Ah, you're right. Let's take the CNN approach of evidence and logic and science points to one thing so far but it's impolite so bury it and try to prove it wrong so as not to be seen as racist. Now THAT is the scientific method.
First of all: " I have an old single-core i3 machine with a Windows 8 WEI of 7.0." - the author
No you don't and no it doesn't. That doesn't exist and it wouldn't get scored that high if it was a 1st gen.
Second, who the hell uses the photos app? I removed it from the system I was demoing and set Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as default for all of its formats instead of approx 27 out of 56. I also set Windows Media Player, not the videos app or whatever, as default for everything then paved over the differences in file extensions with VLC.
The search feature is completely inexcusable but if one simple flip of a config switch turns off all web search in a local search, whatever, that's what I'll do if anyone has me set them up a Windows 8 machine. In the meantime, I have a stockpile of Windows 7 licenses and can still buy OEM ones from 2 major vendors.
Why would we want to prevent them? Let me break this down:
Leak how to build a supervirus attached to a high-radiation nuke - prevent
Leak illegal spying that violates a country's founding principles and laws - encourage
Really? Americans? It's a phobia? You ever notice how all major plagues recently started in Asia, where their health standards and practices are summed up by raw meat hanging on a wooden peg on an open street market?
I was about to say the same thing. Apparently gorilla glass is a joke because I've seen every modern smartphone model with a shattered screen at my shop and I don't even fix phones, lol. Wow, the world's toughest screen shatters like glass but looks good doing it due to a lack of scratches. Great.
So all frozen and liquid water was exactly the same for billions of years on Earth and it's impossible for any single celled organisms to have snuck in at any given time due to freezing, unfreezing, and water moving? Wow, amazing! What a self-contained astronomical quarantine!
Almost everyone over 30 at my company, just on typing speed alone, is about as productive as one half of a 23 year old. Overall, I'd say they're about as productive on a computer in general by about 1:10 ratio to a 23 year old. I'm 26 and I'm head IT manager. I replaced a 45 year old who had no idea what he was doing despite being in the IT business full time for 25 years. Every decision he made was wrong (like buying XP Pro machines just 2 years ago which we now have to replace) because he's too sick of keeping up with technology and tech news. He didn't even know it was being discontinued.
Don't even bother with IT. Go over to HR. A 25 year old would know how to use all sorts of job listing sites, find HR laws online in seconds, type close ot 100 WPM, use social media, etc. A 50 year old, no way in hell. There's nothing to do with the age itself, it's just that older people have no interest in time-saving IT or learning or computers really. So it's their own fault, not a stereotype.
At least this isn't another story about China hacking us, putting backdoors into everything, stealing nuclear secrets, etc etc etc while the US appears to have zero technical abilities whatsoever. It turns out we're just better at hiding stuff like that. I find it extremely comforting and somewhat unsurprising really. Us hacking stuff, spying on stuff with backdoors, etc really evens the odds in cyber war and it was there all along.
Struggling? So the Xbox One ran itself off a cliff, PS4 is less than exciting people, and PC gaming is "dead." So everything everywhere is losing? I'm pretty sure that the Wii is winning the console wars thus far even if they're selling less than they hoped.
This is an obvious advertisement for Skype. It's just as bad as some overly-dramatic crap show on network TV using Skype with a big logo on the screen to act all super high tech and impressive. In reality, a 10 year old can use it, it's been around forever, and it's just a paid ad placement. So whoever convinced (paid) them to use Skype obviously didn't bring in a Skype "expert" and I use that term loosely. I would have thought of not broadcasting the username over live TV after about 3 seconds of setting up that system. So I suggest that the court system:
Actually take this case seriously
Stop doing stupid gimmicky bullshit
Stop taking money from Microsoft
Bring in any single person who at least vaguely knows IT to set it up better
You could sneak in a footlong, rather thick machete made of ceramic zirconium oxide with heat treatment in and that would cut through the podium let alone the prime minister. No metal detector in the world picks that up and it's lighter, harder, and immensely sharper than traditional knife metals too. It's about a $50 weapon to make.
"it will generate approximately 43.5 million kilowatt hours"
Uh no, it will generate approximately 43.5 killowatts. That's how you measure power generators. I don't know of any solar arrays that produce 43.5 million killowatt hours and then just run out and stop permanently. Now if they gave a time period like it can generate 43.5 million KWh in one day, that's a valid but needlessly 2-dimensional unit.
Flashlights are neat but there's superior technology. Charging from physically spinning a tiny alternator in current models by squeezing a trigger in the handle is far more effective and energy can be stored in gigantic capacitors instead of a battery.
What I'd like to see is a peltier tile suit that effectively cools the user. An air conditioning suit that operates based on electricity from a heat differential would be amazing. The only catch is, human skin temperature is like 82 Fahrenheit or something on average and you'd probably want cooling on a 90 degree day so technically, you'd have to reverse the tiles and grab the energy from the outside air.
