I suppose if you want to quibble about the definition of the word "model", or have a philosophical discussion about Theseus' paradox then you might have a point... but if you do you'll probably be talking to yourself.
Yes, but not the same exact model, that's what the 64 managed. It was the same machine sold for a decade.
THIS. It is the biggest selling single model of computer ever made. There were several hardware revisions for cost reduction and simplification (from ~40 chips down to 16 as they integrated a lot of components over time), but it was essentially exactly the same computer manufactured and sold from 1982 to 1992.
On Thursday morning, exactly two weeks after Krebs published his first post, he reported that a sustained attack was bombarding his site with as much as 620 gigabits per second of junk data.
The attackers used Internet-of-things devices since they're always-connected and easy to "remotely commandeer by people who turn them into digital cannons that spray the internet with shrapnel."
If they were limited to 5kbps you would need to control 124 million IoT devices to hit 620gbps. Turning digital cannons into digital pea-shooters may only mitigate the problem, but sometimes mitigation is enough.
Probably beyond the abilities of Joe Average, but you could use your router/firewall/whatever to limit the bandwidth of IoT devices on your network.
Most IoT devices seem to use very little bandwidth by design - they just send and receive simple status updates and commands - and they would be of much less value to a botnet operator if they were limited to, say, 5kbps.
Please pay for this service, but don't use it. Seriously, our infrastructure can't support it and we simply can't afford to upgrade. You have no idea of the pressure we're under. I mean we have shareholders to think about, and a stock price to manipulate. Frankly, your data service is the least of our concerns. So, enjoy your unlimited* data, but just... don't use it. Please. Pretend it's not there...
...but... y'know... be cool. Keep paying for it. Shareholders, etc. You know how it is.
But with 30x the customers, paying 30x the subscription fees, building larger infrastructure shouldn't be an issue...
...unless you're intentionally neglecting infrastructure upgrades because you have no real competition (as all your competitors are doing the same thing) and instead your profits are redirected to shareholders and C-Suite bonuses.
You're wrong. You absolutely can have local user accounts because that's how I'm running Windows 10 on my home PC.
During install, on the screen that says "Sign into your Microsoft account" you click "Create a new account", then on the following screen you click "Sign in without a Microsoft account".
Alternatively, just put random junk into the login boxes for the Microsoft account. Eventually it'll assume you're unable to sign into your Microsoft account and it'll display a button to "Create a local account".
Obviously MS don't really want you to do this, otherwise they wouldn't have buried the option like they did, but the option still exists.
Sorry "Mr AC", but although you may have had some "valid points" in your "fine post", I'm now going to "sue you blind" because your writing style "gave me cancer."
While you're talking crap about Java being a POS, I will say that for many people their first introduction to Java would have been in the late 1990s as a browser plugin, running a shitty applet, which would go something like:
1. Click on link to page with applet
2. Webpage stops responding
3. JVM rumbles to life in the background for several minutes slowly devouring all RAM
4. Eventually a weird looking applet appears with menus and styling completely different from host OS
5. Applet runs like shit
Obviously, this has little to do with Java as a technology or a language, but for "casual" users the impression probably stuck.
So... if you use the official Play store you're not going to be exposed to this?
What exactly are the benefits of using an "unofficial app store"? Pirated apps? Apps the Play store won't carry? Because all I've seen about the "unofficial" ones is they seem to be a major source of malware.
Congratulations on seeing the title of the post and absolutely nothing else. He didn't even mention UK politics. Fun fact: the word "Conservative" doesn't always refer to the UK Conservative Party. Perhaps you should try sobering up.
We didn't replace long established iconography for things like shuffle and repeat settings with textual representations. Why? Because text takes longer for the brain to process!
Presumably, this is only true if the icons are instantly recognizable and/or easily interpretable. If your users have to spend time thinking about what the icon actually means, you're probably better off using a word instead. Unless, of course, you're trying to train them so you can lock them into your particular UI dialect, as mentioned in earlier posts.
