Has the phone function of smartphones been relegated to a secondary tier of performance and quality? I mean, who releases a phone that doesn't do phone calls? Really.
None of my smartphones has every had an issue making or answering calls. But I've been on Android the whole time. Even when I was experimenting with custom ROMs the phone function was always rock solid. The problem here is with the sub standard design, not the relevance of the function.
However I hardly ever use the phone function any more. Its mainly for data on the move where I might occasionally need to make or take a call. I use it more for navigation than voice communications.
I remember when tablets started getting popular I thought they were just a fad.
I think they lasted long enough to not be considered a fad, but I think the basic problem remains. They're not as convenient as a phone and they're not as usable as a laptop. Sure, helps if you have a keyboard case... but still a laptop will always do more. I think there will always be a demographic that likes tablets (children for one)... they're just not as useful for most things. They will have their niche.
A tablet is after all just a clunky phone or a crippled laptop.
How many people bought a tablet expecting to do great things with it and after a month or so barely used it, instead preferring their phone (or laptop)? I imagine most tablet buyers (at least that's how most people I know who have a tablet operated).
Tablets are still a fad.
They didn't last long enough to be permanent. They've been in decline for 13 straight quarters which means we actually reached peak tablet in 2013.
Phones are now large enough that tablets are redundant and feature wise cant compete with laptops. So they're in a niche that no longer exists. Add this to the fact that people are replacing things less frequently, the tablet I bought 4 years ago still does it's job (watching movies on the plane) and doesn't warrant replacing.
So much for the "post PC world" prediction. Seems we're heading for a post tablet world.
billionaires: we've just cornered the market on rare minerals used to design technology like cellphones and tablets in order to further our wealth and power
Elon: I made ten million dollars on novelty flame throwers branded with the name of my tunnel digging company i came up with on twitter
billionaires:...Is everything OK at home, Elon?
I'm certainly not Musk's biggest fan... but I can honestly say that I don't think he has any problems at home. He's probably having as much fun as Richard Branson.
He's not going to sell them anywhere he's not allowed. This is a publicity stunt to get government procurement attention around the world and make a quick buck. The actual flame throwers he's selling are actually more of a blow torch... they only go 5' at most (more like 2-3') and don't have a concentrated stream/lasting liquid that continues to burn. You can already buy $900 ones that go 25' or $1600 ones that go 50' from other companies that are far more harmful. What he's done is sell something a farmer might use to clear brush, a fire department might use for controlled buns... but mostly for people to buy to make dumb youtube videos and then put it on a shelf.
You could probably do more damage with a culinary butane torch that you can pick up at your local walmart.
ATF rules state that a flamethrower with a throw of less than 10 feet (3 metres) is A-OK.
I'm going to guess you just need some kind of permit after that.
However this was just generating publicity for Musk. In that regard, it's done quite well.
Sadly, it wouldn't. Making punishments more severe only has a weak effect on how well they work as deterrents. People always assume if you punish a crime really harshly, no one will commit it. But it doesn't work. People go on doing it anyway. If you're thinking of committing a crime, whether the punishment would be five years in prison or ten just isn't going to affect your thinking much.
The thing that actually does make a big difference is the certainty of punishment. If you think you can get away with it, you just don't consider the potential punishment much. But if you think you'll probably get caught, that becomes a big deterrent even if the punishment is a lot lighter.
Getting caught committing a crime is a risk.
The thing about risk is that it's actually two categories, severity and likelihood. Severity is how bad the punishments are, likelihood is the chance you'll get caught. Jacking up the severity doesn't work if the likelihood is very low. Raising speeding fines to £1000 of 1 MPH over wont do much if the police never enforce it.
Just making harsher punishments does not make society safer, in fact it does the opposite, if the punishment for burglary is high, why not turn that B&E into a murder, it reduces the chance of being caught and the punishment is harsh enough that it's not that much less than murder.
We're be better off enforcing a lesser punishment.
You already can't buy everything with a credit card.
I honestly am having a vERY difficult time thinking of something legal that I cannot purchase with a CC?
