Well yes, it's horrible, but why does that matter in relation to the iPhone? I've not connected to iTunes in years, all backup is handled via iCloud and all app purchases are made on the device.
I had to stop using iTunes for my iPhone because my MacBook was too old to be upgraded to the required version of MacOS and iTunes. It was fine and I didn't miss using iTunes for a long time. I even restored the contents from iCloud after my phone was replaced due to a swollen battery.
That was until I found out that it didn't restore my music purchases correctly -- in a number of cases, it restored the wrong song from the same album. I ended up transferring my iTunes library from the old MacBook to a new one, and then syncing from there.
Citibank has this, too -- they call it a Virtual Account Number. I use it with almost all online transactions. Amazon is a little tricky, though, because it uses multiple merchant names and the virtual card is tied to the merchant name. Since it's hard to predict which merchant will be used, I usually just generate a new number each time.
Please restore the redundant "comments" link at the bottom of the summary. If I decide after reading the summary that it's worth reading the comments, it's annoying to have to scroll back if the top link has already scrolled past.
I always thought engineering was about finding one of many possible reasonable solutions. There's almost never a One Right Way ("Fast/good/cheap -- pick two." "Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough."...)
Ah, yes. pawl.rpi.edu was where I first encountered X11 in 1989, too, although I was usually running SunTools.
Lots of hours spent in "rn", and later, Emacs GNUS.
What my insurance company does is to send a check for the depreciated value of the stolen items. I would then have up to a year to buy replacements. After showing proof, the insurance company would then send me another check to cover the difference. Makes sense if I choose not to replace any stolen items.
I was on a Cathay Pacific flight a couple of years ago when the in-flight entertainment system (video on demand, music, games) got stuck. I told the attendant and he said he would reset it. The screen went blank and then showed what was clearly a Linux console boot sequence (complete with penguin logo).
I have the first generation 1080p DLP from Samsung (HLR series). It has its rough spots -- no 1080p input over HDMI (only VGA), 1:1 pixel setting needs to be set in Service Menu at every power up -- but it it's still working well and I can't really justify getting rid of it yet. I replaced the bulb once because it was getting dim. I replaced the color wheel after it shattered but the replacement was about $100 and the procedure wasn't too complicated.
I was disappointed to find out that cinnamon won't implement 2-D virtual desktop configurations either, something I started usng with swm, and through olvwm, fvwm, sawfish, and compiz+wall plugin. nd if you had to stick with one dimension, I'm finding gnome-shell's vertical layout of multiple desktops more sensible than cinnamon's horizontal layout.
"We find that temperature, known to strongly impact DIMM error rates in lab conditions, has a suprisingly small effect on error behavior in the field, when taking all other factors into account."
Here in Comcast SF Bay Area land, the old analog channels (expanded basic tier) are now clear QAM. What I've heard is that they'll remain clear because the free converters they've sent out to analog customers don't support encrypted QAM. Also, someone has figured out how to extract and decode the channel mapping tables that these converters use (search for "scte65scan").
The broadcast HD channels will also remain clear but I suppose the rest of the digital cable lineup (including a bunch of new HD channels being added this month) will remain encrypted. I hope cable box + Firewire continues to work for those.
Other Hybrids... Before long, NASCAR is going to see that there's some way to make this hybrid stuff make cars go faster and farther without a pit-stop... There are four industries here that drive new tech for the consumer. Military, NASA, Nascar and pr0n.
KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) was introduced to Formula 1 this year. A few teams have tried it but It hasn't been that successful yet.
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Even "LED technology" is a con -- it's still an LCD panel (the LED is just the backlight).
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Please revise / update iTunes, it's horrible.
Well yes, it's horrible, but why does that matter in relation to the iPhone? I've not connected to iTunes in years, all backup is handled via iCloud and all app purchases are made on the device.
I had to stop using iTunes for my iPhone because my MacBook was too old to be upgraded to the required version of MacOS and iTunes. It was fine and I didn't miss using iTunes for a long time. I even restored the contents from iCloud after my phone was replaced due to a swollen battery.
That was until I found out that it didn't restore my music purchases correctly -- in a number of cases, it restored the wrong song from the same album. I ended up transferring my iTunes library from the old MacBook to a new one, and then syncing from there.
Citibank has this, too -- they call it a Virtual Account Number. I use it with almost all online transactions. Amazon is a little tricky, though, because it uses multiple merchant names and the virtual card is tied to the merchant name. Since it's hard to predict which merchant will be used, I usually just generate a new number each time.
That's a different case involving a man in Ohio -- with an S7 Edge, not a Note 7.
Please restore the redundant "comments" link at the bottom of the summary. If I decide after reading the summary that it's worth reading the comments, it's annoying to have to scroll back if the top link has already scrolled past.
I always thought engineering was about finding one of many possible reasonable solutions. There's almost never a One Right Way ("Fast/good/cheap -- pick two." "Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough." ...)
it's going to count at review time, when your colleagues rate you.
The old folks home, full of senile old farts pining for the way things were.
What does that make Usenet?
Not that I agree with you, but I recently saw a Tesla with a license plate of: "WWEMD"
Ah, yes. pawl.rpi.edu was where I first encountered X11 in 1989, too, although I was usually running SunTools. Lots of hours spent in "rn", and later, Emacs GNUS.
Yeah, a policeman told me the same thing after I had a break-in: "Get a dog."
What my insurance company does is to send a check for the depreciated value of the stolen items. I would then have up to a year to buy replacements. After showing proof, the insurance company would then send me another check to cover the difference. Makes sense if I choose not to replace any stolen items.
I rsync to an ext2 filesystem on a LUKS (cryptsetup) volume running on an S3-backed virtual device (using s3backer).
I was on a Cathay Pacific flight a couple of years ago when the in-flight entertainment system (video on demand, music, games) got stuck. I told the attendant and he said he would reset it. The screen went blank and then showed what was clearly a Linux console boot sequence (complete with penguin logo).
I agree -- I don't know what will eventually replace my HP Veer (84 x 54.5 mm2).
I have the first generation 1080p DLP from Samsung (HLR series). It has its rough spots -- no 1080p input over HDMI (only VGA), 1:1 pixel setting needs to be set in Service Menu at every power up -- but it it's still working well and I can't really justify getting rid of it yet. I replaced the bulb once because it was getting dim. I replaced the color wheel after it shattered but the replacement was about $100 and the procedure wasn't too complicated.
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Old fart, but newer "Model M": 9/17/2008, Made in USA
Good post, but it would look more professional if you had used "cues" instead of "queues".
I was disappointed to find out that cinnamon won't implement 2-D virtual desktop configurations either, something I started usng with swm, and through olvwm, fvwm, sawfish, and compiz+wall plugin. nd if you had to stick with one dimension, I'm finding gnome-shell's vertical layout of multiple desktops more sensible than cinnamon's horizontal layout.
"We find that temperature, known to strongly impact DIMM error rates in lab conditions, has a suprisingly small effect on error behavior in the field, when taking all other factors into account."
The broadcast HD channels will also remain clear but I suppose the rest of the digital cable lineup (including a bunch of new HD channels being added this month) will remain encrypted. I hope cable box + Firewire continues to work for those.
Other Hybrids... Before long, NASCAR is going to see that there's some way to make this hybrid stuff make cars go faster and farther without a pit-stop... There are four industries here that drive new tech for the consumer. Military, NASA, Nascar and pr0n.
KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) was introduced to Formula 1 this year. A few teams have tried it but It hasn't been that successful yet.
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