Most 20 somethings are really good at using their phones, but most have no idea how it works - nor should they have to. People keep calling them 'tech savvy' but it's really a bad phrase. They're highly effective app USERS. You do have those who are really brilliant and actually tech savvy and build their own devices from scratch, but they chose it, or it chose them.
On the other hand, if you grew up with Windows then you either developed some problem solving skills or you were completely baffled all the time - the learned helplessness people. Macs were only relatively better because they narrowed the amount of things that could go wrong by reducing your choices, but there was still plenty that could go wrong. In my office, for instance, you have highly nerdy types of all ages (19 to 62) who have no problem with dealing with anything. On the other hand, outside that group the device problem solving skills seem strongest in the 40 year olds.
So yes, we grew up with shitty tech and because of that when something goes wrong those who learned to deal with it go into problem solving mode instead of bafflement mode.
Getting off track here, but tech problem solvers are really easy to spot - step 1: try it again paying closer attention, step 2: check the options (or man), step 3: [search engine of your choice] it. That solves 99.9% of all issues, and anyone who's actually tech savvy knows those, so I can categorize people pretty fast that way.
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I guess it's time to dig up SF Elder David Brin on this again - in 1999 he wrote an article on Star Wars's twisted setup where rulers are heriditary vs Star Trek's egalitarian approach.
Part of this is because Lucas stole a lot from the Japanese, and that's their thing - true heroes and leaders aren't made, they're born. But that doesn't excuse it.
'Nobody' cares about gaming on Linux (statistically - I know a few companies do), so the drivers are always going to be lagging and the ports are mostly going to be half-hearted, and Vulkan won't fix that. Probably the biggest issue is a lack of something like Direct X to make things easy - being Linux, there are multiple competing standards for it.
It's why all my servers are Linux but the gaming machine is Windows. When I want to play a game, I just want it to work without messing with WINE configs or having to put up with stuttering and low frame rates. I tried!
I've worked a bit with the health industry (not as a career, thank god, that would be soul crushing), and outside of government health care has the worst IT and worst security I've ever seen. Because they just don't care unless it impacts their bottom line.
All those health apps that doctors and nurses uses, and all those devices? Yeah, they have terrible security because the hospitals don't make it a priority and they just don't care either. Class C medical devices that are PCs running windows XP with active USB ports? You bet.
Your online records? Those are handled by outsourced people running cobbled together Ruby scripts that take 30 hours to process 24 hours worth of data in plaintext csv (I use that because I've seen it)- they certainly don't care about security. Your insurance company? They certainly don't give a damn whether you live or die as long as they're raking in the cash.
All they care about is preserving the appearance of not violating HIPAA because that might cause them some grief.
It might be worth looking into Mono - we haven't looked for a while. At the time, C# debugging was pretty primitive but now the soft debugger might be usable- or at least more usable!
There is definitely Something Wrong. And don't blame the project settings - that's the lazy way to go, since VS's project settings are so ridiculously convoluted and arcane compared to a makefile. You could blame any VS bug on 'your project settings must be wrong'. But we have recreated the entire solution from scratch trying to stop this from happening. Did we do wrong by not sacrificing a f@#$ing goat?
It runs out of memory when debugging the 64-bit app when any single object is larger than 3GB. If you've got a Brillant Paula Bean solution for this, DO TELL.
We've got a 64-bit app which VS will happily build and the app runs fine. But if we want to debug it live VS chokes, falls over and dies, out of memory once the app uses more than 3 GB.
It's legit using > 4GB because it's heavy image processing of large color images at high dpi and the machines are specced for it. Obviously, we could page stuff in and out of memory ourselves, but that rather defeats the purpose of 64-bit OS and would slow everything down (speed is paramount here, burning memory to get it was a primary design decision) - and the program runs fine when not debugging in VS.
Directly sabotaging anything is illegal, but if you coerce me into two years of free consulting because you outsourced my job, the advice may not be the best, you know? There is going to be negative value in this.
Yes, I'm assuming their stated intent is just another PR lie from a terrible corporation.
All ad networks serve up malware at multiple times. All of them. They can't help it. The Russians are more devious than they are, and more motivated - text-only ads are less dangerous, but even those have been compromised with scripting holes.
So as a user, you have to block ads or get pwned - removing Flash and Java helps a lot, but it's not sufficient.
Move to a Patreon or other microsubscription model - Dave Kellett (Sheldon) just did so after a bit of user request. He already had a Patreon, but wasn't highlighting it and was still running ads. So he did a 'replace the ads' drive and now I believe he's up to enough supporters to get rid of ads entirely. I subscribe to sites like Ars Technica for the same reason - I want to support them but am not willing to view their ads.
Then there's the entirely separate issue of bloat, like The Verge's terrible pages which are 10000 : 1 crap to content. But that's secondary to the malware.
