It's exactly like English works, the meaning of pedant does not come from p+e+d+a+n+t and not all combinations are valid. If you can't program computers with 1s and 0s you can't write English with a-z. You can't learn English from looking at a keyboard, but nobody claimed you could learn to program from knowing it's all 1s and 0s. Except you, in the strawman you cut down.
I think the better reason is to not give them an overinflated impression of the work's value. If they do $50 worth of labor and get a $500 phone it'll just mess with their head. It's better they work for ice cream money and realize the phone is a gift they'd have to work much longer and harder for to buy on their own.
I used Adwords a few years ago, as a kind of test. At the time, I set a limit of $100, thus depending on how many people click the ad, the limit is reached more or less quickly. But in any case, $100 was the maximum I had to pay.
If you haven't realized you're spending money, you're not likely to set a limit of how much money. It does show that Google will let you rack up a huge bill without credit checks though, but I guess they make more money keeping the barrier low and letting their collections/fraud department deal with those who don't pay up.
I thought BitTorrent was a protocol to allow efficient distribution of large blobs of data. What do you need a studio for to be a BitTorrent?
If you make something popular then despite having no business model there are always some VCs willing to throw money after you on fame alone. Make some shit up, give yourself a nice salary as CEO and just milk it for as long as the money lasts. As far as I can tell the company's products don't really have any relation to its namesake.
Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.
From your linked report it's more like 74% lately:
In August alone, our fleet of 58 vehicles traveled a record monthly total of 170,000 miles; of those, 126,000 miles were driven autonomously (i.e. the car was fully in control).
This might be a PR blurb, but it looks like they try to avoid empty miles:
We began testing on highways seven years ago, but today most of our miles are on surface streets. While it may be easier to rack up many more miles on highways through driver assist features like cruise control, creating a truly autonomous car requires advanced driving skills in order to master the complexity of neighborhoods
If they keep driving around downtown there's not really that long between every time they need to take an action, it would be interesting to see how often/long the manual segments are. If it's the driver constantly "saving" the car via small interactions, or if it's more like driving a round to let the car collect sensor data and traffic patterns before making a "live" run. It seems unlikely that interceptions would last that long...
That's not an apology. That's saying he's disappointed someone screwed up, and he named that person to direct the blame towards that person. No dev team I've ever been on would throw someone under the bus like that. We would take responsibility as a team. He might as well say "I'm sorry Andrew sucks as a developer and is so incompetent", because that is no less an apology than what he actually did say.
He's absolutely not apologizing to Andrew, he's apologizing to the end users. This release is below the standard of quality he wants for the Linux kernel and he's not shy about naming and shaming those responsible. And that includes Linus himself for not catching the offending code and for running the project in a way that let it happen, that much is sincere. But he's not there to give moral support, he's there more like a drill sergeant or elite coach. They are not there to cuddle you, they're there to find the people who can excel and turn them into disciplined, highly skilled specialists. Pushing people to their limits, pointing out their flaws, have them try over and over again, always strive for them to do better isn't how you make friends. Usually you end up with a few gold nuggets and a lot of people who hate your guts. It's a lot easier to say "Looks fine to me, good work let's go have some beers" instead, but that's also how you not end up with the Linux kernel.
And, that 2 million miles has mostly been on the same few miles of carefully mapped roads. Autonomous cars are a great idea, but, they need to demonstrate that they can handle more that the occasional stray pedestrian. They need to demonstrate the ability to drive on unfamiliar roads and roads with unexpected barriers (road construction that wasn't there yesterday) as well as other vehicles that behave in unexpected (and often illegal) ways.
Drive around long enough and you will meet most kinds of crazy, even if you ask a truck driver that's hauled cargo the same route the last ten years. As for the rest, it's not that big a blocker as you might think. Imagine an autonomous taxi with a limited coverage area, it doesn't have to understand the road to your mountain cabin. How about an autonomous shuttle service from the airport to near-by hotels? A hop-on hop-off tourist bus driving the same round over and over? There's a lot of potential even for a limited service, not to mention they could do crowd-sourcing. That is to say, you drive the car where you want it to go, let the sensors collect whatever they need and upload it to Google. With luck they'll process it and next time it'll be an approved destination. I'd take a car that could do my commute, the rest would be nice-to-have but I'd be willing to teach, win-win for me and Google.
