That is kind of ironic. Do think that nVidia and AMD are doing more or fewer application-specific tweaks in their drivers today? Because I don't believe that the latter is the case. (After all, Microsoft does it even with regular Windows software.)
Considering NVidia has special driver releases right after new games that are "optimized" for the new game. Plus a special bundled tool to "optimize" games to your graphics card... Yeah, it is not even a secret any more.
Hell, I can still install and run DOS natively on the latest Core i7 series CPUs. What little kids like "phresno" don't get is that backward compatibility is and always has been one of the strengths of x86 PCs.
Yeah, it's SO backwards-compatible, you only need to jump through FOUR flaming hoops to run a 16-bit installer.
You don't have to jump through ANY hoops you just need to be running a 32-bit version of windows. AMD64 does not support 16-bit x86.
Libertarians are under the delusion that an armed population, with a substantial fraction of them willing to shoot a bully or (in the case of a gang attack) take as many as possible down before one of them gets them, tends to make bullies and gangsters back down, or at least go find somebody who isn't alert enough to get his gun out in time.
The irony of that statement is that there's a technical term for a self-organized group of people working at a common cause for the (alleged) benefit of all. That term is "government".
The problem with Libertarianism is that inside every small government, there's a big government trying to get out.
That and that for every beneign government you get 10 dictators and warlords + thousands of dead.
"Proof" is an absolute. It's either waterproof or its not.
Otherwise it's water-resistant.
It might be water-resistant at a greater depth, but if you're claiming water-resistance, it should at least be resistant to any reasonable depth the average (non-diver) might use to in anyway.
"Better waterproofing" just means it wasn't waterproof before.
Maybe you will finally be able to wear it outside without voiding warranty?
Ahh, now we are getting somewhere, that's atleast a CPU right? But you still failed because Broadwell is from 2014. It's 2016 and everyone else is shipping skylake.
So... it's a two year-old computer, not a four year-old computer. An every-other-year update cycle seems pretty reasonable, given the pace at which processor performance is changing these days (slower than it used to). As for GPUs, meh, these aren't gaming rigs.
I got my 2 year old retina 13" MBP about 2 years ago. It's still a better laptop than the two 'high end' Lenovos my employer foisted on me in the interim.
A) It's unixy under the hood. I can bring up a bash shell and work on the command line.
So is my Thinkpad, infact it is a lot unixier by being Linux
B) It's case is good. It doesn't fall apart over time.
Neither does any laptop costing more than $100
C) The retina screen makes working on text better than on a lower resolution screen
And is lower res and overall worse screen than a high end ThinkPad
D) It's neither too big nor too heavy
It is the same size as any other ultrabook pro.
E) It isn't running Windows
As much as ThinkPad is, it CAN, it doesn't mean you have to.
F) The battery lasts long enough for my needs.
Shorter than everybody elses-
G) The RAM and SSD are maxed out.
Maxed out because the max specs are ridiculously low, and you had to pay 10x overprice at purchase for the upgrades, because it is unopgradable later.
Microsoft's revenue depends on OEMs who want to sell the cheapest, shittiest hardware possible. That's why Windows, since the earliest versions, uses your hard drive as additional RAM, constantly swapping things back and forth.
This is a troll, right? Not only were we paging on Unix in days of yore, but the system was so primitive you had to allocate space for your physical memory at the head of the paging file.
I forget when Macs got virtual memory. System 7?
Ten. You need virtualized memory before you make virtual memory. Macs had no virtualization or memory protection of any kind before OS X.
Remember working for an EU institution is not just well paid but tax free as well, and sometimes even a diplomatic status. They might need to hire but they rarely have trouble getting talent.
If 500 customer far excede expectation, it sounds like they expected to sell absolutely none of these things. Which I can understand why. It seems more like a concept computer than anything made for customer demands.
Turkey has been a member of NATO since '52, and has had 2 coups since ('60 and '80) as well as a military intervention in '71, and they stepped in as recently as '97. Keep in mind that the Turkish army is charged to defend democracy and step in when that is threatened. That may sound weird (and it's doubtful that their motives were as pure as that in '80) but it appears that it is kind of necessary sometimes.
But US now has a policy of not talking to or working with countries with a miltary coup. That could really complicate the military cooperation, for instance against ISIS, which the US conducts from Turkish basis. If the coup succedes, current official US policy would be to withdraw from Turkey.
