If I understand the technologies it's using correctly, I think that 3CX may allow the PBX to intercept voice communications and it doesn't appear to be designed to ensure communication that goes outside the PBX is encrypted. So it's probably less secure than using Jitsi which - even if it does require you to sell your soul to Google - doesn't trust the server you're using and gives you a way to detect if someone's trying to MITM you.
Except that Google+'s "real names" policy can't actually enforce the use of real names, all it can do is enforce the use of names that look real enough to bypass the automatic fake name detection. Genuine users are pressured into using their real name through various means, such as their friends not being able to find them and the threat of banning if they're spotted, but trolls with throwaway accounts don't care.
I'm pretty sure that what he's claiming just wouldn't work, because lead shielding attenuates different kinds of radiation at wildly different rates, so there's no way to calculate the workers' actual radiation exposure from the readings the dosimeter behind the shielding gives.
The iPad has a different apect ratio from the iPhone, but that means that every existing application needed to have iPad support added explicitly in order to work well. Apple managed to get away with that since phone app UIs don't tend to scale too well on a 10-inch tablet anyway.
Every iPhone still has the same aspect ratio as the original iPhone and every iPad the same as the original iPad, though. Not only that but Apple had to delay increasing the resolution of their devices until they could get displays with double the pixel density, whereas Android manufacturers could use intermediate screen resolutions, and apparently driving all those pixels has been killing battery life and GPU performance.
There's more ways in which a driver can be buggy than poor framerate - such as graphical corruption, buggy shader compilers that crash, excessive CPU usage,...
Typo. I actually meant to write EU there. The EU's human rights framework is actually stricter on human rights in some ways than the US constitution, and anti-discrimination law is one of them. (They're not nearly as rigid about free speech as the US' First Amendment is though.)
Are you implying that France has any obligation in regards to US law? I genuinely don't understand your point.
Sorry, EU law. Not sure why I wrote US (though I think the US does have laws against that too). Technically I think it might be something that the European Court of Human Rights would deal with rather than the EU itself, but signing up for that is a mandatory part of EU membership.
So you saying things that offend people is just you exercising your right to Free Speech, but other people don't have the right to complain about you saying those things because... somehow that's not speech that they should be free to make? Free speech only extends to saying things that you agree with? Riiiiight... remind me again who exactly is attacking freedom of speech here.
Which is another reason why this is an example of sexism. Would you be willing to put in the effort to figure out whether what you say at work is likely to offend men as a group? Almost certainly, because enough of your coworkers are men that it'd make your life really uncomfortable if you genuinely did offend them, and because they're empowered to get pissed off - it's something we expect of men. The only reason you can get away with complaining about how you shouldn't have to care whether your words hurt someone is because the words in question are offensive to women, who are a minority within the tech industries and also have to worry about being perceived as "bitchy" or "humourless" or "frigid" if they object.
That breast cancer campaign is actually really controversial amongst feminist circles, and there are definitely women out there who aren't comfortable with it, but it's kinda hard to stop the juggernaut at this point.
Not really. Last I heard, Matthew Garrett was trying to get Stallman banned from speaking at various conferences over his sexist jokes. Microsoft has very little to do with it, except in so much as you might expect them to know better.
It's not sexist because female coders generally don't want to draw attention to themselves in this way. Male coders would probably feel the same if they were at risk of receiving the same kind of attention as their female counterparts.
Actually, under UK law you don't just have to prove all of your allegations are true - you also have to prove that the worst possible misinterpretations of your allegations that the person suing can convince the judge are plausible are also true.
Well, obviously there's no law forcing them into ghettos - even France couldn't get away with quite such a blatent violation of US law. I have an odd feeling there are other, less codified ways in which they're excluded - probably home owners in white communities refusing to sell to Arabs, agents dissuading them from considering those houses and redirecting them to ones in the ghetto, that sort of thing.
Really? Last I heard, DRM was a mandatory requirement of being on Steam, resulting in some games shipping with a copy of the DosBox or ScummVM binary inside a Steam DRM wrapper - even though it did nothing to protect the game itself from copying and was questionable from a GPL licensing perspective, they still had to do it if they wanted to sell via Steam
Can I run Debian on the A10? With hardware floating point? Are binary blobs required?
On paper you should be able to - it's an ARM Cortex-A8 which is enough to run the Debian releases with hardware floating point, and you might even be able to get unaccelerated graphics working without using any blobs. Open source hardware acceleration is still stuck in the reverse-engineering stages.
