Ya, the digital format is woefully less warm than the analog... or something. right? the 512kbps audio stream supported by A2DP is higher than most peoples' compressed music, anyway. Bluetooth is just fine for audio. Go suck on your monster cable.
I'm not seeing where worn out batteries in iPhones have been a problem for anyone.
lolwut?
I'm on my... 8th iPhone.
I'm not saying it's planned, but the primary reason I upgrade (almost) every year is because the phone now holds at maximum a few hours of use-charge.
Contrast that to my OPO, which still has over a day of battery life, years on.
I'm not an Apple hater, or a fanboy. Work supplies me with a phone service, and I always do an iPhone. For my personal device, I've always got an android. I'm not for or against either, they're both great devices.... but battery life has been a consistent problem on me and my colleagues iPhones. Perhaps our use (very high) differs from yours.
I still have my iPhone 4s, and my 5s, and my 6s. All 3 of them hold a charge for under 3 hours.
Can't prove it, but can anecdotally confirm it with my own device.
TBH, my iPhone has pretty much always had inferior battery life to my droids (I have a work and a personal phone, and I like diversity)
I'm rather surprised this is news, or that people even doubt it.
Besides a few extreme not credible nutcases like Richard Carrier no biblical scholar agrees he never existed.
See the problem?
Now, I certainly cannot speak to all biblical scholars, but I did know one in college. That he could say with a straight face what he sought within that book was The Truth was one of the more perplexing mysteries of my life. The cognitive dissonance was strong with that one.
I've researched the presented evidence for the historicity of Jesus pretty deeply. It's all propped up on some really bad logic.
There is no hard evidence, and that's *weird*, because he was supposedly a major world player at the time. Why is it we don't hear about him until hundreds of years later?
I think it would be a cool story if he was just some cult leader who got raised to messianic status post-mortem, but there just isn't anything credible I've seen to suggest that.
Also Paul heard of Jesus far away near The Turkey which means Jews passed on Jesus to his synagogue.
This is what I'm talking about- that is *not* a fact.
The fact the early Christians did not consider Jesus God as evident in the book of Mark disproves Richard Carrier theory of how he got invented.
Nor is that.
How is it fair to ignore all of the inconsistencies of the stories in favor of the few consistencies? The time between confirmed writings and his supposed existence is more than long enough for a myth to start.
Overall, I see a lot more to support him not having existed than supporting that he did exist. But I fully concede either is possible, with an open mind.
The consensus is that Beethoven was a great composer.
Tsk, Tsk. That's like, their opinion, man.
We can use a common consensus to agree that the fictional character Jesus is a cool guy, or not a cool guy based upon whatever taste/culture norms rule the day, but to quote a wiser man than I, "You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts."
No matter *how* many people disbelieve Global Warming (as if a fact could be wished out of existence) it is *still* real. Thermodynamics and QED say it *must* be, and there is not one shred of evidence, not for a lack of searching for 100 years, to show that they're not correct in this instance.
The fact that more people believe in Christianity than Nordic religions is simply a factor of population growth after conquest of one of those religions by the other.
When Islam overtakes Christianity, will it then become the One True Religion? Your argument is fucking stupid.
What the hell are you talking about, man?
Hillary is very clearly ahead.
Clinton's hold over her states is far firmer than Trump's.
Hillary can carry the win with all the states she currently has in her favor, the weakest of them being NH with a 35 point disparity in her favor.
Trump can't win without flipping at the least, her weakest state.
Now let's look at Trump's weakest states- NV:.4 points in Trump's favor, FL: 2.2 points in Trump's favor, NC: 12 points in Trump's favor, OH: 15 points in Trump's favor. It's only a question of how bad he loses. It may end up being really damn close, but he's not taking any of her states away without a miracle.
Actually, I apologize for my previous post. I wasn't looking at TFA's board, I was looking at a board another poster posted specs to that *I* thought TFA was about. Similarly priced, quad-core 1.9ghz Atom in RPi format... Much cooler than the thing the TFA is actually about.
You have a really funny personal definition of better
This thing is over twice as fast, has better peripherals and interconnects onboard, can have oodles more memory, and on-board eMMC.
if not better due to GPIO and a massive community
It has the same physical layout as an RPi, including the 40-pin header exposing GPIO and other peripheral bus interfaces.
