Absurd comments like this highlight why Red Hat and all major distros no longer care about enthusiasts. They do something ridiculous (adopt systemd, break 40 years of Unix conventions, creating a tightly coupled architecture) and your first instinct is to start whining about Microsoft.
You should like Samsung's unlocked phones then. TouchWiz was redesigned in 2017 and is now called Samsung Experience, and is by far the best custom Android skin. Having used Samsung Experience 8.5 and 9.0 on my Note8 since last September, I'm shocked how fast and lean it still is.
"But why would you sully the greatness that is Android with a custom sk-"
Google now change Android's UX conventions every year, culminating in the mess that is Android P, whose phones will feature no less than 5 generations of icon, menu and app design. Samsung are at least consistent, and provide tons of features not found in stock Android (e.g. a healthy themes store full of free content, customisable Always on Display, secure folders, Kid Mode, edge lighting, a far superior Bluetooth stack, dual messenger app accounts, etc. etc.).
They also courageously equip their phones with features not found on Pixels/iPhones, such as a 3.5mm jack and an SD card slot.
Watched the video expecting it to be a 12-year-old, but no, it's a grown woman. How on earth could she not have known that she'd get into trouble for posting this before release? Did she think she was entitled to a world exclusive hands-on preview of the device because her dad is an Apple engineer?
Simply put, it's the father's fault for letting his daughter handle an employee device. Letting family use a top-secret company prototype is reasons enough for dismissal, but the family member then posting videos to YouTube of this *unreleased* product really takes the biscuit.
Apple have done some terrible things (e.g. getting the police to raid Gizmodo after they legally acquired a pre-release iPhone) but I see no issue with this firing. The fact that the daughter posted a follow-up video really says it all. Let me guess, she wants to be a social media star?
In real workloads, the 16-core Threadripper (16 cores, 3.4GHz) @ $1000 destroys the 10-core i9 (also $1000)
The problem for Intel is it also destroys the the 12-core i9 ($1200) and 14-core i9 ($1400). In all likelihood it's going to match the 16-core i9 ($1700) and lose overall (by a small margin) to the 18-core i9, which is $2000.
The fact that PCWorld haven't explictly mentioned price, or even implicitly mentioned TR's 64 PCIe lanes and the other benefits (a stable socket, cheaper boards, lower power draw than the i9s by a huge distance, etc.) is just testamanet to how much the mainstream tech press shill for Intel.
There is essentially no reason to buy the i9s. If you want the best workstation performance, you buy Threadripper. If you want the best gaming performance, you buy the i7-7700K. The i9s are an absurdity, and a panicked reaction to AMD's massive performance gains.
People forget that Intel had only planned to release a 10-core i7 based on Skylake-EP. Once they got wind of Threadripper they bolted on a 12-core, then a 14-core, then a 16-core, and finally (when TR was shown to have incredible workstation performance) the $2000 waste of space that is the 18-core 2.6GHz i9-7980XE with only 44 PCIe lanes.
Meanwhile, for half that cost AMD give you 16 cores @ 3.4GHz, 64 PCIe lanes, cheaper motherboards, and most importantly amazing workstation performance. It's not even a contest.
"It's also important to note that while Threadripper consumes 180 watts, even the fastest Core i9 chips Intel has announced have a lower TDP of 165 watts."
The actual power draw of even the 10-core i9 is >200W. Intel are deceiving us yet again.
No. Federal offenses may be capital offenses, e.g. treason or terrorism. If it's being prosecuted by the federal government because the crime is federal, the punishment is obviously going to be federal - e.g. the death penalty for a race-driven multiple murder.
It's 50% anti-consumer BS and 50% incompetence. The 3DS and its spawn were exploited many times via save game glitches and it seems this is what Nintendo's afraid of.
Couple this with Nintendo's terrible understanding of hardware outside of the base console and what you get is local-only save games, no way of backing them up to SD cards, and no cloud sync support.
Ironically it'll be the EU who kick up a fuss about Facebook trying to harvest addresses, if they ever roll out election reminders in Europe. As you said, there's no reason why you couldn't simply enter a ZIP code which FB uses to determine which voting district you're in, with the possibility of manual override if you think you're wrong.
It's not like they need your address anyway. They can already geolocate people on Android/iOS clients via GPS, and even without GPS they can fix your location to within a few miles using your IP address. The home address is useless to FB itself (what are they going to do, send you spam in the mail?) but I'm sure it'd be of interest to FB's advertising partners...
We should be grateful that you're at least honest in your desire to disenfranchise Democratic voters - Republican politicians aren't as candid, instead opting to blame non-existent polling day voter fraud or "lack of demand" in Democratic districts.
