Go have a look at some paintings by Australian Aboriginals. There are lots of stories there. There are pictures of people and animals, and other things, but also symbols and abstractions. It's not exactly a written language as we westerners like to think, but it's definitely communication laid down on durable surfaces. Tree bark is temporary, but the rock paintings are quite old.
Is it going to be able to navigate to the floater that sits just to the right of the focal point in my left eye? Will it then at least move it away, or extract it? It's annoying to have this little bit of fuzz jump left and right as I'm trying to read.
Maybe that's how they found out. Tech support tickets start flowing in a bit after 9:30 - "I can't insert my changes." They finally suspend activity and investigate after a few dozen tickets all show the same symptoms.
There's no excuse for not notifying an Admin that a table is about to reach limit.
So who brings the criminal suit for identity theft? The thief would have to swear out a complaint in which she admits theft - or that fact would come out in court. Even if hard evidence of identiy theft was available, a half-decent lawyer would have the case dismissed after a chat to the thief via the prosecutor: "If you proceed with this case, you'll face criminal and civil proceedings for theft, loss of income, etc, etc, etc. You'll be so in debt with legal bills, and a criminal conviction will be your legacy. Do you really want to proceed?"
That's a valid concern - I anticipate increasingly aggressive practices from them (and others). People were tricked into installing W10 via misleading dialog boxes - Microsoft are yet to apologise meaningfully for that, so why not use the same tactic on the opposition?
e.g. Edge popup - "Edge is SO much faster/more secure than Chrome. Proceed with deleting Chrome?" Options are 'Yes' or 'Later' (when you apply the MS Updates that you can't easily opt out of). Of course, the "no" option will be there in pale grey 2-point vanishing.
I don't want to enter the high-level debate here - I'm not qualified (and that's not sarcasm) - and I do know that this example doesn't really mean anything, or add to the debate, but:
Did you not take the opportunitty to roll back? You had 30 days to back up your files, locate software discs, roll it back, and then format and re-install if the rollback didn't work.
All good advice - not sure about the pets - maybe have pets but don't allow them into the inner sanctum. Cats on keyboards, dander, hair, etc.
Also, have a backup system. I mean, backup computer as well as backups of data. Perhaps a laptop that's one level down from the main system, i.e. a Corei5 laptop backing up the Corei7 main computer. Something that will keep you working if the main system is compromised or damaged. Use it regularly, perhaps at night to watch netflix - that way you'll tend to keep it up to date instead of switched off until the rare occasion when you *really* need it.
There's a couple of positives - the court said "no rolling blocks", which means that ONLY the websites they brought to the case will be blocked - any others (proxybay, anyone?) can't just be blocked without a further court order, which takes time and money.
Also, this is their "See? We've scored a victory against the pirates" moment. Future courts will get to look athe evidence, and hopefully consider just how ineffective this method is. I don't use my ISP's DNS server, there's plenty out there who don't consider censorship to be a valid business model.
And it won't take long for dedicated downloaders to learn how to type a few numbers in the address bar.
Saw this on a customer's machine just yesterday. 'ipconfig/all' showed the wireless adapter's ip as 169.254.n.n but the gateway and DNS address was valid. That would indicate to me that the DHCP request was valid, but whatever came back as an IP address was faulty.
Demand it from our news sources and anything that presents itself as legitimate news. I
Put in a bit of work - make a list of companies who advertise on (for example) Breitbart, then divide that list into companies whose products you buy (or might buy), and those whose products don't interest you.
Write a letter (a letter, not an email, not a phone call) to the PR departments of those in the first category, and tell them that you will not buy their products while they advertise on Breitbart, and their competitors who don't advertise on Breitbart will get your $$$ instead.
A guideline for marketing used to state that for every 1 person motivated enough to actually do this, there's roughly 8 others who feel the same way who can't be bothered to complain, they just take their business elsewhere. If enough people write such letters, companies will respond, especially if it's backed up by falling sales - and maybe they'll do a Kellogg's on Breitbart. If there's one thing media companies respond to, it's loss of advertising.
