Many systems are susceptible to interference when you get really close to them. Having a phone on you in the same room as the sensitive equipment may not have any effect but if you stand right next to it with the phone in the pocket nearest it can be noticeable and even possibly fatal.
To see this in action place your phone next to your powered computer speakers. Every time it activates the radio to comm with the tower you will hear a buzzing tone. I can even hear this when I have my laptop on my lap with my phone in my side pocket right next to the jack and I assume the sound card parts.
This kind of comment breakage usually in the past screwed up smaller articles (with less phanbois). It couldn't have happened to a worse article with all the freetards, tin-foil-hats and GNAA trolls thinking they are getting first post on a high traffic article that's 1h30m old yet with 0 posts.
Seems like this is opt-in only for now. So no cause for alarm yet. As long as it remains opt-in for 10.10 I'm quite happy for them to do it. This at least has the potential to give us some meaningful statistics to show developers to port their stuff over.
The stupid recovery disk burning program for my ThinkPad SL500 doesn't say what media (CD/DVD) it wants. Turns out that it wants a CD first to create a WinPE environment then 2 DVDs for the actual recovery data. Nowhere does it say this! I wasted a perfectly good blank DVD for about 300MB of data (which oddly worked as if it was a CD with the same radius of discolouration for about 300MB).
From then on I did practice burns with RW media until I discovered the secret 1CD then 2 DVDs combo.
If I actually used that Vista partition for more than the occasional game I would have installed it from a fresh iso without all the bloatware.
I don't think there is much money in that. If I was a virus writer I would make it send me useful information like credit card numbers, PayPal accounts and have it network together with other compromised computers to form some kind of bot network. I hope the guys making "format C:" viruses don't get any ideas.
They wouldn't suspect anything unless it becomes common for broken machines to come through and the "security expert" finally figures out it might actually be intentional.
Say it's running Vista and they won't even blink an eye.
Exactly! It makes about as much sense as having to pay the manufacturer of my toaster patent royalties every time I have breakfast. They can charge for the h264 encoder, but shouldn't be able to charge me for every video I produce.
It wont block img tags but everything else that isn't reliant on JavaScript like Flash and IFRAMEs are blocked in a similar fashion as the FlashBlock addon (if they even appear at all). If you want to see one just click the box that replaces it.
You bring up a good point, but such database filesystems don't exist yet for the average user. We could abstract it all away, but it has to be done right. The folder tree system is tried and true and computationally simplistic. The closest thing we will probably ever get in the near future is better indexing and search interfaces and APIs.
I was more concerned about how people have the idea that the file lives inside the program, not a file/folder tree or a database separate from the app. The ability to use that file in a different program is confusing because the file lives inside the app. That the application itself is literally the icon on the desktop. If it disappears for whatever reason they now know that application is missing.
Try asking this type of person what files they want to keep before you reinstall Windows on their infested machine and you will know what I mean. The line between data, applications, operating system and the hardware is non-existent and any slight upset can leave them completely useless in front of the computer.
The education system should teach student how to not just use a computer but to maintain it too (at least to a certain extent). Things like judging what is good and bad on the internet, like email scams and XP Antivirus 2010. That the computer has a hard disk with finite space and what to do when it gets full.
And I ask as an electronic engineering student, why did I have to learn poetry and take art classes? I never enjoyed it, it's borderline useless in my future career and most importantly, lacking that knowledge won't cost me my entire bank balance.
I hate that too. Bloody pain in the arse when someone does a torrent for something like a TV series and it's in 200 odd 14MiB rar files. This prevents one from downloading select episodes that they may have missed when it was on TV.
The reason behind the rar files is that early in the scene's release cycle the content is on Usenet where there is a file size limit on binaries. Uploaders seem to like using WinRAR to compress and split the content (I would prefer they used the open source 7-zip or even basic zip to split the archive, but RAR seems to be worshipped as a god or something).
Now that's all fine because there is a technical reason behind having the split archive. The problem is that Bittorrent has no such limitation. There is no reason that you would have to ever see a split RAR archive with a torrent. It's the fault of the lazy bastard who grabbed it off Usenet and slapped it on Bittorrent without extracting it first. The reduced file size from compressing it is negligible since game installers and especially movies are already compressed.
I recommend you do as I do and pick torrents that aren't a mess of rar files if available.
