Posts by Richard 12 6093 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
Safari has 100% of the iOS and around 95% of the macOS browser market.
That's very significant monopoly power.
Apple were until very recently the most valuable corporation on the planet. They still are the most valuable tech company.
You don't have to be a literal monopoly to abuse your market position, and as consumers we should expect and require our elected representatives to act before the abuse has actually killed the competition. Because that would be far too late.
Actually, no, take it straight to the maximum permitted under the law.
Then charge the directors for contempt of court - that response is not "we're appealing", it's straight-up contempt.
Note that it's also illegal everywhere within the EU, and as the UK is no longer a member, an EU member state can bring a separate GDPR action and fine them the maximum too...
Air-cooled stuff like rackmount blades have all connectors on the back and front for ease of slotting into the frame, plugging in keyboards and replacing drives.
That's not very convenient for immersion cooling, as you'd prefer not to immerse the electrical and data connections if you can avoid it - the fluid will creep along the wires under the insulation unless special measures are taken.
So a different form factor makes sense. I presume one of the goals of this project is to come up with form factors that are easier to handle.
Of course Monopoly money is an asset.
If you take a quick look on various online tat bazaars, you'll find Monopoly money for sale.
Seems to be about £10-£15 for a full set, so there might even be a business model in buying up classic board games to resell the Monopoly money...
As the article says, right now it's got about 10% of the original power generation, and is still collecting Science.
There's two ways to deal with dust accumulation:
1) Clean off the dust.
2) Make the panels big enough that the original missions will be completed before enough dust collects to become a problem.
Cleaning is quite complex. When the cleaning system breaks, the mission will end. It's hard to predict how long that would take.
Dust accumulation is reasonably predictable, so you can design the mission around a known rate of degradation. Do the energy-intensive things (like a mole) first, whole the panels are in tip-top condition, then slowly wind down as each experiment concludes.
Any cleaning method would cost mass, which would mean a smaller solar panel and thus lower initial energy budget. Thus it's likely to be better to just use an oversized panel and let it degrade.
Oy vay...
If you score candidates using metrics that are strongly affected by discrimination external to your company, then your score will be illegally discriminatory, even though you did not intend this.
For example, if you primarily score on whether candidates went to Eton (or similar), you will primarily hire white men with very rich parents, as women and those whose parents were below the 99% income percentile cannot attend.
Have a look at the UK Conservative Party for an example of such hiring practices.
IM isn't supposed to be instant reply though.
It's "I would like to discuss this, please respond when you have time to do so".
The reason it's better than email is that it triggers discussion, while email is info-dump.
The reason it's worse is because they're all Electron now, and the search function is totally broken in most of them.
Indeed, Teams search is fundamentally broken by design.
It finds the message containing the word, but refuses to show the context. Which is of course the entire reason you searched...
Thus Teams can only be used for ephemeral conversations, any decisions must be sent by email or put into a ticket tracking system.
macOS has at best Windows XP level support for multiple monitors. Apple might eventually reach the 21st century, but it seems unlikely.
Sound routing seems to be horrifically broken everywhere. I don't understand why, it's not rocket surgery.
Windows 10 regularly decides that I must desperately want to use HDMI speakers, and isn't dissuaded by the fact they don't exist or that I disabled them last time.
Most people use the default, unless and until it annoys them "too much"
On macOS there's the added thing that you're forced to use Safari on all your iOS devices, so there's a strong incentive to use Safari on your Mac as well so passwords sync and websites are broken in the same ways.
All of the former type should be relatively simple for Apple to detect, and is in fact something they claim to do. Though it'd be a lot easier if they documented intended API behaviour.
Rebuilding against newer libraries is very likely to break things under normal circumstances. Add Apple, and it's certain.
If you're lucky, updating xcode breaks the build. More often, it breaks something else.
3. This will hopefully force developers to not drop a product without a sunset period.
No. It will cause developers to drop iOS products like a hot potato the moment Apple demand they do something.
You say you run a software company. What's the RoI on spending a few developer-weeks simply to bump a version number?
You won't. You'll simply drop it when Apple come knocking.
So Apple ban them?
I have a few apps that were last updated about five years ago.
