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  1. Re:Imac pro better have easy open back or it's sai on Apple Announces New iMacs With Better Screens And Modern Processors; Refreshes MacBook Lineup (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I know that on the iMacs it has always been easy to add/change the RAM yourself. I've had two different models and on both it was a panel that popped out that gave access to RAM. However that doesn't guarantee that Apple will do the same with the Pro.

  2. Re:Apple downloads iOS updates without consent. on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't a new iOS update every couple of days. There's only a handful during the year so they are making it up. If you don't install a minor update a badge with a number (for the number of messages, warnings, etc) shows up over the Settings app. For the major updates iOS nags you multiple times a day to upgrade.

    There could be application updates every day but you can turn them off in the Settings.

  3. Re:Moore's law on IBM Research Alliance Has Figured Out How To Make 5nm Chips (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    But it's easier to build a faster processor than it is to retrain all of the shitty programmers writing bloated code.

  4. But 'm sure that the shift to EUV is expensive which is what it is saying.

  5. Re:Moore's law on IBM Research Alliance Has Figured Out How To Make 5nm Chips (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You can also add new things to the chip. There are plenty of things that used to be off of the main chip and on the motherboard 20 or 30 years ago. But as space became available on the chip they were moved on. This prevented the use of the bus on the motherboard and greatly sped up things. You can also add more registers, memory, and processing units (arithmetic for example).

    Everything is electrons moving around. If you can move everything closer you shorten the trip an electron has to take. Imagine if all of the city blocks where reduced by 10% with one corner anchored but you still walked the same pace. You would get where you were going faster with the same amount of energy.

  6. Re:Private group? on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like some people that were in the chat took some screen shots. The paper mentions getting ahold of some so probably some went to the Administration too. I'm sure that someone made a comment that went too far and another person decided to end things. From the article that was linked to by this one.

    In the group, students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children, according to screenshots of the chat obtained by The Crimson.

  7. Re:Why flying cars will never happen on Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes. (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    We'll also have to figure out a better energy source for them as they require a lot more to fight gravity than a normal car. We're just at the cusp of getting our cars off of fossil fuels and it would be terrible to have to go back to them for flying cars just because batteries don't yet have the storage density.

    Then there's the noise. Can you imagine being downtown with tens or hundreds a short distance away? Some company (or city) will open up an area for people to land/take off or else what's the point for a lot of people to have them? At least in my city a large proportion of them live in the suburbs and work downtown and if they still had to drive their flying car to and from downtown then there wouldn't be a point in having a flying car. Anywhere the flying cars can take off and land will be a noisy area to be in.

    Throughout the last century plus cities have been getting quieter and now with flying cars that trend will reverse. Horses were a lot noisier than cars. Their horseshoes on cobblestones were very loud and there were a lot of horses in cities before cars became popular. Cars have become quieter over time. I really like the hybrid city buses as they emit about half the noise as the non-hybrid ones. Electric cars have the option to make almost no noise at all (except some people want them to have speakers and make loud noises). It would be too bad for the air to be filled with very noisy flying cars.

  8. Re:Want to incentivize companies ... on EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think the EU Commissioner is going to go for that either.

  9. Re:Eventually they will have to... on EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And how is that going to work? You can't have a fixed rate of tax for all companies. Not all of them have a very high margin like Apple. Many companies in the retail sector work on very slim margins and try to make it up in volume. So if you set your tax rate for a company such as Apple it's going to always force retail companies into the red in a big way. But if you set it up for the retail companies then people will complain that Apple doesn't pay much tax. What about companies that don't make money but are still forced to pay taxes? And don't say that you have to pay taxes on everything you earn. You are not a company. If you keep losing money you will still be around. A company won't.

    * - By retail I'm talking about grocery type stores where margins are typically 5% or less.

  10. Re:MIT official are just trying to hide on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because you know that stepping on the brake won't stop your car in time to prevent you from going over the cliff doesn't mean you should stop and press on the accelerator instead.

