Even if everyone were geniuses, it's also a time-sink.
Which is why a direct democracy that depends on you voting in every vote is fairly flawed. That doesn't lead to mob rule, it leads to flash mob rule and victory by attrition. A good direct democracy should let you take stances, that yes I'm opposed to his now just like the last ten times we voted on something like that. It should also let you choose representatives, like I trust $person or $party to be an expert in this area and I'll let him/them represent me. But unlike now that you can withdraw that support any time, give it only on a subsection of issues and if necessary override his opinions. Having a direct democracy is also not a blocker for having a constitution, where we can agree on fundamental principles that the rest of the laws rely on and is harder to change than a law.
The most challenging part really is to ensure fiscal balance, you can't just pass laws that increase costs and tax cuts that lower your income. But I'm sure we could manage to find some kind of hierarchical vote that ensures a balance on top and then those interested can vote for the distribution within various departments. There's no system that's going to be perfect, I'm sure there'll be ways to manipulate it but I don't think we have to take the most naive implementation possible. I also don't think you should glorify representatives or political parties too much, there's plenty mob rule and populism in those too. I don't think it would be all that different, though hopefully with less bait-and-switch politics.
Also, I've seen (and caught) students cheating to get into a prestige university school with a highly competetive enrollment. The greater the reward, the greater the desperate measures sought to achieve that award.
Yes, but I'd say that argument works just as well at the bottom of the scale, most of the cheating I know about was done by people that were failing because even the lowest passing grade was way better than to fail. Not passing would adversely affect student loans, some studies required you had to pass some exams to get accepted into others and so on. There was much more incentive to turn an F into a D than risking your B to get an A.
Anybody who thinks they do need to get through security is an idiot. Anywhere people group together is a target - including the queue for the scanners (bag of explosives+ball bearings detonated in the queue...?)
Of course, but crowds are pretty much everywhere. They have to give you irrational fears of something, fear of flying, fear of tall buildings, fear of subways, play on whatever fears people already have of such things. Because statistically it is very unlikely you will be killed in a terrorist attack. If you want to inflict a state of terror you have to make people fear to go about their lives.
Unless US govt declassify the area, permit tours, photos, etc. but until then Area 51 remains a good place for conspiracies, movie plots, whatever.
Then the conspiracy theorists would say it's been scrubbed clean and everything moved to an more secret facility. In fact, why are they trying so hard to prove it didn't happen if it didn't happen? That's why you have to ignore them, because the more evidence you give that it didn't happen the greater the proof it's a cover-up. Just forcing the government to acknowledge they're there and pose questions that "need" answering is like lighting a flare. I particularly remember the crop circles, that the same nutters took as definitive proof of aliens - or a couple pranksters with a plank, rope and a bit of wire. There's absolutely no way the US government can prove to them the aliens are not there, if so they're brainwashed by the alien mind control rays. Better wear your tinfoil hat.
Well, at least in Norwegian "ancestors" would be something like "forefathers" translated directly, just like "man" can mean both male or mankind. Land of our forefathers => fatherland. No doubt most countries have been patriarchies. Motherland I think mostly refer to the land itself, like most polytheist religions have earth and fertility goddesses, not gods. Literally that it refers to the country like a force of nature. You're wrong about the US though, I've never heard American use either motherland or fatherland. The closest they got is an uncle, Uncle Sam. Without overdoing the analysis, I think it has to do with US not being much of a nation state.
How did "digital" get applied to the electronics realm where data is most commonly dealt with in binary? Quite a few of a computer's problems are caused by the fact that it ISN'T digital.
Analog vs digital ~= continuous vs discrete. In this context it means countable or enumerable, like your fingers. If it was refering to base 10 it would be called decimal, just like octal is 8 and hexadecimal is 16.
Content companies think it is unfair for them to be required to spend resources on scouring the Web when their pirated work helps service providers make money.
And car manufacturers should pay for smuggling, because most smuggling happens by cars so clearly that drives the sales of cars. Or transporting stolen goods. Or for speeding, because clearly they make money on letting you speed.
What they complain about almost as much is that after they notify a service provider of an infringing song or movie clip and they're removed, new copies appear almost immediately
And how exactly would putting the burden on the service provider help that? It wouldn't but it makes their impossible problem the ISP or hosting company's impossible problem. If you can't solve it, pass it. You can then wail forever that they're never doing enough.
