On the other hand, I don't necessarily want kids under a certain age to be viewing hard-core porn and kink websites. Still, how many of us straight guys didn't "borrow" a father's Playboy magazine to look at images of the female body in junior high and later before online porn exited?
I did for the articles.
The authorized repair certification has some huge catches. You have to sign away your ability to use any third party parts whatsoever. And there are a lot of cases where that ability is more important. There are other restrictions that I can't remember for the moment outside of the cost.
No doubt, but you need not be one to buy the tools; but like I said I doubt most of the small fixit shops can afford the suite of tools they may need to repair iPhones or iPads. They may be able to if th emajority of teh tools are not model specific, I guess sit would depend on teh volume of repairs and how much easier it makes doing them.
With Apple, they will rent tools to end users and only if they self-certify that they aren't hiring any professional help in the process. Independent shops can't even buy the tools.
From what I can tell, Apple will currently sell their expensive tools to anyone, as well as rent them. Getting th tools needed to compete with Apple using genuine parts and tools would be a sizable investment and thus most shops are unlikely to be able to afford such an investment. I suspect shops that can are generally already Apple Authorized Resellers, so in the ned Right to Repair doesn't mean I Can Cheaply and Easily Fix My Device.
apple laptops will they do it or just pay the fine?
Given the ambiguity in the rules, it’s possible many Apple laptops already comply in that an end use can open the device and swap the battery, although it is not easy. The commercially available tools could be interpreted as long as the manufacturer offers for sale to anyone tools need to do the repair, they are commercially available and meet the letter of the law. I suspect, for most end users, the cost and difficulty will mean they forgo the DIY repair. A 3rd party shop might be able to afford investing in tools since the cost would be amortized over multiple uses.
This is the usual way the EU does this stuff. They don't get too specific, they let courts figure that out and update their rules if necessary.
It is disappointing that waterproof devices are not included, like IP68 phones. Then again I wonder if IP68 rating is enough to claim that, because typically if they say IP68 and you submerge the phone, they don't want to fix it under warranty. IP68 means a water jet, so I suppose it's not actually submersion, but I think a manufacturer might have a hard time arguing it with a court that is likely to side with the consumer's understanding of words like "waterproof".
Which is why water resistant is term of choice, since it does not imply 100% impervious to water intrusion and damage.
Those stories/researches must be hundreds of years old.
A few were from 2020 - 24 or so from MIT and DOE. While they do state considerable progress has been made, they also point out a number of questions still remain about the long term effects and solution viability. For example, ultra pure salt seems to have very little corrosive effect, but then the challenge is obtaining and maintaining the purity at scale. Type of salt used also has an impact, and some have more data than others so more studies are needed to determine impacts. Having been in the industry, when someone claims a new tech will result in a nuclear renaissance and previous problems are solved, I am skeptical based on my experience. Been there, got the t-shirt.
And about that you are wrong.
Sorry
Not really complicated.
And get some common sense, if corrosion would be an issue, no one would talk about building them. Oooops.
Perhaps you should google some studies. While the impact of purity is has been identified as a means to limit corrosion, most agree more work needs to be done to understand the impact of radiation and salt purity. One study found minimal corrosion with high purity salts after 3000 hours or about 1/3 of a year; so long term impact over a reactor life is not known. As for common sense, that has never stopped someone selling an idea. As I have said, thorium reactors do not appear to be a viable near term solution, which seems to be the goal of the administration’s policy. Whether they can achieve the scale needed to meet growing energy needs is an open question.
It's S&S, not Subscribe and get the lowest possible price on every shipment. Amazon offers a slight break in price if you subscribe, and even don't require a second purchase. It is a convenient way to regularly get items that need replenishment, and Amazon lets you know before the next shipment so you can cancel or skip as needed. If you don't like the new price, you're free to cancel and use another option to get your item.
Amazon has a number of practises I think are shady, but this isn't one of them.
so some coders are becoming modern day Luddites
True but too simplified. The Luddites had an entirely different motivation: The fact that factories now employed women and children at very low rates meant that the men lost their status in the family as bread winners and head of household. That was a major social disruption, which we don't have with AI.
I'd compare it more to teamsters or wagoners when cars became common. Your job is threatened by a different way of doing the same thing, a way to which your skills don't cleanly transition. Some choose to pick up the new tech, some want the old ways to persist.
In the end, coachmen became chauffeurs, because rich people prefer to be driven around oder driving themselves, no matter if it's a horse or an engine doing the pulling. But much fewer teamsters and wagoners became truck drivers.
Good points and analogy. It will be interesting to see the social disruption caused by AI; ad it may disproportionately impact lower skill/wage employees. One of my clients provided medical reviews of physicals and had a number of data entry clerks who processed the incoming paperwork and several doctors who reviewed it. AI should be bl to greatly speed up the process, flagging missing information and informing the sender of it, entering data from either the electronic or secure fax copy, flag any anomalies and send the electronic record to the doctor for review. An office full of data entry clerks can be replaced by a few people to monitor teh system to ensure it is working properly and respond to customer inquiries. Data entry may be one of the skills that simply is not transferable and thus lower wage or off shored job opportunities will disappear. My client's jobs were actually pretty good if low wage, since they included benefits such as healthcare, PTO and a matching 401K in addition to a living wage.
Except for the fact that you do not want weapon grade plutonium floating around, you would not make "MOX" anyway.
Lets just agree that the whole idea is retarded from about 30 angles of viewpoints
Certainly. There’s enough crazy in the idea for everyone.
and I can relive those heady days of my youth, playing Trek on a PDP-11/70 (and wasting copious amounts of tractor-feed paper)!
We used to find a remote terminal - with paper and an acoustic coupler to play Trek. By remote, I mean hidden away in the bowels of a university building where the computer police wouldn’t find us an explain that computer s weren’t for playing games. We also learned that as long as you had 1 cent in your uni account you could log in and stay on as long as you wanted so end of term games lasted for tag team hours. Fun times. When we saw the first remote terminal with a screen instead of paper it was like a whole new world.
If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it.
