Also, if Microsoft is really on the ball here, they have the ability to be first to market in a niche that could really use this. This is innovative and arguably somewhat charitable
The big problem is the degree of locked-downedness. Ios prides itself on being pretty invincible, to the point of being really hard to jailbreak. OS X is a machine you have full control over. These philosophies differ at their core. You could put an Ios sandbox on a Mac, and maybe they'll do that some day, but going the other way seems unlikely.
I'm sad you aren't modded up. This is clearly a good idea. I suspect this is waiting for them to find a way to run ios apps in OS X, and then that would just be a feature they could hand macs in general.
You fundamentally don't understand homomorphic encryption.
The results you get are encrypted results. You can't fish with them.
In your example, ABC runs the tests, and gets encrypted results. These are useful only to the person who has the key to understand Joe's DNA in the first place.
What this allows is the people who process data to not always have to be the same people who have the data. So if you build a server that does really hard math on DNA results, you can be given the encrypted data, perform your math on the encrypted data, and hand back the encrypted result. You never understand the data.
I don't think creating an account with the vendor of the phone is unusual. I'd love to see a fully open phone, of course, but the idea itself isn't inherently trashbin.
Those other problems sound like Android or Windows problems- Skype can't access other apps or generic app data in ios, nor is permission management difficult in ios, nor does it require a separate box.
Another issue affecting portability is that the consoles are gated at several levels. It is a much higher bar to enter the console world.
A final one is that each online ecosystem is curated quite differently. It's rare to be able to play your Xbox versus their PS4.
So I think an MMO developer would look at the system and see that their content would be subject to some third party constraints, they would need to set up their accounts through a different method, they would not be able to upgrade indefinitely (the fact that you can play FF14 on a PS3, PS4, Windows, or OS X makes it have the broadest possible base of anything that I've heard of), etc. WoW can bump system requirements up slowly over the years- it would have to, as it launched in 2004. If that had been a console game, it would have been on the PS2 and Xbox, and you would have to give serious consideration to those original boxes, while porting it to the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbone.
The mouse / keyboard has a low adoption rate on consoles. Partly this is due to it being a relatively expensive peripheral set for a console, but the bigger part is that most console games will not need or require a keyboard and monitor- meaning that much of your userbase won't have the required input.
This direly hurts the motivation to make a keyboard / mouse game- and there's a big flipside. The keyboard and mouse for Xbox famously do not work in Halo, and this is a huge controversial point in console gaming. Mouse + Keyboard (really, mouse plus buttons) is VASTLY superior to joystick for any FPS game, meaning that if your FPS supports mouse input, you are screwing your other users in pvp.
So, that's a huge deal.
The second big piece is graphics, which consoles are universally awful at. Remember that getting a game to run in 1080p is only one small part of how a game looks- you simply can't push polys with a 400 dollar gaming machine like you can with a serious graphics card.
The average Joe absolutely "needed" a PC. The simple tasks you described were vastly out of scope for what tech that fits in your pocket could do back then. What has happened is that we can now put those basic functions in a smaller package. Another huge one is security- older models of OS design would have implicitly trusted all kinds of crap. If you'd have had smartphones with 80s OS design, you'd have had some dumb phone worm shut down comms across the globe, repeatedly.
What you used to need state of the art running on a general purpose computer for has been addressed reasonably well by much weaker hardware from a vastly stronger baseline, and an app store that solves a large number of problems that used to require a more powerful rig.
I honestly think that they can't yet. Microsoft just needs the tech to be there, and they can deliver. Apple has a different set of standards that often result in them being delayed to market with many aspects of computing- the pieces where they get there first are often based on design or UI revolutions that they start. Combine that with the fact that Apple's insistence on running their own OSes everywhere is both a blessing and a curse...
The "surface" model was likely chosen by Microsoft as an actually open area in tech, one where their competitors couldn't show up nearly instantly, including Apple.
