*sigh* I've been saying this for a long time. This is why you shouldn't use other companies to store your files, unless you locally encrypt it first - don't want a rogue DCMA taking down your files, now, do you? You should also keep multiple local copies, just in case. It's always worth it.
The former part about cell-tower tracking... Yes. it sort of has to to properly hand over control to the next tower when you're moving.
The latter? I doubt it. Otherwise, opening a maps app would instantly have your correct location(versus having to wait and get a gps lock), and that doesn't seem to happen, at least on Android.
I did the same thing...but despite having W7 on my laptop... Linux is far faster, easily extensible, and doesn't take 5 minutes to shut down. It also doesn't freeze the UI(for a few seconds) under *most* conditions, something I've had happen on windows 7 a number of times. And this is on a hefty, stable, high-quality Thinkpad T500.
Oh, and there's no WGA to suddenly decide your *genuine, purchased* copy of windows suddenly isn't genuine, and won't let you(easily) change keys to *another* legit version.
Yeah. To be honest, if they added this functionality to Tablets and Smartphones, I'd definitely be looking at it. But Desktop windows? The Tile UI would be one of the first things to be disabled(via some sort of crack if needed) on any decent machine. Fortunately, I'm happy with KDE 4.7, so... I don't have to worry!
Liquified gas is *also* plenty fafe for automobiles - Just look at all the fleet vehicles run on Propane/LPG. Do you think the DoT etc. would allow them on the road if they weren't at least as safe as gasoline? Sure, it can leak in an accident, but it's also pretty hard to ignite if it's not at a *specific* concentration. And you also get plenty of leaking of gasoline in an accident with a regular vehicle, so...
I dunno, I find the inherent torque and extremely good acceleration of electric motors to be just *cool*(ever heard a large three-phase motor start up?), unlike the lawnmower-sounding engines in most(cheaper) cars when they are raced. Don't get me wrong - IC engines are cool and all, but we ought to end up with some pretty cool feeling and sounding electrics as well.
But there's a difference between the NSA knowing what I'm doing, and a mafia(or mafiaa) member knowing it. Do we really care if the NSA has access to a company's list of CC#'s? No, not really. But in the hands of someone who makes a living selling stolen CC#'s... yeah.
So make is parsable! Just use the LSB's of a bunch of camera images. Now, anyone looking at it will see exactly what you want them to. The last bits may be random, but... isn't that sort of what you get from cameras anyway?
Sadly, I agree with you. I always had about a dozen things I'd do to any XP box to make it usable(enable extensions, show hidden files, etc...) I saw how the later XP service packs and W7 was going with WGA and DRM the ribbon etc... and I made the switch to Linux (KDE on top of a debian-based system). I... don't regret it, aside from one killer feature: File Undelete. That's the only thing that Windows(fat and ntfs) does better than any of the EXT* systems. Even gaming can be done fairly well through wine(at least, for what I want to do -- Runescape and TF2). Anyway, recently I hosed my Linux system, and had to use my dual-boot(w7+linux) laptop for a few days. I've gotten plenty frustrated by it's *slowness*: Programs(like steam) can stop responding without any real notification, and using the task bar to switch away while it does it's thing just... doesn't work. In KDE or Gnome, a frozen program doesn't matter - Just click another program and work around it, or kill it quickly with the task manager. The other thing that bothered me is update speed: W7 seems to do all of it's updates at startup or shutdown, and it can take many minutes to shut off or boot when it's configuring. All the Linux systems I've used just did the updates on-the-fly, was quick about it, and would always shutdown in 10s or so. And that's just the minor annoyances. I wouldn't use Windows anymore for a development machine; Linux is just too nice with it's tool availability, script-everything approach.
Well, last I checked, a full VM wasn't *that* much slower than "native", at least in part due to most modern CPUs having a virtualization extension. So if it's too slow, we just get some enterprising developer to take the source code, have it use a nice hardware-enforced solution, and get *plenty* of speed.
I would argue that this is doable: we now have a very good handle on sandboxing applications, and we even have good, almost-native-performance VMs. If we can make it so that all untrusted apps automatially run in a sandbox or VM, then this will work. So long as the "least work" state has the application running in a sandbox, that will prevent 90% of infections through this vector.