    The Paris Treaty wasn't very good, especially since countries were only going to make half-hearted attempts to make the goals that weren't going to prevent us from going over 2 degrees C. But trying to reach mediocre goals is a heck of a lot better than the status quo which is a hell of a lot better than what is going on in the US where Trump and the Republicans are trying to resurrect the fossil fuels industry while at the same time kill off anything that competes with it with the exception of nuclear.

  11. They also want every email address. I have my own domain and use a unique address for every place I sign up to so I can tell who is selling my info/is hacked. Am I really supposed to remember every email address I created in the past five years when *@domain.com is valid (for whatever my real domain happens to be). Hope that they have lots of room on the form!

  12. Re:and my trip is cancelled. on Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There's so many other parts of the world other than Europe and the US. Try somewhere else. I'd recommend Canada but unfortunately since many flights to here cross US airspace we tend to follow the same bans as them.

  13. It's the person that can provide every detail without a problem that's your terrorist!

  14. Re:You get what you vote for on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just build walls to hold the water back and bill the mer-people.

  15. Re:Do people want edge to edge display? on Android Creator Andy Rubin Launches Top-of-the-line Essential Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But the Brits were practically throwing the screen doors in for free with those four used subs. How could we say no?

  16. NK's missiles seem to go in vaguely the direction of their target about 20% of the time.

    Hey, they have hit the ocean every time they have aimed for it!

  17. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with when we change the clocks, forwards or backwards. And it's right three times a day every day.

  18. Even if a program can't run on more than one core it can benefit from running on a multi-core chip because those other cores can handle processes that would cause the program running time. Now an 18 core costing almost $2k is an extreme but that doesn't mean that the technology isn't useless just because your favourite game doesn't make use of it directly.

  19. Re:What kind of arrogance is this? on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Funny, the US goes around talking like that about access to other countries markets all the time. It goes around demanding other countries have to have the same intellectual property laws and have them the same way. Other countries must allow access to American genetically modified food. But I guess it's not arrogance when the US does it, right?

  20. Re:No kidding. I love how he's "warning Trump" on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the clock is right three times a day.

  21. Never heard of the guy and never heard of his supposedly famous pronouncement.

  22. Re:Before you get too horny... on Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet it worked well. If I was going to get intimate with a woman and she smelled of crocodile dung, or any animals dung for that matter, my interest would instantly drop to zero. Therefore no chance of a child.

  23. Re:Didn't China have over population problem? on Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call forced abortions creative.

  24. Re:What about natural bee colonies ? on A Third of the Nation's Honeybee Colonies Died Last Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    The bees used in US factory farming have a terrible life. The hives start the year in the south eastern US where they are kept for the winter. They are sent on a loop across the US with stops in California for the almond pollination and Washington State for the apple pollination to end back up where they started. The hives are stacked up on the back of a tractor trailer and covered with a tarp when moved via the highway system. The bees arrive at an area and are fed a diet of one crop for a couple of weeks before being packed up and moved to the next place. It's not a healthy way to use the bees.

    The bees need a varied diet and shouldn't have the hives shipped around everywhere because it stresses the bees. But in order to have hives present on the fields year round the farmers would have to provide some other food source for the bees and that would cut into the profits. Almond, or apple, trees bloom for just a couple of weeks in the year so what does the farmer do for the other approximately 11 months? We can't continue treating nature as if it is just something for us to use without worrying about the consequences.

  25. Re:How can they charge even more? on Comcast Customer Satisfaction Drops 6% After TV Price Hikes, ACSI Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't get any of the money from ads unless they own the station doing the broadcast. The station sells time for the ads to pay for content. Some stations also get money from the cable/satellite provider which is the subscriber fees. And some stations just get the subscriber fees.

    When you get your bill from the cable/satellite company the money is a combination of subscriber fees, what it takes to bring the stations to you (plus Internet, phone, etc), and their profits.

    I hate the cable companies and haven't subscribed to cable or satellite TV for almost 15 years because a lot of what is on TV is crap, I can't choose what I want without having a ton of other channels (until very recently), the content that I do want not being available at all, and the high expense.