All modern filesystems (HPFS+, NTFS, ext4) support metadata. The issue isn't with the filesystems, it's with the tools and apps built on top. Most importantly, each FS has its own way of reading/writing metadata, so no cross platform tools can readily take advantage.
For NTFS, Microsoft removed the capability to actually *use* the metadata as part of a Windows Explorer plug-in after Windows XP. Microsoft said they did this because it was a "resource drag" but that is a load of bullshit when we have SSDs and 64-bit systems.
Presumably they're not preferentially firing white techies, nor are they preferentially quitting.
I would assume the opposite; they are encouraging white techies to leave (firing someone is encouragement) and preferentially hiring non-white techies.
That leaves hiring, which for some reason has fallen off a cliff, versus non-whites. Is there any innocent explanation for this?
What no-one seems to think about is that all of these large companies offering very high salary and bonuses for the small pool of potential technical female employees, what does that do for participation in smaller companies?
It means the state can fine smaller companies for not meeting industry standards for diversity.
And what would the cops do if I just stopped USING my iPhone, didn't carry it, or... hell, didn't even HAVE one?!? NOW WHAT? HUH?!? NOW how are you going to break into it and root around in it, if I don't HAVE ONE?!? HUH?!?
That is obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
Just for fun, is not actually committing any crime whatsoever classifiable under our new dystopian oligarchy as obstruction and resisting arrest?
There is always a crime. They just have to find it.
Indeed. Most current Microsoft tablets are neither functional tablets nor functional PCs but still crippled half-arsed compromises.
The devices need ports, to be able to receive power and forward power to a device that has a single USB lead.
Microsoft is just following Apple's lead on how to be courageous. Nobody needs a physical keyboard when a virtual one will do so ports are legacy items which will be deprecated.
Charge based on traffic and watch what happens when someone sends your IP a flood of unsolicited UDP packets. The ISP will not know that and the traffic will never get past your firewall but they will be happy to charge for it.
It is strange that I never noticed power generating facilities sending me power that I did not want and then charging me for it.
That's an interesting theory but there are plenty of ISP services now that have data caps and it's not happening. So while it could happen I'm not sure it would as long as those data caps are large enough to cause the sending party so much bandwidth it's not worth it.
It *has* happened. ISP customers receive unsolicited traffic all the time and ISPs are happy to charge them for it. I have watched it. And it will only get worse in the future as more ISPs meter traffic.
And what would the cops do if I just stopped USING my iPhone, didn't carry it, or... hell, didn't even HAVE one?!? NOW WHAT? HUH?!? NOW how are you going to break into it and root around in it, if I don't HAVE ONE?!? HUH?!?
That is obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
The problem with congestion pricing is it's unpredictable, so not user friendly. It surges and subsides. And unlike Uber surge pricing, the ISP can't use higher prices to quickly encourage more capacity, so instead the higher prices would need to discourage use. How would that be communicated to the user? Some kind of window that shows the current price? Awful.
If only there was some system which would allow a standardized internet protocol to allow users to check the price of the traffic they are sending and receiving.
Wait, if we want ISPs to be treated like a utility then it's it only fair for them that they meter the connection? How much I pay for electricity changes based on when I use it and how much I use. Don't get me wrong, I despise Comcast and their shenanigans but there is a valid argument for IPSs to charge users who use more bandwidth more for the service.
I hope that do it. Charge based on traffic and watch what happens when someone sends your IP a flood of unsolicited UDP packets. The ISP will not know that and the traffic will never get past your firewall but they will be happy to charge for it.
It is strange that I never noticed power generating facilities sending me power that I did not want and then charging me for it.
Firewire with a lean 6-pins allowed for bidirectional communications and was essentially a peer-to-peer network. USB had a mere 4 pins, was unidirectional, and didn't require the devices to know how to talk to each other (hence the need for a hub).
The terms are half-duplex and full-duplex. Both Firewire and USB are bidirectional.
It was technically inferior, but won because of price.
The technical issues were insignificant compared to the licensing fees Apple and others required for Firewire. By the time this was addressed, it was too late and they had killed the possibility of widespread adoption.
