Most modern applications and operating systems don't use static window layouts. If you resize a window horizontally, it will reformat the content to fit the extra space, because the window manager knows how big the display is, and the application knows how big the content is. And, if you're watching a widescreen format media (which basically everything is unless you're watching a VHS transfer from 20 years ago), then it naturally fits the display.
Except for Slashdot, where giant ads that create massive whitespace on the right side of the comments section; but that's not on anybody but Slashdot - their shit CSS and apparent lack of enforcing ad size boundaries.
In the summary, they used the phrase "as if that wasn't all enough" and my first thought was "enough to what? Not make a point?"
Oh no, applications and web sites have to actually pay attention and realize that all display dimensions aren't 1024x768 any more. Or, If you do have badly behaved content, you can have two windows next to each other because we also can have more than 512MB of RAM. Welcome to 15+ years ago. Let's not even get started on multiple displays - HOLY SHIT MY DESKTOP IS 10240 PIXELS WIDE AND ALL OF IT IS USED UP BY HORIZONTAL CONTROLS BECAUSE A DESIGN GEEK SAYS SO.
Nope - I'm just fine with the wide displays I've got, and it makes the notebook easier to carry with one arm, as it fits nicely between the elbow and wrist.
When you don't give a shit about workers' lives, money spent on safety is just inefficiency.
Besides, if a tunnel collapses and kills a bunch of people, that's less people you have to figure out how to feed when your entire country is under famine and you are a 3rd generation petulant asshole who thinks that constant threats to neighbors, ballistic missiles, and crude nuclear arms are more important than food for the citizenry. But don't worry - it's one set of rules for the peasants, and another for you and your cronies. He's still nice and pudgy.
Yeah, right until he's not happy with the size of the little flags on toothpicks on the table in the meeting room, when he decides to walk the delegation out, set one off in a cave again, and fire another rocket into the Sea of Japan.
This guy is completely unstable, and the only reason he's even entertaining the idea of negotiations is because even the iron grip his family has had on that country is slipping. As it turns out, nuclear weapons and long range ballistic missiles are amazingly expensive to develop and maintain when you aren't sanctioned out the ass by the rest of the world, I can only wonder what a strain it is when China isn't tolerating your bullshit anymore.
Any attempt to subpoena anything in the Mueller probe will be quashed instantly by any Federal judge currently sitting. They aren't going to fuck over an ongoing investigation of potential political corruption at the highest level because the DNC is getting antsy, especially since they've already been confirmed to sit in that job as long as they fucking choose to. Part of the idea of an appointment like that is complete independence from political masters such as the DNC.
I guess I'm wondering what kind of precedent they're trying to set here by including Wikileaks, or if they have even thought about that.
What happens when the Guardian newspaper (or some other non-US entity) publishes an October Surprise in the next election? Are they open to being sued by the loser because of "election tampering" by publishing material they happened to source? Can a major political party now sue people on Facebook, and Facebook themselves for airing that political party's dirty laundry (which happens to be true) if they lose?
Is this any more than sour grapes, and being amazingly petty about massively fucking up your own campaign strategy and refusing to own that failure? Is this just more navel gazing because of rampant denial and unbelief that Hillary just might be the most flawed candidate to ever run for President?
Here's a free tip, DNC: Next time, don't ignore the millions of voters in swing states in the industrial Midwest. You shit all over what those Obama voters wanted and believe in, selling them out for fundraiser money from Hollywood and the Wall Street elite. Now you know what you bought with the negligence of ignoring the moderates: a back seat for 4 years while a Dorito-tinted adulterous women groping proto-fascist does his best to unspool everything your last President worked for while throwing out massive giveaways at corporate welfare and crony capitalism and slashing to the bone any and all environmental protections; and a Congress all too happy to bleat along because they're too busy fearing being primaried to actually do what's right for their constituents, and the country.
But I'm sure suing Russia will somehow make it all better, especially since that's something that would ever actually go forward in reality.
Anyone who has used a touch laptop knows how nice it is to be able to reach out and scroll the screen or tap things on it instead of fiddling with the touch pad or mouse.
False. I have one - Dell XPS 9560. I literally never use the touch screen. Kind of wish I didn't have to pay for the extra hardware there in order to get the improved display. Two-finger scrolling on the track pad is easier and more ergonomic, because my hands are already on the keyboard or palm rest. And that's even with Dell's terrible trackpad.
