And why is Windows 3.11 seeing such an uptick in use?
Win3.x will have a user base probably ten times as much as that web-based survey, because most of its users will never use the internet (as I joked in another comment). It was unusual to connect to the internet in Win3.x days, only geeks did it, and even they were more likely to connect to a BBS. Most people only ever used their PCs for writing letters, keeping their finances, and playing Solitaire.
There are old folk around today still with those PCs using them the same way - they (the PCs I mean) were built like tanks and would last for ever. I am not saying they use their PCs a lot nowadays, but they are still there.
Whenever someone points out real problems with Linux, there are Linux shills calling it flamebait
The post was flamebait because it is not put in the manner of a genuine question asked in good faith, which I would be happy to answer.
However this poster makes it clear that he already has an opinion on the subject, based on the implication that he already has significant experience of both Windows and Linux. He therefore has no real need to ask the question which he does then ask as to "why Linux is a good choice". He clearly asks this just to launch an argument, which is what a flamebait is.
if you point a camera at a window in most light conditions, you're not likely to see much beyond reflections. Also, the cameras on most quadcopters have wide-angle lenses - no use for spying on people.
Doesn't stop them trying. I am sure a more standard-angle camera could be added to a drone.
As for window refelections, they dominate if it is bright outside and darker inside. OTOH, at 3am it will be dark outside and if either the room light is on or the drone carries a flashlight (as this one seems to have), then the room will be viewable.
waddya know - those damned terrorists are using drones themselves
Those "dammed terrorists" are not using drones because Obama used them first, they would use them anyway. Are you suggesting that Obama should not use drones, because that would be so unfair?
I don't use disposable credit cards, but for some things (like web purchases) I use one that I could shutter at short notice, still leaving me with others.
However I have never had to do that, although I have come close to it. The consumer protection laws in the UK are stronger than those in the Land-of-the-Free-to-Con-Who-you-Want, it seems.
Apparently they have a "thing" for household devices that either suck or blow
His first "invention" was a wheelbarrow with a ball on a spindle instead of a wheel, the "Ballbarrow". [He claimed that it could go round corners better because it could be tilted over - never mind that the rounded tyre of a traditional barrow already allows it]. He continues this ball theme with his vacuum cleaners. His thing is about balls rather than sucking.
I've just checked his history on Wikipedia. His college education was in art, not engineering. That explains a lot, including the pseudo-technical Lego-coloured plastic protrusions on his shit.
I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash. Bagless vacuum cleaners are CRAP.
Around 1960 my mother had an original Hoover Junior with just a cloth bag. When you emptied it, shaking it over the dustbin (US trashcan) you were lucky if half the crap inside didn't end up over yourself, especially if there was a bit of wind about. Emptying it was my job.
Then disposable paper bags for cleaners were invented. It was brilliant! No more shaking and beating the cloth bag and getting covered in it.
Then Dyson comes along and uninvents the disposable bag, and people lap it up, Dyson becomes a folk hero. WTF?
Anyway, what's the point of a cleaner with a transparent dirt container? When I use a vacuum cleaner it is because I don't want to see it any more, not to exhibit it in a "glass" case.
I use an electric floor-standing-type fan heater (but on a stool) and more-or-less hang my head upside down in front of it. Fast, but you need to keep moving your head or you will singe. Hair driers seem very feeble by comparison and only dry one patch of hair at a time.
I'd never heard of his "bladeless fans" so I followed the link. In fact his fan does have blades; it is just that they are hidden in a duct. Pity someone does not do him under the [UK] Trade Description Act.
Dyson is a PoS personally - my wife has dealt with him on the phone (her company supplies his with parts) and he really is quite different from his cuddly public image.
Thank God to hear that there are others apart from me who hate cycle paths.
