Just remember that this opinion rant on The Guardian is coming from someone who cannot figure out how to sideload apps on his Android phone, because apparently opening an APK from any number of the existing file explorers out there and then having it directly prompt the user to temporarily enable side loading is a "hidden" feature that makes it difficult, just like how Windows has had UAC for a decade now.
I see lots of people here commenting and bitching that this is a horrible idea. I, however, am apparently the target audience for this very device.
Right now I'm typing this up on my tiny little 10 inch netbook. I travel around the country very frequently with this thing for casual browsing from hotel to hotel. However, when I'm at the office, I have a full keyboard, mouse, and 22" monitor hooked up to this thing. Am I carrying around a bulky monitor around the country? Nope. But when I'm in the office and docked in, I have these resources available to me.
Enhanced GPUs are for far more than just gaming these days. For me, besides casual browsing on the go, the laptop also serves as a portable hard drive to dump photos on that I take with me. When I get back to the office, Lightroom and Photoshop come into play for editing. Both of these applications are now heavily GPU accelerated. While I have a decent desktop at home for editing that has a nice beefy GPU in it, it would be great to have closer to that same performance experience in the office when docked into the large screen and big keyboard/mouse.
Am I the only one who read the entire summary and thought the entire time that this was an extension for the Amazon Kindle, only to finally realize that I was reading the name wrong all along!?
Google isn't the only company doing this. CenturyLink just lit up old dark fiber in my neighborhood. I just got my gigabit install setup last night with them. It is really sweet to finally see some serious competition in the fiber to the home space after almost two decades of failed promises.
Export a ZFS volume via iSCSI, mount it on a remote machine and install Windows on it. The ZFS machine can now snapshot and clone the Windows install at will!
This scenario is already inferred by TFS. The guy uses a white list of trusted callers. Not on the trusted caller list (no Caller ID data at all would fall into this category), then you're met with a challenge which requires a response before it'll ring through to the main line. So yeah, this scenario is already easily handled.
It isn't women, It is the internet. The problem is a vocal minority. Before the vocal minority was just a whisper in the wind at any given location. They didn't know how to find others with the same ideals that they shared, so they were outcasts. Now they have the internet, a place of global reach to find others with a similar voice, and collectively come together on the 'net to bitch and moan about menial little things. And then they use this online collective to form physical location protests.
To add to this: why the hell does it even matter if one particular software solution contained a serious security issue? The whole point of having open standards is the ability to have multiple software solutions all capable of interoperably working on the same data formats. This is one area where HTML shines, though HTML isn't quite well suited for physical paper print material though.
Cops violate civilian law all the time for the sake of enforcing the law. The main thing that comes to mind is speeding, running red lights, and blocking traffic. And of course, an entire debate can start from cops usage of firearms.
The problem isn't "policy" though. Dealing directly with content publishers, the problem more often then not has to deal with regional laws. This is the same reason why games are region locked with slightly varying content between regions. It comes down to censorship laws as well as copyright and trademark laws in particular regions. This is why names of games or shows or movies are often times different between each region, or certain scenes which may either up the rating of the content for that region or be outright banned in that region are removed. No amount of corporate policy change will fix this, only updating regional laws to have more of a global standard can address this issue.
How does this compare to ActiveX? Yes, I know tons of people absolutely loath the thing (myself included), but learning how to program back in the days of Visual Basic 3 on Windows 3.1 and being able to embed an Internet Explorer 2 container into my app sure seemed sweet at the time!
Last year I switched over to using a Yubikey for U2F and SSH authentication. It has been a dream having this little thing everywhere I go. No more passwords at all. Either tap the button to log in, or NFC to my phone, or use a simple PIN number for SSH access.
Exactly this! Plus, I'm wondering what the "Facebook" form of calling my local bank would be, or the pizza place down the street to order some dinner, or how about the equivalent of 911? A big part of phone numbers is the decentralized yet cross-compatible networks. Instant messaging services where starting to go this way a decade ago with Jabber, then Facebook and Google decided all of a sudden that this was somehow a BAD idea?
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Just remember that this opinion rant on The Guardian is coming from someone who cannot figure out how to sideload apps on his Android phone, because apparently opening an APK from any number of the existing file explorers out there and then having it directly prompt the user to temporarily enable side loading is a "hidden" feature that makes it difficult, just like how Windows has had UAC for a decade now.
I see lots of people here commenting and bitching that this is a horrible idea. I, however, am apparently the target audience for this very device.
