Not true, as trigonometric functions aren't linear. Do the math. Take venus at a right angle orbit to earth. sqrt(1+0.728^2)= 1.234 AU. Then Take Mercury at the same right angle, sqrt(1+0.39^2) = 1.073 AU. Mecury is closer for at least half of it's orbit.
But a weird thing is that by average closest planet, they don't mean average distance is the least, they mean if you pick a random time, it's most likely that at that moment, mercury will be closer than mars or Venus. The result was about 45% Mercury, 35% Venus, and 20% mars.
OS X is certified POSIX compliant. But by modifying it you don't neccessarily end up with something inside the standards. Take for instance the guy who modified a shovel and ended up with an AK-47. https://thechive.com/2012/12/0... They do some really weird things with the file-system and Jails, and don't expose the full range of system interfaces to the applications. I don't believe you can take any POSIX compliant code and compile and install it for iOS in the same way you can with OS X. (Version 9 and earlier are not BSD based). If you break the jail, reportedly it's close enough for openssh, but I'm guessing that it's not the case for the intended exposed framework.
And I thing I noticed in research was that Cydia (jailbroke app store) apps were reported as tendeding to break between iOS releases, leading me to believe they are playing fast and loose with the interfaces that aren't exposed through the framework. If not API, at least with ABI.
>It's not about the chip, there will be a new chip. It's about the core. If the core is adequate when coupled with a decent GPU, and if that actually happens, there's no reason it can't work.
We have seen ARM in a more traditional architecture like with the Cavium ThunderX, though the consenses is that the per thread performance is somewhat anemic. I think going traditional on ARM loses the tight integration and manufacturing simplicity that a SOC brings. I don't see the advantage over x86. No I think apple wants to bring the same basic chip across thier whole line. Theyll probably change the chip from a 2.4 Big.little to a 4.4, up the RAM to 8GB and expand the GPU and codecs it covers. They'll carefully curate apps to work well with that, and they'll probably make money for a while.
>To my mind, most Apple users can get away with a lot less CPU power than they've got in their laptops and desktops right now, and the rest aren't especially profitable anyway, so why appease them? Apple seems to have the same attitude, given the history of their "pro" machines.
Abandoning the high end and server is a mistake in the long run I think. People who need these machines are driving business acquisition. If the ecosystem doesn't have a in-house big-iron solution it can get passed over. And before you say "cloud", it's just other people's servers and leaves you vulnerable to other people's mistakes and quite lopsided terms of service. Critical business data should stay on servers the business controls, and then think about adding cloud if you need remote access and redundancy. It gets even worse if you can't configure the machines to use local domain controllers and servers, like in iOS. (While there are apps to allow one-off access, it's not integrated into the core of the system)
Really OS X on a big serious system like the Cavium ThunderX would get a lot of people excited about the Apple again. OS X has BSD heritage and should be able to perform just fine on serious hardware. Combine it with a way to run iCloud service on the local server and bind the device to a locally controlled application repository and you'd have a pretty nice enterprise chain.
It's like the printer and ink model. If you can break even on the big system, and it lets you sell your high margin product into markets you couldn't before then why not? Sure there's this Steve Jobs vision of flashy well designed devices locked on "easy mode" but everyone forgets Steve Jobs just about ran Apple into bankruptcy the first time around. Good designs and UI are becoming more common and less of an up-sell than yesteryear. Apple sales are dropping as they can't get features people (even many die-hard fans) are willing to pay a premium for, and most of their revenue is from leveraging their position as gatekeeper, rather than providing solutions of fundamental IT problems. A new platform isn't going to solve Apple's business weaknesses.
Compare to Microsoft, which while its improving it's consumer experience is branching out into services and solutions, embracing standards and open source to do so. Their 20 year outlook is more certain than Apple, even if nobody uses Windows in 20 years.
I know this is a bit ranty, but in the long run gates come crashing down, while bridges get repaired and rebuilt over and over.
Interesting. So it's Unix-ish if your a internal developer or hacker. I haven't played with any sort of "smartphone" out of sheer protest of the walled garden mentality of both Google and Apple, even if one isn't quite as strict as the other.
There isn't full support, and even if there were, it's irrelevant as application developers aren't allowed to get at it. Everything is going through the constrained frameworks.