And you're going to have a hard-sell saying an Intel machine has a smaller community than an RPi.
That all being said,
It's definitely not competitive to the RPi in markets where people care about the price difference, that's for sure.
The RPi really is more of a toy next to this thing, and the price difference reflects that. For people who want an RPi that isn't so damn underperforming, this will be another good option.
In the defense of everyone involved... Without a de-orbit burn, it's goddamn near impossible to predict exactly when something at orbital velocity will succumb to air drag enough for its orbit to rapidly degrade.
A lack of a de-orbit strategy really doesn't speak to the competency of any engineer or group of engineers involved. It's an economic and practical decision. It takes big boosters and lots of fuel to do a truly controlled de-orbit of a heavy spacecraft travelling at orbital velocities, and these stations aren't equipped for that. We used a booster launched from the ground to move it to its parking orbit.
NASA considered adding retrorockets so that it could be deorbited in a controlled fashion, but the weight and cost was deemed worse than the risk involved with uncontrolled reentry.
They are not in the ad business like some other mobile OS makers
In all fairness, that only became true 2 months ago.
Yes, it has a GPS because, surprise, users, particularly runners, asked for it. Begged for it. Yelled and screamed for it. Not because Apple wants to track your every movement.
You're probably correct, given the above-quoted point you made, however, iAd was a full-time user of Location Services.
You call it an anecdote, and sure you're correct it is. And sure, the plural of anecdote is not data- however there is plenty of data displaying European anti-science views.
Does your health insurance cover "Neural Therapy?" Mine doesn't either.
Look it up.
Germans' do. They're all about voodoo medicine and pseudoscience over there. I'm terribly sorry for the cognitive dissonance you're suffering over there.
Get to know some of them. Fascinating people. They're ripe and ready to elect another Hitler over there. Their brain trust is emigrating in numbers high enough to cause existential worry for the government. Negative population growth- and its not because of a lack of children.
They're significantly further along the path to an idiocracy than the US is.
They were going to put in an exception to the CFC bans for inhalers, but Pharma lobbied to have it banned
False. Amphastar lobbied for *years* fighting the ban. The FDA fought back... for years to go through all the loopholes it has to go through before banning something that's contested.
There was no vast conspiracy here, just the FDA trying to follow our obligations under the Montreal Protocol, and big pharma not wanting to spend any more money making a new product when it could continue reaping the profits from the drug who's R&D was paid for 10x over every single year it was at market.
Tell me why the Scandinavian countries and the Germans have probably better outcomes for less
Mostly, they don't.
Overall, on a massive list of medical outcomes for major diseases, they score significantly below us on survival in the majority of illnesses. They do completely destroy us on a few though, interestingly (wtf, cervical cancer?)
I don't think it has anything to do with their *system* though. I think it has more to do with the people and their love of holistic medicine.
Not entirely true- but I don't believe that has anything to do with the healthcare *system*.
I'm absolutely on-board with single-payer healthcare, but US healthcare offers better outcomes than healthcare in most single-payer countries.
In Germany a dentist who caps your tooth with an infection in it can tell you to get "Neural Therapy" (novocaine injections) to manage the "neuropathic pain" until you become septic and nearly die. That may have something to do with it.
Americans think they get the world's best health care because they pay so much. But a quick look at statistics like life expectancy and mortality from diseases shows otherwise. It's a backwater.
I wanted to comment on this pile of bullshit as well- You're certainly right that we pay *way* too much for our healthcare.
In most instances where we "score dead last" It's always cost and access that screws us.
That being said- we consistently outscore European health care in survival outcomes for just about every major life-threatening disease. In fact- we're top 5 *in the world* in just about every outcome related study.
Don't blame the fact that we're a bunch of fat fucks who eat terrible food and live ultra sedentary lives on our healthcare system. I think if Europeans had our health care, they'd live to be 800.
The US is a 3rd world country compared to what Europe was a generation ago.
I don't know about that. I will concede that I do not live in Europe, I do however have a lot of European friends.
