Except that in places like Saskatchewan - where you have a provincial Telco - prices are *much* more reasonable and they still manage to turn a decent profit.
RX480, 4GB. I've been using the FOSS drivers for about a year now and they're GREAT. I did have to compile my own kernel in the earlier days but now the ones that come with Ubuntu etc seem to work just fine out of the box.
" Forceful, unconditional kernel operations. When I say "unmount this filesystem," I'm not asking a question. When I say "terminate this process," I expect the process to be removed from memory and the runqueue, regardless of consequences."
Thank you. Nothing is more maddening than doing a "-f" type of operation, particularly an unmount, and having the system bitch at you because "I think something is still using this". I've had major issues not being about to release USB devices that have glitched up because "umount -f" still refuses to actually unmount. Why even have a fucking force option if it doesn't actually work?
Absolutely. There are some things that are definitely GOOD about systemd. The extensibility/overloading of the service/unit files is a good example of something that works well and is implemented in a way that makes a lot of sense. For example, you can have a service file at/usr/lib/systemd/system/somesystem.service And then modify functionality with units under/etc/systemd/system/somesystem.service.d/*.conf
It's easy to do, and works nicely with packaging systems so that you can create an addon package to modify or add behavior without editing the file(s) supplied by the original package. The way you can build dependency chains is also quite useful.
There's also some stuff that is lame, like the binary logs and the needed to run journalctl or systemctl to figure out WTF your daemon is doing when it fails, or how the binary log can be corrupted so that you can *never* figure out what happened in some situations.
The biggest problem is the lack of compromise. A lot of people in SystemD-land have a "my way or the highway" attitude, whereas a lot of people in init-land have a "change is bad" mentality.
There's a trade-off between processing power consumption and speed of processing though, and it can be a fine-line. If your phone is sucking up a lot of juice, then it's going to run out of battery faster... that's an easy enough deduction. But how about running slow? If it takes 1.5x the amount of time to - say - process a webpage or open an attachment, then potentially you've got the phone in an "active" mode for longer, which may also mean increased usage of the backlight, radio, etc. So even if that uses 80% of the power to do so, 1.5 x 80% actually ends up consuming 120% of the nominal power usage due to the device being "active" longer.
I wonder how smart the bots are. If you could target the IP's or characteristics specific to the bot networks, then perhaps it might be possible to jack up the prices and limit stock just for them. It would be a win-in, as the seller gets a boatload of money for the bots, and the "regular" stock is still available to the direct customers.
That would be the beauty of it, and possibly the anti-loophole. You can do whatever shitty things you want to hide or skip-out on your patent taxes, but if you ever try to *use* those patents it's going to come back at ya.
Consider patents as taxable assets. Tax based on the value of the patents held - which should be declared - with a surtax for unused patents. No tax avoidance loopholes.
If you bring out a submarine that you didn't declare for taxes, or sue while declaring the patent is worth a lot more than you paid taxes for.... oooooo, tax avoidance...
Those are two fairly major vulnerabilities that worked at a wireless level. Some vendors got it fixed fairly quickly, a lot did not (especially Android vendors). I love my Android phone feature-wise, but the platform is completely fuckadoo in terms of updates, and various models often have lingering security issues or even ones that get completely abandoned/unpatched, making them not just a risk to the owner but possibly nearby devices or infrastructure.
Realistically Android needs better central control, and much as I'm loath to give Google more control, I believe they should take more ownership of the base OS and patching, allowing for core updates to come from *them* as part of the platform rather than waiting on the vendors to implement their fixes. Make it like more like a Linux OS where they own the kernel and core, and vendors can add their stuff as packages and/or submit any special drivers back to Google for inclusion/patching.
Recent updates allowed more granular permissions, blocking autostart, and many other things that traditionally I used root apps for.
There is the aspect of maybe blocking Google's own shenannigans though, but not sure if it's worth having a device with other potential attack vectors due to having an non-updatable rooted OS.
I think that - in part - the reaction is in regards to the comments from a bunch of sickos/pedos as opposed to the kids posting themselves. That said, one *should* learn at a younger age to be careful of what you post online, as in the age of data-retention and mining it could have repercussions later in life.
Maybe one way to deal with it would be to restrict comments on videos posted by young persons.
Uh, as a business you can do a fair bit. As you mentioned, you care fire the aggressor, or at least warn him that he's going to be in the unemployment line unless he cuts the bullshit out. There's really *NO* need for any employee to rip into another, exempting where somebody fucked up royally at a job-related task. That's why you're the boss. It's a privilege and a responsibility.
Roomates or co-living is one situation where - to some extent - making some allowances makes sense. Generally if you're sharing close living quarters, it makes sense that people would want to be of either different genders or orientations.
