So while each Amazon store would need less employees, with the increased profit margin the store can open more locations and in general higher more employees.
Amazon uses more automation, people only buy so much stuff, if Amazon opens more locations then the total number of retail jobs falls.
This is why I can't wait for the future where 3D printing becomes sophisticated enough to fabricate parts for situations like that. Even it's the type of horribly expensive machinery that only an auto shop could afford, it's still better than the current situation where the parts are far more difficult (and expensive) to come by.
Yeah, I'm going to have to let the car go because I just don't have the resources right now to figure out how to make poly bushes, or even hard aluminum ones.
I would like to see more ARM, RISC-V, and MIPS chips out there to loosen this unnaturally bad dependence upon two vendors: AMD and Intel. Both make shitty processors but AMDs are just less so.
The architectures vulnerable to MELTDOWN are Intel Core, some variants of IBM POWER/PowerPC, and... arm64. Now tell us again how wonderful ARM is.
If someone can figure out how to get MIPS to scale up to reasonable clock rates, then maybe it has a future outside of embedded. But nobody has managed it yet. It's left down in low-performance limbo with SuperH. ARM made it out of that hole, but it's the only one of that ilk which has.
It is a bit like cutting off fingers to be protected from frostbites, but it is somewhat true. JITed JS is realistically the only "remote execution" that can affect your PC.
What? Who told you that? There are holes in daemons which permit remote execution all the time. Most of the time these are not root-level (or in the case of NT, system-level) exploits and the damage that can be done is thus limited. That's why these processor exploits that permit looking into other processes are a security concern. Most attacks on systems require combinations of vulnerabilities.
Reaction the first: Thou art god. We humans have controlled the climate, to a degree. Now we need to do it intelligently.
Reaction the second: Of course not. We humans can't literally control the climate, we can only actually alter it. Which is why we need to stop doing things which are throwing it out of whack, because if we break it, we probably can't fix it.
The truth lies somewhere in between these two extremes. I think it's closer to the latter than the former, which is why we should stop screwing it up.
Keep in mind that you were probably running MS WIndows, which at that time disabled all caches if it detected a Cyrix chip to deliberately hurt performance.
Might be cheaper or less cumbersome than a throat mic.
Alas, pick one. The only boom mic that doesn't make me angry is the plantronics tube type, and those are spendy. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of product actually meant to do this job, either.
Upon reflection, I have had another thought. Are you sure the user's phone doesn't have a hidden mic gain setting? Back when I used to dick around with the Motorola Triplets phones &c (like RAZR) one of the things I frequently diddled was audio gain. And I seem to recall there being at least four different audio gain settings on those phones, though the details are now hazy. Earphone, mic, speaker, and music gains maybe? I suppose the details are also irrelevant.
Googling "build.prop mic gain" produced all kinds of interesting results, many of which are highly model-specific, so I'm not going to down that hole any meaningful distance. But if you're married to a software fix, there might actually be useful functionality in the phone already.
Rumor has it they were faster at executing x86, and also providing higher clock speeds on common socket architecture,
Rumor is false. As a cheap bastard, I tried the cheapass architectures, which sucked until the k7 came out. Cyrix chips were stunningly cheap, but also staggeringly slow. AMD chips were in the middle in both regards, with Intel by far fastest and most expensive. But then Athlon showed up and knocked Intel's socks directly off for a time, especially in multiprocessor systems where Hypertransport was a drastic improvement.
However, what is often missed in the analysis is that until recently, Intel was the world leader in process technology for years. Even without failing at security design, that gave them a part of their performance advantage. But those days are now gone, so what's Intel got over AMD? Answer, nothing.
RPG is role-playing game, such as pen and paper Dungeons and Dragons, where, in a limited sense, players act out the sensibilities of their characters. It's questionable if this has any meaning at all in a single-player game.
It has the same amount of meaning as the amount of effort spent providing options with consequences. For all their many failings, Bethesda games tend to have a decent handle on this. Some parts of the game have to happen, others are optional, and some are unavailable depending on who you've allied yourself with or what missions you've completed. Actions with consequences. And you have a limited set of options which are based on your character's characteristics.
What you call roleplaying is the persistent world concept, where actions have consequences out in the world. Almost no MMOs do this. If you see a monster respawn, that ain't it.
