I recently watched a silver screen era movie. It was incredible, the intro/credits were: producing studio presents movie title, top 3 actors, and director. That's it, then the movie rolled. Kind of makes you realize how much those union demands to include the paper recycler in the credits detracts from the movie experience. After all, the general populace barely cares about the director or anyone beneath the first 5 actors in the cast.
It's not at all clear that RISC wins in the mobile space. Intel's offerings win in performance per Watt benchmarks by a factor of 2-5, they just haven't hit the minimum Watts that ARM processors have.
Until Intel can hit the min watts, RISC wins. Performance per watt in excess of min watt is irrelevant for mobile.
Intel could destroy ARM tomorrow by simply slashing the price of their processors to be roughly the same as ARM. But they would have to completely restructure the company and its finances in order to do it.
No. They would have to leverage their largely acknowledged monopoly position to destroy ARM, or acknowledge that they are making between 200 and 600% profit margins on CPUs. Guess which one would be the result of your proposed price cut.
I'm curious. Which part of the GP's post do you consider to be FUD?
But beware, a local only account means you're a lone ranger. You're on your own, and shunned from Apple until you embrace the cloud.
That entire line. There's a large number of us that have only logged into iCloud to test it out and found it wanting. Apple's data and privacy security is better than the competition, but it still falls far short of what it needs to be, IMHO. With the exception of Keychain, I don't believe any other data is encrypted by default, a major privacy and security failure. If you FileVault your local system, why would you then connect to a cloud based system for an unencrypted backup?
I'm hazarding a guess here, but this experience is the "old TFA" which has been replaced, according to the TFA. At least I hope so, because the TFA available before iOS11 and High Sierra was, to be kind, an utter and complete pile of shit.
I think the verification of the documents is important, but what are you going to get other than "no comment" from the government? The verification is in what's contained in the documents, which is what real reporters do. If you could just call the government and ask "Hey, I heard that you're investigating 'x'. Tell me about it" and get full details, we wouldn't need investigative reporters.
The real questions are what followed regarding protecting the source.
Then again, they also (reportedly) gave away her location (Augusta GA) to the government person they were trying to verify the documents with.
Wait, they have top secret government documents, and they're going to verify them with the government? And then give information of their source to the government? And then release the original photos of documents to the public? Did they also hand over the originals to the government so they could grab fingerprints and other forensic evidence off of them?
There is no excuse for how many failures the Intercept committed in protecting a formerly anonymous source. I'm going out on a limb here and say that this will be the last time they receive info from an actual anonymous source that isn't a complete idiot. Then again, as noted, Winner appears to qualify as a complete idiot, emailing them from work in the first place.
It's apparent you never owned a quality CRT of any type. Mine was easy enough to calibrate, took about 30 min the first time. After a few months, did it again, and it only took about 15 min, because minimum adjustments were necessary. After that, checked it initially every 6 months, then every year, as the calibration required so little adjustment it wasn't worth bothering with even for the 5 min it took to check. This was for 1080i content. The 1080P LCD based sets with their ghosting, banding, and blocking artifacts just didn't compare, and most comparative PQ plasmas (just Kuros really) cost a small fortune. Now, what isn't great with CRTs is that they weigh a ton (mine was over 300#) and use enough power to make even old plasmas look downright thrifty, and they were HUGE. My 55" was close to 5ft tall and over 2 feet deep. The replacement uses 5" of depth including wall mounting hardware.
You just had a crappy CRT TV. I had an HD CRT RPT. The picture was incredible. So good that when it went out after 10 years, I seriously had issues adapting to any of the TVs available. LCD was utter crap. LED (LCD) were a little better, but even at 240Hz still had seriously annoying glitches, which were only marginally removed with lots of calibration effort. Plasmas were great, provided you didn't miss the Kuro (I did, mine died about 2 months after the last of the Kuro clearances, and any Kuro still available was running original release prices) and the rest of the plasma field was, well, not so awesome. A couple of years later, when the ZT60 series of plasmas came out, it was finally back to watching a decent picture. It's taken another 4 years, and finally TV tech looks to be matching or possibly exceeding plasma's picture quality with OLED, and possibly QLED, although both are just crossing the top tier pricing.
FWIW, Sony CRTs always sucked badly. That trinitron mesh always looked wrong with those "rectangular" pixels, and the larger CRT sizes with their seams were absolutely distracting.
Actually I never found Linux to be behind as far as the basic desktop went. After all, the desktop, minus GUI tweaks, has been pretty standard for the past 20 years. What keeps changing is the locations and "wizards" for various settings, which is annoying as hell. Another thing is the ever changing MS Office file formats, which they appear to have been caught by themselves with the long term life span of Office 2010, which forced them to be backwards compatible.
