The move from 4x3 to 16x9 was already a big loss - more scrolling for no advantage except using the PC as a TV. Don't know about 1x1 but the old 5x4 worked just fine for me.
I take it you have never heard of video and image editing, software development or even video gaming. Not everyone uses their monitor to create, edit and view documents. As to why the industry chose a 16:9 aspect ratio well that is basically a compromise since there is no perfect solution. As a customer you are certainly entitled to purchase the monitor that suites you however remember that just because you buy a monitor that suits you that same monitor may not suit everyone.
When you say "more scrolling" (I assume up and down) then why don't you get yourself a larger monitor. 27in 1080p IPS monitors are not that expensive, you can even get 4k 2160p 28in monitors for around $500 now if you need the higher resolution although why you need a high resolution for documents is beyond me since even typesetters (been there done that) don't really need that resolution unless it is for bragging purposes.
I always thought it's odd that monitors are wider than they are tall. Isn't it far more convenient to use them, well, like we used to use paper?
If all we did was read papers on our monitors then maybe portrait (you really can get them) monitors would be the norm however a monitor can be used to display lots of different things so it is more practical to display on a landscape monitor. In fact any monitor that has an aspect ratio of greater than one is in effect a landscape monitor.
As for why most HDTV's and modern monitors have an aspect ratio of 16:9 that is a compromise between the many competing aspect ratios that are currently available. For a better understanding read this and there are many other sites that discuss this as well.
I am using 4:3 monitors currently because having less than 1200 vertical pixels sucks
There are 4k (3840x2160 pixels for a 16:9 aspect ratio) monitors out there although you will pay for them. A simple web search will find them. Now if you really want to be an elitist and have more money then sense then how about an 8k monitor.
Why would they need to know? Although they may need to know what the version of the software is.
Seriously, most people who use Windows have absolutely no idea what a kernel even is, let alone what version their Windows kernel is.
Quite right, however they don't write the applications. It is really up to the application software writers to know.
And the people who do know what the kernel is and what the kernel version is are not going to be interested in marketing anyways.
.While a programmer may not be interested (although many are) in marketing they need to know the kernel version and the versions of the API's that they are going to use with their software if they are going to be programming under MS Windows. If they are going to be programming under Unix or Linux then they need to know what the version of the kernel is and the versions of the libraries that they are going to use with their software.
Note: Starting with Windows 2000, the versions are NT versions, Windows 95/98/ME are actually numbered based on the DOS Windows (as in Windows 3.1).)
MS Windows 95 had a 7.0 version of MS-DOS. MS Widows 98 had a 7.1 version of MS-DOS and MS Windows ME had a 7.0 Version of MS-DOS. See here.
Actually MS Windows 10 is supposed to have an NT 6.4 kernel
If developers can't tell the difference between MS Windows NT and MSDOS then they really should get out of the IT industry and take up say "basket weaving". After-all the world would be a much safer place although I am a bit worried about the quality of the baskets that would be produced.:)
They actually had a good reason to skip 9. Too many third party products checked whether they were running on Windows 95 or Windows 98 by matching the string "Windows 9". It would have been the Microsoft version of the Y2K problem.
This is informative? Jaw meet deck!
You mean MS Window programmers are that bad they cannot determine a kernel or library version without drawing a y2k pentagram and mumbling incantations to the great old-ones? Be afraid, very afraid.
Next you will be telling me that Firefox is up to version 33..... Oh wait it is, however you can easily tell what version it is./(*o*)\
Did you ever consider trying user-created works, such as mods or indie games? If you did, in what way did they fail to keep your interest?
Short answer. No!
Long answer. People do have separate likes and dislikes, what may be interesting to one group of people may not be interesting to another group. Name any gaming genres and you will have some people who like that and some that don't, even within specific genres you still will have likes and dislikes, the same is true for gaming mods and indie games.
Except the new consoles are just low to mid-range PCs.
How many low range PC's have 8 CPU's and 8GB of memory? I would concede that the PS4 and XB1 fail into the category of the upper end of a modern mid-range PC but putting them into the low end range is definitely trolling.
