Would be good if you read the article you point to.
Data was stored on small 35 by 70 mm cards of stiff film known as chips... Data was stored on small 35 by 70 mm cards of stiff film known as chips... This resulted in about 4.7 Mbit of usable space in a 6.6 Mbit chip.
And the comparison you have is with a sewer tunnel
And your point is? Is a sewer tunnel somehow more or less complex than what musk has shown so far? Why are the costs not comparable based on what's been dug so far?
There's lots of veterans in the USA that are quite familiar with how a modern military fights.
And your point is? This was a discussion about if having many others unskilled serves any useful purpose. Those who are sufficiently versed in the tactics and strategy of modern war (which maybe some of these veterans) will know having a few guns with a larger number of relatively untrained, undisciplined civilians is irrelevant to the way a modern military fights.
You still see war as men running around pointing guns at each other. That's your problem. The grown men who run around playing pretend soldiers at the weekend, would have little or no impact on a real war.
And the price you pay for this fantasy of was being these raging guns battles is that you are enslaved to guns, are events like this.
I haven't laughed so much in ages, please keep it up. Ignoring your ignorance of history of gun controls, that you believe a modern war would be fought based on volumes of troops on the ground shooting at each other is the best entertainment I've had all day. Even more entertaining that you think the public american's experience of firearms is in any way related to the situations and skills required to fight such a war is going to be a massive win. Deluded doesn't even start to describe that view.
Isn't that the exact same thing as the RIAA screaming and yelling and suing grandmothers instead of getting with the times and creating an online music service?
No not even close. It would be more like the RIAA deciding not to sell to those doing the "pirating" to prevent those people copying in future - which doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. Not a perfect analogy still but closer.
As to adapting I think I covered that. Sure they can change the odds etc. accepting the outcome is not that they'll ban a few, but effectively ban everybody by offering really poor odds or simply not be willing to take the bet from anyone. This isn't really in their commercial interest.
They are a business intending to make money. As far as I know they don't have a bottomless pit of money so can't afford to just pay out and pay out and regulation which forced them to is simply likely to mean no bookmakers. Their sole tool is to attempt to balance the market between the winners and losers (whilst taking their cut) - this means controlling the people involved in some way, the only two ways I can think of are discriminating against those who are winning too much, or adjusting their odds to balance things off - the latter mechanism likely makes the deal unattractive to everyone (and may make them unattractive compared to foreign less regulated bookies), so certainly cuts their profitability possibly even to the point of not having a business.
Real betting exchanges seems to be the way to go, but it may well mean many can't place bets since no one is willing to lay them at the rates wanted to be worthwhile.
It's tricky wording. That sentence qualifies itself with after you connected to any of our servers. i.e. we do log the connection, just not what you do with it.
Well that's more or less my point - though it was a vague attempt at humour also - the original is a statement which gives us no real information. If the x86 was in fact an 8086 we'd be thinking that on modern hardware it'd be virtually unnoticeable as a workload, if on the other hand it was a i9 using all threads, then perhaps most peoples experience wouldn't be so great.
It's possible that the language in some state bills is generic enough to cover the auto case, but also cover the Apple case and cause Apple to make available a bunch of its proprietary software to third parties under the heading of "diagnostic equipment and software" that makes (more?) sense in an automotive context.
Can't see why it wouldn't make sense for devices other than automobiles, having to share tools they already have with others doesn't really seem any different. Why would electronics in a phone be any different to electronics in a car (which is what most of the auto stuff is really about)
Two, it may force them to open up supply chains of parts to all comers. Apple may be reluctant to create the side business of selling a lot of parts to third parties, either constraining their own production capacity or just plain being expensive in terms of overhead.
I can see this more, developing a fully fledged supply chain for lots of small value items is quite possibly a business apple don't want to be in, OTOH there are already suppliers of components who do just this, Apple being willing to supply one or two of those would resolve this issue. Anyone who has bought spares for cars knows that OEM parts are usually pretty expensive - buying all the parts individually to make a car is probably many times the cost of the car pre built. This could actually be a useful revenue stream if done right. Perhaps the real reasoning behind it is more that more people will be interested in after market parts rather than genuine apple parts.
Three, there may be ways which third party repair places can make claims of "OEM Approved Service Vendor" under these laws.
I can't see how this would be the case, but even if it somehow were surely the proportional response is to work on ensuring that the laws precluded that, rather than trying to ditch the laws altogether?
For many smaller manufacturers I can see why such laws are potentially problematic, it means they have to pass the costs of implementing onto the customers and that may in turn actually make them non-competitive. In the case of someone like Apple et al. I can't see how this really applies they aren't working on cut throat margins or lacking economies of scale.
I can also see though that Apple (like all the others) are a commercial entity, they are in it to make a profit, and things which may threaten the size of that profit are naturally something to engage with- the real question is going to be is the potential loss in customers (and then profit) due to repairability issues greater than the loss from any profitability of repairs and any loss of reputation/good will from poorly done repairs/sub standard third party parts? A question unlikely to have a definite answer.
