Have you even used Edge? because its actually pretty good technology. Sure, so is Chrome (and Firefox, btw). But that's certainly not a "worthless piece of shit". Very far from it.
Heck these days when a page doesnt work in Chrome I load it in Edge and I don't even mind it.
My Dell XPS13 is advertised as 7h.. i get.. 7h. wifi on, screen on, light stuff no gaming etc. It's all about testing methodology and the crap you install or not. OSX is better at forcing crap to be off/sleeping than Windows (Windows makes no specific effort in that direction)
ebay fast and free is always faster for me than amazon prime 2 days. yet on ebay its not 99USD/year... and the products are usually cheaper on ebay. The things i miss on ebay are ease of search and decent quality user reviews, and last but definitely not least, good customer support.
If a vendor messes stuff up on ebay changes are that you're going to have to call your bank. Amazon is the sharp opposite.
The price/quality trade-off is better through direct devops interaction with SaaS (think Heroku, AWS, what not) than using a traditional IT department, even thus the IT department has technically cheaper resources and better knowledge. The service quality is just not there, and there's no guarantees. ITSM is about managing these SaaS (and potentially still providing some of the work - err - services - within IT, where it makes sense/if it can be organized well enough)
None of this is new. It's just the realization for IT managers/C levels (which only trust Forbes and similar things to tell them what to do, instead of figuring out what's best for their company)
"WebXPRT: This is today's most comprehensive browser benchmark. It uses scenarios created to mirror everyday tasks." Basically, Firefox is not the fastest at all things Javascript synthetic performance, but it's the fastest for real world web-browsing.
Based on that... I would actually recommend using Firefox?
they'll prolly end up banning anything that doesnt go the way of the majority of twitter engineers/people with most followers/etc though. basically, if you post child porn nobody will care, but if, oh god forbid, you say something bad about political candidate X all hell will break lose, perma banned, etc.
its not about ads its about amount of users. if you have a zillion users you make a zillion more moneys.
more people like to use facebook than twitter. does it mean facebook is better? hell no. facebook has near 2 billion users.
if you spam twitter with ads like facebook does, twitter will just, actually, die. the main reason people still use twitter is that it, in fact, does not sucks too much, does not spam too much, and so on. the main reason people are on facebook is that it made it easy to share pics and stories with friends and family. facebook has this market by the balls right now.
By that rationale the Chinese "Great Firewall" is also China taking responsibility into what content their people can consume or not consume. If anyone thinks Facebook filters will be objective and accurate, they should pay more attention to history classes.
(Now then again I don't understand why people get their news from Facebook at all, but that's a different topic)
Unfortunately I often hear people say the opposite. That ads are cool. Because it allows things to exist. Its necessary. And thus its cool. And they almost like em. Personally, fuck ads.
Often times these drones are tested that way. They don't carry anything classified but are operated in risk areas. If they get detected or captured, then the Navy knows the limits of the equipment - yet won't lose data or face in the process.
If at the same time you get can useful data for scientists, that's cool.
To be honest, its more and more of an issue in today's world. Your ISP can cut your internet to stop your from exercising free speech. Your host can cut your web server. Your twitter can be banned Your facebook can be banned Your google searches can be empty (as in, it never returns results for you/your site/etc) Major media outlets are commonly owned and can decide to not publish your story
For all practical purposes, your free speech can be suppressed today - it was much more difficult 30 years ago, some due to technology, some due to the way media is organized.
I sort of wonder if at some point we'll have to make it so that you have the right of free speech on de-facto public platforms, or if an additional govt platform would be required, so ensure that your message can be hosted somewhere, no matter how offensive - and would require a lawsuit to find out if its actually hate speech (maybe that'll force people to grow a pair and accept other's opinion may not be always the same as theirs = OH GOD ITS A SEXIST JOKE! KILL HIM WITH FIRE! STONE HIM!)
because, obviously, most people think my opinion is more interesting than yours right now. Basically, mine's very pragmatic, yours seems full of hatred.
Ok, let me know how I get my displayport to connect to my laptop via USB-C (lightbridge/thunderbolt) reliably, then we talk;-) I did mention that I use Linux as my primary desktop - but I do use all others actively and Windows is definitely easier from this POV. For example, DP+USB-C just works. Everything pretty much just works. Your "3 apps and it crashes" is an obvious lie. A Windows fan would tell you the exact opposite (Linux?? 3 apps and it crashes and welcome to obscure command line copy paste to fix it! My windows can run 1000 processes np). (which is just as much bullshit, sorry)
I dont think people realize that android, ios and osx spy on them just as much. They just dont show it. At least you can disable most of it in Win10 - though I'm sure they're learning from this and won't make it as obvious as it is now... which, yes, sux in all directions.