The USB-C connector is what USB should have been from the start. Yes, PD (Power delivery) is optional and you have to be a smart consumer. And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices that could actively harm compliant devices because the cables and chargers did not meet the spec. That's not USB's fault.
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And on top of that the Power delivery spec was integrated into the main spec and made standard.
Some of the first advertised USB 3 controllers in trade magazines had DRM for controlling power delivery as a major feature. Incompatibility is the effective USB-C standard for power delivery.
You make it sound like that is going to stay that way for the rest of time. Ten years ago the average internet speed was 3Mbps today its over 20Mbps. Latency has also dropped in tandem.
If anything, latency has gotten worse. Some of this is due to higher speed encoding using interleaving for better burst error correction. ISPs consider this a big win because it allows much higher line speeds even if it comes at the expense of longer latency. Some of it just comes from poor network management with things like buffer bloat, ISP run transparent proxies, and ISP tunneling.
The first DSL I had was 768/768 SDSL and that was the high point and a huge latency improvement over dial up or anything I have had since. The various forms of ADSL and cable have almost an order of magnitude more latency and they have gotten worse over time instead of better.
When I still had AT&T U-Verse, not only did they not provide IPv6 but they took steps to block IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling so maybe someone should talk to them? I complained to the FCC and they approved the practice.
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All modern filesystems (HPFS+, NTFS, ext4) support metadata. The issue isn't with the filesystems, it's with the tools and apps built on top. Most importantly, each FS has its own way of reading/writing metadata, so no cross platform tools can readily take advantage.
For NTFS, Microsoft removed the capability to actually *use* the metadata as part of a Windows Explorer plug-in after Windows XP. Microsoft said they did this because it was a "resource drag" but that is a load of bullshit when we have SSDs and 64-bit systems.
Presumably they're not preferentially firing white techies, nor are they preferentially quitting.
I would assume the opposite; they are encouraging white techies to leave (firing someone is encouragement) and preferentially hiring non-white techies.
That leaves hiring, which for some reason has fallen off a cliff, versus non-whites. Is there any innocent explanation for this?
Why make things complicated?
What no-one seems to think about is that all of these large companies offering very high salary and bonuses for the small pool of potential technical female employees, what does that do for participation in smaller companies?
It means the state can fine smaller companies for not meeting industry standards for diversity.
Fiber reinforced composite materials using nitrocellulose have been used for decades.
And what would the cops do if I just stopped USING my iPhone, didn't carry it, or... hell, didn't even HAVE one?!? NOW WHAT? HUH?!? NOW how are you going to break into it and root around in it, if I don't HAVE ONE?!? HUH?!?
That is obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
Just for fun, is not actually committing any crime whatsoever classifiable under our new dystopian oligarchy as obstruction and resisting arrest?
There is always a crime. They just have to find it.
Indeed. Most current Microsoft tablets are neither functional tablets nor functional PCs but still crippled half-arsed compromises.
The devices need ports, to be able to receive power and forward power to a device that has a single USB lead.
Microsoft is just following Apple's lead on how to be courageous. Nobody needs a physical keyboard when a virtual one will do so ports are legacy items which will be deprecated.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Microsoft will find a way to make this un-buyable.
So you mean make physical keyboards unbuyable? Now that I can believe.
Swyping is almost as fast as a good touch typer. Just use that.
Do you work for the Handicapper General?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How are you supposed to touch type without any feedback from the keys?
You will be reduced to hunt and peck and very short documents.
Touch typing is only supported on enterprise versions of Windows. Consumers are not licensed to produce content.
Charge based on traffic and watch what happens when someone sends your IP a flood of unsolicited UDP packets. The ISP will not know that and the traffic will never get past your firewall but they will be happy to charge for it.
It is strange that I never noticed power generating facilities sending me power that I did not want and then charging me for it.
That's an interesting theory but there are plenty of ISP services now that have data caps and it's not happening. So while it could happen I'm not sure it would as long as those data caps are large enough to cause the sending party so much bandwidth it's not worth it.
It *has* happened. ISP customers receive unsolicited traffic all the time and ISPs are happy to charge them for it. I have watched it. And it will only get worse in the future as more ISPs meter traffic.
