It's even more idiotic when people freak out about the mercury in these bulbs "being released into the environment" as though mercury were some synthesized chemical and not a naturally occurring element. There is no more mercury in the environment after a CFL is thrown out than there was before that CFL was manufactured; true, there was less mercury in the environment for the short time in between, but that murcury wasn't exactly out raping babies before we trapped it in that bulb, was it? What makes people think it'll start now?
Thank you for that, I actually wasn't sure of the mechanism by which what I said was made correct, if that makes any sense. It's been decades since it's been explained to me, so I only remembered the end result (increased resistance) and not why that, paradoxically, was the case.
To be fair, Hertz isn't a government agency. Further, the government granted itself those abilities and never spelled out under what circumstances they would use them; meanwhile, Hertz explicitly stated:
Hertz added the camera as a feature of the NeverLost 6 in the event it was decided, in the future, to activate live agent connectivity to customers by video. In that plan the customer would have needed to turn on the camera by pushing a button (while stationary)
In other words, "we don't plan to use this, but if we do at some point, which we may and we're being up front about that right now, the user would have to be the one to activate it". I choose not to be afraid of every grain of sand, so I'm gonna go ahead and believe them until they give me a reason not to.
That said, when you rent a car from Hertz, the rental agreement forbids pretty much anything you wouldn't want to be seen on camera doing, anyway; the car is their property and, honestly, I don't see what the huge fucking deal is if they choose to record video on their property to ensure that people are complying with the terms of the rental agreement. And, before anyone decides to draw parallels between renting a car and renting an apartment, rental homes have a special legal status such that, except as required to maintain the property, the landlord effectively cedes all ownership and access rights for the duration of your rental period. This is not the case with a car or, really, any other item.
Google tends to tell us when they do. As for Microsoft, I covered that when I said:
The only instances I recall of a company lying about surveillance have involved them behaving in an entirely covert, non-obvious (am I being redundant, here?), manner, with the idea that, by drawing no attention, they would not be found out.
Here's the difference between businesses and TLAs, though: A business will tell you about the features it is offering, the TLAs will deny they're doing anything at all. Samsung made it clear they put cameras in those sets, and that those cameras (and microphones) were used to control the TV by means of transmitting recorded data to a third-party server for processing. There's no conspiracy there, they told you as much when you bought it (whether you listened or not is another issue). Plus, as you said, the cameras are obviously visible. Hertz's cameras are likewise, and they say they're not using them (yet), which I tend to believe; they have to know that a lie today will be found out tomorrow and I don't think they're that stupid.
The only instances I recall of a company lying about surveillance have involved them behaving in an entirely covert, non-obvious (am I being redundant, here?), manner, with the idea that, by drawing no attention, they would not be found out. This is the antithesis of that. I'll let you put that together for yourself.
What's the quickest way to go out of business today? Tell customers you're not spying on them, then spy on them anyway. People are very much apathetic when it comes to security (a-la "oops, we didn't realize the data we told you we were collecting and sending over the internet could be read by anyone), but not so much when it comes to targeted surveillance of themselves and their families, so lying about this at this juncture would would be Hertz's death knell.
That was my initial thought. Hertz isn't a TLA government agency, so why the conspiracy theories from everyone? Glad to see some people here still have a level head.
Sign in and pick up some karma. I just posted an explanation that you can correct in more detail than what you posted here. Undo the damage I've done, please?:)
Preface: I'm not qualified to discuss this in more detail than layman's terms will allow. I'm sure someone more qualified will step in and clear things up (and correct any inaccuracies in my information), and welcome them to do so.
You're thinking of resistance as a current-limiting mechanism, and you're absolutely correct in that respect. What happens, though, as the resistance of the signal path through a CPU increases, the switching current of the gates of the individual transistors in that data path also increases. This increase in switching current is greater than the current-limiting effect of the added resistance, increasing the over-all current draw of the chip.
That explanation is surely chock full of WTF-level inaccuracies, so don't quote me on that; standing by for correction.
It certainly would be; however, that's not something Fujitsu specializes in, so they're sticking to what they're good at. This will also save power, in a less than obvious way; as chips get hotter, their internal resistance increases, causing them to draw more current, causing them to get hotter still, pushing the internal resistance up higher, causing them to draw yet more current. Keeping chips cooler actually causes them to draw less power, overall. Even with cooler-running chips that barely sip power, something like this is useful to keep them cool and efficient.
