What moron said that "data is the new oil", and can we please name and shame him?
Sure, but it has been said by economists over the world and Slashdot reply boxes have a character limit so we won't.
The comparison has been struck in the value of something that many people don't want to touch or don't want to process. Companies doing nothing but trading and mining data like Facebook are worth more than some oil and gas companies e.g. ConocoPhillips.
So sure, shame them rather than understand what they are saying. That will really help.
If by robbed blind you mean you get something for free in return for giving up something you yourself are unable to monetise then sure, you're being robbed.
A) The iPhone X doesn't launch until November, so we can safely rule the iPhone X out as a factor.
B) Animoji is an iPhone X feature, so we can safely rule Animoji out as a factor.
C) FaceID is an iPhone X feature, so we can safely rule FaceID out as a factor.
D) FaceID does not rely on the "notorious battery sucker" camera (it relies on an IR sensor like the Kinect's), so we can rule the camera out as a factor.
E) The A11 SoC is not available on any iOS 10 device. Given that Wandera claims to have measured "the same device" draining in different versions of the OS, we can conclude that they didn't measure any A11 devices, so we can safely rule the A11 out as a factor.
Actually you can't rule out any of those features as a factor. The absence of hardware does not imply the absence of code supporting that hardware. If anything the absence of that hardware is likely to support edge cases that code wasn't checked against and likely to cause bugs.
Microsoft did this in the power management of the Surface Pro firmware. The Pro 3 keyboard had some dedicated power management routines that ran on wake. When the Surface Pro 4 keyboard was attached that same firmware didn't handle the fact that the keyboard didn't respond and locked up for ~10seconds, until the routine failed and fell back to the login screen (which then activated every time even when set to not ask for a password).
I also remember an old linux kernel routinely panicking on my raid controller. The culprit, a feature added for a newer model of the raid controller not present on mine.
The absence of hardware doesn't vindicate a software bug.
How is that a problem? Each OS isn't completely customised to the device. Heck the fact that it is happening on non-iPhone X devices which don't have the hardware to support FaceID could actually be the cause of buggy code chewing up battery.
I'm not saying it is or it isn't, just that this claim isn't proof one way or the other.
The answer must be no then. Water fountains don't need looking for. They are just there all over in public places.
Irrelevant. I rarely go to bars
So the ability to get free water is irrelevant because you don't go and get the free water, and that is irrelevant in a discussion of going to a shop to get bottled water? This is one of the most perplexing statements I have seen on Slashdot.
I don't know why you think that it is the city's responsibility to provide water everywhere people might me.
I didn't say it was. It's just what most cities I've been in seem to do. I mean it makes sense given that the infrastructure is essentially free in the grand scheme of things and so is the resource. The city and the government actually don't have responsibility to do jack shit. They just do it because it makes sense.
I do know, I am not going to leave the event I am at, which I usually pay to get into
Okay like WTF? You have paid events that aren't legally required to offer free water? I remember a music festival I went to getting a fine for being in breach of their event license because the free water was deemed too warm to drink.
I'm not suggesting you leave your event, go anywhere, search for anything. I'm just in awe that you live in a place where free water isn't... basically everywhere.
Sorry but there's more "government" than that thing you call the current democracy. Government is a generic term. Just because it's not the current form of government doesn't mean it wasn't done through a form of government.
The Constitution was written to define the limits of the new goverment's rights against the people, not the other way around.
Yeah, by who? Did several 10s of millions of you gather in a room to decide on the wording?
In America, the PEOPLE tell the GOVERNMENT what RIGHTS the GOVERNMENT has
LOL. Like REALLY!
Also if it weren't so laughable in light of all that your government has done for you in the past 15 years it would still be wrong. You hold no power. Even with all your guns collectively you neither stand up to the government, nor would you be capable of doing so given the modern war machine you created.
You can wave your pieces of paper around all you want. The sole reason it has value is because those who have power over you are happy with the status quo and prefer not to drop the country into anarchy.
Errrr no. Skype is still Skype. The thing in Office 365 is Lync, with a name and a logo change. (even then only partial, it still is listed as lync.exe on my system)
If I were a buisness that used Skype, I'd be pissed off and probably change to Slack
If I were a business that used Skype, I'd wait and see and assess what it means, before jumping the gate and racing off in some unknown direction powered entirely by my own lack of information.
the right to free speech wasn't granted to us by government
The U.S. Constitution was designed to tell the *Government* what it can and cannot do.