They work. They do the stuff I got them for.
The only reason any of them would need updating is if the operating system manufacturer deliberately broke an API they use.
I do not want to use an operating system where the developers are forced to their waste time fixing things that the OS broke.
They should be spending their time doing things I, as a customer, actually care about, not pedalling furiously to stay still because Tim Cook (or some Googler) says so.
On a new-build, I'd say it's eminently possible for robots to do everything up to first-fix, and possibly even including some of first-fix in many cases.
Second fix... nope. Not a chance!
Bricklaying is already "done", for example. However, the robots are expensive and currently fairly slow compared to a good brickie, so not economically viable. That could change.
More than half of the work actually undertaken by the legal profession needs to be automated, and trivially could be.
A huge amount of the things solicitors do and that paralegals do for cases is already automated in other circumstances - eg almost all of the work that's actually done for conveyancing and remortgaging is already automated by other industries, yet solicitors do it by writing emails.
Actual Court work never can be, but a lot of the stuff that happens before court could be, giving barristers and paralegals more time on the rest.
That said - a lot of the jobs listed are the entry route into the "high skill" roles. If those roles did vanish, there wouldn't be any way for new starters to git gud. That causes really nasty issues a couple of decades later...
These "top end" MCUs and application processors are all very well, but we all actually need lots of the little M4 class MCUs for the real IoT devices.
The thermostats, presence sensors etc, washing machines, bus-connected button units, touch screens, keyboards, mice....
They all have a baby MCU in them, and we just can't buy them.
That's the OP's point.
The example just says "Hare has a different syntax for these common tasks".
Different syntax for the same thing is harmful.
Different syntax for a thing that is actually "sufficiently" different, is a good thing as it helps you keep the concepts separate in your head.
However, there's no indication as to why the syntax is different. What meaning do these convey?
Cruise ships are the major customer, and for the most part they have decade-long contracts.
Which is why they tend to be very slow and expensive.
Most likely many will switch to Starlink (or at least, threaten it), but it's going to be a really specialist usage.
3000-5000 end users is going to be far more data usage than a single dish is designed to handle, so there will be some level of customisation or line bonding of multiple dishes required.
It doesn't have to all clock together.
At the dawn of computing there was "delay line" memory, where you clocked data in at a far higher frequency than the propagation time along the delay line, thus effectively storing bits along its length. Briefly.
Perfectly feasible to have a pipeline of multiple clock cycles across the chip, spaced purely by the propagation time.
Pretty sure some chip designs already do that.
Motorways are already dedicated to motor vehicles capable of some minimum performance.
Which is why motorways are very likely going to be the only places full-self-driving might happen within the next 50 years.
Anyone is allowed on dual carriageways, despite the speed limit often being the same.
People won't get over the taskbar thing, because it's Bloody Stupid.
Having the launcher menu away from the corner makes it far harder to hit, especially for people who aren't so great at mousing.
Letting it move around will continually trip people up, as they click where it used to be, but just moved because something started or closed.
People like you or I will force it back into a corner, where it absolutely must be, but most normal users don't know how and will simply curse Microsoft - without understanding why they hate it.
MS have again broken long-known and long-studied HMI guidelines, for no reason other than to be different.
There are however, two rather large problems.
1) They've thrown out literally everything anyone has ever learned about designing WIMP UIs.
Thus while the OS itself is fine, the new shell they've put around it is actively user-hostile - perhaps not as egregious as Win 8.0, but close.
The amount of retraining needed is massive - switching to macOS would be a similar level of user training for the average person who just wants to get their job done with the minimum of fuss.
Switching 90% of corporate users to Linux would actually be easier, as shells exist that look and feel pretty much exactly like Win7 & 10. (The last ~10% have stuff that doesn't run well under Linux, so can't realistically use it)
Power users have it even worse, as a lot of the quality-of-life customizations are totally gone - and of course power users are those most likely to be using Windows-only applications.
2) The hardware requirements are batshit insane.
Some brand new, mid-tier machines can't run it at all. They'll still be in standard vendor support when Win10 goes out of support. If MS stick to that timetable the faeces really will hit the air circulation device...
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