Right? I've gotten used to everything I can do in Android, mostly in the way of customization, but also the features of the phones themselves; my last three phones have been able to record 4k video, the last two have had excellent optical image stabilization and QHD displays, I only recently decided it was acceptable to give up the SD slot and removable battery because I really wanted a Nexus device. Then, there's the apps; I've bought many apps (but Android users don't buy apps, right?) that I'd have to re-buy on iOS; I've browsed the iOS app store and there are no replacements for some of them, like "Sleep as Android", which I use nightly; the closest replacement for that is FitBit's own sleep tracker, which lacks several features including realtime sleep tracking that adjusts your alarm time the ensure it isn't waking you during a period of deep sleep and the ability to record and catalog the noise you make while sleeping (I've gotten some good fart recordings out of that, and one of me whining at my cat for meowing in my ear).
I know someone's going to argue with me over this, but once you're used to (and invested in) the Android platform and have any manufacturer's flagship device released in the past 3 years, any iPhone model is a huge step down in every way. I'm typing this on a retina MacBook Pro and bought my wife an iP6+ without hesitation, I don't hate Apple or iOS by any means, I just feel that Apple puts their OS on substandard hardware when it comes to phones; though the do manage to build tablets that are worthy of the OS offering. That's the same issue I had with Palm's WebOS; the OS was beautiful, but the hardware was abysmal.
Mind you, I own apps on both platforms as I previously owned an iPad (which I passed along to my wife because I wasn't using it -- about 2 months before I ended up having a legitimate business need for it) and will likely own one again soon. I don't even care about the lack of customization on a tablet; I don't carry it with me everywhere like I do my phone, it's not my alarm clock and communications hub like my phone, I'm not constantly looking to it for quick bits of information (which are best accessed as quickly as possible) like my phone; if I'm picking up the tablet, I'm going to be using one or two applications for a while, where the interface of the OS will largely stay out of the way; on my phone I interact with the OS a lot more, so being able to customize that begins to matter, a lot.
Most apple users I know seem to understand this and I don't typically get into iOS-vs-Android arguments with them every time one side or the other releases something new; I can actually discuss the different features of the phones and OSes with these people, it's quite great. I do have one iTard friend who praises everything Apple; such conversations always result in him getting very defensive, but even he was disappointed by the new MacBook, so I'm starting to see that there's hope for him.
To me, the iPhone 6 Plus looks and feels clunky. It also costs about $50 less than my Nexus 6, while being less capable. My wife adores it, though, so I got her one. iOS is a fine table OS, though; the iPad Air (with a case on it, as I feel it's just too damn thin to hold comfortably otherwise) beats any Android tablet I've ever touched. Honestly, though, the only reason I replaced my 17" MBP with another Mac when it died (rather than switching back to the PC that was already at my desk) is that I have a client who uses some Mac-only applications that I also have to be able to use. There's nothing wrong with the new MBP I bought, there's just nothing compelling about it, either, for $2700.
Very well put. Reading music has jack-all to do with being a musician; it's useful if you want to reproduce someone else's music, or transcribe your own for someone else to reproduce, but that is merely a useful function for a musician, not the essence of musicianship. I'd like to elaborate, for the benefit of the AC you replied to.
I dabble in music. Some of my stuff is pretty good, most is complete garbage, and I don't consider myself a musician by any means. Whether or not I consider myself a musician (or would expect anyone else to) has nothing al all to do with my poor ability to read music (mostly as a factor of always having been able to play by ear and not having read sheet or tab since elementary school) and everything to do with the fact that the decent music I'm able to produce is mostly the product of trial and error, rather than an in-depth (beyond the fundamentals) understanding of exactly what I'm doing. It's a hobby, something I'll spend a night one every few weeks, and maybe, someday, I'll spend the time to learn music theory more in-depth and start making more consistently good music, but it's not likely. If I did, though, you can bet I'd consider myself a musician, whether or not I could read music; as would many other musicians.
