Coming from an Android world, this honestly confused the shit out of me on iOS when I needed to beta test an app. It had an option to launch Apple Maps from within it for navigation, and I've yet to figure out how the fuck to get back to the app I was in without going all the way back to the home screen an re-launching it. How the hell is that supposed to be a "good" user experience!?
These problems exist on MacOS too. I was recently handed a MacBook for compatibility testing of a web site with Safari. Only problem? How the FUCK do I launch Safari? It wasnt in the launch bar at the bottom. Literally had to go to another machine just to Google how to do it, because there is apparently no way to just have a simply listing of all available installed applications to launch from the main OS UI. It is inside of Finder apparently, under some Applications menu inside of there. This honestly reminded me of all the bullshit in Windows 3.1 that was needed to get simple things done.
Besides signing up entire new accounts, they add services to existing accounts without asking. They also will up-sell you on "free" services that require service fees up the ass. I've been fighting with them for months to remove all this bullshit off of a family member's bill. On top of that, they are charging sales tax on arbitrary amounts on the bill, and their percentages between state and local (both of which SHOULD be based on the same initial figure) don't calculate out properly at all. I've tried going into the store, calling tech support, calling billing support, and when I ask, they all just hang up on me (or when I went into the physical store, the guy just called their billing department, which I already did, and then handed me the phone and refused to speak with me about the billing questions)
OUYA kickstarter person here, have two in my house. The reason OUYA failed is because the dashboard interface is a slow clunky piece of shit UI. The other reason is because of all the issues with the controller. Having it separate literally right at the analog sticks for the battery compartments was great in theory, but caused the analog sticks to have issues. Also, the four main face buttons would get stuck under the removable battery compartment doors, too. OUYA was ambitions, but failed miserably in the UX/UI department all around. This honestly makes me sad too, even to this day, because the concept was such an amazing one, but absolute shit execution beyond the main hardware of the console itself.
You're making the assumption that all applications and databases built are using the CPU register size as a data type for storage for Unix Timestamps. This, however, is hardly the case. There are plenty of 32-bit applications that use 64-bit storage, and 64-bit applications that use 32-bit storage for timestamps.
We're all techies here, right? Seriously, GitHub. The $7/mo or whatever it is has served me a hell of a lot better than my previous setup using a free GitLab deployment locally.
Forced password changes every X days. This just leads to people picking really shitty passwords. At one company I worked at for a while, they mitigated this by simply doing "simple word" + month + year. TOTALLY hard to figure out!
So watching the presentation, this is pretty much my understanding of the XBox One X: it uses the same controllers, runs the same software, has the same interface, connects to the same network, but in 4K and for $499. So the premium price tag is literally JUST for 4k then over their existing offerings? What else has changed?
Just another note on EOLed equipment: Intel ONLY stopped producing the i386 in 2007 (nearly 20 years of production for the CPU) because it was that widely used.
Plus Dosbox only handles common hardware. These machines commonly have custom ISA or PCI cards in them for various reasons, the whole reason why they need legacy software running on them too. There was one machine I had to support for a while that used hardware based DRM. A small chip plugged into a LPT port and the software queried it to verify it was legit in order to run. Shit like that is common in the industrial world.
One way to think of this would be a new form of Denial of Service attack. Just take any icon you want, and create a fake hate group that idolizes it, and start reporting that icon to various organizations to have all content with that icon removed.
They claim it is "fast" but in reality, it isnt. I needed to transfer 1TiB of content off of S3 a year ago. Files on average were roughly 1MiB in size. Transfers would only go to about 3MiB/sec total, and this is on my gigabit internet connection, so local speed was never an issue. It was painfully brutal to attempt to make a local copy of all of those files.
Chicken and Egg scenario. If you ONLY account for today, there will never be a tomorrow. New applications that require higher bandwidth won't be made if the resource isn't available, but that bandwidth won't be available if the applications don't demand it.
As someone who switched from a 30/6mbps to 1000/1000mbps line at home last year, let me tell ya... The amount of tools I run now that require high upload bandwidth expanded dramatically as soon as it became available to me. These same tools never even crossed my mind back when the resource didn't exist, it was sort of like a mental block. I'm now pushing TB of data on a regular online basis between locations where previously we'd drive HDDs only occasionally.
I can only imagine how increased bandwidth on mobile devices can do the same. As it is as a photographer, I know personally I'd love the ability to push the day's 60GB of RAWs back to servers back home each night while on the road.
