You can have the touch bar display the function keys when you launch an app that uses them. Sure, it's not a "real" key with tactile feedback, but at least it's still an option. And when using an app that has never used the F-keys, you have something there that is useable.
I've not used the TouchBar thing for an extended period of time, but this is the natural evolution of every laptop manufacturer putting dual functions on all the function keys for years - especially for an OS that never fully embraced them to begin with. It seems like a decent idea that can be improved on in the 2.x version if they put their haptic thingy on it to give you some tactile feedback when you press a "key".
I guess I just want to know how any crime was ever solved in the age before smartphones. I mean, if they cannot break into these phones, it is impossible to connect the dots according to these people...
Yeah, because creating a legal precedent absolutely wouldn't be a problem for everyone else's legal defense, especially if they happen to have less resources than Apple (which would be everyone).
That's probably the fault of the OEM - I worked with Lenovo on this, and if they didn't configure the internal hardware and firmware load exactly the way it should be, it would be missing features, etc. Off-the-shelf models rarely would have the full vPro feature set we were looking for, so we needed to do custom builds. Then it worked great.
Case where security is better due to vPro: a company I used to work for was buying vPro-enabled desktops so that we could provision them and install them in the 2000+ locations they have across the US, so that when Windows shits the bed and needs to be reimaged, a support guy from the call center can take care of it remotely instead of calling out a 2-hour minimum service tech for $LOTS per hour to reimage it.
The math showed that in one year, the average amount of reimaging happening in locations that didn't have on-site IT would pay for the extra costs alone, and then the next 3 years of that hardware's lifetime were savings against the TCO. And that's just for service calls not made to reimage - it didn't even factor in how much faster someone can troubleshoot if they can remote control a machine sitting at a bluescreen, or failing to find the startup disk and needs the ACPI setting in the BIOS changed because the bit got flipped on a power failure / CMOS default restore, etc.
vPro is a huge support cost savings, allowing support staff to be able to do far more of their job far better, bitching about it being there is silly, especially since it is unprovisioned by default and will remain that way unless you go out of your way to enable it.
More than that, does he think that the US government would just leave behind all the aircraft, vehicles, guns, and munitions at the various bases, as well as missiles, and God knows what spy satellites at Vandenberg?
Congrats on independence, California! As a parting gift, here are some ready-to-launch Minuteman-3 missiles loaded with W87 warheads? Oh, we'll throw in those nuclear aircraft carriers in San Diego too because we couldn't read a poll or a calendar and forgot to steam it out to international waters before election day just in case?
In a long history of stupid shit posted to slashdot, that just might crack the top 5.
Sure, if you completely ignore that the entire fleet of Tesla cars has used less than 4 TWh of electricity, but Tesla solar panels have generated over 9 TWh of electricity.
If you are going to play magic games where somehow a coal plant in Ohio is charging up a Tesla in California, then I get to ignore time and say that some amps put on the grid two years ago are charging a Tesla that was manufactured 3 months ago. Fair?
Why should we pay the tax break on expensive EVs? Because that expensive EV does far less environmental damage over its life in comparison to an expensive Oil-powered competitor luxury vehicle than the tax credit could clean up.
Prevention saves money in the long run. Thats what ending the credits is about, right? Saving money?
Could be worse - could be an Alfa Romeo. You canâ(TM)t help but look back and be taken by itâ(TM)s beauty as youâ(TM)re waiting for the rollback truck to come pick it up and deliver it (and you) to the closest service center...
This will likely hurt other EV manufacturers more than Tesla. Tesla knows they will hit the cap in 2018 if Model 3 does anywhere in the same time zone as (revised) production schedules say.
The company just about to launch their EV will get bitchslapped by this, because they wonâ(TM)t have the economy of scale unless they are already a huge auto company and can eat the up-front costs to design and manufacture cars at any kind of scale.
Remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about devices that don't have SD card slots anymore? Yeah, those are the same newer devices that actually have a prayer of seeing an updated image that could cause this problem.
By the way, nice OS release where the simple installation of an app, and not actually running it, can destroy your operating config to the point of effectively needing to reimage the device... and then not actually fixing the root cause until 8.1. Are they fucking serious with that?
It depends on the fiber rollout plan. Even if they are actually putting fiber strands into each structure, and each apartment of each multi-tenant structure, then you still have to worry about sharing the back-haul on the other end of where the fiber terminates (the ISP's peering, etc.) - it's not like they can just give you a fiber pair direct into a carrier switch.
Because mineral extraction companies don't go looking for rights for new sources until their existing ones are exhausted? It's common to have sourcing years worth of supply ready to go - just purchase the equipment and hire people to operate it. This plays into the old trope of "there is only 50 years worth of known Uranium reserves!" - that's not because there is only 50 years worth in the Earth, it's because they stopped surveying when they had 50 years worth of uranium at current usage rates, because it's not useful to find 100 years worth and keep it in a filing cabinet for 50 years.
