I have even worked at places where not locking your computer when you are away from it is a fireable offence (after a few warnings).
I have seen the chief of security frig around with unsecured workstations. (Set background to screenshot of itself, hide icons and start bar, email President from offender's account, etc).
What I run into it how many people's minds are blown when I show them Winkey+L instead of the Ctrl+Alt+Del,Enter. Same people have their mind blown at Ctrl+Shift+Esc instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del, "Start Task Manager"
Lithium Iron ( LiFePO4) batteries are probably the closest Lithium technology battery to replacing a standard Lead Acid. Battery Tender makes batteries appropriate for such applications.
For a start, the copyright industry cartel has bribed their way into progressivly longer and longer terms. I don't see how that's remotely ethical and I think it's a find choice to pirate something sufficiently old.
As a start, patents, which can be actual physical devices or drugs that make a major change in how we live our day to day lives, which may have taken years of research, have a protection life of 20 years.
Copyright, typically seen in the form of audio and music entertainment, have a term of author dead + 70 years.
WTF? Actual life improving device vs. pure entertainment. I would be happy if copyright was the same term as patent.
I actually jumped on the e-book bandwagon at first, but that the prices are often higher than paperback, and with the loss of freedom, I haven't turned on my reader in years... I just buy paperback. Then I can give them away (if they were good, we trade amongst family and friends) or sell them to a second hand book store for credit. With e-books, I get nothing... so I buy the paperback, I don't arbitrarily decide I'm entitled to pirate the e-book.
Many public libraries have access to ebook loan services. It can make e-readers a real boon when traveling since there's less to pack and they self-return so there's no late fees.
Also Calibre and DeDRM can unlock the handcuffs so you can give your books away to your friends and family.
My recent experiences with this remodeled theater are good. Yet I find that there aren't very many movies that I am willing to go there to see.
I'll go if there's a movie I really want to see, or as a social event. I rarely have the disruptions complained about, and cost doesn't even bother me. If I see a movie by myself I go Tuesdays when it's cheap. If I go with friends I earn or redeem SCENE points. I never buy food so I don't complain about the cost of that.
I find the quality of the experience is usually good. All the theatres around here replaced the seats with comfortable rocking seats. Ever since digital projection, IMHO the quality of the actual show improved since there's not all the dirt and shit on the worn film, and the noticeable snap crackle pop point where they switch reels. Since online and mobile ticket purchase became available box office lines disappeared.
I agree with finding something worth watching being an issue. One Tuesday I wanted to go watch a movie. Check what's playing, check Rotten Tomatos, and realize I really didn't want to watch Sausage Party and passed on going.
Upon trying to watch Sausage Party at home on KODI-Exodus, and realizing it was a terrible movie that I stopped 10 minutes in, I'm glad I didn't spend $6 to see it.
Thankfully that won't be a problem 6 months in the future (if I believe Slashdot) because by then self driving cars will replace all Uber, taxi and truck drivers. By January 1, 2018 manually driven cars will be illegal.
Microsoft made a deliberate decision back in the XP days to get rid of the command prompt. And the world is poorer for it.
What deliberate decision? NT Command prompt continues to exist as it always has. More advanced (and overly powerful) PowerShell exists too, so even Microsoft hasn't abandoned CLI.
They did get rid of direct* COMMAND.COM access as they built their consumer OS (XP) on the stable NT kernel, and not the soggy cardboard DOSshell known as "Win9x". The world is better for them abandoning Win9x.
*16 bit DOS emulation exists on 32 bit versions of Windows, but doesn't allow direct access to hardware as COMMAND.COM allowed in Win9x.
That is the problem, the touchpad in the 440 removed the trackpoint buttons, so if you want to use the trackpoint, even with the touchpad disabled it will respond to clicks, as it's needed for the trackpoint! Totally idiotic design!
And based on whether you use the trackpoint or the touchpad, the simulated buttons move to the top, or bottom of the touchpad respectively.
I avoid having to click the actual clickpad. Using 2-finger tap to right click reduced a lot of pain, though right click-drag actions seem painful as the cursor moves off the target while clicking.
