If it's a missile test, it would have been announced beforehand to anyone who cares to listen.
Ahh but was it? As far as I could tell this came as somewhat of a surprise. And even if it was, and even if the intended destination was announced, NK's missiles do not have a reputation of reliably getting all the way to their target. Many seem to fall out of the sky early.
If it's a real attack, then there's no point telling people to put out fires started by the missile.
Of course there is. Context of what happens in a disaster is important to an emergency response. Was that explosion right now a terrorist attack with local threats still present, or was it a one off ordinance where we can go in and provide aid and mittigate further damage straight away? Maybe it was a gas explosion and therefore people shouldn't go into the area. There's a lot that can change with a bit of context.
I suspect there's a political reason they're doing this
Yes there is. An emergency alert system that doesn't announce an emergency due to someone in the government deciding it shouldn't definitely would have political consequences if an incident happened.
Not much-hated by the people who buy Intel CPUs by the train-load.
Yes this. Perspective matters. Intel powers the worlds PCs the number of people who actually give a shit about this can be stored in a 16bit integer. The number of people calling it a secret backdoor in an 8bit integer.
Best of all is the overlap between the number of people in the 16bit integer category and those who go out and buy workstation motherboards especially so they get features like the ones Intel ME provide. But somehow Intel is super evil while American Megatrends and the like are not.
Then there's those people who buy AMD and think they are immune because they don't understand the PSP has the same capabilities as the ME and then move the goalposts around by saying that no one has "proven" that PSP has a backdoor, but not applying the same criteria to Intel.
No. Slashdot predates the term 'social media' by a decade
Facebook predates the term 'social media' by many years too. If you go by definitions you'll find the first few movers will predate all definitions of the industries they defined.
After all, if you declare on your tax return that your annual income is $30,000 and your Facebook page is full of pictures of you taking vacations in Hawaii, Fiji, Bermuda, etc., as well as photos taken from your first class seat in the airplane, then they have good reason to audit you
You just described my girlfriend. She's a teacher who gets paid fuck all. We go on vacation a lot (it's actually really cheap typically $100 for airfares and $100 accommodation for a week) but most of our photos are from the beach or famous landmarks so you don't realise that we're slumming it in a hostel. Oh and we've been upgraded to business twice and to first class once.
They can come audit away. They'll likely be disappointed though.
Fun fact I actually know someone who's job used to be editor in the porn industry. Part of the job was checking what the competition are doing and his Brazzers subscription was definitely a deductible business expense.:-)
Personally resolution is not interesting, but I can't wait for my TV to die so I can buy a lovely OLED or QLED display with its incredible colour and dynamic range.
That is still something that makes me go "wow" when I walk through an electronics shop.
and we have better ways to spend money than to upgrade for only an incremental benefit.
The wonders of technology are that you won't need to. When your old TV dies and 4K is standard you're at no real loss. Incremental improvements may be a reason for not upgrading, but it's never a reason to not develop technology.
I find videos horribly inefficient at relaying information.
That depends entirely on the information. A picture says a 1000 words. Sometimes you need the words so it's absolutely clear. Sometimes you need the picture for the information density that no words can match.
Check your humor detector - I think it may be malfunctioning.
Sorry it's hard to separate your post as humours from all the ones that are just plain wrong. Send me a smiley next time. Or if you're feeling 15, a hashtag. #millenialsdoitbetter
I'm interested in your thoughts. When you have a product with close to zero profit margin and your competing against other vendors with deep pockets when negotiating with suppliers what do you do?
a) attempt to outbid and sell the unit at a loss. b) don't sacrifice your profit, create scarcity which in turn has some very positive marketing effects and drives sales even harder.
If they screwed up in your eyes, then you're not thinking.
Its not like they could be having hardware yield issues. It's been ages since Nintendo's hardware was anywhere near cutting edge.
That is precisely THE problem with their hardware yield. They aren't top of the line, they are off the shelf. That means that they compete with other companies using off the shelf parts and the Switch shares hardware components with many popular mobile devices. Also the problem of Apple's influence on the market. The launch shortages on the Switch were entirely the fault of being unable to source the displays as the company which produced them previously supported Apple basically went bankrupt when Apple switched to OLED. Then Toshiba were unable to supply NAND chips, and the company producing the force feedback shakers were unable to do that either.
The problem here is that the Switch is a game console sold on a very limited profit margin. They can't outbid vendors of overpriced smartphones for parts.
The NES Classic especially was just a bog-standard ARM with an emulator tacked on... the sort of kit that could easily be sourced by the hundred million from China. So there's no excuse for a production constraint.
The NES Classic was intentional supply restriction. They wanted it to be a "limited edition" device from the get go. There was an entirely different strategy and purpose behind this console and the Switch, which is also why they stopped producing it when they launched the Switch. They were only using it to tease fans.
