Not actually true. Only updates that include one or more kernel changes or update the firmware of your CPU require a reboot. But because of all the Spectre and Meltdown patches in the recent past, nearly every update cycle has included one or more changes that require a reboot.
At least Windows 10 seems to have eliminated the need for the double-reboot that was often required by Windows 7. It's not uncommon for Windows 7 to need to boot into safe mode, apply one or more changes, and then reboot again.
Blackfin is still being made. But hardly anybody ever ran Linux on it. A common usage scenario for Blackfin is as a specialized DSP processor for a system that also contains another CPU (these days most likely ARM) that runs a full OS.
The architectures that were dropped are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score, Tile, and POWER4.
Blackfin is a DSP-oriented processor made by Analog Devices. It is not normally used for general purpose computing, so its applications rarely call for a full OS running on it. It's used in embedded applications, not as a user-visible CPU.
POWER4 was used in IBM mainframes circa 2004, and was never found in any Apple computers. The PowerPC 970 that was used in some Macs, which was derived from POWER4, is still supported.
The rest are architectures that were only used in embedded systems and have been obsolete for many years.
In summary, almost nobody is affected. A few of the old mainframes with POWER4 processors may still be in use and being used to run Linux. The embedded systems rarely get kernel upgrades anyway, so they can just stay with the last version that supported them.
NiMH batteries last LONGER than alkaline batteries in some applications. They thrive in devices that have brief periods of high current drain, such as flashes for cameras. A problem with most NiMH batteries is the high rate of self-discharge (that is, the battery will lose power just sitting there), but cells that retain charge for years are available.
The article didn't go into the reasons why construction costs (even after adjusting for inflation) have gone up so much. A lot of it is that the city is more developed now, so new lines can't be built using the same techniques as the earlier ones. The old subway lines were mostly cut and cover; that is, you dig out the surface, put a subway a few feet under the street, and rebuild the top when you are done. That's not feasible now, so all the new lines involve deep tunneling, a much more expensive process. Another difference is that there is another 100 years worth of infrastructure underground; all those utility lines and pipes have to be rerouted when a new subway tunnel is built. Worker wages (adjusted for inflation) are higher now, as are worker safety standards.
That link for Wet Dream by Kip Addotta didn't come through correctly for some reason. I'm trying with a non-shortened link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No, IRONic is correct. The end point of the universe may well be when it all turns into an enormous lump of iron.
Why iron, you ask? If you take small atoms like hydrogen and fuse them into bigger ones, you release energy. If you take large atoms like uranium and plutonium and split them into smaller ones, you release energy. Iron, which is near the middle of the periodic table, is the low energy point. To go anywhere from iron you have to put energy IN; you can't release any energy by either splitting or fusing it.
Those LED pilot lights draw very little power. They use a few mA at 2 to 4 volts, depending on color, so we're talking about something in the neighborhood of 1/100 of a watt. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of power that the rest of the device uses.
Windows 10 has never run on anything close to 11% of mobile devices. 0.11%, perhaps. It might run on 11% of the total population of computing devices. Windows 10 Mobile itself is spyware, as are all the major mobile OSes, but it's not likely to have been the target of much third party malware because of its tiny market share.
Not this time. No USB 3.0 ports. It's got gigabit Ethernet but it's still interfaced by USB 2, so the effective speed limit is around 300 Mbps. It also has 802.11ac, but again the performance is held back by USB. And the USB bottleneck remains if you are also using USB for other things.
The bump in processor speed, and the improved thermal management so you actually get the speed, are useful improvements. People embedding the Pi in commercial products will appreciate the new board's RF certification, making it easier to get approval for the completed product.
A useful improvement, but not everything that people had been hoping for. If you want all the connectivity you'll still have to buy an ODROID or a TinkerBoard, and deal with the less extensive software support for those products.
The movie theaters I am familiar with don't have publicly available WiFi. Why should they, when they don't want people to use electronic devices while there?
Air travel is subsidized. Passengers don't pay all the costs of airports or air traffic control. Air travel also has significant externalities; it uses more fuel than rail (meaning more pollution), and because the pollution is released at a high altitude it has more effect on the ozone layer than ground level pollution does.
