The LISA featured a propietary MMU to implement some memory protection though I think it did not offer virtual memory in todays sense. No computer today does actually "swap", they all "page" which means some hardware traps access to fixed-sized pages of memory and activating some low level memory handler. The early computer did instead "swap" what was a software based method to move memory to disk. It was more complex, higher level, pretty propietary and usually less powerful. Today we wrongly call both "swappping".
Quite a lot of old 68000 computers had some propietary MMU to increase stability and run Unix. This only fell out of favor when the cheapish 68000 home computers like Sinclair QL, Atari ST, Amiga and the NEC Town came into existance and came only back when the 68030 and 386 hit the shelves which both came with an integrated MMU.
One has to differ between these four "offizicial state media":
1. Russia Today Russian Site 2. Russia Today International Site 3. sputniknews.com Russian Site 4. sputniknews.com International Site
All four usually deliver 80% of rather well written and researched. Stuff like "heavy rain damaged a road" or "prices for apples are up". Sometimes they even critizise single politicians. Not Putin and never the system for sure. You read rarelly about the opposition.
It is the other 20% where things are getting interesting.
1. and 2. usually reports whatever the russian goverment wants to get reported and do so in a mostly sincere way. They will not outright fabricate fake news or conspiracy theories but will gladly repeat these if the goverment came up with em. Most disputed content is given a heavy pro-goverment tone.
3. and 4. are less strict about bullshit. You will sometimes read really lame fake news and strange stuff and they will not even stay clear of fabricating "alien abduction stories" and worse... also they often click traps like "war porn", "whataboutism" and such stuff.
be aware: The russian and international edition often differ on subjects.
How would they represent "fake moon landing"? 1. "it happened but most parts have been overdramatized through selective media representation" 2. "it happened but some parts have been rearranged through selective media representation" 3. "there are many people and lots of evidence it never happened that way. Most americans don't believe it either. 3. "there are some people and some evidence it never happened that way. Smarter americans don't believe it either.
fun fact, there is a german public broadcast station sputnik.de targeting teens and tweens, broadcasting music and news from entertainment which gets mixed up a lot with sputniknews.com.
There is only one relevant factor for computer interaction:
bandwidth.
I can type 500 characters per minute on my G80-3000 cherry keyboard with an error rate less than 1% thus producing highly complex content faster than some people can speak or listen. Also I can read text at a speed of 5000 characters per minute allowing me to consume highly complex content faster than any person alive can speak or listen. In fact I HATE youtube videos because they often need ten or twentyfold the time it takes me to read the same content from text.
Give me something which allows me to interact even faster and you got me as a customer.
But honestly I think there isn't anything close to accomplish that. Maybe we'll see direct brain links in a couple of decades but I can not even remotely imagine anything else increasing my performance.
But if your problem is not "efficency" but "made for idiots" then there might be something around the corner. Which I am not even remotely interested in.
A while ago we had a news discussion where we found the following rules for cencorship:
"Putin is an Idiot" is censored. "Trump is an Idiot" is censored. "Obama is an Idiot" is NOT censored. "Merkel is an Idiot" is NOT censored.
So now we got curious, we edited the already posted texts by exchanging the names randomly... at first the "new" anti-Putin comments where up for a couple of minutes puplicly and then got cencored. The "new" Anti-Obama-comments on the other hand where still blocked for a couple of minutes and then became public. So we edited the texts back and voila, a couple of minutes later the censorship strikes again. We continued this on several accounts for a couple of hours then suddenly EVERY edited comment became invisible for a couple of hours(!) until being manually switched public as long as it did not insult putin or trump. Being Greasemonkeys we made sure the texts got edited for another couple of days over and over again, also using new accounts but no way to criticize Putin.
Forum didn't matter, topic didn't matter, it just was not possible to critcise authoritarian politics. After we made this public several news papers stopped using disqus.
I think Trump won because most Americans are Idiots. You know, those kind of idiots full of incompetence, lazyness and envy. Those kinds which are considering being laught upon is a violation of free speech. Those who think partying through childhood is ok, never safing money is ok, doing life decisions on gut feelings is ok, living a glamoros life from depts and after that everyone is guilty but not the idiot.
Nothing wrong about that, most people on earth are born, idiots, some get a bit smarter in school bust most still die as idiots.
