It frustrates me greatly that all the various publications seem to be fighting over who can crow about 5G the loudest, yet when you look at the current pace of rollout, most of us won't see 5G for many years yet if ever.
Verizon for example is struggling to get it working well in even dense urban centres where the value is greatest, so I expect it will probably take at least a decade before suburban areas get it, and rural areas probably not at all.
And even if it does work.... yeah so what? The performance boost will have virtually zero practical impact unless you intend to stream 4K movies while commuting to work, and even then only maybe.
In Canada, the telecoms won't even bring up 5G in passing conversation.
Heaven forbid the tech press got a little perspective on new technologies.
Why isn't DARPA looking at Signal? I thought they were the benchmark by which all other secure communications are compared. Most other services actually use their protocol behind the scenes, including WhatsApp.
AFAIK the problems with WhatsApp are mismanagement of the backend, not the protocol, and I'm not aware of Signal having these problems.
Considering that 'China' is effectively synonymous with 'IP theft' of all kinds, from hand bags to industrial equipment, I can say that I am not even remotely surprised by this photo debacle, and if China really is taking positive steps, it's completely unnoticeable because of the great big hole they dug themselves into.
The article is not wrong. I have a simple test: would I be willing to give this to my parents to use? Linux is most definitely a no. They are currently on Macs. When I moved them from Windows my support calls dropped from multiple a week to quarterly. Windows is a convoluted and confusing mess, and that's before we get into the malware situation. Linux is an order of magnitude more convoluted.
Linux needs a standardized desktop. More importantly, it needs a *boring* standardized desktop. * It needs to be at least roughly similar to existing systems * It needs to have a predictable, consistent interface * Minimal customization options. The average person doesn't need or care about changing their window styles for example. * Anything that is vaguely important for a user to do, must be doable from the gui. * Full and proper accessibility support, including support for assistive input devices.
I've been using KDE but its complicated and buggy. I can deal with it fine, but there's no way I'd give it to my parents. Its way too easy to do the wrong thing and make your computer unusable.
Gnome is a god forsaken POS. It's stabler than KDE. It's simpler. In fact, it's too simple, and in the worst ways. Gnome devs are arrogant asshats who think its reasonable to remove the min/max buttons because 'there is already another way to do it'. If you have to retrain people to use the single most fundamental functionality of your DE, then YOU are wrong, not the user. Even "Courageous" Apple wasn't stupid enough to do that, so what does that say? Have these people never even heard of UAT testing?
Gnome is just full of that kind of brain damaged decision-making, to the point where I cannot fathom why it's the default DE on so many distros. Probably because a stupid DE is better than a buggy complex one.
XFCE would be a possible option if it got a little more polish. Out of all the DEs around, IMO OSX is the best. Yes it has some issues and inconsistencies (and don't get me started on the hardware...) , but taken as a whole package it has the most polish and stability. Mostly cause Apple doesn't screw around with it every release, and they made sure that the more common the operation was, the easier it was to perform.
It also desensitizes people to truly important things. I feel that there would be a lot less backlash to things like climate change if they weren't force fed bullshit nonstop. Thanks in large part to useless science reporting, people believe that science is indecisive and incompetent. I still remembering wtf'ing about the back and forth "eggs are good" "eggs are bad" a couple decades ago.
IMO a reporter needs to have taken courses in stats and spend time doing actual research before being allowed to report it.
I used to feel the same way. Then I started seeing issues like mixed http/https, and similar things, which don't get caught until far later in the dev cycle than they should be. Occasionally it results in an unexpectedly complicated mess.
You don't need to be fancy about it. It may take a little initial setup to get, say, Lets Encrypt working, but incorporating SSL into your dev/qa environments will save you potential unexpected frustration down the road.
Generally speaking, the closer you can match a dev environment to the final prod environment (in all aspects that can impact the operation of the final product that is), the better off you'll be.
Or, I could read the summary and article a little more carefully and realize it's restricted to HTTP downloads from an otherwise HTTPS site.