When you play paper RPGs, you're probably either going to get random encounters off a table, or the GM will simply assign you encounters based on whim. Fighting respawned monsters is no more ridiculous.
This kind of blanket statement show a complete lack of pragmatism. You are clearly an AMD fanboi in the same vein as anti-MS fanbois who would chant "anyone using a Windows operating system today is a complete fool". The world of computing is not so black and white,
It's only slightly more complicated. Anyone who has a choice who chooses Windows is a fool, and anyone who has a choice who chooses Intel is a fool. If Intel has done this, what else have they done? They have proven that they are untrustworthy. If you trust them, you are a fool.
And just WHO do you think will be writing the software for these "Infotainment Systems"?
QNX?
Maybe. Or maybe they'll run Android, which is the easiest and fastest way to be able to deliver google maps to the customer, which is what they're expecting.
This is important, since a longstanding UI feature of macOS (clear back to the Flying Toaster days!) are what they call "Hot Corners".
The corners weren't special back in the flying toaster days, except to certain applications. There wasn't anything special about them to the OS. Maybe there is now, I wouldn't know. My mac is both old and in storage. But various applications make sense of them on Windows, too.
The company stressed that no passwords stored inside users' Blur accounts were exposed.
"We do not have access to your most critical unencrypted data, including the usernames and passwords for your stored accounts, your autofill credit cards, and so on. As frustrated as we are right now, we are glad that we have taken that approach," said Abine.
So they may be big screwups, but they're not colossal screwups.
Samsung makes devices which burst into flame. Audi makes devices which are a horrible nightmare to maintain, and they discontinue critical parts while people are still trying to maintain their vehicles. (They've dropped most of the engine, transmission and differential mounts for my A8, for example, and nobody makes substitutes for most of them.) Hey, you got my #donotwant in my #donottrust! Hey, you got your #donottrust in my #donotwant!
See, that's the problem - Ford was making money, paying dividends, and building millions of vehicles per year.
Wall street doesn't want dividends, they want splits, so that traders can make money on them. Neither GM nor Ford has anything special in the pipeline; all automakers are chanting the same crap about mobility services, but none of them have a game-changing plan for delivering them.
With all due respect, buying a Smart TV is a dumb move.
Suggestions?
I suggest you ask someone who's bought a TV in the last ten years. My Costco-sourced 52" SHARP AQUOS TV from days of yore is still working fine. It's a prosumer-level model with a crapload of inputs and a serial port. It's got a slight 60hz hum, which is annoying, but it clearly hasn't killed it.
Toyota has only built one electric car in their entire history â" the Rav4 EV â" and that is discontinued because almost nobody could deal with an EV that had only a 110-mile range.
Nope. Toyota canned it because it wasn't profitable. Rav4 EV owners were universally happy with their vehicles AFAICT, because they were purchased by people for whom the range was not a problem. They could have sold more or less as many of them as they felt like, but they didn't want to sell more.
If diesel fuel were charged at a fair tax (about $4,500 per gallon of diesel fuel), we would have the best road and rail system in the country.
Long-haul rail depends on diesel, so no we wouldn't. Also, my car runs on diesel, it was built in 1982 and gets 30 MPG on the freeway. I drive far less than average, so the energy cost of production of a vehicle is far more critical for me than for the average person. Around a third of a normal person's vehicle's typical lifetime energy consumption is spent in production, but for me it's probably more like two-thirds or more. By not buying a vehicle every ten years (as is typical) I save enough energy to make up for at least two other people who do. And since my car has no emissions equipment, it produces safer emissions than modern cars. DPFs burn soot until it comes out as finer particles you can't see, and gassers produce just as much soot as diesels, but my car produces nice big chunky soot particles that are easy to cough up.
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So while each Amazon store would need less employees, with the increased profit margin the store can open more locations and in general higher more employees.
Amazon uses more automation, people only buy so much stuff, if Amazon opens more locations then the total number of retail jobs falls.
This is why I can't wait for the future where 3D printing becomes sophisticated enough to fabricate parts for situations like that. Even it's the type of horribly expensive machinery that only an auto shop could afford, it's still better than the current situation where the parts are far more difficult (and expensive) to come by.
