"What criteria would you apply to these people to designate them as "insane", and what behaviour would you change about them to fix it? (And how do measure such a change so that you can tell when they're no longer insane?)"
using windows on a network constitutes as crazy. the change is when they realize we need truly free software, the four freedoms. trying to run the world on windows or macos or android all with the corporation as a benevolent dictator is not good enough. slaves to your corporate masters is no better than joining a cult where the leader is 'divine' and if he asks you to cut your throat you ask when and with what...
"Nvidia plays the game every bit as dirty as Intel. In this case, Nvidia has created something called 'GAMEWORKS'- a proprietary closed-source library of routines specifically designed to collapse the performance of games on AMD hardware (or older Nvidia hardware). Nvidia pays shills to counter information like this in forums like this one, so let me give you one example."
every company in existance is dirty, can't double the number of billionaires if people aren't overpaying for what they recieve. personally i run amd hardware have been for a long time. recently i built a desktop i picked an 8 core model i used whatever hardware i could find and the system ran at about $1,000 in parts. the chip i used was the last no gpu on die 8 core processor (really 4 physical with 4 logical cores) the only thing i could run that lit all the dark silicon was bitcoin mining. but even so, amd's new chip generation was a shocking dissapointment for me, as they were noticablly slower than the previous generation. the world is full of liers and cheats... i tried a nvidia card a while back and it was incompatible with microsoft aero, the previous attempt to buy an nvidia was too short a chip for the heatsink in an asus brand nvidia... so i see no reason to ever buy an nvidia again, i am not a schill when i say nvidia is not the only laying cheater out there, i will never own another nvidia.
"Unity is playing bad on the PC because they're issuing 50k draw calls on DX11."
yeah well robbing the game addicted of their hard earned money isn't easy when DX12 is not on windows7 but is on windows 8.1 . microsoft is the only winner out of this scene.
"who remembers all the acronyms?" https://google.com/ if the first page does not have it then try https://www.wikipedia.org/ if wiki fails you or has too many acronyms on one page then ask the author if they can be reached.
oh no, sdxc chips all use exfat and are limited to 4 gb for a single file, meaning a dvd iso won't fit. the sdhc was 2 gb files so it went up but not enough and according to wikipedia "SDXC adopts Microsoft's exFAT file system as a mandatory feature." i have xc cards already but if the hardware itself won't let you format to say zfs then there isn't much i can do about it...
"It may be that when one users complains, they block ALL email from your server; not just mail to the complaining account holder."
this is not always true, one of yahoo's partners was once accidently flagged as spam when i was cleaning house... that service then became blocked for about 3 months, then the messages started coming back, then rinse repeat every 3 months. near as i can tell everyone else got their messages from the yahoo partner company despite me having one time accidently flagged them as spam. there is no way to unflag spam(that i know of) and i don't feel like trying to unsubscribe and resubscribe..
"Of course general purpose CPUs exist, simply because we call them that way."
the wisdom of those real world coders gone from this world is thus. a jack of all trades, is a master of none.
this means simply that a general purpose FPGA that can modulate it's functions can do a lot of different things but not at the same time, and in etched hardware the trade off is having dark silicon for all the tasks a true jack of all trades cpu can do.
for instance, when i was doing video games all day the more games i played in diveresity made it harder for me to 'master' a game. but the one game i mastered i could play at the 1% level rank of 800 out of 1000 on a game ladder. and because doing the same thing over and over made me good, i rebelled a bit and would have to rotate my build orders and strategy selection, though i once took a good undead vs human 1v1 staretegy that requires building an item shop first and when the necesary tech of the item carry ability is done to send the ghoul out hunting the enemy base, equiped with a rod of necromancy for the hero and pick your best mercenary hero, i used tinker. then you focus on killing one militia and try not to let the ghoul die and use the rod of necromancy and a pocket factory to harass, only a human who goes fast footmen with a MK can beat this strategy so i took it to 13:1 after which i got bored with it.
anyways what i mean is because i played so long and hard i got really good at the game. but i like a fpga had to map the circuits to get it to work. i had issues and quit playing games, though not forever. i played the game again a bit later and it took me a full month to get back to doing the same gameplay at my highest level, but then i quit it was too hard on me. i am very much like a fpga in that my functions can be practiced until i am good at them/set the optimal gate array, unlike a fpga the base ability to do stuff takes time for the programming to work right. even then i was only 800 or so of 1000 ranked players. (at the time they had around 30,000 players for the game online durring normal usage times) like a fpga i was reoptomized for whatever i was doing, and so had a memory effect at the tasks i repeated frequently.