I see from your other post you think reminding people to vote is "socialism" - I hope you don't make use of publicly funded roads, bridges, hospitals, schools or the internet, all of which are cornerstones of socialism.
The stupidity of the alt-right never ceases to amaze. They post rants railing against socialism on the *internet*...which was designed and built by government, paid for by tax dollars. They also worship the military, but can't seem to comprehend that a publicly funded military where everybody gets "coverage" is socialist.
Is it any wonder these people are shooting up pizza parlours?
Let's be honest - the argument against this is, "It's unfair, because telling people there's an election coming up will help the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party."
In an age when Republicans are hell-bent on making it difficult for Democratic voters to actually cast a ballot, by...
* Cutting voting hours on election day * Cutting early voting * Shutting down poll booths in heavily Democrat areas e.g. Indian reservations * Requiring voter ID in Democrat-leaning districts but not Republican-leaning districts * Falsely telling ethnic minorities they need a photo ID to vote when there is no such requirement in the state...Facebook reminding people about local/city/state/national elections is a public service.
Putting aside your rhetorical sarcasm, we have a huge number of ISPs (several dozen) who provide ADSL...but the majority of customers are on 12/18 month contracts and *can't* switch if they're merely dissatisfied with the service on offer.
If I pay for a service and it's unavailable to me for 3 days in a month, I'd expect to be automatically refunded for those 3 days. That's precisely what the new laws will guarantee.
This is the state ensuring capitalism works correctly. What this effectively means is a loss of service is breach of contract, and the legislation introduces a statutory compensation clause which can result in a refund of up to £30. Most people pay anywhere from nothing (12-month £0/mo offers) to £45 (Virgin's 200Mbps) so it'll cover the vast majority of outages.
I'm assuming you mean desktop Linux, because Microsoft Office is available for Android and is free on that platform. Android has what, 99.9% of the Linux market?
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are all freely available on Google Play and do not require Office 365 subscriptions - they're fully featured regardless.
"Neither is worth thousands of dollars, but one will charge you that."
Photoshop is worth its cost if you're a professional. The majority of people who use/pirate Photoshop aren't professionals and would be happy with Paint.NET, let alone GIMP.
If you think a Jewish socialist liberal would've won the Presidency against Trump, you're as stupid as Bernie supporters who voted for Trump out of spite. Obama and Hillary are centrist/centre-right by European standards and still got massacred for being "socialist communist atheist Marxist liberals".
Bernie on the other hand is a traditional centre-left European politician, and would've been annihilated by the GOP and hostile news media for his openly "socialist" (aka social democratic) views. Sanders faced zero scrutiny during the primary campaign because absolutely everybody thought Hillary would win the nomination and the Presidency.
There was a fuckton of opposition research waiting to be done on him and the only thing we can be sure of is he would've faced as much hostility as Hillary did. Possibly even more, because "Jewish socialist" lends itself very well to conspiracy theories about the NWO, Jewish takeovers, Deep State coups and all the other shit the average mentally damaged Trump voter believes.
Eh, your typical dev machine/laptop is going to feature at least a 250GB SSD - typically much larger. 7GB is a fair footprint when you consider all the different revisions of each language they have to support, with the accompanying libraries.
To put things into perspective, Visual Studio's install footprint is about the same as a typical Blu-ray MKV (7-15GB).
You're making the assumption that these are professional people. The kind of Slashdot user who posts things like "Micro$haft sucks, most evil company ever" never makes it beyond the helpdesk or entry-level dev jobs in most companies. Their opinion is literally worthless to the company; they don't rise to become decision makers or budget holders, let alone C-level. So, while they seethe in their cubicles, their boss' boss' boss' boss' boss' boss signs an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and announces Visual Studio 2017 will be deployed to devs within the company.
People with a functioning brain don't expect software to be open source any more than they expect open-source cars, food, clothes, etc. Hell, pretty much all chip designs are closed source, as is pretty much all BIOS code - what's the point of being smug about a FOSS software stack if your hardware is proprietary?
FOSS' primary advantage is it incentivises companies to not act like buttholes - if the company's going off the rails, some random guy can fork the project and it gains traction. If they don't patch a security flaw, some guy forks it. It doesn't guarantee better quality code or better project management...indeed, some of the most poorly managed software projects of the last 10 years (Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, systemd) have been FOSS.
Dead/stuck pixels on a modern consumer display aren't deal-breaking - you probably won't notice a stuck pixel in a 1920x1080 5" phone display.
