cause you can't use that with the free update. Maybe that has changed but at the time the only way to install it was via their defined process which required an icon on your desktop that would register you for win 10 and pass your current credentials to redmond. there was no direct install process.
First there is an easier way. If you install windows10 then do a system restore (logically, a pointless thing to do right after you install an OS) a side effect is that it wipes out the old Win8. Why do I know this? well as you can imagine I installed windows 10, and then within days got suckered by a trojan (than WinDefender and Norton did not stop) that just ate my system alive. So I did a restore.
My review of win 10. I'm a diehard mac and linux user who hates windows and said goodbye to it after XP. But then I bought a computer than had windows 8 installed (factory default restored) and figured why not try the free win10 offer. I have to say that while Win10 is, relatively speaking, the best OS microsoft ever made, and is infact not very painful to use, the installation process was truly a lesson in why microsoft products are pure crap.
The install process took over 8 hours when done without mistakes from a factory install of windows 8 on a screamingly fast i7-3000 series, 8GB, and a 20Gb;sec internet connection. Plus it was not click and wait, but required lots of babysitting, reboots, and even one web search to accomplish. There is no way to go-straight-to-10. Instead you have to walk your system through all the updates of Win8, then install 8,1, then walk it through all the 8.1 updates one of which is not an automatic update, and then finally you can request Win10, a day or so later you get permission to install Win 10. Mine too 164 updates of win8. then another set I lost count of. then a long process to download and install win 8.1. Then about 40 updates of that. At that point it was stuck. Nothing more to do but there was no win 10 install icon. I ran the tool microsoft supplies to guide you through this absurd dance and it told me I was missing some file whose name started with KB. SO I googled that, downloaded it. There was an executable mks file with it so I ran that. When I re-ran the windows tool it once again told me this KB file was not installed. So I re-ran the executable and this time it told me it had already been run. So I was at an impasse. At the time I did not know what a KB file was and the tool wasn't telling me other than that it was missing. Googling I learned this was some update patch. This seemed od to me that 8.1 did not apply this update for me and that I had to download it by hand. But I re-rean the 8.1 updater and this found the file I had downloaded and now updated. At this point I could now request the Win10.
From that point on things were flawless. Win10 has a nice installer. it lists all the ways it is going to monetize your ass with brief semi-coherent explanations, and gives you the opportunity to opt out. It's really nice of them to ask. However you rapidly lose services if you do. For example Cortana requires you to share your addressbook and browser links and history with Redmond, it won't run stand alone without that. They also explain how they will brand you with an indelible advertiser ID so they can sell you to their friends. But at least they asked me unlike the serfs on the google plantation.
Here's what's so great about this OS from a mac or linux user. It just gets out of your way. you hardly notice the OS. It looks pretty much exactly like Linux Mint with some of the more handy applets installed. Gone are the crazy panel desktop with tiles filled with crap you never asked for. It's still there but in a much reduced form in the start menu (yep it's back!) and it doesn't get in your way. Infact it's becomes useful in this less dazzling form.
The bad is that it still has the usual hard to navigate directory structure (e.g. the user files are under C: but the my computer files where programs live is elsewhere). It comes loaded with crapware that tries to trick you into installing it like Norton Utilties or HP's keychain and then informs you after the install that after your free month there will be a charge. And then there's the extreme ability to get rooted when you try to install some code. They
While it is likely this was a sin of commission it remains plausible that no one did this at all. My thinking is that if instead of being programmed explicity the computer program was allowed to train itself for it's emission and performance tuning that a very natural outcome would be for it to learn to minimize emissions during emission type testing. Then on the test track it would learn performance and handling. etc... and so you end up with something that cheats but no one told it to nor was anyone even trying to make it cheat. It's just the result of getting what you optimize for.