Give this guy another mod point! Brilliant analogy.
My story on Australia's education with computers. (learning them, not using them) I did my high school education in the first half of the last decade and computers were barely used for anything more than a typewriter with delete keys and browsing a locked down internet for any flash/java game sites that weren't blocked. We were running IE 5.5 on NT4 (until around 2005/6 when we got XP) that was locked down to the point of uselessness, they even disabled the USB ports so our flash sticks wouldn't work (we were still required to use floppies). We still managed to get games running on them because it's still Windows.
The compulsory IT class was only one semester in 7th year (first high school year) and we didn't have the opportunity to do anything more with learning computers until year 9 electives. Printing out shit for English doesn't count. Most of the computer "education" was barely anything beyond operating MS Word, Excel (only useful thing I learned), and friends (even FrontPage) unless you chose the programming elective which was done in Visual Basic 6 (better than nothing... I think).
In year 10 there was a new elective where our teacher actually tried to teach us something useful. After the boring compulsory stuff to get our names ticked off we could open up some old computers and install an OS (Win98, XP and even Linux thanks to a friend). It was easy for me since I knew most of this already, but the class was plagued by students who picked it assuming it was a bludge class. (I learned most of my stuff from an old 386 running MS-DOS and Win3.11 which I later destroyed)
Most students only learned what was taught in primary school (touch typing (soon forgotten) and edutainment games) and that one semester in high school. Ask any one of my peers where their file is. Many would say it lives inside Word or iTunes, not in C:/Users/username/wherever/ on the hard disk inside the box on the floor. The very concept of a file/directory structure is confusing to them and is being further abstracted away from the user in our new iToys.
I learned more from getting around the computer's restrictions than what was actually taught and I fear for the next generation who may accept these restrictions as normal. If every computer is simplified like the iPhone, restricted app market or not, our students of today will less likely to become the engineers of tomorrow.
(PS: Sorry about the parentheses (me fail English))
I use Arch too but there are some things that stack against it for consumer devices this will run on.
Pacman lacks a stable/polished gui and has no built in downgrade support (you have to manually install an old package from/var/cache which you hopefully didn't clean out). Apt also has other features like the gpg keys that though you and I may not miss, but I'm sure others may.
Linux isn't really fast with it. It takes about 4 seconds from insertion until KDE's device notifier pops up. Then again YMMV with different sticks. For all I know it may be programmed that way to let USB hard disks spin up fully before mounting.
Compare this to an SD card in my laptop's card reader which is near 0.3 seconds. Which is another thing I find Windows doesn't handle correctly with regards to unmounting. Windows Vista will present our desktop's built in multi-card reader (ones that take the old floppy drive slot and plug into the front USB pins on the motherboard) as persistent F:, G:, H:, I: drives and under the one entry in Safely Remove Devices. Removing this will remove the actual reader from Windows, not just the cards. The reader is unusable until the machine is rebooted (there may be another way that doesn't involve replugging the reader in, please tell if there is) as the USB device is completely disabled. Ejecting the individual drive by r-clicking it in My Computer will unmount it without killing the card reader. I don't know what Windows 7 does, not installed on that computer.
Linux seems to ignore the card reader and treats the cards as normal removable storage. I can even remount it again without having to replug it.
I think he is talking about how Windows will give you a popup stating that it is installing a new device the first time you insert a USB stick who's specific model has never been used with that Windows install. I just tried it on our Vista machine and it has a popup saying something like "Installing New Device Software" then "Your device it ready to use".
It's an improvement on what XP did. XP would go though setting up the driver to work not only with each new model it saw, but for every time you used a different USB port on the same computer. It works the way it should if you plug an already used USB stick in a port it was in previously
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(Totally worth any flamebait mods)
Many systems are susceptible to interference when you get really close to them. Having a phone on you in the same room as the sensitive equipment may not have any effect but if you stand right next to it with the phone in the pocket nearest it can be noticeable and even possibly fatal.
To see this in action place your phone next to your powered computer speakers. Every time it activates the radio to comm with the tower you will hear a buzzing tone. I can even hear this when I have my laptop on my lap with my phone in my side pocket right next to the jack and I assume the sound card parts.
plug my own backend
I find that plugging the sound in my backend, the deep bass really helps me loosen up.
