Intel has been hiring away all the tech hardware reviewers it seems. Ryan Shrout from PCPerspective, then one of the people he sold PCPer to (Alvan Malvantano) and now Kyle from HardOCP have all gone to Intel. It's quite the interesting strategy on Intel's part. On the other hand if you want to work for Intel it seems like a good idea to start a hardware review site and you'll probably get a job offer if you can attract any sort of following.
They DID both of the things you asked for last year: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c... It was included in the ill-fated Windows 10 1809 update though so it may not have yet reached your computer. Next time you update your Windows 10 version it will have both of the features you seek in notepad though.
I don't mean priority on their personal service, I mean that what you would want to prioritize is their agency/organization owned service devices (i.e. the data connections in firetrucks, etc.)
I would tend to support prohibitions on throttling for any emergency service and recovery personnel but it seems counterproductive to prevent throttling of typical consumers. During an emergency is exactly the best time to triage and prioritize some communications over others. Given that networks, wireless ones in particular, have limited total capacity I would not want to see emergency service and recovery service traffic taking a backseat to someone in the area watching YouTube videos. It seems emergencies are exactly the sort of thing QoS is designed for! It just needs to be applied properly giving the bandwidth resources to the people who will help the most other people.
I think it's pretty clear they mean the router itself shouldn't have other services open. This is all about reducing router attack surface as they have become a popular target for botnets.
There are ways to sort out those conflicts, see for example the Uniform Commercial Code.
This is not to say that I'm for doing things in a patchwork way. However, state legislatures have shown themselves to be much less bought and paid for by corporations than congress so until we can deal with the corruption that money brings to congress I think we're forced into a situation where the best path forward is to do things at state levels.
Actually this is a pretty interesting idea that could potentially garner bipartisan support (though the fact that politicians on both sides are in the pocket of big business will likely kill it). My rationale is that Republicans like to claim that there are all these 'slackers' collecting welfare benefits who should be working. In this case these are 'working poor' people though who are trying to earn a living but the jobs they have simply cannot cover the costs of living. If Republicans truly want to encourage people to work they need to ensure that everyone can get a job which will cover their costs of living. This would seems to do that without any Government expense at all (also very appealing to Republicans, many of whom are not particularly against government services but are fiscally conservative and don't want the government spending --or collecting-- money). Of course Democrats would support this as providing a social safety net for people trying to work for a living but who need a little extra help making it -- and they can claim a win in doing it without raising individual taxes. This is probably the sort of thing that the majority of Americans would support. Don't worry though, the big business lobby will kill it.
Yep. This. I'm a reluctant Tunderbird user but it definitely sucks at a lot of things including memory/disk usage and horrible caching. I'd love to quit Thunderbird but what would I go to? I have 10 different IMAP/SMTP accounts that I need to send and receive mail from. I also need the client to run in Windows, something multi-platform is even better. Other that Outlook which is equally terrible but for somewhat different reasons, what other options are there? I would think by now that someone would have written a decent open-source web-based client which can connect to multiple IMAP providers just like a local client could using HTML5/Javascript for the frontend and as an offline/progressive web app but I haven't been able to find one...
I'd love to quit Thunderbird but what would I go to? I have 10 different IMAP/SMTP accounts that I need to send and receive mail from. I also need the client to run in Windows, something multi-platform is even better. Other that Outlook what other options are there?
Agreed by (at least some) legal definitions, but I was working more from a dictionary definition which is usually anyone committing a crime which is anything unlawful by dictionary definition.
In the US almost all milk is of the 'low level' pasteurized variety you mentioned this means temperatures of at least 161 F for not less than 15 seconds, followed by rapid cooling. Very little US milk is ultra-pasteurized. It's just trendy right now in the US for some people to drink raw milk. I wouldn't say that it's especially popular, but there's definitely a community of people who seek it out, trade places to buy it, etc.
I drink a lot of milk, enough that I still have home delivery which is very rare in the US these days. My experience, and a key reason I pay extra for home delivery, is that the taste of milk had much more to do with freshness than anything else. The fresher the better.
