Agreed. Win 7 is supported until 2020 and the last I heard the Pro version may go a little while longer than that.
I am wondering if this monitoring will cease and blow over as more people hear about it. Most people seem to have forgotten that XP phoned home with random core dumps when it was first released. I don't remember when they stopped that, It may have been "fixed" prior to sp1 even.
I suspect this will become opt-in, if it remains at all. The whole NSA thing has the masses much more cognizant of such things currently.
GM is in the process of getting disrupted, both in terms of business model and technology. They are afraid of Tesla, and it's obvious and there isn't much to see here.
No, they are not afraid of Tesla. As TFS stated, they think of Tesla as "fringe" Which at the moment, they are kind of correct. GM has sold almost 80,000 Volts. The Model S is has probably sold 30K units to date. Granted, the Volt is cheaper and has been for sale two years longer. But it's also not something that GM really cares about. And that's just looking at their electric vehicle sales. GM probably averages 200,000+ units sold per month in the US alone.
That being said. They should take notice. Times are changing and it's hard for large companies who have been around forever to see threats. And Tesla has been and is a very forward thinking company
GM should have been out of business long ago anyway. Leave it to Ford and Toyota who actually know how to make and sell things. They will be able to compete with Tesla where GM will not.
I wouldn't count GM out just yet. They still sell a lot of vehicles.They've also been very innovative in the past. It's possible they can do so again.
Tinted window film should do the trick. But only if you have another use for it, as a roll will probably cost you as much as the clock.
While the advent of blue LEDs has been pretty cool from a certain stand point, some things make no sense. There was a study a few years back that showed how blue light can really screw with your sleep. Then another that seemed to indicate all kinds of health problems that can be caused by having blue lights on while sleeping. Here's one. but there are better ones if you feel like looking.
Let's just give credit where it's due and learn from their success. We can't put our noses up and say our space program is a 2015 Cadillac Escalade whereas yours is a 2014 Tata Nano.
FTFY.
But I agree with the rest. It was one hell of an accomplishment for India. Or any other country to get to Mars on the first attempt.
I dislike Apple as much as the next person, but these are lazy jokes that we shouldn't support. I want to see fresh, new material, not the same recycled garbage.
Actually I thought the first two words in the title out of context was pretty funny.
Chuck Norris doesn't need a stinkin' rocket to go to the moon, he just jumps.
Chuck Norris doesn't jump to the moon. The landing would knock it out of orbit. He simply points at the ground and the universe shifts around him by 385,000 km (give or take).
On other news sites I read that they banned teaching history, biology, music, literature and chemistry. If you add maths... then what's left?
Why the Quran, of course. So by literature, I assume that reading is still permissible. Although maybe not. That way they can tell the masses what ever they want to say about the Quran.
You still have marksmanship, physical fitness (at least as it relates to fighting), suicide bombing,
Of course without math and physics, I'm not sure how you can make bombs, or manufacture rifles and bullets. So that leaves you with acquiring ones made by the supposed enemy. You'd think using the product of infidels would be some kind of sin too.
You must be fairly young or have a very short memory. To call any LCD/LED monitor a "desk-eating behemoth" makes me laugh. I have dual 24" LCD's now. But they replaced my dual 21" Eizo CRT medical grade monitors. They weighed 90+ lbs. each and were probably 24" deep.
The idea is to have a timer that would automatically disable the equipment unless it received an enable signal, either from a satellite or removable medium.
This them becomes a soft spot for enemies. If you use satellites, then this becomes a major weakness in a fight against any first or second world country as they will start shooting satellites down. In the case of some sort of USB like key, that then becomes a top priority to capture for the enemy.
If you have a few weeks to bomb the stolen equipment before it can be used, and the enemy has to invest a lot of high-tech resources into cracking the systems, then that's probably good enough.
In the case of ISIS, the US had plenty of time to bomb this hardware before it became an issue. For whatever reason, those in charge chose not to. It's standard practice for the military to bomb its own downed aircraft during a conflict to ensure the enemy doesn't get any useful goodies from it.
Good to know. I hear a lot of people claiming that Chrome is faster and more efficient. I've often wondered about that. But like I said. It's pretty damn annoying how many programs try to install Chrome.
...why didn't science just do this in the damn first place?!
It's never been cost effective. The same way safe coal mining and 100% safe fly ash disposal isn't cost effective. If you need to expend more energy to deal with the waste than you get out of it, it's not worth it.
....but what does the "short-lived radioactive elements" dissolve into? surely not *nothing*?...how much can we strip away through processes before every part is used?...how little matter do we need left over before we can eject it from the Earth's atmosphere into the Sun?
If we get it to the point that it's economical to launch in a rocket, then there's so little left that storage shouldn't be a big deal. And if it's safe enough to put on top of a rocket, then it doesn't need to be removed from our biosphere.
Most of the really radioactive waste is extremely dense. So it gets insanely expensive to get it out of earth gravity well. To make matters worse, we have no space launch systems that are reliable enough to use for this type of disposal. It's one thing to have a bunch of highly radioactive material sitting around in a shielded location. It's an entirely bigger problem to have a failed launch blasting toxic crap all over hundreds or thousands of square miles/kilometers.