Nobody does 4k on the CPU. This was hardware acceleration in the GPU, with a company they worked very closely with to get the acceleration working flawlessly for one specific video codec format and setting. Going outside the presets likely won't end well.
And there's a pretty long history of companies gaming benchmarks. We know geek-bench hits a lot of paths that are hardware accelerated, and memory/disk sensitive. And this is even before going into the fact iOS is finely tuned to the hardware, and the App store likely recieved the geekbench app in an IR that can be precisely optimized for the hardware.
It's not doubt a good mobile chip, but a workstation chip? I kind of doublt it.
I expect you can get a reasonable Blackbird package going for about 2k. While expensive it's moderately compelling as a desktop. The problem for ARM is that a lot of the desktop feel is related to single core performance, and expansion, which not a lot of cheap ARM boards actually provide all that much oomph, nor do they have the pci-e bus needed to connect to a reasonably powerful graphics accelerator.
However if the valuations are significantly wrong, you should be able to make a lot of money by splitting the difference and hiring a bunch of women.
Another explanation is that women in general are valuing non-wage factors differently than men when considering employment offers, job-seeking and maintainance of current employment.
But your forgot to change the wireless MAC, the secret short-range transmitter, and turned the gps on accidentally, so they got you anyways and had proof you were at the scene of the crime.
Copyright specifically says fixed in tangible form. The Statute of frauds just says written. There's still a few questions around legal procedure of electronic documents. At least in the U.S. no state agency is handing out ID's with an embeded smart-card chip. And even if it were accepted in a court it only proves the card was present, and even if accepted as signature, signature/acceptance is only one element of a valid contract. Even a simple sale, you still would need to describe the offer and consideration (the specific thing sold, any special terms, and the price). An e-mail after the fact is exactly what the statutue of frauds doesn't like. If the terms were clearly presented or displayed at the point of sale and the purchaser was given an opportunity to accept than then an option to email a receipt, That probably be fine. Just something to keep in mind when designing the system, that high-value sales may need an extra step.
It's pretty hard to ring something on the register and not declare it in the total. On the other hand, if the customer isn't expecting a receipt, you don't have to ring it in, can pocket the cash and report an inventory adjustment/shrinkage, offsetting store income.
Seems like a tablet combined with a take-a-number system would be just fine. Gate checks aren't really enforceable other than telling a customer not to come back. They need evidence that theft has occurred to detain you, you don't need evidence that payment occurred to leave.
No, it's just marketing. The PR is the a Republican (representative) and democratic (elected) government is better than all others. It's like all new tech products are claimed to be "disruptive innovations". The full/traditional party names of the major U.S. parties are Democratic Republicans, and the Republican Democrats, and before 1930 the Democratic Republicans were really into the republican highlights (separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, the party of Jefferson and Jackson) and the Republican democrats were into the will of the people stuff (central regulation, infrastructure projects, popular reforms, the party of Lincoln, McKinley and Teddy Rosevelt). Sometime between WWI and FDR they did a flip though and the shortened names were more apt.
However trying to classify foreign parties in terms of U.S parties isn't really that helpful because of that flip, and because the U.S. history and circumstance is going to be different that what you're comparing to.
According to Marx's definitions, no nation-state has ever been communist in form. (In fact, the fact there is a formal nation-state contract-indicates a communist society. Socialism is state control of the means of production (weather nominally private or public), whereas communism is a utopia anarchic state where the means of production are freely available to all, and the output taken as needed by anyone. Marx says a socialist revolution is the first step to communism, but the transition to the second state never occurs, and the established party resists attempts to push further.
They improved performance by being a lot more selective where and how it was actually used. If you have to hand tune the engine and game for it, then it doesn't say a lot of good things about current state of the tech. Yes a few developers always experiment, but at this point most of them thing the effort is better spent elsewhere. 3-5 years down the line is maybe a different story but only if the hardware to do it is a lot more common.
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No if parallax shift between the bodies is significant, than you can't base average distance off of average location, as trig functions aren't linear.
What planet is easiest to send a spacecraft to? Is not exactly the same question as "What planet is at this moment closest to us?"
Actually they did calculate average distance as well. 1.05 for mecury, 1.15 venus, 1.65 mars
Not true, as trigonometric functions aren't linear. Do the math. Take venus at a right angle orbit to earth. sqrt(1+0.728^2)= 1.234 AU. Then Take Mercury at the same right angle, sqrt(1+0.39^2) = 1.073 AU. Mecury is closer for at least half of it's orbit.