Who designed it? Did you write it for yourself to give you rights over someone more powerful than you? Or more likely did your ancestors pool their collectively lobbying power of their state governments, and appoint someone to speak on their behalf to place limits on congress? You can put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig. Your rights were granted to you by a government of the day, just because that government was more powerful than another government doesn't make you any less governed.
Repeat after me: You have zero rights other than those more powerful than you grant you. Hiding behind a piece of paper has never stopped a dictator, a civil war, or any other person or group in position of power.
Microsoft didn't 'embrace and extended' systemd into Debian, ruining Debian's reliability.
Neither did anyone else.
Microsoft didn't 'embrace and extend' PulseAudio into existence, breaking the audio for so many Linux installations.
Neither did anyone else.
You seem to be confusing breaking and reliability with things finally fucking working. If you want to run your OS by bashing your head against the screen in frustration because the simple act of plugging a headset in just made your wonderfully complicated ALSA configuration break then be my guest.
Both of the things you mention finally make Linux usable, and for all my experiences I have so far experienced 100% reliability out of both. Sucks to be you if you had problems with them, but then I'm inclined to believe they are probably PEBCAK errors.
the ads would not have been as effective as the abuse of including spyware
Err no. $1bn buys you the eyeballs of the world. The vast majority of Windows 10 users on the other hand don't know the extent of the spying or don't give a shit. Just because it's in the tech news doesn't mean people in general know or care.
Algonquin College in Ottawa Ontario. They farmed out a simple system of keeping track of tests and students to an east indian firm called 'blackboard'.
By east indian are you talking about the product Blackboard, from the Washington (USA) based company Blackboard Inc. which was sold to a USA based and own equity group? Is that native american indians you speak of?
I'm grasping for a reason why.
Why do people deploy Oracle or SAP? Blackboard is a product used by education institutions around the entire world including 75% of USA based colleges. There's sense in standardisation and not trying to re-invent a wheel.
Like SAP the adoption is often difficult. Like SAP once it's running you wonder how you did without it.
We could have done that task and been enriched for it, both materially and in our skill set and experience.
You think you can. Mind you if you are actually able or producing a comparable product then there are many wheelbarrows of money waiting in your future so you have no reason not to drop what you're doing right now and start down this line. More likely though you didn't understand the scope, requirements, or the benefit of having a complete and fully integrated learning management system as opposed to... what did you call it: "keeping track of tests and students". Yes someone didn't read the functional requirement specification.
The hell have you been smoking? CSIRO has, is and for the forseeable future will be a research organisation primarily designed for efficient industry which in Australia means better agriculture.
The AUSSATs were launched by the Americans and the French. FedSat was put in space by the Japanese.
The CSIRO isn't being disbanded in the slightest, it is merely cutting 1% of its workforce in divisions of mineral research, and was asked to reduce focus on climate research, but not on solutions to climate change.
Hence our 'new' agencies
Did someone research a more potent grass for you to smoke before posting?
80% pro-independence (even though fair polls show more like 40%)
To be clear, are you saying that the referendum was rigged, or are you just cherry picking data you like and calling it "fair". Because if the referendum wasn't rigged you have some huge gonads to claim some other polls as more legitimate.
you guys (as in the vehemently pro-independence crowd)
Actually I couldn't give a shit about Spain or the independence, it's on the other side of the world. However you cherry pick your stats to suit your narrative. Catalonia has a a nice modern history of wanting to secede including pro independence parties winning every election, and an 81% vote for yes-yes independence in the 2014 vote on the issue.
just delegitimize yourselves by going down to Trump's "biggest inauguration crowd"
Another thing I don't give a shit about because it's also on the other side of the world. Though at least this one provides comedy. But thanks for arbitrarily labelling me with association to people you don't like just because I said something you disagree with.
You can use glider generators to construct a NAND gate, and then use NAND gates to construct any logic circuit, including a CPU.
You should read the stack exchange post. They go through all of that including wires, delays, muxes, ROMs, latches, with those you then make RAM, ALUs, and finished with an entire RISC processor.
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If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.
Said by people without a basic understanding of economics or the realisation that there are ways of paying for things other than parting with cash.
What moron said that "data is the new oil", and can we please name and shame him?
Sure, but it has been said by economists over the world and Slashdot reply boxes have a character limit so we won't.
The comparison has been struck in the value of something that many people don't want to touch or don't want to process. Companies doing nothing but trading and mining data like Facebook are worth more than some oil and gas companies e.g. ConocoPhillips.
So sure, shame them rather than understand what they are saying. That will really help.