anyways, a jack of all trades is unable to truly master something, that is the trade off for designing a chip to be that way, you can make a processor that does one thing well like gpus, you can have a fpga if you anticipate needs to switch its abilities, or you can make proper dark silicon that is switched on only when calls for that function are anticipated/occur. so really a general processing unit does exist and it is just inferior to specialty designs, because of how it is built to do everything a processing unit need might based on predictions of how a person will use it.
in other words a dark silicon design is like a RV it can drive it can be slept in it can tow a car if needed and has a toilet and stuff, they cram everything you need in one box albeit at a price. of being bigger to accomadate anticipated needs. a fpga is like an autobot in the shape of a smaller rv, in that it can reconfigure itself to the needs and thus is lighter and more compact than the dark silicon. finally there is the gpu version this is not an autobot nor a rv but rather a car with a rocket on it's back. it takes you from home to shop etc, but at speeds the autobots and the rvs can only dream of (ignoring the possibility of spaceships/starscream), but it can't do everything else it is only able to move you fast from point a to point b.
"I think his point is that gopher is not SaaS and neither is the browser and while AOL did provide some software through its service this was just offering licensed software for download and execution on the user's machine, which is not Software as a Service."
by that definition, the first telnet programs on remote unix hardware was the first SAAS. since you had to have remote access to run programs it was all run on the mainframe and not everyone had access. for that matter then cgi-bin also was SaaS.
i will read your fine links, and correct you where you are wrong.
"Software as a service (SaaS; pronounced/sæs/ or/sÉ'Ës/[1]) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted.[2][3] It is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software".[4] SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser."
This is the definition of america online word for word as it existed in 1994. i kid you not. you installed aol to your windows 3.11 machine from the disc which then puled the data from the 'cloud' of aol's server (i know they didn't call software downloads the cloud either but as i see it aol was the first cloud computer as well) once the client loaded it would offer you games, chat, icons, a dictionary,a wide array of applications, a search engine that could search everything aol had built. it was called keywords, but that was not the initial name for it. by then aol had devolved to simple browser software, which is still a popular mode for software as a service. due to the high cost of system time developers were encouraged to have offline mode but most of the games were online only. most importantly though all the appilactions required aol software to run, and when the company tried to seppuku they switched to browsers, leaving many people without the software they had aquried online and would not be on any other users computer unless it was downloaded. when they killed it off infavor of buying netscape and only having the browser based tools it lost it's magic. ok i read most of the wiki and it perfectly matches everything aol has ever done stupid or smart. i think you thought aol was just a dialup internet stripped down. even compuserv had qute a few similarities to aol though compuserv had a lot less stuff than aol had at the time.
how will they learn of conservation if they don't attend school we need to build highways to their sheltered world of jungle living. it's not like they're sustainable or anything like that, are they?
"The fact that a company with a large fan base is getting sucked under?"
it happens aol had a huge fanbase too but not many are sad it's gone.
" The fact that this will have a chilling effect on the PC market?
any worse than apple saying they can no longer build ipod classics? the pc market is mainly swindlers anyways. $5,000 for a calculator... they swindled quite a few people in the upgrade cycle and making hardware crap and load crappier software that abandons the four basic freedoms required for truly free software...
"Obviously the banks blew it by not noticing the fraud occurring, yet tax payers will drawn in to fix the banks. Tax payers should really be hot about this. I really hope these guys get burned, or at least flow right into a long brisk term in "Federal Pound me in the Ass Prison"!"
SAAS is no new idea... see there was this unix protocol called gopher and it summoned documents to the users through a data network... and gasp you didn't need to move paper around to get your data. sadly a software known as a 'browser' came along and you could traverse a network called the world wide web. it had links to this new paperless data at the low low price of $9.95 a month for 10 hours a month at 9660 baud... well actually to be correct the price was all paid for by schools which then upgraded their prices to reflect this, but 'aol' was the way home users could connect for the above terms.
while in those early days you used a floppy to infect the AOL malware nowadays it is nearly extinct, and they haven't sent me a worthless cd in many long years now. at least the floppy could be formatted and reused. so yes software as a service dates back to AOL who offered a software portal to this data network as a 'service' and allowed users to compromize their data at $1.95 an hour.
buzzwords are usually a way people pass off other peoples ideas as their own or as a new way of doing the same old same old.
so all the people using the amazon ec2 to run bitcoin and later altcoin/flavor of the month alt coin clones to make money aren't using cpu power? i looked into altcoins and it is pretty clear each coin launch is a huge way to launder 10 million in money easily.. and ec2 cloud computing is recommended for that use. criminals also use it to get gold and silver in exchange for their mined coins.
