And get sued out of existence for copyright infringement if the original deal with the third-party publishers specified a limited number of units. Or would you prefer a limited-functionality NES Classic with all third-party games cut out?
And I'm sure those third party companies would be more than happy to renegotiate a gravy train. Sure maybe the price has to go up, but at $70, I'm sure NIntendo could raise it to $100 to relicense the games. It's not like those games were making much money otherwise sitting around. I'm sure those companies were making a TON of money off their NES games at this point in time.
Hell, I'm sure more companies might come around and beg Nintendo to add their game in - free money and all off something they only have to provide a binary copy of and a scan (though considering Nintendo made all the cartridges, perhaps Nintendo has all the original binaries and manual coillateral).
The only games that won't are those whose rights are really up in the air, but I'm sure if Nintendo put out a call for rightsholders to include their game in the NES Classic II, they'd pop out of the woodwork for free money.
I liked the proposal (Trump's, I believe) to grant H-1Bs on the basis of who wants to pay most, so each application would come with a salary and we'd go through them in decreasing order and stop when we hit the limit. That would allow companies to bring in the sort of people H-1Bs are nominally for.
So you'd bias the pool towards Silicon Valley participants who naturally have to pay more because it's an expensive place, over places like Seattle where it's not as expensive, so you'd pay less anyways? Or there are plenty of places that have much lower costs of living and thus pay less money, but that doesn't mean they don't have the demand. (Perhaps it's not worth moving?).
And then you'd likely bias it for financial companies who may be willing to pay way more for a programmer to follow their quant to make a few extra bucks in HFT.
At this point, you might as well make it an auction for people to bid on the visas, screw salaries. Those who want the employee the most can pay the most to the government.
here are a lot of artists and entertainers that survive on the goodwill of their audience. It happens to be the traditional model.
Actually, most do.
Because unless you're signed by a big content conglomerate with tons of marketing money behind it, you're someone competing with millions of other someones doing the same thing - trying to get noticed. And the vast majority of those someones are trying to get noticed with genuine crap.
If you're indie, the problem is just getting noticed. Because there are millions of others doing the same. You can indie and have the world's best product, but if no one notices or even knows you exist, you have diddly squat. You may have a bulletproof plan for world peace, but if it languishes among everyone else, no one cares or knows.
It's why indies have to try all sorts of things hoping to maybe one of them might catch their 15 minutes of fame and thus rise up above the noise.
No, the REAL reason for RPi's success is the community.
There are faster boards, there are better boards. But they don't have community behind it. This means the software stagnates and is out of date on release. But for RPi, there's plenty of community support such that software stacks keep getting updated. And there's lots of people to ask questions to.
Community is probably the #1 factor in whether something will be around a year from now or not. If people aren't using your boards in any significant degree, then when they leave, it's dead. When you have a lively community, they're keeping it alive.
Disks use 512/4096 byte sectors, erase blocks of powers of two, etc -- not a single power of 10 around
That's purely by convention today that we use powers of 2 for sector size.
A CD has 2352 byte sectors. But when we created CD-ROM, we rounded it down to 2048 byte sectors. Sure, we use a lot of it for error correction, but there are zero bytes in there just to pad it out. You could even create a disc with raw 2336 byte sectors (no error correction or padding bytes)
Early computers had different sector sizes as well, usually related to the word size of the machine for pure convenience.
And there are some systems out there that can't handle a 2K sector size, so some CD-ROM drives also have a "512byte" emulation mode where each CD-ROM sector is split into 4 and addressed as 512byte units.
Flash is even weirder since bulk NAND flash has an extra 16 bytes per 512 page (or 128 bytes per 4096 byte page) and while some of it is reserved for error correction, the rest is up to the filesystem or flash translation layer to use. In theory you can use it for user data storage as well.
Wall street is the only part of the country that would cheer the loss of jobs.
I'm not so sure about that. The McD's near me at work changed to kiosks, and I can swear all the people who used to be at the cashier are now working inside putting food and orders together.
They went with the kiosks because they were busy and there were always long lines to take orders practically all the time. Now the lines are much shorter and there appears to be more people behind the counter. Oddly enough, there are still 3 cash registers (because the kiosks don't take cash, so you still have to pay there, but you can also order there if you don't want to deal with the kiosk or want a customization the kiosk doesn't offer), just packed closer together since you don't gather near them for food.
I'd likely say the kiosks have improved business especially since a lot of the orders are for drinks and such so you can quickly get through the kiosk what you want and not have to pile up with the registers and be stuck behind people with other orders, so you're in and out quicker, too.
