Where in the world is the average commute more than a 200-mile round trip? Oh, by EV, you meant those low-range pseudo-EVs that the major car companies keep building as a means of convincing federal and state governments that nobody really wants an EV so that they won't have to get serious about them....
Before or after you suddenly get packet loss eight years later because one of the punch-downs didn't hold the wire quite well enough inside the wall, and suddenly you're having to take a panel off the wall behind a bunch of equipment?:-)
But seriously, yes, wires are good, and for the most part, fairly easy to set up and maintain. With that said, what the heck are people building their walls and floors out of that they need a mesh network in a house!?!
Yup. Murphy's Law tells us that this ridiculously small update probably introduces either a serious security hole or a rare but catastrophic data loss bug.:-)
We are fast approaching a time where the TV will come with built in cellular data, and lifetime subscription (for specific uses). I've already seen several devices that have this scheme... for example a 'cloud punch clock'.
The best part, of course, is that "lifetime" will mean "for the expected lifetime of the device", which means that after a few years, they can stop paying for the cellular service and brick the device, forcing you to buy a new one. And even if they don't, the carriers will drop support for the device after three or four standards shifts renders it impractical to support the legacy device because the frequency band it uses is getting freed up to make room for 7G or whatever. (See also: OnStar)
"Free" cellular service is the ultimate in planned obsolescence—particularly if the device doesn't work without cellular service.
It has been illegal (at least anywhere in the United States) to have any sort of video screen within view of the driver of a vehicle since decades before FaceTime existed. They actually had to carve special exemptions in those laws to make backup cameras legal. FaceTime use while driving has not ever been legal anywhere in the United States, period.
Except that it is just as easy for the driver to tap "Passenger". As such, these sorts of "solutions" are, in fact, no better than doing nothing at all, except in that I suppose they provide for a "we warned the user" defense, but even that defense should be completely unnecessary in these situations because the user should already know better than to do something illegal.
A thinner phone is somewhat more convenient all things being equal...
Actually, no. The most convenient design is the one that doesn't slip out of your hands easily and break. Excessive thinness is actually a big contributing factor to the use of cases. The thinner the phones have gotten, the more people have used cases. I used my original iPhone without a case for much of its life and never came close to dropping it. I tried to use my iPhone 5 without a case after the holster broke, and I nearly dropped it three times in the first day.
This is not to say that there aren't other designs that would be equally good without adding as much thickness (e.g. a phone with an elastic band or velcro hand strap on the back), but all things being equal, phones become harder to use when the thickness drops much below about half an inch of grip surface. They become harder to carry, however. So it is a tradeoff, and you have to find a balance between convenience for people who actually use the device and convenience for people who merely carry it around as a fashion statement....
Otherwise, BankOfAmerica and BankOfArnerica will continue to look the same.
That's mostly because A. Apple's marketing people managed to trick everybody into believing that sans serif fonts are more "readable" despite mounds of evidence to the contrary, B. they picked the ghastly Helvetica (and Arial, its derivative) despite its particularly heinous kerning and indistinct letter shapes, and C. everybody else followed their lead.
The problem is that then you get bosses who say, "No, of course you don't have to work on Saturday, but it will look good when you come up for promotion next year" or "It isn't mandatory, but all your coworkers will be working more hours. You don't want to be seen as less productive than your coworkers, do you?"
Extra work without extra pay should be outlawed. If they want you to work an 80-hour week, they should pay overtime rates for those extra 40 hours. If they want you to be "on call" all week, they should pay some reasonable percentage of your normal hourly pay for the on-call time, plus overtime for any hours that they actually used you during your time off. And so on. And if your boss won't spring for the extra pay, you shouldn't be allowed to volunteer your time. You should be allowed to volunteer for other organizations, but not for your employer, because that invariably leads to the employer expecting that volunteering in the future.
Having plenty of leisure time is not as important to quality of life as having a job.
Having experienced doing only a month or two of work-from-home contracting over the course of almost a year, I beg to differ. Having more leisure time, at least from my perspective, is far more important to quality of life than having a job unless you are in a financial situation where not having a job means constantly fretting about whether you'll be able to pay your bills.
