UID doesn't really tell us anything beyond how long ago someone registered their account... I was reading Slashdot for several years before I ever registered an account. Might still have been in the 6 digits, I don't really know. I also don't really care.
A bit over 220 KB of text in just shy of 3800 lines to describe what they collect in "basic" form? GFY, MS. Too late. I will continue doing my part in (somewhat futile, but oh well) limiting the spread. This sort of horse shit is perhaps 40% of the reason why I will never voluntarily use your operating system.
I was going to make a snarky comment about the relatively low performance of phones vs more general purpose machines, but I am generally impressed with the performance of modern mid to high-end phones. If you can obtain performance similar to what was available on an average desktop in ~2005, but at a small fraction of the power consumption, that seems like a win to me.
I would deride them thoroughly for being so late to the party with a lot of this stuff, but it's good to hear they're doing... something. Something happened.
One issue I see, at least for passenger flights, is the distance that one would need to taxi to the appropriate terminal (especially if landing from an unusual direction). The difficulties could probably be negated by using more general purpose terminals, which seems feasible with better mass transit and faster people-processing. Also, could lead to increased response times for emergency services if something did go wrong.
Also, 2 miles diameter seems rather short to be landing modern airliners on. Even smaller aircraft (e.g. B737, A320) tend to require no less than 1200m (the proper requirements are usually significantly higher) to land safely, and ground steering is not possible until the aircraft is at relatively low speed. Even if the track was banked somewhat (disregarding any aerodynamic/stability issues with this), it seems likely that a much larger radius would be needed. Increased tire wear and lateral stresses on the landing gear are also a possible concern.
Personally, I believe the even-numbered n-gon arrangements that are being suggested by people here retain enough of the purported advantages of this setup that they are what should be considered.
Anybody have any technical details on why it was not previously possible? My understanding is that it has been possible (at least for a while, possibly since FF49) with the Widevine plugin + spoofing a Chrome user agent.
Would anybody here contribute to a Kickstarter or other croudfunding scheme that intends to make and distribute non-partisan Linux/OSS television commercials?
I did a fun little experiment with Win 10 developers preview; after it expired, I rolled back the system date... this allowed it to boot one last time. After running for a few hours, it bluescreened with a message "SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION", and appeared to self-destruct... it would not even attempt to boot after that.
Bought a copy of 8.1 when 10 came out, with the intention of leaving the Windows ecosystem entirely (for personal purposes, anyhow) by 2023 when the security updates cease.
Is it more reasonable to assume that the markets have legitimately drained the supply, or that the whole industry is keeping a lid on it? SSDs seem to have become nigh ubiquitous on the convertible laptop/tablets, and an extremely common upgrade for even low-end laptops... Also, older news on this (i see things dating from Q4'16) offered the suggestion that relief might be coming by now. https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
At any rate, let's just hope that as many manufacturers as possible survive as long as possible to avoid establishing one of them as the WD of NAND. Hopefully things will stay competitive for a while longer.
I would not be too surprised to find out that the ads were meant to through up a smoke screen to drown out the more significant technical/privacy complaints in the "mainstream" media. I don't actually see much to suggest that this is what is happening, but I still would not be surprised.
Can always make some batch files for using "sc" if you don't want to bother with loading the services manager... be mindful of the space after the =. Also, setting them to run as administrator is probably necessary, unless you've done something about UAC.
I will certainly give them credit for that, but what happens when another network interruption fiasco occurs, and they can't automagically fix it? I'd hope they'd at least consider devising some sort of auto-rollback mechanism that would trigger if the machine suddenly faced loss of internet connectivity...
It seems that the only thing preventing an unmitigated disaster with this system is the fact that they stagger the major updates to groups of users. Not that it's infinitely better, but it's worth noting that Windows 8.1 will receive security updates until January 10, 2023. If you have 5-6 years to plot a migration away from Windows on the desktop, and have some faith that the alternatives will make any headway in terms of general acceptance, it's probably worth looking into.
Might I recommend Q-Dir as a possible general purpose explorer alternative. http://www.softwareok.com/?sei... If you like multi-pane file managers a la Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, you might enjoy this. Not open source, but it does appear to be unencumbered freeware.
Not perfectly comparable, but I had (still have, but reconfigured) a dual Xeon E5 machine with 3 GPUs in it; admittedly they were not being used for graphics, and were individually dual GPU cards. Never seemed to have any difficulties (aside from the insane amount of heat it put out). Enabling/disabling NUMA did not seem to have any noticeable impact on the performance.
Reply to myself to avoid spam, but I also had a Compaq iPaq 3630 (206MHz StrongARM), and it was more than capable of doing "useful" things such as NES emulation.
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UID doesn't really tell us anything beyond how long ago someone registered their account... I was reading Slashdot for several years before I ever registered an account. Might still have been in the 6 digits, I don't really know. I also don't really care.
A bit over 220 KB of text in just shy of 3800 lines to describe what they collect in "basic" form? GFY, MS. Too late. I will continue doing my part in (somewhat futile, but oh well) limiting the spread. This sort of horse shit is perhaps 40% of the reason why I will never voluntarily use your operating system.