The shortages are very regional. They were gathering dust on the shelf in Australia at the time every supplier gave us a 4 month lead time in Europe. No doubt this is the same thing that is happening in Japan.
I was in Bestbuy the other day and saw 12 in a case and 9 in Target. I'm seeing them on shelves now so can't say its a supply issue unless people don't want it.. Just my 2 cents.
Yes because Bestbuy and Japan are totally the same thing. Meanwhile they were available on the shelf in Australia while there were Europe wide shortages which caused us to have to wait 4 months before we got our hands on a unit.
I own an iPhone, and I like it, but it would be nice if Apple could try to reduce costs instead of increasing them, for once. I'm getting a little tired of phone manufacturers setting prices that are equivelant to that of a mid-end laptop.
Given what the iPhone is capable of and what is actually packed into it, why wouldn't it be priced the way it is? If you want a crappier device buy a crappier device. There are many on the market to choose from.
We have received a very limited number of complaints
Well then maybe all the people attending the actual event should sue then for the unjust delay to the fight caused by streaming issues, if they were actually so limited.
Perhaps he should say "this aspect of Slashdot isn't going to change".
Then he'd still be wrong. There are countless stories where the TFA is in imperial yet TFS has converted to metric. Hell we frequently pick on the fact that the conversions were done wrong.
Also I take issue with you saying this is an "American" readership. There is far more "universal nerd" in the readership than there is "general American" and many fields even in America use metric as a standard.
And, yes, this post is the result of an hour-long tumble into a wiki-hole which started with a desire to find the history of the difference between US and UK gallons.]
We once argued about how long a foot was here in the Netherlands only to find that each city had historically it's own different definition of foot. That of course then lead to the question of which city to buy a boat in, because you know... for some reason boats resist the temptation to be measured metrically even in metric countries:-)
Sometimes I wonder if we should just reboot the world to clear out the many centuries of "updates":-)
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What's the point of scaring everyone with this?
What's the point of an alert system?
If it's a missile test, it would have been announced beforehand to anyone who cares to listen.
Ahh but was it? As far as I could tell this came as somewhat of a surprise. And even if it was, and even if the intended destination was announced, NK's missiles do not have a reputation of reliably getting all the way to their target. Many seem to fall out of the sky early.
If it's a real attack, then there's no point telling people to put out fires started by the missile.
Of course there is. Context of what happens in a disaster is important to an emergency response. Was that explosion right now a terrorist attack with local threats still present, or was it a one off ordinance where we can go in and provide aid and mittigate further damage straight away? Maybe it was a gas explosion and therefore people shouldn't go into the area. There's a lot that can change with a bit of context.
I suspect there's a political reason they're doing this
Yes there is. An emergency alert system that doesn't announce an emergency due to someone in the government deciding it shouldn't definitely would have political consequences if an incident happened.
who does it voluntarily.
I know some people love their jobs, and it's their dream career. But no one is a pizza delivery driver voluntarily.
Not much-hated by the people who buy Intel CPUs by the train-load.
Yes this. Perspective matters. Intel powers the worlds PCs the number of people who actually give a shit about this can be stored in a 16bit integer. The number of people calling it a secret backdoor in an 8bit integer.
Best of all is the overlap between the number of people in the 16bit integer category and those who go out and buy workstation motherboards especially so they get features like the ones Intel ME provide. But somehow Intel is super evil while American Megatrends and the like are not.
Then there's those people who buy AMD and think they are immune because they don't understand the PSP has the same capabilities as the ME and then move the goalposts around by saying that no one has "proven" that PSP has a backdoor, but not applying the same criteria to Intel.
No. Slashdot predates the term 'social media' by a decade
Facebook predates the term 'social media' by many years too. If you go by definitions you'll find the first few movers will predate all definitions of the industries they defined.
After all, if you declare on your tax return that your annual income is $30,000 and your Facebook page is full of pictures of you taking vacations in Hawaii, Fiji, Bermuda, etc., as well as photos taken from your first class seat in the airplane, then they have good reason to audit you
You just described my girlfriend. She's a teacher who gets paid fuck all. We go on vacation a lot (it's actually really cheap typically $100 for airfares and $100 accommodation for a week) but most of our photos are from the beach or famous landmarks so you don't realise that we're slumming it in a hostel. Oh and we've been upgraded to business twice and to first class once.
They can come audit away. They'll likely be disappointed though.
Fun fact I actually know someone who's job used to be editor in the porn industry. Part of the job was checking what the competition are doing and his Brazzers subscription was definitely a deductible business expense. :-)
Personally resolution is not interesting, but I can't wait for my TV to die so I can buy a lovely OLED or QLED display with its incredible colour and dynamic range.
That is still something that makes me go "wow" when I walk through an electronics shop.
HGST has come a long way since the Deathstar days.
From your own link HGST never manufactured a "Deathstar". That was entirely IBM's doing.
and we have better ways to spend money than to upgrade for only an incremental benefit.
