It says nothing of the sort. Given the context of the discussion is updates and security pretty much both of the "Linux" components of those graphs (meaning mobile phones) can happily be combined with Windows.
The "Linux" in the context of this discussion hasn't really changed in market share in the past 10 years.
demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated
Aaaahahahahahahaha
+5 Funny. Now to move on to some insightful discussion that actually makes any kind of sense at all than your idealistic ideas that you or your decision matters. Actually something does matter, your indicision matters and is just likely to get you fired.
Why would workstation absolutely require ECC support? And before you answer have a think about the benefits of ECC vs the risk you're actually mittingating working on a workstation. Not a bank, not some critical file server, but a workstation.
then it's kind of a moot point to talk about it's speed
Why would it be moot?
a) Talking about speed when the software fix for the problems have a speed cost is entirely relevant. b) Talking about a security problem that doesn't affect the vast majority of people should have no impact on speed.
To be honest the presence or absense of Spectre / Meltdown patches will have no bearing on my purchasing decision going forward. I do not provide computers to 3rd parties to analyse my system and execute code as they please. I do not need to segregate systems via virtualisation.
The GP stated that "you can't even put full-frame lenses on crop-frame cameras"
You're right, sorry I misread probably because my brain couldn't parse the obvious wrongness:-)
Canon's switch to the EF mount allowed them to move away from mechanical focus and concentrate on a completely electrical interface between body and lens.
Indeed. My point was that Nikon was able to eventually adopt an electrical connection without changing the mount. IMO the Canon mount is incredibly wasteful on space in their cameras, but on the upside it's so much larger in the first place. But given their original mount was so small they probably didn't have the space for it either and just applied a "go big or go home" approach to the new one.
Canon made a clean break with their older tech to implement something new that gave them some significant advantages in the short term.
Most photographers would not consider adapters that require optical correction to be even remotely acceptable. It's a downside of the mount to focal plane distance changing in the wrong direction. On the upside you should be able to adapt FD lenses to EOS-M cameras in theory. Though I doubt it would make much sense, some of the greatest canon lenses were made in the EF era.
They've hacked on their original mount
I disagree on this but only semantically. If you want to talk about Camera models that is fine, but talking camera mounts there's nothing hacked about the F mount and nothing at all incompatible with older lenses. Even without autofocus the optical image path is preserved and in full working order. They extended their mount with new features but it was far from a hack. Canon didn't have the space so they went a different route and in the process went big allowing them to add features in a different way (electrical contacts vs autoindexing rings), and their advantage was short lived due to the increased cost of lense based motors at the time.
But really your summary is right. There's a lot of Nikon vs Canon stuff, the reality is they leapfog each other with developments while bringing benefits to consumers of both systems as they go. Then Olympus come along out of left field and provide something completely unique in a few places. Phase detection on sensor, combined in lens and in sensor anti-shock, live exposure measurement. I do sometimes get jealous of my girlfriend's camera, especially when they weigh our bags at the airport.
It may be the player capable of playing the most formats independent of system codecs. It may be the player with support for extensible features and filters It may be the best player for transmitting video over the network.
I have it installed for those reasons alone, but I for one use it as a backup. IMO the interface is crap, the file handling is crap, using it is infuriating, seeking accurately is a PITA, and I prefer MPC-HC in every way.
Though maybe once in a blue moon I find a file that doesn't play properly in MPC-HC, then I open it in VLC and usually find it broken enough to not continue trying with VLC as well.
It's not Trump it's a general policy of many countries. Most of Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe do not recognise Taiwan (Republic of China) as a separate country at all. Most of the west recognise that Taiwan exists informally but support a One China solution formally recognising only the People's Republic of China and having either no diplomatic relationship with the ROC or sharing the diplomatic relationship only with the PRC.
Given most of the world takes one stance on this, I'm surprised Trump isn't off shaking hands and kissing Taiwanese babies.
How come airlines are so hesitant to use geolocation to identify the jurisdiction of whom they are serving.
You're making two huge assumptions there. 1) Airlines already geoblock quite extensively providing different prices depending on your source. 2) China is not interested in what its citizens see, it's interested in what the world sees. Geoblocking doesn't resolve this.
Not really. You can speak however you want but the reality is that everyone knows the limits as to what will ultimately happen unprovoked. Trump is a big talker nothing more. China, Iran, NK, etc have no reason to believe any of the vitriol that actually comes from Trump.
