BTW Robin Williams died. Many stories were submitted but/. failed to approve any for FP. Instead, we hear about Microsoft news again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
That would be because we are a tech and geek news site not a celebrity gossip rag, while he was admittedly an excellent actor and comedian that does not make it geek or tech news as such it did not make it on here. Where Microsoft is a software/tech company which makes it tech news thus get posted.
Going back pre-smartphone, when the only real players in the PDA arena were Palm and Microsoft, Microsoft surpassed Palm in 2004, and from then on it was all downhill for Palm as they tried to update an archaic OS to utilize advances in hardware.
So you're saying that, during the past few years, Microsoft has basically been slogging through the same experience Palm went through a decade ago.
Lets hope they meet the same end up. Bought up by HP killed by corporate mismanagement and open sourced at a later date.
If there was a *nudge nudge* *wink wink* international protocol, Kim Dotcom would be out of my country already.
There was a nudge nudge wink wink thats why there were FBI agent in New Zealand when his house was raided, thats why his house was raided, there reason he's still there is because the nudge nudge wink wink was published all over the Internet and media.
'nudge nudge' 'wink wink' would have simply put a bullet in his head over 2 years ago if they wanted to. The only person who cares about what Assange says at this point is himself. No intelligent person gives a shit what he says anymore, he's proven repeatedly that he's nothing more than an attention whore who twists things to promote his own personal agenda.
if no one cares about Assange why is he still allowed to live in the Ecuadorian embassy?
Its not that a bunch of powerful people don't want to vanish him, it is more along the lines of a bunch of powerful people don't want to piss of other powerful don't want him to be vanished and figure he is harmless stuck in a embassy basement.
No the value of any currency is derived by peoples willingness to accept it for trade of work, service, or trade, that in turn is based on other peoples willingness to use it, if no one sees added value of your alt coin then they won't mine any or accept it for trade. So while I can make a billion crypto currencies no one will accept them because they can't trade them to anyone besides me. The network effect is Bitcoins biggest advantage over it competitors. So the only real competitors to Bitcoin are ones that can gain followers through other means like Litecoin that which has a algorithm that makes it hard for custom ascis and fpgas to beat off the shelf PC's, Namecoin is a distributed censorship resistant DNS service Filecoin is a distribute file store using proof of retrievabllity, etc while altclones are ignored.
Where the left when the get elected tend to do things like scrap our rocket program at the same time they decommission our shuttles leaving us with no space vehicle. And say oh well we will just pay other people to take us to space.
As Neil deGrass Tyson points out it isn't the right that is cutting science funding like they are often accused instead they tend to better fund the hard sciences and agencies like NASA, where left leaning administrations tend to cut funding.
Which raises another question. Can you make Chromium work with Netflix?
I'm a firefox guy personally. I use pipelight and it works quite well.
I use it as well but it has a habbit of getting the audio stream out of synce with the video and tends to misbehave with multiple monitors. I will have to try this on chrome and see if it works better.
If you use a PC as a router though you can do far more with that spare power though, It can also be your DNS server, your home VPN server, SSH, server, Radius server, firewall, tor access point, FTP server, OpenID Server,... That extra power gives a lot of flexibility.
I believe the official line from the government is:
If you see something, say something
this could be fun go through the phone book a give anonymous tips of random people for common innocuous things that the govenment considerer possible warning signs and see how big we can inflate the list until no one is allowed to fly in the US.
I would also change my mac address regularly just to make it harder to track your physical location You could always just use a random mac or if you want to be a real pain in the ass you could start mac cloning and find other people mac and copy them so when you go browse porn ^H^H^H^H the darkwebs it looks like the hipster with his macbook pro that just finished his mocha and left the coffee shop you happen to be sitting in.
But the freetards tell us that Tor is so secure!! Open sores fails again.
Good thing that the proprietary vendor like Apple Microsoft don't just give TLA's back-door access to their products... oh wait they do just that. I would rather have bug that can be patched in a open project than backdoor in a product I can't patch and pay for.