It's also a waste of of non-renewable material with a high amount of potential energy that we may be able to do something with sometime in the future as our understanding of physics progresses.
Even ignoring the huge amount of energy required to launch something into space, our current launch vehicles are not the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation either.
I realize you are an AC troll and this is way off topic. But it's apparent you don't know a damn thing about carburetors.
Obviously fuel injection is fantastic, and you'd only choose a carb over FI for specific reasons. But it's like comparing an HP scientific calculator to a Babbage engine. One is a very functional and practical solution using modern technology. The other is amazing tech from the past and frankly a mechanical marvel.
FI is going to look pretty silly when we're all driving around with Mr. Fusion powering our cars.
Grim Reefer, " I have 13 FF windows open with 5 to 24 tabs open in each." Yes, just try exactly this on Chrome and report back on memory usage.
I have no desire to install Chrome. Partly because I get sick of other programs trying to sneak it onto my computer. But I'm curious about what you are inferring. Will Chrome perform better than FF? Or worse? TIA.
I prefer FF over other browsers. But it's mainly because it's what I'm used to and the tree style tabs. I'm sure you can get the same for Chrome. But I haven't gotten around to checking.
FF became pretty unstable a few versions ago, though I don't recall which. It seemed to be a memory leak or something. It got up to around 2.5 GB of RAM and then became unresponsive and would eventually crash. My system has 16 GB of RAM, and was never near 100%. The next release took a little longer to reach this point, and the one after that was even longer. I think the version before 32 only crashed once on me. And 32 is open right now as I post this using 2.1 GB of RAM. Granted, I have 13 FF windows open with 5 to 24 tabs open in each.
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Agreed. Win 7 is supported until 2020 and the last I heard the Pro version may go a little while longer than that.
I am wondering if this monitoring will cease and blow over as more people hear about it. Most people seem to have forgotten that XP phoned home with random core dumps when it was first released. I don't remember when they stopped that, It may have been "fixed" prior to sp1 even.
I suspect this will become opt-in, if it remains at all. The whole NSA thing has the masses much more cognizant of such things currently.
GM is in the process of getting disrupted, both in terms of business model and technology. They are afraid of Tesla, and it's obvious and there isn't much to see here.
No, they are not afraid of Tesla. As TFS stated, they think of Tesla as "fringe" Which at the moment, they are kind of correct. GM has sold almost 80,000 Volts. The Model S is has probably sold 30K units to date. Granted, the Volt is cheaper and has been for sale two years longer. But it's also not something that GM really cares about. And that's just looking at their electric vehicle sales. GM probably averages 200,000+ units sold per month in the US alone.
That being said. They should take notice. Times are changing and it's hard for large companies who have been around forever to see threats. And Tesla has been and is a very forward thinking company
GM should have been out of business long ago anyway. Leave it to Ford and Toyota who actually know how to make and sell things. They will be able to compete with Tesla where GM will not.
I wouldn't count GM out just yet. They still sell a lot of vehicles.They've also been very innovative in the past. It's possible they can do so again.
No kidding. People talk loud enough on their phones in quiet places. They'll be shouting over the engine noise on a plane.
Tinted window film should do the trick. But only if you have another use for it, as a roll will probably cost you as much as the clock.
While the advent of blue LEDs has been pretty cool from a certain stand point, some things make no sense. There was a study a few years back that showed how blue light can really screw with your sleep. Then another that seemed to indicate all kinds of health problems that can be caused by having blue lights on while sleeping. Here's one. but there are better ones if you feel like looking.
In some states, all parties must be explicitly aware of the recording and consent to it.
The key here is explicit. However the driver is notified, it must be obvious and conspicuous so the sticker may need to be a lot more intrusive.
So have the HUD display, "Audio and Video of you is being recorded. If yo do not consent to this, GTFO", when the valet mode is turned on.
Let's just give credit where it's due and learn from their success. We can't put our noses up and say our space program is a 2015 Cadillac Escalade whereas yours is a 2014 Tata Nano.
FTFY.
But I agree with the rest. It was one hell of an accomplishment for India. Or any other country to get to Mars on the first attempt.
1) The "don't hold it that way" joke.
2) The "it's a new feature" joke.
3) The "it just works" joke.
I dislike Apple as much as the next person, but these are lazy jokes that we shouldn't support. I want to see fresh, new material, not the same recycled garbage.
Actually I thought the first two words in the title out of context was pretty funny.
Apple yanks...
Chuck Norris doesn't need a stinkin' rocket to go to the moon, he just jumps.
Chuck Norris doesn't jump to the moon. The landing would knock it out of orbit. He simply points at the ground and the universe shifts around him by 385,000 km (give or take).
It's all fun and games, until one of those butterflies mutations end up like this
On other news sites I read that they banned teaching history, biology, music, literature and chemistry. If you add maths... then what's left?
Why the Quran, of course. So by literature, I assume that reading is still permissible. Although maybe not. That way they can tell the masses what ever they want to say about the Quran.