"who the FUCK said that ANYONE wants a semi truck that can accelerate that fast"
Pretty much anyone who is stuck behind the semi which is blocking the left lane while passing the slightly slower semi that's blocking the right lane? How about the rig that needs to cross a large intersection that will already have the light turning red by the time he's 75% of the way through...
With combined torque and acceleration, there are actually quite a number of situations where this can be a major benefit.
Indeed, I see little wrong with Micro or Loot so long as it's not tied to functionality (pay-to-win, pay-to-play). It's been proven over and over that people are willing to do the loot/micro thing for hats, skins, and unique visuals that in no way affect your ability to progress or win the game (and weren't advertised as part of the game). IMHO that seems a good balance to me.
If EA allowed you some freaking tie-fighter decals or the ability to buy certain custom character appearances, it's cool. If you have to P2W to get the abilities/weapons or stuff that was advertised as part of the core game, not core.
Even having people collect items to build a Darth "skin" would be not too bad assuming one could still have the same jedi/sith abilities without, and as long as it wasn't advertised as being part of the game...
Remember how Command & Conquer: Renegade was received when Westwood tried the opposite? Don't even think about it. There is no way to "improve" the gameplay.
I don't recall renegade, but "Starcraft: Ghost" was well-received in concept, even though the project ultimately failed.I think it could still be doable today with a rainbow-6 cross Assassin's Creed type game mechanic.
We already have a lot of book series which are spinoffs of or tied to game series, so I really see no reason one couldn't make an FPS-type game based on an RTS, or vice-versa. Blizzard's Overwatch could have had the same characters in something similar to LoL/DOTA.
Similarly, something like a new "Mass Effect" game could be great, so long as they have a good plot-line but to some extend honor their predecessors. ME2 changed how various game mechanics worked and did just fine. ME3 was good up to the end at which at lot of people feel it failed on plot
Nintendo has actually mixed up their core offerings a fair bit in some cases, be the the 2d->3d change with Metroid, or Zelda going from a 2d top-down to pseudo-3d, to full 3d, to 3d open-world. Being that BOTW is arguably one of the best games out in the last year or so, it's hard to say that you can stay within the say formula but still be "different" enough to be appealing.
What I'm still surprised about is that the "convertible" devices still haven't caught on: Something where you drop your phone/tablet/etc in a dock and then it attaches to accelerated hardware.
I guess only of the problems is that most mobile devices and ARM and/or Android/iOS based which doesn't exactly lend to a great desktop experience. Still, most mobile devices are getting beefy enough that they can run some fairly heavy apps/games if you add a little horsepower when docked. Maybe something like a Switch for a general purpose PC/mobile device.
It's not just a responsiveness thing though, there are also RSI considerations. Keys with resistance reduce finger velocity as they "click", which is why some people who do a lot of typing prefer the old clickity-clack or cherry-style keys. Touch devices are pretty much full velocity for every tap, followed by an abrupt termination when you hit the virtual "key". Basically, it's like drumming your fingers against a wall. That's not particularly good health-wise in the long term.
Well, a lot of distros put the primary user(s) a group that allows access to external/plugabble storage devices, which would also include external hard drives.
Possibly, but for a long time stuff that you download from a Torrent actually ran *better* than what you purchased, mainly due to being stripped of harmful DRM. I know plenty of people who used to buy stuff, shelf it, and then go for the downloaded version.
There's also stuff like CD ISO's. For a long time computers came with everything they needed to get back to their initial state in the form of driver and OS discs. Later, it became a "create a recovery image" option which let you burn a CD to reinstall. Then it became a "recovery partition" on the disk. That last option was convenient from a speed perspective, but when one of the most common failures was a dead drive, completely useless. It was similarly a pain for drive upgrades.
So what happens when you have a computer with a failed drive that's otherwise OK, a legit OS serial # and a replacement drive, but no OS disc to install. Well you hop on a torrent site and grab your OS disk so you can get your computer back.Again, these are computers that had a perfectly legit OS license, but no media was included.
Alternately, computers which sold with massive bloatware were in a similar boat. Even if you used the official OS restore you'd end up with a bunch of shitty additional/unwanted stuff taking up memory and disk space, possibly a backdoor if you include the Lenovo escapades but almost always antivirus, toolbars, "update checkers" etc etc.
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Except that in places like Saskatchewan - where you have a provincial Telco - prices are *much* more reasonable and they still manage to turn a decent profit.
Netflix throttling, youtube throttling, torrent-throttling and various other things have ALREADY been an issue.
Will it happen immediately? No.
Will it start to slowly degrade service and impact customers over time? Absolutely!
