That's only a problem if you have to buy games. If you can just play any of a selection of games for your monthly fee, then the worst thing that happens if it goes away is that you can't use the service any more. Either you've gotten something for your money in the interim, or you shouldn't have paid for the service.
The articles on it don't specify whether you're supposed to pay for the service, or for access to games individually, but I'd have guessed the former...
That memory isn't reserved, it's used when it is free but as soon as an application wants it the cached data is wiped and it is handed over for use.
That's how disk cache works, not application cache. Just the browser and [modded] FO4 will cause FO4 to run out of memory and die on my 16GB PC. Sometimes I can kill the browser at the low memory warning and have FO4 not die.
I've been using mostly nVidia with the occasional stab at using ATI/AMD throughout, and I've regretted every single ATI card I've ever installed because the drivers were garbage without exception. By all accounts that's better now, but the power consumption is pretty terrible. Hopefully that will be fixed soon as well, and then there will be no advantage to nvidia.
It's not that I've never had a driver problem with nvidia, it's that those problems were all solved by driver updates. With ATI drivers, I had to get third party patches just to get them working acceptably.
Somewhere someone doesn't know it yet, but they are going to get the book tossed at them. [...] Should anyone lose their lives as a result of these systems being turned off, the culprit should get a manslaughter count for each one.
Yes, the person who decided not to upgrade them, the person who decided to shut them off and the person who decided not to send someone to activate them manually in an emergency should all be held accountable for such deaths. The prankster, on the other hand, should be prosecuted as permitted by the law for tampering with emergency systems.
The problem is that these systems are old and crap, and can't be secured. The only option is to rip them out and replace them with something better. They are radio based. When a particular signal is sent on a particular frequency they sound.
You don't have to throw away the whole system, just the communications part. That's a relatively small portion of the whole. Why don't they base it on some of that encrypted police radio they seem to love so much?
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
That's an utterly disingenuous comparison, and you know it. The two situations are not even remotely congruent.
Invariably in almost all these incidents we keep blaming "the officials", "the authorities". And they instinctively develop CMA tactics.
They don't develop CMA tactics, they were born into it. (Insert Bane parody here.) You can't blame that on us, just because we're blaming them for not doing their jobs.
For what purpose? If you are just buying one for personal use, save yourself effort by spending a bit more for Atom instead of ARM. The software will be easier.
Intel can die in a fire.
Finding these things on Amazon is hard. The search listings wind up mixed with all kinds of unrelated garbage.
But those rules aren't going to work when anyone wants to can build a reasonably powerful AI machine using off-the-shelf components, and/or using cloud-based resources.
Reasonably powerful? Do you mean capable of reason? Because it's likely that such will happen in a supercomputer before it happens in some hobbyist's garage.
It could have just been in search of performance, like when they merged the Kernel and graphics memory spaces in NT4 (which had been separate in NT3.51) in pursuit of graphics performance.
This looks like Nvidia's entry, which could be pretty interesting. If it's well documented, well supported, and has good drivers that lets makers get at the GPU for compute and graphics It'll be worth looking at.
That's always the question, isn't it? Nvidia actually controls the IP of their ARM SoC GPU line, unlike GeForce (which is encumbered at least by agreements with Microsoft, if not others) so they have the option to release the driver sources. But will they? Still, odds are it'll be better-supported than anything from Allwinner.
Welcome to 2010, let alone 2019. The browser will commonly eat up 2GB by its lonesome. Mine is using 1.8GB right now, and that's while using noscript and blocking all kinds of crap. If you want anything else to be able to happen at the same time you're browsing, without needing to swap, then you need more than 2GB RAM — which is where most of the cheap boards top out.
4GB puts this into the category where it's actually useful for stuff like web browsing. Sadly, the link to the item from TFA is 404, but it looks like it's actually got enough ports on it to be useful for doing stuff without needing a hub, too. Forget building robots with it, you can build kiosks. Do they have an Android build for it?
You'd think a pastor would be able to trust that his word would be taken seriously and in good faith, but not even our pillars of the community get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Religious figures are more and not less likely to do sick things, simply because they are in a position of power, and as such they never deserved the benefit of the doubt any more than anyone else.
