Posts by Flakk 403 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2017
...surprising absolutely nobody that has been keeping track of the scientific data coming from Mars since the mid-1970s. That cold water that you seem to be attempting to fling is pretty tepid stuff.
It doesn't seem likely that we could colonize the outer planets before first establishing a presence on Mars. Nevertheless, do ignore any lobby you please. I certainly do.
...for bringing home some bacon. I suspect that sales of Xbox One X may continue to be brisk in 2018 if GPU manufacturers cannot ramp up supply to overcome the demand from cryptominers.
Microsoft just better hope that their neat-o vapor chamber cooling solution works as well as they say it does. Xbox might not survive another RRoD-style hardware debacle.
Fixes [...] are available – if you have a Cisco service contract [...] If not, you'll have to ask the Cisco Technical Assistance Center really nicely.
Twice I was in the position where I had to seek security fixes for Cisco gear with lapsed SMARTnet agreements. Twice Cisco came up with the goods, though not after a protracted 20-30 minute phone call with the TAC each time.
I really am grateful that Cisco is committed to supporting even lapsed equipment, but I have always wondered why they don't simply dump their security updates on their website. By all means Cisco, place them behind a registration wall so that you can collect whichever metrics are of interest to you, but is dedicating TAC resources to this truly worth the cost?
Driver slams into the back of a stationary vehicle at 65 MPH... and walks away! Absolutely astonishing. I don't care for Tesla Motors or their vehicles, but I cannot help but to admire the engineering that kept this doofus alive.
We can only hope that the fire truck had a rear-facing camera active at the time of the crash.
It's not really that odd when you consider two things:
1) The U.S. Code is a vast, labyrinthe nightmare of overlapping and contradictory statutes. I doubt that even the most studied and erudite lawmaker knows them all.
2) Conaway may very well realize that his proposed legislation is redundant, and not care. Every Congresscritter wants to be able to go back home and tell constituents, "Look what I did for you!"
Two comments:
1. If he HAD produced his video in the '90s, it would have been behind the counter at the video rental store.
2. People making a big show of taking umbrage at everything (and then having this behavior validated by an echo chamber) is indeed a problem. This... doesn't seem like a problem with "muh feels". This seems more like a problem with a celebrity (albeit Internet celebrity) displaying a shocking lack of humanity. For the lulz.
I'm not at all convinced that people have somehow magically become less dedicated to tribalism. I do wonder if the battlefield has changed. Our brave new cloud world has taken away all of our precious on-prem hardware pets and turned them all into cloudy, expendable cows. Few seem to care about hardware anymore, and like them or not, any of the big OSes can run cloud-based workloads (to varying degrees of performance and success).
What's left to fight over, then? Well, are there holy wars raging in the areas of agile methods, development tools, containers, hypervisors, and/or HCI technologies?
Most users don't look for an OS - the look for applications to perform what the need or like.
Bingo. At home, I would be perfectly happy with "Windows 10 Single-User Program Launcher with Networking Support Edition". I don't need any of the garbage that Microsoft thinks I need. I just need the OS to run the software that I choose.
>I've been using AMD cpu's since the K series in the late 90's
As you're a long-time AMD fan, would you satisfy my curiosity? Was the increase in your electric bill through the use of Bulldozer-class CPUs offset by the ability to supplement your furnace with your computer during the winter?
To just leave my Windows 7 install offline (except for games... I'm not expecting too much exploits through there)
Ben, you might want to consider some additional research. Malware targeting online games and digital marketplaces has been around for quite some time. Comparatively speaking, game consoles probably offer a somewhat reduced attack surface, but hacks of both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live attest that nothing is 100% secure.
GeForce and TITAN GPUs were never designed for data center deployments with the complex hardware, software, and thermal requirements for 24x7 operation, where there are often multi-stack racks.
That's strange. It's almost like Nvidia has forgotten that numerous enthusiasts have built systems with complex, 4-way SLI that use far more exotic methods for handling extreme thermal requirements (water, liquid nitrogen) than you'd find in a datacenter.
I can think of multiple ways to deploy servers with consumer GPUs outside of a traditional datacenter, yet minimize the increased physical and environmental risks of doing so. Nvidia's hanging this all on a nebulous "datacenter" concept is farcical.
Isn't 2018 supposed to be the year when organizations begin to move 100% of their workloads to the cloud? And also they when machine learning explodes into widespread use? With Nvidia seeking to increase the cost of datacenter usage of their products by 4,000%, can it be both?
Usually, when someone steps down like this, there is a major scandal on the horizon.
Sometimes terminal illness is also a factor. I think Schmidt's cavalier attitude toward privacy is revolting, but I don't wish him dead.... merely in a position where he can do less harm.
You've done Google stockholders a service, Eric. Well done, I guess. Now go away.
The Computer is your friend. The Computer wants you to have fun and be happy. Happiness is mandatory. If you are not happy, The Computer will use you as reactor shielding.
"The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy. This, in turn, will drive you crazy."
Best tabletop RPG ever! Any clones that suggest otherwise may report to the nearest convenient disintegration chamber for immediate termination. The Computer is your friend.
Loaded the 2017-12 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4054517) this morning. Upon reboot, it seems that the OS lost track of my profile. Many of my apps refused to start (*cough*Office 365*cough*). Uninstalling the update returned my machine to functionality.
This one may need to bake a few additional days.
Echoing my thoughts. I wonder if my ideal trailer would be something like:
[Black Screen]
[NARRATOR]
From none of the minds that brought you anything associated with any over-flogged Disney properties and starring absolutely no actors that regularly make jackasses out of themselves on Twitter, comes a great new comedy with funny bits that you'll actually need to go to the theater to see.
[Movie Title in Arial Bold Centered on the Black Screen]
[Movie Title Fades, Replaced by Movie Credits]
Call me crazy, I might actually go see that.
“Using a four dimensional (d = 4) state space represented by four distinct time bins and its conjugate state space in the Fourier transform domain, we realise a QKD that generates an ultra-high secret key rate.”
I read this once, and it made absolutely no sense. I re-read it, and again I had difficulty coming to grips with the concepts presented. The third time I read it, I used the voice of ST:TNG's Commander Data to carry the words into my mind. As I am conditioned to simply accept the incomprehensible techno-gibberish spoken by that character, I was able to move on.
Watched the backflip video. It positively reeks of motion capture. A human might need to use its arms to counter-balance prior to and during flip execution. Would a robot really need to do the same?
Personally, I'd much rather watch the hours of outtakes where the robot spectacularly fails again... and again... and again... and...
Exactly. The purveyors of these ads and their networks would probably love to raise the obvious anti-trust complaints against Google, but for the likelihood that Google would probably love to "algorithm" the plaintiff's web presence to oblivion.
So, the sender edits the image, and tweaks the value of one pixel off in the corner, and now the hash is completely different, which completely defeats the system.
To satisfy my curiosity, I succeeded in changing the hash value of an image I downloaded from a website merely by opening and then saving it with an image editor. I didn't have to modify any pixels at all.
This whole proposition seems like a bizarre social experiment dreamed up by Facebook's BOFH to determine the depth of the userbase's "Peak Stupidity".
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