This is actually happening. Are you familiar with the ez-pass express lanes? The government can't afford to build a highway, so they let a private company build it and charge for its use. I find this frightening.
Confusion will set in here because Fire_Wraith and will_die are using the term "VOIP" differently. Fire_Wraith, you used VOIP as an example of a network protocol for which low latency is important, and traffic shaping is legitimate and neutral. Will_die, you used VOIP as an example of a special service paid for separately, that happens to be routed over the internet, that is not necessarily part of the customer's internet service.
If one replaces "VOIP" in Fire_Wraith's email with "Skype" or "Mumble" or "RTSP" then one would be correct in saying that those protocols really are more affected by latency, and Fire_Wraith's point still applies.
They really pushed high speed internet in the US. I was one of the first people in the country, outside of academia, who had "high speed" internet. It was because Comcast was rolling out "comcast @home" back in the late 90s. It was friekin' awesome and I loved that company for a decade as a result. You could call them and get a static IP address, and talk nerdy with the people who ran their network. Ahhh... the good old days *sniff*.
Came here to post this. And with stock android on there you have something that instantly beats any phone I see in the stores today. These are both cases of "less is better." They could even charge me *more* for the lower-resolution screen and I'll still be happy because the net result is a faster phone with less power drain.
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around...
My favorite rick-roll of all time was when my brother bought a mod chip for his Nintendo DS, hacked it, installed the appropriate firmware, spent days downloading a torrent, went through a whole bunch of hacks and configuration steps, only to hear that amazing tune...
As a Star Trek geek, talking to my phone is the absolute coolest thing I've experienced in my life time. It also happens to be very useful. I'm juggling the kids, my hands are full, I wanna know if we can swing my a grocery store to get something, and I can just say "ok google, near me." Or if a group of friends are debating something technical or political. I just say "ok google, how many Korean immigrants traveled from Astana to Cairo in 2005" and people are often stunned because 15 minutes of debate was reduced to a simple question.
I have been meaning to change "ok google" to "ok computer" for a while now.
A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society is prepared to consider reasonable is infringed.
The problem is that the government has found a workaround for this. By bullying companies into releasing your emails and building surveillance technologies into everything, no one really expects their email to be private any more. And once there is no longer the expectation of privacy, they no longer need a warrant.
The same thing is happening with cellular location data:
First, people thought their location was safe. Then people figured out that cell towers knew your approximate location. Eventually everyone was convinced that the cell companies were recording that data and giving it to the FBI/NSA (and it doesn't matter if they really do, or not). And *bam* now there is no expectation of privacy any longer. So the government can have it without a warrant. Side bonus: The cell companies can sell it now too, because nobody expects it to be private. But fortunately, they didn't have your exact location, right?
Next, cell phones had to report GPS data during 9/11 calls. But conspiracies abound that it sends the data during all calls. And Google and Apple record all the information too, for traffic updates and "find my phone" apps. So over time, people stopped expecting their precise GPS coordinates to be private any longer either. So now the government argues that they can have that too.
Today, putting a GPS tracker on your car requires a warrant -- not because the location information is private -- but because they have to attach a device to your car to do it. But once every car has a GPS installed, the expectation of privacy there goes away too.
The headline implies that Samsung is telling all their customers not to upgrade any equipment to Windows 10. But reading the article, it looks like one customer got one email saying this. If you follow the link in the article, and try a few models out, there are indeed models that support Windows 10.
In general though: 1. What Windows 8 drivers do not work on Windows 10? Windows 8 was good about supporting Windows 7 drivers and even XP drivers. Video drivers art the ones that are usually an issue. 2. Does the Windows 10 upgrade check driver availability before upgrading?
as far as Windows 2000--that people are now freaking out about.
1) Your statement implies that people just now suddenly started complaining about them. That is not true. People have been complaining about them for years. 2) Your statement implies that, if people didn't complain loudly enough before, they no longer have the right to complain. That is not true.
Come on, people.
Just because it is happening gradually and the retaliatory reaction is delayed, does not mean that it is okay.
Lastly, I don't think the items you listed are the ones people are complaining about. You listed some of the most innocuous ones.
The ruling overturns a divided 2015 opinion from the court's three-judge panel and reduces the likelihood that the Supreme Court would consider the issue.
From an end-user perspective, avoid the "Metro" or "Universal" apps (or whatever the full-screen touch-friendly keyboard/mouse-unfriendly apps are called these days). The built-in PDF viewer and Photo Viewer are awful. The Edge browser is clearly a browser for a phone or tablet, with lots of absolutely basic options missing. But this advice applied to Windows 8 as well, and somewhat to prior versions, so this isn't really new.
