Exactly the problem - it doesn't solve anything, and in fact makes ALL your future passwords weaker should any one of them be compromised ("Hmm, last year when the database was compromised he was using Ford08, let's just try all the numbers on the end of Ford").
But you don't magically get an extra hour of daylight. They still work X hours which overlaps with Y hours of daylight. You've just offset one against the other slightly.
And, in fact, in most places at any decent latitude, the hours of daylight are vastly longer than the average working day and even when they are not, what you lose in the morning, you gain in the evening and vice-versa:
As a mathematician, I honestly could never fathom what it was trying to achieve.
Even if you told your employees "be in within an hour of sunrise, you can go home an hour after sunset" (or whatever), it would actually make more sense and there would be no need to change clocks whatsoever, and it would maximise "daylight working" (which is just a stupid concept in the modern world anyway).
Changing the clocks to follow a window of sunlight that is CENTERED ON NOON BY DEFINITION, and then making up a fake time to adjust that just makes no sense whatsoever - any way you shift it you lose the same amount of sunlight as you gain.
It's a nonsense that has followed us for centuries which nobody has ever had any proof that it made any difference, and everyone has always known that the associated costs were greater than the gains anyway.
Yeah, but that EpicZenGarden demo doesn't work in Chrome.
I get an error after about 2 minutes of downloading hundreds of megs: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getParameter' of undefined
Doesn't matter how good your demo is if it doesn't work on other software. The old "web browsers don't support standards the same way" problem strikes again.
Or they could have just used a Google Apps account, got email with it, without needing to pay you to add users or groups, and paid - what? You don't say how many users but it wouldn't be much more.
Or they could have just bought any domain, and got free webmail and an interface panel for hundreds of users fora couple of dollars a year.
Just because your use-case can't imagine the use of such a thing doesn't mean it's not sensible.
To me, $1000/year for a mail server is a piss-take.
Sure, you can do it for nothing and an Internet connection you already have. Doesn't mean that's sensible.
- Remove enforced 30-day password resets that could only be done via IT (500+ users means two tickets a day, at least, were just password resets - and imagine what that does to remote workers who then can't get into remote desktop or email to request a password change anyway!) - Remove "password history" requirements that were onerous and made people invent - and therefore forget/lose - passwords all the damn time or just use numbers tacked on the end. - Remove all complexity requirements from passwords, except minimum length. - Encourage people to choose a small set of GOOD passwords, which I promise I will not invalidate every month, and use them well (e.g. if one system requires another to work but gives NO MORE access to data than the first, they may as well use the same password!). - Stand up once or twice a year in all-staff meetings and gently remind them to change their password, oh and by the way, I was the guy who stopped you having to change it every single month so you might want to pay me the courtesy of actually doing so. - Demonstrate, as a mathematician, the thing that the XKCD cartoon does - LENGTH MATTERS, ALPHABET COMPLEXITY DOES NOT (*).
The staff loved me for it, it's totally compliant (passed through security audits, DPA audits, etc.), backed up by official NIST, GCHQ, etc. advice and all kinds of computer security experts and it works.
Number of account compromises: 0 in 3 years. Number of account password resets required - ONE THOUSANDTH of what it used to be.
(*):
Adding a single character to the alphabet available increases brute force times by a factor of 1/(size of previous alphabet), e.g. one-twenty-sixth more.
Adding another character - using the same alphabet - to the length of a password increases brute force times by a factor of (size of previous alphabet), e.g. TWENTY SIX TIMES MORE.
A 10-character, only A-Z, a-z password takes TWICE AS LONG to brute-force as an 8-character, every-ASCII-character password.
Anyone can take two chips and put them side-by-side. It doesn't mean you've doubled the processing.
And GPUs are a different kind of chip, not programmable in the same way, so it's not really the same thing. They are only good at what they do because they are millions of tiny "processors" each handling one particular part of a bitmap that has the same operation performed on every part. The amount of things that can be usefully done that way are much lower than in a standard processor. Which is why your Windows OS doesn't run on your graphics card and not the main processor.
Graphics cards are also LARGE. A PCIe board takes up more room than even the largest of processors in the x86 line in all its history. As such, they aren't really packing more into the same space, so it's not comparable and thus doesn't follow his "law" (it's like saying that a Cray supercomputer has more transistors than a pocket watch - of course it does).
