The US 'formally' joining the Paris Accord is based on Obama's claim that it's not actually a treaty, and therefore doesn't actually require Congressional ratification, despite the fact that that it incorporates compulsory actions on the part of the signatory countries, and is therefore a treaty.
Well it doesn't have any penalties. JFK could say "we will send a man to the moon by the end of the decade" without any legal problems of binding Congress and future presidents because it's no more than a statement of intent. The Paris accords are pretty much the same, we promise to work to reduce climate change. If we don't... we don't. Nothing has been explicitly regulated or banned, no money has been explicitly promised, it's basically a statement of good intentions put to paper. It's a symbolic agreement with less teeth than the Kyoto protocol exactly so it can pass anywhere, like the UN declaration of human rights even though they're regularly violated in many countries of the world.
I am participating and using a NASA-designed EmDrive built by NASA scientists. It can theoretically go to 1c with no external power. Once we deploy our NASA EmDrive we will unlock the power of the Hyperloop and you can travel from NYC to Los Angeles in under 10 minutes.
Ten minutes? I'm working on the Biological Entity Acceledrated Motion Matter Emission Unified Program and our chief engineer Scotty tells me we can do it in a few seconds. Unless the plot requires that we can't.
Automation is inevitable as the capital cost falls. But increasing the cost of human labor accelerates the process significantly. Creative destruction is a good thing, but it does hurt individuals temporarily who will need to retrain and adjust. So the pace is no small thing, and accelerating the transformation is not benign.
That's the usual march of progress, as long as people find new jobs that's fine. If everyone were fit for higher education as doctors, engineers, lawyers and so on we'd not mourn the loss of taxi drivers and burger flippers. Not everyone is looking to solve hard, creative problems at work. Me, I'd probably get bored otherwise but lots and lots of people just want to be trained in a task, do that task and collect their paycheck. Those kinds of "doer" jobs are the prime targets for automation and disappearing across the board.
Every time they list a position with hardly any education or experience necessary, there's a massive number of applicants and it ends up a game of musical chairs where most people don't get the job. I know a few people on disability benefit, I'd say for a century ago they'd be deemed "simpletons" and had some basic menial labor. A few hundred years ago most people were illiterate but they still had jobs, today I'd say an illiterate person is mostly unemployable so it's already happened a bit. But now it might start eating into a significant fraction of the population.
And do they actually need "support" in order to work? Did they change the instruction set finally? Encrypted the whole thing so you need an MS signed cert?
The CPU not so much, but without support for the 200-series Union Point chipset you won't find a motherboard to run it on.
Good close-up footage here now at 1:12. Looks like explosion happened just below the payload, looks like a hose was hanging on the rocket there and it was venting some fumes and a spark ignited it for some reason. Certainly the engines and first stage weren't involved, second stage fueling for full payload test perhaps? It looks to be slightly off to the side of the rocket but if it starts internally or externally I can't tell. Pretty clearly a fueling accident though, not really related to the rocket's operation as such.
In theory, tabs are the right solution. In practice, spaces are the right solution.
I disagree. I disagree with the whole debate entirely... Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment AFTER indentation... Tabs so that people can choose whatever width they want, but after that width (meant for indentation of blocks) use spaces to align whatever you want... It really isn't that hard and it pleases everyone.
1. Congratulations, you win the "theoretically correctest" award 2. I'd be happy if functions and variables had sane names 3. Except those who have to write it, they're not pleased
Indeed. Having listened to a few SpaceX launches, things are either nominal or they have an anomaly. Which can be everything from a gauge being slightly off to an explos^H^H^H^H^H unscheduled rapid disassembly. Understatement seems to be the a rocket science in-joke, "Houston, we have a problem" is their version of "OMG half the ship blew up, we're so screwed".
Next up another long investigation probably rest of 2016, expect the next new Falcon 9 in early 2017 and the first Falcon Heavy and reused booster probably not before mid-2017. I'm guessing they took another big step back from being man-rated too. I bet Musk is not a happy camper right now.
"With good reason, the people of the United States -- through judges and law enforcement -- can invade our private spaces," So, get a warrant and shut up!
And what good will a search warrant do, when the only person capable of unlocking the device will plead the fifth? What can a wiretap warrant do against end-to-end encryption? Let's try not to be intellectually dishonest here, to use a familiar analogy here if DRM prevents you from exercising fair use it's as if that right doesn't exist. A warrant that can't be exercised is nothing, pretending that we don't understand that doesn't lead to a honest discussion.
This isn't technically new, common folks have had the capability to lock everyone out since at least PGP and Bestcrypt back in 1991 and 1995, respectively. I actually expected a big clash over unbreakable encryption more than a decade ago, but using it was technical, inconvenient and complicated so it never became popular. So the police silently cursed it instead of drawing attention to it as it would only point out the police's blind spots.