That's why companies like Xiaomi (which recently rose to be the 5th largest phone maker in the world) can offer a very capable Android phone that has no Google software on it.
while Xiaomi does sell phones with MIUI those are incompatible forks of Android and often end up with google play services installed as that proprietary blob is required for many Android applications to work.
Android is open source and freely available to any manufacturer who wants to use and/or customize it.
Windows is the same, no OEM ever needed to ship Windows systems with IE as the default browser.
Google Services are useful enough that most people want them on their phones, but that doesn't preclude any other manufacturer from making very successful phones without them, as Xiaomi has demonstrated.
Google Services are necessary enough that most people need them on their phones, much like IE6 has been necessary for a long time even though nothing ever precluded any OEM from making very successful PCs without it. The google service binary blob is where all the new innovative functionality goes, not into AOSP, so devices without it are becoming less and less compatible.
I have a kindle fire tablet it runs Android with exactly zero google services.
I would be curious to see how Azure is impacting Windows Server market share. They made it very easy to automatically deploy instances for those cloud services, and most people run multiple instance for load balancing.
I don't know the exact number but from what I've read Azure is gaining about 1,000 customers per day. That's a lot of Windows Servers.
AWS was first in that business but their console/dashboard is just too clunky, this scares a lot of people away. No wonder that Microsoft is making shitloads of money while Amazon is almost to the point where they will ask employees to sell their blood in order to finance the price war in the cloud.
Azure also supports running Linux instances. I would be interested to see the numbers for Linux instances they run.
Just like modular laptops did? That didn't seem to have gone anywhere.
You mean like the laptop I have that I swapped out the RAM the hard drive and others where I swapped out optical drives or wifi cards? laptops are modular just not easy like desktop.
Why do some people hate SecuROM with a vengeance despite being such a mild copy protection scheme but then turn around and praise Steam and other DRM schemes which affect the games much more (unable to copy/resell/regift, phone home for permission to install, etc)?
Because SecuROM is much more invasive than you describe, because it stay on infecting your computer after you uninstall the program that it is attached to, after you "uninstall" SecuROM" it leaves portions of itself the reinstall itself behind your back, It locks is registry keys so that even as administrator you cant remove them. It will reject valid discs as being illegitamate copies. It will stop the games from running on vista and newer OS's if the network is experiencing congestion. It will refuse to start games if you have various common programming tools installed on your system. And will refuse to run with certain brands of optical drive.
While steam lets me run game s on or offline, backs up my saves and synces them between my computers, lets me have multiple copies installed at once, You can uninstall it without issue. It does not care if I have a hex editor merely installed on my system.
SecuROM views you as a hostile party and treats your computer like it is their property not yours. Steam veiws you as a customers and tries to help you where it can in hopes of you spending more money with them.
I have had issues with SecuROM and its ilk interfering with legitament usage I have never noticed effects of DRM on Steam except where I have actually benefited from it "saves synced, etc,"
I fail to see how that article supports that claim. In fact, it shows that Apple is putting forth considerable effort to reduce child labor, and punish suppliers that get caught using it.
correction apple publicly makes effort to reduce child labor after they were caught using it for years, if they had not been called on the carpet as it were would they have ever tried to reduce it?
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BTW Robin Williams died. Many stories were submitted but /. failed to approve any for FP. Instead, we hear about Microsoft news again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
That would be because we are a tech and geek news site not a celebrity gossip rag, while he was admittedly an excellent actor and comedian that does not make it geek or tech news as such it did not make it on here. Where Microsoft is a software/tech company which makes it tech news thus get posted.
who will find--fill his chair?
to try to do that they would first have to pull it out of the wall it is embeded in.
Going back pre-smartphone, when the only real players in the PDA arena were Palm and Microsoft, Microsoft surpassed Palm in 2004, and from then on it was all downhill for Palm as they tried to update an archaic OS to utilize advances in hardware.
