I spent a lot of time in SLC last year. Yes there is booming high tech corridor all along the Wasatch front. Yes there is lots of outdoor activities to do within a very short distance Yes the weather isn't half bad with sunshine almost all of the year (suck on that Pittsburgh!). Places like Pluralsight have their headquarters there.
The downsides being that they are starting to have large issues with traffic (the tech corridor is literally a 40 mile linear expanse and everyone has to travel along the same one freeway). The political and religious environment can be constrictive compared to a lot of other states EG any alcohol over 3.5% can only be bought in state run shops that have very restrictive hours. The Mormon church has a huge influence on politics behind the scenes. But that is being offset by the influx of outsiders EG as indicated by the consumption of alcohol doubling in the last 10 years, and Salt Lake City itself just (last year) elected an openly gay mayor.
Probably what was the most disturbing for me was that I have never seen more homeless people in my life at one time. This could be because SLC is a "Sanctuary city", but I am not convinced of that.
In my day a Batphone was a big red phone that sat under a glass dish, and instead of a dial* it had single pushbutton. And when you pressed that button the Batphone on the other end started glowing and beeping in order to indicate an incoming call. That's a Batphone.
* A long time** ago telephones used to have rotary dials with all the digits 0 to 9 spaced around them with each digit associated with a finger sized hole. In order to make your phone call you would dial*** your number digit by digit. This involved placing your finger in the hole associated with the digit and rotating the complete dial clockwise until you reached the finger stop. At this point you would remove your finger and the dial would return to its original position. During the return phase the phone would issue a series of audible clicks, with the number clicks issued being calibrated to the digit that was dialed. These clicks were transmitted to the phone company and encoded the digit that was dialed.
** An even longer time ago telephones didn't even had dials. Instead they used voice activation (in a manner similar to Siri or Cortana or Echo, but implemented like Amazon's Mechanical Turk EG in a distributed manner) in order to complete your phone call. EG "Operator, connect me with...."
*** Anachronism alert. Even though modern phones do not have rotary dials, us people with onions on our belts still "dial numbers"
Will you be supporting any other browsers besides Chrome / Firefox?
In the near future we hope to release Privacy Badger for Opera, Safari, and Firefox Mobile. Unfortunately at the moment we cannot support Internet Explorer, since current version IE appears to be incompatible with how Privacy Badger works at a technical level. (With that said, if you would like to work on porting Privacy Badger to other platforms, please let us know!)
No, there won't be "high paid computer science guys". The only way to get a high pay is to have anything to do with finance or management. Anyone who actually creates a product is paid pebbles, only pushing numbers counts!
Oh come on now.. you totally left out the big American dream of being a professional athlete! Where else can you be pain millions straight out of college solely based on your physical skills (and also winning the genetics lottery).
Seriously two simple solutions, either A) Google Aegis Script Windows 7
How the hell do I know to google something that I have never heard of before? (Seriously.. I just had to google it to find out what you mentioned)
or B) Format and install Linux.
This trope has to die. There are many applications that are windows only and will never ever in a million years have a FOSS equivalent, and there just as many exceptions to "just run wine".
And running VM's instead means that you have to be a Linux admin as well as a windows admin.
I very rarely use any function keys except for the 3 volume controls. Certainly nothing I have to touch type. I suspect you don't use Mac OS X.
I use a Macbook Pro and I DO use the function keys.. albeit when I am either running windows VMs (which I commonly do) or when remoted into a windows computer.
Perhaps for pure OS X usage they are underused, but for a professional user they are a required tool.
Swapping the function keys for a touch bar is gimmicky on a machine that is labeled as "pro". And that is before even getting to the stories of OLED burn in. Upgraded ports are always nice, but again on a Pro model you need to have as many as you can cram in.
But what is obviously missing from TFA is the things that make a computer important: CPU, memory, drive space, screen resolution. None of them get a mention.
As a poster before me already mentioned, flywheels could do the same trick, take less space and are likely more efficiënt.
On the other hand this system stores potential energy whereas a flywheel stores kinetic energy - each type of system has it's benefits and drawbacks.
For example it is possible to fill this train system up with potential energy and then shut it completely down for maintenance. You can't do that with a flywheel system.
It looks interesting, especially for places in the West of the US where water access is slowly becoming problematic. On the East coast (where there is a lot more available water) there is the Bath County Pumped Storage Station which has 3GW generating capacity.
Google is a minority investor in the project. Why not mention the main investor????
From Ivanpah Solar Power Facility NRG has invested $300 million, Google $168 million and the US government has provided a $1.6 Billion load guarantee.
In fact why mention the investors at all? Did they have something to do with the day to day running? Did someone from Google sneak out one night and mis-align the mirrors?
