Much as I love seeing a diverse ecosystem of different platforms, I think telling people they're "lazy" for sticking with Windows is missing the point and doesn't mean what you think it means: it means "we" (those of us who advocate for other platforms) haven't done our job making the alternatives easy enough.
OK, then I'll up your requirement so that the situations are comparable: we can either:
- change the requirement for ID and background checks from firearm sales to firearm ownership, with you being required to supply ID and undergo a new background check every two years, or
- we can have it so you only ever have to supply ID and get a background check when you register to vote, and never need to do it again unless a need arises to re-register.
Now you have a comparable situation. I'm guessing you don't want either.
Seriously, after the last two years of "Hillary's emails" and "Here's every talking point Trump wants you talking about! Also sure, elected Republicans are beating up journalists and encouraging their supporters to beat up peaceful demonstrators, but Democrats are peacefully protesting against administration officials in Restaurants, so both sides!", you're still banging the "Media is biased against conservatives" drum?
The media is conservative. They don't like Trump, sure, but that's true of most establishment conservatives. People like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders get portrayed as left wing extremists because they're in favor of universal healthcare using single payer, which is how most of the developed world does it. The New York Times has been on a "Civility" kick now for two years, hand wringing constantly about the incivility of Democrats because they say mean things about Republicans, but treating Trump and Gianforte as outliers.
And the worst part is the fixation on Trump. They're fixating on Trump not because they're anti-conservative, but because they're conservative. Because Trump is a convenient scapegoat that takes Republicans off the hook for the things the current administration is doing. Trump isn't even in charge of the White House, there are administration officials publicly, if anonymously, admitting that they control everything he does, hide documents from him, and so on. Child separation? That was announced by John Kelly and implemented by Jeff Sessions. That wasn't Trump rubbing his hands with glee cackling "How can I own the libs today?"
Trump lets them promote the agenda, still believed by a majority of non-conservatives in the country, that the Republican party, the party of right-wing conservatism in this country, is not responsible for its more unpopular consequences.
But sure, go on believing the media is left wing. Odd that the "left wing" media doesn't actually agree with, or support, anyone in the left or their "left wing" policies.
"Provisional ballots" are a joke. They're rarely even looked at after the election, and if they are each needs to be approved by an election judge (who isn't going to allow a ballot to be counted if the voter wasn't registered, no matter how unfair the reason why they're not registered) before being counted. They're a way to shut people up at the ballot box and nothing more.
The solution to this is not telling people not to vote, it's trying to make sure as many voters are informed as possible. Otherwise you get rule by the most angry minority.
I'm in favor of mandatory (automatic) registration, of ensuring the pool of voters is as wide as practical (none of this Jim Crow era sanctions against people convicted of a crime) and I'm in two minds about whether we should have Australian style mandatory voting (you can always spoil your ballot, but you have to turn up to the election at least)
But... I'd also like to see the importance and responsibilities of the people voted for increased. It's ludicrous that my ballot paper had 20-30 things to vote on, including Florida state constitutional amendments proposing things that do not belong in a constitution, questions about keeping judges, and that's not to mention the local races. Thankfully I didn't need to vote for a dog catcher, but still.
This isn't "local democracy", it's ensuring only those most passionate about subjects control them, which isn't always for the best. My ballot should have had at most five positions this year: US Congress (Senator, Congressman), Florida State Congress (ditto), and local county commissioner. And that's it. There were, perhaps, two constitutional amendments that were legitimate, and those were the only two I've seen since I moved here (about who gets the vote, and removing a constitutional bar to lowering sentences) and perhaps if we weren't trying to shove high speed rail (I support HSR, don't get me wrong, just the constitution isn't the way to get it) and anti-off-shore drilling mandates, and mandates about casinos, and other similar BS, into the constitution perhaps these would have been resolved decades ago.
Make it simple. Make it understandable. Make it important. Give people something they can understand and they will make worthwhile choices. And let them make those choices.
No it isn't. The US doesn't automatically register anyone, you have to manually register. That's a pretty significant difference right there.
The entire US system is built around building as many hurdles to voting as possible. So you have to manually register. You frequently also need an approved form of ID. If you move house, both your voter registration and your ID become invalid. If you have no legal address, you have even more hurdles to jump - in some states this means getting an "official address" from the local sheriff, which for historical reasons many Americans are fearful of.
