you're under some kind of deadline pressure and you can't connect to them, don't turn off SSL validation.
OR: Always turn off SSL validation, because it's totally worthless.
The problem is CAs get suberted all the time into issuing certs they shouldn't issue.
You're asuming that they're using a third-party CA, and using the same pool of CAs browsers use to validate.
In truth, when developing applications, you don't need that. If I were to make an application and server right now, I'd use my own CA certificate. I'd then bundle it with my application, and sign the server certificate with it. TLS validation will mean TRUE security in this case.
I'm quite curious as to what sort of shortcut they took. I can't picture any sort of code that might end up with an issue as particular as this one.:-/
QA? This bug is way too stupid. It should never even have existed, unless it was intentional. I mean, imagine the code; there's no possible variation where you get this sort of bugs.
If your connection is fast enough, you can stream 1080p movies, with same same quality as ripped 13GiB movies. If you do the math, you'll notice you only need ~2.1MBps (17Mbps) to stream a 15GiB 2 hour movie. And 15GiB is pretty much as good as it gets.
Honestly, everything you're criticizing is due to whoever your stream provider is having poor infrastructure/bandwidth/players, etc. Streaming itself does not need to have any of the issues you mention:
low quality: This is not tied to the fact that you're streaming per se, but rather to you provider wanting to save bandwidth. embedded in some kind of stupid player: You can stream in standard formats as well you know? system resource hungry: Sound like DRM is to blame for this, and not so much streaming itself. If you're not DRM'ing, you could just use VLC or whetever you like.
I can still play Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, from 1994, or StarCraft, from 1998. And Blizzard never had the power to change that, nor will they ever. Can I be sure I'll be able to play Diablo III in 20 years? No. It all depends on me trusting a company that has burnt franchises* to the ground for the same or more income.
* Yes, Blizzards franchises have huge amounts of fans, by "burnt to the ground", I mean they died in spirit, and were replaces with games that carry no more that the title of Blizzard's former franchises. Sure, WoW sells a lot, but it's pretty damn obvious that it's not even remotely close to keeping the spirit (gameplay, machanics, storyline, etc) of Warcraft 1/2/3.
* Online only. * Pay-to-win. * The "challenging" part that the previous titles had is gone. * Nothing new at all (mechanics-wise). Blizzard was one of those companies that ALWAYS innovated.
What would be nice is if they put out the Win95 or Win98 source code as there is a ton of games that played on win9x that really didn't run anywhere else.
Try wine. Not every single game out there works, but windows-9x games have higher chances of running on wine that they do on windows 7.
An inventory manager might send someone an excel sheet of inventory that is missing and needs to be located. Or an asset list that needs to be completed.
Serious companies (even small ones) have some web-based (or sometimes desktop) system with an actual database for this stuff. We stopped keeping company inventory and such as floating files years ago.
An accountant uses Excel in all kinds of ways, and those documents need to be disseminated to management.
Accuontants use accounting software. Even more so in corporate environments.
What do you think your companies policy manuals were written in? The ISO quality manual? Material Safety Data Sheets? The log sheet to record when the bathrooms were cleaned? Device Master Records? Customs declarations paperwork? Grant applications? Investment Prospectus? Meeting minutes? New Employee Orientation packages? Legal Contracts? Stock Option Grants? SEC Filings? Press Releases? Performance Reviews?
How many of us need to fill out an excel or word document to submit a timesheet, prepare a customer a quote, submit an expense report, request vacation time, fill out an order, prepare a project budget, estimate a job?
I have only used it to create my resume.
Yeah, not everybody is you.
Once every few years, maybe? That's far from being standard. Using a browser is way more standard (I've used one for most of the points you mention above).
I've heard this rumor a lot, but, at 26, having worked for ~8years in the IT industry, I've only needed LO less than a dozen of times to merely OPEN some file someone sent me.
Why choose intel? 1. better performance in just about everything
If you're willing to pay. Not everyone need the top performing CPU on the market.
2. lower power consumption
A very valid point, but irrelevant on the desktop area (unless you live somewhere where electricity is expensive, maybe?). Quite valid for laptops though.
3. more overclocking headroom
Really? You think that will make people choose Intel? 90+% of the people don't even know what overclocking is.
4. chipsets 'just work' and don't tend to have bizarre compatibility problems.
