What gets me, though, is that printers in general are still a PITA to operate and maintain.
How many times have you gone to print something and found that:
- The margins are screwed up - The wrong paper tray was selected - The duplexing was toggled the wrong way - You meant to print color but forgot to switch it from B&W - The driver doesn't understand your stupid Adobe PS document and prints 100 pages of jibberish before you realize what's going on. - A paper jam caused the jobs to back up so instead of unjamming the printer people just print elsewhere... guess what happens when the jam is removed?
The list goes on... the result is something on the order of 30% (not scientific) of the paper in our office is simply thrown in the recycle bin.
Then there are the plotters! Holy crap, the waste! Print out 10 copies of a 30x34" floor plan and realize that the toner is low or some other mundane thing. I am sure that we pay thousands per month to feed and maintain our two KIP plotters. (most or all of that can be billed to clients... but there is still a lot of waste).
Don't get me started on paper towels!
All said and done, I am sure our office alone kills a good sized tree per week. I don't see this changing any time soon. At least not until all technology works seamlessly together. Even then, there is quite a lot to be said about a technology that does not require power to use, can be stored basically forever and everyone understands.
If you already know Perl, it is pretty easy to pick up PowerShell. There are enough similarities that it makes it seem familiar. At least that was my experience.
When writing Windows scripts I always ask "Can I accomplish this with a simple batch script?" If no, I then move on to PS.
So, I have a lot of batch scripts out there. I would hope that explicitly calling the cmd.exe would still execute the actual cmd shell. If not, this will almost certainly break a lot of existing stuff. But MS would, of course, know this...
You can always set aliases for any cmdlet. There are many aliases which come out of the box with PS. For example: wget is the default alias for Invoke-WebRequest
I personally like the verbosity of the commands. Of course, I am always the guy who uses the logopts in Linux commands anyway (--verbose).
Besides, if you are using the ISE or the PS console, you can tab complete the cmdlet names as well as the arguments so it is not a lot of extra typing.
Not giving anyone credit here. But at least gridlock can no longer be an excuse.
I lean Democrat and voted for Hillary so I am not super pleased about the current outcome. But it is what it is. I am just looking for silver linings here.
Not only that, but their monitoring utilities are likely recording all of your conversations too (assembled rtp from pcap). This is helpful to the VoIP provider to troublehshoot jitter and latency. Of course, they *probably* delete these captures after a short period of time because storage would quickly kill them.
But for a while, anyone with access to the utils can listen to your past conversations.
Meh... At least there is no more excuses for not getting stuff done in government. Repubs own the show now. Bring it and let's see what you got. No more gridlock! It will be interesting to see what a functioning US government looks like.
Actually, all you really need to do is whitelist anything that runs from folders which the user does not have write access to. That will automatically get all the system apps as well as the apps installed by root/administrator.
Conversely, you could just blacklist all apps that run from user writeable locations.
I literally just bought an OP3 (ordered mid October and received last week) and I really do like it. It has feature parity with many flagship phones out there. It is very speedy and battery life is great. Also the proprietary Dash charging actually works well. It takes less than 30 minutes to go from 40% or so to 100%.
Figures that as soon as I pull the trigger and drop the $400+ (been dithering on this one for a LONG time), they come out with a new one... but that is how it goes.
Just don't buy one of these on Amazon unless you want to spend at least $100 more than ordering direct from OP.
But those gloves will have the same chemicals on them if you store them around you and handle them with your chemhands... Not to mention the fact that, as a glove user, that will just further single you out...
It would seem like the best approach would be to either:
A) emulate what someone else does completely or B) do random stuff every single day so that your chemicals are constantly changing
Neither of which sound very viable to me for anything more than extremely short terms.
Why do we need to keep rehashing this? Trump won. I voted for Hillary and she didn't win. BFD, it happens. Move on....
Let's give the guy a chance instead of getting all worked up over it. Maybe he will be the best POTUS ever (doubt it, but you just never know).
At the very least, we have no more excuses for not getting stuff done. It is all under republican control now so there should be no more gridlock, we can actually see a government in action for once. Bring it republicans, show us what you got. Fix all the problems! No more excuses!
We did not build and withhold any News Feed changes based on their potential impact on any one political party
What I see here is the use of "any one political party" which could mean that they didn't implement it because it was decided that it would impact all political parties or that it wasn't implemented because it would affect users (not political parties).
I just don't trust any PR statement.... they are bound to be carefully crafted to be "true" without actually being so.
Slashdot Mirror
How would any company possibly know all that information?
Telemetry....
Way to throw your wife under the (VW) bus....
Wow, 30,000 unessential employees? Now that sounds like a company with some overhead...
You forgot the last step: Cut their taxes because businesses pay too much.
I am guessing this http://www.three.co.uk/ Three?
What gets me, though, is that printers in general are still a PITA to operate and maintain.
How many times have you gone to print something and found that:
- The margins are screwed up
- The wrong paper tray was selected
- The duplexing was toggled the wrong way
- You meant to print color but forgot to switch it from B&W
- The driver doesn't understand your stupid Adobe PS document and prints 100 pages of jibberish before you realize what's going on.
- A paper jam caused the jobs to back up so instead of unjamming the printer people just print elsewhere... guess what happens when the jam is removed?
