortunately cannot provide 3G to many phones not on their network), and these offer a reduced level of service. So you pay less but you get less too.
I wish phone subsidies were ended. I'd love to stick with an on-brand carrier, but either pay up front for the phone or just have my bill drop when I've paid off my phone after a year or two.
In fact at the end he says you should reconsider whether you really want to support Blu-ray due to its obsession with DRM.
But I have to ask, what is the suggested alternative? Streaming content isn't any less DRMed. WIth streamed movies, the company can pull the content tomorrow and you no longer "own" it. With Blu-ray at least I can continue to use the player I have and the discs I have forever (assuming I don't let them update from the internet).
I would love to see someone back off on these DRM wars. And I don't like Cinavia. But I don't see what pedestal the author is standing on to criticize those who do buy Blu-rays.
As a poker player from before the poker boom, I can assure you the house doesn't make a ton of money on it. That's why poker rooms were disappearing all up and down the strip before the boom. Caesar's Palace had even closed the poker room on their main floor about 18 months before the poker boom started (with Chris Moneymaker's win).
Poker was seen by most casinos as only being there to bring in players who wouldn't otherwise come in. So it was located next to the sportsbook if it was there at all. Only Wynn's properties (The Mirage and later Bellagio) were trying to use poker with the casual (as opposed to townie) crowd.
I was sure glad to see that change, but I don't kid myself that it could easily swing back. Because the house loves high take games, and poker isn't one of them. They also like things that are cheap to run (automated systems like slots) and poker isn't one of those either.
Linode is actually rather lucky this person who did this only went for 8 machines. They could have been in a whole lot more trouble when someone got access like this.
The only source for this info is the developer itself and they have an obvious reason to put it out there. Not only does it get them PR ("The app so good Apple doesn't want you to have it!") but it may lead to impulse sales since once an app is pulled you get to keep it if you already bought it.
There is no inkling from Apple. And now the developer is even backing down, so that they have a convenient answer when people ask why their app was never pulled.
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http://www.lightingprize.org/60watttest.stm
99.3% of initial brightness after 25,000 hours use. (see lumen maintenance)
This is far better than a CFL and better than an incandescent too.
I've had it for a month.
I love it. Very bright, great light.
To be honest, the only place it falls down is in the electronics.
Compared to $30 EcoSmart 60W bulb I got from Home Depot, the L Prize starts up slower (about 0.25sec versus instant), can turn red when it dims (sometimes the blue LED driver circuit cuts out and the red stays on) and sometimes when you turn the L Prize off it flashes once about 0.25sec after you turn it off.
Finally, putting both bulbs on an oscilloscope, the L Prize also has a messier current waveform, far more harmonic distortion than the other bulb.
What gives? This is a great bulb, but the electrics seem like they could use some improvement.
Any comments?
This isn't something that Monoprice can make for $1.
There's a CPU and a significant transceiver chip the connectors on each end of the cable.
They're going to be more expensive than USB 3 cables no matter where you get them from.
Or did you just hear that at work?
Sorry, what you say just doesn't make sense. Apple wants to sell as many iPhones as possible. It's AT&T who wants to hold onto some form of exclusivity. They are under attack from the cheaper companies like MetroPCS, and so they wanted to make sure you had to go to AT&T to get an iPhone.
And now that iPhones are available with select regional carriers (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/05/iphone-4s-to-launch-with-select-regional-carriers-april-20th/) they're starting to unlock devices because with their exclusivity lost, they might as well pretend they care about customers in hopes of keeping them.
Some of us are current customers, just we have had our phone for more than 2 years.
Anyway, I find this ridiculous. Why does AT&T have to wait until the contract is up before unlocking? I already am under contract with an ETF penalty if I try to stop using their service.
So unlock it earlier, like Verizon does.
Hell, stop locking the dang things.
12k-13k isn't typical on GSM anymore.
Half rate was rolled out over a decade ago and AMR (adaptive rate) is the norm now. Realistically you're talking about 5k-8k for a phone call.
And also, the encodings are not crated to maximize voiceprint analysis, they are created to maximize understandability. The CODEC will guy down on dynamic range, hiding some speech characteristics. All you have to do is listen to audio encoded with AMR at lower and lower rates and see how the speech remains but the voice becomes robotic. At the lowest levels understandability remains but the difference between voices are minimized.
'there are certain characteristics introduced by the physics of your vocal cords, throat, mouth, and nasal passages that are pretty consistent and identifiable'
Yeah, but you have no way of knowing this software uses those.
We actually come back to an RMS argument. This software is a black box. How do you know what it is measuring?
Because it takes a year to get all the representative days. You can't move the sun to the "fall" position unless you wait for fall.
Just call an installer, they have tools and software packages for this. They'll do this for free.
Why would my buffer be never empty? Just because you have more buffers doesn't mean you process anything slower than you have to. It just means if you can't get around to something immediately, you can catch up later.
The problems with bufferbloat seem to me to be at the least greatly exaggerated and poor examples like yours are just one reason why.
You should have separate caps for traffic that goes out through the ISPs backhaul and traffic that doesn't. Because the former costs them more (transit charges) than the latter. And the latter may have no cap at all if that's feasible.
I also think that large ISPs like Comcast should be required to give other services who want to evade the backhaul cap the ability to colocate in the ISP data centers.
The big data companies (like streaming video) would then move into ISP data centers and reduce the load on the internet backbone routes.
Yeah, I thought this had come and gone already. There were even lawsuits over it IIRC.
