Debian has more or less made an exception in Stable for web browsers, which is why you'll find relatively up-to-date versions of Chromium in their repositories. They currently have version 63.something which is pretty much current.
Incidentally, that one thing I've noticed with Chrome and the Chromium-based browsers. You can load up an older version of Firefox and despite being a couple of years old, find that most everything will still work. Load up a version of Chrome/Chromium a couple of versions out of date and find that any moderately complicated site seems to be completely broken.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to all those various webkit-specific extensions to the standards that's in Chrome. If it was Microsoft, this is totally the Extend phase of the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish pattern, hence the comparisons to IE6.
To be fair, these aren't really "Chrome-specific" as pretty much all of the Blink/Webkit-based browsers (Chromium, Opera, Dragon, etc.) also end up having them. But Chrome, and especially Blink/Webkit in general dominate the internet, which means a lot of websites use these extensions, which means other browsers either have to implement these "standards", or have people complain that their browser is broken when some random website doesn't render right. And it's Google that is primarily driving this.
The only stuff that is truly Chrome-specific is the sites that check the user-agent (which there are a few of), and the stuff that requires the DRM that's baked into Chrome that's missing in the other browsers.
That list is confusing. They list the Core processors first by model and process size (Core i7/i5/i3/M - basically all models, and 45 nm and 32 nm, so first and second generation), then again by generation, which they list all but the first generation (huh?).
I would just assume that any Intel x86 CPU after the original Pentium is affected, except for possibly some of the Atom chips.
Since when has any of Intel's naming and numbering schemes made any sense?* I'm pretty sure they are still selling dual core i7's for mobile. So a quad-core i7 on the desktop? Sure, why not?
Well, a big problem with paying for quality is that you often end up with the same crappy low-quality item, just marked way up. This goes double for buying off of Amazon which is full of sketchy third-party sellers and counterfeits, and with the way Amazon does its fulfillment, you don't know what you're going to get and from where until it arrives on your doorstep.
So you might as well buy on price. You likely will end up with a cheap piece of crap, but at least you got what you paid for.
Well, in the prequels, you got the bit about how there's always two Sith, a master and apprentice. They didn't say it, but with all the talk about balance, that implies there should be only be two Jedi also. So at the end of the prequels, we got just that - all the Jedi were gone except Obi-wan and Yoda, and we had two dark-side users, Palpatine and Vader. After this, it seems that things tend to head to this equilibrium. If it's too out of whack, the force will even go so far as creating powerful force users out of seemingly nowhere (see: Snoke and Rey) to bring the balance back.
That's one of things I wondered about Luke in the latest movie. It's almost like he realized that so long as there are Jedi around, there will always be powerful darkside users around to create balance, and if there's not, the force will just create new ones until the balance is once again restored. He thus realizes it's a fight they cannot ever win, but by not playing (no more Jedi) then perhaps the force will end up balanced with no corresponding strong darkside users. This kind of makes sense from Luke's perspective - he saw that Obi-wan knew he had to get out of the way for Luke to become a Jedi. And then once Yoda was gone, the balance was upset with the result being the dark side in Vader was weakened enough that he was able to turn him back.
The next movie will be interesting just to see if this theory holds.
I would guess that the Marvel movies do well with the fans that still go to see them, as everyone else has tuned them out by now. They've got the formula finely tuned now - the people who were bored by them stopped going years ago, leaving just the hardcore fanbase.
With Disney's plan to crank out Star Wars movies at a rate of 1 per year, perhaps the Star Wars franchise will suffer the same fate. As long as they can crank out safe, derivative Star Wars movies for less than they'll bring in from their dedicated fanbase, they'll keep doing it.
Every time I try to use Edge, I find run into something that's broken after about 2 minutes. That might have something to do with it. Sad thing is whatever is broken usually works fine if I try it in IE. Microsoft would be better off if they just turned it into a wrapper around the IE engine. Or just throw in the towel entirely and use Blink like everyone else.