One reason that I like that theory is that if you consider the opposite, that it was a conspiracy, then this is not the sort of thing you can keep secret easily. You might succeed but that's pretty hard especially considering the time span and the inevitable entry of new personnel and suppliers into the supply chain. So I don't think this was intentional. The exception might be if if it's a conspiracy of one. that for some reason there was just one guy who could pull off everything. THen you would have a shot of keeping this secret.
yawn. This is vaguely interesting in the sense it's novel for using a ken Thompson compiler attack. But it's not an apple problem but a cheapskate developer problem . Morons saved themselves $99 dollars and use unsigned non apple compilers. Dumbasses. Apple just figured out there's dumbasses submitting code. Should be easy to detect non official compilers in the future I would think.
Mine just pulled up website with Larry Paige telling me I got the golden ticket and will am invited to tour the Google Chocolate Factory with my uncle Joe.
Actually I believe that android's phone lock is actually a screen saver lock. They just have an app running that covers the screen rather than an actual login screen.
If you want proof of googles incompetence then look no further than the incomprehensible labyrinth of android studio, especially when you compare it to alternatives. Oracle makes things hard enough with for less than dedicated users with netbeans. Eclipse is really nice for dilettante users. Xcode for all its complexities is really a marvel since it handles so many different development needs with uniformity and great consistency over years.
Why is it people insist on comparing apples to oranges with specs. People buy apple because they are easy to use, highly productive, platforms with a balance of specs. You can always buy something cheaper-- always-- if you cherry pick the specs as your comparison point. This makes sense if you are running a headless server in the dark or running an optimized gaming machine or treating the device as an appliance to control your robot or home securilty system. Otherwise it makes no sense. Apple is very competitive on the total package and the difference in price rarely matters if your time has any value. Buy what's right for you but don't tell me some fine grained spec comparison. otherwise I'll tell you that five orange-Pi computers at $9 each lashed together in a beowulf cluster smokes an ipad too.
early versions of mac OSX had a similar problem. 10,000 character password entries would unlock the system. Entering these was aided because the password field accepted emacs key commands (like every other field on a mac) so repeated ctrl-a ctrl-k ctrl-y ctrl-y ctrl-y quickly got you to the passwrd field overload point.
odd then that emby and vlc player, which achieve the same result as plex work fine on a non-dedicated workstation. Plex is therefore crap if it requires a dedicated server.
Plex is a horrible interface. I have it running on my Amazon Firestick as a cleint and an imac as a server. The two constantly fail to find each other. I always end up restarting it on mac and rebooting the fire stick a couple of time before the content appears on the other. I used it as a way to show DVDs on my firestick. But it stinks. Now I use Emby media browser and it works like a charm every time. Emby is also free besides working better.
Yes I meant 128Gb. E-bay and Aliexpress have 128Gb flash for as low as $7. (I bought some!). These are the slower 5MB/s write speed drives. If you want a 80MB/sec drive than 32GB will set you back $12 on Amazon, but you need a USB3 port to get that speed. Both prices include shipping.
Consider involving others as a charity. You may want to talk to some salvage computer business. These folks buy computers by the pallette from govt and industry and schools. Usually these are less than 3 years old and in fantastic shape except most will be missing a hard drive. Almost by definition, anything you buy this way will have an easy to access hard drive bay (otherwise they just grind them up), so it's not too much of a hurdle to recondiution these. Now, getting one at a wholesale price is another matter-- they sell them for a profit. But maybe for a good cause you could talk them into sell you a palette at cost. If you are part of a school this might even be profitable write-off for them. Then run them off a USB stick entirely (128Mb $7 these days). Or if you can get some community organization like the Eagles or Rotary Club to volunteer to put in some harddrives. Let the kids install Linux off a live USB so they all get the same platform and apps.
That leaves you with something far better than an XO-1.
Wouldn't virtual box be able to do this? Then one only has the trouble of validating the virtual box. While that is actually probably harder to do you don't have to do this as often and one could use some open source virtual box equivalent and compile that from source.
