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  1. You're folding it wrong

  2. The opposition party on Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou To Run For President of Taiwan (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I am old enough to remember when there was no opposition party, just the KMT.

  3. Re:Mr. Gou on Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou To Run For President of Taiwan (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The KMT's position is that they are the masters, and that it is the mainland that is in rebellion.

  4. QCOM is up 12.25%, but INTC is also up 3.26%. AAPL up 1.95%.

  5. Re:don't piss off the mouse on 'Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leaks on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, you don't want to piss off the Mouse.

    you wouldn't like him when he's angry!

    That's The Mouse's secret, Captain. He's always angry.

  6. Re:5nm is NOT a true process on Samsung Chips Will Get Faster and Easier on Your Battery in 2020 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "If there was a 2-5x speed improvement to be had by optimising by human experts we would be having those. "

    Except when the next process was coming in two years, you work on that because it halves your marignal cost so you never get the opportunity to do the one-time non-recurring engineering for design and process improvements. For the lead vehicle on an Intel process, for example, there was typically less than 1Q to tape-in once test chip data was available.

    You can't choose to slow down to do that work because your competition will just beat you to market with whatever they can get working on their process. Now, everyone has to slow down their process shifts so doing design refinements becomes viable.

  7. Re:WTF Editors? How much did they pay? on HP's EliteBook 800 G6 Notebook Series Adds Convenience, Privacy Features (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No one in their right mind would pay for advertisements disguised as articles *here*.

  8. Re:"Smarter mail" can kiss my shiny metal a... on iOS 13 To Feature Dark Mode and Interface Updates, Report Says (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 3

    " I can't simply see individual messages - it insists on folding all previous replies into a single concoction"

    If you don't want threading, don't turn on threading. Settings -> Mail -> Organize by Thread -> Off

    " no longer a simple chronological set."

    Since I can't find anything that prevents iOS from showing my pictures in chronological order in the Photos tab, I can't offer any suggestion on how to re-enable it. It's already doing what you want.

    "Please give me simple applications that do nothing unless *I SPECIFICALLY ASK THEM TO*!!!!"

    Stop turning on the settings that do the things you don't want.

  9. Re:Value for the dollar! on Ecuador Jails Swedish Programmer Over Alleged Ties To WikiLeaks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "The dollar really does go a long way there"

    The US dollar is literally their legal tender.

  10. Re:Deadman's switch? on Ecuador Jails Swedish Programmer Over Alleged Ties To WikiLeaks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that Assange selectively releases information depending on what is personally beneficial and who he is and is not allied with?

  11. Re:Hopefully Intel won't follow through on threats on Windows 10 Ported To OnePlus 6T Smartphone (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Turns out, even Intel has been emulating x86 for the past 24 years.

  12. Jack Ma is an anti-capitalist on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The median businessman has no idea how capitalism works, and the 90% percentile is actively opposed to capitalism.

    Marginal productivity eventually declines as work day increases, yet this guy still pays the same marginal wage. He's be better off setting a quarter of his money on fire, he could at least cook some dinner with it.

  13. Re:Generation Smartphone with impaired eye-sight? on DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Nearly Halved Over Five Years, MPAA Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a projector that is currently throwing a roughly 85" diagonal image. When I hold up my phone about a foot away it completely blocks the screen and has roughly the same number of pixels.

  14. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has a excess of top bin parts these days.

  15. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been years since they've fused off working units to get a lower SKU since everybody is supply constrained on the high end. But what they will do is take the four core die with two out of spec cores and package that as a two core SKU.

  16. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Example, please?"

    The number keypads on drive-up ATMs still have bump on the '5' key so you can find i by touch even though to get there you would have to be able to drive to get there. It's a huge savings in stock tracking and inventory to just use they same keypad everywhere.

  17. Re:Eating into Apple Profits on Why Tens of Thousands of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "they want to sell New phones to everyone"

    This is not a revelation, since any seller would like to sell new phones to everyone. There is no evidence that Apple is trying to force this more so than anyone else, and they obviously recognize that they cannot magically convert every sale of a used iPhone into a sale of a new iPhone since they themselves sell used iPhones. A healthy market in used goods support higher first sale prices.

    "Most of the recycling problem would be solved by people disabling their iCloud service before donating."

    This is not a revelation, and does not help address the problem of devices that are donated without this having been done.

    "How about a campaign geared toward recycling phones?"

    This is not a revelation, since this is what the whole damn article is about.

  18. " with its own 65 megawatt electrical grid, that is ALL hard drives"
    That's just what they want you to believe.

  19. Re:I wonder how much Bouman actually contributed. on The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "They might be a shitty coder, or just have other responsibilities."

    Or they may have written concise code with few errors that required revising.

  20. Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth.... on The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're gonna need to defrag afterwards, at the very least.

  21. Re:Um on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    " Infinite growth is impossible"

    But that was not your original claim.

  22. Re:Um on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate Adam Smith?

  23. Re:The only thing that surprises me about this on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "why the judge went through the legal gymnastics either"

    A judge can rule on the specific charges brought*. If the prosecutor brought a charge of distracted driving but did not bring a charge of wearing headphones while driving, the judge can only rule on distracted driving.

    *: If specifically included in law in specific jurisdictions, it may be that a charge automatically carries all lesser component charges i.e. a burglary charge may automatically include a theft charge and a breaking and entering charge, so that if some but not all components are proven the lesser charges may still stand. On the other hand, there are cases where the prosecutor could explicitly include the lesser charges. There is a concept of overcharging where a prosecutor fails to include the appropriate lesser charges and winds up losing everything.

  24. Re:What's this garbage? on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    " It's only $20 a month for around 50 channels, and $16 a month for 45 channels."

    Those are bundles, which are literally the opposite of unbundling.

  25. Re:a la carte vs girl next door on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    'What I celebrate most in YouTube is the death of the channel. I've never "subscribed" to one damn thing.'

    YouTube has been based on channels that you subscribe to for as long as I can remember. That's not much of a death.