That's easy, because before, China had a massively expanding manufacturing base, and they offered a premium for all of those materials, so that everyone from Huawei and Apple to Walmart would get their products made, as well as rapidly expanding cities, where construction companies were given incentives to use recycled materials in everything from window seals to door stops. This is no longer the case. China no longer has a rapidly expanding manufacturing base, in fact it has started to shrink as it has started to outsource domestic manufacturing to places like Vietnam.
Good idea, but in practice it doesn't work because these jackasses are spoofing numbers on top of their robocalling. I've had it happen more than once that they used a number that was in my contacts list. Ever since dumbass Facebook allowed people to be searched via their security number, this has been a major issue - they are simply scripting their searches to harvest numbers and forming a matching dataset with your friends/family, and then spoofing their numbers when they dial you.
They already curate to an astonishing degree, how they haven't lost their safe harbor provision under the DMCA is a bit puzzling. Then again, maybe it's because the big content companies have decided to give them a "pass" since so much of their promotional garbage is posted there prominently.
They can and they do, at least in any nation that has serial numbers attached to their paper currency. Those fancy machines don't just count the bills and denominations, but check serial numbers and anti-forgery markers. It's exactly how they are able to put their own "marked" currency into circulation, most often with a specific person or group of persons as the target to receive that currency (think: suspected drug dealers, fraudsters, etc).
That would involve the people who currently operate Slashdot to do something other than add more advertisements and annoying shit under the navigation menu.
And not just that, but the way the actual vaccine works is that it doesn't prevent you from contracting measles (or becoming a carrier, and contracting it after vaccination is more akin to getting a cold than something that can kill you outright), it stimulates your immune system in such a fashion that measles can't wreck havoc on you in the way it would if you were without the vaccine. It's one of those diseases everyone should be vaccinated for just for that reason alone, let alone the fact that it kills more people than polio ever did and is even more highly contagious (it's on a similar rating to smallpox in regard to contagion factor).
The fundamental mistake in the article is assuming reddit is a social network, it is not. It's a user-curated link aggregator with a comment section, more like Hacker News (and Slashdot) in that regard than Facebook, Instagram or the other plethora of sites out there catering to the pop culture addicts.
The owners and dev team of reddit are desperately trying to monetize it, as the redesign with spaces clearly meant for ads to fit (and attempt at adding profiles) shows. But of course they are, reddit fluctuates between the 5th and 3rd most visited site on the internet. The problem is you have a userbase that is rather hostile to being monetized in this fashion. The majority of users (even the teens and graybeards) use adblockers of some sort, and are very voiciferous about doing so, including heaping insults on site admins and the company president.
What is interesting is that enticing them with things like reddit platinum/gold/silver (that removes site ads and a few other perks) works to a point. People on mobile ignore the official app and mobile site entirely in favor of apps like Joey (made by a redditor and is free of charge/doesn't display ads, even reddit ones) and Reddit Is Fun.
This all being said, screw advertisers, and I hope we drive the valuation to 0 cents per user.
Plenty of Americans want to see good content made in Europe. Unfortunately, quite a bit of it is locked behind the stingy licensing terms of organizations like the BBC, GEMMA, and BREIN, with some popular movies, music, and shows having to be bootlegged even in this day and age because they refuse to license them outright. Oh, sure, BBC will license a few, such as Dr Who or Sherlock, but then bar things such as Cold Lazarus, Doomwatch, or Ultraviolet.
With the ongoing eruption of the volcano in Hawaii, and with recent signs of Mt St Helens possibly activating, along with the volcanoes in Japan and the Aleutians that have gone active, the CO2 reduction climate goals of the Paris Accord have already become a moot point. The volcano in Hawaii alone has already expelled enough CO2 that we'd need to increase reduction by a further 8x and extend that reduction time another 100 years.
There is one (and the only) good reason: You can attach/transfer your Windows software key to your Microsoft account and this enables you to install and activate Win10 on any newly built or upgraded system without having to deal with Microsoft's tech support line.
