Cool. I knew they designed them but I'd thought they'd bought into a chip fab company. I went and did a look to see where I'd have come up with such an idea and it was indeed a rumor a while back. I'd thought they'd gone through with it but it would appear that they haven't. This page is not (I don't think) the source of the rumor - not the source that I read. I think the source that I read was here on Slashdot. But, here's one of those rumor pages: http://appleinsider.com/articl...
They could, at the drop of a hat, buy Taiwan Semiconductor. There are also a bunch of ARM fabs out there, IIRC, that could be scooped up but they'd probably be better off going with someone a bit more forward. Taiwan Semiconductor would make a good choice - in my humble opinion.
I'm kind of surprised that they don't. I think that's why I believed the rumor that they *had* bought their way into one. I'm sure they're probably invested in some (corporations often hold shares in other companies, like Microsoft used to own a good sized chunk of Apple back in the day). I do believe that Microsoft is completely divested from Apple shares at this point but I'd not swear to it. It's probably in an SEC filing somewhere out there but I'm too lazy to look.
I'd be a sound investment - maybe. Maybe... Capacity, output capacity, would be what mattered. It'd have to be able to produce enough to fill all their needs and not much more - unless they intended to sell to others, which seems unlikely. Then, there's little/no redundancy. With the way things are, they can rely on multiple suppliers if they absolutely had to. Like the Samsung and TSMC thing you mentioned. I guess they could produce some on their own and still have another company manufacture some too - and ready to scale up production if something happens to their fab.
It'd be interesting and I was pretty sure that they'd already done so. That's what I get for not verifying rumors.;-) Thanks for the update.
Nice! Thanks for following up with me. Just to make sure, so that I can relay this to others in the future and do so accurately, you too can get DSL from anyone who's willing to service your area - technically, at least? And, in your case, they opted to not provision service because of 'reasons?'
You said PA... I want to say that Fairpoint operates in PA. If they do AND if you're still interested - give Fairpoint a call. If they seem confused then, if I'm understanding you correctly, you can explain that they are able to provision service for you.
I'm also not sure why the price would be very different. That makes no sense to me. In both Maine and North Carolina the owners of the copper MUST allow access at "reasonable" rates which translates to pretty much "at-cost." I've never had to pay any extra to have my service provided by another company. For example; When I used GWI (I'm on Fairpoint's copper) I paid the standard GWI rates that they charged for any other customer in any other area.
Thanks for the follow-up. I'm curious as to how it plays out - if you go beyond this. You may find little tiny DSL providers who are willing to service you IF you want to look. They'll be reseller and there are a number of them out there - you just need to look and find them.
However - there's often a whole bunch of small-time resellers that own neither the copper nor any large customer base. I've found that I get pretty good service with some of them as they're genuinely happy to have the custom. They do put a level between you and the actual copper provider but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
Feel free to reply via email if you're interested in keeping this going.
I'd not make those assumptions - not that they *were* in use.
I'd take precautions against them but I'd not assume they were being used. I'm not sure how to articulate it better. Basically, I keep my video feeds behind hardware and require very specific means to access it. I literally, without changing things, can not give you a link to watch the feeds of my home in Maine. Well, I could give you a link and a port, specifically an IP address being pushed through a server, but even if you knew the password you could not access it.
But, at the same time, I don't assume that it is being used to check for occupancy for the purposes of robbing the place. Just because it could doesn't mean that I assume someone is. But, because it could, I take precautions against it. Make sense?
Thanks. I'd probably consider such for home use - longevity would be nice. As it is, I've got some servers that are pretty long in the tooth but they mostly run things like virtual machines and my network. My home in Maine is largely set up like a business would be - including an intranet with a variety of self-hosted services including test servers and web servers. Err.. Doesn't everybody run their own services?;-)
any time money wasn't coming in we'd be bleeding it at eye-popping rates
This is very, very astute and true. It's one of the things to note if you're going to hang out your shingle and expect to employ people. They expect to be paid - even if there's no money coming in and making payroll is important. Which, if you're curious, is how I ended up having to learn to do all the various tasks that needed doing. There was a point in time where I even helped to keep the place clean - emptying trash, sweeping and mopping, and even coming in on weekends to clean everything from workstations to windows. (At the time, only a few of the workstations had Windows! They were mostly SunStations as I recall.) Of course, that's not really the type of windows I meant.
There were a lot of 16 hour days because hiring more people wasn't in the cards at the time. Yes, I could have afforded them for the time being. But could I have kept them both employed and stimulated during a lull? I could have pretended and just hired and laid off but I'm sure the reputation would have gotten around and I'm just not that kind of person.
