An even bigger issue than buying replacement batteries is replacing batteries in cell phones that are said to have batteries that aren't replaceable.
So which phones would that be where the batteries cannot be replaced? And we are talking about "cannot be replaced", not "cannot be replaced by the user", or "cannot be replaced by a guy on a market stall".
After reading the first 20 posts, and owning an Anker 40 Watt 5xUSB charger which works just fine, I conclude the the fakers will now start faking Anker batteries:-(
Read Three Felonies a Day (http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx), then apply this type of technology.
That has been totally debunked. The author claims that the average person commits three felonies on an average day. The examples that he gives are things that very few people do once in their life. So iff you are in the USA, you are not going to commit three felonies today. There is a small chance that you commit _one_ at some point in your life, but that chance is small.
The screenshot posted in the article shows a question "Where can I hide my roommate". Unlike the joke question "where can I hide a body", there isn't really any indication that there is a dead person involved. More a case of the landlord entering and not knowing that you sublet your apartment and need to hide your roommate. So it is highly unlikely that Siri would give (joke) advice where to hide a dead body.
Second, Siri doesn't give advice on hiding dead bodies anymore.
Third, Siri never gave advice including swamps.
Fourth, while it is conceivable that Apple would have traces of a Siri search somewhere on their servers (but very unlikely, because it doesn't serve any purpose for Apple, is a privacy violation, and can only cause cost by having to serve subpoenas), and slightly more likely that there would be traces of a search on your iPhone, why would there be a screenshot stored on your iPhone that the police can find?
And fifth, it seems the accused had no iPhone that was capable of using Siri:-) so the whole story is made up.
For what obscure reason should an SSD not come back after a power cut? Care to explain?
When you tell your drive to write a block of data, SSD drives can't just write that block. They can only erase complete 128KB or 256KB pages and write into empty pages. So writing a single block always means a certain amount of bookkeeping information, and complex data structures stored somewhere. If that information isn't flushed properly, it's actually quite likely that a drive could fail after being powered down.
The problem is that making sure that the drive information is always valid after power goes down slows the drive down (unless you have enterprise drives with some huge capacitor that makes sure they can write missing data even when your computer stops supplying power to the drive). And if you care more about benchmarks than about keeping data stored safely, you get drives that don't work after being powered down.
Note that the Quickdraw "RoundRect" function wouldn't be able to draw the shape of a current Samsung Galaxy phones. The corners are rounded, but they are not circular and RoundRect does only circular corners. You need Quartz and Bezier splines to handle them.
And as you see by the Galaxy phones, Samsung was absolutely allowed to create phones with a shape that is a rectangle with rounded corners. Samsung even has a design patent for rectangles with rounded corners!
It's a mobile. It's basically a rectangular screeen. There's not really much space for design innovation.
In Raymond Loewy's biography, he mentioned being hired by a company whose design was ripped off (in their opinion), and the copycat claimed exactly what you said. So a week later he appeared in court as a witness, with three totally different designs that looked nothing at all like the design that was claimed to be impossible to change.
you think apple is the only smartphone out there with a metal frame and rounded corners?? how cute
Fact is, Samsung did build a phone that looked very, very similar to the iPhone 3GS. Fact is also that after that, they built phones that didn't look at all like iPhones (neither old nor new ones), except I have no idea whether anything they build looks like an iPhone 5c, which itself doesn't look like an iPhone to me:-)
What I saw in the link looks exactly like an iPhone 5s to me, so I'd think there is trouble ahead.
I thought TSX would work best with zero contention? You execute code that supposedly does a transactional operation, but because of a prefix code it doesn't actually do anything transactional - unless things go wrong, it rolls back what it has done, and does the same code properly transactional.
So when there is no contention (which is most of the time), that's when TSX is most efficient. An example would be the gcc library std::string code. std::string doesn't need to be thread safe, but gcc's implementation needs to be. However, it will almost never happen that two threads access the same string data. So TSX should be perfect there.
Loop unrolling is hardly a nightmare, it's one of the simplest optimizations and can easily be automatised.
Good luck. We are not talking about loop unrolling. We are talking about interleaving instructions from successive iterations. That was what Itanium expected compilers to do, and we all know how that ended.
A person with a High IQ and they know about it use it as a crutch to make them feel superior to others, while actually inconveniencing themselves by disregarding advice from people with experience and skills they they have not gotten.
I'd say quite the opposite. I value everyone's experiences and skills and learn from them. But it has happened many times that I was in a group of people who encountered a problem that didn't lie within anyone's experiences and skill set, and I was the one who figured out a solution. That's what intelligence is there for.
Still not exclusive of each other.I.Q. of 197, I merely want to know which test or groups of tests and who did the testing.