Hell, they even let you take cash advances out on CC's in casinos, I mean...how much more volatile does that get?
And instantly charge you interest on the cash advance. Same as they do with the lottery. Cash advances are limited to X amount per day to limit the damage this can do.
When you use someone elses money (credit) then they get a right to say what you can and cant buy. If you bought a car with a credit card, the bank can legally take possession of if in lieu of payment if you miss one. I try not to buy things with other peoples money, when I do, I make sure the terms and conditions are quite clear, they rarely are with credit cards.
A fucking what? Is that what people do when they fail the exam to be UX facilitator?
An design ethisist is slightly more useful than a UX designer, he's the one that points out calling it the Nazi Bum Rape SS edition might be a bad idea. UX just fucks up the interface.
If you were to gamify it, post high scores, give out trophys/achievements like Strava, Fitbit and what not, then the average drone in Sector 7-G will actually embrace this.
Could also be used to shame workers who post low scores. Management exempt of course.
In Neville Chamberlain's defense, he knew that A) Hitler was going to go back on his word, but that B) the UK was not ready to fight a war against Germany.
The UK also suffered economic troubles in the 1920's and spent most of the 30's recovering, so not spending a lot on military R&D.
Beyond this, Neville Chamberlain was actually the one to issue the declaration of war against Nazi Germany (UK declared war on Germany, not the other way around).
Hitler had never counted on the UK or France entering the war to save eastern European nations but the UK had given Poland a guarantee of intervention if Germany ever invaded they would declare war in 1937. If anything, Hitler had hoped his piece of paper would work and keep western Europe out of a conflict. Hitlers target was always the Soviet Union, he even wrote about invading it in 1925 in Mein Kampf. Stalin was the biggest fool pre-war for thinking that Hitler would keep to the Molotov-Ribentrop pact.
Getting stuck at DFW isn't a bad thing. It's like a shopping mall with parking for airplanes.
That's exactly why being stuck at DFW is such a bad thing. To most of us, going shopping is a necessary evil and shopping centres are not fun places (bright lights, crappy music, old people arguing over a penny, uncouth breeders with their uncontrolled and screeching crotchspawns). Hell, there's a reason I do my food shopping on a Wednesday... its when the fewest people are in my way.
If I'm stuck in SIN, there's enough there that I wouldn't need to leave the airport without spending a fortune, if I were stuck in LHR I'd take the tube into London, same with AMS (if you're willing to pay airport prices, you'll spend just as much going into a nice bar in the city and getting better beer). DFW is nowhere, you go to DFW solely to get somewhere that isn't DFW.
The NHS costs rather less than half the percentage of GDP that the US system does and produces better health outcomes, with 100% free coverage for citizens.
The NHS is not without it's problems, but the US system has the same problems plus some.
I'd much rather have the cheaper system with fewer issues, even if it means I might have to wait a day or two to see a GP about an owwie, I'll get all the care I need without having to worry about if my deductible covers it or being prescribed medications I don't need because the clinic gets a kickback.
Besides, I've rarely had to wait more than 24 hours to see a GP. They usually have slots during the day when everyone's at work and if you need to see a doctor that badly you shouldn't be going to work anyway.
Fun fact, packaged medicaments are one of the UK's largest exports accounting for 5.3% of all UK exports.
The dev model used to be "Steve will yell at you, fire you, berate you, or otherwise ensure that you didn't fuck up constantly".
Actually the model of "His Steveness will magically spin away any failures" has failed. Iphones were always this bad (crashing, bugs, design flaws like Antenna-gate) but they were always hand-waved away by Apple's cult of personality. Now the cult of personality has gone and the RDF with it people are realising they aren't actually that great at all. Worse still, Apple has lost all of its power over "news" sites (read: buzzfeed style blogs), now they're no longer desperate to slobber over Apple's phallus because it's not paying the bills (bringing in ad revenue) like it used to. Apple is now desperate to stay relevant in a world that they left behind years ago.
If anything, Apple has fewer critical bugs given how hard it is to Jailbreak the latest versions. However that is overshadowed by the fact they cant simply have the holy turtleneck wave away criticism and cover up really poor design decisions (the later being their real problem).