Fast forward 20 years and through increased computing power, hacking and abuse it's finally going mainstream with companies starting to make regular consumer products so strong and convenient common people do it. And since it's happening anyway, the police are now making a big stink about it. Warrants have lived like a shade of gray, they don't have total and random access and it's not none whatsoever. I still think technology will force our hand to pick black or white.
There's certainly downsides to both no privacy and absolute privacy. People are going to want to have their cake and eat it too, some kind of happy middle like most people prefer a free and democratic nation instead of anarchy or totalitarianism. I mean to me it's rather obvious what's the lesser evil, but to be honest I'm glad the police can still kick down real world doors if necessary. The world would look quite differently if we had impenetrable fortresses one and all.
Now if only they would support their older hardware. They seem to be cutting the support cycle shorter and shorter and the only real support software wise seems to be coming on the Linux side.
Intel does their part, perhaps you have them confused with Microsoft? They want to terminate Win7, but it is after all a seven year old OS in the extended support phase. The problem here isn't that it's running out of support, it's that I don't want any of their newer products. And I don't really have any right to demand they make the products the way I want them or support age old software because I don't like the new. I suppose I'll eventually have to "upgrade" it to a Wintendo because I don't really give a fuck about Microsoft spying on that and use a different OS for everything else. But it won't be today...
Cool. Now do the same thing 6 more times, without resurfacing.
If he can do it for two months straight around the clock without snapping, my money would be on him doing two years too if he had to/wanted to. Elizabeth Fritzl did 24 years trapped in a cell in the basement, eventually no matter how bad the situation is it eventually just is. Same goes for people with severe disabilities and such, if I ended up in a wheelchair I'd get very depressed right away. But if I live through that first phase I don't see myself saying I've lived a year in a wheelchair but a year and a day is too much. I'd either have found a reason to live - or not - long before that.
But I don't see Microsoft going back to redo a patching system they've thrown out in Win10 to do us a favor, it seems far more likely they want to bundle it all from security patching to ads to telemetry to nagware.
Still hoping there will be separate KBs that you can install/uninstall for corporate/expert users and that the cumulative update is just what they push on the update site but since they've become plain evil lately it's hard to say.
But some 10 years ago clients started doing client rendering and just sending bitmaps to the display server. Mostly that meant higher bandwidth and fewer round-trips. Whether that is good or bad depends on the clients and the environment.
Actually they started doing that back in the 90s, the X primitives were already very outdated when KDE/Gnome launched in 1998/1999. And this is really the core issue, if you want a modern looking Linux with gradients, transparency, animations, anti-aliasing and various pretty effects you let a graphics toolkit do the job and hand X a bitmap. And they run roughly as bad under remote X as under VNC, because under those circumstances they do pretty much the same thing.
The applications that do work well using remote X are the same applications that shy away from the "render bitmaps" strategy and with their primitives they look... primitive. Functional sure, but as a local desktop application they look like a legacy tool that hasn't recieved any love in the last 20 years. And you can't fix that without turning them into bitmap-pushers, which is of course met with the same level of scorn as replacing X.
It seems to me that wayland initially was infested by the type of developers that think that all they need is direct access to video memory, and for remote applications all you need is VNC-style full-desktop remote. Of course people who use remote X think that that is a myopic and arrogant view. It seems that wayland has gained some developers in the past few years who have more common sense
There's actually not a lot of sense in trying to make one system that'll work both for graphics hooked up over a >15GB/s x16 PCIe 3.0 link with nanosecond latency and a system with 1/1000th the bandwidth and 1000x the latency. Applications will tend to work well in just one of those two scenarios no matter what kind of protocol you wrap it in, even if it's theoretically network transparent. If it wasn't being used, it wouldn't be the fastest interlink we have in modern computers.
I'm one of those that hopes remote X dies in a fire so we can have a 21st century Linux desktop. What remote X does today would be better done using web interfaces or dedicated client-server software that would transfer only the data necessary, instead of trying to keep the graphics so simple it's easier to describe them as lines and boxes and text than to actually send the pixels. Because that's what you must do to make the X model "work".
Because the USB device didn't even get recognized at all?;)
So you jest but compliant USB Video Class devices (read: webcams) have been supported since 2008. It's actually a standard much like you plug in any USB keyboard, mouse, pendrive etc. and it usually works. It's quite amazing that Microsoft managed to break such a widely adopted standard. I'm guess they're just setting the standard for what "supported lifetime" you'll have before Windows 10 refuses to run.