Also, don't forget the fact that this will run cross-platform, and thanks to qemu(if it's x86 bytecode), on other arch's as well! So long as the Pepper API and source code is available, I can't see any problem with it. It will basically put *all* OS's on the same footing, without quite so much in the way of hacks like Wine....And who wants to bet that this api uses OpenGL/webGL instead of DirectX, at least internally?
Good point. Of course, even they use a compiled C++? library for OpenGL interaction, and without it you get a software renderer. Which can still do pretty darn well on even an older system.
Potentially true, but remember that most boxes are behind a NAT. Which eliminates *most*(not all, I give you that) outside attack vectors. Seems to me that so long as your browser is up to date and doesn't let anything be drive-by downloaded... what other vectors do you have? Of course, keeping the OS on a VM with snapshot functionality is even better, but...
However, they aren't shipping per-box. They are shipping full 40' containers worth, and it may take 6 months to get there. It'll still be somewhat expensive... but you can cram a *lot* of computers in a shipping container. And probably get a nice tax writeoff for doing so, as well as avoiding dump costs.
Yea. I've got some P4's that work perfectly well with modern Linux, and with LXDE it can feel *very* snappy. I'm not sure I'd run KDE with compositing unless I had a *good* graphics card, but...
Most of this is correct, but the problem with low-quality output on cheaper generators is not the lack of sine-wave output. Any AC motor will, by definition, put out a nice, true sine wave. The problem, however, is frequency. As frequency output is directly linked to engine speed, a generator loping or at the wrong speed will produce a not-60 cycle output, which UPS's are often designed to watch for and switch to battery. Modern computer power supples on the other hand, are designed to handle 100-240V, 47-63hz, so a few hz off won't matter at all.
Low-quality inverters put out 60hz, "modified sine-wave" output - something akin to a square-wave with a positive and negative cycle. They work great with modern electronics(though they hum), but motors don't like it. High-quality, "true-sine" inverters put out just that... more or less.
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Since moving to Linux 2 years ago, both Windows and OS X are crap.
*sigh* I've been saying this for a long time.
This is why you shouldn't use other companies to store your files, unless you locally encrypt it first - don't want a rogue DCMA taking down your files, now, do you?
You should also keep multiple local copies, just in case. It's always worth it.
The former part about cell-tower tracking... Yes. it sort of has to to properly hand over control to the next tower when you're moving.
The latter? I doubt it. Otherwise, opening a maps app would instantly have your correct location(versus having to wait and get a gps lock), and that doesn't seem to happen, at least on Android.
I did the same thing...but despite having W7 on my laptop... Linux is far faster, easily extensible, and doesn't take 5 minutes to shut down.
It also doesn't freeze the UI(for a few seconds) under *most* conditions, something I've had happen on windows 7 a number of times.
And this is on a hefty, stable, high-quality Thinkpad T500.
Oh, and there's no WGA to suddenly decide your *genuine, purchased* copy of windows suddenly isn't genuine, and won't let you(easily) change keys to *another* legit version.
Uh... what?
NT, I'll give you. I remember not being able to get Myst running on an NT4 box, but I played *many* games on several 2K boxes.
Yeah.
To be honest, if they added this functionality to Tablets and Smartphones, I'd definitely be looking at it. But Desktop windows? The Tile UI would be one of the first things to be disabled(via some sort of crack if needed) on any decent machine. Fortunately, I'm happy with KDE 4.7, so... I don't have to worry!
Liquified gas is *also* plenty fafe for automobiles - Just look at all the fleet vehicles run on Propane/LPG. Do you think the DoT etc. would allow them on the road if they weren't at least as safe as gasoline?
Sure, it can leak in an accident, but it's also pretty hard to ignite if it's not at a *specific* concentration. And you also get plenty of leaking of gasoline in an accident with a regular vehicle, so...
I dunno, I find the inherent torque and extremely good acceleration of electric motors to be just *cool*(ever heard a large three-phase motor start up?), unlike the lawnmower-sounding engines in most(cheaper) cars when they are raced.
Don't get me wrong - IC engines are cool and all, but we ought to end up with some pretty cool feeling and sounding electrics as well.
But there's a difference between the NSA knowing what I'm doing, and a mafia(or mafiaa) member knowing it.
Do we really care if the NSA has access to a company's list of CC#'s? No, not really. But in the hands of someone who makes a living selling stolen CC#'s... yeah.
