I assume you don't install punkbuster to play your steam games?
No.
And none of those programs are sending details of all my installed apps to Valve to put up on their web site. The original claim is still completely bogus.
Linux distros don't track software I build myself. Linux distros don't track downloads from mirror sites. Linux distros don't track downloads from my local cache server. Linux distros don't track rpm files I install myself.
Linux distros probably don't even track individual downloads from their main server.
$100 on iOS and Android having the same feature. Not that I like it, but why the Windows-only bashing?
Because this is an exciting new feature for Windows, whereas Android and iOS obviously know every app you download from their app store because... duh... they run the app stores and link the apps to your account.
Sorry to disappoint, but Steam also takes the installed applications on your PC and returns it to the mothership. look up published stats on steampowered if you don't believe me.
Uh, Steam _ASKS_ whether you want to allow it to upload that information when it picks you for the hardware survey.
It also crashes when it tries to find that information on Linux, so you're totally safe if you run it in Wine.
I made the mistake of "upgrading" two Ubuntu 12.04 desktops to solid state drives, only to find the performance increase was trivial.
If a process isn't disk-intensive, an SSD will make no difference. If it's not seek intensive, a cheap SSD may actually be worse; if I remember correctly, sustained reads from my 'Green' hard drive are 80-100MB per second, whereas one of my SSDs only gets about 40MB per second.
The big benefit is reduced seek time, and a lesser benefit from faster sustained reads on the more modern and/or expensive SSDs. It won't make games run faster unless they're streaming from disk, or improve CPU-intensive 3D rendering, or anything much else that doesn't require a lot of disk seeks.
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This looks to me like classic example of a fundamental problem with free market capitalism.
What exactly is this supposed to have to do with 'free market capitalism'?
From what I remember, Viking had various color filters on the camera and a color correction table on the side of the lander which could be used to correct them (i.e. it had known colors for the camera to record so the pictures could be fixed on Earth). So you may have seen uncorrected pictures with colors direct from the camera.
Uh, you do realise that Linux is already one of the most commonly used embedded operating systems and you probably have several 'appliances' in your house running it?
That said, it's still essentially true -- nothing works out of the box unless it is like 3+ years old.
Uh, what?
When I bought my netbook I installed Ubuntu on it and everything worked out of the box. When I bought my laptop (not a Mac since it would have cost 2.5x as much as the Windows laptop I bought) I installed Ubuntu on it and everything worked out of the box.
The big problem is undocumented hardware like the Nvidia GPU-switching and presumably whatever Apple crap is in this one.
For what we are doing, the principal benefit of Azure is the scalable SQL Server.The ability to fap around with little 1Gbyte databases and then scale them all the way to 150Gbytes (and beyond with sharding) is what sold me on it.
Is 150GB supposed to be a big database? Or do you mean 150TB?
1. You end up with a lowest-common-denominator API. 2. You move most of the smarts into the 'abstraction layer', which then decides how to implement them on different 'cloud' providers, and then you're tied to it instead. 3. You start using APIs wihch are only properly supported on one system so you're doubly screwed (your software only runs on the abstraction layer using features only supported by one 'cloud' provider).
Probably because there's no comparison between tiny, traditionally homogenous countries with substantial amounts of oil wealth and a vast hodge-podge like the USA. And, uh, didn't Iceland have a little economic problem or two recently?
Much of the West is still booming and likely to continue to do so for as long as the Chinese and Indians keep buying our stuff (which, admittedly, may not be long). The East... isn't.
Neither point is going be an issue for a new application of an IT researcher.
It is will be when they look at the points system and realise they don't qualify. As mentioned below, the only viable route is likely to be finding a job first on a work permit and then applying for residency.
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Would lack of any regulations do a better job for road safety or fuel efficiency?
What exactly is wrong with letting individuals decide how safe and economical they want their vehicles to be?
Do you really want to be hit by a truck while driving a Fiat 500?
Force all new cars to use some alternatve fuel, one that doesnt just move the pollution and I will be happier.
To be fair, they might as well say 'all cars will run on magic moonbeams by 2025', because it's about as likely to happen.
But they'll be using disposable drone bodies, or will be recreated from backups.
I assume you don't install punkbuster to play your steam games?
No.
And none of those programs are sending details of all my installed apps to Valve to put up on their web site. The original claim is still completely bogus.
Linux distros don't track software I build myself. Linux distros don't track downloads from mirror sites. Linux distros don't track downloads from my local cache server. Linux distros don't track rpm files I install myself.
Linux distros probably don't even track individual downloads from their main server.