"Actually, they have. 14 years + one 14 year renewal; and even that was too long."
i think you should have checked the facts. 'The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act this means that in 2019 some 1923 copyrighted materials will hit the public domain. if they aren't extended before then.
i checked a few sources and got the math right. the surface area of an omnidirectioanl transmission sphere (like old radio towers prior to directional antennas that literaly half the power consumption) is 4 times pi times radius times radius. which means 4 watts at 152 cm assuming a 1 square cm rectenna is some 290,333 square cm or 1,161,332 watts assuming that all the math is right only google helped me and i wasn't sure if i needed to square root the surface area to get square cms or not. in case i did it is then 1077 X 4 watts or 4300 watts at five feet... which is way more sense that the first one, but then the first one would power some 23104 items instead of 1077 devices, again assuming omnidirectional transmission. 4 90degree directional antennas use half the power in either case. since they don't radiate up or down as much. also only 1/4 of the antennas need to be on if all devices are withing a single 90degree directionals... however a multi axis narrow directional beam a single square cm in size uses 1/1,077th or 1/23104th of the power at the caveat of only being able to charge one stationary non vibrating device per directed energy beam aparatus. all this assumes 100% effeciency when realistically more like 75% to 23% efficiency depending on distance etc. things plug into wires for a reason.
i see that the multiply signs got garbled. 152 cm x 2 x 3.14 x 4 watts = 3818.24 watts. i think i made a mistake and it really needs a second 3.14 multiply to make it spherical instead someone correct my maths if possible. this is why wireless energy never took off.
if from 5 feet away a device will charge up 4 watts... and that equals 152 cm radius... and we assume device is 1 cubic centimeter then. 152Ã--2Ã--3.14Ã--4=3818.24 watts because the device uses an omnidirectional antenna (i assume as gps forwarded directional masers fine microwave lasers aren't being used) is more expensive and can no longer charge all devices in range. of course a projected cylindrical formed antenna drops power use in half, but still 2000 watts to drive a 4 watt device cause you're too drunk to charge your phone is crazy.
this is energy use to end civilization. can you imagine if 7 billion humans used 30billion always on 4000 watt omnidirectional wireless power? even if we all used LFTR(thorium) would be hard to come by, and the frequency the devices operate on would be uterly useless for anyone. but yeah we could all wear ambient LED safety lights in all the malls until cancer killed everyone.
so if i put cyanogenmod on my phone, buy it myself and thus have no contract to keep it from running cyanogenmod can i make microsoft pay me the money they collected from the maker of my smart phone?
first of for the record, internet speeds are measured in bits per second this is also the case with video, but not everyone is a movie head. ergo a 60mbps connection is actually a 7.5mBps connection.
http://help.encoding.com/knowledge-base/article/understanding-bitrates-in-video-files/ says a typical 720p will use 2.5 mbps and a 1080p 5 mbps. this is wrong for many reasons. how many audio channels does it have if it's more than 0 it needs at a minimum 64 kbit/s per horrible lossy audio. then the problem with especially rapidly changing graphics causing encode time spikes where the data is not all capable of being stored at the given bitrate, then there is network routing delays and dropped packets. a buffer will usually smooth that out though.
okay then lets see here, every device that is used for youtube and netflix has to work simultaneously on all devices at the same time. sure a 10 mbit/s stream will let you get 2 streams of data, maybe if they're crappy quality you tubes. 60 mbps and then you can possibly stream 8 streams if they're meant to be shared on the internet. while you can thus say 60mbps is plenty fast for home users, there was a time (holidays) when there were 12 people on the wifi at the same time. and consumer wifi can have 50 connections, so realistically people need 375 mbps, so everyone at a party can stream at the same time. no that was a joke... with 6 antennas it is hard to run 50 connections anyways, even with them all being trancievers.
there were people who swore that dialup was enough for them, at the time who would have dared dream of being able to drop $120 for a 128 GigaByte chip the size of a fingernail http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B00IIJ6W4S so saying gigabit networking has no use for home users (though there clearly are for businesses, someone made netflix you know) is to be shortsighted.