On the otherhand I don't quite understand why, if one can compile the source, one needs to worry about untrusted binaries. Perhaps the intent here is for some master agency to watch for tinkered binaries or to post it's own Checksums apart from Debian. Then everyone has two sources for validated checksums.
I'm not an astrophysicist either but I think that your mention of ice sculptures hits the nail on the head. When an ice sculpture melts the organization of the ice vanishes. But it also cools the air. The information content of the cold air increases. So the answers is the system preserves the information. Likewise when something is sucked into a blackhole it contributes it's mass but the organizational information it had (position, momentum, internal quantum states) is gone. On the otherhand as it's charges separate and accelerate it radiates and that radiation disturbs the rest of the universe. Thus my non-astrophycist guess is that those two exactly balance just like the ice sculptures warming chills the environment.
Well that article sure was not worth reading. But still it's an interesting question. One thing I don't understand is why the matter entering the black hole can't leave it's information behind in the conventional universe. I don't think that it is true that information is attached to the mass itself. As I understand it information content is a property of the universe. My understanding is that if you were to write down the position, momentum (or rather the density matrix, since things aw Quantum) ans any other wuatnum states of every bit of matter, one would have a desription of the state of the universe. If you then ran Bzip on this one would have an estimator of the amount of incompressible information contained in that description. If you put something into a black hole where it's simpler to describe then that bzip file size gets smaller so information disappeared. But if in the act of heading towards the black hole the energy the accelerating particle radiates cdistrurbs the universe and makes it more complicated to describe then the size of the bzip file increases. My hypothesis is that as matter enters the black hole all of it's information has been radiated away except for information about it's mass (or equivalently mass energy). Thus the Bzip file stays the same size.
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cause you can't use that with the free update. Maybe that has changed but at the time the only way to install it was via their defined process which required an icon on your desktop that would register you for win 10 and pass your current credentials to redmond. there was no direct install process.
First there is an easier way. If you install windows10 then do a system restore (logically, a pointless thing to do right after you install an OS) a side effect is that it wipes out the old Win8. Why do I know this? well as you can imagine I installed windows 10, and then within days got suckered by a trojan (than WinDefender and Norton did not stop) that just ate my system alive. So I did a restore.
My review of win 10. I'm a diehard mac and linux user who hates windows and said goodbye to it after XP. But then I bought a computer than had windows 8 installed (factory default restored) and figured why not try the free win10 offer. I have to say that while Win10 is, relatively speaking, the best OS microsoft ever made, and is infact not very painful to use, the installation process was truly a lesson in why microsoft products are pure crap.
The install process took over 8 hours when done without mistakes from a factory install of windows 8 on a screamingly fast i7-3000 series, 8GB, and a 20Gb;sec internet connection. Plus it was not click and wait, but required lots of babysitting, reboots, and even one web search to accomplish. There is no way to go-straight-to-10. Instead you have to walk your system through all the updates of Win8, then install 8,1, then walk it through all the 8.1 updates one of which is not an automatic update, and then finally you can request Win10, a day or so later you get permission to install Win 10. Mine too 164 updates of win8. then another set I lost count of. then a long process to download and install win 8.1. Then about 40 updates of that. At that point it was stuck. Nothing more to do but there was no win 10 install icon. I ran the tool microsoft supplies to guide you through this absurd dance and it told me I was missing some file whose name started with KB. SO I googled that, downloaded it. There was an executable mks file with it so I ran that. When I re-ran the windows tool it once again told me this KB file was not installed. So I re-ran the executable and this time it told me it had already been run. So I was at an impasse. At the time I did not know what a KB file was and the tool wasn't telling me other than that it was missing. Googling I learned this was some update patch. This seemed od to me that 8.1 did not apply this update for me and that I had to download it by hand. But I re-rean the 8.1 updater and this found the file I had downloaded and now updated. At this point I could now request the Win10.