Another reason UI designers like to use icons is that icons are generally spoken language-agnostic. You don't have to translate your UI for different locales if you use icons rather than text. Of course, if your icons have tooltips you'll be translating them anyway, but it's always nice to minimize your translation work.
Also, let's not pretend that every interactive UI element can or should be iconified. Take a paint application; you can easily iconify common tools like the Pen or Paint Brush, but the properties of those tools (i.e. threshold, pressure, opacity, etc.) are too far from tangible real-world objects to iconify easily. Attempts to do so will probably end with frustrated users who now have to learn your special icon dialect.
Finally, the oft-quoted statistic that the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text seems to be somewhat suspect when you start digging into it.
Yep, I had a batch of DVD-R in the early 2000s that didn't even last 4 years in normal storage. Kept in cases in a cupboard with no great humidity or temperature variation, the dye still degraded incredibly fast, and more than 50% of the data was unreadable when I checked them.
I can't remember the name of the brand off the top of my head (I just remember the discs were bright orange on top), but I'm pretty sure they used Ritek dye which was notoriously awful at the time.
After that, I switched to Taiyo Yuden discs from Japan, bought from reputable sources. Much more expensive, certainly, but much more reliable and durable too. Taiyo Yuden claim they'll last 100 years if they're not mishandled. I wouldn't touch any other brand now.
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I suppose if you want to quibble about the definition of the word "model", or have a philosophical discussion about Theseus' paradox then you might have a point... but if you do you'll probably be talking to yourself.
Does its ability to send and receive radio signals mean that it cannot be regarded as a computer?
Hey, if you remove the RF shields from the C64 it'll send radio signals too. They won't mean much, but they'll be there nevertheless. ;)
I suppose the definition of computer I'm using is: "Was it marketed and sold as a computer?"
Feel free to bend over backwards attempting to assert that the iPhone was marketed that way. I'm going to bed.
Over 100million "iPhone6"s have been sold. Totally blows
End the sentence there and I completely agree.
Well, the difference is that the C64 was actually good.
*grabs popcorn*
Yes, but not the same exact model, that's what the 64 managed. It was the same machine sold for a decade.
THIS. It is the biggest selling single model of computer ever made. There were several hardware revisions for cost reduction and simplification (from ~40 chips down to 16 as they integrated a lot of components over time), but it was essentially exactly the same computer manufactured and sold from 1982 to 1992.
On Thursday morning, exactly two weeks after Krebs published his first post, he reported that a sustained attack was bombarding his site with as much as 620 gigabits per second of junk data.
The attackers used Internet-of-things devices since they're always-connected and easy to "remotely commandeer by people who turn them into digital cannons that spray the internet with shrapnel."
If they were limited to 5kbps you would need to control 124 million IoT devices to hit 620gbps. Turning digital cannons into digital pea-shooters may only mitigate the problem, but sometimes mitigation is enough.
Probably beyond the abilities of Joe Average, but you could use your router/firewall/whatever to limit the bandwidth of IoT devices on your network.
Most IoT devices seem to use very little bandwidth by design - they just send and receive simple status updates and commands - and they would be of much less value to a botnet operator if they were limited to, say, 5kbps.
Dear Valued T-Mobile Customer,
Please pay for this service, but don't use it. Seriously, our infrastructure can't support it and we simply can't afford to upgrade. You have no idea of the pressure we're under. I mean we have shareholders to think about, and a stock price to manipulate. Frankly, your data service is the least of our concerns. So, enjoy your unlimited* data, but just... don't use it. Please. Pretend it's not there...
...but... y'know... be cool. Keep paying for it. Shareholders, etc. You know how it is.
Thanks, buddy.
Really, Mr Nadella, there's no need for such vulgarisms!
To me that looks like a Java desktop application using Swing. The shading of the toolbars and the bold fonts are a dead giveaway.
So, yeah. It looks awful. :P
"You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an Anonymous Coward."
You can really taste the automation!
