* They are still at least 2x the price of non-macintosh computers with similar hardware
* They still come with under-powered CPU's compared to their competition
* They still come with a minimal amount of RAM
* They are still not designed to be "up-gradable" (often RAM and CPUs are soldered in place, etc.)
It takes a study and loss of revenue for them to figure out what everyone has been telling them from the beginning...Sadly, nothing will come of this until the next NEW! SHINY! horribly designed UI fad comes along.
Love how they try to pin their failure on social media. Point in fact: Your movies sucked. Just because we can now tell people quickley and en mass how badly they sucked does not chamge the fact. Why should hollywood be rewarded by paying customers for producing trash?
Nonsense. Castle of Dr. Brain is a far superior per-install option and would allow for Apple to force you to solve one or more puzzles before being allowed to use the browser.
careful. you seem to be ASSuming that the OP is in fact using a spinning disk. Also, defrag on non-SSDs has been an automatically scheduled weekly task since Win7.
I was curious what OS it runs. TOP500 says "Sunway RaiseOS 2.0.5". Googling "Sunway" is just giving me some Malaysian resort town, and "RaiseOS" yields nothing at all. Does anyone know anything about this OS? Is it Linux?
from TFA:
"TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise. "
if he doesn't follow the laws turkey bans facebook. a facebook clone in turkey pops up instead. now all those connections to the outside world are greatly diminished. turkey becomes a social silo that stagnates
Zuckerburg does not give rats ass about the social health or free speech influences of the people of turkey. What he does care about is generating ad revenue from them, which is difficult to do if your site is banned.
Dear Oracle,
In order to help you with your version numbering issues I have spent many hours inventing the perfect numbering scheme for you.
The format is as follows:
MajorVersion.Release.BugFix/Security
for example: Java 7 update 45 (formally known as 7u45)becomes
Java 7.45
Java 7 update 45 emergency security release 5 becomes
Java 7.45.5
this allows you to have an unlimited number of security fixes (which you are sure to need) per release without having to rely on complex mathematics to decide what the next update version will be; simply incriminate the Release number.
my billing department will be contacting you shortly.
You do realize, of course, that roughly 30 years ago, computer geeks were running complaining about these new-fangled GUIs and how they just wanted a good ol' command line interface without the pretty graphics...
naahh. that was only the wannabes. the true geeks were down in the basement hacking away on their *NIX boxes.
Most every hosting company I've seen will provide a GUI for this type of thing. There are a few who will probably even answer questions you have about how to set this stuff up.
that may be true but almost every host I have seen has their portal geared towards tech savvy users not average joe.
assuming the person could manage to sign up for a hosting account, remember their domain/subdomain/hosted domain name and navigate the admin portal to find the file manager I have yet to see one intuitive enough to make setting user/group permissions in the site directory tree to be easy enough for grandma to do it.
it all comes down to convenience.
if it requires a learning curve its not convenient.
if you can do it in a few clicks its not convenient.
if you can't easily get to the content once its there it's not convenient.
if its non convenient the average person will not use it.
Why even pay $10/month for a VPS when you can pay $5/month for a shared web hosting environment, then put an.htpasswd file at root context and an.htaccess file at folder levels you wish to password protect?
Nobody will be able to download your files without the username and password that you can control, and combine that with an SSL certificate, nobody could snoop on your credentials or password.
yeah. because everybody knows how to setup that sort of architecture. how many of your friends/relatives/etc. even know what a.htaccess file is much less how to setup directory level permissions on a web server and ftp files to said server?
easy enough for tech guys. but we are't the only people in the world that need to share files.
* Worse yet, the reasoning behind it is stupid. They just want their version number to be big, like IE.
The main reason for Chrome and Firefox doing this is to get improvements faster to users. Rapid releases allow that.
explain to me why you can't do a rapid release cycle with a meaningful version system instead of incrementing only major version numbers?
is there some standard somewhere that requires you to update the major version number for every release if you are using a rapid release cycle?
because I'm failing to see how incrementing the major version number gets improvements out any faster.
I'm sure all the business (banks, insurance agencys, stock brokers, hospitals/clinics, law enforcement, etc) and government agencys (fed reserve, irs, BSA, etc) that use vpn tunnels and web based applications won't mind being cut off from business critical services for an unspecified period of time.
remember people; the internet isn't just webpages like facebook and youtube, its all traffic!
our you could just skip the hassle and go straight to CNET www.download.com where AVG eventually sends you for the download and not have to click 30 times to actually download the free version. its even right on the front page under most popular downloads.
1. Stage police "raids" or simple questioning.
2. Submit slashdot story.
3. Sit back and watch the slashdot effect as TPB's own users overload the site and take it down.
4 ?????
5. PROFIT!
if you run the default Firmware of your router who knows when it will be fixed.
and if your running open source or 3rd party firmware who knows when it will be fixed. the last stable release of ddwrt was 2 years ago and the last beta a year ago. This attack method has been around way longer than that.
