Indeed! If charging Lipo batteries for RC cars has taught me anything, itâ(TM)s that the quicker to 100% charge, the quicker the battery is permanently toast.
I’m not sure what your overall point is. But regarding people blithely digging it up without understanding the warnings, they’ve thought of that. That said, they unfortunately haven’t implemented it.
In 1981, the US Department of Energy tasked a group of experts to design a warning message that would last millennia; a warning for the repository that would be intelligible to future generations of humans who might happen across it hundreds of thousands of years from now.
However, as of 2017, none of the markers or warning messages have actually been implemented. There’s a chance that no final message will ever be designed for US repositories; that the reports were simply commissioned to assuage public fears about the facilities.
"A lot of us had been around the block a few times and knew this was going to be a report that the government only did because they needed it to show compliance," one of the experts—named Lomberg—from the group said. "They didn't really care what we said, I think."
In Lomberg's opinion, creating a (standard) message for the future is necessary. He considers the lack of one a lapse of judgment, insofar as a standardized warning message at each site around the world could help curtail widespread disaster, should our descendants decide to open one of the many nuclear vaults that are predicted to be established worldwide.
This is good. To quote another slashdot user named bluefoxlucid:
Arbitration is an ineffective and inefficient method of encouraging or enforcing fair and ethical business behavior.
Lawsuits allow employees and consumers to sanction a business, to hold a legal threat over its head if it acts in a way legally liable in a civil context. It's the stick that comes behind the carrot in encouraging ethical business. Without a class-action suit, each individual employee or customer must take their own time, money, and risk to address these behaviors--which means fewer individuals will achieve representation, and so the risk of harm to a business for acting in an unethical manner harmful to its employees or customers is fractional. Even if all all employees or customers did come to self-represent, they would sink an enormous amount of time and effort into seeking redress, instead of into any more-useful pursuit.
This is so fscking stupid. Antifa literally means âoeanti fascistâ. People on each side accuse the other of being controlling fascists without any understanding at all.
Your point that MS reinvented the wheel several times for their Surface products is a very important one because they fscked up on the Surface firmware and drivers so many times. Iâ(TM)m on mobile right now otherwise Iâ(TM)d find the links. That said, one example was when MS utterly failed to get the 7th gen Intel core chips to perform as well as other manufacturers because MS wrote some of their own drivers instead of using the ones from Intel. MS said to Fujitsu or some other company, âoeThe latest gen core chips are problematic, arenâ(TM)t they?â Fujitsu said, âoeWhat do you mean?â And then the MS engineers had to fess up to the higher ups that they were having trouble because they wrote their own power management drivers instead of using Intelâ(TM)s.
Dammit Dolby, I should be free to virtualize and upmix Dolby tracks however I want.
Iâ(TM)m a big believer in virtualized 3D sound with a mimimum of drivers and speakers ever since Aureal A3D 3D sound blew my mind back in the day (15 or more years ago) with just two speakers.
Ainâ(TM)t nobody got type to to buy all those speakers and move em around all crazy like.
Dolby, just let me take my 5.1 setup and expand my experience with DSP, jeez.
Silicon makers have a hard enough time writing drivers for their *own* products. MS thought they could make better drivers for third-party products, products that they didn't design, let alone manufacture? No wonder the Surface line has required esoteric firmware updates and has had heretofore head-scratching OS upgrade limitations. MS was trying to reinvent the wheel and failing with their home-grown idiosyncratic drivers.
I must have poor google-fu or something. I've searched Google and Reddit off and on but haven't found anything useful (searched my infotainment unit model number, browsed forums and posts, searched for "tweaks" and "hacking" but didn't find anything useful).
I have a 2014 Corolla with a non-GPS, non-streaming-app, touchscreen infotainment system.
Agreed. They are already just about there. Their employment policies are terrible. They have a dedicated system for snitching on employees. If you pass out working in one of their sweltering warehouses, you're allowed to get treatment on site, but you are given one of your three strikes if you don't then immediately return to work instead of going home sick. I actively buy less from them because of this.
A race to the bottom in prices is bad for the rank and file employees at Amazon and Walmart and bad for product quality. Corners will be cut in both. We've seen the heart of Walmart and Amazon, and it is us the customers, apparently buying on price alone.
Just a reminder that if there are isn't a speed cap on them, these plans typically start throttling you after you use 20 something gigabytes of high speed data in a billing period. Therefore, these so-called "unlimited" plans are actually "20 something gigabytes of high speed data per month" plans.
That along with work on e10s? Mozilla's flagship browser is too slow and Mozilla the organization is spread too thin to turn things around before it's too late.