Also, I really personally dislike using a TV for a PC screen. It also limits you to 1080p, and some PC gamers prefer using higher resolution displays or even some kind of multiple-monitor setup. Personally I game on a 1920 x 1200 monitor because I like the extra vertical space. Unfortunately some games don't support the resolution which is a bit annoying.
You can get 4k HDTV that are usually 16:9 aspect ratio which is 3840x2160 pixels and they are not that much more expensive than the 2k or 1080p HDTVs. What is really important as well in choosing a screen is the refresh rate and the frame rate the screen can support.
The problem you have with games and movies is they can be made with different aspect ratios and depending on your screen you may see what is called pillar-boxing. While this can be annoying there is little you can do since the physical display screen has a specific physical aspect ratio which cannot be changed. There are some interesting articles on this and why the compromise of the 16:9 aspect ratio was chosen for most HDTV's.
Which aspect ratio is the best? Difficult to say since that depends on the predominate content the viewer likes to display on their screen.
The native resolution of the XBox 360 is 720p. It can be upscaled to 1080i, but it's nowhere near as good as native 1080p.
Where did you get this info? The XBox360 and the PS3 both can output up to 1080p. I won't deny that many games on both machines display at 720p but there are games that do display at 1080p.
Also, what are you going to do when your special SKU PS3 dies? You can't get replacements.
Please do a simple web search. Yes you can get a faulty PS1, PS2 or PS3 repaired although you will have to pay for it, likewise for petty much any electronic device and that includes PC's as well. How much it will cost depends on the cost of the parts and labour to do the repairs.
Err lets see. Time is 14:27:55, types "yum install eclipse" - finishes at 14:34:32, that is 6:37 to do the download with all dependencies, install and checks. Total cost $0.00. Use "app-get" if you are on a Debian based distribution or if you don't like the command line use the GUI installer which works on pretty much all Linux distributions..
Now either run Eclipse from the command line or GUI and wait about 10 seconds then spend 20 seconds configuring. Ok it works for me.
Oh wait I can't run Visual Studio so I can't do a fair comparison.
This really should not have been that bad. They're overreaching, and that's basically the fundamental problem. Wait a few years, and games that try and pull off what Unity does will be successful and well optimized, but right now they're still working out just what's capable. It's just too bad for the customers that get screwed while inadvertently helping Ubisoft and other developers learn just how this hardware can be put to use.
You are being too nice. When developing anything you first have to consider your target consumer demographic that will return the best monetary value for your product, this is basic statistical analysis and common business sense. Once you decide on the appropriate demographic you develop for that and if you have the time and expertise you may wish to develop that product for prospective customers that fall outside of you main target demographic.
Basically Ubisoft developed a game that in reality targeted the high end PC users and from what I can gather poorly then basically gave a much more poorer product to the new generation consoles (approx 18 million prospective buyers) which is in itself extremely short sighted.
I know of some developers (the name escapes me and I can't be bothered looking it up) that have stated that their new game will only run on high end PC's. This is a classic example of how not to make make money. Sure develop your game for the High End PC gamer but that market is relatively small with the real money being made on the medium end PC and new console markets.
I don't think crashing icy comets into Mars is going to really help thicken the atmosphere instead that technique would only make for much larger ice sheets since Mars is much more colder in comparison to our planet. Of course it could increase the mass of the planet and that alone could make for some interesting occurrences. Making Mars like our planet (ie. Terra-forming) is still the stuff of Science Fiction and is probably not going to happen, if ever for hundreds or even thousands of years. Sure we can send people to Mars and probably mine it in the fairly foreseeable future, but in the long term space colonies are more practical since we have to take into account protection from solar radiation and even the gravitation requirements of our species just to name a few of the hazards.
Mars and space are very hostile to our species and any manned missions will require a considerable amount of foresight and preparation. Travelling to Mars and living there is many orders of magnitude greater than what the first Explorers travelling from Europe to the Americas would have experienced. This not to say don't send manned missions but we have to be practical as well.
