I can't even graphically ask for the current IP address.
You mean you can't click the down arrow in the top right, select your interface, click settings, and then click the settings wheel in the network configurator which pops up?
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution which is based on simplicity. Maybe you need a distribution like Vinus instead. It caters to the physically disabled computers users.
You don't need to limit the lumens, you need to control the beam direction. If you've been blinded either someone has their high-beams in your face (already illegal in most of the world) or their lights aren't dipped enough (already illegal in most of the world) or their lights have been modified with an illegal beam pattern (err redundant, but already illegal in most of the world).
Sounds like perfectly normal metrics for a VPN software vendor to want to know about their device:
How long it gets used, If it is used in the background or foreground, and what percentage of user data travels via a metered connection. I'm really struggling to get upset about this even in the slightest.
No they won't. That has been proven time and time again. Long standing bugs have survived in critical projects for long periods of time. Major work was done to audit the code of something as important as encryption software and that software released 2 additional versions ceased existing and then forked by the time the first audit was done making the exercise futile.
You DON'T know what's in your software period. Even if the source code is available. People not only don't read it but there's no practical way of verifying distributed binaries are even related to the published source.
Seriously, is there something that Microsoft can do that won't be perceived as evil?
To be fair, the only people who scream EEE at everything are those who don't dedicate even a single braincell to what Microsoft's strategy is or how Microsoft supporting {insert program / service here} plays into the way they make money.
This is just yet another example. Why would Microsoft "extinguish" Linux when they are using it as a cash printing machine on their highly profitable Azure cloud service?
You didn't even need a missing help file. If you could open the help bubble you could right click and click print. Then from the print dialogue you could open a proper windows help screen. From there if you opened the index search and opened a different help topic you'd get a full windows help screen with menubar. Then just click file, open, navigate to the windows folder, right click on explorer.exe and run it.
Define "good". For many people (especially windows users), good means that it's popular, there's the most wealth of material available for it, there's the most support, and that there's the largest community.
My Piano teacher has perfect pitch and can tell the difference (without a tuning fork) between notes that are in-tune and notes that are out of tune.
Of course he can. But the key point is that it makes zero difference to "quality". You can play the entire piece in a completely different key. That also makes zero difference. The actual note being hit is not an issue of quality and not something that any listener would ever find offensive. The way that individual A#4 note sounds does, and unless you use your vinyl as a backing track to a guitar you're playing yourself tuned to a computer, then one or the other being out of tune is completely irrelevant. There's a reason bands tune their instruments to each other by ear, and only one instrument is checked against a computer, and that's because the relative differences between instruments are far more important than the absolute pitch.
But all of that is completely irrelevant. We're not off by 1%, but rather we're off by 0.008%.
True high quality headphones will be from companies like Beyerdynamic or Grado Labs that produce professional equipment almost exclusively.
That's nothing more than elitist. I own Grado RS1s and Sennheiser HD650s, and HD800s, and used to have some BD DT880s which died a long time ago. The RS1s and the 650s each shine for a different genre, and I prefer the latter. The 800s sound better than both of them in pretty much every case, and all of them sound better than the DT880s, but then they were in a different price class too.
You'd be hard pressed to find a pair of Sennheiser HD800's
You won't find any of the Grado reference headphones or DT990s which are quite different from the 990 Pros as well. There are different design goals for a set of headphones used in a recording studio than in the home.
I think I'd struggle to describe BR2049 as using restraint when it comes to CGI.
That's because you think CGI is awesome and think that it was done like that. You don't seem to realise that everything was built using practical effects. The entire environment is miniature. In the scenes where the car is flying around from one area to the other, the only proper CGI is the car itself, and in many cases even that is a miniature model. If that were any other film the entire world would be built entirely in a computer.
In my experience all these quartz china clocks run fast, some a few seconds and others gain a whole minute a week.
Yes that is horrible. Instead you could spend $10k on an officially certified Swiss chronometer that only gets 42 seconds in a week. But you're making a very silly statement that ignores the fact that time keeping has a whole lot of end user applications and a wide variety of possible ranges between what you propose and an atomic clock.
If you buy one of these cheap clocks you likely don't care. If you spend more than $1 on a clock you're likely to get something that's accurate to within seconds of a week. If you spend slightly more than that you can easily achieve seconds within a year. TCXOs cost a couple of dollars in units of 1.
If you want to synchronize to an atomic time source you're going to have to spend about $15 for an RCC wall clock.
There's basically no scenario where it makes sense to synchronize a clock to the grid anymore.
It will be interesting if some of these services try just dropping their presence in the countries in question.
Interesting to the shareholders who will punish the companies doing so severely. The benefits of doing business in an economy of 700m wealthy people dramatically outweigh the cost of doing business.
It's the reason western companies are falling over themselves to do business with repressive regimes, while companies in China are doing their dambdest to get access to America despite the threats of an actively hostile government towards them.
The solution to paying a bit of tax is not to forgo even more profit as a result.
