Nuclear is the most expensive and most dangerous power. Solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear, gas, coal, etc. (everything). Burning natural gas creates CO2 (in case you didn't know) and the methane leaks are 30 times as damaging to the climate as CO2. The US is the greatest contributor to global warming so it should pay the most to clean it up.
Really... Nuclear is safer that many of the others, including solar. Even accounting for nuclear accidents. It's also cheaper than solar according to Wikipedia. There is a huge startup cost and shutdown cost but produces a huge amount of energy that ends up making it cheaper in the long run. Plus, you are comparing 1970's and 1980's nuclear technology to modern energy sources. There have been huge advances in nuclear power design and safety but we'll never see it in the US except on subs and aircraft carriers...
While I agree there are some good movies that have poor Rotten Tomatoes ratings which makes me wonder if I missed a movie because of RT reviews, I would still consider them to be a pretty good indicator of movie quality. The studios are just mad that RT tells me what I need to know about crappy movies before I spend my money on them!
I never look at critic's scores, just whether the audience liked it. Critics have a tendency to be windbags...
That's what I used to use IMDB for. The audience ratings are broken down by gender and by age ranges. While I don't strictly go by these ratings, I do factor them into whether I see a movie in the theater, wait for the Blu-ray, or wait until it's on HBO/Netflix. That is, until IMDB killed the movie forums. Now I use RT.
Not just the US. Brexit too, weakening both the UK and the EU. That might have backfired though, because it looks like the EU will renew itself and become even strong as a result... But then again, the EU is much less of a threat to Russia than the US and it's British poodle.
You forgot to add the word "today" at the end of that last sentence. I wouldn't be surprised to see the EU countries becoming much closer and start the process of building an EU army.
The only reason why the EU is relatively weak is because of political infighting and because they have not needed a large standing army due to the strength of its allies, the US in particular. Take away the US and there is a vacuum to be filled, both politically and militarily. On top of that, the EU countries have been working much closer as a result of terrorism.
Let's say all of that is true. Why does this negate the fact that the DNC needs to review their Data Analytical operation? After all, practically everyone who spoke about election predictions from the DNC had Clinton winning the Electoral College easily.
You can say that she lost because of various negative issues but the DNC and her campaign should have been able to identify this a lot earlier. There was no shift in her campaigning to focus on traditional democratic states that she lost. There was no information coming out of the DNC saying that she was in trouble. All of this points to her comment being true and something that needs to be fixed for future elections.
On a side note, based on the article, it appears that the system that Obama's team developed was never turned over to or embraced by the DNC. It sounds like it was a stand-alone system.
Nonsense. I'm 53, still outwork kids and love a drink. The trick is not to be an idiotic, drunken sot OR a self righteous idiotic thumper.
I don't think that a drink or two is what the OP was referring to.
Personally, I think that people being "younger" in their 40's and 50's has just as much to do with less wear-n-tear physically as it does to not smoking and not drinking to excess. A high amount of physical work and poor environmental standards ages people more quickly. In addition, having access to better foods when young makes a huge difference as well.
WTF are you talking about? Linux works perfectly fine. Seriously. It really does.
The problem with Linux isn't that it doesn't work, it does, and usually quite reliably. The problem is, and I think that this is what the OP meant, that it just isn't user friendly.
Installing drivers are not automatic, like the are for most devices under Windows today. Finding applications to take place of existing Windows applications, including financial apps, are much more difficult. Granted, as more companies provide web based apps this becomes less of a concern. Finally, Linux still doesn't have major gaming support. If you want to play the latest high end games then you need a PC running Windows (Yes you can buy console systems, that's a different discussion).
User hostile behavior didn't seem to kill Keurig. Sure they got some bad pr when they instituted the Barcode thing. But after a few months, people stopped caring. Customers don't vote with their wallets most of the time.
You mean corporations, who are the bulk of Keurig customers, didn't care... Keurig probably wouldn't be in business today if they hadn't already made huge inroads in the coffee break room market. DJI is somewhat different in that the majority of their customers are average people, not corporate buyers...
