My current work laptop a Think Pad, has an external and internal battery. (That came to my surprise, when it locked up, so I unplugged it, and took the battery out and the computer was still running) However it is getting further harder to to find a laptop with a fully replaceable battery.
I think STEM classes should have a class on teaching good soldering (and desoldering) skills, for the future of computer maintenance. Us Old guys got spoiled with connectors which were designed to fit in only the correct spot, with replaceable technology. My Soldering Skill sucks, when I try to replace a broken component now.
For the past 6 years all my work laptops no longer have VGA connectors, but HDMI, My home laptop only has HDMI, My friends had bought new gaming rig PCs and while they VGA they also have HDMI connectors too.
Even the cheap TV's I see today have at least 2 HDMI inputs.
The difference between a PC Monitor and a TV isn't that different anymore. Back in the day Computer monitors supported a higher resolution then a TV did, to support features such as clear 80 column readable text, non bleeding colors. Game Consoles of the time, were customized to use the TV, with 40 column text, and low resolution to get more colors. PC used RGB vs Composite for display technology to fix a lot of these issues. However ever sense we gone to HDTVs it has gone digital, and the RGB method of data input is common, and the HDMI cable for it good and bad had become standard on both PC's and TV's
For example if you call the person stupid for their point of view, make assumptions of their education and parentage, sexual preference...
You can disagree with someone without trying to dehumanize them, and also trying to dehumanize a group of people.
In the 2016 Election Clintons biggest Faux Pas was calling Trump supporters "deplorables" because that was trolling on her end and stating "This group of people I don't care about their concerns and I will classify them as sub human" While Trump in my opinion is the bigger troll, he was playing a different game, Trumps game was to get People to Hate Clinton (Who has a lot of political baggage), while Clinton game was to make more people like her. Her statement, caused a lot of people on the fence to dislike her more then ever.
Actually I am a moderate, with right leaning tenancies. However, there is a difference between excessive regulations, and needed ones. The lesa fair economy creates a high volatility in the market, big highs, and big lows. When we are in a big high, we do not want to find ways to slow down, when we are down, we are trying to rush to bring things back up. Yes the United States is still an innovation center, with it combination of (dare I say Socialist like protections) laws that promote development, like a rather forgiving Bankruptcy Laws, and Social Safety Net to prevent someone from failing too hard, that they cannot try again. We are also host to some of the worlds top Higher Education Centers, Colleges and Universities. However After Apple started up the the garage, and now is the worlds largest company. The Lesa Fair method, will cause apple to feed into itself. And give it unfair competition against the other innovation that is going outside of it, and using its size to crush it. And companies like Apple, are so big that they span many types of services, so they are in an odd condition where they need to compete and partner with the same company. Because enough people like Spotify, Apple will need to support it, in order to sell its devices, because they will sell less without it. However Apple also wants to push its streaming music service, and that business unit is the one who also handles the payments. So they will make a platform designed to be great for Spotify to use, however cause it to be non-competive because of business redtape.
We always picture this worse case scenario of some sort of EMP taking us back to the 1800's. However from my experience. Where I was working, a lightning bolt struck my companies power supply, and fried some equipment up from the ground wires, which created a major outage event, we still had limited damage, we replaced a couple power supplies, replace a couple of fuses in the electronics, and needed to move some cables on a networking switch, as some modules were burned out. We lost about 4 hours worth of work, and the customers average downtime was about 2 hours. It sucked, but it was far from total system loss.
The problem is with every 10,000 trolls out there is there one spark of genius, with an opposing idea, that is well thought through and should be considered. While I would like that that idea to be shared to help diversify our frame of thought, there is the other 9,999 trolls, just meant to enrage us, think it is a stupid joke, repeating the same old disprove message, and lie to us enough times where we think it is true.
Sometimes we need negative speech, we need to alert people of a major problem, even if it hurts someone feelings, or goes against the cultural norm. Not all problems can be solved with a careful compromise, sometimes you are right and the greater population is wrong. However probability is the case is you are in the wrong, and you are just trolling.
