Years ago now, Wal-mart went on record as preferring Merry Christmas. And of course many agnostics still set up a Christmas tree and exchange gifts, even if they don't care about the birth of Jesus (which by the way, Biblical scholars agree was in the spring since sheep would be in the barn during winter). Christmas and Hannukah (their spelling) are listed on the calendar, the latter being the 13th of December this year. And unfortunately most people do get a Christmas break and not Hannukah so... it is what it is.
Having said that, I saw a TV commercial a week ago last Saturday (on the 16th) for a football game to be broadcast on the 23rd, the commercial described it as "Holiday weekend, Saturday, December 23" As Hannukah was before that - so was Thanksgiving - and New Year's is later, that particular usage makes no sense at all. Either say "Next Saturday" or actually say "Christmas weekend, Saturday". Christmas is December 25th, regardless of what you do that day, and referring to that date by that name should not in itself be considered offensive.
Mandrake/Mandriva was (they are gone now) a great Linux distro. They created tools most other distros used for hardware detection. Mind you, it was still Linux - they were stuck with Gimp for a graphics program and so on. I still have Mageia (a fork of Mandriva before they closed down). Biggest problem currently is that it isn't *buntu, outside projects always target *buntu, and if you're not using that (or at least something based on Debian) you're out of luck.
I'd love to see this project succeed, but the real problem will be getting it on hardware.
If you're using it to wake up your computer on LAN activity - that is what it was designed to do, it is an option that can be configured in the BIOS of the "nettop" that I have with an Atom processor. If the computer originally came with Win 8 or later (the UEFI-based boot system never show a BIOS screen) then I'm not sure how you'd set this option - but that is exactly what the IME was intended for.
As moderator on a tech support forum, I see such things regularly. Fortunately we're a small forum and thus it is easy enough for a handful of people to monitor - and likewise as a small forum we don't get as much as any of your big social sites would. But I did see a McAfee spammer just today, so apparently they must think we are worthwhile...
Not certain if the poster meant larger keys (like desktop keyboards) or larger gaps between keys. If the former, then it's a feature to mimic desktop spacing as much as possible. If the latter, I'm not sure what he means "wide" - on a real keyboard, the tops of the keys would have even wider gaps.
I have an Android-based 2-in-1, which for some reason (specifically, because the manufacturer also sells a Windows version) uses an Intel processor. So yes, it has a keyboard, trackpad, and touchscreen (not all Chromebooks do). So what is it that your Chromebook is supposed to do that my Android 2-in-1 doesn't already?
"The air is so free of stuff and is so unused compared to the ground, it has to happen in my opinion."
It will no longer be unused and free of stuff once we have flying cars - and you definitely won't just be able to go in a straight line. They already have rules about where you can fly a drone. Imagine a few hundred flying cars in some small area. And of course, if you do have an accident, whose house do you hit and how fast are you going? It gets real ugly real fast...
I have a prepay flip phone. I put the minimum possible yearly payment on it and never run out. I do have a wifi-only tablet and a computer, but I don't do "social media". I do email. I'm on a couple of product support forums (one as a volunteer moderator). I play solitaire and sudoku (as in, games that aren't graphics intensive and don't require a network connection) on the tablet, or read books, and if a network is available check email, check the weather, visit here - mundane stuff. I don't watch TV, except if I visit a sports bar for dinner.
If the phone system died, it would be a few days before I noticed. The internet I'd notice sooner, but I wouldn't be lost without it. Television, good riddance.
We have had wifi hotspots inside the cooler and freezer for years - even before we got the MC-40s. The old Telxon didn't work in the cooler or freezer before that (and I did). Each department supervisor is allocated a TC-70, ours shares it with us if she isn't using it (as the MC-40s tend to go quick; being 2nd shift I would never get one).
We use Zebra handhelds at Wal-mart, though not that model (ours are MC-40 and TC-70 models). They have a built-in camera-based scanner and removable batteries. We've used the MC-40 for over a year, the TC-70 for a bit less, and they seem reliable. Once in a while the scanner stops working after waking from sleep and you need to reboot to get it to work, but other than that I've had no issues with them. They are locked down to the point I can't say which version of Android they use, but I know it is Android. (Not being in an IT role I don't have Admin rights on the devices.) They do work better than our old devices which ran some version of Windows Mobile on them.
