I'm terrible at picking stocks. But I'd say buy now.
AMD had a fantastic Q3 and predicted a slower Q4 (as expected), and the stock has fallen a ton in the past few days. It really makes no sense. AMD also has fantastic products out now with more to come.
On the other hand Apple has done what, "invent" round corners?
The iPhone basically defined and popularized what we consider the modern smartphone.
Uh, I was using more fully-featured smart phones years before the iPhone. The only thing they popularized was the touch screen and lack of buttons. Everything else was 2 or 3 steps back from what Win Mo and Blackberry and others were doing. (And in 2017 I still fucking hate the fact that I can't get a physical keyboard on a decent phone.)
Considering that they bought those designs (and eventually the companies behind them) and merely iterated on them, it would be fair to say that they don't design their own processors. Certainly not to the level that AMD or Intel do. It's like saying Google made Google Earth. No, they bought it from Keyhole and iterated on it.
No, Samsung's marketing department nailed it 3 or 4 years ago.
Young guy walking around enjoying his active life with his hip new Galaxy Swhatever phone. Happens upon his mom standing in line for the new iPhone. His mom asks "Oh, is this the line for apps?". ANd the kid says "Yeah, mom, you useless old bag. This is the line for "apps"." and then skateboards past her or something.
The baby boomers say the young people using iPhones and, in their never-ending desire to suck the lifeblood out of all youth to maintain their vampiric existence, they decided "Me too!" and jumped on the ship long after it had sailed and run out of steam.
It's pretty much like when they joined Facebook. All the young kids have long since moved the bulk of their activity to other platforms (Twitter, Snapchat, Line, Yik Yak, etc.). Twitter is dying now, and Yik Yak died about 5 seconds after they tried to crack down on "cyber bullying".
bullshit women dont want to code when they realize how much work it is
I am a man and I code and I don't want to code because I realize how much work it is to not just code something but to constantly recode something to match some ill-defined and ever-changing business process. It's a Sisyphean task.
The first sale doctrine has it covered. There's an explicit exemption for music (only) recordings, and an exemption for computer programs. But computer programs that are part of a physical product that can't be copied during normal use are exempted from the exemption, and so are non-pc video games.
As far as I know, you can buy and rent out VHS tapes, and you always could. I remember hullabaloo about it in the 90s, but as far as I know it was just Hollywood kicking and screaming. They also spread FUD about retail "home video" copies not being suited to rentals because they would wear out faster. The only thing I actually noticed was that new releases on VHS got stupidly expensive for a few years, and if you had the balls to not return a rental from Blockbuster the fee for "buying" that copy would be enormous, allegedly pegged to their cost for the "okay to rent out" copy. (Yet if you wanted to outright buy last year's blockbuster from them, it was a normal price.)
Don't forget, ResetEra is the new echo chamber that was NeoGAF, famous for banning any dissenting opinions or wrong-think. Created by it's users when NeoGAF's owner was outed for sexual harassment, the ban-happy mods quit or ate their own, and the forum shut down.
Walter is talking about "hue" which is not a physical description of colour
You mean HSV isn't a thing? And of course it's a physical description of color, as much as "red" or "Hershey Squirts Brown" is. The only objective physical description of "color" would be frequency or wavelength and perhaps intensity (due to how it affects how we perceive things).
Actually, in the strictest (hue) sense, white is the absence of color. I know that's not what you meant, but I had that fact drilled into my head at 8 years old by an art teacher who smoked way too much pot, and I've never forgotten it.
Actually, you're wrong.
Color is something we perceive based on the wavelength(s) of light incident upon our retinas. It's an additive system. Subtractive systems that children use are the opposite and represent a secondary effect, one step removed from the phenomena of color vision.
It doesn't matter what the most popular name is. What matters is the total number of people affected.
If "Smith" counts for 1%, but Johnson, etc. also count for large chunks, the odds that any given person will have a first+last match with another is still substantial. People aren't matching against X Smith, they're matching against X Y. Smith being a common value for Y means nothing. Similarly, pointing to 39% Nguyen is also pointing to 61% NOT Nguyen. What are the distributions of the NOT Nguyen names? (Hint: Whatever the distribution is, the end result is it perfectly offsets the Nguyen distribution when looking at the total population.)
You need to look at the full set to make any claims because a single match counts, and percentages within a population don't mean squat since the chance for a collision is determined by the raw population size. 1% of X vs 39% of Y doesn't matter if X is much larger than Y. You're looking for collisions per population, and the probability is for ANY match, not a match with a specific name. It's the same issue as the Birthday Paradox. ANY match counts, you have to look at the whole set, not individual chance.
Further, why are you comparing "white" to "Vietnamese" instead of "white" to "asian" or "German" to "Vietnamese"?
That's only half of the solution. The other fix you need is: don't visit malicious web sites. A password manager plugin should be split into one part that maintains the DB and one part that runs in the context of each tab and has access to only the passwords that that tab requires. With the old Firefox extension model, there is no way of doing that (all tabs run in the same context) and so a compromise of one tab will compromise all secret information owned by the extension. There's no way to fix this without a complete redesign.