When the known sources even remotely dwindle, they send out the geologists. And look! More sources! Because Nickel and Cobalt are really common, to the point where Cobalt is often treated as a waste product from extracting other minerals it is found with.
And, just like with any other mineral extraction, as the price goes up, more expensive sources become economical to mine. Capital becomes available for improving technology. Technology improves, bringing extraction and refinement costs down. And the band plays on.
It was not intentional, and I would like to see more nuclear if they could get a new reactor started in the next 20 years and not have a cost-cutting company that throws safety out when the quarterly earnings start to look a little thin.
The reality of the situation in the US is that nuclear isn't an option right now, due to political nonsense and litigious filibustering causing the schedule of any potential project to double or more, and increase the budget beyond what would ever pay itself off.
I didn't expect demand reduction, though there is an amount of that happening through efficiency investment - replacing age-old appliances with more efficient version, adding insulation to homes, etc. I would just like to see a more rapid scale-out of renewables so that we can actually replace coal, rather than just add to existing fossil-fuel generation.
But thanks for not outright assuming I'm some NIMBY-ist; others around here wouldn't have paid that consideration.
Apple already doesn't use Qualcomm CPUs, and doesn't use Samsung CPUs either. They have their own, manufactured by TSMC.
They use Qualcomm radios in some models, but there are other radio suppliers out there (Intel). Apple has already used Intel radios in previous models.
Other controllers are likely dime-a-dozen from several manufacturers that would be eager to supply Apple if they could manufacture the volume needed.
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You can have the touch bar display the function keys when you launch an app that uses them. Sure, it's not a "real" key with tactile feedback, but at least it's still an option. And when using an app that has never used the F-keys, you have something there that is useable.
I've not used the TouchBar thing for an extended period of time, but this is the natural evolution of every laptop manufacturer putting dual functions on all the function keys for years - especially for an OS that never fully embraced them to begin with. It seems like a decent idea that can be improved on in the 2.x version if they put their haptic thingy on it to give you some tactile feedback when you press a "key".
Why would success breed authoritarianism?
Oh, you meant secedes...
I guess thatâ(TM)s completely different. Besides the fact that many states tried secession about 150 years ago and it ended a bit rough for them.
Amazon Prime Air is already operating from Hebron, KY and has been for some time - I saw one of their jets taxiing at CVG two months ago.
I guess I just want to know how any crime was ever solved in the age before smartphones. I mean, if they cannot break into these phones, it is impossible to connect the dots according to these people...
When are you people going to realize the difference between design patents and technical patents?
Yeah, because creating a legal precedent absolutely wouldn't be a problem for everyone else's legal defense, especially if they happen to have less resources than Apple (which would be everyone).
That's probably the fault of the OEM - I worked with Lenovo on this, and if they didn't configure the internal hardware and firmware load exactly the way it should be, it would be missing features, etc. Off-the-shelf models rarely would have the full vPro feature set we were looking for, so we needed to do custom builds. Then it worked great.
Case where security is better due to vPro: a company I used to work for was buying vPro-enabled desktops so that we could provision them and install them in the 2000+ locations they have across the US, so that when Windows shits the bed and needs to be reimaged, a support guy from the call center can take care of it remotely instead of calling out a 2-hour minimum service tech for $LOTS per hour to reimage it.
The math showed that in one year, the average amount of reimaging happening in locations that didn't have on-site IT would pay for the extra costs alone, and then the next 3 years of that hardware's lifetime were savings against the TCO. And that's just for service calls not made to reimage - it didn't even factor in how much faster someone can troubleshoot if they can remote control a machine sitting at a bluescreen, or failing to find the startup disk and needs the ACPI setting in the BIOS changed because the bit got flipped on a power failure / CMOS default restore, etc.
vPro is a huge support cost savings, allowing support staff to be able to do far more of their job far better, bitching about it being there is silly, especially since it is unprovisioned by default and will remain that way unless you go out of your way to enable it.
More than that, does he think that the US government would just leave behind all the aircraft, vehicles, guns, and munitions at the various bases, as well as missiles, and God knows what spy satellites at Vandenberg?
Congrats on independence, California! As a parting gift, here are some ready-to-launch Minuteman-3 missiles loaded with W87 warheads? Oh, we'll throw in those nuclear aircraft carriers in San Diego too because we couldn't read a poll or a calendar and forgot to steam it out to international waters before election day just in case?
In a long history of stupid shit posted to slashdot, that just might crack the top 5.
