If you hate it, it's because you don't know how to use it. I spent 3 crazy days trying to figure it out when I got my new laptop/tablet hybrid. Instead of lamenting what I thought was a useless system, I actually *figured out* where things were - took an admin-level tour through it. Guess what - it's pretty good. Adding the start menu back is mostly a comfort thing, but I use it because it does reduce a click now and then. Win-X is genius (simple, WTF didn't this happen before genius). For the record, if you'd read the "quick start" pamphlet, you'd know about the hot spots. They're also a key ingredient in both iOS and Android - it's not like making the UI like an easter egg hunt is anything new.
The app store is on par with the iTunes in terms of usability (so, yes, it sucks). And there are fairly few good apps in there so far, but it's also 4 years behind in developer mindshare. Not that it matters...there's no reason to ever go there if you have a laptop or desktop.
What they have utterly failed to realize is that the tablet or tablet hybrid experience has been decimated by their megalomania. The onscreen keyboard only auto-corrects in a very select few MS programs. It's a keyboard - they need to put that intelligence in the keyboard module, not in the applications. And full screen apps need the power of a full OS. No "I'm going to turn off browser plugins if you go full-screen" - because that makes it as crippled as iOS or Android. And no "if you set your default browser to anything but IE, we're going to diable the IE fullscreen interface". I got news: if IE would go fullscreen, I'd use it over Chrome for tablet mode...except that you CAN'T set Chrome as default on the desktop and still get the FS interface. Oh, and plugins are disabled. Why? Fuck you, that's why.
I almost never go into Metro on my laptop, but Plex is fabulous on a 15.5" tablet/tent mode device so there's one reason to go. The rest of it is like Win7, but with better admin tools (consolidated task manager/services/startup, Win-X access to everything).
Absolutely, I expect to be their pet free of charge.;-)
I find the non-glass versions of their products exceptionally helpful and useful. Glass would mean I don't have to carry a second gadget (I wear prescr. lenses). Right now, google can sift through my email at will, see where I'm going and what I'm doing (calendar), and know who I'm contacting (voice). Verizon knows the rest - they're my telephone provider and have access to all of the calls - home and mobile - and any texts I make. They even know where I am, via triangulation to their towers. I know they sell that information. Short of setting up my own, parallel cell network and landline phone system, that will never change.
I view it as a symbiotic parasitism. Is is creepy? Perhaps. But I'd like to find out where this rabbit hole leads, rather than throwing a poison bomb down the hole and covering it up.
No, I'm not talking about the missing y in the title ("Nineteen Eight-four.")
If you've read the book you'd realize that while certain elements have come to fruition due to the march of technology the actual content of the story is about governmental control of what occurs, keeping people in intentional poverty, controlling the media, modifying history to support the changing governmental priorities, and imprisoning and brainwashing anyone who does not conform.
Quite the contrary, the government has little or no hand in the all the above mentioned things which are occurring - but at the behest of corporations and the voluntary lack of engagement by the public (well, okay - the books proels are really society at large today - point taken). The EU and the US (to a *far* lesser extent) have even set limits on what the corporations can an cannot do. Politicians do try to "adjust" the past in their speeches, but the internet has led to an explosion of fact-checkers which point out their historical rewrites. Often before the speech is even over.
Exactly - the problem isn't that the firemen aren't prepared or that pipelines aren't available - it's that the train companies are so unbelievably lax in their safety requirements and testing that they cause catastrophes when their "usual and customary" business practices of crashing on a regular basis with non-volatiles gets used for volatile shipments. Besides, pipelines take a long time to actually build and have collateral damage which is not as immediately spectacular as a train explosion, so it's not like a pipeline is some magic fix.
