Im aware of tons of novelty TLDs, following them closely for various business purposes. I've never even heard of "whoswho" until this article, and on top of that would never even think about registering it. That TLD is just a bad phrase. Who in their right mind would want a domain like Bobman.whoswho, it just looks and sounds ridiculous.
Depends on your tasks. If you limit yourself to simple tasks, they can be accomplished simply.
Some tools require pointing devices. This is a hard requirement, not a superficial one. For instance, I do a significant amount of multimedia work. This would be impossible without a pointing device of some kind. Also, dealing with certain types of multi-tasking between multiple virtual environments would become an absolute pain in the ass.
Also, requiring having a cheat sheet on your desk just to list keyboard shortcuts? This goes to show just how insanely unintuitive they are to begin with. Yeah, programs started with keyboards and some shortcuts are actual shortcuts... But to the person that said they saved 60 hours a week in Gmail, I ask them this plain and simple: WHAT THEY FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING THAT TAKES 60 HOURS TO BEGIN WITH!?
A hybrid environment is best. I'm not saying keyboard shortcuts are terrible. I'm just saying they're absolutely terrible from a UX perspective, but used properly are good tools for power users, and power users only.
The internet is more diverse than ever before. There are more peers and routes now than previously, and this number is ever increasing. I think the author means the WEB is more centralized, as global service behemoths (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, and others at this scale) take an increasingly larger share of the web based content web consume, while simultaneously making it harder for smaller players to enter the market.
The internet is quire resilient. The content transmitted over the internet, however, is not.
Android has supported mice since basically forever. Recently purchased a new TV with Amazon FireTV built in (which is based on Android). Just for shits, I sideloaded the Microsoft RDP android app onto it. It is actually surprisingly quite useful on the TV. I no longer need any dongles, or PCs, or anything else hooked up to the TV other than a keyboard/mouse to have a desktop when I want it, leaving all the bulk to the wiring closet.
Apple, you still have a long ass ways to go to catch up.
Why is this thing capped at only 1TB of storage? That's how much I have in my 7 year old 10" netbook that I upgraded. The laptop in the article is a fucking beast, there are 5TB SFF drives now, why don't those work?
Welcome to the MP3 and shitty headphone/laptop speaker era. Nobody gives a damn about actual audio quality. I've tried preaching this myself over the past two decades with zero results from anyone around me. The "convenience" is more valuable than audio reproduction quality.
Not the initial license, but upgrade licenses for Photoshop were $200 and released every 18 months. Now it is $10/mo, so over those same 18 months the cost is now $180. While 10% cheaper, you're now forced into every single "upgrade" by always paying. No longer can you skip paying versions if they don't have new features for your given workflow. Even if you don't upgrade your local install, you're still paying for those upgrades now. So, call it "Not that expensive" if you want, but they just hooked you into paying endlessly for renting their software that you once could own.
I recently picked up an Amazon Fire TV (not the dongle, a TV with it built in)
Since it is based on AndroidTV, I can load in most Android apps on it without issue. I currently have both Microsoft's Remote Desktop and Valve's SteamLink apps working quite well. I also have a SSH client, VNC client, full web browser, and more. I have a full sized keyboard and mouse attached, plus I also have an AirMouse attached (accelerometer based mouse movement) which has a full keyboard on it too, but in the form factor of a normal TV remote. This handles casual cases plus full on gaming needs too.
Samsung on the other hand seems to be pushing their own proprietary bullshit, or requiring VMWare!? Yeah, no thanks. Why do we need to wait until 2019 to get features that have been around for 2-4 years already, but with better compatibility with the existing tools?
911 centers need phone service, these call centers are customers of CentruryLink. Also, the outage is affecting normal customers too, such as phone and DSL. I'm on CenturyLink Fiber near Seattle. I've yet to lose connectivity, but BGP routing is taking totally fucked routes with high latency. So while I have "connectivity", accessing some web sites is either slow as balls, or downright impossible.
That's really good to know, thanks! I'd hate to have a repeat of the WinXP days. Thats was annoying as hell. Only solution back then was to hopefully still have a PS/2 keyboard in stock and the mobo having a port for it, otherwise it required either hacking the OS via boot media to remove the password, or a full reinstall.
Microsoft already had this in the initial release of Windows XP a long ass time ago. They removed it with the very first SP. Why? Because if there are ANY keyboard issues, you cannot add another one at all. Windows XP Pre-SP USB device detection only happens AFTER login. You run the risk of literally be locked on the password screen with zero way to enter a password. Things may be different with attached keyboards and touch screens now, but I still like the idea of the safety net of being able to attach a keyboard during trouble shooting.
Considering that Linux is traditionally community driven, and there is a community of archivists keeping the torrents around, and that torrents are a perfectly acceptable way of storing and moving large chunks of information, I think this is pretty much working as intended.