Presto is (was) the rendering engine used in Opera versions 7-12. They even talked a little about open-sourcing it after the switch to Chromium/Blink, but unfortunately nothing ever came of it. It would need a rewrite for multiprocessing and... well, all the new stuff in the web in the last few years, but at the time it was sppedy and flexible. If we're being realistic about thing that could be open-sourced, that's the top of my list.
Currently, Wal-mart actually pays you the time due (and actually, this was the first year). I hadn't taken any of my time off, so I got roughly a month's pay extra on that paycheck...
Being able to change the color of a pixel isn't the same as letting it represent all colors. There are 3 dimensions to color space - whether you write is as red, green and blue or hue, saturation and intensity. If they can control both the brightness (intensity) and color (hue) of their pixel, they are still missing one dimension - saturation. Until they can deal with gray, olive (a grayish green), tan and all those other not totally saturated colors, it can't replace the current technology.
I use a prepay phone with an old-style plan (25 cent connection fee and 5 cents per minute), I don't use my phone much and that's cheaper than more recent prepay plans (such as $1 for each day you use it on, etc.) Will they reimburse me for the extra cost incurred by checking my voicemail more often? (Come to think of it, it would probably be worse if I were on the $1 for each day you use it on plan...)
Ironically, I use RSS to read Sladhdot, Distrowatch and of course Opera Desktop Team news, Opera 12 and thus Opera Mail treat RSS as "messages", allowing you to read RSS in a mail reader. Who needs an "app"?
My dad worked for RCA, so in about 1977 he bought a VIP (at an employee discount of course). This was one of the old "hobby computers" (some assembly required, programmed via a hex keypad, 2K of RAM), while he assembled it I read the manual. It was officially his, but I did all the programming. He did find a version of BASIC intended for the SuperELF which I was able to modify for the VIP, he added an ASCII keyboard (which he rewired from EBCDIC) and teletype for a printer (again rewired) and expanded the memory to 8K. Likewise a few years later my brother got a VIC-20 - his handwriting was so bad his teachers required him to type all his assignments - and I programmed on that.
The first computer I ever owned was a Timex/Sinclair 2068 (the US equivalent of a 48K Spectrum, with a few additions) which I still have in the garage somewhere. I used that until about 1988 when Dad gave me some PC-compatible to write my dissertation on.
What I really miss... after the "hobby computers" - the ELF and VIP and so on - they all came with a programming language, generally BASIC. Mind you, they were all different in some small details, but be it the Apple II, the VIC-20 and C-64, the Atari, the Spectrum or even the early IBM PCs you could sit down and write simple to moderately complex code and run it immediately. Not that it was all that fast of course, but it gave you a sense of being able to do something yourself. These days a computer comes with a bunch of bundled software - most of which you either don't want or would have to activate (pay additional money for) or both - but nothing that lets you say "I did this myself".
I can name dozens of distros which don't require tweaking - provided you have compatible hardware of course. Linux drivers are better than they were, but there can still be a few issues. Just grab any of the live distros and see how they work for you, and if you like it then install the full version.
I know, your device doesn't have a radio, but we've seen discussions about it recently. My device (a 10" Lenovo tablet that was a Black Friday special) actually does have a radio... but it only works when the headphones are plugged in. Like the old Walkman, the headphones are used for the antenna. So... no headphone jack = no FM radio.
How many people are in the room with you - or do you always watch by yourself? How close are people to the center of curvature? If you're at too much of an angle the image along the closer edge will be at even more of an angle and hard to see. Also, the floor sample I've seen appears to have a radius of curvature of about 8' (I didn't measure it, though) - if you're much further then flat might be better anyway.
IMAX is more immersive because it subtends a larger viewing angle; if you sat 3' from your curved TV (and wore glasses to make it seem further) you might be able to duplicate the experience. Otherwise, it's not worth it.
Here in OH, you only have to pre-pay on pumps that are farther from the booth/store. Or if you drive one of those big dually pickups with two tanks that hold 50 gallons between them. Otherwise, you press the Pay inside button, fill it up, and go inside to pay - some people even drive from the pump to the store before paying.
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In this country there is something called sovereign immunity - you can't sue the government except in very limited cases.
