I don't use a laptop to store anything important. I have a big tower system unit for that; it weighs about 15 kg, and I don't think a house burglar will bother with it. Anway I have removable media for back-up.
Most people will have no idea what accent you're referring to as the nuances of English accents are opaque to most of us.
It does not matter if they know what I am referring to - my point is that I don't have some edge case accent and therefore the voice recognition ought to be able to handle it.
I think if you heard a variety of UK accents (so including Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh, as well as English) you would realise some differences were more than just nuances. Leaving out the immigrants, there are "educated" Scottish (eg Sean Connery), "educated" Welsh (eg Anthony Hopkins), as well as "educated" English (eg Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, BBC announcers) accents, and also vernacular regional accents that even I sometimes cannot understand, despite living here.
Know why milk is always in the back corner of the grocery store?... the store owners want you to go all the way through the store, past every aisle, and maybe think "as long as I'm here"...They manipulate you and you don't even realize it.
I realise perfectly well what they are trying to do, and it so annoys me that I'm damned if I will do it. Another example is UK motorway service buildings where you must run the entire zig-zag gauntlet of coffee shops, confectionery stalls, gambling arcades, and tat shops (all over-priced) to reach the toilets. That's why when I stop for a piss I prefer to park in the lorry area which often accesses the place via a back door short cut, or even has a separate lorry drivers' shithouse.
My heart sinks when I phone an organisation and it wants me to use voice commands. In my experience they often can't even distinguish between "Yes" and "No". Even when I try loud and exagerated, like "YEEEEES!" and "NOOOOOH!". Yet I speak with a clear "educated" English accent (and this in the UK). How the hell Scotsmen from Aberdeen or the immigrants who can hardly pronounce English get on I can't imagine.
The most stupid thing was phoning BT (the phone company) to report a faulty line. You have to describe to a robot why you are phoning them, but this was (obviously) over a faulty line with crackles and buzzes going on. I was yelling "FAULTY LINE!!", and it was saying "I'm sorry, I did not catch that. Did you want to pay your bill?". Idiots, you'd think they would have a special number for line faults and have a person answer; I dumped BT after that shitwreck.
Do some people really try to do shopping like that?
Speculation, but it's likely it was staged so they have a bogeyman to push their agenda.
Unlikely to stage it during a speech. Politicians love giving speeches and want people to hear them, not to be interrupted or distracted. If it were staged they would choose an occasion like a visit to an old folks home, or a motorcade.
Nonsense, there are plenty of systemd-free alternatives if you don't like it.
Where did the GP say there were no systemd-free alternatives? Why does the existence of those alternatives make his post nonsense whan his main point is stated explicitly as "Linux world is highly vulnerable to being played with by corporate overlords" ?
it's pretty embarrassing for Microsoft that its shiny new flagship product still hasn't overtaken its tried-and-tested legacy product after all this time, even though they literally gave it away to any home user who wanted to upgrade (and apparently a few who didn't...)
"gave it away to any... who wanted" is an understatement - more like "forced upon even those who did not want" *. Given that, I am amazed that the Win7 share remains as high as it is. I understand that the "upgrade" happened to the user unless he made some effort to avoid it - in my case I disabled upgrades in Win7.
* I know, I know, MS apologists will deny it was a forced upgrade because it was possible to avoid it, even though the average Joe would not have known how, or even been aware of the upgrade shenanigan before it happened to them (even if then).
Early Christians did intentionally destroy Pagan writings.
Correct, even into Victorian times, although Victorian times also saw efforts to revive knowledge of Pagan matters and customs, like Morris dancing.
As an example, "fairies", the ones in childrens books that look like pretty dolls, are actually a sugar-coated survivor from a large pantheon of pagan spirits and demons that pre-dated Christianity, from both Norse and Classical origins. Early Christian priests did everything in their power to eradicate this extensive folklore.
Ancient libraries were very often (nearly always?) private.... The article indicates they think it was a public library because it was located near the center of town..
It is ridiculous to think it was a public library in the modern sense. Are "they" really archaeologists or just the builders who found the place? Very few people would have been allowed to handle these scrolls.
Ancient civilizations were smarter, everything was in the Public Domain.
I don't know how they are sure that this was a public library, but even if it was you can be pretty sure that it was not open to any member of the public.
Triumph made a lot of saloon cars too, mostly sporty up-market ones. I had a Triumph 2000, which had basically the same engine, transmission and suspension as the TR6. Nicest car I ever had. Then they stopped making Triumphs in the early 80's and put the name on some crappy little Honda to most people's disgust, and shortly after that the name died.
Meanwhile, the geniuses at Microsoft are planning to move Windows to a rental model.
I don't think that's how it's going to work out, long term, at least in the consumer space. I expect Windows will eventually be free.... MS has realized the end is coming for their traditional consumer revenue model.
Microsoft will never make Windows free. Their traditional consumer revenue model is certainly an end because people will no longer queue overnight like lemmings for every new release of Windows, Word, or whatever, and sales of PCs (usually pre-loaded with Windows) are going down like a lead balloon. So to get an income in the future they want you to rent - giving a steady and predictable income, unlike the bonanza-drought-bonanza-drought of the Win 9x years for example, with the added bonus that they don't have to do much development in future except for security patching, and the occasional make-over to make you feel you are paying for something.
