Why do companies insist on directing their traffic all over the internet? Microsoft is in control of www.microsoft.com. Why is there any reason for any service not to be the result of a wholly in control of the company sub-domain of this website?
This isn't the first time a major organisation has registered an absolutely stupid sounding domain with no direct link to any of their products (read: IP that would offer them some protection from domain theft) only to let it lapse and go to someone else. Hell it's not even the first time Microsoft has done it.
The introduction of mandatory age verification is a world first, and we've taken the time to balance privacy concerns with the need to protect children from inappropriate content.
Very good. They thought about balance. Now they just need to think about how it is possible to enforce this on the global internet and how it won't fail hard furthering the UK's position as the laughing stock of the internet. After all they basically banned BDSM online. Look how well that worked. (Spoiler Alert: It didn't)
The best games of the last few years haven't been on PC
Errr no. The "best" games come out on PC just fine (as well as the most popular ones which you can see by sales figures). Your particular flavour of games haven't been on PC. That's quite a different story.
I would assume it costs several hundred, and that core infrastructure runs in the millions. I was part of a project that installed a wireless multipurpose voice/data system at a single plant. That ran into the $40m mark.
I really do enjoy it when I get modded Troll by people who have no idea. $40million? Ha we spent more than that on a wireless project at a large chemical plant. If I had to give a thumb in the air estimate I would have come at larger than $500million for city wide multipurpose wireless infrastructure.
And yet every cheapie android phone out of China managed it just fine.
Mobile phones do not critically rely on GPS time for any function. Now the infrastructure behind them on the other hand critically require precise time sources for data synchronisation.
Your argument is like saying I survived just fine in the last blackout without a generator, why would hospital need one. Don't make those arguments. They are anti-intellectual. And shame on the people who modded you up.
but because I would have assumed that Intel would have considered an at least adequate cell modem to be essential for purposes of selling their CPUs and chipsets for 'IoT' and embedded stuff; as well as 'Centrino' style chipset bundling.
I have a guess. Intel like Microsoft are completely incompetent in the world outside their core business. Their attempts at complete integration have mostly failed. Their attempts at IoT have mostly failed. Their attempts at mobile have mostly failed. Their attempts at low power have mostly failed (I'm not talking about laptops here, but really low power).
Making any assumptions which require strategic or management competence here is foolish.
Maybe they somehow had inside info and knew Intel wasn't going to deliver on 5G
Anyone who has looked into the sad history of Intel side projects, especially those trying to get a foothold into the mobile / low power world had that "inside info".
To be fair it's not as much copying as much as it is a bloody obvious idea. I mean what a gigantic leap of the imagination to go from bluetooth headsets to bluetooth other device that plays music in your ear./s
You can hardly criticise companies for waiting for someone else to do market research for you. If Apple actually knew what the word meant they would call it courage. Others just call it common sense business since headphones are not devices that generally benefit from first mover advantages.
Just provide a convenient and cost-effective means of replacing the battery when it fails.
Look.We all want ponies and unicorns. And we may get them through careful genetic engineering and cloning. However a device that last (insert number that will never be enough for some people) hours, is completely wireless and fits inside your ear, while at the same time being the bestest quality ever is just the stuff of fantasy.
You want repairability? Go Samsung. Their earbuds use an off the shelf battery with a clip together design, and yet it still only gets a 6/10 from iFixIt due to the fact that you're dealing with tiny electronics, not bloody amplifier tubes which you can wreef out with your hamfists and drag down to the drugstore to get tested.
At some point you will need to face reality that easily replaceable battery is at engineering odds with other things that people actually desire.
And I agree with you which is why I don't own these damn things and continue to use headphones with a cable regardless how non-hip I look while I'm jogging.
Content relevant to interests based on profiling the user? Sounds like the Youtube way. And we all know Youtube only contains level headed discussions and isn't a cesspool of hate and conspiracy theories/s.
This guy drove from Amsterdam to Perth (89000km), not directly mind you, he went via the northernmost tip of Norway showing that your car literally can run in nearly every environment, including environments like the middle east where absolutely *zero* superchargers are available.
No "but" about it. It is impressive given that the F150 is basically the American flag on wheels. The fact that EVs are taking off at all in a country that worships oil and trucks almost as much as guns and jesus is hugely impressive.
It is. Who the hell does road trips anyway. They are literally take the worst aspect of the working day (commuting) done continuously. What kind of a weirdo blows their annual leave on doing a shitty daily activity.
By allowing far better CAD algorithms, of Human input from 1st class Human circuit designers, a current process could probably see a 2-5 times improvement in many areas. With a tweaked 7nm being around for maybe as long as 10+ years in the worst outcome, there is loads of opportunity for superior circuit design to provide significant improvements (the very reason Apple now designs its own chips).
I call bullshit on this last part. If there was a 2-5x speed improvement to be had by optimising by human experts we would be having those. I mean how many experts in the world would we need? There's only a few major players in this market and I guarantee you they aren't mashing the autoroute key and calling it a day.