9. Better Food through Science: Someone Else's farm.
I'll just pick one to keep the size manageable, who cares? It's already not my farm. I'm more than happy to use my skills to earn money so I can go to the grocery store and buy someone else's product, I don't care one bit for farming and certainly not the small scale "get your hands dirty" kind. The efficient trading of products and services has been the greatest boon to productivity in human history, with automation a close second. Am I supposed to feel it's a downside that I paid somebody for a washing machine, so I didn't have to do my own laundry? Sure I don't want my tools to exploit me, but that's the downside to a huge upside. I'd much rather take an Android or iPhone over no smartphone at all. YMMV, enjoy your hermit cave.
Given the massive layoffs and 2-year delay on 10nm... Intel knows its in trouble. Their main two competitors (by semiconductor manufacturing market share) are TSMC and Samsung and both will have 10nm chips rolling out the door a year before Intel even begins testing its 10nm fab. Even Toshiba might beat them to 10nm.
Intel has been testing 10nm for a long time, but they never announce milestones and test chips only finished volume products. They've lost their lead, but I doubt they'll be far behind if any.
Voice can help you understand the EMOTION behind a person's communication. But text is far better at passing INFORMATION.
My main objection is that I just don't see the situation where you'd want to simply pass the emotion. If I start a conversion like "Hey Dave, I'm a bit concerned about the $foobar interface..." I'd like to know if your response is "Oh? I think it's excellent" or "Yeah, me too" before I go on. If I'm trying to describe something like "I want it to be gloomy" I want to hear some feedback like "So, like sad, melancholic gloomy or creepy, haunted gloomy?" to hear what they understood by it. And if I wanted to show I care I sure as hell would call and say "I'm so sorry to hear your dog died, are you okay?" not send a voice message. Monologues are mostly ego puff pieces of the person sending them.
Trademarks only protect use in trade. As this was basically a hobbyist project and given away for free, was it using the name 'Pokemon' by way of trade?
That's not even close to the legal definition. Trademark infringement is offering a product or service that is confusingly similar to an official, licensed one by use of trade marks. Why you do it doesn't matter. That it's free doesn't mean much when many actual games have free demos or a freemium business model. Could a reasonable person think that "Pokemon Uranium" is an official Pokemon game? If the answer to that is yes - and this is as blatant as it gets - it's game over.
I can guarantee that Mr. Krzanich and the Intel board would never allow their foundry business to cannibalize their current core discrete CPU business for a "competitor" if they felt it was detrimental to their overall financial and operating picture. This ARM deal is a piece of a larger plan of maximizing their ROI on their very very expensive chip fabs in a market where they have typically had a lead in logic process technology at least one node ahead of their competitors historically. That advantage can be very important in mobile due to the cost and power savings vertical transistor process nodes now offer along with superior manufacturing capabilities as the scale of their other businesses has long demonstrated.
I think you have it a bit backwards, Intel would love to use their process node advantage to push their own x86 chips. But now TSMC and Samsung have 14/16nm processes up and running just like Intel, though some still argue about what's "real" and not. Since they haven't even released the 14nm Kaby Lake yet it seems Cannonlake and 10nm production is still far off while TSMC has created a 10nm test chip "Artemis" indicating they won't be far behind if at all. So because they can't stay ahead in process technology they'd rather have ARM companies make chips on Intel foundries than other foundries, more money for Intel and less money for other foundries. They wouldn't be doing it if they could keep 10nm production as an Intel exclusive.
So where am I being screwed? Is the mobile version running a lot slower, or is the desktop version just rubbish?
The GTX 1080 "mobile" solution reportedly has a TDP of 150W, the desktop version 180W so first of all it won't be in any ordinary laptop. It's a basically a die harvested version, presumably at a solid premium so price-wise I'm guessing you'll pay considerably more for the mobile version. What it does say is that nVidia could make a bigger more bad-ass card but we already knew that, but $/transistor hasn't improved as much as watt/transistor. The GTX 1080 has 7.2 billion transistors vs the GTX 980's 5.2 billion. The Tesla X that will probably be re-released as the 1080 Ti at some point has 12 billion transistors vs the 980 Ti's 8 billion.
If you overclock the future 1080 Ti by 10% (as far as I know they gimped that for the Titan X) you'd already hit the 300W ATX limit. We know though that they could make a GP100 size consumer card, 15.3 billion transistors in 610 mm^2 and probably a 350W+ TDP. However it'd be twice the size of the 1080 and with worse yields you'd probably be looking at a $1500 price tag. It's the kind of GPU you'd pair with Intel's $1700 ten core extreme edition CPU, for people who have enough money to just not care. Not that I really care at this point, my friends and I are having the most fun in Overwatch at the moment and that you can play on almost anything.
