Yep, and who cares really. If a developer wants to display ads, they will, they don't need some OS library to do it.
Some of us are annoyed by ads (whether bandwidth/load time or just don't like distractions) but still appreciate the fact that they help keep the Internet cheap.
Perhaps it will be used in conjunction with the Mars mission.
Hell, put a booster on it and throw on a few upgrades/repairs and make it a Martian orbital station. It already has proven itself capable of very long term missions.
"As consumers we simply need to demand to know seat configuration before we pay for a flight."
Regulation would help. I get why some prefer little regulation (to give more options and let the free market with things out) but sometimes I would like to simply know that all players in an industry are following sensible rules without the need to spend a bunch of time researching. Regulation sometimes simply leads to efficiency.
It is well proven that the measurement of time can and does differ based on circumstances such as relative velocity and gravitational influence.
The consistency of past measurements suggests that even if the issue is with how we measure time, until we can distinguish measurement from reality then there is no reason to treat them separately. So the two are equivalent and therefore it is not "bullshit".
Be fair, powershell is quite capable, and if you so choose you can replace it with bash.
Much this. They can't get rid of cmd.exe because of legacy, but anyone who is writing new scripts in Windows today should be using Powershell.
Bash is fine too (personally I feel that PS is a good step up from Bash but it's not worth getting in a flame war over). I think there are some gotchas about its integration, such as permissions... I haven't really had the opportunity to use it much though so correct me if I'm wrong.
differential diagnosis: Linux users won't put up with that bullshit.
This is spot on. Which means that any successful attempt to significantly expand the user base of Linux would pull in people who don't care, which would then give advertisers a road into pushing ads across the experience.
See: Android. True Linux users would never let their device be locked down and laden with ads, yet nearly every Android device in existence is locked down out of the box by the OEM and/or carrier. And some of those go to lengths to make it difficult or impossible to root/unlock. And sure enough, most apps have ads and even the customized OS has it baked in.
This could provide a new attack vector, reducing the brute force surface area. Each of those 4-character permutations has a much smaller permutation set (each about 4.5 million for 20 special characters). So it would take about 90 million guesses to crack all 20 subpasswords, as opposed to 9 x 10^22 guesses to crack a 12-character password.
But we don't even need to try 20 subpasswords, using an even distribution of characters to create the subpasswords, then for a 12 character password it would only need perhaps 3 of the 4-character subpasswords. Now it's just 13.5 million guesses.
But consider that we still have 17 subpassword sets that can be exploited once we crack any of the 3 I mentioned above. Say the one I crack gives me positions [1, 2, 3, 4], and one of the other 17 have positions [1, 3, 4, 5], now I have reduced the number of guess of position 5 to 82.
Repeat that process as needed, and it's probably less than 5 million guesses needed in total. It might as well be plain text.
PS offers shorthand syntax for most commands. I find it much less verbose in general, since it passes data structures which can be easily deconstructed instead of strings which need to be parsed.
A lot of that GUI bloat has been reduced dramatically since 10-15 years ago. Plus Server Core has been around since 2008 with command line only, and Server Nano was released for 2016 which is even leaner and has no remote desktop (it works more like Linux SSH-only management).
The $500 machine can be replaced 4 times in the span that the $2000 machine can be for the same hardware cost.
But it's a mistake to think that you can buy a new Chromebook every year vs. a new MBP every four years... the newness of Apple devices wears off as soon as the new model comes out (or perhaps sooner), which is pretty much yearly. When kids come on campus to consider your school, those 4 year old MBPs won't seem nearly as shiny as the latest Chromebook.
Considering the cost reduction, the department would be a lot more open to loaning (or even giving away) Chromebooks to use outside of class. They might want valuable MBPs to remain in the building at all times. That's another advertisement for the department... "Come here and we'll give you a Chromebook you can take home!" A few might get lost/stolen/etc., but the overall cost is likely to remain less than buying MBPs for everyone.
Binary distinctions only matter when the categories must be binary. I don't think this is the case here.
I think the real value is how distant the owners are from the customers. Does the owner interact with most customers, or manage those who do, or manage people who manage people who manage people who manage people who do? And how many owners are there?
I don't know how to effectively translate that into tax policy, though.
UWP is built on top of a substantial portion of Win32. Removing Win32 would kill UWP as well as many first-party applications which are written directly against Win32. But it would also kill server development, driver development, third party runtimes, and a host of other use cases. UWP would need to work for all of those, and developers will need to start utilizing UWP for those use cases, before Microsoft could start thinking of killing off Win32.
I think we would see a new operating system, built from the ground up around UWP, well before we see an NT derivative without Win32. (I would personally love to see a UWP layer on a Microsoft-branded flavor of Linux, though I don't know how feasible this really is.)
Despite the article, this isn't actually a Win32 block. It's a sideloading block. You could still install Win32 apps from the Windows Store.
Though I'm not sure whether a third-party app store like Steam would be allowed. But I don't see anything that would prevent you from temporarily disabling the block just to install Steam.
You stated above that appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. A logical fallacy is a classification of reasoning typically structured as an argument.
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Wages don't necessarily skyrocket for your existing job, but a corollary of
it just increases your chances of getting a job
is that it increases your chances of getting a job when you ask for more money . You do have more bargaining power.
Yep, and who cares really. If a developer wants to display ads, they will, they don't need some OS library to do it.
Some of us are annoyed by ads (whether bandwidth/load time or just don't like distractions) but still appreciate the fact that they help keep the Internet cheap.
It always was strange that so many insisted on naming the entire operating system after just one component
GNU is not a sexy name, and Linux includes an "x". That's really all there is to it.
Thank you, I hoped someone mentioned frosty piss.
