The issue is that radio is capricious and unreliable. Even in the best of circumstances, performance drops radically as more devices and distance are added. All it takes is one errant device with broken firmware or drivers, or just an older wireless chip to bring the whole network down to 3-4Mbit or worse. Depending on the AP's chipset, its firmware, and its settings, just having the errant device within range and switched on is all that's needed. It may not even need to associate to cause problems. This makes it impossible to guarantee performance for anything critical. This is in addition to external interference from nature, other equipment's RFI, or some errant fool who set up a baby monitor in the day care center down the hall that happens to use the same bands. Wireless is convenient but it does not have the scalability, reliability, or performance of wired solutions. They complement one another, not replace.
No it isn't. It's pseudonymous, doesn't encourage the upload of personal life data, isn't embedded in half the web, and while it does track basic relationships between users (friend/foe), that is not its primary purpose. Unlike facebook, lack of real-life data prevents it from triggering that highschool-like insecurity in people to keep them coming back.
Yes they do. Very rarely will they get even close to the theoretical max rate of whatever standard is in use in your area, never mind the advertised rate. This is true for any wireless standard because use of radio is subject to congestion and interference. Sorry, but there will always be wiring closets and hardwired connections for the applications and people that need/want performance and consistency.
and when a component breaks, I (or the local IT dept) can service it...oh wait, no, it's gotta disappear for two weeks while the display is replaced whereas a new workstation display can be delivered overnight.
noisy fans is right.. that's in addition to the components being underclocked for cooling/portability issues.. Typically, laptops are slow compared to equivalently priced desktops. If I don't need the portability, I'll take the desktop every time.
So in other words, instead of just paying for electricity and hardware I have control over, I can pay for plex cloud. I'm sure I can expect other interested parties having access to my data through an NSL and my ISP to stick me for insane bw usage. Yay! What a deal!
So does the PC version (afaik). The issue reported here isn't that the game doesn't work, it's that it installs a rootkit. From this perspective, your console is already rooted out of the box.
Yes, it's great that we're seeing more games going native multiplatform with linux. That said, linux still doesn't have the title availability that windows has.. So, if you're a pc gamer, you'll need a windows install at some point. With windows serving well enough for other tasks they may want to do, most just say 'fuck it' and run windows 24/7.
DRM sucks. Steam uses it too. I don't know why people exempt steam from criticism in this area. Anyway, this is tangential to the original point.
Sounds like a corporate setup so they probably integrate into AD. Also, systems like that practically need good video driver support to play back high res video without pegging the cpu and dropping frames. Linux is spotty with that at best (though it has been getting better).
Ever watch 'Amerika' (the 1987 abc miniseries)? The backstory is a russian 'bloodless' takeover in an alternate 1997 because americans turned inward rather than stand up for their country's values. Meanwhile, the soviets established dominance in the rest of the world. This takeover was prefixed by a massive manipulation of the last presidential election. It had three candidates, two of which were russian patsies meant to divide the country over petty concerns. When the time came, they both were used to discredit the third, someone who might've been able to stop it.
There are issues with the series (pacing, direction) and obviously the political stage is completely different, but I think this main theme (of americans turning inward, allowing themselves to be factionalized into petty, misinformed castes) rings true today. The russians fooling with american politics is a dangerous proposition.
This is why SaaS should never be used for anything but the largest of systems, and only if a private datacenter is out of the question. No one else should use it for anything important. Price models, functionality, interfaces, and APIs can and will change at a moment's notice, and the EULA will back that play every time. The business model trumps user needs. While this can happen with traditional software, at least the user has final say on if, when, and where that happens because the old version doesn't stop working (or can be cracked to do so if desperate).
Why are you siding with Microsoft and/or the vendors for this? Sure, they have a right to sell it however they like, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticized for it. The one thing that the PC has over other platforms is its open endedness.. These products deserve criticism for even getting the ball rolling to change that. The last thing I'd want is for the PC market to be more like cellphones.
