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>>preaching to the converted

Casting zealotry stones in a glass house, are we?

This only happened with apple iconography:

digitaltrends.com/apple/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

cnet.com/news/scientists-apple-makes-your-brain-go-all-religious/
https://www.cnet.com/news/scie...

disinfo.com/2011/06/apple-products-trigger-the-same-parts-of-the-brain-as-religion
https://www.disinfo.com/2011/0...

geek.com/apple/apple-fanaticism-similar-to-religious-devotion-according-to-scientists-1381035/
https://www.geek.com/apple/app...

cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/g...

WHATEVA, ANDROYD CULTZ has always been a shitty deflection, sorry. They're not the ones circlejerking.

There's an X Files episode made like a black mirror episode which features a robot restaurant: https://www.geek.com/televisio...

They should probably team up with someone like these guys. We get our meat and beer back and the planet stops warming up so fast.

Everyone wins.

Intel was trying to push this when it was clear they weren't making headway in the GPU space and also to push a heavier reliance on CPUs over GPUs (or at least in conjunction with) but it never seemed to gain any traction and was just relegated to tech demos.

https://www.geek.com/games/int...

https://www.hpcwire.com/2010/0...

I guess we'll see how Nvidia does.

In this context, the SHA-1 hash only has one iteration.
In 2010, it only cost $2.10 to crack a 6 char password in an EC2 instance.
https://www.geek.com/news/rese...
Since then hardware has become much faster. Today's GPU's can do several billion hashes per second.
There have also been more advances made in brute forcing SHA-1
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

He won't. Nobel prizes are never awarded posthumously.

besides, he already has this: https://www.geek.com/geek-cete...

Chances are he will be better remembered than most Nobel Prize winners.

You may have also got them easily replaced due to class action settlements and known production batch defects. They shipped me an ipod nano years after the one I got for an ADSL promotion fell 2ft or less onto tile and cracked the screen on day fucking one of having it. They refused to replace it since it was 3 weeks outside a known defect window and was deemed to be dropped and not covered. https://www.geek.com/apple/ipo... https://arstechnica.com/uncate... Nothing I have ever owned before or after this cracked so easily and I was pissed. It was clearly one of the defects. So they didn't replace the $350 defective lcd at the time, but like 5 years later I get a replacement as a result of a class action settlement because the batteries were defective. https://gizmodo.com/5858916/ap... Fuck Apple. Deny all problems until customers band together and push back against Apple denying clear production failures. In the 2000's, I had to get my aunts iMac repaired due to the defective capacitors. They were leaking like crazy. Apple wanted $1100 to replace the motherboard. I ranted about how my cousin has bought Apple shit since the 80's and Apple care when it was available and it was like 2 months out of Applecare coverage. Eventually, after 45 minutes of pleading, they did the one time exception since they bought Apple care a number of times. I believe if there was proper disclosure, my cousin could have checked the caps during warranty period to get it replaced before all the caps were completely fucked and total NFG.

I made a sandwich from scratch, it took 6 months and $1500. https://www.geek.com/news/maki...
This system is beyond fucked, it is simple ordinary Mafia extortion. This shows you the evil of Big Sandwich forcing me to eat their food by making it prohibitive to make my own damn sandwich from scratch.

So if your name is "anthem", $44.00; if your name is "nobody", $1047.00.

That is a good demonstration of economy of scales to me. How many healthy people that are apart of anthem that are subsidizing the $44? How many people is Mr. Nobody subsidizing?

That's not the trouble with my argument, it's a trouble with you: all you did was skim through, found the first line you half-understood, and made an argument against that half-understanding

Hey, you tried. But you knew going in that economics is "nuanced and complex". Being turned-on to even basic economics is like taking the red pill and getting tuned-in to shit most people just never see. It's bizarre how many people rant how returning to the "gold standard" will save us all from the evil zionist/masonic/space-alien plot to take over the world (that's right, the world). That's because, they don't get it - they're tuned-out and easily suckered.

But I admire you for trying. If one reader get turned on enough to read this (for example), then you've won a small victory for mankind.

Guess you forgot about all the fun open sores things like heartbleed eh? Or things like this? https://www.geek.com/news/majo...

You are talking about reactors from the 1950s. How about we avoid all the mess and build something newer. Something from the 1970s. A technology abandoned for 40 years because it was worthless for making weapons. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, or LFTR (pronounced "lifter").

https://www.geek.com/science/f...

If you are going to talk about future advancements in lighting and windmills from billions in research then lets put some of that into nuclear power. You might be amazed at what it can do if only people let it happen.