While I can't comment on Debian based Linux distributions I have found Fedora with GUI's like KDE (my preferred GUI), Gnome, Xfce etc to be a very good desktop and been using it Professionally as one for over 6 years. Personally I have never had a problem installing Fedora (since Fedora core 7) and it usually runs fine. As for upgrades I never do them I always do a fresh "overlay" (keep the original file-systems and only install in the systems ones) install since it is actually quicker and easier to do.
There's a workaround. Completely install Xorg and the GUI, and, from the command line, do the upgrade. Then re-install the GUI. Really. Wonder why Linux can't make it on the desktop? It's stuff like this
I have never had an issue like this with Fedora (the discussion is Fedora not Debian based Linux) and that is going back to the late 1990's. As for the Desktop I would have to assume you are aware of what is commonly called the "Microsoft Tax".
From the Fedora home page "Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat".
There is a big difference between "sponsoring" and "owning". Sure some of the features of Fedora get incorporated into a commercial release of Redhat Linux but because Fedora is open source those same features can be incorporated into other Linux distros.
You will always find that commercial releases of a Linux distro are at least one to two years behind a stable release and a development release can be a couple of months to a year ahead of a stable release. As for Rehat making a separate distro (supported up to 10 years) to Fedora I fail to see that this is a problem.
Windowless planes makes for a much stronger fuselage, in case of a crash. Rear facing seats while you're at it, much safer.
The De Havilland Comet (cira 1950's) had large rectangular windows which were later found to have contributed to metal fatigue at the corners. The Comet was involved in 26 hull-loss accidents, including 13 fatal crashes which resulted in 426 fatalities which resulted in the catastrophic loss of some of the planes. Of course modern jet planes have smaller rounded windows which are so much more safer but all still have to be checked periodically for symptoms of metal fatigue which usually means around the windows and other parts of the plane which are under stress.
It is important to note that the cabin pressure of a jet aircraft at altitude is higher than the outside atmosphere and this pressure differential can also cause stress due to skin expansion. When landing the air pressure inside is made to equal the outside air pressure which result in the skin shrinking. So this expansion and compression actually causes metal fatigue on the planes structure, hence the rigorous checking requirements of all aircraft.
Removing windows from jet aircraft is IMHO a good move although it would not be difficult to have camera feeds from parts of the aircraft to the back seat screens, assuming of course they have them. Even if the windows are removed a schedule of testing must be still carried out although maybe not as often.
As for rear facing seats, this maybe a good safety feature in a minor front end crash, however it would not matter if the plane suffered a major crash such as a terrorist attack.
In principle, maybe. But Apple gives away its software free. It's the hardware itself that's pricey.
So the Intel processor is also free?
The original poster was referring to the Operating system and you bring up the the implied cost of the hardware of which as everyone is aware is a cost no matter which OS you install on it otherwise we could install an OS on a brick or some such inanimate object.
You should also be aware that Intel is not the only manufacturer making PC components so you do have a choice, but like all PC hardware this is normally not free.
The main topic was the Italian court stating that "the practice of forcing users to pay for a Windows license when they buy a new PC is illegal" not the actual composition of parts that go to make up the physical PC. I suppose we could look at the BIOS which can restrict the installation of different Operating Systems but so far it is possible to install MS Windows, Linux and OSX on most modern PC's. However that is totally different to customers being "forced" to pay for an OS that normally is installed prior to their purchase of said PC. In this case the Operating System that is normally referred too as the "Microsoft Tax".
I never run out of space. As disks get larger and larger, the risk of running out of space seems like the single least significant thing possible. The real issue is corruption.
Based on the headline, I would have expected this to be about content verification with all of the ZFS fanboys coming out of the work to extol it's virtues.
Well if you use a FAT file-system then you are asking for trouble. Most modern file-systems use journalling which are fairly reliable although I do recommend you find the best file-system that suites you, which in the case of a Microsoft OS is normally NTFS. If you use Linux then you really have a choice such as Ext3 and 4 (Ext2 does not support journalling) which are supported by Redhat. Other file-systems are BtrFS (supported by Redhat), ZFS (not supported on Linux by Oracle), JFS (supported by IBM), JFS (Silicon Graphics) and NTFS (not supported on Linux by Microsoft) - just to name a few.
