Damn.... It'll be interesting to hear the Apple haters rationalise this.
Other than Apple eating the cost of its devices? After all, before Google showed the world how cheap these adapters actually are, do you even remember the cost of the Apple adapter?
you start moving your own "rarely used" files? C:\Windows\WinSXS is a perennial problem.
The principle idea is to not move anything to the cloud that would require the system to keep functioning. Why not delete that folder and see how far you get?
What about the SoftwareDistribution directory? What about all of your uninstallers and other crap that fills up my Windows directory? How about let's look at moving that stuff to the cloud first, eh?
No need. Cloud backup is the last of the steps for cleaning disk space. It is done *after* the cleanup of the very files you are talking about. You won't see you files clouded and deleted due to disk space while there are still uninstallers or past windows versions present as long as they are past their brief retention period. But hey I'm sure you'll be the first to complain too when a windows update borks your system and you are unable to roll back because you preferenced some data you haven't used in years over a very recent system change.
I don't have a single file in the cloud. Why? Because I know that storing stuff in the cloud means "storing it on someone else's computer".
For most people, someone else's computer is more secure and better backed up than their own.
I have enough disk space, and I'm not a selfie-holic, that local storage isn't an issue. I burn stuff I care about to a thumb drive every month or so, and store important stuff to a NAS.
That's not a reason not to use a cloud service. If anything that's a reason to setup OwnCloud or Seafile on your NAS box and turn up your nose at plebs seeking commercial services. Until now, the existence of Cloud services has had nothing to do with disk space at all.
A fire at home could wipe out all my data
Well I was wrong. Looks like someone else's computer does it better than you too.
Sure I'll just slot that 14TB HDD into my 8mm thick device to say nothing of my mobile phone.
In other words, don't be silly. The size of 3.5" HDDs have nothing to do with the benefits of any cloud service used on devices much smaller than the HDDs you are quoting.
Which Windows? The shitty little consumer versions (which incidentally allow you to disable this feature we are talking about). Or the Windows versions actually designed for business which have none of the problems you complain about?
You simply cannot use it offline anymore and with this "feature" it is now pure garbage.
I have a better assertion for you: Ignorant people shouldn't use computers for business.
From a company that still has not figured out how security works.
[Citation Required] Can you point to an example of a breach of the OneDrive service? Or their cloud service in general? I mean sure I can come up with examples from Amazon and Apple, but when you make a claim like that you should be prepared to back it up.
Yes you won't have files magically disappear if they have never appeared on your device in the first place. Bring back the hour long IrDA transfers! Woot.
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It's because of them that I have websites constantly saying, "We use cookies on our website to track you" et cetera.
Yeah damn them providing choice rather than just loading you with so much tracking garbage that your browser slows to a crawl. You should google how much faster common websites load in the EU compared to the USA because of that pesky meddling. The time you spent clicking ignore is well made up for how much time you save not loading tracking scripts and planting 100 cookies for a stateless loginless session.
Nothing. What happened to you that you don't like your Slashdot talking about DRM, technological bypasses and laws that infringe on the rights of hackers and tinkerers? When did your inner nerd die?
If you want to avoid higher-order artifacts (think: wheels in film appearing to roll backwards), Nyquist minimum isn't good enough.
I hear you. You know how doesn't? The endless army of audiophiles who can't tell the two formats apart. Nyquist is the bare minimum for the person with perfect hearing, and even those people haven't been able to tell content at the two different sample rates let alone bit depths apart in A/B testing.
If your output is locked to 48KHz, playback of 44.1KHz source will always be compromised.
No one caring about the source of their music will be listening on equipment with a single locked master source.
TL/DR: Nyquist is a rock-bottom minimum, not a guarantee of adequacy.
Before you claim about the lack of adequacy, find some definitive sources of people who can prove in A/B trials that they find 44.1kHz 16bit sources inadequate.
especially when digitally-mixing
Especially irrelevant to consumers. I did not say you don't need higher sample rates or bit depths in the studio, that is a most definite. I said SACD is a failure for consumers because there's no benefit to consumers.