I have video feeds running from and being recorded at my house (and pushing the stream off-site. All of it is indirect. The only way in, or to watch the live feeds, is through specific hardware, through a hardware firewall, and using a certain address. I did have it set to need a USB key at the same time (to login to the server that let me then tunnel into the video feeds) but I dropped that off. I would like to do timed authentication with a cell phone or email code. I've not yet figured that one out.
Nah, they're pretty good at starting wars or setting the situations up to be volatile enough to where war is the likely outcome.
Weak? Not at all. They've been warring since the dawn of recorded history in that area.
Which leads me to this... Going to war against China is going to be bad. Not just typical-bad 'cause it's war but a badness on a scale not seen in a very long time. Look at the percentage of casualties, displaced persons, and economic negative impacts of the larger wars. Now imagine that with a pissed off China, now modernized and organized under one heading, and see if war versus China still sounds like a good idea.
I don't watch real television or movies, as a general rule, but I've seen that meme and/or demotivational. Sure they can. I believe they just use an enhance button.
You can see it for yourself. Just click anywhere on the page that isn't a link or a text field and then press and hold CTRL and then press the + button.
This is all well and good but has this *ever* resulted in something bad happening? Anything bad? Has anyone ever cased a joint (I think that's the correct lingo) through these things and then erased the recording of their nefarious deeds after the act?
Don't read that wrong - the shit should be secure. I'm just not able to recall a point where this was actually a factor any crime. I imagine high-tech thieves may have spliced into stuff but that's entirely different than hacking it by remote. I did some of that "Google hacking" back in the early 2000s. I found lots of things but nothing interesting and had no idea where I was looking at - more often than not. A few times I could figure it out and narrow it down. Seldom could I be certain.
Then perhaps that'd be a good reason for someone to make trusted hardware, such as Apple - like we're discussing. Hmm... Curiouser and curiouser...
I'd consider an Apple server for my home use. I really would - so long as it was easy to get any OS I wanted on it and so long as they maintained their quality controls. My server stuff is pretty old now. I've got (in my house!) a couple of blade servers.;-) I've even got racks - two of 'em. I'd slap an Apple box in there but, with my luck, it'd be some proprietary thing and need its own rack. That's okay, a bunch of the stuff isn't racked and some of it is just desktop systems sitting on the floor or on a large bench.
Hell, I even have two older phones in there and hooked up. I never did finish configuring them. They're for entirely odd reasons and a long story.
It's also important to realize the differences between legal systems. If you're unfamiliar with how the courts work in the UK then, at least traditionally, unless a plain text reading of the law suggests this AND the magistrate(?) agrees that the defendant was the target - they may well not even go very far into the proceedings. They write some zany laws and let the courts interpret them - lots and lots of leeway. If you're from the US, it's not a damned thing like what we've got. Australia and, I think, Canada are similar. There's a name for it but I'll be damned if I can remember it at this point.
Back in the 1980s, I was in my second enlistment to get more money for college. They sent me off to learn to drive small and medium sized vehicles - even some training on larger stuff. Anyhow, one of my instructors made a comment that has stuck with me all these years.
"As the fucking commies get more freedom, we get less. It's like it's seeking an equilibrium. Like we're going to meet in the center someday. I wonder if it's intentional."
I won't speculate as to the latter but it does seem to have some merit. Also, I'm pretty sure that's 100% verbatim.
I believe they already make some of their own chips. Even if they couldn't make their own chips, they could buy a chip manufacturer tomorrow. They might have to dig a few dollars out of the change in between their couch cushions if they wanted to buy a good one. They've already got some manufacturing ability - I think it goes in the iPhone or iPad - one or even both of them. They don't make a whole lot of them (I'm going from memory here so I might be mistaken) but they make some. There was a bit of an ado about it not long ago. Depending on the model iDevice you got, you got either a Samsung(?) or a chip made by Apple themselves.
I seem to recall that Apple doesn't always release the MHz on their CPUs but that's just a limited one or two things I may be conflating. I'm really too lazy to look. I think they gave estimates or compared it to another device for one or two of them - maybe more. I think it's just specifically for the chips they make themselves that they've done that. I am not positive. I really could be conflating two things.
I'm pretty sure about the first part, that I've read about a few times now. I'm pretty damned sure they've not only got chip making manufacturing capacity and I'm damned sure they could buy more if they wanted to. They have more money than some nations. That's just on-hand. They could buy the entire Caribbean Islands, and surrounding areas, and fill it full of nothing but hookers and blow for 365 days a year - and still have money left over when the heat death of the universe occurs.
Well, I might be a little bit off with the amount they have on-hand but it's a lot.