1) Fortnite literally named the dances after who they stole em from ("Fresh" referencing "Fresh Prince"!?) 2) Nobody gave two shits about all the dances World of Warcraft stole and put into that game. To those paying attention, it was just an extension of meme culture. "Tunak Tunak Tun? AWESOME!!"
These results don't match my personal experience at least. Google's command support has gotten worse by them removing various phrases from support when they switched from "Google Now" to "Google Assistant" (or what ever they're calling it now). And even phrases it SHOULD know only work half the time. Things need to be phrased very awkwardly to get things to work sometimes, too. These devices still absolutely fail at natural language, and work better when speaking closer to what we would type on a terminal without extra words. "Timer 10 minutes" works, but asking it to "set a timer for 10 minutes" will have a higher chance of failure, as it has a higher degree of misinterpreting any of the words spoken.
This is where Bittorent comes into play. Most major Linux distros have Torrents available for them, and they're listed on DistroWatch. I personally maintain ~1TiB of Linux and BSD ISOs from various distros hosted on a dedicated server with 1gbps uncapped upload. So even if the official web sites remove their download links and mirrors, the torrent archives will live on.
This is why I've switched over to FreeBSD. And as far as that spec class is concerned, that is pretty damn close to a Raspberry Pi Zero, which I actively test and help port software to (though this is ARM 32-bit). FreeBSD so far still perfectly maintains i386 support as well though.
OH LAWLDY, I rushed in to that comment before even reading TFS, and it just made it 10x worse with this quote: "Google Lens thus can put names to the faces of more goods"
"uses hardware-based virtualization for kernel isolation, which relies on the Microsoft's hypervisor" Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation cannot operate on the same Windows box. This is another case of Microsoft bundling software that forces out competition. As someone in a full VMWare environment, features like this scare me. I don't want to have to hack my windows just to keep my current tool set operational.
"50 percent relational database market share" And by this, they primarily mean MySQL (the thing they bought, and is free), not Oracle Database (the thing they made, and sell). And in the MySQL world, all the major players already have or are in the process of migrating away from MySQL to MariaDB. This is even more FUD and scare tactics by Oracle. They're losing their grip, and they know it all too well internally. This is especially true in emerging markets like China, just look at the MariaDB changelog to see how many of the largest companies in China are contributing huge feature sets to MariaDB (instant column add is one of my favs)
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Im aware of tons of novelty TLDs, following them closely for various business purposes. I've never even heard of "whoswho" until this article, and on top of that would never even think about registering it. That TLD is just a bad phrase. Who in their right mind would want a domain like Bobman.whoswho, it just looks and sounds ridiculous.
Depends on your tasks. If you limit yourself to simple tasks, they can be accomplished simply.
Some tools require pointing devices. This is a hard requirement, not a superficial one. For instance, I do a significant amount of multimedia work. This would be impossible without a pointing device of some kind. Also, dealing with certain types of multi-tasking between multiple virtual environments would become an absolute pain in the ass.
Also, requiring having a cheat sheet on your desk just to list keyboard shortcuts? This goes to show just how insanely unintuitive they are to begin with. Yeah, programs started with keyboards and some shortcuts are actual shortcuts... But to the person that said they saved 60 hours a week in Gmail, I ask them this plain and simple: WHAT THEY FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING THAT TAKES 60 HOURS TO BEGIN WITH!?
A hybrid environment is best. I'm not saying keyboard shortcuts are terrible. I'm just saying they're absolutely terrible from a UX perspective, but used properly are good tools for power users, and power users only.
The internet is more diverse than ever before. There are more peers and routes now than previously, and this number is ever increasing. I think the author means the WEB is more centralized, as global service behemoths (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, and others at this scale) take an increasingly larger share of the web based content web consume, while simultaneously making it harder for smaller players to enter the market.
The internet is quire resilient. The content transmitted over the internet, however, is not.
Android has supported mice since basically forever. Recently purchased a new TV with Amazon FireTV built in (which is based on Android). Just for shits, I sideloaded the Microsoft RDP android app onto it. It is actually surprisingly quite useful on the TV. I no longer need any dongles, or PCs, or anything else hooked up to the TV other than a keyboard/mouse to have a desktop when I want it, leaving all the bulk to the wiring closet.
Apple, you still have a long ass ways to go to catch up.
"an ease never seen before" >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why is this thing capped at only 1TB of storage? That's how much I have in my 7 year old 10" netbook that I upgraded. The laptop in the article is a fucking beast, there are 5TB SFF drives now, why don't those work?
Welcome to the MP3 and shitty headphone/laptop speaker era. Nobody gives a damn about actual audio quality. I've tried preaching this myself over the past two decades with zero results from anyone around me. The "convenience" is more valuable than audio reproduction quality.
Not the initial license, but upgrade licenses for Photoshop were $200 and released every 18 months. Now it is $10/mo, so over those same 18 months the cost is now $180. While 10% cheaper, you're now forced into every single "upgrade" by always paying. No longer can you skip paying versions if they don't have new features for your given workflow. Even if you don't upgrade your local install, you're still paying for those upgrades now. So, call it "Not that expensive" if you want, but they just hooked you into paying endlessly for renting their software that you once could own.
