Yes, from the very beginning in 2016 when Qualcomm and NXP announced their intention to merge they knew they would not get past any regulators. The actual investment plan involved the divestment of a chunk of NXP before the Qualcomm merger goes ahead, that was one of the reasons why there was such a high $2bn penalty as a result.
It didn't cover the costs because NXP divested it's Standard Products division to MCHI for $2.8bn keeping only the parts of the company that Qualcomm was actually interested in. However that may not be the full story. NXP previous divested it's RF division (part of Standard Products) in 2015 as a condition of buying Freescale which had a competing division. This also has a competing division with Qualcomm, so one school of thought is they were trying to divest this anyway, and another was that they divested to smooth things with the regulator.
Either way NXP lost a chunk of its business during all this merger and acquisition talks that it won't get back now that talks broke down.
Users. Phone damage aside there's pretty much no legitimate idiot who would download this. Most of this software is mining without the user's knowledge.
This wasn't a merger. This was a mess. Now that the deal is off Qualcomm are $2bn poorer, but NXP is a very different company than it was before due to the number of changes that were made to get the merger through.
Holding up one example of a failed delivery doesn't negate that in the past 20 years we have seen over a 1000x increase in storage density for similar R&D anouncements dismissed. You dismissed holographic storage, others dismissed SMR, incidentally the holographic made it out of the lab, but never realised as cost effective. It was further developed into the HVD format which also showed promise right until a competitor showed you can start layering many optical medium layers together.
I mean, there have been hundreds of similar news over the years and how many of those have actually materialized into a useful product? A tiny, miniscule fraction, that's how many.
The methods and R&D from many such advancements have made it into many products you take for granted already. Just because each company doesn't launch it's own standalone product doesn't mean you aren't using the fruits of many of these R&D announcements you have heard.
A co-worker showed me a trick not so long ago. When you go to open Excel from the Start menu, hold down the shift-key.
No need to hold down anything. If you open Excel from the start menu, from the exe file, or by middle clicking the task bar icon it always defaults to a new instance. Its only double clicking a file that defaults to opening in an existing instance.
Why they think Excel shouldn't have that is well beyond me.
Interaction between workbooks is not seamless if they are in separate instances. You can't reference from a workbook in another instance as it is external to the application.
Windows isn't as dependent to the institutions as they use to be.
Nope, it's moreso.
Sharepoint, Exchange, Teams, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business all integrated deeply into Office and Windows with bonus points for Cloud services working best in Edge, naturally all controlled through Office365 for Business and integrated into your Domain controllers.
I have only see the intertwined mess of MS only services increase over the years, not decrease, and I have watched organisations become more and more dependent on them. My latest amazement... my organisation's domain account is now tied so closely to MS that if I lock my windows machine by typing my password in incorrectly 3 times, rather than call the office IT people to reset it I log into the MS Office 365 website from another computer, 2FA with the MS authenticator app on my phone and unlock my account there.
Just don't make ANY reboots 'automatic', let the user decide when that happens and trigger it manually.
Great advice from back in the day where rebooting or powering down was a thing. In the world of connected standby, and sleeping computers always available at your fingertips the only reboots that happen are for updates. Users will naturally postpone indefinitely until forced to reboot by the resulting malware.
Also the users already has the option to decide when to reboot. They have for a long time now.
The best workaround I've found so far is, if you are always using a Wi-Fi connection, is to set the connection to Metered Connection, and Windows won't download the updates.
Just don't share that information with users. There's enough zero day zombie machines in the world without unpatched Windows 10 machines to add to the mix.
Everyone who manages to do this properly runs an OS that has open security problems.
Don't get me wrong I do that too. I haven't rebooted my Linux server in 40 days despite doing so solving a kernel security update. But then I understand the risk. Idiot users don't.