I can why they would do that since an HTTP connection can be MITM'ed easily. But that goes for literally anything. Malicious office docs, PDFs... There are tons of files that can have a malicious payload beyond the ones they mentioned. Hell, someone MITMing an HTTP connection can basically send whatever they want, so it would be far simpler to just bring up a warning on ANY switch from HTTPS to HTTP.
Blocking specific extensions in the way they are proposing is going to cause far more confusion than good.
Ok, and how exactly do they expect people to be able to download software, or other files?
Apparently in Google's world everyone has gigabit fibre so very large log files (for example) is not an issue. But for those of us in the real world, being able to compress stuff before sending is still incredibly valuable.
(And for anyone that plans to latch onto the log file example like starving dog on a steak and say "Well you should be splitting up your log files!", I kindly invite you to eff off in advance. I'm talking about the real world, where shit happens on a routine basis...)
Except that it isn't about a single issue. It's about a pattern.
Democrats could push a bill that says, "Every conservative will get a free million dollars paid for by the left" and it would still get blocked, for no other reason than because it was Democrats that pushed it. Republicans have a *demonstrated* track record of doing this exact thing.
Hell, they had a good two year period where they controlled ALL the major branches of government. And what did they do? They spent the overwhelming majority of time reversing anything and anything the Democrats so much as glanced at, no matter how sensible. Oh, and trying to blame Hillary for everything up to and including running a child prostitution ring out of a pizzeria. I have no idea if they've managed to accomplish anything useful because if they did, it was drowned out by near limitless barrage of nonsense.
The Democrats are not perfect. Very far from it, in fact. But they are the epitome of sanity compared to the GOP.
Apple tends to not do stuff without a specific reason. It may not be a good reason (Stop trying to make laptops thinner FFS!), but they have a reason.
If it involves introducing a free service, that really makes me wonder what's going on behind the scenes. Apple doesn't do things for free, simply because they don't have to. Their last quarter saw a 2% drop in mac sales. They've since released some yawn-worthy refreshes of their hardware, so I'm wondering if we can expect to see another drop in quarterly mac sales.
I know I won't touch any of their new MBPs, and will never consider them again, until they pull their collective heads out and accept their current generation of keyboards are mechanical and ergonomic disasters.
I'm in awe that people are so concerned over a freaking BILLBOARD.
I'm sorry but if BT's technicians have to choose between helping people with actual problems, and fixing a billboard (because heaven forbid we NOT be blasted with ads 24/7), the billboard belongs on the bottom of the queue.
Just because it's prominently visible doesn't mean it's important.
You know, whenever I see ridiculous DRM squabbles like this, my immediate reaction is to want to crack it, just cause.
There have been a few times that I've bought material (usually from smaller artists) where their entire DRM scheme was a sentence that said, "We would greatly appreciate it if you don't share our stuff." And I haven't.
These same artists also tend to get far more repeat business from me too, including one where I bought their entire discography without even listening to the songs first.
It's funny/sad how not being jerked around has become a genuine feature I look for (and will pay a premium for) in my purchases now.
It's a combination of all of the above. As a desktop operation system, Linux is unable to compete with Windows because it doesn't have the broad application and hardware support. It can't compete with Apple because, despite people trying to claim the contrary, it does not have the ease of experience that OSX has.
When Linux is confined to a tightly curated experience, for example ChromeOS, Android, or some other appliance-level system, it's fantastic. A manufacturer can customize it to a very minute detail.
But that low level flexibility turns it into a moving target so large that there is no hope of providing a common target the way Windows or OSX can. Android works because google completely abstracted Linux away and effectively put a common target as a layer on top.
The thing is that Windows is a known quantity. Linux is not. You will get wildly different experiences depending on the distro you pick. You chose Debian with XFCE. Great. WTF is Debian? WTF is XFCE?
If you say what you just said to a non-techie, their eyes will glaze over and possibly start running their fingers across their lips going "Badum badum badum".