News: Unicorn farts will soon be more valuable than fairy piss! Film at 11!
No it won't... Fairy piss turns to fair dust as it evaporates. Fairy dust is useful for flying. Unicorn farts are like helium, no matter what container you put it in some will leak out losing value over time... (grin)
PayPal has two capital Ps, on slant, overlapping with one slightly further down and to the right. The P's font is most notable for lacking the "hole" in the letter. Each P is a distinct shade of blue, plus a third shade of blue for the overlap.
Pandora has a single capital P, upright. It is a particular shade of blue. The font's most noticeable feature is the lack of a hole in the P.
There's a lot more similarities than it being the letter P. To be fair, there are also more differences than it being 1 vs. 2 Ps, although the other ones are fairly subtle -- the lack of slant, the particular shade of blue (Pandora's is close to one of PayPal's), the way PayPal's P's have no corners while Pandora's do, and way Pandora's "stem" is noticeably short.
Here's my lay assessment which is definitely not informed by actual trademark law, just me trying to apply common sense to the idea behind trademarks:
- I do think I could be confused by these marks if I wasn't specifically looking at them. - I really doubt this was intentional. This looks like a mistake that could happen innocently. - I think PayPal's mark has enough elements to be distinctive, clearly. Pandora's would be stretching it a bit even if PayPal was not already there, although stylized single-letter marks are not a new phenomenon. - I'm not sure I would feel the same way if Pandora were first and PayPal the supposed infringer, which is an interesting asymmetry that I'm not sure can actually hold up in any court of law. The thing is that PayPal's mark has strictly more elements to distinguish it. Pandora looks like part of the PayPal mark taken out of context.
I use neither of these services regularly, but have used both in the past. No particular loyalties.
I think that they look similar enough to be confusing given the similar letter style and colors. My thought is that Pandora just needs to change the color of their logo to some other color than blue. That would be enough for me to distinguish between the two.
I do have a pet peeve with Courier and Courier New. It should have been designed with a slashed zero so that it doesn't look like a capital O and the number one to be more distinctive from a lower-case L. Consolas provides some of this but I find it to be a bit too heavy. When doing CLI documentation it makes a big difference.
I really do wish this technology worked, though. Simply because if it did, it would detect that I detest Ads and I would never see another Ad in my life....
Have you seen a big cubefarm? The chances of two people on the same team being within a few hundred feet of each other are remote.
It depends on whether the cube farm is set up as flex space or not. A lot of companies are going to unassigned seating with lockers or rollerbags to put your stuff away at night or take it with you. When you arrive in the morning you select an open space. In this type of environment you can sit next to team members through a little bit of coordination, seat saving (i.e. like saving a seat at the movie theater for a friend), or just sitting in the same area every day.
As an older worker, I'm extremely offended that you would assume I'm unwilling to comply with job requirements and move if necessary to retain a job I am good at and I love. That is extremely discriminatory.
It's not specifically age related. Age is being used as a catchall for people in the age range where they have a family and kids. If your kids are in a good school with lots of friends in a nice community are you going to move or look for another job?
Working in the nearest city may require uprooting the whole family and moving to an area with higher housing prices, etc. People have done it. Most prefer not to if they can help it, at least until the kids are old enough to be in college, etc.
If you can get people there without the proteins in their brain being denatured by radiation, maybe you could keep them that way for extended periods without their brains turning into scrambled eggs.
It's too late for that. Just look what 20 years of FOX "News" has done to brains of millions...
Roger Ailes is dead but only after he left Fox so perhaps you need to be close to the source to have scrambled brains & a long life
Right! "Working with the Russians." Which isn't even vaguely related to "colluding with Russians to manipulate the election." I know, the truth isn't nearly as fun because it forces you to think about why the Democrats ACTUALLY lost so many legislative seats and governorships along with both houses of congress and the White House. But your instinct to deliberately mis-represent the very thing you're citing as some sort of evidence tells us all we need to know about what your real agenda is: deflection and distraction. OK, at least it's consistent with the way the Ds ran their entire election season into the ground and shows you still haven't grappled with the fact that continuing with that narrative isn't actually effective (except in turning even MORE Democrat voters away from the party).