RX480, 4GB. I've been using the FOSS drivers for about a year now and they're GREAT. I did have to compile my own kernel in the earlier days but now the ones that come with Ubuntu etc seem to work just fine out of the box.
" Forceful, unconditional kernel operations. When I say "unmount this filesystem," I'm not asking a question. When I say "terminate this process," I expect the process to be removed from memory and the runqueue, regardless of consequences."
Thank you. Nothing is more maddening than doing a "-f" type of operation, particularly an unmount, and having the system bitch at you because "I think something is still using this". I've had major issues not being about to release USB devices that have glitched up because "umount -f" still refuses to actually unmount.
Why even have a fucking force option if it doesn't actually work?
Absolutely. There are some things that are definitely GOOD about systemd. The extensibility/overloading of the service/unit files is a good example of something that works well and is implemented in a way that makes a lot of sense. For example, you can have a service file at /usr/lib/systemd/system/somesystem.service /etc/systemd/system/somesystem.service.d/*.conf
And then modify functionality with units under
It's easy to do, and works nicely with packaging systems so that you can create an addon package to modify or add behavior without editing the file(s) supplied by the original package. The way you can build dependency chains is also quite useful.
There's also some stuff that is lame, like the binary logs and the needed to run journalctl or systemctl to figure out WTF your daemon is doing when it fails, or how the binary log can be corrupted so that you can *never* figure out what happened in some situations.
The biggest problem is the lack of compromise. A lot of people in SystemD-land have a "my way or the highway" attitude, whereas a lot of people in init-land have a "change is bad" mentality.
There's a trade-off between processing power consumption and speed of processing though, and it can be a fine-line.
If your phone is sucking up a lot of juice, then it's going to run out of battery faster... that's an easy enough deduction.
But how about running slow? If it takes 1.5x the amount of time to - say - process a webpage or open an attachment, then potentially you've got the phone in an "active" mode for longer, which may also mean increased usage of the backlight, radio, etc. So even if that uses 80% of the power to do so, 1.5 x 80% actually ends up consuming 120% of the nominal power usage due to the device being "active" longer.
I wonder how smart the bots are. If you could target the IP's or characteristics specific to the bot networks, then perhaps it might be possible to jack up the prices and limit stock just for them. It would be a win-in, as the seller gets a boatload of money for the bots, and the "regular" stock is still available to the direct customers.
That would be the beauty of it, and possibly the anti-loophole. You can do whatever shitty things you want to hide or skip-out on your patent taxes, but if you ever try to *use* those patents it's going to come back at ya.
Or
Consider patents as taxable assets. Tax based on the value of the patents held - which should be declared - with a surtax for unused patents. No tax avoidance loopholes.
If you bring out a submarine that you didn't declare for taxes, or sue while declaring the patent is worth a lot more than you paid taxes for.... oooooo, tax avoidance...
Reason 1:
https://www.krackattacks.com/
Reason 2:
https://www.armis.com/blueborn...
Those are two fairly major vulnerabilities that worked at a wireless level. Some vendors got it fixed fairly quickly, a lot did not (especially Android vendors). I love my Android phone feature-wise, but the platform is completely fuckadoo in terms of updates, and various models often have lingering security issues or even ones that get completely abandoned/unpatched, making them not just a risk to the owner but possibly nearby devices or infrastructure.
Realistically Android needs better central control, and much as I'm loath to give Google more control, I believe they should take more ownership of the base OS and patching, allowing for core updates to come from *them* as part of the platform rather than waiting on the vendors to implement their fixes. Make it like more like a Linux OS where they own the kernel and core, and vendors can add their stuff as packages and/or submit any special drivers back to Google for inclusion/patching.
Recent updates allowed more granular permissions, blocking autostart, and many other things that traditionally I used root apps for.
There is the aspect of maybe blocking Google's own shenannigans though, but not sure if it's worth having a device with other potential attack vectors due to having an non-updatable rooted OS.
I think that - in part - the reaction is in regards to the comments from a bunch of sickos/pedos as opposed to the kids posting themselves. That said, one *should* learn at a younger age to be careful of what you post online, as in the age of data-retention and mining it could have repercussions later in life.
Maybe one way to deal with it would be to restrict comments on videos posted by young persons.
Uh, as a business you can do a fair bit. As you mentioned, you care fire the aggressor, or at least warn him that he's going to be in the unemployment line unless he cuts the bullshit out. There's really *NO* need for any employee to rip into another, exempting where somebody fucked up royally at a job-related task. That's why you're the boss. It's a privilege and a responsibility.
As of a year or two ago, most of my (at least older) Windows games started working quite well.
I've setup a PXE server for which clients can run quite a few games, including various games running under wine .Easy ol'-fashioned LAN party!
