The dead giveaway that all this is fake news is that the quantum computer wasn't moving. Everyone knows that it has to be moving at precisely 88 miles per hour.
or look like British Police box and be bigger on the inside...
This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Agreed.
But... the problem that they are not trying to solve is not what you think.
The problem that they are trying to solve is basically a marketing problem, it's to make things look futuristic. For example, this would work well for marketing displays where it would be a pain to deal with all of the cables for set up and take down, for high end houses and boardrooms, just to make the rich and execs feel special, etc.
In other words, we are not their target market for this technology....
My personal email gets unread for weeks at a time, I usually check it once a month to make sure that my bills get paid. Friends, Family, SO all use text, IM, Facebook,or plain old fashioned phone calls. If it's important, someone will call me about it. If I am am applying for a job or working with my Real Estate agent, then I check it more often. But otherwise, it's one of the last things on my list...
As for Work, Email is a lifeblood of our company. I work at a large company and everything, and I mean everything, is done through email. So, you can imagine that I don't want to even look at email when I am at home unless I have to.
I find that for up to 48 hours they are accurate. And you need to look at the hourly forecast. After that, predicted weather tends to lag by up to 24 hours after you get beyond 5 days, either the storm comes within 24 hours early or 24 hours late.
Also, a lot fo people rely on the daily summary. For example, if they see a sun with clouds they think that it's going to be nice all day, but if you dig into the hourly, you find that a band of thunder showers are predicated for about an hour in the mid afternoon. Same with a rainy forecast. If you dig into the hourly, you might find that drizzle is predicated with sunny breaks during the day.
New metadata for music, TV shows and movies, will not be added to Windows Media Player.
Will anyone even notice? I mean, apart from 80-year-olds who don't know that anything exists outside of MSIE, WMP, and Notepad, who actually uses WMP for anything?
WMP is the best music management software for automatic playlists. You can create playlists based on the metadata, file location, file name, etc. I have a WMP add-on that allows me to sync my music collection to my iPod classic, including my playlists. However, most people have moved on to streaming instead of buying music, so it makes sense that Microsoft would drop this.
As for removing the metadata updates, that's annoying but not a big deal for me. Most of that can be entered manually anyway and artwork can be dragged and dropped on to the album.
But yeah, the flavor of the day is to rent music and movies. When the apocalypse happens, at least I'll have tunes...
If you think American Cheese is good in a grilled cheese, go to Trader Joes and buy some Cotswald. Don't mind the price per pound, just buy it one time and see what I mean.
You'll probably fall off your chair crying once you realize how good a grilled cheese is supposed to taste.
The American brick cheese in the grocery store isn't bad, it's the processed "cheese" which is horrible. Buy yeah, it has to be brick cheese, not the pre-sliced or spray from a can stuff.
At lot of Businesses use Lenovo Thinkpads. They tend to be good reliable laptops. The main difference between the T series and the Yoga is that the Yoga series is lighter, has one less USB port, and comes with a built-in capacitive stylus (no batteries). The Yoga also turns into a tablet.
For a dock I would either go with a Lenovo USB dock or a Targus Dual Video 4K p60 Docking Station. Both support dual monitor setups using a USB 3.0 connection and can be used with practically any laptop, doesn't have to be a Lenovo, and can be re-used down the line. Both use the DisplayLink technology which works well.
If she is doing a lot of research and keeping notes, having two monitors is nice as well. As a network engineer, I usually have a console session running while working on something else. It's nice to be able to copy/paste or drag/drop between applications without having to switch.between them.
What does a superhero movie have to do with culture?
If you have to ask then you don't know what culture is....
But, to spell it out... storytelling is a part of every culture, from cave drawings, to printed word, to moving pictures. Comics are just storytelling. So, yes, comic book movies are part of culture. Maybe you're thinking about high-culture or things of great cultural impact. I agree that most movies, comic based or otherwise, wouldn't fall into these categories. But they are included in the overall US culture.