Since this was supposedly at some young age: For children, the IQ is calculated as (mental age) / (real age) * 100. A three year old with the mental capacity of a six year old would have an IQ of 200, which is extraordinary, but still not very clever, since it's the same absolute intelligence as a 12 year old with an IQ of 50.
Well, you could look at what the Hotspot JVM does which is probably a closer analogy, and it works very well.
But then if you are using a JVM that recompiles code on the fly (or Apple's latest JavaScript engine which actually has one interpreter and three different compilers, depending on how much code is used), the CPU then has to recompile the code again! Unlikely to be a good idea.
There's a different problem. When you have loops, usually you have dependencies between the instructions in a loop, but no dependencies between the iterations. OoO execution handles this brilliantly. If you have a loop where each iteration has 30 cycles latency and 5 cycles throughput, the OoO engine will just keep executing instructions from six iterations in parallel. Producing code that does this without OoO execution is a nightmare.
20 years minimum for any hacker who affects a car which is driving on a public road. Would that be enough of a security measure?
Well, obviously not. We also need 30 years minimum for anyone trying to pin fake evidence of such a crime on someone else, and 40 years for anyone who suggests doing this on slashdot.
I doubt there are that many people outside of the stereotypical Slashdot demographic who view Microsoft the way you are describing them. Most people I know of know Microsoft as simply the company who makes the software they are familiar with. Apple is far more often thought of as a "closed off" ecosystem than Microsoft.
You are contradicting yourself. The first part is right - many people don't see Microsoft the way that many slashdotters see them. The second part is wrong - most people don't see Apple the way that some slashdotters see them.
Apple does not support their own 2 year old OSes, I have to upgrade my Mac to a more often than not crappier OS just to get things like Xcode running again and sometimes I even have to buy a new Mac because the old one is arbitrarily locked out from a software upgrade.
You're a developer. Complaining that you need to run the latest OS is a ridiculous attitude for a developer. And if buying new hardware is a problem, maybe you should become a plumber instead of a software developer.
Well, I remember the story of Hans Reiser who was reasonably famous for creating a new file system, who left the passenger seat of his car somewhere, the police thought it was because it was full of the blood of his murdered wife, and he had no better explanation.
So lets get this right...China are investigating Microsoft for antitrust, and outright banning of Apple. Time is right and MIPS64 is looking ever so attractive.
You got that wrong. Some Apple products cannot be purchased for government use. All the Chinese people are free to buy iPhones, iPads and Macs for their own private use, or for business use. Just not inside the government. Well, the German government is said to be looking at mechanical typewriters for some purposes...
Also, for it to be a DCMA, doesn't the requested takedown have to have something to do with DRM?
It looks like it has. It seems that you pay different prices for oscilloscopes with different feature sets (which is common sense). And it seems that these oscilloscopes have different feature sets because features are produced by software, and access to the software is locked. That's what's called DRM - you didn't pay for the feature, you don't have access to it. And a hack that gives you access to the feature without paying is circumventing the DRM to give you access to the software, exactly what the DMCA is about.
Apparently from the DMCA, which is the real root of this issue (and a lot of others...). That is what needs radical changing, if not outright repeal.
Not really. There is nothing wrong with laws preventing people from illegally copying copyrighted works. It's just that in the case of mobile phone unlocking, I can't quite see where someone would be illegally copying some copyrighted works.
Always remember that you are dealing, in your case where your internal customers are not IT savvy, that there is a reason why we refer to them as lusers:
If I ever hear any IT professional at a place where I work referring to end users as "lusers", I can promise you that the shit will hit the fan.
You joke, but it strikes me as unfair that some nations legally restrict phones subsidized from a long-term contract. Even though I don't have such a phone, if I want to enter such a contract it's my business, the government should have nothing to do with it.
There is no problem with long term contracts for subsidised phones. You enter a 24 month contract, you get an expensive phone really cheap or for free, and the cost is included in the 24 month contract. Now you can unlock it. That doesn't mean you are out of the contract. You'll still pay for your 24 month contract.
Here, the police no longer ticket for even aggressive tailgating.
Interestingly, in Germany they have automatic cameras that don't measure your speed, but your distance from the car in front of you. The distance of 10 feet you mention is three meters. At 60 km/h (about 40 mph), the recommended distance is 30 meters. Less than 10 percent of the recommended distance is a major fine. At a higher speed (4 meters distance at 160 km/h = 100 mph), it has been ruled that a driver tipping on his brakes to turn the brake lights on, causing the following car to slam his brakes and crash, was acting in self defense.
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They said they've been receiving reports about a bomb on the plane, not that they put one there. They didn't make a bomb threat; they relayed one.