"Prepare for the steering wheel in new cars to work in exactly the opposite way, and for the brake pedal and accelerator to be active when released rather than pressed. Surely you won't get into much trouble on the road now that I've told you about that in advance."
nono its no use using a facetious quip. the gas can will now be on the passenger side, not the drivers side, but company b is putting them behing the rear driver plate. or wait the turn signal needs to be on the left side with the lights, no thats where we'll put the cruise control and the wiper blade activations. no wait lets move the lights to their own switch on the dash, no wait we need to put the wiper blades and the lights together...
had you used a real driver issue like the ones all real from above you would have gone further with the software/car analogy.
the push for younger coders is to create a user base for microsoft and facebook. microsoft is still thinking everyone can be converted to their crappy software base by letting kids learn how to code for it. when i was coding ircbots i was totally hooked on using windows, because for most of my life gaming i had played on windows computers and nintendo consoles...
i had some pretty cool projects like an ASCII video player (think ASCII art, replaying static frames manually typed out for playback on mirc) it actually was able to get almost 30fps on a p-120 laptop with about 2gb hdd and 48MB of ram.
anyways compared to what i've seen these days a p-120 is pathetic, yet most of the people who use them don't need the speed hence tablets and laptops being so far behind desktop systems and graphic cards. wikipedia has documents that show that standards for video were all really old tech too, they had a plan to make themselves billionaires and have more gamer addicts whom tend to have the biggest craving for overpriced electronics.
and the bubbles come when people find out they are being suckered into buying stuff that is old and power hungry when they could have just used a iphone or android to get their facebook fix and candy crushing games. which are also overpriced but not if you get a used or 'older' model
the first real world mass market character recognition i used was brain age 2 for nintendo ds and if you didn't start the characters the right stroke for stroke recognition it would screw up on you.
with many millions of users of the ds and it's descendants it is clear that microsoft is reinventing the wheel again.
the problem you see, is ATMs require windows XP software. yes windows XP. http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/20/5326772/windows-xp-powers-95-percent-of-atms-worldwide So the malware simply connects to a botnet, hops through inadequate satellite networks makes a map and reinfects itself after the system is cleaned. i have seen windows xp machines infected by satellite communications they are after all devices that must obey 'this device must accept any interference received' which is usually a kill switch to make them stop emitting radio waves, but also means viruses that transmit via radio must also be accepted it is the law after all.
the reason windows needs AV protection to run safely is because one account can overwrite critical OS files replacing them with malware infested fake software, and everyone by default starts out with ability to install any program including malware that later will get the special administrator privileges (on a reboot) needed to permanently infect the machine.
heartbleed and shellshock are nasty but a well hardened install will not be a problem, as the users dumb enough to install bad software generally need to ask someone to do that for them. and yes i realize they can run any command and possibly as root with shellshock if your cgi-bin is running things as root. seems to me that with Apache needing to run things as user Apache or httpd it was quite the oversight to let cgi-bin run as root in the first place!
I have a dell laptop with a 800 Mhz processor and it runs lubuntu faster than lubuntu on a lenovo quadcore 1.2ghz AMD apu...same os. one is what most would call obsolete and yes i installed with the same optical disc. the APU boots up faster but takes a full 30 seconds to respond after clicking the 'log out' button it is no lag if i sudo shutdown -h now from terminal.
knoppix warns that using the live media and eventually the system begins to slow, and that still applies to a write protected flash memory card. no i don't mean just leaving the computer booted up all the time the parts inside the computer slow down as they get older. there are a ton of things that cause problems that good design can deal with most issues people get with windows but that doesn't stop bitrot or normal failure or slowdown of the chip and other components...
the only thing that deals with component slowdown is buying new components. there is not one OS that doesn't have the same problems without requiring replacement of parts known to fail or slow down things.
the real use of this tech is not to kill counterfeiting it is to know what a chips parts look like. also a malware/spyware IC isn't something that can be ruled out by a simple test of if it does as advertised. i have a $40 tablet that connects to a chatbot system based on yahoo messenger everytime i activate the official android yahoo messenger from play market i get a 'friend' request from an offline user who one or more days later asks if i want to see them naked on a webcam.
if that iRulu tablet is feeding my data to a yahoo messenger botnet (they are a F rated company on the BBB have a cheesy website etc) who knows what else it is trying to do... and if you think 'just root the damn thing' there isn't a really well documented screen shot by screenshot of how to say load an alternative os, because apparently it is illegal to do so on a tablet because the term 'tablet' was too obscure for the judge to rule on it.
so yeah shining a laser on a chip to know what it really has on there is huge, especially for military use.
