I have been thinking about whether the distinction between "consumer" (eg IdeaPad) and "business" (eg ThinkPad) machines even makes sense. This is not even limited to Lenovo of course.
Sure it does. The goals differ in several important ways.
Cost: A "Consumer" laptop has to be as cheap as possible. Under $500 preferably. A business laptop can cost a lot more ($1500-2000) as long as you focus on what business users care about - small, lightweight, etc. Also, use higher quality materials that can withstand mobile use.
Accessories: Business laptops are generally purchased en masse, or at least purchased alongside similar models. Thus, if you have a line that share accessories like docking stations, adapters, batteries, power cables, etc, this simplifies IT departments inventory, etc. Consumer laptops don't generally require docking stations so you can get rid of those and the only things require standard ports.
Features: Business laptops need management features - remote management, inventorying, etc. Consumer laptops generally don't, though a LoJack option might be desirable,but optional.
Operating System: Business laptops generally run a stable Windows - Windows 7 is typical. Consumer laptops generally run the latest since that's what all the splashy advertising shows, so they'd ship with Windows 10. (Windows 7 is typically a Windows 10 downgrade license). In addition, business laptops may be used by people in a company who don't necessarily run Windows, so alternate OS support is desirable, like Linux.
For me, even though I see the value, I still say No.
Because people who keep seeing fact checks will ignore them.
If you're a believer in homeopathy, having a big banner that tells you it's not real does absolutely zilch for you. If you're a Trump supporter, seeing banners telling you where he's wrong won't help.
These people will just ignore those messages and even worse, distrust them. And then they'll spread their distrust around to make the whole thing pointless.
The truth about the Internet, is instead of spreading the best ideas and eliminating mistruths is that it's really ending up to be a big echo chamber. People will gather with like-minded individuals, and even though on the internet they CAN be exposed to other ideas, in general, it doesn't happen at all.
The absolute worst thing you can do is attempt to question those beliefs, because it just leads to distrust.
The few people who are open-minded enough to look at both sides of the issue, whom this sort of alert is useful, are open minded enough to research both sides and form their own opinions. They're already motivated to seek the truth, and they will do so.
Telling closed-minded individuals what they don't want to hear results in distrust and completely destroys any goals the fact checking plugins were going for.
Other than digital restrictions management, what's the FSF-approved way for the publisher of an artistic work to offer a service consisting of a time-limited license for a subscriber to experience that work? Is the alternative really to drop rental altogether in favor of selling a durable copy of something that most people are likely to watch only once?
Easy. You buy it for full price. Then resell it to someone else who wants to see it for less money, and so on and so on. This is the FSF way (Remember, reselling is a right).
Of course, it assumes everyone is willing to do this, and that there are people who are willing to go through the effort and expense to resell it and then ship it/deliver it to the buyer.
Using DRM to make it so 1M people can rent it without having to find 1M people to buy it afterwards is considered evil.
The J5 was released back in April, if it was having the same issue as the Note 7 (August), I'm pretty sure there would have been a lot more news on this.
Yeah, this really isn't big news. The Note 7 was notable because it had 30 within 2 weeks of release, this is more of a random event and bad luck to the owner. While I would never buy this phone myself (it sounds like a cheap crap Android Samsung cranks out),,I wouldn't worry about more blowing up. Hell, even if a different model Samsung blew up tomorrow, I wouldn't deem Samsung dangerous. Samsung's shipped so many phones now so it's inevitable.
The bad thing is that a lot of what they're saying is true. Provably true. It's gotten to the point that even if she wins she loses. She's going to start her presidency with a cloud of scandal. The majority of the people that are going to vote for her think she's a liar and corrupt....because she is. That's leaving out the 40 percent that just flat hate everything about her. It's going to start bad and then get worse. Once people start to dig into your history they don't stop and there's plenty of dirt there with no real need to invent it.
That's the notable part of this vote. BOTH candidates are hated by more people than are liked. Usually the candidates have higher likeability ratings, but the voting population hates both Clinton and Trump. The only reason Clinton is winning is they hate Clinton slightly less than Trump.
It is expected that either candidate will be a 1-term president - the other side will simply pick a more likable candidate.
Effectively, everyone is voting for who they hate least, not who they'd like.
Funny, I question how viable ICE cars are. They only get 40mpg and the embodied energy to make that gallon is likely pretty inefficient and subsidized.