Reality is that a single semi-automatic rifle would have been extremely effective in stopping the madman in Nice attack.
I don't know how long it took that guy to plow through the crowd but I am quite positive no one in that crowd would have had the time, situational analysis, and space to end the threat without taking out more innocent bystanders.
Armed police was in the crowd, and armed police took him out within a few hundred seconds of the start of the attack.
Still no reason for anyone else to carry arms, it was already covered by armed professionals, and they responded immediately.
It does not take 30 minutes to drive a mile at 50 mph. Try doing the math. If he hadn't done the whole thing in less than two minutes people would gotten out of way, and police would have killed him faster.
App sounds mobile application. Maybe "package" or even "program" would fit better for a non-mobile Linux OS.
Well, it is an app. It is based on node.js and just runs in a Chromium shell.
I wouldn't call it an application, the only application in the new Skype for Linux is Chromium, which just happens to be hardcoded to run the Skype web-app.
Ask and ye shall receive. Here's a meta-review of some of the best and biggest studies comparing vegetarians to health-conscious omnivores. Almost all studies showed a longevity benefit, and pooled they found a significant longevity beneift. This is a nice plot of the risk ratio as the study data is cumulatively pooled.
It goes without saying that this field of research is tricky -- evidence is never iron-clad and you can always find a study or two to support your biases. But, as a medical student and someone interested in nutrition, I'll go out on a limb and say that there is no diet except the Mediterranean diet that has so much supportive evidence of health benefits. (Prove me wrong!) But in any case, this should be enough to at least stop the FUD about vegetarianism causing everything from diabetes to psychosis as per above. It's at least not causing harm.
Now, the question is -- will bacon-loving Slashdot rejoice that a citation request was answered, or continue on with the usual group-think?
The study you quote is looking at "low meat consumption", not "no meat consumption". But generally vegatarian diets are not problematic, like a normal diet it just requires variation and good eating habits. The problem is veganism, which is getting really popular despite being very unhealthy.
Try making a phone call when you're on one of those increasingly popular VOIP-connections, then. If my internet were down, I couldn't use my landline, either.
How do you contact tech support?
You use an alternate way of connecting to the internet, of course. Your cellphone, for example. We're not in the 1990s anymore, where "internet connections" are few and far between.
If you have a cell phone, why would having VOIP connection stop you from calling?
I have never enabled the write protection on the flash. It is just an annoying feature that wouldn't do any good in protecting the machines against anything.
Also, by using this they can disable secure boot? I already disabled that to run Linux!
Another data point - Deaths on Texas Roads are 1 in 70 million. while not all highway driving, I would assume that the distribution is pretty skewed in favor of it.
But maybe more pertinent More than half of the deaths occur at speeds > 55mph. (assuming this is highway) -- http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic... This seems to suggest that your likelihood of dying is the same on or off the highway, though I imagine you are probably more likely to get into an accident off the highway, just not likely to die from it. Unfortunately, you would need to get a number on the the miles driven on and off highways, I couldn't find it quickly.
I don't know the American numbers. Where I live most fatalities happens on small country roads by people driving too fast in the dark, sometimes drunk. They happen at highway speeds, but not on highways. Fatalities on highways are an order of magnitude less common.
well, comparing to the worldwide rate of accident might not be reasonable. Some countries have a very high rate of accident and fatalities. One should compare to the accident rate in the same locations.
According to wikipedia [1], fatalities in driven accident in the us is about 15 per billion mile. Which also about 1 per 65 million miles.
The comment you answered asked for fatalities on highways. Highways are typically much safer than any other type of road, so you can't compare highway only to general average.
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That is kind of ironic. Do think that nVidia and AMD are doing more or fewer application-specific tweaks in their drivers today? Because I don't believe that the latter is the case. (After all, Microsoft does it even with regular Windows software.)
Considering NVidia has special driver releases right after new games that are "optimized" for the new game. Plus a special bundled tool to "optimize" games to your graphics card... Yeah, it is not even a secret any more.
Then of course there's paper - totally dead-tech too, amirite?
You are almost right:It is dead-tree tech
Hell, I can still install and run DOS natively on the latest Core i7 series CPUs. What little kids like "phresno" don't get is that backward compatibility is and always has been one of the strengths of x86 PCs.
