I believe the CPUs in the Macs in question are a year (and an Intel "tick" generation) behind 2015's summer lineup (the "v3"s). Regardless, my point still stands - the last time a 12 core Xeon was a big deal was in 2014.
Speech intended to incite crime (whether violent, like terrorism, or virtual, like unauthorized access to computers and information) is not protected.
Yes it is.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ANY federal law that abridges freedom of speech is unconstitutional. Further, any law at a state or local level is also unconstitutional as the first amendment describes a right reserved for the people.
If you can conclusively prove that someone's speech directly resulted in violence you can prosecute them for their role in that violence. However you cannot legally prosecute them for their speech, nor can you legally restrict their speech. The fact that people are prosecuted for their speech and do have their speech restricted is not evidence that speech isn't protected, it's evidence that judges who restrict speech are fucking idiots or tyrants (or both).
It's insightful because it's true and it shows a fundamental understanding of what Bitcoin is and why it's designed the way it is. Bitcoin isn't meant to handle every transaction under the sun. Further, it CAN scale, quite easily, if people want it to. All you do is fork it and increase the transaction size.
The doom and gloom bullshit is being parroted by retards with a monied interest in Bitcoin transactions - these people stand to lose money if they have to pay fees, so they're saying they NEED larger blocks NOW!!! Everyone else, including the core developers of the client that every user considers to be the "official" client, say "Nah, that's dumb, transaction fees are good and by design."
If and when the issue is such that the majority of people WANT to use Bitcoin for 40 small transactions a day, then it'll fork (and people will keep their balances). People accepting Bitcoin will have to choose whether to stay with the existing branch or go with the fork.
It's been done before, it'll be done again. but not unless and until there's a good reason and a large demand for doing so.
You mean how like you need UPlay for Ubisoft titles or Steam for Valve titles (or any of the other titles using Steamworks) or Origin for EA titles?
There's no reason for them to not have their own store/platform. There's no reason for them to not make their own games exclusive to their own store/platform. There's no reason for them to not entice 3rd parties into signing exclusivity contracts, or entice them in general by taking less of a cut.
More stores is a good thing. It promotes competition. Currently ever store takes 30% of sales by default. That's the same as physical retail, despite all the promises of digital being cheaper for publishers. This is why EA and Ubisoft made their own store. Steam was taking in a huge cut for doing nothing. MS should do the same.
If you have a problem with a particular game on the MS store or with UWP in general, tell MS and the developers/publishers and DON'T buy the game. Make them fix it. Make 3rd parties avoid exclusivity deals. Do NOT buy the game as if you have no choice, because that just encourages them to keep taking choice away from you.
1: External PCIe exists and has been around for ages. No one uses it.
2: Thunderbolt doesn't transport PCIe, PCIe transports Thunderbolt which transports whateverthefuck (and gives everything DMA access because lol).
2a: USB C is a physical connector that can be backed by USB 3.1, USB 3, Thunderbolt 3/2/1, etc. controllers, all of which run over PCIe.
Thunderbolt is an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, developed in the hopes of hooking people into it for their really expensive optical implementation for a problem that does exist at the super high end. I don't even know if that ever materialized.
USB 3.1 is Thunderbolt for the people, it does nearly everything Thunderbolt does but at half the total speed (I think TB3 has about twice the bandwidth of USB 3.1, but I'm too lazy to look it up).
USB C is a glory hole. You stick shit into it and maybe it gets what it wants, maybe it comes back burning, who knows. The other end could be TB or USB 3.1 or USB 3. But if it's an Intel-supplied port it doesn't have any sort of fuses or protection, so you'll get a blog post about a Google "engineer" who fried 3 separate devices because of a shoddy adapter.
You'll need a real GPU. You're going to want a real keyboard and mouse. And a bigger and better display. Or multiple displays. You'll want real speakers (or headphones for the retards). Multiplayer? You need a good mic to talk to people without them hearing everything in your game looping back to them.
At this point you've got so much shit on your desk hooked up to the laptop (docking station or not) that it's easier to just get a real desktop. You'll get much better CPU performance out if it, you'll be able to store more games on it, you won't have to deal with wireless internet or a usb to ethernet adapter, etc. It'll be upgradable, too.
Make up your mind! First you say that security relevant setting should be changeable then you say it's dangerous to let users grant that kind of permission.
And? Users should be able to do dangerous things if they so choose.
The mere fact that the address bar and search bar are the same qualifies. You can't type in an address without it being sent off to Google to deliver suggestions when they're the same bar.