Of course you are really asking for trouble if you don't backup your data no matter what file-system you choose. In fact with a journalling file-system there is more chance of wilful or accidental removal of data than you would have of corruption caused by a journalling file-system.
Personally I really cant see the attraction for ZFS on Linux when BtrFS will pretty much do the same job. Still if you want it it is available as OpenZFS.
If you look at Manga and Anime today and in the past most female and even male central characters are 14 and under. Also nudity of children (exception are explicit sexual acts) is not frowned upon like it is done in so called moral countries. I guess the UK will have to put most of the population of Japan behind bars:) . In addition China and Korea also produce the equivalent of Manga and Anime so maybe the moral minority will have to act on these countries as well.
By the ambiguity of the law/ruling something as simple as Sailor Moon could be illegal.
"vim" can open a gzip'ed file but you will only see the "text based" result which is not really human readable. You would be better off using (you basically did say this BTW):
zcat/var/log/auth.log.2.gz" | less (or on some *nix systems "more")
Using a text based editor on any log file is not good practice since it is fairly easy to make a mistake which would effectively compromise that file. Also most vanilla Unix systems don't have "vim" installed although they do have "vi". Nitpicking maybe but basically every thing you said was valid.
No problem, every heard of "wtmp" or " "utmp" which have been in Unix for over 30 years. How about the "sar" logs which also came from Unix (Solaris) but are available on pretty much all Unix/Linux platforms.
You could also look at AIX which maybe a big shock to you since many system administration logs and configuration files are binary. The thing is AIX is Unix but that is IBM's way of doing things.:)
My connection is on a dynamic IP address. The best any of those services can do is tell you what city my ISP's router is in, and one of the three services tested by iplocation.net (the service pointed to by TFA) managed to get it wrong. And, I'm not the least bit impressed by the claim that the author's location was correct withing 5 miles, as that still leaves anybody looking for you with just over 78.5 square miles to search.
To accurately determine a cell phones location you need three or more towers which can be the case in a city. Without GPS being turned on and with three cell towers it is possible to get a location accuracy of a few 10's of meters or if you live in a none metric country approximately a few 10's of yards. A quick search will confirm what I have just said but you could look at this site or you can try one of the 100 million plus hits I got with my search.
As per the above URL the accuracy was 100 m which if you have done basic trigonometry (assuming a circle which is A = pi x r^2) is 7,850 square meters. Actually the area of location would be an ellipse (area = pi x small radius x large radius) not a circle (I used this for simplicity) which would be an even smaller area again. Of course if GPS was turned on then location accuracy would be down to a few meters such that the cell phone being tracked could be accurately located to a small room within a building.
I think the bottom line is to ask the question "Do you trust your applications?" if you don't then don't use a smart phone or if you are really paranoid don't carry a cell phone, make sure you have checked your clothing for bugs and carefully check to make sure no one is following you.:)
Sooner or later, a transmission infrastructure upgrade will be cheaper than dealing with the rising fuel prices and external costs. I don't see how this could be possibly a matter of "if" rather than "when".
When considering transmission infrastructure you only have to consider the cost of the transmission lines to the central power substation transformers not the all up transmission infrastructure which has to exist no matter what type of power generation system you are using so that should not be a major factor when considering other types of power generation.
Consider this you have two power resources 1) Coal fired power station to offset the shortfall in wind power located 100 km from the main substations and 2) A wind farm also located some 100 km away what would be the costs associated with the transmission feeds assuming flat ground between both power resources and the main substation? The answer is the costs would most likely be the same although allot depends on where each resource is located and if some of the primary transmission lines can be shared. Basically the all up costs of transmission lines from the power source to the distribution grid feed is only a tiny fraction of the power distribution infrastructure costs.
The problem you have with any solar solution (can equally be applied to other energy resources) is availability, serviceability and long term cost benefits. Out of all the solar energy solutions wind farming scores very highly but not all places on this planet are suitable for wind farming so other forms of solar energy solutions and more conventional methods of power generation are still required.
