The problem is that many merchants have HTTPS with new encryption only on the entire site, and the only feedback you get when using an old browser is that the connection was reset.
OK if they would enforce high encryption during the checkout process, but sometimes you just want to browse.
This made it difficult for me when I wanted to buy a new Linux PC recently. I did not want to go through the motions of installing a new distro on the old PC - that I would use only for a couple of days - just to be able to buy the new PC. Then I'd rather avoid that store altogether and buy it somewhere else, which I eventually did.
Maybe it would be more reasonable to instead support ISO 8859-1, also known as ISO Latin 1.
Before Unicode/UTF-8 overtook it, it used to be the most used character set and it is the default character set of HTML up to before HTML 5. Therefore, all web browsers has good support for it, more so than for emoji even. It does contain for instance the degree symbol, Thorn, the multiplication symbol, mu and bullet but no weird characters that can be mistaken for something else. Most characters are Latin vowels only with diacritic marks.
The first 256 code points of Unicode are ISO 8859-1 with the "C1 control set" (non-printable characters that nobody uses) in code points 128..159. MS Windows used to default to a superset of ISO 8859-1 but with printable characters in that range.
You could hope that the fallback mechanism would be designed by competent engineers and easy to understand. My mom was certainly very confused about the whole thing. She did not even understand why she could not log in, so she relied on my completely. Even following the instructions, it took around a month before it was restored. My mom could live a month without access to her primary email account, but could you?
There isn't any smartphone that can be really turned "off". It is always some level of standby. Many smartphones still draw more in its most battery-preserving standby mode than a typical "dumbphone"
That exact use case - as an emergency phone in the car or summer cottage etc. - is why people still have "dumbphones" that can't run apps. Batteries in those can last for six months or more, where as a "modern" smartphone won't even last for a couple days when turned "off".
Maybe I would be concerned if I was carrying around a larger amount of cash, but I almost never do.
I am more worried about losing my only card, which is both my debit card and my ATM card, as my bank is making it difficult for me to have multiple cards tied to the same account at the same time. If I get robbed of a little cash but have my card, I could still withdraw some more.
I don't keep cash and cards together. The common recommendation of what to do if you get robbed is to throw the money on the ground and run. Then the robbers will go for the cash and not you. If all you have is a card, then the robbers will stomp on you until you give them your PIN number, and they will hold you down while another robber withdraws as much as he can from your account.
TFA does not link to the original data, and it is referring to results of only the last quarter. Does it count only brand-name PCs or the industry as a whole? Are they counting revenue, turnover or number of units sold? It does not say. Therefore you can't really infer anything from it.
The gaming PC community is the one most willing to spend a lot of money on new computers. That community is thriving. While a good gaming PC today costs about the same as a gaming PC did twenty years ago, low-end PCs for office work have gone down in price considerably and there is little incentive to upgrade.
To nit-pick, they didn't enter the market late. They were just left behind when the Blackberry and then the iPhone and Android whizzed past them. They have been trying to catch up, but didn't make it.
Something that is long overdue when it comes to cell phone standards is protocols to force phones to switch off where they are not wanted. If something like that had existed and been in widespread use, it could have been used here to prevent calls and/or detect phones within the protected area.
Other places where such a system is warranted would be in movie theatres and near MRI machines at hospitals.
But of course, if cell phones did not work inmates would just switch to walkie talkies.
Was it really Model M or Model F keyboards, and did you sell them for a reasonable price?
Too often on eBay I see sellers trying to sell some vintage but crap rubber dome keyboard for much more than it is worth. I recon that they must have seen some real collectors' item sell for a lot and not recognised what made that one more special. And yes, different markets are different and prices fluctuate. In the US, the going price was around $30 for a regular Model M a few years ago, but over here in Sweden the going price has been up to $180 recently.
Oh, those without number pads are actually more sought after than the common type that do have them. If you could persuade your manager to let you have them... *wink* *wink*.
... and there is firmware and build instructions freely available for building adapters from XT protocol to USB.
Some connoisseurs find that the Model F's mechanism has a somewhat nicer feel than the Model M's. Because the sensing is capacitive and not using a measly membrane, the mechanism is more durable and allows for N-key rollover.
Also, Unicomp does not make the Model M in a compact form factor (relatively speaking). IBM used to have a Space-Saving Keyboard back in the day, but vintage "SSK"s on the second-hand market are quite sought-after and therefore pricey.
