I find it weird that the slow-motion is only compared to iPhone 7 and Pixel at 120 fps, while Galaxy S7 has a double framerate of 240 compared to those. Of course this is still far from 960 fps, but the summary gives an impression that iPhone 7 and Pixel were the industry leaders in this regard, which they simply aren't.
Thanks to this research, we have better diamond anvils now and not after waiting for 5 years, so there's at least that.
Also, I bet that many people would have called playing with sand and fire pointless - what possibly could be the benefit of melting sand, there are more important things to do, like staring at the cosmos. And then some shiny things were created, perhaps the first reactions of some people was something like "Well great, we all like shiny things, but so what. We need food, why don't you focus on that?" Coincidentally, the result of this study was some shiny thing, which doesn't have practical uses at the moment.
A big part of the fundamental research is to look where other paths don't take and expect for the unexpected.
Yeah they do have a return policy, but since the store is in another country, I don't yet know how this will end. Actually, the EU consumer protection directives require a two-year warranty for everything within the EU, with a cost-free repair, replace or refund. But it does not say about the shipping (so the cost-free might simply mean that no specific charge is done for the service itself) or which of the three options must be followed.
So I did send them a query, but did not yet get a reply. If I had staid in the country for one day longer, or had noticed the defect one hour earlier, I would have returned the device. I still do have a chance of getting a refund and purchasing a new pair in my home country. I just don't want to end up paying too much for the shipping (the shipping within EU is generally more expensive than within the US).
At this time, my best option might be to return the equipment to the store for refund and just purchase a new headset in my home country. But if Sony had played this well, they would just have replaced the headset themselves within a reasonable time. The end result would be the same: Sony would be returned one faulty headset and I would get a functional one. But due to their internal policies, this is not going to happen in a reasonable time.
Yea I also just found this out. I bought a pair of their headphones (a very expensive model), and they were defective from the start. I bought them from another country within EU, but they were supposed to have an European-wide warranty. Technically that is true, but I have to pay for the shipping to the repair workshop in my home country, and the waiting times are just absurd (more than 2-4 months depending on whether I want to have a defective part replaced or the whole headphones replaced). The repair workshop says they are not getting the replacement parts from Sony and Sony says that they I should ask from the workshop why they cannot get the replacement parts from Sony any quicker!
The headphones as such are impressive, but the warranty struggle has just ruined the whole thing for me.
Yes, polls were the source. But the polls weren't completely off. The actual results were within the margin of error of at least most polls. Also, there were several polls that predicted Trump winning. The polls also did predict to a degree the regional difference, so in all likelihood, to a degree, they are right on the generation difference, and other ones as well, but of course, with some margin of error.
The exit polls are probably more accurate than the pre-election polls since they better take into account voter activity and last minute change of heart etc. However, they of course have their weaknesses as well (for example, some groups might be less likely to reveal their vote, and they don't take early voting into account). All this said, I think there's still pretty well reason to believe the generation difference really is greater than the regional difference.
Completely different thing is the voting activity. It could have shifted the results completely if the voting activity was similar in all of the groups. For example, the younger the people, the less likely they were to vote.
It makes no sense to define the seasons by the months globally. Think about the southern hemisphere for example - the seasons are timed exactly the opposite in there as in the northern hemisphere, so saying that "winter is the time from December to February" (or whatever like that) in a global context is simply nonsense. Also, there are even different seasons in different parts of the world (for example, wet season and dry season in the tropics). You can read about the seasons in Finland in the web pages of the Finnish Meteorological Institute at http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi... if you want to know more.
You can't really scale a step into many, you'll just multiply it instead. Also, you can take just one first step when you're walking. Whether or not this can cover all of the oil production is irrelevant - this would just be a first step. Then you do something else for the remainder. Add to this improvements in renewable energy and excess energy production development - these are all important steps, even though it is very unlikely a single one of them will solve all of the issues related to fossil fuel.
