Apple have once been bitten by using chips that are slow and power hungry. The G5 macs were well known to run very hot, and i expect Apple are seeing the newer Intel chips in the same light. Bringing their chip design in-house allows Apple to design it's CPU's and GPU's as it see's fit, in full knowledge that if their chips become slow and hot, they can only blame themselves. And it's not like they don't have enough money to throw at the problem.
It's not the case, and never really has been. GNU/Linux is so called, because it's the GNU userland running on top of the Linux kernel. As such, GNU/Linux is itself a distribution of Linux. Just like GNU/HURD is a distribution of HURD, and PC/BSD is a distribution of FreeBSD. You can take a kernel (and potentially a userland) and bolt stuff onto it, and call it a distribution.
Would you call Debian/kFreeBSD a GNU/Linux distribution? No, because it's a GNU/FreeBSD distribution. It uses the Debian/GNU userland, but bolts it on top of a FreeBSD kernel.
Is Windows 3.1 a distribution of DOS? Yes. It uses DOS as a kernel, and bolts the Win16 userland on top. So technically you could call a Win3.1 install a Windows/DOS distribution, much like DR-DOS and GEM could be called GEM/DOS
Is Android a GNU/Linux distribution? No, because it doesn't have the GNU userland, it has the Android userland. That makes it it's own Linux distribution separate from GNU/Linux, that we could theoretically call Android/Linux.
So yes, Android is a Linux distribution, but it's not a GNU/Linux distribution.
It is a theory. Just like Gravity is a theory, evolution is a theory and General Relativity is a theory. Just because something is called a "theory" doesn't mean it's not widely accepted as truth.
The formal scientific definition of "theory" is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics)...One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed.
With a company that develops both the hardware and the software, shit like this is inexcusable. You don't see Apple iDevices suddenly stop responding to touch or gestures because of a software issue. (well... maybe nowadays, but that's only because Apple have given up making quality products)
because only 1 in 100,000 devices is returned to Microsoft. Most people just chuck it in the bin and go buy an iPad, to try and avoid the appalling customer support for Surface devices.
I think if anything, it proves it. Large quantities of greenhouse gases (sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide) are emitted with every eruption. If these gases are making ice melt when there's a volcanic eruption, it doesn't take a genius to realize the CO2 coming out the back of your car is probably going to have the same effect.
They still release a hell of a lot more code than Microsoft does. The whole kernel is open source, unlike Microsoft. In fact, that page from Apple is much more descriptive than the same one from M$... https://open.microsoft.com/
My alarm clocks were set when the iPhone 4 was new, and practically haven't changed since. They're set to repeat every weekday, why would i ever need to change it?
Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
You're assuming i use autocorrect. I find it's much easier to just know how to spell than it is to argue with a machine that think's it knows better than i do.I'm starting to despise Google nowadays too, searching for something completely different to what i put in the search box...
Resources will always be valuable, and even if a penny couldn't buy uou a spec of sawdust, the copper inside them will always be worth something. And in the case of hyperinflation, probably more than a wad of $100 bills
Windows isn't a POSIX/linux distribution and 90% of PC's run it. And given that nearly every smartphone sold without a fruity logo runs Android, i think they're doing OK without a POSIX API exposed to the userland.
it'll take some time to reengineer the site to no longer go through the checkout/charging process, but they could keep that process and lower the price to $1 (or less) within minutes, probably just a database field change.
They probably forgot the password to the database. Maybe they should try "admin", or "password".
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Apple have once been bitten by using chips that are slow and power hungry. The G5 macs were well known to run very hot, and i expect Apple are seeing the newer Intel chips in the same light. Bringing their chip design in-house allows Apple to design it's CPU's and GPU's as it see's fit, in full knowledge that if their chips become slow and hot, they can only blame themselves. And it's not like they don't have enough money to throw at the problem.
I don't know, it just doesn't have the same sort of ring as the others.
Anything called "smart" is marginally above braindead.