People don't use distributions. They don't use desktop environments. They use "computers". And the computer either works, or it doesn't. If they can't make it work, they will return it, say it's broken, and get something else.
I'm using Kubuntu on my laptop right now as I type this and I have to say that you are so unbelievably and short-sightedly wrong that it's incredible.
It is NOT easy to use. There is not one single distribution that is easy to use. It's relatively easy for ME to use, and presumably easy for you as well, but I've been using computers for several decades. I am a software developer and a sysadmin. I also know how to set the dip switches on an internal ISA modem to their appropriate IOMEM and IRQ values.
Having the skills to do that puts us at an advantage so overwhelming compared to the average person, that picking up some obscure OS and using it is as easy as cooking microwave popcorn.
Linux is only "easy" if you stay within the confines of a specially curated garden so small that Apple is jealous. And even then it's not all kittens and rainbows. Open up Discover now and look for, say, Visual Studio Code. Which version do you pick? Do you use the regular install? The snap version? The flatpak version? Do you honestly think the average user is going to have any idea what those even are?
At a broader scale, how is the average user even going to know TO use Kubuntu? I went through 5 different distros just to find that one that gave me the least grief for what I was trying to accomplish. A snowball has orders of magnitude better odds of surviving in hell than an average person will have the ability to know which distro to pick.
And never mind edge cases, like trying to get it working properly on a laptop configure with Optimus graphics. Assuming you don't have issues installing the drivers, you literally need to log in and out to switch between video chips. I'm sorry but that's idiotic. And no, I don't care that it's "Nvidia's fault". Avg joe user certain isn't going to care. All they will care is that they have to jump to needless hoops in Linux that they wouldn't have to do if they were using Windows or Mac.
This is why something like ChromeOS is winning. Because it's one single known quantity that is consistent across everything. Doesn't matter what Chromebook you buy, it has ChromeOS, and it will act the same no matter who made the hardware. Also, the hardware may vary but never to the point where issues like the one I described above will ever come into play.
Hell, even as a techie, I still find myself getting frustrated when I have to drop whatever I'm doing and do a deep dive into the OS in order to do something that I would never have even considered needing to worry about in another OS. For example, I've managed to lose complete access to my trackpad because I had tried out the "disable trackpad when mouse plugged in" option. Kubuntu somehow thought my trackpad was simultaneously a trackpad and a mouse at the same time, and disabled it. I had to plug an external mouse in to recover because I couldn't even disable the option until I did. That sort of problem is inconceivable in the Windows or Mac worlds.
The point is, the aspects of Linux that us techies cherish and drool over, are the exact same ones that alienate the general populous. The issues that are annoying to us are insurmountable to the average person. And the level of arrogance that too many tech people have, blind them to glaring faults that alienate the average person.
While the parent is funny, it does raise a good point.
Systemd is a great example of the idiotic religious-level infighting that happens constantly between linux "enthusiasts".
Do you know what impact Systemd has to the average user? Fat. Fuck. All.
Do you know what DOES have impact on the average user? A bunch of nerds getting into screaming matches with each other over ultimately pointless details.
People get their panties in a twist over the most bloody idiotic things, like colour schemes and font choices. Meanwhile people who just want something that works throw their hands up and nope over to something that will give them less perceived headaches.
Like it or not, every single one of us represents the image of Linux, and our collective inability to see things with a little perspective is just one of many reasons how people are being actively pushed away from trying linux.
Transactions don't help if the OS claims the write is done before the write has been committed to hardware.
This isn't a transaction problem. It isn't a file system problem at all. It's a write-cache problem. In other words, a problem in the communication between the OS and the physical hardware. In things like hard drives, write caching makes sense for performance reasons, and literally every OS does it. But when the OS treats the USB as a temporary hard drive instead of as proper removable media, and delays the final writes, you run into the inevitable issue where someone pulls a USB prematurely and corrupts the write because they have no way of knowing that the write wasn't actually completed.
