My first four letters are "pass"... And I bet you already guessed wrong what my 8-character password is! Its really "passmark", because I love benchmarking so much.
The problem with this argument is if you take the entirety of Facebook as a whole as a single entity, and not broken down into their different divisions. Remember that Facebook also operates as a Tor hidden service. Their engineering units are all for using the latest and greatest of technologies, it is simply the business figureheads that put limitations on things.
Their locations are powered by a mix of energy sources, not all clean. They are purchasing power in other markets that is then used my others. It is essentially a trade of energy.
They do improper tax collection, too. They list X% tax = $Y value, however absolutely no line item or combination of line items with X% would equal $Y value. Even worse, is that they list multiple percentages for various taxes, and each would have a completely different and arbitrary base value if you calculated it out, none of which actually exist on the bill. I have countless other billing issues with them too. They wouldn't do shit over the phone, even after several months. I even went directly into one of their retail outlets, and what did the guy do? Jack shit. He just picked up his phone, dialed their normal 800 number, and handed the phone to me... He didn't even try to talk to his own people first.
There are several domain names that FB messenger flat out blocks. Some of them are safe sites, but competitors to Facebook. It has been a few months since I've used it though, so I don't remember the example off the top of my head.
For those that want a more detailed answer. Literally type in any CPU/GPU model name/number into Google followed by the word "Passmark" - the top result will almost certainly be the product page on the Passmark web site. Each product has a simplistic single numerical overall score. Just compare those. Passmark isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to count as a general overview for basic purchasing requirements.
Much like the Linux world which is almost entirely based on two derivatives (Debian and Redhat), the BSD world is mostly the same, the two primary derivatives are FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD has by far and away the largest user base of the two, and the most commercial support backing it as well.
You've got the 1st (Apple), 2nd (Alphabet/Google), 3rd (Microsoft), 4th (Amazon), and 6th (Facebook) most valuable company in the world on the list, plus countless others in the top-50 list. Their lawyers are plentiful to support AV1. (note this list was quickly pulled from a source that is about a year old, I know their rankings have slightly shifted since then, but the main fact still remains that they're the powerhouses of the entire world now)
nVidia is one of the top companies in the world doing artificial intelligence research and development. GPUs are no longer GPUs. They're now GPGPUs, allowing for massive parallel processing of data on their hardware. nVidia has been at the forefront of non-graphics usage of GPUs for quite some time. Obviously here on Slashdot, we're all aware of GPUs being used for crypto mining, but they're also used for a wide array of other technologies.
Or, if you want a TLDR: who better to do image processing from cameras on a car, than a company that their entire core business is based around image processing?
"you shouldn't expect to game with this thing" - Well of course not, it is running a flavor of Linux. I have honestly tried doing Linux based gaming once a year or so just to see where it is at. Currently, Steam for Linux is amazing, but the content after the storefront itself just isn't. I basically had the option of a handful of indy games and Rocket League. Not much else was available, sadly. And then, the Linux gaming box was once again shelved for the next several months while I continue to play games developed for DirectX instead of OpenGL.
Service Channels are just the difference between current main line branches vs LTS branches. Thats it. If you want an LTS release, you use that "channel"/"branch", if you want the most latest and greatest, you pick that "channel"/"branch" instead.
unique users of what? crytocurrencies in general? Because not all are bitcoin with this blockchain. bitcoin users? you can use it without having a local copy of the blockchain itself. So, now, how many actual users currently have a local copy of the blockchain itself?
You do realize that 1) Microsoft listened to consumers and made the telemetry data very easy to disable in Windows 10, and 2) that very same telemetry data collection and reporting was already back-ported and pushed as an "update" to Windows 7? Also 3) it is similar telemetry data that is collected by other OSes like Android and iOS, plus applications like Firefox and Chrome (where do you think they get the stats for X% of users do Y with our product in their reports?)
I mean, both games are about as equally violent. Have you ever played The Sims and turned the fridge backwards? Or let your Sims go swimming, then remove the ladder so they cannot escape? Or when the house catches fire, simply remove the front door? That game is violent as fuck y0!
It is an odd day on Slashdot when the most minor of UI bugs, so insignificant that if you didnt already know about it that you wouldnt even see it, makes the front page. I'm all for taking on companies that refuse to fix really annoying shit. But the slide of the bubble around the text slightly animating differently than the text itself for a fraction of a second only upon loading!? That's it..? REALLY?