I can't remember the specifics but I believe there are laws forcing them to maintain the copper line
Without an SLA with teeth that's pretty much useless. I've been "supported" by an IT department that also had external, paying customers and if you're always last in line and they can't lose you as a customer and they only get a token internal billing no matter what it's going to stink. Just because you're paying for a service on behalf of the tax payers doesn't mean you can skimp on the professional contract and service management, like what exactly are the measurable deliveries and have they been delivered in the right quantity, quality and on time.
This should be + 5 insightful. I'm bored to tears by the continual reinvention of the Linux desktops. For the last god know how many years all they do is piss about with shading, docker positions, window borders, colour schemes, spinning fucking widgets etc. Endlessly copying the piss poor crap produced by Microsoft and Apple but doing it badly. Meanwhile the number of actual useful, professional grade APPLICATIONS that are written for the Linux desktops remains at about 4.
Everyone's free to scratch their own itch so I won't complain, but I mostly agree. I don't think anyone ever said "Okay all my applications run or have great replacements, but the DE looks like crap so I'm going with Windows/Mac". It's nice to have, but if it's not worse than Win95 it will do. If the car doesn't get you from A to B it really doesn't matter if it looks great, then I'll take the rusty beat up clunker that gets the job done. Oh well...
But HDR is the big thing going to BT.2020 colourspace.
Technically HDR doesn't have anything to do with the color space, the UHD standard is a combination of four independent upgrades.
1. 3840x2160 resolution -> more detail 2. HDR -> higher contrast 3. Rec.2020 -> greater range of colors 4. 10 bit color -> less banding
You want the last one to offset the effects of the two previous ones, you've stretched the range of both contrast and color space so you need greater granularity to achieve the same precision. With YUV encoding that would be Y and UV respectively, you've roughly doubled the available colors (35.9% -> 75.8% of CIE 1931) but have 16 times more steps to pick from (2 bits = 4 in U, same in V). As for contrast non-SD TVs have maybe 400 nits, now we have 1000 nits so I guess the extra bits pretty much go to extra range. Technically both HDTV with 10 bit and UHD with 8 bit would both be possible though, the latter just wouldn't look very good.
The standard is now every bit as good and in some parts superior to the DCI 4K cinema standard, so yeah... the standard is a lot better than average consumer gear, as I understand only a few super-expensive laser projectors do full Rec.2020 and nothing does full 12 bit HDR up to 10.000 nits and even that isn't as bright as the real world when the sun is shining. But you don't need to take advantage of it all to at least see some difference...
I find it harder to accept the opposite side, that the citizen having decides they can't misbehave and/or complain. The first assumption being that they citizens even know that cop is wearing a cam. It's not at all obvious to someone unfamiliar which such devices that that's what it is. Two it doesn't reasonably allow for the >50% drop in reports since only half the cops are wearing them at any given time.
You're assuming that a cop wouldn't know when a complaint is likely to be filed, I doubt it's often that cops that back to the station and go "Lolwut I got a complaint, WTF?" I expect that almost all those who allege abuse will complain on the spot and threaten to report it. And a whole lot of potential complaints will go away by replying "Go right ahead sir, I have it all on camera including you giving me the finger and saying unkind things about my mother." and most will figure out they maybe don't actually have that good a case after all and that trying to provoke or escalate the situation further would be stupid. That it cuts way down on complaints may or may not be a good indicator of whether actual abuse has changed. For that I'd probably rather do an anonymous poll of whether people self-report being abused by the police lately.
Easy to verify: give randomly fake cameras to policemen where they know it's fake but people could not see it. If you still see the drop, then it's people stopping stupid behavior, if not then it's policemen behaving better.
Sounds great until you have a sensitive case where bystanders saw the cop had a camera but guess what, no footage. Conspiracy theorists will love that one, if you're wearing a camera it better be filming. If it's defective or off it's better that you phsyically remove it.
Funny I wrote a lot of bad reviews for stuff I got at a discount and frankly they didn't see to care.
Perhaps they just thought this was your one in ten poor review so you wouldn't seem like a total shill, it doesn't have to work every time and complaining about a bad review might easily turn it into a Streisand effect causing more bad PR. But you're pointing out an important issue, even if they don't actually punish you for bad reviews reviewers might still think that they will be. Because the official party line is clear, but who really wants bad reviews? *wink wink nudge nudge* Maybe you make a few customers who dodged a bullet happy, but they don't pay you. It's the people who want to sell that pick you, most people will assume there a feedback loop there somewhere no matter what.
