It only takes, on average, three shipments/month to offset $99/yr Prime membership, many families place that many orders in a month.
I purchased an 8" Fire HD tablet (red), cheap case cover, and once I connected it to my Amazon Prime account it's been my go-to tablet for plane rides ever since. It pre-loads movies for free, always something to watch, cost less than $100, and since it's bright red, it's hard to misplace in a plane backseat pocket.
If the 9 year-old knew Einstein was a Physicist, he wouldn't ask "Why is Albert Einstein famous?" You could likely have told him he is famous for playing baseball and he likely wouldn't have pushed back.
If he asked "Why is Al Gore famous?" that doesn't indicate a deep interest in climate issues.
If he asked "Why is Mother Theresa famous?" that doesn't indicate a passion for helping his fellow man.
Afterwards I thought: this might be a nice question to ask on Slashdot; how would I continue this discussion to explain it to him further? Of course, with the goal of further feeding his interest in physics.
He hasn't shown an interest in physics, he's shown an interest in a famous name he's heard (likely) repeatedly.
You should learn not to read too much into everything a 9 year-old says.
A big part of the projected/promised economic activity is from domestic manufacturing of their devices in the near future. Something Steve Jobs said would never happen.
They will pay 8% on $35BN in previously generated profits, that's a one-time tax bill of what, almost $2.5BN this year, on top of this year's regular tax obligations.
Before you get all worked up over paying 'only' 8% taxes, ask yourself what is the actual rate you pay? Half of filers make no net income tax payment, their refunds and credits ensure the gov't pays them, not the other way around. But let's say you are among the 75M tax filers that actually pay income taxes, try a little exercise and take the total taxes withheld and paid and divide it by your salary plus bonuses and commissions (if any), then multiply by 100 to determine your actual tax rate. Don't tell me your last dollar tax rate, don't use your Adjusted Gross Income, actual earnings and actual tax payments.
I bet you pay less than 10% taxes on your actual income.
Instead, the researchers report today in Ecology, a lack of water will stunt the trees' growth.
So, life on the planet will become unbearable due to global warming/climate change causing the seas to rise, whilst simultaneously maple sugar trees will go away for lack of water?
What's next, increased CO2 levels will lead to a mass extinction of all pigs, cutting off our only source of truly delicious bacon? (I do NOT consider so-called "Turkey Bacon" either delicious OR bacon.)
Have you never seen someone bullied as a child grow up and become a bully? Have you never seen a victim of racism grow up and exhibit racist behavior? Have you never heard of a victim of childhood sexual abuse grow up and sexually abuse children?
Assuming someone's generosity based on their sexual orientation is simply nonsensical, and I think fits the definition of sexism:
behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex
if the guy next to me on Verizon streams Netflix at 4 Mbps and I stream on Sprint at 20 Mbps then we can safely theorize that Verizon is throttling him. We don't know for sure, but we can build a case.
What if the local CO for Sprint hosts a Content Delivery Server for Netflix but Verizon pulls it down from a remote Content Delivery Server? You have to assume that both carriers are being fed data from the same source at the same rate, and all Netflix content does not come from one central server location for all customers.
Out of curiosity, what conceivable difference would it mean to have your video stream at 25 Mb/sec instead of 4Mb/sec? Are you going to watch your videos at 6x real-time speed? Going to watch 6x streams simultaneously?
The app has no earthy way to know how fast Netflix is serving up your content, so how can this app "detect" or "reveal" the throttling your ISP/carrier is doing to your Netflix traffic. All you know is how fast the data is being served up by your carrier to your device, it can make no claims as to the speed of the data arriving at your carrier's network border.
The posting mentions video services over LTE getting 4-8 Mb/sec, all of which are perfectly suitable for streaming video to a handheld device (smartphone, tablet). Or do we intend to require all cellular data plans to support several simultaneous HD video streams to a single device, so you can watch all NFL football games in HD on your iPad while driving in your car?
Of course it stands to reason that this application already knows the speed the internet service provider, say Netflix, is serving up content to your provider, so it can provide an accurate analysis of the slowdown/throttling (if any) your carrier is doing to your traffic. Otherwise it would be like extrapolating the speed of highway traffic by carefully monitoring the speed of traffic on the side roads./sarcasm
How does this app know the speed Netflix is serving up content? It doesn't, so what it the purpose of the app? To provide meaningless statistics and numbers to fuel a net neutrality debate?
