Those things are only useful for people who need/want them. There is no intrinsic value in anything.
That they're useful for people who need/want them is the definition of intrinsic value. If you're dependent on other people to need/want it like fiat currency or bitcoins, then it has no intrinsic value. The reason gold is so successful is because it doesn't decay and is easily portable so you can store it under your bed for fifty years or bring it anywhere to whoever needs it which makes it easy to pass along. Of course it's theoretically possible that gold once had value but today we're only trading it around but nobody wants gold except for trade. The use in industrial applications and jewelry suggest otherwise though, as long as there's end users they'll come around to using your supply. Or you can at least sell it from generation to generation until somebody does.
Doesn't the current mouse protection rule set the clock to death of creator plus 70 years for copyright? Shouldn't that be not only enough for anyone but utterly overboard?
Depends on what you think the purpose is. If you look at it from an economic perspective is it worse that your great-grandfather wrote Lord of the Rings than that he was a Rockefeller? If you look at it from a creative perspective, why do you have to reuse someone else's character, story or universe? Can't you come up with an original work and don't pretend it'd all be copyright infringement because nobody has the copyright on archetypes like the hero or villain. From a moral perspective, is it good that you have vultures looking to profit the moment they can use it without paying royalties? I can easily argue for copyright where it's a repository of knowledge that you would like to build on stone by stone.
But for creative works of pure fiction or entertainment, is there any weighty arguments that makes it imperative we take it away from the estate and into the public domain? I'm not talking about abandonware, we could create an "orphan" system where works nobody claims ownership over could be used without any expiration dates, mandatory licenses and other ways of making sure it doesn't disappear. If we free the mouse, is that really going to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" like the copyright clause says? Or is it just a free license to make cheap merchandise and other spin-off leeching of a popular character that's been sustained by Disney for decades? It's easy to be the Devil's advocate here arguing against the entire idea of a public domain, rather than about how many years.
"Space nutters" are far more likely to die on launch, in space, on landing/impact and by any major malfunction of the base. Humanity is hedging its bets, the space travelers are most certainly not. There's plenty good arguments against it like that we totally lack the technology to create and sustain a colony independent of earth, you don't need to make up shitty and false ones. In fact many have volunteered for a one-way trip that would probably lead them to an early grave, that's as far from cheating death as possible.
You do realize that they called WWI "the war to end all wars" as the extremely suicidal charges towards trenches with machine guns were expected to deter war forever? And then ~20 years later Hitler charged around it with tanks. Yes, nukes are powerful if you can deliver them. If they're shot down by a rocket shield, not so much. And that's assuming the next great war will be as simple as nation states, when by far the most imminent threat to world peace is militant religious fundamentalists who are only occupants among a vast civilian population it would be totally unacceptable to nuke. Warfare is never static, it will always adapt to change the terms it is being fought on.
Also you forget the "I got nukes and I'm bat shit crazy" defense which makes it a lot harder to put pressure on various two-bit dictators like North Korea. The problem is that they might get so high on their own power, they take it one step too far. Somebody usually does, Hitler was annexing countries left and right thinking he could push everyone around until he pushed one step too far. No matter the cards, somebody will overplay them and then you either have a nuclear state walking all over you or you got nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis was one such moment, who blinks first and if both thought they could make the other back down well...
My parents have a tiny little box like this. Why? Because they are getting old and won't be looking at a 10" screen and fiddle with microscopic virtual buttons or cramped keyboards 2mm deep. Huge monitor, full size keyboard and mouse but in terms of computing power their needs are practically non-existant. Sure it could be a laptop, but the lid would be closed 99.9% of the time so why bother.
I would, if he did so wearing a badge saying 'Principle of Liberty Common School', or if his endorsements started with 'Well, as Principle of Liberty Common School, I think that...' He can endorse whoever he wants, but he can't use his position as an appeal to authority when he does so and he can't do it using school resources.
In principle I agree with what you said, but wouldn't a badge saying principal be better?
That's a good idea, but there's something else interesting. DMCA is under penalty of perjury, and he has documentation to prove it.
