Even *with* manual and auto-saving, a mandatory reboot can lose files. Especially if it's something you received in Outlook and opened it there instead of saving to the desktop first. I swear Windows is just job insurance for IT departments.
Which is why (in the US, can't speak to Germany) they work with liquidators who move the returned stuff. This leads to awesome bargains for those who cheap out on consumer electronics. I got a like-new, returned $200 "power comes on, but water never heats" espresso machine for $30. Cracked it open. Sure enough, the thermostat had come loose from the tank, and without proper feedback it eventually blew the thermal fuse. One $6 replacement part, and it was up and running again. For those handy with a soldering iron, with some time to spare, and willing to take a little risk, Amazon returns are fun. Check the seller "karensbarn" on eBay. Returned underwear? Maybe not so much. Go ahead and destroy it.
My daughter played it for me, with her iPhone connected to the car stereo. I heard Laurel clear as anything, but she heard Yanny in the same listening environment and playback hardware. Back at the hotel where we were staying, I played it on my phone and heard Yanny. Got home yesterday, and pulled it up on my laptop (MacBook Air). Every new refresh of the page seemed like randomly one or the other. I discovered that if I concentrate properly, I can focus on one, the other, or hear both simultaneously. Once I get warmed up, I can alternate back and forth between the two any time, but it still takes about three repetitions to get back to being able to pick up both.
I can't decide if this is good or bad. On my vacation in Yosemite last week, it was "No Service" pretty much everywhere in the park. My daughter on AT&T had 4G coverage. Not that I would have been posting to social media like she was, but it would have been reassuring to know that I'd be able to make a call in case of emergency. (*somebody* must have called the rangers when that bear meandered into Half Dome Village...)
Vinyl records have no advantages whatsoever over digital recordings, and loads of disadvantages.
I have four feet of shelf space dedicated to LP's that have never been re-issued in a digital (CD and/or compressed) format. Experts theorize that only between 10 and 20% of all music recorded to vinyl has had a digital release. Tell me again about how having no way to listen to 80% of recorded music is an advantage.
It's also a clarion call to stop referring to auto racing as a sport. Once win-lose status comes down to software, it should not be permissible to refer to a race as a "sporting event."
Aren't bicycle reflectors a legal requirement in the US?
It's a legal (FTC) requirement that bicycles are sold with reflectors. There is no Federal obligation on the buyer to keep them. the State of Arizona or City of Tempe may have statutes, but there's no applicable US Code for riding a bicycle with or without reflectors.
Then as soon as one Wazer tries this route and reports back to Google HQ that it's no faster than the congested highway, the software will re-optimize to another alternative.
The system works pretty well--it hasn't tried sending me down residential streets in over a year. I just wish it would explain up front *why* it's recommending a highway that appears to add five miles to my route.
It may be the posting as AC contributing to the score, but this is an incredibly insightful comment. My collection is only ~7K songs, but I use those same kinds of criteria on a daily basis. What is newly added? What haven't I listened to in a while? What do I want to exclude from coming up on shuffle while I'm working out? (new stuff, Christmas music and anything by Stereolab, it turns out). So, Smart playlists that combine metadata are critical to my enjoyment. If I didn't have iTunes tracking it all for me, I'd go nuts.
Not necessarily, the SCOTUS has already agreed with Microsoft on this, Microsoft is selling licenses, not the actual software.
That's not the point here. Microsoft is selling licenses, but they do not have the legal authority to revoke that license when the original purchaser/licecsee sells the hardware. That's the part of EULAs that hasn't been tested, and should be.
The OEM license only extends to the original manufacturer and its first consumer or another consumer they directly transfer the license to (both parties have to explicitly agree to the transfer and the original owner is seemingly liable for compliance of its next owner) and the hardware has to stay with the software.
If he didn't have a piece of paper showing he got a license for every single piece of hardware, he has no rights to sell the software. You can't even sell an original OEM install disc without the original hardware.
If you want to sell Windows computers, shell out for a license, it would only double the cost of a second hand computer. For all others, there is Linux or other alternatives.
