Computers are changing. MS didn't invent the touchscreen. If you want a never updated, never modernised computing experience then run Linux with Gnome 2 and leave the rest of us to progress.
Could have been. He must also have been tasked to video the entire process. Or maybe it was just Bansky I mean it's not like anyone would recognise him. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo...
Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone
Why? What a waste of battery. A simple 433MHz receiver sitting idle would do it. The battery would last for years. Banksy was in the room at the time of the auction and videoing the process, so at the very least if it WAS a cell phone based system then it wasn't triggered by the phone Banksy was holding.
Serious question, why is it ALWAYS the Americans who steal and pull stunts like these?
I like to shit on Americans as much as anyone. But the "stunt like theses" appears to be successfully funding a kickstarter, working hard to make it a reality, and when it didn't pan out for reasons nothing to do with "running off" open sourcing all the work put in to date, then I think your insult isn't as insulting as you may think.
The license for Excel is "free". Everyone using Excel already has Word. There's no version of Office where you get Word without Excel. Any business will have this as part of their package that includes Outlook (effectively making Word free too).
Learn to use the right tool for the job instead of using shitty tools.
Per my other reply with a tiny stable dataset Excel is the right tool for the job. With an ever changing dataset SQL is the right tool... on the backend... where your query will export the results to Excel.
The rest I agree with. Many people would be surprised to find their computers probably already have an SQL server running. It's incredible the number of commercial programs that use SQL behind the scenes and install it.
Why are you using a spreadsheet when you have that much data? It's completely the wrong tool.
It's not the data that defines the tool with that tiny dataset. Excel is everywhere, easily usable, adaptable, and transferable. By comparison if you're writing SQL queries and putting your data in a database all you're likely to do is confuse everyone else... and that's before considering that at the end of it all you will be exporting that SQL query into some Excel table for final presentation anyway.
"much data"? Really? With 10000 rows and columns A through Z filled excel will most likely still operate in realtime unless you're writing VBscript.
Because for the people who've assessed the risk and determined Meltdown to be irrelevant to them (should be pretty much 100% of consumers) and those people who require single threaded performance, Intel is still very much the performance king.
All manufacturers were forced to issue a BIOS update a few months ago with the release of Ryzen 2 which is incompatible with the existing BIOSes on boards with those chipsets. So incompatible that if you go out and buy a B350 and a Ryzen 2 there's a chance you may think it's Dead On Arrival.
AMD even offer a "kit" for you to fix this. If you take a photo of your 2ng Gen Ryzen, your motherboard including serial numbers for both and a receipt, AMD will mail you an loaner A6 processor and the BIOS on a memory stick so you can get your computer started and perform the required BIOS upgrades.
No I cannot support a recommendation for Gigabyte given the question being asked. To be clear I have a complete Gigabyte setup. I have had Gigabyte motherboards for the best part of 20 years. They are very reliable and well built having never had a failure regardless of how much I've pushed the boundaries overclocking.
However... Their software and BIOS can only be described as a complete crock of shit. They should outsource their software to the lowest bidder in India, it can only improve the current state of it. Their manuals are poorly written. There's headers and options on in the BIOS that are not described at all. The only BIOS updates they ever seem to push out are the occasional compatibility upgrade.
I have the opposite experience software wise with ASRock. The software and support is great, however the one non-gigabyte motherboard I do have is AS Rock and is also the only motherboard I've ever had to RMA due to randomly failing in operation. The RMA process was great, but the fact I needed to do so, not so great.
Mind you the question is irrelevant for Spectre and Meltdown. Meltdown can't be fixed in soft/firmware and Spectre is a microcode update. You don't need the BIOS to do that, every OS has this capability already.
Seriously you realise that systemd was build precisely because the things you listed didn't work fine for years.
shares didn't mount because they tried and failed before there was an IP address
Fix your startup order in the unit file.
things like conky get started in an endless timeout loop
Fix the start conditions in the unit file.
and LP says "just don't do that, EWONTFIX".
