And on top of it all, who cares? I'm guessing soon that elementary school won't spend any time teaching students to write cursively, since it was only used to legibly write text by hand as quickly as possible. No one writes letters or books by hand anymore. There certainly won't be a need for it at some point after 2030 anyway. Why aren't they studying teenagers decreased hand/eye coordination from not playing baseball as a kid?
Has it not occurred to anyone that you don't even start writing until you're five or six? Everyone has this same weakness in their hands at this time in life. It has nothing to do with technology, unless tablets and smartphones can travel through time and occupy our hands when we were kids.
Most airlines only focus on purchasing one or two models with their air fleet. There's compartment variation between manufacturers, but there shouldn't be that much amongst the same manufacturer. Dumbass airlines should just have a maximal set measurement for carry-on baggage, and if it doesn't meet (laser measurement) inspection at check-in, the passenger has to put it in cargo (with requisite bag limits & charges). If they don't want to pay the extra fees, pound sand and find a different airline.
I don't remember one for "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" either. And though there were females in Starman Jones, I don't remember a sex plot there either.
Eh. It seems to me that the Linux kernel is a mature product, thus dead one. Most of the significant changes are really addressing hardware changes, rather than implementing new concepts to enhance computing.
The Linux kernel is monolithic, meant for the hardware age of standalone computer. When it comes to optimizing cloud architectures or quantum computers, they will probably be best advanced with totally new implementations of OS.
When Linux dies, the people who only really care about the advancement of computing won't even notice they're not running linux. He'll be a footnote in history (which is a hell of a lot more than anyone else here can say).
A 6 year old i5 isn't exactly ancient hardware. The entire i-series CPUs are pretty much computing overkill for general audience computing (games/websurfing).
The last Moto security patch that Lenovo pushed out was the 12/2016 patch for Marshmallow. Lenovo has put out the Nougat upgrade (7.0, not 7.1), which is supposedly patched out to 9/2017, so its safe from KRACK(?), Heartbleed, etc., but obviously not SPECTRE. (Meltdown?)
Try older than Oreo. My Moto X is at Nougat, and I'm not holding my breath for Lenovo ever putting out a support patch for a phone that is over 2 years old. I'll just have to bork my phone to the latest LineageOS, or get a new one.
Use your head. The only password truly vulnerable is the one to the Xbox account. You don't need to bork the console to just make it harder for a login sequence be vulnerable to a cache read.
What is destroying pop music are the music corporations, namely copyright laws.
Laws sponsored by immortal music corporations and ignored by the human dummies are basically making a finite pattern of notes into intellectual property that can be owned by a corporate entity for generations.
Look at Robin Thicke. He puts out a catchy R&B tune, and he gets sued, not for "stealing" a performer's melody, but the backbeat of a Marvin Gaye song from 1971! That's over forty years ago!
So what do you think is going to happen when there's a finite amount of possible good sequence of notes to make up a song (including bass riffs!) when its intellectual property for over a century!?!? No more new songs, you have to pay a corporate owner to "reformulate" it.
American universities are private institutions, moron. Their only beneficiaries are its charter and institution, as directed by their board of directors.
Its doable. Figure out the oldest kernel still supported by a distribution and kernel.org (v3.2 is still supported, and one probably could even go as recent as v3.16 for a Pentium IV).
Make a catalog of hardware chips for media, northbridge, etc. and match them to a distribution version.
You could try installing a Debian "wheezy" (LTS) version, or go "squeeze" if that doesn't work.
I have almost no doubt that Slackware or Gentoo could be made to support that thing. You may not be able to run systemd, but then explain why that would be bad.
Whichever distribution you choose, first only do a barebone install (kernel, glib, no gui/xwindows). If it boots and gets a working prompt, add on features from there.
I'm not seeing Intel having a legal obligation to replace EOLed chips, so there goes the need for previous generation wafer plants. Also, since only datacenters (virtualization) and databases have their performance noticeably degraded by the software patches, they're the only parties actually harmed and have a civil suit case.
Intel should only offer rearchitected replacement CPUs for datacenter, finance and scientific customers for CPUs still under warranty (and perhaps a previous generation). Most of them would only bother if the restoration of performance was worth paying techs to replace CPUs. Intel could probably just lowball a partial refund for slightly older generation CPUs (with requisite paperwork, the physical CPU manufacture ID would do it), and everyone would just call it a day.
Why would Intel have to compensate laptop users? They were already provided a software fix. The only areas really hit by the software patch (in performance) were datacenters (virtualization) and databases. Laptop users aren't going to have noticeable slowdowns in websurfing and excel spreadsheets.
