Any Windows user claiming 50 or more days of uptime was lying.
Or running Windows 3 or 3.1 or 3.11 or NT 3.1 or NT 3.5 or NT 3.51 or NT 4, or if they were writing in Chinese they could have been running Windows 3.2
There were 2 versions of Windows affected by the bug.
And thank god. Because while the idea of those were that they were washable, the reality was most people used them to avoid ever having to wash anything.
Condom is a wrong comparison. I remember when seeing those keyboards "used condom" is more what came to mind.
I'm more interested in them fixing the Surface Type Cover 4 on the Pro 3 bug that they've promised to fix for 15 months now. If they can't keep their most premier product bug free, what hope have they got for their crappy browser?
You are under appreciating what it takes to actually make a modern browser. It doesn't just render content on a website. It accesses hardware, cryptographic APIs for DRM, switches user contexts on the fly, launches are myriad of processes in sandboxed environments.
If you dedicate your efforts to ensure your browser never crashes, maybe you have the wrong priorities and should focus on actually making it feature complete to a modern standard.
The fact that you are still asking this question amazes me. I'll skip over the checkbook comment and go straight into: you type your credit card number in at a random website? CRAZY!
Okay onto the serious talk, we live in a world of technology and a world of attacks. The idea is we should chose who we give our personal information to, and we should trust those people to keep it safe. In that regard, putting a credit card in on some random online site is archaic, what happens when that site gets hacked!
Many other countries have payment schemes that prevent the vendor ever being in contact with *your* financial information. Monthly utility bills? Well look to Australia and their BPay system, which is managed entirely from your online bank account with 2 numbers, a Biller number and a Reference number. When filling out the Biller number it is automatically looked up so when I enter it online it will straight away say you're paying your "Origin Energy Gas" bill or something like that. In many other countries they use a similar system with direct debit, an additional set of numbers that reference your account with the third party. That makes it trivial for utilities to manage their accounts.
Now online... a crap example would be Paypal. The web of trust is then limited to Paypal and your bank as the details used to pay are not entered into the vendor website. Now what you may think of Paypal here is irrelevant to the process. But other countries use similar systems that prevent a vendor from ever having access to your details. E.g. Netherlands iDEAL system. You elect to pay via iDEAL and select the bank. You get redirected to your bank's website where you log in, select which account to pay from, and the bank then sends a confirmation to the vendor that you paid.
Then AMD started moving to GPU because it was losing the CPU war
Yeah how did that go? Oh right spend $5.4bn buying a company, the expertise and associated patents from someone who was already tooled up to make high end GPUs.
Intel kept a close eye AMD's GPUs and kept up with the technology all these years
I was in Amsterdam last week and for the life of me I couldn't find anyone selling what you were smoking when you posted that.
A real host throwing an adult party considers the guest list
A real host throwing an adult party prepares for the unexpected. I can happily host 10 or 60 people it makes no difference to me. There's no such thing as untouched food. There's only food that you didn't know what to do with because you didn't plan ahead.
You say $400 in untouched food? I see a street BBQ, inviting the neighbours and family. Not that I would need to because part of planning a party is planning what to do with any leftovers.e.g. Cook delicious meals that get better with age: A goulash or lasagne is often better reheated the day after. Twice cooked recepies last longer in the fridge. Making burgers, well mince is low grade food that isn't negatively impacted by freezing.
The truth is that the skills for throwing parties started to evaporate in GenX, so lots of GenXers do not have a clue. What you may think of as normal may have been normal enough in your savage circle of friends who are lousy entertainers but do not know any better. The millennials are decidedly worse.
And yet you have just shown yourself that you're unable to manage a party. The truth is GenXers and after are better at planning and throwing parties than you ever were because if everything doesn't go perfectly for your meticulously crafted shopping list you throw stuff away or don't know what to do with it.
Your comment has been most amusing. But if the no true "adult" party involves being your flavour of "true adult" then I'm going to have to flake out on wanting anything to do with your generation, especially your planning abilities or your idea of entertainment. Your parties are boring.
No that's not what I imagine. But what I imagine is an architecture that is standardised in a common way so we can eliminate the: "This content only works in Edge" direction we are moving in.
When you send an email from your client it goes to your server and then to the recipient's mail server
Your connection to the server is encrypted. If your recipient is on the same server then no further transmission is necessary. If you're recipient is within an internal network who's servers you can control then the further transmission can be encrypted if the admin chooses it to be. Then the only remaining piece is to read the mail using encryption. And that is precisely what is happening in this case.
