Likewise, if you're an expert programmer, you should be able to write bubble sort on the whiteboard without a web search.
I would expect an expert programmer to be able to write a linear insertion sort. I would expect them to be able to explain a quicksort or a mergesort or some algorithm with real-world practical value and discuss why any particular one would or would not be used.
I would expect that an expert programmer will have last written a working bubble sort in an undergrad algorithms course and then promptly forgotten the details.
Soon you'll have dozens of posts in your news feed "My car broke down and it'll cost $2000 to fix it! [Send Money]" and other woe-is-me stories...
There's already a common scam where someone scrapes a Facebook profile, sets up an apparent duplicate, and starts adding all their friends. Inevitably people respond to the friend requests (they forget that they're friends, or assume that the person had to create a new account for some reason, or whatever), and then the scammer starts up with the money requests.
This might make it simpler, but it's already not that hard to set up these kinds of scams.
To be honest, I'm at the point where I find it hard to believe that there's anyone left on the Internet who is (a) gullible enough to fall for these scams and (b) still has enough money to be able to fall for these scams.
That's a legit option if you don't mind dragging things out. On the other hand, the sooner the lawsuit is dropped the more money they save and the sooner they can start writing about "the coward who didn't invent e-mail".
I'm sure others here can come up with other examples?
Probably, but it doesn't matter... there's already enough well-known prior art out there that this guy is well into "kook" territory. More evidence that he's a kook isn't going to change his opinion. A court slapdown might, although I suspect they'll drop the case before it gets to that point.
Exactly. People think a lot of people will suddenly become lazy. In fact, they won't - a lot of people LIKE their current lifestyle.
The problem for unions is that if people become indifferent to "regular" jobs and start to prefer more flexible, casual arrangements that are based as much around convenience as pay or work environment then the power of unions will wane quickly. The power of modern unions is heavily rooted in fear, and when that sense of "without this job I can't feed my family" is gone then so is the core incentive for members to fight hard for whatever agenda the union is pushing.
Now, that's not a bad thing... unions were formed to fight employers who exploited that fear and while better than that alternative, they're just the lesser evil; they use that same fear to manipulate and ultimately exploit workers.
In other words, taking away the need for unions entirely means that the balance has tipped firmly towards workers rights. That's not a bad thing, unless you're a union or a corporation.
I'm struggling a bit with the comment that "1GB is in fact completely unacceptable."
The assumption I'd make is that the reviewer is buying a small modular laptop to run what he considers lightweight laptop-style tasks... specifically, a modern (because nobody sane runs an out-of-date one) graphical web browser.
Having actually tried it, I'll agree that running a modern graphical web browser on a systems with 1GB of memory *is* painful.
I'll grant that this raises more questions than answers. Is it reasonable to need 2+GB of memory to run a silly browser? Is running a web browser the only sane workload for a small laptop? I'm comfortable saying "no" to both of those, but I guess that's why I'm just a lowly code grunt instead of a Verge reviewer...
At this point, it sounds like it's not longer an FDA problem... call it what it is, which is "conspiracy to commit murder" and kick it over to the FBI.
Really, really, really expensive though. You wouldn't want to use one of these for anything normal.
Environment Canada used to run a similar architecture from Tandem for processing weather data. They wanted the "real timey" aspects of how it dealt with data, but the extreme data processing redundancy was a bit of a problem ("don't lose my money" is massive overkill for a temperature value that's updated at least hourly) and they ended up doing some deep O/S development to cut 150 disk writes per data element down to something sane.
They were solid, though; only time I ever saw one go completely dark was when someone did a generator test and a UPS battery bank exploded.
If they're trusting Tidal's subscriber numbers without even looking at their own traffic patterns to get a picture how much Tidal data (and that other streaming services) is moving across their networks, then I wouldn't put any amount of stupidity beyond them.
Two of my three Android devices have custom ROM's, and the third probably will once the LineageOS folks start pushing out reasonably stable builds.
