Exactly this, current 4k implimentations are balls.
There's a large contingent of gamers pushing for 120/144hz gaming for example, we can't even do 60hz at 4k easily. (Forget about the GPU power, the damn cabling and interface standards to send the signal to the display) this really needs to be solved, especially with OLED coming and it's potential 1000's of frames per second refresh rate. I suspect the display will work on some kind of 10:1 ratio, where it updates 10 times for every 1 time the GPU can - as long as it's in sync (another unsolved issue!) then great.
Security whining about Facebook aside, there's a plethora of countries where your 3g/4g data limit per month is quite low. I've just come off a 600mb per month plan to 1gb. I only use about 300mb per month but I have on holiday gone up to about 800+mb in a month.
The cost however, when you exceed your limit is _insane_ auto playing videos which you can't damn well stop is idiocy. They should have either a wifi only option or a play button. (I had the same issue with vice videos in twitter for a while too)
Too many companies continue to take their product, fiddle / fuck with it for the sake of change (keeping UI designers in a job I suspect) and then antagonise their users. Google maps is a prime example, the new google maps is AWFUL compared to the existing one, lacking several key features. Please, stop fiddling and changing things.
If you read his post, I got the impression the link was down, remote access wasn't a viable option. If that means an administrator needs to talk someone through unplugging / re-plugging something or confirming a diagnostics LED, so be it, they're employed regardless.
but consider yourself lucky someone wants or needs your help. This industry and capitalism's desire for endless efficiency and profit means a fair few of us reading your post are sitting at home without a job at all.
I'd gladly sit on the phone through a translator to fix something, infact I'd be inclined to think you're probably at a medium sized business or smaller if you're dealing with something like that, so it's probably within your power to do some pretty interesting and dare I say "cowboy-ish" stuff. Once a business reaches a certain size, your hands are constantly tied for experimenting or learning.
Meanwhile, yeah I'm here in my pajamas still at midday but my bank account won't last forever.
I've isolated the problem perfectly, through a decade of exactly the same behaviour and the issues have only been serious for 12 months. Across multiple machines.
I'm very boring, I've run the same addons for the best part of 3 years to boot as well. The problem is firefox.
From the mouths of ANYONE who isn't an American. STOP FUCKING GEO-REDIRECTING LINKS FOR FOREIGNERS YOU ASSHOLES.
Jesus christ fuck me gently it's the worst god damned thing to do on any web page, I think it might actually be worse than "this content is not available in your region" - because at least it takes us (mostly) to what we wanted.
Well, I do use the session restore functionality, perhaps that's the problem? Maybe I can manually adjust some settings on the frequency of session saves or the amount of back pages it remembers?
Yep done the new profile thing, no luck. As for the dude asking about FlashBlock and AdBlock - of course, I only run about 5 addons and that's 2 of them.
I post in EVERY Slashdot firefox article, whining for the same thing. LESS focus on UI / features, MORE focus on stability / performance. I've been using FireFox since the name it had before FireFox (I've forgotten it) - I think I used it since version 1 or god knows what.
For about the last 12 months, maybe 18, Firefox has become completely unstable for "extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs. When I'm researching something (often multiple things) I like to google what I'm reading, middle click open in the background the first 5 results. Then when on a forum, I'll middle click open 5 more results and so on. I like having those tabs queued up in the background for me to read. You might think "well there's the cause of your stability problem!!" except this never used to happen. 18 months ago you could hit 200 tabs without FF crashing. Now, I'm scared to open more than 60. This is across multiple machines too.
I've even tried switching to WaterFox, no dice - I'm still able to crash FF regularly and I run very few addons either. It's good to see the http cache changes, so they are working on performance but stability should be the #1 focus. Oddly enough, I get exactly the same symptoms in Firefox for Android as I do Windows for fucks sake. If I hit enough tabs (about 8 on my Galaxy S3) - FF for Android shits the bed, presumably because it's out of ram and can't page well or something. Worst part is FF for Android doesn't remember my open tabs either. Miserable.
They've fiddled and fucked with the UI, replicating Chrome as much as they can (ugh!) for years, now can they stop? If I wanted ugly goddamn chrome I'd install it. PLEASE fix the stability, PLEASE make it faster. I don't care how much ram it uses, I just want a modern experience with my browser.
Your memory must be shabby. He recommended OCZ SSD's when they were SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than the competition. They were the first non premium priced SSD with intel like performance and no huge latency spikes when writing small files.