I've used it a few times now when replacing the internals on my wife's machine - if you replace the motherboard, cpu, etc you normally will have to get Windows reactivated manually by one of their tech support operators (not sure how many activations of this sort Home has, but retail Pro has over 1,000). By having the key associated with your Microsoft Account, when you start the machine up after replacing the hardware and logging in once via your Microsoft Account, it will automatically reactivate and be valid.
Probably the fact that in the other articles about this it specifically mentions that yes, this is what they are going to be doing, and the fact that it's the wife of the project founder spearheading the effort and made the announcement, then I would take a wild guess and say, "Oui!"
Yes, but in the case of places like California, Washington State, Alaska, etc. the entire state is riddled with fault lines (and in some cases semi-active volcanoes) to the point that geothermal tapping would be an iffy proposition as you can't actively avoid their effects even if your building is 50+ miles away from the fault.
Virginia found this out a few years back when they had an earthquake hit in an area with places that use geothermal - many of the heat pump wells were seriously damaged or outright destroyed even though they were over twenty-five miles or more from the actual fault.
I gave up on them after they never really played anything I liked, even in the genres I do like. My wife still listens to it when she's taking a shower or eating lunch at work. For my needs Spotify, Google Play Music, etc have all been a better option when on the go and at home I have a massive NAS-stored digital file (.FLAC of course) + cd + vinyl collection.
Speaking of genres, that is another thing they need to spend more time fixing the accuracy of. Every now and then even my wife comments about how poorly some songs are classified when they show up for play in the app.
Did you interact with any engineers on the Chrome team to find out if they know what is causing that behavior? I'd be interested to know. Makes me curious if it has to do with the DRM for audio and video in Chrome
One thing I've noticed in my experience - if a tab has active sounds and you haven't muted it, but you're playing a game, like say Doom, then it will 100% of the time seize control of the audio system from the game and only return control after a set period of time. If the tab is muted, this doesn't happen. If you have say, a video playing in Youtube on your second monitor, then the behavior gets even more wonky as it will overlay the audio streams from both the game and the video instead of the other mentioned behavior where it simply seizes control until it emitted the completed audio.
In this case I wish I knew a way to assign and send browser audio streams explicitly to one audio device output, say a set of headphones while keeping any other audio output attached to the primary playback device (speakers). Maybe there is, but I haven't really looked into it too closely, and the default control options in Win10 and Mint don't seem to allow for anything other than changing audio device output entirely for all audio and not individual input/output streams.
Nevermind that Maps has to make those requests because it needs to see if the browser actually has the functionality it's asking for but is already baked into Chrome.
Mexico should start buying more of South America's so that we stop trying to keep the desert in California wet where they currently grow most of the things that Mexico was buying. Making farms out of desert is one of the reasons California struggles to keep any water in their aquifers, let alone get water to places like SF or SD. Phoenix has a similar issue and it's already been warned that it might not even be inhabitable by 2050.
It could be true if you remove the percentage of those mobile chip sales that are 1:1 replacements for something now going to a landfill, which is a high number. One of the things the mobile industry has been worried about for some time now is their market saturation.They aren't gaining new customers at nearly the same rate they did a decade ago, they are mainly selling upgrades/replacements. Once India really comes into the picture this will change for sure since it has a very high growth potential, Africa is also showing promise in this sector.
It gets trickier when you try to analyze Intel's sales - some portion is replacement/upgrade, but a surprisingly high portion is new customer sales (new and expanding businesses, etc). People aren't upgrading nearly as often as they used to, because they frankly haven't needed to. For Intel to sell 400 million CPUs in a super matured and (over) saturated market like PC/Server, then they are doing pretty good. There are probably billions of Intel-based CPUs from the year 2006 onward still in operation (including how many Intel-based Macs that people don't replace constantly).
The largest overall CPU growth (as a total portion) has been seen from Samsung and their ARM-based CPUs. They appear in everything from appliances and automobiles to tvs and cell phones, and yes, even specially customized servers. They are the "other" Chipzilla at this point in time, and quite frankly one that has shown tendencies to act just as bad as Intel in some cases and will probably do something similar to the IME in the ARM-CPU market at some point.