The theaters need to figure that out too. When I saw Star Wars 8, as you might guess there was only a handful of screens showing the movie in 2D, and a bunch showing the movie in 3D. The 2D screenings were packed. There was plenty of room in the 3D screenings. Which tells me the theaters need to reduce the number of 3D screenings and add more 2D screenings. However, given that the theater gets an extra $3 a ticket (or whatever the 3D surcharge is), I'm sure part of it is the theaters are hoping if the 2D screening is full people will just go to the 3D screening and pay the extra money for something they don't really want.
What you are looking for a is a "Lunchbox PC". Think of it as a small tower PC with a screen and foldout keyboard attached to the side. There are a few companies making them. As a very niche product they are expensive, and they are aimed more at industrial users who want something they can lug around with a bunch of hardware interface cards crammed inside of them, but I don't see any reason why one couldn't be made into a gaming PC if you wanted.
How about we get rid of the notion that people work 9-5 while we're at it.
I agree. Almost no one works 9-5. Possible exception would be first shift for shift work, but that's more commonly something like 7-3. Standard office hours are now 8-5 with an unpaid hour lunch.
The explanation for where most of the Rebellion went is that the Rebellion (Republic) was blown to bits by the Starkiller base at the end of Episode 7, as most of their fleet was in orbit of the planets that were destroyed. If you look closely in 7 you'll see the ships in orbit around the planets, and that they don't survive.
Though it's hard to get a good idea as to how large the First Order is. Impression I got at the start of the Episode 7 is that it was some splintered offshoot from the old Empire. Sure, they had a few Star Destroyers, but we also learn they no longer have clone troopers, and also that they are critically low on Tie Fighters. So the Starkiller base really seemed to come out of nowhere (where did they get that???) and in Episode 8 they seem as large as the old Empire and can support at least two of those massive dreadnoughts.
Did you pick up "Rendezvous with Rama" or one of the other Rama books? The first one (Rendezvous) is a classic, the sequels....well....if you skip them you aren't missing much.
Registered mail isn't instant. In the US we have a similar problem with fax - it only hangs around because it's viewed as an acceptable way to send legal documents.
This is exactly what happened, along with companies restructuring their benefits and using "But Obamacare!" as the excuse the whole time. Along with the usual churn in insurance plans (due to various reasons I've never had the same plan for more than about 2 years) it's no surprise that almost no one had their same plan once we were a few months into the ACA.
So yes, Obama didn't actually lie, but given the whole thing is basically a handout to the big insurance companies, what happened was entirely predictable and I find it hard to believe that Obama didn't know it.
The problem with VLC is its playlist functionality is a complete joke compared to Winamp.
Winamp shouldn't be distorting the audio if you have it configured correctly. I don't even use the EQ. VLC will distort the shit out the audio if you go past 100% as it is.
The other complaints mostly have to do with a UI that was made to be cool by 1997 standards. It still manages to outdo many 2017 UI efforts though.
Well, first thing is that it will probably be IronPython, so have fun even getting that stuff installed in the first place.
Not that I'm too thrilled about this anyway. People already use Excel to do things that it really shouldn't be used for. Adding Python to the mix isn't going to help this any.
The real problem is all the shitty analog-only LCDs that were made for YEARS. VGA should have gone away with CRTs. A decent monitor (even back then) would have a DVI in, which is a cheap adapter from HDMI and Displayport.
That's something that Hollywood and the RIAA still don't get. They aren't just competing with the pirates on price - the pirates also offer a better product.
Quite possibly. I've seen a lot of fridges made after 2000 that only lasted about 7 years. Whether the energy savings are good enough to justify it are up to you. With that said, $30/mo is about what my 22 year old fridge uses (works fine by the way). I've run the math and while I could save a few bucks by replacing it, the payoff is longer than what the replacement fridge would likely last, so...
The only American minivan left is the Chrysler minivan. Ford and GM got out of the minivan business years ago. I suppose you could make the argument than the Asian minivans are designed for the North America market though.
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And to top it off, the vulnerability doesn't even apply to the original Pentium.