But that is one restaurant. Others have not converted to kiosks yet. Remember McD's is about throughput - stuffing quick drink and ice cream orders behind someone with a huge food order is not a good thing, so the kiosks allow for out of order completion because the individual stations are more fully utilized. And more utilization means more staff can man them - where one person might have done drinks and ice cream, the increase in order speeds mean you need 4 people handling the station just from sheer volume. Which likely attracts more people because they didn't want to wait 15 minutes for a drink or ice cream, but can be in and out in 3.
Likely, the restaurant needs MORE people now to handle the increased traffic
And chances are, Apple will just pick up Imagination Technologies as well. It happens all the time - Jean-Louis Gassee tried to sell Be Inc. to Apple at a hugely inflated price (back in the old days just prior to Jobs' return). Apple decided Be wasn't worth that much and passed on the offer. Obviously they were hoping Apple was desperate enough to just pay anything. Of course, in the end, Apple did pay up... for NeXT, in a deal worth more than what Be was selling for.
Right now, the only real thing Apple wants is the patents, and that's really all what Imagination had for Apple. Apple got fed up of paying Imagination's prices and ditched them.
It's great to be greedy, but don't be surprised if the other company calls your bluff.
I've always thought that the perfect use for e-books is textbooks, especially since they can be yanked back and/or edited at will; whereas I hate them for that ability and how it's been sometimes abused when it comes to purchased literature (I prefer printed paper books, TYVM) textbooks are often updated, and textbooks are very often only good to the student for one semester, but can cost hundreds of dollars. An e-book version could eliminate all these problems, as well as the massive weight of carrying around a bunch of textbooks; students would just need a laptop (which they'd have anyway) or a tablet computer, or even just an e-book reader. E-book readers are inexpensive, and they could even be rented to students by the college bookstore. The e-book textbooks themselves could also be rented; you'd just pay for access for a given timespan. College bookstores would only really have to keep consumable materials in-stock, and could also be smaller. Win-win for everyone.
They do make e-Textbooks. In fact, most textbooks have e-versions already. They're not preferred because ebooks are still a lot less convenient to randomly go through than a real book. The only real advantage is it's much easier to search an ebook. But highlighting, bookmarking and flipping back and forth are just a lot less convenient than a book of post-it notes, post-it stickers, fingers and a real highlighter. It's also often much quicker to move through a real book - if you need to refer to something 100 pages ago, it's just so much quicker flipping pages than clicking the page thumb or entering a page number.
Now, that doesn't mean you can't have real paper books that are fully updatable - in many industries they print pages on looseleaf with dates and page numbers and often paginated specially so if you update a section, you just replace the old page with a new one. And perhaps once a year they print a master list of all pages and revisions to ensure your copy is completely up to date with the latest revisions of all the pages. Even better, they often add change bars so you can see what was updated.
I've gotten the impression that Intel has lots of stuff prepped, and ready to deploy, in response to any threat by AMD.
Yes, but only to maintain, but not eliminate AMD.
You see, Intel's goal is to keep AMD where they are. They WANT AMD to have a foothold in the server market where the money is. But not too big a foothold.
For Intel, AMD"s position is perfect - they are the distant second and will nip at the heels like an eager puppy. Which is where Intel wants them. Too powerful and they have competition, too weak and AMD could die off and unleash all sorts of government investigations, regulations, anti-monopoly rulings and other things. Worse yet, AMD's patents that are cross-licensed with Intel might go to ARM or others forcing Intel to pay or cross-license.
So Intel needs AMD to be around, but not too powerful nor too weak. They could crush AMD with what they have, but they won't, so they just need to deploy "just enough" to counter the threat without actually harming AMD.
So given the (theoretical) miracle of free market, where is non-TSA, pre-9-11 airport I can fly from?
All of them. Just charter a private jet.
Only from smaller airports. And even then you're subject to at least a metal detector and X-Ray unless it's a much smaller airport (i.e., one where tiny Cessna and Piper planes fly out from). But even those may require passengers to use the passenger terminal.
So you're limited to small private jets up to maybe a Learjet or so. Anything larger will require going to a commercial airport where they will have full time security and often will have TSA at the private jet terminal.
Nearly all airports outside of the USA.:-)
Nope, sorry. They copied all the US restrictions too. Asian airports have the take off shoes and liquid bans, as well as European countries. And this isn't just planes to the US, it applies to all passengers as well. It will not surprise me at all if there are a few that have laptop bans as well. A lot of airports take their guidelines from the US guidelines
Coming from Apple where employees are pretty much pampered and living off the constant money flow from the App Store might be a pretty big shock.