Your mail server will almost always then send it out to the recipient on their wire in plain text.
Get with the times. Email servers these days will "almost always" send out to the recipient using encryption. What does almost always mean? Well according to Google 86% of messages sent on to other servers are encrypted in transit and 88% of messages received from other servers are encrypted in transit. https://www.google.com/transpa...
But don't take my word for it, open your email and check the headers. You'll be amazed at the number of emails that will bounce between all servers using TLS encryption in transit.
Technology changes*, you need to change your view with it. *1 year ago inbound encryption coverage at Google was around 75%
I can think of better ways to go out, meet people, join teams, etc. Maybe not to you, but I would assume to the majority of folks this is the case.
There is no "better" way. There are only multiple ways. It doesn't matter if this is joining a soccer game, drinking at a bar, sitting around in a cafe with a book club, or playing a game that brings people into an area. The end result if done right is the same: An expanding network of friends, hell due to the localisation of pokemon go as a game that generally limits you to walking distance of the place you spend most of your time the people you join teams with an socialise with have a key benefit over most other forms of meeting in that they typically all live locally. There's even a neighbourhood whatsapp group for the blue team.
It's Pokemon. Of course it's a fucking fad.
Oh sorry. I won't use the number of users. I'll use time instead. It's a history that has lasted 21 years. With a stead stream of players playing various pokemon theme games.
I could put my shit in a Pokeball and sell it for $1000 to some kid telling them it's a Grimer.
No you couldn't.
Look it's not everyone else's fault that you effectively didn't like something because you did the equivalent of trying to play a MMORPG without an internet connection. But insulting the people who actively find the game fun and insulting a long term franchise as a fad really just says more about you than it does about Pokemon or its players.
This will destroy the openness of the Web if allowed to stay. The last hope will be with browser makers: no standard gets supported if code isn't written.
The code is written. The only difference is: Will the code be standard, or will the code be customised and defined by each individual media outlet pushing their own agenda.
Notice how you can't get 4k Netflix on certain platforms? DRM baby!
If you're at the event, and you get a phone call from your bra, then you gotta bail, right?
Most women I know will simply remove the phone from their bra and answer it. No need to bail on the entire even to take a call. That would just be rude.
call me before 10pm the night before, I really don't need a lot of notice to prepare.
Sounds like you have a crap Saturday ahead of you when no one calls. If anyone calls me for anything 10pm the night before there's a very good chance the answer is sorry busy, maybe next week.
I can't say for certain how I will even feel 2 weeks from now.
What we can say for certain is that you're an uncommitted flaker who would bail on something that requires planning because of "how you will feel". I hope you're happy not being included in anything big.
If plans to meet/have dinner/ see a show were made, it could not be blown off due to "more important things" unless it were an emergency.
I think you and the GP are talking about different things. Having dinner, seeing a show etc are things that involve effort and expense. People who bail on such an event quickly find themselves isolated from their former friends.
On the other hand, attending a party, meeting for brunch in the city, or just chilling in an afternoon, well that hasn't seemed to change. We could blow that off in the past, and we can blow that off now. Even a simple "meeting" is dependent on the details. If you meet in a group it's quite acceptable for a person to not show up. If you meet 1 on 1 then it is not.
Songs with high dynamic range are annoying to listen to in a lot of everyday situations, such as in a car or while working out at the gym, as volume has to constantly be adjusted.
That's why there are technical solutions available to these people who need to destroy the sound to make it listenable, e.g. the "loudness" option on my car radio which dials in the amount of dynamic range compression I get.
No need to mess up the source material. You can always compress. You can never uncompress.
That makes no sense. I suppose you're talking about once it leaves one mail server to go to another mail server it is no longer encrypted. But that scenario is only relevant if you're going to another server you don't control. That is not likely the case here.
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Any Windows user claiming 50 or more days of uptime was lying.
Or running Windows 3 or 3.1 or 3.11 or NT 3.1 or NT 3.5 or NT 3.51 or NT 4, or if they were writing in Chinese they could have been running Windows 3.2
There were 2 versions of Windows affected by the bug.
That may be, but hey I'm here for you, because while I'm no expert, you most certainly sound like you could use every bit of help you can get.
Indeed. Calling this a mobile phone is utterly stupid clickbait. There's nothing "phone" about it.