As for whether consumers will accept it - of course they will. Renting rather than buying, and paying by Direct Debit, are in fashion, so once MS have your bank details most consumers will hardly notice the MS take amongst the other noise in their bank statements. In fact according to the manager of my local bank branch, most people scarcely glance at the detail in their statements these days, especially as "going paperless" seems to make them less likely to be read anyway.
"In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285." 285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285?
The vast majority of those are variants by hobbyists who package their own selection of apps and wallpaper. You can ignore them.
A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.
It is free. It does not cost any money and that is what "free" means in this context, nothing to do with time spent. Anyway, I have spent a week getting Windows to work and set up as I want it, with Gotchas! every step of the way; only the fact that PCs are sold with Windows pre-installed saves Joe Public from having to go through that - if he ever succeded in installing it at all.
Travis adds. "If you review too soon after receiving it'll look pretty suspicious."
As slow as that? Some idiots write reviews before they've even received or opened the stuff, and admit it. They repeat what they saw in the advert and they say something like "It came today and I can't wait to try it out!" or "It's a present for my grandson and he is going to be delighted!". They sound genuine though.
I go straight for the lowest negative comments...... It is a quick way to exclude bad merchants.
So do I, but I also look at some the most positive and some in between. Trouble is that there will always be some low negative and some high positive comments, so if either of those is a deal breaker you will never buy anything. Some people give a low negative because the delivery guy didn't whistle Yankee-Doodle as he came to the door. Instead, you just need to weigh up the comments intelligently.
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Because people steal laptops all the time.
I don't use a laptop to store anything important. I have a big tower system unit for that; it weighs about 15 kg, and I don't think a house burglar will bother with it. Anway I have removable media for back-up.
Tracks targets. Targets are not necessarily users.
So they are tracking my cat ?
Most people will have no idea what accent you're referring to as the nuances of English accents are opaque to most of us.
It does not matter if they know what I am referring to - my point is that I don't have some edge case accent and therefore the voice recognition ought to be able to handle it.
I think if you heard a variety of UK accents (so including Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh, as well as English) you would realise some differences were more than just nuances. Leaving out the immigrants, there are "educated" Scottish (eg Sean Connery), "educated" Welsh (eg Anthony Hopkins), as well as "educated" English (eg Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, BBC announcers) accents, and also vernacular regional accents that even I sometimes cannot understand, despite living here.
Know why milk is always in the back corner of the grocery store? ... the store owners want you to go all the way through the store, past every aisle, and maybe think "as long as I'm here"...They manipulate you and you don't even realize it.
I realise perfectly well what they are trying to do, and it so annoys me that I'm damned if I will do it. Another example is UK motorway service buildings where you must run the entire zig-zag gauntlet of coffee shops, confectionery stalls, gambling arcades, and tat shops (all over-priced) to reach the toilets. That's why when I stop for a piss I prefer to park in the lorry area which often accesses the place via a back door short cut, or even has a separate lorry drivers' shithouse.
My heart sinks when I phone an organisation and it wants me to use voice commands. In my experience they often can't even distinguish between "Yes" and "No". Even when I try loud and exagerated, like " YEEEEES! " and " NOOOOOH! ". Yet I speak with a clear "educated" English accent (and this in the UK). How the hell Scotsmen from Aberdeen or the immigrants who can hardly pronounce English get on I can't imagine.
The most stupid thing was phoning BT (the phone company) to report a faulty line. You have to describe to a robot why you are phoning them, but this was (obviously) over a faulty line with crackles and buzzes going on. I was yelling " FAULTY LINE!! ", and it was saying "I'm sorry, I did not catch that. Did you want to pay your bill?". Idiots, you'd think they would have a special number for line faults and have a person answer; I dumped BT after that shitwreck.
Do some people really try to do shopping like that?
Speculation, but it's likely it was staged so they have a bogeyman to push their agenda.
Unlikely to stage it during a speech. Politicians love giving speeches and want people to hear them, not to be interrupted or distracted. If it were staged they would choose an occasion like a visit to an old folks home, or a motorcade.
Nonsense, there are plenty of systemd-free alternatives if you don't like it.
Where did the GP say there were no systemd-free alternatives? Why does the existence of those alternatives make his post nonsense whan his main point is stated explicitly as "Linux world is highly vulnerable to being played with by corporate overlords" ?
I made the switch to Linux years ago. I found it a bit harder to use, and it couldn't run half the games I wanted to play. So I gave up on it
You have a point, but use dual boot. Windows for games and Linux for everything else (if you do anything else).
Windows was created by white people and is now maintained by indian people.
That goes right to the top.
Businesses are finally comfortable with upgrading.
You read that into a 0.87% increase? No, it is just the natural wasteage of worn-out PCs being replaced by new ones, pre-loaded with Win10.
it's pretty embarrassing for Microsoft that its shiny new flagship product still hasn't overtaken its tried-and-tested legacy product after all this time, even though they literally gave it away to any home user who wanted to upgrade (and apparently a few who didn't...)
