Somebody might get the impression that they can trade their very old and/or broken Mac and get $650 worth in MS bucks. They would be horribly mistaken. The old Macs fetch $75. And less if they are broken.
To get $650, you have to trade in a used Mac that is worth about $1,000 on the market.
I live not too far from major highway. Noise and pollution from automobiles worry me. The electric revolution cannot come soon enough.
Also, I don't know if it is old age or something else, but those extremely loud motorcycles annoy me to no end. I wish I could stop them and beat the shit out of them. Anybody else feel that way? And why the hell do these riders intentionally make their bikes so loud?
> Politics -- "Hope" and "Change" are routinely sold to the public who fall for it. Every. Time.
Better economy, huge job gains, good stock market performance. Scaled down the wars. No new ones. Not batshit crazy.
I suspect all this and more is not enough. It is tough to please griefers.
Kansas isn't really known for its high concentration of techies who would want subscribe to a service like this.
I live in Portland, OR. Yes we have a high concentration of techies with spare cash. We even made our state change some laws to accommodate Google Fiber. That law made us lose millions in recurring tax revenue from the likes of Comcast. That was more than a year ago. We still do not have Google Fiber. And now this? You have to be freaking kidding me!
I already have two good routers at home. One at each corner of my house. Both purchased for less than $100 each.
If the speed and range promises are even half of what is bring promised, I do not see a problem with people spending a couple of hundred bucks to pick up a dual router solution. Someone like me would not think twice about it.
But yeah, businesses would be ALL OVER IT.
I own all of the major Raspberry Pi hardware versions that have been released. I love them all. I only have one wish. Faster I/O. Will the next hardware release address this?
USB 3.0, 1Gbps NIC, faster SD card interface. Any one of these upgrades would be great. All of them? Would be awesome!:)
I have used many of the popular video conf/chat solutions. To talk with family and coworkers for meetings. I have for now standardized on Google Hangouts. It mostly works, and works on many devices and platforms. I have also on occasion used Facetime. I do not have an iphone or ipad, but have a Macbook.
It surprises me that Google is pitching this product as a Facetime replacement. I can use Facetime on my computer. The same is not true of Google Duo. For now, Google Duo is entirely useless to people who need a solution that also works on computers.
I have several of their $16 headsets. As far as I am concerned, they are absolutely the best headsets you can buy under $100. And I have tried too many.
A $23 fitness tracking band / watch? I'll have to give it a shot when it come here.
"Overtly or covertly where is the data collected being sent?"
I know right? It is a problem unique to this device. Everything else is OK. If you want to be safe, a tinfoil hat is best to keep the mind control waves at bay.
Agreed. The intelligent people have left Slashdot. The remaining are mostly griefers. I swore off Slashdot a couple of weeks ago, but accidentally visited today. An old habit that will take some time to kill I guess.
Comments on this story and all others on this site are a strong reminder of what the remaining crowd here is. Whiny crybabies and paranoid schizophrenics.
Slashdot, as of late, appears to discuss less technology and more of this drivel. There are too many stories about jobs being outsourced. And the usual "freedom loving" crowd is begging politicians and anybody who will listen to force companies, one way or another, to not outsource. It did not work for manufacturing jobs, but somehow it might just work for their service sector jobs
You people need to adjust your expectations. You don't need a new plan B. You need a better plan A. If you think your job is in danger of being outsourced, do not expect someone else to come in and save it.
And for crying out loud, stop with the freaking doom and gloom. You guys sound like a bunch of griefers. Every story is filled with people whining about something or trying to recycle really old jokes about Soviet Russia or some shit like that.
I have been hitting Slashdot out of habit over the years. But man, this shit is getting old.
> A technical problem with solar power is that peak output is at noon but peak load is near sunset. Temperatures typically reach a maximum at about 4:00. People tend to go home to cook supper at about 5:00. Along with a few other factors that add to the electric load the viability of solar power peaks at about 30% of total production. Anything more and additional solar power can negatively affect the grid.
You present a few moronic arguments, like the one above. If the grid sees too much capacity being fed by solar at noon, in a predictable way, then it can plan ahead and reduce output at that time and save the fossil fuels for when they are really needed.
The rest of your arguments contain similar logical flaws.
