As they get smaller, I think we are fast approaching the point where it will be thought that a silicon atom is too big to allow for a shrink, and that semiconductor physicists will have to start looking at carbon and maybe even boron
Why not? You're assuming that there are only a few cosmic rays, when in fact, there are plenty. Cosmic rays could easily flip, say, 4 bits of a byte as well as the parity flag, thereby making that data completely useless
Actually, wouldn't cosmic rays be capable of flipping bits even in ECC memory and processors, thereby making the whole ECC thing useless? Particularly in more recent process nodes, where the lithography scale is approaching atoms, and where cosmic rays would have a far greater effect?
Probably b'cos there is nothing that manufacturers can do about cosmic rays, which are beyond even gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength and frequency.
We know that the Russians still do nuclear tests. At some point, maybe even we will. Either case, ship these to the site where the test will be done, dump all the stuff into the hole that the test will be carried out, and then do the test. That stuff will become a part of the earth's mass, never to rise again
Depending on how long you're staying, you could send your phone via courier to meet you at your destination. Of course, then you have to trust the courier company and the customs agents handling the package.
Depends on whether I'm travelling on a vacation to a place where I'm not likely to regularly communicate w/ anyone (like say, a few weeks visit to Tahiti) vs visiting friends abroad, where I would be. Either case would be different.
In the first case, I would take a blank phone, and at the country that I'm visiting, maybe rent a SIM card for the duration of the stay. Keep it w/ me, and return it when I leave. Use it only for local calls (like to the hotel or anyone I have to call while I'm there. When I leave, turn in the SIM, and leave. Mission accomplished.
In the latter case, if I'm visiting friends, I'd take that phone no doubt, but bring my US phone as well, since chances are that I'd be taking pictures and sending stuff to other people, and since I'm w/ them on WhatsApp, it would be disruptive to use this temporary phone just for that. I won't want to incur roaming, though, so what I would do is use a WhatsApp/FaceTime on WiFi to call my usual contacts, but use the temporary phone for local contacts, including my friends.
Short answer: depending on the situation, I've done both. Like I have gone abroad leaving my phone at home, but then found myself unable to participate in regular channels. On the other hand, on the occasions I have taken it, I've found myself using it so sparingly that I might as well have not taken it at all. Bottom line: since I have a blank phone, depending on the duration of my travel, I would go w/ or w/o my regular phone.
What report is there that says it's his? His own phone is/was an iPhone, and he only switched to an Android after taking office i.e. the secret service probably asked him to use that one instead
Do his aides tweet for him at all? I'd imagine that one of them probably handles @POTUS and retweets stuff from whitehouse.gov, while he himself continues to handle his personal account to discuss Mark Cuban and the dishonest media.
Trump just had a great meeting w/ Netanyahu, and you think that someone who makes snide remarks against Jews would be his propaganda minister? How does that work, when Trump is proud of his Jewish support, and Jared Kushner is about as loved by him as by Netanyahu?
He continued using that iPhone though, and got his new Android Phone from the Secret Service after he got sworn in.
However, on the main story, why is the Congressman more concerned about Trump's phone than the fact that bureaucrats in the Intelligence Agencies had been leaking Trump's calls to Mexico and Australia? There should be a campaign to purge that stuff
Uh, I deleted my yahoo account months ago, after these reports. I know that the account was deleted, b'cos I access my emails thru Thunderbird, and the day I deleted it, I couldn't access my past emails on Thunderbird: it kept prompting me for a password (which of course wouldn't exist since the account was no longer active)
In the 90s, I had a hotmail account, which I just stopped using for years, and 2 years ago, I applied to get that same email, and got it. None of my old emails were there.
Video hosting costs money. Micropayments don't work. Nobody's signing up with a million different video hosts.
The solution was, is, and always will be for the foreseeable future... advertising.
All it'll take to make it work is to find a way to extract the evil from advertising people so they stop continually escalating from 'find where potential customers are and put information in front of them for our clients' to 'skull fuck the entire public to get an extra purchase, regardless of how much trouble it causes'.
