Security-conscious IT folks don't do cloud, even if it costs more.
That's not remotely true. The decision to go to cloud needs to be based on the capabilities of your own organisation vs the capabilities of an organisation specialising in security.
How many times have you heard of the likes of Amazon, Google or Microsoft having their whole treasure trove of data hacked vs say the countless companies who were responsible for their own security?
Security isn't an on or off thing. It's a sliding scale with many variables.
The lord works in mysterious ways. No seriously I know of an anti-vaxxer who had one of her children die, and she's still 100% anti-vax. When the news about her broke in the local newspaper she also complained that she doesn't understand why everyone thinks she's a horrible person for doing something "she believes in".
These people are in a different world. Their brains don't tick right.
it just makes the people who already believe in this hunker down because now they believe it's an even bigger conspiracy.
I've never met an anti-vaxxer who wasn't already as hunkered down as humanly possible. Once you get to this stage you have given up on all sense of logic and have firmly planted yourself in the realm of highly extreme anti-establishment and anti-science.
Can you cite the part in the Google user agreement where I waive my right to privacy regarding health issues?
Except making an assumption about a person just not a privacy health issue.
Let's extend the thought experiment: If I google, "how to quit smoking", and then I get a notice that my insurance premiums are going up because I'm a smoker, has my privacy been violated?
No. If you walk into your insurance office and they notice you smell of cigarettes that isn't violating privacy either. The thing about the privacy of your health is that your health records need to be kept private, those analysis, doctors diagnosis, and treatments are subject to strict privacy regulations. What people think about you based on what they overhear you say is not subject to any privacy.
What if I'm googling that information because I'm trying to convince my neighbor to quit?
What if you were having that conversation on the phone outside the insurance office? Again people here are making assumptions. If you have problems with the assumptions that others make due to imperfect communication and you're the only one with the correct information then it's ultimately your responsibility to fix it.
Poor bob is off work today. Yeah I heard he had his leg amputated. How horrible! We should do a fund raiser for bob. *one week later bob walks in*... guys my leg was only broken!
We had this very situation at where I work. It was awkward but Bob (not his real name) did not know the assumptions made about him and was the only person with the correct information. On the upside since we couldn't remember who donated to the cause we ended up using Bob's funds to throw a big lunch.
I agree Ubuntu has many problems. I think they've been pulled on all arms at once in different directions. Let's create a desktop OS for the tablet which gets deployed on the cloud and make sure nothing works.
Your second paragraph mostly indicates that you have quite limited understanding of my suggestion, but you either don't care enough to ask for clarification or don't know the questions.
We are having a discussion. I have given you a reply based on my interpretation. How am I supposed to ask for a clarification I am not aware I need. The only person here who is capable of knowing if I didn't understand something you wrote is you.
Insofar as this discussion is probably timing out (as Slashdot does things), I feel like this is a parting attempt to be clear.
We can keep this up for another week before that happens;-)
I feel like this is a parting attempt to be clear. It isn't me or my little bit of money that matters, but rather the groups of wannabe donors who share similarities with me (or with each other without me). If a sufficient number of donors want to pay for slight improvements in the speed of the browser, then that's fine and dandy, though the real point of my suggestion is that the actual results get reported back to them (as well as to the public).
Indeed but then we come back to the problem of software not being a perfect democracy. Your suggestion is the same as saying there are people protesting in the street against abortion so "Americans" don't like abortion. What ends up happening is the software development gets driven by a vocal and often highly specialised minority and ends up not at all reflecting the desires of "users" on the whole.
And I'm not sure what you mean by results reported back to them,... doesn't that happen automatically with the release of a version with their desired feature anyway?
No I don't have a sense of humour I'm aware of. If you have taken anything I've said about NVIDIA, your opinion of the graphics industry, or you personally as a joke then I apologise for not making it clear that I was having a 100% serious conversation.
How does knowing what causes grain change how it appears?
It doesn't change how it appears. It changes the conclusion you just made. Grain is not related to the fibres of the paper. It's more like the dots from the printer you just mentioned. If you see the grain more clearly you literally have the ability to see more of the recorded detail.
The fibres on the paper stay the same but you just printed in 2100dpi rather than 1800dpi would be a far better example. Now this explaination is not withstanding that your original explanation said you're starting with 1080p content. You're not. The recorded quality available on 35mm film well exceeds the crappy few megapixels a 1080p image has to offer.
but unless you go in and rewire my visual system too my newfound knowledge won't change how it looks.