And in any case, the rule is radically slowing. The general interpretation of it - to include clock speed etc. as well - is also long stagnant, whereas it never used to be. In the space of a few years we went from 25MHz to 2.5GHz and then basically stalled.
So, it's not irrelevant, but it's certainly not as he predicted. What can you get in the same area of silicon die as, say, a first generation Pentium? Something that hasn't followed Moore's law in a few years now. All that's happened is that we've added more and more and more of the chips, made the individual dies larger, and supplemented them with GPUs like we did FPU's back in the day (Remember those? Did we count those back then? Not really. But eventually they folded into the CPU die - tell me when a GPU with this equivalent power is in the CPU die along with the CPU and the CPU die is comparable in size to today... then you might have a proper Moore's law doubling).
Fact is, if anything, simple physics has got in the way. Thermal issues, generated by high frequencies and power, in a die that has to be separated into more cores if it's more spread out because of the speed-of-light problem, etc.
Moore's law holds less every day. Changing the goalposts won't keep it alive.
Yeah, you should just suffer one divide instruction being wrong in your processor, or one RAM error being constantly present, or a desk phone where one button doesn't work, or a smartphone where you can't ring one particular number.
Feel free to salvage all the returned panels from the manufacturer - anyone would take them if there was any use to them, any value in recycling, etc.. There's not. So they go on the scrapheap. Like most silicon dies for processors, they end up sold as "disabled-core" processors or are scrapped as non-working.
In the grand scheme of pushing out tens of millions of electronics devices every year, even a few hundred thousand screens sitting in landfill is really nothing. And it teaches the companies - via the wallet - that they need to refine their processes to reduce waste or be able to recycle failed boards.
Worrying about junk like this is really at the low-end of the scale of e-waste, which itself is at the low-end of the scale of human's waste as a whole.
The difference isn't that huge, and probably isn't noticeable on any real-world setup, especially if you're comparing to CRT monitors that are 20+ years old and not made any more.
But pretty much anything that can analyse a board signal will be able to do it. Hell, you could do it with an FGPA, a software modules for a software-defined radio, or all kinds of other things.
There's a reason that analogue TV cards exist and work - they do exactly that job. You're just talking about one that can handle odd / non-standard screen sizes, refresh rates, etc.
And if you haven't seen some of the SDR demos that can suck multiple PAL/NTSC images in real-time out of a pure antenna feed, on a variety of frequencies simultaneously, as well as pull radio and other information using nothing more than software and a basic SDR, you really need to go check them out.
Replace the "radio" with a suitably-ranged analogue voltage from the video pins of a board from an arcade machine, and you can basically do what you like. Whether it's RGB, HCL, or whatever strange format.
I imagine pretty much the same as the death of AM/FM radio for old wireless sets, or the death of leaded petrol for old cars.
They won't work the same, will require conversion, you'll have to keep a stock of old parts, or forever stay as an historical artifact that "doesn't work because we don't use those for that any more".
There's nothing a decent LCD can't replicate, and only the purists care. Those people who want to remember the game will load up an emulator, which is probably infinitely more convenient to use and have in the house nowadays than a huge great expensive cabinet with parts you can't replace any more.
Things move on. At least you *can* emulate the old games still. I'm all for emulation / preservation projects. But unless someone bothers to keep making CRTs in a variety of different sizes in an affordable manner, they've gone the way of the dodo - like Kodachrome film and Polaroid snaps.
The only loss might be to lightgun games that use certain technologies but, to be honest, pretty much those kinds of input can be emulated in much more convenient ways too.
Honestly, does Chrome do anything particularly different (when not signed into a Google account)? It would take about ten minutes to discover, I imagine, with a copy of Wireshark.
But there are plenty of Chrome-based browsers that have had their code looked at, even things like Vivaldi. I can't imagine they're doing anything any worse than Microsoft are with IE / Edge.
Spend $20k on a car, nobody bats an eyelid at you spending another few k on fancy wheels, styling, etc. waxing the thing three times a week or whatever.
Spend $0.7k on a graphics card that forms a major component of your work, entertainment, gaming system once every few years and everyone thinks you're a "nerd".
I spent more than that on a laptop with much less graphic capability and - nearly five years down the line - it's still used EVERY SINGLE DAY for work, then in the evening for watching TV or movies and checking email and gaming, and goes on holiday with me too. Literally, GTA V on the move.