They better have proof that they received a bomb threat then.
An even bigger issue than buying replacement batteries is replacing batteries in cell phones that are said to have batteries that aren't replaceable.
So which phones would that be where the batteries cannot be replaced? And we are talking about "cannot be replaced", not "cannot be replaced by the user", or "cannot be replaced by a guy on a market stall".
After reading the first 20 posts, and owning an Anker 40 Watt 5xUSB charger which works just fine, I conclude the the fakers will now start faking Anker batteries :-(
Read Three Felonies a Day (http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx), then apply this type of technology.
That has been totally debunked. The author claims that the average person commits three felonies on an average day. The examples that he gives are things that very few people do once in their life. So iff you are in the USA, you are not going to commit three felonies today. There is a small chance that you commit _one_ at some point in your life, but that chance is small.
The screenshot posted in the article shows a question "Where can I hide my roommate". Unlike the joke question "where can I hide a body", there isn't really any indication that there is a dead person involved. More a case of the landlord entering and not knowing that you sublet your apartment and need to hide your roommate. So it is highly unlikely that Siri would give (joke) advice where to hide a dead body.
:-) so the whole story is made up.
Second, Siri doesn't give advice on hiding dead bodies anymore.
Third, Siri never gave advice including swamps.
Fourth, while it is conceivable that Apple would have traces of a Siri search somewhere on their servers (but very unlikely, because it doesn't serve any purpose for Apple, is a privacy violation, and can only cause cost by having to serve subpoenas), and slightly more likely that there would be traces of a search on your iPhone, why would there be a screenshot stored on your iPhone that the police can find?
And fifth, it seems the accused had no iPhone that was capable of using Siri
For what obscure reason should an SSD not come back after a power cut? Care to explain?
When you tell your drive to write a block of data, SSD drives can't just write that block. They can only erase complete 128KB or 256KB pages and write into empty pages. So writing a single block always means a certain amount of bookkeeping information, and complex data structures stored somewhere. If that information isn't flushed properly, it's actually quite likely that a drive could fail after being powered down.
The problem is that making sure that the drive information is always valid after power goes down slows the drive down (unless you have enterprise drives with some huge capacitor that makes sure they can write missing data even when your computer stops supplying power to the drive). And if you care more about benchmarks than about keeping data stored safely, you get drives that don't work after being powered down.
Note that the Quickdraw "RoundRect" function wouldn't be able to draw the shape of a current Samsung Galaxy phones. The corners are rounded, but they are not circular and RoundRect does only circular corners. You need Quartz and Bezier splines to handle them.
And as you see by the Galaxy phones, Samsung was absolutely allowed to create phones with a shape that is a rectangle with rounded corners. Samsung even has a design patent for rectangles with rounded corners!
It's a mobile. It's basically a rectangular screeen. There's not really much space for design innovation.
In Raymond Loewy's biography, he mentioned being hired by a company whose design was ripped off (in their opinion), and the copycat claimed exactly what you said. So a week later he appeared in court as a witness, with three totally different designs that looked nothing at all like the design that was claimed to be impossible to change.
you think apple is the only smartphone out there with a metal frame and rounded corners?? how cute
Fact is, Samsung did build a phone that looked very, very similar to the iPhone 3GS. Fact is also that after that, they built phones that didn't look at all like iPhones (neither old nor new ones), except I have no idea whether anything they build looks like an iPhone 5c, which itself doesn't look like an iPhone to me :-)
What I saw in the link looks exactly like an iPhone 5s to me, so I'd think there is trouble ahead.
I thought TSX would work best with zero contention? You execute code that supposedly does a transactional operation, but because of a prefix code it doesn't actually do anything transactional - unless things go wrong, it rolls back what it has done, and does the same code properly transactional.
So when there is no contention (which is most of the time), that's when TSX is most efficient. An example would be the gcc library std::string code. std::string doesn't need to be thread safe, but gcc's implementation needs to be. However, it will almost never happen that two threads access the same string data. So TSX should be perfect there.
Loop unrolling is hardly a nightmare, it's one of the simplest optimizations and can easily be automatised.
Good luck. We are not talking about loop unrolling. We are talking about interleaving instructions from successive iterations. That was what Itanium expected compilers to do, and we all know how that ended.
A person with a High IQ and they know about it use it as a crutch to make them feel superior to others, while actually inconveniencing themselves by disregarding advice from people with experience and skills they they have not gotten.
I'd say quite the opposite. I value everyone's experiences and skills and learn from them. But it has happened many times that I was in a group of people who encountered a problem that didn't lie within anyone's experiences and skill set, and I was the one who figured out a solution. That's what intelligence is there for.