The wonders of technology are that you won't need to. When your old TV dies and 4K is standard you're at no real loss. Incremental improvements may be a reason for not upgrading, but it's never a reason to not develop technology.
More and more people are ignoring your bullshit videos
There must be some kind of fine art for saying the exact opposite of the summary and then getting modded up for it. Kudos to you.
I find videos horribly inefficient at relaying information.
That depends entirely on the information. A picture says a 1000 words. Sometimes you need the words so it's absolutely clear. Sometimes you need the picture for the information density that no words can match.
Microsoft has been good at Embracing but in the past 5 years have been completely inept at Extend or Extinguish. You give them too much credit.
You may want to re-read my post, focus on the first sentence of my last paragraph.
Check your humor detector - I think it may be malfunctioning.
Sorry it's hard to separate your post as humours from all the ones that are just plain wrong. Send me a smiley next time. Or if you're feeling 15, a hashtag.
#millenialsdoitbetter
That was such a breathtakingly stupid decision she honestly deserves to lose her job because of it.
That depends on the cost.
A man that started a world war that killed over 50 million people.
Hitler became Chancellor 6 years before he started a war. Given Trump's foreign diplomacy skills he may well outdo him.
I'm interested in your thoughts. When you have a product with close to zero profit margin and your competing against other vendors with deep pockets when negotiating with suppliers what do you do?
a) attempt to outbid and sell the unit at a loss.
b) don't sacrifice your profit, create scarcity which in turn has some very positive marketing effects and drives sales even harder.
If they screwed up in your eyes, then you're not thinking.
Its not like they could be having hardware yield issues. It's been ages since Nintendo's hardware was anywhere near cutting edge.
That is precisely THE problem with their hardware yield. They aren't top of the line, they are off the shelf. That means that they compete with other companies using off the shelf parts and the Switch shares hardware components with many popular mobile devices. Also the problem of Apple's influence on the market. The launch shortages on the Switch were entirely the fault of being unable to source the displays as the company which produced them previously supported Apple basically went bankrupt when Apple switched to OLED. Then Toshiba were unable to supply NAND chips, and the company producing the force feedback shakers were unable to do that either.
The problem here is that the Switch is a game console sold on a very limited profit margin. They can't outbid vendors of overpriced smartphones for parts.
The NES Classic especially was just a bog-standard ARM with an emulator tacked on... the sort of kit that could easily be sourced by the hundred million from China. So there's no excuse for a production constraint.
The NES Classic was intentional supply restriction. They wanted it to be a "limited edition" device from the get go. There was an entirely different strategy and purpose behind this console and the Switch, which is also why they stopped producing it when they launched the Switch. They were only using it to tease fans.
The shortages are very regional. They were gathering dust on the shelf in Australia at the time every supplier gave us a 4 month lead time in Europe. No doubt this is the same thing that is happening in Japan.
I was in Bestbuy the other day and saw 12 in a case and 9 in Target. I'm seeing them on shelves now so can't say its a supply issue unless people don't want it.. Just my 2 cents.
Yes because Bestbuy and Japan are totally the same thing. Meanwhile they were available on the shelf in Australia while there were Europe wide shortages which caused us to have to wait 4 months before we got our hands on a unit.
I was about to write exactly what you did, but then I decided to type it into google instead:
iPhone 8 creating worldwide shortage of DRAM & NAND chips, says report
I own an iPhone, and I like it, but it would be nice if Apple could try to reduce costs instead of increasing them, for once. I'm getting a little tired of phone manufacturers setting prices that are equivelant to that of a mid-end laptop.
Given what the iPhone is capable of and what is actually packed into it, why wouldn't it be priced the way it is? If you want a crappier device buy a crappier device. There are many on the market to choose from.
We have received a very limited number of complaints
Well then maybe all the people attending the actual event should sue then for the unjust delay to the fight caused by streaming issues, if they were actually so limited.
He can't prove the problems were caused by Showtime. Most likely they were caused by his internet provider.
Yep, because the fight was totally delayed due to the streaming issues because of a bunch of end user ISPs.
Perhaps he should say "this aspect of Slashdot isn't going to change".
Then he'd still be wrong. There are countless stories where the TFA is in imperial yet TFS has converted to metric. Hell we frequently pick on the fact that the conversions were done wrong.
Also I take issue with you saying this is an "American" readership. There is far more "universal nerd" in the readership than there is "general American" and many fields even in America use metric as a standard.
And, yes, this post is the result of an hour-long tumble into a wiki-hole which started with a desire to find the history of the difference between US and UK gallons.]
We once argued about how long a foot was here in the Netherlands only to find that each city had historically it's own different definition of foot. That of course then lead to the question of which city to buy a boat in, because you know ... for some reason boats resist the temptation to be measured metrically even in metric countries :-)
Sometimes I wonder if we should just reboot the world to clear out the many centuries of "updates" :-)