I would rather see, increased education in spotting fake news and trolling, learning to ignore or block message. Learning to be conscious of your personal biases, and not jumping onto the bandwagon, just because you bias says this is good, as you go on the sliding scale toward evil.
In many ways we have been brainwashed into the Warning from Science Fiction, where we relate the experiments to the dystopia that causes many Science Fiction stories. Genetic Engineering in Science Fiction will lead to monsters, plagues, and KAHNNN!!! KAhnnn!! Kahnn! ann n. Cloning creates doppelgangers, and species of animals that seem well adapted to an environment that is much different to what they were evolved for. AI will always deem mankind is unnecessary and should be destroyed...
Real science is much more dull. As well most scientists goal is is get published, so they will have to go under peer review, including ethical review. Just recently the Chinese Scientist who Genetically modified a human baby with HIV resistance who is being born from a mother with HIV, was in essence ousted from the scientific community, for ethics violations.
The reason why you have more damage with the random faulty update, then with a security vulnerability, is because you are getting these updates. Your system isn't at risk from the targeted hacker, but from those scripts that in general try to attack as many systems at the same time. Even with a firewall, you are one miss-click from a google search to going to a bad site, that may have that vulnerability effected.
Heck I once setup a honeypot on my home network just to see what crap is going on all the time, and they are lame attempts to get into your system every minute. Basically looking for an old version of IIS to be running or just an XP box floating around.
A business from any country will engage in protectionism. I never had worked a software company that said. Here you go, take this code, we will show you how to use it, and give you training classes, all targeted so you can make a competing product with it.
Now the US has a problem as there is a vocal group of people who see any sort of corporate regulation as "OMG COMMUNISM!111!!!!!" which in general has made the amount of regulation in US Based companies low, allowing for a lot of bad behaviors.
It is illegal to notify users that the product is no longer in support and you may no longer receive vital security updates?
For a company even the size of Microsoft, how long should we expect them to keep maintaining old software for? Should there be a team of developers being paid to make sure MSDOS 1.0 is updated and patched? GWBASIC 1.9 With NVidia Support?
These smart speakers are just a glorified command line interface (With a little more flexible parser) The thing that gets people, is the commercials show them using Alexia to do all sorts of cool stuff, only to realize you need to spend $50 for a smart power socket or light switch, $20 for a smart bulb. In short where it really smarts is your wallet.
The big thing, is Windows 10 is more widely used then MacOS and the Apple TV. So now one can have their Presentation on their phone, and project it on a Windows PC for work, without all that mucking about with copying the file onto a shared drive, or sharing a USB stick.
You can do this with AirPlay but the problem is trying to find an Apple product hooked up at work.
Perhaps browsers should have some of the common JavaScript libraries preinstalled like Jquery and Angular. Or have a way to limit how much of these libraries we need to download to get the page to work. A lot of site you have to download a meg of js code, just so the developer and shortcut a document.getElementById(object).innerHTML = "string" command.
Now I agree linking to external Javascript sites, just doesn't make much sense. As a website owner, you don't know if the end user would have access to connect to that site or not, as well you are trusting that site to be running for your site to run. I would rather put these libraries like jquery and angular on my own server and reference them myself from my server.
However the Web Today isn't like it was 20+ years ago. We need advanced client side processing to keep bandwidth and server utilization down. Back in the old days, when you wanted to save a form, or load additional data. A full screen refresh needed to happen, or you are using frames which has its own limitations. Now when you click reply that text box doesn't need to interact with the server until you hit that save button, and when you hit the save only the data that you need to save is saved.
When used correctly Javascript actually increases your browsing speed. The problem is not too many people can do it correctly, and there is a lot of really crappy (Business owners nephew, who can code HTML) code. Coded together with a bunch of Stack Exchange Examples, without any understanding on what is actually happening on their end.
Now as a Language Javascript is clumsy (much like PHP) and inconsistent and missing a lot of straight forward features, such as a sleep command. However there isn't many other options for Client Side Browser coding then Javascript that is widely supported across browsers.