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"What criteria would you apply to these people to designate them as "insane", and what behaviour would you change about them to fix it? (And how do measure such a change so that you can tell when they're no longer insane?)"
using windows on a network constitutes as crazy. the change is when they realize we need truly free software, the four freedoms. trying to run the world on windows or macos or android all with the corporation as a benevolent dictator is not good enough. slaves to your corporate masters is no better than joining a cult where the leader is 'divine' and if he asks you to cut your throat you ask when and with what...
"Nvidia plays the game every bit as dirty as Intel. In this case, Nvidia has created something called 'GAMEWORKS'- a proprietary closed-source library of routines specifically designed to collapse the performance of games on AMD hardware (or older Nvidia hardware). Nvidia pays shills to counter information like this in forums like this one, so let me give you one example."
every company in existance is dirty, can't double the number of billionaires if people aren't overpaying for what they recieve. personally i run amd hardware have been for a long time. recently i built a desktop i picked an 8 core model i used whatever hardware i could find and the system ran at about $1,000 in parts. the chip i used was the last no gpu on die 8 core processor (really 4 physical with 4 logical cores) the only thing i could run that lit all the dark silicon was bitcoin mining. but even so, amd's new chip generation was a shocking dissapointment for me, as they were noticablly slower than the previous generation. the world is full of liers and cheats... i tried a nvidia card a while back and it was incompatible with microsoft aero, the previous attempt to buy an nvidia was too short a chip for the heatsink in an asus brand nvidia... so i see no reason to ever buy an nvidia again, i am not a schill when i say nvidia is not the only laying cheater out there, i will never own another nvidia.
"Unity is playing bad on the PC because they're issuing 50k draw calls on DX11."
yeah well robbing the game addicted of their hard earned money isn't easy when DX12 is not on windows7 but is on windows 8.1 . microsoft is the only winner out of this scene.
"who remembers all the acronyms?"
https://google.com/ if the first page does not have it then try
https://www.wikipedia.org/ if wiki fails you or has too many acronyms on one page then ask the author if they can be reached.
oh no, sdxc chips all use exfat and are limited to 4 gb for a single file, meaning a dvd iso won't fit. the sdhc was 2 gb files so it went up but not enough and according to wikipedia "SDXC adopts Microsoft's exFAT file system as a mandatory feature." i have xc cards already but if the hardware itself won't let you format to say zfs then there isn't much i can do about it...
"It may be that when one users complains, they block ALL email from your server; not just mail to the complaining account holder."
this is not always true, one of yahoo's partners was once accidently flagged as spam when i was cleaning house... that service then became blocked for about 3 months, then the messages started coming back, then rinse repeat every 3 months. near as i can tell everyone else got their messages from the yahoo partner company despite me having one time accidently flagged them as spam. there is no way to unflag spam(that i know of) and i don't feel like trying to unsubscribe and resubscribe..
"Of course general purpose CPUs exist, simply because we call them that way."
the wisdom of those real world coders gone from this world is thus. a jack of all trades, is a master of none.
this means simply that a general purpose FPGA that can modulate it's functions can do a lot of different things but not at the same time, and in etched hardware the trade off is having dark silicon for all the tasks a true jack of all trades cpu can do.
for instance, when i was doing video games all day the more games i played in diveresity made it harder for me to 'master' a game. but the one game i mastered i could play at the 1% level rank of 800 out of 1000 on a game ladder. and because doing the same thing over and over made me good, i rebelled a bit and would have to rotate my build orders and strategy selection, though i once took a good undead vs human 1v1 staretegy that requires building an item shop first and when the necesary tech of the item carry ability is done to send the ghoul out hunting the enemy base, equiped with a rod of necromancy for the hero and pick your best mercenary hero, i used tinker. then you focus on killing one militia and try not to let the ghoul die and use the rod of necromancy and a pocket factory to harass, only a human who goes fast footmen with a MK can beat this strategy so i took it to 13:1 after which i got bored with it.
anyways what i mean is because i played so long and hard i got really good at the game. but i like a fpga had to map the circuits to get it to work. i had issues and quit playing games, though not forever. i played the game again a bit later and it took me a full month to get back to doing the same gameplay at my highest level, but then i quit it was too hard on me. i am very much like a fpga in that my functions can be practiced until i am good at them/set the optimal gate array, unlike a fpga the base ability to do stuff takes time for the programming to work right. even then i was only 800 or so of 1000 ranked players. (at the time they had around 30,000 players for the game online durring normal usage times) like a fpga i was reoptomized for whatever i was doing, and so had a memory effect at the tasks i repeated frequently.