IMO USB is also partially to blame in this issue. It should be mandatory for USB keys to have LEDs that indicate activity.
I think the point is that writes are no longer cached, so copies and other writes will now take noticably longer, but when it's done it will actually be done.
I argue that this is how it should have been from day one, rather than the idiocy they had done up till now.
And indeed, the up cycle began in Obama's first term, and now, nearly a decade later, the cyclical down is coming. It demonstrates that its luck of the draw when a President is elected, and cycles have longer terms than election cycles.
Too bad Trump took credit for the economy doing great, cause now it's only reasonable that he takes the blame when it tanks too.
They want to move people to virtual desktops.... but you still need a device to connect to said virtual desktop.
What are they going to do, push manufacturers to start selling dumb terminals like people used to use in the 80s?
Cause that's basically what all this is. A return to the old mainframe style interaction, just at a larger scale, and with far greater consequences when Microsoft inevitably fucks up their security.
I don't think it's so much about balls, as a critical realization:
The Republicans have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will do their best to fuck up anything that the Democrats try to do, no matter how constructive and needful an idea it is.
Republicans think they have a mandate to block anything Democrat, and that mandate overrides everything else includes basic good sense.
Obama's greatest mistake (in hindsight) was that he tried to create a bridge with the Republicans. Republicans do not want to bridge the gulf. They don't want compromise. They want to "beat" the Democrats no matter the cost. Hell, they had the majority and spent almost all of their time undoing anything and everything the Democrats wanted, no matter how inane, rather than actually governing the bloody country.
And they proved it again with this legislation by trying to hamstringing it to the point of uselessness, despite literally the entire country (not counting telecoms) wanting it.
Because they have a monopoly and a stranglehold on the computer market, thanks to all manner of malicious business decisions that Bill Gates made when he ran the company. Inertia took care of the rest.
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And Monica Lewinsky "unintentionally" repeatedly faceplanted onto Bill Clinton's crotch.
It frustrates me greatly that all the various publications seem to be fighting over who can crow about 5G the loudest, yet when you look at the current pace of rollout, most of us won't see 5G for many years yet if ever.
Verizon for example is struggling to get it working well in even dense urban centres where the value is greatest, so I expect it will probably take at least a decade before suburban areas get it, and rural areas probably not at all.
And even if it does work.... yeah so what? The performance boost will have virtually zero practical impact unless you intend to stream 4K movies while commuting to work, and even then only maybe.
In Canada, the telecoms won't even bring up 5G in passing conversation.
Heaven forbid the tech press got a little perspective on new technologies.
Why isn't DARPA looking at Signal? I thought they were the benchmark by which all other secure communications are compared. Most other services actually use their protocol behind the scenes, including WhatsApp.
AFAIK the problems with WhatsApp are mismanagement of the backend, not the protocol, and I'm not aware of Signal having these problems.
Considering that 'China' is effectively synonymous with 'IP theft' of all kinds, from hand bags to industrial equipment, I can say that I am not even remotely surprised by this photo debacle, and if China really is taking positive steps, it's completely unnoticeable because of the great big hole they dug themselves into.
The article is not wrong. I have a simple test: would I be willing to give this to my parents to use? Linux is most definitely a no. They are currently on Macs. When I moved them from Windows my support calls dropped from multiple a week to quarterly. Windows is a convoluted and confusing mess, and that's before we get into the malware situation. Linux is an order of magnitude more convoluted.
Linux needs a standardized desktop. More importantly, it needs a *boring* standardized desktop.
* It needs to be at least roughly similar to existing systems
* It needs to have a predictable, consistent interface
* Minimal customization options. The average person doesn't need or care about changing their window styles for example.
* Anything that is vaguely important for a user to do, must be doable from the gui.
* Full and proper accessibility support, including support for assistive input devices.
I've been using KDE but its complicated and buggy. I can deal with it fine, but there's no way I'd give it to my parents. Its way too easy to do the wrong thing and make your computer unusable.
