Comment Re:Intel has a fab... (Score 1) 67
The thing that keeps Intel relevant is the fact that they have fabs, and moving to a 1.8 nm process node later this year
This time for sure? Intel has flubbed node shifts before.
The thing that keeps Intel relevant is the fact that they have fabs, and moving to a 1.8 nm process node later this year
This time for sure? Intel has flubbed node shifts before.
What "they" (federal, state, and local governments) need to do is go after people underpaying wages.
Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined, and more wages paid also means more taxes paid, and since we have a graduated tax system, the difference is really quite significant — they're reducing the tax rates paid as well by stealing the money that would put people into higher tax brackets.
Killing satellites using nuclear EMP would make less space debris that using a conventional missile, as it would only destroy electronics
It would make less space debris only because you weren't adding the mass of a missile. Spacecraft with their electronics destroyed ARE space debris, as you almost pointed out yourself...
Now that you mention it, once my Android phone has been paired with my Google account, I've never had to sign in again.
I've had to sign in on my phone a couple of times to make big changes. This has been really annoying since I don't actually know my google password. It didn't prevent me from using the device and making calls since local login via thumb or PIN was not affected. I forget what I was trying to change. Something in Google settings.
Almost as funny as "Cisco" and "Intelligence".
After all the back doors that have been found in their products, the only winning move is not to play.
Everyone switched over to an remarkably similar "competitor" named TokTik by a totally different new company named BitDisco?
Seriously, what's to keep ByteDance from simply creating another company and licensing their TikTok product to it under a different name? For example, I worked for a small company (way back) that had a commercial software product and licensed it to a sister company to sell to government customers -- that way, the sister company didn't own the software.
Most desktop 3D printers are Chinese. The American ones (made in China) mostly went away because they cost 10x as much, were near impossible to repair, and some were drowning in DRM.
If American companies don't stop phoning it in and demanding huge margins (or running with terrible efficiency), they will be left behind.
Sony is segmenting a generation of their console, something no one has ever done before. The refresh isn't good enough to be a new generation, so they're doing this half-assed thing which is going to irritate a lot of people with games targeted at the new version of the system that don't run well on the old one.
Their console is already the sales leader in this generation, they're just screwing with success at this point. You're supposed to ride out the console as long as it's profitable, and take the time to make a greater successor.
Microsoft is trying to keep PC gaming going because it's a big reason why consumers buy computers with their OS on them.
Microsoft needs that to happen so that they can sell "OEMs" (most of them don't design most or all of "their" machines anyway) their OS. Competent corporate users don't want anything to do with a bundled license, only small businesses should be using those at this point.
It's too bad Kinect wasn't more successful, for Microsoft that is. It would have helped them if they could have differentiated their console.
On the other hand if we extrapolate this EU cellphone stuff to other markets, closed game consoles' time is limited anyway.
Games for Xbox being on other platforms surely does hurt it, but it also helps the Xbox that PC gaming is strong and it's easy to make a game that will run on both PC and Xbox. They don't have to do nearly as much to convince developers to make games for their platform.
So your solution is to monetize everyone further? At least you're not hiding your proud fascism.
It's called selfishness, and you will keep it up right until we are all in our graves.
Patching other programs' memory was a feature in those days. It did make the system quite insecure of course, but it was already quite insecure. Meanwhile it let you do fun tricks. The Amiga was another platform where the lack of memory protection was a virtue. On the other hand, it also made it infeasible as a general purpose computing system going forwards. We did have some pretty good virus scanners, but we needed them.
I am running XFCE and Compiz on a system with a 4060. It's lovely. The animations could be a little smoother, but I am absolutely loving the high quality mipmaps that are missing from KDE. You can really see what is going on in the icon hover previews. My CPU is a 1600 AF (Pinnacle Ridge) which is pretty poky by modern standards, but it was replacing a FX-8350.
Now I just need to finish building avant-window-navigator. The XFCE4 dock is pretty meh. The fucking clock stopped updating for over an hour this morning...
I think most people follow brands and don't think. They don't wanna think. It's tiresome. Maybe they have to do it at work and then they wanna let their brain rest, most of them don't seem to think much at work either though.
Japanese cars have been the best on the planet since they first got their shit together in the late eighties, except for this brief moment where Tesla has had the best EVs because they were the first to put together a bunch of available technologies in a convincing way. Anyone who had R/C cars could tell you that it was time to do it. We just didn't all have emeralds in our pockets.
The situation you describe is the responsibility of the parents. Simple as that.
What is your plan for what to do when they aren't able to meet that responsibility? You need to have one, it's all of our responsibility, "Simple as that."
You want to pass judgement, but I'm betting you don't have a plan for how to make things better. I can have respect for ideas, but not for a lack of them.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.