Do we know this is real?
Because they could just have made the whole recording themselves, to make them seem 'scarier'!
As they know the news channels will go for the scare stories every time.
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"The team estimates the effect could be stretched to a single second, long enough to allow code injection"
- does that mean into a cable or directly into RAM, or what? It's too brief to understand.
If it's hacking a data cable then surly all the parities and handshaking will catch it and return an error.
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What a bunch of children they are.
I've emailed the magazine about my disgust at their behaviour - not something I normally do but it provided great procrastination from doing some actual work here. : )
It doesn't matter how cheap the cable is, as long as it's built OK of course. USB carries digital data, it does not know what that data is, all it knows is that it ALL has to get to the destination. It uses handshaking and error detection, everything always gets through correctly, it simply doesn't behave like analogue cables at all, in any way!
Not only does What Hi-Fi shove expensive crap with lying reviews, it deletes comments that disagree with them, mine and someone else's comment agreed with me have consequentially been deleted. So much for 'Your Opinion' - they've clearly been paid for good reviews, magazines need the hardware, the hardware needs the magazines. Eating themselves in neat little circles.
I've heard that this was to do with Siri running and checking incoming audio whilst doing speech recognition all the time, listening out for the user to say 'Siri - make me a cup of tea' or whatever.
Turn Siri off so that you can only get it when holding the button. Also delete all the tasks from memory by double clicking the button then touch and hold the icons to bring up the delete icon.
What's potentially scary is that when speech recognition is on all the time, it could be converting the audio to text and sending it back to apple, basically transcribing everything being said in the room. But they wouldn't do that now would they. Would they? ; )
Of course the boxes will still be around, because that's what people are accustomed to. But, I don't see it lasting. Laptops are the new PCs, and tablets are the new internet search devices, and social media connections.
Vinyl record players are still around, as well as those ancient CD players. But they are the "old person's" preferences.
...Not business workhorses - 'personal.' I'm typing this on a PC tower at home, but If I didn't need it for my work, I would probably have a laptop to save space. And if I didn't do much typing apart from the occasional message, I would probably only need a tablet. They're more convenient, and batteries last longer than a lot of laptops. And they don't burn my legs. : )
It's all about the general public (you know, the plebs) and what they're ultimately trending towards. Do they really want a desk, taking up space?
> " "Oh, but that's different" will be the reply."
> You trying to defend looters or say both are wrong - it's not clear?"
They are both wrong and I'm pointing out that looting on the Internet is the same as in an actual shop. It's all about 'knowing' that they won't get caught.
I sell my own software on the internet and it feels like my shop is being looted all the time.
An increasing number of people loot films, music and software off the internet without even caring, because they think it's highly unlikely they'll be prosecuted for it.
I wonder how many people on this forum loot on the Internet, and consider it as theft?
"Oh, but that's different" will be the reply.
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...so if you want your users to access a 64 bit address space, you'll have to ditch Carbon completely.
And, if for example you want to run Apple's Logic music workstation in 64 bits, you'll not have access to the huge library of plug-ins you've collected over the years, because Apple have decided to drop the 32 bit bridge from Lion.
I think they've taken this ditching backward compatibility thing a little too far this time, that's all.
But then they never really cared for any software that wasn't written by themselves.
I think there's a problem with being too reliant on spelling checkers. These errors all pass a spell check, so they don't even bother to check by eye for grammatical problems.
I heard a guy on BBC 4 a few days ago talking about the 'atrocious lack of English pronounciation' around today. Oh dear.
But people don't care about sound quality any more. Perhaps it's all those cars out there with CD players in them that keep the sales going.
The concept of a disc to play music is certainly the easiest thing to understand, and not everybody has the ability with all that fiddling about with 'puters and such! : )
You're showing the US keyboard. The UK one has no hash key, and the enter key is seriously tiny and squashed up at the edge. My shiny new iMac's keyboard went onto a shelf almost immediately, and in went a Microsoft wireless USB keyboard. I suppose the keyboard's OK for the occasional email or internet search, but as a daily workhorse, forget it.
Because it's old timer stuff then they think it's easy.
If they're using old hardware as well, then they'll need to use an interrupt to change the colour palette halfway in the screen for more colours and trigger a VSYNC at the bottom to draw those sprites....by hand coding the sprite drawing code efficiently of course - but do I have to delete it first or just print spaces around it, and what happens if it goes over the background, hmm then I'll have to XOR the pixels on....etc....etc... now on to the sound, what do you mean I can't use samples!...