Even the fairly good music I produce hs limited by my poor mixing and mastering which, in turn, are both limited by my equipment. I simply don't have a decent setup for simulating various listening environments and speaker types, which makes mastering a track to sound good on all of them an impossible task for me. That said, I do manage to make things sound excellent on the equipment in my office, living room, and car, as well as several headphones of varied quality, and my laptop and phone; you'd think that'd be enough, but the same track sounds like crap in my wife's car and my friend's stereo.
In fact, macs4all, I'd like to ask, given your claimed background, if you'd be so kind as to give me some pointers on that front.
On the other hand, if your cable goes out, you can still watch shows your DVR has already recorded while it is out. Can't keep streaming while the 'net is out, though. Both have their ups and downs, so let's be fair and acknowledge them all-around.
That said, if you're lucky enough to have two or more decent internet providers in your area and can afford service from at least two of them, at least one of the downsides of streaming disappears, making it much more attractive than cable and a DVR. That's where I am right now: one connection for home office use and another for streaming/gaming, local dns server and two gateways on the same network so I can switch between connections simply by changing the gateway. I've never had the DSL go down in 3 years and the cable has been stable for the 3 month's I've had it, but I have tested simulated outages (disconnect the ethernet cable from one gateway or the other) and the setup works well. Both POTS and DOCSIS networks would have to go down in order for me to have an autage; but, then, my router can use my Android phone as a modem, so as long as I have an LTE or HSDPA signal, I can still stream reliably; streaming still works with a bit of buffering over HSPA, as well. Basically, if I can't get to Netflix or Hulu, something is very, very wrong.
A DVR can't have that kind of redundancy; cable goes out and, like you said, no watching or recording live stuff.
Woha, buddy, I hate fanboys as much as the next guy but maybe you need to go look in the mirror. This you actually posted a reasoned argument, a sign of sentient though, not fanboyism. Or is sentient thought what you take issue with?
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It's even more idiotic when people freak out about the mercury in these bulbs "being released into the environment" as though mercury were some synthesized chemical and not a naturally occurring element. There is no more mercury in the environment after a CFL is thrown out than there was before that CFL was manufactured; true, there was less mercury in the environment for the short time in between, but that murcury wasn't exactly out raping babies before we trapped it in that bulb, was it? What makes people think it'll start now?
Thank you for that, I actually wasn't sure of the mechanism by which what I said was made correct, if that makes any sense. It's been decades since it's been explained to me, so I only remembered the end result (increased resistance) and not why that, paradoxically, was the case.
Please check your post for clarity and try again. I'm sure you have a point, it's just nod discernible within that text.
Hertz added the camera as a feature of the NeverLost 6 in the event it was decided, in the future, to activate live agent connectivity to customers by video. In that plan the customer would have needed to turn on the camera by pushing a button (while stationary)
In other words, "we don't plan to use this, but if we do at some point, which we may and we're being up front about that right now, the user would have to be the one to activate it". I choose not to be afraid of every grain of sand, so I'm gonna go ahead and believe them until they give me a reason not to.
That said, when you rent a car from Hertz, the rental agreement forbids pretty much anything you wouldn't want to be seen on camera doing, anyway; the car is their property and, honestly, I don't see what the huge fucking deal is if they choose to record video on their property to ensure that people are complying with the terms of the rental agreement. And, before anyone decides to draw parallels between renting a car and renting an apartment, rental homes have a special legal status such that, except as required to maintain the property, the landlord effectively cedes all ownership and access rights for the duration of your rental period. This is not the case with a car or, really, any other item.
The only instances I recall of a company lying about surveillance have involved them behaving in an entirely covert, non-obvious (am I being redundant, here?), manner, with the idea that, by drawing no attention, they would not be found out.
In that plan the customer would have needed to turn on the camera by pushing a button (while stationary)
What's your point, AC?
Here's the difference between businesses and TLAs, though: A business will tell you about the features it is offering, the TLAs will deny they're doing anything at all. Samsung made it clear they put cameras in those sets, and that those cameras (and microphones) were used to control the TV by means of transmitting recorded data to a third-party server for processing. There's no conspiracy there, they told you as much when you bought it (whether you listened or not is another issue). Plus, as you said, the cameras are obviously visible. Hertz's cameras are likewise, and they say they're not using them (yet), which I tend to believe; they have to know that a lie today will be found out tomorrow and I don't think they're that stupid.
