Dave from EEVBlog loves to rip these kinds of scams apart, he's already done a good number of rant-videos on similar "water out of thin air" - systems. I'm waiting excitedly for one on this shit, too!
Anything that relies on autocorrect is pretty much automatically a no-go for developers, mathematicians and such, since we have to type a lot of things that can't be "autocorrected." Then there's the thing that autocorrect works pretty poorly even for English, but for languages like e.g. Finnish, it's a major crapshoot; our language is chock-full of conjugations, a single word can have twenty different conjugations with different meanings, not to mention all the dialects and stuff, which make the whole thing several times worse. I just cannot see any keyboard-replacement being viable as long as it relies on guessing its input.
I keep getting spamvites from LinkedIn all the frickin' time. I'm not a LinkedIn-user, I stand to gain a grand total of absolutely fucking nothing out of joining, so I obviously clicked on the "Unsubscribe"-link in the first few mails -- didn't do jack shit! LinkedIn keeps sending those spamvites from the same spammers, ignoring the fact that I "unsubscribed" from those mails, and they provide no way of contacting their support or anything so I could tell them to stop spamming me, unless I register an account...
I use IMDB all the time to check the scores on movies and TV-shows, I don't want to waste my time watching something that I won't like. I usually wait until there's like 2000 scores or more on IMDB for a show/movie before I decide whether to give it a try or not. I do occasionally use Metacritic, too, but on Metacritic I completely fucking ignore critic scores: those fuckers are more interested in trying to look smart and intelligent, than actually reviewing the movie/show properly, and this shows constantly in how the audiences give shows/movies entirely different scores.
So RISC-V's market is going to be mostly in non-exposed, internal processors running secret unreplacable firmware doing unknown things our GPUs and SSDs... Kinda like the Intel ME and AMD PSP.
No, you dunce. We already have those kinds of controllers in hard-drives, GPUs, soundcards and so on and so forth, they've just mostly been ARM-based for now! The move to RISC-V is about cost-savings, since the companies won't have to pay for all the license-fees, but from the point of having "non-exposed, internal processors running secret unreplacable firmware doing unknown things" nothing has or is going to change as we are already there!
As neat as this news is, it's going to just remain a curiosity. I mean, there have been hundreds of similar news over the years and how many of those have actually materialized into a useful product? A tiny, miniscule fraction, that's how many.
I'll get excited once there's something that seems like it might actually make it into the market as a product I might one day be able to afford, but this ain't that.
Has someone created a GPU for an ARM OS that can do advanced 4K gaming at 60 fps and better?
There is no single ARM OS. Also, a GPU isn't dependent on the CPU-architecture, it's dependent on software; you could slap an NVIDIA- or AMD-card in an ARM-based device just fine, if it had a compatible BIOS-/UEFI-implementation and drivers. ARM-based desktops and laptops haven't yet caught on, but ARM is working hard and such a thing does have a slim but real possibility of happening sooner or later.
Yeah, if I wanted to do something that required the kind of bandwidth to warrant going with a wired solution, PoE would be my choice. There are a shitton of PoE-adapters, injectors, splitters and stuff out there, they cost pennies and peanuts, cables are easy to make yourself or, if you want to buy ready ones, they don't cost a lot. On the other hand, I hate dealing with wires and none of my remote-sensor types of devices need a lot of bandwidth and thus I like to go with LoRa for them; recharging the battery twice a year isn't a huge concern, and if it was, I could always just go with a bigger battery.
provided that they are reasonably attractive. So, where is the catch?
I just commented on this very thing above to another poster: from what I've seen, for men there is the middle-ground where even the ugliest man can still become quite successful, let alone the average-looking guy, but for women there doesn't seem to be such; either be attractive and have large tiddies, or fall to the rock bottom.
Uh, to the parents point, women have some significant advantages when they are found visually appealing, as validated by the number of YouTube videos showcasing large-breasted white women being the ones chosen "by random" to receive thousands in Twitch donations by fans they often don't know.
On the other hand, from what I've seen, inattractive women have an even worse chance of gaining viewers than even the ugliest man. Even an ugly man -- let alone just an average-looking one -- can actually become quite successful, but it seems that for women there isn't the same kind of a middle ground; be attractive and have large tiddies, or fall to the rock bottom with more-or-less zero chance of rising from there.
Disclaimer: this is just what I've seen. I have not performed any sort of proper research into this and I don't claim that my view on the matter is necessarily the correct one.
I agree about webmail, and I also happen to use Thunderbird. I do, however, think that Thunderbird is pretty terrible and I wish there was a better alternative. It's just... it looks terrible, it's buggy, its option and features are all over the place with quite little coherence to it all; I am perfectly happy with the amount of features it has and I'm not asking for more, I just want all the stuff it has to be presented in a clearer, more accessible manner.