Microsoft Sharepoint first came out in 2001. I think if it ran on NT at the time it could run on an Alpha, but why would any company want to have an run MS Sharepoint on unsupported architecture today? It is not that difficult to transfer the MS Sharepoint infrastructure to current X86 architecture. Of course maintaining a Sharepoint structure or even a Wiki is a totally different thing.
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The move from 4x3 to 16x9 was already a big loss - more scrolling for no advantage except using the PC as a TV. Don't know about 1x1 but the old 5x4 worked just fine for me.
I take it you have never heard of video and image editing, software development or even video gaming. Not everyone uses their monitor to create, edit and view documents. As to why the industry chose a 16:9 aspect ratio well that is basically a compromise since there is no perfect solution. As a customer you are certainly entitled to purchase the monitor that suites you however remember that just because you buy a monitor that suits you that same monitor may not suit everyone.
When you say "more scrolling" (I assume up and down) then why don't you get yourself a larger monitor. 27in 1080p IPS monitors are not that expensive, you can even get 4k 2160p 28in monitors for around $500 now if you need the higher resolution although why you need a high resolution for documents is beyond me since even typesetters (been there done that) don't really need that resolution unless it is for bragging purposes.
I always thought it's odd that monitors are wider than they are tall. Isn't it far more convenient to use them, well, like we used to use paper?
If all we did was read papers on our monitors then maybe portrait (you really can get them) monitors would be the norm however a monitor can be used to display lots of different things so it is more practical to display on a landscape monitor. In fact any monitor that has an aspect ratio of greater than one is in effect a landscape monitor.
As for why most HDTV's and modern monitors have an aspect ratio of 16:9 that is a compromise between the many competing aspect ratios that are currently available. For a better understanding read this and there are many other sites that discuss this as well.
I am using 4:3 monitors currently because having less than 1200 vertical pixels sucks
There are 4k (3840x2160 pixels for a 16:9 aspect ratio) monitors out there although you will pay for them. A simple web search will find them. Now if you really want to be an elitist and have more money then sense then how about an 8k monitor.
Marketing does not care about the kernel version
Why would they need to know? Although they may need to know what the version of the software is.
Seriously, most people who use Windows have absolutely no idea what a kernel even is, let alone what version their Windows kernel is.
Quite right, however they don't write the applications. It is really up to the application software writers to know.
And the people who do know what the kernel is and what the kernel version is are not going to be interested in marketing anyways.
.While a programmer may not be interested (although many are) in marketing they need to know the kernel version and the versions of the API's that they are going to use with their software if they are going to be programming under MS Windows. If they are going to be programming under Unix or Linux then they need to know what the version of the kernel is and the versions of the libraries that they are going to use with their software.
Note: Starting with Windows 2000, the versions are NT versions, Windows 95/98/ME are actually numbered based on the DOS Windows (as in Windows 3.1).)
MS Windows 95 had a 7.0 version of MS-DOS. MS Widows 98 had a 7.1 version of MS-DOS and MS Windows ME had a 7.0 Version of MS-DOS. See here.
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Actually MS Windows 10 is supposed to have an NT 6.4 kernel
If developers can't tell the difference between MS Windows NT and MSDOS then they really should get out of the IT industry and take up say "basket weaving". After-all the world would be a much safer place although I am a bit worried about the quality of the baskets that would be produced.
They actually had a good reason to skip 9. Too many third party products checked whether they were running on Windows 95 or Windows 98 by matching the string "Windows 9". It would have been the Microsoft version of the Y2K problem.
This is informative? Jaw meet deck!
.... Oh wait it is, however you can easily tell what version it is. /(*o*)\
You mean MS Window programmers are that bad they cannot determine a kernel or library version without drawing a y2k pentagram and mumbling incantations to the great old-ones? Be afraid, very afraid.
Next you will be telling me that Firefox is up to version 33.
Did you ever consider trying user-created works, such as mods or indie games? If you did, in what way did they fail to keep your interest?
Short answer. No!
Long answer. People do have separate likes and dislikes, what may be interesting to one group of people may not be interesting to another group. Name any gaming genres and you will have some people who like that and some that don't, even within specific genres you still will have likes and dislikes, the same is true for gaming mods and indie games.
