Pretty much any input method can replace the QWERTY keyboard. The only question is will *you* learn to use it?
The biggest contender for a long time was the T9 input method on mobile phones there were people who could type up a storm on those. However as the smartphone clearly showed, given the option people quickly revert to what they are familiar with.
How good is your Morse code? I could quite happily type this without a QWERTY keyboard.... But I don't.
Otherwise known as a net win for the government, a net loss for Apple and a net loss for the people. Every time someone suggests some company should "have balls" to completely pull out of a market that person completely ignores the actual impacts and how no government ever calls a bluff, or even gives a shit when it isn't just a bluff.
It would be nice to have a replacement for cash that has a similar anonymity to cash.
Define anonymous. Anonymous in the sense that no one can see what you spend your money on? Or Anonymous in the sense that no one can identify you?
Cryptocurrencies can't achieve the former. Any financial transactions that aren't done in person where all parties are blind folded can't achieve the latter.
All wildlife doesn't seem to cope with a total solar eclipse. We saw some really strange things during the last one. Firstly there was dead silence. Birds stopped flying, they actually stopped making sound completely. Also kangaroos were freaked out. They congregated in a common area and huddled together. I've not seen anything quite like it.
yes, the current state of affairs is re-volting, I am not amped about this. The potential for failure is high.
Oh please. The board is not really that in charge. Their power is mostly imaginary. A lot of the energy they put into running a company is wasted, especially in the face of excited and energetic CEO.
Prescribe more antibiotics. Remove the requirement to take a full dose. Eventually when a superbug kills half the population the world will finally be in a position to survive.
Or we just collect a bunch of gems, fit them into a metal glove and snap our fingers.
I think you misunderstand. I say RGB values meaning digital bits describing what to show on the screen on either ends.
As I said the colour gamut displayable is dependent on the monitor which translates these values to a specific primary. The colour being displayed correctly depends on the software knowing where these primaries sit.
That was what I meant by RGB values. Colour translation is nothing more than understanding what RGB(125,43,10) looks like, and what it should look like. That's why everything has a profile, and software quite easily converts between them.
This is no different on OLEDs than any other displays. They happily display perfectly accurate colour when fed with software that understands the display profile, and again anything in the chain between the software displaying and the pixel coming up is irrelevant to this (unless it does something silly like downsample to 6 bit on a cheap TN display).
It's two sentences long but it shows a lot. It shows that experts don't comment on things or backup their claims, while appealing to authority (a logical fallacy). It also shows how experts can be very wrong citing a case of a "broken" system where a CA did something shady and instantly had their trust certificate revoked.
i.e. System worked as intended. CAs punshied, users are secure.
Can you provide examples for your side of the arguement two, or are you only going to provide good examples for my side? Quite frankly you're helping me a lot here. If you don't realise this then maybe you should watch who you call uneducated.
However I don't think you're this stupid. You're just trolling.
then your NAS's HTTP interface won't be able to use the Presentation API, which allows streaming videos stored on the NAS to second screen devices such as a Chromecast
Good. Users need to be protected from themselves. Seriously, you need a web based javascript API to stream content? Who the hell designed your NAS.
Nor will your NAS be able to include an app
Apps? Since when does Chrome's implmementation of the API matter for apps? Or do I need to question who designed the damn app too?
A manufacturer of a network appliance containing a web server...
Should have not problems working around the manufactured examples you gave. I think you'll find most fully functional and capable devices pre-date all your fancy Javascript APIs. If anything it may resolve this stupid obsession with "have API, must write code" that seems to infect so much software these days.
No, sorry. The configuration of the benchmarks did nothing but hurt the top-end multicore side of the benchmarks. Single-core performance was about on par with most other benchmarks for these two chip families.
Yeah because purposefully gimping memory latency and bandwidth really affects multi-core gaming. Look you can say what you want. The results however speak for themselves. Go online and compare how these benchmarks *ACROSS ALL THE GAMES TESTED* are not representative of the chip.
And regardless what you think about game mode, it's a specific mode created for Threadripper CPUs, and Ryzen Master will actually mention that it shouldn't be used unless you have a Threaddripper when you hover over the button.