But a weird thing is that by average closest planet, they don't mean average distance is the least, they mean if you pick a random time, it's most likely that at that moment, mercury will be closer than mars or Venus. The result was about 45% Mercury, 35% Venus, and 20% mars.
OS X is certified POSIX compliant. But by modifying it you don't neccessarily end up with something inside the standards. Take for instance the guy who modified a shovel and ended up with an AK-47. https://thechive.com/2012/12/0... They do some really weird things with the file-system and Jails, and don't expose the full range of system interfaces to the applications. I don't believe you can take any POSIX compliant code and compile and install it for iOS in the same way you can with OS X. (Version 9 and earlier are not BSD based). If you break the jail, reportedly it's close enough for openssh, but I'm guessing that it's not the case for the intended exposed framework.
And I thing I noticed in research was that Cydia (jailbroke app store) apps were reported as tendeding to break between iOS releases, leading me to believe they are playing fast and loose with the interfaces that aren't exposed through the framework. If not API, at least with ABI.
>It's not about the chip, there will be a new chip. It's about the core. If the core is adequate when coupled with a decent GPU, and if that actually happens, there's no reason it can't work.
We have seen ARM in a more traditional architecture like with the Cavium ThunderX, though the consenses is that the per thread performance is somewhat anemic. I think going traditional on ARM loses the tight integration and manufacturing simplicity that a SOC brings. I don't see the advantage over x86. No I think apple wants to bring the same basic chip across thier whole line. Theyll probably change the chip from a 2.4 Big.little to a 4.4, up the RAM to 8GB and expand the GPU and codecs it covers. They'll carefully curate apps to work well with that, and they'll probably make money for a while.
>To my mind, most Apple users can get away with a lot less CPU power than they've got in their laptops and desktops right now, and the rest aren't especially profitable anyway, so why appease them? Apple seems to have the same attitude, given the history of their "pro" machines.
Abandoning the high end and server is a mistake in the long run I think. People who need these machines are driving business acquisition. If the ecosystem doesn't have a in-house big-iron solution it can get passed over. And before you say "cloud", it's just other people's servers and leaves you vulnerable to other people's mistakes and quite lopsided terms of service. Critical business data should stay on servers the business controls, and then think about adding cloud if you need remote access and redundancy. It gets even worse if you can't configure the machines to use local domain controllers and servers, like in iOS. (While there are apps to allow one-off access, it's not integrated into the core of the system)
Really OS X on a big serious system like the Cavium ThunderX would get a lot of people excited about the Apple again. OS X has BSD heritage and should be able to perform just fine on serious hardware. Combine it with a way to run iCloud service on the local server and bind the device to a locally controlled application repository and you'd have a pretty nice enterprise chain.
It's like the printer and ink model. If you can break even on the big system, and it lets you sell your high margin product into markets you couldn't before then why not? Sure there's this Steve Jobs vision of flashy well designed devices locked on "easy mode" but everyone forgets Steve Jobs just about ran Apple into bankruptcy the first time around. Good designs and UI are becoming more common and less of an up-sell than yesteryear. Apple sales are dropping as they can't get features people (even many die-hard fans) are willing to pay a premium for, and most of their revenue is from leveraging their position as gatekeeper, rather than providing solutions of fundamental IT problems. A new platform isn't going to solve Apple's business weaknesses.
Compare to Microsoft, which while its improving it's consumer experience is branching out into services and solutions, embracing standards and open source to do so. Their 20 year outlook is more certain than Apple, even if nobody uses Windows in 20 years.
I know this is a bit ranty, but in the long run gates come crashing down, while bridges get repaired and rebuilt over and over.
Interesting. So it's Unix-ish if your a internal developer or hacker. I haven't played with any sort of "smartphone" out of sheer protest of the walled garden mentality of both Google and Apple, even if one isn't quite as strict as the other.
So where's /bin/sh?
There isn't full support, and even if there were, it's irrelevant as application developers aren't allowed to get at it. Everything is going through the constrained frameworks.
Nobody does 4k on the CPU. This was hardware acceleration in the GPU, with a company they worked very closely with to get the acceleration working flawlessly for one specific video codec format and setting. Going outside the presets likely won't end well.
