Any other VIA C3 based PC, you mean. This hack was possible because the C3 has an embedded low power RISC core, probably for some kind of sleep state managed mode or something. With a "hidden," or possibly malformed instruction, you can wake it up and access protected memory by sending it instructions.
The ostensible analog on the Mac side is the Intel MME. Only issue with that is the MME isn't really used on the Mac platform. It's included, but the Mac platform doesn't enable any of it's features (vPro management, mainly.)
Not likely. Likely it's access to the real CPU core, not some hidden management processor.
You have to remember that the Intel Pentium was probably the last of the x86 processors to actually run x86 code. The Pentium Pro (and Pentium II, same architecture) emulated x86 - they have an x86 front end that translates x86 instructions into an undocumented RISC core that executes them. (Intel calls these instructions "micro ops") The front end is split into several units - most of them are "simple crackers" that crack basic x86 instructions into micro ops directly, while there is a complex cracker that translates complex x86 instructions into many micro-ops. The simple crackers can emit one micro op each per clock (issuing several instructions), while the complex cracker can emit up to 2 micro-ops (a complex instruction may consist of many micro-ops).
Likewise, AMD has been doing the same since at least the K5 series, and it's not a surprise if everyone else has as well.
Via CPUs are typically highly integrated SoC type processors as well, so it wouldn't be a surprise if this functionality (which is documented in the processor user manual - isn't it fun spending months trying to reverse engineer something that was already in a document that a lookup could've saved much effort?) is used to provide emulations of common devices and operating modes.
So like a VM, it can trap certain instruction calls and emulate them in software, except instead of emulating in x86, it does it natively.
I expect more likely they got Epic to not try and fuck them over by cross promoting, or allowing PS4 players to purchase items or season passes from outside of the PSN store.
That's essentially what it boiled down to. Epic are doing the same on Android, stepping entirely outside of the Play store so they can sell items without paying anything to Google for doing so. I imagine Sony were more than a little bit worried about the same thing happening to them.
Unlike Google and Android, the PS4 is a closed ecosystem. If you do something Sony doesn't like, Sony can contractually enforce you to fix it, or unilaterally remove the game from distributi0on and likely revoke it so the next firmware version will block it.
What's likely happened is Epic limits Fortnite to PS4 players only, while PC, Switch, mobile, Xbox, etc players are all playing together. Which means there's a ton more players of crossplay fortnite than PS4-only players.
The best I have found are ANA and JAL. Not tried Singapore. I flew with Asiana, they were okay. Nothing beats the Japanese airlines for pretty much anything, except perhaps the selection of English language stuff on the entertainment system.
Second tier are European carriers. Virgin used to be crap, but stopped doing my routes. BA are okay but the food is really bad, and they are prone to cock-ups. Wet blankets (not properly dried after laundering I guess), delays, that sort of thing.
Finnair are okay. Cheap, food is edible at least, and Helsinki Airport is one of the better ones. Their seats are actually quite reasonable. Only issue I had was one time when flying to China the aircraft had some woman who wouldn't stop singing religious hymns, and her husband smelt really bad with BO, and the staff said they had tried before and couldn't do much about any of it. Hmm. I got the impression it was a regular problem on that route.
Generally speaking, Singapore Airlines routinely gets voted the best airline around. It's also why they're one of the most expensive. Cathay Pacific used to be #1, but they usually end up as #2, and are just as great, but a lot cheaper. I think the Japanese airlines bring up the next round. But in general, Asian airlines are the top.
The worst airlines are universally North American - even the top North American airline (Air Canada, typically) is considered to be quite terrible by Canadians (who would go for a European or Asian airline instead). Of course, then you find out the flight is a code share and get stuck with Air Canada...
The AAA lobbies for road building (as opposed to public transit, bike/pedestrian facilities, etc), claiming that it's large membership is behind them. If you don't want to support their lobbying efforts and are just looking for road service, there are other organizations out there...
And why wouldn't they? It's the Automobile Association of America. Their purpose is to promote the use of the car in everyday life. So naturally that involves more roads and less public transit.
The easy spin is that it is green, and that they will refurbish your iPhone XS when the XLST comes out next year and donate a percentage of them to a women's charity or schoolchildren in India or whatever.
Other than the donation, Apple already does that if you return a used Apple device to th em. That's why they have all those robots - it breaks down the phone into separate components and they reuse what they can (e.g., camera modules that are functional are used to refurbish units with broken cameras).
Anything they can't salvage, or contains personal data they shred (as much as it would nice to reuse logic boards, protection of personal information is generally considered #1 and Apple would rather shred the storage devices than allow even the remote chance that a device will get shipped out with someone's information still on it.
Anyhow, the biggest issue is security. Things like the Touch ID sensor are bonded to the logic board for a reason - the secure enclave needs to trust the touch ID unit is proper. If not, imagine some spook agency replacing touch ID units with ones that record fingerprints- so instead of requiring your fingerprint, all they have to is is press it a certain way and it returns a working fingerprint thus bypassing it. Thus some measure must be in place that ensures the touch ID unit and the logic board are genuine Apple parts and that re-bonding the two isn't a trivial operation that can be done by anyone.
Same goes for touchscreens - it's not hard to modify a touch controller to record taps, especially say the taps one may do after waking up the unit in order to capture the unlock passcode. Replace the screen, perfect time to have a modified touch controller that do these things.