Your registration too is vulnerable. It can be cancelled due to any number of voter suppression techniques, from minor inconsistencies between names on registration vs, say, driver's licenses, to mail being returned when sent to a voter's address.
Finally, efforts to help voters are often illegal. One organization (which ended up the victim of a smear campaign, so I won't name it because that'll just turn people off ironically because they were fooled by this very issue) tried to mass register voters by knocking on doors, asking residents to fill in registration forms, and then delivering them to the local government. They found themselves responsible when some residents, and even some volunteers, put false information on the forms (like names of football players, people who didn't actually want to vote but, in the case of residents, wanted the door knockers to go away, or in the case of volunteers wanted to collect money from the organization for turning in enough registrations), finding it was both illegal not to turn them in, or to turn them in altered, but also illegal to turn them in with the false information. An election official in Georgia who told an elderly woman how the voting procedure worked was put on trial for helping her because, as she wasn't illiterate or disabled, the state believed she wasn't entitled to help (the election official was acquitted after 20 minutes of jury deliberation, but she had been facing 15 years in prison, and the fact the judge didn't stop the trial and nobody questioned what happened suggests her acquittal was a mild case of jury nullification)
It's nothing like what's in Europe. In Europe, registration is automatic, and you're encouraged to vote.
No, the alternative is to have a bezel, an area of the phone that you can touch without it being treated as a control signal for the device's UI. If you're holding it in a landscape orientation, then having an area you can hold to the left of the device is invaluable.
The notch isn't just taking up space, it's making the phone less usable. It's a stupid idea.
The notch was a smart choice because it allows for greater screen real-estate. It may look odd aesthetically but on Slashdot of all places, I would have thought substance was valued over style.
The notch allowed the phone to reduce in size by removing the top bezel, which we like, and removing a block of pixels in the middle of the status area, which we also want and which we generally use when viewing things full screen. It's hard to understand the mentality that it somehow allows for greater screen real estate - it doesn't, it rips out a little in the name of reducing the bezel, which in turn wasn't something anyone wanted removed.
If most people are not using it why keep it?
The only reason a poll of iUsers right now would tell you "most people are not using it" is because iUsers can't. The vast, vast, majority of Android users use the headphone jack regularly. And the vast majority of iUsers used it before Apple made their "brave decision".
It was also a poor decision for another reason, which was Apple had, and has, no sane alternative. Bluetooth's poor audio quality makes it a subpar alternative, the standards for USB - even USB-C - are still so poorly followed that there's no system followed by USB headset makers or charger makers that would allow for daisy chaining both a charger and headset from a USB port, and, well, Apple doesn't use a standard USB connector, they use a proprietary one, so there's absolutely no way manufacturers would standardize on anything for that port.
On every practical and logical level removing the headphone socket for Apple was a dumb idea. They could have done it by switching to USB C, then either adding two USB C ports, or endorsing an extended USB C connector that allowed other connectors to be plugged into it, but instead they said "Hey fuckers, you're on your own, but, hey, we do own Beats Audio so if you want we'll sell you some seriously shitty bluetooth headphones to make up for it. And you're going to buy our shit anyway because we're Apple."
This is the simplest and most reasonable answer to this problem
No, it absolutely isn't. Don't get me wrong, it's something phone makers should do, but it's not remotely a solution to the problem stated by the article, which is that battery lives are getting too short. This is the same "solution" Google execs announced to deal with the Galaxy Nexus's 8 hour (!) battery life, it was a shit idea then, and it's shit now.
The right solution is a thicker phone. Thicker phones aren't simply a good idea, they're something the market is actively demanding to the point that almost everyone buys a third party device to make their phone thicker. Why? Because thin phones break. And before anyone mentions that they bought a case for their Nokia 61xx 15 years ago, sure you did, but here's the thing: that was leather, it was designed to prevent scratches. It wasn't there because you were seriously worried the phone would flex and the screen would crack.
Phone cases today make phones thicker by design because it turns out that almost nobody wants a phone that's so thin it literally snaps the screen if it flexes in your pocket.
The problem is that phone cases rarely contain anything other than empty space. Some come with batteries, but those batteries are also space limited, they're not integrated with the battery meters in the phone themselves, and in general it's a clumsy hack.