Meanwhile, EVs get 100mpge no problem. Safer, more spacious, 7x more reliable, soon cheaper, and soon with more range than an ICE car.
Makes you wonder how the ICE will survive... Especially when the closure of gas stations will dramatically limit their range.
Easy, energy density. The fuel itself had a super high energy density compared to stored electrical energy. (or even fuels like hydrogen).
So the only saving grace for ICE Is the ability to carry a lot of energy in a small space.
USB-A and similar designs where one has too switch on a bright light, find and put on glasses, look carefully just to connect must go. USB-A is a bad design, probably a result of jeunism in the IT industry. I mean that it is allegedly designed by young men and women with still perfect vision.
And then there's the other fact that a USB-A plug fits very nicely into the RJ-45 jack for networking.
I've had to diagnose more than a few "why doesn't my USB device work" which involved "unplugging" the USB cable from the Ethernet jack and moving it over to the right port. (after doing the twirl with it because it never fits in the first try).
Annodizing aluminum results in a converted surface layer of Aluminum oxide. Just leaving a clean Aluminum plate out on your table causes a slow buildup of Aluminum oxide.
To put an Iron oxide layer on steel, just put your steel plate on wet grass and leave it there until it is rusted to suit.
The oxidation of Aluminum is practically instantaneous - and it's hard. Oxidation of iron happens much slower, and it's very soft and flakes off, exposing more iron for oxidation.
Aluminum oxide does not flake off, which is why aluminum doesn't really degrade.
That said, if you put a bit of lithium on aluminum oxide, you will see the aluminum "melt" away because the lithium causes the aluminum oxide to fail and exposes fresh aluminum for exidation. It's one reason why lithium is controlled on aircraft - raw lithium will react and destroy the plane.
One thing though: I start bumping into those Apple walls more and more often, and so do other ordinary people. For example: speech recognition, which is incredibly useful in certain applications like home automation, and something that people want. App developers have been able to hook into Google's speech stuff for donkeys years now, but on iOS Apple only recently announced the eagerly awaited 3rd party access to the Siri API... which turns out to be exceedingly clunky and limited to only 6 domains: ride booking, online payments, messaging, that sort of thing. No home automation, not yet and probably not ever because Apple have their own HA offering: HomeKit. Which is still very much in its infancy and not very good even in basic setups, because it doesn't play nice with other kit. More walls... That's something that Apple need to be careful about; if this happens once too often, people will switch.
It's a fine line. Apple's method is clunky because a lot of it is done on-device and as little of it is done on Apple's servers. Google can make theirs work really well because it just sends it all to the cloud, no care about privacy.
It's also why the cloud-based Siri will never be as good - Apple has partitioned their departments that handle user data, so data collected for one purpose can NOT be used by any other department.
You may remember a few years ago Google basically unified all their services so instead of collecting user data in silos, they decided to simply share it among themselves. And now recently, all that data is now shared among all Alphabet companies. So all your Google searches and YouTube video watches and Google+ information is now available to all the advertising networks Google owns. And they own a few of the more notorious ones, like DoubleClick, which until recently was forbidden for accessing unified Google data, but now has access to it all.
It sucks, really, because if Siri could get access to a whole bunch of user data, it could be much better, but Apple's internal policies don't let it. (And more than a few AI researches have quit Apple because they couldn't access the necessary data sets). So it's a challenge - go with Google, and get stuff that works, but rapes you for all your information, or go with Apple, which doesn't work as well, because of privacy. Why is this even a choice?
Uh, they posted a video of an event that occurred and was factual. That's not defamation, libel, or slander; it's reporting on the life of public figures. It's long-established that being a public person cuts away a substantial amount of your privacy protection. What laws were broken?
A Florida Jury found that Gawker violated Hulk Hogan's privacy. Other juries and judges have determined that public figures's privacy can't be violated in that way in many situations. Unless Gawker produced the tape (including hiring someone to have it made, thus invading privacy), it's been long-established that this is simply public gossip about a public figure: a tape was made by Clem (husband of the chick Hogan banged), Clem gave it to Gawker, Gawker published it after Hogan's divorce.
By early 2012, rumors began circulating âoein the radio community about a sex tape starring Hogan and Heather Clem,â Peirce said in his deposition.
A month later, still images from the tape appeared on the website The Dirty â" and Bubba now recognized the canopy bed as his own and knew it was his tape.