And yes, most, but not all Android devices are running on ARM instead of Intel. Caveat: Many brands of Chromebooks, infotainment kiosks and some in-vehicle infotainment systems/center console controls. Docks are another example. The mobile device might be ARM-based, but the dock uses an Intel CPU.
It's two-fold: An ARM-based processor (it used to be another architecture) baked into the Northbridge, that processes all of the logic and commands for the ME, that works in conjunction with everything they moved from the Southbridge into the main CPU die.
Moving all of that on-die was actually rather clever of Intel, it means that the ME can't be hardware disabled by companies like Purism from here on out. They can only do it with the older models of ME implemented in earlier Core, Atom, and Xeon series CPUs.
They've found at least in the case of laptops that have cellular enabled wireless, disabling your network interface does nothing because the IME has direct access and control over the wireless radio. Neither does yanking the power cord or removing the battery, because the newer ones have started coming with their own power supplies, sort of like the old CMOS batteries, only you can't access or remove those, either.
Except the software is the smallest part of the ME.The ME comprises a series of CPUs (some ARM-based), low-level hardware access, and in some cases found so far, it's own power supplies and cellular data connection.
The software side of it is only a small start to things that need remedied in this situation, especially a situation in which we find a system-within-a-system such as this that can entirely override the command functions of the UEFI/BIOS firmware, the OS, and last but not least, the end-users/system admins themselves, remotely, even if you pull the plug.
Indeed it does, especially in manufacturing and medical devices. I imagine airplane avionics is another segment where that code needs to run as fast and reliably as possible even in test mode.
Some do. It depends on the manufacturer and if they hid those settings or not, especially once they set SELinux Strict. There are a few LG and Samsung models that I am well aware of that don't allow you to load any apps outside of either the official Play Store or in Samsung's case, their own market as well. Those particular models also have locked bootloaders and can't be rooted.
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Take that up with BREIN, as they insisted a long time ago that German citizens be subject to Geo-fencing for content.
That's easy, because before, China had a massively expanding manufacturing base, and they offered a premium for all of those materials, so that everyone from Huawei and Apple to Walmart would get their products made, as well as rapidly expanding cities, where construction companies were given incentives to use recycled materials in everything from window seals to door stops. This is no longer the case. China no longer has a rapidly expanding manufacturing base, in fact it has started to shrink as it has started to outsource domestic manufacturing to places like Vietnam.
Good idea, but in practice it doesn't work because these jackasses are spoofing numbers on top of their robocalling. I've had it happen more than once that they used a number that was in my contacts list. Ever since dumbass Facebook allowed people to be searched via their security number, this has been a major issue - they are simply scripting their searches to harvest numbers and forming a matching dataset with your friends/family, and then spoofing their numbers when they dial you.
They already curate to an astonishing degree, how they haven't lost their safe harbor provision under the DMCA is a bit puzzling. Then again, maybe it's because the big content companies have decided to give them a "pass" since so much of their promotional garbage is posted there prominently.
They can and they do, at least in any nation that has serial numbers attached to their paper currency. Those fancy machines don't just count the bills and denominations, but check serial numbers and anti-forgery markers. It's exactly how they are able to put their own "marked" currency into circulation, most often with a specific person or group of persons as the target to receive that currency (think: suspected drug dealers, fraudsters, etc).
That would involve the people who currently operate Slashdot to do something other than add more advertisements and annoying shit under the navigation menu.
So, a typical Matt Binder article then (no matter where he currently is, this has been his MO).
And not just that, but the way the actual vaccine works is that it doesn't prevent you from contracting measles (or becoming a carrier, and contracting it after vaccination is more akin to getting a cold than something that can kill you outright), it stimulates your immune system in such a fashion that measles can't wreck havoc on you in the way it would if you were without the vaccine. It's one of those diseases everyone should be vaccinated for just for that reason alone, let alone the fact that it kills more people than polio ever did and is even more highly contagious (it's on a similar rating to smallpox in regard to contagion factor).