Isn't that like saying a mosquito bite doesn't hurt unless the mosquito is the size of a large gorilla?
The frequency being off by a few percent isn't an issue at all. Actually when you play a 45 at 33 you get an increase in what we typically refer to as "quality" when describing sound, and the pitch being correct isn't in that definition, though pitch being consistent is.
Bose don't sound bad, but Beats do. Even the top of the line Beats can only be described as utter garbage suitable for only techno, rap, drum and bass, and any other music genre where it is preferential to drown out the sound with duff duff sounds.
Bose at least has best in class noise reduction. They have a purpose along side some nicer sounding headphones. I greatly prefer my Bose headphones to my Sennheiser Hd800s when in a noisy environment, just as an example.
There's irony in a statement that complains about national security including economic interests when discussing a country that spends quite so much on its military.
Given how economics are the deciding factors in many wars you may want to reword your statement.
More important is that the movie's story was shit, a worthless sequel coasting on the reputation of the earlier movie.
While you're entitled to your opinion just know that the vast majority of movie goers and critics alike disagree with you. Personally I thought it was a worthy extension of the original, taking a lot of the original themes of class and what it means to be human and extending them. The cinematics of the movie also beautifully mirrored the original, taking the perpetually dark and contrasting it (pun intended especially given the lack of contrast in most scenes) with a light grey / single colour palate of the new movie. You say it lacks artistry, I say it was worthy of winning best cinematography,... which it did.
As for your comment about a movie being 120minutes of CGI, I'll call you out on that. It's no secret or surprise that the best rated movies and those with the most appealing visuals over the past few years have combined restrained CGI with a copious amount of practical effects as their winning formula. Movies that are overusing CGI and effects are rightfully being demolished by reviewers for doing so and even in today's world they are miserably failing to provide a nice level of realism even for small things e.g. Superman's mustache. Blade Runner's visuals were a pleasant changed from the copiously overused CGI that is present in many movies today.
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Then you would be very wrong. There have been many documented cases of trojan behavior being very much identical to a subtle bug.
Do you not remember when this line got submitted to the Linux Kernel as a patch:
if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0))
An = is all that separates a bug from a confirmed and purposeful back door to elevate user access.
So 90s. I thought we stopped Jumping Sharks when we started Nuking Fridges.
I can't even graphically ask for the current IP address.
You mean you can't click the down arrow in the top right, select your interface, click settings, and then click the settings wheel in the network configurator which pops up?
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution which is based on simplicity. Maybe you need a distribution like Vinus instead. It caters to the physically disabled computers users.
You don't need to limit the lumens, you need to control the beam direction. If you've been blinded either someone has their high-beams in your face (already illegal in most of the world) or their lights aren't dipped enough (already illegal in most of the world) or their lights have been modified with an illegal beam pattern (err redundant, but already illegal in most of the world).
Sounds like perfectly normal metrics for a VPN software vendor to want to know about their device:
How long it gets used, If it is used in the background or foreground, and what percentage of user data travels via a metered connection. I'm really struggling to get upset about this even in the slightest.
But a few will.
No they won't. That has been proven time and time again. Long standing bugs have survived in critical projects for long periods of time. Major work was done to audit the code of something as important as encryption software and that software released 2 additional versions ceased existing and then forked by the time the first audit was done making the exercise futile.
You DON'T know what's in your software period. Even if the source code is available. People not only don't read it but there's no practical way of verifying distributed binaries are even related to the published source.
Seriously, is there something that Microsoft can do that won't be perceived as evil?
To be fair, the only people who scream EEE at everything are those who don't dedicate even a single braincell to what Microsoft's strategy is or how Microsoft supporting {insert program / service here} plays into the way they make money.
This is just yet another example. Why would Microsoft "extinguish" Linux when they are using it as a cash printing machine on their highly profitable Azure cloud service?
You didn't even need a missing help file. If you could open the help bubble you could right click and click print. Then from the print dialogue you could open a proper windows help screen. From there if you opened the index search and opened a different help topic you'd get a full windows help screen with menubar. Then just click file, open, navigate to the windows folder, right click on explorer.exe and run it.
unscrew the laptop and put whatever devices you want inside
What's a screw? Mine is held together by glue and I couldn't get in myself even if I wanted to.
If you need a good blogging platform
Define "good". For many people (especially windows users), good means that it's popular, there's the most wealth of material available for it, there's the most support, and that there's the largest community.
My Piano teacher has perfect pitch and can tell the difference (without a tuning fork) between notes that are in-tune and notes that are out of tune.
Of course he can. But the key point is that it makes zero difference to "quality". You can play the entire piece in a completely different key. That also makes zero difference. The actual note being hit is not an issue of quality and not something that any listener would ever find offensive. The way that individual A#4 note sounds does, and unless you use your vinyl as a backing track to a guitar you're playing yourself tuned to a computer, then one or the other being out of tune is completely irrelevant. There's a reason bands tune their instruments to each other by ear, and only one instrument is checked against a computer, and that's because the relative differences between instruments are far more important than the absolute pitch.