In the fall of 2012, Gawkerâ(TM)s then editor, A.J. Daulerio, received a phone call from Tony Burton, a lawyer who claimed a client of his was interested in mailing him something. A package arrived at the Gawker offices between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 2012. There was no return address. Daulerio was on vacation at the time, so the siteâ(TM)s then-managing editor, Emma Carmichael, opened the package and watched the recording inside â" it was the sex tape.
So the sex tape was already a matter of public gossip, some stills were out there, someone sent it to Gawker, Gawker published it. Also Hogan had denied that he would ever bang Heather several times--he liked to talk publicly about his sex life.
Hogan made his affair with Heather Clem a public matter. He talked around it, he talked about his sex life in general, he pointed out that she was hot but claimed he wouldn't get on her because she's another dude's wife, and so forth. "Turns out you fucked her brains out!" is actually reasonable information to publish, and somehow that sex tape got made and got floated around.
It's a thin case for you and me; and it's a completely-different ballgame for someone famous who's baited the public interest.
Not really.
You ignored one simple fact - Gawker was ordered to take down the video. They said they won't.
Sure the tape may be factual evidence, but when a judge orders you to take it down during your lawsuit, you take it down.
It doesn't matter who's right or wrong in the matter - the judge said to do it, so you do it to avoid the wrath of the judge.
In fact, this one act of defiance likely is what brought the damages up. Gawker got away pretty light - the judge could've found them in contempt and instead all they got was enhanced damages.
So that makes it a little harder to look at a their driving record if the person in question has no record to consider.
Which is why if you're between 17-24, your premiums start off sky-high. Your best bet is to get someone to vouch for you and add you to their insurance. But even then, no rental agency will want to rent you a car (most won't insure anyone under 24, but a few might if there is someone who will rent the car and add you to it).
In fact, what really happens is this company will just do what all the other insurance companies do - start a high base rate, then you can do things to earn discounts - use a tracking device, let us look at your facebook profile, etc, and instead of determining the base rate, you get the sky high rate plus a bunch of discounts.
I would have thought the best tech company in the world (tm) would have no problem copying the many successful designs already on the market. Or maybe the yield that they are talking about is interoperability. Can't have a device accidentally get charged by any old generic charging station.
Just because it works doesn't mean it works WELL.
I know the Samsung ones plain suck - you have to put it on the charger in a particular spot before it works and every other spot it won't charge. Such finickiness is just not good at all. It needs to either self-locate on the spot, or the spot needs to be widened so you can put it roughly in the right spot to charge.
Then there are some chargers that barely work - cheap knockoff wireless chargers that perform even worse.
Interesting this comes mere days after the story that Google sat on an Apple vulnerability for 5-months? Though maybe given this is being actively exploited the treatment is justifiably different...
Probably because it's exploited.
If it wasn't exploited, Microsoft has a full 90 days. As it is exploited, well, telling doesn't really hurt anyone - they gave Microsoft a heads up and well, telling people about it doesn't really hurt anyone.
The Apple one probably wasn't exploited so Google gave extra time knowing it's a tricky bug to fix.
But once a bug is exploited, there's no advantage to holding back. Microsoft got 10 days to find a mitigation (and for an active exploit, probably reasonable) before it would be revealed to all.
However, I do absolutely NO networking at all. Normally I'm introverted, and I prefer to keep a few close friends to a bunch of acquaintances. The thought of "shmoozing" with a bunch of other people merely to maintain a network of contacts is as unappealing to me as applying for a job in sales or marketing.
Then don't shmooze with people.
Networking takes many forms. It's person-to-person.
Professional networking is just that, professional. You don't have to visit your coworkers on a weekly basis to maintain a network. But it wouldn't hurt to do some things like learn some basic things - are they married, what's their spouse's name, kids names, what they like to do, etc.
But it doesn't mean you have to do anything with them. You can have a network of coworkers to whom you only see at work, and maybe just say hello if you see them on the street.
At the very worst, you shoot them an email every few months asking how they're doing. That's it. The amount of work to maintain a network is so little, there's almost no reason not to do it. It doesn't involve "going out" or "spending time". It just involves showing a little interest in them. Knowing what company they moved to and what that company does takes far more effort. And if there's a job there you want, your coworker who switched jobs may email you directly about it or if you hear about it, you can shoot them an email expressing your interest.