Apple are now passe, they're just another phone or computer, despite what their incredibly annoying ads say.
When people say "I want the truth," what they really mean is "I want evidence that justifies my forgone conclusions."
They want the beliefs they already have to turn out to be true. So they will like anything that reinforces it.
This, and when presented with facts that are contrary to their position, these facts must be silenced, suppressed and their messengers discredited.
This goes for nutcases on the far right and left. The reason you see it more often from the far-right is because there are just more far-right nutcases out there.
Most people are interested in getting the facts in the most unbiased way possible, but most news agencies are pushing their agenda and presenting opinions as facts, there are few that can be relied upon these days without fact checking (if they bother to release any fact with their opinion).
On whether the germans or the japanese get there first - at least to a production vehicle, the article states that Merc-AMG have already made it with F1, but the japanese are persistent.
This will be an interesting contest to watch.
The Skyactive-X isn't a new design, it's basically a diesel-like petrol that ignites by compression rather than spark plugs. Mercedes were far from the first to develop one however none have been put into production because they're much more complex compared to traditional designs.
Also F1 engines are far from production, they're rebuilt after almost every race (in the case of Renault last season, sometimes during the race) because they run at such tight tolerances. They have complex anti stall systems because if you stall one you will destroy it and if you don't use enough accelerator, it will stall.
Its an interesting design, but I don't see widespread adaption for ICE's which I also cant see going anywhere for at least 30-50 years if not more.
Actually many will because they end up being bought off the shelf from other suppliers. Your oil filters aren't made by Chevy, they're made by Bosch or RYCO or someone else who makes oil filters and sells them to everyone from Ford to Porsche.
However the correct analogy is that your Chevy wont travel on the same roads as a BMW... which is utter bollocks, no car manufacturer requires you to use their specific infrastructure... they cant even force you to use their dealer network for services. If any car manufacturer tried to act like Apple by restricting what you can do with your car they'd be out of business in a month or less.
This feels like Apple did this product simply to have something out there.
I hate to say it, but Jobs would of NEVER allowed this product to go out unless it was as good or better than the competition.
Actually, this is exactly the kind of product Jobs would have released. He's got a long history of it from NeXt to AppleTV that never took off. He just got the marketing right on the Iphone at the right time. Had he been a year later when Android was out, the Iphone would be a footnote (Android was in development long before the Iphone).
Every PC has dozens of microprocessors, so adding an ARM chip into a computer is no big paradigm shift. A typical PC has a SATA controller, USB controller, video card, etc. One of the big things that Intel has been good at over the years is integrated more features onto a single die. Around 2000 is when they started adding wireless directly onto the die ("Centrino") followed by integrated video. I forget when the memory controller got integrated.
Few computers have multiple general purpose CPU's of different architectures. A SATA controller, GPU or even a Northbridge or Southbridge are nothing like a CPU because they have different purposes. An ARM and Intel (or AMD) CPU are built to do the same thing but are fundamentally incompatible (you cant even get Intel and AMD CPU's to work together well).
Given that either of those processors are capable of handling modern OS's without any trouble, there's no benefit to increasing complexity to hand of different instructions from the same OS.
Interesting way to make hackintosh machines more difficult to build, but an arm core can be emulated with qemu.
Nice try.
macOS will still have to install on the dozens of Mac models WITHOUT an ARM coprocessor; so, for the next foreseeable while, that paranoid fantasy will remain just that.
Are Hackintoshes even still a thing?
Honestly, that's the first time I've heard that term in what must have been 5 or 6 years... I don't think many have bothered on a serious level because Windows 7 was good enough and Apple made it too hard. I imagine the only people doing it now are doing it just for the LoLs.
However welcome to the beginning of the end. The Mac User is now just an Ipad user with a bigger bill, its only a matter of time before the Intel processor is dropped and MacOS and IOS become one. No-one does serious work on a Mac, despite your forthcoming protestations.
