The last few times that I went to the cinema, I was very disappointment with the experience.
The last thing I saw was in 3D, so I had to pay an additional 5 bucks. So, 40 bucks for two people. Then 5 bucks for the "small" 200 ounce soda and another 5 bucks for a "small" dumpster full of popcorn. Then you sit down in the grungy seat and watch the movie. Then notice that the audio is not really calibrated all that well. Then the movie is over and you try to pry your shoes from the soda glue all over the floor. Maybe you even use the bathroom with the pervasive urine smell and racist comments carved into the doors.
Yeah... Hard to imagine that attendance is down.
My local theater became a Showcase de Lux with leather electronic recliner seating, etc. Yes, you pay a bit more for the ticket but the experience is completely different from the old sticky seat days on cheap night... That being said, the vast majority of movies on Bluray 4K look and sound just as good on my 65" UHD 4K TV and Denon Dobly Surround system as they do on the big screen and my fridge is a whole lot closer.
I do still go to the movies, but I'm picky about which I see on the big screen. The last was John Wick 2. The next one I will watch in the Theater is Ghost in the Shell.
On the contrary, there is no flaw. This is frustrating the NSA, which has asked eBay to be more Patriotic. Would be a shame if something were to happen to their nice website.
Does eBay/PayPay have a warrant canary?
The NSA doesn't need your login credentials for eBay to see what you are buying. I cross the border from the US to Canada for summer vacation and on occasion I bring eBay items back for family members. Canada charges tax on goods crossing the border into Canada that are going to be left there. The tax amount is based on the value. I always declare anything I bring with me but they sometimes double-check to make sure. I've seen them access account details based on eBay member ID. If the Canadian border patrol has this type of access, how much more does the NSA have?
Granted, Paypal, as a financial institution, might be a different story....
Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With... a Piece of Foam?
Are you asking a question or making a statement?
Slashdot is... going down the toilet?
You might want to read it again, but this time read it like this "Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With... a Piece of Foam. Really??"
See... when read like this it's a statement of amazement that something relatively minor and simple could fix, what seems to be, a technical problem. Most people would expect that a technical problem like this would require a technical fix. For example, soldering on a new antenna, etc. So, the title author used the question mark as a placeholder for a modifier that shows amazement.
This is a common enough writing technique that I'm surprised that anyone would have a hard time understanding its use...
I prefer to have the map on the screen with a north-up orientation no matter which way I'm travelling. I find it helps me keep my bearings and learn routes rather than surrender to the machine's step-by-step instructrions.
That's one way to do it, I guess. Personally, I just occasionally glance at the direction information on the electronic compass in my car (i.e. the compass direction that I am heading). For me, though, the biggest revelation was when I looked up how the US does route numbering. Routes that end in odd numbers are North South routes and routes that end in even numbers are East-West routes. It doesn't help much on side roads but once on major roads it helps you get close.
OK, that's true for fishing and crops but the employer in question is a dairy. Are those not fairly steady the entire year?
Perhaps, but the law was written to be relatively generic about each of the industries that it covers so that the law makers wouldn't have to maintain a huge list of specific businesses that falls under it or which should be excluded. In other words, the law is necessarily expansive to allow for new businesses in these industries that could fall under the law in the future. Otherwise, laws would have to be re-written every time a new instance arises that wasn't accounted for.
There are a number of items that can be unpacked from your question. You are saying that you have smart people who are Engineers but have little technical knowledge. You want to figure out how to get them to learn networking, etc. Not only that, but you want them to get to a level where they can operate autonomously.
To begin with, you can't instill curiosity or an interest in technical skills in people, all you can do is encourage them or hire people who already have that drive and tinker at home. One way to encourage them would be to offer technical training and perhaps a bonus for getting specific certifications related to the skills you need.
That being said, it sounds like you need to hire someone with technical experience who can be used to support the engineers. Why would you waste the time of Engineers to learn technical stuff when they could be working on other things that makes your company money?
I am concerned that Google is attempting to act as a gatekeeper and arbiter of truth. While holocaust denial is certainly appalling, what else are they going to censor? What if China decides that Tiananmen Square is offensive?
