Yeah, the new update supports activation directly from Windows 7/8 keys instead of needing to be installed on top of an existing 7/8 to activate the first time. Word is there's a problem with some PCs that have Win8 keys stored in the BIOS; the new installer is reading the key but then activating Windows 10 Embedded/IoT instead of the correct edition.
"and just to complete it" -- I know the feeling. Lucas was starting to go off the rails with RotJ. Then with TPM he went off the bridge, tumbled down the mountain, careened into the chasm and plunged into the magma.
They claimed the technology had the potential to hit 1000 times faster than current flash memory... they didn't specify when or what flash they were comparing to.
In any case, this is an early prototype spanking the top of the line current technology. That's impressive in my book.
It will definitely be interesting to see the state of PCs in five years, with Google pushing Android everywhere now. Android has enough of a software library to be usable for a lot of people, even a decent selection of games; lacking the Wintel tax, dirt cheap boxes could finally fulfill the Chromebook's goal of stealing the low-end home PC market from Microsoft.
The business market isn't quite as sewn up by Microsoft as it used to be, with the BYOD and cloud movements pushing a lot of applications off the desktop. IBM is moving to Macs and Office is now available for almost any platform; soon we'll reach the point where rank-and-file office users can use pretty much cheap box with a mouse and keyboard.
On the other hand, Microsoft is repositioning themselves toward the profitable high end with the recent rise of premium 'Ultrabooks'; historically this market has been Apple's domain, but Apple seems to have grown complacent in their profits and their PC lines are overpriced and lagging on updates. Still, with $200B in cash Apple could do pretty much anything they wanted if they felt the need.
Not necessarily more work. I would presume Siri, like Watson, is divided into many algorithms that answer different types of questions. Apple probably set up a new "Apple Music" algorithm that handles every aspect of finding and playing music, and it was easier to block non-subscribers' access entirely than to dig into the decision trees and individually block every action related to playing a song.
Now that people are making a fuss, they'll probably go back and rework things.
It's just like a NUC, or Compute Stick, or any of dozens of other micro PCs.
Wait, this one has a battery, but I'm not sure how much of a feature that is when you need an external monitor anyway. I guess it gets you through power hiccoughs?
If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours. What’s more, only a small amount of water transfer (about ten garden hoses worth) is necessary after that to keep the reactor stable.
I guess it helps when I RTFA.
Still, supplying "ten hoses' worth" may not be so easy in the case of a contaminated site and/or natural disaster.
If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours."
I imagine that means the plant could be completely inactive (decay heat will be down to the point of not requiring active cooling) within three days, but as written it's not reassuring.
And while "Generation II" sounds good, so were Fukushima and Three Mile Island. We should be building Gen 3-4 by now.
Indeed, though large boards often use the same cut many times. Sudoku would have been a better comparison but went with the physicality of the jigsaw metaphor.
In fairness the USA has shot down airliners and made plenty of similar mistakes in the past (MSF bombing, anyone?). So have other countries.
Thing is, most countries would at least be honest admit their mistake, and if Russia had admitted they provided their separatists the missile in question it wouldn't have invited some debate and condemnation but blown over fairly quickly. But Putin's administration is so steeped in Soviet-era propaganda they think they can create whatever reality they want by inventing their own "truth*".
While that may work on the faithful chauvinists, to the rest of the world (and Russians in the age of the Internet and satellite TV) it just makes them look like dangerous idiots, not to mention drags out this whole incident far longer than necessary.
You're talking about a FISA court order, not a NSL. To request data like that they do need a court-issued warrant, the problem is the court is the FISC which operates in secret and with questionable oversight.
Think of a huge jigsaw puzzle. You might have thousands of pieces that could each go in thousands of possible places, and while you may know tricks to speed up the process, solving it would surely take a lot of trial and error and time. When you did finally solve the puzzle, though, it would only take you a moment to check the picture against the box and prove your solution was correct. That makes it a NP problem.
Another jigsaw puzzle has every piece labeled with column and row, so you can put the whole thing together in one sweep—no trial and error needed. Both solving the puzzle and verifying the solution would be simple. That makes it a P problem.