They wouldn't have to replace every CPU from 2006. Its really only virtualization and databases that get hit by software workaround. Remanufacture corrected CPUs, and only offer replacement to datacenter and scientific/quant customers, since Sandybridge (unless a case can be made that much older CPUs are still in operation and take a huge performance hit for the operations they tasked).
Intel will still take a huge hit on their profits, but the reality is that businesses are only going to replace their CPUs if the cost is justified. Picture the amount of money they will have to pay having a technician remove and install the new chips (and manage the paperwork). They'd probably just obsolesce their oldest machines and buy new replacements.
One of the areas who's performance is clobbered by the meltdown & spectre bugs is virtualization and database operations. Its hugely dependent upon access to PTI, and a software fix to avoid the bugs basically hammers performance as much as 30%. That's pretty much why data centers are up in arms over this issue.
The bugs can't be fixed with CPU microcode patches; it will take a physical rearchitecting of the chips. I am in total agreement that Intel should replace these CPUs with corrected, remanufactured chips (most prevalently purchased by datacenter and scientific purchasers).
As for laptops and gamers, they'd barely notice a slowdown caused by the patches.
They are not victims. They would prefer to not spend 10hours/day working in a sweatshop back in Thailand or Vietnam so they sign up to rent out their bodies to guys with money.
They are the victims when they don't have a choice to "retire" from the profession. Remember, its organized crime that gets these women into the country, and those criminals get to decide when their "entrepreneurial" contractors get to leave "the business".
But the illegal immigrant girls are no different from the Mexicans working on the construction crews in Austin;
Only when they can choose not to participate in their profession, after settling pre-negotiated debts involved with transporting them to this country, in accordance to US contract law.
upper middle class people want cheap labor and if they have to break a few laws to get it, that's OK. After all, this is one crime the prosecutors will never prosecute.
You are so dead on here. The hypocrisy is vomitous.
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And on top of it all, who cares? I'm guessing soon that elementary school won't spend any time teaching students to write cursively, since it was only used to legibly write text by hand as quickly as possible. No one writes letters or books by hand anymore. There certainly won't be a need for it at some point after 2030 anyway. Why aren't they studying teenagers decreased hand/eye coordination from not playing baseball as a kid?
Has it not occurred to anyone that you don't even start writing until you're five or six? Everyone has this same weakness in their hands at this time in life. It has nothing to do with technology, unless tablets and smartphones can travel through time and occupy our hands when we were kids.
Aren't there a shortage of gunnery sergeants and equivalent in the US military?
Most airlines only focus on purchasing one or two models with their air fleet. There's compartment variation between manufacturers, but there shouldn't be that much amongst the same manufacturer. Dumbass airlines should just have a maximal set measurement for carry-on baggage, and if it doesn't meet (laser measurement) inspection at check-in, the passenger has to put it in cargo (with requisite bag limits & charges). If they don't want to pay the extra fees, pound sand and find a different airline.
"Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", or "Starman Jones"?
I don't remember one for "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" either. And though there were females in Starman Jones, I don't remember a sex plot there either.
I'd love the US mandating the metric system, as should all STEM professionals.
Eh. It seems to me that the Linux kernel is a mature product, thus dead one. Most of the significant changes are really addressing hardware changes, rather than implementing new concepts to enhance computing.
The Linux kernel is monolithic, meant for the hardware age of standalone computer. When it comes to optimizing cloud architectures or quantum computers, they will probably be best advanced with totally new implementations of OS.
When Linux dies, the people who only really care about the advancement of computing won't even notice they're not running linux. He'll be a footnote in history (which is a hell of a lot more than anyone else here can say).
8K of RAM is not a computer, its a toy, or a calculator.
A 6 year old i5 isn't exactly ancient hardware. The entire i-series CPUs are pretty much computing overkill for general audience computing (games/websurfing).
The last Moto security patch that Lenovo pushed out was the 12/2016 patch for Marshmallow. Lenovo has put out the Nougat upgrade (7.0, not 7.1), which is supposedly patched out to 9/2017, so its safe from KRACK(?), Heartbleed, etc., but obviously not SPECTRE. (Meltdown?)
I don't see the point in splitting hairs. All current ARM chips are probably vulnerable to SPECTRE, and possibly MELTDOWN.
Try older than Oreo. My Moto X is at Nougat, and I'm not holding my breath for Lenovo ever putting out a support patch for a phone that is over 2 years old. I'll just have to bork my phone to the latest LineageOS, or get a new one.
