It makes sense, except where industrial users use a ton of 3-phase AC induction motors, which are a simple design. And AC transformers are still a more simple method of switching voltages for distribution.
Even when they take DC, a lot of them are different voltages. Phone / USB chargers are 5V. Things like Laptops will be ~20V. So you will still have conversions. And the power going around, 120V or 240V, allows you to run moderate sized appliances without ridiculously thick cables. High voltage, low current, rather than low voltage, high current.
a user could still abuse the spirit of the rules in this case by using the 1 allowed hard copy to print out the entire standards doc and then scan it back into the system...
Can you print to a PDF printer, or print to a Postscript file to be turned into a PDF file later?
They never seriously tried to make it a unified company and basically drove Chrysler into the ground.
Basically. Chrysler was hugely profitable at the time of acquisition. Daimler seemed to suck money and cut jobs out of the Chrysler branch, to fund the Daimler branch. They were stingy with the return of shared technology promised (only a few pieces of last gen technology made it to Chrysler), ruined the culture and scared good workers away. When they were done they sold the husk to Cerberus for pennies on the dollar.
Fiat at least seems to be trying to make good cars. For example they noticed right away what a disaster the Sebring was, and did a mid cycle refit to create the 200 that didn't have a sandpaper interior. That gave them enough time to develop the new Fiat based 200.
I'm amazed with how forward compatible RS232 is. Our only hiccup is with 16-bit (Windows 3.1 grade) software. They have to run in "XP-Mode" with serial pass-through. Any 32-bit application can still communicate to serial devices even via USB-Serial Adapter on 64-bit Windows. Serial is very robust for industrial devices compared to the ongoing struggle with drivers for any other custom hardware. Bonus if the device doesn't need a special application and can be interfaced with Hyperterminal/Putty / Teraterm, etc.
Rosetta, the orbiter, plays a very large role, and has been functioning properly.
Philae the lander was designed for two missions: -Short term, upon landing do a battery of tests powered by primary (non-rechargable) battery. This was a success -Long term, small battery of tests over a long period of time, powered by secondary (rechargable) battery and solar cells.
The choice of power systems was for the reason of the risk of what happened. It landed in shade but the primary batteries allowed the tests to complete. Because they aren't NASA, Nuclear based RTG power isn't viable.
Here's some interesting papers on the actual missions and design of the vehicles:
That auto manufacturers don't push out updates to their install base every Tuesday. Sure, different vehicles have different designs. That don't change after they've been built.
On my car I used to have the option to set the "Auto-off" interval on the headlights to "Off, 60 sec, 120 sec". I had the PCM reflashed as part of a recall on the Throttle actuator programming. Now I have the option of "60 Sec, 120 sec", for some reason "Off" was removed from the newer version of PCM software.
I've seen cars with a knob on the bottom right of the steering column, push button on top of the steering column, and slider on the steering column. However North American cars for the past ~10 years, and imports for substantially longer, have standardized on a conspicuous red button in the center stack, usually fairly high up.
I wasn't thinking candy vending machines, more parking and transit kiosks, where at most you just need to fill them with a roll of paper. From TFS:
Some public services are not accepting cash anymore, such as parking meters, buses and transit,
There is costs involved to handling cash transactions, whether at a store or a parking meter. Collecting, counting, and depositing cash, and distributing change. Plus additional controls required to making sure employees don't steal cash. Add in security of employees servicing machines (as they will be carrying a significant amount of cash on them).
If card transaction can be paid by a debit card, not processed through Visa or Mastercard, it can be cheaper to the merchant than cash.
It also has a vastly superior pointing device (trackpoint rather than only a touchpad) and keyboard (lenovo rather than jello) when compared to your Mac.
Trackpoint is junk when combined with the god forsaken clickpad for the buttons. Clickpad by itself as a touch pad is just torture to try and right click with.
..hardware that ships with an older version of Windows..
Implying that I'm part of the group that ever buys a commercially-built computer with pre-installed OS and software on it in the first place.. and if I had to for some reason, Job #1 would be to wipe the HDD completely and install the OS from scratch, according to my specs, and before anyone says it: If for some reason I was prevented in that case by the manufacturer from doing exactly that, then I'd be boxing the thing back up and returning it for a full refund.
Getting hardware that RUNS older OS's can be a problem. For example, the Intel Haswell series and chipsets don't support Windows XP. Specifically there's no SATA drivers and GPU drivers. Ivy Bridge is the last Intel platform to support XP. Could you get another GPU and SATA controller? Maybe, but not forever.
Generally most home users, even power users, don't NEED Professional versions.