The difference this time is that it was published by a company that was only founded a couple months ago, only allowed for ~24 hours for "reasonable disclosure" (not even enough time to verify the claims, let alone issue patches), and openly admits they most likely have a financial stake in the AMD stock values. This all points directly to stock manipulation, not an actual major exploit (minor at best)
iHeartRadio purchased all of the local independent radio stations in the Seattle area. Each of these stations at one point had their own unique niche. Now they're just generic top-10 playlist genre stations. There is no longer diversity within the market.
Also, iHeartRadio and Clear Channel are that closely related? I didn't even realize. Clear Channel is one of the most hated companies locally. There was a 20-year dispute between the city of Tacoma and Clear Channel over their lack of maintenance of their billboards around the city, which the city listed as a blight. http://billboardinsider.com/8-...
Both of these companies have been terrible to the Pacific Northwest and need removed.
They're all sharks, but Bezos at least is a multi-disciplinary trained shark. This is where Amazon is succeeding where others are faltering. For instance, Bezos and other managers at Amazon take a 2-day call center training class annually. This puts the CEO and management much closer to the customers than pretty much any other major company in America. And this really does show. Sometimes things go wrong. How long does it take to fix them? If a Prime shipment is late, contact Amazon, no questions asked, and you'll get a free month of Prime. Due to a bug in Google's Profile Fi web site, my name was showing up wrong and was not editable. Contacting customer service, it took SIX WEEKS to get this resolved. There was a bug in geolocating about 6 miles of road in my city, this issue took over a year to resolve. And these are just some quick example, the list however really is endless. Other companies make it impossible to resolve disputes, whereas Amazon tries to resolve things as effortlessly as possible. This makes a world of difference.
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My first four letters are "pass"... And I bet you already guessed wrong what my 8-character password is! Its really "passmark", because I love benchmarking so much.
The problem with this argument is if you take the entirety of Facebook as a whole as a single entity, and not broken down into their different divisions. Remember that Facebook also operates as a Tor hidden service. Their engineering units are all for using the latest and greatest of technologies, it is simply the business figureheads that put limitations on things.
Their locations are powered by a mix of energy sources, not all clean. They are purchasing power in other markets that is then used my others. It is essentially a trade of energy.
I have a simple answer for ya. CenturyLink runs Washington State's 911 service. Fuck with CL, you're literally fucking with people's lives.
They do improper tax collection, too. They list X% tax = $Y value, however absolutely no line item or combination of line items with X% would equal $Y value. Even worse, is that they list multiple percentages for various taxes, and each would have a completely different and arbitrary base value if you calculated it out, none of which actually exist on the bill. I have countless other billing issues with them too. They wouldn't do shit over the phone, even after several months. I even went directly into one of their retail outlets, and what did the guy do? Jack shit. He just picked up his phone, dialed their normal 800 number, and handed the phone to me... He didn't even try to talk to his own people first.
There are several domain names that FB messenger flat out blocks. Some of them are safe sites, but competitors to Facebook. It has been a few months since I've used it though, so I don't remember the example off the top of my head.
For those that want a more detailed answer. Literally type in any CPU/GPU model name/number into Google followed by the word "Passmark" - the top result will almost certainly be the product page on the Passmark web site. Each product has a simplistic single numerical overall score. Just compare those. Passmark isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to count as a general overview for basic purchasing requirements.
Passmark. You're welcome. https://www.passmark.com/
According to their info Manjaro is based on Arch Linux, which is probably the 3rd most popular branch of Linux right now.
Well, first, the transition to ray tracing started in March already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, GPGPU stands for "General-purpose computing on graphics processing units": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Much like the Linux world which is almost entirely based on two derivatives (Debian and Redhat), the BSD world is mostly the same, the two primary derivatives are FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD has by far and away the largest user base of the two, and the most commercial support backing it as well.
The appropriate term now is GPGPU.
