I usually use the URL bar for search anyways. This will free up a bit of space for maybe a few icons.
I'm a bit surprised to find that people are seeing performance issues with FF these days. Runs fine on my systems.
Might not even be a mistake. Disks die from time to time. You might get hit with a disaster (earthquake, flood, tornado, fire, electrical damage). Always have backups in multiple locations.
Encryption. 2 backups (also encrypted), one at home and one at the office.
If lost, damaged or stolen, I just buy another MacBook Pro, restore from Time Machine and I'm good to go. I work near an Apple Store so I could probably be back up and running in a few hours.
I tried it and it's flaky at best. I have spotty cell reception in my office (two x 1/4 inch panes of glass do that) and it can take a while to get a text or other notification.
We have Comcast at 25 Mbps. My friend has it at 200 Mbps for the same price. Comcast offers up to 2 Gbps at my house. My estimate is that we'd be fine with about 15 Mbps but Comcast nor Fairpoint (DSL) offer that. I don't think that it makes a difference on performance on what speed they offer you (to a point) - it probably costs them the same amount.
I think that bicycling is a great form of exercise though I tried it when I moved here and determined that it was a dangerous way to commute in my area where the speed limits are around 40 and people drive at 55. So my 35-year-old custom-built bicycle (I bought the parts and built it when I used to ride with the Charles River Wheelman) is mainly used for hanging laundry.
One other thing about bicycling (and running) on the road. If your area has a lot of auto-related pollution, you could be breathing in far more pollution than you would be if you weren't working out on the road or if you were running or cycling in the woods.
If they can guarantee that there are no accidents, highjackings or other problems, then sure. But what happens when they launch a missile at a vehicle and it misses and hits an apartment building or a school?
"The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (/brod/), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The institute is independently governed and supported as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc.,[1][2] and is partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals."
Rather interesting place. You've got Harvard, MIT and the Partners Healthcare hospitals - it's a pretty potent research institute.
I've noticed rising squirrel populations in our housing development over the last ten years (chipmunks and a few other critters too). Sometimes they gnaw on parts of your house but they mostly go after the trash. I guess that it's the lack of natural predators that has their populations growing. If you want to see a safe habitat for squirrels, walk around Boston Common where the pigeons and squirrels can compete for your snacks.
I've been playing around with wireless headsets since around 2008 and it was mostly junk (useful stuff but it broke after a short period of time) and they started to get a lot better with Liquipel. I still had wired headphones that I used from time to time but I recently got a set of Jaybird X2s that I carry around with me and I haven't used the wired stuff for at least several months.
There is a loss of sound quality going from wired to wireless but I mainly use wireless headsets for running and a lot of listening is to podcasts where sound quality isn't a huge factor. When you run, you generate noise from wind, hitting the ground, etc., so there's already some quality loss. I use them in the gym too for safety reasons as wired headsets can get caught up on equipment.
I'm not a fan of the new wireless headsets without a band between them as I like using the stalk on the cable for the controls.
For those that research these drugs for a family member, one look at the potential side effects has to make deciding on whether or not to grant permission can be a really tough choice. There are a number of drugs and one may work while another doesn't. Or one may have minimal side-effects while others have a lot of side-effects. There's the cost of drugs and the experimentation period of getting the dosage right. I don't know whether or not these things are addictive but that's another potential problem.
If caring family is around to help make an informed decision, then I think that they'd be in the camp of using as little as possible as this stuff while making the patient's life comfortable, bearable or livable. It seems like our problem is that family isn't available for a lot of people with psychiatric problems.
My major complaints with Windows 10 are: updates when Microsoft feels like it; updates that brick your machine; the size of the title bar buttons; virtual memory problems. I've moved about 95% of my work over to OS X but I still have one program that only runs on Windows. I upgraded it to Windows 10 and it has Virtual Memory and performance problems. It's happy to use up to 13 GB of RAM on one of my Windows 10 desktops. So I installed a Windows 7 VM on the Windows 10 system and it comfortably uses about 400 MB of RAM - so that's my workaround to the Virtual Memory problem. It also solves the button size problem. Windows 10 brought us those huge buttons, presumably, so that people could hit them on the touch screen. I work in a Linux environment and it is nice to have native X for your operating system.
I said that CPUs back then were pretty slow; not specifically Alpha CPUs. We did development work on NT, Unix and VMS on AlphaServer 8000 series. We did some work on some pretty early development hardware too. Our software was supported multiprocessing and clustering from the mid-1980s (might be the late 1980s - it was a long time ago) on the VAX 6000 series systems. I just used the Alphaserver to connect into the appropriate system or cluster to do development on. I do not recall when we added multithreading but I'd guess late 80s or early 90s.