Your real limitations are: -Can't join a domain (I've only met one home user with a domain. He's super IT geek, and the whole setup seems to be massive overkill) -No remote desktop server. RDP Wrap can provide RDP server on home versions, and on all versions can allow concurrent logins (one user can be on the console while another user logs in via RDP). -RAM limitations (W7 Home Pre: 16GB, Pro 192GB. W8.1 Home: 128GB, Pro 512GB). For a 5.5 year old OS, only recently would W7 home users be running up to that 16GB wall.
In any case, with Windows 10 it seems that KMS based activation is still the only route to "illegitimate" copies, as such it will be easier for home users to pirate and activate Enterprise than Home.
Good thing one of the settings mentioned in TFS is update then reboot manually.
But how will it be presented? Once it's done updating will it say:
Windows has installed updates and needs to Reboot to finish installing updates. When would you like to reboot?
**Reboot Now** *Reboot Later*
Oh, you happened to be in the middle of typing a document at 60 WPM and happened to press the space key? Too bad, your system is now rebooting.
I don't know why they're so horny to get the system rebooted right away. Why not be like chrome, and wait a while before saying "Hey, you haven't restarted in a while, you should to get updates installed. Or at least show a notification that you won't accidentally interact with that says "Hey, updates complete, ready to reboot whenever you want."
This one I don't think you can blame on Microsoft. Though Microsoft should have saved your notepad data when they forced the shutdown.
The user was using Notepad for more than it was intended. It's just intended as a bare bones text editor.
I know products like Word and Office will autosave, and autoopen when you log in again if the system was force restarted (eg: by an update). OneNote is even better because it's intended as a note taking application.
I know this because it happened last night when IT decided to push the 240 minute warning to a forced restart AFTER I had already gone home. So while my spreadsheets opened back up to where I was, I lost data that I was in the process of logging because IT thinks that they are the most important department in the company, and the entire business revolves around them.
Other way around. Electronic payments replace cash and cash is used as a backup for electronic. Most of the western world already works that way. This story is about some places in Europe retiring the cash option entirely for some automated vending machines. But those probably won't work so well with the power out anyway.
And removing cash from vending machine removes maintenance costs: -No emptying bill stackers -No filling change tubes.
The machines don't need to be looked at until a problem is detected or reported.
When they were talking about transparent paper, books, and plastic, I was imagining smooth cellulose acetate overhead transparencies. Though I guess using an obsolete projection technology as a reference might not be the best thing on/.
We're going back to the days of bulletin boards where you can only talk to people on the same service. We are going backwards.
Not only that, look at how many (usually small) companies don't have, or don't update their actual website, and instead rely on Facebook and Twitter to for updates.
. ..the reality of the situation was, at least in my experience, that Flash on Android was a rather shitty experience that never really worked that well.
That's been my experience on PCs as well.
-Websites. Typically it seems things like small restaurants, make their whole site in Flash and it's a slow, obnoxious POS. Usually it's a basic page that could handle simple HTML. All I want is your hours, menu, address, and phone number. -Annoying fucking ads. The CPU will rev for no apparent reason. -Videos, like Youtube, will rev the CPU and be all jittery. Rip the FLV, play it in VLC (or whatever), and the CPU will just sip power and play silky smooth, even on a 12 year old piece of shit computer. All the updates keep talking about acceleration, but Flash always seems to just draw in the 2D framebuffer with a crayon. -Every fucking update tries to install fucking McAfee Security Scan Shitware. I didn't click the fucking checkbox the first time I installed your PoS, respect that! -Memory leak: If I keep watching serial videos on Youtube, eventually flash will use 2GB and crash.
You want to blow off steam at work? Pull out your damn cell phone. When almost every single employee these days has high-speed unfettered internet access in their pocket I have little sympathy for those who want to dismantle corporate security policy.
Heck as it is when you IT folks fail at providing any internet access at all (filtered or otherwise) I pull out my damn cell phone to look up spec sheets and product help online to let me continue to do my job in spite of your incompetence. I don't have any time to be blowing off steam.
So for Malware he should bog the machines down with McAfee or Symantec shit? The shitware that decides that the top priority of user workstations at 10:00 AM is to thrash the hard drive with updates and a hard drive scan, to the point that the computer is unusable?
Is it convenient? If I take the transit and it only extends my commute from say 10 minutes to 20 minutes, but I don't have to worry about paying for parking, finding parking, etc. sure I'd take it. But I probably already would be. If it took 1.5 hours and two transfers where I have to wait 20 minutes each at a terminal, vs 30 minutes driving, no, I would not take transit.
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It makes sense, except where industrial users use a ton of 3-phase AC induction motors, which are a simple design. And AC transformers are still a more simple method of switching voltages for distribution.
