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Toni Wilen, the programmer for WinUAE has different goals in mind other than creating an excellent gaming experience. He's trying to recreate the *entire* Amiga ecosystem in a single program. His web page usually has him asking for obscure boards and roms because he wants to emulate it all. I think this is a grand goal.

Every single board I used to drool over in the old Amiga magazines and wish I could buy, he wants to emulate. So for someone like me being able to run an Amiga Blizzard board or an accurate Amiga 4000 or some such...it's a way to scratch a very old itch.

Toni also got MMU emulation working, which made Amiga Linux possible. It was a HUGE kick to see the old m68k linux stuff come up in the emulator. Not everyone's cup of tea, obviously. But a lot of fun. Reading the EAB threads as the thing was coming closer and closer to boot was pretty exciting. I'm sure I'm a minority on that, but still, I thought it was a lot of fun.

But to your point, WinUAE can also provide an excellent and simple gaming experience. The first default configuration tab has default *stock* Amiga configurations right there. Just select an OCS Amiga 500, and 99% of your games will run. You don't have to drill down into the tech stuff and twiddle chipsets to make things work.

In my town we have a footbridge that was installed this way, several years ago. It was factory-built in Phoenix, hauled 100 miles up I-17 using one of the smaller roadable version of the SPMT, and installed overnight to cross a creek. There hasn't been a problem since.

I'm sure your bridge was very economic, quite functional and an asset to your community.... but it is not an artistic "signature bridge" a University would demand for its main entrance.

Here's the collapsed bridge designer's website: Figg Engineers, Creating Bridges as Art

The Brain With David Eagleman,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_with_David_Eagleman/
http://http//www.pbs.org/show/brain-david-eagleman/
Fairly recently I saw this documentary series and I was very impressed. It covers a lot of ground on many levels physical, philosophical, and social. There's a particularly chilling part dealing with sociopaths.

Here are a couple of examples of things in the series that happen to come to mind right now which might whet (or not whet) the appetites of some of you out there:
The presenter, Eagleman, talks about the importance of emotions in helping us make decisions. In a section about a woman who was in an accident and had a disconnect with emotions there's a scene of her in a supermarket trying to select food, with her husband beside her, and bursting in to tears because she can't decide. There's a guy who was a roadie for KISS, but when people asked him about KISS as people, as opposed to the kind of equipment they used, and he couldn't answer, he realized something was wrong. He got some treatment and after that it was a though a light came on; he could understand people's expressions, make jokes with them, etc.
Consciousness is compared to the CEO of a corporation who doesn't concern himself with the routine day to day decisions, but must handle the unusual, and the surprises. In the same way, 90 % of what the brain is doing is not done consciously, a person might not even remember a routine walk to the mailbox, unless something unusual happens.

Just stop windows update service until you are ready to do an update. See Kill Windows Update

To avoid "no true Scotsman" fallacies, please define "modern" first

A fair criticism.

Windows 10 recommends a minimum of 2GB of RAM (64 bit). I couldn't (quickly) find an authoritative source for a 'recommended' requirement, but this article from PCAuthority from 2014 compares performance for 2GB, 4GB and 8GB and mentions "typically, today’s budget PCs come with 4GB of RAM".

Apple sells Macbooks and Macbook Pros with a minimum config of 8GB of RAM and has done so for some years. The Mac Mini and Macbook Air have 4GB as a minimum conifg.

Steam users are not necessarily typical - gamers may well have higher specced machines - but the hardware survey is at least another data point. Currently over 80% of users have 4GB of RAM or higher.

I would argue that 4GB of RAM is a reasonable definition of a modern system.

I am concentrating on RAM as that is the only statistic that APK has mentioned. He links to the Super User thread you do as well as another source that shows uBlock using 60MB of RAM and Adblock Plus as using 100MB. This is between 1-3% of RAM on a system with 4GB

I'm happy to continue in this vein to try and work out what could reasonably be called a 'modern' machine in terms of CPU and IO, but as there's even less evidence for host file improvement for these specifications, it seems moot.

I've read the Super User thread you link to - APK links to it, frequently. Someone comments that disabling their adblocker seemed to increase browser speed. Someone else links to a 2011 article from Mozilla that shows a 250 millisecond difference in startup time. There's some discussion about Firefox memory use ... etc. It's subjective (and that's both 'it seemed to speed things up and 'there's no difference) and not well attested.

I agree that turning off an adblocking extension is going to use less resources than when it is on. I've yet to see anything that suggests that this is more than a negligible improvement, even if it is perceptible.