Except the new consoles are just low to mid-range PCs.
How many low range PC's have 8 CPU's and 8GB of memory? I would concede that the PS4 and XB1 fail into the category of the upper end of a modern mid-range PC but putting them into the low end range is definitely trolling.
Also, I really personally dislike using a TV for a PC screen. It also limits you to 1080p, and some PC gamers prefer using higher resolution displays or even some kind of multiple-monitor setup. Personally I game on a 1920 x 1200 monitor because I like the extra vertical space. Unfortunately some games don't support the resolution which is a bit annoying.
You can get 4k HDTV that are usually 16:9 aspect ratio which is 3840x2160 pixels and they are not that much more expensive than the 2k or 1080p HDTVs. What is really important as well in choosing a screen is the refresh rate and the frame rate the screen can support.
The problem you have with games and movies is they can be made with different aspect ratios and depending on your screen you may see what is called pillar-boxing. While this can be annoying there is little you can do since the physical display screen has a specific physical aspect ratio which cannot be changed. There are some interesting articles on this and why the compromise of the 16:9 aspect ratio was chosen for most HDTV's.
Which aspect ratio is the best? Difficult to say since that depends on the predominate content the viewer likes to display on their screen.
The native resolution of the XBox 360 is 720p. It can be upscaled to 1080i, but it's nowhere near as good as native 1080p.
Where did you get this info? The XBox360 and the PS3 both can output up to 1080p. I won't deny that many games on both machines display at 720p but there are games that do display at 1080p.
Also, what are you going to do when your special SKU PS3 dies? You can't get replacements.
Please do a simple web search. Yes you can get a faulty PS1, PS2 or PS3 repaired although you will have to pay for it, likewise for petty much any electronic device and that includes PC's as well. How much it will cost depends on the cost of the parts and labour to do the repairs.
Err lets see. Time is 14:27:55, types "yum install eclipse" - finishes at 14:34:32, that is 6:37 to do the download with all dependencies, install and checks. Total cost $0.00. Use "app-get" if you are on a Debian based distribution or if you don't like the command line use the GUI installer which works on pretty much all Linux distributions..
Now either run Eclipse from the command line or GUI and wait about 10 seconds then spend 20 seconds configuring. Ok it works for me.
Oh wait I can't run Visual Studio so I can't do a fair comparison.
This really should not have been that bad. They're overreaching, and that's basically the fundamental problem. Wait a few years, and games that try and pull off what Unity does will be successful and well optimized, but right now they're still working out just what's capable. It's just too bad for the customers that get screwed while inadvertently helping Ubisoft and other developers learn just how this hardware can be put to use.
You are being too nice. When developing anything you first have to consider your target consumer demographic that will return the best monetary value for your product, this is basic statistical analysis and common business sense. Once you decide on the appropriate demographic you develop for that and if you have the time and expertise you may wish to develop that product for prospective customers that fall outside of you main target demographic.
Basically Ubisoft developed a game that in reality targeted the high end PC users and from what I can gather poorly then basically gave a much more poorer product to the new generation consoles (approx 18 million prospective buyers) which is in itself extremely short sighted.
I know of some developers (the name escapes me and I can't be bothered looking it up) that have stated that their new game will only run on high end PC's. This is a classic example of how not to make make money. Sure develop your game for the High End PC gamer but that market is relatively small with the real money being made on the medium end PC and new console markets.
I don't think crashing icy comets into Mars is going to really help thicken the atmosphere instead that technique would only make for much larger ice sheets since Mars is much more colder in comparison to our planet. Of course it could increase the mass of the planet and that alone could make for some interesting occurrences. Making Mars like our planet (ie. Terra-forming) is still the stuff of Science Fiction and is probably not going to happen, if ever for hundreds or even thousands of years. Sure we can send people to Mars and probably mine it in the fairly foreseeable future, but in the long term space colonies are more practical since we have to take into account protection from solar radiation and even the gravitation requirements of our species just to name a few of the hazards.
