I can honestly say that I have not seen the commercials. (Who has a TV these days? Why watch commercials? Are you 90 or something?)
The line between computers and tablets has blurred considerably. There's always been blurriness between different types of computing and software - where did the desktop end and the server begin? Linux was a desktop OS that made it onto the server? MS called Windows an operating system. There's always been blurring, this is just more of the same. Apple can stick a keyboard and a not so power constrained ARM chip in an iPad and call it a new product.
I don't think so. Even with the leaps and bounds of the late 90s Intel still lagged behind everyone else. I remember late 90s CPUs were still two or three times faster than Intel, even if you ignored the core being faster. I remember working on an early 00's UltraSparc workstation that still beat the pants off anything and everything that Intel could ship. Even now Intel is still the second slowest when it comes to servers, with with IBM shipping 5GHz server chips while Oracle has gone down the massively parallel path.
Intel won the CPU wars, but I don't think it was ever the fastest desktop until the mid 00's.
Uh, no, not even close. In the 90s Intel was the slowest performing desktop CPU by almost any measure. Intel was patting itself on the back for hitting 120MHz in 1995 while Sun hit 200MHz, DEC had the 333MHz Alpha and IBM blew everyone away with gigantic cache sizes, cheating and getting away with it (they completely destroyed the benchmarking system for a while). Oh, and almost everyone was releasing 64-bit hardware that was backwards compatible with 32-bit instruction sets except for Intel, who were claiming the Itanium would soon rule the world.
I remember using a PowerPC mac that was clocked around 100MHz in 1996 and asking myself why it seemed to be about 10 times faster than a Windows box.
Intel did eventually catch up, and then got sued by DEC for stealing the internals of the Alpha. Intel lost. Then Intel copied AMD and was last to market for 64-bit CPUs that actually performed. So, no, Intel didn't win because of its CPUs, quite the opposite.
I love the fact that suggesting nuclear power is not viable gets you accusations of being in the pay of natural gas miners, but suggestions that nuclear or coal proponents are in the pay of their respective industries are met with angry denials and/or outrage.
As for the reference to strip mining whole continents - exactly how much uranium is required to run the whole world on nuclear power for 100 years? What will it cost to do it with unconventional nuclear reactors? Ignore the expense of storing and transporting millions of tons of highly radioactive waste, I know you were going to anyway.
Solar, wind and storage have their issues too. But the wind is always blowing somewhere, the South Australian Tesla battery is doing very well, and pumped storage and geothermal are under-utilised right now. Battery technology is improving every year. It’s a safer bet than hoping for a magical nuclear solution.
Sigh. It’s “Plain Old Telephone System.” You see son, it’s back when not everything was meant to be used for gaming or as a toy, and people didn’t try to sell everything as a service.
I noticed the "first breach the server" hand wave. It reminded me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!"
Currently:
The US military is there to monitor and steer social media to prevent mass protests.
The NSA is there to seed misinformation and monitor what people are thinking or planning.
The FBI is there to stop the wrong people getting too close to being elected president.
The Police are there to stop too many black or brown people voting.
ICE is there to separate families and traumatize children.
I'm sure there's nothing sinister about any of this and all these roles were explicitly written in the constitution...
I just checked, and in IOS 12 you can’t remove the telephone, messages, settings, safari, camera, clock, photos and find my iPhone apps. Everything else can be removed without an additional app. It doesn’t ship with cripple ware telco crap, adware, google’s keyloggera or Samsung’s keyloggers.
The 1950s, where companies weren't people, the concept of marital rape didn't exist, the Republicans running a deficit were treated the same as the Democrats running a deficit, and it would have been considered un-American and illegal to conduct mass spying operations against the US population.
The good news is that Trump is doing everything he can to ban abortion, Pence is doing everything he can to ban homosexuality, and between the two of them God help women...
I've just set up a Samsung A8 as my work phone, having used iphones for quite a few years now, and I have to say the interface is crap. What idiots think these things up? Not all screens let you go a step back to correct something when you're setting it up. If the keyboard is up you can't scroll down to fill in the next field, the screen gets locked as part of setup. There are so many rubbish settings and so much non-optional bullshit that it took half an hour to set up what on the iphone is a 5 minute job.
And then I had to install the apps. Did you know you can't run email without it knowing your wifi settings or your location? Samsung won't let you install it without permitting all access to everything. I know it's necessary because the gmail client is the same. The other Samsung apps are similarly constrained - to run they have to broadcast back to Samsung and Google every aspect of your device. Then you have to click the non-privacy policy, which means essentially giving everything away as and when they desire it. And this is a work phone which gets sensitive information and holds corporate data and customer data. All being given away to Samsung and Google for free.
