Intel ended support for Ivy Bridge and older processors in 2018 when they failed to create a new IGP driver for windows "10" 1803, although Ivy Bridge was only practically replaced in late 2014 when Haswell processors finally became generally available, meaning approximately 3 years of support.

Today's announcement terminating support for Comet Lake which isn't even 3 years old and is still being sold in new systems seems a bit extreme. It's really up to Microsoft whether they decide to kill the old drivers by changing models again.

The concept that prevents most reviews from being about performance, battery life, or other objective criteria is mostly due to this concept. When a computing OEM makes the decision to buy an intel or AMD platform they buy the whole thing: the chipset, processor, IGP and power target decision is already made for them.

Other broad stroke decisions are also made like is this a "desktop replacement" or the much more popular standard ultrabook? While a big maker can divert and make something of a less popular form factor they very rarely do.

This leaves most of the differences between laptops with the things that you touch and look at; keyboard, touchpad, and monitor quality making up the bulk of the difference of experience. This review could have pointed out that Dell's XPS line is a disaster that's not even part of their professional series, but instead they try to make it sound as if an immature platform with a better processor overrides all of the more tangible advantages.

So would you give up all those advantages of a high quality matte screen, a keyboard that doesn't break after a few hours of use, and a lower power target for a processor that's 15% faster in geekbench? https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/...

There are also risks with unfermented grapes however. Higher sugar content, and a smooth taste that doesn't encourage slow consumption isn't exactly good for blood sugar.

It's probably not the alcohol that makes grapes healthy, or the sugar but the phyto-nutrients in the skins.

Closest you'll get to something like that would be the t700 project which puts a tiger lake board/cpu inside a thinkpad t60 chassis for around $1200 USD.

Hard to justify IMO, but an interesting project nonetheless: https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowd...

The price is high because they can't buy production runs on the same scale as bigger players. Even there, I don't know how someone can justify paying over $1000 for a basic laptop with soldered ram.

Dish spent $1.4M buying the Boost Mobile MVNO that exclusively resold access to Sprint's network. They told the FCC that they had a plan to build out their own network, but its become clear that was either not true, or the task of building an entire wireless network within 2 years was too hard.

https://www.fiercewireless.com...

30/27mbit/s is actually enough to deliver a reasonably high quality compressed 1080 video stream, even for fast action. The reason the other services suck is they're massively under-provisioned. They probably assume most cloud gaming users are coming from mobile or console exclusive background, so a minor upgrade is all that's necessary to hook users, but then somehow fail to deliver even that.

I really wish we could figure out why this failed business plan keeps getting pushed though.

Yeah, good luck getting a rape conviction secured inside 9 months with the criminally incompetent "justice" system though.

How do you handle this problem if there's no conviction, does the woman get to perform the abortion in the interim, but then get convicted for illegal abortion after the alleged rapist gets off due to prosecutorial misconduct, or you know for actually being demonstrably innocent?

Exactly correct. As others have pointed out, responding to court orders doesn't make Google money, but they're also under no obligation to keep the data (prior to any exacting request), and the amount of money wasted responding to subpoenas would be significantly lower if they could just blanket respond with "we have nothing".

The most likely reason Google maintains identifiable user data is for these government entity requests made outside the confines of the law, but under color of such.

Once google starts accepting money from the government they become a public actor, and are subject to the same rules. The liability for misuses does largely stay attached to the government entities requesting that information though.

This moves the question to something along the lines of "if you searched for an address of a house that was burned down while logged into a public library computer, should the police receive your information"?

The narrow scope of this request would probably justify this case, where other queries made to google along the lines of "all people without 100 miles of this gps position on specified date" would clearly be in violation.

It means that the EPA can only use delegated authority to regulate things they're actually authorized to regulate in said delegation.

IIRC, the courts have already upheld these types of delegations, despite the routine responsibility failures of agencies who are delegated authority.

Being fair to the bureaucrats, it's likely that the elected officials want to avoid accusations of overreach, thus limiting the authority delegated. Those making the appointments are likely still expecting extreme outcomes with limited authority, placing the unelected officials in a difficult balance.

The senate isn't asking that USB-C be named defacto standard, they're asking the Department of Commerce to require that electronics makers follow industrial standards. The whole loophole justifying unelected bureaucracies like these hinges on the idea that they can be more agile than direct representatives, which is true despite other problems with these orgs. See letter: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/upload...

EU has been trying to be as hands-off as possible while requiring standards compliance for years, which is probably why 8 years later Apple still hasn't really adopted the then new USB-C.

There's nothing stopping the DoC from mandating the use of one of the two most recent USB standards, which would allow phone makers to use USB-micro or USB-C at this point, and USB-C or USB-D whenever the next standard arrives.

It's also worth noting that there's typically nothing preventing electronics makers from implementing additional connectors, only that they support the standard ones. Want to outfit your device with a 200w magsafe charge port and an 8k Displayport v1.69? Go for it. Users of these devices will likely be grateful that they still have access to "legacy" USB-C for connecting to a projector or for borrowing a friends charger when they forget their specialized dongles at home.

Yeah, because AMD releases a dozen+ configuration processors for each generation and there's a ton of bloat to prevent users from configuring the hardware how they'd like.

VIA and Intel were able to build bioses that would handle three competing brands of processors all with slightly different architecture and wildly different clock and power configurations for socket7, they did this with 1MB chips.

You're thinking of Bradley Manning. Snowden was employed as a sysadmin/project manager for the CIA and NSA.

The link you posted allowed me to submit a comment about 3 hours after you posted it. Not sure if this was because the comments are just now opening or if they're receiving lots of comments.

I'd say try to post your comment, history has indicated that however polite the people are, the lobbyists will come up with some nonsense reason why the public comments should be disregarded.