Great point,
Aside from being completely wrong.
Steam knows which Steam games you run on your PC, but it does not sneak around monitoring other programs without permission.
$100 on iOS and Android having the same feature. Not that I like it, but why the Windows-only bashing?
Because this is an exciting new feature for Windows, whereas Android and iOS obviously know every app you download from their app store because... duh... they run the app stores and link the apps to your account.
Sorry to disappoint, but Steam also takes the installed applications on your PC and returns it to the mothership.
look up published stats on steampowered if you don't believe me.
Uh, Steam _ASKS_ whether you want to allow it to upload that information when it picks you for the hardware survey.
It also crashes when it tries to find that information on Linux, so you're totally safe if you run it in Wine.
Oh, and that cheap and crappy SSD cut my Ubuntu netbook's boot time from about 45 seconds to about 15 seconds.
I made the mistake of "upgrading" two Ubuntu 12.04 desktops to solid state drives, only to find the performance increase was trivial.
If a process isn't disk-intensive, an SSD will make no difference. If it's not seek intensive, a cheap SSD may actually be worse; if I remember correctly, sustained reads from my 'Green' hard drive are 80-100MB per second, whereas one of my SSDs only gets about 40MB per second.
The big benefit is reduced seek time, and a lesser benefit from faster sustained reads on the more modern and/or expensive SSDs. It won't make games run faster unless they're streaming from disk, or improve CPU-intensive 3D rendering, or anything much else that doesn't require a lot of disk seeks.
This looks to me like classic example of a fundamental problem with free market capitalism.
What exactly is this supposed to have to do with 'free market capitalism'?
Hint: corporations are government creations.
From what I remember, Viking had various color filters on the camera and a color correction table on the side of the lander which could be used to correct them (i.e. it had known colors for the camera to record so the pictures could be fixed on Earth). So you may have seen uncorrected pictures with colors direct from the camera.
What's wrong with Windows 8 on mobile platforms?
What's right about it? Why would I want Windows on a tablet rather than Android or Apple's thingy?
'Get your new tablet with the new version of Windows, where you can't even run an application in a window'.
Are we starting to see reality run into the cloud hype, or is this just ordinary everyday business failure?
You have never driven any real sports car have you. Lamborghini, Ferrari,etc. They are not SUV's they sit 2 inches from the ground.
Lamborghini built an SUV. I thought about buying one once, but fortunately common sense prevailed.
Uh, you do realise that Linux is already one of the most commonly used embedded operating systems and you probably have several 'appliances' in your house running it?
That said, it's still essentially true -- nothing works out of the box unless it is like 3+ years old.
Uh, what?
When I bought my netbook I installed Ubuntu on it and everything worked out of the box. When I bought my laptop (not a Mac since it would have cost 2.5x as much as the Windows laptop I bought) I installed Ubuntu on it and everything worked out of the box.
The big problem is undocumented hardware like the Nvidia GPU-switching and presumably whatever Apple crap is in this one.
For what we are doing, the principal benefit of Azure is the scalable SQL Server.The ability to fap around with little 1Gbyte databases and then scale them all the way to 150Gbytes (and beyond with sharding) is what sold me on it.
Is 150GB supposed to be a big database? Or do you mean 150TB?
Which means either:
1. You end up with a lowest-common-denominator API.
2. You move most of the smarts into the 'abstraction layer', which then decides how to implement them on different 'cloud' providers, and then you're tied to it instead.
3. You start using APIs wihch are only properly supported on one system so you're doubly screwed (your software only runs on the abstraction layer using features only supported by one 'cloud' provider).
You shouldn't need a gig of RAM just to open two tabs.
You don't. Firefox has been running for about ten days here with about 20 tabs open and is using 300MB of RAM.
When an entire generation lives with their parents rebellion can't be too far off.
You mean, like people used to do fifty years ago?
Probably because there's no comparison between tiny, traditionally homogenous countries with substantial amounts of oil wealth and a vast hodge-podge like the USA. And, uh, didn't Iceland have a little economic problem or two recently?
Much of the West is still booming and likely to continue to do so for as long as the Chinese and Indians keep buying our stuff (which, admittedly, may not be long). The East... isn't.
Neither point is going be an issue for a new application of an IT researcher.
It is will be when they look at the points system and realise they don't qualify. As mentioned below, the only viable route is likely to be finding a job first on a work permit and then applying for residency.
It's hard to convince people not to borrow when the ECB keeps interest rates artificially low for years.
The real problem is the Euro, and once that collapses inflation and devaluation of the new currencies will wipe out the debts.