Yeah look a lot of them failed, I got burnt by many of them - but at the time the failure rate issue wasn't widespread. They were the Celeron 300a of SSD's and so he rightfully pushed them.
but someone needs to fucking pay the god damned price for ripping us off. If you're going to charge us significantly more than other countries for DIGITAL fucking content, then we damn well better get something for it.
Did I mention that we used to pay the same price as the states for this stuff? Until Valve and Steam got their shit together and set up regions / regional pricing and billing properly? Once they did, the publishers (most likely) told Valve "to fuck them" (for the most part the actual Valve games are priced the same as the US)
Oh it's not just us, the UK got thoroughly fucked by this too.
You might be right but you're missing the point. Yes a modern orange is excessively sweet (no seriously, they are far too bloody sweet, it tastes like sugar, not orange anymore) - apples too - however if you eat a diet of 95% unprocessed goods, green leafy vegetables (modern or not) - a sensible amount of fruit and some meat, it's still vastly vastly better for you than eating high processed garbage, including even "healthy" things like packaged breakfast cereals.
You want to avoid excess processed carb / sugar products. If you're buying something that comes in a packet, you should be eating these products at an extreme minimum.
The slot you're thinking of already exists, comes on some motherboards (my new HTPC Mini ITX board has one) and it's becoming standard on laptops. Current sizes dictate they can do 500gb drives on the micro cards which go into the slots.
For the sake of other lazy people, can someone respond to me and answer the following.
What is becoming reversible, just the USB Micro style size or the larger sizes too? Are we just skipping everything and moving to the one plug at both ends for all USB connections possibly? If we do move to said plug, what aobut strength? I've seen some mock up pics of the proposed plug, it looks great for a phone, it doesn't look great for a printer / back of a PC - looks quite delicate.
I've always had eyes on the border of needing glasses. I could get by without glasses pretty fine, I just sat half a foot closer to the PC and bought giant monitors / TV's - I could see fairly well, just not perfect.
I picked up a 30" 2560x1600 monitor about 3 years back and I just wasn't able to appreciate it. I could read it but only sitting pretty damn close due to the pixel size. 1920x1200 was fine but, I shouldn't need to do that./ Finally caved in and got some glasses at 34 years old - made a great difference. (Actually once I saw the difference glasses made, I really wished we all had far far better vision, something like 20/5 would be quite nice)
The _VAST_ and I mean _VASTTTTTTT_ majority of security people I've encountered have, what I'd be comfortable describing as "fuck all" technical knowledge regarding hardware (and in some ways software too) - they get concepts, fundamentals and then read dipshit theorising articles on retreiving data from a hard disk by analysing the "bits between the bits"
Don't take my word for it, go to some googling, I've read at least 1 article by an actual storage guy (I can't recall if he was actually a physical media designer or what) but he laughed off the idiotic claims as presicely that.
Hang on what are we talking about here, let's be clear.
Are we talking about a server inherited from someone else at a datacentre when leasing equipment? Are we talking about desktop computers? Are we talking about some kind of big SAN device loaded with disks and no OS?
If it's the first 2, why would the disks be unhooked / removed? Presumably they are in the computer you want to use them in. Run DBAN on them, it's not particularly expensive....... You shouldn't even be in the habit of physically removing disks unless there's a need to. Reasons I can think of removing a disk would be: 1, disk is faulty 2, upgrading to a larger / faster drive.
Faulty disk, not under warranty? Ok Drill it, fine. Upgrading to a larger and or faster drive though? Do you have another server which might have use of those disks? Would they make a good spare? What about some kind of dev / uat environment which could use them? Maybe you should've kicked off the dban before pulling the disks from the server in the first place? If you seriously have absoloutely no use for the disks and they are 'proper' old of low value? Ok maybe drill them, maybe - but recyclers pay money for old stuff and drilling disks happens far too often because it's cool to be overly security conscious.
No that's what security people and people speculating will tell you. You do a full single pass of 0's to a disk and recover a single word document for me, a single one - I'll give you $1,000 cash.
It's a stupid policy, if you've been in IT infrastructure for years, you should have a basic understanding of how to wipe a hard disk properly, it's a waste of money, it's creating environmental waste in disposing of it, it's wasting resources needing to purchase another one.
When you start talking about tens or hundreds or even thousands of disks, you're pissing away good money, because you're either too lazy or too stupid to know how to wipe a disk.