The vast majority of things that are worth knowing will always be remembered and preserved. If the few that forgotten become necessary, they will be reinvented. The world will continue spinning. No need for alarm.
I think so too, the sheer mass of data generated is so absurdly much higher that even if 0.1% survives it'd be more than a century ago. That said, say you have a global WWII-class war with 6 years of fighting, rationing, power failures, shortages of parts and maybe a decade or two until industry production recovers and people got time to prioritize their history we'd lose a lot of data. It doesn't have to be post-apocalyptic wasteland bad either, but you don't produce TB-size HDDs in your average workshop. That said, at some point you have to just accept that advanced civilization depends on advanced civilization.
I hope they continue the SE line. I love mine, with 6s Plus internals and a big battery. I have never considered going to one of the enormous phones like the ones you're talking about. They're just clown-like.
Agreed, that it's "overpowered" compared to the screen size gives it a substantial boost to battery life. And fortunately they threw out a lot of the gadgetry instead of reducing the battery, overall very happy with it.
I am not a big Apple supporter and I think our patent system is corrupt and totally broken. But this smells, isn't this being adjudicated in the Eastern District of Texas the center of all that screams PATENT TROLL!
Unfortunately its reputation for being pro-patent is now so known almost everybody files there. The jurisdiction shopping is starting to be a little ridiculous, perhaps they should make a rule that if you sue for over five million dollars (i.e. travel costs are insignificant) there's no longer a free choice of venue, instead you both submit a ranking and go down the list until you find one in common. So the plaintiff would rank Eastern Texas first, the defendant last and they'd instead meet somewhere in the middle. That would cut down on the patent trolling quite a bit, I think.
Yes, absolutely. This is how I block advertising and malware sites, I set up a DNS server that resolves 20,000+ domains to 0.0.0.0 and pointed all my devices at it. Nothing is preventing you or anyone else from setting up a DNS server, the only challenge would be convincing others to use it, if that was your goal.
Or not use DNS but something like TOR's onion sites, search Google (that you'd have to find the IP for) to find everything else or whatnot. Email would die a brutal death as the world switched to Facebook because all the domains failed to resolve. I'm pretty sure we'd find workarounds even if the DNS protocol dropped off the face of the earth. For the countries with Great Firewall they can shit list any domain anyway, so really there's not much new there.
Boy are you out of touch. With every man and their dog being a professional photographer, all the kids playing with drones capturing 4k footage on their go pros
Facts might help. Here in Norway there's now about ~33k drones among ~2.31 million households or <1.5%. Divide by ~5 million if you want per person. Of those many are fun little plastic toys that might not even have a camera (like one friend of mine) or totally unstabilized and just there for flying FPV and not any serious photos/videos (like mine) and a relatively few that are actually camera drones like my other buddy's DJI Phantom. Given the price for a "serious" drone I'm probably being kind if I say they're at most half of all the drones. So no, 99%+ of households don't have any special needs from drones. I hear what you're saying but no, just because people got better cameras doesn't mean everyone wants to be a Japanese tourist everywhere they go.
I've had credit cards compromised 3 times over the years but it's never been because the physical card was stolen. Is that really a common problem in the grand scheme of things? From an American perspective, most ID theft tends to happen when some merchant is breached and thousands or millions of stored numbers+CVV get leaked. This approach makes those leaks useless.
It also makes the purpose of the stored info useless, since it's either recurring services or to make checkout easier. I find it odd that they'd need to store the original input though, they should pass that to VISA and get a sort of authorization token, which would only be valid for their merchant account. That way you can hack eBay's database but unless you're eBay you can't charge anyone. Then you'd have to capture card info live the first time it's entered.
I was really pissed off at having to offer up my finger prints in order to enter the USA recently. Such things used to be demanded only of criminals. Are we all criminals now? It's degrading and insulting. Besides being a great way for these guys to track your every move.