If this is going to be the legal argument that MS uses, then they will eventually lose at some point, because it violates the doctrine of first sale. It may take the Supreme Court to remind them, so as long as Drumpf hasn't replaced most of the justices with corporate shills by the time this case arrives, Mr. Lundgren will prevail.
So was he stupid enough to be using gchat on a corporate device or are Facebook guilty of hacking?
Neither... when you installed the FB app, you explicitly gave them permission to pretty much everything on your phone.
They can read your contacts, your calls, your storage, your SMS history, change your network of bluetooth settings, access your camera and mic... everything.
And they also have web-bugs in countless pages so even if you don't have an account, unless you're blocking them, they still see where you go.
The extent to which people fail to grasp this is mind boggling. You gave them permission to do it. Or, in the case of web-bugs, they've just said "well, your browser loaded from our stuff, so you agreed to it".
If I worked for Facebook, there is no way I would either:
Have a personal Facebook account, or
Carry out any personal communications on a company-owned device.
Doing otherwise is just creating a time bomb and handing Facebook the timer.
I had my account broken into on T-Mobile. It's far too easy for people to break in since all you need is the phone number and some personal information.
They need to let you choose your own login account names and some security questions.
Just way too lax helping you keep your account secure.
If you're stuck with crappy pre-defined security questions for which a hacker could find the correct answer, you just need to use "secure" answers! Father's middle name? Oldsmobile! First school you attended? Burrito!
Unless Mazda has their super-duper engine ready tomorrow, they're fighting an uphill battle with an elephant on their backs.
In 2009, even on the worst grids, an EV would been about the same as a 35 mpg car.
Fast forward to 2014 (there's a slider on one of the images on the page for comparison) and you're looking at only 2 grids where a 40 mpg car is better than an EV and if you look at the most populous areas, you need a 75 mpg car to achieve parity.
Thank you for the link. It's not even populous areas. According to that analysis,
Based on where EVs have been bought to-date, the average EV in the US now produces emissions equivalent to a hypothetical gasoline car achieving 73 MPG.
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So, Mazda, there's your target for the SkyActiv car: 74 mpg.
Any time i feel like my job is meaningless and/or futile, I just think about the poor SOB who installs the turn signals on BMWs, and then I don't feel so bad.
Just tell me who the SOB was who designed the turn signals switches for their motorcycles. I've got a bone to pick with that guy.
CarPlay isn't entirely free, however. As Markdown inventor and Apple guru Jon Gruber pointed out on Twitter, car manufacturers who wish to officially support Apple products must pay a licensing fee to enter Apple's Made for iPhone (MFi) program, just like any other licensed accessory maker.
Which is only true if the automaker provides a cord ending in a Lightning connector. If they just have a USB socket and tell you to BYO Lightning cable, that fee vanishes as well.
Sort of. After all, it knows my musical tastes, which are part of my thoughts. However, both Amazon and IHeartRadio do an AWFUL job of composing playlists based on starting from one "liked" artist (not as bad as Pandora, but still). After about 20 false starts, all of which spiralled down to "all Nirvana, all the time" after 5-6 songs, I finally found a foundation that keeps things diverse for a couple of hours--The Mekons!
Yeah, but this (and hopefully your Hep-C) have regimens with a definite end. Avonex (interferon) therapy for MS retails at $50K/month. $600K a year for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. My plan stopped covering it.
Please stop calling them "English" units; we haven't used them in England since before I was born.
Staying away from the stuff about definition of a country, I'll also chime in to point out that England uses English Units all of the time! Watching Top Gear and The Grand Tour, Clarkson and company always talk about automobile performance in terms of miles per hour, miles per gallon, horsepower, etc. SI just doesn't seem to have caught on in that circle.
Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman were both visual feasts, but they were both also guilty of committing audio assault, as their effects track battled to be louder than the score.
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Even *with* manual and auto-saving, a mandatory reboot can lose files. Especially if it's something you received in Outlook and opened it there instead of saving to the desktop first. I swear Windows is just job insurance for IT departments.