The only instances I recall of a company lying about surveillance have involved them behaving in an entirely covert, non-obvious (am I being redundant, here?), manner, with the idea that, by drawing no attention, they would not be found out. This is the antithesis of that. I'll let you put that together for yourself.
What's the quickest way to go out of business today? Tell customers you're not spying on them, then spy on them anyway. People are very much apathetic when it comes to security (a-la "oops, we didn't realize the data we told you we were collecting and sending over the internet could be read by anyone), but not so much when it comes to targeted surveillance of themselves and their families, so lying about this at this juncture would would be Hertz's death knell.
That was my initial thought. Hertz isn't a TLA government agency, so why the conspiracy theories from everyone? Glad to see some people here still have a level head.
Sign in and pick up some karma. I just posted an explanation that you can correct in more detail than what you posted here. Undo the damage I've done, please? :)
Preface: I'm not qualified to discuss this in more detail than layman's terms will allow. I'm sure someone more qualified will step in and clear things up (and correct any inaccuracies in my information), and welcome them to do so.
You're thinking of resistance as a current-limiting mechanism, and you're absolutely correct in that respect. What happens, though, as the resistance of the signal path through a CPU increases, the switching current of the gates of the individual transistors in that data path also increases. This increase in switching current is greater than the current-limiting effect of the added resistance, increasing the over-all current draw of the chip.
That explanation is surely chock full of WTF-level inaccuracies, so don't quote me on that; standing by for correction.
It certainly would be; however, that's not something Fujitsu specializes in, so they're sticking to what they're good at. This will also save power, in a less than obvious way; as chips get hotter, their internal resistance increases, causing them to draw more current, causing them to get hotter still, pushing the internal resistance up higher, causing them to draw yet more current. Keeping chips cooler actually causes them to draw less power, overall. Even with cooler-running chips that barely sip power, something like this is useful to keep them cool and efficient.
Just. No.
This conversation is going downhill really fast
Don't tread on me *rimshot*
Right? I've gotten used to everything I can do in Android, mostly in the way of customization, but also the features of the phones themselves; my last three phones have been able to record 4k video, the last two have had excellent optical image stabilization and QHD displays, I only recently decided it was acceptable to give up the SD slot and removable battery because I really wanted a Nexus device. Then, there's the apps; I've bought many apps (but Android users don't buy apps, right?) that I'd have to re-buy on iOS; I've browsed the iOS app store and there are no replacements for some of them, like "Sleep as Android", which I use nightly; the closest replacement for that is FitBit's own sleep tracker, which lacks several features including realtime sleep tracking that adjusts your alarm time the ensure it isn't waking you during a period of deep sleep and the ability to record and catalog the noise you make while sleeping (I've gotten some good fart recordings out of that, and one of me whining at my cat for meowing in my ear).
I know someone's going to argue with me over this, but once you're used to (and invested in) the Android platform and have any manufacturer's flagship device released in the past 3 years, any iPhone model is a huge step down in every way. I'm typing this on a retina MacBook Pro and bought my wife an iP6+ without hesitation, I don't hate Apple or iOS by any means, I just feel that Apple puts their OS on substandard hardware when it comes to phones; though the do manage to build tablets that are worthy of the OS offering. That's the same issue I had with Palm's WebOS; the OS was beautiful, but the hardware was abysmal.
Mind you, I own apps on both platforms as I previously owned an iPad (which I passed along to my wife because I wasn't using it -- about 2 months before I ended up having a legitimate business need for it) and will likely own one again soon. I don't even care about the lack of customization on a tablet; I don't carry it with me everywhere like I do my phone, it's not my alarm clock and communications hub like my phone, I'm not constantly looking to it for quick bits of information (which are best accessed as quickly as possible) like my phone; if I'm picking up the tablet, I'm going to be using one or two applications for a while, where the interface of the OS will largely stay out of the way; on my phone I interact with the OS a lot more, so being able to customize that begins to matter, a lot.