You can write similar letters to the second category if you want to, but to preserve your own integrity, you shouldn't be lying about buying products you never had an intention of buying. Don't bring yourself down to their level.
Otherwise, hit the {distro-of-choice} forums, and find out which laptops will run it. Then hit ebay or gumtree, or your local computer club. Try for something less than 12 months old. My current laptop is a satellite pro core2duo running win 7 and 4-5 linux VMs (not all at once!). I've got an SSD ready to put in it, as soon as the HDD shows any sign of failure. If I have to replace it completely, it'll probably be another sat pro. I can still get Toshibas with Win 7, and now they're being offered with 3 year warranties.
Not sure of your point - India has an energy problem, and a pollution problem. Here's a plant that will produce energy, and little to zero pollution from day 1 of its operation. I'm amazed but glad that it's actually begun to operate.
A nuclear plant would of course, supply energy when the sun goes down, but given the circumstances, what odds would you give of a nuclear plant being in any way cheap, safe, or reliable?
I'm personally acquainted with one of the managers from IBM (at the time) in Queensland - she told me that the government signed off every stage of the Health Dept payroll contract. Also, the court case determined that it was the middle-upper management in the Health Dept that were largely to blame for the bungled system. They didn't do the legwork required to make sure the system was properly specced.
As much as I'm disappointed in what IBM has become in the last couple of decades, banning them from government contracts in Queensland is an act of spite and blame-shifting by the government.
Having said that, computerised payroll systems aren't exactly cutting-edge technology - why are they still not able to get it right?
Yeah, you'll always need them for backup, e.g. when a cyclone destroys some of your solar/battery infrastructure. Trouble is, diesel gensets become less reliable (i.e. need more maintenance) the less they are used. You have to run them at high/max load for a while every week to keep them in shape. Ditto with the fuel. You can't just leave it there unused and expect it to work. Petrol and diesel go "off" after a few months - so you're going to have to rotate stock, so to speak - which means continuing to ship in batches of fresh diesel from time to time.
It doesn't "eat" it. The fungus grows between lens elements. It seems to like the glue. Lost a nice Nikkor 200mm lens that way. It's fixable, but not economic to do so.
The PV frames would (unless pre-emptively treated) corrode in the salty, damp air, but as they sit in harsh sunlight for extended periods, I think fungus would be somewhat down on the list of problems. Salty air can kill domestic computers inside 1 year, so junction boxes, blocking diodes, micro-inverters, etc would all have to be treated with sealant before installation. Same with all the controller circuitry, chargers, inverters, etc.
Today's price of diesel in Brisbane - AUD$1.13/litre 300 litres/day x 365 days = AUD$123,735.00 per annum Transport and maintenance of fuel and gensets = ?
The payback period needs to be shorter than the Panel/battery system's expected lifespan, but as someone else has pointed out, there are benefits other than economic.
I think it shows up the compression that has to be done get a film to fit on a blu-ray - the Digital Cinema Package files I get to see are "2K", but they're also upwards of 100 or even 200GB - whereas a 2K blu-ray is 25 or 50GB - so there's a lot of data lost from a film when mastered to fit on blu-ray. We're even starting to see 4K DCP disks turn up - I was worried our server or projector wouldn't cope, but apparently it'll just downsample the 4K stream to 2K - so it's throwing away roughly 3 of every 4 pixels - that's a LOT of detail.
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Go have a look at some paintings by Australian Aboriginals. There are lots of stories there. There are pictures of people and animals, and other things, but also symbols and abstractions. It's not exactly a written language as we westerners like to think, but it's definitely communication laid down on durable surfaces. Tree bark is temporary, but the rock paintings are quite old.
Is it going to be able to navigate to the floater that sits just to the right of the focal point in my left eye? Will it then at least move it away, or extract it? It's annoying to have this little bit of fuzz jump left and right as I'm trying to read.
Maybe that's how they found out. Tech support tickets start flowing in a bit after 9:30 - "I can't insert my changes." They finally suspend activity and investigate after a few dozen tickets all show the same symptoms.
