> Apple has taken the best of PC ecosystem, but avoided taking on the disadvantages.
This is such a joke. It's simply not true. WinDOS still has the "ecosystem" advantage. It's sad but true. What Apple has is perception driven by good marketing and IGNORANCE.
Macs are a mythical product that most people are unfamiliar with because the whole platform has a high barrier to entry. There are very few people in a good position to comment on Macs. You have to spend a great deal of money and have already swallowed all the Kool-Aid.
I bought into the myth too myself before a had a Mac to play around with.
I never run out of space. As disks get larger and larger, the risk of running out of space seems like the single least significant thing possible. The real issue is corruption.
Based on the headline, I would have expected this to be about content verification with all of the ZFS fanboys coming out of the work to extol it's virtues.
...except a job is a little bit more significant to your life than some meaningless Internet bulletin board.
If you interfere with someone at work, you are interfering with their livelihood. You are interfering with their ability to stay fed and keep a roof over their heads. You're probably also impacting one or more dependents.
It's an entirely different thing.
You have failed to demonstrate any actual harm. Laws based on zero demonstrated harm are always a bad idea.
I would describe it as differing distributions based on both genetics and social indoctrination. A person might be physically inclined towards a particular trait but actively discouraged from it based on how their gender is socialized.
An obvious caveat being that you can't attribute any characteristic universally (genetic or socialized).
This is how you end up with female members of Gamergate. They view the hysterical nonsense associated with their own gender as intolerable as many guys would.
They will also provide nice insights into the "enemy camp".
Not all women agree with these SJW ninnies and that's a very good thing. A number of us personally benefit from that fact.
Case in point: the college speech that got canceled in Utah.
Given an opportunity to speak for real in public with some extremely likely but still non-zero risk, the professional troll in question chose to back down and play victim. A great irony of one of the news items that covered this was a sign stating "you cant silence us through violence" when that's kind of exactly what happened.
The moment this pro troll had the opportunity to get personally lynched for one of her speeches, she folded like a deck of cards.
Total coward. Would be eternally heckled if she were a man. She gets away with playing victim because she's a girl.
It's pretty simple. The next time a feminist blogger gets her panties in a bunch ask her what it would take for her to go away permanently. Under what set of conditions does feminism become obsolete?
I bet you she doesn't have an answer because she never wants to stop meddling.
> Name ONE use case other than streaming multiple 4K video channels which REQUIRES anything more than the 6.5Mbit/s connection
Remote support of friends and families running GUI enabled operating systems.
Telecommuting (basically the same thing as above but for money)
Usable WAN backup and recovery.
Family and friends VPN.
Imagine anything you do at your job and imagine doing that between your friends and family or with some commercial cloud provider. The same goes for stuff you do at home and just want to extend over a larger network.
If you can't figure out what to do with a better-than-a-cablemodem networking then you really don't have any imagination at all.
Familiar interfaces? GUI? That's a laugh. The whole problem with GUI interfaces is that they change with every major release. Sometimes they change radically.
Meanwhile, the icky awful hard and "inefficient" command line interfaces stay the same as there are no marketing or management dweebs trying to "look busy" by mucking everything up.
Also, those "hard" interfaces are often built to be automated. So it's actually LESS work to deal with a good command line.
If it's "something that you don't do often", then you can script it.
Although googling some obscure GUI option that you seldom use is really no improvement over doing the same for some command line arcana.
Someone with Ebola is an infection vector even if the train they rode on is not.
This is why there are 2 nurses infected. An Ebola patient is a very effective infection vector. Nurses are the single highest risk group in this thing. They have to deal with the blood and the vomit produced by patients in quarantine.
> It should be said that most of the mistakes here were by the hospital in Texas, not the CDC.
It was the CDC that told the nurse that she could fly.
As a trained professional, she should have been able to make her own evaluation and not depend on some government beaurocrat. She should have figured out on her own that it was a bad idea to fly.
However, she did in fact get the OK from the CDC.
It was Texas that implemented more proactive travel bans.
What do you expect when you constantly tell people they shouldn't have to pay for medical care? Most people don't have a very high regard for "free stuff" or even "cheap stuff".
If you treat medical professionals better, the masses might have to give up some of their Starbucks lattes and you just can't have that.
Not to mention, that license is pretty worthless in terms of filtering out idiots. This is despite the fact that a Car license actually includes a proficiency test. There are plenty of self-centered morons that have Car licenses.
It's not an effective filtering process because there would be too much backlash if it were. Too many people would be inconvenienced.
PVRs are great for caching live events. Let it start the recording and leave it be for 15 or so minutes so that you've got enough "buffer" so that you won't catch up to those ads.
This approach is also good for sporting events where there might be a lot of nonsense and commentary that you don't necessarily want to see.
If it's a less interesting sport like soccer or most of what's on the Olympics, you can fast forward to the interesting parts.
Plus you don't have to worry about "starting on time". It's actually better if you don't.
> Maybe, but it's good enough for me because I don't give a fuck about sports.
+...or new content.
Netflix is great as a "rerun channel". It's like a juiced up version of MeTV or AntennaTV on steroids.