Actually you can. But you're going to lose all those proprietary blobs of binary used to run the camera or manage your phone call packets to audio.
Use your head. The only password truly vulnerable is the one to the Xbox account. You don't need to bork the console to just make it harder for a login sequence be vulnerable to a cache read.
What is destroying pop music are the music corporations, namely copyright laws.
Laws sponsored by immortal music corporations and ignored by the human dummies are basically making a finite pattern of notes into intellectual property that can be owned by a corporate entity for generations.
Look at Robin Thicke. He puts out a catchy R&B tune, and he gets sued, not for "stealing" a performer's melody, but the backbeat of a Marvin Gaye song from 1971! That's over forty years ago!
So what do you think is going to happen when there's a finite amount of possible good sequence of notes to make up a song (including bass riffs!) when its intellectual property for over a century!?!? No more new songs, you have to pay a corporate owner to "reformulate" it.
American universities are private institutions, moron. Their only beneficiaries are its charter and institution, as directed by their board of directors.
Too bad Threadripper and Ryzen doesn't have hardware virtualization support. I'm not even sure they can cleanly run hyper-v or kvm.
Which "modern" linux distribution did you try?
Its doable. Figure out the oldest kernel still supported by a distribution and kernel.org (v3.2 is still supported, and one probably could even go as recent as v3.16 for a Pentium IV).
Make a catalog of hardware chips for media, northbridge, etc. and match them to a distribution version.
You could try installing a Debian "wheezy" (LTS) version, or go "squeeze" if that doesn't work.
I have almost no doubt that Slackware or Gentoo could be made to support that thing. You may not be able to run systemd, but then explain why that would be bad.
Whichever distribution you choose, first only do a barebone install (kernel, glib, no gui/xwindows). If it boots and gets a working prompt, add on features from there.
I'm not seeing Intel having a legal obligation to replace EOLed chips, so there goes the need for previous generation wafer plants. Also, since only datacenters (virtualization) and databases have their performance noticeably degraded by the software patches, they're the only parties actually harmed and have a civil suit case.
Intel should only offer rearchitected replacement CPUs for datacenter, finance and scientific customers for CPUs still under warranty (and perhaps a previous generation). Most of them would only bother if the restoration of performance was worth paying techs to replace CPUs. Intel could probably just lowball a partial refund for slightly older generation CPUs (with requisite paperwork, the physical CPU manufacture ID would do it), and everyone would just call it a day.
Why would Intel have to compensate laptop users? They were already provided a software fix. The only areas really hit by the software patch (in performance) were datacenters (virtualization) and databases. Laptop users aren't going to have noticeable slowdowns in websurfing and excel spreadsheets.
They wouldn't have to replace every CPU from 2006. Its really only virtualization and databases that get hit by software workaround. Remanufacture corrected CPUs, and only offer replacement to datacenter and scientific/quant customers, since Sandybridge (unless a case can be made that much older CPUs are still in operation and take a huge performance hit for the operations they tasked).
Intel will still take a huge hit on their profits, but the reality is that businesses are only going to replace their CPUs if the cost is justified. Picture the amount of money they will have to pay having a technician remove and install the new chips (and manage the paperwork). They'd probably just obsolesce their oldest machines and buy new replacements.
One of the areas who's performance is clobbered by the meltdown & spectre bugs is virtualization and database operations. Its hugely dependent upon access to PTI, and a software fix to avoid the bugs basically hammers performance as much as 30%. That's pretty much why data centers are up in arms over this issue.
The bugs can't be fixed with CPU microcode patches; it will take a physical rearchitecting of the chips. I am in total agreement that Intel should replace these CPUs with corrected, remanufactured chips (most prevalently purchased by datacenter and scientific purchasers).
As for laptops and gamers, they'd barely notice a slowdown caused by the patches.
Go is probably safer.
They are not victims. They would prefer to not spend 10hours/day working in a sweatshop back in Thailand or Vietnam so they sign up to rent out their bodies to guys with money.
They are the victims when they don't have a choice to "retire" from the profession. Remember, its organized crime that gets these women into the country, and those criminals get to decide when their "entrepreneurial" contractors get to leave "the business".
But the illegal immigrant girls are no different from the Mexicans working on the construction crews in Austin;
Only when they can choose not to participate in their profession, after settling pre-negotiated debts involved with transporting them to this country, in accordance to US contract law.
upper middle class people want cheap labor and if they have to break a few laws to get it, that's OK. After all, this is one crime the prosecutors will never prosecute.
You are so dead on here. The hypocrisy is vomitous.