But all of that is completely irrelevant. We're not off by 1%, but rather we're off by 0.008%.
True high quality headphones will be from companies like Beyerdynamic or Grado Labs that produce professional equipment almost exclusively.
That's nothing more than elitist. I own Grado RS1s and Sennheiser HD650s, and HD800s, and used to have some BD DT880s which died a long time ago. The RS1s and the 650s each shine for a different genre, and I prefer the latter. The 800s sound better than both of them in pretty much every case, and all of them sound better than the DT880s, but then they were in a different price class too.
You'd be hard pressed to find a pair of Sennheiser HD800's
You won't find any of the Grado reference headphones or DT990s which are quite different from the 990 Pros as well. There are different design goals for a set of headphones used in a recording studio than in the home.
An indication that you don't read Slashdot enough.
https://slashdot.org/index2.pl...
I think I'd struggle to describe BR2049 as using restraint when it comes to CGI.
That's because you think CGI is awesome and think that it was done like that. You don't seem to realise that everything was built using practical effects. The entire environment is miniature. In the scenes where the car is flying around from one area to the other, the only proper CGI is the car itself, and in many cases even that is a miniature model. If that were any other film the entire world would be built entirely in a computer.
And it shows.
In their defense most of what you just listed is entirely outside their control.
In your defense so is what they are proposing.
In my experience all these quartz china clocks run fast, some a few seconds and others gain a whole minute a week.
Yes that is horrible. Instead you could spend $10k on an officially certified Swiss chronometer that only gets 42 seconds in a week. But you're making a very silly statement that ignores the fact that time keeping has a whole lot of end user applications and a wide variety of possible ranges between what you propose and an atomic clock.
If you buy one of these cheap clocks you likely don't care.
If you spend more than $1 on a clock you're likely to get something that's accurate to within seconds of a week.
If you spend slightly more than that you can easily achieve seconds within a year. TCXOs cost a couple of dollars in units of 1.
If you want to synchronize to an atomic time source you're going to have to spend about $15 for an RCC wall clock.
There's basically no scenario where it makes sense to synchronize a clock to the grid anymore.
Is that threat worthy?
Is this a legitimate question?
There is no such thing as sharing. There's only paying people and filthy pirates in the eyes of these companies.
It will be interesting if some of these services try just dropping their presence in the countries in question.
Interesting to the shareholders who will punish the companies doing so severely. The benefits of doing business in an economy of 700m wealthy people dramatically outweigh the cost of doing business.
It's the reason western companies are falling over themselves to do business with repressive regimes, while companies in China are doing their dambdest to get access to America despite the threats of an actively hostile government towards them.
The solution to paying a bit of tax is not to forgo even more profit as a result.
Isn't that like saying a mosquito bite doesn't hurt unless the mosquito is the size of a large gorilla?
The frequency being off by a few percent isn't an issue at all. Actually when you play a 45 at 33 you get an increase in what we typically refer to as "quality" when describing sound, and the pitch being correct isn't in that definition, though pitch being consistent is.
Why not solve world hunger? I mean it sounds easier than convincing even a room of people to agree on anything, let alone a group of countries.
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Bose don't sound bad, but Beats do. Even the top of the line Beats can only be described as utter garbage suitable for only techno, rap, drum and bass, and any other music genre where it is preferential to drown out the sound with duff duff sounds.
Bose at least has best in class noise reduction. They have a purpose along side some nicer sounding headphones. I greatly prefer my Bose headphones to my Sennheiser Hd800s when in a noisy environment, just as an example.
They won't notice. Deviations in frequency are in audible providing they remain constant. Only changing frequencies have an affect on sound quality.
There's irony in a statement that complains about national security including economic interests when discussing a country that spends quite so much on its military.
Given how economics are the deciding factors in many wars you may want to reword your statement.
More important is that the movie's story was shit, a worthless sequel coasting on the reputation of the earlier movie.
While you're entitled to your opinion just know that the vast majority of movie goers and critics alike disagree with you. Personally I thought it was a worthy extension of the original, taking a lot of the original themes of class and what it means to be human and extending them. The cinematics of the movie also beautifully mirrored the original, taking the perpetually dark and contrasting it (pun intended especially given the lack of contrast in most scenes) with a light grey / single colour palate of the new movie. You say it lacks artistry, I say it was worthy of winning best cinematography, ... which it did.
As for your comment about a movie being 120minutes of CGI, I'll call you out on that. It's no secret or surprise that the best rated movies and those with the most appealing visuals over the past few years have combined restrained CGI with a copious amount of practical effects as their winning formula. Movies that are overusing CGI and effects are rightfully being demolished by reviewers for doing so and even in today's world they are miserably failing to provide a nice level of realism even for small things e.g. Superman's mustache. Blade Runner's visuals were a pleasant changed from the copiously overused CGI that is present in many movies today.