If you like video game history, this documentary has tons of insights into some of the early console wars and international issues that were overcome to bring a game outside of Russia to the rest of the world.
The company I work for uses modern systems, a mix of Windows 7 and 10, however there is still some legacy software running in VMs. But besides all that, 20 year old hardware? Let me tell ya something. We have a whole fleet of HP LaserJet 2100 printers from the late '90s. We also have several newer printers. Guess which ones have weekly or even daily support tickets, vs which ones we only ever hear about when the paper runs out? That whole thing about "it just works" is absolutely true with older hardware still around, and that's WHY it is still around. And it is great that HP still produces drivers for the 2100 series printers, even for an OS as new a Win10.
I'm about 35 miles outside of Seattle, and get 56 Digital OTA channels. Tell me again why I would want cable? I already have decent content with what is available for free. I was curious about CenturyLink's PrismTV service (TV over IP), but they won't offer it in my area for some reason, despite the fact I'm on their gigabit fiber connection. I can't be their TV customer if they won't let me!
I use a HDHomeRun sitting about 15ft cable length from the antenna to minimize OTA signal loss. The stations are then transmitted from that box over LAN to the Android KODI box (or any other device on the network I happen to be using at the time). With this, I was able to position an external roof mounted antenna in the optimum location for reception without having to worry about signal degradation over a length of coax.
The devices themselves are not illegal. They're referring to the abundant amount of Android set top boxes available on Amazon and eBay. The thing with these though is that they come pre-loaded with Kodi, plus plugins for Kodi for easy access to illegal streaming services. This is just another example of a tool which can be used for either side being slandered just because it COULD be used for illegal activities. I, however, have one of these boxes and love it. I use it to stream from a root-top mounted digital OTA TV receiver that streams the TV channels over LAN. I get nearly perfect reception on 56 TV stations now, vs questionable reception from about 20 before. Without the Android box, I wound't have a way to watch this legit content otherwise!
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Coming from an Android world, this honestly confused the shit out of me on iOS when I needed to beta test an app. It had an option to launch Apple Maps from within it for navigation, and I've yet to figure out how the fuck to get back to the app I was in without going all the way back to the home screen an re-launching it. How the hell is that supposed to be a "good" user experience!?
These problems exist on MacOS too. I was recently handed a MacBook for compatibility testing of a web site with Safari. Only problem? How the FUCK do I launch Safari? It wasnt in the launch bar at the bottom. Literally had to go to another machine just to Google how to do it, because there is apparently no way to just have a simply listing of all available installed applications to launch from the main OS UI. It is inside of Finder apparently, under some Applications menu inside of there. This honestly reminded me of all the bullshit in Windows 3.1 that was needed to get simple things done.
Besides signing up entire new accounts, they add services to existing accounts without asking. They also will up-sell you on "free" services that require service fees up the ass. I've been fighting with them for months to remove all this bullshit off of a family member's bill. On top of that, they are charging sales tax on arbitrary amounts on the bill, and their percentages between state and local (both of which SHOULD be based on the same initial figure) don't calculate out properly at all. I've tried going into the store, calling tech support, calling billing support, and when I ask, they all just hang up on me (or when I went into the physical store, the guy just called their billing department, which I already did, and then handed me the phone and refused to speak with me about the billing questions)
OUYA kickstarter person here, have two in my house. The reason OUYA failed is because the dashboard interface is a slow clunky piece of shit UI. The other reason is because of all the issues with the controller. Having it separate literally right at the analog sticks for the battery compartments was great in theory, but caused the analog sticks to have issues. Also, the four main face buttons would get stuck under the removable battery compartment doors, too. OUYA was ambitions, but failed miserably in the UX/UI department all around. This honestly makes me sad too, even to this day, because the concept was such an amazing one, but absolute shit execution beyond the main hardware of the console itself.
You're making the assumption that all applications and databases built are using the CPU register size as a data type for storage for Unix Timestamps. This, however, is hardly the case. There are plenty of 32-bit applications that use 64-bit storage, and 64-bit applications that use 32-bit storage for timestamps.
Been using pfSense for years now, glad to know the FreeBSD life style is still holding up better than commercial consumer bullshit!
T-Mobile has Deutsche Telekom as a majority owner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't get it by choice. Google Now forces bullshit I don't give two fucks about down my throat.
We're all techies here, right? Seriously, GitHub. The $7/mo or whatever it is has served me a hell of a lot better than my previous setup using a free GitLab deployment locally.