And applying a job is selling and marketing yourself. You're selling your skills, training and time to a company who's trying to buy those skills, training and time. Having a network makes the sales job just that much easier since instead of trying to sell to jaded people who've seen every sales job in the book, you can get exposure to the people who really matter in the end.
FYI - social media has made networking much easier as well since old coworkers you meet may have changed from when you saw them last so catching those sort of things makes life easier. Especially if you know no one went to a company you really wanted to join, but then someone eventually gets a job there.
The only time to schmooze is if you're trying to expand your network beyond your direct coworkers. And that's generally if you want to impress a boss or a higher-up who doesn't necessarily have direct report to you
The escape key is present unless the application overrides it. Why would vim and emacs override the default escape key? The bar defaults to normal keyboard buttons, and changes based on the application. It should run console stuff A-ok. I'd me more concerned about it not behaving properly in Linux or Windows, but it is very likely that it either has sensible hardware defaults or drivers- but that's still a risk if you wanted to dual boot, until someone checks it out.
On boot, it's a standard top row function key/escape combination as you'd expect. For windows and everyone else that doesn't initialize it, it's just a usable function key bar.
Now, Vim/Emacs would be well poised to use that touch bar. Vim could use it a gigantic Esc bar that runs the entire length of the bar itself so users don't have to go far to get out of the current mode.
They just replaced their Thunderbolt with USB (specifically, USB-C with the latest USB bandwidth), now that it's finally fast enough to drive monitors well.
No, Thunderbolt was not replaced by USB.
Thunderbolt 3 runs OVER USB-C.
USB-C is more than just a form factor change - USB-C carries extra signal lines - it can support DisplayPort natively (you can have both DisplayPort and USB on a USB-C port) as well as other signalling functions.
Intel moved their Thunderbolt spec from (mini) DisplayPort to USB-C ports, so all Thunderbolt 3 ports are on USB-C. Intel also reduced their requirement that Thunderbolt not support GPUs, which is why laptops are now sporting "GPU Accellerators" (Dell and Razer make one) which is a full length box containing a couple of PCI-E slots for a GPU. It connects to the laptop via USB-C cable, and when plugged in, the laptop can utilize the GPU while the user only has to bother with a single cable.
USB is not replacing anything - Thunderbolt is running just dandy over USB.
This is the third clickbait Anti-Apple article today.
It's because Apple made the news earlier this week with a product announcement. This brings out all the haters because you know what? Apple stuff leads to ad clicks. So click-bait articles about Apple, especially since Apple is in the news, means lots of ad money.
It's what journalism has evolved into on the Internet - whatever you can do to trick users into clicking your articles for ads. Gawker might have been the first to formalize it from the get-go - writers were paid by the click, literally.
Apple announces something, so you generate 100 articles about that something. Which generates 200 articles about why that something is completely studio, idiotic and completely pointless. Which generates another 300 articles about why Tim Cook did or didn't do something on stage. Followed by 400 articles about something not related to Apple at all but they throw in Apple's name to get an ad click. Followed by 1000 articles about news about Apple form years ago.
Face it - Apple news is like black friday sales. When Apple makes an announcement, websites lap it up make about the only real money they'll made from ad impressions all year. A few Apple articles is enough to pay for the entire website for the year. The rest of the year the other boring crap is just bonus money.
Of course it could be fixed faster than within 5 months and Apple likely would have had to do it very quickly if the exploit was known in the public.
Or would it?
This is a kernel level bug. Kernel bugs are extremely tricky and from the looks of it, it's a core kernel issue. This level of code is at the core - make a mistake here and the kernel stops working.
Hell, at this level of code, few people actually even know how it works. So you can't even throw more bodies at it, because those bodies just don't exist, and it will take a month to bring them up to speed. (Same thing in Linux - at this low level few people, including Linux, actually know how it works).
Oh yeah, you also have to test it thoroughly because a change at this level can break userspace very easily. And trigger a bunch of follow on bugs because things have changed. Which will usually exhibit themselves as oddball hangs, stutters, or crashes.
Here's the thing - the Chinese factories are all able to produce to quality. You pay for the quality you want, and China will deliver that quality to you at the price.
The problem is in China the lack of IP protection has created a bunch of knockoff products, typically sold under Chinese labels. The Chinese themselves are smart - they know these knockoffs are just that - low quality POS made to be as cheap as possible and therefore low quality.
So there's a belief that the quality of western-made goods is higher - and they want to pay for that quality.
