Re: Kaboom?
Personally, I prefer "Supercapacitors are like batteries, but more awesome"
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It is not that a 4K frame isn't better than 1080p frame. Of course it looks better paused side by side but you are at normal viewing distance* hitting some seriously diminishing returns.
It is also quite a way to misunderstand how it is that our eyes work. Our eyes track with a central high resolution focal point and periphery low resolution. If something on our periphery captures our attention, our eyes will move to focus on it and our brain magically stitches it together. You have no doubt seen the kids books in the Where's Wally series. If so you will know it can take a few minutes to find him, but if Wally had an animated hand waving at you with the rest of the image still, you would see him in under a second. Our eyes** are very good at picking movement.
In the real world, I would prefer the bandwidth used to better represent the movement in the frame, even to the point of dropping below 1080*1980 resolution briefly during that movement because that would "look better"
* er, that would be my definition of normal viewing distance; not that of my 2 year old.
** technically our brains rather than our eyes
>Why can't I download my upgrade for Opera mini from Opera's site, etc.? Opera sure isn't 'spyware is us!'
Check on Settings / security / allow apps from unknown sources.
Then you or an app can download APKs to your heart's content. I personally like the all updates in one spot rather than having each vendor produce their own auto updater, and I find Google's rules for submitting an app for approval far less arbitrary than certain fruity competitors.
There are a couple of options. You have SD cards with built in WiFi that can mirror to any android or ios device. You also used to be able to get external card reader + hdd with a one button "clone what's on this card to the HDD" button. I had one about 10 years ago when a 512MB CF card cost would empty your wallet with around 40GB on the HDD.
>If you already have a backup of the data then why bother ...
IF you have a recent up to date backup, fair question. Many people don't. What they probably have sitting on an iPod somewhere is one of the MP3s from their music folder. The article suggests that as little as 2MB was enough to calculate the XOR key, or in layman's terms, a single song is enough to recover all their data.
Pretty sure he is in Oatmeal land actually.
>I would assume that Google does not 'know' the passwords... salted cashews and such stuff.
You're right that they won't know the passwords in their database, but they can perform a match between the hashed password and what they stored. If they couldn't then it should be self evident that they also couldn't validate your credentials when you visited their website.
>should the government be providing an NBN service that meets the average needs or high end users
Should the government be providing a health service that meets the needs of the average patient or high dependency patients? We could have an orders of magnitude cheaper healthcare system if we had the same attitude.
Should our public transport system cope with peak hour rush or average load?
Should our power grid cope with the hot summer peaks when everyone is running air conditioners and pool pumps or just average draw?
I agree in principle that there is a point where something becomes unviable, or a point of diminishing returns if you like, but the real problem with FTTN is that we are taking about a capacity date in the next decade unless you think that trends will change. That is big coin for infrastructure that will require reinvestment as soon as it finishes. If it were 20-25% of the cost of FTTP then I would certainly be torn, but it is well over half the build cost anyway. More than that, it still relies on the flaky copper from the node to the house. This means you are going to have to relay copper to the node which will need to get torn up again in relatively short time. It is only cheaper if you restrict consideration to the next decade. Longer term it is more expensive to operate, orders of magnitude more expensive to upgrade (at best you are driving around to every node and upgrading hardware there rather than at a central exchange)
>... clueless idiots running MS products are clueless?
That statement may be true *cough* TIFKAM *cough*, sorry had to clear my throat.
What was I saying? That's right, I think you missed the point. If say A! Company! Whose! Name! I! Will! Redact! So! As! Not! To! Embarrass! Them! stores your super duper unbreakable "wrong unicorn paperclip capacitor" password in clear text then it is compromised.
BTW, congratulations reg; nice click bait :)
>If you own both the OS and the application, it is possible to make the OS work for the application.
As a generalisation I agree, but this would hold more water if it was say windows media player being able to use hidden optimisations to improve framerates or reduce battery drain, or SQL server getting some unique filesystem priority levels not adhered to for other dbms, but we are taking about a productivity suite. If you think about its limited technical requirements, there isn't a whole lot of ways to cripple their APIs that would benefit Office without the commensurate disadvantage to other products Microsoft need to maintain a viable desktop ecosystem.
In terms of their Corel lawsuits that was quite a different story. The windows API was under active development and decisions could be made to drop or otherwise make specific calls suboptimal, and they could publicise them late in the development cycle for Corel for maximum interruptions and to give their own products an advantage. Completely unacceptable behaviour if true. But in 2014 I can easily write** an office competitor using Win API, .NET or Java and achieve a level of functionality and performance that Microsoft would prefer wasn't possible.
** actually, I couldn't, lacking the will, money, patience and expertise to undertake a project at that scale, but the point is that no magic API would ms office a measurable advantage.
I may be a bit slow, but as a developer I am struggling to think of any office feature that requires anything resembling a secret undocumented API call. The inputs are all keyboard, mouse and filesystem calls. The outputs are all canvases (screen/printer). The functionality whilst broad in reach with a feature set as long as your arm is not complex at any functional point that I can see.
It is fair enough to criticise their not so open document formats but this argument about hidden APIs doesn't seem to hold a lot of water.
For what purpose was he granted security access other than his employment contract defining his responsibilities in such a way that he is permitted?
That is not to say they need to delete his identity records or confiscate his cards but a process wasn't followed. In this case it appears benign but they need to look at how this happened to avoid future cases where it is not 5 days and the contract is not being renewed.
Or ASIS reports best ever productivity figures after management unable to interrupt for a week.
Seriously though, it would be entirely appropriate to deny access under such a case and failure to reject access should be seen for the security lapse it could have been. Who else "can't access" their systems?
I love a fresh ground coffee too, but I always found myself in a bit of a dilemma*. There is frankly too much faffing about to grind, warm the machine, clean all the tampers, filters, jugs and steam wands to make it worthwhile before work. So it used to be a weekend treat for me to make it. The problem is that anything pre ground would go stale well before it was used and I wasn't as happy with the el cheapo grinder which was too course for my preference.
I ended up buying a nespresso because it gave me something quite tolerable with the convenience of instant. I won't pretend it is the best drop that I have ever had but it is better than more than a couple of "baristas" have given me over the years.
*first world problem, I know