Cite the OED, a shitty thing that's now defining internet slang? Give me a fucking break and find me a better source that doesn't fall into those shenanigans.
That's what you get for going with a Turkish company and not buying American. Turkey's known for human rights violations, you think they're going to give a fuck about anything else while they can get money from you?
"First go look up quantum mechanics and then know that this governs how semi-conductors work"
I build raw LED dies from the base silicon wafer up with vacuum chemical vapor deposition, I know damn well how semiconductors work.
Also, we have algortihms that reconstruct the full analog waveform of say light, from actual frequency right down to the very direction it travels and where it came from (see Lytro cameras.)
We don't need discrete signals. We only use them because it is easier to control.
"She bought the phone at least 4 months after it was discontinued (Sept 2013 per Wiki).
Who did she buy the phone from?"
Could've still been brand-new and unopened (TFS ain't mentioning that critical detail.) Plenty of people buy products and keep them in their unopened original packaging for the purpose of resale.
To convert into guitarist language, this is effectively detecting a phase harmonic and measuring the saturated amplitude, and doing a hard-clip compression on it so the 'data' is essentially recreated.
We did something akin to that as a digital photography experiment back in high school photography electives.
"So what you are claiming is that you had pure analogue, analogue to digital converters?" "Replacing silicon transistors with valves does not change the fact that the circuit is still digital."
All circuits are analog. Period. That's the physics of it. 'Digital' is just a sampled section of the signal measured against a reference voltage. Those are still both analog waveforms or sections thereof.
It's like people suddenly forgot the bare fucking basics and physics of basic electronics when the world went digital. You dipshits fell hook line and sinker for the digital marketing hype.
The very second you load Apple Maps and put it in the background, the GPS is still sucking the fuck out of your battery life, navigating somewhere or not.
That alone proves Apple is full of shit and lying.
ALWAYS kill your maps application after you're done using it, or you're going to quickly find yourself with far less battery life than you thought you had.
Correct, we ran into this problem already in the 70s with permission-less distributed databases. Apparently nobody bothered to learn that exponential data inputs * logarithmic growth = utterly fucking unsustainable.
" it's possible these GPUs have had non-standard firmware flashed"
Very few of us actually have that capability to modify and successfully flash modified firmware over. Most people just undervolt and underclock (and one guy went so far as to remove some of the physical RAM from the board because it was bad instead of going for RMA since the function isn't memory-bound more than it is bandwidth-bound.)
No, we underclock and undervolt it. Some (very few, i'm probably one of a couple dozen) even go so far as to flash modified firmware on their cards for more control over power usage.
"Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers."
Already done on a small scale (every fully solar-powered off-grid home in the USA,) it's proven to easily scale up (various types of solar plants eist in various form factors) and taxpayers have already been paying for it as-is.
How about instead of waiting on Elon to save your ass, you do it yourself?
Tons of artist's tracks are not there. Sure the listing is there, you can go to the song, but the second you hit play all you get is empty air.
I think they've had some bad hardware failures recently and are unable to restore many artists works.
Example: Only the songs that successfully play on my account are actually downloadable. The others are missing the link to download entirely (despite all of my works being made publicly available to download.)
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"I'm also fully aware I've never seen a a "480 Mbps" USB 2 device operate faster than ~50 Mbps"
Any shitty Chinese PC Webcamera can saturate a USB 2.0 port pretty damned easily.
Cite the OED, a shitty thing that's now defining internet slang? Give me a fucking break and find me a better source that doesn't fall into those shenanigans.
Oxford lost all credibility years ago.
"The future is massive efficiently managed warehouses tied to a delivery infrastructure with a catalogue dump online"
I see someone has already failed to observe and learn from history. We had this back in the day - it's called the Sears & Roebuck catalog.
Wanna know why it died? Brick and Mortar stores.
Nothing beats the convenience of being able to have the item in your hands THEN AND THERE, NO WAITING.
This is why I rarely shop online.
Either they provide unlimited data on the tour or your big band will go with another bus provider, period.
It's like you have no balls for negotiation. You'd make a shitty Ferengi.
How'd someone with no balls for negotiation like you even get the job you have?
That's what you get for going with a Turkish company and not buying American. Turkey's known for human rights violations, you think they're going to give a fuck about anything else while they can get money from you?
Snopes better fact-check its fucking self.
Any explanation for this piece of shit problem, asshole?
This is basic input validation, you ill-educated pompous fuck.
Get your ass in here and fucking explain yourself.