No, he doesn't. Sony's movie has a copyright and he's Sony's legal representative. The clip also has a copyright, but they're not falsely representing to own that. They're mistakingly claiming the clip infringes on the movie's copyright, when in fact the movie is a licensed derivative of the clip. But that part isn't under penalty of perjury.
Coding academies are nonsense and attract the kind of mind that becomes a lawyer because they want money, or becomes a doctor because they want money. Real programmers have gravitated towards their field long before ever having a formal education in it.
Well, one would hope they don't have much experience practicing law or medicine before they become lawyers and doctors. I'd be more freaked out if the surgeon was inspired by the job rather than the paycheck, really. Good money attracts smart people who perhaps don't feel they have any particular calling in life, I know I didn't. I'm not really sure why you feel like shitting on them, when the coding academies have more in common with homeopaths and herbal viagra peddlers than doctors. There's a lot of potentially good programmers who never picked it up as a hobby but could deliver solid work if offered a good paycheck. If you can teach a man brain surgery, surely you can teach programming. Sure, many have past experience before they start a formal education but it's not a requirement to be a "real programmer".
But gaining more knowledge doesn't make you more intelligent, rather it makes the situation less novel. You don't become more intelligent simply because you have more knowledge to apply, it's how well you do it not how much you do it.
If they wanted to not be dicks they'd use the system I have here in Norway. At 80% of my quota I get a notification that I'm nearing my limit and a link to the web page where I can watch it and buy more. At 100% I get the same message and the connection is severely throttled. Since they know the IP they assigned to the phone, there's no login or anything like that it's a plain web page. And the "buy more" is basically just a drop down list of quotas and prices and a button, they already have all your billing information. It's super easy and there's no such thing as overage fees.
Chemo, surgery, home care, hospitalization, hospice care, all sorts of things were involved before the end. And other than some fairly cheap pain drugs we bought from the pharmacy I don't think money or insurance was ever mentioned. I think that's something that's severely under appreciated when looking at public health care.
Not even for institutional care? Here in Norway healthcare is free, but only a handful of patients stay permanently at the hospital. Non-medical home care like cleaning, cooking etc. has copay and living at an institution they take 75% of your net income up to ~$10k and 85% of that above, capped to the actual cost of care. For that you get all facilities, meals, housecleaning and practical or medical help to get around, take medications, swap bandages or whatnot. The only thing you need are clothes and personal items, but it's still expensive. For the most part this is public pensions so when you're in public care it's essentially the government paying itself, if you both got to keep your pension and live essentially for free the expenses would be crazy. Since it's a tax though you don't pay - it's your retirement check that gets really, really small. In the end, the result is the same though.
Seriously. Who gives a shit about OpenGL gaming performance anymore? All major systems use DX or DX like languages(PS4 uses GNM, XBONE uses DX12, and PC uses DX9+ depending on engine). There's a reason that very little effort is put into OpenGL or *nix drivers.
Well, phones and tablets put a lot of effort into OpenGL ES drivers at least. Which means game engines support it quite well. Also a lot of expensive professional workstation software uses OpenGL. So a lot of the foundation is there and if Steam wants to actually sell Steam Machines well they'll need to make an effort for it to happen, I doubt they did all this to say "oh drivers, our bad forget about it". Surely they've talked to all the major game studios who distribute through Steam to make games for it and being used is the best way to get bug fixes and performance improvements. At this point I don't really care if it's mainly nVidia, proprietary drivers only. You have to start somewhere and moving to Linux/OpenGL is a great start.
We should each strive to reduce our impact on the planet, our resources, and each other. We should build efficient machines, and use them efficiently. We should stop burning coal, gas, and oil, and generate our electricity through a blend of hydro, nuclear fission, solar, wind, and geothermal. These are all short-term achievable, and healthy for our civilization.
Achievable? About 2/3rds of energy production today is non-renewable. Population will grow from 7 billion to 10 billion just by the fill-up effect, that's 43% up. If the average energy consumption per capita of the world should match the US energy use will quadruple. And why should the rest of the world give a shit when the US doesn't?
