we've outsourced to Japan and China, they're getting rich selling us shitty cars, while our local auto industry (which used to make quality cars most of which still run after 20, 30, 40 or even 50+ years! Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Leyland, Rover...) has died a death
Were you driving the same British cars the rest of us were? I have a 1970 Norton Commando; the quality of manufacturing on that bike is abysmal, down to the visibly off-center bore on one of the cylinders. That's not to mention the fact that the design was grossly outdated by 1970, but the management was too complacent to spend on a decent drivetrain which wouldn't pour oil out of every seam. There's a reason Honda ate their lunch, and it's not because they were selling crap...
And even today, I know someone with an $80k Range Rover; that POS died (as in, won't run, need a tow truck) on the highway twice in the first 2 years, and another time just poured its coolant all over his driveway for no reason. He still likes it (just like I like my Norton), but it's far from being a quality car. I'd have traded it in on a Land Cruiser after the first breakdown (if I had been silly enough to buy it in the first place, and still wanted an SUV).
There are lots of other cool G-Shock models, check them out. Mine has been going strong for over 10 years; I had to replace the band a couple of years ago, but otherwise it runs like new. I'm sure mine was under $100.
Yes, the Casio G-Force is the way to go - tough, looks good/geeky, lots of options.
Though if you really want to geek out on watches without spending more than a car costs there are replica communities like http://www.rwg.cc/ where all the various "quality" knock-offs are discussed...
MSE came out in fall 2009, so not quite 3 years ago; IIRC the AVG issue was probably earlier that year and made me start looking around for the best replacement & MSE came out to generally good reviews. I find that MSE with an occasional Malwarebytes scan will keep most people's home machines pretty clear, even people with teenagers...
When AVG caused a boot failure several years ago I switched started switching everyone who asked to Microsoft Security Essentials; still seems to be the best free one. At work I'm happy with NOD32; I suppose that they could have a similar problem, but they've been really good so far.
My wife reads lots on hers; I'll offer to put something on my nook for her every so often, but she's happy reading on her ipad. She was reading on it outside just yesterday with no complaints; it's not ideal, maybe, but it works ok.
I think if these take off (and I hope they will) we'll see a substantial increase in miles driven. Not just from people sending their cars back home to get someone else (it will be a while before they allow unoccupied driverless cars, I imagine), but from trips which were previously too tedious. If I can come home from work on Friday evening, get in my self driving car with the family, and wake up in Orlando or Cape Cod, I'm much more likely to take such trips over a weekend. I bet it would double the miles I put on in a year; if everyone was doing that type of thing, it'd put a big strain on gasoline supplies. Hopefully their introduction will tie in to increases in efficiency.
I think that's more of a burying instinct; they don't actually remember where they bury them, but if there are enough buried all around they have a decent chance of finding one when the start looking.
I can't readily find any data just for Israel, but I find the law's author's assertion that "We also know that the first cause of death in the age group of 15-24 is anorexia" to be highly suspect. In the US, 46% of deaths ages 15-24 are accidents (33% motor vehicles), then there's homicide, suicide, cancer & other illnesses. Anorexia is nowhere near the top as a cause of death. Israelis have cars and murders and cancer just like Americans (ok, probably less cars & murders, but still); I find it hard to believe that their stats are terribly different. The article itself says that mortality rates are 4% for anorexia, which is bad, but surely all the 10% with eating disorders she cites don't have anorexia?
If you're leaving your photos on flash-cards and websites in the first place, then that's your fundamental problem.
Absolutely right. At the very least you should back up originals to a DVD or something. My photos are the most important (to me) thing on my hard drive, I make sure I back them up to a couple of drives regularly.
I agree; every once in a while I go through and pick out the best pictures, and order a bunch of photo books for the grandparents/aunts/uncles. Snapfish & Shutterfly have easy templates, I'm sure Costco does too. I haven't bothered with normal prints for a while now, the books are so much better. Go to Retailmenot & you're bound to find a deal on at least one of the photo printing sites. Any one of them is easier than printing yourself, and probably cheaper too.
The only reason I eventually switch back to Windows is Netflix and its silverlight addiction, which, by the way, will also not use GPU to accelerate HD video.
I find Netflix/Silverlight so jerky on my Ion HTPC that I don't bother with it; I use my Blu-ray player 99% as a Netflix streamer. I kept hoping they'd fix Silverlight, but I don't see it happening now. I haven't had issues with VLC, though.
Yeah, the name is weak. The one time I installed it for a user at work, he happened to be handicapped and was like "what are you trying to say here?" Fortunately he has a sense of humor & wasn't too bothered by it, but still it's not a good thing.
That's actually what I like about the newer versions - the UI elements are reduced to about as minimal as possible. I don't really want skins & curves, I want as much as possible of my screen to be devoted to the pages I'm using & as little as necessary to the UI. If I were using the menu items all the time I'd re-enable the menu bar, but I'm happier with all the UI stuff in a little sliver at the top. Ctrl-P to print & I'm good.