And then there are custom parts - Apple often customizes the parts they use - they would take a standard off the shelf part (like say aforementioned touch controller) and modify it slightly to satisfy their needs. The end result is if you use the generic part, it mostly works, until Apple decides to use their custom functionality which breaks stuff. Like say they may upload new firmware to the touch controller to compensate for a screen defect. But the generic part crashes when running the new firmware.
It's not as simple as it seems - and even simple solutions like disabling Touch ID because of it people will still accuse Apple of intentionally disabling 3rd party hardware. About the best one can do is do something like "Warning: Insecure fingerprint mode" that appears when the sensor is replaced by a different one (legit or not) to warn the user that the fingerprint module is compromised.
It's all a LOT of legwork and they're doing a lot more than posting ROM dumps
Not to mention, they're not technically making the ROMs available. You can play it in your browser, but you'll note there's no link to download the ROM itself - it's only available that way.
Of course, anyone with a modicum of knowledge of how to use "Developer mode" in their browser can easily get at the real ROM files. It's not hard and left as an exercise to the reader. Presumably there are controls in place to keep users from writing scripts to mass download the ROMs.
Problem being that intel is actually going for non-PR speak 10nm (which is PR speak 7nm) and intel is going for high power chips, not low power ones. Latter being the likely reason why it's so hard to get anything out in meaningful numbers. This isn't for memory or mobile chips as is the case with TSMC process. There's a reason why high power chip majors like nvidia aren't touching the TSMC's PR speak 7nm process with a ten metre pole. It's unsuitable for purpose at the moment.
The latest processes are never used for random logic parts (aka computational blocks). There's no point having 10nm transistors when when the real problem is wiring- random logic blocks wired together consume more wiring resources than transistor resources, which is why they often use larger transistors and have tons of unconnected transistors. The wiring is pushing the transistors apart and keeping density down.
The only transistors that require the small feature size are regular block transistors - think memory used in caches and such. Here the structure is so regular that you use the smallest transistors you can to squeeze as many as you can together. (And people spend time optimizing the layout of these blocks so they can be arrayed very densely to create the biggest memory in the smallest space). These are the transistors that need the small size, and consume the most transistors when someone says "this chip has 10 billion transistors". (That usually means about 8-9billion of those are actually memory transistors and the remainder are the logic transistors. And it's dense enough that those 8-9 billion will fit in about 20-30% of the die area, while the rest of the transistors occupy the rest of the space).
When people say "built on 10nm process" it means the smallest transistors used may be that size, but almost always the logic and processing transistors will be larger out of necessity (needing to drive a signal a log way, for example, requires a big transistor). No one computes using the minimum size transistor - it's pointless since the wires that carry the signal spread out the transistors (and you need large transistors to drive longer wires, etc).
Depends. Trespass requires an actual barrier that prevents entry, and breaking and entering require same.
More often than not, some door or gate is left unlocked or other point of entry, at which point the urban explorer will generally exploit.
There are a few on YouTube, and they often document places that are closed down. Depending on your point of view, they can either be a nuisance by being where they shouldn't be (proper urban exploration means touching and taking nothing other than photos and video), or a useful pastime by letting people see what's happened and satisfying their curiosity (often to the point where they won't bother doing it themselves, so one person may deter dozens of others from actually doing it).
It can be interesting to see some decades old stuff that was forgotten about still pristine out there, or other times being used to document the downfall of something. Like a mall - they catch it in its heyday, then periodiocally re-document it until the point where it's being torn down.
Some good ones to watch on YouTube include "This is Dan Bell" (especially the Dead Mall series), and "Retail Archeology".
I started down the "burn them with fire" road, until I read that part about the mosquitoes. I hate them worse. Yeah, okay then, have your party little spiders. The enemy of my enemy is my friend (for now... kinda).
I prefer the spiders, they keep the insect population at bay.
Once a wasp decided to create a nest outside the door to our secondary suite. It didn't last long - the nest stayed tiny, but the next year, the number of spider webs (all inhabited by spiders big and small) were plentiful. Never encountered any wasps, either.
Ugly scary looking things, but hey, they eat the little critters that serve to annoy me, so they're doing a good job there. I don't recall getting bit by mosquitoes or harassed by fruit flies, either, so the spiders can stay. And they do it for free, and are environmentally friendlier than bug spray.
I see it more as "Apple is prioritizing building the phones people want to buy" which happen to be the newest phones, and which happen to be the most expensive.
The Xr is basically a repackabed iPhone X, minus OLED screen (replaced with LCD). If you wanted an iPhone X-style phone, you either want an Xs coming out, or you would've just bought the iPhone X already. Thus really, selling iPhone Xr units on day 1 wouldn't generate a ton of new sales and it takes away from manufacture of the phone people really want - the Xs.
In a month's time, when the mad rush to buy an Xs is over, you can release the Xr, keeping the production lines busy.
Likewise, in the meantime, you stopped production of the other phones (the iPhone 7/8 series) because you have a backlog of inventory of them, so those lines are devoted to making the Xs units at first. The inventory will tide you over on sales (because they sell thinly) while you're making everything else.
It's also a bit of letting the channels sell through as well - carriers with unsold iPhone X stock can sell to those who want an Xs but can't afford it, but don't want an Xr.
