Posts by DropBear 4735 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2013
Sorry but this is like the otherwise faultless sports car the Mythbusters buried (?) a few pig carcasses in then dug up and attempted to clean up and sell - it might all be level in theory, but the stench of the attached brand is just so nauseating I'd never touch this in a billion years, no matter how many times it gets confirmed as completely legit. Also, Greeks and gifts. No. Fuck off, Facebook.
@Mongrel: from one of the reviews: "These are advertised as being the original versions plus the remastered versions......that is not the case! They are only the remastered ones :-(" so I guess that's a "no" then. Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I'll be sure to keep looking.
PS - the whole point of having to painstakingly MAKE the Despecialized Editions is the completely original, absolutely untouched, as-seen-when-you-were-a-kid version not being available anywhere in any form. Otherwise we'd just be talking about a bootleg of that instead...
Okay, I'm not entirely sure about this - will admitting that I remember reading Street Hawk get me or cost my nerd card..?
"What's the next exciting step?"
No idea, but while I absolutely admire all those things you mention, I reserve getting excited to when we have humans going again farther that one earth diameter in any direction. Which is another way of saying "not expected to happen in my lifetime"* **.
* Please consider that starry-eyed (but conspicuously non-committal) plans for space-this-and-that in "10 to 15 years" are just a polite way of saying "fuggedaboutit any time soon, and certainly nowhere near in the mentioned timeframe".
** The Chinese might just prove me wrong yet. Or not. The others - nope: no financial incentive.
"Does it mean you will forever be shut out of your life, incapable of proving your identity to the world that will only believe what the computers say is true and has lost the ability to verify in any other manner?"
No idea. Let's ask Doc Daneeka...
Who in their right mind would say "yes please, give me more of that invisible back door stuff, please" ?
Basically? Everyone going into a shop, asking "which aisle do you keep the computers at?" - or, simply, everyone. People with a clue about the mere existence of a given issue seem to tend to grossly overestimate their numbers - we're not even a rounding error: our few-ness is indistinguishable from zero. Case in point - after half a decade of banging the drum, you'd think there are at least SOME people concerned about privacy issues. You'd be wrong. Out of the many hundreds of millions of us living in Europe, right now Schrems has serious trouble finding a paltry single thousand willing to pitch in at least fifty bucks a year so he can do something about it. Understand this: we may make much racket about things we care about in echo chambers like this one, but out there in the real world our influence by numbers alone is that of a single kid taking a piss in the Atlantic ocean...
At first I thought this was about that _other_ "Night Flyer" horror, by Stephen King...
@Lost all faith... I already do all that - except for the WiFi: I'm kinda using that, seeing as how mobile data is very far from free for me while WiFi is. I'm even using an extra-thick extended battery, and I run almost nothing in the background. Result: less than three days. Not even a full weekend. Hella annoying especially if I spend it in a tent, away from chargers, and I'd actually like to browse a little or just read a book during some lull / downtime. And before you suggest "power bank": you'd be surprised how little cargo space bikes tend to have, and how fully packed it already is with other useless stuff like, say, rain gear and said tent.
@JeffyPoooh sure, as long as I never, ever, ever forget to religiously plug it in to charge whenever I'm home. Clue: that's not the real world I live in. Not to mention I have no socket near my bed, and my phone is what (barely) wakes me up each morning so I can't leave it across the room overnight. Also, see above.
Being alive is not "safe", nor will it ever be. With a whopping 100% mortality rate, it's only a question of timing. Alternatively, even an airliner with not only one full windscreen panel completely missing and one of the pilots halfway hanging out of the aircraft while the other and a steward are trying to get him back in is apparently still safe enough. No evil terrorists needed, just the ever-so-slightly wrong sized bolts.
I'm not sure I would want "exciting" but I'd certainly prefer "enjoyable" and at least "mildly challenging" to the boring "trans-Siberian railway" experience where you inevitably fall asleep somewhere along the thousand-mile dead straight. Getting to drive my car is already the only enjoyable part of most of my days anyway...
