I used to hang out mostly with people who (at the time) ran DOS or OS/2 (that should be XOR I guess =) when I had my Amiga. It was kinda fun to hear about all their problems and things they could not do that came 'out of the box' for me.
(And, I'll admit, also because Amiga-owners were sparse -to put it mildly- in my neighbourhood =)
I had both. Doing advanced things on the Amiga was not easy. Doing the things that made the Amiga great (for me) didn't come with it out of the box, either.
My biggest fear is that I'm being counted as one of the successes and I've looked at metro maybe 8 times since I installed startisback.
I tried to use it but the UI is like a fucking hamster on crack. It can't figure out if it wants to be Windows or some random tablet UI of which there are already a billion that both do their own jobs better and ALSO don't belong on a desktop. It switches back and forth so often you could have an epileptic seizure just from trying to use it.
Try start8. I hardly ever see the metro screen unless I intend to with that one.
Yes, because this absolutely, positively, most certainly prevents you from installing software from any other source.
Oh, wait, no it doesn't. All it does is allow you to download pre-compiled binaries from a central source. You are still able to pull the source code from the project and view/compile it yourself. So tell me, how does this violate the spirit of open source software? Or are you just inherently afraid of anything called an "App Store"?
It reminds me more of the redhat rpm repo than one of the app stores for mobile devices.
It's mind boggling, only 90% managed to use the start screen and charms on day1.
So in that 10% are folk that failed to work out how to get the login prompt from the completely control free boot page. And people who failed to shutdown their PC making up the bulk of it - since that needs the charmless bar.
Just to install ClassicShell or fire up the desktop to use it with needs use of both the start screen and charms. So even if you never use them again you still count as a MS success in these stats.
Any other company would be panicking over a 10% fail rate just starting up their software, not claiming it as a success.
I sort of agree. When you login to windows 8 you have to use the metro UI unless you install third party software to give you a start button. If you've got win8 and you're not savvy, you're going to be using metro. It's more interesting to me that 10% actually figured out how to work around it.
By telling everyone that a group of nutcases is going to celebrate while kids are being buried? You REALLY think a lot of people are so demented that they think "Hmm... great idea, let's join that group".
I wonder how many do rather think "Hmm... let's hope a copycat criminal shows up, too, for their picketing."
A lot? Probably not. A few times a year I end up reading about something someone did that shocks me. Last week for example.... There are nutjobs out there, and spreading a message like theirs could cause nutjob a to join nutgroup b. Maybe not, but that's what I was thinking when I posted.
I think there's a distinction between 'freedom of speech', and 'freedom to spread hate'. People don't always recognise the latter (which is why there are so many laws against hate speech).
There's not. It's an important part of the whole concept of free speech. What YOU decide is hateful may not be what I decide is hateful. That's kind of the whole point. Same thing with that whole freedom of religion thing. If this wasn't the case, it wouldn't be important enough to have written it into the constitution.
Yes, their website would have haunted millions of people who didn't know it existed if it hadn't been hacked. In truth, Anonymous probably did them an advertising favor.
If we learned anything, software dies. Twitter, Facebook, Flicker and whatever flavor of the times websites eventually be forgotten like MySpace, Geocities, AOL and Yahoo
Flickr is the "it" thing for amateur photography right now so it's interesting. I do amateur photography. I don't think I'm very good, but as I've talked to other amateurs over the years at camera shops etc, they ALWAYS end up having a flickr. It's to the point where you wouldn't ask someone if they use flickr, but just what their name is on flickr because the safe assumption is that they do use it. It will probably be around for a while because they have a pay upgrade that many people use (I do) which I'm guessing earns actual profits. It's common enough to see the pro logo on random flickr users accounts.. Geocieies is gone, but a lot of people still cling to aol and yahoo for some of their products like instant messaging. In my group of friends we have to use aggregrators like digsby or trillian but more people use AOL instant messenger in the group of people I know than any other IM tool.
I think that unless yahoo goes belly up, flickr will be around for a while.
I'm saying I don't think it's a fore-drawn conclusion that flickr will up and die - at least not until something FAR better comes along and it dies because of disuse. If that scenario plays out, I'll be happy to see flickr go because something better would be... better!
It's really much simpler than that. AFAIK, your neighbors can't just create a HOA to govern your house if one isn't already in place. If you're buying a house you'd be a real fool not to find out if there was one up front. You then take that into consideration when buying your house. I've heard horror stories about HOA's and I've also heard horror stories about some neighbor having 15 broken down cars in his front yard that hasn't been mowed in 5 years. The "problem" goes both ways and you have to decide which you'd rather live with when you buy a house.