So you're saying that, during the past few years, Microsoft has basically been slogging through the same experience Palm went through a decade ago.
Lets hope they meet the same end up. Bought up by HP killed by corporate mismanagement and open sourced at a later date.
It is within Google's capability to dynamically map every speed trap and even moving police cars.
If a police car can be tracked so can you.
If a speed trap is fullt automated, how does Google detect it before you have been ticketed?
radar detectors?
If there was a *nudge nudge* *wink wink* international protocol, Kim Dotcom would be out of my country already.
There was a nudge nudge wink wink thats why there were FBI agent in New Zealand when his house was raided, thats why his house was raided, there reason he's still there is because the nudge nudge wink wink was published all over the Internet and media.
'nudge nudge' 'wink wink' would have simply put a bullet in his head over 2 years ago if they wanted to. The only person who cares about what Assange says at this point is himself. No intelligent person gives a shit what he says anymore, he's proven repeatedly that he's nothing more than an attention whore who twists things to promote his own personal agenda.
if no one cares about Assange why is he still allowed to live in the Ecuadorian embassy?
Its not that a bunch of powerful people don't want to vanish him, it is more along the lines of a bunch of powerful people don't want to piss of other powerful don't want him to be vanished and figure he is harmless stuck in a embassy basement.
No the value of any currency is derived by peoples willingness to accept it for trade of work, service, or trade, that in turn is based on other peoples willingness to use it, if no one sees added value of your alt coin then they won't mine any or accept it for trade. So while I can make a billion crypto currencies no one will accept them because they can't trade them to anyone besides me. The network effect is Bitcoins biggest advantage over it competitors. So the only real competitors to Bitcoin are ones that can gain followers through other means like Litecoin that which has a algorithm that makes it hard for custom ascis and fpgas to beat off the shelf PC's, Namecoin is a distributed censorship resistant DNS service Filecoin is a distribute file store using proof of retrievabllity, etc while altclones are ignored.
That's because we talk about the speed of light - in a vacuum - which is a constant....
...absent large gravitational fields.
NASA has been starved down to a rotting skeleton, as it is an easy punching bag for the right.
I don't think the right stands for what you think it does, as they are the ones that fund it when they get elected,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
Where the left when the get elected tend to do things like scrap our rocket program at the same time they decommission our shuttles leaving us with no space vehicle. And say oh well we will just pay other people to take us to space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
As Neil deGrass Tyson points out it isn't the right that is cutting science funding like they are often accused instead they tend to better fund the hard sciences and agencies like NASA, where left leaning administrations tend to cut funding.
yeah, you say that, but all I hear is "It is a tablet that can play steam games" The only one on the market.
Asus transformer? booting ubuntu? steam games no windows and tablet/laptop hybrid.
Which raises another question. Can you make Chromium work with Netflix?
I'm a firefox guy personally. I use pipelight and it works quite well.
I use it as well but it has a habbit of getting the audio stream out of synce with the video and tends to misbehave with multiple monitors. I will have to try this on chrome and see if it works better.
If you use a PC as a router though you can do far more with that spare power though, It can also be your DNS server, your home VPN server, SSH, server, Radius server, firewall, tor access point, FTP server, OpenID Server, ...
That extra power gives a lot of flexibility.
Something simple like a killswitch would still be possible.
but obvious which is not something you want in a secret backdoor.
I believe the official line from the government is:
If you see something, say something
this could be fun go through the phone book a give anonymous tips of random people for common innocuous things that the govenment considerer possible warning signs and see how big we can inflate the list until no one is allowed to fly in the US.
I would also change my mac address regularly just to make it harder to track your physical location You could always just use a random mac or if you want to be a real pain in the ass you could start mac cloning and find other people mac and copy them so when you go browse porn ^H^H^H^H the darkwebs it looks like the hipster with his macbook pro that just finished his mocha and left the coffee shop you happen to be sitting in.
