First off, these gadgets are not telephones, they are computers: Computers you are not permitted to control. Making it impossible to understand anything that is going on, is part of the toy interface designed to prevent you from even attempting to be anything but a pawn, a slave to this Telescreen, this panopticon, this Simon Legree in a pretty, slick case. Why would anyone want such a gadget, much less pay for one?
Because it does what they want and need it to do in a simple and straight-forward way.
Because they are not system-level programmers or hardware-oriented technical hobbyists. They might be very proficient in creating and editing documents in Office 365 or Google Docs --- and then relaxing by playing a few rounds of Solitairde, watching a movie on Netflix, or reading an e-book from Kindle,
SteamOS is downstream from Debian, which has not deprecated fglrx yet and probably won't until the new AMD driver comes out.
Ubuntu has 0.4% share of the Steam Market. 40% of Linux's pathetic 1% share of the Steam market. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016 Stats for SteamOS or the Steam Machine aren't to be found here, or anywhere else for that matter.
I suspect because the numbers are so bad no one wants to see them in print.
I would have put the apostrophe key on a 35 foot extension, since most people seem unable to grasp that it's means it is.
Slashdot is a forum without integrated spelling or grammar checking. Cut and Paste doesn't work reliably: "it's" becomes "itâ(TM)s." For even more fun, try posting a timely response to a Slashdot story from a tablet or smartphone.
Updates KB 3140743 and KB 3139907 installed routinely on both my four year old 64 Bit HP desktop (Win 10 Pro Build 10586) and 32 Bit HP Stream 8 tablet (Win 10 Home Build 10586). I've seen no problems with performance or stability, no problems with programs like Edge or the 64 bit Firefox beta.
There are something like 200 million Win 10 installations out there.
How many of them will be successfully updated over the weekend with their users barely aware that anything unusual had happened?
How many root certificates does Microsoft hold and how long did it take to recover the 147 that were lost? Tech news posted to Slashdot tends to be a little skeletal and runs on the principle of "better late than never."
Microsoft says that it lost audit data for 147 root certificates, which resulted in many SSL/TLS certificates showing errors inside the company's products.
I am curious as well about how often these certificates change. How old a backup is too old?
Cryptocoin could be regarded as a currency backing that actually scales with economic output - because there are no physical limits beyond manufacturing the ASICs and generating the energy
Meaning that what costs 10 bitcoins in the morning may cost 12 bitcoins at noon, 100 bitcoins tomorrow and a 1000 bitcoins next week.
The same argument applies to cars, guns, knives, shoes... all used by drug traffickers, criminals, and terrorists. Knife companies should be required to install a failsafe so that the blades can be remotely deactivated at the government's request.
I know the geek loves this argument. But it is the lawmakers who get to decide when and where to draw the line.
The prequel, actually. The morons btw get their revenge, courtesy of Douglas Adams.
A similar plot appears in the 1980 novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Golgafrinchans convince "the most useless third" of their population to get on a spaceship and leave their home planet; unfortunately, since the spaceship contains all the telephone sanitizers, the rest of the planet's population is killed by a contagious disease contracted from a dirty telephone. The "useless" Golgafrinchans eventually populate the Earth.
That this anti-Semitic drivel should receive a mod-up is obscene:
Who do you think is behind all this 'women are the same as men and therefore must be given men's jobs' bullshit? You'll notice that women aren't being given DANGEROUS jobs that men die while doing, like construction, foundry work, oil rig work, mining, you name it. More JEWISH nation-wrecking.
In 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 9,813,000 people working in the construction industry. Of these, 872,000 of them, or 8.9 percent, were women.
Women in the U.S. earn on average 82.1 percent what men make. The gender pay gap is much narrower in the construction industry. In construction, women earn on average 93.4 percent what men make
In keeping with Quaker tenets, Sidwell Friends School seeks a student body that represents varied economic backgrounds. In 2015-2016, 23% of our students will receive approximately $6,700,000 of financial aid support with an average aid award of $25,708, which covers two-thirds of the average tuition cost.