I'm not saying I'd buy this card in particular, but if someone does, that's nothing compared to the money pissed away on iPhones, cars, sports fan paraphenalia, designer clothes, etc. which are all in exactly the same category
I remember my brother paying GBP 1000 for a RAM upgrade. To 4Mb. Back when computers could barely cope with that amount of RAM. For running FORTRAN calculations from a floppy disk.
By comparison a graphics card that you could see bundled in a $1500 gaming setup is nothing. And this is a LAUNCH price. It won't be long before those cards are only a few hundred $.
For the last ten years, AMD hasn't been competitive - either in price, performance, or even things like power usage and heat generation.
AMD is used only in the "cheapest of the cheap" laptops and home desktops. Then they sucked up a major graphics card manufacturer who was also suffering the same problem - ATI vs nVidia only had one sensible choice for many years - and still never really improved.
Sorry, but it's a one-horse race for a reason. And I don't see that Intel PC prices are prohibitive, they certainly aren't gouging the market, in fact that are just the de-facto standard price.
AMD, essentially, has become the Cyrix of yesteryear. Sure, you can save a few bob. But it's hardly worth it for the hassle involved.
If they came up with a decent new product that wasn't just an inch behind everything Intel do, like a TRUE CPU/GPU combo on one chip, then they might have a market they can use as leverage. But as it stands, they are just the "cheap version of Intel".
Buying an inferior product to "stick it to" a competitor who actually is better and infinitesimally more expensive is really just a waste of consumer action.
Instead, demand something that's not on the market.
To be honest, despite for many years using cheaper alternatives, I gave up and just used Intel and nVidia for the last - what? 10-15 years? My life is just that much easier. And my wallet isn't that much more dented. Even if I ask my suppliers for the cheapest thing they have that meets a spec, they rarely, if ever, suggest AMD processors.
"fixes":Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
Would any other language, with ANY amount of safe-guards been physically incapable of producing an off-by-one in it's output code?
No.
This is quite literally "Ragel took a definition, and then compiled it to bad machine code". Whether that was via an intermediary language or not, that's possible with ANY compiler for ANY language. If Java had a bug in it that resulted in incorrect machine code being generated for the "safe" Java code it was asked to execute, the same would have happened.
Bad, buggy compiler. The fact that it used an intermediate language which you disagree with is neither here nor there (and Ragel could output asm direct, so it wasn't "C-specific"). No different to a JVM-compiler bug.
Applying force in space is much more difficult because of the lack of free energy given to help you fight it via friction. It's that energy that any "artificial gravity" would have to supply constantly to let you do anything (e.g. walk across a room).
Stopping your own mass quickly is dead easy - you just hit something. It'll be like a fall (no 9.8m/s/s to fight) in slow motion for a frail old man. It all cancels out. If you're going fast, you're dead anyway. Because you have NO way to stop no matter how strong your arms are.
The problem is that you have to find something that will stop you, that's not going to move significantly in the other direction, that you won't damage, that won't damage you, and that won't be moving too fast relative to you (big spinning, large-mass to generate gravity are spinning against you quite fast on a 50-50 basis!)
The eSim isn't necessarily a software device. Think TPM.
"Upcoming new generation of SIM is called e-SIM or eSIM (embeddedSIM), which is non-replaceable embedded chip in SON-8 package which may be soldered directly onto a circuit board. It will have M2M and remote SIM provisioning capabilities."
It's just that rather than having to produce secure, tiny, portable, replaceable chips, they build a chip into the device that can be programmed (maybe only one or a limited number of times, or only with a signed update) to any number.
So rather than having to mess around with cards, you just identify the chip in the device directly.
Showers aren't practical in space anyway... forming gravity just for them is ridiculous, and no you don't "need two pumps" (that would be easy!) - you just need air flow. Imagine showering in a wind tunnel - it works just fine and is probably more efficient. The real problem is that you need to seal the entire shower all around as the water will escape from ANY direction.
Sleeping - some of the best reported sleeps are in space, no weight makes for better comfort. But you don't need to be "strapped down", you just need to be lightly tethered so you don't wander off at any speed. Two bungee cords attached to a harness in space will give you the best sleep you ever had.
Laptop fans operate just fine in space. Like the shower, airflow is still present even in the absence of gravity. You're not living in a vacuum.
