Since the switch to Ventra, you can also pay with a contactless credit card or mobile wallet. It's a smidge more expensive than Ventra, but easy to manage if you're an infrequent traveler on the buses/L.
...you guys haven't ever watched Beauty and the Beast, have you? There's a song in it titled "Be Our Guest" (I haven't watched it recently enough to know about 'share our tales'). The Google rep is just referencing the movie, and yes, that makes it sound exactly like an advertisement.
I bought a Moto G after seeing initial specs with band 12 support, but Motorola removed support for it in the US (partly at the insistence of T-Mobile). I've had some issues in the midwest with call+data and am almost positive band 12 support would help. What did you end up buying?
The airport is located in Covington, KY (which gives the airport its code, CVG) and begrudgingly associates itself with Ohio and Cincinnati, which is about 10 miles away and across the river. Amazon already has a number of facilities in Covington and Erlanger down by the airport (completely in Kentucky) and there's a lot of capacity as Delta winds down operations, so this isn't too surprising.
Hey Microsoft, I know "Summer Update", "Anniversary Update", and "Windows 8.1 Update" sound nice and friendly, but they're useless if you're trying to have an unambiguous discussion about the update status of a machine.
Tech Support: "Have you installed the Windows 8.1 Update?"
User: "My computer installed updates last night"
Tech Support: "But have you installed THE Update?"
User: "Which one?"
Tech Support: "..."
Back on the helpline, that was always fun to walk people through. Whatever happened to Service Packs? Too scary? Too many people not migrating until you had released at least one Service Pack? Sounds like a problem of your own creation, and just changing the names isn't the way to fix it.
The European regulations for emissions aren't anywhere near as stringent as the US (yet), so they can continue selling diesels there. I suspect VW diesels are done in the US though, and they'll be phased out as Europe clamps down on emissions. Some newer cars like the VW UP! don't even have a diesel option.
The test mode does have reduced levels of performance, but the bigger issue is the durability of the emissions control system. To lower costs, VW designed the emissions components to survive for the life of the vehicle (semis have parts which are easy to access and replace, but are expensive). In cheat mode, the emissions controls are cycled more frequently and the components will most likely fail before the end of the life of the vehicle. Replacing some of them costs upwards of $6k, and they're required by US law to be under warranty for 8 years/80,000 miles (I might have the exact warranty term wrong, but it's a lot).
Automotive News has a quick description of the different emissions control systems:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150925/OEM11/150929855/how-vws-diesel-emissions-system-works. With their newest engines, VW can actually meet emissions requirements and have parts last for the life of the car. They've just stupidly turned down the dosing rate of diesel exhaust fluid used with SCR so that it needs to be refilled every 10k miles when the car has service, instead of every ~6k miles as required to be compliant.
This is certainly a place where *nix excels. I've started mucking around with an old Powerbook G4 because it's easier to carry around than my main workhorse. Debian, Gentoo, and FreeBSD all run on it happily even though it's hard to find new hardware to test on. Gentoo and FreeBSD treat ppc32 as a "second tier" platform - they'll still auto-generate the installers and configure package dependencies, but they won't check for errors during the build, and bugs in ppc32 won't delay a new release. It's up to users to submit bug reports/patches or fix issues as they come up. Transitioning i386 to this level of support is far from the end of the world.
I'm contemplating subscribing to Fastmail and have specifically looked into their privacy policy regarding NSLs, warrants, etc. Fastmail is in an interesting position legally - yes, they are an Australian company and are subject to Australian laws, but their primary mail servers are located in New York (there's a backup in...Amsterdam?). I'd like to think that they will be safe from the US government accessing your account data, but I don't know how that will hold up to the FBI/NSA if the servers are physically under this bill's jurisdiction. Check out https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html if you're interested.
Since the servers are in the US, they're likely still getting caught up in the NSA's metadata fishing schemes.(Is anyone else bothered by them calling it metadata? IT'S STILL DATA, just not necessarily the contents of the communication)
IIRC, Fastmail bought themselves out of Opera in ~2013. They should have emailed you about it if you had an account at the time. This shouldn't impact them at all.
Pandora subscriptions used to be $3.99/mo; they've raised it for new subscribers to $4.99/mo (really breaking the bank now), but existing subscribers keep the original rate.