There's no excuse for not notifying an Admin that a table is about to reach limit.
So who brings the criminal suit for identity theft? The thief would have to swear out a complaint in which she admits theft - or that fact would come out in court. Even if hard evidence of identiy theft was available, a half-decent lawyer would have the case dismissed after a chat to the thief via the prosecutor: "If you proceed with this case, you'll face criminal and civil proceedings for theft, loss of income, etc, etc, etc. You'll be so in debt with legal bills, and a criminal conviction will be your legacy. Do you really want to proceed?"
That's a valid concern - I anticipate increasingly aggressive practices from them (and others). People were tricked into installing W10 via misleading dialog boxes - Microsoft are yet to apologise meaningfully for that, so why not use the same tactic on the opposition?
e.g. Edge popup - "Edge is SO much faster/more secure than Chrome. Proceed with deleting Chrome?" Options are 'Yes' or 'Later' (when you apply the MS Updates that you can't easily opt out of). Of course, the "no" option will be there in pale grey 2-point vanishing.
I don't want to enter the high-level debate here - I'm not qualified (and that's not sarcasm) - and I do know that this example doesn't really mean anything, or add to the debate, but:
Watch this:
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSi...
then watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and think about them for a minute. It never fails to make me stop and wonder.
Another argument for encryption.
So, does the sound system consume 50 watts of power in operation, or is it capable of converting 50 watts of power into sound?
OS400 for the win!
Or IBM i, or whatever they call it these days.
I don't have any Win 10 machines, real or virtual. Would someone please try this and let us all know if it works:
Go to Task Scheduler, and schedule this to run every 30 seconds:
shutdown /a
This command aborts a scheduled shutdown, and returns an error if there's no scheduled shutdown. You might need to give it elevated privileges.
Did you not take the opportunitty to roll back? You had 30 days to back up your files, locate software discs, roll it back, and then format and re-install if the rollback didn't work.
You're already at +5, so I'll comment instead.
All good advice - not sure about the pets - maybe have pets but don't allow them into the inner sanctum. Cats on keyboards, dander, hair, etc.
Also, have a backup system. I mean, backup computer as well as backups of data. Perhaps a laptop that's one level down from the main system, i.e. a Corei5 laptop backing up the Corei7 main computer. Something that will keep you working if the main system is compromised or damaged. Use it regularly, perhaps at night to watch netflix - that way you'll tend to keep it up to date instead of switched off until the rare occasion when you *really* need it.
There's a couple of positives - the court said "no rolling blocks", which means that ONLY the websites they brought to the case will be blocked - any others (proxybay, anyone?) can't just be blocked without a further court order, which takes time and money.
Also, this is their "See? We've scored a victory against the pirates" moment. Future courts will get to look athe evidence, and hopefully consider just how ineffective this method is. I don't use my ISP's DNS server, there's plenty out there who don't consider censorship to be a valid business model.
And it won't take long for dedicated downloaders to learn how to type a few numbers in the address bar.
Saw this on a customer's machine just yesterday. 'ipconfig /all' showed the wireless adapter's ip as 169.254.n.n but the gateway and DNS address was valid. That would indicate to me that the DHCP request was valid, but whatever came back as an IP address was faulty.
Demand it from our news sources and anything that presents itself as legitimate news. I
Put in a bit of work - make a list of companies who advertise on (for example) Breitbart, then divide that list into companies whose products you buy (or might buy), and those whose products don't interest you.
Write a letter (a letter, not an email, not a phone call) to the PR departments of those in the first category, and tell them that you will not buy their products while they advertise on Breitbart, and their competitors who don't advertise on Breitbart will get your $$$ instead.
A guideline for marketing used to state that for every 1 person motivated enough to actually do this, there's roughly 8 others who feel the same way who can't be bothered to complain, they just take their business elsewhere. If enough people write such letters, companies will respond, especially if it's backed up by falling sales - and maybe they'll do a Kellogg's on Breitbart. If there's one thing media companies respond to, it's loss of advertising.