I still use my original RAZR flip phone. So original in fact that it was pre-GPS chip (and yes, they do exist). It amuses me when I pull it out and use it and other people see it. And then I point out al the advantages:
1. Its smaller and lighter than smart phones 2. I don't have to charge it every day 3. I can (and do) drop it onto hard surfaces with the only worry being trying to find where the #@$%# battery cover bounced off to
And sure I could have a computer in my pocket, by why do I need one when I have 5 computers in arms reach and sit in front of one most of the working day? I also have a dedicated GPS in my car.
Since supersonic commercial transportation has never been tried before, I predict a bright future for this technology. Perhaps Great Britain and France might embark on a joint venture and see what happens.
Especially as the military has absolutely no need for super cruise either./s
Isn't Linkedin the site where if my friend joins and leaves a box checked because he didn't read carefully, they download his entire contact list and spam all of his contacts, and I repeatedly get emails saying that he's joined and I should join too?
Really? It makes sense to you to try to patch your guest OSes by connecting to the update site with a completely different host OS?
No, it makes sense to look at data on a website using a application that communicates in an agnostic protocol called HTTP
But yes.. if I can pull down an install file once to local storage and locally distribute it to the needed systems what does it matter what the intermediate OS is?
I click on the first link using Safari from my Macbook hoping to see some details. And why not? I run various MS VMs on my Macbook so I want to see whats on offer for me. Note that the link is simply "http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3125574" That seems reasonable.
The website comes back at me with:
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Update Catalog
This website does not offer updates for the operating system on this computer.
This website only provides updates for computers running Windows 2000 Sp3, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and later. If you prefer to use a different Windows operating system, you can obtain updates from the Microsoft Download Center.
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I spent a lot of time in SLC last year. Yes there is booming high tech corridor all along the Wasatch front. Yes there is lots of outdoor activities to do within a very short distance Yes the weather isn't half bad with sunshine almost all of the year (suck on that Pittsburgh!). Places like Pluralsight have their headquarters there.
The downsides being that they are starting to have large issues with traffic (the tech corridor is literally a 40 mile linear expanse and everyone has to travel along the same one freeway). The political and religious environment can be constrictive compared to a lot of other states EG any alcohol over 3.5% can only be bought in state run shops that have very restrictive hours. The Mormon church has a huge influence on politics behind the scenes. But that is being offset by the influx of outsiders EG as indicated by the consumption of alcohol doubling in the last 10 years, and Salt Lake City itself just (last year) elected an openly gay mayor.
Probably what was the most disturbing for me was that I have never seen more homeless people in my life at one time. This could be because SLC is a "Sanctuary city", but I am not convinced of that.
In my day a Batphone was a big red phone that sat under a glass dish, and instead of a dial* it had single pushbutton. And when you pressed that button the Batphone on the other end started glowing and beeping in order to indicate an incoming call. That's a Batphone.
* A long time** ago telephones used to have rotary dials with all the digits 0 to 9 spaced around them with each digit associated with a finger sized hole. In order to make your phone call you would dial*** your number digit by digit. This involved placing your finger in the hole associated with the digit and rotating the complete dial clockwise until you reached the finger stop. At this point you would remove your finger and the dial would return to its original position. During the return phase the phone would issue a series of audible clicks, with the number clicks issued being calibrated to the digit that was dialed. These clicks were transmitted to the phone company and encoded the digit that was dialed.
** An even longer time ago telephones didn't even had dials. Instead they used voice activation (in a manner similar to Siri or Cortana or Echo, but implemented like Amazon's Mechanical Turk EG in a distributed manner) in order to complete your phone call. EG "Operator, connect me with ...."
*** Anachronism alert. Even though modern phones do not have rotary dials, us people with onions on our belts still "dial numbers"
As per your link
Will you be supporting any other browsers besides Chrome / Firefox?
In the near future we hope to release Privacy Badger for Opera, Safari, and Firefox Mobile. Unfortunately at the moment we cannot support Internet Explorer, since current version IE appears to be incompatible with how Privacy Badger works at a technical level. (With that said, if you would like to work on porting Privacy Badger to other platforms, please let us know!)
Better not have anything on top of the SUV. Probably need guardrails too, to prevent people from driving into the sides of the bus.
Also say goodbye to sharing roads with commercial vehicles - including normal buses.
No, there won't be "high paid computer science guys". The only way to get a high pay is to have anything to do with finance or management. Anyone who actually creates a product is paid pebbles, only pushing numbers counts!
Oh come on now .. you totally left out the big American dream of being a professional athlete! Where else can you be pain millions straight out of college solely based on your physical skills (and also winning the genetics lottery).