You talk about spying and then mention apps which have core features that rely heavily on push notifications / constant server connections, and despite your assertion imagine a world where you could get the functionality you clearly voluntarily used AND get good battery life.
In other news, I turned my smartphone dumb and I get much better battery life now!
Advertisers are the problem, so you want to get rid of Apple.
You're a dumbass.
Actually he's my spirit animal. Coming up with more reasons to get rid of Apple is great pass time. For one all you *definitely paid for shills* who dare to say Apple isn't a problem (how much did the evil mega corp pay you to say that?) is another reason to get rid of Apple.
There's kids starving in Africa. We should just dissolve Apple and buy each of them a nice t-bone steak.
Sure. When you're throwing a GTX1080 into your 4K gaming system.
On the other hand you can throw a GTX1030 or even less at the system and happily game away with Xbox level quality. Hell for all the talk about how performance of Battlefield V sucked with a RTX2080 with all settings at high, if you play like a console gamer with average settings, average draw distance, crappy textures, no ray tracing, and resolution low enough that you can cut through a tough steak with the shitty aliasing effects then you don't need a GPU at all. Even Battlefield 5 runs greater than 30fps at 1080p on an AMD APU.
it makes me wonder why should I even purchase a console when a desktop will be infinitely better in terms of cost, performance, and longevity?
Playing on the couch with a controller? I mean if you're single you may get away with a battle station in your living room, but for the rest of us... well we own consoles AND PCs for that reason.
This makes some games run superior to a console, and on a slightly different PC (Still modern) you have bugs and performance problems.
Pretty much no. You need an incredibly low end system to be beaten by a console these days with even the most entry level "gaming pc" easiliy out performing consoles. What causes performance problems and bugs are stupid developers who shit on the PC release by just copying and pasting a console game to it without even the cursory care needed to consider a decent platform.
Stupid shit like hardcoding a 900p resolution into your engine so that PC gamers who dared to select a different resolution ended up with tearing. I mean for a while we got away from the crap of alt-tabbing a 3D game causing the system to crash, but then developers went full capitalist, employed all the QC of the modern MIcrosoft (which is to say none), and brought back stupid bugs.
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Why do companies insist on directing their traffic all over the internet? Microsoft is in control of www.microsoft.com. Why is there any reason for any service not to be the result of a wholly in control of the company sub-domain of this website?
This isn't the first time a major organisation has registered an absolutely stupid sounding domain with no direct link to any of their products (read: IP that would offer them some protection from domain theft) only to let it lapse and go to someone else. Hell it's not even the first time Microsoft has done it.
The introduction of mandatory age verification is a world first, and we've taken the time to balance privacy concerns with the need to protect children from inappropriate content.
Very good. They thought about balance. Now they just need to think about how it is possible to enforce this on the global internet and how it won't fail hard furthering the UK's position as the laughing stock of the internet. After all they basically banned BDSM online. Look how well that worked. (Spoiler Alert: It didn't)
If you knew more you'd realise how non-comparable that actually is.
Full disclosure: I have a PC and a PS4 AND occasionally use the turd that is Steamlink.
The best games of the last few years haven't been on PC
Errr no. The "best" games come out on PC just fine (as well as the most popular ones which you can see by sales figures). Your particular flavour of games haven't been on PC. That's quite a different story.
I would assume it costs several hundred, and that core infrastructure runs in the millions. I was part of a project that installed a wireless multipurpose voice/data system at a single plant. That ran into the $40m mark.
I really do enjoy it when I get modded Troll by people who have no idea. $40million? Ha we spent more than that on a wireless project at a large chemical plant. If I had to give a thumb in the air estimate I would have come at larger than $500million for city wide multipurpose wireless infrastructure.
And yet every cheapie android phone out of China managed it just fine.
Mobile phones do not critically rely on GPS time for any function. Now the infrastructure behind them on the other hand critically require precise time sources for data synchronisation.
Your argument is like saying I survived just fine in the last blackout without a generator, why would hospital need one.
Don't make those arguments. They are anti-intellectual. And shame on the people who modded you up.
but because I would have assumed that Intel would have considered an at least adequate cell modem to be essential for purposes of selling their CPUs and chipsets for 'IoT' and embedded stuff; as well as 'Centrino' style chipset bundling.
I have a guess. Intel like Microsoft are completely incompetent in the world outside their core business. Their attempts at complete integration have mostly failed. Their attempts at IoT have mostly failed. Their attempts at mobile have mostly failed. Their attempts at low power have mostly failed (I'm not talking about laptops here, but really low power).
Making any assumptions which require strategic or management competence here is foolish.
Maybe they somehow had inside info and knew Intel wasn't going to deliver on 5G
Anyone who has looked into the sad history of Intel side projects, especially those trying to get a foothold into the mobile / low power world had that "inside info".
Maybe we will now enjoy fewer postings now about how delusional and corrupt Elon Musk is and how he will go bankrupt before he delivers.
If commonsense and past performance had any impact on Slashdot trolls we wouldn't be having this discussion.