I personally don't think that President Trump is directly or knowingly involved in collusion. I just think that he doesn't know how to be President and that he isn't putting in the effort to learn (i.e. not receiving daily intelligence briefings). This puts him on weak footing when it comes to the Russians.
You will admit, I hope, that the reason for Flyn being fired was because he lied about meetings with the Russians to the VP and others. If there wasn't anything to it other than friendly meetings, why did he lie? It's quite possible that people around President Trump were involved in some way. The most simplest way would be to have coordinated the release of the hacked DNC emails. But that's pure speculation. Hopefully we'll start getting some facts out of the investigations.
Clinton was making a point in a very slightly subtle and humorous way, trusting that people would be intelligent and honest enough to understand it, rather than go apeshit in a dishonest attempt to manufacture evident of her dishonesty.
But since you did not make the grade, I will spell it out for you. Clinton does not know technology and actually avoided using it for anything that really mattered -- I got almost as much email at my work account while employed as a middling important fellow in a software company in a year as Clinton did in four at the top of a massive organization. Clinton does her real work face to face and with physical paper, so she expected that she herself would cause no security problems with her email arrangements -- such was incorrect but not crazy. Understandable, she was not willing to admit she was like a doddering grandma when it comes to all details of tech. As for wiping a drive, she has no idea how to do that even if she wanted to, which is the point of her humorous "with a cloth". She left instructions to professionals to do the right thing with the drive, and trusted they knew what to do.
She also used the secure computers at the State Department for classified email when she did have to communicate securely. If I remember right, the vast majority of email on her email server that ended up being classified was stuff sent to her. In that case, it would be up to the sender to use the right system based on the security level. Yes, using the State Department email servers for everything would have eliminated this risk. She was at most negligent when it came to the email server.
.... Java and javascript are completely unrelated things. What the fuck is with all these people who don't know shit getting modded informative on slashdot lately? Are we fucking reddit now?
Yes, there is a difference between Java and Javascript. Javascript processed on the server side is fine, as the client has to do very little. However, javascript being processed on the client side has just as bad a processing overhead as java. A lot of web pages now have forms, apps, etc. that are based on javascript that would load very poorly on a pentium based system. You can argue that its due to bad or poor web programming practices, but it is a reality.
Well, using your example, why the hell would your self-driving car launch the boat and not your (or the marina's) self-driving boat trailer? Launching a boat is a really stupid process the way it is done today, taking unnecessary time without plenty of extra hands.
Self-driving dump trucks, excavators, graders, loaders, and harvesters exist for off-road use today.
80% or more of boats are not launched from a marina. The vast majority are launched from local boat ramps or, in the case of our family camp, from a dirt road on to a beach. So, no, anyone who needs to tow a boat will need at least a manual option on their self-driving cars/SUVs.
If you don't want a backdoor in your processor, you'll need to use an ancient processor.
But fortuitiously, for the 95% of us who aren't ardent gamers, aren't bitcoin miners, and aren't wrangling huge data bases, ancient processors should be more than adequate. A 386SX16 might be a bit lightweight for playing cat videos. But a 15 year old VIA C5 will do a surprising amount of the things people actually want to do about as well as more modern CPUs.
What are you smoking? A 15 year old VIA C5 would barely run java with decent performance. Load any web page today and there are over 25 java scripts being run in the background. The only thing that saved java was the increase in CPU power. Core 2 CPUs from 2006/2007 (about 10 years ago) would be the bare minimum.