But the US made it a habid to ruin schools and wondering where are all the idiots from.
Electing a goverment from one party and a parliament from a hostile party so everyone is blocking everyone and nothing gets done for the whole election period. This is actually the case for 70% (!!) of US history.
Refusing to reform a nation coz the founding fathers (which lived with pigs in their houses and died of illnesses like cough and dysenterey) decided like 1000 years ago how to run a 21st century nation and this holy message should not be questioned (image some generic sermon which pleases both Islamic State and founding fathers fundamentalists) and then wondering everything is so fucked up.
You want proof of this decay? Take a random redneck and watch a random spongebob episode. He will not get half the jokes.
And the biggest wrongness of all: Thinking America is great. It isn't. It was sometimes. But mostly it was just above average. And to even hold this level everyone has to fight. Lets call it the "civilized nation jihad", reflecting yourself, dropping whats old and wrong and adapting. EVERY FUCKING DAY. Thinks wont get better by behaving like school bullies though. Right now America is not Great. Well, Canada maybe. But not the US. It is isolated, falling back fast. I always thought the 21st century will be the asian century but I thought this would happen because asia wakes up, not by the US falling asleep.
Here is another good point from a 2005 munich university study - hate speech wasn't a topic back then, only flaming:
allowing flaming on a respectable website will 1. drag down this websites standards in all aspects 2. make flaming more widely accepted especially on this website but also outside 3. drives out old customers objecting flaming 4. brings in new customers prefering flaming
All of this is pretty obvious but you will be surprised how little the editorial staff is aware of this.
I have seen exactly this on several local major web pages. If you don't clean up you yard it will start to smell.
You want a really nice hate speech web site? Visit Telepolis, the most radical main stream anti-West/US/EU/Democracy hating site on german internet. The US has created Stalin, Hitler, cancer and whatever and everyone and their pillow is a CIA slave. But thanks there is golden angel putin around to protect us with his nuclear weapons. The same site is also running Heise Tech News. Their forums are cleaned with a more strict rule but still consider it ok to spread radical propaganda as long as noone gets called bad names. Every third forum message is stupid and worth reporting and it never stops. Then visit Computerbase.de, Golem.de. Basically every unproven accussation is removed. Yes, this leads to less forum traffic but also to a much higher quality. Also People do not even try to post stupid stuff over there coz it gets removed anyway. On the other hand I even read good critic about the west there instead of mindless hating.
Seriously, kick out the idiots and get a smarter forum.
Whenever a good news portal hides itself behind a paywall the the caravan/customers move on to a less good news portal.
In the end we will all be using breitbart, sputnik and al jazeira because everything else is behind a pay wall. Those who are not looking forward in generating monetary profit will simply outlast everybody else.
-32kByte of memory instead of the standard 4/8kByte.
-Bigger and more crisp Screen - but green instead of white.
-an additional ROM socket for easy expanding
-and the most importand part: a much, much improved keyboard.
The really good keyboard of the CBM3000 series was the main reason why Commodore managed to catch a big chunk of the business office market.
I started with a tape drive, soon to be supplemented by a unlicenced copy of the CBM4040 double disk drive and a CBM 3022 printer - you wont believe how large and loud this printer was.
There was a lot of software available for the CBM Business machines, I would even dare to say between 1978 and 1983 it had the best library of all systems.
When I switched to the C64 years later my main reason was the high compability of the C64 towards the older PET/CBM-systems: You could switch the C64 into a CBM compability mode which allowed to use lots of software and even load some ROM programs into C64 RAM and use em. Guess most people didnt even know this feature about the C64.
I owned/used a couple of computers which really didn't leave much of a mark. But if you ask me about my most influential computer then I say:
Amiga.
It was so fat ahead of its time that even today you can put a 12 year old kid in front of it and the kid wont see much of a difference to modern computers.
I wrote my first C-Programm on an Amiga. Used csh, cc and lot other unix tools first on Amiga. Wrote my first Email, downloaded my first file by FTP, UUCP, FTSC, ZModem, first logged into another computer from an Amiga, first logged into an Amiga from another computer. Burned my first CD on an Amiga, used a hard disk first on an amiga, used a tape drive on an amiga, used an SSD (4MB PCMCIA format) on an Amiga....
Pretty much everything people nowadays take for granted I did it first on an Amiga.