If the OEMs can't make the changes they want by installing apps using the exposed APIs, the the OS is not designed well-enough to meet their needs. Vendors can do just about anything on Windows using the exposed APIs.
I'll use my Samsung Galaxy S5 as an example. It has customized icons, and some custom touch-screen features ("air gestures" and "air view") and a fingerprint scanner. It has a custom lock screen, and some custom items in the control panel. It has a custom power saving mode. It has noise reduction on the microphone. On Windows, none of these things would require modifying the core OS. There are exposed APIs for nearly everything.
I presume Android inherits this limitation from Linux. In Linux, there aren't stable APIs for drivers, so the drivers are either kernel modules, or code that interacts with kernel modules that act as shims. I don't know: is it the same way in Android? Are the vendors are making kernel modules to do this stuff? If so, rather than blame the vendors for not providing updates, perhaps Google should make the OS modular enough that the vendors aren't forced to do that.
Would you jog my memory by naming a few people who achieved celebrity through a combination of brilliance and science communication? (Preferably who are still alive.)
People aren't voting for Trump because they are amazed at his policies. They're voting for Trump because he's the only one (aside from Bernie) actually speaking about issues people want addressed instead of dismissing their concerns.
If only we could have a candidate who addressed people's concerns AND made sense. Nawww, that's asking too much.
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An explicit umount command is the price to pay for a properly multitasking OS, where things like disk I/O can happen in the background.
It is the price to pay for write-back caching.
This is actually happening. Are you familiar with the ez-pass express lanes? The government can't afford to build a highway, so they let a private company build it and charge for its use. I find this frightening.
Confusion will set in here because Fire_Wraith and will_die are using the term "VOIP" differently. Fire_Wraith, you used VOIP as an example of a network protocol for which low latency is important, and traffic shaping is legitimate and neutral. Will_die, you used VOIP as an example of a special service paid for separately, that happens to be routed over the internet, that is not necessarily part of the customer's internet service.
If one replaces "VOIP" in Fire_Wraith's email with "Skype" or "Mumble" or "RTSP" then one would be correct in saying that those protocols really are more affected by latency, and Fire_Wraith's point still applies.
They really pushed high speed internet in the US. I was one of the first people in the country, outside of academia, who had "high speed" internet. It was because Comcast was rolling out "comcast @home" back in the late 90s. It was friekin' awesome and I loved that company for a decade as a result. You could call them and get a static IP address, and talk nerdy with the people who ran their network. Ahhh... the good old days *sniff*.
Came here to post this. And with stock android on there you have something that instantly beats any phone I see in the stores today. These are both cases of "less is better." They could even charge me *more* for the lower-resolution screen and I'll still be happy because the net result is a faster phone with less power drain.
These processes ARE using multi-threading. Multi-process has not replaced multi-threading.
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around...
My favorite rick-roll of all time was when my brother bought a mod chip for his Nintendo DS, hacked it, installed the appropriate firmware, spent days downloading a torrent, went through a whole bunch of hacks and configuration steps, only to hear that amazing tune...
Also, it's great in the car. Especially when listening to talk radio. "Ok google, did Donald Trump really say..."
Although in my living room, it does feel odd.
As a Star Trek geek, talking to my phone is the absolute coolest thing I've experienced in my life time. It also happens to be very useful. I'm juggling the kids, my hands are full, I wanna know if we can swing my a grocery store to get something, and I can just say "ok google, near me." Or if a group of friends are debating something technical or political. I just say "ok google, how many Korean immigrants traveled from Astana to Cairo in 2005" and people are often stunned because 15 minutes of debate was reduced to a simple question.
I have been meaning to change "ok google" to "ok computer" for a while now.
A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society is prepared to consider reasonable is infringed.
The problem is that the government has found a workaround for this. By bullying companies into releasing your emails and building surveillance technologies into everything, no one really expects their email to be private any more. And once there is no longer the expectation of privacy, they no longer need a warrant.
The same thing is happening with cellular location data:
First, people thought their location was safe. Then people figured out that cell towers knew your approximate location. Eventually everyone was convinced that the cell companies were recording that data and giving it to the FBI/NSA (and it doesn't matter if they really do, or not). And *bam* now there is no expectation of privacy any longer. So the government can have it without a warrant. Side bonus: The cell companies can sell it now too, because nobody expects it to be private. But fortunately, they didn't have your exact location, right?
Next, cell phones had to report GPS data during 9/11 calls. But conspiracies abound that it sends the data during all calls. And Google and Apple record all the information too, for traffic updates and "find my phone" apps. So over time, people stopped expecting their precise GPS coordinates to be private any longer either. So now the government argues that they can have that too.