Remember, Apple hates scalpers, and anytime they have to say "Sorry, it's out of stock" to someone, they see it as a lost sale opportunity - they'd rather say "Yes, we have them in stock, which one do you want" rather than have you walk away disappointed (and potentially, buying another phone). They know demand for the very latest unit is always high and while they can sell out on the first weekend, they'd rather sell out on Sunday night than Friday night. So making tons of the one people generally want to keep stores stocked is a good move, while those who want the alternative have alternatives. If you want the Xr now, you'd just go with the X (still obtainable either as refurb through Apple or through your carrier).
What is the connection between Russians and network neutrality? I get that there were fake comments, but I thought they were forged by telecom companies or organizations that were fooled by telecom companies. Is the Russian angle just to get them release the records?
The real issue is Trump and the Russians.
Remember, Trump has not divested himself of his businesses, something Presidents do to avoid conflict of interest situations where they may do legislation that benefits them directly. Every time Trump goes to Mar-A-Largo, the Secret Service has to spend money there, which has direct benefits to the President.
Also remember, that in general, Trump's business hasn't been doingn too well. Some make profits, but that's about it. Except in one place - Russia. Trump gets a lot of money from his Russian interests, hence the natural "friendliness" towards them.
Combined with direct benefits from business, there's a lot of interest in anywhere Trump feels particularly friendly towards.
It's like ZTE, which Trump vowed to kill until China invested half a billion dollars in a Trump hotel and give Ivanka a super hard to get trademark.
Another is Humble Store, as a warez group might have a bot watch the site for new releases, pay the minimum, and send the DRM-free games straight to the topsites.
I doubt that's actually a thing - because warez sites are generally about having the latest games first, and Humble Store bundles generally mean the game or program has been out a while already. Plus they aren't necessarily DRM-free since a lot of them just give Steam codes.
GOG store on the other hand is DRM-free and there have been many new releases on it that come out same day.
I had teachers and professors who would swear up and down that they would notice and/or measure that and that you'd get marked down for doing it. Never happened once.
That's because with subtle enough tweaks, it's impossible to measure without having measurement error. The best margin to tweak is actually the right hand margin as long as you leave the Justification set to left (never fully justified). Left margin if you're in a RTL place, and again, never fully justified. This makes the right margin almost impossible to measure because word wrapping and the like ensure no line actually makes it all the way.
As for point sizes, remember a point is 1/72nd of an inch. Half a point up or down is 1/144th of an inch. If you use an inkjet printer with not good quality paper, the ink overrun will hide it quite well. Plus a lot of fonts you use will have different heights anyways - just printing out 12 point sized text in various fonts will reveal a variety of font heights.
You reserve the good quality paper for your cheat sheet to an exam where you can reduce the font size down to 4 or 5 points and with a laser printer on good quality paper makes it too easy to read. (Even regular copy paper works well enough with a laser).
Does anyone remember when they were EggHead Software and were a brick and mortar company?
No, there is no relation between NewEgg (2000-present) and Egghead Software (1984-2001).
Two separate companies and fromw hat I can tell, Egghead died out in the late 80s or mid-90s or so. Lots of memories of visiting them though to get new stuff.
AptX HD and LDAC. AptX HD (in fact, the entire AptX family) is not available on iOS because CSR is not supported on iOS
No, it's because QUALCOMM is not licensing AptX to Apple. CSR was purchased by Qualcomm years ago, and AptX went along with it. (The logo is AptX by Qualcomm now)
Of course, it doesn't help that Qualcomm and Apple are trading lawsuits with each other, causing the removal of AptX support from everything else as well.
LDAC support is a possibility, because Sony is basically giving LDAC away (it's included in Android 8), given Sony is the only one making LDAC receivers.
For another thing a better educated electorate would be in a better position to stop crap like the 2008 market crash from happening in the first place.
Unlikely. You cannot fix human greed. The mortgage market expanded wildly on sub-prime mortgages because everyone was seeking more and more money, and conjuring up mathematical models that say everything is OK. (These are really smart people, too). And as long as everyone was making money, everyone was happy to look the other way.
That said, not everyone suffered - there were a few people who realized what was going on and invested the other way. Heck, the Credit Default Swap was invented to take advantage of this situation. This lead to several funds being created that basically cashed it in when the crash happened. (This was not easy - they had to cash it in before everyone went insolvent).
As long as that license continues to grant me the right to have that movie in whatever format on any device, in perpetuity. I'll pay, gladly.
The problem is even Hollywood might not actually have the right to give you that kind of license. Unless you want to pay for license upgrades - i.e., you buy "HD now" and then "4K upgrades" and "8K license upgrade".
The reason is simple - a lot of contracts may not have allowed for some provisions. Early movies did not have a "home video" provision - because the idea of watching a movie at home was preposterous. So actor's contracts and royalties never took that into account. Then came home video, and now all those movies were locked up until Hollywood could re-negotiate the royalty structures, but then again, only on analog tape formats.
Then came DVD and more rights on digital discs. Ditto streaming movies and more royalties. It's a wonderful idea, but often the rights to a movie are not future proof, and new formats and such may require further upgrade payments because the authors, artists, actors, etc set up a new royalty payment scheme for those formats.
I can envision a situation where a movie may exist on disc, but can never be streamed or downloaded because someone in the whole rights chain is blocking it with excessive demands. So you can acquire and copy the disc, but that disc cannot be ripped etc because the license you have disallows it because the estate of the long dead actor will require $50 per digital copy to do so.