Home users overwhelmingly sitting behind their router NATs and firewalls have no exposed SMB port access for worm to propagate over
... although.. after we've all finally moved onto IPv6 networking, and all our home systems (not just well-run geek systems but also all Joe Public's PCs running Windows 17) are sitting on publically routable real addresses and *not* behind NATs, the situation won't be as comfortable any more.
the whole concept of IPv6 is to be able to have IPv6 devices globally routable so that in the future, you want to have your IPv6 systems talk to other IPv6 systems directly without having to translate addresses
So no NAT any more, and we have to hope that everybody's ISP-supplied "router" will contain an adequate firewall as a perimeter defence. People with home networks of Mom, Dad, Granny, Billy & Sue's PCs will be depending on their individual PCs' host firewalls having the SMB ports open in order to "share" their, er, "family vacation photos", or whatever the hell it is they share.
Exactly. Having a firewall component on the ISP router will take the place of the basic security that NAT provides (i.e. deny inbound sessions by default). Yes, Windows Firewall does have some protections. The problem with it is that if you open up file sharing internally between other home PCs and devices, it would also open it up to internet traffic.
I use a black & white monitor, you insensitive clod!
(I'm reminded of a comedian's comment on the waste of advertising color television sets on television: "If you have a black and white TV, you can't see the color. If you have a color TV, you can't see how much better the color is. And if you have their color TV, they already won you over!")
That's why color TVs were displayed in shop windows. So people walking by could see the difference. Plus, in those days commercials were pretty much limited to soap and brill cream... At least, that's what I get from watching old black and white TV shows.... Today it's drugs and car commercials...
Aside from the obvious pedestrian issues (which can be addressed by the Buddhist street crossing technique: just walk at a constant speed through the intersection), this is a pretty obvious solution.
...is way to make drivers drive at the mandated speeds. Which, of course, humans won't do; you only have to look at how speed limits are obeyed to know that.
FTFY, to clarify that this solution is likely only achievable with autonomous solutions.
And once that happens, humans won't give a shit. They'll be too busy watching Netflix or sleeping in the backseat to care.
By the time true autonomous cars are on the market we won't need to go to work, we'll be using VR offices, so most of the traffic will disappear anyway.
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Nuclear is the most expensive and most dangerous power. Solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear, gas, coal, etc. (everything).
Burning natural gas creates CO2 (in case you didn't know) and the methane leaks are 30 times as damaging to the climate as CO2.
The US is the greatest contributor to global warming so it should pay the most to clean it up.
Really... Nuclear is safer that many of the others, including solar. Even accounting for nuclear accidents. It's also cheaper than solar according to Wikipedia. There is a huge startup cost and shutdown cost but produces a huge amount of energy that ends up making it cheaper in the long run. Plus, you are comparing 1970's and 1980's nuclear technology to modern energy sources. There have been huge advances in nuclear power design and safety but we'll never see it in the US except on subs and aircraft carriers...
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While I agree there are some good movies that have poor Rotten Tomatoes ratings which makes me wonder if I missed a movie because of RT reviews, I would still consider them to be a pretty good indicator of movie quality. The studios are just mad that RT tells me what I need to know about crappy movies before I spend my money on them!
I never look at critic's scores, just whether the audience liked it. Critics have a tendency to be windbags...
That's what I used to use IMDB for. The audience ratings are broken down by gender and by age ranges. While I don't strictly go by these ratings, I do factor them into whether I see a movie in the theater, wait for the Blu-ray, or wait until it's on HBO/Netflix. That is, until IMDB killed the movie forums. Now I use RT.
Not just the US. Brexit too, weakening both the UK and the EU. That might have backfired though, because it looks like the EU will renew itself and become even strong as a result... But then again, the EU is much less of a threat to Russia than the US and it's British poodle.
You forgot to add the word "today" at the end of that last sentence. I wouldn't be surprised to see the EU countries becoming much closer and start the process of building an EU army.
The only reason why the EU is relatively weak is because of political infighting and because they have not needed a large standing army due to the strength of its allies, the US in particular. Take away the US and there is a vacuum to be filled, both politically and militarily. On top of that, the EU countries have been working much closer as a result of terrorism.
Let's say all of that is true. Why does this negate the fact that the DNC needs to review their Data Analytical operation? After all, practically everyone who spoke about election predictions from the DNC had Clinton winning the Electoral College easily.
