It looks like somebody modded you down and I don't know why. The linked article didn't exactly make it clear emulation was used to run x86 code. I had to track down an article from PCworld to find that out. I kind of figured on the performance.
so are they doing x86 emulation? If so what's the performance going to be like? I run VMs on an i5 7400 and it's a bit laggy.
Also instant on isn't a big deal to me. I've got a decent SSD and I'm at a desk top in 5 seconds. That leaves battery life. I'll confess I run a desktop. Battery life isn't an issue for me. OTOH this article says no x64 apps and weak performance in x86 apps. And the laptops aren't cheap. They're $500-$700 a pop
I'm just questioning who these are for. OTOH this might be the OEMs & Microsoft sending Intel a message.
from people with beards and glasses (most modern nerds) who get stopped and questioned for 2 hours everytime they go overseas. There's all sorts of things facial recognition has trouble with.
As for why they're doing this, it's called probably cause. They'll use a match to establish prob cause and use that to get a warrant for searches. Same reason we do lie detector tests we've proven don't work.
They transformed themselves from a third world hell hole into a first world nation in 50 years. That's incredible when you think about it. A modern miracle they don't get enough credit for. But it was all based on the price of oil. When the petrol dollars dried up they didn't have a 200 year old banking system in place to deal with it.
The Saudis see this coming, btw. It's why they're letting women drive. They're trying to get them into the workforce to keep their economy growing.
people mellow out once they've got enough food/shelter/healthcare. It's not like we don't have plenty of evidence of this either. Look at Europe. The problems they're having right now are mostly from Muslim refugees being forced to migrate because of bad economic conditions in their countries. They're a problem because they're being forced to move, so they're not integrating into their new countries. It'll be 3 generations until they do.
if you want to see the effects of dropping oil prices look at Venezuela. Yeah, some of those wounds were self inflicted, but the big issue was the sudden drop in oil prices pulling the rug out from under them (plus a drought shutting down their hydro electric dam, folks forget how small they are, that was a big deal).
Now, imagine what's gonna happen when the price of oil gets low enough that the middle eastern countries can't afford to keep up their militaries and their social welfare programs. Don't forget that most of these countries are crazy religious and several of them have big arms and nukes.
The sane thing to do is to provide aid to modernize these countries. Instead we've been putting sanctions on a lot of these countries. We're doing the exact opposite of what we should be doing, and it's exactly what we've always done as a species. I don't have an answer because it comes down to conniving assholes taking advantage of large groups of people who aren't very bright, and I don't have an answer for that.
right? Give it a few decades (less if we can get people to stop cutting research funds to make way for bigger tax cuts) and you'll see systems that make it so any college grad can whip one of these treatments up in a couple days.
When the manufacturing jobs went away we were all promised jobs in bio-chem. This is what they meant. But of course, you can't have that if only the top 1% get healthcare. I suppose we can have more $8/hr jobs at insurance company call centers to explain why you can't have medical care. I mean, is it a death panel if it's one guy reading from a call center script?
mostly following WWII. Prior to that wealth inequality meant there weren't a lot of folks with $58k in inflation adjusted wages. Businesses hire to meet demand. The last few industrial revolutions wiped out jobs without creating enough new ones to create demand.
There were decades of unemployment, poverty and wars following those revolutions that we're glossing over. Then WWII blew up most of Europe and created enough demand (to rebuilt it) to drive the economy. Eisenhower wrote about this in his memoirs. He created the Military Industrial Complex to keep the economy going after the rebuilding was done. But we're hitting the limits of what the MIC can do.
or have people stopped founding companies to run a business and started doing it just to get bought out? It's not like they have a choice, it's like the mafia. They come in and say, "Nice business you have here, shame if somebody were to copy it and then bury you with patent lawsuits". And if all else fails they come in with several billion dollars since, hey, the cash was just sitting around in an overseas bank account anyway.
you let a small group of people have this much money they can buy out pretty much any competitor. Money is power. Wealth inequality means power inequality. A certain amount is fine, but I don't think anyone would argue that it's gone too far in one direction when a company can blow $7.5 billion on a code repository.
that gets me faster data and better signal strength. Nothing else is gonna make me bother with a phone upgrade. And all I've got is a $220 LG. And it doesn't help that folks learned that their iPhones just needed a new battery to run fast again.
designed for killing men over long periods of time with minimal maintenance. The latter part is usually what's emphasize in marketing. The former part is what worries people.
Based on what I've read this 'flamethrower' isn't military grade in either sense. Although as other's have pointed out on this thread the problem is that it encourages playing with fire in a state hit hard with drought.
but don't support the Universal part then you don't support UBI. By the same token if you claim to be Conservative but support sweeping government & societal changes then you're not Conservative. Words have meaning. It's time we start calling people on it when they misuse words, especially when it's for the express purpose of deceit.