The problem is Nintendo specified the Switch with a 6.2" 720p LCD - literally tech from 2012 - which should by all accounts have a mature manufacturing process by now.
As someone else said, it looks like Nintendo is buying up B-grade panels for the Switch. Imagine the uproar if Samsung or Apple shipped noticeable dead pixels as standard...
Torrentfreak have misunderstood the situation. "Trading Standards" are departments within each local council which investigate poor conduct in business related to things like consumer rights, safety and so forth. They're roughly equivalent to "Consumer Protection" departments within US city governments, and their opinion means absolutely nothing because copyright infringement is legislated for and ruled upon at the "federal" level i.e. Parliament and the various courts.
"My local council's Trading Standards body said it was probably legal" is not a defence because they do not have the power to legislate or to unilaterally declare something is legal.
All this means is that X Borough Council won't go around market stalls looking for Kodi boxes loaded with "piracy-enabling" streaming plugins. It doesn't make the boxes legal or illegal; it's just the council's civil servants deciding it's not worth the effort to look for and confiscate the Kodi boxes.
It'd be like if a single US city said, "We don't think console mod chips violate the DMCA."; all that'd mean is the city won't come after you for selling mod chips - not that selling mod chips is legal.
Raw compute is only part of the story. Consoles are a fixed platform with much closer access to the hardware for devs than traditional high-level APIs.
There was a 2-3 period when PS3 games looked better than most PC games, for example, despite being far less powerful than the average gaming PC on paper.
"Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?"
That's like a beggar wondering why the people walking past them would spend $20 on underwear, when the beggar knows you can achieve much the same results if you spend $2 on a towel and some safety pins.
Also, if you think $700 is "trust fund" money, you're not going to like the fact that most people have clothes collections worth $1000's, cars worth $10,000's and houses worth $100,000's.
Alt-righters crying about citizens exercising their free market rights? It's political correctness gone mad, but you're hardly the first alt-right snowflake who flips out when people refuse to give Drumpf and his merry band of white supremacists any money.
Thank god the free market allows us to avoid buying products sold by racists, neo-Nazis, fundie Christians/Islamists and any other deplorables, eh?
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Absurd comments like this highlight why Red Hat and all major distros no longer care about enthusiasts. They do something ridiculous (adopt systemd, break 40 years of Unix conventions, creating a tightly coupled architecture) and your first instinct is to start whining about Microsoft.
You should like Samsung's unlocked phones then. TouchWiz was redesigned in 2017 and is now called Samsung Experience, and is by far the best custom Android skin. Having used Samsung Experience 8.5 and 9.0 on my Note8 since last September, I'm shocked how fast and lean it still is.
"But why would you sully the greatness that is Android with a custom sk-"
Google now change Android's UX conventions every year, culminating in the mess that is Android P, whose phones will feature no less than 5 generations of icon, menu and app design. Samsung are at least consistent, and provide tons of features not found in stock Android (e.g. a healthy themes store full of free content, customisable Always on Display, secure folders, Kid Mode, edge lighting, a far superior Bluetooth stack, dual messenger app accounts, etc. etc.).
They also courageously equip their phones with features not found on Pixels/iPhones, such as a 3.5mm jack and an SD card slot.
Seems perfectly reasonable to only allow citizens of a country to buy political adverts in that country during an election cycle.
Can't wait to see how some people slam this new regulation as an attack on the free speech of Russians...
Watched the video expecting it to be a 12-year-old, but no, it's a grown woman. How on earth could she not have known that she'd get into trouble for posting this before release? Did she think she was entitled to a world exclusive hands-on preview of the device because her dad is an Apple engineer?
Simply put, it's the father's fault for letting his daughter handle an employee device. Letting family use a top-secret company prototype is reasons enough for dismissal, but the family member then posting videos to YouTube of this *unreleased* product really takes the biscuit.
Apple have done some terrible things (e.g. getting the police to raid Gizmodo after they legally acquired a pre-release iPhone) but I see no issue with this firing. The fact that the daughter posted a follow-up video really says it all. Let me guess, she wants to be a social media star?
In real workloads, the 16-core Threadripper (16 cores, 3.4GHz) @ $1000 destroys the 10-core i9 (also $1000)
The problem for Intel is it also destroys the the 12-core i9 ($1200) and 14-core i9 ($1400). In all likelihood it's going to match the 16-core i9 ($1700) and lose overall (by a small margin) to the 18-core i9, which is $2000.
The fact that PCWorld haven't explictly mentioned price, or even implicitly mentioned TR's 64 PCIe lanes and the other benefits (a stable socket, cheaper boards, lower power draw than the i9s by a huge distance, etc.) is just testamanet to how much the mainstream tech press shill for Intel.