If P=NP, it would indicate the first jigsaw puzzle has labels on its pieces too, just harder to see. If you can find them, solving the puzzle becomes trivial.
There are a great number of NP problems in the world; if P=NP we could find the solutions to many intractable math problems within our grasp. . Unfortunately, one of those is encryption. Many encryption methods use a NP math problem as a lock and its solution as a key. We assume it would take an impractical amount of time to solve the math problem, so the only way in is by knowing the solution. But if P = NP, breaking that lock (by solving the math) could become as fast as using the key. Oops!
A NSL is a type of subpoena, a request for basic account info and activity logs. A NSL can't ask you to provide the content of someone's data, kill someone, or smear Crisco all over your body and dance around praising Lord Xenu. (Though if it did, you'd probably be grateful for the non-disclosure clause.)
The original purpose of non-disclosure was to avoid tipping off suspects that their communications could be monitored, but now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag and any target who worries about NSLs has surely switched to more secure communications, the secrecy around NSLs does a lot more harm than good. Of course, any change to or publicity about NSLs would rekindle debate on the legality of the program (or lack thereof), and they wouldn't want that to happen... Thankfully, people like Nicholas Merrill are forcing the issue, and hopefully there will be change...eventually.
Hint: hyperbole doesn't help, it just distracts people from the real issue. NSLs are bad because they force people to reveal personal information without due process of law. That is all.
Git filters can convert tabs to spaces automatically (or vice versa); chances are your editor (or a plugin) can too. Unicode may be a bit more challenging, but I'd suggest an office policy that anyone who uses unicode outside a string gets impaled on a rusty lawnmower blade.
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Yeah, the new update supports activation directly from Windows 7/8 keys instead of needing to be installed on top of an existing 7/8 to activate the first time. Word is there's a problem with some PCs that have Win8 keys stored in the BIOS; the new installer is reading the key but then activating Windows 10 Embedded/IoT instead of the correct edition.
"and just to complete it" -- I know the feeling. Lucas was starting to go off the rails with RotJ. Then with TPM he went off the bridge, tumbled down the mountain, careened into the chasm and plunged into the magma.
To be fair, he didn't have the high ground.
http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-..."
You'll be dead in seconds. Probably a lot of seconds, but it can definitely be measured in those units.
They claimed the technology had the potential to hit 1000 times faster than current flash memory... they didn't specify when or what flash they were comparing to.
In any case, this is an early prototype spanking the top of the line current technology. That's impressive in my book.
Google is only trying to make us more efficient and reduce the amount of time we waste not staring at ads.
Or, you know, Office
I'm all for alternatives, but Office compatibility tends to make or break computing devices.
It will definitely be interesting to see the state of PCs in five years, with Google pushing Android everywhere now. Android has enough of a software library to be usable for a lot of people, even a decent selection of games; lacking the Wintel tax, dirt cheap boxes could finally fulfill the Chromebook's goal of stealing the low-end home PC market from Microsoft.
The business market isn't quite as sewn up by Microsoft as it used to be, with the BYOD and cloud movements pushing a lot of applications off the desktop. IBM is moving to Macs and Office is now available for almost any platform; soon we'll reach the point where rank-and-file office users can use pretty much cheap box with a mouse and keyboard.
On the other hand, Microsoft is repositioning themselves toward the profitable high end with the recent rise of premium 'Ultrabooks'; historically this market has been Apple's domain, but Apple seems to have grown complacent in their profits and their PC lines are overpriced and lagging on updates. Still, with $200B in cash Apple could do pretty much anything they wanted if they felt the need.
Again, the next five years will be interesting.
Not necessarily more work. I would presume Siri, like Watson, is divided into many algorithms that answer different types of questions. Apple probably set up a new "Apple Music" algorithm that handles every aspect of finding and playing music, and it was easier to block non-subscribers' access entirely than to dig into the decision trees and individually block every action related to playing a song.
Now that people are making a fuss, they'll probably go back and rework things.
Fearful parents have crazy kids
Suddenly the Middle East makes sense.
And certain political groups.
One has a lot more arms.
It's just like a NUC, or Compute Stick, or any of dozens of other micro PCs.