So deliver 100*1.43*4.00 = 572% the current energy output with 100*1/3 = 33% of the current resources. And most those resources are quite fixed and location dependent, you can't just build hydro plants where there's no dams, solar plants where there's no sun or windmills where there's no wind. And the latter two are pretty damn unreliable so you need alternate power or huge energy storage capacity. The only real alternative that can work everywhere is nuclear, but you know handling all that fissile material and building top of the line plants won't happen, there'll be shitty places cutting corners and things will go boom. And fusion is supposedly still right around the corner...
It's quite obvious at this point we won't be slowing down though, we're going to burn every reasonable source of fossil fuels no matter how green you live, the supply is just going to last a few years longer before crunch time. At that point we'll have to adapt, but I don't think it will be smoothly at all... if it wasn't for shale oil in the US, we'd already be feeling the early decline of oil resources. I suspect that in the next 10-30 years there'll be a massive wake-up call.
During the game I really don't care about the fan noise and at least on my card (Asus Strix 970) it got 0db technology so the fan will spin down completely when it's idle. Do you really need a 970? No, but you don't really need a 750 either. Or a Steam Machine. It's entertainment, use as much on it as you want and can afford.
I guess you can look at is as a glass half full or half empty kind of situation, the more work is repeated the less work is required to spin off something new. Ubuntu doesn't repeat all Debian's work, Mint doesn't repeat Ubuntu's work. Even a whole new DE is reusing many components, they don't need to write a new kernel or window system or file systems or drivers or package system and so on to deliver a working system. On the flip side, the more spin-offs you have the greater the chance they'll work on similar and incompatible ways of solving the same thing. It won't make people magically all want the same thing and agree there's one true way of doing it. But they wouldn't do that anyway, they'd just be miserable when the product goes in a direction they don't like. Not entirely unlike when people complain about Microsoft or Apple.
The only time you'd have real reason to be miserable is when the in-fighting is so disruptive to progress that either choice would be better than not making a choice. Like you're out walking the dog on a leash and you pass a post on opposite sides. One of you will have to back down and turn around, if you both play tug of war and refuse to yield neither of you are getting anywhere. And even then you don't have to be dragged along kicking and screaming, if you really don't want to play anymore take your ball and go home. I think a lot of open source contributors wouldn't be contributors if they had to work with certain people, particularly not those who contribute in their spare time for no pay. With no offence, there's certain co-workers I only tolerate for the paycheck.
It was (and still is) dead-easy to install. Even the first iteration had an extremely streamlined installation-process (the less questions you ask, the easier the process) and stellar hardware auto-detection. Coupled with one-click download of non-free drivers it is pretty obvious why Ubuntu became the mainstream-linux.
Well yes, but you had other distros that were easy and desktop-oriented too. Under the hood though, it was quite glitchy. Debian had (and has) a very good reputation, but they were clearly building a server distro - release cycle, text-mode installer, asking obscure questions, no LiveCD, installing it felt more like an entry-level exam than a welcome mat. And I think quite a few Debian users liked it that way and were rather unhelpful and hostile towards n00bs. Ubuntu just took that "Debian for the desktop" and ran with it, Debian was the solid rock they built on and Ubuntu provided all the polish and user-friendly bits. And provided forums where even complete n00bs wouldn't get crucified. Of course a bit simplified, but I think Debian's reputation won over the existing Linux users and what you said the new Linux users. At least it won me over, I wasn't using it full time but I went from Debian to Ubuntu (for a while, different story).
The 950 Pro is a prosumer drive. The PM1725 is an enterprise drive.
It's not really an either-or, you'd never use one instead of the other. And I think even on/. the potential 950 owners greatly outnumber those who'll ever see a PM1725.
Probably never, DIMMs have the controller in the CPU and flash drives have the controller on the drive. Today the controller and the NAND chips are tightly paired, to separate the two you'd have to define a standard, get Intel/AMD to implement it CPU side and put NAND chips on a DIMM. If you don't to that, PCIe is a better protocol for talking to a controller. There's plenty downsides to that solution, mostly that you'll be stuck with whatever your CPU supports.
Sure there would be some communication but once a ship got past a certain distance you might as well consider them a completely separate population. Imagine being 20 light years apart. How could you collaborate on any projects or do any trade? Other than having a backup in case your home world is destroyed or for the sheer sense of exploration there isn't much reason to go.