Some people like to call Trump a fascist, and this, potentially nationalizing what now belongs to private industry to serve the body state, is a feature of Mussolini's corporatism (not the usual government by and for the corporations, as it is commonly used, but private industry serving the corporate (body) state).
OK, you're not familiar with Fascism.
This is actually one of the least Fascist ideas Trump has expunged.
Fascism is a far-right ideology that is centred around authoritarian nationalism, often enforcing this nationalism by violent means. Although economic systems are not built into Fascist ideals, they generally maintain a free market internally but are opposed to international free markets so they're protectionist, not socialist. In Nazi Germany, seized businesses were either shuttered or if valuable enough, distributed to wealthy party members (like Krupp or Porsche). That is Corporatism, which is quite closely related to Fascism, where one or a small group of industrial elite run the government . National level Fascist governments ran few services themselves, relying on local governments or citizen run organisations to provide most social services. Fascist governments concerned themselves with increasing the military and police forces (mostly secret police/political police).
Now you're somewhat familiar with Fascism, Trump gets called a fascist because he's campaigned on an ultra-nationalist and anti-foreign platform.
For the record, I don't think Trump is a fascist, but he pretended to be one to get elected.
It definitely was one of Obama's worst speeches as he is reading from his notes, rather than a teleprompter. If you take one word clips of Trump you could make it sound like all sorts of things too.
The difference is, one does not need to make a clip episode of Trumps speeches to make him sound bad. He does that all on his own.
Trump, in his defence uses a few very simple psychological tricks that are quite effective on the less intelligent. He repeats his message in order to make people believe it, within one paragraph he'll reinforce the same point 3 or 4 times. He uses emotive language to prevent people thinking logically about his point. Whilst this works well on people who cant think critically, it offends people who can as we easily see through it.
This is the problem the UK conservatives have. Teresa May and Philip Hammond are quite erudite, this is usually good as it appeals to moderate voters, however they're losing moderates because of Brexit and hard-line right wingers because Brexit isn't "hard" enough.
Cause god knows spotting a military base with a shit load of military hardware in it and a dirty great big barbwire fence is impossible without these fitness apps.
Have you ever tried drawing a map from just what you have seen on ground level with no equipment beyond a pair of binoculars?
Now there are detailed and accurate maps in public. Even worse, they may now know patrol routes and what parts of the base are not occupied at night.
We aren't talking about sleepy bases in Wyoming either, these are for bases overseas that could easily be attacked.
Seems the military has forgotten the wisdom of "loose lips sink ships". Uploading anything to anywhere in an active theatre needs to be strictly controlled.
They took the idea of running a society by social media scores from Black Mirror, but little else. In Black Mirror, your score was taken into account by other people and companies to a silly degree but it ended there. In the Orville episode, everything including government did this; your score determined the outcome of your court cases for example. The plots are rather different as well.
I like the Orville. Feels like old school Trek with a bit of weird humor thrown in. Part of that old school feeling comes from having planet's like the 80s where people speak English: that's precisely what a lot of old SF did, asking you to suspend disbelief on that part and focus on the rest of the story, which can be told succinctly because they don;t have to deal with a language barrier as well. Modern SF is having entire books and movies about that language barrier (which is fine by the way).
Trek had several episodes based on the language barrier (TNG: Darmok being the most famous), however the Universal Translator was a plot device that made the whole thing less tedious. Personally one of the worst things about ST Discovery was the fact the Klingons speak Klingon (although it's got a lot of competition about what the worst thing about the show is), it just destroys the continuity of an episode, especially since the other aliens all speak English, the Vulcans aren't speaking Vulcan.
I like The Orville too because it's not too serious. The same reason I liked Stargate SG1, it didn't take itself too seriously and even took the mickey out of itself although nowhere as much as the Orville. Its also a throwback to the old TNG days and has a very TNG/trek like feel to it.
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Has the phone function of smartphones been relegated to a secondary tier of performance and quality? I mean, who releases a phone that doesn't do phone calls? Really.
None of my smartphones has every had an issue making or answering calls. But I've been on Android the whole time. Even when I was experimenting with custom ROMs the phone function was always rock solid. The problem here is with the sub standard design, not the relevance of the function.