Right now I'm typing this up on my tiny little 10 inch netbook. I travel around the country very frequently with this thing for casual browsing from hotel to hotel. However, when I'm at the office, I have a full keyboard, mouse, and 22" monitor hooked up to this thing. Am I carrying around a bulky monitor around the country? Nope. But when I'm in the office and docked in, I have these resources available to me.
Enhanced GPUs are for far more than just gaming these days. For me, besides casual browsing on the go, the laptop also serves as a portable hard drive to dump photos on that I take with me. When I get back to the office, Lightroom and Photoshop come into play for editing. Both of these applications are now heavily GPU accelerated. While I have a decent desktop at home for editing that has a nice beefy GPU in it, it would be great to have closer to that same performance experience in the office when docked into the large screen and big keyboard/mouse.
Fuck, I just got Gigabit FTTH last week... And now you're telling me it is already outdated and that I need to upgrade to 40gbps!?!? Well SHIT!
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Good thing /. isn't vulnerable at all, thanks to its lack of HTTPS support!
"Make America Great Again"
Am I the only one who read the entire summary and thought the entire time that this was an extension for the Amazon Kindle, only to finally realize that I was reading the name wrong all along!?
Google isn't the only company doing this. CenturyLink just lit up old dark fiber in my neighborhood. I just got my gigabit install setup last night with them. It is really sweet to finally see some serious competition in the fiber to the home space after almost two decades of failed promises.
Export a ZFS volume via iSCSI, mount it on a remote machine and install Windows on it. The ZFS machine can now snapshot and clone the Windows install at will!
Oh, no, density of SSD is already far surpassed that of spinning disks. This is just Intel playing catch-up at this point.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
Goddamn, I don't think I've seen so many buzzwords in a single summary in my life!
GREAT... Just great... This will surely not cause the least bit of confusion at all with the existing FIDO Alliance. https://fidoalliance.org/
This scenario is already inferred by TFS. The guy uses a white list of trusted callers. Not on the trusted caller list (no Caller ID data at all would fall into this category), then you're met with a challenge which requires a response before it'll ring through to the main line. So yeah, this scenario is already easily handled.
You mean the same way that EXIF data is stored???
It isn't women, It is the internet. The problem is a vocal minority. Before the vocal minority was just a whisper in the wind at any given location. They didn't know how to find others with the same ideals that they shared, so they were outcasts. Now they have the internet, a place of global reach to find others with a similar voice, and collectively come together on the 'net to bitch and moan about menial little things. And then they use this online collective to form physical location protests.
Oh hey, you're THAT guy. https://xkcd.com/1627/
To add to this: why the hell does it even matter if one particular software solution contained a serious security issue? The whole point of having open standards is the ability to have multiple software solutions all capable of interoperably working on the same data formats. This is one area where HTML shines, though HTML isn't quite well suited for physical paper print material though.
Cops violate civilian law all the time for the sake of enforcing the law. The main thing that comes to mind is speeding, running red lights, and blocking traffic. And of course, an entire debate can start from cops usage of firearms.
The problem isn't "policy" though. Dealing directly with content publishers, the problem more often then not has to deal with regional laws. This is the same reason why games are region locked with slightly varying content between regions. It comes down to censorship laws as well as copyright and trademark laws in particular regions. This is why names of games or shows or movies are often times different between each region, or certain scenes which may either up the rating of the content for that region or be outright banned in that region are removed. No amount of corporate policy change will fix this, only updating regional laws to have more of a global standard can address this issue.
How does this compare to ActiveX? Yes, I know tons of people absolutely loath the thing (myself included), but learning how to program back in the days of Visual Basic 3 on Windows 3.1 and being able to embed an Internet Explorer 2 container into my app sure seemed sweet at the time!
Why is it called 5G? Because that's how much throughput you're allowed each month.
Last year I switched over to using a Yubikey for U2F and SSH authentication. It has been a dream having this little thing everywhere I go. No more passwords at all. Either tap the button to log in, or NFC to my phone, or use a simple PIN number for SSH access.
All the while, Google and Microsoft are STILL trying to play catch up to AWS innovations.
Are these people mining PrimeCoins? What's the motivation to be part of this network? Just curious is all.
Exactly this! Plus, I'm wondering what the "Facebook" form of calling my local bank would be, or the pizza place down the street to order some dinner, or how about the equivalent of 911? A big part of phone numbers is the decentralized yet cross-compatible networks. Instant messaging services where starting to go this way a decade ago with Jabber, then Facebook and Google decided all of a sudden that this was somehow a BAD idea?
8.11 for Workgroups?