I don't know who views a phone as a status symbol any more.
It sounds like you don't know many people.
Oddly enough, it seems you're doing the projection here. You seem to think everyone has the exact same values as you. This is not correct. People do consider their phones to be status symbols, much the same as Zara Jeans and D&G handbags. This is why they line up every year to get the latest model. Phones to many a fashion accessories and occupy the same slot as other fashion accessories for these people, so yes, they are status symbols. How many purses did Michael Kors sell last year, I'd be very supprised if it wasn't a multiple of 150 million, they're still status symbols, not strong ones like Rolls Royce but for people who buy them they are an indication of status... The same with Iphones.
I don't consider phones to be status symbols, but I know enough people to understand that this is my view (I own an old Galaxy Nexus) but here you've pretty much demonstrated you don't get out much, you definitely don't understand how mundane people work.
Yes they are, I'm just going to do the copy/paste from the other comment I made about this.
The culture of one-upmanship and keeping up with the joneses is alive and well in western societies. A lot of people are constantly trying to get better toys than their peers and neighbours. Frank buys a ride on mower, not Bob and Steve have to have one. Steve gets a new Accord Euro, so Bob has to get a BMW 320 and not to be out done, Frank has to get a Mercedes CLA. Same with kids getting huge fart-cannon cat-backs (exhausts) to make their crapwagon sound louder.
Phones are considered status symbols by a lot of vain people, they aren't very good status symbols but they are still status symbols for a great many people. This is why they rush to show everyone their new phone, mundane people don't care about how much RAM it's got or the new features like us geeks and every other mundane person knows it. They only care about showing everyone their new toy.
There's a joke explaining the difference between a normal person and a douchebag.
Normal Person: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my jacket out of my car, I left my phone in there.
Douchebag: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my Northface out of my Lexus, I left my Iphone 5 S in there.
Telling people not to use them in public is removing the whole point of taking a mobile computing device with you.
Erm, thanks for not reading my, or the OP's post.
We didn't say don't take them with you, we said don't wander around with them out. Thieves look for easy targets and people too engrossed in their Idevice are extremely easy targets.
It's a basic self preservation measure, like not accepting candy from strangers.
Hey, but you're proving my point for me. A lot of first worlders don't have a clue about how to act in a country where theft is prevalent.
Heh heh...and now you assume things about me too?;)
Hint: I'm not the GP.
You're making the assertion that I dont know.
Sorry, but if your only defence is to hold up your hand and shout "Y'all dont know me" shows a serious dearth of both a point and creativity.
You and the OP, to which I'm still not convinced aren't the same person (you both have the same writing styles and the same argument) haven't managed to argue, let alone counteract a single one of my points.
I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
But your message was a bit attacking too, as you assumed things about him which you didn't know for certain.
As per your response, they were very good guesses.
Your earlier post gave a lot away. So they were quite educated guesses. You clearly don't remember what it was like to be a kid, nor do you have them.
BTW, the only kind of attack-ish thing I did was point out that at one point in your childhood, you would have misbehaved. Given the way you responded, I'd say that was a good bet too.
Warden: We need to stop these drones. Mayor: Get me the army. /phone rings. Officer: Bonjour, armee l'quebec. Mayor: We need your best Anti-Air regiment, double time. Officer: Sir, this is the Canadian army, we don't have anti-air weapons. Sorry aboot that.
You really never have had kids... or even been around kids... or even remember being a kid if you honestly think it's that easy.
You don't know jack shit about me.
And here you've just confirmed everything I've said about you.
You responded with an attack, not a reasonable rebuttal (I like the irony here, claiming you can reason with kids but cant even reason with an adult). If you don't want to look so guilty, don't get so defensive.
For a lot of people in first-world countries, I doubt they see their phone as much of a status symbol anymore
Strangely, a lot of people still do see their phones as status symbols.