From that point on things were flawless. Win10 has a nice installer. it lists all the ways it is going to monetize your ass with brief semi-coherent explanations, and gives you the opportunity to opt out. It's really nice of them to ask. However you rapidly lose services if you do. For example Cortana requires you to share your addressbook and browser links and history with Redmond, it won't run stand alone without that. They also explain how they will brand you with an indelible advertiser ID so they can sell you to their friends. But at least they asked me unlike the serfs on the google plantation.
Here's what's so great about this OS from a mac or linux user. It just gets out of your way. you hardly notice the OS. It looks pretty much exactly like Linux Mint with some of the more handy applets installed. Gone are the crazy panel desktop with tiles filled with crap you never asked for. It's still there but in a much reduced form in the start menu (yep it's back!) and it doesn't get in your way. Infact it's becomes useful in this less dazzling form.
The bad is that it still has the usual hard to navigate directory structure (e.g. the user files are under C: but the my computer files where programs live is elsewhere). It comes loaded with crapware that tries to trick you into installing it like Norton Utilties or HP's keychain and then informs you after the install that after your free month there will be a charge. And then there's the extreme ability to get rooted when you try to install some code. They
While it is likely this was a sin of commission it remains plausible that no one did this at all. My thinking is that if instead of being programmed explicity the computer program was allowed to train itself for it's emission and performance tuning that a very natural outcome would be for it to learn to minimize emissions during emission type testing. Then on the test track it would learn performance and handling. etc... and so you end up with something that cheats but no one told it to nor was anyone even trying to make it cheat. It's just the result of getting what you optimize for.
One reason that I like that theory is that if you consider the opposite, that it was a conspiracy, then this is not the sort of thing you can keep secret easily. You might succeed but that's pretty hard especially considering the time span and the inevitable entry of new personnel and suppliers into the supply chain. So I don't think this was intentional. The exception might be if if it's a conspiracy of one. that for some reason there was just one guy who could pull off everything. THen you would have a shot of keeping this secret.
yawn. This is vaguely interesting in the sense it's novel for using a ken Thompson compiler attack. But it's not an apple problem but a cheapskate developer problem . Morons saved themselves $99 dollars and use unsigned non apple compilers. Dumbasses. Apple just figured out there's dumbasses submitting code. Should be easy to detect non official compilers in the future I would think.
There's a very long record of a300 (== a%%30%30) crashes dating back to 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mine just pulled up website with Larry Paige telling me I got the golden ticket and will am invited to tour the Google Chocolate Factory with my uncle Joe.
Actually I believe that android's phone lock is actually a screen saver lock. They just have an app running that covers the screen rather than an actual login screen.
If you want proof of googles incompetence then look no further than the incomprehensible labyrinth of android studio, especially when you compare it to alternatives. Oracle makes things hard enough with for less than dedicated users with netbeans. Eclipse is really nice for dilettante users. Xcode for all its complexities is really a marvel since it handles so many different development needs with uniformity and great consistency over years.
Why is it people insist on comparing apples to oranges with specs. People buy apple because they are easy to use, highly productive, platforms with a balance of specs. You can always buy something cheaper-- always-- if you cherry pick the specs as your comparison point. This makes sense if you are running a headless server in the dark or running an optimized gaming machine or treating the device as an appliance to control your robot or home securilty system. Otherwise it makes no sense. Apple is very competitive on the total package and the difference in price rarely matters if your time has any value. Buy what's right for you but don't tell me some fine grained spec comparison. otherwise I'll tell you that five orange-Pi computers at $9 each lashed together in a beowulf cluster smokes an ipad too.
early versions of mac OSX had a similar problem. 10,000 character password entries would unlock the system. Entering these was aided because the password field accepted emacs key commands (like every other field on a mac) so repeated ctrl-a ctrl-k ctrl-y ctrl-y ctrl-y quickly got you to the passwrd field overload point.
