Who wants to trash a valid working version of 7 or 8 rather than beta test a fresh install of Windows 10. This would be great if the free license was for those who install and beta test a fresh version of Windows 10 on a PC without having to upgrade an existing copy first.
Well, lucky you - because that is exactly how it is. You download the (free) technical preview build ISO http://windows.microsoft.com/e..., install it, and then later on it will be upgraded to a (free) fully licensed copy. Only requirement is that you have to sign up for a Microsoft account (just create some new email address for that).
Or, in easier words, the full version of Windows 10 is free for everybody who participates in the technical preview.
Sorry, I work in a restrictive FCA and PCI compliant environment. (Think card processing/banking type environments). I do have Windows 10 running in a secure sandbox, giving it internet access is a PITA, so many hoops. It's already been decided, Windows 10 due to the sheer number of activities it wants to perform which are internet based is too insecure and bleeds too much data to the web to be allowed into our environment.
So you based your decision on whether Windows 10 is appropriate for your environment or sends too much information to the Internet on a technical preview which clearly states in the user agreement that it regularly sends usage information about everything back to Microsoft, because it is a technical preview and wants to collect usage data. Got it.
What an actor, one of the great ones. Nobody could do the sophisticated villain like him. And what a voice! And he definitely led an interesting life - he was in the secret service, and I remember that one scene from the LotR "making of" videos in which Peter Jackson talked about how Christopher Lee explained to him what "someone getting stabbed in the back with a knife" really sounded like. And how Peter Jackson was not all that eager to find out how exactly Lee knew that.
Like with most things, it is a matter of taste and it also depends on what exactly you tried so far - if all you tried is the mass-produced stuff, it's of course not all that much better than the mass-produced stuff from the US (except maybe for sticking to the Reinheitsgebot). But here in Germany, we also have excellent small, local breweries (some of which even only offer their beer in the pub/restaurant at their brewery). German beer is not only Beck's, Paulaner, Löwenbräu, Warsteiner and so on. There's also stuff like http://www.bergbier.de/biersor...:-)
Take a bee colony and stick them in a deep freeze and see how many survive. In case anyone missed it, the U.S. and Europe experienced record cold this winter. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not put 2 and 2 together?
Europe had an exceptionally warm and mild winter this year.
This. Where I live in Germany, we had pretty much no snow at all the whole winter. "Winter" just did not show up for work this time.
Sounds like a question for Randall's "What If" series.
It actually has been done, although as far as I can see only in the "what if" book. It has a chapter "the last human light" which pretty much is this question, just limited to "lights" instead of "device".
Laughing so hard here right now, they really nailed this.
suckify - "I've been sucking for 15 years and I've never seen anything like Suckify. They're really something else." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...
screwable - Commit. Perform. Screw. "As a professional in the screwing industry, I tell all my new clients to start out with an account on Screwable." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...
840 EVO by chance? There's a confirmed bug (with firmware update and reconditioning process) that will slow an 840 EVP to a crawl. I've personally seen it happen with several laptops recently upgraded. Once I applied the update, performance resumed back to original spec. And, these were full from anywhere from 60% to 80%; didn't matter much. Link below for update
In fact, that fix does not really FIX the problem, it just refreshes the cells (by reading/writing all the data), but then performance slowly deteriorates again. Apparently, Samsung will make a "real" fix available later this month.
Miele, the company building what's basically the best on the market of its kind (at a price, if you can afford it), cooperating with Microsoft, providing questionable quality "must have" monopoly-ware.
Can this end well?
That was my thought, too. This might put a dent into the reputation of Miele if these new (presumably higher end of the line) devices keep having software issues.
Also, Miele keep advertising the quality of their products by claiming a long lifecycle - e.g. the new Miele dishwasher my mother recently bought is advertised as "all parts designed for 20 years of use". I wonder how this will work with Microsoft software and Azure access built-in.