It really is too bad that Windows doesn't really have a concept of an/opt directory or installing to user folders.
It does.
Programs that aren't written by morons should ask you if you want to install it for the current user only (no UAC required) or for the whole system (UAC required).
For the user, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software in the registry is like the opt directory. But so is %USERPROFILE%\AppData\. And in AppData you have Local, LocalLow, and Roaming.
The %APPDATA% variable points to Roaming by default, while the Local directory is for shit specific to the PC (shouldn't roam), or is too big to roam. LocalLow is a "low integrity" directory. Allegedly things like plugins and add-ons should store their shit there and not be able to write to the Local directory.
For the system, you have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and %ProgramData%.
The problems are:
1 - Morons write programs and demand full access to the whole system regardless of whether or not they need it.
2 - Morons write programs and store a whole mess of bizarre, indecipherable shit in the registry, in both HKLM and HKCU. Even when it's documented, it's fucking wrong (I'm looking at you, Adobe).
3 - Morons write programs and store a whole mess of bizarre, indecipherable shit in the the various %USERPROFILE%\AppData\ folders and the %ProgramData% folder .
4 - Morons write programs and store even more configs in the program's installation folder or other random places (like the Documents library).
Any one of these things alone is annoying, but programs often do all 4. This makes figuring out configs even harder - does the registry override settings.ini in the program folder? Or perhaps the profile in %AppData% wins out. What about the settings in %ProgramData%? Which registry settings are in HKLM vs HKCU? Why isn't anything in %AppData% or %ProgramData% or even the fucking registry cleared out when I uninstall?
It's a mess because developers are morons and Windows lets morons make a mess of things in several ways.
If there's a drop in the computational power of the network such that blocks are mined less frequently, then the difficulty drops and blocks are mined more frequently.
If people are complaining (again) about not being able to fit a ton of tiny transactions into a block without paying a fee to ensure prompt delivery, then I'll say (again):
1: Pay a transaction fee 2: Stop shitting around a bunch of tiny transactions 3: Help out and be a miner yourself 4: This is all by design - the end game scenario for BTC is that mining rewards end and all incentive is from transaction fees
If this continues and people don't recognize 1-4 above, idiots will stop using Bitcoin for a bunch of tiny transactions and the problem will correct itself. You don't need to pay.000000001 BTC every time you visit a page on a BTC funded site. You need to pay 000001 BTC to get a credit of 1000 page visits. Bitcoin isn't for massive amounts of microtransactions any more than a traditional bank is. If you want it to do that, then pay the fee (which could be a significant percentage of your microtransaction).
And items that were classified had their classification removed before being emailed per Hillary's instruction. She had her staff / interns scan/fax shit, remove the designation, and then email it. When it hit her email it wasn't marked classified. It's the equivalent of painting over a handicapped parking spot then parking on it.
So it's FUD, then? The Taiwanese mobo brands will be churning out mobos with configurable secure boot and PS/2 ports for longer than you care about it.
Those issues have actually--finally--been resolved in the latest generations of Impossible's film; it only started shipping a few months ago.
They've "fixed" those problems several times now. At the prices they charge, it's just cheaper to buy the Instax and a bunch of film from B&H. I figured the number of shots to break even (X shots of Impossible Project film vs Instax Wide + X shots of film) at one point. It was under 100.
Plus the Instax film actually works. With the Polaroid and Impossible Project film, every shot is crap shoot at best. Combined with the price per shot, you're discouraged from ever actually using it.
The film you get from the Impossible Project ranges from absolute trash that doesn't develop at all to trash that develops into a mess of blurry, unsaturated, unevenly exposed blobs.
You'll get much better results buying up old, expired packs of the real deal from eBay, though I'm not sure how much of it is still out there.
If you want a camera that works, film that develops, and a company that supports its product, get a Fujifilm Instax. You get all the hipstery shit of a Polaroid with the benefit of it actually working.
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I believe the CPUs in the Macs in question are a year (and an Intel "tick" generation) behind 2015's summer lineup (the "v3"s).
Regardless, my point still stands - the last time a 12 core Xeon was a big deal was in 2014.
Speech intended to incite crime (whether violent, like terrorism, or virtual, like unauthorized access to computers and information) is not protected.
Yes it is.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ANY federal law that abridges freedom of speech is unconstitutional. Further, any law at a state or local level is also unconstitutional as the first amendment describes a right reserved for the people.
If you can conclusively prove that someone's speech directly resulted in violence you can prosecute them for their role in that violence.