With massive radio telescopes we could at least pass important scientific information, sure they'll only get to know about Higgs 20 years later and we'll only learn about their cure for cancer 20 years later so it's not collaboration but the whole could still do better than the sum of its parts. A galactic (or worse, inter-galactic) civilization with thousands or millions of years of delay cooperating in any meaningful way is a bit harder to imagine though.
But there's no explanation why it couldn't just flag videos of those who don't sign the deal as "Not On Red", and instead had to go with a sign-or-disappear strategy.
Really? They expect Google to sell YouTube Red as the ad-free* version of YouTube only to have paying subscribers find that their favorite channel opted out? I'd be totally pissed if this was only 50% or 80% of YouTube because it would feel like Google was double-dipping by charging you a subscription and showing ads at the same time, it's not like you'd get a rebate watching non-Red videos. It's like learning that your all-you-can-eat buffet is actually only half of what's on the table and the rest is extra. As long as the new revenue model isn't more skewed in favor of Google, I'm totally in their corner. I'm not sure if freelance journalists ever have revenue sharing, but imagine they do and the newspaper decides to go from an ad model to a subscription model. You expect the freelancers to have a say? To have a right to have their articles published in a "free" paper piggybacking on the rest? Hell no. The business model is changing and you can either be part of that or the business partnership is ended. It's hardly the time for Darth "Pray that I don't alter it further" Vader.
So... how many of those are you actually playing at once? I got 256GB, together with Windows and a bit of other junk it's a little tight but if I just delete the "stalest" game to install a new one I still prefer it over the load times of an HDD. I tend to get addicted to a few games at the time, I never play more than a handful at once. And when I'm "done" I get fed up for a while, if I want to go down memory lane I can reinstall it quite easily later.
Long story short, PIN codes and such aren't long enough to be cryptologically secure so if you can copy the state you can brute force it easily. So what happens is you have a trusted chip that takes a PIN on one end, returns the AES key to decrypt on the other end. This chip has a countdown so if you enter the wrong PIN too many times, it'll wipe the key. It's also tamper-proof so if you try to open up the chip and alter the countdown or read the key directly it'll self-destruct. Essentially Apple is using the same kind of chip as "Trusted Computing"/"Secure Boot" uses to protect the private keys, nobody is supposed to be able to be extract them. Not me, not you, not Apple, not the courts, not the NSA. Or so we hope. What I guess this means is that older models don't have have that kind of purpose-designed hardware. If Apple wants, they can manage to read the PIN-encrypted key, which can then be brute forced, which can then be used to decrypt the rest of the device. There's not really any fix for that unless you have hardware support. Or you really want to type in >128 bits of entropy each time you unlock your phone.
you sucker. Do you have any evidence to support your position? Apple moves only to make money. The "apple ecosystem" and the efforts they make to prevent jailbreaking are proof positive that their only ethic is more profit. You've been trolled by dirty capitalists.
Of course. But if they want to sell to non-US users having encryption that actually protects privacy might be a plus. We care just as much if not more than Americans, particularly since we got fuck all legal recourse if the NSA decides that all my data belongs to them. Nobody expects Apple to be doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because it's good business. And now that the cat is out of the bag, if the US tries to push an official government backdoor that's fine with me because it won't sell in the rest of the world. It only worked as long as it was a secret and now it's not.
Kaput? Not really, but you only use hard drives for $/TB which means you get hardly any premium for packing it denser. Also streaming is taking over from storing, people watch YouTube and Netflix (and watch&delete torrents) instead of trying to archive everything. The main consumers of hard drives are now large datacenters (and a few slashdotters) running huge RAID boxes.
That's the really interesting question, since on board graphics just tend to work nowadays and the only real use case of such software for a consumer is as a fall back for when it doesn't and in that case the fancy graphics tend to get turned off anyway.
For the scientific visualizations they use it for it's probably quite good, since they're not using a GPU. For gaming and such a consumer might want it's probably bad since it is has high vertex complexity and low shader complexity. So lots of details using primitives, but not all the shader work to make realistic graphics. It seems like a special case though.
