Perhaps by "in a year" you mean since the massive Omicron outbreak in January-March of *this* year? You know, the wave where an estimated 60% of the US population got infected.

Will they accept reverting the water pistol emoji back to the actual Unicode standard?

Yeah, yeah, I suppose it is too late because every major tech company deviated from the standard and went with a toy gun.

Such silliness!

Integrated circuits were co-invented in the late 1950s by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. While it could be argued modern electronics would still exist as they do today without Kilby, it is a fact the process of fabricating multiple transistors was co-invented in Texas and California.

While Sunnyvale "silicon valley" in California gets the most attention, a pretty substantial number of ICs are also designed in Austin "silicon hills" in Texas with good portion of the US-based IC fabs in located Dallas. Many of those chips (especially Texas Instruments) are "analog" types which have fairly mundane functions like controlling the special signals to pixels on displays and localized power supplies like the ones which convert your PC's 12 volt power to much lower voltage and higher current in close proximity to power hungry chips like CPUs & GPUs.

Hopefully his extraordinarily bad faith "media circus" behavior ends up with liability to shareholders far exceeding the $1B cancel fee.

NTFs were never an "industry", which means manufacturing of goods or materials.

I suppose you never downloaded BOB_89A.GIF. Seems odd that you would have missed that file since it was a demonstration of the features in the GIF specification. Load that file with CSHOW.EXE (CompuShow) and it would display text over the picture that said: Oh, incidentally, it's pronounced "JIF"

It was definitely out there, and I knew plenty of people that pronounced it that way.

I do! I learned it that way when GIF was new. There was a .gif from CompuServe that stated that it should be pronounced "jif". Back in those days, everyone I knew pronounced it "jif"... probably because they saw the same file.

Impressive patience you have. Patents surrounding H.265 are expected to expire around 2027 to 2028.

But if pretty much everyone has moved on to AV1 by then, or even whatever comes after AV1, whether the browser makers who don't wish to be patent encumbered will reward your patience with support for a then-obsolete codec remains to be seen.

Look for the other messages about using DFU update to initialize. Seems Apple did indeed provide a way for the storage to be changed.

Complaining about Macintosh e-waste, really?

PCs typically have short service lifespan compared to Macs.

Macintosh usually has excellent resale value. Most used Macs are sold and continue to be used for years to come, whereas most used PCs have little to no resale value and usually wind up recycled or in landfills.

Apple's M1 processor uses far less power than Intel & AMD CPUs, and nVidia & AMD GPUs, resulting in much less environmental impact.

Workstation class PCs which compete with Mac Studio are dramatically larger & heavier. Even if they last as long, get resold as often, and didn't consume far more power during their usage, when they finally are recycled or just thrown away, they contain far more material to dispose.

Apple goes well above most other PC manufacturers in use of recycled materials and other ways of mitigating environmental impact. Most PCs compete primarily on price, which leaves little ability for PC manufacturers to do such things.

If you so bitterly hate Macintosh, to such an extreme that you by extension also hate people who use Macs, considering them selfish assholes, I suppose you can twist anything to confirm your bias. But objectively, the plain reality is Macs last longer than PCs, they have good resale value and tend to be resold, since M1 they consume far less energy for the same work, they use much less material which ultimately becomes e-waste.

According to Hector Martin, those modules are raw storage media, not a traditional SSD. Details here:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/s...

Key takeaway: "Apple Silicon Macs don't work like PCs and you shouldn't expect them to. It's not Apple being evil, it's different. If you try to blindly apply x86 world concepts to them, from how they boot to how storage works, you're going to be very confused."

But it does have a headphone jack

The way that the US Navy operates nuclear reactors.
It's not been accident free, but has been much safer. Because it's not operated on a for-profit basis.

yeah, but the risk is borne by innocent bystanders.

Not shareholders.
Not board-members.
Not idiot operators who don't vet the authenticity of replacement parts (or otherwise cut corners to save their costs).

>n that environment, a "safer" reactor just means they can get away with more cost-cutting to line their own pockets. Until we figure out a way to eliminate that, I'm not at all confident that even the most theoretically "idiot proof" reactor would actually be substantially safer in practice than the reactors we have today.

It's really THIS.

And we already have a way to eliminate that. Just not in the Civilian world. As soon as you try to run a nuclear reactor as a for-profit business where the costs are borne by others (like the people who live in the town that gets shut down after the plant explodes; they will not get their land back in their own lifetimes, but shareholders don't give a fuck) - it's a recipie for disaster. But operate a nuclear power plant as part of an Navy vessel; these folks mean business, and they do it right. And it's nowhere near profitable, compared to other means of electrical generation. (this is why the commercial industry is leaving nuclear power: it's not profitable unless the government gives them shitloads of money).

And the prevailing Milton Friedman attitudes of running business and informing Government Policy is what is responsible for the NRC being no longer able to do their jobs.