However I hardly ever use the phone function any more. Its mainly for data on the move where I might occasionally need to make or take a call. I use it more for navigation than voice communications.
I remember when tablets started getting popular I thought they were just a fad.
I think they lasted long enough to not be considered a fad, but I think the basic problem remains. They're not as convenient as a phone and they're not as usable as a laptop. Sure, helps if you have a keyboard case... but still a laptop will always do more. I think there will always be a demographic that likes tablets (children for one)... they're just not as useful for most things. They will have their niche.
A tablet is after all just a clunky phone or a crippled laptop.
How many people bought a tablet expecting to do great things with it and after a month or so barely used it, instead preferring their phone (or laptop)? I imagine most tablet buyers (at least that's how most people I know who have a tablet operated).
Tablets are still a fad.
They didn't last long enough to be permanent. They've been in decline for 13 straight quarters which means we actually reached peak tablet in 2013.
Phones are now large enough that tablets are redundant and feature wise cant compete with laptops. So they're in a niche that no longer exists. Add this to the fact that people are replacing things less frequently, the tablet I bought 4 years ago still does it's job (watching movies on the plane) and doesn't warrant replacing.
So much for the "post PC world" prediction. Seems we're heading for a post tablet world.
This and an earlier story confirm Slashdot eschews editors.
They could be referring to their mass.
Most truck drivers I've seen could stand to lose a few pounds.
billionaires: we've just cornered the market on rare minerals used to design technology like cellphones and tablets in order to further our wealth and power
Elon: I made ten million dollars on novelty flame throwers branded with the name of my tunnel digging company i came up with on twitter
billionaires:...Is everything OK at home, Elon?
I'm certainly not Musk's biggest fan... but I can honestly say that I don't think he has any problems at home. He's probably having as much fun as Richard Branson.
He's not going to sell them anywhere he's not allowed. This is a publicity stunt to get government procurement attention around the world and make a quick buck. The actual flame throwers he's selling are actually more of a blow torch... they only go 5' at most (more like 2-3') and don't have a concentrated stream/lasting liquid that continues to burn. You can already buy $900 ones that go 25' or $1600 ones that go 50' from other companies that are far more harmful. What he's done is sell something a farmer might use to clear brush, a fire department might use for controlled buns... but mostly for people to buy to make dumb youtube videos and then put it on a shelf.
You could probably do more damage with a culinary butane torch that you can pick up at your local walmart.
ATF rules state that a flamethrower with a throw of less than 10 feet (3 metres) is A-OK.
I'm going to guess you just need some kind of permit after that.
However this was just generating publicity for Musk. In that regard, it's done quite well.
That should put an end to it.
Sadly, it wouldn't. Making punishments more severe only has a weak effect on how well they work as deterrents. People always assume if you punish a crime really harshly, no one will commit it. But it doesn't work. People go on doing it anyway. If you're thinking of committing a crime, whether the punishment would be five years in prison or ten just isn't going to affect your thinking much.
The thing that actually does make a big difference is the certainty of punishment. If you think you can get away with it, you just don't consider the potential punishment much. But if you think you'll probably get caught, that becomes a big deterrent even if the punishment is a lot lighter.
Getting caught committing a crime is a risk.
The thing about risk is that it's actually two categories, severity and likelihood. Severity is how bad the punishments are, likelihood is the chance you'll get caught. Jacking up the severity doesn't work if the likelihood is very low. Raising speeding fines to £1000 of 1 MPH over wont do much if the police never enforce it.
Just making harsher punishments does not make society safer, in fact it does the opposite, if the punishment for burglary is high, why not turn that B&E into a murder, it reduces the chance of being caught and the punishment is harsh enough that it's not that much less than murder.
We're be better off enforcing a lesser punishment.
I honestly am having a vERY difficult time thinking of something legal that I cannot purchase with a CC?
Hell, they even let you take cash advances out on CC's in casinos, I mean...how much more volatile does that get?
And instantly charge you interest on the cash advance. Same as they do with the lottery. Cash advances are limited to X amount per day to limit the damage this can do.
