Google is cloud company, The offer hosted VMs. This service is probably basically a VM with GPU which streams the game back to you. Snapshoting the state of such VM in case of connection loss or when user needs to pause is their bread and butter. They already have technologies to spin and transfer VM workloads. This is not much different.
Storing game saves is trivial problem solved way ago with cloud object storage. If Google can do that with emails (GMail) or files (GDrive) they certainly will be able to handle saves.
Google customers care. The ones that are actually paying Google for their cloud services. You know that Google is not only web and email right? There is also the Cloud Platform. I personally would like a strong 2FA device to protect my accounts for running my business on GCP.
Trust is one issue, cost and business is other. Lots of business pay Google for services so they also trust Google to run their business. Ones like Snapchat, Airbnb, Costco, Philips, TiVo, Citrix, Ubisoft... etc.
2) Lots of serious corporations use commercial Google products especially G Suite. I worked in two such corporations. Such 2FA product is mostly targeted for power (these are few) and corporate users (these are hundreds of thousands and they are paying). So if they are using it they are probably also trusting Google. If you use G Suite it is a very good idea to protect at least the administrative accounts (eg. with domain control) with strong 2FA devices.
1) Take look at 2 - this is targeted to corporate environments. In corporate environment when you loose your 2FA device you usually have a procedure to recover your account and get a new one.
I am living in Poland. Back in the 80s there was a constant economical crisis in entire Soviet block Poland included. In shortage economy people needed to manage somehow and we shared everything. I remember people tend to borrow from each other everything from sporting goods (like skis, camping equipment). This lasted some time after the system changed to capitalism. The first capitalist decade was really hard on people and the habits lasted.
Computers like anything else were also shared.
I remember briefly having an ZX Spectrum borrowed for fun in mid-80s. Then having Amstrad computer with green mono monitor and 70KB (??) floppy drive (!!!) borrowed from neighbor in exchange for my fathers car trailer (IIRC). Then Commodore 64 which we owned and played after school with school friends. Then we got an PC AT clone which I borrowed for few weeks to a relative who was writing a thesis and needed to use decent computer with word processor. I recall we used TAG editor country wide then mainly because it supported Polish punctation correctly. Then in mid 90s I remember that we use to gather all the RAM dices from friends in the neighborhood in order to put together a skateboarding zine (lizg) to pring. We needed the RAM to be able to load the DTP projects and standard single computer didn't ever have enough ram. IIRC 32MB was a standard then and some projects required 128MB or more.
Ah, that were the times...
Coming back to topic I think the real sharing (like multi generation) started when Polish market got flooded with cheap Famicon/NES clones and carts...
Not quite sure what you have against Lotus Notes? Last time i really used was around 2007 with IIRC 8.5 version. I've used in in corporate environment with Sametime integration, custom apps and so on. And back then I've found it much better then I currently find Microsoft Outlook 2016 (with Skype). Really Outlook 2016 is very clunky and sucks so much (and it is the best Outlook out there).
Examples: - try managing a large (lets say 20+) rule set sane with Outlook - impossible, I remember with Notes it was much better organized - plain chat with Skype sucks really, really bad - it has problems with copy/paste - text gets garbled etc. - Outlook UI tends to freeze often
Visual Studio Code is based on Electron framework. It is basically Chromium browser with NodeJS backend. That always will be bloated and slow. Doesn't matter - you can strip Visual Studio Code to just a blinking pixel but being based on Electron it still will be a cow.
You don't have to BYO anything. You just go to a food truck, get your flatware and pay a deposit (be it $5) and after that you do whatever you wish with the flatware. You can return it to the food truck and get your deposit back. You may drop it on ground when you stand and then a bum or cleaning service will get it. Heck you may even take it home as a souvenir.
Actually this is how it is done now in many European cities and gigs. Eg. in Vienna Kriskindlmakrt the mulled wine is sold in standard cups which have few EUR deposit with them. You just exchange them when you get new cup or take it home as souvenir or give it back for cash.
Things would have been different if IBM didn't choose Microsoft. And IBM had chosen MS because of Bill Gates mothers connection to then IBM CEO. Look it up. At time Dr. DOS was on every level better than MS-DOS.