By far the worst computer pointing device I've ever used.
The computer also only has 2 fucking USB ports even though the case has room for more (wireless mouse + USB VPN token = no more ports). And the keyboard is missing half the keys, and the function keys default to auxiliary functions (brightness, wireless, etc) which is fucking annoying when you direct someone to use a keyboard shortcut in an application and the wireless disables instead.
Atom at least tries to have a purpose: Very low power consumption at the expense of performance, for use in devices like tablets. Modern "Pentium" and "Celeron" chips are just low end Desktop / laptop chips.
Plus they throw in a low end "Pentium" and lower end "Celeron". How low end? Don't look at clock speed, head over to benchmarks.
And dual/quad / hyperthreading changes between desktop and mobile.
Eg: last I checked desktop i5: quad core, no hyper threading, mobile i5: dual core with hyper threading Desktop i5: Quad core with hyper threading, mobile i7: Quad core no hyper threading. Or is it some Dual core, some quadcore, some with, some without hyperthreading.
When I quote the GP, I see new paragraphs at "As far as AMD goes, I had a ATI/AMD Rage 128" and "They have my business with video cards,". He probably has Posting options set to "HTML Formatted" which requires <br> or <p> tags for new lines. I prefer "Plain Old Text" because I can use enter.
AMD had the market when Intel was marketing the Flop of the Pentium 4 (Spaceheater 4). Leading the way with 64 bit as well. My understanding AMD management starting going out of control at that point. Intel threw out the Pentium 4 entirely, and based Core series on the "Pentium M", originally developed as a low power Notebook CPU, as the 12000BTU air conditioner requirement for the Pentium 4 Mobile resulted in poor battery life.
I bought a couple K8 generation AMDs, but when I built my last rig, the performance/value proposition made it hard to not go with Intel, as much as I'd like to encourage competition.
"Pebble developers are welcome to keep creating and updating apps" Sure, in the same way devs are still welcome to create apps for FirefoxOS. Who is going to bother creating apps for a platform that won't exist in 2 years?
Meanwhile at work my iOS counterparts get native Office 365 integration in the mail / calender app, while I have to use a third party android app that only seems to automatically sync on Wifi. Same when we were on Lotus Traveler.
Plus the iOS viewers for PDF, Word, Excel, PPT open instantly, while you may have to find and install third party apps on Android.
For PDFs at least I found "Radaee PDF Reader" and "Mupdf" can provide almost instantaneous viewing capability, far better than Adobe, or any office suite.
I used to tape hockey games pretty religiously. . . If there was a team in Toronto where you could count on seeing a reasonably good game again, I'd probably start doing it again.
I call shenanigans! The last good pro team in Toronto was in 1967. VCRs weren't popular until at least the mid 1970s.
To me, the same rules apply as with spoilers for movies. Personally, I really don't care about spoilers. If the "surprise twist" sounds really dumb, I guess I'll save some money. If it sounds good, I'll see the movie even though I know how it will end, because there's more to the experience of watching it than just the summary.
I find the worst for spoilers is previews. They usually show the best action scenes, and all of the "surprise twists" in the preview. I usually enjoy a movie more if my friends invite me along, and I've never heard of it before. For example I feel any surprise of "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" has been let out by the previews letting me know that that payphone is about to ring, and the cops will be the ones wearing the cuffs.
More that the TSA in the US is more anal than just about any other country, It is pretty rare to find airport security that requires removal of belts and shoes and jackets etc, while in the US it is far rarer to find somewhere that that is not a requirement.
And then they get pissed when you DO take off your belt, shoes, jackets, etc.
Someone at work was looking to buy a Chromebook because Windows 10 upgrade "broke" their laptop... I told them not to throw it away as it could be repaired.
Works good for Microsoft. They get the claim the number of upgrades as if they are willing users, and they get to claim the replacement PC sales as new users.
If you're just trying to isolate your sessions and you're not worrying about other programs installed locally screwing with them (hi, Ask toolbar!), then you can use Firefox's profile manager to run different Firefox processes from different profiles (firefox.exe -p -no-remote). I believe you'll have to reinstall/reconfigure your plugins in each profile you use, but each will have a completely separate cookie jar, history, etc.