Actually that's not 100% true. At least some studios did put a minimum amount of effort into re-mastering some old releases for the SACD release. But the reality is they could have done that and released the result on CD too and it would have been more than adequate for everyone except for mathematicians.
Are you really stupid enough to think that having unique passwords for absolutely everything gives you security?
Something giving security. You just failed security 101 again, and looked quite the fool calling someone stupid in the process.
For example, I really don't care that my Slashdot password is
So maybe you have a different definition of "important" (your words not mine) than I do.
At the highest tier, yes, unique passwords per service
Cool so we are in agreement. Next time be more verbose and just paste this in the reply box rather than giving poor security advice publically and hoping others will read your mind to get the complete picture.
Me:"So then, would it be ok if I install a microphone in your home that records whatever you say and have the recordings sent back to me? I will only store them, promise never to listen to them, and never use them for any other purpose without your consent. You can trust me!"
Your logical fallacy is Equivocation!
Trusting a data aggregator who doesn't know you and makes it a business to aggregate and protect your data with predictable outcomes is nothing at all like trusting your data with some person who is collecting your data specifically and has a specific link to you.
Now that said I don't like the idea of a listening device in my house either, but your arguement still fails to understand the principles of trust and how they apply to people.
I am like you. We have a unboxed Google Home here which I won in a competition I was peer pressured into joining.
My mother on the other hand thinks it's the best kitchen accessory ever. I mean she exclusively uses it now to add things to a shopping list while she's cooking but she's absolutely amazed that this device has solved the very real problem for her that was having a short term memory that sucks and getting food all over her iPhone when she uses the last of an ingredient while cooking.
Surround sound with 96khz 24-bit audio was supposed to be the NORM by now. And it probably would have been, if the music industry and consumer electronics industries hadn't fucked up SACD so completely and thoroughly with DRM....
Never attributed to DRM that which could be attributed to 96khz 24-bit audio being frigging pointless with no audible benefits to the consumer.
Mind you, never use them while commuting. On public transport, good ol' $10 earbuds are far superior.
Yeah because when in an environment with noise a far better solution is to blast your ears to hell trying to drown out the background with nasty garbage and leave your good sounding noise cancelling headphones at home.
Man I normally say this in jest, but in this case you literally are doing it wrong.
Do yourself a favour, get some nice sounding headphones, keep the B&Os for commutes, and throw the $10 earbuds in the bin and then set the bin on fire for good measure.
I don't care about audio quality that much when listening on my phone because I listen as I'm walking down the street, with cars, people making noise etc.
Who comes up with this stuff? Who would spend more for headphones than they do on their gadgets?
Since when is a headphone anything other than a special purpose gadget? Also with phones topping the $1000 mark you can pretty much buy the second from the top model of headphones from any manufacturer now without incurring the wrath of your arbitrary anger.
All these systems have cryptographic exchanges. Just because one specific imlimentation of it contained a flaw that allows an attacker to gain a access to the secret key doesn't mean that all systems have the same flaw. Unless you're implying in an industry where everyone reinvents everything and designs everything custom to themselves suddenly thought it was a great idea to standardise on one code base for keyfobs.
Potatoe Potatoe. Your post is 100% correct when you're talking about SQL tables. Though speaking of tables what happens when you table a piece of legislation in the UK vs tabling a piece of legislation in the USA?
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requiring us to keep a drawer full of cords and dongles of one sort or another.
No that's silly. Just throw away all your old hardware. It doesn't have any street cred anymore anyway.
Damn .... It'll be interesting to hear the Apple haters rationalise this.
Other than Apple eating the cost of its devices? After all, before Google showed the world how cheap these adapters actually are, do you even remember the cost of the Apple adapter?
How about instead of randomly deleting
It's not random.
you start moving your own "rarely used" files? C:\Windows\WinSXS is a perennial problem.