No one said the experiments tested how much RAM is enough for a so-called "regular user." The article never says that. The article's purpose is to answer the question "Should I get 8GB or 16GB of RAM?".
The author answers the question by running several experiments and giving the reader the results. Most of the Slashdot crowd is proficient enough in computer science to take those results and apply them to their own use cases. That is the value of the article: it gives you information that you can apply to your work or home life.
The results apply to use cases that many folks encounter. For example: I develop, compile, and occasionally look at memory dumps; but I also support people who use apps (one of the use cases the author tested); and I also play games and use applications (also tested in the experiments) and I support people who do too.
Moreover, this article takes the squishy question of how much RAM is enough and helps answer it with hard numbers and results that can be applied more widely than to just the exact circumstances of the experiments.
They tested running a single game? That is incorrect. They didn't test the system by simply doing that and only that.
TechSpot tested three different games, each running alongside Chrome with 65 active tabs. That simulated concurrently running (AKA multitasking) RAM-hungry applications.
And before they even tested concurrent multitasking with games, TechSpot first tested the system with Blender and other applications, simulating app use.
And let's not forget that Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest, maintains that the series of events that led to his imprisonment began when he refused to capitulate to the government's surveillance demands.
It's breaking compatibility with Miracast devices. That is to say, it is removing support for Miracast devices and replacing it with support for Chromecast/Googlecast devices. For example, that means the Shield will no longer work with my television because my television supports Miracast but not Chromecast. That sucks because they are replacing a more open technology/standard with a proprietary technology that works with fewer devices.
Anyone interested should look into one or more of the following alternatives. They don't add any ads to the experience as far as I know. The exception being Tivo, but my understanding is that their ads don't interfere with watching the content. Each of these alternatives have varying levels of openness and freedom ranging from truly FOSS to not FOSS/OSS at all...
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Indeed! If charging Lipo batteries for RC cars has taught me anything, itâ(TM)s that the quicker to 100% charge, the quicker the battery is permanently toast.
I’m not sure what your overall point is. But regarding people blithely digging it up without understanding the warnings, they’ve thought of that. That said, they unfortunately haven’t implemented it.
In 1981, the US Department of Energy tasked a group of experts to design a warning message that would last millennia; a warning for the repository that would be intelligible to future generations of humans who might happen across it hundreds of thousands of years from now.
However, as of 2017, none of the markers or warning messages have actually been implemented. There’s a chance that no final message will ever be designed for US repositories; that the reports were simply commissioned to assuage public fears about the facilities.
"A lot of us had been around the block a few times and knew this was going to be a report that the government only did because they needed it to show compliance," one of the experts—named Lomberg—from the group said. "They didn't really care what we said, I think."
In Lomberg's opinion, creating a (standard) message for the future is necessary. He considers the lack of one a lapse of judgment, insofar as a standardized warning message at each site around the world could help curtail widespread disaster, should our descendants decide to open one of the many nuclear vaults that are predicted to be established worldwide.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9aey95/radioactive-cats-and-nuclear-priests-how-to-warn-the-future-about-toxic-waste
Affirmative action is an example of nepotism. Some people are better, faster than others. Deal with it.
Wow. Racist much?
This is good. To quote another slashdot user named bluefoxlucid:
Arbitration is an ineffective and inefficient method of encouraging or enforcing fair and ethical business behavior.
Lawsuits allow employees and consumers to sanction a business, to hold a legal threat over its head if it acts in a way legally liable in a civil context. It's the stick that comes behind the carrot in encouraging ethical business. Without a class-action suit, each individual employee or customer must take their own time, money, and risk to address these behaviors--which means fewer individuals will achieve representation, and so the risk of harm to a business for acting in an unethical manner harmful to its employees or customers is fractional. Even if all all employees or customers did come to self-represent, they would sink an enormous amount of time and effort into seeking redress, instead of into any more-useful pursuit.
Weird: this story and the comments are simultaneously from 21 hours ago and from April â18. But itâ(TM)s February â19.
This is so fscking stupid. Antifa literally means âoeanti fascistâ. People on each side accuse the other of being controlling fascists without any understanding at all.
Your point that MS reinvented the wheel several times for their Surface products is a very important one because they fscked up on the Surface firmware and drivers so many times. Iâ(TM)m on mobile right now otherwise Iâ(TM)d find the links. That said, one example was when MS utterly failed to get the 7th gen Intel core chips to perform as well as other manufacturers because MS wrote some of their own drivers instead of using the ones from Intel. MS said to Fujitsu or some other company, âoeThe latest gen core chips are problematic, arenâ(TM)t they?â Fujitsu said, âoeWhat do you mean?â And then the MS engineers had to fess up to the higher ups that they were having trouble because they wrote their own power management drivers instead of using Intelâ(TM)s.