By all means, have your religious diets. I'm also not going to complain about you being a vegetarian, vegan, nondrinker, diabetic, having food allergies or whatever else diet you're on. If you'll do the same as I eat my pork and drink my beer. Now of course I'd be interested if there was a medical reason I shouldn't eat something or it should be prepared a special way, so it's worth exploring if there's a purpose behind it. But apart from that, I'm not going to limit what I will eat to please some religious sensibilities.
Yup, another summary that doesn't understand the difference between using a cert for authentication and using SSL/TLS to encrypt the connection. If using TLS with Diffe-Hilman key exchange, the connection is securely encrypted regardless of whether an attacker has the servers private key.
Sure, but does your "securely encrypted" connection go to the server or a MITM the attacker has set up? When you've got no idea who's at the other end, it doesn't matter much that the line is encrypted. It would be a generally good practice to use SSL/TLS everywhere even without authentication because then you can't simply store traffic for later, you have to actively intercept and run a MITM attack in real time. It's better than nothing but is by no means secure and should not be treated as such.
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent. Spanking means that you have nothing else, no other ideas. There's nothing hip & trendy or touchy-feely about it.
I think in every child's life there comes a time when you have to test out "What if I just refuse?" In my case I was throwing a temper tantrum at the breakfast table. I was told to go to my room, I refused. They tried to drag me there, I resisted. Long story short it was the last resort because I rejected all other attempts at an amicable solution, and as far as I remember the only time. Remember that your parents are the only people that are legally obliged to deal with you, no matter how much of an asshole you act like. A job can fire you, a school expel you, friends abandon you, family disown you but the parents of a minor don't have a choice. No matter how much you're acting like the brat from hell they somehow have to make living with you work.
Someone I know has a daughter who has "broke the code", so to speak. When all privileges have been revoked, she can just do anything because things like being grounded mean nothing to her. Even if her allowance is revoked she gets money for things she must have, then spends it on other things. Nothing she says can be be trusted, she'll say one thing but reality will be something completely different. Being a divorcee kid from a bad divorce doesn't help, she's real Machiavellian with her parents already and they won't talk to each other. I don't know, half the time I feel giving her a hard spanking would be a terrible thing to do and the other half I feel it'd be just what she needs. It should be a last resort, but if you are there I'm not really sure what's worse.
Should cloud services focused at businesses provide clear warnings if they are not compliant with key regulatory requirements, or should business customers just assume they are not?
Seriously, no matter what Dropbox does or doesn't comply with these companies should - and must, I would hope - assume they're not. How would this work for anything? Backups? SLAs? Oh, we just assumed a seven 9's uptime and continuous multiple off-site backups in secured facilities, since the company didn't prominently say anything else. If it's not in the terms, you should never assume it is part of the package. Why, pray tell, should this be anything different for regulatory compliance? I don't need regulatory compliance, neither does many others. If your needs are special, make sure they're being met. And if you haven't done that, the blame falls squarely on your shoulders IMO.
The short answer is, users want a binary answer. Can this site be trusted, true/false. Every system since the "web of trust" in the early 90s that has had a fuzzy answer of "somewhat trusted" has failed. And it stands to reason that when you want such a binary answer, you'll do the minimum required to satisfy it. There's nothing today that prevents your certificate from being signed by multiple CAs, it's just that it doesn't give you anything. The line will show up green in people's web browsers whether it's signed by one or five CAs, it just adds costs with no benefit.
I can sort of understand that, if I got a company's phone number I fully expect to call them and reach that company, not getting MITM'd to some scam center somewhere. Of course there's all the other scams involved but if I type [company].com I expect there to be some trusted index that makes sure I get to the right site. If that site has been compromised that's another matter, but the sites that need to be secured are usually very secure. I just need to be sure I'm going to the right place.
Another matter is client security, if your client is compromised then it can show you anything. That's why my bank texts me to confirm payments, giving all the relevant information in the text. Like are you sure you want to transfer X to account Y, if so text OK back. That's really the only way to be sure, otherwise it could authorize some completely different transaction than what it told me, for example through a fake error message. Oh, that must have been a typo let's try again. One fake payment and one real.
