They're shifting to 1920x1080 instead of x1200 because of cost - the industry is pumping out a LOT of 1920x1080 displays for TV sets, so that exact resolution is cheap.
Square, high-resolution displays do exist.... generally used in radar applications.
Android phones typically do *not* list their capacity - either total or available. Instead they just have a memory slot. The customer can put in as much or as little memory as they need, without being charged a rediculous amount (Microsoft $100 for an extra 32GB of space; a 32GB micro flash card is about $25).
2% for a few days? 2% for a week's float works out to a 180% interest rate. At what point do they stop being a credit card, and start being a loan shark?
But that's the point. If they can in theory, then the site is not secure.
If they can in theory, then they can be forced to do so by a court order. Capture your password the next time you log in, decrypt your keys, then decrypt your files. If the courts can compel Mega to deliver unencrypted files as evidence, then the site is useless.
Why is *any* database a part of an OS? This isn't required functionality. It isn't even day-to-day useful as a browser, or a word processor.
After installing the base OS, a distro can offer to optionally install packages - such as a database - but I don't see why that choice should be limited to just one example. Make both MySQL and MariaDB available, and any others you want.
You can encypher your data before uploading on *any* site. At that point they are all equally secure. Kim's claim was that Mega was more secure by design.
However, the claim is completely broken. Mega is using a public/private key pair - generated by the web site - and so their servers actually *do* know both your keys, and *can* decrypt your data. So, basically, it is no more secure than dropbox.
Make them ALL plugins. For really popular formats, just ship the plugin with the browser by default. Browsers are bloated enough as they are - trim the binary down to the minimum possible, and only load the plugins when they are needed. This also forces the browser developer to optimize the codec plugin path well enough to stream live video, instead of optimizing the builtins and leaving the plugin ones with half-baked support.
It would also allow users to remove support for formats they don't like/want/need. Apple fans could delete everything except aac, Microsofties could delete everything except their own. RMS could delete all the non-'Free' ones.
His proposal is for *amateur* radio. Commercial radio would not be affected.
In the amateur radio space, the aim of the only-use-approved-standards legislation is to allow the FCC to monitor amateur communications. If this passes, it would make it far more difficult for the FCC to enforce their regulations, and make it much easier for non-amateurs to illegally use these bands. Hopefully someone will petition the FCC to stop this by playing the "terrorists will use this" card.
Digital communications experimentation is already allowed at UHF frequencies so this proposal really does not gain anything at all. It's not like the amateur bands are over crowded.
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The only people that should be against this is the Cartels and the ATF.
Alcohol is fully legal - and yet there are quite a few moonshiners out there.
Making drugs legal won't stop the issues, it will merely change them, like it did when they legalized alcohol.
Cell phones are just two-way radios; those existed in 1960.
Mobile phones existed in 1946.
Thomas Edison didn't invent pictures.
No, he didn't. Photography existed in the 1820's; Edison was born in 1847. There could easily exist baby pictures of Edison.
Best thing about writing a customer-service simulator: if your code freezes, people don't care, they think it's part of the simulation.
They're shifting to 1920x1080 instead of x1200 because of cost - the industry is pumping out a LOT of 1920x1080 displays for TV sets, so that exact resolution is cheap.
Square, high-resolution displays do exist.... generally used in radar applications.
Android phones typically do *not* list their capacity - either total or available. Instead they just have a memory slot. The customer can put in as much or as little memory as they need, without being charged a rediculous amount (Microsoft $100 for an extra 32GB of space; a 32GB micro flash card is about $25).
For the first time a summary that ends in a question can be answered by a yes.
That doesn't mean there won't be 300 responses to this story, though.
You can store a *lot* of plain text files (not HTML or source code) in 23GB.
Source code *is* plain text files.
No mention of Nokia?
TFS said "Microsoft is struggling".
Wow, those model numbers are so intuitive. I can't see what could go wrong.
How about the upcoming confusion between "OS 10" and "OS X" ?
If I wasn't already a loyal customer, I sure would become one now.
2% for a few days? 2% for a week's float works out to a 180% interest rate. At what point do they stop being a credit card, and start being a loan shark?
.... which is the westernized name for the "Republic of China".
So where was your motherboard made?
But that's the point. If they can in theory, then the site is not secure.
If they can in theory, then they can be forced to do so by a court order. Capture your password the next time you log in, decrypt your keys, then decrypt your files. If the courts can compel Mega to deliver unencrypted files as evidence, then the site is useless.
Why is *any* database a part of an OS? This isn't required functionality. It isn't even day-to-day useful as a browser, or a word processor.
After installing the base OS, a distro can offer to optionally install packages - such as a database - but I don't see why that choice should be limited to just one example. Make both MySQL and MariaDB available, and any others you want.
You can encypher your data before uploading on *any* site. At that point they are all equally secure. Kim's claim was that Mega was more secure by design.
However, the claim is completely broken. Mega is using a public/private key pair - generated by the web site - and so their servers actually *do* know both your keys, and *can* decrypt your data. So, basically, it is no more secure than dropbox.
You don't 'turn on' a cable. How about 'start using'?
Not sure that this is either news for geeks, or news that matters, unless you live in Cuba.
Why not try it? I'm sure he could get GEICO to fund the project.
Why should *any* codec at all be built in?
Make them ALL plugins. For really popular formats, just ship the plugin with the browser by default. Browsers are bloated enough as they are - trim the binary down to the minimum possible, and only load the plugins when they are needed. This also forces the browser developer to optimize the codec plugin path well enough to stream live video, instead of optimizing the builtins and leaving the plugin ones with half-baked support.
It would also allow users to remove support for formats they don't like/want/need. Apple fans could delete everything except aac, Microsofties could delete everything except their own. RMS could delete all the non-'Free' ones.
His proposal is for *amateur* radio. Commercial radio would not be affected.
In the amateur radio space, the aim of the only-use-approved-standards legislation is to allow the FCC to monitor amateur communications. If this passes, it would make it far more difficult for the FCC to enforce their regulations, and make it much easier for non-amateurs to illegally use these bands. Hopefully someone will petition the FCC to stop this by playing the "terrorists will use this" card.
Digital communications experimentation is already allowed at UHF frequencies so this proposal really does not gain anything at all. It's not like the amateur bands are over crowded.
Spam? Really? Say goatse, and I'm in for $5.
Nothing more unproductive than continually changing requirements/specs
Isn't "continually changing specs" another term for "Agile"?
you're already having trouble meeting a deadline
Artfical deadlines imposed by management are a major suck of productivity.
Awful or not, I bet it's the #1 top selling game in Australia this week.