This is a similar technique that brought the US down a while back, on different frequencies (jaming GPS, ~1.5ghz). Unfortunately, this does not work when the drone does not require such information (be it GPS or remote signal). Newer drones, both military and consumer grade use vision sensors and can even recognize preloaded maps by looking at the ground.
Now, maybe ISIS does not yet have easy access to this tech (though anyone in the silicon valley does, or any decently good engineer really), and read-to-fly consumer drones such as the phantom 4 (1000usd+-) already has vision sensor for flight, avoidance and tracking (but not mapping and path detection - yet.. though you can jailbreak them, its running android - and add your code)
If you think about it though, vision is just another set of frequency and there are ways to jam them that are still efficient. I'm guessing in the future there will be a combination of "anti drone" guns:
1) radar detect and destroy (missile, gatlin gun, high powered laser, all these work and high powered laser might be best). Today's radars recognize them no problem when they get in range to "drop a bomb". They would have to be as fast as missiles or faster to be a threat, even with stealth technology (though none has stealth). This is however expensive.
2) Low power laser. a 1w laser pointed at the camera sensor will damage the sensor, rendering it inoperable fairly quickly.
3) high power light beam. Same but does not damage the sensor. this includes high power IR beam for night operations.
and of course: nets, shotguns, etc. or a combination of GPS, remote control jamming + other things.
ps: theres a better, reliable way to achieve all this, its called a mortar. Cheap, accurate, and only a very expensive system can destroy the payload in flight (ie solution 1), and its not even 100% reliable. Or you know, just suicidal humans (which they have used several times now.... I bet its cheaper and easier for them than buying a phantom4 anyway).
Anyhow, an interesting topic, and I do hope it doesn't come to any of this.
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Kinda makes sense with Android being the most used OS in the world, though yes, not cool.
Have you even used Edge? because its actually pretty good technology.
Sure, so is Chrome (and Firefox, btw). But that's certainly not a "worthless piece of shit". Very far from it.
Heck these days when a page doesnt work in Chrome I load it in Edge and I don't even mind it.
Technically ISPs can also censor your web pages anyway.
as usual you can make statistics say anything you want and people who want to believe them will.
My Dell XPS13 is advertised as 7h.. i get.. 7h. wifi on, screen on, light stuff no gaming etc.
It's all about testing methodology and the crap you install or not. OSX is better at forcing crap to be off/sleeping than Windows (Windows makes no specific effort in that direction)
ebay fast and free is always faster for me than amazon prime 2 days. yet on ebay its not 99USD/year... and the products are usually cheaper on ebay.
The things i miss on ebay are ease of search and decent quality user reviews, and last but definitely not least, good customer support.
If a vendor messes stuff up on ebay changes are that you're going to have to call your bank. Amazon is the sharp opposite.
I mean, you can probably live without for a while...
HIRED!
Let me attempt to TLDR my understanding of this:
The price/quality trade-off is better through direct devops interaction with SaaS (think Heroku, AWS, what not) than using a traditional IT department, even thus the IT department has technically cheaper resources and better knowledge. The service quality is just not there, and there's no guarantees.
ITSM is about managing these SaaS (and potentially still providing some of the work - err - services - within IT, where it makes sense/if it can be organized well enough)
None of this is new. It's just the realization for IT managers/C levels (which only trust Forbes and similar things to tell them what to do, instead of figuring out what's best for their company)
"WebXPRT: This is today's most comprehensive browser benchmark. It uses scenarios created to mirror everyday tasks."
Basically, Firefox is not the fastest at all things Javascript synthetic performance, but it's the fastest for real world web-browsing.
Based on that... I would actually recommend using Firefox?
they'll prolly end up banning anything that doesnt go the way of the majority of twitter engineers/people with most followers/etc though.
basically, if you post child porn nobody will care, but if, oh god forbid, you say something bad about political candidate X all hell will break lose, perma banned, etc.
its not about ads its about amount of users. if you have a zillion users you make a zillion more moneys.
more people like to use facebook than twitter. does it mean facebook is better? hell no.
facebook has near 2 billion users.
if you spam twitter with ads like facebook does, twitter will just, actually, die. the main reason people still use twitter is that it, in fact, does not sucks too much, does not spam too much, and so on. the main reason people are on facebook is that it made it easy to share pics and stories with friends and family. facebook has this market by the balls right now.
maybe its a start.
timing and sizes are different so they can in fact catch it :(
^subject.