Body muscles, yes, they deteriorate. Which is why they exercise. But they only deteriorate relative to Earth - for space use they are just fine. Long-term space living, your body adapts to its surroundings rather than building muscle mass that would be wasted anywhere but on Earth.
I have disposed of tons of monitors over the years, all with WEEE-compliant disposal agents.
One of them told me that they get paid a pound (British) each to take them to Heathrow. They are loaded on a plane. A guy from a company in India / Asia signs them off and gives them the money. He then pays to ship them out to Asia.
The ONLY way that can be profitable, is for them to be landfilled in a country that doesn't care about what they are landfilling.
On my end, I have all the paperwork, so I have disposed of them "ethically". So has the guy with the van that he takes to Heathrow loaded with monitors every week. And he takes any boxes of cables, which he tells me the copper - melted down - pays for his fuel. Otherwise he wouldn't make profit himself.
I imagine your goodwill store are doing the same, they just don't know it.
Honestly - what possible use is an old, broken CRT monitor? None. That's why we've been throwing them away for decades rather than try to repair them. Even if you look into what's in them, there are no profitable parts you can extract while still being environmentally-friendly (sure, if you don't give a shit about the kids handling rare earth metals to get at tiny slivers of precious metals, then it all "works").
You've been fed a line. But for the last 15 years I've not heard anything but the same thing from all the different people who come to collect our e-waste, all of whom sign off, all of whom get their thing signed-off, but nobody knows what happens to the end product as it goes abroad (at HUGE expense if you consider cargo rates and handling on tons of monitors).
There are numerous studies that put GPS trackers in e-waste. Almost without exception they end up abroad and in landfill.
Whether it's you, the goodwill store, Dell, their disposal company, or the people they use doing that "knowingly" it's almost impossible to tell. But you're aren't doing shit for the planet, I assure you.
Sorry, whatever the ultimate cause of the accident, they were unfit to drive, thus pontificating over what they "would have" done in another is absolutely pointless. This driver got into a car and drove off when there was even a RISK of being near or over the limit and never questioned it.
They are, therefore, a BAD DRIVER. The cause of their death - whether that's a guy on the wrong side of the road, unintended acceleration, a fire, etc. is incidental to their decision to drive. That's why we make brakes and steering wheels and train people to pass a test to ensure they're fit to drive, so you can avoid obstacles, stop the car, press the right pedal and not lose control if you're being a driver of even satisfactory driving skill.
Yeah, it's sad. Yeah that kind of acceleration is unnecessary. Yeah, maybe there was a guy on your side of the road - it happens, there are idiots everywhere and people use the other side for overtaking, manoeuvres, etc. all the time. But the driver drove a car without knowing its capabilities, or feeling discomfort at it themselves enough to NOT drive it, or without taking "due care" (a phrase that will come up a lot) to ensure they didn't accelerate unintentionally no matter the situation. And they chose to do so while their judgement was impaired beyond legal limits.
Contributing factors are the least of your problems, compared to telling your OTHER sons and daughters, and their friends and family to NEVER DRIVE DRUNK if they don't want to kill themselves and others.
That you have to state that to an adult is really a sad state of affairs.
If it had been on a Harley (there are electric Harley's now too!), and they'd done the same, would you be calling for motorbikes to be outlawed where you weren't saying that before? The device is not the problem - someone pressing the throttle when they mean the brake is never going to end well, even for a fraction of a second. The problem is that you have allowed yourself to bring up your children to think that drink-driving is fine and acceptable, even if you know it's illegal, and then blame others when your KILLER of a child takes someone else out too by driving drunk.
Fuck, I don't even let work colleagues do that. I have literally removed people's keys and they've started fights with me over doing so. If your own child did it, fix that problem before you look at ANYTHING else.
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Exactly the problem - it doesn't solve anything, and in fact makes ALL your future passwords weaker should any one of them be compromised ("Hmm, last year when the database was compromised he was using Ford08, let's just try all the numbers on the end of Ford").
But you don't magically get an extra hour of daylight. They still work X hours which overlaps with Y hours of daylight. You've just offset one against the other slightly.
And, in fact, in most places at any decent latitude, the hours of daylight are vastly longer than the average working day and even when they are not, what you lose in the morning, you gain in the evening and vice-versa:
http://jan.moesen.nu/daylight-...
