I've got a SP4 and with whatever update they forced on me last week the windows all think I'm in vertical orientation after it sleeps and won't expand greater than the margin (even though I've left the keyboard attached, have the options set to desktop mode only and the desktop itself is still in desktop orientation!).
The only way to fix it is a reboot!
Microsoft - we updated your computer while you slept - figure out what we broke today! What fun!
That would be a great Mission Impossible scene though - break into the facility, break into the air-gapped computer room and Benji leans down to the power cable:
Ethan: "What are you doing?"
Benji: "I'm installing the tap on the power cable which will adjust the power frequency of the CPU so we can hack into the system and collect the data"
Ethan: "Benji... there's a post-it note right here with the password on it"
Benji: "Oh... well...that works too"
In our comments section, this was attributed to a speech before Congress in 1836. That certainly is not the origin of the quote, unless it went unnoticed for almost 100 years.
The first recorded appearance of this quote dates to 1928, almost 90 years after it was supposedly uttered, when it was published in a pamphlet "Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States: An interesting bit of history concerning 'Old Hickory,'" by Stan Henkles.
Henkles, a Philadelphia auctioneer and collector of Americana, is probably most famous for republishing a prayer book that was supposedly hand-written by George Washington. According to Henkles, he found the book in a trunk owned by a Washington descendant, Lawrence Washington. Despite the fact that Lawrence Washington told Henkles that the book had earlier been rejected by the Smithsonian Institute as inauthentic, Henkles sold the original manuscript to a New York collector for $1,250. He also published a facsmile edition that claimed it had been authored by the first president at the age of 20.
No - that's what every communist dreamer says after the government fails - like Venzuela
2000 - true communism
2004 - true communism
2006 - true communism
2008 - mostly true communism
2010 - kinda true communism
2012 - evil capitalist pig dogs trying to stop true communism
2014 - evil capitalist pig dogs have made us give up communism temporarily
2016 - TRUMP made communism fail
2018 - Never was true communism and we never claimed that.
"How does it make you feel that the 'airlines are bending you over and raping you with their prices'?"
Or is this going to be more like Clippy?!
tink - tink - "Hey I see you're trying to book a flight to Hawaii, I see flights nearby to Alaska are much cheaper"
"Alexa, as CEO, how can I save the company money"
"Ok Hubert, I googled some responses for you the first one reads: "BEST BUYS MOBILE PHONE STORE SUX0RS"
"Alexa, Stop! That's a brilliant idea!"
Hear, hear.
Was about to post the same thing.
Smart speakers are a novelty and it's fun to yell out "Alexa, Fire Photon Torpedoes" and get a response but I don't want or need a smart speaker. I've got bluetooth through my AV reciever - connect to it and bada bing, I'm controlling my smartphone music through it and I don't need wifi access or an Amazon/Apple/Google account for it.
It was (and still is in some places) illegal to act as a taxi service in many cities without having a medallion.
There's also far greater safety concerns too.
But I don't think it's insurmountable and probably why they're saying 5-10 years out - probably to hash out the legalities and not the actually DOING it part.
If I could actually read the article I could confirm that I believe they are talking about private planes hiring themselves out via Uber and NOT "flying cars".
It's not a bad idea - I've got several friends with planes and they'd love to fly more but can't afford the fuel/maintenance costs to fly more often and this would be one way of getting around that. (maybe, if Uber doesn't shortchange them like its other drivers)
Plus there's the convenience of avoiding the TSA lines and crowds in general.
I wonder if Lyft planes would have to put a moustache on their plane...
For one it's probably intended for cloud storage services so they intend to hook a LOT of them up to one storage cluster which generally uses SCSI.
Secondarily, faster transfers means more heat and they may be forcing the SCSI interfaces to "throttle" the transfers and keep the thermal issues manageable.
I was surprised how easily thermal issues could pop up on just a 512gb M2 stick.
Because it is intended for the enterprise and uses the Serial Attached SCSI interface, it is unlikely that it will be sold in any consumer retail channels.
It's not just a nefarious conspiracy. Modular components (ram, network cards) require physical connections which are never as good as a soldered connection as well as layout space to replaceable. The whole move towards thinness and lighter phones and laptops was a great driver to the soldered components and to pack as much tech into as small a space as possible.
I'm sure some of that was also a drive to lock the customer into certain features and specs but this happened with PC laptops long before Apple jumped back into the game. I've gone through my share of gaming laptops and which at least allowed me to expand memory and hard drives. (and more recently WiFi - In THEORY I can change out the GPU but it's ridiculously expensive and a pain to do so and a typical customer probably wouldn't do that.) Can't do that AT ALL with my Surface Pro 4 but I see that as a move towards computers as an appliance. Same with cars these days. It used to be that you could do most of your own repairs on a car - not these days.
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I've got a SP4 and with whatever update they forced on me last week the windows all think I'm in vertical orientation after it sleeps and won't expand greater than the margin (even though I've left the keyboard attached, have the options set to desktop mode only and the desktop itself is still in desktop orientation!).
The only way to fix it is a reboot!
Microsoft - we updated your computer while you slept - figure out what we broke today! What fun!
Probably won't be too much longer and you'll be seeing routers supporting dual network spaces for just this reason. (like the DMZ)
That would be a great Mission Impossible scene though - break into the facility, break into the air-gapped computer room and Benji leans down to the power cable:
Ethan: "What are you doing?"