From my understanding, they are not censoring the speech, they are just making sure that factual results occur at the top of the search list. I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to search on things like holocaust denial and still get to the pages. They just won't show up when you ask a direct question that requires a factual answer.
Conflate it as much as you like with free speech, but there are proven facts that are under assault by outright lies (i.e. "alternative facts") to support pre-conceived opinions. It's these that Google is trying to correct within their search results.
Free Speech is a right provided to protect citizens from the government and being put in jail for unpopular opinion. It does not apply to private corporations and Google does not have an obligation to provide a platform for free speech. Your form of free speech is to use Google or not based on their practices. If you don't like what they are doing, use another search provider...
GMT-4 will not work for all of New England. Maine and Massachusetts should be on Atlantic time (GMT-4),
I'm all for it in Boston if we move permanently to Atlantic time (GMT-4). The only reason why Boston is on Eastern time is to match New York. This results in the sun being up at 5:30am and setting just after 8:00pm during the summer. Who needs the sun to be up at 5:30am? And who is stupid enough, other than farmers, to take advantage of it? You certainly can't hold a party at that time... Though, if it's a really good party, it might be ending around then... (grin)
The cost of buying computers over the last decade adds up to a bit no matter what you put on them.
I'm willing to bet that the cost isn't for hardware, it would be the same hardware whether they were running Windows or a Linux variant. The cost probably went into development of their version of Linux, the packaging and testing of the OS and apps, the development of a support system, and training. All of this requires labour, which tends to be more expensive than software (i.e. most of this would be off-the-shelf software in the Windows world).
I went to the fine article and I still can't tell what is being argued over. What's a ghost driver? What does Greyball do, exactly and how does it thwart oversight? None of that is clear anywhere! I'm used to figuring things out given context but the context is so dense or missing I can't tell what is going on or why.
BTW: The second link is not germane to the conversation. It's bringing up the CIA leak from earlier this week, not the Uber article.
It sounds like Uber has drivers in locations where it is against the law to do so. In order to "hide" them from regulators (turn them into ghost drivers), it looks like they created a list of regulators and government employees that was then used in the app to filter out who could get ride sharing service. For example, if John worked for the transport department he wouldn't be able to hail an Uber through the app. However, if Mary was a regular person standing next to John, her ride hail would go through.
This will force CS programs to reevaluate how they teach about tree structures. Why traverse a tree when you can look at it?
Because in quantum computing, as soon as you observe the tree it becomes a single fixed state and the whole thing just sits there doing nothing until you look away.... Kinda like the Weeping Angels in Dr Who...
The issues with KeePass generally is synchronization of your password database. You can put it into a USB stick and it gets out of sync, or you can put it up in the cloud, but then it's sort of our of your control..
I use KeePass for my password database and then Syncthing to sync it on all my devices. It's light enough to work on a Raspberry Pi, so it's easy to setup a Syncthing cluster. Resilio (previously known as Bittorent Sync) works too, but I've never tried it personally.
The result is an Open Source password manager, with a database that's synchronized between all my devices and in my control.
I sync my KeePass to the cloud. But, I've also set it up with two-factor authentication. You need both the key file and the password. I place the key file on my portable devices using offline methods. So, even though the database is in the cloud, it's much more secure, in my opinion, than online key managers.
The submitter makes it sound like there was no other choice but to rely on one of the "Gang of Five" when that is far from true. And seriously with the Nickname? There is already a GoF (Gang of Four) on tech. Clearly these guys aren't hard core techies.
Well, when Microsoft (long overdue) drops out, they'll be the Gang of Four, at least in this particular writer's mind... Snapchat is an app, much like FB. FB will also falter, and already is on the slippery slope of Google Wave, Buzz, So.cl etc. Something else will take its place, or it will become the EA of social sites.
For Facebook to falter an entire generation would have to jump ship, typically the next generation coming up. I don't see that happening today. Usually this type of schism is prompted by technology change. Perhaps the next social media landing place will be in VR. But until then, I don't see Facebook being replaced any time soon.
Intel is not worried. How is ARM any more of a threat today than AMD was?
Intel started building lower powered chips a long time ago to compete with ARM and have, in a number of areas, surpassed them. Time and again, Intel has been able to ramp up their R&D to stave off serious competition. I don't see ARM being any different.
