"The unfortunate fact is, if a Unix-influenced OS was ever going to take over the desktop, then a Unix-influenced OS would already have taken over the desktop."
I have it on good authority that this year will FINALLY be the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
First, system designers tend to be clueless about security needs of their own system.I want my bank to require strong passwords. I don't need some discussion forum about, I don't know, aquarium cleaning or salt shaker collecting to need a 10 digit password with numbers, letters, and punctuation marks. It's annoying.
Second, human beings aren't digital storage units. The harder the password to unlock, the more likely we are to either use the same password everywhere, significantly reducing the strength, or to forget what it is. There has to be a balance between ease of use and security, and overly strong passwords disrupt that balance.
Pretty much. This story makes zero sense. The CIA didn't just happen to find security flaws, they intentionally looked for them so they could exploit them.
"If the dead pixels do indeed detract from game play, return the device as unfit for prescribed purpose under the uniform commercial code (USA) NOTE: I am NOT a lawyer."
You don't have to be a lawyer to know about the uniform commercial code. Look at me; I AM a lawyer who formally studied the UCC in law school before practicing commercial law and I have no clue anymore as to what the UCC says. Something about commerce I think.
"To elaborate: We can't reliably clock Silicon much faster than we're doing right now."
That doesn't explain why there weren't huge leaps in the past, though. Physics hasn't changed, but why did it take 10 years to go from 1995 speeds to 2005 speeds?
The same experiment has been done for 100 years, and consistently reproduces the same results. Take a sealed, transparent tank of air. Shine sunlight on it. Take the temperature. Increase the percentage of CO2 in the tank. Shine sunlight. Take the temperature. The CO2-richer air has a higher temperature.
There's nothing unlawful about asking the question, and if you lie on it and they find out, they can absolutely use that against you in a breach of contract action.
I think it's a kernel thing too. At least, Linus concedes it is, but argues that they can just rely on faster processors and more memory, which I think is a bad design philosophy. Even "small footprint" distros seem waaay too sluggish today.
Disagree. And I'm an apple hater. As obnoxious as it is, the strategy of steal-and-market will probably continue to sustain them as social climbers in the developing world look for prestige. So even when the beanie-and-Arcade Fire crowd runs out of trust fund money they will be replaced.
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I certainly remember running large-scale long-term atmospheric models using terrabytes of RAM on that Commodore 64...
"The unfortunate fact is, if a Unix-influenced OS was ever going to take over the desktop, then a Unix-influenced OS would already have taken over the desktop."
I have it on good authority that this year will FINALLY be the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
But...but...M$!
Microsoft routinely brings in more than $10 billion NET revenue a year. Whatever they're doing, it's working fine.
Two problems.
First, system designers tend to be clueless about security needs of their own system.I want my bank to require strong passwords. I don't need some discussion forum about, I don't know, aquarium cleaning or salt shaker collecting to need a 10 digit password with numbers, letters, and punctuation marks. It's annoying.
Second, human beings aren't digital storage units. The harder the password to unlock, the more likely we are to either use the same password everywhere, significantly reducing the strength, or to forget what it is. There has to be a balance between ease of use and security, and overly strong passwords disrupt that balance.
They could also just do what the other console manufacturers do and subsidize the hardware. Seems to work for Sony.
This is the EFF. Their minds dance forever in utopian fields of wildflowers.
Pretty much. This story makes zero sense. The CIA didn't just happen to find security flaws, they intentionally looked for them so they could exploit them.
The laws of thermodynamics changed between 1995 and 2005?
"If the dead pixels do indeed detract from game play, return the device as unfit for prescribed purpose under the uniform commercial code (USA) NOTE: I am NOT a lawyer."
You don't have to be a lawyer to know about the uniform commercial code. Look at me; I AM a lawyer who formally studied the UCC in law school before practicing commercial law and I have no clue anymore as to what the UCC says. Something about commerce I think.
" or wait until manufacturing technology matures"
It did. We are living in that world.
Nintendo HATES spending time/money/effort on hardware. If they had their way they'd still be developing for the NES and Game Boy.
Yes, Nintendo can't fail, it can only be failed. It's the internet's fault.
"To elaborate: We can't reliably clock Silicon much faster than we're doing right now."
That doesn't explain why there weren't huge leaps in the past, though. Physics hasn't changed, but why did it take 10 years to go from 1995 speeds to 2005 speeds?
Sexual harassment isn't a crime, it simply creates a civil cause of action.
"Tech workers . . . have a natural understanding about women"
Hahahaaa zing! Wait a minute...were you serious with that? But...wow.
The same experiment has been done for 100 years, and consistently reproduces the same results. Take a sealed, transparent tank of air. Shine sunlight on it. Take the temperature. Increase the percentage of CO2 in the tank. Shine sunlight. Take the temperature. The CO2-richer air has a higher temperature.
If you read the comments on the outing, their leftist audience criticized them en masse for doing it.
"If these people like their jobs then let them become citizens." I'm sure a lot of them would like to do so, but are prevented right now.
There's nothing unlawful about asking the question, and if you lie on it and they find out, they can absolutely use that against you in a breach of contract action.
I think it's a kernel thing too. At least, Linus concedes it is, but argues that they can just rely on faster processors and more memory, which I think is a bad design philosophy. Even "small footprint" distros seem waaay too sluggish today.
You're just angry that he/she gets to pay 4 times as much as you for their phone. Jealous much?
Corrected for income, age, and health status?
Disagree. And I'm an apple hater. As obnoxious as it is, the strategy of steal-and-market will probably continue to sustain them as social climbers in the developing world look for prestige. So even when the beanie-and-Arcade Fire crowd runs out of trust fund money they will be replaced.
Yeah, it would be nice if they had just adopted Linux without adopting the Linux bloat mentality.