(securely, of course, because we wouldn't want everyone to know what is moving where)
Wait...why? This is a commercial shipment. It's not the old west where we have regular train robberies. There's no reason why the DOT hazard designation and classes can't be accessible. Except, of course, the people who go cray when you try and ship tankers of hazardous materials through their back yards. Best not to let them know or they might make a stink about it.
but it does need to be easy and available. Why don't I have netflix and hulu? Little islands of content. Give me everything, let me cache it locally, charge me a nominal fee, send the money to what ever I watch (wtf do I care if anonymized data is sent out). I use sickbeard/couch potato/sabnzbd and pay probably $180 a year and spend much more than that in my time to get whatever I want, playable just about whenever and however I want. I'd pay more for live streaming of ESPN (for example) and NFL if it were available - but it isn't!
Oh, and I own at least 80% of whats on my server as physical media purchased at retail. *shrug* HAving them delivered automatically is just better.
Yeah, I was wondering about an air rescue if there are only 74 people on board. I mean, the ice is thick enough to strand a large ship and prevent the passage of an ice breaker, it should easily hold the weight of a large military transport helicopter.
I think you've got your business practices backwards. Making advertising non-deductible would raise prices for consumers. Right now it is a cost of doing business and, in smaller cases*, a charitable gift (think of advertising on the back of little league t-shirts, or at your local [insert favorite] event. By being a cost of doing business it's tax deductible. Presuming that advertising doesn't drop (unlikely), that will just increase the cost of doing business.*
*For S Corps, charitable contributions flow through to the stockholders personal returns, which means if you are a small business person and you don't itemize - i.e. your house is paid off and you don't have huge medical expenses - those corporate donations are not deductible. That's the boat I'm in, so to get around that I advertise with local groups instead of calling it a donation.
Yes, you did. You publicly posted your stuff on the internet. You opted in to EVERYONE crawling and caching your site's data. (Yes, every browser caches your site in local memory in order to render it). Google takes the high road and obeys robots.txt in case you change your mind and don't want automated crawlers to read your site. Not everyone gives you that option.
Um, no. Find me a warranty for 50,000 hours for a reasonable cost. You'll find that most warranties don't extend past 5 years, and those that do typically have a time limit to the hours burned. Ex:
(from Home Depot) Cree: 10 years (5 years for downlights/inverted use) EcoSmart: 5 years Philips: 6 years, limited to 3 hours/day (6000hours!) Sylvania: 3 years @ 4300h/yr or 5yrs @ 2160hr/yr
Many will claim a lifetime, but will only warrant for a short period. Also realize that these warranties are limited to the life of the lighting subsidiary. For Philips and Sylvania, probably not a worry. For EcoSmart and Cree...will they even be in the residential lamp business (directly) in 5 or 10 years? Will you still even have the receipt? I point this out because I've replaced every single CFL (15) in my home office area in the past 24 months, some of them twice. The manufacturer is no longer in business, the vendor just shrugs - not their problem.
Because CFLs suck donkey balls for light quality*, they come on excessively slowly in cold temperatures, and they only emit 20-50% light during their warmup period (say, less than the time it takes to retrieve an item from your closet). And while the majority of the lamp will work fine for 10,000 hours, the electronics have a bad case of going toes up in less than 2000. I've replaced all 15 of the CFLs in my home office in the past 24 months. Some of them twice.
*Find me a 2700, 2800, or 3000K CFL with a CRI higher than 95 for less than 5x the cost of an incandescent and I'll take that back.
I think the kid is probably just fine. You, on the other hand, seem to have bitten a mouthful off of the batshit crazy tree.
I still have and use incandescents (reminds me...need to get some bigger ones), but its mostly for quick start and overall light quality. They don't make 95+CRI CFLs and the last 95CRI LEDs I purchased were $30/ea for 10W (50W equiv) R20s. They're good (unbelievably good at full power, actually), but they do cast an odd light at low dimming, and there's an "on" limit of about 10% of the max light output (okay, that's a guess, it might be 5, but it's a sudden-on).
Where I need lots of light, I use CFLs, where I need lots of great light I use LEDs, where I need really good dimming or instant-on-brightness-and-short-burn-time I use incand.
Ahhhh, but which VC would you want to work with - the one who feels he needs a suit to project his power, or the same billionaire who is confident enough that he'll come to key meetings in jeans and a hoodie?
But not for thermal reasons, I presume, as you implied. If I keep the chip at a constant 35C, I presume it will last just as long.
