I don't know about your receptionist but our receptionist does these things with her/his computer: look up phone numbers and office locations, email, issuing visitor badges, and sometimes Facebook when no one is looking. But most of their job is sit there when they are not talking on the phone and checking people in the front desk. She/he doesn't spend a lot of time on the computer at all. So a budget piece of crap like a Core i3 is more than enough power for them. Again, they are not compiling code or encoding video.
By "all the app stores" you mean it really only mean the Windows app store. I fail to find pirate apps among the top 10 free apps in Google Play where it is a mix of different types or iTunes where it's also mostly games. But feel free to live in your alternate reality.
I would say it is unlikely anyone will ever find them. Considering the size of the probes compared to the vastness of space, it's unlikely any alien civilization would just stumble upon them. Second, they are moving relatively slow in space, it will be sometime before they reach any thing. Voyager 1 is moving about 2AU per year (300M km). The nearest solar system (Proxima Centauri if Voyager was even headed that direction) is 268142.2 AU. That means it would reach Proxima Centauri in 134071 years if it was headed that way.
Given they need to spend $10B in the next 3 years to build the plant
The flaw in that logic is that $10B will go to the state. I can guarantee you that not all of it does. If we look at just materials cost alone, steel will most likely come from China as it is cheaper. Cement will come from other states and possibly overseas. Also it is guaranteed that some of the construction jobs will go to out-of-state and out-of-country workers.
the state gets $560M in sales taxes alone from the construction and another $3-400M as the construction companies pay their workers.
Again not all of that money goes to people in the state. Construction projects of this size will be awarded to a large number of subcontractors, some of whom will not be from Wisconsin.
Er what? You do understand that those two statements are not mutually exclusive right? An ICE can emit their own weight in pollutants AND 75% of exhaust gas can be N2. The problem is that you don't seem to understand chemistry and math.
The first thing you don't understand is that the majority of N2 exhausted by cars are intake because it's in the air. A small percentage of N2 reacts to form NOx which is a pollutant. N2 is not considered a pollutant for these purposes. We are concerned with everything else in the exhaust.
Second in a normal combustion reaction, the vast majority of byproduct is CO2 and water vapor with trace amounts of NOx, CO, SO2, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter. This accounts for roughly 16% of gasoline and 12% of diesel fuels.
thus raising alarms in various corporate type networks and the like?
Only if you assume that no one ever uses a network outside their corporate network and that all networks used employ various ways to detect this data transmission. For most consumers, the normal is not to have such high security. They don't employ such detection methods and they connect to outside networks all the time.
Also consumers are far more likely to buy these 3rd party parts than someone with a corporate phone who will most likely send it to their company for repair who will use genuine parts.
The Vista debacle had nothing to do with system specs and everything to do with hardware manufacturers failing to Vista release drivers. None of the hardware and peripheral manufacturers believed that Microsoft was going to release Vista on time. So they didn't put any effort into developing Vista drivers.
So MS lowering the hardware requirements on Vista so that machines that couldn't run Aero had nothing to do with it? That was the whole point of the exec's email. His machine could only run Vista Home Basic which isn't really Vista. For years MS had planned the specs only to change them at the last minute because Intel would have had millions of chipsets that couldn't run Vista.
The problem with MS has always been execution. It's cliche but MS never gets anything right on the first iteration. But when MS only put out software which could be updated and fixed, it's not as big as a problem. The problem with hardware is that you can't fix some things after it is made. No, we're not talking about mice and keyboards which were pretty solid but not complex. We are talking about things like the Xbox 360, the Kin phones, and now the Surface tablets.
Do they get some things right? Yes, but more often than not unwise and bone-headed decisions doom the product. For example one major issue with the Xbox 360 was overheating. While it is not confirmed, MS decided to design their own ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) instead of outsourcing it to save a millions of dollars. The problem was that MS had no real ASIC design expertise, and there is a reason why it is mostly done by some specialist companies. Their ASIC had heat issues which is something not detected by short term testing. Experience and long-term testing would have uncovered it but again, MS didn't have that experience. In the end, MS had to turn to outsource the ASIC design anyways to fix the problem and it would cost billions to repair the consoles.
