Maybe that's because all you ever hear is from the US media, who are notoriously short on any actual information content.
There are problems with the UN. But abandoning it is not an option.
And for a start the only reason that any resolution like this would get through would be because the US (or other permanent members of the security council) didn't use its power of veto, which it uses a lot!
Well, IBM/Sony and others tried the Cell architecture thing, couple a few general purpose cores with vector processing units. It seemed to make a bit of an impact on the supercomputer scene for a while, though apparently games programmers don't much care for it.
I suspect that's because they have to target multiple architectures though, and Cell demands it's own attention.
Yeah, I didn't mention the "-1, no linux" thing because I then realised it's not a major selling point for most people.
But the opposite situation, the Windows is too heavy and slow for a netbook, well that's true and could have resulted in a decline in their popularity.
Anyway, I still love my eee 901 and hope it keeps running for a long time yet.
"While Linux may work well for everything YOU use it for, it does not follow that it works well for everything average users want, whether the issue capability, availability, ease of use, or something else."
Nor does it follow that lack of adoption is due to lack of ease of use, or functionality, or compatibility or anything else, when we know that (especially in an entrenched marketplace) it takes huge advertising budgets to get anything done.
That's mostly because they stopped selling the good ones. The attraction went away when they got bug (11+ inches), and stopped using solid state storage. At that point they were just cheap underpowered laptops.
And also the netbook has now been done. We don't hear much about how amazing laptops are here on/. either, do we?
Buh buh but he's mah rep/dem representative! I ain't gonna vote in no librul/fundy!
And if I vote for a third party then that's as good as a vote for the enemy!
Ah, how cute! An idealist! Both major parties have been bought on side for this, make no mistake. And people are so caught up in advrsarial politics based on tribal affilitation that they will never get rid of their politiciansmthatmeasily. Especially where ita's over something as trivial as internet piract, which is what they'll be told to think about it, if they even notic it at all.
But my point was that In that situation I would have long retired, well before 14m seemed like the sort of money you'd give up because you wanted another job paying more.
First you need remote access to my home machine, which is behind a NAT'd router and doesn't expose any services outside. That means that drive-by scanning won't work, and even if it did you'd have to find your way in via the only open port - ssh.
My systems in the commercial space are properly firewalled. It's a bad thing if anyone has shell access to them at all, let alone root.
If you want that data to use for your profile, to sell on, to profit from in whatever form, you ask my permission at the very least. And whilst some paranoia of government is irritating, I find that helping an industry (advertising) that long ago made the transition from just annoying to actually abusive is against my politics.
It's the fact that everyone includes and image or a small from from quantserve, google analytics and/or doubleclick and various advertising tracking services.
That, I don't like. Fine, keep track of what I do on your site, but don't surreptitiously have my browser tell all sorts of third parties where it's going too.
I know the ISP can and probably does record everywhere I go. But they are bound to keep the information a secret without explicit permission to share it, IIRC (EU law). Othe sites gaining that information in an underhanded way, information of monetary value that I have not given my permission to have them collect, let alone have them share and sell on, well screw that.
I now block pretty much any third party analytics, images or scripts as a matter of course. Cookies are whitelist-only.
Interesting. I can't find any reference to that with a few searches, got a link for me?
I'm not doubting, I'd genuinely like to read about it.
In general I agree with the analysis though, it's why a lot of people use windows instead of linux (I mean outside of "it came with the computer). To them they're both 'free', right?
"This guarantees that PS3 homebrew is and always will be illegal,"
It does no such thing!
It guarantees that current homebrew is illegal, sure. But it in no way precludes the developing of a real free SDK in the future.
"We already have a perfectly good port of Linux to the PS3, capable of replacing lv2 while gaining RSX/3D funcionality thanks to the new exploits"
Errr, well, it's not capable of replacing anything at present, unless you've heard some stuff in the last couple of days that I missed, because AFAICT there has been no progress loading linux this way.
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Maybe that's because all you ever hear is from the US media, who are notoriously short on any actual information content.
There are problems with the UN. But abandoning it is not an option.
And for a start the only reason that any resolution like this would get through would be because the US (or other permanent members of the security council) didn't use its power of veto, which it uses a lot!
Well, IBM/Sony and others tried the Cell architecture thing, couple a few general purpose cores with vector processing units. It seemed to make a bit of an impact on the supercomputer scene for a while, though apparently games programmers don't much care for it.
I suspect that's because they have to target multiple architectures though, and Cell demands it's own attention.
Yeah, I'll believe that when it happens. I'm sure there's a nice money-flow from the public purse to HP and then into the politician's campaign funds.
Still this seems to be a positive move, unusual for politics.
Would you look at the size of that boy's head?
It's a virtual planetoid! It's like sputnik!
Yeah, I didn't mention the "-1, no linux" thing because I then realised it's not a major selling point for most people.
