Did it? Didn't notice. Because unlike most of the sensationalist bullshit you don't actually need to hoover up every last detail of your customer for marketing purposes. Interestingly nearly all companies that are affected by this actually have offices in the EU anyway. Just because you are willing to put something in a box and mail it to the EU doesn't mean you're doing "business in the EU".
That's one of the things that most people seem to forget. Just because someone from the EU can access you doesn't automatically put you at the mercy of the GDPR, and even if it did, what's someone in the EU to do? So a company without offices of presence in the EU under EU law?
Rather than paying representatives companies which do business in the EU could just get their Irish accountants to handle the requests. I'm sure the few thousands of dollars will be nothing in comparison to the money saved by actually having your financial subsidiary in the EU, let alone the actual market of 500 million people for your products.
Except AMD will have nothing performance wise to offer even with this delay.
But won't they? The way I see it now, both in bang for buck and in actual raw power AMD have some decent offerings either on the shelf or about to come out the door. Sure, they don't have a 72 core big chip on the market, but honestly that kind of stuff makes up such a small percentage of the servers on the market that it borderline isn't relevant. And chips like the Threadripper are within the low double digit percentage points of the top tier offerings from Intel core for core.
If you absolutely must have the biggest and fastest thing in the world, you won't be going AMD, but that doesn't really apply to most people. If anything Intel will win on feature sets. They certainly aren't doing well on performance, and are well behind in bang for buck.
No. Power flows the other way making it not an exact same thing.
Feeding in e.g. solar power is not supposed to go via a transformer in your block into a higher voltage level
Not being supposed to is not something in control of power installations at the MV level. A lot of these transformers have little more "control" around them than a small auto-recloser on one side. You may say it doesn't happen, I say I was part of a program that saw these things mass replaced all over Australia where 1/3rd of houses have solar panels on them, and this caused major problems. I also say if it's not such a problem why did ABB, Schenider, etc publish advice on not backfeeding transformers, and why did they suddenly bring to market new transformers for specifically this reason.
I get it that the sun doesn't shine in Germany (though it has been a lovely week) and there are very few solar panels here, but this is a very real problem for places where customers are able to generate electricity en mass. A very real problem which is having very real money spent on resolving it.
Transformers do get backfed in many places where solar is ubiquitous, and it causes a major problem for grid efficiency at best, and actually triggers power outages at worst.
You probably confused it for adverts, it did say it was a "sponsored result" at the top. It popped up regularly for me in Australia and in Germany prior to the EU antitrust ruling. I haven't seen it since though I'm told it's still around.
Or maybe you're lucky. That could legitimately be the case. Some user groups often slip through the cracks when it comes to something contentious. I run standard Windows 10 Pro at home and I have *never* had Candycrush installed, a popup saying how good Edge is appear, or seen an advertisement for OneDrive other than the one first presented when you install Windows for the first time. Yet there are clearly documented cases of when this has happened.
Google has even made a change to it's Shopping system in response to the ruling. So they clearly know they were pushing it. This article: https://searchengineland.com/r... shows what the shopping in search results looked like.
Huh? What the hell are you talking about? The GP clearly said the use case was to talk to mum and dad and the kids. Suggesting your friends and family move to something cross platform is neither bollocks, nonsense, nor bullshit. Your close circle is easy to educate.
And speaking of English, English is a universal, open and learnable language. If you only use Facetime, you will not get communication via Facetime from me because I physically am unable to use it.
There is a very big difference between a completely platform locked system such as Facetime and every single example you have just posted.
No that's the most common category of unvaccinated. The most common category of unvaccinatable (implying something can be physically not done) is allergic reactions followed closely by immune system related problems.
Mind you I actually know someone in this category. You know what her parents did? Arranged a second doctor to stand beside her with epinephrine while she was vaccinated and then when the swelling went down they kept her for observation in hospital, so even that is a bit of a weak excuse.
You know that Google got sued by EU right? There's a reason they don't flash it across you results anymore. But the platform you've never seen is still there, or does the top bar of your Google results page not say "All Images Shopping News Videos More"
Any flight across the ocean will have a sleeping period at some point. In 100% of the ones I've been on (and they happen pretty much ever 3 months) the flight attendants will not allow you to open them. The 787s are cool, the flight attendants simply override the window controls and force them to the darkest setting.