I guess your statement becomes true if you don't include me (and many others) in "Anyone".
The most interesting idea that would come from any of this would be to equip a Mac with a touchscreen, but not make it's use anywhere near mandatory for those (like me) that have serious ergonomic concerns with vertical touchscreens; and then grow the existing iOS simulator that resides in Xcode into a full blown virtual iOS residing on your Mac that allows app store downloads and usage.
When I need / want the full Mac experience, it's always there. If I need / want an iOS app that doesn't exist on the Mac, it's there. And, your iOS developers gain a world class debug environment.
Yes, implementing it would be vastly more difficult than what I've outlined, but Apple's done far more difficult than that many times in the past. Most of the pieces already exist - and we wouldn't even have a stupid notch in the top of the screen to work around! Oh, and there's still a headphone jack! And other Slashdot gripes!
The "Athlon" days when AMD was ahead in performance was also when Intel had their head wedged so far up their ass they had to cut in switchback trails to find it. The Pentium 4 architecture was fucking horrible, and had the albatross of Rambus around it's neck. When they corrected that, they blasted right back in front and stayed there.
The good news for AMD: It appears that Intel once again has their head wedged so far up their ass that the suction from extraction just might kill them. If AMD was ever to give Intel another crotch-punch in benchmarking, now's the time.
Really. How does Windows telemetry get my data when I'm running Ubuntu?
Yeah, that's the point of making a Chrome extension - to penetrate the non-Windows market for data harvesting. Just waiting for someone to scope the packets that get phoned home to Microsoft when this is installed.
The actual cables and wires are government granted monopoly, because it makes sense to not have 7 different coax demarcs on the side of each house depending on what company you are working with. However, in the case of not-cable ISPs, they are all "common carrier" status, so they get to pick who gets their MPLS data as long as they can get a physical circuit in place at the site.
This whole thing is stupid because it's not like they are using residential services here that are virtually guaranteed to be effected by the lack of NN - at the very least they are using a "business class" service for each location so that there is a service level agreement in place - that's historically why you paid so much more for that 1.5Mbps T1 than you did for a >3Mbps DSL line - because with telcos, money talks and bullshit waits on hold.
Sure, the number of Mac Pro systems is probably pathetically small for a company like Apple (especially since it's ass-old and stupidly priced), but System76 is hardly a major OEM cranking out millions of units either.
So what is unique in what was announced here today, and how it's "way more" than other major brands?
Plus, after the upload is complete, YouTube will be spending LOTS of cycles to transcode that video into all the various formats and scales they support. Just because the upload is done, doesn't mean the video itself is available until they've created all the sets of video files they need to support all the devices in the universe.
Is anyone at all surprised that a company that offers a "free" service with a massive terms-of-use agreement that says they own anything you type into this service, would actually scan / index / collate any information you type into that service?
OMG I THOUGHT FACEBOOK WAS A NON-PROFIT CHARITY!
This is just amazingly stupid that anyone would find this to be some sort of grand revelation.
Yeah, except it was an email to employees, and leaked by employees. If he emailed it directly to the press that would very likely run afoul of public disclosure responsibilities with the SEC.
Did he send it to all employees knowing it would be leaked? Probably. But the distinction is important.
Your graph shows quarterly profits / loss, which factors in all non-capEx business costs (EBITDA). This is sometimes referred to as profit margin.
He is talking about product margin, which is the percentage of profit over sale price on a per-product basis.
The two are not equal, and the terms are being confused. Profit margin is a totaling of all product margins, plus some other calculations that don't have anything to do with actually producing products for sale - various regulatory overhead, one time costs, debt servicing, etc.
Here is why the distinction is important: The cost to manufacture and deliver a Model S to a customer in Virginia has the square root of jack shit to do with the cost of installing a retrofit PV system on a roof in Nevada. Your chart would include both since November 2016 when Tesla and SolarCity merged, where product margin would be calculated separately for each. But the product margins on both of these business activities is different, and just a component of the profit margin of the business as a whole.
In the context of these posts, it's easy to confuse the two because terminology is being thrown around with reckless abandon and vagueness.
As an aside, why would you have this graph linked in your signature? Are you enough of a Tesla hater that you have to show this information in every single post you make, regardless of if it has anything to do with Tesla or not?