The culture of one-upmanship and keeping up with the joneses is alive and well in western societies. A lot of people are constantly trying to get better toys than their peers and neighbours. Frank buys a ride on mower, not Bob and Steve have to have one. Steve gets a new Accord Euro, so Bob has to get a BMW 320 and not to be out done, Frank has to get a Mercedes CLA. Same with kids getting huge fart-cannon cat-backs (exhausts) to make their crapwagon sound louder.
Phones are considered status symbols by a lot of vain people, they aren't very good status symbols but they are still status symbols for a great many people. This is why they rush to show everyone their new phone, mundane people don't care about how much RAM it's got or the new features like us geeks and every other mundane person knows it. They only care about showing everyone their new toy.
There's a joke explaining the difference between a normal person and a douchebag. Normal Person: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my jacket out of my car, I left my phone in there. Douchebag: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my Northface out of my Lexus, I left my Iphone 5 S in there.
Really,
I am Colombian citizen and Colombia is a country where people tend to steal your shoes if they are not tied tightly to your feet.
Third world denizens tend to carry their expensive equipment in their hands as a show of wealth, and they get marked and the phones are easily stolen.
I lived on and off in Colombia for years with expensive phones and never got them stolen.
Why? I do not use them on the bus, the bar, or in the street. Stop using your smartphone as a status symbol in public.
This,
It doesn't matter how wealthy the country is, most people get their phones stolen through carelessness. There may be fewer thieves in a somewhere like London or New York compared to Bogata or Medellin, but they're still there and they're still looking for the same thing, an easy mark. The standards are different, everyone and their dog has their phone out in New York or London so they look for the ones that are drunk and alone, of course people do get their phones snatched in public but because everyone walks around with their phones out, they think that it wont be them (and act so surprised when it happens to them).
This is why a lot of first worlder's get stuff stolen when they go to developing nations, they've never lived in a place where you have to be on your guard, where your phone will get stolen if you wander around with it.
I've had a grand total of three things stolen from me in my travels, all due to carelessness on my part but fortunately, nothing that has cost me much to replace.
Yes. Kids are invincible. They will defeat their parents at every turn and will never listen to reason. Attempting to raise them is pointless.
You really never have had kids... or even been around kids... or even remember being a kid if you honestly think it's that easy. No kids don't listen to reason because they don't fully understand the concept of reason and if you dont understand that, you dont know much about raising kids.
I haven't got kids, but helped my sister out with my nephew for a while. Yes kids will find a way into things, not because their evil, unreasonable or stupid, but because they are curious and attracted to shiny things (or anything with buttons). I guarantee you if you leave keys or mobile phones within reach of a 2 year old, they will have them within a number of seconds. You have no idea how much you need to secure from them, chemicals, cutlery, plates, anything made of glass, anything small enough to swallow... so your phone is so far down the list you just don't give a crap.
I'm sure you could beat that behaviour out of them using a variety of electrodes but you see, that curiosity is a healthy appetite for learning and that isn't a bad thing (seeing as learning is a huge part of raising kids) so most parents don't.
I'll also guarantee two other things about kids to you. First that if I left you alone with a kid, within half an hour that kid will have gotten into something they shouldn't have and secondly, that you were a little shit at some point in your life too.
Ahem. That taken care of, I move we lower the age of candidacy for all public offices to 18. Do I hear a second?
Speaker: now the member for X-Box Live wishes to table a motion, the floor recognises HaloGod96.
Member: I would like to rename the current education budget to the Suck a Giant Donkey's Dick plan, all those opposed r ghey.
I cant see what could possibly go wrong
BTW: I'm from a country with the Westminster parliament system if the above sounds a bit strange to you and you can stand for office at 18 because you're a full adult (you can also buy a beer). Amazingly most parliamentarians are 30+ but they do start working in political offices from 18.
Also, only 60$ for a HDD which can be sent back and forth between the client? Seems feasible to me.
Client... send things back?