Make. The. Phones. Thicker. Half an inch to an inch is the sweet spot. And use that space for the battery. Problem solved.
Yeah, make the battery removable, but not because you think it's a reasonable solution to "Battery never lasts a full day" to have someone carry around a space battery.
Because it shows "progress". It doesn't matter that it doesn't actually demonstrate any of the things that are critical to the project, from cheap boring to high speed automated safe skates, what matters is that he's obviously "serious" because he created a tunnel.
The cost, even at his supposed estimate of $100M/mile, is going to be prohibitive, so to a certain extent proving the technical feasibility of the project isn't going to sway critics. But he's not trying to sway critics. This is smoke and mirrors for the fans, and ammunition for anti-transit politicians, who can keep delaying building real transit using the "Musk has a solution that's just around the corner" argument. And delaying building real transit, and dealing with planning issues, helps Musk's long term game.
If you're a Nazi, then no, they're not, because "white" in this case means more than the color of your skin. Also despite the hyperbolic name, "White genocide" apparently is the White Supremacists' term for interracial sex. The logic being that if all white people have sex exclusively with non-white people, then nobody will be white any more.
Yes, it's really that stupid.
Yes, quite a few liberals have been trapped by it, because they've said things like "Yeah, I'm in favor of white genocide!" and promptly been banned from Twitter because Twitter's abuse team isn't as "in" on White Supremacist lingo as lefties who keep being subjected to it and who subsequently look up what it means.
Thanks (and thanks to the others who replied), my concern is that maybe the schism had pushed a large number of people away from KDE, hence RedHat's decision, but it sounds like that's not the case.
The last time I looked, which was a while ago (hence the question) there was quite a schism between KDE 3 and KDE 4 proponents. Did KDE4 ever reach a level it was (almost) universally adopted? Did they get forks like GNOME did (GNOME 2 -> Mate = supported GNOME 2, GNOME 3 -> Cinnamon = usable GNOME 3)?
While I was initially annoyed about the pedantry of the original poster who corrected the use of the term BIOS, I feel that your comments are... not entirely accurate?
EFI and UEFI are both a form of BIOS.
This is incorrect. EFI and UEFI and BIOS (and OpenBoot, etc) are all forms of firmware, but are only partially related. EFI and UEFI have nothing in common with BIOS except being standards for PC firmware.
BIOS is not "BIOS" unless you're on an old IBM PC.
BIOS is BIOS if it contains bootstrap code (code to load an operating system) and a set of code vectors providing a minimal HAL defined by the original CP/M operating system. It has nothing to do with the IBM PC, though the original IBM PC does have a BIOS as CP/M (specifically CP/M 86) was one of the intended operating systems, and Microsoft's MS DOS, based upon QDOS86, also used Digital Research's BIOS specification to ensure it could easily be ported to other 8086/8088 based computers at the time.
Confusingly, in the IBM architecture, only some of the BIOS is actually located in the ROM.
Compaq stole BIOS from IBM and basically revolutionized the industry. No, Compaq did NOT develop a compatible implementation in a clean room scenario. No fucking way. Yes, I know they won in court. No, I'll still never believe that load of horse shit.
Well, tough, because they did. Compaq documented everything they did and had teams of lawyers on staff to make sure of compliance, which is how they managed to end up with a BIOS that was almost completely compatible with IBM's, but contained mostly different code. If they had "stolen" it, the code would have been identical in most of their implementation. It would also have contained a BASIC interpreter because IBM's firmware included a BASIC interpreter that either loaded when you didn't have an operating system disk, or could be patched and loaded from an operating system using the 'BASICA' command.
Bear in mind we're not talking about an enormously complex piece of software. The original IBM firmware was 16K including both the BIOS and that BASIC interpreter. The BIOS component was probably less than 2K in size. Compaq's reverse engineering process wouldn't have had many different test cases needed to determine behavior under each applicable condition. People greatly overestimate the complexity of computers during the 1970s and 1980s, and while copyright infringements did occur, most supposed "They copied this" rumors are bullshit. See also: MSDOS vs CP/M (two operating systems with dissimilar file systems, dissimilar command lines, dissimilar process architectures, but sure, MS DOS must be a copy because... uh it implements a CP/M API. Consisting of, what, less than forty functions? Including "LIFT HEAD" and other things that were NOOPs by 1981?