Mars and space are very hostile to our species and any manned missions will require a considerable amount of foresight and preparation. Travelling to Mars and living there is many orders of magnitude greater than what the first Explorers travelling from Europe to the Americas would have experienced. This not to say don't send manned missions but we have to be practical as well.
There's a workaround. Completely install Xorg and the GUI, and, from the command line, do the upgrade. Then re-install the GUI. Really. Wonder why Linux can't make it on the desktop? It's stuff like this
I have never had an issue like this with Fedora (the discussion is Fedora not Debian based Linux) and that is going back to the late 1990's. As for the Desktop I would have to assume you are aware of what is commonly called the "Microsoft Tax".
From the Fedora home page "Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat".
There is a big difference between "sponsoring" and "owning". Sure some of the features of Fedora get incorporated into a commercial release of Redhat Linux but because Fedora is open source those same features can be incorporated into other Linux distros.
You will always find that commercial releases of a Linux distro are at least one to two years behind a stable release and a development release can be a couple of months to a year ahead of a stable release. As for Rehat making a separate distro (supported up to 10 years) to Fedora I fail to see that this is a problem.
Windowless planes makes for a much stronger fuselage, in case of a crash. Rear facing seats while you're at it, much safer.
The De Havilland Comet (cira 1950's) had large rectangular windows which were later found to have contributed to metal fatigue at the corners. The Comet was involved in 26 hull-loss accidents, including 13 fatal crashes which resulted in 426 fatalities which resulted in the catastrophic loss of some of the planes. Of course modern jet planes have smaller rounded windows which are so much more safer but all still have to be checked periodically for symptoms of metal fatigue which usually means around the windows and other parts of the plane which are under stress.
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It is important to note that the cabin pressure of a jet aircraft at altitude is higher than the outside atmosphere and this pressure differential can also cause stress due to skin expansion. When landing the air pressure inside is made to equal the outside air pressure which result in the skin shrinking. So this expansion and compression actually causes metal fatigue on the planes structure, hence the rigorous checking requirements of all aircraft
Removing windows from jet aircraft is IMHO a good move although it would not be difficult to have camera feeds from parts of the aircraft to the back seat screens, assuming of course they have them. Even if the windows are removed a schedule of testing must be still carried out although maybe not as often.
As for rear facing seats, this maybe a good safety feature in a minor front end crash, however it would not matter if the plane suffered a major crash such as a terrorist attack.
In principle, maybe. But Apple gives away its software free. It's the hardware itself that's pricey.
So the Intel processor is also free?
The original poster was referring to the Operating system and you bring up the the implied cost of the hardware of which as everyone is aware is a cost no matter which OS you install on it otherwise we could install an OS on a brick or some such inanimate object.
You should also be aware that Intel is not the only manufacturer making PC components so you do have a choice, but like all PC hardware this is normally not free.
The main topic was the Italian court stating that "the practice of forcing users to pay for a Windows license when they buy a new PC is illegal" not the actual composition of parts that go to make up the physical PC. I suppose we could look at the BIOS which can restrict the installation of different Operating Systems but so far it is possible to install MS Windows, Linux and OSX on most modern PC's. However that is totally different to customers being "forced" to pay for an OS that normally is installed prior to their purchase of said PC. In this case the Operating System that is normally referred too as the "Microsoft Tax".
I never run out of space. As disks get larger and larger, the risk of running out of space seems like the single least significant thing possible. The real issue is corruption.
Based on the headline, I would have expected this to be about content verification with all of the ZFS fanboys coming out of the work to extol it's virtues.
Well if you use a FAT file-system then you are asking for trouble. Most modern file-systems use journalling which are fairly reliable although I do recommend you find the best file-system that suites you, which in the case of a Microsoft OS is normally NTFS. If you use Linux then you really have a choice such as Ext3 and 4 (Ext2 does not support journalling) which are supported by Redhat. Other file-systems are BtrFS (supported by Redhat), ZFS (not supported on Linux by Oracle), JFS (supported by IBM), JFS (Silicon Graphics) and NTFS (not supported on Linux by Microsoft) - just to name a few.