As a mathematician, I honestly could never fathom what it was trying to achieve.
Even if you told your employees "be in within an hour of sunrise, you can go home an hour after sunset" (or whatever), it would actually make more sense and there would be no need to change clocks whatsoever, and it would maximise "daylight working" (which is just a stupid concept in the modern world anyway).
Changing the clocks to follow a window of sunlight that is CENTERED ON NOON BY DEFINITION, and then making up a fake time to adjust that just makes no sense whatsoever - any way you shift it you lose the same amount of sunlight as you gain.
It's a nonsense that has followed us for centuries which nobody has ever had any proof that it made any difference, and everyone has always known that the associated costs were greater than the gains anyway.
This doesn't run as an NSAPI plugin.
Yeah, but that EpicZenGarden demo doesn't work in Chrome.
I get an error after about 2 minutes of downloading hundreds of megs: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getParameter' of undefined
Doesn't matter how good your demo is if it doesn't work on other software. The old "web browsers don't support standards the same way" problem strikes again.
Or they could have just used a Google Apps account, got email with it, without needing to pay you to add users or groups, and paid - what? You don't say how many users but it wouldn't be much more.
Or they could have just bought any domain, and got free webmail and an interface panel for hundreds of users fora couple of dollars a year.
Just because your use-case can't imagine the use of such a thing doesn't mean it's not sensible.
To me, $1000/year for a mail server is a piss-take.
Sure, you can do it for nothing and an Internet connection you already have. Doesn't mean that's sensible.
My first act upon entering my last workplace:
- Remove enforced 30-day password resets that could only be done via IT (500+ users means two tickets a day, at least, were just password resets - and imagine what that does to remote workers who then can't get into remote desktop or email to request a password change anyway!)
- Remove "password history" requirements that were onerous and made people invent - and therefore forget/lose - passwords all the damn time or just use numbers tacked on the end.
- Remove all complexity requirements from passwords, except minimum length.
- Encourage people to choose a small set of GOOD passwords, which I promise I will not invalidate every month, and use them well (e.g. if one system requires another to work but gives NO MORE access to data than the first, they may as well use the same password!).
- Stand up once or twice a year in all-staff meetings and gently remind them to change their password, oh and by the way, I was the guy who stopped you having to change it every single month so you might want to pay me the courtesy of actually doing so.
- Demonstrate, as a mathematician, the thing that the XKCD cartoon does - LENGTH MATTERS, ALPHABET COMPLEXITY DOES NOT (*).
The staff loved me for it, it's totally compliant (passed through security audits, DPA audits, etc.), backed up by official NIST, GCHQ, etc. advice and all kinds of computer security experts and it works.
Number of account compromises: 0 in 3 years.
Number of account password resets required - ONE THOUSANDTH of what it used to be.
(*):
Adding a single character to the alphabet available increases brute force times by a factor of 1/(size of previous alphabet), e.g. one-twenty-sixth more.
Adding another character - using the same alphabet - to the length of a password increases brute force times by a factor of (size of previous alphabet), e.g. TWENTY SIX TIMES MORE.
A 10-character, only A-Z, a-z password takes TWICE AS LONG to brute-force as an 8-character, every-ASCII-character password.
But that's the less useful part of the equation.
Anyone can take two chips and put them side-by-side. It doesn't mean you've doubled the processing.
And GPUs are a different kind of chip, not programmable in the same way, so it's not really the same thing. They are only good at what they do because they are millions of tiny "processors" each handling one particular part of a bitmap that has the same operation performed on every part. The amount of things that can be usefully done that way are much lower than in a standard processor. Which is why your Windows OS doesn't run on your graphics card and not the main processor.
Graphics cards are also LARGE. A PCIe board takes up more room than even the largest of processors in the x86 line in all its history. As such, they aren't really packing more into the same space, so it's not comparable and thus doesn't follow his "law" (it's like saying that a Cray supercomputer has more transistors than a pocket watch - of course it does).
And in any case, the rule is radically slowing. The general interpretation of it - to include clock speed etc. as well - is also long stagnant, whereas it never used to be. In the space of a few years we went from 25MHz to 2.5GHz and then basically stalled.
