Will these new versions still have that frame-buffer relay delay that causes micro-stuttering in pretty much any game? Certain nVidia models also had this issue, but the entire 7xxx line from AMD has it.
And yes, there's nothing end-users can do to fix it. It was either a driver issue (no shock there), or a hardware issue. I am thinking the latter.
There's a reason AMD pushed Newegg and other retailers to dump their entire current gen 7xxx series by using the carrot of 2 free games with purchase...
It's interesting to note, that a seismology student at a university in Chile finally had enough nonsense from false information over Twitter, etc about earthquakes, that he directly wired a big batch of seismographs to directly post their results via Twitter. The last I knew, they had over 1 million followers, and this particular student has been getting big thank yous from residents of the country.
I agree. The "rounded corner" patent is absolutely ridiculous. There is only so many ways to make a rectangular device/shape. What they are doing, is patenting a line that has a curvature. Like you say, what's next, some asshat will patent an unadulterated triangle or circle?
I would argue that the patent should be thrown out for the simple reason that there are essentially only four ways to make a rectangular shape. Two longer straight or slightly curved sides, featuring: rounded corners, straight-line corners (forms a direct point, like a triangle), dual-cornered (looks like 1/4th of a hexagon), and tri-cornered (looks like a partial octagon).
I take it you have never lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line, east of the Rockies, or west of the Mississippi. The religious yahoos A) get their people elected and then proceed directly to B) legislate their version of morality on everyone else. For instance, there are laws on the books in some places, where it is illegal for a business to be open on a Sunday, it is strictly enforced, and this is in America.
The BoA websites are under general DDoS/hacking attempts 24/7. I would assume this probably also applies to many other banks, government agencies, Hollywood agencies, and so forth.
Not shocking at all that their web services would seem to be spotty, when they are under constant attack.
It's even more stupid to assume it did not, when we have vast evidence of even less inflammatory things setting off the Muslims like a pile of firecrackers in the past.
There has also been clamoring for years by insurers and others to also require breath interlock devices on all vehicles, which would benefit handily from having these data recorders also.
Take it how you will, but I bet you anything, that by the model year 2018, there will probably have been a serious push to have those mandatory as well.
The new models, you can't disable them outside of completely replacing the entire computer system in your vehicle with 3rd party devices that do not have one integrated.
They are essentially wired directly into:
Ignition module Throttle control module Fuel module Breaking module Speedometer/Odometer Engine Control Unit (things like spark, timing, etc) Head/Tail/Turn lights
Actually, Skype has been deemed a high security risk since the sale to Microsoft. They changed the back-end architecture and none of it has been audited for compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley, security clearance use, etc. I know our DoD compliance officer specifically forbid its use on our corporate networks, and we specifically had to have calls originating from Skype clients blocked. The software itself, and Microsoft, do not provide auditing ability for any use of Skype.
If you work in the health care/insurance industries, it is also not HIPAA compliant in the least, and you/your organization would be breaking the law by using it for business purposes.
What I'd like to know is...how does this proposed law fit in with, and/or clash with the previous directive that web sites must hold this data for access by EU law enforcement agencies for a period of at least 6 months?
If this proposed law passes as has been explained here on Slashdot, wouldn't users then be given the ability to bypass the data holding period, by immediately requesting deletion after every use?
How would this burden web operators, who would then be caught between two laws that specify completely opposite behaviors?
What, you mean the part about Apple losing market share to Android devices? Yeah, that part pretty much is playing out exactly as foretold.
Nobody will deny that Apple makes quite a bit of money, but if you take the entire Android ecosystem vs the Apple ecosystem, there is far more money being made overall in the former, with the larger and larger share of the pie that former is taking.
Speaking of.... the CNC machines where I work, designed after the year 2003, and installed in 2007, still use 14.4k modems to connect to the local network. It's all they need to send and receive special jobs and update their running/not running/error status to the records database. Normal jobs that are run frequently are loaded in directly via USB stick.
You can install HyperTerm to Win7 from any old WinXP installation disk. You should be able to find hypertrm.exe in C:\Program Files\Windows NT and hypertrm.dll in C:\Windows\System32, if you care to copy directly from a machine still running XP, to the one running Win7. On the installation disk, the files are located in \i386.
It seems to work from basically any directory you care to install it to.
People not buying it is perfectly desirable to the content producers in Hollywood. They want you back and locked into only viewing their content in movie theaters.
They are doing this kind of crap essentially in the hopes it will kill the markets for any of their content that doesn't require you paying $10+ a ticket to go see. They don't want us watching at home, on our computers, or on other portable devices. They don't make as much money that way, and *gasp*, people can even watch for free!
