Re: How
And there was only anti-trust proceedings in the US after the EU took up the case. In the US "good for the consumer" only exists on bumper stickers.
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Well, when it is a requirement for the volume discount licensing program that saves them millions. The requirement is buried in the agreement which has to be kept confidential because it contains business "secrets" (Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour). Considering that > 99% of all users will want to use the pre-installed Windows on the machine, it's difficult to understand why Microsoft continues with this strategy.
But you can't stop "pondlife" from using their own phones or gov provided mobiles for their own purposes.
Government or company provided phones can, and should, be restricted in the apps that are installable. Using a private phone or e-mail for company/government business is usally a breach of contract, as well as any data privacy issues and can lead to sacking. It does happen and I think we've probably all experienced situations where it's been required. Difficult to see this in any kind of context in terms of the pandemic and really a dangerous erosion of data security and sovereignty.
He may have a point but Twitter also has a contract where Musk essentially waived a lot of rights.
He'll push this to the courts and hope it drags on so long that an out of court settlement can be agreed on. All the while he'll benefit from the possibility.
The SEC should really investigate the thing and possibly sanction Musk so that he can't fuck with the markets as easily: it's one thing taking the piss out of a company, quite another offering the buy and then trying to withdraw. That's manipulation pure and simple and should carry the threat of time in jail.
The machines can be used as build and test systems for MacOS specific software. Used correctly and you're not going to get near 6 weeks continual use.
but electricity consumption looks to the most likely reason
Why? I thought most of the big data centres were already mainly running from their own renewable power and storage as, given their size, this is signfiicantly cheaper than buying the power in and reduces the need to hedge. Though, in any case the power draw would have to be significant to affect the price. More likely is that Apple has offered a rebate for bulk buying, perhaps to shift inventory ahead of M2 machines.
Apple will keep the prices for the M1 to rundown inventory. After that it will be M2's only and these devices are aimed at those of us still on Intel hardware until we're confident that Apple has ironed out most of the bugs related to changing CPU architectures.
For most people who buy an Air, weight and battery life are more important than oomph. And even those who like oomph are, generally, not transcoding video or compiling all the time. Mag-safe will tempt more over, because it's basically a great idea to have a physical connection that will not be damaged when the power cable is jerked, which happens far more often than it should because most people don't know how to route power cables.
If similar restrictions exist on the M2 MacBook Pros then I'd expect greater hesistancy. As it is, I'm not planning to move from Mac on Intel for at least another year, not least because my spare (2016 MBP with new battery) loses OS support this year.
But it was the scandal, or more likely something older and nastier that had been hushed up, that people decided would go too far and probably dominate the summer news cycle.
The recent vote of confidence effectively demonstrated that the PM was no longer able to command a majority in parliament, the very definition of usefulness. But that wasn't enough for Javid, Sunak, et al. to mention their fundamental differences over policy.
The timing also doesn't suggest that anything will change much in the party. I guess they're just hoping to avoid an early election in the face of increasingly poor economic data.
The odd thing is what it took to force him out: another tawdry scandal. In Britain incompetence rarely has consequences and Johnson seemed to take this approach to new limits.
Yesterday, as the list of those resigning grew longer, I was astonished at the titles they all had. Evidence, as more was apparently needed, of a particularly bloated and useless government. Not just Rees-Mogg and Gove's meaningless titles but a whole heap of them. It wouldn't have surprised me to see "ambassador to Golgofrincham" in there.
Can't see much of this standing up to judicial review. It's going to be pretty easy to argue that, if the conversations do not take place on provider's servers, then they cannot be held responsible. Client-side scanning is probably the new hope, but seeing as this is essentially a backdoor, it's also likely to be declared illegal. Of course, people can opt in… but those might be the people of interest!
I can imagine that there would be a market for some of the more specifically Chinese features so presumbaly there's something there with columnar storage for real time analysis. And they may well have advanced natural language features attuned to their character sets, etc. But, I agree, there is also nothing wrong with companies providing commercial support for an open source database of choice.
Though it would be nice to see any possible extensions released as open source at some point.
Without more information about the database systems the report is fairly meaningless. There are lots of reasons not to use Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc. if you are not a legacy user. Licences are expensive and restrictive and quite often an open source system like Postgres provides all you need with the option of extending it, which might well make sense for better support say of the Chinese character set. No doubt some of the Chinese systems are based on existing open source databases as writing a new RDBMS from scratch is far from easy. Would be nice to know more about the Chinese systems.
When you compare the bounty, which will come with strings attached, to the marketing budget you'll realise that that's where it's coming from. More convincing would be if they were prepared to indemnify users if it gets broken. Still it's good to see them taking on the idea of bounties.
