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This comments thread is off-track. This is not yet another article about how ARM is poised to eat Intel's lunch, and that cites (worthless) Geekbench scores to make that claim. No, this was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan, who actually knows hardware.

His basic argument, at least on my quick reading, is that right now, Intel's Xeon margins are insane -- some 50% -- and x86's market share is north of 99% in servers. Furthermore, Intel, Microsoft, and Red Hat are sucking up all of the margin in the stack, and leaving everyone else to fight for scraps. (We've seen this "Intel eats all the margin" movie before in the PC space, and I wrote about it here: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/how-intel-missed-the-iphon...)

So, these three things -- an x86 monoculture, crazy high margins, and three companies sucking up all the profits from the rest of the stack -- are both individually and collectively unsustainable. Morgan seems to be arguing that a rational market is going to take care of this arrangement one way or the other. By virtue of its margins and market dominance, Xeon has a massive target on its back, and there is a ton of ingenuity gunning for it. So at some point things will change.

So no, this isn't yet another in a near-decade long string of "ARM vs. x86 as told by Geekbench, with a side of OMG Apple" articles. He's actually pointing out that, technical considerations aside, there is a set of market conditions currently prevailing that looks unsustainable on its face, and at some point, like when pressure builds up along a fault line and then gives way, there will be a big shift.
Xiaomi smartphones come equipped with backdoor
I've been to Barcelona twice. A beautiful city that I really enjoyed. I never felt threatened in any way (but see next paragraph). I went out at night to local clubs and didn't feel that there was any more risk than going out in a large US city. Take the same kind of precautions, ask people before venturing into areas that you are unfamiliar with at night.

Las Ramblas is a large interesting boulevard through the middle of town and is a lot of fun to see. However, in any location where there are tourists, there appear to be very talented pickpockets targeting them; be careful.

I'm an amateur (very amateur) magician so I was fascinated to see the street scams based on the classic shell game being performed openly on Las Ramblas, complete with confederates winning money etc.
TV shows (though calling them that may itself now be an anachronism) have become a commodity. Netflix, HBO now, Amazon Prime video... these are the future. This is the destruction of the middle man monopoly in the form of the cable provider. A new monopoly based on more cheaply and effectively providing consumers with content they want will fall (assuming it does come about) just as easily as it was made if price gouging and lack luster content take hold. Consumer choice, not Hollywood relationships, are the new drivers of success. Adapt or die.
UDP flood attacks becoming increasingly powerful
Many functional programming languages have stronger type systems than C#. They typically don't accept null as a valid substitute for any type. To represent a nullable type, you wrap the value in a generic container. Think of it as being like an array that contains at most 1 item.

The interface of this generic container only allows you to interact with the (potentially) wrapped value in a way that is type safe. That doesn't completely eliminate having to think about how the business logic should differ for missing values, but it ensures that you'll never get a null pointer exception.
Is there a lot of fat on it? The more fat I have to cut off of it, the more unappetizing it becomes. I want meat to be as lean as is physically possible.

If I eat gobs of fat, I get nauseous, (gross stuff coming up) the same way you so when you have a horrible cold and a tonne of mucus dripping down the back of your throat and into your stomach.
Which is why I said that, "the pitch shown in the video almost certainly just got away from him."

But, the main reason I'm responding is to say that this pitch definitely isn't worse (for any reasonable definition) than a pitch that misses closer to the plate. There are no runners on base and this is the first pitch in the at bat.

It doesn't matter if the catcher catches it or not. It's a dead ball.

He could have thrown this pitch 15 feet over Phillips's head and into the stands and the outcome is the same.
What's your "lets not turn this into decentralized eBay for child porn" story?
Update here, HP admits to doing this intentionally and makes excuses as to why... http://hothardware.com/news/hp-admits-to-sabotaging-ink-cart...
You think average Joe User needs to be root or an admin capable of using sudo, to format a USB stick, or use a printer already connected to the computer? There is something that a locally logged in user is privileged to do without needing to be or become root.

Apple and Microsoft have tossed out their window managers more than once also. X is older than anything they've had.
> Why does he get to keep what he took from others?