You can say that she lost because of various negative issues but the DNC and her campaign should have been able to identify this a lot earlier. There was no shift in her campaigning to focus on traditional democratic states that she lost. There was no information coming out of the DNC saying that she was in trouble. All of this points to her comment being true and something that needs to be fixed for future elections.
On a side note, based on the article, it appears that the system that Obama's team developed was never turned over to or embraced by the DNC. It sounds like it was a stand-alone system.
Nonsense. I'm 53, still outwork kids and love a drink. The trick is not to be an idiotic, drunken sot OR a self righteous idiotic thumper.
I don't think that a drink or two is what the OP was referring to.
Personally, I think that people being "younger" in their 40's and 50's has just as much to do with less wear-n-tear physically as it does to not smoking and not drinking to excess. A high amount of physical work and poor environmental standards ages people more quickly. In addition, having access to better foods when young makes a huge difference as well.
WTF are you talking about? Linux works perfectly fine. Seriously. It really does.
The problem with Linux isn't that it doesn't work, it does, and usually quite reliably. The problem is, and I think that this is what the OP meant, that it just isn't user friendly.
Installing drivers are not automatic, like the are for most devices under Windows today. Finding applications to take place of existing Windows applications, including financial apps, are much more difficult. Granted, as more companies provide web based apps this becomes less of a concern. Finally, Linux still doesn't have major gaming support. If you want to play the latest high end games then you need a PC running Windows (Yes you can buy console systems, that's a different discussion).
User hostile behavior didn't seem to kill Keurig. Sure they got some bad pr when they instituted the Barcode thing. But after a few months, people stopped caring. Customers don't vote with their wallets most of the time.
You mean corporations, who are the bulk of Keurig customers, didn't care... Keurig probably wouldn't be in business today if they hadn't already made huge inroads in the coffee break room market. DJI is somewhat different in that the majority of their customers are average people, not corporate buyers...
News: Unicorn farts will soon be more valuable than fairy piss! Film at 11!
No it won't... Fairy piss turns to fair dust as it evaporates. Fairy dust is useful for flying. Unicorn farts are like helium, no matter what container you put it in some will leak out losing value over time... (grin)
I don't think that's quite fair.
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PayPal has two capital Ps, on slant, overlapping with one slightly further down and to the right. The P's font is most notable for lacking the "hole" in the letter. Each P is a distinct shade of blue, plus a third shade of blue for the overlap.
Pandora has a single capital P, upright. It is a particular shade of blue. The font's most noticeable feature is the lack of a hole in the P.
There's a lot more similarities than it being the letter P. To be fair, there are also more differences than it being 1 vs. 2 Ps, although the other ones are fairly subtle -- the lack of slant, the particular shade of blue (Pandora's is close to one of PayPal's), the way PayPal's P's have no corners while Pandora's do, and way Pandora's "stem" is noticeably short.
Here's my lay assessment which is definitely not informed by actual trademark law, just me trying to apply common sense to the idea behind trademarks:
- I do think I could be confused by these marks if I wasn't specifically looking at them.
- I really doubt this was intentional. This looks like a mistake that could happen innocently.
- I think PayPal's mark has enough elements to be distinctive, clearly. Pandora's would be stretching it a bit even if PayPal was not already there, although stylized single-letter marks are not a new phenomenon.
- I'm not sure I would feel the same way if Pandora were first and PayPal the supposed infringer, which is an interesting asymmetry that I'm not sure can actually hold up in any court of law. The thing is that PayPal's mark has strictly more elements to distinguish it. Pandora looks like part of the PayPal mark taken out of context.
I use neither of these services regularly, but have used both in the past. No particular loyalties.
I think that they look similar enough to be confusing given the similar letter style and colors. My thought is that Pandora just needs to change the color of their logo to some other color than blue. That would be enough for me to distinguish between the two.
Make everything Comic Sans, problem solved!
I prefer Verdana for Email and documentation.
I do have a pet peeve with Courier and Courier New. It should have been designed with a slashed zero so that it doesn't look like a capital O and the number one to be more distinctive from a lower-case L. Consolas provides some of this but I find it to be a bit too heavy. When doing CLI documentation it makes a big difference.