Also Amigas where the first computer I saw using more than 1MB, 4MB, 16MB, 64MB of memory and mass storage of 100GB when PCs had problems using more than 8GB.
I ran in full parallel usage: Amiga-OS software, ST software, Mac software, CP/M 68k software, GNU software, X11 software, C64 software. One would not believe how much that thing could do and how fast it always feeled.
To be honest, my current i7-6700k system can do things equally smooth but my Amiga could do all of this 30 years earlier.
Hate Speech or Fighting Words is pretty much only limiting which words are "allowed" and which not. These concepts are not limiting what objectives are legal. In other words, "all bug ridden carriers of funny bears must be killed cruelsome" is NOT legal but "carriers of funny beards must be silenced" is legal under these concepts.
"Volksverhetzung" is a much broader definition because is also takes into consideration deeper motivations. Under these concepts it would be illegal to say "carriers of funny beards must be silenced" when it is obvious that "silenced" means "killed". Also proveless accussations would be illegal eg "all carrier of funny beards eat little children". You are still legal to say "carriers of funny beards eat 5% more children than others and this should be handled accordingly by law". Well at least if carriers of funny beards really eat 5% more children.
This is not about "free oppinion" but about "redefining the past to prepare future crimes".
In germany you are free to promote national socialism as long as you do not deny its past flaws. This way a fascist has a harder time to prepare future crimes.
In the US you are free to promote pedophelia as long as you do not deny its past flaws. This way a pedophile has a harder time to prepare future crimes.
There is also the Markus Nessler parable: One day some stranger starts following you while shouting "you stole my money, my jacket and my shoes!" He continues to do so for some days then starts shouting "someone help me to get back my money, my jacket and my shoes!" A couple of days later people start demanding from you to give back that mans money, jacket and shoes. And some days later the man with help from some people takes away your money, your jacket and your shoes by force. And everyone will say "you had it coming, he asked you for days to give back his money, his jacket and his shoes".
And that is the difference between "free speech" and "redefining the past to prepare future crimes". And thats the reason why you can shut up people by court order. Even in the US.
I am already happy when the author has read http://www.xkcd.com/1343/ and some early manpages of sudoers (imho the worst, by far).
Todays "sudoers" manpage has already been cleaned up a lot and is still a horrible read. But in the past it was something like "the relevant configuration is a hierarchical list of geometrical weighted values. Each one represents a position in a list relative to its anchor". And yes, that was just a weird way of saying "/etc/sudoers contains configuration keywords with options".
Overall I had the impression the author was a sociopath showing off his mathematical skills while keeping the core knowledge unavailable to others.
From 1981 to 2011 I have been using Tape Backups for my private, business and customer systems. It was cheap, reliable and fast, my first drive had 5MB with a transferrate of 20KB/s, my last drive hat 200GB with a transfer rate of 30MB/s.
But no more.
Drives are fucking expensive (and they die a lot), media are fucking expensive (and are no better than other media),
Lets say I could buy a drive with 2TB for â200 and a 2TB media for â10 or a 10TB for â500 and a 10TB media for â50 then I would at least consider using tape again.
But right now I pay â1600 for a 2TB drive and â40 for a 2TB catridge. Thats insane, I can buy 60TB of hard disk storage just for the drive alone and get another 2TB cheaper than buying tapes.
And trust me, hard drive stored in a dark, locked box will work even better than tapes.
I do not think SteamOS is of any relevance today. And it wont be important next year.
I do not think Steam 4 Linux is a perfect alternative to windows. And at best it will be a acceptable although rough alterantive to windows next year.
But I do now that Steam 4 Linux DOES deliver. Not big time but every month a little bit bigger. I bought over 200 games for Steam and even though I did care little about running games on Linux I still have over 60 games running on linux.
I did not expect that when Steam 4 Linux was announced.
So while Steam 4 Linux does NOT replace my windows game machine - a massive tower costing â1000 and eating 400W to give me bleeding edge results - it gives me two great bonuses:
I now have 60 games running on my el cheapo Notebook with Ubuntu which did cost me â300 and uses 30W. I can run another 140 games through Steam Remote gaming as long as my windows system is also running. I am planning to buy an el cheapo Nettop based on AMD Beema for â100, converting my Big-Screen TV into a gaming station. And I will get another one of these for my bed room.