If we kill him, why do we get to keep what we took from him?
Amusing to note that a site hosting a detailed article on the "cypherpunk revolution" doesn't support https.
Does it? ElSter works with JS (and a local authenticator program that interfaces with your smartcard) nowadays, too. Java or ActiveX were only required many years ago.
Someone created a tech job board for people over 30
Why no picture of the actual app on the front page or the product video
When it comes to matters of American National Security, there is very little daylight between Democratic and Republican positions, so calling a report bipartisan is not something that indicates that its contents were carefully debated, but rather that debate on these issues is nearly absent. GIGO.
There are always organised overland truck trips which are pretty safe eg http://www.intrepidtravel.com/uk/search/trip?f%5Bduration%5D...

or https://www.truckafrica.com/tour/london-to-cairo-trans-afric...

which does much the same route as in the article for approx £8k
F/1.8 on a tiny sensor still doesn't give you shallow depth of field. The sensor is just too small. What 20yrs_no_equity is referring to is the software-generated shallow depth field that the iPhone 7 Plus promises.
Beyond Top Gear, the hilux is the standard light cav for irregular armies around the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)

http://www.newsweek.com/why-rebel-groups-love-toyota-hilux-7...
I've tried pelican, lektor, hugo, and even a cobbled-together flask-based (using frozen pages module) custom static site builder. One of the biggest challenges/time sinks/annoyances of adopting any of these types of platforms is the time spent on the initial wiring up of the templates. Maybe I'm lazy in this regard, but I'd rather use a GUI/WYSIWYG interface to do the initial UX (not talking about design here, only placement of site objects/elements) for the site within the context of the relevant template. I don't mind spending a few minutes on setting up the build environment, setting up any dependencies, because its a local app that's being installed, so I get it that it requires a tiny investment in time. But setting up the templates, boy, that annoys me; especially for small sites which only have few pages and infrequent additions.

Case in point: I really wanted to use lektor; it's elegant persistent storage mechanism (no database required, basically text files organized within folders), and its brilliant idea for use of a local web GUI were what attracted me to it in the first place. But setup - for example - was annoying as hell on Windows (hey some of us can't afford to keep buying Macs!), and then of course after the install/setup comes the wiring of the templates (ugh). I can not imagine a conventional (non-dev.) user - who I would guess is a good candidate to extract great benefit from using a web GUI - won't have the patience or inclination to dive into code to wire up the templates. I don't mean to pick on lektor (I highly respect the team behind this!!), but it is an example of what most of these static site generators do: they mean to simplify things but 1 or 2 aspects of the system seem like quite a time sink.
iOS is not bad for mainstream users if the right privacy settings are enabled.

Since the baseband processor is a major attack point on a mobile device, it's a big deal that Wire does not need a phone number. It means you can use a WiFi-only device like an iPod Touch or non-cellular tablet.

In the bigger picture, we have to stop supporting companies whose business model is based on data harvesting. Wire is a small step in the right direction. We need more steps and more alternatives.
I would not be surprised if the Oracle offerings turn out to be better than EC2

Oracle has been poaching the core EC2 team from Amazon for years now, in Seattle there are farewell parties every week for another person leaving EC2 to work at Oracle
I don't guess it's a cost issue. iTunes is the Apple trojan horse into the Windows platform. They know that they can get anything onto a Windows desktop by crammng it into this one application. My guess is that strategically they don't want to give this up.
>Is private consumption stagnating due to less people wanting to consume or due to less income?

You (sort of) left out a factor: Slowing / arrested population growth.
This is classic second-system thinking. 'This time we'll do everything right! This time we'll write it without any bugs!'

Yeah, there's a lot to dislike about how X works. It's old, and it shows. But it has had man-centuries of work to get it where it is now; a de novo solution will necessarily need similar levels of work to get to a similar point.

What could radically improve a next-generation X replacement would be to use a higher-level language than C, which would remove entire categories of errors as possibilities. I'm thinking either OCaml or Common Lisp could potentially be excellent choices, for very different reasons.

But replacing one large, old, battle-tested C project with a large, new, untested C project isn't going to usher in a happy world of simplicity and security.
wonders if Jen is the writers business partner or his girlfriend who has asked that he refer to her as his "partner"
One thing this article doesn't take into account is that the movie the author undoubtedly watched before writing this was full of inaccuracies, and had the purpose of establishing Snowden as a martyr or sorts. This is evident because rather than just prove their point, the author makes several attempts to make sure the reader knows that if you hold an opposing view, you are intellectually lazy and unable to cope with reality.

Not arguing either way, but if you are going to take a strong stance, don't make an article about how the opposing stance is only held by the weak minded.
Completely disagree. Spotify has nailed the desktop/mobile music app UX like nobody ever has, and it is an absolute joy to use. Yes it's missing a few features, but nothing that's actually truly essential to just listening to music.
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
Sure, you can cherry pick it however you like. They also circumnavigated the entire continent in an old truck. Which means the likelihood of running into something not so pleasant, much greater.
You think average Joe User needs to be root or an admin capable of using sudo, to format a USB stick, or use a printer already connected to the computer?

