The reference to 4G limits has exactly what to do with this story?
I suppose about as much as a Space Shuttle has to do with a person standing next to it. I took it as a scale-comparison, but I understand your point about the story creating a potentially false impression that this is an evolution of 4G.
transfer data at the speed of 32 gigabits per second, which is 30 times faster than 4G LTE wireless technology in use today.
Exactly which carrier offers gigabit 4G LTE?
Some 4G implementations have a theoretical upper limit of 1 Gb/s for low-mobility agents.
The fact that to deliver the same development and certification process costs $1.6 billion less for SpaceX over Boeing is also interesting.
We won't really know this is true until it happens. I have high hopes for SpaceX - specifically I hope they can do much more with less. Either way though, this is a big win for everyone!
Unfortunately that cash can't magically feed and hydrate all the starving children in Africa or wherever your tears fall for.
If it could, you'd have a point. Unfortunately (for your point) it can't.
If Kip Thorne can win a year's worth of Playboys for his bet that Cygnus X1 was a Black Hole, when current theory from Professor Hawking says Black Holes don't really exist, then can Professor Thorne please give me a year's subscription to the porno of my choice due to the non-existent bet that this wasn't such a star?
Yea, all sorts of amazing things that Android phones have had since 2011?
You realize the distillation of that answer is the same? Licensing and greed.
Licensing is the direct cause, but greed is the reason there were exclusivity agreements to begin with.
What? Never heard of centerfire primers doing that. They have to be crushed or heated?
This is only partially true. You have to remember that Apple products used to suck. People did not want them.
In my modest experience with older Apple products, I have found that they were about the same as others in quality. They didn't "suck" any more or less than their competitors.
a throwback to the days when Detroit tried to undercut its franchise dealers by opening company-owned shops.
This seems to indicate that the same laws were good then & not good now. How?
Back then, Detroit was trying to pressure their own retailers to sell their cars at a lower markup. The law was Good (TM) for the retailers because it protected them from their suppliers. There were plenty of retailers to drive prices down through competition; they didn't need the suppliers to compete in the retail market.
Now, Tesla doesn't distribute to independent retailers, and they want to keep it that way, because they're not keen on having their products in the same showrooms as retailers showing other products. As far as they're concerned, Tesla is revolutionary, and would look queer and out-of-place amongst other vehicles with internal combustion engines.
Tesla doesn't trust retailers to present their product fairly in this context. And I can see their point: if their only contact with the consumer is the conventional auto retailer, you can bet all the other car manufacturers would freak out at having to share the showroom with Tesla, and would put pressure on the retailers to sing their own song.
In short, Tesla doesn't think the market will be fair to them unless they sell their product through their own stores. And since the retailers aren't selling their product, they're not competing with them, and so the law is an anachronism in this context.
I think part of that is also from a "morality hurdle" mentality. Many religious people don't want the alcohol market to be efficient in order to squelch consumption. It may not merely be old-fashioned protectionism of mom-and-pop stores.
I can imagine that explanation being plausible in a Jesus-belt state, but not Massachusetts.
I'm not sure why this is really an argument to be getting into. I'm going to throw the blame on Apple for this one for not using a dedicated swap partition.
It's hard to use up too much space for swap to work, when the space set aside for swap is literally impossible to use for other purposes.
The point is that you're dangerously toeing the line. Running out of disk space doesn't cause very graceful failures. Even a 5% "buffer" of free space is enough. I realize these are client machines and not servers, but still. You don't need pagerduty or whatever waking your ass up to deal with it, but you should be dealing with it instead of believing it to be a non-problem.
Memory transistors are about a thousand times larger than CPU transistors. Do try to keep up.
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