Point is: If you've never been in a plane with all the windows down, you've never been in a plane for more than a couple of hours. The claustrophobes seem to do just fine... or they take the train / boat, I'm not sure which.
Man am I glad planes never fly at night, and there's no scenarios where flights require you to close windows
Err...I've never been on a flight, day or night where you were "required" to close the windows (i.e. pull down the shades)....
So you've never been in a plane for more than an hour or two then? Pretty much any trans ocean flight will have a period where all passengers are asked to close their windows. Unless you're in a 787, then they force the shades to the darkest setting making them impossible to look out of unless it's the middle of the day and disable your controls.
History suggests that those 1960s era nuclear plants were not so safe...
History suggests every chemical and industrial process was not so safe. The entire process and generation industry made major safety strides without a change in cost, and many of them are far more complicated and far more dangerous than a simple nuclear reactor.
Perhaps there is a reason why nuclear turned out to be expensive.
Yep. Fear leading to government involvement leading to unmanageable bureaucracy made it expensive. Not much has changed in the designs other than that they are now inherently far safer and the residual risk is managed by far better safety systems.
Anecdote: I once held a $100000 piece of paper in my hand. I assume all the value was in the actual paper and the golden toner used to print on it because god knows I ordered the exact same identical model numbers of all components safety system for another project (only more of them) without the piece of paper that said Nuclear 1E and it came in significantly cheaper. I do wonder if maybe it cost a lot of money to print those two letters, or maybe the signature at the bottom was in unicorn blood. Oh yeah and we had to then pay some expensive regulators to come and look at the expensive piece of paper I assume to take a DNA sample of that unicorn blood.
Nuclear power, so safe no one will insure it. Wait...
Safe? Man safety has nothing to do why no one will insure it. Nuclear is the single safest form of power we statistically have. The insurance comes in the form of the same risk that you perceive along with the cost that all those pesky people tend to live and therefor cost money.
The grid does not know if you: a) switch of your AC, or b) feed in 2kW with your solar panel
A) and b) look exactly the same.
I didn't say they don't look the same. I said there's efficiency problems. The grid most definitely does care if it's 500kVA transformer is powering 50 AC units, or if it is powering 5. There are big differences in electrical efficiency especially at the lower power when you start getting dominated by iron losses.
But back to solar power. It may be a small efficiency problem for you if all your customers turn off loads, but it becomes a big problem if all of them backfeed 2kW into the system. Power transformers typically have been compensated to work efficiently in one direction only. That's not to say they are polar, but... for all intents and purposes you should treat them as such. No manufacturer will say you can backfeed a transformer that hasn't been specifically designed for it. While it is however possible to do it on many of them it comes at the very real risk of overloading them. Then you have to consider if the switchgear has been designed not to detect the backfeed as a fault event and open the breakers, god knows that has happened plenty of times. But then there are proper one way limitations too such as on-load tap changers not being designed to step both up and down due to the assumption that the secondary windings are always under load. Back feed them and the OLTC hits zero because of lack of load on the secondaries and you slowly roast your primary windings.
Just because in the super simple highschool model the grid looks like a giant resistor doesn't mean it actually is one.
A quick check of older data shows that suicide rates, even though up 30% since the turn of the century, are about the same as a century ago.
Oh good. Anti-global warming logic applied to suicide now. No one cares how bad it was 100 years ago. The only question is why is it getting worse when we have been doing well to drive it to zero, and more importantly how are we going to fix it.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Good question. If you live in a country where a messaging system not tied to an OS vendor is the norm (such as Brazil or the Netherlands with WhatsApp, or China with WeChat) you would honestly wonder what the fuss is all about. No one I know uses Facetime though plenty of people use video chatting.
With android, I'm not sure if you're supposed to send messages with Messages, Allo, Hangouts....
With Android why would you pin yourself down to a single ecosystem just like you did with the iOS? Messages, Allo, Hangouts? The answer is none of the above. Use a system that is cross platform.
Not all transactions show up on a digital statement right away.
Errr yeah they do. Maybe they don't in America where you fetishize the credit industry and pay for your chewing gum using borrowed capital, but the vast majority of the rest of the world have up to date digital statements.
Mind you it's not like you need to balance your books constantly anyway. The very system you claim is a problem is also a solution in that it allows accounts to run temporarily negative, and I haven't been with a bank in the past 5 years that didn't give you a summary of your continuous inflows vs outflows on some app. You can very much rely on the bank to do this, and if you can't then maybe you need to use a different bank.
babyboomers and generation X as parents and educators.