Also, when feeding a single video stream to your iPhone, how much bandwidth is needed to stream a movie? Seems to me the 4-8MB/sec is fine, and demanding that you get your streams faster is just wasteful.
AT&T calls this feature "streamsaver" and it's on by default; you have to turn it off if you don't want it. There's probably no shenanigans at work here, just trying to prevent customers complaining that watching one Netflix movie used their entire data plan.
I remember when the retina display iPads came out, folks were, as you say, burning through their monthly data plan after one or two movies over cellular.
It would be more cost-effective for the LAPD to simply hire Uber Eats drivers to pick up lunches for the duration of the current i3 leases with the same $16M they spent on these cars...
So they run a $6BN surplus each year, yet have insane debt levels?
Which is it, are they "banking" $6BN/yr or are they increasing their debt by spending more than they have? Hard to see how they are doing both simultaneously. Any idea what California does with their "surplus" each year? (Note - as soon as they spend it, it's no longer "surplus", it's "spending".)
the range extender on those LAPD i3s eliminates the risk of being stranded in urban areas since the gas tank can be refilled indefinitely (though with very poor performance).
The electric i3 is a battery charging engine, the car does not run on it - it puts out a fraction of the power the battery produces, so once the battery runs down to zero, the car is dead until you add gasoline and let the car sit while you run the gasoline generator to put some power in the batteries.
These cars are plainly useful for trips taking up to about 2 hours; they are fun to drive if not particularly sporty; their small size makes them easy to pack and maneuver; and a level 3 charger will top off the battery in an hour. Also, range anxiety disappears for most EV drivers as they get familiar with driving their cars.
Something else is going wrong with this program, but TFA doesn't provide a satisfying answer. I wonder what it is.
The answer is that a police cruiser runs typically three 8 hour shifts in a day, seven days a week. This car can go 2-3 hours before it needs to rest for an hour and recharge. In a 24 hour period that's as many as 8 charging cycles which means eight hours of down time per day. Compare that to a Chevy Caprice which can go all shift on one tankful of gasoline with virtually no required downtime (refill gasoline tank in 3-5 minutes).
Just how big does his beat need to be for distances like that? Long like that and without stopping at the station — where he can switch to another, fully recharged, car?
So, in your mind the police force needs to have two electric cars to keep one car on patrol? Doesn't that seem a little excessive/expensive? It takes between 30 minutes to 3 hours to charge the car, it takes 3-5 minutes to fill the tank of an internal combustion cruiser. If you have to purchase twice as many cars, which means 2x everything in the cruiser, when do the savings kick in?
These cruisers were a stupid waste of city resources ($16M to buy useless patrol cars).
Do they really ever need to exceed 50 miles in a day?
Yes.
Police cruisers are typically run three shifts a day, seven days a week - only driving 100 miles/day between charges which can be as quick as 30 minutes on a DC charger or the more typical 3 hours using fast charge technology. A gas engine can be ordered with the car to give it a 150 mile range (the car can not run for any extended period on the gasoline engine, it is only to charge the battery).
A police cruiser, coasting through town at an average of 20 MPH (typically going faster, but factoring in time the car is not moving) would have the car being charged twice a shift, forcing two 30 minute charge periods per shift, assuming the city installed the DC chargers in the station parking garage. I have to wonder, at six full charges per day, (2x per shift, 3x shifts per day) how long will the battery packs last - will they last as long as the lease payments?
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It only takes, on average, three shipments/month to offset $99/yr Prime membership, many families place that many orders in a month.
I purchased an 8" Fire HD tablet (red), cheap case cover, and once I connected it to my Amazon Prime account it's been my go-to tablet for plane rides ever since. It pre-loads movies for free, always something to watch, cost less than $100, and since it's bright red, it's hard to misplace in a plane backseat pocket.
So if the company is raising the fee, you can bet that it discovered the current $10.99 was just not sustainable.
This is exactly why I look to /., to provide me with just this sort of keen insight not available in the mainstream press... Thank you Captain Obvious!
Some things just cannot be explained in a meaningful way.
What? Examples?
Over-analyze much?