With the small problem of US forces being within easy strike range of all completed gas and oil pipelines between Syria, Iran, and Russia.
The fundamental mistake in the article is assuming reddit is a social network, it is not. It's a user-curated link aggregator with a comment section, more like Hacker News (and Slashdot) in that regard than Facebook, Instagram or the other plethora of sites out there catering to the pop culture addicts.
The owners and dev team of reddit are desperately trying to monetize it, as the redesign with spaces clearly meant for ads to fit (and attempt at adding profiles) shows. But of course they are, reddit fluctuates between the 5th and 3rd most visited site on the internet. The problem is you have a userbase that is rather hostile to being monetized in this fashion. The majority of users (even the teens and graybeards) use adblockers of some sort, and are very voiciferous about doing so, including heaping insults on site admins and the company president.
What is interesting is that enticing them with things like reddit platinum/gold/silver (that removes site ads and a few other perks) works to a point. People on mobile ignore the official app and mobile site entirely in favor of apps like Joey (made by a redditor and is free of charge/doesn't display ads, even reddit ones) and Reddit Is Fun.
This all being said, screw advertisers, and I hope we drive the valuation to 0 cents per user.
Plenty of Americans want to see good content made in Europe. Unfortunately, quite a bit of it is locked behind the stingy licensing terms of organizations like the BBC, GEMMA, and BREIN, with some popular movies, music, and shows having to be bootlegged even in this day and age because they refuse to license them outright. Oh, sure, BBC will license a few, such as Dr Who or Sherlock, but then bar things such as Cold Lazarus, Doomwatch, or Ultraviolet.
With the ongoing eruption of the volcano in Hawaii, and with recent signs of Mt St Helens possibly activating, along with the volcanoes in Japan and the Aleutians that have gone active, the CO2 reduction climate goals of the Paris Accord have already become a moot point. The volcano in Hawaii alone has already expelled enough CO2 that we'd need to increase reduction by a further 8x and extend that reduction time another 100 years.
There is one (and the only) good reason: You can attach/transfer your Windows software key to your Microsoft account and this enables you to install and activate Win10 on any newly built or upgraded system without having to deal with Microsoft's tech support line.
I've used it a few times now when replacing the internals on my wife's machine - if you replace the motherboard, cpu, etc you normally will have to get Windows reactivated manually by one of their tech support operators (not sure how many activations of this sort Home has, but retail Pro has over 1,000). By having the key associated with your Microsoft Account, when you start the machine up after replacing the hardware and logging in once via your Microsoft Account, it will automatically reactivate and be valid.
Probably the fact that in the other articles about this it specifically mentions that yes, this is what they are going to be doing, and the fact that it's the wife of the project founder spearheading the effort and made the announcement, then I would take a wild guess and say, "Oui!"
Yes, but in the case of places like California, Washington State, Alaska, etc. the entire state is riddled with fault lines (and in some cases semi-active volcanoes) to the point that geothermal tapping would be an iffy proposition as you can't actively avoid their effects even if your building is 50+ miles away from the fault.
Virginia found this out a few years back when they had an earthquake hit in an area with places that use geothermal - many of the heat pump wells were seriously damaged or outright destroyed even though they were over twenty-five miles or more from the actual fault.
I gave up on them after they never really played anything I liked, even in the genres I do like. My wife still listens to it when she's taking a shower or eating lunch at work. For my needs Spotify, Google Play Music, etc have all been a better option when on the go and at home I have a massive NAS-stored digital file (.FLAC of course) + cd + vinyl collection.
Speaking of genres, that is another thing they need to spend more time fixing the accuracy of. Every now and then even my wife comments about how poorly some songs are classified when they show up for play in the app.
Did you interact with any engineers on the Chrome team to find out if they know what is causing that behavior? I'd be interested to know. Makes me curious if it has to do with the DRM for audio and video in Chrome
One thing I've noticed in my experience - if a tab has active sounds and you haven't muted it, but you're playing a game, like say Doom, then it will 100% of the time seize control of the audio system from the game and only return control after a set period of time. If the tab is muted, this doesn't happen. If you have say, a video playing in Youtube on your second monitor, then the behavior gets even more wonky as it will overlay the audio streams from both the game and the video instead of the other mentioned behavior where it simply seizes control until it emitted the completed audio.