It's frustrating that aside from "incognito mode" it's clunky and inconvenient to achieve this isolation. I looked at firefox profiles, but you'll have to install plugins to colour tabs, etc to differentiate the sessions.
I always called it the "stalling lawnmower" sound. Especially when the obnoxious riders sound like they are revving it just to prevent a stall. Interesting to find out it has an official name that's just as lame.
Didn't work for OS/2 and hasn't for anyone else ever since.
OS/2 runs win3.x software in physical multi-threading by spawning multiple instances of (more or less real) windows. Far superior to running them on windows natively (running windows on the hardware directly).
Skimpy amounts of RAM didn't make this fun on some cheap computers, of course.
Windows on Windows (WoW) allows Windows NT versions to run 16 bit Windows 3.x applications. I (sadly) run Windows 3.1 applications daily at work, and they run pretty solid on Windows 7 32 bit compared to Windows 3.1. They even run on Windows 8.x and 10 (32 bit)!
Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) allows 64 bit versions of Windows to run 32 bit applications. Aside from the abortion of names used in the registry (Wow6432Node) and program files, usually run pretty seamless.
like the grateful driver whose Model S slammed on the brakes to prevent a collision with a pedestrian
There are other cars equipped with lane-keeping technology and automatic emergency braking. However the makers of these cars don't pretend that they are a completely autonomous car.
Some day we will get there sure, but the "Auto-Pilot" technology in Tesla is no more advanced than what's available in other manufacturer's products.
Slashdot Mirror
I find the built in PDF viewer in Chrome to not be that great, and the one in Firefox to be downright terrible.
I use PDF X-change, but there's plenty of other options: Sumatra PDF, MuPDF , etc.
The only reason I've used Adobe Reader recently was a stupid form that had scripting in it, that wouldn't work in any alternate viewer.
Meta+L before you step away.
I have even worked at places where not locking your computer when you are away from it is a fireable offence (after a few warnings).
I have seen the chief of security frig around with unsecured workstations. (Set background to screenshot of itself, hide icons and start bar, email President from offender's account, etc).
What I run into it how many people's minds are blown when I show them Winkey+L instead of the Ctrl+Alt+Del,Enter. Same people have their mind blown at Ctrl+Shift+Esc instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del, "Start Task Manager"
APK,
How well does your HOSTS file work at my workplace where all web browsing traffic goes across a proxy?
Lithium Iron ( LiFePO4) batteries are probably the closest Lithium technology battery to replacing a standard Lead Acid. Battery Tender makes batteries appropriate for such applications.
For a start, the copyright industry cartel has bribed their way into progressivly longer and longer terms. I don't see how that's remotely ethical and I think it's a find choice to pirate something sufficiently old.
As a start, patents, which can be actual physical devices or drugs that make a major change in how we live our day to day lives, which may have taken years of research, have a protection life of 20 years.
Copyright, typically seen in the form of audio and music entertainment, have a term of author dead + 70 years.
WTF? Actual life improving device vs. pure entertainment. I would be happy if copyright was the same term as patent.
I actually jumped on the e-book bandwagon at first, but that the prices are often higher than paperback, and with the loss of freedom, I haven't turned on my reader in years... I just buy paperback. Then I can give them away (if they were good, we trade amongst family and friends) or sell them to a second hand book store for credit. With e-books, I get nothing... so I buy the paperback, I don't arbitrarily decide I'm entitled to pirate the e-book.
Many public libraries have access to ebook loan services. It can make e-readers a real boon when traveling since there's less to pack and they self-return so there's no late fees.
Also Calibre and DeDRM can unlock the handcuffs so you can give your books away to your friends and family.
My recent experiences with this remodeled theater are good. Yet I find that there aren't very many movies that I am willing to go there to see.
I'll go if there's a movie I really want to see, or as a social event. I rarely have the disruptions complained about, and cost doesn't even bother me. If I see a movie by myself I go Tuesdays when it's cheap. If I go with friends I earn or redeem SCENE points. I never buy food so I don't complain about the cost of that.
