Bethesda next generation 'Skyrim' was a downgrade in graphics for X-Boxes.
Oblivion can easily multi-GPU card setups, so I'd guess you don't know what 'well' means.
It's not about the game, but about the quality and density of the textures -- do they approach what the naked eye can see? Can they support multiple even 1 4k monitor ?
Considering the HDMI cable spec tops out at 1920x1080... that's a jolt right there when you want to run 2560x1600.
Problem is most of the programs out there won't use the extra cpu power because they are built cheaply.
If all you have is cheap games that are designed to run on an iphone or such, then sure, $250 would get you all you needed.
Gaming quality started declining within the last decade as software companies focused more money into DRM to try to get more money out of existing programs, vs. R&D into better sims/games, so its no wonder you don't know about software programs that can make use of higher gen cards.
However, it's not just games -- Try using 3D SW sometimes... today's cards can't begin to meet the need.
It's a leak to the public of "paywalled" information.
At current exchange rates, $533.00, is hardly what most people would term an "administrative fee".
If that's your idea of such, I could see alot more reason for making fines and penalties proportional to income in order to make such penalties equivalent in weight for those who are very well off.
If you saw user details being spit out that were encrypted, would you know?
I.e. it's only in the case of user-details being spit out without encryption, that you would know they were your user-details. At some point, if you entered your details in plain text, or if the site allows you display some of your user details, those details could easily be seen pre- or post- encryption.
Especially if you are seeing your own details, I would say that doesn't tell you "much"... OTOH, seeing everyone's details... that 's a different matter.
The "big deal" (from some people's perspective), is that while programs are math -- programs are "algorithms". They are processes that turn data into a result. Those who want to collect royalties for everything we do want to claim that since algorithms are processes that are discovered or found, then they are patentable.
So they lobby congress to create laws to protect their "intellectual property"... Congress, in turn makes such laws -- whether or not it makes sense is a different matter, but congress is owned by corporate interests and does what it is told.
If you are an end-user and are using a tool that removes line-noise from a video stream, and I categorize "advertising" as line noise, you have no rights to what part of your video stream I choose to watch. If you distribute a newspaper, you can't force people to read the ads.
If they choose to block them by not reading them -- that is their right -- just as it is your right to put ads in your content if you so choose. In the US we have a law protecting freedom of expression -- it does not include the right to force someone to listen to what you have to say.
Seems to me a 3D printer has more in common with a printing press. What you do with it is whatever, and I could see the same issues with government wanting to control printing presses. Which is more dangerous, the pen or the sword? The written word has proven capable of changing and steering countries and civilizations, not to mention inciting people to violence (though spoken seems more likely to do that).
Should we ban those as well? Oh... some countries already do ban free speech and publishing.. and most forms of media are already state controlled...
People need to stop looking at the printing of a gun as being some sort of big deal. It's like building a gun. Period. Is it really a big deal? It's been done millions of times throughout history. The fact that a 3d printers lower the costs for home production of anything, is likely what is more at issue. If you can produce a gun, why not a bicycle or a car? Sure, you might have to go down to the 3d-printer center to borrow some time on a large-printer for some parts, but the idea that manufacturing wouldn't be locked away from home users or the masses? Why isn't that as radical an idea as the home printer -- or the home computer? Couldn't those easily have societal altering effects far beyond the ability to make weapons?
Did anyone else think of Star Trek's Red Shirts -- and how they were used to provide body count? Maybe the research universities needs so many warm bodies to get in for less than altruistic reasons??
Ditto on the above. It's bothersome enough that they have the presumption that I have one BUT worse, once they have it, they can add automatic tracking of my location to their database if I have location services enabled on the phone. AFAIK, that's open all the time the phone is on -- unlike, 'theoretically', the emergency location transponder that is enabled when you use emergency services.
Isn't such such tracking considered a feature for those using the phone to take location-labeled pictures?
Have to agree -- if I had points I'd mark you up for Insightful.
Debugging doesn't take alot of though -- sure, if you emulate the code in your head -- which gets close to the work in designing but the way most people do it (and I do it for most simple debug tasks).. is fairly low-brain power stuff. Hard problems -- they can be both a bear and fun -- i.e. they are brain teasers.