Maybe you need to review some of these countries tax and income numbers. According to the numbers I just got from 2015, there's about 120K Danes earning above $92K a year. Seems like that would be a relatively small market for potential buyers of something like a Tesla. Maybe they really do all own Teslas already.
There's also the minor issue that cars, especially Teslas, are expensive, and more so in Denmark with that minor tax tacked on. So how many people can really afford a $200K car that didn't already buy one last year? I wonder, about 176?
it is illegal for going against the intent of the requirement of a 2/3rds vote for laws and frankly anyone trying to exploit such a loophole should be lynched for treason.
So you'll be first in line to indict most of the federally elected Republicans and quite a few Democrats?
This is actually one of the many flaws of NT. It's not truly pre-emptive, it's time-sliced with a scheduler. Even worse is that the "system clock" API calls per thread are fixed per timeslice, which unless you use the much newer "real time" APIs, will always show a constant 16ms segmentation in time. Under OS/2, the executing thread would be immediately kicked out (or seemingly) when a higher priority process came into the scheduler. This was back when I coded such low level things. Given the security framework's lack of progress, I doubt the scheduler has been much improved either. I could always be surprised.
NT 3.1 was the best as far as security went. NT3.5x while stuck with a sucky interface was technically far far better than NT4. NT4 took the monolithic single threaded GDI model from Win95 and totally screwed its stability and security forever. Remember clicking on an outlook attachment (when connected to an exchange server) and waiting and waiting and waiting while the client downloaded the file and opened it before the machine would react to any input? I certainly do, and hated every time it happened, which was often, at least a few times a week if not a few times a day. OS/2 was an awesome OS at that time as it truly was a multi-threaded pre-emptive system (NT, btw, is not pre-emptive, it still time slices, although those slices are small at 16 ms for everything up to 2012, I don't recall if later releases went to 8ms or not)
He's probably talking about NT4 SP5, I'll give him a break on something from 20 years ago. After all, I had to look it up to remember that there was a SP6a....
Couple of months? How about a couple of years before you have to tap into real savings? Looking for a job can take time.
You 1) have two years of salary saved up and 2) you don't consider it real savings?
Pretty much. Real savings is what you retire on. Granted, it's investments, etc, but that's the point. Real savings aren't highly liquid. The safety net savings are generally more liquid with a reasonable portion in cash. Given how long it takes people to get jobs, spending less and saving more seems like a good plan.
I came about this process as I grew up in a lower cost area and then got my first job in a relatively high cost area. A colleague who came from a high cost area showed me what was possible. We earned the same, but he had the 20% downpayment for a house saved up in 3 years, plus enough extra cash to qualify as savings. Me, not so much, just some savings. I took a good look at why, and changed my lifestyle and expectations accordingly. I've not regretted that move, although I did keep the shiny new car through 200K miles, not so shiny or new by the end, and replaced it with something I could pay cash for.
I'm guessing you didn't look at the article linked... Where it clearly says Millennials actually were more likely than others to be able to cover a $500 unexpected expense. We can speculate why, maybe lack of kids or something, but 47% of Millennials say they could cover it vs the 37% overall average.
I'd guess because they would skip the next couple of game releases and movie/date nights.
Also, as a Millennial, I prefer to have a couple months salary of savings, for obvious reasons. I have a budgeted amount that goes to savings every month, and I get quite agitated if for some reason I have to use it for something else. But that usually stops me from drawing it from savings, so it's a wash really.
Couple of months? How about a couple of years before you have to tap into real savings? Looking for a job can take time.
And what's that about parents? Oh yeah, I pay their cell phone bill and have paid for other things that come up because they blew every cent they had.
On you? Just wait until you have to start supporting family members that can no longer get a job or work. This is where a bunch of us employed and older than millennials are, because they either have really old parents that didn't have much or baby boomer parents that were irresponsible, or just plain bad luck.
They thought money just appears out of thin air, like... snowflakes. They drive brand new cars on leases, because they can't afford to buy them. They live in mom's basement, because they can't buy that $1M house they've been eyeing, but they do have both XBones and Ps4s and every game known to mankind.
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I recently watched a silver screen era movie. It was incredible, the intro/credits were: producing studio presents movie title, top 3 actors, and director. That's it, then the movie rolled. Kind of makes you realize how much those union demands to include the paper recycler in the credits detracts from the movie experience. After all, the general populace barely cares about the director or anyone beneath the first 5 actors in the cast.