The function keys seem be used less and less now a-days. To a point where some keyboards (espectially laptop) don't even have the function keys as the default action, but use it for volume, microphone, screen brightness, wi-fi.... and you need a function key to switch to the function Fx keys. (yes this can be changed in bios)
However having used old VT and IBM 3270 terminal programs, I actually like the ability for have over 20 function keys at hand, it was like having a ribbon on your computer. It was common to have a sliver of paper that you can put next to your function keys that will tell you what the application will do with those keys.
All the hot keys today seem to be using the ctrl and Alt keys way too much now. If you are going to be so focused on touch typing commands. Then you really should focus more on the VI style interactions. then Ctrl and Alt, (and Move the CTRL key where the Caplock key is like a civilized folk)
You way seems rather complex already. Are you using a standard keyboard. I just use my left thumb on the ALT and my Left Pinky (or Ring Finger) to hit the tab. Your method you right hand is really leaving the home row on your keyboard.
Not necessarily. End users give developers concepts, often in a way they cannot be implemented well. Apple will listed to their needs, but won't rush to give it to them, until they think they got it right, and easy to use.
We use it to switch apps by keyboard. I guess the more useful method, is a way to switch apps on a stupid full screen app with no way to quit or minimize it.
But what I really want to see is a Windows version of xkill.
We have been transferring files from computer to computer over the Internet for over a generations, However there always seems to a problem of people not having the tools to do this. I will first blame Microsoft. For not implementing and embedding the SSH protocol (including SFTP) This created a lot of people unfamiliar to the Unix world to recreate their own Secure File Transfer system.
Secondly Firewalls and TCP/IP protocol means there needs to be a Client Server relationship. We really need a client to client file transfer method,
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No, just a Kasperski lab anti-virus update.
I don't think he is a good president, or even a good person. But I don't hate the guy, I don't really know him.
My current work laptop a Think Pad, has an external and internal battery. (That came to my surprise, when it locked up, so I unplugged it, and took the battery out and the computer was still running) However it is getting further harder to to find a laptop with a fully replaceable battery.
I think STEM classes should have a class on teaching good soldering (and desoldering) skills, for the future of computer maintenance. Us Old guys got spoiled with connectors which were designed to fit in only the correct spot, with replaceable technology. My Soldering Skill sucks, when I try to replace a broken component now.
The only thing I can think of is Wireless, Your PC is up in the office, while your XBox is under your TV.
For the past 6 years all my work laptops no longer have VGA connectors, but HDMI, My home laptop only has HDMI, My friends had bought new gaming rig PCs and while they VGA they also have HDMI connectors too.
Even the cheap TV's I see today have at least 2 HDMI inputs.
The difference between a PC Monitor and a TV isn't that different anymore. Back in the day Computer monitors supported a higher resolution then a TV did, to support features such as clear 80 column readable text, non bleeding colors. Game Consoles of the time, were customized to use the TV, with 40 column text, and low resolution to get more colors. PC used RGB vs Composite for display technology to fix a lot of these issues.
However ever sense we gone to HDTVs it has gone digital, and the RGB method of data input is common, and the HDMI cable for it good and bad had become standard on both PC's and TV's
It is when it becomes a personal attack.
For example if you call the person stupid for their point of view, make assumptions of their education and parentage, sexual preference...
You can disagree with someone without trying to dehumanize them, and also trying to dehumanize a group of people.
In the 2016 Election Clintons biggest Faux Pas was calling Trump supporters "deplorables" because that was trolling on her end and stating "This group of people I don't care about their concerns and I will classify them as sub human" While Trump in my opinion is the bigger troll, he was playing a different game, Trumps game was to get People to Hate Clinton (Who has a lot of political baggage), while Clinton game was to make more people like her. Her statement, caused a lot of people on the fence to dislike her more then ever.
Actually I am a moderate, with right leaning tenancies. However, there is a difference between excessive regulations, and needed ones. The lesa fair economy creates a high volatility in the market, big highs, and big lows. When we are in a big high, we do not want to find ways to slow down, when we are down, we are trying to rush to bring things back up.