While thinking about this potential technology, I noticed that if you ran an air conditioner on the inside of the suit and kept grabbing heat from outside, the temperature differential would keep rising and thus providing more cooling which would make the differential higher and soon your suit is -200 fahrenheit. It's sort of like the exact opposite of a perpetual motion or free energy device. But given enough insulation, would this magic self-sustaining coldness engine actually work?
Wow, so as long as you're in the same building as Alcatel Lucent, you're all set. You know, I think 802.11ac goes over 1 gigabit/s and reaches 100 meters on a good day. Maybe they should just go with that. I can't wait until fiber puts all these awful DSL companies out of business along with their ancient technology. AT&T really needs to go and TDS is pure evil too. Those are the big 2 around here. Time Warner's fiber backbone and 15 megabit coaxial-based internet for about $38/mo crushes them and yet some people are dumb enough to still go with AT&T and their legendary support and "pay 4x the value for your own modem up front and install it yourself" policy. You can actually get 50 megabit download speeds on a connection for under $100 around here too. Good luck with that, AT&T.
Did anyone notice that Chrome has never been able to draw webpages correctly or basically use flash at all and the latest version of Firefox has had unusual stalling problems while loading quite a few pages? Like newegg for example. Maybe they should stop making "improvements" that cause it to become massively unstable. I do need to actually see the website I'm going it.
One nuke spread nuclear test's fallout practically around the entire world. It's now used to date trees under some circumstances. If all 16 were air-bursted, the entire world would be in nuclear winter. Discovery channel documentaries (that aren't about aliens) don't lie.
Oh yeah, I'm so sure after this many years and many people looking at the source code for AES that nobody happened to see a totally stand-out backdoor code in it. And nobody noticed the resulting weakness in cracking the encryption. That's completely ridiculous.
not if you leave the Java plugin disabled until it's needed and leave the PDF plugin completely disabled (hello, explorer works just fine to open FTP'ed PDFs, thanks)
Any time my company looks for subcontracting bids, we automatically eliminate companies that are in legal hot water or have other significant reasons to not hire them, like for example if it's primarily outsourced. I hope the media drags this through the fires of hell until they make a different decision.
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Ah, you're right. Let's take the CNN approach of evidence and logic and science points to one thing so far but it's impolite so bury it and try to prove it wrong so as not to be seen as racist. Now THAT is the scientific method.
First of all: " I have an old single-core i3 machine with a Windows 8 WEI of 7.0." - the author
No you don't and no it doesn't. That doesn't exist and it wouldn't get scored that high if it was a 1st gen.
Second, who the hell uses the photos app? I removed it from the system I was demoing and set Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as default for all of its formats instead of approx 27 out of 56. I also set Windows Media Player, not the videos app or whatever, as default for everything then paved over the differences in file extensions with VLC.
The search feature is completely inexcusable but if one simple flip of a config switch turns off all web search in a local search, whatever, that's what I'll do if anyone has me set them up a Windows 8 machine. In the meantime, I have a stockpile of Windows 7 licenses and can still buy OEM ones from 2 major vendors.
So...just morons with awful, generic, guessable passwords?
Why would we want to prevent them? Let me break this down:
Leak how to build a supervirus attached to a high-radiation nuke - prevent
Leak illegal spying that violates a country's founding principles and laws - encourage
Really? Americans? It's a phobia? You ever notice how all major plagues recently started in Asia, where their health standards and practices are summed up by raw meat hanging on a wooden peg on an open street market?
I was about to say the same thing. Apparently gorilla glass is a joke because I've seen every modern smartphone model with a shattered screen at my shop and I don't even fix phones, lol. Wow, the world's toughest screen shatters like glass but looks good doing it due to a lack of scratches. Great.
So all frozen and liquid water was exactly the same for billions of years on Earth and it's impossible for any single celled organisms to have snuck in at any given time due to freezing, unfreezing, and water moving? Wow, amazing! What a self-contained astronomical quarantine!
Okay, now he's just telling us things we already knew. Next he'll announce that box mapping is possible with Magic the Gathering booster packs, lol.
Almost everyone over 30 at my company, just on typing speed alone, is about as productive as one half of a 23 year old. Overall, I'd say they're about as productive on a computer in general by about 1:10 ratio to a 23 year old. I'm 26 and I'm head IT manager. I replaced a 45 year old who had no idea what he was doing despite being in the IT business full time for 25 years. Every decision he made was wrong (like buying XP Pro machines just 2 years ago which we now have to replace) because he's too sick of keeping up with technology and tech news. He didn't even know it was being discontinued.
Don't even bother with IT. Go over to HR. A 25 year old would know how to use all sorts of job listing sites, find HR laws online in seconds, type close ot 100 WPM, use social media, etc. A 50 year old, no way in hell. There's nothing to do with the age itself, it's just that older people have no interest in time-saving IT or learning or computers really. So it's their own fault, not a stereotype.
