Real time information is not the same thing as adding learned memories, OBVIOUSLY. Because of course we are both experts on making shit up that doesn't actually exist:)
(If I had to chose between the future mythological universe of the Matrix and that of the Culture, I'd definitely choose the latter. And if you haven't read all of Iain M Bank's Culture series, you need to start ASAP, since they are some of the best hard sci-fi ever written. Like William Gibson on a galactic scale.)
No, not really. It's limited to 3KHz. While it might be very intelligible for a conversation (which is the most important thing!) it's definitely not a benchmark for "audio quality". Try a good "HD Audio" VOIP service - when done right it's practically CD quality audio.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with the equipment. Try using FaceTime instead of a cellular call, it's crystal clear. The problem is the network providers who refuse to get into the 21st century and update cellular voice technology...
How is that the perfect smartphone? Maybe the perfect one for next year...
My definition of the perfect smartphone is a neural lace providing instant access to all the information in the universe wired directly to your optic and auditory nerves. Until something better comes along, at least...
Wait, what 0.5" unibody aluminum laptops were available 15 years ago with a 13" screen and 10 hour battery life? (not sure what it has to do with Apple, all of the new Windows Ultrabooks are pretty close to that as well).
Desktops still have resolution to improve on (I'm on a 27" Retina iMac, it's great), but laptops? I threw an SSD in mine, vintage 2009, and it's fine. Laptops passed the "good enough" point a while back.
As far as "features", resolutions for desktops has almost maxed out - you can get a 5K 27" monitor now, which is pretty close to the limits of human vision (that's something like 220ppi vs ~300ppi of "retina" iPhone displays - so from the distances one would look at the monitor it's effectively better...). Now it's going to be about reducing price.
Apple laptops definitely still have some room for both feature and spec improvement... I guarantee you they will eventually have touch screens. And of course they will always be striging for better battery life. Beyond that, laptops are in fact still pretty far behind in terms of graphics performance - that's always going to be a battle of performance vs power usage/cooling, but it will keep improving gradually. Good enough to play most games, but still way short of a desktop.
Desktops have not particularly gotten faster in the last 4 years , but a 10 year old desktop will struggle to do web browsing. So 5 years ago we did probably reach peak desktop, but not 10.
None of this is talking about computing power, just features. There really hasn't been much in the way of new features for desktops in 10 years - as another poster mentioned, other than SSDs becoming mainstream it's pretty much slow evolutionary progress of CPU/Gfx/RAM since then.
Obviously I'm not saying the card is literally present... the Apple Pay system itself is secure (different mechanism as the chip but same purpose - prevent counterfeiting/fraudulent use of the card) and requires a pin/touch, so it can be considered equivalent to "card present".
But it turns out it's a bit more complicated. According to Apple, if ApplePay is used in a store it's "card present" but in-app purchases are "card not present". Which is funny, because Apple Pay via an in-app purchase is still more secure than using an actual credit card via chip and signature (chip and pin, on the other hand, would be about equivalent).
No, as long as your finger is still present (or your PIN) then the card is present. Both are still more secure than "card is present" in the US (chip and signature) and equally secure elsewhere (chip and pin) since if someone steals your phone they still need to authenticate before a purchase.
Nope, not how it works. Bad assumption there. Also chip and signature vs pin has nothing to with "tips" - it makes no difference if you add a tip or not, if it requires a PIN they have to bring the POS to you to enter the PIN. Signature is faster and more convenient than a PIN in any retail setting, and the last thing VISA, the banks, and the retailers want is to make it harder for you to spend your money at their stores on their credit cards...
But I totally agree with how chip & signature is NOT a good solution. Chip & signature prevents counterfeiting, which is a bank and retailer headache. It does NOT prevent identity theft, which is a *consumer* headache. So basically in the US they don't care about the consumer, just the retailer and the banks. Is anyone surprised?
Should depend on the reason for the crime. If you think about it, most crimes fall into one of a few main categories:
1. desperation: the risk is worth it because it can't get much worse. Most violent and property crimes against others are here - usually economics or addictions. 2. convenience: it's unlikely I'll get caught, so the risk is low. Non-violent crimes "of stupidity" (shoplifting, etc) or white collar crimes (Wall St bullshit). 3. sociopathy: I know it's wrong, but I just don't care. Serial killers, mass murderers, or other rare but terrible crimes.
This guy was clearly #3, so there is little chance he can be rehabilitated. IMO stick him in a hole or kill him, who cares, with 7+ billion people on the planet, many of whom would kill (maybe literally?) to be in a posh jail cell with good food, TV and video games, it seems absurd that this much time and money are being spent debating his "human rights conditions"...
If he is a human and he murdered 77 people, wouldn't killing him also be a human act?
In the end it's all bullshit anyway. There are no natural or "human" rights, there is only what society decides at the moment is "proper". In the end in this case hundreds of thousands of dollars (or krone, whatever) are spent debating how many hours a day this piece of trash gets to play video games in prison while a couple of billion other HUMANS in the world barely have enough food, shelter, and medicine to stay alive.