Everything beyond a few glasses of water and ~1000 calories a day is a WANT. Actually, even those meager resources are a WANT. You don't NEED to survive, it's just a preference.
The people I know in Minnesota with panels literally don't see much payoff for 10-ish years. The utilities are eventually going to get their way and greatly cut their payback rate for grid buyback.
Generating and storing energy for your own use is the only thing that makes sense, but right now the economics of it for the average homeowner don't work well.
Yeah, I feel the same way. Massachusetts also had a law where you had to sell solar/wind power back to the grid and you couldn't install home batteries (while connected to the grid for power). That's being changed because solar vendors realized that they could make more money by adding the Powerwall to the solar package.
Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.
But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.
Where did you get this data? A quick search on Google shows a different story. In the US, Apple has a larger market share than each of the individual competitors, but not when you combine the Android manufacturers. In fact, Apple's market share slipped this last quarter by 1%. In the Global market, Apple is in third place. In regards to Phone activations in the US Apple has remained steady or declined a bit.
The only place where Apple made gains is in China where they increased their market share by 5%, from 19.7% to 24.7%. Android dropped by 5%.
I know youre trolling, but im replying anyway. Apple does not use consumer grade flash in their devices.
Their fastest devices can internally read at close to 900 megabyte/second, and write at about 350 megabyte/second.
Apple is not using some sort of special flash that costs them 3x the retail price of the fastest flash storage on the market today. It seems a bit naive to think this.
A 1TB Samsung 970 M.2 SSD is $250 retail and has 3.5GBps read and 2.7GBps write. If Apple is paying wholesale with a volume discount for their flash chips, it's quite easy to see that they are still applying a huge up-charge for extra storage.
Don't get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft for charging 2x to 3x more for Surface Pro models with increased storage... They all do it, some more egregious than others. Apple just happens to charge more.
This is why it's important to retain the ability to upgrade RAM and storage. But those days are pretty much gone.
Both the plastic and system are being carried by the current. However, wind and waves propel only the system, as the floater sits just above the water surface, while the plastic is primarily just beneath it. The system thus moves faster than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be captured.
The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below. The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath.
Everybody was so busy jerking each off that no one actually tried to see whether it would work.
That's the way it's supposed to work. The news reports have said that the system is moving slower than the debris. I believe that this is what they are trying to fix.
I'm fine with going aluminum, though, I'm not sure what the energy trade-off is between aluminum vs plastic (i.e. we may be trading one environmental problem for another). But if we do go back to aluminum they must include bottle caps. I can't stand having bottled/canned liquid that I can't re-seal to carry.
As for glass, I believe that it was too heavy and also has the side-effect of starting forest fires.
I like to eat Cheetos and drink Mountain Dew while I play Fortnite from my parent's basement.
What a puny claim!
My parents like to eat Cheetos and drink Mountain Dew while they play Fortnite from my basement.
Well, yeah, because only retired people have the time to put into Fortnite to keep up with the kiddies.....grin....as I write this I am somewhat sleep deprived from playing Fallout 76.... time for bed, but not before a slice of banana bread....
Remember to use your qualifiers kids.... Prime isn't worth it if all you use it for is free shipping....
Prime is worth it if you borrow Kindle books for free (vs buying), use Amazon's streaming service, etc. Like any other subscription plan, the more features that you use, the more of valuable it is.
Microsoft did drive down the price but I think your timeline is off. Even at the stage of windows 2, the microsoft version was a joke. It was barely usable, it was barely a graphical interface, but mostly was character generated pseudographics. And Win 2 wasn't even available till 1988. It Wasn't until windows 3 that they started looking a bit more like what people think of as windowed graphics, and even then the fonts were pretty ugly, and you sort had to switch modes to see what your document would look like (ala WordPerfect, the competitor to Word). IN contrast the mac was fully graphical and had gorgeous fonts from day 1, it didn't have a DOS mode sticking out from behind a cheap false front. Window 3 came out in 1990, or 6 years after the 1984 Apple Debut of Lisa/Mac.