July 11, 1999. Two months and two years before 9-11. Coincidence? I think not. It's obvious. Sloot's death was an inside job!
The slurpee did it.
It's not at all clear that RISC wins in the mobile space. Intel's offerings win in performance per Watt benchmarks by a factor of 2-5, they just haven't hit the minimum Watts that ARM processors have.
Until Intel can hit the min watts, RISC wins. Performance per watt in excess of min watt is irrelevant for mobile.
Intel could destroy ARM tomorrow by simply slashing the price of their processors to be roughly the same as ARM. But they would have to completely restructure the company and its finances in order to do it.
No. They would have to leverage their largely acknowledged monopoly position to destroy ARM, or acknowledge that they are making between 200 and 600% profit margins on CPUs. Guess which one would be the result of your proposed price cut.
This. If intel could get their NUC price under $100, raspberry pi wouldnt be so attractive.
Intel would need to drop their NUC prices down to $50. I am not holding my breath.
I'm curious. Which part of the GP's post do you consider to be FUD?
That entire line. There's a large number of us that have only logged into iCloud to test it out and found it wanting. Apple's data and privacy security is better than the competition, but it still falls far short of what it needs to be, IMHO. With the exception of Keychain, I don't believe any other data is encrypted by default, a major privacy and security failure. If you FileVault your local system, why would you then connect to a cloud based system for an unencrypted backup?
Not too bright, are ya? You can download the current macOS and iOS updates without having an AppleID account from https://support.apple.com/en_U....
How do you then install it? Genuinely curious.
Double-click?
I'm hazarding a guess here, but this experience is the "old TFA" which has been replaced, according to the TFA. At least I hope so, because the TFA available before iOS11 and High Sierra was, to be kind, an utter and complete pile of shit.
I think the verification of the documents is important, but what are you going to get other than "no comment" from the government? The verification is in what's contained in the documents, which is what real reporters do. If you could just call the government and ask "Hey, I heard that you're investigating 'x'. Tell me about it" and get full details, we wouldn't need investigative reporters.
The real questions are what followed regarding protecting the source.
Maybe we should also be protected from lightning strikes and slipping in the tub.
And papercuts! Don't forget the notorious papercuts!
TBH, I expect a movie soon, written and directed by Mel Brooks.
Then again, they also (reportedly) gave away her location (Augusta GA) to the government person they were trying to verify the documents with.
Wait, they have top secret government documents, and they're going to verify them with the government? And then give information of their source to the government? And then release the original photos of documents to the public? Did they also hand over the originals to the government so they could grab fingerprints and other forensic evidence off of them?
There is no excuse for how many failures the Intercept committed in protecting a formerly anonymous source. I'm going out on a limb here and say that this will be the last time they receive info from an actual anonymous source that isn't a complete idiot. Then again, as noted, Winner appears to qualify as a complete idiot, emailing them from work in the first place.
It's apparent you never owned a quality CRT of any type. Mine was easy enough to calibrate, took about 30 min the first time. After a few months, did it again, and it only took about 15 min, because minimum adjustments were necessary. After that, checked it initially every 6 months, then every year, as the calibration required so little adjustment it wasn't worth bothering with even for the 5 min it took to check. This was for 1080i content. The 1080P LCD based sets with their ghosting, banding, and blocking artifacts just didn't compare, and most comparative PQ plasmas (just Kuros really) cost a small fortune. Now, what isn't great with CRTs is that they weigh a ton (mine was over 300#) and use enough power to make even old plasmas look downright thrifty, and they were HUGE. My 55" was close to 5ft tall and over 2 feet deep. The replacement uses 5" of depth including wall mounting hardware.
You just had a crappy CRT TV. I had an HD CRT RPT. The picture was incredible. So good that when it went out after 10 years, I seriously had issues adapting to any of the TVs available. LCD was utter crap. LED (LCD) were a little better, but even at 240Hz still had seriously annoying glitches, which were only marginally removed with lots of calibration effort. Plasmas were great, provided you didn't miss the Kuro (I did, mine died about 2 months after the last of the Kuro clearances, and any Kuro still available was running original release prices) and the rest of the plasma field was, well, not so awesome. A couple of years later, when the ZT60 series of plasmas came out, it was finally back to watching a decent picture. It's taken another 4 years, and finally TV tech looks to be matching or possibly exceeding plasma's picture quality with OLED, and possibly QLED, although both are just crossing the top tier pricing.
FWIW, Sony CRTs always sucked badly. That trinitron mesh always looked wrong with those "rectangular" pixels, and the larger CRT sizes with their seams were absolutely distracting.