I think he's correct, in the sense that by the time humans are going to the stars they won't be mostly unaltered human bodies. Cybernetics, a top level understanding of biology, or even the theoretical possibility of mind uploads all provide ways to get around in space without having to answer every last of the current requirements needed to be checked off to ship meat cross galaxy- and while these are future techs, they aren't empty speculation based on a poor understanding of reality, they are clearcut directions technology can and should take.
I never had a problem paying for a browser. It was a very long time before we had a good open source browser, and Opera for quite some time was way ahead of the pack on security. Firefox chased everyone down, and then Google joined the game, and that mostly pushed Opera out. But Opera's model was as good as proprietary got- a thing that I bought has a much greater chance of doing what I want than something that Microsoft was desperately trying to "monetize".
It's technically possible, but it would almost need to be a DDOS (illegal) to work.
If it isn't a DDOS, but instead it floods it with enough data to make their ads non-targeted, they have two responses:
One, they can go public, claiming that a broad based group of people are doing this. They'll claim it doesn't affect their ability to actually serve effective ads (whether it does or does not), and they will get massive publicity and credibility.
Second, they can ignore it and pretend it isn't happening, and use all the extra "data" they have as proof that they are serving a lot of ads and linking a lot of things- this would allow them to sell their service more.
There's no way to beat this through an action like that.
That's your takeaway? How about "you ought to be able to turn off automatic download, installation, and checking, as you can in Windows 7 and all the real OSes"?
Who cares that their "metered connection" setting is fucked. Of course it is fucked. The whole thing is fucked.
The Paris attacks are a huge deal. Unlike Syria, France is not in the middle of a fucking civil war. Terrorists post a threat to the people of France, who are not currently at war with each other.
> "thousands for Apple, but not one cent for Microsoft"
I'm pretty angry that it's kind of coming to this. I hate that I need 7 for many games- some work on OS X, and a few work on Linux*, but it's just so much drama I don't need.
*The few that work on Linux do so due to WINE. The fault lies, not with Linux, but with application developers who only support Windoze.
Just because one place got owned doesn't mean all did, or do. The fact that China has state level hackers who score coups from time to time doesn't mean that they always get what they want, nor does it mean that we should bend over for less powerful adversaries.
You did not get modded down by shills. Shills rarely have accounts and very rarely have mod points.
Your post was incorrect. You stated that "Windows 10 requires SecureBoot, so you can't dual-boot Linux Mint with it."
Windows 10 requires SecureBoot. SecureBoot pre Windows 10, as part of the spec, required that you be able to disable it in the BIOS. The latest update removes this requirement.
This is terrible news- but it does not mean that "you can't dual-boot Linux Mint". What it means is, any BIOS that offers SecureBoot- either the type you can set to "off" or the new type that pretty much literally just boots Windows- will be required.
If you buy a motherboard with SecureBoot, you can check to see whether it will allow it to be turned off or not, and not purchase it. This means you can still dual boot to Mint.
Now, obviously, this is a terrible policy on Microsoft's part, and it creates incentives for Microsoft to favor in some way manufacturers that make BIOSes that don't boot Linux. This is a worthy cause to rant about, and Microsoft is clearly trying to close ground with Oracle for Most Evilist Fuckers In Tech.
But your post was modded down because it made an incorrect assertion- that Windows 10 can't dual boot with Linux. It can.
And check my post history if you think I'm a shill. If I am, wow am I playing the long con.
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I sorta doubt that but maybe. Either way, it's not for you to mount your drive with. AES Twofish Serpent in LUKS or Veracrypt should be used for that.
I don't think you need the quotes there.
Also, if Microsoft is really on the ball here, they have the ability to be first to market in a niche that could really use this. This is innovative and arguably somewhat charitable
No no no, it'll be different. It'll be on an Apple product. Totes unsame.
The big problem is the degree of locked-downedness. Ios prides itself on being pretty invincible, to the point of being really hard to jailbreak. OS X is a machine you have full control over. These philosophies differ at their core. You could put an Ios sandbox on a Mac, and maybe they'll do that some day, but going the other way seems unlikely.