Interestingly, that power draw jumps to about 22 or 23 Watts for a few seconds every time the Kinect hears you say the word "Xbox," even if you don't follow it with "On."
So if you have a Xbox One in your living room, even TALKING about it will increase the power consumption of the console. Wonder what the annual cost is of children complaining "mommy I want to play Xbox now!" "why can't I play with the Xbox?" "Daddy, can I play with the Xbox?" "Waaaah Xbox! I do not want to go to bed!"
Let's say they manage to program the car so that it can calculate which course of action will cause the least injuries/fatalities. Now you get into a situation where the only two options available are a.) evade some obstacle on the road, but thereby hit a group of five pedestrians, quite possibly severely injuring or killing them or b.) hit the obstacle, quite possibly killing the driver (you). You are alone in your car.
Now, would you drive such a car which sometimes can decide, with cold, pure Vulcan logic, to kill you?
I swapped my old Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53) O/Ced to 3.8 with an OCZ Agility2 SSD for an i3 with a Kingston SSDnow 300 (*old* retired machine that was given to my dad). Altough the new machine boots way faster, and the new SSD is about twice as fast in benchmarks (even if low-end), I find it faster, but not *blew me out of my chair* faster.
Once you go from HDD to SSD, even the cheapest lowest performing SSD is gonna be much faster than anything with spinning platters.
True, that is simply "diminishing returns". Just going from a HDD to ANY SSD will make your computer incredibly faster, but then going to any faster SSD will not give the same benefits, because that one only will be faster on continuous access (like copying large files). Booting the OS or accessing small random files will not benefit much anymore. So going for a super expensive SSD will only be worth it if a.) you read/write lots of LARGE files (e.g. movie editing) or b.) need the long-term reliability of a SSD designed for multi-year writing of tons of data.
It's one thing to put up an artifact for display. Another to actually put it context and background. And it's possible that maybe the camera wasn't Armstrong's or used on the moon, but a duplicate made for familiarization purposes (to help the astronauts get comfortable with the cameras, NASA actually produced a bunch for them to take home to use in all situations.) This could very well be one of them. Plus, if there's any film, they need permission to develop and identify it.
They already did a lot of work to identify every single item and determine what each and every bit has been used for (using mission photographs and radio transcripts, plus clues like bits of paint). Link from summary: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a1... - click each item on the clickable map to see what it is and what role it played during the Apollo 11 mission.
Somehow I don't think the definition of "remote attack" is "disassemble the computer, attach all kinds of expensive hardware to analyze communications and firmware, hack into the firmware to retrieve the encryption keys, so only then you can use a base station emulator to trick the car into thinking your remote machine is a BMW firmware server."
The "remote attack" requires physical access, specialized skills, and intense hardware interaction. It is not something that some Romanian skript kiddie can pull off from their mom's basement.
The "disassemble the computer" part was only for the initial analysis of how the whole system works. Only one person needs to do this and can then sell the information. With the information from that one single disassembled box, it is possible to remote attack (without physical access other than standing within a couple hundred feet) any other BMW car with the same "connected drive" feature. That is (as described in the article), walk around with the cellular network emulator to trick vulnerable cars to connect to your cellular network, identify vulnerable cars via IMEI, figure out the VIN via the helpful error message the car sends out, activate remote services on the car (if not already active) via a faked message and then you can send the "open doors" command to the car. All of which can be done without physical access to the car other than standing near it, which you would need to do anyway if you want to take advantage of the open door.
So - yes, skript kiddies (or, well, any car thieves) surely can do this, since I am sure that the assembled hardware necessary together with a small instruction manual "how to open any BMW" is available on the internet somewhere.
Then there's the glass, too many corrective lenses fixing aberrations and barrel distortions and so on. All of that glass adding weight, size and cutting some of the light. Why? The camera can do that in software.
So you say software in the camera can summon up image detail which was lost due to crappy lenses which e.g. produce an unsharp image in the corners of a picture?