And thank god. Because while the idea of those were that they were washable, the reality was most people used them to avoid ever having to wash anything.
Condom is a wrong comparison. I remember when seeing those keyboards "used condom" is more what came to mind.
Eww.
With that price, he'll be taking ALL of your money.
I can't remember having seen a site slashdotted in a long time....
I finally just got the order page up. Prices start at $325. No thanks.
The site probably still ran on 1995 hardware.
I'm more interested in them fixing the Surface Type Cover 4 on the Pro 3 bug that they've promised to fix for 15 months now. If they can't keep their most premier product bug free, what hope have they got for their crappy browser?
You are under appreciating what it takes to actually make a modern browser. It doesn't just render content on a website. It accesses hardware, cryptographic APIs for DRM, switches user contexts on the fly, launches are myriad of processes in sandboxed environments.
If you dedicate your efforts to ensure your browser never crashes, maybe you have the wrong priorities and should focus on actually making it feature complete to a modern standard.
The fact that you are still asking this question amazes me. I'll skip over the checkbook comment and go straight into: you type your credit card number in at a random website? CRAZY!
Okay onto the serious talk, we live in a world of technology and a world of attacks. The idea is we should chose who we give our personal information to, and we should trust those people to keep it safe. In that regard, putting a credit card in on some random online site is archaic, what happens when that site gets hacked!
Many other countries have payment schemes that prevent the vendor ever being in contact with *your* financial information. Monthly utility bills? Well look to Australia and their BPay system, which is managed entirely from your online bank account with 2 numbers, a Biller number and a Reference number. When filling out the Biller number it is automatically looked up so when I enter it online it will straight away say you're paying your "Origin Energy Gas" bill or something like that. In many other countries they use a similar system with direct debit, an additional set of numbers that reference your account with the third party. That makes it trivial for utilities to manage their accounts.
Now online ... a crap example would be Paypal. The web of trust is then limited to Paypal and your bank as the details used to pay are not entered into the vendor website. Now what you may think of Paypal here is irrelevant to the process. But other countries use similar systems that prevent a vendor from ever having access to your details. E.g. Netherlands iDEAL system. You elect to pay via iDEAL and select the bank. You get redirected to your bank's website where you log in, select which account to pay from, and the bank then sends a confirmation to the vendor that you paid.
Giving vendors your financials is sooo 2005.
The problem is in the retrofit. Replacing windows and insulating roofs is one thing. Insulating walls is quite another on many house designs.
Then AMD started moving to GPU because it was losing the CPU war
Yeah how did that go?
Oh right spend $5.4bn buying a company, the expertise and associated patents from someone who was already tooled up to make high end GPUs.
Intel kept a close eye AMD's GPUs and kept up with the technology all these years
I was in Amsterdam last week and for the life of me I couldn't find anyone selling what you were smoking when you posted that.
A real host throwing an adult party considers the guest list
A real host throwing an adult party prepares for the unexpected. I can happily host 10 or 60 people it makes no difference to me. There's no such thing as untouched food. There's only food that you didn't know what to do with because you didn't plan ahead.
You say $400 in untouched food? I see a street BBQ, inviting the neighbours and family. Not that I would need to because part of planning a party is planning what to do with any leftovers.e.g. Cook delicious meals that get better with age: A goulash or lasagne is often better reheated the day after. Twice cooked recepies last longer in the fridge. Making burgers, well mince is low grade food that isn't negatively impacted by freezing.
The truth is that the skills for throwing parties started to evaporate in GenX, so lots of GenXers do not have a clue. What you may think of as normal may have been normal enough in your savage circle of friends who are lousy entertainers but do not know any better. The millennials are decidedly worse.
And yet you have just shown yourself that you're unable to manage a party. The truth is GenXers and after are better at planning and throwing parties than you ever were because if everything doesn't go perfectly for your meticulously crafted shopping list you throw stuff away or don't know what to do with it.
Your comment has been most amusing. But if the no true "adult" party involves being your flavour of "true adult" then I'm going to have to flake out on wanting anything to do with your generation, especially your planning abilities or your idea of entertainment. Your parties are boring.
No that's not what I imagine. But what I imagine is an architecture that is standardised in a common way so we can eliminate the: "This content only works in Edge" direction we are moving in.
When you send an email from your client it goes to your server and then to the recipient's mail server
Your connection to the server is encrypted. If your recipient is on the same server then no further transmission is necessary. If you're recipient is within an internal network who's servers you can control then the further transmission can be encrypted if the admin chooses it to be. Then the only remaining piece is to read the mail using encryption. And that is precisely what is happening in this case.