"gave it away to any ... who wanted" is an understatement - more like "forced upon even those who did not want" *. Given that, I am amazed that the Win7 share remains as high as it is. I understand that the "upgrade" happened to the user unless he made some effort to avoid it - in my case I disabled upgrades in Win7.
* I know, I know, MS apologists will deny it was a forced upgrade because it was possible to avoid it, even though the average Joe would not have known how, or even been aware of the upgrade shenanigan before it happened to them (even if then).
No, it's because a software company is using an OS as a trojan horse for spyware and preventing you from controlling your own PC.
Early Christians did intentionally destroy Pagan writings.
Correct, even into Victorian times, although Victorian times also saw efforts to revive knowledge of Pagan matters and customs, like Morris dancing.
As an example, "fairies", the ones in childrens books that look like pretty dolls, are actually a sugar-coated survivor from a large pantheon of pagan spirits and demons that pre-dated Christianity, from both Norse and Classical origins. Early Christian priests did everything in their power to eradicate this extensive folklore.
20000 years of overdue fees would be like a lot of money.
Only 2000 years actually, and some libraries waive fees for old age pensioners which the borrowers certainly will be by now.
Ancient libraries were very often (nearly always?) private. ... The article indicates they think it was a public library because it was located near the center of town ..
It is ridiculous to think it was a public library in the modern sense. Are "they" really archaeologists or just the builders who found the place? Very few people would have been allowed to handle these scrolls.
spew nonsense so vile that you're afraid even to put a pseudonym to it, much less your name.
Vile? Just for satirising the EU? You need to lighten up, and the GP is not the only one not to put down a pseudonym.
Ancient civilizations were smarter, everything was in the Public Domain.
I don't know how they are sure that this was a public library, but even if it was you can be pretty sure that it was not open to any member of the public.
Thank you for that, Captain Obvious, but you didn't answer the main question - did they get their data back?
The Spitfire was... I don't know. I think it competed with the MGB, but both were low in horsepower.
No, it competed with the MG Midget. You could get an MGB with a 3.5 litre V8 engine.
The TR6 might be the best of the line.
The top of the range Triumph sports car around that time was the Stag (with that same V8 engine as the MGB). Best looking car ever made IMHO :-)
Triumph made a lot of saloon cars too, mostly sporty up-market ones. I had a Triumph 2000, which had basically the same engine, transmission and suspension as the TR6. Nicest car I ever had. Then they stopped making Triumphs in the early 80's and put the name on some crappy little Honda to most people's disgust, and shortly after that the name died.
Meanwhile, the geniuses at Microsoft are planning to move Windows to a rental model.
I don't think that's how it's going to work out, long term, at least in the consumer space. I expect Windows will eventually be free .... MS has realized the end is coming for their traditional consumer revenue model.
Microsoft will never make Windows free. Their traditional consumer revenue model is certainly an end because people will no longer queue overnight like lemmings for every new release of Windows, Word, or whatever, and sales of PCs (usually pre-loaded with Windows) are going down like a lead balloon. So to get an income in the future they want you to rent - giving a steady and predictable income, unlike the bonanza-drought-bonanza-drought of the Win 9x years for example, with the added bonus that they don't have to do much development in future except for security patching, and the occasional make-over to make you feel you are paying for something.
As for whether consumers will accept it - of course they will. Renting rather than buying, and paying by Direct Debit, are in fashion, so once MS have your bank details most consumers will hardly notice the MS take amongst the other noise in their bank statements. In fact according to the manager of my local bank branch, most people scarcely glance at the detail in their statements these days, especially as "going paperless" seems to make them less likely to be read anyway.
"In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285." 285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285?
The vast majority of those are variants by hobbyists who package their own selection of apps and wallpaper. You can ignore them.
A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.
It is free. It does not cost any money and that is what "free" means in this context, nothing to do with time spent. Anyway, I have spent a week getting Windows to work and set up as I want it, with Gotchas! every step of the way; only the fact that PCs are sold with Windows pre-installed saves Joe Public from having to go through that - if he ever succeded in installing it at all.
FTFA :-
Travis adds. "If you review too soon after receiving it'll look pretty suspicious."
As slow as that? Some idiots write reviews before they've even received or opened the stuff, and admit it. They repeat what they saw in the advert and they say something like "It came today and I can't wait to try it out!" or "It's a present for my grandson and he is going to be delighted!". They sound genuine though.
I go straight for the lowest negative comments. ..... It is a quick way to exclude bad merchants.
So do I, but I also look at some the most positive and some in between. Trouble is that there will always be some low negative and some high positive comments, so if either of those is a deal breaker you will never buy anything. Some people give a low negative because the delivery guy didn't whistle Yankee-Doodle as he came to the door. Instead, you just need to weigh up the comments intelligently.
https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1532972723&sr=8-2&keywords=uranium#customerReviews
Yup, totally legitimate.
But it didn't get five stars.