"if serial number does not match, destroy data". Which isn't the case because, rest assured, the program that encrypted the files will not be used to decrypt it.
That's not quite what I meant. What I meant is that the serial number is used at some point in the decryption process to generate the decryption key, if the key is wrong then the data cannot be decrypted, and any attempt to do so will simply return gibberish.
What if decrypting the data requires a correct serial no. from the hardware to successfully decrypt the data and if it is not found then the data is destroyed? Or using a form of storage (on-the-fly encryption in the disk controller firmware, perhaps) for the key that erases itself or generates a new key if it detects the drive has been removed? It's not your fault if the duplication process (effectively) destroys the data.
I wouldn't really consider the contents of r/jailbaitarchive to be "children", either. Adolescents, for the most part. Legally, yes they are "children", biologically, no.
I'm not sure where you get this idea. ARM processors may be somewhat slower compared to x86 equivalents at the same clock speed but they make up for it with much better power efficiency and this is how they have a huge advantage in the cloud server space.
they usually do not sport H/W virtualization extensions either
My Galaxy S II has 1GB of RAM and a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and it came out over 6 months ago. I have never had less than half of that free when not running an app in the foreground.
with all the excess overhead of running x86 applications the battery would see heavy drain
This is entirely speculation on your part. Yes, running a hypervisor and virtualized environment on top of the app's usage would use more processing power (and therefore battery power) than a native equivalent, but would it really necessarily be that much more than running Java bytecode or Flash?
And all of this is ignoring that Windows Phone apps can be written in.NET, which is platform-agnostic, similar to Java, and can therefore run without modification on any platform that supports the API
I can't speak for every Android phone, but at least on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S II), all I had to do to replace TouchWiz was install another launcher from the market (Go Launcher Ex, in this case) and press the home button. A box popped up asking me to choose which launcher I wanted to use, and whether to use it as the default. I checked the "Set Default" box and then selected the new launcher. Done. Easy.
there is no difference in between 25 fps, or 30 fps or 40 fps to the human eye playing a game.
That's really strange, because I'm sure that BluRay movies @ 1080p/24Hz look horrible on long, fast pans. And that's movies. Games are noticeably worse at the same frame rate dues to the high amount of similar motion (eg. fast mouselook in FPS games). 30fps is a bare minimum, barely playable. 60+fps is ideal.
Interally, it's using binary markup, and not shitty XML obviously
I'm curious as to the benefit of this. Is it's file size, then would the size of your binary format vs GZipped XML be all that different? (GZipped XML could end up being smaller, too)
what you want is a MacBook air or other thin laptop.
No, you do not want a MacBook air; it runs a bastardized and restricted derivative of Unix, you'll be paying tons of money for all those little utilities you need to plug the gaps in its OS, and its "AppStore" and package management is far inferior to that of a modern Linux distribution.
The Oracle JRE is no longer in *any* Linux distributions' repositories. Oracle changed the license terms so the only place you could download the JRE from was the Oracle website. The GNU JRE is more than adequate for running Java apps, however, and is included out of the box in Ubuntu.
I don't think they're advocating from removing mono from the repositories, just from the default install. I actually welcome this, as it means we will probably get more up to date version of mono in there. 2.6, which was the newest version in the repositories last time I checked, is quite old now.
I really don't notice much of a speed difference between then two, TBH. The only major difference is that there are some (pretty trivial) effects missing. It might be because I have a decent GPU in my computer, though; I wouldn't be surprised if it was laggy as hell on an integrated GPU or without 3D acceleration
Unity-2D is installed by default as of Ubuntu 11.10, too
You are exactly right. Why the hell would I want to use Unity which often requires me to move my hands between my keyboard and mouse, click extra times to do the same action,
I don't use my mouse at all with Unity... we must be talking about different things?
or look for another one of those hidden features that were implemented in order to save 10px of space on my 1980x1200 resolution screen.
I use a side taskbar in both Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my laptop. When you have only 768px of vertical resolution on a 16:9 screen, it makes sense to move the stuff out of the vertical space. But I do agree that it would be nice to be able to move the launcher to the bottom, or the right side (which I am used to from Windows)
I like seeing exactly what windows I have open and ungrouped.