So is dealing with any bank, they are all well-known to be thieves and liars.
So don't deal with a bank. Deal with a credit union.
But you never speak to the police without a lawyer present in all cases unless your only a witness to a crime, then maybe you could talk to the police without a lawyer.
Even then it's usually a bad idea. You could get blamed for something just through bad paperwork. I do it, though, because I'm white, and thus relatively low-risk.
I work for one of the banks yet to be announced and I think this will actually be quite a major shake up. The reason that IBM is getting market share regarding this is mainly down to the belief that they provide additional security,
I understand why you'd need blockchain for that, but not why you'd need cryptocurrency. If it's pinned to and backed by the USD anyway, why not just use blockchain to track transfers of normal currency? Like by serial number...
In my 20 years of owning a car, I've never had the door handle break.
It was very common on 80s through early 2000s GM vehicles. Both sides broke on my '86 IROC, all the door handles went bad on our 2000 Astro. I was able to get just the handles for the Camaro from the dealer, but not for the Astro. They had discontinued the handles alone, and wanted to sell complete mechanisms, for $1000/set. I had to go to eBay to get knockoffs, which worked fine.
Most of those jobs can be done by a mobile mechanic though the suspension repair may need a trip to the alignment shop at the end.
If there were enough demand, people would start building alignment racks on trailers, too. It's not even difficult, which is how we know there's very limited demand.
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If he got them all at pawn shops, then many of them could have been stolen. A lot of stolen goods go to pawn shops. The same is true of flea markets.
That's only a problem if you have to buy games. If you can just play any of a selection of games for your monthly fee, then the worst thing that happens if it goes away is that you can't use the service any more. Either you've gotten something for your money in the interim, or you shouldn't have paid for the service.
The articles on it don't specify whether you're supposed to pay for the service, or for access to games individually, but I'd have guessed the former...
That memory isn't reserved, it's used when it is free but as soon as an application wants it the cached data is wiped and it is handed over for use.
That's how disk cache works, not application cache. Just the browser and [modded] FO4 will cause FO4 to run out of memory and die on my 16GB PC. Sometimes I can kill the browser at the low memory warning and have FO4 not die.
I've been using mostly nVidia with the occasional stab at using ATI/AMD throughout, and I've regretted every single ATI card I've ever installed because the drivers were garbage without exception. By all accounts that's better now, but the power consumption is pretty terrible. Hopefully that will be fixed soon as well, and then there will be no advantage to nvidia.
It's not that I've never had a driver problem with nvidia, it's that those problems were all solved by driver updates. With ATI drivers, I had to get third party patches just to get them working acceptably.
for my old GTX 240. It sucks. Some games wouldn't let you turn it off,
You should have just not installed it, then. PhysX is optional.
Both Putin and Erdogan, who sign these kinds of laws, are as right wing as it is possible to be without completely crossing the line to fascism.
What? They have sham elections, they disappear dissenters and journalists, they've criminalized free speech, and you don't think it's fascism?
Somewhere someone doesn't know it yet, but they are going to get the book tossed at them.
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Should anyone lose their lives as a result of these systems being turned off, the culprit should get a manslaughter count for each one.
Yes, the person who decided not to upgrade them, the person who decided to shut them off and the person who decided not to send someone to activate them manually in an emergency should all be held accountable for such deaths. The prankster, on the other hand, should be prosecuted as permitted by the law for tampering with emergency systems.
The problem is that these systems are old and crap, and can't be secured. The only option is to rip them out and replace them with something better.
They are radio based. When a particular signal is sent on a particular frequency they sound.
You don't have to throw away the whole system, just the communications part. That's a relatively small portion of the whole. Why don't they base it on some of that encrypted police radio they seem to love so much?
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
That's an utterly disingenuous comparison, and you know it. The two situations are not even remotely congruent.
Invariably in almost all these incidents we keep blaming "the officials", "the authorities". And they instinctively develop CMA tactics.
They don't develop CMA tactics, they were born into it. (Insert Bane parody here.) You can't blame that on us, just because we're blaming them for not doing their jobs.
Easy there whipper-snapper. Your elders are talking. Cool your millennial jets and bask in the discreet wisdom.
