Not at all. Yes to anti-competitive, but they didn't deliberately compromise anything. They implemented a common mechanism to speed up processes used by a variety of vendors which at the time had no demonstrated security implications, arguably you could say theoretical but even then only indirectly.
2 jobs ago, engineering company. Got made redundant with a nice payout, started another job 1 week later. Several years on, plant was closed. Got made redundant with a nice payout, started another job 2 days later.
Currently the bow is going under on this sinking ship. Another comment above says first to leave the sinking ship gets a spot on the adjacent one. Me, I prefer to wait for the bounty.
Just the other day I was complaining about too much choice in the headphone market. By systematically eliminating all the wired options this is positively awesome for consumers. Apple helping simplify technology yet again.
And in case anyone doesn't see that for the obvious sarcasm it is, extend your right hand, make a fist, and then as quickly as possible move your clenched fist to the back of your head in a straight line.
Germany, Japan, China, India, and a number of 3rd world nations keep adding new coal plants, instead of focusing on AE.
Sorry but horseshit. They aren't adding new Coal plants, they are replacing existing coal plants with new ones that are more efficient and somewhat cleaner. On top of that aside from Japan the three other countries you list have among the most aggressive AE strategy in the world absolutely dwarfing the efforts of most countries in terms of both spend and capacity.
India has one of the largest percentages of renewable energy in the world in its energy mix many thanks to hydro power. China accounted for some 50% of the $250bn spent last year on renewable projects. Germany is number 2 in the world for solar consumption in their mix and number 1 in production per capita. Number 4 in the world for wind capacity, and number 1 in production per capita. Japan, I didn't know much about Japan but while double checking a figure from Germany I found they are number 2 behind Germany for all the above.
And in actual production and consumption China is number 1 on all renewable fronts.
Speaking of coal in Germany you should check out some of those awesome projects. Datteln 4 a new 1.1GW coal plant will cause the closure of Datteln 1, 2 and 3, while producing more power than all of them combined by a factor of 2, with a significant reduction of the emissions thanks to it's best in class efficiency compared to the 60s era units it will replace. That's before you take into account this plant will produce a small fraction of the NOx, SOx, and particulate emissions and will use waste heat to provide central heating to houses allowing them to shut down an old central heating system as well. Yay coal!
Worse, so many will act like this is OK for all these nations.
We have trump in America, but in spite of him/GOP, our coal consumption and CO2 continues downward (though not as much).
Of course we do, because it IS okay for those nations. What's not okay is Americans thinking they are in any way at the forefront of fighting emissions when in fact you are among the worse polluters per capita and among the most wasteful in terms of energy consumption per household in the world.
Shame on you. Be more like China. Be more like India. Be more like Germany and Japan!
There's no problem with sticking to rules. The problem is the formation and design of the rules in the first place. The Dutch are good at sticking to rules too, however the rules don't actually get in the way of progress.
In Germany specifically sticking to the rules IS a waste of time and the rules result in very little benefit other than to keep the bureaucratic wheel turning and people employed. Japan has a similar culture and set of rules.
Please. Windows hasn't been a malware magnet for years. The vast majority of malware out there targets applications (Adobe is good for this) and silly users who will run executables with admin privileges. There's very little malware out there targeting any OS these days.
A quick guide on how things work in Germany, not just in politics but also in private businesses. All those things you hold for granted in the USA, the ability to work together with someone from another department, or the adoption of an "idea" all of those have hopelessly bureaucratic channels to work through. Pretty much every thing you need to do over here involves you doing the hard work up front off the books to convince your boss (or someone else's) that doing the hard work is actually worth the time after which you will get approval to do the hard work formally retrospectively.
There is not a single thing I have done in Germany in the past 9 months where the paperwork doesn't say that the decision was made before the analysis, however in the interest of never having an idea knocked back because the analysis fails to backup the idea it is actually always done beforehand, bonus points that they have a working example to draw on making this unofficial analysis easy.