Well, SFTP and FTP can be run over a secure channel like a VPN or SSH tunnel -- in fact SFTP was designed to run that way as it provides no authentication capabilities of its own
Do you perhaps mean FTPS, not SFTP? FTPS is basically FTP over a secure channel (as HTTPS is to HTTP), while SFTP is a completely separate protocol (SSH File Transfer Protocol - an extension to the Secure Shell protocol). You can also tunnel FTP over SSH, but it is yet a different type of connection.
I hope you're just being sarcastic, but in case you're not,...
- This is a hardware issue, not a programming language problem
- Rust helps to prevent programming bugs with memory, like dangling/null pointers, buffer overflows etc. But it has control over the memory layout, which is a crucial requirement in implementing a row hammer attack, so a row hammer attack with Rust would likely be very suitable for implementing such an attack
- Even if there was a programming language that prevented this by doing some memory layout randomization or similar, it would also lose performance due to non-contiguous memory (prefetching will not work and there will be cache misses), and thus it also would kill the battery life
- Even if ignoring the points above, it would require a massive amount of work to move away from JavaScript on web pages
- We would also require the OS, including the kernel, written in such language (which probably would not be possible, since there would be an abstraction of memory, which doesn't play nice with many device drivers etc.)
ECC requires more power (more data to store + data integrity checks to be done), and might also have a bit bigger footprint. I don't know how much more exactly, nor how big portion of the power usage comes from RAM, but in any case, cost isn't the only drawback.
That is true. But at least the proper transliteration was used - I've seen names like Hämäläinen being transliterated as Haemaelaeinen, which is plain horrible (it's the German transliteration, and it just does not work with Finnish).
Related to comments below, "door" could be a less ambiguous example for how 'o' is pronounced in Finnish.
Yes, and yet: it still ranks higher than some of the countries who will now have more of a say in how things are handled. Insomuch as managing DNS is concerned, I don't believe there were wide disputes. This is a power grab by other countries, and I don't really see how it should be important to them unless they plan on making substantial changes. That should probably concern you, but since you seem to think the USA sucks, maybe you'll bake yourself a cake and celebrate or something.
Don't forget people: USA is pure evil, so anything that knocks them down a peg must be good for the good folks of the world. Or something, right?
You fail to see this from the eyes of residents of other countries. How about we would move the control to the country with highest Press Freedom Index, which would be Finland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index)? That would invalidate your argument, but I don't still think it would be a good situation (and I'm born and raised in Finland).
This is not about USA being evil or not, it is about a single country having so much control on osmething so fundamental. Think about a situation where for example one country would be in charge of the whole electricity grid operation (pun not intended) - it would be pretty scary, wouldn't it?
About the only thing worse than having the UN (the majority of members of which are not democracies and don't have much value on free speech) control it would be having GoogleAppleFacebookUmbrellaCorp controlling it.
Funny how you listed only companies based in the US
Thanks for the information, this was interesting. I'm an 80's kid so I don't remember these things well at all from the early 80's (and obviously can't remember anything from around WWII or the 60's that I haven't just learned from somewhere else).
Hmm. I have no memory of any Japanese manufactured stuff with low quality, not even mentioning a reputation of such for their products in general. I do, however, remember that in the 80's most things with "Made in Hong Kong" text had a similar reputation (when Hong Kong wasn't a part of China). Interestingly, Hong Kong is one of the more expensive places to live now, so I don't know if they even have cheap labour or cheap manufacture anymore.
To be honest, I am surprised it is actually lard. I always thought it was partially hydrogenated soy or cottonseed oil.
Partially hydrogenated oils, also known as trans fats, are probably the worst kind of fats you can have. While not optimal, lard is probably a much smaller health risk.
I purchased a small office grade Canon laser printer. It started complaining about low toner levels before half of the rated start pack page count was printed, and eventually it would refuse to print more than one job without switching power off/on due to "toner having ran out" even though the print quality was still fine, for the next ~500 pages. Then soon after replacing the toner, the printer started to misalign colors despite of recalibrating and then there started to be paper jams. The power on/off cycling had to continue, because now one of the color toners was "empty". The printer was priced at €300 on a discount, the regular price was about €500. Canon refused to do anything about the printer since the warranty had expired, instead they recommended a different model that actually looked almost identical but they said that it had much higher quality mechanics. You can probably guess that after this experience I wasn't going to invest on Canon lasers anymore.