The reality is that his actions are either completely back flipped from what was said, or are phased in slowly e.g. the tariffs.
EVERYBODY counts year 2000 as part of last century.
No. Don't assume that just because you start counting at 1 you apply that example to people who weren't alive long enough to count back 2000 years. The reality is mentally there is no connection between the year 0 vs 1 and the year 2000 vs 2001. There is however plenty to mentally link the number 19 and 20 to a change in century.
To be honest everyone seems kind of split on the topic. Historians and religious people would correctly agree that 2000 was part of the 20th century from 1901 to 2000 inclusive. They would also realise there was no year 0 with 1A.D. directly following 1B.C.
But with the significance of the celebrations of the "turn of the century" in 2000 a lot of people who don't apply this kind of thinking and happy consider 1/1/2000 as the first day of the 21st century.
TFS: "In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome." Which is almost verbatim from Twitter which came right from the fingertips of Chris Peterson of Mozilla.
A "clear and nice" image doesn't come from the sensor
No. A visually pleasing and artistic image comes from the glass. A clear and nice image most definitely comes from the sensor
Sensor performance is really neither here nor there in the vast majority of situations.
I see you're a daylight only / studio photographer. More power to you. In the meantime advances in sensors have lead to a wide world of images that previously were physically impossible to capture.
But hey that's art. You may not like those resulting images in which case the digital age probably isn't impressing you too much.
You can certainly use any FF Canon lens on a crop body.
The Canon EF mount goes back to 1987
But you contradict thyself.
That's was the GP's point. Nikon's F mount is the original SLR mount. Every FF SLR lens made by Nikon with notable single exceptions countable on one hand work on all SLR and DSLR cameras.
Canon changed their SLR mount from FD to EF in 1987 meaning that no you can not mount any (I assume you meant every) Canon lens on a crop body or otherwise.
You can maintain backward compatibility, but at the cost of supporting old systems and standards, or you can make a clean break to allow a better implementation of current technology
Yep good analogy. Canon is like Apple / Microsoft. Nikon is more like Unix opting for a well designed mount that didn't have the restrictions that prevented autofocus from being implimented 30 years later in the first place.:-)
Right. But google thinks that the person doing the browsing should not be the one who decides if they need encryption, but instead that everything should be encrypted by default.
No. Google thinks they should give the user the required information that they are unsecure. Google thinks that admins shouldn't be deciding this for their users and should therefore take the safe approach without any practical downsides other than some extreme edge cases.
You can't close the barn door after the horse has bolted which is how accessing HTTP works now.
Cool a link to instructions to add exceptions manually. That doesn't change the fact that the OS gives you a notification the first time it wants to kill the app AND the opportunity to blacklist it before it happens.
Or maybe I just have the special non buggy version given only to shills on Slashdot S8. In which case you should get onboard since we clearly have much better phones.
It doesn't have to be "very close by" if you have a big enough antenna. That's the thing about RF. Make an antenna big enough, and you can send and receive at a distance, even with a device that is extremely low-powered.
Sure aim your big antenna my direction. When the 4 cards in my wallet respond in unison and you receive nothing but garbage assuming you don't actually hit anyone else in the queue... I wish you good luck sir.
There's a reason why NFC is so short range despite in theory being capable of something longer.
Put your NFC-capable cards in a foil sleeve (they're cheap), or snip the coil antenna. Instructions for the latter are all over the internet.
Sidenote, I have actually pirated a physical object before. I needed a stead verticle cut in a piece of wood. The options were: a) buy a piece of plastic from Dremel for $50, b) download the piece of plastic from thingverse and have a friend print it for $2.50.
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The data says very much otherwise
It says nothing of the sort. Given the context of the discussion is updates and security pretty much both of the "Linux" components of those graphs (meaning mobile phones) can happily be combined with Windows.
The "Linux" in the context of this discussion hasn't really changed in market share in the past 10 years.
....don't buy it.
Hahahahaha
demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated
Aaaahahahahahahaha
+5 Funny. Now to move on to some insightful discussion that actually makes any kind of sense at all than your idealistic ideas that you or your decision matters. Actually something does matter, your indicision matters and is just likely to get you fired.
Why would workstation absolutely require ECC support? And before you answer have a think about the benefits of ECC vs the risk you're actually mittingating working on a workstation. Not a bank, not some critical file server, but a workstation.
No, anyone who doesn't have a clue disables it anyway.