Don't believe everything you read verbatim in the media. Especially in politics, and especially in such a frigging super stricked black and white rule oriented country like Germany.
Yeah I know. We'll all be writing our dissertations on our phones shortly. Which kind of leads me to my point: You'll be doing it with Microsoft Office on Android.
Google is moving radidly into the full PC desktop space with ChromeOS aka Linux (check out Crostini [chromeunboxed.com]) and they already have a lock on the cloud productivity space.
Are you high? ChomeOS is a blip in a rounding error of the market share. It's right there in your original link you posted. As for having a lock on the cloud productivity space I find it amazing they are able to do that with 6% of the cloud market share, a small fraction of what Microsoft and Amazon offer.
Why? Kids playing with toys doesn't affect the OS that is used to keep the economy going. And if someone decided they do want to attempt to do work on their phone, MS is right there with the complete office suite available on Android.
If EU is not a friend anymore according to Trump, why does the EU allow USA software in their administration?
Because the EU like the rest of the sane world understand that shit coming from Trump's mouth is just that. Also common, EU is not a friend? Where did you get that idea from? Tuesday? As of Wednesday we're besties working towards open trade and Junker even gave Trump a kiss on the cheek.
Don't worry though, a stopped clock is wrong twice a day, and pretty much anything you think Trump thinks about something or someone is probably correct every other week too. Now that we're besties I fully expect him to launch drone strikes against Brussels.
That this is being done *without* a cost-benefit analysis.
That's an big assumption right there, and a stupid one given that some of the proposed "benefits" as well as money set aside for the "costs" are listed in the article.
By definition, DLLs and shared libraries must provide a way to call the code that's inside them, no matter where in memory they are located.
All of which doesn't help at all if your side channel attack specifically is designed to leak out memory contents rather than actually sit there making system calls.
Like using any normal computer. You're thinking small if you're talking about workload. The reality is your computer is constantly doing many things. You have a single thread somewhere? It may benefit anyway while your 35 chrome processes are sitting in a wait state, defender constantly scanning things in the background, think graphics and video editing is so rare? Maybe you should actually look at your fellow people.
Hyperthreadding may have negative impacts on single threads that peg a core when your computer is doing absolutely nothing else at all, but it benefits precisely because that use case is rare. People often complain about a lack of multithreadding and completely fail to see precisely how many hundreds of things their computer are trying to do at once just to keep the UI running smoothly in the face of a varied CPU load.
If these are the kinds of things you might randomly say, your Russian roulette, please - get help.
This is the kind of thing someone would say not at all understanding the entertainment industry or the human brain. But let's point out two things in isolation:
a) James Gunn was a filmmaker whose art 10+ years ago relied heavily on shock humour. To get recognised you need to make your mark in people's minds. Blow their minds, shock their minds, make them think you're incredibly stupid, whatever. You need to do something that gets you noticed and usually that something will be in line with your general artistic direction too. Typically these people use a persona to further their art and their twitter may be a reflection of their directing style but not necessarily their beliefs.
b) 10 years ago. People develop, people change. Maybe he did get help? Maybe you're punishing a reformed person for something they no longer are. 10 years is a long time and I personally wouldn't say a lot of the shit I said 10 years ago, not through some reformation but rather because we as persons continuously develop based on the experiences we encounter in this thing called life. You should compare the brutality of his films from the era of his tweet to what he is producing now to see how even the artistic persona develops over time with a person.
Bonus round: c) I drank a beer and LOLed. Maybe you just need a new sense of humour.
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Anybody that wants fast I/O rates should avoid Intel like the plague until further notice.
Why? 99.99% have workloads where meltdown are completely irrelevant.
and by deliberately compromising security
Not at all. Yes to anti-competitive, but they didn't deliberately compromise anything. They implemented a common mechanism to speed up processes used by a variety of vendors which at the time had no demonstrated security implications, arguably you could say theoretical but even then only indirectly.
So you picked the former.
providing an operating system which users can use to revive their old computers, but bringing this to the age of modern computing
Pick one. You can't have both.