The principle idea is to not move anything to the cloud that would require the system to keep functioning. Why not delete that folder and see how far you get?
What about the SoftwareDistribution directory? What about all of your uninstallers and other crap that fills up my Windows directory? How about let's look at moving that stuff to the cloud first, eh?
No need. Cloud backup is the last of the steps for cleaning disk space. It is done *after* the cleanup of the very files you are talking about. You won't see you files clouded and deleted due to disk space while there are still uninstallers or past windows versions present as long as they are past their brief retention period. But hey I'm sure you'll be the first to complain too when a windows update borks your system and you are unable to roll back because you preferenced some data you haven't used in years over a very recent system change.
I don't have a single file in the cloud. Why? Because I know that storing stuff in the cloud means "storing it on someone else's computer".
For most people, someone else's computer is more secure and better backed up than their own.
I have enough disk space, and I'm not a selfie-holic, that local storage isn't an issue. I burn stuff I care about to a thumb drive every month or so, and store important stuff to a NAS.
That's not a reason not to use a cloud service. If anything that's a reason to setup OwnCloud or Seafile on your NAS box and turn up your nose at plebs seeking commercial services. Until now, the existence of Cloud services has had nothing to do with disk space at all.
A fire at home could wipe out all my data
Well I was wrong. Looks like someone else's computer does it better than you too.
Now they want to offload tempt files across my line too?
No. Now they provide you the option to do so. But don't let that get in the way of your fake rage.
Sure I'll just slot that 14TB HDD into my 8mm thick device to say nothing of my mobile phone.
In other words, don't be silly. The size of 3.5" HDDs have nothing to do with the benefits of any cloud service used on devices much smaller than the HDDs you are quoting.
Why do you leave suggested apps enabled? Do you enable it just so you have something to complain about?
Windows
Which Windows? The shitty little consumer versions (which incidentally allow you to disable this feature we are talking about). Or the Windows versions actually designed for business which have none of the problems you complain about?
You simply cannot use it offline anymore and with this "feature" it is now pure garbage.
I have a better assertion for you: Ignorant people shouldn't use computers for business.
From a company that still has not figured out how security works.
[Citation Required] Can you point to an example of a breach of the OneDrive service? Or their cloud service in general? I mean sure I can come up with examples from Amazon and Apple, but when you make a claim like that you should be prepared to back it up.
Yes you won't have files magically disappear if they have never appeared on your device in the first place. Bring back the hour long IrDA transfers! Woot.
I thought the US solution under DMCA was good
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It's because of them that I have websites constantly saying, "We use cookies on our website to track you" et cetera.
Yeah damn them providing choice rather than just loading you with so much tracking garbage that your browser slows to a crawl. You should google how much faster common websites load in the EU compared to the USA because of that pesky meddling. The time you spent clicking ignore is well made up for how much time you save not loading tracking scripts and planting 100 cookies for a stateless loginless session.
Nothing. What happened to you that you don't like your Slashdot talking about DRM, technological bypasses and laws that infringe on the rights of hackers and tinkerers? When did your inner nerd die?
If you want to avoid higher-order artifacts (think: wheels in film appearing to roll backwards), Nyquist minimum isn't good enough.
I hear you. You know how doesn't? The endless army of audiophiles who can't tell the two formats apart. Nyquist is the bare minimum for the person with perfect hearing, and even those people haven't been able to tell content at the two different sample rates let alone bit depths apart in A/B testing.
If your output is locked to 48KHz, playback of 44.1KHz source will always be compromised.
No one caring about the source of their music will be listening on equipment with a single locked master source.
TL/DR: Nyquist is a rock-bottom minimum, not a guarantee of adequacy.
Before you claim about the lack of adequacy, find some definitive sources of people who can prove in A/B trials that they find 44.1kHz 16bit sources inadequate.
especially when digitally-mixing
Especially irrelevant to consumers. I did not say you don't need higher sample rates or bit depths in the studio, that is a most definite. I said SACD is a failure for consumers because there's no benefit to consumers.