A hundred years is a very long time. In many ways the computer industry is still young, things keep changing all the time at least on the hardware and interface level. Right now it's mobile devices, multipoint touchscreens and so on but there's been plenty others over the last decade, people are still finding reasons to upgrade from XP and OS X 10.0 that was state of the art 10 years ago. Is operating in 2021 going to look that much different from 2011? 2031 to 2021?...and so on. I'm not going to pretend I know when it slows down, but I'm sure it will at some time. That the computer you get 10 years later is pretty much the same as 10 years ago, of course a little better and all that but not more revolutionary than a new car to one from 2001.
Even if Linux were to flop completely in the commercial market (which would require quite profitable companies like Red Hat to go under, not just Ubuntu etc.) there'd still be people working on it. The pace might be slow (some would say glacial) but if the finish line stops moving it would eventually catch up. That an OS will be a commodity in 100 years doesn't sound all that improbable to me. If it'll be Linux is a very uncertain prediction, but it certainly seems to have hit critical mass on the server side and via Android on the phone side. That in a decade or two maybe Apple and Microsoft go "Hey, why are we spending all this effort on a kernel?" and move to a proprietary-on-top-of-Linux model. And then maybe a decade or two after that again we get to the point where people say "Uh, why am I paying for an UI to launch my apps?"
Of course during the same time free applications also improve. I'm sure you don't remember but there's plenty apps you used to have to pay for that you wouldn't dream of paying for today. If you take GIMP + 50 years development, are you going to need Photoshop? Are they going to invent so much magic that people still be paying, or are the tools going to outpace the people using it? Maybe not in every niche, I think there will be plenty proprietary software in 100 years. But I think open source software will be a much, much larger part of the total, it's like a baseline of what can you already get for free. Hell, if MS Office was cross-platform I'm sure very many corporate desktops would already be on Linux today. So how about LibreOffice + 50 years development, are you still going to need MS Office?
Except if they called it a quad core, then it'd be the world's biggest and most power hungry quad core. It's got the transistor count and power consumption of an octo core, without actually delivering that performance. I'm not so sure marketing it the other way would have looked any better.
Pure meat, that is not mixture products with a ton of fats and whatnot is not particularly unhealthy. Unless you choose to fry in a ton of butter and dip it in a ton of BBQ sauce or other fat stuff, of course.
As for the diet shit, yes thank you. No fat, no sugars, maybe it'll fuck up something else but as far as weight goes it's working perfectly. I lost a lot of weight while drinking a lot of diet coke.
The problem is that it isn't always true, there are periods where Intel is doing really good work and there's periods where AMD chips are better, but you don't really ever see that in the market share, in large part because for the most part you have to build your own computer if you want AMD parts.
Well that, and you have the problem that it's not that easy to ramp up or ramp down CPU production. Building fab capacity is started years in advance so by the time AMD actually brings a processor to market they got a fairly narrow percentage of the market they can supply. Good chips mean high prices, poor chips means low prices but they can't take that much market share in one generation. And if you overextend yourself you risk that Intel pulls a very good processor out of the hat and you're left with way too much fab capacity and has to dump prices to get it moving. Or maybe that you spend too much money on fabs and not on R&D so that you got plenty capacity and a poor product next generation.
That and one thing that matters to producers, not so much to consumers and that is Intel has often been a half to one generation ahead in processing technology. That translates directly to higher margins and more money to make new factories and more R&D. Even when AMD had successes they weren't making great money. And in the CPU war the winner is the one who can keep the pace of improvement up, not who wins at the moment. In a year that generation is gone and it's a different battle.
Well, the effect has been known since 1979. It's just that everything lines up very rarely, it's amazingly effective when it works but you can't exactly move the lens so you only get to focus on what's exactly behind it. We are going to need bigger and better telescopes to solve the general case.
What has not been done as much before is a very small group of people confined to a small space for a long time.
Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir for 437.7 days
We've been very close before, and that in actual space with zero-G. Really, of all the things people are concerned about this isn't one of them. Or what about all the people that have been kept in cells for years that you hear about from time to time? They've been real captives, not volunteers and yet they survived. Mentally people will cope with a lot worse. Pick the kind of people that could go half a year on an Antarctic research station and I'm sure they'll handle a year in a half in space.
