No, what it showed, was that edgy teenagers who are a bit too smart for their own good (and who have too much free time) got a bit rowdy on the internet once they figured out that the bot had a learning mode enabled and it wasn't just going to spout out canned responses like almost all chat bots.
My experiences with a Galaxy Note using the S Pen have been great (outside of a few minor quirks attributable to Samsung insisting on using Knox and their own UI), but my use cases for an iPad and the Note are very different. That being said, I so far found using a stylus on the iPad (vs using a bluetooth mouse) to be a total pain in the ass in comparison for any similar task on both devices.
That's part of the problem though - from what I've read about it, they've been trying to be way too inclusive of hardware, which is a mistake made by everyone from Microsoft to various Linux distros. There is no shame (from my perspective) in drawing the proverbial line in the sand as devs, and declaring "This is what hardware it will run on, this is the hardware it will run on in the future." So what if it won't run on off-brand crap from Taiwan, South Korea, or mainland China, or on that hardware that is now 10 years out of date and should be replaced anyhow because it could fail at any minute.
It seems a simple issue to me, that instead of leaping headfirst into the tarpit of supporting every piece of silicon under the sun, that it is far better to trim down the selection for all sorts of reasons - For instance everything from driver support to software workarounds for physical hardware bugs could be presented in a more timely fashion than the current rather glacial pace on offer from every OS from BSD to Windows.
Spinning rust in some cases is not longer considered fine for that, even by the OS makers, and I'm sorry for considering that someone posting on Slashdot in "insert current year" might be using all SSDs or at least an SSD for their OS drive instead spinning rust that is being annually produced in fewer and fewer units and is steadily coming to head with the fact that it won't be any cheaper to purchase and use than an SSD, to the point that even Microsoft has coded in checks for an SSD that run before any checks for a non-SSD type drive into every OS since Server 2008.
Surely, you jest. I'll remember this hilarious "sexist hiring practices" thing the next time I am in front of an all-female HR staff at the next 30 companies I decided to do contract work for and see zero women applicants at.
This tends to happen if you're running the OS as primary/system on an SSD. This happens in Win7 through Win10, and I even saw a few reports of it happening on the 64-bit version of Vista with certain SSD brands.
Two things tend to happen: Your BCD Store gets corrupted, or the drive itself gets put into a "locked" mode that prevents the drive from being written to, and is a safety feature in the controller of the drive itself to prevent damage to the drive caused by illegal read/write operations (namely the OS and OS upgrades attempting to do things they shouldn't be doing at the time they are attempting to do them, triggering the lock).
I ran into this issue myself, and found it best now that I am using almost all SSDs and facing a situation where I have to restore from a backup or reinstall the OS, to simply turn the system off entirely, unplug all of the drives except the drive I have/want the OS to be on, then start the system again and finish what I need to do as far as a restore/installation goes.
Yes, they have the room. The problem is that the local zoning ordinances are absolutely insane, on top of the the state environmental ordinances which are insanity piled on top of insanity.
I know of very few places in the world that place such extremely small footprint and height limitations on housing (or any new building for that matter), let alone the state tacking on the requirements for an environmental study that could take up to 5 years to perform with no guarantee of a positive outcome for the applicant.
a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
I've run into the same issue, and it has outright blocked my ability to assign InfranView as my default photo viewer - it completely removed it from the list of applications to choose from, and even uninstalling and reinstalling InfranView doesn't remedy the situation. I think I might have to manually assign filetype associations to bypass this idiocy.
Except in the cases of some AMD and nvidia models where the power saving features weren't programmed with proper settings, which led to gray-screening. End users had to modify the card firmware to change the stepping values (or disable power saving entirely in some cases). There were also a few cases where overclocking the cards wasn't allowed via the drivers (softlocks), and that also required manual editing and flashing of firmware to get around.
The 5G that AT&T and Verizon are suggesting as their 5G product, isn't even the same 5G that Samsung tested and helped write the standards for, let alone the same 5G as will roll out in Europe or the rest of Asia.
Several big improvements happened that now (mostly) prevent catastrophic SSD failures: Improved TRIM, vastly better hardware controllers (the early Sandforce controllers were atrocious and notorious with catastrophic failure rates), improved algorithms for read/write/erase cycles, more reliable yields in the NAND itself so devices don't contain nearly as many failure-prone cells as the early SSD models did, and larger reserve NAND space for wear-leveling.
But everyone who is worth their salt at making those cars is already doing them for Google, Tesla and a few regular motor industry companies like Honda. The best Apple will be in that department is "also-ran", much like their TV offering.
Most laptop screens are -still- 1366 (or in some cases 1368 x 768) x 768, 60hz 13" displays. We haven't really moved past 1080i/720p on those. Even many high-end laptops/ultrabooks are still barely qualifying as 1080p, and very few offer anything above that.