The UK by far has me the most baffled though. Why list distances to other cities in KM and speed limits in MPH? Surely if you use KM for distance you'd want KPH for speed so it's easy to estimate how long it'll take to get somewhere given a specific speed?
No idea where that notion comes from, I've never seen a UK road sign showing a distance in KM, they all show them in miles.
The odd one is the tendency to switch between celcius and farenheit, Celcius for cold temperatures (it's -2 today) and farenheit when it's hot (it's in the 90s)
(Who ever thought A/V signatures were a good idea other than a mad man.)
I guess the question is who is the madder, the person with that good idea, or the people who kept buying it and the people who bought out the concept making the original mad man pretty wealthy.
In the telegraph article on finding Abortion Clinics/Prostitutes, there is a picture captioned "Jon Briggs, the voice of Siri". I guess this is because the Telegraph is a UK paper and in the UK Siri has a male voice. Perhaps the female dominance isn't quite what it's being made out to be.
It's pretty clear they don't want that shaky legal ground tested in the Supreme Court with public opinion against them.
I think you are missing the point, the original statement of no reason was that there were easier alternatives to a lie to reach the same end. No need to setup this elaborate lie with a commercial third party in another part of the world, with all the risk that the lie could be exposed - you'll have little or no control over what that foreign party does.
As to if public opinion is truly against them, I would unfortunately suspect the vast majority of people don't care one way or another and a fairly large proportion of those don't really understand the issues at stake.
Although I agree with your underlying point that there are many factors involved so boiling it down to price/performance isn't sensible, I can't understand the rest of your point. Where are they now, well I guess the same could be said of the ipod (I assume it's still sold, but I doubt in the quantities it was) a quick search of amazon shows various for sale. I'm sure the overall number is less and I'm sure that there are some that have left the market, that's device convergence for you most/many use their phones for that these days so the standalone players have taken a lesser role. And in terms of overall sales (i.e. volume) "Apple wouldn't be kicking the crap out of all the other mobile players" is a bit of distortion - http://www.statista.com/statis...
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Would be good if you read the article you point to.
Data was stored on small 35 by 70 mm cards of stiff film known as chips ... Data was stored on small 35 by 70 mm cards of stiff film known as chips ... This resulted in about 4.7 Mbit of usable space in a 6.6 Mbit chip.
And the comparison you have is with a sewer tunnel
And your point is? Is a sewer tunnel somehow more or less complex than what musk has shown so far? Why are the costs not comparable based on what's been dug so far?
Of course meant MMU
and still no protected memory
Most Amiga's were 68000 with no MCU so no protected memory either.
Because of course we all know that filing of a patent means the "invention" will hit the market real soon.
There's lots of veterans in the USA that are quite familiar with how a modern military fights.
And your point is? This was a discussion about if having many others unskilled serves any useful purpose. Those who are sufficiently versed in the tactics and strategy of modern war (which maybe some of these veterans) will know having a few guns with a larger number of relatively untrained, undisciplined civilians is irrelevant to the way a modern military fights.
You still see war as men running around pointing guns at each other. That's your problem. The grown men who run around playing pretend soldiers at the weekend, would have little or no impact on a real war.
And the price you pay for this fantasy of was being these raging guns battles is that you are enslaved to guns, are events like this.
I haven't laughed so much in ages, please keep it up. Ignoring your ignorance of history of gun controls, that you believe a modern war would be fought based on volumes of troops on the ground shooting at each other is the best entertainment I've had all day. Even more entertaining that you think the public american's experience of firearms is in any way related to the situations and skills required to fight such a war is going to be a massive win. Deluded doesn't even start to describe that view.
"any new Tesla delivered after October 15th might not ship before the beginning of next year."
To all those doubters as to Musk's genius he's only gone and invented a time machine, shipping cars weeks after they get delivered.
Isn't that the exact same thing as the RIAA screaming and yelling and suing grandmothers instead of getting with the times and creating an online music service?
No not even close. It would be more like the RIAA deciding not to sell to those doing the "pirating" to prevent those people copying in future - which doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. Not a perfect analogy still but closer.
As to adapting I think I covered that. Sure they can change the odds etc. accepting the outcome is not that they'll ban a few, but effectively ban everybody by offering really poor odds or simply not be willing to take the bet from anyone. This isn't really in their commercial interest.
Realistically what else do you expect them to do?
They are a business intending to make money. As far as I know they don't have a bottomless pit of money so can't afford to just pay out and pay out and regulation which forced them to is simply likely to mean no bookmakers. Their sole tool is to attempt to balance the market between the winners and losers (whilst taking their cut) - this means controlling the people involved in some way, the only two ways I can think of are discriminating against those who are winning too much, or adjusting their odds to balance things off - the latter mechanism likely makes the deal unattractive to everyone (and may make them unattractive compared to foreign less regulated bookies), so certainly cuts their profitability possibly even to the point of not having a business.
Real betting exchanges seems to be the way to go, but it may well mean many can't place bets since no one is willing to lay them at the rates wanted to be worthwhile.