Sorry, but you're a shill.
Shill: adjective: A term used by idiots on Slashdot to describe everything they disagree with.
I have to apologise. I thought we were having an intelligent conversation, but as it turns out from your language I was wrong, and for that I am truly sorry that you wasted everyone's time.
You can't just release a fix to such a disastrous update with just three days testing.
That is horseshit. If there was one specific problem with one specific sub part which is fixed with one easy change then there definitely is no reason to go back to a drawingboard.
This also affected the LTSC and Server versions of Windows
No it did not. Neither of these versions (LTSB) or the Server versions of Windows received or will receive this update.
And people scold me because I have Auto-update turned off.
And they should continue to scold you. There is a specific branch that you should have auto-update enabled for which has not experienced any of the issues that have been reported or been discussed in the media or here. That way you have stability as well as security.
Mind you if you are on the Targetted Branch (as these cases were) then you also deserve a scolding since it's probably worse than disabling Windows Update altoghter. All said an done, there's only a subset of possible ways you will avoid a good scolding:-)
700,000,000 installations. 0.01% of that is 'only' 70,000 installs that lost data.
Negative. The vast majority of those installations are NOT on the Targetted Branch, and only a subset of the Targetted Branch had Windows Updates rolled out. There's no way 70,000 people lost data to this, though that does not excuse the bug in the slightest.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants (despite what China sometimes claims), and you'd have to convince them - and their populations - that upward economic mobility is no longer an option.
Don't be daft. There's no requirement for coal for upward economic mobility. If anything CO2 trends in China show that upward economic mobility is achieved without increases in CO2 emissions, with new Coal plants mostly being used to decommission old ones, and the worlds largest renewable investment being injected into the energy supply of the country to sustain growth.
My question is, couldn't they have shifted working hours into 7am-3pm instead?
Since we're going around in circles, sure some people could have shifted. Will the schools, the banks, the subcontractors, the delivery companies also shift? Or maybe it's just simpler to change the timezone, not have to have the entire world re schedule re adjust, and just face the fact that there is no technical or social reason that the day should be symetrical around a high sun at noon*.
*And where I live it isn't. The sun is at its peak around 11 or 10 depending on DST.
There is a wide color gamut protocol standards [wikipedia.org] but I don't know whether e.g. a consumer video card and HDMI can make any use of them.
The consumer videocards are completely irrelevant. The software which displays the colours at a certain RGB value and the monitor which interprets them are the only relevant components. Windows and Mac both have colour management that handles this on a basic level. Every half decent multimedia app out there does too including photo viewers, video players, etc. Even Chrome loads my monitor profile* from Windows, though I have to force it through about:config for Firefox.
*I have a wide gamut monitor which matches AdobeRGB. Without the correct monitor profile installed in Windows the colours look way off.
You are lazy and uneducated. Find your own citations
Educate me. I want to learn, but if you're going to make extraordinary claims then you best be able to back them up.
There's plenty of evidence that has been around for a decade, and that is evidence that shows misbehaviour of the CA process is appropriately punished and frequently able to sink entire certificate authorities. The system is working as designed.
The Ryzen performs better in most games with half of its cores disabled, so that's not a bad thing for gaming benchmarks.
Not quite. It is highly dependent on the game. Quite specifically it is a feature which should be used selectively to gain the best performance. For example in Ashes of the Singularity you will get an approximately 40% performance hit when enabling Game mode. Likewise for any other game that makes liberal use of multi-threadding, of which there are a few in that list.
This benchmark may not have been great, but I'm not sold that it was intentionally misleading.
Regardless of the specifics of *how* they performed the test, the important part is the results, and as plenty of others have said the actual results for the AMD chips are not remotely representative of AMD chips even if simply left in their "Optimised defaults" configuration in the BIOS, and when the actual AMD based features are properly used the gaps between the slightly faster performing Intel chips and the AMD ones are just that, slight.
They seemed to step on a few of the Ryzen landmines, that only the people who are seriously fanatic over the chips know every detail of and how to mitigate.