This WHOLE article is nothing more than FUD. We're literally talking about a product still in the DEVELOPMENT phase!!!
Anyone who has ever developed ANYTHING knows that there are challenges along the way. You work through them, or decide that the project isn't feasible. Period.
Exactly. This is only about a product which was announced last year, but never came out. It's a year later and all mentions of it disappeared.
Why? Who the heck knows. Maybe Apple was working on it, and decided that really, they can't sell the things at a premium over everyone else so why continue development? It's like their routers - they decided to abandon selling their routers and such because really, the market is saturated with hundreds of other routers.
Apple sells product in one of two ways. One, if it can offer such a differentiator that people want it (products like iPhone and iPod and Macs, for example), or if they see a market that's commodity but there's a niche Apple can fit in. WiFi Routers (back when they were rare) and monitors (when 24" and 30" monitors were basically nonexistent) are such markets. The problem is that the niche often fills in afterwards - WiFi routers and equipment are everywhere now and Apple's advantages are minimal. Ditto monitors - large monitors are common so why continue building into a niche that's filled in?
Looks like the charging pad may be a victim of everyone else doing the same thing.
Definitely a shit company I won't be buying anything from.
Their goal was always to do be like Google. It's why they offered MIUI for free - the more people that used it meant more data collected by Xiaomi for whatever purpose they wanted the data for.
Their business model has always been to give away the hardware and software and sell your information. And MIUI was actually decent, other than the data collection part. It was why people wanted to install it on their Android phones.
From what I've seen it's also expensive as fuck. I got a $60 coupon in the mail from one of those companies once which encouraged me to look into it. Doing some math, my grocery budget would have to almost quadruple were I to use their service. Even with the "free" $60 I got from them, ordering the first weeks food would have been more expensive than what I normally spend in a week.
This. I too was curious about the services (and hell, I would like it to be able to cook more at home), but they are expensive. It was shocked when it was quoted as $60 or week - that's my general grocery budget for myself a week! And they only offered 3 meals during that week (yes, I could save the leftovers and made it a full week) but damn, that I felt was quite pricey.
Cook at home I get - it's cheaper in general (if you spend $20 eating out, you can prepare a similar meal for about $5 in ingredients at the grocery store), but damn, the markup of those services make it so each meal ends up being close to $20 again. May be healthier than eating out, but it certainly isn't cheaper.
Maybe if it was closer to say $30 for an entire week's worth of meals I would've jumped on the chance to learn to cook and do that, but at their current prices, it's excessive.
I'm just guessing you've never tried writing/compiling/debugging software on your iPad. That sort of thing requires a real computer. All you've really said, maligning the vernerable Intel 80486 series of processors and the computers they powered, is that you (likely, again,) never used yours to anything remotely resembling its full potential. And hey, a LOT of people didn't, it's nothing to be ashamed of, but that's what Apple's banking on in the "What's a computer" ad: that most people only need a tiny percent of what it can do, in fact, in a sense, that's the Chromebook approach-- 'most people just use their computers for light, casual gaming, webbrowsing, and minor office tasks... calendars, etc., so let's just sell them computers capable of doing that, and regard almost everything else as extraneous.'
They're good enough for some things, great at others, but for those of us who ask a little more from out computers, they're pretty toys masquerading as real, actual computers.
No one said, even in the post-PC era, that we won't need computers. Even Steve Jobs said PCs were like trucks, and you still need trucks to do a lot of things.
All that's happened is a lot of lighter uses that would've required a PC can be served with a smartphone or tablet or other device (e.g., media streamer). Where once you would've read an ebook on the screen of a laptop, you use a tablet. Netflix is done on tablets, smartphones, or at home using a Roku or something, instead of a PC connected to the TV (remember scan converters in the era before TVs has VGA, DVI or HDMI ports?).
But there's still a ton of work that cannot be done with any of those devices, just like people don't generally move appliances with their dinky little Prius - you call on a U-Haul truck, or use your pickup (or call on a friend with one) to help you move those things around. Doesn't mean the Prius is useless, it just means for this situation it's not as useful. Given most people's habits, though, the Prius may be more practical for them - uses less gas, easier to park than a truck, etc which they'd do far more often than move appliances around.
And for some people they do this stuff so often they need their trucks - so owning one is highly justified.
The variety of vehicles on the road reflects the variety of devices we have today that can access the Internet and to do stuff The only thing that's different in the post-PC era is that everything and everyone isn't focused on the PC as the be all end all device - it's there because there are limitations to other devices but people use other devices to avoid some of the disadvantages of using a PC (e.g., bulkier, less portable, less convenient, need of maintenance, etc).
This kind of article always makes me think about my own life and whether or not I'm treading too close to some line. I probably clock up similar hours on various videos games. But I usually get my share of the household chores done without complaint along with my parental duties. I did give up MMO's though shortly after getting married, I need to be able to pause or walk away from a game at the drop of a hat to take care of whatever thing has come up, and I'd feel badly doing that to a dozen or more people in an MMO raid situation or group dungeon. My Wife complains sometimes when I get in a particularly marathon session or the kids have been particularly bad. But she's also pointed out a number of times how glad she is that I'm not a big sports fan or hunter. She has friends whose husbands expect them to host or attend football parties throughout the whole season. And others that joke about being hunting widows whenever deer season rolls around. While I might always be playing a video game, she always knows where I am and can get my attention at a moments notice.
