For me, I moved all networking equipment out of my bedroom into a dedicated wiring closet. This reduced noise and eliminated light entirely. My desktop however is still in the bedroom. Others are suggestions electrical tape. That shit is nasty to peel off later. Also, it isn't the best at blocking light. I work in photography a lot, and we use gaffe tape on set. This stuff is more expensive but well worth the price to block out light. It is a rough matte texture rather than glossy. It doesn't stretch at all like electrical tape. It is earlier to tear strips off. And the adhesive is much easier to pull off objects, with the advantage of not leaving any sticky residue. This stuff is often times nicknamed "Photographer Tape" because of all of these properties. I had to use this to block out the power LED on my computer case, which for whatever reason is still fully illuminated even when the computer is in sleep mode. (no, this isn't a wiring issue with the pins in the wrong mobo header, this is a pre-built HP workstation with proprietary header)
Opera Browser has built in VPN. Amazon has Silk. There are other browsers with other similar technologies. Are they literally just going to hit up ANYONE not using Chrome/Edge at this point?
There is no Google Fiber offering where I live, but just the thought of them persuading a city 130 miles away forced local ISPs to step up their game. I'm now on symetrical gigabit fiber from CenturyLink because of what Google pushed. Google wasn't about overtaking ISPs nation wide, they were all about showing that gigiabit internet could be provided and still profitable. They succeeded in this, and forced the hands of ISPs who were lying all along about the cost of doing business. Overall, they did indeed change the market landscape for the better!
While others are saying vSphere "web" client, there are other legacy administration consoles that require it too. I have a few network printers which use Flash for their admin interface. I also have security web cameras that can optionally work with flash and IE... but if you use Edge, Chrome, FF, it thinks you're on a mobile browser and gives you 10% functionality with a bullshit UI designed for phones.
Flash is still around because most of this shit cannot be updated, only replaced, which is often times out of the question for budget reasons.
It started out as a "security" based messaging application, where you could send images peer-to-peer with others, and they'd auto-delete themselves after being viewed, so government couldn't request to see user content (because it was never stored)
And WALP, nobody gave two shits about security, so they turned it into a hipster trendy company instead focusing on funny little video loops people could publish. And thus, success was found!
Skylake launched Q3 2015. So Intel is pushing the patch for barely more than 2 years worth of product. What about the millions (billions?) of systems out there that were not replaced in the past two years? Are they going the same way of Android in the "well fuck, sucks to be you!" mentality of security because the device isn't the absolute latest and greatest? I'm thinking they only supported back that far is because there are Xeon-D CPUs that launched Q1 2018 with Skylake architecture, and Intel is all over that Xeon-D right now (this is what Facebook is now using)
"We make sure that we treat well all the people who are in our supply chain." Because all of those not treated well all ended up jumping to their deaths at the Foxconn factory.
I was given an Intel Joule (SoC designed for high end drones), didn't have much use for it, so I put Ubuntu on it. Intalled Steam of Linux, and then Rocket League. So yeah, it may not be the full library, but Steam on Linux certainly does have its games! (Though the Joule is still x86 based, not ARM, so in reality there are probably 0 games that would work)
I'm not sure about the Switch, but on the DS, everything is encrypted, including the communication between the DS game cards and the CPU. Yes, Nintendo is absolutely all about security. They lock the hell out of their hardware. The only difference this time around is that they left it in the hands of nVidia rather than doing it themselves.
Microsoft abandoned the "Live" branding in favor of "Bing", and I personally believe this is one of their all time greatest fuckups. Google has the "Play" branding, with "Play Store", "Play Games", "Play Music", "Play Videos" and others. Microsoft's "Live" brand was very similar, and especially with the onset of live streaming that we're seeing, they would have easily had a good and simplistic marketing campaign. Instead, we have Google (YouTube), Facebook (ugh...), and Amazon (Twitch) corning the market currently, with MS not giving fuck all to what could have been the highlight of their business.
Content Aware Fill has been around for over a decade now. Adobe acquired a small team that worked on it in the early 2000s, and I believe Photoshop CS4 was the first version to use the tech as Content Aware Resize. CS5 included Content Aware Fill (which is what this article is describing it seems). These were released in 2008 and 2010 respectively.
