I had a user break a screen on a Lenovo T540p laptop. It was 2 months out of warranty, so I asked Lenovo for a quote for repair.
They came back with 600$. We bought the laptop NEW for less than 900$.
The cost of the screen from the manufacturer was 70$. There are 10 screws in total that hold both the plastic case, and LCD in place. Without a manual, and on the first try it took me less than 15 minutes is dissemble the display enough that I could replace it.
Why didn't you use the manual? You DO know Thinkpad is the one old school professional laptop that still comes with repair manuals right?
Well, they don't ship them physically anymore, but you can download them online. Complete with step by step instructions on how to replace everything from the RAM, over CPU and even the screen. They also sell spare parts.
Alphabet's just upset that they've been messing around with self-driving cars for the better part of a decade and it still doesn't look any closer to a product, and Uber has stolen a march on them by actually _using_ them. If you can't make your product succeed, tearing down the competition is almost as good.
Uber aren't using them, they are talking about using them, but all their "tests" are just PR at this point since we are still a couple of generations of self-driving cars away from them being able to do last mile point-to-point driving.
The paper says 40%-95%. The heat map indicates 95% would be only right around the center of the room and it drops off quite quickly (exponential, because physics).
Doubt it is expentionally.. because physics. You probably mean quadratically/
People with highly-multithreaded workloads should look at the Skylake 6900k and 6850k, and the Ryzen 1800X and 1700X.
The 6900k and 6850k are not Skylakes, they are Broadwells. Yes, I know they have 6xxx numbers, but Intel adds one to the first number for CPUs with more than 4 cores.. Or something, maybe they give out numbers and brands by dice rolls, who knows..
The theory about Echo and such is that those are not disguised eavesdropping devices.
Which, of course, is only partially true, as 99.99% of all adults will not have the slightest clue (or ability to verify) when Echo records something, and whether or not that recording goes to some remote 3rd-party.
Well, they wouldn't in Europe since reselling collected personal data is illegal. Amazon can use it themselves, but they can't send it on or resell it.
He may be honest, but he's also wrong. Yes, of course "real work" needs to be done to turn ideas into reality, but those ideas are at least as important as the work themselves. "Real work" in service of bad ideas is entirely wasted, and there are plenty of Silicon Valley companies turning out useless apps and software products that won't go anywhere that talented people have spent a lot of time making.
No, ideas are a dime a dozen. You probably come up with a dozen ideas every hour, from the mundane to fantasy.
Execution is key. An idea is just that, abstract. It doesn't mean anything, and millions of individuals will have that same idea.
Not only that. Even a suboptimal idea or even bad ones, can and will win if executed better than a good idea. They really don't matter 99% of the time. We celebrate them because once in a while ideas come that are so powerful they change the balance, but what most people don't realise is that those ideas are celebrated for being exceptionally rare. Most ideas good or bad, doesn't fucking matter. Execution is key.
Seems to me lately only weird guys with personality disorders like Jobs, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg can both raise the money
I don't think it is their wierdness that made them succesful It is that they were BORN rich. They went from being very rich to being super rich. Being born rich is the key qualifier for success.
Just for reference, population estimates for all of Europe (where it hasn't been inflated by agendas) at the dawn of the bronze age was about 100,000. Estimates of 10s of millions of natives living in the Americas is simply politicised nonsense. The land couldn't support that many people at their technology level.
Which bronze age? Antique Europe had millions of people, and while antiquity was iron age at its height, it started in the bronze age and "only" spanned a couple of hundred years.
8th gen will suck as bad as 7th gen, so that means the 4th gen stuff will STILL outperform it.
Except it will have 6 cores. I assume they are talking about the old news of Coffee Lake which is a Skylake achitecture with 6 cores and will be the desktop and high-end laptop CPU of the "8th gen", where cannonlake would only be on ultrabooks.
Only if you have adequate storage to overcome any temporary lack of generation.
Not that big a problem with wind actually. We can store for that long. The bigger problem is hydros. Given a bad season rain or mild winter, the dams can have an entire year with under projected energy. That is when Sweden. normally a net exporter, needs to import massive amounts of energy because they don't have coal plants anymore.
Yeah, this is a hideous workaround. Apple's design is much saner, providing a default probe score based on how many properties were matched, then calling a probe method in the driver to give it an opportunity to dynamically change its probe scores for even more control. So with that scheme, the generic Windows driver would match based on something generic like vendor and device subclass, the NVidia reference driver would match with vendor + product (and optionally add bcdDevice), and the custom driver from the OEM would presumably return a higher probe score dynamically so that it always wins.
Version numbers and release dates have no legitimate place in driver matching behavior, IMO.
You mean to say Apple solved it by not having 3rd party drivers...
it's already happened. China, Germany and Japan already have more solar generation capacity than USA. China, Canada, Brazil have more hydroelectric installed capacity and production than USA. China also has surpassed USA for installed wind generation capacity.
with regards to the actual R&D, German companies can take credit for industry standard wind turbine, PV, and inverter technology.
It would be nice for a change....
