The stock holders are the ones who just got killed.
Yeah? So?
I hope the stock holders are able to "Claw back" the money...
Were Kobe investors some special breed of stock holder that valued quality work and integrity over share prices and dividends? "To hell with earnings! Make sure that paperwork is in order!" said no investor, ever.
The Japanese car majors are reporting "no problems" with Kobe aluminum they've tested from the past three years. Japan Rail has said similar about undercarriage parts. There are more years, more metals and more manufacturers involved, but the pattern is clear; these issues will be pencil whipped. There is margin for error engineered into transportation products and no one is going to rip up the floor boards over paper work unless there is a demonstrative problem.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry (former CIA, policy wonk and author since) told Congress (see 0:33:10) last Thursday that "we might not ever recover" from a single North Korean EMP attack. One attack will kill "millions of Americans."
I don't know if this is real. Puerto Rico and its craptacular 70 year old wood pole power grid notwithstanding, I don't believe most of our infrastructure is that fragile. I do know that a nuclear powered EMP pulse over North America won't disable our SLBM force, so such an attack will definitely produce a big smoking ruin where Pyongyang used to be.
One of the last must-have draws; ESPN and its crazy expensive NFL franchise, is now a raging SJW shit show. That cable bill is getting harder to pay every month even for loyal futbawl holdouts.
No it isn't. They're prattling on about this "voice-shopping" gimmick, augmented-reality mumble mumble... No mention of delivery performance, one place they could really outflank Amazon. This isn't competitive with Amazon. Not even a little. Amazon has got USPS delivering stuff on SUNDAY ffs.
This is a celebrity executive wankfest. These retailers aren't yet hurting badly enough to get serious so they're still playing games. You'll know they've stopped screwing around when you can fill a cart online and have it appear at your door same day. Till then its just games and Amazon will continue to eat their lunch.
So I have to have a google bug device and struggle with a "voice" interface buy stuff... this is DOA. Just put in my regular not-mobile web browser with a fast, full size, not-flat, non-suck UI. Make EVERYTHING in Target/Home Depot/Walmart have accurate stock levels and be same-day delivery from this site. That's how you compete with bleeping Amazon.
Why? They've done all the hard work figuring out how to make things people will use and people are accustomed to and productive with it.
Do something different, something innovative, something that will make people want to use it over Apple and Microsoft
Being fast, stable and not being proprietary or invasive is all the innovation I require.
KDE seems to have gotten the message. Don't indulge iconoclasts and convolute the basic functionality of a traditional desktop. There was never anything actually wrong with the design of traditional desktops except when they fail to fully exploit the capabilities of hardware. Today that problem is apparent when dealing with scaling on high resolution displays. Users just want that issue solved; scale, do it without glitches and disruptions and leave the rest alone. Do that and we're good for another ten years until we're all wearing VR headsets or something.
You're free to go make whatever innovate thing pleases you; nothing is stopping you. But the fact that KDE is no longer among the DEs trying to force feed "innovation" on its users is a minor miracle as far as I'm concerned. Thank you KDE.
Require all phones to have batteries that are removable
No, because then fly-by-night third parties will make cheap knock-off batteries and chucklehead device owners will buy them and they'll burst into flames etc. etc. We've already been through all this. OEMs can barely manufacture these batteries safely re Samsung.
These are neat devices and a lot of people are really excited by them. I'm not one, but I spend crazy money on other things (tequipment.net...) that I don't actually need, so I understand. This isn't some big deal that needs a lot of naval gazing; if not having a $1000 phone makes you insecure then the problem is you. If the people you spend the time of your life with judge you based on your phone that's basically you're fault too.
Please, do exactly that. Please keep confusing fake celebrity outrage for public sentiment. Please keep believing the same polls they fed you before Trump won the election. Don't change a thing.
This isn't about "denying." These bad actors in government (yes, such things actually exist) are not simply denying the requests, which would precipitate a legitimate legal process. They are using the courts and their legal budgets to intimidate applicants. This is clearly spelled out the story itself. Try reading it. Warning; it doesn't have a happy ending where all the blame gets laid off on some corporation.
Well run power utilities don't use poles in urban areas any more. Concrete or otherwise. Figuring out how this is lost on hurricane prone Puerto Rico or whatever mismanaged part of Florida you hail from is an exercise I'll leave you to work on.
Here is one of your concrete poles splayed out on the road like the ghetto crap that it is. The wood one is probably in the Gulf somewhere. These knuckleheads will be in the dark until December and it will be the US proper that has to foot the bill. That power company was $9 BILLION in debt before the hurricane wiped it out.
At least maybe this will provide an opportunity to involve some grownups in the matter.
