you mean it's "A Stich in time saves nine" saying.
What I see is that the gubbermint, instead of spending our taxpayer provided dollars for this are asking the public to provide free research when it's god damn easy enough to simply put a fucking camera up and focus it on one of the tide markers (known height/depth) and simply snapshot the damn thing every 5 minutes.
Now if what they've asked is that people take pictures while out an about during this eclipse for area's they don't have cameras (what store/mall/parking lot doesn't have em?).
If you want an encrypted cloud storage service, use any of them but encrypt things before you upload. That is the only way to ensure Zero Knowledge and that it's encrypted effectively. Test the hell out of things afterwards to ensure they're not corrupting your files/data.
I use dropbox and my private folder is encrypted using truecrypt. It works and I've never had a problem with the file being corrupted or sync problems but then I'm only using 2GB of storage. Most of my files are now on 32+GB flash drives and they're encrypted from the beginning.
Switch the entire world the Zulu Time - We no longer have any need for Timezones. All that you would then need to communicate is that my office is open from 2200-0600 and everyone around the world will know not to bother calling at 0800 since no one is there.
To many changes, dropping support for hardware that FreeBSD still supports (paid contracts) along with the issue that each run could not produce Identical Binaries. If you can't ensure duplicate binaries, you can't ensure that someone hasn't backdoored/trojan'd each and every binary on the system because the code produced is no longer human readable.
is when MS turns off the Activiation servers for XP and all of those computers go silent except for a BSOD that demands money to Upgrade to Windows ?#.
uses pictures of Cats that we humans get to vote on - what's funny, who's grumpy, stupid, OMG Kill it! Social experimentation/analysis of the worst kind. Maybe Google will finally be able to profile what is human and will then be able to bear Skynet.
Well if it runs Crysis, it certainly handles Supreme Commander (SC) quite well. Get your Abbreviations right before "Opening your mouth and confirming your a fool" as President Lincoln once said.
I would actually hope they stopped coming up with new archs, and spent some more time refining their software side. AMD has some of the worst drivers ever seen by a major hardware manufacturer (in fact, considering they've consistently had better, cheaper hardware, there isn't really any other explanation for their inability to gain dominance in the GPU market), but NVIDIA isn't exactly problem free: their support for OpenCL, for example, is ancient and crappy (obviously, since they'd rather have people use CUDA to do compute on their GPUs).
What I'd like to see both Nvidia and AMD do is take the damn time to really optimze the hell out of their chips, dropping power demand while improving performance. In regards to the drivers and software side of the damn things, yea, I'd love to see a driver only offering again. It doesn't have to be the fucking fastest, just give me stability. I want the rock solid drivers that used to be the case and forget about all the extra shit that's included with CCC or the NVCPL.
Now if AMD would give us back the Driver Only install instead of forcing.Net4 and Catalyst Control center down our throats. The driver is good but I don't need the damn CCC App crashing and restarting the video driver when it didn't crash.
This is probably the biggest reason I no longer use AMD cards even though their as good performance wise as Nvidia. Or course Nvidia is having driver issues again so I guess I need to stick with Intel only for stable and open source drivers.
if you want to keep something away from a tech savy spouse, then use a god damn VPN - your connection is routed through the VPN and they don't know what in hell the traffic is. If they're so paranoid that they block VPN access, then they'd go as far as blocking TOR to boot and that's a spouse that you need a club and spade for as the two hearts didn't work.
In all cases: civil and criminal (if the accused is acquitted, the prosecuting office needs to cough up).
So a criminal case that fails means the government needs to pay the accused Lawyers? Oh Save me from idiots as that's what already happens with the public defender. All that would happen is that their wouldn't be any Defense lawyers for you and me as the Wealthy sure as hell can afford them. How many more people do we need behind bars? Hell I guess all American's should be tried in the fucking "World Court" in Geneva for war crimes.
Huuymans: Can't live with them and they bring the universal Inteligence level down.
If you're being sued for a patent/copyright infringement, you sure as hell want to know what product you're selling is infringing or do you like the way the "MPAA/RIAA" sues everyone and their grandmother? Sorry but if I'm on the Receiving end of a lawsuit then I damn well want to know what I'm being sued for instead of fuxing Pixie Dust and Unicorn Farts.
Another mistake in depending on Flash is the lack of ADA compliance. Come on folks. If you're doing any god damn commercial website designwork, then you absolutely have to comply with either ADA rules in the US/EU. Otherwise you'll eventually loose business and end up going under. This means by all means do not depend on Flash or even javascript. If I hit a site that depends completely on either of those technology, then I'm probably never going to return even if you're the only place to get the last twinkie on earth before the zombies get me.
and that's why he was marked troll. Simply put, the problem that Linux has is a lack of open source support from Nvidia and other companies in regards to drivers. If the Steambox is what finally got Nvidia off the fucking fence about opening any of their information (at least in regards to the Nouveua project) it's a win for us. Hell look at the quality of the Nouveua driver - it certainly works almost as well as the god damn binary blob crap from Nvidia while not puking each and every time you update the system.
