No, you didn't. Unless you had a memory cabinet sitting next to your desk. And a massive electric bill to run it and the chiller system needed to keep it cool.
A 386 with 4GB of RAM would have required 256 x 16MB 30-pin SIMMs, which is what 386 motherboards used for memory expansion. And I doubt there was any hardware available to do such a thing - if you needed something on the gigabyte scale for memory, you weren't doing it on a 386.
Of course they can buy whatever they want. But don't drag down the high end that exists specifically for people with high-end needs to meet the needs of people that already have two product lines suitable for them (MacBook, MacBook Air).
Don't be an antagonistic fuckwit. This is how product design works - you have a target user, and you design to that user's needs. Apple didn't do that, and it appears they finally heard the message.
Don't forget bugging every conference room, hallway, closet, and bathroom stall - we wouldn't want any uncataloged near-real-time communications, would we?
So you can securely download a pre-compromised package. Wonderful.
He's talking about cryptographic integrity checking of the package, not some kind of packet injection during the download. For example, the use of GPG signatures for apt repositories.
The argument is that you have the choice to go to another store that sells RC. This is not the case among iPhone users.
Yes, this is a stupid argument, because iPhone users choose to be iPhone users, and have every opportunity to inform themselves about what that choice entails. It's not like the iPhone is the only phone available for purchase, or even the only smartphone available.
Yes. Ironically, GM in the 1990s had to recall 470,000 Cadillacs over emissions control defeat devices. The cars involved enriched the fuel to air mixture when the AC or heat was running. AC and heaters are specifically turned off during EPA emissions testing, so they knew that was a way to determine if the car was possibly under test or not.
I'm not sure if the entire car was taken back, or if the ECU was replaced with something that didn't cheat.
70% of all passenger diesel cars in the US are VW. That's 39 deaths a day
passenger diesel cars. 100% of passenger cars in the US are not diesel. Probably not even 10%. Plus, multiple extrapolations like you've done here leads to increasingly higher deviations in the statistics.
I'm not condoning what GM did in any way, but VW violated the Clean Air Act. And, it was a willful violation with negligence, which means that there is a statuary multiplier applied to damages in the Clean Air Act.
I don't believe there is any particular clause in whatever laws GM violated.
Show proof that all but one "that you believe you know of" are installing defeat devices in their vehicles to cheat emissions testing, especially now that the testing labs know what behavior to look for after the biggest auto maker in the world got caught and very publicly shamed for it.
Don't worry, I won't hold my breath waiting for your evidence of such claims.
Or, it's indicative of Volkswagen AG breaking laws in both the US and the EU, and both governments going for their pound (or more) of flesh over blatantly violating laws and conspiracy to defraud customers and regulators.
They fucked up. They know they fucked up. Everyone knows they fucked up. And, they fucked up in a fashion that could still do lasting damage to the company for decades to come. There's no double standard to be seen here.
This logic invalidates basically anything that comes after 1940. Using your awesome reasoning, nothing about LTE should be patentable, because voice and data transmitted over radio waves has been done since the 1920s.
Maintaining in an industry that basically reinvents itself every 24 months isn't that bad, actually.
Even Steve Jobs had his stinker products that everyone seems to forget. Power Mac G4 Cube? iPod Hi Fi? Ping?
Given that the product lineup isn't very strong right now, and they're still making mounds of cash, I'd say he's doing alright. If the product line remains weak in comparison to the competition, then there probably needs to be a conversation about why. But, being that people have been saying that since before Steve's body was even cold, there might be a bit of bias out there.
Strange, I've been around Slashdot since ~2000, and it's never been a particularly "progressive" believe "system" or liberal. Nor has it been conservative. It's been libertarian - the classic Slashdot poster cares more about individual freedoms and respect of personal privacy than they care about either conservative or liberal politicking.
It goes hand-in-hand with the open source movement.