You still need the "don't visit malicious websites" "fix" regardless of plugins or which browser you use.
And no, you don't need 2 contexts for extensions. There is one context governing the browser and its extensions - the user's context. If a tab should not be able to reach into an extension and get shit from another tab, the extension should prevent that. Maybe that's exactly what you want to do with that particular extension.
They are legacy, there is no need to quote the word. The move to WebExtensions is needed to facilitate better security. The current add-in system has free reign to do anything it wants in the browser.
The move to WebExtensions is needed to copy Chrome and remove a ton of choice and control from users. If you're worried about security with NPAPI/XUL/"legacy" plugins, there's a simple solution: DON'T INSTALL MALICIOUS PLUGINS.
Firmware can't fix it. It's a hardware backdoor. You may be able to neuter some of Intel's firmware for ME, but you don't know how the hardware works so you can never truly verify that it's not still fucking you in the ass.
I have never in my life heard of any person or company utilizing the "features" or ME/AMT. The only thing anyone uses is IPMI-type shit for servers (via BMC, iDRAC, iLO, or whatever else you want to call it).
The ME/AMT bullshit is physically inside every single Intel x86 CPU from the last decade or more. It's "disabled" on consumer SKUs via a firmware flag at best. That just means it doesn't present the user-facing features. It's still physically present. It's still electrically connected. It still has a full system inside the CPU to fuck you.
They're going all in on QLED. They even market their shit as QLED when it's not. What are they going to do if they actually make QLED panels? Super Ultra QLED? (They previously jumped the gun on UHD specs, called their 4K sets "UHD", and then had to go with "SUHD" for 4K sets that did HDR10 once specs settled.)
AWS doesn't pass on the economy of scale to you. They keep it, and then some, as profit. They're not a charity.
If you're a not a small shop, it makes sense to host yourself or colo. You can use any other datacenter for disaster recover / fallback. It's cheaper and you have far more control.
AWS, Azure, etc. only make economic sense in a few niche cases. One of which is being a small, but not very small, operation who is willing to bleed money during a growth phase. Another is needing highly dynamic and geographically distributed operations NOW (not having the time to negotiate with partners).
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I'm terrible at picking stocks. But I'd say buy now.
AMD had a fantastic Q3 and predicted a slower Q4 (as expected), and the stock has fallen a ton in the past few days. It really makes no sense.
AMD also has fantastic products out now with more to come.
"Tolerant" is the last word I'd use to describe the current crop of youths.
90s sitcom audience "ooooooooooooooooohhhh!!!"
On the other hand Apple has done what, "invent" round corners?
The iPhone basically defined and popularized what we consider the modern smartphone.
Uh, I was using more fully-featured smart phones years before the iPhone. The only thing they popularized was the touch screen and lack of buttons. Everything else was 2 or 3 steps back from what Win Mo and Blackberry and others were doing. (And in 2017 I still fucking hate the fact that I can't get a physical keyboard on a decent phone.)
It's not like they design their own CPUs or anything. That'd be crazytalk!
Considering that they bought those designs (and eventually the companies behind them) and merely iterated on them, it would be fair to say that they don't design their own processors. Certainly not to the level that AMD or Intel do. It's like saying Google made Google Earth. No, they bought it from Keyhole and iterated on it.
They have made their brand the most recognizable on the planet. And the most valuable.
Let's see where they are in a year.
No, Samsung's marketing department nailed it 3 or 4 years ago.
Young guy walking around enjoying his active life with his hip new Galaxy Swhatever phone. Happens upon his mom standing in line for the new iPhone. His mom asks "Oh, is this the line for apps?". ANd the kid says "Yeah, mom, you useless old bag. This is the line for "apps"." and then skateboards past her or something.
The baby boomers say the young people using iPhones and, in their never-ending desire to suck the lifeblood out of all youth to maintain their vampiric existence, they decided "Me too!" and jumped on the ship long after it had sailed and run out of steam.
It's pretty much like when they joined Facebook. All the young kids have long since moved the bulk of their activity to other platforms (Twitter, Snapchat, Line, Yik Yak, etc.). Twitter is dying now, and Yik Yak died about 5 seconds after they tried to crack down on "cyber bullying".
Cargo goes by ship. Shipments go by rail car!
It's a conspiracy!
bullshit
women dont want to code when they realize how much work it is
I am a man and I code and I don't want to code because I realize how much work it is to not just code something but to constantly recode something to match some ill-defined and ever-changing business process. It's a Sisyphean task.
The first sale doctrine has it covered.
There's an explicit exemption for music (only) recordings, and an exemption for computer programs. But computer programs that are part of a physical product that can't be copied during normal use are exempted from the exemption, and so are non-pc video games.
As far as I know, you can buy and rent out VHS tapes, and you always could. I remember hullabaloo about it in the 90s, but as far as I know it was just Hollywood kicking and screaming. They also spread FUD about retail "home video" copies not being suited to rentals because they would wear out faster. The only thing I actually noticed was that new releases on VHS got stupidly expensive for a few years, and if you had the balls to not return a rental from Blockbuster the fee for "buying" that copy would be enormous, allegedly pegged to their cost for the "okay to rent out" copy. (Yet if you wanted to outright buy last year's blockbuster from them, it was a normal price.)