We're getting closer and closer to that XKCD dream life: https://xkcd.com/810/
I recently picked up an Amazon Fire TV (not the dongle, a TV with it built in)
Since it is based on AndroidTV, I can load in most Android apps on it without issue. I currently have both Microsoft's Remote Desktop and Valve's SteamLink apps working quite well. I also have a SSH client, VNC client, full web browser, and more. I have a full sized keyboard and mouse attached, plus I also have an AirMouse attached (accelerometer based mouse movement) which has a full keyboard on it too, but in the form factor of a normal TV remote. This handles casual cases plus full on gaming needs too.
Samsung on the other hand seems to be pushing their own proprietary bullshit, or requiring VMWare!? Yeah, no thanks. Why do we need to wait until 2019 to get features that have been around for 2-4 years already, but with better compatibility with the existing tools?
Its currently the opposite. CL sent out a message that said to use cell phones instead of land lines for 911.
911 centers need phone service, these call centers are customers of CentruryLink. Also, the outage is affecting normal customers too, such as phone and DSL. I'm on CenturyLink Fiber near Seattle. I've yet to lose connectivity, but BGP routing is taking totally fucked routes with high latency. So while I have "connectivity", accessing some web sites is either slow as balls, or downright impossible.
That's really good to know, thanks! I'd hate to have a repeat of the WinXP days. Thats was annoying as hell. Only solution back then was to hopefully still have a PS/2 keyboard in stock and the mobo having a port for it, otherwise it required either hacking the OS via boot media to remove the password, or a full reinstall.
Microsoft already had this in the initial release of Windows XP a long ass time ago. They removed it with the very first SP. Why? Because if there are ANY keyboard issues, you cannot add another one at all. Windows XP Pre-SP USB device detection only happens AFTER login. You run the risk of literally be locked on the password screen with zero way to enter a password. Things may be different with attached keyboards and touch screens now, but I still like the idea of the safety net of being able to attach a keyboard during trouble shooting.
Wait, so the GIMP photo editor all along was just a ploy to search for Prime Numbers !?
Considering that Linux is traditionally community driven, and there is a community of archivists keeping the torrents around, and that torrents are a perfectly acceptable way of storing and moving large chunks of information, I think this is pretty much working as intended.
1) Fortnite literally named the dances after who they stole em from ("Fresh" referencing "Fresh Prince"!?)
2) Nobody gave two shits about all the dances World of Warcraft stole and put into that game. To those paying attention, it was just an extension of meme culture. "Tunak Tunak Tun? AWESOME!!"
These results don't match my personal experience at least. Google's command support has gotten worse by them removing various phrases from support when they switched from "Google Now" to "Google Assistant" (or what ever they're calling it now). And even phrases it SHOULD know only work half the time. Things need to be phrased very awkwardly to get things to work sometimes, too. These devices still absolutely fail at natural language, and work better when speaking closer to what we would type on a terminal without extra words. "Timer 10 minutes" works, but asking it to "set a timer for 10 minutes" will have a higher chance of failure, as it has a higher degree of misinterpreting any of the words spoken.
This is where Bittorent comes into play. Most major Linux distros have Torrents available for them, and they're listed on DistroWatch. I personally maintain ~1TiB of Linux and BSD ISOs from various distros hosted on a dedicated server with 1gbps uncapped upload. So even if the official web sites remove their download links and mirrors, the torrent archives will live on.
This is why I've switched over to FreeBSD. And as far as that spec class is concerned, that is pretty damn close to a Raspberry Pi Zero, which I actively test and help port software to (though this is ARM 32-bit). FreeBSD so far still perfectly maintains i386 support as well though.
OH LAWLDY, I rushed in to that comment before even reading TFS, and it just made it 10x worse with this quote: "Google Lens thus can put names to the faces of more goods"
Well, there are 8 billion people in the world, so they're getting there pretty quickly!!
Google would never screw with YouTube on competing platforms!!
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"uses hardware-based virtualization for kernel isolation, which relies on the Microsoft's hypervisor" Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation cannot operate on the same Windows box. This is another case of Microsoft bundling software that forces out competition. As someone in a full VMWare environment, features like this scare me. I don't want to have to hack my windows just to keep my current tool set operational.
"50 percent relational database market share" And by this, they primarily mean MySQL (the thing they bought, and is free), not Oracle Database (the thing they made, and sell). And in the MySQL world, all the major players already have or are in the process of migrating away from MySQL to MariaDB. This is even more FUD and scare tactics by Oracle. They're losing their grip, and they know it all too well internally. This is especially true in emerging markets like China, just look at the MariaDB changelog to see how many of the largest companies in China are contributing huge feature sets to MariaDB (instant column add is one of my favs)