I wouldn't bother looking for specs - the linked article has a video that is strangely void of anyone using it for anything except showing the Windows desktop. No actual unfolding / sliding, not even tapping on the keyboard or moving a mouse cursor.
This thing is probably trade show smoke and mirrors.
Except that those clauses in the contract are required by federal law. It doesn't matter who the President is, the Labor Department will still be bound by law to proceed, unless the laws are changed by the Congress.
Good luck having that happen before a federal judge rules on this thing.
You do know that Obama is still President, right? And that this is his Labor Department filing the suit? And that the Labor Department is filing suit based on breaches of contracts that were signed potentially years ago?
Oh, and LOL @ "stupid enough to try to take on Google". People said the same thing about Microsoft, but we all learned that the one organization with more time, money, and lawyers than any other organization on the planet is the Department of Justice. They could spend the next 30 years litigating this thing quite happily. See also: Big Tobacco.
Don't be a fucking idiot - we already have too many of them.
The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google's federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. "Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so," Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
I seriously don't doubt it's that simple, as the Department of Labor is saying it is exactly that in TFS:
The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google's federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. "Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so," Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Now, it's possible that Google said they wouldn't produce it without a proper subpoena for records, just to limit their own liabilities. In which case, once a federal judge issues a court order to produce records or have the contracts terminated (with whatever termination clauses may be in the contracts), Google happily hands over the data.
Because Google chose to pursue being a US Government contractor, and the US Government has rules (read: laws) duly passed by the Congress about how it conducts business. Don't want to have the US Government opening up your books and peeking around to that degree? Don't work for a government contractor.
Oh, and like the US Government doesn't already have your name, contact info, salary history, etc. See: the IRS. You file all that shit every year.
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No, you didn't. Unless you had a memory cabinet sitting next to your desk. And a massive electric bill to run it and the chiller system needed to keep it cool.
A 386 with 4GB of RAM would have required 256 x 16MB 30-pin SIMMs, which is what 386 motherboards used for memory expansion. And I doubt there was any hardware available to do such a thing - if you needed something on the gigabyte scale for memory, you weren't doing it on a 386.
Of course they can buy whatever they want. But don't drag down the high end that exists specifically for people with high-end needs to meet the needs of people that already have two product lines suitable for them (MacBook, MacBook Air).
Don't be an antagonistic fuckwit. This is how product design works - you have a target user, and you design to that user's needs. Apple didn't do that, and it appears they finally heard the message.
"Casuals" shouldn't buy "pro".
Pros want an actual pro tool.
That was a far different Republican Party than the one we have today. Eisenhower would be called a leftist by today's Republicans
Don't forget bugging every conference room, hallway, closet, and bathroom stall - we wouldn't want any uncataloged near-real-time communications, would we?
So you can securely download a pre-compromised package. Wonderful.
He's talking about cryptographic integrity checking of the package, not some kind of packet injection during the download. For example, the use of GPG signatures for apt repositories.
The argument is that you have the choice to go to another store that sells RC. This is not the case among iPhone users.
Yes, this is a stupid argument, because iPhone users choose to be iPhone users, and have every opportunity to inform themselves about what that choice entails. It's not like the iPhone is the only phone available for purchase, or even the only smartphone available.
This isn't Standard Oil. This isn't AT&T.
Everyone say it with me now: TRUMP HAS NOT BEEN SWORN IN, AND CANNOT DO FUCK ALL YET
Seriously now. It's getting really stupid.
I'll bet it compresses quite well.
Yes. Ironically, GM in the 1990s had to recall 470,000 Cadillacs over emissions control defeat devices. The cars involved enriched the fuel to air mixture when the AC or heat was running. AC and heaters are specifically turned off during EPA emissions testing, so they knew that was a way to determine if the car was possibly under test or not.
I'm not sure if the entire car was taken back, or if the ECU was replaced with something that didn't cheat.
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Your math failed right here:
70% of all passenger diesel cars in the US are VW. That's 39 deaths a day
passenger diesel cars. 100% of passenger cars in the US are not diesel. Probably not even 10%. Plus, multiple extrapolations like you've done here leads to increasingly higher deviations in the statistics.