I don't need to rewire your visual system. You just need to see a decent remaster and then you'll understand yourself.
e.g. the stuff made with a true 4k intermediate instead of upscaled 2k and/or with artificial grain, the more my comment applies.
As does mine: Let me requote myself "You sound like you've been jaded by dodgy remasters"
I sit close enough to a big enough screen that with newer all-digital+actually shot in 4k+ with a 4k intermediate, I absolutely notice the improvement in picture quality/detail.
So you're saying the technical progression to a modern medium with modern all digital work flow is better and therefore this is somehow relevant to the discussion of if we're able to improve the retail visual quality of old 35mm film footage? I have no comeback to this. I think your logic just gave me a stroke.
Yeah they did. For all your freakout about a bit of cold weather the January average surface temperature was 3 deg higher than the 51-80 baseline. Incidentally this was almost exactly the same temperature as Jan last year since although you didn't get your polar vortex up the mid west, the golf region had a cold snap last year.
But hey a small circle near the great lake is a -1 deg compared to the 51-80 baseline so quick let Trump know so he can use that as "evidence" that global warming isn't happening, right?
I'm sure it has, if that's what you were expecting to see I can only imagine your disappointment when greeted with reasoned arguments about why you were wrong over and over again.
Getting to see the film grain in a whole lot of extra detail is of limited value.
An amazing admission that you don't know what causes grain or how it relates to the medium. By its very nature grain would be more like the individual dots the printer printed on your contrived example. If you can see additional grain you have additional details from the film. The only exception would be if that part of the film was out of focus at the time, and with 4K being a measly 8.3mpxl lenses from back in the day easily out resolved this resolution.
You sound like you've been jaded from dodgy remasters.
Meh each to their own. That said I would still rate the game high despite becoming bored of it while playing, and if you read through the reviews you'll find a few of the highly rated ones in your link do the same. This game IS worth buying, it IS worth playing. However I'm hardly engrossed with it.
But like you said each to their own. Personally one of the most interesting games I've played in the past few months was Subnautica which is the opposite end of the spectrum. Nothing spectacular graphics wise, the engine has horrible problems, but man was it fascinating and terrifying (neither words I've ever used to describe a survival game which I fully expected to be boring).
No need to consider a Tesla. If I can't feel how it drives, how the seat feels, feedback from steering, wind and road noise, and everything else which can make or break such a purchase, I'll cross this off my list.
So you prefer to go to the dealship rather than say take advantage of a full 7 day trial that Tesla offer?
Microsoft should just blacklist drivers signed by the anti-cheat software developer's key until they can get their shit together.
Because getting an error message and being unable to play the game is so much better than getting a Green Screen of Death and being unable to play a game?
This isn't about banning your computer or camera from being in your luggage.
Err no. This is *exactly* about that, and has been a policy in Europe and Asia for a long time now. Here's an excerpt from some airline rules:
KLM (Netherlands): Therefore, lithium batteries and power banks for personal use in devices such as laptops, mobile phones and DVD players, and for medical equipment is restricted and may only be carried in hand baggage. Each spare battery must be packed separately in the original packaging. If you no longer have this packaging, you must cover the battery contact points with non-conductive tape to insulate them and pack each battery in a separate plastic bag.
QANTAS (Australia): Lithium Ion batteries (rechargeable) - not more than 100Wh {insert little picture with red X through the checked baggage symbol} - The battery terminals must be protected e.g. in a device or taping over the exposed terminals.
Singapore actually allow you to check in devices with lithium batteries, but any spare battery must be in carry-on.
Luggage hold is not cargo hold.
A distinction without a difference for firefighting.
So I'm curious how this is going to work when I bring my Camera bag ( Think Tank Glass Limo ) with me as a carry-on and the flight attendant tells me there isn't any room and I will need to check my bag.
That's easy: "Miss, there's a camera in here and it's not going in the hold." Done. That easy. You'll also notice that camera and laptop bags are pretty much never the first to get put in the hold. You'll see those rude f-wits who bring oversized trolleys full of cloths because they don't want to pay $10 for checked bagging giving up their bags long before you have to worry about your precious camera and it's tiny battery.
This should be fun:|
It's far more mundane than you think. At least that's my experience with European and Asian airliners. But then we haven't punched any passengers and dragged them bleeding off the flight yet either so we may have differing opinions on customer service;-)
I take it you've never attempted to get from the passenger cabin to the hold mid flight, much less navigate it, find it and put out a fire.
