I'm not talking about paying a "huge premium", or buying Apple as opposed to other brands. I'm merely saying that, in general, complaining that "this product has not been revamped in the last 2 years" seems a bit obsessed with progress.
A lot of products made 3 or 4 years ago should still be plenty useful today.
As a society, we have become obsessed with never-ending growth and progress. It's not good enough that a company provides jobs and turns a profit. It has to show "growth". It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
I do agree that a Mac Mini should cost less now than it did over three years ago. But what's wrong with good enough? I recently went shopping for a new TV. I expected that with 4K TVs being common now, I should be able to pickup a 1920x1080 TV for a good price. I was wrong. I ended up making a deal on a 4K TV, even though I almost never watch anything in 4K.
Exactly! I've been using Unix since before Linux existed. The original philosophy was that it worked as a bunch of simple, self-contained components. Commands are terse and to-the-point. If you want something more complex, pipe them together. Even the shell was replaceable.
Oh, and everything could be treated like a file, including devices. This concept seems to have gone a step farther in Linux, where even processes can be accessed through/proc.
What an arrogant assertion. You think you're so smart you're invulnerable to attack? You think your computer is invulnerable to attack? You think your network is invulnerable to attack. Think again.
... how do you "stalk" someone you are already married to?
Gee, I dunno, maybe you could "intercept phone calls, remotely turn on a device's microphone and camera, steal emails and social media messages, as well as track a target's GPS location".
I don't know whether it handles Mac OS files, but Unix text files open just fine in Wordpad (which like Notepad is part of every Windows installation).
I have a wide variety of drives at work, both HDD and SSD. I mostly buy "enterprise" grade drives, and specifically look for models with a 5-year warranty. What I've discovered recently, however, is that here are huge differences in how manufacturers fulfill their warranties. When a drive fails, what I'm looking for is to obtain a replacement as soon as possible. I can live with a degraded RAID array for a few days, perhaps, but not for weeks. With an "Advance RMA", the manufacturer will ship a replacement drive immediately rather than waiting to receive the defective drive. (A credit card is provided to cover their loss if the defective drive is never received).
My most recent experiences can be summarized as follows:
Western Digital HDD - Advance RMA is available
Seagate HDD - Advance RMA is not available
HGST HDD - Advance RMA is not available
Even with Advance RMA, I have to wait for ground shipping. I wish that expedited (air) shipping was also available.
I'm saving a special category of experiences for Intel SSDs - experiences so awful there are in a class by themselves. I've had the misfortune to suffer two failed Intel SSDs. Both happened to be M.2 format SSDs. One was SATA, the other NVMe. Firstly, just getting an RMA started with Intel is painful. Be prepared to disassemble whatever computer is affected, because providing a model number and serial number are not enough. They also require something called an "SA" number that can only be found on a sticker attached to the device. Second, be prepared to wait a LONG time. I'm talking weeks to MONTHS to get a replacement. If you need the affected computer back up and running within a reasonable timeframe, you'll need to purchase another SSD in spite of your warranty coverage.
A number of years ago I was excited to try a movie recommendation website. The premise was that you would rate a bunch of movies, and their algorithm would learn which ones you liked and which ones you didn't. It would then compare your results with other users. Suppose someone else rated a bunch of movies the same way you rated them, but in addition rated some movie very highly that you hadn't seen yet. That movie should make a great recommendation for you!
I started by spending a fair chunk of time rating a whole bunch of movies. I figured that the more I trained the algorithm on my tastes, the better results I would get. Finally, I decided to try for a recommendation. Lo and behold - up came some movie I had never even heard of, that was rated very highly by people who shared my taste.
Well, not only did I not enjoy the movie, I absolutely HATED it. I have distrusted recommendation systems ever since.
... it looks like the website has an extra '.' after the '.org'.
Actually, placing a trailing got at the end of a domain name is not "extra". It is the correct way to specify a fully-qualified name. The final dot refers to the root DNS zone. In practice, however, applications usually let one omit the final dot.
Describing Guenther's patch as "pretty much the same approach as was taken in the Linux kernel" makes it sounds like he just copied someone else's idea. I think the reality is that kernel developers from numerous platforms have been brainstorming approaches to Meltdown and Spectre.
I realize this is Slashdot, but please don't try to turn Guenther's achievement into a "Woohoo LINUX!!!" story.
Once they figure out the ideal situation given ice temp, broom temp and broom surface, etc.
That's the fun part of curling. There is tremendous variation in ice texture and "speed" at different times and on different sheets. And it changes continuously throughout each game as the ice is swept and worn by rocks. There will never be an ideal situation. It's up to the skip to "read" the ice and call the sweepers on and off accordingly.
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...if you have that one use case that you can't run on a Mac, then it's useless.
That's quite the sense of entitlement you're expressing there.
I'd like my Lenovo laptop to be able to crack RSA keys in under a minute, but it can't. Perhaps I should just throw it in the trash.
I'm not talking about paying a "huge premium", or buying Apple as opposed to other brands. I'm merely saying that, in general, complaining that "this product has not been revamped in the last 2 years" seems a bit obsessed with progress.
A lot of products made 3 or 4 years ago should still be plenty useful today.