Years ago now, Wal-mart went on record as preferring Merry Christmas. And of course many agnostics still set up a Christmas tree and exchange gifts, even if they don't care about the birth of Jesus (which by the way, Biblical scholars agree was in the spring since sheep would be in the barn during winter). Christmas and Hannukah (their spelling) are listed on the calendar, the latter being the 13th of December this year. And unfortunately most people do get a Christmas break and not Hannukah so ... it is what it is.
Having said that, I saw a TV commercial a week ago last Saturday (on the 16th) for a football game to be broadcast on the 23rd, the commercial described it as "Holiday weekend, Saturday, December 23" As Hannukah was before that - so was Thanksgiving - and New Year's is later, that particular usage makes no sense at all. Either say "Next Saturday" or actually say "Christmas weekend, Saturday". Christmas is December 25th, regardless of what you do that day, and referring to that date by that name should not in itself be considered offensive.
It was in theaters, but really it's something of a documentary. (I'm sure they dramatized a bit of course - this is still Hollywood.)
Mandrake/Mandriva was (they are gone now) a great Linux distro. They created tools most other distros used for hardware detection. Mind you, it was still Linux - they were stuck with Gimp for a graphics program and so on. I still have Mageia (a fork of Mandriva before they closed down). Biggest problem currently is that it isn't *buntu, outside projects always target *buntu, and if you're not using that (or at least something based on Debian) you're out of luck.
I'd love to see this project succeed, but the real problem will be getting it on hardware.
If you're using it to wake up your computer on LAN activity - that is what it was designed to do, it is an option that can be configured in the BIOS of the "nettop" that I have with an Atom processor. If the computer originally came with Win 8 or later (the UEFI-based boot system never show a BIOS screen) then I'm not sure how you'd set this option - but that is exactly what the IME was intended for.
As moderator on a tech support forum, I see such things regularly. Fortunately we're a small forum and thus it is easy enough for a handful of people to monitor - and likewise as a small forum we don't get as much as any of your big social sites would. But I did see a McAfee spammer just today, so apparently they must think we are worthwhile ...
Not certain if the poster meant larger keys (like desktop keyboards) or larger gaps between keys. If the former, then it's a feature to mimic desktop spacing as much as possible. If the latter, I'm not sure what he means "wide" - on a real keyboard, the tops of the keys would have even wider gaps.
" 2.2 percent of Alexa's top 100,000 websites."
Uh, 2.2% of 100000 is 2200, not 220. So, should it be top 10,000, or what?
I have an Android-based 2-in-1, which for some reason (specifically, because the manufacturer also sells a Windows version) uses an Intel processor. So yes, it has a keyboard, trackpad, and touchscreen (not all Chromebooks do). So what is it that your Chromebook is supposed to do that my Android 2-in-1 doesn't already?
"The air is so free of stuff and is so unused compared to the ground, it has to happen in my opinion."
...
It will no longer be unused and free of stuff once we have flying cars - and you definitely won't just be able to go in a straight line. They already have rules about where you can fly a drone. Imagine a few hundred flying cars in some small area. And of course, if you do have an accident, whose house do you hit and how fast are you going? It gets real ugly real fast
I have a prepay flip phone. I put the minimum possible yearly payment on it and never run out. I do have a wifi-only tablet and a computer, but I don't do "social media". I do email. I'm on a couple of product support forums (one as a volunteer moderator). I play solitaire and sudoku (as in, games that aren't graphics intensive and don't require a network connection) on the tablet, or read books, and if a network is available check email, check the weather, visit here - mundane stuff. I don't watch TV, except if I visit a sports bar for dinner.
If the phone system died, it would be a few days before I noticed. The internet I'd notice sooner, but I wouldn't be lost without it. Television, good riddance.
We have had wifi hotspots inside the cooler and freezer for years - even before we got the MC-40s. The old Telxon didn't work in the cooler or freezer before that (and I did). Each department supervisor is allocated a TC-70, ours shares it with us if she isn't using it (as the MC-40s tend to go quick; being 2nd shift I would never get one).
We use Zebra handhelds at Wal-mart, though not that model (ours are MC-40 and TC-70 models). They have a built-in camera-based scanner and removable batteries. We've used the MC-40 for over a year, the TC-70 for a bit less, and they seem reliable. Once in a while the scanner stops working after waking from sleep and you need to reboot to get it to work, but other than that I've had no issues with them. They are locked down to the point I can't say which version of Android they use, but I know it is Android. (Not being in an IT role I don't have Admin rights on the devices.) They do work better than our old devices which ran some version of Windows Mobile on them.