We wear hats on our feet and hamburgers eat people
This kind of comment breakage usually in the past screwed up smaller articles (with less phanbois). It couldn't have happened to a worse article with all the freetards, tin-foil-hats and GNAA trolls thinking they are getting first post on a high traffic article that's 1h30m old yet with 0 posts.
They should send the usage statistics to the mailing addresses of all the big name game developers so we can finally get rid of Windows.
Also send them to hardware companies that seemingly sabotage any attempt to write Linux drivers.
Seems like this is opt-in only for now. So no cause for alarm yet. As long as it remains opt-in for 10.10 I'm quite happy for them to do it. This at least has the potential to give us some meaningful statistics to show developers to port their stuff over.
The stupid recovery disk burning program for my ThinkPad SL500 doesn't say what media (CD/DVD) it wants. Turns out that it wants a CD first to create a WinPE environment then 2 DVDs for the actual recovery data.
Nowhere does it say this! I wasted a perfectly good blank DVD for about 300MB of data (which oddly worked as if it was a CD with the same radius of discolouration for about 300MB).
From then on I did practice burns with RW media until I discovered the secret 1CD then 2 DVDs combo.
If I actually used that Vista partition for more than the occasional game I would have installed it from a fresh iso without all the bloatware.
I have CDs burned around 1997 that still work. Is the data density a factor in DVDs shittyness?
I don't think there is much money in that. If I was a virus writer I would make it send me useful information like credit card numbers, PayPal accounts and have it network together with other compromised computers to form some kind of bot network. I hope the guys making "format C:" viruses don't get any ideas.
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They wouldn't suspect anything unless it becomes common for broken machines to come through and the "security expert" finally figures out it might actually be intentional.
Say it's running Vista and they won't even blink an eye.
Exactly! It makes about as much sense as having to pay the manufacturer of my toaster patent royalties every time I have breakfast. They can charge for the h264 encoder, but shouldn't be able to charge me for every video I produce.
It wont block img tags but everything else that isn't reliant on JavaScript like Flash and IFRAMEs are blocked in a similar fashion as the FlashBlock addon (if they even appear at all). If you want to see one just click the box that replaces it.
You bring up a good point, but such database filesystems don't exist yet for the average user. We could abstract it all away, but it has to be done right. The folder tree system is tried and true and computationally simplistic. The closest thing we will probably ever get in the near future is better indexing and search interfaces and APIs.
I was more concerned about how people have the idea that the file lives inside the program, not a file/folder tree or a database separate from the app. The ability to use that file in a different program is confusing because the file lives inside the app. That the application itself is literally the icon on the desktop. If it disappears for whatever reason they now know that application is missing.
Try asking this type of person what files they want to keep before you reinstall Windows on their infested machine and you will know what I mean. The line between data, applications, operating system and the hardware is non-existent and any slight upset can leave them completely useless in front of the computer.
The education system should teach student how to not just use a computer but to maintain it too (at least to a certain extent). Things like judging what is good and bad on the internet, like email scams and XP Antivirus 2010. That the computer has a hard disk with finite space and what to do when it gets full.
And I ask as an electronic engineering student, why did I have to learn poetry and take art classes? I never enjoyed it, it's borderline useless in my future career and most importantly, lacking that knowledge won't cost me my entire bank balance.
I hate that too. Bloody pain in the arse when someone does a torrent for something like a TV series and it's in 200 odd 14MiB rar files. This prevents one from downloading select episodes that they may have missed when it was on TV.
The reason behind the rar files is that early in the scene's release cycle the content is on Usenet where there is a file size limit on binaries. Uploaders seem to like using WinRAR to compress and split the content (I would prefer they used the open source 7-zip or even basic zip to split the archive, but RAR seems to be worshipped as a god or something).
Now that's all fine because there is a technical reason behind having the split archive. The problem is that Bittorrent has no such limitation. There is no reason that you would have to ever see a split RAR archive with a torrent. It's the fault of the lazy bastard who grabbed it off Usenet and slapped it on Bittorrent without extracting it first. The reduced file size from compressing it is negligible since game installers and especially movies are already compressed.
I recommend you do as I do and pick torrents that aren't a mess of rar files if available.
Give this guy another mod point! Brilliant analogy.
