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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The surface said some of my apps won't work so thats a no go.
My old (slowly dying) laptop is a "nope". Most of the others are "Some Windows 10 features aren't available in Windows 11. Certain apps and features may have additional requirements." Of course, clicking the link doesn't help for shit. What apps??? If it's Minesweeper, well, that's a no-go. If it's "Your Phone", bring it on!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
If it's Minesweeper, well, that's a no-go.
Isn't that missing in win10 already? There's replacements though.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
If it's Minesweeper, well, that's a no-go.
Isn't that missing in win10 already? There's replacements though.
It's still there. It's a Store app now... (so you have to go get it) I like playing the Adventure mode. Of course, I can only rarely play. It crashes on startup more often than it stays open.
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Tight squeeze: Dell shrinks PowerEdge tower server from 117 grapefruit to 74 grapefruit
Finally a measurement I can understand. I don't know what it is about Yanks and anything but the metric system. Never made any sense.
The higher-end 4.5u tower solution of the crew, the T350 [PDF] is 15.06 inches x 6.89 inches x 22.88 inches
Gibberish. I miss the days when we measured things in brontosauruses.
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similar to the time when British submarine HMS Astute ran aground in 2010 after her crew failed to spot the Isle of Skye at night
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
failed to spot the Isle of Skye at night
the watchman later admitted at being sky high
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Things that remind you of TDWTF:
“Now, our front door also rotates, so if [the wife] spots unwanted guests heading our way, she can spin the house and make them turn away,” he joked.
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@JBert things that remind you of a stereotypical wife:
At the time, his wife wanted their bedrooms to face the sun, so they did.
After a while, he says his wife complained that “she could not see people entering our front yard”
She declined to be interviewed.
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@loopback0 .ecnob eer't ed diw gni't ed des oh tahW
dnatsrednu t'nod uoy sgni't diw elddem t'noDbelches
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
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Isn't religion a "protected class" that you can't discriminate?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
No paywall: https://archive.is/0QOar
Isn't religion a "protected class" that you can't discriminate?
Not really, but we'd need to go to the garage for examples.
Also, "Iron Maiden fan" isn't a religion.
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@Placeholder said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 .ecnob eer't ed diw gni't ed des oh tahW
dnatsrednu t'nod uoy sgni't diw elddem t'noDbelches
You've got it all backwards.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
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Throwing the horns on a account related to her professional life may not be the best move but this is a bit excessive. However if she likes the latest album I'll reconsider that position.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
No paywall: https://archive.is/0QOar
Isn't religion a "protected class" that you can't discriminate?
Not really, but we'd need to go to the garage for examples.
Also, "Iron Maiden fan" isn't a religion.
Um, Iron Maiden fan obviously isn’t. But “her music has symbols of satan in it, fire her” is. The crazy people who complain about it are the ones who make it about religion.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
No paywall: https://archive.is/0QOar
Isn't religion a "protected class" that you can't discriminate?
Not really, but we'd need to go to the garage for examples.
Also, "Iron Maiden fan" isn't a religion.
Um, Iron Maiden fan obviously isn’t. But “her music has symbols of satan in it, fire him” is. The crazy people who complain about it are the ones who make it about religion.
To the extent that religious freedom protects anything at all, it protects your practice of the religion that you actually are. It doesn't protect you from other people doing things for religiously motivated reasons.
The thing that protects you from getting fired for being an Iron Maiden fan is that that would be stupid. You could probably (hopefully) be fired for teaching actual Satanism in a public school, but being an Iron Maiden fan isn't that.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear I don’t see people getting fired for teaching Christianity in public schools, but her social media posts are unrelated to her teaching anyway.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear I don’t see people getting fired for teaching Christianity in public schools
Only because they're not doing it. If this woman was actually teaching Christianity in that school, she would be fired.
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Article @Gąska posted in In other news today... said:
When everything looks like a bomb....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article @Gąska posted in In other news today... said:
When everything looks like a bomb....
'bout forty years ago I remember reading about some company that sent mainframe disk packs, escorted, on an overseas commercial flight, and the courier was met by military with guns drawn. Seems those old disk drives bore a strong resemblance to a certain kind of land mine.
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She began to fear the man was searching for bomb-making instructions.
I ... can't even.
If you start searching for bomb-making instructions when you're on the plane, you definitively haven't figured the whole how-to-plan-ahead-thing out.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
She began to fear the man was searching for bomb-making instructions.
I ... can't even.
If you start searching for bomb-making instructions when you're on the plane, you definitively haven't figure the whole how-to-plan-ahead-thing out.
Maybe she was also worried he was MacGyver.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
She began to fear the man was searching for bomb-making instructions.
I ... can't even.
If you start searching for bomb-making instructions when you're on the plane, you definitively haven't figure the whole how-to-plan-ahead-thing out.
Maybe she was also worried he was MacGyver.
Mac doesn't need instructions.
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TFA is silent on whether she'd flown in from Florida or not.
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TL;DR: A group of people were demonstrating because the investigation on last year's port explosion was being handled unsatisfactorily. Someone got into their head to shoot into the crowd. Unfortunately, at least some people in the crowd were members of Hezbollah. They went to get guns to shoot back with. And it all went downhill from there...