It would probably work similarly to the UK law that can send you to jail for not handing over a password. It's up to the police to prove that you know it beyond a reasonable doubt, e.g. by showing that you had the files open recently.
Except that they don't do any of that. They just air their suspicions towards you and say It's your phone, your laptop so give us the PIN/password or else. It's about as bad as civil forfeiture in the US, guilty until proven innocent.
There is some convenience to owning a car; you can leave your crap in there and have it as dirty or clean as you want, it's always there to be used at a moment's notice. But if you're not using it every day anyway, who cares?
Well it's also available during crunch times like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and so on. The airplanes are full, the trains are full, the buses are full and if autonomous cars are profit-optimized for normal traffic you can be sure they are full too so short term leases might not be available when you need them. As for long term leases, unlike a house or office building cars are mobile if Detroit goes to hell you can always sell it in New York, California or some 40+ other states. If the whole economy from coast to coast has gone down the drain you probably have bigger problems. I'm thinking most people will either own the car or hail one like a cab, not lease it unless they need a particular car for a particular job or for a particular time.
Simple "fix", stop looking for the password. Then you're screwed, if you remember/find it later they'll say you knew how to produce it all along and if you never find it everyone will just assume that you took the time to hide something worse. Also remember this won't just apply to whole disks, say you zip some sensitive files for Bob. Since they'll be attached on open email you password protect it and call to tell Bob the key. Two years later the cops think "files_for_bob.zip" is your secret kiddie porn/terrorist plot/mafia accounting stash, you don't know the password anymore, Bob doesn't know the password anymore and you're fucked.
For that matter, so too is Bob if he extracted the files and forgot to delete that zipped file. Or that old backup CD that you made once that the cops found at the bottom of a pile of old junk which you've long forgotten the password for, you have five other copies but the cops want to know what's on this particular CD. I know I'd be fucked just by an USB stick I used to have for work, I got client information there I couldn't risk losing if it fell out of my pocket and since I'd use it on client machines I'd have one password per client. For a time I'd know the password, but if the client didn't give us more business eventually I'd forget. The files would still be there for the cops to nail me for though.
And that's just the things I know I don't know, even in the relaxed setting I'm in now. If remembering was the difference between going to jail or not, what's to say the panic won't become a block of its own? It's like trying to go to sleep when you know you absolutely have to sleep because you won't get another chance for a very long time. The brain gets itself all worked up with OMG I can't sleep, what if I don't get enough sleep, I really need to sleep right now and so on which is extremely counterproductive to actually falling asleep. And the smart criminals will use hidden containers and steganography, making the whole exercise pointless. Oh well...
I think people who actually need to tow things are the niche market since most people don't. Most people here go from home to work, home to drop the kids at school, home to the store etc and for that the range of the Tesla is good enough.
For that a Nissan Leaf will do, really. But how often do you do those not so everyday things? If it's one trip a year maybe, if it's ten trips a year I have to take out a lease, go collect the car, inspect it for any damage so they don't blame me, transfer all my belongings, deal with an all new car and once I'm done drop it off and get home I'm not going to do it. Actually a Tesla would be pretty sweet, but it's also a premium car. I can get a compact that serves my needs for half the price if all I need is the occasional range. Not to mention my Ford Focus can pull a trailer, no need for the Model X.
On top of that, instead of 2-5 minutes filling up, you can fill up overnight or use one of the higher power chargers at the shopping mall (Several malls here in Montreal have them) and have a full charge when you are done shopping or eating. If you think about it, it's actually a more efficient use of your time since you no longer have to supervise the car while it charges.
Of course my gas engine car has a 55L tank and uses about 0.7L / 10km so it's 6-700 km between tanking with 100 km to spare. Also unlike an electric car it's not a big deal if I run close to empty, while being stuck at a charger when you don't want to sucks so I'd probably top off the EV all the time though I technically didn't need to. Maybe you can shave off a few seconds but you only need to screw up once because you were in a hurry or distracted or the charger malfunctioned and you could be stuck for half an hour or more.
Here in Norway they've given huge incentives to EVs, built out a massive number of chargers but the sales peaked at about 15% and is now trending back towards 10% market share. And that's in a market where a Tesla P90D costs less than a Ford Mustang V8... okay so muscle cars are punished horribly. Anyway the Leaf has been doing well paired with a big "family car" as the commute car, but I think they have a long way to go to make any serious dent in the ICE market. Globally the need for cars probably grows faster than EVs can, so at best it's slowing a trend not turning it.