The iphone is bad, I'll grant you that. But Android is so much worse that it makes the iphone look good by comparison.
Let’s just sanity check what you’re saying. Shorts are not investors. They want to see the company fail, and fail hard. Demanding that their interests are protected is like demanding that Dahmer become your bodyguard.
You’re being silly and naive if you think they want to double- or even triple-charge. ISPs would like both the client and the web site to pay, plus the web site to pay a premium in order not to have their service throttled, have other sites pay them to push specific services, and all while injecting ads into the web sites of any customers’ traffic and snoop on customer data and sell it.
I’ve yet to see them demand you install a keystroke logger or actually sell your credit card information, but give it time. It won’t be long before they start doing those things too.
Oh, dear. An organisation called "Environmental Progress" that just advocates for nuclear power plants and nothing else? Where were they when nuclear waste was dumped in the middle of a formerly pristine national park in the middle of Australia?
That is utter bullshit. In the UK you are legally allowed to do all electrical work in your own home, whether you are a licensed electrician or not. I don’t know why people make this shit up but pretending that the UK is still a feudal medieval state is only helpful to the Tories. And what electricians guild?
Australia is so scary as an example they have set up a pro-gun lobby and started funding right wingers to weaken gun laws. Their messaging is off though - they aren’t convincing anyone but the already convinced.
You're talking about the freedom in a phone where you can't uninstall the crapware that comes with it? Is that like the freedom to only go where you are told to and say what you are told to?
Given the history of these "freedom fighters" to strap bombs to children and send them running into crowds, fences, and such I can't blame the Israel border guards. They built a wall, they posted signs, these people know that if they get too close to the wall that they will face lethal force. It's unfortunate, extremely so, if a lost child wanders too close to a fence and gets shot for it out of the fog of war.
The problem with making stuff up, like you just did, is that inevitably someone who knows better will call you out. You can provide proof, admit you're a liar, double-down, hotly angry, or just stop posting. Strapping bombs to kids? Just bullshit.
So long as we are placing blame here lets not forget that the reason the border guards shoot children and the disabled is because they have seen compassion for these people, quite literally, blow up in their face. In World War 2 the Japanese would fly a white flag indicating surrender but when American soldiers went to accept the surrender they'd get cut down by machine guns. After that the white flag is meaningless, by their own actions they've indicated that they have no intention to surrender. Decades later we still hear idiots talking of American brutality for ignoring Japanese surrender. Well, had the Japanese not redrawn the rules then the Americans in the Pacific Theater would have respected their surrender.
The Palestinians drew up their own rules. They sent children strapped with bombs to the border fence in an attempt to make a hole in it. Well, Israel now knows the rules that people in Gaza are playing under. If they are willing to use children as soldiers in their holy war then they can expect to lose these soldiers in war.
Yeah, let's blame the Palestinian Kamikaze pilots, I mean the Japanese suicide bombers, I mean, LOOK OVER THERE!!!
How many Israelis fought the Japanese in WWII?
I'm objecting to them claiming ownership to this land as justification for this use of force.
And yet you have no issue whatsoever with Israelis using eternal ownership of the land as justification for the force used, both past and present. Surely some consistency is desired? No? Didn't think so.
I've read the interviews of people in Gaza. It's some sad story of a young man in Gaza that pines to see "his homeland" on the other side of the fence. He's so determined to set foot on this land that he's willing to die fighting for the "right" for this land. Here's my question, what makes him think that "his land" is on the other side of that fence? He admits that he's never been there. It's likely his parents haven't been there. It's quite possible that his grandparents have never been there.
Even the Israelis admit they ethnically cleansed and mass murdered Palestinians. If the Israelis admit it, isn't it time for you to as well? You're as bad as a holocaust denier, just on 1/6th the scale.
I love how the standard response of Israel's defenders, when presented with proof of Israelis murdering kids, doctors, nurses and people in wheelchairs, is to blather on about religion and how some guy 1500 years ago was bad, but the guy before him was good. Sigh. It's not about religion, it's about force, taking land, and wanting to be cruel to people because you've taken their land. Israelis are addicted to occupation now. There's no way for them to stop. The whole state would become impoverished and fall apart, even under the best case scenario, if the occupation were to end and an equitable solution found.
Slashdot Mirror
I can honestly say that I have not seen the commercials. (Who has a TV these days? Why watch commercials? Are you 90 or something?)
The line between computers and tablets has blurred considerably. There's always been blurriness between different types of computing and software - where did the desktop end and the server begin? Linux was a desktop OS that made it onto the server? MS called Windows an operating system. There's always been blurring, this is just more of the same. Apple can stick a keyboard and a not so power constrained ARM chip in an iPad and call it a new product.