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@boomzilla If your "art" looks like something that needs to be cleaned off, maybe you should rethink your career as an artist.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
If your "art" looks like something that needs to be cleaned off,
maybe you should rethink your career as an artistyou can get government funding for it if you know the right people.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
They didn't even do it properly. Looks like they 'cleaned' so far and just gave up.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
They didn't even do it properly. Looks like they 'cleaned' so far and just gave up.
I like to think that the cleaners didn't bring a ladder and managed to clean to that height, at which point they went and asked their manager for one, and at that point alerted the management of their fuck-up...
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the url ends with a dash.
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I spotted it on Not The Bee, but they hashed up the punchline:
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Instead of having their chips crippled by security vulnerabilities they're doing it by design now. A bold move.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Instead of having their chips crippled by security vulnerabilities they're doing it by design now. A bold move.
It's worse:
"Features are enabled through a license activation process," he wrote. "The SDSi driver provides a per-socket, ioctl interface for applications to perform three main provisioning functions."
So, essentially "microtransactions" for your CPU. Want to have feature X? That'll be €€€, thanks -- download the following license file and pass it to your CPU.
I'm saying "microtransactions" because the obvious next step is to buy a feature-enable for a limited time, after which it'll disable itself again.
Edit: These are for Xeon CPUs? Nevermind then. It'll be macrotransactions in that case.
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@cvi insert
:youwouldntdownloadacar.bmp:
. Because hell yes I’d download the uncrippling code for this.
And Xeons are the price of a car anyway.Filed under: what’s our emoji for pirates?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Because hell yes I’d download the uncrippling code for this.
I mean ... that's what Intel wants you to do. They'll even provide a nice webstore for you to do so.
With this technology we could finally get to the stage where you can download more RAM from the internet. We'll finally have vanquished that meme.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
With this technology we could finally get to the stage where you can download more RAM from the internet.
Probably not. RAM is one of the things that it's really not a good idea to do in an FPGA (which is what I guess Intel are really putting on there) as the gate densities that you need for RAM are crazy high and you use specialized gates for that. Indeed, for a long time you simply couldn't get standard RAM on the same chip as a CPU; the technologies for making them were incompatible. That's not true any more, but RAM blocks are still special worlds.
Downloading an FFT solver, crypto engine or matrix inverter, that's possible.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Instead of having their chips crippled by security vulnerabilities they're doing it by design now. A bold move.
It's worse:
"Features are enabled through a license activation process," he wrote. "The SDSi driver provides a per-socket, ioctl interface for applications to perform three main provisioning functions."
So, essentially "microtransactions" for your CPU. Want to have feature X? That'll be €€€, thanks -- download the following license file and pass it to your CPU.
From what I've read, it used to be quite common in the 60s (except the downloading part, of course).
But then again, so were hippies...
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Instead of having their chips crippled by security vulnerabilities they're doing it by design now. A bold move.
It's worse:
"Features are enabled through a license activation process," he wrote. "The SDSi driver provides a per-socket, ioctl interface for applications to perform three main provisioning functions."
So, essentially "microtransactions" for your CPU. Want to have feature X? That'll be €€€, thanks -- download the following license file and pass it to your CPU.
I'm saying "microtransactions" because the obvious next step is to buy a feature-enable for a limited time, after which it'll disable itself again.
Edit: These are for Xeon CPUs? Nevermind then. It'll be macrotransactions in that case.
I'm surprised it isn't subscription based out of the gate.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Probably not. RAM is one of the things that it's really not a good idea to do in an FPGA (which is what I guess Intel are really putting on there) as the gate densities that you need for RAM are crazy high and you use specialized gates for that. Indeed, for a long time you simply couldn't get standard RAM on the same chip as a CPU; the technologies for making them were incompatible. That's not true any more, but RAM blocks are still special worlds.
(a) Wasn't entirely serious.
(b) Sell X GB RAM modules that actually have X+Y GM on board. Unlock extra RAM if valid license is provided.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
(a) Wasn't entirely serious.
Welcome to TDWTFF where we'll always use pedantry to ruin a good joke.
*edit maybe "where we'll never let a good joke ruin unnecessary pendantry" would have being a better fit.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Sell X GB RAM modules that actually have X+Y GM on board. Unlock extra RAM if valid license is provided.
That'd be worth it if demand was slack, but it really isn't. Instead, you just hold out for the full cost of the X+Y and someone will merrily pay it. Generally, if there's an X+Y and you're only selling X, it's because the Y was found to be broken during post-production testing (which could be anything from being outside the timing envelope to a merry tendency to connect the power supply rail to the ground directly and so let the magic smoke out and possibly start a small fire).
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
With this technology we could finally get to the stage where you can download more RAM from the internet.
Probably not. RAM is one of the things that it's really not a good idea to do in an FPGA (which is what I guess Intel are really putting on there) as the gate densities that you need for RAM are crazy high and you use specialized gates for that. Indeed, for a long time you simply couldn't get standard RAM on the same chip as a CPU; the technologies for making them were incompatible. That's not true any more, but RAM blocks are still special worlds.
Downloading an FFT solver, crypto engine or matrix inverter, that's possible.
Maybe. But it sounds like you're not downloading anything other than a license, really. The stuff is already on the chip.
Between that GitHub mention and the three functions added to the Linux kernel, it seems plain that Intel could ship Xeons with latent features you could enable by sending it some cash.
It's more like how you buy the Tesla "upgrade" that removes a software limitation on how close to 100% you can charge the battery.