There's a lot of other times and places I'd complain but a border check at the actual border is not one of them. They're the ones with the most reason to verify that your passport is genuine and that you are in fact the person the passport belongs to. I do find it somewhat naughty that they keep it and don't simply register that the fingerprints have been verified and match, but I suppose they don't have jurisdiction to demand that other countries translate passport numbers to fingerprints later like say after a crime. Internal checkpoints are more totalitarian though, but still they're point checks.
I'd be far more concerned with everything else like cell phones, electronic money, electronic tickets, car plate readers and whatnot that gives area surveillance over time. For example imagine all the interesting data you'd have if you correlated cell phone tower data to see which phones reported pretty much exactly the same, I've heard triangulation can be iffy but say two people in a car driving through a coverage area would enter and leave cells at nearly the same time. Once is a coincidence with the car before or after you, but over time you'd get patterns of who belong together. Particularly if you can pair it with traffic data.
The first thing a typical user dares touch inside the case is RAM. Second is HDD add/replacement. Way down the list is replacing the (GASP!) CPU with a faster one. Yes, it is dead easy, but not everyone in the world is a/. techie.
It's supposed to be easy yes... but I absolutely loathe the push-pin design on Intel OEM fans, if you have a tower and move it around a little sooner or later it'll come loose at the top. The AMD Wraith cooler looks super easy to install and secure, but it only works on AMD. Now back plate designs should work on both, but at least when I tried to install a CM212 to replace the OEM fan I must have fucked something because it never booted again. Didn't bother to find out if CPU or mobo or both was fried, bought new and decided to just do OEM fan again for now. But I really, really don't trust that design. Even just ordinary nuts and bolts without the back plate would be a huge improvement but probably costs 50c more.
and that says nothing about the technology wall that was hit with manufacturing that had to be overcome with a variety of approaches (helium filling, SMR, etc).
Well there's that but the main thing is that SSDs killed all interest in performance. The last HDD I bought was an Seagate Archive 8TB disk, do I care that it's SMR and writes are slow and that it'd be horrible in a RAID? Nope. It's just cheap bulk storage. If that's not enough, SSDs spank them in latency and IOPS so a performance HDD is like trying to tune up a lorry. it'll still be a lousy sports car, if that's what you need.
Really, common users see a unit that costs 70$ (seagate 2TB 7200RPM) versus one that costs 550$ or more (crucial 2TB SSD, samsung's is 10x the listed HDD price) and they will gladly save their money.
Assuming the common user actually needs 2TB of storage space and doesn't care about the speed of booting or launching applications. Common users either use streaming services or torrent & delete after watching it, they're not trying to archive the Internet. They snap a few pics and make some funny clips with their phone but they're not photo or videos buffs with ten thousand photos and hours of raw footage to store. And many of them now use the cloud as backup, say what you will but they do. HDDs don't really scale down, you get a 1TB HDD to the price of a 120GB SSD but you can't get a 120GB HDD cheaper.
I wouldn't buy a machine with only HDD today, I got one laptop that I rarely use that is like that and it runs like a sloth in slow motion. And if you go the HDD+SSD route you're looking at the minimum price of both a HDD and a SSD. I'd say up to 250GB of storage I just wouldn't bother with a HDD anymore, above that I'd get a SDD for the stuff you use often and as big a HDD as you need. And possibly one for local backup, for a common user I wouldn't bother with RAID as software bugs, user error and crypto viruses would destroy all copies. Of course if you're in the geek squad you might have a ZFS storage pool with lots of disks, snapshots and whatnot. Good for you, but you're hardly the common user.
It's not open source if it doesn't come with the complete source that someone else can "compile" into hardware. It's not open source if it comes with a "look but don't touch" license. They're under no obligation to support them. They can trademark their name/logo to protect the brand and their own sales. But they can't stop them. If that doesn't work for them, maybe open source is the wrong business model.
Pics or it didn't happen. Also, prove Jesus didn't do the same thing.
If we're judging the past, I'd file the Quran into evidence as a written confession. He was a 7th century warlord, he conquered and killed. He held slaves. He played by "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" rules. And it's not like this was some kind of secret or radical exception to his contemporaries, same as the Founding Fathers kept slaves. It's the past, it was ugly but it's also history. It's only a problem when somebody says the 18th century was perfect, let's go back to the way things were in 1776 and freeze society the way it was. Or well, the Amish pretty much do that and it's not a big problem, it's the "or I'll chop your head off if you don't" fundamentalists.
