Well, Windows is nearly there, they actually allow you to run the browser engine in a VM if you have Enterprise and configure it to do so. Unfortunately with the recent announcement that they are moving the rendering engine from EdgeHTML to Chromium for Edge I'm not sure if the feature will be supported going forward. I hope they do as it's one of the better end user security features now that Outlook isn't such a steaming pile.
To answer your question, just got the November updates this morning, no idea what took nearly a month, though I guess I'm good they actually QA their patches, unlike MS of late.
Funny you should mention the XL, still no November security update for the OG Pixel or the Pixel XL, at this rate I'm thinking they're just skipping it and will roll it up with the December update. Pretty sad when Google with only 8 models to support can't reliably update their phones (6 models after this month, 6P and 5x just got their final update unless something changes, which seems unlikely). Oh, and they don't provide security updates if you don't update your phone to the newest OS, was stuck without security updates for 3 months this year because I didn't want to update to Pie because of the charging bug. OverallI'm underwhelmed by Googles support on the Pixel line, pretty sure I'm going to try OP now that they support Verizon, though if Samsung would give us official support for remapping the stupid Bixby button I'd probably go with an S9+ or Note 9.
Recent XDA posts indicate that with the Android Pie update the OnePlus 6 now works with Verizon VoLTE services. You can't activate a SIM card on Verizon with it but if you move one from a different phone it works. Unfortunately the CDMA interface still rejects it because it's not on the whitelist, but those services are being shut down by 12/31/2019 so VoLTE working is a much bigger issue IMHO. If you want to try using it on Verizon probably the best way is to try a Tracphone brand. I'm on Total Wireless because of the $99/month for 4 lines plan but any would work. Buy a $15-20 LTE flip phone, provision the SIM there, and move it to your "unsupported" phone.
a majority of games are now written for tablets/phones that have little more processing power than a 486 *cough* Bullshit *cough*
All ARMv8 cores are between high 4's and mid 6's in DMIP/MHz and run at speeds from 1.5 to 2.5GHz, that puts them at 6750 to 16,000 DMIPs. The 486 DX4 100 was 70 MIPS and 0.7 MIPS/MHz. The modern ARM chips performance puts them in the range of an Athlon64 to an Athlon64 x2 chip.
LOL, NO. Shipping contributes about 4% of total GHG emissions annually, it's a non-trivial percentage but transportation is 14% in total so non-shipping is 10% or 250% of the shipping emissions. Now if you were talking about acid rain, then yes, currently due to dirty fuel shipping is a huge contributor but starting next year bunker fuel is being restricted to.5% sulfur content (down from 5% today) which will greatly decrease their contribution to acidification.
Even in just the CO2 aspects, without getting into the whole "particulates, NOx, etc" brouhaha, which is close to zero on modern coal fired plant
Not sure where you get that idea, using 3mi/kWh and the average coal plant in my region I figured out that the NOx emissions from an EV running on coal are several times worse than the current EPA standard for passenger vehicles, about as dirty as the dieselgate VWs in fact. Particulates are harder as the PM2.5 and PM5 are going to be in places with low population densities which is probably an overall improvement for health. For CO2 it's close, a hybrid is cleaner than a 3mi/kWh EV when running on coal. But put a reasonable amount of renewables into the mix and use natural gas instead of coal and the EV wins by a large amount.
Second the improvements in the grid often take place on the decades scale, Not really, the US went from 58% coal to 23% coal in the last decade, so the improvement is pretty rapid and with wind, solar, and battery tech really hitting the ramp phase in the mass production cost reduction scale it's likely to accelerate globally. As far as replacement battery cost, Tesla is already down to ~$100/kWh at the pack level so future replacement packs aren't going to be anywhere near $30k unless you're talking a medium duty truck. Also, other than the Leaf which lacks active thermal management almost every EV has way better battery degradation than originally feared.
It was a hacked driver file on their public FTP server which was downloaded to a single Apple lab machine. All the details are out there. That wasn't the reason that Apple dropped them, it was purely price. When you order your servers by the container ship it's cheaper and more efficient to go to the ODM and have them build to your specifications thus cutting out the middle man and features that your use case doesn't require (like LOM cards, when you have a redundant array of inexpensive datacenters you don't care if an individual server has issues, you pave the OS and reboot, if that doesn't fix it you power it down and have it replaced when the rack gets too old or has too many failed units)
No, the 4M Amps is going to destroy the generator just fine without any explosives, the containment cage was to keep the explosion of the generator inside the room. When the cage failed under the 60% higher than expected field strength the explosion was no longer contained to the experiment and thus blew the doors off the lab.