Roomates or co-living is one situation where - to some extent - making some allowances makes sense. Generally if you're sharing close living quarters, it makes sense that people would want to be of either different genders or orientations.
"There is literally no right or wrong time to meet a significant other"
Well, I would say that when the potential significant other is an underage fan, there's probably NO right time...
"who the FUCK said that ANYONE wants a semi truck that can accelerate that fast"
Pretty much anyone who is stuck behind the semi which is blocking the left lane while passing the slightly slower semi that's blocking the right lane?
How about the rig that needs to cross a large intersection that will already have the light turning red by the time he's 75% of the way through...
With combined torque and acceleration, there are actually quite a number of situations where this can be a major benefit.
Indeed, I see little wrong with Micro or Loot so long as it's not tied to functionality (pay-to-win, pay-to-play). It's been proven over and over that people are willing to do the loot/micro thing for hats, skins, and unique visuals that in no way affect your ability to progress or win the game (and weren't advertised as part of the game). IMHO that seems a good balance to me.
If EA allowed you some freaking tie-fighter decals or the ability to buy certain custom character appearances, it's cool. If you have to P2W to get the abilities/weapons or stuff that was advertised as part of the core game, not core.
Even having people collect items to build a Darth "skin" would be not too bad assuming one could still have the same jedi/sith abilities without, and as long as it wasn't advertised as being part of the game...
Remember how Command & Conquer: Renegade was received when Westwood tried the opposite? Don't even think about it. There is no way to "improve" the gameplay.
I don't recall renegade, but "Starcraft: Ghost" was well-received in concept, even though the project ultimately failed.I think it could still be doable today with a rainbow-6 cross Assassin's Creed type game mechanic.
We already have a lot of book series which are spinoffs of or tied to game series, so I really see no reason one couldn't make an FPS-type game based on an RTS, or vice-versa. Blizzard's Overwatch could have had the same characters in something similar to LoL/DOTA.
Similarly, something like a new "Mass Effect" game could be great, so long as they have a good plot-line but to some extend honor their predecessors. ME2 changed how various game mechanics worked and did just fine. ME3 was good up to the end at which at lot of people feel it failed on plot
Nintendo has actually mixed up their core offerings a fair bit in some cases, be the the 2d->3d change with Metroid, or Zelda going from a 2d top-down to pseudo-3d, to full 3d, to 3d open-world. Being that BOTW is arguably one of the best games out in the last year or so, it's hard to say that you can stay within the say formula but still be "different" enough to be appealing.
What I'm still surprised about is that the "convertible" devices still haven't caught on: Something where you drop your phone/tablet/etc in a dock and then it attaches to accelerated hardware.
I guess only of the problems is that most mobile devices and ARM and/or Android/iOS based which doesn't exactly lend to a great desktop experience. Still, most mobile devices are getting beefy enough that they can run some fairly heavy apps/games if you add a little horsepower when docked. Maybe something like a Switch for a general purpose PC/mobile device.
It's not just a responsiveness thing though, there are also RSI considerations. Keys with resistance reduce finger velocity as they "click", which is why some people who do a lot of typing prefer the old clickity-clack or cherry-style keys.
Touch devices are pretty much full velocity for every tap, followed by an abrupt termination when you hit the virtual "key". Basically, it's like drumming your fingers against a wall. That's not particularly good health-wise in the long term.
It also assumes no back-doors by an already unhinged SysAdmin...
I think this was probably supposed to be "inappropriate" language, rather than "inadequate"
Well, a lot of distros put the primary user(s) a group that allows access to external/plugabble storage devices, which would also include external hard drives.
Possibly, but for a long time stuff that you download from a Torrent actually ran *better* than what you purchased, mainly due to being stripped of harmful DRM. I know plenty of people who used to buy stuff, shelf it, and then go for the downloaded version.
There's also stuff like CD ISO's. For a long time computers came with everything they needed to get back to their initial state in the form of driver and OS discs. Later, it became a "create a recovery image" option which let you burn a CD to reinstall. Then it became a "recovery partition" on the disk. That last option was convenient from a speed perspective, but when one of the most common failures was a dead drive, completely useless.
It was similarly a pain for drive upgrades.
So what happens when you have a computer with a failed drive that's otherwise OK, a legit OS serial # and a replacement drive, but no OS disc to install. Well you hop on a torrent site and grab your OS disk so you can get your computer back.Again, these are computers that had a perfectly legit OS license, but no media was included.
Alternately, computers which sold with massive bloatware were in a similar boat. Even if you used the official OS restore you'd end up with a bunch of shitty additional/unwanted stuff taking up memory and disk space, possibly a backdoor if you include the Lenovo escapades but almost always antivirus, toolbars, "update checkers" etc etc.