That it does, but sometimes this is a good thing, because just sometimes you don't want to unsubscribe to some company newsletter that you did business with a few times using their unsubscribe function because who knows what that will unleash - instead you just quietly allow GMail to appropriate it into the spam box, and then from there, "delete all spam", which then marks the rest of that incoming crap as spam and poof, there it is.
I thought the iPhone was manufactured in Taiwan? If so, then the Chinese government will just do what they do with every other foreign company - use the designs they outright steal to make their own knockoffs modified in the manner that they want to sell domestically (and to gray market importers).
And in contrast, my rural area (I live on the edge of a National Forest surrounded by farms, trees, rivers, etc), our local Canadian-owned cableco offers 150 mbit connections with no data caps, vs two local independent ISPs, only one of which offers anything remotely resembling broadband (to be specific, they offer fiber, but -only- if you're purchasing as a licensed business, otherwise it's only dial-up for you), and then we have Verizon, who outright refuses to do much of anything other than offer 1.5 mbit DSL over phone lines older than my almost retired parents, that they refuse to replace. If you don't want any of those options, you can enjoy having 3G "internet" on your smart phone (with no plans for 4G or better from Sprint, AT&T or Verizon any time before 2025).
One thing I forgot to mention - yes, I can use HP printer management tools to do silly things like read what is queued in their print spool and how much toner is left in the device.
It isn't just the LaserJets, the OfficeJets, etc all have this issue, and there is one right now within range of my home wi-fi network (and of course my other wireless devices) that helpfully tells me that it is offering an open wi-fi network (while every single wireless router within signal range is password protected). Yes, I have seriously been considering sending the owners a message over their own printer.
That is just it though, the RAM and CPU are pretty much ==always== the bottleneck in a routing device. It's one of the few cases outside of hardcore gaming or running data simulations of some sort where the phrase "more is always better" is very apt.
Instead of trying to mount an entire hosts file in your router, for your specific use case you'd be better off just finding out the IP ranges of the Youtube ad servers and creating firewall rules to block/drop the traffic to just those.
No they won't, because too many of them insist having everything their way once you guys sign off on their use of Android. This leads to everything from locked bootloaders, out of date kernels, no OS patches at all, etc. This isn't getting better, it has been steadily getting worse, with the number of devices updated by OEMs and carriers to Lollipop and Marshmallow being lower than any previous versions of Android. Many places are still selling flagship models with Lollipop that don't even have Marshmallow in the upgrade pipeline. It's just ridiculous.
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No, what it showed, was that edgy teenagers who are a bit too smart for their own good (and who have too much free time) got a bit rowdy on the internet once they figured out that the bot had a learning mode enabled and it wasn't just going to spout out canned responses like almost all chat bots.
My experiences with a Galaxy Note using the S Pen have been great (outside of a few minor quirks attributable to Samsung insisting on using Knox and their own UI), but my use cases for an iPad and the Note are very different. That being said, I so far found using a stylus on the iPad (vs using a bluetooth mouse) to be a total pain in the ass in comparison for any similar task on both devices.
That's part of the problem though - from what I've read about it, they've been trying to be way too inclusive of hardware, which is a mistake made by everyone from Microsoft to various Linux distros. There is no shame (from my perspective) in drawing the proverbial line in the sand as devs, and declaring "This is what hardware it will run on, this is the hardware it will run on in the future." So what if it won't run on off-brand crap from Taiwan, South Korea, or mainland China, or on that hardware that is now 10 years out of date and should be replaced anyhow because it could fail at any minute.
It seems a simple issue to me, that instead of leaping headfirst into the tarpit of supporting every piece of silicon under the sun, that it is far better to trim down the selection for all sorts of reasons - For instance everything from driver support to software workarounds for physical hardware bugs could be presented in a more timely fashion than the current rather glacial pace on offer from every OS from BSD to Windows.
Spinning rust in some cases is not longer considered fine for that, even by the OS makers, and I'm sorry for considering that someone posting on Slashdot in "insert current year" might be using all SSDs or at least an SSD for their OS drive instead spinning rust that is being annually produced in fewer and fewer units and is steadily coming to head with the fact that it won't be any cheaper to purchase and use than an SSD, to the point that even Microsoft has coded in checks for an SSD that run before any checks for a non-SSD type drive into every OS since Server 2008.
Surely, you jest. I'll remember this hilarious "sexist hiring practices" thing the next time I am in front of an all-female HR staff at the next 30 companies I decided to do contract work for and see zero women applicants at.
This tends to happen if you're running the OS as primary/system on an SSD. This happens in Win7 through Win10, and I even saw a few reports of it happening on the 64-bit version of Vista with certain SSD brands.
Two things tend to happen: Your BCD Store gets corrupted, or the drive itself gets put into a "locked" mode that prevents the drive from being written to, and is a safety feature in the controller of the drive itself to prevent damage to the drive caused by illegal read/write operations (namely the OS and OS upgrades attempting to do things they shouldn't be doing at the time they are attempting to do them, triggering the lock).