There will be more games.
There will be better support.
Maybe we will see Steam directly installed into smart TVs. So I would not even need to add some el cheapo nettop box.
This will be slow like it has been for two years but maybe suddenly in five years I will say "ok lets play something different" and find it surprising that this game does not run on linux. Maybe I will even find it surprising that this game does need a extra computer instead of running directly on my TV.
Then I will open my Steam inventory and see that 80% of my games are available for Linux and are running natively on my TV. Then I will just wonder why I should bother for the other 20%. I will start to ignore these 20% and keep an old Windows system in the attic next to my Amiga and my C64 just in case I want to play these 20% again. Which I wont like I never played most Amiga games ever again.
You simply do not understand how "cloud storage" works.
We had all this even back in the 1980ths, just using different buzz words. All these storage/service-solutions do a win-doublewin-bet, they do not aim at a short term profit, they try to claim their market share. As soon as the competitors start to fail and die or their architecture become dominating they will just raise prices or at least stop lowering them.
Has anyone figured out how to read that Crap Page Medium.com on a normal computer without getting headaches because the letters are pretty much ten times larger than useful?
Right now I have to disable ALL Javascript and then use a alternate CSS to make it readable in Firefox.
Slashdot Mirror
Proof by evidence is totally yesterday, proof by claim is the new norm. And if still in doubt, add angry foot stomping.
You are wrong here...
The LISA featured a propietary MMU to implement some memory protection though I think it did not offer virtual memory in todays sense. No computer today does actually "swap", they all "page" which means some hardware traps access to fixed-sized pages of memory and activating some low level memory handler. The early computer did instead "swap" what was a software based method to move memory to disk. It was more complex, higher level, pretty propietary and usually less powerful. Today we wrongly call both "swappping".
Quite a lot of old 68000 computers had some propietary MMU to increase stability and run Unix. This only fell out of favor when the cheapish 68000 home computers like Sinclair QL, Atari ST, Amiga and the NEC Town came into existance and came only back when the 68030 and 386 hit the shelves which both came with an integrated MMU.
Funny Fact, post a slightly anti-russian comment on german forums and you will get swarmed by hundreds of pro-russian trolls.
Post whatever about anybody else and noone cares.
China is just doing the old game of "intelligence gathering". At least they are not meddling with local politics.
One has to differ between these four "offizicial state media":
1. Russia Today Russian Site
2. Russia Today International Site
3. sputniknews.com Russian Site
4. sputniknews.com International Site
All four usually deliver 80% of rather well written and researched. Stuff like "heavy rain damaged a road" or "prices for apples are up". Sometimes they even critizise single politicians. Not Putin and never the system for sure. You read rarelly about the opposition.
It is the other 20% where things are getting interesting.
1. and 2. usually reports whatever the russian goverment wants to get reported and do so in a mostly sincere way. They will not outright fabricate fake news or conspiracy theories but will gladly repeat these if the goverment came up with em. Most disputed content is given a heavy pro-goverment tone.
3. and 4. are less strict about bullshit. You will sometimes read really lame fake news and strange stuff and they will not even stay clear of fabricating "alien abduction stories" and worse... also they often click traps like "war porn", "whataboutism" and such stuff.
be aware: The russian and international edition often differ on subjects.
How would they represent "fake moon landing"?
1. "it happened but most parts have been overdramatized through selective media representation"
2. "it happened but some parts have been rearranged through selective media representation"
3. "there are many people and lots of evidence it never happened that way. Most americans don't believe it either.
3. "there are some people and some evidence it never happened that way. Smarter americans don't believe it either.
fun fact, there is a german public broadcast station sputnik.de targeting teens and tweens, broadcasting music and news from entertainment which gets mixed up a lot with sputniknews.com.
There is only one relevant factor for computer interaction:
bandwidth.
I can type 500 characters per minute on my G80-3000 cherry keyboard with an error rate less than 1% thus producing highly complex content faster than some people can speak or listen. Also I can read text at a speed of 5000 characters per minute allowing me to consume highly complex content faster than any person alive can speak or listen. In fact I HATE youtube videos because they often need ten or twentyfold the time it takes me to read the same content from text.
Give me something which allows me to interact even faster and you got me as a customer.