When you use someone elses money (credit) then they get a right to say what you can and cant buy. If you bought a car with a credit card, the bank can legally take possession of if in lieu of payment if you miss one. I try not to buy things with other peoples money, when I do, I make sure the terms and conditions are quite clear, they rarely are with credit cards.
A fucking what? Is that what people do when they fail the exam to be UX facilitator?
An design ethisist is slightly more useful than a UX designer, he's the one that points out calling it the Nazi Bum Rape SS edition might be a bad idea. UX just fucks up the interface.
If you were to gamify it, post high scores, give out trophys/achievements like Strava, Fitbit and what not, then the average drone in Sector 7-G will actually embrace this.
Could also be used to shame workers who post low scores. Management exempt of course.
In Neville Chamberlain's defense, he knew that A) Hitler was going to go back on his word, but that B) the UK was not ready to fight a war against Germany.
The UK also suffered economic troubles in the 1920's and spent most of the 30's recovering, so not spending a lot on military R&D.
Beyond this, Neville Chamberlain was actually the one to issue the declaration of war against Nazi Germany (UK declared war on Germany, not the other way around).
Hitler had never counted on the UK or France entering the war to save eastern European nations but the UK had given Poland a guarantee of intervention if Germany ever invaded they would declare war in 1937. If anything, Hitler had hoped his piece of paper would work and keep western Europe out of a conflict. Hitlers target was always the Soviet Union, he even wrote about invading it in 1925 in Mein Kampf. Stalin was the biggest fool pre-war for thinking that Hitler would keep to the Molotov-Ribentrop pact.
Getting stuck at DFW isn't a bad thing. It's like a shopping mall with parking for airplanes.
That's exactly why being stuck at DFW is such a bad thing. To most of us, going shopping is a necessary evil and shopping centres are not fun places (bright lights, crappy music, old people arguing over a penny, uncouth breeders with their uncontrolled and screeching crotchspawns). Hell, there's a reason I do my food shopping on a Wednesday... its when the fewest people are in my way.
If I'm stuck in SIN, there's enough there that I wouldn't need to leave the airport without spending a fortune, if I were stuck in LHR I'd take the tube into London, same with AMS (if you're willing to pay airport prices, you'll spend just as much going into a nice bar in the city and getting better beer). DFW is nowhere, you go to DFW solely to get somewhere that isn't DFW.
Wording is so important; Apple's wording in this is terrible;
Yes, they never "intended" to slow down your phone to make you pay £600 for a new one... that was just an added benefit.
when no one is home. How do these packages make it out of the van and to my porch/lobby/mailbox?
You misread the headline, it actually said:
"Startup touting as yet non-existent self driving van thinks that self driving vans are around the corner".
We're going to see robot lawyers long before robot car or van.
The NHS costs rather less than half the percentage of GDP that the US system does and produces better health outcomes, with 100% free coverage for citizens.
The NHS is not without it's problems, but the US system has the same problems plus some.
I'd much rather have the cheaper system with fewer issues, even if it means I might have to wait a day or two to see a GP about an owwie, I'll get all the care I need without having to worry about if my deductible covers it or being prescribed medications I don't need because the clinic gets a kickback.
Besides, I've rarely had to wait more than 24 hours to see a GP. They usually have slots during the day when everyone's at work and if you need to see a doctor that badly you shouldn't be going to work anyway.
Fun fact, packaged medicaments are one of the UK's largest exports accounting for 5.3% of all UK exports.
The dev model used to be "Steve will yell at you, fire you, berate you, or otherwise ensure that you didn't fuck up constantly".
Actually the model of "His Steveness will magically spin away any failures" has failed. Iphones were always this bad (crashing, bugs, design flaws like Antenna-gate) but they were always hand-waved away by Apple's cult of personality. Now the cult of personality has gone and the RDF with it people are realising they aren't actually that great at all. Worse still, Apple has lost all of its power over "news" sites (read: buzzfeed style blogs), now they're no longer desperate to slobber over Apple's phallus because it's not paying the bills (bringing in ad revenue) like it used to. Apple is now desperate to stay relevant in a world that they left behind years ago.