Yes, it does. If you look closely the first script tag is in a comment as far as non-IE browsers are concerned whereas the second script tag is outside the comments and gets parsed.
One reason why we need schemes like EPEAT is because of companies bullshitting and claiming that their products are better for the environment in some unspecified and ill-defined way that's vague enough not to fall foul of false advertising regulations but really doesn't help that much.
According to an AC comment on the previous discussion about this by someone who claimed to have access to their internal servicing documents, Apple just replaces the whole keyboard, upper case and battery assembly on the new Macbook Pro with Retina Display as a single unit. Apparently they can't unglue the batteries either.
Not just VDPAU. The entire closed source NVIDIA driver isn't usable with Wayland and probably never will be. Wayland requires developers to use the same KMS framework as the open source drivers (impossible for closed source drivers due to licensing issues), the same DRI2 buffer management and command submission code (effectively impossible because NVIDIA's driver codebase apparenly doesn't work in the way DRI2 assumes it does), and even that might not be enough.
I'd heard pretty much the same thing - that keeping lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries fully charged or fully discharging them reduces their lifespans. Some Thinkpad laptops actually have battery charge control functionality in the hardware that can be used to stop them charging the batteries fully in order to extend battery lifespan if you're using them on the mains most of the time.
I'm not an expert on batteries. I'm not finding anything about the 80% charge level. Apple themselves does mention that they use a 2 step charging process, a rapid charge to 80% and then a trickle charge from 80-100%. So I suspect they agree that charging beyond 80% is damaging and being below 80% is damaging and are doing it in a low stress way.
Actually, everyone does it that way because it's the only way to charge lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries to 100% without blowing them up. It's called CC-CV charging - you charge them at a constant current until the voltage across the battery reaches the maximum safe voltage, then continue to charge them at a constant voltage until the current reaches a low enough level that the battery is essentially fully charged. Because the current tails off towards the end of the charging process, the closer to 100% you want to get the batteries the longer it takes to get that last little bit of charge in.
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If I understand the technologies it's using correctly, I think that 3CX may allow the PBX to intercept voice communications and it doesn't appear to be designed to ensure communication that goes outside the PBX is encrypted. So it's probably less secure than using Jitsi which - even if it does require you to sell your soul to Google - doesn't trust the server you're using and gives you a way to detect if someone's trying to MITM you.
Except that Google+'s "real names" policy can't actually enforce the use of real names, all it can do is enforce the use of names that look real enough to bypass the automatic fake name detection. Genuine users are pressured into using their real name through various means, such as their friends not being able to find them and the threat of banning if they're spotted, but trolls with throwaway accounts don't care.
I'm pretty sure that what he's claiming just wouldn't work, because lead shielding attenuates different kinds of radiation at wildly different rates, so there's no way to calculate the workers' actual radiation exposure from the readings the dosimeter behind the shielding gives.
The iPad has a different apect ratio from the iPhone, but that means that every existing application needed to have iPad support added explicitly in order to work well. Apple managed to get away with that since phone app UIs don't tend to scale too well on a 10-inch tablet anyway.
Every iPhone still has the same aspect ratio as the original iPhone and every iPad the same as the original iPad, though. Not only that but Apple had to delay increasing the resolution of their devices until they could get displays with double the pixel density, whereas Android manufacturers could use intermediate screen resolutions, and apparently driving all those pixels has been killing battery life and GPU performance.
There's more ways in which a driver can be buggy than poor framerate - such as graphical corruption, buggy shader compilers that crash, excessive CPU usage, ...
Typo. I actually meant to write EU there. The EU's human rights framework is actually stricter on human rights in some ways than the US constitution, and anti-discrimination law is one of them. (They're not nearly as rigid about free speech as the US' First Amendment is though.)
Are you implying that France has any obligation in regards to US law? I genuinely don't understand your point.
Sorry, EU law. Not sure why I wrote US (though I think the US does have laws against that too). Technically I think it might be something that the European Court of Human Rights would deal with rather than the EU itself, but signing up for that is a mandatory part of EU membership.
So you saying things that offend people is just you exercising your right to Free Speech, but other people don't have the right to complain about you saying those things because... somehow that's not speech that they should be free to make? Free speech only extends to saying things that you agree with? Riiiiight... remind me again who exactly is attacking freedom of speech here.