Japan's criminal justice system is terrible, just terrible.
Crime is very low to start with so police are mostly helpful cop on the corner type or worst case dealing with drunks, gropers, or teen prostitution (but they usually don't bother with that one). There are a very few 'elites' who handle the nasty stuff, and they have an extremely high conviction rate because once they finger you you're going to jail whether you did it or not. Prosecution, defense, and judge all go with that (the detective said so!), so the only thing up for debate, really, is the sentence. There's a grand jury for a few things but they're mostly go along go along too.
And they know nothing at all about technology. There was a thing two (?) years ago where some mother's apartment dwelling otaku freak was cancelling Kurko's Basketball (a popular manga/anime) events left and right for over a year and they couldn't do a damn thing about it. Eventually the freak got so cocky he got careless and did things like using messenger cats. My memory's a little hazy, but it went on seemingly forever and the cops were completely helpless. And they're terrible with corporate crime like this (the handling of the Olympus affair was a disgrace) since usually it's all a matter of what Japanese politicians you have in your pocket - but apparently Mt. Gox didn't have any. Whoops.
I think Karpeles did it, or at least someone close to him at Mt. Gox did it, because it's just entirely too fishy, but I don't think this will prove it.
Altavista had better results than Google for years, especially because you could use all sorts of search modifiers that Google didn't support till later like -no_pages_with_this_word or +must +have +all +these and logical operators.
But then as the leaders they got cocky and wanted to be a portal and filled up the page with so much crap and spam it hurt. Meanwhile Google's page was still just search box, go, I'm feeling lucky, and a few other tiny things.
That's why I switched after Google got good enough that they were comparable, NOT better. It was just less annoying. That's why most of the people I knew back then switched.
AltaVista realized too late what they'd done and tried to rebrand as 'Raging' with just a simple search page, but by then it was too late.
I'm sure the Google approach is much more scaleable but the article seems terribly confused and like it's trying to make some bizarre sense out of a cultural artifact from a time they can't comprehend.
KFI morning host Bill Handel created an Ashley Madison account:
handle: smallpenis640
weight: 220
height: 4'4"
picture: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
He had 3 interested 'women' messaging him in under an hour. And of course you have to pay to message back. This is where most of their money comes from.
Not sure what happened after that, but yeah, AM, all those 'real women' that 'really' use your site.
Well that was mighty TimeCube. I kind of get that you don't like AdBlock+, but I had to engage my geocities -> english translator. Really kind of sad/. won't let you change fonts and colors, because that would have been amazing.
- Only Micro$$$haft's OS is bloated and inefficient and bad enough to need this - Linux and OSX have had this for years, Mrw00wla$chlong is so late to the party lololol
From the bits of preview footage we've seen the game is already having a hard time even doing single screen at a fixed rate.
They're shooting (har) for 1080p, but they're using something called 'dynamic resolution' where various things are rendered at various resolutions depending on how important it thinks they are and what the frame rate is doing - you want it fixed at at least 30 fps, though 60 would be better. Basically a dynamic level of detail, which is a smart idea, but some things on the screen are noticably lo-res. For instance at some points your gun is in really high detail close up, but then halfway down the gun it periodically looks like it's rendered at 320x200 (seriously) before upscaling. This is noticeable even in motion, not just freeze frame.
I'm sure they're still optimizing, and you might not even notice much in the heat of shooting Covenant in the face, but it does imply that they just don't have the oomph to render two entire scenes at once at a decent frame rate. Split screen is the same total pixels (fill rate), but almost twice the amount of geometry to render.
Yeah, yeah, there's helping and then there's falling all over yourself to help. ' YOU ARE SO BIAS' - Is this some sort of AT&T fanboy thing? Those are pretty rare.
We already knew from previous leaks that AT&T was the telecom most eagerly cooperative with the NSA.
What this underscores is just how eager they were, taking NSA dicks in all holes and begging for more, *splort*ing packets all over their faces. HLARGHARLARGH.
All completely illegal and unconstitutional, thanks Dubya for getting this rolling and thanks Obama for covering their asses after the rock was turned over.
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Most 20 somethings are really good at using their phones, but most have no idea how it works - nor should they have to. People keep calling them 'tech savvy' but it's really a bad phrase. They're highly effective app USERS. You do have those who are really brilliant and actually tech savvy and build their own devices from scratch, but they chose it, or it chose them.
On the other hand, if you grew up with Windows then you either developed some problem solving skills or you were completely baffled all the time - the learned helplessness people. Macs were only relatively better because they narrowed the amount of things that could go wrong by reducing your choices, but there was still plenty that could go wrong. In my office, for instance, you have highly nerdy types of all ages (19 to 62) who have no problem with dealing with anything. On the other hand, outside that group the device problem solving skills seem strongest in the 40 year olds.