So, it's not irrelevant, but it's certainly not as he predicted. What can you get in the same area of silicon die as, say, a first generation Pentium? Something that hasn't followed Moore's law in a few years now. All that's happened is that we've added more and more and more of the chips, made the individual dies larger, and supplemented them with GPUs like we did FPU's back in the day (Remember those? Did we count those back then? Not really. But eventually they folded into the CPU die - tell me when a GPU with this equivalent power is in the CPU die along with the CPU and the CPU die is comparable in size to today... then you might have a proper Moore's law doubling).
Fact is, if anything, simple physics has got in the way. Thermal issues, generated by high frequencies and power, in a die that has to be separated into more cores if it's more spread out because of the speed-of-light problem, etc.
Moore's law holds less every day. Changing the goalposts won't keep it alive.
Yeah, you should just suffer one divide instruction being wrong in your processor, or one RAM error being constantly present, or a desk phone where one button doesn't work, or a smartphone where you can't ring one particular number.
Feel free to salvage all the returned panels from the manufacturer - anyone would take them if there was any use to them, any value in recycling, etc.. There's not. So they go on the scrapheap. Like most silicon dies for processors, they end up sold as "disabled-core" processors or are scrapped as non-working.
In the grand scheme of pushing out tens of millions of electronics devices every year, even a few hundred thousand screens sitting in landfill is really nothing. And it teaches the companies - via the wallet - that they need to refine their processes to reduce waste or be able to recycle failed boards.
Worrying about junk like this is really at the low-end of the scale of e-waste, which itself is at the low-end of the scale of human's waste as a whole.
Sounds like your repairs were completely naff.
Admittedly I've not heavily researched but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The difference isn't that huge, and probably isn't noticeable on any real-world setup, especially if you're comparing to CRT monitors that are 20+ years old and not made any more.
Also:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
It all depends what you're measuring, and how, but there's pretty much nothing that you'd notice in real world use on, what, an 8- or 16-bit display?
Those kinds of things already exist.
This is a PC-focused one:
http://www.converters.tv/news/...
But pretty much anything that can analyse a board signal will be able to do it. Hell, you could do it with an FGPA, a software modules for a software-defined radio, or all kinds of other things.
There's a reason that analogue TV cards exist and work - they do exactly that job. You're just talking about one that can handle odd / non-standard screen sizes, refresh rates, etc.
And if you haven't seen some of the SDR demos that can suck multiple PAL/NTSC images in real-time out of a pure antenna feed, on a variety of frequencies simultaneously, as well as pull radio and other information using nothing more than software and a basic SDR, you really need to go check them out.
Replace the "radio" with a suitably-ranged analogue voltage from the video pins of a board from an arcade machine, and you can basically do what you like. Whether it's RGB, HCL, or whatever strange format.
I imagine pretty much the same as the death of AM/FM radio for old wireless sets, or the death of leaded petrol for old cars.
They won't work the same, will require conversion, you'll have to keep a stock of old parts, or forever stay as an historical artifact that "doesn't work because we don't use those for that any more".
There's nothing a decent LCD can't replicate, and only the purists care. Those people who want to remember the game will load up an emulator, which is probably infinitely more convenient to use and have in the house nowadays than a huge great expensive cabinet with parts you can't replace any more.
Things move on. At least you *can* emulate the old games still. I'm all for emulation / preservation projects. But unless someone bothers to keep making CRTs in a variety of different sizes in an affordable manner, they've gone the way of the dodo - like Kodachrome film and Polaroid snaps.
The only loss might be to lightgun games that use certain technologies but, to be honest, pretty much those kinds of input can be emulated in much more convenient ways too.
Then use Chromium.
Honestly, does Chrome do anything particularly different (when not signed into a Google account)? It would take about ten minutes to discover, I imagine, with a copy of Wireshark.
But there are plenty of Chrome-based browsers that have had their code looked at, even things like Vivaldi. I can't imagine they're doing anything any worse than Microsoft are with IE / Edge.
Spend $20k on a car, nobody bats an eyelid at you spending another few k on fancy wheels, styling, etc. waxing the thing three times a week or whatever.
Spend $0.7k on a graphics card that forms a major component of your work, entertainment, gaming system once every few years and everyone thinks you're a "nerd".
I spent more than that on a laptop with much less graphic capability and - nearly five years down the line - it's still used EVERY SINGLE DAY for work, then in the evening for watching TV or movies and checking email and gaming, and goes on holiday with me too. Literally, GTA V on the move.
