I'll buy it if it is a compelling upgrade. Will it be dual core, and will it feature 64GB or 128GB of storage, and a larger display? I don't care about 4G/LTE since 3G is fast enough for my purposes; I can stream netflix without issue, Rhapsody without a problem, and I expect Apple's iCloud services will work just fine once they work through MAFIAA insanity regarding streaming content users own (remember, when you buy creative works, you OWN that copy; you have the right of first sale. You just can't violate its copyright, so spare me your propaganda).
If it's not a compelling upgrade though, that is, if it's still limited to 32GB with no SD slot to expand storage, I'll stick with my iPhone4 until there is a compelling reason to upgrade. Storage is the deciding point for me; I am constantly juggling my play list, especially as I re-rip my CDs to replace old 128kbps rips (which, after years of going without using a home stereo system, I'm building a new system with Klipsch Reference speakers and a new Elite receiver to replace Elite VSX-26TX that is so obsolete that I probably couldn't even give it away at this point) because my new system will easily make the flaws in 128kbps rips apparent.
So yeah - between purchased videos and my music collection, which as I dig up my CDs and re-rip them, my media collection would exceed even a 128GB capacity by far, especially when you figure that iOS will probably take up 1.2GB, then my purchased apps another 8-12GB, and then my Free/Free apps (sbsettings, BSD userland, mobile terminal, openssh, assorted utilities and shell scripts for monitoring servers, etc.) via Cydia taking up another couple gig.
I have Amazon Prime too (for the shipping benefits) and I haven't explored the video offerings too much because what I was interested in was also available on Netflix, and since Netflix is support by my iPhone, my laptop (if booted to Windows, grrrrr), my xBox, my blu-ray player, and so on.
Amazon is supported by my TV, but my Samsung supports only their first generation apps so the app interface is s-l-o-w so I use either the blu-ray player or xbox to watch netflix.
In "cloud computing" Microsoft's market share is nearly nonexistent. The back end is all Linux, BSD, and Java stacks. Windows hosting is quite rare.
The PC is waning. Macs, smartphones, and tablets are rapidly replacing conventional PCs for many people, and for almost everyone on the go. Few if any people choose Windows Mobile smartphones, and Microsoft rendered the once-exploding PocketPC platform irrelevant by neglect many years ago. It's an Android + iDevice market on the front end/thin client/client side, and other players may as well not exist. So, with the PC market becoming smaller and smaller, and the server market growing larger and larger, and being based mostly on open-source back ends, Microsoft HAS to be dabbling in the UNIX world if not to embrace it, at least to gain insight into how clients are using and rearchitect Windows to provide UNIX's strength - or simply exit the industry and start something else instead. Maybe they can make mops or something?
Microsoft is involved with SUSE for Microsoft's own benefit, not for the OSS "community," not for Linux users, and certainly not for their own customers (since when does Microsoft give a crap about its users? Money is their golden calf!).
Why would Microsoft need to obtain Linux licenses? They can freely download, distribute, or even fork it, or they can choose from a number of BSD Unixes. They don't need a "license" to run any Linux back end.
I see this more as Microsoft working a little bit with Linux for now, since they see the light at the end of the tunnel, only in Microsoft's case it's a high sped freight train bearing down on them. It can't hurt them to be closer aligned for Linux, so they can jump on the UNIX train if the need arises due to market forces.
How is performance though? Also, is the exhaust still clean or does it spew out choking soot when you accelerate? A clean exhaust at idle is one thing. How clean is it under load with the throttle open, whether you're carrying groceries, climbing a hill or mountain, or simply driving in a spirited manner through some nice twisty roads?
I know diesels are supposed to be torque monsters but when I look at the claimed numbers as well as third party road tests for the BMW 335, the 335d offers vastly inferior performance compared to the 335i, the 335xi. and of course the 335is. Between the lacking performance, higher MSRP, and less available of diesel vs. gasoline (petrol to you euro folks) here, I see little to no advantage in going diesel. Oh, and I haven't seen diesel priced below gasoline in years.:-(
I second your opinion about hybrid tech - it should be made available at some level in all cars. I'd love to get a hybrid version of the Saab 9-3 XWD or a BMW 335i or ix, where the hybrid tech can both economy, and performance when desired.
NASA expected a 1-2% failure rate to begin with, based on the original design even before the flaw in the booster sealed was discovered (well, proven really, since "alarmist" engineers suspected a problem beforehand) thanks to a Challenger launch.
