Safe at any speed is just not something we can promise with our current technology. Being crushed between a runaway cement truck and a dump truck while boxed in at a stoplight is impossible for car sensors to stop. Being blown off of an icy bridge and sinking to the bottom is another scenario the car won't be able to protect against.
It may be better than you think. Idle power draws are way down on most cards and they were not measured here. If it draws more power for the 8 hours a week you actually use it for gaming, but less power for the other 160 hours then you are probably going to come out ahead.
In fact you'll note that the "law" is just a guideline. It's meant to discourage local jurisdictions from making overly restrictive laws against unaccompanied minors. Probably in response to stories like that kid in suburban Maryland who had CPS called on the parents multiple times because they were walking to the store alone.
It even starts out saying that they think walking is a bad idea "for safety reasons", in what appears to be a nice suburban school district. This is the sort of thing you might be able to change via the PTA, depending on how it is structured. On the other hand, it's hard to break paranoia and the school district might be terrified of being sued if a child is kidnapped on their way to/from the building. While stranger kidnappings are extremely rare, custody disputes are not and either way the school may be dragged into an expensive legal proceeding because some parents can't behave like adults.
Really what we're seeing is storage finally starting to catch up with CPU after lagging behind for nearly 30 years. The author is freaking out that ZOMG the disk isn't always the slowest thing on the system anymore, but this is not really news at this point. The exciting part for me is that in some cases you may be able to eliminate one cache from the system. Caches are a necessary evil that introduce big headaches into system design, so being able to eliminate one can greatly simplify parts of your system.
I did find it odd that the use case he kept going back to was someone buying some crazy expensive RAM storage array, and then sticking a single commodity server on the thing and being shocked that the server was CPU bound. The point about the Linux IO subsystem not being up to the task is interesting, but having not looked into it myself I can't help but to wonder if there isn't some kernel tuning or optional module support he could have enabled to improve the situation.
Where do your figures for the replicator energy use come from? Are you just converting E=MC^2? IIRC in Star Trek there is a big tank of "replicator mass" that is merely rearranged to form the desired product. Waste products of all kids get converted back into that mass as well.
Given the widespread use of Replicators in Star Trek, it is safe to assume they don't require titanic levels of energy for mundane tasks.
2. Money: Ok we may not need money, but some form of system to make sure the population is doing things that are needed to be done. Jobs that are in shortage but high demand get paid more. Jobs which can be easily filled and are not needed much get paid less. With no incentive people will tend to trend towards the jobs they want to do. So we get a lot of bad poets and street musicians.
This was kind of the point though. Automation had progressed to the point that nobody had to work if they didn't want to, or they could be street musicians and still have a good life.
Obviously it's not completely post-scarcity. Not everybody can have their own Galaxy class starship, or their own planet, etc... But it's more like a souped up socialist paradise where everybody has a guaranteed minimum quality of life and if they want to improve their life they can but if they don't then they won't starve to death or freeze or even have to worry about money. There are no shitty jobs, they've all been automated or replaced by replicators.
Good luck enforcing those laws. Just buy a home and see how quickly your mailbox gets filled with flyers addressed directly to you offering home services.
That sounds about right sadly. "Freemium" developers know that only a tiny number of their users will ever buy anything, but those that do often spend hundreds of dollars on the game. The industry term is "whales". So they set their price points to milk as much money as possible out of the whales. It's really shocking how little value you get for your money on so many of those games.
Compatibility with the baseband processor might be an issue since its firmware is usually upgraded at the same time and downgrades can be risky. The baseband is pretty scary really, a huge black box that runs underneath the regular phone OS and has total control over it. Also, it would be re-introducing security problems that were fixed in later iOS versions, which might come with its own liability problems. Plus, it would re-enable old jailbreaks that were fixed in the later versions.
That said, as a 4s user I think this complaint is overblown and is some lawyer looking for a big class action payday. I do turn off the superfluous animations however, so maybe it's partially my fault that I'm not being tremendously inconvenienced. I guess I'm mostly hoping that Apple doesn't stop supporting older versions of the iPhone. I have an original model iPhone as well and most apps on the app store no longer work, even if they aren't big 3D extravaganzas. They're simply compiled against a version of iOS that is too new for that old phone. Pretty annoying when a simple to-do list app won't even work because your phone is too old.