Yeah, I'm going to have to let the car go because I just don't have the resources right now to figure out how to make poly bushes, or even hard aluminum ones.
I would like to see more ARM, RISC-V, and MIPS chips out there to loosen this unnaturally bad dependence upon two vendors: AMD and Intel. Both make shitty processors but AMDs are just less so.
The architectures vulnerable to MELTDOWN are Intel Core, some variants of IBM POWER/PowerPC, and... arm64. Now tell us again how wonderful ARM is.
If someone can figure out how to get MIPS to scale up to reasonable clock rates, then maybe it has a future outside of embedded. But nobody has managed it yet. It's left down in low-performance limbo with SuperH. ARM made it out of that hole, but it's the only one of that ilk which has.
It is a bit like cutting off fingers to be protected from frostbites, but it is somewhat true. JITed JS is realistically the only "remote execution" that can affect your PC.
What? Who told you that? There are holes in daemons which permit remote execution all the time. Most of the time these are not root-level (or in the case of NT, system-level) exploits and the damage that can be done is thus limited. That's why these processor exploits that permit looking into other processes are a security concern. Most attacks on systems require combinations of vulnerabilities.
A predictable climate is what humanity needs.
Are you god? Can you know control the climate?
Reaction the first: Thou art god. We humans have controlled the climate, to a degree. Now we need to do it intelligently.
Reaction the second: Of course not. We humans can't literally control the climate, we can only actually alter it. Which is why we need to stop doing things which are throwing it out of whack, because if we break it, we probably can't fix it.
The truth lies somewhere in between these two extremes. I think it's closer to the latter than the former, which is why we should stop screwing it up.
Why not just find a hill, dig a hole, throw the person in upside down and plant a tree in their arsehole? We need more trees anyway.
Intel Macs, after all, were capable of running PowerPC applications, but that doesn't mean they were *intended* to run them...and they weren't.
You think that happened through evolution? No, it was intelligent design. That's intention.
Pay for extensive battery storage too? Who is going to pay for all this?
Who's going to pay to clean up after fossil fuels?
Low cost energy that stays on 24/7 at a low price is what a productive and export friendly state needs.
A predictable climate is what humanity needs.
Keep in mind that you were probably running MS WIndows, which at that time disabled all caches if it detected a Cyrix chip to deliberately hurt performance.
Keep in mind that my first Linux PC was a 386.
Might be cheaper or less cumbersome than a throat mic.
Alas, pick one. The only boom mic that doesn't make me angry is the plantronics tube type, and those are spendy. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of product actually meant to do this job, either.
Upon reflection, I have had another thought. Are you sure the user's phone doesn't have a hidden mic gain setting? Back when I used to dick around with the Motorola Triplets phones &c (like RAZR) one of the things I frequently diddled was audio gain. And I seem to recall there being at least four different audio gain settings on those phones, though the details are now hazy. Earphone, mic, speaker, and music gains maybe? I suppose the details are also irrelevant.
Googling "build.prop mic gain" produced all kinds of interesting results, many of which are highly model-specific, so I'm not going to down that hole any meaningful distance. But if you're married to a software fix, there might actually be useful functionality in the phone already.
Rumor has it they were faster at executing x86, and also providing higher clock speeds on common socket architecture,
Rumor is false. As a cheap bastard, I tried the cheapass architectures, which sucked until the k7 came out. Cyrix chips were stunningly cheap, but also staggeringly slow. AMD chips were in the middle in both regards, with Intel by far fastest and most expensive. But then Athlon showed up and knocked Intel's socks directly off for a time, especially in multiprocessor systems where Hypertransport was a drastic improvement.
However, what is often missed in the analysis is that until recently, Intel was the world leader in process technology for years. Even without failing at security design, that gave them a part of their performance advantage. But those days are now gone, so what's Intel got over AMD? Answer, nothing.
RPG is role-playing game, such as pen and paper Dungeons and Dragons, where, in a limited sense, players act out the sensibilities of their characters. It's questionable if this has any meaning at all in a single-player game.
It has the same amount of meaning as the amount of effort spent providing options with consequences. For all their many failings, Bethesda games tend to have a decent handle on this. Some parts of the game have to happen, others are optional, and some are unavailable depending on who you've allied yourself with or what missions you've completed. Actions with consequences. And you have a limited set of options which are based on your character's characteristics.