Another issue I see is with the decision to make the Surface less reparable. On paper it saves money to use components that can't be replaced individually. The problem again MS doesn't have the manufacturing experience to do this. While we joke that MS just copies Apple, there are some things that MS shouldn't (nor can't) copy Apple in doing. Apple has started to make their devices less reparable, but that comes after a decade of designing and making devices. Apple designs their ASICs but they have tons of experience doing so.
Apple is actually very deliberate and slow. For example, Apple designs their own SoCs for their devices these days. But that came after acquiring two chip design companies (PA Semi and Intrinsity) and several years before they made their first A4. And the A4 wasn't remotely revolutionary or cutting edge. It was simply Apple designed. Evey iteration of the Ax chip has added more and more Apple customization.
Back during the Vista debacle, a senior MS VP emailed executives about the "Vista Ready" fiasco. He had purchased a laptop with Win 7 on the understanding it would be Vista compatible when Vista was released. It could only run Vista Home Basic. He was stuck with a "$2,200 email machine". While he could afford a new laptop and get his machine back to Win7, he wondered how many of their customers was having this problem and the ramifications to MS.
True, the API wasn't "quietly deprecated" in iOS 10 as the poster claims; it was removed in iOS10. The API in question was deprecated in iOS 9 which was released Sept 2015. With the iOS 9 SDK released in June 2015, that's more than 2 years of warnings. The response to the question even says as much:"In iOS 10, you should be using PushKit for handling push notifications for incoming VoIP calls . . once you move to iOS 10 our recommendation is to update your minimum deployment target to iOS 9 . . . " So it seems the poster hasn't paid attention to their apps in 2+ years.
Pricing and purpose. I'm not encoding videos all day on a general purpose machine if that's my job. I'm going to ask for workstation to do that. Of course the company is going to spend more on my desktop than for the receptionist who doesn't need 8-16 cores.
Well there's no price yet for the 1920 so it's hard to gauge whether it reasonable when it comes to pricing. Based on the current know specs, it has only a slight advantage in terms of memory and PCIe lanes over the 1800 but it also requires more power. If it is priced way above the 1800 (which I think it will be), it's not worth it for all purpose chip. It's more like workstation lite at that point.
This seems to the be modus operandi here. Remember it wasn't that long ago that the FCC classified 3MBs as "broadband". Under this definition much of the country has multiple broadband providers according to a survey done by the FCC. However when the FCC changed the definition to be higher, the number of providers dropped dramatically. Between 10-25, most areas has on average 2 providers. At 25MBs or higher, most areas had at most 1 provider. By changing the terms, the FCC under Pai can say that the most of the country has "adequate"** broadband.
**adequate meaning 10MBs
Well let's start with the actual problem: Apple hasn't implemented it yet. "Enabled" would imply that there's a setting that Apple just doesn't turn on. AML is an open source protocol. It has to be implemented by Apple which Google has done.
If you're buying a Ryzen Threadripper or Skylake-X for gaming, I can say you've already messed up. [car analogy] That's like buying an 18-wheeler to haul your weekly groceries.[/car analogy]
The article makes it seems that Apple is "refusing to enable" a feature that their phones already have like it's part of some secret setting where as the statement from EENA says that Apple hasn't implemented the feature yet.
From EENA
"EENA calls on Apple to integrate Advanced Mobile Location in their smartphones for the safety of their customers."
There's a huge difference between the two meanings.
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Can it tell where I can get some good midget porn? Asking for a friend . . .
Since it is recently filed, I can't find any amicus briefs. Usually many amicus briefs would generally mean SCOTUS is likely to hear the case
What is this "Bing" that you speak of? I'm pretty sure no one on the Interwebs has ever heard of it. :P
Like many questions asked on slashdot, the answer should be "No". See Kleenex(TM), Xerox(TM), Band-Aid(TM), etc.