Let me know if that generator hasn't utterly failed before you can put even $450 worth of gas through it. I have a stack of 3 of those here.
I've been off-grid since around 1980, and yes, it was expensive then. I assume your ridiculous quote included all labour - you're too lazy/incompetent to do it yourself? It's not rocket science. The price you quoted is about what I paid for a full system, with batteries, that has enough extra capacity to also charge my Volt - and I bought more than half this system *before* the prices came down lately. You're perhaps being informative - in the sense that it's easy to get ripped off in the alt energy game - but possible to do it right too.
I've priced out solar systems on various websites several times and his quote doesn't sound wildly different from what I have seen. Although his power requirements are MUCH less than mine if a 3.7kw generator is sufficient. If you have more specifics then please share them. I'm interested in getting solar but I'm just not wealthy enough to do it given prices I've seen.
Self sufficiency demands that you have several gallons of fuel available at all times. 15 is a good amount. Of course, the government mandated ethanol makes it useless in small engines after a month or so-- maybe a year if you use fuel stabilizer-- so you also need to rotate it out frequently. It won't go to waste: automobile engines are more tolerant of stale gas.
There are still gas stations that sell ethanol free gasoline, at least in the U.S.. They generally charge a premium for the superior product, and you might have to drive a few miles to find one; but it's possible. I have no idea how it works out legally, I just know of at least two stations that have large signs advertising ethanol free gasoline. However, even ethanol free gas has a fairly short shelf life.
For my house in NJ, we got a quote for about $30,000 (of which we would pay $10,000 out of pocket) to put solar panels on our roof. We also were being asked to cut down 4 trees in order to get optimal sunlight. After hurricane Sandy, we instead bought a $450 3270 watt generator which is portable, won't be damaged outside, and can be shared with neighbors if need be.
Note also that if you want to make your house off-the-grid (as option) with solar, that requires much more expense. Batteries, inverter switches, etc.
I've looked into it in FL as well. You're exactly right, it might be cheaper than it used to be but it's still EXTREMELY expensive. I'd love to use solar for all or some of my power needs but I just can't swing it financially. Maybe in 10 more years it'll be affordable to do in "the sunshine state"....
However.. I'm not sure this is a good solution for hurricanes anyway. We get a lot of hurricanes down here, and when you're in a spot that's likely to be without power, there's a chance your whole roof is going to get ripped off by wind, solar panels sitting on top of a roof are an almost certain casualty.
Cash transactions at banks over $10,000 are subject to special reporting requirements, thanks largely to the War on Drugs. It wouldn't surprise me if trying to make any kind of cash transaction for $16K draws unwanted attention in the current police state environment.
Obviously, she was taking the money she earned selling drugs, and laundering it by buying iPhones for cash, then reselling them. Makes perfect sense to a cop, who has been trained to assume that EVERYBODY is a criminal....
You need to come up for air more often. The war on drugs is so 1990's. It's all about terrorists now. We all know she was buying the phones for Al-Qaida. They probably figured out that taping an iPhone to a string attached to a trigger is a 99% reliable way to detonate a bomb. After all, what American could resist picking up a shiny new iPhone.
I think it's more likely that if you get enough of them close together you can achieve critical mass. It's obviously another attempt by Iran to build a boomer.
Also, do you have two reflective vests in the cabin of your vehicle? No? MASSIVE FINE. Thanks France.
The vests are for all of Europe. France are the officially-sanctioned one-time alcohol-detection penii, which you need to have in your car at all times, so that you can blow them in case you're wondering whether you're still sober enough to drive. Of course, there is only one company manufacturing these, they quadrupled the price since they became mandatory, and are now making much dough over this. I wonder whether someone within the French administration has been nicely rewarded by the company for this windfall?
You shouldn't be wondering whether it happened or not, but who it happened to.
I think your memory is probably a little fuzzy as well. I bought a 486 dx2/66 in 1992 (my first "custom" pc) with 8MB RAM and 512MB fujitsu hard drive. I had bragging rights for years on that bad boy but it cost just over $2,500 (not including kb/mouse/monitor etc) and I'm pretty sure about half of that was the cost of the 8MB ram. I also bought a USRobotics Currier HST Dual Standard 16.8k modem for it at the time for the bargain SysOp price of $464 (if I advertised for them on my BBS). I still have the modem, although I haven't used it in at least 10 years.