Sure, Office 2007 upped the max row count for Excel to 2^20 instead of 2^16, Office 2010 get rid of the god awful binary blob format for documents which resulted in about 90% fewer file corruption issues. Outlook has gotten better with each release.
No, you can use Outlook 2019 to access O365, it's only Office 2016 that will be unable to connect after 10/13/2020 (end of mainstream support for 2016). Outlook 2019 will work until Q4 2024.
Bullshit, accessing the management interface for my VMWare cluster isn't introducing a virus vector. Yes, VMWare introduced an HTML5 management interface, but it sucks, it's slower, buggier, and lacks features found in the Flash interface. Do I like flash, no I do not but decisions made long ago and way above my pay grade mean that I need to use it to do my job, making it more annoying accomplishes NOTHING other than pissing me off for no good reason.
Since it is hotel property, she obviously has no expectation of privacy, right?
Completely incorrect, as a renter you have a reasonable expectation that the management will not enter your space without announcing themselves. Short term rentals like a hotel have less protection than a longer term rental like a lease but there are still protections for your privacy.
File formats aren't the lockin, it's the ecosystem of plugins around Office that keeps it firmly entrenched. I've yet to work in a vertical where a company larger than say 50 employees doesn't have a few plugins that are developed for their industry that hook into Word or Excel or Outlook that are considered essential for users workflows. My current vertical is law and we have nearly a dozen for both Word and Outlook.
No shit, everyone will turn off the EAS messages on their cellphones. I already did that since Verizon apparently can't figure out how to limit EAS messages to a few county range and instead floods every severe weather alert to an area about half the size of most states which means my phone wants to wake me up for a severe thunderstorm over 150 miles away.
Nope, please talk about unions, organizing, raises, strikes, etc at the checkout line in Walmart. The only way to overcome such technology isn't to hide from it, it's to make the signal to noise ratio so bad that the humans monitoring the hits from the machine can't possibly keep up or find the real data.
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I bet there's more new code being generated for Java than pretty much any other language for one simple reason, Android.
Well, Windows is nearly there, they actually allow you to run the browser engine in a VM if you have Enterprise and configure it to do so. Unfortunately with the recent announcement that they are moving the rendering engine from EdgeHTML to Chromium for Edge I'm not sure if the feature will be supported going forward. I hope they do as it's one of the better end user security features now that Outlook isn't such a steaming pile.
Asset forfeiture is also really rare
Really? In just South Carolina there were over 3,200 asset forfeitures in 2 years totaling $17M. 1,600 actions per year in a state with 5M people doesn't strike me as particularly rare.
To answer your question, just got the November updates this morning, no idea what took nearly a month, though I guess I'm good they actually QA their patches, unlike MS of late.
It'll be made by Foxconn just like the Pixel 3/XL.
Funny you should mention the XL, still no November security update for the OG Pixel or the Pixel XL, at this rate I'm thinking they're just skipping it and will roll it up with the December update. Pretty sad when Google with only 8 models to support can't reliably update their phones (6 models after this month, 6P and 5x just got their final update unless something changes, which seems unlikely). Oh, and they don't provide security updates if you don't update your phone to the newest OS, was stuck without security updates for 3 months this year because I didn't want to update to Pie because of the charging bug. OverallI'm underwhelmed by Googles support on the Pixel line, pretty sure I'm going to try OP now that they support Verizon, though if Samsung would give us official support for remapping the stupid Bixby button I'd probably go with an S9+ or Note 9.
pretty much everything other than Verizon
Recent XDA posts indicate that with the Android Pie update the OnePlus 6 now works with Verizon VoLTE services. You can't activate a SIM card on Verizon with it but if you move one from a different phone it works. Unfortunately the CDMA interface still rejects it because it's not on the whitelist, but those services are being shut down by 12/31/2019 so VoLTE working is a much bigger issue IMHO. If you want to try using it on Verizon probably the best way is to try a Tracphone brand. I'm on Total Wireless because of the $99/month for 4 lines plan but any would work. Buy a $15-20 LTE flip phone, provision the SIM there, and move it to your "unsupported" phone.
You have to be kidding, an SD801 and they're still trying to get it running Nougat in Q4 2018, yeah, no thanks.
a majority of games are now written for tablets/phones that have little more processing power than a 486
*cough* Bullshit *cough*
All ARMv8 cores are between high 4's and mid 6's in DMIP/MHz and run at speeds from 1.5 to 2.5GHz, that puts them at 6750 to 16,000 DMIPs. The 486 DX4 100 was 70 MIPS and 0.7 MIPS/MHz. The modern ARM chips performance puts them in the range of an Athlon64 to an Athlon64 x2 chip.