I don't know about your receptionist but our receptionist does these things with her/his computer: look up phone numbers and office locations, email, issuing visitor badges, and sometimes Facebook when no one is looking. But most of their job is sit there when they are not talking on the phone and checking people in the front desk. She/he doesn't spend a lot of time on the computer at all. So a budget piece of crap like a Core i3 is more than enough power for them. Again, they are not compiling code or encoding video.
By "all the app stores" you mean it really only mean the Windows app store. I fail to find pirate apps among the top 10 free apps in Google Play where it is a mix of different types or iTunes where it's also mostly games. But feel free to live in your alternate reality.
No but certain news sites are fear mongering about everything for no reason.
I would say it is unlikely anyone will ever find them. Considering the size of the probes compared to the vastness of space, it's unlikely any alien civilization would just stumble upon them. Second, they are moving relatively slow in space, it will be sometime before they reach any thing. Voyager 1 is moving about 2AU per year (300M km). The nearest solar system (Proxima Centauri if Voyager was even headed that direction) is 268142.2 AU. That means it would reach Proxima Centauri in 134071 years if it was headed that way.
Given they need to spend $10B in the next 3 years to build the plant
The flaw in that logic is that $10B will go to the state. I can guarantee you that not all of it does. If we look at just materials cost alone, steel will most likely come from China as it is cheaper. Cement will come from other states and possibly overseas. Also it is guaranteed that some of the construction jobs will go to out-of-state and out-of-country workers.
the state gets $560M in sales taxes alone from the construction and another $3-400M as the construction companies pay their workers.
Again not all of that money goes to people in the state. Construction projects of this size will be awarded to a large number of subcontractors, some of whom will not be from Wisconsin.
Er what? You do understand that those two statements are not mutually exclusive right? An ICE can emit their own weight in pollutants AND 75% of exhaust gas can be N2. The problem is that you don't seem to understand chemistry and math.
The first thing you don't understand is that the majority of N2 exhausted by cars are intake because it's in the air. A small percentage of N2 reacts to form NOx which is a pollutant. N2 is not considered a pollutant for these purposes. We are concerned with everything else in the exhaust.
Second in a normal combustion reaction, the vast majority of byproduct is CO2 and water vapor with trace amounts of NOx, CO, SO2, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter. This accounts for roughly 16% of gasoline and 12% of diesel fuels.
thus raising alarms in various corporate type networks and the like?
Only if you assume that no one ever uses a network outside their corporate network and that all networks used employ various ways to detect this data transmission. For most consumers, the normal is not to have such high security. They don't employ such detection methods and they connect to outside networks all the time.
Also consumers are far more likely to buy these 3rd party parts than someone with a corporate phone who will most likely send it to their company for repair who will use genuine parts.
The Vista debacle had nothing to do with system specs and everything to do with hardware manufacturers failing to Vista release drivers. None of the hardware and peripheral manufacturers believed that Microsoft was going to release Vista on time. So they didn't put any effort into developing Vista drivers.
So MS lowering the hardware requirements on Vista so that machines that couldn't run Aero had nothing to do with it? That was the whole point of the exec's email. His machine could only run Vista Home Basic which isn't really Vista. For years MS had planned the specs only to change them at the last minute because Intel would have had millions of chipsets that couldn't run Vista.
The problem with MS has always been execution. It's cliche but MS never gets anything right on the first iteration. But when MS only put out software which could be updated and fixed, it's not as big as a problem. The problem with hardware is that you can't fix some things after it is made. No, we're not talking about mice and keyboards which were pretty solid but not complex. We are talking about things like the Xbox 360, the Kin phones, and now the Surface tablets.
Do they get some things right? Yes, but more often than not unwise and bone-headed decisions doom the product. For example one major issue with the Xbox 360 was overheating. While it is not confirmed, MS decided to design their own ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) instead of outsourcing it to save a millions of dollars. The problem was that MS had no real ASIC design expertise, and there is a reason why it is mostly done by some specialist companies. Their ASIC had heat issues which is something not detected by short term testing. Experience and long-term testing would have uncovered it but again, MS didn't have that experience. In the end, MS had to turn to outsource the ASIC design anyways to fix the problem and it would cost billions to repair the consoles.
