So I suppose the Arm invasion was completely lost on you?
Just because a single country can't dominate the US in an area where they were already entrenched and dominant (Windows PCs) doesn't mean it's can't dominate the world in something totally new..
Also, last time I looked, Arm was set to take over both Servers and Apple desktops, so it's taken awhile, but it's definitely coming.
The BBC fee works because they have guys driving around with Ariel detection vans. If they didn't, most people wouldn't pay.
Are you planning on going to war with China to enforce your fee collection there, and every other country? Because you already know how much they respect Copyrights.
It had way too many capabilities that it excelled at.
it even managed to cost less than the competition.
But the not-widelyused 68000 processor plus custom chipset and OS meant that it wasn't compatible with anything remotely interesting in the business world (an important consideration by 1985).
And the complex hardware meant a massive learning curve for programmers (which is why it took years for software developers to find "killer apps" for the Amiga, and for Arcade-perfect ports to become the norm).
They should have used a 286 processor, so they could have made it DOS-compatible. Then it would have been an impressive competition against IBM, and gotten more eyes in the architecture early (more hackers = faster optimization of native programs).
$40 for a 4k HDR h.265 Roku is pretty much mainstream. Which means aV1is dead-in-the-water.
AV1 hardware acceleration will be TWO YEARS behind the $40 Roku, and you can be sure that it will cost OVER $100 o release (like the first 4k Roku).
HEVC enjoyed early adoption beause of early phone spec war. My Galaxy S4 had HEVC playback built in,
HEVC encode support was added to devices after the S4 a Apple, because video storage space is limited on a cellphone. The TVs have actually been slow to adopt HEVC compared to the rest of the industry, but 4k TVs with HEVC haw been around fo five years now, an 4k BluRay is almost two years old. Both are standard devices that don't support AV1.
The other upcoming standard hat will also kill AV1 is ATSC 3.0.
Yea, but cars are large goods that are already expensive to ship overseas. Like Alcohol. In a global make, it was just a matter of time before they moved h e factories here. The tarrifs only protected Detroit automakers from going under,until they could copy the Japanese on business methods..
Most of the goods produced by Silicon Valley in China are of the sightly more portable variety. And since these OEMs are producing products for the entire world, the US is only a very small piece of that pie, so the companies will either just raise prices here in the US (like Apple will).
So yeah, this may bring home production of washers and dryers, but not the small stuff that's dirt-cheap to ship in-bulk. And it just so happens those are the most lucrative manufacturing jobs.
In a global economy, the best thing for everyone i to put the factories where they are he most efficient. Moving production of everything to China has lowered the cost of living in the US significantly, and we've been able to replace the lost manufacturing jobs with globally-compatitive software and services.
Or you could just simplify your life and create auto-sort filters. I created a Facebook folder in my Hotmail account years ago, and I've just forgotten that it's there.
So they tailored an individual immune response, which seemed to work. Does every treatment have to be unique and costly, or can they keep producing her immune cells and treat others with them with the same success? How much will this cost?/blockquote.
It's going to be expensive because every immune system response will require targeted tweaks. Even a new cancer tumor might have new mutations.
The only thing that will make this cheap is if you can make an AI that's smart enough to do all that genetic analysis in the press of a button. Beyond that, it's just growing cells.
Nope actually, the game didn't evolve into Freespace 2 at all. Mike Kulas left Parallax software who made Descent and founded Volition Inc. Freespace 1/2 was made at Volition. The Descent name was slapped on Freespace 1 by the publisher Interplay to cash in on the existing popularity of the Descent franchise.
Well yes, but the franchise died after selling just a million games between descent 1 and 2.
You can call it whatever you want, but it was a rebranding for a already-dead game genre. Because it was just a demanding, impressive tech demo with zero legs.
And it's not as if the branding was inaccurate. Freespace was one of the toughest space shooters I could remember, after Tie Fighter.
Right, and this is why it didn't sell well, and the game evolved back to a space shooter in Descent: Freespace.
It will be remembered for it's technical achievements, but not because it was a satisfying game. In zero gravity shooters , people like their 3d spaces to be mostly 2D. Hence why most space ship games travel in just a single direction, and use turret cameras to fill-in the 3D experience.