He was being polite. He should just tell people to RTFM.
And his clan call us haters.
No. Ignorant maybe, but not haters.
Shades of lost productivity, near windows-like.
Yeah that's what happens when you adopt a system and spend more effort complaining than simply reading the manual.
It was really fun trying to figure out why a system with a failed mount wouldn't shut down clean without a hard power off - because it couldn't unmount what it had failed to mount.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can get their system in that kind of a state.
it caused me a ton of unnecessary unpaid work
Systemd can't help you with a poorly worded employment contract.
You data is sold, to advertisers, it is just not given to them.
If that were even remotely true then maybe Google's customers should sue for not getting what they were sold.
Instead data isn't sold. A targeted advertising service is sold. I'm not sure why you would even try and write the sentence you did, though Slashdot being an international site it's possible English isn't your first language.
No. Because he's about to take the highest office of the court where for the rest of his life he will be faced with very difficult decisions that have serious outcomes on many people he should be perfectly calm. Defending himself against a claim without evidence should be childs play to someone who has spent their life in the courtroom, instead we got what we saw last week.
The fact you think this requirement is horseshit for a nominee of the supreme court is FUCKING SCARY.
"We believe you were for him until the hearing." -- No one
Why not? I'm not American. I don't live in America. I have zero skin in the game and his actions won't affect me in the slightest. From the outside it looks liked a smear campaign which was continuously ramping up the character attacks starting from the plausible (the incident in question) to the ludicrous (the gang-rape accusation that was never reported).
It had all the marks of a fabricated story,... right until he gave his piss poor flailing defense.
He wasn't a judge in that situation, he was an accused person.
People have a standard response mechanism and demeanor for various situations. He wasn't an accused person as much as he was someone who had to answer a difficult question with real consequences.
You just got a taste for the thought process that goes on in his mind when faced with such a decision. As I said, not supreme court material. There are 24 other judges which could be nominated equally conservative and happy to wear the republican's collar. I don't understand why anyone would defend his appointment.
Out of 350million Americans, surely you can find 9 qualified people without having to elect up questionable douchebag who cracks under a bit of pressure, especially given as many have pointed out there's no shred of evidence against him.
It was. A quite composed person presenting no evidence was up against a future supreme court judge who despite the complete lack of evidence against him came across guilty as heck, not to mention showing behaviour in-front of the senate completely unbecoming of a judge (just a normal judge, not even an important one).
Me before the questioning: That chick is a plant from the left. Me after the questioning: Holy crap his a guilty arsehole who shouldn't ever hold any important position, I wonder what else he's done, I mean other than spitroasting some girl and then pretending that his documentation of it was a drinking game.
It's completely "he said/she said" but actually worse than that because even the people she named have said that they don't remember any such event.
The great thing about he said/she said events is watching out how the result plays out in the actions of the people.
I was on Kavanaugh's side right up until last week. But his actions at the senate inquiry are completely unbecoming of a judge, any judge, not even a supreme court judge, and that's all before you consider that given his responses he looks shady and guilty as heck.
Even if it did happen and was a single event at age 17 and he would have been caught and punished
There are many reasons why that isn't the case and also a whole hearted fuck you for excusing the behaviour.
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and stop pushing a tablet-like GUI
Computers are changing. MS didn't invent the touchscreen. If you want a never updated, never modernised computing experience then run Linux with Gnome 2 and leave the rest of us to progress.
Could have been. He must also have been tasked to video the entire process. Or maybe it was just Bansky I mean it's not like anyone would recognise him.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo...
Given the video Banksy posted on his Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo...
I wish I had such little credibility for my works to be worth millions.
Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone
Why? What a waste of battery. A simple 433MHz receiver sitting idle would do it. The battery would last for years. Banksy was in the room at the time of the auction and videoing the process, so at the very least if it WAS a cell phone based system then it wasn't triggered by the phone Banksy was holding.