Having a job is only crucial to quality of life if you aren't highly creative. If you are, you'll find ways to fill up every minute of your time even without someone telling you what to do. In fact, when I took a job at the end of that ten-month period, I asked for almost an entire additional month before my start date (for a total of ~11 months) to wrap up personal projects. I have enough personal projects to keep me fully occupied for the next decade without coming up with anything new (Hah!), so that month was just enough to wrap up one big project that had been in progress for thirteen years (my trilogy of sci-fi novels).
By contrast, having free time is always crucial, because it means you can take time to fly to wherever your family lives for the holidays. It means you can go on vacations during the year. It means you can spend time with friends. It means you can take the occasional day off for various church events. And so on.
Now to some degree, there is a point of diminishing returns beyond which more free time is of less value because your friends have to go to work or school and you can't spend time with them anyway. Many of the sorts of things I enjoy doing do require other people, so it would obviously be better if everybody had more free time, rather than just me. But I decided that it was time to start earning some income again, so I went back to work (and then almost immediately regretted taking a job that provided so little free time).
But everybody is different. For people who see their work as their entire life, not having a job means not having an identity, not having friends, etc. Those folks absolutely depend on work for quality of life, and having more free time probably doesn't benefit them much at all. This is why there's no one-size-fits-all answer.
That's no doubt part of it, but I think the bigger cause was Apple threatening to stop allowing new submissions of apps unless they moved to HTTPS (with only narrow exceptions for web views), which meant that every ad network was forced to switch to HTTPS if they wanted to keep their lucrative iOS clients. As a side effect, most ads shown on normal websites are now served via HTTPS, too.
Snowden's revelations were years ago, and probably had very little impact on this. The reason HTTPS went way up in 2016 is that Apple said that they were going to mandate use of HTTPS in all iOS apps, which forced all the ad networks to switch to HTTPS.
Unfortunately, their subsequent decertification of StartSSL (the only CA whose free certificates don't require continuous auto-renewal) is likely to make a large number of smaller sites go back from HTTPS to HTTP, erasing much of the benefit.
On the plus side, somebody is likely to create a bowdlerized version that replaces the violence with handing people hats with flowers on top, so there's at least the potential for comedic redemption.:-D
Actually, it's more like an uncanny valley. The first part was that for people outside the community (where you don't really know much about them), if you know nothing about the submitter, you're more likely to accept the code than if you know just a little bit about the submitter. But if you actually know them IRL, you're more likely to accept their code.
I didn't realize radar and lidar were magical. They can determine if something in the road is a hazard? The can recognize tree branches, spare tires, ladders, tennis shoes, plastic bags, animal corpses in the road, daytime / nighttime / in the rain?
No, but the cameras on the cars can. Besides, all that really matters is the answer to three questions: "Does it block my path?", "Is it moving?", and "Can I steer around it?". Whether it is a ladder or a spare tire is completely and totally irrelevant from a driving perspective. They both block the path, neither one is moving, and the answer to the question of whether you can steer around it or not determines whether the vehicle must stop to allow someone to remove the obstacle or not.
Of course they can't, they will have to be hooked up to a CPU that is going to create a world model and update it in real time, something which no one is doing right now, of course, because it is an incredibly difficult thing to do. You need a split second response time for these systems, and you need that system built into the car. No one is doing that.
You don't need a model of the complete state of the world. You just need an AI model that recognizes objects in the road, recognizes lanes, recognizes traffic lights, reads text on signs (and maps standard text onto behaviors), recognizes children playing near the road, and other potential hazards, then uses reasonable rules for handling those situations using a computer with split-second response time built into the car. And everyone is doing that.
Or are you going to tell the folks at Four Seasons that they can't block off level 4 without at least two days advance notice? "Honey, why are all of those autonomous cars blocking the entrance to the garage? Can't they read the signs?"