They're not done increasing production. The stated (revised) goals were 2500/week by the end of Q1, and 5000/week by the end of Q2.
Whether they can do that or not is the question. Breaking 2000/week goes a bit of distance to show progress in comparison to the doom and gloom stories we're seeing from the hedge fund whore financial press.
You're probably right that Apple could stand to do some more testing and QA on the kexts they ship as hardware support, but there's only so much they can do.
Apple: "Hey Nvidia, your drivers suck. We're not shipping the latest version because it leaks memory like a fucking sieve." Nvidia: "Fine by us - you don't currently ship any of our hardware anyway, so you are only screwing your own past customers by giving them garbage ass-old drivers when newer less garbage drivers are available. Have fun with the support calls!" Apple: "... "
Also, it's that experience with PowerPC that should have taught them this lesson. They did this once already with the so-called AIM alliance and PowerPC - Apple, IBM, Motorola.
Well, we saw how that worked out - at first, PowerPC was competitive with Intel. Then it pulled ahead in the G4 (PPC 74xx) series. Then Intel pulled their head partially out of their ass and started destroying everybody performance-wise, just as Motorola Semi was dying and spun off as Freescale, who was more interested in embedded controllers; and IBM was only ever interested in chips they could put in big iron systems in cooled rooms, leaving Apple with no play for the laptop space, and some ridiculous liquid cooling for the Power Mac.
Also, isn't Apple buying MORE Intel stuff now, with their spat with Qualcomm? Like at least half the radios in iPhone through what used to be Infineon, now Intel?
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Most modern applications and operating systems don't use static window layouts. If you resize a window horizontally, it will reformat the content to fit the extra space, because the window manager knows how big the display is, and the application knows how big the content is. And, if you're watching a widescreen format media (which basically everything is unless you're watching a VHS transfer from 20 years ago), then it naturally fits the display.
Except for Slashdot, where giant ads that create massive whitespace on the right side of the comments section; but that's not on anybody but Slashdot - their shit CSS and apparent lack of enforcing ad size boundaries.
In the summary, they used the phrase "as if that wasn't all enough" and my first thought was "enough to what? Not make a point?"
Oh no, applications and web sites have to actually pay attention and realize that all display dimensions aren't 1024x768 any more. Or, If you do have badly behaved content, you can have two windows next to each other because we also can have more than 512MB of RAM. Welcome to 15+ years ago. Let's not even get started on multiple displays - HOLY SHIT MY DESKTOP IS 10240 PIXELS WIDE AND ALL OF IT IS USED UP BY HORIZONTAL CONTROLS BECAUSE A DESIGN GEEK SAYS SO.
Nope - I'm just fine with the wide displays I've got, and it makes the notebook easier to carry with one arm, as it fits nicely between the elbow and wrist.
When you don't give a shit about workers' lives, money spent on safety is just inefficiency.
Besides, if a tunnel collapses and kills a bunch of people, that's less people you have to figure out how to feed when your entire country is under famine and you are a 3rd generation petulant asshole who thinks that constant threats to neighbors, ballistic missiles, and crude nuclear arms are more important than food for the citizenry. But don't worry - it's one set of rules for the peasants, and another for you and your cronies. He's still nice and pudgy.
Ahh, Communism. How great thou art.
Yeah, right until he's not happy with the size of the little flags on toothpicks on the table in the meeting room, when he decides to walk the delegation out, set one off in a cave again, and fire another rocket into the Sea of Japan.
This guy is completely unstable, and the only reason he's even entertaining the idea of negotiations is because even the iron grip his family has had on that country is slipping. As it turns out, nuclear weapons and long range ballistic missiles are amazingly expensive to develop and maintain when you aren't sanctioned out the ass by the rest of the world, I can only wonder what a strain it is when China isn't tolerating your bullshit anymore.
I'm pretty sure that straight-up fraud is illegal regardless of if it's a 'regulated' financial market or not.
Any attempt to subpoena anything in the Mueller probe will be quashed instantly by any Federal judge currently sitting. They aren't going to fuck over an ongoing investigation of potential political corruption at the highest level because the DNC is getting antsy, especially since they've already been confirmed to sit in that job as long as they fucking choose to. Part of the idea of an appointment like that is complete independence from political masters such as the DNC.