As a society, we have become obsessed with never-ending growth and progress. It's not good enough that a company provides jobs and turns a profit. It has to show "growth". It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
I do agree that a Mac Mini should cost less now than it did over three years ago. But what's wrong with good enough? I recently went shopping for a new TV. I expected that with 4K TVs being common now, I should be able to pickup a 1920x1080 TV for a good price. I was wrong. I ended up making a deal on a 4K TV, even though I almost never watch anything in 4K.
keep it flexible and replaceable.
Exactly! I've been using Unix since before Linux existed. The original philosophy was that it worked as a bunch of simple, self-contained components. Commands are terse and to-the-point. If you want something more complex, pipe them together. Even the shell was replaceable.
Oh, and everything could be treated like a file, including devices. This concept seems to have gone a step farther in Linux, where even processes can be accessed through /proc.
What an arrogant assertion. You think you're so smart you're invulnerable to attack? You think your computer is invulnerable to attack? You think your network is invulnerable to attack. Think again.
... how do you "stalk" someone you are already married to?
Gee, I dunno, maybe you could "intercept phone calls, remotely turn on a device's microphone and camera, steal emails and social media messages, as well as track a target's GPS location".
The comment is not "putting people down", it's pointing out the irony in the person's comment.
REALLY OLD news for nerds.
I don't know whether it handles Mac OS files, but Unix text files open just fine in Wordpad (which like Notepad is part of every Windows installation).
Yes, I have too, but recently I did not see that option.
I have a wide variety of drives at work, both HDD and SSD. I mostly buy "enterprise" grade drives, and specifically look for models with a 5-year warranty. What I've discovered recently, however, is that here are huge differences in how manufacturers fulfill their warranties. When a drive fails, what I'm looking for is to obtain a replacement as soon as possible. I can live with a degraded RAID array for a few days, perhaps, but not for weeks. With an "Advance RMA", the manufacturer will ship a replacement drive immediately rather than waiting to receive the defective drive. (A credit card is provided to cover their loss if the defective drive is never received).
My most recent experiences can be summarized as follows:
Western Digital HDD - Advance RMA is available
Seagate HDD - Advance RMA is not available
HGST HDD - Advance RMA is not available
Even with Advance RMA, I have to wait for ground shipping. I wish that expedited (air) shipping was also available.
I'm saving a special category of experiences for Intel SSDs - experiences so awful there are in a class by themselves. I've had the misfortune to suffer two failed Intel SSDs. Both happened to be M.2 format SSDs. One was SATA, the other NVMe. Firstly, just getting an RMA started with Intel is painful. Be prepared to disassemble whatever computer is affected, because providing a model number and serial number are not enough. They also require something called an "SA" number that can only be found on a sticker attached to the device. Second, be prepared to wait a LONG time. I'm talking weeks to MONTHS to get a replacement. If you need the affected computer back up and running within a reasonable timeframe, you'll need to purchase another SSD in spite of your warranty coverage.
A number of years ago I was excited to try a movie recommendation website. The premise was that you would rate a bunch of movies, and their algorithm would learn which ones you liked and which ones you didn't. It would then compare your results with other users. Suppose someone else rated a bunch of movies the same way you rated them, but in addition rated some movie very highly that you hadn't seen yet. That movie should make a great recommendation for you!
I started by spending a fair chunk of time rating a whole bunch of movies. I figured that the more I trained the algorithm on my tastes, the better results I would get. Finally, I decided to try for a recommendation. Lo and behold - up came some movie I had never even heard of, that was rated very highly by people who shared my taste.
Well, not only did I not enjoy the movie, I absolutely HATED it. I have distrusted recommendation systems ever since.
... it looks like the website has an extra '.' after the '.org'.
Actually, placing a trailing got at the end of a domain name is not "extra". It is the correct way to specify a fully-qualified name. The final dot refers to the root DNS zone. In practice, however, applications usually let one omit the final dot.
VERY NICE !!!
FFS. How literally do I have to spell out what I'm suggesting?
I don't think the Russian government cares to stop the activity.
OK, let's say "people operating from hosts in Russia". Either way, I don't think the Russian government cares.
It's not the Russian government doing the stealing. It's the Russian government not giving a shit that Russian citizens are stealing.
Canada is in America, right?
... can safeguard data sitting inside a virtual machine
You know what else can safeguard data sitting inside a virtual machine?
Backups. Snapshots. Checkpoints.
That sounds about right.
Describing Guenther's patch as "pretty much the same approach as was taken in the Linux kernel" makes it sounds like he just copied someone else's idea. I think the reality is that kernel developers from numerous platforms have been brainstorming approaches to Meltdown and Spectre.
I realize this is Slashdot, but please don't try to turn Guenther's achievement into a "Woohoo LINUX!!!" story.
Open with -> Word
Sport used to be something you played just for fun.
The Olympics has never been about fun. It's about personal glory and national pride.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. -- Earl Warren
Yes, impressive accomplishments like tossing a ball through a hoop.
Once they figure out the ideal situation given ice temp, broom temp and broom surface, etc.
That's the fun part of curling. There is tremendous variation in ice texture and "speed" at different times and on different sheets. And it changes continuously throughout each game as the ice is swept and worn by rocks. There will never be an ideal situation. It's up to the skip to "read" the ice and call the sweepers on and off accordingly.