What colour is the sky on your planet?
Even if you included a pre-paid postage bag or consignment note, you'd still have at best a 50/50 chance that they would.
Corporate / business internet links are also an option. I used to dial in to the local newspaper and upload them a 2 or 3mb PDF file over 14.4 modem at my first job.
I have no idea where you are, I'm going to assume you've got at least 12 hours until the deadline, quite a few business links could easily handle 70gb in 12 hours.
LoL, 70 GB in 12 hours. Are you high?
From my location you'd be lucky to get 70 GB done in 4 days if both sides had enterprise grade fibre. From Perth, Australia (which is as far as you can get from Scuthorpe, England and still have regular internet access), I can overnight physical storage there. From London, England I could get it there within the day (hell, you could do the same from Boston).
So 2 DS blu rays then?
Now you're getting it.
Another thing you have to remember is that a HDD or a large flash drive is considered an asset by accounting. They will need to keep track of them and wont let you send them all around the world. An optical disc is considered a consumable and doesn't garner much attention.
Power and heat. In a large server farm, those are king.
2.5s are less power hungry and generate less heat than 3.5s or 5.25s.
Plus 2.5's are getting large and fast enough to compete with 3.5's.
I bought a 10K RPM WD Raptor (AKA a VelociHeater) years ago before SSD's were mainstream and it was essentially a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" heat sink. With SSD's taking over from 15K enterprise drives the demand for spinning disks is more for capacity than speed, so slower drives that generate less heat and use less power.
Double sided? Only 150gb at the moment, at best 500gb?
Nope and nope, it's not going to catch on, you can buy a portable 1TB HDD now for $65
If they can do single sided, 1TB, at least 50MB/s and blank discs under $15 a pop? You've got some small potential to maybe oust DVD / BR - otherwise, forget it. It's unlikely to catch on even then though.
I need to send 70 GB to Scunthorpe by tomorrow.
Do you want to buy a $50 HDD, $10 USB caddy + padded box for transport or a $5 optical disc + CD package for postage.
Pretty much.
CD-Roms first became popular when 80 meg hard drives were considered large.
Now, you can buy few terabytes of space for $100--$200. Parceling out your data in 25 GB chunks, at a dollar a disk doesn't seem all that thrifty, unless you distribute large amounts of data to people who don't have high speed connections.
I know, it's slightly cheaper as a backup option-- if your time isn't worth much.
CD writers didn't become popular in the home until 2 GB drives were commonplace. Optical media has always lagged behind hard disk. It's the advent of USB storage and greater bandwidth that has diminished the use of optical media.
Despite that, optical media still has it's uses and wont be going anywhere for some time. A DVD that costs $0.10 is easier to post than a flash drive that costs $5 and is considerably less fragile.
The replacement for tape is different tape. Optical media isn't going to catch up to the data densities or transfer rates that tape has to offer any time soon. The (kinda old) LTO4 changer I use for my personal stuff handles 800GB/tape and only needs about three hours per tape. This new disc format isn't even going to be competitive with an eight year old tape spec.
Tape may be faster to write for now, (They never said the speed...) a single file restore will not be. Especially if it is towards the end of the tape. THis has alwayse been the limiting factor of tape.
Tape is great for backups and archives but for anything that needs to be written once and accessed semi-frequently or portable optical disc is still superior to tape. Its a lot easier and cheaper to overnight a few DVD's to a remote office than it is to send a flash drive, SD card, hard drive or tape.
How many 'tiny landing strips' can handle a 777 so damaged that it can't send out a radio distress signal? I would think that the numbers would be vanishingly small.....
In addition to this, there are few places where a 777 could land, safely or otherwise in SE Asia that doesn't have mobile reception or people.
4G is LTE. What some carriers in the US did was sell HSDPA as 4G, but in Europe that has mostly been advertised as 3.5G.
LTE is 3.9G.