The BIOS you have today is not IBM's BIOS, but a basic input/output system used for low level setup, hardware initialization, etc. EFI and UEFI are simply modern versions of that (that are typically fucking trash).
See above. When a computer comes with a BIOS, it generally still has that jump table to a HAL compatibility library, which is why it's able to run MS DOS (and CP/M 86 if you can find a copy.) EFI requires you load an optional extension which, essentially, contains a BIOS, EFI by itself is not a BIOS.
Will you be singing the same tune I wonder when within a year Apple has 60%+ better coverage.
Apple isn't going to have 60%+ "better coverage" in one year. It's taken them this long to reach 3.1%, and in the meantime there's absolutely no reason to believe Google isn't improving its processes too. Indeed, I suspect for Google they can throw a switch - do you think the images they currently serve are served at their highest resolution, or just at an optimal quality for use right now?
I don't think that's quite right about the latter, but yeah, I'd assume a few companies skip it if they're not really seeing any reason to believe there could be a problem.
Every company I've worked for in the last 20 years, big, small, medium, etc, has had some kind of sexual/racial harassment training session once a year. One did it online, others have staff meetings that are usually an hour long where a lawyer does a "fun" presentation. Interestingly with the sessions I was involved in for one of the companies I've worked for, the session usually ended with examples of lawsuits, where the employee who was upset about a fellow employee's harassment lost the lawsuit.
It's kinda bizarre Mashiki thinks this is a problem, for those of us who aren't assholes we recognize the need for them and occasionally are given something to think about that's new, for those that are, well, you kinda need to be reminded to not be one, that's the entire point of them.
Some people want businesses and work environments to be rotten horrible places where nobody feels comfortable except the biggest assholes. The rest of us...
It's worth nothing that the rats were exposed to radiation at a frequency of 900 megahertz, the frequency used in the second generation of cellphones that prevailed in the 90s, when the study was first conceived. For comparison, fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) phones employ much higher frequencies, which are "far less successful at penetrating the bodies of humans and rats," the NYT reports.
Frequency has nothing to do with cellphone technology generation and those frequencies are still in widespread use today. In fact, T-Mobile, which had been limited to higher frequencies since it started as a 2G service, has just spent a small fortune buying licenses for 700MHz and 600MHz spectrum (because it penetrates walls more easily and travels further distances)
The study sounds like it's not useful anyway, due to the higher rates of exposure, but this kind of nonsense doesn't belong to the summary.
The biggest would be that it's not really $89/mo + $10/mo local channels. They'll also charge you a fee per outlet in your house, a cable box rental fee, a local cable TV franchise tax, a miscellaneous maintenance fee, a month with five mondays fee, a...
I'm about 90% sure that most security vulnerabilities involved plugins, Flash being the biggest offender but also with problems in plugins that should know better like Java. And, of course, there's ActiveX, plus the ability to download.exes or MSIs and tell people they're OK honest and you should have it because it installs this awesome toolbar.
I don't recall seeing many Javascript vulnerabilities. The only serious ones I can think of are:
1. There are a few XSS vulnerabilities that have popped up from time to time. While initially the browser makers blamed the webdevs for this, they've tightened up the scope for XSS attacks to make them extremely difficult over the years.
2. One of the CPU branch-prediction bugs from last year was exploitable via JS, I forget which but IIRC it was the less severe one and was still pretty close to impossible to exploit in a real world scenario (yes, you could build a carefully constructed proof of concept where you knew exactly what browser was being used on a specific CPU on a specific version of a specific operating system with specific versions of specific shared libraries installed, but outside of that it was hard to exploit.
Ultimately any web technology can be poorly implemented in such a way that it'll lead to exploits. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to hear, even today, of a buffer overflow bug in a GIF or HTML parser. Disabling JS seems like poor security to me, it reduces the attack surface, sure, but so does disabling images, and like the latter it means most modern web pages aren't going to work properly.
You do realize, Ivan, that you just proved the GP's point right?
The GP points out that Russia's IRA is part of the current Internet craziness. Then out of nowhere, you post a rant in response that has nothing to do with the GP's points, that appears to be a cut and paste of some talking points, designed to work people up and discuss something other than Russian trolling.
Essentially if you're not a Russian troll, you're doing your damnedest to look like one. I cannot think of a worse response you could have made other than the one you did.