Barrel distortion - yes, something like that can be fixed, if you measure all the possible camera body/lens combinations (e.g dxoptics). Loss of detail? Nah, that only happens in movies when people say "enhance picture!".
Look e.g. at the differences in sharpness in this test (e.g. the newspaper pictures), and these are all high end primes (yes, some of them are specifically for low light shots). Now imagine what a cheapo lens will do.
You havent voided warranty on a rooted device. Most drvices all? Can be safely brought back to factory with all markers erased. Thats been my experience with samsung, asus, and motorola devices
Not true for current Samsung devices (S4 onwards) with the KNOX-enabled firmware. If you root those, you will trigger an eFUSE which flags your phone as "warranty void" forever. So yes - you can root even those phones, but you WILL lose the warranty. http://omegadroid.co/wanted-kn...
The Nintendo console was very popular in the US, but it is undeniable that the C64 was a hugely successful machine. The C64 also competed more directly with earlier consoles like the Atari 2600, Colecovision, etc. The Atari 2600 was very popular because it was extremely easy to setup, plug it into a TV and that's it.
I also did a lot of Amiga and Atari ST gaming as those are the machines my Dad was into and got. I didn't have a lot of people around me with similar computers to trade games with. I believe both of those machines were much more popular in Europe while the PC compatible clones were starting to take over the US market at the end of the C64's life.
Yes, it might be that the whole "gamers bought C64/Amiga, Atari XL/ST and ZX Spectrum" thing was mainly european. I just looked at the Wikipedia article for the NES, and it says about the sales numbers "Worldwide: 61.91 million, Japan: 19.35 million, Americas: 34.00 million, Other: 8.56 million". So the whole of the world, except Japan and the US, bought only 1/4 of the number of consoles the US bought. Like I said - I do not know anybody among my friends/relatives who bought a Nintendo console. Around here in Germany, the usual transition was C64/... to Amiga/ST/... to PC and back in the 80s/90s, trading disks on the schoolyard was huge.
Yep, sounds about right for the best of games of the DOS era. There's a reason consoles absolutely dominated gaming through the 80s and 90s.
Did they? At least around here in Germany, everybody in the 80s had a C64/Amiga (or maybe Atari ST) for gaming (because you could trade disks at school). Anybody with a console would have been pitied as the poor kid who cannot play the latest games. And from '93 onwards (when Doom arrived and LAN parties started) gaming changed forever, anyway. Maybe it was different in the US, don't know, Nintento consoles apparently were more popular there (I actually cannot remember any of my friends EVER owning a Nintendo console).
Saxony used to have Uranium mines (see the Wismut page in Wikipedia). So are you sure it is Chernobyl radiation or just runoff from underground rivers that cross the uranium deposits that occur naturally over there?
Since in the n-tv article, they mention both Saxony AND Bavaria, I don't think it's from the uranium deposits.
In Germany, even this year, 40% of the wild boars which were tested in Saxony (hunters are required to check animals they killed for radioactivity) showed radioactivity higher than the limit of 600 becquerel/kg, which made them officially unsuitable for human consumption. Some animals even showed radioactivity as high as 9800 becquerel/kg. Articles (in German) here: http://www.neues-deutschland.d... and here: http://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Wild...
This radioactivity in the meat is caused by the boars eating mushrooms and other plants in the forest. If plants and animals in eastern Germany are still contaminated after all this time, I'd rather not eat anything from directly next to the chernobyl plant, or live there.
Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?
As the author of the popular "trim enabler" software (which patches the original apple drivers and so causes the original drivers to fail the kext signing check) puts it:
"all of Apple’s AHCI SATA drivers are closed source and undocumented, which makes it impossible for me to create my own Trim driver and get it signed."
Which is also the reason why there are no trim drivers available from hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. No access to Apple's driver documentation - no signed trim drivers.
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Who wants to trash a valid working version of 7 or 8 rather than beta test a fresh install of Windows 10. This would be great if the free license was for those who install and beta test a fresh version of Windows 10 on a PC without having to upgrade an existing copy first.