So yes american dream... provided that you have had a good start in life (family).
OpenWRT is great when paired with hardware which is supported well. But saying that OpenWRT installation "on any old router" will be secure is bullshit. Only few routers are well supported by OpenWRT. Most of the routers are poorly supported - poorly as in no updates for ages, software no stable. How this is secure?
Last month I did a Raspberry Pi Zero W build for retro gaming. What I've bought was:
- 2x 8bitdo NES30 bluetooth controllers (the best in my opinion) - ~$20 each - 1x Raspberry Pi Zero W with black plastic case - ~$15 - 8GB SD card - $0 - I've got it laying around - but it would be probably few bucks - Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable - $2 off Aliexpress - Micro USB cable - $2 off Aliexpress
The build took me about 3hrs. Installed RetroPie, tweaked it a litte. Most time consuming was selection of games as I didn't want it to be flooded - only the best titles. I've choosen around 100 ROMS for each NES, SMS, SNES, SMD.
So the finished system costed me around $80. It has great wireless controllers and does much more games.
I've just now completing sweet ass retro gaming setup intended for one 7 y.o. child and his father and only NES games. I've used Raspberry Pi Zero W +original case (with red accent) +two 8bitdo zero control (also with red accents). Running retropie. The hardest part was finding matching white Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable.:) Everything costing less then $40. I guess this will give somebody lots of fun.
I own it all to NESticle and later zsnes emulator makers. Cheers!
You don't remembers shit. Honestly right now there is a lot of diversity in Linux distros. Take the classical ones like Debian and Red Hat - completely the same right? I bet you haven't even touched RHEL since you need to pay for it.... OK take Debian and CentOS. Quite similar - OK. Then take Gentoo and Arch Linux. Same yep? OK. Maybe try CoreOS? Alpine Linux maybe? Same shit eh?
I didn't mean normal travel - his location is obvious then. I mean situations like transfers from military airport to hotel enclave or similar. Usualy there are procedures in place so nobody really knows what route will his limo take. Sometimes there are decoy limos etc. Having a hacked phone in his pocket makes him an easy target if somebody wishes to... I bet Russians and Chinese are sitting on his phone already.
Thunderbird is barely usable. It has 10 y.o. bugs making it crash and corrupt local database. It also has 5 y.o. bugs related to handling IMAP protocol and headers.
For open-source email client I don't see any need to use Thunderbid anymore. Need to run your own email service? Use open source server software and decent open source webmail client plus open source mobile client. Thunderbird? No thanks.
> I am the only person I know who uses a local email client, rather than gmail
Local email client is just a client for service. You know that you can use gmail with your local email client right? Gmail on the other hand is an ISP - exactly the same as in old days of using email client software. It is just like that today people prefer to use webmail over dedicated client. Well in fact they prefer to use their mobile email client (usually GMail) but still...
> The idea of email that isn't used as profiling material for one of the biggest > advertising companies on the planet appears to be dead.
I doesn't. You can get email from like hundreds of other ISPs and it tends to work. Hell - you can even run your own email server!
> Along with it, as collateral damage, the idea of end-to-end encryption
WTF are you talking about? You can use GMail with end-to-end encryption. Just enable IMAP access and use whatever encryption scheme and whatever client you like...
This guy is POTUS. Lots of people would like to kill him. His unsecured phone can reveal his location when - for example - he travels through not so nice countries. Is he so stupid not to understand that this phone basically targets him? When he uses secret service issued phone he can be at least sure that some guy in AT&T (or whatever he is using for his private phone) won't give up his location or other data for small sum of money?
What for you need QHD on mobile phone display? Maybe for VR but other purposes? Why? Processing power for such display is significant - so significant that you can disable it to conserve battery which is a MOBILE phone most valuable resource. So wny? Why QHD in mobile? What is the use case for that?
I don't really love Microsoft or Windows. Actually I am professionaly an Linux Support Specialist so mind you.
I use Windows 10 and all browsing I am doing on Windows is from Chrome. I have never seen any ad on my Windows 10 nor any nagging to use MS Edge. Maybe it is related to the fact that I am using Pro version of Windows? Or what? I read all that Windows 10 bashing and quite frankly I find it better than Windows 7...
