This is the first step and the convenient slippery slope to a world where you will automatically send all your files needing a virus check to the server. They will reason this by saying that they can offer "better and more up-to-date service" when the system is running remotely instead of a local virus scanning program. And you will reason this by saying that "everyone else does this too" and "I have nothing to hide".
Okay, so is this an OS issue? Or software issue. Leave it to Slashdot to try to make it sound like Linux is superior to DOS.
Yeah, the "The remaining voting machines, which are Linux-based, are unaffected" was kind of lame in the summary. Hooray, we get it, you love Linux so much.
I did not matter one bit when XP was released, it matters when a better alternative was available. Windows 7 is not even 5 years old, and 4 years ago Windows XP was still being sold with new netbooks. Those machines do not even run Windows 7 properly unless you upgrade the RAM.
Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 memory requirements are similar. I'm not joking. Although, yeah, both of them can be quite tight in 1GB RAM.
Cortex A7 processor (made by a company called "Allwinner")
Hahaa. Why is Allwinner in quotation marks? It makes it sound like it's some neverheard ping pong company. Allwinner is a very well known CPU maker in the mobile space.
Well, I guess there is a truth to that side too. I suspect that Microsoft finally made Windows so much better in the NT 6 series as Linux was getting "too good". On the other hand, I still think that the open source landscape is even too diverse. There's a lots of things which are essentially only slightly different from some other thing, providing only little innovation and mostly just causing duplicate work.
Indeed. Man, a frame-accurate, fully responsive, low-latency OS would be a dream. Today we have various CPU schedulers, I/O schedulers, multiple CPU cores and SSDs thrown at it, but the results are still often quite subpar.
Per how big data areas is wear leveling performed in an SSD? Maybe not for each 4kB block, because that would require hundreds of megabytes of extra data just for the remap pointers, if we assume that they each are 48 bits long. Also TRIM data (which blocks are "nuked" and not just zeroes) requires similar kind of extra space.
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I don't see what is stupid about electronic voting.
It was just a Simpsons reference.
This is the first step and the convenient slippery slope to a world where you will automatically send all your files needing a virus check to the server. They will reason this by saying that they can offer "better and more up-to-date service" when the system is running remotely instead of a local virus scanning program. And you will reason this by saying that "everyone else does this too" and "I have nothing to hide".
Okay, so is this an OS issue? Or software issue. Leave it to Slashdot to try to make it sound like Linux is superior to DOS.
Yeah, the "The remaining voting machines, which are Linux-based, are unaffected" was kind of lame in the summary. Hooray, we get it, you love Linux so much.
Writing a floppy driver is by far one of the easiest hardware drivers to write
This is not true at all. Do you have any experience of writing a floppy driver?
I did not matter one bit when XP was released, it matters when a better alternative was available. Windows 7 is not even 5 years old, and 4 years ago Windows XP was still being sold with new netbooks. Those machines do not even run Windows 7 properly unless you upgrade the RAM.
Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 memory requirements are similar. I'm not joking. Although, yeah, both of them can be quite tight in 1GB RAM.
Actually even Windows 7 support should end January 2020. It still has some years but hey, time flies fast...
Well said, that's probably true.
and a good host file
Facepalm.
Cortex A7 processor (made by a company called "Allwinner")
Hahaa. Why is Allwinner in quotation marks? It makes it sound like it's some neverheard ping pong company. Allwinner is a very well known CPU maker in the mobile space.
Actually it must have been 66.101.79.83... ;) (see what I did there?)
Yes, but aren't PlayStation games quite hard to pirate? The PlayStation consoles have generally had very robust copy protection systems.
..even with ads disabled checked.
fuck beta fuck tards.
Yeah, I noticed the same. Why have an "Ads Disabled" checkbox if it does not so what it says anymore?
The problem of the delivery system goes easily away if they use nicotine therapy products instead of smoking cigarettes.
Well, I guess there is a truth to that side too. I suspect that Microsoft finally made Windows so much better in the NT 6 series as Linux was getting "too good". On the other hand, I still think that the open source landscape is even too diverse. There's a lots of things which are essentially only slightly different from some other thing, providing only little innovation and mostly just causing duplicate work.
Indeed. Man, a frame-accurate, fully responsive, low-latency OS would be a dream. Today we have various CPU schedulers, I/O schedulers, multiple CPU cores and SSDs thrown at it, but the results are still often quite subpar.
I like variety, though I've never used Haiku or BeOS, but heard good things about it
I do not like variety if it mostly just produces various unusable things.
What made this difference? Was there something magical about the scheduler and/or the graphics stack?
Citation?
LCDs should not burn in that easily. Even if it was noted in the instructions, that's one crappy display.
Me too. Do you hear us, moron designers out there?
Better not call the designers "morons" if you want a change.
More pixels is always better if you're coding.
A professional programmer like me can be extremely productive and crank premium code at 1024x600 resolution.
A 26" desktop monitor will make your neck hurt.
Strange, i prefer to code at 1280x720 with a dpi of 120.
Which display?
Maybe not, but the flicker (not present in LCD technology) gives many people a headache.
LCD's have typically a backlight frequency of 240Hz which gives many people a headache.
Per how big data areas is wear leveling performed in an SSD? Maybe not for each 4kB block, because that would require hundreds of megabytes of extra data just for the remap pointers, if we assume that they each are 48 bits long. Also TRIM data (which blocks are "nuked" and not just zeroes) requires similar kind of extra space.