The "cyclists" who ask for them are the ones who regard a bike as a glorified zimmer frame, and cycling as a form of walking. Cycle paths in the UK are designed assuming no-one rides at more than a brisk walking pace, and they are often marked with Give-Way signs not only at every road junction (and every other public road feature) but even at every private exit. I've seen residential streets with a driveway for every house (30-40 ft apart) with Give-Way markings on the cycle path at every one of them. The whole thing encourages drivers to ignore the existence of cyclists.
In my nearest city, Bristol, creating "cycle paths" has degenerated into putting up signs telling cyclists to ride on the pavement (US sidewalk), and then more signs telling the cyclist to dismount and walk every time a side road is encountered.
I am outraged by many things that governments and businesses do. I am also outraged by things that Greenpeace do. If Greenpeace would STFU it would leave me more time and allow me more focus being outraged about the former.
Where does the GP say that people don't die of skin cancer (mostly caused by sunbathing BTW)? He said internal digestion is more dangerous than skin contact. True for most poisons. That is a fact, perhaps too bleedin obvious.
He also says not all radiation is the same, and that there are other problems preventing people returning to Fukushima. Also facts. What are you disputing exactly?
As for telling "that to all the people that die" etc, shock horror, it is normal and expected that a doctor will tell you the likely cause of a malady, the demographics of it and prognosis. The days of keeping it a secret from the patient are in the past.
Why take any notice of these Geenpeace jerks? They have lied in the past and when caught out claim that it is justified, in order to draw attention to an issue (what they consider an issue anyway).
an internal discussion among Facebook employees in which they seem to be asking Mark Zuckerberg whether they should do something to "help prevent President Trump in 2017
I guess these are Zuckerberg's beloved H1Bs. Understandable.
describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company
He tries to get more business by saying he deleted all his customers' data ? What an idiot. And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.
I don't get what is going on here. Presumably he has a licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, so why the secrecy ("secret" lab behind a bookshelf)? In a residential area?? The Youtube video crapped out on me BTW, so I hope his gear is more reliable.
Yes, those same Windows Indian support guys phoned me too, very helpful and polite. They held my hand very patiently while they guided me through starting up a browser (it took 15 minutes to get that far alone) and installing Teamviewer. Unfortunately though my Windows was in Virtualbox running under Debian and afterwards I somehow deleted the version they had mended. So now I am back to an earlier snapshot. Do you have their phone number so I can get back to them?
It doesn't matter the name of the tax,.... I benefit greatly from those trucks on the road. My grocery store has food in it, for example. I don't really care which tax the roads get pad for out of - maintaining the roads is worth every penny.
But it makes a difference to you and me where the tax is coming from. You (or I) would benefit more if the tax came from someone other than ourselves. Tax those trucks more and the groceries might cost you $10 more per week but you might be $20 better off if you are taxed less as a result, leaving you $10 in pocket. Or you might be no better off, leaving you $10 out of pocket. Depends on what your tax circumstances are.
In the UK most companies find it cheaper to send freight by road than rail, despite the greater fuel efficiency of rail and the fact that one train driver is delivering a hundred times the payload of a truck driver. I see that as there being something wrong in the way the finances are worked out, including the taxation. The main reason seems to be that the road infrastructure is paid for mostly by private car taxation. Both myself and my wife are massively subsidising something or somebody else with our own car taxations - about 0.25 GBP per mile in my case, far more than a typical working truck of even the heaviest sort.
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And why is Windows 3.11 seeing such an uptick in use?
Win3.x will have a user base probably ten times as much as that web-based survey, because most of its users will never use the internet (as I joked in another comment). It was unusual to connect to the internet in Win3.x days, only geeks did it, and even they were more likely to connect to a BBS. Most people only ever used their PCs for writing letters, keeping their finances, and playing Solitaire.
There are old folk around today still with those PCs using them the same way - they (the PCs I mean) were built like tanks and would last for ever. I am not saying they use their PCs a lot nowadays, but they are still there.
