Yep, a couple of months ago I'd have said the Pebble or Pebble 2, but it's kind of hard to recommend them now.
That said, I think most of the people who would want a Pebble, have already bought one.
I'm going to keep wearing my Pebble2 until it stops working though. For me it hits the sweet spot between usefulness, battery life and price.
I opened the same bunch of tabs in all the browsers on my computer (Win10 x64) and had a look at how much memory they were using. All the browsers were 64 bit, and Firefox and Chrome both had several plugins, including uBlock and Lastpass.
Memory used in MB:
Firefox 662
Chrome 780
Edge 1012
IE 1056
So for me, Firefox is actually using the least memory, I suggest you test with the browsers available to you, with a selection of tabs that reflects your usual usage.
I did find that over time as I opened new tabs and closed others that memory usage crept up, but I can't be bothered to spend a couple of hours using Internet Explorer just to see how it's memory usage balloons.
Firstly, the C14 is encased in diamond, so a rocket explosion isn't going to do much. Secondly, this is a technology that can provide a tiny amount of power, for a very long period of time, which is the opposite of what you want in a car battery (lots of power, and available quickly).
The government could try banning VPNs, and it would work for about five minutes before practically every company in the UK calls up their MP to point out that VPNs are an essential part of their business. Closely followed by the civil service, the military and the NHS.
In some bomb designs a shell of non-weapons grade uranium (ie U 238) is used as a 'tamper', to increase the yield. As for the TNT, it's relatively non-sensitive compared to the fuel in the aircraft.
If the idea of an aircraft carrying a bomb without the nuclear 'pit' inside it, I recommend you don't read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, because you'll find out about how many times the USAF flew around with fully armed warheads, or indeed the times they crashed (eg Goldsboro).
I think you need a combination of: hard work, money, luck, and natural talent, (and maybe other qualities too).
For any ambition, you'll need all three, but if you have a lot of one quality, you can usually substitute it for one of the others to a certain extent (eg money and hard work can be exchanged in both directions).
For example, just hard work won't get you far, without being lucky enough to have opportunities to use that hard work (of course, more hard work, or money, can help create opportunities).
How long does it take for your chip+PIN transactions? Here in the UK, the person behind the counter says "that'll be £X please" and presses a button so the total appears on the reader (elapsed time, maybe half a second).
You put the card in, wait about two seconds for it to be read, type in your PIN and press enter, then wait about another three to five seconds to verify. Then just take your card out and walk off.
Admittedly it's been about 10-15 years since I last had to use the mag stripe, but I remember it taking much longer waiting for the receipt to print out, signing it, passing that back to the person behind the counter etc. etc.
I'm guessing there was a bit of a translation mix up there. They probably made an example of the upcoming launch as the type of payload that they could save costs on in the future.
How's that different from something like "ls", where I have to add arguments if I want to see more information than just the filename?
(Ironically, if you type "ls" into Powershell, you get an an output that's pretty much the same as "ls -l", because it turns out, that's what people want most of the time)
Actually good multi-monitor support. (UltraMon has become redundant).
Storage Spaces, a sort of ZFS-lite, depending on your usage it might be really handy, or of no use. (it was introduced in Win *, but it's better in 10)
Secure Boot. With the very large proviso that it disables dual-booting, this makes your system much more secure.
Better file copy dialogs. With graphs and everything!
Stuff that I don't care about or use:
Cortana: disabled, I have a browser if I want to search the internet
Windows store: ignored
Multiple destops, meh, I have two monitors, that's enough
There will be a bit of a learning curve to find the new places where MS have hidden things. You now get a settings application, which is sometimes separate, and sometimes duplicates the Control Panel. Also, various UI bits have moved, but if you're used to switching between different OSs regularly then you'll work it out in a week or so.
The registry is supposed to enforce a common method of storing settings across all Windows apps. Of course, that laudable idea has then been tested by twenty odd years of pretty much everyone writing software for Windows in their own special way, and maybe about 10% bothering to follow Microsoft's standards.
And of course, even different departments of Microsoft have their own ideas of how things should be done, so Office does things differently to SQL Server and so on.
tl/dr the idea behind the registry was fine, but it's been abused for years.
Well, for starters they're getting close to the bandwidth of a single M2 port (which is about 3.9GB/s, the three-drive RAID 0 hit 3.3GB/s).