I've done something almost the same, minus the pink part. I wanted a *cheap* netbook. Like in, it's so cheap I can afford to break it, have it stolen etc. because you always worry about where your expensive gear is. So I picked the lowest of the low, didn't really care for the config at all. Good thing too, because I half broke it some months later. Sometimes there really is just one variable that matters, and it isn't performance.
They could change the names of the directories to something obvious, but then experienced users will be stuck typing in unnecessarily long directory names all day long.
Or learn to use tab completion and use an intelligent text editor that can too, for scripts and such. Maybe rename it "Program Files" so you won't have half your tools break if you put a space in a directory name too. That has annoyed me many times on Linux with poorly written scipts and tools, so eventually you end up doing it too even if all the names look retarded with CamelCase or under_scores.
I think the primary use is for scheduling, reminders and that sort of thing. It's not so much typing as it is navigating menus, setting dates and so on. "Remind me to [something] next thursday" that pulls up a new reminder, set to next thursdag is fairly useful even if the [something] bit isn't always right. Do you realize how many people don't know how to navigate their phone properly and go hunting through the menus all the time? And it doesn't matter that the feature has been on Android, the same people haven't ever read their manual or figured it out. That's the thing with Apple, they got a loudspeaker so loud even the technophobes now know you can talk to an iPhone.
Microsoft did not require that system vendors and motherboard vendors makes it impossible to switch off. Microsoft does not require that their public key is the only one in the system. In order to get the "Designed for Windows 8" sticker they *do* need to 1) enable secure boot by default, 2) pre-register Microsofts public secure boot key, 3) Not provide a programmable interface for switching secure boot on/off and not provide a programmable interface for changing the registered secure boot keys.
There is some FUD speculation about a conspiracy that Microsoft will secretly require the vendors to *enfore* secure boot with Microsofts key exclusively. That would prevent other bootload'ers from loading. This is despite the fact that Microsoft has publicly said that they prefer that vendors do not do this but that they cannot mandate this, as it is ultimately the vendors choice, not Microsofts.
So what would prevent Microsoft from adding a 4) to their list of conditions mandating you be able to turn it off though a non-programmable interface? Nothing. Of course you can't force them to get the sticker, but that's what this is all about. That is why my bullshit detector sets off when they say they can't. Because they could, they're not going to but they could.
So are you Wikipedia, the Gutenberg project or SourceForge? You're certainly not going to read 1TB of text unless you plan to live the next billion years or so, you are some kind of speciality site. The point is that most use appropriate compressed formats for their purpose. PNG beats BMP-in-a-ZIP. FLAC beats WAV-in-a-ZIP. Lossy formats like JPG, MP3, H.264 video are already well compressed.
Sure, compression is the way to go. But is it that vital that it's in the file system instead of working with zip files? Maybe to you. But I think you know you are an extreme minority on this one. Most people are happy having zip folders and a search engine that reads inside zip files and I know Linux has both. Or actually most people have no problem storing their text uncompressed at all because it takes up <1% of their drive.
I guess none of the people you talked to felt this was a problem worth solving. To me it would be a bit like learning Linux has issues with >1 TB RAM or >1000 cores, even if that was so I wouldn't exactly feel it is or ever would become a problem for my desktop. So yeah, it probably would get returned with "Well, if it's a problem to you feel free to do something about it, but I don't think anyone here will work on it."
Or something less polite, depending on who you ran into and how you formulated your feature requst.
That someone is willing to give a little for the burned out husk of a company may be little comfort when you've worked years tor low or no pay to make it work. Your business is failing but right now someone is willing to pay a little to take over your customers, soon it's worth nothing. That kind of fire sale happens, I don't think any consider it a success.
XMP only tries to standardize the metadata content, not the location. From the WP page:
TIFF - Tag 700 JPEG - Application segment 1 (0xFFE1) with segment header "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/\x00" JPEG 2000 - 'uuid' atom with UID of 0xBE7ACFCB97A942E89C71999491E3AFAC PNG - inside a 'iTXt' text block with the keyword 'XML:com.adobe.xmp' GIF - as an Application Extension with identifier "XMP Data" and authentication code "XMP" PDF - embedded in a metadata stream contained in a PDF object For file formats that have no support for embedded XMP data, this data can be stored in external.xmp sidecar files.
So maybe it's here, maybe it's there, maybe it's not in the file at all. That's solves the easy part, not the hard part.