But honestly I think there isn't anything close to accomplish that. Maybe we'll see direct brain links in a couple of decades but I can not even remotely imagine anything else increasing my performance.
But if your problem is not "efficency" but "made for idiots" then there might be something around the corner. Which I am not even remotely interested in.
Disqus is a scam.
A while ago we had a news discussion where we found the following rules for cencorship:
"Putin is an Idiot" is censored.
"Trump is an Idiot" is censored.
"Obama is an Idiot" is NOT censored.
"Merkel is an Idiot" is NOT censored.
So now we got curious, we edited the already posted texts by exchanging the names randomly... at first the "new" anti-Putin comments where up for a couple of minutes puplicly and then got cencored. The "new" Anti-Obama-comments on the other hand where still blocked for a couple of minutes and then became public. So we edited the texts back and voila, a couple of minutes later the censorship strikes again. We continued this on several accounts for a couple of hours then suddenly EVERY edited comment became invisible for a couple of hours(!) until being manually switched public as long as it did not insult putin or trump. Being Greasemonkeys we made sure the texts got edited for another couple of days over and over again, also using new accounts but no way to criticize Putin.
Forum didn't matter, topic didn't matter, it just was not possible to critcise authoritarian politics. After we made this public several news papers stopped using disqus.
Therefor I say: Disqus is a Scam!
I think Trump won because most Americans are Idiots. You know, those kind of idiots full of incompetence, lazyness and envy. Those kinds which are considering being laught upon is a violation of free speech. Those who think partying through childhood is ok, never safing money is ok, doing life decisions on gut feelings is ok, living a glamoros life from depts and after that everyone is guilty but not the idiot.
Nothing wrong about that, most people on earth are born, idiots, some get a bit smarter in school bust most still die as idiots.
But the US made it a habid to ruin schools and wondering where are all the idiots from.
Electing a goverment from one party and a parliament from a hostile party so everyone is blocking everyone and nothing gets done for the whole election period. This is actually the case for 70% (!!) of US history.
Refusing to reform a nation coz the founding fathers (which lived with pigs in their houses and died of illnesses like cough and dysenterey) decided like 1000 years ago how to run a 21st century nation and this holy message should not be questioned (image some generic sermon which pleases both Islamic State and founding fathers fundamentalists) and then wondering everything is so fucked up.
You want proof of this decay? Take a random redneck and watch a random spongebob episode. He will not get half the jokes.
And the biggest wrongness of all: Thinking America is great. It isn't. It was sometimes. But mostly it was just above average. And to even hold this level everyone has to fight. Lets call it the "civilized nation jihad", reflecting yourself, dropping whats old and wrong and adapting. EVERY FUCKING DAY. Thinks wont get better by behaving like school bullies though. Right now America is not Great. Well, Canada maybe. But not the US. It is isolated, falling back fast. I always thought the 21st century will be the asian century but I thought this would happen because asia wakes up, not by the US falling asleep.
Here is another good point from a 2005 munich university study - hate speech wasn't a topic back then, only flaming:
allowing flaming on a respectable website will
1. drag down this websites standards in all aspects
2. make flaming more widely accepted especially on this website but also outside
3. drives out old customers objecting flaming
4. brings in new customers prefering flaming
All of this is pretty obvious but you will be surprised how little the editorial staff is aware of this.
I have seen exactly this on several local major web pages. If you don't clean up you yard it will start to smell.
You want a really nice hate speech web site? Visit Telepolis, the most radical main stream anti-West/US/EU/Democracy hating site on german internet. The US has created Stalin, Hitler, cancer and whatever and everyone and their pillow is a CIA slave. But thanks there is golden angel putin around to protect us with his nuclear weapons. The same site is also running Heise Tech News. Their forums are cleaned with a more strict rule but still consider it ok to spread radical propaganda as long as noone gets called bad names. Every third forum message is stupid and worth reporting and it never stops. Then visit Computerbase.de, Golem.de. Basically every unproven accussation is removed. Yes, this leads to less forum traffic but also to a much higher quality. Also People do not even try to post stupid stuff over there coz it gets removed anyway. On the other hand I even read good critic about the west there instead of mindless hating.
Seriously, kick out the idiots and get a smarter forum.
Whenever a good news portal hides itself behind a paywall the the caravan/customers move on to a less good news portal.