Well, lucky you - because that is exactly how it is. You download the (free) technical preview build ISO http://windows.microsoft.com/e..., install it, and then later on it will be upgraded to a (free) fully licensed copy. Only requirement is that you have to sign up for a Microsoft account (just create some new email address for that).
Or, in easier words, the full version of Windows 10 is free for everybody who participates in the technical preview.
Sorry, I work in a restrictive FCA and PCI compliant environment. (Think card processing/banking type environments).
I do have Windows 10 running in a secure sandbox, giving it internet access is a PITA, so many hoops.
It's already been decided, Windows 10 due to the sheer number of activities it wants to perform which are internet based is too insecure and bleeds too much data to the web to be allowed into our environment.
So you based your decision on whether Windows 10 is appropriate for your environment or sends too much information to the Internet on a technical preview which clearly states in the user agreement that it regularly sends usage information about everything back to Microsoft, because it is a technical preview and wants to collect usage data. Got it.
"One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest."
What an actor, one of the great ones. Nobody could do the sophisticated villain like him. And what a voice! And he definitely led an interesting life - he was in the secret service, and I remember that one scene from the LotR "making of" videos in which Peter Jackson talked about how Christopher Lee explained to him what "someone getting stabbed in the back with a knife" really sounded like. And how Peter Jackson was not all that eager to find out how exactly Lee knew that.
RIP
Like with most things, it is a matter of taste and it also depends on what exactly you tried so far - if all you tried is the mass-produced stuff, it's of course not all that much better than the mass-produced stuff from the US (except maybe for sticking to the Reinheitsgebot). But here in Germany, we also have excellent small, local breweries (some of which even only offer their beer in the pub/restaurant at their brewery). German beer is not only Beck's, Paulaner, Löwenbräu, Warsteiner and so on. There's also stuff like http://www.bergbier.de/biersor... :-)
Take a bee colony and stick them in a deep freeze and see how many survive. In case anyone missed it, the U.S. and Europe experienced record cold this winter. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not put 2 and 2 together?
Europe had an exceptionally warm and mild winter this year.
This. Where I live in Germany, we had pretty much no snow at all the whole winter. "Winter" just did not show up for work this time.
Sounds like a question for Randall's "What If" series.
It actually has been done, although as far as I can see only in the "what if" book. It has a chapter "the last human light" which pretty much is this question, just limited to "lights" instead of "device".
The ocean is 98% fish pee.
And the remaining 2% is recycled pirate corpses.
Laughing so hard here right now, they really nailed this.
suckify - "I've been sucking for 15 years and I've never seen anything like Suckify. They're really something else." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...
screwable - Commit. Perform. Screw. "As a professional in the screwing industry, I tell all my new clients to start out with an account on Screwable." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...
840 EVO by chance? There's a confirmed bug (with firmware update and reconditioning process) that will slow an 840 EVP to a crawl. I've personally seen it happen with several laptops recently upgraded. Once I applied the update, performance resumed back to original spec. And, these were full from anywhere from 60% to 80%; didn't matter much. Link below for update
Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software
In fact, that fix does not really FIX the problem, it just refreshes the cells (by reading/writing all the data), but then performance slowly deteriorates again. Apparently, Samsung will make a "real" fix available later this month.
http://anandtech.com/show/9158...
"Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades!"
Miele, the company building what's basically the best on the market of its kind (at a price, if you can afford it), cooperating with Microsoft, providing questionable quality "must have" monopoly-ware.
Can this end well?
That was my thought, too. This might put a dent into the reputation of Miele if these new (presumably higher end of the line) devices keep having software issues.
Also, Miele keep advertising the quality of their products by claiming a long lifecycle - e.g. the new Miele dishwasher my mother recently bought is advertised as "all parts designed for 20 years of use". I wonder how this will work with Microsoft software and Azure access built-in.