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I don't think so. Even with the leaps and bounds of the late 90s Intel still lagged behind everyone else. I remember late 90s CPUs were still two or three times faster than Intel, even if you ignored the core being faster. I remember working on an early 00's UltraSparc workstation that still beat the pants off anything and everything that Intel could ship. Even now Intel is still the second slowest when it comes to servers, with with IBM shipping 5GHz server chips while Oracle has gone down the massively parallel path. Intel won the CPU wars, but I don't think it was ever the fastest desktop until the mid 00's.
Uh, no, not even close. In the 90s Intel was the slowest performing desktop CPU by almost any measure. Intel was patting itself on the back for hitting 120MHz in 1995 while Sun hit 200MHz, DEC had the 333MHz Alpha and IBM blew everyone away with gigantic cache sizes, cheating and getting away with it (they completely destroyed the benchmarking system for a while). Oh, and almost everyone was releasing 64-bit hardware that was backwards compatible with 32-bit instruction sets except for Intel, who were claiming the Itanium would soon rule the world.
I remember using a PowerPC mac that was clocked around 100MHz in 1996 and asking myself why it seemed to be about 10 times faster than a Windows box.
Intel did eventually catch up, and then got sued by DEC for stealing the internals of the Alpha. Intel lost. Then Intel copied AMD and was last to market for 64-bit CPUs that actually performed. So, no, Intel didn't win because of its CPUs, quite the opposite.
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Really? Here I thought they were just going to release a version of the iPad Pro with a built in keyboard, similar to the surface tablet....
I think you people are overthinking things.
Anything non-Intel from Oracle and IBM, plus back before they took the poison Intel pill, HP and SGI.
I wonder if any of those drawings are by Israeli Arab kids...
I love the fact that suggesting nuclear power is not viable gets you accusations of being in the pay of natural gas miners, but suggestions that nuclear or coal proponents are in the pay of their respective industries are met with angry denials and/or outrage.
As for the reference to strip mining whole continents - exactly how much uranium is required to run the whole world on nuclear power for 100 years? What will it cost to do it with unconventional nuclear reactors? Ignore the expense of storing and transporting millions of tons of highly radioactive waste, I know you were going to anyway.
Solar, wind and storage have their issues too. But the wind is always blowing somewhere, the South Australian Tesla battery is doing very well, and pumped storage and geothermal are under-utilised right now. Battery technology is improving every year. It’s a safer bet than hoping for a magical nuclear solution.
Where is the nuclear only crowd? Have we finally found a scenario where they won't recommend a nuclear option?
Sigh. It’s “Plain Old Telephone System.” You see son, it’s back when not everything was meant to be used for gaming or as a toy, and people didn’t try to sell everything as a service.
I noticed the "first breach the server" hand wave. It reminded me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!"
Ah, yes, you are totally immune to long term manipulation, unlike every other human(?) who has ever lived.
I don't like your innuendo. Trump can't even spell "Nazi."
Currently:
The US military is there to monitor and steer social media to prevent mass protests.
The NSA is there to seed misinformation and monitor what people are thinking or planning.
The FBI is there to stop the wrong people getting too close to being elected president.
The Police are there to stop too many black or brown people voting.
ICE is there to separate families and traumatize children.
I'm sure there's nothing sinister about any of this and all these roles were explicitly written in the constitution...
I just checked, and in IOS 12 you can’t remove the telephone, messages, settings, safari, camera, clock, photos and find my iPhone apps. Everything else can be removed without an additional app. It doesn’t ship with cripple ware telco crap, adware, google’s keyloggera or Samsung’s keyloggers.
The 1950s, where companies weren't people, the concept of marital rape didn't exist, the Republicans running a deficit were treated the same as the Democrats running a deficit, and it would have been considered un-American and illegal to conduct mass spying operations against the US population.
The good news is that Trump is doing everything he can to ban abortion, Pence is doing everything he can to ban homosexuality, and between the two of them God help women...
I've just set up a Samsung A8 as my work phone, having used iphones for quite a few years now, and I have to say the interface is crap. What idiots think these things up? Not all screens let you go a step back to correct something when you're setting it up. If the keyboard is up you can't scroll down to fill in the next field, the screen gets locked as part of setup. There are so many rubbish settings and so much non-optional bullshit that it took half an hour to set up what on the iphone is a 5 minute job.
And then I had to install the apps. Did you know you can't run email without it knowing your wifi settings or your location? Samsung won't let you install it without permitting all access to everything. I know it's necessary because the gmail client is the same. The other Samsung apps are similarly constrained - to run they have to broadcast back to Samsung and Google every aspect of your device. Then you have to click the non-privacy policy, which means essentially giving everything away as and when they desire it. And this is a work phone which gets sensitive information and holds corporate data and customer data. All being given away to Samsung and Google for free.