By that rationale the Chinese "Great Firewall" is also China taking responsibility into what content their people can consume or not consume. If anyone thinks Facebook filters will be objective and accurate, they should pay more attention to history classes.
(Now then again I don't understand why people get their news from Facebook at all, but that's a different topic)
That.
Unfortunately I often hear people say the opposite. That ads are cool. Because it allows things to exist. Its necessary. And thus its cool. And they almost like em.
Personally, fuck ads.
Often times these drones are tested that way. They don't carry anything classified but are operated in risk areas.
If they get detected or captured, then the Navy knows the limits of the equipment - yet won't lose data or face in the process.
If at the same time you get can useful data for scientists, that's cool.
and what drives the reproduction rate?
as long as u can get food you'll make babies.
To be honest, its more and more of an issue in today's world.
Your ISP can cut your internet to stop your from exercising free speech.
Your host can cut your web server.
Your twitter can be banned
Your facebook can be banned
Your google searches can be empty (as in, it never returns results for you/your site/etc)
Major media outlets are commonly owned and can decide to not publish your story
For all practical purposes, your free speech can be suppressed today - it was much more difficult 30 years ago, some due to technology, some due to the way media is organized.
I sort of wonder if at some point we'll have to make it so that you have the right of free speech on de-facto public platforms, or if an additional govt platform would be required, so ensure that your message can be hosted somewhere, no matter how offensive - and would require a lawsuit to find out if its actually hate speech (maybe that'll force people to grow a pair and accept other's opinion may not be always the same as theirs = OH GOD ITS A SEXIST JOKE! KILL HIM WITH FIRE! STONE HIM!)
because, obviously, most people think my opinion is more interesting than yours right now.
Basically, mine's very pragmatic, yours seems full of hatred.
Ok, let me know how I get my displayport to connect to my laptop via USB-C (lightbridge/thunderbolt) reliably, then we talk ;-)
I did mention that I use Linux as my primary desktop - but I do use all others actively and Windows is definitely easier from this POV. For example, DP+USB-C just works.
Everything pretty much just works. Your "3 apps and it crashes" is an obvious lie. A Windows fan would tell you the exact opposite (Linux?? 3 apps and it crashes and welcome to obscure command line copy paste to fix it! My windows can run 1000 processes np). (which is just as much bullshit, sorry)
I dont think people realize that android, ios and osx spy on them just as much. They just dont show it.
At least you can disable most of it in Win10 - though I'm sure they're learning from this and won't make it as obvious as it is now... which, yes, sux in all directions.
This is a similar technique that brought the US down a while back, on different frequencies (jaming GPS, ~1.5ghz).
Unfortunately, this does not work when the drone does not require such information (be it GPS or remote signal). Newer drones, both military and consumer grade use vision sensors and can even recognize preloaded maps by looking at the ground.
Now, maybe ISIS does not yet have easy access to this tech (though anyone in the silicon valley does, or any decently good engineer really), and read-to-fly consumer drones such as the phantom 4 (1000usd+-) already has vision sensor for flight, avoidance and tracking (but not mapping and path detection - yet.. though you can jailbreak them, its running android - and add your code)
If you think about it though, vision is just another set of frequency and there are ways to jam them that are still efficient. I'm guessing in the future there will be a combination of "anti drone" guns:
1) radar detect and destroy (missile, gatlin gun, high powered laser, all these work and high powered laser might be best). Today's radars recognize them no problem when they get in range to "drop a bomb". They would have to be as fast as missiles or faster to be a threat, even with stealth technology (though none has stealth). This is however expensive.
2) Low power laser. a 1w laser pointed at the camera sensor will damage the sensor, rendering it inoperable fairly quickly.
3) high power light beam. Same but does not damage the sensor. this includes high power IR beam for night operations.
and of course: nets, shotguns, etc. or a combination of GPS, remote control jamming + other things.
ps: theres a better, reliable way to achieve all this, its called a mortar. Cheap, accurate, and only a very expensive system can destroy the payload in flight (ie solution 1), and its not even 100% reliable. Or you know, just suicidal humans (which they have used several times now.... I bet its cheaper and easier for them than buying a phantom4 anyway).
Anyhow, an interesting topic, and I do hope it doesn't come to any of this.
The part i missed in this: the new tools basically just made this better and also work well.