App Store money is pittance - most of that goes to servers, credit card processors and other expenses. And online revenue at Apple (covering ALL of iTunes and iCloud) is tiny compared to even Mac sales. Apple's not getting rich off the App Store - 30% is not a big cut when most of the apps are free.
No, Apple is a driven workplace - maybe not ruthless, but one where people are driven to excel. Jobs may be an asshole, but he was an inspirational asshole - if he knew you were phoning it in, he'd call you out. But if you were doing something to your very best, you'd be the saint.
Perhaps that was missing at Tesla - the desire to excel and be rewarded for it (even if it results in failure).
I don't believe things have changed much under Tim Cook, other than not being publicly berated, tarred and feathered in front of all the Apple employees.
Enforced diversity? Han is White, Lando is Black. It's only enforced because that's the story as established way back in 1981. The roles were established back before Hollywood was enforcing diversity. I hate enforced diversity in media as well. But stop trying to blame something that isn't an issue here. The characters are as established long ago.
Star Trek TMP did it in 1979, and only because the cast was intentionally diverse back in 1966. Unheard of at the time, but it was completely intentional to have black, women and asian actors all together.
Apple won't let the app with those features they don't like in their walled garden (app store).
Funny enough, but Apple did make it possible for apps to implement ad blocking which takes place on all webviews and the main safari browser.
This is a new feature as of iOS 10, and there are more than a few ad blockers in the App Store. One of the best made the developer feel guilty which lead him to remove it.
Firefox could do the same - rather than use a webview app, just implement the ad blocker extensions and block it all system wide.
I live in Las Vegas, and we're getting the same high triple-digit temperatures and on top of that most of the Las Vegas valley is at least 2000 feet above sea level vs Phoenix being around 1000 feet. This difference would cause Las Vegas' density altitude to be worse than Phoenix, yet I've heard of no cancelled flights out of Mc Carran airport...
Probably because McCarran has been designed to handle really really hot weather and thus, have really really really long runways.
The same problem happens in Colorado as well, so they make their runways really long to compensate, and this is during regular non-heat-wave weather. It's just the altitude is high enough that causes issues.
Heck, I flew small planes at sea level. One (really hot, and humid) summer day, the plane was performing quite poorly, so once back on the ground, I calculated the density altitude which ended up being about 4000 feet or so. Turns out I should've done the "high density altitude" takeoff (wasn't an issue since the runways were long enough for a tiny Cessna to actually get off). And "high density altitude" is 3000 feet. (The big difference is you need to lean out the engine as well as apply brakes, then apply full throttle and wait a few seconds for the engine RPM to max out before letting go so the engine is developing max power - at lower density altitudes this is not an issue and we can burn up runway running rich mixture and letting the RPMs climb up).
Also, they probably run less regional jets into McCarran since more people want to visit Vegas than Phoenix.
Buzz and Hype may be good... However what a leak normally does is show off that something new is coming soon, so customers will hold off on their purchase of say the iPhone 7 because the iPhone 7s or the 8 will be out and it will be that much cooler. So during this time of hype people are not buying the older products. Being that their products are months away from release a valid product leak sent out too early could kill a quarters revenue.
Hint: New iPhones have come out around September of every year. They always miss back to school season. You don't need leaks when the release schedule is predictable. And most of the iPhone profits come within the first 3 months of sale where they can move nearly a hundred million units. The rest of it just tails off into standard churn from those who don't really care and get one when their contract is up for renewal.
Granted, there have been a few surprises like the iPhone SE proving people still wanted a high end, but not so big, phone.
But Apple used to be far harsher on leakers than now. These days Apple is far more lenient. It used to be one of the most definite clues of what something looks like was if the photos you saw in the news article were removed the next day. Now Apple stopped taking down photos. (Because if the photo wasn't taken down the next day, the leak was a fake. If it was, the leak was real).
Heck, I think Apple also must design some Android phones and OEMs it to manufacturers, as some leaks end up being believable, but not actually in the final design, so people end up thinking it wasn't an Apple leak, but a leak for someone else.
The other thing I think Apple does is poison the well - if leaks are going to happen, then manufacture your own leaks and have leakers leak those as well to confuse what is actually happening.
It also has a Home button, to do what you're wanting- return to known good state (start).
Do you know anything at all about Android??
