Actually, better solution: just unhook it from the network. It's going to be busy, you wouldn't want to browse on it anyway. If it's not going to do anything with the internet for days, why give it the chance to try?
On a basic "control of my system" level, the feature is an irritant, and I can understand why it would be enough of one to make somebody switch. I think it does more good than harm in terms of security as a public issue, but it does mean that when Microsoft decides to implement yet more anti-user policies, you have to go along for the ride if you don't want to switch to Linux before the world ends. So, I get it. My machine is a gaming rig, so I put up with it, but I get it.
On the level of "saving your work," if this has ever been a problem beyond the first time it popped up at you unexpectedly, you're a lazy idiot and I have no sympathy for you. When it's about to install an update, it asks if you would like to schedule the shutdown for some later time. This sometimes isn't majorly useful to me personally, but that's because I am a disabled mess with no firm schedule or often even a human sense of time. If you're using your computer for work, you know damn well when you're not at work. I know this is America and your work follows you home like a dog you hate, but once you're not at the office, you're entitled and highly recommended to at least take a fucking break for an hour. So schedule one, you twat. Even if you have some reason to need more uptime than that, this really shouldn't be an issue. I delayed a major update for more than a week once because I was worried it was going to beanbag some key functionality. (It didn't appreciably change my experience except making a minor annoyance I don't use unremoveable.)
If you've had productive time eaten by automatic updates, it is because you don't read dialog boxes. It is your fault.
"'What this ruling says is a player is prohibited from combining his skill and intellect and visual acuity to beat the casino at its own game,' Ivey's attorney told the AP, adding that the judge's ruling will be appealed."
In other words, this lawyer is blatantly fleecing is client by pressing a case he knows to be unwinnable. Precisely this statement is a long established legal standard regarding casino gambling. What this guy did would actually be considered cheating (or bad enough manners to justify banning from a tournament at the very least, meaning his WSOP wins are now in question) in any normal game of cards, but card counting is very much not. Despite this, the latter has always been completely disallowed in blackjack, with this restriction being given the force of law several times in areas where gambling is a significant source of tax revenue. This is precisely the reason that professional poker players play poker; you play solely against other players rather than the house, so the house has little or no interest in corrupting the fairness of the game. As a professional gambler, he would definitely be aware of this, so even attempting to get away with it, regardless of whether his actions were ethically defensible, is profoundly stupid.
And here it is again: liberal garbage painting everyone who disagrees with them with a racist brush. I didn't vote for Trump. I don't want him. The only reason he was the Republican candidate at all is because jackoffs like you insist that all conservatives (except, of course, for the ones with a fake D after their name that say the right things at the right time like Hillary Clinton) are bigoted warmongers. I am not even a conservative. I just know better than this. Your kind have ruined the American political landscape. You have created the division which will send this nation into chaos. You have made the decision that you can just slough off half this nation's people to satisfy your warped desire for superficial ideological purity.
Liberals are TRASH. They have made leftism untenable in America, and that is the worst crime I can imagine.
If you work a technical job and move to the Bay Area, you are entirely your own dumbass problem. You could choose to work in any other industry or in any other place, but THAT'S what you go with. One of the least stable professions in one of the areas where you can make the least contribution. The rural people are totally the dumb ones, here.
Sidenote: I wonder how many more of you arrogant garbage monsters are going to put an ellipsis over the part where I reveal that I (much like everyone else in small town/rural America) liked Bernie. Very progressive, you urbanites. A fascist woman is definitely more prog than a socialist man.
What I don't like is you disingenuous shitrats practically burning half the country's population in effigy and then claiming they're cruel, bigoted warmongers.
Bullshit. Obamacare wasn't an effective healthcare solution and everyone knows it. It was a massive corporate welfare program for the only industry that probably needs it less than oil. You can cry until you're blue in the face that the GOP cockblocked its true potential, but because a single-payer system never would've been a realistic option with the Democratic party controlled by worthless DINO neoliberal trash, this is all we ever truly had the ability to pass. And we shouldn't have, because it's garbage that hasn't fixed anything for anyone. It has been worse than doing nothing, and shitcanning it is one of Trump's only positive ideas.
I came here to complain about how this would generate divisive and callous political snarking, and guess what the first two comments that beat me to the punch are?
You people are thoroughly disgusting. You're the reason people outside The Six Cities That Matter don't trust liberals, and the reason true leftists like Bernie can't ever make any headway. If you keep this shit up, you're going to bring this country to the point of civil war. Good idea, I say: this side has all the guns, so we can push all you fuckers into the ocean.
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that whenever energy is both very dense and very accessible, you've made an explosive. Existing battery technology is already going that direction. At what point will I need to register my phone as a destructive device under the NFA?
Yeah, as somebody with... A great deal of screen time, I definitely feel like it's something I do to cope (poorly) with my various other quite severe sleep disruptions.
honk if you're reading this in your twentieth hour of wakefulness, tho
Well, not really. It's only got until the end of the month anyway, and nobody ever put a dime in it. If it DID work, I could still get the thing in time for it to work. But nobody cared.:/
Also, indiegogo isn't even working right now, so that's great.
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Actually, better solution: just unhook it from the network. It's going to be busy, you wouldn't want to browse on it anyway. If it's not going to do anything with the internet for days, why give it the chance to try?
If a render is going to take hours or days to complete, why wouldn't you check to make sure the system doesn't want an update first?
On a basic "control of my system" level, the feature is an irritant, and I can understand why it would be enough of one to make somebody switch. I think it does more good than harm in terms of security as a public issue, but it does mean that when Microsoft decides to implement yet more anti-user policies, you have to go along for the ride if you don't want to switch to Linux before the world ends. So, I get it. My machine is a gaming rig, so I put up with it, but I get it.