I mean, given the proliferation of shitty laptop displays (16:9, glossy screens, etc),
And, what's wrong with glossy screens? The contrast and color purity are preserved and a laptop is easy enough to move to a position where you are unaffected by glare. I have the glossy RGB-LED backlit edge-to-edge screen on my Dell Precision M6400 and it is a delight to work on - and 16:9 isn't that bad of a compromise thanks to the 1920x1200 resolution (which believe it or not is a huge improvement over 1920x1080). I do miss being able to run 2048x1536 like I could on my old CRT monitors, but I don't miss the space space hogs that CRTs are, nor the fuzzy "pixels."
At 1,000' it has come close to terminal velocity, hasn't it? So, whether 1,000' or 13,500' it's just a matter of what kind of surface it lands on, and how the phone happens to land.
Ever since that original article though I've stopped worrying about dropping my phone - by chance I happened to choose that same Griffin "DiamondClear" case after I bought my iPhone and Apple was still giving them (the cases) away.
I'm not quite sure I'd call "spraying oneself with liquid nitrogen" easy, or even safe without training. One wrong move and you could crack a large portion of your skin (and muscle, and bone) off.
. . . and yet, you can buy over-the-counter kits from pharmacies to freeze warts now. Or, you can use dry ice.
I used to get warts all the time back when I worked at UPS (handling lots of packages every day, you're bound to pick up something nasty!) - I went to the doctor to have them frozen off for a while, but then I started doing it myself when one proved difficult for the doctor to treat - I dug it out with a sterile knife (boiled it for a while) and then used a duster can upside down. Three visits to the doctor to have it frozen, and I ended up solving the problem myself for good doing it myself and don't even have any scarring to show for it.:) If the kits had been readily available at the time I'd have used one of those instead of a duster can since it would have been safer and non-toxic.
Oh and BTW that wart did not come back, and I have never had any since.
It's difficult to notice the gradual climb in intensity, but I assure you that unless they are in a very warm environment (a non-air-conditioned uninsulated house on a very warm summer day for example) the intensity as measured by a light meter is approximately twice as high after the lamp has fully warmed up, as compared to when the arc first strikes. This is not true of most conventional long, bulky flourescent tubes, where full brightness is achieved very, very quickly at room temperature and above (but you do still see this problem as the temp gets below 60, and gradually grows worse until you reach temps where conventional flourescents won't even strike an arc)
Unnatural colour of CFL light being harsher on your eyes is another story...
Stay away from warm and daylight CFLs - buy only pure white CFLs, which provide a better color spectrum. They are not as widely available as the others though.
Also, the off-brands are more annoying than the more reputable brands.
take a very small fraction of a second to fully light/"warm up"
No; CFLs take 90 to 120 seconds to fully warm up when the ambient temperature is room temperature. I've actually tested several brands using a light meter accurate to.01 lux.
In cooler temperatures (50*F and below) they can take 20 to 30 minutes to arrive at full brightness, and in 0*F weather they might never* come up to full brightness.
* in normal use, obviously if you keep them on 24/7 they would eventually stabilize at operating temperature but that would defeat the purpose of replacing incandescents you might need to use for 10-20 minutes at a time
Only place in the house I still consider run-of-the-mill incandescents to be right are the bathrooms, where the light produced by them seems less harsh than other means.
Obviously you do not live in a region which experience a season which we often refer to as "winter." CFL lamps do not work well in the cold. They also are not good solutions for refrigerators, accent and decorative lighting, and so on. There is still legitimate need for heat-producing nearly-instant-on incandescent lamps.
LED will be a good solution for outdoor lighting, and maybe even some accent lighting, but have you priced LED lamps? I was pricing them out last night: $60 and higher for ones that are actually good replacements for incandescents, with almost all of the cheaper ones offering poor spread or inadequate lumen output. Now, I'm not against LEDs - I rigged up superflux LED lighting for my lab workbench, have been replacing lamps in my cars with LEDs as lamps fail (except where the ECU would throw a code due to the decreased load), and so on, but for home lighting, I choose CFL except where it is impractical (outdoor lighting).
The closest thing to that bug that I have experienced in MSIE is hitting shift and control while clicking the page reload button. That would completely lock up MSIE6 and on a non-SMP/non-SMT system it can freeze Windows itself because MSIE would hog so much CPU. But, that's a corner case that I happened upon by chance, and I haven't tried it in recent MSIE versions. (just tried it now in MSIE9 - bug doesn't exists. I doubt it even exists in a patched MSIE6 any more)
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I'll buy it if it is a compelling upgrade. Will it be dual core, and will it feature 64GB or 128GB of storage, and a larger display? I don't care about 4G/LTE since 3G is fast enough for my purposes; I can stream netflix without issue, Rhapsody without a problem, and I expect Apple's iCloud services will work just fine once they work through MAFIAA insanity regarding streaming content users own (remember, when you buy creative works, you OWN that copy; you have the right of first sale. You just can't violate its copyright, so spare me your propaganda).