Use the Expose-style switcher? (Shift+Alt+Up, I think, can't remember) I don't use it, though. I tend to have windows opened full screen or tiled, across multiple (7-8, usually) virtual desktops and just switch desktops when I want to switch apps; Super+S gives me an overview. Again, it would be nice to disable grouping on the tasbar or have Windows 7-style previews
I liked dedicating launcher menus on a separate bar from my task bar.
There's the desktop, and I think you can still run other docks as well as Unity
I like visible scroll bars
Agreed, not entirely sure why there isn't an option to use normal scroll bars, the new, extra-thin ones in Ubuntu are just plain annoying
I most definitely like having dedicated buttons visible at all times just one click away from me minimizing and maximizing my windows
Not sure why being visible is an issue, although this probably could/should easily be an option. eg. when enabled, it makes the Max/Min/Close buttons permanently visible and shifts the global menu across
I think Unity needs some more work and definitely needs to be more configurable, but it is usable enough for me. I have no major complaints with it other than the default Alt-Tab switcher and not being able to move the Launcher. The former can be fairly easily be changed and the latter I can live with, although I see no reason why it shouldn't be configurable
Even in that case, given that IE uses DirectShow for HTML5 video, you'd just need to install a WebM or Theora DirectShow filter (like ffmpeg) and it would work in IE.
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"if serial number does not match, destroy data". Which isn't the case because, rest assured, the program that encrypted the files will not be used to decrypt it.
That's not quite what I meant. What I meant is that the serial number is used at some point in the decryption process to generate the decryption key, if the key is wrong then the data cannot be decrypted, and any attempt to do so will simply return gibberish.
A bit for bit identical duplicate.
What if decrypting the data requires a correct serial no. from the hardware to successfully decrypt the data and if it is not found then the data is destroyed? Or using a form of storage (on-the-fly encryption in the disk controller firmware, perhaps) for the key that erases itself or generates a new key if it detects the drive has been removed? It's not your fault if the duplication process (effectively) destroys the data.
That's called a One-time-pad
I wouldn't really consider the contents of r/jailbaitarchive to be "children", either. Adolescents, for the most part. Legally, yes they are "children", biologically, no.
BitTorrent makes many small data requests over different TCP connections to different machines
ARM devices are very slow compared to x86 ones
I'm not sure where you get this idea. ARM processors may be somewhat slower compared to x86 equivalents at the same clock speed but they make up for it with much better power efficiency and this is how they have a huge advantage in the cloud server space.
they usually do not sport H/W virtualization extensions either
I'm pretty sure ARM has virtualization extensions
ARM devices usually sport quite little memory
My Galaxy S II has 1GB of RAM and a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and it came out over 6 months ago. I have never had less than half of that free when not running an app in the foreground.
with all the excess overhead of running x86 applications the battery would see heavy drain
This is entirely speculation on your part. Yes, running a hypervisor and virtualized environment on top of the app's usage would use more processing power (and therefore battery power) than a native equivalent, but would it really necessarily be that much more than running Java bytecode or Flash?
And all of this is ignoring that Windows Phone apps can be written in .NET, which is platform-agnostic, similar to Java, and can therefore run without modification on any platform that supports the API
if you roll above WIS+INT on a d6
That's (in most circumstances) impossible?
He wants a media server not a HTPC.
With regard to OS updates, I hear good things about HTC and (I think) Sony.
I can't speak for every Android phone, but at least on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S II), all I had to do to replace TouchWiz was install another launcher from the market (Go Launcher Ex, in this case) and press the home button. A box popped up asking me to choose which launcher I wanted to use, and whether to use it as the default. I checked the "Set Default" box and then selected the new launcher. Done. Easy.
there is no difference in between 25 fps, or 30 fps or 40 fps to the human eye playing a game.
That's really strange, because I'm sure that BluRay movies @ 1080p/24Hz look horrible on long, fast pans. And that's movies. Games are noticeably worse at the same frame rate dues to the high amount of similar motion (eg. fast mouselook in FPS games). 30fps is a bare minimum, barely playable. 60+fps is ideal.