I dunno... With everything virtualized, in a docker, a container, a jail, a VM, running on VMWare, or ESX, or whatever - does the bare metal really matter all that much any more?
That is actually a real question. I don't really know. I haven't done much at all (outside of for my own use where I use VMWare religiously and have been for years) in a server room. When I was last doing it because we still didn't have enough people we were doing things like clustering, blades where getting popular, distributed computing was taking hold (but wasn't really entirely new), and we needed giant disk arrays. Circa 1999 - 2000.
So, no... I don't really know. I've been *in* the server room since then - it was mine, I'll go in it if I want. Well, that's what they used to let me think, at any rate. Seriously, they were good people and I didn't need to babysit them - that'd be dumb of me 'cause they knew more about it than I did. That'd be why I hired them. Try to never hire anyone dumber than you are and make sure you treat 'em like they're smart.
At any rate, I'd been in there. Hell, I have some server equipment at home and mine is almost all virtual machines and storage. There's some software on the bare metal but I don't usually need to bother with it. They happily chug along running various servers and if I burn one down I can spin it up again. If I cheat and don't reformat ~/ then I can usually bounce between quite a few distros and not actually have to change much of anything - my settings are right there.
So, that's what I do at home and with the small colo that I have for friends. Sorry for the novella but I figured I'd try to make sure you knew it was an actual question and not me trolling. I guess the gist of it is, if Apple where to make and sell servers then I can't really think of any reason why not to buy them. When you're buying a bunch of enterprise scale hardware, it's going to cost some money.
But... One caveat... Another question for which I do not know the answer for. What is the current MTBF and refresh rates and does longevity really matter?
Actually, what you're seeing might well be the birth of "real" VR. Meaning VR which actually might have a chance at success. Porn sells. It sells a lot. Porn has helped to make VHS, DVD, the Internet, and really adjusted some 'blue laws' and indecency laws over the years. It has helped strengthen the freedom of the press, speech, and helped fund technologies that may have had a hard time without it.
I've been reasonably skeptical of how much or how well VR would take off this time - compared to the earlier iterations. If this is done well, if this is done at all like people are hoping, then this is likely a boon for the VR industry that they really probably weren't outwardly expressing hope for. (I'm guessing they sure as hell were hoping for it to take off but just weren't saying anything aloud and in public. There's probably a hidden memo or two out there.) It's mildly amusing but it wouldn't be the first thing to be heavily influenced by pornographic uses. Home theaters, home video recording, probably even higher-end video cameras.
Perhaps by self-selection, perhaps by exposure, perhaps you're correct - that last one is not that likely, really. Sorry. If you get out of your bubble, one you or someone else created, and have a look at some of the alternatives there are many who easily exceed the feature-set for an iPad of any make.
That's the thing about Apple. You can buy good - you can never buy the best.
That is correct but you don't see what the point is. The point is referencing this statement from the GGP above, which had tricked down through:
Also, most food-borne illnesses are nothing other than a nuisance, good for a day or two home from work, and are no real threat to anyone without a compromised immune system.
There are a number of other food-borne illnesses that can and will kill you but I'm only familiar with botulism. It was also me agreeing with you - I'm not sure why you'd react as if I was attacking something you'd said. But, so be it...
As for some things that *might* end up in the refrigerator there's some of this list care of the CDC:
some examples are chopped garlic in oil, canned cheese sauce, chile peppers, tomatoes, carrot juice, and baked potatoes wrapped in foil.
But no, my post was an addendum to your post, not an argument against it. I guess, given that this is Slashdot, it's not unusual to assume that a response is an attempt to argue.
Given the description, I think I've seen 1944 before. I want to say that I've come across the first one but declined because of the entirety was in a different language and I have to be in the mood for subtitles for the entire film. I am pretty lenient with subtitles. However, I can't do a whole documentary in subtitles. I will, but it is not preferred and there are many other good things to watch (some more than once).
That said, thank you. I will stuff your reply into a stash and look at it again when time allows. If I happen to remember it, I'll mention it. The USSR had some interesting ones and a bunch of nice ones have dropped since the fall of the iron curtain. Even the ones that have fallen since may have certain, shall we say, biases that one needs to be alert for.
At risk of sounding conspiratorial, I'd say the biases are greater and more specific since about the time that Putin came into power. I have no way to compile that data objectively. I have not compiled that data objectively. So, consider it an impression from an impressionable old fool. It's best to not take any stock in such impressions and examine them for yourself and draw your own conclusions. A list could be compiled if properly motivated.
Even odder, I'd suggest that many of the documentaries from outside of the old Soviet States also contain biases, biases a bit different than those from inside the old country. It sometimes makes me ponder if there's some sort of concerted effort, an effort to change views and memories. But, that's the blathering of an old fool, a codger, and should be safely ignored. It wouldn't mean much of anything, anyhow.