Whenever someone points out real problems with Linux, there are Linux shills calling it flamebait
The post was flamebait because it is not put in the manner of a genuine question asked in good faith, which I would be happy to answer.
However this poster makes it clear that he already has an opinion on the subject, based on the implication that he already has significant experience of both Windows and Linux. He therefore has no real need to ask the question which he does then ask as to "why Linux is a good choice". He clearly asks this just to launch an argument, which is what a flamebait is.
Linux is hard to configure ..[blah, blah, blah]... Can anyone tell me why Linux is a good choice on the desktop?
Oh God, here we go again with the flamebait shills.
If you really want an answer to your question, why not use the search function here? Perhaps we should make this a FAQ.
And why is Windows 3.11 seeing such an uptick in use?
Because the data is based on website visits, and Win3.x users have only just figured out getting on-line. I never did.
if you point a camera at a window in most light conditions, you're not likely to see much beyond reflections. Also, the cameras on most quadcopters have wide-angle lenses - no use for spying on people.
Doesn't stop them trying. I am sure a more standard-angle camera could be added to a drone.
As for window refelections, they dominate if it is bright outside and darker inside. OTOH, at 3am it will be dark outside and if either the room light is on or the drone carries a flashlight (as this one seems to have), then the room will be viewable.
waddya know - those damned terrorists are using drones themselves
Those "dammed terrorists" are not using drones because Obama used them first, they would use them anyway. Are you suggesting that Obama should not use drones, because that would be so unfair?
I don't use disposable credit cards, but for some things (like web purchases) I use one that I could shutter at short notice, still leaving me with others.
However I have never had to do that, although I have come close to it. The consumer protection laws in the UK are stronger than those in the Land-of-the-Free-to-Con-Who-you-Want, it seems.
I'm reminded of the recent story about Comcast. In California at least there are efforts to make this type of nonsense illegal.
Apparently they have a "thing" for household devices that either suck or blow
His first "invention" was a wheelbarrow with a ball on a spindle instead of a wheel, the "Ballbarrow". [He claimed that it could go round corners better because it could be tilted over - never mind that the rounded tyre of a traditional barrow already allows it]. He continues this ball theme with his vacuum cleaners. His thing is about balls rather than sucking.
I've just checked his history on Wikipedia. His college education was in art, not engineering. That explains a lot, including the pseudo-technical Lego-coloured plastic protrusions on his shit.
I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash. Bagless vacuum cleaners are CRAP.
Around 1960 my mother had an original Hoover Junior with just a cloth bag. When you emptied it, shaking it over the dustbin (US trashcan) you were lucky if half the crap inside didn't end up over yourself, especially if there was a bit of wind about. Emptying it was my job.
Then disposable paper bags for cleaners were invented. It was brilliant! No more shaking and beating the cloth bag and getting covered in it.
Then Dyson comes along and uninvents the disposable bag, and people lap it up, Dyson becomes a folk hero. WTF?
Anyway, what's the point of a cleaner with a transparent dirt container? When I use a vacuum cleaner it is because I don't want to see it any more, not to exhibit it in a "glass" case.
I use an electric floor-standing-type fan heater (but on a stool) and more-or-less hang my head upside down in front of it. Fast, but you need to keep moving your head or you will singe. Hair driers seem very feeble by comparison and only dry one patch of hair at a time.
More shit from Dyson.
I'd never heard of his "bladeless fans" so I followed the link. In fact his fan does have blades; it is just that they are hidden in a duct. Pity someone does not do him under the [UK] Trade Description Act.
Dyson is a PoS personally - my wife has dealt with him on the phone (her company supplies his with parts) and he really is quite different from his cuddly public image.
Not to mention that the wealth of a nation lies in the general public.
It does not. Half the world' wealth is held by the top 1% of individuals PBS
There are 120 nations with less wealth each than Bill Gates alone Knoema
400 Americans have more wealth than half of all other Americans PolitiFact
If you look at the detail of those 400 richest Americans you find that a small percentage of those have more than all the rest of the 400.
