FUD and ignorance. Those programs came about as a response to vulnerabilities in DOS. They continue to be successful as a business model because they use fear as a marketing tactic.
As I explain to my customers - suite "X" won't stop working if you let the subscription expire, it just won't get any updates. Yes, your risk increases, but that annoying pop-up is just trying to scare you. Call me when your subscription is about to expire and we can discuss alternatives.
Some of the free suites are OK but it's a constant game of finding a new suite when the current one becomes bloatware - I'm looking at you, AVG.
There's a couple of on-demand scanners that *are* competent, though - Malwarebytes, combofix, jrt, adwcleaner,
Sadly, the success rate IME is only about 50%, and manual methods are required, e.g. turn off Windows Update service, rename "c:\windows\software distribution", restart Windows Update service, and try again.
That's a +1. There's a great deal of value in ex-corporate hardware.
Hell, even ex-domestic hardware. I've currently got 3 x toshiba satellite pros, and a HP Pavilion, all but one have been "cleaned" and are running Debian 8.
Pity I can't find a use for them......
Although one of them is a headless deluge client. Must have grabbed 20 or more linux distros to play with.
I bought my RAZR HD in 2013. It doesn't get updates any more, which is shitty - but it still does what I need it to do. Phone, SMS, email, web browsing, and occasional hot spot/GPS/camera.
It has a large battery (2500 mAh), and an SD slot. It still lasts more than a day before needing a recharge. Maybe I was lucky - or maybe I RTFM and treated it correctly.
Every time I see statements like the OP's I ask "what about the people who use {photoshop/premierepro/equivalents} as their income-producing software?
Laptops and tablets don't do large-scale video rendering. Browsers don't do rendering at all, except perhaps as a limited example of what workatations or render farms can do. Browsers are internet-dependent - which is great when you've got reliable internet. And independent musicians and video producers don't use browser-based software to render their work.
So the OP is full of shit. There may be a shift away from desktop OS for some parts of the market, but until there's a viable replacement for the rest, desktops and workstations have a market.
Could this be the reason why Amazon's Australian launch day prices were higher than anticipated?
We have strict rules about minimum wages, shift length, etc. Perhaps Amazon can't discount prices so steeply because they have to employ more workers and pay them a minimum hourly rate?
Aren't there large quantities of human waste in orbit? Specifically faecal waste? If some gut flora has managed to survive (unlikely) and mutate (highly likely due to radiation) it could present as "not previously catalogued". Highly unlikely to reproduce, though.
There's visual black, i.e. just very dark, and actual black which is values of 0 for each pixel. But IIRC you're not allowed to do that, you have to keep all values between 16 and 240 - something to do with network equipment, or transmission standards. Could someone with better knowledge chime in here?
A commercial detector system could also monitor the network signals sent when a commercial break starts and finishes. OTA transmissions send a signal at the start and end of the break so that local affiliates can run ads relevant to their own viewers, instead of stuff relevant to viewers outside the broadcast district, e.g. Bob's local downtown Ford dealership instead of the one in {big city}.
That would explain it. I'm in Australia, we planted a mix of hardwood species - mostly eucalypts. Some of them are relatively fast-growing (fast for eucalypts, not compared to conifers), and some for the longer term. Grey Ironbark can take 15 or 20 years to get to a 12-inch trunk, but it's a very heavy and dense timber - excellent for overnight burn logs, and a relatively straight grain, much easier to split than red ironbark.
Other species like yellow box and brush box are good for coppicing, so they get culled and regrow.
The world needs smart people, and the genes of smart people. When smart people and their smart partners choose to not reproduce, the world misses out. I think smart people should be encouraged to re-think their decision to not reproduce. Perhaps an improvement in attitudes and social welfare that allows mothers (and fathers) to re-join the workforce after spending the important early years getting their children started on a path to being well-adjusted and well-educated adults.
Instead of a system that's geared to producing ill-educated drones for low-paying jobs.
I think 12-foot (~4 metres) spacing is a bit loose. I put in a firewood plot and was advised to start at 1 metre (~3 foot) spacing, and cull the weaker specimens every few years. The idea was to end up with 3 metre spacing after 20 years.
Chicken and pork. Both of those creatures are far more efficient than beef in converting feedstock into usable/edible products. They will eat scraps and discarded food such as waste from your kitchen (on a small scale), and large quantities of farm produce that is otherwise un-saleable, e.g. vegetables that aren't up to supermarket fresh-produce or even canning requirements.
I've learned to do without beef, lamb, and goat since I learned that I had to minimise my iron intake.
So it's going to need an internet connection to transmit viewer data back to advertisers. Unless you sign some sort of contract when you buy the TV, there's nothing they can do to force you to connect it to your internet wi-fi router/modem.
