Regarding FM radio at least : there are strong non-technical issues. Local stations (small ones, non profit etc.) would have to go to a middle man for multiplexing, if only digital radio is allowed. If they survive, they might only afford low bandwith : if a musical radio station has to sound like 64K MP3, kiss it good bye. Then there's the issue of being locked into some codec. MP2 radios have to be junked if you upgrade to AAC, and AAC is not that good anyway : it would be better to throw that stuff out and start again with Opus codec.
Also : not only 20-year-old or 50-year-old radio receivers can be used, but those I own are very recent (a few years old) including that on my cell phone and they only support FM radio (the other pretends to support AM and only receives one station, barely) So when analog is turned off.. every one loses the ability to receive radio. At best, if there's line-in on your radio (what I call my "radio" has unused shit like a CD player, old ipod dock) you can connect a separate, digital radio to it.
Even encrypting the data means he has to solve the back up problem again for the encryption keys. At least they can be handwritten, printed, carved, etched etc.
Perhaps the original drive is writing encrypted checksums. Even if the data itself is unencrypted and you use a modified tape drive you might not be able to write the correct checksums. You would want to steal the drive that wrote the tape at the least. How another drive can detect the data was tampered with, I don't know.
It may be easier to admin a system than to set it up. e.g. writing your own script for user creation is too hard (and will have you ssh in as root, unless you can also build a secure web interface around it). Worse, you could have a try and get it wrong in a subtle way.. but leaving that to someone else, you might be competent enough to admin the user accounts, the dhcp, cups, the proxy.., troubleshooting issues.
It will do fine in your example, as the graphics card is directly connected to the CPU's PCI express interface. The PC market is suprisingly free of rip offs these days, at least on the desktop side - and if you don't choose the low power CPUs while wanting something faster. Even there you don't suffer horrible bottlenecks like in the past (PIO mode hard drive, not enough RAM, omitted L2, then Intel graphics using up limited FSB and memory bandwith, then the first gens of Celeron Pentium 4 - all other Celeron are actually good if not for those and the very first one), then not enough RAM again. You needed 2GB RAM for Vista + web 2.0 to do the same things we did with XP + web 1.0 with 384MB of RAM, but PCs came with 1GB and no free memory slots.
Biggest crap going on is that Apple decided to become a netbook manufacturer and some PC vendors are following suit with $200 netbooks with soldered everything including small RAM and SSD (unlike the netbooks, that had removable battery, RAM, HDD, and a RJ45 port to boot)
You make it sound like #2 is hard, in linux you would surely do some "advanced" command line thingies[*] but if you ever installed a ftp server on Windows in the late 90s/early 00s (to get around SMB shares not found, not working, authentication error etc.) you'd know that can be as easy as checking a box or even leaving the default alone.
What's more : File Explorer in Windows XP (or old IE) behaves very conveniently, you feed it "ftp://192.168.0.1" and it works like a regular file manager window, AND you can access the ftp at least download-only from every web browser in the house. So it is very convenient, very easy to set up and works all the time, and in other words rewarding to the user.
If the user - who didn't set up the network, the ISP's dhcp/router/modem box did - tries to inform self then he/she will learn FTP stands for "file transfer protocol" but beyond that there's computer gibberish, lots of results about client or server software etc. but no real warning about security issues.
[*] searching for which ftp daemon to install in the first place, sudo editing the/etc/vghrblubftpd.conf and sifting through a hundred commented lines, then/etc/init.d/vghrblubftpd.conf restart or whatever the flavor of the month it is..
Even with linux mint, which uses Ubuntu LTS I've come to appreciate that some people do have breakage. Upgrading from 17.0 to 17.1 should be the most boring and uneventful thing (it's worth it for the new, sharper default font) yet some people report problems with it. Ditto with the 3.13 to 3.16 kernel upgrade (optional, easy to do but you have to go looking for it and there's a warning)
I'm glad to use a desktop, without even those new-fangled things like a USB keyboard or display over HDMI etc., basically nothing can break and if all hell were to break I can drop down to 80x25 text, the BIOS will still think I have a keyboard from 1984 and the CPU will cut off at 105C without burning down anything. I have been lucky with wifi (older ralink that never caused an issue)
I remember wondering if Windows Update can serve me malware ; not wondering if Android marketplace/Google Play does (in part because I don't use it), and now this. Do I know that rogue "security updates" will not show up in a linux package manager? It's amazing that it doesn't happen, or perhaps it would require an especially motivated attacker and some cryptography flaw.