If by robbed blind you mean you get something for free in return for giving up something you yourself are unable to monetise then sure, you're being robbed.
A) The iPhone X doesn't launch until November, so we can safely rule the iPhone X out as a factor.
B) Animoji is an iPhone X feature, so we can safely rule Animoji out as a factor.
C) FaceID is an iPhone X feature, so we can safely rule FaceID out as a factor.
D) FaceID does not rely on the "notorious battery sucker" camera (it relies on an IR sensor like the Kinect's), so we can rule the camera out as a factor.
E) The A11 SoC is not available on any iOS 10 device. Given that Wandera claims to have measured "the same device" draining in different versions of the OS, we can conclude that they didn't measure any A11 devices, so we can safely rule the A11 out as a factor.
Actually you can't rule out any of those features as a factor. The absence of hardware does not imply the absence of code supporting that hardware. If anything the absence of that hardware is likely to support edge cases that code wasn't checked against and likely to cause bugs.
Microsoft did this in the power management of the Surface Pro firmware. The Pro 3 keyboard had some dedicated power management routines that ran on wake. When the Surface Pro 4 keyboard was attached that same firmware didn't handle the fact that the keyboard didn't respond and locked up for ~10seconds, until the routine failed and fell back to the login screen (which then activated every time even when set to not ask for a password).
I also remember an old linux kernel routinely panicking on my raid controller. The culprit, a feature added for a newer model of the raid controller not present on mine.
The absence of hardware doesn't vindicate a software bug.
One problem, no one has an iPhone X yet.
How is that a problem? Each OS isn't completely customised to the device. Heck the fact that it is happening on non-iPhone X devices which don't have the hardware to support FaceID could actually be the cause of buggy code chewing up battery.
I'm not saying it is or it isn't, just that this claim isn't proof one way or the other.
looking for water fountains.
The answer must be no then. Water fountains don't need looking for. They are just there all over in public places.
Irrelevant. I rarely go to bars
So the ability to get free water is irrelevant because you don't go and get the free water, and that is irrelevant in a discussion of going to a shop to get bottled water? This is one of the most perplexing statements I have seen on Slashdot.
I don't know why you think that it is the city's responsibility to provide water everywhere people might me.
I didn't say it was. It's just what most cities I've been in seem to do. I mean it makes sense given that the infrastructure is essentially free in the grand scheme of things and so is the resource. The city and the government actually don't have responsibility to do jack shit. They just do it because it makes sense.
I do know, I am not going to leave the event I am at, which I usually pay to get into
Okay like WTF? You have paid events that aren't legally required to offer free water? I remember a music festival I went to getting a fine for being in breach of their event license because the free water was deemed too warm to drink.
I'm not suggesting you leave your event, go anywhere, search for anything. I'm just in awe that you live in a place where free water isn't ... basically everywhere.
Not really, a lot of people have a sense of humour and the humility to see how stupid their statements are.
Again, the PEOPLE designed it.
Yeah sure. And how?
Sorry but there's more "government" than that thing you call the current democracy. Government is a generic term. Just because it's not the current form of government doesn't mean it wasn't done through a form of government.
The Constitution was written to define the limits of the new goverment's rights against the people, not the other way around.
Yeah, by who? Did several 10s of millions of you gather in a room to decide on the wording?
In America, the PEOPLE tell the GOVERNMENT what RIGHTS the GOVERNMENT has
LOL. Like REALLY!
Also if it weren't so laughable in light of all that your government has done for you in the past 15 years it would still be wrong. You hold no power. Even with all your guns collectively you neither stand up to the government, nor would you be capable of doing so given the modern war machine you created.
You can wave your pieces of paper around all you want. The sole reason it has value is because those who have power over you are happy with the status quo and prefer not to drop the country into anarchy.
What matters is what technically-knowledgeable people think.
The past 2 years especially has proven definitively that we don't matter at all.
Errrr no. Skype is still Skype. The thing in Office 365 is Lync, with a name and a logo change. (even then only partial, it still is listed as lync.exe on my system)
Microsoft is using its newest version of Office to leverage other applications
High time traveller. Welcome to 2017. You must have missed a lot in the past 15 years.
(Personal advice: Go back. Things made more sense then).
If I were a buisness that used Skype, I'd be pissed off and probably change to Slack
If I were a business that used Skype, I'd wait and see and assess what it means, before jumping the gate and racing off in some unknown direction powered entirely by my own lack of information.
the right to free speech wasn't granted to us by government
The U.S. Constitution was designed to tell the *Government* what it can and cannot do.