Yeah, it's SO backwards-compatible, you only need to jump through FOUR flaming hoops to run a 16-bit installer.
You don't have to jump through ANY hoops you just need to be running a 32-bit version of windows. AMD64 does not support 16-bit x86.
So where am I being screwed?
Is the mobile version running a lot slower, or is the desktop version just rubbish?
You will not be screwed, just burned badly by a 200W GPU in a too slim ultrabook.
If they switch from NPAPI to CDM, that does not make them plugin-free. CDM is based on plugins and Widivine is a plugin.
Libertarians are under the delusion that an armed population, with a substantial fraction of them willing to shoot a bully or (in the case of a gang attack) take as many as possible down before one of them gets them, tends to make bullies and gangsters back down, or at least go find somebody who isn't alert enough to get his gun out in time.
The irony of that statement is that there's a technical term for a self-organized group of people working at a common cause for the (alleged) benefit of all. That term is "government".
The problem with Libertarianism is that inside every small government, there's a big government trying to get out.
That and that for every beneign government you get 10 dictators and warlords + thousands of dead.
"Proof" is an absolute. It's either waterproof or its not.
Otherwise it's water-resistant.
It might be water-resistant at a greater depth, but if you're claiming water-resistance, it should at least be resistant to any reasonable depth the average (non-diver) might use to in anyway.
"Better waterproofing" just means it wasn't waterproof before.
Maybe you will finally be able to wear it outside without voiding warranty?
Ahh, now we are getting somewhere, that's atleast a CPU right? But you still failed because Broadwell is from 2014. It's 2016 and everyone else is shipping skylake.
So... it's a two year-old computer, not a four year-old computer. An every-other-year update cycle seems pretty reasonable, given the pace at which processor performance is changing these days (slower than it used to). As for GPUs, meh, these aren't gaming rigs.
I got my 2 year old retina 13" MBP about 2 years ago. It's still a better laptop than the two 'high end' Lenovos my employer foisted on me in the interim.
A) It's unixy under the hood. I can bring up a bash shell and work on the command line.
So is my Thinkpad, infact it is a lot unixier by being Linux
B) It's case is good. It doesn't fall apart over time.
Neither does any laptop costing more than $100
C) The retina screen makes working on text better than on a lower resolution screen
And is lower res and overall worse screen than a high end ThinkPad
D) It's neither too big nor too heavy
It is the same size as any other ultrabook pro.
E) It isn't running Windows
As much as ThinkPad is, it CAN, it doesn't mean you have to.
F) The battery lasts long enough for my needs.
Shorter than everybody elses-
G) The RAM and SSD are maxed out.
Maxed out because the max specs are ridiculously low, and you had to pay 10x overprice at purchase for the upgrades, because it is unopgradable later.
I think the whole problem is that Microsoft have lost most of the talented intelligent people they used to have, and are now indeed run by morons..
No, Microsoft has always seemed this way. If anything they appear remarkedly stable in competence.
Microsoft's revenue depends on OEMs who want to sell the cheapest, shittiest hardware possible. That's why Windows, since the earliest versions, uses your hard drive as additional RAM, constantly swapping things back and forth.
This is a troll, right? Not only were we paging on Unix in days of yore, but the system was so primitive you had to allocate space for your physical memory at the head of the paging file.
I forget when Macs got virtual memory. System 7?
Ten. You need virtualized memory before you make virtual memory. Macs had no virtualization or memory protection of any kind before OS X.
In this brave new world, hiding an app is equivalent to turning it off.
Well, for an app that only activates when clicked or focused to, hiding it is turning it off.
Yet another example of Microsoft active in an abusive, monopolistic fashion.
Well, it would be or will be, they haven't actually done anything against steam yet.
Remember working for an EU institution is not just well paid but tax free as well, and sometimes even a diplomatic status. They might need to hire but they rarely have trouble getting talent.
If 500 customer far excede expectation, it sounds like they expected to sell absolutely none of these things. Which I can understand why. It seems more like a concept computer than anything made for customer demands.
Turkey has been a member of NATO since '52, and has had 2 coups since ('60 and '80) as well as a military intervention in '71, and they stepped in as recently as '97. Keep in mind that the Turkish army is charged to defend democracy and step in when that is threatened. That may sound weird (and it's doubtful that their motives were as pure as that in '80) but it appears that it is kind of necessary sometimes.