As for the statement about being clever up front -- depends on definitions, but usually the more clever I am up front, the less code I need to write -- and there is less to debug. That said, clever up to and past the point of "obscure",... it's not the debugging that is so hard -- it's trying to figure out what the heck you were trying to do when you want to enhance or update it. For the most part, even on my own personal projects, I try to write with long var names, and/or an occasional comment if something is unclear or not str8forward.
But a year or two after the fact in coding -- I look at it, and wonder, did I write this? Only because my coding style changes over time (not formatting, but idiomatic usage).
Also, on a real "project", I'll usually build in a debug framework as I code.
Code has to be able to be examined and testable. So hooks are usually needed.
When have you been able to order a stock size "ISO-sized" algorithm to combine some standardized Unicode Data and process it to yield any meaningful or useful standard output?
Engineering is about fitting well established parts and concepts together, allow for standard tolerances in the specs of those parts, and combining them into a unified whole.
While that is close to what Software Design is, I don't think anyone has ever attempted to quantify nor deal with software parts "standard deviation" from some standard, nor is such usually even quantized, because at the digital level, it is believed that all is 0 or 1, therefore the program as a whole must fail or pass as a reflection of the smallest part.
To design software to be "redundant" or "fault tolerant" of the component pieces it is made up from would be considered the height of folly. The last time such redundancy was in vogue, we went to the moon and back, and look where that got us...;-|
And then there's the weird problem where it randomly kicks itself off the domain and you have to go to the machine, unjoin it from the domain, delete all DNS and AD entries of that machine off the server, and then go back to the machine and re-join it.
I had this problem with a single Samba Primary Domain server and turning off win7's ability to change it's own password (for the machine), stopped this problem.
Then there's the 64/32-bit crossover problem which means we can't run both unless we segregate them into different OUs and policies because on 32-bit systems GP deployed software goes into "Program Files" and on 64-bit systems it goes into "Program Files (x86)" which breaks certain global icons and scripts (Why didn't they put everything in the same place? Is there some reason to split the 64 and 32 bit Program Files? And even if there is, why not leave "Program Files" for 32-bit stuff and add "Program Files (64-bit)" instead??), and don't get me started on the minefeld of mixing 32 and 64-bit printer drivers!
Oh yeah... but here's the flip side. You have a native 64-machine coming in -- do you use or 64? I.e. on linux they usually have been pushing 64-bit into/lib64 and/usr/lib64, and using/lib and/usr/lib for 32-bit. But as less than 10% of packages are 32-bit on my 64bit machines, I'd rather have the 32bit with the longer path and use the shorter path for native programs. But when I did the switch on windows 7, I felt the same as you. Urg! Screwed either way!
It wasn't a bug in the kernel, it was a bug in Samsung's UEFI Bios.
The UEFI BIOS has a place for persistent variable storage. On the Samsung, it had code that checked if *anything* had stored info such that there was 50% space in the variable section. If that happened, the unit self-bricked.
You can point the finger at Linux and say it pushed the computer over the edge, but the problem was in designing a computer that effectively self-bricks when it's internal HD gets over 50% space. Of course, if you install another OS like Linux, it will take some space -- but that doesn't make the information responsible for the bad design.
As for wearers of glasses, violence will push faster development of the camera's as ocular implants. Then you'll have to wonder if you are being recorded any time someone looks in your direction (not even necessarily *at you*, but anywhere in their field of vision). Then we can see such violent prone people punching anyone who even looks in their direction.
That will, in turn, prompt 24 hour surveillance of them as they are remanded to prison for the protection of society.
The data is clear -- we only get 10% fewer heart attacks when given a longer weekend.
Seems like the start of any work week should be 1 hour shorter on the first day.
Instead of a 40-hr "standard", make it a 39-hour standard, with companies that don't comply paying out a proportional hazard pay for the increased mortality chances.
I.e. high risk jobs that shorten careers due to serious or fatal injury are usually accompanied by higher salaries as well as higher death benefits. If you look at the statistical evidence, you'll find that the highest number of heart attacks are on Mondays anyway -- it's obvious that its the act of starting a work week that is stressful.
Google needs to make up their fucking mind and decide what line of work they are in. Either they are in the search engine business, or the money control business.