And what would the cops do if I just stopped USING my iPhone, didn't carry it, or... hell, didn't even HAVE one?!? NOW WHAT? HUH?!? NOW how are you going to break into it and root around in it, if I don't HAVE ONE?!? HUH?!?
That is obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
I think the answer is pretty clear: Because politicians don't do what we want them to do.
Why would they? Politicians do not represent voters.
The problem with congestion pricing is it's unpredictable, so not user friendly. It surges and subsides. And unlike Uber surge pricing, the ISP can't use higher prices to quickly encourage more capacity, so instead the higher prices would need to discourage use. How would that be communicated to the user? Some kind of window that shows the current price? Awful.
If only there was some system which would allow a standardized internet protocol to allow users to check the price of the traffic they are sending and receiving.
Wait, if we want ISPs to be treated like a utility then it's it only fair for them that they meter the connection? How much I pay for electricity changes based on when I use it and how much I use. Don't get me wrong, I despise Comcast and their shenanigans but there is a valid argument for IPSs to charge users who use more bandwidth more for the service.
I hope that do it. Charge based on traffic and watch what happens when someone sends your IP a flood of unsolicited UDP packets. The ISP will not know that and the traffic will never get past your firewall but they will be happy to charge for it.
It is strange that I never noticed power generating facilities sending me power that I did not want and then charging me for it.
No-one should have have to support an OS that came out 17 years ago.
The Microsoft should have released a backwards compatible upgrade.
because every fucking manufacturer out there uses a different standard for fast charging.
That should be "different DRM protected standard for fast charging".
> I remember hotplugging my AT keyboard and blowing a fuse on my motherboard
Interesting. I'd never heard of that before. Did you jam the pins in wrong, causing a short?
The XT/AT keyboard interface was never designed for or intended for hot plugging.
According to what spec? USB 3.1? USB-C?
That is the unpublished DRM protected spec.
Then it would seem that the solution to your problem would be to rig up a supercharger-to-USB3 adapter plug.
By my math, it looks like you could charge your phone in three seconds.
The phone could be charged in three seconds once.
so apple can sell $29.99 adapters
So Apple can sell poorly designed and low quality $29.99 adapters.
Firewire with a lean 6-pins allowed for bidirectional communications and was essentially a peer-to-peer network. USB had a mere 4 pins, was unidirectional, and didn't require the devices to know how to talk to each other (hence the need for a hub).
The terms are half-duplex and full-duplex. Both Firewire and USB are bidirectional.
It was technically inferior, but won because of price.
The technical issues were insignificant compared to the licensing fees Apple and others required for Firewire. By the time this was addressed, it was too late and they had killed the possibility of widespread adoption.
The USB-C connector is what USB should have been from the start. Yes, PD (Power delivery) is optional and you have to be a smart consumer. And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices that could actively harm compliant devices because the cables and chargers did not meet the spec. That's not USB's fault.
And on top of that the Power delivery spec was integrated into the main spec and made standard.
Some of the first advertised USB 3 controllers in trade magazines had DRM for controlling power delivery as a major feature. Incompatibility is the effective USB-C standard for power delivery.
You make it sound like that is going to stay that way for the rest of time. Ten years ago the average internet speed was 3Mbps today its over 20Mbps. Latency has also dropped in tandem.
If anything, latency has gotten worse. Some of this is due to higher speed encoding using interleaving for better burst error correction. ISPs consider this a big win because it allows much higher line speeds even if it comes at the expense of longer latency. Some of it just comes from poor network management with things like buffer bloat, ISP run transparent proxies, and ISP tunneling.
The first DSL I had was 768/768 SDSL and that was the high point and a huge latency improvement over dial up or anything I have had since. The various forms of ADSL and cable have almost an order of magnitude more latency and they have gotten worse over time instead of better.
When I still had AT&T U-Verse, not only did they not provide IPv6 but they took steps to block IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling so maybe someone should talk to them? I complained to the FCC and they approved the practice.
So since Florida did not perform the approval work, they will be refunding the fees, right? RIGHT?