I think that you skipped the Pentium Pro (1995) which didn't sell well and the AMD Athlon-X2 (2005) which beat Intel on its mainstream dual-core processors by a year - they also beat Intel to market on x64 supoort.
But the Alphas and other RISC processors suffered sharply from price/performance. I had a SparcStation back around 2000 and it cost about $20K. I could get an Intel workstation for about $4K with five times the useful performance. That is five times the performance at one-fifth the price. The brutal advantage of commodity processors took a considerable toll over RISC processors through the 2nd half of the 1990s and beyond. I recall at DEC that Mark Palmer was laying off huge numbers of engineers and selling off what could be sold until the eventual sale to Compaq.
We still have Alpha systems these days but they're emulated on x86. Last time I used a real Alpha systems was about ten years ago.
I ran this on an Alphastation 400 while working at DEC.
FX!32 did on-the-fly code translation (no compilation as there was no source code involved) but it would store the translation for use later on if you ran the code (executable, shared libraries) again. You could also schedule translation to run when you weren't using the system so it would go around translating your applications without any performance penalties when you were around.
It worked but I ran into crashes with some applications and updated applications and operating system components required retranslation. CPUs were pretty slow back then so translations could take hours.
These days, I'd just prefer to run a VM in VirtualBox on an x86 processor with 16-32 GB of RAM. I don't plan on running desktop applications on a phone anytime soon. I imagine a bunch of AVX2 operations on a phone wouldn't turn out well either.
That's the impression that I had. We have the Google Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 (2012) models. Google isn't providing OS updates for any of these now. They are providing some level of security updates I think and you can always install them manually except for the first one which was abandoned before KitKat. The Nexus 7, practically speaking, can't run anything past KitKat because of performance reasons. In the meantime, Apple looks like it is providing about five years of updates for their phones and tablets. I have a Moto E (2nd gen) and it came with Lollipop and it's still running Lollipop. Motorola said that it would get one update but I haven't seen it yet. Those with 3G Moto E models get no updates.
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That's the first thing that came to me and I was going to post it and then saw that someone beat me to it.
I usually use the URL bar for search anyways. This will free up a bit of space for maybe a few icons. I'm a bit surprised to find that people are seeing performance issues with FF these days. Runs fine on my systems.
Might not even be a mistake. Disks die from time to time. You might get hit with a disaster (earthquake, flood, tornado, fire, electrical damage). Always have backups in multiple locations.
Yup. 1 month of work that isn't in a repository? Or at least with multiple backups? I can't imagine.
I love the clicky keys and I've used the old IBM PC keyboards in the past. They are nice but I think that the old heavyweights are a little too much.
Encryption. 2 backups (also encrypted), one at home and one at the office. If lost, damaged or stolen, I just buy another MacBook Pro, restore from Time Machine and I'm good to go. I work near an Apple Store so I could probably be back up and running in a few hours.
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I tried it and it's flaky at best. I have spotty cell reception in my office (two x 1/4 inch panes of glass do that) and it can take a while to get a text or other notification.
We have Comcast at 25 Mbps. My friend has it at 200 Mbps for the same price. Comcast offers up to 2 Gbps at my house. My estimate is that we'd be fine with about 15 Mbps but Comcast nor Fairpoint (DSL) offer that. I don't think that it makes a difference on performance on what speed they offer you (to a point) - it probably costs them the same amount.
I think that bicycling is a great form of exercise though I tried it when I moved here and determined that it was a dangerous way to commute in my area where the speed limits are around 40 and people drive at 55. So my 35-year-old custom-built bicycle (I bought the parts and built it when I used to ride with the Charles River Wheelman) is mainly used for hanging laundry. One other thing about bicycling (and running) on the road. If your area has a lot of auto-related pollution, you could be breathing in far more pollution than you would be if you weren't working out on the road or if you were running or cycling in the woods.
Hopefully they'll give out samples.
If they can guarantee that there are no accidents, highjackings or other problems, then sure. But what happens when they launch a missile at a vehicle and it misses and hits an apartment building or a school?
Worst case - I lose all of my data I think. I'll give it a week or two.
Amazon was profitable in 2015 and 2016. http://finance.yahoo.com/quote...
"The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (/brod/), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The institute is independently governed and supported as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc.,[1][2] and is partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals." Rather interesting place. You've got Harvard, MIT and the Partners Healthcare hospitals - it's a pretty potent research institute.
It costs money to report the news so subscribe to some national paper so that they can put out and check their news.