No, Computer Science programs in school are ruining it. Their idea of "programming" is "what the fastest way to solve (X)", when (X) is an already solved problem that we could all just go look up. Or, alternatively, they'll give you a specific name of an algorithm, and ask you to reproduce it. How many people memorize every single array sorting algorithms by their names, and can reproduce them purely off memory?
In the real world, these are already solved problems, AND those problems are very well documented, AND we have direct access to this documentation while on the actual job or doing hobby work at home.
But when programming is brought into grade school, this is where the focus is. Why? Because there is where the university focus is. Why? Because it is easy to test on. That's it. It isn't critical thinking, which is what programming REALLY is all about. It is just about instructor's laziness to come up with testing requirements for students. And then this very same mentality is used for job hiring processes too.
When I learned how to program? We were still in the DOS and Windows 3.1 era. DOS came bundled with QBasic. And what did QBasic come bundled with to help learn how to program? Not a bunch of CS algorithms, but instead it came with Snake and Gorilla, a pair of games you could easily load up and instantly play. Wanted to change the color of the banana? Just start reading the source code and start playing around with it. Wanted to mess with the field layout? Same thing. It was simple. It was fun. It was engaging. It was exciting....
But, it isn't something that could easily be tested. So educational resources shifted away from this style of learning.
As humorous as this was intended, it actually hits a little close to home. I'm just a few blocks down the road from where the fatal Amtrak crash was a few weeks ago.
There are a number of things that Win10 has broken at this point from a hardware standpoint. One of which is imaging devices if they're using a now non-supported imaging codec. This broke a great deal of web cams, and I wouldn't be surprised if it broke other WIA devices too like normal cameras and scanners.
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Correct. Communist Soviet Russia's Tetris was all about blocks falling from the sky and destroying all the other blocks below.
Modifying content is a form of censorship. He was directly censoring user's opinions of him.
For me, I moved all networking equipment out of my bedroom into a dedicated wiring closet. This reduced noise and eliminated light entirely. My desktop however is still in the bedroom. Others are suggestions electrical tape. That shit is nasty to peel off later. Also, it isn't the best at blocking light. I work in photography a lot, and we use gaffe tape on set. This stuff is more expensive but well worth the price to block out light. It is a rough matte texture rather than glossy. It doesn't stretch at all like electrical tape. It is earlier to tear strips off. And the adhesive is much easier to pull off objects, with the advantage of not leaving any sticky residue. This stuff is often times nicknamed "Photographer Tape" because of all of these properties. I had to use this to block out the power LED on my computer case, which for whatever reason is still fully illuminated even when the computer is in sleep mode. (no, this isn't a wiring issue with the pins in the wrong mobo header, this is a pre-built HP workstation with proprietary header)
"reminder" seems to be a fairly straightforward command that can either be typed or said.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Opera Browser has built in VPN. Amazon has Silk. There are other browsers with other similar technologies. Are they literally just going to hit up ANYONE not using Chrome/Edge at this point?
There is no Google Fiber offering where I live, but just the thought of them persuading a city 130 miles away forced local ISPs to step up their game. I'm now on symetrical gigabit fiber from CenturyLink because of what Google pushed. Google wasn't about overtaking ISPs nation wide, they were all about showing that gigiabit internet could be provided and still profitable. They succeeded in this, and forced the hands of ISPs who were lying all along about the cost of doing business. Overall, they did indeed change the market landscape for the better!
While others are saying vSphere "web" client, there are other legacy administration consoles that require it too. I have a few network printers which use Flash for their admin interface. I also have security web cameras that can optionally work with flash and IE... but if you use Edge, Chrome, FF, it thinks you're on a mobile browser and gives you 10% functionality with a bullshit UI designed for phones.
Flash is still around because most of this shit cannot be updated, only replaced, which is often times out of the question for budget reasons.
ssshhhhh, let the fear-mongering article writers get their click-bait ad revenue!
100% correct! This is EXACTLY why Linus is still the sole developer of the Linux kernel. No other developer is allowed to modify the code whatsoever.
Do you want the Resident Evil T-Virus? Because this is how you get the Resident Evil T-Virus.