To be fair it's not as much copying as much as it is a bloody obvious idea. I mean what a gigantic leap of the imagination to go from bluetooth headsets to bluetooth other device that plays music in your ear. /s
You can hardly criticise companies for waiting for someone else to do market research for you. If Apple actually knew what the word meant they would call it courage. Others just call it common sense business since headphones are not devices that generally benefit from first mover advantages.
Just provide a convenient and cost-effective means of replacing the battery when it fails.
Look.We all want ponies and unicorns. And we may get them through careful genetic engineering and cloning. However a device that last (insert number that will never be enough for some people) hours, is completely wireless and fits inside your ear, while at the same time being the bestest quality ever is just the stuff of fantasy.
You want repairability? Go Samsung. Their earbuds use an off the shelf battery with a clip together design, and yet it still only gets a 6/10 from iFixIt due to the fact that you're dealing with tiny electronics, not bloody amplifier tubes which you can wreef out with your hamfists and drag down to the drugstore to get tested.
At some point you will need to face reality that easily replaceable battery is at engineering odds with other things that people actually desire.
And I agree with you which is why I don't own these damn things and continue to use headphones with a cable regardless how non-hip I look while I'm jogging.
Content relevant to interests based on profiling the user? Sounds like the Youtube way. And we all know Youtube only contains level headed discussions and isn't a cesspool of hate and conspiracy theories /s.
At some point the vast bulk of this will get traced to Asia
Your 100km radius wind is blowing from Asia? Have you ever seen a map?
The USA? What plastics has the USA banned?
Kindersuprise eggs.
https://plugmeinproject.com/
This guy drove from Amsterdam to Perth (89000km), not directly mind you, he went via the northernmost tip of Norway showing that your car literally can run in nearly every environment, including environments like the middle east where absolutely *zero* superchargers are available.
No "but" about it. It is impressive given that the F150 is basically the American flag on wheels. The fact that EVs are taking off at all in a country that worships oil and trucks almost as much as guns and jesus is hugely impressive.
It is. Who the hell does road trips anyway. They are literally take the worst aspect of the working day (commuting) done continuously. What kind of a weirdo blows their annual leave on doing a shitty daily activity.
By allowing far better CAD algorithms, of Human input from 1st class Human circuit designers, a current process could probably see a 2-5 times improvement in many areas. With a tweaked 7nm being around for maybe as long as 10+ years in the worst outcome, there is loads of opportunity for superior circuit design to provide significant improvements (the very reason Apple now designs its own chips).
I call bullshit on this last part. If there was a 2-5x speed improvement to be had by optimising by human experts we would be having those. I mean how many experts in the world would we need? There's only a few major players in this market and I guarantee you they aren't mashing the autoroute key and calling it a day.
You talk about spying and then mention apps which have core features that rely heavily on push notifications / constant server connections, and despite your assertion imagine a world where you could get the functionality you clearly voluntarily used AND get good battery life.
In other news, I turned my smartphone dumb and I get much better battery life now!
If you're not having sex with someone, who gives a shit what their gender is?
For many people you have set the bar unreasonably high anyway. A mouth is a mouth, and an ass is an ass :)
Advertisers are the problem, so you want to get rid of Apple.
You're a dumbass.
Actually he's my spirit animal. Coming up with more reasons to get rid of Apple is great pass time. For one all you *definitely paid for shills* who dare to say Apple isn't a problem (how much did the evil mega corp pay you to say that?) is another reason to get rid of Apple.
There's kids starving in Africa. We should just dissolve Apple and buy each of them a nice t-bone steak.
Sure. When you're throwing a GTX1080 into your 4K gaming system.
On the other hand you can throw a GTX1030 or even less at the system and happily game away with Xbox level quality. Hell for all the talk about how performance of Battlefield V sucked with a RTX2080 with all settings at high, if you play like a console gamer with average settings, average draw distance, crappy textures, no ray tracing, and resolution low enough that you can cut through a tough steak with the shitty aliasing effects then you don't need a GPU at all. Even Battlefield 5 runs greater than 30fps at 1080p on an AMD APU.
it makes me wonder why should I even purchase a console when a desktop will be infinitely better in terms of cost, performance, and longevity?
Playing on the couch with a controller? I mean if you're single you may get away with a battle station in your living room, but for the rest of us ... well we own consoles AND PCs for that reason.
This makes some games run superior to a console, and on a slightly different PC (Still modern) you have bugs and performance problems.
Pretty much no. You need an incredibly low end system to be beaten by a console these days with even the most entry level "gaming pc" easiliy out performing consoles. What causes performance problems and bugs are stupid developers who shit on the PC release by just copying and pasting a console game to it without even the cursory care needed to consider a decent platform.
Stupid shit like hardcoding a 900p resolution into your engine so that PC gamers who dared to select a different resolution ended up with tearing. I mean for a while we got away from the crap of alt-tabbing a 3D game causing the system to crash, but then developers went full capitalist, employed all the QC of the modern MIcrosoft (which is to say none), and brought back stupid bugs.