My story on Australia's education with computers. (learning them, not using them)
I did my high school education in the first half of the last decade and computers were barely used for anything more than a typewriter with delete keys and browsing a locked down internet for any flash/java game sites that weren't blocked. We were running IE 5.5 on NT4 (until around 2005/6 when we got XP) that was locked down to the point of uselessness, they even disabled the USB ports so our flash sticks wouldn't work (we were still required to use floppies). We still managed to get games running on them because it's still Windows.
The compulsory IT class was only one semester in 7th year (first high school year) and we didn't have the opportunity to do anything more with learning computers until year 9 electives. Printing out shit for English doesn't count. Most of the computer "education" was barely anything beyond operating MS Word, Excel (only useful thing I learned), and friends (even FrontPage) unless you chose the programming elective which was done in Visual Basic 6 (better than nothing ... I think).
In year 10 there was a new elective where our teacher actually tried to teach us something useful. After the boring compulsory stuff to get our names ticked off we could open up some old computers and install an OS (Win98, XP and even Linux thanks to a friend). It was easy for me since I knew most of this already, but the class was plagued by students who picked it assuming it was a bludge class. (I learned most of my stuff from an old 386 running MS-DOS and Win3.11 which I later destroyed)
Most students only learned what was taught in primary school (touch typing (soon forgotten) and edutainment games) and that one semester in high school. Ask any one of my peers where their file is. Many would say it lives inside Word or iTunes, not in C:/Users/username/wherever/ on the hard disk inside the box on the floor. The very concept of a file/directory structure is confusing to them and is being further abstracted away from the user in our new iToys.
I learned more from getting around the computer's restrictions than what was actually taught and I fear for the next generation who may accept these restrictions as normal. If every computer is simplified like the iPhone, restricted app market or not, our students of today will less likely to become the engineers of tomorrow.
(PS: Sorry about the parentheses (me fail English))
I use Arch too but there are some things that stack against it for consumer devices this will run on.
Pacman lacks a stable/polished gui and has no built in downgrade support (you have to manually install an old package from /var/cache which you hopefully didn't clean out). Apt also has other features like the gpg keys that though you and I may not miss, but I'm sure others may.
The real important question: What package management system will it use?
Linux isn't really fast with it. It takes about 4 seconds from insertion until KDE's device notifier pops up. Then again YMMV with different sticks. For all I know it may be programmed that way to let USB hard disks spin up fully before mounting.
Compare this to an SD card in my laptop's card reader which is near 0.3 seconds. Which is another thing I find Windows doesn't handle correctly with regards to unmounting. Windows Vista will present our desktop's built in multi-card reader (ones that take the old floppy drive slot and plug into the front USB pins on the motherboard) as persistent F:, G:, H:, I: drives and under the one entry in Safely Remove Devices.
Removing this will remove the actual reader from Windows, not just the cards. The reader is unusable until the machine is rebooted (there may be another way that doesn't involve replugging the reader in, please tell if there is) as the USB device is completely disabled. Ejecting the individual drive by r-clicking it in My Computer will unmount it without killing the card reader.
I don't know what Windows 7 does, not installed on that computer.
Linux seems to ignore the card reader and treats the cards as normal removable storage. I can even remount it again without having to replug it.
I think he is talking about how Windows will give you a popup stating that it is installing a new device the first time you insert a USB stick who's specific model has never been used with that Windows install. I just tried it on our Vista machine and it has a popup saying something like "Installing New Device Software" then "Your device it ready to use".
It's an improvement on what XP did. XP would go though setting up the driver to work not only with each new model it saw, but for every time you used a different USB port on the same computer. It works the way it should if you plug an already used USB stick in a port it was in previously
... most of my phones haven't had an OS that you could play Galaga or Solitaire on.
I have an old Ericsson T28 in a drawer that can play solitaire on it's 5 or so pixel rows.
Damn it was a good phone, did it's job well. But the mic got wet (still works but too quiet) and I doubt the battery works any more.
It will start with insurance companies discriminating against people who are more susceptible to diseases based on DNA.
On the plus side we can all feel safe that the caring benevolent government can track down all those pesky criminals and terrorists and pirates.
What's with the "Mozilla/5.0" part anyway. Others say IE has that in its UA string too and looks like some legacy shit from the old Netscape days.