Exactly, the combination or OS X 10.4 and Intel sparked the onrush, not some trendy overpriced shit in a colored case from 1998.
You could get a machine with twice the specs as the original iMac for the same price, 17" monitor included, along with trendy MS Natural Keyboard Elite and Office.
These worthless systems has such incedible mnarkup, it was astoundiing. At least when Apple learned ghow to design with the second gen, it ws at least pretty.
Asus just introduced another brand for selling their high-end AMD gear: Arez. They're still selling the EXACT SAME GPUs, just without the ROG branding.
Just like they mysteriously introduced the STRIX brand of video cards about 5 years ago, and have for some fucking reason started selling motherboards under the brand (even though they are already silent)
If rebranding a product line is so fucking hard, why do OEMs do it every few years? Like Asus introducing STRIX, or AsRock introducing Taichi a couple years back, or MSI going crazy with Carbon and Mortar for their motherboards and Duke and Lightning for their GPUs? Or Gigabyte making up AORUS recently and sticking it on every fucking product they sell?
Rebranding is the easiest part of marketing a product. It's creating the RIGHT motherboard/GPU and getting it out there in reviews - THAT is the hard part of being an OEM.
Why do you people pretend that rebranding is hard? BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE CHANGE.
This is the land of OEMs. You want to to make products that are in high demand, and have decent markup? Then you need to sign the contract with the supplier of those parts, and kiss the appropriate ass.
Or how about that time that Nvidia unleashed the pricing gauntlet,, forcing all OEMs to not drop below minimum pricing levels, basically stopping all entry-level competition?
OEMs are getting raped by Nvidia selling direct, but nobody complained about Founders Editions.
So now you lazy fucks suddenly care about Nvidia swinging their balls around the OEMs yet again? When the end result is just them forcing rebrands? I personally feel like having the exact same brands across chip lines makes shopping for cards confusing, so this isn't NEARLY the biggest dick Nvidia has made in their entire history. But the whiners will have you believe that ir's the END OF DAYS, even though they're still allowing everyone to continue to sell both Nvidia and AMD cards if they want.
The initiative to add new providers is being ended. It doesn't sound like they're cutting the existing offerings.
It says they offer service in 72 countries. When I rank countries, by per-capita, it's usually a marginal to excellent life in the top 50, and shitty in the other 150-ish countries.
This program RIGHT NOW covers HALF the shitholes on earth. That's a pretty good success story, for something which is pretty difficult in countries with little infrastructure, / constant warfare.
I think 50% coverage in five yeas is pretty impresive.
Sure, the C64 was the perfect development system for teaching the self-driven programmer.
Now stand back and remember how many SELF-DRIVEN PROGRAMMERS you knew? There were maybe a dozen of them in my entire high school class - of 430 students!
This despite being born right before the era of the C64/VIC-20, and being required to buy TI-82s in high school. Those are the two easiest platforms to program on that were invented at the time (one the perfect desktop development environment, and the other the perfect portable for killing time programming in class).
So, as long as you don't mind settling for the top 3%, we can easily supply the world based on tough self-driven programmers.
But our needs have grown way beyond that, so now we need something EASIER TO USE than the old standby.
Right, nearly everything he did before Stranger in a Strange Land was aimed at getting published, while still retaining as much rule breaking as humanly possible in his books. Sex == NO (In Tunnel In The Sky, they obviously have babies, but all sex is glossed over.). It's bad enough he wrote about taking down organized religion/theocracy.
I'm not surprised he let everyone bask in his Sex With God Smackdown. The Success of Starship Troopers paved the way for Stranger as a cultural milestone.
I think The movie is a pretty good modern interpretation of the book, even if it misses a lot of depth. No power armor due to budget, but instead you have larger platoons. The sex and mixed-gender troops feels like 1960s Heinlein. The corporal punishment is retained, and the only thing really missing is officer's school.
Let's assume you create this ideal world of plenty.
What happens in 100 more years when the Earth's population has doubled again, and there's just not enough room/food/water - again?
OR what happens when your Gaia gets hijacked by an autocrat, and you're all out of guns?