I've seen far too much of this idiocy over the past decade or so. ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/c... ) it needs to stop. Learn how to wipe a disk, if it's not faulty, re-use the thing. That old post from 2011 is even more applicable to server drives which are not even remotely cheap pieces of hardware.
So do they have an index of known child porn images, how did they know this image was here?
Did they get a tip off? Does someone just randomly peruse attachments from time to time? Was the filename "child_porn.jpg"? What's the deal here? What happens when your wife is on holiday and emails you a picture of.... well who knows what? Yes I know they CAN see it, my question is, what flags people to look / investigate?
This is a very very bad precedent, save the children or not.
Ten years ago when I was younger and a lot more naive, I would've totally agreed with you. Heck, if Apple did this 10, 15 and 20 years ago, maybe things would be different now - but as it stands, Windows has a lot more to offer than just games.
Fact is, because there's so many installs of Windows out there, there's a HEAP of help on the internet for problems you stumble across, it supports virtually all the hardware out there conceivably able to be plugged into a machine and more importantly, for me - is the little programs, thousands upon thousands of convenient, half decently designed tools which MacOS and Linux simply don't have.
I'm talking data de-duplication searching tools, multi-monitor window managers, downloading / p2p tools, media players, media encoders etc. There's just heaps and heaps of little things you probably wouldn't realise if you switched to Mac or Linux for the first week but suddenly in the second week, you'd be googling for 2 days trying to find that one little tool to do that one little thing which simply doesn't exist, or the only tool close to it is awkward and ghastly.
This isn't to Windows credit, Windows didn't get this stuff due to it being designed better or something, it's simply because there's more Windows installs. If linux or MacOS ever did take over, great, those tools would come - but for the time being, depending on how you use your computers, there's few reasons for a Windows guy to move to Linux or MacOS. (oh and FWIW Windows has become a pretty stable OS nowadays, I see applications crash, sure -but the whole desktop crashing is exceedingly rare)
TLDR: Games alone ain't gonna cut it to lure people away. Heck I barely play them anymore myself.
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Exactly this, current 4k implimentations are balls.
There's a large contingent of gamers pushing for 120/144hz gaming for example, we can't even do 60hz at 4k easily. (Forget about the GPU power, the damn cabling and interface standards to send the signal to the display) this really needs to be solved, especially with OLED coming and it's potential 1000's of frames per second refresh rate.
I suspect the display will work on some kind of 10:1 ratio, where it updates 10 times for every 1 time the GPU can - as long as it's in sync (another unsolved issue!) then great.
5k is meaningless, fix 4.
Security whining about Facebook aside, there's a plethora of countries where your 3g/4g data limit per month is quite low. I've just come off a 600mb per month plan to 1gb. I only use about 300mb per month but I have on holiday gone up to about 800+mb in a month.
The cost however, when you exceed your limit is _insane_ auto playing videos which you can't damn well stop is idiocy. They should have either a wifi only option or a play button. (I had the same issue with vice videos in twitter for a while too)
Too many companies continue to take their product, fiddle / fuck with it for the sake of change (keeping UI designers in a job I suspect) and then antagonise their users. Google maps is a prime example, the new google maps is AWFUL compared to the existing one, lacking several key features. Please, stop fiddling and changing things.
Oh wait, I just got it........sheeeit.
If you read his post, I got the impression the link was down, remote access wasn't a viable option. If that means an administrator needs to talk someone through unplugging / re-plugging something or confirming a diagnostics LED, so be it, they're employed regardless.
but consider yourself lucky someone wants or needs your help. This industry and capitalism's desire for endless efficiency and profit means a fair few of us reading your post are sitting at home without a job at all.
I'd gladly sit on the phone through a translator to fix something, infact I'd be inclined to think you're probably at a medium sized business or smaller if you're dealing with something like that, so it's probably within your power to do some pretty interesting and dare I say "cowboy-ish" stuff. Once a business reaches a certain size, your hands are constantly tied for experimenting or learning.
Meanwhile, yeah I'm here in my pajamas still at midday but my bank account won't last forever.
I've isolated the problem perfectly, through a decade of exactly the same behaviour and the issues have only been serious for 12 months.
Across multiple machines.
I'm very boring, I've run the same addons for the best part of 3 years to boot as well.
The problem is firefox.
Can I just say,
From the mouths of ANYONE who isn't an American.
STOP FUCKING GEO-REDIRECTING LINKS FOR FOREIGNERS YOU ASSHOLES.
