True. I used to swear by my Kindle and in the last year and a half I've been reading -- and have bought -- almost entirely only paper books.
Never going back to books, too bulky... I used to buy 10 to 15 books (hardcover and paperback) for summer vacation and have to pack a cardboard box. Now I just throw my kindle into my computer bag. I charge a battery pack with solar and use it to charge the Kindle, which only has to be done once, if that, over a 2 week vacation. Plus, our entire family shares one Kindle account so all of the books we buy are available in one library.
The one thing improvement that I really wish for a future Kindle version would be a high quality full color e-ink display (they are having problems developing this) that shows the cover of the book that I am reading. The cover was always a bookmark in my mind of the story that I was reading. Even if I put down a book for a while, just looking at the cover would bring back the story in my mind and where I had gotten to.
I do miss the visceral feel of turning the page of a book, just not enough to go through the hassle of carrying them around and storing them...
Like ebooks without the electrons? What happens if there's no Wi-Fi?
You can read sci-fi without wi-fi. High five!
Maybe, but you're stuck reading that one book.... That's why I have a Kindle... Download a ton of books once, power lasts for just over a week without a charge (depending on how often you use the back light)... great for camping, vacations, and power outages...
If you can't afford a real, signed certificate, you can't get your message out
Real signed certificates are affordable to anyone with $0 in their pocket. It isn't really a hurdle at all.
You are wrong. Sure, you can self sign a certificate by running your own root CA, but people visiting the site over the Internet will get a prompt saying that the certificate is not trusted. In order to get a certificate that does not produce a security prompt you need to get that certificate from one of the established certificate providers (root CA is trusted by most browsers by default).
However, this brings up a good point. If Google is so set on HTTPS being a standard, why don't they offer web certs for a minimal fee (i.e. $1 a year)?
Now bring back the trackball. Please. nice big ball, contoured to your hand, buttons in the right spots. Too bad they have moving parts that do wear out.
Still exists... Take a look at the Kensington Expert Mouse... plus, they have a 5-year/3-year warranty for the wired/wireless version.
I've tried their wireless versions and I always go back to the wired version due to inteference/lag. I haven't tried the newest Bluetooth version yet, though. However, wireless is much less important for a proper trackball than it is for a mouse.
Ok so everyone insisting that cold climates didn't affect EVs so I should definitely get an EV.... was lying to me?
Anyone saying that cold climates do not affect EV's either weren't specific enough in what they meant or were smoking something.
As stated by another poster, cold weather and more specifically, a cold battery, affects the range of the vehicle. I've read that it can be up to a 40% loss in distance.
Personally, I live in the New England area and would not feel comfortable owning an EV as my primary vehicle. Between cold snaps, winter storms, traffic, and some of the distances that I drive, there is, in my opinion, a much wider range of safety latitude running an ICE vehicle vs an EV.
But that's just my opinion. Everyone has different driving needs and an EV might be a better fit for you.
They still don't get it, which is frankly quite the feat.
We don't want mobiles-like desktops. We don't want desktop-like mobiles. We want mobiles that are mobiles, and desktops that are desktops. They're two distinctly different devices, and should be treated as such.
I would love to have something like this to replace my old Nexus 7. There is room in the market for a mid sized mobile device that is pocketable for two very simple reasons: Not everyone is comfortable reading tiny web pages or scrolling forever through excel attachemnts on a cell phone and some people enjoy a slightly bigger surface to type on.
My biggest question for a device like this, assuming a continuous screen, is just how durable the screen is going to be over repetitive opening and closing? And, assuming a limited lifetime, how easy and how costly is it going to be to replace the screen?
I don't understand the fixation on the terminology, while ignoring the interesting aspects of what it does.
The terminology is very well defined in the industry, and accepted by most who participate. Deep neural network are a part of the family of machine learning algorithms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning), which is, in turn, a subset of the field of artificial intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning).
They key different from what you call "pattern recognition" is that there is no explicit coding of the algorithm, but the algorithm instead is "learned" through examples.
Nobody is saying that the machine is intelligent. You'd do yourself good to look past the disagreement with the established terminology and look at the technology itself. You might find it interesting.
