THANK YOU. Every time I say I think it's a complete PoS I get modded down. I've always assumed nobody else gives a rat's behind about usability and battery lives...
There's no source for it, Gates denies saying it and there's no first hand account of him actually making such a pronouncement. It'd also be an absurd thing to say, given:
1. Gates didn't choose that limit, IBM did. The 8088 could access 1Mb of memory, but IBM placed things in fixed parts of the 8088's upper memory map that meant user memory could only go up to 640k.
2. Gates was highly critical of the IBM PC technology choices. He believed, for example, they should have gone with the 68000, because of the flat 24/32 address space model of that CPU.
3. Even at the time, everyone who'd been in computing for more than five minutes recognized that (1) there's never such a thing as "enough memory", and (2) memory usage was growing as fast as memory prices were falling.
Alas no. The point of Nexus has always been to show people what Google intends Android to be. To the best of my knowledge, there's never been a Nexus that's just AOSP + Google Play Store, it's always contained, at minimum, the entire Google Apps suite and preferred customizations from Google.
This news suggests they're taking more control over the hardware, not just the operating system.
I... can't tell if this news is a good thing or a bad thing. I had a Galaxy Nexus for a couple of years, and virtually everything I hated about it most were things Google was either known to have advocated or something their execs handwaved away as non-issues (battery life in particular was terrible.)
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The argument is that she owns ordinary shares, and while those shares might be kinda sorta worth $100-200M on paper (I can't be bothered to do the calculations...) the reality is she can't sell them (the price would tank if she tried) and if the company goes bankrupt, and Forbes thinks it's very, very, likely it will, then as an ordinary shareholder she'll be last in line to get paid. Bondholders, preferred stock holders, and even the credit card company are ahead of ordinary shareholders when it comes to being paid back after a company is liquidated.
There have been times in the past that the latest version of Mac OS X wouldn't run on six year old Macs. I can't say if that's the case today or not, but I certainly wouldn't switch to Apple just to be sure that I can run Mac OS X 10.17 on a 2016 Mac mini in 2022.
I'm still of the opinion it's too early. Most of the performance issues seem to be fixed (it no longer takes 2-10 seconds to get the notifications sidebar to appear, for example), but the system still crashes more often than Windows 7. There's the forced updates and autorebooting thing. And, of course, there's that security thing...
I would strongly suggest that if you migrate to Windows 10, you do it on a fast, high memory, machine. 8Gb should be considered the minimum.
On the other hand, if you're using a Skylake chipset, remember Microsoft has publicly announced it will only have limited Windows 7 support for that, so you may find yourself stuck with 10 anyway.
If you do install it, I would strongly advise you to install Windows 10 Professional, which is the least crippled "consumer" Windows. By "crippled" here, I mean "least likely to slow down to a crawl installing updates when you don't want it to, followed by an unavoidable-in-practice reboot. The options right now are:
- Insider Windows - free, but regular reboots and the installation of software that may literally never have been properly tested.
- Windows 10 Home - $100 or an existing Windows 7-8.1 Home license - automatically reboots at least once a week, and installs the latest version of everything whether you want it to or not.
- Windows 10 Pro - $200, or an existing 7-8.1 Pro license - only automatically reboots if it installs security updates that requires a reboot. You're not required to install the latest version of everything, only security updates.
I would hold off until late June, then install Windows 10 Pro. Install all updates. Turn off the privacy invading options. Turn off Cortana. Select "Notify to Install" and "Defer upgrades" in Settings -> Update and Security -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options. And remember: you can revert back within a month of the install if it turns out to be a terrible mistake.
10 looks nice, but it was rushed out, and it shows.
Try copying your Users\{username} folder to a network share (as one does occasionally to back it up) and you'll be surprised at the number of times it cannot copy files because of length. The problem isn't usually the files you made yourself, but the
\Games\Electronic Arts\Sid Meier's Civilization VIII Domination of Earth Edition\Saved Games\Automatically Saved Games\2016\January\11\10\President Abraham S. Lincoln United States of America\1048AD\Map\0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001.svdmap
type files whose names are auto generated.
This, incidentally, means the best user name to set up a new computer with is one character long (if Windows allows that, I have no idea, never really thought about the implications until now.)
"Really? If you have a problem with bash, how do you cope with Word with all its keystrokes? Or even the comments box on Slashdot? I think that you are making this out to be a much bigger problem than it really is."
(The problem isn't with the RegEdit UI, it's the fact a setting is buried somewhere in massive block of tens of thousands (maybe millions?) of entries, only barely made slightly easier to navigate through a hierarchy that only sometimes makes sense.)
No, but NetBSDs 3 through 6 do put up dialog boxes in turn "offering a free upgrade", "recommending a free upgrade", "Click the X at the top right of the window to upgrade", and then, finally, "Upgrading to NetBSD 7 because you weren't around to tell me not to".