I disagree. They have gone out of their way to disable functionality (fast clocking profiles) that is a core feature of AMDs Ryzen platform (sub millisecond automated core speed / voltage control). They load optimised defaults in a BIOS and then proceed to make a series of changes that serve no purpose than to negatively impact performance. Had they done nothing the benchmarks would have been higher.
But Chrome puts this scary "Not secure" banner at the top of the page. Prompting visitors to leave right away that don't know what's going on.
Oooooooh scary, some text in a banner advert.... But are you providing a secure sevice? I will straight up say bullshit. Users haven't been scared by "Not Secure" text ever. It's been an uphill battle to prevent people from simply handing over their CC information in such pages.
Again - those are photos of nearby objects - they don't need long exposures.
I see you've not taken photos of these objects before. They most definitely do need long exposures, and the wonderful thing about space is you can take those exposures whenever you want and work them together afterwards.
Also while you're comparing things remember that you're comparing decades of experience from the Hubble with "first light" from the adaptive optics in the article.
Engineering solutions exist and will make the hubble obsolete. They will be dwarfed by the James Webb though.
Indeed. You also didn't say LED TVs. You said OLED TVs, and seriously if you couldn't distiguish between them then you haven't been in a consumer electronics store in the past two years. Hint: Look for the TV on the golden rotating platform with lights, loudspeakers, and fanfair pointing to it where every single sales man ushers you towards. If there's no sales man follow the gigantic arrows with the big text that says OLED.
And if any of that isn't present chances are you're not in a consumer electronics shop as much as a thrift store. I mean my local store only has a cool 37 different OLED models on display and that doesn't include the 21 QLED models available (the other next big thing you ignored).
Don't use that Javascript API then. Seriously 99.99% of users will be completely affected by this. The use of secure_contexts is basically non-existant.
This will mostly affect developers. You know, the kinds of people who are capable of setting up a CA to self sign certs and add their root certificate of their dev machine to their browser anyway.
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Pretty much any input method can replace the QWERTY keyboard. The only question is will *you* learn to use it?
The biggest contender for a long time was the T9 input method on mobile phones there were people who could type up a storm on those. However as the smartphone clearly showed, given the option people quickly revert to what they are familiar with.
How good is your Morse code? I could quite happily type this without a QWERTY keyboard. ... But I don't.
It's sad that Apple hasn't got the balls to say
Otherwise known as a net win for the government, a net loss for Apple and a net loss for the people. Every time someone suggests some company should "have balls" to completely pull out of a market that person completely ignores the actual impacts and how no government ever calls a bluff, or even gives a shit when it isn't just a bluff.
How is this different than just installing Flash?
Cryptomining is useful.
It would be nice to have a replacement for cash that has a similar anonymity to cash.
Define anonymous. Anonymous in the sense that no one can see what you spend your money on? Or Anonymous in the sense that no one can identify you?
Cryptocurrencies can't achieve the former.
Any financial transactions that aren't done in person where all parties are blind folded can't achieve the latter.
All wildlife doesn't seem to cope with a total solar eclipse. We saw some really strange things during the last one. Firstly there was dead silence. Birds stopped flying, they actually stopped making sound completely. Also kangaroos were freaked out. They congregated in a common area and huddled together. I've not seen anything quite like it.
yes, the current state of affairs is re-volting, I am not amped about this. The potential for failure is high.
Oh please. The board is not really that in charge. Their power is mostly imaginary. A lot of the energy they put into running a company is wasted, especially in the face of excited and energetic CEO.
Semantics and legalities.
No, technicalities. Tesla's auto-pilot does not have the capabilities that this thing has regardless of what you want to call it.
Prescribe more antibiotics. Remove the requirement to take a full dose. Eventually when a superbug kills half the population the world will finally be in a position to survive.
Or we just collect a bunch of gems, fit them into a metal glove and snap our fingers.
I think you misunderstand. I say RGB values meaning digital bits describing what to show on the screen on either ends.
As I said the colour gamut displayable is dependent on the monitor which translates these values to a specific primary.
The colour being displayed correctly depends on the software knowing where these primaries sit.