I've used blow torches to kill weeds, they only go a few inches out. It's why they're called "torches". If the range is minuscule it's fine, but if the thing can shoot flames several feet I'd have problems with it. And not because it's a weapon (a gun would be a better choice if you're trying to kill folks) but because CA's had a drought for ages and the last thing they need is numbnuts running around setting stuff on fire for fun (which appears to be the core market for this thing).
TL;DR, It's fun & games until folks lose their homes in wildfires.
that's the real problem FF has. Trying to hang your hat on privacy doesn't do much good when anybody who cares can just grab the Open Source version of Chrome that's missing the google stuff. Meanwhile Firefox broke everybody's plugins (including my own and even Greasemonkey for Pete's sake) to fix non existent security issues (mostly numbskulls buying plugins with a few hundred thousand users and then loading them with spyware, had a few of those jokers contact me).
at that price point. It's an AMD SOC with 4 gigs DDR & 32 gigs storage. The trouble is ram prices are pretty high. The board/CPU can probably be had for $50 bucks in quantity (neweggs got one for $70). The ram's gonna be at least $30 unless they use the cheap stuff (and they'll pay for that later in returns). Figure $5 for the storage. Figure $20 for the case and $15 for the controller, another $15 for packaging and another $20 to ship the thing (including cost of getting it to them and then to the consumer). I'm gonna guess that case cost them $5-$10 to get made (custom tooling is expensive and it doesn't look anything like the existing flashback consoles). They're getting close to $150 bucks. Take 8% for Indiegogo's cut and you've got almost all your profit.
Now let's talk support. It's Linux and not Chrome. Not sure if that matters. If the only folks who buy it are techies they might be OK, but there's still going to be support costs.
Still, it's Indiegogo, meaning probably no prototype to speak of. The whole thing feels like a scam. If it's not that price point would make it a great little Linux box though.
these are the same folks who vote for the farm bill and oil subsidies every year. The same folks that made marijuana illegal to prop up private prison industry and cotton. The same folks that ran proxy wars in South America for bloody _fruit_ companies.
No, there's nothing even a little capitalistic about this party. They're just Kleptocrats.
trying to be 'helpful'. Even clicking the bell icon twice doesn't always work. Some videos I only know exist because I go to the 'videos' page. Same for Aron Ra. Anything that's a bit controversial (and isn't Alex Jones) gets buried.
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It looks like somebody modded you down and I don't know why. The linked article didn't exactly make it clear emulation was used to run x86 code. I had to track down an article from PCworld to find that out. I kind of figured on the performance.
so are they doing x86 emulation? If so what's the performance going to be like? I run VMs on an i5 7400 and it's a bit laggy.
Also instant on isn't a big deal to me. I've got a decent SSD and I'm at a desk top in 5 seconds. That leaves battery life. I'll confess I run a desktop. Battery life isn't an issue for me. OTOH this article says no x64 apps and weak performance in x86 apps. And the laptops aren't cheap. They're $500-$700 a pop
I'm just questioning who these are for. OTOH this might be the OEMs & Microsoft sending Intel a message.
and if not, why buy this instead of a Chromebook?
from people with beards and glasses (most modern nerds) who get stopped and questioned for 2 hours everytime they go overseas. There's all sorts of things facial recognition has trouble with.
As for why they're doing this, it's called probably cause. They'll use a match to establish prob cause and use that to get a warrant for searches. Same reason we do lie detector tests we've proven don't work.
and they're once again, however briefly, forced to compete.
They transformed themselves from a third world hell hole into a first world nation in 50 years. That's incredible when you think about it. A modern miracle they don't get enough credit for. But it was all based on the price of oil. When the petrol dollars dried up they didn't have a 200 year old banking system in place to deal with it.
The Saudis see this coming, btw. It's why they're letting women drive. They're trying to get them into the workforce to keep their economy growing.
people mellow out once they've got enough food/shelter/healthcare. It's not like we don't have plenty of evidence of this either. Look at Europe. The problems they're having right now are mostly from Muslim refugees being forced to migrate because of bad economic conditions in their countries. They're a problem because they're being forced to move, so they're not integrating into their new countries. It'll be 3 generations until they do.
TL;DR: It's cheaper to drop food than bombs.
if you want to see the effects of dropping oil prices look at Venezuela. Yeah, some of those wounds were self inflicted, but the big issue was the sudden drop in oil prices pulling the rug out from under them (plus a drought shutting down their hydro electric dam, folks forget how small they are, that was a big deal).
Now, imagine what's gonna happen when the price of oil gets low enough that the middle eastern countries can't afford to keep up their militaries and their social welfare programs. Don't forget that most of these countries are crazy religious and several of them have big arms and nukes.
The sane thing to do is to provide aid to modernize these countries. Instead we've been putting sanctions on a lot of these countries. We're doing the exact opposite of what we should be doing, and it's exactly what we've always done as a species. I don't have an answer because it comes down to conniving assholes taking advantage of large groups of people who aren't very bright, and I don't have an answer for that.
right? Give it a few decades (less if we can get people to stop cutting research funds to make way for bigger tax cuts) and you'll see systems that make it so any college grad can whip one of these treatments up in a couple days.