I never argued that Apple didn't come first. In fact, I acknowledged this fact. One of my points was that Windows still would have been developed without the Mac OS because both Apple and Microsoft founders saw the same demonstration and realized the importance of the GUI. Yes, it took a few years for Windows to get there, but they did get there. It might have looked different, but it still would have been developed.
Regardless, my main point was that Windows has had a farther reach and a larger impact, thus trely bringing the desktop to the masses. As we well know, first to market doesn't always equate to becoming the market leader.
Most of the stuff they left out isn't really cool, it's just edgy bullshit for edgy teens.
Most of the popular stuff on YouTube is that kind of rubbish, or stuff for very young kids, or music videos, or meta-outrage. Would be nice if they included some really cool and interesting stuff, like some of the more niche channels. Show us some wood/metalworking stuff instead of 50 different Fortnight clips.
Yeah, in my opinion, most of the "popular" stuff on Youtube skews towards tweens and teens, it's not cool, innovative, or even good.
His crew went to Xerox Parc. The actual realization of desktop computing for the masses was carried out by apple. Englebart was living in the future for a long time before we finally had a macintosh on our own desktop.
I would argue that it's Microsoft that brought desktop computing to the masses. Some would argue that there would have been no Windows without the Mac, but that would be ignoring that both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs visited Xerox Parc and that both understood the importance of what they had seen. It's true that Apple had a product to the market first, but Microsoft Windows became the defacto business OS, reaching way more people than Apple.
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My pass phrase is 1kb long.
Well, MY pass phrase has 1kg mass.
So, you've been logging into to Slashdot for the last 5 years just for this one post? Was it worth it?
The dead giveaway that all this is fake news is that the quantum computer wasn't moving. Everyone knows that it has to be moving at precisely 88 miles per hour.
or look like British Police box and be bigger on the inside...
This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Agreed.
But... the problem that they are not trying to solve is not what you think.
The problem that they are trying to solve is basically a marketing problem, it's to make things look futuristic. For example, this would work well for marketing displays where it would be a pain to deal with all of the cables for set up and take down, for high end houses and boardrooms, just to make the rich and execs feel special, etc.
In other words, we are not their target market for this technology....
My personal email gets unread for weeks at a time, I usually check it once a month to make sure that my bills get paid. Friends, Family, SO all use text, IM, Facebook,or plain old fashioned phone calls. If it's important, someone will call me about it. If I am am applying for a job or working with my Real Estate agent, then I check it more often. But otherwise, it's one of the last things on my list...
As for Work, Email is a lifeblood of our company. I work at a large company and everything, and I mean everything, is done through email. So, you can imagine that I don't want to even look at email when I am at home unless I have to.
I find that for up to 48 hours they are accurate. And you need to look at the hourly forecast. After that, predicted weather tends to lag by up to 24 hours after you get beyond 5 days, either the storm comes within 24 hours early or 24 hours late.
Also, a lot fo people rely on the daily summary. For example, if they see a sun with clouds they think that it's going to be nice all day, but if you dig into the hourly, you find that a band of thunder showers are predicated for about an hour in the mid afternoon. Same with a rainy forecast. If you dig into the hourly, you might find that drizzle is predicated with sunny breaks during the day.
Same here. No http server on a domain doesn't mean it's unused.
Same thing applies to a stale web page. Just because a web page is stale doen't meant that the domain isn't in use for other services, such as email.
New metadata for music, TV shows and movies, will not be added to Windows Media Player.
Will anyone even notice? I mean, apart from 80-year-olds who don't know that anything exists outside of MSIE, WMP, and Notepad, who actually uses WMP for anything?
WMP is the best music management software for automatic playlists. You can create playlists based on the metadata, file location, file name, etc. I have a WMP add-on that allows me to sync my music collection to my iPod classic, including my playlists. However, most people have moved on to streaming instead of buying music, so it makes sense that Microsoft would drop this.
As for removing the metadata updates, that's annoying but not a big deal for me. Most of that can be entered manually anyway and artwork can be dragged and dropped on to the album.