All this work and data sounds impressive until you realise that FACS ("Facial Action Coding System") is bollocks.
I really do wish this technology worked, though. Simply because if it did, it would detect that I detest Ads and I would never see another Ad in my life....
Have you seen a big cubefarm? The chances of two people on the same team being within a few hundred feet of each other are remote.
It depends on whether the cube farm is set up as flex space or not. A lot of companies are going to unassigned seating with lockers or rollerbags to put your stuff away at night or take it with you. When you arrive in the morning you select an open space. In this type of environment you can sit next to team members through a little bit of coordination, seat saving (i.e. like saving a seat at the movie theater for a friend), or just sitting in the same area every day.
As an older worker, I'm extremely offended that you would assume I'm unwilling to comply with job requirements and move if necessary to retain a job I am good at and I love. That is extremely discriminatory.
It's not specifically age related. Age is being used as a catchall for people in the age range where they have a family and kids. If your kids are in a good school with lots of friends in a nice community are you going to move or look for another job?
Working in the nearest city may require uprooting the whole family and moving to an area with higher housing prices, etc. People have done it. Most prefer not to if they can help it, at least until the kids are old enough to be in college, etc.
If you can get people there without the proteins in their brain being denatured by radiation, maybe you could keep them that way for extended periods without their brains turning into scrambled eggs.
It's too late for that. Just look what 20 years of FOX "News" has done to brains of millions...
Roger Ailes is dead but only after he left Fox so perhaps you need to be close to the source to have scrambled brains & a long life
mmm... scrambled brains....
Right! "Working with the Russians." Which isn't even vaguely related to "colluding with Russians to manipulate the election." I know, the truth isn't nearly as fun because it forces you to think about why the Democrats ACTUALLY lost so many legislative seats and governorships along with both houses of congress and the White House. But your instinct to deliberately mis-represent the very thing you're citing as some sort of evidence tells us all we need to know about what your real agenda is: deflection and distraction. OK, at least it's consistent with the way the Ds ran their entire election season into the ground and shows you still haven't grappled with the fact that continuing with that narrative isn't actually effective (except in turning even MORE Democrat voters away from the party).
I personally don't think that President Trump is directly or knowingly involved in collusion. I just think that he doesn't know how to be President and that he isn't putting in the effort to learn (i.e. not receiving daily intelligence briefings). This puts him on weak footing when it comes to the Russians.
You will admit, I hope, that the reason for Flyn being fired was because he lied about meetings with the Russians to the VP and others. If there wasn't anything to it other than friendly meetings, why did he lie? It's quite possible that people around President Trump were involved in some way. The most simplest way would be to have coordinated the release of the hacked DNC emails. But that's pure speculation. Hopefully we'll start getting some facts out of the investigations.
Clinton was making a point in a very slightly subtle and humorous way, trusting that people would be intelligent and honest enough to understand it, rather than go apeshit in a dishonest attempt to manufacture evident of her dishonesty.
But since you did not make the grade, I will spell it out for you. Clinton does not know technology and actually avoided using it for anything that really mattered -- I got almost as much email at my work account while employed as a middling important fellow in a software company in a year as Clinton did in four at the top of a massive organization. Clinton does her real work face to face and with physical paper, so she expected that she herself would cause no security problems with her email arrangements -- such was incorrect but not crazy. Understandable, she was not willing to admit she was like a doddering grandma when it comes to all details of tech. As for wiping a drive, she has no idea how to do that even if she wanted to, which is the point of her humorous "with a cloth". She left instructions to professionals to do the right thing with the drive, and trusted they knew what to do.
She also used the secure computers at the State Department for classified email when she did have to communicate securely. If I remember right, the vast majority of email on her email server that ended up being classified was stuff sent to her. In that case, it would be up to the sender to use the right system based on the security level. Yes, using the State Department email servers for everything would have eliminated this risk. She was at most negligent when it came to the email server.
.... Java and javascript are completely unrelated things. What the fuck is with all these people who don't know shit getting modded informative on slashdot lately? Are we fucking reddit now?
