This is a surprise? They did the same thing YEARS ago when AT&T decided their 3G+ network was really 4G. Same ol' same ol' from two companies known for misleading their customers.
I thought I was alone on this one. I can't stand these wide-screen displays on laptops or even computer monitors. The FEW times I watch movies on them, I don't care about the "distracting black bars" at the top and bottom. MOST of the time I'm on the computer, I'm doing WORK which means READING and WRITING. I prefer working top to bottom without having to constantly keep scrolling.
If I want to watch a movie or a show on the computer, I'm more than likely to plug in an HDMI cable and watch it on my 65" television, not on my 15" laptop screen.
Wow! Guess I'm fortunate to have a newer kernel. I was running the 4.10 kernel and the update upgraded me to the 4.13 kernel. All my computers (including one running the equivalent level of Linux Mint) booted just fine with the 4.13.0-26 kernel.
Actually, I haven't had any issues plugging USB 2.0 devices into USB 3.0 ports on my Ubuntu system. My Windows guest systems see those devices just fine. However, plugging in a USB 3.0 device into a USB 3.0 port doesn't work; it isn't seen by the guest system at all.
Fortunately, if your system has USB 2.0 ports, you can plug a USB 3.0 device into one of those and your guest system will see it. It just can't access it as quickly as if it were USB 3.0.
All of this is on my "Trusty" system on an HP Pavilion P7-1235. Your mileage may vary.
There is no support for USB 3.0, and more and more computers are only coming with USB 3.0 ports. Those are "invisible" to guest systems running under VirtualBox. Otherwise, it pretty much does everything I need it for (running Windows under Linux so I can run TurboTax and Garmin mapping software).
Considering that Java appears to be a flimsy screen door in any company's firewall, I would think that most SANE organizations would've started moving off of that platform YEARS ago...
It's my primary browser/E-Mail/Usenet client. Why install two products when just one will do?? It also takes up less resources as well.
The only issue I have is that a lot of Firefox extensions won't work in Seamonkey, and their authors don't seem terribly eager to support Seamonkey either. I used it in Windows, and now that I'm in the process of migrating to Linux (Ubuntu), I'm using it there, too.
I'm sorry... but I think IBM had that over a DECADE ago with their object oriented "Workplace Shell" in OS/2 2.1 and up! I can certainly remember doing a "Drag and drop" of E-Mail addresses to contact lists, E-Mail composition windows, etc. How do they get away with this nonsense??
motorcycle.com, which adopted software strikingly similar to Slashdot, allows you to read all comments but if you wish to make your own comment you must be a paying member. Check http://news.motorcycle.com/ to see for yourself.
If you think Kerry is anti-military you are so sadly misinformed it would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. You want anti-military?? How about the jackass who sent over 800 innocent men and women to their deaths for no good reason and THEN slashed their benefits?? If THAT'S not anti-military, I don't know WHAT is!!
I'm sorry, but I'm old enough to remember Reaganomics. It DIDN'T work. Nothing trickled down. The Reagan years were the second leannest in terms of finding employment in my lifetime. Only the IDIOT currently residing in the White House has topped him for sheer incompetence.
Reagan also turned the United States into the largest debtor nation in the world. We recovered under Clinton, but Bush threw that all right into the toilet.
I'm thinking his REAL plan is to devalue the dollar so much on the international market that it'll soon be cheaper for India to outsource back to us!
Disgruntled American Tech Worker (who'd vote for an Al Sharpton/Tawana Brawley ticket before I'd put this moron in for another four years)
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This is a surprise? They did the same thing YEARS ago when AT&T decided their 3G+ network was really 4G. Same ol' same ol' from two companies known for misleading their customers.
And anyone who disagrees with me is CLEARLY mistaken:
http://www.pckeyboard.com/
I thought I was alone on this one. I can't stand these wide-screen displays on laptops or even computer monitors. The FEW times I watch movies on them, I don't care about the "distracting black bars" at the top and bottom. MOST of the time I'm on the computer, I'm doing WORK which means READING and WRITING. I prefer working top to bottom without having to constantly keep scrolling.