Actually that's exactly what criminal means. We can (and should) absolutely have a debate about what things should be unlawful today and be continually updating laws. Make no mistake though that if something is unlawful when you do it you are a criminal. That's the definition of criminal.
Yes, that means that everyone who speeds is a criminal. Yes, that means that people who drank (well actually only people who produced, sold, or transported intoxicating liquors) during the prohibition era were criminals. There are many examples of things which should not be, or are not anymore, unlawful but it is clearly the case that people who did those things while they were unlawful are in fact criminals. Yes, almost everyone is a criminal because we have a lot of laws on the books.
This is true. My recollection is also that somewhere along the line Microsoft changed the default in Windows. Traditionally in Windows all mass storage devices, think HDDs, had performance enhancing features such as caching turned on which can cause delayed writes while media like floppies had it turned off. The problem is that when USB 2 came out and USB mass storage became feasible people started unplugging USB drives as soon as the copy appeared to be finished even if the OS was really still writing to the drive in the background causing a potential for data corruption. In this era we were teaching everyone to eject USB drives before removing as that would force a clearing of the write cache before giving the OK to remove the drive.
Somewhere along the line (maybe Windows Vista?) it became apparent that the clumsy drive eject mechanism in Windows, combined with users frequently forgetting to do it, and the increasing popularity of flash drives made this a usability issue. At that point Microsoft changed how Windows handles USB attached mass storage devices and disabled or modified the performance features to flush the write cache as quickly as possible and keep copy dialogs on screen until the files were actually fully copied. At the same time a lot of flash drive manufacturers started putting access indicator LEDs on the drives so you could tell if the drive was being accessed. After this most Windows users stopped ejecting drives before removal and save for an especially odd case there seems to have been little data corruption which can be traced back to not ejecting the drive.
Pretty much all commercially sold electronic equipment needs to be FCC certified for sale in the US specifically because they can cause interference like this. See https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd... specifically the sections on unintentional and incidental radiators.
I don't know why the LA Times is reporting this as new news. I'm pretty sure I had heard by Wednesday or Thursday that the problem was the rocket rant out of TEA-TEB ignition fluid. Don't journalists watch press conferences and read analysis anymore? Does the CEO need to Tweet about it before they pay attention?
Then why spend fuel and other resources on landing them?
I believe I saw one quote from Elon somewhere that even thought they won't be re-used in entirety there will be some re-use of expensive (in time and money) parts from them. In particular I think he mentioned re-use of the grid fins.
Predictability is certainly part of it but I'm pretty convinced that it's more lucrative too. If you surveyed all users of software from these subscription purveyors I'm pretty sure you would find they are paying more (averaged on a per-year basis) than they were pre-subscription. Usually the subscription price is the same or just ever so slightly less than what buying every upgrade would cost you. In my experience while some people do buy every upgrade there are a larger number of users who traditionally only bought every second or third upgrade. While they may lose a few of these users there are many they are not losing and who are just paying more.
Of course the "predictability" argument is the only one you'll ever find evidence of and the only one these companies will ever say out loud because being vocally anti-consumer isn't usually good for business.
But basically, MS wants to control your computer, and turn it into a conveyance for advertising, or into a platform for gathering data-- er.. sorry, telemetry about you and your computing habits.
Maybe, that's what alternative operating systems are for. Trust me I'm right in line to raise a ruckus if something like only allowing signed operating systems on your PC (ala some of the UEFI proposals) but it's not like there aren't alternative OS choices here. If Microsoft wants to make Windows into a cesspool of advertising so be it.
Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon?
They already do for bigger businesses, it's called "software assurance". Believe you me, if/when they could figure out how to force smaller business users into subscription Windows they will. There's a reason that the commercial software publishers (Adobe, Autodesk, etc.) are all going subscription based, hint, it's not because it's better for consumers. It's because it's much more lucrative for them. These people are in business to make money, which means taking yours. They've just gotten better at it.
Yeah, you're not the target audience and are probably not going to be installing shady registry cleaners and system optimization utilities anyway. Are you also saying we as a society shouldn't try and shut down sketchy con-artist retailers because you're not stupid enough to fall for what they're selling and should be able to waste your money if you want to? Sometimes there are larger social issues at work than just you. You can always turn off Windows Defender if you don't like what it's doing...or run another OS if you prefer.