People complain about rail subsidies. But EVERY form of transportation is subsidized in present day society. There are arguments in favor of ending all those subsidies, as they cause people to make decisions that would be bad ones without the subsidies. Individuals travel too much and live far from their workplaces. And we get centralized manufacturing, centralized agriculture, and Amazon because shipping goods is artificially cheap.
So far, no place in the US has reached the point that this article talks about. (Some other countries have.) By the time we do we may have more cost effective power storage systems available.
It can also be a building in a location where weather cold enough to require use of the baseboards is rare. If they only get turned on a few nights a year they may make economic sense despite their lack of efficiency.
True that. But the peak load for AC comes during the day when solar is cranking out power, making it less problematic than it might be. Winter use for heating is a harder problem because the peak comes at night, and at a time of year when solar is less efficient overall.
New car sales are only about 30% of the total number of car sales. The rest are used cars; everything from relatively new off-lease and off-rental cars to clunkers and collectibles. Nearly all of the used car sales are at prices below the median new car price. (Some are above; occasionally somebody sells one of those Bugattis that was mentioned in another thread.) So the median price for ALL cars sales is significantly lower; combining all the data probably puts the new car median at about the 80thh percentile of the entire car market.
Valid points. But the Model S will outperform the Bugatti in the driving that most of us do in the real world. The Bugatti is a nice piece of extreme automotive engineering but it's not a car that makes sense for many people to drive.
That analysis doesn't even include the current tax incentives! With those rolled in the cost of ownership of the Tesla would be LESS than the Camry. Except, of course, for the little detail that you can't actually buy the $35,000 version of the Model 3.
I'm not sure where they got the $42,000 fully loaded price, as there is no common set of options that adds up to that number. The most popular set of options is likely to be the Premium Upgrade Package plus Autopilot for a total of $10,000, bringing the price to $45,000, or $54,000 if you also choose the Long Range option. There are also options for fancier paint ($1,000) and wheels ($1,500). Right now you have to take LR and PUP so $49,000 is the lowest possible price, and I suspect most buyers are also buying Autopilot.
Except that new cars aren't the entire car market. So they're not really to the median level of car spending yet. But the Model 3 is a big move in that direction.
The Model 3 is currently a $44,000 to $57,000 car depending on options. That's before any tax incentives, including the $7,500 federal tax credit that it is still eligible for at present. The $35,000 version with less range is not yet available.
They still have a way to go before they can build a $20,000 electric car. For starters, the batteries cost too much to reach that price point. So does everybody else.
"...although only 59 percent of US storefronts have terminals that accept chip cards, fraud has dropped 70 percent from September 2015 to December 2017 for those retailers that have completed the chip upgrade... it seems like two years has resulted in staggeringly little progress in encouraging storefronts to shift from magnetic stripe to chip-embedded cards, given that in early 2016, 37 percent of US storefronts were able to process chip cards."
There are still many storefronts that cannot process chip cards, but this statistic ignores the matter of the size and volume of the stores. In general, the big stores that do the most transactions have converted; smaller stores lag behind, as do gas stations. (I have not yet encountered a chip reader at a gas pump.) So the percentage of transactions that are chip-enabled is likely higher.
Another variable: the number of customers who are actually using the chip readers. In early 2016, some stores had the readers but they didn't work yet, or if they did the customers were not yet being encouraged to use them. Many stores now have their readers programmed to refuse swipe transactions if your card has a chip.
The degree of caution that card issuers call for depends on the site. Online bill payment is a low fraud situation. People just don't seem to use stolen credit cards to pay their electric and cable bills, perhaps because the ongoing relationship with the provider would make it too easy for them to punish you later for fraud.
But the sports car is a less pleasant driving experience on a congested city street. If most of your driving time is on those and you rarely get the opportunity to drive on a windy country road, you might rationally choose the sedan even if you can afford the sports car, or perhaps choose a luxury sedan.
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Not actually true. Only updates that include one or more kernel changes or update the firmware of your CPU require a reboot. But because of all the Spectre and Meltdown patches in the recent past, nearly every update cycle has included one or more changes that require a reboot.