The reason we maintain an arsenal is for when the shit hits the fan. It just so happens that coming up with a viable threat against millions of idiots (with minimal casualties) gets expensive. But it also just so happens that having such an effective arsenal brings peace to the majority or large countries in this world.
If you have no guns, then someone else will bring theirs to the party. Consider it one of the costs of maintaining society.
But it's doing a whole lot less than your thing is.
This thing has an LCD display and active senors that seem to be constantly running. Both of which are far bigger energy sinks than moving a mechanical watch hand once a second.
The reasoning is sound. The cost of the procedure goes way up if you're overweight, and since surgery is one of the most stressful things yor body will ever experience, you're more liskely t push an overwight body to failure when you're under the knife.
Most of these "essential" plugins that people are whining/worried are going to die will get a port. They're NOT AS CORNER CASE/DEAD CODE AS YOU'RE IMAGINATION BELIEVES..
You already said the creator is a fucking control freak with timed demolition attached to every release, so no doubt he will create a new Firefox version.
And it has a Chrome version already, so just like Stylish this will be a painless port, if it hasn't already happened.
But of course he's not going to tell you his plans because he;'s a fucking tyrant who relishes leading his users on a never-wending rollercoaster. But he likes his disciples, so he won't leave them high-and-dry.
The people whining the loudest are ignoring the fact that ALL THE MOST POPULAR PLUGINS ARE BEING OR AVE ALREADY BEEN PORTED.
uBlock Origin - already ported.
Stylish - has already been Chrome-compatible for years, so port is painless. Allows you to customize ANY webpage, and make it portable across browsers.
The problem is, most of the attraction of thes standalone devices is the "stupid party tricks" angle. How do you secure the thing under those circumstances, and still make it useful?
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So I suppose the Arm invasion was completely lost on you?
Just because a single country can't dominate the US in an area where they were already entrenched and dominant (Windows PCs) doesn't mean it's can't dominate the world in something totally new..
Also, last time I looked, Arm was set to take over both Servers and Apple desktops, so it's taken awhile, but it's definitely coming.
The BBC fee works because they have guys driving around with Ariel detection vans. If they didn't, most people wouldn't pay.
Are you planning on going to war with China to enforce your fee collection there, and every other country? Because you already know how much they respect Copyrights.
It had way too many capabilities that it excelled at.
it even managed to cost less than the competition.
But the not-widelyused 68000 processor plus custom chipset and OS meant that it wasn't compatible with anything remotely interesting in the business world (an important consideration by 1985).
And the complex hardware meant a massive learning curve for programmers (which is why it took years for software developers to find "killer apps" for the Amiga, and for Arcade-perfect ports to become the norm).
They should have used a 286 processor, so they could have made it DOS-compatible. Then it would have been an impressive competition against IBM, and gotten more eyes in the architecture early (more hackers = faster optimization of native programs).
What were you saying about HEVC being too expensive to be available in less-expensive devices?
$40 for a 4k HDR h.265 Roku is pretty much mainstream. Which means aV1is dead-in-the-water.
AV1 hardware acceleration will be TWO YEARS behind the $40 Roku, and you can be sure that it will cost OVER $100 o release (like the first 4k Roku).
HEVC enjoyed early adoption beause of early phone spec war. My Galaxy S4 had HEVC playback built in,
HEVC encode support was added to devices after the S4 a Apple, because video storage space is limited on a cellphone. The TVs have actually been slow to adopt HEVC compared to the rest of the industry, but 4k TVs with HEVC haw been around fo five years now, an 4k BluRay is almost two years old. Both are standard devices that don't support AV1.
The other upcoming standard hat will also kill AV1 is ATSC 3.0.
https://www.atsc.org/newslette...
Yea, but cars are large goods that are already expensive to ship overseas. Like Alcohol. In a global make, it was just a matter of time before they moved h e factories here. The tarrifs only protected Detroit automakers from going under,until they could copy the Japanese on business methods..
Most of the goods produced by Silicon Valley in China are of the sightly more portable variety. And since these OEMs are producing products for the entire world, the US is only a very small piece of that pie, so the companies will either just raise prices here in the US (like Apple will).
So yeah, this may bring home production of washers and dryers, but not the small stuff that's dirt-cheap to ship in-bulk. And it just so happens those are the most lucrative manufacturing jobs.