I'll reserve judgement on it until its released but, thus far, many of Apple's security features have turned out to have trap doors so that the OS or Apple's own apps can do things.
I wouldn't mind buds if I could be sure they wouldn't fall out and get lost while cycling. I have some Sony with external drivers, for which I could finally source replacement caps at a reasonable price, for cycling. And just normal ones with 15 hour battery life for the train, plane etc.
Fortunately I don't need a headset in the office because all the ones I've tried pressed the ear against the arm(s) of my glasses. :-/
One of the key differences is that Qt mainly targets C++ programmers, and KDE is built in C++.
There are reasons for using C++ for GUIs and while GTK is an achievement in itself, it's also a good example of why C++ (with plain C where necessary) is better for this kind of thing.
The US Supreme Court did not remove any rights. It clarified them, based on an improved reading of the law.
This is partial and factually incorrect. To state that the recent decision was somehow better than in 1973 actually undermines the court's authority: why would the constitution be better in 1782 than in 1973? And removing a "constitutiional" right to abortion is still a removal even if it's based on sound legal reasoning. The same goes, just the other way, for gun laws in the states: the judges decided to limit states' ability to legislate over gun ownership. In a sense, this is both having a cake and eating it. Both decisions also blithely ignore the importance of precedent in the US legal system, which is well established.
The age of the constitution or its amendments shouldn't be an issue. In fact some US court decisions even take English Common Law and the Magan Carta into consideration. A greater problem is the selective blindness of the most recent decisions: states rights behind the decision to uphold bans on abortion, states rights ignored over firearms legislation. The fetish for textualism which chooses to ignore context and indeed other text: the right to bear arms is about the right to raise a militia against an unjust monarch and not a general right to waive them in public.
At some point the legislature should do its job and pass relevant laws and even constitutional amendments. But this will only happen if they can get past their football fan partisanship. So don't hold your breath.
However, I have too many American friends to want to let that get in the way and it wouldn't stop me visting the country.
The data grab is illegal under existing data protection law and the UK and EU countries should be doing everything in their power to stop it.
I think that's both a misinterpretation of liberal software licences and what the tool does. I've not looked at CoPilot and, thus, not at its licence or copyright, but BSD/MIT and other licences are very much about letting people look at the code and use bits of it without any kind of restriction. It's a bit like a lecturer asserting copyright over a CS class when covering memory management, or loops, etc.
In fact the BSD court case was mainly about this with AT&T asserting copyright infringement only to be found to be guilty of it itself.
Copyright in liberal licensing only really comes into play when entire libraries or applications are used, ie. not Oracle's API assertion. But it would be a different thing if Microsoft were to assert copyright over anything produced by CoPilot.
So, while I think the SFC has a point, I also think they're protesting too much and about the wrong thing. I don't host anything on GitHub myself, mainly because I started, and am sticking with Mercurial, but also because of the GitHub's terms and conditions, Being taken over by Microsoft didn't help either but that was long after I'd made my decision. And I'm also not a fan of monocultures: when everyone else gets malaria, I'll be the one holding out for Dengue fever!
IIRC Outlook is a webview based client so you get all the fat from an embedded browser and no functionality.
K9 was abandoned for a while. I switched to Fair E-Mail and can heartily recommend it, though some of the settings can take a while to understand. See above: for the one Exchange account I have, I use Nine but that is as much to keep up with trends as anything else: I made sure that IMAP was left switched on the Exchange server for my desktop client: MailMate on MacOS.
Last year's attacks on Exchange were facilitated by the use IIS to "secure" access. IMAP can be made just as secure as any other protocol* but its use also prevents Microsoft from forcing everyone onto Microssoft 365 which is a security disaster waiting to happen.
* Sensibly you don't try and do it all in the protocol but work with other systems that do little else but authenticate.
True, but most people stick with Exchange for the calendar stuff and that's proprietary.
Outlook for Android is truly awful. I think it was something Microsoft bought, badged and forgot about hoping that the name alone would suffice. It has some classic "this icon doesn't do what you think it will".
For those that are required to work with Exchange, the Nine suite is worth a look. Yes, you have to pay for it but for a work device that's reasonable.
See that little 'sign in' option (and the 'sync' option) in the top-right corner of Edge?
No, because I don't use it and I personlly don't know any companies that have made it their standard browser. That's either Goolge Chrome or Firefox ESR.
Microsoft is force-feeding lockin to Microsoft 365 but, for companies at least, Edge isn't the tool to do it. There's much deeper integration using Azure Active Directory when log on to the machine.