The build-quality of the buckling spring keyboards has also gradually gone down throughout the years. The Model F keyboards of old had case parts of parts of metal. Even the first Model M keyboards weight about half a kg (about a lb) more than those Model M keyboards made by Unicomp (and the last IBM-branded ones before that).
Oh, the GNOME 3 developers already did that years ago.
Not only did they foul up GNOME itself, they also took it on themselves to foul up the mainline GTK+ 3.0 toolkit which thousands of non-GNOME 3 applications use. On the surface, many widgets work really weird compared to how they used to do on GTK+ 2.0 (and how they do on Windows and MacOS as well). For instance, sliders and scroll bars are now practically unusable (for those who still use them with mice and not just scroll wheel). When you look deeper you will find that they have introduced API changes on minor version numbers without pushing different dynamically linked libraries, thus making programs written for earlier revisions of the library crash or behave in weird ways. Seriously, that is a cardinal sin. It is as if some other OS vendor had paid them to do as much damage as they can.
Your post is a typical example of the behaviour that has hindered proper discussion on this problem. People read half of one paragraph from one forum-post and half of a paragraph in another thread and then post a knee-jerk response to something they don't understand.
AMD Ryzen also seems to have a similar bug, related to hyperthreading that happens only in very special circumstances.
Quite a few Ryzen users have experienced instability problems during heavy compilation loads under Linux, especially those using compile-based distros such as Gentoo, but also under the Ubuntu subsystem on Windows. There has been some debate whether the problems would have been caused by an actual bug, or if the people who experienced them simply had an unstable overclock - the latter being something that has also cropped up in forums recently.
Matthew Dillon, of Dragonfly BSD fame (and Amiga fame before that...) does believe that he has found a reproducible bug. He sent a test case about it to AMD in April. This is not the first time Dillon has found a hardware bug in a AMD CPU. He found one for an earlier AMD CPU back in 2012 which was fixed in a microcode update.
I expect this to be fixed in a BIOS/microcode update soon, if not already in AGESA 1.0.0.6 - but I have yet to see any confirmation that it would have been fixed.
The point of having a law that bans texting while driving is to prevent accidents, not to punish people who cause accidents. Therefore, having a law worded to ban only "careless or imprudent manner" is effectively pointless for prevention. No idiot who is going to cause an accident will believe beforehand that they are going to do so. That is why accidents are called "accidents".
I think that Apple does not want users to be able to run comparable benchmarks and find out how much less graphics horsepower their machines have compared to gaming PCs.
It might also be emotional: that they don't want Macs to even approach the world of PC gaming, with the aesthetic and community that it has being so different from the Apple image.
Netflix has the exclusive rights to the show outside the US and Canada. Each episode will be available in 188 countries within 24 hours from the US premiere.
There are other ways to store energy than batteries. For instance, there are several facilities already that simply pump water to a higher altitude during low demand to produce hydroelectric power during high demand.
There could be many explanations: * GNU style formatting of block statements put braces on their own lines, indented half-way.
* Respondents refer not to left-side indentation but to how they line up comments, member names, parameters etc. This can be fidgety when using tabs only (unless you are using elastic tabs) and using spaces for this would make it independent of tab size.
* Other things indented half-way: Preprocessor statements, labels, etc. Indenting of #ifdef's around code become independent of the code it surrounds, switch-case statements don't become so deep. You could also argue that classes (and functions...) become more readable.
People who use both might be using GNU indenting style where braces are indented half-way between the indenting outer and inner blocks.
Myself, I indent labels and preprocessor directives in C (and like languages) with two spaces less and the rest with four-space tabs. That way, #ifdef's for disabling code does not affect the indentation of the code they disable and e.g. switch-case statements don't get indented so deeply.
The propylene-glycol and glycerine are the same as what are used in smoke machines for theatres and discos. Technically, that is a kind of smoke. It is definitely not a mist of "harmless water vapour" that some people think.
Eating and inhaling are two different things. While the chemical responsible for "popcorn lung" is perfectly safe for eating, it is not safe for inhaling.
It does concern me that vapers often somehow have got the misconception that it would be OK to vape just about everywhere where smoking is banned. No, your exhalation is not safe water vapour. And the exhalation also contains nicotine - just as much nicotine as the exhalation from a smoker. The big difference for the second-hand smoker is that the thing is not lit all the time - all you get is smoke (!) that has passed through the vaper's lungs first.
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The problem is that many merchants have HTTPS with new encryption only on the entire site, and the only feedback you get when using an old browser is that the connection was reset.
OK if they would enforce high encryption during the checkout process, but sometimes you just want to browse.