The other consideration is heat, to read/write data that fast generates a lot of heat (as you can see in this page of TFA). Fitting the same heat load in a small enclosure would probably require some cooling (although this is a problem the computing industry has had to solve with practically every other component).
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Seriously, autoplay videos are the fucking worst.
Sharp knives are safer than blunt ones.
What about one device with multiple aerials (as some routers now have)? They can interfere with each other, which is used for beam steering.
Surely it shouldn't have passed it's FCC (and CE etc) certification if it can't handle interference from other devices?
That depends on the game. Many of them just use Steam as a downloader and can be run just fine even if you delete Steam.
Good riddance.
Yep, a couple of months ago I'd have said the Pebble or Pebble 2, but it's kind of hard to recommend them now.
That said, I think most of the people who would want a Pebble, have already bought one.
I'm going to keep wearing my Pebble2 until it stops working though. For me it hits the sweet spot between usefulness, battery life and price.
Memory used in MB:
Firefox 662
Chrome 780
Edge 1012
IE 1056
So for me, Firefox is actually using the least memory, I suggest you test with the browsers available to you, with a selection of tabs that reflects your usual usage.
I did find that over time as I opened new tabs and closed others that memory usage crept up, but I can't be bothered to spend a couple of hours using Internet Explorer just to see how it's memory usage balloons.
Me and you both mate.
So how many suicide attempts happen at other similarly sized companies?
Firstly, the C14 is encased in diamond, so a rocket explosion isn't going to do much. Secondly, this is a technology that can provide a tiny amount of power, for a very long period of time, which is the opposite of what you want in a car battery (lots of power, and available quickly).
The government could try banning VPNs, and it would work for about five minutes before practically every company in the UK calls up their MP to point out that VPNs are an essential part of their business. Closely followed by the civil service, the military and the NHS.
If the idea of an aircraft carrying a bomb without the nuclear 'pit' inside it, I recommend you don't read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, because you'll find out about how many times the USAF flew around with fully armed warheads, or indeed the times they crashed (eg Goldsboro).
I figure more must be better, glad I just bought some more tobacco!
For any ambition, you'll need all three, but if you have a lot of one quality, you can usually substitute it for one of the others to a certain extent (eg money and hard work can be exchanged in both directions).
For example, just hard work won't get you far, without being lucky enough to have opportunities to use that hard work (of course, more hard work, or money, can help create opportunities).
Here in the UK, the person behind the counter says "that'll be £X please" and presses a button so the total appears on the reader (elapsed time, maybe half a second).
You put the card in, wait about two seconds for it to be read, type in your PIN and press enter, then wait about another three to five seconds to verify. Then just take your card out and walk off.
Admittedly it's been about 10-15 years since I last had to use the mag stripe, but I remember it taking much longer waiting for the receipt to print out, signing it, passing that back to the person behind the counter etc. etc.
How about; If I'm altering my DNA, what superpowers am I likely to develop?
No that's an important question.
The same is even more true of Youtube as a whole, it's used by everyone these days.
I'm guessing there was a bit of a translation mix up there. They probably made an example of the upcoming launch as the type of payload that they could save costs on in the future.
(Ironically, if you type "ls" into Powershell, you get an an output that's pretty much the same as "ls -l", because it turns out, that's what people want most of the time)
So do you not have any kind of computing device in your lounge at all? No console, no streaming box, no tablet that streams to your TV?
I'm not saying you have to, I'm just surprised that someone posting on slashdot doesn't have computers in every room.
Storage Spaces, a sort of ZFS-lite, depending on your usage it might be really handy, or of no use. (it was introduced in Win *, but it's better in 10)
Secure Boot. With the very large proviso that it disables dual-booting, this makes your system much more secure.
Better file copy dialogs. With graphs and everything!
Stuff that I don't care about or use:
Cortana: disabled, I have a browser if I want to search the internet
Windows store: ignored
Multiple destops, meh, I have two monitors, that's enough
There will be a bit of a learning curve to find the new places where MS have hidden things. You now get a settings application, which is sometimes separate, and sometimes duplicates the Control Panel. Also, various UI bits have moved, but if you're used to switching between different OSs regularly then you'll work it out in a week or so.
tl/dr the idea behind the registry was fine, but it's been abused for years.
I'm going to have to do the same.
The other consideration is heat, to read/write data that fast generates a lot of heat (as you can see in this page of TFA). Fitting the same heat load in a small enclosure would probably require some cooling (although this is a problem the computing industry has had to solve with practically every other component).