You don't hear it so much any more, because 1) supposedly those people are doing so much better off now, and b) even though they're doing better economically, it hasn't attenuated their xenophobic racism one bit.
I think it's more that it became a standing joke that it was a synonym for racism so incidents of blatant racism such as BBQ Becky would be described as "economic anxiety" (which was the joke but I guess you missed that I was joking, not everyone moves through the same circles I suppose)
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Much as I love seeing a diverse ecosystem of different platforms, I think telling people they're "lazy" for sticking with Windows is missing the point and doesn't mean what you think it means: it means "we" (those of us who advocate for other platforms) haven't done our job making the alternatives easy enough.
OK, then I'll up your requirement so that the situations are comparable: we can either:
- change the requirement for ID and background checks from firearm sales to firearm ownership, with you being required to supply ID and undergo a new background check every two years, or
- we can have it so you only ever have to supply ID and get a background check when you register to vote, and never need to do it again unless a need arises to re-register.
Now you have a comparable situation. I'm guessing you don't want either.
Seriously, after the last two years of "Hillary's emails" and "Here's every talking point Trump wants you talking about! Also sure, elected Republicans are beating up journalists and encouraging their supporters to beat up peaceful demonstrators, but Democrats are peacefully protesting against administration officials in Restaurants, so both sides!", you're still banging the "Media is biased against conservatives" drum?
The media is conservative. They don't like Trump, sure, but that's true of most establishment conservatives. People like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders get portrayed as left wing extremists because they're in favor of universal healthcare using single payer, which is how most of the developed world does it. The New York Times has been on a "Civility" kick now for two years, hand wringing constantly about the incivility of Democrats because they say mean things about Republicans, but treating Trump and Gianforte as outliers.
And the worst part is the fixation on Trump. They're fixating on Trump not because they're anti-conservative, but because they're conservative. Because Trump is a convenient scapegoat that takes Republicans off the hook for the things the current administration is doing. Trump isn't even in charge of the White House, there are administration officials publicly, if anonymously, admitting that they control everything he does, hide documents from him, and so on. Child separation? That was announced by John Kelly and implemented by Jeff Sessions. That wasn't Trump rubbing his hands with glee cackling "How can I own the libs today?"
Trump lets them promote the agenda, still believed by a majority of non-conservatives in the country, that the Republican party, the party of right-wing conservatism in this country, is not responsible for its more unpopular consequences.
But sure, go on believing the media is left wing. Odd that the "left wing" media doesn't actually agree with, or support, anyone in the left or their "left wing" policies.
"Provisional ballots" are a joke. They're rarely even looked at after the election, and if they are each needs to be approved by an election judge (who isn't going to allow a ballot to be counted if the voter wasn't registered, no matter how unfair the reason why they're not registered) before being counted. They're a way to shut people up at the ballot box and nothing more.
The solution to this is not telling people not to vote, it's trying to make sure as many voters are informed as possible. Otherwise you get rule by the most angry minority.
I'm in favor of mandatory (automatic) registration, of ensuring the pool of voters is as wide as practical (none of this Jim Crow era sanctions against people convicted of a crime) and I'm in two minds about whether we should have Australian style mandatory voting (you can always spoil your ballot, but you have to turn up to the election at least)
But... I'd also like to see the importance and responsibilities of the people voted for increased. It's ludicrous that my ballot paper had 20-30 things to vote on, including Florida state constitutional amendments proposing things that do not belong in a constitution, questions about keeping judges, and that's not to mention the local races. Thankfully I didn't need to vote for a dog catcher, but still.
This isn't "local democracy", it's ensuring only those most passionate about subjects control them, which isn't always for the best. My ballot should have had at most five positions this year: US Congress (Senator, Congressman), Florida State Congress (ditto), and local county commissioner. And that's it. There were, perhaps, two constitutional amendments that were legitimate, and those were the only two I've seen since I moved here (about who gets the vote, and removing a constitutional bar to lowering sentences) and perhaps if we weren't trying to shove high speed rail (I support HSR, don't get me wrong, just the constitution isn't the way to get it) and anti-off-shore drilling mandates, and mandates about casinos, and other similar BS, into the constitution perhaps these would have been resolved decades ago.
Make it simple. Make it understandable. Make it important. Give people something they can understand and they will make worthwhile choices. And let them make those choices.