This site really hasn't had the same character since Dice... glad a few of us from the first decade of /. are still left.
Perhaps it will be used in conjunction with the Mars mission.
Hell, put a booster on it and throw on a few upgrades/repairs and make it a Martian orbital station. It already has proven itself capable of very long term missions.
"As consumers we simply need to demand to know seat configuration before we pay for a flight."
Regulation would help. I get why some prefer little regulation (to give more options and let the free market with things out) but sometimes I would like to simply know that all players in an industry are following sensible rules without the need to spend a bunch of time researching. Regulation sometimes simply leads to efficiency.
It is well proven that the measurement of time can and does differ based on circumstances such as relative velocity and gravitational influence.
The consistency of past measurements suggests that even if the issue is with how we measure time, until we can distinguish measurement from reality then there is no reason to treat them separately. So the two are equivalent and therefore it is not "bullshit".
Be fair, powershell is quite capable, and if you so choose you can replace it with bash.
Much this. They can't get rid of cmd.exe because of legacy, but anyone who is writing new scripts in Windows today should be using Powershell.
Bash is fine too (personally I feel that PS is a good step up from Bash but it's not worth getting in a flame war over). I think there are some gotchas about its integration, such as permissions... I haven't really had the opportunity to use it much though so correct me if I'm wrong.
differential diagnosis: Linux users won't put up with that bullshit.
This is spot on. Which means that any successful attempt to significantly expand the user base of Linux would pull in people who don't care, which would then give advertisers a road into pushing ads across the experience.
See: Android. True Linux users would never let their device be locked down and laden with ads, yet nearly every Android device in existence is locked down out of the box by the OEM and/or carrier. And some of those go to lengths to make it difficult or impossible to root/unlock. And sure enough, most apps have ads and even the customized OS has it baked in.
This could provide a new attack vector, reducing the brute force surface area. Each of those 4-character permutations has a much smaller permutation set (each about 4.5 million for 20 special characters). So it would take about 90 million guesses to crack all 20 subpasswords, as opposed to 9 x 10^22 guesses to crack a 12-character password.
But we don't even need to try 20 subpasswords, using an even distribution of characters to create the subpasswords, then for a 12 character password it would only need perhaps 3 of the 4-character subpasswords. Now it's just 13.5 million guesses.
But consider that we still have 17 subpassword sets that can be exploited once we crack any of the 3 I mentioned above. Say the one I crack gives me positions [1, 2, 3, 4], and one of the other 17 have positions [1, 3, 4, 5], now I have reduced the number of guess of position 5 to 82.
Repeat that process as needed, and it's probably less than 5 million guesses needed in total. It might as well be plain text.
PowerShell is horribly verbose
PS offers shorthand syntax for most commands. I find it much less verbose in general, since it passes data structures which can be easily deconstructed instead of strings which need to be parsed.
A lot of that GUI bloat has been reduced dramatically since 10-15 years ago. Plus Server Core has been around since 2008 with command line only, and Server Nano was released for 2016 which is even leaner and has no remote desktop (it works more like Linux SSH-only management).
Right, don't believe the spin.
The $500 machine can be replaced 4 times in the span that the $2000 machine can be for the same hardware cost.
But it's a mistake to think that you can buy a new Chromebook every year vs. a new MBP every four years... the newness of Apple devices wears off as soon as the new model comes out (or perhaps sooner), which is pretty much yearly. When kids come on campus to consider your school, those 4 year old MBPs won't seem nearly as shiny as the latest Chromebook.
Considering the cost reduction, the department would be a lot more open to loaning (or even giving away) Chromebooks to use outside of class. They might want valuable MBPs to remain in the building at all times. That's another advertisement for the department... "Come here and we'll give you a Chromebook you can take home!" A few might get lost/stolen/etc., but the overall cost is likely to remain less than buying MBPs for everyone.
Binary distinctions only matter when the categories must be binary. I don't think this is the case here.
I think the real value is how distant the owners are from the customers. Does the owner interact with most customers, or manage those who do, or manage people who manage people who manage people who manage people who do? And how many owners are there?
I don't know how to effectively translate that into tax policy, though.
Government identifiers like SSN and DL number need to be replaced. Even then, they should never be used (directly) for non-government purposes.
We have much better options today. We need to start using them.
No worries. I'm still not impressed with /. since the days of beta.
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UWP is built on top of a substantial portion of Win32. Removing Win32 would kill UWP as well as many first-party applications which are written directly against Win32. But it would also kill server development, driver development, third party runtimes, and a host of other use cases. UWP would need to work for all of those, and developers will need to start utilizing UWP for those use cases, before Microsoft could start thinking of killing off Win32.
I think we would see a new operating system, built from the ground up around UWP, well before we see an NT derivative without Win32. (I would personally love to see a UWP layer on a Microsoft-branded flavor of Linux, though I don't know how feasible this really is.)
You are using the future tense but this conversation is about the past tense:
before Windows 10 came along
Despite the article, this isn't actually a Win32 block. It's a sideloading block. You could still install Win32 apps from the Windows Store.
Though I'm not sure whether a third-party app store like Steam would be allowed. But I don't see anything that would prevent you from temporarily disabling the block just to install Steam.
I'd be fine with opt-out in the form of a one-click admin setting. The case for preventing malware is reasonable for the majority of users.
Just so long as it doesn't revert the decision I made. Ever.
Windows 10 doesn't block you from installing desktop software, so I don't really see your point.
You stated above that appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. A logical fallacy is a classification of reasoning typically structured as an argument.
I don't see what is so hard to understand.
Appeal to authority makes a weak argument, but does not invalidate it. You have yet to provide even a weak argument to the contrary.