I'm not saying I'd buy this card in particular, but if someone does, that's nothing compared to the money pissed away on iPhones, cars, sports fan paraphenalia, designer clothes, etc. which are all in exactly the same category
I remember my brother paying GBP 1000 for a RAM upgrade. To 4Mb. Back when computers could barely cope with that amount of RAM. For running FORTRAN calculations from a floppy disk.
By comparison a graphics card that you could see bundled in a $1500 gaming setup is nothing. And this is a LAUNCH price. It won't be long before those cards are only a few hundred $.
For the last ten years, AMD hasn't been competitive - either in price, performance, or even things like power usage and heat generation.
AMD is used only in the "cheapest of the cheap" laptops and home desktops. Then they sucked up a major graphics card manufacturer who was also suffering the same problem - ATI vs nVidia only had one sensible choice for many years - and still never really improved.
Sorry, but it's a one-horse race for a reason. And I don't see that Intel PC prices are prohibitive, they certainly aren't gouging the market, in fact that are just the de-facto standard price.
AMD, essentially, has become the Cyrix of yesteryear. Sure, you can save a few bob. But it's hardly worth it for the hassle involved.
If they came up with a decent new product that wasn't just an inch behind everything Intel do, like a TRUE CPU/GPU combo on one chip, then they might have a market they can use as leverage. But as it stands, they are just the "cheap version of Intel".
Buying an inferior product to "stick it to" a competitor who actually is better and infinitesimally more expensive is really just a waste of consumer action.
Instead, demand something that's not on the market.
To be honest, despite for many years using cheaper alternatives, I gave up and just used Intel and nVidia for the last - what? 10-15 years? My life is just that much easier. And my wallet isn't that much more dented. Even if I ask my suppliers for the cheapest thing they have that meets a spec, they rarely, if ever, suggest AMD processors.
Seriously?
Buy a better phone.
You know, one that has a working mic.
How's that "most expensive phone on the market" thing working out for you?
"fixes" :Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
and ASM
Would the ASM have been bug-free?
Would any other language, with ANY amount of safe-guards been physically incapable of producing an off-by-one in it's output code?
No.
This is quite literally "Ragel took a definition, and then compiled it to bad machine code". Whether that was via an intermediary language or not, that's possible with ANY compiler for ANY language. If Java had a bug in it that resulted in incorrect machine code being generated for the "safe" Java code it was asked to execute, the same would have happened.
Bad, buggy compiler. The fact that it used an intermediate language which you disagree with is neither here nor there (and Ragel could output asm direct, so it wasn't "C-specific"). No different to a JVM-compiler bug.
Except they wrote it in Ragel, which generates C code or asm
So, in theory, any language used like that could have generated bad / vulnerable end-code.
Applying force in space is much more difficult because of the lack of free energy given to help you fight it via friction. It's that energy that any "artificial gravity" would have to supply constantly to let you do anything (e.g. walk across a room).
Stopping your own mass quickly is dead easy - you just hit something. It'll be like a fall (no 9.8m/s/s to fight) in slow motion for a frail old man. It all cancels out. If you're going fast, you're dead anyway. Because you have NO way to stop no matter how strong your arms are.
The problem is that you have to find something that will stop you, that's not going to move significantly in the other direction, that you won't damage, that won't damage you, and that won't be moving too fast relative to you (big spinning, large-mass to generate gravity are spinning against you quite fast on a 50-50 basis!)
Oh, no, that's only $7.5m!
God what a flop for software-only sales!
How on Earth do you manage to spin an article/summary/headline like that?
Especially when I cannot name ONE AAA VR title yet.
The eSim isn't necessarily a software device. Think TPM.
"Upcoming new generation of SIM is called e-SIM or eSIM (embeddedSIM), which is non-replaceable embedded chip in SON-8 package which may be soldered directly onto a circuit board. It will have M2M and remote SIM provisioning capabilities."
It's just that rather than having to produce secure, tiny, portable, replaceable chips, they build a chip into the device that can be programmed (maybe only one or a limited number of times, or only with a signed update) to any number.
So rather than having to mess around with cards, you just identify the chip in the device directly.