Essentially, the Chinese don't want cheap crappy low quality knockoffs, they want higher quality goods, and the local market is just not supplying them focusing instead on low quality crappy knockoffs.
Why can they use a sand pit instead of a multi million dollar proprietary technology ? An equivalent area of sand would work just as well and would not need expensive renewal every time a plane does overrrun.
The only proprietary part of the technology is how the material is made.
The material itself is basically foamed concrete. When something light is on it like a vehicle or a person, it's like normal concrete - a hard surface that can be driven on quite easily. Something heavier like a plane causes the concrete to collapse, which arrests the plane in an orderly manner. And for emergency vehicles rushing to the scene, they can still drive on it.
The FAA and many other agencies around the world have spent decades finding overrun surfaces that try to arrest a speeding plane and slow it down safely. Foamed concrete has proven to be the best material of the lot, and the processes used to make it are proprietary to the company making it. (There are multiple companies who do this.)
You are, of course, free to invent your own way to make this material and to then release it to the world, open-source style
How are they suppose to hire people, if they can't contact people "after hours". Or what about if they need to call someone in to work more hours?
Then presumably you get in contact with them before they knock off for the night. Or you declare them to be "working" then send the message. The latter will likely mean you'll be working OT and getting time and a half or double time, so in that case, you'd want to make sure your message is damned important.
The goal of the ban is to avoid "free" messaging during off time - if you get a message, it either can wait until tomorrow when said employee reports for their shift, or it must be handled immediately which means they must get compensated for their time. No sending a message and hoping the employee checks their phone over dinner and spends 15 minutes composing a reply for no compensation.
People used to claim that Apple was a hardware company but given the current state of their hardware this is hard to believe. I think they are turning into a dongle company where they plan to make their money selling dongles to let you connect all their hardware together.
Not a viable business model. Apple sells cables and adapters, and 3rd parties sell the same, much cheaper.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there arne't 3rd party USB-C to Lightning adapters available for $10 now. And Amazon Basics probably has a 4-pack of USB-C to USB-A female adapters for $10, too.
You must live in NYC or SF then. You can't buy one and walk out of the store with it at most Apple stores in the USA.
They're in stock in most places now, so yes you can.
For the first few months, though, they were highly unavailable - apparently demand for them was unexpectedly strong and Apple was caught off guard. They made around a million of them for the first run, and that sold out in 3 days. It took Apple a month to make more of 'em.
I'm guessing Apple sold a LOT more iPhone SEs than they expected to.
Hated the iPhone 6 and 7, so I bought the Asia-only iPhone 5 SE with 64 memory.
Small, fast, long battery life, fits in my pocket.
Fashion is knowing that nobody wears watches anymore. And big phones are a sign you're wasting cash.
The iPhone SE is not Asia-only. It's worldwide. It's an interesting Apple experiment trying to see if the demand for large screen phones is because people want large screens, or because the good phones had large screens and people didn't really care for having huge screens. Given the SE does remarkably well (It exceeded Apple's expectations), it looks like people want a good phone, and many people don't necessarily want huge screens on them.
It was hard to tell - Android phones had it so larger phones had better specs and few to none were making small screen phones with high end specs. Plus there is a legitimate market for large screen phones.
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Sure it does. The goals differ in several important ways.
Cost: A "Consumer" laptop has to be as cheap as possible. Under $500 preferably. A business laptop can cost a lot more ($1500-2000) as long as you focus on what business users care about - small, lightweight, etc. Also, use higher quality materials that can withstand mobile use.
Accessories: Business laptops are generally purchased en masse, or at least purchased alongside similar models. Thus, if you have a line that share accessories like docking stations, adapters, batteries, power cables, etc, this simplifies IT departments inventory, etc. Consumer laptops don't generally require docking stations so you can get rid of those and the only things require standard ports.
Features: Business laptops need management features - remote management, inventorying, etc. Consumer laptops generally don't, though a LoJack option might be desirable,but optional.
Operating System: Business laptops generally run a stable Windows - Windows 7 is typical. Consumer laptops generally run the latest since that's what all the splashy advertising shows, so they'd ship with Windows 10. (Windows 7 is typically a Windows 10 downgrade license). In addition, business laptops may be used by people in a company who don't necessarily run Windows, so alternate OS support is desirable, like Linux.
For me, even though I see the value, I still say No.
Because people who keep seeing fact checks will ignore them.