Danish companies.Germany also has one of the largest wind-mill maker, but the technology was mainly developed in Denmark and Danish companies are still leading in tech and number of installation. In no small part due to earlier focus and subsidies on wind energy by _former_ Danish governments. German has a much bigger investment in solar energy that while started off not that great is hitting great strides right now.
Google has gone completely bat-shit insane. How on earth did they think this was a good idea, let alone actually go forward and implement such a thing in the release product?
Just mind-boggling.
Well it made perfect sense as the follow up to WebUSB and WebMIDI (yes those are real things implemented in Chrome).
Do we know at this stage whether this feature requires permission from the user (like going fullscreen)
Going to fullscreen these days do not require permission from the user. Chrome just goes to fullscreen and ask the user afterward. Google wellknowning this a giant security risk have "fixed" this by only allowing https connections to use the fullscreen feature... Because people who wants to do bad things could never get an https certificate.
This will probably be "secured" the same way, as it appears to be Google's goto solution when doing things right is too much bother.
It's nothing you can't do in assembly either. What's your point? That this stuff should be harder than it needs to be? That makes no sense.
Nope. I think Rust is nice, though I have seen better "C++-killers". There have just been a lot of languages like it. They tend to fail or remain niche if they don't provide something they do significantly better than what they are replacing.
Also if you are concerned about these security aspect you should switch to safe techniques first, you can worry about a language that make such techniques more concise later, first you need to learn them.
Morphine or another strong opiods, That's what they do that make them valuable dispite being addictive. They make you not care about pain or unpleasant things.
Not in this case at least. Opioids and I don't get along well, they dull the pain a little, then a momentary rush of euphoria, followed immediately by the room taking a 90 degree shift, and me breaking out in a sweat and puking.
Sounds like my reaction. If your body reacts like mine, you could have been given Ambian or another hypnotica sleep-medication. If it fails to work on me, it just makes me chatty and weird instead. I know in one procedure where they gave me something to drift of shortly, it didn't work but instead made me curios about what was going on and very chatty.
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What you really want is a "destroy adopted storage decryption key + zerofill SD card" option on the recovery menu.
At least for Android devices anyway.
The SD card can be encrypted too.
I had a user break a screen on a Lenovo T540p laptop. It was 2 months out of warranty, so I asked Lenovo for a quote for repair.
They came back with 600$. We bought the laptop NEW for less than 900$.
The cost of the screen from the manufacturer was 70$. There are 10 screws in total that hold both the plastic case, and LCD in place. Without a manual, and on the first try it took me less than 15 minutes is dissemble the display enough that I could replace it.
Why didn't you use the manual? You DO know Thinkpad is the one old school professional laptop that still comes with repair manuals right?
Well, they don't ship them physically anymore, but you can download them online. Complete with step by step instructions on how to replace everything from the RAM, over CPU and even the screen. They also sell spare parts.
Where are the legislators who will put a stop to this crap?
In the EU parliament.
Alphabet's just upset that they've been messing around with self-driving cars for the better part of a decade and it still doesn't look any closer to a product, and Uber has stolen a march on them by actually _using_ them. If you can't make your product succeed, tearing down the competition is almost as good.
Uber aren't using them, they are talking about using them, but all their "tests" are just PR at this point since we are still a couple of generations of self-driving cars away from them being able to do last mile point-to-point driving.
Isn't trying to trim a cats claws just a preemptive way of making sure your cat has mauled you?
The paper says 40%-95%. The heat map indicates 95% would be only right around the center of the room and it drops off quite quickly (exponential, because physics).
Doubt it is expentionally.. because physics. You probably mean quadratically/
People with highly-multithreaded workloads should look at the Skylake 6900k and 6850k, and the Ryzen 1800X and 1700X.
The 6900k and 6850k are not Skylakes, they are Broadwells. Yes, I know they have 6xxx numbers, but Intel adds one to the first number for CPUs with more than 4 cores.. Or something, maybe they give out numbers and brands by dice rolls, who knows..
What's a part-time gig anyway? It's only 1000MB some of the time?
Yes, they were known a Quantum Fireballs.
New Zealand we love you. You don't have to be like Australia. We are worried about you. Just be yourself. You don't have to be a continent.
The theory about Echo and such is that those are not disguised eavesdropping devices.
Which, of course, is only partially true, as 99.99% of all adults will not have the slightest clue (or ability to verify) when Echo records something, and whether or not that recording goes to some remote 3rd-party.
Well, they wouldn't in Europe since reselling collected personal data is illegal. Amazon can use it themselves, but they can't send it on or resell it.
No, ideas are a dime a dozen. You probably come up with a dozen ideas every hour, from the mundane to fantasy.
Execution is key. An idea is just that, abstract. It doesn't mean anything, and millions of individuals will have that same idea.
Not only that. Even a suboptimal idea or even bad ones, can and will win if executed better than a good idea. They really don't matter 99% of the time. We celebrate them because once in a while ideas come that are so powerful they change the balance, but what most people don't realise is that those ideas are celebrated for being exceptionally rare. Most ideas good or bad, doesn't fucking matter. Execution is key.