I have a vanity site with thousands of photos & videos. I have always just used a script + imagemagick & ffmpg to get things to a useable set of html files, but I keep hoping that there will be someting easier. Can anyone tell me if this would be a good way to dump a bunch of jpgs & video files to a directory & have all the pretty stuff happen in the background? I'm not interested in the social side so much, but I have yet to find anything which can handle large batches of files in a way that I'm happy with.
Having set up and run a small BES install... what it does is do the push email really really well. As in, even though the BES was running on a slow old W2K server, the mail would show up on the BB before Outlook had a chance to get it. And it always works. Having said that, I imagine that we'll have moved away from it entirely within a year. Any contracts that come up, people are switching to the iphone. They love 'em. When you go from a Curve to a 4S, it's an enormous leap in terms of usability, and the email works well enough.
My (basically no-knowledge) take is that because the rule of law is weak, lots of enterprises are run by gangsters. They hire the hackers, who have few other legit options because the economy is stagnant (in part because the rule of law is weak).
I disagree. It's more like going to the doctor - you know you're going to have to get undressed & be touched, but it's not an assault. Sure there may be random pedophiles in the doctors office (there was a case in Delaware recently), but I stay with my kids at the doctor & I stay with my kids at the airport. It's all about the context.
As an actual parent, who has flown with them numerous times (including returning with an 18 month old right after the shoe bomber & having her shoes checked), I have found that the parent remaining calm and explaining what's going on goes a long way towards avoiding panic & meltdowns. The couple of times the kids have had light patdowns, I didn't see it as molestation; we've never had the full new procedure. The TSA grunts are just doing their jobs, they aren't getting any kicks from patting down the kids, the kids don't need to freak out. I think in this case the idiots should have used more tact, but saying you'd go all ninja on them is a crock. Don't get me wrong, I think it's all bs & I fly as little as possible these days, but a patdown is not an attack.
That's a bit extreme for normal users. The more complexity you force on them, the more likely they are to just write the password down.
I have to say, in a small office environment, I'm less worried about people writing down passwords than having easy passwords which can be brute forced remotely. But I agree that 8 random characters with upper, lower & numbers should be enough for normal stuff.
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At $125 it is priced like a textbook too. It looks interesting but I won't be dropping that.
we've outsourced to Japan and China, they're getting rich selling us shitty cars, while our local auto industry (which used to make quality cars most of which still run after 20, 30, 40 or even 50+ years! Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Leyland, Rover...) has died a death
Were you driving the same British cars the rest of us were? I have a 1970 Norton Commando; the quality of manufacturing on that bike is abysmal, down to the visibly off-center bore on one of the cylinders. That's not to mention the fact that the design was grossly outdated by 1970, but the management was too complacent to spend on a decent drivetrain which wouldn't pour oil out of every seam. There's a reason Honda ate their lunch, and it's not because they were selling crap...
And even today, I know someone with an $80k Range Rover; that POS died (as in, won't run, need a tow truck) on the highway twice in the first 2 years, and another time just poured its coolant all over his driveway for no reason. He still likes it (just like I like my Norton), but it's far from being a quality car. I'd have traded it in on a Land Cruiser after the first breakdown (if I had been silly enough to buy it in the first place, and still wanted an SUV).
There are lots of other cool G-Shock models, check them out. Mine has been going strong for over 10 years; I had to replace the band a couple of years ago, but otherwise it runs like new. I'm sure mine was under $100.
Yes, the Casio G-Force is the way to go - tough, looks good/geeky, lots of options.
Though if you really want to geek out on watches without spending more than a car costs there are replica communities like http://www.rwg.cc/ where all the various "quality" knock-offs are discussed...
MSE came out in fall 2009, so not quite 3 years ago; IIRC the AVG issue was probably earlier that year and made me start looking around for the best replacement & MSE came out to generally good reviews. I find that MSE with an occasional Malwarebytes scan will keep most people's home machines pretty clear, even people with teenagers...
When AVG caused a boot failure several years ago I switched started switching everyone who asked to Microsoft Security Essentials; still seems to be the best free one. At work I'm happy with NOD32; I suppose that they could have a similar problem, but they've been really good so far.
My wife reads lots on hers; I'll offer to put something on my nook for her every so often, but she's happy reading on her ipad. She was reading on it outside just yesterday with no complaints; it's not ideal, maybe, but it works ok.
I think if these take off (and I hope they will) we'll see a substantial increase in miles driven. Not just from people sending their cars back home to get someone else (it will be a while before they allow unoccupied driverless cars, I imagine), but from trips which were previously too tedious. If I can come home from work on Friday evening, get in my self driving car with the family, and wake up in Orlando or Cape Cod, I'm much more likely to take such trips over a weekend. I bet it would double the miles I put on in a year; if everyone was doing that type of thing, it'd put a big strain on gasoline supplies. Hopefully their introduction will tie in to increases in efficiency.