I do, yes, which is why I avoid things like PAM and all the various FOO-kits (sadly Slackware has since succumbed to consolekit, which is why I've been moving to OpenBSD). I want to know that anything I do as my user without su or sudo or doas (depending) will not have an impact outside of my home directory.

(Though to be clear, I think a display server could conceivably be justified for a dedicated non-root user -- fbterm seems like a good model here: getty hands over the VT to a user who has write access to the framebuffer.)
Firstly I would say it's not that big of a deal. Accents are indicative of where you come from, and should be embraced.

I used to talk a mile a minute, and mumble. I forced myself into public performance to curtail it. I would say look for a local acting class, improv class, standup comedy etc. The classes are usually under 500. You can have a lot of fun with them. Also I find they help with the business side of things. You learn how to see from other vantage points, and think on your feet. I've taken all three and they were a boon to my professional career.

If group work isn't beneficial. There are usually meetups in a variety of areas for people. Joining a group and talking with them.

Lastly read your favorite piece (novel, poem, story, etc.) record it. Listen back the first time just listen, then again but noting the various issues you may find. Then read through the notes you made. Then read again. Take breaks like an hour or so between sessions.
Fair enough. It's still pretty common...it's hard to pin down any numbers exactly, but I'd guess it's probably half and half for solfege vs. other systems. We teach solfege at my school (although I prefer numbers myself). And you're right that it's used mostly in sight-singing/aural-skills classes; I mention solfege much less often in my written theory classes.
GloVe – Global Vectors for Word Representation
You see, that's the thing: X11 has been stuck in this Groundhog day of people proposing to fix it by making X12, or if they're really ambitious, Y. And it always will be that day. It's never going away.
Are legacy X apps going to be able to be run directly under Wayland, or will they have to be ported?
My rural area (the northern frontier of Appalachian mountain range) doesn't have long lines of sight. Around here the high points are around 2000 ft above sea level and most of the population is in a network of valleys that dissect what would otherwise be a plane. Hilltops are wooded too (even on the many hills named "Bald Hill") so you have to add another 40 ft to your tower just to look into two adjacent valleys.

If, on the other hand, this hardware mounted on one of my buildings can cover my 70 acre farm and a bit of the valley around it, I could find a use for it.
On one level this is just typical bluster. "Oracle is going to launch a phone, so you might as well get used to it, 2015 was Apple's last profitable year." On another, why is such bluster typical? These people aren't stupid, I assume, so why even try such implausibly optimistic announcements?

Does hubris lead to sales if you have Oracle-like customers?
I supposed we can A/UX to the list. So, its A/UX -> AIX -> OS X Server. I do admit an iOS Server would be an interesting product. I guess it would be all containers all the time.
Note that the United States had 512 658 elected state and local officials in 1992 [1], or 2,060 state and local elected officials per million people.

[1] http://www.census.gov/prod/2/gov/gc/gc92_1_2.pdf see page 19
My point is if my passport had empty pages there is no chance I would bring it around and use it as notebook so tablet and e-notebook can't go to same category?

I think each student in any level of education has at least 2-3 notebooks around with them. Isn't it demand attractive?
>don't make an article about how the opposing stance is only held by the weak minded.

What if you really think that's the case?

Screw it, I'll say it. I think anyone who condemns Snowden is intellectually lazy or has vested interests in NSA surveillance. I have yet to see a single cogent rebuttal of Snowden's moral case.
The depth of field is also dependent of the lens diameter.

The small lens diameter in mobile phones yields larger depth of fields than DSLRs with large lenses, so the drop to 1.8 might be more than just "slightly more shallow" (haven't done calculations, if somebody has a link, it would be appreciated).

Using 2 cameras, the new iphone still relies on simulating shallow depth of field by blurring the background from the calculated depth information and fakes the bokeh with blur. The result could be a differentiator for the new iphone, or it could not be.

Looks a bit too fake for my taste in some situations.
Hi everybody - I'm the author of the website https://OldGeekJobs.com. The writer who wrote that story for QZ in a haste got the facts wrong. 30 isn't old, and it's somewhat an insult to people having a hard time getting jobs.

She somehow got the idea that the person who tweeted this is me:

https://twitter.com/OpinionatedGeek/status/77650940367565209...