What you call roleplaying is the persistent world concept, where actions have consequences out in the world. Almost no MMOs do this. If you see a monster respawn, that ain't it.
When you play paper RPGs, you're probably either going to get random encounters off a table, or the GM will simply assign you encounters based on whim. Fighting respawned monsters is no more ridiculous.
Anyone using Intel CPUs today is a complete fool.
This kind of blanket statement show a complete lack of pragmatism. You are clearly an AMD fanboi in the same vein as anti-MS fanbois who would chant "anyone using a Windows operating system today is a complete fool".
The world of computing is not so black and white,
It's only slightly more complicated. Anyone who has a choice who chooses Windows is a fool, and anyone who has a choice who chooses Intel is a fool. If Intel has done this, what else have they done? They have proven that they are untrustworthy. If you trust them, you are a fool.
And just WHO do you think will be writing the software for these "Infotainment Systems"?
QNX?
Maybe. Or maybe they'll run Android, which is the easiest and fastest way to be able to deliver google maps to the customer, which is what they're expecting.
Significantly boost the output volume (e.g. X 4) of the Android phone microphone he speaks into.
Have you considered trying a throat microphone? Good ones can pick up very low sounds.
This is important, since a longstanding UI feature of macOS (clear back to the Flying Toaster days!) are what they call "Hot Corners".
The corners weren't special back in the flying toaster days, except to certain applications. There wasn't anything special about them to the OS. Maybe there is now, I wouldn't know. My mac is both old and in storage. But various applications make sense of them on Windows, too.
Doesn't Febi Bilstein make the replacement parts you need? They make alternative replacement parts for almost everything.
They don't, and I've been unhappy with the quality of some of their products in the past anyway (e.g. W126 ignition lock.)
So they may be big screwups, but they're not colossal screwups.
Samsung makes devices which burst into flame. Audi makes devices which are a horrible nightmare to maintain, and they discontinue critical parts while people are still trying to maintain their vehicles. (They've dropped most of the engine, transmission and differential mounts for my A8, for example, and nobody makes substitutes for most of them.) Hey, you got my #donotwant in my #donottrust! Hey, you got your #donottrust in my #donotwant!
See, that's the problem - Ford was making money, paying dividends, and building millions of vehicles per year.
Wall street doesn't want dividends, they want splits, so that traders can make money on them. Neither GM nor Ford has anything special in the pipeline; all automakers are chanting the same crap about mobility services, but none of them have a game-changing plan for delivering them.
With all due respect, buying a Smart TV is a dumb move.
Suggestions?
I suggest you ask someone who's bought a TV in the last ten years. My Costco-sourced 52" SHARP AQUOS TV from days of yore is still working fine. It's a prosumer-level model with a crapload of inputs and a serial port. It's got a slight 60hz hum, which is annoying, but it clearly hasn't killed it.
Toyota has only built one electric car in their entire history â" the Rav4 EV â" and that is discontinued because almost nobody could deal with an EV that had only a 110-mile range.
Nope. Toyota canned it because it wasn't profitable. Rav4 EV owners were universally happy with their vehicles AFAICT, because they were purchased by people for whom the range was not a problem. They could have sold more or less as many of them as they felt like, but they didn't want to sell more.
You really think that Ford and GM need help to compete with a tiny upstart like Tesla?
Absolutely yes. Ford's sales continue to fall, GM has already had to be bailed out, and wall street has nothing but disdain for both corporations.
If diesel fuel were charged at a fair tax (about $4,500 per gallon of diesel fuel), we would have the best road and rail system in the country.
Long-haul rail depends on diesel, so no we wouldn't. Also, my car runs on diesel, it was built in 1982 and gets 30 MPG on the freeway. I drive far less than average, so the energy cost of production of a vehicle is far more critical for me than for the average person. Around a third of a normal person's vehicle's typical lifetime energy consumption is spent in production, but for me it's probably more like two-thirds or more. By not buying a vehicle every ten years (as is typical) I save enough energy to make up for at least two other people who do. And since my car has no emissions equipment, it produces safer emissions than modern cars. DPFs burn soot until it comes out as finer particles you can't see, and gassers produce just as much soot as diesels, but my car produces nice big chunky soot particles that are easy to cough up.