I understand that the xeons have larger caches and are enabled for multi-processor systems (which is a logical and/or licensing limitation of the i7s, not a physical one). As a result they do better on certain operations. You can also get them with more cores than an i7. The performance increase is not justified by the price UNLESS you have to have a base level of performance which exceeds that of a single, top of the line i7 with cooling. I deal with CAD workstations and we struggle with this artificial price cliff every upgrade: will we realize an actual increase in productivity which justifies a $4000 workstation compared to an $1200 desktop with the components which matter for our work. In rare cases, the workstation wins out - leaving a technician picking his nose for 20 extra minutes during a render can add up to be worth while. As server versions of software rendering are coming online (everything old is new again!) we're pushing intensive processes on to remote machines to allow manpower to work on other projects during that render.
" The fact that you can jailbreak your iPhone means that another party is able to compromise mine."
Well, yes. Though in a more global sense, practically every open OS on the planet, and most closed ones, are also "vulnerable" in this way. Linux doesn't require "jailbreaking" to load your own kernal patches - it's already "vulnerable" in the sense you're promoting.
And given that this essentially requires a very specific set of circumstances to achieve, including physical access to the hardware, it isn't the kind of vulnerability that causes me to lose sleep.
It may be wonderful, but based on what happened in the early-mid 2000s I won't even look at Norton. I ditched Kaspersky when I bought a 3 license package for the office, but didn't need two of the S/Ns for a couple of months. When I installed them, I found that the timer on all three licenses expired based on when the first one was installed.
I'm not in a high-risk environment, so I'll stick with defender for the time being.
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If you hate it, it's because you don't know how to use it. I spent 3 crazy days trying to figure it out when I got my new laptop/tablet hybrid. Instead of lamenting what I thought was a useless system, I actually *figured out* where things were - took an admin-level tour through it. Guess what - it's pretty good. Adding the start menu back is mostly a comfort thing, but I use it because it does reduce a click now and then. Win-X is genius (simple, WTF didn't this happen before genius). For the record, if you'd read the "quick start" pamphlet, you'd know about the hot spots. They're also a key ingredient in both iOS and Android - it's not like making the UI like an easter egg hunt is anything new.
The app store is on par with the iTunes in terms of usability (so, yes, it sucks). And there are fairly few good apps in there so far, but it's also 4 years behind in developer mindshare. Not that it matters...there's no reason to ever go there if you have a laptop or desktop.
What they have utterly failed to realize is that the tablet or tablet hybrid experience has been decimated by their megalomania. The onscreen keyboard only auto-corrects in a very select few MS programs. It's a keyboard - they need to put that intelligence in the keyboard module, not in the applications. And full screen apps need the power of a full OS. No "I'm going to turn off browser plugins if you go full-screen" - because that makes it as crippled as iOS or Android. And no "if you set your default browser to anything but IE, we're going to diable the IE fullscreen interface". I got news: if IE would go fullscreen, I'd use it over Chrome for tablet mode...except that you CAN'T set Chrome as default on the desktop and still get the FS interface. Oh, and plugins are disabled. Why? Fuck you, that's why.
I almost never go into Metro on my laptop, but Plex is fabulous on a 15.5" tablet/tent mode device so there's one reason to go. The rest of it is like Win7, but with better admin tools (consolidated task manager/services/startup, Win-X access to everything).
Absolutely, I expect to be their pet free of charge. ;-)
I find the non-glass versions of their products exceptionally helpful and useful. Glass would mean I don't have to carry a second gadget (I wear prescr. lenses). Right now, google can sift through my email at will, see where I'm going and what I'm doing (calendar), and know who I'm contacting (voice). Verizon knows the rest - they're my telephone provider and have access to all of the calls - home and mobile - and any texts I make. They even know where I am, via triangulation to their towers. I know they sell that information. Short of setting up my own, parallel cell network and landline phone system, that will never change.
I view it as a symbiotic parasitism. Is is creepy? Perhaps. But I'd like to find out where this rabbit hole leads, rather than throwing a poison bomb down the hole and covering it up.
