I don't think it's so bad as you make it out to be. Nearly every advance in just about everything has brought about unintended negative consequences. The fact that the normal prole has picked up on this is a good thing, more people looking before they leap. That in itself may have unintended negative consequences too, but I think it's mostly good.
Both systems make different compromises. MBAir has more memory and a lot more CPU power, but that blog post doesn't really seem to acknowledge that.
The blog post you linked used some specious reasoning to show that the X1 is better at some of the comparisons. I think the X1 looks generally better, but the biases used to show that the X1 is better by a huge margin are as over the top as an Apple cheerleader's biases.
I'll take just one example here. The calculation for "pixels per inch" is completely wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how it's measured. Ppi is a linear number, it's how many pixels you need to line up to make one inch, you don't take the number of pixels on the screen and divide it by its diagonal length like that blog did. For example, a common ppi for desktops is about 100, give or take a few. Notebooks might have ppi numbers of 100, 125, 150 and a few are a bit higher than that. But there are no notebooks with ppis in the tens of thousands. I think the X1 might still be better with that, but it's best to not use a false argument to reach a conclusion, even if the conclusion ends up being the same.
Google's doing this to protect users who get to these sites on accident. I guess it's good for everyone.
I think it's good for Google's self-interest. It's nice that it helps us in the end, but let's not fool ourselves that they are doing it for our sake.
I'm really surprised that the domain registrar system has allowed this practice to go on. I think maybe they should allow a return or two, but this wholesale "tasting" helps no one but the parasites.
I think it's also bad faith to allow the registrars to sell domain inquiries to allow this kind of individual to snipe domains from interested buyers, but that does benefit the registrar too, I don't know how that can be remedied within the registrar system other than to publicize who does that.
I think Via provided a nice concept, but that's not enough. Given how people here, elsewhere, and including myself, had had a string of troubles with Via hardware over the years, I'm not interested in using their products unless there is no sufficient alternative for the given need.
I haven't been that alarmed by previous happenings in the US, I was very concerned and alarmed but not terribly so.
With this, I think this is a veiled excuse to start spying on everyone. Heck, there is a natural background radiation. I can see them setting the sensitivity high enough to signal the DHS every time there's so much as a single tick on the "geiger counter". That's a perfect nationwide tracking system.
I think this is different from diplomacy problems, or rather, ICANN is only a very tiny bit of the problem. If the US spins off ICANN to smooth over diplomatic issues, it would be just a covering of a pattern of recalcitrance on the part of US diplomacy. I think it would be an insult to the world's diplomatic community to even think that letting ICANN go is enough to make up for that.
ICANN is already an aloof organization, I don't see spinning it off to be independent is going to help.
It's the corruption of politics in impovershed areas. Markets, not so much. The various forms of socialism aren't necessarily any better than capitalism in terms of combating poverty. They both have their ills.
Then that would be a whitewash of their true intents. If there's any info to be gathered by DNS lookups, then it's not that hard to manually distribute an IP address instead.
There is a spectrum of conservatives just like there is a spectrum of liberals, even if that spectrum on the conservative side has fewer differing interest groups and not as fragmented as the liberal side in the US. At the extreme ends, there is even some wrap-around. There are people that may be fiscal (conservative/liberal) they may go other way social issues.
I think the use of "trusted" here is as in, hasn't been paid or pressured to give it an undeserved score. As in, we'll get an honest impression of what is being reviewed, rather than playing the part of a shill or glossing over problems.
The point behind optical scan is that it is quick, low cost and still auditable. Hand counting is not quick, and human error can enter into that. Hand counting with lots of observers can be pretty time consuming in terms of man-hours.
It's mocking the high end wine & beer culture, as well as probably mocking the phone geek culture too. "nutty" and "earthy" are adjectives used to describe the tastes of some alcoholic beverages.
"Matter of national security" would be nice if it wasn't used to cover up misdeads in the part of the US. At least it seems that way. Given that there's apparently very little real oversight, and it can't be challenged in courts without access to the information, the government becomes a real danger to its own citizens.
