What's more, the Swedish authorities never charged him with anything. The problem was that he believed that if he was ever arrested in Britain, for any reason, the U.S. would immediately reveal charges against him and demand extradition. He figured he wouldn't get a very favorable hearing in the U.S. -- probably rightly, but we'll see.
They get locked in to the software, not the cost of it.
For example, lately Oracle has been offering to "forgive" some backdated license fees if a customer agrees to become an Oracle Cloud subscriber. Gotta pump those usage figures!
We can only hope/. doesn't fall in line with this anti-April 1 stance, because I usually spend that whole day reveling in hilarity at the high quality of posts.
Every New York Times article you cite is an op-ed. If you're not mentally savvy enough to differentiate between opinion/editorial and journalism, you're probably better off putting down the newspaper and drooling to Fox News.
Unfortunately, Deicide's most consistent trait is mediocrity. While they have put out some really good stuff, probably more of their output is pretty lacking, at this point. Lineup changes and uninspired songwriting have taken their toll over the years.
I don't think phones are really the target market, in the long term. The carriers want to disrupt the incumbent cable companies, which often have a monopoly on high-speed data for any particular region. The carriers want to make it so your Wi-Fi router is pulling your internet from the air, instead.
I'm not a huge fan of behaviors that are not discoverable, i.e. the only way you can activate it is if you know the secret trick, like a swipe. I've watched my mom do stuff like press harder on her phone screen because she doesn't realize that she has to use her actual fingertips and not her fake fingernails. I doubt she would ever figure out gestures, and I barely use them myself. Even I discover Android features that are activated by gestures that I never knew about.
It's time to say get a vaccine or don't go to public schools. The only exceptions should be kids with compromised immune systems that can't be vaccinated. If parents don't like it, they can save the schools money and homeschool.
It's very likely that the same population that chooses not to vaccinate their kids also tends to home school.
Many travel-oriented cards now advertise that they don't charge foreign currency fees. And I believe Capital One, for one, is not allowed to charge such fees on any of their cards due to some way that they're incorporated.
I think I saw some research that actually when using both sides of escalator it actually increases the amount of people goes though.
I would dispute this. I've never seen anyone willingly stand to the left of a complete stranger. They only do it when some idiot in front of them has forgotten how to climb stairs.
I use WSL with so-called Debian every day. It's useful for programming but very limited and not production quality. Microsoft explicitly states that WSL is not intended or recommended for production applications.
Well,, if you use it every day, you could argue that you are using it in production. But having used it myself, even for compiling binaries -- and I'm very impressed with what you can do -- I can't imagine the demented logic that would make anyone want to use it for something public-facing.
If I understand your use of the term "overboot," then no. It doesn't boot. There's no second kernel running. Windows 10 has a subsystem that translates Linux system calls to the appropriate Windows calls. I'm sure some behaviors will be wrong, but I've been using it myself recently and have been impressed with what I've been able to do. It's not virtualization and it doesn't really feel like virtualization. It feels mainly like a way to shortcut the overhead of virtualization, mainly for doing Linux app dev on a Windows laptop. You can even run some Windows programs from a bash shell, even though they're not installed in the Linux filesystem.
I don't get what this article is trying to say. TSMC is about to dethrone Intel... how?
In value? TSMC's market cap is half that of Intel.
In innovation? TSMC is a manufacturer of outsourced chip designs... think a Chinese factory that produces car parts for Ford. The article references the combined research budgets of Qualcomm, Apple, Nvidia and Huawei. That's cute, but what does it have to do with anything? In real life, those budgets don't actually "combine." They're all competing against each other. Does the outsourced manufacturer benefit from having all these customers? Sure, but so what?
Intel, meanwhile, designs its own chips, which still dominate the PC and server industries. It also makes chipsets to go along with these, and most processor customers use these integrated chipsets these days. Add to that wireless devices, compilers, SDKs, and all the other stuff it produces that comprise an entire ecosystem.
Does Intel face challenges? Sure. I don't think anybody can argue that it's kinda fallen on its face in the mobile market. But does anyone see AWS or Boeing approaching TSMC to produce custom CPUs tailored for specific workloads?
So in that sense, you might as well say TSMC is about to dethrone IBM. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
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No no no, "the Skywalker" is the new magic power to replace the Force! Disney's got to be sure it retires all those dusty old trademarks.
Luke->Rey ...and so on, and so on.
Han->Poe
R2-D2+C-3PO->BB-8
Rebellion->Resistance
Empire->First Order
Tatooine->Jakku
What's more, the Swedish authorities never charged him with anything. The problem was that he believed that if he was ever arrested in Britain, for any reason, the U.S. would immediately reveal charges against him and demand extradition. He figured he wouldn't get a very favorable hearing in the U.S. -- probably rightly, but we'll see.
Never liked tape. A pop here and there is infinitely preferable to that hiss. (And yes, I'm one of those.)
