Except for the part where they are literally about 40% cheaper now than they were 2 years ago. Oh don't get me wrong you can still happily find 128GB drives for the same price as 2 years ago, but then you're looking at about double the performance. But let me guess you don't want to compare model for model.
RAM prices fluctuate with smartphone manufacturing and release dates. Right now they are higher than they were 6 months ago when I bought 32GB, 6 months before that they were up again.
As for GPU prices you have to be a special kind of stupid to pay $999 for a GTX 1070 Ti extreme gamer walletrape edition when you can pick up a normal and equally performing model for close to half that.
Yeah prices bounce around a bit, but it's no where near as bad as your posts claim.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are."
Quite the opposite. My child will have a smartphone because I don't intend to helicopter over them and it is valuable for them to have tools that allow them to do things like look up public transport timetables.
Wake up - take the bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Yeah, you could have just said you don't have kids.
Why would they lower the price while demand is equal or outstripping supply?
They wouldn't. Except that demand is not outstripping supply. Apple had some quite severe production issues and yet they are still happily sitting on the shelves everywhere since release date. If that wasn't bad enough Apple cut the Foxconn orders for this month too.
Now excuse me while I go pour some salt on Steve's grave. The reality distortion field is clearly back.
You mean this "microcode" that is neither the "hardware" nor actually the "software" but rather something in between? If microcode is not "firmware" what is it? Is it softer than firm making it "squishyware" or harder than firm making it "wayovercookedsteakware" ?
Can you confirm how this works on Linux? Given that Linux has the ability to update microcode during the boot process, and Canonical for example has already pushed out "intel-microcode 3.20180108.0~ubuntu16.04.2", does that mean Linux users don't need any BIOS or otherwise updates?
As pointed out a few years ago in the news a diplomatic package is not allowed to be opened without suspicion but it is not free from scanning. If they thermally image the package, sniff him out or otherwise they would have grounds for inspection.
To say nothing of putting it through an Xray machine VERY SLOWLY.
Yes but there's no such thing as a diplomatic plane. As soon as he steps out of the car he is subject to UK law even if he steps directly onto the plane.
And if that were the case he'd have made a claim to the international court of justice when he sought refuge. But nope.
He'd probably have a good case too given the UN's opinions of his state. Given they concluded he's being held in arbitrary detention even though it was his own decision to skip the bail conditions and he isn't being detained, and if he were detained he'd quickly go through the process of prosecution and therefore not be in arbitrary detection there's just enough doogooders in the UN to probably make the human rights claim stick.
But the fact that they didn't even attempt to go this way, combined by the fact that despite his assertion that the charges against him in Sweden are arbitrary due to strange Swedish law and the UK courts concluded that what he did was a crime in the UK, I will go with that he probably thinks he has no chance in hell of making that claim stick.
Just because you're wanted in another country doesn't mean you can evade justice from not one but two other countries, both of which agreed you committed a crime. Remember no charges have been laid on him by the USA, and the opinion that they may should not mean he is automatically beyond the power of the courts.
and both countries have flat refused to make this guarantee
And both countries are unlikely to be allowed to do so given international agreements with the USA, not without negatively impacting diplomatic relations in the process.
Assange is only wanted for avoiding prosecution for an alleged crime for which the charges have been withdrawn.
No he's not. He's wanted for breaching bail conditions which is a crime in its own right. For a long time he was wanted for 2 charges, only one of those have been withdrawn. Having charges of the initial crime dropped doesn't make every subsequent crime just go away.
How it is just to punish someone for skipping bail when the charges have been withdrawn?
Because they are two distinctly different crimes perpetrated against two distinctly different people.
If the charges were legitimate, why did the prosecutors pass up multiple opportunities to question him?
The didn't. They have been trying to interview him under the normal Swedish protocol for fear that whatever Assange was offering was a worthless facade that served only to be gobbled up by his fans.
And guess what, they were right. When they eventually conceded to interview him in 2016, Assange dicked them around with lawyers not being available, then the embassy insisted that an Equadorian prosecutor will ask only a set of prepared questions and that the Swedish prosecutor wasn't allowed to talk while "questioning" him, effectively turning the entire farce into nothing more than a statement which the prosecutor was pissed about.
But hey it made for good headlines. I especially like that formal bit about him being available and doing everything Sweden has asked of him since 2010, to say nothing of the fact that he was extradited to the very people who he apparently was complying with only to run off and hide in an embassy. I'm he's almost invoking Trump level of bullshit every time he makes a statement.