This made it difficult for me when I wanted to buy a new Linux PC recently. I did not want to go through the motions of installing a new distro on the old PC - that I would use only for a couple of days - just to be able to buy the new PC.
Then I'd rather avoid that store altogether and buy it somewhere else, which I eventually did.
Maybe it would be more reasonable to instead support ISO 8859-1, also known as ISO Latin 1.
Before Unicode/UTF-8 overtook it, it used to be the most used character set and it is the default character set of HTML up to before HTML 5. Therefore, all web browsers has good support for it, more so than for emoji even.
It does contain for instance the degree symbol, Thorn, the multiplication symbol, mu and bullet but no weird characters that can be mistaken for something else. Most characters are Latin vowels only with diacritic marks.
The first 256 code points of Unicode are ISO 8859-1 with the "C1 control set" (non-printable characters that nobody uses) in code points 128..159.
MS Windows used to default to a superset of ISO 8859-1 but with printable characters in that range.
You could hope that the fallback mechanism would be designed by competent engineers and easy to understand.
My mom was certainly very confused about the whole thing. She did not even understand why she could not log in, so she relied on my completely.
Even following the instructions, it took around a month before it was restored. My mom could live a month without access to her primary email account, but could you?
There isn't any smartphone that can be really turned "off". It is always some level of standby. Many smartphones still draw more in its most battery-preserving standby mode than a typical "dumbphone"
That exact use case - as an emergency phone in the car or summer cottage etc. - is why people still have "dumbphones" that can't run apps.
Batteries in those can last for six months or more, where as a "modern" smartphone won't even last for a couple days when turned "off".
But what will you do when you are doing tech support for your mom who had managed to tap "accept" by mistake?
I have been in exactly that situation when helping my mom when she unintentionally got 2FA on Microsoft's Outlook.com.
Blockchains you say? Then some kids in the future may truly be born rich.
Maybe I would be concerned if I was carrying around a larger amount of cash, but I almost never do.
I am more worried about losing my only card, which is both my debit card and my ATM card, as my bank is making it difficult for me to have multiple cards tied to the same account at the same time.
If I get robbed of a little cash but have my card, I could still withdraw some more.
I don't keep cash and cards together. The common recommendation of what to do if you get robbed is to throw the money on the ground and run. Then the robbers will go for the cash and not you.
If all you have is a card, then the robbers will stomp on you until you give them your PIN number, and they will hold you down while another robber withdraws as much as he can from your account.
TFA does not link to the original data, and it is referring to results of only the last quarter.
Does it count only brand-name PCs or the industry as a whole? Are they counting revenue, turnover or number of units sold?
It does not say. Therefore you can't really infer anything from it.
The gaming PC community is the one most willing to spend a lot of money on new computers. That community is thriving.
While a good gaming PC today costs about the same as a gaming PC did twenty years ago, low-end PCs for office work have gone down in price considerably and there is little incentive to upgrade.
To nit-pick, they didn't enter the market late. They were just left behind when the Blackberry and then the iPhone and Android whizzed past them.
They have been trying to catch up, but didn't make it.
Something that is long overdue when it comes to cell phone standards is protocols to force phones to switch off where they are not wanted.
If something like that had existed and been in widespread use, it could have been used here to prevent calls and/or detect phones within the protected area.
Other places where such a system is warranted would be in movie theatres and near MRI machines at hospitals.
But of course, if cell phones did not work inmates would just switch to walkie talkies.
Was it really Model M or Model F keyboards, and did you sell them for a reasonable price?
Too often on eBay I see sellers trying to sell some vintage but crap rubber dome keyboard for much more than it is worth. I recon that they must have seen some real collectors' item sell for a lot and not recognised what made that one more special.
And yes, different markets are different and prices fluctuate. In the US, the going price was around $30 for a regular Model M a few years ago, but over here in Sweden the going price has been up to $180 recently.
Oh, those without number pads are actually more sought after than the common type that do have them. If you could persuade your manager to let you have them ... *wink* *wink*.
Cherry's clicky switches do not use buckling springs. They have a much inferior tactile feel (and less of a sound as well).
Some connoisseurs find that the Model F's mechanism has a somewhat nicer feel than the Model M's.
Because the sensing is capacitive and not using a measly membrane, the mechanism is more durable and allows for N-key rollover.
Also, Unicomp does not make the Model M in a compact form factor (relatively speaking). IBM used to have a Space-Saving Keyboard back in the day, but vintage "SSK"s on the second-hand market are quite sought-after and therefore pricey.
