Can someone explain, vaguely, possibly with a car analogy,
Paul Kocher gets in a car, drives to work, gathers data from a sensor near a device performing the same calculation many times, does bayesian statistics on the data to determine what is noise and what is signal, then recovers the key.
Putting the subtitles and progress bar in the extra pixels along the bottom of the screen when watching video, rather than overlaying them on the video is a win.
If you're editing code, all additional pixels are a win.
I'll be tempted by this thing when it's available.
After being on nexuses since the G1, I switched to an iPhone recently just to see what life is like on the other side. It's not much different. But all carrier bloated Androids still suck.
A slowdown in shipments would mean negative growth and fewer phones being sold. The numbers describe smaller positive growth. So they are predicting that more phones will be sold.
There's a brain disease that lays dormant until journalists start writing headlines, when it kicks in a compels them to lie.
Who learns to code at school? The interested kids will do it the way it's always been done, by hacking on their parent's computers until their parents get them their own.
There's a space on the wall where the TV goes. 55" is too big. 48" is about right. So on walking into the store, there was exactly one TV available off the shelf with that size. It was a Samsung.
If it was a dumb monitor, then that would have been simpler. The 'smart' features remain unused. The TV isn't plugged into the ethernet (but the ROKU is).
I tried using the TV features a couple of times, but it comes across as a really, really bad attempt at a ROKU like thing. They add no value.
Even a simple Arduino Pro mini clone on eBay costs under 2 US Dollars and is much more powerful. You could probably get a classic Arduino clone with a color TFT LCD shield with a built-in gamepad and buttons for the price of that BBC Micro:Bit with its lame LED matrix.
Or you could use the PC that's been sitting in the corner of the room. It's got a keyboard and screen and everything.
Given that they were investigating armed robberies, why on Earth didn't they just get a warrant instead of spending all that taxpayer money fighting court cases to be able to do so without getting a warrant?
I remember paying $400/mo for a car loan. I don't do that any more. It frees up a whole lot of cash to buy fripperies like phones. If one's choices involve saving many thousands of dollars on one non-essential new thing while blowing a few hundred dollars on one non essential thing, then one does not have spending priority problems.
A 15 year old car is more dangerous than a new one, or even a 5 year old one.
You're saving money, which is nice, but your phone won't kill you.
I've been driving for 30 years. I wonder how I survived all that time without crashing? You are failing to discount the improbability of rare events. Sugar is far more likely to kill me through heart disease or cancer than a car is likely to kill me through some lack of a safety feature.
No one is missing the point being made. The point being made is wrong and stupid.
>This is not a problem outside of a few edge cases...
1) It's not a problem 2) It's not an edge case.
Looking at the car park of the large techy corporation I work for, I see a diverse range of car ages. Looking at the phones people are carrying around I see mostly shiny new top end phones.
NUCs are indeed awesome. I've got 3 chugging away in the server closet, having replaced older, slower, bigger, hotter, louder boxes and 1 retrofitted with an extra ethernet port that replaced the consumer grade router. The workload isn't bigger. So the servers can shrink.
I've got one on my desk at work, chugging away on simulations so I don't have to share the data center machines with 10,000 other engineers.
5 years is a good age for used cars. They still have most of their intrinsic value, have 10-15 more years of useful service, but cost a fraction of the price of a new car.
As long as people keep selling their 5 years old cars at a huge loss, I'll do fine.
Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
I remember paying $400/mo for a car loan. I don't do that any more. It frees up a whole lot of cash to buy fripperies like phones. If one's choices involve saving many thousands of dollars on one non-essential new thing while blowing a few hundred dollars on one non essential thing, then one does not have spending priority problems.
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Can someone explain, vaguely, possibly with a car analogy,
Paul Kocher gets in a car, drives to work, gathers data from a sensor near a device performing the same calculation many times, does bayesian statistics on the data to determine what is noise and what is signal, then recovers the key.
Books!
First: The Apple ][ Basic Manual.
Second: Rodney Zaks, Programming the 6502
Third: Jeffrey Stanton, Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design
38 years later my bookshelves are heaving.
Making black pudding with it kicks it up a notch.
People's Republic of North Korea!
Hah. PRoNK.
Given the mirth in the room after reading this out, why is it not modded 5 - Funny?
Putting the subtitles and progress bar in the extra pixels along the bottom of the screen when watching video, rather than overlaying them on the video is a win.
If you're editing code, all additional pixels are a win.
I'll be tempted by this thing when it's available.
the market, to include the developing world, is getting saturated.
The market will ultimately be determined by the rate at which people break screens plus the rate at which non replaceable batteries degrade.
After being on nexuses since the G1, I switched to an iPhone recently just to see what life is like on the other side. It's not much different. But all carrier bloated Androids still suck.
IDC = Insulation Displacement Connection/Connector.