Anthing that Valve does to get the hardware working in Linux is a win for the community as that's what'll finally get some of the hardware vendors off their asses. As to your comment about the XBOne and PS4 - they'll run Linux but Valve isn't pushing Linux other then as an OS. They're going to offer an IDE and set of API's that leverage STEAM's DRM to the max while running that on Windows, Linux and what ever other OS they feel like. The advantage to them is that if ARM takes off like it could, they'll already have invested the time/effort to ensure they're STEAM application runs on that hardware instead of being dependent on Microsoft to continue selling games. In that case, it's simply CYA (covering yon ass) in case MS goes under or what pisses off their OEM computer makes badly enough that no one sells Windows based systems anymore. Could it happen? Maybe if Balmer gets out of the fucking way. Corporations wouldn't have an issue as MS would be like Apple then - providing the entire eco-system from desktops through Servers. What IBM tried to do.
Linus specifically stated (RTFS idiots) that this may have been what pushed Nvidia to finally begin supporting the Nouveua project (open source) and that helps Linux on the Desktop as we gain more traction for stable drivers - be them video, audio or networking.
The reason it's no longer worthwhile to run Firefox is the continual updates and feature removals. It's got little to do with Security. I'm currently using Firefox 10.0.0 with Noscript on Win7-64 and it's actually be less trouble then all versions since 17 - have 3 systems running the latest and they're god damn crap.
One of the things that annoys the hell out of me is the change to the bookmarks system. It's no longer a simple html file (used to work fine and was easy to backup) instead it's some closed system that's not human readable and if something pukes, you loose all of your bookmarks including the fucking backups. Makes me want to puke as I've had that happen 3 times since they switched.
I'm not a fan of IE but if someone would create a god damn browser for Windows that uses the IE engine along with the noscript add-on I'd be using it in a heartbeat on Windows
What they are doing is enforcing their TOS against servers on residential lines - dynamically assigned IP's, in order to get either more money or convince the wastrel to move to another provider.
Sorry folks but this has nothing to do with a government bloc in place. It's just another breakage of the internet into little fiefdoms.
any 3rd world home using 20kw per day isn't what these are for. My house in the United States with all the electronics (4 computers, 2tv's, Cable Modem, Wireless router and such) uses 44kw per day.
A 3rd world rural home would be lucky to hit 1kw per day unless they've got a regrigerator/freezer. Better to go with a commercial style unit with individual compartments for each family as it means a single unit for the village/government to purchase and power it using Photovoltaics (Solar). The benefit is the availability of lighting in the community kitchen and someone can the be assigned to ensure everything is cleaned. Hell washing pots/pans and scrubbing a kitchen is certainly better then the back breaking work of subsitence farming and it's an area where an older individual can supervise a bunch of children to keep em out of trouble nor does it have to be punishment.
and the solution that would have been used is to invalidate the patents by the EU (nuclear option) if Samsung did not quit abusing. They've also been put on notice that any further abuse of SEP's will result in the patent being invalidated by the EU, thus ending any and all lawsuits in regards to said patents.
This has the benefit of informing the Corps that Abuse of the Courts and the System will no longer be tolerated while reducing the time and money wasted not only by the courts but the victims of the abuse. It does not impact lawyers directly other then by telling them that the gravy train has ended in the EU.
Now if the damn courts in the United States along with the congress would implement the same deal. Keeps patents valid while fixing the major problem with the system as it stands.
just turn off v-sync in the card settings. Doesn't screw things up if you have an LCD. Hell I notice no difference as my display only handles 59 FPS (max refresh rate) anyhow.
Although APK's post are annoying, he at least does push a valid point about using a host file. The problem I've recently found is that the newest one online that I've found was updated in 2010-2011 while all of the others are from 2003-2008, thus pretty much useless. Seems that the American Apathy has reached epic porportions and this site is not for geeks anymore so everyone claiming to be a geek can burn their now useless Geek Card because "You Are Not a Geek If Not Using a Host File" and don't forget to share the information with others and keep it updated.
another thing assholes are good for is fucking with along with feeding to our freinds Petunia's. Oh they also work quite nicely as training aids on the firing range - better then idiot officers.
It wouldn't change how I live as I already "Carpe Diem" and live as though each and every day may be my last. Remember - this game called Life always ends in Sudden Death so live accordingly.
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you mean it's "A Stich in time saves nine" saying.