If I want to watch a movie or a show on the computer, I'm more than likely to plug in an HDMI cable and watch it on my 65" television, not on my 15" laptop screen.
Sounds like someone was watching "Species" again. Natasha Henstridge is HOT.
Wow! Guess I'm fortunate to have a newer kernel. I was running the 4.10 kernel and the update upgraded me to the 4.13 kernel. All my computers (including one running the equivalent level of Linux Mint) booted just fine with the 4.13.0-26 kernel.
I remember playing this game in high school on our time-shared PDP-10... and I graduated in 1975. How is that possible?
I had the module you'd add to the Coleco Genesis game system. Wow did THAT ever take up desk space!
Mine too! I eventually got the disk drives too!
The Coleco ADAM!
"My ignorance is as valid as your knowledge."
Actually, there were a couple of comments about this. I know, because I posted one of them, and just responded to another...
Actually, I haven't had any issues plugging USB 2.0 devices into USB 3.0 ports on my Ubuntu system. My Windows guest systems see those devices just fine. However, plugging in a USB 3.0 device into a USB 3.0 port doesn't work; it isn't seen by the guest system at all.
Fortunately, if your system has USB 2.0 ports, you can plug a USB 3.0 device into one of those and your guest system will see it. It just can't access it as quickly as if it were USB 3.0.
All of this is on my "Trusty" system on an HP Pavilion P7-1235. Your mileage may vary.
There is no support for USB 3.0, and more and more computers are only coming with USB 3.0 ports. Those are "invisible" to guest systems running under VirtualBox. Otherwise, it pretty much does everything I need it for (running Windows under Linux so I can run TurboTax and Garmin mapping software).
Considering that Java appears to be a flimsy screen door in any company's firewall, I would think that most SANE organizations would've started moving off of that platform YEARS ago...
FTW!
It's my primary browser/E-Mail/Usenet client. Why install two products when just one will do?? It also takes up less resources as well.
The only issue I have is that a lot of Firefox extensions won't work in Seamonkey, and their authors don't seem terribly eager to support Seamonkey either. I used it in Windows, and now that I'm in the process of migrating to Linux (Ubuntu), I'm using it there, too.
I thought that was that NASTY Filipino snack food consisting of a cooked, fertile duck egg with a pinch of salt...
...and they've implanted the knowledge in the brain of one "John Crichton"
I'm sorry... but I think IBM had that over a DECADE ago with their object oriented "Workplace Shell" in OS/2 2.1 and up! I can certainly remember doing a "Drag and drop" of E-Mail addresses to contact lists, E-Mail composition windows, etc. How do they get away with this nonsense??
motorcycle.com, which adopted software strikingly similar to Slashdot, allows you to read all comments but if you wish to make your own comment you must be a paying member. Check http://news.motorcycle.com/ to see for yourself.
Damn shame. Dump a product that actually WORKS for two that crash and/or lock up all the time. Makes perfect sense to me. :-/
If you think Kerry is anti-military you are so sadly misinformed it would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. You want anti-military?? How about the jackass who sent over 800 innocent men and women to their deaths for no good reason and THEN slashed their benefits?? If THAT'S not anti-military, I don't know WHAT is!!
VODKA!
I'm sorry, but I'm old enough to remember Reaganomics. It DIDN'T work. Nothing trickled down. The Reagan years were the second leannest in terms of finding employment in my lifetime. Only the IDIOT currently residing in the White House has topped him for sheer incompetence.
Reagan also turned the United States into the largest debtor nation in the world. We recovered under Clinton, but Bush threw that all right into the toilet.
I'm thinking his REAL plan is to devalue the dollar so much on the international market that it'll soon be cheaper for India to outsource back to us!
Disgruntled American Tech Worker (who'd vote for an Al Sharpton/Tawana Brawley ticket before I'd put this moron in for another four years)
I am sick and tired of being told that offshoring is good for America by people whose jobs are in no danger of being offshored.
Hey, New York Times?? You can hire NINE Tom Friedman's in India for the price of that one columnist by the same name!
How do you like it SO FAR???
Disgruntled American Tech Worker