The context is: "substantial slowdown in shipments". I don't see how that can possibly mean the second derivative.
TFA says "IDC expects ‘substantial slowdown’ in phone shipment growth this year"
TFS says "Expect Substantial Slowdown In Smartphone Shipment: IDC"
TFS author didn't study calculus.
Headlies!
The internet is yours today. Well played sir!
They should teach software licensing to psychotic students.
If he had GPLed it first then his professor couldn't steal it.
A slowdown in shipments would mean negative growth and fewer phones being sold.
The numbers describe smaller positive growth. So they are predicting that more phones will be sold.
There's a brain disease that lays dormant until journalists start writing headlines, when it kicks in a compels them to lie.
What's the advantage of having a dedicated monitor instead of using a TV as monitor?
Good lord. Do you have a day?
Televisions make piss poor computer monitors. Start with chroma and expand to pixel blend, and then go on from there.
If you're color blind, or you have Retinitis Pigmentosa, I will overlook the question.
So it will make my white text on black background terminal windows look better?
Who learns to code at school?
The interested kids will do it the way it's always been done, by hacking on their parent's computers until their parents get them their own.
There's a space on the wall where the TV goes. 55" is too big. 48" is about right.
So on walking into the store, there was exactly one TV available off the shelf with that size. It was a Samsung.
If it was a dumb monitor, then that would have been simpler. The 'smart' features remain unused. The TV isn't plugged into the ethernet (but the ROKU is).
I tried using the TV features a couple of times, but it comes across as a really, really bad attempt at a ROKU like thing. They add no value.
12.99 British Pounds equals 18.71 US Dollars.
The Raspberry Pi Zero only costs 5 US Dollars.
Even a simple Arduino Pro mini clone on eBay costs under 2 US Dollars and is much more powerful. You could probably get a classic Arduino clone with a color TFT LCD shield with a built-in gamepad and buttons for the price of that BBC Micro:Bit with its lame LED matrix.
Or you could use the PC that's been sitting in the corner of the room. It's got a keyboard and screen and everything.
"Can I see your passport and ticket please"
"Hang on while it take this backpack off my bag and rummage around to find the crumpled bit of paper.
>Perhaps you missed that all long distance travelers use backpacks?
I haven't noticed that, no. I see a few, but they're in the minority.
>So I'm inclined to write you off as just being difficult.
I'm being difficult because I'm happy that laptops got lighter?
That would mean a backpack, which sucks for traveling a lot.
The problem was fixed by the reduction is weight of laptops. So it is not a problem now.
Given that they were investigating armed robberies, why on Earth didn't they just get a warrant instead of spending all that taxpayer money fighting court cases to be able to do so without getting a warrant?
I remember paying $400/mo for a car loan. I don't do that any more. It frees up a whole lot of cash to buy fripperies like phones. If one's choices involve saving many thousands of dollars on one non-essential new thing while blowing a few hundred dollars on one non essential thing, then one does not have spending priority problems.
A 15 year old car is more dangerous than a new one, or even a 5 year old one.
You're saving money, which is nice, but your phone won't kill you.
I've been driving for 30 years. I wonder how I survived all that time without crashing?
You are failing to discount the improbability of rare events.
Sugar is far more likely to kill me through heart disease or cancer than a car is likely to kill me through some lack of a safety feature.
>That is the point everyone keeps missing.
No one is missing the point being made. The point being made is wrong and stupid.
>This is not a problem outside of a few edge cases...
1) It's not a problem
2) It's not an edge case.
Looking at the car park of the large techy corporation I work for, I see a diverse range of car ages.
Looking at the phones people are carrying around I see mostly shiny new top end phones.
The study was big enough that a real effect would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
A real effect would stick out like a sore thumb in society in general, now that people have spent 20 years with cell phones glued to their ears.
No symptoms = no effect. Seems simple enough.
Yes. The epidemiology hasn't come up with anything and epidemiology is great at finding non causal relationships.
NUCs are indeed awesome. I've got 3 chugging away in the server closet, having replaced older, slower, bigger, hotter, louder boxes and 1 retrofitted with an extra ethernet port that replaced the consumer grade router. The workload isn't bigger. So the servers can shrink.
I've got one on my desk at work, chugging away on simulations so I don't have to share the data center machines with 10,000 other engineers.
>Every 5 years is a good target
5 years is a good age for used cars. They still have most of their intrinsic value, have 10-15 more years of useful service, but cost a fraction of the price of a new car.
As long as people keep selling their 5 years old cars at a huge loss, I'll do fine.
Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
I remember paying $400/mo for a car loan. I don't do that any more. It frees up a whole lot of cash to buy fripperies like phones. If one's choices involve saving many thousands of dollars on one non-essential new thing while blowing a few hundred dollars on one non essential thing, then one does not have spending priority problems.