Don't assume that I registered as soon as I began reading. That would be foolish. Then again, that is also Slashdot as usual.
Try searching for "4gb kodi box".
Heh. I should have guessed. But I didn't. Thanks!
For what purpose? If you are just buying one for personal use, save yourself effort by spending a bit more for Atom instead of ARM.
The software will be easier.
Intel can die in a fire.
Finding these things on Amazon is hard. The search listings wind up mixed with all kinds of unrelated garbage.
Old enough that I remember when "Open Source" was discussed on Slashdot as a new thing back in 1998.
Proof positive that Slashdot has always been behind the curve.
But those rules aren't going to work when anyone wants to can build a reasonably powerful AI machine using off-the-shelf components, and/or using cloud-based resources.
Reasonably powerful? Do you mean capable of reason? Because it's likely that such will happen in a supercomputer before it happens in some hobbyist's garage.
What do you mean "finally"?
I mean finally featured on Slashdot, where the last several which were slashvertised had only 2GB, or even less.
Ebay, Amazon etc have a plethora of ARM-based mini-PCs with 4GB under $99. Well under.
Any idea which are worth a crap?
It could have just been in search of performance, like when they merged the Kernel and graphics memory spaces in NT4 (which had been separate in NT3.51) in pursuit of graphics performance.
This looks like Nvidia's entry, which could be pretty interesting. If it's well documented, well supported, and has good drivers that lets makers get at the GPU for compute and graphics It'll be worth looking at.
That's always the question, isn't it? Nvidia actually controls the IP of their ARM SoC GPU line, unlike GeForce (which is encumbered at least by agreements with Microsoft, if not others) so they have the option to release the driver sources. But will they? Still, odds are it'll be better-supported than anything from Allwinner.
"Education and Science Giant"? You fucking whores. Try MASSIVE PURVEYOR OF SCIENTIFIC FRAUD next time, if you can find your spine and get it working.
4GB for web browsing???
Welcome to 2010, let alone 2019. The browser will commonly eat up 2GB by its lonesome. Mine is using 1.8GB right now, and that's while using noscript and blocking all kinds of crap. If you want anything else to be able to happen at the same time you're browsing, without needing to swap, then you need more than 2GB RAM — which is where most of the cheap boards top out.
4GB puts this into the category where it's actually useful for stuff like web browsing. Sadly, the link to the item from TFA is 404, but it looks like it's actually got enough ports on it to be useful for doing stuff without needing a hub, too. Forget building robots with it, you can build kiosks. Do they have an Android build for it?
You'd think a pastor would be able to trust that his word would be taken seriously and in good faith, but not even our pillars of the community get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Religious figures are more and not less likely to do sick things, simply because they are in a position of power, and as such they never deserved the benefit of the doubt any more than anyone else.
So is dealing with any bank, they are all well-known to be thieves and liars.
So don't deal with a bank. Deal with a credit union.
But you never speak to the police without a lawyer present in all cases unless your only a witness to a crime, then maybe you could talk to the police without a lawyer.
Even then it's usually a bad idea. You could get blamed for something just through bad paperwork. I do it, though, because I'm white, and thus relatively low-risk.
I work for one of the banks yet to be announced and I think this will actually be quite a major shake up. The reason that IBM is getting market share regarding this is mainly down to the belief that they provide additional security,
I understand why you'd need blockchain for that, but not why you'd need cryptocurrency. If it's pinned to and backed by the USD anyway, why not just use blockchain to track transfers of normal currency? Like by serial number...
In my 20 years of owning a car, I've never had the door handle break.
It was very common on 80s through early 2000s GM vehicles. Both sides broke on my '86 IROC, all the door handles went bad on our 2000 Astro. I was able to get just the handles for the Camaro from the dealer, but not for the Astro. They had discontinued the handles alone, and wanted to sell complete mechanisms, for $1000/set. I had to go to eBay to get knockoffs, which worked fine.
Most of those jobs can be done by a mobile mechanic though the suspension repair may need a trip to the alignment shop at the end.
If there were enough demand, people would start building alignment racks on trailers, too. It's not even difficult, which is how we know there's very limited demand.