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The US 'formally' joining the Paris Accord is based on Obama's claim that it's not actually a treaty, and therefore doesn't actually require Congressional ratification, despite the fact that that it incorporates compulsory actions on the part of the signatory countries, and is therefore a treaty.
Well it doesn't have any penalties. JFK could say "we will send a man to the moon by the end of the decade" without any legal problems of binding Congress and future presidents because it's no more than a statement of intent. The Paris accords are pretty much the same, we promise to work to reduce climate change. If we don't... we don't. Nothing has been explicitly regulated or banned, no money has been explicitly promised, it's basically a statement of good intentions put to paper. It's a symbolic agreement with less teeth than the Kyoto protocol exactly so it can pass anywhere, like the UN declaration of human rights even though they're regularly violated in many countries of the world.
I am participating and using a NASA-designed EmDrive built by NASA scientists. It can theoretically go to 1c with no external power. Once we deploy our NASA EmDrive we will unlock the power of the Hyperloop and you can travel from NYC to Los Angeles in under 10 minutes.
Ten minutes? I'm working on the Biological Entity Acceledrated Motion Matter Emission Unified Program and our chief engineer Scotty tells me we can do it in a few seconds. Unless the plot requires that we can't.
Automation is inevitable as the capital cost falls. But increasing the cost of human labor accelerates the process significantly. Creative destruction is a good thing, but it does hurt individuals temporarily who will need to retrain and adjust. So the pace is no small thing, and accelerating the transformation is not benign.
That's the usual march of progress, as long as people find new jobs that's fine. If everyone were fit for higher education as doctors, engineers, lawyers and so on we'd not mourn the loss of taxi drivers and burger flippers. Not everyone is looking to solve hard, creative problems at work. Me, I'd probably get bored otherwise but lots and lots of people just want to be trained in a task, do that task and collect their paycheck. Those kinds of "doer" jobs are the prime targets for automation and disappearing across the board.
Every time they list a position with hardly any education or experience necessary, there's a massive number of applicants and it ends up a game of musical chairs where most people don't get the job. I know a few people on disability benefit, I'd say for a century ago they'd be deemed "simpletons" and had some basic menial labor. A few hundred years ago most people were illiterate but they still had jobs, today I'd say an illiterate person is mostly unemployable so it's already happened a bit. But now it might start eating into a significant fraction of the population.
And do they actually need "support" in order to work? Did they change the instruction set finally? Encrypted the whole thing so you need an MS signed cert?
The CPU not so much, but without support for the 200-series Union Point chipset you won't find a motherboard to run it on.
Good close-up footage here now at 1:12. Looks like explosion happened just below the payload, looks like a hose was hanging on the rocket there and it was venting some fumes and a spark ignited it for some reason. Certainly the engines and first stage weren't involved, second stage fueling for full payload test perhaps? It looks to be slightly off to the side of the rocket but if it starts internally or externally I can't tell. Pretty clearly a fueling accident though, not really related to the rocket's operation as such.
In theory, tabs are the right solution. In practice, spaces are the right solution.
I disagree. I disagree with the whole debate entirely... Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment AFTER indentation... Tabs so that people can choose whatever width they want, but after that width (meant for indentation of blocks) use spaces to align whatever you want... It really isn't that hard and it pleases everyone.
1. Congratulations, you win the "theoretically correctest" award
2. I'd be happy if functions and variables had sane names
3. Except those who have to write it, they're not pleased
The anomaly probably was the explosion.
Indeed. Having listened to a few SpaceX launches, things are either nominal or they have an anomaly. Which can be everything from a gauge being slightly off to an explos^H^H^H^H^H unscheduled rapid disassembly. Understatement seems to be the a rocket science in-joke, "Houston, we have a problem" is their version of "OMG half the ship blew up, we're so screwed".
Next up another long investigation probably rest of 2016, expect the next new Falcon 9 in early 2017 and the first Falcon Heavy and reused booster probably not before mid-2017. I'm guessing they took another big step back from being man-rated too. I bet Musk is not a happy camper right now.
"With good reason, the people of the United States -- through judges and law enforcement -- can invade our private spaces," So, get a warrant and shut up!
And what good will a search warrant do, when the only person capable of unlocking the device will plead the fifth? What can a wiretap warrant do against end-to-end encryption? Let's try not to be intellectually dishonest here, to use a familiar analogy here if DRM prevents you from exercising fair use it's as if that right doesn't exist. A warrant that can't be exercised is nothing, pretending that we don't understand that doesn't lead to a honest discussion.
This isn't technically new, common folks have had the capability to lock everyone out since at least PGP and Bestcrypt back in 1991 and 1995, respectively. I actually expected a big clash over unbreakable encryption more than a decade ago, but using it was technical, inconvenient and complicated so it never became popular. So the police silently cursed it instead of drawing attention to it as it would only point out the police's blind spots.