I find the quality of the experience is usually good. All the theatres around here replaced the seats with comfortable rocking seats. Ever since digital projection, IMHO the quality of the actual show improved since there's not all the dirt and shit on the worn film, and the noticeable snap crackle pop point where they switch reels. Since online and mobile ticket purchase became available box office lines disappeared.
I agree with finding something worth watching being an issue. One Tuesday I wanted to go watch a movie. Check what's playing, check Rotten Tomatos, and realize I really didn't want to watch Sausage Party and passed on going.
Upon trying to watch Sausage Party at home on KODI-Exodus, and realizing it was a terrible movie that I stopped 10 minutes in, I'm glad I didn't spend $6 to see it.
(The driver can't because I'm paying him.)
Thankfully that won't be a problem 6 months in the future (if I believe Slashdot) because by then self driving cars will replace all Uber, taxi and truck drivers. By January 1, 2018 manually driven cars will be illegal.
Microsoft made a deliberate decision back in the XP days to get rid of the command prompt. And the world is poorer for it.
What deliberate decision? NT Command prompt continues to exist as it always has. More advanced (and overly powerful) PowerShell exists too, so even Microsoft hasn't abandoned CLI.
They did get rid of direct* COMMAND.COM access as they built their consumer OS (XP) on the stable NT kernel, and not the soggy cardboard DOSshell known as "Win9x". The world is better for them abandoning Win9x.
*16 bit DOS emulation exists on 32 bit versions of Windows, but doesn't allow direct access to hardware as COMMAND.COM allowed in Win9x.
That is the problem, the touchpad in the 440 removed the trackpoint buttons, so if you want to use the trackpoint, even with the touchpad disabled it will respond to clicks, as it's needed for the trackpoint! Totally idiotic design!
And based on whether you use the trackpoint or the touchpad, the simulated buttons move to the top, or bottom of the touchpad respectively.
I avoid having to click the actual clickpad. Using 2-finger tap to right click reduced a lot of pain, though right click-drag actions seem painful as the cursor moves off the target while clicking.
By far the worst computer pointing device I've ever used.
The computer also only has 2 fucking USB ports even though the case has room for more (wireless mouse + USB VPN token = no more ports). And the keyboard is missing half the keys, and the function keys default to auxiliary functions (brightness, wireless, etc) which is fucking annoying when you direct someone to use a keyboard shortcut in an application and the wireless disables instead.
Atom at least tries to have a purpose: Very low power consumption at the expense of performance, for use in devices like tablets. Modern "Pentium" and "Celeron" chips are just low end Desktop / laptop chips.
A lot of Ethernet connections are lucky to be 100MBps = 10MB/s. 1GBps Ethernet cards are common = 100MB/s.
100MB/s might be the upper range for linear IO on an HDD, but SSDs saturate at 600MB/s.
Plus they throw in a low end "Pentium" and lower end "Celeron". How low end? Don't look at clock speed, head over to benchmarks.
And dual/quad / hyperthreading changes between desktop and mobile.
Eg: last I checked desktop i5: quad core, no hyper threading, mobile i5: dual core with hyper threading
Desktop i5: Quad core with hyper threading, mobile i7: Quad core no hyper threading. Or is it some Dual core, some quadcore, some with, some without hyperthreading.
When I quote the GP, I see new paragraphs at "As far as AMD goes, I had a ATI/AMD Rage 128" and "They have my business with video cards,". He probably has Posting options set to "HTML Formatted" which requires <br> or <p> tags for new lines. I prefer "Plain Old Text" because I can use enter.
AMD had the market when Intel was marketing the Flop of the Pentium 4 (Spaceheater 4). Leading the way with 64 bit as well. My understanding AMD management starting going out of control at that point. Intel threw out the Pentium 4 entirely, and based Core series on the "Pentium M", originally developed as a low power Notebook CPU, as the 12000BTU air conditioner requirement for the Pentium 4 Mobile resulted in poor battery life.
I bought a couple K8 generation AMDs, but when I built my last rig, the performance/value proposition made it hard to not go with Intel, as much as I'd like to encourage competition.