I think that the fixation on the terminology is due to two simple concepts. First, we've seen terminology used as marketing speak for both vaporware and for products that are much more limited than suggested (i.e. the devil is in the details). Second, hardly anyone cares how a particular subset of field of research defines localized terminology except people within that field. Redefining the term AI to mean less than the general usage seems to be just plain silly. It's like calling an apartment a house and being irked when someone calls you out on it.
Should the focus be on the actual technology (which is actually kinda cool)? Yes.
Should the terminology used be more accurate? Yes.
In fact, I think that we just might be smart enough to do both... maybe.....grin.
" 1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella"
Well, plans don't get any more concrete than that, do they?
Hey, remember all those Google hardware initiatives that were runaway smash hits?
Me neither...
Well... there was the Nexus 7.... It was small enough and portable enough that I could throw it in my cargo-shorts and large enough to browse the web (phones are too small for this), read books, etc. But that was built by ASUS and Google discontinued it... stupid Google!!
and Google Chromecast... I've never used it but it's been selling.....
But, I agree. I don't see the room for another gaming system. I figured that this had been proven by the lack of interest in the Steam gaming systems. https://www.pcgamer.com/what-h...
Why do rockets get priority over airliners so the airliners have to reroute around rocket launches?
Cause rich asshole, of course.
It's the same as boating rules. The more maneuverable vessel gives the right away to the less maneuverable vessel.
Spacecraft during a launch have much tighter windows to make a specific orbit, have much tighter environmental requirements (i.e. a relatively calm day), have a limited amount of fuel (in comparison to an airplane), and, by their nature, cannot avoid other objects. All of these add up to good reasons why airlines have to give way and re-route.
Also, space launches are seen as much more important and have much more invested in them then a 10 minute delay for a few passenger jets.
It depends on whether you're willing to spend money for additional security.
Personal authentication is less secure, but you don't need anything besides the router.
Enterprise authentication is more secure but requires additional infrastructure. E.g., the 802.1X authentication for WPA2 Enterprise requires a RADIUS server or equivalent to authenticate users. Since enterprise authentication is unique for each user, you can assign network access with per-user profiles with more equipment (e.g., Cisco ISE).
And if you want to do Corporate certificate authentication it requires a certificate infrastructure, certificate management, and a way to install certificates on devices (i.e. AD policies, Airwatch, etc.).
Which isn't remotely what happened here. A dozen solar install locations are not "20% of their business operations".
Tesla's solar division (formerly SolarCity) is transitioning from being a (low margin) installer of other people's solar panels into a solar roofing product manufacturer.
In addition, if the US tariff war continues for any length of time, the cost of solar panels from outside of the US will eat into the low profit margin of the home retail solar market. Reorganizing and repositioning the retail solar division makes smart business sense.
I think you misunderstood. You don't take the lid off, you lift it to take a sip when there's a clear stretch, and put the lid back on.
If potholes are bad, the last thing you want to do is using cup holders. It's safer holding it in hands working as hydraulic shock absorbers.
And you are deliberately being obtuse.... The paper cup gets it's strength from the cover. If the cover is loose and you tighten your grip, which you normally do when you hit a bump, there is a high likely-hood that you will crush the cup, causing the contents to push out into your lap if it doesn't spill out from the bump.
The lids aren't built to be lifted (in comparison to Starbucks lids). Perhaps if there was a plastic tab that you can lift, then it would make sense.
The emails that you are referring to are from the DNC hack. There have been no reports or evidence of Clinton's personal email server ever being hacked. In fact, an inspection by the FBI found that there was no evidence of any intrusion and the report cited for this article criticizes Comey for even suggesting in public statements that it could have been.
The main issues that were raised about Clinton's email server is that:
- She was running a personal email server with no archiving of government communication. However, this was allowed by an exception/loophole in the rules that has since been closed.
- It was being used for classified communication: About a dozen emails were classified after they were received. They were all sent by someone to Clinton. There hasn't been any evidence that she actually sent classified email herself using the mail server.
- Email Deletion: A bunch of emails were deleted. There was a request by Clinton to delete personal email (vs Government related) months earlier but the Email Admin didn't do it until after a subpoena was issued. Either he was simply lazy and had a "crap, I forgot to..." moment or was ordered to do it, depending on your perspective. In any case, there was no evidence of anyone on the Clinton team communicating with the Email Admin after the subpoena was issued.
