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  1. If you owned a shopping mall you would not be able to charge rent for your shop based on how many customers visit it. You would additionally not be allowed to punish a company in your mall who decided to offer an online store by preventing customers who signed up online from walking into their store but still permitted them to walk in your own.

    If a shopping mall did that (which is the complaint filed against Apple) then they will find themselves in court.

    Except maybe not in the USA since your antitrust laws are so stacked to required a tangible financial impact on consumers and completely ignores B2B competition that they are essentially not worthy of the title antitrust laws.

  2. Re:The Truth: on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have dramatically simplified Spotify's impact on music while ignoring Apple's. The amount of money artists get have nothing to do with the sums spotify are paying for access to the music. That is the bullshit from the industry which invented bullshit.

    An *rights holder* with over a million streams would be receiving somewhere between $30000 and $84000 according to Spotify's current rate. If the artist is only getting $80 then I would really be looking at who is the middle man between Spotify and the artist.
    A reference I found to an "artist" rather than a "rights holder" puts the figure closer to $10000

    In the meantime Apple is here to help right? I mean for a million songs the "rights holders" would get a whopping $37000 from Apple which would really help those artists sleep at night.

    And while it's nice to criticise Spotify for the money equation, maybe you should look at their balance sheet. After all they will cease to exist if they keep up their trend of endlessly losing money. Is it much of a surprise with little income, and passing more than all of their profits to the record industry they are somewhat pissed at the thought of paying Apple on top of that?
     

  3. Re:Why would you save it? on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I stand by my reasoning that Kavanaugh is not fit for the supreme (or any) court, not for anything he did prior to 2018, but because of his horrible conduct and batshit insane "defence" that he displayed in front of a senate committee.

  4. Re:737 Max is a frankenstein's monster on Boeing 737 Max Crashes 'Linked' By Satellite Track Data, FAA Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    and in a freshman Fault Tolerant Computing bug depended on only one sensor when they had 2.

    Thought experiment for you:
    How do you determine which sensor is correct?
    What is the safe reaction to the sensor value?

    Let's see how "freshmen" you can get.

  5. a) wrote better software, that uses both angle of attack sensors

    Please determine which sensor is right in software, remembering that the software in this case took the "safe" action of preventing what it saw was a stall.

  6. Chhina did that and people here said they where overreacting.

    Because at the time China was the first ones and Slashdot outrage was in full swing. Reports came in from the EU grounding them only hours later. Never underestimate our capacity for pure uninformed outrage.

    For example have you ever made a grammatical error in a Slashdot post?

  7. Re:I wish AMD would release new cards on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    but it'll at least be a 7nm GPU.

    I'll take irrelevant shit for $100 Jim!

    I agree with waiting for Navi to see what the competition brings to a table and at what price. But there's few things I could give less shits about than the transistor gate size on the die itself. Tell me the performance, the price, and if it is possible to not sound like a vacuum cleaner and those are the only things that come into any buying decision.

    Oh and if it had RGB lighting, because you know can't build a computer in 2018 that doesn't look like a 70s disco on the inside.

  8. Not wrong, but no one cares either.

    The oxford dictionary specifically calls out that "comprised of" in this sense is common in the english language but also classically and grammatically incorrect.
    This usage is part of standard English, but the construction comprise of, as in the property comprises of bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen, is regarded as incorrect.

  9. Re: Give RX 570s are going for $130 on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is screwed as people are so brainwashed

    Producing buggy cards with barely working drivers is not consumers being brainwashed. Sometimes there's more to life than raw performance per dollar. That said AMD has gotten *MUCH* better since they first released the 5xx series.

  10. Re:Give RX 570s are going for $130 on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    with two free games and RX 580s are readily available for $120 on ebay (just got one for $100) they're probably feeling a bit of pressure on the low end.

    If you're not interested in gaming there's always a cheaper slower option on the market.

  11. Re:He promotes spyware. on Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Firefox or Chrome? Because cancer is typically a part of an organism that isn't working properly.

  12. Exactly. How exactly do you hold and use a "full screen" display with touchscreen everywhere?

    Palm detection and erroneous touch detection has been a thing for several years now. Or did you miss the "Edge" displays from Samsung which you could hold just fine without it triggering the touch sensors on the edge of the screen?

  13. add a small second screen on the rear of the device

    No. GOD NO. The last thing I need is more fragile crap on a device. Leave the back of the phone made of something nice and durable that can happily get scratched to shit or covered with a thick case thanks.

    What a horrible idea.