Beyond that, it kind of sucks and there's really no point in denying it. Netflix by itself is no cable substitute. There's no point in pretending Netflix is something it's not. There's no point in trying to give people the wrong idea.
Fortunately the streaming landscape is not merely limited to Netflix.
Although more complete options will require you to be not a complete cheapskate.
I am fascinated by that other guy that says that these "programmers" were nothing more than secretaries that managed the punch cards. There used to be a lot of grunt work and manual labor in computing that isn't there anymore. Those jobs just disappeared.
We have to be careful about which computing jobs we're talking about because even now they all aren't created equal.
Some jobs are more interesting than others. Some jobs are more lucrative than others. Some jobs require less training and education than others.
That might be the same article that mentioned that Cosmo used to push the idea of women programmers. Do they still do that or did they stop doing that in the 80's.
It's the SJW ninnies that are trying to pretend that nerds are the perpetrators here when they are generally powerless and denigrated.
Nerds are the tail end of the problem. You're expecting them to wag the dog when it's the greeks and the jocks that control all of the really relevant media outlets.
It compares very well to raw broadcast TV or even broadcast TV filtered through a Tivo.
Plus antenna reception is a very tricky thing. It's often far from perfect both in terms of the channels you can get and how well you can get them. It's very much a YMMV proposition and is a very fussy sort of thing. Most people don't want to mess with that crap. That's why they have cable.
In Windows, you don't need a special binary to deliver a payload like this.
The article is retarded. Sure, if you try hard enough you can write a trojan to do something stupid. If you are going that far, you don't even need to hide the payload in an image.
One of the great advantages of current video technology is the fact that you aren't shackled to the idiots lantern. You can watch stuff whenever you want, rather than when they say it will be on. You can watch as much or as little as you want in one sitting depending on things that aren't TV.
A "networked" playback device is especially useful for serialized content and modern households that have more than one playback device.
The "gap" could be one minute or 6 months and it could be the 2nd half of that new movie or the next episode from that classic series from 40 years ago.
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$500 is a lot of money just to try some other OS out.
> Apple has taken the best of PC ecosystem, but avoided taking on the disadvantages.
This is such a joke. It's simply not true. WinDOS still has the "ecosystem" advantage. It's sad but true. What Apple has is perception driven by good marketing and IGNORANCE.
Macs are a mythical product that most people are unfamiliar with because the whole platform has a high barrier to entry. There are very few people in a good position to comment on Macs. You have to spend a great deal of money and have already swallowed all the Kool-Aid.
I bought into the myth too myself before a had a Mac to play around with.
I never run out of space. As disks get larger and larger, the risk of running out of space seems like the single least significant thing possible. The real issue is corruption.
Based on the headline, I would have expected this to be about content verification with all of the ZFS fanboys coming out of the work to extol it's virtues.
...except a job is a little bit more significant to your life than some meaningless Internet bulletin board.
If you interfere with someone at work, you are interfering with their livelihood. You are interfering with their ability to stay fed and keep a roof over their heads. You're probably also impacting one or more dependents.
It's an entirely different thing.
You have failed to demonstrate any actual harm. Laws based on zero demonstrated harm are always a bad idea.
I would describe it as differing distributions based on both genetics and social indoctrination. A person might be physically inclined towards a particular trait but actively discouraged from it based on how their gender is socialized.
An obvious caveat being that you can't attribute any characteristic universally (genetic or socialized).
This is how you end up with female members of Gamergate. They view the hysterical nonsense associated with their own gender as intolerable as many guys would.
They will also provide nice insights into the "enemy camp".
Not all women agree with these SJW ninnies and that's a very good thing. A number of us personally benefit from that fact.
Case in point: the college speech that got canceled in Utah.
Given an opportunity to speak for real in public with some extremely likely but still non-zero risk, the professional troll in question chose to back down and play victim. A great irony of one of the news items that covered this was a sign stating "you cant silence us through violence" when that's kind of exactly what happened.
The moment this pro troll had the opportunity to get personally lynched for one of her speeches, she folded like a deck of cards.
Total coward. Would be eternally heckled if she were a man. She gets away with playing victim because she's a girl.
It's pretty simple. The next time a feminist blogger gets her panties in a bunch ask her what it would take for her to go away permanently. Under what set of conditions does feminism become obsolete?
I bet you she doesn't have an answer because she never wants to stop meddling.
> Name ONE use case other than streaming multiple 4K video channels which REQUIRES anything more than the 6.5Mbit/s connection
Remote support of friends and families running GUI enabled operating systems.
Telecommuting (basically the same thing as above but for money)
Usable WAN backup and recovery.
Family and friends VPN.
Imagine anything you do at your job and imagine doing that between your friends and family or with some commercial cloud provider. The same goes for stuff you do at home and just want to extend over a larger network.
If you can't figure out what to do with a better-than-a-cablemodem networking then you really don't have any imagination at all.
Familiar interfaces? GUI? That's a laugh. The whole problem with GUI interfaces is that they change with every major release. Sometimes they change radically.
Meanwhile, the icky awful hard and "inefficient" command line interfaces stay the same as there are no marketing or management dweebs trying to "look busy" by mucking everything up.