Anyone who cares assesses their workloads against the benefits. Nearly all people who care find they are far better off leaving it on.
then it's kind of a moot point to talk about it's speed
Why would it be moot?
a) Talking about speed when the software fix for the problems have a speed cost is entirely relevant.
b) Talking about a security problem that doesn't affect the vast majority of people should have no impact on speed.
To be honest the presence or absense of Spectre / Meltdown patches will have no bearing on my purchasing decision going forward. I do not provide computers to 3rd parties to analyse my system and execute code as they please. I do not need to segregate systems via virtualisation.
Take a breath.
The GP stated that "you can't even put full-frame lenses on crop-frame cameras"
You're right, sorry I misread probably because my brain couldn't parse the obvious wrongness :-)
Canon's switch to the EF mount allowed them to move away from mechanical focus and concentrate on a completely electrical interface between body and lens.
Indeed. My point was that Nikon was able to eventually adopt an electrical connection without changing the mount. IMO the Canon mount is incredibly wasteful on space in their cameras, but on the upside it's so much larger in the first place. But given their original mount was so small they probably didn't have the space for it either and just applied a "go big or go home" approach to the new one.
Canon made a clean break with their older tech to implement something new that gave them some significant advantages in the short term.
Most photographers would not consider adapters that require optical correction to be even remotely acceptable. It's a downside of the mount to focal plane distance changing in the wrong direction. On the upside you should be able to adapt FD lenses to EOS-M cameras in theory. Though I doubt it would make much sense, some of the greatest canon lenses were made in the EF era.
They've hacked on their original mount
I disagree on this but only semantically. If you want to talk about Camera models that is fine, but talking camera mounts there's nothing hacked about the F mount and nothing at all incompatible with older lenses. Even without autofocus the optical image path is preserved and in full working order. They extended their mount with new features but it was far from a hack. Canon didn't have the space so they went a different route and in the process went big allowing them to add features in a different way (electrical contacts vs autoindexing rings), and their advantage was short lived due to the increased cost of lense based motors at the time.
But really your summary is right. There's a lot of Nikon vs Canon stuff, the reality is they leapfog each other with developments while bringing benefits to consumers of both systems as they go. Then Olympus come along out of left field and provide something completely unique in a few places. Phase detection on sensor, combined in lens and in sensor anti-shock, live exposure measurement. I do sometimes get jealous of my girlfriend's camera, especially when they weigh our bags at the airport.
If a device doesn't have enough RAM to run your program, you must block installation.
Last time I wrote a program for a device that didn't have enough RAM I took a long hard look in the mirror rather than complaining about the device.
Opinion. VLC is far from the best media player.
It may be the player capable of playing the most formats independent of system codecs.
It may be the player with support for extensible features and filters
It may be the best player for transmitting video over the network.
I have it installed for those reasons alone, but I for one use it as a backup.
IMO the interface is crap, the file handling is crap, using it is infuriating, seeking accurately is a PITA, and I prefer MPC-HC in every way.
Though maybe once in a blue moon I find a file that doesn't play properly in MPC-HC, then I open it in VLC and usually find it broken enough to not continue trying with VLC as well.
VLC is a media player. And I like listening to my phone without draining battery by keeping the screen on.
It's not Trump it's a general policy of many countries.
Most of Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe do not recognise Taiwan (Republic of China) as a separate country at all.
Most of the west recognise that Taiwan exists informally but support a One China solution formally recognising only the People's Republic of China and having either no diplomatic relationship with the ROC or sharing the diplomatic relationship only with the PRC.
Given most of the world takes one stance on this, I'm surprised Trump isn't off shaking hands and kissing Taiwanese babies.
How come airlines are so hesitant to use geolocation to identify the jurisdiction of whom they are serving.
You're making two huge assumptions there.
1) Airlines already geoblock quite extensively providing different prices depending on your source.
2) China is not interested in what its citizens see, it's interested in what the world sees. Geoblocking doesn't resolve this.
Not really. You can speak however you want but the reality is that everyone knows the limits as to what will ultimately happen unprovoked. Trump is a big talker nothing more. China, Iran, NK, etc have no reason to believe any of the vitriol that actually comes from Trump.
The reality is that his actions are either completely back flipped from what was said, or are phased in slowly e.g. the tariffs.
Why do people make it a one vs another issue rather than simply admitting the obvious that they were both scumbags?