If you're a believer in homeopathy, having a big banner that tells you it's not real does absolutely zilch for you. If you're a Trump supporter, seeing banners telling you where he's wrong won't help.
These people will just ignore those messages and even worse, distrust them. And then they'll spread their distrust around to make the whole thing pointless.
The truth about the Internet, is instead of spreading the best ideas and eliminating mistruths is that it's really ending up to be a big echo chamber. People will gather with like-minded individuals, and even though on the internet they CAN be exposed to other ideas, in general, it doesn't happen at all.
The absolute worst thing you can do is attempt to question those beliefs, because it just leads to distrust.
The few people who are open-minded enough to look at both sides of the issue, whom this sort of alert is useful, are open minded enough to research both sides and form their own opinions. They're already motivated to seek the truth, and they will do so.
Telling closed-minded individuals what they don't want to hear results in distrust and completely destroys any goals the fact checking plugins were going for.
Easy. You buy it for full price. Then resell it to someone else who wants to see it for less money, and so on and so on. This is the FSF way (Remember, reselling is a right).
Of course, it assumes everyone is willing to do this, and that there are people who are willing to go through the effort and expense to resell it and then ship it/deliver it to the buyer.
Using DRM to make it so 1M people can rent it without having to find 1M people to buy it afterwards is considered evil.
Yeah, this really isn't big news. The Note 7 was notable because it had 30 within 2 weeks of release, this is more of a random event and bad luck to the owner. While I would never buy this phone myself (it sounds like a cheap crap Android Samsung cranks out),,I wouldn't worry about more blowing up. Hell, even if a different model Samsung blew up tomorrow, I wouldn't deem Samsung dangerous. Samsung's shipped so many phones now so it's inevitable.
That's the notable part of this vote. BOTH candidates are hated by more people than are liked. Usually the candidates have higher likeability ratings, but the voting population hates both Clinton and Trump. The only reason Clinton is winning is they hate Clinton slightly less than Trump.
It is expected that either candidate will be a 1-term president - the other side will simply pick a more likable candidate.
Effectively, everyone is voting for who they hate least, not who they'd like.
Easy, energy density. The fuel itself had a super high energy density compared to stored electrical energy. (or even fuels like hydrogen).
So the only saving grace for ICE Is the ability to carry a lot of energy in a small space.
That's what's keeping ICE alive.
And you still are. All Samsung did was disable cellular network access, on one provider.
You still have your device, and it still works. You can use it on WiFI, or another cell network provider.
You're still god of your device. No one's taken that away from you. The only thing is that someone else decided to not provide service to your device.
And then there's the other fact that a USB-A plug fits very nicely into the RJ-45 jack for networking.
I've had to diagnose more than a few "why doesn't my USB device work" which involved "unplugging" the USB cable from the Ethernet jack and moving it over to the right port. (after doing the twirl with it because it never fits in the first try).
The oxidation of Aluminum is practically instantaneous - and it's hard. Oxidation of iron happens much slower, and it's very soft and flakes off, exposing more iron for oxidation.
Aluminum oxide does not flake off, which is why aluminum doesn't really degrade.
That said, if you put a bit of lithium on aluminum oxide, you will see the aluminum "melt" away because the lithium causes the aluminum oxide to fail and exposes fresh aluminum for exidation. It's one reason why lithium is controlled on aircraft - raw lithium will react and destroy the plane.
It's a fine line. Apple's method is clunky because a lot of it is done on-device and as little of it is done on Apple's servers. Google can make theirs work really well because it just sends it all to the cloud, no care about privacy.
It's also why the cloud-based Siri will never be as good - Apple has partitioned their departments that handle user data, so data collected for one purpose can NOT be used by any other department.
You may remember a few years ago Google basically unified all their services so instead of collecting user data in silos, they decided to simply share it among themselves. And now recently, all that data is now shared among all Alphabet companies. So all your Google searches and YouTube video watches and Google+ information is now available to all the advertising networks Google owns. And they own a few of the more notorious ones, like DoubleClick, which until recently was forbidden for accessing unified Google data, but now has access to it all.
It sucks, really, because if Siri could get access to a whole bunch of user data, it could be much better, but Apple's internal policies don't let it. (And more than a few AI researches have quit Apple because they couldn't access the necessary data sets). So it's a challenge - go with Google, and get stuff that works, but rapes you for all your information, or go with Apple, which doesn't work as well, because of privacy. Why is this even a choice?
Not really.