The general symptom of "addiction" is you're basically doing it to the exclusion of all else. I.e., you'd rather play your video game than do your chores, do your job, attend to the needs of your family, feed yourself, get enough sleep, etc.
As long as you're able to keep up with the demands of everyday life and you're able to stop when needed, it's generally safe to assume you're not addicted. You may have marathon sessions which happens from time to time (any hobby does) but if your wife is generally happy and you contribute back afterwards, it should be OK.
As in, maybe after your marathon session is over, you take her out (or the entire family out) to do something together to make up for the absence. It doesn't have to cost much (i.e., you don't have to take them out to fancy restaurant or a movie), just do something as a family together everyone enjoys, whether it's board games, video games (as a family), a walk in the park, etc.
The unfortunate thing is you can't tell how close to the line you are until it's too late - most wives just silently stew on it until it explodes. That's why you defuse the situation by doing things as a family together. It's hard to argue when you're also spending quality time with the family, and even more so after a marathon session where you might have ignored them for a day to make it up.
I thought my gmail was relatively obscure too, until one day last year I started getting messagse about board meetings and membership application requests to be discussed.
It took a few days (the emails were sent to a mailing list, so there was no address other than the from address, and I somehow could get the emails, but they were silently blocked because no amount of replying worked. Finally someone sent an email with a bunch of other email addresses and I could get a hold of someone to fix the error.
Their mailing list admin accidentally truncated the email address in use so for a few days I got to see how a flying club worked on the inside. Alas, they are on the east coast and I'm on the west coast (and in Canada), but at least I have an open invitation to visit them.
On my domain, though, some company registered for DSL services in the UK and a landline. And someone else loves staying at the Hilton, for I kept getting surveys about their stay.
British Telecom oddly wouldn't let me log in using that email address they always send me the bills to, but the Hilton surveys stopped suddenly after about a dozen which I replied how my stay was awful and the staff sucked, etc.
The only way this program will be successful is if Apple consistently offers more money than the NSA et al for exploits/zero-days.
Apple may be rich, but well equipped government agencies are even richer. Think about it this way - when a state sponsored company can sell an exploit to other state sponsored agencies for 7 figures (i.e., millions) how much would Apple have to pay for it?
GreyKey and the like sell their boxes for $30K. How much do you think the exploit they use is worth?
Apple may make more money than some countries, but those generally aren't the countries Apple is concerned about.
Anyhow, the thinking is that if someone found it, chances are someone ELSE might find the same flaw, and perhaps they're not so well connected that getting Apple to ante up $200K is far better than trying to sell it to government agencies. It's not like hackers have patented cracking methods that no one else does, after all.
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Not likely. Likely it's access to the real CPU core, not some hidden management processor.
You have to remember that the Intel Pentium was probably the last of the x86 processors to actually run x86 code. The Pentium Pro (and Pentium II, same architecture) emulated x86 - they have an x86 front end that translates x86 instructions into an undocumented RISC core that executes them. (Intel calls these instructions "micro ops") The front end is split into several units - most of them are "simple crackers" that crack basic x86 instructions into micro ops directly, while there is a complex cracker that translates complex x86 instructions into many micro-ops. The simple crackers can emit one micro op each per clock (issuing several instructions), while the complex cracker can emit up to 2 micro-ops (a complex instruction may consist of many micro-ops).
Likewise, AMD has been doing the same since at least the K5 series, and it's not a surprise if everyone else has as well.
Via CPUs are typically highly integrated SoC type processors as well, so it wouldn't be a surprise if this functionality (which is documented in the processor user manual - isn't it fun spending months trying to reverse engineer something that was already in a document that a lookup could've saved much effort?) is used to provide emulations of common devices and operating modes.
So like a VM, it can trap certain instruction calls and emulate them in software, except instead of emulating in x86, it does it natively.
Unlike Google and Android, the PS4 is a closed ecosystem. If you do something Sony doesn't like, Sony can contractually enforce you to fix it, or unilaterally remove the game from distributi0on and likely revoke it so the next firmware version will block it.
What's likely happened is Epic limits Fortnite to PS4 players only, while PC, Switch, mobile, Xbox, etc players are all playing together. Which means there's a ton more players of crossplay fortnite than PS4-only players.
Generally speaking, Singapore Airlines routinely gets voted the best airline around. It's also why they're one of the most expensive. Cathay Pacific used to be #1, but they usually end up as #2, and are just as great, but a lot cheaper. I think the Japanese airlines bring up the next round. But in general, Asian airlines are the top.
The worst airlines are universally North American - even the top North American airline (Air Canada, typically) is considered to be quite terrible by Canadians (who would go for a European or Asian airline instead). Of course, then you find out the flight is a code share and get stuck with Air Canada ...
And why wouldn't they? It's the Automobile Association of America. Their purpose is to promote the use of the car in everyday life. So naturally that involves more roads and less public transit.
Other than the donation, Apple already does that if you return a used Apple device to th em. That's why they have all those robots - it breaks down the phone into separate components and they reuse what they can (e.g., camera modules that are functional are used to refurbish units with broken cameras).