The list goes on... the result is something on the order of 30% (not scientific) of the paper in our office is simply thrown in the recycle bin.
Then there are the plotters! Holy crap, the waste! Print out 10 copies of a 30x34" floor plan and realize that the toner is low or some other mundane thing. I am sure that we pay thousands per month to feed and maintain our two KIP plotters. (most or all of that can be billed to clients... but there is still a lot of waste).
Don't get me started on paper towels!
All said and done, I am sure our office alone kills a good sized tree per week. I don't see this changing any time soon. At least not until all technology works seamlessly together. Even then, there is quite a lot to be said about a technology that does not require power to use, can be stored basically forever and everyone understands.
Very few people would "waste their money" paying someone else to do their home maintenance.
This is what YouTube is for!
Very quickly we would have all the necessary training at everyone's fingertips.
If you already know Perl, it is pretty easy to pick up PowerShell. There are enough similarities that it makes it seem familiar. At least that was my experience.
Example:
PowerShell: function myLog{ (Get-Date).ToString() + ' - ' + $msg | Out-File $logFile -Append }
Perl: sub myLog{ open (LOG,">>$logFile"); print LOG `date`, ' - ', $msg, "\n"; close LOG; }
PowerShell: if ($something -eq 1) { Write-Host "yes" }
Perl: if ($someThing == 1) { print "yes\n"; }
PowerShell: foreach ($thing in $things) { Write-Host $thing }
Perl: foreach $thing (@things) { print $thing, "\n"; }
I tend to agree.
When writing Windows scripts I always ask "Can I accomplish this with a simple batch script?" If no, I then move on to PS.
So, I have a lot of batch scripts out there. I would hope that explicitly calling the cmd.exe would still execute the actual cmd shell. If not, this will almost certainly break a lot of existing stuff. But MS would, of course, know this...
Actually, "Lunix" means "Linux Torvaldes's Unix."
Did he officially change his name or something?
You can always set aliases for any cmdlet. There are many aliases which come out of the box with PS. For example: wget is the default alias for Invoke-WebRequest
I personally like the verbosity of the commands. Of course, I am always the guy who uses the logopts in Linux commands anyway (--verbose).
Besides, if you are using the ISE or the PS console, you can tab complete the cmdlet names as well as the arguments so it is not a lot of extra typing.
Not giving anyone credit here. But at least gridlock can no longer be an excuse.
I lean Democrat and voted for Hillary so I am not super pleased about the current outcome. But it is what it is. I am just looking for silver linings here.
Not only that, but their monitoring utilities are likely recording all of your conversations too (assembled rtp from pcap). This is helpful to the VoIP provider to troublehshoot jitter and latency. Of course, they *probably* delete these captures after a short period of time because storage would quickly kill them.
But for a while, anyone with access to the utils can listen to your past conversations.
Meh... At least there is no more excuses for not getting stuff done in government. Repubs own the show now. Bring it and let's see what you got. No more gridlock! It will be interesting to see what a functioning US government looks like.
IKR?
Telemetry is the new normal, they all do it. Apple, MS, Google, etc, etc, etc....
Actually, all you really need to do is whitelist anything that runs from folders which the user does not have write access to. That will automatically get all the system apps as well as the apps installed by root/administrator.
Conversely, you could just blacklist all apps that run from user writeable locations.
Not that hard really.
It's pronounced nook-you-lar..... nook-you-lar
Welcome to Walmart, I love you...
If I could edit my post, I literally would. Literally.
I literally just bought an OP3 (ordered mid October and received last week) and I really do like it. It has feature parity with many flagship phones out there. It is very speedy and battery life is great. Also the proprietary Dash charging actually works well. It takes less than 30 minutes to go from 40% or so to 100%.
Figures that as soon as I pull the trigger and drop the $400+ (been dithering on this one for a LONG time), they come out with a new one... but that is how it goes.
Just don't buy one of these on Amazon unless you want to spend at least $100 more than ordering direct from OP.
But those gloves will have the same chemicals on them if you store them around you and handle them with your chemhands... Not to mention the fact that, as a glove user, that will just further single you out...
It would seem like the best approach would be to either:
A) emulate what someone else does completely or
B) do random stuff every single day so that your chemicals are constantly changing
Neither of which sound very viable to me for anything more than extremely short terms.
Just start worrying when Apple removes the speaker and replaces it with a mass spectrometer.... courage!
They really are not all that complex... you just have to actually read them. Which nobody does.
Can we please move on already?
Why do we need to keep rehashing this? Trump won. I voted for Hillary and she didn't win. BFD, it happens. Move on....
Let's give the guy a chance instead of getting all worked up over it. Maybe he will be the best POTUS ever (doubt it, but you just never know).
At the very least, we have no more excuses for not getting stuff done. It is all under republican control now so there should be no more gridlock, we can actually see a government in action for once. Bring it republicans, show us what you got. Fix all the problems! No more excuses!
We did not build and withhold any News Feed changes based on their potential impact on any one political party
What I see here is the use of "any one political party" which could mean that they didn't implement it because it was decided that it would impact all political parties or that it wasn't implemented because it would affect users (not political parties).
I just don't trust any PR statement.... they are bound to be carefully crafted to be "true" without actually being so.