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It's exactly like English works, the meaning of pedant does not come from p+e+d+a+n+t and not all combinations are valid. If you can't program computers with 1s and 0s you can't write English with a-z. You can't learn English from looking at a keyboard, but nobody claimed you could learn to program from knowing it's all 1s and 0s. Except you, in the strawman you cut down.
I think the better reason is to not give them an overinflated impression of the work's value. If they do $50 worth of labor and get a $500 phone it'll just mess with their head. It's better they work for ice cream money and realize the phone is a gift they'd have to work much longer and harder for to buy on their own.
I used Adwords a few years ago, as a kind of test. At the time, I set a limit of $100, thus depending on how many people click the ad, the limit is reached more or less quickly. But in any case, $100 was the maximum I had to pay.
If you haven't realized you're spending money, you're not likely to set a limit of how much money. It does show that Google will let you rack up a huge bill without credit checks though, but I guess they make more money keeping the barrier low and letting their collections/fraud department deal with those who don't pay up.
I thought BitTorrent was a protocol to allow efficient distribution of large blobs of data. What do you need a studio for to be a BitTorrent?
If you make something popular then despite having no business model there are always some VCs willing to throw money after you on fame alone. Make some shit up, give yourself a nice salary as CEO and just milk it for as long as the money lasts. As far as I can tell the company's products don't really have any relation to its namesake.
Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.
From your linked report it's more like 74% lately:
In August alone, our fleet of 58 vehicles traveled a record monthly total of 170,000 miles; of those, 126,000 miles were driven autonomously (i.e. the car was fully in control).
This might be a PR blurb, but it looks like they try to avoid empty miles:
We began testing on highways seven years ago, but today most of our miles are on surface streets. While it may be easier to rack up many more miles on highways through driver assist features like cruise control, creating a truly autonomous car requires advanced driving skills in order to master the complexity of neighborhoods
If they keep driving around downtown there's not really that long between every time they need to take an action, it would be interesting to see how often/long the manual segments are. If it's the driver constantly "saving" the car via small interactions, or if it's more like driving a round to let the car collect sensor data and traffic patterns before making a "live" run. It seems unlikely that interceptions would last that long...
That's not an apology. That's saying he's disappointed someone screwed up, and he named that person to direct the blame towards that person. No dev team I've ever been on would throw someone under the bus like that. We would take responsibility as a team. He might as well say "I'm sorry Andrew sucks as a developer and is so incompetent", because that is no less an apology than what he actually did say.
He's absolutely not apologizing to Andrew, he's apologizing to the end users. This release is below the standard of quality he wants for the Linux kernel and he's not shy about naming and shaming those responsible. And that includes Linus himself for not catching the offending code and for running the project in a way that let it happen, that much is sincere. But he's not there to give moral support, he's there more like a drill sergeant or elite coach. They are not there to cuddle you, they're there to find the people who can excel and turn them into disciplined, highly skilled specialists. Pushing people to their limits, pointing out their flaws, have them try over and over again, always strive for them to do better isn't how you make friends. Usually you end up with a few gold nuggets and a lot of people who hate your guts. It's a lot easier to say "Looks fine to me, good work let's go have some beers" instead, but that's also how you not end up with the Linux kernel.
And, that 2 million miles has mostly been on the same few miles of carefully mapped roads. Autonomous cars are a great idea, but, they need to demonstrate that they can handle more that the occasional stray pedestrian. They need to demonstrate the ability to drive on unfamiliar roads and roads with unexpected barriers (road construction that wasn't there yesterday) as well as other vehicles that behave in unexpected (and often illegal) ways.
Drive around long enough and you will meet most kinds of crazy, even if you ask a truck driver that's hauled cargo the same route the last ten years. As for the rest, it's not that big a blocker as you might think. Imagine an autonomous taxi with a limited coverage area, it doesn't have to understand the road to your mountain cabin. How about an autonomous shuttle service from the airport to near-by hotels? A hop-on hop-off tourist bus driving the same round over and over? There's a lot of potential even for a limited service, not to mention they could do crowd-sourcing. That is to say, you drive the car where you want it to go, let the sensors collect whatever they need and upload it to Google. With luck they'll process it and next time it'll be an approved destination. I'd take a car that could do my commute, the rest would be nice-to-have but I'd be willing to teach, win-win for me and Google.