1) Don't set up an access point. If you still need an access point, set up a encrypted one (which you should do anyways) and don't give the isolated PC the keys. WiFi isn't magic; if there's no place for it to go, it's not going to go anywhere.
2) Put a Faraday cage around the antenna. This could be as simple as wrapping it in foil.
Better option, buy a Lenovo M900 mini PC without WiFi and use it exclusively to work on your client files. It's small enough to move around and should be powerful enough (i5 / i7) for most tasks...
Rap should be classified as poetry. In the chart, it would go right below Vogon poetry.
No... Vogon poetry, according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, has a good chance of killing the listener. Rap has never killed anyone. The Rapper might have, but that's a different story....
As specialized as that work is, re-sorting items in a warehouse that are initially sorted into appropriate-sized bins seems like a no-brainer. Worst-case a human has to manually load the bins and then put them onto a conveyor-belt system that finds storage space and parks them, and then when a human fulfills an order the same machine retrieves the correct bins so that the picker can grab what's needed and sort into boxes. In a more highly automated scenario the common bulk items are sorted into bins by machine with only human supervision over multiple simultaneous sorting operations, and even most of the retrieval and picking for shipment is automated and multiple packing operations are simultaneously supervised or spot-checked to ensure that they're fulfilled properly.
Either way, if humans don't need to go into the warehouse storage area then that storage area can be designed with much narrower aisles and much less lighting. It still may be necessary to conduct manual audits of merchandise and obviously maintenance and reconfiguration must be allowed for, but if a warehouse has to shut down quarterly for a day for those tasks then that may still allow for proper worker safety while still making the place run much more efficiently and without as much problem with employee theft or injury.
Actually, the whole storage is treated as a managed unit. Not only are the shelves narrower (you only need enough space for the bin of products and the picker robot that pulls the bins and brings them out), but they're a lot taller as well. A human powered warehouse has a height limitation because they can only reach so high up. A robotic one can be easily a few storeys high thus making extensive use of the space.
And there's a "cache" area that holds bins that have popular product so it doesn't have to be fetched from the main storage area all the time.
In fact, it's all computer controlled. When new product comes in, the receiver tells the computer to send them an empty bin (they all have IDs), and the receiver simply loads the bin up with product, scanning them as they're put on the bin. Once done, the computer moves the bin into the storage area and manages where it'll put the items. All that needs to be done is someone telling the computer what product is being put in and the computer manages it from there.
This also means the storage is organized somewhat randomly - since the computer knows where all the bins are (and thus, where products are) it doesn't have to arrange the stock by any particular system. In fact, it probably does it by popularity - the more popular items are in locations that can be retrieved quickly while least popular items will require more time to fetch.
And it's all dynamic.
So... if the whole thing crashed and the inventory is randomized and unreachable during Christmas time... that would suck.... I can hear it now, "Has anyone found the PS5 bin yet??"
I expect quantum computing would be like battery improvements: something people continue to complain about being hype, even while at the same time it migrates into their everyday lives without them noticing. I mainly expect that should quantum computing chips make their way into consumer processors, your average programmer would never touch them - but backend system library calls that they make would increasingly use them without the frontend developer ever being aware.
Given that the quantum computer requires super-cooling, it's highly unlikely that it's going to migrate into our lives any time soon...
"In order to function as a quantum computer, it has to be super-cooled at all times. The system sits at the bottom of refrigeration system where the temperature is roughly 0.015 degrees above absolute zero."
Anytime you visit Google with a non-Chrome browser it tries to push Chrome on you.
You prompted me to try it, went to Google's home page (with Firefox 45.7.0). What you claim did not happen. Sorry.
I haven't seen this either on Google's homepage in a while. However, you do get prompted to install Chrome as part of many download installers. At least many have switched the bundled installer to using a legitimate program over malware and spyware.
There is so much fake news today that people don't know what to believe. Alternative sources can at least get people who want to look a different source for facts, or often a more complete set of facts. Flagging "disputed" from a biased perspective does not help anyone return a full set of facts.
