>Plus a very expensive (relatively) subscription. I loved Dark Sky because I bought it and then I had it.
Ongoing customer value (hyper-local precipitation forecasts) that has ongoing costs for the developer (weather data) is unsustainable without ongoing revenue (subscriptions). This may have had a thing or two to do with Dark Sky ending in an acquihire.
There’s RainAlarm which achieves a similar feature by downloading (freely available) radar imagery and notifying you when the rain echoes are nearby. Worked pretty well when I used this a few years ago. (I’ve now moved to a country where Apple’s rain warnings are pretty accurate.)
>There should be a lawyer-free portal where you can upload their threat letter and your responsible disclosure letter, and get some kind of legal order blessing your work that you can throw back at them.
Who's going to check it to make sure that "your responsible disclosure letter" actually is a responsible disclosure letter and not just nonsense?
>When you purchase a ticket from them and resell it on their marketplace, once someone purchases it, they(Ticketmaster) hold your funds and only give you the money ~7-14 business days after the event is over. They say this is to verify the validity of the ticket.
I imagine it's more about discouraging scalping, regardless of what they may say about it.
curios honestly, why not and what do you think that actually merits filling a case? I am genuinely interested on hearing the mental gymnastics you do in order to hate consumers
The access was intentional. The botch was presumably an error, but that doesn't matter. What matters is the "authorization" issue. Was HP authorized to access the computer? Probably. Were they authorized to damage the computer? No. There's room for legal argument.
CFAA: intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss.
The point is that fighting this is a lose-lose for HP. Either HP has to argue in court that they have a contractual right to brick your computer, or they have to make you happy enough to drop the case.
Visualize the press coverage of HP arguing on the record that they have the right to brick your computer.
Yes - the CFAA as a criminal issue requires "mens rea", the intention to commit a crime. Very few laws (such as involuntary manslaughter) have exceptions to this.
If you break someone's shit by accident, they can still sue you, and people should probably sue HP, but you can't try to have a prosecutor bring them to a criminal trial under the CFAA.
No, but it usually makes it civil liability and not criminal liability. For the most part (there are exceptions), you can't accidentally commit a crime.
>In northern New England, for example, like Maine and New Hampshire, I'd estimate 1 in every 3 or 4 people in most public spaces are armed. I'd be shocked to find out it's less than 1 in 10 in any specific gathering of 100 or more people.
I've lived in Maine my entire life—from the most rural parts to Portland—and this is just nonsense. There is absolutely no way that even 10% of people are armed in public.
>Do you start shooting when the odds are that high that someone might shoot back? Maaaaybe, but not as soon as you might if you were surer that you would get away with it.
Perhaps you'd like to consider what JUST happened in Lewiston last October.
Very few of them are carrying openly (why make yourself the first target?), but I stand by my statement that I'd be shocked. A youth league bowling tournament would be an exception, given the preponderance of children.
There was a combined six minutes between shots fired at the two locations and officer response, four at the youth league event, and only two minutes at the bar.
I didn't say nobody's ever going to try it. Some people are going to break, and show up with a lot of firepower and a plan. All I said was people will try it later than they might if they were sure most of their victim pool wouldn't shoot back.
>Very few of them are carrying openly (why make yourself the first target?), but I stand by my statement that I'd be shocked.
This is an extraordinary claim that demands at least some evidence in order to be taken seriously.
>A youth league bowling tournament would be an exception, given the preponderance of children.
To the contrary: if you honestly believe that somewhere between 10% and 25-33% of Maine adults are carrying for protection—and, once again, there is literally no way that this is even close to true—it would make even more sense that the adults there would have been carrying To Keep Our Children Safe(TM).
I thought about that for a hot minute before making the analogy and in previous years I would have agreed. The cores are doing the work, after all. But CPUs nowadays are so different nowadays compared to yesteryear.
In one CPU you have cores of different sizes and different speeds, and there are various ways to connect them to each other, and interplay with cache subsystems etc.
Anyways it doesn't matter. If I put in a certain number of watts and money and get a certain performance out, what does it matter how?
(It's not like I when I had to buy 8 sparkplugs for my V8 engine instead of 4 sparkplugs for my straigt 4 engine when doing service.)
> In one CPU you have cores of different sizes and different speeds
In this case yeah, but not all of them. I believe AMD still makes some desktop CPUs without those compromises, but they're still slowly starting to put out CPUs like the 7950X3D that have crippled cache on certain cores (7950X does not, 7800X3D does not).
Of course big.LITTLE has been a thing in ARM for decades, including ASi. But I believe Intel started doing E-cores because they were starting to run into space and thermal constraints, and now AMD is exploring heterogeneous architectures as well. I hope they won't repeat the same mistakes.
But above a certain threshold of performance, what matters to me as a consumer is perf/$.
Also keep in mind that they compared to the MacBook Air model which doesn't have fans for cooling and Geekbench is known to be a short burst benchmark. So Qualcomm's multicore performance lead might be larger for continuous usage.
The Qualcomm has 12 high performance cores. The Apple one has 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores that deliver 1/3 to 1/2 the performance. The Apple M3 Max had 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, but that’s also a lot more expensive.
I mean...............yes, you're right. But at the end of the day if the CPU is faster at the same energy used(I assume it is), then the end user won't care whether the CPU is 1, 8 or 128 cores(and why should they).
It's like people saying that Apple products are inferior because they usually have less ram than competition - and yes, that's technically true, but in practice it literally doesn't matter, they are still usually just as fast if not faster than competition with more ram - so why should the end user care.
That's just stupid wishful thinking from all the Apple propaganda.
With the limited amount of RAM they have, the base level Macs are not as able as some other laptops that may be slower in computational power, (at least on paper and in short Geekbench). In fact, the moment you end up using swap, some workflows can become twice as fast on much slower and way cheaper laptops.
There are countless videos/ressources illustrating that by now so you may want to stop talking shit.
Some people may be just fine with 8GB but for most peoples who actually want to pay a bit more for computers this limitation will come up pretty fast, in fact I'm pretty sure many peoples heavily using computer have a baseline usage of around 8Go bare minimum (OS plus regular utilities plus minimum web browser load).
No I was getting "0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing" out of the box. Then after that went away it was another error. It might be related to this not being a "local only" account and not a microsoft account.
Ultimately, thinking winget can be used like apt to get a new system up and running is misguided on my part.
right, same way evolution includes bright colored animals that are signifiers of poisonous virtue and bright colored animals that have the virtue of the meme.
Apple is basically the debeers of the technology. they create both artificial scarcity and inflated prices. no one argued diamonds aren't tough, just their inflated social status.
The last sentence explains why it's all over the place quite succinctly.