Showers aren't practical in space anyway... forming gravity just for them is ridiculous, and no you don't "need two pumps" (that would be easy!) - you just need air flow. Imagine showering in a wind tunnel - it works just fine and is probably more efficient. The real problem is that you need to seal the entire shower all around as the water will escape from ANY direction.
Sleeping - some of the best reported sleeps are in space, no weight makes for better comfort. But you don't need to be "strapped down", you just need to be lightly tethered so you don't wander off at any speed. Two bungee cords attached to a harness in space will give you the best sleep you ever had.
Laptop fans operate just fine in space. Like the shower, airflow is still present even in the absence of gravity. You're not living in a vacuum.
Body muscles, yes, they deteriorate. Which is why they exercise. But they only deteriorate relative to Earth - for space use they are just fine. Long-term space living, your body adapts to its surroundings rather than building muscle mass that would be wasted anywhere but on Earth.
I have disposed of tons of monitors over the years, all with WEEE-compliant disposal agents.
One of them told me that they get paid a pound (British) each to take them to Heathrow. They are loaded on a plane. A guy from a company in India / Asia signs them off and gives them the money. He then pays to ship them out to Asia.
The ONLY way that can be profitable, is for them to be landfilled in a country that doesn't care about what they are landfilling.
On my end, I have all the paperwork, so I have disposed of them "ethically". So has the guy with the van that he takes to Heathrow loaded with monitors every week. And he takes any boxes of cables, which he tells me the copper - melted down - pays for his fuel. Otherwise he wouldn't make profit himself.
I imagine your goodwill store are doing the same, they just don't know it.
Honestly - what possible use is an old, broken CRT monitor? None. That's why we've been throwing them away for decades rather than try to repair them. Even if you look into what's in them, there are no profitable parts you can extract while still being environmentally-friendly (sure, if you don't give a shit about the kids handling rare earth metals to get at tiny slivers of precious metals, then it all "works").
You've been fed a line. But for the last 15 years I've not heard anything but the same thing from all the different people who come to collect our e-waste, all of whom sign off, all of whom get their thing signed-off, but nobody knows what happens to the end product as it goes abroad (at HUGE expense if you consider cargo rates and handling on tons of monitors).
There are numerous studies that put GPS trackers in e-waste. Almost without exception they end up abroad and in landfill.
Whether it's you, the goodwill store, Dell, their disposal company, or the people they use doing that "knowingly" it's almost impossible to tell. But you're aren't doing shit for the planet, I assure you.
They're over the limit?
Sorry, whatever the ultimate cause of the accident, they were unfit to drive, thus pontificating over what they "would have" done in another is absolutely pointless. This driver got into a car and drove off when there was even a RISK of being near or over the limit and never questioned it.
They are, therefore, a BAD DRIVER. The cause of their death - whether that's a guy on the wrong side of the road, unintended acceleration, a fire, etc. is incidental to their decision to drive. That's why we make brakes and steering wheels and train people to pass a test to ensure they're fit to drive, so you can avoid obstacles, stop the car, press the right pedal and not lose control if you're being a driver of even satisfactory driving skill.
Yeah, it's sad. Yeah that kind of acceleration is unnecessary. Yeah, maybe there was a guy on your side of the road - it happens, there are idiots everywhere and people use the other side for overtaking, manoeuvres, etc. all the time. But the driver drove a car without knowing its capabilities, or feeling discomfort at it themselves enough to NOT drive it, or without taking "due care" (a phrase that will come up a lot) to ensure they didn't accelerate unintentionally no matter the situation. And they chose to do so while their judgement was impaired beyond legal limits.
Contributing factors are the least of your problems, compared to telling your OTHER sons and daughters, and their friends and family to NEVER DRIVE DRUNK if they don't want to kill themselves and others.
That you have to state that to an adult is really a sad state of affairs.
If it had been on a Harley (there are electric Harley's now too!), and they'd done the same, would you be calling for motorbikes to be outlawed where you weren't saying that before? The device is not the problem - someone pressing the throttle when they mean the brake is never going to end well, even for a fraction of a second. The problem is that you have allowed yourself to bring up your children to think that drink-driving is fine and acceptable, even if you know it's illegal, and then blame others when your KILLER of a child takes someone else out too by driving drunk.
Fuck, I don't even let work colleagues do that. I have literally removed people's keys and they've started fights with me over doing so. If your own child did it, fix that problem before you look at ANYTHING else.