I have been using this great OS called Windows 7. It does what I want when I want it to...
You mean, Windows 7 is not a blatantly oppressive as Windows 10, but it is still oppressive. You seem to have put things out of your mind, like activation codes and prostrating yourself to plead for a new activation code after Windows 7 decided to become "non-genuine" and the countless other little cuts and humiliations that define the life of a Windows user. Microsoft is just turning the screws harder, it's not like that dungeon ever was a fun place to be.
Because its always nearly a full 18 month behind Qualcomm. There's a reason the Exynos models mostly stay in S. Korea.
Bzzzt! Wrong. The Snapdragon 835 uses Samsung's 10 nm process (roughly 13 nm by Intel's yardstick) while Samsung's own Exynos 8895 using the same process was reportedly already in testing last summer.
OK, digging into that... Stratus is doing some weird and cool stuff. Not running processors in cycle-for-cycle lockstep like the mainframe guys (at least, not with their x86 offerings where Intel would never permit the level of systems integration that would be required) but at the memory access level instead, as in, if two processors are running the some code on the same data, then they must access memory with the same pattern. Hard to see how that could be made to work without some kind of hypervisor, which they most probably use. Cache effects would be a nightmare.
This isn't a server that has had an OS uptime of 24 years. This is a computer that they are still using after 24 years that "hasn't crashed".
Not even that. My understanding is, when Stratus fails over processors it is just a quiet reboot. Didn't turn off the power, yay.
In the good old days the mainframe boys would hot-swap mainframes by running the new processor in lock-step with the old one, even across vendors (It is rumoured that Amdahl made some sales this way.) The Voyager computers have been running for 40 years.
Presumably, Windows. Balance of probability both by numeric prevalence and vulnerability. How is it responsible for police to store valuable data on a vulnerable system? Without backup no less?
What's this, a visit from a Microsoft astroturder with mod points? Confirming that Microsoft is, well, the same old Microsoft.
BTW, it is not in doubt that the police had their stuff on a Windows computer because Locky, like the vast majority of ransomware, is Windows malware.
...might be the greatest discovery of the century, if not the millennium. If you can find a way to make these structures do work you essentially have unlimited energy
You worked yourself up into quite a lather there over a claim that only came from your wild imagination: that it takes energy to maintain motion, which any grade school physics student can tell you is not the case.
Avaya is probably 40-50% of the business phones out there and probably 90% of the phones used in call centers. There's no way they shouldn't be profitable.
Office phones are going the way of the buggy whip.
Presumably, Windows. Balance of probability both by numeric prevalence and vulnerability. How is it responsible for police to store valuable data on a vulnerable system? Without backup no less?
Can you explain to me why your post wast not a colossal waste of time? Wait, no, that's not right, it was only a modest waste of time, but a waste of time nonetheless.
It would be bad business for Google to compete with independent vendors for market share. What Google wants to do instead is define the high end with high-res AMOLED, quality build, etc. So the high price is supposed to make you want it but discourage you from buying it. Far better for Google's bottom line to encourage Samsung and the rest to build similar quality devices for a better price. Google sells ads and makes 20 times as much from ads as it does from peddling phones. Knocking Android vendors in the teeth by selling at cost like they did with the original Nexus would not make any sense at all.
I will cooperate with the master plan and not buy from Google, but more because of the missing SD slot than the price. I resent being strong-armed into Google's "just trust me" cloud zone.
it doesn't take long to get past the whitespace syntax and get on with programming
You might get past it, but it will never stop bothering you. One of the more spectacular blunders in language design, imho. Another one, also in the Python camp, is the brain-damaged aversion to efficient executables. It says a lot about the language that it succeeds in spite of those two remarkable displays of incompetence. But Perl, not to be undone, came up with "there's more than one way to confuse things".
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From the article: "Microsoft has made no secret about its desire to shift much of its software business model toward recurring payments". Fail.
I wouldn't call 25 million subscribers "failing".
I would call new subscribers down 62% "failing".
The preference for paying nothing at all...
Libreoffice 100 million users, zero pirates
I have been using this great OS called Windows 7. It does what I want when I want it to...
You mean, Windows 7 is not a blatantly oppressive as Windows 10, but it is still oppressive. You seem to have put things out of your mind, like activation codes and prostrating yourself to plead for a new activation code after Windows 7 decided to become "non-genuine" and the countless other little cuts and humiliations that define the life of a Windows user. Microsoft is just turning the screws harder, it's not like that dungeon ever was a fun place to be.