In the US, I can't collect 5 friends of mine, with this particular set of stories:
Ending up with an deep muscle infection in their leg after being given a shot. (Do these massively civilized Europeans not clean their needles?)
Having a crown placed on a tooth with an infection, and prescribing "Neural Therapy" (Fuck, I wish I were joking.) to handle the problem (Apparently, German dentists aren't keen on clean environments, either)
Having a breast reduction done.. and then again- with the fucking infections- spending 6 months trying to get an antibiotic-resistant infection cleaned out of their tit.
Being advised by their doctor to take colloidal silver.
Literally being unable to communicate with their doctor, who literally does not speak their language.
Having opioids prescribed for a headache.
I'm pretty critical of America... But if I've learned one thing- it's that you eurocentrists are oozing with bullshit.
Europe is full of some really fucking stupid people, with some really fucking stupid ideas- without intended offense to the not stupid individuals.
Note the statement: "A plurality of New Testament scholars, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is more probable than not" and count plus review the SEVERAL references provided for that statement on the Wikipedia page.
Are you fucking serious, chief?
A- that page says nothing to support the historicity of hey-zeus, short of saying that a plurality of scholars of that particular work of fiction think his existence is more probably than not.
What *fucking* right do they have to make that assertion from a known fictional book? They're immediately discredited.
My childhood pastor was part of a plurality of christian pastors who believed that I was going to hell. Fortunately, I don't care how large the majority is that backs him- he was still a fucking idiot.
I'd say for the large part, we know somewhere north of 95% of "how" it works. The problem is we will probably never have a good approximation of its FPGA layout.
The magic of the brain isn't that its core functionality is complicated or hard to grasp- it's in the sheer scale of the connectivity of the network. A single brain dwarfs all human made networks of any kind, combined.
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Bluetooth is fucking shite for audio.
Ya, the digital format is woefully less warm than the analog... or something. right? the 512kbps audio stream supported by A2DP is higher than most peoples' compressed music, anyway. Bluetooth is just fine for audio. Go suck on your monster cable.
I'm not seeing where worn out batteries in iPhones have been a problem for anyone.
lolwut?
I'm on my... 8th iPhone.
I'm not saying it's planned, but the primary reason I upgrade (almost) every year is because the phone now holds at maximum a few hours of use-charge.
Contrast that to my OPO, which still has over a day of battery life, years on.
I'm not an Apple hater, or a fanboy. Work supplies me with a phone service, and I always do an iPhone. For my personal device, I've always got an android. I'm not for or against either, they're both great devices.... but battery life has been a consistent problem on me and my colleagues iPhones. Perhaps our use (very high) differs from yours.
I still have my iPhone 4s, and my 5s, and my 6s. All 3 of them hold a charge for under 3 hours.
Can't prove it, but can anecdotally confirm it with my own device.
TBH, my iPhone has pretty much always had inferior battery life to my droids (I have a work and a personal phone, and I like diversity)
I'm rather surprised this is news, or that people even doubt it.
Besides a few extreme not credible nutcases like Richard Carrier no biblical scholar agrees he never existed.
See the problem?
Now, I certainly cannot speak to all biblical scholars, but I did know one in college. That he could say with a straight face what he sought within that book was The Truth was one of the more perplexing mysteries of my life. The cognitive dissonance was strong with that one.
I've researched the presented evidence for the historicity of Jesus pretty deeply. It's all propped up on some really bad logic.
There is no hard evidence, and that's *weird*, because he was supposedly a major world player at the time. Why is it we don't hear about him until hundreds of years later?
I think it would be a cool story if he was just some cult leader who got raised to messianic status post-mortem, but there just isn't anything credible I've seen to suggest that.
Also Paul heard of Jesus far away near The Turkey which means Jews passed on Jesus to his synagogue.
This is what I'm talking about- that is *not* a fact.
The fact the early Christians did not consider Jesus God as evident in the book of Mark disproves Richard Carrier theory of how he got invented.
Nor is that.
How is it fair to ignore all of the inconsistencies of the stories in favor of the few consistencies? The time between confirmed writings and his supposed existence is more than long enough for a myth to start.
Overall, I see a lot more to support him not having existed than supporting that he did exist. But I fully concede either is possible, with an open mind.
The consensus is that Beethoven was a great composer.