But with 30x the customers, paying 30x the subscription fees, building larger infrastructure shouldn't be an issue...
...unless you're intentionally neglecting infrastructure upgrades because you have no real competition (as all your competitors are doing the same thing) and instead your profits are redirected to shareholders and C-Suite bonuses.
From such a reliable and impartial source as Breitbart.com, how could I possibly doubt the veracity of this report?
Oh, wait...
I think you mean scrip, not script.
You're wrong. You absolutely can have local user accounts because that's how I'm running Windows 10 on my home PC.
During install, on the screen that says "Sign into your Microsoft account" you click "Create a new account", then on the following screen you click "Sign in without a Microsoft account".
Alternatively, just put random junk into the login boxes for the Microsoft account. Eventually it'll assume you're unable to sign into your Microsoft account and it'll display a button to "Create a local account".
Obviously MS don't really want you to do this, otherwise they wouldn't have buried the option like they did, but the option still exists.
Sorry "Mr AC", but although you may have had some "valid points" in your "fine post", I'm now going to "sue you blind" because your writing style "gave me cancer."
While you're talking crap about Java being a POS, I will say that for many people their first introduction to Java would have been in the late 1990s as a browser plugin, running a shitty applet, which would go something like:
1. Click on link to page with applet
2. Webpage stops responding
3. JVM rumbles to life in the background for several minutes slowly devouring all RAM
4. Eventually a weird looking applet appears with menus and styling completely different from host OS
5. Applet runs like shit
Obviously, this has little to do with Java as a technology or a language, but for "casual" users the impression probably stuck.
"spreads via unofficial app stores"
So... if you use the official Play store you're not going to be exposed to this?
What exactly are the benefits of using an "unofficial app store"? Pirated apps? Apps the Play store won't carry? Because all I've seen about the "unofficial" ones is they seem to be a major source of malware.
Good advice in all situations.
Dear AC,
Congratulations on seeing the title of the post and absolutely nothing else. He didn't even mention UK politics. Fun fact: the word "Conservative" doesn't always refer to the UK Conservative Party. Perhaps you should try sobering up.
Get it? Durrr.
I'm a simple man, I see an R.E.M. quote, I mod up.
I then reply, negating the mod up.
As I said, a simple man.
Scroll down the page. UK is #20.
We didn't replace long established iconography for things like shuffle and repeat settings with textual representations. Why? Because text takes longer for the brain to process!
Presumably, this is only true if the icons are instantly recognizable and/or easily interpretable. If your users have to spend time thinking about what the icon actually means, you're probably better off using a word instead. Unless, of course, you're trying to train them so you can lock them into your particular UI dialect, as mentioned in earlier posts.
Another reason UI designers like to use icons is that icons are generally spoken language-agnostic. You don't have to translate your UI for different locales if you use icons rather than text. Of course, if your icons have tooltips you'll be translating them anyway, but it's always nice to minimize your translation work.
Also, let's not pretend that every interactive UI element can or should be iconified. Take a paint application; you can easily iconify common tools like the Pen or Paint Brush, but the properties of those tools (i.e. threshold, pressure, opacity, etc.) are too far from tangible real-world objects to iconify easily. Attempts to do so will probably end with frustrated users who now have to learn your special icon dialect.
Finally, the oft-quoted statistic that the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text seems to be somewhat suspect when you start digging into it.
Yep, I had a batch of DVD-R in the early 2000s that didn't even last 4 years in normal storage. Kept in cases in a cupboard with no great humidity or temperature variation, the dye still degraded incredibly fast, and more than 50% of the data was unreadable when I checked them.
I can't remember the name of the brand off the top of my head (I just remember the discs were bright orange on top), but I'm pretty sure they used Ritek dye which was notoriously awful at the time.
After that, I switched to Taiyo Yuden discs from Japan, bought from reputable sources. Much more expensive, certainly, but much more reliable and durable too. Taiyo Yuden claim they'll last 100 years if they're not mishandled. I wouldn't touch any other brand now.