On the level of "saving your work," if this has ever been a problem beyond the first time it popped up at you unexpectedly, you're a lazy idiot and I have no sympathy for you. When it's about to install an update, it asks if you would like to schedule the shutdown for some later time. This sometimes isn't majorly useful to me personally, but that's because I am a disabled mess with no firm schedule or often even a human sense of time. If you're using your computer for work, you know damn well when you're not at work. I know this is America and your work follows you home like a dog you hate, but once you're not at the office, you're entitled and highly recommended to at least take a fucking break for an hour. So schedule one, you twat. Even if you have some reason to need more uptime than that, this really shouldn't be an issue. I delayed a major update for more than a week once because I was worried it was going to beanbag some key functionality. (It didn't appreciably change my experience except making a minor annoyance I don't use unremoveable.)
If you've had productive time eaten by automatic updates, it is because you don't read dialog boxes. It is your fault.
Two scientists enter, five scientists leave.
"'What this ruling says is a player is prohibited from combining his skill and intellect and visual acuity to beat the casino at its own game,' Ivey's attorney told the AP, adding that the judge's ruling will be appealed."
In other words, this lawyer is blatantly fleecing is client by pressing a case he knows to be unwinnable. Precisely this statement is a long established legal standard regarding casino gambling. What this guy did would actually be considered cheating (or bad enough manners to justify banning from a tournament at the very least, meaning his WSOP wins are now in question) in any normal game of cards, but card counting is very much not. Despite this, the latter has always been completely disallowed in blackjack, with this restriction being given the force of law several times in areas where gambling is a significant source of tax revenue. This is precisely the reason that professional poker players play poker; you play solely against other players rather than the house, so the house has little or no interest in corrupting the fairness of the game. As a professional gambler, he would definitely be aware of this, so even attempting to get away with it, regardless of whether his actions were ethically defensible, is profoundly stupid.
And here it is again: liberal garbage painting everyone who disagrees with them with a racist brush. I didn't vote for Trump. I don't want him. The only reason he was the Republican candidate at all is because jackoffs like you insist that all conservatives (except, of course, for the ones with a fake D after their name that say the right things at the right time like Hillary Clinton) are bigoted warmongers. I am not even a conservative. I just know better than this. Your kind have ruined the American political landscape. You have created the division which will send this nation into chaos. You have made the decision that you can just slough off half this nation's people to satisfy your warped desire for superficial ideological purity.
Liberals are TRASH. They have made leftism untenable in America, and that is the worst crime I can imagine.
No. Why would I do that? I have self-respect.
If you work a technical job and move to the Bay Area, you are entirely your own dumbass problem. You could choose to work in any other industry or in any other place, but THAT'S what you go with. One of the least stable professions in one of the areas where you can make the least contribution. The rural people are totally the dumb ones, here.
Sidenote: I wonder how many more of you arrogant garbage monsters are going to put an ellipsis over the part where I reveal that I (much like everyone else in small town/rural America) liked Bernie. Very progressive, you urbanites. A fascist woman is definitely more prog than a socialist man.
What I don't like is you disingenuous shitrats practically burning half the country's population in effigy and then claiming they're cruel, bigoted warmongers.
And what would you have without farms, you urbanite scum?
Bullshit. Obamacare wasn't an effective healthcare solution and everyone knows it. It was a massive corporate welfare program for the only industry that probably needs it less than oil. You can cry until you're blue in the face that the GOP cockblocked its true potential, but because a single-payer system never would've been a realistic option with the Democratic party controlled by worthless DINO neoliberal trash, this is all we ever truly had the ability to pass. And we shouldn't have, because it's garbage that hasn't fixed anything for anyone. It has been worse than doing nothing, and shitcanning it is one of Trump's only positive ideas.
You mean the political bait is also basically fake news? Quelle surprise.
I came here to complain about how this would generate divisive and callous political snarking, and guess what the first two comments that beat me to the punch are?
You people are thoroughly disgusting. You're the reason people outside The Six Cities That Matter don't trust liberals, and the reason true leftists like Bernie can't ever make any headway. If you keep this shit up, you're going to bring this country to the point of civil war. Good idea, I say: this side has all the guns, so we can push all you fuckers into the ocean.
Google's development strategy:
10 Get everybody using a new thing
20 Get it working well enough that they're finally used to it
30 GOTO 10
Just fix the shit you already made. You do not need two or three parallel solutions for every service you want to attempt to provide.
You can see some of the dirty russkie's under the table efforts here. http://www.arcyber.army.mil/Pa... We really have to do something about this.
I'm going to fucking die laughing.
My wishlist is still full of 40-75s, my dude. Even a few 90s. The steam sales are still a big deal, just with less guessing and stress.
There shouldn't be. If you buy a smartwatch, you've already been ripped off and you have too much money for me to care.
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that whenever energy is both very dense and very accessible, you've made an explosive. Existing battery technology is already going that direction. At what point will I need to register my phone as a destructive device under the NFA?
This is how it has always worked before because previous technologies solved specific problems better than human hands alone.
We are on the cusp of general purpose automation. It won't work this way again.
Yeah, as somebody with... A great deal of screen time, I definitely feel like it's something I do to cope (poorly) with my various other quite severe sleep disruptions.
honk if you're reading this in your twentieth hour of wakefulness, tho
That would be the point of the crowdfunding campaign.
https://igg.me/at/ore/
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Well, not really. It's only got until the end of the month anyway, and nobody ever put a dime in it. If it DID work, I could still get the thing in time for it to work. But nobody cared.
Also, indiegogo isn't even working right now, so that's great.
It's morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money.
There's a million and one reasons small businesses SHOULD sue credit card companies. This is one is stupid garbage.