I ran into this issue myself, and found it best now that I am using almost all SSDs and facing a situation where I have to restore from a backup or reinstall the OS, to simply turn the system off entirely, unplug all of the drives except the drive I have/want the OS to be on, then start the system again and finish what I need to do as far as a restore/installation goes.
Yes, they have the room. The problem is that the local zoning ordinances are absolutely insane, on top of the the state environmental ordinances which are insanity piled on top of insanity.
I know of very few places in the world that place such extremely small footprint and height limitations on housing (or any new building for that matter), let alone the state tacking on the requirements for an environmental study that could take up to 5 years to perform with no guarantee of a positive outcome for the applicant.
It sounds as if somewhere between the PDP-11 and that other setup, they had an AS/400 sitting in there.
18 U.S. Code  1924 subsection A in particular.
a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
I've run into the same issue, and it has outright blocked my ability to assign InfranView as my default photo viewer - it completely removed it from the list of applications to choose from, and even uninstalling and reinstalling InfranView doesn't remedy the situation. I think I might have to manually assign filetype associations to bypass this idiocy.
Even worse, they hold business owners hostage by leaving bad reviews up unless the owners of said business pay them to remove the reviews.
Except in the cases of some AMD and nvidia models where the power saving features weren't programmed with proper settings, which led to gray-screening. End users had to modify the card firmware to change the stepping values (or disable power saving entirely in some cases). There were also a few cases where overclocking the cards wasn't allowed via the drivers (softlocks), and that also required manual editing and flashing of firmware to get around.
The 5G that AT&T and Verizon are suggesting as their 5G product, isn't even the same 5G that Samsung tested and helped write the standards for, let alone the same 5G as will roll out in Europe or the rest of Asia.
Several big improvements happened that now (mostly) prevent catastrophic SSD failures: Improved TRIM, vastly better hardware controllers (the early Sandforce controllers were atrocious and notorious with catastrophic failure rates), improved algorithms for read/write/erase cycles, more reliable yields in the NAND itself so devices don't contain nearly as many failure-prone cells as the early SSD models did, and larger reserve NAND space for wear-leveling.
But everyone who is worth their salt at making those cars is already doing them for Google, Tesla and a few regular motor industry companies like Honda. The best Apple will be in that department is "also-ran", much like their TV offering.
Most laptop screens are -still- 1366 (or in some cases 1368 x 768) x 768, 60hz 13" displays. We haven't really moved past 1080i/720p on those. Even many high-end laptops/ultrabooks are still barely qualifying as 1080p, and very few offer anything above that.
Outside of VR or AI-controlled vehicles, they've got nothing.
That it does, but sometimes this is a good thing, because just sometimes you don't want to unsubscribe to some company newsletter that you did business with a few times using their unsubscribe function because who knows what that will unleash - instead you just quietly allow GMail to appropriate it into the spam box, and then from there, "delete all spam", which then marks the rest of that incoming crap as spam and poof, there it is.
I thought the iPhone was manufactured in Taiwan? If so, then the Chinese government will just do what they do with every other foreign company - use the designs they outright steal to make their own knockoffs modified in the manner that they want to sell domestically (and to gray market importers).
And in contrast, my rural area (I live on the edge of a National Forest surrounded by farms, trees, rivers, etc), our local Canadian-owned cableco offers 150 mbit connections with no data caps, vs two local independent ISPs, only one of which offers anything remotely resembling broadband (to be specific, they offer fiber, but -only- if you're purchasing as a licensed business, otherwise it's only dial-up for you), and then we have Verizon, who outright refuses to do much of anything other than offer 1.5 mbit DSL over phone lines older than my almost retired parents, that they refuse to replace. If you don't want any of those options, you can enjoy having 3G "internet" on your smart phone (with no plans for 4G or better from Sprint, AT&T or Verizon any time before 2025).
One thing I forgot to mention - yes, I can use HP printer management tools to do silly things like read what is queued in their print spool and how much toner is left in the device.
It isn't just the LaserJets, the OfficeJets, etc all have this issue, and there is one right now within range of my home wi-fi network (and of course my other wireless devices) that helpfully tells me that it is offering an open wi-fi network (while every single wireless router within signal range is password protected). Yes, I have seriously been considering sending the owners a message over their own printer.
That is just it though, the RAM and CPU are pretty much ==always== the bottleneck in a routing device. It's one of the few cases outside of hardcore gaming or running data simulations of some sort where the phrase "more is always better" is very apt.
Instead of trying to mount an entire hosts file in your router, for your specific use case you'd be better off just finding out the IP ranges of the Youtube ad servers and creating firewall rules to block/drop the traffic to just those.
No they won't, because too many of them insist having everything their way once you guys sign off on their use of Android. This leads to everything from locked bootloaders, out of date kernels, no OS patches at all, etc. This isn't getting better, it has been steadily getting worse, with the number of devices updated by OEMs and carriers to Lollipop and Marshmallow being lower than any previous versions of Android. Many places are still selling flagship models with Lollipop that don't even have Marshmallow in the upgrade pipeline. It's just ridiculous.