There is essentially no reason to buy the i9s. If you want the best workstation performance, you buy Threadripper. If you want the best gaming performance, you buy the i7-7700K. The i9s are an absurdity, and a panicked reaction to AMD's massive performance gains.
People forget that Intel had only planned to release a 10-core i7 based on Skylake-EP. Once they got wind of Threadripper they bolted on a 12-core, then a 14-core, then a 16-core, and finally (when TR was shown to have incredible workstation performance) the $2000 waste of space that is the 18-core 2.6GHz i9-7980XE with only 44 PCIe lanes.
Meanwhile, for half that cost AMD give you 16 cores @ 3.4GHz, 64 PCIe lanes, cheaper motherboards, and most importantly amazing workstation performance. It's not even a contest.
"It's also important to note that while Threadripper consumes 180 watts, even the fastest Core i9 chips Intel has announced have a lower TDP of 165 watts."
The actual power draw of even the 10-core i9 is >200W. Intel are deceiving us yet again.
You forgot cloud platforms. Office 365 is #1 in cloud "productivity" and Azure is #2 in cloud hosting.
No. Federal offenses may be capital offenses, e.g. treason or terrorism. If it's being prosecuted by the federal government because the crime is federal, the punishment is obviously going to be federal - e.g. the death penalty for a race-driven multiple murder.
It's 50% anti-consumer BS and 50% incompetence. The 3DS and its spawn were exploited many times via save game glitches and it seems this is what Nintendo's afraid of.
Couple this with Nintendo's terrible understanding of hardware outside of the base console and what you get is local-only save games, no way of backing them up to SD cards, and no cloud sync support.
Ironically it'll be the EU who kick up a fuss about Facebook trying to harvest addresses, if they ever roll out election reminders in Europe. As you said, there's no reason why you couldn't simply enter a ZIP code which FB uses to determine which voting district you're in, with the possibility of manual override if you think you're wrong.
It's not like they need your address anyway. They can already geolocate people on Android/iOS clients via GPS, and even without GPS they can fix your location to within a few miles using your IP address. The home address is useless to FB itself (what are they going to do, send you spam in the mail?) but I'm sure it'd be of interest to FB's advertising partners...
We should be grateful that you're at least honest in your desire to disenfranchise Democratic voters - Republican politicians aren't as candid, instead opting to blame non-existent polling day voter fraud or "lack of demand" in Democratic districts.
I see from your other post you think reminding people to vote is "socialism" - I hope you don't make use of publicly funded roads, bridges, hospitals, schools or the internet, all of which are cornerstones of socialism.
The stupidity of the alt-right never ceases to amaze. They post rants railing against socialism on the *internet*...which was designed and built by government, paid for by tax dollars. They also worship the military, but can't seem to comprehend that a publicly funded military where everybody gets "coverage" is socialist.
Is it any wonder these people are shooting up pizza parlours?
Let's be honest - the argument against this is, "It's unfair, because telling people there's an election coming up will help the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party."
In an age when Republicans are hell-bent on making it difficult for Democratic voters to actually cast a ballot, by...
* Cutting voting hours on election day ...Facebook reminding people about local/city/state/national elections is a public service.
* Cutting early voting
* Shutting down poll booths in heavily Democrat areas e.g. Indian reservations
* Requiring voter ID in Democrat-leaning districts but not Republican-leaning districts
* Falsely telling ethnic minorities they need a photo ID to vote when there is no such requirement in the state
Putting aside your rhetorical sarcasm, we have a huge number of ISPs (several dozen) who provide ADSL...but the majority of customers are on 12/18 month contracts and *can't* switch if they're merely dissatisfied with the service on offer.
If I pay for a service and it's unavailable to me for 3 days in a month, I'd expect to be automatically refunded for those 3 days. That's precisely what the new laws will guarantee.
This is the state ensuring capitalism works correctly. What this effectively means is a loss of service is breach of contract, and the legislation introduces a statutory compensation clause which can result in a refund of up to £30. Most people pay anywhere from nothing (12-month £0/mo offers) to £45 (Virgin's 200Mbps) so it'll cover the vast majority of outages.
"no software at all for Linux."
I'm assuming you mean desktop Linux, because Microsoft Office is available for Android and is free on that platform. Android has what, 99.9% of the Linux market?
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are all freely available on Google Play and do not require Office 365 subscriptions - they're fully featured regardless.
"Neither is worth thousands of dollars, but one will charge you that."
Photoshop is worth its cost if you're a professional. The majority of people who use/pirate Photoshop aren't professionals and would be happy with Paint.NET, let alone GIMP.
