Unfortunately (for Intuit) someday someone will unplug the dusty old 286 machine in a closet somewhere that does this work because they assume it must not still be in use
The price increase is actually to offset how much it costs them to keep its Netware server running.
Intuit has a near monopoly with Quicken, and a major draw of TurboTax is having data flow into there trivially from the program that's already tracking your bank statement each month. If they still had viable competitors, they wouldn't be trying these tactics.
The best part is when the Intuit weasel tried to spin things his way in review comments, only to be moderated down to "Customers don't think this post adds to the discussion" invisibility. Quicken's quality has also plunged in the last five years, along with matching Amazon reviews. It's really sad to see such a formerly solid software brand swirling the toilet like this.
Been tried already; see gnutls. We tried to switch from OpenSSL to gnutls as the preferred SSL library for PostgreSQL a few years back, even got some press coverage documenting the whole thing. But, sadly, OpenSSL has too many quirky APIs to make a transition away from it easy. And anyone who tries to be "bug compatible" creating a replacement to that mess is going to inherit some of the same bad design that needs to be burned with fire.
To a lot of content providers, the ads are the important parts.
Ads anymore seem to have lot of dynamically generated content that isn't fully known until after the initial page is downloaded and some Javascript is run, perhaps even inspecting the local computer and its cookies. When that happens, it's impossible for loading the ads to happen concurrently with the main content. You're guaranteed a whole second round trip before the ad content is available.
Occasional security vulnerabilities are inevitable, which means you always have to be careful what you're exposing to the world. AiCloud exposes way too much. The February disaster showed why it's just a fundamentally flawed idea.
These Asus models use AsusWRT, a derivative of the Linux based OpenWRT. All the source code is public, and there are even alternate builds that track Asus's code but with additional features. (The problem is fixed already in that one)
They are writing some major garbage in-house, like Asus's terrible AiCloud, but those are not the core routing features; those they just pull in from Linux. In this case, the bug is in the router side code that supports their "ASUS Wireless Router Device Discovery Utility".
I don't know any place where one could play go or chess for money but not poker
In New York City, there are a few parks where people play chess with wagers on the game. It's ignored as a small problem. You couldn't play poker on the street without getting busted, because there's the perception that could turn into a widespread problem if allowed.
Whenever I bring a new computer up, I'm shocked all over again at just how slow browsers are before ad blocking is enabled. On most sites, all of the real content is there long before all of the ad and tracking content arrives. Today, nothing speeds up a slow computer and connection like Adblock Plus.
Casinos take a small amount of money out of each hand, the "rake". So if two perfectly matches robots play, the casino wins, as they slowly bleed all the money away from them both. These guys could have saved a lot of time. If you want a poker game where you always win, all you have to do was is the casino.
The distributors are trying to raise proft and shift the public blame toward the cable companies for high consumer prices. The cable companies are trying to hike consumer prices while blaming the distributors. These are not charities. Everyone involved wants a pound of flesh from all their TV-watching fatties..
Your cable company is doing what they can to make high profits. The end. Comcast spends less time even trying to spin away that they are greedy douchbags than other carriers. But it's not like Time-Warner or Cox have a great customer satisfaction side either.
You have this backwards. The profit made by the popularity of The Kardiashians is funding the less popular shows you watch. If things are unbundled, the price of reality TV shows can go down, as they make up for it on the ad side. You should then expect the shows you like to rise in price to stay afloat, now that they have less viewers funding the pot they're paid out of.
It boggles my mind that we keep getting worthless updates for this product while still missing the one really useful feature they could add. Let me control home temperature based on my bedroom at night and the first floor the rest of the day, and now Nest will have made my life easier--and saved money/energy too. But, no, instead it's more crap of marginal utility.
If companies are really hooked on using RedHat's management tools to help keep everyone's computer up to date, with things like security updates, they can buy a RedHat license for each system to make that easier. I've only actually seen that in action at a university where they had cheap academic licenses for all of them.
