I don't think you should worry about not being able to find new apps after a year. Here's why:
The same motivation (financial or otherwise) that caused the developer to write the app in the first place is likely also going to motivate the developer to have the largest userbase possible. At present, there are still a lot of 1.5 devices out there. Any developer with a good app should want a piece of that, so they'll likely target 1.5 and 2.0.
After a year when nobody is still selling devices with 1.5, there will still be a significant amount of 1.5 devices in use. After a couple of years the percentages will be lower for sure, but by then you would have either been updated to 1.6, or even 2.x on your current hardware, or you could go buy a new phone. After a couple of years it's pretty much time to upgrade anyway.
Psh, big deal. Even after the rest of the world has switched to IPv6, there will still be DNS servers (and other critical applications) in the IPv4 space. As long as the DNS server returns IPv6 addresses, Windows can do it's DNS lookups over IPv4, and the rest of it's network traffic can be IPv6.
That's not what this tech is intended for. It's aimed at web streaming video, which was already heavily compressed in the first place. If I wanted to play a pixel-perfect rendering of a movie, I'd plop a disk in the BD player, which is directly connected to the TV.
there will be dozens or hundreds of potentially trivially remotely exploitable code execution, DOS, and other security vulnerabilities in the OS, the services, and the applications
Not a problem. As the OP said, the laptop has no network connection.
Vacuum of space == no way to dissipate heat? 1GW is a lot of energy, and I'm assuming the energy conversion isn't 100% efficient.... Is there somebody here with a better understanding of thermal physics explain how they might get rid of the waste heat?
FTA one of the hacks was a workaround for a supposed "two-in-a-row" CRC32 collision! What are the odds, I thought? Thats like, getting struck by lightning at the precise moment as scratching the jackpot winning lottery ticket while....
Then it dawned on me... Apparently they only used filenames to generate the first 32-bits of the ID, and they used file contents to generate the second 32-bits. So all one would have to do to cause a collision would be to copy a file to another directory in the project! On the surface it was a good idea, just ruined by bad implementation.
Their "quick" solution was to just add a space to the end of one of the files.
A more proper solution might have been to change the implementation to use the entire path+filename to generate the first 32-bits. I wonder why they didn't just do that?
I've had luck with recovery by using GNU ddrescue to first pull everything off the drive I can. AFTER that, if there are still unrecovered sections of disk, it gets a little weird... I have no idea why this works, but... 1) Unplug the drive & let it cool to room temperature. 2) Put it in the freezer. 3) Wait an hour. 4) wrap it in saran wrap (to prevent condensation). 5) Hook it back up. 6) If it doesn't spin up, wait 15 minutes and try again. 7) Once it has spun up, run ddrescue again, using the previously generated log file to recover only the blocks that are still missing from the recovery file.
My roommate has what I can only guess to be a Mac virus. Some unknown port open, belching out a.torrent.part FTP transfer when one tries to connect to it. I'm really not worried 'cuz I'm sure my linux boxes are immune to viruses >:)
I've often wondered while flying why there aren't any outlets in the passenger area. Even 12-volt car receptacles would be nice. Is it that the FAA deems it too much of a (fire | shock | malicious act) hazard?
It brings up an interesting question... They're talking about converting a whole lot of electrical energy into RF energy, in the vacuum of space. The conversion won't be 100% efficient... How will they dissipate all of the extra heat?
Err, yes, it does, at least on XP. It's the ONLY option... And when you click this option (to change the total paging file size for all drives), the next window that comes up is titled "Virtual Memory"... Well then.
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That's nothing. I've got an infinite number of superconductors right here that are exactly 0 nm in size. And they'll even work at room temperature!
