you're talking about america. people would queue if given the chance to press the electrocute button.
if i could pick how to be executed, my friend (A&E nurse) tells me insulin injection and subsequent hypoglycemic shock is as peaceful a way to go as it gets. i'm also pretty sure it allows for organ harvest which i'd definitely want.
i was just thinking; is there anything more 90's than downloading Windows shareware from Tucows using an AOL browser over a trial dialup connection, while your mom shouts at you that she needs to use the phone?
how can one be sympathetic to their plight when one knows these millions of attacks are carried out by millions of compromised windows machines. they have pretty much created the whip on their backs.
are you sure you're looking at the leftmost column in powertop's "Idle Stats"? what you're saying should not be possible. things are slowly starting to move in 4.6 kernel ( http://git.kernel.org/cgit/lin... ) . it should not be possible with 4.4.7.
i do not like limitations of ChromeOS but it is currently the ONLY way to get a haswell/broadwell/skylake laptop with linux with proper power management. i've yet to see a non-chromeos laptop that can enter a state lower than PC3 (package state, not core).
so I, for one, am interested in this new chromebook. i currently have a haswell chromebook with crouton installed and i have never experienced such battery life with a linux machine before (not even on dell sputnik). it's a crappy cheap machine but i'm finding myself using it almost exclusively these days. it's the first computer i can leave the house with while leaving the charger at home.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
i think the spread of malaria was mainly stopped by the ridiculously dry years we've had in europe. there were months long periods without proper rain where i live.. last year, i wasn't bitten once. the year before that, maybe 2-3 times. the climate is simply becoming too dry for the mosquitoes to thrive. global warming FTW!
i often wonder; what is the actual point of american health insurance companies? as far as i can tell, their only job is to insert loopholes into their contracts to enable them to weasel out of payments or just say "preexisting condition". where i live, i have to pay for medical insurance by law (govt pays for the unemployed), but that same law dictates the insurance company has to accept any and all responsibility for my medical expenses. the result is that insurance companies run many incentives to keep people healthy. the only reason an insurance company can dump me for is if i refuse to go to yearly checkups (both general and dental).
> Companies like Microsoft by way of services like Skype and Yammer, and smaller startups like Slack, are overturning the whole idea of how people who are not in the same office floor can communicate and collaborate for work
I don't know sh*t about Slack, but all Microsoft is providing businesses with is opportunities to say "Hello? Are you still there? Can you hear me? I think there's a bit of a delay...". So no, Microsoft isn't overturning shit. They're not in the same ballpark, not even on the same planet. Properly set up IP PBX and Polycom/Cisco phones is THE way real businesses communicate. You use MS Lync/Skype only if you want to embarrass yourself.
so much computing power but so painfully single-purpose. it makes me angry we can't repurpose the hardware for something useful when this craziness is over. it sure would be nice if the function these ASICs are built for could be used for something like protein folding simulation.
germans and austrians are my main gripe. half of them put Dipl. Ing. into the 'first name' field. i get it, you're proud you finished school, but it is stil NOT your first name!
i manually set "redshift -O 3500" and lower brightness on my chromebook and i am happy with that setting. i noticed that flux goes as low as 1900. that setting just confuses me and i can't concentrate on reading anymore. maybe if i were a martian, that tint would seem natural but i'm not so it doesn't.
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you're talking about america. people would queue if given the chance to press the electrocute button.
if i could pick how to be executed, my friend (A&E nurse) tells me insulin injection and subsequent hypoglycemic shock is as peaceful a way to go as it gets. i'm also pretty sure it allows for organ harvest which i'd definitely want.
haven't you read the article? you can watch pornhub videos through libaa or in 256 colours with libcaca!!!
a lot of the most disliked videos are on the most liked list too. just an observation.
i was just thinking; is there anything more 90's than downloading Windows shareware from Tucows using an AOL browser over a trial dialup connection, while your mom shouts at you that she needs to use the phone?