A lot of Puerto Rico's electrical network is badly neglected. Much of the system is suspended on old fashioned post-war power poles and overloaded with too many cables. It looks like something from 19th century New York. None of this is terribly surprising: it's a government run power system that is absurdly dysfunctional.
but left wing progressives don't hate Jews.... Israeli blah blah
No, it's Jews. All kinds of left wing groupthinkers (and others) are anti semites. Helen Thomas, Sharpton, Gibson, Oliver Stone, the whole Sheen clan, Assange. All sorts. They get caught in polite company or recorded somehow and then cop-out with the "I meant Israel" line, but they were talking about Jews when they unzipped their fly. The "It's not Jews, it's Israel" line is transparent and you should probably quit playing that card; it only calls you out as the left wing bigot you are.
And no, the fact that you can point out Jews that hate Israel or Judaism doesn't play; self-loathing is a thing, particularly among liberals.
Why do I feel like 4chan figured out how their algorithms work and did this to troll FB?
I have no idea. There are so many jew hating nut bags polluting the Internet that it isn't the least bit surprising that an ad targeting system generated these categories. Another thing that doesn't cause me even the slightest surprise is that Facebook had to have this pointed out to them; have no doubt that every other conceivable identity group has automated protection already built-in. The only question that might hold a little interest is just how high up the Facebook chain of command did this issue have to go before it reached someone that understood this to be a problem.
Firmware changes won't do it. The phone needs the right RF filters to function on these the expanded LTE bands. Just because you can get LTE firmware doesn't mean you'll get the benefit of newer frequencies. For instance, Band 66 is wider than Band 4, so you need a transceiver with filters adapted to the expanded band. Band 12 is a relatively low frequency, which provides long range, but is far out of band for the filters in older devices. Another issue is VoLTE support (voice over LTE); it's not available on every device yet whether it's physically possible or not; Nexus 4 can't do it no matter what firmware you load.
The Moto g5 plus is certified by T-mobile to function on all of their bands and support VoLTE as well. That makes it a good budget phone choice if you're on T-mobile.
T-mobile doesn't have the capital to compete with Verizon et al. on the traditional frequencies so they've invested in newer frequency bands as the FCC has auctioned them. You need to pay close attention to your phone's capabilities if you care about coverage and performance with T-mobile. Even flagship phones available today can't get the full benefits; you have to investigate the device.
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The stock holders are the ones who just got killed.
Yeah? So?
I hope the stock holders are able to "Claw back" the money...
Were Kobe investors some special breed of stock holder that valued quality work and integrity over share prices and dividends? "To hell with earnings! Make sure that paperwork is in order!" said no investor, ever.
The Japanese car majors are reporting "no problems" with Kobe aluminum they've tested from the past three years. Japan Rail has said similar about undercarriage parts. There are more years, more metals and more manufacturers involved, but the pattern is clear; these issues will be pencil whipped. There is margin for error engineered into transportation products and no one is going to rip up the floor boards over paper work unless there is a demonstrative problem.
Right or wrong that's how it will be.
EMP! What can't it do?
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry (former CIA, policy wonk and author since) told Congress (see 0:33:10) last Thursday that "we might not ever recover" from a single North Korean EMP attack. One attack will kill "millions of Americans."
I don't know if this is real. Puerto Rico and its craptacular 70 year old wood pole power grid notwithstanding, I don't believe most of our infrastructure is that fragile. I do know that a nuclear powered EMP pulse over North America won't disable our SLBM force, so such an attack will definitely produce a big smoking ruin where Pyongyang used to be.
One of the last must-have draws; ESPN and its crazy expensive NFL franchise, is now a raging SJW shit show. That cable bill is getting harder to pay every month even for loyal futbawl holdouts.
That is exactly what they are trying to do
No it isn't. They're prattling on about this "voice-shopping" gimmick, augmented-reality mumble mumble... No mention of delivery performance, one place they could really outflank Amazon. This isn't competitive with Amazon. Not even a little. Amazon has got USPS delivering stuff on SUNDAY ffs.
This is a celebrity executive wankfest. These retailers aren't yet hurting badly enough to get serious so they're still playing games. You'll know they've stopped screwing around when you can fill a cart online and have it appear at your door same day. Till then its just games and Amazon will continue to eat their lunch.
So I have to have a google bug device and struggle with a "voice" interface buy stuff... this is DOA. Just put in my regular not-mobile web browser with a fast, full size, not-flat, non-suck UI. Make EVERYTHING in Target/Home Depot/Walmart have accurate stock levels and be same-day delivery from this site. That's how you compete with bleeping Amazon.
Is Material Design the thing where I can't tell which part of the screen is a button and which part isn't?
Exactly.
And your befuddlement is not unique.
Stop trying to copy Apple and Microsoft designs!
Why? They've done all the hard work figuring out how to make things people will use and people are accustomed to and productive with it.
Do something different, something innovative, something that will make people want to use it over Apple and Microsoft
Being fast, stable and not being proprietary or invasive is all the innovation I require.
KDE seems to have gotten the message. Don't indulge iconoclasts and convolute the basic functionality of a traditional desktop. There was never anything actually wrong with the design of traditional desktops except when they fail to fully exploit the capabilities of hardware. Today that problem is apparent when dealing with scaling on high resolution displays. Users just want that issue solved; scale, do it without glitches and disruptions and leave the rest alone. Do that and we're good for another ten years until we're all wearing VR headsets or something.