While you or I may not like it, what Clinton did was actually legal under the rules. The rules have been fixed. The crappy part is that people only remember the accusations and hardly even revise their opinion when the facts come to light.
No, you are not wrong. I would go so far as to say that a modern CPU is probably one of the most complex machines on the planet. There are bound to be bugs and exploits in all of them. I'm just suffering from a case of buyers regret I believe.
I've been looking to build two new machines - one for music production and another for gaming. Do I have to worry about this crap? I was going to start ordering parts when all this started coming out. You think I should just wait?
My understanding is that Meltdown and Spectre require access to the physical device. I don't know if this is the same for the new exploit. Some parts of the exploits can be mitigated by OS, firmware, and BIOS updates, but it requires a CPU redesign to truly solve the issue. In my mind, any exploit that requires physical access is less of a concern than exploits that can be leveraged through malware. The reason is that once someone has physical access to your system I figure that you're screwed anyway.
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
Your bias is showing.... personally I'm glad that Microsoft entered the Windows tablet market.
The Surface tablet line isn't a tablet in the sense of the iPad, Android, etc. It's a full fledged Windows laptop in tablet format. I have the Surface Pro 4 and love it. I haven't used my Dell XPS 13 in over a year. The Surface Pro 4 has a MicroSD card slot and a USB connector. Which means no special adapters needed for backing up my photos, connecting to USB devices, etc.
As for breakthroughs, if you completely ignore the advancement of lower power high-end processors, then yeah, nothing new to see here... However, if you want an I7 Windows tablet that runs all day, then you might want to pay attention.
Well no as MS didn't acquire the patents. They got the device and services part of Nokia. Nokia still retains their patent portfolio.
Yes, Microsoft did buy design patents. But I probably used a poor choice of words when I said that they received the patent portfolio. What they did get was "...8,500 of Nokia’s design patents"
You are right in one respect, they didn't buy ALL of Nokia's patents
"It bought the design patents outright but will license Nokia's 30,000 utility patents patents for 10 years. By not acquiring the entirety of Nokia's patents, Microsoft was able to keep the acquisition cost of the Devices and Services down while preserving future assets for Nokia"
It's still an accomplishment though since it's the first ever consumer CPU to run at a such an insane clockrate.
It does not sound insane to me. I mean, back in 2002, we had Pentium III running at 1.4 GHz, and not long after, the P4 3.06 GHz. 16 years later, and we haven't been able to double the PIII clock rate twice or the P4 clock rate once?
For perspective, in the same time span, we have gone from 133 MHz SDRAM and 533 MHz RDRAM to 3200 MHz DDR4. That's a far more impressive clock rate increase. If this trend continues, we'll soon have to offload cycle dependent calculations from the CPU to the RAM controller because it's going to be faster...:p
While it's true that Intel hasn't doubled the clock rate yet of a P4, efficiencies gained in additional cache, predictive algorithms, out of order processing, faster memory, faster and larger PCI lanes, multi-core processors, etc. has improved performance by multitudes.
The one thing that I have noticed is that with the rise in mobile computing, it seems that building more powerful CPUs has taken a backseat to building more power efficient CPUs.
Yeah, look how well it worked out for Nokia. MS buys it, then jacks around and does NOTHING for a couple years, while the guys that sold it, are under agreement to NOT do anything related. (for 7.5 billion I'd do a lot of nothing too)...then MS silently KILLS it.
Yes, Microsoft killed the Nokia cell phone as a product, but they get what they wanted.... the patents, R&D, and designs.
Anyone following the cell phone market, Nokia, and the acquisition by Microsoft knew that Nokia phones were already dead, including Microsoft. With iPhone and Android phones, there wasn't any room for a third mobile phone OS competitor. What Microsoft was buying was Nokia's patent portfolio. With all of the lawsuits over cell phone patents, Microsoft wanted arrows in their quiver for future mobile products.
For example, Microsoft just came out with the Surface Pro LTE version. It also looks like Microsoft is developing a Surface Phone (slated for 2018) that will run Windows 10. The point is that Microsoft isn't done with the mobile market just yet and what they bought from Nokia was just the foundation of things to come....
Get back to us when there are a statistically significant number of Tesla cars on the roads, you shill.
Huh?
The whole point is that there aren't a statistically significant number of Tesla cars on the roads but they're making all the headlines.
2000 gasoline gars explode? Nothing to see here.