anyways, a jack of all trades is unable to truly master something, that is the trade off for designing a chip to be that way, you can make a processor that does one thing well like gpus, you can have a fpga if you anticipate needs to switch its abilities, or you can make proper dark silicon that is switched on only when calls for that function are anticipated/occur. so really a general processing unit does exist and it is just inferior to specialty designs, because of how it is built to do everything a processing unit need might based on predictions of how a person will use it.
in other words a dark silicon design is like a RV it can drive it can be slept in it can tow a car if needed and has a toilet and stuff, they cram everything you need in one box albeit at a price. of being bigger to accomadate anticipated needs. a fpga is like an autobot in the shape of a smaller rv, in that it can reconfigure itself to the needs and thus is lighter and more compact than the dark silicon. finally there is the gpu version this is not an autobot nor a rv but rather a car with a rocket on it's back. it takes you from home to shop etc, but at speeds the autobots and the rvs can only dream of (ignoring the possibility of spaceships/starscream), but it can't do everything else it is only able to move you fast from point a to point b.
"I think his point is that gopher is not SaaS and neither is the browser and while AOL did provide some software through its service this was just offering licensed software for download and execution on the user's machine, which is not Software as a Service."
by that definition, the first telnet programs on remote unix hardware was the first SAAS. since you had to have remote access to run programs it was all run on the mainframe and not everyone had access. for that matter then cgi-bin also was SaaS.
i will read your fine links, and correct you where you are wrong.
"Software as a service (SaaS; pronounced /sæs/ or /sÉ'Ës/[1]) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted.[2][3] It is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software".[4] SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser."
This is the definition of america online word for word as it existed in 1994. i kid you not. you installed aol to your windows 3.11 machine from the disc which then puled the data from the 'cloud' of aol's server (i know they didn't call software downloads the cloud either but as i see it aol was the first cloud computer as well) once the client loaded it would offer you games, chat, icons, a dictionary ,a wide array of applications, a search engine that could search everything aol had built. it was called keywords, but that was not the initial name for it. by then aol had devolved to simple browser software, which is still a popular mode for software as a service. due to the high cost of system time developers were encouraged to have offline mode but most of the games were online only. most importantly though all the appilactions required aol software to run, and when the company tried to seppuku they switched to browsers, leaving many people without the software they had aquried online and would not be on any other users computer unless it was downloaded. when they killed it off infavor of buying netscape and only having the browser based tools it lost it's magic. ok i read most of the wiki and it perfectly matches everything aol has ever done stupid or smart. i think you thought aol was just a dialup internet stripped down. even compuserv had qute a few similarities to aol though compuserv had a lot less stuff than aol had at the time.
how will they learn of conservation if they don't attend school we need to build highways to their sheltered world of jungle living. it's not like they're sustainable or anything like that, are they?
"Let what sink in? The fact that 3 guys defrauded banks for a cool billion dollars each? "
try 800 trillion... makes these guys look foolish to only steal a few billion...
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/14/banks_biggest_fraud_ever/
"The fact that a company with a large fan base is getting sucked under?"
it happens aol had a huge fanbase too but not many are sad it's gone.
" The fact that this will have a chilling effect on the PC market?
any worse than apple saying they can no longer build ipod classics? the pc market is mainly swindlers anyways. $5,000 for a calculator... they swindled quite a few people in the upgrade cycle and making hardware crap and load crappier software that abandons the four basic freedoms required for truly free software...
"Obviously the banks blew it by not noticing the fraud occurring, yet tax payers will drawn in to fix the banks. Tax payers should really be hot about this. I really hope these guys get burned, or at least flow right into a long brisk term in "Federal Pound me in the Ass Prison"!"
SAAS is no new idea... see there was this unix protocol called gopher and it summoned documents to the users through a data network... and gasp you didn't need to move paper around to get your data. sadly a software known as a 'browser' came along and you could traverse a network called the world wide web. it had links to this new paperless data at the low low price of $9.95 a month for 10 hours a month at 9660 baud... well actually to be correct the price was all paid for by schools which then upgraded their prices to reflect this, but 'aol' was the way home users could connect for the above terms.
while in those early days you used a floppy to infect the AOL malware nowadays it is nearly extinct, and they haven't sent me a worthless cd in many long years now. at least the floppy could be formatted and reused. so yes software as a service dates back to AOL who offered a software portal to this data network as a 'service' and allowed users to compromize their data at $1.95 an hour.
buzzwords are usually a way people pass off other peoples ideas as their own or as a new way of doing the same old same old.
so all the people using the amazon ec2 to run bitcoin and later altcoin/flavor of the month alt coin clones to make money aren't using cpu power? i looked into altcoins and it is pretty clear each coin launch is a huge way to launder 10 million in money easily.. and ec2 cloud computing is recommended for that use. criminals also use it to get gold and silver in exchange for their mined coins.