That was the theory, but everyone realized the Android back button was fraught with issues. Sometimes pushing it brought you all the way to the first screen of the app, and if you hit it again, it quit the app. Sometimes it brought you back just one screen, other times it brought you out of the multi-screen process you were in and back to the main screen.
It was an unpredictable mess. And it still is today - I can download a PDF and it opens in a PDF view that looks like a separate app, but isn't. If i hit the back button, it brings me back to the previous screen I was looking at, which is confusing because the PDF appeared to open like a new tab or app, and if I want to switch between what I was reading (before the PDF reader rudely interrupted me) it closes the PDF view.
And then what happens if you hit it in the middle of a game? Do you abort the current level and go back to the main menu? Or be wrong and bring up a pause menu (and what does back do now - back to main menu, or back to game?)
That's been the problem plaguing Android's back button - you're not quite sure where it would take you back. Granted, these days is a lot better than before, but ambiguity still remains.
I think the problem is that "peak fidget spinner" coincided with the shortage - now that everyone is able to bring in a 1000 a day, everyone can go out and buy one immediately without looking very hard (and fueling the craze).
A store I regularly visit used to get about 1000 inquiries a day about them, but now he brings them in, they move, but slower. Mostly because everyone else has them, too.
Mmmm, I am canadian, working for a canadian company and sending file on dropbox is strictly prohibited. Using any US cloud service to share file is in fact prohibited. We always use a service hosted in Canada, probably even hosted in one of our datacenter, I'm quite surprise by your number, that may not include in house tools.
It depends on the application. We have dropbox internally, but it's used by sales to hold all the sales collateral. If that gets out, well, free marketing for us.
Customers often use GDrive to share files with us, while we host an internal FTP server to share stuff back. Internally we just have our own fileserver, so external cloud services are used for specific cases.
But I've seen companies ban the use of all cloud storage providers period, so it really depends on the company. Of course, the better of those companies detail the various ways you can use what the company already provides to do the same thing. If you need to transfer a large file, there's a few temporary file servers that will host your data internally and you send a link to it. If you need to send a file to a customer, there's ways for that as well. It's only the lousy companies that ban it and don't provide an equivalent method of sharing files that cause people to get creative.
Growing up I remember there being a pair of intersections along a major road in my home town, one had green over red, the other had red over green. Every time I was near there, I wondered "How many people have gotten hurt because a colorblind driver thought a red light was green?"
Shouldn't the lights at least always be in the same order so that colorblind can just know "the top one is red" (or "the bottom one is red")
There are standards for traffic lights - both the ones that hang vertically (red on top) and the ones that hang horizontally (depends on the rule of the road - right-hand-side countries use red-yellow-green, left-hand-side countries is green-yellow-red. Or, red is towards the center of the road, just like drivers sit towards the center of the road to see oncoming traffic). Even then, they can have shapes added to make them even easier.
Green on top should be something you call out the town to fix - because it is a safety hazard - even for those without red-green blindness (you'd assume the top light is red, so if it's glowing, you'd think to stop, but if it's green, then... confusion. Sure if you're not red-green blind you can resolve it with a blink of the eye and a double-check, but if you're not paying so much attention.... (say, on your phone...).
And yes, games can have terrible accessibility - I played one where you dealt with colored cubes... yellow, red, green and brown cubes. Naturally color is important. I can't imagine someone with red-green blindness understanding what was going on, despite the game being quite fun to play and very quick (you finish your turn, and seconds later it's your turn again). A simple fix would be to use different shapes to help differentiate the cubes - spheres, pyramids, cubes, and "spiky" would work just as well, and be even easier to identify. You would have to change the symbology on the cards since they were all colored cubes as well, but colors and shapes would turn it from a nightmare to very accessible with little effort.
Hell, some games just seem designed to be against people with low vision as well. I know one of my escape room games uses slight variations in shading to clue you in but it also made it hard to decipher it until I put it down and looked at it. Here, you can use that, but what made it harder was the use of the low-density printing process which meant everything was halftoned using variable sized dots similar to older style comics. Using a more modern high DPI printer might have made it just as hard to see, but easier to understand once spotted.
This is in addition to warranties, so the warranty for a refrigerator may be 12 months, the CGA would say 10 years.
The CGA also says that the supplier is also liable for any additional harm, e.g. your phone catches fire and burns the house down, the supplier is able for all losses including the house, accommodation while it is rebuilt etc.
You can also NOT contract you way out of the CGA
And then everyone comes around and cries out "Why does the US price for [item] is $500 and I'm paying $1000 for it?!"