Tsk, Tsk. That's like, their opinion, man.
We can use a common consensus to agree that the fictional character Jesus is a cool guy, or not a cool guy based upon whatever taste/culture norms rule the day, but to quote a wiser man than I, "You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts."
No matter *how* many people disbelieve Global Warming (as if a fact could be wished out of existence) it is *still* real. Thermodynamics and QED say it *must* be, and there is not one shred of evidence, not for a lack of searching for 100 years, to show that they're not correct in this instance.
The fact that more people believe in Christianity than Nordic religions is simply a factor of population growth after conquest of one of those religions by the other.
When Islam overtakes Christianity, will it then become the One True Religion? Your argument is fucking stupid.
What the hell are you talking about, man? Hillary is very clearly ahead. .4 points in Trump's favor, FL: 2.2 points in Trump's favor, NC: 12 points in Trump's favor, OH: 15 points in Trump's favor. It's only a question of how bad he loses. It may end up being really damn close, but he's not taking any of her states away without a miracle.
Clinton's hold over her states is far firmer than Trump's.
Hillary can carry the win with all the states she currently has in her favor, the weakest of them being NH with a 35 point disparity in her favor.
Trump can't win without flipping at the least, her weakest state.
Now let's look at Trump's weakest states- NV:
Holy shit, Stalin.
Are you real?
Actually, I apologize for my previous post. I wasn't looking at TFA's board, I was looking at a board another poster posted specs to that *I* thought TFA was about. Similarly priced, quad-core 1.9ghz Atom in RPi format... Much cooler than the thing the TFA is actually about.
http://www.up-board.org/
But it's not that much better.
You have a really funny personal definition of better
This thing is over twice as fast, has better peripherals and interconnects onboard, can have oodles more memory, and on-board eMMC.
if not better due to GPIO and a massive community
It has the same physical layout as an RPi, including the 40-pin header exposing GPIO and other peripheral bus interfaces.
And you're going to have a hard-sell saying an Intel machine has a smaller community than an RPi.
That all being said,
It's definitely not competitive to the RPi in markets where people care about the price difference, that's for sure.
The RPi really is more of a toy next to this thing, and the price difference reflects that. For people who want an RPi that isn't so damn underperforming, this will be another good option.
In the defense of everyone involved... Without a de-orbit burn, it's goddamn near impossible to predict exactly when something at orbital velocity will succumb to air drag enough for its orbit to rapidly degrade.
A lack of a de-orbit strategy really doesn't speak to the competency of any engineer or group of engineers involved. It's an economic and practical decision. It takes big boosters and lots of fuel to do a truly controlled de-orbit of a heavy spacecraft travelling at orbital velocities, and these stations aren't equipped for that. We used a booster launched from the ground to move it to its parking orbit.
NASA considered adding retrorockets so that it could be deorbited in a controlled fashion, but the weight and cost was deemed worse than the risk involved with uncontrolled reentry.
I can't name a single thing in my home that is china-made and has lasted very long.
I'll be damned. Someone finally implemented RFC1149!
Good for you, sir, but I'll stick with my chinese-made connectivity devices.
P.S. My linksys is going to last a lot longer than your pigeon.
Ya, those things are on fire
I two like to put scare quotes around the so called "artificial intelligence"
They are not in the ad business like some other mobile OS makers
In all fairness, that only became true 2 months ago.
Yes, it has a GPS because, surprise, users, particularly runners, asked for it. Begged for it. Yelled and screamed for it. Not because Apple wants to track your every movement.
You're probably correct, given the above-quoted point you made, however, iAd was a full-time user of Location Services.
Untighten the tinfoil a bit.
Definitely agree there.
You call it an anecdote, and sure you're correct it is. And sure, the plural of anecdote is not data- however there is plenty of data displaying European anti-science views. Does your health insurance cover "Neural Therapy?" Mine doesn't either.
Look it up.
Germans' do. They're all about voodoo medicine and pseudoscience over there.
I'm terribly sorry for the cognitive dissonance you're suffering over there.
Get to know some of them. Fascinating people. They're ripe and ready to elect another Hitler over there. Their brain trust is emigrating in numbers high enough to cause existential worry for the government. Negative population growth- and its not because of a lack of children.