Getting the picture?
Thank God to hear that there are others apart from me who hate cycle paths.
The "cyclists" who ask for them are the ones who regard a bike as a glorified zimmer frame, and cycling as a form of walking. Cycle paths in the UK are designed assuming no-one rides at more than a brisk walking pace, and they are often marked with Give-Way signs not only at every road junction (and every other public road feature) but even at every private exit. I've seen residential streets with a driveway for every house (30-40 ft apart) with Give-Way markings on the cycle path at every one of them. The whole thing encourages drivers to ignore the existence of cyclists.
In my nearest city, Bristol, creating "cycle paths" has degenerated into putting up signs telling cyclists to ride on the pavement (US sidewalk), and then more signs telling the cyclist to dismount and walk every time a side road is encountered.
I am outraged by many things that governments and businesses do. I am also outraged by things that Greenpeace do. If Greenpeace would STFU it would leave me more time and allow me more focus being outraged about the former.
Where does the GP say that people don't die of skin cancer (mostly caused by sunbathing BTW)? He said internal digestion is more dangerous than skin contact. True for most poisons. That is a fact, perhaps too bleedin obvious.
He also says not all radiation is the same, and that there are other problems preventing people returning to Fukushima. Also facts. What are you disputing exactly?
As for telling "that to all the people that die" etc, shock horror, it is normal and expected that a doctor will tell you the likely cause of a malady, the demographics of it and prognosis. The days of keeping it a secret from the patient are in the past.
Tell that too all the people that die each year to various skin cancers
Why not, as it's a fact?
Why take any notice of these Geenpeace jerks? They have lied in the past and when caught out claim that it is justified, in order to draw attention to an issue (what they consider an issue anyway).
an internal discussion among Facebook employees in which they seem to be asking Mark Zuckerberg whether they should do something to "help prevent President Trump in 2017
I guess these are Zuckerberg's beloved H1Bs. Understandable.
describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company
He tries to get more business by saying he deleted all his customers' data ? What an idiot. And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.
I don't get what is going on here. Presumably he has a licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, so why the secrecy ("secret" lab behind a bookshelf)? In a residential area?? The Youtube video crapped out on me BTW, so I hope his gear is more reliable.
Yes, those same Windows Indian support guys phoned me too, very helpful and polite. They held my hand very patiently while they guided me through starting up a browser (it took 15 minutes to get that far alone) and installing Teamviewer. Unfortunately though my Windows was in Virtualbox running under Debian and afterwards I somehow deleted the version they had mended. So now I am back to an earlier snapshot. Do you have their phone number so I can get back to them?
.... And put them on their own track so they are out of the way of cars and can't run people over?
It doesn't matter the name of the tax, .... I benefit greatly from those trucks on the road. My grocery store has food in it, for example. I don't really care which tax the roads get pad for out of - maintaining the roads is worth every penny.
But it makes a difference to you and me where the tax is coming from. You (or I) would benefit more if the tax came from someone other than ourselves. Tax those trucks more and the groceries might cost you $10 more per week but you might be $20 better off if you are taxed less as a result, leaving you $10 in pocket. Or you might be no better off, leaving you $10 out of pocket. Depends on what your tax circumstances are.
In the UK most companies find it cheaper to send freight by road than rail, despite the greater fuel efficiency of rail and the fact that one train driver is delivering a hundred times the payload of a truck driver. I see that as there being something wrong in the way the finances are worked out, including the taxation. The main reason seems to be that the road infrastructure is paid for mostly by private car taxation. Both myself and my wife are massively subsidising something or somebody else with our own car taxations - about 0.25 GBP per mile in my case, far more than a typical working truck of even the heaviest sort.
Where are the miscreants getting such good data?
They got mine from ebay or PayPal. I got one of these via an address that I only use for those organisations.