The US seems to making many, many accusations against many, many countries without a single shred of evidence. So far, it's been.... "trust us". WMD in Iraq? Trust us! We need to go to war. No go zones in the Netherlands? Trust us! London is chaos on the streets? Trust us! Regime change here and there needed? Trust us!
Just because I am "more likely" to believe the US than say, North Korea, doesn't mean that the current US regime is, in any conceivable way, trust worthy or believable.
Are you kidding me? I fucking prey that I get the store front one rather than enter street sign hell for 5 minutes. ReCap v2 is one of the worst things to ever happen to the internet and I prey to the god of the Internets that the creator dies or horrible death.
Anti-Chinese sentiment and casual racism of many-a-slashdot-posters aside, here is a perfect example of what happens when a countries pours huge amounts of cash into R&D and education. Rather than, say, in the US where the education budget is cut every year. But hey... at lease you protecting yourselves from those caravans of migrants hundreds of miles from your borders.
Maybe the Chinese will let you ride their space elevator to work at the McDonald's in orbit;)
When I was in primary school, I had heard of a computer, but I did not even know what it was. When I was in middle school, we got a C64. I knew you could play games on it, and even make your own simple games. Other than that, I did not know what it was good for and certainly did not know what was inside, or care for that matter. Yet, somehow, by some miracle, I, as an adult, with money to buy things, am able to purchase PC components to cobble together my own machine. Even a couple hackintosh machines. I can even, on occasion... code. Amazingly, my lack of understand the inter-workings of a complex system in my primary school days did not hinder my life. No no.. other things were responsible for that.
Personally, I am glad the EU is looking at mandating connectors. USB-C is clearly the best for most applications. Are there faster proprietary connections? Sure, but the amount of e-waste generated by all these stupid cables and chargers is just not OK anymore. It is just squandering resources. Especially since, while people love to pretend that they recycle these things, in reality, they don't. They toss it in the bin and then off to the landfill. This is especially true now that China is no longer accepting the worlds garbage.
Well, why the fuck is voting during the week days? In such a system, the companies would be required to give the time off any company who discouraged voting would have the management arrested for treason. That's the problem... you guys do not take voting seriously. You do not deserve the vote.
It seems that a lot of issues would be solved, in terms of getting these complete ass-hats you currently have in power in the US, if voting were compulsory. I have heard that less that 50% of the population vote, since the "middle of the road" people feel there simply is no point to vote. So, you only get the more extreme from both sides coming out to vote. Since the ruling class knows that only the most extreme of you vote anyhow, they adopt ever increasing extreme political views to cater to that extreme base. I think that if you do not vote for say, two consecutive elections, national OR local, then you lose your voting rights. If the population is not willing to participate in the process, then they should no longer have a say in how they are "ruled". I do not say governed because you are ruled over. You have a police state with almost complete autonomy over you and there is almost no recourse for the common man, should the government decide they do not like him. IRS as a weapon, anyone?
I saw a video on youtube which basically proved beyond a doubt that there are a loads of aliens there. Big alien caves and what not. Not sure what they are doing there, I assume that is where they plan their anal probes and cattle mutilations.
Likely this place has too weird even for them and the noise they hear the aliens startin' up their space ship an melting the ice. So, aliens are also responsible for all the meltin' ice too!!
Can you imagine what Apple would charge you for 126GB of RAM? They already charge you 1200$ for 64GB. I am guessing it will be massively more than that.
At the moment I have 32Gb on my machine. I have never gotten even remotely close to using it up. Then again, I am not editing huge video files are doing renderings. Likely those people would welcome the extra ram. Assuming they are using a windows machine, so they could actually afford to buy it;)
I wonder this stacks up against something like the XC90, which until now, no one has ever died in. Seems to be favorable.
I would personally love to have an electric car. I think the Tesla design is nice looking, except for the SUV which I find horrid. However, the one I test drove, (model S) I found to be lacking in overall quality. I am not saying it is a bad car, but it didn't seem all that well put together. There were loads of body panels which didn't line up. Uneven gaps and some plastic bits which looked as they would pop off. The sales man said it was normal. OK....
