I haven't used it a ton yet but VS Code is pretty good for the couple dozen config files I've managed for my OpenHAB install, it's like Notepad++ with Intellisense, very nice.
Well, when I recently installed Ubuntu LTSR server I was timewarped back more than 20 years because the install process was exactly the same one I used to install Redhat Linux in the 90's. The CentOS installer on the other hand was very modern and user friendly. If you want to have the year of the Linux desktop having an installer that doesn't automatically turn off 99.9+% of users is probably a good idea.
It's time to mess with the Facebook algorithms, start a mass movement to apply nonsensical hashtags to every photo posted. It's like when I answer signup questions, I always choose the 1/1/1900 or 1/1/1970 depending on how permissive the signup form is, feed the beast with as much bogus data as possible so that their algorithms can't do anything useful.
Wow, that's a LOT, SpaceX has said that the total cost for Falcon Heavy development was $500M, he's spending 2x that every year with zero ROI at this point. How can ULA hope to compete with a competitor taking most of the commercial launch market on one hand, and a rocket company with a sugar daddy with that deep of pockets on the other?
backups are not about the fact if you take backups, but how fast you restore WHEN you need to.
Amen to that, at job[-1] we had no problem hitting our backup windows but when we did a restore for a discovery request we found out that the interleving that allowed the tape drives to fly during backups made restores crawl to the point where our 48 hour and 72 hour SLAs were a joke. That led us to a disk to disk to tape solution which could restore files in minutes from the appliance and where if we had to reseed from tapes the restores were done to the appliance as one long streaming block which went at full LTO speeds. Best of all for critical systems the appliances even included the ability to act as an iSCSI target for the VMWare hosts so you could restore in place if the storage arrays blew up and you needed to get critical systems up an running ASAP.
The legal teams of 40 tech giants have gone over the spec for a few years, the chances of there being an unknown patent is unlikely. If there's going to be a troll attack it's likely to be an unrelated overbroad patent that's unlikely to stand up to re-review.
Royalty free and supported by all the major players goes a lot farther than a few percentage points so if it's even close AV1 wins. It also helps that they got the input of the hardware guys and that the algorithm is optimized for hardware implementations, combine that with the royalty free status and you can expect rapid uptake in the mobile space, something x265 has failed to achieve.
There are 24 hour Walgreens and CVS about 30 minutes from my house, but the pharmacy isn't open 24 hours, only the convenience store part. If pseudo-ephedrine was still available OTC I could buy it whenever I wanted (in fact there's a 24 hour grocery store about 10 minutes from the house where I could pick it up). I bet in Chicago there are true 24 hour CVS locations but in this tiny metro area of 2 million people there are none outside of maybe a hospital and they're not going to be selling me my decongestant unless it comes with a really expensive doctors exam (ER).
I can get meth 24x7 delivered to my house, I can't get (pseudo)ephedrine without waiting in line during hours that are convenient to the pharmacist after driving to their place and then I have to show ID and get all nasty looks if more than one member of my family has had a cold this month.
Hehe, I started using Linux back when you had to download floppy images. My first commercial distro was Redhat 3.9. I recently installed Ubuntu 17.4 and was warped back to that Redhat install, the text based installer was almost unchanged from that 1996 experience. I also had another retro experience, the laptop I had bought for the project used a Realtek wireless card and apparently despite developing the chip in 2016 and shipping it to HP to include in 2017 model laptops they didn't give drivers to the upstream of the Linux kernel until November 2017. Had to install CentOS, use a cheap wireless card to get online, and update to a bleeding edge kernel build to get builtin wireless working.
Just in case anyone is interested you access this through music.amazon.com, click on your name, and then your amazon music settings. It is NOT available through the cloud drive settings. It also says it will only keep 250 songs, which is annoying since I have 312 stored so I'll have to figure out what I have that I might not want available to stream.
Amazon uses whoever is the cheapest to get a given package to you. I see a ton of FedEx->USPS SmartPost, but more and more stuff is coming via AMZL their own carrier. The problem is AMZL fails to get a package to me more often than all other services combined (well FedEx is 0 for 4 on signature required in the last 5 years, so I guess they're worse, but when they hand off to USPS it works great). I get a free month of Prime each time but the aggravation, time, and uncertainty makes it hardly worth it.