Sorry but the industry has quite a bit of experience with this. Fires in the cabin are trivial to deal with, and the USA is just behind the rest of the world in with this policy which has been in place for many airlines for years, even before the Galaxy Tab.
That would remove the incentives for adults to exploit children for financial gain on YouTube.
Indeed. Children shouldn't be allowed to earn anything until they are 18. Also children need to be thrown out of the house when they are 18 and stop mooching off their parents. Also why don't those young adults own houses yet. Their entire generation is so slack!
"Well, maybe you need to accept that big open world RPGs are not for you".
Big open world RPGs and big open world yawn fests are not the same thing. RDR2 is pretty, like really pretty. Unfortunately that's about all it has going for it. Once I stopped being fascinated by graphics I found it to be one of the more boring RPGs I've played.
Once I stopped giggling I started to think about older games. Many didn't have any save or password options at all. You got an hour in, died and had to go right back to the start.
On the up side that first hour was actually fun. God forbid you plodded along for 15min doing nothing only to die without a save point.
Yet in the article they claim Australia's heat is evidence of global warming.
Indeed. Weather is not climate. Weather doesn't affect an entire continent at once for a combined duration of several months at a time.
Especially now that here in the Midwest we are seeing record setting snowfalls and record setting low temperatures.
Now speaking of weather you just managed to compare an entire summer dataset to the polar vortex which was a weather event, one with a very short duration and on the whole the US has had quite a mild winter. *golfclap*.
Now in the meantime if you care to look at historical data you'll see upwards trends in both countries. If you care to go to the detail you'll find the hottest daytime temperature record wasn't actually set during the hottest continental summer either. But I get it, weather and climate are difficult to separate.
If anyone insists that this is indicative of global warming then every record low temperature must be counted as evidence against it.
That is not how trend lines work. Come back when America actually has had the coldest year on record and the previous record was the year before it, and the record before that was also in the past 4 years.
You're right, fortunately both countries publish historical data which show a distinct upwards trend over the years despite the very short polar vortex weather event you just cited.
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Security-conscious IT folks don't do cloud, even if it costs more.
That's not remotely true. The decision to go to cloud needs to be based on the capabilities of your own organisation vs the capabilities of an organisation specialising in security.
How many times have you heard of the likes of Amazon, Google or Microsoft having their whole treasure trove of data hacked vs say the countless companies who were responsible for their own security?
Security isn't an on or off thing. It's a sliding scale with many variables.
I think that will get their attention.
The lord works in mysterious ways. No seriously I know of an anti-vaxxer who had one of her children die, and she's still 100% anti-vax. When the news about her broke in the local newspaper she also complained that she doesn't understand why everyone thinks she's a horrible person for doing something "she believes in".
These people are in a different world. Their brains don't tick right.
it just makes the people who already believe in this hunker down because now they believe it's an even bigger conspiracy.
I've never met an anti-vaxxer who wasn't already as hunkered down as humanly possible. Once you get to this stage you have given up on all sense of logic and have firmly planted yourself in the realm of highly extreme anti-establishment and anti-science.
And as a private enterprise he's not obligated to host nazi propaganda either. In fact there's very few things he is obligated to do.
Can you cite the part in the Google user agreement where I waive my right to privacy regarding health issues?
Except making an assumption about a person just not a privacy health issue.
Let's extend the thought experiment: If I google, "how to quit smoking", and then I get a notice that my insurance premiums are going up because I'm a smoker, has my privacy been violated?
No. If you walk into your insurance office and they notice you smell of cigarettes that isn't violating privacy either. The thing about the privacy of your health is that your health records need to be kept private, those analysis, doctors diagnosis, and treatments are subject to strict privacy regulations. What people think about you based on what they overhear you say is not subject to any privacy.
What if I'm googling that information because I'm trying to convince my neighbor to quit?
What if you were having that conversation on the phone outside the insurance office? Again people here are making assumptions. If you have problems with the assumptions that others make due to imperfect communication and you're the only one with the correct information then it's ultimately your responsibility to fix it.
Poor bob is off work today. ... guys my leg was only broken!
Yeah I heard he had his leg amputated.
How horrible! We should do a fund raiser for bob.
*one week later bob walks in*
We had this very situation at where I work. It was awkward but Bob (not his real name) did not know the assumptions made about him and was the only person with the correct information. On the upside since we couldn't remember who donated to the cause we ended up using Bob's funds to throw a big lunch.