Power consumption aside, I wonder how long my mildly overclocked Sandy Bridge machine will remain competitive...
I was going to make a snarky comment about the relatively low performance of phones vs more general purpose machines, but I am generally impressed with the performance of modern mid to high-end phones. If you can obtain performance similar to what was available on an average desktop in ~2005, but at a small fraction of the power consumption, that seems like a win to me.
I would deride them thoroughly for being so late to the party with a lot of this stuff, but it's good to hear they're doing... something. Something happened.
One issue I see, at least for passenger flights, is the distance that one would need to taxi to the appropriate terminal (especially if landing from an unusual direction). The difficulties could probably be negated by using more general purpose terminals, which seems feasible with better mass transit and faster people-processing. Also, could lead to increased response times for emergency services if something did go wrong.
Also, 2 miles diameter seems rather short to be landing modern airliners on. Even smaller aircraft (e.g. B737, A320) tend to require no less than 1200m (the proper requirements are usually significantly higher) to land safely, and ground steering is not possible until the aircraft is at relatively low speed. Even if the track was banked somewhat (disregarding any aerodynamic/stability issues with this), it seems likely that a much larger radius would be needed. Increased tire wear and lateral stresses on the landing gear are also a possible concern.
Personally, I believe the even-numbered n-gon arrangements that are being suggested by people here retain enough of the purported advantages of this setup that they are what should be considered.
Anybody have any technical details on why it was not previously possible? My understanding is that it has been possible (at least for a while, possibly since FF49) with the Widevine plugin + spoofing a Chrome user agent.
It's like a teleporter accident gone horribly right.
Would anybody here contribute to a Kickstarter or other croudfunding scheme that intends to make and distribute non-partisan Linux/OSS television commercials?
I did a fun little experiment with Win 10 developers preview; after it expired, I rolled back the system date... this allowed it to boot one last time. After running for a few hours, it bluescreened with a message "SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION", and appeared to self-destruct... it would not even attempt to boot after that.
Bought a copy of 8.1 when 10 came out, with the intention of leaving the Windows ecosystem entirely (for personal purposes, anyhow) by 2023 when the security updates cease.
Is it more reasonable to assume that the markets have legitimately drained the supply, or that the whole industry is keeping a lid on it? SSDs seem to have become nigh ubiquitous on the convertible laptop/tablets, and an extremely common upgrade for even low-end laptops... Also, older news on this (i see things dating from Q4'16) offered the suggestion that relief might be coming by now. https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
At any rate, let's just hope that as many manufacturers as possible survive as long as possible to avoid establishing one of them as the WD of NAND. Hopefully things will stay competitive for a while longer.
Wild speculation, but perhaps they are trying to somehow differentiate the ways in which people find different things to be important/significant.
I would not be too surprised to find out that the ads were meant to through up a smoke screen to drown out the more significant technical/privacy complaints in the "mainstream" media. I don't actually see much to suggest that this is what is happening, but I still would not be surprised.
There are dozens of them... DOZENS!
Can always make some batch files for using "sc" if you don't want to bother with loading the services manager... be mindful of the space after the =. Also, setting them to run as administrator is probably necessary, unless you've done something about UAC.
Disable with:
sc config wuauserv start= disabled
Re-enable with:
sc config wuauserv start= auto
Also, in classical Slashdot form, I failed to read TFA and the last line of TFS (facepalm).
Sometimes I like to indulge in a little bit of devil's advocacy...
I will certainly give them credit for that, but what happens when another network interruption fiasco occurs, and they can't automagically fix it? I'd hope they'd at least consider devising some sort of auto-rollback mechanism that would trigger if the machine suddenly faced loss of internet connectivity...
It seems that the only thing preventing an unmitigated disaster with this system is the fact that they stagger the major updates to groups of users. Not that it's infinitely better, but it's worth noting that Windows 8.1 will receive security updates until January 10, 2023. If you have 5-6 years to plot a migration away from Windows on the desktop, and have some faith that the alternatives will make any headway in terms of general acceptance, it's probably worth looking into.
My mod points expired today, I'm terribly sorry ;-;
Might I recommend Q-Dir as a possible general purpose explorer alternative.
http://www.softwareok.com/?sei...
If you like multi-pane file managers a la Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, you might enjoy this. Not open source, but it does appear to be unencumbered freeware.
Not perfectly comparable, but I had (still have, but reconfigured) a dual Xeon E5 machine with 3 GPUs in it; admittedly they were not being used for graphics, and were individually dual GPU cards. Never seemed to have any difficulties (aside from the insane amount of heat it put out). Enabling/disabling NUMA did not seem to have any noticeable impact on the performance.
Reply to myself to avoid spam, but I also had a Compaq iPaq 3630 (206MHz StrongARM), and it was more than capable of doing "useful" things such as NES emulation.
Had an XScale based PDA "back in the day" (Dell Axim X5, 300MHz?), and I'll attest that the performance/usability was quite good.