There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you mandate an extended warranty period, well, you've forced everyone to buy an extended warranty. In the US, you can choose to decline that 10 year warranty for another 20% of the item cost. Well, now your law makes it so everything costs 20% more.
Yes, Apple gets rightly fined for selling AppleCare in these countries because the laws make it so AppleCare was already included in the price. I.e., a bad attempt at double-dipping. (And if you actually calculate it out, after taxes, VATs, warranties and all that, the price of the hardware actually comes out the same. It ends up being the US price is exclusive of sales taxes, import taxes, mandatory extended warranties and other external costs).
So there are reasons other than "screw you" fees to why things can cost a lot more.
Only to two people - hobbyists (where time is no issue) and iFixit's CEO.
And really, iFixit's CEO is in it for the money to sell parts and tools than any repairs. You can tell because they won't warranty their stuff. It is a big deal because if they want Joe Schmoe to repair their stuff they need to contend with stuff like warranty fraud which is already huge today. If you ever wonder why Best Buy returns desk is always so annoying, well, try dealing with people who return "it wasn't dropped into water, honest!" product that's leaving a pool of water on the counter. And this is today.
Imagine tomorrow after some guy tries to IFixit his laptop, breaks the circuit board and then returns it as "it just stopped working".
Apple's "proprietary screws" at least offer an intelligence test - if you're smart enough to buy a screwdriver from iFixit, you're probably at least smart enough to know your way around and not muck it up. And if you do muck it up, chalk it up to experience and not try to fraudulently get a replacement.
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And I'm sure those third party companies would be more than happy to renegotiate a gravy train. Sure maybe the price has to go up, but at $70, I'm sure NIntendo could raise it to $100 to relicense the games. It's not like those games were making much money otherwise sitting around. I'm sure those companies were making a TON of money off their NES games at this point in time.
Hell, I'm sure more companies might come around and beg Nintendo to add their game in - free money and all off something they only have to provide a binary copy of and a scan (though considering Nintendo made all the cartridges, perhaps Nintendo has all the original binaries and manual coillateral).
The only games that won't are those whose rights are really up in the air, but I'm sure if Nintendo put out a call for rightsholders to include their game in the NES Classic II, they'd pop out of the woodwork for free money.
So you'd bias the pool towards Silicon Valley participants who naturally have to pay more because it's an expensive place, over places like Seattle where it's not as expensive, so you'd pay less anyways? Or there are plenty of places that have much lower costs of living and thus pay less money, but that doesn't mean they don't have the demand. (Perhaps it's not worth moving?).
And then you'd likely bias it for financial companies who may be willing to pay way more for a programmer to follow their quant to make a few extra bucks in HFT.
At this point, you might as well make it an auction for people to bid on the visas, screw salaries. Those who want the employee the most can pay the most to the government.
Actually, most do.
Because unless you're signed by a big content conglomerate with tons of marketing money behind it, you're someone competing with millions of other someones doing the same thing - trying to get noticed. And the vast majority of those someones are trying to get noticed with genuine crap.
If you're indie, the problem is just getting noticed. Because there are millions of others doing the same. You can indie and have the world's best product, but if no one notices or even knows you exist, you have diddly squat. You may have a bulletproof plan for world peace, but if it languishes among everyone else, no one cares or knows.
It's why indies have to try all sorts of things hoping to maybe one of them might catch their 15 minutes of fame and thus rise up above the noise.
No, the REAL reason for RPi's success is the community.
There are faster boards, there are better boards. But they don't have community behind it. This means the software stagnates and is out of date on release. But for RPi, there's plenty of community support such that software stacks keep getting updated. And there's lots of people to ask questions to.
Community is probably the #1 factor in whether something will be around a year from now or not. If people aren't using your boards in any significant degree, then when they leave, it's dead. When you have a lively community, they're keeping it alive.
It's not just email space anymore - it's actually shared space between GMail, GDrive and probably other services...
That's purely by convention today that we use powers of 2 for sector size.
A CD has 2352 byte sectors. But when we created CD-ROM, we rounded it down to 2048 byte sectors. Sure, we use a lot of it for error correction, but there are zero bytes in there just to pad it out. You could even create a disc with raw 2336 byte sectors (no error correction or padding bytes)
Early computers had different sector sizes as well, usually related to the word size of the machine for pure convenience.
And there are some systems out there that can't handle a 2K sector size, so some CD-ROM drives also have a "512byte" emulation mode where each CD-ROM sector is split into 4 and addressed as 512byte units.