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Even if everyone were geniuses, it's also a time-sink.
Which is why a direct democracy that depends on you voting in every vote is fairly flawed. That doesn't lead to mob rule, it leads to flash mob rule and victory by attrition. A good direct democracy should let you take stances, that yes I'm opposed to his now just like the last ten times we voted on something like that. It should also let you choose representatives, like I trust $person or $party to be an expert in this area and I'll let him/them represent me. But unlike now that you can withdraw that support any time, give it only on a subsection of issues and if necessary override his opinions. Having a direct democracy is also not a blocker for having a constitution, where we can agree on fundamental principles that the rest of the laws rely on and is harder to change than a law.
The most challenging part really is to ensure fiscal balance, you can't just pass laws that increase costs and tax cuts that lower your income. But I'm sure we could manage to find some kind of hierarchical vote that ensures a balance on top and then those interested can vote for the distribution within various departments. There's no system that's going to be perfect, I'm sure there'll be ways to manipulate it but I don't think we have to take the most naive implementation possible. I also don't think you should glorify representatives or political parties too much, there's plenty mob rule and populism in those too. I don't think it would be all that different, though hopefully with less bait-and-switch politics.
Also, I've seen (and caught) students cheating to get into a prestige university school with a highly competetive enrollment. The greater the reward, the greater the desperate measures sought to achieve that award.
Yes, but I'd say that argument works just as well at the bottom of the scale, most of the cheating I know about was done by people that were failing because even the lowest passing grade was way better than to fail. Not passing would adversely affect student loans, some studies required you had to pass some exams to get accepted into others and so on. There was much more incentive to turn an F into a D than risking your B to get an A.
Anybody who thinks they do need to get through security is an idiot. Anywhere people group together is a target - including the queue for the scanners (bag of explosives+ball bearings detonated in the queue...?)
Of course, but crowds are pretty much everywhere. They have to give you irrational fears of something, fear of flying, fear of tall buildings, fear of subways, play on whatever fears people already have of such things. Because statistically it is very unlikely you will be killed in a terrorist attack. If you want to inflict a state of terror you have to make people fear to go about their lives.
Unless US govt declassify the area, permit tours, photos, etc. but until then Area 51 remains a good place for conspiracies, movie plots, whatever.
Then the conspiracy theorists would say it's been scrubbed clean and everything moved to an more secret facility. In fact, why are they trying so hard to prove it didn't happen if it didn't happen? That's why you have to ignore them, because the more evidence you give that it didn't happen the greater the proof it's a cover-up. Just forcing the government to acknowledge they're there and pose questions that "need" answering is like lighting a flare. I particularly remember the crop circles, that the same nutters took as definitive proof of aliens - or a couple pranksters with a plank, rope and a bit of wire. There's absolutely no way the US government can prove to them the aliens are not there, if so they're brainwashed by the alien mind control rays. Better wear your tinfoil hat.
Well, at least in Norwegian "ancestors" would be something like "forefathers" translated directly, just like "man" can mean both male or mankind. Land of our forefathers => fatherland. No doubt most countries have been patriarchies. Motherland I think mostly refer to the land itself, like most polytheist religions have earth and fertility goddesses, not gods. Literally that it refers to the country like a force of nature. You're wrong about the US though, I've never heard American use either motherland or fatherland. The closest they got is an uncle, Uncle Sam. Without overdoing the analysis, I think it has to do with US not being much of a nation state.
How did "digital" get applied to the electronics realm where data is most commonly dealt with in binary? Quite a few of a computer's problems are caused by the fact that it ISN'T digital.
Analog vs digital ~= continuous vs discrete. In this context it means countable or enumerable, like your fingers. If it was refering to base 10 it would be called decimal, just like octal is 8 and hexadecimal is 16.
Content companies think it is unfair for them to be required to spend resources on scouring the Web when their pirated work helps service providers make money.
And car manufacturers should pay for smuggling, because most smuggling happens by cars so clearly that drives the sales of cars. Or transporting stolen goods. Or for speeding, because clearly they make money on letting you speed.
What they complain about almost as much is that after they notify a service provider of an infringing song or movie clip and they're removed, new copies appear almost immediately
And how exactly would putting the burden on the service provider help that? It wouldn't but it makes their impossible problem the ISP or hosting company's impossible problem. If you can't solve it, pass it. You can then wail forever that they're never doing enough.