Today, putting a GPS tracker on your car requires a warrant -- not because the location information is private -- but because they have to attach a device to your car to do it. But once every car has a GPS installed, the expectation of privacy there goes away too.
And so the erosion goes on...
Go one step further: Steal or clone someone's cell phone, then rob the bank in order to pin the crime on them.
Whoops, thanks for the correction. I was thinking "The one before Windows 7" so naturally, my mind immediately skipped Vista.
This is a case of a bad headline and summary. The article refers only to one customer's laptop, but it makes it look like it applied to all laptops.
The headline implies that Samsung is telling all their customers not to upgrade any equipment to Windows 10. But reading the article, it looks like one customer got one email saying this. If you follow the link in the article, and try a few models out, there are indeed models that support Windows 10.
In general though:
1. What Windows 8 drivers do not work on Windows 10?
Windows 8 was good about supporting Windows 7 drivers and even XP drivers. Video drivers art the ones that are usually an issue.
2. Does the Windows 10 upgrade check driver availability before upgrading?
as far as Windows 2000--that people are now freaking out about.
1) Your statement implies that people just now suddenly started complaining about them. That is not true. People have been complaining about them for years.
2) Your statement implies that, if people didn't complain loudly enough before, they no longer have the right to complain. That is not true.
Come on, people.
Just because it is happening gradually and the retaliatory reaction is delayed, does not mean that it is okay.
Lastly, I don't think the items you listed are the ones people are complaining about. You listed some of the most innocuous ones.
The court has already announced that it was deadlocked in an important case concerning public sector unions as well as two others.
Source: CNN
Each time they deadlocked, they decided to do something else instead. It also is refusing to accept controversial cases.
The ruling overturns a divided 2015 opinion from the court's three-judge panel and reduces the likelihood that the Supreme Court would consider the issue.
Why would this make it less like that the SC would consider the issue? From a google search of stories on Slashdot, I see courts ruling differently on this issue in several jurisdictions. That seems to solidify that the Supreme Court would take this up.
Slashdot stories on cellphone location data rulings. Here are 3 cases where courts ruled differently than today's ruling. The US 4th district doesn't include Florida, for example, which ruled otherwise.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Except whoops, the Supreme court is neutered right now and can't make any decisions... :-(
From an end-user perspective, avoid the "Metro" or "Universal" apps (or whatever the full-screen touch-friendly keyboard/mouse-unfriendly apps are called these days). The built-in PDF viewer and Photo Viewer are awful. The Edge browser is clearly a browser for a phone or tablet, with lots of absolutely basic options missing. But this advice applied to Windows 8 as well, and somewhat to prior versions, so this isn't really new.
Maybe it's just time to end that practice. Once we get to 17 cores I don't want to hear "Intel launches it first septendecacore CPU..."
If the OEMs can't make the changes they want by installing apps using the exposed APIs, the the OS is not designed well-enough to meet their needs. Vendors can do just about anything on Windows using the exposed APIs.
I'll use my Samsung Galaxy S5 as an example. It has customized icons, and some custom touch-screen features ("air gestures" and "air view") and a fingerprint scanner. It has a custom lock screen, and some custom items in the control panel. It has a custom power saving mode. It has noise reduction on the microphone. On Windows, none of these things would require modifying the core OS. There are exposed APIs for nearly everything.
I presume Android inherits this limitation from Linux. In Linux, there aren't stable APIs for drivers, so the drivers are either kernel modules, or code that interacts with kernel modules that act as shims. I don't know: is it the same way in Android? Are the vendors are making kernel modules to do this stuff? If so, rather than blame the vendors for not providing updates, perhaps Google should make the OS modular enough that the vendors aren't forced to do that.
Would you jog my memory by naming a few people who achieved celebrity through a combination of brilliance and science communication? (Preferably who are still alive.)
People aren't voting for Trump because they are amazed at his policies. They're voting for Trump because he's the only one (aside from Bernie) actually speaking about issues people want addressed instead of dismissing their concerns.
If only we could have a candidate who addressed people's concerns AND made sense. Nawww, that's asking too much.
I suspect they target the elderly because the elderly tend to live in single floor buildings.
Roomba could use some hard competition.
There's a dozen hard competitors to Roomba.
http://thesweethome.com/review...
http://heavy.com/tech/2015/02/...
Stories about new robotic development platforms is in the top 10 list of reasons I read Slashdot. Not every commercial product mentioned on Slashdot is a "Slashvertisement."