These thorium people don't want money, just permission. So it costs the government nothing but shutting up about how things can't be done and watch them get things done. The article is about the Dutch doing this but if you look then you will see China and India doing this too. Japan might be involved as well, once they clean up the mess from their failed molten sodium experiment.

Nobody bought SGI systems to run crude 3D accelerated games.

Someone forgot to tell the folks at ID Software.

http://itrunsdoom.tumblr.com/post/99687965744/sgi-workstations-yeah-they-run-doom-during-the

Doom isn't 3D accelerated and - as pointed out quite explicitly in the link you posted - they did it "for funsies" because Nobody* bought SGI systems to run crude 3D accelerated games.

ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/quake/intro.html

Quake indeed is 3D accelerated but this was again done for fun and not a commercial product because of the quote above.

https://www.geek.com/games/joh...

Not even sure why you think this is at all relevant, perhaps you didn't read it but yes John Carmack once used an SGI monitor.

Nobody bought SGI systems to run crude 3D accelerated games.

Someone forgot to tell the folks at ID Software.

http://itrunsdoom.tumblr.com/post/99687965744/sgi-workstations-yeah-they-run-doom-during-the
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/quake/intro.html
https://www.geek.com/games/joh...

Yeah.

That'll work as well as the EU's "you must use micro-USB charging leads" for all phones.

Like the iPhones. Since, supposedly, the iPhone 5. By law.

http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

Didn't happen, even if that's what they said was going to happen.

First born? No. Souls? Sureeeee

http://www.geek.com/games/game...

Risk averse CEOs who don't want to sink in the R&D to make carbon based chips because there is risk of it not working.

A synthetic diamond transistor was first built and tested over 13 years ago at 81GHz: http://www.geek.com/blurb/81gh...

More recently they developed a 300GHz Graphene transistor, but that was still 7 years ago: https://www.bit-tech.net/news/...

The technology is there and proven, but scaling it up to processor scale would be a massive investment and a big risk.

Did you see this http://www.geek.com/tech/ps4-p...

You will fail if only because there is always some other Chinese company ready to give people what they want.

Will they fail?

Apple dropped the headphone jack.
Samsung dropped the headphone jack.
HTC drops headphone jack.
Moto Z and Moto Z Force lack jacks.
Google Pixel, however, has the jack.
LG V20 has the jack too.

How did so many of these corps arrive at the same decision at the same time? Possibilities:
#1. Each corp sees the same need for this.
#2. Each corp is watching the others and copying their moves.
#3. Collusion.

#1 is unlikely. Dropping the headphone jack adds user expense and eats battery life for a trivial space savings.

#2 is unlikely because more corps would have broken ranks to keep the headphone jack and scoop up the segment of the market that wants one.

So, how did so many of these corps. manage to do the same thing at the same time?

Tesco has a superior deployment and delivery mechanism allowing direct use of QR-codes from ads posted in subway stations mimicking grocery aisles. Check here and here. Amazon is behind the times worse than Slashdot running copied stories from ArsTechnica.

The developers weren't just intentionally vague, they outright lied, straight yes-or-no answers to straight yes-or-no questions about what was in the game, just days before the release. Then even after release they continued to lie about it. When two players went to the same place at the same time to see each other (something the developers had continually insisted was possible), the developers pretended it was a bug - even though they knew damn well that it was physically impossible. The game has no real-time net traffic needed to support multiplayer and there is no serious player model included in the game files (there's a couple comical temporary development models in there, along with a monkey in a hat, the Fallout logo, and a bunch of other amusing stuff, mind you).

The reason that so many people played for so long before seeking refunds was because the developers kept insisting that things were in the game that most definitely weren't. And they put in this huge "grind" to try to slow everyone down, to drag out how long it would take for them to find this out. When a player playing nonstop for 20 hours managed to reach the center of the galaxy (the goal) on the same day as release, going through the relentless over-and-over clicking to do so, the developer's "solution" to the "problem" was to cut the distance you travel per warp by a third, tripling the clicky busywork. And they introduced a bug at the exact same time they did so.

And BTW, after being told that everything's at the center of the galaxy - that the creatures get weirder, there's more going on there, that there's a big exciting ending there, you know what's actually there? Absolutely nothing. You go to the center and the game actually punishes you. There's no ending, just an animation of you flying out of the center and it crash lands you in the next galaxy, which is no different from the current one.

So you're saying that there's no truth to this story? Where's you're evidence? You have none? Then why should I believe your negative spin?

Always a clever tactic to demand an explanation and then triumphantly declare that the other person has none before any time has passed for replies to be made. Here, let me help you with that "missing" evidence. Have you missed the news for the past eight years? The F-35 program has been dogged at every step by cost overruns, test failures, design-by-committee creeping features, etc.