What the carriers did was declare it 4G. LTE Advanced was going to be the first 4th Generation mobile technolgy but thanks to marketers co-opting the term, the generation numbers are now meaningless. I may as well announce my farts now produce 6G speed. It would be just as accurate.
Here in Australia I pay $19.99 per month and get $300 worth of cap value to use on everything except international calls, premium rate calls/SMS and international roaming. (3 services I never use)
G'Day, Australian here.
Allow me to explain how this works for our American friends.
For the GP's $20 real Australian dollars he doesn't get $300 real Australian dollars worth of value, what he gets are $300 imaginary dollars. Australian telco's do this to obfuscate the real cost of services. So they can continue to pretend that a single SMS costs $0.25 and one minute of talk time costs $1.50 or data actually costs $0.20 per MB. In reality that cost is less than 1/15th of the advertised cost. The money has no real value in the outside world and is only valid for 30 days (or however long is stipulated by the contract). This way telco's can continue to confound the ACCC and regular consumers and bold faced lie about the true cost of services.
I'm with Telstra who are shamelessly Australia's most expensive telco... but I don't mind. I'm on a pre-paid plan (PAYG) and for $30 real Australian dollars I get $250 imaginary dollars as well as 400 MB of data for 30 days. Phone calls are $0.90 per minute and SMS's are $0.29, but in reality I'm paying $0.06 per minute for voice calls and $0.019 per SMS taking into account that at $2 per MB the data is 45% of my cap. However if Telco's advertised the real cost of services, they wouldn't be able to get away with charging $0.30 per SMS in real Australian dollars when post-paid (contract) customers go over their cap (feel free to Google "Bill Shock" for sensationalist tabloid pieces about this).
This is a far cry from some places where if you have so much as 1 Peso on your account you can send infinite SMS's. However in that land I also swapped towers 3 times walking from one end of my hotel room to the other so I guess there's a trade off. I'm not all that unhappy with Australian prices, it's more the deceptive advertising that I have an issue with.
WSJ is in the back pockets of big businesses. How can we be sure this is not anti-competition (i.e, pro-oligopoly) propaganda?
Yes, the WSJ is helping big business by pointing out to their customers the major carriers are raising rates on them. That makes perfect sense. -_____-
Frog boiling my American friend.
Get people riled up about high prices now, so they'll have less anger to expend when prices rise again in a few months. A shock about fears now lessens the shock when fears become reality.
Those uses would only require a normal CA, a root CA is only needed if you intend to spy on all SSL traffic.
Never ascribe malice to what can be explained by incompetence.
There is probably a very frustrated sysadmin out there that just didn't have the time or mental health left to explain why they didn't need to use a root CA to upper management and a very bad developer/project manager who made the decision regardless.
Ireland has corporate taxes, they are just MUCH lower than most other developed countries. So Ireland gains by taxing these corporations. It is extremely lucrative for Ireland because they get billions in tax dollars from the shell company that only has a few employees. The social cost to Ireland is nil compared to the tax revenue, but quite the opposite for Australia.
Erm...
You do know that Ireland's economy is up the shitter and they're relying on handouts from the EU right?
So this isn't working out good for Ireland either.
Australian/Irish dual citizenship would be a better example and here if you're earning a wage in Australia or living in Australia but earning a wage overseas you have to pay tax. But if you are an Australian citizen living overseas and earning overseas, the ATO cant touch you.
It is also illegal for a corporation to try to move their profit overseas. Even if a loophole is legal, the ATO will still take them to court and the intent of Apple will come into play. Also the loophole will likely be closed as a result of the case.
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It sounds like you don't know many people.
Oddly enough, it seems you're doing the projection here. You seem to think everyone has the exact same values as you. This is not correct. People do consider their phones to be status symbols, much the same as Zara Jeans and D&G handbags. This is why they line up every year to get the latest model. Phones to many a fashion accessories and occupy the same slot as other fashion accessories for these people, so yes, they are status symbols. How many purses did Michael Kors sell last year, I'd be very supprised if it wasn't a multiple of 150 million, they're still status symbols, not strong ones like Rolls Royce but for people who buy them they are an indication of status... The same with Iphones.