Benji: "I'm installing the tap on the power cable which will adjust the power frequency of the CPU so we can hack into the system and collect the data"
Ethan: "Benji... there's a post-it note right here with the password on it"
Benji: "Oh... well...that works too"
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In our comments section, this was attributed to a speech before Congress in 1836. That certainly is not the origin of the quote, unless it went unnoticed for almost 100 years.
The first recorded appearance of this quote dates to 1928, almost 90 years after it was supposedly uttered, when it was published in a pamphlet "Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States: An interesting bit of history concerning 'Old Hickory,'" by Stan Henkles.
Henkles, a Philadelphia auctioneer and collector of Americana, is probably most famous for republishing a prayer book that was supposedly hand-written by George Washington. According to Henkles, he found the book in a trunk owned by a Washington descendant, Lawrence Washington. Despite the fact that Lawrence Washington told Henkles that the book had earlier been rejected by the Smithsonian Institute as inauthentic, Henkles sold the original manuscript to a New York collector for $1,250. He also published a facsmile edition that claimed it had been authored by the first president at the age of 20.
Mothers against Gun Violence
Mothers against Smoking
Mothers against Dairy
"Kyle, you've got to stop your mom!"
Just carry a second laptop around! 2 Surface Pros are still less weight and size than just 1 typical laptop from 4 years ago!
No - that's what every communist dreamer says after the government fails - like Venzuela
2000 - true communism
2004 - true communism
2006 - true communism
2008 - mostly true communism
2010 - kinda true communism
2012 - evil capitalist pig dogs trying to stop true communism
2014 - evil capitalist pig dogs have made us give up communism temporarily
2016 - TRUMP made communism fail
2018 - Never was true communism and we never claimed that.
all the hard drives crashed at the FLASH memory assembly line?
It's what ALL communist government always turn into.
The TRUTH behind the civil forfeiture laws. It wasn't for money or cars... The PoPo wanted THE CHEETOS!
"How does it make you feel that the 'airlines are bending you over and raping you with their prices'?"
Or is this going to be more like Clippy?!
tink - tink - "Hey I see you're trying to book a flight to Hawaii, I see flights nearby to Alaska are much cheaper"
I suspect the complaint isn't that there were so FEW reports - but that out of the 238 complaints only 1(?) was considered actionable.
"Alexa, as CEO, how can I save the company money"
"Ok Hubert, I googled some responses for you the first one reads: "BEST BUYS MOBILE PHONE STORE SUX0RS"
"Alexa, Stop! That's a brilliant idea!"
Hear, hear.
Was about to post the same thing.
Smart speakers are a novelty and it's fun to yell out "Alexa, Fire Photon Torpedoes" and get a response but I don't want or need a smart speaker. I've got bluetooth through my AV reciever - connect to it and bada bing, I'm controlling my smartphone music through it and I don't need wifi access or an Amazon/Apple/Google account for it.
It was (and still is in some places) illegal to act as a taxi service in many cities without having a medallion.
There's also far greater safety concerns too.
But I don't think it's insurmountable and probably why they're saying 5-10 years out - probably to hash out the legalities and not the actually DOING it part.
If I could actually read the article I could confirm that I believe they are talking about private planes hiring themselves out via Uber and NOT "flying cars".
It's not a bad idea - I've got several friends with planes and they'd love to fly more but can't afford the fuel/maintenance costs to fly more often and this would be one way of getting around that. (maybe, if Uber doesn't shortchange them like its other drivers)
Plus there's the convenience of avoiding the TSA lines and crowds in general.
I wonder if Lyft planes would have to put a moustache on their plane...
For one it's probably intended for cloud storage services so they intend to hook a LOT of them up to one storage cluster which generally uses SCSI.
Secondarily, faster transfers means more heat and they may be forcing the SCSI interfaces to "throttle" the transfers and keep the thermal issues manageable.
I was surprised how easily thermal issues could pop up on just a 512gb M2 stick.
1.21 GIGAWATTS?!
Because it is intended for the enterprise and uses the Serial Attached SCSI interface, it is unlikely that it will be sold in any consumer retail channels.
But soon...
What is my purpose?
You farm pigs
Oh god!
lol - I want crappy performance mode so I can run my old windows games properly!
But the turbo button is pressed on my packard bell PC!
Why isn't the app running fast enough?!
I don't care!
The drone delivery companies, including Matternet and Zipline,
Now I have visions of wires from the distribution center to every house and they just slide the drugs down. (Think how green that would be!)
Might as well just do pneumatic tubes again...
It's not just a nefarious conspiracy. Modular components (ram, network cards) require physical connections which are never as good as a soldered connection as well as layout space to replaceable. The whole move towards thinness and lighter phones and laptops was a great driver to the soldered components and to pack as much tech into as small a space as possible.
I'm sure some of that was also a drive to lock the customer into certain features and specs but this happened with PC laptops long before Apple jumped back into the game. I've gone through my share of gaming laptops and which at least allowed me to expand memory and hard drives. (and more recently WiFi - In THEORY I can change out the GPU but it's ridiculously expensive and a pain to do so and a typical customer probably wouldn't do that.) Can't do that AT ALL with my Surface Pro 4 but I see that as a move towards computers as an appliance. Same with cars these days. It used to be that you could do most of your own repairs on a car - not these days.