On UNIX systems, OpenSSL provides C headers your program compiles against, and then you link against their shared library. The bug was in the shared library part.
There are builds where all that gets turned into a static executable. The API is still being treated as a library in that case too, it's just all wrapped up on the packaging side.
Why more So-Ho routers don't implement at least partial BCP38 by default has always baffled me
SoHo routers are using the cheapest, easiest to deploy software possible. They don't care if that means handing out 9 year old software bugs in millions of units. The only way I see BCP38 gaining traction in that market is if it just works out of the box in Linux, with minimal configuration involved. Then the SoHo vendors who just grab Linux derived routing software will gain that capability. If that catches on to where it becomes feature checkbox material--"our new router protects against DDOS attacks with BCP38!"--then maybe we'll get a beneficial arms race.
In the part of Linux land I spend most of my time in, I know RHEL6 starting making basic protection enabled by default. The small Linux distributions router vendors build against lag pretty badly against distributions like that though.
The news here is that this particular popular model is failing in larger numbers now due to a well known design issue that reflowing seems to fix, when combined with thermal paste improvements and drilling new fan vent holes. That's a little more information than just the general idea that reflowing works to fix some laptops.
There's an interesting larger market lesson in there too: don't buy laptops with high heat GPUs if you also want one that lasts a long time. I have a 2011 MB Pro too, but not with this problem, because I specifically got a model with the low power Intel graphics chipset.
Wear-leveling with SSDs isn't about reliability, more about longevity because a specific bit (really page) on a chip can only be rewritten so many times. Though once that point is hit, the data is still readable, just not writeable.
This sometimes happens in the best behaved drives, but in practice that's more of a myth than something that really happens. Most SSDs start forgetting data after they're powered down when they hit their end of wear life. See the SSD endurance at TechReport for some real world examples.
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Unfortunately (for Intuit) someday someone will unplug the dusty old 286 machine in a closet somewhere that does this work because they assume it must not still be in use
The price increase is actually to offset how much it costs them to keep its Netware server running.
Intuit has a near monopoly with Quicken, and a major draw of TurboTax is having data flow into there trivially from the program that's already tracking your bank statement each month. If they still had viable competitors, they wouldn't be trying these tactics.
The best part is when the Intuit weasel tried to spin things his way in review comments, only to be moderated down to "Customers don't think this post adds to the discussion" invisibility. Quicken's quality has also plunged in the last five years, along with matching Amazon reviews. It's really sad to see such a formerly solid software brand swirling the toilet like this.
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Been tried already; see gnutls. We tried to switch from OpenSSL to gnutls as the preferred SSL library for PostgreSQL a few years back, even got some press coverage documenting the whole thing. But, sadly, OpenSSL has too many quirky APIs to make a transition away from it easy. And anyone who tries to be "bug compatible" creating a replacement to that mess is going to inherit some of the same bad design that needs to be burned with fire.
To a lot of content providers, the ads are the important parts.
Ads anymore seem to have lot of dynamically generated content that isn't fully known until after the initial page is downloaded and some Javascript is run, perhaps even inspecting the local computer and its cookies. When that happens, it's impossible for loading the ads to happen concurrently with the main content. You're guaranteed a whole second round trip before the ad content is available.
Occasional security vulnerabilities are inevitable, which means you always have to be careful what you're exposing to the world. AiCloud exposes way too much. The February disaster showed why it's just a fundamentally flawed idea.
These Asus models use AsusWRT, a derivative of the Linux based OpenWRT. All the source code is public, and there are even alternate builds that track Asus's code but with additional features. (The problem is fixed already in that one)
They are writing some major garbage in-house, like Asus's terrible AiCloud, but those are not the core routing features; those they just pull in from Linux. In this case, the bug is in the router side code that supports their "ASUS Wireless Router Device Discovery Utility".
I don't know any place where one could play go or chess for money but not poker
In New York City, there are a few parks where people play chess with wagers on the game. It's ignored as a small problem. You couldn't play poker on the street without getting busted, because there's the perception that could turn into a widespread problem if allowed.