But the opposite situation, the Windows is too heavy and slow for a netbook, well that's true and could have resulted in a decline in their popularity.
Anyway, I still love my eee 901 and hope it keeps running for a long time yet.
"While Linux may work well for everything YOU use it for, it does not follow that it works well for everything average users want, whether the issue capability, availability, ease of use, or something else."
Nor does it follow that lack of adoption is due to lack of ease of use, or functionality, or compatibility or anything else, when we know that (especially in an entrenched marketplace) it takes huge advertising budgets to get anything done.
and has been for several years.
Fact is it takes billions of dollars of advertising to change the way the masses use computers, and who really wants them anyway?
That's mostly because they stopped selling the good ones. The attraction went away when they got bug (11+ inches), and stopped using solid state storage. At that point they were just cheap underpowered laptops.
And also the netbook has now been done. We don't hear much about how amazing laptops are here on /. either, do we?
But I think they still sell a few of those.
MMMmmmmmm Cloaca-Cola!
My thoughts exactly.
If this scam actually netted them any info then whoever provided it needs to be hung out to dry. This is ridiculous in the extreme.
Buh buh but he's mah rep/dem representative! I ain't gonna vote in no librul/fundy!
And if I vote for a third party then that's as good as a vote for the enemy!
Ah, how cute! An idealist!
Both major parties have been bought on side for this, make no mistake. And people are so caught up in advrsarial politics based on tribal affilitation that they will never get rid of their politiciansmthatmeasily. Especially where ita's over something as trivial as internet piract, which is what they'll be told to think about it, if they even notic it at all.
Yeah sure.
But my point was that In that situation I would have long retired, well before 14m seemed like the sort of money you'd give up because you wanted another job paying more.
I've started to wonder, just how annoying, obnoxious and asshole-ish do I have to be to get someone to pay me tens of millions to leave?
Because I'll study, I'll practice! Just tell me now, how irritating do I need to get that 35 million to have me leave the building is a good plan?
Seriously. I mean, how do you get to the mental state that you give up 14 million in order to get into another job?
Regardless of the rest of the settlement or even the rest of his money, 14 mil would have me sizing up early retirement.
What do you base that on?
AFAICT, WPA2-PSK is safe for now, if used with a decently long PSK. No?
WEP, OTOH is not even good enough to stop a lot of people using your net connection. Casual folks, sure, but anyone that wants to can break it.
I thought you USians told me that it hadn't caught on there?
even the average adult daily figures seem high.
Well, not on my machines, but point taken, there are remote vulnerabilities in badly configured or badly written services.
As ever it comes down to being bloody careful what you expose to the internet.
1. Wireless security has got a lot better. I don't run WEP
2. To get in that way you have to get up close and personal, you can't do it from a continent away.
First you need remote access to my home machine, which is behind a NAT'd router and doesn't expose any services outside. That means that drive-by scanning won't work, and even if it did you'd have to find your way in via the only open port - ssh.
My systems in the commercial space are properly firewalled. It's a bad thing if anyone has shell access to them at all, let alone root.
My habits, my data, my profile are worth money.
If you want that data to use for your profile, to sell on, to profit from in whatever form, you ask my permission at the very least. And whilst some paranoia of government is irritating, I find that helping an industry (advertising) that long ago made the transition from just annoying to actually abusive is against my politics.
It's not so much the individual sites.
It's the fact that everyone includes and image or a small from from quantserve, google analytics and/or doubleclick and various advertising tracking services.
That, I don't like. Fine, keep track of what I do on your site, but don't surreptitiously have my browser tell all sorts of third parties where it's going too.
I know the ISP can and probably does record everywhere I go. But they are bound to keep the information a secret without explicit permission to share it, IIRC (EU law). Othe sites gaining that information in an underhanded way, information of monetary value that I have not given my permission to have them collect, let alone have them share and sell on, well screw that.
I now block pretty much any third party analytics, images or scripts as a matter of course. Cookies are whitelist-only.
Interesting. I can't find any reference to that with a few searches, got a link for me?
I'm not doubting, I'd genuinely like to read about it.
In general I agree with the analysis though, it's why a lot of people use windows instead of linux (I mean outside of "it came with the computer). To them they're both 'free', right?
"This guarantees that PS3 homebrew is and always will be illegal,"
It does no such thing!
It guarantees that current homebrew is illegal, sure. But it in no way precludes the developing of a real free SDK in the future.
"We already have a perfectly good port of Linux to the PS3, capable of replacing lv2 while gaining RSX/3D funcionality thanks to the new exploits"
Errr, well, it's not capable of replacing anything at present, unless you've heard some stuff in the last couple of days that I missed, because AFAICT there has been no progress loading linux this way.
Oh right, I see, any city that's not Perth. Got it!
Damn, where do I have to live to get that?