Presto is (was) the rendering engine used in Opera versions 7-12. They even talked a little about open-sourcing it after the switch to Chromium/Blink, but unfortunately nothing ever came of it. It would need a rewrite for multiprocessing and ... well, all the new stuff in the web in the last few years, but at the time it was sppedy and flexible. If we're being realistic about thing that could be open-sourced, that's the top of my list.
Currently, Wal-mart actually pays you the time due (and actually, this was the first year). I hadn't taken any of my time off, so I got roughly a month's pay extra on that paycheck ...
Being able to change the color of a pixel isn't the same as letting it represent all colors. There are 3 dimensions to color space - whether you write is as red, green and blue or hue, saturation and intensity. If they can control both the brightness (intensity) and color (hue) of their pixel, they are still missing one dimension - saturation. Until they can deal with gray, olive (a grayish green), tan and all those other not totally saturated colors, it can't replace the current technology.
I use a prepay phone with an old-style plan (25 cent connection fee and 5 cents per minute), I don't use my phone much and that's cheaper than more recent prepay plans (such as $1 for each day you use it on, etc.) Will they reimburse me for the extra cost incurred by checking my voicemail more often? (Come to think of it, it would probably be worse if I were on the $1 for each day you use it on plan ...)
Ironically, I use RSS to read Sladhdot, Distrowatch and of course Opera Desktop Team news, Opera 12 and thus Opera Mail treat RSS as "messages", allowing you to read RSS in a mail reader. Who needs an "app"?
My dad worked for RCA, so in about 1977 he bought a VIP (at an employee discount of course). This was one of the old "hobby computers" (some assembly required, programmed via a hex keypad, 2K of RAM), while he assembled it I read the manual. It was officially his, but I did all the programming. He did find a version of BASIC intended for the SuperELF which I was able to modify for the VIP, he added an ASCII keyboard (which he rewired from EBCDIC) and teletype for a printer (again rewired) and expanded the memory to 8K. Likewise a few years later my brother got a VIC-20 - his handwriting was so bad his teachers required him to type all his assignments - and I programmed on that.
The first computer I ever owned was a Timex/Sinclair 2068 (the US equivalent of a 48K Spectrum, with a few additions) which I still have in the garage somewhere. I used that until about 1988 when Dad gave me some PC-compatible to write my dissertation on.
What I really miss ... after the "hobby computers" - the ELF and VIP and so on - they all came with a programming language, generally BASIC. Mind you, they were all different in some small details, but be it the Apple II, the VIC-20 and C-64, the Atari, the Spectrum or even the early IBM PCs you could sit down and write simple to moderately complex code and run it immediately. Not that it was all that fast of course, but it gave you a sense of being able to do something yourself. These days a computer comes with a bunch of bundled software - most of which you either don't want or would have to activate (pay additional money for) or both - but nothing that lets you say "I did this myself".
Opera Presto (that is, versions 12.x and earlier) had this years ago.
I can name dozens of distros which don't require tweaking - provided you have compatible hardware of course. Linux drivers are better than they were, but there can still be a few issues. Just grab any of the live distros and see how they work for you, and if you like it then install the full version.
Any of the *buntu distros
Mint
Mageia
PCLinuxOS
I know, your device doesn't have a radio, but we've seen discussions about it recently. My device (a 10" Lenovo tablet that was a Black Friday special) actually does have a radio ... but it only works when the headphones are plugged in. Like the old Walkman, the headphones are used for the antenna. So ... no headphone jack = no FM radio.
How many people are in the room with you - or do you always watch by yourself? How close are people to the center of curvature? If you're at too much of an angle the image along the closer edge will be at even more of an angle and hard to see. Also, the floor sample I've seen appears to have a radius of curvature of about 8' (I didn't measure it, though) - if you're much further then flat might be better anyway.
IMAX is more immersive because it subtends a larger viewing angle; if you sat 3' from your curved TV (and wore glasses to make it seem further) you might be able to duplicate the experience. Otherwise, it's not worth it.
Here in OH, you only have to pre-pay on pumps that are farther from the booth/store. Or if you drive one of those big dually pickups with two tanks that hold 50 gallons between them. Otherwise, you press the Pay inside button, fill it up, and go inside to pay - some people even drive from the pump to the store before paying.