NVS isn't a "high-end graphics" card, it's specifically designed for driving lots of low-end displays such as in digital signage or systems monitoring. Yes, it's ~$700 for the new card and if you want to dick about with configuring, cabling and managing 16+ Pi's then you're quite welcome to, but if you want something straightforward for a showcase center then it's well worth looking at.
Wow, you're funny. As tools which are part of the Android SDK, if you don't trust them then you probably shouldn't have an Android phone in the first place.
Right, so we'll have an American Backdoor for the Americans, but they don't just anyone accessing their data so they won't share it with everyone, which means we'll also need a German Backdoor for the Germans and a French Backdoor for the French and obviously multiple law-enforcement agencies in each of those countries will need access and frankly even assuming that by some miracle none of the agencies in any of the countries have anyone on staff who is either corrupt or incompetent there's somewhere around a 100% chance that other people with (more) malicious intents will gain access to said backdoors.
Meanwhile these supposed terrorists that these backdoors are designed to stop are either a) already too stupid to properly secure their communications or b) smart enough to "manually" encrypt the message itself and not simply the envelope, which means all this is for naught anyway.
This is America, we don't let "governments" set "rules", we let the free market decide. If people don't want to pay fines from clearly rigged red light cameras then they're free to use one of the other road providers instead.
Clearly the best way to combat the supposed corruption and unethical behaviour in the games media is to encourage their advertisers to demand editorial changes or risk having their funding removed.
For the love of God, if you think your games (or any media you consume, frankly) don't have any politics in them then it simply means they have politics that you already agree with. The number of truly apolitical games out there is vanishingly small.
This idea of "just let games be about the games" is as bullshit as saying "why can't my music just be about the music".
Utilities can really only have neutral or negative reputations.
Think about it, how often do you go "Wow, that was some amazing electricity I used this morning! It came right out of the socket when I needed it and didn't electrocute me at all"? You don't, because you expect those things as a basic requirement of the service and there aren't really many added extras they can provide to help you view them in a positive light. On the flip side, if there are outages or faults you almost automatically acquire a negative view of them and again there isn't really a lot they can do to counteract it.
Wow, really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (from the linked MSDN Blog entry)
It does NOT include the Start menu that you may have seen/heard about at the recent Build conference. That is some exciting near-future stuff, which demonstrates our on-going commitment to deliver on customer feedback.
Anything that requires a 64-bit OS and, by extension, anything that needs more than ~3.5Gb of RAM to run (well) as well as anything that needs DX10+ and any new hardware that doesn't ship with XP drivers. This might not be that much now, but it will start to increase dramatically from today onwards.
And no, XP 64-bit does not count, it's a bastard hybrid of XP & 2003 Server and nothing really supports it properly.
If forced into it today, business just might adopt Linux and WINE to run their apps and find out they are safer and more stable because of it
No, they won't, at least not in statistically significant numbers. The cost and hassle of an XP->7 upgrade is much less than the cost and hassle of an XP->Linux upgrade due mostly to the retraining costs for both IT and users (deny it all you like but Linux is not similar enough to Windows that average users will just be able to run with it, most of them panic & phone support when one of their desktop shortcuts disappears) as well as the fact that most of the desktop hardware currently running XP is too old to run a modern Linux distro comfortably - a bunch of Celerons with 256Mb of RAM might be fine if you're running a stripped down install with XFCE and don't want to run any intensive applications, but Linux is not a magic bullet that makes old PCs run like new ones.
On top of all that, you lose integration with all the Windows-based server side systems you already have in place, which leads to either whole-sale replacement or lots of fudging things so they sort of work like before.
I honestly don't think most people advocating businesses should switch all their machines to Linux instead of upgrading from XP really appreciate just how much work would be involved in doing so. Home users are a different matter and it's much more practical for them to take that route, in theory.
Because, like he said, iptables is easy to screw up without realising it and you don't really want to take that approach on a machine you care about and are using day to day, you ideally want kind of abstraction layer to break you in gently where there's less chance of fucking it up and you can learn how it works at a sensible pace.