You're still describing an economic construct which would most definitely NOT be helped by handing the major monopolies more power to keep screwing you.
Factories are full of stuff that can kill people, and preventing them from killing people has nothing to do with controlling them, and everything to do with independent safety mechanisms.
Any modern plant maintained to any HSE or OSHA minimum standards would allow the control system to do whatever the hell it wants without blowing something up or killing anyone.
Sure there's a shutdown risk, but the major risks should be controlled in a way independent of something someone at a console could do.
which indicates that there are southern beaches which are cooler
You know how big the great barrier reef is right? Is it okay to completely wipe out a population just because another population 1000km across the globe is still okay?
Also you do realise that this is just data points in a trend right, and that climate change shows no sign of even slowing down let alone holding steady? Congratulation. Your head in the sand approach because the turtles are okay today has just condemned them in the future.
Diplomatic immunity status shouldn't be able to be granted after a crime has been committed.
Diplomatic immunity is just as you said: "granted". Whether it should or shouldn't, or whether the government simply arrests them after it has been granted is entirely up to country granting it.
You can be an ambassador if you want. Granting diplomatic status to an ambassador is still up to the other country. They could kick out the resulting Ecuadorian ambassador, but they could also arrest him. The only thing that will prevent this is a desire not to increase diplomatic tensions between countries.
There should always be hysteria against all changes by a government department that give handouts to incumbents regardless of how big the handout is, or what it is for.
No driving from city to city and changing to smaller more expensive networks.
What are you talking about? This is a problem happily solved on the device end which needs to be able to work across a wide variety of suppliers regardless of who buys the spectrum.
My phone not only works in the USA, but works in the rest of the world as well without any concerns. Fees and rates are an economic construct nothing more.
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SSD prices have been flat for like ~2 years
Except for the part where they are literally about 40% cheaper now than they were 2 years ago. Oh don't get me wrong you can still happily find 128GB drives for the same price as 2 years ago, but then you're looking at about double the performance. But let me guess you don't want to compare model for model.
RAM prices fluctuate with smartphone manufacturing and release dates. Right now they are higher than they were 6 months ago when I bought 32GB, 6 months before that they were up again.
As for GPU prices you have to be a special kind of stupid to pay $999 for a GTX 1070 Ti extreme gamer walletrape edition when you can pick up a normal and equally performing model for close to half that.
Yeah prices bounce around a bit, but it's no where near as bad as your posts claim.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are."
Quite the opposite. My child will have a smartphone because I don't intend to helicopter over them and it is valuable for them to have tools that allow them to do things like look up public transport timetables.
Wake up - take the bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Yeah, you could have just said you don't have kids.
Congratulations, you just won stupid of the week.
So it's code that lives between the software and the hardware?
So not spending loads of money for something that can be fixed with a software update.
Thanks for clarifying.
Define "better". Personally I define "better" as the option that doesn't require a new motherboard, CPU and RAM.
The problem is people saying "thank you" to machines shows that Americans are more empathetic to inanimate objects than their fellow people. :-)
Why would they lower the price while demand is equal or outstripping supply?
They wouldn't. Except that demand is not outstripping supply. Apple had some quite severe production issues and yet they are still happily sitting on the shelves everywhere since release date.
If that wasn't bad enough Apple cut the Foxconn orders for this month too.
Now excuse me while I go pour some salt on Steve's grave. The reality distortion field is clearly back.
You mean this "microcode" that is neither the "hardware" nor actually the "software" but rather something in between? If microcode is not "firmware" what is it? Is it softer than firm making it "squishyware" or harder than firm making it "wayovercookedsteakware" ?
Can you confirm how this works on Linux? Given that Linux has the ability to update microcode during the boot process, and Canonical for example has already pushed out "intel-microcode 3.20180108.0~ubuntu16.04.2", does that mean Linux users don't need any BIOS or otherwise updates?
As pointed out a few years ago in the news a diplomatic package is not allowed to be opened without suspicion but it is not free from scanning. If they thermally image the package, sniff him out or otherwise they would have grounds for inspection.
To say nothing of putting it through an Xray machine VERY SLOWLY.
Yes but there's no such thing as a diplomatic plane. As soon as he steps out of the car he is subject to UK law even if he steps directly onto the plane.
And if that were the case he'd have made a claim to the international court of justice when he sought refuge. But nope.