I've noticed rising squirrel populations in our housing development over the last ten years (chipmunks and a few other critters too). Sometimes they gnaw on parts of your house but they mostly go after the trash. I guess that it's the lack of natural predators that has their populations growing. If you want to see a safe habitat for squirrels, walk around Boston Common where the pigeons and squirrels can compete for your snacks.
I've been playing around with wireless headsets since around 2008 and it was mostly junk (useful stuff but it broke after a short period of time) and they started to get a lot better with Liquipel. I still had wired headphones that I used from time to time but I recently got a set of Jaybird X2s that I carry around with me and I haven't used the wired stuff for at least several months. There is a loss of sound quality going from wired to wireless but I mainly use wireless headsets for running and a lot of listening is to podcasts where sound quality isn't a huge factor. When you run, you generate noise from wind, hitting the ground, etc., so there's already some quality loss. I use them in the gym too for safety reasons as wired headsets can get caught up on equipment. I'm not a fan of the new wireless headsets without a band between them as I like using the stalk on the cable for the controls.
Love your post; even the sig.
For those that research these drugs for a family member, one look at the potential side effects has to make deciding on whether or not to grant permission can be a really tough choice. There are a number of drugs and one may work while another doesn't. Or one may have minimal side-effects while others have a lot of side-effects. There's the cost of drugs and the experimentation period of getting the dosage right. I don't know whether or not these things are addictive but that's another potential problem. If caring family is around to help make an informed decision, then I think that they'd be in the camp of using as little as possible as this stuff while making the patient's life comfortable, bearable or livable. It seems like our problem is that family isn't available for a lot of people with psychiatric problems.
My major complaints with Windows 10 are: updates when Microsoft feels like it; updates that brick your machine; the size of the title bar buttons; virtual memory problems. I've moved about 95% of my work over to OS X but I still have one program that only runs on Windows. I upgraded it to Windows 10 and it has Virtual Memory and performance problems. It's happy to use up to 13 GB of RAM on one of my Windows 10 desktops. So I installed a Windows 7 VM on the Windows 10 system and it comfortably uses about 400 MB of RAM - so that's my workaround to the Virtual Memory problem. It also solves the button size problem. Windows 10 brought us those huge buttons, presumably, so that people could hit them on the touch screen. I work in a Linux environment and it is nice to have native X for your operating system.
I said that CPUs back then were pretty slow; not specifically Alpha CPUs. We did development work on NT, Unix and VMS on AlphaServer 8000 series. We did some work on some pretty early development hardware too. Our software was supported multiprocessing and clustering from the mid-1980s (might be the late 1980s - it was a long time ago) on the VAX 6000 series systems. I just used the Alphaserver to connect into the appropriate system or cluster to do development on. I do not recall when we added multithreading but I'd guess late 80s or early 90s. I think that you skipped the Pentium Pro (1995) which didn't sell well and the AMD Athlon-X2 (2005) which beat Intel on its mainstream dual-core processors by a year - they also beat Intel to market on x64 supoort. But the Alphas and other RISC processors suffered sharply from price/performance. I had a SparcStation back around 2000 and it cost about $20K. I could get an Intel workstation for about $4K with five times the useful performance. That is five times the performance at one-fifth the price. The brutal advantage of commodity processors took a considerable toll over RISC processors through the 2nd half of the 1990s and beyond. I recall at DEC that Mark Palmer was laying off huge numbers of engineers and selling off what could be sold until the eventual sale to Compaq. We still have Alpha systems these days but they're emulated on x86. Last time I used a real Alpha systems was about ten years ago.
I ran this on an Alphastation 400 while working at DEC. FX!32 did on-the-fly code translation (no compilation as there was no source code involved) but it would store the translation for use later on if you ran the code (executable, shared libraries) again. You could also schedule translation to run when you weren't using the system so it would go around translating your applications without any performance penalties when you were around. It worked but I ran into crashes with some applications and updated applications and operating system components required retranslation. CPUs were pretty slow back then so translations could take hours. These days, I'd just prefer to run a VM in VirtualBox on an x86 processor with 16-32 GB of RAM. I don't plan on running desktop applications on a phone anytime soon. I imagine a bunch of AVX2 operations on a phone wouldn't turn out well either.
Me too. Though I'd guess someone will come up with an adapter to USB-C.
That's the impression that I had. We have the Google Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 (2012) models. Google isn't providing OS updates for any of these now. They are providing some level of security updates I think and you can always install them manually except for the first one which was abandoned before KitKat. The Nexus 7, practically speaking, can't run anything past KitKat because of performance reasons. In the meantime, Apple looks like it is providing about five years of updates for their phones and tablets. I have a Moto E (2nd gen) and it came with Lollipop and it's still running Lollipop. Motorola said that it would get one update but I haven't seen it yet. Those with 3G Moto E models get no updates.