Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
Proles, when you upload pics to facebook, remember you grant facebook a “royalty-free worldwide license” by doing that, they can then do with the pics as they please. You cannot then go and cry if they use your photo - not sure if they actually have done so ...
https://www.howtogeek.com/304037/does-facebook-own-my-photos/
Upvoted.
The point you are not getting, though, is speed of each individual PCIe lane, as it augments, you theoretically need fewer of them to push the same anount of data down the pipe. Now, you correctly opined that this is good for multi-GPU, I think it is good as well as you use more and more PCIe lanes for other stuff, I have NVMe SSD's, 10G nic, and a high end GPU, all good, but merely 24 PCIe lanes available.
1994, MS Central ...
MS1: "These NetWare guyz, how can we get rid of them ?"
MS2: "Act I, get them to run as an application on our server, that way we get the licenses for the server. We offer unlimited # of users to connect to NT workstation print servers to make up for the price diff."
MS1: "Nobody would be that daft, who would trust Windows to be as stable as NetWare. Also, what is the point of NT Worstation with unlimited connections, we could monetize that."
MS2: :"That is the point, along the way, Act II, via updates, we kill some printer driver, but only if NetWare services is running. Then they switch to us. As for NT Workstation, we first need to kill NetWare, then we can milk people ten times more ... as we'll have no competition"
MS1: "Son of a batch job! We'll never get away with this!"
MS2: "Worse, Act III, we will have them connect to our servers for licenses, to make sure they all pay through their noses."
MS1: "Naah, dreamer"
MS2: "Then, we hook the license to hardware, when a part changes, they'll need a new license from us."
MS1: "..."
They still are getting away with this!
With the code base in the open, bad actors can scour it for vulnerabilities to the latest cracks. These bad actors will not be publishing the results of their work, the will be weaponizing it.
Quick, tell Linus, Linux will be doomed before the end of 1992!
The 90's called, they want their MS FUD back ...
Ok, there are a number of cities and public bodies who have switched large parts of their IT to open source; in France, there are MANY examples of successful migrations from Windows to Linux.
The Gendarmerie (French police force), Finance Ministry, Education Nationale have all moved tens of thousands of seats to Linux.
The Gendarmerie claims it saves €40 million every single year by moving as much as possible to open source solutions.
It is NOT a problem of missing apps, more the contrary, there are too many to choose from.
The Gendarmerie claim their successful transition followed this simple approach:
1. Mandate platform-independent software, favor open source licenses
2. Switch all applications used to platform-independent solutions
3. Phase out proprietary OS where possible
Main advantages (according to Gendarmerie)
1. Saves a lot of money (license fees, IT staff, older hardware retained longer)
2. Drastically lowered number of support calls
3. Full control over the OS, GendBuntu, and the application deployment, patching, release
PS: I am NOT making any of this up, the Gendarmerie has given many presentations on the subject.There is an Impress slideshow somehwere on the matter
He pointed the finger at the lack of compelling cross-platform GUI technology, Microsoft's enterprise focus, and the fact that Visual Studio is a paid-for product.
No, it is crap, and only former Microsoft BASIC and VisualBasic developers are daft enough to fail to realize this ... how many of you have never touched VB ? There, you have it!
"Karen left that behind long ago and is a respectable lady now"
Wow, ok, so a prostitute is not a respectable lady ? I care to disagree, shit, it is even legal in some parts of the world. In Amsterdam you can legally smoke a joint while having intercourse with a prostitute, provided you are a resident in the country and she allows you to smoke in her company.
Moneygram, Western Union and the like are for sending money to your family "back home", nothing else. Plenty of people do that, it's not fraudulent.
Yeah, I heard that "excuse", but since you have no control over who is getting the money it is bullshit, fraudulent bullshit.
When you use Western Union or Moneygram in Europe you know it is fraudulent, I do not understand how those businesses can operate here ... I doubt there are any legitimate transations going through them, then again, I have never used the service. But yeah, I assume this is how money is wired in the US.
Personal banking wire transfers can be revoked in France pretty easily, provided they did not go abroad. Most banks have systems in place to prevent you from setting up a dodgy beneficiary in a foreign country, especially when it is outside EU. So, yeah money transfers are pretty safe, here, however, they take forever to be honoured, like three business days if it is inter-bank... in the UK I know you can send money same day even abroad, I do not know if you can undo it, though.
In France you can almost buy a second hand car eyes closed, if the car has a problem at the time of sale and the seller did not tell you, the sale is cancelled and you get your money back.
An aircraft manufacturer that does not care "enough" for pilot safety is quickly out of business ... regardless of what type of aircraft (civil, military) it builds.
Besides, you do not have the same engineers working on military and civil aircraft ...and certainly do not have the same managers.
As for here, Boeing engineers were expected to do the impossible and they tried the best they could, given the funding, the deadlines, they were not helped by management outsourcing vital components to cheapest inexperienced bidder.
At least Boeing has now learned a lesson, I hope they have, you rarely get a third chance, and now it has happened once, any new issues will amplify the feelings ... your McDonnell Douglas colleagues can confirm.
DISCLAIMER: I am biased, Airbus fanboy!, but lack of passenger safety affects all manufacturers.
Credit Mutuel & CIC, October 2019 <---- the banks offer mobile phone services, as in, you can get a SIM card from them for your phone, these mobile services were down, customer could no longer call or send SMS messages ... nothing to do with banking going TITSUP.
Then again, a generous ATM was found in Marseille, spewing x2 of what was requested.
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/marseille-un-distributeur-automatique-de-billets-donnait-le-double-de-la-somme-demandee-1575793159
That said, we have other kit with similar problems. We have "projected capacitive" touchscreen panels which only have drivers compatible with XP, so we can't upgrade those computers without also upgrading the panels, but the software running on those computers won't talk to the version of the driver which comes with the newer panels so we can't upgrade the panels without also having the software re-written.
Imagine this were GNU/Linux, worst case scenario, in 2030 you'd need to find someone to maintain the drivers for newer kernels.
We are all entitled to our opinions, but, owning an Apple computer is not a rational choice, it might he a hipster thing to do....
What is the bloody point of a 2mm thinner laptop if you need to lug around 8 devices and adapters ? (a separate battery, external hard drive and half a dozen adapters)
People who buy Apple computers are either not IT literate or idiots, no ifs buts or maybes.
Replies to points raised:
“ -removable/replaceable battery” - USB C battery.
Oh, another device to lug around ?
“ upgradeable RAM” - likely to buy a new machine before you need to do that.
You cannot be serious ... the thing comes with 4GB standard like it is 2007. I always end up maxing out my RAM for a platform as prices fall, I keep my computer for many years.
“ ditto SSD” - thunderbolt external disk.
Again, another device to lug around, but it gets worse, should the device fail, you're f'd, because smarty pants AppleCrook will not allow you to install to a Mac that does not have a functional internal drive. I am not sure if you can even boot a Mac from an external drive if the internal drive is broken.
“ -useful number of ports” - usbc/thunderbolt dock. These ports are infinitely more useful, plug in the right cable you have the port, be that hdmi, power, 10Gb ethernet, sdcard, whatever you need at the time.
So, you need to lug adapters for Ethernet, graphics, USB type A devices.
Because it is funny sounding, hard G followed by d sound is not really common in English, they could have used Warsaw or Krakow instead but not nearly as exotic or funny sounding.
PS: Magda is even more confused when I ask her to polish the gf's pole dancing equipment.
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