In this case I wish I knew a way to assign and send browser audio streams explicitly to one audio device output, say a set of headphones while keeping any other audio output attached to the primary playback device (speakers). Maybe there is, but I haven't really looked into it too closely, and the default control options in Win10 and Mint don't seem to allow for anything other than changing audio device output entirely for all audio and not individual input/output streams.
Nevermind that Maps has to make those requests because it needs to see if the browser actually has the functionality it's asking for but is already baked into Chrome.
Mexico should start buying more of South America's so that we stop trying to keep the desert in California wet where they currently grow most of the things that Mexico was buying. Making farms out of desert is one of the reasons California struggles to keep any water in their aquifers, let alone get water to places like SF or SD. Phoenix has a similar issue and it's already been warned that it might not even be inhabitable by 2050.
It could be true if you remove the percentage of those mobile chip sales that are 1:1 replacements for something now going to a landfill, which is a high number. One of the things the mobile industry has been worried about for some time now is their market saturation.They aren't gaining new customers at nearly the same rate they did a decade ago, they are mainly selling upgrades/replacements. Once India really comes into the picture this will change for sure since it has a very high growth potential, Africa is also showing promise in this sector.
It gets trickier when you try to analyze Intel's sales - some portion is replacement/upgrade, but a surprisingly high portion is new customer sales (new and expanding businesses, etc). People aren't upgrading nearly as often as they used to, because they frankly haven't needed to. For Intel to sell 400 million CPUs in a super matured and (over) saturated market like PC/Server, then they are doing pretty good. There are probably billions of Intel-based CPUs from the year 2006 onward still in operation (including how many Intel-based Macs that people don't replace constantly).
The largest overall CPU growth (as a total portion) has been seen from Samsung and their ARM-based CPUs. They appear in everything from appliances and automobiles to tvs and cell phones, and yes, even specially customized servers. They are the "other" Chipzilla at this point in time, and quite frankly one that has shown tendencies to act just as bad as Intel in some cases and will probably do something similar to the IME in the ARM-CPU market at some point.
And yes, most, but not all Android devices are running on ARM instead of Intel. Caveat: Many brands of Chromebooks, infotainment kiosks and some in-vehicle infotainment systems/center console controls. Docks are another example. The mobile device might be ARM-based, but the dock uses an Intel CPU.
It's two-fold: An ARM-based processor (it used to be another architecture) baked into the Northbridge, that processes all of the logic and commands for the ME, that works in conjunction with everything they moved from the Southbridge into the main CPU die.
Moving all of that on-die was actually rather clever of Intel, it means that the ME can't be hardware disabled by companies like Purism from here on out. They can only do it with the older models of ME implemented in earlier Core, Atom, and Xeon series CPUs.
They've found at least in the case of laptops that have cellular enabled wireless, disabling your network interface does nothing because the IME has direct access and control over the wireless radio. Neither does yanking the power cord or removing the battery, because the newer ones have started coming with their own power supplies, sort of like the old CMOS batteries, only you can't access or remove those, either.
Except the software is the smallest part of the ME.The ME comprises a series of CPUs (some ARM-based), low-level hardware access, and in some cases found so far, it's own power supplies and cellular data connection.
The software side of it is only a small start to things that need remedied in this situation, especially a situation in which we find a system-within-a-system such as this that can entirely override the command functions of the UEFI/BIOS firmware, the OS, and last but not least, the end-users/system admins themselves, remotely, even if you pull the plug.
Indeed it does, especially in manufacturing and medical devices. I imagine airplane avionics is another segment where that code needs to run as fast and reliably as possible even in test mode.
Some do. It depends on the manufacturer and if they hid those settings or not, especially once they set SELinux Strict. There are a few LG and Samsung models that I am well aware of that don't allow you to load any apps outside of either the official Play Store or in Samsung's case, their own market as well. Those particular models also have locked bootloaders and can't be rooted.