A story involving a Tesla? Front page news!
1. Gasoline cars exploding is largely movie fiction.
2. "Most car fires aren’t caused by accidents, but by bad car maintenance. According to the National Fire Protection Association, collisions or turnovers caused only three percent of vehicle fires. Leaks, breaks in parts, electrical or mechanical failure and even worn-out parts are the more common causes of car fires."
In other words, older poorly-maintained cars. It will be interesting to see if we see the same statistics with 2nd and 3rd hand Tesla vehicles when they get old enough.
As for the coverage, it because it's new tech that isn't fully accepted or understood yet and people are interested in it. It's kinda like asking why the Volcano in Hawaii is getting so much coverage given that there are about 50 eruptions per year...
Then why quote snopes? That's very 90's as they have been extremely left leaning for a long while. They are the type that likes to split hairs when it suits them while other times conflating immigrant with illegal immigrant all the while pretending that they are above board and honest.
Typical knee-jerk response... complain about Snopes being out of date/touch (which it isn't) and left leaning but doesn't provide another site that works to get the facts right.
At least provide one web site that actually works to get to the truth that is unbiased (in your opinion). Otherwise your complaint is more about you believing what you want, regardless of the facts.
English spellings are complex because English, like America, is a melting pot.
English isn't French. That's an important distinction, because while France has the Académie Français, English has nothing of the sort, and accepts words from the entire world.
And simplifications are happening. For example, fast food isn't purchased at a drive-through, it's purchased at a drive-thru.
And then there's the example of the constant penis debate. Is it pluralized as penii, or penises? It's penises, of course, but some people like to go back to the word origin, which sometimes leads to bizarre results.
Tell that to a Quebecois, or an Acadian, or people in other french speaking areas of the world. The point is that French is just as complex and has it's own dialects. The Acadamie Francais sounds good until you realize that it's just as effective as Webster's dictionary....
I noticed that "hysteresis" effect, too. When you start at one end or the other, your brain locks onto one or the other sound and you keep recognizing that word past the "critical point" on the slider you lost it at in the other direction. Once you become accustomed to hearing one or the other you get biased to keep hearing it despite it trending in the other direction.
That happened to me accidentally the other day, it was on some TV show I wasn't really paying attention to, and for the first time I heard "Laurel" distinctly, then my brain shifted to hearing "Yanny" and I rewound the DVR and all I could hear on replays was "Yanny".
This is sort of similar to the optical illusion of the staircase that can be going up or down until you "flip" it by seeing it going the other way, or the 2 faces/vase silhouettes illusion, or the inside-out face, they all make your brain "click" or "flip" from one interpretation of the image to the other.
I noticed this as a simple result of having the volume low on my computer speaker system. At low volume the bias is to hear the higher pitches and I heard Yanny. At higher volume, the bass is given a bigger sound stage and it was then that I was able to hear Laurel. My thought is that what you hear has more to do with the speaker quality, volume, and sound range than anything else.
Behind? As far as power goes, we've sent humans to space, and yet 100 years of internal combustion engine development hasn't been able to create instant torque response that an EV can deliver every time. Performance numbers certainly aren't lacking for the maker of "ludicrous" mode either.
Range is dictated by battery tech, and you're getting a hell of a lot more out of rechargeable batteries today than you were 20 years ago. My first cell phone had an hour of talk time. Another decade of battery development will likely create EV solutions with a 1,500-mile range, which at that point the metric is pointless, because human passengers would never want to sit in a car that long.
Battery tech has improved in regards to fixing the battery memory problem and faster recharge times but has little to do with how long your cell phone lasts. Most major battery improvements over the last 10 years are due to three factors: Shrinking electronics has allowed for larger capacity batteries, electronics have become much more energy efficient (i.e. lower power displays), and power management improvements.
As far as I can tell, the accepted wisdom is that battery capacity increases at 5% to 8% per year. In 10 years a 300 mile Tesla would be able to go about 500 miles. That being said, there is a ton of research being done on using capacitors and on developing the next battery chemistry that will supplant what we have today. So, it's quite possible that a breakthrough will happen and provide a range of 1500 miles. However, in my opinion, the current pace of battery technology does not support this with existing battery technology.
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True. I used to swear by my Kindle and in the last year and a half I've been reading -- and have bought -- almost entirely only paper books.