But yeah, the flavor of the day is to rent music and movies. When the apocalypse happens, at least I'll have tunes...
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I just want to know, besides washing, what 3 guys are doing, presumably in the bathtub, together... ;-)
Ask the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Always wondered about those guys.
They were all suspects in the investigation after the disappearance of the cow that jumped over the moon....
As soon as I put an AI chip in my brain, they will come with with version 5.1...
Well, not this guy, I'm waiting for 5.1 because I've heard that that's 10% faster in getting the movie listings....
If you think American Cheese is good in a grilled cheese, go to Trader Joes and buy some Cotswald. Don't mind the price per pound, just buy it one time and see what I mean.
You'll probably fall off your chair crying once you realize how good a grilled cheese is supposed to taste.
The American brick cheese in the grocery store isn't bad, it's the processed "cheese" which is horrible. Buy yeah, it has to be brick cheese, not the pre-sliced or spray from a can stuff.
At lot of Businesses use Lenovo Thinkpads. They tend to be good reliable laptops. The main difference between the T series and the Yoga is that the Yoga series is lighter, has one less USB port, and comes with a built-in capacitive stylus (no batteries). The Yoga also turns into a tablet.
For a dock I would either go with a Lenovo USB dock or a Targus Dual Video 4K p60 Docking Station. Both support dual monitor setups using a USB 3.0 connection and can be used with practically any laptop, doesn't have to be a Lenovo, and can be re-used down the line. Both use the DisplayLink technology which works well.
If she is doing a lot of research and keeping notes, having two monitors is nice as well. As a network engineer, I usually have a console session running while working on something else. It's nice to be able to copy/paste or drag/drop between applications without having to switch.between them.
What does a superhero movie have to do with culture?
If you have to ask then you don't know what culture is....
But, to spell it out... storytelling is a part of every culture, from cave drawings, to printed word, to moving pictures. Comics are just storytelling. So, yes, comic book movies are part of culture. Maybe you're thinking about high-culture or things of great cultural impact. I agree that most movies, comic based or otherwise, wouldn't fall into these categories. But they are included in the overall US culture.
Everything beyond a few glasses of water and ~1000 calories a day is a WANT. Actually, even those meager resources are a WANT. You don't NEED to survive, it's just a preference.
You forgot shelter...
I don't really get solar WITHOUT the batteries.
The people I know in Minnesota with panels literally don't see much payoff for 10-ish years. The utilities are eventually going to get their way and greatly cut their payback rate for grid buyback.
Generating and storing energy for your own use is the only thing that makes sense, but right now the economics of it for the average homeowner don't work well.
Yeah, I feel the same way. Massachusetts also had a law where you had to sell solar/wind power back to the grid and you couldn't install home batteries (while connected to the grid for power). That's being changed because solar vendors realized that they could make more money by adding the Powerwall to the solar package.
Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.
But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.
Where did you get this data? A quick search on Google shows a different story. In the US, Apple has a larger market share than each of the individual competitors, but not when you combine the Android manufacturers. In fact, Apple's market share slipped this last quarter by 1%. In the Global market, Apple is in third place. In regards to Phone activations in the US Apple has remained steady or declined a bit.
The only place where Apple made gains is in China where they increased their market share by 5%, from 19.7% to 24.7%. Android dropped by 5%.
US Phone Activations
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Global Market
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US Market
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I know youre trolling, but im replying anyway. Apple does not use consumer grade flash in their devices.
Their fastest devices can internally read at close to 900 megabyte/second, and write at about 350 megabyte/second.
Apple is not using some sort of special flash that costs them 3x the retail price of the fastest flash storage on the market today. It seems a bit naive to think this.
A 1TB Samsung 970 M.2 SSD is $250 retail and has 3.5GBps read and 2.7GBps write. If Apple is paying wholesale with a volume discount for their flash chips, it's quite easy to see that they are still applying a huge up-charge for extra storage.