Gnome is a god forsaken POS. It's stabler than KDE. It's simpler. In fact, it's too simple, and in the worst ways. Gnome devs are arrogant asshats who think its reasonable to remove the min/max buttons because 'there is already another way to do it'. If you have to retrain people to use the single most fundamental functionality of your DE, then YOU are wrong, not the user. Even "Courageous" Apple wasn't stupid enough to do that, so what does that say? Have these people never even heard of UAT testing?
Gnome is just full of that kind of brain damaged decision-making, to the point where I cannot fathom why it's the default DE on so many distros. Probably because a stupid DE is better than a buggy complex one.
XFCE would be a possible option if it got a little more polish. Out of all the DEs around, IMO OSX is the best. Yes it has some issues and inconsistencies (and don't get me started on the hardware...) , but taken as a whole package it has the most polish and stability. Mostly cause Apple doesn't screw around with it every release, and they made sure that the more common the operation was, the easier it was to perform.
It also desensitizes people to truly important things. I feel that there would be a lot less backlash to things like climate change if they weren't force fed bullshit nonstop. Thanks in large part to useless science reporting, people believe that science is indecisive and incompetent. I still remembering wtf'ing about the back and forth "eggs are good" "eggs are bad" a couple decades ago.
IMO a reporter needs to have taken courses in stats and spend time doing actual research before being allowed to report it.
Damn... Oh well. Maybe next time.
I used to feel the same way. Then I started seeing issues like mixed http/https, and similar things, which don't get caught until far later in the dev cycle than they should be. Occasionally it results in an unexpectedly complicated mess.
You don't need to be fancy about it. It may take a little initial setup to get, say, Lets Encrypt working, but incorporating SSL into your dev/qa environments will save you potential unexpected frustration down the road.
Generally speaking, the closer you can match a dev environment to the final prod environment (in all aspects that can impact the operation of the final product that is), the better off you'll be.
Or, I could read the summary and article a little more carefully and realize it's restricted to HTTP downloads from an otherwise HTTPS site.
I can why they would do that since an HTTP connection can be MITM'ed easily. But that goes for literally anything. Malicious office docs, PDFs... There are tons of files that can have a malicious payload beyond the ones they mentioned. Hell, someone MITMing an HTTP connection can basically send whatever they want, so it would be far simpler to just bring up a warning on ANY switch from HTTPS to HTTP.
Blocking specific extensions in the way they are proposing is going to cause far more confusion than good.
Ok, and how exactly do they expect people to be able to download software, or other files?
Apparently in Google's world everyone has gigabit fibre so very large log files (for example) is not an issue. But for those of us in the real world, being able to compress stuff before sending is still incredibly valuable.
(And for anyone that plans to latch onto the log file example like starving dog on a steak and say "Well you should be splitting up your log files!", I kindly invite you to eff off in advance. I'm talking about the real world, where shit happens on a routine basis...)
Except that it isn't about a single issue. It's about a pattern.
Democrats could push a bill that says, "Every conservative will get a free million dollars paid for by the left" and it would still get blocked, for no other reason than because it was Democrats that pushed it. Republicans have a *demonstrated* track record of doing this exact thing.
Hell, they had a good two year period where they controlled ALL the major branches of government. And what did they do? They spent the overwhelming majority of time reversing anything and anything the Democrats so much as glanced at, no matter how sensible. Oh, and trying to blame Hillary for everything up to and including running a child prostitution ring out of a pizzeria. I have no idea if they've managed to accomplish anything useful because if they did, it was drowned out by near limitless barrage of nonsense.
The Democrats are not perfect. Very far from it, in fact. But they are the epitome of sanity compared to the GOP.
Apple tends to not do stuff without a specific reason. It may not be a good reason (Stop trying to make laptops thinner FFS!), but they have a reason.