Well, there are lists of ranges known to be used by malware, etc. such as this: http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ - it's not that it's a list of *all* ranges used for those things, just that these ranges are known *only* to be used for those things and so can safely be blocked outright.
Most of the rest of it comes from random compromised residential machines or hosted boxes and so is hard to block other than when you find a really shitty host like Nobis/Ubiquity who just don't care about shutting down compromised machines on their networks.
Presumably because of a deal struck with one of those weasel-word named "industry associations" like the "Really Helpful Consumer Notification Group" that represent shitty companies that do shitty things and who probably went to Microsoft and said "we need X amount of time to make sure our products meet your new standards so they don't get blocked" for which you can read "we need some time to find a way around your blocking so we can continue being shitty".
In situations where it's not blatantly trying to kill the competition, it's usually that someone unrelated to the industry in question buys a fairly popular but financially struggling service figuring "how hard can it be to make it profitable?" only to find out after a year or so that actually it's quite hard to make it profitable, which is why the previous owners couldn't do it, and now their options are to close it down or find some horribly insidious way to force money from its users, which invariably leads to a fairly quick death anyway a few months down the line.
Except that's how it was and not only did every manufacturer have their own proprietary charger, but they tended to change them every couple of handsets just to keep things interesting. Your options were either to carry your charger everywhere with you (which somewhat defeats the point of having a mobile phone) or just hope that if you needed to charge your phone outside of your house that someone nearby had exactly the same charger as you so you could borrow it.
That's on top of the extra waste generated when you can't keep your old charger for use with your new phone.
There's nothing to stop the standard from being changed in the future as technology advances, it just means that you won't have 30 different proprietary cables to pick from.
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some of the original pre-orders "are now shipping out significantly ahead of the initial delay estimates provided by Oculus."
Presumably because of all the cancelled pre-orders from people trying to jump the queue.
NVS isn't a "high-end graphics" card, it's specifically designed for driving lots of low-end displays such as in digital signage or systems monitoring. Yes, it's ~$700 for the new card and if you want to dick about with configuring, cabling and managing 16+ Pi's then you're quite welcome to, but if you want something straightforward for a showcase center then it's well worth looking at.
Wow, you're funny. As tools which are part of the Android SDK, if you don't trust them then you probably shouldn't have an Android phone in the first place.
Right, so we'll have an American Backdoor for the Americans, but they don't just anyone accessing their data so they won't share it with everyone, which means we'll also need a German Backdoor for the Germans and a French Backdoor for the French and obviously multiple law-enforcement agencies in each of those countries will need access and frankly even assuming that by some miracle none of the agencies in any of the countries have anyone on staff who is either corrupt or incompetent there's somewhere around a 100% chance that other people with (more) malicious intents will gain access to said backdoors.
Meanwhile these supposed terrorists that these backdoors are designed to stop are either a) already too stupid to properly secure their communications or b) smart enough to "manually" encrypt the message itself and not simply the envelope, which means all this is for naught anyway.
It's hardly a new word, it's been in active use for the best part of 10 years.
This is America, we don't let "governments" set "rules", we let the free market decide. If people don't want to pay fines from clearly rigged red light cameras then they're free to use one of the other road providers instead.
Vote with your wallets, people.
Clearly the best way to combat the supposed corruption and unethical behaviour in the games media is to encourage their advertisers to demand editorial changes or risk having their funding removed.
For the love of God, if you think your games (or any media you consume, frankly) don't have any politics in them then it simply means they have politics that you already agree with. The number of truly apolitical games out there is vanishingly small.
This idea of "just let games be about the games" is as bullshit as saying "why can't my music just be about the music".
While reading this story I accidentally peak stupid.
...leaving citizens in the dark on what privacy protections, if any, are in place...
I'll give you a hint, there aren't any.
Utilities can really only have neutral or negative reputations.
Think about it, how often do you go "Wow, that was some amazing electricity I used this morning! It came right out of the socket when I needed it and didn't electrocute me at all"? You don't, because you expect those things as a basic requirement of the service and there aren't really many added extras they can provide to help you view them in a positive light. On the flip side, if there are outages or faults you almost automatically acquire a negative view of them and again there isn't really a lot they can do to counteract it.