I ended up going with a plug in hybrid Volvo V90, as I love the interior and exterior styling as well as the attention to detail. Likely I will never buy a Tesla product, but I do own them a thanks for bringing electric cars mainstream. Without Tesla, I would likely wait at least another years before I could buy a full electric at a reasonable price. As it stands.. the flood gates are set to open in 2020 and it is, despite what anyone says, because of Tesla.
Does MS spy on you? Sure, no doubt they do to an extent. Though, when it is anything too overt, the folks here and in the media go ape shit. You give MS money, and they give you an OS. You give Apple a dump-truck full of money and they give you a hard-ward platform which can run MacOS. Funds paid, services rendered. Fine.
Google on the other hand gives the OS for free. They want you to use their free web-apps as well. Store your data on their free cloud drives. Maybe pay a bit to upgrade the storage. So.. all your data is now with a company who lets you use all this stuff or free. Are they just super duper nice? I would note that they have already clearly stated that "they" do not scan your emails, but they do let 3rd parties do so.
If you are cool with that, feel free to use their stuff and save a little money. Of course, others already mentioned that web-apps are complete and total shit compared with dedicated programs in nearly every measurable way. I am sure it will work great with your 5mb upload speed and 20gb data caps as well. My company also became obsessed with web-apps even those we told our management they are shit. 4 years later, we are ditching all the web-app nonsense for real programs that all you to actually get work done in a reasonable amount of time.
Here in Germany, our population is only about 80 million. Regrettably, as we have shown in the past, this number is sufficient to achieve world, or even regional domination for the long term. It seems to me these robots you speak of is the answer to our past failings.
Sign up for Duolingo my friends and start learning German now.
Doubt as you like, but on average, 16 people are killed by wasps each year. 5 were killed in one day during the summer fest in Munich this summer..though that was the hornet variety, which is still a wasp.
At least here in Germany, the conditions were perfect for wasps this year. Last year was actually a near record low, but due to the long hot and importantly..dry summer, the wasps were able to multiply like maniacs. We typically have a week of sun then rain for a bit and repeat. This year was almost no rain. So, it was a record high for wasp productions. Amazingly, they changed the law this year to forbid killing large amounts of wasps. I find that amazing considering that while yes, they do have their niche in the chain, they are easily the biggest pest that exists in nature. I cannot be bothered to search for the exact amount, but I remember reading that wasps account for more than double the deaths than the next animal on the list. Dogs.
Funny, that wasps kill that many people and meanwhile, like 1 blind guy was killed by an electric car so they want to force auto makers to build a super loud electric car that you can hear coming for 40km away because one fucking guy didnt wait for the cross walk tone.
Any way we can get roundup to also kill all the wasps? I know we are not supposed to kill wasps, as they are pollinators and help to control insects, but holy hell do I hate them more than nearly anything else. Plus, they do eat honey bees. And at least honey bees don't just sting you out of spite like those little dick heads do.
This summer was especially bad. I had two wasp traps... just the little green cups they fly into and cannot get out again. In one weeks, there was AT LEAST 400 wasps. Both cups were nearly full. I have no idea where they all came from.
Or at least this seems to be the prevailing opinion of many in the US and indeed the West in general. Not just among the decision makers, but the average person and MANY of the posters here on slashdot. Typically, the rant is about "cheap Chinese crap" being sold in 'Murica. Never mind the fact the fact that the Chinese factories are supplying exactly what the western retailers are ordering from them. You design it...they are just making it for you.
Also typical seems to be the idea that the Chinese can only copy. That they are not a people capable of original thought. I guess that's true.. Unless you count things like paper, gun powder, the compass, silk, alcohol, type printing, the clock, iron smelting, farming, money and stuff like that. But mainly.. not a "thinking people".