If Google is in the search engine business, then they need to get out of the censorship business and not worry about it.
If Google is in the money control business then they need to sell off the search engine and Youtube and be done with it.
Sorry, it's an artifact of being a company in the US. By law, their primary duty is their *fiduciary* duty to their stockholders. This was pushed through in court cases by the Reagan administration. Money ALWAYS comes first -- by law.
US Corporations have been on the moral down-slide ever since. They have
no choice unless the laws are changed.
Um... can anyone see bullpoop when it is bullpoop??
Usability (Industry average: MS) Average slowdown of computer- 2x:1x false detections/scan- 4:0 false warnings during downloads/installs 4%: 0% false blocking of actions: 4%: 0%
Repair & active detection: Active detection: 95% : 98%. removal of all malware components: 85% : 80% (MS worse) removal of other malicious sw: 60% : 63% detection of recent developed examples by AV testcompany: 85% v 80% (samples weren't shared w/ms?)
detection of sameday threats 89% v 64% (communication? MS worse)...
so except for recently developed viruses that can easily have been crafted by the company to avoid MS detection algorithms, MS seems to be about as good or better.
And this is a report from a competitor about MS...
Um...to me this looks like a shining recommendation of MS MSE...but what would MS know about what is likely to infect their OS?...*cough*...
Comcast may have more of a vested interest in stopping piracy as they are also a media owner (owning NBC) and the production companies that produce many of their channel lineups for things like Syfi... among others.
But on the flip side -- given the quality of programming on their properties -- maybe they don't need to worry so much about piracy...*cough*..;-)
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Try an over decade-old game like Oblivion.
Bethesda next generation 'Skyrim' was a downgrade in graphics for
X-Boxes.
Oblivion can easily multi-GPU card setups, so I'd guess you don't know
what 'well' means.
It's not about the game, but about the quality and density of the textures -- do they approach what the naked eye can see? Can they support
multiple even 1 4k monitor ?
Considering the HDMI cable spec tops out at 1920x1080... that's
a jolt right there when you want to run 2560x1600.
Problem is most of the programs out there won't use the extra
cpu power because they are built cheaply.
If all you have is cheap games that are designed to run on an iphone or such, then sure, $250 would get you all you needed.
Gaming quality started declining within the last decade as software companies focused more money into DRM to try to get more money out of existing programs, vs. R&D into better sims/games, so its no wonder you don't know about software programs that can make use of higher gen cards.
However, it's not just games -- Try using 3D SW sometimes... today's cards can't begin to meet the need.
It's a leak to the public of "paywalled" information.
At current exchange rates, $533.00, is hardly what most people would term an "administrative fee".
If that's your idea of such, I could see alot more reason for making
fines and penalties proportional to income in order to make such penalties equivalent in weight for those who are very well off.
If you saw user details being spit out that were encrypted, would you know?
I.e. it's only in the case of user-details being spit out without encryption, that you would know they were your user-details. At some point, if you entered your details in plain text, or if the site allows you display some of your user details, those details could easily be seen pre- or post- encryption.
Especially if you are seeing your own details, I would say that doesn't tell you "much"... OTOH, seeing everyone's details ... that 's a different matter.
The "big deal" (from some people's perspective), is that while programs are math -- programs are "algorithms". They are processes that turn data into a result. Those who want to collect royalties for everything we do want to claim that since algorithms are processes that are discovered or found, then they are patentable.
So they lobby congress to create laws to protect their "intellectual property"... Congress, in turn makes such laws -- whether or not it makes sense is a different matter, but congress is owned by corporate interests and does what it is told.
True if you are republishing the content.
If you are an end-user and are using a tool that removes line-noise from a video stream, and I categorize "advertising" as line noise, you have no rights to what part of your video stream I choose to watch. If you distribute a newspaper, you can't force people to read the ads.
If they choose to block them by not reading them -- that is their right -- just as it is your right to put ads in your content if you so choose. In the US we have a law protecting freedom of expression -- it does not include the right to force someone to listen to what you have to say.
Seems to me a 3D printer has more in common with a printing press. What you do with it is whatever, and I could see the same issues with government wanting to control printing presses. Which is more dangerous, the pen or the sword? The written word has proven capable of changing and steering countries and civilizations, not to mention inciting people to violence (though spoken seems more likely to do that).