"First go look up quantum mechanics and then know that this governs how semi-conductors work"
I build raw LED dies from the base silicon wafer up with vacuum chemical vapor deposition, I know damn well how semiconductors work.
Also, we have algortihms that reconstruct the full analog waveform of say light, from actual frequency right down to the very direction it travels and where it came from (see Lytro cameras.)
We don't need discrete signals. We only use them because it is easier to control.
Hubby's 4S still works and is in daily use.
Only needs a charge once every three days. It's only used to text, browse the web (no video) and phone calls. Maybe the occasional picture or video.
"She bought the phone at least 4 months after it was discontinued (Sept 2013 per Wiki).
Who did she buy the phone from?"
Could've still been brand-new and unopened (TFS ain't mentioning that critical detail.) Plenty of people buy products and keep them in their unopened original packaging for the purpose of resale.
This isn't using Nyquist at all I suspect.
To convert into guitarist language, this is effectively detecting a phase harmonic and measuring the saturated amplitude, and doing a hard-clip compression on it so the 'data' is essentially recreated.
We did something akin to that as a digital photography experiment back in high school photography electives.
"So what you are claiming is that you had pure analogue, analogue to digital converters?"
"Replacing silicon transistors with valves does not change the fact that the circuit is still digital."
All circuits are analog. Period. That's the physics of it. 'Digital' is just a sampled section of the signal measured against a reference voltage. Those are still both analog waveforms or sections thereof.
It's like people suddenly forgot the bare fucking basics and physics of basic electronics when the world went digital. You dipshits fell hook line and sinker for the digital marketing hype.
What do you call 4K gaming?
I've got a nice old system that can 4K game Quake 3 at well over 300 FPS.
It's probably worth $90 in its entirety without the monitor.
The very second you load Apple Maps and put it in the background, the GPS is still sucking the fuck out of your battery life, navigating somewhere or not.
That alone proves Apple is full of shit and lying.
ALWAYS kill your maps application after you're done using it, or you're going to quickly find yourself with far less battery life than you thought you had.
I can build an SLA bank that will last 25+ years for $1200, AND it will run your AC and other stuff at the same time, you only need enough solar.
"Papermate's Erasermate brand of erasable ink pens eliminates your security."
This person has obviously never heard of triplicate carbon-copy paper.
"AFAIK, all cryptocurrencies are not scalable."
Correct, we ran into this problem already in the 70s with permission-less distributed databases. Apparently nobody bothered to learn that exponential data inputs * logarithmic growth = utterly fucking unsustainable.
" it's possible these GPUs have had non-standard firmware flashed"
Very few of us actually have that capability to modify and successfully flash modified firmware over. Most people just undervolt and underclock (and one guy went so far as to remove some of the physical RAM from the board because it was bad instead of going for RMA since the function isn't memory-bound more than it is bandwidth-bound.)
"If you can come up with a better distributed protocol for a distributed ledger where none of the parties trust one another, let's hear it."
Pen and paper ledger, multiple witnesses (with recording) and very public announcements.
Worked fine when we learned the problems of permission-less distributed databases in the 70s.
Here we are, almost 60 years later, and obviously database geeks still have not learned the lesson.
When nobody can trust anybody, then the only answer is multiple witnesses with a record thereof.
Like what's put in nearly any company by-law regarding meetings and minutes recording.
"You must be running that on a laptop"
No, we underclock and undervolt it. Some (very few, i'm probably one of a couple dozen) even go so far as to flash modified firmware on their cards for more control over power usage.
"Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers."
Already done on a small scale (every fully solar-powered off-grid home in the USA,) it's proven to easily scale up (various types of solar plants eist in various form factors) and taxpayers have already been paying for it as-is.
How about instead of waiting on Elon to save your ass, you do it yourself?
"These processors would be silly in a desktop computer."
You must not run multiple GPUs and multiple M.2 drives.
"Even an unenforceable NDA has a chilling effect if you can't pay to negate it in court."
Go to court. See that little thing on the filing papers where it says "Waive all fees as I cannot afford attorneys or other filing fees, etc."
Check that little box, prove you can't afford an attorney to the judge, and get the NDA fucked anyways.
Tons of artist's tracks are not there. Sure the listing is there, you can go to the song, but the second you hit play all you get is empty air.
I think they've had some bad hardware failures recently and are unable to restore many artists works.
Example: Only the songs that successfully play on my account are actually downloadable. The others are missing the link to download entirely (despite all of my works being made publicly available to download.)
So, what, humanity isn't a natural phenomena?
Aww, cut him some slack, he's a FireFox plugin writer. They're not known for being the brightest.