Posts by Wade Burchette 1252 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
Intel defines TDP as minimum power needed whereas AMD defines TDP as typical power needed. Intel is not being dishonest because they are clear how they define it. However, the problem is the documentation which they state that is not going to be found by the average person and Intel is not upfront about it. Misleading, but not dishonest. The documentation also states that their CPU's boost based on well the cooling is. If the cooling fan is rated for 45W, then it will boost very little. But if the cooling fan is rated for about 130W, then this CPU will reach max boost.
We just need to remember that to reach boost, Intel processors may use 250% more power but AMD processor use just 50% more.
The golden rule is simple: He who has the gold makes the rules. We have the best government money can buy. In the United States, 5 of the 10 richest communities are in the Washington DC area. (source) Elections are not cheap, and the rich and big corporations are not giving to these campaigns because they like the politicians. They want political favors in return.
The bad will be remembered too. "Lifetime" to Teamviewer means something different than it does to me. I bought a "lifetime" license of Teamviewer and I was told recently that it may stop working. Turns out, lifetime to Teamviewer means until they end support. I won't forget that. As much money as I paid for the product, I expect it work longer than it did.
The purpose sometimes is, not to win, but to bankrupt you through legal proceedings. Death by a thousand cuts. You see people/businesses with big wallets do this to silence a poorer person/business. And if the poorer person/business finds a way to raise the legal money needed, the rich person/business will delay, delay, delay and do other dirty tactics hoping you run out of money.
I know you won't be surprised, but many US politicians used to be lawyers.
1 - Every device with a battery must provide instructions that let the user change the battery in under 5 minutes.
2 - The manufacturer must provide the service manual online at no cost. Any product that does not have a service manual because it cannot be repaired cannot be sold.
3 - The manufacturer may not put in anything in their product that prevents or restricts anyone from repairing the product.
4 - All products that require activation must include a product key. (The Windows product key is now on the motherboard; if your motherboard dies, you might have to buy another copy of Windows. This rule covers that situation.)
5 - All desktop computer power supplies must conform to an industry standard. All laptop computer power supplies may not use the USB-C port for charging. All mobile phones must use a USB-C power connector.
6 - All devices with a hard drive must have a user replaceable hard drive; the manufacturer may not limit which hard drive is used as long as it satisfies the industry standards.
7 - All computers must have user replaceable memory; the manufacturer may not limit which memory is used as long as it satisfies the industry standard.
I use a similar analogy about Alexa and Google Home. Imagine if the police asked you to put a listening device in your home that they promised would only listen for gunshots or screams for help, would you accept their offer? Of course not. But you pay to have a listening device in your home that is listening all the time by a company who makes money knowing everything about you.
If the government did what these businesses they, they would be rightly disgusted; but since it is not a government but a business, they shrug and don't care.
People also forget how large the United States is. Texas is larger than France. And, unlike other countries, many Americans live a long ways away from cities. In England, a 120 mile trip is an overnight holiday; in America that is a day trip. Internet providers can certainly do better. I know of one person whose best internet is through the mobile phones, but slightly less than 5 miles away people can get 1 gig internet. My statement is meant to show that it is not as easy to give fast internet as it might sound.
I was given a book by a flat-earther. I did a brief cursory glance at it, but didn't read it. One thing that caught my eye is the explanation they have regarding the curvature of the earth. Something about a camera lens. I don't remember much because I didn't give it any serious attention. So showing these people the curvature won't work.
What we need to do is charter a flight that goes from west to east (following the jet stream) around the world and then north to south to north crossing both poles. If doesn't convince them, nothing will.
https://areomagazine.com/2020/02/20/how-universities-cover-up-scientific-fraud/
<< One in fifty scientists fakes research by fabricating or falsifying data. They make off with government grant money, which they share with their universities, and their made-up findings guide medical practice, public policy and ordinary people’s decisions about things like whether or not to vaccinate their children. The fraudulent science we know about has caused thousands of deaths and wasted millions in taxpayer dollars. That is only scratching the surface, however—because most fraudsters are never caught. As Ivan Oransky notes in Gaming the Metrics, “the most common outcome for those who commit fraud is: a long career.” >>
<< Universities can make a lot of money from sham science. They lose money from catching fraudsters. Uncovering fraud also brings negative publicity and a host of other headaches, such as potential lawsuits for defamation and wrongful termination. Even in biomedical cases, where the public health consequences of fake research are most severe, universities dismiss almost 90% of fraud accusations without an investigation, or even an auditable record. >>
I bought an Oppo 4K blu-ray player. It was great because it did one thing, but it did it well: play movies. Unlike the others that were clogged with "smart" garbage I neither want nor need, Oppo's player just played movies. If you recorded something, you just pop in your USB drive and it would play no matter what format it was in. I went to their website to buy another one of these great players but sadly, Oppo discontinued it. Why can't other TV's and disc players follow Oppo's example and focus on doing only one thing?
"Incredibly, in the weeks before Apple took its ex-chief architect to court, the multi-billion-dollar behemoth privately told Nuvia to stop recruiting engineers from its ranks of techies, yet behind the scenes, the iPhone giant was trying to hire one of the startup's top designers."
Translation: "How dare you do the things that we do!! What gives you the right to do the exact same thing that we do?"
You want the short list or the long list? FYI, the short list is probably as big as the Bible. Here is just one example, one of thousands: Oracle makes their employees sign binding arbitration clauses and when the arbitration rules against Oracle, they sue the arbitrator. Source. If ever there was a company that had a factory just for punching puppies and kicking kittens, it would be Oracle.