Interally, it's using binary markup, and not shitty XML obviously
I'm curious as to the benefit of this. Is it's file size, then would the size of your binary format vs GZipped XML be all that different? (GZipped XML could end up being smaller, too)
what you want is a MacBook air or other thin laptop.
No, you do not want a MacBook air; it runs a bastardized and restricted derivative of Unix, you'll be paying tons of money for all those little utilities you need to plug the gaps in its OS, and its "AppStore" and package management is far inferior to that of a modern Linux distribution.
But you can install Linux on a MacBook Air
where speed and power usage are both equally important factors.
Like transistors?
What about mono makes it more of a target for litigation than Wine? They are both implementations of Microsoft APIs.
The Oracle JRE is no longer in *any* Linux distributions' repositories. Oracle changed the license terms so the only place you could download the JRE from was the Oracle website. The GNU JRE is more than adequate for running Java apps, however, and is included out of the box in Ubuntu.
I don't think they're advocating from removing mono from the repositories, just from the default install. I actually welcome this, as it means we will probably get more up to date version of mono in there. 2.6, which was the newest version in the repositories last time I checked, is quite old now.
I really don't notice much of a speed difference between then two, TBH. The only major difference is that there are some (pretty trivial) effects missing. It might be because I have a decent GPU in my computer, though; I wouldn't be surprised if it was laggy as hell on an integrated GPU or without 3D acceleration
Unity-2D is installed by default as of Ubuntu 11.10, too
There's this thing called stdout... you may have heard of it?
You do know you don't have to use Unity, right? It's very easy to install KDE or XFCE if you want to
Only 4 virtual desktops ... I often have six or eight, 4 is not enough.
Install compizconfig-settings-manager and change the virtual desktop size, I have 3x3 desktops
Menu on top ... breaks too many applications and means you can't have focus-follows-mouse.
I'm undecided on menu on top, I wish it could at least be turned off on a per-app basis, though/p
You are exactly right. Why the hell would I want to use Unity which often requires me to move my hands between my keyboard and mouse, click extra times to do the same action,
I don't use my mouse at all with Unity... we must be talking about different things?
or look for another one of those hidden features that were implemented in order to save 10px of space on my 1980x1200 resolution screen.
I use a side taskbar in both Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my laptop. When you have only 768px of vertical resolution on a 16:9 screen, it makes sense to move the stuff out of the vertical space. But I do agree that it would be nice to be able to move the launcher to the bottom, or the right side (which I am used to from Windows)
I like seeing exactly what windows I have open and ungrouped.
Use the Expose-style switcher? (Shift+Alt+Up, I think, can't remember) I don't use it, though. I tend to have windows opened full screen or tiled, across multiple (7-8, usually) virtual desktops and just switch desktops when I want to switch apps; Super+S gives me an overview. Again, it would be nice to disable grouping on the tasbar or have Windows 7-style previews
I liked dedicating launcher menus on a separate bar from my task bar.
There's the desktop, and I think you can still run other docks as well as Unity
I like visible scroll bars
Agreed, not entirely sure why there isn't an option to use normal scroll bars, the new, extra-thin ones in Ubuntu are just plain annoying
I most definitely like having dedicated buttons visible at all times just one click away from me minimizing and maximizing my windows
Not sure why being visible is an issue, although this probably could/should easily be an option. eg. when enabled, it makes the Max/Min/Close buttons permanently visible and shifts the global menu across
I think Unity needs some more work and definitely needs to be more configurable, but it is usable enough for me. I have no major complaints with it other than the default Alt-Tab switcher and not being able to move the Launcher. The former can be fairly easily be changed and the latter I can live with, although I see no reason why it shouldn't be configurable
Even in that case, given that IE uses DirectShow for HTML5 video, you'd just need to install a WebM or Theora DirectShow filter (like ffmpeg) and it would work in IE.
I don't know why people are assuming that previous MS OSes won't be, or even aren't already, signed.
...or that the windows 8 boot loader can't boot windows 7 perfectly well
On windows, if you install the graphics drivers for your graphics card, yes.