You've got the 1st (Apple), 2nd (Alphabet/Google), 3rd (Microsoft), 4th (Amazon), and 6th (Facebook) most valuable company in the world on the list, plus countless others in the top-50 list. Their lawyers are plentiful to support AV1. (note this list was quickly pulled from a source that is about a year old, I know their rankings have slightly shifted since then, but the main fact still remains that they're the powerhouses of the entire world now)
nVidia is one of the top companies in the world doing artificial intelligence research and development. GPUs are no longer GPUs. They're now GPGPUs, allowing for massive parallel processing of data on their hardware. nVidia has been at the forefront of non-graphics usage of GPUs for quite some time. Obviously here on Slashdot, we're all aware of GPUs being used for crypto mining, but they're also used for a wide array of other technologies.
Or, if you want a TLDR: who better to do image processing from cameras on a car, than a company that their entire core business is based around image processing?
"you shouldn't expect to game with this thing" - Well of course not, it is running a flavor of Linux. I have honestly tried doing Linux based gaming once a year or so just to see where it is at. Currently, Steam for Linux is amazing, but the content after the storefront itself just isn't. I basically had the option of a handful of indy games and Rocket League. Not much else was available, sadly. And then, the Linux gaming box was once again shelved for the next several months while I continue to play games developed for DirectX instead of OpenGL.
Service Channels are just the difference between current main line branches vs LTS branches. Thats it. If you want an LTS release, you use that "channel"/"branch", if you want the most latest and greatest, you pick that "channel"/"branch" instead.
Vaporware Machine?
unique users of what? crytocurrencies in general? Because not all are bitcoin with this blockchain. bitcoin users? you can use it without having a local copy of the blockchain itself. So, now, how many actual users currently have a local copy of the blockchain itself?
You do realize that 1) Microsoft listened to consumers and made the telemetry data very easy to disable in Windows 10, and 2) that very same telemetry data collection and reporting was already back-ported and pushed as an "update" to Windows 7? Also 3) it is similar telemetry data that is collected by other OSes like Android and iOS, plus applications like Firefox and Chrome (where do you think they get the stats for X% of users do Y with our product in their reports?)
I mean, both games are about as equally violent. Have you ever played The Sims and turned the fridge backwards? Or let your Sims go swimming, then remove the ladder so they cannot escape? Or when the house catches fire, simply remove the front door? That game is violent as fuck y0!
It is an odd day on Slashdot when the most minor of UI bugs, so insignificant that if you didnt already know about it that you wouldnt even see it, makes the front page. I'm all for taking on companies that refuse to fix really annoying shit. But the slide of the bubble around the text slightly animating differently than the text itself for a fraction of a second only upon loading!? That's it..? REALLY?
The difference this time is that it was published by a company that was only founded a couple months ago, only allowed for ~24 hours for "reasonable disclosure" (not even enough time to verify the claims, let alone issue patches), and openly admits they most likely have a financial stake in the AMD stock values. This all points directly to stock manipulation, not an actual major exploit (minor at best)
iHeartRadio purchased all of the local independent radio stations in the Seattle area. Each of these stations at one point had their own unique niche. Now they're just generic top-10 playlist genre stations. There is no longer diversity within the market.
Also, iHeartRadio and Clear Channel are that closely related? I didn't even realize. Clear Channel is one of the most hated companies locally. There was a 20-year dispute between the city of Tacoma and Clear Channel over their lack of maintenance of their billboards around the city, which the city listed as a blight. http://billboardinsider.com/8-...
Both of these companies have been terrible to the Pacific Northwest and need removed.
They're all sharks, but Bezos at least is a multi-disciplinary trained shark. This is where Amazon is succeeding where others are faltering. For instance, Bezos and other managers at Amazon take a 2-day call center training class annually. This puts the CEO and management much closer to the customers than pretty much any other major company in America. And this really does show. Sometimes things go wrong. How long does it take to fix them? If a Prime shipment is late, contact Amazon, no questions asked, and you'll get a free month of Prime. Due to a bug in Google's Profile Fi web site, my name was showing up wrong and was not editable. Contacting customer service, it took SIX WEEKS to get this resolved. There was a bug in geolocating about 6 miles of road in my city, this issue took over a year to resolve. And these are just some quick example, the list however really is endless. Other companies make it impossible to resolve disputes, whereas Amazon tries to resolve things as effortlessly as possible. This makes a world of difference.
So, this "chat bot" just searches Kayak for you? Does it do anything else at all?