And this is exactly why I'm grateful I decided to switch to Google's Project Fi. None of this fake bullshit "unlimited", plus no international "only some days" restrictions. One shared data pool for the whole family. Once we hit our max, we can keep using data as much as we want, without getting charged more. Plus, no cost other than data sim cards that are data-only (no voice/text) are fucking AMAZING. Just keep adding devices like tablets, old cell phones, laptops, hotspots, whatever. Its all just on one shared data pool, and no fuss, no bullshit.
We should invest a shitton of money in order to create a new codec that everyone can use and benefits everyone... You literally just described AV1. The entire process of it "being inferior while being iterated until better" also directly describes the past few years of AV1 until recently where it started to pull ahead in the compression vs quality game compared to other leading codecs.
For those that don't want to dig into the details, here is the gist of it.
Fortnite uses an Epic Games account to login. If you've EVER logged into a Sony's PS4 with this account and touched Fortnite on it, this account become permanently locked out of both Microsoft's XBox One and Nintendo's Switch. The issue is not about cross play even, people are accepting that it wont happen. The issue is the fact that the outside Epic account becomes locked because of a deal Sony forced upon Epic games.
This of course became front and center in the spot light again today now that the Switch version of the game launched this morning, and a fuckton of people are pissed off that their in-game progress and paid content is entirely inaccessible on the Switch if they've ever touched the PS4 version.
USB 3, like PCIe, uses multiple serial lanes for increased bandwidth. Each lane is entirely independent with its own synchronization and clock, which is what makes it still a "serial" connection by definition, not a "parallel" connection.
See the previous Slashdot headline. They purchased four? game studios (this is what the headline says, but I distinctly remember seeing five during the actual press conference)
If it was truly only the MBR that was wiped, it wouldn't take THAT much to restore. You could easily create a bootable CD/USB drive with a small script to write out the first sector of the only attached HDD. Considering the quantity of machines, odds are they're mostly the same and had a standard drive image applied to all of them. The MBR is just a basic list of drive/partition geometry information, which is most likely the same across a vast majority of machines in the corporate world like this.
I came here for this exact same comment. I'm personally sick and tired of constant performance benchmarks. Usability is not something easy to test, therefor is something not engineered into the Linux ecosystem by any of the major distros out there. Most still feel about on-par with Windows 98, which shockingly is 20 years old at this point.
I'm a Centurylink gigabit customer near Seattle with a static block of IPv4 addresses. Their IPv6 support is still only 6rd, which their implementation only works with a small handful of routers. Sadly, I just found out that my latest router is one that doesn't support it. STILL waiting on that native dual-stack support.
I firmly place all of the blame on the major ISPs at this point. Most have IPv6 dual-stack on their carrier networks, but are sluggish as fuck delivering the packets to the last mile for some ridiculous unknown reason?
Microsoft controlling GitHub is terrible, because Microsoft is terrible! We should all move our repositories over to GitLab. GitLab is hosted on Azure, they're so much nicer and more trustworthy than Microsoft!
Just for reference though, the highest point in latency in the link is usually the first hop of either DOCSIS or DSL. These are typically in the 10-20ms round trip time out to the first hop. However, fiber is becoming more popular. My first hop RTT time with residential fiber is ~1ms, with full RTT to endpoints such as Google and other large providers in the ~3ms area. Considering 60 FPS gaming means 16.6ms/frame, this is already well beyond the performance requirement for that. And considering the prediction was for AFTER the next generation of consoles, and with Sony's generation spanning ~7 years, plus being mid-generation now, we're looking at ~10 years out before this prediction becomes reality. An entire decade is plenty of time to push fiber technology to the masses.
At roughly 2PM (the past few minutes), service is finally appearing to work again. It was out since start of day at this business at 8AM. Firstly, Comcast Business is not the same as Comcast / Xfinity in terms of service and reliability. I manage an office that uses Comcast Business, and this is the first major outage we've experience since getting the service years ago, save for one time an idiot from a different company literally cut the fiber line a block away from the building.
The phone service is VoIP based, not POTS based. There are very few companies that offer the level of service this business needed, and of those, competitors wanted over $1000/mo each, whereas Comcast is a fraction of that price. Yeah, inb4 "you get what you pay for" - other companies have outages too, they just don't make the front page because they're smaller entities that most have never heard of (our previous contract was with Integra)
Comcast service was not entirely out, only 99%ish out. Outgoing calls could not be made. Incoming calls from most providers would flat out fail. A few (Tmobile for example) would ring through, but voice would not exchange after pickup. I'm personally on Google's Project Fi with my cell phone and could ring through and talk perfectly (but again, could not call out to my phone from the business).
At roughly 2PM (the past few minutes), service is finally appearing to work again. It was out since start of day at this business at 8AM.