Well for sleep activity I use Xiaomi Mi Band 1S (the 2 version is to big and I don't need display) because I find it inconvenient to sleep with my watch and I could hurt my girlfriend with it (Pebble Time Steel is quite big). It does its job very well (sleep tracking) and is just a little silicone strap. Oh and it lasts 30-45 days on single charge (!).
Now for notifications and varius interactions with my smartphone I own Pebble Time Steel (since it lasts 10 days on battery). I've supported it from the start on KickStarter back in early 2012. I've got mine with "Kickstarter Edition" engraved on the envelope and later I've supported Pebble Time Steel. It could be better but for me Pebble was the best smartwatch on market.
To bad they just fucked me over.
Now this Huawei Fit technically is the closest to Pebble and my requirements. Just lacking apps and some functionality which IMHO could be implemented.
Visual Studio for Mac isn't, in fact, Visual Studio at all. Instead, it's the latest iteration of Xamarin Studio, the cross-platform C# development environment that Microsoft inherited when it bought Xamarin, developers of cross-platform.NET-based mobile development tools, last year.
These are two very different products, and the real Windows Visual Studio is the more capable product.
> Chrome is the new above-board "virus" being shoved on everyone as unwanted > bundle-ware along with anything they download,
Hardly everyones. I haven't seen any Chrome bundled with apps on Mac nor Linux, maybe it is a Windows thing but nah... And hardly anything. To be hones last time I've seen Chrome bundled with installer was AFAIR with Avast Antivirus on Windows and it is probably a good thing to include Chrome with AV on Windows since it is way more secure than IE.
> [Chrome performance compared to Fx]
Wow! First time I see somebody complaining about Chrome performance as compared to Fx. For me Fx is a cow by YMMV. Usual complaint about Chrome is Google data policy about users...
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Google is cloud company, The offer hosted VMs. This service is probably basically a VM with GPU which streams the game back to you. Snapshoting the state of such VM in case of connection loss or when user needs to pause is their bread and butter. They already have technologies to spin and transfer VM workloads. This is not much different.
Storing game saves is trivial problem solved way ago with cloud object storage. If Google can do that with emails (GMail) or files (GDrive) they certainly will be able to handle saves.
No.
Public/government IT systems should use open data standards and open APIs so that data is not tied to one vendors system.
Having that you can use whatever licensed software that does the job and is economically viable.
Anne Pro (1st version). Love it. I found that since I started using it it made me to learn more efficient way of working with Vim and Bash.
Google customers care. The ones that are actually paying Google for their cloud services. You know that Google is not only web and email right? There is also the Cloud Platform. I personally would like a strong 2FA device to protect my accounts for running my business on GCP.
Trust is one issue, cost and business is other. Lots of business pay Google for services so they also trust Google to run their business. Ones like Snapchat, Airbnb, Costco, Philips, TiVo, Citrix, Ubisoft... etc.
https://cloud.google.com/custo...
2) Lots of serious corporations use commercial Google products especially G Suite. I worked in two such corporations. Such 2FA product is mostly targeted for power (these are few) and corporate users (these are hundreds of thousands and they are paying). So if they are using it they are probably also trusting Google. If you use G Suite it is a very good idea to protect at least the administrative accounts (eg. with domain control) with strong 2FA devices.
1) Take look at 2 - this is targeted to corporate environments. In corporate environment when you loose your 2FA device you usually have a procedure to recover your account and get a new one.
I am living in Poland. Back in the 80s there was a constant economical crisis in entire Soviet block Poland included. In shortage economy people needed to manage somehow and we shared everything. I remember people tend to borrow from each other everything from sporting goods (like skis, camping equipment). This lasted some time after the system changed to capitalism. The first capitalist decade was really hard on people and the habits lasted.
Computers like anything else were also shared.