So I take it that OpenGL is not actually Open Source. So what's the Open part mean in this case?
odd then that emby and vlc player, which achieve the same result as plex work fine on a non-dedicated workstation. Plex is therefore crap if it requires a dedicated server.
netflix, amazon, and emby all run fine on a firestick and provide 100% exactly the same services plex on a firestick does. Ergo the problem is plex.
Jury Pow Wow Kapows Pao says WaPo.
Plex is a horrible interface. I have it running on my Amazon Firestick as a cleint and an imac as a server. The two constantly fail to find each other. I always end up restarting it on mac and rebooting the fire stick a couple of time before the content appears on the other. I used it as a way to show DVDs on my firestick. But it stinks. Now I use Emby media browser and it works like a charm every time. Emby is also free besides working better.
Well then you are paying too much: here's one of a zillion on e-bay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/391207...
Seems like I meet the criteria.
Yes I meant 128Gb. E-bay and Aliexpress have 128Gb flash for as low as $7. (I bought some!). These are the slower 5MB/s write speed drives. If you want a 80MB/sec drive than 32GB will set you back $12 on Amazon, but you need a USB3 port to get that speed. Both prices include shipping.
Consider involving others as a charity. You may want to talk to some salvage computer business. These folks buy computers by the pallette from govt and industry and schools. Usually these are less than 3 years old and in fantastic shape except most will be missing a hard drive. Almost by definition, anything you buy this way will have an easy to access hard drive bay (otherwise they just grind them up), so it's not too much of a hurdle to recondiution these. Now, getting one at a wholesale price is another matter-- they sell them for a profit. But maybe for a good cause you could talk them into sell you a palette at cost. If you are part of a school this might even be profitable write-off for them. Then run them off a USB stick entirely (128Mb $7 these days). Or if you can get some community organization like the Eagles or Rotary Club to volunteer to put in some harddrives. Let the kids install Linux off a live USB so they all get the same platform and apps.
That leaves you with something far better than an XO-1.
Wouldn't virtual box be able to do this? Then one only has the trouble of validating the virtual box. While that is actually probably harder to do you don't have to do this as often and one could use some open source virtual box equivalent and compile that from source.
On the otherhand I don't quite understand why, if one can compile the source, one needs to worry about untrusted binaries. Perhaps the intent here is for some master agency to watch for tinkered binaries or to post it's own Checksums apart from Debian. Then everyone has two sources for validated checksums.
Firehose moderation picked this article? Editors allowed it in? or did Dice just take a big payoff?
Whenever someone says Information Retrieval I think about that agency in Brazil.
I'm not an astrophysicist either but I think that your mention of ice sculptures hits the nail on the head. When an ice sculpture melts the organization of the ice vanishes. But it also cools the air. The information content of the cold air increases. So the answers is the system preserves the information. Likewise when something is sucked into a blackhole it contributes it's mass but the organizational information it had (position, momentum, internal quantum states) is gone. On the otherhand as it's charges separate and accelerate it radiates and that radiation disturbs the rest of the universe. Thus my non-astrophycist guess is that those two exactly balance just like the ice sculptures warming chills the environment.
Well that article sure was not worth reading. But still it's an interesting question. One thing I don't understand is why the matter entering the black hole can't leave it's information behind in the conventional universe. I don't think that it is true that information is attached to the mass itself. As I understand it information content is a property of the universe. My understanding is that if you were to write down the position, momentum (or rather the density matrix, since things aw Quantum) ans any other wuatnum states of every bit of matter, one would have a desription of the state of the universe. If you then ran Bzip on this one would have an estimator of the amount of incompressible information contained in that description. If you put something into a black hole where it's simpler to describe then that bzip file size gets smaller so information disappeared. But if in the act of heading towards the black hole the energy the accelerating particle radiates cdistrurbs the universe and makes it more complicated to describe then the size of the bzip file increases. My hypothesis is that as matter enters the black hole all of it's information has been radiated away except for information about it's mass (or equivalently mass energy). Thus the Bzip file stays the same size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...