Sure, if you completely ignore that the entire fleet of Tesla cars has used less than 4 TWh of electricity, but Tesla solar panels have generated over 9 TWh of electricity.
If you are going to play magic games where somehow a coal plant in Ohio is charging up a Tesla in California, then I get to ignore time and say that some amps put on the grid two years ago are charging a Tesla that was manufactured 3 months ago. Fair?
Why should we pay the tax break on expensive EVs? Because that expensive EV does far less environmental damage over its life in comparison to an expensive Oil-powered competitor luxury vehicle than the tax credit could clean up.
Prevention saves money in the long run. Thats what ending the credits is about, right? Saving money?
Could be worse - could be an Alfa Romeo. You canâ(TM)t help but look back and be taken by itâ(TM)s beauty as youâ(TM)re waiting for the rollback truck to come pick it up and deliver it (and you) to the closest service center...
Saying the same thing you said with different words: California and Republicans disagree on policy.
Why attach motive to it? Do you think Republicans donâ(TM)t like all those electoral votes and house seats in California, because reasons?
This will likely hurt other EV manufacturers more than Tesla. Tesla knows they will hit the cap in 2018 if Model 3 does anywhere in the same time zone as (revised) production schedules say.
The company just about to launch their EV will get bitchslapped by this, because they wonâ(TM)t have the economy of scale unless they are already a huge auto company and can eat the up-front costs to design and manufacture cars at any kind of scale.
Remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about devices that don't have SD card slots anymore? Yeah, those are the same newer devices that actually have a prayer of seeing an updated image that could cause this problem.
By the way, nice OS release where the simple installation of an app, and not actually running it, can destroy your operating config to the point of effectively needing to reimage the device... and then not actually fixing the root cause until 8.1. Are they fucking serious with that?
It depends on the fiber rollout plan. Even if they are actually putting fiber strands into each structure, and each apartment of each multi-tenant structure, then you still have to worry about sharing the back-haul on the other end of where the fiber terminates (the ISP's peering, etc.) - it's not like they can just give you a fiber pair direct into a carrier switch.
You're always sharing with someone.
I wonder what the FUD stories said about lead supplies for lead-acid batteries before basically every car battery ever started getting recycled...
Because mineral extraction companies don't go looking for rights for new sources until their existing ones are exhausted? It's common to have sourcing years worth of supply ready to go - just purchase the equipment and hire people to operate it. This plays into the old trope of "there is only 50 years worth of known Uranium reserves!" - that's not because there is only 50 years worth in the Earth, it's because they stopped surveying when they had 50 years worth of uranium at current usage rates, because it's not useful to find 100 years worth and keep it in a filing cabinet for 50 years.
When the known sources even remotely dwindle, they send out the geologists. And look! More sources! Because Nickel and Cobalt are really common, to the point where Cobalt is often treated as a waste product from extracting other minerals it is found with.
And, just like with any other mineral extraction, as the price goes up, more expensive sources become economical to mine. Capital becomes available for improving technology. Technology improves, bringing extraction and refinement costs down. And the band plays on.
It was not intentional, and I would like to see more nuclear if they could get a new reactor started in the next 20 years and not have a cost-cutting company that throws safety out when the quarterly earnings start to look a little thin.
The reality of the situation in the US is that nuclear isn't an option right now, due to political nonsense and litigious filibustering causing the schedule of any potential project to double or more, and increase the budget beyond what would ever pay itself off.
I didn't expect demand reduction, though there is an amount of that happening through efficiency investment - replacing age-old appliances with more efficient version, adding insulation to homes, etc. I would just like to see a more rapid scale-out of renewables so that we can actually replace coal, rather than just add to existing fossil-fuel generation.
But thanks for not outright assuming I'm some NIMBY-ist; others around here wouldn't have paid that consideration.
If it's so easy, then why are Apple's ARM designs better than the competition so god damn always?
You don't think it's because you're wrong, do you? Is that why you posted AC?
You do know that the Palm Pilot came AFTER the Apple Newton, right?
Apple already doesn't use Qualcomm CPUs, and doesn't use Samsung CPUs either. They have their own, manufactured by TSMC.
They use Qualcomm radios in some models, but there are other radio suppliers out there (Intel). Apple has already used Intel radios in previous models.
Other controllers are likely dime-a-dozen from several manufacturers that would be eager to supply Apple if they could manufacture the volume needed.
Don't forget legal problems.
Why is anyone surprised that Apple doesn't want to provide revenue used to pay for the lawyers they are fighting in court?
Whether the lawsuit is justified or not, it would be more surprising if Apple WASN'T looking to eliminate Qualcomm.
I've never had a word processing application on my laptop start denying access to my own files. Use a hosted service, get hosted service problems.