She used it as a quote in the article, but, that's not me. I sent her an email to change it, and never heard back.

I'm 37, which is a little older than 30, and yes, jobs with startups are actually getting harder to be had when you're interviewing with 20 year olds in Silicon Valley. That's why I created OldGeekJobs.com. It's a place for employers to post jobs under the impression older people will apply thus making applicants feel safer. It's open to all age groups though.

-Thanks
Knowing what we do about Oracle's licensing practices and how their sales people are basically just loan sharks that will take your kneecaps out if you don't pay their extortion fees, why would you ever want to put your entire operation in their hands? I would assume they'd have no issue cutting you off from your entire infrastructure at the drop of a hat if there was a billing dispute.
> live in Oakland, CA. Never felt like I was about to be robbed. I guess at the risk of being downvoted for victim blaming, "don't be stupid."

Unless things have improved a lot in the last fifteen years, it's really pretty easy for a tourist inclined to walk between touristy areas in Oakland to wander into an unsafe area. I wouldn't blame that on stupidity, it's not as if the city puts warning signs up.
That's interesting from a personal perspective. I was taught music in the UK where that is specifically not used (or at least wasn't when I learnt).

I took a year out of my Music degree to attend the Sorbonne. French music education places a heavy emphasis on solfege. When I started going to their undergraduate classes it was immediately apparent that the level was several years behind that of the UK (in classes for composition and orchestration most noticeably). To attend classes dealing with similar material to what I was used to as a UK undergraduate, I was attending Post-grad courses. Having just completed my first year on a UK BMus course it was quite an eye opener to see 19yr olds learning material I had been taught at 16.
Solfege/solfège is still used prominently in France, or at least it was ~25 years ago. I took music lessons when I lived in France as a teenager. My piano instructor was very confused by the fact that I spoke good French, was at a solid intermediate level at the piano, and yet I could not at all follow his solfège commands (like you say, I had only used numeric intervals back home, although teachers usually called the note by its alphabetic name, like most here I think).

I tried reviewing in my head each week before class what I remembered from the Sound of Music, but made the mistake of thinking that Do-Re-Mi etc. was a static C-D-E instead of realizing that my music instructor was simply describing intervals depending on the key we were in.

In the present day, I would just look it up online, but back in 1991, in a small city in northern France, I didn't have that privilege. It took me several months of twice-weekly instruction before I finally figured out that he was using solfège for intervals, I'm embarrassed to say (to my instructor's frustration and confusion). I'm wincing even now when I think of it.

I asked around at the time and was told it was pretty universal to use solfège there.

I do think using solfège to indicate notes is a much better system for students, since it emphasizes the importance of intervals and keys. It's probably harder at the beginning that just learning static A-B-etc., but worth it.
Not right now. Sadiq Khan seems completely comfortable talking about the housing crisis and not doing anything about it, and he's pretty much the only one who can.

If they announced (credibly) that they were going to build 75,000-150,000 new council housing units each year, house prices and rents would start to plunge.

If that were to happen they would have to be high rises and would be fought by the skyline campaign.
I dunno - there's something distinctly riotous about tearing down the walls of walled gardens! But then again, I'm biased, given i work on it :)
Oracle is smoking some dang strong weed if they think they can compete with AWS
One of the major purposes of prisons is deterrence, and for that prisons need to be awful.
That's by far my biggest complaint. Driving in a dense and disorganized city, street names are sometimes the only way to sort out which of several connected (or vertically-overlapping) streets Maps actually wants me to take.

But with the labelling change, it's impossible to coax out the needed information. Combine that with Google's exotic definitions of "sharp" and "small" turns and it's surprisingly inconvenient.
How did you pay for all of this? And are you back working now?
Steve Jobs balanced aesthetics and usability. Jony Ive is 100% aesthetics. That's the trap they are in now.
I think "nobody can find good engineers" is a fallacy. Either the filtering is failing or they simply aren't paying enough to attract "good engineers". If they are paying an average wage they should expect average engineers to apply.
BACK FROM CANCER Now I Do This
Wouldn't the play count metadata embedded in the file lead to different md5sums?
In Rebol / Red...

>> "Hello" != "hello"
== false

>> "Hello" !== "hello"
== true

!== is a stricter equal [1] where both values must be of same type and is case sensitive on strings, chars & words.

[1] see strict-equal? function - http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/functions/strict-equal-q.html
Oracle is smoking some dang strong weed if they honestly think they can compete with AWS. AWS does so well because they have a history of opening their platforms up, Oracle does the exact opposite