But so many millennials think these jobs are beneath them.
No. So many millennials were *taught* by everyone who was more mature and thus more *knowledgeable about how the world works* that these jobs are beneath them. They didn't just make this shit up out of the blue because they are posh.
Speaking of millennials. The vast majority of the generation you are criticising are now done with university or college after 25 years of promises that when doing that they won't need to subject themselves to these dirty jobs which are beneath them. To be honest, yes those jobs are beneath them. Ever tried to apply for a blue collar job with a university degree? Even the employers offering those jobs think they are beneath them and would rather a homeless person take it due to an educated person being high risk.
Not my generation, not their generation, not any generation.
Entitlement and expectant are not too different when you look at them. If everyone with brown hair except for you got a free Mars bar on account of they had brown hair, would you complain about not being entitled to it?
The X, boomers, and previous generations generally lived in a world where if you had a college degree, you HAD a good job. Not maybe, not more likely to, but actually had one. You were smart. People paid your for your smartness. College man will go far because he has college behind him. Then they grew up, and what did they teach their kids?
If you spent your entire life having someone tell you if you do X and get Y as a reward, after you do X you may quite rightly feel entitled to Y and quite pissed when you find out that technically no one is entitled to it and you have been lied to all your life.
It does strike me as odd... that you think nothing has changed since the explosive growth of the internet and now.
In other news we don't need to worry about posting speed limits because cars aren't fast enough to actually be of danger when driven at top speed through the city centre.
Why do you find it strange? Why would every damn little bug be announced on Slashdot? Do you get KB lists and changelogs from Facebook? I find it strange that people find perfectly reasonable "We have a bug, we are in the news a lot for privacy, we should get on top of this before people freak out" posts strange.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again the EU tries to impose it's laws on the rest of the world.
It does nothing of the sort. Just because you're on the internet doesn't mean the EU can sue you.
For many companies, that came on 25 May 2018
Did it? Didn't notice. Because unlike most of the sensationalist bullshit you don't actually need to hoover up every last detail of your customer for marketing purposes. Interestingly nearly all companies that are affected by this actually have offices in the EU anyway. Just because you are willing to put something in a box and mail it to the EU doesn't mean you're doing "business in the EU".
That's one of the things that most people seem to forget. Just because someone from the EU can access you doesn't automatically put you at the mercy of the GDPR, and even if it did, what's someone in the EU to do? So a company without offices of presence in the EU under EU law?
Rather than paying representatives companies which do business in the EU could just get their Irish accountants to handle the requests. I'm sure the few thousands of dollars will be nothing in comparison to the money saved by actually having your financial subsidiary in the EU, let alone the actual market of 500 million people for your products.
At what point will it no longer be worth it to business in the EU? Ridiculous.
Probably after they close the tax loopholes and the next war kills off several hundred million potential western middle to upper class customers.
Except AMD will have nothing performance wise to offer even with this delay.
But won't they? The way I see it now, both in bang for buck and in actual raw power AMD have some decent offerings either on the shelf or about to come out the door. Sure, they don't have a 72 core big chip on the market, but honestly that kind of stuff makes up such a small percentage of the servers on the market that it borderline isn't relevant. And chips like the Threadripper are within the low double digit percentage points of the top tier offerings from Intel core for core.
If you absolutely must have the biggest and fastest thing in the world, you won't be going AMD, but that doesn't really apply to most people. If anything Intel will win on feature sets. They certainly aren't doing well on performance, and are well behind in bang for buck.
The data shows that, over the long term, suicide rates are essentially unchanged
Oh good. Anti-global warming logic applied to suicide now. I get the feeling I've typed that before.
I get it man. You feel like we shouldn't worry about anything. It's fine. We'll put our efforts into your pet project instead.
No it is no problem: it is EXACT the same thing.
No. Power flows the other way making it not an exact same thing.
Feeding in e.g. solar power is not supposed to go via a transformer in your block into a higher voltage level
Not being supposed to is not something in control of power installations at the MV level. A lot of these transformers have little more "control" around them than a small auto-recloser on one side. You may say it doesn't happen, I say I was part of a program that saw these things mass replaced all over Australia where 1/3rd of houses have solar panels on them, and this caused major problems. I also say if it's not such a problem why did ABB, Schenider, etc publish advice on not backfeeding transformers, and why did they suddenly bring to market new transformers for specifically this reason.