The only reason the third doesn't currently have a custom ROM is that Motorola didn't go batshit with the bloatware, so waiting for the warranty period to up wasn't a pain.
But back to MS: they absolutely are critical and relevant, because everyone's PC runs on their software.
Their problem, though, is that everyone's PC runs on their old software just as well (if not better) than their new software.
What the Windows 10 debacle has shown is that the old stuff is good enough that the only way they can push the new stuff to a reasonable fraction of their users is to essentially force it on them, for free.
At the same time, efforts to diversify into other areas have not been, to put it charitably, as successful as they would have liked.
I'll agree that they're still critical and relevant, but at the same time, they're the least critical and most irrelevant than any other time in the history of the PC.
If you keep making a story for every "A company lied" instance, the front page will be non-stop company lying spam and there will be no news for nerds. Or things that matter.
Yeah, but this is really more of one of those extremely rare "music company screws someone over" stories, which...
In their defence, I suspect they had to test the hell out of it to make sure a wide variety of applications, browsers, message clients, wikis, etc wouldn't shit the bed when they tried to parse a URI like moz://a in a chunk of text.
If Russia has any clue, the LinkedIn domains are already blacklisted. Removing the apps shouldn't be much more than adding insult to injury.
And since Android users could sideload it, it's practically ineffective unless Apple owns a much larger chunk of the Russian market than they did last time I looked.
You've got a microcontroller that is ostensibly open-source hardware, but it's using a component from a company that most definitely swings hard in the other direction.
Microcontroller != development board.
The chip itself is (I assume) open source. The implementation of this specific development board was created using proprietary software and includes a proprietary component, but that's about it.
If the MCU is of any interest to people, there will be other more or less open dev boards created. Most obviously would be things like the STM32 ARM boards that are all over the place now having just the minimum voltage regulation, resistors, capacitors, pin headers, crystals and jumpers to be usable with an external USB-to-TTL conversion module.
It's too bad, really, because the FTDI chip is just a dev board peripheral and has nothing to do with the open source microcontroller itself, but it's going to be the source of a lot of controversy and noise.
Plus it's not like there aren't viable alternatives to the FTDI...
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It's a heck of a lot better than previous plans for the mine, such as filling it with Toronto's garbage...
Are your conversations on the Internet? Then no, they aren't private or secure.
I could be wrong, but I doubt many smart people would bet on it.
I'm sorta expecting New China, New Russia, New India, New Brazil, New France, New Australia, and Trumpworld.
I'm just waiting for them to release the libsodium bindings for C...
There's already a common scam where someone scrapes a Facebook profile, sets up an apparent duplicate, and starts adding all their friends. Inevitably people respond to the friend requests (they forget that they're friends, or assume that the person had to create a new account for some reason, or whatever), and then the scammer starts up with the money requests.
This might make it simpler, but it's already not that hard to set up these kinds of scams.
To be honest, I'm at the point where I find it hard to believe that there's anyone left on the Internet who is (a) gullible enough to fall for these scams and (b) still has enough money to be able to fall for these scams.
That's a legit option if you don't mind dragging things out. On the other hand, the sooner the lawsuit is dropped the more money they save and the sooner they can start writing about "the coward who didn't invent e-mail".
Probably, but it doesn't matter... there's already enough well-known prior art out there that this guy is well into "kook" territory. More evidence that he's a kook isn't going to change his opinion. A court slapdown might, although I suspect they'll drop the case before it gets to that point.
Why in the heck is a supposed billionaire still using a Galaxy S3? At least tell us that it's been unlocked and it running Cyanogenmod or something...
The problem for unions is that if people become indifferent to "regular" jobs and start to prefer more flexible, casual arrangements that are based as much around convenience as pay or work environment then the power of unions will wane quickly. The power of modern unions is heavily rooted in fear, and when that sense of "without this job I can't feed my family" is gone then so is the core incentive for members to fight hard for whatever agenda the union is pushing.