All students must acquire at least 20 credits before graduating. Students are required to take four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of history, two years of one foreign language, two years of science, and two years of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take a full year Freshman Studies course. Sidwell is a member school of School Year Abroad.
Notable alumni
Ann Brashares, author, "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" Margaret Edison, playwright, Pulitzer Prize for Drama Walter Gilbert, Nobel Prize chemist Hannah Gray, later President of the University of Chicago Davis Guggenheim, director, "An Inconvenient Truth" Campbell McGrath, poet, MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award winner Bill Nye, "Science Guy" Robert Watson, computer science and network security, FreeBSD
Google the names of senior executives at MTA and have conversations than slander their sexual habits, lack personal honesty, cruelty to animals and studying at a Bible University. Pepper your speech with copious profanity in multiple languages, making the task of humans who listen to this crap more onerous. The poor sods who have to monitor this will have to pass the 'threats' up the management chain. Enough false positives will make them reconsider their approach.
More likely you'll be booted off the bus as a damn nuisance to the driver and passengers before you are up to speed and that will be the end of it.
What you are advising of course is a conspiracy to slander and harass MTA execs --- which will end in a generous contribution to your attorney's retirement fund, and maybe a year or so in a Baltimore lock-up, assuming anyone thinks you are worth the trouble. .
If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor.
It isn't easy to compete with an integrated and affordable mass transit system on this scale. Not to mention the small problem of finding a competitor who isn't keeping an eye on his own drivers and passengers.
MTA Maryland operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. There are 80 bus lines serving Baltimore's public transportation needs, along with other services that include the Light Rail, Metro Subway, and MARC Train. With nearly half the population of Baltimore residents lacking access to a car, the MTA is an important part of the regional transit picture. The system has many connections to other transit agencies of Central Maryland, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and south-central Pennsylvania (Hanover, Harrisburg, and York): WMATA, Charm City Circulator, Regional Transportation Agency of Central Maryland, Annapolis Transit, Rabbit Transit, Ride-On, and TransIT.
Wouldn't the first step be to stop snooping through their user's information themselves?
Your OS is in the hands of hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion or so, non-technical, non-specialist, end users. The despair of the help desk, assuming there even is a help desk, and unable to communicate a useful bug report to a developer.
That is why you build agents like Cortana and Siri into the system, and that is why you use telemetry to the get an accurate picture of how the OS and applications are performing the hands of those who need the most support.
One of the things that brought the Roman empire down was all the poor barbarians who wanted in on her wealth. So, they flooded over the boarders and sucked them dry.
It might be closer to the truth to say that they were invited in. Not to mention that at this point, the greater part of the wealth and power of the Empire had shifted to the East, to Constantinople. Where the Greek and Christianized Empire would survive in more or less recognizable form for another 1,000 years.
For most of its history, Rome's military was the envy of the ancient world. But during the decline, the makeup of the once mighty legions began to change. Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Roman citizenry, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine began hiring foreign mercenaries to prop up their armies. The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word "barbarous" in place of "soldier." While these Germanic soldiers of fortune proved to be fierce warriors, they also had little or no loyalty to the empire, and their power-hungry officers often turned against their Roman employers. In fact, many of the barbarians who sacked the city of Rome and brought down the Western Empire had earned their military stripes while serving in the Roman legions.
Balrum, Gloiath, And So It Was, Soul Axiom, and Fairies vs. Darklings: Arcane Edition were among the latest Steam Linux game releases. Meanwhile, the Steam Windows game count is at 7,560 and OS X is at 2,900.
It is not hard to imagine 10,000 Windows games being distributed through Steam in the not too distant future.
But there are at least two numbers that matter more that a simple count of games. The first is sales. The second is the breakdown between casual Indie games and the somewhat more ambitious and demanding AA and AAA titles --- another $3 gem-drop game like "Fairies vs Darklings" takes Linux gaming only so far.