• * F-35 Fighter can't turn, can't climb, can't run
• * Trillion-dollar F-35 joint strike fighter can't even do dogfights
• * F-35 Program: a danger to US Defense
• * My favorite:How the F-35 could provide 23 years of free college for everyone

I could go on all day, but you get the idea. Just google "F-35" + "waste" + "failure".

Windows doesn't count, for a number of reasons.

Original post doesn't specify an operating system, and you can run Linux on Surface tablets. There's an entire subreddit devoted to the practice.

So YOU'RE specifically referring to high end Android tablets? Samsung tried higher end business tablets and it was a disaster. The Android tablet ecosystem is horrible. The only chick and egg problem is that no one will buy an Android tablet because of the horrible state of Android tablet apps, and no one will build Android tablet apps because, well, Android tablets are cheap garbage.

There have been no backdoors, albeit a lot of stupid security decisions that put Lenovo users at risk from people.

Right...

Lenovo is one of the world's largest PC brands, but it is also a Chinese PC brand. With the US and other Western countries increasingly looking at China's cyber warfare division as the next great threat, that was bound to create some issues. However, recent news revealing that spy agencies in the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have prohibitions against using the company's products seem to be based on more than general suspicion.

Apparently, the ban stems from concerns that Lenovo, which is partially owned by the Chinese government's Academy of Sciences, has built "malicious circuits" into their machines. Testing allegedly proved the existence of backdoor functionality built into Lenovo-brand circuit boards, along with other vulnerabilities built into the firmware.

http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agencies-shun-lenovo-finding-backdoors-built-into-the-hardware-1563801/

Hey, look on the bright side... it's still cheaper than what the TSA paid for their direction randomization app.

The company's jet pack normally has a range of about one-quarter of a mile (and reaches heights of 100 feet) with a flying time of 32 seconds

It may not be ready for regular transportation use, but military may finally have, what they wanted for decades. And not just to run faster, but to be able to get over a river or a mine-field or some fortified perimeter quickly.

One word: preinstall. If people would be able to buy a device that has another OS installed, they would be buying it

Rrright....
And after buying it, they would complain about it:
http://www.geek.com/news/dell-...

Skype was already switching away from P2P when they were acquired. This was fairly widely reported. Their P2P algorithm sucked, and was responsible for at least a couple global service outages. It just didn't scale as well as dedicated hardware.

Many EULAs are so poorly written I question how enforceable they are.

Ever since this happened, I always take the time to read them to see if they try to slip in any kind of weird, horrifying or funny shit.

http://www.geek.com/games/game...

Have not found anything noteworthy yet though besides the usual "Fuck consumer rights, sign here to hand them over".

The Itunes user agreement was kind of amusing. Something along the lines of "By using this software, you agree not to use it for developing biological or nuclear weapons".

Except that this GHz race is completely bogus. It doesn't make sense to compare AMD chips to Intel based on clock speed alone since each chip is able to do different amounts of work per clock. Here's an old article about it, though I'd wager it's still at least partially true.

AMD vs AMD, Intel vs Intel. Unless they can demonstrate some amount of work being done, clock speed is meaningless.

Such "smart guns" exist. Got $22,000?

Hrmm... why is AMD's PR department* suddenly making a giant stink about Sysmark? They aren't due to launch any new chips until the end of the year at a bare minimum... right?

Well, maybe it's because a certain company (AMD) has run some internal benchmarks with a certain chip (Zen) and they aren't necessarily coming out with miraculous results.

So what do you do? Attack the benchmark of course!

Gee, I wonder why AMD waited so long to attack that evil evil Sysmark? Maybe it's because back when the Opterons were actually much stronger than Pentium-4 Xeons, AMD actually won Sysmark benchmarks and openly bragged about it.

Here's a 13-year old example of AMD bragging about SPEC, which AMD has also attacked as being an evil conspiracy (when they don't win that is): http://www.geek.com/chips/amd-...

* Wait to call him until after Tuesday since he has to mop the hallways on Tuesdays.

like this?

> they might _if they spent a lot of money / resources_ f

It's not that much money. This article was from 2010, with the resources available then.

                http://www.geek.com/news/resea...

It has nothing to do with Android, it was the EU that did that:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...

And thus Apple will need to do the same by 2017 ?:

http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

You're a liar, and likely a shill.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/...

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/...

Windows 10 DOES have a keylogger.

I'm curious to see the data set that you're pulling from.

Citations: Geek.com (2011); Softpedia (2012); Humble Bundle (October 2014)

Generally it's a small percentage of Linux users who actually pay for software, most prefer to use Open Source/free software.