How are you going to sell as much physical media when physical retail stores keep closing, and Amazon keeps trying to push customers to do streaming?
fp?
Find me a language more compact.
I take it you're not talking about source code.
Last four companies I've worked for all used Gmail internally.
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Chromium Edgelords!
They get locked in to the software, not the cost of it.
For example, lately Oracle has been offering to "forgive" some backdated license fees if a customer agrees to become an Oracle Cloud subscriber. Gotta pump those usage figures!
We can only hope /. doesn't fall in line with this anti-April 1 stance, because I usually spend that whole day reveling in hilarity at the high quality of posts.
The big news media companies are dying.
Say it enough times and it must be true.
Uh, yeah. Does Trump sleep on the left side of your bed or the right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...
Every New York Times article you cite is an op-ed. If you're not mentally savvy enough to differentiate between opinion/editorial and journalism, you're probably better off putting down the newspaper and drooling to Fox News.
Funny you should mention "batshit insane"... you seem to believe illegal immigrants can vote, when not even Green Card holders can do that.
Better close your curtains; Hillary Clinton and the CIA might be spying on you while you post!
Unfortunately, Deicide's most consistent trait is mediocrity. While they have put out some really good stuff, probably more of their output is pretty lacking, at this point. Lineup changes and uninspired songwriting have taken their toll over the years.
I don't think phones are really the target market, in the long term. The carriers want to disrupt the incumbent cable companies, which often have a monopoly on high-speed data for any particular region. The carriers want to make it so your Wi-Fi router is pulling your internet from the air, instead.
I'm not a huge fan of behaviors that are not discoverable, i.e. the only way you can activate it is if you know the secret trick, like a swipe. I've watched my mom do stuff like press harder on her phone screen because she doesn't realize that she has to use her actual fingertips and not her fake fingernails. I doubt she would ever figure out gestures, and I barely use them myself. Even I discover Android features that are activated by gestures that I never knew about.
My only hesitation in doing this would be that if they force people to gate-check bags to the final destination, you're in big trouble.
Lufthansa is the airline that forced me to check my carry-on at the last minute, then checked it through to New York for my trip to Florence, Italy.
It's time to say get a vaccine or don't go to public schools. The only exceptions should be kids with compromised immune systems that can't be vaccinated. If parents don't like it, they can save the schools money and homeschool.
It's very likely that the same population that chooses not to vaccinate their kids also tends to home school.
Correction: You do not need a headphone jack to buy Apple's $150 wireless headphones.
Many travel-oriented cards now advertise that they don't charge foreign currency fees. And I believe Capital One, for one, is not allowed to charge such fees on any of their cards due to some way that they're incorporated.
I think I saw some research that actually when using both sides of escalator it actually increases the amount of people goes though.
I would dispute this. I've never seen anyone willingly stand to the left of a complete stranger. They only do it when some idiot in front of them has forgotten how to climb stairs.
The distinction seems unnecessary. All modern Windows runs on the NT kernel.
I use WSL with so-called Debian every day. It's useful for programming but very limited and not production quality. Microsoft explicitly states that WSL is not intended or recommended for production applications.
Well,, if you use it every day, you could argue that you are using it in production. But having used it myself, even for compiling binaries -- and I'm very impressed with what you can do -- I can't imagine the demented logic that would make anyone want to use it for something public-facing.
If I understand your use of the term "overboot," then no. It doesn't boot. There's no second kernel running. Windows 10 has a subsystem that translates Linux system calls to the appropriate Windows calls. I'm sure some behaviors will be wrong, but I've been using it myself recently and have been impressed with what I've been able to do. It's not virtualization and it doesn't really feel like virtualization. It feels mainly like a way to shortcut the overhead of virtualization, mainly for doing Linux app dev on a Windows laptop. You can even run some Windows programs from a bash shell, even though they're not installed in the Linux filesystem.
I don't get what this article is trying to say. TSMC is about to dethrone Intel ... how?
In value? TSMC's market cap is half that of Intel.
In innovation? TSMC is a manufacturer of outsourced chip designs ... think a Chinese factory that produces car parts for Ford. The article references the combined research budgets of Qualcomm, Apple, Nvidia and Huawei. That's cute, but what does it have to do with anything? In real life, those budgets don't actually "combine." They're all competing against each other. Does the outsourced manufacturer benefit from having all these customers? Sure, but so what?
Intel, meanwhile, designs its own chips, which still dominate the PC and server industries. It also makes chipsets to go along with these, and most processor customers use these integrated chipsets these days. Add to that wireless devices, compilers, SDKs, and all the other stuff it produces that comprise an entire ecosystem.
Does Intel face challenges? Sure. I don't think anybody can argue that it's kinda fallen on its face in the mobile market. But does anyone see AWS or Boeing approaching TSMC to produce custom CPUs tailored for specific workloads?
So in that sense, you might as well say TSMC is about to dethrone IBM. It just doesn't make any sense to me.