Well, most of the best places to live in the world are socialist. Sweden and other northern European countries are very far to the left of the US and yet have a better quality of life, less poverty and more happiness. It seems to be the way the human race is heading as most societies become more socialist as they develop.
Scandivia _had_ more happiness until it was overrun by Klingons. You know, a warrior race that believes the greatest honor is in losing your life while battling the enemy, whose most holy figure is a warrior, whose weapon of choice is the sword, and whose favorite tactic is attacking from ambush, without warning.
In the past we had long console life cycles because Sony et al. had to recoup their investment in developing that hardware in the first place. Nowadays it is AMD doing all the development, so a quick platform upgrade is as simple as calling AMD and asking for the latest chips. And why wouldn't they? Especially since the competition is going to be doing the exact same thing... So in order to avoid falling behind, there is only one choice: upgrade.
Long life cycles were never an intended goal of consoles to begin with. They were an _accident_, and since everyone has now standardized on PC hardware they are no longer necessary or even desirable.
Oh, you can do it already, open a bank account in Iceland for example. Oh, wait...
Right now I wouldn't recommend that, because Iceland still has capital controls after their banking system crash. But anyone who had an account there has been fully compensated. So what's the problem?
On the other hand, they might actually decide they want their coin to be solid money, instead of southern european money (like Draghi really loves), and they might pay some interest to attract foreign money. Of course I wouldn't do my day to day banking there; just store the bulk of my savings account. I could do that with one transaction per year, so the cost is really not an issue.
I don't see what's wrong about silencing opposition to the EU. People don't realize how good they have it and the best thing would be to do away with all national institutions now and dissolve individual states immediately. Some sad cases will protest but in the end they will have to adapt. The population is not informed or knowledgeable enough to form a relevant opinion anyway and it's best to sidestep mob rule. Europe now!
So what form of governance do you believe the EU should adopt, if not democracy ("mob rule", as you call it)? Fascism? Dictatorship? Communism? sharia law?
There was nothing in the EU Commission communication about making it mandatory (for the consumer). That was the spin put on by the Softpedia article. The Commission proposal was about consumer choice as to the credentials they use, including National ID Cards.
The only part can could be construed as 'mandatory' was the proposal to 'encourage' online platforms to accept these other forms of eID as valid.
Let me repeat something here: "We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." (Juncker)
I'm a Briton and I'll be voting to remain in the EU. Brexit is for masochists. Even Nigel Farage admited in the ITV debate with David Cameron the other day that the UK economy will shrink if we leave the EU.
Just a few generations ago, the British gave their very lives for the freedom of this entire continent. Sad to see how they now wouldn't even want to lose a few lousy euros for their own liberty...
Do you really think Germany is going to give up a 200 billion euro chunk of its economy just so Brussels can score a meaningless point? Do you think the Netherlands is going to give up 80 billion euro for that reason? And if those two countries happily continu trading with the UK, what do you suppose Brussels will do?
1. Scream? 2. Send the glorious EU army? 3. Kick Germany and the Netherlands out?
Please. If anything happens, it will only hasten the demise of the EU.
That's kinda funny, because if brexit happens, I'm planning to open a bank account there. It will be a nearby, well-governed, safe place under a law system I at least vaguely understand, yet it's outside of the EU. Sounds like a great place to store my money.
Someone somewhere in the path between slashdot and the EU commission must have some reading comprehension problems. Or maybe it's misrepresented on purpose.
Or maybe we have seen how the worst government excesses are always presented like this, and are naturally mistrusting about anything that whiffs of destroying a vital part of our freedom.
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." (Juncker)
"If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’,” (Juncker)
“Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?,” (Juncker)
"I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious... I am for secret, dark debates" (Juncker)
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie." (Juncker)
Yeah exploring ideas is really horrible. Meanwhile, have you explored the idea (gasp) that leaving the EU would have financial consequences for the UK? Derp. Yeah, since it's not YOUR wallet, it's such a simple matter of principle from an ocean away...
Of course it solves everything, since the purpose is the destruction of unwanted opinion. Anything they don't like (such as cricicism of the EU, immigration, islam, etc.) and wham - it's hate speech, and you are gone. Disappeared from the internet, which in this day and age of electronic communication is about as good as being disappeared to Siberia.
Did you think Juncker was joking when he said he would do _everything_ before 'allowing' a right-wing party to govern in any European nation?
Internet has been the uncontrolled factor, the thorn in the globalists hide, the one thing they couldn't get their fingers on. It allowed people to discuss and organize themselves, away from their control zones. And here we have the first attempt at putting an end to all that. If we allow this, we will be their slaves for all eternity.
We desperately need a bill of rights in Europe, and it needs to contain things like the right to privacy and the right to anonimity.
So sharing with one particular third party for a technical purpose also implies consent for sharing with every other third party in the known universe, in particular law enforcement agencies? Does the simple fact that more than two parties are involved complete erase the right to privacy?
