>the advantages of doping are somewhat canceled out.
Not exactly. Players are also competing with the records of all the people that came before them, if they are doping they have a higher chance of beating the old records.
>Maybe if we changed the system so that we didn't reward the win at all cost mentality,
Nature is a system that favors the win at all costs.The winners (in wars) are the ones that write the history books. The winners in games are the ones the viewers. The winners in finance are the ones that make the most money. You are going to have a hard time changing the system because being the winner is what most people want.
Each of the product categories you listed above pretty much sucked one way or another before Apple came in and gave them a decent interface or better advertising. It was the product integration that made Apple successful. But that also shows your point, what budding product is out there not being marketed or developed for correctly? Apple will be in trouble if there is no where new to move in to. The other manufactures will catch up and start cutting there margins with similar products after a while.
I think it's two things related to the software.
1. As you say, there are software upgrades put out regularly, you're not stuck with security holes or old useless phones.
2. Even though the software and devices are upgraded, they stay almost exactly the same from revision to revision. There are new features, but the iphoneX+1 still works almost exactly the same as an iphoneX. That is the important part. People hated having to relearn the interface of their phone every time they got a new one. It's still an issue with Android phones that between models and manufactures there is enough of a difference that it can be confusing. Older phones were a joke when it came to that? Where is the address book? How do I add contacts to this one? Why did that change that? Ugh.
In Fedora 15, the big WTF was switching to a desktop environment that does not work well or consistently with remote viewing, which is a big issue for server use.
Really? I'm not in the habit of having any sort of GUI on Linux servers. When I encounter a GUI on a server I inherit, I judge the previous maintainer to be sloppy.
Perhaps it's a generational thing, perhaps I'm missing something. More than superfluous, I view GUIs as a waste of resource.
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Ah, You mean the right not to be shot by the police thinking you are Doner.
No, it's like how convicted pedophiles are not allowed to live or hang out near schools.
Obviously one has to draw a line somewhere, but comparing a computer to food is obviously not a rational comparison.
(And FYI, the analogy would be "People accused of lock picking are not allowed to have lockpicks". Which should be obvious.)
First off, £350 is probably not particularly out of line for the cost to process the records. If we were talking £350000 pounds, yeah, that would look like an attempt at censorship. But there's nothing pecular about £350. Secondly, if anyone in the media had felt it was even remotely newsworthy, they would have paid it. The media pays processing costs for records all the time. All that this means is that most news agencies consider Warg a non-story.
Warg's restrictions are special specifically because the crime his charged with is hacking. Banning a graphing calculator is probably overreach, but it's understandable why they'd want to keep him away from computers.
Sort of like the last leak, the "Kissinger Cables", that were publicly accessible data that journalists and historians have been making use of for years, which he downloaded, reformatted, and set on the Wikileaks site.
New slogan suggestion: Wikileaks: We Open Governments (by taking the data they've already released, running it through a couple python scripts, putting it on our site, and calling it something new)
A sphere of cubical modules. Individually spheres are probably not the most optimal shape of CPUs and each blade of the super-computer. Across a large super-computer a spherical shape sets the best distance from center to edge for maximum latency.
I'm not sure how this is a related question? At X miles you can have the fluid taken out and tested and show the percentage of breakdown that occurs. There is a reason there are SAE standards. Now the breakdown may occur more or less quickly depending on environment and driving habits but the number are a good average. These are all parts that suffer mechanical stress and will eventually wear out.
It's not much different from computer hard drives. They will eventually fail, keep an eye on your SMART diagnostics. The real question comes in to play with solid state devices. If it has good caps, good power, and kept cool, the life of the device should far exceed the usefulness of the device. I've had servers in climate and dust controlled rooms last 12+ years. Support for the devices ends far quicker then the usefulness.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