To be fair, the Federal Reserve deserves to be scrapped as much, if not more than, the TSA. It's members blatantly hold US currency hostage and sleep openly with Goldman Sachs.
So....I wonder how this will affect people who use their XBox 360s as media extenders. Considering how the new XBox iteration is not due out until well after the release of Windows 8, this may screw up the home entertainment setup of many people.
They'll be using an updated version of the Hero engine, which will have actual multi-thread support, and from what I've read, full DX10 support. Bioware had to hack in limited multi-threading support themselves for SW:TOR, as well as a very limited subset of DX10 (mostly to deal with particles, reflections, light and shaders on high-end cards).
Hopefully, the developer of the Hero engine will also have fixed the brain-dead way it deals with file caching (it creates a cache file with a base 2 GB size, expands and contracts it, but does the stupid thing of using synchronous reads/writes to the file, so if that file expanded to say, 4 GB for some reason, it will read the entire damned file before acting on what it was looking for).
I don't mind casual players seeing the content. What I do mind, is them nerfing content so much that there's no point to playing it if you only have to hit keys 1-5, repeat and win. To make it even more retarded, they added raid/group-wide static buffs on top of nerfing the content, which was ridiculously over the top.
The content in WoW really isn't that difficult, and never was, once you conquered it one or two times and figured out what was going on. Sure, some bosses were more difficult than others, but once you figured them out, you quickly started farming them for the drops you wanted.
I almost wish Blizzard would change how difficulty works in that game, by using methods that dynamically increased or reduced difficulty based on how well your group was performing. I've played games like this, and they are much more fun than the standard "pick hard mode, run it until it's easy". This way casuals would get to see content, but the content was still at least challenging for groups that thrive in tougher situations.
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Will these new versions still have that frame-buffer relay delay that causes micro-stuttering in pretty much any game? Certain nVidia models also had this issue, but the entire 7xxx line from AMD has it.
And yes, there's nothing end-users can do to fix it. It was either a driver issue (no shock there), or a hardware issue. I am thinking the latter.
There's a reason AMD pushed Newegg and other retailers to dump their entire current gen 7xxx series by using the carrot of 2 free games with purchase...
It's interesting to note, that a seismology student at a university in Chile finally had enough nonsense from false information over Twitter, etc about earthquakes, that he directly wired a big batch of seismographs to directly post their results via Twitter. The last I knew, they had over 1 million followers, and this particular student has been getting big thank yous from residents of the country.
I agree. The "rounded corner" patent is absolutely ridiculous. There is only so many ways to make a rectangular device/shape. What they are doing, is patenting a line that has a curvature. Like you say, what's next, some asshat will patent an unadulterated triangle or circle?
I would argue that the patent should be thrown out for the simple reason that there are essentially only four ways to make a rectangular shape. Two longer straight or slightly curved sides, featuring: rounded corners, straight-line corners (forms a direct point, like a triangle), dual-cornered (looks like 1/4th of a hexagon), and tri-cornered (looks like a partial octagon).
I take it you have never lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line, east of the Rockies, or west of the Mississippi. The religious yahoos A) get their people elected and then proceed directly to B) legislate their version of morality on everyone else. For instance, there are laws on the books in some places, where it is illegal for a business to be open on a Sunday, it is strictly enforced, and this is in America.
The BoA websites are under general DDoS/hacking attempts 24/7. I would assume this probably also applies to many other banks, government agencies, Hollywood agencies, and so forth.
Not shocking at all that their web services would seem to be spotty, when they are under constant attack.
It's even more stupid to assume it did not, when we have vast evidence of even less inflammatory things setting off the Muslims like a pile of firecrackers in the past.
These people are why tarring and feathering in the public square should never have been gotten rid of.
These are only a first step.
There has also been clamoring for years by insurers and others to also require breath interlock devices on all vehicles, which would benefit handily from having these data recorders also.
Take it how you will, but I bet you anything, that by the model year 2018, there will probably have been a serious push to have those mandatory as well.
The earliest models were non-integrated units.
The new models, you can't disable them outside of completely replacing the entire computer system in your vehicle with 3rd party devices that do not have one integrated.
They are essentially wired directly into:
Ignition module
Throttle control module
Fuel module
Breaking module
Speedometer/Odometer
Engine Control Unit (things like spark, timing, etc)
Head/Tail/Turn lights
2002 in luxury vehicles.
2004 they started showing up standard in SUVs and small trucks (think Ford F-150).
2005 in most cars, such as the Accord and Camry.
