Apple has been trapped before, when stuck at 500MHz by Motorolabut that was probably before you were born. Fickle? Yes, yes they are.
Oh, I'm not suggesting Apple isn't fickle. But in these Intel-specific cases, it wasn't Apple who shot Intel in the foot.
Bitch? I suspect you just envy that 1.5T.
Lol, maybe
It means Apple is a fickle bitch.
You misspelled:
Hubris (x86 vs mobile devices) and Incompetence (utter failure to produce a 5G modem)
1/10
Intel's lack of swift innovation caused Apple to seriously invest and develop ARM architecture for future Apple hardware, likely eliminating use of Intel processors.
When you lose Apple, someone's head had to roll.
So what does it mean to lose Apple, twice?
The "larger message" here is "an Ipad is an easy diversion that works in all circumstances", and the lie is "and you giving up on parenting and letting your kids grow up educated by an ipad and not real parents ain't a problem", so buy one.
Also, it is funny to see someone, whose experience with children amounts to "have watched over nieces for a few days at a time" give advice about parenting to other people.
I'm a father of two (2yo & 5yo) and pretty much agree with everything in the post by SuperKendall. There's nothing wrong with electronic devices, but as you (Ton) point out, the job of a commercial is to sell things, not provide proper parenting.
As it is, the kids both use electronic devices from time to time. Sometimes their usage is limited. Sometimes parents get busy and find the tablet discarded while the kids went off to find other things to play with. Sometimes they veg in front of the TV, and other times the TV is just background noise to legos or hot wheels, etc. Sometimes, they ask us to turn it off, or wander away from the TV. I only have a sample size of 2, but I don't see my kids acting like they require an electronic companion, it's just another item in the house. Take it for what you will.
Considering their generation will grow up with ubiquitous electronic devices (whether we like it or not), I don't see the point in unnecessary restrictions (plane rides, downtime). If someone is so off base on their "parenting" that electronic devices have taken over, then the devices are simply a symptom of the problem, and not the root cause.
So does this mean the cops will actually help me find my stolen car, considering they know exactly where it is/was/went?
all that was 100% failure, today.
NewEgg sold out. Every Microcenter opened to long lines. Doesn't sound like "100% failure" to me.
Fry's sucks anyway.
Are these next-gen APUs still affected by Spectre-type vulnerabilities? I saw no mention of those flaws in the PR. But then again, it's a PR.
Apparently not, AMD chips appear to be in the clear:
I run unRAID, which is a *type* of RAID, right? All my shares are Read-Only at the server level, except an "incoming" folder where I put stuff that ultimately needs to be moved around. If I got hit by ransomware, they could certainly do some damage, but 95% of the server is untouchable.
AMD's Ryzen Mobile chips are now available in laptops/notebooks and all-in-ones. Performance is good, and power consumption/performance-per-watt is substantially better:
Today's demo reports Zen runs at 95 watts, with performance comparable to the i7-6900k running at 140 watts
WTF is a "maliciously coded image file"?
What is the format of this file? JPG? PNG? How, precisely, is it exploiting the image viewer? Via buffer overrun?
Details are not available yet. According to one story, the people who discovered the exploit are not talking about details until it has been patched. I don't know if it's relevant but the story specifically mentions SVG and today i learned that you can embed Javascript code into an SVG image file. Since the only SVG image viewer that most people have is a web browser, this could be one possible attack vector.
In the first link from the summary, there's a video embedded a bit down. At 0:27, there's a screen shot containing a "Notepad" dump of the HTA file, here you can see that the opening bytes represent a standard JPEG (JFIF) format image. When I worked in Imaging and ECM (FileNet Corp.), I knew many programs that relied on the "magic number" (opening bytes) of a file to identify the format; ignoring the file extension which can sometimes be wrong.
So (I'm guessing) Facebook assumes it's a regular ol' JPEG image based on the header bytes, when in reality it's an HTA (HTML Executable). When Facebook tries to serve it to the user, the web browser knows it's not a JPEG and forces the download so Windows Explorer can handle it. The user then double-clicks on the HTA and that's when the exploit takes place. If you still have file extensions hidden in Windows, you'd never know it wasn't a JPEG to begin with.
One wonders why Microsoft still clings to the idea that hiding file extensions is a good idea. It's still the default behavior even in Windows 10.
Well, let's see. I'm going to be 50 soon. That's supposedly a detriment in IT. I make a lot more money than my younger colleagues. That's supposed to hurt me too. I don't know an H1B worker who can even do my job, so I guess I must be worth it. Don't get me wrong. The latter probably exists. I just don't see them lining up to replace me.
Where I used to work (3-letter acronym), there wasn't anyone who could do my job either, but that surely didn't stop them from laying me off. There are countless others who were talented, well trained, but weren't of "optimal" age and salary who were also let go. At some point, apparently, it doesn't matter if anyone can do your job. The big wigs and bean counters are well aware that the structure is hollow. So long as the big name still lights up, there will be some customers, and I suppose that's good enough. I was involved in customer engagements up to the week I left, and I was the last one of my team to go. The guy who was supposed to replace me is presumably there, but we never spent more than 2 minutes discussing things. I shudder to think of how bad it's gotten...
Motherboard: ASUS F2A85-V PRO
Processor: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz FM2 Quad
Memory (part number): G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 4 x 8GB DDR3 1866
Display Chip: AMD A85X (Hudson D4) [Integrated graphics, not a gamer)
Display LCD: Monoprice 30" IPS CCFL Backlit LCD Panel
Hard Drive (System): SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA
Hard Drive (Storage): Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 (0S03355) 4TB
CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 CPU Fan
Case: Antec-300 PC Case
Power Supply: Rosewill FORTRESS-450w 80 Plus Platinum
UPS: CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD 1500VA
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit) Professional
Most people back then didn't go to arcades and had never even heard of Pac-Man.
Pac-Man was ubiquitous because the video game craze extended well beyond the arcade. You could find them at movie theaters, liquor stores, pizza parlors, bowling alleys, kiosk space in the mall, even just past the checkout lanes at the grocery store. I don't know anyone who hadn't heard of Pac-Man by 1981.
My most recent upgrade was from a LinkSys WRT54GS v2 to the ASUS RT-N16 Wireless Router 802.11b/g/n. I put the Tomato WRT software on the ASUS router and it's been running flawlessly now for over a year.
YMMV, of course...
Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers.
