Have you seen modern spam and mailing lists? Two k of text, and a couple of meg of embedded graphics. Broadband is so common now, people are forgetting to conserve.
In the case of Vista, the fears were right. It really did suck up system resources for eye-candy, bring nothing new worth the effort of upgrade, introduce compatibility issues without good reason, dumb-down the interface to the point of frustration and generally annoy everyone.
The population growth of a culture seems to drop off once they reach the state of modern western cultures. A few of their core ideals - prolonged education, gender equality, access to contraception - are very effective at reducing breeding. It's possible that if that particular culture spreads and comes to fully dominate the world, population growth may slow to almost nothing or even reverse.
True, but exactly the same problems have happened with Apple. There have been issues with some apps needing updates for new models of iPad, or app developers changing apps to remove features or add advertising to the free version, or whole apps being disappeared for legal reasons. For all the differences in how they market, at a business level they really operate in very similar ways.
I thought it was increasingly the other way around - that's why they killed off the xserve, to focus on the consumer space rather than corporate. Do you have any reliable figures? Because I'm too lazy to google for them right now.
But it'd still be a domain name that can be taken down. The only way I can see would be to get a domain name under a country-code where the US holds no influence, and the national government doesn't even pretend to care about piracy. Somewhere like Russia. There are a number of blatantly infringing music services operating on.ru domains.
Doesn't even need that. The NET act redefined the 'commercially' part to include an expectation of receiving infringing works in payment, which is quite broad. Up to a five year prison term per infringement, plus $250,000 fine. It was passed in response to the old BBS systems, but applies just as much to p2p.
No, but what if the only means of effective enforcement is via immoral actions? Piracy is just too commonplace to have any chance of stopping it while bound by the need for fair trials and real evidence. The only effective means would be preemptive mass censorship and guilty-until-proven-innocent punishments on flimsy evidence. It's that hard to stop people committing a crime when doing so takes only a commonplace tool and about thirty seconds, and the chance of detection is so low.
Changing the world through SF needs two approaches together: The promise of what we can make the future into, and the threat of what it will be if we don't.
Suspended animation or artificial wombs, plus a new form of propulsion that can get you there in only a couple of centuries at sub-light, plus robotics that can handle the reanimation (Or even harder, raising of children), and all that on technology that can continue to function for centuries without repair. It doesn't break any laws of physics, but just because it is possible doesn't mean it is easy.
I recall there was some company that was offering content-checking as a service. Their inspection staff consists mostly of verified sociopaths. No empathy.
Probably something involving ultrasound, laser or image-recognition imaging, and driving at greatly reduced speed. Not ideal, but good enough to get you past the disruption.
It's an old problem. The old 'bread and circuses' term originated with some people back in the roman republic complaining that people didn't care to get involved in civics or do anything to aid their fellows so long as they had food on the table and some entertainment to watch.
For the same reason the religious parties hold influence beyond their numbers. As I understand it, the major parties are in some sort of perpetual stalemate - almost perfectly balanced in power. That means that when the big parties differ, the otherwise-insignificent ones can easily be the deciding factor.
Basically, yes. Except it isn't soldered: The display just plugs into a connector on the mainboard. You can replace the whole lid if you want, including camera and antennas, or just open the lid and replace the panel itsself. It's a fiddley task involving removing about a zillion tiny screws, but I've done it a few times for replacements. You do have to check compatibility beforehand.
The most common reason for giving a server that much network capacity is virtualisation. A server hosting a collection of VMs will have hardware that substantial, and all those VMs sharing one physical interface will put the 10G to good use.
I've only had to impliment a sort myself once. For a dedup program. It needs to sort a list many gigabytes in length, so it's not all going to fit in RAM. I used a modified radix sort. A quicksort would look faster on paper, but with a problem: Non-linear access, which kills performance on spinnydisks.
The user credentials currently logged in are not able to write to the hosts file anyway, unless the user is logged in as a member of the administrators group. So if the extension of system file protection to the hosts file is supposed to stop malware, it can only be concluded it is intended to stop malware that already has some way (probably via dumb user) to run as administrator.
Easily done, but then the malware would simply change the permissions on the host. Or right now, it might disable windows defender. Any account in the administrators group can do that. The problem is that, due to legacy issues, Microsoft is doing it's permissions backwards: Rather than making it possible to provide non-administrator users with more granular access, they are instead having to find ways to restrict what the administrator account can do.
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Have you seen modern spam and mailing lists? Two k of text, and a couple of meg of embedded graphics. Broadband is so common now, people are forgetting to conserve.