If it involves introducing a free service, that really makes me wonder what's going on behind the scenes. Apple doesn't do things for free, simply because they don't have to. Their last quarter saw a 2% drop in mac sales. They've since released some yawn-worthy refreshes of their hardware, so I'm wondering if we can expect to see another drop in quarterly mac sales.
I know I won't touch any of their new MBPs, and will never consider them again, until they pull their collective heads out and accept their current generation of keyboards are mechanical and ergonomic disasters.
I'm in awe that people are so concerned over a freaking BILLBOARD.
I'm sorry but if BT's technicians have to choose between helping people with actual problems, and fixing a billboard (because heaven forbid we NOT be blasted with ads 24/7), the billboard belongs on the bottom of the queue.
Just because it's prominently visible doesn't mean it's important.
You know, whenever I see ridiculous DRM squabbles like this, my immediate reaction is to want to crack it, just cause.
There have been a few times that I've bought material (usually from smaller artists) where their entire DRM scheme was a sentence that said, "We would greatly appreciate it if you don't share our stuff." And I haven't.
These same artists also tend to get far more repeat business from me too, including one where I bought their entire discography without even listening to the songs first.
It's funny/sad how not being jerked around has become a genuine feature I look for (and will pay a premium for) in my purchases now.
It's a combination of all of the above. As a desktop operation system, Linux is unable to compete with Windows because it doesn't have the broad application and hardware support. It can't compete with Apple because, despite people trying to claim the contrary, it does not have the ease of experience that OSX has.
When Linux is confined to a tightly curated experience, for example ChromeOS, Android, or some other appliance-level system, it's fantastic. A manufacturer can customize it to a very minute detail.
But that low level flexibility turns it into a moving target so large that there is no hope of providing a common target the way Windows or OSX can. Android works because google completely abstracted Linux away and effectively put a common target as a layer on top.
The thing is that Windows is a known quantity. Linux is not. You will get wildly different experiences depending on the distro you pick. You chose Debian with XFCE. Great. WTF is Debian? WTF is XFCE?
If you say what you just said to a non-techie, their eyes will glaze over and possibly start running their fingers across their lips going "Badum badum badum".
People don't use distributions. They don't use desktop environments. They use "computers". And the computer either works, or it doesn't. If they can't make it work, they will return it, say it's broken, and get something else.
I'm using Kubuntu on my laptop right now as I type this and I have to say that you are so unbelievably and short-sightedly wrong that it's incredible.
It is NOT easy to use. There is not one single distribution that is easy to use. It's relatively easy for ME to use, and presumably easy for you as well, but I've been using computers for several decades. I am a software developer and a sysadmin. I also know how to set the dip switches on an internal ISA modem to their appropriate IOMEM and IRQ values.
Having the skills to do that puts us at an advantage so overwhelming compared to the average person, that picking up some obscure OS and using it is as easy as cooking microwave popcorn.
Linux is only "easy" if you stay within the confines of a specially curated garden so small that Apple is jealous. And even then it's not all kittens and rainbows. Open up Discover now and look for, say, Visual Studio Code. Which version do you pick? Do you use the regular install? The snap version? The flatpak version? Do you honestly think the average user is going to have any idea what those even are?
At a broader scale, how is the average user even going to know TO use Kubuntu? I went through 5 different distros just to find that one that gave me the least grief for what I was trying to accomplish. A snowball has orders of magnitude better odds of surviving in hell than an average person will have the ability to know which distro to pick.
And never mind edge cases, like trying to get it working properly on a laptop configure with Optimus graphics. Assuming you don't have issues installing the drivers, you literally need to log in and out to switch between video chips. I'm sorry but that's idiotic. And no, I don't care that it's "Nvidia's fault". Avg joe user certain isn't going to care. All they will care is that they have to jump to needless hoops in Linux that they wouldn't have to do if they were using Windows or Mac.
This is why something like ChromeOS is winning. Because it's one single known quantity that is consistent across everything. Doesn't matter what Chromebook you buy, it has ChromeOS, and it will act the same no matter who made the hardware. Also, the hardware may vary but never to the point where issues like the one I described above will ever come into play.