Also, those "hard" interfaces are often built to be automated. So it's actually LESS work to deal with a good command line.
If it's "something that you don't do often", then you can script it.
Although googling some obscure GUI option that you seldom use is really no improvement over doing the same for some command line arcana.
> The tenets of Islam are not more incompatible than the tenets or radical christs.
True. However evangelical Xians aren't nearly powerful enough or radicalized enough in the West to be of serious concern.
People like to claim that Islam is modern and peaceful but the entire Mediterranean basin seems to indicate otherwise.
This guy is a project manager. He doesn't have to be an ubergeek. He just has to be able to manage the ubergeeks and run a project plan.
I should not have to explain this sort of thing on Slashdot.
It's pretty simple and obvious really.
Someone with Ebola is an infection vector even if the train they rode on is not.
This is why there are 2 nurses infected. An Ebola patient is a very effective infection vector. Nurses are the single highest risk group in this thing. They have to deal with the blood and the vomit produced by patients in quarantine.
> It should be said that most of the mistakes here were by the hospital in Texas, not the CDC.
It was the CDC that told the nurse that she could fly.
As a trained professional, she should have been able to make her own evaluation and not depend on some government beaurocrat. She should have figured out on her own that it was a bad idea to fly.
However, she did in fact get the OK from the CDC.
It was Texas that implemented more proactive travel bans.
What do you expect when you constantly tell people they shouldn't have to pay for medical care? Most people don't have a very high regard for "free stuff" or even "cheap stuff".
If you treat medical professionals better, the masses might have to give up some of their Starbucks lattes and you just can't have that.
Not to mention, that license is pretty worthless in terms of filtering out idiots. This is despite the fact that a Car license actually includes a proficiency test. There are plenty of self-centered morons that have Car licenses.
It's not an effective filtering process because there would be too much backlash if it were. Too many people would be inconvenienced.
PVRs are great for caching live events. Let it start the recording and leave it be for 15 or so minutes so that you've got enough "buffer" so that you won't catch up to those ads.
This approach is also good for sporting events where there might be a lot of nonsense and commentary that you don't necessarily want to see.
If it's a less interesting sport like soccer or most of what's on the Olympics, you can fast forward to the interesting parts.
Plus you don't have to worry about "starting on time". It's actually better if you don't.
> Maybe, but it's good enough for me because I don't give a fuck about sports.
+...or new content.
Netflix is great as a "rerun channel". It's like a juiced up version of MeTV or AntennaTV on steroids.
Beyond that, it kind of sucks and there's really no point in denying it. Netflix by itself is no cable substitute. There's no point in pretending Netflix is something it's not. There's no point in trying to give people the wrong idea.
Fortunately the streaming landscape is not merely limited to Netflix.
Although more complete options will require you to be not a complete cheapskate.
> Hm....you never watch a movie and have to go to the can?
There is a loo in my home theater. If I leave the door open, I can still see the screen.
The entire freshman year of your typical engineering program tends to actively discourage slackers.
I am fascinated by that other guy that says that these "programmers" were nothing more than secretaries that managed the punch cards. There used to be a lot of grunt work and manual labor in computing that isn't there anymore. Those jobs just disappeared.
We have to be careful about which computing jobs we're talking about because even now they all aren't created equal.
Some jobs are more interesting than others. Some jobs are more lucrative than others. Some jobs require less training and education than others.
The same goes for law, medicine, and science.
That might be the same article that mentioned that Cosmo used to push the idea of women programmers. Do they still do that or did they stop doing that in the 80's.
It's the SJW ninnies that are trying to pretend that nerds are the perpetrators here when they are generally powerless and denigrated.
Nerds are the tail end of the problem. You're expecting them to wag the dog when it's the greeks and the jocks that control all of the really relevant media outlets.
Everything is relative.
Netflix compares poorly to a $200 cable package.
It compares very well to raw broadcast TV or even broadcast TV filtered through a Tivo.
Plus antenna reception is a very tricky thing. It's often far from perfect both in terms of the channels you can get and how well you can get them. It's very much a YMMV proposition and is a very fussy sort of thing. Most people don't want to mess with that crap. That's why they have cable.
No, not really.
In Windows, you don't need a special binary to deliver a payload like this.
The article is retarded. Sure, if you try hard enough you can write a trojan to do something stupid. If you are going that far, you don't even need to hide the payload in an image.
At that point, you could probably "exploit" VMS.
Not terribly interesting really.
Life tends to interrupt entertainment.
One of the great advantages of current video technology is the fact that you aren't shackled to the idiots lantern. You can watch stuff whenever you want, rather than when they say it will be on. You can watch as much or as little as you want in one sitting depending on things that aren't TV.
A "networked" playback device is especially useful for serialized content and modern households that have more than one playback device.
The "gap" could be one minute or 6 months and it could be the 2nd half of that new movie or the next episode from that classic series from 40 years ago.
It's pretty easy to separate what you record, from what you actually watch, versus what gets shown/recorded while your PVR lingers in "live tv" mode.
Each of those situations is different parts of the code path in the PVR's software that can each be logged differently.