Actually that's not 100% true. At least some studios did put a minimum amount of effort into re-mastering some old releases for the SACD release. But the reality is they could have done that and released the result on CD too and it would have been more than adequate for everyone except for mathematicians.
Why not work 38 hours and have 5% more?
Oh it's linear is it? Fuck I'm working 60 hours a week. Pay off that mortgage faster.
Are you really stupid enough to think that having unique passwords for absolutely everything gives you security?
Something giving security. You just failed security 101 again, and looked quite the fool calling someone stupid in the process.
For example, I really don't care that my Slashdot password is
So maybe you have a different definition of "important" (your words not mine) than I do.
At the highest tier, yes, unique passwords per service
Cool so we are in agreement. Next time be more verbose and just paste this in the reply box rather than giving poor security advice publically and hoping others will read your mind to get the complete picture.
Corproate planning in a nutshell :-)
Me:"So then, would it be ok if I install a microphone in your home that records whatever you say and have the recordings sent back to me? I will only store them, promise never to listen to them, and never use them for any other purpose without your consent. You can trust me!"
Your logical fallacy is Equivocation!
Trusting a data aggregator who doesn't know you and makes it a business to aggregate and protect your data with predictable outcomes is nothing at all like trusting your data with some person who is collecting your data specifically and has a specific link to you.
Now that said I don't like the idea of a listening device in my house either, but your arguement still fails to understand the principles of trust and how they apply to people.
I can't imagine where they would be useful
I am like you. We have a unboxed Google Home here which I won in a competition I was peer pressured into joining.
My mother on the other hand thinks it's the best kitchen accessory ever. I mean she exclusively uses it now to add things to a shopping list while she's cooking but she's absolutely amazed that this device has solved the very real problem for her that was having a short term memory that sucks and getting food all over her iPhone when she uses the last of an ingredient while cooking.
Surround sound with 96khz 24-bit audio was supposed to be the NORM by now. And it probably would have been, if the music industry and consumer electronics industries hadn't fucked up SACD so completely and thoroughly with DRM....
Never attributed to DRM that which could be attributed to 96khz 24-bit audio being frigging pointless with no audible benefits to the consumer.
Mind you, never use them while commuting. On public transport, good ol' $10 earbuds are far superior.
Yeah because when in an environment with noise a far better solution is to blast your ears to hell trying to drown out the background with nasty garbage and leave your good sounding noise cancelling headphones at home.
Man I normally say this in jest, but in this case you literally are doing it wrong.
Do yourself a favour, get some nice sounding headphones, keep the B&Os for commutes, and throw the $10 earbuds in the bin and then set the bin on fire for good measure.
I don't care about audio quality that much when listening on my phone because I listen as I'm walking down the street, with cars, people making noise etc.
Noise cancelling. Closed ear systems. Sound blocking plugs with drivers built-in.
There are many solutions to your problem often even with expensive headphones.
Who comes up with this stuff? Who would spend more for headphones than they do on their gadgets?
Since when is a headphone anything other than a special purpose gadget? Also with phones topping the $1000 mark you can pretty much buy the second from the top model of headphones from any manufacturer now without incurring the wrath of your arbitrary anger.
Wait.
No.
It does not.
All these systems have cryptographic exchanges. Just because one specific imlimentation of it contained a flaw that allows an attacker to gain a access to the secret key doesn't mean that all systems have the same flaw. Unless you're implying in an industry where everyone reinvents everything and designs everything custom to themselves suddenly thought it was a great idea to standardise on one code base for keyfobs.
Potatoe Potatoe. Your post is 100% correct when you're talking about SQL tables. Though speaking of tables what happens when you table a piece of legislation in the UK vs tabling a piece of legislation in the USA?
How many programs did you download to your PC?
1563 according to apt, and I don't even have an office suite installed on it.