For reliability/safety, you automate only that which is guaranteed to be safe. The more reliability/safety you want, the less you can automate.
Similarly for security. Does your shit come back up after a reboot? Or does someone have to key in passwords to get the drives unlocked/decrypted, then get the OS running, and then get the various service accounts to do their shit.
No matter where you draw the line, documentation for regular procedures, disaster recovery, and initial configuration is king.
I just wanted to hop on my Windows 10 gaming desktop and play some FPS before bed. If Windows updates were active, they'd stupidly try to download at the same time, which would also excite the AV components, and cause lag enough to get me killed over and over again.
They can't even get any traction with Play Music / Movies / etc.
Every single new player into this space comes along thinking they're going to shake things up, but they end up offering the same fucking service because they're at the mercy of a few companies who control most of the networks. I'm not going to "cut the cord" and then use the same cord to get 80% of the shit I want across 3 separate subscription services, plus 50+ things I don't want (12 sports channels, 17 Spanish channels, 15 shopping channels, 6 MTV/VH1 variants, etc.).
When it was first talked about net neutrality was a good thing. It was quickly shot down and resurrected as a piece of shit that did anything but protect the neutrality of the internet.
Almost no one is adopting 2:1. It's anything but "universal".
Content is created in all sorts of shit, with 1.85:1, 2.33:1 (21:9), 2.35:1, and 2.39:1 being the most common for film, and 16:9 being nearly universal for anything broadcast. The vast majority of content is delivered in / expects a display of 16:9.
You may as well tell me that everything's going to be 48 FPS and 3D thanks to the critically acclaimed and monstrously popular Hobbit film trilogy. And I'm sure Samsung's 2017 4K TV lineup will all be 2:1, right?
2:1 isn't happening. They can't even get 21:9 (fuck you clowns, it's 7:3) to take off.
You are hungry and need to buy food. You are also a drug addict.
You get a government handout expressly for buying things you need (food), and not things you don't (drugs). You also have some amount of your own money.
You need food so you simply spend out the government's money on food. All other money you have is available to cover any shortfall in need on the food side OR your drugs.
Despite the restriction, the handout still enables you to spend more money on the restricted thing. Worse, if the handout is in excess of need, you can still spend it all out on food, sell the excess food, then spend those profits on drugs.
The only difference between welfare fraud and corporate level accounting fraud is that corporations have many more tricks and layers (like an ogre) to exploit and are generally more efficient at it.
Everything we've seen about Ryzen indicates that it'll deliver amazing performance per dollar.
We need official street pricing, more benchmarks, and OEM offerings. Most desktops and virtually all laptops are prebuilt. It's up to the OEMs to not take bribes from Intel and build products around Ryzen. With the support we've seen for Polaris in laptops, I think the outlook is good.
We've got no idea what they've got planned for servers. I hope we see something soon, because it takes much longer for vendors to build a server around a new CPU and socket than a desktop or laptop. Intel's desktop CPU prices are grossly inflated, but their Xeon prices are barbaric. If Ryzen can offer a similar value proposition in the server market as it seems to in the desktop market, then that means I can go with AMD and lose some single-threaded performance, gain multi-threaded performance (as I'll have more cores), and save a bunch of cash. I can use that cash to get more RAM and more/better flash.
If AMD can get some mindshare back, then Intel is going to be forced to compete or at least slash prices. I do believe that mindshare still starts with the nerds building their own PCs. If AMD can get an average Joe to hear about "Ryzen", then when OEMs do put out their offerings they stand to claw back a lot of marketshare.
We've also got Vega on the GPU side. Polaris is an amazing performance/$ architecture, but we've seen very little of Vega. Nvidia is poised to release the (almost) full size Pascal chip soon too (presumably as a new Titan or 1080 Ti SKU). What we've seen of Vega has it beating out the 1080 by a moderate margin. Going purely based on die sizes from the full GP100 Pascal chip from the Tesla products, we can forecast that a 1080 Ti / Titan Whatever will blow the existing 1080 out of the water. Vega will either have to be a huge surprise in terms of performance or as great a value as Polaris to claw some desktop GPU marketshare back.