Which is another reason why this is an example of sexism. Would you be willing to put in the effort to figure out whether what you say at work is likely to offend men as a group? Almost certainly, because enough of your coworkers are men that it'd make your life really uncomfortable if you genuinely did offend them, and because they're empowered to get pissed off - it's something we expect of men. The only reason you can get away with complaining about how you shouldn't have to care whether your words hurt someone is because the words in question are offensive to women, who are a minority within the tech industries and also have to worry about being perceived as "bitchy" or "humourless" or "frigid" if they object.
That breast cancer campaign is actually really controversial amongst feminist circles, and there are definitely women out there who aren't comfortable with it, but it's kinda hard to stop the juggernaut at this point.
Not really. Last I heard, Matthew Garrett was trying to get Stallman banned from speaking at various conferences over his sexist jokes. Microsoft has very little to do with it, except in so much as you might expect them to know better.
It's not sexist because female coders generally don't want to draw attention to themselves in this way. Male coders would probably feel the same if they were at risk of receiving the same kind of attention as their female counterparts.
Actually, under UK law you don't just have to prove all of your allegations are true - you also have to prove that the worst possible misinterpretations of your allegations that the person suing can convince the judge are plausible are also true.
I have this odd feeling that she has no particular desire to attract men of any kind.
Well, obviously there's no law forcing them into ghettos - even France couldn't get away with quite such a blatent violation of US law. I have an odd feeling there are other, less codified ways in which they're excluded - probably home owners in white communities refusing to sell to Arabs, agents dissuading them from considering those houses and redirecting them to ones in the ghetto, that sort of thing.
As a result many linux users will still be identified as windows users (since wine will identify as windows XP)
The last Steam hardware survey I did detected the fact that I was running it under Wine, so they already know that users are doing that.
Really? Last I heard, DRM was a mandatory requirement of being on Steam, resulting in some games shipping with a copy of the DosBox or ScummVM binary inside a Steam DRM wrapper - even though it did nothing to protect the game itself from copying and was questionable from a GPL licensing perspective, they still had to do it if they wanted to sell via Steam
Can I run Debian on the A10? With hardware floating point? Are binary blobs required?
On paper you should be able to - it's an ARM Cortex-A8 which is enough to run the Debian releases with hardware floating point, and you might even be able to get unaccelerated graphics working without using any blobs. Open source hardware acceleration is still stuck in the reverse-engineering stages.
Yes, it does. If you look closely the first script tag is in a comment as far as non-IE browsers are concerned whereas the second script tag is outside the comments and gets parsed.
One reason why we need schemes like EPEAT is because of companies bullshitting and claiming that their products are better for the environment in some unspecified and ill-defined way that's vague enough not to fall foul of false advertising regulations but really doesn't help that much.
Supposedly, they offer battery replacement by removing the entire upper chassis, battery, keyboard and trackpad assembly, throwing it out, and installing a new assembly. Likewise, screen replacement involves replacing the entire lid assembly as a sealed unit.
According to an AC comment on the previous discussion about this by someone who claimed to have access to their internal servicing documents, Apple just replaces the whole keyboard, upper case and battery assembly on the new Macbook Pro with Retina Display as a single unit. Apparently they can't unglue the batteries either.
Not just VDPAU. The entire closed source NVIDIA driver isn't usable with Wayland and probably never will be. Wayland requires developers to use the same KMS framework as the open source drivers (impossible for closed source drivers due to licensing issues), the same DRI2 buffer management and command submission code (effectively impossible because NVIDIA's driver codebase apparenly doesn't work in the way DRI2 assumes it does), and even that might not be enough.
I'd heard pretty much the same thing - that keeping lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries fully charged or fully discharging them reduces their lifespans. Some Thinkpad laptops actually have battery charge control functionality in the hardware that can be used to stop them charging the batteries fully in order to extend battery lifespan if you're using them on the mains most of the time.
I'm not an expert on batteries. I'm not finding anything about the 80% charge level. Apple themselves does mention that they use a 2 step charging process, a rapid charge to 80% and then a trickle charge from 80-100%. So I suspect they agree that charging beyond 80% is damaging and being below 80% is damaging and are doing it in a low stress way.
Actually, everyone does it that way because it's the only way to charge lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries to 100% without blowing them up. It's called CC-CV charging - you charge them at a constant current until the voltage across the battery reaches the maximum safe voltage, then continue to charge them at a constant voltage until the current reaches a low enough level that the battery is essentially fully charged. Because the current tails off towards the end of the charging process, the closer to 100% you want to get the batteries the longer it takes to get that last little bit of charge in.