Debian has more or less made an exception in Stable for web browsers, which is why you'll find relatively up-to-date versions of Chromium in their repositories. They currently have version 63.something which is pretty much current.
Incidentally, that one thing I've noticed with Chrome and the Chromium-based browsers. You can load up an older version of Firefox and despite being a couple of years old, find that most everything will still work. Load up a version of Chrome/Chromium a couple of versions out of date and find that any moderately complicated site seems to be completely broken.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to all those various webkit-specific extensions to the standards that's in Chrome. If it was Microsoft, this is totally the Extend phase of the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish pattern, hence the comparisons to IE6.
To be fair, these aren't really "Chrome-specific" as pretty much all of the Blink/Webkit-based browsers (Chromium, Opera, Dragon, etc.) also end up having them. But Chrome, and especially Blink/Webkit in general dominate the internet, which means a lot of websites use these extensions, which means other browsers either have to implement these "standards", or have people complain that their browser is broken when some random website doesn't render right. And it's Google that is primarily driving this.
The only stuff that is truly Chrome-specific is the sites that check the user-agent (which there are a few of), and the stuff that requires the DRM that's baked into Chrome that's missing in the other browsers.
That list is confusing. They list the Core processors first by model and process size (Core i7/i5/i3/M - basically all models, and 45 nm and 32 nm, so first and second generation), then again by generation, which they list all but the first generation (huh?).
I would just assume that any Intel x86 CPU after the original Pentium is affected, except for possibly some of the Atom chips.
Since when has any of Intel's naming and numbering schemes made any sense?* I'm pretty sure they are still selling dual core i7's for mobile. So a quad-core i7 on the desktop? Sure, why not?
That's only a minor detail.
Well, a big problem with paying for quality is that you often end up with the same crappy low-quality item, just marked way up. This goes double for buying off of Amazon which is full of sketchy third-party sellers and counterfeits, and with the way Amazon does its fulfillment, you don't know what you're going to get and from where until it arrives on your doorstep.
So you might as well buy on price. You likely will end up with a cheap piece of crap, but at least you got what you paid for.
Well, in the prequels, you got the bit about how there's always two Sith, a master and apprentice. They didn't say it, but with all the talk about balance, that implies there should be only be two Jedi also. So at the end of the prequels, we got just that - all the Jedi were gone except Obi-wan and Yoda, and we had two dark-side users, Palpatine and Vader. After this, it seems that things tend to head to this equilibrium. If it's too out of whack, the force will even go so far as creating powerful force users out of seemingly nowhere (see: Snoke and Rey) to bring the balance back.
That's one of things I wondered about Luke in the latest movie. It's almost like he realized that so long as there are Jedi around, there will always be powerful darkside users around to create balance, and if there's not, the force will just create new ones until the balance is once again restored. He thus realizes it's a fight they cannot ever win, but by not playing (no more Jedi) then perhaps the force will end up balanced with no corresponding strong darkside users. This kind of makes sense from Luke's perspective - he saw that Obi-wan knew he had to get out of the way for Luke to become a Jedi. And then once Yoda was gone, the balance was upset with the result being the dark side in Vader was weakened enough that he was able to turn him back.
The next movie will be interesting just to see if this theory holds.
I would guess that the Marvel movies do well with the fans that still go to see them, as everyone else has tuned them out by now. They've got the formula finely tuned now - the people who were bored by them stopped going years ago, leaving just the hardcore fanbase.
With Disney's plan to crank out Star Wars movies at a rate of 1 per year, perhaps the Star Wars franchise will suffer the same fate. As long as they can crank out safe, derivative Star Wars movies for less than they'll bring in from their dedicated fanbase, they'll keep doing it.
Every time I try to use Edge, I find run into something that's broken after about 2 minutes. That might have something to do with it. Sad thing is whatever is broken usually works fine if I try it in IE. Microsoft would be better off if they just turned it into a wrapper around the IE engine. Or just throw in the towel entirely and use Blink like everyone else.
