I'm getting awfully tired of exploits from MicroSquishy that I can't do anything to block. If my Win7 box proves vulnerable, I'm going to be seriously pissed, because they no longer ship install disks with machines.
Fortunately I don't *trust* Windows at all after the last time I got burned, so I do *all* my surfing with Linux/Debian. The *only* time I ever hit the internet from the Windows box is to download software updates or installs.
That's not to say I expect Apple to disappear as a company, but I think they're *way* overvalued because they won't be able to maintain their high margins as the "exclusivity" of the brand wears off.
There are certain brands that maintain brand appeal and price by being exclusive. Apple is not exclusive; they're a mass marketer. Therefore their aura of exclusivity and "specialness" will disappear in due time. You can't have it both ways -- either you're an exclusive up-scale marketer, or you're a mass market commodity. You can't be both for long at all.
Google, Apple, and a few others are overvalued right now as well.
But the stock market is all about gambling, not real value. Most of the big players treat it like monopoly money, because it's not coming out of their own pockets.:(
That's a problem with the stock market overall, though, not just tech stocks.
Mind you, I disable the "power saving" modes on my drives, and run my system 24x7, so there is *much* less opportunity for a head crash with the steady floating of the heads by keeping things moving. I'd been told many, many, many years ago that the biggest cause of failing hard drives was starting and stopping them instead of leaving them running. The same goes for the computer itself -- the biggest stress on the system is heating and cooling of the solder joints caused by powering down the system.
With all the reports of drive after drive failing from certain brands, I wonder what people are doing to their hard drives. Over 20 years, I've had ONE drive fail in a computer, and it was seven years old. My current 1TB Seagate is 9 years old.
You are not a physician. You are a pill pusher. You don't know shit about how the body works, you don't think about how the body works, and you don't care about how the body works. Ditto your concern for patients. You're just a "grunt" who pushes pills.
A real doctor has some inkling of drug interactions and keeps track of such things. Far too many (9/10) of my doctors over the past 50 years have been mere pill pushers who left it up to the pharmacist to detect when they'd screwed up and prescribed pills that are not recommended to be taken in combination.
Thanks to such lazy fucktards, I'm now bi-polar, and will suffer with that for the rest of my life. All because you lazy assholes didn't flag the bad interactions between SSRIs and Triptans for migraines, leading to a multi-week case of seratonin syndrome and literal brain damage.
Thank you ever so much for pushing your god damned pills on me.
If we're ever to have a hope of being able to rely on renewables (with or without nuclear add-ons), we have got to start building more energy efficient homes and businesses, and shift to an older style of transportation relying on long-haul trains to distribution centers, and pull trucking back to local short-hauls.
More importantly, we have got to address the huge amounts of energy that go into commuting from the urban sprawl to and from work. I realize that Canadians and Americans are in love with their cars, but that really has got to change for predictable routes like getting to and from work. It is absolutely insane to not only drive one (or even a few) people per vehicle downtown, when so many people are headed to the same place from the same suburbs.
It's not even "adding a button." It's adding a button *graphic* in the lower left corner where there was *always* a "hot spot" to click for bringing up the menu windows.
Clearly you've never programmed bare metal as we did in the days of the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET, etc.
It was *fun* back then. There wasn't even a debounced keyboard driver for most of those machines. You had to map the bits of the IO ports to individual keys.:)
There is only one change I'd like to see made sooner rather than later:
Stop using my main memory as a video buffer!!!
The main reason I opt for discrete graphics solutions is not because of the performance of the graphics, but the lack of main memory throughput degradation. I build boxes to compute, not sling graphics.
The fact that the Slashbot editors couldn't even catch something like "Pakistway" instead of "Pakistan" is bad enough.
But the fact that they haven't corrected the typo after this long is an absolutely sickening example of lazy assed, shoddy, don't-give-a-shit attitudes. Shame on Dyce.
That's bullshit. The police brag about successful operations all the time after they're over. They seem to be able to release information without compromising other investigations.
Movie playback exercises the GPU acceleration, not the CPU core.
How about trying the tests while actually using the device for something? After all, one of Microsoft's biggest pushes for the Surface line is that they're for work, not play.
Oh, I forgot. You can't do real work without a keyboard.
The whole "anti-terrorism" excuse is a sham. The NSA has already been providing the DEA with information about drug deals they've intercepted. We know that for a fact.
But when pressured, they can't itemize a list of the terrorist operations they've intercepted and stopped. They toss out vague numbers in the 40s after over a decade of surveillance. So even if they're exagerrating, that's only 4 per year!
From a cruelly financial perspective, it would have been far cheaper to just pay the death benefits to the families of the few people who might have died than to pay the untold billions the NSA, GCHQ, CSEC, et. al. have cost to operate.
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They know what causes the bug. They know where the bug is located. But they can't provide a fix for the bug?
Kudos. That's the laziest response to a vulnerability I've ever heard of.
I'm getting awfully tired of exploits from MicroSquishy that I can't do anything to block. If my Win7 box proves vulnerable, I'm going to be seriously pissed, because they no longer ship install disks with machines.