Now, that's not a bad thing... unions were formed to fight employers who exploited that fear and while better than that alternative, they're just the lesser evil; they use that same fear to manipulate and ultimately exploit workers.
In other words, taking away the need for unions entirely means that the balance has tipped firmly towards workers rights. That's not a bad thing, unless you're a union or a corporation.
The assumption I'd make is that the reviewer is buying a small modular laptop to run what he considers lightweight laptop-style tasks... specifically, a modern (because nobody sane runs an out-of-date one) graphical web browser.
Having actually tried it, I'll agree that running a modern graphical web browser on a systems with 1GB of memory *is* painful.
I'll grant that this raises more questions than answers. Is it reasonable to need 2+GB of memory to run a silly browser? Is running a web browser the only sane workload for a small laptop? I'm comfortable saying "no" to both of those, but I guess that's why I'm just a lowly code grunt instead of a Verge reviewer...
Huh. Weird. What are addicts using instead of nicotine, then?
They won't.
They'll buy black market cigarettes for a fraction of that price.
At this point, it sounds like it's not longer an FDA problem... call it what it is, which is "conspiracy to commit murder" and kick it over to the FBI.
Environment Canada used to run a similar architecture from Tandem for processing weather data. They wanted the "real timey" aspects of how it dealt with data, but the extreme data processing redundancy was a bit of a problem ("don't lose my money" is massive overkill for a temperature value that's updated at least hourly) and they ended up doing some deep O/S development to cut 150 disk writes per data element down to something sane.
They were solid, though; only time I ever saw one go completely dark was when someone did a generator test and a UPS battery bank exploded.
True. But I suspect the data volumes will remain close to zero...
If they're trusting Tidal's subscriber numbers without even looking at their own traffic patterns to get a picture how much Tidal data (and that other streaming services) is moving across their networks, then I wouldn't put any amount of stupidity beyond them.
Two of my three Android devices have custom ROM's, and the third probably will once the LineageOS folks start pushing out reasonably stable builds.
The only reason the third doesn't currently have a custom ROM is that Motorola didn't go batshit with the bloatware, so waiting for the warranty period to up wasn't a pain.
Their problem, though, is that everyone's PC runs on their old software just as well (if not better) than their new software.
What the Windows 10 debacle has shown is that the old stuff is good enough that the only way they can push the new stuff to a reasonable fraction of their users is to essentially force it on them, for free.
At the same time, efforts to diversify into other areas have not been, to put it charitably, as successful as they would have liked.
I'll agree that they're still critical and relevant, but at the same time, they're the least critical and most irrelevant than any other time in the history of the PC.
Yeah, but this is really more of one of those extremely rare "music company screws someone over" stories, which...
Oh. Right. Pardon me. Carry on.
In their defence, I suspect they had to test the hell out of it to make sure a wide variety of applications, browsers, message clients, wikis, etc wouldn't shit the bed when they tried to parse a URI like moz://a in a chunk of text.
At least, I hope they tested the hell out of it.
If Russia has any clue, the LinkedIn domains are already blacklisted. Removing the apps shouldn't be much more than adding insult to injury.
And since Android users could sideload it, it's practically ineffective unless Apple owns a much larger chunk of the Russian market than they did last time I looked.
Microcontroller != development board.
The chip itself is (I assume) open source. The implementation of this specific development board was created using proprietary software and includes a proprietary component, but that's about it.
If the MCU is of any interest to people, there will be other more or less open dev boards created. Most obviously would be things like the STM32 ARM boards that are all over the place now having just the minimum voltage regulation, resistors, capacitors, pin headers, crystals and jumpers to be usable with an external USB-to-TTL conversion module.
It's too bad, really, because the FTDI chip is just a dev board peripheral and has nothing to do with the open source microcontroller itself, but it's going to be the source of a lot of controversy and noise.
Plus it's not like there aren't viable alternatives to the FTDI...