It's really funny how the anti-Trump people bash Fox, yet ignore their own team (not really, it's quite common). FSN is often just as left leaning as CNN or MSNBC depending on the time of day and show running.
The big problem in the US today is that there are simply no reliable sources of news. Just as rare, are reasonable opinions that argue with a full set of facts.
The problem with both Fox and CNN isn't that they don't present the facts, they do. However, they then spin those same facts during their gossip sessions with "analysts". They also tend to pick out which news stories to present. If they spent less time gossiping with analysts they would have much more time to present all news stories, not just a selection of them. The problem with this is that they found that they get better ratings through talking politics than anything else.
The "bad" review? Was from hothardware....you ever went to that site without adblock? Last time I did the entire page was NOTHING but Intel ads.
From what I've seen there is 4 sites you should never listen to, hothardware, Ars Technica, and the worst are Tom's Hardware (where their "expert" told a person asking what CPU to buy for GAMING that he should buy a Pentium dual core over a lower priced AMD X6 even though he admitted that most games the person wanted to play required a quad) and Anandtech who went so far as to drop several new triple A titles from their benchmark that so happened to play better on AMD hardware and replaced them with older titles that were expressly built with Nvidia Gameworks (which has been shown to have "cripple AMD" code baked in)...you wanna guess who their biggest advertiser is?
Its sad that I have to even say this but you really have to do some digging before you can actually take any "news" as credible as we have had so many cozy deals with advertisers and companies affiliated with those they are reviewing that a good chunk of what you see and hear these days is just corporate propaganda or FUD.
Toms Hardware is excellent, from my experience, for their hardware reviews. I've been building my own systems for a long time now and have used their reviews as primary source for selecting hardware components and have never had a problem with their findings. As for their "forum experts", I've had no experience with them. Saying that a whole site is horrible based on one bad experience is a tad on the extreme side, though.
From a PC gaming perspective, until recently, very few games have taken full advantage of multi-core processors. Even if a game uses multi-core, they tend to be poorly optimized such that the load is not spread evenly across all cores. Your still better off getting the fastest CPU that you can buy even if it means getting a quad-core vs an octa-core.
Are you meaning that all power in the entire world?
If you are, then nothing. Gold would be fairly much useless in your post apocalyptic world as well though, you can't eat it, you can't use it for shelter, it is heavy... Bullets and livestock will be the trading commodities.
According to Fallout we'll be using bottlecaps.... mmmm.... Nuka Cola.....
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The last few times that I went to the cinema, I was very disappointment with the experience.
The last thing I saw was in 3D, so I had to pay an additional 5 bucks. So, 40 bucks for two people. Then 5 bucks for the "small" 200 ounce soda and another 5 bucks for a "small" dumpster full of popcorn.
Then you sit down in the grungy seat and watch the movie. Then notice that the audio is not really calibrated all that well.
Then the movie is over and you try to pry your shoes from the soda glue all over the floor. Maybe you even use the bathroom with the pervasive urine smell and racist comments carved into the doors.
Yeah... Hard to imagine that attendance is down.
My local theater became a Showcase de Lux with leather electronic recliner seating, etc. Yes, you pay a bit more for the ticket but the experience is completely different from the old sticky seat days on cheap night... That being said, the vast majority of movies on Bluray 4K look and sound just as good on my 65" UHD 4K TV and Denon Dobly Surround system as they do on the big screen and my fridge is a whole lot closer.
I do still go to the movies, but I'm picky about which I see on the big screen. The last was John Wick 2. The next one I will watch in the Theater is Ghost in the Shell.
On the contrary, there is no flaw. This is frustrating the NSA, which has asked eBay to be more Patriotic. Would be a shame if something were to happen to their nice website.
Does eBay/PayPay have a warrant canary?
The NSA doesn't need your login credentials for eBay to see what you are buying. I cross the border from the US to Canada for summer vacation and on occasion I bring eBay items back for family members. Canada charges tax on goods crossing the border into Canada that are going to be left there. The tax amount is based on the value. I always declare anything I bring with me but they sometimes double-check to make sure. I've seen them access account details based on eBay member ID. If the Canadian border patrol has this type of access, how much more does the NSA have?
Granted, Paypal, as a financial institution, might be a different story....
Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam?
Are you asking a question or making a statement?
Slashdot is... going down the toilet?
You might want to read it again, but this time read it like this "Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam. Really??"
See... when read like this it's a statement of amazement that something relatively minor and simple could fix, what seems to be, a technical problem. Most people would expect that a technical problem like this would require a technical fix. For example, soldering on a new antenna, etc. So, the title author used the question mark as a placeholder for a modifier that shows amazement.
This is a common enough writing technique that I'm surprised that anyone would have a hard time understanding its use...
I prefer to have the map on the screen with a north-up orientation no matter which way I'm travelling. I find it helps me keep my bearings and learn routes rather than surrender to the machine's step-by-step instructrions.
That's one way to do it, I guess. Personally, I just occasionally glance at the direction information on the electronic compass in my car (i.e. the compass direction that I am heading). For me, though, the biggest revelation was when I looked up how the US does route numbering. Routes that end in odd numbers are North South routes and routes that end in even numbers are East-West routes. It doesn't help much on side roads but once on major roads it helps you get close.
OK, that's true for fishing and crops but the employer in question is a dairy. Are those not fairly steady the entire year?
Perhaps, but the law was written to be relatively generic about each of the industries that it covers so that the law makers wouldn't have to maintain a huge list of specific businesses that falls under it or which should be excluded. In other words, the law is necessarily expansive to allow for new businesses in these industries that could fall under the law in the future. Otherwise, laws would have to be re-written every time a new instance arises that wasn't accounted for.
There are a number of items that can be unpacked from your question. You are saying that you have smart people who are Engineers but have little technical knowledge. You want to figure out how to get them to learn networking, etc. Not only that, but you want them to get to a level where they can operate autonomously.
To begin with, you can't instill curiosity or an interest in technical skills in people, all you can do is encourage them or hire people who already have that drive and tinker at home. One way to encourage them would be to offer technical training and perhaps a bonus for getting specific certifications related to the skills you need.
That being said, it sounds like you need to hire someone with technical experience who can be used to support the engineers. Why would you waste the time of Engineers to learn technical stuff when they could be working on other things that makes your company money?
I am concerned that Google is attempting to act as a gatekeeper and arbiter of truth. While holocaust denial is certainly appalling, what else are they going to censor? What if China decides that Tiananmen Square is offensive?
From my understanding, they are not censoring the speech, they are just making sure that factual results occur at the top of the search list. I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to search on things like holocaust denial and still get to the pages. They just won't show up when you ask a direct question that requires a factual answer.
Conflate it as much as you like with free speech, but there are proven facts that are under assault by outright lies (i.e. "alternative facts") to support pre-conceived opinions. It's these that Google is trying to correct within their search results.
Free Speech is a right provided to protect citizens from the government and being put in jail for unpopular opinion. It does not apply to private corporations and Google does not have an obligation to provide a platform for free speech. Your form of free speech is to use Google or not based on their practices. If you don't like what they are doing, use another search provider...
in the winter, pretty sure it's colder than that.
It's the wind chill factor... (grin)
GMT-4 will not work for all of New England. Maine and Massachusetts should be on Atlantic time (GMT-4),
I'm all for it in Boston if we move permanently to Atlantic time (GMT-4). The only reason why Boston is on Eastern time is to match New York. This results in the sun being up at 5:30am and setting just after 8:00pm during the summer. Who needs the sun to be up at 5:30am? And who is stupid enough, other than farmers, to take advantage of it? You certainly can't hold a party at that time... Though, if it's a really good party, it might be ending around then... (grin)
The cost of buying computers over the last decade adds up to a bit no matter what you put on them.
I'm willing to bet that the cost isn't for hardware, it would be the same hardware whether they were running Windows or a Linux variant. The cost probably went into development of their version of Linux, the packaging and testing of the OS and apps, the development of a support system, and training. All of this requires labour, which tends to be more expensive than software (i.e. most of this would be off-the-shelf software in the Windows world).
I went to the fine article and I still can't tell what is being argued over. What's a ghost driver? What does Greyball do, exactly and how does it thwart oversight? None of that is clear anywhere! I'm used to figuring things out given context but the context is so dense or missing I can't tell what is going on or why.