I'd say the unknowing should not be impacted at *any* additional level. If you did not know, did not agree with, did not expressly condone such then you're not accountable for it. We might so so far as to use legal terms. "Should the share-holder have reasonably believed that the company was acting illegally in this specific fashion?" We might also go, "Pursuant to the former, what would a reasonable person conclude the level of culpability specifically consider circumstances including, but not limited to, the culpable party's obligation to report, legally mandated or not or the accused's duty to have known, or made known, the alleged act or to take action to prevent the action in question?" A mitigating factor might be, and could be an affirmative defense, something akin to, "The accused, if faced with significant duress where such circumstances meet the threshold for physical response (per statute blah blah blah pursuant to A & B) and having no reasonable opportunity to withdraw from such circumstances shall be subject to X & Y not included, nor to exceed Z & A."
Something like that. I pulled it out of my ass, obviously, and there are lots of place to improve it but that should get the gist across... Thoughts?
No, you misunderstand. I should have probably been more clear but I assumed it was easy figure out from the context. Once I achieve that point, I'm good to go. Once I start beating the automatic transmission then it remains that was, almost invariably, so long as I am mindful to drive appropriately. Each manual transmission, even from the OEM, seems to be marginally different than others - some are drastically so. Once I've dialed that transmission in, I can exceed the automatic most every time.
That also includes where I've taken the time to try it in the same model with the same engine, in the same conditions, but having an automatic transmission. Once I've got the manual and characteristics figured out (and that takes a few runs sometimes) there's a growing difference with the normally associated law of diminishing returns.
I suppose I could have included that but my goal was brevity and I thought it obvious. I'm a bit busy on a project. It is an in-browser project so Slashdot is open in a tab of its own.
The automatic can get away with higher overdrive gears because it takes milliseconds to downshift when necessary, whereas a manual car can't count on the driver to do the right thing and manual drivers tend to hold gears a lot because shifting takes a lot of time and is extra effort. Also, manual drivers these days seem to only care about performance, not fuel economy, so carmakers have set the gear ratios accordingly.
In order, there a multiple manual transmissions that have more than four or five gears. A good driver can shift gears almost instantly (with little/no clutch use). You can't count on the driver to do the right thing in an automatic either. I can regularly exceed expected results based on driving habits - in an automatic. The last sentence is a bit silly and akin to saying all black people seem to steal.
So, you weren't *that* wrong - just some niggling details. Otherwise, I've have not said both right and wrong at the same time. I'd have just said wrong.
As an aside, and perhaps some food for thought, will the be any benefit to having manual shift in an EV? I should think there might be but it'd be very limited use.
It appears you've not driven a manual in a lot of years. You somehow managed to be both right and wrong - at the same time. I'm not quite sure how you did that.
The gist of it is this, both have come a long ways. It's actually difficult for me, using the same vehicle model, to get much of a difference from a manual vs an automatic. Yup. However, it's easy to find a six speed. Some manuals actually have some variability in them, depending on how much you want to spend.
I am probably the closest thing to an "expert" driver here on this board. (Don't let that harm anyone's ego - I've spent a lot of money, time, and dedication for this.)
To give an example, I've always wanted to be the driver in automobile commercials. Yes, yes i know how odd that sounds. I think it would be awesome - you might not realize the skill that goes into that. I've taken lots of in-class lessons in order to go hit the track. I took almost a week's worth of lessons before hiring a coach and spending another week doing nothing but laps at Nurburgring. The coach, a nice lady, even let me quasi-rent her car (a very nice Benz) but would not sell it.
So, somehow you're both right and wrong at the same time. I suspect you haven't gotten into a manual drive vehicle in a while either. It's not your granddaddy's 'three on the tree." Then, if you want to get into larger vehicles - we're talking gears as high was 18 being standard though some go even higher. I think the most I've personally driven was 24 gears. I believe there are more. I've not personally encountered them so I won't swear to it. I do have a Subaru with a CVT that's nice. I hardly ever drive it. It seemed like a good idea at the time but every time I drive it, it makes me feel like I'm an Angry Woman from Vermont.
It also brings back memories of my youth. My youth where I owned a Subaru and was stupid enough to put my fucking name on my license plate. Yup. I am retarded. Man, I got caught for *everything.* It took me longer than it should to figure out why I kept getting caught. Tough cars though, but I digress.