In the case of Vista, the fears were right. It really did suck up system resources for eye-candy, bring nothing new worth the effort of upgrade, introduce compatibility issues without good reason, dumb-down the interface to the point of frustration and generally annoy everyone.
I mis-read the symbol. They look so similar in a small font.
I mis-read the symbol. Such small pixels! But that just makes the question even easier.
Algebra rejects rounding, so the correct answer should actually be x=+- root 20. Making it a question so obvious it should not be in the paper.
"These people are not pirates,"
I suspect Ubisoft would disagree.
The population growth of a culture seems to drop off once they reach the state of modern western cultures. A few of their core ideals - prolonged education, gender equality, access to contraception - are very effective at reducing breeding. It's possible that if that particular culture spreads and comes to fully dominate the world, population growth may slow to almost nothing or even reverse.
True, but exactly the same problems have happened with Apple. There have been issues with some apps needing updates for new models of iPad, or app developers changing apps to remove features or add advertising to the free version, or whole apps being disappeared for legal reasons. For all the differences in how they market, at a business level they really operate in very similar ways.
I thought it was increasingly the other way around - that's why they killed off the xserve, to focus on the consumer space rather than corporate. Do you have any reliable figures? Because I'm too lazy to google for them right now.
But it'd still be a domain name that can be taken down. The only way I can see would be to get a domain name under a country-code where the US holds no influence, and the national government doesn't even pretend to care about piracy. Somewhere like Russia. There are a number of blatantly infringing music services operating on .ru domains.
Doesn't even need that. The NET act redefined the 'commercially' part to include an expectation of receiving infringing works in payment, which is quite broad. Up to a five year prison term per infringement, plus $250,000 fine. It was passed in response to the old BBS systems, but applies just as much to p2p.
No, but what if the only means of effective enforcement is via immoral actions? Piracy is just too commonplace to have any chance of stopping it while bound by the need for fair trials and real evidence. The only effective means would be preemptive mass censorship and guilty-until-proven-innocent punishments on flimsy evidence. It's that hard to stop people committing a crime when doing so takes only a commonplace tool and about thirty seconds, and the chance of detection is so low.
Changing the world through SF needs two approaches together: The promise of what we can make the future into, and the threat of what it will be if we don't.
Suspended animation or artificial wombs, plus a new form of propulsion that can get you there in only a couple of centuries at sub-light, plus robotics that can handle the reanimation (Or even harder, raising of children), and all that on technology that can continue to function for centuries without repair. It doesn't break any laws of physics, but just because it is possible doesn't mean it is easy.
I recall there was some company that was offering content-checking as a service. Their inspection staff consists mostly of verified sociopaths. No empathy.
Probably something involving ultrasound, laser or image-recognition imaging, and driving at greatly reduced speed. Not ideal, but good enough to get you past the disruption.
And now I finally get it.
The Burma Shave thing was never funny for me, because I'm not in the US and so has none of the local knowledge of their advertising.
It's an old problem. The old 'bread and circuses' term originated with some people back in the roman republic complaining that people didn't care to get involved in civics or do anything to aid their fellows so long as they had food on the table and some entertainment to watch.
For the same reason the religious parties hold influence beyond their numbers. As I understand it, the major parties are in some sort of perpetual stalemate - almost perfectly balanced in power. That means that when the big parties differ, the otherwise-insignificent ones can easily be the deciding factor.
The banana so heavily, they are incapable of reproduction without assistance.
Basically, yes. Except it isn't soldered: The display just plugs into a connector on the mainboard. You can replace the whole lid if you want, including camera and antennas, or just open the lid and replace the panel itsself. It's a fiddley task involving removing about a zillion tiny screws, but I've done it a few times for replacements. You do have to check compatibility beforehand.
The most common reason for giving a server that much network capacity is virtualisation. A server hosting a collection of VMs will have hardware that substantial, and all those VMs sharing one physical interface will put the 10G to good use.
I've only had to impliment a sort myself once. For a dedup program. It needs to sort a list many gigabytes in length, so it's not all going to fit in RAM. I used a modified radix sort. A quicksort would look faster on paper, but with a problem: Non-linear access, which kills performance on spinnydisks.
The user credentials currently logged in are not able to write to the hosts file anyway, unless the user is logged in as a member of the administrators group. So if the extension of system file protection to the hosts file is supposed to stop malware, it can only be concluded it is intended to stop malware that already has some way (probably via dumb user) to run as administrator.
Easily done, but then the malware would simply change the permissions on the host. Or right now, it might disable windows defender. Any account in the administrators group can do that. The problem is that, due to legacy issues, Microsoft is doing it's permissions backwards: Rather than making it possible to provide non-administrator users with more granular access, they are instead having to find ways to restrict what the administrator account can do.