Jesus christ fuck me gently it's the worst god damned thing to do on any web page, I think it might actually be worse than "this content is not available in your region" - because at least it takes us (mostly) to what we wanted.
http://www.popsci.com/article/...
takes me to
http://www.popsci.com.au/?src=...
Thanks dipshits.
Well, I do use the session restore functionality, perhaps that's the problem? Maybe I can manually adjust some settings on the frequency of session saves or the amount of back pages it remembers?
Yep done the new profile thing, no luck. As for the dude asking about FlashBlock and AdBlock - of course, I only run about 5 addons and that's 2 of them.
I post in EVERY Slashdot firefox article, whining for the same thing.
LESS focus on UI / features, MORE focus on stability / performance.
I've been using FireFox since the name it had before FireFox (I've forgotten it) - I think I used it since version 1 or god knows what.
For about the last 12 months, maybe 18, Firefox has become completely unstable for "extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs. When I'm researching something (often multiple things) I like to google what I'm reading, middle click open in the background the first 5 results. Then when on a forum, I'll middle click open 5 more results and so on. I like having those tabs queued up in the background for me to read.
You might think "well there's the cause of your stability problem!!" except this never used to happen. 18 months ago you could hit 200 tabs without FF crashing. Now, I'm scared to open more than 60. This is across multiple machines too.
I've even tried switching to WaterFox, no dice - I'm still able to crash FF regularly and I run very few addons either.
It's good to see the http cache changes, so they are working on performance but stability should be the #1 focus.
Oddly enough, I get exactly the same symptoms in Firefox for Android as I do Windows for fucks sake. If I hit enough tabs (about 8 on my Galaxy S3) - FF for Android shits the bed, presumably because it's out of ram and can't page well or something. Worst part is FF for Android doesn't remember my open tabs either. Miserable.
They've fiddled and fucked with the UI, replicating Chrome as much as they can (ugh!) for years, now can they stop? If I wanted ugly goddamn chrome I'd install it.
PLEASE fix the stability, PLEASE make it faster. I don't care how much ram it uses, I just want a modern experience with my browser.
Your memory must be shabby.
He recommended OCZ SSD's when they were SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than the competition. They were the first non premium priced SSD with intel like performance and no huge latency spikes when writing small files.
Yeah look a lot of them failed, I got burnt by many of them - but at the time the failure rate issue wasn't widespread. They were the Celeron 300a of SSD's and so he rightfully pushed them.
but someone needs to fucking pay the god damned price for ripping us off. If you're going to charge us significantly more than other countries for DIGITAL fucking content, then we damn well better get something for it.
Did I mention that we used to pay the same price as the states for this stuff? Until Valve and Steam got their shit together and set up regions / regional pricing and billing properly? Once they did, the publishers (most likely) told Valve "to fuck them" (for the most part the actual Valve games are priced the same as the US)
Oh it's not just us, the UK got thoroughly fucked by this too.
You might be right but you're missing the point.
Yes a modern orange is excessively sweet (no seriously, they are far too bloody sweet, it tastes like sugar, not orange anymore) - apples too - however if you eat a diet of 95% unprocessed goods, green leafy vegetables (modern or not) - a sensible amount of fruit and some meat, it's still vastly vastly better for you than eating high processed garbage, including even "healthy" things like packaged breakfast cereals.
You want to avoid excess processed carb / sugar products. If you're buying something that comes in a packet, you should be eating these products at an extreme minimum.
Who is this supposed to be?
The slot you're thinking of already exists, comes on some motherboards (my new HTPC Mini ITX board has one) and it's becoming standard on laptops.
Current sizes dictate they can do 500gb drives on the micro cards which go into the slots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
For the sake of other lazy people, can someone respond to me and answer the following.
What is becoming reversible, just the USB Micro style size or the larger sizes too?
Are we just skipping everything and moving to the one plug at both ends for all USB connections possibly?
If we do move to said plug, what aobut strength? I've seen some mock up pics of the proposed plug, it looks great for a phone, it doesn't look great for a printer / back of a PC - looks quite delicate.
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I've always had eyes on the border of needing glasses. I could get by without glasses pretty fine, I just sat half a foot closer to the PC and bought giant monitors / TV's - I could see fairly well, just not perfect.