I took AP CS in 2000-2001 back when it was C++ based and we didn't use a textbook then either so I'm not so sure this is a new phenomena. We relied on lectures and a lot of hands-on exercises which seemed to work out pretty well. I suspect at that time the AP CS market was quite a bit smaller so there probably were a pretty limited set of textbook options, especially geared at high school students. Now, with the advantage of substantially more online resources there are probably even fewer reasons to be using a textbook. The teacher does need to put some effort into pre-selecting some good online resources to share with students as well as some effort into being a reasonably proficient programmer themselves though. There are many ways to do that too though and my AP CS teacher taught one or two sections of AP CS and the rest of the time was a math teacher which was pretty standard I think.
What redirections are actually being blocked though? Lots of web servers actually use HTTP redirection messages legitimately for forcing HTTPS for example. This is typically done with HTTP 301 and 302 messages which I hope would not be blocked.
Yep, I was all in on Squeezebox too and never regretted going with it instead of Sonos. A major reason I bought all the Squeezebox stuff was the open source backend to it which I knew would keep going even if Logitech disappeared. This is doubly important with a big system made up of a lot of components like a whole house music system or a home automation system. I simply refuse to buy anything in these areas which requires a vendor remain supportive in order for it to function. The investment in a system like this is a long term play and consumer electronics vendors just don't have a track record for long term support.
I will say that I keep hoping for a community rewrite of LMS because it is quite long in the tooth and has some substantial drawbacks these days over other solutions. Alternatively, I hope for some entirely new whole house music project which will still work with my existing Squeeze devices but has a mobile friendly website, better API for integrating with automation, etc. If I was starting over again I would probably look at Music Player Daemon, but I do like having a centralized web control panel which it is lacking and no one has really good open source hardware projects that connect to it to create something usable without an app at all like the Squeeze devices can be...
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Intel has been hiring away all the tech hardware reviewers it seems. Ryan Shrout from PCPerspective, then one of the people he sold PCPer to (Alvan Malvantano) and now Kyle from HardOCP have all gone to Intel. It's quite the interesting strategy on Intel's part. On the other hand if you want to work for Intel it seems like a good idea to start a hardware review site and you'll probably get a job offer if you can attract any sort of following.
They DID both of the things you asked for last year: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c... It was included in the ill-fated Windows 10 1809 update though so it may not have yet reached your computer. Next time you update your Windows 10 version it will have both of the features you seek in notepad though.
I don't mean priority on their personal service, I mean that what you would want to prioritize is their agency/organization owned service devices (i.e. the data connections in firetrucks, etc.)
I would tend to support prohibitions on throttling for any emergency service and recovery personnel but it seems counterproductive to prevent throttling of typical consumers. During an emergency is exactly the best time to triage and prioritize some communications over others. Given that networks, wireless ones in particular, have limited total capacity I would not want to see emergency service and recovery service traffic taking a backseat to someone in the area watching YouTube videos. It seems emergencies are exactly the sort of thing QoS is designed for! It just needs to be applied properly giving the bandwidth resources to the people who will help the most other people.
I think it's pretty clear they mean the router itself shouldn't have other services open. This is all about reducing router attack surface as they have become a popular target for botnets.
There are ways to sort out those conflicts, see for example the Uniform Commercial Code.
This is not to say that I'm for doing things in a patchwork way. However, state legislatures have shown themselves to be much less bought and paid for by corporations than congress so until we can deal with the corruption that money brings to congress I think we're forced into a situation where the best path forward is to do things at state levels.
Actually this is a pretty interesting idea that could potentially garner bipartisan support (though the fact that politicians on both sides are in the pocket of big business will likely kill it). My rationale is that Republicans like to claim that there are all these 'slackers' collecting welfare benefits who should be working. In this case these are 'working poor' people though who are trying to earn a living but the jobs they have simply cannot cover the costs of living. If Republicans truly want to encourage people to work they need to ensure that everyone can get a job which will cover their costs of living. This would seems to do that without any Government expense at all (also very appealing to Republicans, many of whom are not particularly against government services but are fiscally conservative and don't want the government spending --or collecting-- money). Of course Democrats would support this as providing a social safety net for people trying to work for a living but who need a little extra help making it -- and they can claim a win in doing it without raising individual taxes. This is probably the sort of thing that the majority of Americans would support. Don't worry though, the big business lobby will kill it.
