You mentioned Jed, and that is indeed pretty sane one. Nice balance between easy usability and some special features.
When looking at graphical editors, Sublime Text is quite spiffy too, although it does not have proper configuration dialogs, which gives it a bit unpolished appearance.
Emacs and Vim are both terribly unproductive text editors. I've walked the walk and actually learned the cryptic keystrokes, but I still ended up with software that was just incredibly clunky to use. In the end I found myself very carefully thinking what control keys I must press next or I would otherwise mess up my text or end up in some wacky state in the editor.
Are you that stupid that you can't figure out how to create your own.tcshrc file for the behavior you want in your environment?
Are you seriously fucking suggesting that one should manually create config to just make very basic things like tab completion and Home and End keys to work? That's just crap software.
In Finland, the government-backed student loan is tied to the student benefit, which you in turn get only for the typical length of the studies for that degree, so in practice you can only draw about €10,000 at maximum for a single 4-year degree. If your studies take longer than that, you have to pony up the extra money by yourself.
And why does the Windows machine have to reboot after every update? My linux machines rarely need reboots after updates.
I do strongly recommend rebooting a Linux machine after installing updates. Chances are that there are many userspace applications and libraries running which do not have the new code loaded.
No, no FUD, and you're obviously an MS asstroturfer.
All right, fair counter-argument, because that is true. The Background Intelligent Transfer Service used to download the updates is overly conservative, leading to very slow downloads. Also the Windows Update frontend and backend are often out of sync, leading the Control Panel update tool to show wrong information.
That's FUD. The time to install the updates for Windows takes just a few minutes and happens only once per month. Of course the initial upgrade after a fresh installation might take quite long, but that's the same for all operating systems.
You are correct with the other points, but the feeling of "bloat and poor performance" has been mostly ironed out from Windows. It works smoothly even on low-performance Atom hardware.
Can't read. TWO FUCKING THREADS UP! jackass asshole fucktard.
There's not many minutes of difference in the timestamps of the two similar questions. It's possible that GP was reading the thread before the first question was posted and didn't refresh the page to find out the duplicate before posting his own.
I don't think that the self-destruct feature is even supposed to be completely invulnerable. It's a nice addition to the bag of various security features. Some uninformed attacker might not know that this phone has such anti-tamper measures, leading to this protection working as intended. Or some other attacker might be aware of the feature, but it is enough for him to not bother with sophisticated tools to open the phone. On the other hand, using specialized tools to crack it open will also increase the time required to steal the data. And so on.
Simply use an electromagnetic device of some sort that can read the variations in the EM emissions of the phone while its on, and copy the data stream. The NSA already does this with submarine cables.
Submarine cables are a bit different thing. It would be nearly impossible to grab any single usable data stream from all the EM that a phone generates.
One could assume that there must still be some extra supercapacitor to power the self-destruct work if the phone has been cracked open with the main battery missing.
Where does one buy or fabricate an open source FPGA?
You buy an "empty" FPGA chip and set it to run any digital design (for example, a CPU) that you want to. The hardware description is stored in a little flash chip next to the FPGA, from where it is uploaded to the device when power is turned on.
Every FPGA tool that I am aware of is proprietary and closed.
The tools are so closely bound to the hardware and its secrets that the companies do not want to make the tools open source. I do not see how you would benefit them from being open source in this case though. The tools are still freeware and available for Windows and Linux.
Vim is an incredibly crappy text editor. Sure, it makes feel you like a badass UNIX hacker, but it's just silly to jump between the input and command mode, not to mention the various command keys you have to learn and memorize. Aargh!
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You mentioned Jed, and that is indeed pretty sane one. Nice balance between easy usability and some special features.
When looking at graphical editors, Sublime Text is quite spiffy too, although it does not have proper configuration dialogs, which gives it a bit unpolished appearance.
Yeah, but that's months of training for a text editor that just does simple unformatted text.
Emacs and Vim are both terribly unproductive text editors. I've walked the walk and actually learned the cryptic keystrokes, but I still ended up with software that was just incredibly clunky to use. In the end I found myself very carefully thinking what control keys I must press next or I would otherwise mess up my text or end up in some wacky state in the editor.