If the next Xbox and Playstation ever materialize they'll likely stick with AMD for both the GPU and CPU for ease of backwards compatibility, and they will almost certainly be running Ryzen & Vega. AMD lost Nintendo this time around, with Nvidia powering the Switch. Even before it releases there are rumors of a "Pro" or upgraded model running on the Tegra X2 platform instead of the Tegra X1. I doubt we'll see such a thing for at least a full year. (At which point Tegra X3 will be out.) AMD still has at least one unannounced contract for a custom design. It's almost certainly for the Xbox Scorpio, and we'll get the reveal at E3.
If what we've seen of Ryzen holds true, and if Vega is competitive, AMD is going to have a great 12-18 months.
HDCP 1.x is defeated. Publicly and trivially. HDCP 2.2 isn't, as far as I know, publicly defeated. One vendor made and sold a working stripper at one point, but I don't know if it's still functional (I believe HDCP 2.2 has more updating capability to revoke blacklisted decoders). They also got sued.
Non-comic-book movies I've seen recently that are absolutely fantastic, not utter crap:
Hacksaw Ridge Manchester By The Sea Arrival (actually this was just 'good,' not fantastic) Rogue One (except maybe some of the weird CG human stuff at the end) Finding Dory Zootopia Kubo and the Two Strings
Sadly I've been busy of late and haven't had time to watch that much, and there are a number I'd love to see but haven't, like Fences, Moonlight, La La Land, John Wick 2 (comic book movie? Video game movie??), Ip Man 3 (delicious chinese propaganda).
Zootopia was good.
Finding Dory was lame. Maybe the kids like it, I don't know. But there's nothing in it worthwhile if you've already seen Finding Nemo.
Manchester by the Sea is a depressing, boring, grey turd. It's extremely overrated even if you go in with the attitude of wanting to drown yourself in a miserable bog. I've discussed this movie in detail before.
Arrival is fucking dogshit. If the fucking heptapods can see the fucking future why couldn't they see us learning each others' languages (and thus learn ours in advance)? (As shown, the heptapods made zero effort to learn English, instead making us do all the work. However, there is a brief moment where it appears as if they understand English to some degree, so it's anyone's guess.) Or, why couldn't they see the bomb? Or, why couldn't they see that in 3000 years they will need help and fucking help themselves? This movie has all the failings and plot holes of a time travel movie without any of the excitement. I've seen this one most recently and yes, I'm mad about the time I wasted on it. It's not a fucking sci-fi movie it's a shitty movie about some mom whose kid dies or some shit and then gets magical powers from some aliens and through some paradoxical plot holes saves nothing because the aliens just evaporate anyone. Might as well have let the Chinese general blow them up.
Rogue One was simply unnecessary. It's Star Wars: Vietnam. You know what happens so the entire plot doesn't matter. The movie failed to make me (or anyone else) give a shit about the characters involved, which is about the only other option it had. The sound and visuals were typical Star Wars fare. A big fat MEH for this one.
I haven't seen Kubo.
I don't know about Fences or Moonlight.
I'll likely see John Wick 2 at some point.
La La Land was pretty much Hollywood licking its own genitals. It opens with an interesting musical number but they get progressively more boring from there. Plotwise, it's completely predictable. It follows the "meet, deny love, admit love, fight, reuinte" pattern just about every single love story does. The only difference is that in this story the "reunite" ends with "And they lived separately ever after. In separate lives. One was kinda happy or at least content, I guess. The other is alone and kinda sad, probably forever.". But if you like your happy endings you can have that too - just turn the movie off 5 minutes before it ends. There's an entire extended daydream/what-if sequence showing the woman leaves her husband and child for the man to live a long, happy life together. Then it snaps back to reality - poor RyGoz pecking at the ivories and looking sad. The movie has a handful of musical numbers (the first couple being the best by far), and then it has an overall theme that gets replayed and reused over and over and over. It's a nice theme for sure, but you'll be hearing it for about a full hour if you watch the movie. I don't care for singing (I'm not gay), so I won't judge that aspect either way. I've heard the Emma Stone did her own singing and people thought it was good. I've also heard that RyGoz played the piano himself. Going into the movie I hadn't heard this, and there's one shot early on where you're wondering if he's really playing. The movie plays a cute trick on you - the camera
Fifth, again... how does this hurt you? If you don't want to pay to see new movies, don't watch them; nobody -- including ranton -- is forcing you to do that or even see any studio movies in general.
