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The year 2000 was also the point where USB had become established as the most convenient way to connect removable storage to a PC.
I'm told that flutter draws the user interface itself, rather then calling OS functions.
The increase in size isn't terrible, in the ballpark of a app being 7MB larger.
As a more accurate title I suggest, "Fear made John McAfee rich, impetuous behaviour and paranoia caused by use of illegal drugs ruined him."
Dividing an open plan office into lots of rooms is an expensive nightmare of adding and moving air conditioning ducts and outlets, fire detection sensors and sprinkler pipes and heads.
It can be done but it's not cheap.
"Automated Device Enrolment lets organisations configure and manage devices from the moment the devices are removed from the box."
From about 2008 the advice became "VLC player can play nearly anything, just use that".
It depends on what legal jurisdiction you want to operate in. You will need expensive lawyers to explain the local laws.
It takes great effort to not get defrauded, hacked, sued, arrested, made bankrupt and sent to prison for years.
You have to follow money laundering laws, money transfer laws and securities laws.
If you let people deposit money by bank transfer then fraudsters will constantly do things like get gullible people to send a deposit to buy a second-hand car to the exchange bank account, turn the money into cryptocurrency and move it before the banks get a request to return the money.
A typical business bank account will soon get closed by the bank.
The man who ran FTX spent $11.5 million to buy part of a small bank.
Exchanges are constantly targeted by fraudsters and criminal hackers.
One screwup can result in a large theft.
If you don't follow money laundering laws you can end up in prison like Charlie Shrem, the founder of bitinstant.
This article has some interesting details about regulation.
"Masayoshi Son lamented that his entrepreneurial knack would be wasted as SoftBank shifted to a full defensive mode to cut losses"
That is an astounding claim from a person who has lost $17 billion by making investments in things like Wework, Uber and a pizza making robot company.
These days when you buy a new laptop from one of the big manufacturers it is fairly common for it to have the harddrive encrypted with bitlocker.
If you don't create a Microsoft account and later the laptop stops working and you want to read the harddrive or ssd in another machine, uh oh, you don't have the bitlocker key, you have lost any files you did not have backed up.
Some models of laptop intended for corporations have an option to erase the TPM if the laptop is physically opened. You opened that laptop to see if you could add more RAM? You need the bitlocker key to get your files back (or you need to restore from backup if you have one).
The FBI wants to be able to access and forensically image devices that they have seized. If Microsoft keeps a copy of bitlocker keys in Microsoft accounts then they can also give them to the FBI and other spy agencies.
Relevant? I'm not a cpu expert.
Anyone can apply to own a TLD, the application fee is about $180,000, but you will spend lots more on lawyers and lobbying. The chance of success depends on existing trademarks and suchlike.
As in, memory address $3f8 is just a RAM location and not the same thing as the base register of the COM1 serial port.
This is unlike 1980's home computers that use a 6502, where things like the keyboard interface appear to be just another memory location from software.
Is there anything interesting related to how that is handled in hardware?
Chipknip allowed offline transfers, money could be moved from one card to another without contacting a payment processor or bank. Reading the tech paper, it sounds like they have not entirely decided if the digital pound will support that.
It is a certainty that this will be designed to allow as much government spying as possibly, despite any deceptive assurances that the central bank can't see what individual are doing. The tech paper says that people will have to go through identity checks to use the system.
There is no mention of customer protection. with a credit card you can call them and request a refund if you get scammed.
I can't think of use cases that would make people want to use this instead of debit cards and the infrastructure would be expensive so I doubt it will go anywhere.
Redhat earns billions by selling downloads and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Centos was a highly compatible equivalent of RHEL, available without any hassle.
Redhat then decided that Centos would become a beta test distro with newer software then RHEL, probably including more bugs, incompatibilities and new things that users and admins need to learn.
Rocky linux and Alma Linux then became the main options for people who want a Redhat-derivative distro.
The "on borrowed time" claim is very very far from reality.
There is a pile of buzzwords and platitudes. "Token holdings", "artificial general intelligence".
Before issuing "tokens", first go talk to a securities lawyer and see how much trouble you could get into for that.
This reads like a stoned hippy telling people they have a plan for world peace and harmony and just need some money to make it happen.
I presume this was posted by the author: You need much clearer goals. Do you want to make a replacement for Microsoft Windows or do you want to make a voice assistant?
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In my opinion, all that matters is that you look at the screen while typing, not at the keyboard.
OpenVMS, if you want to resurrect some actual software that was used to do scientific calculations on a VAX in the year 1983.
With golang 1.19, for me it builds an executable which gives "error 117" and exits.