Yeah, the increased revenue and profit from Amazon was the only thing keeping the USPS solvent after the stupid Republican 50+ years of benefits mandate. Both marketing and First class revenue is declining, package shipment growth is the only thing keeping their balance sheet from going to hell.
The USPS is already rolling their vehicles so the extra wear and tear is going to be minimal, in fact it's been proven that Amazon reduces fuel used to deliver goods to consumers in almost all cases so it should be going down.
YOU might not like the cloud/subscription model but apparently enough of MS's customers like the model and their offerings that their revenue and profits have taken off since launching Azure and O365 after having been pretty much flat for a decade.
This is about having one group responsible for Windows and Office so that as revenue moves from perpetual license to subscription services the Windows division chief doesn't get gutted for falling revenue. Apparently one of the biggest problems at MS is the fiefdoms of various product lines. By making larger groups all report up to one management chain you can stop some of the infighting that has been slowing down progress for a long time. MS senior leadership has seen the writing on the wall and PC sales growth is done for, the future is the next billion users and more mobile and cloud, reorganizing the company to allow that transition to happen more smoothly is a smart forward looking move.
Yes, but the argument was that the opensource development model can't make a superior implementation quickly, that is demonstrably false and patents and copyright will not be an issue with this open royalty-free standard.
LAME was indisputably better than Fraunhofer by 2001. The project started in 1998, 3 years to beat the company that did most of the research behind the standard is pretty damn quickly.
VP9 is partially hardware accelerated on Broadwell+, fully on Kaby Lake+, and fully with either major GPU platform with recent GPUs. If you've got legacy equipment and are trying to multitask while Youtube videos play then I guess the difference might matter, otherwise why would you care?
What are you talking about? The opensource implementations of MP3 and H264 quickly outpaced every commercial implementation, I would expect the same for this codec. What they won't be able to do is compete with embedded hardware implementations that will come but history has shown that the opensource version will be less efficient but more feature rich than those hardware implementations.
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It's called customer service, sometimes you have to go to where the customer is.
I haven't used it a ton yet but VS Code is pretty good for the couple dozen config files I've managed for my OpenHAB install, it's like Notepad++ with Intellisense, very nice.
Well, when I recently installed Ubuntu LTSR server I was timewarped back more than 20 years because the install process was exactly the same one I used to install Redhat Linux in the 90's. The CentOS installer on the other hand was very modern and user friendly. If you want to have the year of the Linux desktop having an installer that doesn't automatically turn off 99.9+% of users is probably a good idea.
It's time to mess with the Facebook algorithms, start a mass movement to apply nonsensical hashtags to every photo posted. It's like when I answer signup questions, I always choose the 1/1/1900 or 1/1/1970 depending on how permissive the signup form is, feed the beast with as much bogus data as possible so that their algorithms can't do anything useful.
Falcon Heavy can hit all the EELV reference orbits expect maybe one of the direct ones, New Glenn should be able to as well.
Wow, that's a LOT, SpaceX has said that the total cost for Falcon Heavy development was $500M, he's spending 2x that every year with zero ROI at this point. How can ULA hope to compete with a competitor taking most of the commercial launch market on one hand, and a rocket company with a sugar daddy with that deep of pockets on the other?
Considering the Galaxy S9/S9+, Note 8, and upcoming Note 9 all have a headphone jack and no notch your analysis is useless.
Java doesn't care which platform it's running on...
backups are not about the fact if you take backups, but how fast you restore WHEN you need to.
Amen to that, at job[-1] we had no problem hitting our backup windows but when we did a restore for a discovery request we found out that the interleving that allowed the tape drives to fly during backups made restores crawl to the point where our 48 hour and 72 hour SLAs were a joke. That led us to a disk to disk to tape solution which could restore files in minutes from the appliance and where if we had to reseed from tapes the restores were done to the appliance as one long streaming block which went at full LTO speeds. Best of all for critical systems the appliances even included the ability to act as an iSCSI target for the VMWare hosts so you could restore in place if the storage arrays blew up and you needed to get critical systems up an running ASAP.
Not since TC Heartland, now they have to go after the company where they are incorporated, and that's Delaware in the majority of cases.
The legal teams of 40 tech giants have gone over the spec for a few years, the chances of there being an unknown patent is unlikely. If there's going to be a troll attack it's likely to be an unrelated overbroad patent that's unlikely to stand up to re-review.