The theaters need to figure that out too. When I saw Star Wars 8, as you might guess there was only a handful of screens showing the movie in 2D, and a bunch showing the movie in 3D. The 2D screenings were packed. There was plenty of room in the 3D screenings. Which tells me the theaters need to reduce the number of 3D screenings and add more 2D screenings. However, given that the theater gets an extra $3 a ticket (or whatever the 3D surcharge is), I'm sure part of it is the theaters are hoping if the 2D screening is full people will just go to the 3D screening and pay the extra money for something they don't really want.
What you are looking for a is a "Lunchbox PC". Think of it as a small tower PC with a screen and foldout keyboard attached to the side. There are a few companies making them. As a very niche product they are expensive, and they are aimed more at industrial users who want something they can lug around with a bunch of hardware interface cards crammed inside of them, but I don't see any reason why one couldn't be made into a gaming PC if you wanted.
I agree. Almost no one works 9-5. Possible exception would be first shift for shift work, but that's more commonly something like 7-3. Standard office hours are now 8-5 with an unpaid hour lunch.
The explanation for where most of the Rebellion went is that the Rebellion (Republic) was blown to bits by the Starkiller base at the end of Episode 7, as most of their fleet was in orbit of the planets that were destroyed. If you look closely in 7 you'll see the ships in orbit around the planets, and that they don't survive.
Though it's hard to get a good idea as to how large the First Order is. Impression I got at the start of the Episode 7 is that it was some splintered offshoot from the old Empire. Sure, they had a few Star Destroyers, but we also learn they no longer have clone troopers, and also that they are critically low on Tie Fighters. So the Starkiller base really seemed to come out of nowhere (where did they get that???) and in Episode 8 they seem as large as the old Empire and can support at least two of those massive dreadnoughts.
Did you pick up "Rendezvous with Rama" or one of the other Rama books? The first one (Rendezvous) is a classic, the sequels....well....if you skip them you aren't missing much.
Registered mail isn't instant. In the US we have a similar problem with fax - it only hangs around because it's viewed as an acceptable way to send legal documents.
This is exactly what happened, along with companies restructuring their benefits and using "But Obamacare!" as the excuse the whole time. Along with the usual churn in insurance plans (due to various reasons I've never had the same plan for more than about 2 years) it's no surprise that almost no one had their same plan once we were a few months into the ACA.
So yes, Obama didn't actually lie, but given the whole thing is basically a handout to the big insurance companies, what happened was entirely predictable and I find it hard to believe that Obama didn't know it.
The problem with VLC is its playlist functionality is a complete joke compared to Winamp.
Winamp shouldn't be distorting the audio if you have it configured correctly. I don't even use the EQ. VLC will distort the shit out the audio if you go past 100% as it is.
The other complaints mostly have to do with a UI that was made to be cool by 1997 standards. It still manages to outdo many 2017 UI efforts though.
Well, first thing is that it will probably be IronPython, so have fun even getting that stuff installed in the first place.
Not that I'm too thrilled about this anyway. People already use Excel to do things that it really shouldn't be used for. Adding Python to the mix isn't going to help this any.
The real problem is all the shitty analog-only LCDs that were made for YEARS. VGA should have gone away with CRTs. A decent monitor (even back then) would have a DVI in, which is a cheap adapter from HDMI and Displayport.
That's something that Hollywood and the RIAA still don't get. They aren't just competing with the pirates on price - the pirates also offer a better product.
That could backfire horribly, if the solution they come up with is block everything except for a handful of sites they consider safe.
It could work, but in my opinion annoying your paying customers with CAPTCHAs is a shitty thing to do.
Quite possibly. I've seen a lot of fridges made after 2000 that only lasted about 7 years. Whether the energy savings are good enough to justify it are up to you. With that said, $30/mo is about what my 22 year old fridge uses (works fine by the way). I've run the math and while I could save a few bucks by replacing it, the payoff is longer than what the replacement fridge would likely last, so...
The only American minivan left is the Chrysler minivan. Ford and GM got out of the minivan business years ago. I suppose you could make the argument than the Asian minivans are designed for the North America market though.