They are resistant to the average malware. They are not resistant to a targetted attack from a hacker practiced in social engineering, and sufficiently skilled to look up one of the old exploits, or to write their own trojan.
So what? No system is resistant to things like that.
As Microsoft trumps on with its Modern UI strategy, I expect Macs to increase in popularity among those who still respect a classic desktop experience.
It already is riddled with malware. Windows 7 and 8 still struggle with it. It's time to simply throw the entire thing out and start over with a more secure base (such as BSD/Linux)
So throw the old crap away and build it again upon old crap?
If you look at the summary, it seems like both the retooling and sea shipping would push the delivery date to June, so adding those two up, wouldn't it push the ETA even further?
Actually, the paritynews.com article says:
Following the mechanical tooling, which is expected to finish by second week of June, the units will be assembled, tested and then packed. PlayJam notes that because of the sheer increase in the number of units, it won’t be able to afford the air freight and it will be going for sea based shipments instead which will add to the overall delay.
While it might be fun to write a program that disables all thermal protections and stops the fans, it's quite a different challenge than a simple bitcoin miner.
Of course you wouldn't disable thermal measures but instead add little moments of idle to the loop to keep the CPU utilization down.
Just what I needed this morning, some random loud sound WITH NO OBVIOUS VOLUME CONTROL ON THE DAMN PAGE. Seriously, how hard can it be to include a volume control?
Ahh, the sound of the universe being born, in the morning...
SSDs only let you do a single write to a block before erasing it, but you can actually continue to update a block - it's just that the bits are additive. for some algorithms this would be useful
That's just the mining part, which is in my understanding necessary for the system to operate. You shouldn't feel awful about that. Bitcoins can still be used like any other currency.
I see no reason why a hard drive can't just putt putt around at a slow speed and ramp up that speed if the IO queue starts filling faster than it can be emptied.
Does anyone know why this has not been done more already, especially in laptop drives? There has been some "eco" desktop 3.5" drives that can lower their speed when idle, but not much else.
Please don't disable updates, then you won't get security patches. A better solution is to use the Firefox Extended Support Release. It's feature-frozen but gets the security fixes.
A little nitpick mine is, why must the title bar of IE be empty, and thus that space goes completely to waste. At least put the tabs or address bar there.
Unity3D has had a Linux engine for quite a while, and that is what the parent comment was talking about: games made using Unity3D get a Linux port "for free".
In all seriousness, other than during the bubble, has it ever been easy to get a job?
Sometimes it feels like I've been hearing 'in this economy' for my whole life. Admittedly, I haven't been around as long as many, but that's what it honestly feels like.
Me, too. It never gets to the point where it's "reasonably possible" to find a job. It's felt the same even before the recent years of bad economy.
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They are resistant to the average malware. They are not resistant to a targetted attack from a hacker practiced in social engineering, and sufficiently skilled to look up one of the old exploits, or to write their own trojan.
So what? No system is resistant to things like that.
Many Windows users need tech support from the local geek too.
Despite some IOSification, in my understanding the standard OSX hasn't been completely botched by some mobile UI, yet.
As Microsoft trumps on with its Modern UI strategy, I expect Macs to increase in popularity among those who still respect a classic desktop experience.
It already is riddled with malware. Windows 7 and 8 still struggle with it. It's time to simply throw the entire thing out and start over with a more secure base (such as BSD/Linux)
So throw the old crap away and build it again upon old crap?
If you look at the summary, it seems like both the retooling and sea shipping would push the delivery date to June, so adding those two up, wouldn't it push the ETA even further?
Actually, the paritynews.com article says:
Following the mechanical tooling, which is expected to finish by second week of June, the units will be assembled, tested and then packed. PlayJam notes that because of the sheer increase in the number of units, it won’t be able to afford the air freight and it will be going for sea based shipments instead which will add to the overall delay.
So we're maybe talking about July...
While it might be fun to write a program that disables all thermal protections and stops the fans, it's quite a different challenge than a simple bitcoin miner.
Of course you wouldn't disable thermal measures but instead add little moments of idle to the loop to keep the CPU utilization down.
Unfortunately Linux Flash is a bit of an abandoned mess right now...
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Full screen 480p YouTube works smoothly on a Windows netbook. On Linux (same hardware), it drops frames due to lacking hardware acceleration.
Just what I needed this morning, some random loud sound WITH NO OBVIOUS VOLUME CONTROL ON THE DAMN PAGE. Seriously, how hard can it be to include a volume control?
Ahh, the sound of the universe being born, in the morning...
SSDs only let you do a single write to a block before erasing it, but you can actually continue to update a block - it's just that the bits are additive. for some algorithms this would be useful
What kind of algorithms?
How long did it take Linus to write linux?
It took about a year. That is, from the beginning of the project to the release of the first public version.
That's just the mining part, which is in my understanding necessary for the system to operate. You shouldn't feel awful about that. Bitcoins can still be used like any other currency.
I see no reason why a hard drive can't just putt putt around at a slow speed and ramp up that speed if the IO queue starts filling faster than it can be emptied.
Does anyone know why this has not been done more already, especially in laptop drives? There has been some "eco" desktop 3.5" drives that can lower their speed when idle, but not much else.
As far as I know, Zuckerberg can code too and is known to have participated in coding Facebook in little amounts, too.
Mmm, cheese...
Please don't disable updates, then you won't get security patches. A better solution is to use the Firefox Extended Support Release . It's feature-frozen but gets the security fixes.
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A little nitpick mine is, why must the title bar of IE be empty, and thus that space goes completely to waste. At least put the tabs or address bar there.
IE10 has already quite nice HTML5 video playback, also. Much less resource-intensive than of other browsers.
Actually it does, because along the console, the same Steam is provided to all x86 Ubuntu desktop systems.
Unity3D has had a Linux engine for quite a while, and that is what the parent comment was talking about: games made using Unity3D get a Linux port "for free".
In all seriousness, other than during the bubble, has it ever been easy to get a job?
Sometimes it feels like I've been hearing 'in this economy' for my whole life. Admittedly, I haven't been around as long as many, but that's what it honestly feels like.
Me, too. It never gets to the point where it's "reasonably possible" to find a job. It's felt the same even before the recent years of bad economy.
The aspect ratio of 4:3 is quite close to A-type paper sizes, so it's nice for PDFs.