You ignored one simple fact - Gawker was ordered to take down the video. They said they won't.
Sure the tape may be factual evidence, but when a judge orders you to take it down during your lawsuit, you take it down.
It doesn't matter who's right or wrong in the matter - the judge said to do it, so you do it to avoid the wrath of the judge.
In fact, this one act of defiance likely is what brought the damages up. Gawker got away pretty light - the judge could've found them in contempt and instead all they got was enhanced damages.
Which is why if you're between 17-24, your premiums start off sky-high. Your best bet is to get someone to vouch for you and add you to their insurance. But even then, no rental agency will want to rent you a car (most won't insure anyone under 24, but a few might if there is someone who will rent the car and add you to it).
In fact, what really happens is this company will just do what all the other insurance companies do - start a high base rate, then you can do things to earn discounts - use a tracking device, let us look at your facebook profile, etc, and instead of determining the base rate, you get the sky high rate plus a bunch of discounts.
Just because it works doesn't mean it works WELL.
I know the Samsung ones plain suck - you have to put it on the charger in a particular spot before it works and every other spot it won't charge. Such finickiness is just not good at all. It needs to either self-locate on the spot, or the spot needs to be widened so you can put it roughly in the right spot to charge.
Then there are some chargers that barely work - cheap knockoff wireless chargers that perform even worse.
Probably because it's exploited.
If it wasn't exploited, Microsoft has a full 90 days. As it is exploited, well, telling doesn't really hurt anyone - they gave Microsoft a heads up and well, telling people about it doesn't really hurt anyone.
The Apple one probably wasn't exploited so Google gave extra time knowing it's a tricky bug to fix.
But once a bug is exploited, there's no advantage to holding back. Microsoft got 10 days to find a mitigation (and for an active exploit, probably reasonable) before it would be revealed to all.
Then don't shmooze with people.
Networking takes many forms. It's person-to-person.
Professional networking is just that, professional. You don't have to visit your coworkers on a weekly basis to maintain a network. But it wouldn't hurt to do some things like learn some basic things - are they married, what's their spouse's name, kids names, what they like to do, etc.
But it doesn't mean you have to do anything with them. You can have a network of coworkers to whom you only see at work, and maybe just say hello if you see them on the street.
At the very worst, you shoot them an email every few months asking how they're doing. That's it. The amount of work to maintain a network is so little, there's almost no reason not to do it. It doesn't involve "going out" or "spending time". It just involves showing a little interest in them. Knowing what company they moved to and what that company does takes far more effort. And if there's a job there you want, your coworker who switched jobs may email you directly about it or if you hear about it, you can shoot them an email expressing your interest.
And applying a job is selling and marketing yourself. You're selling your skills, training and time to a company who's trying to buy those skills, training and time. Having a network makes the sales job just that much easier since instead of trying to sell to jaded people who've seen every sales job in the book, you can get exposure to the people who really matter in the end.
FYI - social media has made networking much easier as well since old coworkers you meet may have changed from when you saw them last so catching those sort of things makes life easier. Especially if you know no one went to a company you really wanted to join, but then someone eventually gets a job there.
The only time to schmooze is if you're trying to expand your network beyond your direct coworkers. And that's generally if you want to impress a boss or a higher-up who doesn't necessarily have direct report to you
On boot, it's a standard top row function key/escape combination as you'd expect. For windows and everyone else that doesn't initialize it, it's just a usable function key bar.
Now, Vim/Emacs would be well poised to use that touch bar. Vim could use it a gigantic Esc bar that runs the entire length of the bar itself so users don't have to go far to get out of the current mode.
No, Thunderbolt was not replaced by USB.
Thunderbolt 3 runs OVER USB-C.
USB-C is more than just a form factor change - USB-C carries extra signal lines - it can support DisplayPort natively (you can have both DisplayPort and USB on a USB-C port) as well as other signalling functions.
Intel moved their Thunderbolt spec from (mini) DisplayPort to USB-C ports, so all Thunderbolt 3 ports are on USB-C. Intel also reduced their requirement that Thunderbolt not support GPUs, which is why laptops are now sporting "GPU Accellerators" (Dell and Razer make one) which is a full length box containing a couple of PCI-E slots for a GPU. It connects to the laptop via USB-C cable, and when plugged in, the laptop can utilize the GPU while the user only has to bother with a single cable.
USB is not replacing anything - Thunderbolt is running just dandy over USB.