Of course you are really asking for trouble if you don't backup your data no matter what file-system you choose. In fact with a journalling file-system there is more chance of wilful or accidental removal of data than you would have of corruption caused by a journalling file-system.
Personally I really cant see the attraction for ZFS on Linux when BtrFS will pretty much do the same job. Still if you want it it is available as OpenZFS.
By the ambiguity of the law/ruling something as simple as Sailor Moon could be illegal.
Yes it is kind of worrying.
You originally wrote "vim /var/log/auth.log.2.gz"
/var/log/auth.log.2.gz" | less (or on some *nix systems "more")
"vim" can open a gzip'ed file but you will only see the "text based" result which is not really human readable. You would be better off using (you basically did say this BTW):
zcat
Using a text based editor on any log file is not good practice since it is fairly easy to make a mistake which would effectively compromise that file. Also most vanilla Unix systems don't have "vim" installed although they do have "vi". Nitpicking maybe but basically every thing you said was valid.
Binary logs are anti-*nix. Rebut that.
No problem, every heard of "wtmp" or " "utmp" which have been in Unix for over 30 years. How about the "sar" logs which also came from Unix (Solaris) but are available on pretty much all Unix/Linux platforms.
:)
You could also look at AIX which maybe a big shock to you since many system administration logs and configuration files are binary. The thing is AIX is Unix but that is IBM's way of doing things.
My connection is on a dynamic IP address. The best any of those services can do is tell you what city my ISP's router is in, and one of the three services tested by iplocation.net (the service pointed to by TFA) managed to get it wrong. And, I'm not the least bit impressed by the claim that the author's location was correct withing 5 miles, as that still leaves anybody looking for you with just over 78.5 square miles to search.
To accurately determine a cell phones location you need three or more towers which can be the case in a city. Without GPS being turned on and with three cell towers it is possible to get a location accuracy of a few 10's of meters or if you live in a none metric country approximately a few 10's of yards. A quick search will confirm what I have just said but you could look at this site or you can try one of the 100 million plus hits I got with my search.
As per the above URL the accuracy was 100 m which if you have done basic trigonometry (assuming a circle which is A = pi x r^2) is 7,850 square meters. Actually the area of location would be an ellipse (area = pi x small radius x large radius) not a circle (I used this for simplicity) which would be an even smaller area again. Of course if GPS was turned on then location accuracy would be down to a few meters such that the cell phone being tracked could be accurately located to a small room within a building.
I think the bottom line is to ask the question "Do you trust your applications?" if you don't then don't use a smart phone or if you are really paranoid don't carry a cell phone, make sure you have checked your clothing for bugs and carefully check to make sure no one is following you. :)
Sooner or later, a transmission infrastructure upgrade will be cheaper than dealing with the rising fuel prices and external costs. I don't see how this could be possibly a matter of "if" rather than "when".
When considering transmission infrastructure you only have to consider the cost of the transmission lines to the central power substation transformers not the all up transmission infrastructure which has to exist no matter what type of power generation system you are using so that should not be a major factor when considering other types of power generation.
Consider this you have two power resources 1) Coal fired power station to offset the shortfall in wind power located 100 km from the main substations and 2) A wind farm also located some 100 km away what would be the costs associated with the transmission feeds assuming flat ground between both power resources and the main substation? The answer is the costs would most likely be the same although allot depends on where each resource is located and if some of the primary transmission lines can be shared. Basically the all up costs of transmission lines from the power source to the distribution grid feed is only a tiny fraction of the power distribution infrastructure costs.
The problem you have with any solar solution (can equally be applied to other energy resources) is availability, serviceability and long term cost benefits. Out of all the solar energy solutions wind farming scores very highly but not all places on this planet are suitable for wind farming so other forms of solar energy solutions and more conventional methods of power generation are still required.
Sharepoint runs on PDP-11s? VAX? Alpha?
Microsoft Sharepoint first came out in 2001. I think if it ran on NT at the time it could run on an Alpha, but why would any company want to have an run MS Sharepoint on unsupported architecture today? It is not that difficult to transfer the MS Sharepoint infrastructure to current X86 architecture. Of course maintaining a Sharepoint structure or even a Wiki is a totally different thing.