I don't consider phones to be status symbols, but I know enough people to understand that this is my view (I own an old Galaxy Nexus) but here you've pretty much demonstrated you don't get out much, you definitely don't understand how mundane people work.
Yes they are, I'm just going to do the copy/paste from the other comment I made about this.
The culture of one-upmanship and keeping up with the joneses is alive and well in western societies. A lot of people are constantly trying to get better toys than their peers and neighbours. Frank buys a ride on mower, not Bob and Steve have to have one. Steve gets a new Accord Euro, so Bob has to get a BMW 320 and not to be out done, Frank has to get a Mercedes CLA. Same with kids getting huge fart-cannon cat-backs (exhausts) to make their crapwagon sound louder.
Phones are considered status symbols by a lot of vain people, they aren't very good status symbols but they are still status symbols for a great many people. This is why they rush to show everyone their new phone, mundane people don't care about how much RAM it's got or the new features like us geeks and every other mundane person knows it. They only care about showing everyone their new toy.
There's a joke explaining the difference between a normal person and a douchebag.
Normal Person: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my jacket out of my car, I left my phone in there.
Douchebag: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my Northface out of my Lexus, I left my Iphone 5 S in there.
Telling people not to use them in public is removing the whole point of taking a mobile computing device with you.
Erm, thanks for not reading my, or the OP's post.
We didn't say don't take them with you, we said don't wander around with them out. Thieves look for easy targets and people too engrossed in their Idevice are extremely easy targets.
It's a basic self preservation measure, like not accepting candy from strangers.
Hey, but you're proving my point for me. A lot of first worlders don't have a clue about how to act in a country where theft is prevalent.
Heh heh...and now you assume things about me too? ;)
Hint: I'm not the GP.
You're making the assertion that I dont know.
Sorry, but if your only defence is to hold up your hand and shout "Y'all dont know me" shows a serious dearth of both a point and creativity.
You and the OP, to which I'm still not convinced aren't the same person (you both have the same writing styles and the same argument) haven't managed to argue, let alone counteract a single one of my points.
I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
But your message was a bit attacking too, as you assumed things about him which you didn't know for certain.
As per your response, they were very good guesses.
Your earlier post gave a lot away. So they were quite educated guesses. You clearly don't remember what it was like to be a kid, nor do you have them.
BTW, the only kind of attack-ish thing I did was point out that at one point in your childhood, you would have misbehaved. Given the way you responded, I'd say that was a good bet too.
Warden: We need to stop these drones.
/phone rings.
Mayor: Get me the army.
Officer: Bonjour, armee l'quebec.
Mayor: We need your best Anti-Air regiment, double time.
Officer: Sir, this is the Canadian army, we don't have anti-air weapons. Sorry aboot that.
You really never have had kids... or even been around kids... or even remember being a kid if you honestly think it's that easy.
You don't know jack shit about me.
And here you've just confirmed everything I've said about you.
You responded with an attack, not a reasonable rebuttal (I like the irony here, claiming you can reason with kids but cant even reason with an adult). If you don't want to look so guilty, don't get so defensive.
For a lot of people in first-world countries, I doubt they see their phone as much of a status symbol anymore
Strangely, a lot of people still do see their phones as status symbols.
The culture of one-upmanship and keeping up with the joneses is alive and well in western societies. A lot of people are constantly trying to get better toys than their peers and neighbours. Frank buys a ride on mower, not Bob and Steve have to have one. Steve gets a new Accord Euro, so Bob has to get a BMW 320 and not to be out done, Frank has to get a Mercedes CLA. Same with kids getting huge fart-cannon cat-backs (exhausts) to make their crapwagon sound louder.