At least Windows 10 seems to have eliminated the need for the double-reboot that was often required by Windows 7. It's not uncommon for Windows 7 to need to boot into safe mode, apply one or more changes, and then reboot again.
Blackfin is still being made. But hardly anybody ever ran Linux on it. A common usage scenario for Blackfin is as a specialized DSP processor for a system that also contains another CPU (these days most likely ARM) that runs a full OS.
The architectures that were dropped are Blackfin, CRIS, FRV, M32R, Metag, MN10300, Score, Tile, and POWER4.
Blackfin is a DSP-oriented processor made by Analog Devices. It is not normally used for general purpose computing, so its applications rarely call for a full OS running on it. It's used in embedded applications, not as a user-visible CPU.
POWER4 was used in IBM mainframes circa 2004, and was never found in any Apple computers. The PowerPC 970 that was used in some Macs, which was derived from POWER4, is still supported.
The rest are architectures that were only used in embedded systems and have been obsolete for many years.
In summary, almost nobody is affected. A few of the old mainframes with POWER4 processors may still be in use and being used to run Linux. The embedded systems rarely get kernel upgrades anyway, so they can just stay with the last version that supported them.
NiMH batteries last LONGER than alkaline batteries in some applications. They thrive in devices that have brief periods of high current drain, such as flashes for cameras. A problem with most NiMH batteries is the high rate of self-discharge (that is, the battery will lose power just sitting there), but cells that retain charge for years are available.
The article didn't go into the reasons why construction costs (even after adjusting for inflation) have gone up so much. A lot of it is that the city is more developed now, so new lines can't be built using the same techniques as the earlier ones. The old subway lines were mostly cut and cover; that is, you dig out the surface, put a subway a few feet under the street, and rebuild the top when you are done. That's not feasible now, so all the new lines involve deep tunneling, a much more expensive process. Another difference is that there is another 100 years worth of infrastructure underground; all those utility lines and pipes have to be rerouted when a new subway tunnel is built. Worker wages (adjusted for inflation) are higher now, as are worker safety standards.
That link for Wet Dream by Kip Addotta didn't come through correctly for some reason. I'm trying with a non-shortened link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No, IRONic is correct. The end point of the universe may well be when it all turns into an enormous lump of iron.
Why iron, you ask? If you take small atoms like hydrogen and fuse them into bigger ones, you release energy. If you take large atoms like uranium and plutonium and split them into smaller ones, you release energy. Iron, which is near the middle of the periodic table, is the low energy point. To go anywhere from iron you have to put energy IN; you can't release any energy by either splitting or fusing it.
Those LED pilot lights draw very little power. They use a few mA at 2 to 4 volts, depending on color, so we're talking about something in the neighborhood of 1/100 of a watt. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of power that the rest of the device uses.
Doesn't stop them from being annoying, though!
Windows 10 has never run on anything close to 11% of mobile devices. 0.11%, perhaps. It might run on 11% of the total population of computing devices. Windows 10 Mobile itself is spyware, as are all the major mobile OSes, but it's not likely to have been the target of much third party malware because of its tiny market share.
Not this time. No USB 3.0 ports. It's got gigabit Ethernet but it's still interfaced by USB 2, so the effective speed limit is around 300 Mbps. It also has 802.11ac, but again the performance is held back by USB. And the USB bottleneck remains if you are also using USB for other things.
The bump in processor speed, and the improved thermal management so you actually get the speed, are useful improvements. People embedding the Pi in commercial products will appreciate the new board's RF certification, making it easier to get approval for the completed product.
A useful improvement, but not everything that people had been hoping for. If you want all the connectivity you'll still have to buy an ODROID or a TinkerBoard, and deal with the less extensive software support for those products.
The movie theaters I am familiar with don't have publicly available WiFi. Why should they, when they don't want people to use electronic devices while there?
But how can this qualify as a beta release if the primary UI isn't even included?