That's silly, both because they can, in fact, read the signs and because blocking off a parking level would be seen by the computer as an obstruction, and it would therefore not attempt to go down that path or use the blocked parking places or whatever. Besides, by the time self-driving cars become popular, there will be standards for signs and traffic markers containing radio transmitters so that the cars can make the right decisions even if they cannot physically see the signs at all....
And even without that technology, self-driving cars have multiple cameras, which makes them less likely to miss a road sign than humans. The only critical pieces are ensuring that A. all signs conform to standards (no speed limit signs with five lines of extra text—Milan, TN, I'm talking to you) and B. the models correctly recognize all of the signs defined in those standards.
Even if it is a software bug, overheating the GPU like that shortens its life, and every day that they misbehave in this way significantly increases the number of devices that will fail long before the end of their expected service life.
That aspect of the Senate is a purely theoretical defense against a hypothetical problem. There's no evidence that the problem exists, much less that the existence of the Senate solves it. The theory was in part that smaller, less populous states would have refused to become part of the U.S. if they didn't have the same representation as larger states, and in part that a smaller legislative body would make reaching consensus easier. But the reality is that no new states have joined the union since Hawaii in 1959, making the first part moot, and our government has devolved into party-line voting to such a degree that the second part is also moot. So making the Senate representation be identical for each state regardless of population doesn't seem to buy us anything.
For future reference, all Apple repairs carry a 90-day warranty, so if the same part fails again within three months, they'll fix it free. And realistically, they're usually pretty lax about the "same part" bit, so even if something unrelated fails, they'll often treat it as a warranty repair if you ask.
So, something is (maybe) occasionally causing the AMD GPU, not the CPU, to run amok (or even be in some sort of power-guzzling "SCR-Lockup" state (hopefully not!)), sucking down the juice. Obviously, CR and others haven't triggered this behavior in the same way as the MacRumors poster; but there may be more software paths to this bug, likely involving switching between dGPU and iGPU modes, and/or power-savings involving same.
I hope you're wrong. Otherwise, in two years, Apple is going to end up doing yet another logic board recall....
It means that more people wanted the other candidate to win, which means that the will of the majority is not being respected by the elections.
If NFL games were determined by yardage gained instead of points scored, coaches would change their strategy.
If NFL games were determined by voting, you'd have a point. In a fair election, the candidate who wins should always be the candidate with the most support. When that doesn't happen, the system is fundamentally broken.
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Ob. Futurama: "I'll build my own flash drive with hookers and blackjack. You know what? Forget the hookers. And the blackjack!"
Where in the world is the average commute more than a 200-mile round trip? Oh, by EV, you meant those low-range pseudo-EVs that the major car companies keep building as a means of convincing federal and state governments that nobody really wants an EV so that they won't have to get serious about them....
By "panel", I meant the front cover plate on the wall box.
Before or after you suddenly get packet loss eight years later because one of the punch-downs didn't hold the wire quite well enough inside the wall, and suddenly you're having to take a panel off the wall behind a bunch of equipment? :-)
But seriously, yes, wires are good, and for the most part, fairly easy to set up and maintain. With that said, what the heck are people building their walls and floors out of that they need a mesh network in a house!?!
So kind of like a hiccup, but misspelled.
Yup. Murphy's Law tells us that this ridiculously small update probably introduces either a serious security hole or a rare but catastrophic data loss bug. :-)
The best part, of course, is that "lifetime" will mean "for the expected lifetime of the device", which means that after a few years, they can stop paying for the cellular service and brick the device, forcing you to buy a new one. And even if they don't, the carriers will drop support for the device after three or four standards shifts renders it impractical to support the legacy device because the frequency band it uses is getting freed up to make room for 7G or whatever. (See also: OnStar)
"Free" cellular service is the ultimate in planned obsolescence—particularly if the device doesn't work without cellular service.
It has been illegal (at least anywhere in the United States) to have any sort of video screen within view of the driver of a vehicle since decades before FaceTime existed. They actually had to carve special exemptions in those laws to make backup cameras legal. FaceTime use while driving has not ever been legal anywhere in the United States, period.