So make is parsable! Just use the LSB's of a bunch of camera images. Now, anyone looking at it will see exactly what you want them to. The last bits may be random, but... isn't that sort of what you get from cameras anyway?
Yes.
(But it's funny anyway).
Just to waste it so Novell can't get it back?
He forgot the dimension part... It's at those coords, but about 32 dimensions sideways as well.
Sadly, I agree with you. I always had about a dozen things I'd do to any XP box to make it usable(enable extensions, show hidden files, etc...) I saw how the later XP service packs and W7 was going with WGA and DRM the ribbon etc... and I made the switch to Linux (KDE on top of a debian-based system). I... don't regret it, aside from one killer feature: File Undelete. That's the only thing that Windows(fat and ntfs) does better than any of the EXT* systems.
Even gaming can be done fairly well through wine(at least, for what I want to do -- Runescape and TF2).
Anyway, recently I hosed my Linux system, and had to use my dual-boot(w7+linux) laptop for a few days. I've gotten plenty frustrated by it's *slowness*: Programs(like steam) can stop responding without any real notification, and using the task bar to switch away while it does it's thing just... doesn't work. In KDE or Gnome, a frozen program doesn't matter - Just click another program and work around it, or kill it quickly with the task manager.
The other thing that bothered me is update speed: W7 seems to do all of it's updates at startup or shutdown, and it can take many minutes to shut off or boot when it's configuring.
All the Linux systems I've used just did the updates on-the-fly, was quick about it, and would always shutdown in 10s or so.
And that's just the minor annoyances. I wouldn't use Windows anymore for a development machine; Linux is just too nice with it's tool availability, script-everything approach.
So yeah... Don't like windows? Switch!
Well, last I checked, a full VM wasn't *that* much slower than "native", at least in part due to most modern CPUs having a virtualization extension. So if it's too slow, we just get some enterprising developer to take the source code, have it use a nice hardware-enforced solution, and get *plenty* of speed.
I would argue that this is doable: we now have a very good handle on sandboxing applications, and we even have good, almost-native-performance VMs. If we can make it so that all untrusted apps automatially run in a sandbox or VM, then this will work. So long as the "least work" state has the application running in a sandbox, that will prevent 90%
of infections through this vector.
Also, don't forget the fact that this will run cross-platform, and thanks to qemu(if it's x86 bytecode), on other arch's as well! So long as the Pepper API and source code is available, I can't see any problem with it. It will basically put *all* OS's on the same footing, without quite so much in the way of hacks like Wine. ...And who wants to bet that this api uses OpenGL/webGL instead of DirectX, at least internally?
That's actually pretty cool.
Good point.
Of course, even they use a compiled C++? library for OpenGL interaction, and without it you get a software renderer. Which can still do pretty darn well on even an older system.
Potentially true, but remember that most boxes are behind a NAT. Which eliminates *most*(not all, I give you that) outside attack vectors.
Seems to me that so long as your browser is up to date and doesn't let anything be drive-by downloaded... what other vectors do you have?
Of course, keeping the OS on a VM with snapshot functionality is even better, but...
However, they aren't shipping per-box. They are shipping full 40' containers worth, and it may take 6 months to get there.
It'll still be somewhat expensive... but you can cram a *lot* of computers in a shipping container. And probably get a nice tax writeoff for doing so, as well as avoiding dump costs.
Yea. I've got some P4's that work perfectly well with modern Linux, and with LXDE it can feel *very* snappy.
I'm not sure I'd run KDE with compositing unless I had a *good* graphics card, but...
Thirded!
16x16 wall o. screens!
Why? Need you *really* ask?
And that's a bad thing? I mean, you probably wouldn't have too many weeds growing...
Most of this is correct, but the problem with low-quality output on cheaper generators is not the lack of sine-wave output. Any AC motor will, by definition, put out a nice, true sine wave. The problem, however, is frequency. As frequency output is directly linked to engine speed, a generator loping or at the wrong speed will produce a not-60 cycle output, which UPS's are often designed to watch for and switch to battery.
Modern computer power supples on the other hand, are designed to handle 100-240V, 47-63hz, so a few hz off won't matter at all.
Low-quality inverters put out 60hz, "modified sine-wave" output - something akin to a square-wave with a positive and negative cycle. They work great with modern electronics(though they hum), but motors don't like it.
High-quality, "true-sine" inverters put out just that... more or less.