There's plenty of evidence that what is now a luxury that only the 1% could afford will eventually become affordable for the other 99%.
The SST makes sense only over global distances. New York to Beijing. San Francisco to Tokyo. The question is whether the market for a 6 to 8 hr. SST flight is strong enough to bear the premium above the mass market or business class fare for the 16 hr. airbus.
Will someone please tell me why an institutional purchaser ---- particularly in a mixed OS environment --- isn't that all new systems support Secure Boot.
The rusted out body of a Model A for 18K+ when you can buy a beautiful fully restored working Model As for as little 16,000
The E-bay listing is for an unassembled export model Phaeton with right hand drive. A quick spin around Google suggests a restored Phaeton would sell for more like $30 K and up.
Neither were the Star Trek's holodecks, if you want to be pedantic about the thing. The point is that words take on new meanings in popular usage - casual usage - that won't always be found in the dictionary. The HoloLens places virtual objects in real environments in a way that is persuasive to the viewer, which is the most you can ask of a real holographic projection.
But hey, asking Microsoft to stop abusing something is a lost fight, right?
For those still running windows, and not Chrome OS, Mac, Linux or BSD consider this...an intervention on behalf of the slashdot community. im sure you have some immediate concerns -- reasons perhaps -- that you cannot part with your abuser. ill try my best to assuage your fears.
The Linux evangelist arrives at your door unbidden like the Seventh-Day Adventists. But shy a tenth of the humility or respect for their hosts.
1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux.
2 I need it for office documents. 3. well its what my office uses so...
LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the 'nineties, which not much to offer in terms of extensions, templates, and other resources.
MS Office is one component of an office system that scales to an enterprise of any size --- and it remains the gold standard for clerical work. Third party support and integration with other core business applications is excellent.
4. $os_name is hard. it doesn do $feature.
its hard because learning new things requires effort. that other OS might not do exactly what windows does, but it still accomplishes the same tasks you need it to do in a different way.
The truth is that damn near everything of interest in FOSS/Linux is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app. That has never been true the other way around. The Windows user is task-oriented not OS oriented and that is something the geek never seems to understand. Windows does it all.
Windows does not respect you or your work. It insults your intelligence and flagrantly ignores your privacy. it sacrifices your productivity and needs for its own. the things it shows you and teaches you arent always things you set out to do or want from the OS, but theyre things the OS wants from you.
What I want from an OS is that it be responsive to the needs of a non-technical, non-specialist user. For that to happen, the OS must communicate with its developers in ways that I cannot. I set certain limits, but I don' get the shakes when I hear the word "telemetry."
In 20 years as a home user. I have made perhaps a half-dozen calls to MS technical support. I haven't had he slightest concern about my "productivity" when running Windows 10.
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First off, these gadgets are not telephones, they are computers: Computers you are not permitted to control. Making it impossible to understand anything that is going on, is part of the toy interface designed to prevent you from even attempting to be anything but a pawn, a slave to this Telescreen, this panopticon, this Simon Legree in a pretty, slick case. Why would anyone want such a gadget, much less pay for one?
Because it does what they want and need it to do in a simple and straight-forward way.
Because they are not system-level programmers or hardware-oriented technical hobbyists. They might be very proficient in creating and editing documents in Office 365 or Google Docs --- and then relaxing by playing a few rounds of Solitairde, watching a movie on Netflix, or reading an e-book from Kindle,
SteamOS is downstream from Debian, which has not deprecated fglrx yet and probably won't until the new AMD driver comes out.
Ubuntu has 0.4% share of the Steam Market. 40% of Linux's pathetic 1% share of the Steam market. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016 Stats for SteamOS or the Steam Machine aren't to be found here, or anywhere else for that matter.
