"USB Type-A, in particular, is not going away soon, nor is it likely that the thumb-drive your co-worker just handed you has a Type-C connector."
The continued need for legacy ports is the excuse that was used to pillory Apple for going with USB-A. I wonder how that turned out...
"bring back the MagSafe connector"
The MagSafe connector, while nifty, only keeps you safe if it's the only thing you have plugged in. Anything plugged into the other ports still exposes the tripping hazard.
No amount of charging stations can fix the *rate* they can charge: a Tesla supercharger fills a battery at 120 kW, while an everyday gas pump fills a gas tank at ~20 MW.
"So they tried to sweeten the deal a bit by letting folks work at home."
Except even this isn't really a sweetener. Having a consistent fraction of working form home each day allows overbooking the desks. I.E. if on average each employee works from home one day per week, an office can be assigned a desk count that is 80% of the assigned employee count. Then you get to discover that wildly different distributions can have the same average, as my previous employer did.
"RISC-V can be embedded into your ASIC design, which is not something you can do with an x86-64 from Intel or AMD."
Atom is definitely available as a hard IP. A quick search didn't turn up any PR on the soft IP version begin available, so I won't claim that Intel has finished it yet.
"For instance, in Japan, houses on a block are not numbered in sequence, but in the order in which they were built."
And now you know why new housing developments are given large numbers with gaps: so that when you build something between them later the new construction can still get an in-sequence number without renumbering the whole street.
This makes me wonder if there is already a service where I can put in what shows I watch and I can get a minimal cost covering set of services to watch them.
I supose the worst case if I'm watching less than a couple dozen shows per year is to just buy the dvds.
Those groups are more likely than other groups to be wireless-only, not that those groups are more likely to be wireless-only than they are to have al landline.
Permafrost does not extend to the surface. For any particular environment with permafrost, there is 1) a depth at which the maximum temperature does not exceed freezing (permafrost table), 2) a depth where the temperature does not vary with the season, and 3) a depth where geothermal heat keeps the temperature above freezing (permafrost base). Permafrost is what is between the permafrost table and base.
As new soil is laid down, any covered objects such as an animal carcass are deeper and deeper and eventually reach the depth of the permafrost table where they become permanently frozen. However, if seasonal highs are increasing fast enough then the permafrost table can be lowering faster than new soil can be added so that objects previously below the table are now above it and start thawing.
So there is no agenda, you just didn't know what "permafrost" really meant.
" the companies can use a $45,000 imported worker. "
If the going rate is $60,000 by law they cannot pay an H-1B $45,000. So the first step is to enforce the law as it already stands, not to enact a new law that will also not be enforced.
"Care to explain how that fits in to FRAND? what part of FRAND states that Apple get BETTER pricing than the rest of an industry?"
Apple has made no such claim that the should receive special licensing terms just for being Apple. The "non-discriminatory" clause does not prohibit dependencies on volume, just that any licensee should be eligible for the same volume licensing terms.
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If you can't handle your steam tables in units of BTUs per pound then you can just turn in your RPN calculator.
Clearly, it is not possible that there are no self-taught rocket scientists yet many self-taught programmers.
"Clinton endured a 25 year long smear campaign"
Actually, it's been at least 43 years. She was a junior counsel on the legal team advising the House about impeaching Nixon.
"USB Type-A, in particular, is not going away soon, nor is it likely that the thumb-drive your co-worker just handed you has a Type-C connector."
The continued need for legacy ports is the excuse that was used to pillory Apple for going with USB-A. I wonder how that turned out...
"bring back the MagSafe connector"
The MagSafe connector, while nifty, only keeps you safe if it's the only thing you have plugged in. Anything plugged into the other ports still exposes the tripping hazard.
No amount of charging stations can fix the *rate* they can charge: a Tesla supercharger fills a battery at 120 kW, while an everyday gas pump fills a gas tank at ~20 MW.
Most people are not as emotionally brittle as you, and can handle seeing a trailer.
"spoilers aren't a huge deal"
Spoiler Justice Warriors, on the other hand, who claim that every "and" and "the" are spoilers, are insufferable.
"you can never change it"
Your employer can change it with trivial effort. Just fire you and hire someone else.
"The result is that biometrics make the employee/customer/citizen(!) expendable."
They already are. What's the problem?
"rather than having them fixed"
The patch for the exploit used has been been publicly available on Windows Update since March 14.
"your cheap credit funding and fly by night websites and social media scam promotions."
The Mechanical Universe was produced by CalTech, based on their actual freshman physics lectures.
"some script kiddy thinking this would somehow appear damaging to ISPs."
Why not some script kiddy thinking he can actually stop net neutrality? Eleven-dimensional chess has gone out of fashion with the script kiddies.
Negative, I am a meat popcicle
"I'm going to guess the Intels and NVIDIAs of the world want huge per chip royalties. "
Intel is desperate to make the Custom Foundry a thing. There are at least two sweetheart deals to get other companies to put x86 in their own SoC.
"So they tried to sweeten the deal a bit by letting folks work at home."
Except even this isn't really a sweetener. Having a consistent fraction of working form home each day allows overbooking the desks. I.E. if on average each employee works from home one day per week, an office can be assigned a desk count that is 80% of the assigned employee count. Then you get to discover that wildly different distributions can have the same average, as my previous employer did.
"If you took the original masks,"
The last PII was on a 0.25 micron process. Have you ever done a 10x pure optical shrink and gotten *any* of polygons to print?
"RISC-V can be embedded into your ASIC design, which is not something you can do with an x86-64 from Intel or AMD."
Atom is definitely available as a hard IP. A quick search didn't turn up any PR on the soft IP version begin available, so I won't claim that Intel has finished it yet.
"unless they can magic the masks and other components out of nothing, the cost of creating RISC-V stuff is going to be considerable"
You have to generate masks for your silicon whatever processor you use.
"For instance, in Japan, houses on a block are not numbered in sequence, but in the order in which they were built."
And now you know why new housing developments are given large numbers with gaps: so that when you build something between them later the new construction can still get an in-sequence number without renumbering the whole street.
This makes me wonder if there is already a service where I can put in what shows I watch and I can get a minimal cost covering set of services to watch them.
I supose the worst case if I'm watching less than a couple dozen shows per year is to just buy the dvds.
Those groups are more likely than other groups to be wireless-only, not that those groups are more likely to be wireless-only than they are to have al landline.
Permafrost does not extend to the surface. For any particular environment with permafrost, there is 1) a depth at which the maximum temperature does not exceed freezing (permafrost table), 2) a depth where the temperature does not vary with the season, and 3) a depth where geothermal heat keeps the temperature above freezing (permafrost base). Permafrost is what is between the permafrost table and base.
As new soil is laid down, any covered objects such as an animal carcass are deeper and deeper and eventually reach the depth of the permafrost table where they become permanently frozen. However, if seasonal highs are increasing fast enough then the permafrost table can be lowering faster than new soil can be added so that objects previously below the table are now above it and start thawing.
So there is no agenda, you just didn't know what "permafrost" really meant.
" the companies can use a $45,000 imported worker. "
If the going rate is $60,000 by law they cannot pay an H-1B $45,000. So the first step is to enforce the law as it already stands, not to enact a new law that will also not be enforced.
"Care to explain how that fits in to FRAND? what part of FRAND states that Apple get BETTER pricing than the rest of an industry?"
Apple has made no such claim that the should receive special licensing terms just for being Apple. The "non-discriminatory" clause does not prohibit dependencies on volume, just that any licensee should be eligible for the same volume licensing terms.
Even worse, that will increase the BOM by 10 cents.