No it isn't. The US doesn't automatically register anyone, you have to manually register. That's a pretty significant difference right there.
The entire US system is built around building as many hurdles to voting as possible. So you have to manually register. You frequently also need an approved form of ID. If you move house, both your voter registration and your ID become invalid. If you have no legal address, you have even more hurdles to jump - in some states this means getting an "official address" from the local sheriff, which for historical reasons many Americans are fearful of.
Your registration too is vulnerable. It can be cancelled due to any number of voter suppression techniques, from minor inconsistencies between names on registration vs, say, driver's licenses, to mail being returned when sent to a voter's address.
Finally, efforts to help voters are often illegal. One organization (which ended up the victim of a smear campaign, so I won't name it because that'll just turn people off ironically because they were fooled by this very issue) tried to mass register voters by knocking on doors, asking residents to fill in registration forms, and then delivering them to the local government. They found themselves responsible when some residents, and even some volunteers, put false information on the forms (like names of football players, people who didn't actually want to vote but, in the case of residents, wanted the door knockers to go away, or in the case of volunteers wanted to collect money from the organization for turning in enough registrations), finding it was both illegal not to turn them in, or to turn them in altered, but also illegal to turn them in with the false information. An election official in Georgia who told an elderly woman how the voting procedure worked was put on trial for helping her because, as she wasn't illiterate or disabled, the state believed she wasn't entitled to help (the election official was acquitted after 20 minutes of jury deliberation, but she had been facing 15 years in prison, and the fact the judge didn't stop the trial and nobody questioned what happened suggests her acquittal was a mild case of jury nullification)
It's nothing like what's in Europe. In Europe, registration is automatic, and you're encouraged to vote.
No, the alternative is to have a bezel, an area of the phone that you can touch without it being treated as a control signal for the device's UI. If you're holding it in a landscape orientation, then having an area you can hold to the left of the device is invaluable.
The notch isn't just taking up space, it's making the phone less usable. It's a stupid idea.
The notch allowed the phone to reduce in size by removing the top bezel, which we like, and removing a block of pixels in the middle of the status area, which we also want and which we generally use when viewing things full screen. It's hard to understand the mentality that it somehow allows for greater screen real estate - it doesn't, it rips out a little in the name of reducing the bezel, which in turn wasn't something anyone wanted removed.
The only reason a poll of iUsers right now would tell you "most people are not using it" is because iUsers can't. The vast, vast, majority of Android users use the headphone jack regularly. And the vast majority of iUsers used it before Apple made their "brave decision".
It was also a poor decision for another reason, which was Apple had, and has, no sane alternative. Bluetooth's poor audio quality makes it a subpar alternative, the standards for USB - even USB-C - are still so poorly followed that there's no system followed by USB headset makers or charger makers that would allow for daisy chaining both a charger and headset from a USB port, and, well, Apple doesn't use a standard USB connector, they use a proprietary one, so there's absolutely no way manufacturers would standardize on anything for that port.
On every practical and logical level removing the headphone socket for Apple was a dumb idea. They could have done it by switching to USB C, then either adding two USB C ports, or endorsing an extended USB C connector that allowed other connectors to be plugged into it, but instead they said "Hey fuckers, you're on your own, but, hey, we do own Beats Audio so if you want we'll sell you some seriously shitty bluetooth headphones to make up for it. And you're going to buy our shit anyway because we're Apple."
Why are you defending this?
No, it absolutely isn't. Don't get me wrong, it's something phone makers should do, but it's not remotely a solution to the problem stated by the article, which is that battery lives are getting too short. This is the same "solution" Google execs announced to deal with the Galaxy Nexus's 8 hour (!) battery life, it was a shit idea then, and it's shit now.
The right solution is a thicker phone. Thicker phones aren't simply a good idea, they're something the market is actively demanding to the point that almost everyone buys a third party device to make their phone thicker. Why? Because thin phones break. And before anyone mentions that they bought a case for their Nokia 61xx 15 years ago, sure you did, but here's the thing: that was leather, it was designed to prevent scratches. It wasn't there because you were seriously worried the phone would flex and the screen would crack.
Phone cases today make phones thicker by design because it turns out that almost nobody wants a phone that's so thin it literally snaps the screen if it flexes in your pocket.