Servers in data centers now are hardly ever repaired. Why spend the money? When you're running 10,000 servers and 1 breaks? What is the cost of that single unit vs the time to troubleshoot and solve the issue? All of the software and data is designed to be redundant anyways nowadays. The data will just be shifted around, and the processing load shifted as well. So having no access to fix things is mostly a moot issue. And 5 years? Thats about the max length of a server in a data center as it stands right now as it is. Overall, this sounds like a good scenario!
The very first thing I pointed it at was a sports ice pack in the shape of a tennis ball. This "AI" thought it was Canada.
Beyond that, it is actually quite good. It has done some guessing that is semi-generic yet accurate. I got proper hits for things like "art" and "stuffed toy". It also recognizes various media properties. I ported it at movie posters (without any text on them) and it was able to correctly identify the source of all of them.
The most pirated software in the world, Windows, was given out for free for nearly two years. Of COURSE piracy drops when the price literally becomes zero.
This is absolutely true. The easiest way to see this is to connect your phone through a captive portal which injects content (such as ads) into web pages. Then watch as they start showing up in apps instead! And if you think this is just bottom-tier, b00by devs, think again. For the first two years or so of Instagram existing, this was an issue. I only discovered it on accident one time when using in-flight WiFi, and had the airline's advertising at the top of my Instagram feed inside of their Android app. Since the Facebook acquisition though, things have tightened down quite a bit, but this just goes to show that it doesn't matter what scale an app is, oversights and fuckery will happen.
There are more than just two browsers on the market... I've been a quite satisfied Opera user for years now. Ad-block without an extension. VPN without an extension. The fact the majority of the web is now designed for Webkit/Blink first, and Mozilla's rendering engine is just an afterthought. Opera is pretty much the best of all worlds.
Exactly this! Still waiting on that update that'll never happen of the Nexus 7. I fucking loved mine. I would have given them more cash, but they never gave me the option!
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And this is exactly why I'm grateful I decided to switch to Google's Project Fi. None of this fake bullshit "unlimited", plus no international "only some days" restrictions. One shared data pool for the whole family. Once we hit our max, we can keep using data as much as we want, without getting charged more. Plus, no cost other than data sim cards that are data-only (no voice/text) are fucking AMAZING. Just keep adding devices like tablets, old cell phones, laptops, hotspots, whatever. Its all just on one shared data pool, and no fuss, no bullshit.
At this point in time, Celerons and Atoms are pretty much the exact same CPU with different marketing, so the entire argument is moot anyways.
"High powered Atom processors are now mostly branded as Celerons."
- https://www.urtech.ca/2015/10/...
My Acer Aspire One for $300 at purchase in 2012 has comparable specs to this machine.
Windows XP? TOO OLD TO GAME ON!
Original NES? Yeah, sure, that'll continue to work forever.
We should invest a shitton of money in order to create a new codec that everyone can use and benefits everyone... You literally just described AV1. The entire process of it "being inferior while being iterated until better" also directly describes the past few years of AV1 until recently where it started to pull ahead in the compression vs quality game compared to other leading codecs.
For those that don't want to dig into the details, here is the gist of it.
Fortnite uses an Epic Games account to login. If you've EVER logged into a Sony's PS4 with this account and touched Fortnite on it, this account become permanently locked out of both Microsoft's XBox One and Nintendo's Switch. The issue is not about cross play even, people are accepting that it wont happen. The issue is the fact that the outside Epic account becomes locked because of a deal Sony forced upon Epic games.
This of course became front and center in the spot light again today now that the Switch version of the game launched this morning, and a fuckton of people are pissed off that their in-game progress and paid content is entirely inaccessible on the Switch if they've ever touched the PS4 version.
"with a computer"
USB 3, like PCIe, uses multiple serial lanes for increased bandwidth. Each lane is entirely independent with its own synchronization and clock, which is what makes it still a "serial" connection by definition, not a "parallel" connection.
Microsoft has Visual Studio (C/C++, C#, Basic, etc). Google has GO. Apple has a pissing contest, I mean, Swift.
See the previous Slashdot headline. They purchased four? game studios (this is what the headline says, but I distinctly remember seeing five during the actual press conference)
If it was truly only the MBR that was wiped, it wouldn't take THAT much to restore. You could easily create a bootable CD/USB drive with a small script to write out the first sector of the only attached HDD. Considering the quantity of machines, odds are they're mostly the same and had a standard drive image applied to all of them. The MBR is just a basic list of drive/partition geometry information, which is most likely the same across a vast majority of machines in the corporate world like this.
I came here for this exact same comment. I'm personally sick and tired of constant performance benchmarks. Usability is not something easy to test, therefor is something not engineered into the Linux ecosystem by any of the major distros out there. Most still feel about on-par with Windows 98, which shockingly is 20 years old at this point.