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Those things are only useful for people who need/want them. There is no intrinsic value in anything.
That they're useful for people who need/want them is the definition of intrinsic value. If you're dependent on other people to need/want it like fiat currency or bitcoins, then it has no intrinsic value. The reason gold is so successful is because it doesn't decay and is easily portable so you can store it under your bed for fifty years or bring it anywhere to whoever needs it which makes it easy to pass along. Of course it's theoretically possible that gold once had value but today we're only trading it around but nobody wants gold except for trade. The use in industrial applications and jewelry suggest otherwise though, as long as there's end users they'll come around to using your supply. Or you can at least sell it from generation to generation until somebody does.
Doesn't the current mouse protection rule set the clock to death of creator plus 70 years for copyright? Shouldn't that be not only enough for anyone but utterly overboard?
Depends on what you think the purpose is. If you look at it from an economic perspective is it worse that your great-grandfather wrote Lord of the Rings than that he was a Rockefeller? If you look at it from a creative perspective, why do you have to reuse someone else's character, story or universe? Can't you come up with an original work and don't pretend it'd all be copyright infringement because nobody has the copyright on archetypes like the hero or villain. From a moral perspective, is it good that you have vultures looking to profit the moment they can use it without paying royalties? I can easily argue for copyright where it's a repository of knowledge that you would like to build on stone by stone.
But for creative works of pure fiction or entertainment, is there any weighty arguments that makes it imperative we take it away from the estate and into the public domain? I'm not talking about abandonware, we could create an "orphan" system where works nobody claims ownership over could be used without any expiration dates, mandatory licenses and other ways of making sure it doesn't disappear. If we free the mouse, is that really going to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" like the copyright clause says? Or is it just a free license to make cheap merchandise and other spin-off leeching of a popular character that's been sustained by Disney for decades? It's easy to be the Devil's advocate here arguing against the entire idea of a public domain, rather than about how many years.
"Space nutters" are far more likely to die on launch, in space, on landing/impact and by any major malfunction of the base. Humanity is hedging its bets, the space travelers are most certainly not. There's plenty good arguments against it like that we totally lack the technology to create and sustain a colony independent of earth, you don't need to make up shitty and false ones. In fact many have volunteered for a one-way trip that would probably lead them to an early grave, that's as far from cheating death as possible.
You do realize that they called WWI "the war to end all wars" as the extremely suicidal charges towards trenches with machine guns were expected to deter war forever? And then ~20 years later Hitler charged around it with tanks. Yes, nukes are powerful if you can deliver them. If they're shot down by a rocket shield, not so much. And that's assuming the next great war will be as simple as nation states, when by far the most imminent threat to world peace is militant religious fundamentalists who are only occupants among a vast civilian population it would be totally unacceptable to nuke. Warfare is never static, it will always adapt to change the terms it is being fought on.
Also you forget the "I got nukes and I'm bat shit crazy" defense which makes it a lot harder to put pressure on various two-bit dictators like North Korea. The problem is that they might get so high on their own power, they take it one step too far. Somebody usually does, Hitler was annexing countries left and right thinking he could push everyone around until he pushed one step too far. No matter the cards, somebody will overplay them and then you either have a nuclear state walking all over you or you got nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis was one such moment, who blinks first and if both thought they could make the other back down well...
My parents have a tiny little box like this. Why? Because they are getting old and won't be looking at a 10" screen and fiddle with microscopic virtual buttons or cramped keyboards 2mm deep. Huge monitor, full size keyboard and mouse but in terms of computing power their needs are practically non-existant. Sure it could be a laptop, but the lid would be closed 99.9% of the time so why bother.
I would, if he did so wearing a badge saying 'Principle of Liberty Common School', or if his endorsements started with 'Well, as Principle of Liberty Common School, I think that...' He can endorse whoever he wants, but he can't use his position as an appeal to authority when he does so and he can't do it using school resources.
In principle I agree with what you said, but wouldn't a badge saying principal be better?
That's a good idea, but there's something else interesting. DMCA is under penalty of perjury, and he has documentation to prove it.