The claim that listing favourite sites in the hosts file speeds performance is similar.

I know of three popular sites that use ClarityRay-like scripts: WIRED, the INQUIRER, and The Atlantic

I'm using uBlock Origin, SafeScript and PrivacyBadger in Chrome on Windows 7, located in Australia. None of these sites (I assume the Inquirer is http://http//www.theinquirer.n...) balked at my adblocker. Even disabling SafeScript didn't cause a problem (although now the cookies nag showed up). I could browse the articles and no ads were displayed, nor did I get a nag screen asking me to turn my adblocker off.

As far as I can tell extension detection is a cat and mouse game that eventually gets abandoned.

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arf arf. But seriously, almost 600,000 copies of a piece of software when the Department of the Navy has fewer official user workstations than that...much fewer. That's Army level of personnel, not Navy.

Then, there's some data online about the system in question. Seems like it's a system to support infrastructure for Navy bases and such. Seems like Northrop Grumman is involved, as well as some smaller contractors. Like this one, Synergy Software Design, with the terrible web site. Also appears that Synergy is the sole vendor and technical support provider for Bitmanagement Software GmbH in the US.

The conclusion I come to is that Synergy fucked over Bitmanagement somehow, and the Navy is being held in.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also installed LibreOffice, and it works flawlessly with Windows 10.

Just like Windows 10, LibreOffice is free. The only difference is that it won't automatically download to your computer.

I can't believe how much money I wasted on Microsoft Office when I could have just downloaded LibreOffice, the Free Office Suite.

You can even put LibreOffice on a USB stick with the free Portable Version of LibreOffice. You can't do that with Microsoft.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also installed LibreOffice, and it works flawlessly with Windows 10.

Just like Windows 10, LibreOffice is free. The only difference is that it won't automatically download to your computer.

I can't believe how much money I wasted on Microsoft Office when I could have just downloaded LibreOffice, the Free Office Suite.

You can even put LibreOffice on a USB stick with the free Portable Version of LibreOffice. You can't do that with Microsoft.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also installed LibreOffice, and it works flawlessly with Windows 10.

Just like Windows 10, LibreOffice is free. The only difference is that it won't automatically download to your computer.

I can't believe how much money I wasted on Microsoft Office when I could have just downloaded LibreOffice, the Free Office Suite.

You can even put LibreOffice on a USB stick with the free Portable Version of LibreOffice. You can't do that with Microsoft.

I'm not aware of any browser that can withstand a determined and resourceful hacker. Browsers are huge beasts that are 80% attack surface. So I'll continue to fault Chrome for its memory use and other bad habits, and keep using Firefox.

I'll go further and point out that Pwn2Own folks obviously like using VMs to provide security when browsing, since they are putting VMware in the mix. And that hypervisor was originally designed for administrative convenience and full utilization of hardware, not security (now they are trying to make it a security platform, bless 'em). OTOH, Xen has long touted its security focus and has a really tiny attack surface so I'm happy to be using that in Qubes OS as well.

I've enjoyed my ZaReason Verix 547. http://http//zareason.com/shop/Verix-547.html Slightly more expensive, but they have great customer service and you can customize every aspect of the box, even removing stock components and getting a refund on them. I'm pleased with the result.

Seems he's Jacob Weber, photo on a story of his here: http://baltimorereview.org/ind... - which links to his blog at http://http//workshopheretic.b...

More like Nocturnus, Thresholds -era.

Besides Qt has plenty of classes to deal with SQL, so I don't quite get the "Qt [...] seem to lack controls that deal with datasets and stuff".

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/sql-programming.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/sql-connecting.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/sql-sqlstatements.html

See also http://http//www.google.com/ur...

Fire up your VM and let them connect to it. Get the IP address of their internet connection. Inform the appropriate authorities Watch their internet connection go "away".

Is it just me or or is anyone else noticing a lot of flamebait and troll mods being applied to any comment reminding people of Microsoft's standard operational practice when faced with a potential new market?

Embrace, Extend and Extinguish was a real thing, and this sort of behaviour might make people suspect that the lepoard has not changed his shorts.

Seriously, have you ever actually read the CommonCore standards? Have you ever even visited http://http//www.corestandards...?

What standards in there are too difficult for your kids to meet?

The "standards" themselves may be fine, but the way that they are implemented, seemingly universally are not. Unfortunatly, the implementation is what the kids get to experience.

