Yeah, this is going to be like the Prosper.com lawsuit all over again. I lost about $400 because they grossly overestimated the credit rating of the dead beat lenders I was giving money to. My settlement check from the class action lawsuit came out to $4.61. The law firm probably made millions.
I'd think that it's pretty obvious why they care. Game publishers don't like it when someone gives a promotional game download code to a friend, so they can install the game for free. Their suits probably consider that to be a "lost sale", where the person might have otherwise paid 50 bucks get the game themselves if they weren't given a download code.
Of course, most of the games that are bundled with video cards often aren't worth anywhere near their retail prices to purchase. The suits probably wouldn't want to admit to that in public, though.
I'd also imagine that Nvidia also doesn't like the idea of someone using the game download codes that they paid for being used on other systems with AMD and Intel graphics, but this probably doesn't bother them as much as the game publishers. They still got paid for the hardware that got purchased, anyway.
Yeah, if Sweeney hates Windows so much, why doesn't his team put more effort in making Steam OS better? The last time I tried it a few months ago, it was still pretty rough and the game selection was pretty puny.
"Any team whose lander hasn't left the launchpad by then is automatically out of the running."
I think that SpaceX is behind schedule for their launches because of that rocket that recently blew up while fueling. Why penalize the team for an issue with their launch provider?
The Pine64 has a few different Linux distributions available for it, but the last time I tried them they weren't as polished or had as good of a software selection as Raspbian. That was a few months ago, though, so it might be better now.
The Raspberry Pi 3 also doesn't have Gigabit Ethernet or a SATA port, two more reasons why it doesn't make for a very good file server.
It does make a pretty damn good embedded web server, though. You can install the full LAMP stack on the MicroSD card of that thing right from the Raspbian repos.
These security changes make just make it tougher and tougher to support "legacy" Java applets that are unsigned. Forget Java 8... even the newer versions of Java 7 can't run them anymore.
I guess that it's good that they fix these issues, but they need to offer workarounds or I'm going to have to keep installing Java 6 on some customer machines to keep their legacy crap running.
Yeah, my old iPhone 3G from 2008 somehow still holds a charge. I stopped using it as a phone a long time ago, but it still works as an MP3 player for the clock radio.
Yeah, the company that I work for made a wireless temperature monitoring solution that reported to us using the old AT&T GPRS network.
If our customers haven't upgraded their units last year, they wouldn't have known if their freezers filled with thousands of dollars of meat would have failed.That's probably more important than those 20 or so people who were actually still using their original iPhone to make phone calls.
Yeah, they kinda screwed the pooch on the launch date. Who releases a console just after Christmas, when everyone just spent their money on a shiny new XBox One S or Playstation 4 Slim?
Like many of you, I was wondering "OK, so why don't they just spin up a few AWS or Azure instances in Russia to make their government happy?"
Then I realized that AWS doesn't have a hosting center in Russia. Neither does Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
All of a sudden, it looks like they would have to make a custom one off server farm to appease Russia. It probably isn't worth the effort for them to do so.
Yeah... the new Intel Kaby Lake launch was a flop in terms of performance increases, but at least they managed to get product out to reviewers in time for CES.
I fear that their top end chip is still getting stomped by the Core i5 in most benchmarks, so they are still making last minute tweaks to improve performance. They can only do so much at this point, though.
I'd like to be wrong about that, but until we start seeing reviews I'm going to be a skeptic.
It sounds like Google needs to do a better job of releasing security updates that only fix the security vulnerability instead of updating the entire OS.
For an example, if someone finds a problem with a subsystem like OpenSSL, they should be able to update just this package in the background OTA instead of saying "Oh, you need to upgrade from Android 6.1 to 6.1.1 now!" and then ship 6.1.1 to the cell phone providers who then need to do their own testing before releasing it to their customers.
I could only imagine how hard it would be to kill analog FM broadcasts in the US, considering that many NEW radios being produced still do not support the "HD Radio" digital signals yet. It's still considered to be a premium option for most radio models in this country.
We would probably need a good 5 or 6 years to plan an analog to digital switchover, and the big media conglomerates like ClearChannel would not be happy about having to upgrade their receivers in rural markets.
I'm looking at that big spike back at the tail end of 2013, where it the value went down by half.
I could see that happening again in 2017. Nobody knows how the Trump cabinet is going to react to cryptocurrency, but I can't imagine it being good considering that the bankers seem to be in charge of the government again. If they start cracking down on crypto, the price could drop like a rock.
If you look at the Bitcoin price charts, you see that it tends to crash in value quickly after rising for some time.
To me, it looks like now would be a time to dump the currency before it tanks again.
Of course, the person who wrote this article is probably a speculator themselves. They are probably hoping that they can increase their gains a bit more before unloading their holdings.
Sadly, these price swings are one of the reasons why Bitcoin doesn't really work well as an actual currency. Well, that and the fact that payment confirmations now take forever to complete unless you bribe the miners with a big transaction fee.
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Yeah, this is going to be like the Prosper.com lawsuit all over again. I lost about $400 because they grossly overestimated the credit rating of the dead beat lenders I was giving money to. My settlement check from the class action lawsuit came out to $4.61. The law firm probably made millions.
I'd think that it's pretty obvious why they care. Game publishers don't like it when someone gives a promotional game download code to a friend, so they can install the game for free. Their suits probably consider that to be a "lost sale", where the person might have otherwise paid 50 bucks get the game themselves if they weren't given a download code.