Seriously two simple solutions, either A) Google Aegis Script Windows 7
How the hell do I know to google something that I have never heard of before? (Seriously .. I just had to google it to find out what you mentioned)
or B) Format and install Linux.
This trope has to die. There are many applications that are windows only and will never ever in a million years have a FOSS equivalent, and there just as many exceptions to "just run wine".
And running VM's instead means that you have to be a Linux admin as well as a windows admin.
Did TFS change after you wrote? I don't see critic used as a verb.
Yep TFS has changed.
[kneels on ground and raises fists to the sky and yells]
Damn you new /. and your fancy editors who are responsive.
Since when was critic a verb?
Every since Calvin made verbing popular!
Calvin and Hobbes
I very rarely use any function keys except for the 3 volume controls. Certainly nothing I have to touch type. I suspect you don't use Mac OS X.
I use a Macbook Pro and I DO use the function keys .. albeit when I am either running windows VMs (which I commonly do) or when remoted into a windows computer.
Perhaps for pure OS X usage they are underused, but for a professional user they are a required tool.
Swapping the function keys for a touch bar is gimmicky on a machine that is labeled as "pro". And that is before even getting to the stories of OLED burn in.
Upgraded ports are always nice, but again on a Pro model you need to have as many as you can cram in.
But what is obviously missing from TFA is the things that make a computer important: CPU, memory, drive space, screen resolution. None of them get a mention.
As a poster before me already mentioned, flywheels could do the same trick, take less space and are likely more efficiënt.
On the other hand this system stores potential energy whereas a flywheel stores kinetic energy - each type of system has it's benefits and drawbacks.
For example it is possible to fill this train system up with potential energy and then shut it completely down for maintenance. You can't do that with a flywheel system.
Please have someone who knows basic physics do the numbers before investing in this.
And what makes you think that they haven't?
Grid Scale Energy Storage (complete with requisite animation)
It looks interesting, especially for places in the West of the US where water access is slowly becoming problematic. On the East coast (where there is a lot more available water) there is the Bath County Pumped Storage Station which has 3GW generating capacity.
Google is a minority investor in the project. Why not mention the main investor????
From Ivanpah Solar Power Facility NRG has invested $300 million, Google $168 million and the US government has provided a $1.6 Billion load guarantee.
In fact why mention the investors at all? Did they have something to do with the day to day running? Did someone from Google sneak out one night and mis-align the mirrors?
I still use my original RAZR flip phone. So original in fact that it was pre-GPS chip (and yes, they do exist). It amuses me when I pull it out and use it and other people see it. And then I point out al the advantages:
1. Its smaller and lighter than smart phones
2. I don't have to charge it every day
3. I can (and do) drop it onto hard surfaces with the only worry being trying to find where the #@$%# battery cover bounced off to
And sure I could have a computer in my pocket, by why do I need one when I have 5 computers in arms reach and sit in front of one most of the working day? I also have a dedicated GPS in my car.
Person Of Interest
No excuse for stupidity.
If the TSA could screen for stupidity, then there wouldn't be a TSA in the first place.
Unfortunately for the rest of us there is no test to keep stupid people from flying.
Exploding vaporizer rips hole in man's tongue
Since supersonic commercial transportation has never been tried before, I predict a bright future for this technology. Perhaps Great Britain and France might embark on a joint venture and see what happens.
Especially as the military has absolutely no need for super cruise either. /s
Isn't Linkedin the site where if my friend joins and leaves a box checked because he didn't read carefully, they download his entire contact list and spam all of his contacts, and I repeatedly get emails saying that he's joined and I should join too?
I thought that was FB
If you're contemplating suicide, you have lost perspective.
FTFY
Get it as an offline installer, and save it to the network.
LOL .. see my Nelson post above.
WhyTF wasn't there a Windows 7 SP2 already?
Had the same story with XP .. lots of updates but not SP for a long time
Really? It makes sense to you to try to patch your guest OSes by connecting to the update site with a completely different host OS?
No, it makes sense to look at data on a website using a application that communicates in an agnostic protocol called HTTP
But yes .. if I can pull down an install file once to local storage and locally distribute it to the needed systems what does it matter what the intermediate OS is?
I click on the first link using Safari from my Macbook hoping to see some details. And why not? I run various MS VMs on my Macbook so I want to see whats on offer for me. Note that the link is simply "http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3125574" That seems reasonable.
The website comes back at me with:
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Update Catalog
This website does not offer updates for the operating system on this computer.
This website only provides updates for computers running Windows 2000 Sp3, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and later. If you prefer to use a different Windows operating system, you can obtain updates from the Microsoft Download Center.
Thanks MS.