However you cannot legally prosecute them for their speech, nor can you legally restrict their speech. The fact that people are prosecuted for their speech and do have their speech restricted is not evidence that speech isn't protected, it's evidence that judges who restrict speech are fucking idiots or tyrants (or both).
They run at a lower clock rate but have a higher IPC. Plus there's the turbo clock rate and the individual core turbo rate for single-threaded loads.
The point is a 12-core Xeon was impressive in mid 2014.
We've been at 18 cores for almost a year.
Go sell your derangement somewhere else. A 12-core Xeon E5-2697 v2 will pound whatever you've got into the dust, chump. 24 threads, 30 MB cache, 768 GB RAM accessability, 60 GBps of ECC RAM bandwidth, 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes of IO.
It's been nearly a year since we bought the 18 core Xeons, "chump".
How is it not a workstation? It's beefy and overpriced, that's pretty much the definition.
bioinformaticians
What flavor is the company KoolAid this week? Purple?
Oh, wow, a 12-core Xeon, big whoop.
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It's insightful because it's true and it shows a fundamental understanding of what Bitcoin is and why it's designed the way it is.
Bitcoin isn't meant to handle every transaction under the sun.
Further, it CAN scale, quite easily, if people want it to. All you do is fork it and increase the transaction size.
The doom and gloom bullshit is being parroted by retards with a monied interest in Bitcoin transactions - these people stand to lose money if they have to pay fees, so they're saying they NEED larger blocks NOW!!!
Everyone else, including the core developers of the client that every user considers to be the "official" client, say "Nah, that's dumb, transaction fees are good and by design."
If and when the issue is such that the majority of people WANT to use Bitcoin for 40 small transactions a day, then it'll fork (and people will keep their balances).
People accepting Bitcoin will have to choose whether to stay with the existing branch or go with the fork.
It's been done before, it'll be done again. but not unless and until there's a good reason and a large demand for doing so.
You mean how like you need UPlay for Ubisoft titles or Steam for Valve titles (or any of the other titles using Steamworks) or Origin for EA titles?
There's no reason for them to not have their own store/platform.
There's no reason for them to not make their own games exclusive to their own store/platform.
There's no reason for them to not entice 3rd parties into signing exclusivity contracts, or entice them in general by taking less of a cut.
More stores is a good thing. It promotes competition. Currently ever store takes 30% of sales by default. That's the same as physical retail, despite all the promises of digital being cheaper for publishers. This is why EA and Ubisoft made their own store. Steam was taking in a huge cut for doing nothing. MS should do the same.
If you have a problem with a particular game on the MS store or with UWP in general, tell MS and the developers/publishers and DON'T buy the game.
Make them fix it. Make 3rd parties avoid exclusivity deals. Do NOT buy the game as if you have no choice, because that just encourages them to keep taking choice away from you.
1: External PCIe exists and has been around for ages. No one uses it.
2: Thunderbolt doesn't transport PCIe, PCIe transports Thunderbolt which transports whateverthefuck (and gives everything DMA access because lol).
2a: USB C is a physical connector that can be backed by USB 3.1, USB 3, Thunderbolt 3/2/1, etc. controllers, all of which run over PCIe.
Thunderbolt is an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, developed in the hopes of hooking people into it for their really expensive optical implementation for a problem that does exist at the super high end. I don't even know if that ever materialized.
USB 3.1 is Thunderbolt for the people, it does nearly everything Thunderbolt does but at half the total speed (I think TB3 has about twice the bandwidth of USB 3.1, but I'm too lazy to look it up).
USB C is a glory hole. You stick shit into it and maybe it gets what it wants, maybe it comes back burning, who knows. The other end could be TB or USB 3.1 or USB 3. But if it's an Intel-supplied port it doesn't have any sort of fuses or protection, so you'll get a blog post about a Google "engineer" who fried 3 separate devices because of a shoddy adapter.
Tenderbutt
You want to game on a MacBook?
You'll need a real GPU.
You're going to want a real keyboard and mouse.
And a bigger and better display. Or multiple displays.
You'll want real speakers (or headphones for the retards).
Multiplayer? You need a good mic to talk to people without them hearing everything in your game looping back to them.
At this point you've got so much shit on your desk hooked up to the laptop (docking station or not) that it's easier to just get a real desktop.
You'll get much better CPU performance out if it, you'll be able to store more games on it, you won't have to deal with wireless internet or a usb to ethernet adapter, etc. It'll be upgradable, too.