The problem is that phone cases rarely contain anything other than empty space. Some come with batteries, but those batteries are also space limited, they're not integrated with the battery meters in the phone themselves, and in general it's a clumsy hack.
Make. The. Phones. Thicker. Half an inch to an inch is the sweet spot. And use that space for the battery. Problem solved.
Yeah, make the battery removable, but not because you think it's a reasonable solution to "Battery never lasts a full day" to have someone carry around a space battery.
Because it shows "progress". It doesn't matter that it doesn't actually demonstrate any of the things that are critical to the project, from cheap boring to high speed automated safe skates, what matters is that he's obviously "serious" because he created a tunnel.
The cost, even at his supposed estimate of $100M/mile, is going to be prohibitive, so to a certain extent proving the technical feasibility of the project isn't going to sway critics. But he's not trying to sway critics. This is smoke and mirrors for the fans, and ammunition for anti-transit politicians, who can keep delaying building real transit using the "Musk has a solution that's just around the corner" argument. And delaying building real transit, and dealing with planning issues, helps Musk's long term game.
If you're a Nazi, then no, they're not, because "white" in this case means more than the color of your skin. Also despite the hyperbolic name, "White genocide" apparently is the White Supremacists' term for interracial sex. The logic being that if all white people have sex exclusively with non-white people, then nobody will be white any more.
Yes, it's really that stupid.
Yes, quite a few liberals have been trapped by it, because they've said things like "Yeah, I'm in favor of white genocide!" and promptly been banned from Twitter because Twitter's abuse team isn't as "in" on White Supremacist lingo as lefties who keep being subjected to it and who subsequently look up what it means.
You dumped RedHat for Mandrake because 20 years later RedHat would announce plans to deprecate KDE over the next four years?
Thanks (and thanks to the others who replied), my concern is that maybe the schism had pushed a large number of people away from KDE, hence RedHat's decision, but it sounds like that's not the case.
The last time I looked, which was a while ago (hence the question) there was quite a schism between KDE 3 and KDE 4 proponents. Did KDE4 ever reach a level it was (almost) universally adopted? Did they get forks like GNOME did (GNOME 2 -> Mate = supported GNOME 2, GNOME 3 -> Cinnamon = usable GNOME 3)?
While I was initially annoyed about the pedantry of the original poster who corrected the use of the term BIOS, I feel that your comments are... not entirely accurate?
This is incorrect. EFI and UEFI and BIOS (and OpenBoot, etc) are all forms of firmware, but are only partially related. EFI and UEFI have nothing in common with BIOS except being standards for PC firmware.
BIOS is BIOS if it contains bootstrap code (code to load an operating system) and a set of code vectors providing a minimal HAL defined by the original CP/M operating system. It has nothing to do with the IBM PC, though the original IBM PC does have a BIOS as CP/M (specifically CP/M 86) was one of the intended operating systems, and Microsoft's MS DOS, based upon QDOS86, also used Digital Research's BIOS specification to ensure it could easily be ported to other 8086/8088 based computers at the time.
Confusingly, in the IBM architecture, only some of the BIOS is actually located in the ROM.
Well, tough, because they did. Compaq documented everything they did and had teams of lawyers on staff to make sure of compliance, which is how they managed to end up with a BIOS that was almost completely compatible with IBM's, but contained mostly different code. If they had "stolen" it, the code would have been identical in most of their implementation. It would also have contained a BASIC interpreter because IBM's firmware included a BASIC interpreter that either loaded when you didn't have an operating system disk, or could be patched and loaded from an operating system using the 'BASICA' command.
Bear in mind we're not talking about an enormously complex piece of software. The original IBM firmware was 16K including both the BIOS and that BASIC interpreter. The BIOS component was probably less than 2K in size. Compaq's reverse engineering process wouldn't have had many different test cases needed to determine behavior under each applicable condition. People greatly overestimate the complexity of computers during the 1970s and 1980s, and while copyright infringements did occur, most supposed "They copied this" rumors are bullshit. See also: MSDOS vs CP/M (two operating systems with dissimilar file systems, dissimilar command lines, dissimilar process architectures, but sure, MS DOS must be a copy because... uh it implements a CP/M API. Consisting of, what, less than forty functions? Including "LIFT HEAD" and other things that were NOOPs by 1981?
