That's right. When I couldn't satisfactorily turn off forced Win 10 updates (which had a tendency to happen at the worst time: "Don't unplug your computer..." Oh, you have a plane to catch? Sorry about that...), I converted my Windows laptops to VMs running under VirtualBox on Linux. Haven't looked back. Most of the time I run those VMs without network connections (though Word 2016 insists on one).
And it is even possible to keep the host off the Internet. Browsing the virtualbox forums a few months ago, I saw a good post on this. Googling I can't seem to find it right now, but I did find https://forums.virtualbox.org/...
Well, I happen to be researching about 10 things right now, so I end up with a lot of tabs.
When I'm finished with something - after an hour, a day, or a month - I'll close those tabs.
This is how I like to work. You might be different. You might have an empty desk?
I'm glad I have a browser version which supports this style of work.
I like my current 63.0.3239.108
It is responsive with 340 tabs (on Linux anyway), just like the good old days. Though those 340 tabs used 20GB RAM...
Hope 64 is as good in this respect.
If higher IQ is necessarily more advantageous, why did humans evolve to have average IQ's of 100 rather than 180? You would think if the higher IQ was more advantageous, the 180 IQ people would have displaced the lower IQ ones. Yet, that hasn't happened.
Your number 2 is akin to a factory outlet, which many/most fashion retailers are happy to have, far enough away from their high street store that their premium customers don't go there.
It would be solved in part if the 3rd party resellers could be encouraged to mark "last season" goods as such.
A better solution would be for the brands to make it easy for consumers to check. For example, a page on their site where you could put in the URL of the resellers page, and for each product on it, it would report whether its current or superseded. Amazon could do this too. Or Google...
To regain control of when my Win 10 laptops reboot, I virtualised them.
They've been VMs running in VirtualBox (on KDE Neon) for 5 months now, and they seem very happy with things this way. Me too.
In my VirtualBox settings, I've simply disabled their network adapters. Maybe I could've done that in the original Windows machines, but having a single machine is so much more convenient (and satisfying). Just make sure you don't run out of disk space on the partition containing those images!
Apple's just announced quarterly revenue $52.9 billion.mmMostly from the iPhone.
So in less than 6 months, Apple's revenue exceeds their all time payments to developers for the software which makes the iPhone attractive in the first place.
Amazing.
In country roads in Australia (where driverless cars would be great!), the following is sometimes the case:
- speed limit for cars 100 or 110 km/h, trucks 100 (when cars are 110) or 90 (though usually not)
- one lane in each direction
- trucks can be B-doubles, B-triples or road trains (ie verrrrrrry lonnnnnnng: a type 2 road train is a prime mover hauling unit towing three or four trailers with a total length of up to 53.5m)
Where the truck is doing 100, many drivers would exceed the speed limit by say 20-40 km/h in order to get past safely and quickly:
1. minimising the amount of time next to it, where wind or it swerving could cause it to hit you
2. reducing the time you are in the oncoming lane (and traffic approaches)
A hard limit of +10 mph would be bad.
The most dangerous situation is when one truck doing 100 overtakes another doing 99. In the time that takes, traffic coming the other which wasn't initially visible may have to make an emergency stop / pull off the road. I've also seen trucks pull out to overtake, whilst (presumably unbeknownst to them) a car is overtaking them, so the car is suddenly in an emergency with 3 choices (brake, accelerate, or run off the road). That's a situation in which the computer might make a better judgement than most humans, but where accelerate is the safest option, it needs to be able to do it.
See http://www.oracle.com/haley/index.html for info on an Australian software company once called Rule Burst which does this sort of stuff, which Oracle bought.
Word 2007 doesn't do several-people-in-the-document-at-once collaboration.
This will reportedly be possible next year with Office 14.
If you are still using Word for whatever reason, and want several-people-in-the-document collaboration in Word today, you can try my plutext collaboration software - see http://dev.plutext.org/blog/
You get paragraph level versioning, and changes tracked properly.
I have the "draggable applet" feature working in docx4all. See http://dev.plutext.org/blog/2008/12/09/unifying-the-web-browser-and-the-desktop/
To be honest, I'm not sure that this capability is as important as your post suggests.
Yes, you can close your browser and the app keeps running. And there might be a way to resize the app. But what else does it buy you?