If it's not a compelling upgrade though, that is, if it's still limited to 32GB with no SD slot to expand storage, I'll stick with my iPhone4 until there is a compelling reason to upgrade. Storage is the deciding point for me; I am constantly juggling my play list, especially as I re-rip my CDs to replace old 128kbps rips (which, after years of going without using a home stereo system, I'm building a new system with Klipsch Reference speakers and a new Elite receiver to replace Elite VSX-26TX that is so obsolete that I probably couldn't even give it away at this point) because my new system will easily make the flaws in 128kbps rips apparent.
So yeah - between purchased videos and my music collection, which as I dig up my CDs and re-rip them, my media collection would exceed even a 128GB capacity by far, especially when you figure that iOS will probably take up 1.2GB, then my purchased apps another 8-12GB, and then my Free/Free apps (sbsettings, BSD userland, mobile terminal, openssh, assorted utilities and shell scripts for monitoring servers, etc.) via Cydia taking up another couple gig.
I have Amazon Prime too (for the shipping benefits) and I haven't explored the video offerings too much because what I was interested in was also available on Netflix, and since Netflix is support by my iPhone, my laptop (if booted to Windows, grrrrr), my xBox, my blu-ray player, and so on.
Amazon is supported by my TV, but my Samsung supports only their first generation apps so the app interface is s-l-o-w so I use either the blu-ray player or xbox to watch netflix.
In "cloud computing" Microsoft's market share is nearly nonexistent. The back end is all Linux, BSD, and Java stacks. Windows hosting is quite rare.
The PC is waning. Macs, smartphones, and tablets are rapidly replacing conventional PCs for many people, and for almost everyone on the go. Few if any people choose Windows Mobile smartphones, and Microsoft rendered the once-exploding PocketPC platform irrelevant by neglect many years ago. It's an Android + iDevice market on the front end/thin client/client side, and other players may as well not exist. So, with the PC market becoming smaller and smaller, and the server market growing larger and larger, and being based mostly on open-source back ends, Microsoft HAS to be dabbling in the UNIX world if not to embrace it, at least to gain insight into how clients are using and rearchitect Windows to provide UNIX's strength - or simply exit the industry and start something else instead. Maybe they can make mops or something?
Microsoft is involved with SUSE for Microsoft's own benefit, not for the OSS "community," not for Linux users, and certainly not for their own customers (since when does Microsoft give a crap about its users? Money is their golden calf!).
Why would Microsoft need to obtain Linux licenses? They can freely download, distribute, or even fork it, or they can choose from a number of BSD Unixes. They don't need a "license" to run any Linux back end.
I see this more as Microsoft working a little bit with Linux for now, since they see the light at the end of the tunnel, only in Microsoft's case it's a high sped freight train bearing down on them. It can't hurt them to be closer aligned for Linux, so they can jump on the UNIX train if the need arises due to market forces.
How is performance though? Also, is the exhaust still clean or does it spew out choking soot when you accelerate? A clean exhaust at idle is one thing. How clean is it under load with the throttle open, whether you're carrying groceries, climbing a hill or mountain, or simply driving in a spirited manner through some nice twisty roads?
I know diesels are supposed to be torque monsters but when I look at the claimed numbers as well as third party road tests for the BMW 335, the 335d offers vastly inferior performance compared to the 335i, the 335xi. and of course the 335is. Between the lacking performance, higher MSRP, and less available of diesel vs. gasoline (petrol to you euro folks) here, I see little to no advantage in going diesel. Oh, and I haven't seen diesel priced below gasoline in years. :-(
I second your opinion about hybrid tech - it should be made available at some level in all cars. I'd love to get a hybrid version of the Saab 9-3 XWD or a BMW 335i or ix, where the hybrid tech can both economy, and performance when desired.
One orbit? That's about 25,500 miles. Just how hard are you on your cars?
NASA expected a 1-2% failure rate to begin with, based on the original design even before the flaw in the booster sealed was discovered (well, proven really, since "alarmist" engineers suspected a problem beforehand) thanks to a Challenger launch.
On that point, Pluto is more of a planet than Mercury.