This was my impression too. It felt like a remake of A New Hope with an extremely calculated level of fanservice. It's not a bad movie, although there are certainly some plot holes, but at the end of the day I was feeling a bit blah about it. It's not as bad as one of those Michael Bay "steal your childhood and blow it up" movies, but it was still soulless. Also, seriously, did anybody not see the "big twist" coming from a mile away? I had figured it was going to happen from the moment the villian's name was said.
The killer for me is that webmail clients have no or very hacky PGP support. I know most people don't use it, but there are a few and I don't want to say "sorry, can't send me mail because my client sucks."
There are already several websites that claim to hook up developers with people who have small problems. They all suffer from the same problem: They're full of "idea men" who have no idea how much labor costs and shitty developers who don't give a crap about the work. You'll see jobs like "develop the database backend and website for a 500 million user website on this idea so clever I can't put it in the description or someone will steal it. Budget: $150."
And then endless complaints from employers that the code delivered was shoddy and barely met the (horribly under-specified) requirements and they couldn't use it.
The story is basically about how they're talking up their massive Fiber network, but have actually been cutting back on expansion for several years. It's like when politicians name bills for the opposite thing they're doing. Like the Clean Air Act that allowed more industrial pollution into the air.
Probably, but it would have been the tallest connector on the device. Once of the features of the Pi Zero is that you can stick it in exceptionally narrow spaces. The whole thing is only 5mm tall. A full size HDMI port is 5mm for the jack alone, not counting the board beneath it.
It depends what kind of person you are. If you are starting from zero, then yes, all of those accessories are going to add up to more than $5. However, that's not really the target market for the Pi Zero. The Pi Zero user is someone comfortable with soldering on headers they need and already has a USB power brick (probably from an old phone/tablet/etc...), USB cables, the correct HDMI cables, and even a spare USB keyboard and micro-SD card. Or maybe they have to buy the HDMI cable but the have everything else already. That's the kind of person the Pi Zero is best for. People in the former group are probably better served by "full size" RPis or other similar SBCs.
It's not a perfect solution, but you can install noscript and only allow Javascript on the base page. You'll still get HTML5 animations from the page, but not from ads. You can also leave javascript blocked if it is not crucial to the operation of the particular webpage.
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Presumably they're working hard on not supporting Unicode.
AMD calls their version of the IME the "Platform Security Processor (PSP)".
One of the side effects is that open source BIOS projects are effectively dead for desktops.
Safe at any speed is just not something we can promise with our current technology. Being crushed between a runaway cement truck and a dump truck while boxed in at a stoplight is impossible for car sensors to stop. Being blown off of an icy bridge and sinking to the bottom is another scenario the car won't be able to protect against.
It may be better than you think. Idle power draws are way down on most cards and they were not measured here. If it draws more power for the 8 hours a week you actually use it for gaming, but less power for the other 160 hours then you are probably going to come out ahead.
In fact you'll note that the "law" is just a guideline. It's meant to discourage local jurisdictions from making overly restrictive laws against unaccompanied minors. Probably in response to stories like that kid in suburban Maryland who had CPS called on the parents multiple times because they were walking to the store alone.
It even starts out saying that they think walking is a bad idea "for safety reasons", in what appears to be a nice suburban school district. This is the sort of thing you might be able to change via the PTA, depending on how it is structured. On the other hand, it's hard to break paranoia and the school district might be terrified of being sued if a child is kidnapped on their way to/from the building. While stranger kidnappings are extremely rare, custody disputes are not and either way the school may be dragged into an expensive legal proceeding because some parents can't behave like adults.
Really what we're seeing is storage finally starting to catch up with CPU after lagging behind for nearly 30 years. The author is freaking out that ZOMG the disk isn't always the slowest thing on the system anymore, but this is not really news at this point. The exciting part for me is that in some cases you may be able to eliminate one cache from the system. Caches are a necessary evil that introduce big headaches into system design, so being able to eliminate one can greatly simplify parts of your system.
I did find it odd that the use case he kept going back to was someone buying some crazy expensive RAM storage array, and then sticking a single commodity server on the thing and being shocked that the server was CPU bound. The point about the Linux IO subsystem not being up to the task is interesting, but having not looked into it myself I can't help but to wonder if there isn't some kernel tuning or optional module support he could have enabled to improve the situation.
Where do your figures for the replicator energy use come from? Are you just converting E=MC^2? IIRC in Star Trek there is a big tank of "replicator mass" that is merely rearranged to form the desired product. Waste products of all kids get converted back into that mass as well.
Given the widespread use of Replicators in Star Trek, it is safe to assume they don't require titanic levels of energy for mundane tasks.