I get it that the sun doesn't shine in Germany (though it has been a lovely week) and there are very few solar panels here, but this is a very real problem for places where customers are able to generate electricity en mass. A very real problem which is having very real money spent on resolving it.
Transformers do get backfed in many places where solar is ubiquitous, and it causes a major problem for grid efficiency at best, and actually triggers power outages at worst.
You probably confused it for adverts, it did say it was a "sponsored result" at the top. It popped up regularly for me in Australia and in Germany prior to the EU antitrust ruling. I haven't seen it since though I'm told it's still around.
Or maybe you're lucky. That could legitimately be the case. Some user groups often slip through the cracks when it comes to something contentious. I run standard Windows 10 Pro at home and I have *never* had Candycrush installed, a popup saying how good Edge is appear, or seen an advertisement for OneDrive other than the one first presented when you install Windows for the first time. Yet there are clearly documented cases of when this has happened.
Google has even made a change to it's Shopping system in response to the ruling. So they clearly know they were pushing it.
This article: https://searchengineland.com/r... shows what the shopping in search results looked like.
Huh? What the hell are you talking about? The GP clearly said the use case was to talk to mum and dad and the kids. Suggesting your friends and family move to something cross platform is neither bollocks, nonsense, nor bullshit. Your close circle is easy to educate.
And speaking of English, English is a universal, open and learnable language. If you only use Facetime, you will not get communication via Facetime from me because I physically am unable to use it.
There is a very big difference between a completely platform locked system such as Facetime and every single example you have just posted.
Why didn't you just say so then rather than arguing with me.
Man you suck at communicating :-P
No that's the most common category of unvaccinated. The most common category of unvaccinatable (implying something can be physically not done) is allergic reactions followed closely by immune system related problems.
Mind you I actually know someone in this category. You know what her parents did? Arranged a second doctor to stand beside her with epinephrine while she was vaccinated and then when the swelling went down they kept her for observation in hospital, so even that is a bit of a weak excuse.
I just tried
You know that Google got sued by EU right? There's a reason they don't flash it across you results anymore. But the platform you've never seen is still there, or does the top bar of your Google results page not say "All Images Shopping News Videos More"
Any flight across the ocean will have a sleeping period at some point. In 100% of the ones I've been on (and they happen pretty much ever 3 months) the flight attendants will not allow you to open them. The 787s are cool, the flight attendants simply override the window controls and force them to the darkest setting.
Point is: If you've never been in a plane with all the windows down, you've never been in a plane for more than a couple of hours. The claustrophobes seem to do just fine ... or they take the train / boat, I'm not sure which.
Err...I've never been on a flight, day or night where you were "required" to close the windows (i.e. pull down the shades)....
So you've never been in a plane for more than an hour or two then? Pretty much any trans ocean flight will have a period where all passengers are asked to close their windows. Unless you're in a 787, then they force the shades to the darkest setting making them impossible to look out of unless it's the middle of the day and disable your controls.
History suggests that those 1960s era nuclear plants were not so safe...
History suggests every chemical and industrial process was not so safe. The entire process and generation industry made major safety strides without a change in cost, and many of them are far more complicated and far more dangerous than a simple nuclear reactor.
Perhaps there is a reason why nuclear turned out to be expensive.
Yep. Fear leading to government involvement leading to unmanageable bureaucracy made it expensive. Not much has changed in the designs other than that they are now inherently far safer and the residual risk is managed by far better safety systems.
Anecdote: I once held a $100000 piece of paper in my hand. I assume all the value was in the actual paper and the golden toner used to print on it because god knows I ordered the exact same identical model numbers of all components safety system for another project (only more of them) without the piece of paper that said Nuclear 1E and it came in significantly cheaper. I do wonder if maybe it cost a lot of money to print those two letters, or maybe the signature at the bottom was in unicorn blood. Oh yeah and we had to then pay some expensive regulators to come and look at the expensive piece of paper I assume to take a DNA sample of that unicorn blood.
Nuclear power, so safe no one will insure it. Wait...
Safe? Man safety has nothing to do why no one will insure it. Nuclear is the single safest form of power we statistically have. The insurance comes in the form of the same risk that you perceive along with the cost that all those pesky people tend to live and therefor cost money.
The grid does not know if you:
a) switch of your AC, or
b) feed in 2kW with your solar panel
A) and b) look exactly the same.