Fortunately I don't *trust* Windows at all after the last time I got burned, so I do *all* my surfing with Linux/Debian. The *only* time I ever hit the internet from the Windows box is to download software updates or installs.
That's not to say I expect Apple to disappear as a company, but I think they're *way* overvalued because they won't be able to maintain their high margins as the "exclusivity" of the brand wears off.
There are certain brands that maintain brand appeal and price by being exclusive. Apple is not exclusive; they're a mass marketer. Therefore their aura of exclusivity and "specialness" will disappear in due time. You can't have it both ways -- either you're an exclusive up-scale marketer, or you're a mass market commodity. You can't be both for long at all.
Already been done. BountySource
Apple is overrated. They're a fad. In all respects.
Sooner or later a new shiny will take over people's fanatacism in the North American market. It's already happened overseas.
Their market share is sliding, not growing. Profitability will therefore come down.
Google, Apple, and a few others are overvalued right now as well.
But the stock market is all about gambling, not real value. Most of the big players treat it like monopoly money, because it's not coming out of their own pockets. :(
That's a problem with the stock market overall, though, not just tech stocks.
Mind you, I disable the "power saving" modes on my drives, and run my system 24x7, so there is *much* less opportunity for a head crash with the steady floating of the heads by keeping things moving. I'd been told many, many, many years ago that the biggest cause of failing hard drives was starting and stopping them instead of leaving them running. The same goes for the computer itself -- the biggest stress on the system is heating and cooling of the solder joints caused by powering down the system.
With all the reports of drive after drive failing from certain brands, I wonder what people are doing to their hard drives. Over 20 years, I've had ONE drive fail in a computer, and it was seven years old. My current 1TB Seagate is 9 years old.
To any doctor who says it's useless:
You are not a physician. You are a pill pusher. You don't know shit about how the body works, you don't think about how the body works, and you don't care about how the body works. Ditto your concern for patients. You're just a "grunt" who pushes pills.
A real doctor has some inkling of drug interactions and keeps track of such things. Far too many (9/10) of my doctors over the past 50 years have been mere pill pushers who left it up to the pharmacist to detect when they'd screwed up and prescribed pills that are not recommended to be taken in combination.
Thanks to such lazy fucktards, I'm now bi-polar, and will suffer with that for the rest of my life. All because you lazy assholes didn't flag the bad interactions between SSRIs and Triptans for migraines, leading to a multi-week case of seratonin syndrome and literal brain damage.
Thank you ever so much for pushing your god damned pills on me.
Most of our energy use is for 3 things:
If we're ever to have a hope of being able to rely on renewables (with or without nuclear add-ons), we have got to start building more energy efficient homes and businesses, and shift to an older style of transportation relying on long-haul trains to distribution centers, and pull trucking back to local short-hauls.
More importantly, we have got to address the huge amounts of energy that go into commuting from the urban sprawl to and from work. I realize that Canadians and Americans are in love with their cars, but that really has got to change for predictable routes like getting to and from work. It is absolutely insane to not only drive one (or even a few) people per vehicle downtown, when so many people are headed to the same place from the same suburbs.
It's not even "adding a button." It's adding a button *graphic* in the lower left corner where there was *always* a "hot spot" to click for bringing up the menu windows.
YES!!!
Clearly you've never programmed bare metal as we did in the days of the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET, etc.
It was *fun* back then. There wasn't even a debounced keyboard driver for most of those machines. You had to map the bits of the IO ports to individual keys. :)
There is only one change I'd like to see made sooner rather than later:
Stop using my main memory as a video buffer!!!
The main reason I opt for discrete graphics solutions is not because of the performance of the graphics, but the lack of main memory throughput degradation. I build boxes to compute, not sling graphics.
There. Fixed that for you.
Or is it "Dyse"? "Dyks?"
How does it feel, bone heads?
The fact that the Slashbot editors couldn't even catch something like "Pakistway" instead of "Pakistan" is bad enough.
But the fact that they haven't corrected the typo after this long is an absolutely sickening example of lazy assed, shoddy, don't-give-a-shit attitudes. Shame on Dyce.
Or keep the food stamps flowing?
That's bullshit. The police brag about successful operations all the time after they're over. They seem to be able to release information without compromising other investigations.
Have you checked what TeamViewer actually charges? It's a very reasonable fee for something you expect to be using every day.
So, yes, leech if that paltry sum is "too much money."
Movie playback exercises the GPU acceleration, not the CPU core.
How about trying the tests while actually using the device for something? After all, one of Microsoft's biggest pushes for the Surface line is that they're for work, not play.
Oh, I forgot. You can't do real work without a keyboard.
The whole "anti-terrorism" excuse is a sham. The NSA has already been providing the DEA with information about drug deals they've intercepted. We know that for a fact.
But when pressured, they can't itemize a list of the terrorist operations they've intercepted and stopped. They toss out vague numbers in the 40s after over a decade of surveillance. So even if they're exagerrating, that's only 4 per year!
From a cruelly financial perspective, it would have been far cheaper to just pay the death benefits to the families of the few people who might have died than to pay the untold billions the NSA, GCHQ, CSEC, et. al. have cost to operate.
Switch to GMT and be done with it.