It just means companies will be making products based on more current works instead of having to dig through 19th century works instead.
Basically they didn't want to have to lug that full size shuttle model out into the desert constantly.
This was kind of the point though. Automation had progressed to the point that nobody had to work if they didn't want to, or they could be street musicians and still have a good life.
Obviously it's not completely post-scarcity. Not everybody can have their own Galaxy class starship, or their own planet, etc... But it's more like a souped up socialist paradise where everybody has a guaranteed minimum quality of life and if they want to improve their life they can but if they don't then they won't starve to death or freeze or even have to worry about money. There are no shitty jobs, they've all been automated or replaced by replicators.
Good luck enforcing those laws. Just buy a home and see how quickly your mailbox gets filled with flyers addressed directly to you offering home services.
That sounds about right sadly. "Freemium" developers know that only a tiny number of their users will ever buy anything, but those that do often spend hundreds of dollars on the game. The industry term is "whales". So they set their price points to milk as much money as possible out of the whales. It's really shocking how little value you get for your money on so many of those games.
I just turned off IAP in the settings menu. As an added bonus some games won't bug you constantly to spend money if it is disabled.
Compatibility with the baseband processor might be an issue since its firmware is usually upgraded at the same time and downgrades can be risky. The baseband is pretty scary really, a huge black box that runs underneath the regular phone OS and has total control over it. Also, it would be re-introducing security problems that were fixed in later iOS versions, which might come with its own liability problems. Plus, it would re-enable old jailbreaks that were fixed in the later versions.
That said, as a 4s user I think this complaint is overblown and is some lawyer looking for a big class action payday. I do turn off the superfluous animations however, so maybe it's partially my fault that I'm not being tremendously inconvenienced. I guess I'm mostly hoping that Apple doesn't stop supporting older versions of the iPhone. I have an original model iPhone as well and most apps on the app store no longer work, even if they aren't big 3D extravaganzas. They're simply compiled against a version of iOS that is too new for that old phone. Pretty annoying when a simple to-do list app won't even work because your phone is too old.
This was my impression too. It felt like a remake of A New Hope with an extremely calculated level of fanservice. It's not a bad movie, although there are certainly some plot holes, but at the end of the day I was feeling a bit blah about it. It's not as bad as one of those Michael Bay "steal your childhood and blow it up" movies, but it was still soulless. Also, seriously, did anybody not see the "big twist" coming from a mile away? I had figured it was going to happen from the moment the villian's name was said.
Isn't being rear-ended the most common kind of accident in general?
The killer for me is that webmail clients have no or very hacky PGP support. I know most people don't use it, but there are a few and I don't want to say "sorry, can't send me mail because my client sucks."
Getting PGP encryption working on a gmail account is a nightmare.
Fedora? Although it has most of the same problems as Ubuntu (systemd, unity, etc...) so that's maybe not a huge win.
There are already several websites that claim to hook up developers with people who have small problems. They all suffer from the same problem: They're full of "idea men" who have no idea how much labor costs and shitty developers who don't give a crap about the work. You'll see jobs like "develop the database backend and website for a 500 million user website on this idea so clever I can't put it in the description or someone will steal it. Budget: $150."
And then endless complaints from employers that the code delivered was shoddy and barely met the (horribly under-specified) requirements and they couldn't use it.
The story is basically about how they're talking up their massive Fiber network, but have actually been cutting back on expansion for several years. It's like when politicians name bills for the opposite thing they're doing. Like the Clean Air Act that allowed more industrial pollution into the air.
Probably, but it would have been the tallest connector on the device. Once of the features of the Pi Zero is that you can stick it in exceptionally narrow spaces. The whole thing is only 5mm tall. A full size HDMI port is 5mm for the jack alone, not counting the board beneath it.
It depends what kind of person you are. If you are starting from zero, then yes, all of those accessories are going to add up to more than $5. However, that's not really the target market for the Pi Zero. The Pi Zero user is someone comfortable with soldering on headers they need and already has a USB power brick (probably from an old phone/tablet/etc...), USB cables, the correct HDMI cables, and even a spare USB keyboard and micro-SD card. Or maybe they have to buy the HDMI cable but the have everything else already. That's the kind of person the Pi Zero is best for. People in the former group are probably better served by "full size" RPis or other similar SBCs.
It's not a perfect solution, but you can install noscript and only allow Javascript on the base page. You'll still get HTML5 animations from the page, but not from ads. You can also leave javascript blocked if it is not crucial to the operation of the particular webpage.