LOL, NO. Shipping contributes about 4% of total GHG emissions annually, it's a non-trivial percentage but transportation is 14% in total so non-shipping is 10% or 250% of the shipping emissions. Now if you were talking about acid rain, then yes, currently due to dirty fuel shipping is a huge contributor but starting next year bunker fuel is being restricted to .5% sulfur content (down from 5% today) which will greatly decrease their contribution to acidification.
Even in just the CO2 aspects, without getting into the whole "particulates, NOx, etc" brouhaha, which is close to zero on modern coal fired plant
Not sure where you get that idea, using 3mi/kWh and the average coal plant in my region I figured out that the NOx emissions from an EV running on coal are several times worse than the current EPA standard for passenger vehicles, about as dirty as the dieselgate VWs in fact. Particulates are harder as the PM2.5 and PM5 are going to be in places with low population densities which is probably an overall improvement for health. For CO2 it's close, a hybrid is cleaner than a 3mi/kWh EV when running on coal. But put a reasonable amount of renewables into the mix and use natural gas instead of coal and the EV wins by a large amount.
Second the improvements in the grid often take place on the decades scale,
Not really, the US went from 58% coal to 23% coal in the last decade, so the improvement is pretty rapid and with wind, solar, and battery tech really hitting the ramp phase in the mass production cost reduction scale it's likely to accelerate globally. As far as replacement battery cost, Tesla is already down to ~$100/kWh at the pack level so future replacement packs aren't going to be anywhere near $30k unless you're talking a medium duty truck. Also, other than the Leaf which lacks active thermal management almost every EV has way better battery degradation than originally feared.
Corn ethanol has an EROI of 1.5-3:1 so it does reduce CO2 slightly.
It was a hacked driver file on their public FTP server which was downloaded to a single Apple lab machine. All the details are out there. That wasn't the reason that Apple dropped them, it was purely price. When you order your servers by the container ship it's cheaper and more efficient to go to the ODM and have them build to your specifications thus cutting out the middle man and features that your use case doesn't require (like LOM cards, when you have a redundant array of inexpensive datacenters you don't care if an individual server has issues, you pave the OS and reboot, if that doesn't fix it you power it down and have it replaced when the rack gets too old or has too many failed units)
It was delivered in a fraction of a second at 4 million amps.
No, the 4M Amps is going to destroy the generator just fine without any explosives, the containment cage was to keep the explosion of the generator inside the room. When the cage failed under the 60% higher than expected field strength the explosion was no longer contained to the experiment and thus blew the doors off the lab.
Sure, Office 2007 upped the max row count for Excel to 2^20 instead of 2^16, Office 2010 get rid of the god awful binary blob format for documents which resulted in about 90% fewer file corruption issues. Outlook has gotten better with each release.
No, you can use Outlook 2019 to access O365, it's only Office 2016 that will be unable to connect after 10/13/2020 (end of mainstream support for 2016). Outlook 2019 will work until Q4 2024.
The fat client doesn't work with 6.5.
Bullshit, accessing the management interface for my VMWare cluster isn't introducing a virus vector. Yes, VMWare introduced an HTML5 management interface, but it sucks, it's slower, buggier, and lacks features found in the Flash interface. Do I like flash, no I do not but decisions made long ago and way above my pay grade mean that I need to use it to do my job, making it more annoying accomplishes NOTHING other than pissing me off for no good reason.
Since it is hotel property, she obviously has no expectation of privacy, right?
Completely incorrect, as a renter you have a reasonable expectation that the management will not enter your space without announcing themselves. Short term rentals like a hotel have less protection than a longer term rental like a lease but there are still protections for your privacy.
File formats aren't the lockin, it's the ecosystem of plugins around Office that keeps it firmly entrenched. I've yet to work in a vertical where a company larger than say 50 employees doesn't have a few plugins that are developed for their industry that hook into Word or Excel or Outlook that are considered essential for users workflows. My current vertical is law and we have nearly a dozen for both Word and Outlook.
No shit, everyone will turn off the EAS messages on their cellphones. I already did that since Verizon apparently can't figure out how to limit EAS messages to a few county range and instead floods every severe weather alert to an area about half the size of most states which means my phone wants to wake me up for a severe thunderstorm over 150 miles away.
Exactly, I was talking about doing so as a customer.
Nope, please talk about unions, organizing, raises, strikes, etc at the checkout line in Walmart. The only way to overcome such technology isn't to hide from it, it's to make the signal to noise ratio so bad that the humans monitoring the hits from the machine can't possibly keep up or find the real data.