Should we ban those as well? Oh... some countries already do ban free speech and publishing.. and most forms of media are already state controlled...
People need to stop looking at the printing of a gun as being some sort of big deal. It's like building a gun. Period. Is it really a big deal? It's been done millions of times throughout history. The fact that a 3d printers lower the costs for home production of anything, is likely what is more at issue. If you can produce a gun, why not a bicycle or a car? Sure, you might have to go down to the 3d-printer center to borrow some time on a large-printer for some parts, but the idea that manufacturing wouldn't be locked away from home users or the masses? Why isn't that as radical an idea as the home printer -- or the home computer? Couldn't those easily have societal altering effects far beyond the ability to make weapons?
Did anyone else think of Star Trek's Red Shirts -- and how they were used to provide body count? Maybe the research universities needs so many warm bodies to get in for less than altruistic reasons??
The page @ https://eyeasme.com/Joe/MathML/older_MathML_browser_test.html
Displays correctly in FF 3.6.
"and making the shut off time in under 3 seconds"...
My server runs squid and transmission and by DEFAULT, both have
shutdown timeouts around 10-20 seconds which they usually try to take.
---
No more being able to boot single user from the root disk
No more being able to bring up the system 1 service at a time in
single-step mode to debug a problem.
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Yeah systemd was so fast when it tried to boot my system -- it mounted
the local file systems before running lvm.
For some reason that didn't work.
Can't seem to mount /usr from root either... Great thing that systemd -- turns a working system into a door stop.
Ditto on the above. It's bothersome enough that they have the presumption that I have one BUT worse, once they have it, they can add automatic tracking of my location to their database if I have location services enabled on the phone. AFAIK, that's open all the time the phone is on -- unlike, 'theoretically', the emergency location transponder that is enabled when you use emergency services.
Isn't such such tracking considered a feature for those using the phone to take location-labeled pictures?
Have to agree -- if I had points I'd mark you up for Insightful.
Debugging doesn't take alot of though -- sure, if you emulate the code
in your head -- which gets close to the work in designing but the way
most people do it (and I do it for most simple debug tasks).. is fairly low-brain power stuff. Hard problems -- they can be both a bear and
fun -- i.e. they are brain teasers.
As for the statement about being clever up front -- depends on definitions, but usually the more clever I am up front, the less code I need to write -- and there is less to debug. That said, clever up to and past the point of "obscure", ... it's not the debugging that is so hard -- it's trying to figure
out what the heck you were trying to do when you want to enhance or update it. For the most part, even on my own personal projects, I
try to write with long var names, and/or an occasional comment if something is unclear or not str8forward.
But a year or two after the fact in coding -- I look at it, and wonder, did I write this? Only because my coding style changes over time (not formatting, but idiomatic usage).
Also, on a real "project", I'll usually build in a debug framework as I code.
Code has to be able to be examined and testable. So hooks are usually needed.
Mark the above guy up!!!
When have you been able to order a stock size "ISO-sized" algorithm to combine some standardized Unicode Data and process it to yield any meaningful or useful standard output?
Engineering is about fitting well established parts and concepts together, allow for standard tolerances in the specs of those parts, and combining them into a unified whole.
While that is close to what Software Design is, I don't think anyone has ever attempted to quantify nor deal with software parts "standard deviation" from some standard, nor is such usually even quantized, because at the digital level, it is believed that all is 0 or 1, therefore the program as a whole must fail or pass as a reflection of the smallest part.
To design software to be "redundant" or "fault tolerant" of the component pieces it is made up from would be considered the height of folly. The last time such redundancy was in vogue, we went to the moon and back, and look where that got us... ;-|
I had this problem with a single Samba Primary Domain server and turning off win7's ability to change it's own password (for the machine), stopped this problem.
Oh yeah... but here's the flip side. You have a native 64-machine coming in -- do you use or 64? I.e. on linux they usually have been pushing 64-bit into /lib64 and /usr/lib64, and using /lib and /usr/lib for 32-bit. But as less than 10% of packages are 32-bit on my 64bit machines, I'd rather have the 32bit with the longer path and use the shorter path for native programs. But when I did the switch on windows 7, I felt the same as you. Urg! Screwed either way!