I don't think it is their wierdness that made them succesful It is that they were BORN rich. They went from being very rich to being super rich. Being born rich is the key qualifier for success.
substantially, as a patentable idea that is, than java applet sandboxes of 1995 vintage?
It is sandboxing a "web browser process", that is what the patent is for. Sandboxing ... a ... Web Browser (Process).
The process at the end is just added to make it sound more technical, and make lawyers and 80 year old judges think it is complicated tech stuff.
Just for reference, population estimates for all of Europe (where it hasn't been inflated by agendas) at the dawn of the bronze age was about 100,000. Estimates of 10s of millions of natives living in the Americas is simply politicised nonsense. The land couldn't support that many people at their technology level.
Which bronze age? Antique Europe had millions of people, and while antiquity was iron age at its height, it started in the bronze age and "only" spanned a couple of hundred years.
Aren't there more improvements like more lanes and other shit like that. Buss speed? Fuck, other shit beside 'ghz'.
People tend to focus on single, simplistic things. Kinda show a very shallow understanding of the subject matter. Like the new MacBook.
Maybe, but that is more in the integrated chipset. It was the only thing upgraded in Kaby Lake, so they will probably upgrade it in minor ways again.
8th gen will suck as bad as 7th gen, so that means the 4th gen stuff will STILL outperform it.
Except it will have 6 cores. I assume they are talking about the old news of Coffee Lake which is a Skylake achitecture with 6 cores and will be the desktop and high-end laptop CPU of the "8th gen", where cannonlake would only be on ultrabooks.
Only if you have adequate storage to overcome any temporary lack of generation.
Not that big a problem with wind actually. We can store for that long. The bigger problem is hydros. Given a bad season rain or mild winter, the dams can have an entire year with under projected energy. That is when Sweden. normally a net exporter, needs to import massive amounts of energy because they don't have coal plants anymore.
Aren't they required to conduct all government business on government systems? Didn't Hilary got a whole lot of crap (and lose an election) over this?
Welp, they're in charge so I guess they get to make the rules, but did they even bother to change the laws first?
Yes, it is. And what Hillary was accused of by the Republicans.
But.. Hillary's emails.
Yeah, this is a hideous workaround. Apple's design is much saner, providing a default probe score based on how many properties were matched, then calling a probe method in the driver to give it an opportunity to dynamically change its probe scores for even more control. So with that scheme, the generic Windows driver would match based on something generic like vendor and device subclass, the NVidia reference driver would match with vendor + product (and optionally add bcdDevice), and the custom driver from the OEM would presumably return a higher probe score dynamically so that it always wins.
Version numbers and release dates have no legitimate place in driver matching behavior, IMO.
You mean to say Apple solved it by not having 3rd party drivers...
We still need coal for base and peak-power though, and new plants are still build, though mainly to replace old dirtier coal plants.
it's already happened. China, Germany and Japan already have more solar generation capacity than USA. China, Canada, Brazil have more hydroelectric installed capacity and production than USA. China also has surpassed USA for installed wind generation capacity.
with regards to the actual R&D, German companies can take credit for industry standard wind turbine, PV, and inverter technology.
Danish companies.Germany also has one of the largest wind-mill maker, but the technology was mainly developed in Denmark and Danish companies are still leading in tech and number of installation. In no small part due to earlier focus and subsidies on wind energy by _former_ Danish governments. German has a much bigger investment in solar energy that while started off not that great is hitting great strides right now.
Google has gone completely bat-shit insane. How on earth did they think this was a good idea, let alone actually go forward and implement such a thing in the release product?
Just mind-boggling.
Well it made perfect sense as the follow up to WebUSB and WebMIDI (yes those are real things implemented in Chrome).
Do we know at this stage whether this feature requires permission from the user (like going fullscreen)
Going to fullscreen these days do not require permission from the user. Chrome just goes to fullscreen and ask the user afterward. Google wellknowning this a giant security risk have "fixed" this by only allowing https connections to use the fullscreen feature... Because people who wants to do bad things could never get an https certificate.
This will probably be "secured" the same way, as it appears to be Google's goto solution when doing things right is too much bother.
It's nothing you can't do in assembly either. What's your point? That this stuff should be harder than it needs to be? That makes no sense.
Nope. I think Rust is nice, though I have seen better "C++-killers". There have just been a lot of languages like it. They tend to fail or remain niche if they don't provide something they do significantly better than what they are replacing.
Also if you are concerned about these security aspect you should switch to safe techniques first, you can worry about a language that make such techniques more concise later, first you need to learn them.
Morphine or another strong opiods, That's what they do that make them valuable dispite being addictive. They make you not care about pain or unpleasant things.
Not in this case at least. Opioids and I don't get along well, they dull the pain a little, then a momentary rush of euphoria, followed immediately by the room taking a 90 degree shift, and me breaking out in a sweat and puking.
Sounds like my reaction. If your body reacts like mine, you could have been given Ambian or another hypnotica sleep-medication. If it fails to work on me, it just makes me chatty and weird instead. I know in one procedure where they gave me something to drift of shortly, it didn't work but instead made me curios about what was going on and very chatty.