No, he doesn't. Sony's movie has a copyright and he's Sony's legal representative. The clip also has a copyright, but they're not falsely representing to own that. They're mistakingly claiming the clip infringes on the movie's copyright, when in fact the movie is a licensed derivative of the clip. But that part isn't under penalty of perjury.
Coding academies are nonsense and attract the kind of mind that becomes a lawyer because they want money, or becomes a doctor because they want money. Real programmers have gravitated towards their field long before ever having a formal education in it.
Well, one would hope they don't have much experience practicing law or medicine before they become lawyers and doctors. I'd be more freaked out if the surgeon was inspired by the job rather than the paycheck, really. Good money attracts smart people who perhaps don't feel they have any particular calling in life, I know I didn't. I'm not really sure why you feel like shitting on them, when the coding academies have more in common with homeopaths and herbal viagra peddlers than doctors. There's a lot of potentially good programmers who never picked it up as a hobby but could deliver solid work if offered a good paycheck. If you can teach a man brain surgery, surely you can teach programming. Sure, many have past experience before they start a formal education but it's not a requirement to be a "real programmer".
But gaining more knowledge doesn't make you more intelligent, rather it makes the situation less novel. You don't become more intelligent simply because you have more knowledge to apply, it's how well you do it not how much you do it.
If they wanted to not be dicks they'd use the system I have here in Norway. At 80% of my quota I get a notification that I'm nearing my limit and a link to the web page where I can watch it and buy more. At 100% I get the same message and the connection is severely throttled. Since they know the IP they assigned to the phone, there's no login or anything like that it's a plain web page. And the "buy more" is basically just a drop down list of quotas and prices and a button, they already have all your billing information. It's super easy and there's no such thing as overage fees.
Chemo, surgery, home care, hospitalization, hospice care, all sorts of things were involved before the end. And other than some fairly cheap pain drugs we bought from the pharmacy I don't think money or insurance was ever mentioned. I think that's something that's severely under appreciated when looking at public health care.
Not even for institutional care? Here in Norway healthcare is free, but only a handful of patients stay permanently at the hospital. Non-medical home care like cleaning, cooking etc. has copay and living at an institution they take 75% of your net income up to ~$10k and 85% of that above, capped to the actual cost of care. For that you get all facilities, meals, housecleaning and practical or medical help to get around, take medications, swap bandages or whatnot. The only thing you need are clothes and personal items, but it's still expensive. For the most part this is public pensions so when you're in public care it's essentially the government paying itself, if you both got to keep your pension and live essentially for free the expenses would be crazy. Since it's a tax though you don't pay - it's your retirement check that gets really, really small. In the end, the result is the same though.
Seriously. Who gives a shit about OpenGL gaming performance anymore? All major systems use DX or DX like languages(PS4 uses GNM, XBONE uses DX12, and PC uses DX9+ depending on engine). There's a reason that very little effort is put into OpenGL or *nix drivers.
Well, phones and tablets put a lot of effort into OpenGL ES drivers at least. Which means game engines support it quite well. Also a lot of expensive professional workstation software uses OpenGL. So a lot of the foundation is there and if Steam wants to actually sell Steam Machines well they'll need to make an effort for it to happen, I doubt they did all this to say "oh drivers, our bad forget about it". Surely they've talked to all the major game studios who distribute through Steam to make games for it and being used is the best way to get bug fixes and performance improvements. At this point I don't really care if it's mainly nVidia, proprietary drivers only. You have to start somewhere and moving to Linux/OpenGL is a great start.
We should each strive to reduce our impact on the planet, our resources, and each other. We should build efficient machines, and use them efficiently. We should stop burning coal, gas, and oil, and generate our electricity through a blend of hydro, nuclear fission, solar, wind, and geothermal. These are all short-term achievable, and healthy for our civilization.
Achievable? About 2/3rds of energy production today is non-renewable. Population will grow from 7 billion to 10 billion just by the fill-up effect, that's 43% up. If the average energy consumption per capita of the world should match the US energy use will quadruple. And why should the rest of the world give a shit when the US doesn't?