I suspect because the numbers are so bad no one wants to see them in print.
when the car is set to autonomous mode the steering wheel retracts and the two front seats turn to face each other
This means that the driver can't possibly have the situational awareness or the time needed to intervene should autonomous mode fail for any reason.
What's a watch, grandpa?
The one piece of jewelry other than a wedding ring a man can wear in public in any situation, no questions asked.
The one gadget you own that is pretty much guaranteed to continue to do its job no matter how badly you neglect or abuse it.
I would have put the apostrophe key on a 35 foot extension, since most people seem unable to grasp that it's means it is.
Slashdot is a forum without integrated spelling or grammar checking. Cut and Paste doesn't work reliably: "it's" becomes "itâ(TM)s." For even more fun, try posting a timely response to a Slashdot story from a tablet or smartphone.
Updates KB 3140743 and KB 3139907 installed routinely on both my four year old 64 Bit HP desktop (Win 10 Pro Build 10586) and 32 Bit HP Stream 8 tablet (Win 10 Home Build 10586). I've seen no problems with performance or stability, no problems with programs like Edge or the 64 bit Firefox beta.
There are something like 200 million Win 10 installations out there.
How many of them will be successfully updated over the weekend with their users barely aware that anything unusual had happened?
How many root certificates does Microsoft hold and how long did it take to recover the 147 that were lost? Tech news posted to Slashdot tends to be a little skeletal and runs on the principle of "better late than never."
Microsoft says that it lost audit data for 147 root certificates, which resulted in many SSL/TLS certificates showing errors inside the company's products.
I am curious as well about how often these certificates change. How old a backup is too old?
it does just seem in general like they aren't working on cross-platform support at all anymore
There are 1,900 games available for Linux on Steam.
But only 1% of Steam gamers run Linux --- and the visibility of the Steam Machine has shrunk dramatically since its introduction last fall.
Cryptocoin could be regarded as a currency backing that actually scales with economic output - because there are no physical limits beyond manufacturing the ASICs and generating the energy
Meaning that what costs 10 bitcoins in the morning may cost 12 bitcoins at noon, 100 bitcoins tomorrow and a 1000 bitcoins next week.
The same argument applies to cars, guns, knives, shoes... all used by drug traffickers, criminals, and terrorists. Knife companies should be required to install a failsafe so that the blades can be remotely deactivated at the government's request.
I know the geek loves this argument. But it is the lawmakers who get to decide when and where to draw the line.
A sequel (sort of ) to "The Marching Morons".
The prequel, actually. The morons btw get their revenge, courtesy of Douglas Adams.
A similar plot appears in the 1980 novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Golgafrinchans convince "the most useless third" of their population to get on a spaceship and leave their home planet; unfortunately, since the spaceship contains all the telephone sanitizers, the rest of the planet's population is killed by a contagious disease contracted from a dirty telephone. The "useless" Golgafrinchans eventually populate the Earth.
The Marching Morons
Who do you think is behind all this 'women are the same as men and therefore must be given men's jobs' bullshit? You'll notice that women aren't being given DANGEROUS jobs that men die while doing, like construction, foundry work, oil rig work, mining, you name it. More JEWISH nation-wrecking.
In 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 9,813,000 people working in the construction industry. Of these, 872,000 of them, or 8.9 percent, were women.
Women in the U.S. earn on average 82.1 percent what men make. The gender pay gap is much narrower in the construction industry. In construction, women earn on average 93.4 percent what men make
Statistics of Women in Construction [National Association of Women in Construction
In keeping with Quaker tenets, Sidwell Friends School seeks a student body that represents varied economic backgrounds. In 2015-2016, 23% of our students will receive approximately $6,700,000 of financial aid support with an average aid award of $25,708, which covers two-thirds of the average tuition cost.
Financial Aid
All students must acquire at least 20 credits before graduating. Students are required to take four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of history, two years of one foreign language, two years of science, and two years of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take a full year Freshman Studies course. Sidwell is a member school of School Year Abroad.