My kid already learned to read and has a pretty good background in the basics, so I imagine it's going to be a less than engaging first year.
Then that school is doing your kid a disservice and wasting all that time you put in to his learning the basics. Why should your kid be held back by welfare funded children who weren't weaned properly?
I know everyone hates the common core stuff, but I do see the point.
I don't. School shouldn't be a model of Marxist equal outcome. Human beings are too diverse to work that way. This has been proven repeatedly over the last 80 years and the powers that be still haven't gotten the message.
Also, having recess is almost optional in my mind. Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese and other countries' students spend way more time in school than our students do.
and their societies praise conformity over free-thought and innovative approaches. In the case of Japan anyway, their suicide rates are the highest in the world. No shock there. China and India are rife with corruption and social ladder climbing because merit doesn't count for shit. It's all about what class the kid was born into. Koreans are rigid and tightassed to a fault. Sure, they're good at training their little prodigies, but I don't want to live like any of these people do. If you want your kid raised this way, please just move there. I feel sorry for him.
Summers off are part of growing up.. Those little bits of unstructured time to explore bits of what it's like to be adult: camps to explore interests/ (healthy) teamwork, part time jobs first times driving, etc.. Trust me, you don't want to coddle your kid like they suggest until he hits 18 and then drop him off at college.. You WILL regret it and he will hate you for it.
In the 80s, we had 30 minutes for lunch and 45 minutes for recess. I guess they don't want kids spending too much time playing as it might give them a taste of the free thought that comes with free-play.
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4.8 doesn't require systemd either..
Actually, the third item sounds good. Too many courts let 'precedent' decide outcomes rather than reason and the individual case.
Reporting the facts. All of them. Leave the editorializing to the readers.
..and downplayed by its adherents.
The issue is that radio is capricious and unreliable. Even in the best of circumstances, performance drops radically as more devices and distance are added. All it takes is one errant device with broken firmware or drivers, or just an older wireless chip to bring the whole network down to 3-4Mbit or worse. Depending on the AP's chipset, its firmware, and its settings, just having the errant device within range and switched on is all that's needed. It may not even need to associate to cause problems. This makes it impossible to guarantee performance for anything critical. This is in addition to external interference from nature, other equipment's RFI, or some errant fool who set up a baby monitor in the day care center down the hall that happens to use the same bands. Wireless is convenient but it does not have the scalability, reliability, or performance of wired solutions. They complement one another, not replace.
No it isn't. It's pseudonymous, doesn't encourage the upload of personal life data, isn't embedded in half the web, and while it does track basic relationships between users (friend/foe), that is not its primary purpose. Unlike facebook, lack of real-life data prevents it from triggering that highschool-like insecurity in people to keep them coming back.
Oh look, ad hominem. How's clicking 'like' doing it for ya? Does it fill that empty void that should be filled with real-life friends?
Yes they do. Very rarely will they get even close to the theoretical max rate of whatever standard is in use in your area, never mind the advertised rate. This is true for any wireless standard because use of radio is subject to congestion and interference. Sorry, but there will always be wiring closets and hardwired connections for the applications and people that need/want performance and consistency.
better off just blocking facebook's network at the router..
and when a component breaks, I (or the local IT dept) can service it...oh wait, no, it's gotta disappear for two weeks while the display is replaced whereas a new workstation display can be delivered overnight.
noisy fans is right.. that's in addition to the components being underclocked for cooling/portability issues.. Typically, laptops are slow compared to equivalently priced desktops. If I don't need the portability, I'll take the desktop every time.
So in other words, instead of just paying for electricity and hardware I have control over, I can pay for plex cloud. I'm sure I can expect other interested parties having access to my data through an NSL and my ISP to stick me for insane bw usage. Yay! What a deal!
So does the PC version (afaik). The issue reported here isn't that the game doesn't work, it's that it installs a rootkit. From this perspective, your console is already rooted out of the box.