Anything they can't salvage, or contains personal data they shred (as much as it would nice to reuse logic boards, protection of personal information is generally considered #1 and Apple would rather shred the storage devices than allow even the remote chance that a device will get shipped out with someone's information still on it.
Anyhow, the biggest issue is security. Things like the Touch ID sensor are bonded to the logic board for a reason - the secure enclave needs to trust the touch ID unit is proper. If not, imagine some spook agency replacing touch ID units with ones that record fingerprints- so instead of requiring your fingerprint, all they have to is is press it a certain way and it returns a working fingerprint thus bypassing it. Thus some measure must be in place that ensures the touch ID unit and the logic board are genuine Apple parts and that re-bonding the two isn't a trivial operation that can be done by anyone.
Same goes for touchscreens - it's not hard to modify a touch controller to record taps, especially say the taps one may do after waking up the unit in order to capture the unlock passcode. Replace the screen, perfect time to have a modified touch controller that do these things.
And then there are custom parts - Apple often customizes the parts they use - they would take a standard off the shelf part (like say aforementioned touch controller) and modify it slightly to satisfy their needs. The end result is if you use the generic part, it mostly works, until Apple decides to use their custom functionality which breaks stuff. Like say they may upload new firmware to the touch controller to compensate for a screen defect. But the generic part crashes when running the new firmware.
It's not as simple as it seems - and even simple solutions like disabling Touch ID because of it people will still accuse Apple of intentionally disabling 3rd party hardware. About the best one can do is do something like "Warning: Insecure fingerprint mode" that appears when the sensor is replaced by a different one (legit or not) to warn the user that the fingerprint module is compromised.
In other words, it's an open plan office for those who are lucky enough to not work in open plan offices.
Not to mention, they're not technically making the ROMs available. You can play it in your browser, but you'll note there's no link to download the ROM itself - it's only available that way.
Of course, anyone with a modicum of knowledge of how to use "Developer mode" in their browser can easily get at the real ROM files. It's not hard and left as an exercise to the reader. Presumably there are controls in place to keep users from writing scripts to mass download the ROMs.
The latest processes are never used for random logic parts (aka computational blocks). There's no point having 10nm transistors when when the real problem is wiring- random logic blocks wired together consume more wiring resources than transistor resources, which is why they often use larger transistors and have tons of unconnected transistors. The wiring is pushing the transistors apart and keeping density down.
The only transistors that require the small feature size are regular block transistors - think memory used in caches and such. Here the structure is so regular that you use the smallest transistors you can to squeeze as many as you can together. (And people spend time optimizing the layout of these blocks so they can be arrayed very densely to create the biggest memory in the smallest space). These are the transistors that need the small size, and consume the most transistors when someone says "this chip has 10 billion transistors". (That usually means about 8-9billion of those are actually memory transistors and the remainder are the logic transistors. And it's dense enough that those 8-9 billion will fit in about 20-30% of the die area, while the rest of the transistors occupy the rest of the space).
When people say "built on 10nm process" it means the smallest transistors used may be that size, but almost always the logic and processing transistors will be larger out of necessity (needing to drive a signal a log way, for example, requires a big transistor). No one computes using the minimum size transistor - it's pointless since the wires that carry the signal spread out the transistors (and you need large transistors to drive longer wires, etc).
Depends. Trespass requires an actual barrier that prevents entry, and breaking and entering require same.
More often than not, some door or gate is left unlocked or other point of entry, at which point the urban explorer will generally exploit.
There are a few on YouTube, and they often document places that are closed down. Depending on your point of view, they can either be a nuisance by being where they shouldn't be (proper urban exploration means touching and taking nothing other than photos and video), or a useful pastime by letting people see what's happened and satisfying their curiosity (often to the point where they won't bother doing it themselves, so one person may deter dozens of others from actually doing it).
It can be interesting to see some decades old stuff that was forgotten about still pristine out there, or other times being used to document the downfall of something. Like a mall - they catch it in its heyday, then periodiocally re-document it until the point where it's being torn down.
Some good ones to watch on YouTube include "This is Dan Bell" (especially the Dead Mall series), and "Retail Archeology".
I prefer the spiders, they keep the insect population at bay.
Once a wasp decided to create a nest outside the door to our secondary suite. It didn't last long - the nest stayed tiny, but the next year, the number of spider webs (all inhabited by spiders big and small) were plentiful. Never encountered any wasps, either.
Ugly scary looking things, but hey, they eat the little critters that serve to annoy me, so they're doing a good job there. I don't recall getting bit by mosquitoes or harassed by fruit flies, either, so the spiders can stay. And they do it for free, and are environmentally friendlier than bug spray.
I see it more as "Apple is prioritizing building the phones people want to buy" which happen to be the newest phones, and which happen to be the most expensive.
The Xr is basically a repackabed iPhone X, minus OLED screen (replaced with LCD). If you wanted an iPhone X-style phone, you either want an Xs coming out, or you would've just bought the iPhone X already. Thus really, selling iPhone Xr units on day 1 wouldn't generate a ton of new sales and it takes away from manufacture of the phone people really want - the Xs.
In a month's time, when the mad rush to buy an Xs is over, you can release the Xr, keeping the production lines busy.
Likewise, in the meantime, you stopped production of the other phones (the iPhone 7/8 series) because you have a backlog of inventory of them, so those lines are devoted to making the Xs units at first. The inventory will tide you over on sales (because they sell thinly) while you're making everything else.