I'm not condoning what GM did in any way, but VW violated the Clean Air Act. And, it was a willful violation with negligence, which means that there is a statuary multiplier applied to damages in the Clean Air Act.
I don't believe there is any particular clause in whatever laws GM violated.
[Citation Needed]
Show proof that all but one "that you believe you know of" are installing defeat devices in their vehicles to cheat emissions testing, especially now that the testing labs know what behavior to look for after the biggest auto maker in the world got caught and very publicly shamed for it.
Don't worry, I won't hold my breath waiting for your evidence of such claims.
Or, it's indicative of Volkswagen AG breaking laws in both the US and the EU, and both governments going for their pound (or more) of flesh over blatantly violating laws and conspiracy to defraud customers and regulators.
They fucked up. They know they fucked up. Everyone knows they fucked up. And, they fucked up in a fashion that could still do lasting damage to the company for decades to come. There's no double standard to be seen here.
This logic invalidates basically anything that comes after 1940. Using your awesome reasoning, nothing about LTE should be patentable, because voice and data transmitted over radio waves has been done since the 1920s.
Details matter.
Maintaining in an industry that basically reinvents itself every 24 months isn't that bad, actually.
Even Steve Jobs had his stinker products that everyone seems to forget. Power Mac G4 Cube? iPod Hi Fi? Ping?
Given that the product lineup isn't very strong right now, and they're still making mounds of cash, I'd say he's doing alright. If the product line remains weak in comparison to the competition, then there probably needs to be a conversation about why. But, being that people have been saying that since before Steve's body was even cold, there might be a bit of bias out there.
Strange, I've been around Slashdot since ~2000, and it's never been a particularly "progressive" believe "system" or liberal. Nor has it been conservative. It's been libertarian - the classic Slashdot poster cares more about individual freedoms and respect of personal privacy than they care about either conservative or liberal politicking.
It goes hand-in-hand with the open source movement.
You're not kidding about the quality - I've seen more realistic launch vehicles from Kerbal Space Program with some mods installed.
I wouldn't bother looking for specs - the linked article has a video that is strangely void of anyone using it for anything except showing the Windows desktop. No actual unfolding / sliding, not even tapping on the keyboard or moving a mouse cursor.
This thing is probably trade show smoke and mirrors.
Because NAT routers with DHCP don't exist.
Except that those clauses in the contract are required by federal law. It doesn't matter who the President is, the Labor Department will still be bound by law to proceed, unless the laws are changed by the Congress.
Good luck having that happen before a federal judge rules on this thing.
You do know that Obama is still President, right? And that this is his Labor Department filing the suit? And that the Labor Department is filing suit based on breaches of contracts that were signed potentially years ago?
Oh, and LOL @ "stupid enough to try to take on Google". People said the same thing about Microsoft, but we all learned that the one organization with more time, money, and lawyers than any other organization on the planet is the Department of Justice. They could spend the next 30 years litigating this thing quite happily. See also: Big Tobacco.
Don't be a fucking idiot - we already have too many of them.
from the fucking summary:
The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google's federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. "Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so," Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Don't be an apologist.
I seriously don't doubt it's that simple, as the Department of Labor is saying it is exactly that in TFS:
The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google's federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. "Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so," Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Now, it's possible that Google said they wouldn't produce it without a proper subpoena for records, just to limit their own liabilities. In which case, once a federal judge issues a court order to produce records or have the contracts terminated (with whatever termination clauses may be in the contracts), Google happily hands over the data.
Because Google chose to pursue being a US Government contractor, and the US Government has rules (read: laws) duly passed by the Congress about how it conducts business. Don't want to have the US Government opening up your books and peeking around to that degree? Don't work for a government contractor.
Oh, and like the US Government doesn't already have your name, contact info, salary history, etc. See: the IRS. You file all that shit every year.