I remember briefly having an ZX Spectrum borrowed for fun in mid-80s. Then having Amstrad computer with green mono monitor and 70KB (??) floppy drive (!!!) borrowed from neighbor in exchange for my fathers car trailer (IIRC). Then Commodore 64 which we owned and played after school with school friends. Then we got an PC AT clone which I borrowed for few weeks to a relative who was writing a thesis and needed to use decent computer with word processor. I recall we used TAG editor country wide then mainly because it supported Polish punctation correctly. Then in mid 90s I remember that we use to gather all the RAM dices from friends in the neighborhood in order to put together a skateboarding zine (lizg) to pring. We needed the RAM to be able to load the DTP projects and standard single computer didn't ever have enough ram. IIRC 32MB was a standard then and some projects required 128MB or more.
Ah, that were the times...
Coming back to topic I think the real sharing (like multi generation) started when Polish market got flooded with cheap Famicon/NES clones and carts...
Hi
Not quite sure what you have against Lotus Notes? Last time i really used was around 2007 with IIRC 8.5 version. I've used in in corporate environment with Sametime integration, custom apps and so on. And back then I've found it much better then I currently find Microsoft Outlook 2016 (with Skype). Really Outlook 2016 is very clunky and sucks so much (and it is the best Outlook out there).
Examples:
- try managing a large (lets say 20+) rule set sane with Outlook - impossible, I remember with Notes it was much better organized
- plain chat with Skype sucks really, really bad - it has problems with copy/paste - text gets garbled etc.
- Outlook UI tends to freeze often
Visual Studio Code is based on Electron framework. It is basically Chromium browser with NodeJS backend. That always will be bloated and slow. Doesn't matter - you can strip Visual Studio Code to just a blinking pixel but being based on Electron it still will be a cow.
You must be American right?
You don't have to BYO anything. You just go to a food truck, get your flatware and pay a deposit (be it $5) and after that you do whatever you wish with the flatware. You can return it to the food truck and get your deposit back. You may drop it on ground when you stand and then a bum or cleaning service will get it. Heck you may even take it home as a souvenir.
Actually this is how it is done now in many European cities and gigs. Eg. in Vienna Kriskindlmakrt the mulled wine is sold in standard cups which have few EUR deposit with them. You just exchange them when you get new cup or take it home as souvenir or give it back for cash.
> Look, work hard, build a company
Things would have been different if IBM didn't choose Microsoft. And IBM had chosen MS because of Bill Gates mothers connection to then IBM CEO. Look it up. At time Dr. DOS was on every level better than MS-DOS.
So yes american dream... provided that you have had a good start in life (family).
OpenWRT is great when paired with hardware which is supported well. But saying that OpenWRT installation "on any old router" will be secure is bullshit. Only few routers are well supported by OpenWRT. Most of the routers are poorly supported - poorly as in no updates for ages, software no stable. How this is secure?
Last month I did a Raspberry Pi Zero W build for retro gaming. What I've bought was:
- 2x 8bitdo NES30 bluetooth controllers (the best in my opinion) - ~$20 each
- 1x Raspberry Pi Zero W with black plastic case - ~$15
- 8GB SD card - $0 - I've got it laying around - but it would be probably few bucks
- Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable - $2 off Aliexpress
- Micro USB cable - $2 off Aliexpress
The build took me about 3hrs. Installed RetroPie, tweaked it a litte. Most time consuming was selection of games as I didn't want it to be flooded - only the best titles. I've choosen around 100 ROMS for each NES, SMS, SNES, SMD.
So the finished system costed me around $80. It has great wireless controllers and does much more games.
I've just now completing sweet ass retro gaming setup intended for one 7 y.o. child and his father and only NES games. I've used Raspberry Pi Zero W +original case (with red accent) +two 8bitdo zero control (also with red accents). Running retropie. The hardest part was finding matching white Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable. :) Everything costing less then $40. I guess this will give somebody lots of fun.
I own it all to NESticle and later zsnes emulator makers. Cheers!
You don't remembers shit. Honestly right now there is a lot of diversity in Linux distros. Take the classical ones like Debian and Red Hat - completely the same right? I bet you haven't even touched RHEL since you need to pay for it.... OK take Debian and CentOS. Quite similar - OK. Then take Gentoo and Arch Linux. Same yep? OK. Maybe try CoreOS? Alpine Linux maybe? Same shit eh?