That still doesn't excuse shoddy IPMI implementations and not fixing vulnerabilities when they're discovered.
But apparently blindly repudiating it is fine.
Pocket change for them, maybe, but it's slightly more significant for the people having to pay it.
That explains why the government is always trying to defund them.
Wow, really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (from the linked MSDN Blog entry)
It does NOT include the Start menu that you may have seen/heard about at the recent Build conference. That is some exciting near-future stuff, which demonstrates our on-going commitment to deliver on customer feedback.
It has a Start *button* but still uses the Start Screen from vanilla Win 8.
Anything that requires a 64-bit OS and, by extension, anything that needs more than ~3.5Gb of RAM to run (well) as well as anything that needs DX10+ and any new hardware that doesn't ship with XP drivers. This might not be that much now, but it will start to increase dramatically from today onwards.
And no, XP 64-bit does not count, it's a bastard hybrid of XP & 2003 Server and nothing really supports it properly.
If forced into it today, business just might adopt Linux and WINE to run their apps and find out they are safer and more stable because of it
No, they won't, at least not in statistically significant numbers. The cost and hassle of an XP->7 upgrade is much less than the cost and hassle of an XP->Linux upgrade due mostly to the retraining costs for both IT and users (deny it all you like but Linux is not similar enough to Windows that average users will just be able to run with it, most of them panic & phone support when one of their desktop shortcuts disappears) as well as the fact that most of the desktop hardware currently running XP is too old to run a modern Linux distro comfortably - a bunch of Celerons with 256Mb of RAM might be fine if you're running a stripped down install with XFCE and don't want to run any intensive applications, but Linux is not a magic bullet that makes old PCs run like new ones.
On top of all that, you lose integration with all the Windows-based server side systems you already have in place, which leads to either whole-sale replacement or lots of fudging things so they sort of work like before.
I honestly don't think most people advocating businesses should switch all their machines to Linux instead of upgrading from XP really appreciate just how much work would be involved in doing so. Home users are a different matter and it's much more practical for them to take that route, in theory.
Because, like he said, iptables is easy to screw up without realising it and you don't really want to take that approach on a machine you care about and are using day to day, you ideally want kind of abstraction layer to break you in gently where there's less chance of fucking it up and you can learn how it works at a sensible pace.
Well, there are lists of ranges known to be used by malware, etc. such as this: http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ - it's not that it's a list of *all* ranges used for those things, just that these ranges are known *only* to be used for those things and so can safely be blocked outright.
Most of the rest of it comes from random compromised residential machines or hosted boxes and so is hard to block other than when you find a really shitty host like Nobis/Ubiquity who just don't care about shutting down compromised machines on their networks.
Wrong country, please attempt troll again.
Presumably because of a deal struck with one of those weasel-word named "industry associations" like the "Really Helpful Consumer Notification Group" that represent shitty companies that do shitty things and who probably went to Microsoft and said "we need X amount of time to make sure our products meet your new standards so they don't get blocked" for which you can read "we need some time to find a way around your blocking so we can continue being shitty".
In situations where it's not blatantly trying to kill the competition, it's usually that someone unrelated to the industry in question buys a fairly popular but financially struggling service figuring "how hard can it be to make it profitable?" only to find out after a year or so that actually it's quite hard to make it profitable, which is why the previous owners couldn't do it, and now their options are to close it down or find some horribly insidious way to force money from its users, which invariably leads to a fairly quick death anyway a few months down the line.
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Except that's how it was and not only did every manufacturer have their own proprietary charger, but they tended to change them every couple of handsets just to keep things interesting. Your options were either to carry your charger everywhere with you (which somewhat defeats the point of having a mobile phone) or just hope that if you needed to charge your phone outside of your house that someone nearby had exactly the same charger as you so you could borrow it.
That's on top of the extra waste generated when you can't keep your old charger for use with your new phone.
There's nothing to stop the standard from being changed in the future as technology advances, it just means that you won't have 30 different proprietary cables to pick from.