I agree on the weight though.
I take that back. Banksy himself videoed it. There were plenty of cameras at the event.
What I find amazing is that there doesn't seem to be a video showing actual shredding. Just the aftermath.
High end auctions are typically quite private events. I wouldn't be surprised if videoing the proceedings will get you "kindly asked to leave".
So any claim that is is "destroyed" is factually false. At worst it is "damaged".
If this was actually the work of Bansky himself the artwork is now not so much "destroy" or "damaged" as it is "completed".
Serious question, why is it ALWAYS the Americans who steal and pull stunts like these?
I like to shit on Americans as much as anyone. But the "stunt like theses" appears to be successfully funding a kickstarter, working hard to make it a reality, and when it didn't pan out for reasons nothing to do with "running off" open sourcing all the work put in to date, then I think your insult isn't as insulting as you may think.
As for your serious question of why: Your Selection Bias
was supposed to steadily provide over 2kwh of electricity for at least 14 years
Nothing about this mission was supposed to last for 14 years.
It is insane to try to process something like that with fragile macros.
Macros? I thought we were talking about people who are good at Excel.
So you can afford a license for MS Excel
The license for Excel is "free". Everyone using Excel already has Word. There's no version of Office where you get Word without Excel. Any business will have this as part of their package that includes Outlook (effectively making Word free too).
Learn to use the right tool for the job instead of using shitty tools.
Per my other reply with a tiny stable dataset Excel is the right tool for the job. With an ever changing dataset SQL is the right tool ... on the backend ... where your query will export the results to Excel.
The rest I agree with. Many people would be surprised to find their computers probably already have an SQL server running. It's incredible the number of commercial programs that use SQL behind the scenes and install it.
Why are you using a spreadsheet when you have that much data? It's completely the wrong tool.
It's not the data that defines the tool with that tiny dataset. Excel is everywhere, easily usable, adaptable, and transferable. By comparison if you're writing SQL queries and putting your data in a database all you're likely to do is confuse everyone else... and that's before considering that at the end of it all you will be exporting that SQL query into some Excel table for final presentation anyway.
"much data"? Really? With 10000 rows and columns A through Z filled excel will most likely still operate in realtime unless you're writing VBscript.
slower and are more expensive than AMD chips
Because for the people who've assessed the risk and determined Meltdown to be irrelevant to them (should be pretty much 100% of consumers) and those people who require single threaded performance, Intel is still very much the performance king.
They kept the firmware completely current
EVERY B350 / X370 has current firmware.
All manufacturers were forced to issue a BIOS update a few months ago with the release of Ryzen 2 which is incompatible with the existing BIOSes on boards with those chipsets. So incompatible that if you go out and buy a B350 and a Ryzen 2 there's a chance you may think it's Dead On Arrival.
AMD even offer a "kit" for you to fix this. If you take a photo of your 2ng Gen Ryzen, your motherboard including serial numbers for both and a receipt, AMD will mail you an loaner A6 processor and the BIOS on a memory stick so you can get your computer started and perform the required BIOS upgrades.
https://support.amd.com/en-us/...
No I cannot support a recommendation for Gigabyte given the question being asked. To be clear I have a complete Gigabyte setup. I have had Gigabyte motherboards for the best part of 20 years. They are very reliable and well built having never had a failure regardless of how much I've pushed the boundaries overclocking.
However... Their software and BIOS can only be described as a complete crock of shit. They should outsource their software to the lowest bidder in India, it can only improve the current state of it. Their manuals are poorly written. There's headers and options on in the BIOS that are not described at all. The only BIOS updates they ever seem to push out are the occasional compatibility upgrade.
I have the opposite experience software wise with ASRock. The software and support is great, however the one non-gigabyte motherboard I do have is AS Rock and is also the only motherboard I've ever had to RMA due to randomly failing in operation. The RMA process was great, but the fact I needed to do so, not so great.