Whenever I bring a new computer up, I'm shocked all over again at just how slow browsers are before ad blocking is enabled. On most sites, all of the real content is there long before all of the ad and tracking content arrives. Today, nothing speeds up a slow computer and connection like Adblock Plus.
Casinos take a small amount of money out of each hand, the "rake". So if two perfectly matches robots play, the casino wins, as they slowly bleed all the money away from them both. These guys could have saved a lot of time. If you want a poker game where you always win, all you have to do was is the casino.
The distributors are trying to raise proft and shift the public blame toward the cable companies for high consumer prices. The cable companies are trying to hike consumer prices while blaming the distributors. These are not charities. Everyone involved wants a pound of flesh from all their TV-watching fatties..
Your cable company is doing what they can to make high profits. The end. Comcast spends less time even trying to spin away that they are greedy douchbags than other carriers. But it's not like Time-Warner or Cox have a great customer satisfaction side either.
You have this backwards. The profit made by the popularity of The Kardiashians is funding the less popular shows you watch. If things are unbundled, the price of reality TV shows can go down, as they make up for it on the ad side. You should then expect the shows you like to rise in price to stay afloat, now that they have less viewers funding the pot they're paid out of.
#WirelessPowerMatters to align with recent social media promotion trends.
He says he has damage to one ear, so it makes sense that to him Bose has great sound quality.
It boggles my mind that we keep getting worthless updates for this product while still missing the one really useful feature they could add. Let me control home temperature based on my bedroom at night and the first floor the rest of the day, and now Nest will have made my life easier--and saved money/energy too. But, no, instead it's more crap of marginal utility.
The rant by the lesser Wozniak is available on archive.org.
If companies are really hooked on using RedHat's management tools to help keep everyone's computer up to date, with things like security updates, they can buy a RedHat license for each system to make that easier. I've only actually seen that in action at a university where they had cheap academic licenses for all of them.
Someone was aiming at "cool story, bro".
That was already 2014 news, it's just going to spread further in the new year.
On UNIX systems, OpenSSL provides C headers your program compiles against, and then you link against their shared library. The bug was in the shared library part.
There are builds where all that gets turned into a static executable. The API is still being treated as a library in that case too, it's just all wrapped up on the packaging side.
Why more So-Ho routers don't implement at least partial BCP38 by default has always baffled me
SoHo routers are using the cheapest, easiest to deploy software possible. They don't care if that means handing out 9 year old software bugs in millions of units. The only way I see BCP38 gaining traction in that market is if it just works out of the box in Linux, with minimal configuration involved. Then the SoHo vendors who just grab Linux derived routing software will gain that capability. If that catches on to where it becomes feature checkbox material--"our new router protects against DDOS attacks with BCP38!"--then maybe we'll get a beneficial arms race.
In the part of Linux land I spend most of my time in, I know RHEL6 starting making basic protection enabled by default. The small Linux distributions router vendors build against lag pretty badly against distributions like that though.
The news here is that this particular popular model is failing in larger numbers now due to a well known design issue that reflowing seems to fix, when combined with thermal paste improvements and drilling new fan vent holes. That's a little more information than just the general idea that reflowing works to fix some laptops.
There's an interesting larger market lesson in there too: don't buy laptops with high heat GPUs if you also want one that lasts a long time. I have a 2011 MB Pro too, but not with this problem, because I specifically got a model with the low power Intel graphics chipset.
You're just trolling for them when you don't capitalize Nazis.
Wear-leveling with SSDs isn't about reliability, more about longevity because a specific bit (really page) on a chip can only be rewritten so many times. Though once that point is hit, the data is still readable, just not writeable.
This sometimes happens in the best behaved drives, but in practice that's more of a myth than something that really happens. Most SSDs start forgetting data after they're powered down when they hit their end of wear life. See the SSD endurance at TechReport for some real world examples.