2 jobs ago, engineering company. Got made redundant with a nice payout, started another job 1 week later.
Several years on, plant was closed. Got made redundant with a nice payout, started another job 2 days later.
Currently the bow is going under on this sinking ship. Another comment above says first to leave the sinking ship gets a spot on the adjacent one. Me, I prefer to wait for the bounty.
Just the other day I was complaining about too much choice in the headphone market. By systematically eliminating all the wired options this is positively awesome for consumers. Apple helping simplify technology yet again.
And in case anyone doesn't see that for the obvious sarcasm it is, extend your right hand, make a fist, and then as quickly as possible move your clenched fist to the back of your head in a straight line.
Germany, Japan, China, India, and a number of 3rd world nations keep adding new coal plants, instead of focusing on AE.
Sorry but horseshit. They aren't adding new Coal plants, they are replacing existing coal plants with new ones that are more efficient and somewhat cleaner. On top of that aside from Japan the three other countries you list have among the most aggressive AE strategy in the world absolutely dwarfing the efforts of most countries in terms of both spend and capacity.
India has one of the largest percentages of renewable energy in the world in its energy mix many thanks to hydro power.
China accounted for some 50% of the $250bn spent last year on renewable projects.
Germany is number 2 in the world for solar consumption in their mix and number 1 in production per capita. Number 4 in the world for wind capacity, and number 1 in production per capita.
Japan, I didn't know much about Japan but while double checking a figure from Germany I found they are number 2 behind Germany for all the above.
And in actual production and consumption China is number 1 on all renewable fronts.
Speaking of coal in Germany you should check out some of those awesome projects. Datteln 4 a new 1.1GW coal plant will cause the closure of Datteln 1, 2 and 3, while producing more power than all of them combined by a factor of 2, with a significant reduction of the emissions thanks to it's best in class efficiency compared to the 60s era units it will replace. That's before you take into account this plant will produce a small fraction of the NOx, SOx, and particulate emissions and will use waste heat to provide central heating to houses allowing them to shut down an old central heating system as well. Yay coal!
Worse, so many will act like this is OK for all these nations.
We have trump in America, but in spite of him/GOP, our coal consumption and CO2 continues downward (though not as much).
Of course we do, because it IS okay for those nations. What's not okay is Americans thinking they are in any way at the forefront of fighting emissions when in fact you are among the worse polluters per capita and among the most wasteful in terms of energy consumption per household in the world.
Shame on you. Be more like China. Be more like India. Be more like Germany and Japan!
In other words, you should expect regression to the mean, not divergence.
You're talking to someone who just suggested using statistics to show the world isn't warming, I suggest you don't use such big complicated words.
There's no problem with sticking to rules. The problem is the formation and design of the rules in the first place. The Dutch are good at sticking to rules too, however the rules don't actually get in the way of progress.
In Germany specifically sticking to the rules IS a waste of time and the rules result in very little benefit other than to keep the bureaucratic wheel turning and people employed. Japan has a similar culture and set of rules.
Please. Windows hasn't been a malware magnet for years. The vast majority of malware out there targets applications (Adobe is good for this) and silly users who will run executables with admin privileges. There's very little malware out there targeting any OS these days.
I do wonder given the have 1300 employees.
Decision was made before the analysis was done.
A quick guide on how things work in Germany, not just in politics but also in private businesses. All those things you hold for granted in the USA, the ability to work together with someone from another department, or the adoption of an "idea" all of those have hopelessly bureaucratic channels to work through. Pretty much every thing you need to do over here involves you doing the hard work up front off the books to convince your boss (or someone else's) that doing the hard work is actually worth the time after which you will get approval to do the hard work formally retrospectively.
There is not a single thing I have done in Germany in the past 9 months where the paperwork doesn't say that the decision was made before the analysis, however in the interest of never having an idea knocked back because the analysis fails to backup the idea it is actually always done beforehand, bonus points that they have a working example to draw on making this unofficial analysis easy.