The build-quality of the buckling spring keyboards has also gradually gone down throughout the years. The Model F keyboards of old had case parts of parts of metal. Even the first Model M keyboards weight about half a kg (about a lb) more than those Model M keyboards made by Unicomp (and the last IBM-branded ones before that).
Oh, the GNOME 3 developers already did that years ago.
Not only did they foul up GNOME itself, they also took it on themselves to foul up the mainline GTK+ 3.0 toolkit which thousands of non-GNOME 3 applications use.
On the surface, many widgets work really weird compared to how they used to do on GTK+ 2.0 (and how they do on Windows and MacOS as well). For instance, sliders and scroll bars are now practically unusable (for those who still use them with mice and not just scroll wheel).
When you look deeper you will find that they have introduced API changes on minor version numbers without pushing different dynamically linked libraries, thus making programs written for earlier revisions of the library crash or behave in weird ways. Seriously, that is a cardinal sin.
It is as if some other OS vendor had paid them to do as much damage as they can.
Your post is a typical example of the behaviour that has hindered proper discussion on this problem.
People read half of one paragraph from one forum-post and half of a paragraph in another thread and then post a knee-jerk response to something they don't understand.
AMD Ryzen also seems to have a similar bug, related to hyperthreading that happens only in very special circumstances.
Quite a few Ryzen users have experienced instability problems during heavy compilation loads under Linux, especially those using compile-based distros such as Gentoo, but also under the Ubuntu subsystem on Windows.
There has been some debate whether the problems would have been caused by an actual bug, or if the people who experienced them simply had an unstable overclock - the latter being something that has also cropped up in forums recently.
Matthew Dillon, of Dragonfly BSD fame (and Amiga fame before that...) does believe that he has found a reproducible bug. He sent a test case about it to AMD in April.
This is not the first time Dillon has found a hardware bug in a AMD CPU. He found one for an earlier AMD CPU back in 2012 which was fixed in a microcode update.
I expect this to be fixed in a BIOS/microcode update soon, if not already in AGESA 1.0.0.6 - but I have yet to see any confirmation that it would have been fixed.
The point of having a law that bans texting while driving is to prevent accidents, not to punish people who cause accidents.
Therefore, having a law worded to ban only "careless or imprudent manner" is effectively pointless for prevention.
No idiot who is going to cause an accident will believe beforehand that they are going to do so. That is why accidents are called "accidents".
I think that Apple does not want users to be able to run comparable benchmarks and find out how much less graphics horsepower their machines have compared to gaming PCs.
It might also be emotional: that they don't want Macs to even approach the world of PC gaming, with the aesthetic and community that it has being so different from the Apple image.
Netflix has the exclusive rights to the show outside the US and Canada.
Each episode will be available in 188 countries within 24 hours from the US premiere.
You could have simply looked it up. ;)
There are other ways to store energy than batteries. For instance, there are several facilities already that simply pump water to a higher altitude during low demand to produce hydroelectric power during high demand.
There could be many explanations:
* GNU style formatting of block statements put braces on their own lines, indented half-way.
* Respondents refer not to left-side indentation but to how they line up comments, member names, parameters etc. This can be fidgety when using tabs only (unless you are using elastic tabs) and using spaces for this would make it independent of tab size.
* Other things indented half-way: Preprocessor statements, labels, etc. Indenting of #ifdef's around code become independent of the code it surrounds, switch-case statements don't become so deep. You could also argue that classes (and functions...) become more readable.
People who use both might be using GNU indenting style
where braces are indented half-way between the indenting outer and inner blocks.
Myself, I indent labels and preprocessor directives in C (and like languages) with two spaces less and the rest with four-space tabs.
That way, #ifdef's for disabling code does not affect the indentation of the code they disable and e.g. switch-case statements don't get indented so deeply.
The propylene-glycol and glycerine are the same as what are used in smoke machines for theatres and discos.
Technically, that is a kind of smoke. It is definitely not a mist of "harmless water vapour" that some people think.
Eating and inhaling are two different things. While the chemical responsible for "popcorn lung" is perfectly safe for eating, it is not safe for inhaling.
It does concern me that vapers often somehow have got the misconception that it would be OK to vape just about everywhere where smoking is banned.
No, your exhalation is not safe water vapour. And the exhalation also contains nicotine - just as much nicotine as the exhalation from a smoker.
The big difference for the second-hand smoker is that the thing is not lit all the time - all you get is smoke (!) that has passed through the vaper's lungs first.