The actual information needed to make weapons, fine, I really don't want any power to have it, but how that information is used, no.
Trackpad/trackpoint is a matter of preference, they don't even function in similar regimes. No pointing device is for everyone. Sometimes I've used both within minutes of each other on my Compaq. I don't see it as one as so superior that the other shouldn't exist, I think that's a silly claim.
I agree on the flash drive, they're mostly hype with respect to weight, power and heat. Where a flash drive is beneficial is if it's dropped, the flash is more likely to stay.\
I'm not that convinced of the "wear leveling" algorithms that the drives have either, I'm not sure if the tests or algorithm reflects real-world use.
I think the idea is that the stock comes in already strapped to a pallet such that it makes it easier to find a given pallet of stock. In the warehouse, the stock isn't removed from the pallet, the pallets aren't opened until the items are already placed in the area for sale to the customer. I think it might make it a lot easier to locate misplaced pallets. It might also be that the supplier electronically sends the tag ID and a bill of lading for that tag so it reduces paperwork. It might even greatly increase the scan speed vs. bar codes.
Here, Apple is just using drives made by other companies. There's nothing special about the drives themselves.
Besides, it's another "pot kettle black" situation. If they're really worried about DVD Forum specs, then what about this non-conforming disc that they expect people to put into their drives.
SATA drives are already the equivalent to SCA, I don't think SCA was commonly done on a cable.
I can already slide a SATA drive into my computer and it plugs right into a back plane, without any cables. I also have an external hard drive enclosure whose drives automatically plug right into a backplane using the SATA power & data connector. eSATA is a little different.
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Poeple definitely shouldn't be texting while they drive. People probably shouldn't be talking while they drive either.
I don't think it's so bad as you make it out to be. Nearly every advance in just about everything has brought about unintended negative consequences. The fact that the normal prole has picked up on this is a good thing, more people looking before they leap. That in itself may have unintended negative consequences too, but I think it's mostly good.
Both systems make different compromises. MBAir has more memory and a lot more CPU power, but that blog post doesn't really seem to acknowledge that.
The blog post you linked used some specious reasoning to show that the X1 is better at some of the comparisons. I think the X1 looks generally better, but the biases used to show that the X1 is better by a huge margin are as over the top as an Apple cheerleader's biases.
I'll take just one example here. The calculation for "pixels per inch" is completely wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how it's measured. Ppi is a linear number, it's how many pixels you need to line up to make one inch, you don't take the number of pixels on the screen and divide it by its diagonal length like that blog did. For example, a common ppi for desktops is about 100, give or take a few. Notebooks might have ppi numbers of 100, 125, 150 and a few are a bit higher than that. But there are no notebooks with ppis in the tens of thousands. I think the X1 might still be better with that, but it's best to not use a false argument to reach a conclusion, even if the conclusion ends up being the same.
Google's doing this to protect users who get to these sites on accident. I guess it's good for everyone.
I think it's good for Google's self-interest. It's nice that it helps us in the end, but let's not fool ourselves that they are doing it for our sake.
I'm really surprised that the domain registrar system has allowed this practice to go on. I think maybe they should allow a return or two, but this wholesale "tasting" helps no one but the parasites.
I think it's also bad faith to allow the registrars to sell domain inquiries to allow this kind of individual to snipe domains from interested buyers, but that does benefit the registrar too, I don't know how that can be remedied within the registrar system other than to publicize who does that.
Troll? Cute. It's not as if I'm making up hardware problems re: Via chips.
I think Via provided a nice concept, but that's not enough. Given how people here, elsewhere, and including myself, had had a string of troubles with Via hardware over the years, I'm not interested in using their products unless there is no sufficient alternative for the given need.
I haven't been that alarmed by previous happenings in the US, I was very concerned and alarmed but not terribly so.
With this, I think this is a veiled excuse to start spying on everyone. Heck, there is a natural background radiation. I can see them setting the sensitivity high enough to signal the DHS every time there's so much as a single tick on the "geiger counter". That's a perfect nationwide tracking system.