Your mail server will almost always then send it out to the recipient on their wire in plain text.
Get with the times. Email servers these days will "almost always" send out to the recipient using encryption. What does almost always mean? Well according to Google 86% of messages sent on to other servers are encrypted in transit and 88% of messages received from other servers are encrypted in transit. https://www.google.com/transpa...
But don't take my word for it, open your email and check the headers. You'll be amazed at the number of emails that will bounce between all servers using TLS encryption in transit.
Technology changes*, you need to change your view with it.
*1 year ago inbound encryption coverage at Google was around 75%
Its almost as if the creatures weren't real!
It's like reality but augmented.
I can think of better ways to go out, meet people, join teams, etc.
Maybe not to you, but I would assume to the majority of folks this is the case.
There is no "better" way. There are only multiple ways. It doesn't matter if this is joining a soccer game, drinking at a bar, sitting around in a cafe with a book club, or playing a game that brings people into an area. The end result if done right is the same: An expanding network of friends, hell due to the localisation of pokemon go as a game that generally limits you to walking distance of the place you spend most of your time the people you join teams with an socialise with have a key benefit over most other forms of meeting in that they typically all live locally. There's even a neighbourhood whatsapp group for the blue team.
It's Pokemon. Of course it's a fucking fad.
Oh sorry. I won't use the number of users. I'll use time instead. It's a history that has lasted 21 years. With a stead stream of players playing various pokemon theme games.
I could put my shit in a Pokeball and sell it for $1000 to some kid telling them it's a Grimer.
No you couldn't.
Look it's not everyone else's fault that you effectively didn't like something because you did the equivalent of trying to play a MMORPG without an internet connection. But insulting the people who actively find the game fun and insulting a long term franchise as a fad really just says more about you than it does about Pokemon or its players.
Thanks. The problem with such significant quotes is the number of people who pick it up an re-quote it.
Still it is interesting to see the oil industry use that quote in the same context too.
This will destroy the openness of the Web if allowed to stay. The last hope will be with browser makers: no standard gets supported if code isn't written.
The code is written. The only difference is: Will the code be standard, or will the code be customised and defined by each individual media outlet pushing their own agenda.
Notice how you can't get 4k Netflix on certain platforms? DRM baby!
If you're at the event, and you get a phone call from your bra, then you gotta bail, right?
Most women I know will simply remove the phone from their bra and answer it. No need to bail on the entire even to take a call. That would just be rude.
call me before 10pm the night before, I really don't need a lot of notice to prepare.
Sounds like you have a crap Saturday ahead of you when no one calls. If anyone calls me for anything 10pm the night before there's a very good chance the answer is sorry busy, maybe next week.
I can't say for certain how I will even feel 2 weeks from now.
What we can say for certain is that you're an uncommitted flaker who would bail on something that requires planning because of "how you will feel". I hope you're happy not being included in anything big.
If plans to meet/have dinner/ see a show were made, it could not be blown off due to "more important things" unless it were an emergency.
I think you and the GP are talking about different things. Having dinner, seeing a show etc are things that involve effort and expense. People who bail on such an event quickly find themselves isolated from their former friends.
On the other hand, attending a party, meeting for brunch in the city, or just chilling in an afternoon, well that hasn't seemed to change. We could blow that off in the past, and we can blow that off now. Even a simple "meeting" is dependent on the details. If you meet in a group it's quite acceptable for a person to not show up. If you meet 1 on 1 then it is not.
This! I went to see a band a few weeks ago and bought the CD on the way out of the concert venue.
I am debating if I should spend the 20 euro getting a CD player for the computer or just cut my losses and toss it.
But honestly, no, no young people care at all about sound quality.
You missattribute this to age. The vast majority of adults don't care about sound quality either.
Songs with high dynamic range are annoying to listen to in a lot of everyday situations, such as in a car or while working out at the gym, as volume has to constantly be adjusted.
That's why there are technical solutions available to these people who need to destroy the sound to make it listenable, e.g. the "loudness" option on my car radio which dials in the amount of dynamic range compression I get.
No need to mess up the source material. You can always compress. You can never uncompress.
That makes no sense. I suppose you're talking about once it leaves one mail server to go to another mail server it is no longer encrypted. But that scenario is only relevant if you're going to another server you don't control. That is not likely the case here.