Of course, advertisers might decide that it's a good investment to pay for a 4G SIM and cellular modem in the TV itself.
There's got to be a way to poison the data that the advertisers hope to reap from this technology. Presumably the TV will be able to tell if it's a real-live person watching, and not a blow-up doll.
I think I'll order one of those Nexus-9 replicants.
"Joi, when I'm at work, I want you to sit and watch {vapid daytime TV}. Show interest in {ads for stuff I'll never buy}. Turn it off when I get home, then we can go for a walk and discuss philosophy."
" A 19th century typeface can be considered quite readable and elegant to our modern eyes"
A 19th century horse-drawn wagon can also be considered practical and elegant, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve it.
Typefaces such as Times/Helvetica are designed to improve reader understanding/comprehension. As we discover more about how that happens, typeface design evolves to take advantage of that.
It's also about branding. If I see Arial or Calibri, I deduce that someone has used a Microsoft product.
It would be a good idea to establish what kind of failures have occurred over the years before spouting "but, tablets and e-ink". The article states that printers have been replaced over the years, so they've failed one way or another.
The occupants of the ISS have to hide in a hardened shelter occasionally, to avoid the effects of increased radiation whenever the sun burps.
How many devices have been fried during these events? Only un-hardened ones, presumably.
Having your day-to-day checklist, or your emergency checklist unavailable on a dead tablet isn't the way to run a space station. Presumably there are paper backups of some critical instructions and checklists. These might also get updated from time to time, so you'll need to print out the updates.
I'm more interested in how paper dust is managed. Also, those inkjet droplets are *tiny*. What happens to the solvent when it evaporates after spraying out of the print head? Is the printer located in a hood, or in a low-pressure room?
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Stop, *then* fix, if it's a monochrome blockchain.
Colour blockchains need a bleach process in there, before or with the fix.
FUD and ignorance. Those programs came about as a response to vulnerabilities in DOS. They continue to be successful as a business model because they use fear as a marketing tactic.
As I explain to my customers - suite "X" won't stop working if you let the subscription expire, it just won't get any updates. Yes, your risk increases, but that annoying pop-up is just trying to scare you. Call me when your subscription is about to expire and we can discuss alternatives.
Some of the free suites are OK but it's a constant game of finding a new suite when the current one becomes bloatware - I'm looking at you, AVG.
There's a couple of on-demand scanners that *are* competent, though - Malwarebytes, combofix, jrt, adwcleaner,
They do:
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Sadly, the success rate IME is only about 50%, and manual methods are required, e.g. turn off Windows Update service, rename "c:\windows\software distribution", restart Windows Update service, and try again.
Even that doesn't always work.
That's a +1. There's a great deal of value in ex-corporate hardware.
Hell, even ex-domestic hardware. I've currently got 3 x toshiba satellite pros, and a HP Pavilion, all but one have been "cleaned" and are running Debian 8.
Pity I can't find a use for them......
Although one of them is a headless deluge client. Must have grabbed 20 or more linux distros to play with.
Quick, somebody with points mod this "Insightful". I'm glad we have such experts to guide us.
Sheesh.
I bought my RAZR HD in 2013. It doesn't get updates any more, which is shitty - but it still does what I need it to do. Phone, SMS, email, web browsing, and occasional hot spot/GPS/camera.
It has a large battery (2500 mAh), and an SD slot. It still lasts more than a day before needing a recharge. Maybe I was lucky - or maybe I RTFM and treated it correctly.
Yeah, the "remnant" of the desktop PC market.
Every time I see statements like the OP's I ask "what about the people who use {photoshop/premierepro/equivalents} as their income-producing software?
Laptops and tablets don't do large-scale video rendering.
Browsers don't do rendering at all, except perhaps as a limited example of what workatations or render farms can do.
Browsers are internet-dependent - which is great when you've got reliable internet.
And independent musicians and video producers don't use browser-based software to render their work.
So the OP is full of shit. There may be a shift away from desktop OS for some parts of the market, but until there's a viable replacement for the rest, desktops and workstations have a market.
PiHole is your friend:
https://pi-hole.net/
It intercepts advertising domains so that they never even download the ad to be blocked.
Could this be the reason why Amazon's Australian launch day prices were higher than anticipated?
We have strict rules about minimum wages, shift length, etc. Perhaps Amazon can't discount prices so steeply because they have to employ more workers and pay them a minimum hourly rate?
https://nerdist.com/nasa-remin...
Aren't there large quantities of human waste in orbit? Specifically faecal waste? If some gut flora has managed to survive (unlikely) and mutate (highly likely due to radiation) it could present as "not previously catalogued". Highly unlikely to reproduce, though.