But the freetards tell us that Tor is so secure!! Open sores fails again.
Good thing that the proprietary vendor like Apple Microsoft don't just give TLA's back-door access to their products... oh wait they do just that. I would rather have bug that can be patched in a open project than backdoor in a product I can't patch and pay for.
Vegetarians who eat eggs are hypocrites
Not if they are doing it for health reasons rather than ethical reasons. But as an Omnivore I think It just means more steak for me.
That's why companies like Xiaomi (which recently rose to be the 5th largest phone maker in the world) can offer a very capable Android phone that has no Google software on it.
while Xiaomi does sell phones with MIUI those are incompatible forks of Android and often end up with google play services installed as that proprietary blob is required for many Android applications to work.
Android is open source and freely available to any manufacturer who wants to use and/or customize it.
Windows is the same, no OEM ever needed to ship Windows systems with IE as the default browser.
Google Services are useful enough that most people want them on their phones, but that doesn't preclude any other manufacturer from making very successful phones without them, as Xiaomi has demonstrated.
Google Services are necessary enough that most people need them on their phones, much like IE6 has been necessary for a long time even though nothing ever precluded any OEM from making very successful PCs without it. The google service binary blob is where all the new innovative functionality goes, not into AOSP, so devices without it are becoming less and less compatible.
I have a kindle fire tablet it runs Android with exactly zero google services.
I would be curious to see how Azure is impacting Windows Server market share. They made it very easy to automatically deploy instances for those cloud services, and most people run multiple instance for load balancing.
I don't know the exact number but from what I've read Azure is gaining about 1,000 customers per day. That's a lot of Windows Servers.
AWS was first in that business but their console/dashboard is just too clunky, this scares a lot of people away. No wonder that Microsoft is making shitloads of money while Amazon is almost to the point where they will ask employees to sell their blood in order to finance the price war in the cloud.
Azure also supports running Linux instances. I would be interested to see the numbers for Linux instances they run.
Just like modular laptops did? That didn't seem to have gone anywhere.
You mean like the laptop I have that I swapped out the RAM the hard drive and others where I swapped out optical drives or wifi cards? laptops are modular just not easy like desktop.
Why do some people hate SecuROM with a vengeance despite being such a mild copy protection scheme but then turn around and praise Steam and other DRM schemes which affect the games much more (unable to copy/resell/regift, phone home for permission to install, etc)?
Because SecuROM is much more invasive than you describe, because it stay on infecting your computer after you uninstall the program that it is attached to, after you "uninstall" SecuROM" it leaves portions of itself the reinstall itself behind your back, It locks is registry keys so that even as administrator you cant remove them. It will reject valid discs as being illegitamate copies. It will stop the games from running on vista and newer OS's if the network is experiencing congestion. It will refuse to start games if you have various common programming tools installed on your system. And will refuse to run with certain brands of optical drive.
While steam lets me run game s on or offline, backs up my saves and synces them between my computers, lets me have multiple copies installed at once, You can uninstall it without issue. It does not care if I have a hex editor merely installed on my system.
SecuROM views you as a hostile party and treats your computer like it is their property not yours.
Steam veiws you as a customers and tries to help you where it can in hopes of you spending more money with them.
I have had issues with SecuROM and its ilk interfering with legitament usage
I have never noticed effects of DRM on Steam except where I have actually benefited from it "saves synced, etc,"
I fail to see how that article supports that claim. In fact, it shows that Apple is putting forth considerable effort to reduce child labor, and punish suppliers that get caught using it.
correction apple publicly makes effort to reduce child labor after they were caught using it for years, if they had not been called on the carpet as it were would they have ever tried to reduce it?
You think that is bad I know someone who is still running Aol.
What happens when two multiverse theories collide?
We call Walter Bishop and he gives agent Olivia Dunum LSD and puts her in the total immersion tank again...