Who designed it? Did you write it for yourself to give you rights over someone more powerful than you? Or more likely did your ancestors pool their collectively lobbying power of their state governments, and appoint someone to speak on their behalf to place limits on congress? You can put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig. Your rights were granted to you by a government of the day, just because that government was more powerful than another government doesn't make you any less governed.
Repeat after me: You have zero rights other than those more powerful than you grant you. Hiding behind a piece of paper has never stopped a dictator, a civil war, or any other person or group in position of power.
Microsoft didn't 'embrace and extended' systemd into Debian, ruining Debian's reliability.
Neither did anyone else.
Microsoft didn't 'embrace and extend' PulseAudio into existence, breaking the audio for so many Linux installations.
Neither did anyone else.
You seem to be confusing breaking and reliability with things finally fucking working. If you want to run your OS by bashing your head against the screen in frustration because the simple act of plugging a headset in just made your wonderfully complicated ALSA configuration break then be my guest.
Both of the things you mention finally make Linux usable, and for all my experiences I have so far experienced 100% reliability out of both. Sucks to be you if you had problems with them, but then I'm inclined to believe they are probably PEBCAK errors.
the ads would not have been as effective as the abuse of including spyware
Err no. $1bn buys you the eyeballs of the world. The vast majority of Windows 10 users on the other hand don't know the extent of the spying or don't give a shit. Just because it's in the tech news doesn't mean people in general know or care.
Algonquin College in Ottawa Ontario. They farmed out a simple system of keeping track of tests and students to an east indian firm called 'blackboard'.
By east indian are you talking about the product Blackboard, from the Washington (USA) based company Blackboard Inc. which was sold to a USA based and own equity group? Is that native american indians you speak of?
I'm grasping for a reason why.
Why do people deploy Oracle or SAP? Blackboard is a product used by education institutions around the entire world including 75% of USA based colleges. There's sense in standardisation and not trying to re-invent a wheel.
Like SAP the adoption is often difficult. Like SAP once it's running you wonder how you did without it.
We could have done that task and been enriched for it, both materially and in our skill set and experience.
You think you can. Mind you if you are actually able or producing a comparable product then there are many wheelbarrows of money waiting in your future so you have no reason not to drop what you're doing right now and start down this line. More likely though you didn't understand the scope, requirements, or the benefit of having a complete and fully integrated learning management system as opposed to... what did you call it: "keeping track of tests and students". Yes someone didn't read the functional requirement specification.
The hell have you been smoking? CSIRO has, is and for the forseeable future will be a research organisation primarily designed for efficient industry which in Australia means better agriculture.
The AUSSATs were launched by the Americans and the French. FedSat was put in space by the Japanese.
The CSIRO isn't being disbanded in the slightest, it is merely cutting 1% of its workforce in divisions of mineral research, and was asked to reduce focus on climate research, but not on solutions to climate change.
Hence our 'new' agencies
Did someone research a more potent grass for you to smoke before posting?
Just because someone is doing something legal doesn't mean they have absolved themselves of all liability.
US soil during peace time
When was the last time the US experienced "piece time"?
Non OS code doesn't need that capability for non OS code to actually perform those actions via proxy.
80% pro-independence (even though fair polls show more like 40%)
To be clear, are you saying that the referendum was rigged, or are you just cherry picking data you like and calling it "fair". Because if the referendum wasn't rigged you have some huge gonads to claim some other polls as more legitimate.
but look how quickly it escalates
Yeah I know. Hitler's father died and a few years later world war 2. Yay extrapolation!
you guys (as in the vehemently pro-independence crowd)
Actually I couldn't give a shit about Spain or the independence, it's on the other side of the world. However you cherry pick your stats to suit your narrative. Catalonia has a a nice modern history of wanting to secede including pro independence parties winning every election, and an 81% vote for yes-yes independence in the 2014 vote on the issue.
just delegitimize yourselves by going down to Trump's "biggest inauguration crowd"
Another thing I don't give a shit about because it's also on the other side of the world. Though at least this one provides comedy. But thanks for arbitrarily labelling me with association to people you don't like just because I said something you disagree with.
Bullshit. By definition you can't secede from something that you're not already part of.
Cool story bro, what has that got to do with what I said again?
You can use glider generators to construct a NAND gate, and then use NAND gates to construct any logic circuit, including a CPU.
You should read the stack exchange post. They go through all of that including wires, delays, muxes, ROMs, latches, with those you then make RAM, ALUs, and finished with an entire RISC processor.