If this is successful: They'll delay the release of the bluray/whatever a bit more to capitalize on the home rentals. They'll delay releasing it onto Amazon/Google/etc. for pay and to Amazon/Netflix/etc. for free for the same reason. They'll use their rental streaming infrastructure to set up shop on their own and avoid popular services users already have (Amazon/Google/Netflix/etc.) They'll eventually jack up the price or try to introduce shitty DRM to detect the number of people watching. They'll inject ads, ads, ads before and probably during your rental.
If this is unsuccessful: They'll throw a hissy fit and blame piracy. They'll jack up the costs of blurays and streaming/download licensing, ostensibly to pay for the failed experiment, but really the higher prices will just be the new normal.
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Obviously you try to automate as much as possible
For efficiency, sure.
For reliability/safety, you automate only that which is guaranteed to be safe. The more reliability/safety you want, the less you can automate.
Similarly for security. Does your shit come back up after a reboot? Or does someone have to key in passwords to get the drives unlocked/decrypted, then get the OS running, and then get the various service accounts to do their shit.
No matter where you draw the line, documentation for regular procedures, disaster recovery, and initial configuration is king.
All classes are abstract. They're classes, not objects. (And someone will come along and say all objects are abstract. And they'd be correct.)
I just wanted to hop on my Windows 10 gaming desktop and play some FPS before bed. If Windows updates were active, they'd stupidly try to download at the same time, which would also excite the AV components, and cause lag enough to get me killed over and over again.
Sounds like you need to git gud.
You are a moran. "Trolling is a art" is a classic troll, as are all the other things in that post.
First of all, it's a private company doing it, so it's not censorship
False. Nothing else you write is worth reading.
I also want notification LEDs to come back (and not be hidden and disabled).
I loved the little ball on the Nexus One, too.
Fuck you. You didn't read or watch shit. The actual video (the "article" is a stub) is blocked in the US.
Remember Google TV?
Remember YouTube Red?
(Coming Soon: Remember YouTube TV?)
They can't even get any traction with Play Music / Movies / etc.
Every single new player into this space comes along thinking they're going to shake things up, but they end up offering the same fucking service because they're at the mercy of a few companies who control most of the networks. I'm not going to "cut the cord" and then use the same cord to get 80% of the shit I want across 3 separate subscription services, plus 50+ things I don't want (12 sports channels, 17 Spanish channels, 15 shopping channels, 6 MTV/VH1 variants, etc.).
Those are quotation marks. You're a clown. It's bacon. Those quotation marks are literal, not ironic.
West coast best coast, east coast least coast.
Yore*
I'm not clicking your link, but you're correct.
When it was first talked about net neutrality was a good thing. It was quickly shot down and resurrected as a piece of shit that did anything but protect the neutrality of the internet.
Bacon is not necessarily cured. I can go to my local supermarket and buy uncured "bacon".
Bacon?
You do know that taking a piece off a pig and cooking it does not translate to bacon.
There is a process that is involved that makes it a bit worse for you before it tastes like bacon.
That process is called butchering. It's literally the physical separation of meat from a carcass. It's easy to find unadulterated bacon and ham.
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Almost no one is adopting 2:1. It's anything but "universal".
Content is created in all sorts of shit, with 1.85:1, 2.33:1 (21:9), 2.35:1, and 2.39:1 being the most common for film, and 16:9 being nearly universal for anything broadcast. The vast majority of content is delivered in / expects a display of 16:9.