That was what I meant by RGB values. Colour translation is nothing more than understanding what RGB(125,43,10) looks like, and what it should look like. That's why everything has a profile, and software quite easily converts between them.
This is no different on OLEDs than any other displays. They happily display perfectly accurate colour when fed with software that understands the display profile, and again anything in the chain between the software displaying and the pixel coming up is irrelevant to this (unless it does something silly like downsample to 6 bit on a cheap TN display).
Thanks for pointing out that example.
It's two sentences long but it shows a lot. It shows that experts don't comment on things or backup their claims, while appealing to authority (a logical fallacy).
It also shows how experts can be very wrong citing a case of a "broken" system where a CA did something shady and instantly had their trust certificate revoked.
i.e. System worked as intended. CAs punshied, users are secure.
Can you provide examples for your side of the arguement two, or are you only going to provide good examples for my side? Quite frankly you're helping me a lot here. If you don't realise this then maybe you should watch who you call uneducated.
However I don't think you're this stupid. You're just trolling.
then your NAS's HTTP interface won't be able to use the Presentation API, which allows streaming videos stored on the NAS to second screen devices such as a Chromecast
Good. Users need to be protected from themselves. Seriously, you need a web based javascript API to stream content? Who the hell designed your NAS.
Nor will your NAS be able to include an app
Apps? Since when does Chrome's implmementation of the API matter for apps? Or do I need to question who designed the damn app too?
A manufacturer of a network appliance containing a web server...
Should have not problems working around the manufactured examples you gave. I think you'll find most fully functional and capable devices pre-date all your fancy Javascript APIs. If anything it may resolve this stupid obsession with "have API, must write code" that seems to infect so much software these days.
No, sorry. The configuration of the benchmarks did nothing but hurt the top-end multicore side of the benchmarks. Single-core performance was about on par with most other benchmarks for these two chip families.
Yeah because purposefully gimping memory latency and bandwidth really affects multi-core gaming. Look you can say what you want. The results however speak for themselves. Go online and compare how these benchmarks *ACROSS ALL THE GAMES TESTED* are not representative of the chip.
And regardless what you think about game mode, it's a specific mode created for Threadripper CPUs, and Ryzen Master will actually mention that it shouldn't be used unless you have a Threaddripper when you hover over the button.
Sorry, but you're a shill.
Shill: adjective: A term used by idiots on Slashdot to describe everything they disagree with.
I have to apologise. I thought we were having an intelligent conversation, but as it turns out from your language I was wrong, and for that I am truly sorry that you wasted everyone's time.
Credible journalist is enough for now.
You're easily swayed.
You can't just release a fix to such a disastrous update with just three days testing.
That is horseshit. If there was one specific problem with one specific sub part which is fixed with one easy change then there definitely is no reason to go back to a drawingboard.
This also affected the LTSC and Server versions of Windows
No it did not. Neither of these versions (LTSB) or the Server versions of Windows received or will receive this update.
And people scold me because I have Auto-update turned off.
And they should continue to scold you. There is a specific branch that you should have auto-update enabled for which has not experienced any of the issues that have been reported or been discussed in the media or here. That way you have stability as well as security.
Mind you if you are on the Targetted Branch (as these cases were) then you also deserve a scolding since it's probably worse than disabling Windows Update altoghter. All said an done, there's only a subset of possible ways you will avoid a good scolding :-)
700,000,000 installations. 0.01% of that is 'only' 70,000 installs that lost data.
Negative. The vast majority of those installations are NOT on the Targetted Branch, and only a subset of the Targetted Branch had Windows Updates rolled out. There's no way 70,000 people lost data to this, though that does not excuse the bug in the slightest.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants (despite what China sometimes claims), and you'd have to convince them - and their populations - that upward economic mobility is no longer an option.
Don't be daft. There's no requirement for coal for upward economic mobility. If anything CO2 trends in China show that upward economic mobility is achieved without increases in CO2 emissions, with new Coal plants mostly being used to decommission old ones, and the worlds largest renewable investment being injected into the energy supply of the country to sustain growth.
My question is, couldn't they have shifted working hours into 7am-3pm instead?