Wait, this one has a battery, but I'm not sure how much of a feature that is when you need an external monitor anyway. I guess it gets you through power hiccoughs?
If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours. What’s more, only a small amount of water transfer (about ten garden hoses worth) is necessary after that to keep the reactor stable.
I guess it helps when I RTFA.
Still, supplying "ten hoses' worth" may not be so easy in the case of a contaminated site and/or natural disaster.
If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours."
I imagine that means the plant could be completely inactive (decay heat will be down to the point of not requiring active cooling) within three days, but as written it's not reassuring.
And while "Generation II" sounds good, so were Fukushima and Three Mile Island. We should be building Gen 3-4 by now.
Indeed, though large boards often use the same cut many times. Sudoku would have been a better comparison but went with the physicality of the jigsaw metaphor.
Thanks for the correction!
European Anarchists! Trying to destroy a healthy American monopoly!
Wait, sorry, let me take of this top hat and monocle. I don't even know where they came from.
In fairness the USA has shot down airliners and made plenty of similar mistakes in the past (MSF bombing, anyone?). So have other countries.
Thing is, most countries would at least be honest admit their mistake, and if Russia had admitted they provided their separatists the missile in question it wouldn't have invited some debate and condemnation but blown over fairly quickly. But Putin's administration is so steeped in Soviet-era propaganda they think they can create whatever reality they want by inventing their own "truth*".
While that may work on the faithful chauvinists, to the rest of the world (and Russians in the age of the Internet and satellite TV) it just makes them look like dangerous idiots, not to mention drags out this whole incident far longer than necessary.
* insert Pravda joke here
You're talking about a FISA court order, not a NSL. To request data like that they do need a court-issued warrant, the problem is the court is the FISC which operates in secret and with questionable oversight.
Think of a huge jigsaw puzzle. You might have thousands of pieces that could each go in thousands of possible places, and while you may know tricks to speed up the process, solving it would surely take a lot of trial and error and time. When you did finally solve the puzzle, though, it would only take you a moment to check the picture against the box and prove your solution was correct. That makes it a NP problem.
Another jigsaw puzzle has every piece labeled with column and row, so you can put the whole thing together in one sweep—no trial and error needed. Both solving the puzzle and verifying the solution would be simple. That makes it a P problem.
If P=NP, it would indicate the first jigsaw puzzle has labels on its pieces too, just harder to see. If you can find them, solving the puzzle becomes trivial.
There are a great number of NP problems in the world; if P=NP we could find the solutions to many intractable math problems within our grasp.
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Unfortunately, one of those is encryption. Many encryption methods use a NP math problem as a lock and its solution as a key. We assume it would take an impractical amount of time to solve the math problem, so the only way in is by knowing the solution. But if P = NP, breaking that lock (by solving the math) could become as fast as using the key. Oops!
You never know; I'm sure he had plenty of 1UPs.
And as it turns out, P=NP. Stay tuned for more exciting developments!
A NSL is a type of subpoena, a request for basic account info and activity logs. A NSL can't ask you to provide the content of someone's data, kill someone, or smear Crisco all over your body and dance around praising Lord Xenu. (Though if it did, you'd probably be grateful for the non-disclosure clause.)
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The original purpose of non-disclosure was to avoid tipping off suspects that their communications could be monitored, but now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag and any target who worries about NSLs has surely switched to more secure communications, the secrecy around NSLs does a lot more harm than good. Of course, any change to or publicity about NSLs would rekindle debate on the legality of the program (or lack thereof), and they wouldn't want that to happen... Thankfully, people like Nicholas Merrill are forcing the issue, and hopefully there will be change...eventually.
Hint: hyperbole doesn't help, it just distracts people from the real issue. NSLs are bad because they force people to reveal personal information without due process of law. That is all.
Git filters can convert tabs to spaces automatically (or vice versa); chances are your editor (or a plugin) can too. Unicode may be a bit more challenging, but I'd suggest an office policy that anyone who uses unicode outside a string gets impaled on a rusty lawnmower blade.
Somebody reverts your code.
At least Slashdot will never fall victim to this.