Dammit Dolby, I should be free to virtualize and upmix Dolby tracks however I want. Iâ(TM)m a big believer in virtualized 3D sound with a mimimum of drivers and speakers ever since Aureal A3D 3D sound blew my mind back in the day (15 or more years ago) with just two speakers. Ainâ(TM)t nobody got type to to buy all those speakers and move em around all crazy like. Dolby, just let me take my 5.1 setup and expand my experience with DSP, jeez.
Iâ(TM)m glad theyâ(TM)re back, too!
Silicon makers have a hard enough time writing drivers for their *own* products. MS thought they could make better drivers for third-party products, products that they didn't design, let alone manufacture? No wonder the Surface line has required esoteric firmware updates and has had heretofore head-scratching OS upgrade limitations. MS was trying to reinvent the wheel and failing with their home-grown idiosyncratic drivers.
XP?!? That can't be secure online, can it?
I must have poor google-fu or something. I've searched Google and Reddit off and on but haven't found anything useful (searched my infotainment unit model number, browsed forums and posts, searched for "tweaks" and "hacking" but didn't find anything useful).
I have a 2014 Corolla with a non-GPS, non-streaming-app, touchscreen infotainment system.
Agreed. They are already just about there. Their employment policies are terrible. They have a dedicated system for snitching on employees. If you pass out working in one of their sweltering warehouses, you're allowed to get treatment on site, but you are given one of your three strikes if you don't then immediately return to work instead of going home sick. I actively buy less from them because of this.
A race to the bottom in prices is bad for the rank and file employees at Amazon and Walmart and bad for product quality. Corners will be cut in both. We've seen the heart of Walmart and Amazon, and it is us the customers, apparently buying on price alone.
Just a reminder that if there are isn't a speed cap on them, these plans typically start throttling you after you use 20 something gigabytes of high speed data in a billing period. Therefore, these so-called "unlimited" plans are actually "20 something gigabytes of high speed data per month" plans.
http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/0...
I say: Hal it like Tinder, if not for anything else, as an exercise for academia or Defcon.
That along with work on e10s? Mozilla's flagship browser is too slow and Mozilla the organization is spread too thin to turn things around before it's too late.
VR VR VR - Use the technology to build VR headsets. Imagine a full-hd 1080p or higher VR headset with a tiny display or displays for the eyes.
No one said the experiments tested how much RAM is enough for a so-called "regular user." The article never says that. The article's purpose is to answer the question "Should I get 8GB or 16GB of RAM?".
The author answers the question by running several experiments and giving the reader the results. Most of the Slashdot crowd is proficient enough in computer science to take those results and apply them to their own use cases. That is the value of the article: it gives you information that you can apply to your work or home life.
Two reasons:
The results apply to use cases that many folks encounter. For example: I develop, compile, and occasionally look at memory dumps; but I also support people who use apps (one of the use cases the author tested); and I also play games and use applications (also tested in the experiments) and I support people who do too.
Moreover, this article takes the squishy question of how much RAM is enough and helps answer it with hard numbers and results that can be applied more widely than to just the exact circumstances of the experiments.
They tested running a single game? That is incorrect. They didn't test the system by simply doing that and only that.
TechSpot tested three different games, each running alongside Chrome with 65 active tabs. That simulated concurrently running (AKA multitasking) RAM-hungry applications.
And before they even tested concurrent multitasking with games, TechSpot first tested the system with Blender and other applications, simulating app use.
Did you RTFA?
And let's not forget that Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest, maintains that the series of events that led to his imprisonment began when he refused to capitulate to the government's surveillance demands.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
It's breaking compatibility with Miracast devices. That is to say, it is removing support for Miracast devices and replacing it with support for Chromecast/Googlecast devices. For example, that means the Shield will no longer work with my television because my television supports Miracast but not Chromecast. That sucks because they are replacing a more open technology/standard with a proprietary technology that works with fewer devices.
Anyone interested should look into one or more of the following alternatives. They don't add any ads to the experience as far as I know. The exception being Tivo, but my understanding is that their ads don't interfere with watching the content. Each of these alternatives have varying levels of openness and freedom ranging from truly FOSS to not FOSS/OSS at all...
Ceton's products: http://cetoncorp.com/
Silicon Dust's products: https://www.silicondust.com/
Kodi's offerings: http://kodi.tv/
Tivo's products: http://www.tivo.com/