Don't get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft for charging 2x to 3x more for Surface Pro models with increased storage... They all do it, some more egregious than others. Apple just happens to charge more.
This is why it's important to retain the ability to upgrade RAM and storage. But those days are pretty much gone.
And make sure your compiler doesn't add back doors into your binaries.
You just need to write your own compiler... doesn't everyone know how to do that?
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Both the plastic and system are being carried by the current. However, wind and waves propel only the system, as the floater sits just above the water surface, while the plastic is primarily just beneath it. The system thus moves faster than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be captured.
The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below. The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath.
Everybody was so busy jerking each off that no one actually tried to see whether it would work.
That's the way it's supposed to work. The news reports have said that the system is moving slower than the debris. I believe that this is what they are trying to fix.
I'm fine with going aluminum, though, I'm not sure what the energy trade-off is between aluminum vs plastic (i.e. we may be trading one environmental problem for another). But if we do go back to aluminum they must include bottle caps. I can't stand having bottled/canned liquid that I can't re-seal to carry.
As for glass, I believe that it was too heavy and also has the side-effect of starting forest fires.
Here you go....
https://www.ft.com/content/d9b...
I like to eat Cheetos and drink Mountain Dew while I play Fortnite from my parent's basement.
What a puny claim!
My parents like to eat Cheetos and drink Mountain Dew while they play Fortnite from my basement.
Well, yeah, because only retired people have the time to put into Fortnite to keep up with the kiddies.... .grin. ...as I write this I am somewhat sleep deprived from playing Fallout 76.... time for bed, but not before a slice of banana bread....
Remember to use your qualifiers kids.... Prime isn't worth it if all you use it for is free shipping....
Prime is worth it if you borrow Kindle books for free (vs buying), use Amazon's streaming service, etc. Like any other subscription plan, the more features that you use, the more of valuable it is.
Microsoft did drive down the price but I think your timeline is off. Even at the stage of windows 2, the microsoft version was a joke. It was barely usable, it was barely a graphical interface, but mostly was character generated pseudographics. And Win 2 wasn't even available till 1988. It Wasn't until windows 3 that they started looking a bit more like what people think of as windowed graphics, and even then the fonts were pretty ugly, and you sort had to switch modes to see what your document would look like (ala WordPerfect, the competitor to Word). IN contrast the mac was fully graphical and had gorgeous fonts from day 1, it didn't have a DOS mode sticking out from behind a cheap false front. Window 3 came out in 1990, or 6 years after the 1984 Apple Debut of Lisa/Mac.
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I never argued that Apple didn't come first. In fact, I acknowledged this fact. One of my points was that Windows still would have been developed without the Mac OS because both Apple and Microsoft founders saw the same demonstration and realized the importance of the GUI. Yes, it took a few years for Windows to get there, but they did get there. It might have looked different, but it still would have been developed.
Regardless, my main point was that Windows has had a farther reach and a larger impact, thus trely bringing the desktop to the masses. As we well know, first to market doesn't always equate to becoming the market leader.
Most of the stuff they left out isn't really cool, it's just edgy bullshit for edgy teens.
Most of the popular stuff on YouTube is that kind of rubbish, or stuff for very young kids, or music videos, or meta-outrage. Would be nice if they included some really cool and interesting stuff, like some of the more niche channels. Show us some wood/metalworking stuff instead of 50 different Fortnight clips.
Yeah, in my opinion, most of the "popular" stuff on Youtube skews towards tweens and teens, it's not cool, innovative, or even good.
His crew went to Xerox Parc. The actual realization of desktop computing for the masses was carried out by apple. Englebart was living in the future for a long time before we finally had a macintosh on our own desktop.
I would argue that it's Microsoft that brought desktop computing to the masses. Some would argue that there would have been no Windows without the Mac, but that would be ignoring that both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs visited Xerox Parc and that both understood the importance of what they had seen. It's true that Apple had a product to the market first, but Microsoft Windows became the defacto business OS, reaching way more people than Apple.