You're free to go make whatever innovate thing pleases you; nothing is stopping you. But the fact that KDE is no longer among the DEs trying to force feed "innovation" on its users is a minor miracle as far as I'm concerned. Thank you KDE.
Or, rather, had just been finally copied.
Much yes. So grammar. Wow.
Sadly that headline was copied verbatim from the New Scientist story.
Most people do that,
More things I don't care about.
120" projector
So to benefit from this "progress" I'd have to dedicate a room to TV........
Yeah. I'm not going to do that. The best part is that going forward I can safely ignore all future 8K, 16K etc. hype. Wonderful.
Require all phones to have batteries that are removable
No, because then fly-by-night third parties will make cheap knock-off batteries and chucklehead device owners will buy them and they'll burst into flames etc. etc. We've already been through all this. OEMs can barely manufacture these batteries safely re Samsung.
I sure hope assuaging your liberal guilt has been worth it because you're paying one hell of a price.
These are neat devices and a lot of people are really excited by them. I'm not one, but I spend crazy money on other things (tequipment.net...) that I don't actually need, so I understand. This isn't some big deal that needs a lot of naval gazing; if not having a $1000 phone makes you insecure then the problem is you. If the people you spend the time of your life with judge you based on your phone that's basically you're fault too.
the left can just lie back and chill
Please, do exactly that. Please keep confusing fake celebrity outrage for public sentiment. Please keep believing the same polls they fed you before Trump won the election. Don't change a thing.
Denying a FOI may be a good reason to do so.
This isn't about "denying." These bad actors in government (yes, such things actually exist) are not simply denying the requests, which would precipitate a legitimate legal process. They are using the courts and their legal budgets to intimidate applicants. This is clearly spelled out the story itself. Try reading it. Warning; it doesn't have a happy ending where all the blame gets laid off on some corporation.
commercial neighborhood in a big city
Well run power utilities don't use poles in urban areas any more. Concrete or otherwise. Figuring out how this is lost on hurricane prone Puerto Rico or whatever mismanaged part of Florida you hail from is an exercise I'll leave you to work on.
Here is one of your concrete poles splayed out on the road like the ghetto crap that it is. The wood one is probably in the Gulf somewhere. These knuckleheads will be in the dark until December and it will be the US proper that has to foot the bill. That power company was $9 BILLION in debt before the hurricane wiped it out.
At least maybe this will provide an opportunity to involve some grownups in the matter.
A lot of Puerto Rico's electrical network is badly neglected. Much of the system is suspended on old fashioned post-war power poles and overloaded with too many cables. It looks like something from 19th century New York. None of this is terribly surprising: it's a government run power system that is absurdly dysfunctional.
The whole thing fell over. Big surprise. Not.
Most of them. And if you don't you're a racist and something should be done about you.
The Internet perceives paywalls as damage and routes around them.
but left wing progressives don't hate Jews .... Israeli blah blah
No, it's Jews. All kinds of left wing groupthinkers (and others) are anti semites. Helen Thomas, Sharpton, Gibson, Oliver Stone, the whole Sheen clan, Assange. All sorts. They get caught in polite company or recorded somehow and then cop-out with the "I meant Israel" line, but they were talking about Jews when they unzipped their fly. The "It's not Jews, it's Israel" line is transparent and you should probably quit playing that card; it only calls you out as the left wing bigot you are.
And no, the fact that you can point out Jews that hate Israel or Judaism doesn't play; self-loathing is a thing, particularly among liberals.
Why do I feel like 4chan figured out how their algorithms work and did this to troll FB?
I have no idea. There are so many jew hating nut bags polluting the Internet that it isn't the least bit surprising that an ad targeting system generated these categories. Another thing that doesn't cause me even the slightest surprise is that Facebook had to have this pointed out to them; have no doubt that every other conceivable identity group has automated protection already built-in. The only question that might hold a little interest is just how high up the Facebook chain of command did this issue have to go before it reached someone that understood this to be a problem.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of grievance mongers.
Firmware changes won't do it. The phone needs the right RF filters to function on these the expanded LTE bands. Just because you can get LTE firmware doesn't mean you'll get the benefit of newer frequencies. For instance, Band 66 is wider than Band 4, so you need a transceiver with filters adapted to the expanded band. Band 12 is a relatively low frequency, which provides long range, but is far out of band for the filters in older devices. Another issue is VoLTE support (voice over LTE); it's not available on every device yet whether it's physically possible or not; Nexus 4 can't do it no matter what firmware you load.
The Moto g5 plus is certified by T-mobile to function on all of their bands and support VoLTE as well. That makes it a good budget phone choice if you're on T-mobile.
T-mobile doesn't have the capital to compete with Verizon et al. on the traditional frequencies so they've invested in newer frequency bands as the FCC has auctioned them. You need to pay close attention to your phone's capabilities if you care about coverage and performance with T-mobile. Even flagship phones available today can't get the full benefits; you have to investigate the device.