No, I'm not talking about the missing y in the title ("Nineteen Eight-four.")
If you've read the book you'd realize that while certain elements have come to fruition due to the march of technology the actual content of the story is about governmental control of what occurs, keeping people in intentional poverty, controlling the media, modifying history to support the changing governmental priorities, and imprisoning and brainwashing anyone who does not conform.
Quite the contrary, the government has little or no hand in the all the above mentioned things which are occurring - but at the behest of corporations and the voluntary lack of engagement by the public (well, okay - the books proels are really society at large today - point taken). The EU and the US (to a *far* lesser extent) have even set limits on what the corporations can an cannot do. Politicians do try to "adjust" the past in their speeches, but the internet has led to an explosion of fact-checkers which point out their historical rewrites. Often before the speech is even over.
And how is this markedly different from the current situation? How many non-millionaires are there in congress?
Or, you know, it could be the blatantly obvious answer of "vending machines." But where's the headline in that?
Exactly - the problem isn't that the firemen aren't prepared or that pipelines aren't available - it's that the train companies are so unbelievably lax in their safety requirements and testing that they cause catastrophes when their "usual and customary" business practices of crashing on a regular basis with non-volatiles gets used for volatile shipments. Besides, pipelines take a long time to actually build and have collateral damage which is not as immediately spectacular as a train explosion, so it's not like a pipeline is some magic fix.
(securely, of course, because we wouldn't want everyone to know what is moving where)
Wait...why? This is a commercial shipment. It's not the old west where we have regular train robberies. There's no reason why the DOT hazard designation and classes can't be accessible. Except, of course, the people who go cray when you try and ship tankers of hazardous materials through their back yards. Best not to let them know or they might make a stink about it.
So it's ready, it's just more than you're willing to pay. Maybe you should cut back on your energy usage instead?
but it does need to be easy and available. Why don't I have netflix and hulu? Little islands of content. Give me everything, let me cache it locally, charge me a nominal fee, send the money to what ever I watch (wtf do I care if anonymized data is sent out). I use sickbeard/couch potato/sabnzbd and pay probably $180 a year and spend much more than that in my time to get whatever I want, playable just about whenever and however I want. I'd pay more for live streaming of ESPN (for example) and NFL if it were available - but it isn't!
Oh, and I own at least 80% of whats on my server as physical media purchased at retail. *shrug* HAving them delivered automatically is just better.
Virginia site:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216982776010311433218.0004eecaacf0ee8b5d025&msa=0
Yeah, I was wondering about an air rescue if there are only 74 people on board. I mean, the ice is thick enough to strand a large ship and prevent the passage of an ice breaker, it should easily hold the weight of a large military transport helicopter.
Coming to NSA-approved monitoring sites like Facebook: automatic detection of people you are with, even if they're not "in' the photograph!
I think you've got your business practices backwards. Making advertising non-deductible would raise prices for consumers. Right now it is a cost of doing business and, in smaller cases*, a charitable gift (think of advertising on the back of little league t-shirts, or at your local [insert favorite] event. By being a cost of doing business it's tax deductible. Presuming that advertising doesn't drop (unlikely), that will just increase the cost of doing business.*
*For S Corps, charitable contributions flow through to the stockholders personal returns, which means if you are a small business person and you don't itemize - i.e. your house is paid off and you don't have huge medical expenses - those corporate donations are not deductible. That's the boat I'm in, so to get around that I advertise with local groups instead of calling it a donation.
Yes, you did. You publicly posted your stuff on the internet. You opted in to EVERYONE crawling and caching your site's data. (Yes, every browser caches your site in local memory in order to render it). Google takes the high road and obeys robots.txt in case you change your mind and don't want automated crawlers to read your site. Not everyone gives you that option.
Um, no. Find me a warranty for 50,000 hours for a reasonable cost. You'll find that most warranties don't extend past 5 years, and those that do typically have a time limit to the hours burned. Ex:
(from Home Depot)
Cree: 10 years (5 years for downlights/inverted use)
EcoSmart: 5 years
Philips: 6 years, limited to 3 hours/day (6000hours!)
