Funniest part is, there is a vast difference between intelligence (which an IQ test purports to reflect) and wisdom (which is more often than not the actual driving force in an individual's decision to "pirate" or not.)
Depends on what you do with the Linux install, which distro, etc.
A bog-standard Ubuntu install with all the bells and whistles will suck down the battery just as fast as Windows. However, a carefully tuned kernel and a leaner GUI stack (say, something like the old Fluxbox)? You'd have something that really sips power when compared to windows.
Maybe the younger generation just plain forgot that Linux can be customized and stripped for better performance and battery life?
Not that Chrome is much better on anything else, but obviously they didn't test against the others on non-Windows OSes.
I mention this because damned near every bit of Microsoft software on the Mac (Office, RDP client, etc) is bloated and slower than hell... I'd imagine if they made IE/Edge/Whatever for the Mac again, it would probably suck (...down the battery, in this case.)
To be fair, DDoS'ing a bank or other (small) institution could potentially get you a bit of ransom if you're able to... 1) knock them offline for long enough, and 2) if enough of their business is reliant on being online, and 3) the network guys at the target institution and their ISP are completely clueless about blackholing or other countermeasures.
It would have to be a real small institution with a shit ISP, though for all three to occur. It also predicates on the target being willing to pay up.
Dunno about him, but considering that I live in rural Oregon, there's not a whole hell of a lot that I could do, at least locally; seems to be a shortage of non-white-folks out here.
There's help that could be done in in Portland, but the progressive crowd is too busy gentrifying the place - which in turn is driving black folk out of that town faster than redlining ever could. Seriously - something that generations of bigots had tried and failed to do, the Latte Leftist crowd will get done in less than 10 years.
But hey - here's an idea... how about we work to change the culture that black youth are bombarded with on a daily basis? You know, get rid of the music that oh-so-happily promotes misogyny, violence, and worse towards fellow blacks and especially black women? Of course we could also change that whole single-parenting-is-so-awesome-so-abandon-that-bitch-quick paradigm that was a sad byproduct of the '60s sexual revolution. Then we could promote building character, work skills, and entrepreneurialship, instead of simply doling out benefits like the government were some paternalistic entity that thinks poor black folk are somehow incapable of improving their lot on their own...
Everybody wants to make excuses, but no one wants to stand up and do the actual work - mostly because the work that needs done tends to also refute the whole 'progressive' ideology.
Gawker is a terrible bottom feeder. But when the next billionaire gets pissed at Slashdot for reporting on how his newfangled techo-marvel is a POS, and forces it into bankruptcy and closure, you might care more.
Gawker got curb-checked for invasion of privacy by posting what is basically revenge porn. In order for your warning to come true, Slashdot would have to do something similar, and I for one do *not* want to see a Steve Ballmer Sex Tape, y'dig?
Nope - at least not until mesh networking is a thing, and universally accessible. Until each 'node' (that would be the end-users) can automagically and wirelessly do all the routing and TX/RX with only a minimum of completely neutral minimal-infrastructure relays, someone's gonna own the pipes, the routers, the peering, the etc.
It's technically doable in sufficiently population-dense areas, but it would be so slow that gamers and movie addicts everywhere would avoid it like it were Space Herpes.
Small problem with that... those controls to prevent crime/abuse/etc would be the same controls that governments would happily put to use in censoring whatever they don't like.
Actually, the announcement did exactly what they wanted it to... it got people to buy an XBox in anticipation of said feature, resulting in better quarterly figures.
Oh, wait, you thought they said that stuff about a DVR as if they were actually going to add one?
You and I both know the difference here: EU members don't make it a regular habit to look for dissidents to silence.
Also, subpoenas can (and very often do) cross borders. The days of hiding one's ill-gotten money in a Swiss bank account are long past, since a simple subpoena almost always results in the Swiss bank happily providing every last record they have on a given depositor.
Not all countries do this of course, but most do, and IIRC Turkey is among those members.
Technically, it's not too awful hard to do - it just involves a buttload of DB/disk replication.
That said, the problem I have with it isn't technical, but political: The reason Iran/Turkey/etc want that data local is because they want to comb through it in order to find dissidents to jail and/or torture (of course they'll use the term "spies", "counter-revolutionaries", "criminals", etc).
*That* is the problem here.
The technical side is surprisingly easy in this aspect, and gives the benefit of adding DR and local cache/speed capabilities.
Most of the machines that he's talking about do more than just one thing - for instance, a machine can make/wrap a burger (or any type from a range of options) to order - they already have prototypes made.
Another set of machines replace the cashiers entirely with kiosks, yet another machine does the drinks, and still another one still fries whatever - onion rings, french fries, etc etc.
That's cute, and yes Microsoft isn't as bad at it as it once was, but the point still stands: When it comes to security, Microsoft Windows is dead-last on the list of OSes that come to mind.
