Browsers should be using different processes for different websites anyway, as a general security measure, and I believe they have been aiming to do that already. Since Spectre only allows reading memory within the same process, I don't understand the panic here (though I guess it's different for virtual machines).
We've already had countless issues where developers didn't sanitize their inputs, so a malicious piece of data could do something nasty; crucially, we didn't need Spectre for that. Meltdown is a wholly different beast, but I guess Intel needs to keep up the Spectre panic for AMD.
I only have two DP ports on my laptop dock, and I like having three monitors. So two on DP and one on VGA is necessary. I know there are DisplayPort MST "hubs", but I haven't had any luck with those.
Good point, this is especially true with laptops. Personally, I probably couldn't live with those three side by side, as VGA quality would be so different from the digital ones. At home I'm fine with VGA for watching movies, but for anything else I've been spoiled by the crisp and pixel-accurate digital displays.
Don't use HDMI. Don't ask for HDMI. Don't accept systems that *only* support HDMI.
Display Port is your friend. Use it for everything that you can.
*Note: The only limitation of Display Port is cable run, and it can't go beyond about 2m. Perfect for desktop use, but little else. HDMI does have a superior run length over DVI, but in light of how shit (by my definition, HDCP is utter shit) HDMI is, it's a tough call. Use DVI for long cable runs whenever possible.
Interesting. I've been a kind of fan fo DP, but the only DP hardware I've had so far are outputs on my computers, and adapters to DVI and HDMI. My display hardware is either cheap second-hand monitors, or needs long cable runs.
I've had the impression that HDMI is the "consumer" tech given all the marketing around it and the whole post-HD display craze, while DP is "professional" with with features like daisy-chaining that consumers couldn't possibly understand. DP also allows more displays on some (laptop) GPUs as they can share the sync signals (or something like that; my Thinkpad x220i can only show 2 different displays if not using DP, even though it has 3 outputs when counting the internal display). Alas, the cable length limitation is a deal-breaker for me, as I only need multiple monitors with my live projection gigs. I also hear that DP isn't safe from DRM either.
The situation reminds me of DAT. You had this nice tech for recording CD-quality digital audio in the 80s, but it was mostly restricted to the professional market. Years later, crippled derivatives such as DCC and Minidisc were introduced to consumer markets so they couldn't make bit-exact copies. All this effort to make technological development go backwards...
DVI was nice because it was digital without DRM. This changed with HDMI, which was just another form factor for DVI signals. As a result, it's possible to have HDCP over DVI, as some monitors accept HDMI extensions over the old-style port.
VGA on modern hardware means you'll be converting digital to analog to digital again, which is beyond idiotic. Also, you'll be dealing with all sorts of analog adjustments with the image alignment. I agree it's still practical to have a laptop with VGA out -- in many cases I've come across, there's a relatively modern projector at the ceiling, but they only put a VGA cable up there.
This is why I get pissed when I see people ranting and raving against what few gendered terms might exist in English discourse. They should be lucky to speak a language that actually has gender-neutral nouns and pronouns.
I must be super lucky for speaking a language where all pronouns are gender-neutral, including the equivalent of "he" or "she". Finnish has only one "hän" that applies to any gender.
(From this perspective, it's interesting how "he" and "she" are also used as kind of nouns "It's a she" or adjectives "He-man". These get silly when translated to Finnish word by word.)
The proposal seems more about getting proper wiring to homes and garages, so they can accommodate whatever charging methods will be around in the near future. The grid will still provide around 230 V, and the charging station will need its own converters and capacitors/batteries anyway. I also presume that a lot of current (pun intended) cars will be around after 10 years, and a couple of different charging standards will coexist.
I don't think it's realistic to have a supercharger at every home, most people will do fine with overnight (or whatever your sleep/work cycle is) charging. I also wonder about your point on surge currents -- supercapacitors will likely use higher voltages, but just because they can withstand huge currents doesn't mean they can't be charged up slowly.
USB "evolution" is one thing, but there's a huge class of devices that have used 12 VDC via barrel plugs for decades. It's also easier than 5 V current-wise. The only potential (pun intended) confusion is that these plugs generally exist for power input, while the 12 V comes from a wall wart; you'd need somewhat standard output sockets at the powerbar.
I've seen several monitors that output 12 V for powered speakers etc, but they use the same barrel sockets, and a symmetric male-male cable will be confusing compared to unidirectional power leads. For example, now you can plug a wall wart output into the powerbar output...
The Finnish EPR construction started in 2005, and it was supposed to be fin{1,2}ished in 2009. The current estimate is that it might be completed in 2019 and become the second most expensive building in world history.
Focusing on one thing at a time and doing it well. Virtual desktops are great for that. Out of sight, out of mind. Your computer can handle more data than what is immediately visible. If you're more than about 3 years old, you'll understand that things remain in existence even outside your field of view, and you can get back to them when it's time.