how can one be sympathetic to their plight when one knows these millions of attacks are carried out by millions of compromised windows machines. they have pretty much created the whip on their backs.
or to use a car analogy: carbon fibre cars are so ubiquitous because they are cheaper to manufacture than steel cars.
i read the title and seriously thought: "what? Angry Birds on TiVo?"
well, i envy you. my nuc with i5-4250u has never gone past PC2.
i totally agree, with a little addendum. buttons should be above the touchpad and the touchpad itself should be disabled. nipple FTW.
are you sure you're looking at the leftmost column in powertop's "Idle Stats"? what you're saying should not be possible. things are slowly starting to move in 4.6 kernel ( http://git.kernel.org/cgit/lin... ) . it should not be possible with 4.4.7.
i do not like limitations of ChromeOS but it is currently the ONLY way to get a haswell/broadwell/skylake laptop with linux with proper power management. i've yet to see a non-chromeos laptop that can enter a state lower than PC3 (package state, not core).
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
so I, for one, am interested in this new chromebook. i currently have a haswell chromebook with crouton installed and i have never experienced such battery life with a linux machine before (not even on dell sputnik). it's a crappy cheap machine but i'm finding myself using it almost exclusively these days. it's the first computer i can leave the house with while leaving the charger at home.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
i think the spread of malaria was mainly stopped by the ridiculously dry years we've had in europe. there were months long periods without proper rain where i live.. last year, i wasn't bitten once. the year before that, maybe 2-3 times. the climate is simply becoming too dry for the mosquitoes to thrive. global warming FTW!
i often wonder; what is the actual point of american health insurance companies? as far as i can tell, their only job is to insert loopholes into their contracts to enable them to weasel out of payments or just say "preexisting condition". where i live, i have to pay for medical insurance by law (govt pays for the unemployed), but that same law dictates the insurance company has to accept any and all responsibility for my medical expenses. the result is that insurance companies run many incentives to keep people healthy. the only reason an insurance company can dump me for is if i refuse to go to yearly checkups (both general and dental).
> Companies like Microsoft by way of services like Skype and Yammer, and smaller startups like Slack, are overturning the whole idea of how people who are not in the same office floor can communicate and collaborate for work
I don't know sh*t about Slack, but all Microsoft is providing businesses with is opportunities to say "Hello? Are you still there? Can you hear me? I think there's a bit of a delay...". So no, Microsoft isn't overturning shit. They're not in the same ballpark, not even on the same planet. Properly set up IP PBX and Polycom/Cisco phones is THE way real businesses communicate. You use MS Lync/Skype only if you want to embarrass yourself.
whatever you say mr holmes.
things that are nice to see and things that are useful to see are 2 completely different things.
WTF is up with this dual CPU benchmarking? why am i supposed to divide/multiply every test by 2 to see how fast something is?
and just to make sure it's really stupid, include a single and quad cpu systems in the comparison. WTF?
AND it tells me my operating system isn't supported for voice or video.
so much computing power but so painfully single-purpose. it makes me angry we can't repurpose the hardware for something useful when this craziness is over. it sure would be nice if the function these ASICs are built for could be used for something like protein folding simulation.
germans and austrians are my main gripe. half of them put Dipl. Ing. into the 'first name' field. i get it, you're proud you finished school, but it is stil NOT your first name!
that has held you back? i've been using ms office without a single problem on gnu/linux for the last 10 years (occasionally needed at work).
step 1) apt install playonlinux
step 2) start playonlinux and click the big INSTALL button
step 3) select Microsoft Office and follow prompts
this process has been that easy for at least 10 years. first, i used plain wine, then i paid for crossover, now i use playonlinux which is free.
i manually set "redshift -O 3500" and lower brightness on my chromebook and i am happy with that setting. i noticed that flux goes as low as 1900. that setting just confuses me and i can't concentrate on reading anymore. maybe if i were a martian, that tint would seem natural but i'm not so it doesn't.
stuff that matters.
they are and always have been crazily cheap. i don't think microsoft is making any money on them.
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