So deliver 100*1.43*4.00 = 572% the current energy output with 100*1/3 = 33% of the current resources. And most those resources are quite fixed and location dependent, you can't just build hydro plants where there's no dams, solar plants where there's no sun or windmills where there's no wind. And the latter two are pretty damn unreliable so you need alternate power or huge energy storage capacity. The only real alternative that can work everywhere is nuclear, but you know handling all that fissile material and building top of the line plants won't happen, there'll be shitty places cutting corners and things will go boom. And fusion is supposedly still right around the corner...
It's quite obvious at this point we won't be slowing down though, we're going to burn every reasonable source of fossil fuels no matter how green you live, the supply is just going to last a few years longer before crunch time. At that point we'll have to adapt, but I don't think it will be smoothly at all... if it wasn't for shale oil in the US, we'd already be feeling the early decline of oil resources. I suspect that in the next 10-30 years there'll be a massive wake-up call.
During the game I really don't care about the fan noise and at least on my card (Asus Strix 970) it got 0db technology so the fan will spin down completely when it's idle. Do you really need a 970? No, but you don't really need a 750 either. Or a Steam Machine. It's entertainment, use as much on it as you want and can afford.
I guess you can look at is as a glass half full or half empty kind of situation, the more work is repeated the less work is required to spin off something new. Ubuntu doesn't repeat all Debian's work, Mint doesn't repeat Ubuntu's work. Even a whole new DE is reusing many components, they don't need to write a new kernel or window system or file systems or drivers or package system and so on to deliver a working system. On the flip side, the more spin-offs you have the greater the chance they'll work on similar and incompatible ways of solving the same thing. It won't make people magically all want the same thing and agree there's one true way of doing it. But they wouldn't do that anyway, they'd just be miserable when the product goes in a direction they don't like. Not entirely unlike when people complain about Microsoft or Apple.
The only time you'd have real reason to be miserable is when the in-fighting is so disruptive to progress that either choice would be better than not making a choice. Like you're out walking the dog on a leash and you pass a post on opposite sides. One of you will have to back down and turn around, if you both play tug of war and refuse to yield neither of you are getting anywhere. And even then you don't have to be dragged along kicking and screaming, if you really don't want to play anymore take your ball and go home. I think a lot of open source contributors wouldn't be contributors if they had to work with certain people, particularly not those who contribute in their spare time for no pay. With no offence, there's certain co-workers I only tolerate for the paycheck.
It was (and still is) dead-easy to install. Even the first iteration had an extremely streamlined installation-process (the less questions you ask, the easier the process) and stellar hardware auto-detection. Coupled with one-click download of non-free drivers it is pretty obvious why Ubuntu became the mainstream-linux.
Well yes, but you had other distros that were easy and desktop-oriented too. Under the hood though, it was quite glitchy. Debian had (and has) a very good reputation, but they were clearly building a server distro - release cycle, text-mode installer, asking obscure questions, no LiveCD, installing it felt more like an entry-level exam than a welcome mat. And I think quite a few Debian users liked it that way and were rather unhelpful and hostile towards n00bs. Ubuntu just took that "Debian for the desktop" and ran with it, Debian was the solid rock they built on and Ubuntu provided all the polish and user-friendly bits. And provided forums where even complete n00bs wouldn't get crucified. Of course a bit simplified, but I think Debian's reputation won over the existing Linux users and what you said the new Linux users. At least it won me over, I wasn't using it full time but I went from Debian to Ubuntu (for a while, different story).
The 950 Pro is a prosumer drive.
The PM1725 is an enterprise drive.
It's not really an either-or, you'd never use one instead of the other. And I think even on /. the potential 950 owners greatly outnumber those who'll ever see a PM1725.
Probably never, DIMMs have the controller in the CPU and flash drives have the controller on the drive. Today the controller and the NAND chips are tightly paired, to separate the two you'd have to define a standard, get Intel/AMD to implement it CPU side and put NAND chips on a DIMM. If you don't to that, PCIe is a better protocol for talking to a controller. There's plenty downsides to that solution, mostly that you'll be stuck with whatever your CPU supports.
Sure there would be some communication but once a ship got past a certain distance you might as well consider them a completely separate population. Imagine being 20 light years apart. How could you collaborate on any projects or do any trade? Other than having a backup in case your home world is destroyed or for the sheer sense of exploration there isn't much reason to go.
