The PS4's security does appear to have been at least partially compromised, however. A recent video appears to show Linux running on a PS4, along with a version of Pokemon. Note that we don't yet have independent verification of this, so there's a chance (albeit probably a slim one given the track record of the group in question) that this is a hoax.
Yes, they got in through a FreeBSD security vulnerability. The Pokemon game is running in a Gameboy Advance emulator. No, it's not a hoax. Team Fail0verflow has a GitHub repository with all the patches needed for Linux and its GPU drivers. You can follow their Twitter account for updates.
Let's not exaggerate. The operating system can send some typing and inking samples if you intentionally leave the setting on during setup. There is nothing that logs all keyboard/mouse activity.
The low-end Core and Atom series already allow designs without a fan. Also, many modern laptops stop the fan when idle, as the energy efficiency of the mainline chips has gotten so good.
Your idea of building the CPU board inside the screen part is interesting, manufacturers should experiment with that.
What I have noticed is that a lot of laptops have finally started to ship with an SSD. We are getting closer to the point of saying goodbye to spinning disks in laptops.
not in my experience. i have had that problem with one laptop in the past but it was a shit brand like acer/asus/msi (not sure which one). never had this problem on a proper laptop.
I have had it with business laptops like Dell E4300, HP 6910p and Fujitsu E751. Is that proper enough?
Suffice it to say that Windows 7 is the most well-polished turd that Microsoft has released. It's a garbage can with a lot of expensive rockets taped on it. However, at the end of the day, it does the job. Best PC operating system.
Laptop screen brightness adjustment goes multiple steps with one keypress in Ubuntu and Mint. I still can't believe how such a basic feature is broken, release after release. Yes, I know that there are hacks to fix it, but I should not need to manually fix something silly like that.
Forking is normal. That's how open-source projects handle differences in philosophy, transparency, coding direction, etc.
It also prevents a nerd coin system ever becoming a competitor to the traditional bank system. It's also why Linux hasn't become a realistic contender of Windows on the PC desktop. There's many projects, but no single standardized high-quality system. Especially a money system is something that cannot bounce around all the time. Just when ordinary people are about to discover Bitcoin, you can't go telling them that Ponycoin is the new rage. They will get frustrated and shout "Aw shucks, too complicated! At least my credit card works just fine."
The sorts of politically incorrect software that Asian electronics companies can ship is sometimes funny. I'm sure there are a few smaller vendors that even ship a Torrent app with the explanation being up front "the customer wants to download pirated movies". I love it.
Baking in an adblocker will certainly raise eyebrows in Google and other big advertising syndicates.
Just swap the major and minor version number and call it a day. It's good enough. Even in the commercial software market companies boldly ship version 12.0 Professional Edition and it still can be a pile of garbage.
I think we're past the times of complaining something being bloated. We look more at the usefulness of the software. Is the game fun, does it run smoothly, react to input nicely, how is the quality assurance, and so on.
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Whose idea was to choose an interpreted language for the extremely slow 8-bit home computers?
The PS4's security does appear to have been at least partially compromised, however. A recent video appears to show Linux running on a PS4, along with a version of Pokemon. Note that we don't yet have independent verification of this, so there's a chance (albeit probably a slim one given the track record of the group in question) that this is a hoax.
Yes, they got in through a FreeBSD security vulnerability. The Pokemon game is running in a Gameboy Advance emulator. No, it's not a hoax. Team Fail0verflow has a GitHub repository with all the patches needed for Linux and its GPU drivers. You can follow their Twitter account for updates.
Let's not exaggerate. The operating system can send some typing and inking samples if you intentionally leave the setting on during setup. There is nothing that logs all keyboard/mouse activity.
Windows 10 is not free. It's only a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8.
The low-end Core and Atom series already allow designs without a fan. Also, many modern laptops stop the fan when idle, as the energy efficiency of the mainline chips has gotten so good.
Your idea of building the CPU board inside the screen part is interesting, manufacturers should experiment with that.
What I have noticed is that a lot of laptops have finally started to ship with an SSD. We are getting closer to the point of saying goodbye to spinning disks in laptops.
not in my experience. i have had that problem with one laptop in the past but it was a shit brand like acer/asus/msi (not sure which one). never had this problem on a proper laptop.
I have had it with business laptops like Dell E4300, HP 6910p and Fujitsu E751. Is that proper enough?
But the brightness problem concerns almost all laptops.
Suffice it to say that Windows 7 is the most well-polished turd that Microsoft has released. It's a garbage can with a lot of expensive rockets taped on it. However, at the end of the day, it does the job. Best PC operating system.
Laptop screen brightness adjustment goes multiple steps with one keypress in Ubuntu and Mint. I still can't believe how such a basic feature is broken, release after release. Yes, I know that there are hacks to fix it, but I should not need to manually fix something silly like that.
Forking is normal. That's how open-source projects handle differences in philosophy, transparency, coding direction, etc.
It also prevents a nerd coin system ever becoming a competitor to the traditional bank system. It's also why Linux hasn't become a realistic contender of Windows on the PC desktop. There's many projects, but no single standardized high-quality system. Especially a money system is something that cannot bounce around all the time. Just when ordinary people are about to discover Bitcoin, you can't go telling them that Ponycoin is the new rage. They will get frustrated and shout "Aw shucks, too complicated! At least my credit card works just fine."
Finally someone in the thread understands it properly. :)
Thank you.
But let's also realize in the flipside that the same machine could make the music industry a lot of money if a payment was asked for each copy.
So can we just buy 1 album and then make free copies for the rest of the people interested in it?
Makes sense. The artist or the record company did not intend free copies as part of their distribution chain.
Copies are essentially free. However, the entertainment value that they carry, is the thing that is sold.
The sorts of politically incorrect software that Asian electronics companies can ship is sometimes funny. I'm sure there are a few smaller vendors that even ship a Torrent app with the explanation being up front "the customer wants to download pirated movies". I love it.
Baking in an adblocker will certainly raise eyebrows in Google and other big advertising syndicates.
Not good either. As we can see, the bloat is least of the concerns here.
To me 0.x immediately gives an impression of some ramen eater's weekend project.
Ok, that's not good then...
Just swap the major and minor version number and call it a day. It's good enough. Even in the commercial software market companies boldly ship version 12.0 Professional Edition and it still can be a pile of garbage.
I think we're past the times of complaining something being bloated. We look more at the usefulness of the software. Is the game fun, does it run smoothly, react to input nicely, how is the quality assurance, and so on.
What is this crusty rubbish? Facebook has been using HTML5 videos for months already.
Why would it not boot?
Is Android Linux?