It's because Apple made the news earlier this week with a product announcement. This brings out all the haters because you know what? Apple stuff leads to ad clicks. So click-bait articles about Apple, especially since Apple is in the news, means lots of ad money.
It's what journalism has evolved into on the Internet - whatever you can do to trick users into clicking your articles for ads. Gawker might have been the first to formalize it from the get-go - writers were paid by the click, literally.
Apple announces something, so you generate 100 articles about that something. Which generates 200 articles about why that something is completely studio, idiotic and completely pointless. Which generates another 300 articles about why Tim Cook did or didn't do something on stage. Followed by 400 articles about something not related to Apple at all but they throw in Apple's name to get an ad click. Followed by 1000 articles about news about Apple form years ago.
Face it - Apple news is like black friday sales. When Apple makes an announcement, websites lap it up make about the only real money they'll made from ad impressions all year. A few Apple articles is enough to pay for the entire website for the year. The rest of the year the other boring crap is just bonus money.
Or would it?
This is a kernel level bug. Kernel bugs are extremely tricky and from the looks of it, it's a core kernel issue. This level of code is at the core - make a mistake here and the kernel stops working.
Hell, at this level of code, few people actually even know how it works. So you can't even throw more bodies at it, because those bodies just don't exist, and it will take a month to bring them up to speed. (Same thing in Linux - at this low level few people, including Linux, actually know how it works).
Oh yeah, you also have to test it thoroughly because a change at this level can break userspace very easily. And trigger a bunch of follow on bugs because things have changed. Which will usually exhibit themselves as oddball hangs, stutters, or crashes.
Here's the thing - the Chinese factories are all able to produce to quality. You pay for the quality you want, and China will deliver that quality to you at the price.
The problem is in China the lack of IP protection has created a bunch of knockoff products, typically sold under Chinese labels. The Chinese themselves are smart - they know these knockoffs are just that - low quality POS made to be as cheap as possible and therefore low quality.
So there's a belief that the quality of western-made goods is higher - and they want to pay for that quality.
Essentially, the Chinese don't want cheap crappy low quality knockoffs, they want higher quality goods, and the local market is just not supplying them focusing instead on low quality crappy knockoffs.
The only proprietary part of the technology is how the material is made.
The material itself is basically foamed concrete. When something light is on it like a vehicle or a person, it's like normal concrete - a hard surface that can be driven on quite easily. Something heavier like a plane causes the concrete to collapse, which arrests the plane in an orderly manner. And for emergency vehicles rushing to the scene, they can still drive on it.
The FAA and many other agencies around the world have spent decades finding overrun surfaces that try to arrest a speeding plane and slow it down safely. Foamed concrete has proven to be the best material of the lot, and the processes used to make it are proprietary to the company making it. (There are multiple companies who do this.)
You are, of course, free to invent your own way to make this material and to then release it to the world, open-source style
Then presumably you get in contact with them before they knock off for the night. Or you declare them to be "working" then send the message. The latter will likely mean you'll be working OT and getting time and a half or double time, so in that case, you'd want to make sure your message is damned important.
The goal of the ban is to avoid "free" messaging during off time - if you get a message, it either can wait until tomorrow when said employee reports for their shift, or it must be handled immediately which means they must get compensated for their time. No sending a message and hoping the employee checks their phone over dinner and spends 15 minutes composing a reply for no compensation.
Not a viable business model. Apple sells cables and adapters, and 3rd parties sell the same, much cheaper.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there arne't 3rd party USB-C to Lightning adapters available for $10 now. And Amazon Basics probably has a 4-pack of USB-C to USB-A female adapters for $10, too.
They're in stock in most places now, so yes you can.
For the first few months, though, they were highly unavailable - apparently demand for them was unexpectedly strong and Apple was caught off guard. They made around a million of them for the first run, and that sold out in 3 days. It took Apple a month to make more of 'em.
I'm guessing Apple sold a LOT more iPhone SEs than they expected to.
The iPhone SE is not Asia-only. It's worldwide. It's an interesting Apple experiment trying to see if the demand for large screen phones is because people want large screens, or because the good phones had large screens and people didn't really care for having huge screens. Given the SE does remarkably well (It exceeded Apple's expectations), it looks like people want a good phone, and many people don't necessarily want huge screens on them.
It was hard to tell - Android phones had it so larger phones had better specs and few to none were making small screen phones with high end specs. Plus there is a legitimate market for large screen phones.