Because some of the tech savvies recommend it. It allows one strong password per service instead of a small handful weak crappola ones. Not sure what to do then if you use another browser or another profile, or an unsafe browser on a random someone else's computer.
French has male gender for the male genitalia in formal speech and writing, but you'll find out everyone uses one of the many female terms (or refer to it with the pronoun for "she" or "her")
OSX and iOS originally ran on slow CPUs (PowerPC G3, ARMv6) and as little as 128MB RAM. Even today reading a pdf on a desktop is kinda slow and as for SVG, at least those on wikipedia such as maps with highlights, you can watch them draw. On a 3GHz CPU.
Dots are these funny really small inkblots that overlap, or have weird sparse patterns, or are used arbitrarily so as to fake the picture, fonts, greyscales and colors to successfully fool the human eye. So, a 600 dpi inkjet printer is not actually comparable to a 600 ppi monitor.
Why have two SKU for the same item? Perhaps the PC version came with whatever cable and an 8cm CD with drivers/stuff etc. but now most everyone that wanted a Kinect for a PC or embedded system already got it and those who didn't can have an adapter and download the software. Mice ended the practice of coming with a 3.5" diskette and then you could only get one without a driver diskette, no option to get a separate SKU with the floppy in the cardboard. Yawn. That's all this story is about.
It is about impossible to condense a dense 700-something page book into a two hour movie. I started with the video game (which I played silent! VGA PC with PC speaker) and then the book, and saw the movie years later. The video game is somewhat more faithful, it takes you days/weeks to move the story through. (movie feels like Duke Leto gets killed right away)
So, I'm not pissed at the movie like many people are.
Smartphone, what's that? A computer without a keyboard, without security updates, without battery life, with a high recurring fee to access the network and that wants you to sign up to a google account. I'll pass, it's too immature for me.
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Regarding FM radio at least : there are strong non-technical issues. Local stations (small ones, non profit etc.) would have to go to a middle man for multiplexing, if only digital radio is allowed. If they survive, they might only afford low bandwith : if a musical radio station has to sound like 64K MP3, kiss it good bye.
Then there's the issue of being locked into some codec. MP2 radios have to be junked if you upgrade to AAC, and AAC is not that good anyway : it would be better to throw that stuff out and start again with Opus codec.
Also : not only 20-year-old or 50-year-old radio receivers can be used, but those I own are very recent (a few years old) including that on my cell phone and they only support FM radio (the other pretends to support AM and only receives one station, barely)
So when analog is turned off.. every one loses the ability to receive radio. At best, if there's line-in on your radio (what I call my "radio" has unused shit like a CD player, old ipod dock) you can connect a separate, digital radio to it.
That's right but then I believe that falls in the "license, not royalties" distinction.
You can theoretically play only music not affiliated to the SACEM I guess but good luck with that.
Mein Kampf goes out of copyright in 16 days, I believe.
Linux runs horrible crap in Xaw, xlib, lesstif etc.
If I believe US movies and TV shows, the car is often stored in the house.
Even encrypting the data means he has to solve the back up problem again for the encryption keys. At least they can be handwritten, printed, carved, etched etc.
Yes, a bank safe.
The entity tends not to got out of business, even when it deserves to.
not if I set the password as "r00t" so that the bad guys won't guess.
Perhaps the original drive is writing encrypted checksums. Even if the data itself is unencrypted and you use a modified tape drive you might not be able to write the correct checksums. You would want to steal the drive that wrote the tape at the least.
How another drive can detect the data was tampered with, I don't know.
It may be easier to admin a system than to set it up. e.g. writing your own script for user creation is too hard (and will have you ssh in as root, unless you can also build a secure web interface around it).
Worse, you could have a try and get it wrong in a subtle way.. but leaving that to someone else, you might be competent enough to admin the user accounts, the dhcp, cups, the proxy.., troubleshooting issues.
It will do fine in your example, as the graphics card is directly connected to the CPU's PCI express interface.
The PC market is suprisingly free of rip offs these days, at least on the desktop side - and if you don't choose the low power CPUs while wanting something faster.
Even there you don't suffer horrible bottlenecks like in the past (PIO mode hard drive, not enough RAM, omitted L2, then Intel graphics using up limited FSB and memory bandwith, then the first gens of Celeron Pentium 4 - all other Celeron are actually good if not for those and the very first one), then not enough RAM again. You needed 2GB RAM for Vista + web 2.0 to do the same things we did with XP + web 1.0 with 384MB of RAM, but PCs came with 1GB and no free memory slots.