Notable alumni
Ann Brashares, author, "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants"
Margaret Edison, playwright, Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Walter Gilbert, Nobel Prize chemist
Hannah Gray, later President of the University of Chicago
Davis Guggenheim, director, "An Inconvenient Truth"
Campbell McGrath, poet, MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award winner
Bill Nye, "Science Guy"
Robert Watson, computer science and network security, FreeBSD
Sidwell Friends School/A?
Google the names of senior executives at MTA and have conversations than slander their sexual habits, lack personal honesty, cruelty to animals and studying at a Bible University. Pepper your speech with copious profanity in multiple languages, making the task of humans who listen to this crap more onerous.
The poor sods who have to monitor this will have to pass the 'threats' up the management chain. Enough false positives will make them reconsider their approach.
More likely you'll be booted off the bus as a damn nuisance to the driver and passengers before you are up to speed and that will be the end of it.
What you are advising of course is a conspiracy to slander and harass MTA execs --- which will end in a generous contribution to your attorney's retirement fund, and maybe a year or so in a Baltimore lock-up, assuming anyone thinks you are worth the trouble. .
If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor.
It isn't easy to compete with an integrated and affordable mass transit system on this scale. Not to mention the small problem of finding a competitor who isn't keeping an eye on his own drivers and passengers.
MTA Maryland operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. There are 80 bus lines serving Baltimore's public transportation needs, along with other services that include the Light Rail, Metro Subway, and MARC Train. With nearly half the population of Baltimore residents lacking access to a car, the MTA is an important part of the regional transit picture. The system has many connections to other transit agencies of Central Maryland, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and south-central Pennsylvania (Hanover, Harrisburg, and York): WMATA, Charm City Circulator, Regional Transportation Agency of Central Maryland, Annapolis Transit, Rabbit Transit, Ride-On, and TransIT.
Daily ridership: 392,831 weekday average
Maryland Transit Administration
We could see an "Alienware Xbox" sometime soon.
We could Alienware exiting the Steam Machine market. Seriously.
In a bizarre twist of fate, high end Steam Machines are being purchased for Win 10 console gaming. ZOTAC NEN Steam Machine 6th Gen Intel Core i5-6400T Quad-Core CPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 8GB Memory 1TB 2.5-inch Hard Drive Dual Gigabit Lan 802.11ac Bluetooth 4.0 ( ZBOX-SN970-P-U)
While sales of more affordable Steam Machines with very credible specs have been nothing to write home about. Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i3, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU #395 in Desktop sales at Amazon.com.
I'm quoting Amazon.com here because I can't find any better numbers for Steam Machine sales. I can't find much about Steam Machine sales, period.
Wouldn't the first step be to stop snooping through their user's information themselves?
Your OS is in the hands of hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion or so, non-technical, non-specialist, end users. The despair of the help desk, assuming there even is a help desk, and unable to communicate a useful bug report to a developer.
That is why you build agents like Cortana and Siri into the system, and that is why you use telemetry to the get an accurate picture of how the OS and applications are performing the hands of those who need the most support.
One of the things that brought the Roman empire down was all the poor barbarians who wanted in on her wealth. So, they flooded over the boarders and sucked them dry.
It might be closer to the truth to say that they were invited in. Not to mention that at this point, the greater part of the wealth and power of the Empire had shifted to the East, to Constantinople. Where the Greek and Christianized Empire would survive in more or less recognizable form for another 1,000 years.
For most of its history, Rome's military was the envy of the ancient world. But during the decline, the makeup of the once mighty legions began to change. Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Roman citizenry, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine began hiring foreign mercenaries to prop up their armies. The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word "barbarous" in place of "soldier." While these Germanic soldiers of fortune proved to be fierce warriors, they also had little or no loyalty to the empire, and their power-hungry officers often turned against their Roman employers. In fact, many of the barbarians who sacked the city of Rome and brought down the Western Empire had earned their military stripes while serving in the Roman legions.