What units would you use?
We see batteries in amp-hours (@rated battery V)
Car batteries also in amp-hours at rated V
all of them put out energy amp*V for some amount of time...
amp*V=W W-hr is one of the most common units of power that most people are exposed to. So what would you use?
Dovecot handles all the formats you mentioned, mbox, maildir, etc...
Then access everything w/IMAP.
I keep everything in mbox format...going back to 1999....
Things are very hierarchical. I don't keep everything. List mails
go into list-boxes and I read them like newsgroups.
I have multiple levels of personal mail.....sorta like google's circles...
but unrelated to that...
Keep it all in /home/lpq/mail ... about 5.1G of it...
It wasn't a bug in the kernel, it was a bug in Samsung's UEFI Bios.
The UEFI BIOS has a place for persistent variable storage. On the Samsung, it had code that checked if *anything* had stored info such that there was 50% space in the variable section. If that happened, the unit self-bricked.
You can point the finger at Linux and say it pushed the computer over the edge, but the problem was in designing a computer that effectively self-bricks when it's internal HD gets over 50% space. Of course, if you install another OS like Linux, it will take some space -- but that doesn't make the information responsible for the bad design.
Hmmm.... no heads-up displays in vehicles?...
Weren't heads-up displays supposed to be safer than having to move your eyes away from the reality-display you need to be viewing at the same time?
Will this also cause air force pilots with such displays in the cockpit and helmets to no longer fly over or in such states??
Seems only prudent...
*hmmm*...
Because they are dogs?
As for wearers of glasses, violence will push faster development of the camera's as ocular implants. Then you'll have to wonder if you are being recorded any time someone looks in your direction (not even necessarily *at you*, but anywhere in their field of vision). Then we can see such violent prone people punching anyone who even looks in their direction.
That will, in turn, prompt 24 hour surveillance of them as they are remanded to prison for the protection of society.
The parent should be modded up.
Even off duty cops feel it's their right to harass anyone showing, anything (in their view), that constitutes abnormal behavior.
The data is clear -- we only get 10% fewer heart attacks when given a longer weekend.
Seems like the start of any work week should be 1 hour shorter on the first day.
Instead of a 40-hr "standard", make it a 39-hour standard, with companies that don't comply paying out a proportional hazard pay for the increased mortality chances.
I.e. high risk jobs that shorten careers due to serious or fatal injury are usually accompanied by higher salaries as well as higher death benefits. If you look at the statistical evidence, you'll find that the highest number of heart attacks are on Mondays anyway -- it's obvious that its the act of starting a work week that is stressful.
Sorry, it's an artifact of being a company in the US. By law, their primary duty is their *fiduciary* duty to their stockholders. This was pushed through in court cases by the Reagan administration. Money ALWAYS comes first -- by law.
US Corporations have been on the moral down-slide ever since. They have no choice unless the laws are changed.
And yet Dilbertian managers everywhere still ask for schedules that they can hold you to.
Um... can anyone see bullpoop when it is bullpoop??
Usability (Industry average: MS)
Average slowdown of computer- 2x:1x
false detections/scan- 4:0
false warnings during downloads/installs 4%: 0%
false blocking of actions: 4%: 0%
Repair & active detection:
Active detection: 95% : 98%.
removal of all malware components: 85% : 80% (MS worse)
removal of other malicious sw: 60% : 63%
detection of recent developed examples by AV testcompany: 85% v 80% (samples weren't shared w/ms?)
detection of sameday threats 89% v 64% (communication? MS worse)...
so except for recently developed viruses that can easily have been crafted by the company to avoid MS detection algorithms, MS seems to be about as good or better.
And this is a report from a competitor about MS...
Um...to me this looks like a shining recommendation of MS MSE...but what would MS know about what is likely to infect their OS?...*cough*...
If this wasn't a flamebait answer, I don't know what what...
Comcast may have more of a vested interest in stopping piracy as they are also a media owner (owning NBC) and the production companies that produce many of their channel lineups for things like Syfi... among others.
But on the flip side -- given the quality of programming on their properties -- maybe they don't need to worry so much about piracy...*cough*.. ;-)