Don't believe everything you read verbatim in the media. Especially in politics, and especially in such a frigging super stricked black and white rule oriented country like Germany.
Yeah I know. We'll all be writing our dissertations on our phones shortly. Which kind of leads me to my point: You'll be doing it with Microsoft Office on Android.
Google is moving radidly into the full PC desktop space with ChromeOS aka Linux (check out Crostini [chromeunboxed.com]) and they already have a lock on the cloud productivity space.
Are you high? ChomeOS is a blip in a rounding error of the market share. It's right there in your original link you posted. As for having a lock on the cloud productivity space I find it amazing they are able to do that with 6% of the cloud market share, a small fraction of what Microsoft and Amazon offer.
Why? Kids playing with toys doesn't affect the OS that is used to keep the economy going. And if someone decided they do want to attempt to do work on their phone, MS is right there with the complete office suite available on Android.
If EU is not a friend anymore according to Trump, why does the EU allow USA software in their administration?
Because the EU like the rest of the sane world understand that shit coming from Trump's mouth is just that. Also common, EU is not a friend? Where did you get that idea from? Tuesday? As of Wednesday we're besties working towards open trade and Junker even gave Trump a kiss on the cheek.
Don't worry though, a stopped clock is wrong twice a day, and pretty much anything you think Trump thinks about something or someone is probably correct every other week too. Now that we're besties I fully expect him to launch drone strikes against Brussels.
That this is being done *without* a cost-benefit analysis.
That's an big assumption right there, and a stupid one given that some of the proposed "benefits" as well as money set aside for the "costs" are listed in the article.
Willingly paying for closed source malware and spyware isn't my idea of using money wisely.
Since when do enterprises get the malware and spyware version?
By definition, DLLs and shared libraries must provide a way to call the code that's inside them, no matter where in memory they are located.
All of which doesn't help at all if your side channel attack specifically is designed to leak out memory contents rather than actually sit there making system calls.
Like?
Like using any normal computer. You're thinking small if you're talking about workload. The reality is your computer is constantly doing many things. You have a single thread somewhere? It may benefit anyway while your 35 chrome processes are sitting in a wait state, defender constantly scanning things in the background, think graphics and video editing is so rare? Maybe you should actually look at your fellow people.
Hyperthreadding may have negative impacts on single threads that peg a core when your computer is doing absolutely nothing else at all, but it benefits precisely because that use case is rare. People often complain about a lack of multithreadding and completely fail to see precisely how many hundreds of things their computer are trying to do at once just to keep the UI running smoothly in the face of a varied CPU load.
Not really, most real-world workloads don't have enough instruction level parallelism to make use of current Intel cores as it is.
Except for the types of workloads people would normally buy i7s for.
If these are the kinds of things you might randomly say, your Russian roulette, please - get help.
This is the kind of thing someone would say not at all understanding the entertainment industry or the human brain. But let's point out two things in isolation:
a) James Gunn was a filmmaker whose art 10+ years ago relied heavily on shock humour. To get recognised you need to make your mark in people's minds. Blow their minds, shock their minds, make them think you're incredibly stupid, whatever. You need to do something that gets you noticed and usually that something will be in line with your general artistic direction too. Typically these people use a persona to further their art and their twitter may be a reflection of their directing style but not necessarily their beliefs.
b) 10 years ago. People develop, people change. Maybe he did get help? Maybe you're punishing a reformed person for something they no longer are. 10 years is a long time and I personally wouldn't say a lot of the shit I said 10 years ago, not through some reformation but rather because we as persons continuously develop based on the experiences we encounter in this thing called life. You should compare the brutality of his films from the era of his tweet to what he is producing now to see how even the artistic persona develops over time with a person.
Bonus round: c) I drank a beer and LOLed. Maybe you just need a new sense of humour.
And just like on Slashdot the result will be mixed views as people generally agree on different things.
Do people still use Facebook?
Don't be silly. Wishful thinking doesn't make problems go away.
like in commonly used DLLs or shared libraries
Loaded in random memory locations in all modern OSes.