Yes the United States is still an innovation center, with it combination of (dare I say Socialist like protections) laws that promote development, like a rather forgiving Bankruptcy Laws, and Social Safety Net to prevent someone from failing too hard, that they cannot try again. We are also host to some of the worlds top Higher Education Centers, Colleges and Universities.
However After Apple started up the the garage, and now is the worlds largest company. The Lesa Fair method, will cause apple to feed into itself. And give it unfair competition against the other innovation that is going outside of it, and using its size to crush it. And companies like Apple, are so big that they span many types of services, so they are in an odd condition where they need to compete and partner with the same company. Because enough people like Spotify, Apple will need to support it, in order to sell its devices, because they will sell less without it. However Apple also wants to push its streaming music service, and that business unit is the one who also handles the payments. So they will make a platform designed to be great for Spotify to use, however cause it to be non-competive because of business redtape.
We always picture this worse case scenario of some sort of EMP taking us back to the 1800's. However from my experience. Where I was working, a lightning bolt struck my companies power supply, and fried some equipment up from the ground wires, which created a major outage event, we still had limited damage, we replaced a couple power supplies, replace a couple of fuses in the electronics, and needed to move some cables on a networking switch, as some modules were burned out. We lost about 4 hours worth of work, and the customers average downtime was about 2 hours. It sucked, but it was far from total system loss.
The problem is with every 10,000 trolls out there is there one spark of genius, with an opposing idea, that is well thought through and should be considered.
While I would like that that idea to be shared to help diversify our frame of thought, there is the other 9,999 trolls, just meant to enrage us, think it is a stupid joke, repeating the same old disprove message, and lie to us enough times where we think it is true.
Sometimes we need negative speech, we need to alert people of a major problem, even if it hurts someone feelings, or goes against the cultural norm. Not all problems can be solved with a careful compromise, sometimes you are right and the greater population is wrong.
However probability is the case is you are in the wrong, and you are just trolling.
I would rather see, increased education in spotting fake news and trolling, learning to ignore or block message. Learning to be conscious of your personal biases, and not jumping onto the bandwagon, just because you bias says this is good, as you go on the sliding scale toward evil.
In many ways we have been brainwashed into the Warning from Science Fiction, where we relate the experiments to the dystopia that causes many Science Fiction stories.
Genetic Engineering in Science Fiction will lead to monsters, plagues, and KAHNNN!!! KAhnnn!! Kahnn! ann n. Cloning creates doppelgangers, and species of animals that seem well adapted to an environment that is much different to what they were evolved for. AI will always deem mankind is unnecessary and should be destroyed...
Real science is much more dull. As well most scientists goal is is get published, so they will have to go under peer review, including ethical review.
Just recently the Chinese Scientist who Genetically modified a human baby with HIV resistance who is being born from a mother with HIV, was in essence ousted from the scientific community, for ethics violations.
No it is Holocene Park.
The reason why you have more damage with the random faulty update, then with a security vulnerability, is because you are getting these updates. Your system isn't at risk from the targeted hacker, but from those scripts that in general try to attack as many systems at the same time. Even with a firewall, you are one miss-click from a google search to going to a bad site, that may have that vulnerability effected.
Heck I once setup a honeypot on my home network just to see what crap is going on all the time, and they are lame attempts to get into your system every minute. Basically looking for an old version of IIS to be running or just an XP box floating around.
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A business from any country will engage in protectionism. I never had worked a software company that said. Here you go, take this code, we will show you how to use it, and give you training classes, all targeted so you can make a competing product with it.
Now the US has a problem as there is a vocal group of people who see any sort of corporate regulation as "OMG COMMUNISM!111!!!!!" which in general has made the amount of regulation in US Based companies low, allowing for a lot of bad behaviors.
It is illegal to notify users that the product is no longer in support and you may no longer receive vital security updates?