"Actually, they have. 14 years + one 14 year renewal; and even that was too long."
i think you should have checked the facts. 'The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
this means that in 2019 some 1923 copyrighted materials will hit the public domain. if they aren't extended before then.
i checked a few sources and got the math right. the surface area of an omnidirectioanl transmission sphere (like old radio towers prior to directional antennas that literaly half the power consumption) is 4 times pi times radius times radius. which means 4 watts at 152 cm assuming a 1 square cm rectenna is some 290,333 square cm or 1,161,332 watts assuming that all the math is right only google helped me and i wasn't sure if i needed to square root the surface area to get square cms or not. in case i did it is then 1077 X 4 watts or 4300 watts at five feet... which is way more sense that the first one, but then the first one would power some 23104 items instead of 1077 devices, again assuming omnidirectional transmission. 4 90degree directional antennas use half the power in either case. since they don't radiate up or down as much. also only 1/4 of the antennas need to be on if all devices are withing a single 90degree directionals... however a multi axis narrow directional beam a single square cm in size uses 1/1,077th or 1/23104th of the power at the caveat of only being able to charge one stationary non vibrating device per directed energy beam aparatus. all this assumes 100% effeciency when realistically more like 75% to 23% efficiency depending on distance etc. things plug into wires for a reason.
i see that the multiply signs got garbled. 152 cm x 2 x 3.14 x 4 watts = 3818.24 watts. i think i made a mistake and it really needs a second 3.14 multiply to make it spherical instead someone correct my maths if possible. this is why wireless energy never took off.
if from 5 feet away a device will charge up 4 watts... and that equals 152 cm radius... and we assume device is 1 cubic centimeter then. 152Ã--2Ã--3.14Ã--4=3818.24 watts because the device uses an omnidirectional antenna (i assume as gps forwarded directional masers fine microwave lasers aren't being used) is more expensive and can no longer charge all devices in range. of course a projected cylindrical formed antenna drops power use in half, but still 2000 watts to drive a 4 watt device cause you're too drunk to charge your phone is crazy.
this is energy use to end civilization. can you imagine if 7 billion humans used 30billion always on 4000 watt omnidirectional wireless power? even if we all used LFTR(thorium) would be hard to come by, and the frequency the devices operate on would be uterly useless for anyone. but yeah we could all wear ambient LED safety lights in all the malls until cancer killed everyone.
so if i put cyanogenmod on my phone, buy it myself and thus have no contract to keep it from running cyanogenmod can i make microsoft pay me the money they collected from the maker of my smart phone?
first of for the record, internet speeds are measured in bits per second this is also the case with video, but not everyone is a movie head. ergo a 60mbps connection is actually a 7.5mBps connection.
http://help.encoding.com/knowledge-base/article/understanding-bitrates-in-video-files/ says a typical 720p will use 2.5 mbps and a 1080p 5 mbps. this is wrong for many reasons. how many audio channels does it have if it's more than 0 it needs at a minimum 64 kbit/s per horrible lossy audio. then the problem with especially rapidly changing graphics causing encode time spikes where the data is not all capable of being stored at the given bitrate, then there is network routing delays and dropped packets. a buffer will usually smooth that out though.
okay then lets see here, every device that is used for youtube and netflix has to work simultaneously on all devices at the same time. sure a 10 mbit/s stream will let you get 2 streams of data, maybe if they're crappy quality you tubes. 60 mbps and then you can possibly stream 8 streams if they're meant to be shared on the internet. while you can thus say 60mbps is plenty fast for home users, there was a time (holidays) when there were 12 people on the wifi at the same time. and consumer wifi can have 50 connections, so realistically people need 375 mbps, so everyone at a party can stream at the same time. no that was a joke... with 6 antennas it is hard to run 50 connections anyways, even with them all being trancievers.
there were people who swore that dialup was enough for them, at the time who would have dared dream of being able to drop $120 for a 128 GigaByte chip the size of a fingernail http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B00IIJ6W4S so saying gigabit networking has no use for home users (though there clearly are for businesses, someone made netflix you know) is to be shortsighted.