Unless you have a urinary tract infection, pee is rather sterile. In fact, urine is the recommended first aid to jellyfish stings, given its ammonia content and relative sterility in places with no running water. The main reason to wash your hands is gut bacteria that spread themselves around the skin down there.
My pet pee-ve about public restrooms is the ordering of (1) do your thing, (2) zip up, (3) wash your hands. Specifically, stage 2 before 3. I'd rather not use my clothes as a germ wipe, but I feel this ordering is socially implied (if not dick-tated) by having a common wash-up area separate from the individual urinals and stalls. Of course, like some other things down there, it's a mixed bag -- your pants might not be super sanitary to begin with, so it's a good idea to wash after touching them anyway.
It's barbaric only because of how live streaming works. If a billion people want to watch the same program at the same time, the old-fashioned TV networks were great because they don't care about the number of receivers. But in today's internets, we send a separate copy for each fscking viewer and multiply the capacity requirements accordingly.
The original SD cards maxed out at 2 GB. Next, SDHC at 32 GB and later SDXC at 2 TB. The article talks about the next iteration called SDUC. Ah, the joys of mechanically compatible but ever so slightly different standards.
Wi-Fi Enhanced Open: a proprietary technology, which uses an algorithm known as Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) to encrypt each connection between a WiFi user and the router/access point with its own custom encryption key. This per-user encryption prevents local attackers from snooping on other users' traffic, even if the network doesn't require a password to join.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Open is Proprietary
FOSS is nothing more than the scientific method applied to software production: share your work so that others can verify and improve on it. Today, it also seems that FOSS largely provides the same function in society, as the basis on which technological innovations work. If society can find ways to fund fundamental scientific research, I'm sure they could do the same for FOSS (and a lot of Free software is already being written at universities). Unfortunately, it seems that scientists themselves have been forgetting that ideal, as universities are being turned into R&D units for businesses.
Slashdot Mirror
Browsers should be using different processes for different websites anyway, as a general security measure, and I believe they have been aiming to do that already. Since Spectre only allows reading memory within the same process, I don't understand the panic here (though I guess it's different for virtual machines).
We've already had countless issues where developers didn't sanitize their inputs, so a malicious piece of data could do something nasty; crucially, we didn't need Spectre for that. Meltdown is a wholly different beast, but I guess Intel needs to keep up the Spectre panic for AMD.
I guess the violin is more of a solo instrument. We had our own scantily clad violinist already in the 90s, Linda Brava.
Without being signed in at google.com all you have to do is search bare breast and viola', you have lovely bare breast of all sizes and colors.
I tried that, but none of the pictures showed a string instrument.
..but "news for jocks" has ruined Slashdot.
I only have two DP ports on my laptop dock, and I like having three monitors. So two on DP and one on VGA is necessary. I know there are DisplayPort MST "hubs", but I haven't had any luck with those.
Good point, this is especially true with laptops. Personally, I probably couldn't live with those three side by side, as VGA quality would be so different from the digital ones. At home I'm fine with VGA for watching movies, but for anything else I've been spoiled by the crisp and pixel-accurate digital displays.
Don't use HDMI. Don't ask for HDMI. Don't accept systems that *only* support HDMI.
Display Port is your friend. Use it for everything that you can.
*Note: The only limitation of Display Port is cable run, and it can't go beyond about 2m. Perfect for desktop use, but little else. HDMI does have a superior run length over DVI, but in light of how shit (by my definition, HDCP is utter shit) HDMI is, it's a tough call. Use DVI for long cable runs whenever possible.
Interesting. I've been a kind of fan fo DP, but the only DP hardware I've had so far are outputs on my computers, and adapters to DVI and HDMI. My display hardware is either cheap second-hand monitors, or needs long cable runs.
I've had the impression that HDMI is the "consumer" tech given all the marketing around it and the whole post-HD display craze, while DP is "professional" with with features like daisy-chaining that consumers couldn't possibly understand. DP also allows more displays on some (laptop) GPUs as they can share the sync signals (or something like that; my Thinkpad x220i can only show 2 different displays if not using DP, even though it has 3 outputs when counting the internal display). Alas, the cable length limitation is a deal-breaker for me, as I only need multiple monitors with my live projection gigs. I also hear that DP isn't safe from DRM either.
The situation reminds me of DAT. You had this nice tech for recording CD-quality digital audio in the 80s, but it was mostly restricted to the professional market. Years later, crippled derivatives such as DCC and Minidisc were introduced to consumer markets so they couldn't make bit-exact copies. All this effort to make technological development go backwards...
DVI was nice because it was digital without DRM. This changed with HDMI, which was just another form factor for DVI signals. As a result, it's possible to have HDCP over DVI, as some monitors accept HDMI extensions over the old-style port.