Just had to post that everyone should be running OpenDNS and if possible DD-WRT of Tomato (for homes). You just cant beat that combo. It's fast, secure, and offers tons of security/configuration features that no one else does.
and that no one else knows how to use. Lets face it. most uses don't even know that its possible login to their "wireless box" and change settings; let alone replace the firmware with a 3rd party distro. as far as their concerned the guy that installed the internet just plugged it in and it needs to be there or their laptop can't get internet.
don't get me wrong. I love Tomato, but saying "everyone should run [insert some firmware here]" is not a solution to the problem. the problem is the idiot tech ( and in some cases, non-tech people smart enough to setup their own router) not changing the default password on the router when he installs it.
I'm probably crusin' for a brusin' by saying this, but there probably should be some form of last defense for computer systems throughout the nation. In the event of a highly-destructive fast-spreading virus, being able to shut off all connection at the ISP level would buy enough time for security researchers to find a way to negate the threat.
That said, I have qualms about the implementation. Some proposals:
1) The killswitch needs to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Either all ISPs are mandated to shut down or none. The economic magnitude of such a decision would force any internet shutdown to be only used in the face of an even worse threat.
2) The requirements for activating the shutdown need to be more specific than "an emergency." Japan was able to spend itself into debt by repeated use of "emergency" spending. The requirements for a shutdown of the internet should be a clear and widespread danger to computer systems.
3) 120 days is far too long of a time to have before the decision should come up for review. Four months without computer-to-computer communication that has become integral to the economy is far to long to be granted without oversight.
I have not yet had a chance to read the PROPOSED bill. Note that this story is about the bill making it out of committee, not becoming law. Does anyone have a link to the text of the proposed bill?
actually is a terrible idea in theory as well is in practice. consider that most business rely on the internet to conduct their daily business. Financial institutions and stockbrokerse have VPN's, etc to branch offices, and communications need to be sent of daily to the fed gov and various regulators. Most insurance companies use secure web portals to process your insurance with the parent organization. Medical records are transmitted electronically between various hospitals, clinics, etc. And lets not forget E-mail. cutting off e-mail for any business is like kicking them in the shorts. Now imagine that the president can shut this and much much more down at his wim for up to 120 days? Still convinced this is a good idea? go to work today and unplug all your companies routers for just 2 hrs and see how that works out for you.
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* They are still at least 2x the price of non-macintosh computers with similar hardware
* They still come with under-powered CPU's compared to their competition
* They still come with a minimal amount of RAM
* They are still not designed to be "up-gradable" (often RAM and CPUs are soldered in place, etc.)
except for those who live in California where coffee is "known to cause cancer"???
It takes a study and loss of revenue for them to figure out what everyone has been telling them from the beginning...Sadly, nothing will come of this until the next NEW! SHINY! horribly designed UI fad comes along.
Love how they try to pin their failure on social media. Point in fact: Your movies sucked. Just because we can now tell people quickley and en mass how badly they sucked does not chamge the fact. Why should hollywood be rewarded by paying customers for producing trash?
Nonsense. Castle of Dr. Brain is a far superior per-install option and would allow for Apple to force you to solve one or more puzzles before being allowed to use the browser.
careful. you seem to be ASSuming that the OP is in fact using a spinning disk. Also, defrag on non-SSDs has been an automatically scheduled weekly task since Win7.
you don't just go about defragging an SSD YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Thatt is a book I enjoy very much.
I was curious what OS it runs. TOP500 says "Sunway RaiseOS 2.0.5". Googling "Sunway" is just giving me some Malaysian resort town, and "RaiseOS" yields nothing at all. Does anyone know anything about this OS? Is it Linux?
from TFA: "TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise. "
it's not that simple
if he doesn't follow the laws turkey bans facebook. a facebook clone in turkey pops up instead. now all those connections to the outside world are greatly diminished. turkey becomes a social silo that stagnates
Zuckerburg does not give rats ass about the social health or free speech influences of the people of turkey. What he does care about is generating ad revenue from them, which is difficult to do if your site is banned.
Dear Oracle, In order to help you with your version numbering issues I have spent many hours inventing the perfect numbering scheme for you. The format is as follows: MajorVersion.Release.BugFix/Security for example: Java 7 update 45 (formally known as 7u45)becomes Java 7.45 Java 7 update 45 emergency security release 5 becomes Java 7.45.5 this allows you to have an unlimited number of security fixes (which you are sure to need) per release without having to rely on complex mathematics to decide what the next update version will be; simply incriminate the Release number. my billing department will be contacting you shortly.
Oh come on, 16k should be enough for anybody.
fixed that for ya.
You do realize, of course, that roughly 30 years ago, computer geeks were running complaining about these new-fangled GUIs and how they just wanted a good ol' command line interface without the pretty graphics...
naahh. that was only the wannabes. the true geeks were down in the basement hacking away on their *NIX boxes.