By all means, have your religious diets. I'm also not going to complain about you being a vegetarian, vegan, nondrinker, diabetic, having food allergies or whatever else diet you're on. If you'll do the same as I eat my pork and drink my beer. Now of course I'd be interested if there was a medical reason I shouldn't eat something or it should be prepared a special way, so it's worth exploring if there's a purpose behind it. But apart from that, I'm not going to limit what I will eat to please some religious sensibilities.
Yup, another summary that doesn't understand the difference between using a cert for authentication and using SSL/TLS to encrypt the connection. If using TLS with Diffe-Hilman key exchange, the connection is securely encrypted regardless of whether an attacker has the servers private key.
Sure, but does your "securely encrypted" connection go to the server or a MITM the attacker has set up? When you've got no idea who's at the other end, it doesn't matter much that the line is encrypted. It would be a generally good practice to use SSL/TLS everywhere even without authentication because then you can't simply store traffic for later, you have to actively intercept and run a MITM attack in real time. It's better than nothing but is by no means secure and should not be treated as such.
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent. Spanking means that you have nothing else, no other ideas. There's nothing hip & trendy or touchy-feely about it.
I think in every child's life there comes a time when you have to test out "What if I just refuse?" In my case I was throwing a temper tantrum at the breakfast table. I was told to go to my room, I refused. They tried to drag me there, I resisted. Long story short it was the last resort because I rejected all other attempts at an amicable solution, and as far as I remember the only time. Remember that your parents are the only people that are legally obliged to deal with you, no matter how much of an asshole you act like. A job can fire you, a school expel you, friends abandon you, family disown you but the parents of a minor don't have a choice. No matter how much you're acting like the brat from hell they somehow have to make living with you work.
Someone I know has a daughter who has "broke the code", so to speak. When all privileges have been revoked, she can just do anything because things like being grounded mean nothing to her. Even if her allowance is revoked she gets money for things she must have, then spends it on other things. Nothing she says can be be trusted, she'll say one thing but reality will be something completely different. Being a divorcee kid from a bad divorce doesn't help, she's real Machiavellian with her parents already and they won't talk to each other. I don't know, half the time I feel giving her a hard spanking would be a terrible thing to do and the other half I feel it'd be just what she needs. It should be a last resort, but if you are there I'm not really sure what's worse.
Should cloud services focused at businesses provide clear warnings if they are not compliant with key regulatory requirements, or should business customers just assume they are not?
Seriously, no matter what Dropbox does or doesn't comply with these companies should - and must, I would hope - assume they're not. How would this work for anything? Backups? SLAs? Oh, we just assumed a seven 9's uptime and continuous multiple off-site backups in secured facilities, since the company didn't prominently say anything else. If it's not in the terms, you should never assume it is part of the package. Why, pray tell, should this be anything different for regulatory compliance? I don't need regulatory compliance, neither does many others. If your needs are special, make sure they're being met. And if you haven't done that, the blame falls squarely on your shoulders IMO.
The short answer is, users want a binary answer. Can this site be trusted, true/false. Every system since the "web of trust" in the early 90s that has had a fuzzy answer of "somewhat trusted" has failed. And it stands to reason that when you want such a binary answer, you'll do the minimum required to satisfy it. There's nothing today that prevents your certificate from being signed by multiple CAs, it's just that it doesn't give you anything. The line will show up green in people's web browsers whether it's signed by one or five CAs, it just adds costs with no benefit.
I can sort of understand that, if I got a company's phone number I fully expect to call them and reach that company, not getting MITM'd to some scam center somewhere. Of course there's all the other scams involved but if I type [company].com I expect there to be some trusted index that makes sure I get to the right site. If that site has been compromised that's another matter, but the sites that need to be secured are usually very secure. I just need to be sure I'm going to the right place.
Another matter is client security, if your client is compromised then it can show you anything. That's why my bank texts me to confirm payments, giving all the relevant information in the text. Like are you sure you want to transfer X to account Y, if so text OK back. That's really the only way to be sure, otherwise it could authorize some completely different transaction than what it told me, for example through a fake error message. Oh, that must have been a typo let's try again. One fake payment and one real.