If I build a brand of graphics cards based on Nvidia chips... let's call it BlazeX... and I spend years building brand loyalty to BlazeX as the fastest cards available, Nvidia is hidden behind that brand. They'd like for people to associate BlazeX only with Nvidia chips, so when the BlazeX Value comes out, it has an Nvidia chipset and not an AMD or Intel chipset. In that scenario, the Nvidia-built reputation is selling AMD and Intel chips.
But that's not what happened. NVIDIA just came with GPP and said "We want you to move AMD's (and others', if any) offerings under a different brand and dedicate your already-existing, top gaming-brand only for our stuff" -- completely reverse of the scenario you painted! The move was wholly designed to hurt AMD and to let NVIDIA ride on these existing brands' reputations. No one would've batted an eye if NVIDIA asked manufacturers to create a new branding just for NVIDIA's offerings, but that's not what they did.
A lot has been said recently about our GeForce Partner Program. The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.
What they actually meant: "You were all right about the GPP and what we were trying to do with it, we got caught red-handed and it backfired spectacularly, and now we'll just try to sweep it all under the rug as quickly and unceremoniously as possible."
but Alt + PrtScn => Window Key + R => mspaint => Enter => Ctrl+V is second nature to me.
Winkey + PrtScrn is much, much faster than doing all that as it just takes a screenshot and saves it directly to a file -- no need to open anything and paste clipboard.
From what I've seen, most people just use Windows to open a web-browser or play games. I haven't seen anyone actually using any of the new Windows 10 - specific "features" Microsoft has brought with the OS, including myself.
I've got a 16:9 widescreen both on my desktp and on my laptop, and I definitely wouldn't want anything narrower exactly because of multitasking; I often have multiple PuTTY-windows open, possibly some documentation in PDF-format or whatever, if I want to, I can have two web-browser windows open side-by-side and so on -- widescreen lets me have multiple windows easily accessible and visible.
No need to throw the baby with the water, you can use a distributed social media system that respect your privacy and is not a milkcow for some rich dude.
We get at least a dozen attempts at a FOSS social-media platform every fucking year and many of them are distributed systems, too. How many of them are actually popular among the average consumer? None? Well, exactly.
look for Mastodon, PeerTube, Hubzilla, Pleroma
Never heard of a single one of those and I would hazard a guess that neither has almost anyone else,e ither. Just try and guess how well that bodes for this yet-another attempt at a FOSS social-media-thing.
The Oxford dictionary says: "Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking." -- Well, even comments here on Slashdot count as "content" and therefore Slashdot also fits the definition presented here. Basically, any online-system that allows people to write a comment or comments counts; should we recklessly abandon every such system, or should the author formulate his arguments better? I vote for the latter, especially considering his argument is basically the extremely vague "reclaim your autonomy."
It's one thing to repair with non-OEM parts. It's another to use COunterfeit screens that claim to be apple screens. Let's not make this about a something other than what it is. Headline seems to mislead
Um, no. They were sold as 3rd-party displays, not as OEM-parts, so no, they weren't counterfeit-screen according to court.
No, they were sold as 3rd-party screens. There was an Apple-logo on them, but it had been covered up with ink, ie. they were probably originally refurb-screens, and due to the logos being covered up they weren't considered as counterfeit items or infringing Apple's trademarks.
The shop agreed to be licensed as an Apple Authorized repair center.
No, he didn't. The article very clearly says he refused to make a deal with Apple and that never would agree to anything like that in the first place. Did you even read the article?
The guy was importing possibly mislabeled / counterfeit parts (in that they bear the Apple logo but are no longer valid Apple refurbed parts).
The court decided they aren't counterfeit parts and don't fall under trademark since the Apple-logo has been covered up.
Regardless of what you believe is the right to repair, this is about the repair company representing itself as repairing your stuff with real OEM parts. They got identified as not doing so, probably defrauding consumers all the meanwhile. What's the problem? Why be happy that they won this case?
Yet another claim in which you show that you didn't read the article: the guy never claimed to be an Apple-authorized repairer or that he was using real OEM-parts.
While I don't do streaming, I do occasionally record this or that happening on my machine and OBS is great for that. I also happen to use NVENC as the encoder -- while NVENC didn't produce terribly good quality on my GTX660 when I had one, it now does a very acceptable job of it with Pascal - cards -- since it doesn't use a lot of resources. ShadowPlay? No, that shit sucks in comparison, especially since you have to install and use NVIDIA's spyware - application, the Geforce Experience, for it.
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Dave from EEVBlog loves to rip these kinds of scams apart, he's already done a good number of rant-videos on similar "water out of thin air" - systems. I'm waiting excitedly for one on this shit, too!
Steel? What the hell are you talking about, granpa? Copper contacts?? Uh, what?