The business case for developing free software for productivity has not historically extended to video games.

The apple pencil, innovating as usual. -> http://imgur.com/vvQeJN7

"slide to unlock" innovation-> http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

You know the list goes on...I wonder if apple truly invented anything at all...why most people buy into this garbage is really just a matter of observing chimps. One has a stick and a can and bangs the stick on the can, makes noise so everyone else wants it. they have no idea what to do with it but if you're a young woman with a slightly posh inclination chances are you have an iPhone. what do you use this magical device for? facebook.

Keep buying iThings and pay iPrices for devices made by exploited masses in China that cost a fraction of what you pay; get vendor lock-in, format-lock in sorry I mean "be part of the experience". Suckers.

Apple inventing and innovating, please...oh wait, didn't they invent rounded edges?

When I say it copies the bad things from the USA, I mean the general tendency to punish very harshly in what may seem to be complete disregard for the human nature of the punished person, very often for non-violent offenses, or other antisocial behaviour that is more easily tolerated in other developed nations.

Nonetheless, I stand corrected, and copyright infringement, although not punished with prison, still commands very large fees, and the media industry has been known to prosecute even 12-year-old girl. I still find it stupefying that they insisted on a settlement instead of dropping the case immediately after they found out who was responsible for the “offense”.

Both AMD and nVidia have been doing this for years with their Windows drivers. Why? Because apps like 3DMark and games like CS, Quake are used to benchmark video cards by reviewers.

"An add-on power pack, fitted with AA batteries, will be needed to use it as a standalone product."

"Each BBC Micro Bit will now use a discrete battery pack, which can be removed from the device."

I guess the /. editors can't even be fucking bothered to do any fact-checking, now days. Pretty much Soulskill, Timothy, and everyone else posting stories (advertisements) without exercising any proper journalism skills, you're all guilty of this shit.

NOWHERE in the article is USB-powered mentioned.

Oh, this computer is also touted as some latest-and-greatest thing...

"The Micro Bit is 18 times faster than its predecessor at running code"

18 times faster than the BBC Micro - which was fucking 2MHz. So... this is equivalent, maybe, to an overclocked 286/low-end 386?

My god, even CHIP is more entertaining than this.

Yes and Canonical worked on it too.

a lot of outfits, including governments, run platforms as long as they can. see http://www.geek.com/news/commo...

Maybe that could account for a few cases, but there were other issues at least some researchers didn't think would be solved so quickly either. In the link I provided (unfortunately, the original article isn't found, just the summary), a researcher in 2002 was claiming that CMOS would end up at 45 nm and halt there because of the issues with thermal noise. I also remember these types of predictions being made by researches at Intel as well.

Look, I'll I'm saying is that *every* time so far the prediction was made, it's turned out that manufacturers figured out how to push the envelop a little further. Eventually, it's got to end at some point, but so far the scientists and researchers manage to surprise us each time. It's hard to predict when or how the next breakthrough will occur, because by nature, it's something that no one has though of yet.

I think that power companies should offer more incentives for people to have these in order to smooth out the electricity demand.

Why?

Why is not the optimal consumer incentive which the electric company could offer the price difference between peak and non-peak rates? By "optimal" I mean socially efficient, not the biggest or whatever you happen to want the most.

Here's why you'd want it in the UK. Apparently it's the only country in the world where consumers regularly cause 3 Gigawatt spikes:
http://www.geek.com/news/tea-t...

These folk are not going going to notice/care if you charge them double during the spike - because it's peanuts, a small fraction of a KWh. If you try and charge them 100X then they'll rebel and have you investigated for price gouging. So, no, pricing alone won't smooth out these demand spikes.

If each house had a battery and a smart grid could tell each house when to use that battery, then it could smooth out those spikes very nicely.

Good points. Furthermore, the power companies are already making predictions about usage. See TV Pickup or tea time in britain. Local weather is actually relatively easy to predict.

But CBS ordered it removed from the app store:

http://www.geek.com/mobile/cbs...

And the ocean has continued to warm over the past 20 years.

No, it hasn't.

NASA is a big proponent of AGW, and even they admit the oceans are not warming to the extent required to explain the pause.

Is nested VMs is a workable fallback for this problem? (If it is, its definitely a slow one)

If legacy VM images really becomes an issue VMs will have to add support for legacy images. The problem then is transferred to being diligent about holding on to legacy code & tools to keep that legacy support possible.

http://www.geek.com/games/prin...

While we're in a thread called "Pedantic, but..." I feel safe with posting that OS X actually _is_ a UNIX, with SUS03 compliance. They did that after being sued by The Open Group for claiming to OS X be a UNIX when they weren't in compliance.