Similar circuits could one day be wrapped around the heart like 'an electronic pericardium' to correct irregularities such as arrhythmia."
Soluble... That word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Well, it's a good thing the human body doesn't consist primarily of water.
soluble /sälybl/
Adjective
(of a substance) Able to be dissolved, esp. in water: "the poison is soluble in alcohol".
"Researchers in the U.S. have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin like a child's tattoo and in some cases dissolve in water when they're no longer needed.
Uhm, since deployed Windows systems largely don't support SMB 2.x much less SMB 3.x I fail to see how this is a major failing on the part of Linux. Although I am of course entirely for supporting the current protocols.
Currently Google is pre-selected as the search engine for iOS devices. We all know Google hardly makes a dime from Android directly - they are an advertising company. Google ironically makes more money from iOS due to the higher usage of iOS devices around the world (and, in turn, more ad impressions).
Can you cite a source for that claim? The numbers Gartner most recently published make that seem extremely unlikely given about 3 times the number of android devices vs iOS. Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2237315
Google just purchased Motorola Mobility for their patent portfolio, and is already using it aggressively vs M$ and Apple. They are playing the game, not changing it.
You need to look at this from the cold war perspective. Neither the US nor the USSR wanted nuclear war, but it would be utterly stupid for either of them to just get rid of their nuclear weapons.
You have to make an agreement where everyone involved weakens their arsenals simultaneously. Until that happens, you must work to increase your arsenal to higher levels than your opponents, or risk being destroyed.
By not entering into cross-licensing agreements, Apple is essentially behaving like North Korea, as if they don't understand the concept of MAD, and just getting all the other nuclear powers angry.
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I used to hang out mostly with people who (at the time) ran DOS or OS/2 (that should be XOR I guess =) when I had my Amiga. It was kinda fun to hear about all their problems and things they could not do that came 'out of the box' for me. (And, I'll admit, also because Amiga-owners were sparse -to put it mildly- in my neighbourhood =)
I had both. Doing advanced things on the Amiga was not easy. Doing the things that made the Amiga great (for me) didn't come with it out of the box, either.
My biggest fear is that I'm being counted as one of the successes and I've looked at metro maybe 8 times since I installed startisback.
I tried to use it but the UI is like a fucking hamster on crack. It can't figure out if it wants to be Windows or some random tablet UI of which there are already a billion that both do their own jobs better and ALSO don't belong on a desktop. It switches back and forth so often you could have an epileptic seizure just from trying to use it.
Try start8. I hardly ever see the metro screen unless I intend to with that one.
Yes, because this absolutely, positively, most certainly prevents you from installing software from any other source. Oh, wait, no it doesn't. All it does is allow you to download pre-compiled binaries from a central source. You are still able to pull the source code from the project and view/compile it yourself. So tell me, how does this violate the spirit of open source software? Or are you just inherently afraid of anything called an "App Store"?
It reminds me more of the redhat rpm repo than one of the app stores for mobile devices.
It's mind boggling, only 90% managed to use the start screen and charms on day1.
So in that 10% are folk that failed to work out how to get the login prompt from the completely control free boot page. And people who failed to shutdown their PC making up the bulk of it - since that needs the charmless bar.
Just to install ClassicShell or fire up the desktop to use it with needs use of both the start screen and charms. So even if you never use them again you still count as a MS success in these stats.
Any other company would be panicking over a 10% fail rate just starting up their software, not claiming it as a success.
I sort of agree. When you login to windows 8 you have to use the metro UI unless you install third party software to give you a start button. If you've got win8 and you're not savvy, you're going to be using metro. It's more interesting to me that 10% actually figured out how to work around it.
By telling everyone that a group of nutcases is going to celebrate while kids are being buried? You REALLY think a lot of people are so demented that they think "Hmm... great idea, let's join that group".
I wonder how many do rather think "Hmm... let's hope a copycat criminal shows up, too, for their picketing."
A lot? Probably not. A few times a year I end up reading about something someone did that shocks me. Last week for example.... There are nutjobs out there, and spreading a message like theirs could cause nutjob a to join nutgroup b. Maybe not, but that's what I was thinking when I posted.
I think there's a distinction between 'freedom of speech', and 'freedom to spread hate'. People don't always recognise the latter (which is why there are so many laws against hate speech).