What I see is that the gubbermint, instead of spending our taxpayer provided dollars for this are asking the public to provide free research when it's god damn easy enough to simply put a fucking camera up and focus it on one of the tide markers (known height/depth) and simply snapshot the damn thing every 5 minutes.
Now if what they've asked is that people take pictures while out an about during this eclipse for area's they don't have cameras (what store/mall/parking lot doesn't have em?).
If you want an encrypted cloud storage service, use any of them but encrypt things before you upload. That is the only way to ensure Zero Knowledge and that it's encrypted effectively. Test the hell out of things afterwards to ensure they're not corrupting your files/data.
I use dropbox and my private folder is encrypted using truecrypt. It works and I've never had a problem with the file being corrupted or sync problems but then I'm only using 2GB of storage. Most of my files are now on 32+GB flash drives and they're encrypted from the beginning.
Switch the entire world the Zulu Time - We no longer have any need for Timezones. All that you would then need to communicate is that my office is open from 2200-0600 and everyone around the world will know not to bother calling at 0800 since no one is there.
To many changes, dropping support for hardware that FreeBSD still supports (paid contracts) along with the issue that each run could not produce Identical Binaries. If you can't ensure duplicate binaries, you can't ensure that someone hasn't backdoored/trojan'd each and every binary on the system because the code produced is no longer human readable.
is when MS turns off the Activiation servers for XP and all of those computers go silent except for a BSOD that demands money to Upgrade to Windows ?#.
uses pictures of Cats that we humans get to vote on - what's funny, who's grumpy, stupid, OMG Kill it! Social experimentation/analysis of the worst kind. Maybe Google will finally be able to profile what is human and will then be able to bear Skynet.
Well if it runs Crysis, it certainly handles Supreme Commander (SC) quite well. Get your Abbreviations right before "Opening your mouth and confirming your a fool" as President Lincoln once said.
I would actually hope they stopped coming up with new archs, and spent some more time refining their software side. AMD has some of the worst drivers ever seen by a major hardware manufacturer (in fact, considering they've consistently had better, cheaper hardware, there isn't really any other explanation for their inability to gain dominance in the GPU market), but NVIDIA isn't exactly problem free: their support for OpenCL, for example, is ancient and crappy (obviously, since they'd rather have people use CUDA to do compute on their GPUs).
What I'd like to see both Nvidia and AMD do is take the damn time to really optimze the hell out of their chips, dropping power demand while improving performance. In regards to the drivers and software side of the damn things, yea, I'd love to see a driver only offering again. It doesn't have to be the fucking fastest, just give me stability. I want the rock solid drivers that used to be the case and forget about all the extra shit that's included with CCC or the NVCPL.
Now if AMD would give us back the Driver Only install instead of forcing .Net4 and Catalyst Control center down our throats. The driver is good but I don't need the damn CCC App crashing and restarting the video driver when it didn't crash.
This is probably the biggest reason I no longer use AMD cards even though their as good performance wise as Nvidia. Or course Nvidia is having driver issues again so I guess I need to stick with Intel only for stable and open source drivers.
if you want to keep something away from a tech savy spouse, then use a god damn VPN - your connection is routed through the VPN and they don't know what in hell the traffic is. If they're so paranoid that they block VPN access, then they'd go as far as blocking TOR to boot and that's a spouse that you need a club and spade for as the two hearts didn't work.
you translate into subspace/hyperspace from normal space. You do not translate from one language to another, you refactor it.
In all cases: civil and criminal (if the accused is acquitted, the prosecuting office needs to cough up).
So a criminal case that fails means the government needs to pay the accused Lawyers? Oh Save me from idiots as that's what already happens with the public defender. All that would happen is that their wouldn't be any Defense lawyers for you and me as the Wealthy sure as hell can afford them. How many more people do we need behind bars? Hell I guess all American's should be tried in the fucking "World Court" in Geneva for war crimes.
Huuymans: Can't live with them and they bring the universal Inteligence level down.
If you're being sued for a patent/copyright infringement, you sure as hell want to know what product you're selling is infringing or do you like the way the "MPAA/RIAA" sues everyone and their grandmother? Sorry but if I'm on the Receiving end of a lawsuit then I damn well want to know what I'm being sued for instead of fuxing Pixie Dust and Unicorn Farts.
Another mistake in depending on Flash is the lack of ADA compliance. Come on folks. If you're doing any god damn commercial website designwork, then you absolutely have to comply with either ADA rules in the US/EU. Otherwise you'll eventually loose business and end up going under. This means by all means do not depend on Flash or even javascript. If I hit a site that depends completely on either of those technology, then I'm probably never going to return even if you're the only place to get the last twinkie on earth before the zombies get me.
and that's why he was marked troll. Simply put, the problem that Linux has is a lack of open source support from Nvidia and other companies in regards to drivers. If the Steambox is what finally got Nvidia off the fucking fence about opening any of their information (at least in regards to the Nouveua project) it's a win for us. Hell look at the quality of the Nouveua driver - it certainly works almost as well as the god damn binary blob crap from Nvidia while not puking each and every time you update the system.