It started out as a "security" based messaging application, where you could send images peer-to-peer with others, and they'd auto-delete themselves after being viewed, so government couldn't request to see user content (because it was never stored)
And WALP, nobody gave two shits about security, so they turned it into a hipster trendy company instead focusing on funny little video loops people could publish. And thus, success was found!
Skylake launched Q3 2015. So Intel is pushing the patch for barely more than 2 years worth of product. What about the millions (billions?) of systems out there that were not replaced in the past two years? Are they going the same way of Android in the "well fuck, sucks to be you!" mentality of security because the device isn't the absolute latest and greatest? I'm thinking they only supported back that far is because there are Xeon-D CPUs that launched Q1 2018 with Skylake architecture, and Intel is all over that Xeon-D right now (this is what Facebook is now using)
"We make sure that we treat well all the people who are in our supply chain." Because all of those not treated well all ended up jumping to their deaths at the Foxconn factory.
Don't worry, SCO is all over them lawsuits against Linux!
I was given an Intel Joule (SoC designed for high end drones), didn't have much use for it, so I put Ubuntu on it. Intalled Steam of Linux, and then Rocket League. So yeah, it may not be the full library, but Steam on Linux certainly does have its games! (Though the Joule is still x86 based, not ARM, so in reality there are probably 0 games that would work)
I'm not sure about the Switch, but on the DS, everything is encrypted, including the communication between the DS game cards and the CPU. Yes, Nintendo is absolutely all about security. They lock the hell out of their hardware. The only difference this time around is that they left it in the hands of nVidia rather than doing it themselves.
Push notifications is hardly a "minor feature" of a smart phone.
(inb4 jokes of Windows phones not being "smart")
Obligatory XKCD Reference: https://xkcd.com/810/
Microsoft abandoned the "Live" branding in favor of "Bing", and I personally believe this is one of their all time greatest fuckups. Google has the "Play" branding, with "Play Store", "Play Games", "Play Music", "Play Videos" and others. Microsoft's "Live" brand was very similar, and especially with the onset of live streaming that we're seeing, they would have easily had a good and simplistic marketing campaign. Instead, we have Google (YouTube), Facebook (ugh...), and Amazon (Twitch) corning the market currently, with MS not giving fuck all to what could have been the highlight of their business.
Content Aware Fill has been around for over a decade now. Adobe acquired a small team that worked on it in the early 2000s, and I believe Photoshop CS4 was the first version to use the tech as Content Aware Resize. CS5 included Content Aware Fill (which is what this article is describing it seems). These were released in 2008 and 2010 respectively.
No, Computer Science programs in school are ruining it. Their idea of "programming" is "what the fastest way to solve (X)", when (X) is an already solved problem that we could all just go look up. Or, alternatively, they'll give you a specific name of an algorithm, and ask you to reproduce it. How many people memorize every single array sorting algorithms by their names, and can reproduce them purely off memory?
In the real world, these are already solved problems, AND those problems are very well documented, AND we have direct access to this documentation while on the actual job or doing hobby work at home.
But when programming is brought into grade school, this is where the focus is. Why? Because there is where the university focus is. Why? Because it is easy to test on. That's it. It isn't critical thinking, which is what programming REALLY is all about. It is just about instructor's laziness to come up with testing requirements for students. And then this very same mentality is used for job hiring processes too.
When I learned how to program? We were still in the DOS and Windows 3.1 era. DOS came bundled with QBasic. And what did QBasic come bundled with to help learn how to program? Not a bunch of CS algorithms, but instead it came with Snake and Gorilla, a pair of games you could easily load up and instantly play. Wanted to change the color of the banana? Just start reading the source code and start playing around with it. Wanted to mess with the field layout? Same thing. It was simple. It was fun. It was engaging. It was exciting....
But, it isn't something that could easily be tested. So educational resources shifted away from this style of learning.
I for one, welcome our new alien overlords!
As humorous as this was intended, it actually hits a little close to home. I'm just a few blocks down the road from where the fatal Amtrak crash was a few weeks ago.
There are a number of things that Win10 has broken at this point from a hardware standpoint. One of which is imaging devices if they're using a now non-supported imaging codec. This broke a great deal of web cams, and I wouldn't be surprised if it broke other WIA devices too like normal cameras and scanners.