I can't remember the specifics but I believe there are laws forcing them to maintain the copper line
Without an SLA with teeth that's pretty much useless. I've been "supported" by an IT department that also had external, paying customers and if you're always last in line and they can't lose you as a customer and they only get a token internal billing no matter what it's going to stink. Just because you're paying for a service on behalf of the tax payers doesn't mean you can skimp on the professional contract and service management, like what exactly are the measurable deliveries and have they been delivered in the right quantity, quality and on time.
This should be + 5 insightful. I'm bored to tears by the continual reinvention of the Linux desktops. For the last god know how many years all they do is piss about with shading, docker positions, window borders, colour schemes, spinning fucking widgets etc. Endlessly copying the piss poor crap produced by Microsoft and Apple but doing it badly. Meanwhile the number of actual useful, professional grade APPLICATIONS that are written for the Linux desktops remains at about 4.
Everyone's free to scratch their own itch so I won't complain, but I mostly agree. I don't think anyone ever said "Okay all my applications run or have great replacements, but the DE looks like crap so I'm going with Windows/Mac". It's nice to have, but if it's not worse than Win95 it will do. If the car doesn't get you from A to B it really doesn't matter if it looks great, then I'll take the rusty beat up clunker that gets the job done. Oh well...
But HDR is the big thing going to BT.2020 colourspace.
Technically HDR doesn't have anything to do with the color space, the UHD standard is a combination of four independent upgrades.
1. 3840x2160 resolution -> more detail
2. HDR -> higher contrast
3. Rec.2020 -> greater range of colors
4. 10 bit color -> less banding
You want the last one to offset the effects of the two previous ones, you've stretched the range of both contrast and color space so you need greater granularity to achieve the same precision. With YUV encoding that would be Y and UV respectively, you've roughly doubled the available colors (35.9% -> 75.8% of CIE 1931) but have 16 times more steps to pick from (2 bits = 4 in U, same in V). As for contrast non-SD TVs have maybe 400 nits, now we have 1000 nits so I guess the extra bits pretty much go to extra range. Technically both HDTV with 10 bit and UHD with 8 bit would both be possible though, the latter just wouldn't look very good.
The standard is now every bit as good and in some parts superior to the DCI 4K cinema standard, so yeah... the standard is a lot better than average consumer gear, as I understand only a few super-expensive laser projectors do full Rec.2020 and nothing does full 12 bit HDR up to 10.000 nits and even that isn't as bright as the real world when the sun is shining. But you don't need to take advantage of it all to at least see some difference...
I find it harder to accept the opposite side, that the citizen having decides they can't misbehave and/or complain. The first assumption being that they citizens even know that cop is wearing a cam. It's not at all obvious to someone unfamiliar which such devices that that's what it is. Two it doesn't reasonably allow for the >50% drop in reports since only half the cops are wearing them at any given time.
You're assuming that a cop wouldn't know when a complaint is likely to be filed, I doubt it's often that cops that back to the station and go "Lolwut I got a complaint, WTF?" I expect that almost all those who allege abuse will complain on the spot and threaten to report it. And a whole lot of potential complaints will go away by replying "Go right ahead sir, I have it all on camera including you giving me the finger and saying unkind things about my mother." and most will figure out they maybe don't actually have that good a case after all and that trying to provoke or escalate the situation further would be stupid. That it cuts way down on complaints may or may not be a good indicator of whether actual abuse has changed. For that I'd probably rather do an anonymous poll of whether people self-report being abused by the police lately.
Easy to verify: give randomly fake cameras to policemen where they know it's fake but people could not see it. If you still see the drop, then it's people stopping stupid behavior, if not then it's policemen behaving better.
Sounds great until you have a sensitive case where bystanders saw the cop had a camera but guess what, no footage. Conspiracy theorists will love that one, if you're wearing a camera it better be filming. If it's defective or off it's better that you phsyically remove it.
Funny I wrote a lot of bad reviews for stuff I got at a discount and frankly they didn't see to care.
Perhaps they just thought this was your one in ten poor review so you wouldn't seem like a total shill, it doesn't have to work every time and complaining about a bad review might easily turn it into a Streisand effect causing more bad PR. But you're pointing out an important issue, even if they don't actually punish you for bad reviews reviewers might still think that they will be. Because the official party line is clear, but who really wants bad reviews? *wink wink nudge nudge* Maybe you make a few customers who dodged a bullet happy, but they don't pay you. It's the people who want to sell that pick you, most people will assume there a feedback loop there somewhere no matter what.