Phones are considered status symbols by a lot of vain people, they aren't very good status symbols but they are still status symbols for a great many people. This is why they rush to show everyone their new phone, mundane people don't care about how much RAM it's got or the new features like us geeks and every other mundane person knows it. They only care about showing everyone their new toy.
There's a joke explaining the difference between a normal person and a douchebag.
Normal Person: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my jacket out of my car, I left my phone in there.
Douchebag: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my Northface out of my Lexus, I left my Iphone 5 S in there.
Really, I am Colombian citizen and Colombia is a country where people tend to steal your shoes if they are not tied tightly to your feet. Third world denizens tend to carry their expensive equipment in their hands as a show of wealth, and they get marked and the phones are easily stolen. I lived on and off in Colombia for years with expensive phones and never got them stolen. Why? I do not use them on the bus, the bar, or in the street. Stop using your smartphone as a status symbol in public.
This,
It doesn't matter how wealthy the country is, most people get their phones stolen through carelessness. There may be fewer thieves in a somewhere like London or New York compared to Bogata or Medellin, but they're still there and they're still looking for the same thing, an easy mark. The standards are different, everyone and their dog has their phone out in New York or London so they look for the ones that are drunk and alone, of course people do get their phones snatched in public but because everyone walks around with their phones out, they think that it wont be them (and act so surprised when it happens to them).
This is why a lot of first worlder's get stuff stolen when they go to developing nations, they've never lived in a place where you have to be on your guard, where your phone will get stolen if you wander around with it.
I've had a grand total of three things stolen from me in my travels, all due to carelessness on my part but fortunately, nothing that has cost me much to replace.
Yes. Kids are invincible. They will defeat their parents at every turn and will never listen to reason. Attempting to raise them is pointless.
You really never have had kids... or even been around kids... or even remember being a kid if you honestly think it's that easy. No kids don't listen to reason because they don't fully understand the concept of reason and if you dont understand that, you dont know much about raising kids.
I haven't got kids, but helped my sister out with my nephew for a while. Yes kids will find a way into things, not because their evil, unreasonable or stupid, but because they are curious and attracted to shiny things (or anything with buttons). I guarantee you if you leave keys or mobile phones within reach of a 2 year old, they will have them within a number of seconds. You have no idea how much you need to secure from them, chemicals, cutlery, plates, anything made of glass, anything small enough to swallow... so your phone is so far down the list you just don't give a crap.
I'm sure you could beat that behaviour out of them using a variety of electrodes but you see, that curiosity is a healthy appetite for learning and that isn't a bad thing (seeing as learning is a huge part of raising kids) so most parents don't.
I'll also guarantee two other things about kids to you. First that if I left you alone with a kid, within half an hour that kid will have gotten into something they shouldn't have and secondly, that you were a little shit at some point in your life too.
Instead of cursing the darkness, why not light a candle?
http://soylentnews.org/
Because every time I go to that site, I find it as frustrating to use as beta. Why do truncated comments have to load a new page?
/. classic the first time I encountered beta.
Also I haven't been forced onto beta since I opted for
Soylent news will have to improve to get readership.
Ahem. That taken care of, I move we lower the age of candidacy for all public offices to 18. Do I hear a second?
Speaker: now the member for X-Box Live wishes to table a motion, the floor recognises HaloGod96.
Member: I would like to rename the current education budget to the Suck a Giant Donkey's Dick plan, all those opposed r ghey.
I cant see what could possibly go wrong
BTW: I'm from a country with the Westminster parliament system if the above sounds a bit strange to you and you can stand for office at 18 because you're a full adult (you can also buy a beer). Amazingly most parliamentarians are 30+ but they do start working in political offices from 18.
Also, only 60$ for a HDD which can be sent back and forth between the client? Seems feasible to me.
Client... send things back?
What colour is the sky on your planet?