If you think a Jewish socialist liberal would've won the Presidency against Trump, you're as stupid as Bernie supporters who voted for Trump out of spite. Obama and Hillary are centrist/centre-right by European standards and still got massacred for being "socialist communist atheist Marxist liberals".
Bernie on the other hand is a traditional centre-left European politician, and would've been annihilated by the GOP and hostile news media for his openly "socialist" (aka social democratic) views. Sanders faced zero scrutiny during the primary campaign because absolutely everybody thought Hillary would win the nomination and the Presidency.
There was a fuckton of opposition research waiting to be done on him and the only thing we can be sure of is he would've faced as much hostility as Hillary did. Possibly even more, because "Jewish socialist" lends itself very well to conspiracy theories about the NWO, Jewish takeovers, Deep State coups and all the other shit the average mentally damaged Trump voter believes.
Eh, your typical dev machine/laptop is going to feature at least a 250GB SSD - typically much larger. 7GB is a fair footprint when you consider all the different revisions of each language they have to support, with the accompanying libraries.
To put things into perspective, Visual Studio's install footprint is about the same as a typical Blu-ray MKV (7-15GB).
You're making the assumption that these are professional people. The kind of Slashdot user who posts things like "Micro$haft sucks, most evil company ever" never makes it beyond the helpdesk or entry-level dev jobs in most companies. Their opinion is literally worthless to the company; they don't rise to become decision makers or budget holders, let alone C-level. So, while they seethe in their cubicles, their boss' boss' boss' boss' boss' boss signs an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and announces Visual Studio 2017 will be deployed to devs within the company.
People with a functioning brain don't expect software to be open source any more than they expect open-source cars, food, clothes, etc. Hell, pretty much all chip designs are closed source, as is pretty much all BIOS code - what's the point of being smug about a FOSS software stack if your hardware is proprietary?
FOSS' primary advantage is it incentivises companies to not act like buttholes - if the company's going off the rails, some random guy can fork the project and it gains traction. If they don't patch a security flaw, some guy forks it. It doesn't guarantee better quality code or better project management...indeed, some of the most poorly managed software projects of the last 10 years (Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, systemd) have been FOSS.
Here we have another alt-right snowflake triggered by the fact brown people exist in this world and sometimes have kids with white women.
Dead/stuck pixels on a modern consumer display aren't deal-breaking - you probably won't notice a stuck pixel in a 1920x1080 5" phone display.
The problem is Nintendo specified the Switch with a 6.2" 720p LCD - literally tech from 2012 - which should by all accounts have a mature manufacturing process by now.
As someone else said, it looks like Nintendo is buying up B-grade panels for the Switch. Imagine the uproar if Samsung or Apple shipped noticeable dead pixels as standard...
Torrentfreak have misunderstood the situation. "Trading Standards" are departments within each local council which investigate poor conduct in business related to things like consumer rights, safety and so forth. They're roughly equivalent to "Consumer Protection" departments within US city governments, and their opinion means absolutely nothing because copyright infringement is legislated for and ruled upon at the "federal" level i.e. Parliament and the various courts.
"My local council's Trading Standards body said it was probably legal" is not a defence because they do not have the power to legislate or to unilaterally declare something is legal.
All this means is that X Borough Council won't go around market stalls looking for Kodi boxes loaded with "piracy-enabling" streaming plugins. It doesn't make the boxes legal or illegal; it's just the council's civil servants deciding it's not worth the effort to look for and confiscate the Kodi boxes.
It'd be like if a single US city said, "We don't think console mod chips violate the DMCA."; all that'd mean is the city won't come after you for selling mod chips - not that selling mod chips is legal.
r/The_Donald is leaking again.
Raw compute is only part of the story. Consoles are a fixed platform with much closer access to the hardware for devs than traditional high-level APIs.
There was a 2-3 period when PS3 games looked better than most PC games, for example, despite being far less powerful than the average gaming PC on paper.
"Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?"
That's like a beggar wondering why the people walking past them would spend $20 on underwear, when the beggar knows you can achieve much the same results if you spend $2 on a towel and some safety pins.
Also, if you think $700 is "trust fund" money, you're not going to like the fact that most people have clothes collections worth $1000's, cars worth $10,000's and houses worth $100,000's.
Alt-righters crying about citizens exercising their free market rights? It's political correctness gone mad, but you're hardly the first alt-right snowflake who flips out when people refuse to give Drumpf and his merry band of white supremacists any money.
Thank god the free market allows us to avoid buying products sold by racists, neo-Nazis, fundie Christians/Islamists and any other deplorables, eh?