My first thought (without reading the 'weight and bulk of the dead tree approach' part) was that the paper in books doesn't always take too kindly to water either, and it's easier to keep an e-reader completely enclosed while reading than a book.
I'm sure the US Postal Service wouldn't object to delivering millions of paper advertisements (especially before you have a chance to opt out). Lots of postage fees.
I have also noticed a 'Hide the Ribbon' option, but it just reduces the Ribbon to a bunch of small images, whose meanings I need to figure out by slowly hovering over them so the tooltip tells me what it is. Pictures can be helpful, but not everything is the logical choice to everyone (much like the old menu system, I guess).
Now that people have mentioned it, I really should look into memorizing some of the keyboard shortcuts. It's just annoying, because I use LibreOffice/OpenOffice on my personal computer and know the menu system very well. I'm stuck using Office 2010 at work.
It looks like either way we need to memorize something new...
Although I haven't posted much in the past 6 years, I compulsively read Slashdot every day and really have learned a lot from it. Even though we won't be hearing from you here anymore, I'm sure we'll read about you being awesome sometime in the near future.
Not sure if anyone has heard of it before, but Opera has had a similar feature built in for a while called Opera Turbo, which compresses pages on their servers before they are downloaded to the browser. It's also how Opera on the iPhone works, because of Apple's restrictions.
If you read the article posted first, it links to the article about this 'discovery',
Physicists have ruled out that the particle could be the standard model Higgs boson, but theorize that it could be some new and unexpected version of the Higgs.
They knew it wasn't the Higgs everyone is looking for from the beginning (which is what the article you have posted is about)
What you are thinking of is the LHC in Europe, whereas this story is about the Tevatron in the United States. As a result off this, now both facilities have had a review turn up this type of result for their data
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Since the switch to Ventra, you can also pay with a contactless credit card or mobile wallet. It's a smidge more expensive than Ventra, but easy to manage if you're an infrequent traveler on the buses/L.
...you guys haven't ever watched Beauty and the Beast, have you? There's a song in it titled "Be Our Guest" (I haven't watched it recently enough to know about 'share our tales'). The Google rep is just referencing the movie, and yes, that makes it sound exactly like an advertisement.
I bought a Moto G after seeing initial specs with band 12 support, but Motorola removed support for it in the US (partly at the insistence of T-Mobile). I've had some issues in the midwest with call+data and am almost positive band 12 support would help. What did you end up buying?
The airport is located in Covington, KY (which gives the airport its code, CVG) and begrudgingly associates itself with Ohio and Cincinnati, which is about 10 miles away and across the river. Amazon already has a number of facilities in Covington and Erlanger down by the airport (completely in Kentucky) and there's a lot of capacity as Delta winds down operations, so this isn't too surprising.
Little bit of history about the airport: http://www.wcpo.com/news/our-community/from-the-vault/from-the-vault-why-cincinnatis-airport-is-in-kentucky-70-years-after-first-flights/
I moved here a few years ago. It's a very weird area.
Back on the helpline, that was always fun to walk people through. Whatever happened to Service Packs? Too scary? Too many people not migrating until you had released at least one Service Pack? Sounds like a problem of your own creation, and just changing the names isn't the way to fix it.
The European regulations for emissions aren't anywhere near as stringent as the US (yet), so they can continue selling diesels there. I suspect VW diesels are done in the US though, and they'll be phased out as Europe clamps down on emissions. Some newer cars like the VW UP! don't even have a diesel option.
The test mode does have reduced levels of performance, but the bigger issue is the durability of the emissions control system. To lower costs, VW designed the emissions components to survive for the life of the vehicle (semis have parts which are easy to access and replace, but are expensive). In cheat mode, the emissions controls are cycled more frequently and the components will most likely fail before the end of the life of the vehicle. Replacing some of them costs upwards of $6k, and they're required by US law to be under warranty for 8 years/80,000 miles (I might have the exact warranty term wrong, but it's a lot).
Automotive News has a quick description of the different emissions control systems: http://www.autonews.com/article/20150925/OEM11/150929855/how-vws-diesel-emissions-system-works. With their newest engines, VW can actually meet emissions requirements and have parts last for the life of the car. They've just stupidly turned down the dosing rate of diesel exhaust fluid used with SCR so that it needs to be refilled every 10k miles when the car has service, instead of every ~6k miles as required to be compliant.