A hundred years is a very long time. In many ways the computer industry is still young, things keep changing all the time at least on the hardware and interface level. Right now it's mobile devices, multipoint touchscreens and so on but there's been plenty others over the last decade, people are still finding reasons to upgrade from XP and OS X 10.0 that was state of the art 10 years ago. Is operating in 2021 going to look that much different from 2011? 2031 to 2021? ...and so on. I'm not going to pretend I know when it slows down, but I'm sure it will at some time. That the computer you get 10 years later is pretty much the same as 10 years ago, of course a little better and all that but not more revolutionary than a new car to one from 2001.
Even if Linux were to flop completely in the commercial market (which would require quite profitable companies like Red Hat to go under, not just Ubuntu etc.) there'd still be people working on it. The pace might be slow (some would say glacial) but if the finish line stops moving it would eventually catch up. That an OS will be a commodity in 100 years doesn't sound all that improbable to me. If it'll be Linux is a very uncertain prediction, but it certainly seems to have hit critical mass on the server side and via Android on the phone side. That in a decade or two maybe Apple and Microsoft go "Hey, why are we spending all this effort on a kernel?" and move to a proprietary-on-top-of-Linux model. And then maybe a decade or two after that again we get to the point where people say "Uh, why am I paying for an UI to launch my apps?"
Of course during the same time free applications also improve. I'm sure you don't remember but there's plenty apps you used to have to pay for that you wouldn't dream of paying for today. If you take GIMP + 50 years development, are you going to need Photoshop? Are they going to invent so much magic that people still be paying, or are the tools going to outpace the people using it? Maybe not in every niche, I think there will be plenty proprietary software in 100 years. But I think open source software will be a much, much larger part of the total, it's like a baseline of what can you already get for free. Hell, if MS Office was cross-platform I'm sure very many corporate desktops would already be on Linux today. So how about LibreOffice + 50 years development, are you still going to need MS Office?
Except if they called it a quad core, then it'd be the world's biggest and most power hungry quad core. It's got the transistor count and power consumption of an octo core, without actually delivering that performance. I'm not so sure marketing it the other way would have looked any better.
Pure meat, that is not mixture products with a ton of fats and whatnot is not particularly unhealthy. Unless you choose to fry in a ton of butter and dip it in a ton of BBQ sauce or other fat stuff, of course.
As for the diet shit, yes thank you. No fat, no sugars, maybe it'll fuck up something else but as far as weight goes it's working perfectly. I lost a lot of weight while drinking a lot of diet coke.
The problem is that it isn't always true, there are periods where Intel is doing really good work and there's periods where AMD chips are better, but you don't really ever see that in the market share, in large part because for the most part you have to build your own computer if you want AMD parts.
Well that, and you have the problem that it's not that easy to ramp up or ramp down CPU production. Building fab capacity is started years in advance so by the time AMD actually brings a processor to market they got a fairly narrow percentage of the market they can supply. Good chips mean high prices, poor chips means low prices but they can't take that much market share in one generation. And if you overextend yourself you risk that Intel pulls a very good processor out of the hat and you're left with way too much fab capacity and has to dump prices to get it moving. Or maybe that you spend too much money on fabs and not on R&D so that you got plenty capacity and a poor product next generation.
That and one thing that matters to producers, not so much to consumers and that is Intel has often been a half to one generation ahead in processing technology. That translates directly to higher margins and more money to make new factories and more R&D. Even when AMD had successes they weren't making great money. And in the CPU war the winner is the one who can keep the pace of improvement up, not who wins at the moment. In a year that generation is gone and it's a different battle.
Well, the effect has been known since 1979. It's just that everything lines up very rarely, it's amazingly effective when it works but you can't exactly move the lens so you only get to focus on what's exactly behind it. We are going to need bigger and better telescopes to solve the general case.
What has not been done as much before is a very small group of people confined to a small space for a long time.
Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir for 437.7 days
We've been very close before, and that in actual space with zero-G. Really, of all the things people are concerned about this isn't one of them. Or what about all the people that have been kept in cells for years that you hear about from time to time? They've been real captives, not volunteers and yet they survived. Mentally people will cope with a lot worse. Pick the kind of people that could go half a year on an Antarctic research station and I'm sure they'll handle a year in a half in space.