For a company even the size of Microsoft, how long should we expect them to keep maintaining old software for? Should there be a team of developers being paid to make sure MSDOS 1.0 is updated and patched? GWBASIC 1.9 With NVidia Support?
These smart speakers are just a glorified command line interface (With a little more flexible parser)
The thing that gets people, is the commercials show them using Alexia to do all sorts of cool stuff, only to realize you need to spend $50 for a smart power socket or light switch, $20 for a smart bulb. In short where it really smarts is your wallet.
It sounds like it to me.
The big thing, is Windows 10 is more widely used then MacOS and the Apple TV. So now one can have their Presentation on their phone, and project it on a Windows PC for work, without all that mucking about with copying the file onto a shared drive, or sharing a USB stick.
You can do this with AirPlay but the problem is trying to find an Apple product hooked up at work.
Perhaps browsers should have some of the common JavaScript libraries preinstalled like Jquery and Angular.
Or have a way to limit how much of these libraries we need to download to get the page to work. A lot of site you have to download a meg of js code, just so the developer and shortcut a document.getElementById(object).innerHTML = "string" command.
I sacrifice my node.js and jquery, To fuse into OpenJS, I put my Dojo in defense mode, then I will end my turn.
The audience (in the show) gasps at such a bold course of action.
While we as the audience of the show, have no clue on what he did.
Now I agree linking to external Javascript sites, just doesn't make much sense. As a website owner, you don't know if the end user would have access to connect to that site or not, as well you are trusting that site to be running for your site to run. I would rather put these libraries like jquery and angular on my own server and reference them myself from my server.
However the Web Today isn't like it was 20+ years ago. We need advanced client side processing to keep bandwidth and server utilization down. Back in the old days, when you wanted to save a form, or load additional data. A full screen refresh needed to happen, or you are using frames which has its own limitations. Now when you click reply that text box doesn't need to interact with the server until you hit that save button, and when you hit the save only the data that you need to save is saved.
When used correctly Javascript actually increases your browsing speed. The problem is not too many people can do it correctly, and there is a lot of really crappy (Business owners nephew, who can code HTML) code. Coded together with a bunch of Stack Exchange Examples, without any understanding on what is actually happening on their end.
Now as a Language Javascript is clumsy (much like PHP) and inconsistent and missing a lot of straight forward features, such as a sleep command. However there isn't many other options for Client Side Browser coding then Javascript that is widely supported across browsers.
The function keys seem be used less and less now a-days. To a point where some keyboards (espectially laptop) don't even have the function keys as the default action, but use it for volume, microphone, screen brightness, wi-fi.... and you need a function key to switch to the function Fx keys. (yes this can be changed in bios)
However having used old VT and IBM 3270 terminal programs, I actually like the ability for have over 20 function keys at hand, it was like having a ribbon on your computer. It was common to have a sliver of paper that you can put next to your function keys that will tell you what the application will do with those keys.
All the hot keys today seem to be using the ctrl and Alt keys way too much now. If you are going to be so focused on touch typing commands. Then you really should focus more on the VI style interactions. then Ctrl and Alt, (and Move the CTRL key where the Caplock key is like a civilized folk)
You way seems rather complex already. Are you using a standard keyboard.
I just use my left thumb on the ALT and my Left Pinky (or Ring Finger) to hit the tab. Your method you right hand is really leaving the home row on your keyboard.
Not necessarily.
End users give developers concepts, often in a way they cannot be implemented well. Apple will listed to their needs, but won't rush to give it to them, until they think they got it right, and easy to use.
We use it to switch apps by keyboard. I guess the more useful method, is a way to switch apps on a stupid full screen app with no way to quit or minimize it.
But what I really want to see is a Windows version of xkill.
We have been transferring files from computer to computer over the Internet for over a generations, However there always seems to a problem of people not having the tools to do this.
I will first blame Microsoft. For not implementing and embedding the SSH protocol (including SFTP) This created a lot of people unfamiliar to the Unix world to recreate their own Secure File Transfer system.
Secondly Firewalls and TCP/IP protocol means there needs to be a Client Server relationship. We really need a client to client file transfer method,