Which is why (in the US, can't speak to Germany) they work with liquidators who move the returned stuff. This leads to awesome bargains for those who cheap out on consumer electronics. I got a like-new, returned $200 "power comes on, but water never heats" espresso machine for $30. Cracked it open. Sure enough, the thermostat had come loose from the tank, and without proper feedback it eventually blew the thermal fuse. One $6 replacement part, and it was up and running again. For those handy with a soldering iron, with some time to spare, and willing to take a little risk, Amazon returns are fun. Check the seller "karensbarn" on eBay. Returned underwear? Maybe not so much. Go ahead and destroy it.
My daughter played it for me, with her iPhone connected to the car stereo. I heard Laurel clear as anything, but she heard Yanny in the same listening environment and playback hardware. Back at the hotel where we were staying, I played it on my phone and heard Yanny. Got home yesterday, and pulled it up on my laptop (MacBook Air). Every new refresh of the page seemed like randomly one or the other. I discovered that if I concentrate properly, I can focus on one, the other, or hear both simultaneously. Once I get warmed up, I can alternate back and forth between the two any time, but it still takes about three repetitions to get back to being able to pick up both.
I can't decide if this is good or bad. On my vacation in Yosemite last week, it was "No Service" pretty much everywhere in the park. My daughter on AT&T had 4G coverage. Not that I would have been posting to social media like she was, but it would have been reassuring to know that I'd be able to make a call in case of emergency. (*somebody* must have called the rangers when that bear meandered into Half Dome Village...)
Vinyl records have no advantages whatsoever over digital recordings, and loads of disadvantages.
I have four feet of shelf space dedicated to LP's that have never been re-issued in a digital (CD and/or compressed) format. Experts theorize that only between 10 and 20% of all music recorded to vinyl has had a digital release. Tell me again about how having no way to listen to 80% of recorded music is an advantage.
"all the data logs of the affected wallets had been erased, leaving no trails about where the bitcoins were transferred."
I'm not up on cryptocurrencies, but isn't this exactly the kind of thing that blockchains are intended to prevent?
Fuck Millennials...
Damn straight. Wannabe vlogger can't even be bothered to watch the "How to vlog" vlog, and expects free answers from slashdot.
It's also a clarion call to stop referring to auto racing as a sport. Once win-lose status comes down to software, it should not be permissible to refer to a race as a "sporting event."
Aren't bicycle reflectors a legal requirement in the US?
It's a legal (FTC) requirement that bicycles are sold with reflectors. There is no Federal obligation on the buyer to keep them. the State of Arizona or City of Tempe may have statutes, but there's no applicable US Code for riding a bicycle with or without reflectors.
Then as soon as one Wazer tries this route and reports back to Google HQ that it's no faster than the congested highway, the software will re-optimize to another alternative. The system works pretty well--it hasn't tried sending me down residential streets in over a year. I just wish it would explain up front *why* it's recommending a highway that appears to add five miles to my route.
It may be the posting as AC contributing to the score, but this is an incredibly insightful comment. My collection is only ~7K songs, but I use those same kinds of criteria on a daily basis. What is newly added? What haven't I listened to in a while? What do I want to exclude from coming up on shuffle while I'm working out? (new stuff, Christmas music and anything by Stereolab, it turns out). So, Smart playlists that combine metadata are critical to my enjoyment. If I didn't have iTunes tracking it all for me, I'd go nuts.
Not necessarily, the SCOTUS has already agreed with Microsoft on this, Microsoft is selling licenses, not the actual software.
That's not the point here. Microsoft is selling licenses, but they do not have the legal authority to revoke that license when the original purchaser/licecsee sells the hardware. That's the part of EULAs that hasn't been tested, and should be.
The OEM license only extends to the original manufacturer and its first consumer or another consumer they directly transfer the license to (both parties have to explicitly agree to the transfer and the original owner is seemingly liable for compliance of its next owner) and the hardware has to stay with the software.
If he didn't have a piece of paper showing he got a license for every single piece of hardware, he has no rights to sell the software. You can't even sell an original OEM install disc without the original hardware.