As for keeping your doctor, if you think that was a lie maybe you are being lied to by your media.
EVERYBODY counts year 2000 as part of last century.
No. Don't assume that just because you start counting at 1 you apply that example to people who weren't alive long enough to count back 2000 years. The reality is mentally there is no connection between the year 0 vs 1 and the year 2000 vs 2001. There is however plenty to mentally link the number 19 and 20 to a change in century.
To be honest everyone seems kind of split on the topic. Historians and religious people would correctly agree that 2000 was part of the 20th century from 1901 to 2000 inclusive. They would also realise there was no year 0 with 1A.D. directly following 1B.C.
But with the significance of the celebrations of the "turn of the century" in 2000 a lot of people who don't apply this kind of thinking and happy consider 1/1/2000 as the first day of the 21st century.
No one said Shadow DOM is deprecated.
TFS:
"In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome."
Which is almost verbatim from Twitter which came right from the fingertips of Chris Peterson of Mozilla.
I know, reading is hard.
A "clear and nice" image doesn't come from the sensor
No. A visually pleasing and artistic image comes from the glass. A clear and nice image most definitely comes from the sensor
Sensor performance is really neither here nor there in the vast majority of situations.
I see you're a daylight only / studio photographer. More power to you. In the meantime advances in sensors have lead to a wide world of images that previously were physically impossible to capture.
But hey that's art. You may not like those resulting images in which case the digital age probably isn't impressing you too much.
You can certainly use any FF Canon lens on a crop body.
The Canon EF mount goes back to 1987
But you contradict thyself.
That's was the GP's point. Nikon's F mount is the original SLR mount. Every FF SLR lens made by Nikon with notable single exceptions countable on one hand work on all SLR and DSLR cameras.
Canon changed their SLR mount from FD to EF in 1987 meaning that no you can not mount any (I assume you meant every) Canon lens on a crop body or otherwise.
You can maintain backward compatibility, but at the cost of supporting old systems and standards, or you can make a clean break to allow a better implementation of current technology
Yep good analogy. Canon is like Apple / Microsoft. Nikon is more like Unix opting for a well designed mount that didn't have the restrictions that prevented autofocus from being implimented 30 years later in the first place. :-)
Right. But google thinks that the person doing the browsing should not be the one who decides if they need encryption, but instead that everything should be encrypted by default.
No. Google thinks they should give the user the required information that they are unsecure. Google thinks that admins shouldn't be deciding this for their users and should therefore take the safe approach without any practical downsides other than some extreme edge cases.
You can't close the barn door after the horse has bolted which is how accessing HTTP works now.
Cool a link to instructions to add exceptions manually. That doesn't change the fact that the OS gives you a notification the first time it wants to kill the app AND the opportunity to blacklist it before it happens.
Or maybe I just have the special non buggy version given only to shills on Slashdot S8. In which case you should get onboard since we clearly have much better phones.
Hopefully it will be better than Google's "Find your phone" feature.
"Lost your phone? Finding it is simple! To start, sign in by typing the six-digit code we've just sent to your lost phone."
??? I have no idea what you're talking about and I use this feature quite often.
It doesn't have to be "very close by" if you have a big enough antenna. That's the thing about RF. Make an antenna big enough, and you can send and receive at a distance, even with a device that is extremely low-powered.
Sure aim your big antenna my direction. When the 4 cards in my wallet respond in unison and you receive nothing but garbage assuming you don't actually hit anyone else in the queue ... I wish you good luck sir.
There's a reason why NFC is so short range despite in theory being capable of something longer.
Put your NFC-capable cards in a foil sleeve (they're cheap), or snip the coil antenna. Instructions for the latter are all over the internet.
Given the number of cases of this happening the best instructions are probably: https://www.quirkbooks.com/pos...
Sidenote, I have actually pirated a physical object before. I needed a stead verticle cut in a piece of wood. The options were: a) buy a piece of plastic from Dremel for $50, b) download the piece of plastic from thingverse and have a friend print it for $2.50.
Arrrrrr.
You wouldn't download a car! Fuck you, you don't know me!
If you aren't uploading as you download, you are not "distributing". So you can't be a pirate.
Interesting thought: if your upload is non-contiguous and your ratio is less than 1, maybe you were distributing material used under fair use?
We had eight years of nothing but amateur hour with Obama
And the country was better for it in every metric. That doesn't bode well for every other government if you consider that one amateur.