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Cool. I knew they designed them but I'd thought they'd bought into a chip fab company. I went and did a look to see where I'd have come up with such an idea and it was indeed a rumor a while back. I'd thought they'd gone through with it but it would appear that they haven't. This page is not (I don't think) the source of the rumor - not the source that I read. I think the source that I read was here on Slashdot. But, here's one of those rumor pages:
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
They could, at the drop of a hat, buy Taiwan Semiconductor. There are also a bunch of ARM fabs out there, IIRC, that could be scooped up but they'd probably be better off going with someone a bit more forward. Taiwan Semiconductor would make a good choice - in my humble opinion.
I'm kind of surprised that they don't. I think that's why I believed the rumor that they *had* bought their way into one. I'm sure they're probably invested in some (corporations often hold shares in other companies, like Microsoft used to own a good sized chunk of Apple back in the day). I do believe that Microsoft is completely divested from Apple shares at this point but I'd not swear to it. It's probably in an SEC filing somewhere out there but I'm too lazy to look.
I'd be a sound investment - maybe. Maybe... Capacity, output capacity, would be what mattered. It'd have to be able to produce enough to fill all their needs and not much more - unless they intended to sell to others, which seems unlikely. Then, there's little/no redundancy. With the way things are, they can rely on multiple suppliers if they absolutely had to. Like the Samsung and TSMC thing you mentioned. I guess they could produce some on their own and still have another company manufacture some too - and ready to scale up production if something happens to their fab.
It'd be interesting and I was pretty sure that they'd already done so. That's what I get for not verifying rumors. ;-) Thanks for the update.
Nice! Thanks for following up with me. Just to make sure, so that I can relay this to others in the future and do so accurately, you too can get DSL from anyone who's willing to service your area - technically, at least? And, in your case, they opted to not provision service because of 'reasons?'
You said PA... I want to say that Fairpoint operates in PA. If they do AND if you're still interested - give Fairpoint a call. If they seem confused then, if I'm understanding you correctly, you can explain that they are able to provision service for you.
I'm also not sure why the price would be very different. That makes no sense to me. In both Maine and North Carolina the owners of the copper MUST allow access at "reasonable" rates which translates to pretty much "at-cost." I've never had to pay any extra to have my service provided by another company. For example; When I used GWI (I'm on Fairpoint's copper) I paid the standard GWI rates that they charged for any other customer in any other area.
Thanks for the follow-up. I'm curious as to how it plays out - if you go beyond this. You may find little tiny DSL providers who are willing to service you IF you want to look. They'll be reseller and there are a number of them out there - you just need to look and find them.
I did a quick search and came across this small list:
http://pennsylvania.theispguid...
However - there's often a whole bunch of small-time resellers that own neither the copper nor any large customer base. I've found that I get pretty good service with some of them as they're genuinely happy to have the custom. They do put a level between you and the actual copper provider but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
Feel free to reply via email if you're interested in keeping this going.
I'd not make those assumptions - not that they *were* in use.
I'd take precautions against them but I'd not assume they were being used. I'm not sure how to articulate it better. Basically, I keep my video feeds behind hardware and require very specific means to access it. I literally, without changing things, can not give you a link to watch the feeds of my home in Maine. Well, I could give you a link and a port, specifically an IP address being pushed through a server, but even if you knew the password you could not access it.
But, at the same time, I don't assume that it is being used to check for occupancy for the purposes of robbing the place. Just because it could doesn't mean that I assume someone is. But, because it could, I take precautions against it. Make sense?
Thanks. I'd probably consider such for home use - longevity would be nice. As it is, I've got some servers that are pretty long in the tooth but they mostly run things like virtual machines and my network. My home in Maine is largely set up like a business would be - including an intranet with a variety of self-hosted services including test servers and web servers. Err.. Doesn't everybody run their own services? ;-)
any time money wasn't coming in we'd be bleeding it at eye-popping rates
This is very, very astute and true. It's one of the things to note if you're going to hang out your shingle and expect to employ people. They expect to be paid - even if there's no money coming in and making payroll is important. Which, if you're curious, is how I ended up having to learn to do all the various tasks that needed doing. There was a point in time where I even helped to keep the place clean - emptying trash, sweeping and mopping, and even coming in on weekends to clean everything from workstations to windows. (At the time, only a few of the workstations had Windows! They were mostly SunStations as I recall.) Of course, that's not really the type of windows I meant.
There were a lot of 16 hour days because hiring more people wasn't in the cards at the time. Yes, I could have afforded them for the time being. But could I have kept them both employed and stimulated during a lull? I could have pretended and just hired and laid off but I'm sure the reputation would have gotten around and I'm just not that kind of person.