Sylvania: 3 years @ 4300h/yr or 5yrs @ 2160hr/yr
Many will claim a lifetime, but will only warrant for a short period. Also realize that these warranties are limited to the life of the lighting subsidiary. For Philips and Sylvania, probably not a worry. For EcoSmart and Cree...will they even be in the residential lamp business (directly) in 5 or 10 years? Will you still even have the receipt? I point this out because I've replaced every single CFL (15) in my home office area in the past 24 months, some of them twice. The manufacturer is no longer in business, the vendor just shrugs - not their problem.
Because CFLs suck donkey balls for light quality*, they come on excessively slowly in cold temperatures, and they only emit 20-50% light during their warmup period (say, less than the time it takes to retrieve an item from your closet). And while the majority of the lamp will work fine for 10,000 hours, the electronics have a bad case of going toes up in less than 2000. I've replaced all 15 of the CFLs in my home office in the past 24 months. Some of them twice.
*Find me a 2700, 2800, or 3000K CFL with a CRI higher than 95 for less than 5x the cost of an incandescent and I'll take that back.
I think the kid is probably just fine. You, on the other hand, seem to have bitten a mouthful off of the batshit crazy tree.
I still have and use incandescents (reminds me...need to get some bigger ones), but its mostly for quick start and overall light quality. They don't make 95+CRI CFLs and the last 95CRI LEDs I purchased were $30/ea for 10W (50W equiv) R20s. They're good (unbelievably good at full power, actually), but they do cast an odd light at low dimming, and there's an "on" limit of about 10% of the max light output (okay, that's a guess, it might be 5, but it's a sudden-on).
Where I need lots of light, I use CFLs, where I need lots of great light I use LEDs, where I need really good dimming or instant-on-brightness-and-short-burn-time I use incand.
Ahhhh, but which VC would you want to work with - the one who feels he needs a suit to project his power, or the same billionaire who is confident enough that he'll come to key meetings in jeans and a hoodie?
But not for thermal reasons, I presume, as you implied. If I keep the chip at a constant 35C, I presume it will last just as long.
I understand that the xeons have larger caches and are enabled for multi-processor systems (which is a logical and/or licensing limitation of the i7s, not a physical one). As a result they do better on certain operations. You can also get them with more cores than an i7. The performance increase is not justified by the price UNLESS you have to have a base level of performance which exceeds that of a single, top of the line i7 with cooling. I deal with CAD workstations and we struggle with this artificial price cliff every upgrade: will we realize an actual increase in productivity which justifies a $4000 workstation compared to an $1200 desktop with the components which matter for our work. In rare cases, the workstation wins out - leaving a technician picking his nose for 20 extra minutes during a render can add up to be worth while. As server versions of software rendering are coming online (everything old is new again!) we're pushing intensive processes on to remote machines to allow manpower to work on other projects during that render.
It's all about intent. And, like everything else, you can't legislate for intent.
Gross receipts tax; money is received in the country/state/locality where it is paid or from where the transaction buyer originates.
You know, if you don't put your computer in a miniature trashcan, you can install a more efficient cooling system.
Just because you're staying at the downtown Hilton doesn't mean you want to eat every meal at the in-house restaurant.
" The fact that you can jailbreak your iPhone means that another party is able to compromise mine."
Well, yes. Though in a more global sense, practically every open OS on the planet, and most closed ones, are also "vulnerable" in this way. Linux doesn't require "jailbreaking" to load your own kernal patches - it's already "vulnerable" in the sense you're promoting.
And given that this essentially requires a very specific set of circumstances to achieve, including physical access to the hardware, it isn't the kind of vulnerability that causes me to lose sleep.
It may be wonderful, but based on what happened in the early-mid 2000s I won't even look at Norton. I ditched Kaspersky when I bought a 3 license package for the office, but didn't need two of the S/Ns for a couple of months. When I installed them, I found that the timer on all three licenses expired based on when the first one was installed.
I'm not in a high-risk environment, so I'll stick with defender for the time being.