I'm sad you aren't modded up. This is clearly a good idea. I suspect this is waiting for them to find a way to run ios apps in OS X, and then that would just be a feature they could hand macs in general.
I hope they never stop selling ipods. I can take an ipod (well, some of them) to work. Everything else is checked at the door.
You fundamentally don't understand homomorphic encryption.
The results you get are encrypted results. You can't fish with them.
In your example, ABC runs the tests, and gets encrypted results. These are useful only to the person who has the key to understand Joe's DNA in the first place.
What this allows is the people who process data to not always have to be the same people who have the data. So if you build a server that does really hard math on DNA results, you can be given the encrypted data, perform your math on the encrypted data, and hand back the encrypted result. You never understand the data.
I don't think creating an account with the vendor of the phone is unusual. I'd love to see a fully open phone, of course, but the idea itself isn't inherently trashbin.
Those other problems sound like Android or Windows problems- Skype can't access other apps or generic app data in ios, nor is permission management difficult in ios, nor does it require a separate box.
Another issue affecting portability is that the consoles are gated at several levels. It is a much higher bar to enter the console world.
A final one is that each online ecosystem is curated quite differently. It's rare to be able to play your Xbox versus their PS4.
So I think an MMO developer would look at the system and see that their content would be subject to some third party constraints, they would need to set up their accounts through a different method, they would not be able to upgrade indefinitely (the fact that you can play FF14 on a PS3, PS4, Windows, or OS X makes it have the broadest possible base of anything that I've heard of), etc. WoW can bump system requirements up slowly over the years- it would have to, as it launched in 2004. If that had been a console game, it would have been on the PS2 and Xbox, and you would have to give serious consideration to those original boxes, while porting it to the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbone.
Ignore last line- was edit cruft about mouse/keyboard, sorry.
The mouse / keyboard has a low adoption rate on consoles. Partly this is due to it being a relatively expensive peripheral set for a console, but the bigger part is that most console games will not need or require a keyboard and monitor- meaning that much of your userbase won't have the required input.
This direly hurts the motivation to make a keyboard / mouse game- and there's a big flipside. The keyboard and mouse for Xbox famously do not work in Halo, and this is a huge controversial point in console gaming. Mouse + Keyboard (really, mouse plus buttons) is VASTLY superior to joystick for any FPS game, meaning that if your FPS supports mouse input, you are screwing your other users in pvp.
So, that's a huge deal.
The second big piece is graphics, which consoles are universally awful at. Remember that getting a game to run in 1080p is only one small part of how a game looks- you simply can't push polys with a 400 dollar gaming machine like you can with a serious graphics card.
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That long bar is not even close to state of the art for PC graphics.
There is literally no comparison.
but a big piece is that it would essentially become mandatory
The average Joe absolutely "needed" a PC. The simple tasks you described were vastly out of scope for what tech that fits in your pocket could do back then. What has happened is that we can now put those basic functions in a smaller package. Another huge one is security- older models of OS design would have implicitly trusted all kinds of crap. If you'd have had smartphones with 80s OS design, you'd have had some dumb phone worm shut down comms across the globe, repeatedly.
What you used to need state of the art running on a general purpose computer for has been addressed reasonably well by much weaker hardware from a vastly stronger baseline, and an app store that solves a large number of problems that used to require a more powerful rig.
I honestly think that they can't yet. Microsoft just needs the tech to be there, and they can deliver. Apple has a different set of standards that often result in them being delayed to market with many aspects of computing- the pieces where they get there first are often based on design or UI revolutions that they start. Combine that with the fact that Apple's insistence on running their own OSes everywhere is both a blessing and a curse...
The "surface" model was likely chosen by Microsoft as an actually open area in tech, one where their competitors couldn't show up nearly instantly, including Apple.