Seriously, have you ever actually read the CommonCore standards? Have you ever even visited http://http//www.corestandards...?

What standards in there are too difficult for your kids to meet?

As does Apache Bloodhound. Why do we need so many open source projects for managing open source projects?

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and can only run apps that were pre installed in the factory

False

"Lying is a crime now?"

Yes, it can be.

http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury

Come on, it's not like they want to kill the goose that lay golden egg.

However the reason for high prices should be clear to anyone, and it has more to do with long lifetime than manufacturing costs. Still it's a way better deal for customers.

Expect cheaper models coming out when they find the way to implement planned obsolescence with new technology...

The original article http://http//www.dw.de/eu-plastic-bag-debate-highlights-a-wider-global-problem/a-17241561 doesn't pass the back-of-the-envelope test. "The German environmental organization, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, estimates that more than a billion bags are used every year globally. Only about 10 percent of those are recycled." (World pop 7B. Sounds plausible.) "Europe is a major offender, producing nearly a million tons of plastic bags each year. " Problem. So, if Europe produces plastic bags for the entire planet, each bag weighs one kilogram. 1 million tons = 1 billion kg. 1 billion bags /1 billion kg = 1 kg per bag. --jerry

From http://http//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Contact_(film) :
        Executive: We must confess that your proposal seems less like science and more like science fiction.
        Ellie Arroway: Science fiction. You're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, it's nuts. You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.

The Rhino Times (Greensboro, where Guilford County Schools is headquartered) published a long cover piece today on the questionable process the school system used to pick the tablets. The school board was shown only one response to the RFQ. The Guilford County Schools school superintendent had worked for a VP of the company when at Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. There was much interaction between the school system and Amplify even before the RFP was written -- and Amplify gave recommendations on how the RFP, which got Amplify the contract, should be written. Also there was, unsurprisingly, little tech knowledge among the administrative team that picked Amplify from 11 proposals, only one of which was shown to the school board.

This is not a “nothing to see here” situation because there was no Plan B. They changed a time-tested way of teaching students overnight to get a federal grant. and the project failed. What could possibly go wrong? It left students in limbo.

Disclosure: I wrote the piece. My mailto is on the story. Anyone with more info, or wanting any, write me.

The Rhino Times (Greensboro, where Guilford County Schools is headquartered) published a long cover piece today on the questionable process the school system used to pick the tablets. The school board was shown only one response to the RFQ. The Guilford County Schools school superintendent had worked for a VP of the company when at Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. There was much interaction between the school system and Amplify even before the RFP was written -- and Amplify gave recommendations on how the RFP, which got Amplify the contract, should be written. Also there was, unsurprisingly, little tech knowledge among the administrative team that picked Amplify from 11 proposals, only one of which was shown to the school board.

This is not a “nothing to see here” situation because there was no Plan B. They changed a time-tested way of teaching students overnight to get a federal grant. and the project failed. What could possibly go wrong? It left students in limbo.

Disclosure: I wrote the piece. My mailto is on the story. Anyone with more info, or wanting any, write me.

The WTF metric : http://http//www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg:

No the docs for android java are from google and quite different from those from Sun/Orcle
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/security/SecureRandom.html
compare to
http://http//docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html

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I still hear people tell me English is the most widely spoken language. Anyone feel free to direct me to source stating so.

You could try Wikipedia, specifically this page: http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speaker. It gives three estimates, and in one of them English is in the lead.

Also the two of you are apparently dancing around the powerplant known as unducted fans

Here is a good starting point for learning about historical legal homosexual marragies, http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Ancient.

Iran is only one year away from building the bomb...
and so it was 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011...

see http://http//www.salon.com/2010/12/05/israeli_predictions_iranian_nukes/

I've never seen this before, This is why I come to slashdot, references to great things before my time

Link to his performance: http://http//yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/24/2110217/responding-to-us-gambling-law-antigua-set-to-launch-pirate-site#www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwfULpr6bE

Read ETHAN OF ATHOS (review) by Lois McMaster Bujold, the first author to avoid turning a *GAY* planet into a collection of one-dimensional characters.