Even if you included a pre-paid postage bag or consignment note, you'd still have at best a 50/50 chance that they would.
Corporate / business internet links are also an option. I used to dial in to the local newspaper and upload them a 2 or 3mb PDF file over 14.4 modem at my first job.
I have no idea where you are, I'm going to assume you've got at least 12 hours until the deadline, quite a few business links could easily handle 70gb in 12 hours.
LoL, 70 GB in 12 hours. Are you high?
From my location you'd be lucky to get 70 GB done in 4 days if both sides had enterprise grade fibre. From Perth, Australia (which is as far as you can get from Scuthorpe, England and still have regular internet access), I can overnight physical storage there. From London, England I could get it there within the day (hell, you could do the same from Boston).
So 2 DS blu rays then?
Now you're getting it.
Another thing you have to remember is that a HDD or a large flash drive is considered an asset by accounting. They will need to keep track of them and wont let you send them all around the world. An optical disc is considered a consumable and doesn't garner much attention.
Power and heat. In a large server farm, those are king.
2.5s are less power hungry and generate less heat than 3.5s or 5.25s.
Plus 2.5's are getting large and fast enough to compete with 3.5's.
I bought a 10K RPM WD Raptor (AKA a VelociHeater) years ago before SSD's were mainstream and it was essentially a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" heat sink. With SSD's taking over from 15K enterprise drives the demand for spinning disks is more for capacity than speed, so slower drives that generate less heat and use less power.
Double sided? Only 150gb at the moment, at best 500gb?
Nope and nope, it's not going to catch on, you can buy a portable 1TB HDD now for $65
If they can do single sided, 1TB, at least 50MB/s and blank discs under $15 a pop? You've got some small potential to maybe oust DVD / BR - otherwise, forget it. It's unlikely to catch on even then though.
I need to send 70 GB to Scunthorpe by tomorrow.
Do you want to buy a $50 HDD, $10 USB caddy + padded box for transport or a $5 optical disc + CD package for postage.
Good luck selling that to the boss.
Pretty much.
CD-Roms first became popular when 80 meg hard drives were considered large.
Now, you can buy few terabytes of space for $100--$200. Parceling out your data in 25 GB chunks, at a dollar a disk doesn't seem all that thrifty, unless you distribute large amounts of data to people who don't have high speed connections.
I know, it's slightly cheaper as a backup option-- if your time isn't worth much.
CD writers didn't become popular in the home until 2 GB drives were commonplace. Optical media has always lagged behind hard disk. It's the advent of USB storage and greater bandwidth that has diminished the use of optical media.
Despite that, optical media still has it's uses and wont be going anywhere for some time. A DVD that costs $0.10 is easier to post than a flash drive that costs $5 and is considerably less fragile.
The replacement for tape is different tape. Optical media isn't going to catch up to the data densities or transfer rates that tape has to offer any time soon. The (kinda old) LTO4 changer I use for my personal stuff handles 800GB/tape and only needs about three hours per tape. This new disc format isn't even going to be competitive with an eight year old tape spec.
Tape may be faster to write for now, (They never said the speed...) a single file restore will not be. Especially if it is towards the end of the tape. THis has alwayse been the limiting factor of tape.
Tape is great for backups and archives but for anything that needs to be written once and accessed semi-frequently or portable optical disc is still superior to tape. Its a lot easier and cheaper to overnight a few DVD's to a remote office than it is to send a flash drive, SD card, hard drive or tape.
How many 'tiny landing strips' can handle a 777 so damaged that it can't send out a radio distress signal? I would think that the numbers would be vanishingly small.....
In addition to this, there are few places where a 777 could land, safely or otherwise in SE Asia that doesn't have mobile reception or people.
4G is LTE. What some carriers in the US did was sell HSDPA as 4G, but in Europe that has mostly been advertised as 3.5G.
LTE is 3.9G.