In the end we will all be using breitbart, sputnik and al jazeira because everything else is behind a pay wall. Those who are not looking forward in generating monetary profit will simply outlast everybody else.
Dont blame the customers, blame the companies.
My first computer was a CBM 3032.
This was basically a souped up PET:
-32kByte of memory instead of the standard 4/8kByte.
-Bigger and more crisp Screen - but green instead of white.
-an additional ROM socket for easy expanding
-and the most importand part: a much, much improved keyboard.
The really good keyboard of the CBM3000 series was the main reason why Commodore managed to catch a big chunk of the business office market.
I started with a tape drive, soon to be supplemented by a unlicenced copy of the CBM4040 double disk drive and a CBM 3022 printer - you wont believe how large and loud this printer was.
There was a lot of software available for the CBM Business machines, I would even dare to say between 1978 and 1983 it had the best library of all systems.
When I switched to the C64 years later my main reason was the high compability of the C64 towards the older PET/CBM-systems: You could switch the C64 into a CBM compability mode which allowed to use lots of software and even load some ROM programs into C64 RAM and use em. Guess most people didnt even know this feature about the C64.
I think you are asking the wrong question.
I owned/used a couple of computers which really didn't leave much of a mark. But if you ask me about my most influential computer then I say:
Amiga.
It was so fat ahead of its time that even today you can put a 12 year old kid in front of it and the kid wont see much of a difference to modern computers.
I wrote my first C-Programm on an Amiga. Used csh, cc and lot other unix tools first on Amiga. Wrote my first Email, downloaded my first file by FTP, UUCP, FTSC, ZModem, first logged into another computer from an Amiga, first logged into an Amiga from another computer. Burned my first CD on an Amiga, used a hard disk first on an amiga, used a tape drive on an amiga, used an SSD (4MB PCMCIA format) on an Amiga....
Pretty much everything people nowadays take for granted I did it first on an Amiga.
Also Amigas where the first computer I saw using more than 1MB, 4MB, 16MB, 64MB of memory and mass storage of 100GB when PCs had problems using more than 8GB.
I ran in full parallel usage: Amiga-OS software, ST software, Mac software, CP/M 68k software, GNU software, X11 software, C64 software. One would not believe how much that thing could do and how fast it always feeled.
To be honest, my current i7-6700k system can do things equally smooth but my Amiga could do all of this 30 years earlier.
Hate Speech or Fighting Words is pretty much only limiting which words are "allowed" and which not. These concepts are not limiting what objectives are legal. In other words, "all bug ridden carriers of funny bears must be killed cruelsome" is NOT legal but "carriers of funny beards must be silenced" is legal under these concepts.
"Volksverhetzung" is a much broader definition because is also takes into consideration deeper motivations. Under these concepts it would be illegal to say "carriers of funny beards must be silenced" when it is obvious that "silenced" means "killed". Also proveless accussations would be illegal eg "all carrier of funny beards eat little children". You are still legal to say "carriers of funny beards eat 5% more children than others and this should be handled accordingly by law". Well at least if carriers of funny beards really eat 5% more children.
Alex Kurtzman is an incompetent idiot who would ruin even the emergency broadcast signal with unneccessary action and the most unfitting story board.
Every single episode of "Star Wars the Clone Wars" was more adult, more entertaining than his flicks.
Actually, most episodes of He-Man were...
This is not about "free oppinion" but about "redefining the past to prepare future crimes".
In germany you are free to promote national socialism as long as you do not deny its past flaws. This way a fascist has a harder time to prepare future crimes.
In the US you are free to promote pedophelia as long as you do not deny its past flaws. This way a pedophile has a harder time to prepare future crimes.
There is also the Markus Nessler parable:
One day some stranger starts following you while shouting "you stole my money, my jacket and my shoes!"
He continues to do so for some days then starts shouting "someone help me to get back my money, my jacket and my shoes!"
A couple of days later people start demanding from you to give back that mans money, jacket and shoes.
And some days later the man with help from some people takes away your money, your jacket and your shoes by force.
And everyone will say "you had it coming, he asked you for days to give back his money, his jacket and his shoes".
And that is the difference between "free speech" and "redefining the past to prepare future crimes". And thats the reason why you can shut up people by court order. Even in the US.
The problem is not the law but Google/Youtube.