I don't think you should worry about not being able to find new apps after a year. Here's why: The same motivation (financial or otherwise) that caused the developer to write the app in the first place is likely also going to motivate the developer to have the largest userbase possible. At present, there are still a lot of 1.5 devices out there. Any developer with a good app should want a piece of that, so they'll likely target 1.5 and 2.0. After a year when nobody is still selling devices with 1.5, there will still be a significant amount of 1.5 devices in use. After a couple of years the percentages will be lower for sure, but by then you would have either been updated to 1.6, or even 2.x on your current hardware, or you could go buy a new phone. After a couple of years it's pretty much time to upgrade anyway.
Will someone please post a .torrent?
Psh, big deal. Even after the rest of the world has switched to IPv6, there will still be DNS servers (and other critical applications) in the IPv4 space. As long as the DNS server returns IPv6 addresses, Windows can do it's DNS lookups over IPv4, and the rest of it's network traffic can be IPv6.
"assinated". heh
Why can't they make a standalone device!?
What, you don't have an old laptop hooked up in the closet?
That's not what this tech is intended for. It's aimed at web streaming video, which was already heavily compressed in the first place. If I wanted to play a pixel-perfect rendering of a movie, I'd plop a disk in the BD player, which is directly connected to the TV.
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Nice! Now I can talk on the phone, while texting, while driving!
there will be dozens or hundreds of potentially trivially remotely exploitable code execution, DOS, and other security vulnerabilities in the OS, the services, and the applications
Not a problem. As the OP said, the laptop has no network connection.
"I've trashed more than one Linux install by ... accidentally rmstarring files..."
There, fixed that for ya.
man mount.... Someone mod parent hilarious!!
Probably still faster keeping the j (bzip2 compression) because there's less data to transfer over USB.
I figured that had be it... As mentioned thermal physics wasn't my strong suit. But I'll wup yo' azz at chess
Vacuum of space == no way to dissipate heat? 1GW is a lot of energy, and I'm assuming the energy conversion isn't 100% efficient.... Is there somebody here with a better understanding of thermal physics explain how they might get rid of the waste heat?
Why don't you just implement snprintf? And name it my_fucking_snprintf()
FTA one of the hacks was a workaround for a supposed "two-in-a-row" CRC32 collision! What are the odds, I thought? Thats like, getting struck by lightning at the precise moment as scratching the jackpot winning lottery ticket while.... Then it dawned on me... Apparently they only used filenames to generate the first 32-bits of the ID, and they used file contents to generate the second 32-bits. So all one would have to do to cause a collision would be to copy a file to another directory in the project! On the surface it was a good idea, just ruined by bad implementation. Their "quick" solution was to just add a space to the end of one of the files. A more proper solution might have been to change the implementation to use the entire path+filename to generate the first 32-bits. I wonder why they didn't just do that?
I've had luck with recovery by using GNU ddrescue to first pull everything off the drive I can. AFTER that, if there are still unrecovered sections of disk, it gets a little weird... I have no idea why this works, but... 1) Unplug the drive & let it cool to room temperature. 2) Put it in the freezer. 3) Wait an hour. 4) wrap it in saran wrap (to prevent condensation). 5) Hook it back up. 6) If it doesn't spin up, wait 15 minutes and try again. 7) Once it has spun up, run ddrescue again, using the previously generated log file to recover only the blocks that are still missing from the recovery file.
My roommate has what I can only guess to be a Mac virus. Some unknown port open, belching out a .torrent.part FTP transfer when one tries to connect to it. I'm really not worried 'cuz I'm sure my linux boxes are immune to viruses >:)
I've often wondered while flying why there aren't any outlets in the passenger area. Even 12-volt car receptacles would be nice. Is it that the FAA deems it too much of a (fire | shock | malicious act) hazard?
It brings up an interesting question... They're talking about converting a whole lot of electrical energy into RF energy, in the vacuum of space. The conversion won't be 100% efficient... How will they dissipate all of the extra heat?
And change the combination on my luggage!
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Blue Screen!!!
Err, yes, it does, at least on XP. It's the ONLY option... And when you click this option (to change the total paging file size for all drives), the next window that comes up is titled "Virtual Memory"... Well then.
Not that we can blame him... Windows calls it "Virtual Memory" also.