I have video feeds running from and being recorded at my house (and pushing the stream off-site. All of it is indirect. The only way in, or to watch the live feeds, is through specific hardware, through a hardware firewall, and using a certain address. I did have it set to need a USB key at the same time (to login to the server that let me then tunnel into the video feeds) but I dropped that off. I would like to do timed authentication with a cell phone or email code. I've not yet figured that one out.
Nah, they're pretty good at starting wars or setting the situations up to be volatile enough to where war is the likely outcome.
Weak? Not at all. They've been warring since the dawn of recorded history in that area.
Which leads me to this... Going to war against China is going to be bad. Not just typical-bad 'cause it's war but a badness on a scale not seen in a very long time. Look at the percentage of casualties, displaced persons, and economic negative impacts of the larger wars. Now imagine that with a pissed off China, now modernized and organized under one heading, and see if war versus China still sounds like a good idea.
Up to your eyeballs in free labor, cotton, grandfathers, or black people?
I don't watch real television or movies, as a general rule, but I've seen that meme and/or demotivational. Sure they can. I believe they just use an enhance button.
You can see it for yourself. Just click anywhere on the page that isn't a link or a text field and then press and hold CTRL and then press the + button.
This is all well and good but has this *ever* resulted in something bad happening? Anything bad? Has anyone ever cased a joint (I think that's the correct lingo) through these things and then erased the recording of their nefarious deeds after the act?
Don't read that wrong - the shit should be secure. I'm just not able to recall a point where this was actually a factor any crime. I imagine high-tech thieves may have spliced into stuff but that's entirely different than hacking it by remote. I did some of that "Google hacking" back in the early 2000s. I found lots of things but nothing interesting and had no idea where I was looking at - more often than not. A few times I could figure it out and narrow it down. Seldom could I be certain.
Then perhaps that'd be a good reason for someone to make trusted hardware, such as Apple - like we're discussing. Hmm... Curiouser and curiouser...
I'd consider an Apple server for my home use. I really would - so long as it was easy to get any OS I wanted on it and so long as they maintained their quality controls. My server stuff is pretty old now. I've got (in my house!) a couple of blade servers. ;-) I've even got racks - two of 'em. I'd slap an Apple box in there but, with my luck, it'd be some proprietary thing and need its own rack. That's okay, a bunch of the stuff isn't racked and some of it is just desktop systems sitting on the floor or on a large bench.
Hell, I even have two older phones in there and hooked up. I never did finish configuring them. They're for entirely odd reasons and a long story.
Yes but how *much* does that matter? Assuming, of course, that Apple allows similar access.
It's also important to realize the differences between legal systems. If you're unfamiliar with how the courts work in the UK then, at least traditionally, unless a plain text reading of the law suggests this AND the magistrate(?) agrees that the defendant was the target - they may well not even go very far into the proceedings. They write some zany laws and let the courts interpret them - lots and lots of leeway. If you're from the US, it's not a damned thing like what we've got. Australia and, I think, Canada are similar. There's a name for it but I'll be damned if I can remember it at this point.
Back in the 1980s, I was in my second enlistment to get more money for college. They sent me off to learn to drive small and medium sized vehicles - even some training on larger stuff. Anyhow, one of my instructors made a comment that has stuck with me all these years.
"As the fucking commies get more freedom, we get less. It's like it's seeking an equilibrium. Like we're going to meet in the center someday. I wonder if it's intentional."
I won't speculate as to the latter but it does seem to have some merit. Also, I'm pretty sure that's 100% verbatim.
I believe they already make some of their own chips. Even if they couldn't make their own chips, they could buy a chip manufacturer tomorrow. They might have to dig a few dollars out of the change in between their couch cushions if they wanted to buy a good one. They've already got some manufacturing ability - I think it goes in the iPhone or iPad - one or even both of them. They don't make a whole lot of them (I'm going from memory here so I might be mistaken) but they make some. There was a bit of an ado about it not long ago. Depending on the model iDevice you got, you got either a Samsung(?) or a chip made by Apple themselves.
I seem to recall that Apple doesn't always release the MHz on their CPUs but that's just a limited one or two things I may be conflating. I'm really too lazy to look. I think they gave estimates or compared it to another device for one or two of them - maybe more. I think it's just specifically for the chips they make themselves that they've done that. I am not positive. I really could be conflating two things.
I'm pretty sure about the first part, that I've read about a few times now. I'm pretty damned sure they've not only got chip making manufacturing capacity and I'm damned sure they could buy more if they wanted to. They have more money than some nations. That's just on-hand. They could buy the entire Caribbean Islands, and surrounding areas, and fill it full of nothing but hookers and blow for 365 days a year - and still have money left over when the heat death of the universe occurs.
Well, I might be a little bit off with the amount they have on-hand but it's a lot.