If you want to sell Windows computers, shell out for a license, it would only double the cost of a second hand computer. For all others, there is Linux or other alternatives.
If this is going to be the legal argument that MS uses, then they will eventually lose at some point, because it violates the doctrine of first sale. It may take the Supreme Court to remind them, so as long as Drumpf hasn't replaced most of the justices with corporate shills by the time this case arrives, Mr. Lundgren will prevail.
Neither ... when you installed the FB app, you explicitly gave them permission to pretty much everything on your phone.
They can read your contacts, your calls, your storage, your SMS history, change your network of bluetooth settings, access your camera and mic ... everything.
And they also have web-bugs in countless pages so even if you don't have an account, unless you're blocking them, they still see where you go.
The extent to which people fail to grasp this is mind boggling. You gave them permission to do it. Or, in the case of web-bugs, they've just said "well, your browser loaded from our stuff, so you agreed to it".
If I worked for Facebook, there is no way I would either:
Doing otherwise is just creating a time bomb and handing Facebook the timer.
I had my account broken into on T-Mobile. It's far too easy for people to break in since all you need is the phone number and some personal information.
They need to let you choose your own login account names and some security questions.
Just way too lax helping you keep your account secure.
If you're stuck with crappy pre-defined security questions for which a hacker could find the correct answer, you just need to use "secure" answers! Father's middle name? Oldsmobile! First school you attended? Burrito!
That would make a great movie.
Action, AI, explosions, politics. The only thing missing is sex and I bet they can write that in.
And an opportunity to feature a differently-abled star. I am sick up to my ears with CGI "prosthetics."
UCS has been evaluating & tracking how much mpg is needed to match an EV on a grid-level basis http://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-re...
Unless Mazda has their super-duper engine ready tomorrow, they're fighting an uphill battle with an elephant on their backs. In 2009, even on the worst grids, an EV would been about the same as a 35 mpg car. Fast forward to 2014 (there's a slider on one of the images on the page for comparison) and you're looking at only 2 grids where a 40 mpg car is better than an EV and if you look at the most populous areas, you need a 75 mpg car to achieve parity.
Thank you for the link. It's not even populous areas. According to that analysis,
. So, Mazda, there's your target for the SkyActiv car: 74 mpg.
Any time i feel like my job is meaningless and/or futile, I just think about the poor SOB who installs the turn signals on BMWs, and then I don't feel so bad.
Just tell me who the SOB was who designed the turn signals switches for their motorcycles. I've got a bone to pick with that guy.
This isn't Apple - they don't charge for CarPlay. I don't pay anything extra for it in my Kia.
See my comment above. The article says that BMW is claiming this is a flowdown of an Apple fee.
Which is only true if the automaker provides a cord ending in a Lightning connector. If they just have a USB socket and tell you to BYO Lightning cable, that fee vanishes as well.
Your Echo can hear your thoughts as well...
Sort of. After all, it knows my musical tastes, which are part of my thoughts. However, both Amazon and IHeartRadio do an AWFUL job of composing playlists based on starting from one "liked" artist (not as bad as Pandora, but still). After about 20 false starts, all of which spiralled down to "all Nirvana, all the time" after 5-6 songs, I finally found a foundation that keeps things diverse for a couple of hours--The Mekons!
Yeah, but this (and hopefully your Hep-C) have regimens with a definite end. Avonex (interferon) therapy for MS retails at $50K/month. $600K a year for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. My plan stopped covering it.
Really dead, or basically dead?
Are slashdot headlines written by tweens now?
Actually, it's literally dead.
Please stop calling them "English" units; we haven't used them in England since before I was born.
Staying away from the stuff about definition of a country, I'll also chime in to point out that England uses English Units all of the time! Watching Top Gear and The Grand Tour, Clarkson and company always talk about automobile performance in terms of miles per hour, miles per gallon, horsepower, etc. SI just doesn't seem to have caught on in that circle.
Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman were both visual feasts, but they were both also guilty of committing audio assault, as their effects track battled to be louder than the score.