Then I bought an HP officejet. It's pretty comparable in speed and the inks are cheaper - and it does no bullshit "empty" cartridge warning without the rated page count having been printed. Also, the printer itself cost only something like €150. Only weaker side so far is the scanner which doesn't feel as robust as the Canon one, but so far it seems to be okay. I would have been willing to pay a bit more for a more robust scanner, though. But anyways, since the brand cartridges are so cheap, I have no problem using the vendor's cartridges, though in general I think that this HW DRM vendor lock-in should be banned by law for other than safety critical equipment, and also any product doing this should have this kind of information labeled clearly on the box.
Maybe you don't realize how much people are indirectly dependent on the internet. If internet is taken down, a lot of other services will go down as well. For example, without internet banking, the banks will not be able to handle the inflow of customers anymore. I don't know how much grocery stores depend on the internet for things like ordering food etc., but I would assume they do that. Public transport may use the internet, and with hindered public transport, the streets will get more clogged. Lots of work gets almost impossible due to multi-site collaboration no longer working properly. The internet is also used more and more in health care.
All in all, the internet is so much more than just the web pages. I sure hope things like the power grid or the telephone network are still managed on a completely separate channel, but I don't really have facts on that.
Argh, Slashdot should really have better notifications, I always miss replies to my posts. But going to the point...
OK, you asked for some (manufactured) controversy, so here are some starters for a debate.
I actually didn't ask for controversy, I was just wondering if the controversy is the thing that often spurs conversations, or what was the reason for the lack of conversation, because I find these news very interesting and also very good. The AC's comment below (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9516543&cid=52691593) offers an interesting view on this, in my opinion.
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I find it weird that the slow-motion is only compared to iPhone 7 and Pixel at 120 fps, while Galaxy S7 has a double framerate of 240 compared to those. Of course this is still far from 960 fps, but the summary gives an impression that iPhone 7 and Pixel were the industry leaders in this regard, which they simply aren't.
Thanks to this research, we have better diamond anvils now and not after waiting for 5 years, so there's at least that.
Also, I bet that many people would have called playing with sand and fire pointless - what possibly could be the benefit of melting sand, there are more important things to do, like staring at the cosmos. And then some shiny things were created, perhaps the first reactions of some people was something like "Well great, we all like shiny things, but so what. We need food, why don't you focus on that?" Coincidentally, the result of this study was some shiny thing, which doesn't have practical uses at the moment.
A big part of the fundamental research is to look where other paths don't take and expect for the unexpected.
Yeah they do have a return policy, but since the store is in another country, I don't yet know how this will end. Actually, the EU consumer protection directives require a two-year warranty for everything within the EU, with a cost-free repair, replace or refund. But it does not say about the shipping (so the cost-free might simply mean that no specific charge is done for the service itself) or which of the three options must be followed.
So I did send them a query, but did not yet get a reply. If I had staid in the country for one day longer, or had noticed the defect one hour earlier, I would have returned the device. I still do have a chance of getting a refund and purchasing a new pair in my home country. I just don't want to end up paying too much for the shipping (the shipping within EU is generally more expensive than within the US).
At this time, my best option might be to return the equipment to the store for refund and just purchase a new headset in my home country. But if Sony had played this well, they would just have replaced the headset themselves within a reasonable time. The end result would be the same: Sony would be returned one faulty headset and I would get a functional one. But due to their internal policies, this is not going to happen in a reasonable time.
Yea I also just found this out. I bought a pair of their headphones (a very expensive model), and they were defective from the start. I bought them from another country within EU, but they were supposed to have an European-wide warranty. Technically that is true, but I have to pay for the shipping to the repair workshop in my home country, and the waiting times are just absurd (more than 2-4 months depending on whether I want to have a defective part replaced or the whole headphones replaced). The repair workshop says they are not getting the replacement parts from Sony and Sony says that they I should ask from the workshop why they cannot get the replacement parts from Sony any quicker!
The headphones as such are impressive, but the warranty struggle has just ruined the whole thing for me.