I picked up a 30" 2560x1600 monitor about 3 years back and I just wasn't able to appreciate it. I could read it but only sitting pretty damn close due to the pixel size. 1920x1200 was fine but, I shouldn't need to do that./
Finally caved in and got some glasses at 34 years old - made a great difference.
(Actually once I saw the difference glasses made, I really wished we all had far far better vision, something like 20/5 would be quite nice)
The _VAST_ and I mean _VASTTTTTTT_ majority of security people I've encountered have, what I'd be comfortable describing as "fuck all" technical knowledge regarding hardware (and in some ways software too) - they get concepts, fundamentals and then read dipshit theorising articles on retreiving data from a hard disk by analysing the "bits between the bits"
Don't take my word for it, go to some googling, I've read at least 1 article by an actual storage guy (I can't recall if he was actually a physical media designer or what) but he laughed off the idiotic claims as presicely that.
Hang on what are we talking about here, let's be clear.
Are we talking about a server inherited from someone else at a datacentre when leasing equipment?
Are we talking about desktop computers?
Are we talking about some kind of big SAN device loaded with disks and no OS?
If it's the first 2, why would the disks be unhooked / removed? Presumably they are in the computer you want to use them in. Run DBAN on them, it's not particularly expensive.......
You shouldn't even be in the habit of physically removing disks unless there's a need to. Reasons I can think of removing a disk would be:
1, disk is faulty
2, upgrading to a larger / faster drive.
Faulty disk, not under warranty? Ok Drill it, fine.
Upgrading to a larger and or faster drive though? Do you have another server which might have use of those disks? Would they make a good spare? What about some kind of dev / uat environment which could use them? Maybe you should've kicked off the dban before pulling the disks from the server in the first place?
If you seriously have absoloutely no use for the disks and they are 'proper' old of low value? Ok maybe drill them, maybe - but recyclers pay money for old stuff and drilling disks happens far too often because it's cool to be overly security conscious.
No that's what security people and people speculating will tell you.
You do a full single pass of 0's to a disk and recover a single word document for me, a single one - I'll give you $1,000 cash.
It's a stupid policy, if you've been in IT infrastructure for years, you should have a basic understanding of how to wipe a hard disk properly, it's a waste of money, it's creating environmental waste in disposing of it, it's wasting resources needing to purchase another one.
When you start talking about tens or hundreds or even thousands of disks, you're pissing away good money, because you're either too lazy or too stupid to know how to wipe a disk.
I've seen far too much of this idiocy over the past decade or so. ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/c... ) it needs to stop. Learn how to wipe a disk, if it's not faulty, re-use the thing. That old post from 2011 is even more applicable to server drives which are not even remotely cheap pieces of hardware.
So do they have an index of known child porn images, how did they know this image was here?
Did they get a tip off? Does someone just randomly peruse attachments from time to time? Was the filename "child_porn.jpg"? What's the deal here? What happens when your wife is on holiday and emails you a picture of.... well who knows what? Yes I know they CAN see it, my question is, what flags people to look / investigate?
This is a very very bad precedent, save the children or not.
Ten years ago when I was younger and a lot more naive, I would've totally agreed with you. Heck, if Apple did this 10, 15 and 20 years ago, maybe things would be different now - but as it stands, Windows has a lot more to offer than just games.
Fact is, because there's so many installs of Windows out there, there's a HEAP of help on the internet for problems you stumble across, it supports virtually all the hardware out there conceivably able to be plugged into a machine and more importantly, for me - is the little programs, thousands upon thousands of convenient, half decently designed tools which MacOS and Linux simply don't have.
I'm talking data de-duplication searching tools, multi-monitor window managers, downloading / p2p tools, media players, media encoders etc. There's just heaps and heaps of little things you probably wouldn't realise if you switched to Mac or Linux for the first week but suddenly in the second week, you'd be googling for 2 days trying to find that one little tool to do that one little thing which simply doesn't exist, or the only tool close to it is awkward and ghastly.
This isn't to Windows credit, Windows didn't get this stuff due to it being designed better or something, it's simply because there's more Windows installs. If linux or MacOS ever did take over, great, those tools would come - but for the time being, depending on how you use your computers, there's few reasons for a Windows guy to move to Linux or MacOS.
(oh and FWIW Windows has become a pretty stable OS nowadays, I see applications crash, sure -but the whole desktop crashing is exceedingly rare)
TLDR: Games alone ain't gonna cut it to lure people away. Heck I barely play them anymore myself.
You fucker, I nearly spilt my coffee.