It astounds me how much just plain ABUSE users of Windows put up with
To say that you first need to see if users feel abused. To be honest I actively abuse users who leave unsaved work on their computer. I mean idiots haven't learnt anything in 20 years? This is a windows computer no less. That you don't expect it to bluescreen is just sheer stupidity.
Users have spent the past 20 years victims of their own power, destroying their own systems, leaving them open to all manner of malware. A lot of users don't feel "abused" that their computer protects them while they sleep.
Yeah and have produced a fantastic browser as a result. The Firefox team doesn't owe you anything. Don't like it? Click here: http://chrome.google.com/
The world didn't end because of the incredible effort that was put into avoiding this scenario. The fact that you think this was all just sillyness is both the Y2K effort's biggest success and biggest failure.
Yes and since Hertz is cycles/second the second needs to stay exactly 9 192 631 770 cycles of a Caesium atomic clock. Kind of the point of a fundamental unit.
Also don't confuse the origin of the second. 9192631770 cycles was *chosen* to be a value of a second to match its original definition of 1 / 31556925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time. Prior to this definition from the 50s the definitions of the second actually slightly altered the duration of the second and it caused exactly the problem that the GP was referring to, a change in the second duration caused changes in other units. Redefining it in terms of atomic properties of cessium was done only to provide a measurement reference, the duration is still as defined in the 50s.
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If on a modern system they know which memory address to target they likely already own you box.
Yes, from the very beginning in 2016 when Qualcomm and NXP announced their intention to merge they knew they would not get past any regulators. The actual investment plan involved the divestment of a chunk of NXP before the Qualcomm merger goes ahead, that was one of the reasons why there was such a high $2bn penalty as a result.
It didn't cover the costs because NXP divested it's Standard Products division to MCHI for $2.8bn keeping only the parts of the company that Qualcomm was actually interested in. However that may not be the full story. NXP previous divested it's RF division (part of Standard Products) in 2015 as a condition of buying Freescale which had a competing division. This also has a competing division with Qualcomm, so one school of thought is they were trying to divest this anyway, and another was that they divested to smooth things with the regulator.
Either way NXP lost a chunk of its business during all this merger and acquisition talks that it won't get back now that talks broke down.
So you have an alternative. Then what are you complaining about. Use that.
At best I can say no to reboot right now
You're given 3 options, one of them is to set the time. Has been like that since 1703
How many times do you go "I wonder if turning off hyper threading will help", and then it does
Very close to zero for most computing loads.
Who is it hurting to run this software?
Users. Phone damage aside there's pretty much no legitimate idiot who would download this. Most of this software is mining without the user's knowledge.
make efforts to counter the growth of ride-hail services, or surrender city streets to fleets of private cars
That is the most close the barn door the horse has bolted of comments since horses started bolting from open barn doors.
This wasn't a merger. This was a mess. Now that the deal is off Qualcomm are $2bn poorer, but NXP is a very different company than it was before due to the number of changes that were made to get the merger through.
I doubt $2bn will actually cover the costs.
Holding up one example of a failed delivery doesn't negate that in the past 20 years we have seen over a 1000x increase in storage density for similar R&D anouncements dismissed. You dismissed holographic storage, others dismissed SMR, incidentally the holographic made it out of the lab, but never realised as cost effective. It was further developed into the HVD format which also showed promise right until a competitor showed you can start layering many optical medium layers together.
These technologies didn't fail, they were beaten.
I mean, there have been hundreds of similar news over the years and how many of those have actually materialized into a useful product? A tiny, miniscule fraction, that's how many.
The methods and R&D from many such advancements have made it into many products you take for granted already. Just because each company doesn't launch it's own standalone product doesn't mean you aren't using the fruits of many of these R&D announcements you have heard.
A co-worker showed me a trick not so long ago. When you go to open Excel from the Start menu, hold down the shift-key.
No need to hold down anything. If you open Excel from the start menu, from the exe file, or by middle clicking the task bar icon it always defaults to a new instance. Its only double clicking a file that defaults to opening in an existing instance.