As do AMD's.
Sure, there's plenty of scenarios where Intel is a better choice. But there's plenty of others where AMD is the best choice.
Look like you've missed the last two generations of Intel HD video. An Intel HD 5000 is a VERY GOOD video card, even for some gaming (though not sure about last-gen gaming).
With Intel I get 12hs out of my laptop (MacBook Air 2013). I'd never go AMD on a laptop.
Then again, you're right that you get more bang for buck: my desktop is AMD. Eight 3.0Ghz cores for a very low price. But price isn't always the only factor.
But he didn't walk in. He just peeked from outside, and didn't touch anything. It's not ilegal to LOOK inside your house from outside if the wind blows the door open.
Again, the need for parents to leave money for their descendant's to have a home is yet another flaw in the system. It just proves that getting decent housing is inaccesible/too hard.
NEEDS should be covered by the goverment. And leaving money for you children to afford luxuries is sort of not-capitalist, because it means they got free money just for being your children (which is something we inhereted from feudalism/monarchies, and not actually capitalist).
Because building for my family's future is one of my primary motivators. I'm not just in it for myself. If I die I want my kids to receive the same education they would if I were still alive. The government already takes half of what I earn, and I will do everything legally possible to give them nothing more when I die.
Maybe the real issue is that your goverment isn't actually providing education for your own children. Your dependency on being able to leave capital to you descendants is merely a symptom of that actual problem.
Most users don't know the difference between SMS and MMS (and why should they?), so it requires explaining to other people why you only get some texts and not others.
They do in my experience. And I've yet to come across somebody that's ever used MMS. I know I haven't.
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you're under some kind of deadline pressure and you can't connect to them, don't turn off SSL validation.
OR: Always turn off SSL validation, because it's totally worthless.
The problem is CAs get suberted all the time into issuing certs they shouldn't issue.
You're asuming that they're using a third-party CA, and using the same pool of CAs browsers use to validate.
In truth, when developing applications, you don't need that. If I were to make an application and server right now, I'd use my own CA certificate. I'd then bundle it with my application, and sign the server certificate with it. TLS validation will mean TRUE security in this case.
I'm quite curious as to what sort of shortcut they took. I can't picture any sort of code that might end up with an issue as particular as this one. :-/
QA? This bug is way too stupid. It should never even have existed, unless it was intentional. I mean, imagine the code; there's no possible variation where you get this sort of bugs.
If your connection is fast enough, you can stream 1080p movies, with same same quality as ripped 13GiB movies. If you do the math, you'll notice you only need ~2.1MBps (17Mbps) to stream a 15GiB 2 hour movie. And 15GiB is pretty much as good as it gets.
Honestly, everything you're criticizing is due to whoever your stream provider is having poor infrastructure/bandwidth/players, etc. Streaming itself does not need to have any of the issues you mention:
low quality: This is not tied to the fact that you're streaming per se, but rather to you provider wanting to save bandwidth.
embedded in some kind of stupid player: You can stream in standard formats as well you know?
system resource hungry: Sound like DRM is to blame for this, and not so much streaming itself. If you're not DRM'ing, you could just use VLC or whetever you like.
It was a requirement for developers, it was a feature for end users.
So, FOSS software is back because you loose your UNSAVED work during a power surge? OH NO!
Ctrl+S is your friend, and always will be.
Libre office is also a gay name, further proving that FOSS developrs just don't have any style or class.
Well, if it's such a happy name, all the more reason to use it! ^_^
Devs don't need class. They just need to develop good software. Period.
I can still play Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, from 1994, or StarCraft, from 1998. And Blizzard never had the power to change that, nor will they ever.
Can I be sure I'll be able to play Diablo III in 20 years? No. It all depends on me trusting a company that has burnt franchises* to the ground for the same or more income.
* Yes, Blizzards franchises have huge amounts of fans, by "burnt to the ground", I mean they died in spirit, and were replaces with games that carry no more that the title of Blizzard's former franchises. Sure, WoW sells a lot, but it's pretty damn obvious that it's not even remotely close to keeping the spirit (gameplay, machanics, storyline, etc) of Warcraft 1/2/3.
* Online only.
* Pay-to-win.
* The "challenging" part that the previous titles had is gone.