Google as a plattform has every right to make any stupid requirement for publishing content on their plattforms.
If you do not like that go somewhere else.
I do all day.
In the long run this will lead to a much more healthy content industry.
I am already happy when the author has read http://www.xkcd.com/1343/ and some early manpages of sudoers (imho the worst, by far).
Todays "sudoers" manpage has already been cleaned up a lot and is still a horrible read. But in the past it was something like "the relevant configuration is a hierarchical list of geometrical weighted values. Each one represents a position in a list relative to its anchor". And yes, that was just a weird way of saying "/etc/sudoers contains configuration keywords with options".
Overall I had the impression the author was a sociopath showing off his mathematical skills while keeping the core knowledge unavailable to others.
Last time I looked tape was as expensive as hard disks per GB and also a lot slower too and needed a seperate and quite expensive drive.
All in all, I do not care about tapes anymore.
From 1981 to 2011 I have been using Tape Backups for my private, business and customer systems. It was cheap, reliable and fast, my first drive had 5MB with a transferrate of 20KB/s, my last drive hat 200GB with a transfer rate of 30MB/s.
But no more.
Drives are fucking expensive (and they die a lot), media are fucking expensive (and are no better than other media),
Lets say I could buy a drive with 2TB for â200 and a 2TB media for â10 or a 10TB for â500 and a 10TB media for â50 then I would at least consider using tape again.
But right now I pay â1600 for a 2TB drive and â40 for a 2TB catridge. Thats insane, I can buy 60TB of hard disk storage just for the drive alone and get another 2TB cheaper than buying tapes.
And trust me, hard drive stored in a dark, locked box will work even better than tapes.
I do not think SteamOS is of any relevance today. And it wont be important next year.
I do not think Steam 4 Linux is a perfect alternative to windows. And at best it will be a acceptable although rough alterantive to windows next year.
But I do now that Steam 4 Linux DOES deliver. Not big time but every month a little bit bigger. I bought over 200 games for Steam and even though I did care little about running games on Linux I still have over 60 games running on linux.
I did not expect that when Steam 4 Linux was announced.
So while Steam 4 Linux does NOT replace my windows game machine - a massive tower costing â1000 and eating 400W to give me bleeding edge results - it gives me two great bonuses:
I now have 60 games running on my el cheapo Notebook with Ubuntu which did cost me â300 and uses 30W. I can run another 140 games through Steam Remote gaming as long as my windows system is also running. I am planning to buy an el cheapo Nettop based on AMD Beema for â100, converting my Big-Screen TV into a gaming station. And I will get another one of these for my bed room.
There will be more games.
There will be better support.
Maybe we will see Steam directly installed into smart TVs. So I would not even need to add some el cheapo nettop box.
This will be slow like it has been for two years but maybe suddenly in five years I will say "ok lets play something different" and find it surprising that this game does not run on linux. Maybe I will even find it surprising that this game does need a extra computer instead of running directly on my TV.
Then I will open my Steam inventory and see that 80% of my games are available for Linux and are running natively on my TV. Then I will just wonder why I should bother for the other 20%. I will start to ignore these 20% and keep an old Windows system in the attic next to my Amiga and my C64 just in case I want to play these 20% again. Which I wont like I never played most Amiga games ever again.
Mission accomplished.
You simply do not understand how "cloud storage" works.
We had all this even back in the 1980ths, just using different buzz words. All these storage/service-solutions do a win-doublewin-bet, they do not aim at a short term profit, they try to claim their market share. As soon as the competitors start to fail and die or their architecture become dominating they will just raise prices or at least stop lowering them.
Seriously?
Apple is a company producing furniture for girls.
Apple is producing products for idiots and is therefore very successful.
Let me sum up, to produce crappy products for idiots you need to use knowledge not available to companies producing sane products for sane people.
The link in the articel seems to be broken and show chaotically formated text.
Please correct.
Has anyone figured out how to read that Crap Page Medium.com on a normal computer without getting headaches because the letters are pretty much ten times larger than useful?
Right now I have to disable ALL Javascript and then use a alternate CSS to make it readable in Firefox.
man this medium page is but guly.
giant fonts, no use of the screen.
bleark.
Man is that Medium.com Site buttugly. Giant Fonts, most parts of the page empty.
Bleark.