Which is why I run the cable box into a dedicated ethernet port on the server and run a point-to-point VPN to a colo. Comcast aint gonna be snooping much
cable box = Comcast. Do as much as you want to encrypt a cable box's network access, it's pointless if they own the software on the box itself!
When they come out with a 4K display that is JUST a 4K display, not some super integrated multi-media hub with shit loads of built in software that will invade my privacy, a remote that has more buttons than NASA's mission control and almost requiring a network connection to just turn on.
How is this post Insightful? Poster clearly didn't even RTFA, since his complaint is basically the whole point of this TV! The TV has almost no software on it other than Google Cast (think of it as a dumb TV + a Chromecast embedded in it).
Most of the software is on the (Android) remote control - or you can use any Android device with the Vizio software installed.
That said, IMO Google Cast is a horrible way for most people to interact with their televisions. They will gain a few millennial customers, but otherwise lose a ton from the rest of their market.
Anyway, that whole "smart" issue notwithstanding, who cares? The "smart" features don't really add much to the cost. In the end plug in HDMI and it's a monitor, big deal.
Yep, and apparently the troll who posted the original question to severfault didn't know about it, since when questioned how he managed to delete / without it... crickets.
(the whole thing was pretty much proven to be a troll...)
It already is hobbled. You can't delete / unless you add "--no-preserve-root".
If you read more about this post, it was an obvious troll. The problem is it got picked up by a "tech" journalist with just enough UNIX knowledge to understand what "rm -rf" does, but not enough to notice the obvious flaws in the story...
It was a pretty obvious troll if you read the whole thread:
1. The guy claims to have made the most insanely improbable mistake to kill his entire set of servers. Possible, but unlikely. Most took the bait on this one. 2. He had no explanation as to why "--no-preserve-root" didn't save him - basically looked like he didn't know about it, and he was lying. 3. later on he responded to someone's suggestion to use dd to backup saying he reversed if and of - which is probably the second most joked about UNIX sysadmin error after "rm -rf".
So, either you are pretty clueless about any of this, or, like another poster suggested, you are also a troll. Based on the specifics of your moronic post, probably the latter.
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Real time information is not the same thing as adding learned memories, OBVIOUSLY. Because of course we are both experts on making shit up that doesn't actually exist :)
(If I had to chose between the future mythological universe of the Matrix and that of the Culture, I'd definitely choose the latter. And if you haven't read all of Iain M Bank's Culture series, you need to start ASAP, since they are some of the best hard sci-fi ever written. Like William Gibson on a galactic scale.)
No, not really. It's limited to 3KHz. While it might be very intelligible for a conversation (which is the most important thing!) it's definitely not a benchmark for "audio quality". Try a good "HD Audio" VOIP service - when done right it's practically CD quality audio.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with the equipment. Try using FaceTime instead of a cellular call, it's crystal clear. The problem is the network providers who refuse to get into the 21st century and update cellular voice technology...
How is that the perfect smartphone? Maybe the perfect one for next year...
My definition of the perfect smartphone is a neural lace providing instant access to all the information in the universe wired directly to your optic and auditory nerves. Until something better comes along, at least...
Wait, what 0.5" unibody aluminum laptops were available 15 years ago with a 13" screen and 10 hour battery life? (not sure what it has to do with Apple, all of the new Windows Ultrabooks are pretty close to that as well).
Desktops still have resolution to improve on (I'm on a 27" Retina iMac, it's great), but laptops? I threw an SSD in mine, vintage 2009, and it's fine. Laptops passed the "good enough" point a while back.
As far as "features", resolutions for desktops has almost maxed out - you can get a 5K 27" monitor now, which is pretty close to the limits of human vision (that's something like 220ppi vs ~300ppi of "retina" iPhone displays - so from the distances one would look at the monitor it's effectively better...). Now it's going to be about reducing price.
Apple laptops definitely still have some room for both feature and spec improvement... I guarantee you they will eventually have touch screens. And of course they will always be striging for better battery life. Beyond that, laptops are in fact still pretty far behind in terms of graphics performance - that's always going to be a battle of performance vs power usage/cooling, but it will keep improving gradually. Good enough to play most games, but still way short of a desktop.
Desktops have not particularly gotten faster in the last 4 years , but a 10 year old desktop will struggle to do web browsing. So 5 years ago we did probably reach peak desktop, but not 10.
None of this is talking about computing power, just features. There really hasn't been much in the way of new features for desktops in 10 years - as another poster mentioned, other than SSDs becoming mainstream it's pretty much slow evolutionary progress of CPU/Gfx/RAM since then.
Obviously I'm not saying the card is literally present... the Apple Pay system itself is secure (different mechanism as the chip but same purpose - prevent counterfeiting/fraudulent use of the card) and requires a pin/touch, so it can be considered equivalent to "card present".
But it turns out it's a bit more complicated. According to Apple, if ApplePay is used in a store it's "card present" but in-app purchases are "card not present". Which is funny, because Apple Pay via an in-app purchase is still more secure than using an actual credit card via chip and signature (chip and pin, on the other hand, would be about equivalent).