Air travel is subsidized. Passengers don't pay all the costs of airports or air traffic control. Air travel also has significant externalities; it uses more fuel than rail (meaning more pollution), and because the pollution is released at a high altitude it has more effect on the ozone layer than ground level pollution does.
People complain about rail subsidies. But EVERY form of transportation is subsidized in present day society. There are arguments in favor of ending all those subsidies, as they cause people to make decisions that would be bad ones without the subsidies. Individuals travel too much and live far from their workplaces. And we get centralized manufacturing, centralized agriculture, and Amazon because shipping goods is artificially cheap.
So far, no place in the US has reached the point that this article talks about. (Some other countries have.) By the time we do we may have more cost effective power storage systems available.
Radiators are common in New England, where the housing stock is older.
It can also be a building in a location where weather cold enough to require use of the baseboards is rare. If they only get turned on a few nights a year they may make economic sense despite their lack of efficiency.
True that. But the peak load for AC comes during the day when solar is cranking out power, making it less problematic than it might be. Winter use for heating is a harder problem because the peak comes at night, and at a time of year when solar is less efficient overall.
New car sales are only about 30% of the total number of car sales. The rest are used cars; everything from relatively new off-lease and off-rental cars to clunkers and collectibles. Nearly all of the used car sales are at prices below the median new car price. (Some are above; occasionally somebody sells one of those Bugattis that was mentioned in another thread.) So the median price for ALL cars sales is significantly lower; combining all the data probably puts the new car median at about the 80thh percentile of the entire car market.
Valid points. But the Model S will outperform the Bugatti in the driving that most of us do in the real world. The Bugatti is a nice piece of extreme automotive engineering but it's not a car that makes sense for many people to drive.
That analysis doesn't even include the current tax incentives! With those rolled in the cost of ownership of the Tesla would be LESS than the Camry. Except, of course, for the little detail that you can't actually buy the $35,000 version of the Model 3.
I'm not sure where they got the $42,000 fully loaded price, as there is no common set of options that adds up to that number. The most popular set of options is likely to be the Premium Upgrade Package plus Autopilot for a total of $10,000, bringing the price to $45,000, or $54,000 if you also choose the Long Range option. There are also options for fancier paint ($1,000) and wheels ($1,500). Right now you have to take LR and PUP so $49,000 is the lowest possible price, and I suspect most buyers are also buying Autopilot.
Except that new cars aren't the entire car market. So they're not really to the median level of car spending yet. But the Model 3 is a big move in that direction.
The Model 3 is currently a $44,000 to $57,000 car depending on options. That's before any tax incentives, including the $7,500 federal tax credit that it is still eligible for at present. The $35,000 version with less range is not yet available.
They still have a way to go before they can build a $20,000 electric car. For starters, the batteries cost too much to reach that price point. So does everybody else.
"...although only 59 percent of US storefronts have terminals that accept chip cards, fraud has dropped 70 percent from September 2015 to December 2017 for those retailers that have completed the chip upgrade... it seems like two years has resulted in staggeringly little progress in encouraging storefronts to shift from magnetic stripe to chip-embedded cards, given that in early 2016, 37 percent of US storefronts were able to process chip cards."
There are still many storefronts that cannot process chip cards, but this statistic ignores the matter of the size and volume of the stores. In general, the big stores that do the most transactions have converted; smaller stores lag behind, as do gas stations. (I have not yet encountered a chip reader at a gas pump.) So the percentage of transactions that are chip-enabled is likely higher.
Another variable: the number of customers who are actually using the chip readers. In early 2016, some stores had the readers but they didn't work yet, or if they did the customers were not yet being encouraged to use them. Many stores now have their readers programmed to refuse swipe transactions if your card has a chip.
The degree of caution that card issuers call for depends on the site. Online bill payment is a low fraud situation. People just don't seem to use stolen credit cards to pay their electric and cable bills, perhaps because the ongoing relationship with the provider would make it too easy for them to punish you later for fraud.
But the sports car is a less pleasant driving experience on a congested city street. If most of your driving time is on those and you rarely get the opportunity to drive on a windy country road, you might rationally choose the sedan even if you can afford the sports car, or perhaps choose a luxury sedan.