Don't forget, ResetEra is the new echo chamber that was NeoGAF, famous for banning any dissenting opinions or wrong-think. Created by it's users when NeoGAF's owner was outed for sexual harassment, the ban-happy mods quit or ate their own, and the forum shut down.
I would like more details!
You know what the worst bit about a prostate exam is?
It's when they realise you're not a real doctor.
No, it's when they realize you're not a real prostate.
Clearly, the prism takes in a rainbow, sucks all the color out of it, and spits out a boring white beam.
Also it reverses how shadows work.
Walter is talking about "hue" which is not a physical description of colour
You mean HSV isn't a thing? And of course it's a physical description of color, as much as "red" or "Hershey Squirts Brown" is.
The only objective physical description of "color" would be frequency or wavelength and perhaps intensity (due to how it affects how we perceive things).
Actually, in the strictest (hue) sense, white is the absence of color. I know that's not what you meant, but I had that fact drilled into my head at 8 years old by an art teacher who smoked way too much pot, and I've never forgotten it.
Actually, you're wrong.
Color is something we perceive based on the wavelength(s) of light incident upon our retinas. It's an additive system.
Subtractive systems that children use are the opposite and represent a secondary effect, one step removed from the phenomena of color vision.
So, in the "strictest" sense, you're wrong.
It doesn't matter what the most popular name is. What matters is the total number of people affected.
If "Smith" counts for 1%, but Johnson, etc. also count for large chunks, the odds that any given person will have a first+last match with another is still substantial. People aren't matching against X Smith, they're matching against X Y. Smith being a common value for Y means nothing.
Similarly, pointing to 39% Nguyen is also pointing to 61% NOT Nguyen. What are the distributions of the NOT Nguyen names? (Hint: Whatever the distribution is, the end result is it perfectly offsets the Nguyen distribution when looking at the total population.)
You need to look at the full set to make any claims because a single match counts, and percentages within a population don't mean squat since the chance for a collision is determined by the raw population size. 1% of X vs 39% of Y doesn't matter if X is much larger than Y. You're looking for collisions per population, and the probability is for ANY match, not a match with a specific name. It's the same issue as the Birthday Paradox. ANY match counts, you have to look at the whole set, not individual chance.
Further, why are you comparing "white" to "Vietnamese" instead of "white" to "asian" or "German" to "Vietnamese"?
That's only half of the solution. The other fix you need is: don't visit malicious web sites. A password manager plugin should be split into one part that maintains the DB and one part that runs in the context of each tab and has access to only the passwords that that tab requires. With the old Firefox extension model, there is no way of doing that (all tabs run in the same context) and so a compromise of one tab will compromise all secret information owned by the extension. There's no way to fix this without a complete redesign.
You still need the "don't visit malicious websites" "fix" regardless of plugins or which browser you use.
And no, you don't need 2 contexts for extensions. There is one context governing the browser and its extensions - the user's context. If a tab should not be able to reach into an extension and get shit from another tab, the extension should prevent that. Maybe that's exactly what you want to do with that particular extension.
Start
Credential Manager
Store credentials for automatic logon
Use Credential Manager to store credentials, such as user names and passwords, in vaults so you can easily log on to computers or websites."
They are legacy, there is no need to quote the word. The move to WebExtensions is needed to facilitate better security. The current add-in system has free reign to do anything it wants in the browser.
The move to WebExtensions is needed to copy Chrome and remove a ton of choice and control from users.
If you're worried about security with NPAPI/XUL/"legacy" plugins, there's a simple solution: DON'T INSTALL MALICIOUS PLUGINS.
Psych!
Firmware can't fix it. It's a hardware backdoor. You may be able to neuter some of Intel's firmware for ME, but you don't know how the hardware works so you can never truly verify that it's not still fucking you in the ass.
I have never in my life heard of any person or company utilizing the "features" or ME/AMT.
The only thing anyone uses is IPMI-type shit for servers (via BMC, iDRAC, iLO, or whatever else you want to call it).
You have NO fucking clue.
The ME/AMT bullshit is physically inside every single Intel x86 CPU from the last decade or more.
It's "disabled" on consumer SKUs via a firmware flag at best. That just means it doesn't present the user-facing features. It's still physically present. It's still electrically connected. It still has a full system inside the CPU to fuck you.
They're going all in on QLED. They even market their shit as QLED when it's not. What are they going to do if they actually make QLED panels? Super Ultra QLED? (They previously jumped the gun on UHD specs, called their 4K sets "UHD", and then had to go with "SUHD" for 4K sets that did HDR10 once specs settled.)
AWS doesn't pass on the economy of scale to you. They keep it, and then some, as profit. They're not a charity.
If you're a not a small shop, it makes sense to host yourself or colo. You can use any other datacenter for disaster recover / fallback.
It's cheaper and you have far more control.
AWS, Azure, etc. only make economic sense in a few niche cases. One of which is being a small, but not very small, operation who is willing to bleed money during a growth phase. Another is needing highly dynamic and geographically distributed operations NOW (not having the time to negotiate with partners).