They're significantly further along the path to an idiocracy than the US is.
They were going to put in an exception to the CFC bans for inhalers, but Pharma lobbied to have it banned
False. Amphastar lobbied for *years* fighting the ban. The FDA fought back... for years to go through all the loopholes it has to go through before banning something that's contested.
There was no vast conspiracy here, just the FDA trying to follow our obligations under the Montreal Protocol, and big pharma not wanting to spend any more money making a new product when it could continue reaping the profits from the drug who's R&D was paid for 10x over every single year it was at market.
Tell me why the Scandinavian countries and the Germans have probably better outcomes for less
Mostly, they don't. Overall, on a massive list of medical outcomes for major diseases, they score significantly below us on survival in the majority of illnesses. They do completely destroy us on a few though, interestingly (wtf, cervical cancer?)
I don't think it has anything to do with their *system* though. I think it has more to do with the people and their love of holistic medicine.
with equivalent outcomes
Not entirely true- but I don't believe that has anything to do with the healthcare *system*.
I'm absolutely on-board with single-payer healthcare, but US healthcare offers better outcomes than healthcare in most single-payer countries.
In Germany a dentist who caps your tooth with an infection in it can tell you to get "Neural Therapy" (novocaine injections) to manage the "neuropathic pain" until you become septic and nearly die. That may have something to do with it.
They don't just sell empty syringes over the counter
Actually... They do.
Americans think they get the world's best health care because they pay so much. But a quick look at statistics like life expectancy and mortality from diseases shows otherwise. It's a backwater.
I wanted to comment on this pile of bullshit as well- You're certainly right that we pay *way* too much for our healthcare.
In most instances where we "score dead last" It's always cost and access that screws us.
That being said- we consistently outscore European health care in survival outcomes for just about every major life-threatening disease. In fact- we're top 5 *in the world* in just about every outcome related study.
Don't blame the fact that we're a bunch of fat fucks who eat terrible food and live ultra sedentary lives on our healthcare system. I think if Europeans had our health care, they'd live to be 800.
The US is a 3rd world country compared to what Europe was a generation ago.
I don't know about that. I will concede that I do not live in Europe, I do however have a lot of European friends.
In the US, I can't collect 5 friends of mine, with this particular set of stories:
Ending up with an deep muscle infection in their leg after being given a shot. (Do these massively civilized Europeans not clean their needles?)
Having a crown placed on a tooth with an infection, and prescribing "Neural Therapy" (Fuck, I wish I were joking.) to handle the problem (Apparently, German dentists aren't keen on clean environments, either)
Having a breast reduction done.. and then again- with the fucking infections- spending 6 months trying to get an antibiotic-resistant infection cleaned out of their tit. Being advised by their doctor to take colloidal silver.
Literally being unable to communicate with their doctor, who literally does not speak their language.
Having opioids prescribed for a headache.
I'm pretty critical of America... But if I've learned one thing- it's that you eurocentrists are oozing with bullshit.
Europe is full of some really fucking stupid people, with some really fucking stupid ideas- without intended offense to the not stupid individuals.
Many on the left
You lost all legitimacy the second those words spewed from your neurally neocortex-disjointed fingertips.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Christ, I need to go clean the dripping irony off of my computer screen.
Great post. Wish I had mod points
Note the statement: "A plurality of New Testament scholars, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is more probable than not" and count plus review the SEVERAL references provided for that statement on the Wikipedia page.
Are you fucking serious, chief?
A- that page says nothing to support the historicity of hey-zeus, short of saying that a plurality of scholars of that particular work of fiction think his existence is more probably than not.
What *fucking* right do they have to make that assertion from a known fictional book? They're immediately discredited.
My childhood pastor was part of a plurality of christian pastors who believed that I was going to hell. Fortunately, I don't care how large the majority is that backs him- he was still a fucking idiot.
I'd say for the large part, we know somewhere north of 95% of "how" it works. The problem is we will probably never have a good approximation of its FPGA layout.
The magic of the brain isn't that its core functionality is complicated or hard to grasp- it's in the sheer scale of the connectivity of the network. A single brain dwarfs all human made networks of any kind, combined.