I know it takes time from discovery to production. If this discovery is actually as good as it sounds, I hope Elon puts this in the batteries for Model 3. I placed an order for two of them and not expecting them until 2018. I wouldn't mind waiting a little longer if it meant that it came with improvements like this one.
12,000 jobs is a lot. I know we want to blame somebody. Anybody. Who is responsible? Liberals? Conservatives? Trump? Sanders? Obama?
At the end of the day, people are not buying as many PCs as they used to.
What now? Who can we blame for that? Steve Jobs? He's dead. We gotta find somebody to blame, damn it.
There may be some blame deserved by Intel leadership for not seeing this coming, many years ago and doing something constructive about it.
It is a good thing this did not happen during the recession years. Or these people would have a harder time finding jobs. As it is, the economy and the job market is doing reasonably well. So there is hope that these Intel engineers will be able to find new places of employment soon.
Tesla showed the car and public took rides in it. That is hardly vapor. Production is at least 18 months away. Everybody understood that.
Tesla has a reputation of producing quality cars. More so than many other car manufacturers. It appears that a lot of people believe that this will be case for some time to come.
As an AT&T customer let me say this, I totally and completely hate the utter garbage that is AT&T bloatware and that they shove down their customers' throats. And to make the offense even more egregious, they make it very difficult to remove the said junk.
I buy Nexus devices now so that I do have to deal with this shit. What a clueless company.
Please don't tell me to go to Verizon, they do the same thing. And so does Sprint. T-mobile might not, but they don't have the coverage I need.
Your list mostly contains red states. The very few blue states on that list are not half as bad. Case in point:
California: Public entities are generally allowed to provide communications services, but "Community Service Districts" may not if any private entity is willing to do so.
Texas: The state "prohibits municipalities and municipal electric utilities from offering telecommunications services to the public either directly or indirectly through a private telecommunications provider."
See the difference?
Long time ago, I received two job offers at about the same time. One from Texas and one from Oregon. Not knowing enough about Texas, I seriously considered moving there. I think I dodged a bullet there.
Why is that every time you hear these oppressive state laws being made, it is usually safe to assume that it is happening in a Red State? How is it that the Republicans, the champions of liberty and freedom that they are, allowing this to go on?
I live in Oregon. You can buy as many Teslas here as you can afford. And we have a few community broadband networks too. Sandynet is one example that offers 1Gbps service to local residents. And there is no law preventing more from being setup.
I have been using Borg backup for a few months. I absolutely love it. Before borg, I had a nightmare backup scheme. I have a lot of data. And I cannot backup all of it every week. It would require too much storage. I got a little taste of deduplicated backup with the backup tool Microsoft includes in Windows Server 2012. I was immediately hooked. But it has severe limitations. I wanted a very flexible backup program that did deduplication well. In my opinion, there is nothing else that even comes close. Borg is exceptionally well thought out and built.
Always assume wifi is untrustworthy and you'll be fine. You don't need to pay companies like Avast to cover your behind. Most websites these days with sensitive information use https/SSL. Slashdot does not. But I care little about my Slashdot account.
If you're worried about how fast you'll hit the cap, then perhaps you should switch to a carrier and a plan that offers super slow speeds. Something like 56kbps. The old modem speed. Your cap will last way way longer. And I am guessing that will make you happier.
If you're worried about how fast you'll hit the cap, then perhaps you should switch to a carrier and a plan that offers super slow speeds. Something like 56kbps. The old modem speed. Your cap will last way way longer. I am guessing that will make you happier.
In the US many families have more than one car. Laws like this might encourage Delhi residents to try and get another car to work around this restriction.
The city should have also exempted electric cars. people may not own them in significant numbers, but it would certainly encourage them to.
This, a 100 times. It is easy to criticize from your armchair. Much harder to provide a complete example of an alternative that incorporates all the changes you are asking for, on a mobile platform. I am not an iphone user and prefer Android devices. One of the issues for me is that Apple mobile interface uses too much precious screen space for "discoverability". The author is asking for more of them. And people like me are asking for less. Many users come to accept the fact that on a mobile platform, screen space is limited. Predictable and consistent gestures that bring up menus of possible actions are better in that environment than showing all possible actions on the screen improving "discoverability".