Gee, you can take this pretty far, can't you? "No, we were perfectly in our rights to spy on them, because there were three of them"...
Not if it spreads, worm-like, to other systems. The only safe course of action for AI's is to NEVER allow them on the internet. Of course some asshole will do so anyway...
I'm not suggesting anything, simply telling you that more registers does not at all automatically mean faster. Registers do not just get refreshed for thread switching either. What do you think register windows are for?
Analog signals are captured in analog fashion and can be used to reconstruct the original image. Sure, I buy that. But this... No, sorry. If anything, I'm inclined to believe that this news is simply a smoke screen; some method to point at when a private key has mysteriously been recovered using other ways (like a built-in weakness in the algorithm, for example).
So we are supposed to believe that different paths, which incidentally occur at a rate of around 4GHz or so, can be 'heard' in an audio stream that has a resolution of maybe 44KHz or so? In an environment that is not free of noise either - fans, other components doing other things, etc.
Four people in a row complaining about replacement rate, as if that were somehow important. The only reason anyone cares about "replacement rate" is because our economic systems are built on the notion that a certain amount of warm bodies must be added every year, to keep the game going. But the game is no more than a very grand pyramid game. Incidentally, that might very well be the same reason that drives immigration: it is not the quality of people that matters in any way, just the quantity...
There is no reason there couldn't be economic systems geared around shrinking populations, and soon enough countries will figure out ways to make that work.
b) sure, and that also means more data to be pushed and popped whenever the register set must be changed for any reason.
and then let me add:
d) pointers are bigger, which has negative effects on cache use.
I measured the performance difference between 32-bit and 64-bit on the application I'm working on (300,000 lines of scientific code). The 64-bit version is about 2% slower than the 32-bit version.
there is a need. To avoid many many support calls (or calls to the helpdesk) with questions like "I just copied some files but Program X can't see them. WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?"
You do realize that problem already exists, right? Explorer has supported 32k pathnames since at least XP. Apparently the problem is not as common as you are suggesting.
The summary mentions that it will only be available to manifested applications, i.e. ones for which the developer has already indicated it can deal with longer paths. Given that protection, there is absolutely no need for additional protection via a registry key.
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Unlike the US, EU, and China, we Canadians actually understand how to implement cybersecurity.
Having your entire country on a 19k2 modem line is _not_ cyber security.
That's what I was thinking as well ;-) The balls don't seem overly big though. You barely notice them next to the neighbouring high-rises...
A large happy prosperous communist society?
Well, most of the best places to live in the world are socialist. Sweden and other northern European countries are very far to the left of the US and yet have a better quality of life, less poverty and more happiness. It seems to be the way the human race is heading as most societies become more socialist as they develop.
Scandivia _had_ more happiness until it was overrun by Klingons. You know, a warrior race that believes the greatest honor is in losing your life while battling the enemy, whose most holy figure is a warrior, whose weapon of choice is the sword, and whose favorite tactic is attacking from ambush, without warning.
In the past we had long console life cycles because Sony et al. had to recoup their investment in developing that hardware in the first place. Nowadays it is AMD doing all the development, so a quick platform upgrade is as simple as calling AMD and asking for the latest chips. And why wouldn't they? Especially since the competition is going to be doing the exact same thing... So in order to avoid falling behind, there is only one choice: upgrade.
Long life cycles were never an intended goal of consoles to begin with. They were an _accident_, and since everyone has now standardized on PC hardware they are no longer necessary or even desirable.
Oh, you can do it already, open a bank account in Iceland for example. Oh, wait...
Right now I wouldn't recommend that, because Iceland still has capital controls after their banking system crash. But anyone who had an account there has been fully compensated. So what's the problem?
On the other hand, they might actually decide they want their coin to be solid money, instead of southern european money (like Draghi really loves), and they might pay some interest to attract foreign money. Of course I wouldn't do my day to day banking there; just store the bulk of my savings account. I could do that with one transaction per year, so the cost is really not an issue.
The EU is trying a combination of all of those.
There, in a nutshell, is why I oppose the EU in its current form.
I don't see what's wrong about silencing opposition to the EU. People don't realize how good they have it and the best thing would be to do away with all national institutions now and dissolve individual states immediately. Some sad cases will protest but in the end they will have to adapt. The population is not informed or knowledgeable enough to form a relevant opinion anyway and it's best to sidestep mob rule. Europe now!
So what form of governance do you believe the EU should adopt, if not democracy ("mob rule", as you call it)? Fascism? Dictatorship? Communism? sharia law?
There was nothing in the EU Commission communication about making it mandatory (for the consumer). That was the spin put on by the Softpedia article. The Commission proposal was about consumer choice as to the credentials they use, including National ID Cards.
The only part can could be construed as 'mandatory' was the proposal to 'encourage' online platforms to accept these other forms of eID as valid.