Once Microsoft gave up their own browser, why did they decide they needed another? If it was about the user, there were already sufficient choices. Edge is all about Microsoft getting back into the advertising game using its dominance in the consumer PC to do so.
Anyone with more than, say, 50 machines will have custom images for their machines, independent of what the machine comes with, and they will stick with Windows 10 as long as possible. When Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft also announced EOL for Windows 10 and that is the only stick that matters.
There are now numerous cases in US courts from asian Americans who are being unfairly hit by positive discrimination measures in education.
There is no doubt that african Americans as a group suffer from historical and systemic discrimination and that this does reduce their opportunities. However, positive discrimination is a cheap and ineffective solution, as are so many tokenist attempts (from both sides of the debate) in the US.
China's scientific missions generally do share data. It takes a bit longer than usual but most of the scientists involved understand the importance of sharing the data and a mission to Neptune has no real benefit to China apart from scientific research.
Of course, the CCP could change priorities by then. And, if Xi is still in charge, it might be in for another bout of isolationist paranoia.
Sounds a lot like this Onion article.
Good luck to you and your colleagues!
Listing the company on an exchange is not the same as selling it: you normally choose how much equity you want to offer up and retaining a majority is common. It's almost always spun as raising money for the company listing, it rarely gets to see much of that. Given that the market is currently less frothy than it was a few months ago, SoftBank probably wants to raise some cash now and hope that it can raise more later. Some of the cash can be used to make the bride look better and keeping control is essential to be able to choose the timing for the next rights issue / delisting if the hoped for private equity angel comes along with suitcases full of dollares.
It's not mindshare, it's cold hard sales tactics. Intel offers deals to manufacturers to be more or less Intel exclusive and Microsoft does something similar with volume deals for MS Windows, providing each and every machine comes with Windows pre-installed. Given that Window on ARM isn't ready for primetime yet, that's not changing any time soon. Then again, these designs will be for next year's chips with PCs towards the end of the year.
Points taken but I don't think this is for the mass market.Like most Sinclair products, the C5 had lots of other problems other than the height. Recumbents can be perfectly safe, but with more power it's better to be able to carry more stuff over shorter ranges. 200 - 400 litre/kg capacity on a short wheelbase would make this interesting for the trade.
The nuclear phase out was actually decided before Fukushima but Merkel reversed that decision and then did a U-turn with a plan to phase out nuclear faster and at vastly greater cost even though the Fukushima accident could never have happened in Germany.
Coal is being phased out, actually the industry wants to close plants faster than planned. Hydro isn't really an option given the geography and population density (almost a complete inverse of Norway) and nuclear has lots of unsolved problems including the original barmy compromise that waste disposal would be as far as possible from the plants. The high population density does make nuclear power, reprocessing and storage quite an issue.
Excess energy in the summer is less of a problem as France is happy to take it when it can't cool its nuclear plants properly in the heat, but high density storage would be better.
Personally, I reckon syngas would solve lots of problems and it's getting close to the necessary scale. However, the gas liquefaction industry has been better at lobbying, which is why money is being poured into this instead of improving the efficiency of syngas and working on fuel cells.
Google Hangouts was designed as an instant-messaging app operating across multiple platforms for its now defunct social network platform Google+
Hangouts is older than Google+; Google+ was essentially a single sign-on service with a social network tacked on. While the network had some nice features, it never really gained traction and so Google did what it often does, took what it thought worked well and put it in other things and closed it down.
Hangouts has always had very good support for voice calls and Google put some of this into WebRTC.
I only have one contact that I still use Hangouts for, but conversations are mirrored on Google Chat so that should be fairly transparent.
That's probably because the kind of dweeb that complains about 7-zip has probably never run a web server, let alone a Postgres server with all the great work done over years by "the Russians" – the collective noun affectionately used by Postgres developers to refer to the many Russian and ex-soviet developers who have for years contributed to it.
It's done in combination: high-level drones and satellites are providing reconnaissance where the Russians can't exert air superiority. Once you have a good idea of where something is, it is fairly easy to target.
Russia initially expected to achieve air superiority easily and discounted the threat of Ukrainian drones. Then the Russian air force went missing and the Ukrainians were able to destroy tanks at will. In the Donbas Russia has coordinated defences a little better and the range is greater, which is why Ukraine wants to be able to take out Russian reconnaissance drones so that it can target the enormous artilley pieces.
The Ukrainian engineers are demonstrating exactly what this term is supposed to mean. In the field you don't want politicians and generals impossible wishlist but something that works as simply as possible and is as cheap to make as possible.
Ukraine still needs lots of financial and military (anti-aircraft defences would be good) aid but have from the start demonstrated that they have remembered the lessons of WWII that produced the AK47.