If anything, Apple has fewer critical bugs given how hard it is to Jailbreak the latest versions. However that is overshadowed by the fact they cant simply have the holy turtleneck wave away criticism and cover up really poor design decisions (the later being their real problem).
Apple are now passe, they're just another phone or computer, despite what their incredibly annoying ads say.
When people say "I want the truth," what they really mean is "I want evidence that justifies my forgone conclusions."
They want the beliefs they already have to turn out to be true. So they will like anything that reinforces it.
This, and when presented with facts that are contrary to their position, these facts must be silenced, suppressed and their messengers discredited.
This goes for nutcases on the far right and left. The reason you see it more often from the far-right is because there are just more far-right nutcases out there.
Most people are interested in getting the facts in the most unbiased way possible, but most news agencies are pushing their agenda and presenting opinions as facts, there are few that can be relied upon these days without fact checking (if they bother to release any fact with their opinion).
On whether the germans or the japanese get there first - at least to a production vehicle, the article states that Merc-AMG have already made it with F1, but the japanese are persistent.
This will be an interesting contest to watch.
The Skyactive-X isn't a new design, it's basically a diesel-like petrol that ignites by compression rather than spark plugs. Mercedes were far from the first to develop one however none have been put into production because they're much more complex compared to traditional designs.
Also F1 engines are far from production, they're rebuilt after almost every race (in the case of Renault last season, sometimes during the race) because they run at such tight tolerances. They have complex anti stall systems because if you stall one you will destroy it and if you don't use enough accelerator, it will stall.
Its an interesting design, but I don't see widespread adaption for ICE's which I also cant see going anywhere for at least 30-50 years if not more.
Oddly, Ford parts don't fit into my Chevy either!
Actually many will because they end up being bought off the shelf from other suppliers. Your oil filters aren't made by Chevy, they're made by Bosch or RYCO or someone else who makes oil filters and sells them to everyone from Ford to Porsche.
However the correct analogy is that your Chevy wont travel on the same roads as a BMW... which is utter bollocks, no car manufacturer requires you to use their specific infrastructure... they cant even force you to use their dealer network for services. If any car manufacturer tried to act like Apple by restricting what you can do with your car they'd be out of business in a month or less.
This feels like Apple did this product simply to have something out there. I hate to say it, but Jobs would of NEVER allowed this product to go out unless it was as good or better than the competition.
Actually, this is exactly the kind of product Jobs would have released. He's got a long history of it from NeXt to AppleTV that never took off. He just got the marketing right on the Iphone at the right time. Had he been a year later when Android was out, the Iphone would be a footnote (Android was in development long before the Iphone).
Every PC has dozens of microprocessors, so adding an ARM chip into a computer is no big paradigm shift. A typical PC has a SATA controller, USB controller, video card, etc. One of the big things that Intel has been good at over the years is integrated more features onto a single die. Around 2000 is when they started adding wireless directly onto the die ("Centrino") followed by integrated video. I forget when the memory controller got integrated.
Few computers have multiple general purpose CPU's of different architectures. A SATA controller, GPU or even a Northbridge or Southbridge are nothing like a CPU because they have different purposes. An ARM and Intel (or AMD) CPU are built to do the same thing but are fundamentally incompatible (you cant even get Intel and AMD CPU's to work together well).
Given that either of those processors are capable of handling modern OS's without any trouble, there's no benefit to increasing complexity to hand of different instructions from the same OS.
Interesting way to make hackintosh machines more difficult to build, but an arm core can be emulated with qemu.
Nice try.
macOS will still have to install on the dozens of Mac models WITHOUT an ARM coprocessor; so, for the next foreseeable while, that paranoid fantasy will remain just that.
Are Hackintoshes even still a thing?
Honestly, that's the first time I've heard that term in what must have been 5 or 6 years... I don't think many have bothered on a serious level because Windows 7 was good enough and Apple made it too hard. I imagine the only people doing it now are doing it just for the LoLs.