Yep. This. I'm a reluctant Tunderbird user but it definitely sucks at a lot of things including memory/disk usage and horrible caching. I'd love to quit Thunderbird but what would I go to? I have 10 different IMAP/SMTP accounts that I need to send and receive mail from. I also need the client to run in Windows, something multi-platform is even better. Other that Outlook which is equally terrible but for somewhat different reasons, what other options are there? I would think by now that someone would have written a decent open-source web-based client which can connect to multiple IMAP providers just like a local client could using HTML5/Javascript for the frontend and as an offline/progressive web app but I haven't been able to find one...
I'd love to quit Thunderbird but what would I go to? I have 10 different IMAP/SMTP accounts that I need to send and receive mail from. I also need the client to run in Windows, something multi-platform is even better. Other that Outlook what other options are there?
What you're looking for is DavMail. I've been using it for years so that I can have all my email accounts in one program.
Agreed by (at least some) legal definitions, but I was working more from a dictionary definition which is usually anyone committing a crime which is anything unlawful by dictionary definition.
In the US almost all milk is of the 'low level' pasteurized variety you mentioned this means temperatures of at least 161 F for not less than 15 seconds, followed by rapid cooling. Very little US milk is ultra-pasteurized. It's just trendy right now in the US for some people to drink raw milk. I wouldn't say that it's especially popular, but there's definitely a community of people who seek it out, trade places to buy it, etc.
I drink a lot of milk, enough that I still have home delivery which is very rare in the US these days. My experience, and a key reason I pay extra for home delivery, is that the taste of milk had much more to do with freshness than anything else. The fresher the better.
Actually that's exactly what criminal means. We can (and should) absolutely have a debate about what things should be unlawful today and be continually updating laws. Make no mistake though that if something is unlawful when you do it you are a criminal. That's the definition of criminal.
Yes, that means that everyone who speeds is a criminal. Yes, that means that people who drank (well actually only people who produced, sold, or transported intoxicating liquors) during the prohibition era were criminals. There are many examples of things which should not be, or are not anymore, unlawful but it is clearly the case that people who did those things while they were unlawful are in fact criminals. Yes, almost everyone is a criminal because we have a lot of laws on the books.
This is true. My recollection is also that somewhere along the line Microsoft changed the default in Windows. Traditionally in Windows all mass storage devices, think HDDs, had performance enhancing features such as caching turned on which can cause delayed writes while media like floppies had it turned off. The problem is that when USB 2 came out and USB mass storage became feasible people started unplugging USB drives as soon as the copy appeared to be finished even if the OS was really still writing to the drive in the background causing a potential for data corruption. In this era we were teaching everyone to eject USB drives before removing as that would force a clearing of the write cache before giving the OK to remove the drive.
Somewhere along the line (maybe Windows Vista?) it became apparent that the clumsy drive eject mechanism in Windows, combined with users frequently forgetting to do it, and the increasing popularity of flash drives made this a usability issue. At that point Microsoft changed how Windows handles USB attached mass storage devices and disabled or modified the performance features to flush the write cache as quickly as possible and keep copy dialogs on screen until the files were actually fully copied. At the same time a lot of flash drive manufacturers started putting access indicator LEDs on the drives so you could tell if the drive was being accessed. After this most Windows users stopped ejecting drives before removal and save for an especially odd case there seems to have been little data corruption which can be traced back to not ejecting the drive.
Pretty much anything electronic can create RF emissions. See unintentional and incidental radiators at https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd...
Pretty much all commercially sold electronic equipment needs to be FCC certified for sale in the US specifically because they can cause interference like this. See https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd... specifically the sections on unintentional and incidental radiators.