Are you that stupid that you can't figure out how to create your own .tcshrc file for the behavior you want in your environment?
Are you seriously fucking suggesting that one should manually create config to just make very basic things like tab completion and Home and End keys to work? That's just crap software.
Apparently you surf with uppercase letters and punctuation turned off too.
Can the shader units of a GPU be harnessed to accelerate sorting? I'm not sure if sorting is a problem which be adapted that way or not.
Does "?nobeta=1" work?
Why?
Why should people who don't go to college and work earlier and like beasts of burden pay for other people's graduations through taxes.
To make a better world.
Addition: during that time you are also allowed to get a free social security benefit of paying your rent.
In Finland, the government-backed student loan is tied to the student benefit, which you in turn get only for the typical length of the studies for that degree, so in practice you can only draw about €10,000 at maximum for a single 4-year degree. If your studies take longer than that, you have to pony up the extra money by yourself.
And why does the Windows machine have to reboot after every update? My linux machines rarely need reboots after updates.
I do strongly recommend rebooting a Linux machine after installing updates. Chances are that there are many userspace applications and libraries running which do not have the new code loaded.
No, no FUD, and you're obviously an MS asstroturfer.
That is an insulting comment. You're a dickhead.
All right, fair counter-argument, because that is true. The Background Intelligent Transfer Service used to download the updates is overly conservative, leading to very slow downloads. Also the Windows Update frontend and backend are often out of sync, leading the Control Panel update tool to show wrong information.
Great!
I hope you enjoy the various glitches and bugs of your typical Linux distro, or the expensive and limiting walled garden of OS X.
That's FUD. The time to install the updates for Windows takes just a few minutes and happens only once per month. Of course the initial upgrade after a fresh installation might take quite long, but that's the same for all operating systems.
Maybe it indeed is a bit silly reason, but at least he has the balls to say it, rather than going with the hive mind. Kudos for that, goddammit.
You are correct with the other points, but the feeling of "bloat and poor performance" has been mostly ironed out from Windows. It works smoothly even on low-performance Atom hardware.
Well, slap Classic Shell on it. Pretty good for a free deal.
I didn't miss that. I was talking about only the SATA part.
Can't read. TWO FUCKING THREADS UP! jackass asshole fucktard.
There's not many minutes of difference in the timestamps of the two similar questions. It's possible that GP was reading the thread before the first question was posted and didn't refresh the page to find out the duplicate before posting his own.
I don't think that the self-destruct feature is even supposed to be completely invulnerable. It's a nice addition to the bag of various security features. Some uninformed attacker might not know that this phone has such anti-tamper measures, leading to this protection working as intended. Or some other attacker might be aware of the feature, but it is enough for him to not bother with sophisticated tools to open the phone. On the other hand, using specialized tools to crack it open will also increase the time required to steal the data. And so on.
Simply use an electromagnetic device of some sort that can read the variations in the EM emissions of the phone while its on, and copy the data stream. The NSA already does this with submarine cables.
Submarine cables are a bit different thing. It would be nearly impossible to grab any single usable data stream from all the EM that a phone generates.
One could assume that there must still be some extra supercapacitor to power the self-destruct work if the phone has been cracked open with the main battery missing.
Where does one buy or fabricate an open source FPGA?
You buy an "empty" FPGA chip and set it to run any digital design (for example, a CPU) that you want to. The hardware description is stored in a little flash chip next to the FPGA, from where it is uploaded to the device when power is turned on.
Every FPGA tool that I am aware of is proprietary and closed.
The tools are so closely bound to the hardware and its secrets that the companies do not want to make the tools open source. I do not see how you would benefit them from being open source in this case though. The tools are still freeware and available for Windows and Linux.
Vim is an incredibly crappy text editor. Sure, it makes feel you like a badass UNIX hacker, but it's just silly to jump between the input and command mode, not to mention the various command keys you have to learn and memorize. Aargh!