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ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

The same reason your utility trucks isn't rated for 200KM/H speeds.

It's always amusing how this is always attributed to the corruption.

It's even more funny on Reddit when you can see the person who is blaming cronies in his Romania but has posts of him doing some blue-collar work in the Midwest.

Any country big enough was moving digital first/digital only for years. And with a paper records there is always a question if this one is the last one and contains a valid data or it's from years ago and since then everything was changed multiple times.

Just recently I've seen a 30 y.o. deed on some commercial property. Despite it was valid and predated the digital era, it had almost nothing common with the things on the ground.

Logitech M720 Triathlon is currently listed €64,99 at their site.

The "programmable buttons" on it works through the user space app which is needs to be running in order to intercept and replace the button actions.

No app running? No replace.

App is stalling because the CPU was busy? No replace. (EDIT: or no action at all, lol)

Is €65 mouse could store the less than a 1 kilobyte of the settings on itself? Of course not.

On a third day I just turned it off and went for the other vendor altogether.

To add an insult to an injury I knew the software would be mess so I installed it on a notebook relegated for the 2nd line duties. Less than a year later the notebook started to cry what there is no space left on the disk - which was quite strange because there was nothing what would fill up quite a plenty of a free space.

Well, every month or two the Logi software (which I no longer even used because I didn't use the mouse) downloaded ~1GB update, stored the update, installed the update. Never cleaning up nor the updates nor the previous versions. Tens of GBs of a useless software just for the sake of the process.

Some universities get it. They'll see the paths humans make cutting through the grass and adjust their sidewalks accordingly.

And the humans would cut through the grass again and the u. would adjust their their sidewalks again. And the humans would cut through the grass again and the u. would adjust their. And...

In my life I've seen enough of the absolutely stupid shortcuts which just doesn't even make sense - like a less than a meter in length to slightly cut a 90-degree corner.

My favourite example is a bus stop where people would gun the road across instead of using a zebra 30 meters to the left or 50 meters to the right. The best part is what there is a literal river (albeit small) on the other side of the road and the two passages over it are way further left after the crossing and way further right after the crossing - you don't even have any benefits of illegal crossing, nor in the time nor the walk distance.

There is only two ways to receive this unencrypted data:

- to do the song and dance to allow the whole Internet to access this cam - and 'security professionals' have been advising no to do that no matter what vendor it is

- to sit on your wire, literally and sniff everything

Unencrypted personal data is not good but if you have a habit of leaving your car with the open doors, windows and a key in the ignition - don't run around telling horror stories what someone didn't close the lid on a cookie jar.

My first thought was the sound barriers along the tracks and highways. A bit too small surface area and angles but looks like the panels are quite effective nowadays so with a some form of kinetic/hydro battery you can have an almost free lighting along the road for a useful life of the panels.

Hah!

Last year I bought a USB DVD RW drive just for the sake of it.

My 5.25" NEC 4xxx (with LightScribe) just quietly died in a PC used daily after around ~5 years of an extremely low usage. My only other ODD was in ThinkPad X301 and I had a feeling it would just die someday too most - and I would know it only when I would need read something.

So I just somewhat future-proofed myself a bit.

Number of discs I read on that drive is below 10 I think.

EDIT: oh, I helped out a friend to transfer some MRI records from a CDR with that drive. Somehow it was easier to send them from the other side of the country to a friend who would ask me to copy it and to send them back electronically.

If somehow you could have the same phone but with a resistive, single-touch screen and use it just like you use it now, then you would learn what:

a resistive screens do actually need to be pressed instead of just touched, if you never get a literal sore thumb from a touch screen usage - well you don't miss anything but it's quite painful after a while and adds to a carpal tunnel syndrome

a multi-touch sensor greatly helps when you need to discern and filter out the false positives

No, Android has nothing to do with what Nokia did it to itself.

They were making a supbar products and did them for quite a years and people moved while Nokia itself didn't. I need re-iterate what by the time of the memo it was already too late.

If you want - read my previous thoughts on the topic and don't miss the thing about Ovi in the second link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32699296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35038979

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35054778

Nokia fanboys would never accept anything other than Elop/MS fault.

Even if you shove the sales values in their face and ask to explain why the revenue was dropping for a 3rd year by the time of the Burning Platform memo.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267819/nokias-net-sales-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_ph...

And it's always N900 and 'dEvelOpmeNt hIstoRy'.

I'm pretty sure what most of them didn't even read the memo, literally.

The letter is dated 2007-10.

AMD released (ie commercially available) Pacifica on May 23, 2006 while Intel did released their Vanderpool a half of year earlier November 14, 2005. [0]

Windows Server 2008 was RTM'ed on February 2008 which provided Hyper-V as a first class component. [1]

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 added support for both Intel VT (IVT) and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) and was released 11 June 2007. [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#AMD_virtual...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_Server#Versi...