You still have marksmanship, physical fitness (at least as it relates to fighting), suicide bombing,
Of course without math and physics, I'm not sure how you can make bombs, or manufacture rifles and bullets. So that leaves you with acquiring ones made by the supposed enemy. You'd think using the product of infidels would be some kind of sin too.
All he had to say was, "Oh my god, it's full of stars" and the line went dead.
She saw Russia from her back garden which, given the location of her garden and the curvature of the Earth is unbelievably amazing!
Did she specify it was with the naked eye?
Maybe she used the $2.1 she got for the plane that was on ebay to purchase a Predator drone.
Or she used a telescope and the mirror on Hubble.
Maybe she has a TV in her garden and was watching a documentary on Russia.
Perhaps, shocking as it is (being a politician), she exaggerated or flat out lied.
But hey, the president apparently visited 57 states during that same campaign. ;-)
But can it play Crysis?
You must be fairly young or have a very short memory. To call any LCD/LED monitor a "desk-eating behemoth" makes me laugh. I have dual 24" LCD's now. But they replaced my dual 21" Eizo CRT medical grade monitors. They weighed 90+ lbs. each and were probably 24" deep.
Geostationary orbit is A COMPLETELY ARBITRARY THING
From the second sentence in the summary: "It will pass just below satellites in geostationary orbit,"
If they were honest, would they operate this kind of business?
Honesty has nothing to do with it. That's the way the patent system/IP laws are structured.
Seriously, why don't they just change their name to Intellectual Vultures? I'd at least respect them for their honesty.
The idea is to have a timer that would automatically disable the equipment unless it received an enable signal, either from a satellite or removable medium.
This them becomes a soft spot for enemies. If you use satellites, then this becomes a major weakness in a fight against any first or second world country as they will start shooting satellites down. In the case of some sort of USB like key, that then becomes a top priority to capture for the enemy.
If you have a few weeks to bomb the stolen equipment before it can be used, and the enemy has to invest a lot of high-tech resources into cracking the systems, then that's probably good enough.
In the case of ISIS, the US had plenty of time to bomb this hardware before it became an issue. For whatever reason, those in charge chose not to. It's standard practice for the military to bomb its own downed aircraft during a conflict to ensure the enemy doesn't get any useful goodies from it.
With booze and gambling and hookers?
...And forget the booze and gambling.
-Bender
Good to know. I hear a lot of people claiming that Chrome is faster and more efficient. I've often wondered about that. But like I said. It's pretty damn annoying how many programs try to install Chrome.
...why didn't science just do this in the damn first place?!
It's never been cost effective. The same way safe coal mining and 100% safe fly ash disposal isn't cost effective. If you need to expend more energy to deal with the waste than you get out of it, it's not worth it.
....but what does the "short-lived radioactive elements" dissolve into? surely not *nothing*? ...how much can we strip away through processes before every part is used? ...how little matter do we need left over before we can eject it from the Earth's atmosphere into the Sun?
If we get it to the point that it's economical to launch in a rocket, then there's so little left that storage shouldn't be a big deal. And if it's safe enough to put on top of a rocket, then it doesn't need to be removed from our biosphere.
Most of the really radioactive waste is extremely dense. So it gets insanely expensive to get it out of earth gravity well. To make matters worse, we have no space launch systems that are reliable enough to use for this type of disposal. It's one thing to have a bunch of highly radioactive material sitting around in a shielded location. It's an entirely bigger problem to have a failed launch blasting toxic crap all over hundreds or thousands of square miles/kilometers.
It's also a waste of of non-renewable material with a high amount of potential energy that we may be able to do something with sometime in the future as our understanding of physics progresses.
Even ignoring the huge amount of energy required to launch something into space, our current launch vehicles are not the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation either.
I realize you are an AC troll and this is way off topic. But it's apparent you don't know a damn thing about carburetors.
Obviously fuel injection is fantastic, and you'd only choose a carb over FI for specific reasons. But it's like comparing an HP scientific calculator to a Babbage engine. One is a very functional and practical solution using modern technology. The other is amazing tech from the past and frankly a mechanical marvel.
FI is going to look pretty silly when we're all driving around with Mr. Fusion powering our cars.
Grim Reefer, " I have 13 FF windows open with 5 to 24 tabs open in each." Yes, just try exactly this on Chrome and report back on memory usage.
I have no desire to install Chrome. Partly because I get sick of other programs trying to sneak it onto my computer. But I'm curious about what you are inferring. Will Chrome perform better than FF? Or worse? TIA.
I prefer FF over other browsers. But it's mainly because it's what I'm used to and the tree style tabs. I'm sure you can get the same for Chrome. But I haven't gotten around to checking.
FF became pretty unstable a few versions ago, though I don't recall which. It seemed to be a memory leak or something. It got up to around 2.5 GB of RAM and then became unresponsive and would eventually crash. My system has 16 GB of RAM, and was never near 100%. The next release took a little longer to reach this point, and the one after that was even longer. I think the version before 32 only crashed once on me. And 32 is open right now as I post this using 2.1 GB of RAM. Granted, I have 13 FF windows open with 5 to 24 tabs open in each.
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FTFY.