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  1. it gives you a warning though. In 10.4 it'll be disabled.

  2. Classic games and apps have been killed on The Future of iOS is 64-Bit Only -- Apple To Stop Support For 32-Bit Apps (computerworld.in) · · Score: 1

    What's really happened here is that Apple has killed all old classic games and apps.
    A similiar thing happened when Microsoft released Windows 7. A lot of old games (like the origonal Xcom) didn't work on the new OS. However, because Windows is more or less open system, the comunity was able to get them working using DosBox.
    But iOS unfortunately is a closed system. All those classic games are dead forever.

  3. Re:Aren't 32-bit devices off support anyway...? on The Future of iOS is 64-Bit Only -- Apple To Stop Support For 32-Bit Apps (computerworld.in) · · Score: 2

    No. They're stopping support of running 32-bit apps on 64-bit devices.

  4. It doesn't matter if that you can download old apps from the App store. The restriction is being enforced by the operating system. If you have iOS 10.3 installed on your device it will not run 32-bit apps, as the article states.
    Also not many people realise that this has happened before. iOS 9 broke old versions of apps by inforcing requirement of root viewcontroller, which hadn't been inforced before.

  5. Ireland getting the $13 billion is a fiction on 'It's Tricky': Apple Misses the Deadline To Pay $13.9 Bn To Ireland in Illegal Tax Benefit (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If Apple is forced to pay the $13 billion, Ireland is unlikely to see any of it. Firstly, other EU countries would go after Apple for a share and also Apple could declare the tax in the US instead.
    https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

  6. Re:Garbage Collection on Slashdot's Interview With Swift Creator Chris Lattner · · Score: 1

    There's some more issues to it than that.
    C++ is more efficent because it can use the stack more and can store primitive types in stl collections directly.
    Language's like c# and java have to instantiate objects on the heap always and primitive type can't be store in collection classes.
    Then, look at the amount of memory that the runtime uses, it's far, far more than any c++ exe. For instance, run a empty c# Unity project and you've blown 50mb of RAM already.

  7. Re:Now lets see. on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    > I'll echo Seth Myers in saying that I've been wrong about him so many times that, if this trend continues, he'll be a great president

    That's the classic logic fallacy. You could be wrong about him in both directions, i.e. he could even worse than your worse expectations - but you choose the other direction, i.e. that he is better than you expected, because that's the way you sympathies lie.

  8. late on AMD Set To Launch Ryzen Before March 3rd (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it ment to have been launched in 2016?

  9. Re:Deiterium-Tritisum Fusion no good for power on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    ah no, deuterium is produced from heavy water and the tritium is produced in the fusion reactor itself from litium. No need for breeder reactors at all.

  10. Re:sorry, it's not that simple on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It produces a lot less waste, but no, it's not short lived.
    The real advantage of fusion over fision is that it's inherently safer insofar that the reaction can be switched of instantly.

  11. Re:Intel 10nm != Other Foundry 10nm on Qualcomm Debuts 10nm Server Chip To Attack Intel Server Stronghold (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The table here: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum...
    give a breakdown of the different foundries nodes.
    As you can see, TSMC's 10nm is about 15% denser than Intel's 14nm, however density isn't the only factor. Performance-wise I would say Intel's 14nm is going to be better for a server chip, because it's specifically tuned for high performance computing, while TSMC's nodes are tuned for low power mobile SoC's

  12. Bad luck if you're watching a film that has a sand storm or fog in it. The banding artifacts caused by compression make those scenes nearly unwatchable

  13. Flash games on Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine companies like Armor games aren't going to be too happy about this, as their chief revenue source is being blocked by default.

  14. Re:Not mine, you won't... on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    >You'll get my 2008 Mercedes ML320 CDI diesel when you pry the key from my cold, dead fingers.
    dead from inhaling the PMs and nitrogen oxides (NOx) no doubt

  15. That's not an oxymoron, though. An oxymoron is when apparent contradictory terms are in the same sentence, not actual contradictory terms

  16. Doesn't matter anyway on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no evidence that Walmart gel has Aloe Vera, but there's also no evidence that Aloe Vera has any cosmentic value in the first place.
    This is from the Wikipedia:
    "There is little scientific evidence of the effectiveness or safety of Aloe vera extracts for either cosmetic or medicinal purposes. A research study finding positive evidence[7] is frequently contradicted by other studies."

  17. Windows mobile is dead on Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Why are they still pretending Windows 10 mobile isn't dead?
    http://betanews.com/2016/07/29...
    No, no it's not dead, it's just resting... Beautiful plumage!

  18. Re:First to announce a 10nm SoC on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 is Its First 10-Nanometer SoC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Real" 10nm would be where the gate length is 10nm. For that definition Intel's 10nm isn't real 10nm either.

  19. First to announce a 10nm SoC on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 is Its First 10-Nanometer SoC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Qualcomm is the first to announce a 10nm SoC, but there are in fact several 10nm SoC's currently in production.
    There's Samsung's Exynos and MediaTek's Helio X30 and Apple's A10x which will appear in the new iPad, all due out in first half of 2017.

  20. At this stage it's only a matter of time before Facebook and Whatsapp gets hacked.
    It's scary to think that all your private conversations could suddenly become public.

  21. The cost increase is because it's more expensive to install the suicide nets in American factories:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  22. Re:Comparison to Current GPUs? on New MacBook Pro's Dedicated AMD Graphics Chips Are 'Significantly' Faster and Support Dual 5K Displays (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    > How about the comparison to the new nVidia 10-series mobile GPUs that new non-Mac laptops are getting?
    Because, there are no Pascal GPU's with a TDP of 35W. If you put a 85W GTX 1060 into a Macbook Pro it'd probably burst into flames. Also, mobile Polaris chips are significantly thinner.

  23. Please let Tizen die on Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    If they want it to succeed they should make the API compatible with Android. There's already too many incompatible mobile OS's. Look at all the wasted effort developers have to do writing two versions of the app, one for iOS and one for android.

  24. Donald Trumph, America's first sociopath president on How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    As the Beaverton reports:
    "Donald Trumph, America's first sociopath president"
    "Is this America's 9/11?"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Canadian humour

  25. It's a good question, but more importantly, if it's ready now, why wait 2 years to launch it?