I dunno... With everything virtualized, in a docker, a container, a jail, a VM, running on VMWare, or ESX, or whatever - does the bare metal really matter all that much any more?
That is actually a real question. I don't really know. I haven't done much at all (outside of for my own use where I use VMWare religiously and have been for years) in a server room. When I was last doing it because we still didn't have enough people we were doing things like clustering, blades where getting popular, distributed computing was taking hold (but wasn't really entirely new), and we needed giant disk arrays. Circa 1999 - 2000.
So, no... I don't really know. I've been *in* the server room since then - it was mine, I'll go in it if I want. Well, that's what they used to let me think, at any rate. Seriously, they were good people and I didn't need to babysit them - that'd be dumb of me 'cause they knew more about it than I did. That'd be why I hired them. Try to never hire anyone dumber than you are and make sure you treat 'em like they're smart.
At any rate, I'd been in there. Hell, I have some server equipment at home and mine is almost all virtual machines and storage. There's some software on the bare metal but I don't usually need to bother with it. They happily chug along running various servers and if I burn one down I can spin it up again. If I cheat and don't reformat ~/ then I can usually bounce between quite a few distros and not actually have to change much of anything - my settings are right there.
So, that's what I do at home and with the small colo that I have for friends. Sorry for the novella but I figured I'd try to make sure you knew it was an actual question and not me trolling. I guess the gist of it is, if Apple where to make and sell servers then I can't really think of any reason why not to buy them. When you're buying a bunch of enterprise scale hardware, it's going to cost some money.
But... One caveat... Another question for which I do not know the answer for. What is the current MTBF and refresh rates and does longevity really matter?
Actually, what you're seeing might well be the birth of "real" VR. Meaning VR which actually might have a chance at success. Porn sells. It sells a lot. Porn has helped to make VHS, DVD, the Internet, and really adjusted some 'blue laws' and indecency laws over the years. It has helped strengthen the freedom of the press, speech, and helped fund technologies that may have had a hard time without it.
I've been reasonably skeptical of how much or how well VR would take off this time - compared to the earlier iterations. If this is done well, if this is done at all like people are hoping, then this is likely a boon for the VR industry that they really probably weren't outwardly expressing hope for. (I'm guessing they sure as hell were hoping for it to take off but just weren't saying anything aloud and in public. There's probably a hidden memo or two out there.) It's mildly amusing but it wouldn't be the first thing to be heavily influenced by pornographic uses. Home theaters, home video recording, probably even higher-end video cameras.
Perhaps by self-selection, perhaps by exposure, perhaps you're correct - that last one is not that likely, really. Sorry. If you get out of your bubble, one you or someone else created, and have a look at some of the alternatives there are many who easily exceed the feature-set for an iPad of any make.
That's the thing about Apple. You can buy good - you can never buy the best.
Yeah but, comparatively speaking, I've only got so much money. So, I figure it's enough for 'em to make a down-payment on a bomber.
That is correct but you don't see what the point is. The point is referencing this statement from the GGP above, which had tricked down through:
Also, most food-borne illnesses are nothing other than a nuisance, good for a day or two home from work, and are no real threat to anyone without a compromised immune system.
There are a number of other food-borne illnesses that can and will kill you but I'm only familiar with botulism. It was also me agreeing with you - I'm not sure why you'd react as if I was attacking something you'd said. But, so be it...
As for some things that *might* end up in the refrigerator there's some of this list care of the CDC:
some examples are chopped garlic in oil, canned cheese sauce, chile peppers, tomatoes, carrot juice, and baked potatoes wrapped in foil.
But no, my post was an addendum to your post, not an argument against it. I guess, given that this is Slashdot, it's not unusual to assume that a response is an attempt to argue.
Given the description, I think I've seen 1944 before. I want to say that I've come across the first one but declined because of the entirety was in a different language and I have to be in the mood for subtitles for the entire film. I am pretty lenient with subtitles. However, I can't do a whole documentary in subtitles. I will, but it is not preferred and there are many other good things to watch (some more than once).
That said, thank you. I will stuff your reply into a stash and look at it again when time allows. If I happen to remember it, I'll mention it. The USSR had some interesting ones and a bunch of nice ones have dropped since the fall of the iron curtain. Even the ones that have fallen since may have certain, shall we say, biases that one needs to be alert for.
At risk of sounding conspiratorial, I'd say the biases are greater and more specific since about the time that Putin came into power. I have no way to compile that data objectively. I have not compiled that data objectively. So, consider it an impression from an impressionable old fool. It's best to not take any stock in such impressions and examine them for yourself and draw your own conclusions. A list could be compiled if properly motivated.