Why a tablet? Do you really want to spend all day holding the damned thing? Forget that.
Your problem is being hunched over the keyboard & mouse.
Your solution is to buy an Alphagrip:

http://http//www.alphagrips.com/

Then you can lift your screen to eye level, enlarge the fonts, and finally lean back just like in the old days, touch-typing away in full ergonomic comfort, just like I am now. I would _never_ go back to a crappy old qwerty board mate. Hell, just watch one of the typing demos and you'll get it:

http://www.alphagrips.com/typingdemo.html

No, I don't work for them, I just love the device. Oh, and comfort, I like that too.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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Don't talk to him like a noob, people. Bennett has been around a very, very long time. He has had a beef with DNS distributed blocklists for most of that time. Others publishing their opinions gets in his craw when it interferes with his operations. He comes in here periodically with his latest incident to rally the "freedom to do whatever I want" crowd into a frenzy. He also posts lots of other stuff worth reading. *grin*

If one considers the DBL a list of domains who have appeared in emails to spamtraps, then I would contend that it very possible that the "zero false positive" claim holds up because it very well might have happened. If it claims that all listed entities are domains owned by spam operators, then he might have an argument.

Haselton's fundamental gripe is that he should be free to communicate until a real person decides he shouldn't. The fact that automated systems now make the blocking decision, requiring human intervention to override them, is an inverted model compared to the "old internet." (The necessity came from the raw volume of spam) The death of the "old internet" began with Canter and Siegel. Some of our long-term, asylum residents just haven't accepted that fact.

Hmm, so people are saying here that the speed of information can't be faster than the speed of light _in a vacuum_ because of results of events happening before the event, in other words paradoxes. I asked about this in a different subject only a few days ago, and, I don't think it's completely resolved.http://http//slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3164219&cid=41554569

I recently saw a Nova documentary on TV, part of the 'Fabric Of the Cosmos' series, the "Illusion Of Time" chapter, hosted by Brian Greene. In one place he talked about an alien living in a far away galaxy seeing events on earth. If he was moving towards earth, he would see our 'future'. There was a hint that the future might, in some sense, already exist.

It does seem to me that people should not be too cavalier about associating the speed of light with the speed of information unless they can define clearly what information is, and how it is linked in some concrete way to the speed of light.

It has been established (in USA at least), that creativity, not "Sweat of the Brow", is the determining factor for whether a work is copyrightable.
http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
As for taking other people's hard work, I give you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service

Scans of public domain articles are NOT creative work and are NOT protected by copyright.

A better analogy would be that Apple is like the Little Red Hen.

"Who will dare to make a computer that gets rid clunky serial ports and is USB-only to drive development of USB as a platform?" asked Apple.

"Not I" said Dell.
"Not I" said Gateway
"Not I" said Compaq.
"Not I" said Acer.

"Then I'll do it myself" said Apple. And she completely broke backwards compatibility to make the iMac.

"Who will make a minimalist music player without a billion clunky extras that product managers want to add and that has a really neat jog-wheel that give people a great user experience?"

"Not I" said Phillips.
"Not I" said Diamond.
"Not I" said Mitsubishi.
"Not I" said Sony.

"Then I will" said Apple. And they made the iPod.

"Who will spend large sums of money to have design engineers experiment for months molding a block of clay into a non-clunky shape that works great for cell phones?" asked Apple.

"Not I", said Samsung.
"Not I", said Nokia.
"Not I", said LG.
"Not I", said HTC.

"Then I will" said Apple. And she designed a phone with rounded corners.

"Who will spend lots of money and take some risk designing cell phones with a revolutionary slide-to-unlock feature and the first really non-clunky mobile web browsing experience that includes pinching and swiping gestures?" asked Apple.

"Not I", said Samsung.
"Not I", said Nokia.
"Not I", said LG.
"Not I", said HTC.

"Then I'll do it myself" said Apple. And she designed the iOS UI.

And when the iPhone was released, the tired little company in Cupertino asked her competitors "who will help me use my designs to make billions in revenue I've earned by taking all sorts of marketing and design risks and putting in so much efforts to do what competitors didn't to move a stagnant and complacent industry forward like I've always have had to do?" asked Apple

"I do" said Samsung.
"I do" said Motorola.
"I do", said LG.
"I do" said HTC.

"No, I'm going to keep all of those designs to myself" Apple said, and she happily sued them into oblivion. The end.

I can vouch for the Das Keyboard line of mechanical keyboards. I have a "silent" model which has mechanical tactile switches, but without the extra clickiness. The company has awesome support, too. They replaced my keyboard when the built-in USB hub stopped working a few days out of warranty. It's good, and well worth the money, but it's not the perfect keyboard for me, though, because I think I would prefer one with less downward key travel.

I'm dismayed, however, that they appear to have added an "Fn" key to the bottom row in all of their new models. That irks me because I already hate that Ctrl and Alt are squished smaller on modern keyboards to make room for Windows- and Mac-specific keys.