Except that it is just as easy for the driver to tap "Passenger". As such, these sorts of "solutions" are, in fact, no better than doing nothing at all, except in that I suppose they provide for a "we warned the user" defense, but even that defense should be completely unnecessary in these situations because the user should already know better than to do something illegal.
Actually, no. The most convenient design is the one that doesn't slip out of your hands easily and break. Excessive thinness is actually a big contributing factor to the use of cases. The thinner the phones have gotten, the more people have used cases. I used my original iPhone without a case for much of its life and never came close to dropping it. I tried to use my iPhone 5 without a case after the holster broke, and I nearly dropped it three times in the first day.
This is not to say that there aren't other designs that would be equally good without adding as much thickness (e.g. a phone with an elastic band or velcro hand strap on the back), but all things being equal, phones become harder to use when the thickness drops much below about half an inch of grip surface. They become harder to carry, however. So it is a tradeoff, and you have to find a balance between convenience for people who actually use the device and convenience for people who merely carry it around as a fashion statement....
That's mostly because A. Apple's marketing people managed to trick everybody into believing that sans serif fonts are more "readable" despite mounds of evidence to the contrary, B. they picked the ghastly Helvetica (and Arial, its derivative) despite its particularly heinous kerning and indistinct letter shapes, and C. everybody else followed their lead.
The problem is that then you get bosses who say, "No, of course you don't have to work on Saturday, but it will look good when you come up for promotion next year" or "It isn't mandatory, but all your coworkers will be working more hours. You don't want to be seen as less productive than your coworkers, do you?"
Extra work without extra pay should be outlawed. If they want you to work an 80-hour week, they should pay overtime rates for those extra 40 hours. If they want you to be "on call" all week, they should pay some reasonable percentage of your normal hourly pay for the on-call time, plus overtime for any hours that they actually used you during your time off. And so on. And if your boss won't spring for the extra pay, you shouldn't be allowed to volunteer your time. You should be allowed to volunteer for other organizations, but not for your employer, because that invariably leads to the employer expecting that volunteering in the future.
On the flip side, the only reason Bay Area housing costs are so unreasonable is that salaries are nearly double those in France. :-)
Having experienced doing only a month or two of work-from-home contracting over the course of almost a year, I beg to differ. Having more leisure time, at least from my perspective, is far more important to quality of life than having a job unless you are in a financial situation where not having a job means constantly fretting about whether you'll be able to pay your bills.
Having a job is only crucial to quality of life if you aren't highly creative. If you are, you'll find ways to fill up every minute of your time even without someone telling you what to do. In fact, when I took a job at the end of that ten-month period, I asked for almost an entire additional month before my start date (for a total of ~11 months) to wrap up personal projects. I have enough personal projects to keep me fully occupied for the next decade without coming up with anything new (Hah!), so that month was just enough to wrap up one big project that had been in progress for thirteen years (my trilogy of sci-fi novels).
By contrast, having free time is always crucial, because it means you can take time to fly to wherever your family lives for the holidays. It means you can go on vacations during the year. It means you can spend time with friends. It means you can take the occasional day off for various church events. And so on.
Now to some degree, there is a point of diminishing returns beyond which more free time is of less value because your friends have to go to work or school and you can't spend time with them anyway. Many of the sorts of things I enjoy doing do require other people, so it would obviously be better if everybody had more free time, rather than just me. But I decided that it was time to start earning some income again, so I went back to work (and then almost immediately regretted taking a job that provided so little free time).
But everybody is different. For people who see their work as their entire life, not having a job means not having an identity, not having friends, etc. Those folks absolutely depend on work for quality of life, and having more free time probably doesn't benefit them much at all. This is why there's no one-size-fits-all answer.
That's no doubt part of it, but I think the bigger cause was Apple threatening to stop allowing new submissions of apps unless they moved to HTTPS (with only narrow exceptions for web views), which meant that every ad network was forced to switch to HTTPS if they wanted to keep their lucrative iOS clients. As a side effect, most ads shown on normal websites are now served via HTTPS, too.