There's not. It's an important part of the whole concept of free speech. What YOU decide is hateful may not be what I decide is hateful. That's kind of the whole point. Same thing with that whole freedom of religion thing. If this wasn't the case, it wouldn't be important enough to have written it into the constitution.
Yes, their website would have haunted millions of people who didn't know it existed if it hadn't been hacked. In truth, Anonymous probably did them an advertising favor.
If we learned anything, software dies. Twitter, Facebook, Flicker and whatever flavor of the times websites eventually be forgotten like MySpace, Geocities, AOL and Yahoo
Flickr is the "it" thing for amateur photography right now so it's interesting. I do amateur photography. I don't think I'm very good, but as I've talked to other amateurs over the years at camera shops etc, they ALWAYS end up having a flickr. It's to the point where you wouldn't ask someone if they use flickr, but just what their name is on flickr because the safe assumption is that they do use it. It will probably be around for a while because they have a pay upgrade that many people use (I do) which I'm guessing earns actual profits. It's common enough to see the pro logo on random flickr users accounts..
Geocieies is gone, but a lot of people still cling to aol and yahoo for some of their products like instant messaging. In my group of friends we have to use aggregrators like digsby or trillian but more people use AOL instant messenger in the group of people I know than any other IM tool.
I think that unless yahoo goes belly up, flickr will be around for a while.
I'm saying I don't think it's a fore-drawn conclusion that flickr will up and die - at least not until something FAR better comes along and it dies because of disuse. If that scenario plays out, I'll be happy to see flickr go because something better would be... better!
It's really much simpler than that. AFAIK, your neighbors can't just create a HOA to govern your house if one isn't already in place. If you're buying a house you'd be a real fool not to find out if there was one up front. You then take that into consideration when buying your house. I've heard horror stories about HOA's and I've also heard horror stories about some neighbor having 15 broken down cars in his front yard that hasn't been mowed in 5 years. The "problem" goes both ways and you have to decide which you'd rather live with when you buy a house.
Let me know if that generator hasn't utterly failed before you can put even $450 worth of gas through it. I have a stack of 3 of those here.
I've been off-grid since around 1980, and yes, it was expensive then. I assume your ridiculous quote included all labour - you're too lazy/incompetent to do it yourself? It's not rocket science. The price you quoted is about what I paid for a full system, with batteries, that has enough extra capacity to also charge my Volt - and I bought more than half this system *before* the prices came down lately. You're perhaps being informative - in the sense that it's easy to get ripped off in the alt energy game - but possible to do it right too.
I've priced out solar systems on various websites several times and his quote doesn't sound wildly different from what I have seen. Although his power requirements are MUCH less than mine if a 3.7kw generator is sufficient. If you have more specifics then please share them. I'm interested in getting solar but I'm just not wealthy enough to do it given prices I've seen.
Self sufficiency demands that you have several gallons of fuel available at all times. 15 is a good amount. Of course, the government mandated ethanol makes it useless in small engines after a month or so-- maybe a year if you use fuel stabilizer-- so you also need to rotate it out frequently. It won't go to waste: automobile engines are more tolerant of stale gas.
There are still gas stations that sell ethanol free gasoline, at least in the U.S.. They generally charge a premium for the superior product, and you might have to drive a few miles to find one; but it's possible. I have no idea how it works out legally, I just know of at least two stations that have large signs advertising ethanol free gasoline. However, even ethanol free gas has a fairly short shelf life.
For my house in NJ, we got a quote for about $30,000 (of which we would pay $10,000 out of pocket) to put solar panels on our roof. We also were being asked to cut down 4 trees in order to get optimal sunlight. After hurricane Sandy, we instead bought a $450 3270 watt generator which is portable, won't be damaged outside, and can be shared with neighbors if need be.
Note also that if you want to make your house off-the-grid (as option) with solar, that requires much more expense. Batteries, inverter switches, etc.
I've looked into it in FL as well. You're exactly right, it might be cheaper than it used to be but it's still EXTREMELY expensive. I'd love to use solar for all or some of my power needs but I just can't swing it financially. Maybe in 10 more years it'll be affordable to do in "the sunshine state"....
However.. I'm not sure this is a good solution for hurricanes anyway. We get a lot of hurricanes down here, and when you're in a spot that's likely to be without power, there's a chance your whole roof is going to get ripped off by wind, solar panels sitting on top of a roof are an almost certain casualty.