In a global economy, the best thing for everyone i to put the factories where they are he most efficient. Moving production of everything to China has lowered the cost of living in the US significantly, and we've been able to replace the lost manufacturing jobs with globally-compatitive software and services.
Or you could just simplify your life and create auto-sort filters. I created a Facebook folder in my Hotmail account years ago, and I've just forgotten that it's there.
No control freak domain ownership required :)
Well yes, but the franchise died after selling just a million games between descent 1 and 2.
You can call it whatever you want, but it was a rebranding for a already-dead game genre. Because it was just a demanding, impressive tech demo with zero legs.
And it's not as if the branding was inaccurate. Freespace was one of the toughest space shooters I could remember, after Tie Fighter.
Right, and this is why it didn't sell well, and the game evolved back to a space shooter in Descent: Freespace.
It will be remembered for it's technical achievements, but not because it was a satisfying game. In zero gravity shooters , people like their 3d spaces to be mostly 2D. Hence why most space ship games travel in just a single direction, and use turret cameras to fill-in the 3D experience.
Exactly, the combination or OS X 10.4 and Intel sparked the onrush, not some trendy overpriced shit in a colored case from 1998.
You could get a machine with twice the specs as the original iMac for the same price, 17" monitor included, along with trendy MS Natural Keyboard Elite and Office.
Just look at the Progen Polaris for the same time period:
These worthless systems has such incedible mnarkup, it was astoundiing. At least when Apple learned ghow to design with the second gen, it ws at least pretty.
Asus just introduced another brand for selling their high-end AMD gear: Arez. They're still selling the EXACT SAME GPUs, just without the ROG branding.
Just like they mysteriously introduced the STRIX brand of video cards about 5 years ago, and have for some fucking reason started selling motherboards under the brand (even though they are already silent)
If rebranding a product line is so fucking hard, why do OEMs do it every few years? Like Asus introducing STRIX, or AsRock introducing Taichi a couple years back, or MSI going crazy with Carbon and Mortar for their motherboards and Duke and Lightning for their GPUs? Or Gigabyte making up AORUS recently and sticking it on every fucking product they sell?
Rebranding is the easiest part of marketing a product. It's creating the RIGHT motherboard/GPU and getting it out there in reviews - THAT is the hard part of being an OEM.
Why do you people pretend that rebranding is hard? BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE CHANGE.
This is the land of OEMs. You want to to make products that are in high demand, and have decent markup? Then you need to sign the contract with the supplier of those parts, and kiss the appropriate ass.
Nvidia has ALWAYS demanded more of OEMs over the years, WITHOUT ever giving a clear picture of what tthe rules are. . The give preferential treatment to different OEMs based on the days of the week! Remember when XFX was a PREFERRED NVIDIA OEM? Pepperidge Farms fucking does!
Or how about that time that Nvidia unleashed the pricing gauntlet,, forcing all OEMs to not drop below minimum pricing levels, basically stopping all entry-level competition?
OEMs are getting raped by Nvidia selling direct, but nobody complained about Founders Editions.
So now you lazy fucks suddenly care about Nvidia swinging their balls around the OEMs yet again? When the end result is just them forcing rebrands? I personally feel like having the exact same brands across chip lines makes shopping for cards confusing, so this isn't NEARLY the biggest dick Nvidia has made in their entire history. But the whiners will have you believe that ir's the END OF DAYS, even though they're still allowing everyone to continue to sell both Nvidia and AMD cards if they want.
The initiative to add new providers is being ended. It doesn't sound like they're cutting the existing offerings.
It says they offer service in 72 countries. When I rank countries, by per-capita, it's usually a marginal to excellent life in the top 50, and shitty in the other 150-ish countries.
This program RIGHT NOW covers HALF the shitholes on earth. That's a pretty good success story, for something which is pretty difficult in countries with little infrastructure, / constant warfare.
I think 50% coverage in five yeas is pretty impresive.
Sure, the C64 was the perfect development system for teaching the self-driven programmer.
Now stand back and remember how many SELF-DRIVEN PROGRAMMERS you knew? There were maybe a dozen of them in my entire high school class - of 430 students!