And there's a pretty long history of companies gaming benchmarks. We know geek-bench hits a lot of paths that are hardware accelerated, and memory/disk sensitive. And this is even before going into the fact iOS is finely tuned to the hardware, and the App store likely recieved the geekbench app in an IR that can be precisely optimized for the hardware.
It's not doubt a good mobile chip, but a workstation chip? I kind of doublt it.
Not necessarily. Windows has an ARM version. Though more than likely they'll ditch POSIX support and go full iOS across the line.
I expect you can get a reasonable Blackbird package going for about 2k. While expensive it's moderately compelling as a desktop. The problem for ARM is that a lot of the desktop feel is related to single core performance, and expansion, which not a lot of cheap ARM boards actually provide all that much oomph, nor do they have the pci-e bus needed to connect to a reasonably powerful graphics accelerator.
Most places don't accept personal checks.
It's not always feasable. However every government contract for non open source should include a provision for data export in an open format.
However if the valuations are significantly wrong, you should be able to make a lot of money by splitting the difference and hiring a bunch of women.
Another explanation is that women in general are valuing non-wage factors differently than men when considering employment offers, job-seeking and maintainance of current employment.
But your forgot to change the wireless MAC, the secret short-range transmitter, and turned the gps on accidentally, so they got you anyways and had proof you were at the scene of the crime.
Copyright specifically says fixed in tangible form. The Statute of frauds just says written. There's still a few questions around legal procedure of electronic documents. At least in the U.S. no state agency is handing out ID's with an embeded smart-card chip. And even if it were accepted in a court it only proves the card was present, and even if accepted as signature, signature/acceptance is only one element of a valid contract. Even a simple sale, you still would need to describe the offer and consideration (the specific thing sold, any special terms, and the price). An e-mail after the fact is exactly what the statutue of frauds doesn't like. If the terms were clearly presented or displayed at the point of sale and the purchaser was given an opportunity to accept than then an option to email a receipt, That
probably be fine. Just something to keep in mind when designing the system, that high-value sales may need an extra step.
Pension bailout? Planned Parenthood? New Aircraft Carrier group?
Just crowdfund it. It'll be apparent everybody just want everyone else to pay for their pet cause.
It's pretty hard to ring something on the register and not declare it in the total.
On the other hand, if the customer isn't expecting a receipt, you don't have to ring it in, can pocket the cash and report an inventory adjustment/shrinkage, offsetting store income.
Or just print out a gate check slip without prices. Without prices and payment info it's not a technically a receipt.
Seems like a tablet combined with a take-a-number system would be just fine. Gate checks aren't really enforceable other than telling a customer not to come back. They need evidence that theft has occurred to detain you, you don't need evidence that payment occurred to leave.
I'm sensing a conflict here for large purchases.
No, it's just marketing. The PR is the a Republican (representative) and democratic (elected) government is better than all others. It's like all new tech products are claimed to be "disruptive innovations". The full/traditional party names of the major U.S. parties are Democratic Republicans, and the Republican Democrats, and before 1930 the Democratic Republicans were really into the republican highlights (separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, the party of Jefferson and Jackson) and the Republican democrats were into the will of the people stuff (central regulation, infrastructure projects, popular reforms, the party of Lincoln, McKinley and Teddy Rosevelt). Sometime between WWI and FDR they did a flip though and the shortened names were more apt.
However trying to classify foreign parties in terms of U.S parties isn't really that helpful because of that flip, and because the U.S. history and circumstance is going to be different that what you're comparing to.
According to Marx's definitions, no nation-state has ever been communist in form. (In fact, the fact there is a formal nation-state contract-indicates a communist society. Socialism is state control of the means of production (weather nominally private or public), whereas communism is a utopia anarchic state where the means of production are freely available to all, and the output taken as needed by anyone. Marx says a socialist revolution is the first step to communism, but the transition to the second state never occurs, and the established party resists attempts to push further.
They improved performance by being a lot more selective where and how it was actually used. If you have to hand tune the engine and game for it, then it doesn't say a lot of good things about current state of the tech. Yes a few developers always experiment, but at this point most of them thing the effort is better spent elsewhere. 3-5 years down the line is maybe a different story but only if the hardware to do it is a lot more common.
No it doesn't self-destruct, but it does bitrot. You'll never get wayland running on the depreciated cards,