Never going back to books, too bulky... I used to buy 10 to 15 books (hardcover and paperback) for summer vacation and have to pack a cardboard box. Now I just throw my kindle into my computer bag. I charge a battery pack with solar and use it to charge the Kindle, which only has to be done once, if that, over a 2 week vacation. Plus, our entire family shares one Kindle account so all of the books we buy are available in one library.
The one thing improvement that I really wish for a future Kindle version would be a high quality full color e-ink display (they are having problems developing this) that shows the cover of the book that I am reading. The cover was always a bookmark in my mind of the story that I was reading. Even if I put down a book for a while, just looking at the cover would bring back the story in my mind and where I had gotten to.
I do miss the visceral feel of turning the page of a book, just not enough to go through the hassle of carrying them around and storing them...
Like ebooks without the electrons? What happens if there's no Wi-Fi?
You can read sci-fi without wi-fi. High five!
Maybe, but you're stuck reading that one book.... That's why I have a Kindle... Download a ton of books once, power lasts for just over a week without a charge (depending on how often you use the back light)... great for camping, vacations, and power outages...
If you can't afford a real, signed certificate, you can't get your message out
Real signed certificates are affordable to anyone with $0 in their pocket. It isn't really a hurdle at all.
You are wrong. Sure, you can self sign a certificate by running your own root CA, but people visiting the site over the Internet will get a prompt saying that the certificate is not trusted. In order to get a certificate that does not produce a security prompt you need to get that certificate from one of the established certificate providers (root CA is trusted by most browsers by default).
However, this brings up a good point. If Google is so set on HTTPS being a standard, why don't they offer web certs for a minimal fee (i.e. $1 a year)?
Now bring back the trackball. Please. nice big ball, contoured to your hand, buttons in the right spots. Too bad they have moving parts that do wear out.
Still exists... Take a look at the Kensington Expert Mouse... plus, they have a 5-year/3-year warranty for the wired/wireless version.
I've tried their wireless versions and I always go back to the wired version due to inteference/lag. I haven't tried the newest Bluetooth version yet, though. However, wireless is much less important for a proper trackball than it is for a mouse.
Ok so everyone insisting that cold climates didn't affect EVs so I should definitely get an EV.... was lying to me?
Anyone saying that cold climates do not affect EV's either weren't specific enough in what they meant or were smoking something.
As stated by another poster, cold weather and more specifically, a cold battery, affects the range of the vehicle. I've read that it can be up to a 40% loss in distance.
Personally, I live in the New England area and would not feel comfortable owning an EV as my primary vehicle. Between cold snaps, winter storms, traffic, and some of the distances that I drive, there is, in my opinion, a much wider range of safety latitude running an ICE vehicle vs an EV.
But that's just my opinion. Everyone has different driving needs and an EV might be a better fit for you.
They still don't get it, which is frankly quite the feat.
We don't want mobiles-like desktops. We don't want desktop-like mobiles. We want mobiles that are mobiles, and desktops that are desktops. They're two distinctly different devices, and should be treated as such.
I would love to have something like this to replace my old Nexus 7. There is room in the market for a mid sized mobile device that is pocketable for two very simple reasons: Not everyone is comfortable reading tiny web pages or scrolling forever through excel attachemnts on a cell phone and some people enjoy a slightly bigger surface to type on.
My biggest question for a device like this, assuming a continuous screen, is just how durable the screen is going to be over repetitive opening and closing? And, assuming a limited lifetime, how easy and how costly is it going to be to replace the screen?
I don't understand the fixation on the terminology, while ignoring the interesting aspects of what it does.
The terminology is very well defined in the industry, and accepted by most who participate. Deep neural network are a part of the family of machine learning algorithms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning), which is, in turn, a subset of the field of artificial intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning).
They key different from what you call "pattern recognition" is that there is no explicit coding of the algorithm, but the algorithm instead is "learned" through examples.
Nobody is saying that the machine is intelligent. You'd do yourself good to look past the disagreement with the established terminology and look at the technology itself. You might find it interesting.
I think that the fixation on the terminology is due to two simple concepts. First, we've seen terminology used as marketing speak for both vaporware and for products that are much more limited than suggested (i.e. the devil is in the details). Second, hardly anyone cares how a particular subset of field of research defines localized terminology except people within that field. Redefining the term AI to mean less than the general usage seems to be just plain silly. It's like calling an apartment a house and being irked when someone calls you out on it.