Make up your mind!
First you say that security relevant setting should be changeable then you say it's dangerous to let users grant that kind of permission.
And?
Users should be able to do dangerous things if they so choose.
The mere fact that the address bar and search bar are the same qualifies.
You can't type in an address without it being sent off to Google to deliver suggestions when they're the same bar.
It really is too bad that Windows doesn't really have a concept of an /opt directory or installing to user folders.
It does.
Programs that aren't written by morons should ask you if you want to install it for the current user only (no UAC required) or for the whole system (UAC required).
For the user, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software in the registry is like the opt directory.
But so is %USERPROFILE%\AppData\. And in AppData you have Local, LocalLow, and Roaming.
The %APPDATA% variable points to Roaming by default, while the Local directory is for shit specific to the PC (shouldn't roam), or is too big to roam. LocalLow is a "low integrity" directory. Allegedly things like plugins and add-ons should store their shit there and not be able to write to the Local directory.
For the system, you have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and %ProgramData%.
The problems are:
1 - Morons write programs and demand full access to the whole system regardless of whether or not they need it.
2 - Morons write programs and store a whole mess of bizarre, indecipherable shit in the registry, in both HKLM and HKCU. Even when it's documented, it's fucking wrong (I'm looking at you, Adobe).
3 - Morons write programs and store a whole mess of bizarre, indecipherable shit in the the various %USERPROFILE%\AppData\ folders and the %ProgramData% folder .
4 - Morons write programs and store even more configs in the program's installation folder or other random places (like the Documents library).
Any one of these things alone is annoying, but programs often do all 4. This makes figuring out configs even harder - does the registry override settings.ini in the program folder? Or perhaps the profile in %AppData% wins out. What about the settings in %ProgramData%? Which registry settings are in HKLM vs HKCU? Why isn't anything in %AppData% or %ProgramData% or even the fucking registry cleared out when I uninstall?
It's a mess because developers are morons and Windows lets morons make a mess of things in several ways.
This problem is self-correcting.
If there's a drop in the computational power of the network such that blocks are mined less frequently, then the difficulty drops and blocks are mined more frequently.
If people are complaining (again) about not being able to fit a ton of tiny transactions into a block without paying a fee to ensure prompt delivery, then I'll say (again):
1: Pay a transaction fee
2: Stop shitting around a bunch of tiny transactions
3: Help out and be a miner yourself
4: This is all by design - the end game scenario for BTC is that mining rewards end and all incentive is from transaction fees
If this continues and people don't recognize 1-4 above, idiots will stop using Bitcoin for a bunch of tiny transactions and the problem will correct itself. You don't need to pay .000000001 BTC every time you visit a page on a BTC funded site. You need to pay 000001 BTC to get a credit of 1000 page visits. Bitcoin isn't for massive amounts of microtransactions any more than a traditional bank is. If you want it to do that, then pay the fee (which could be a significant percentage of your microtransaction).
And items that were classified had their classification removed before being emailed per Hillary's instruction.
She had her staff / interns scan/fax shit, remove the designation, and then email it. When it hit her email it wasn't marked classified. It's the equivalent of painting over a handicapped parking spot then parking on it.
Complete. Global. Saturation.
Well, it's spectrum abuse at least. You're explicitly not supposed to be using that spectrum for this shit.
They'd get sued...instantly.
So it's FUD, then?
The Taiwanese mobo brands will be churning out mobos with configurable secure boot and PS/2 ports for longer than you care about it.
Those issues have actually--finally--been resolved in the latest generations of Impossible's film; it only started shipping a few months ago.
They've "fixed" those problems several times now. At the prices they charge, it's just cheaper to buy the Instax and a bunch of film from B&H. I figured the number of shots to break even (X shots of Impossible Project film vs Instax Wide + X shots of film) at one point. It was under 100.
Plus the Instax film actually works. With the Polaroid and Impossible Project film, every shot is crap shoot at best. Combined with the price per shot, you're discouraged from ever actually using it.
The film you get from the Impossible Project ranges from absolute trash that doesn't develop at all to trash that develops into a mess of blurry, unsaturated, unevenly exposed blobs.
You'll get much better results buying up old, expired packs of the real deal from eBay, though I'm not sure how much of it is still out there.
If you want a camera that works, film that develops, and a company that supports its product, get a Fujifilm Instax.
You get all the hipstery shit of a Polaroid with the benefit of it actually working.
Then can somebody point to a desktop mobo that does uefi secure boot and doesn't give the end user key management capabilities?