Hell, even as a techie, I still find myself getting frustrated when I have to drop whatever I'm doing and do a deep dive into the OS in order to do something that I would never have even considered needing to worry about in another OS. For example, I've managed to lose complete access to my trackpad because I had tried out the "disable trackpad when mouse plugged in" option. Kubuntu somehow thought my trackpad was simultaneously a trackpad and a mouse at the same time, and disabled it. I had to plug an external mouse in to recover because I couldn't even disable the option until I did. That sort of problem is inconceivable in the Windows or Mac worlds.
The point is, the aspects of Linux that us techies cherish and drool over, are the exact same ones that alienate the general populous. The issues that are annoying to us are insurmountable to the average person. And the level of arrogance that too many tech people have, blind them to glaring faults that alienate the average person.
While the parent is funny, it does raise a good point.
Systemd is a great example of the idiotic religious-level infighting that happens constantly between linux "enthusiasts".
Do you know what impact Systemd has to the average user? Fat. Fuck. All.
Do you know what DOES have impact on the average user? A bunch of nerds getting into screaming matches with each other over ultimately pointless details.
People get their panties in a twist over the most bloody idiotic things, like colour schemes and font choices. Meanwhile people who just want something that works throw their hands up and nope over to something that will give them less perceived headaches.
Like it or not, every single one of us represents the image of Linux, and our collective inability to see things with a little perspective is just one of many reasons how people are being actively pushed away from trying linux.
Transactions don't help if the OS claims the write is done before the write has been committed to hardware.
This isn't a transaction problem. It isn't a file system problem at all. It's a write-cache problem. In other words, a problem in the communication between the OS and the physical hardware. In things like hard drives, write caching makes sense for performance reasons, and literally every OS does it. But when the OS treats the USB as a temporary hard drive instead of as proper removable media, and delays the final writes, you run into the inevitable issue where someone pulls a USB prematurely and corrupts the write because they have no way of knowing that the write wasn't actually completed.
IMO USB is also partially to blame in this issue. It should be mandatory for USB keys to have LEDs that indicate activity.
I think the point is that writes are no longer cached, so copies and other writes will now take noticably longer, but when it's done it will actually be done.
I argue that this is how it should have been from day one, rather than the idiocy they had done up till now.
Will the facial tech recognize that you just ate at a Taco Bell and dispense extra TP for you?
And indeed, the up cycle began in Obama's first term, and now, nearly a decade later, the cyclical down is coming. It demonstrates that its luck of the draw when a President is elected, and cycles have longer terms than election cycles.
Too bad Trump took credit for the economy doing great, cause now it's only reasonable that he takes the blame when it tanks too.
They want to move people to virtual desktops.... but you still need a device to connect to said virtual desktop.
What are they going to do, push manufacturers to start selling dumb terminals like people used to use in the 80s?
Cause that's basically what all this is. A return to the old mainframe style interaction, just at a larger scale, and with far greater consequences when Microsoft inevitably fucks up their security.
I don't think it's so much about balls, as a critical realization:
The Republicans have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will do their best to fuck up anything that the Democrats try to do, no matter how constructive and needful an idea it is.
Republicans think they have a mandate to block anything Democrat, and that mandate overrides everything else includes basic good sense.
Obama's greatest mistake (in hindsight) was that he tried to create a bridge with the Republicans. Republicans do not want to bridge the gulf. They don't want compromise. They want to "beat" the Democrats no matter the cost. Hell, they had the majority and spent almost all of their time undoing anything and everything the Democrats wanted, no matter how inane, rather than actually governing the bloody country.
And they proved it again with this legislation by trying to hamstringing it to the point of uselessness, despite literally the entire country (not counting telecoms) wanting it.
The Democrats did the right thing.
Because they have a monopoly and a stranglehold on the computer market, thanks to all manner of malicious business decisions that Bill Gates made when he ran the company. Inertia took care of the rest.