The vast majority of things that are worth knowing will always be remembered and preserved. If the few that forgotten become necessary, they will be reinvented. The world will continue spinning. No need for alarm.
I think so too, the sheer mass of data generated is so absurdly much higher that even if 0.1% survives it'd be more than a century ago. That said, say you have a global WWII-class war with 6 years of fighting, rationing, power failures, shortages of parts and maybe a decade or two until industry production recovers and people got time to prioritize their history we'd lose a lot of data. It doesn't have to be post-apocalyptic wasteland bad either, but you don't produce TB-size HDDs in your average workshop. That said, at some point you have to just accept that advanced civilization depends on
advanced civilization.
I hope they continue the SE line. I love mine, with 6s Plus internals and a big battery. I have never considered going to one of the enormous phones like the ones you're talking about. They're just clown-like.
Agreed, that it's "overpowered" compared to the screen size gives it a substantial boost to battery life. And fortunately they threw out a lot of the gadgetry instead of reducing the battery, overall very happy with it.
I am not a big Apple supporter and I think our patent system is corrupt and totally broken. But this smells, isn't this being adjudicated in the Eastern District of Texas the center of all that screams PATENT TROLL!
Unfortunately its reputation for being pro-patent is now so known almost everybody files there. The jurisdiction shopping is starting to be a little ridiculous, perhaps they should make a rule that if you sue for over five million dollars (i.e. travel costs are insignificant) there's no longer a free choice of venue, instead you both submit a ranking and go down the list until you find one in common. So the plaintiff would rank Eastern Texas first, the defendant last and they'd instead meet somewhere in the middle. That would cut down on the patent trolling quite a bit, I think.
Yes, absolutely. This is how I block advertising and malware sites, I set up a DNS server that resolves 20,000+ domains to 0.0.0.0 and pointed all my devices at it. Nothing is preventing you or anyone else from setting up a DNS server, the only challenge would be convincing others to use it, if that was your goal.
Or not use DNS but something like TOR's onion sites, search Google (that you'd have to find the IP for) to find everything else or whatnot. Email would die a brutal death as the world switched to Facebook because all the domains failed to resolve. I'm pretty sure we'd find workarounds even if the DNS protocol dropped off the face of the earth. For the countries with Great Firewall they can shit list any domain anyway, so really there's not much new there.
Boy are you out of touch. With every man and their dog being a professional photographer, all the kids playing with drones capturing 4k footage on their go pros
Facts might help. Here in Norway there's now about ~33k drones among ~2.31 million households or <1.5%. Divide by ~5 million if you want per person. Of those many are fun little plastic toys that might not even have a camera (like one friend of mine) or totally unstabilized and just there for flying FPV and not any serious photos/videos (like mine) and a relatively few that are actually camera drones like my other buddy's DJI Phantom. Given the price for a "serious" drone I'm probably being kind if I say they're at most half of all the drones. So no, 99%+ of households don't have any special needs from drones. I hear what you're saying but no, just because people got better cameras doesn't mean everyone wants to be a Japanese tourist everywhere they go.
I've had credit cards compromised 3 times over the years but it's never been because the physical card was stolen. Is that really a common problem in the grand scheme of things? From an American perspective, most ID theft tends to happen when some merchant is breached and thousands or millions of stored numbers+CVV get leaked. This approach makes those leaks useless.
It also makes the purpose of the stored info useless, since it's either recurring services or to make checkout easier. I find it odd that they'd need to store the original input though, they should pass that to VISA and get a sort of authorization token, which would only be valid for their merchant account. That way you can hack eBay's database but unless you're eBay you can't charge anyone. Then you'd have to capture card info live the first time it's entered.
I was really pissed off at having to offer up my finger prints in order to enter the USA recently. Such things used to be demanded only of criminals. Are we all criminals now? It's degrading and insulting. Besides being a great way for these guys to track your every move.