Of course, most of the games that are bundled with video cards often aren't worth anywhere near their retail prices to purchase. The suits probably wouldn't want to admit to that in public, though.
I'd also imagine that Nvidia also doesn't like the idea of someone using the game download codes that they paid for being used on other systems with AMD and Intel graphics, but this probably doesn't bother them as much as the game publishers. They still got paid for the hardware that got purchased, anyway.
Yeah, if Sweeney hates Windows so much, why doesn't his team put more effort in making Steam OS better? The last time I tried it a few months ago, it was still pretty rough and the game selection was pretty puny.
This part of the rules seems unduly harsh:
"Any team whose lander hasn't left the launchpad by then is automatically out of the running."
I think that SpaceX is behind schedule for their launches because of that rocket that recently blew up while fueling. Why penalize the team for an issue with their launch provider?
This is Wyoming we're talking about, not New Jersey or Connecticut. You're going to be doing a lot more driving to get those 200,000 signatures.
In other words, this insane bill is more of a hardball negotiation tactic to increase taxes on wind and solar installations... or else.
Put in that light, it almost makes sense.
Yeah, a USB-C port would be nice as well. I just don't want them to go the Apple MacBook Pro route and remove the legacy USB-A ports as well.
The Pine64 has a few different Linux distributions available for it, but the last time I tried them they weren't as polished or had as good of a software selection as Raspbian. That was a few months ago, though, so it might be better now.
The Raspberry Pi 3 also doesn't have Gigabit Ethernet or a SATA port, two more reasons why it doesn't make for a very good file server.
It does make a pretty damn good embedded web server, though. You can install the full LAMP stack on the MicroSD card of that thing right from the Raspbian repos.
These security changes make just make it tougher and tougher to support "legacy" Java applets that are unsigned. Forget Java 8... even the newer versions of Java 7 can't run them anymore.
I guess that it's good that they fix these issues, but they need to offer workarounds or I'm going to have to keep installing Java 6 on some customer machines to keep their legacy crap running.
Yeah, my old iPhone 3G from 2008 somehow still holds a charge. I stopped using it as a phone a long time ago, but it still works as an MP3 player for the clock radio.
Yeah, the company that I work for made a wireless temperature monitoring solution that reported to us using the old AT&T GPRS network.
If our customers haven't upgraded their units last year, they wouldn't have known if their freezers filled with thousands of dollars of meat would have failed.That's probably more important than those 20 or so people who were actually still using their original iPhone to make phone calls.
You don't NEED Windows 10 to use a GeForce 1060. It has working Windows 7 drivers, but they just don't have DirectX 12 support.
From what I've heard, AMD has better optimised DirectX 12 drivers right now.
Yeah, they kinda screwed the pooch on the launch date. Who releases a console just after Christmas, when everyone just spent their money on a shiny new XBox One S or Playstation 4 Slim?
Yeah, it doesn't seem like all those giant beg screens asking for $3 donations last year wasn't really all that necessary.
I guess that it's better than being labeled a "cyber terrorist" and rotting in Gitmo for the next 25 years.
Like many of you, I was wondering "OK, so why don't they just spin up a few AWS or Azure instances in Russia to make their government happy?"
Then I realized that AWS doesn't have a hosting center in Russia. Neither does Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
All of a sudden, it looks like they would have to make a custom one off server farm to appease Russia. It probably isn't worth the effort for them to do so.
Yeah... the new Intel Kaby Lake launch was a flop in terms of performance increases, but at least they managed to get product out to reviewers in time for CES.
I fear that their top end chip is still getting stomped by the Core i5 in most benchmarks, so they are still making last minute tweaks to improve performance. They can only do so much at this point, though.
I'd like to be wrong about that, but until we start seeing reviews I'm going to be a skeptic.
It sounds like Google needs to do a better job of releasing security updates that only fix the security vulnerability instead of updating the entire OS.
For an example, if someone finds a problem with a subsystem like OpenSSL, they should be able to update just this package in the background OTA instead of saying "Oh, you need to upgrade from Android 6.1 to 6.1.1 now!" and then ship 6.1.1 to the cell phone providers who then need to do their own testing before releasing it to their customers.
I could only imagine how hard it would be to kill analog FM broadcasts in the US, considering that many NEW radios being produced still do not support the "HD Radio" digital signals yet. It's still considered to be a premium option for most radio models in this country.
We would probably need a good 5 or 6 years to plan an analog to digital switchover, and the big media conglomerates like ClearChannel would not be happy about having to upgrade their receivers in rural markets.
Well, of course he does. He has Bruce Willis's and Ben Affleck's number ready just in case NASA finds something.
You think that someone who didn't bother setting an admin password for an Internet facing database bothered to configure backups for it?
I'm looking at that big spike back at the tail end of 2013, where it the value went down by half.
I could see that happening again in 2017. Nobody knows how the Trump cabinet is going to react to cryptocurrency, but I can't imagine it being good considering that the bankers seem to be in charge of the government again. If they start cracking down on crypto, the price could drop like a rock.
If you look at the Bitcoin price charts, you see that it tends to crash in value quickly after rising for some time.
To me, it looks like now would be a time to dump the currency before it tanks again.
Of course, the person who wrote this article is probably a speculator themselves. They are probably hoping that they can increase their gains a bit more before unloading their holdings.
Sadly, these price swings are one of the reasons why Bitcoin doesn't really work well as an actual currency. Well, that and the fact that payment confirmations now take forever to complete unless you bribe the miners with a big transaction fee.