I am fine w/ advertizing. Only issue here: I watch TV on youtube live, and every few minutes, an ad pops up, and 5 seconds pass before I can skip it. Now, the channel that I watch does have commercial breaks, so if the ad has to run, then run during those breaks. It's really annoying to have an ad interrupt me while I'm watching the show. Also, if an ad starts during a commercial break, I let it run. Problem is - I've seen ads as long as 4 minutes, and I try to let it run so that it's a while before the next ad.
Yeah. I watch TV on YouTube live on the laptop, and while I'm watching a show, an ad interrupts in b/w, and 5 seconds pass before I have the option to skip it. I then have to move the slider back, setting myself back. I try to satisfy the ad deities by refreshing the page when regular ads on the TV channel start, so that the ads are overlaid and that I do not have to watch them during the show. But 5 minutes into the main show, and they're back, much to my chagrin.
I welcome the end of unskippable ads next year, but more than that, I'd like them to set things so that ads only pop up on live shows when there are ads in the main show, and not elsewhere
I have no complaints concerning the price of System76 laptops--I'm willing to pay a premium for hardware that works well with open source software. Nevertheless, there are two things that prevent me from purchasing a laptop from System76.
(1) I want to see detailed technical specifications for the laptops. For example, I may wish to install an unusual (non-Linux) operating system on the laptop, and I would like to be able to verify that the hardware will be supported by the operating system. I'm not asking System76 to verify hardware compatibility--I'm only asking that they describe their hardware in enough detail that I can verify compatibility on my own. For example, what ethernet NIC does the laptop use? What wireless card? (In contrast, Lenovo provides detailed specifications at http://psref.lenovo.com/)
(2) I want a laptop with a built-in DVD drive. Even Lenovo offers laptops with DVD drives, but System76 does not.
If you want to install a non-Linux OS (assuming that it's not a BSD either), why are you going for System 76? The only reason to go that route is if you want a Linux laptop, or maybe even a BSD. While you could wipe Ubuntu and put in a distro of your choice, I believe System 76 would only support you on Ubuntu.
If specs are important to you, then yeah, go w/ a Lenovo or an Asus. Incidentally, which OS did you wanna install?
In Linux, do you still have that? In PC-BSD, they had me create a root password, but do not create a root account that one can log in via the login manager (One can do it on CLI using sudo, but not directly). Note that I'm talking about the login manager, not if you are one of those traditional CLI warriors
I have good news for you. I have 3 phones - one of each type. One iPhone 7, which I described, and which I use for purely personal uses - family, relatives, my doctors, et al. One Moto X w/ Lollipop, which I use for anything work related. I also have a Lumia 550, which I use as a travel phone, and which is actually pretty good.
On top of that, I have 2 tablets - one iPad mini, and one Verizon Ellipsis 10. The latter, as you can guess, has Lollipop as well, but it recently gave me an update that allows me to install apps to the SD card and run them from that. The launcher is fine - I try to minimize the number of screens. When it first comes up, it has 5 active screens, which IMO are 2 many. I have 2 - one for the normal apps I use, and the other for games. On my Moto X, I just have 1 active screen, and go into the menu.
Actually, on Android, I like Lollipop, but as far as my Ellipsis goes, I would have preferred the ability to have Marshmallow or Nutmeg, so that I could redefine my 128GB SD card as the main storage, and the 16GB as secondary storage. On my Moto X, it's not an issue, since that phone doesn't have an SD card.
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As they get smaller, I think we are fast approaching the point where it will be thought that a silicon atom is too big to allow for a shrink, and that semiconductor physicists will have to start looking at carbon and maybe even boron
Why not? You're assuming that there are only a few cosmic rays, when in fact, there are plenty. Cosmic rays could easily flip, say, 4 bits of a byte as well as the parity flag, thereby making that data completely useless
Actually, wouldn't cosmic rays be capable of flipping bits even in ECC memory and processors, thereby making the whole ECC thing useless? Particularly in more recent process nodes, where the lithography scale is approaching atoms, and where cosmic rays would have a far greater effect?