Anthing that Valve does to get the hardware working in Linux is a win for the community as that's what'll finally get some of the hardware vendors off their asses. As to your comment about the XBOne and PS4 - they'll run Linux but Valve isn't pushing Linux other then as an OS. They're going to offer an IDE and set of API's that leverage STEAM's DRM to the max while running that on Windows, Linux and what ever other OS they feel like. The advantage to them is that if ARM takes off like it could, they'll already have invested the time/effort to ensure they're STEAM application runs on that hardware instead of being dependent on Microsoft to continue selling games. In that case, it's simply CYA (covering yon ass) in case MS goes under or what pisses off their OEM computer makes badly enough that no one sells Windows based systems anymore. Could it happen? Maybe if Balmer gets out of the fucking way. Corporations wouldn't have an issue as MS would be like Apple then - providing the entire eco-system from desktops through Servers. What IBM tried to do.
Linus specifically stated (RTFS idiots) that this may have been what pushed Nvidia to finally begin supporting the Nouveua project (open source) and that helps Linux on the Desktop as we gain more traction for stable drivers - be them video, audio or networking.
The reason it's no longer worthwhile to run Firefox is the continual updates and feature removals. It's got little to do with Security. I'm currently using Firefox 10.0.0 with Noscript on Win7-64 and it's actually be less trouble then all versions since 17 - have 3 systems running the latest and they're god damn crap.
One of the things that annoys the hell out of me is the change to the bookmarks system. It's no longer a simple html file (used to work fine and was easy to backup) instead it's some closed system that's not human readable and if something pukes, you loose all of your bookmarks including the fucking backups. Makes me want to puke as I've had that happen 3 times since they switched.
I'm not a fan of IE but if someone would create a god damn browser for Windows that uses the IE engine along with the noscript add-on I'd be using it in a heartbeat on Windows
What they are doing is enforcing their TOS against servers on residential lines - dynamically assigned IP's, in order to get either more money or convince the wastrel to move to another provider.
Sorry folks but this has nothing to do with a government bloc in place. It's just another breakage of the internet into little fiefdoms.
any 3rd world home using 20kw per day isn't what these are for. My house in the United States with all the electronics (4 computers, 2tv's, Cable Modem, Wireless router and such) uses 44kw per day.
A 3rd world rural home would be lucky to hit 1kw per day unless they've got a regrigerator/freezer. Better to go with a commercial style unit with individual compartments for each family as it means a single unit for the village/government to purchase and power it using Photovoltaics (Solar). The benefit is the availability of lighting in the community kitchen and someone can the be assigned to ensure everything is cleaned. Hell washing pots/pans and scrubbing a kitchen is certainly better then the back breaking work of subsitence farming and it's an area where an older individual can supervise a bunch of children to keep em out of trouble nor does it have to be punishment.
and the solution that would have been used is to invalidate the patents by the EU (nuclear option) if Samsung did not quit abusing. They've also been put on notice that any further abuse of SEP's will result in the patent being invalidated by the EU, thus ending any and all lawsuits in regards to said patents.
This has the benefit of informing the Corps that Abuse of the Courts and the System will no longer be tolerated while reducing the time and money wasted not only by the courts but the victims of the abuse. It does not impact lawyers directly other then by telling them that the gravy train has ended in the EU.
Now if the damn courts in the United States along with the congress would implement the same deal. Keeps patents valid while fixing the major problem with the system as it stands.
just turn off v-sync in the card settings. Doesn't screw things up if you have an LCD. Hell I notice no difference as my display only handles 59 FPS (max refresh rate) anyhow.
Although APK's post are annoying, he at least does push a valid point about using a host file. The problem I've recently found is that the newest one online that I've found was updated in 2010-2011 while all of the others are from 2003-2008, thus pretty much useless. Seems that the American Apathy has reached epic porportions and this site is not for geeks anymore so everyone claiming to be a geek can burn their now useless Geek Card because "You Are Not a Geek If Not Using a Host File" and don't forget to share the information with others and keep it updated.
to bad. They should renmame it "my little reaper" sounds much better though "joe the ripper" works too.
another thing assholes are good for is fucking with along with feeding to our freinds Petunia's. Oh they also work quite nicely as training aids on the firing range - better then idiot officers.
It wouldn't change how I live as I already "Carpe Diem" and live as though each and every day may be my last. Remember - this game called Life always ends in Sudden Death so live accordingly.