2006+ they've been in practically every vehicle produced since 2006, even the low-end ones like Kias.
You'll be waiting forever then, because Verizon cancelled future rollouts.
Actually, Skype has been deemed a high security risk since the sale to Microsoft. They changed the back-end architecture and none of it has been audited for compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley, security clearance use, etc. I know our DoD compliance officer specifically forbid its use on our corporate networks, and we specifically had to have calls originating from Skype clients blocked. The software itself, and Microsoft, do not provide auditing ability for any use of Skype.
If you work in the health care/insurance industries, it is also not HIPAA compliant in the least, and you/your organization would be breaking the law by using it for business purposes.
What I'd like to know is...how does this proposed law fit in with, and/or clash with the previous directive that web sites must hold this data for access by EU law enforcement agencies for a period of at least 6 months?
If this proposed law passes as has been explained here on Slashdot, wouldn't users then be given the ability to bypass the data holding period, by immediately requesting deletion after every use?
How would this burden web operators, who would then be caught between two laws that specify completely opposite behaviors?
What, you mean the part about Apple losing market share to Android devices? Yeah, that part pretty much is playing out exactly as foretold.
Nobody will deny that Apple makes quite a bit of money, but if you take the entire Android ecosystem vs the Apple ecosystem, there is far more money being made overall in the former, with the larger and larger share of the pie that former is taking.
Speaking of.... the CNC machines where I work, designed after the year 2003, and installed in 2007, still use 14.4k modems to connect to the local network. It's all they need to send and receive special jobs and update their running/not running/error status to the records database. Normal jobs that are run frequently are loaded in directly via USB stick.
You can install HyperTerm to Win7 from any old WinXP installation disk. You should be able to find hypertrm.exe in C:\Program Files\Windows NT and hypertrm.dll in C:\Windows\System32, if you care to copy directly from a machine still running XP, to the one running Win7. On the installation disk, the files are located in \i386.
It seems to work from basically any directory you care to install it to.
A big part of the problem, is that they classify by default.
If this one practice was banned, we wouldn't have this issue.
The default should be no classification. They then should prove that it requires a classification, and not just by going "Because we say so".
Microsoft gave Valve specific knowledge on how to bypass UAC for most tasks. It's the only program I've run that hasn't triggered UAC more than once.
People not buying it is perfectly desirable to the content producers in Hollywood. They want you back and locked into only viewing their content in movie theaters.
They are doing this kind of crap essentially in the hopes it will kill the markets for any of their content that doesn't require you paying $10+ a ticket to go see. They don't want us watching at home, on our computers, or on other portable devices. They don't make as much money that way, and *gasp*, people can even watch for free!
Why go through all of that bother?
NYC's water supplies are completely unprotected. I think your imagination can come up with the rest.
Critical infrastructure is accessible from the public internet. DERP DERP DERP DERP.
To be fair, the Federal Reserve deserves to be scrapped as much, if not more than, the TSA. It's members blatantly hold US currency hostage and sleep openly with Goldman Sachs.
So....I wonder how this will affect people who use their XBox 360s as media extenders. Considering how the new XBox iteration is not due out until well after the release of Windows 8, this may screw up the home entertainment setup of many people.
They'll be using an updated version of the Hero engine, which will have actual multi-thread support, and from what I've read, full DX10 support. Bioware had to hack in limited multi-threading support themselves for SW:TOR, as well as a very limited subset of DX10 (mostly to deal with particles, reflections, light and shaders on high-end cards).
Hopefully, the developer of the Hero engine will also have fixed the brain-dead way it deals with file caching (it creates a cache file with a base 2 GB size, expands and contracts it, but does the stupid thing of using synchronous reads/writes to the file, so if that file expanded to say, 4 GB for some reason, it will read the entire damned file before acting on what it was looking for).
I don't mind casual players seeing the content. What I do mind, is them nerfing content so much that there's no point to playing it if you only have to hit keys 1-5, repeat and win. To make it even more retarded, they added raid/group-wide static buffs on top of nerfing the content, which was ridiculously over the top.
The content in WoW really isn't that difficult, and never was, once you conquered it one or two times and figured out what was going on. Sure, some bosses were more difficult than others, but once you figured them out, you quickly started farming them for the drops you wanted.
I almost wish Blizzard would change how difficulty works in that game, by using methods that dynamically increased or reduced difficulty based on how well your group was performing. I've played games like this, and they are much more fun than the standard "pick hard mode, run it until it's easy". This way casuals would get to see content, but the content was still at least challenging for groups that thrive in tougher situations.