It's also a bit of letting the channels sell through as well - carriers with unsold iPhone X stock can sell to those who want an Xs but can't afford it, but don't want an Xr.
Remember, Apple hates scalpers, and anytime they have to say "Sorry, it's out of stock" to someone, they see it as a lost sale opportunity - they'd rather say "Yes, we have them in stock, which one do you want" rather than have you walk away disappointed (and potentially, buying another phone). They know demand for the very latest unit is always high and while they can sell out on the first weekend, they'd rather sell out on Sunday night than Friday night. So making tons of the one people generally want to keep stores stocked is a good move, while those who want the alternative have alternatives. If you want the Xr now, you'd just go with the X (still obtainable either as refurb through Apple or through your carrier).
The real issue is Trump and the Russians.
Remember, Trump has not divested himself of his businesses, something Presidents do to avoid conflict of interest situations where they may do legislation that benefits them directly. Every time Trump goes to Mar-A-Largo, the Secret Service has to spend money there, which has direct benefits to the President.
Also remember, that in general, Trump's business hasn't been doingn too well. Some make profits, but that's about it. Except in one place - Russia. Trump gets a lot of money from his Russian interests, hence the natural "friendliness" towards them.
Combined with direct benefits from business, there's a lot of interest in anywhere Trump feels particularly friendly towards.
It's like ZTE, which Trump vowed to kill until China invested half a billion dollars in a Trump hotel and give Ivanka a super hard to get trademark.
I doubt that's actually a thing - because warez sites are generally about having the latest games first, and Humble Store bundles generally mean the game or program has been out a while already. Plus they aren't necessarily DRM-free since a lot of them just give Steam codes.
GOG store on the other hand is DRM-free and there have been many new releases on it that come out same day.
That's because with subtle enough tweaks, it's impossible to measure without having measurement error. The best margin to tweak is actually the right hand margin as long as you leave the Justification set to left (never fully justified). Left margin if you're in a RTL place, and again, never fully justified. This makes the right margin almost impossible to measure because word wrapping and the like ensure no line actually makes it all the way.
As for point sizes, remember a point is 1/72nd of an inch. Half a point up or down is 1/144th of an inch. If you use an inkjet printer with not good quality paper, the ink overrun will hide it quite well. Plus a lot of fonts you use will have different heights anyways - just printing out 12 point sized text in various fonts will reveal a variety of font heights.
You reserve the good quality paper for your cheat sheet to an exam where you can reduce the font size down to 4 or 5 points and with a laser printer on good quality paper makes it too easy to read. (Even regular copy paper works well enough with a laser).
No, there is no relation between NewEgg (2000-present) and Egghead Software (1984-2001).
Two separate companies and fromw hat I can tell, Egghead died out in the late 80s or mid-90s or so. Lots of memories of visiting them though to get new stuff.
Stuff in baggies was always fun!
No, it's because QUALCOMM is not licensing AptX to Apple. CSR was purchased by Qualcomm years ago, and AptX went along with it. (The logo is AptX by Qualcomm now)
Of course, it doesn't help that Qualcomm and Apple are trading lawsuits with each other, causing the removal of AptX support from everything else as well.
LDAC support is a possibility, because Sony is basically giving LDAC away (it's included in Android 8), given Sony is the only one making LDAC receivers.
Unlikely. You cannot fix human greed. The mortgage market expanded wildly on sub-prime mortgages because everyone was seeking more and more money, and conjuring up mathematical models that say everything is OK. (These are really smart people, too). And as long as everyone was making money, everyone was happy to look the other way.
That said, not everyone suffered - there were a few people who realized what was going on and invested the other way. Heck, the Credit Default Swap was invented to take advantage of this situation. This lead to several funds being created that basically cashed it in when the crash happened. (This was not easy - they had to cash it in before everyone went insolvent).
The problem is even Hollywood might not actually have the right to give you that kind of license. Unless you want to pay for license upgrades - i.e., you buy "HD now" and then "4K upgrades" and "8K license upgrade".
The reason is simple - a lot of contracts may not have allowed for some provisions. Early movies did not have a "home video" provision - because the idea of watching a movie at home was preposterous. So actor's contracts and royalties never took that into account. Then came home video, and now all those movies were locked up until Hollywood could re-negotiate the royalty structures, but then again, only on analog tape formats.
Then came DVD and more rights on digital discs. Ditto streaming movies and more royalties. It's a wonderful idea, but often the rights to a movie are not future proof, and new formats and such may require further upgrade payments because the authors, artists, actors, etc set up a new royalty payment scheme for those formats.
I can envision a situation where a movie may exist on disc, but can never be streamed or downloaded because someone in the whole rights chain is blocking it with excessive demands. So you can acquire and copy the disc, but that disc cannot be ripped etc because the license you have disallows it because the estate of the long dead actor will require $50 per digital copy to do so.
Exactly. This is only about a product which was announced last year, but never came out. It's a year later and all mentions of it disappeared.
Why? Who the heck knows. Maybe Apple was working on it, and decided that really, they can't sell the things at a premium over everyone else so why continue development? It's like their routers - they decided to abandon selling their routers and such because really, the market is saturated with hundreds of other routers.