I think this is different from diplomacy problems, or rather, ICANN is only a very tiny bit of the problem. If the US spins off ICANN to smooth over diplomatic issues, it would be just a covering of a pattern of recalcitrance on the part of US diplomacy. I think it would be an insult to the world's diplomatic community to even think that letting ICANN go is enough to make up for that.
ICANN is already an aloof organization, I don't see spinning it off to be independent is going to help.
If it's a US puppet, then why was the US reluctant to pay its dues?
It's the corruption of politics in impovershed areas. Markets, not so much. The various forms of socialism aren't necessarily any better than capitalism in terms of combating poverty. They both have their ills.
Then that would be a whitewash of their true intents. If there's any info to be gathered by DNS lookups, then it's not that hard to manually distribute an IP address instead.
They also only flew the first one three times. I just don't see how that's enough to fully understand how the craft operates.
There is a spectrum of conservatives just like there is a spectrum of liberals, even if that spectrum on the conservative side has fewer differing interest groups and not as fragmented as the liberal side in the US. At the extreme ends, there is even some wrap-around. There are people that may be fiscal (conservative/liberal) they may go other way social issues.
You completely missed the entire point. The mystery is why the corona is so much hotter than the layer under it.
I think the use of "trusted" here is as in, hasn't been paid or pressured to give it an undeserved score. As in, we'll get an honest impression of what is being reviewed, rather than playing the part of a shill or glossing over problems.
The point behind optical scan is that it is quick, low cost and still auditable. Hand counting is not quick, and human error can enter into that. Hand counting with lots of observers can be pretty time consuming in terms of man-hours.
It's mocking the high end wine & beer culture, as well as probably mocking the phone geek culture too. "nutty" and "earthy" are adjectives used to describe the tastes of some alcoholic beverages.
It doesn't make sense from the perspective that the Japanese customers should already be getting that kind of service if what you say is true.
"Matter of national security" would be nice if it wasn't used to cover up misdeads in the part of the US. At least it seems that way. Given that there's apparently very little real oversight, and it can't be challenged in courts without access to the information, the government becomes a real danger to its own citizens.
The actual information needed to make weapons, fine, I really don't want any power to have it, but how that information is used, no.
Trackpad/trackpoint is a matter of preference, they don't even function in similar regimes. No pointing device is for everyone. Sometimes I've used both within minutes of each other on my Compaq. I don't see it as one as so superior that the other shouldn't exist, I think that's a silly claim.
I agree on the flash drive, they're mostly hype with respect to weight, power and heat. Where a flash drive is beneficial is if it's dropped, the flash is more likely to stay.\
I'm not that convinced of the "wear leveling" algorithms that the drives have either, I'm not sure if the tests or algorithm reflects real-world use.
I think the idea is that the stock comes in already strapped to a pallet such that it makes it easier to find a given pallet of stock. In the warehouse, the stock isn't removed from the pallet, the pallets aren't opened until the items are already placed in the area for sale to the customer. I think it might make it a lot easier to locate misplaced pallets. It might also be that the supplier electronically sends the tag ID and a bill of lading for that tag so it reduces paperwork. It might even greatly increase the scan speed vs. bar codes.
Great, so now the White House can call their statements "non cooperative strategies".
Here, Apple is just using drives made by other companies. There's nothing special about the drives themselves.
Besides, it's another "pot kettle black" situation. If they're really worried about DVD Forum specs, then what about this non-conforming disc that they expect people to put into their drives.
Thankfully none of my drives have an Apple slot. Most CD/DVD drives are too short to fit an Apple slot anyway.
SATA drives are already the equivalent to SCA, I don't think SCA was commonly done on a cable.
I can already slide a SATA drive into my computer and it plugs right into a back plane, without any cables. I also have an external hard drive enclosure whose drives automatically plug right into a backplane using the SATA power & data connector. eSATA is a little different.