However welcome to the beginning of the end. The Mac User is now just an Ipad user with a bigger bill, its only a matter of time before the Intel processor is dropped and MacOS and IOS become one. No-one does serious work on a Mac, despite your forthcoming protestations.
Some people like to call Trump a fascist, and this, potentially nationalizing what now belongs to private industry to serve the body state, is a feature of Mussolini's corporatism (not the usual government by and for the corporations, as it is commonly used, but private industry serving the corporate (body) state).
OK, you're not familiar with Fascism.
This is actually one of the least Fascist ideas Trump has expunged.
Fascism is a far-right ideology that is centred around authoritarian nationalism, often enforcing this nationalism by violent means. Although economic systems are not built into Fascist ideals, they generally maintain a free market internally but are opposed to international free markets so they're protectionist, not socialist. In Nazi Germany, seized businesses were either shuttered or if valuable enough, distributed to wealthy party members (like Krupp or Porsche). That is Corporatism, which is quite closely related to Fascism, where one or a small group of industrial elite run the government . National level Fascist governments ran few services themselves, relying on local governments or citizen run organisations to provide most social services. Fascist governments concerned themselves with increasing the military and police forces (mostly secret police/political police).
Now you're somewhat familiar with Fascism, Trump gets called a fascist because he's campaigned on an ultra-nationalist and anti-foreign platform.
For the record, I don't think Trump is a fascist, but he pretended to be one to get elected.
That's totally misleading. This is the actual speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Obama starts at 6:30.
It definitely was one of Obama's worst speeches as he is reading from his notes, rather than a teleprompter. If you take one word clips of Trump you could make it sound like all sorts of things too.
The difference is, one does not need to make a clip episode of Trumps speeches to make him sound bad. He does that all on his own.
Trump, in his defence uses a few very simple psychological tricks that are quite effective on the less intelligent. He repeats his message in order to make people believe it, within one paragraph he'll reinforce the same point 3 or 4 times. He uses emotive language to prevent people thinking logically about his point. Whilst this works well on people who cant think critically, it offends people who can as we easily see through it.
This is the problem the UK conservatives have. Teresa May and Philip Hammond are quite erudite, this is usually good as it appeals to moderate voters, however they're losing moderates because of Brexit and hard-line right wingers because Brexit isn't "hard" enough.
Cause god knows spotting a military base with a shit load of military hardware in it and a dirty great big barbwire fence is impossible without these fitness apps.
Have you ever tried drawing a map from just what you have seen on ground level with no equipment beyond a pair of binoculars?
Now there are detailed and accurate maps in public. Even worse, they may now know patrol routes and what parts of the base are not occupied at night.
We aren't talking about sleepy bases in Wyoming either, these are for bases overseas that could easily be attacked. Seems the military has forgotten the wisdom of "loose lips sink ships". Uploading anything to anywhere in an active theatre needs to be strictly controlled.
They took the idea of running a society by social media scores from Black Mirror, but little else. In Black Mirror, your score was taken into account by other people and companies to a silly degree but it ended there. In the Orville episode, everything including government did this; your score determined the outcome of your court cases for example. The plots are rather different as well.
I like the Orville. Feels like old school Trek with a bit of weird humor thrown in. Part of that old school feeling comes from having planet's like the 80s where people speak English: that's precisely what a lot of old SF did, asking you to suspend disbelief on that part and focus on the rest of the story, which can be told succinctly because they don;t have to deal with a language barrier as well. Modern SF is having entire books and movies about that language barrier (which is fine by the way).
Trek had several episodes based on the language barrier (TNG: Darmok being the most famous), however the Universal Translator was a plot device that made the whole thing less tedious. Personally one of the worst things about ST Discovery was the fact the Klingons speak Klingon (although it's got a lot of competition about what the worst thing about the show is), it just destroys the continuity of an episode, especially since the other aliens all speak English, the Vulcans aren't speaking Vulcan.
I like The Orville too because it's not too serious. The same reason I liked Stargate SG1, it didn't take itself too seriously and even took the mickey out of itself although nowhere as much as the Orville. Its also a throwback to the old TNG days and has a very TNG/trek like feel to it.