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Somebody might get the impression that they can trade their very old and/or broken Mac and get $650 worth in MS bucks. They would be horribly mistaken. The old Macs fetch $75. And less if they are broken.
To get $650, you have to trade in a used Mac that is worth about $1,000 on the market.
What is not to like?
I live not too far from major highway. Noise and pollution from automobiles worry me. The electric revolution cannot come soon enough. Also, I don't know if it is old age or something else, but those extremely loud motorcycles annoy me to no end. I wish I could stop them and beat the shit out of them. Anybody else feel that way? And why the hell do these riders intentionally make their bikes so loud?
> Politics -- "Hope" and "Change" are routinely sold to the public who fall for it. Every. Time. Better economy, huge job gains, good stock market performance. Scaled down the wars. No new ones. Not batshit crazy. I suspect all this and more is not enough. It is tough to please griefers.
I live in Portland, OR. Yes we have a high concentration of techies with spare cash. We even made our state change some laws to accommodate Google Fiber. That law made us lose millions in recurring tax revenue from the likes of Comcast. That was more than a year ago. We still do not have Google Fiber. And now this? You have to be freaking kidding me!
I already have two good routers at home. One at each corner of my house. Both purchased for less than $100 each. If the speed and range promises are even half of what is bring promised, I do not see a problem with people spending a couple of hundred bucks to pick up a dual router solution. Someone like me would not think twice about it. But yeah, businesses would be ALL OVER IT.
I own all of the major Raspberry Pi hardware versions that have been released. I love them all. I only have one wish. Faster I/O. Will the next hardware release address this? USB 3.0, 1Gbps NIC, faster SD card interface. Any one of these upgrades would be great. All of them? Would be awesome! :)
I have used many of the popular video conf/chat solutions. To talk with family and coworkers for meetings. I have for now standardized on Google Hangouts. It mostly works, and works on many devices and platforms. I have also on occasion used Facetime. I do not have an iphone or ipad, but have a Macbook. It surprises me that Google is pitching this product as a Facetime replacement. I can use Facetime on my computer. The same is not true of Google Duo. For now, Google Duo is entirely useless to people who need a solution that also works on computers.
I have several of their $16 headsets. As far as I am concerned, they are absolutely the best headsets you can buy under $100. And I have tried too many. A $23 fitness tracking band / watch? I'll have to give it a shot when it come here.
"Overtly or covertly where is the data collected being sent?" I know right? It is a problem unique to this device. Everything else is OK. If you want to be safe, a tinfoil hat is best to keep the mind control waves at bay.
Agreed. The intelligent people have left Slashdot. The remaining are mostly griefers. I swore off Slashdot a couple of weeks ago, but accidentally visited today. An old habit that will take some time to kill I guess. Comments on this story and all others on this site are a strong reminder of what the remaining crowd here is. Whiny crybabies and paranoid schizophrenics.
Slashdot, as of late, appears to discuss less technology and more of this drivel. There are too many stories about jobs being outsourced. And the usual "freedom loving" crowd is begging politicians and anybody who will listen to force companies, one way or another, to not outsource. It did not work for manufacturing jobs, but somehow it might just work for their service sector jobs
You people need to adjust your expectations. You don't need a new plan B. You need a better plan A. If you think your job is in danger of being outsourced, do not expect someone else to come in and save it.
And for crying out loud, stop with the freaking doom and gloom. You guys sound like a bunch of griefers. Every story is filled with people whining about something or trying to recycle really old jokes about Soviet Russia or some shit like that.
I have been hitting Slashdot out of habit over the years. But man, this shit is getting old.
> A technical problem with solar power is that peak output is at noon but peak load is near sunset. Temperatures typically reach a maximum at about 4:00. People tend to go home to cook supper at about 5:00. Along with a few other factors that add to the electric load the viability of solar power peaks at about 30% of total production. Anything more and additional solar power can negatively affect the grid.
You present a few moronic arguments, like the one above. If the grid sees too much capacity being fed by solar at noon, in a predictable way, then it can plan ahead and reduce output at that time and save the fossil fuels for when they are really needed.
The rest of your arguments contain similar logical flaws.