I agree Ubuntu has many problems. I think they've been pulled on all arms at once in different directions. Let's create a desktop OS for the tablet which gets deployed on the cloud and make sure nothing works.
Your second paragraph mostly indicates that you have quite limited understanding of my suggestion, but you either don't care enough to ask for clarification or don't know the questions.
We are having a discussion. I have given you a reply based on my interpretation. How am I supposed to ask for a clarification I am not aware I need. The only person here who is capable of knowing if I didn't understand something you wrote is you.
Insofar as this discussion is probably timing out (as Slashdot does things), I feel like this is a parting attempt to be clear.
We can keep this up for another week before that happens ;-)
I feel like this is a parting attempt to be clear. It isn't me or my little bit of money that matters, but rather the groups of wannabe donors who share similarities with me (or with each other without me). If a sufficient number of donors want to pay for slight improvements in the speed of the browser, then that's fine and dandy, though the real point of my suggestion is that the actual results get reported back to them (as well as to the public).
Indeed but then we come back to the problem of software not being a perfect democracy. Your suggestion is the same as saying there are people protesting in the street against abortion so "Americans" don't like abortion. What ends up happening is the software development gets driven by a vocal and often highly specialised minority and ends up not at all reflecting the desires of "users" on the whole.
And I'm not sure what you mean by results reported back to them, ... doesn't that happen automatically with the release of a version with their desired feature anyway?
No I don't have a sense of humour I'm aware of. If you have taken anything I've said about NVIDIA, your opinion of the graphics industry, or you personally as a joke then I apologise for not making it clear that I was having a 100% serious conversation.
How does knowing what causes grain change how it appears?
It doesn't change how it appears. It changes the conclusion you just made. Grain is not related to the fibres of the paper. It's more like the dots from the printer you just mentioned. If you see the grain more clearly you literally have the ability to see more of the recorded detail.
The fibres on the paper stay the same but you just printed in 2100dpi rather than 1800dpi would be a far better example. Now this explaination is not withstanding that your original explanation said you're starting with 1080p content. You're not. The recorded quality available on 35mm film well exceeds the crappy few megapixels a 1080p image has to offer.
but unless you go in and rewire my visual system too my newfound knowledge won't change how it looks.
I don't need to rewire your visual system. You just need to see a decent remaster and then you'll understand yourself.
e.g. the stuff made with a true 4k intermediate instead of upscaled 2k and/or with artificial grain, the more my comment applies.
As does mine: Let me requote myself "You sound like you've been jaded by dodgy remasters"
I sit close enough to a big enough screen that with newer all-digital+actually shot in 4k+ with a 4k intermediate, I absolutely notice the improvement in picture quality/detail.
So you're saying the technical progression to a modern medium with modern all digital work flow is better and therefore this is somehow relevant to the discussion of if we're able to improve the retail visual quality of old 35mm film footage? I have no comeback to this. I think your logic just gave me a stroke.
Yeah they did. For all your freakout about a bit of cold weather the January average surface temperature was 3 deg higher than the 51-80 baseline. Incidentally this was almost exactly the same temperature as Jan last year since although you didn't get your polar vortex up the mid west, the golf region had a cold snap last year.
But hey a small circle near the great lake is a -1 deg compared to the 51-80 baseline so quick let Trump know so he can use that as "evidence" that global warming isn't happening, right?
I'm sure it has, if that's what you were expecting to see I can only imagine your disappointment when greeted with reasoned arguments about why you were wrong over and over again.
Getting to see the film grain in a whole lot of extra detail is of limited value.
An amazing admission that you don't know what causes grain or how it relates to the medium. By its very nature grain would be more like the individual dots the printer printed on your contrived example. If you can see additional grain you have additional details from the film. The only exception would be if that part of the film was out of focus at the time, and with 4K being a measly 8.3mpxl lenses from back in the day easily out resolved this resolution.
You sound like you've been jaded from dodgy remasters.
Meh each to their own. That said I would still rate the game high despite becoming bored of it while playing, and if you read through the reviews you'll find a few of the highly rated ones in your link do the same. This game IS worth buying, it IS worth playing. However I'm hardly engrossed with it.
But like you said each to their own. Personally one of the most interesting games I've played in the past few months was Subnautica which is the opposite end of the spectrum. Nothing spectacular graphics wise, the engine has horrible problems, but man was it fascinating and terrifying (neither words I've ever used to describe a survival game which I fully expected to be boring).
And this despite their signature Windows device having not 1 but 2 cameras on it.