Another issue I see is with the decision to make the Surface less reparable. On paper it saves money to use components that can't be replaced individually. The problem again MS doesn't have the manufacturing experience to do this. While we joke that MS just copies Apple, there are some things that MS shouldn't (nor can't) copy Apple in doing. Apple has started to make their devices less reparable, but that comes after a decade of designing and making devices. Apple designs their ASICs but they have tons of experience doing so.
Apple is actually very deliberate and slow. For example, Apple designs their own SoCs for their devices these days. But that came after acquiring two chip design companies (PA Semi and Intrinsity) and several years before they made their first A4. And the A4 wasn't remotely revolutionary or cutting edge. It was simply Apple designed. Evey iteration of the Ax chip has added more and more Apple customization.
Compared to the 33 - 50% Xbox 360 return rate, I guess it's all contextual.
Back during the Vista debacle, a senior MS VP emailed executives about the "Vista Ready" fiasco. He had purchased a laptop with Win 7 on the understanding it would be Vista compatible when Vista was released. It could only run Vista Home Basic. He was stuck with a "$2,200 email machine". While he could afford a new laptop and get his machine back to Win7, he wondered how many of their customers was having this problem and the ramifications to MS.
True, the API wasn't "quietly deprecated" in iOS 10 as the poster claims; it was removed in iOS10. The API in question was deprecated in iOS 9 which was released Sept 2015. With the iOS 9 SDK released in June 2015, that's more than 2 years of warnings. The response to the question even says as much :"In iOS 10, you should be using PushKit for handling push notifications for incoming VoIP calls . . once you move to iOS 10 our recommendation is to update your minimum deployment target to iOS 9 . . . " So it seems the poster hasn't paid attention to their apps in 2+ years.
Pricing and purpose. I'm not encoding videos all day on a general purpose machine if that's my job. I'm going to ask for workstation to do that. Of course the company is going to spend more on my desktop than for the receptionist who doesn't need 8-16 cores.
Well I can see the argument against it is that having so many tabs open that you can't see the name has already defeated the purpose of usability.
Er um, you do realize we are talking about browsers specifically on desktop? You can get a different browser.
Well there's no price yet for the 1920 so it's hard to gauge whether it reasonable when it comes to pricing. Based on the current know specs, it has only a slight advantage in terms of memory and PCIe lanes over the 1800 but it also requires more power. If it is priced way above the 1800 (which I think it will be), it's not worth it for all purpose chip. It's more like workstation lite at that point.
This seems to the be modus operandi here. Remember it wasn't that long ago that the FCC classified 3MBs as "broadband". Under this definition much of the country has multiple broadband providers according to a survey done by the FCC. However when the FCC changed the definition to be higher, the number of providers dropped dramatically. Between 10-25, most areas has on average 2 providers. At 25MBs or higher, most areas had at most 1 provider. By changing the terms, the FCC under Pai can say that the most of the country has "adequate"** broadband. **adequate meaning 10MBs
Well let's start with the actual problem: Apple hasn't implemented it yet. "Enabled" would imply that there's a setting that Apple just doesn't turn on. AML is an open source protocol. It has to be implemented by Apple which Google has done.
If you're buying a Ryzen Threadripper or Skylake-X for gaming, I can say you've already messed up. [car analogy] That's like buying an 18-wheeler to haul your weekly groceries.[/car analogy]
The article makes it seems that Apple is "refusing to enable" a feature that their phones already have like it's part of some secret setting where as the statement from EENA says that Apple hasn't implemented the feature yet. From EENA "EENA calls on Apple to integrate Advanced Mobile Location in their smartphones for the safety of their customers."
There's a huge difference between the two meanings.
If you are buying a lot of high priced things in the next year: appliances, electronics, etc. Like if you are about to furnish/buy a home.