Actually I never found Linux to be behind as far as the basic desktop went. After all, the desktop, minus GUI tweaks, has been pretty standard for the past 20 years. What keeps changing is the locations and "wizards" for various settings, which is annoying as hell. Another thing is the ever changing MS Office file formats, which they appear to have been caught by themselves with the long term life span of Office 2010, which forced them to be backwards compatible.
MacOS is NOT an alternetive, period.
It's pretty mainstream.
And yet both coal and nuclear are cleaner sources of power for an EV than an ICE powered vehicle.
Maybe you need to review some of these countries tax and income numbers. According to the numbers I just got from 2015, there's about 120K Danes earning above $92K a year. Seems like that would be a relatively small market for potential buyers of something like a Tesla. Maybe they really do all own Teslas already.
There's also the minor issue that cars, especially Teslas, are expensive, and more so in Denmark with that minor tax tacked on. So how many people can really afford a $200K car that didn't already buy one last year? I wonder, about 176?
it is illegal for going against the intent of the requirement of a 2/3rds vote for laws and frankly anyone trying to exploit such a loophole should be lynched for treason.
So you'll be first in line to indict most of the federally elected Republicans and quite a few Democrats?
This is actually one of the many flaws of NT. It's not truly pre-emptive, it's time-sliced with a scheduler. Even worse is that the "system clock" API calls per thread are fixed per timeslice, which unless you use the much newer "real time" APIs, will always show a constant 16ms segmentation in time. Under OS/2, the executing thread would be immediately kicked out (or seemingly) when a higher priority process came into the scheduler. This was back when I coded such low level things. Given the security framework's lack of progress, I doubt the scheduler has been much improved either. I could always be surprised.
NT 3.1 was the best as far as security went. NT3.5x while stuck with a sucky interface was technically far far better than NT4. NT4 took the monolithic single threaded GDI model from Win95 and totally screwed its stability and security forever. Remember clicking on an outlook attachment (when connected to an exchange server) and waiting and waiting and waiting while the client downloaded the file and opened it before the machine would react to any input? I certainly do, and hated every time it happened, which was often, at least a few times a week if not a few times a day. OS/2 was an awesome OS at that time as it truly was a multi-threaded pre-emptive system (NT, btw, is not pre-emptive, it still time slices, although those slices are small at 16 ms for everything up to 2012, I don't recall if later releases went to 8ms or not)
He's probably talking about NT4 SP5, I'll give him a break on something from 20 years ago. After all, I had to look it up to remember that there was a SP6a....
Couple of months? How about a couple of years before you have to tap into real savings? Looking for a job can take time.
You 1) have two years of salary saved up and 2) you don't consider it real savings?
Pretty much. Real savings is what you retire on. Granted, it's investments, etc, but that's the point. Real savings aren't highly liquid. The safety net savings are generally more liquid with a reasonable portion in cash. Given how long it takes people to get jobs, spending less and saving more seems like a good plan.
I came about this process as I grew up in a lower cost area and then got my first job in a relatively high cost area. A colleague who came from a high cost area showed me what was possible. We earned the same, but he had the 20% downpayment for a house saved up in 3 years, plus enough extra cash to qualify as savings. Me, not so much, just some savings. I took a good look at why, and changed my lifestyle and expectations accordingly. I've not regretted that move, although I did keep the shiny new car through 200K miles, not so shiny or new by the end, and replaced it with something I could pay cash for.
I'm guessing you didn't look at the article linked... Where it clearly says Millennials actually were more likely than others to be able to cover a $500 unexpected expense. We can speculate why, maybe lack of kids or something, but 47% of Millennials say they could cover it vs the 37% overall average.
I'd guess because they would skip the next couple of game releases and movie/date nights.
Also, as a Millennial, I prefer to have a couple months salary of savings, for obvious reasons. I have a budgeted amount that goes to savings every month, and I get quite agitated if for some reason I have to use it for something else. But that usually stops me from drawing it from savings, so it's a wash really.
Couple of months? How about a couple of years before you have to tap into real savings? Looking for a job can take time.
And what's that about parents? Oh yeah, I pay their cell phone bill and have paid for other things that come up because they blew every cent they had.
On you? Just wait until you have to start supporting family members that can no longer get a job or work. This is where a bunch of us employed and older than millennials are, because they either have really old parents that didn't have much or baby boomer parents that were irresponsible, or just plain bad luck.
They thought money just appears out of thin air, like... snowflakes. They drive brand new cars on leases, because they can't afford to buy them. They live in mom's basement, because they can't buy that $1M house they've been eyeing, but they do have both XBones and Ps4s and every game known to mankind.