Even odder, I'd suggest that many of the documentaries from outside of the old Soviet States also contain biases, biases a bit different than those from inside the old country. It sometimes makes me ponder if there's some sort of concerted effort, an effort to change views and memories. But, that's the blathering of an old fool, a codger, and should be safely ignored. It wouldn't mean much of anything, anyhow.
I'd say the unknowing should not be impacted at *any* additional level. If you did not know, did not agree with, did not expressly condone such then you're not accountable for it. We might so so far as to use legal terms. "Should the share-holder have reasonably believed that the company was acting illegally in this specific fashion?" We might also go, "Pursuant to the former, what would a reasonable person conclude the level of culpability specifically consider circumstances including, but not limited to, the culpable party's obligation to report, legally mandated or not or the accused's duty to have known, or made known, the alleged act or to take action to prevent the action in question?" A mitigating factor might be, and could be an affirmative defense, something akin to, "The accused, if faced with significant duress where such circumstances meet the threshold for physical response (per statute blah blah blah pursuant to A & B) and having no reasonable opportunity to withdraw from such circumstances shall be subject to X & Y not included, nor to exceed Z & A."
Something like that. I pulled it out of my ass, obviously, and there are lots of place to improve it but that should get the gist across... Thoughts?
No, you misunderstand. I should have probably been more clear but I assumed it was easy figure out from the context. Once I achieve that point, I'm good to go. Once I start beating the automatic transmission then it remains that was, almost invariably, so long as I am mindful to drive appropriately. Each manual transmission, even from the OEM, seems to be marginally different than others - some are drastically so. Once I've dialed that transmission in, I can exceed the automatic most every time.
That also includes where I've taken the time to try it in the same model with the same engine, in the same conditions, but having an automatic transmission. Once I've got the manual and characteristics figured out (and that takes a few runs sometimes) there's a growing difference with the normally associated law of diminishing returns.
I suppose I could have included that but my goal was brevity and I thought it obvious. I'm a bit busy on a project. It is an in-browser project so Slashdot is open in a tab of its own.
Which is much my point. You'd said this:
The automatic can get away with higher overdrive gears because it takes milliseconds to downshift when necessary, whereas a manual car can't count on the driver to do the right thing and manual drivers tend to hold gears a lot because shifting takes a lot of time and is extra effort. Also, manual drivers these days seem to only care about performance, not fuel economy, so carmakers have set the gear ratios accordingly.
In order, there a multiple manual transmissions that have more than four or five gears. A good driver can shift gears almost instantly (with little/no clutch use). You can't count on the driver to do the right thing in an automatic either. I can regularly exceed expected results based on driving habits - in an automatic. The last sentence is a bit silly and akin to saying all black people seem to steal.
So, you weren't *that* wrong - just some niggling details. Otherwise, I've have not said both right and wrong at the same time. I'd have just said wrong.
As an aside, and perhaps some food for thought, will the be any benefit to having manual shift in an EV? I should think there might be but it'd be very limited use.
It appears you've not driven a manual in a lot of years. You somehow managed to be both right and wrong - at the same time. I'm not quite sure how you did that.
The gist of it is this, both have come a long ways. It's actually difficult for me, using the same vehicle model, to get much of a difference from a manual vs an automatic. Yup. However, it's easy to find a six speed. Some manuals actually have some variability in them, depending on how much you want to spend.
I am probably the closest thing to an "expert" driver here on this board. (Don't let that harm anyone's ego - I've spent a lot of money, time, and dedication for this.)
To give an example, I've always wanted to be the driver in automobile commercials. Yes, yes i know how odd that sounds. I think it would be awesome - you might not realize the skill that goes into that. I've taken lots of in-class lessons in order to go hit the track. I took almost a week's worth of lessons before hiring a coach and spending another week doing nothing but laps at Nurburgring. The coach, a nice lady, even let me quasi-rent her car (a very nice Benz) but would not sell it.
So, somehow you're both right and wrong at the same time. I suspect you haven't gotten into a manual drive vehicle in a while either. It's not your granddaddy's 'three on the tree." Then, if you want to get into larger vehicles - we're talking gears as high was 18 being standard though some go even higher. I think the most I've personally driven was 24 gears. I believe there are more. I've not personally encountered them so I won't swear to it. I do have a Subaru with a CVT that's nice. I hardly ever drive it. It seemed like a good idea at the time but every time I drive it, it makes me feel like I'm an Angry Woman from Vermont.
It also brings back memories of my youth. My youth where I owned a Subaru and was stupid enough to put my fucking name on my license plate. Yup. I am retarded. Man, I got caught for *everything.* It took me longer than it should to figure out why I kept getting caught. Tough cars though, but I digress.