Since we're going around in circles, sure some people could have shifted. Will the schools, the banks, the subcontractors, the delivery companies also shift? Or maybe it's just simpler to change the timezone, not have to have the entire world re schedule re adjust, and just face the fact that there is no technical or social reason that the day should be symetrical around a high sun at noon*.
*And where I live it isn't. The sun is at its peak around 11 or 10 depending on DST.
There is a wide color gamut protocol standards [wikipedia.org] but I don't know whether e.g. a consumer video card and HDMI can make any use of them.
The consumer videocards are completely irrelevant. The software which displays the colours at a certain RGB value and the monitor which interprets them are the only relevant components. Windows and Mac both have colour management that handles this on a basic level. Every half decent multimedia app out there does too including photo viewers, video players, etc. Even Chrome loads my monitor profile* from Windows, though I have to force it through about:config for Firefox.
*I have a wide gamut monitor which matches AdobeRGB. Without the correct monitor profile installed in Windows the colours look way off.
You are lazy and uneducated. Find your own citations
Educate me. I want to learn, but if you're going to make extraordinary claims then you best be able to back them up.
There's plenty of evidence that has been around for a decade, and that is evidence that shows misbehaviour of the CA process is appropriately punished and frequently able to sink entire certificate authorities. The system is working as designed.
The Ryzen performs better in most games with half of its cores disabled, so that's not a bad thing for gaming benchmarks.
Not quite. It is highly dependent on the game. Quite specifically it is a feature which should be used selectively to gain the best performance. For example in Ashes of the Singularity you will get an approximately 40% performance hit when enabling Game mode. Likewise for any other game that makes liberal use of multi-threadding, of which there are a few in that list.
This benchmark may not have been great, but I'm not sold that it was intentionally misleading.
Regardless of the specifics of *how* they performed the test, the important part is the results, and as plenty of others have said the actual results for the AMD chips are not remotely representative of AMD chips even if simply left in their "Optimised defaults" configuration in the BIOS, and when the actual AMD based features are properly used the gaps between the slightly faster performing Intel chips and the AMD ones are just that, slight.
They seemed to step on a few of the Ryzen landmines, that only the people who are seriously fanatic over the chips know every detail of and how to mitigate.
I disagree. They have gone out of their way to disable functionality (fast clocking profiles) that is a core feature of AMDs Ryzen platform (sub millisecond automated core speed / voltage control). They load optimised defaults in a BIOS and then proceed to make a series of changes that serve no purpose than to negatively impact performance. Had they done nothing the benchmarks would have been higher.
But Chrome puts this scary "Not secure" banner at the top of the page. Prompting visitors to leave right away that don't know what's going on.
Oooooooh scary, some text in a banner advert. ... But are you providing a secure sevice?
I will straight up say bullshit. Users haven't been scared by "Not Secure" text ever. It's been an uphill battle to prevent people from simply handing over their CC information in such pages.
Again - those are photos of nearby objects - they don't need long exposures.
I see you've not taken photos of these objects before. They most definitely do need long exposures, and the wonderful thing about space is you can take those exposures whenever you want and work them together afterwards.
Also while you're comparing things remember that you're comparing decades of experience from the Hubble with "first light" from the adaptive optics in the article.
Engineering solutions exist and will make the hubble obsolete. They will be dwarfed by the James Webb though.
Indeed. You also didn't say LED TVs. You said OLED TVs, and seriously if you couldn't distiguish between them then you haven't been in a consumer electronics store in the past two years. Hint: Look for the TV on the golden rotating platform with lights, loudspeakers, and fanfair pointing to it where every single sales man ushers you towards. If there's no sales man follow the gigantic arrows with the big text that says OLED.
And if any of that isn't present chances are you're not in a consumer electronics shop as much as a thrift store. I mean my local store only has a cool 37 different OLED models on display and that doesn't include the 21 QLED models available (the other next big thing you ignored).
Don't use that Javascript API then. Seriously 99.99% of users will be completely affected by this. The use of secure_contexts is basically non-existant.
This will mostly affect developers. You know, the kinds of people who are capable of setting up a CA to self sign certs and add their root certificate of their dev machine to their browser anyway.