I didn't mean normal travel - his location is obvious then. I mean situations like transfers from military airport to hotel enclave or similar. Usualy there are procedures in place so nobody really knows what route will his limo take. Sometimes there are decoy limos etc. Having a hacked phone in his pocket makes him an easy target if somebody wishes to... I bet Russians and Chinese are sitting on his phone already.
Thunderbird is barely usable. It has 10 y.o. bugs making it crash and corrupt local database. It also has 5 y.o. bugs related to handling IMAP protocol and headers.
For open-source email client I don't see any need to use Thunderbid anymore. Need to run your own email service? Use open source server software and decent open source webmail client plus open source mobile client. Thunderbird? No thanks.
> I am the only person I know who uses a local email client, rather than gmail
Local email client is just a client for service. You know that you can use gmail with your local email client right? Gmail on the other hand is an ISP - exactly the same as in old days of using email client software. It is just like that today people prefer to use webmail over dedicated client. Well in fact they prefer to use their mobile email client (usually GMail) but still...
> The idea of email that isn't used as profiling material for one of the biggest
> advertising companies on the planet appears to be dead.
I doesn't. You can get email from like hundreds of other ISPs and it tends to work. Hell - you can even run your own email server!
> Along with it, as collateral damage, the idea of end-to-end encryption
WTF are you talking about? You can use GMail with end-to-end encryption. Just enable IMAP access and use whatever encryption scheme and whatever client you like...
This guy is POTUS. Lots of people would like to kill him. His unsecured phone can reveal his location when - for example - he travels through not so nice countries. Is he so stupid not to understand that this phone basically targets him? When he uses secret service issued phone he can be at least sure that some guy in AT&T (or whatever he is using for his private phone) won't give up his location or other data for small sum of money?
What for you need QHD on mobile phone display? Maybe for VR but other purposes? Why? Processing power for such display is significant - so significant that you can disable it to conserve battery which is a MOBILE phone most valuable resource. So wny? Why QHD in mobile? What is the use case for that?
I don't really love Microsoft or Windows. Actually I am professionaly an Linux Support Specialist so mind you.
I use Windows 10 and all browsing I am doing on Windows is from Chrome. I have never seen any ad on my Windows 10 nor any nagging to use MS Edge. Maybe it is related to the fact that I am using Pro version of Windows? Or what? I read all that Windows 10 bashing and quite frankly I find it better than Windows 7...
Well for sleep activity I use Xiaomi Mi Band 1S (the 2 version is to big and I don't need display) because I find it inconvenient to sleep with my watch and I could hurt my girlfriend with it (Pebble Time Steel is quite big). It does its job very well (sleep tracking) and is just a little silicone strap. Oh and it lasts 30-45 days on single charge (!).
Now for notifications and varius interactions with my smartphone I own Pebble Time Steel (since it lasts 10 days on battery). I've supported it from the start on KickStarter back in early 2012. I've got mine with "Kickstarter Edition" engraved on the envelope and later I've supported Pebble Time Steel. It could be better but for me Pebble was the best smartwatch on market.
To bad they just fucked me over.
Now this Huawei Fit technically is the closest to Pebble and my requirements. Just lacking apps and some functionality which IMHO could be implemented.
You can get it on Amazon for $130 (prime).
It looks decent:
http://consumer.huawei.com/en/...
Fitness oriented but nevertheless it has 6-14 day battery life and always on LCD screen.
According to Ars Technica it is different product
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
> Chrome is the new above-board "virus" being shoved on everyone as unwanted
> bundle-ware along with anything they download,
Hardly everyones. I haven't seen any Chrome bundled with apps on Mac nor Linux, maybe it is a Windows thing but nah... And hardly anything. To be hones last time I've seen Chrome bundled with installer was AFAIR with Avast Antivirus on Windows and it is probably a good thing to include Chrome with AV on Windows since it is way more secure than IE.
> [Chrome performance compared to Fx]
Wow! First time I see somebody complaining about Chrome performance as compared to Fx. For me Fx is a cow by YMMV. Usual complaint about Chrome is Google data policy about users...