Fast forward 20 years and through increased computing power, hacking and abuse it's finally going mainstream with companies starting to make regular consumer products so strong and convenient common people do it. And since it's happening anyway, the police are now making a big stink about it. Warrants have lived like a shade of gray, they don't have total and random access and it's not none whatsoever. I still think technology will force our hand to pick black or white.
There's certainly downsides to both no privacy and absolute privacy. People are going to want to have their cake and eat it too, some kind of happy middle like most people prefer a free and democratic nation instead of anarchy or totalitarianism. I mean to me it's rather obvious what's the lesser evil, but to be honest I'm glad the police can still kick down real world doors if necessary. The world would look quite differently if we had impenetrable fortresses one and all.
Now if only they would support their older hardware. They seem to be cutting the support cycle shorter and shorter and the only real support software wise seems to be coming on the Linux side.
Intel does their part, perhaps you have them confused with Microsoft? They want to terminate Win7, but it is after all a seven year old OS in the extended support phase. The problem here isn't that it's running out of support, it's that I don't want any of their newer products. And I don't really have any right to demand they make the products the way I want them or support age old software because I don't like the new. I suppose I'll eventually have to "upgrade" it to a Wintendo because I don't really give a fuck about Microsoft spying on that and use a different OS for everything else. But it won't be today...
Cool. Now do the same thing 6 more times, without resurfacing.
If he can do it for two months straight around the clock without snapping, my money would be on him doing two years too if he had to/wanted to. Elizabeth Fritzl did 24 years trapped in a cell in the basement, eventually no matter how bad the situation is it eventually just is. Same goes for people with severe disabilities and such, if I ended up in a wheelchair I'd get very depressed right away. But if I live through that first phase I don't see myself saying I've lived a year in a wheelchair but a year and a day is too much. I'd either have found a reason to live - or not - long before that.
From when they announced cumulative updates:
But I don't see Microsoft going back to redo a patching system they've thrown out in Win10 to do us a favor, it seems far more likely they want to bundle it all from security patching to ads to telemetry to nagware.
Still hoping there will be separate KBs that you can install/uninstall for corporate/expert users and that the cumulative update is just what they push on the update site but since they've become plain evil lately it's hard to say.
But some 10 years ago clients started doing client rendering and just sending bitmaps to the display server. Mostly that meant higher bandwidth and fewer round-trips. Whether that is good or bad depends on the clients and the environment.
Actually they started doing that back in the 90s, the X primitives were already very outdated when KDE/Gnome launched in 1998/1999. And this is really the core issue, if you want a modern looking Linux with gradients, transparency, animations, anti-aliasing and various pretty effects you let a graphics toolkit do the job and hand X a bitmap. And they run roughly as bad under remote X as under VNC, because under those circumstances they do pretty much the same thing.
The applications that do work well using remote X are the same applications that shy away from the "render bitmaps" strategy and with their primitives they look... primitive. Functional sure, but as a local desktop application they look like a legacy tool that hasn't recieved any love in the last 20 years. And you can't fix that without turning them into bitmap-pushers, which is of course met with the same level of scorn as replacing X.
It seems to me that wayland initially was infested by the type of developers that think that all they need is direct access to video memory, and for remote applications all you need is VNC-style full-desktop remote. Of course people who use remote X think that that is a myopic and arrogant view. It seems that wayland has gained some developers in the past few years who have more common sense
There's actually not a lot of sense in trying to make one system that'll work both for graphics hooked up over a >15GB/s x16 PCIe 3.0 link with nanosecond latency and a system with 1/1000th the bandwidth and 1000x the latency. Applications will tend to work well in just one of those two scenarios no matter what kind of protocol you wrap it in, even if it's theoretically network transparent. If it wasn't being used, it wouldn't be the fastest interlink we have in modern computers.
I'm one of those that hopes remote X dies in a fire so we can have a 21st century Linux desktop. What remote X does today would be better done using web interfaces or dedicated client-server software that would transfer only the data necessary, instead of trying to keep the graphics so simple it's easier to describe them as lines and boxes and text than to actually send the pixels. Because that's what you must do to make the X model "work".
Because the USB device didn't even get recognized at all? ;)
So you jest but compliant USB Video Class devices (read: webcams) have been supported since 2008. It's actually a standard much like you plug in any USB keyboard, mouse, pendrive etc. and it usually works. It's quite amazing that Microsoft managed to break such a widely adopted standard. I'm guess they're just setting the standard for what "supported lifetime" you'll have before Windows 10 refuses to run.
Look at the bright side. For the first time, scientists and nutjobs will stand united in their complaint about something.