It's tricky wording. That sentence qualifies itself with after you connected to any of our servers. i.e. we do log the connection, just not what you do with it.
Well that's more or less my point - though it was a vague attempt at humour also - the original is a statement which gives us no real information. If the x86 was in fact an 8086 we'd be thinking that on modern hardware it'd be virtually unnoticeable as a workload, if on the other hand it was a i9 using all threads, then perhaps most peoples experience wouldn't be so great.
"it already runs about 60x faster than real-time on an x86 CPU."
I'll get my 8086 based XT out of storage, should be perfect.
It's possible that the language in some state bills is generic enough to cover the auto case, but also cover the Apple case and cause Apple to make available a bunch of its proprietary software to third parties under the heading of "diagnostic equipment and software" that makes (more?) sense in an automotive context.
Can't see why it wouldn't make sense for devices other than automobiles, having to share tools they already have with others doesn't really seem any different. Why would electronics in a phone be any different to electronics in a car (which is what most of the auto stuff is really about)
Two, it may force them to open up supply chains of parts to all comers. Apple may be reluctant to create the side business of selling a lot of parts to third parties, either constraining their own production capacity or just plain being expensive in terms of overhead.
I can see this more, developing a fully fledged supply chain for lots of small value items is quite possibly a business apple don't want to be in, OTOH there are already suppliers of components who do just this, Apple being willing to supply one or two of those would resolve this issue. Anyone who has bought spares for cars knows that OEM parts are usually pretty expensive - buying all the parts individually to make a car is probably many times the cost of the car pre built. This could actually be a useful revenue stream if done right. Perhaps the real reasoning behind it is more that more people will be interested in after market parts rather than genuine apple parts.
Three, there may be ways which third party repair places can make claims of "OEM Approved Service Vendor" under these laws.
I can't see how this would be the case, but even if it somehow were surely the proportional response is to work on ensuring that the laws precluded that, rather than trying to ditch the laws altogether?
For many smaller manufacturers I can see why such laws are potentially problematic, it means they have to pass the costs of implementing onto the customers and that may in turn actually make them non-competitive. In the case of someone like Apple et al. I can't see how this really applies they aren't working on cut throat margins or lacking economies of scale.
I can also see though that Apple (like all the others) are a commercial entity, they are in it to make a profit, and things which may threaten the size of that profit are naturally something to engage with- the real question is going to be is the potential loss in customers (and then profit) due to repairability issues greater than the loss from any profitability of repairs and any loss of reputation/good will from poorly done repairs/sub standard third party parts? A question unlikely to have a definite answer.
The UK by far has me the most baffled though. Why list distances to other cities in KM and speed limits in MPH? Surely if you use KM for distance you'd want KPH for speed so it's easy to estimate how long it'll take to get somewhere given a specific speed?
No idea where that notion comes from, I've never seen a UK road sign showing a distance in KM, they all show them in miles.
The odd one is the tendency to switch between celcius and farenheit, Celcius for cold temperatures (it's -2 today) and farenheit when it's hot (it's in the 90s)
No it's when you've been drinking too much port http://www.cockburns.com/
(Who ever thought A/V signatures were a good idea other than a mad man.)
I guess the question is who is the madder, the person with that good idea, or the people who kept buying it and the people who bought out the concept making the original mad man pretty wealthy.
I think we will have it in five years
Sounds like a good candidate for the osborne effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Whoops that's % female.
Non-tech roles apple 37%, Google 47% and MS 41.7%
In the telegraph article on finding Abortion Clinics/Prostitutes, there is a picture captioned "Jon Briggs, the voice of Siri". I guess this is because the Telegraph is a UK paper and in the UK Siri has a male voice. Perhaps the female dominance isn't quite what it's being made out to be.
The precedent was set long ago, that slashdot summaries can and will be crap and that people will react is if they are absolutely true.
It's pretty clear they don't want that shaky legal ground tested in the Supreme Court with public opinion against them.
I think you are missing the point, the original statement of no reason was that there were easier alternatives to a lie to reach the same end. No need to setup this elaborate lie with a commercial third party in another part of the world, with all the risk that the lie could be exposed - you'll have little or no control over what that foreign party does.
As to if public opinion is truly against them, I would unfortunately suspect the vast majority of people don't care one way or another and a fairly large proportion of those don't really understand the issues at stake.
Where are all those players today?
Although I agree with your underlying point that there are many factors involved so boiling it down to price/performance isn't sensible, I can't understand the rest of your point. Where are they now, well I guess the same could be said of the ipod (I assume it's still sold, but I doubt in the quantities it was) a quick search of amazon shows various for sale. I'm sure the overall number is less and I'm sure that there are some that have left the market, that's device convergence for you most/many use their phones for that these days so the standalone players have taken a lesser role. And in terms of overall sales (i.e. volume) "Apple wouldn't be kicking the crap out of all the other mobile players" is a bit of distortion - http://www.statista.com/statis...
We all would because the FBI would point out Apple had already done this.
Right because the Chinese tend to share everything with the FBI as a matter of course.
As for the rest of your comment, excuse me if believe you are naive.