Hah, love how my post and the GP have been modded overrated/troll. The US banking industry clearly has many users on slashdot...
No, as long as your finger is still present (or your PIN) then the card is present. Both are still more secure than "card is present" in the US (chip and signature) and equally secure elsewhere (chip and pin) since if someone steals your phone they still need to authenticate before a purchase.
Since I don't have a chip reader in my phone, I don't see how I'd be able to make a mobile web purchase either.
But you do (or you soon will). Apple Pay basically solves that same problem.
Nope, not how it works. Bad assumption there. Also chip and signature vs pin has nothing to with "tips" - it makes no difference if you add a tip or not, if it requires a PIN they have to bring the POS to you to enter the PIN. Signature is faster and more convenient than a PIN in any retail setting, and the last thing VISA, the banks, and the retailers want is to make it harder for you to spend your money at their stores on their credit cards...
But I totally agree with how chip & signature is NOT a good solution. Chip & signature prevents counterfeiting, which is a bank and retailer headache. It does NOT prevent identity theft, which is a *consumer* headache. So basically in the US they don't care about the consumer, just the retailer and the banks. Is anyone surprised?
Should depend on the reason for the crime. If you think about it, most crimes fall into one of a few main categories:
1. desperation: the risk is worth it because it can't get much worse. Most violent and property crimes against others are here - usually economics or addictions.
2. convenience: it's unlikely I'll get caught, so the risk is low. Non-violent crimes "of stupidity" (shoplifting, etc) or white collar crimes (Wall St bullshit).
3. sociopathy: I know it's wrong, but I just don't care. Serial killers, mass murderers, or other rare but terrible crimes.
This guy was clearly #3, so there is little chance he can be rehabilitated. IMO stick him in a hole or kill him, who cares, with 7+ billion people on the planet, many of whom would kill (maybe literally?) to be in a posh jail cell with good food, TV and video games, it seems absurd that this much time and money are being spent debating his "human rights conditions"...
JUDGE DREDD!
If he is a human and he murdered 77 people, wouldn't killing him also be a human act?
In the end it's all bullshit anyway. There are no natural or "human" rights, there is only what society decides at the moment is "proper". In the end in this case hundreds of thousands of dollars (or krone, whatever) are spent debating how many hours a day this piece of trash gets to play video games in prison while a couple of billion other HUMANS in the world barely have enough food, shelter, and medicine to stay alive.
Thank Douglas Adams for that quote, not the AC...
It was for the poster I responded to...
Which is why I run the cable box into a dedicated ethernet port on the server and run a point-to-point VPN to a colo. Comcast aint gonna be snooping much
cable box = Comcast. Do as much as you want to encrypt a cable box's network access, it's pointless if they own the software on the box itself!
I know this article is "old" by now, but, it's already been 100% proven hoax, confirmed by the original perpetrator:
http://www.snopes.com/man-dele... /. lack of any technical editors or researchers strikes again!
Yes, it was a hoax. It WAS. :)
http://www.snopes.com/man-dele...
That makes no sense. If you are watching cable or streaming video, the provider knows what you are watching, VPNs won't change that.
When they come out with a 4K display that is JUST a 4K display, not some super integrated multi-media hub with shit loads of built in software that will invade my privacy, a remote that has more buttons than NASA's mission control and almost requiring a network connection to just turn on.
How is this post Insightful? Poster clearly didn't even RTFA, since his complaint is basically the whole point of this TV! The TV has almost no software on it other than Google Cast (think of it as a dumb TV + a Chromecast embedded in it).
Most of the software is on the (Android) remote control - or you can use any Android device with the Vizio software installed.
That said, IMO Google Cast is a horrible way for most people to interact with their televisions. They will gain a few millennial customers, but otherwise lose a ton from the rest of their market.
Anyway, that whole "smart" issue notwithstanding, who cares? The "smart" features don't really add much to the cost. In the end plug in HDMI and it's a monitor, big deal.
Maybe because it's a BSD or other system without gnu tools?
Maybe you could RTFA. It wasn't.
Yep, and apparently the troll who posted the original question to severfault didn't know about it, since when questioned how he managed to delete / without it... crickets.
(the whole thing was pretty much proven to be a troll...)
It already is hobbled. You can't delete / unless you add "--no-preserve-root".
If you read more about this post, it was an obvious troll. The problem is it got picked up by a "tech" journalist with just enough UNIX knowledge to understand what "rm -rf" does, but not enough to notice the obvious flaws in the story...
It was a pretty obvious troll if you read the whole thread:
1. The guy claims to have made the most insanely improbable mistake to kill his entire set of servers. Possible, but unlikely. Most took the bait on this one.
2. He had no explanation as to why "--no-preserve-root" didn't save him - basically looked like he didn't know about it, and he was lying.
3. later on he responded to someone's suggestion to use dd to backup saying he reversed if and of - which is probably the second most joked about UNIX sysadmin error after "rm -rf".
So, either you are pretty clueless about any of this, or, like another poster suggested, you are also a troll. Based on the specifics of your moronic post, probably the latter.