AGW? If you think they don't have any nutjobs, well... you might be the nutjob.
9. Better Food through Science: Someone Else's farm.
I'll just pick one to keep the size manageable, who cares? It's already not my farm. I'm more than happy to use my skills to earn money so I can go to the grocery store and buy someone else's product, I don't care one bit for farming and certainly not the small scale "get your hands dirty" kind. The efficient trading of products and services has been the greatest boon to productivity in human history, with automation a close second. Am I supposed to feel it's a downside that I paid somebody for a washing machine, so I didn't have to do my own laundry? Sure I don't want my tools to exploit me, but that's the downside to a huge upside. I'd much rather take an Android or iPhone over no smartphone at all. YMMV, enjoy your hermit cave.
Given the massive layoffs and 2-year delay on 10nm... Intel knows its in trouble. Their main two competitors (by semiconductor manufacturing market share) are TSMC and Samsung and both will have 10nm chips rolling out the door a year before Intel even begins testing its 10nm fab. Even Toshiba might beat them to 10nm.
Intel has been testing 10nm for a long time, but they never announce milestones and test chips only finished volume products. They've lost their lead, but I doubt they'll be far behind if any.
Voice can help you understand the EMOTION behind a person's communication. But text is far better at passing INFORMATION.
My main objection is that I just don't see the situation where you'd want to simply pass the emotion. If I start a conversion like "Hey Dave, I'm a bit concerned about the $foobar interface..." I'd like to know if your response is "Oh? I think it's excellent" or "Yeah, me too" before I go on. If I'm trying to describe something like "I want it to be gloomy" I want to hear some feedback like "So, like sad, melancholic gloomy or creepy, haunted gloomy?" to hear what they understood by it. And if I wanted to show I care I sure as hell would call and say "I'm so sorry to hear your dog died, are you okay?" not send a voice message. Monologues are mostly ego puff pieces of the person sending them.
Trademarks only protect use in trade. As this was basically a hobbyist project and given away for free, was it using the name 'Pokemon' by way of trade?
That's not even close to the legal definition. Trademark infringement is offering a product or service that is confusingly similar to an official, licensed one by use of trade marks. Why you do it doesn't matter. That it's free doesn't mean much when many actual games have free demos or a freemium business model. Could a reasonable person think that "Pokemon Uranium" is an official Pokemon game? If the answer to that is yes - and this is as blatant as it gets - it's game over.
I can guarantee that Mr. Krzanich and the Intel board would never allow their foundry business to cannibalize their current core discrete CPU business for a "competitor" if they felt it was detrimental to their overall financial and operating picture. This ARM deal is a piece of a larger plan of maximizing their ROI on their very very expensive chip fabs in a market where they have typically had a lead in logic process technology at least one node ahead of their competitors historically. That advantage can be very important in mobile due to the cost and power savings vertical transistor process nodes now offer along with superior manufacturing capabilities as the scale of their other businesses has long demonstrated.
I think you have it a bit backwards, Intel would love to use their process node advantage to push their own x86 chips. But now TSMC and Samsung have 14/16nm processes up and running just like Intel, though some still argue about what's "real" and not. Since they haven't even released the 14nm Kaby Lake yet it seems Cannonlake and 10nm production is still far off while TSMC has created a 10nm test chip "Artemis" indicating they won't be far behind if at all. So because they can't stay ahead in process technology they'd rather have ARM companies make chips on Intel foundries than other foundries, more money for Intel and less money for other foundries. They wouldn't be doing it if they could keep 10nm production as an Intel exclusive.
So where am I being screwed? Is the mobile version running a lot slower, or is the desktop version just rubbish?
The GTX 1080 "mobile" solution reportedly has a TDP of 150W, the desktop version 180W so first of all it won't be in any ordinary laptop. It's a basically a die harvested version, presumably at a solid premium so price-wise I'm guessing you'll pay considerably more for the mobile version. What it does say is that nVidia could make a bigger more bad-ass card but we already knew that, but $/transistor hasn't improved as much as watt/transistor. The GTX 1080 has 7.2 billion transistors vs the GTX 980's 5.2 billion. The Tesla X that will probably be re-released as the 1080 Ti at some point has 12 billion transistors vs the 980 Ti's 8 billion.
If you overclock the future 1080 Ti by 10% (as far as I know they gimped that for the Titan X) you'd already hit the 300W ATX limit. We know though that they could make a GP100 size consumer card, 15.3 billion transistors in 610 mm^2 and probably a 350W+ TDP. However it'd be twice the size of the 1080 and with worse yields you'd probably be looking at a $1500 price tag. It's the kind of GPU you'd pair with Intel's $1700 ten core extreme edition CPU, for people who have enough money to just not care. Not that I really care at this point, my friends and I are having the most fun in Overwatch at the moment and that you can play on almost anything.