That makes a lot more sense, and probably is what she was meaning. Thanks.
I think that's more of a burying instinct; they don't actually remember where they bury them, but if there are enough buried all around they have a decent chance of finding one when the start looking.
I can't readily find any data just for Israel, but I find the law's author's assertion that "We also know that the first cause of death in the age group of 15-24 is anorexia" to be highly suspect. In the US, 46% of deaths ages 15-24 are accidents (33% motor vehicles), then there's homicide, suicide, cancer & other illnesses. Anorexia is nowhere near the top as a cause of death. Israelis have cars and murders and cancer just like Americans (ok, probably less cars & murders, but still); I find it hard to believe that their stats are terribly different.
The article itself says that mortality rates are 4% for anorexia, which is bad, but surely all the 10% with eating disorders she cites don't have anorexia?
If you're leaving your photos on flash-cards and websites in the first place, then that's your fundamental problem.
Absolutely right. At the very least you should back up originals to a DVD or something. My photos are the most important (to me) thing on my hard drive, I make sure I back them up to a couple of drives regularly.
I agree; every once in a while I go through and pick out the best pictures, and order a bunch of photo books for the grandparents/aunts/uncles. Snapfish & Shutterfly have easy templates, I'm sure Costco does too. I haven't bothered with normal prints for a while now, the books are so much better.
Go to Retailmenot & you're bound to find a deal on at least one of the photo printing sites. Any one of them is easier than printing yourself, and probably cheaper too.
The only reason I eventually switch back to Windows is Netflix and its silverlight addiction, which, by the way, will also not use GPU to accelerate HD video.
I find Netflix/Silverlight so jerky on my Ion HTPC that I don't bother with it; I use my Blu-ray player 99% as a Netflix streamer. I kept hoping they'd fix Silverlight, but I don't see it happening now.
I haven't had issues with VLC, though.
I'd guess that the submitter, mikejuk, is British. "It is still early days yet" is a common expression in UK English.
Yeah, the name is weak. The one time I installed it for a user at work, he happened to be handicapped and was like "what are you trying to say here?" Fortunately he has a sense of humor & wasn't too bothered by it, but still it's not a good thing.
That's actually what I like about the newer versions - the UI elements are reduced to about as minimal as possible. I don't really want skins & curves, I want as much as possible of my screen to be devoted to the pages I'm using & as little as necessary to the UI. If I were using the menu items all the time I'd re-enable the menu bar, but I'm happier with all the UI stuff in a little sliver at the top. Ctrl-P to print & I'm good.
Thanks! I guess I'll stick with my old scripts for now...
I have a vanity site with thousands of photos & videos. I have always just used a script + imagemagick & ffmpg to get things to a useable set of html files, but I keep hoping that there will be someting easier. Can anyone tell me if this would be a good way to dump a bunch of jpgs & video files to a directory & have all the pretty stuff happen in the background? I'm not interested in the social side so much, but I have yet to find anything which can handle large batches of files in a way that I'm happy with.
Having set up and run a small BES install... what it does is do the push email really really well. As in, even though the BES was running on a slow old W2K server, the mail would show up on the BB before Outlook had a chance to get it. And it always works.
Having said that, I imagine that we'll have moved away from it entirely within a year. Any contracts that come up, people are switching to the iphone. They love 'em. When you go from a Curve to a 4S, it's an enormous leap in terms of usability, and the email works well enough.
Not nearly as huge a stretch as comparing an expected, routine patdown at an airport to a random assault on the street.
My (basically no-knowledge) take is that because the rule of law is weak, lots of enterprises are run by gangsters. They hire the hackers, who have few other legit options because the economy is stagnant (in part because the rule of law is weak).
I disagree. It's more like going to the doctor - you know you're going to have to get undressed & be touched, but it's not an assault. Sure there may be random pedophiles in the doctors office (there was a case in Delaware recently), but I stay with my kids at the doctor & I stay with my kids at the airport.
It's all about the context.
As an actual parent, who has flown with them numerous times (including returning with an 18 month old right after the shoe bomber & having her shoes checked), I have found that the parent remaining calm and explaining what's going on goes a long way towards avoiding panic & meltdowns. The couple of times the kids have had light patdowns, I didn't see it as molestation; we've never had the full new procedure. The TSA grunts are just doing their jobs, they aren't getting any kicks from patting down the kids, the kids don't need to freak out. I think in this case the idiots should have used more tact, but saying you'd go all ninja on them is a crock.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's all bs & I fly as little as possible these days, but a patdown is not an attack.
That's a bit extreme for normal users. The more complexity you force on them, the more likely they are to just write the password down.
I have to say, in a small office environment, I'm less worried about people writing down passwords than having easy passwords which can be brute forced remotely. But I agree that 8 random characters with upper, lower & numbers should be enough for normal stuff.