Are they even growing at this point? I mean, their marketshare isn't much above statistical noise, and even buying Nokia didn't help them much thanks to their demand to re-form it into their vision instantly instead of trying to ship Nokia into shape and introduce their vision slowly into it.
I get their drive to unify mobile+gaming+PC+whatever into one big fat ecosystem, but let's face it - they got into the mobile market way too late, and what moves they did make were either not capitalized on properly (Sidekick), flopped hard (Pink/Kin), or was way too-little/too-late (Nokia).
Maybe it's time for them to instead go back to their roots? It may be too late to un-suck the Windows UI, but at least they can make moves to un-NSA the damned thing and to stop treating their customers like easily-abused chattel......nah. Maybe it's better to just let them die. Wish Linux had a wider market, though.
Seriously - can at least one tech journalist out there look beyond the stockbroker/analyst/IPO hype and actually, you know, *look* at the company's performance? Even with as little history as Xiaomi had, its officers have had to have at least some experience elsewhere...
Given the abuse I deal out to most laptops, I actually saved money by buying a MacBook Pro back in 2013... most other high-end laptops I buy tend to burn-out or break before the 18-month mark, so even as $1k/each, I would have spent $3k-$4k by now compared to the $2k I purchased the MBP with three years ago.:/
Here's the thing - Apple is kind of picky in many aspects.
They don't chase the new-shiny just because it is new and shiny, but only when/if it makes sense for the products (both present and planned).
Also, you mention wireless charging. Yeah, it's been around for awhile - if you actually like either lashing something on to make it bulky, or sacrificing performance/capacity/battery-life to it. After all, you gotta make room for it, which means something has to go to make that room.
In Apple's case, it's probably a demand to never compromise the bonuses your product has (e.g. insane battery life, etc) just to make room for a new-shiny. That's why it hadn't shown up in the iPhone yet (Mind, I say this as a guy who owns an Android phone.)
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Funniest part is, there is a vast difference between intelligence (which an IQ test purports to reflect) and wisdom (which is more often than not the actual driving force in an individual's decision to "pirate" or not.)
Actually... http://www.macobserver.com/tmo...
Depends on what you do with the Linux install, which distro, etc.
A bog-standard Ubuntu install with all the bells and whistles will suck down the battery just as fast as Windows. However, a carefully tuned kernel and a leaner GUI stack (say, something like the old Fluxbox)? You'd have something that really sips power when compared to windows.
Maybe the younger generation just plain forgot that Linux can be customized and stripped for better performance and battery life?
If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux and OS X, it would absolutely destroy Firefox, in my opinion.
I'm not so sure, if Outlook for Mac and the rest of the Office suite on Mac is any indication. That shiz is dog-slow on OSX sometimes...
...on Windows.
Not that Chrome is much better on anything else, but obviously they didn't test against the others on non-Windows OSes.
I mention this because damned near every bit of Microsoft software on the Mac (Office, RDP client, etc) is bloated and slower than hell... I'd imagine if they made IE/Edge/Whatever for the Mac again, it would probably suck (...down the battery, in this case.)
To be fair, DDoS'ing a bank or other (small) institution could potentially get you a bit of ransom if you're able to...
1) knock them offline for long enough, and
2) if enough of their business is reliant on being online, and
3) the network guys at the target institution and their ISP are completely clueless about blackholing or other countermeasures.
It would have to be a real small institution with a shit ISP, though for all three to occur. It also predicates on the target being willing to pay up.
Dunno about him, but considering that I live in rural Oregon, there's not a whole hell of a lot that I could do, at least locally; seems to be a shortage of non-white-folks out here.
There's help that could be done in in Portland, but the progressive crowd is too busy gentrifying the place - which in turn is driving black folk out of that town faster than redlining ever could. Seriously - something that generations of bigots had tried and failed to do, the Latte Leftist crowd will get done in less than 10 years.
But hey - here's an idea... how about we work to change the culture that black youth are bombarded with on a daily basis? You know, get rid of the music that oh-so-happily promotes misogyny, violence, and worse towards fellow blacks and especially black women? Of course we could also change that whole single-parenting-is-so-awesome-so-abandon-that-bitch-quick paradigm that was a sad byproduct of the '60s sexual revolution. Then we could promote building character, work skills, and entrepreneurialship, instead of simply doling out benefits like the government were some paternalistic entity that thinks poor black folk are somehow incapable of improving their lot on their own...
Everybody wants to make excuses, but no one wants to stand up and do the actual work - mostly because the work that needs done tends to also refute the whole 'progressive' ideology.
Gawker is a terrible bottom feeder. But when the next billionaire gets pissed at Slashdot for reporting on how his newfangled techo-marvel is a POS, and forces it into bankruptcy and closure, you might care more.