The iphone is bad, I'll grant you that. But Android is so much worse that it makes the iphone look good by comparison.
Let’s just sanity check what you’re saying. Shorts are not investors. They want to see the company fail, and fail hard. Demanding that their interests are protected is like demanding that Dahmer become your bodyguard.
You’re being silly and naive if you think they want to double- or even triple-charge. ISPs would like both the client and the web site to pay, plus the web site to pay a premium in order not to have their service throttled, have other sites pay them to push specific services, and all while injecting ads into the web sites of any customers’ traffic and snoop on customer data and sell it.
I’ve yet to see them demand you install a keystroke logger or actually sell your credit card information, but give it time. It won’t be long before they start doing those things too.
Jerry Brown's Secret War on Clean Energy
Oh, dear. An organisation called "Environmental Progress" that just advocates for nuclear power plants and nothing else? Where were they when nuclear waste was dumped in the middle of a formerly pristine national park in the middle of Australia?
Maybe that's the progress part....
A magazine I’ve never heard of links to an anonymous blog stating it’s really bad. Hmm. Paid-for pseudo-science?
That is utter bullshit. In the UK you are legally allowed to do all electrical work in your own home, whether you are a licensed electrician or not. I don’t know why people make this shit up but pretending that the UK is still a feudal medieval state is only helpful to the Tories. And what electricians guild?
Australia is so scary as an example they have set up a pro-gun lobby and started funding right wingers to weaken gun laws. Their messaging is off though - they aren’t convincing anyone but the already convinced.
Why oh why did they add the +++ATB00M command into the spec?
You're talking about the freedom in a phone where you can't uninstall the crapware that comes with it? Is that like the freedom to only go where you are told to and say what you are told to?
Given the history of these "freedom fighters" to strap bombs to children and send them running into crowds, fences, and such I can't blame the Israel border guards. They built a wall, they posted signs, these people know that if they get too close to the wall that they will face lethal force. It's unfortunate, extremely so, if a lost child wanders too close to a fence and gets shot for it out of the fog of war.
The problem with making stuff up, like you just did, is that inevitably someone who knows better will call you out. You can provide proof, admit you're a liar, double-down, hotly angry, or just stop posting. Strapping bombs to kids? Just bullshit.
So long as we are placing blame here lets not forget that the reason the border guards shoot children and the disabled is because they have seen compassion for these people, quite literally, blow up in their face. In World War 2 the Japanese would fly a white flag indicating surrender but when American soldiers went to accept the surrender they'd get cut down by machine guns. After that the white flag is meaningless, by their own actions they've indicated that they have no intention to surrender. Decades later we still hear idiots talking of American brutality for ignoring Japanese surrender. Well, had the Japanese not redrawn the rules then the Americans in the Pacific Theater would have respected their surrender.
The Palestinians drew up their own rules. They sent children strapped with bombs to the border fence in an attempt to make a hole in it. Well, Israel now knows the rules that people in Gaza are playing under. If they are willing to use children as soldiers in their holy war then they can expect to lose these soldiers in war.
Yeah, let's blame the Palestinian Kamikaze pilots, I mean the Japanese suicide bombers, I mean, LOOK OVER THERE!!! How many Israelis fought the Japanese in WWII?
I'm objecting to them claiming ownership to this land as justification for this use of force.
And yet you have no issue whatsoever with Israelis using eternal ownership of the land as justification for the force used, both past and present. Surely some consistency is desired? No? Didn't think so.
I've read the interviews of people in Gaza. It's some sad story of a young man in Gaza that pines to see "his homeland" on the other side of the fence. He's so determined to set foot on this land that he's willing to die fighting for the "right" for this land. Here's my question, what makes him think that "his land" is on the other side of that fence? He admits that he's never been there. It's likely his parents haven't been there. It's quite possible that his grandparents have never been there.
Even the Israelis admit they ethnically cleansed and mass murdered Palestinians. If the Israelis admit it, isn't it time for you to as well? You're as bad as a holocaust denier, just on 1/6th the scale. I love how the standard response of Israel's defenders, when presented with proof of Israelis murdering kids, doctors, nurses and people in wheelchairs, is to blather on about religion and how some guy 1500 years ago was bad, but the guy before him was good. Sigh. It's not about religion, it's about force, taking land, and wanting to be cruel to people because you've taken their land. Israelis are addicted to occupation now. There's no way for them to stop. The whole state would become impoverished and fall apart, even under the best case scenario, if the occupation were to end and an equitable solution found.