But US now has a policy of not talking to or working with countries with a miltary coup. That could really complicate the military cooperation, for instance against ISIS, which the US conducts from Turkish basis. If the coup succedes, current official US policy would be to withdraw from Turkey.
Reality is that a single semi-automatic rifle would have been extremely effective in stopping the madman in Nice attack.
I don't know how long it took that guy to plow through the crowd but I am quite positive no one in that crowd would have had the time, situational analysis, and space to end the threat without taking out more innocent bystanders.
Armed police was in the crowd, and armed police took him out within a few hundred seconds of the start of the attack.
Still no reason for anyone else to carry arms, it was already covered by armed professionals, and they responded immediately.
It does not take 30 minutes to drive a mile at 50 mph. Try doing the math. If he hadn't done the whole thing in less than two minutes people would gotten out of way, and police would have killed him faster.
You were already veted, and registered in a government database, and you needed proof of that to rent the car.
It is called a driver's licence.
It is a lot more security than you have with guns.
App sounds mobile application. Maybe "package" or even "program" would fit better for a non-mobile Linux OS.
Well, it is an app. It is based on node.js and just runs in a Chromium shell.
I wouldn't call it an application, the only application in the new Skype for Linux is Chromium, which just happens to be hardcoded to run the Skype web-app.
Citation required.
Ask and ye shall receive. Here's a meta-review of some of the best and biggest studies comparing vegetarians to health-conscious omnivores. Almost all studies showed a longevity benefit, and pooled they found a significant longevity beneift. This is a nice plot of the risk ratio as the study data is cumulatively pooled.
It goes without saying that this field of research is tricky -- evidence is never iron-clad and you can always find a study or two to support your biases. But, as a medical student and someone interested in nutrition, I'll go out on a limb and say that there is no diet except the Mediterranean diet that has so much supportive evidence of health benefits. (Prove me wrong!) But in any case, this should be enough to at least stop the FUD about vegetarianism causing everything from diabetes to psychosis as per above. It's at least not causing harm.
Now, the question is -- will bacon-loving Slashdot rejoice that a citation request was answered, or continue on with the usual group-think?
The study you quote is looking at "low meat consumption", not "no meat consumption". But generally vegatarian diets are not problematic, like a normal diet it just requires variation and good eating habits. The problem is veganism, which is getting really popular despite being very unhealthy.
Aren't most Atom chips IA32? While this is technically "embedded systems", in practice you generally run a full Linux distro on it.
Only the original Atom from the netbook days. All atoms since have had AMD64 support.
OK, your internet is down
Try making a phone call when you're on one of those increasingly popular VOIP-connections, then. If my internet were down, I couldn't use my landline, either.
How do you contact tech support?
You use an alternate way of connecting to the internet, of course. Your cellphone, for example. We're not in the 1990s anymore, where "internet connections" are few and far between.
If you have a cell phone, why would having VOIP connection stop you from calling?
I have never enabled the write protection on the flash. It is just an annoying feature that wouldn't do any good in protecting the machines against anything.
Also, by using this they can disable secure boot? I already disabled that to run Linux!
Another data point - Deaths on Texas Roads are 1 in 70 million. while not all highway driving, I would assume that the distribution is pretty skewed in favor of it.
But maybe more pertinent
More than half of the deaths occur at speeds > 55mph. (assuming this is highway) -- http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic...
This seems to suggest that your likelihood of dying is the same on or off the highway, though I imagine you are probably more likely to get into an accident off the highway, just not likely to die from it. Unfortunately, you would need to get a number on the the miles driven on and off highways, I couldn't find it quickly.
I don't know the American numbers. Where I live most fatalities happens on small country roads by people driving too fast in the dark, sometimes drunk. They happen at highway speeds, but not on highways. Fatalities on highways are an order of magnitude less common.
well, comparing to the worldwide rate of accident might not be reasonable. Some countries have a very high rate of accident and fatalities. One should compare to the accident rate in the same locations.
According to wikipedia [1], fatalities in driven accident in the us is about 15 per billion mile. Which also about 1 per 65 million miles.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The comment you answered asked for fatalities on highways. Highways are typically much safer than any other type of road, so you can't compare highway only to general average.