Interestingly, that power draw jumps to about 22 or 23 Watts for a few seconds every time the Kinect hears you say the word "Xbox," even if you don't follow it with "On."
So if you have a Xbox One in your living room, even TALKING about it will increase the power consumption of the console. Wonder what the annual cost is of children complaining "mommy I want to play Xbox now!" "why can't I play with the Xbox?" "Daddy, can I play with the Xbox?" "Waaaah Xbox! I do not want to go to bed!"
Let's say they manage to program the car so that it can calculate which course of action will cause the least injuries/fatalities. Now you get into a situation where the only two options available are a.) evade some obstacle on the road, but thereby hit a group of five pedestrians, quite possibly severely injuring or killing them or b.) hit the obstacle, quite possibly killing the driver (you). You are alone in your car.
Now, would you drive such a car which sometimes can decide, with cold, pure Vulcan logic, to kill you?
Agree.
I swapped my old Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53) O/Ced to 3.8 with an OCZ Agility2 SSD for an i3 with a Kingston SSDnow 300 (*old* retired machine that was given to my dad). Altough the new machine boots way faster, and the new SSD is about twice as fast in benchmarks (even if low-end), I find it faster, but not *blew me out of my chair* faster.
Once you go from HDD to SSD, even the cheapest lowest performing SSD is gonna be much faster than anything with spinning platters.
True, that is simply "diminishing returns". Just going from a HDD to ANY SSD will make your computer incredibly faster, but then going to any faster SSD will not give the same benefits, because that one only will be faster on continuous access (like copying large files). Booting the OS or accessing small random files will not benefit much anymore. So going for a super expensive SSD will only be worth it if a.) you read/write lots of LARGE files (e.g. movie editing) or b.) need the long-term reliability of a SSD designed for multi-year writing of tons of data.
It's one thing to put up an artifact for display. Another to actually put it context and background. And it's possible that maybe the camera wasn't Armstrong's or used on the moon, but a duplicate made for familiarization purposes (to help the astronauts get comfortable with the cameras, NASA actually produced a bunch for them to take home to use in all situations.) This could very well be one of them. Plus, if there's any film, they need permission to develop and identify it.
They already did a lot of work to identify every single item and determine what each and every bit has been used for (using mission photographs and radio transcripts, plus clues like bits of paint). Link from summary: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a1... - click each item on the clickable map to see what it is and what role it played during the Apollo 11 mission.
Somehow I don't think the definition of "remote attack" is "disassemble the computer, attach all kinds of expensive hardware to analyze communications and firmware, hack into the firmware to retrieve the encryption keys, so only then you can use a base station emulator to trick the car into thinking your remote machine is a BMW firmware server."
The "remote attack" requires physical access, specialized skills, and intense hardware interaction. It is not something that some Romanian skript kiddie can pull off from their mom's basement.
The "disassemble the computer" part was only for the initial analysis of how the whole system works. Only one person needs to do this and can then sell the information. With the information from that one single disassembled box, it is possible to remote attack (without physical access other than standing within a couple hundred feet) any other BMW car with the same "connected drive" feature. That is (as described in the article), walk around with the cellular network emulator to trick vulnerable cars to connect to your cellular network, identify vulnerable cars via IMEI, figure out the VIN via the helpful error message the car sends out, activate remote services on the car (if not already active) via a faked message and then you can send the "open doors" command to the car. All of which can be done without physical access to the car other than standing near it, which you would need to do anyway if you want to take advantage of the open door.
So - yes, skript kiddies (or, well, any car thieves) surely can do this, since I am sure that the assembled hardware necessary together with a small instruction manual "how to open any BMW" is available on the internet somewhere.
Domino's is already ahead of the game here. If you're faking engine noise, might as well get creative with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Reminds me of Norio Wakamotorcycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then there's the glass, too many corrective lenses fixing aberrations and barrel distortions and so on. All of that glass adding weight, size and cutting some of the light. Why? The camera can do that in software.