Yes, there is a difference between Java and Javascript. Javascript processed on the server side is fine, as the client has to do very little. However, javascript being processed on the client side has just as bad a processing overhead as java. A lot of web pages now have forms, apps, etc. that are based on javascript that would load very poorly on a pentium based system. You can argue that its due to bad or poor web programming practices, but it is a reality.
Well, using your example, why the hell would your self-driving car launch the boat and not your (or the marina's) self-driving boat trailer? Launching a boat is a really stupid process the way it is done today, taking unnecessary time without plenty of extra hands.
Self-driving dump trucks, excavators, graders, loaders, and harvesters exist for off-road use today.
80% or more of boats are not launched from a marina. The vast majority are launched from local boat ramps or, in the case of our family camp, from a dirt road on to a beach. So, no, anyone who needs to tow a boat will need at least a manual option on their self-driving cars/SUVs.
But can it run Crysis?
In 1080P with all sliders set to low... After all, I didn't see a 3-way SLI GPU as part of the specs....
Yea, but how many cat pictures do you need open at the same time?
All of them, at once... obviously,,, You just can't have too many cat pictures...
If you don't want a backdoor in your processor, you'll need to use an ancient processor.
But fortuitiously, for the 95% of us who aren't ardent gamers, aren't bitcoin miners, and aren't wrangling huge data bases, ancient processors should be more than adequate. A 386SX16 might be a bit lightweight for playing cat videos. But a 15 year old VIA C5 will do a surprising amount of the things people actually want to do about as well as more modern CPUs.
What are you smoking? A 15 year old VIA C5 would barely run java with decent performance. Load any web page today and there are over 25 java scripts being run in the background. The only thing that saved java was the increase in CPU power. Core 2 CPUs from 2006/2007 (about 10 years ago) would be the bare minimum.
Home users overwhelmingly sitting behind their router NATs and firewalls have no exposed SMB port access for worm to propagate over
... although .. after we've all finally moved onto IPv6 networking, and all our home systems (not just well-run geek systems but also all Joe Public's PCs running Windows 17) are sitting on publically routable real addresses and *not* behind NATs, the situation won't be as comfortable any more.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228449/microsoft-subnet/ipv6-addressing--subnets--private-addresses.html:
So no NAT any more, and we have to hope that everybody's ISP-supplied "router" will contain an adequate firewall as a perimeter defence. People with home networks of Mom, Dad, Granny, Billy & Sue's PCs will be depending on their individual PCs' host firewalls having the SMB ports open in order to "share" their, er, "family vacation photos", or whatever the hell it is they share.
Exactly. Having a firewall component on the ISP router will take the place of the basic security that NAT provides (i.e. deny inbound sessions by default). Yes, Windows Firewall does have some protections. The problem with it is that if you open up file sharing internally between other home PCs and devices, it would also open it up to internet traffic.
I use a black & white monitor, you insensitive clod!
(I'm reminded of a comedian's comment on the waste of advertising color television sets on television: "If you have a black and white TV, you can't see the color. If you have a color TV, you can't see how much better the color is. And if you have their color TV, they already won you over!")
That's why color TVs were displayed in shop windows. So people walking by could see the difference. Plus, in those days commercials were pretty much limited to soap and brill cream... At least, that's what I get from watching old black and white TV shows.... Today it's drugs and car commercials...
Aside from the obvious pedestrian issues (which can be addressed by the Buddhist street crossing technique: just walk at a constant speed through the intersection), this is a pretty obvious solution.
So, he's designed a rotary.... (grin)
...is way to make drivers drive at the mandated speeds. Which, of course, humans won't do; you only have to look at how speed limits are obeyed to know that.
FTFY, to clarify that this solution is likely only achievable with autonomous solutions.
And once that happens, humans won't give a shit. They'll be too busy watching Netflix or sleeping in the backseat to care.
By the time true autonomous cars are on the market we won't need to go to work, we'll be using VR offices, so most of the traffic will disappear anyway.