I suppose it is true that the west has had a near monopoly in the last 40 years in terms of tech inventions, however I think the willingness of the Chinese people to rapidly adopt new technologies en masse has been and will be continue to be very important.
Then there is the fact that they are dumping massive amounts of cash into research and education, while the US is spending less and less per capita each year. Of course it is only a matter of time before that many people with that much access to tech over take you.
No, the SIM card "chip" is basically the same as what you have now. It's just soldered to the board. And tiny. You would not be able to gain access to the SIM Profile without specialized equipment. Like from Comprion. Not sure who supplies Apples chips though. You can change some things with AT commands, but normally they have SIM Application Tool Kit which live on the SIM card and change things back every time you power up the phone.
Apple has been trying to do this for years. Since the first LTE iPhone in fact.
As it happens, the core specs for GSM/UMTS and LTE actually mandated SIM cards. As did PTCRB and GCF certification, which use the 3GPP specs of course. So, they all said.. Nope. Of course, the networks did not support OTA SIM provisioning anyhow. Most do these days. You find that most of the new M2M products out there use soldered SIM chips.
It's good for providers, but for you, the iPhone user it kind of sucks when you want to buy a used iPhone or sell your. You need to rely on the network provider to provision your SIM based on your IMEI, which.. legally, they are not obligated to do. They can say.. nope... you have to buy a new phone because we don't do that. I don't care all that much since I don't use an iPhone. I only get a new phone every 2 years when my company gives us new ones, so I cannot sell my phone anyhow. But.. I guess there are plenty of people out there who change their phones often. This is not good for you.
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The US seems to making many, many accusations against many, many countries without a single shred of evidence.
So far, it's been.... "trust us".
WMD in Iraq? Trust us! We need to go to war.
No go zones in the Netherlands? Trust us!
London is chaos on the streets? Trust us!
Regime change here and there needed? Trust us!
Just because I am "more likely" to believe the US than say, North Korea, doesn't mean that the current US regime is, in any conceivable way, trust worthy or believable.
So basically, it's "trips tells me what to do to my cat" or "dubs names my doggo".
What can possibly go wrong..
Are you kidding me? I fucking prey that I get the store front one rather than enter street sign hell for 5 minutes.
ReCap v2 is one of the worst things to ever happen to the internet and I prey to the god of the Internets that the creator dies or horrible death.
According to "In Bruges" 1 American = 1 Elephant.
Anti-Chinese sentiment and casual racism of many-a-slashdot-posters aside, here is a perfect example of what happens when a countries pours huge amounts of cash into R&D and education.
Rather than, say, in the US where the education budget is cut every year.
But hey... at lease you protecting yourselves from those caravans of migrants hundreds of miles from your borders.
Maybe the Chinese will let you ride their space elevator to work at the McDonald's in orbit ;)
When I was in primary school, I had heard of a computer, but I did not even know what it was.
When I was in middle school, we got a C64. I knew you could play games on it, and even make your own simple games. Other than that, I did not know what it was good for and certainly did not know what was inside, or care for that matter.
Yet, somehow, by some miracle, I, as an adult, with money to buy things, am able to purchase PC components to cobble together my own machine. Even a couple hackintosh machines.
I can even, on occasion... code.
Amazingly, my lack of understand the inter-workings of a complex system in my primary school days did not hinder my life. No no.. other things were responsible for that.
Personally, I am glad the EU is looking at mandating connectors. USB-C is clearly the best for most applications.
Are there faster proprietary connections? Sure, but the amount of e-waste generated by all these stupid cables and chargers is just not OK anymore. It is just squandering resources. Especially since, while people love to pretend that they recycle these things, in reality, they don't. They toss it in the bin and then off to the landfill.
This is especially true now that China is no longer accepting the worlds garbage.
Well, why the fuck is voting during the week days?
In such a system, the companies would be required to give the time off any company who discouraged voting would have the management arrested for treason.
That's the problem... you guys do not take voting seriously. You do not deserve the vote.