Most every hosting company I've seen will provide a GUI for this type of thing. There are a few who will probably even answer questions you have about how to set this stuff up.
that may be true but almost every host I have seen has their portal geared towards tech savvy users not average joe. assuming the person could manage to sign up for a hosting account, remember their domain/subdomain/hosted domain name and navigate the admin portal to find the file manager I have yet to see one intuitive enough to make setting user/group permissions in the site directory tree to be easy enough for grandma to do it. it all comes down to convenience. if it requires a learning curve its not convenient. if you can do it in a few clicks its not convenient. if you can't easily get to the content once its there it's not convenient. if its non convenient the average person will not use it.
Why even pay $10/month for a VPS when you can pay $5/month for a shared web hosting environment, then put an .htpasswd file at root context and an .htaccess file at folder levels you wish to password protect?
Nobody will be able to download your files without the username and password that you can control, and combine that with an SSL certificate, nobody could snoop on your credentials or password.
yeah. because everybody knows how to setup that sort of architecture. how many of your friends/relatives/etc. even know what a .htaccess file is much less how to setup directory level permissions on a web server and ftp files to said server?
easy enough for tech guys. but we are't the only people in the world that need to share files.
* Worse yet, the reasoning behind it is stupid. They just want their version number to be big, like IE.
The main reason for Chrome and Firefox doing this is to get improvements faster to users. Rapid releases allow that.
explain to me why you can't do a rapid release cycle with a meaningful version system instead of incrementing only major version numbers? is there some standard somewhere that requires you to update the major version number for every release if you are using a rapid release cycle? because I'm failing to see how incrementing the major version number gets improvements out any faster.
I'm sure all the business (banks, insurance agencys, stock brokers, hospitals/clinics, law enforcement, etc) and government agencys (fed reserve, irs, BSA, etc) that use vpn tunnels and web based applications won't mind being cut off from business critical services for an unspecified period of time. remember people; the internet isn't just webpages like facebook and youtube, its all traffic!
our you could just skip the hassle and go straight to CNET www.download.com where AVG eventually sends you for the download and not have to click 30 times to actually download the free version. its even right on the front page under most popular downloads.
great. like we don't have enough regulation in this area as it is.
Ha suckers. I have never had a problem with this. My protection software (Antivirus Pro 2010) catches everything that tries to infect my computer!
so I'll see you same time next Thursday for your weekly virus removal?
1. Stage police "raids" or simple questioning.
2. Submit slashdot story.
3. Sit back and watch the slashdot effect as TPB's own users overload the site and take it down.
4 ?????
5. PROFIT!
if you run the default Firmware of your router who knows when it will be fixed.
and if your running open source or 3rd party firmware who knows when it will be fixed. the last stable release of ddwrt was 2 years ago and the last beta a year ago. This attack method has been around way longer than that.
Just had to post that everyone should be running OpenDNS and if possible DD-WRT of Tomato (for homes). You just cant beat that combo. It's fast, secure, and offers tons of security/configuration features that no one else does.
and that no one else knows how to use. Lets face it. most uses don't even know that its possible login to their "wireless box" and change settings; let alone replace the firmware with a 3rd party distro. as far as their concerned the guy that installed the internet just plugged it in and it needs to be there or their laptop can't get internet. don't get me wrong. I love Tomato, but saying "everyone should run [insert some firmware here]" is not a solution to the problem. the problem is the idiot tech ( and in some cases, non-tech people smart enough to setup their own router) not changing the default password on the router when he installs it.
I'm probably crusin' for a brusin' by saying this, but there probably should be some form of last defense for computer systems throughout the nation. In the event of a highly-destructive fast-spreading virus, being able to shut off all connection at the ISP level would buy enough time for security researchers to find a way to negate the threat.
That said, I have qualms about the implementation. Some proposals:
1) The killswitch needs to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Either all ISPs are mandated to shut down or none. The economic magnitude of such a decision would force any internet shutdown to be only used in the face of an even worse threat.
2) The requirements for activating the shutdown need to be more specific than "an emergency." Japan was able to spend itself into debt by repeated use of "emergency" spending. The requirements for a shutdown of the internet should be a clear and widespread danger to computer systems.
3) 120 days is far too long of a time to have before the decision should come up for review. Four months without computer-to-computer communication that has become integral to the economy is far to long to be granted without oversight.
I have not yet had a chance to read the PROPOSED bill. Note that this story is about the bill making it out of committee, not becoming law. Does anyone have a link to the text of the proposed bill?
actually is a terrible idea in theory as well is in practice. consider that most business rely on the internet to conduct their daily business. Financial institutions and stockbrokerse have VPN's, etc to branch offices, and communications need to be sent of daily to the fed gov and various regulators. Most insurance companies use secure web portals to process your insurance with the parent organization. Medical records are transmitted electronically between various hospitals, clinics, etc. And lets not forget E-mail. cutting off e-mail for any business is like kicking them in the shorts. Now imagine that the president can shut this and much much more down at his wim for up to 120 days? Still convinced this is a good idea? go to work today and unplug all your companies routers for just 2 hrs and see how that works out for you.