Work surface?
I'm reading books in bed.
What kind of work surface solution do you have for this?
Come on, stop trying to look for ways this is my fault. Apple could have made the device easier to hold and really should do so. They could put a small ridge on back so I don't have to put a much larger case on it just so I can hold it.
They figured out the slippery seed-shaped iPhone 3 was a bad idea eventually and went to something you can hold properly. Maybe they'll figure out with the iPad at some point too.
When I'm holding it vertically, like in bed, I can't just palm it. I have to use two hands to hold it.
And if I use two hands to hold it, do I just use my third hand to tap the screen to use it?
This all could be solved with a small ridge or dent on the back, so there is a smaller feature I can span to grip it one handed. The same principle as a handle, just more integrated.
Hello, human. What's not to like about human?
They're referring to it by its genre, not anthropomorphizing it.
If they're doing anything, they're just making it into a concept or a group noun.
What's not to like about hockey? What's not to like about money? What's not to like about being tall?
I know it has bugs in the LTE connection. It's conked out before, and I even had the WiFi connection disappear after I turned LTE off (to save power). Going to airplane mode and back fixed all the problems, at least for now.
Also, the bars in LTE mode don't make much sense, or at least aren't what you're used to. With 5 bars I get 30mbps down, with 1 I get 24mpbs down. We've been trained from 3G that 1 bar is a lot slower than 5, so they should rescale the bars so that when you are at half speed or less you get 1 bar.
I have one, the charge times are quite slow. To be honest, too slow. Don't get me wrong, you can live with it, but it does also matter in some situations. And on top of that if you decide to just use your buddies' iPhone charger instead of the included one, you could charge it all through the work day and only pick up 25% charge or something. With the iPad 2, the iPhone charger was an acceptable back-up plan to the stock charger in a pinch. Unless your battery was almost completely dead the iPad 2 would charge completely off an iPhone charger overnight.
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
The drop situation is the same for all iPads, even if you drop tested an older one and got different results, you just got lucky on the old one. The screen is a huge expanse of glass on any iPad, you have to be careful.
WiFi has been the same on the iPad 3 as the 2. I even used mine side by side with a 2 for a bit and the results were the same.
Are you in the US? What hotels are you staying at that charge you for WiFi?
All of the affordable hotels in the US offer free internet access. And if they didn't, I'm sure you could find a Panera or whatever nearby.
As to your point about the "scam", yep, it's that bad. But to be honest in the US there isn't a lot of alternative. The large carriers don't give you a better deal for not taking a "free phone". So that means in order to save money you have to go to an "off-brand" carrier (or T-Mobile, who unfortunately cannot provide 3G to many phones not on their network), and these offer a reduced level of service. So you pay less but you get less too.
I wish phone subsidies were ended. I'd love to stick with an on-brand carrier, but either pay up front for the phone or just have my bill drop when I've paid off my phone after a year or two.
In fact at the end he says you should reconsider whether you really want to support Blu-ray due to its obsession with DRM.
But I have to ask, what is the suggested alternative? Streaming content isn't any less DRMed. WIth streamed movies, the company can pull the content tomorrow and you no longer "own" it. With Blu-ray at least I can continue to use the player I have and the discs I have forever (assuming I don't let them update from the internet).
I would love to see someone back off on these DRM wars. And I don't like Cinavia. But I don't see what pedestal the author is standing on to criticize those who do buy Blu-rays.
The pub uses (used?) images from the movies on its loyalty cards.
So yeah, they decided to ride on the films fame to bolster the pub's business.
As a poker player from before the poker boom, I can assure you the house doesn't make a ton of money on it. That's why poker rooms were disappearing all up and down the strip before the boom. Caesar's Palace had even closed the poker room on their main floor about 18 months before the poker boom started (with Chris Moneymaker's win).
Poker was seen by most casinos as only being there to bring in players who wouldn't otherwise come in. So it was located next to the sportsbook if it was there at all. Only Wynn's properties (The Mirage and later Bellagio) were trying to use poker with the casual (as opposed to townie) crowd.
I was sure glad to see that change, but I don't kid myself that it could easily swing back. Because the house loves high take games, and poker isn't one of them. They also like things that are cheap to run (automated systems like slots) and poker isn't one of those either.
And there were others too.
Why did they fail? It's easy.
Content is king. There just wasn't nearly enough content to access on these servers.
Beginning and end of story.
As linode says that a machine with access was hacked from outside and then was used to access the other machines.
This wouldn't require a master password nor an employee.
This is what linode claims. Do I believe it? I don't think I even believe that only 8 machines were compromised.
But I don't take the "word on the street" very seriously. People repeat conspiracy theories very easily, regardless whether they are true or not.
If anyone (like me) was wondering if there was any confirmation that linode accepted blame other than from the person who was robbed, there is.
http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.html
Linode is actually rather lucky this person who did this only went for 8 machines. They could have been in a whole lot more trouble when someone got access like this.
The only source for this info is the developer itself and they have an obvious reason to put it out there. Not only does it get them PR ("The app so good Apple doesn't want you to have it!") but it may lead to impulse sales since once an app is pulled you get to keep it if you already bought it.
There is no inkling from Apple. And now the developer is even backing down, so that they have a convenient answer when people ask why their app was never pulled.
CB operators are supposed to share the channels, packet systems are considered to be poor at sharing, at least adaptive sharing.
Although the primary reason for the prohibition is probably so you don't use for for things such as you are suggesting.