VGA on modern hardware means you'll be converting digital to analog to digital again, which is beyond idiotic. Also, you'll be dealing with all sorts of analog adjustments with the image alignment. I agree it's still practical to have a laptop with VGA out -- in many cases I've come across, there's a relatively modern projector at the ceiling, but they only put a VGA cable up there.
This is why I get pissed when I see people ranting and raving against what few gendered terms might exist in English discourse. They should be lucky to speak a language that actually has gender-neutral nouns and pronouns.
I must be super lucky for speaking a language where all pronouns are gender-neutral, including the equivalent of "he" or "she". Finnish has only one "hän" that applies to any gender.
(From this perspective, it's interesting how "he" and "she" are also used as kind of nouns "It's a she" or adjectives "He-man". These get silly when translated to Finnish word by word.)
Yeah, it's ridiculous. We need one line-ending standard that covers everyone's use cases.
"SDI was derisively nicknamed by the media as "Star Wars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The proposal seems more about getting proper wiring to homes and garages, so they can accommodate whatever charging methods will be around in the near future. The grid will still provide around 230 V, and the charging station will need its own converters and capacitors/batteries anyway. I also presume that a lot of current (pun intended) cars will be around after 10 years, and a couple of different charging standards will coexist.
I don't think it's realistic to have a supercharger at every home, most people will do fine with overnight (or whatever your sleep/work cycle is) charging. I also wonder about your point on surge currents -- supercapacitors will likely use higher voltages, but just because they can withstand huge currents doesn't mean they can't be charged up slowly.
Peercoin is the original Proof-of-Stake coin, launched in 2012 and still running fine.
As for Via, no idea, but that would raise the question of who inherited the Cyrix/Centaur IP
FTFY. It seems they continue to sell their CPUs, though these designs and processes don't look exactly new. https://www.viatech.com/en/sil...
USB "evolution" is one thing, but there's a huge class of devices that have used 12 VDC via barrel plugs for decades. It's also easier than 5 V current-wise. The only potential (pun intended) confusion is that these plugs generally exist for power input, while the 12 V comes from a wall wart; you'd need somewhat standard output sockets at the powerbar.
I've seen several monitors that output 12 V for powered speakers etc, but they use the same barrel sockets, and a symmetric male-male cable will be confusing compared to unidirectional power leads. For example, now you can plug a wall wart output into the powerbar output...
If these disputes were half as onanous as you claim then the porno industry would have packed up business years ago.
FTFY.
The Finnish EPR construction started in 2005, and it was supposed to be fin{1,2}ished in 2009. The current estimate is that it might be completed in 2019 and become the second most expensive building in world history.
Like ebooks without the electrons? What happens if there's no Wi-Fi?
You can read sci-fi without wi-fi. High five!
Focusing on one thing at a time and doing it well. Virtual desktops are great for that. Out of sight, out of mind. Your computer can handle more data than what is immediately visible. If you're more than about 3 years old, you'll understand that things remain in existence even outside your field of view, and you can get back to them when it's time.
Unless you have a urinary tract infection, pee is rather sterile. In fact, urine is the recommended first aid to jellyfish stings, given its ammonia content and relative sterility in places with no running water. The main reason to wash your hands is gut bacteria that spread themselves around the skin down there.
My pet pee-ve about public restrooms is the ordering of (1) do your thing, (2) zip up, (3) wash your hands. Specifically, stage 2 before 3. I'd rather not use my clothes as a germ wipe, but I feel this ordering is socially implied (if not dick-tated) by having a common wash-up area separate from the individual urinals and stalls. Of course, like some other things down there, it's a mixed bag -- your pants might not be super sanitary to begin with, so it's a good idea to wash after touching them anyway.
It's barbaric only because of how live streaming works. If a billion people want to watch the same program at the same time, the old-fashioned TV networks were great because they don't care about the number of receivers. But in today's internets, we send a separate copy for each fscking viewer and multiply the capacity requirements accordingly.
The original SD cards maxed out at 2 GB. Next, SDHC at 32 GB and later SDXC at 2 TB. The article talks about the next iteration called SDUC. Ah, the joys of mechanically compatible but ever so slightly different standards.
It does say "PC" which I believe stands for "personal computer", as in "My Computer", as in Bill Gates's personal computer.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Open is Proprietary
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Math fail, the raptors cancel out. In fact since you're referring to equations of mechanics, you mechanically failed. *puts on sunglasses*
FOSS is nothing more than the scientific method applied to software production: share your work so that others can verify and improve on it. Today, it also seems that FOSS largely provides the same function in society, as the basis on which technological innovations work. If society can find ways to fund fundamental scientific research, I'm sure they could do the same for FOSS (and a lot of Free software is already being written at universities). Unfortunately, it seems that scientists themselves have been forgetting that ideal, as universities are being turned into R&D units for businesses.