It seems that a lot of issues would be solved, in terms of getting these complete ass-hats you currently have in power in the US, if voting were compulsory. I have heard that less that 50% of the population vote, since the "middle of the road" people feel there simply is no point to vote.
So, you only get the more extreme from both sides coming out to vote. Since the ruling class knows that only the most extreme of you vote anyhow, they adopt ever increasing extreme political views to cater to that extreme base.
I think that if you do not vote for say, two consecutive elections, national OR local, then you lose your voting rights.
If the population is not willing to participate in the process, then they should no longer have a say in how they are "ruled". I do not say governed because you are ruled over. You have a police state with almost complete autonomy over you and there is almost no recourse for the common man, should the government decide they do not like him.
IRS as a weapon, anyone?
I saw a video on youtube which basically proved beyond a doubt that there are a loads of aliens there. Big alien caves and what not. Not sure what they are doing there, I assume that is where they plan their anal probes and cattle mutilations.
Likely this place has too weird even for them and the noise they hear the aliens startin' up their space ship an melting the ice. So, aliens are also responsible for all the meltin' ice too!!
I take it back.. Apple will already sell you 128GB on the iMac for 2400$. What a deal!
Can you imagine what Apple would charge you for 126GB of RAM?
They already charge you 1200$ for 64GB. I am guessing it will be massively more than that.
At the moment I have 32Gb on my machine. I have never gotten even remotely close to using it up. ;)
Then again, I am not editing huge video files are doing renderings. Likely those people would welcome the extra ram.
Assuming they are using a windows machine, so they could actually afford to buy it
This sounds like the opening chapter for a book predicated on the grey goo scenario.
I wonder this stacks up against something like the XC90, which until now, no one has ever died in. Seems to be favorable.
I would personally love to have an electric car. I think the Tesla design is nice looking, except for the SUV which I find horrid. However, the one I test drove, (model S) I found to be lacking in overall quality.
I am not saying it is a bad car, but it didn't seem all that well put together. There were loads of body panels which didn't line up. Uneven gaps and some plastic bits which looked as they would pop off.
The sales man said it was normal. OK....
I ended up going with a plug in hybrid Volvo V90, as I love the interior and exterior styling as well as the attention to detail.
Likely I will never buy a Tesla product, but I do own them a thanks for bringing electric cars mainstream.
Without Tesla, I would likely wait at least another years before I could buy a full electric at a reasonable price.
As it stands.. the flood gates are set to open in 2020 and it is, despite what anyone says, because of Tesla.
Does MS spy on you? Sure, no doubt they do to an extent. Though, when it is anything too overt, the folks here and in the media go ape shit.
You give MS money, and they give you an OS. You give Apple a dump-truck full of money and they give you a hard-ward platform which can run MacOS.
Funds paid, services rendered. Fine.
Google on the other hand gives the OS for free. They want you to use their free web-apps as well. Store your data on their free cloud drives. Maybe pay a bit to upgrade the storage.
So.. all your data is now with a company who lets you use all this stuff or free. Are they just super duper nice?
I would note that they have already clearly stated that "they" do not scan your emails, but they do let 3rd parties do so.
If you are cool with that, feel free to use their stuff and save a little money.
Of course, others already mentioned that web-apps are complete and total shit compared with dedicated programs in nearly every measurable way.
I am sure it will work great with your 5mb upload speed and 20gb data caps as well.
My company also became obsessed with web-apps even those we told our management they are shit.
4 years later, we are ditching all the web-app nonsense for real programs that all you to actually get work done in a reasonable amount of time.
Here in Germany, our population is only about 80 million.
Regrettably, as we have shown in the past, this number is sufficient to achieve world, or even regional domination for the long term.
It seems to me these robots you speak of is the answer to our past failings.
Sign up for Duolingo my friends and start learning German now.
Doubt as you like, but on average, 16 people are killed by wasps each year.