"Prepare for the steering wheel in new cars to work in exactly the opposite way, and for the brake pedal and accelerator to be active when released rather than pressed. Surely you won't get into much trouble on the road now that I've told you about that in advance."
nono its no use using a facetious quip. the gas can will now be on the passenger side, not the drivers side, but company b is putting them behing the rear driver plate. or wait the turn signal needs to be on the left side with the lights, no thats where we'll put the cruise control and the wiper blade activations. no wait lets move the lights to their own switch on the dash, no wait we need to put the wiper blades and the lights together...
had you used a real driver issue like the ones all real from above you would have gone further with the software/car analogy.
the push for younger coders is to create a user base for microsoft and facebook. microsoft is still thinking everyone can be converted to their crappy software base by letting kids learn how to code for it. when i was coding ircbots i was totally hooked on using windows, because for most of my life gaming i had played on windows computers and nintendo consoles...
i had some pretty cool projects like an ASCII video player (think ASCII art, replaying static frames manually typed out for playback on mirc) it actually was able to get almost 30fps on a p-120 laptop with about 2gb hdd and 48MB of ram.
anyways compared to what i've seen these days a p-120 is pathetic, yet most of the people who use them don't need the speed hence tablets and laptops being so far behind desktop systems and graphic cards. wikipedia has documents that show that standards for video were all really old tech too, they had a plan to make themselves billionaires and have more gamer addicts whom tend to have the biggest craving for overpriced electronics.
and the bubbles come when people find out they are being suckered into buying stuff that is old and power hungry when they could have just used a iphone or android to get their facebook fix and candy crushing games. which are also overpriced but not if you get a used or 'older' model
the first real world mass market character recognition i used was brain age 2 for nintendo ds and if you didn't start the characters the right stroke for stroke recognition it would screw up on you.
with many millions of users of the ds and it's descendants it is clear that microsoft is reinventing the wheel again.
the problem you see, is ATMs require windows XP software. yes windows XP. http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/20/5326772/windows-xp-powers-95-percent-of-atms-worldwide
So the malware simply connects to a botnet, hops through inadequate satellite networks makes a map and reinfects itself after the system is cleaned. i have seen windows xp machines infected by satellite communications they are after all devices that must obey 'this device must accept any interference received' which is usually a kill switch to make them stop emitting radio waves, but also means viruses that transmit via radio must also be accepted it is the law after all.
Macs have never been immune to viruses.
the reason windows needs AV protection to run safely is because one account can overwrite critical OS files replacing them with malware infested fake software, and everyone by default starts out with ability to install any program including malware that later will get the special administrator privileges (on a reboot) needed to permanently infect the machine.
heartbleed and shellshock are nasty but a well hardened install will not be a problem, as the users dumb enough to install bad software generally need to ask someone to do that for them. and yes i realize they can run any command and possibly as root with shellshock if your cgi-bin is running things as root. seems to me that with Apache needing to run things as user Apache or httpd it was quite the oversight to let cgi-bin run as root in the first place!
I have a dell laptop with a 800 Mhz processor and it runs lubuntu faster than lubuntu on a lenovo quadcore 1.2ghz AMD apu...same os. one is what most would call obsolete and yes i installed with the same optical disc. the APU boots up faster but takes a full 30 seconds to respond after clicking the 'log out' button it is no lag if i sudo shutdown -h now from terminal.
knoppix warns that using the live media and eventually the system begins to slow, and that still applies to a write protected flash memory card. no i don't mean just leaving the computer booted up all the time the parts inside the computer slow down as they get older. there are a ton of things that cause problems that good design can deal with most issues people get with windows but that doesn't stop bitrot or normal failure or slowdown of the chip and other components...
the only thing that deals with component slowdown is buying new components. there is not one OS that doesn't have the same problems without requiring replacement of parts known to fail or slow down things.
the real use of this tech is not to kill counterfeiting it is to know what a chips parts look like. also a malware/spyware IC isn't something that can be ruled out by a simple test of if it does as advertised. i have a $40 tablet that connects to a chatbot system based on yahoo messenger everytime i activate the official android yahoo messenger from play market i get a 'friend' request from an offline user who one or more days later asks if i want to see them naked on a webcam.
if that iRulu tablet is feeding my data to a yahoo messenger botnet (they are a F rated company on the BBB have a cheesy website etc) who knows what else it is trying to do... and if you think 'just root the damn thing' there isn't a really well documented screen shot by screenshot of how to say load an alternative os, because apparently it is illegal to do so on a tablet because the term 'tablet' was too obscure for the judge to rule on it.
so yeah shining a laser on a chip to know what it really has on there is huge, especially for military use.