Flash is even weirder since bulk NAND flash has an extra 16 bytes per 512 page (or 128 bytes per 4096 byte page) and while some of it is reserved for error correction, the rest is up to the filesystem or flash translation layer to use. In theory you can use it for user data storage as well.
I'm not so sure about that. The McD's near me at work changed to kiosks, and I can swear all the people who used to be at the cashier are now working inside putting food and orders together.
They went with the kiosks because they were busy and there were always long lines to take orders practically all the time. Now the lines are much shorter and there appears to be more people behind the counter. Oddly enough, there are still 3 cash registers (because the kiosks don't take cash, so you still have to pay there, but you can also order there if you don't want to deal with the kiosk or want a customization the kiosk doesn't offer), just packed closer together since you don't gather near them for food.
I'd likely say the kiosks have improved business especially since a lot of the orders are for drinks and such so you can quickly get through the kiosk what you want and not have to pile up with the registers and be stuck behind people with other orders, so you're in and out quicker, too.
But that is one restaurant. Others have not converted to kiosks yet. Remember McD's is about throughput - stuffing quick drink and ice cream orders behind someone with a huge food order is not a good thing, so the kiosks allow for out of order completion because the individual stations are more fully utilized. And more utilization means more staff can man them - where one person might have done drinks and ice cream, the increase in order speeds mean you need 4 people handling the station just from sheer volume. Which likely attracts more people because they didn't want to wait 15 minutes for a drink or ice cream, but can be in and out in 3.
Likely, the restaurant needs MORE people now to handle the increased traffic
And chances are, Apple will just pick up Imagination Technologies as well. It happens all the time - Jean-Louis Gassee tried to sell Be Inc. to Apple at a hugely inflated price (back in the old days just prior to Jobs' return). Apple decided Be wasn't worth that much and passed on the offer. Obviously they were hoping Apple was desperate enough to just pay anything. Of course, in the end, Apple did pay up... for NeXT, in a deal worth more than what Be was selling for.
Right now, the only real thing Apple wants is the patents, and that's really all what Imagination had for Apple. Apple got fed up of paying Imagination's prices and ditched them.
It's great to be greedy, but don't be surprised if the other company calls your bluff.
They do make e-Textbooks. In fact, most textbooks have e-versions already. They're not preferred because ebooks are still a lot less convenient to randomly go through than a real book. The only real advantage is it's much easier to search an ebook. But highlighting, bookmarking and flipping back and forth are just a lot less convenient than a book of post-it notes, post-it stickers, fingers and a real highlighter. It's also often much quicker to move through a real book - if you need to refer to something 100 pages ago, it's just so much quicker flipping pages than clicking the page thumb or entering a page number.
Now, that doesn't mean you can't have real paper books that are fully updatable - in many industries they print pages on looseleaf with dates and page numbers and often paginated specially so if you update a section, you just replace the old page with a new one. And perhaps once a year they print a master list of all pages and revisions to ensure your copy is completely up to date with the latest revisions of all the pages. Even better, they often add change bars so you can see what was updated.
Yes, but only to maintain, but not eliminate AMD.
You see, Intel's goal is to keep AMD where they are. They WANT AMD to have a foothold in the server market where the money is. But not too big a foothold.
For Intel, AMD"s position is perfect - they are the distant second and will nip at the heels like an eager puppy. Which is where Intel wants them. Too powerful and they have competition, too weak and AMD could die off and unleash all sorts of government investigations, regulations, anti-monopoly rulings and other things. Worse yet, AMD's patents that are cross-licensed with Intel might go to ARM or others forcing Intel to pay or cross-license.
So Intel needs AMD to be around, but not too powerful nor too weak. They could crush AMD with what they have, but they won't, so they just need to deploy "just enough" to counter the threat without actually harming AMD.
Only from smaller airports. And even then you're subject to at least a metal detector and X-Ray unless it's a much smaller airport (i.e., one where tiny Cessna and Piper planes fly out from). But even those may require passengers to use the passenger terminal.
So you're limited to small private jets up to maybe a Learjet or so. Anything larger will require going to a commercial airport where they will have full time security and often will have TSA at the private jet terminal.
Nope, sorry. They copied all the US restrictions too. Asian airports have the take off shoes and liquid bans, as well as European countries. And this isn't just planes to the US, it applies to all passengers as well. It will not surprise me at all if there are a few that have laptop bans as well. A lot of airports take their guidelines from the US guidelines
Ask Nick Denton.