It's not the case, and never really has been. GNU/Linux is so called, because it's the GNU userland running on top of the Linux kernel. As such, GNU/Linux is itself a distribution of Linux. Just like GNU/HURD is a distribution of HURD, and PC/BSD is a distribution of FreeBSD. You can take a kernel (and potentially a userland) and bolt stuff onto it, and call it a distribution.
Would you call Debian/kFreeBSD a GNU/Linux distribution? No, because it's a GNU/FreeBSD distribution. It uses the Debian/GNU userland, but bolts it on top of a FreeBSD kernel.
Is Windows 3.1 a distribution of DOS? Yes. It uses DOS as a kernel, and bolts the Win16 userland on top. So technically you could call a Win3.1 install a Windows/DOS distribution, much like DR-DOS and GEM could be called GEM/DOS
Is Android a GNU/Linux distribution? No, because it doesn't have the GNU userland, it has the Android userland. That makes it it's own Linux distribution separate from GNU/Linux, that we could theoretically call Android/Linux.
So yes, Android is a Linux distribution, but it's not a GNU/Linux distribution.
Appparently not.
As taken from Wikipedia
The formal scientific definition of "theory" is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics)...One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed.
With a company that develops both the hardware and the software, shit like this is inexcusable. You don't see Apple iDevices suddenly stop responding to touch or gestures because of a software issue. (well... maybe nowadays, but that's only because Apple have given up making quality products)
because only 1 in 100,000 devices is returned to Microsoft. Most people just chuck it in the bin and go buy an iPad, to try and avoid the appalling customer support for Surface devices.
https://forums.windowscentral....
I think your getting mixed up here. X does Z, Y does Z. Z causes N. Therefore both X and Y are doing Z which causes N.
I think if anything, it proves it. Large quantities of greenhouse gases (sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide) are emitted with every eruption. If these gases are making ice melt when there's a volcanic eruption, it doesn't take a genius to realize the CO2 coming out the back of your car is probably going to have the same effect.
They still release a hell of a lot more code than Microsoft does. The whole kernel is open source, unlike Microsoft. In fact, that page from Apple is much more descriptive than the same one from M$... https://open.microsoft.com/
https://developer.apple.com/op...
My alarm clocks were set when the iPhone 4 was new, and practically haven't changed since. They're set to repeat every weekday, why would i ever need to change it?
Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
You're assuming i use autocorrect. I find it's much easier to just know how to spell than it is to argue with a machine that think's it knows better than i do.I'm starting to despise Google nowadays too, searching for something completely different to what i put in the search box...
I follow this mantra. Most of the time it's easier to just type in what you want anyway.
As a Brit, i'll get to stockpiling rocks.
I'll keep hoarding my copper pennies then tyvm
Resources will always be valuable, and even if a penny couldn't buy uou a spec of sawdust, the copper inside them will always be worth something. And in the case of hyperinflation, probably more than a wad of $100 bills
We'll be hearing from Equifax for much of the next year. Unless it gets overshadowed by something bigger and more embarrassing
Call me old fashioned, but i either use cash, Paypal or chip-and-pin. If you don't take one of those, you don't get my business.
Contactless/NFC IMHO is so easy to skim, i'd rather not have it at all.
Multinational company gets hacked. Loses millions of peoples personal details. More at 11.
Seriously, this is hardly even news any more. And that's hardly a good thing.
Name me an off-the-shelf performance ARM processor not made by the chinese
Windows isn't a POSIX/linux distribution and 90% of PC's run it. And given that nearly every smartphone sold without a fruity logo runs Android, i think they're doing OK without a POSIX API exposed to the userland.
Another BT customer?
it'll take some time to reengineer the site to no longer go through the checkout/charging process, but they could keep that process and lower the price to $1 (or less) within minutes, probably just a database field change.
They probably forgot the password to the database. Maybe they should try "admin", or "password".
Is this a slow news day or something?