You may as well tell me that everything's going to be 48 FPS and 3D thanks to the critically acclaimed and monstrously popular Hobbit film trilogy. And I'm sure Samsung's 2017 4K TV lineup will all be 2:1, right?
2:1 isn't happening. They can't even get 21:9 (fuck you clowns, it's 7:3) to take off.
the profits could go towards funding more ambitious private projects, such as hotels on the moon, and astroid mining.
LOL
You are hungry and need to buy food. You are also a drug addict.
You get a government handout expressly for buying things you need (food), and not things you don't (drugs). You also have some amount of your own money.
You need food so you simply spend out the government's money on food.
All other money you have is available to cover any shortfall in need on the food side OR your drugs.
Despite the restriction, the handout still enables you to spend more money on the restricted thing.
Worse, if the handout is in excess of need, you can still spend it all out on food, sell the excess food, then spend those profits on drugs.
The only difference between welfare fraud and corporate level accounting fraud is that corporations have many more tricks and layers (like an ogre) to exploit and are generally more efficient at it.
LG also notes that the aspect ratio is being adopted as a universal format from the likes of film studios and content providers like Netflix.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... ...no.
Marijuana is illegal in the US. How many people have easy access to it? How many states are ignoring flagrantly ignoring federal law?
Everything we've seen about Ryzen indicates that it'll deliver amazing performance per dollar.
We need official street pricing, more benchmarks, and OEM offerings. Most desktops and virtually all laptops are prebuilt. It's up to the OEMs to not take bribes from Intel and build products around Ryzen. With the support we've seen for Polaris in laptops, I think the outlook is good.
We've got no idea what they've got planned for servers. I hope we see something soon, because it takes much longer for vendors to build a server around a new CPU and socket than a desktop or laptop. Intel's desktop CPU prices are grossly inflated, but their Xeon prices are barbaric. If Ryzen can offer a similar value proposition in the server market as it seems to in the desktop market, then that means I can go with AMD and lose some single-threaded performance, gain multi-threaded performance (as I'll have more cores), and save a bunch of cash. I can use that cash to get more RAM and more/better flash.
If AMD can get some mindshare back, then Intel is going to be forced to compete or at least slash prices. I do believe that mindshare still starts with the nerds building their own PCs. If AMD can get an average Joe to hear about "Ryzen", then when OEMs do put out their offerings they stand to claw back a lot of marketshare.
We've also got Vega on the GPU side. Polaris is an amazing performance/$ architecture, but we've seen very little of Vega. Nvidia is poised to release the (almost) full size Pascal chip soon too (presumably as a new Titan or 1080 Ti SKU). What we've seen of Vega has it beating out the 1080 by a moderate margin. Going purely based on die sizes from the full GP100 Pascal chip from the Tesla products, we can forecast that a 1080 Ti / Titan Whatever will blow the existing 1080 out of the water. Vega will either have to be a huge surprise in terms of performance or as great a value as Polaris to claw some desktop GPU marketshare back.
If the next Xbox and Playstation ever materialize they'll likely stick with AMD for both the GPU and CPU for ease of backwards compatibility, and they will almost certainly be running Ryzen & Vega. AMD lost Nintendo this time around, with Nvidia powering the Switch. Even before it releases there are rumors of a "Pro" or upgraded model running on the Tegra X2 platform instead of the Tegra X1. I doubt we'll see such a thing for at least a full year. (At which point Tegra X3 will be out.) AMD still has at least one unannounced contract for a custom design. It's almost certainly for the Xbox Scorpio, and we'll get the reveal at E3.
If what we've seen of Ryzen holds true, and if Vega is competitive, AMD is going to have a great 12-18 months.
See title.
HDCP 1.x is defeated. Publicly and trivially.
HDCP 2.2 isn't, as far as I know, publicly defeated. One vendor made and sold a working stripper at one point, but I don't know if it's still functional (I believe HDCP 2.2 has more updating capability to revoke blacklisted decoders). They also got sued.