Mind you the question is irrelevant for Spectre and Meltdown. Meltdown can't be fixed in soft/firmware and Spectre is a microcode update. You don't need the BIOS to do that, every OS has this capability already.
all of which worked fine here for years
Seriously you realise that systemd was build precisely because the things you listed didn't work fine for years.
shares didn't mount because they tried and failed before there was an IP address
Fix your startup order in the unit file.
things like conky get started in an endless timeout loop
Fix the start conditions in the unit file.
and LP says "just don't do that, EWONTFIX".
He was being polite. He should just tell people to RTFM.
And his clan call us haters.
No. Ignorant maybe, but not haters.
Shades of lost productivity, near windows-like.
Yeah that's what happens when you adopt a system and spend more effort complaining than simply reading the manual.
It was really fun trying to figure out why a system with a failed mount wouldn't shut down clean without a hard power off - because it couldn't unmount what it had failed to mount.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can get their system in that kind of a state.
it caused me a ton of unnecessary unpaid work
Systemd can't help you with a poorly worded employment contract.
And may someday have a python api to do what everyone else does with bash.
If you think people are using bash to work with the SD-BUS API you either don't know Bash, or don't know the API being talked about.
You data is sold, to advertisers, it is just not given to them.
If that were even remotely true then maybe Google's customers should sue for not getting what they were sold.
Instead data isn't sold. A targeted advertising service is sold. I'm not sure why you would even try and write the sentence you did, though Slashdot being an international site it's possible English isn't your first language.
Errr no. You fundamentally failed to understand how Google's advertising model works.
No. Because he's about to take the highest office of the court where for the rest of his life he will be faced with very difficult decisions that have serious outcomes on many people he should be perfectly calm. Defending himself against a claim without evidence should be childs play to someone who has spent their life in the courtroom, instead we got what we saw last week.
The fact you think this requirement is horseshit for a nominee of the supreme court is FUCKING SCARY.
"We believe you were for him until the hearing." -- No one
Why not? I'm not American. I don't live in America. I have zero skin in the game and his actions won't affect me in the slightest. From the outside it looks liked a smear campaign which was continuously ramping up the character attacks starting from the plausible (the incident in question) to the ludicrous (the gang-rape accusation that was never reported).
It had all the marks of a fabricated story, ... right until he gave his piss poor flailing defense.
He wasn't a judge in that situation, he was an accused person.
People have a standard response mechanism and demeanor for various situations. He wasn't an accused person as much as he was someone who had to answer a difficult question with real consequences.
You just got a taste for the thought process that goes on in his mind when faced with such a decision. As I said, not supreme court material. There are 24 other judges which could be nominated equally conservative and happy to wear the republican's collar. I don't understand why anyone would defend his appointment.
Out of 350million Americans, surely you can find 9 qualified people without having to elect up questionable douchebag who cracks under a bit of pressure, especially given as many have pointed out there's no shred of evidence against him.
It's really quite amazing to watch.
It was. A quite composed person presenting no evidence was up against a future supreme court judge who despite the complete lack of evidence against him came across guilty as heck, not to mention showing behaviour in-front of the senate completely unbecoming of a judge (just a normal judge, not even an important one).
Me before the questioning: That chick is a plant from the left.
Me after the questioning: Holy crap his a guilty arsehole who shouldn't ever hold any important position, I wonder what else he's done, I mean other than spitroasting some girl and then pretending that his documentation of it was a drinking game.
It's completely "he said/she said" but actually worse than that because even the people she named have said that they don't remember any such event.
The great thing about he said/she said events is watching out how the result plays out in the actions of the people.
I was on Kavanaugh's side right up until last week. But his actions at the senate inquiry are completely unbecoming of a judge, any judge, not even a supreme court judge, and that's all before you consider that given his responses he looks shady and guilty as heck.
Even if it did happen and was a single event at age 17 and he would have been caught and punished
There are many reasons why that isn't the case and also a whole hearted fuck you for excusing the behaviour.