Snowden's revelations were years ago, and probably had very little impact on this. The reason HTTPS went way up in 2016 is that Apple said that they were going to mandate use of HTTPS in all iOS apps, which forced all the ad networks to switch to HTTPS.
Unfortunately, their subsequent decertification of StartSSL (the only CA whose free certificates don't require continuous auto-renewal) is likely to make a large number of smaller sites go back from HTTPS to HTTP, erasing much of the benefit.
On the plus side, somebody is likely to create a bowdlerized version that replaces the violence with handing people hats with flowers on top, so there's at least the potential for comedic redemption. :-D
Actually, it's more like an uncanny valley. The first part was that for people outside the community (where you don't really know much about them), if you know nothing about the submitter, you're more likely to accept the code than if you know just a little bit about the submitter. But if you actually know them IRL, you're more likely to accept their code.
No, but the cameras on the cars can. Besides, all that really matters is the answer to three questions: "Does it block my path?", "Is it moving?", and "Can I steer around it?". Whether it is a ladder or a spare tire is completely and totally irrelevant from a driving perspective. They both block the path, neither one is moving, and the answer to the question of whether you can steer around it or not determines whether the vehicle must stop to allow someone to remove the obstacle or not.
You don't need a model of the complete state of the world. You just need an AI model that recognizes objects in the road, recognizes lanes, recognizes traffic lights, reads text on signs (and maps standard text onto behaviors), recognizes children playing near the road, and other potential hazards, then uses reasonable rules for handling those situations using a computer with split-second response time built into the car. And everyone is doing that.
That's silly, both because they can, in fact, read the signs and because blocking off a parking level would be seen by the computer as an obstruction, and it would therefore not attempt to go down that path or use the blocked parking places or whatever. Besides, by the time self-driving cars become popular, there will be standards for signs and traffic markers containing radio transmitters so that the cars can make the right decisions even if they cannot physically see the signs at all....
And even without that technology, self-driving cars have multiple cameras, which makes them less likely to miss a road sign than humans. The only critical pieces are ensuring that A. all signs conform to standards (no speed limit signs with five lines of extra text—Milan, TN, I'm talking to you) and B. the models correctly recognize all of the signs defined in those standards.
Even if it is a software bug, overheating the GPU like that shortens its life, and every day that they misbehave in this way significantly increases the number of devices that will fail long before the end of their expected service life.
That aspect of the Senate is a purely theoretical defense against a hypothetical problem. There's no evidence that the problem exists, much less that the existence of the Senate solves it. The theory was in part that smaller, less populous states would have refused to become part of the U.S. if they didn't have the same representation as larger states, and in part that a smaller legislative body would make reaching consensus easier. But the reality is that no new states have joined the union since Hawaii in 1959, making the first part moot, and our government has devolved into party-line voting to such a degree that the second part is also moot. So making the Senate representation be identical for each state regardless of population doesn't seem to buy us anything.
It's basically a revision one product. Long-time Apple fans know what that means.... Better to wait for the second rev. :-)
For future reference, all Apple repairs carry a 90-day warranty, so if the same part fails again within three months, they'll fix it free. And realistically, they're usually pretty lax about the "same part" bit, so even if something unrelated fails, they'll often treat it as a warranty repair if you ask.
So, something is (maybe) occasionally causing the AMD GPU, not the CPU, to run amok (or even be in some sort of power-guzzling "SCR-Lockup" state (hopefully not!)), sucking down the juice. Obviously, CR and others haven't triggered this behavior in the same way as the MacRumors poster; but there may be more software paths to this bug, likely involving switching between dGPU and iGPU modes, and/or power-savings involving same.
I hope you're wrong. Otherwise, in two years, Apple is going to end up doing yet another logic board recall....
It means that more people wanted the other candidate to win, which means that the will of the majority is not being respected by the elections.
If NFL games were determined by voting, you'd have a point. In a fair election, the candidate who wins should always be the candidate with the most support. When that doesn't happen, the system is fundamentally broken.