* Nothing new at all (mechanics-wise). Blizzard was one of those companies that ALWAYS innovated.
What would be nice is if they put out the Win95 or Win98 source code as there is a ton of games that played on win9x that really didn't run anywhere else.
Try wine. Not every single game out there works, but windows-9x games have higher chances of running on wine that they do on windows 7.
No. 3.14 minus 0.99.14 would be closer to 2.1, not 3.
An inventory manager might send someone an excel sheet of inventory that is missing and needs to be located. Or an asset list that needs to be completed.
Serious companies (even small ones) have some web-based (or sometimes desktop) system with an actual database for this stuff. We stopped keeping company inventory and such as floating files years ago.
An accountant uses Excel in all kinds of ways, and those documents need to be disseminated to management.
Accuontants use accounting software. Even more so in corporate environments.
What do you think your companies policy manuals were written in? The ISO quality manual? Material Safety Data Sheets? The log sheet to record when the bathrooms were cleaned? Device Master Records? Customs declarations paperwork? Grant applications? Investment Prospectus? Meeting minutes? New Employee Orientation packages? Legal Contracts? Stock Option Grants? SEC Filings? Press Releases? Performance Reviews?
How many of us need to fill out an excel or word document to submit a timesheet, prepare a customer a quote, submit an expense report, request vacation time, fill out an order, prepare a project budget, estimate a job?
I have only used it to create my resume.
Yeah, not everybody is you.
Once every few years, maybe? That's far from being standard. Using a browser is way more standard (I've used one for most of the points you mention above).
I've heard this rumor a lot, but, at 26, having worked for ~8years in the IT industry, I've only needed LO less than a dozen of times to merely OPEN some file someone sent me.
Get rid of flash and use the HTML5 player. Those ads don't exist when using it.
Mint has Mint Debian Edition as well. My guess is that if Ubuntu were to die tomorrow, Mint would keep living as that incarnation.
Why choose intel?
1. better performance in just about everything
If you're willing to pay. Not everyone need the top performing CPU on the market.
2. lower power consumption
A very valid point, but irrelevant on the desktop area (unless you live somewhere where electricity is expensive, maybe?). Quite valid for laptops though.
3. more overclocking headroom
Really? You think that will make people choose Intel? 90+% of the people don't even know what overclocking is.
4. chipsets 'just work' and don't tend to have bizarre compatibility problems.
As do AMD's.
Sure, there's plenty of scenarios where Intel is a better choice. But there's plenty of others where AMD is the best choice.
Look like you've missed the last two generations of Intel HD video. An Intel HD 5000 is a VERY GOOD video card, even for some gaming (though not sure about last-gen gaming).
With Intel I get 12hs out of my laptop (MacBook Air 2013). I'd never go AMD on a laptop.
Then again, you're right that you get more bang for buck: my desktop is AMD. Eight 3.0Ghz cores for a very low price. But price isn't always the only factor.
That would be very sensible and not at all capitalist. It'll never happen in USA!
Honestly, I'm starting to think I should check out MyCleanPC. If SO MANY anonymous posters recomend it, it must be something special!
But he didn't walk in. He just peeked from outside, and didn't touch anything. It's not ilegal to LOOK inside your house from outside if the wind blows the door open.
Again, the need for parents to leave money for their descendant's to have a home is yet another flaw in the system. It just proves that getting decent housing is inaccesible/too hard.
NEEDS should be covered by the goverment. And leaving money for you children to afford luxuries is sort of not-capitalist, because it means they got free money just for being your children (which is something we inhereted from feudalism/monarchies, and not actually capitalist).
Because building for my family's future is one of my primary motivators. I'm not just in it for myself. If I die I want my kids to receive the same education they would if I were still alive. The government already takes half of what I earn, and I will do everything legally possible to give them nothing more when I die.
Maybe the real issue is that your goverment isn't actually providing education for your own children. Your dependency on being able to leave capital to you descendants is merely a symptom of that actual problem.
I know this. This does not invalidate my former statement.
Most users don't know the difference between SMS and MMS (and why should they?), so it requires explaining to other people why you only get some texts and not others.
They do in my experience. And I've yet to come across somebody that's ever used MMS. I know I haven't.
Well a great truth is, we used to have issues with qt due to it's former license. IIRC, it used to be dual commercial/GPL. It isn't anymore.