Even when they take DC, a lot of them are different voltages. Phone / USB chargers are 5V. Things like Laptops will be ~20V. So you will still have conversions. And the power going around, 120V or 240V, allows you to run moderate sized appliances without ridiculously thick cables. High voltage, low current, rather than low voltage, high current.
a user could still abuse the spirit of the rules in this case by using the 1 allowed hard copy to print out the entire standards doc and then scan it back into the system...
Can you print to a PDF printer, or print to a Postscript file to be turned into a PDF file later?
They never seriously tried to make it a unified company and basically drove Chrysler into the ground.
Basically. Chrysler was hugely profitable at the time of acquisition. Daimler seemed to suck money and cut jobs out of the Chrysler branch, to fund the Daimler branch. They were stingy with the return of shared technology promised (only a few pieces of last gen technology made it to Chrysler), ruined the culture and scared good workers away. When they were done they sold the husk to Cerberus for pennies on the dollar.
Fiat at least seems to be trying to make good cars. For example they noticed right away what a disaster the Sebring was, and did a mid cycle refit to create the 200 that didn't have a sandpaper interior. That gave them enough time to develop the new Fiat based 200.
I'm amazed with how forward compatible RS232 is. Our only hiccup is with 16-bit (Windows 3.1 grade) software. They have to run in "XP-Mode" with serial pass-through. Any 32-bit application can still communicate to serial devices even via USB-Serial Adapter on 64-bit Windows. Serial is very robust for industrial devices compared to the ongoing struggle with drivers for any other custom hardware. Bonus if the device doesn't need a special application and can be interfaced with Hyperterminal/Putty / Teraterm, etc.
At worst it was a fairly successful mission.
Rosetta, the orbiter, plays a very large role, and has been functioning properly.
Philae the lander was designed for two missions:
-Short term, upon landing do a battery of tests powered by primary (non-rechargable) battery. This was a success
-Long term, small battery of tests over a long period of time, powered by secondary (rechargable) battery and solar cells.
The choice of power systems was for the reason of the risk of what happened. It landed in shade but the primary batteries allowed the tests to complete. Because they aren't NASA, Nuclear based RTG power isn't viable.
Here's some interesting papers on the actual missions and design of the vehicles:
http://www.researchgate.net/pu...
http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/wo...
That auto manufacturers don't push out updates to their install base every Tuesday. Sure, different vehicles have different designs. That don't change after they've been built.
On my car I used to have the option to set the "Auto-off" interval on the headlights to "Off, 60 sec, 120 sec". I had the PCM reflashed as part of a recall on the Throttle actuator programming. Now I have the option of "60 Sec, 120 sec", for some reason "Off" was removed from the newer version of PCM software.
I've seen cars with a knob on the bottom right of the steering column, push button on top of the steering column, and slider on the steering column. However North American cars for the past ~10 years, and imports for substantially longer, have standardized on a conspicuous red button in the center stack, usually fairly high up.
I wasn't thinking candy vending machines, more parking and transit kiosks, where at most you just need to fill them with a roll of paper. From TFS:
Some public services are not accepting cash anymore, such as parking meters, buses and transit,
There is costs involved to handling cash transactions, whether at a store or a parking meter. Collecting, counting, and depositing cash, and distributing change. Plus additional controls required to making sure employees don't steal cash. Add in security of employees servicing machines (as they will be carrying a significant amount of cash on them).
If card transaction can be paid by a debit card, not processed through Visa or Mastercard, it can be cheaper to the merchant than cash.
It also has a vastly superior pointing device (trackpoint rather than only a touchpad) and keyboard (lenovo rather than jello) when compared to your Mac.
Trackpoint is junk when combined with the god forsaken clickpad for the buttons. Clickpad by itself as a touch pad is just torture to try and right click with.
..hardware that ships with an older version of Windows..
Implying that I'm part of the group that ever buys a commercially-built computer with pre-installed OS and software on it in the first place.. and if I had to for some reason, Job #1 would be to wipe the HDD completely and install the OS from scratch, according to my specs, and before anyone says it: If for some reason I was prevented in that case by the manufacturer from doing exactly that, then I'd be boxing the thing back up and returning it for a full refund.
Getting hardware that RUNS older OS's can be a problem. For example, the Intel Haswell series and chipsets don't support Windows XP. Specifically there's no SATA drivers and GPU drivers. Ivy Bridge is the last Intel platform to support XP. Could you get another GPU and SATA controller? Maybe, but not forever.
RDP Wrap made short work of that for me.
I thought most settings in group policy editor are accessible via registry editor (eg: HKLM\Software\Policies, HKCU\Software\Policies)
Generally most home users, even power users, don't NEED Professional versions.
Your real limitations are:
-Can't join a domain (I've only met one home user with a domain. He's super IT geek, and the whole setup seems to be massive overkill)
-No remote desktop server. RDP Wrap can provide RDP server on home versions, and on all versions can allow concurrent logins (one user can be on the console while another user logs in via RDP).