So yes, we grew up with shitty tech and because of that when something goes wrong those who learned to deal with it go into problem solving mode instead of bafflement mode.
Getting off track here, but tech problem solvers are really easy to spot - step 1: try it again paying closer attention, step 2: check the options (or man), step 3: [search engine of your choice] it. That solves 99.9% of all issues, and anyone who's actually tech savvy knows those, so I can categorize people pretty fast that way.
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I guess it's time to dig up SF Elder David Brin on this again - in 1999 he wrote an article on Star Wars's twisted setup where rulers are heriditary vs Star Trek's egalitarian approach.
http://www.salon.com/1999/06/1...
Part of this is because Lucas stole a lot from the Japanese, and that's their thing - true heroes and leaders aren't made, they're born. But that doesn't excuse it.
'Nobody' cares about gaming on Linux (statistically - I know a few companies do), so the drivers are always going to be lagging and the ports are mostly going to be half-hearted, and Vulkan won't fix that. Probably the biggest issue is a lack of something like Direct X to make things easy - being Linux, there are multiple competing standards for it.
It's why all my servers are Linux but the gaming machine is Windows. When I want to play a game, I just want it to work without messing with WINE configs or having to put up with stuttering and low frame rates. I tried!
I've worked a bit with the health industry (not as a career, thank god, that would be soul crushing), and outside of government health care has the worst IT and worst security I've ever seen. Because they just don't care unless it impacts their bottom line.
All those health apps that doctors and nurses uses, and all those devices? Yeah, they have terrible security because the hospitals don't make it a priority and they just don't care either. Class C medical devices that are PCs running windows XP with active USB ports? You bet.
Your online records? Those are handled by outsourced people running cobbled together Ruby scripts that take 30 hours to process 24 hours worth of data in plaintext csv (I use that because I've seen it)- they certainly don't care about security. Your insurance company? They certainly don't give a damn whether you live or die as long as they're raking in the cash.
All they care about is preserving the appearance of not violating HIPAA because that might cause them some grief.
And again (my apologies for the double post), the compiled app itself runs fine using 24GB of memory. It's obviously 64-bit and happy.
The only problem is when you try to debug it in VS, and then VS dies with an out of memory error.
Thank you, but... it doesn't work. As soon as the app allocates more than 3GB VS falls over dead, even with all the handwavey '64-bit'.
I would not be surprised in the least if VS had other issues that prevented it from working with 64-bit memory allocations.
But whatever the cause, the effect is the same - we can't debug 64-bit apps with 64-bit memory allocations. It's effectively stuck at 32 bit.
VS is shitting the bed at 3GB. That sure seems like a 64-bit issue, but unless you've got anything useful to say, yeah, don't waste your time.
It might be worth looking into Mono - we haven't looked for a while. At the time, C# debugging was pretty primitive but now the soft debugger might be usable- or at least more usable!
There is definitely Something Wrong. And don't blame the project settings - that's the lazy way to go, since VS's project settings are so ridiculously convoluted and arcane compared to a makefile. You could blame any VS bug on 'your project settings must be wrong'. But we have recreated the entire solution from scratch trying to stop this from happening. Did we do wrong by not sacrificing a f@#$ing goat?
It runs out of memory when debugging the 64-bit app when any single object is larger than 3GB. If you've got a Brillant Paula Bean solution for this, DO TELL.
The big problem is debugging.
We've got a 64-bit app which VS will happily build and the app runs fine. But if we want to debug it live VS chokes, falls over and dies, out of memory once the app uses more than 3 GB.
It's legit using > 4GB because it's heavy image processing of large color images at high dpi and the machines are specced for it. Obviously, we could page stuff in and out of memory ourselves, but that rather defeats the purpose of 64-bit OS and would slow everything down (speed is paramount here, burning memory to get it was a primary design decision) - and the program runs fine when not debugging in VS.
Americans don't trust most things. That's often a good default response, especially when the AIs are owned by giant evil sociopathic corporations.
Directly sabotaging anything is illegal, but if you coerce me into two years of free consulting because you outsourced my job, the advice may not be the best, you know? There is going to be negative value in this.
Yes, I'm assuming their stated intent is just another PR lie from a terrible corporation.
'Don't be Evil' has been a sad joke since Schmidt joined - and yes, it was made 'official' only after he joined (the 2004 IPO letter).
As long as you've got a Bond villain running the thing it's just a cynical publicity ploy, typical Bay Area 'activism'.
You go after people you know are stupid.
All ad networks serve up malware at multiple times. All of them. They can't help it. The Russians are more devious than they are, and more motivated - text-only ads are less dangerous, but even those have been compromised with scripting holes.