I think he's correct, in the sense that by the time humans are going to the stars they won't be mostly unaltered human bodies. Cybernetics, a top level understanding of biology, or even the theoretical possibility of mind uploads all provide ways to get around in space without having to answer every last of the current requirements needed to be checked off to ship meat cross galaxy- and while these are future techs, they aren't empty speculation based on a poor understanding of reality, they are clearcut directions technology can and should take.
I never had a problem paying for a browser. It was a very long time before we had a good open source browser, and Opera for quite some time was way ahead of the pack on security. Firefox chased everyone down, and then Google joined the game, and that mostly pushed Opera out. But Opera's model was as good as proprietary got- a thing that I bought has a much greater chance of doing what I want than something that Microsoft was desperately trying to "monetize".
Correct, and it's not comforting at all.
We can't.
It's technically possible, but it would almost need to be a DDOS (illegal) to work.
If it isn't a DDOS, but instead it floods it with enough data to make their ads non-targeted, they have two responses:
One, they can go public, claiming that a broad based group of people are doing this. They'll claim it doesn't affect their ability to actually serve effective ads (whether it does or does not), and they will get massive publicity and credibility.
Second, they can ignore it and pretend it isn't happening, and use all the extra "data" they have as proof that they are serving a lot of ads and linking a lot of things- this would allow them to sell their service more.
There's no way to beat this through an action like that.
That's your takeaway? How about "you ought to be able to turn off automatic download, installation, and checking, as you can in Windows 7 and all the real OSes"?
Who cares that their "metered connection" setting is fucked. Of course it is fucked. The whole thing is fucked.
The Paris attacks are a huge deal. Unlike Syria, France is not in the middle of a fucking civil war. Terrorists post a threat to the people of France, who are not currently at war with each other.
God I hope you can spam 0x0C [Form Feed], and then the receipt printer throws a goddamned ticker tape parade.
Hahaha I love that someone had to rewrite windows fucking copy. That is absolutely fantastic. In Linux it's just drag and drop.
> "thousands for Apple, but not one cent for Microsoft"
I'm pretty angry that it's kind of coming to this. I hate that I need 7 for many games- some work on OS X, and a few work on Linux*, but it's just so much drama I don't need.
*The few that work on Linux do so due to WINE. The fault lies, not with Linux, but with application developers who only support Windoze.
If you set your connection to metered, I think. it won't download the updates, or something. I think this only works if you wifi to your router.
Failing that, there's script workarounds and if you have Pro you can use some group policy editor to disable them.
Then you can grab the updates when you want to.
Windows 10 is still all manner of spying on you, but if you browse this board and use Windows 10, you are fine with all that I assume.
Just because one place got owned doesn't mean all did, or do. The fact that China has state level hackers who score coups from time to time doesn't mean that they always get what they want, nor does it mean that we should bend over for less powerful adversaries.
You did not get modded down by shills. Shills rarely have accounts and very rarely have mod points.
Your post was incorrect. You stated that "Windows 10 requires SecureBoot, so you can't dual-boot Linux Mint with it."
Windows 10 requires SecureBoot. SecureBoot pre Windows 10, as part of the spec, required that you be able to disable it in the BIOS.
The latest update removes this requirement.
This is terrible news- but it does not mean that "you can't dual-boot Linux Mint". What it means is, any BIOS that offers SecureBoot- either the type you can set to "off" or the new type that pretty much literally just boots Windows- will be required.
If you buy a motherboard with SecureBoot, you can check to see whether it will allow it to be turned off or not, and not purchase it. This means you can still dual boot to Mint.
Now, obviously, this is a terrible policy on Microsoft's part, and it creates incentives for Microsoft to favor in some way manufacturers that make BIOSes that don't boot Linux. This is a worthy cause to rant about, and Microsoft is clearly trying to close ground with Oracle for Most Evilist Fuckers In Tech.
But your post was modded down because it made an incorrect assertion- that Windows 10 can't dual boot with Linux. It can.
And check my post history if you think I'm a shill. If I am, wow am I playing the long con.