This is certainly a place where *nix excels. I've started mucking around with an old Powerbook G4 because it's easier to carry around than my main workhorse. Debian, Gentoo, and FreeBSD all run on it happily even though it's hard to find new hardware to test on. Gentoo and FreeBSD treat ppc32 as a "second tier" platform - they'll still auto-generate the installers and configure package dependencies, but they won't check for errors during the build, and bugs in ppc32 won't delay a new release. It's up to users to submit bug reports/patches or fix issues as they come up. Transitioning i386 to this level of support is far from the end of the world.
For anyone confused, a cat named 'Maru' is popular on Youtube for trying to squeeze into boxes, including some that are way too small for him.
I'm contemplating subscribing to Fastmail and have specifically looked into their privacy policy regarding NSLs, warrants, etc. Fastmail is in an interesting position legally - yes, they are an Australian company and are subject to Australian laws, but their primary mail servers are located in New York (there's a backup in...Amsterdam?). I'd like to think that they will be safe from the US government accessing your account data, but I don't know how that will hold up to the FBI/NSA if the servers are physically under this bill's jurisdiction. Check out https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html if you're interested.
Since the servers are in the US, they're likely still getting caught up in the NSA's metadata fishing schemes.(Is anyone else bothered by them calling it metadata? IT'S STILL DATA, just not necessarily the contents of the communication)
In case anyone else was wondering, a unicorn is a start-up company valued at over $1 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)
I thought we were the Popular Front...
http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2013/09/26/australian-based-email-provider-fastmail-became-a-privately-held-independent-company-29920932/
Pandora subscriptions used to be $3.99/mo; they've raised it for new subscribers to $4.99/mo (really breaking the bank now), but existing subscribers keep the original rate.
Strangely enough, two days ago the Sophos install I have on Mac OS also started flagging itself as a threat and disabling itself...
Blasted it off as quickly as I could. No harm done that I can find.
My first thought (without reading the 'weight and bulk of the dead tree approach' part) was that the paper in books doesn't always take too kindly to water either, and it's easier to keep an e-reader completely enclosed while reading than a book.
A few companies have designed systems being integrated on Airbus and Boeing narrow-body planes in the next few years for testing http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/in-focus-manufacturers-aim-for-electric-taxi-eis-by-2016-368554/. My guess is that the technology for it was too large/heavy up until recently, so it wasn't worth the fuel waste.
I'm sure the US Postal Service wouldn't object to delivering millions of paper advertisements (especially before you have a chance to opt out). Lots of postage fees.
I have also noticed a 'Hide the Ribbon' option, but it just reduces the Ribbon to a bunch of small images, whose meanings I need to figure out by slowly hovering over them so the tooltip tells me what it is. Pictures can be helpful, but not everything is the logical choice to everyone (much like the old menu system, I guess).
Now that people have mentioned it, I really should look into memorizing some of the keyboard shortcuts. It's just annoying, because I use LibreOffice/OpenOffice on my personal computer and know the menu system very well. I'm stuck using Office 2010 at work.
It looks like either way we need to memorize something new...
Although I haven't posted much in the past 6 years, I compulsively read Slashdot every day and really have learned a lot from it. Even though we won't be hearing from you here anymore, I'm sure we'll read about you being awesome sometime in the near future.
Thanks for everything, Rob.
That's what I get for posting to slashdot before I take a shower. Thanks!
Not sure if anyone has heard of it before, but Opera has had a similar feature built in for a while called Opera Turbo, which compresses pages on their servers before they are downloaded to the browser. It's also how Opera on the iPhone works, because of Apple's restrictions.
If you read the article posted first, it links to the article about this 'discovery',
Physicists have ruled out that the particle could be the standard model Higgs boson, but theorize that it could be some new and unexpected version of the Higgs.
They knew it wasn't the Higgs everyone is looking for from the beginning (which is what the article you have posted is about)
What you are thinking of is the LHC in Europe, whereas this story is about the Tevatron in the United States. As a result off this, now both facilities have had a review turn up this type of result for their data
I never thought I'd see the day goatse might actually be a positive contribution to a discussion...