Not gonna argue. My favourite was Jon Pertwee. That crystal, the inertia-less car, and companion-wise, who else rocked a mini-skirt like Jo Grant?
There's visual black, i.e. just very dark, and actual black which is values of 0 for each pixel. But IIRC you're not allowed to do that, you have to keep all values between 16 and 240 - something to do with network equipment, or transmission standards. Could someone with better knowledge chime in here?
A commercial detector system could also monitor the network signals sent when a commercial break starts and finishes. OTA transmissions send a signal at the start and end of the break so that local affiliates can run ads relevant to their own viewers, instead of stuff relevant to viewers outside the broadcast district, e.g. Bob's local downtown Ford dealership instead of the one in {big city}.
That would explain it. I'm in Australia, we planted a mix of hardwood species - mostly eucalypts. Some of them are relatively fast-growing (fast for eucalypts, not compared to conifers), and some for the longer term. Grey Ironbark can take 15 or 20 years to get to a 12-inch trunk, but it's a very heavy and dense timber - excellent for overnight burn logs, and a relatively straight grain, much easier to split than red ironbark.
Other species like yellow box and brush box are good for coppicing, so they get culled and regrow.
The world needs smart people, and the genes of smart people. When smart people and their smart partners choose to not reproduce, the world misses out. I think smart people should be encouraged to re-think their decision to not reproduce. Perhaps an improvement in attitudes and social welfare that allows mothers (and fathers) to re-join the workforce after spending the important early years getting their children started on a path to being well-adjusted and well-educated adults.
Instead of a system that's geared to producing ill-educated drones for low-paying jobs.
There's a significant source of those nutrients in human and animal waste. If we dug our composted poo back into the soil, we'd be a lot better off.
I think 12-foot (~4 metres) spacing is a bit loose. I put in a firewood plot and was advised to start at 1 metre (~3 foot) spacing, and cull the weaker specimens every few years. The idea was to end up with 3 metre spacing after 20 years.
Chicken and pork. Both of those creatures are far more efficient than beef in converting feedstock into usable/edible products. They will eat scraps and discarded food such as waste from your kitchen (on a small scale), and large quantities of farm produce that is otherwise un-saleable, e.g. vegetables that aren't up to supermarket fresh-produce or even canning requirements.
I've learned to do without beef, lamb, and goat since I learned that I had to minimise my iron intake.
Termites - who just *love* to feed on dead trees (including timber houses), collectively release a *lot* of methane and CO2.
http://www.ghgonline.org/metha...
https://www3.epa.gov/ttnchie1/...
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10...
Termites are a major vector for converting trees back into greenhouse gases.
So it's going to need an internet connection to transmit viewer data back to advertisers. Unless you sign some sort of contract when you buy the TV, there's nothing they can do to force you to connect it to your internet wi-fi router/modem.
Of course, advertisers might decide that it's a good investment to pay for a 4G SIM and cellular modem in the TV itself.
There's got to be a way to poison the data that the advertisers hope to reap from this technology. Presumably the TV will be able to tell if it's a real-live person watching, and not a blow-up doll.
I think I'll order one of those Nexus-9 replicants.
"Joi, when I'm at work, I want you to sit and watch {vapid daytime TV}. Show interest in {ads for stuff I'll never buy}. Turn it off when I get home, then we can go for a walk and discuss philosophy."
It's pronounced "goat-see"
" A 19th century typeface can be considered quite readable and elegant to our modern eyes"
A 19th century horse-drawn wagon can also be considered practical and elegant, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve it.
Typefaces such as Times/Helvetica are designed to improve reader understanding/comprehension. As we discover more about how that happens, typeface design evolves to take advantage of that.
It's also about branding. If I see Arial or Calibri, I deduce that someone has used a Microsoft product.
It would be a good idea to establish what kind of failures have occurred over the years before spouting "but, tablets and e-ink". The article states that printers have been replaced over the years, so they've failed one way or another.
The occupants of the ISS have to hide in a hardened shelter occasionally, to avoid the effects of increased radiation whenever the sun burps.
How many devices have been fried during these events? Only un-hardened ones, presumably.
Having your day-to-day checklist, or your emergency checklist unavailable on a dead tablet isn't the way to run a space station. Presumably there are paper backups of some critical instructions and checklists. These might also get updated from time to time, so you'll need to print out the updates.
I'm more interested in how paper dust is managed. Also, those inkjet droplets are *tiny*. What happens to the solvent when it evaporates after spraying out of the print head? Is the printer located in a hood, or in a low-pressure room?
In that case, the pak won't be far behind.
Not to worry, tree-of-life virus won't grow here. The breeders won't go through second stage, they'll just evolve into humanoids and....
Sounds familiar.