I'm a Centurylink gigabit customer near Seattle with a static block of IPv4 addresses. Their IPv6 support is still only 6rd, which their implementation only works with a small handful of routers. Sadly, I just found out that my latest router is one that doesn't support it. STILL waiting on that native dual-stack support.
I firmly place all of the blame on the major ISPs at this point. Most have IPv6 dual-stack on their carrier networks, but are sluggish as fuck delivering the packets to the last mile for some ridiculous unknown reason?
Microsoft controlling GitHub is terrible, because Microsoft is terrible! We should all move our repositories over to GitLab. GitLab is hosted on Azure, they're so much nicer and more trustworthy than Microsoft!
I'm glad it doesn't take several months to wake my desktop computer. That would just be an endless nightmare!
Just for reference though, the highest point in latency in the link is usually the first hop of either DOCSIS or DSL. These are typically in the 10-20ms round trip time out to the first hop. However, fiber is becoming more popular. My first hop RTT time with residential fiber is ~1ms, with full RTT to endpoints such as Google and other large providers in the ~3ms area. Considering 60 FPS gaming means 16.6ms/frame, this is already well beyond the performance requirement for that. And considering the prediction was for AFTER the next generation of consoles, and with Sony's generation spanning ~7 years, plus being mid-generation now, we're looking at ~10 years out before this prediction becomes reality. An entire decade is plenty of time to push fiber technology to the masses.
At roughly 2PM (the past few minutes), service is finally appearing to work again. It was out since start of day at this business at 8AM. Firstly, Comcast Business is not the same as Comcast / Xfinity in terms of service and reliability. I manage an office that uses Comcast Business, and this is the first major outage we've experience since getting the service years ago, save for one time an idiot from a different company literally cut the fiber line a block away from the building.
The phone service is VoIP based, not POTS based. There are very few companies that offer the level of service this business needed, and of those, competitors wanted over $1000/mo each, whereas Comcast is a fraction of that price. Yeah, inb4 "you get what you pay for" - other companies have outages too, they just don't make the front page because they're smaller entities that most have never heard of (our previous contract was with Integra)
Comcast service was not entirely out, only 99%ish out. Outgoing calls could not be made. Incoming calls from most providers would flat out fail. A few (Tmobile for example) would ring through, but voice would not exchange after pickup. I'm personally on Google's Project Fi with my cell phone and could ring through and talk perfectly (but again, could not call out to my phone from the business).
At roughly 2PM (the past few minutes), service is finally appearing to work again. It was out since start of day at this business at 8AM.
Servers in data centers now are hardly ever repaired. Why spend the money? When you're running 10,000 servers and 1 breaks? What is the cost of that single unit vs the time to troubleshoot and solve the issue? All of the software and data is designed to be redundant anyways nowadays. The data will just be shifted around, and the processing load shifted as well. So having no access to fix things is mostly a moot issue. And 5 years? Thats about the max length of a server in a data center as it stands right now as it is. Overall, this sounds like a good scenario!
"if you don't trust the source" - as if reputable repositories have never been compromised.
The very first thing I pointed it at was a sports ice pack in the shape of a tennis ball. This "AI" thought it was Canada.
Beyond that, it is actually quite good. It has done some guessing that is semi-generic yet accurate. I got proper hits for things like "art" and "stuffed toy". It also recognizes various media properties. I ported it at movie posters (without any text on them) and it was able to correctly identify the source of all of them.
The most pirated software in the world, Windows, was given out for free for nearly two years. Of COURSE piracy drops when the price literally becomes zero.
This is absolutely true. The easiest way to see this is to connect your phone through a captive portal which injects content (such as ads) into web pages. Then watch as they start showing up in apps instead! And if you think this is just bottom-tier, b00by devs, think again. For the first two years or so of Instagram existing, this was an issue. I only discovered it on accident one time when using in-flight WiFi, and had the airline's advertising at the top of my Instagram feed inside of their Android app. Since the Facebook acquisition though, things have tightened down quite a bit, but this just goes to show that it doesn't matter what scale an app is, oversights and fuckery will happen.
There are more than just two browsers on the market... I've been a quite satisfied Opera user for years now. Ad-block without an extension. VPN without an extension. The fact the majority of the web is now designed for Webkit/Blink first, and Mozilla's rendering engine is just an afterthought. Opera is pretty much the best of all worlds.
Exactly this! Still waiting on that update that'll never happen of the Nexus 7. I fucking loved mine. I would have given them more cash, but they never gave me the option!
"The supply of talented young workers entering these fields isn't satisfying the huge demand for them"
"Facebook, Amazon, and Hundreds of Companies Post Targeted Job Ads That Screen Out Older Workers "
Need I say more?