BTW: The second link is not germane to the conversation. It's bringing up the CIA leak from earlier this week, not the Uber article.
It sounds like Uber has drivers in locations where it is against the law to do so. In order to "hide" them from regulators (turn them into ghost drivers), it looks like they created a list of regulators and government employees that was then used in the app to filter out who could get ride sharing service. For example, if John worked for the transport department he wouldn't be able to hail an Uber through the app. However, if Mary was a regular person standing next to John, her ride hail would go through.
At least that's my understanding...
This will force CS programs to reevaluate how they teach about tree structures. Why traverse a tree when you can look at it?
Because in quantum computing, as soon as you observe the tree it becomes a single fixed state and the whole thing just sits there doing nothing until you look away.... Kinda like the Weeping Angels in Dr Who...
The issues with KeePass generally is synchronization of your password database. You can put it into a USB stick and it gets out of sync, or you can put it up in the cloud, but then it's sort of our of your control..
I use KeePass for my password database and then Syncthing to sync it on all my devices. It's light enough to work on a Raspberry Pi, so it's easy to setup a Syncthing cluster. Resilio (previously known as Bittorent Sync) works too, but I've never tried it personally.
The result is an Open Source password manager, with a database that's synchronized between all my devices and in my control.
I sync my KeePass to the cloud. But, I've also set it up with two-factor authentication. You need both the key file and the password. I place the key file on my portable devices using offline methods. So, even though the database is in the cloud, it's much more secure, in my opinion, than online key managers.
The submitter makes it sound like there was no other choice but to rely on one of the "Gang of Five" when that is far from true. And seriously with the Nickname? There is already a GoF (Gang of Four) on tech. Clearly these guys aren't hard core techies.
Well, when Microsoft (long overdue) drops out, they'll be the Gang of Four, at least in this particular writer's mind... Snapchat is an app, much like FB. FB will also falter, and already is on the slippery slope of Google Wave, Buzz, So.cl etc. Something else will take its place, or it will become the EA of social sites.
For Facebook to falter an entire generation would have to jump ship, typically the next generation coming up. I don't see that happening today. Usually this type of schism is prompted by technology change. Perhaps the next social media landing place will be in VR. But until then, I don't see Facebook being replaced any time soon.
Intel is not worried. How is ARM any more of a threat today than AMD was?
Intel started building lower powered chips a long time ago to compete with ARM and have, in a number of areas, surpassed them. Time and again, Intel has been able to ramp up their R&D to stave off serious competition. I don't see ARM being any different.
1) Don't set up an access point. If you still need an access point, set up a encrypted one (which you should do anyways) and don't give the isolated PC the keys. WiFi isn't magic; if there's no place for it to go, it's not going to go anywhere.
2) Put a Faraday cage around the antenna. This could be as simple as wrapping it in foil.
Better option, buy a Lenovo M900 mini PC without WiFi and use it exclusively to work on your client files. It's small enough to move around and should be powerful enough (i5 / i7) for most tasks...
Rap should be classified as poetry. In the chart, it would go right below Vogon poetry.
No... Vogon poetry, according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, has a good chance of killing the listener. Rap has never killed anyone. The Rapper might have, but that's a different story....
Actually, the whole storage is treated as a managed unit. Not only are the shelves narrower (you only need enough space for the bin of products and the picker robot that pulls the bins and brings them out), but they're a lot taller as well. A human powered warehouse has a height limitation because they can only reach so high up. A robotic one can be easily a few storeys high thus making extensive use of the space.
And there's a "cache" area that holds bins that have popular product so it doesn't have to be fetched from the main storage area all the time.
In fact, it's all computer controlled. When new product comes in, the receiver tells the computer to send them an empty bin (they all have IDs), and the receiver simply loads the bin up with product, scanning them as they're put on the bin. Once done, the computer moves the bin into the storage area and manages where it'll put the items. All that needs to be done is someone telling the computer what product is being put in and the computer manages it from there.
This also means the storage is organized somewhat randomly - since the computer knows where all the bins are (and thus, where products are) it doesn't have to arrange the stock by any particular system. In fact, it probably does it by popularity - the more popular items are in locations that can be retrieved quickly while least popular items will require more time to fetch.