-RAM limitations (W7 Home Pre: 16GB, Pro 192GB. W8.1 Home: 128GB, Pro 512GB). For a 5.5 year old OS, only recently would W7 home users be running up to that 16GB wall.
In any case, with Windows 10 it seems that KMS based activation is still the only route to "illegitimate" copies, as such it will be easier for home users to pirate and activate Enterprise than Home.
Good thing one of the settings mentioned in TFS is update then reboot manually.
But how will it be presented? Once it's done updating will it say:
Windows has installed updates and needs to Reboot to finish installing updates. When would you like to reboot?
**Reboot Now** *Reboot Later*
Oh, you happened to be in the middle of typing a document at 60 WPM and happened to press the space key? Too bad, your system is now rebooting.
I don't know why they're so horny to get the system rebooted right away. Why not be like chrome, and wait a while before saying "Hey, you haven't restarted in a while, you should to get updates installed. Or at least show a notification that you won't accidentally interact with that says "Hey, updates complete, ready to reboot whenever you want."
This one I don't think you can blame on Microsoft. Though Microsoft should have saved your notepad data when they forced the shutdown.
The user was using Notepad for more than it was intended. It's just intended as a bare bones text editor.
I know products like Word and Office will autosave, and autoopen when you log in again if the system was force restarted (eg: by an update). OneNote is even better because it's intended as a note taking application.
I know this because it happened last night when IT decided to push the 240 minute warning to a forced restart AFTER I had already gone home. So while my spreadsheets opened back up to where I was, I lost data that I was in the process of logging because IT thinks that they are the most important department in the company, and the entire business revolves around them.
Other way around. Electronic payments replace cash and cash is used as a backup for electronic. Most of the western world already works that way. This story is about some places in Europe retiring the cash option entirely for some automated vending machines. But those probably won't work so well with the power out anyway.
And removing cash from vending machine removes maintenance costs:
-No emptying bill stackers
-No filling change tubes.
The machines don't need to be looked at until a problem is detected or reported.
When they were talking about transparent paper, books, and plastic, I was imagining smooth cellulose acetate overhead transparencies. Though I guess using an obsolete projection technology as a reference might not be the best thing on /.
We're going back to the days of bulletin boards where you can only talk to people on the same service. We are going backwards.
Not only that, look at how many (usually small) companies don't have, or don't update their actual website, and instead rely on Facebook and Twitter to for updates.
but I'm curious about the brick phone, as you're holding the transmitter and antenna right up to your face, rather than in the bag, or on the car
. . .the reality of the situation was, at least in my experience, that Flash on Android was a rather shitty experience that never really worked that well.
That's been my experience on PCs as well.
-Websites. Typically it seems things like small restaurants, make their whole site in Flash and it's a slow, obnoxious POS. Usually it's a basic page that could handle simple HTML. All I want is your hours, menu, address, and phone number.
-Annoying fucking ads. The CPU will rev for no apparent reason.
-Videos, like Youtube, will rev the CPU and be all jittery. Rip the FLV, play it in VLC (or whatever), and the CPU will just sip power and play silky smooth, even on a 12 year old piece of shit computer. All the updates keep talking about acceleration, but Flash always seems to just draw in the 2D framebuffer with a crayon.
-Every fucking update tries to install fucking McAfee Security Scan Shitware. I didn't click the fucking checkbox the first time I installed your PoS, respect that!
-Memory leak: If I keep watching serial videos on Youtube, eventually flash will use 2GB and crash.
I tried googling and failed. The original "portable" brick phone, the DynaTAC 8000X Was it 3W? 1.5W? Or less? For some reason I can't find the power rating.
You want to blow off steam at work? Pull out your damn cell phone. When almost every single employee these days has high-speed unfettered internet access in their pocket I have little sympathy for those who want to dismantle corporate security policy.
Heck as it is when you IT folks fail at providing any internet access at all (filtered or otherwise) I pull out my damn cell phone to look up spec sheets and product help online to let me continue to do my job in spite of your incompetence. I don't have any time to be blowing off steam.
So for Malware he should bog the machines down with McAfee or Symantec shit? The shitware that decides that the top priority of user workstations at 10:00 AM is to thrash the hard drive with updates and a hard drive scan, to the point that the computer is unusable?
Is it convenient? If I take the transit and it only extends my commute from say 10 minutes to 20 minutes, but I don't have to worry about paying for parking, finding parking, etc. sure I'd take it. But I probably already would be. If it took 1.5 hours and two transfers where I have to wait 20 minutes each at a terminal, vs 30 minutes driving, no, I would not take transit.