Should the focus be on the actual technology (which is actually kinda cool)? Yes.
Should the terminology used be more accurate? Yes.
In fact, I think that we just might be smart enough to do both... maybe.... .grin.
" 1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella"
Well, plans don't get any more concrete than that, do they?
Hey, remember all those Google hardware initiatives that were runaway smash hits?
Me neither...
Well... there was the Nexus 7.... It was small enough and portable enough that I could throw it in my cargo-shorts and large enough to browse the web (phones are too small for this), read books, etc. But that was built by ASUS and Google discontinued it... stupid Google!!
and Google Chromecast... I've never used it but it's been selling.....
But, I agree. I don't see the room for another gaming system. I figured that this had been proven by the lack of interest in the Steam gaming systems.
https://www.pcgamer.com/what-h...
Why do rockets get priority over airliners so the airliners have to reroute around rocket launches?
Cause rich asshole, of course.
It's the same as boating rules. The more maneuverable vessel gives the right away to the less maneuverable vessel.
Spacecraft during a launch have much tighter windows to make a specific orbit, have much tighter environmental requirements (i.e. a relatively calm day), have a limited amount of fuel (in comparison to an airplane), and, by their nature, cannot avoid other objects. All of these add up to good reasons why airlines have to give way and re-route.
Also, space launches are seen as much more important and have much more invested in them then a 10 minute delay for a few passenger jets.
It depends on whether you're willing to spend money for additional security.
Personal authentication is less secure, but you don't need anything besides the router.
Enterprise authentication is more secure but requires additional infrastructure. E.g., the 802.1X authentication for WPA2 Enterprise requires a RADIUS server or equivalent to authenticate users. Since enterprise authentication is unique for each user, you can assign network access with per-user profiles with more equipment (e.g., Cisco ISE).
And if you want to do Corporate certificate authentication it requires a certificate infrastructure, certificate management, and a way to install certificates on devices (i.e. AD policies, Airwatch, etc.).
Which isn't remotely what happened here. A dozen solar install locations are not "20% of their business operations".
Tesla's solar division (formerly SolarCity) is transitioning from being a (low margin) installer of other people's solar panels into a solar roofing product manufacturer.
In addition, if the US tariff war continues for any length of time, the cost of solar panels from outside of the US will eat into the low profit margin of the home retail solar market. Reorganizing and repositioning the retail solar division makes smart business sense.
I think you misunderstood. You don't take the lid off, you lift it to take a sip when there's a clear stretch, and put the lid back on.
If potholes are bad, the last thing you want to do is using cup holders. It's safer holding it in hands working as hydraulic shock absorbers.
And you are deliberately being obtuse.... The paper cup gets it's strength from the cover. If the cover is loose and you tighten your grip, which you normally do when you hit a bump, there is a high likely-hood that you will crush the cup, causing the contents to push out into your lap if it doesn't spill out from the bump.
The lids aren't built to be lifted (in comparison to Starbucks lids). Perhaps if there was a plastic tab that you can lift, then it would make sense.
The emails that you are referring to are from the DNC hack. There have been no reports or evidence of Clinton's personal email server ever being hacked. In fact, an inspection by the FBI found that there was no evidence of any intrusion and the report cited for this article criticizes Comey for even suggesting in public statements that it could have been.
The main issues that were raised about Clinton's email server is that:
- She was running a personal email server with no archiving of government communication. However, this was allowed by an exception/loophole in the rules that has since been closed.
- It was being used for classified communication: About a dozen emails were classified after they were received. They were all sent by someone to Clinton. There hasn't been any evidence that she actually sent classified email herself using the mail server.
- Email Deletion: A bunch of emails were deleted. There was a request by Clinton to delete personal email (vs Government related) months earlier but the Email Admin didn't do it until after a subpoena was issued. Either he was simply lazy and had a "crap, I forgot to..." moment or was ordered to do it, depending on your perspective. In any case, there was no evidence of anyone on the Clinton team communicating with the Email Admin after the subpoena was issued.
While you or I may not like it, what Clinton did was actually legal under the rules. The rules have been fixed. The crappy part is that people only remember the accusations and hardly even revise their opinion when the facts come to light.