It would probably work similarly to the UK law that can send you to jail for not handing over a password. It's up to the police to prove that you know it beyond a reasonable doubt, e.g. by showing that you had the files open recently.
Except that they don't do any of that. They just air their suspicions towards you and say It's your phone, your laptop so give us the PIN/password or else. It's about as bad as civil forfeiture in the US, guilty until proven innocent.
There is some convenience to owning a car; you can leave your crap in there and have it as dirty or clean as you want, it's always there to be used at a moment's notice. But if you're not using it every day anyway, who cares?
Well it's also available during crunch times like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and so on. The airplanes are full, the trains are full, the buses are full and if autonomous cars are profit-optimized for normal traffic you can be sure they are full too so short term leases might not be available when you need them. As for long term leases, unlike a house or office building cars are mobile if Detroit goes to hell you can always sell it in New York, California or some 40+ other states. If the whole economy from coast to coast has gone down the drain you probably have bigger problems. I'm thinking most people will either own the car or hail one like a cab, not lease it unless they need a particular car for a particular job or for a particular time.
Simple "fix", stop looking for the password. Then you're screwed, if you remember/find it later they'll say you knew how to produce it all along and if you never find it everyone will just assume that you took the time to hide something worse. Also remember this won't just apply to whole disks, say you zip some sensitive files for Bob. Since they'll be attached on open email you password protect it and call to tell Bob the key. Two years later the cops think "files_for_bob.zip" is your secret kiddie porn/terrorist plot/mafia accounting stash, you don't know the password anymore, Bob doesn't know the password anymore and you're fucked.
For that matter, so too is Bob if he extracted the files and forgot to delete that zipped file. Or that old backup CD that you made once that the cops found at the bottom of a pile of old junk which you've long forgotten the password for, you have five other copies but the cops want to know what's on this particular CD. I know I'd be fucked just by an USB stick I used to have for work, I got client information there I couldn't risk losing if it fell out of my pocket and since I'd use it on client machines I'd have one password per client. For a time I'd know the password, but if the client didn't give us more business eventually I'd forget. The files would still be there for the cops to nail me for though.
And that's just the things I know I don't know, even in the relaxed setting I'm in now. If remembering was the difference between going to jail or not, what's to say the panic won't become a block of its own? It's like trying to go to sleep when you know you absolutely have to sleep because you won't get another chance for a very long time. The brain gets itself all worked up with OMG I can't sleep, what if I don't get enough sleep, I really need to sleep right now and so on which is extremely counterproductive to actually falling asleep. And the smart criminals will use hidden containers and steganography, making the whole exercise pointless. Oh well...
I think people who actually need to tow things are the niche market since most people don't. Most people here go from home to work, home to drop the kids at school, home to the store etc and for that the range of the Tesla is good enough.
For that a Nissan Leaf will do, really. But how often do you do those not so everyday things? If it's one trip a year maybe, if it's ten trips a year I have to take out a lease, go collect the car, inspect it for any damage so they don't blame me, transfer all my belongings, deal with an all new car and once I'm done drop it off and get home I'm not going to do it. Actually a Tesla would be pretty sweet, but it's also a premium car. I can get a compact that serves my needs for half the price if all I need is the occasional range. Not to mention my Ford Focus can pull a trailer, no need for the Model X.
On top of that, instead of 2-5 minutes filling up, you can fill up overnight or use one of the higher power chargers at the shopping mall (Several malls here in Montreal have them) and have a full charge when you are done shopping or eating. If you think about it, it's actually a more efficient use of your time since you no longer have to supervise the car while it charges.
Of course my gas engine car has a 55L tank and uses about 0.7L / 10km so it's 6-700 km between tanking with 100 km to spare. Also unlike an electric car it's not a big deal if I run close to empty, while being stuck at a charger when you don't want to sucks so I'd probably top off the EV all the time though I technically didn't need to. Maybe you can shave off a few seconds but you only need to screw up once because you were in a hurry or distracted or the charger malfunctioned and you could be stuck for half an hour or more.
Here in Norway they've given huge incentives to EVs, built out a massive number of chargers but the sales peaked at about 15% and is now trending back towards 10% market share. And that's in a market where a Tesla P90D costs less than a Ford Mustang V8... okay so muscle cars are punished horribly. Anyway the Leaf has been doing well paired with a big "family car" as the commute car, but I think they have a long way to go to make any serious dent in the ICE market. Globally the need for cars probably grows faster than EVs can, so at best it's slowing a trend not turning it.