You can write similar letters to the second category if you want to, but to preserve your own integrity, you shouldn't be lying about buying products you never had an intention of buying. Don't bring yourself down to their level.
Do you mean vendor/manufacturer-supported? Try Dell. If you have an ABN, you can get access to their business-grade range.
http://www.dell.com/learn/au/e...
Otherwise, hit the {distro-of-choice} forums, and find out which laptops will run it. Then hit ebay or gumtree, or your local computer club. Try for something less than 12 months old. My current laptop is a satellite pro core2duo running win 7 and 4-5 linux VMs (not all at once!). I've got an SSD ready to put in it, as soon as the HDD shows any sign of failure. If I have to replace it completely, it'll probably be another sat pro. I can still get Toshibas with Win 7, and now they're being offered with 3 year warranties.
Don't forget this is likely all standard definition - so you're only starting with about 1/4 of the data that today's common formats would have.
Or one of the 22 nuclear reactors in operation at seven sites that generate about 25% of India's electricity?
I stand corrected. Teach me to post before thinking. Still right about pollution, though.
Not sure of your point - India has an energy problem, and a pollution problem. Here's a plant that will produce energy, and little to zero pollution from day 1 of its operation. I'm amazed but glad that it's actually begun to operate.
A nuclear plant would of course, supply energy when the sun goes down, but given the circumstances, what odds would you give of a nuclear plant being in any way cheap, safe, or reliable?
I'm personally acquainted with one of the managers from IBM (at the time) in Queensland - she told me that the government signed off every stage of the Health Dept payroll contract. Also, the court case determined that it was the middle-upper management in the Health Dept that were largely to blame for the bungled system. They didn't do the legwork required to make sure the system was properly specced.
As much as I'm disappointed in what IBM has become in the last couple of decades, banning them from government contracts in Queensland is an act of spite and blame-shifting by the government.
Having said that, computerised payroll systems aren't exactly cutting-edge technology - why are they still not able to get it right?
Yeah, you'll always need them for backup, e.g. when a cyclone destroys some of your solar/battery infrastructure. Trouble is, diesel gensets become less reliable (i.e. need more maintenance) the less they are used. You have to run them at high/max load for a while every week to keep them in shape. Ditto with the fuel. You can't just leave it there unused and expect it to work. Petrol and diesel go "off" after a few months - so you're going to have to rotate stock, so to speak - which means continuing to ship in batches of fresh diesel from time to time.
It's the crazy gusts you get with cyclones that are the problem, but you're right about wind power generally in those 'trade winds' locations.
It doesn't "eat" it. The fungus grows between lens elements. It seems to like the glue. Lost a nice Nikkor 200mm lens that way. It's fixable, but not economic to do so.
The PV frames would (unless pre-emptively treated) corrode in the salty, damp air, but as they sit in harsh sunlight for extended periods, I think fungus would be somewhat down on the list of problems. Salty air can kill domestic computers inside 1 year, so junction boxes, blocking diodes, micro-inverters, etc would all have to be treated with sealant before installation. Same with all the controller circuitry, chargers, inverters, etc.
Today's price of diesel in Brisbane - AUD$1.13/litre
300 litres/day x 365 days = AUD$123,735.00 per annum
Transport and maintenance of fuel and gensets = ?
The payback period needs to be shorter than the Panel/battery system's expected lifespan, but as someone else has pointed out, there are benefits other than economic.
I think it shows up the compression that has to be done get a film to fit on a blu-ray - the Digital Cinema Package files I get to see are "2K", but they're also upwards of 100 or even 200GB - whereas a 2K blu-ray is 25 or 50GB - so there's a lot of data lost from a film when mastered to fit on blu-ray. We're even starting to see 4K DCP disks turn up - I was worried our server or projector wouldn't cope, but apparently it'll just downsample the 4K stream to 2K - so it's throwing away roughly 3 of every 4 pixels - that's a LOT of detail.
There are so many "known space" stories, they'd keep lots of cast and crew employed for years. Who's got the rights to Ringworld?