So as a user, you have to block ads or get pwned - removing Flash and Java helps a lot, but it's not sufficient.
Move to a Patreon or other microsubscription model - Dave Kellett (Sheldon) just did so after a bit of user request. He already had a Patreon, but wasn't highlighting it and was still running ads. So he did a 'replace the ads' drive and now I believe he's up to enough supporters to get rid of ads entirely. I subscribe to sites like Ars Technica for the same reason - I want to support them but am not willing to view their ads.
Then there's the entirely separate issue of bloat, like The Verge's terrible pages which are 10000 : 1 crap to content. But that's secondary to the malware.
Japan's criminal justice system is terrible, just terrible.
Crime is very low to start with so police are mostly helpful cop on the corner type or worst case dealing with drunks, gropers, or teen prostitution (but they usually don't bother with that one). There are a very few 'elites' who handle the nasty stuff, and they have an extremely high conviction rate because once they finger you you're going to jail whether you did it or not. Prosecution, defense, and judge all go with that (the detective said so!), so the only thing up for debate, really, is the sentence. There's a grand jury for a few things but they're mostly go along go along too.
And they know nothing at all about technology. There was a thing two (?) years ago where some mother's apartment dwelling otaku freak was cancelling Kurko's Basketball (a popular manga/anime) events left and right for over a year and they couldn't do a damn thing about it. Eventually the freak got so cocky he got careless and did things like using messenger cats. My memory's a little hazy, but it went on seemingly forever and the cops were completely helpless. And they're terrible with corporate crime like this (the handling of the Olympus affair was a disgrace) since usually it's all a matter of what Japanese politicians you have in your pocket - but apparently Mt. Gox didn't have any. Whoops.
I think Karpeles did it, or at least someone close to him at Mt. Gox did it, because it's just entirely too fishy, but I don't think this will prove it.
Altavista had better results than Google for years, especially because you could use all sorts of search modifiers that Google didn't support till later like -no_pages_with_this_word or +must +have +all +these and logical operators.
But then as the leaders they got cocky and wanted to be a portal and filled up the page with so much crap and spam it hurt. Meanwhile Google's page was still just search box, go, I'm feeling lucky, and a few other tiny things.
That's why I switched after Google got good enough that they were comparable, NOT better. It was just less annoying. That's why most of the people I knew back then switched.
AltaVista realized too late what they'd done and tried to rebrand as 'Raging' with just a simple search page, but by then it was too late.
I'm sure the Google approach is much more scaleable but the article seems terribly confused and like it's trying to make some bizarre sense out of a cultural artifact from a time they can't comprehend.
KFI morning host Bill Handel created an Ashley Madison account:
handle: smallpenis640
weight: 220
height: 4'4"
picture: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
He had 3 interested 'women' messaging him in under an hour. And of course you have to pay to message back. This is where most of their money comes from.
Not sure what happened after that, but yeah, AM, all those 'real women' that 'really' use your site.
Well that was mighty TimeCube. I kind of get that you don't like AdBlock+, but I had to engage my geocities -> english translator. Really kind of sad /. won't let you change fonts and colors, because that would have been amazing.
I'm using Ublock myself.
From reading the comments I've learned that:
- Only Micro$$$haft's OS is bloated and inefficient and bad enough to need this
- Linux and OSX have had this for years, Mrw00wla$chlong is so late to the party lololol
From the bits of preview footage we've seen the game is already having a hard time even doing single screen at a fixed rate.
They're shooting (har) for 1080p, but they're using something called 'dynamic resolution' where various things are rendered at various resolutions depending on how important it thinks they are and what the frame rate is doing - you want it fixed at at least 30 fps, though 60 would be better. Basically a dynamic level of detail, which is a smart idea, but some things on the screen are noticably lo-res. For instance at some points your gun is in really high detail close up, but then halfway down the gun it periodically looks like it's rendered at 320x200 (seriously) before upscaling. This is noticeable even in motion, not just freeze frame.
I'm sure they're still optimizing, and you might not even notice much in the heat of shooting Covenant in the face, but it does imply that they just don't have the oomph to render two entire scenes at once at a decent frame rate. Split screen is the same total pixels (fill rate), but almost twice the amount of geometry to render.
Yeah, yeah, there's helping and then there's falling all over yourself to help. ' YOU ARE SO BIAS' - Is this some sort of AT&T fanboy thing? Those are pretty rare.
We already knew from previous leaks that AT&T was the telecom most eagerly cooperative with the NSA.
What this underscores is just how eager they were, taking NSA dicks in all holes and begging for more, *splort*ing packets all over their faces. HLARGHARLARGH.
All completely illegal and unconstitutional, thanks Dubya for getting this rolling and thanks Obama for covering their asses after the rock was turned over.