I've been looking to build two new machines - one for music production and another for gaming. Do I have to worry about this crap? I was going to start ordering parts when all this started coming out. You think I should just wait?
My understanding is that Meltdown and Spectre require access to the physical device. I don't know if this is the same for the new exploit. Some parts of the exploits can be mitigated by OS, firmware, and BIOS updates, but it requires a CPU redesign to truly solve the issue. In my mind, any exploit that requires physical access is less of a concern than exploits that can be leveraged through malware. The reason is that once someone has physical access to your system I figure that you're screwed anyway.
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
Your bias is showing.... personally I'm glad that Microsoft entered the Windows tablet market.
The Surface tablet line isn't a tablet in the sense of the iPad, Android, etc. It's a full fledged Windows laptop in tablet format. I have the Surface Pro 4 and love it. I haven't used my Dell XPS 13 in over a year. The Surface Pro 4 has a MicroSD card slot and a USB connector. Which means no special adapters needed for backing up my photos, connecting to USB devices, etc.
As for breakthroughs, if you completely ignore the advancement of lower power high-end processors, then yeah, nothing new to see here... However, if you want an I7 Windows tablet that runs all day, then you might want to pay attention.
Well no as MS didn't acquire the patents. They got the device and services part of Nokia. Nokia still retains their patent portfolio.
Yes, Microsoft did buy design patents. But I probably used a poor choice of words when I said that they received the patent portfolio. What they did get was "...8,500 of Nokia’s design patents"
You are right in one respect, they didn't buy ALL of Nokia's patents
"It bought the design patents outright but will license Nokia's 30,000 utility patents patents for 10 years. By not acquiring the entirety of Nokia's patents, Microsoft was able to keep the acquisition cost of the Devices and Services down while preserving future assets for Nokia"
https://readwrite.com/2013/09/...
It's still an accomplishment though since it's the first ever consumer CPU to run at a such an insane clockrate.
It does not sound insane to me. I mean, back in 2002, we had Pentium III running at 1.4 GHz, and not long after, the P4 3.06 GHz.
16 years later, and we haven't been able to double the PIII clock rate twice or the P4 clock rate once?
For perspective, in the same time span, we have gone from 133 MHz SDRAM and 533 MHz RDRAM to 3200 MHz DDR4. That's a far more impressive clock rate increase. :p
If this trend continues, we'll soon have to offload cycle dependent calculations from the CPU to the RAM controller because it's going to be faster...
While it's true that Intel hasn't doubled the clock rate yet of a P4, efficiencies gained in additional cache, predictive algorithms, out of order processing, faster memory, faster and larger PCI lanes, multi-core processors, etc. has improved performance by multitudes.
The one thing that I have noticed is that with the rise in mobile computing, it seems that building more powerful CPUs has taken a backseat to building more power efficient CPUs.
Yeah, look how well it worked out for Nokia.
MS buys it, then jacks around and does NOTHING for a couple years, while the guys
that sold it, are under agreement to NOT do anything related. (for 7.5 billion I'd do a lot
of nothing too)...then MS silently KILLS it.
Yes, Microsoft killed the Nokia cell phone as a product, but they get what they wanted.... the patents, R&D, and designs.
Anyone following the cell phone market, Nokia, and the acquisition by Microsoft knew that Nokia phones were already dead, including Microsoft. With iPhone and Android phones, there wasn't any room for a third mobile phone OS competitor. What Microsoft was buying was Nokia's patent portfolio. With all of the lawsuits over cell phone patents, Microsoft wanted arrows in their quiver for future mobile products.
For example, Microsoft just came out with the Surface Pro LTE version. It also looks like Microsoft is developing a Surface Phone (slated for 2018) that will run Windows 10. The point is that Microsoft isn't done with the mobile market just yet and what they bought from Nokia was just the foundation of things to come....
Get back to us when there are a statistically significant number of Tesla cars on the roads, you shill.
Huh?
The whole point is that there aren't a statistically significant number of Tesla cars on the roads but they're making all the headlines.
2000 gasoline gars explode? Nothing to see here.
A story involving a Tesla? Front page news!
1. Gasoline cars exploding is largely movie fiction.
2. "Most car fires aren’t caused by accidents, but by bad car maintenance. According to the National Fire Protection Association, collisions or turnovers caused only three percent of vehicle fires. Leaks, breaks in parts, electrical or mechanical failure and even worn-out parts are the more common causes of car fires."