8 Reasons Why Rome Fell
Balrum, Gloiath, And So It Was, Soul Axiom, and Fairies vs. Darklings: Arcane Edition were among the latest Steam Linux game releases. Meanwhile, the Steam Windows game count is at 7,560 and OS X is at 2,900.
It is not hard to imagine 10,000 Windows games being distributed through Steam in the not too distant future.
But there are at least two numbers that matter more that a simple count of games. The first is sales. The second is the breakdown between casual Indie games and the somewhat more ambitious and demanding AA and AAA titles --- another $3 gem-drop game like "Fairies vs Darklings" takes Linux gaming only so far.
No one buys $2,200 PCs anymore, unless they are Apple. Come to think of it, no one buys desktop PC's for home anymore.
Best Sellers in Desktop Computers
#57 CybertronPC Thallium X99 Red Gaming Desktop-Intel i7-5960X, 64GB DDR4,3x NVIDIA GTX980 Ti, Microsoft Windows 10 $6000.
#286 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-6980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU $679.
[12:15 AM EDT March 1]
There's plenty of evidence that what is now a luxury that only the 1% could afford will eventually become affordable for the other 99%.
The SST makes sense only over global distances. New York to Beijing. San Francisco to Tokyo. The question is whether the market for a 6 to 8 hr. SST flight is strong enough to bear the premium above the mass market or business class fare for the 16 hr. airbus.
Will someone please tell me why an institutional purchaser ---- particularly in a mixed OS environment --- isn't that all new systems support Secure Boot.
The rusted out body of a Model A for 18K+ when you can buy a beautiful fully restored working Model As for as little 16,000
The E-bay listing is for an unassembled export model Phaeton with right hand drive. A quick spin around Google suggests a restored Phaeton would sell for more like $30 K and up.
This platform is not "holographic"...
Neither were the Star Trek's holodecks, if you want to be pedantic about the thing. The point is that words take on new meanings in popular usage - casual usage - that won't always be found in the dictionary. The HoloLens places virtual objects in real environments in a way that is persuasive to the viewer, which is the most you can ask of a real holographic projection.
But hey, asking Microsoft to stop abusing something is a lost fight, right?
For those still running windows, and not Chrome OS, Mac, Linux or BSD consider this...an intervention on behalf of the slashdot community. im sure you have some immediate concerns -- reasons perhaps -- that you cannot part with your abuser. ill try my best to assuage your fears.
The Linux evangelist arrives at your door unbidden like the Seventh-Day Adventists. But shy a tenth of the humility or respect for their hosts.
1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux.
and 6,000 games that run just fine under Windows. Steam Reaches 6,000 Games [August 2015]
2 I need it for office documents.
3. well its what my office uses so...
LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the 'nineties, which not much to offer in terms of extensions, templates, and other resources.
MS Office is one component of an office system that scales to an enterprise of any size --- and it remains the gold standard for clerical work. Third party support and integration with other core business applications is excellent.
4. $os_name is hard. it doesn do $feature. its hard because learning new things requires effort. that other OS might not do exactly what windows does, but it still accomplishes the same tasks you need it to do in a different way.
The truth is that damn near everything of interest in FOSS/Linux is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app. That has never been true the other way around. The Windows user is task-oriented not OS oriented and that is something the geek never seems to understand. Windows does it all.
Windows does not respect you or your work. It insults your intelligence and flagrantly ignores your privacy. it sacrifices your productivity and needs for its own. the things it shows you and teaches you arent always things you set out to do or want from the OS, but theyre things the OS wants from you.
What I want from an OS is that it be responsive to the needs of a non-technical, non-specialist user. For that to happen, the OS must communicate with its developers in ways that I cannot. I set certain limits, but I don' get the shakes when I hear the word "telemetry."
In 20 years as a home user. I have made perhaps a half-dozen calls to MS technical support. I haven't had he slightest concern about my "productivity" when running Windows 10.