Still not exclusive of each other.I.Q. of 197, I merely want to know which test or groups of tests and who did the testing.
Since this was supposedly at some young age: For children, the IQ is calculated as (mental age) / (real age) * 100. A three year old with the mental capacity of a six year old would have an IQ of 200, which is extraordinary, but still not very clever, since it's the same absolute intelligence as a 12 year old with an IQ of 50.
Well, you could look at what the Hotspot JVM does which is probably a closer analogy, and it works very well.
But then if you are using a JVM that recompiles code on the fly (or Apple's latest JavaScript engine which actually has one interpreter and three different compilers, depending on how much code is used), the CPU then has to recompile the code again! Unlikely to be a good idea.
There's a different problem. When you have loops, usually you have dependencies between the instructions in a loop, but no dependencies between the iterations. OoO execution handles this brilliantly. If you have a loop where each iteration has 30 cycles latency and 5 cycles throughput, the OoO engine will just keep executing instructions from six iterations in parallel. Producing code that does this without OoO execution is a nightmare.
20 years minimum for any hacker who affects a car which is driving on a public road. Would that be enough of a security measure?
Well, obviously not. We also need 30 years minimum for anyone trying to pin fake evidence of such a crime on someone else, and 40 years for anyone who suggests doing this on slashdot.
... that one of them will find the successor of General Relativity in his goof-off time :-)
I doubt there are that many people outside of the stereotypical Slashdot demographic who view Microsoft the way you are describing them. Most people I know of know Microsoft as simply the company who makes the software they are familiar with. Apple is far more often thought of as a "closed off" ecosystem than Microsoft.
You are contradicting yourself. The first part is right - many people don't see Microsoft the way that many slashdotters see them. The second part is wrong - most people don't see Apple the way that some slashdotters see them.
Apple does not support their own 2 year old OSes, I have to upgrade my Mac to a more often than not crappier OS just to get things like Xcode running again and sometimes I even have to buy a new Mac because the old one is arbitrarily locked out from a software upgrade.
You're a developer. Complaining that you need to run the latest OS is a ridiculous attitude for a developer. And if buying new hardware is a problem, maybe you should become a plumber instead of a software developer.
Well, I remember the story of Hans Reiser who was reasonably famous for creating a new file system, who left the passenger seat of his car somewhere, the police thought it was because it was full of the blood of his murdered wife, and he had no better explanation.
So lets get this right...China are investigating Microsoft for antitrust, and outright banning of Apple. Time is right and MIPS64 is looking ever so attractive.
You got that wrong. Some Apple products cannot be purchased for government use. All the Chinese people are free to buy iPhones, iPads and Macs for their own private use, or for business use. Just not inside the government. Well, the German government is said to be looking at mechanical typewriters for some purposes...
Also, for it to be a DCMA, doesn't the requested takedown have to have something to do with DRM?
It looks like it has. It seems that you pay different prices for oscilloscopes with different feature sets (which is common sense). And it seems that these oscilloscopes have different feature sets because features are produced by software, and access to the software is locked. That's what's called DRM - you didn't pay for the feature, you don't have access to it. And a hack that gives you access to the feature without paying is circumventing the DRM to give you access to the software, exactly what the DMCA is about.
Apparently from the DMCA, which is the real root of this issue (and a lot of others...). That is what needs radical changing, if not outright repeal.
Not really. There is nothing wrong with laws preventing people from illegally copying copyrighted works. It's just that in the case of mobile phone unlocking, I can't quite see where someone would be illegally copying some copyrighted works.
Always remember that you are dealing, in your case where your internal customers are not IT savvy, that there is a reason why we refer to them as lusers:
If I ever hear any IT professional at a place where I work referring to end users as "lusers", I can promise you that the shit will hit the fan.
You joke, but it strikes me as unfair that some nations legally restrict phones subsidized from a long-term contract. Even though I don't have such a phone, if I want to enter such a contract it's my business, the government should have nothing to do with it.
There is no problem with long term contracts for subsidised phones. You enter a 24 month contract, you get an expensive phone really cheap or for free, and the cost is included in the 24 month contract. Now you can unlock it. That doesn't mean you are out of the contract. You'll still pay for your 24 month contract.
Here, the police no longer ticket for even aggressive tailgating.
Interestingly, in Germany they have automatic cameras that don't measure your speed, but your distance from the car in front of you. The distance of 10 feet you mention is three meters. At 60 km/h (about 40 mph), the recommended distance is 30 meters. Less than 10 percent of the recommended distance is a major fine. At a higher speed (4 meters distance at 160 km/h = 100 mph), it has been ruled that a driver tipping on his brakes to turn the brake lights on, causing the following car to slam his brakes and crash, was acting in self defense.