And, what's wrong with glossy screens? The contrast and color purity are preserved and a laptop is easy enough to move to a position where you are unaffected by glare. I have the glossy RGB-LED backlit edge-to-edge screen on my Dell Precision M6400 and it is a delight to work on - and 16:9 isn't that bad of a compromise thanks to the 1920x1200 resolution (which believe it or not is a huge improvement over 1920x1080). I do miss being able to run 2048x1536 like I could on my old CRT monitors, but I don't miss the space space hogs that CRTs are, nor the fuzzy "pixels."
I couldn't decide to mod informative or funny, so I'm posting instead. Excellent practical use of a Hitchhiker's reference! :)
Buy three SATA drives and make multiple copies, and store them separately. Hard drives are dirt cheap now.
Single sided, single density, right?
We have a short memory on /. - this happened a few months ago with another aviation mishap when Ron Walker dropped his iPhone from 1000'
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/1145245/IPhone-4-Survives-1000-Foot-Fall-From-Plane
At 1,000' it has come close to terminal velocity, hasn't it? So, whether 1,000' or 13,500' it's just a matter of what kind of surface it lands on, and how the phone happens to land.
Ever since that original article though I've stopped worrying about dropping my phone - by chance I happened to choose that same Griffin "DiamondClear" case after I bought my iPhone and Apple was still giving them (the cases) away.
So, what you're saying is that all we need to find these brown dwarfs is a smelloscope?
. . . and yet, you can buy over-the-counter kits from pharmacies to freeze warts now. Or, you can use dry ice.
I used to get warts all the time back when I worked at UPS (handling lots of packages every day, you're bound to pick up something nasty!) - I went to the doctor to have them frozen off for a while, but then I started doing it myself when one proved difficult for the doctor to treat - I dug it out with a sterile knife (boiled it for a while) and then used a duster can upside down. Three visits to the doctor to have it frozen, and I ended up solving the problem myself for good doing it myself and don't even have any scarring to show for it. :) If the kits had been readily available at the time I'd have used one of those instead of a duster can since it would have been safer and non-toxic.
Oh and BTW that wart did not come back, and I have never had any since.
The difference between RedBox and Netflix is that RedBox sucks - or, at least the selection does.
I drink a latte every evening, you insensitive clods!
Since when has prior art stopped the USPTO from granting a patent?
It's difficult to notice the gradual climb in intensity, but I assure you that unless they are in a very warm environment (a non-air-conditioned uninsulated house on a very warm summer day for example) the intensity as measured by a light meter is approximately twice as high after the lamp has fully warmed up, as compared to when the arc first strikes. This is not true of most conventional long, bulky flourescent tubes, where full brightness is achieved very, very quickly at room temperature and above (but you do still see this problem as the temp gets below 60, and gradually grows worse until you reach temps where conventional flourescents won't even strike an arc)
Stay away from warm and daylight CFLs - buy only pure white CFLs, which provide a better color spectrum. They are not as widely available as the others though.
Also, the off-brands are more annoying than the more reputable brands.
No; CFLs take 90 to 120 seconds to fully warm up when the ambient temperature is room temperature. I've actually tested several brands using a light meter accurate to .01 lux.
In cooler temperatures (50*F and below) they can take 20 to 30 minutes to arrive at full brightness, and in 0*F weather they might never* come up to full brightness.
* in normal use, obviously if you keep them on 24/7 they would eventually stabilize at operating temperature but that would defeat the purpose of replacing incandescents you might need to use for 10-20 minutes at a time
Obviously you do not live in a region which experience a season which we often refer to as "winter." CFL lamps do not work well in the cold. They also are not good solutions for refrigerators, accent and decorative lighting, and so on. There is still legitimate need for heat-producing nearly-instant-on incandescent lamps.
LED will be a good solution for outdoor lighting, and maybe even some accent lighting, but have you priced LED lamps? I was pricing them out last night: $60 and higher for ones that are actually good replacements for incandescents, with almost all of the cheaper ones offering poor spread or inadequate lumen output. Now, I'm not against LEDs - I rigged up superflux LED lighting for my lab workbench, have been replacing lamps in my cars with LEDs as lamps fail (except where the ECU would throw a code due to the decreased load), and so on, but for home lighting, I choose CFL except where it is impractical (outdoor lighting).
No, it is not theft. The worst you can charge him with is tresspassing.
The closest thing to that bug that I have experienced in MSIE is hitting shift and control while clicking the page reload button. That would completely lock up MSIE6 and on a non-SMP/non-SMT system it can freeze Windows itself because MSIE would hog so much CPU. But, that's a corner case that I happened upon by chance, and I haven't tried it in recent MSIE versions. (just tried it now in MSIE9 - bug doesn't exists. I doubt it even exists in a patched MSIE6 any more)