I guess I'm wondering what kind of precedent they're trying to set here by including Wikileaks, or if they have even thought about that.
What happens when the Guardian newspaper (or some other non-US entity) publishes an October Surprise in the next election? Are they open to being sued by the loser because of "election tampering" by publishing material they happened to source? Can a major political party now sue people on Facebook, and Facebook themselves for airing that political party's dirty laundry (which happens to be true) if they lose?
Is this any more than sour grapes, and being amazingly petty about massively fucking up your own campaign strategy and refusing to own that failure? Is this just more navel gazing because of rampant denial and unbelief that Hillary just might be the most flawed candidate to ever run for President?
Here's a free tip, DNC: Next time, don't ignore the millions of voters in swing states in the industrial Midwest. You shit all over what those Obama voters wanted and believe in, selling them out for fundraiser money from Hollywood and the Wall Street elite. Now you know what you bought with the negligence of ignoring the moderates: a back seat for 4 years while a Dorito-tinted adulterous women groping proto-fascist does his best to unspool everything your last President worked for while throwing out massive giveaways at corporate welfare and crony capitalism and slashing to the bone any and all environmental protections; and a Congress all too happy to bleat along because they're too busy fearing being primaried to actually do what's right for their constituents, and the country.
But I'm sure suing Russia will somehow make it all better, especially since that's something that would ever actually go forward in reality.
Anyone who has used a touch laptop knows how nice it is to be able to reach out and scroll the screen or tap things on it instead of fiddling with the touch pad or mouse.
False. I have one - Dell XPS 9560. I literally never use the touch screen. Kind of wish I didn't have to pay for the extra hardware there in order to get the improved display. Two-finger scrolling on the track pad is easier and more ergonomic, because my hands are already on the keyboard or palm rest. And that's even with Dell's terrible trackpad.
I guess your statement becomes true if you don't include me (and many others) in "Anyone".
The most interesting idea that would come from any of this would be to equip a Mac with a touchscreen, but not make it's use anywhere near mandatory for those (like me) that have serious ergonomic concerns with vertical touchscreens; and then grow the existing iOS simulator that resides in Xcode into a full blown virtual iOS residing on your Mac that allows app store downloads and usage.
When I need / want the full Mac experience, it's always there. If I need / want an iOS app that doesn't exist on the Mac, it's there. And, your iOS developers gain a world class debug environment.
Yes, implementing it would be vastly more difficult than what I've outlined, but Apple's done far more difficult than that many times in the past. Most of the pieces already exist - and we wouldn't even have a stupid notch in the top of the screen to work around! Oh, and there's still a headphone jack! And other Slashdot gripes!
The "Athlon" days when AMD was ahead in performance was also when Intel had their head wedged so far up their ass they had to cut in switchback trails to find it. The Pentium 4 architecture was fucking horrible, and had the albatross of Rambus around it's neck. When they corrected that, they blasted right back in front and stayed there.
The good news for AMD: It appears that Intel once again has their head wedged so far up their ass that the suction from extraction just might kill them. If AMD was ever to give Intel another crotch-punch in benchmarking, now's the time.
Really. How does Windows telemetry get my data when I'm running Ubuntu?
Yeah, that's the point of making a Chrome extension - to penetrate the non-Windows market for data harvesting. Just waiting for someone to scope the packets that get phoned home to Microsoft when this is installed.
It's almost like the entire idea of an "initial coin offering" is a complete scam, designed to cash in on cryptocurrency hype!
Also, some might be surprised to learn that water is wet.
What, because if you carry around an Android device, you're intimately familiar with every nook and cranny of iOS?
It's completely reasonable to think that if someone doesn't use it every day, they may not be as familiar.
The actual cables and wires are government granted monopoly, because it makes sense to not have 7 different coax demarcs on the side of each house depending on what company you are working with. However, in the case of not-cable ISPs, they are all "common carrier" status, so they get to pick who gets their MPLS data as long as they can get a physical circuit in place at the site.
This whole thing is stupid because it's not like they are using residential services here that are virtually guaranteed to be effected by the lack of NN - at the very least they are using a "business class" service for each location so that there is a service level agreement in place - that's historically why you paid so much more for that 1.5Mbps T1 than you did for a >3Mbps DSL line - because with telcos, money talks and bullshit waits on hold.