I know it's hard to help your level of ignorance especially since you are belligerently ignorant. But here goes
Step 1: Take the back off your phone
Step 2: Take the battery out
Step 3: Look at it.
Um, there's no steel case around it, it's just a lipo-pouch.
Anything that relies on autocorrect is pretty much automatically a no-go for developers, mathematicians and such, since we have to type a lot of things that can't be "autocorrected." Then there's the thing that autocorrect works pretty poorly even for English, but for languages like e.g. Finnish, it's a major crapshoot; our language is chock-full of conjugations, a single word can have twenty different conjugations with different meanings, not to mention all the dialects and stuff, which make the whole thing several times worse. I just cannot see any keyboard-replacement being viable as long as it relies on guessing its input.
I keep getting spamvites from LinkedIn all the frickin' time. I'm not a LinkedIn-user, I stand to gain a grand total of absolutely fucking nothing out of joining, so I obviously clicked on the "Unsubscribe"-link in the first few mails -- didn't do jack shit! LinkedIn keeps sending those spamvites from the same spammers, ignoring the fact that I "unsubscribed" from those mails, and they provide no way of contacting their support or anything so I could tell them to stop spamming me, unless I register an account...
I use IMDB all the time to check the scores on movies and TV-shows, I don't want to waste my time watching something that I won't like. I usually wait until there's like 2000 scores or more on IMDB for a show/movie before I decide whether to give it a try or not. I do occasionally use Metacritic, too, but on Metacritic I completely fucking ignore critic scores: those fuckers are more interested in trying to look smart and intelligent, than actually reviewing the movie/show properly, and this shows constantly in how the audiences give shows/movies entirely different scores.
So RISC-V's market is going to be mostly in non-exposed, internal processors running secret unreplacable firmware doing unknown things our GPUs and SSDs... Kinda like the Intel ME and AMD PSP.
No, you dunce. We already have those kinds of controllers in hard-drives, GPUs, soundcards and so on and so forth, they've just mostly been ARM-based for now! The move to RISC-V is about cost-savings, since the companies won't have to pay for all the license-fees, but from the point of having "non-exposed, internal processors running secret unreplacable firmware doing unknown things" nothing has or is going to change as we are already there!
As neat as this news is, it's going to just remain a curiosity. I mean, there have been hundreds of similar news over the years and how many of those have actually materialized into a useful product? A tiny, miniscule fraction, that's how many.
I'll get excited once there's something that seems like it might actually make it into the market as a product I might one day be able to afford, but this ain't that.
...in 3...2...1...Car stolen.
Has someone created a GPU for an ARM OS that can do advanced 4K gaming at 60 fps and better?
There is no single ARM OS. Also, a GPU isn't dependent on the CPU-architecture, it's dependent on software; you could slap an NVIDIA- or AMD-card in an ARM-based device just fine, if it had a compatible BIOS-/UEFI-implementation and drivers. ARM-based desktops and laptops haven't yet caught on, but ARM is working hard and such a thing does have a slim but real possibility of happening sooner or later.
Yeah, if I wanted to do something that required the kind of bandwidth to warrant going with a wired solution, PoE would be my choice. There are a shitton of PoE-adapters, injectors, splitters and stuff out there, they cost pennies and peanuts, cables are easy to make yourself or, if you want to buy ready ones, they don't cost a lot. On the other hand, I hate dealing with wires and none of my remote-sensor types of devices need a lot of bandwidth and thus I like to go with LoRa for them; recharging the battery twice a year isn't a huge concern, and if it was, I could always just go with a bigger battery.
provided that they are reasonably attractive. So, where is the catch?
I just commented on this very thing above to another poster: from what I've seen, for men there is the middle-ground where even the ugliest man can still become quite successful, let alone the average-looking guy, but for women there doesn't seem to be such; either be attractive and have large tiddies, or fall to the rock bottom.
Uh, to the parents point, women have some significant advantages when they are found visually appealing, as validated by the number of YouTube videos showcasing large-breasted white women being the ones chosen "by random" to receive thousands in Twitch donations by fans they often don't know.
On the other hand, from what I've seen, inattractive women have an even worse chance of gaining viewers than even the ugliest man. Even an ugly man -- let alone just an average-looking one -- can actually become quite successful, but it seems that for women there isn't the same kind of a middle ground; be attractive and have large tiddies, or fall to the rock bottom with more-or-less zero chance of rising from there.
Disclaimer: this is just what I've seen. I have not performed any sort of proper research into this and I don't claim that my view on the matter is necessarily the correct one.
I agree about webmail, and I also happen to use Thunderbird. I do, however, think that Thunderbird is pretty terrible and I wish there was a better alternative. It's just... it looks terrible, it's buggy, its option and features are all over the place with quite little coherence to it all; I am perfectly happy with the amount of features it has and I'm not asking for more, I just want all the stuff it has to be presented in a clearer, more accessible manner.