Good thinking on that Password Manager front! https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
Forced password changes every X days. This just leads to people picking really shitty passwords. At one company I worked at for a while, they mitigated this by simply doing "simple word" + month + year. TOTALLY hard to figure out!
So watching the presentation, this is pretty much my understanding of the XBox One X: it uses the same controllers, runs the same software, has the same interface, connects to the same network, but in 4K and for $499. So the premium price tag is literally JUST for 4k then over their existing offerings? What else has changed?
Good job "not being a troll" https://games.slashdot.org/com...
Just another note on EOLed equipment: Intel ONLY stopped producing the i386 in 2007 (nearly 20 years of production for the CPU) because it was that widely used.
Plus Dosbox only handles common hardware. These machines commonly have custom ISA or PCI cards in them for various reasons, the whole reason why they need legacy software running on them too. There was one machine I had to support for a while that used hardware based DRM. A small chip plugged into a LPT port and the software queried it to verify it was legit in order to run. Shit like that is common in the industrial world.
One way to think of this would be a new form of Denial of Service attack. Just take any icon you want, and create a fake hate group that idolizes it, and start reporting that icon to various organizations to have all content with that icon removed.
They claim it is "fast" but in reality, it isnt. I needed to transfer 1TiB of content off of S3 a year ago. Files on average were roughly 1MiB in size. Transfers would only go to about 3MiB/sec total, and this is on my gigabit internet connection, so local speed was never an issue. It was painfully brutal to attempt to make a local copy of all of those files.
Chicken and Egg scenario. If you ONLY account for today, there will never be a tomorrow. New applications that require higher bandwidth won't be made if the resource isn't available, but that bandwidth won't be available if the applications don't demand it.
As someone who switched from a 30/6mbps to 1000/1000mbps line at home last year, let me tell ya... The amount of tools I run now that require high upload bandwidth expanded dramatically as soon as it became available to me. These same tools never even crossed my mind back when the resource didn't exist, it was sort of like a mental block. I'm now pushing TB of data on a regular online basis between locations where previously we'd drive HDDs only occasionally.
I can only imagine how increased bandwidth on mobile devices can do the same. As it is as a photographer, I know personally I'd love the ability to push the day's 60GB of RAWs back to servers back home each night while on the road.
9v batteries are DANGEROUS oh em geez https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh GOODIE! Another way to get generic canned responses that don't even remotely relate to the questions asked at hand... Just what I always wanted!
Tetris: From Russia with Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you like video game history, this documentary has tons of insights into some of the early console wars and international issues that were overcome to bring a game outside of Russia to the rest of the world.
The company I work for uses modern systems, a mix of Windows 7 and 10, however there is still some legacy software running in VMs. But besides all that, 20 year old hardware? Let me tell ya something. We have a whole fleet of HP LaserJet 2100 printers from the late '90s. We also have several newer printers. Guess which ones have weekly or even daily support tickets, vs which ones we only ever hear about when the paper runs out? That whole thing about "it just works" is absolutely true with older hardware still around, and that's WHY it is still around. And it is great that HP still produces drivers for the 2100 series printers, even for an OS as new a Win10.
I'm about 35 miles outside of Seattle, and get 56 Digital OTA channels. Tell me again why I would want cable? I already have decent content with what is available for free. I was curious about CenturyLink's PrismTV service (TV over IP), but they won't offer it in my area for some reason, despite the fact I'm on their gigabit fiber connection. I can't be their TV customer if they won't let me!
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I use a HDHomeRun sitting about 15ft cable length from the antenna to minimize OTA signal loss. The stations are then transmitted from that box over LAN to the Android KODI box (or any other device on the network I happen to be using at the time). With this, I was able to position an external roof mounted antenna in the optimum location for reception without having to worry about signal degradation over a length of coax.
The devices themselves are not illegal. They're referring to the abundant amount of Android set top boxes available on Amazon and eBay. The thing with these though is that they come pre-loaded with Kodi, plus plugins for Kodi for easy access to illegal streaming services. This is just another example of a tool which can be used for either side being slandered just because it COULD be used for illegal activities. I, however, have one of these boxes and love it. I use it to stream from a root-top mounted digital OTA TV receiver that streams the TV channels over LAN. I get nearly perfect reception on 56 TV stations now, vs questionable reception from about 20 before. Without the Android box, I wound't have a way to watch this legit content otherwise!