  14. You can't even put tape over it. Do not want.

    I know. I shudder to think of the FBI staring at a blurry picture of my pocket lint.

    Note I bet you a marsbar you don't have tape over the top of your mobile phone now and that you're just expressing fake internet rage.

  15. I find the whole selfie thing to be just odd. How can individuals be that consumed with themselves.

    I know right. I mean it's not like family albums existed before the mobile phone and that they were full of pictures of the camera owner right?

  16. Re:Hybrids are better, for now on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    have a range of 400+ miles

    Let me count the number of passenger vehicles where this is actually a legitimate requirement: 1-2%

    and a refuel/recharge time of 3 minutes

    What's a refuel time? Electric car owners want to know. I mean you actually drive somewhere to increase the range in your tank, and spend 10min doing so? How quaint.

  17. Re:Toyota's Smart Business Strategy on Toyota Is Losing the Electric Car Race, So It Pretends Hybrids Are Better · · Score: 1

    This seems like a smart business strategy to me.

    That's because you think you can do something at the flip of a switch. You can't. Investment in vehicle platforms has incredible cost and even bigger inertia. Pouring money into Hybrids made sense 10 years ago. Investing in them in any way now is just batshit stupid from a business perspective. Rightnow Toyota should be serious cash into all electric if they hope to at all be relevant in 5-10 years or they risk becoming irrelevant, as their own customers are currently showing them.

    but hybrids do have distinct market advantages today: range, refueling infrastructure, and refuel time.

    Advantages demanded by many and realised by few. By the way there are more power points around than petrol stations and electric car owners generally are curious to know, what is this refuel time you speak of? My car is always full when I start it.

  18. I know. Extracting and refining hydrocarbons are all fairies and unicorn farts in comparison to that dirty dirty Lithium lifecycle.

    Hey I like your thinking, can I interest you in joining our group? We meet with other severely brain damaged people on a weekly basis. It's a safe space where we can say stupid shit without judgement.

  19. So as much maintenance as an ordinary ICE engine then?

  20. Yes / No. This isn't such a difficult requirement at all.

    a) the venn diagram of people likely to use steam link for gaming on the go from their PC and those who have a modern PC overlap greatly. Any previous gen graphics card can do H.265 encode in hardware so if you have a GTX 1xxx or an RT 5xx or greater you're good to go.

    b) people who give a crap about gaming are likely to have a cable / fibre connection anyway, and that doesn't change the fact that this still would work great on WiFi in your own house.

    Netflix can pull off high-quality HD with a 4-6mbps link budget because it does offline non-realtime multi-pass compression. Attempting to pull off a similar stunt in realtime is another matter entirely. It's ~80% of the reason why we didn't get to have 1080p60 in ATSC1.0... back in the 1990s

    Okay now I take big issue with this comment. Complaining about something in the 90s is silly when what we do now working with real time video compression is actually trivial. Pascal series cards come with a H.265 encoder that happy runs at several hundred frames per second. On my 3 year old graphics card I have no problem at all encoding in real time 1080p, and streaming it to my mobile phone. This is how software like Riftcat or ALVR works to give you access to SteamVR on any modern smartphone with a basic (even cardboard) VR headset. It worked just fine 3 years ago at realtime with lag low enough that gaming was possible.

    So yeah the network is a barrier to overcome, but the video encode/decode is most definitely not.

  21. Mars is closer to the earth than you thought, and you will still die alone surrounded by cats.

  22. Yes the sweet spot is 100% and 100% in both ways. We need to automate more, and pilots should spend more time on simulators because the times they actually will need to fly will becomes considerably more exciting.

  23. Re:Millenialism hits Boeing on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Made the algorithm rely on only a single sensor reading.

    Except they did no such thing. More reading up on the situation and less angry posting.

    Allowed the algorithm to move the trim so far that it makes it impossible for the pilot to overpower it with the control column.

    Safety systems should not be overpowered by panicking pilots. Airline safety has increased precisely because of the amount of control that has been removed from pilots.

  24. Re:Turn off auto-leveling on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    so they bodged it

    You mean made a design decision?

    And then they didnt tell anyone who actually flew the aircraft...

    Less hyperbole please. Not only are the changes to the design known by pilots, they are known by the frigging public.

  25. include payments to the people who wrote and played the songs? Spotify, being yet another business that doesn't want to pay for the music, really should shut up about this. At least Apple pays something that isn't so meager as to be an insult.

    Err no not at all. Please read up on the structure before you put your ignorance on display for the world to see.