Grammar fix: I guess that's supposed to be "but to whom it happened".
http://www.deviantart.com/download/92371554/Grammar_Nazi_by_ColorationJim.jpg
Yes, now let's see if someone at dice can replace the article with this actual summary!
Cash transactions at banks over $10,000 are subject to special reporting requirements, thanks largely to the War on Drugs. It wouldn't surprise me if trying to make any kind of cash transaction for $16K draws unwanted attention in the current police state environment.
Obviously, she was taking the money she earned selling drugs, and laundering it by buying iPhones for cash, then reselling them. Makes perfect sense to a cop, who has been trained to assume that EVERYBODY is a criminal....
You need to come up for air more often. The war on drugs is so 1990's. It's all about terrorists now. We all know she was buying the phones for Al-Qaida. They probably figured out that taping an iPhone to a string attached to a trigger is a 99% reliable way to detonate a bomb. After all, what American could resist picking up a shiny new iPhone.
I think it's more likely that if you get enough of them close together you can achieve critical mass. It's obviously another attempt by Iran to build a boomer.
Agreed, they should probably hit anyone walking out of an apple store with a bag or package under their arm. The world would be a better place.
Also, do you have two reflective vests in the cabin of your vehicle? No? MASSIVE FINE. Thanks France.
The vests are for all of Europe. France are the officially-sanctioned one-time alcohol-detection penii, which you need to have in your car at all times, so that you can blow them in case you're wondering whether you're still sober enough to drive. Of course, there is only one company manufacturing these, they quadrupled the price since they became mandatory, and are now making much dough over this. I wonder whether someone within the French administration has been nicely rewarded by the company for this windfall?
You shouldn't be wondering whether it happened or not, but who it happened to.
I think your memory is probably a little fuzzy as well. I bought a 486 dx2/66 in 1992 (my first "custom" pc) with 8MB RAM and 512MB fujitsu hard drive. I had bragging rights for years on that bad boy but it cost just over $2,500 (not including kb/mouse/monitor etc) and I'm pretty sure about half of that was the cost of the 8MB ram. I also bought a USRobotics Currier HST Dual Standard 16.8k modem for it at the time for the bargain SysOp price of $464 (if I advertised for them on my BBS). I still have the modem, although I haven't used it in at least 10 years.
Similar circuits could one day be wrapped around the heart like 'an electronic pericardium' to correct irregularities such as arrhythmia."
Soluble... That word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Well, it's a good thing the human body doesn't consist primarily of water.
soluble
/sälybl/
Adjective
(of a substance) Able to be dissolved, esp. in water: "the poison is soluble in alcohol".
"Researchers in the U.S. have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin like a child's tattoo and in some cases dissolve in water when they're no longer needed.
Seems like it's used properly to me.
So you're saying game consoles are looking to take over the human market? :O
What makes you think that hasn't already happened?
Ah, I was going by the release date listed on wikipedia. I've got MSDN and Technet and got my copy from MSDN.
Uhm, since deployed Windows systems largely don't support SMB 2.x much less SMB 3.x I fail to see how this is a major failing on the part of Linux. Although I am of course entirely for supporting the current protocols.
Windows 8 supports SMB3, and MS claims to have sold 40 million copies already. Sources: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-microsoft-windows-idUSBRE8AQ18W20121127 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block#SMB_3.0
I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can't deny
Denied. They do have a high comedic value, though.
Currently Google is pre-selected as the search engine for iOS devices. We all know Google hardly makes a dime from Android directly - they are an advertising company. Google ironically makes more money from iOS due to the higher usage of iOS devices around the world (and, in turn, more ad impressions).
Can you cite a source for that claim? The numbers Gartner most recently published make that seem extremely unlikely given about 3 times the number of android devices vs iOS. Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2237315
Google just purchased Motorola Mobility for their patent portfolio, and is already using it aggressively vs M$ and Apple. They are playing the game, not changing it.
You need to look at this from the cold war perspective. Neither the US nor the USSR wanted nuclear war, but it would be utterly stupid for either of them to just get rid of their nuclear weapons.
You have to make an agreement where everyone involved weakens their arsenals simultaneously. Until that happens, you must work to increase your arsenal to higher levels than your opponents, or risk being destroyed.
By not entering into cross-licensing agreements, Apple is essentially behaving like North Korea, as if they don't understand the concept of MAD, and just getting all the other nuclear powers angry.
The world is having more success at disarming Apple than it has with North Korea. Source: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/2346246/steve-jobs-patent-on-iphone-declared-invalid