See above. When a computer comes with a BIOS, it generally still has that jump table to a HAL compatibility library, which is why it's able to run MS DOS (and CP/M 86 if you can find a copy.) EFI requires you load an optional extension which, essentially, contains a BIOS, EFI by itself is not a BIOS.
Source: I was there. Get off my lawn etc.
Apple isn't going to have 60%+ "better coverage" in one year. It's taken them this long to reach 3.1%, and in the meantime there's absolutely no reason to believe Google isn't improving its processes too. Indeed, I suspect for Google they can throw a switch - do you think the images they currently serve are served at their highest resolution, or just at an optimal quality for use right now?
You could, but you'd miss out 96.9% of the grassiest highways by not using Google, if I understand the summary correctly ;-)
And because your sister got married yesterday, she'll have two more husbands by tomorrow.
I don't think that's quite right about the latter, but yeah, I'd assume a few companies skip it if they're not really seeing any reason to believe there could be a problem.
Every company I've worked for in the last 20 years, big, small, medium, etc, has had some kind of sexual/racial harassment training session once a year. One did it online, others have staff meetings that are usually an hour long where a lawyer does a "fun" presentation. Interestingly with the sessions I was involved in for one of the companies I've worked for, the session usually ended with examples of lawsuits, where the employee who was upset about a fellow employee's harassment lost the lawsuit.
It's kinda bizarre Mashiki thinks this is a problem, for those of us who aren't assholes we recognize the need for them and occasionally are given something to think about that's new, for those that are, well, you kinda need to be reminded to not be one, that's the entire point of them.
Some people want businesses and work environments to be rotten horrible places where nobody feels comfortable except the biggest assholes. The rest of us...
Frequency has nothing to do with cellphone technology generation and those frequencies are still in widespread use today. In fact, T-Mobile, which had been limited to higher frequencies since it started as a 2G service, has just spent a small fortune buying licenses for 700MHz and 600MHz spectrum (because it penetrates walls more easily and travels further distances)
The study sounds like it's not useful anyway, due to the higher rates of exposure, but this kind of nonsense doesn't belong to the summary.
The biggest would be that it's not really $89/mo + $10/mo local channels. They'll also charge you a fee per outlet in your house, a cable box rental fee, a local cable TV franchise tax, a miscellaneous maintenance fee, a month with five mondays fee, a...
I'm about 90% sure that most security vulnerabilities involved plugins, Flash being the biggest offender but also with problems in plugins that should know better like Java. And, of course, there's ActiveX, plus the ability to download .exes or MSIs and tell people they're OK honest and you should have it because it installs this awesome toolbar.
I don't recall seeing many Javascript vulnerabilities. The only serious ones I can think of are:
1. There are a few XSS vulnerabilities that have popped up from time to time. While initially the browser makers blamed the webdevs for this, they've tightened up the scope for XSS attacks to make them extremely difficult over the years.
2. One of the CPU branch-prediction bugs from last year was exploitable via JS, I forget which but IIRC it was the less severe one and was still pretty close to impossible to exploit in a real world scenario (yes, you could build a carefully constructed proof of concept where you knew exactly what browser was being used on a specific CPU on a specific version of a specific operating system with specific versions of specific shared libraries installed, but outside of that it was hard to exploit.
Ultimately any web technology can be poorly implemented in such a way that it'll lead to exploits. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to hear, even today, of a buffer overflow bug in a GIF or HTML parser. Disabling JS seems like poor security to me, it reduces the attack surface, sure, but so does disabling images, and like the latter it means most modern web pages aren't going to work properly.
You do realize, Ivan, that you just proved the GP's point right?
The GP points out that Russia's IRA is part of the current Internet craziness. Then out of nowhere, you post a rant in response that has nothing to do with the GP's points, that appears to be a cut and paste of some talking points, designed to work people up and discuss something other than Russian trolling.
Essentially if you're not a Russian troll, you're doing your damnedest to look like one. I cannot think of a worse response you could have made other than the one you did.
I went as a Quinoa munching hippy/cuck Antifa supersoldier. It scared pretty much everyone here in redneck Florida...
I think it's more that it became a standing joke that it was a synonym for racism so incidents of blatant racism such as BBQ Becky would be described as "economic anxiety" (which was the joke but I guess you missed that I was joking, not everyone moves through the same circles I suppose)