If the 9 year-old knew Einstein was a Physicist, he wouldn't ask "Why is Albert Einstein famous?" You could likely have told him he is famous for playing baseball and he likely wouldn't have pushed back.
If he asked "Why is Al Gore famous?" that doesn't indicate a deep interest in climate issues.
If he asked "Why is Mother Theresa famous?" that doesn't indicate a passion for helping his fellow man.
- He is coupled with atomic energy (and atomic bomb) research.
He wrote a letter to FDR that inspired the Manhattan Project, suggesting that the US beat the Germans to the first functioning atom bomb.
Afterwards I thought: this might be a nice question to ask on Slashdot; how would I continue this discussion to explain it to him further? Of course, with the goal of further feeding his interest in physics.
He hasn't shown an interest in physics, he's shown an interest in a famous name he's heard (likely) repeatedly.
You should learn not to read too much into everything a 9 year-old says.
A big part of the projected/promised economic activity is from domestic manufacturing of their devices in the near future. Something Steve Jobs said would never happen.
"When did dividends become 'tax-free'?" He asked the fellow that never collected a dividend in his life...
And they are repatriating $35BN, the rest is 'economic activity, like domestic manufacturing.
They will pay 8% on $35BN in previously generated profits, that's a one-time tax bill of what, almost $2.5BN this year, on top of this year's regular tax obligations.
Before you get all worked up over paying 'only' 8% taxes, ask yourself what is the actual rate you pay? Half of filers make no net income tax payment, their refunds and credits ensure the gov't pays them, not the other way around. But let's say you are among the 75M tax filers that actually pay income taxes, try a little exercise and take the total taxes withheld and paid and divide it by your salary plus bonuses and commissions (if any), then multiply by 100 to determine your actual tax rate. Don't tell me your last dollar tax rate, don't use your Adjusted Gross Income, actual earnings and actual tax payments.
I bet you pay less than 10% taxes on your actual income.
Because the only way Apple can 'contribute to the economy' is by directly creating jobs...
Perhaps they will build autonomous factorys and manufacture phones and laptops with minimal direct human involvement?
Or Brawndo - it's got electrolytes!
Instead, the researchers report today in Ecology, a lack of water will stunt the trees' growth.
So, life on the planet will become unbearable due to global warming/climate change causing the seas to rise, whilst simultaneously maple sugar trees will go away for lack of water?
What's next, increased CO2 levels will lead to a mass extinction of all pigs, cutting off our only source of truly delicious bacon? (I do NOT consider so-called "Turkey Bacon" either delicious OR bacon.)
Why?
Have you never seen someone bullied as a child grow up and become a bully?
Have you never seen a victim of racism grow up and exhibit racist behavior?
Have you never heard of a victim of childhood sexual abuse grow up and sexually abuse children?
Assuming someone's generosity based on their sexual orientation is simply nonsensical, and I think fits the definition of sexism:
behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex
So because the results of this test could be ambiguous, misinterpreted or lead to false conclusions one should block the usage of this tool entirely?
You ignored the "Objectionable Content" issue Apple raised also.
if the guy next to me on Verizon streams Netflix at 4 Mbps and I stream on Sprint at 20 Mbps then we can safely theorize that Verizon is throttling him. We don't know for sure, but we can build a case.
What if the local CO for Sprint hosts a Content Delivery Server for Netflix but Verizon pulls it down from a remote Content Delivery Server? You have to assume that both carriers are being fed data from the same source at the same rate, and all Netflix content does not come from one central server location for all customers.
Out of curiosity, what conceivable difference would it mean to have your video stream at 25 Mb/sec instead of 4Mb/sec? Are you going to watch your videos at 6x real-time speed? Going to watch 6x streams simultaneously?
The point is the data provided is meaningless.
The app has no earthy way to know how fast Netflix is serving up your content, so how can this app "detect" or "reveal" the throttling your ISP/carrier is doing to your Netflix traffic. All you know is how fast the data is being served up by your carrier to your device, it can make no claims as to the speed of the data arriving at your carrier's network border.
The posting mentions video services over LTE getting 4-8 Mb/sec, all of which are perfectly suitable for streaming video to a handheld device (smartphone, tablet). Or do we intend to require all cellular data plans to support several simultaneous HD video streams to a single device, so you can watch all NFL football games in HD on your iPad while driving in your car?
despite being gay Tim Cook is still corrupted by big money
So you previously thought only straight people were capable of being "corrupted by big money"?