These people should market their wares to the residents of Green Bank, West Virginia. People who claim their are sensitive to radio waves move there because it is terrestial radio blackout zone due to the radio telescope. The mountains block all radio waves except those from outer space and the psychosomatic people move there to escape WiFi "sickness" and other such nonsense.
A phone I want to buy has (1) a battery I can change in minutes, (2) a 3.5 mm headphone jack, (3) microSD card support, (4) no notch, (5) a physical home button, physical back button, physical menu (not app switch) button, and (6) the ability to uninstall any junk I neither want nor need. Check all those boxes LG and you have a winner. Until then ... meh.
Last year, I was driving and almost hit one of these idiots. It was a 25 MPH zone and I was going about that. From over on the sidewalk comes an idiot with one of these things and not wearing a helmet. He darts on to the road, not bothering to look if traffic was coming. I had to slow way down to avoid hitting him. These idiot was weaving erratically, he even ventured into another lane for a bit. Finally after about 30 seconds he decides to look behind him. That when he sees me, and then immediately darts back on to the sidewalk, where he almost hit someone. I didn't see anymore because I was finally able to resume normal speed and escape him.
The purpose of Windows 10 is to make money off you after the first day; the purpose of Windows 7 is to make your life easier. Windows 7 has to go away so that Microsoft can have a steady revenue. It is no coincidence that the new start menu is illogical and hard to use but full of app store promotions. It is no coincidence that programs are now called apps. All these moves are designed to trick you into buying software through Microsoft's store.
Here is the thing: this has nothing to do with the government seizing private property because the beach and the access path were available to all before he bought the property, not after. The law making beaches public existed before he bought the property, not after. The only person seizing property is this douchenozzle by blocking access to public land. Communism has nothing to do with this because he knew -- and if he didn't know, it is his own fault for not surveying the entire property -- of the situation before he bought the property.
I use NoScript on my desktop browser. It is amazing how much faster web sites are with it enabled, even on my Ryzen 3700X. On some websites, they will try to load 20 or more 3rd party scripts. I've also seen third party scripts from websites like unequalbrake.com, nervoussummer.com, untidyrice.com, and other domains of two unrelated words. When you go to the website, you get an image with text saying this domain detects DMCA violations. That is a blatant lie. These websites are used to detect adblockers. Whenever you are shamed for protecting your privacy, look and see if there is a domain of two unrelated words -- and then block it at the router.
"Denier" is also an ad hominum -- an attack on the person and not the argument. It is done to specifically to equate a person with a holocaust denier. Most people who are given the "denier" slur really believe that the climate changes, has always changed, but it is mostly natural but humans do contribute a little to it.
Well, as was previously reported, Ethos Capital was formed in Delaware the day after the decision to sell .org was permitted. There is no way that a group of rich people got together, researched a name for a shell corporation to make sure it was unused, drove or flew to Delaware, and completed all the legal paperwork in two days. This was all planned months ago, and a bigwig at ICANN is in on it.
It is very interesting that the day the .org price cap was removed was the day before that a shell corporation was registered in Delaware. There is no way that any person involved in "Ethos" Capital lives in Delaware. It is not a long drive from New York City or Washington, DC. But it is still a drive. Do you really think that the brains behind this shell company thought of a name, research the name to make sure nobody else used it, gathered like-minded billionaires, went to Delaware, obtained a mailing address in Delaware, and completed all legal paperwork in less than 48 hours? This whole thing stinks of cronyism.
Somewhere in an advertiser boardroom ...
CEO: "Smithers! People are using ad-blockers because our ads track people and are annoying. What do we do?"
Smithers: "Well, sir, we could also make them even more annoying and try to shame people into turning off ad-blockers."
CEO: "Smithers, you're a genius!"
-- The advertisers never ever address our concerns, they just double down and try to shame us.
I saw this on Reddit, so the idea is not mine. But the Intel shortage has nothing to do with 10 nm. That is a lie Intel is promulgating. Prior to Ryzen, Intel was quite content on selling us 4 core chips for a large sum, 6 core for a really really large amount. But here comes Ryzen with an 8 core chip at the same price as their 4 core. Suddenly, Intel has to increase the cores. What was once an i7 is now an i3. And that mega-expensive 6 core i7, well now that is an i5. More cores means a bigger chip. Wafer space is still the same. So Intel is now having less CPU's coming off a wafer because they are bigger than they were before AMD made mega-cores cheap. Less CPU's produced means less available. Thus a shortage.
I just cannot believe that a company that makes it employees sign mandatory arbitration clauses and then sues their own arbitrator if go against their masters would sell vaporware. I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya! Next thing you will tell me that Oracle isn't punching puppies and kicking kittens.
They will need a lot more than $1.14 billion. Donald J Trump spent $600 million last election; Hillary Clinton spent twice that. If you think the blowhard in chief won't spend less than that this election, I pity you. And if you think the know-nothing idiot the other party puts out there will spend less than DJT, I pity you even more.
Obligatory video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about Apple repairs.
(P.S. Dear Reg, please enable an embed Youtube feature.)
What hurt AMD last time was, not corporate incompetence, but illegal Intel tactics. I well remember when the Athlon 64 was first released how motherboard manufacturers would not put their name on an AMD motherboard for fear of Intel. At one time, Intel paid Dell billions just to not sell AMD. And there are more. Do not put it past Intel to play dirty again.
This is the new Microsoft, as such they assume they know better than you. They do not understand the concept of opt-in because in their minds they already know what is best. You can only opt-out by undocumented registry hacks or the group policy and you have to repeat the opt-out hack after every major update.
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