Because its always nearly a full 18 month behind Qualcomm. There's a reason the Exynos models mostly stay in S. Korea.
Bzzzt! Wrong. The Snapdragon 835 uses Samsung's 10 nm process (roughly 13 nm by Intel's yardstick) while Samsung's own Exynos 8895 using the same process was reportedly already in testing last summer.
Android indeed does support x86, and other architectures as well, like MIPS and PowerPC.
It supports whatever Linux does because Android is just a bunch of user space code that runs on Linux.
OK, digging into that... Stratus is doing some weird and cool stuff. Not running processors in cycle-for-cycle lockstep like the mainframe guys (at least, not with their x86 offerings where Intel would never permit the level of systems integration that would be required) but at the memory access level instead, as in, if two processors are running the some code on the same data, then they must access memory with the same pattern. Hard to see how that could be made to work without some kind of hypervisor, which they most probably use. Cache effects would be a nightmare.
IBM was a reseller for Stratus but Stratus is still an independent company.
This isn't a server that has had an OS uptime of 24 years. This is a computer that they are still using after 24 years that "hasn't crashed".
Not even that. My understanding is, when Stratus fails over processors it is just a quiet reboot. Didn't turn off the power, yay.
In the good old days the mainframe boys would hot-swap mainframes by running the new processor in lock-step with the old one, even across vendors (It is rumoured that Amdahl made some sales this way.) The Voyager computers have been running for 40 years.
You: "repeats its pattern over time, instead of (or in addition to) across space". Article: "not just in space, but in time". See the difference?
triggered much?
I didn't work myself up in to anything ... If what they're saying is true, this is not anything like the matter we've been studying so far.
But how did you get from there to "unlimited energy"?
Presumably, Windows. Balance of probability both by numeric prevalence and vulnerability. How is it responsible for police to store valuable data on a vulnerable system? Without backup no less?
What's this, a visit from a Microsoft astroturder with mod points? Confirming that Microsoft is, well, the same old Microsoft.
BTW, it is not in doubt that the police had their stuff on a Windows computer because Locky, like the vast majority of ransomware, is Windows malware.
I wonder, would an asteroid (or even the Earth itself) qualify as a time crystal?
No, because it is not a crystal. My counter-wonder: what happened to the quality of Slashdot commentary?
An object that moves even in a ground state must expend energy.
Did you just confuse velocity with acceleration?
what sort of practical day-to-day use for the common man would there be?
What practical use does the common man have for anything he can't eat, drink or fuck?
...might be the greatest discovery of the century, if not the millennium. If you can find a way to make these structures do work you essentially have unlimited energy
You worked yourself up into quite a lather there over a claim that only came from your wild imagination: that it takes energy to maintain motion, which any grade school physics student can tell you is not the case.
Avaya is probably 40-50% of the business phones out there and probably 90% of the phones used in call centers. There's no way they shouldn't be profitable.
Office phones are going the way of the buggy whip.
We're all asking, "what's the next big thing in smart phones (and tablets)?
Built in taser.
Presumably, Windows. Balance of probability both by numeric prevalence and vulnerability. How is it responsible for police to store valuable data on a vulnerable system? Without backup no less?
Can you explain to me why your post wast not a colossal waste of time? Wait, no, that's not right, it was only a modest waste of time, but a waste of time nonetheless.
I don't mind, I'm a glutton for big science news. Beat heck out of People magazine.
It would be bad business for Google to compete with independent vendors for market share. What Google wants to do instead is define the high end with high-res AMOLED, quality build, etc. So the high price is supposed to make you want it but discourage you from buying it. Far better for Google's bottom line to encourage Samsung and the rest to build similar quality devices for a better price. Google sells ads and makes 20 times as much from ads as it does from peddling phones. Knocking Android vendors in the teeth by selling at cost like they did with the original Nexus would not make any sense at all.
I will cooperate with the master plan and not buy from Google, but more because of the missing SD slot than the price. I resent being strong-armed into Google's "just trust me" cloud zone.
Isn't that just a male human?
it doesn't take long to get past the whitespace syntax and get on with programming
You might get past it, but it will never stop bothering you. One of the more spectacular blunders in language design, imho. Another one, also in the Python camp, is the brain-damaged aversion to efficient executables. It says a lot about the language that it succeeds in spite of those two remarkable displays of incompetence. But Perl, not to be undone, came up with "there's more than one way to confuse things".