Except for Apple already doing assembly on some models in Texas for a few years now on some systems, and announcing plans a couple months ago to spend billions moving more manufacturing and assembly back on-shore.
Sure, the number of Mac Pro systems is probably pathetically small for a company like Apple (especially since it's ass-old and stupidly priced), but System76 is hardly a major OEM cranking out millions of units either.
So what is unique in what was announced here today, and how it's "way more" than other major brands?
Doesn't matter - if they want business from the State of Oregon, they'll have to exist.
Someone will want those contracts, even if it's not a massive conglomerate like Comcast or Charter / Spectrum.
Plus, after the upload is complete, YouTube will be spending LOTS of cycles to transcode that video into all the various formats and scales they support. Just because the upload is done, doesn't mean the video itself is available until they've created all the sets of video files they need to support all the devices in the universe.
Is anyone at all surprised that a company that offers a "free" service with a massive terms-of-use agreement that says they own anything you type into this service, would actually scan / index / collate any information you type into that service?
OMG I THOUGHT FACEBOOK WAS A NON-PROFIT CHARITY!
This is just amazingly stupid that anyone would find this to be some sort of grand revelation.
Yeah, except it was an email to employees, and leaked by employees. If he emailed it directly to the press that would very likely run afoul of public disclosure responsibilities with the SEC.
Did he send it to all employees knowing it would be leaked? Probably. But the distinction is important.
Your graph shows quarterly profits / loss, which factors in all non-capEx business costs (EBITDA). This is sometimes referred to as profit margin.
He is talking about product margin, which is the percentage of profit over sale price on a per-product basis.
The two are not equal, and the terms are being confused. Profit margin is a totaling of all product margins, plus some other calculations that don't have anything to do with actually producing products for sale - various regulatory overhead, one time costs, debt servicing, etc.
Here is why the distinction is important: The cost to manufacture and deliver a Model S to a customer in Virginia has the square root of jack shit to do with the cost of installing a retrofit PV system on a roof in Nevada. Your chart would include both since November 2016 when Tesla and SolarCity merged, where product margin would be calculated separately for each. But the product margins on both of these business activities is different, and just a component of the profit margin of the business as a whole.
In the context of these posts, it's easy to confuse the two because terminology is being thrown around with reckless abandon and vagueness.
As an aside, why would you have this graph linked in your signature? Are you enough of a Tesla hater that you have to show this information in every single post you make, regardless of if it has anything to do with Tesla or not?
They're not done increasing production. The stated (revised) goals were 2500/week by the end of Q1, and 5000/week by the end of Q2.
Whether they can do that or not is the question. Breaking 2000/week goes a bit of distance to show progress in comparison to the doom and gloom stories we're seeing from the hedge fund whore financial press.
You're probably right that Apple could stand to do some more testing and QA on the kexts they ship as hardware support, but there's only so much they can do.
Apple: "Hey Nvidia, your drivers suck. We're not shipping the latest version because it leaks memory like a fucking sieve." ... "
Nvidia: "Fine by us - you don't currently ship any of our hardware anyway, so you are only screwing your own past customers by giving them garbage ass-old drivers when newer less garbage drivers are available. Have fun with the support calls!"
Apple: "
He's likely referring to the certification by UNIX labs - not that it's a full license of UNIX System V.
After all, the XNU kernel that macOS runs on stands for "X is Not UNIX".
They are NOT using FreeBSD kernel. They develop their own called XNU.
It has some borrowed BSD code, but it's the Mach microkernel with Objective-C API hooks for drivers.
Also, it's that experience with PowerPC that should have taught them this lesson. They did this once already with the so-called AIM alliance and PowerPC - Apple, IBM, Motorola.
Well, we saw how that worked out - at first, PowerPC was competitive with Intel. Then it pulled ahead in the G4 (PPC 74xx) series. Then Intel pulled their head partially out of their ass and started destroying everybody performance-wise, just as Motorola Semi was dying and spun off as Freescale, who was more interested in embedded controllers; and IBM was only ever interested in chips they could put in big iron systems in cooled rooms, leaving Apple with no play for the laptop space, and some ridiculous liquid cooling for the Power Mac.
Also, isn't Apple buying MORE Intel stuff now, with their spat with Qualcomm? Like at least half the radios in iPhone through what used to be Infineon, now Intel?