Yes, it's great that we're seeing more games going native multiplatform with linux. That said, linux still doesn't have the title availability that windows has.. So, if you're a pc gamer, you'll need a windows install at some point. With windows serving well enough for other tasks they may want to do, most just say 'fuck it' and run windows 24/7.
DRM sucks. Steam uses it too. I don't know why people exempt steam from criticism in this area. Anyway, this is tangential to the original point.
Thank you, exactly.
To me, it's laziness. Instead of making a proper counter, it's the equivalent of saying "nuh uuuhh because I said so."
Especially when it's used as a justification in an argument ("sorry, that's not a thing"). It's even worse than abuse of the word 'literal.'
Sounds like a corporate setup so they probably integrate into AD. Also, systems like that practically need good video driver support to play back high res video without pegging the cpu and dropping frames. Linux is spotty with that at best (though it has been getting better).
Because people want to play video games..
Ever watch 'Amerika' (the 1987 abc miniseries)? The backstory is a russian 'bloodless' takeover in an alternate 1997 because americans turned inward rather than stand up for their country's values. Meanwhile, the soviets established dominance in the rest of the world. This takeover was prefixed by a massive manipulation of the last presidential election. It had three candidates, two of which were russian patsies meant to divide the country over petty concerns. When the time came, they both were used to discredit the third, someone who might've been able to stop it.
There are issues with the series (pacing, direction) and obviously the political stage is completely different, but I think this main theme (of americans turning inward, allowing themselves to be factionalized into petty, misinformed castes) rings true today. The russians fooling with american politics is a dangerous proposition.
This is why SaaS should never be used for anything but the largest of systems, and only if a private datacenter is out of the question. No one else should use it for anything important. Price models, functionality, interfaces, and APIs can and will change at a moment's notice, and the EULA will back that play every time. The business model trumps user needs. While this can happen with traditional software, at least the user has final say on if, when, and where that happens because the old version doesn't stop working (or can be cracked to do so if desperate).
Why are you siding with Microsoft and/or the vendors for this? Sure, they have a right to sell it however they like, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticized for it. The one thing that the PC has over other platforms is its open endedness.. These products deserve criticism for even getting the ball rolling to change that. The last thing I'd want is for the PC market to be more like cellphones.
No it's not. Using the proper terms and then explaining them is the most informative explanation if the piece is meant for laymen.
My kid already learned to read and has a pretty good background in the basics, so I imagine it's going to be a less than engaging first year.
Then that school is doing your kid a disservice and wasting all that time you put in to his learning the basics. Why should your kid be held back by welfare funded children who weren't weaned properly?
I know everyone hates the common core stuff, but I do see the point.
I don't. School shouldn't be a model of Marxist equal outcome. Human beings are too diverse to work that way. This has been proven repeatedly over the last 80 years and the powers that be still haven't gotten the message.
Also, having recess is almost optional in my mind. Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese and other countries' students spend way more time in school than our students do.
and their societies praise conformity over free-thought and innovative approaches. In the case of Japan anyway, their suicide rates are the highest in the world. No shock there. China and India are rife with corruption and social ladder climbing because merit doesn't count for shit. It's all about what class the kid was born into. Koreans are rigid and tightassed to a fault. Sure, they're good at training their little prodigies, but I don't want to live like any of these people do. If you want your kid raised this way, please just move there. I feel sorry for him.
Summers off are part of growing up.. Those little bits of unstructured time to explore bits of what it's like to be adult: camps to explore interests/ (healthy) teamwork, part time jobs first times driving, etc.. Trust me, you don't want to coddle your kid like they suggest until he hits 18 and then drop him off at college.. You WILL regret it and he will hate you for it.
Yes because an obsession with athletics led to what? An army of fat armchair football fans?
In the 80s, we had 30 minutes for lunch and 45 minutes for recess. I guess they don't want kids spending too much time playing as it might give them a taste of the free thought that comes with free-play.