This despite being born right before the era of the C64/VIC-20, and being required to buy TI-82s in high school. Those are the two easiest platforms to program on that were invented at the time (one the perfect desktop development environment, and the other the perfect portable for killing time programming in class).
So, as long as you don't mind settling for the top 3%, we can easily supply the world based on tough self-driven programmers.
But our needs have grown way beyond that, so now we need something EASIER TO USE than the old standby.
Right, nearly everything he did before Stranger in a Strange Land was aimed at getting published, while still retaining as much rule breaking as humanly possible in his books. Sex == NO (In Tunnel In The Sky, they obviously have babies, but all sex is glossed over.). It's bad enough he wrote about taking down organized religion/theocracy.
I'm not surprised he let everyone bask in his Sex With God Smackdown. The Success of Starship Troopers paved the way for Stranger as a cultural milestone.
I think The movie is a pretty good modern interpretation of the book, even if it misses a lot of depth. No power armor due to budget, but instead you have larger platoons. The sex and mixed-gender troops feels like 1960s Heinlein. The corporal punishment is retained, and the only thing really missing is officer's school.
Let's assume you create this ideal world of plenty.
What happens in 100 more years when the Earth's population has doubled again, and there's just not enough room/food/water - again?
OR what happens when your Gaia gets hijacked by an autocrat, and you're all out of guns?
The reason we maintain an arsenal is for when the shit hits the fan. It just so happens that coming up with a viable threat against millions of idiots (with minimal casualties) gets expensive. But it also just so happens that having such an effective arsenal brings peace to the majority or large countries in this world.
If you have no guns, then someone else will bring theirs to the party. Consider it one of the costs of maintaining society.
But it's doing a whole lot less than your thing is.
This thing has an LCD display and active senors that seem to be constantly running. Both of which are far bigger energy sinks than moving a mechanical watch hand once a second.
It's elective surgery, not car crash surgery.
The reasoning is sound. The cost of the procedure goes way up if you're overweight, and since surgery is one of the most stressful things yor body will ever experience, you're more liskely t push an overwight body to failure when you're under the knife.
https://health.usnews.com/heal...
What art of "costs more, and is more likely to kill the pateint" don't you understand?
Smoking increases risk of complication, but not as extreme as weight.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
You know, like that stupid Reset button on the Apple II. Located conveniently above the RETURN key.
Can't tell you how many times I fucking hit that thing.
And if for some crazy reason the nuclear option happens, you can just try setting the minimum font size.
It was going to happen some day anyway, with those timed releases.
Sorry, should have been clearer in my post:
Most of these "essential" plugins that people are whining/worried are going to die will get a port. They're NOT AS CORNER CASE/DEAD CODE AS YOU'RE IMAGINATION BELIEVES..
You already said the creator is a fucking control freak with timed demolition attached to every release, so no doubt he will create a new Firefox version.
And it has a Chrome version already, so just like Stylish this will be a painless port, if it hasn't already happened.
But of course he's not going to tell you his plans because he;'s a fucking tyrant who relishes leading his users on a never-wending rollercoaster. But he likes his disciples, so he won't leave them high-and-dry.
Precisely.
The people whining the loudest are ignoring the fact that ALL THE MOST POPULAR PLUGINS ARE BEING OR AVE ALREADY BEEN PORTED.
uBlock Origin - already ported.
Stylish - has already been Chrome-compatible for years, so port is painless. Allows you to customize ANY webpage, and make it portable across browsers.
NoScript - the oldest and toughest tool of them all, but the creator is making the effort Should be ready by next year
Everything else is used by a handful of users.I mean, what the hell else is used by your average Firefox follower?
They did, back in March. Apparently you were too busy trolling on Slashdot to notice?
http://bgr.com/2017/03/29/ipho...
It was incredibly stupid of him to do that for so long, but before he was Emperor Cheeto , it didn't really matter when all he used it for was Witter.
That doesn't actually happen. The government doesn't like getting stuck paying for your mistake.
You have to have a step-father officially submit adoption paperwork, so someone else takes the responsibility. Until then, the father is still on the hook until they're emancipated.
The problem is, most of the attraction of thes standalone devices is the "stupid party tricks" angle.
How do you secure the thing under those circumstances, and still make it useful?