I didn't say they don't look the same. I said there's efficiency problems. The grid most definitely does care if it's 500kVA transformer is powering 50 AC units, or if it is powering 5. There are big differences in electrical efficiency especially at the lower power when you start getting dominated by iron losses.
But back to solar power. It may be a small efficiency problem for you if all your customers turn off loads, but it becomes a big problem if all of them backfeed 2kW into the system. Power transformers typically have been compensated to work efficiently in one direction only. That's not to say they are polar, but ... for all intents and purposes you should treat them as such. No manufacturer will say you can backfeed a transformer that hasn't been specifically designed for it. While it is however possible to do it on many of them it comes at the very real risk of overloading them. Then you have to consider if the switchgear has been designed not to detect the backfeed as a fault event and open the breakers, god knows that has happened plenty of times. But then there are proper one way limitations too such as on-load tap changers not being designed to step both up and down due to the assumption that the secondary windings are always under load. Back feed them and the OLTC hits zero because of lack of load on the secondaries and you slowly roast your primary windings.
Just because in the super simple highschool model the grid looks like a giant resistor doesn't mean it actually is one.
A quick check of older data shows that suicide rates, even though up 30% since the turn of the century, are about the same as a century ago.
Oh good. Anti-global warming logic applied to suicide now. No one cares how bad it was 100 years ago. The only question is why is it getting worse when we have been doing well to drive it to zero, and more importantly how are we going to fix it.
But then so do all the other competitors. Skype isn't the only example.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Good question. If you live in a country where a messaging system not tied to an OS vendor is the norm (such as Brazil or the Netherlands with WhatsApp, or China with WeChat) you would honestly wonder what the fuss is all about. No one I know uses Facetime though plenty of people use video chatting.
With android, I'm not sure if you're supposed to send messages with Messages, Allo, Hangouts....
With Android why would you pin yourself down to a single ecosystem just like you did with the iOS? Messages, Allo, Hangouts? The answer is none of the above. Use a system that is cross platform.
Not all transactions show up on a digital statement right away.
Errr yeah they do. Maybe they don't in America where you fetishize the credit industry and pay for your chewing gum using borrowed capital, but the vast majority of the rest of the world have up to date digital statements.
Mind you it's not like you need to balance your books constantly anyway. The very system you claim is a problem is also a solution in that it allows accounts to run temporarily negative, and I haven't been with a bank in the past 5 years that didn't give you a summary of your continuous inflows vs outflows on some app. You can very much rely on the bank to do this, and if you can't then maybe you need to use a different bank.
But who's fault is that?
babyboomers and generation X as parents and educators.
But so many millennials think these jobs are beneath them.
No. So many millennials were *taught* by everyone who was more mature and thus more *knowledgeable about how the world works* that these jobs are beneath them. They didn't just make this shit up out of the blue because they are posh.
Speaking of millennials. The vast majority of the generation you are criticising are now done with university or college after 25 years of promises that when doing that they won't need to subject themselves to these dirty jobs which are beneath them. To be honest, yes those jobs are beneath them. Ever tried to apply for a blue collar job with a university degree? Even the employers offering those jobs think they are beneath them and would rather a homeless person take it due to an educated person being high risk.
Not my generation, not their generation, not any generation.
Entitlement and expectant are not too different when you look at them. If everyone with brown hair except for you got a free Mars bar on account of they had brown hair, would you complain about not being entitled to it?
The X, boomers, and previous generations generally lived in a world where if you had a college degree, you HAD a good job. Not maybe, not more likely to, but actually had one. You were smart. People paid your for your smartness. College man will go far because he has college behind him. Then they grew up, and what did they teach their kids?
If you spent your entire life having someone tell you if you do X and get Y as a reward, after you do X you may quite rightly feel entitled to Y and quite pissed when you find out that technically no one is entitled to it and you have been lied to all your life.
Doesn't that strike anyone as odd?
It does strike me as odd... that you think nothing has changed since the explosive growth of the internet and now.
In other news we don't need to worry about posting speed limits because cars aren't fast enough to actually be of danger when driven at top speed through the city centre.
Why do you find it strange? Why would every damn little bug be announced on Slashdot? Do you get KB lists and changelogs from Facebook? I find it strange that people find perfectly reasonable "We have a bug, we are in the news a lot for privacy, we should get on top of this before people freak out" posts strange.