Biggest crap going on is that Apple decided to become a netbook manufacturer and some PC vendors are following suit with $200 netbooks with soldered everything including small RAM and SSD (unlike the netbooks, that had removable battery, RAM, HDD, and a RJ45 port to boot)
You make it sound like #2 is hard, in linux you would surely do some "advanced" command line thingies[*] but if you ever installed a ftp server on Windows in the late 90s/early 00s (to get around SMB shares not found, not working, authentication error etc.) you'd know that can be as easy as checking a box or even leaving the default alone.
What's more : File Explorer in Windows XP (or old IE) behaves very conveniently, you feed it "ftp://192.168.0.1" and it works like a regular file manager window, AND you can access the ftp at least download-only from every web browser in the house. So it is very convenient, very easy to set up and works all the time, and in other words rewarding to the user.
If the user - who didn't set up the network, the ISP's dhcp/router/modem box did - tries to inform self then he/she will learn FTP stands for "file transfer protocol" but beyond that there's computer gibberish, lots of results about client or server software etc. but no real warning about security issues.
[*] searching for which ftp daemon to install in the first place, sudo editing the /etc/vghrblubftpd.conf and sifting through a hundred commented lines, then /etc/init.d/vghrblubftpd.conf restart or whatever the flavor of the month it is..
Even with linux mint, which uses Ubuntu LTS I've come to appreciate that some people do have breakage. Upgrading from 17.0 to 17.1 should be the most boring and uneventful thing (it's worth it for the new, sharper default font) yet some people report problems with it. Ditto with the 3.13 to 3.16 kernel upgrade (optional, easy to do but you have to go looking for it and there's a warning)
I'm glad to use a desktop, without even those new-fangled things like a USB keyboard or display over HDMI etc., basically nothing can break and if all hell were to break I can drop down to 80x25 text, the BIOS will still think I have a keyboard from 1984 and the CPU will cut off at 105C without burning down anything.
I have been lucky with wifi (older ralink that never caused an issue)
In Soviet Russia, the passenger rapes you!
I remember wondering if Windows Update can serve me malware ; not wondering if Android marketplace/Google Play does (in part because I don't use it), and now this.
Do I know that rogue "security updates" will not show up in a linux package manager? It's amazing that it doesn't happen, or perhaps it would require an especially motivated attacker and some cryptography flaw.
Because some of the tech savvies recommend it. It allows one strong password per service instead of a small handful weak crappola ones. Not sure what to do then if you use another browser or another profile, or an unsafe browser on a random someone else's computer.
darth vader = dark Vater
French has male gender for the male genitalia in formal speech and writing, but you'll find out everyone uses one of the many female terms (or refer to it with the pronoun for "she" or "her")
Now.. which Ubuntu? on which NUC?
OSX and iOS originally ran on slow CPUs (PowerPC G3, ARMv6) and as little as 128MB RAM. Even today reading a pdf on a desktop is kinda slow and as for SVG, at least those on wikipedia such as maps with highlights, you can watch them draw. On a 3GHz CPU.
Dots are these funny really small inkblots that overlap, or have weird sparse patterns, or are used arbitrarily so as to fake the picture, fonts, greyscales and colors to successfully fool the human eye. So, a 600 dpi inkjet printer is not actually comparable to a 600 ppi monitor.
Why have two SKU for the same item?
Perhaps the PC version came with whatever cable and an 8cm CD with drivers/stuff etc. but now most everyone that wanted a Kinect for a PC or embedded system already got it and those who didn't can have an adapter and download the software.
Mice ended the practice of coming with a 3.5" diskette and then you could only get one without a driver diskette, no option to get a separate SKU with the floppy in the cardboard. Yawn. That's all this story is about.
It is about impossible to condense a dense 700-something page book into a two hour movie.
I started with the video game (which I played silent! VGA PC with PC speaker) and then the book, and saw the movie years later. The video game is somewhat more faithful, it takes you days/weeks to move the story through. (movie feels like Duke Leto gets killed right away)
So, I'm not pissed at the movie like many people are.
The Nazis wanted every home to own a car and a television, and of course Hitler ate sugar.
Smartphone, what's that?
A computer without a keyboard, without security updates, without battery life, with a high recurring fee to access the network and that wants you to sign up to a google account. I'll pass, it's too immature for me.