Non-comic-book movies I've seen recently that are absolutely fantastic, not utter crap:
Hacksaw Ridge
Manchester By The Sea
Arrival (actually this was just 'good,' not fantastic)
Rogue One (except maybe some of the weird CG human stuff at the end)
Finding Dory
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Sadly I've been busy of late and haven't had time to watch that much, and there are a number I'd love to see but haven't, like Fences, Moonlight, La La Land, John Wick 2 (comic book movie? Video game movie??), Ip Man 3 (delicious chinese propaganda).
Zootopia was good.
Finding Dory was lame. Maybe the kids like it, I don't know. But there's nothing in it worthwhile if you've already seen Finding Nemo.
Manchester by the Sea is a depressing, boring, grey turd. It's extremely overrated even if you go in with the attitude of wanting to drown yourself in a miserable bog. I've discussed this movie in detail before.
Arrival is fucking dogshit. If the fucking heptapods can see the fucking future why couldn't they see us learning each others' languages (and thus learn ours in advance)? (As shown, the heptapods made zero effort to learn English, instead making us do all the work. However, there is a brief moment where it appears as if they understand English to some degree, so it's anyone's guess.) Or, why couldn't they see the bomb? Or, why couldn't they see that in 3000 years they will need help and fucking help themselves? This movie has all the failings and plot holes of a time travel movie without any of the excitement. I've seen this one most recently and yes, I'm mad about the time I wasted on it. It's not a fucking sci-fi movie it's a shitty movie about some mom whose kid dies or some shit and then gets magical powers from some aliens and through some paradoxical plot holes saves nothing because the aliens just evaporate anyone. Might as well have let the Chinese general blow them up.
Rogue One was simply unnecessary. It's Star Wars: Vietnam. You know what happens so the entire plot doesn't matter. The movie failed to make me (or anyone else) give a shit about the characters involved, which is about the only other option it had. The sound and visuals were typical Star Wars fare. A big fat MEH for this one.
I haven't seen Kubo.
I don't know about Fences or Moonlight.
I'll likely see John Wick 2 at some point.
La La Land was pretty much Hollywood licking its own genitals. It opens with an interesting musical number but they get progressively more boring from there. Plotwise, it's completely predictable. It follows the "meet, deny love, admit love, fight, reuinte" pattern just about every single love story does. The only difference is that in this story the "reunite" ends with "And they lived separately ever after. In separate lives. One was kinda happy or at least content, I guess. The other is alone and kinda sad, probably forever.".
But if you like your happy endings you can have that too - just turn the movie off 5 minutes before it ends. There's an entire extended daydream/what-if sequence showing the woman leaves her husband and child for the man to live a long, happy life together. Then it snaps back to reality - poor RyGoz pecking at the ivories and looking sad.
The movie has a handful of musical numbers (the first couple being the best by far), and then it has an overall theme that gets replayed and reused over and over and over. It's a nice theme for sure, but you'll be hearing it for about a full hour if you watch the movie. I don't care for singing (I'm not gay), so I won't judge that aspect either way. I've heard the Emma Stone did her own singing and people thought it was good.
I've also heard that RyGoz played the piano himself. Going into the movie I hadn't heard this, and there's one shot early on where you're wondering if he's really playing. The movie plays a cute trick on you - the camera
Fifth, again... how does this hurt you? If you don't want to pay to see new movies, don't watch them; nobody -- including ranton -- is forcing you to do that or even see any studio movies in general.
If this is successful:
They'll delay the release of the bluray/whatever a bit more to capitalize on the home rentals.
They'll delay releasing it onto Amazon/Google/etc. for pay and to Amazon/Netflix/etc. for free for the same reason.
They'll use their rental streaming infrastructure to set up shop on their own and avoid popular services users already have (Amazon/Google/Netflix/etc.)
They'll eventually jack up the price or try to introduce shitty DRM to detect the number of people watching.
They'll inject ads, ads, ads before and probably during your rental.
If this is unsuccessful:
They'll throw a hissy fit and blame piracy.
They'll jack up the costs of blurays and streaming/download licensing, ostensibly to pay for the failed experiment, but really the higher prices will just be the new normal.