Well then, everyone seems to have a perfect grasp on which game it is - yeah, that one... :) And yes, I do know the mentioned issues are of course not caused by these bugs or their fixes, but I do believe the fixes would impact the already piss-poor performance which is why I mentioned it at all. Fingers crossed performance will get finally addressed at some point of course, but at this rate that's effectively the same thing as "never", and until I see effortless high performance in that game my concerns that disk/net access penalties _will_ have an impact remain...
Considering that a certain game I'm having trouble wrestling with performance-wise currently is so network-hungry that the network LEDs never go off and the (beyond miserable) current framerate is actually acknowledged to be server-code-limited (!!!), and also due to its minimum RAM requirements of 16GB it typically trashes the page file so incessantly on anything with less RAM that the main suggested fix on forums is to move that to an SSD (until it melts right through it...) - I'm, erm, SLIGHTLY skeptical that "gamers" need not be concerned.
@Ken Hagan I was wondering about the same thing - having pretty much everything be vulnerable to Spectre seems bad enough, but I'd like to know how many people in sales at Intel/AMD/etc are going right now "what happens when people realize there's no point in buying anything from any of us anywhere in the near future...?"
Not sure if it's a same thing, but I'm regularly having a similar issue on Debian Stretch - total freeze, no keys or mouse does anything whatsoever except the power button itself. And no, alt-ctrl-whatever doesn't work either. No logs of any problem that I can find. While it might sound like some sort of hardware issue, I don't recall ever having the same problem under either Windows XP / 7 or Jessie, and the hardware itself is rather mature and unchanged / undisturbed for a long time now. It's just weird and incredibly annoying...
Easily solved. Just get on the next Space Shuttle sorry Soyuz / Dragon capsule and take a nice long spacewalk with your interlocutor in vacuum*, physically touching your helmets to convey vibrations the good old fashion style.
* make an effort to try staying aware of any incoming laser beams trying to bounce off your helmet, you know, just to be on the safe side...
That's weird, I was under the distinct impression of having read about AMD submitting a patch explicitly to _prevent_ the "fix" activating on its processors. Granted, there's a bit too much confusion going around on what does what / affects precisely what / implies precisely what at the moment.
Well, Adams or not, some of us do - when you have something as mundane as a timepiece on you wrist that casually just happens to literally bend light just so it can tell you the time of the day (for years on end, without needing any assistance from you like, say, winding it daily) I can't help but suspect anyone unimpressed is perhaps just the tiniest bit over-jaded...
No idea about this specific one, but there are heaps of open source software running on commodity ARM that can handle a few different systems - mainly popular ones like Z-wave or Zigbee and similar, which are all meant to run locally and integrate any cloud services only as an option. The downside is that while commercial systems (all of them meant to log to cloud) tend to work moderately seamlessly at the very least for the more common things, OS alternatives are a guarantee of ending up elbow-deep in system entrails, not if but when, and rather sooner than later; oh, and if something isn't supported, you're pretty much SOL with either, because it will stay unsupported for at least five times as long as you're willing to wait for it - but if you're up to it, you can try to hammer it home yourself with OS (fair warning: 95% that it _will_ require coding / recompiling the whole thing).
Actually... this raises an interesting question. If the IME expects to link up through the motherboard integrated NIC, what happens if you simply ignore it (leave it unplugged) and add a PCI network card? Would the IME just find it and carry on unhindered? Granted, this would not help with any malware that came in through your "alternative" network and installed something on the IME... would doing this change anything at all...?
With all the respect where respect is due (and none where it's not applicable) as long as the Polish insist on piping up *Every Single Damn Time* the Enigma and Turing or the Brits are mentioned anywhere loudly protesting "but no, no, it was actually us!" I will not cease vigorously downvoting every such comment I can find. Yes, I know of your early work. No, what you broke was not what later required halls of Bombes to break. And the public at large will keep seeing a typewriter whenever they look at an Enigma, never mind Polish or British achievements. Get a f###ing grip already. And no, I'm not even British.
The future belongs neither to phablets nor to phones - one of these centuries years one of the players will finally come up with a usable foldable display and lots of ways to roll / fold / etc. it up in compact handsets with screens several times their size. People who just want to make calls and exchange short messages will keep using the simplest / smallest traditional handset they are content with - everybody else will go foldable...
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