"Pebble developers are welcome to keep creating and updating apps"
Sure, in the same way devs are still welcome to create apps for FirefoxOS. Who is going to bother creating apps for a platform that won't exist in 2 years?
Kind of like Chrome Apps?
Meanwhile at work my iOS counterparts get native Office 365 integration in the mail / calender app, while I have to use a third party android app that only seems to automatically sync on Wifi. Same when we were on Lotus Traveler.
Plus the iOS viewers for PDF, Word, Excel, PPT open instantly, while you may have to find and install third party apps on Android.
For PDFs at least I found "Radaee PDF Reader" and "Mupdf" can provide almost instantaneous viewing capability, far better than Adobe, or any office suite.
For Office stuff (Word/excel/PPT) Kingston / WPS Office seem ok.
I used to tape hockey games pretty religiously. . . If there was a team in Toronto where you could count on seeing a reasonably good game again, I'd probably start doing it again.
I call shenanigans! The last good pro team in Toronto was in 1967. VCRs weren't popular until at least the mid 1970s.
To me, the same rules apply as with spoilers for movies. Personally, I really don't care about spoilers. If the "surprise twist" sounds really dumb, I guess I'll save some money. If it sounds good, I'll see the movie even though I know how it will end, because there's more to the experience of watching it than just the summary.
I find the worst for spoilers is previews. They usually show the best action scenes, and all of the "surprise twists" in the preview. I usually enjoy a movie more if my friends invite me along, and I've never heard of it before. For example I feel any surprise of "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" has been let out by the previews letting me know that that payphone is about to ring, and the cops will be the ones wearing the cuffs.
More that the TSA in the US is more anal than just about any other country, It is pretty rare to find airport security that requires removal of belts and shoes and jackets etc, while in the US it is far rarer to find somewhere that that is not a requirement.
And then they get pissed when you DO take off your belt, shoes, jackets, etc.
Someone at work was looking to buy a Chromebook because Windows 10 upgrade "broke" their laptop... I told them not to throw it away as it could be repaired.
Works good for Microsoft. They get the claim the number of upgrades as if they are willing users, and they get to claim the replacement PC sales as new users.
If you're just trying to isolate your sessions and you're not worrying about other programs installed locally screwing with them (hi, Ask toolbar!), then you can use Firefox's profile manager to run different Firefox processes from different profiles (firefox.exe -p -no-remote). I believe you'll have to reinstall/reconfigure your plugins in each profile you use, but each will have a completely separate cookie jar, history, etc.
It's frustrating that aside from "incognito mode" it's clunky and inconvenient to achieve this isolation. I looked at firefox profiles, but you'll have to install plugins to colour tabs, etc to differentiate the sessions.
Any information on what that development environment was like? This is the closest I can find
I always called it the "stalling lawnmower" sound. Especially when the obnoxious riders sound like they are revving it just to prevent a stall. Interesting to find out it has an official name that's just as lame.
Didn't work for OS/2 and hasn't for anyone else ever since.
OS/2 runs win3.x software in physical multi-threading by spawning multiple instances of (more or less real) windows. Far superior to running them on windows natively (running windows on the hardware directly).
Skimpy amounts of RAM didn't make this fun on some cheap computers, of course.
Windows on Windows (WoW) allows Windows NT versions to run 16 bit Windows 3.x applications. I (sadly) run Windows 3.1 applications daily at work, and they run pretty solid on Windows 7 32 bit compared to Windows 3.1. They even run on Windows 8.x and 10 (32 bit)!
Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) allows 64 bit versions of Windows to run 32 bit applications. Aside from the abortion of names used in the registry (Wow6432Node) and program files, usually run pretty seamless.
like the grateful driver whose Model S slammed on the brakes to prevent a collision with a pedestrian
There are other cars equipped with lane-keeping technology and automatic emergency braking. However the makers of these cars don't pretend that they are a completely autonomous car.
Some day we will get there sure, but the "Auto-Pilot" technology in Tesla is no more advanced than what's available in other manufacturer's products.