Yes, polls were the source. But the polls weren't completely off. The actual results were within the margin of error of at least most polls. Also, there were several polls that predicted Trump winning. The polls also did predict to a degree the regional difference, so in all likelihood, to a degree, they are right on the generation difference, and other ones as well, but of course, with some margin of error.
The exit polls are probably more accurate than the pre-election polls since they better take into account voter activity and last minute change of heart etc. However, they of course have their weaknesses as well (for example, some groups might be less likely to reveal their vote, and they don't take early voting into account). All this said, I think there's still pretty well reason to believe the generation difference really is greater than the regional difference.
Completely different thing is the voting activity. It could have shifted the results completely if the voting activity was similar in all of the groups. For example, the younger the people, the less likely they were to vote.
Have a look at this: http://coed.com/2016/11/09/how... The generation difference is much greater than the regional difference. There are also other interesting maps here: http://www.motherjones.com/pol....
It makes no sense to define the seasons by the months globally. Think about the southern hemisphere for example - the seasons are timed exactly the opposite in there as in the northern hemisphere, so saying that "winter is the time from December to February" (or whatever like that) in a global context is simply nonsense. Also, there are even different seasons in different parts of the world (for example, wet season and dry season in the tropics). You can read about the seasons in Finland in the web pages of the Finnish Meteorological Institute at http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi... if you want to know more.
You can't really scale a step into many, you'll just multiply it instead. Also, you can take just one first step when you're walking. Whether or not this can cover all of the oil production is irrelevant - this would just be a first step. Then you do something else for the remainder. Add to this improvements in renewable energy and excess energy production development - these are all important steps, even though it is very unlikely a single one of them will solve all of the issues related to fossil fuel.
Well, SFTP and FTP can be run over a secure channel like a VPN or SSH tunnel -- in fact SFTP was designed to run that way as it provides no authentication capabilities of its own
Do you perhaps mean FTPS, not SFTP? FTPS is basically FTP over a secure channel (as HTTPS is to HTTP), while SFTP is a completely separate protocol (SSH File Transfer Protocol - an extension to the Secure Shell protocol). You can also tunnel FTP over SSH, but it is yet a different type of connection.
"We're going to make IE6 great again"
And it will be using TRUMPet Winsock!
I hope you're just being sarcastic, but in case you're not, ...
- This is a hardware issue, not a programming language problem
- Rust helps to prevent programming bugs with memory, like dangling/null pointers, buffer overflows etc. But it has control over the memory layout, which is a crucial requirement in implementing a row hammer attack, so a row hammer attack with Rust would likely be very suitable for implementing such an attack
- Even if there was a programming language that prevented this by doing some memory layout randomization or similar, it would also lose performance due to non-contiguous memory (prefetching will not work and there will be cache misses), and thus it also would kill the battery life
- Even if ignoring the points above, it would require a massive amount of work to move away from JavaScript on web pages
- We would also require the OS, including the kernel, written in such language (which probably would not be possible, since there would be an abstraction of memory, which doesn't play nice with many device drivers etc.)
ECC requires more power (more data to store + data integrity checks to be done), and might also have a bit bigger footprint. I don't know how much more exactly, nor how big portion of the power usage comes from RAM, but in any case, cost isn't the only drawback.
Well how about MediaTek, Broadcom, Speadtrum, Samsung LSI, Marvell and Nvidia?
That is true. But at least the proper transliteration was used - I've seen names like Hämäläinen being transliterated as Haemaelaeinen, which is plain horrible (it's the German transliteration, and it just does not work with Finnish). Related to comments below, "door" could be a less ambiguous example for how 'o' is pronounced in Finnish.
Still not right. It implies 3x as much as needed, or in other words, 2x more than needed.
Yes, and yet: it still ranks higher than some of the countries who will now have more of a say in how things are handled. Insomuch as managing DNS is concerned, I don't believe there were wide disputes. This is a power grab by other countries, and I don't really see how it should be important to them unless they plan on making substantial changes. That should probably concern you, but since you seem to think the USA sucks, maybe you'll bake yourself a cake and celebrate or something.