Apple sells product in one of two ways. One, if it can offer such a differentiator that people want it (products like iPhone and iPod and Macs, for example), or if they see a market that's commodity but there's a niche Apple can fit in. WiFi Routers (back when they were rare) and monitors (when 24" and 30" monitors were basically nonexistent) are such markets. The problem is that the niche often fills in afterwards - WiFi routers and equipment are everywhere now and Apple's advantages are minimal. Ditto monitors - large monitors are common so why continue building into a niche that's filled in?
Looks like the charging pad may be a victim of everyone else doing the same thing.
Their goal was always to do be like Google. It's why they offered MIUI for free - the more people that used it meant more data collected by Xiaomi for whatever purpose they wanted the data for.
Their business model has always been to give away the hardware and software and sell your information. And MIUI was actually decent, other than the data collection part. It was why people wanted to install it on their Android phones.
This. I too was curious about the services (and hell, I would like it to be able to cook more at home), but they are expensive. It was shocked when it was quoted as $60 or week - that's my general grocery budget for myself a week! And they only offered 3 meals during that week (yes, I could save the leftovers and made it a full week) but damn, that I felt was quite pricey.
Cook at home I get - it's cheaper in general (if you spend $20 eating out, you can prepare a similar meal for about $5 in ingredients at the grocery store), but damn, the markup of those services make it so each meal ends up being close to $20 again. May be healthier than eating out, but it certainly isn't cheaper.
Maybe if it was closer to say $30 for an entire week's worth of meals I would've jumped on the chance to learn to cook and do that, but at their current prices, it's excessive.
No one said, even in the post-PC era, that we won't need computers. Even Steve Jobs said PCs were like trucks, and you still need trucks to do a lot of things.
All that's happened is a lot of lighter uses that would've required a PC can be served with a smartphone or tablet or other device (e.g., media streamer). Where once you would've read an ebook on the screen of a laptop, you use a tablet. Netflix is done on tablets, smartphones, or at home using a Roku or something, instead of a PC connected to the TV (remember scan converters in the era before TVs has VGA, DVI or HDMI ports?).
But there's still a ton of work that cannot be done with any of those devices, just like people don't generally move appliances with their dinky little Prius - you call on a U-Haul truck, or use your pickup (or call on a friend with one) to help you move those things around. Doesn't mean the Prius is useless, it just means for this situation it's not as useful. Given most people's habits, though, the Prius may be more practical for them - uses less gas, easier to park than a truck, etc which they'd do far more often than move appliances around.
And for some people they do this stuff so often they need their trucks - so owning one is highly justified.
The variety of vehicles on the road reflects the variety of devices we have today that can access the Internet and to do stuff The only thing that's different in the post-PC era is that everything and everyone isn't focused on the PC as the be all end all device - it's there because there are limitations to other devices but people use other devices to avoid some of the disadvantages of using a PC (e.g., bulkier, less portable, less convenient, need of maintenance, etc).
The general symptom of "addiction" is you're basically doing it to the exclusion of all else. I.e., you'd rather play your video game than do your chores, do your job, attend to the needs of your family, feed yourself, get enough sleep, etc.
As long as you're able to keep up with the demands of everyday life and you're able to stop when needed, it's generally safe to assume you're not addicted. You may have marathon sessions which happens from time to time (any hobby does) but if your wife is generally happy and you contribute back afterwards, it should be OK.
As in, maybe after your marathon session is over, you take her out (or the entire family out) to do something together to make up for the absence. It doesn't have to cost much (i.e., you don't have to take them out to fancy restaurant or a movie), just do something as a family together everyone enjoys, whether it's board games, video games (as a family), a walk in the park, etc.
The unfortunate thing is you can't tell how close to the line you are until it's too late - most wives just silently stew on it until it explodes. That's why you defuse the situation by doing things as a family together. It's hard to argue when you're also spending quality time with the family, and even more so after a marathon session where you might have ignored them for a day to make it up.
I thought my gmail was relatively obscure too, until one day last year I started getting messagse about board meetings and membership application requests to be discussed.
It took a few days (the emails were sent to a mailing list, so there was no address other than the from address, and I somehow could get the emails, but they were silently blocked because no amount of replying worked. Finally someone sent an email with a bunch of other email addresses and I could get a hold of someone to fix the error.
Their mailing list admin accidentally truncated the email address in use so for a few days I got to see how a flying club worked on the inside. Alas, they are on the east coast and I'm on the west coast (and in Canada), but at least I have an open invitation to visit them.
On my domain, though, some company registered for DSL services in the UK and a landline. And someone else loves staying at the Hilton, for I kept getting surveys about their stay.
British Telecom oddly wouldn't let me log in using that email address they always send me the bills to, but the Hilton surveys stopped suddenly after about a dozen which I replied how my stay was awful and the staff sucked, etc.
Apple may be rich, but well equipped government agencies are even richer. Think about it this way - when a state sponsored company can sell an exploit to other state sponsored agencies for 7 figures (i.e., millions) how much would Apple have to pay for it?
GreyKey and the like sell their boxes for $30K. How much do you think the exploit they use is worth?
Apple may make more money than some countries, but those generally aren't the countries Apple is concerned about.
Anyhow, the thinking is that if someone found it, chances are someone ELSE might find the same flaw, and perhaps they're not so well connected that getting Apple to ante up $200K is far better than trying to sell it to government agencies. It's not like hackers have patented cracking methods that no one else does, after all.