I know it takes time from discovery to production. If this discovery is actually as good as it sounds, I hope Elon puts this in the batteries for Model 3. I placed an order for two of them and not expecting them until 2018. I wouldn't mind waiting a little longer if it meant that it came with improvements like this one.
12,000 jobs is a lot. I know we want to blame somebody. Anybody. Who is responsible? Liberals? Conservatives? Trump? Sanders? Obama? At the end of the day, people are not buying as many PCs as they used to. What now? Who can we blame for that? Steve Jobs? He's dead. We gotta find somebody to blame, damn it. There may be some blame deserved by Intel leadership for not seeing this coming, many years ago and doing something constructive about it. It is a good thing this did not happen during the recession years. Or these people would have a harder time finding jobs. As it is, the economy and the job market is doing reasonably well. So there is hope that these Intel engineers will be able to find new places of employment soon.
Tesla showed the car and public took rides in it. That is hardly vapor. Production is at least 18 months away. Everybody understood that. Tesla has a reputation of producing quality cars. More so than many other car manufacturers. It appears that a lot of people believe that this will be case for some time to come.
As an AT&T customer let me say this, I totally and completely hate the utter garbage that is AT&T bloatware and that they shove down their customers' throats. And to make the offense even more egregious, they make it very difficult to remove the said junk. I buy Nexus devices now so that I do have to deal with this shit. What a clueless company. Please don't tell me to go to Verizon, they do the same thing. And so does Sprint. T-mobile might not, but they don't have the coverage I need.
California: Public entities are generally allowed to provide communications services, but "Community Service Districts" may not if any private entity is willing to do so. Texas: The state "prohibits municipalities and municipal electric utilities from offering telecommunications services to the public either directly or indirectly through a private telecommunications provider."
See the difference?
Long time ago, I received two job offers at about the same time. One from Texas and one from Oregon. Not knowing enough about Texas, I seriously considered moving there. I think I dodged a bullet there.
Why is that every time you hear these oppressive state laws being made, it is usually safe to assume that it is happening in a Red State? How is it that the Republicans, the champions of liberty and freedom that they are, allowing this to go on?
I live in Oregon. You can buy as many Teslas here as you can afford. And we have a few community broadband networks too. Sandynet is one example that offers 1Gbps service to local residents. And there is no law preventing more from being setup.
I have been using Borg backup for a few months. I absolutely love it. Before borg, I had a nightmare backup scheme. I have a lot of data. And I cannot backup all of it every week. It would require too much storage. I got a little taste of deduplicated backup with the backup tool Microsoft includes in Windows Server 2012. I was immediately hooked. But it has severe limitations. I wanted a very flexible backup program that did deduplication well. In my opinion, there is nothing else that even comes close. Borg is exceptionally well thought out and built.
When I read the headline, I guessed that it had to be a GOP guy pushing this forward. And sure enough it was.
Not to excuse the Dems, they bring about turkeys of their own. But it is getting easier to tell which bad legislation comes from which camp.
Always assume wifi is untrustworthy and you'll be fine. You don't need to pay companies like Avast to cover your behind. Most websites these days with sensitive information use https/SSL. Slashdot does not. But I care little about my Slashdot account.
If you're worried about how fast you'll hit the cap, then perhaps you should switch to a carrier and a plan that offers super slow speeds. Something like 56kbps. The old modem speed. Your cap will last way way longer. And I am guessing that will make you happier.
If you're worried about how fast you'll hit the cap, then perhaps you should switch to a carrier and a plan that offers super slow speeds. Something like 56kbps. The old modem speed. Your cap will last way way longer. I am guessing that will make you happier.
In the US many families have more than one car. Laws like this might encourage Delhi residents to try and get another car to work around this restriction.
The city should have also exempted electric cars. people may not own them in significant numbers, but it would certainly encourage them to.
This, a 100 times. It is easy to criticize from your armchair. Much harder to provide a complete example of an alternative that incorporates all the changes you are asking for, on a mobile platform. I am not an iphone user and prefer Android devices. One of the issues for me is that Apple mobile interface uses too much precious screen space for "discoverability". The author is asking for more of them. And people like me are asking for less. Many users come to accept the fact that on a mobile platform, screen space is limited. Predictable and consistent gestures that bring up menus of possible actions are better in that environment than showing all possible actions on the screen improving "discoverability".