Most apple users I know seem to understand this and I don't typically get into iOS-vs-Android arguments with them every time one side or the other releases something new; I can actually discuss the different features of the phones and OSes with these people, it's quite great. I do have one iTard friend who praises everything Apple; such conversations always result in him getting very defensive, but even he was disappointed by the new MacBook, so I'm starting to see that there's hope for him.
I'm sure you find this to e a tired joke by now but *snore*.
You have a lot of twos in your UID. I'll accept the off-topic moderation, I just had to point that out.
To me, the iPhone 6 Plus looks and feels clunky. It also costs about $50 less than my Nexus 6, while being less capable. My wife adores it, though, so I got her one. iOS is a fine table OS, though; the iPad Air (with a case on it, as I feel it's just too damn thin to hold comfortably otherwise) beats any Android tablet I've ever touched. Honestly, though, the only reason I replaced my 17" MBP with another Mac when it died (rather than switching back to the PC that was already at my desk) is that I have a client who uses some Mac-only applications that I also have to be able to use. There's nothing wrong with the new MBP I bought, there's just nothing compelling about it, either, for $2700.
I've never been pissed off about a show being cancelled before. This one did it, though.
Republicans fans are just called Republicans, by the way.
Very well put. Reading music has jack-all to do with being a musician; it's useful if you want to reproduce someone else's music, or transcribe your own for someone else to reproduce, but that is merely a useful function for a musician, not the essence of musicianship. I'd like to elaborate, for the benefit of the AC you replied to.
I dabble in music. Some of my stuff is pretty good, most is complete garbage, and I don't consider myself a musician by any means. Whether or not I consider myself a musician (or would expect anyone else to) has nothing al all to do with my poor ability to read music (mostly as a factor of always having been able to play by ear and not having read sheet or tab since elementary school) and everything to do with the fact that the decent music I'm able to produce is mostly the product of trial and error, rather than an in-depth (beyond the fundamentals) understanding of exactly what I'm doing. It's a hobby, something I'll spend a night one every few weeks, and maybe, someday, I'll spend the time to learn music theory more in-depth and start making more consistently good music, but it's not likely. If I did, though, you can bet I'd consider myself a musician, whether or not I could read music; as would many other musicians.
Even the fairly good music I produce hs limited by my poor mixing and mastering which, in turn, are both limited by my equipment. I simply don't have a decent setup for simulating various listening environments and speaker types, which makes mastering a track to sound good on all of them an impossible task for me. That said, I do manage to make things sound excellent on the equipment in my office, living room, and car, as well as several headphones of varied quality, and my laptop and phone; you'd think that'd be enough, but the same track sounds like crap in my wife's car and my friend's stereo.
In fact, macs4all, I'd like to ask, given your claimed background, if you'd be so kind as to give me some pointers on that front.
On the other hand, if your cable goes out, you can still watch shows your DVR has already recorded while it is out. Can't keep streaming while the 'net is out, though. Both have their ups and downs, so let's be fair and acknowledge them all-around.
That said, if you're lucky enough to have two or more decent internet providers in your area and can afford service from at least two of them, at least one of the downsides of streaming disappears, making it much more attractive than cable and a DVR. That's where I am right now: one connection for home office use and another for streaming/gaming, local dns server and two gateways on the same network so I can switch between connections simply by changing the gateway. I've never had the DSL go down in 3 years and the cable has been stable for the 3 month's I've had it, but I have tested simulated outages (disconnect the ethernet cable from one gateway or the other) and the setup works well. Both POTS and DOCSIS networks would have to go down in order for me to have an autage; but, then, my router can use my Android phone as a modem, so as long as I have an LTE or HSDPA signal, I can still stream reliably; streaming still works with a bit of buffering over HSPA, as well. Basically, if I can't get to Netflix or Hulu, something is very, very wrong.
A DVR can't have that kind of redundancy; cable goes out and, like you said, no watching or recording live stuff.
But don't attempt to paint all Apple fans as fanbois.
To be fair, I did say
Not every Apple user is like that
so I'm not sure WTF you're talking about.
They initially used AAC with proprietary FairPlay DRM. It's only fair to mention that.
Woha, buddy, I hate fanboys as much as the next guy but maybe you need to go look in the mirror. This you actually posted a reasoned argument, a sign of sentient though, not fanboyism. Or is sentient thought what you take issue with?