No need to consider a Tesla. If I can't feel how it drives, how the seat feels, feedback from steering, wind and road noise, and everything else which can make or break such a purchase, I'll cross this off my list.
So you prefer to go to the dealship rather than say take advantage of a full 7 day trial that Tesla offer?
In the words of the internet: WUT?
At least it doesn't give BSOD.
What makes you sure this will be fixed before release?
Microsoft should just blacklist drivers signed by the anti-cheat software developer's key until they can get their shit together.
Because getting an error message and being unable to play the game is so much better than getting a Green Screen of Death and being unable to play a game?
This isn't about banning your computer or camera from being in your luggage.
Err no. This is *exactly* about that, and has been a policy in Europe and Asia for a long time now. Here's an excerpt from some airline rules:
KLM (Netherlands): Therefore, lithium batteries and power banks for personal use in devices such as laptops, mobile phones and DVD players, and for medical equipment is restricted and may only be carried in hand baggage. Each spare battery must be packed separately in the original packaging. If you no longer have this packaging, you must cover the battery contact points with non-conductive tape to insulate them and pack each battery in a separate plastic bag.
QANTAS (Australia): Lithium Ion batteries (rechargeable) - not more than 100Wh {insert little picture with red X through the checked baggage symbol} - The battery terminals must be protected e.g. in a device or taping over the exposed terminals.
Singapore actually allow you to check in devices with lithium batteries, but any spare battery must be in carry-on.
Luggage hold is not cargo hold.
A distinction without a difference for firefighting.
So I'm curious how this is going to work when I bring my Camera bag ( Think Tank Glass Limo ) with me as a carry-on and the flight attendant tells me there isn't any room and I will need to check my bag.
That's easy: "Miss, there's a camera in here and it's not going in the hold." Done. That easy. You'll also notice that camera and laptop bags are pretty much never the first to get put in the hold. You'll see those rude f-wits who bring oversized trolleys full of cloths because they don't want to pay $10 for checked bagging giving up their bags long before you have to worry about your precious camera and it's tiny battery.
This should be fun :|
It's far more mundane than you think. At least that's my experience with European and Asian airliners. But then we haven't punched any passengers and dragged them bleeding off the flight yet either so we may have differing opinions on customer service ;-)
In some ways, it would be worse than in the hold.
I take it you've never attempted to get from the passenger cabin to the hold mid flight, much less navigate it, find it and put out a fire.
Sorry but the industry has quite a bit of experience with this. Fires in the cabin are trivial to deal with, and the USA is just behind the rest of the world in with this policy which has been in place for many airlines for years, even before the Galaxy Tab.
That would remove the incentives for adults to exploit children for financial gain on YouTube.
Indeed. Children shouldn't be allowed to earn anything until they are 18.
Also children need to be thrown out of the house when they are 18 and stop mooching off their parents.
Also why don't those young adults own houses yet. Their entire generation is so slack!
(too quick to hit submit) And that's before you consider it's not much of an RPG.
"Well, maybe you need to accept that big open world RPGs are not for you".
Big open world RPGs and big open world yawn fests are not the same thing. RDR2 is pretty, like really pretty. Unfortunately that's about all it has going for it. Once I stopped being fascinated by graphics I found it to be one of the more boring RPGs I've played.
Once I stopped giggling I started to think about older games. Many didn't have any save or password options at all. You got an hour in, died and had to go right back to the start.
On the up side that first hour was actually fun. God forbid you plodded along for 15min doing nothing only to die without a save point.
Yet in the article they claim Australia's heat is evidence of global warming.
Indeed. Weather is not climate. Weather doesn't affect an entire continent at once for a combined duration of several months at a time.
Especially now that here in the Midwest we are seeing record setting snowfalls and record setting low temperatures.
Now speaking of weather you just managed to compare an entire summer dataset to the polar vortex which was a weather event, one with a very short duration and on the whole the US has had quite a mild winter. *golfclap*.
Now in the meantime if you care to look at historical data you'll see upwards trends in both countries. If you care to go to the detail you'll find the hottest daytime temperature record wasn't actually set during the hottest continental summer either. But I get it, weather and climate are difficult to separate.
If anyone insists that this is indicative of global warming then every record low temperature must be counted as evidence against it.
That is not how trend lines work. Come back when America actually has had the coldest year on record and the previous record was the year before it, and the record before that was also in the past 4 years.
You're right, fortunately both countries publish historical data which show a distinct upwards trend over the years despite the very short polar vortex weather event you just cited.