And it's all dynamic.
So... if the whole thing crashed and the inventory is randomized and unreachable during Christmas time... that would suck.... I can hear it now, "Has anyone found the PS5 bin yet??"
I expect quantum computing would be like battery improvements: something people continue to complain about being hype, even while at the same time it migrates into their everyday lives without them noticing. I mainly expect that should quantum computing chips make their way into consumer processors, your average programmer would never touch them - but backend system library calls that they make would increasingly use them without the frontend developer ever being aware.
Given that the quantum computer requires super-cooling, it's highly unlikely that it's going to migrate into our lives any time soon...
"In order to function as a quantum computer, it has to be super-cooled at all times. The system sits at the bottom of refrigeration system where the temperature is roughly 0.015 degrees above absolute zero."
http://mashable.com/2016/05/04...
I'd ask if you want one right now, but you'd probably change your mind
The fact that you've observed him wanting one means that the result is now in a fixed position.
Anytime you visit Google with a non-Chrome browser it tries to push Chrome on you.
You prompted me to try it, went to Google's home page (with Firefox 45.7.0). What you claim did not happen. Sorry.
I haven't seen this either on Google's homepage in a while. However, you do get prompted to install Chrome as part of many download installers. At least many have switched the bundled installer to using a legitimate program over malware and spyware.
There is so much fake news today that people don't know what to believe. Alternative sources can at least get people who want to look a different source for facts, or often a more complete set of facts. Flagging "disputed" from a biased perspective does not help anyone return a full set of facts.
It's really funny how the anti-Trump people bash Fox, yet ignore their own team (not really, it's quite common). FSN is often just as left leaning as CNN or MSNBC depending on the time of day and show running.
The big problem in the US today is that there are simply no reliable sources of news. Just as rare, are reasonable opinions that argue with a full set of facts.
The problem with both Fox and CNN isn't that they don't present the facts, they do. However, they then spin those same facts during their gossip sessions with "analysts". They also tend to pick out which news stories to present. If they spent less time gossiping with analysts they would have much more time to present all news stories, not just a selection of them. The problem with this is that they found that they get better ratings through talking politics than anything else.
HP servers were middle of the road. Compaq servers and workstations were excellent. HP servers and workstations are good today because of that merger.
The "bad" review? Was from hothardware....you ever went to that site without adblock? Last time I did the entire page was NOTHING but Intel ads.
From what I've seen there is 4 sites you should never listen to, hothardware, Ars Technica, and the worst are Tom's Hardware (where their "expert" told a person asking what CPU to buy for GAMING that he should buy a Pentium dual core over a lower priced AMD X6 even though he admitted that most games the person wanted to play required a quad) and Anandtech who went so far as to drop several new triple A titles from their benchmark that so happened to play better on AMD hardware and replaced them with older titles that were expressly built with Nvidia Gameworks (which has been shown to have "cripple AMD" code baked in)...you wanna guess who their biggest advertiser is?
Its sad that I have to even say this but you really have to do some digging before you can actually take any "news" as credible as we have had so many cozy deals with advertisers and companies affiliated with those they are reviewing that a good chunk of what you see and hear these days is just corporate propaganda or FUD.
Toms Hardware is excellent, from my experience, for their hardware reviews. I've been building my own systems for a long time now and have used their reviews as primary source for selecting hardware components and have never had a problem with their findings. As for their "forum experts", I've had no experience with them. Saying that a whole site is horrible based on one bad experience is a tad on the extreme side, though.
From a PC gaming perspective, until recently, very few games have taken full advantage of multi-core processors. Even if a game uses multi-core, they tend to be poorly optimized such that the load is not spread evenly across all cores. Your still better off getting the fastest CPU that you can buy even if it means getting a quad-core vs an octa-core.
Are you meaning that all power in the entire world?
If you are, then nothing. Gold would be fairly much useless in your post apocalyptic world as well though, you can't eat it, you can't use it for shelter, it is heavy... Bullets and livestock will be the trading commodities.
According to Fallout we'll be using bottlecaps.... mmmm.... Nuka Cola.....