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That's right. When I couldn't satisfactorily turn off forced Win 10 updates (which had a tendency to happen at the worst time: "Don't unplug your computer..." Oh, you have a plane to catch? Sorry about that...), I converted my Windows laptops to VMs running under VirtualBox on Linux. Haven't looked back. Most of the time I run those VMs without network connections (though Word 2016 insists on one).
And it is even possible to keep the host off the Internet. Browsing the virtualbox forums a few months ago, I saw a good post on this. Googling I can't seem to find it right now, but I did find https://forums.virtualbox.org/...
Well, I happen to be researching about 10 things right now, so I end up with a lot of tabs. When I'm finished with something - after an hour, a day, or a month - I'll close those tabs. This is how I like to work. You might be different. You might have an empty desk? I'm glad I have a browser version which supports this style of work.
I like my current 63.0.3239.108 It is responsive with 340 tabs (on Linux anyway), just like the good old days. Though those 340 tabs used 20GB RAM... Hope 64 is as good in this respect.
If higher IQ is necessarily more advantageous, why did humans evolve to have average IQ's of 100 rather than 180? You would think if the higher IQ was more advantageous, the 180 IQ people would have displaced the lower IQ ones. Yet, that hasn't happened.
Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ: https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Your number 2 is akin to a factory outlet, which many/most fashion retailers are happy to have, far enough away from their high street store that their premium customers don't go there.
It would be solved in part if the 3rd party resellers could be encouraged to mark "last season" goods as such.
A better solution would be for the brands to make it easy for consumers to check. For example, a page on their site where you could put in the URL of the resellers page, and for each product on it, it would report whether its current or superseded. Amazon could do this too. Or Google...
To regain control of when my Win 10 laptops reboot, I virtualised them.
They've been VMs running in VirtualBox (on KDE Neon) for 5 months now, and they seem very happy with things this way. Me too.
In my VirtualBox settings, I've simply disabled their network adapters. Maybe I could've done that in the original Windows machines, but having a single machine is so much more convenient (and satisfying). Just make sure you don't run out of disk space on the partition containing those images!
Apple's just announced quarterly revenue $52.9 billion.mmMostly from the iPhone. So in less than 6 months, Apple's revenue exceeds their all time payments to developers for the software which makes the iPhone attractive in the first place. Amazing.
In country roads in Australia (where driverless cars would be great!), the following is sometimes the case: - speed limit for cars 100 or 110 km/h, trucks 100 (when cars are 110) or 90 (though usually not) - one lane in each direction - trucks can be B-doubles, B-triples or road trains (ie verrrrrrry lonnnnnnng: a type 2 road train is a prime mover hauling unit towing three or four trailers with a total length of up to 53.5m) Where the truck is doing 100, many drivers would exceed the speed limit by say 20-40 km/h in order to get past safely and quickly: 1. minimising the amount of time next to it, where wind or it swerving could cause it to hit you 2. reducing the time you are in the oncoming lane (and traffic approaches) A hard limit of +10 mph would be bad. The most dangerous situation is when one truck doing 100 overtakes another doing 99. In the time that takes, traffic coming the other which wasn't initially visible may have to make an emergency stop / pull off the road. I've also seen trucks pull out to overtake, whilst (presumably unbeknownst to them) a car is overtaking them, so the car is suddenly in an emergency with 3 choices (brake, accelerate, or run off the road). That's a situation in which the computer might make a better judgement than most humans, but where accelerate is the safest option, it needs to be able to do it.
See http://www.oracle.com/haley/index.html for info on an Australian software company once called Rule Burst which does this sort of stuff, which Oracle bought.
There are systems which version-control the drafting of legislation. See for example http://www.teratext.com/products/teratext-for-legislation.asp
This will reportedly be possible next year with Office 14.
If you are still using Word for whatever reason, and want several-people-in-the-document collaboration in Word today, you can try my plutext collaboration software - see http://dev.plutext.org/blog/
You get paragraph level versioning, and changes tracked properly.
I have the "draggable applet" feature working in docx4all. See http://dev.plutext.org/blog/2008/12/09/unifying-the-web-browser-and-the-desktop/ To be honest, I'm not sure that this capability is as important as your post suggests. Yes, you can close your browser and the app keeps running. And there might be a way to resize the app. But what else does it buy you?