At least this isn't another story about China hacking us, putting backdoors into everything, stealing nuclear secrets, etc etc etc while the US appears to have zero technical abilities whatsoever. It turns out we're just better at hiding stuff like that. I find it extremely comforting and somewhat unsurprising really. Us hacking stuff, spying on stuff with backdoors, etc really evens the odds in cyber war and it was there all along.
Struggling? So the Xbox One ran itself off a cliff, PS4 is less than exciting people, and PC gaming is "dead." So everything everywhere is losing? I'm pretty sure that the Wii is winning the console wars thus far even if they're selling less than they hoped.
Tor is free btw. What are they, stuck in the 90's?
This is an obvious advertisement for Skype. It's just as bad as some overly-dramatic crap show on network TV using Skype with a big logo on the screen to act all super high tech and impressive. In reality, a 10 year old can use it, it's been around forever, and it's just a paid ad placement. So whoever convinced (paid) them to use Skype obviously didn't bring in a Skype "expert" and I use that term loosely. I would have thought of not broadcasting the username over live TV after about 3 seconds of setting up that system. So I suggest that the court system:
Actually take this case seriously
Stop doing stupid gimmicky bullshit
Stop taking money from Microsoft
Bring in any single person who at least vaguely knows IT to set it up better
You could sneak in a footlong, rather thick machete made of ceramic zirconium oxide with heat treatment in and that would cut through the podium let alone the prime minister. No metal detector in the world picks that up and it's lighter, harder, and immensely sharper than traditional knife metals too. It's about a $50 weapon to make.
"it will generate approximately 43.5 million kilowatt hours"
Uh no, it will generate approximately 43.5 killowatts. That's how you measure power generators. I don't know of any solar arrays that produce 43.5 million killowatt hours and then just run out and stop permanently. Now if they gave a time period like it can generate 43.5 million KWh in one day, that's a valid but needlessly 2-dimensional unit.
Flashlights are neat but there's superior technology. Charging from physically spinning a tiny alternator in current models by squeezing a trigger in the handle is far more effective and energy can be stored in gigantic capacitors instead of a battery.
What I'd like to see is a peltier tile suit that effectively cools the user. An air conditioning suit that operates based on electricity from a heat differential would be amazing. The only catch is, human skin temperature is like 82 Fahrenheit or something on average and you'd probably want cooling on a 90 degree day so technically, you'd have to reverse the tiles and grab the energy from the outside air.
While thinking about this potential technology, I noticed that if you ran an air conditioner on the inside of the suit and kept grabbing heat from outside, the temperature differential would keep rising and thus providing more cooling which would make the differential higher and soon your suit is -200 fahrenheit. It's sort of like the exact opposite of a perpetual motion or free energy device. But given enough insulation, would this magic self-sustaining coldness engine actually work?
"but signs are looking positive" I think they mean signs are looking negative, lol.
Wow, so as long as you're in the same building as Alcatel Lucent, you're all set. You know, I think 802.11ac goes over 1 gigabit/s and reaches 100 meters on a good day. Maybe they should just go with that. I can't wait until fiber puts all these awful DSL companies out of business along with their ancient technology. AT&T really needs to go and TDS is pure evil too. Those are the big 2 around here. Time Warner's fiber backbone and 15 megabit coaxial-based internet for about $38/mo crushes them and yet some people are dumb enough to still go with AT&T and their legendary support and "pay 4x the value for your own modem up front and install it yourself" policy. You can actually get 50 megabit download speeds on a connection for under $100 around here too. Good luck with that, AT&T.
Did anyone notice that Chrome has never been able to draw webpages correctly or basically use flash at all and the latest version of Firefox has had unusual stalling problems while loading quite a few pages? Like newegg for example. Maybe they should stop making "improvements" that cause it to become massively unstable. I do need to actually see the website I'm going it.
One nuke spread nuclear test's fallout practically around the entire world. It's now used to date trees under some circumstances. If all 16 were air-bursted, the entire world would be in nuclear winter. Discovery channel documentaries (that aren't about aliens) don't lie.
Political asylum and you committed a huge crime asylum are really two different things.
Oh yeah, I'm so sure after this many years and many people looking at the source code for AES that nobody happened to see a totally stand-out backdoor code in it. And nobody noticed the resulting weakness in cracking the encryption. That's completely ridiculous.
I think like 16 or something would destroy the entire world's weather for decades so yeah, completely pointless.
not if you leave the Java plugin disabled until it's needed and leave the PDF plugin completely disabled (hello, explorer works just fine to open FTP'ed PDFs, thanks)
Any time my company looks for subcontracting bids, we automatically eliminate companies that are in legal hot water or have other significant reasons to not hire them, like for example if it's primarily outsourced. I hope the media drags this through the fires of hell until they make a different decision.