Not just that, but perhaps the NSA has infected a lot of Android phone and Linux PCs.... perhaps you heard of SELinux?
SELinux is enabled (mandatory) on a lot of Android phones, and it's in practically every Linux distribution... more so than say, systemd.
May want to consider whose security "Security Enhanced Linux" really improves then. They got the tinfoil hat wearing, non-Windows running crowd too!
App Store money is pittance - most of that goes to servers, credit card processors and other expenses. And online revenue at Apple (covering ALL of iTunes and iCloud) is tiny compared to even Mac sales. Apple's not getting rich off the App Store - 30% is not a big cut when most of the apps are free.
No, Apple is a driven workplace - maybe not ruthless, but one where people are driven to excel. Jobs may be an asshole, but he was an inspirational asshole - if he knew you were phoning it in, he'd call you out. But if you were doing something to your very best, you'd be the saint.
Perhaps that was missing at Tesla - the desire to excel and be rewarded for it (even if it results in failure).
I don't believe things have changed much under Tim Cook, other than not being publicly berated, tarred and feathered in front of all the Apple employees.
Star Trek TMP did it in 1979, and only because the cast was intentionally diverse back in 1966. Unheard of at the time, but it was completely intentional to have black, women and asian actors all together.
Because maybe instead of stickers on apples, we can laser print the barcode on apples too? Then we can just scan the apples.
In the meantime, even if you cannot scan it, you can at least laser print the PLU number on the apple itself so thus avoiding the need for a sticker.
Luckily, some cashiers are smart enough to look at the sticker rather than the book...
Funny enough, but Apple did make it possible for apps to implement ad blocking which takes place on all webviews and the main safari browser.
This is a new feature as of iOS 10, and there are more than a few ad blockers in the App Store. One of the best made the developer feel guilty which lead him to remove it.
Firefox could do the same - rather than use a webview app, just implement the ad blocker extensions and block it all system wide.
Probably because McCarran has been designed to handle really really hot weather and thus, have really really really long runways.
The same problem happens in Colorado as well, so they make their runways really long to compensate, and this is during regular non-heat-wave weather. It's just the altitude is high enough that causes issues.
Heck, I flew small planes at sea level. One (really hot, and humid) summer day, the plane was performing quite poorly, so once back on the ground, I calculated the density altitude which ended up being about 4000 feet or so. Turns out I should've done the "high density altitude" takeoff (wasn't an issue since the runways were long enough for a tiny Cessna to actually get off). And "high density altitude" is 3000 feet. (The big difference is you need to lean out the engine as well as apply brakes, then apply full throttle and wait a few seconds for the engine RPM to max out before letting go so the engine is developing max power - at lower density altitudes this is not an issue and we can burn up runway running rich mixture and letting the RPMs climb up).
Also, they probably run less regional jets into McCarran since more people want to visit Vegas than Phoenix.
Hint: New iPhones have come out around September of every year. They always miss back to school season. You don't need leaks when the release schedule is predictable. And most of the iPhone profits come within the first 3 months of sale where they can move nearly a hundred million units. The rest of it just tails off into standard churn from those who don't really care and get one when their contract is up for renewal.
Granted, there have been a few surprises like the iPhone SE proving people still wanted a high end, but not so big, phone.
But Apple used to be far harsher on leakers than now. These days Apple is far more lenient. It used to be one of the most definite clues of what something looks like was if the photos you saw in the news article were removed the next day. Now Apple stopped taking down photos. (Because if the photo wasn't taken down the next day, the leak was a fake. If it was, the leak was real).
Heck, I think Apple also must design some Android phones and OEMs it to manufacturers, as some leaks end up being believable, but not actually in the final design, so people end up thinking it wasn't an Apple leak, but a leak for someone else.
The other thing I think Apple does is poison the well - if leaks are going to happen, then manufacture your own leaks and have leakers leak those as well to confuse what is actually happening.
That was the theory, but everyone realized the Android back button was fraught with issues. Sometimes pushing it brought you all the way to the first screen of the app, and if you hit it again, it quit the app. Sometimes it brought you back just one screen, other times it brought you out of the multi-screen process you were in and back to the main screen.
It was an unpredictable mess. And it still is today - I can download a PDF and it opens in a PDF view that looks like a separate app, but isn't. If i hit the back button, it brings me back to the previous screen I was looking at, which is confusing because the PDF appeared to open like a new tab or app, and if I want to switch between what I was reading (before the PDF reader rudely interrupted me) it closes the PDF view.