I don't know why the LA Times is reporting this as new news. I'm pretty sure I had heard by Wednesday or Thursday that the problem was the rocket rant out of TEA-TEB ignition fluid. Don't journalists watch press conferences and read analysis anymore? Does the CEO need to Tweet about it before they pay attention?
Then why spend fuel and other resources on landing them?
I believe I saw one quote from Elon somewhere that even thought they won't be re-used in entirety there will be some re-use of expensive (in time and money) parts from them. In particular I think he mentioned re-use of the grid fins.
Predictability is certainly part of it but I'm pretty convinced that it's more lucrative too. If you surveyed all users of software from these subscription purveyors I'm pretty sure you would find they are paying more (averaged on a per-year basis) than they were pre-subscription. Usually the subscription price is the same or just ever so slightly less than what buying every upgrade would cost you. In my experience while some people do buy every upgrade there are a larger number of users who traditionally only bought every second or third upgrade. While they may lose a few of these users there are many they are not losing and who are just paying more.
Of course the "predictability" argument is the only one you'll ever find evidence of and the only one these companies will ever say out loud because being vocally anti-consumer isn't usually good for business.
But basically, MS wants to control your computer, and turn it into a conveyance for advertising, or into a platform for gathering data-- er.. sorry, telemetry about you and your computing habits.
Maybe, that's what alternative operating systems are for. Trust me I'm right in line to raise a ruckus if something like only allowing signed operating systems on your PC (ala some of the UEFI proposals) but it's not like there aren't alternative OS choices here. If Microsoft wants to make Windows into a cesspool of advertising so be it.
Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon?
They already do for bigger businesses, it's called "software assurance". Believe you me, if/when they could figure out how to force smaller business users into subscription Windows they will. There's a reason that the commercial software publishers (Adobe, Autodesk, etc.) are all going subscription based, hint, it's not because it's better for consumers. It's because it's much more lucrative for them. These people are in business to make money, which means taking yours. They've just gotten better at it.
Yeah, you're not the target audience and are probably not going to be installing shady registry cleaners and system optimization utilities anyway. Are you also saying we as a society shouldn't try and shut down sketchy con-artist retailers because you're not stupid enough to fall for what they're selling and should be able to waste your money if you want to? Sometimes there are larger social issues at work than just you. You can always turn off Windows Defender if you don't like what it's doing...or run another OS if you prefer.
I took AP CS in 2000-2001 back when it was C++ based and we didn't use a textbook then either so I'm not so sure this is a new phenomena. We relied on lectures and a lot of hands-on exercises which seemed to work out pretty well. I suspect at that time the AP CS market was quite a bit smaller so there probably were a pretty limited set of textbook options, especially geared at high school students. Now, with the advantage of substantially more online resources there are probably even fewer reasons to be using a textbook. The teacher does need to put some effort into pre-selecting some good online resources to share with students as well as some effort into being a reasonably proficient programmer themselves though. There are many ways to do that too though and my AP CS teacher taught one or two sections of AP CS and the rest of the time was a math teacher which was pretty standard I think.
What redirections are actually being blocked though? Lots of web servers actually use HTTP redirection messages legitimately for forcing HTTPS for example. This is typically done with HTTP 301 and 302 messages which I hope would not be blocked.
Yep, I was all in on Squeezebox too and never regretted going with it instead of Sonos. A major reason I bought all the Squeezebox stuff was the open source backend to it which I knew would keep going even if Logitech disappeared. This is doubly important with a big system made up of a lot of components like a whole house music system or a home automation system. I simply refuse to buy anything in these areas which requires a vendor remain supportive in order for it to function. The investment in a system like this is a long term play and consumer electronics vendors just don't have a track record for long term support.
I will say that I keep hoping for a community rewrite of LMS because it is quite long in the tooth and has some substantial drawbacks these days over other solutions. Alternatively, I hope for some entirely new whole house music project which will still work with my existing Squeeze devices but has a mobile friendly website, better API for integrating with automation, etc. If I was starting over again I would probably look at Music Player Daemon, but I do like having a centralized web control panel which it is lacking and no one has really good open source hardware projects that connect to it to create something usable without an app at all like the Squeeze devices can be...