If I build a brand of graphics cards based on Nvidia chips... let's call it BlazeX... and I spend years building brand loyalty to BlazeX as the fastest cards available, Nvidia is hidden behind that brand. They'd like for people to associate BlazeX only with Nvidia chips, so when the BlazeX Value comes out, it has an Nvidia chipset and not an AMD or Intel chipset. In that scenario, the Nvidia-built reputation is selling AMD and Intel chips.
But that's not what happened. NVIDIA just came with GPP and said "We want you to move AMD's (and others', if any) offerings under a different brand and dedicate your already-existing, top gaming-brand only for our stuff" -- completely reverse of the scenario you painted! The move was wholly designed to hurt AMD and to let NVIDIA ride on these existing brands' reputations. No one would've batted an eye if NVIDIA asked manufacturers to create a new branding just for NVIDIA's offerings, but that's not what they did.
A lot has been said recently about our GeForce Partner Program. The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program.
What they actually meant: "You were all right about the GPP and what we were trying to do with it, we got caught red-handed and it backfired spectacularly, and now we'll just try to sweep it all under the rug as quickly and unceremoniously as possible."
but Alt + PrtScn => Window Key + R => mspaint => Enter => Ctrl+V is second nature to me.
Winkey + PrtScrn is much, much faster than doing all that as it just takes a screenshot and saves it directly to a file -- no need to open anything and paste clipboard.
From what I've seen, most people just use Windows to open a web-browser or play games. I haven't seen anyone actually using any of the new Windows 10 - specific "features" Microsoft has brought with the OS, including myself.
I've got a 16:9 widescreen both on my desktp and on my laptop, and I definitely wouldn't want anything narrower exactly because of multitasking; I often have multiple PuTTY-windows open, possibly some documentation in PDF-format or whatever, if I want to, I can have two web-browser windows open side-by-side and so on -- widescreen lets me have multiple windows easily accessible and visible.
Unstable people with real need for professional help sometimes end up harming themselves and other people when given easy access to guns.
No need to throw the baby with the water, you can use a distributed social media system that respect your privacy and is not a milkcow for some rich dude.
We get at least a dozen attempts at a FOSS social-media platform every fucking year and many of them are distributed systems, too. How many of them are actually popular among the average consumer? None? Well, exactly.
look for Mastodon, PeerTube, Hubzilla, Pleroma
Never heard of a single one of those and I would hazard a guess that neither has almost anyone else,e ither. Just try and guess how well that bodes for this yet-another attempt at a FOSS social-media-thing.
The Oxford dictionary says: "Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking." -- Well, even comments here on Slashdot count as "content" and therefore Slashdot also fits the definition presented here. Basically, any online-system that allows people to write a comment or comments counts; should we recklessly abandon every such system, or should the author formulate his arguments better? I vote for the latter, especially considering his argument is basically the extremely vague "reclaim your autonomy."
It's one thing to repair with non-OEM parts. It's another to use COunterfeit screens that claim to be apple screens. Let's not make this about a something other than what it is. Headline seems to mislead
Um, no. They were sold as 3rd-party displays, not as OEM-parts, so no, they weren't counterfeit-screen according to court.
No, they were sold as 3rd-party screens. There was an Apple-logo on them, but it had been covered up with ink, ie. they were probably originally refurb-screens, and due to the logos being covered up they weren't considered as counterfeit items or infringing Apple's trademarks.
The shop agreed to be licensed as an Apple Authorized repair center.
No, he didn't. The article very clearly says he refused to make a deal with Apple and that never would agree to anything like that in the first place. Did you even read the article?
The guy was importing possibly mislabeled / counterfeit parts (in that they bear the Apple logo but are no longer valid Apple refurbed parts).
The court decided they aren't counterfeit parts and don't fall under trademark since the Apple-logo has been covered up.
Regardless of what you believe is the right to repair, this is about the repair company representing itself as repairing your stuff with real OEM parts. They got identified as not doing so, probably defrauding consumers all the meanwhile. What's the problem? Why be happy that they won this case?
Yet another claim in which you show that you didn't read the article: the guy never claimed to be an Apple-authorized repairer or that he was using real OEM-parts.
While I don't do streaming, I do occasionally record this or that happening on my machine and OBS is great for that. I also happen to use NVENC as the encoder -- while NVENC didn't produce terribly good quality on my GTX660 when I had one, it now does a very acceptable job of it with Pascal - cards -- since it doesn't use a lot of resources. ShadowPlay? No, that shit sucks in comparison, especially since you have to install and use NVIDIA's spyware - application, the Geforce Experience, for it.