And then what happens if you hit it in the middle of a game? Do you abort the current level and go back to the main menu? Or be wrong and bring up a pause menu (and what does back do now - back to main menu, or back to game?)
That's been the problem plaguing Android's back button - you're not quite sure where it would take you back. Granted, these days is a lot better than before, but ambiguity still remains.
I think the problem is that "peak fidget spinner" coincided with the shortage - now that everyone is able to bring in a 1000 a day, everyone can go out and buy one immediately without looking very hard (and fueling the craze).
A store I regularly visit used to get about 1000 inquiries a day about them, but now he brings them in, they move, but slower. Mostly because everyone else has them, too.
It depends on the application. We have dropbox internally, but it's used by sales to hold all the sales collateral. If that gets out, well, free marketing for us.
Customers often use GDrive to share files with us, while we host an internal FTP server to share stuff back. Internally we just have our own fileserver, so external cloud services are used for specific cases.
But I've seen companies ban the use of all cloud storage providers period, so it really depends on the company. Of course, the better of those companies detail the various ways you can use what the company already provides to do the same thing. If you need to transfer a large file, there's a few temporary file servers that will host your data internally and you send a link to it. If you need to send a file to a customer, there's ways for that as well. It's only the lousy companies that ban it and don't provide an equivalent method of sharing files that cause people to get creative.
There are standards for traffic lights - both the ones that hang vertically (red on top) and the ones that hang horizontally (depends on the rule of the road - right-hand-side countries use red-yellow-green, left-hand-side countries is green-yellow-red. Or, red is towards the center of the road, just like drivers sit towards the center of the road to see oncoming traffic). Even then, they can have shapes added to make them even easier.
Green on top should be something you call out the town to fix - because it is a safety hazard - even for those without red-green blindness (you'd assume the top light is red, so if it's glowing, you'd think to stop, but if it's green, then... confusion. Sure if you're not red-green blind you can resolve it with a blink of the eye and a double-check, but if you're not paying so much attention.... (say, on your phone...).
And yes, games can have terrible accessibility - I played one where you dealt with colored cubes... yellow, red, green and brown cubes. Naturally color is important. I can't imagine someone with red-green blindness understanding what was going on, despite the game being quite fun to play and very quick (you finish your turn, and seconds later it's your turn again). A simple fix would be to use different shapes to help differentiate the cubes - spheres, pyramids, cubes, and "spiky" would work just as well, and be even easier to identify. You would have to change the symbology on the cards since they were all colored cubes as well, but colors and shapes would turn it from a nightmare to very accessible with little effort.
Hell, some games just seem designed to be against people with low vision as well. I know one of my escape room games uses slight variations in shading to clue you in but it also made it hard to decipher it until I put it down and looked at it. Here, you can use that, but what made it harder was the use of the low-density printing process which meant everything was halftoned using variable sized dots similar to older style comics. Using a more modern high DPI printer might have made it just as hard to see, but easier to understand once spotted.
And then everyone comes around and cries out "Why does the US price for [item] is $500 and I'm paying $1000 for it?!"
There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you mandate an extended warranty period, well, you've forced everyone to buy an extended warranty. In the US, you can choose to decline that 10 year warranty for another 20% of the item cost. Well, now your law makes it so everything costs 20% more.
Yes, Apple gets rightly fined for selling AppleCare in these countries because the laws make it so AppleCare was already included in the price. I.e., a bad attempt at double-dipping. (And if you actually calculate it out, after taxes, VATs, warranties and all that, the price of the hardware actually comes out the same. It ends up being the US price is exclusive of sales taxes, import taxes, mandatory extended warranties and other external costs).
So there are reasons other than "screw you" fees to why things can cost a lot more.
Only to two people - hobbyists (where time is no issue) and iFixit's CEO.
And really, iFixit's CEO is in it for the money to sell parts and tools than any repairs. You can tell because they won't warranty their stuff. It is a big deal because if they want Joe Schmoe to repair their stuff they need to contend with stuff like warranty fraud which is already huge today. If you ever wonder why Best Buy returns desk is always so annoying, well, try dealing with people who return "it wasn't dropped into water, honest!" product that's leaving a pool of water on the counter. And this is today.
Imagine tomorrow after some guy tries to IFixit his laptop, breaks the circuit board and then returns it as "it just stopped working".
Apple's "proprietary screws" at least offer an intelligence test - if you're smart enough to buy a screwdriver from iFixit, you're probably at least smart enough to know your way around and not muck it up. And if you do muck it up, chalk it up to experience and not try to fraudulently get a replacement.