There's a lot of other times and places I'd complain but a border check at the actual border is not one of them. They're the ones with the most reason to verify that your passport is genuine and that you are in fact the person the passport belongs to. I do find it somewhat naughty that they keep it and don't simply register that the fingerprints have been verified and match, but I suppose they don't have jurisdiction to demand that other countries translate passport numbers to fingerprints later like say after a crime. Internal checkpoints are more totalitarian though, but still they're point checks.
I'd be far more concerned with everything else like cell phones, electronic money, electronic tickets, car plate readers and whatnot that gives area surveillance over time. For example imagine all the interesting data you'd have if you correlated cell phone tower data to see which phones reported pretty much exactly the same, I've heard triangulation can be iffy but say two people in a car driving through a coverage area would enter and leave cells at nearly the same time. Once is a coincidence with the car before or after you, but over time you'd get patterns of who belong together. Particularly if you can pair it with traffic data.
The first thing a typical user dares touch inside the case is RAM. Second is HDD add/replacement. Way down the list is replacing the (GASP!) CPU with a faster one. Yes, it is dead easy, but not everyone in the world is a /. techie.
It's supposed to be easy yes... but I absolutely loathe the push-pin design on Intel OEM fans, if you have a tower and move it around a little sooner or later it'll come loose at the top. The AMD Wraith cooler looks super easy to install and secure, but it only works on AMD. Now back plate designs should work on both, but at least when I tried to install a CM212 to replace the OEM fan I must have fucked something because it never booted again. Didn't bother to find out if CPU or mobo or both was fried, bought new and decided to just do OEM fan again for now. But I really, really don't trust that design. Even just ordinary nuts and bolts without the back plate would be a huge improvement but probably costs 50c more.
and that says nothing about the technology wall that was hit with manufacturing that had to be overcome with a variety of approaches (helium filling, SMR, etc).
Well there's that but the main thing is that SSDs killed all interest in performance. The last HDD I bought was an Seagate Archive 8TB disk, do I care that it's SMR and writes are slow and that it'd be horrible in a RAID? Nope. It's just cheap bulk storage. If that's not enough, SSDs spank them in latency and IOPS so a performance HDD is like trying to tune up a lorry. it'll still be a lousy sports car, if that's what you need.
Really, common users see a unit that costs 70$ (seagate 2TB 7200RPM) versus one that costs 550$ or more (crucial 2TB SSD, samsung's is 10x the listed HDD price) and they will gladly save their money.
Assuming the common user actually needs 2TB of storage space and doesn't care about the speed of booting or launching applications. Common users either use streaming services or torrent & delete after watching it, they're not trying to archive the Internet. They snap a few pics and make some funny clips with their phone but they're not photo or videos buffs with ten thousand photos and hours of raw footage to store. And many of them now use the cloud as backup, say what you will but they do. HDDs don't really scale down, you get a 1TB HDD to the price of a 120GB SSD but you can't get a 120GB HDD cheaper.
I wouldn't buy a machine with only HDD today, I got one laptop that I rarely use that is like that and it runs like a sloth in slow motion. And if you go the HDD+SSD route you're looking at the minimum price of both a HDD and a SSD. I'd say up to 250GB of storage I just wouldn't bother with a HDD anymore, above that I'd get a SDD for the stuff you use often and as big a HDD as you need. And possibly one for local backup, for a common user I wouldn't bother with RAID as software bugs, user error and crypto viruses would destroy all copies. Of course if you're in the geek squad you might have a ZFS storage pool with lots of disks, snapshots and whatnot. Good for you, but you're hardly the common user.
It's not open source if it doesn't come with the complete source that someone else can "compile" into hardware. It's not open source if it comes with a "look but don't touch" license. They're under no obligation to support them. They can trademark their name/logo to protect the brand and their own sales. But they can't stop them. If that doesn't work for them, maybe open source is the wrong business model.
Pics or it didn't happen. Also, prove Jesus didn't do the same thing.
If we're judging the past, I'd file the Quran into evidence as a written confession. He was a 7th century warlord, he conquered and killed. He held slaves. He played by "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" rules. And it's not like this was some kind of secret or radical exception to his contemporaries, same as the Founding Fathers kept slaves. It's the past, it was ugly but it's also history. It's only a problem when somebody says the 18th century was perfect, let's go back to the way things were in 1776 and freeze society the way it was. Or well, the Amish pretty much do that and it's not a big problem, it's the "or I'll chop your head off if you don't" fundamentalists.