Gawker got curb-checked for invasion of privacy by posting what is basically revenge porn. In order for your warning to come true, Slashdot would have to do something similar, and I for one do *not* want to see a Steve Ballmer Sex Tape, y'dig?
I was kind of hoping for a commercially viable (and working!) Ansible Set...
Nope - at least not until mesh networking is a thing, and universally accessible. Until each 'node' (that would be the end-users) can automagically and wirelessly do all the routing and TX/RX with only a minimum of completely neutral minimal-infrastructure relays, someone's gonna own the pipes, the routers, the peering, the etc.
It's technically doable in sufficiently population-dense areas, but it would be so slow that gamers and movie addicts everywhere would avoid it like it were Space Herpes.
Small problem with that... those controls to prevent crime/abuse/etc would be the same controls that governments would happily put to use in censoring whatever they don't like.
Hrm - how long have governments, corporations, and cartels been trying to kill Bittorrent off again?
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Actually, the announcement did exactly what they wanted it to... it got people to buy an XBox in anticipation of said feature, resulting in better quarterly figures.
Oh, wait, you thought they said that stuff about a DVR as if they were actually going to add one?
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You and I both know the difference here: EU members don't make it a regular habit to look for dissidents to silence.
Also, subpoenas can (and very often do) cross borders. The days of hiding one's ill-gotten money in a Swiss bank account are long past, since a simple subpoena almost always results in the Swiss bank happily providing every last record they have on a given depositor.
Not all countries do this of course, but most do, and IIRC Turkey is among those members.
Technically, it's not too awful hard to do - it just involves a buttload of DB/disk replication.
That said, the problem I have with it isn't technical, but political: The reason Iran/Turkey/etc want that data local is because they want to comb through it in order to find dissidents to jail and/or torture (of course they'll use the term "spies", "counter-revolutionaries", "criminals", etc).
*That* is the problem here.
The technical side is surprisingly easy in this aspect, and gives the benefit of adding DR and local cache/speed capabilities.
All the folks who were already making more than $15/hr?
Most of the machines that he's talking about do more than just one thing - for instance, a machine can make/wrap a burger (or any type from a range of options) to order - they already have prototypes made.
Another set of machines replace the cashiers entirely with kiosks, yet another machine does the drinks, and still another one still fries whatever - onion rings, french fries, etc etc.
Sure seems like it would cost a lot more than $35k.
True, but that means the employee(s) would make way, way less than $15/hr. at their new job - stamping out license plates in prison.
Pretty sure that's not what most folks would want to end up doing...
That's cute, and yes Microsoft isn't as bad at it as it once was, but the point still stands: When it comes to security, Microsoft Windows is dead-last on the list of OSes that come to mind.
Indeed... when the frig has *anyone* outside of Redmond admired a Windows-based OS for its --*snicker*-- security?
Are they even growing at this point? I mean, their marketshare isn't much above statistical noise, and even buying Nokia didn't help them much thanks to their demand to re-form it into their vision instantly instead of trying to ship Nokia into shape and introduce their vision slowly into it.
I get their drive to unify mobile+gaming+PC+whatever into one big fat ecosystem, but let's face it - they got into the mobile market way too late, and what moves they did make were either not capitalized on properly (Sidekick), flopped hard (Pink/Kin), or was way too-little/too-late (Nokia).
Maybe it's time for them to instead go back to their roots? It may be too late to un-suck the Windows UI, but at least they can make moves to un-NSA the damned thing and to stop treating their customers like easily-abused chattel... ...nah. Maybe it's better to just let them die. Wish Linux had a wider market, though.
Seriously - can at least one tech journalist out there look beyond the stockbroker/analyst/IPO hype and actually, you know, *look* at the company's performance? Even with as little history as Xiaomi had, its officers have had to have at least some experience elsewhere...
Well, that and the fact that the VAIO series was massively expensive, even when compared to MBPs - and yet they never lasted nearly as long.
(I used to own a VAIO years ago... it held up for two years before I had to start replacing parts, starting with the screen.)
Given the abuse I deal out to most laptops, I actually saved money by buying a MacBook Pro back in 2013... most other high-end laptops I buy tend to burn-out or break before the 18-month mark, so even as $1k/each, I would have spent $3k-$4k by now compared to the $2k I purchased the MBP with three years ago. :/
Here's the thing - Apple is kind of picky in many aspects.
They don't chase the new-shiny just because it is new and shiny, but only when/if it makes sense for the products (both present and planned).
Also, you mention wireless charging. Yeah, it's been around for awhile - if you actually like either lashing something on to make it bulky, or sacrificing performance/capacity/battery-life to it. After all, you gotta make room for it, which means something has to go to make that room.
In Apple's case, it's probably a demand to never compromise the bonuses your product has (e.g. insane battery life, etc) just to make room for a new-shiny. That's why it hadn't shown up in the iPhone yet (Mind, I say this as a guy who owns an Android phone.)