When the manufacturing jobs went away we were all promised jobs in bio-chem. This is what they meant. But of course, you can't have that if only the top 1% get healthcare. I suppose we can have more $8/hr jobs at insurance company call centers to explain why you can't have medical care. I mean, is it a death panel if it's one guy reading from a call center script?
in the history of the United States and Cop Math is still a thing.
mostly following WWII. Prior to that wealth inequality meant there weren't a lot of folks with $58k in inflation adjusted wages. Businesses hire to meet demand. The last few industrial revolutions wiped out jobs without creating enough new ones to create demand.
There were decades of unemployment, poverty and wars following those revolutions that we're glossing over. Then WWII blew up most of Europe and created enough demand (to rebuilt it) to drive the economy. Eisenhower wrote about this in his memoirs. He created the Military Industrial Complex to keep the economy going after the rebuilding was done. But we're hitting the limits of what the MIC can do.
or have people stopped founding companies to run a business and started doing it just to get bought out? It's not like they have a choice, it's like the mafia. They come in and say, "Nice business you have here, shame if somebody were to copy it and then bury you with patent lawsuits". And if all else fails they come in with several billion dollars since, hey, the cash was just sitting around in an overseas bank account anyway.
to agree to pre install something like Facebook. Good to know.
you let a small group of people have this much money they can buy out pretty much any competitor. Money is power. Wealth inequality means power inequality. A certain amount is fine, but I don't think anyone would argue that it's gone too far in one direction when a company can blow $7.5 billion on a code repository.
that gets me faster data and better signal strength. Nothing else is gonna make me bother with a phone upgrade. And all I've got is a $220 LG. And it doesn't help that folks learned that their iPhones just needed a new battery to run fast again.
designed for killing men over long periods of time with minimal maintenance. The latter part is usually what's emphasize in marketing. The former part is what worries people.
Based on what I've read this 'flamethrower' isn't military grade in either sense. Although as other's have pointed out on this thread the problem is that it encourages playing with fire in a state hit hard with drought.
I'm sick and tired of all this "Both sides are bad" garbage.
we're left putting our hopes in California. Man I wish the rest of the country could get with the program on consumer safety.
but don't support the Universal part then you don't support UBI. By the same token if you claim to be Conservative but support sweeping government & societal changes then you're not Conservative. Words have meaning. It's time we start calling people on it when they misuse words, especially when it's for the express purpose of deceit.
I've used blow torches to kill weeds, they only go a few inches out. It's why they're called "torches". If the range is minuscule it's fine, but if the thing can shoot flames several feet I'd have problems with it. And not because it's a weapon (a gun would be a better choice if you're trying to kill folks) but because CA's had a drought for ages and the last thing they need is numbnuts running around setting stuff on fire for fun (which appears to be the core market for this thing).
TL;DR, It's fun & games until folks lose their homes in wildfires.
that's the real problem FF has. Trying to hang your hat on privacy doesn't do much good when anybody who cares can just grab the Open Source version of Chrome that's missing the google stuff. Meanwhile Firefox broke everybody's plugins (including my own and even Greasemonkey for Pete's sake) to fix non existent security issues (mostly numbskulls buying plugins with a few hundred thousand users and then loading them with spyware, had a few of those jokers contact me).
at that price point. It's an AMD SOC with 4 gigs DDR & 32 gigs storage. The trouble is ram prices are pretty high. The board/CPU can probably be had for $50 bucks in quantity (neweggs got one for $70). The ram's gonna be at least $30 unless they use the cheap stuff (and they'll pay for that later in returns). Figure $5 for the storage. Figure $20 for the case and $15 for the controller, another $15 for packaging and another $20 to ship the thing (including cost of getting it to them and then to the consumer). I'm gonna guess that case cost them $5-$10 to get made (custom tooling is expensive and it doesn't look anything like the existing flashback consoles). They're getting close to $150 bucks. Take 8% for Indiegogo's cut and you've got almost all your profit.
Now let's talk support. It's Linux and not Chrome. Not sure if that matters. If the only folks who buy it are techies they might be OK, but there's still going to be support costs.
Still, it's Indiegogo, meaning probably no prototype to speak of. The whole thing feels like a scam. If it's not that price point would make it a great little Linux box though.
it'll be reposted by tomorrow morning if we're lucky, this afternoon if we're not.
these are the same folks who vote for the farm bill and oil subsidies every year. The same folks that made marijuana illegal to prop up private prison industry and cotton. The same folks that ran proxy wars in South America for bloody _fruit_ companies.
No, there's nothing even a little capitalistic about this party. They're just Kleptocrats.
trying to be 'helpful'. Even clicking the bell icon twice doesn't always work. Some videos I only know exist because I go to the 'videos' page. Same for Aron Ra. Anything that's a bit controversial (and isn't Alex Jones) gets buried.