Anyone for Elevenis?
My Fivefathers....
I was one and a half way through the door.

Good point. Somehow all the attention focussed on Kaspersky makes me think that they are not duty bound in any way to western intelligence. They have the resources to harden their software. Unfortunately it comes down to a matter or trust. Do you trust Kaspersky because they are not in the big 5 or do you trust the home grown product?
In the end I don't trust any of them, but I run Kaspersky to stop virii and most malware on a critical Win machine. It just makes me angry that security, lo that the net itself is so full of holes that hardening my systems becomes impossible. Not only that, but it is difficult to find out IF you've been hacked.

It'll be cheaper for them to buy Windows 10 licences.

Unicode now has a set for pre-Latin Hungarian runes!
Hanging out for the keyboard....

Here's the moral high ground and the stupidity of UK police chief: https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/2...

I honestly thought this was a joke.

I thought they were 'pinged'....

It's one of those desert island scenarios when the kids send you away and maybe visit on birthdays.
I'll be happy with a gaming laptop and some choice games. Maybe I'll spend the children's inheritance on Steam ;) and those nurses better be pretty as I'm practising to be a dirty old man.
Maybe Slashdot will have a version for us, the permanently baffled....

Except that there is no agreement on how much data the Library of Congress actually has.
"Though some sources have suggested that 10 terabytes represents the total quantity of data stored at the Library of Congress, this is a significant underestimate, given that the Web Archiving program had by itself collected 525 terabytes of data as of July 2014. A slide from a September 2012 presentation by a Library of Congress storage engineer furthermore noted institutional storage capacity in excess of 27 petabytes, casting further doubt on the accuracy of the 10 terabyte number as applied to the entire holdings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Airbus A380

I don't get what you're on about. I respect the first AC's comment and I never disagreed with it. How could I? In fact, my followup comment tried to show what opinions are out there currently as far as driver issues and suspicions about game code, what a real system builder is up against when there is money to spare and you have clients who can afford it.
I suppose it's easy to assume that 'I build gaming systems' equates to someone who whacks a few boards together and loads Windows and knows nothing about what they're doing. I do and I care and support my systems and clients.
The 2nd AC was just rude.

Not for me porky. I build them for clients. I wouldn't blow $4~6k on a gaming machine.

Holy handgrenades!
I have built high end gaming systems that replaced older high end gaming systems ad infinitum. Always the problems of the older systems had to do with speed (texture loading for instance) and rendering high framerates at comparatively low resolutions - just for the sake of hurdling over various 'issues'.
When you realise that there are no bottlenecks in the system but these issues are still present, then you look elsewhere and that elsewhere is coding.
Those AAA games you speak of are the culprits, forced to publish before they are optimised and depend on updates that may break other things.
I read different opinions by those who (should) know about driver issues, the last being that both nVidia and AMD have 2 standards, optimised for GPU processing (labs) and another for rendering (games). Others claim that the game code itself (NOT the engine driving it) is complicit with these faults.
I will assume that coding errors in the game engine will affect the game code, no matter how well it is written.
In the end and at this time, the purest graphic setup must be a single GPU to avoid hardware jitter and the fastest ram based drive.
Something must be done with the developer paradigm or it becomes a pretty pointless investment for high end systems, 4K monitors and the like.

The big question for me is do coding errors affect video rendering issues?
We tend to blame drivers for this, but recently there are opinions out there that suggest that the game code itself is responsible (as well).

Not that I can see in the series and movies that come out of the US. The amount of small titted women is amazing. No sir, I don't like it.

I've worked with quite a few different measurement systems. As far as the Napoleonic system goes, a French explorer called Barrallier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... used lineal Napoleonic measurements for distance, however most of his map work and diaries were useless as he measured up and down hills instead of proper cartographic methods from point to point. So the height of a mountain was how far it took him to walk it, rather than the height above sea level.
Austro-Hungarian measures called Vienna Measurement (pre 1876) was supposedly standardised across the Empire, except it wasn't especially on the Hungarian parts which (for example) measured most goods as 'Barrels'. This was ok but were these Pozsony (Pressburg/Bratislava) barrels or the barrel sizes used by other parts of the country? As for area, a 'Hold' could be anything from 1 acre to more than 2 hectares. A Mertfold was exactly 1 (English) mile or around 8 km depending on who you were speaking to. So standardisation and how to use it was a godsend.
King Sobieski of Poland who came with his army of winged hussars to defeat the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1687 had to use medieval maps of the surrounding area which were quite inaccurate. He still managed to surprise the Turks and drive them off, but this was a turning point in cartography, thereafter proper 'modern' techniques were used.