*Verifying* that the actual manufactured item is tamper-proof, accurate, etc. is another.

Just give it to Bev. She'll gladly verify it for you.

I take your question to mean that you want to program but aren't allowed to add anything to your work machine, including binary files that don't require an installer to run. That's typically how I've seen that sort of rule interpreted.

You mentioned an interest in HTML/CSS and presumably javascript.

You might enjoy JSFiddle

If you would like to try other languages or other approaches, there are online IDEs for that too:

ShiftEdit - Online IDE | ShiftEdit
ECCO -Web-based IDE
Cloud IDE
WIODE
CodeRun
Cloud9 IDE
http://www.codeanywhere.net

And some more lists and reviews:
http://speckyboy.com/2010/07/25/the-most-powerful-and-feature-rich-web-based-code-editors-ides/

Another option would be to look at some of the free shell account vendors online, but you seemed mostly interested in GUI IDEs so that might not be your thing.

If you want a fun, short read about why you might want to reconsider the command line, check out In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

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I read the article what I saw was a highly negative bent on technology that is warped by an industry perspective.

The first point these responses make is no one is owed a living, I would love to be able to write a mapping/communication software package. To do so would take hundreds of man hours and frankly the market would be very small. Instead I write database systems for a large company, is it as creatively fulfilling? No, but someone will pay me to do it. Musicians have similar routes working for advertising companies, orchestras, on retainer or theatre, recordings, shows, etc... they choose not too and then complain when they have no money.

He mentions that artists make more money selling directly from their website (a nod is also given to bandcamp) and complains that Facebook/Twitter has eaten up most of the web traffic. The point of the website community section was to engage with fans, just because you have to create a page on Facebook doesn't mean you can no longer do this. I follow Amanda Palmers page and click links to blogs/kickstarter/new songs she posts all the time. He even mentions the existence of CRM systems which will manage your Twitter/Facebook pages, the implication he seems to be making is Facebook stops artists from promoting themselves.

There is a part where he mentions indie bands made less money from streaming services like Spotify than their old selling method. There were no facts or figures given to support this argument. The implication is there is a binary choice for artists they can either stream their music or they can sell it, personally I would never stream music I always buy it. Industry sponsored studies suggest their is a fall in purchases, but I imagine this will be dependent on the band and the demographic they aim for. I tend not to trust industry based studies as their piracy ones are so horribly flawed I feel they have lost credibility.

He talks about how recording costs have not decreased in the last few years but I would suggest this is a fault of the artists/industry. Purchasing basic hardware e.g. a PC with a top end Creative card (£~800), high quality microphone (~£50 each), appropriate leads (~£40), software (Audacity ~£0), isn't that expensive I would like to point you at a podcast I was initially part of The Cavern Today, here is a podcast made a few years after I left Last Myst online poscast this podcast was made in people's bedrooms (including much of the music). The things we found that mattered was having someone talented to mix it and high quality source recording ( see this remix of the podcast I put together, it is much improved upon my own). You don't need an acoustically perfect room, just a quiet one as most people aren't capable of hearing the difference. Simply put the costs of recording your first album as an artist shouldn't be that high.
His point about the cut Amazon, iTunes, etc.. take is a good one and I agree

I would also suggest NexentaStor Community edition, It is a hybrid OS using a Solaris 11 kernel and linux userland i beleive so it gets the latest ZFS versions which arent available in *BSD yet. I switched to this about 15 months ago after a couple months on FreeNAS7 mainly for the newer ZFS version. At that time FN7 didnt have snapshots or dedup although FN8 has snapshots now.
I realised dedup wasnt useful for most of the stuff i was storing and was probably affecting performance so I ended up creating a couple pools one for my media (music, video, pictures, graphic design/ photography workflow spaces, some documents) and another for development stuff like source code. this also made it easier to set different snapshot schedules for the entire drives.
Im also taking a look at btrfs as an alternative to ZFS since ideally i would prefer a debian/ubuntu based OS

Thank you for the informative post! I will keep an eye on the subject. Id like to know whether the bill will get passed. Man and Van

I can only wonder why they did this. However, I have an idea where to start. Saying that their Linux support is crappy would be an overstatement. It is damn-near unusable. What I really don't get is why do they fsck up their software when their hardware is so capable? Don't they understand that it's people at universities (mostly using Linux) who decide what compute cards to put into the next supercomputer?