In other words, older poorly-maintained cars. It will be interesting to see if we see the same statistics with 2nd and 3rd hand Tesla vehicles when they get old enough.
As for the coverage, it because it's new tech that isn't fully accepted or understood yet and people are interested in it. It's kinda like asking why the Volcano in Hawaii is getting so much coverage given that there are about 50 eruptions per year...
I just prefer facts to conspiracy theories.
Then why quote snopes? That's very 90's as they have been extremely left leaning for a long while. They are the type that likes to split hairs when it suits them while other times conflating immigrant with illegal immigrant all the while pretending that they are above board and honest.
Typical knee-jerk response... complain about Snopes being out of date/touch (which it isn't) and left leaning but doesn't provide another site that works to get the facts right.
At least provide one web site that actually works to get to the truth that is unbiased (in your opinion). Otherwise your complaint is more about you believing what you want, regardless of the facts.
English spellings are complex because English, like America, is a melting pot.
English isn't French. That's an important distinction, because while France has the Académie Français, English has nothing of the sort, and accepts words from the entire world.
And simplifications are happening. For example, fast food isn't purchased at a drive-through, it's purchased at a drive-thru.
And then there's the example of the constant penis debate. Is it pluralized as penii, or penises? It's penises, of course, but some people like to go back to the word origin, which sometimes leads to bizarre results.
Tell that to a Quebecois, or an Acadian, or people in other french speaking areas of the world. The point is that French is just as complex and has it's own dialects. The Acadamie Francais sounds good until you realize that it's just as effective as Webster's dictionary....
I noticed that "hysteresis" effect, too. When you start at one end or the other, your brain locks onto one or the other sound and you keep recognizing that word past the "critical point" on the slider you lost it at in the other direction. Once you become accustomed to hearing one or the other you get biased to keep hearing it despite it trending in the other direction.
That happened to me accidentally the other day, it was on some TV show I wasn't really paying attention to, and for the first time I heard "Laurel" distinctly, then my brain shifted to hearing "Yanny" and I rewound the DVR and all I could hear on replays was "Yanny".
This is sort of similar to the optical illusion of the staircase that can be going up or down until you "flip" it by seeing it going the other way, or the 2 faces/vase silhouettes illusion, or the inside-out face, they all make your brain "click" or "flip" from one interpretation of the image to the other.
I noticed this as a simple result of having the volume low on my computer speaker system. At low volume the bias is to hear the higher pitches and I heard Yanny. At higher volume, the bass is given a bigger sound stage and it was then that I was able to hear Laurel. My thought is that what you hear has more to do with the speaker quality, volume, and sound range than anything else.
By the same token, Tom Brady is pushing past 40 and still making it to Super Bowls.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you're willing to cheat.
Even more amazing when you don't....
Sigh....There once was a time when people on Slashdot understood how temperature affects air pressure....
Behind? As far as power goes, we've sent humans to space, and yet 100 years of internal combustion engine development hasn't been able to create instant torque response that an EV can deliver every time. Performance numbers certainly aren't lacking for the maker of "ludicrous" mode either.
Range is dictated by battery tech, and you're getting a hell of a lot more out of rechargeable batteries today than you were 20 years ago. My first cell phone had an hour of talk time. Another decade of battery development will likely create EV solutions with a 1,500-mile range, which at that point the metric is pointless, because human passengers would never want to sit in a car that long.
Battery tech has improved in regards to fixing the battery memory problem and faster recharge times but has little to do with how long your cell phone lasts. Most major battery improvements over the last 10 years are due to three factors: Shrinking electronics has allowed for larger capacity batteries, electronics have become much more energy efficient (i.e. lower power displays), and power management improvements.
As far as I can tell, the accepted wisdom is that battery capacity increases at 5% to 8% per year. In 10 years a 300 mile Tesla would be able to go about 500 miles. That being said, there is a ton of research being done on using capacitors and on developing the next battery chemistry that will supplant what we have today. So, it's quite possible that a breakthrough will happen and provide a range of 1500 miles. However, in my opinion, the current pace of battery technology does not support this with existing battery technology.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
And for inventing the smart phone.
and inventing the mp3 player