5 were killed in one day during the summer fest in Munich this summer..though that was the hornet variety, which is still a wasp.
This year will be above 20 people.
At least here in Germany, the conditions were perfect for wasps this year. Last year was actually a near record low, but due to the long hot and importantly..dry summer, the wasps were able to multiply like maniacs.
We typically have a week of sun then rain for a bit and repeat. This year was almost no rain.
So, it was a record high for wasp productions.
Amazingly, they changed the law this year to forbid killing large amounts of wasps. I find that amazing considering that while yes, they do have their niche in the chain, they are easily the biggest pest that exists in nature.
I cannot be bothered to search for the exact amount, but I remember reading that wasps account for more than double the deaths than the next animal on the list. Dogs.
Funny, that wasps kill that many people and meanwhile, like 1 blind guy was killed by an electric car so they want to force auto makers to build a super loud electric car that you can hear coming for 40km away because one fucking guy didnt wait for the cross walk tone.
Any way we can get roundup to also kill all the wasps?
I know we are not supposed to kill wasps, as they are pollinators and help to control insects, but holy hell do I hate them more than nearly anything else.
Plus, they do eat honey bees. And at least honey bees don't just sting you out of spite like those little dick heads do.
This summer was especially bad. I had two wasp traps... just the little green cups they fly into and cannot get out again.
In one weeks, there was AT LEAST 400 wasps. Both cups were nearly full. I have no idea where they all came from.
Seriously, the "powerful" have not been help accountable for fuck-all in the US since after the 50's.
Maybe you should rather start with that before you starting picking on maths.
Or at least this seems to be the prevailing opinion of many in the US and indeed the West in general. Not just among the decision makers, but the average person and MANY of the posters here on slashdot.
Typically, the rant is about "cheap Chinese crap" being sold in 'Murica. Never mind the fact the fact that the Chinese factories are supplying exactly what the western retailers are ordering from them. You design it...they are just making it for you.
Also typical seems to be the idea that the Chinese can only copy. That they are not a people capable of original thought.
I guess that's true.. Unless you count things like paper, gun powder, the compass, silk, alcohol, type printing, the clock, iron smelting, farming, money and stuff like that. But mainly.. not a "thinking people".
I suppose it is true that the west has had a near monopoly in the last 40 years in terms of tech inventions, however I think the willingness of the Chinese people to rapidly adopt new technologies en masse has been and will be continue to be very important.
Then there is the fact that they are dumping massive amounts of cash into research and education, while the US is spending less and less per capita each year.
Of course it is only a matter of time before that many people with that much access to tech over take you.
History does tend to repeat, it would seem.
No, the SIM card "chip" is basically the same as what you have now. It's just soldered to the board. And tiny.
You would not be able to gain access to the SIM Profile without specialized equipment. Like from Comprion. Not sure who supplies Apples chips though.
You can change some things with AT commands, but normally they have SIM Application Tool Kit which live on the SIM card and change things back every time you power up the phone.
It is done via OTA SIM provisioning.
I think that is handled under 3GPP 31.124, but could be 121.
Apple has been trying to do this for years. Since the first LTE iPhone in fact.
As it happens, the core specs for GSM/UMTS and LTE actually mandated SIM cards. As did PTCRB and GCF certification, which use the 3GPP specs of course.
So, they all said.. Nope.
Of course, the networks did not support OTA SIM provisioning anyhow.
Most do these days. You find that most of the new M2M products out there use soldered SIM chips.
It's good for providers, but for you, the iPhone user it kind of sucks when you want to buy a used iPhone or sell your. You need to rely on the network provider to provision your SIM based on your IMEI, which.. legally, they are not obligated to do. They can say.. nope... you have to buy a new phone because we don't do that.
I don't care all that much since I don't use an iPhone. I only get a new phone every 2 years when my company gives us new ones, so I cannot sell my phone anyhow.
But.. I guess there are plenty of people out there who change their phones often. This is not good for you.
Totally amazing.