I've done something almost the same, minus the pink part. I wanted a *cheap* netbook. Like in, it's so cheap I can afford to break it, have it stolen etc. because you always worry about where your expensive gear is. So I picked the lowest of the low, didn't really care for the config at all. Good thing too, because I half broke it some months later. Sometimes there really is just one variable that matters, and it isn't performance.
They could change the names of the directories to something obvious, but then experienced users will be stuck typing in unnecessarily long directory names all day long.
Or learn to use tab completion and use an intelligent text editor that can too, for scripts and such. Maybe rename it "Program Files" so you won't have half your tools break if you put a space in a directory name too. That has annoyed me many times on Linux with poorly written scipts and tools, so eventually you end up doing it too even if all the names look retarded with CamelCase or under_scores.
I think the primary use is for scheduling, reminders and that sort of thing. It's not so much typing as it is navigating menus, setting dates and so on. "Remind me to [something] next thursday" that pulls up a new reminder, set to next thursdag is fairly useful even if the [something] bit isn't always right. Do you realize how many people don't know how to navigate their phone properly and go hunting through the menus all the time? And it doesn't matter that the feature has been on Android, the same people haven't ever read their manual or figured it out. That's the thing with Apple, they got a loudspeaker so loud even the technophobes now know you can talk to an iPhone.
Microsoft did not require that system vendors and motherboard vendors makes it impossible to switch off. Microsoft does not require that their public key is the only one in the system. In order to get the "Designed for Windows 8" sticker they *do* need to 1) enable secure boot by default, 2) pre-register Microsofts public secure boot key, 3) Not provide a programmable interface for switching secure boot on/off and not provide a programmable interface for changing the registered secure boot keys.
There is some FUD speculation about a conspiracy that Microsoft will secretly require the vendors to *enfore* secure boot with Microsofts key exclusively. That would prevent other bootload'ers from loading. This is despite the fact that Microsoft has publicly said that they prefer that vendors do not do this but that they cannot mandate this, as it is ultimately the vendors choice, not Microsofts.
So what would prevent Microsoft from adding a 4) to their list of conditions mandating you be able to turn it off though a non-programmable interface? Nothing. Of course you can't force them to get the sticker, but that's what this is all about. That is why my bullshit detector sets off when they say they can't. Because they could, they're not going to but they could.
So are you Wikipedia, the Gutenberg project or SourceForge? You're certainly not going to read 1TB of text unless you plan to live the next billion years or so, you are some kind of speciality site. The point is that most use appropriate compressed formats for their purpose. PNG beats BMP-in-a-ZIP. FLAC beats WAV-in-a-ZIP. Lossy formats like JPG, MP3, H.264 video are already well compressed.
Sure, compression is the way to go. But is it that vital that it's in the file system instead of working with zip files? Maybe to you. But I think you know you are an extreme minority on this one. Most people are happy having zip folders and a search engine that reads inside zip files and I know Linux has both. Or actually most people have no problem storing their text uncompressed at all because it takes up <1% of their drive.
I guess none of the people you talked to felt this was a problem worth solving. To me it would be a bit like learning Linux has issues with >1 TB RAM or >1000 cores, even if that was so I wouldn't exactly feel it is or ever would become a problem for my desktop. So yeah, it probably would get returned with "Well, if it's a problem to you feel free to do something about it, but I don't think anyone here will work on it."
Or something less polite, depending on who you ran into and how you formulated your feature requst.
That someone is willing to give a little for the burned out husk of a company may be little comfort when you've worked years tor low or no pay to make it work. Your business is failing but right now someone is willing to pay a little to take over your customers, soon it's worth nothing. That kind of fire sale happens, I don't think any consider it a success.
XMP only tries to standardize the metadata content, not the location. From the WP page:
TIFF - Tag 700 .xmp sidecar files.
JPEG - Application segment 1 (0xFFE1) with segment header "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/\x00"
JPEG 2000 - 'uuid' atom with UID of 0xBE7ACFCB97A942E89C71999491E3AFAC
PNG - inside a 'iTXt' text block with the keyword 'XML:com.adobe.xmp'
GIF - as an Application Extension with identifier "XMP Data" and authentication code "XMP"
PDF - embedded in a metadata stream contained in a PDF object
For file formats that have no support for embedded XMP data, this data can be stored in external
So maybe it's here, maybe it's there, maybe it's not in the file at all. That's solves the easy part, not the hard part.