With massive radio telescopes we could at least pass important scientific information, sure they'll only get to know about Higgs 20 years later and we'll only learn about their cure for cancer 20 years later so it's not collaboration but the whole could still do better than the sum of its parts. A galactic (or worse, inter-galactic) civilization with thousands or millions of years of delay cooperating in any meaningful way is a bit harder to imagine though.
From Techcrunch:
But there's no explanation why it couldn't just flag videos of those who don't sign the deal as "Not On Red", and instead had to go with a sign-or-disappear strategy.
Really? They expect Google to sell YouTube Red as the ad-free* version of YouTube only to have paying subscribers find that their favorite channel opted out? I'd be totally pissed if this was only 50% or 80% of YouTube because it would feel like Google was double-dipping by charging you a subscription and showing ads at the same time, it's not like you'd get a rebate watching non-Red videos. It's like learning that your all-you-can-eat buffet is actually only half of what's on the table and the rest is extra. As long as the new revenue model isn't more skewed in favor of Google, I'm totally in their corner. I'm not sure if freelance journalists ever have revenue sharing, but imagine they do and the newspaper decides to go from an ad model to a subscription model. You expect the freelancers to have a say? To have a right to have their articles published in a "free" paper piggybacking on the rest? Hell no. The business model is changing and you can either be part of that or the business partnership is ended. It's hardly the time for Darth "Pray that I don't alter it further" Vader.
So... how many of those are you actually playing at once? I got 256GB, together with Windows and a bit of other junk it's a little tight but if I just delete the "stalest" game to install a new one I still prefer it over the load times of an HDD. I tend to get addicted to a few games at the time, I never play more than a handful at once. And when I'm "done" I get fed up for a while, if I want to go down memory lane I can reinstall it quite easily later.
Long story short, PIN codes and such aren't long enough to be cryptologically secure so if you can copy the state you can brute force it easily. So what happens is you have a trusted chip that takes a PIN on one end, returns the AES key to decrypt on the other end. This chip has a countdown so if you enter the wrong PIN too many times, it'll wipe the key. It's also tamper-proof so if you try to open up the chip and alter the countdown or read the key directly it'll self-destruct. Essentially Apple is using the same kind of chip as "Trusted Computing"/"Secure Boot" uses to protect the private keys, nobody is supposed to be able to be extract them. Not me, not you, not Apple, not the courts, not the NSA. Or so we hope. What I guess this means is that older models don't have have that kind of purpose-designed hardware. If Apple wants, they can manage to read the PIN-encrypted key, which can then be brute forced, which can then be used to decrypt the rest of the device. There's not really any fix for that unless you have hardware support. Or you really want to type in >128 bits of entropy each time you unlock your phone.
you sucker. Do you have any evidence to support your position? Apple moves only to make money. The "apple ecosystem" and the efforts they make to prevent jailbreaking are proof positive that their only ethic is more profit. You've been trolled by dirty capitalists.
Of course. But if they want to sell to non-US users having encryption that actually protects privacy might be a plus. We care just as much if not more than Americans, particularly since we got fuck all legal recourse if the NSA decides that all my data belongs to them. Nobody expects Apple to be doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because it's good business. And now that the cat is out of the bag, if the US tries to push an official government backdoor that's fine with me because it won't sell in the rest of the world. It only worked as long as it was a secret and now it's not.
Kaput? Not really, but you only use hard drives for $/TB which means you get hardly any premium for packing it denser. Also streaming is taking over from storing, people watch YouTube and Netflix (and watch&delete torrents) instead of trying to archive everything. The main consumers of hard drives are now large datacenters (and a few slashdotters) running huge RAID boxes.
That's the really interesting question, since on board graphics just tend to work nowadays and the only real use case of such software for a consumer is as a fall back for when it doesn't and in that case the fancy graphics tend to get turned off anyway.
For the scientific visualizations they use it for it's probably quite good, since they're not using a GPU. For gaming and such a consumer might want it's probably bad since it is has high vertex complexity and low shader complexity. So lots of details using primitives, but not all the shader work to make realistic graphics. It seems like a special case though.