So you say software in the camera can summon up image detail which was lost due to crappy lenses which e.g. produce an unsharp image in the corners of a picture?
Barrel distortion - yes, something like that can be fixed, if you measure all the possible camera body/lens combinations (e.g dxoptics). Loss of detail? Nah, that only happens in movies when people say "enhance picture!".
Look e.g. at the differences in sharpness in this test (e.g. the newspaper pictures), and these are all high end primes (yes, some of them are specifically for low light shots). Now imagine what a cheapo lens will do.
http://3d-kraft.de/index.php?o...
You havent voided warranty on a rooted device. Most drvices all? Can be safely brought back to factory with all markers erased. Thats been my experience with samsung, asus, and motorola devices
Not true for current Samsung devices (S4 onwards) with the KNOX-enabled firmware. If you root those, you will trigger an eFUSE which flags your phone as "warranty void" forever. So yes - you can root even those phones, but you WILL lose the warranty. http://omegadroid.co/wanted-kn...
The Nintendo console was very popular in the US, but it is undeniable that the C64 was a hugely successful machine. The C64 also competed more directly with earlier consoles like the Atari 2600, Colecovision, etc. The Atari 2600 was very popular because it was extremely easy to setup, plug it into a TV and that's it.
I also did a lot of Amiga and Atari ST gaming as those are the machines my Dad was into and got. I didn't have a lot of people around me with similar computers to trade games with. I believe both of those machines were much more popular in Europe while the PC compatible clones were starting to take over the US market at the end of the C64's life.
Yes, it might be that the whole "gamers bought C64/Amiga, Atari XL/ST and ZX Spectrum" thing was mainly european. I just looked at the Wikipedia article for the NES, and it says about the sales numbers "Worldwide: 61.91 million, Japan: 19.35 million, Americas: 34.00 million, Other: 8.56 million". So the whole of the world, except Japan and the US, bought only 1/4 of the number of consoles the US bought. Like I said - I do not know anybody among my friends/relatives who bought a Nintendo console. Around here in Germany, the usual transition was C64/... to Amiga/ST/... to PC and back in the 80s/90s, trading disks on the schoolyard was huge.
Yep, sounds about right for the best of games of the DOS era. There's a reason consoles absolutely dominated gaming through the 80s and 90s.
Did they? At least around here in Germany, everybody in the 80s had a C64/Amiga (or maybe Atari ST) for gaming (because you could trade disks at school). Anybody with a console would have been pitied as the poor kid who cannot play the latest games. And from '93 onwards (when Doom arrived and LAN parties started) gaming changed forever, anyway. Maybe it was different in the US, don't know, Nintento consoles apparently were more popular there (I actually cannot remember any of my friends EVER owning a Nintendo console).
Saxony used to have Uranium mines (see the Wismut page in Wikipedia). So are you sure it is Chernobyl radiation or just runoff from underground rivers that cross the uranium deposits that occur naturally over there?
Since in the n-tv article, they mention both Saxony AND Bavaria, I don't think it's from the uranium deposits.
In Germany, even this year, 40% of the wild boars which were tested in Saxony (hunters are required to check animals they killed for radioactivity) showed radioactivity higher than the limit of 600 becquerel/kg, which made them officially unsuitable for human consumption. Some animals even showed radioactivity as high as 9800 becquerel/kg. Articles (in German) here: http://www.neues-deutschland.d... and here: http://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Wild...
This radioactivity in the meat is caused by the boars eating mushrooms and other plants in the forest. If plants and animals in eastern Germany are still contaminated after all this time, I'd rather not eat anything from directly next to the chernobyl plant, or live there.
Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?
As the author of the popular "trim enabler" software (which patches the original apple drivers and so causes the original drivers to fail the kext signing check) puts it:
"all of Apple’s AHCI SATA drivers are closed source and undocumented, which makes it impossible for me to create my own Trim driver and get it signed."
Which is also the reason why there are no trim drivers available from hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. No access to Apple's driver documentation - no signed trim drivers.