Let me repeat something here: "We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." (Juncker)
I'm a Briton and I'll be voting to remain in the EU. Brexit is for masochists. Even Nigel Farage admited in the ITV debate with David Cameron the other day that the UK economy will shrink if we leave the EU.
Just a few generations ago, the British gave their very lives for the freedom of this entire continent. Sad to see how they now wouldn't even want to lose a few lousy euros for their own liberty...
Do you really think Germany is going to give up a 200 billion euro chunk of its economy just so Brussels can score a meaningless point? Do you think the Netherlands is going to give up 80 billion euro for that reason? And if those two countries happily continu trading with the UK, what do you suppose Brussels will do?
1. Scream?
2. Send the glorious EU army?
3. Kick Germany and the Netherlands out?
Please. If anything happens, it will only hasten the demise of the EU.
That's kinda funny, because if brexit happens, I'm planning to open a bank account there. It will be a nearby, well-governed, safe place under a law system I at least vaguely understand, yet it's outside of the EU. Sounds like a great place to store my money.
Someone somewhere in the path between slashdot and the EU commission must have some reading comprehension problems. Or maybe it's misrepresented on purpose.
Or maybe we have seen how the worst government excesses are always presented like this, and are naturally mistrusting about anything that whiffs of destroying a vital part of our freedom.
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." (Juncker)
"If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’,” (Juncker)
“Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?,” (Juncker)
"I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates" (Juncker)
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie." (Juncker)
Are you trying to say you trust this guy?
Yeah exploring ideas is really horrible. Meanwhile, have you explored the idea (gasp) that leaving the EU would have financial consequences for the UK? Derp. Yeah, since it's not YOUR wallet, it's such a simple matter of principle from an ocean away...
You cannot put a price on liberty.
Of course it solves everything, since the purpose is the destruction of unwanted opinion. Anything they don't like (such as cricicism of the EU, immigration, islam, etc.) and wham - it's hate speech, and you are gone. Disappeared from the internet, which in this day and age of electronic communication is about as good as being disappeared to Siberia.
Did you think Juncker was joking when he said he would do _everything_ before 'allowing' a right-wing party to govern in any European nation?
Internet has been the uncontrolled factor, the thorn in the globalists hide, the one thing they couldn't get their fingers on. It allowed people to discuss and organize themselves, away from their control zones. And here we have the first attempt at putting an end to all that. If we allow this, we will be their slaves for all eternity.
We desperately need a bill of rights in Europe, and it needs to contain things like the right to privacy and the right to anonimity.
So sharing with one particular third party for a technical purpose also implies consent for sharing with every other third party in the known universe, in particular law enforcement agencies? Does the simple fact that more than two parties are involved complete erase the right to privacy?
Gee, you can take this pretty far, can't you? "No, we were perfectly in our rights to spy on them, because there were three of them"...
Not if it spreads, worm-like, to other systems. The only safe course of action for AI's is to NEVER allow them on the internet. Of course some asshole will do so anyway...
I'm not suggesting anything, simply telling you that more registers does not at all automatically mean faster. Registers do not just get refreshed for thread switching either. What do you think register windows are for?
Analog signals are captured in analog fashion and can be used to reconstruct the original image. Sure, I buy that. But this... No, sorry. If anything, I'm inclined to believe that this news is simply a smoke screen; some method to point at when a private key has mysteriously been recovered using other ways (like a built-in weakness in the algorithm, for example).
So we are supposed to believe that different paths, which incidentally occur at a rate of around 4GHz or so, can be 'heard' in an audio stream that has a resolution of maybe 44KHz or so? In an environment that is not free of noise either - fans, other components doing other things, etc.
I find the whole thing very hard to believe.
Four people in a row complaining about replacement rate, as if that were somehow important. The only reason anyone cares about "replacement rate" is because our economic systems are built on the notion that a certain amount of warm bodies must be added every year, to keep the game going. But the game is no more than a very grand pyramid game. Incidentally, that might very well be the same reason that drives immigration: it is not the quality of people that matters in any way, just the quantity...
There is no reason there couldn't be economic systems geared around shrinking populations, and soon enough countries will figure out ways to make that work.
b) sure, and that also means more data to be pushed and popped whenever the register set must be changed for any reason.
and then let me add:
d) pointers are bigger, which has negative effects on cache use.
I measured the performance difference between 32-bit and 64-bit on the application I'm working on (300,000 lines of scientific code). The 64-bit version is about 2% slower than the 32-bit version.
I can't imagine why someone who sells launchers would like to see a vastly expanded market for launchers either. It just does not make _any_ sense...
there is a need. To avoid many many support calls (or calls to the helpdesk) with questions like "I just copied some files but Program X can't see them. WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?"
You do realize that problem already exists, right? Explorer has supported 32k pathnames since at least XP. Apparently the problem is not as common as you are suggesting.
The summary mentions that it will only be available to manifested applications, i.e. ones for which the developer has already indicated it can deal with longer paths. Given that protection, there is absolutely no need for additional protection via a registry key.