He'd probably have a good case too given the UN's opinions of his state. Given they concluded he's being held in arbitrary detention even though it was his own decision to skip the bail conditions and he isn't being detained, and if he were detained he'd quickly go through the process of prosecution and therefore not be in arbitrary detection there's just enough doogooders in the UN to probably make the human rights claim stick.
But the fact that they didn't even attempt to go this way, combined by the fact that despite his assertion that the charges against him in Sweden are arbitrary due to strange Swedish law and the UK courts concluded that what he did was a crime in the UK, I will go with that he probably thinks he has no chance in hell of making that claim stick.
Just because you're wanted in another country doesn't mean you can evade justice from not one but two other countries, both of which agreed you committed a crime. Remember no charges have been laid on him by the USA, and the opinion that they may should not mean he is automatically beyond the power of the courts.
and both countries have flat refused to make this guarantee
And both countries are unlikely to be allowed to do so given international agreements with the USA, not without negatively impacting diplomatic relations in the process.
Assange is only wanted for avoiding prosecution for an alleged crime for which the charges have been withdrawn.
No he's not. He's wanted for breaching bail conditions which is a crime in its own right. For a long time he was wanted for 2 charges, only one of those have been withdrawn. Having charges of the initial crime dropped doesn't make every subsequent crime just go away.
How it is just to punish someone for skipping bail when the charges have been withdrawn?
Because they are two distinctly different crimes perpetrated against two distinctly different people.
If the charges were legitimate, why did the prosecutors pass up multiple opportunities to question him?
The didn't. They have been trying to interview him under the normal Swedish protocol for fear that whatever Assange was offering was a worthless facade that served only to be gobbled up by his fans.
And guess what, they were right. When they eventually conceded to interview him in 2016, Assange dicked them around with lawyers not being available, then the embassy insisted that an Equadorian prosecutor will ask only a set of prepared questions and that the Swedish prosecutor wasn't allowed to talk while "questioning" him, effectively turning the entire farce into nothing more than a statement which the prosecutor was pissed about.
But hey it made for good headlines. I especially like that formal bit about him being available and doing everything Sweden has asked of him since 2010, to say nothing of the fact that he was extradited to the very people who he apparently was complying with only to run off and hide in an embassy. I'm he's almost invoking Trump level of bullshit every time he makes a statement.
You're still describing an economic construct which would most definitely NOT be helped by handing the major monopolies more power to keep screwing you.
What I said was that the headline was bullshit.
And you're still talking out of your arse, and on behalf of the headline which matches the summary of the story quite well, fuck you some more.
Cool story bro. The NOAA and CSIRO, two science organisations that study this disagree with you.
Factories are full of stuff that can kill people, and preventing them from killing people has nothing to do with controlling them, and everything to do with independent safety mechanisms.
Any modern plant maintained to any HSE or OSHA minimum standards would allow the control system to do whatever the hell it wants without blowing something up or killing anyone.
Sure there's a shutdown risk, but the major risks should be controlled in a way independent of something someone at a console could do.
which indicates that there are southern beaches which are cooler
You know how big the great barrier reef is right? Is it okay to completely wipe out a population just because another population 1000km across the globe is still okay?
Also you do realise that this is just data points in a trend right, and that climate change shows no sign of even slowing down let alone holding steady? Congratulation. Your head in the sand approach because the turtles are okay today has just condemned them in the future.
IOW, your headline is FUD. Slashdot as usual.
On behalf of Slashdot and the headline, fuck you.
Diplomatic immunity status shouldn't be able to be granted after a crime has been committed.
Diplomatic immunity is just as you said: "granted". Whether it should or shouldn't, or whether the government simply arrests them after it has been granted is entirely up to country granting it.
You can be an ambassador if you want. Granting diplomatic status to an ambassador is still up to the other country. They could kick out the resulting Ecuadorian ambassador, but they could also arrest him. The only thing that will prevent this is a desire not to increase diplomatic tensions between countries.
There should always be hysteria against all changes by a government department that give handouts to incumbents regardless of how big the handout is, or what it is for.
This is a another point in a very shitty trend.
No driving from city to city and changing to smaller more expensive networks.
What are you talking about? This is a problem happily solved on the device end which needs to be able to work across a wide variety of suppliers regardless of who buys the spectrum.
My phone not only works in the USA, but works in the rest of the world as well without any concerns. Fees and rates are an economic construct nothing more.