Royalty free and supported by all the major players goes a lot farther than a few percentage points so if it's even close AV1 wins. It also helps that they got the input of the hardware guys and that the algorithm is optimized for hardware implementations, combine that with the royalty free status and you can expect rapid uptake in the mobile space, something x265 has failed to achieve.
There are 24 hour Walgreens and CVS about 30 minutes from my house, but the pharmacy isn't open 24 hours, only the convenience store part. If pseudo-ephedrine was still available OTC I could buy it whenever I wanted (in fact there's a 24 hour grocery store about 10 minutes from the house where I could pick it up). I bet in Chicago there are true 24 hour CVS locations but in this tiny metro area of 2 million people there are none outside of maybe a hospital and they're not going to be selling me my decongestant unless it comes with a really expensive doctors exam (ER).
I can get meth 24x7 delivered to my house, I can't get (pseudo)ephedrine without waiting in line during hours that are convenient to the pharmacist after driving to their place and then I have to show ID and get all nasty looks if more than one member of my family has had a cold this month.
Hehe, I started using Linux back when you had to download floppy images. My first commercial distro was Redhat 3.9. I recently installed Ubuntu 17.4 and was warped back to that Redhat install, the text based installer was almost unchanged from that 1996 experience. I also had another retro experience, the laptop I had bought for the project used a Realtek wireless card and apparently despite developing the chip in 2016 and shipping it to HP to include in 2017 model laptops they didn't give drivers to the upstream of the Linux kernel until November 2017. Had to install CentOS, use a cheap wireless card to get online, and update to a bleeding edge kernel build to get builtin wireless working.
Just in case anyone is interested you access this through music.amazon.com, click on your name, and then your amazon music settings. It is NOT available through the cloud drive settings. It also says it will only keep 250 songs, which is annoying since I have 312 stored so I'll have to figure out what I have that I might not want available to stream.
Amazon uses whoever is the cheapest to get a given package to you. I see a ton of FedEx->USPS SmartPost, but more and more stuff is coming via AMZL their own carrier. The problem is AMZL fails to get a package to me more often than all other services combined (well FedEx is 0 for 4 on signature required in the last 5 years, so I guess they're worse, but when they hand off to USPS it works great). I get a free month of Prime each time but the aggravation, time, and uncertainty makes it hardly worth it.
Yeah, the increased revenue and profit from Amazon was the only thing keeping the USPS solvent after the stupid Republican 50+ years of benefits mandate. Both marketing and First class revenue is declining, package shipment growth is the only thing keeping their balance sheet from going to hell.
The USPS is already rolling their vehicles so the extra wear and tear is going to be minimal, in fact it's been proven that Amazon reduces fuel used to deliver goods to consumers in almost all cases so it should be going down.
YOU might not like the cloud/subscription model but apparently enough of MS's customers like the model and their offerings that their revenue and profits have taken off since launching Azure and O365 after having been pretty much flat for a decade.
This is about having one group responsible for Windows and Office so that as revenue moves from perpetual license to subscription services the Windows division chief doesn't get gutted for falling revenue. Apparently one of the biggest problems at MS is the fiefdoms of various product lines. By making larger groups all report up to one management chain you can stop some of the infighting that has been slowing down progress for a long time. MS senior leadership has seen the writing on the wall and PC sales growth is done for, the future is the next billion users and more mobile and cloud, reorganizing the company to allow that transition to happen more smoothly is a smart forward looking move.
Yes, but the argument was that the opensource development model can't make a superior implementation quickly, that is demonstrably false and patents and copyright will not be an issue with this open royalty-free standard.
LAME was indisputably better than Fraunhofer by 2001. The project started in 1998, 3 years to beat the company that did most of the research behind the standard is pretty damn quickly.
VP9 is partially hardware accelerated on Broadwell+, fully on Kaby Lake+, and fully with either major GPU platform with recent GPUs. If you've got legacy equipment and are trying to multitask while Youtube videos play then I guess the difference might matter, otherwise why would you care?
What are you talking about? The opensource implementations of MP3 and H264 quickly outpaced every commercial implementation, I would expect the same for this codec. What they won't be able to do is compete with embedded hardware implementations that will come but history has shown that the opensource version will be less efficient but more feature rich than those hardware implementations.