Don't forget people: USA is pure evil, so anything that knocks them down a peg must be good for the good folks of the world. Or something, right?
You fail to see this from the eyes of residents of other countries. How about we would move the control to the country with highest Press Freedom Index, which would be Finland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index)? That would invalidate your argument, but I don't still think it would be a good situation (and I'm born and raised in Finland).
This is not about USA being evil or not, it is about a single country having so much control on osmething so fundamental. Think about a situation where for example one country would be in charge of the whole electricity grid operation (pun not intended) - it would be pretty scary, wouldn't it?
About the only thing worse than having the UN (the majority of members of which are not democracies and don't have much value on free speech) control it would be having GoogleAppleFacebookUmbrellaCorp controlling it.
Funny how you listed only companies based in the US
Thanks for the information, this was interesting. I'm an 80's kid so I don't remember these things well at all from the early 80's (and obviously can't remember anything from around WWII or the 60's that I haven't just learned from somewhere else).
Hmm. I have no memory of any Japanese manufactured stuff with low quality, not even mentioning a reputation of such for their products in general. I do, however, remember that in the 80's most things with "Made in Hong Kong" text had a similar reputation (when Hong Kong wasn't a part of China). Interestingly, Hong Kong is one of the more expensive places to live now, so I don't know if they even have cheap labour or cheap manufacture anymore.
To be honest, I am surprised it is actually lard. I always thought it was partially hydrogenated soy or cottonseed oil.
Partially hydrogenated oils, also known as trans fats, are probably the worst kind of fats you can have. While not optimal, lard is probably a much smaller health risk.
Okay, but how exactly are items manufactured in Japan and India related to stuff made in China?
I purchased a small office grade Canon laser printer. It started complaining about low toner levels before half of the rated start pack page count was printed, and eventually it would refuse to print more than one job without switching power off/on due to "toner having ran out" even though the print quality was still fine, for the next ~500 pages. Then soon after replacing the toner, the printer started to misalign colors despite of recalibrating and then there started to be paper jams. The power on/off cycling had to continue, because now one of the color toners was "empty". The printer was priced at €300 on a discount, the regular price was about €500. Canon refused to do anything about the printer since the warranty had expired, instead they recommended a different model that actually looked almost identical but they said that it had much higher quality mechanics. You can probably guess that after this experience I wasn't going to invest on Canon lasers anymore.
Then I bought an HP officejet. It's pretty comparable in speed and the inks are cheaper - and it does no bullshit "empty" cartridge warning without the rated page count having been printed. Also, the printer itself cost only something like €150. Only weaker side so far is the scanner which doesn't feel as robust as the Canon one, but so far it seems to be okay. I would have been willing to pay a bit more for a more robust scanner, though. But anyways, since the brand cartridges are so cheap, I have no problem using the vendor's cartridges, though in general I think that this HW DRM vendor lock-in should be banned by law for other than safety critical equipment, and also any product doing this should have this kind of information labeled clearly on the box.
Maybe you don't realize how much people are indirectly dependent on the internet. If internet is taken down, a lot of other services will go down as well. For example, without internet banking, the banks will not be able to handle the inflow of customers anymore. I don't know how much grocery stores depend on the internet for things like ordering food etc., but I would assume they do that. Public transport may use the internet, and with hindered public transport, the streets will get more clogged. Lots of work gets almost impossible due to multi-site collaboration no longer working properly. The internet is also used more and more in health care.
All in all, the internet is so much more than just the web pages. I sure hope things like the power grid or the telephone network are still managed on a completely separate channel, but I don't really have facts on that.
"Open button"? [--] I don't know what specific software or hardware it's from. [--]
It's the kind of button used for opening elevator doors. I don't understand why it should be used in the context of an internet company, though.
OK, you asked for some (manufactured) controversy, so here are some starters for a debate.
I actually didn't ask for controversy, I was just wondering if the controversy is the thing that often spurs conversations, or what was the reason for the lack of conversation, because I find these news very interesting and also very good. The AC's comment below (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9516543&cid=52691593) offers an interesting view on this, in my opinion.