Probably b'cos there is nothing that manufacturers can do about cosmic rays, which are beyond even gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength and frequency.
We know that the Russians still do nuclear tests. At some point, maybe even we will. Either case, ship these to the site where the test will be done, dump all the stuff into the hole that the test will be carried out, and then do the test. That stuff will become a part of the earth's mass, never to rise again
Yeah, that's what /. has come to. Too bad this current politburo of editors can't be fired
Depending on how long you're staying, you could send your phone via courier to meet you at your destination. Of course, then you have to trust the courier company and the customs agents handling the package.
Depends on whether I'm travelling on a vacation to a place where I'm not likely to regularly communicate w/ anyone (like say, a few weeks visit to Tahiti) vs visiting friends abroad, where I would be. Either case would be different.
In the first case, I would take a blank phone, and at the country that I'm visiting, maybe rent a SIM card for the duration of the stay. Keep it w/ me, and return it when I leave. Use it only for local calls (like to the hotel or anyone I have to call while I'm there. When I leave, turn in the SIM, and leave. Mission accomplished.
In the latter case, if I'm visiting friends, I'd take that phone no doubt, but bring my US phone as well, since chances are that I'd be taking pictures and sending stuff to other people, and since I'm w/ them on WhatsApp, it would be disruptive to use this temporary phone just for that. I won't want to incur roaming, though, so what I would do is use a WhatsApp/FaceTime on WiFi to call my usual contacts, but use the temporary phone for local contacts, including my friends.
Short answer: depending on the situation, I've done both. Like I have gone abroad leaving my phone at home, but then found myself unable to participate in regular channels. On the other hand, on the occasions I have taken it, I've found myself using it so sparingly that I might as well have not taken it at all. Bottom line: since I have a blank phone, depending on the duration of my travel, I would go w/ or w/o my regular phone.
What report is there that says it's his? His own phone is/was an iPhone, and he only switched to an Android after taking office i.e. the secret service probably asked him to use that one instead
Do his aides tweet for him at all? I'd imagine that one of them probably handles @POTUS and retweets stuff from whitehouse.gov, while he himself continues to handle his personal account to discuss Mark Cuban and the dishonest media.
Uh, it's what the Secret Service gave him, and which is within their VPN?
Trump just had a great meeting w/ Netanyahu, and you think that someone who makes snide remarks against Jews would be his propaganda minister? How does that work, when Trump is proud of his Jewish support, and Jared Kushner is about as loved by him as by Netanyahu?
He continued using that iPhone though, and got his new Android Phone from the Secret Service after he got sworn in.
However, on the main story, why is the Congressman more concerned about Trump's phone than the fact that bureaucrats in the Intelligence Agencies had been leaking Trump's calls to Mexico and Australia? There should be a campaign to purge that stuff
I think he's just bitter that the robots typically run BSD or one of those microkernel OSs like QNX, and not Windows 10
Question is - for the pre-4G stuff - like when one is travelling in areas that don't have 4G, which standard will the phones follow - CDMA or GSM?
You mean you can still log into it? My thing disappeared the day I deleted it - I could no longer log in
almost like people should be responsible for updating their own contact information! Nah thats crazy talk...
This! Most of the postal mail that I get are addressed to former tenants. Including some from the DMV.
Uh, I deleted my yahoo account months ago, after these reports. I know that the account was deleted, b'cos I access my emails thru Thunderbird, and the day I deleted it, I couldn't access my past emails on Thunderbird: it kept prompting me for a password (which of course wouldn't exist since the account was no longer active)
In the 90s, I had a hotmail account, which I just stopped using for years, and 2 years ago, I applied to get that same email, and got it. None of my old emails were there.
Video hosting costs money. Micropayments don't work. Nobody's signing up with a million different video hosts.