You need to get out of the basement more often.
Of course it stands to reason that this application already knows the speed the internet service provider, say Netflix, is serving up content to your provider, so it can provide an accurate analysis of the slowdown/throttling (if any) your carrier is doing to your traffic. Otherwise it would be like extrapolating the speed of highway traffic by carefully monitoring the speed of traffic on the side roads. /sarcasm
How does this app know the speed Netflix is serving up content? It doesn't, so what it the purpose of the app? To provide meaningless statistics and numbers to fuel a net neutrality debate?
Also, when feeding a single video stream to your iPhone, how much bandwidth is needed to stream a movie? Seems to me the 4-8MB/sec is fine, and demanding that you get your streams faster is just wasteful.
AT&T calls this feature "streamsaver" and it's on by default; you have to turn it off if you don't want it. There's probably no shenanigans at work here, just trying to prevent customers complaining that watching one Netflix movie used their entire data plan.
I remember when the retina display iPads came out, folks were, as you say, burning through their monthly data plan after one or two movies over cellular.
It would be more cost-effective for the LAPD to simply hire Uber Eats drivers to pick up lunches for the duration of the current i3 leases with the same $16M they spent on these cars...
So they run a $6BN surplus each year, yet have insane debt levels?
Which is it, are they "banking" $6BN/yr or are they increasing their debt by spending more than they have? Hard to see how they are doing both simultaneously. Any idea what California does with their "surplus" each year? (Note - as soon as they spend it, it's no longer "surplus", it's "spending".)
Since those credits were the whole reason BMW made the i3, you're stuck with a 2.4 gallon tank.
The fuel tank in the US model is reportedly "software-limited" to 1.9 Gallons.
the range extender on those LAPD i3s eliminates the risk of being stranded in urban areas since the gas tank can be refilled indefinitely (though with very poor performance).
The electric i3 is a battery charging engine, the car does not run on it - it puts out a fraction of the power the battery produces, so once the battery runs down to zero, the car is dead until you add gasoline and let the car sit while you run the gasoline generator to put some power in the batteries.
These cars are plainly useful for trips taking up to about 2 hours; they are fun to drive if not particularly sporty; their small size makes them easy to pack and maneuver; and a level 3 charger will top off the battery in an hour. Also, range anxiety disappears for most EV drivers as they get familiar with driving their cars.
Something else is going wrong with this program, but TFA doesn't provide a satisfying answer. I wonder what it is.
The answer is that a police cruiser runs typically three 8 hour shifts in a day, seven days a week. This car can go 2-3 hours before it needs to rest for an hour and recharge. In a 24 hour period that's as many as 8 charging cycles which means eight hours of down time per day. Compare that to a Chevy Caprice which can go all shift on one tankful of gasoline with virtually no required downtime (refill gasoline tank in 3-5 minutes).
Just how big does his beat need to be for distances like that? Long like that and without stopping at the station — where he can switch to another, fully recharged, car?
So, in your mind the police force needs to have two electric cars to keep one car on patrol? Doesn't that seem a little excessive/expensive? It takes between 30 minutes to 3 hours to charge the car, it takes 3-5 minutes to fill the tank of an internal combustion cruiser. If you have to purchase twice as many cars, which means 2x everything in the cruiser, when do the savings kick in?
These cruisers were a stupid waste of city resources ($16M to buy useless patrol cars).
Do they really ever need to exceed 50 miles in a day?
Yes.
Police cruisers are typically run three shifts a day, seven days a week - only driving 100 miles/day between charges which can be as quick as 30 minutes on a DC charger or the more typical 3 hours using fast charge technology. A gas engine can be ordered with the car to give it a 150 mile range (the car can not run for any extended period on the gasoline engine, it is only to charge the battery).
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A police cruiser, coasting through town at an average of 20 MPH (typically going faster, but factoring in time the car is not moving) would have the car being charged twice a shift, forcing two 30 minute charge periods per shift, assuming the city installed the DC chargers in the station parking garage. I have to wonder, at six full charges per day, (2x per shift, 3x shifts per day) how long will the battery packs last - will they last as long as the lease payments?