What the carriers did was declare it 4G. LTE Advanced was going to be the first 4th Generation mobile technolgy but thanks to marketers co-opting the term, the generation numbers are now meaningless. I may as well announce my farts now produce 6G speed. It would be just as accurate.
However upon closer inspection, they found out the fossil was just Keith Richards who had wandered into the construction site.
Here in Australia I pay $19.99 per month and get $300 worth of cap value to use on everything except international calls, premium rate calls/SMS and international roaming. (3 services I never use)
G'Day, Australian here.
Allow me to explain how this works for our American friends.
For the GP's $20 real Australian dollars he doesn't get $300 real Australian dollars worth of value, what he gets are $300 imaginary dollars. Australian telco's do this to obfuscate the real cost of services. So they can continue to pretend that a single SMS costs $0.25 and one minute of talk time costs $1.50 or data actually costs $0.20 per MB. In reality that cost is less than 1/15th of the advertised cost. The money has no real value in the outside world and is only valid for 30 days (or however long is stipulated by the contract). This way telco's can continue to confound the ACCC and regular consumers and bold faced lie about the true cost of services.
I'm with Telstra who are shamelessly Australia's most expensive telco... but I don't mind. I'm on a pre-paid plan (PAYG) and for $30 real Australian dollars I get $250 imaginary dollars as well as 400 MB of data for 30 days. Phone calls are $0.90 per minute and SMS's are $0.29, but in reality I'm paying $0.06 per minute for voice calls and $0.019 per SMS taking into account that at $2 per MB the data is 45% of my cap. However if Telco's advertised the real cost of services, they wouldn't be able to get away with charging $0.30 per SMS in real Australian dollars when post-paid (contract) customers go over their cap (feel free to Google "Bill Shock" for sensationalist tabloid pieces about this).
This is a far cry from some places where if you have so much as 1 Peso on your account you can send infinite SMS's. However in that land I also swapped towers 3 times walking from one end of my hotel room to the other so I guess there's a trade off. I'm not all that unhappy with Australian prices, it's more the deceptive advertising that I have an issue with.
WSJ is in the back pockets of big businesses. How can we be sure this is not anti-competition (i.e, pro-oligopoly) propaganda?
Yes, the WSJ is helping big business by pointing out to their customers the major carriers are raising rates on them. That makes perfect sense. -_____-
Frog boiling my American friend.
Get people riled up about high prices now, so they'll have less anger to expend when prices rise again in a few months. A shock about fears now lessens the shock when fears become reality.
Those uses would only require a normal CA, a root CA is only needed if you intend to spy on all SSL traffic.
Never ascribe malice to what can be explained by incompetence.
There is probably a very frustrated sysadmin out there that just didn't have the time or mental health left to explain why they didn't need to use a root CA to upper management and a very bad developer/project manager who made the decision regardless.
I guess it's time for me to get that Brazilian wax.
It's important to put your best foot forward.
What you're trying to say is that you don't like Bush.
Ireland has corporate taxes, they are just MUCH lower than most other developed countries. So Ireland gains by taxing these corporations. It is extremely lucrative for Ireland because they get billions in tax dollars from the shell company that only has a few employees. The social cost to Ireland is nil compared to the tax revenue, but quite the opposite for Australia.
Erm...
You do know that Ireland's economy is up the shitter and they're relying on handouts from the EU right?
So this isn't working out good for Ireland either.
Actually, the U.S. is one of the few countries who claim the right to tax income of its citizens, no matter in what country it was earned.
Also, doesn't the disallow dual citizenship?
Australian/Irish dual citizenship would be a better example and here if you're earning a wage in Australia or living in Australia but earning a wage overseas you have to pay tax. But if you are an Australian citizen living overseas and earning overseas, the ATO cant touch you.
It is also illegal for a corporation to try to move their profit overseas. Even if a loophole is legal, the ATO will still take them to court and the intent of Apple will come into play. Also the loophole will likely be closed as a result of the case.