Why they think Excel shouldn't have that is well beyond me.
Interaction between workbooks is not seamless if they are in separate instances. You can't reference from a workbook in another instance as it is external to the application.
Windows isn't as dependent to the institutions as they use to be.
Nope, it's moreso.
Sharepoint, Exchange, Teams, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business all integrated deeply into Office and Windows with bonus points for Cloud services working best in Edge, naturally all controlled through Office365 for Business and integrated into your Domain controllers.
I have only see the intertwined mess of MS only services increase over the years, not decrease, and I have watched organisations become more and more dependent on them. My latest amazement... my organisation's domain account is now tied so closely to MS that if I lock my windows machine by typing my password in incorrectly 3 times, rather than call the office IT people to reset it I log into the MS Office 365 website from another computer, 2FA with the MS authenticator app on my phone and unlock my account there.
Just don't make ANY reboots 'automatic', let the user decide when that happens and trigger it manually.
Great advice from back in the day where rebooting or powering down was a thing. In the world of connected standby, and sleeping computers always available at your fingertips the only reboots that happen are for updates. Users will naturally postpone indefinitely until forced to reboot by the resulting malware.
Also the users already has the option to decide when to reboot. They have for a long time now.
After abruptly saving your work
Or you could just tell it when you want it to reboot. It has been one of the options for the best part of a year now.
in these updates that cannot wait until I log off.
I don't understand. What is this log off that you talk about? Do you not just lock the screen and leave your computer sitting in connected standby?
The best workaround I've found so far is, if you are always using a Wi-Fi connection, is to set the connection to Metered Connection, and Windows won't download the updates.
Just don't share that information with users. There's enough zero day zombie machines in the world without unpatched Windows 10 machines to add to the mix.
Err Hibernate, sleep, connected standaby. WTF do you shutdown or reboot your computer at all if you're in transit?
Everyone else manages to do this properly
Everyone who manages to do this properly runs an OS that has open security problems.
Don't get me wrong I do that too. I haven't rebooted my Linux server in 40 days despite doing so solving a kernel security update. But then I understand the risk. Idiot users don't.
It astounds me how much just plain ABUSE users of Windows put up with
To say that you first need to see if users feel abused. To be honest I actively abuse users who leave unsaved work on their computer. I mean idiots haven't learnt anything in 20 years? This is a windows computer no less. That you don't expect it to bluescreen is just sheer stupidity.
Users have spent the past 20 years victims of their own power, destroying their own systems, leaving them open to all manner of malware. A lot of users don't feel "abused" that their computer protects them while they sleep.
What if I've left something open that I don't want to lose ... I don't want to save changes yet and am just too stubborn to save to a temporary
You missed the obvious one: Too stupid to own a computer.
Yeah and have produced a fantastic browser as a result. The Firefox team doesn't owe you anything. Don't like it? Click here: http://chrome.google.com/
So maybe they should keep the features they have and do not add stuff nobody missed before. Win-Win.
As the customer base slowly rots and dwindles.
by the term Trump 2.
Fucking don't even! He would do it too.
Not the end of the world
The world didn't end because of the incredible effort that was put into avoiding this scenario. The fact that you think this was all just sillyness is both the Y2K effort's biggest success and biggest failure.
Yes and since Hertz is cycles/second the second needs to stay exactly 9 192 631 770 cycles of a Caesium atomic clock. Kind of the point of a fundamental unit.
Also don't confuse the origin of the second. 9192631770 cycles was *chosen* to be a value of a second to match its original definition of 1 / 31556925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time. Prior to this definition from the 50s the definitions of the second actually slightly altered the duration of the second and it caused exactly the problem that the GP was referring to, a change in the second duration caused changes in other units.
Redefining it in terms of atomic properties of cessium was done only to provide a measurement reference, the duration is still as defined in the 50s.