The solution was, is, and always will be for the foreseeable future... advertising.
All it'll take to make it work is to find a way to extract the evil from advertising people so they stop continually escalating from 'find where potential customers are and put information in front of them for our clients' to 'skull fuck the entire public to get an extra purchase, regardless of how much trouble it causes'.
I am fine w/ advertizing. Only issue here: I watch TV on youtube live, and every few minutes, an ad pops up, and 5 seconds pass before I can skip it. Now, the channel that I watch does have commercial breaks, so if the ad has to run, then run during those breaks. It's really annoying to have an ad interrupt me while I'm watching the show. Also, if an ad starts during a commercial break, I let it run. Problem is - I've seen ads as long as 4 minutes, and I try to let it run so that it's a while before the next ad.
Wait, there are adverts on youtube?
Yeah. I watch TV on YouTube live on the laptop, and while I'm watching a show, an ad interrupts in b/w, and 5 seconds pass before I have the option to skip it. I then have to move the slider back, setting myself back. I try to satisfy the ad deities by refreshing the page when regular ads on the TV channel start, so that the ads are overlaid and that I do not have to watch them during the show. But 5 minutes into the main show, and they're back, much to my chagrin.
I welcome the end of unskippable ads next year, but more than that, I'd like them to set things so that ads only pop up on live shows when there are ads in the main show, and not elsewhere
Then I saw how much they were charging!
I have no complaints concerning the price of System76 laptops--I'm willing to pay a premium for hardware that works well with open source software. Nevertheless, there are two things that prevent me from purchasing a laptop from System76.
(1) I want to see detailed technical specifications for the laptops. For example, I may wish to install an unusual (non-Linux) operating system on the laptop, and I would like to be able to verify that the hardware will be supported by the operating system. I'm not asking System76 to verify hardware compatibility--I'm only asking that they describe their hardware in enough detail that I can verify compatibility on my own. For example, what ethernet NIC does the laptop use? What wireless card? (In contrast, Lenovo provides detailed specifications at http://psref.lenovo.com/)
(2) I want a laptop with a built-in DVD drive. Even Lenovo offers laptops with DVD drives, but System76 does not.
If you want to install a non-Linux OS (assuming that it's not a BSD either), why are you going for System 76? The only reason to go that route is if you want a Linux laptop, or maybe even a BSD. While you could wipe Ubuntu and put in a distro of your choice, I believe System 76 would only support you on Ubuntu.
If specs are important to you, then yeah, go w/ a Lenovo or an Asus. Incidentally, which OS did you wanna install?
Wouldn't systemd solve all their life's problems?
In Linux, do you still have that? In PC-BSD, they had me create a root password, but do not create a root account that one can log in via the login manager (One can do it on CLI using sudo, but not directly). Note that I'm talking about the login manager, not if you are one of those traditional CLI warriors
make install is what Daddy did, not his little girl. Daughter can do apt get
Do they provide Steam as well? Or have a SteamOS option? That would really be welcome
I have good news for you. I have 3 phones - one of each type. One iPhone 7, which I described, and which I use for purely personal uses - family, relatives, my doctors, et al. One Moto X w/ Lollipop, which I use for anything work related. I also have a Lumia 550, which I use as a travel phone, and which is actually pretty good.
On top of that, I have 2 tablets - one iPad mini, and one Verizon Ellipsis 10. The latter, as you can guess, has Lollipop as well, but it recently gave me an update that allows me to install apps to the SD card and run them from that. The launcher is fine - I try to minimize the number of screens. When it first comes up, it has 5 active screens, which IMO are 2 many. I have 2 - one for the normal apps I use, and the other for games. On my Moto X, I just have 1 active screen, and go into the menu.
Actually, on Android, I like Lollipop, but as far as my Ellipsis goes, I would have preferred the ability to have Marshmallow or Nutmeg, so that I could redefine my 128GB SD card as the main storage, and the 16GB as secondary storage. On my Moto X, it's not an issue, since that phone doesn't have an SD card.