FWIW, Windows 10 tells you that it's going to back up the operating system you have and let you revert (as long as it's within one month) during the install. It also "reminds" you post-install that the old OS is there taking up space, and recommends you delete it if you have no plans to switch back.
So they're not hiding the feature.
(The above should not be taken as apologism, as I think they've truly crossed the line over the last couple of months. They should be taken to court over this.)
It seems a hell of a lot of deflection is going on here. I'm kinda guessing that "Big Tobacco" is such a bogeyman, the vaping community doesn't want to believe that any money they spend on liquids goes to it.
Based upon what I see, it looks like nicotine is being extracted from tobacco for vapers. If that weren't true, then the argument that "Big Tobacco" sees this as something they're scared of seems ludicrous because there's absolutely no reason why they can't enter the same market - with the huge advantage of money, experience, and an unlimited supply of tobacco.
You guys are going to have to do more than handwave and change the subject if you're going to convince me.
Actually yes, you're right on the former, I do occasionally drink, so I was wrong there.
Caffeine - if decaff coffee tasted like regular coffee I'd probably drink that. I've switched where possible to decaff colas etc. I don't like the effect on me, and I only deliberately use it when I need to use it medicinally - ie certain types of headache, or just keeping myself awake.
The links I'm seeing online (and I admit to not being an expert, so there may be a better thing to Google than "synthetic nicotine") seems to suggest that the latter is considered unfit for human use. It's made, but generally used as a pesticide. Suppliers actually seem to consider the rumor they use synthetic nicotine as an insult.
Supposedly vaping nicotine generally comes from plants, though not necessarily tobacco (I'm having difficulty finding information specific on this point.)
Disclaimer: Not a vaper. Have never cared for (recreational) drugs so no interest beyond thinking it's an interesting use of technology.
I'm missing this one - the tobacco industry presumably supplies the nicotine that's vaped by these things, why would they be against it, especially as it's probably the only form of non-prescription nicotine that's likely to still be legal in 20-30 years? (And probably the only form that could grow the market, as - exploding E-Cigs aside - it deals with most of the health and social issues.)
Fire Stick seems to be a fairly walled off device. Android is at least neutral, with apps for, for example (since you brought it up) pretty much all the streaming services bar Microsoft and Apple's (and I suspect a Microsoft streaming app for Android will exist in time.)
Whether there's a significant advantage over a Roku stick though is another issue...
And when you pay below that cost, you're effectively asking for a handout, for the employee and their friends or family (or, in some cases, the government) to subsidize your business.
If you can get a robot to do the job, good for you. People will earn good wages designing and building those robots, and maintaining them, and programming them, and so on.
In the Hulk Hogan case, yes, he's enabled the lawsuit, but he's actually ensured the lawsuit is aimed at bankrupting Gawker rather than maximizing damages for Hogan - for example, withdrawing motions that would have ensured Gawker's insurers paid out. So while technically he's enabled a lawsuit to go ahead that might have been justified, he's ensured that neither party will see "justice" in any reasonable sense of the term.
In the Shiva "I invented email" Ayyadurai case, pretty much anyone can see that the case is a fake lawsuit created from nothing. Ayyadurai didn't invent electronic mail, and it's not libel to point that out. Thiel is enabling a groundless lawsuit to take place. That's not right.
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The danger with these two is that the people will do nothing of the sort, with only a minority bothering to turn up to the polls.
THANK YOU. Every time I say I think it's a complete PoS I get modded down. I've always assumed nobody else gives a rat's behind about usability and battery lives...
There's no source for it, Gates denies saying it and there's no first hand account of him actually making such a pronouncement. It'd also be an absurd thing to say, given:
1. Gates didn't choose that limit, IBM did. The 8088 could access 1Mb of memory, but IBM placed things in fixed parts of the 8088's upper memory map that meant user memory could only go up to 640k.
2. Gates was highly critical of the IBM PC technology choices. He believed, for example, they should have gone with the 68000, because of the flat 24/32 address space model of that CPU.
3. Even at the time, everyone who'd been in computing for more than five minutes recognized that (1) there's never such a thing as "enough memory", and (2) memory usage was growing as fast as memory prices were falling.
I'm inclined to believe Gate's denials.
Alas no. The point of Nexus has always been to show people what Google intends Android to be. To the best of my knowledge, there's never been a Nexus that's just AOSP + Google Play Store, it's always contained, at minimum, the entire Google Apps suite and preferred customizations from Google.
This news suggests they're taking more control over the hardware, not just the operating system.
I... can't tell if this news is a good thing or a bad thing. I had a Galaxy Nexus for a couple of years, and virtually everything I hated about it most were things Google was either known to have advocated or something their execs handwaved away as non-issues (battery life in particular was terrible.)
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...they're all large pick-up trucks in Florida, modified to "roll coal".
The argument is that she owns ordinary shares, and while those shares might be kinda sorta worth $100-200M on paper (I can't be bothered to do the calculations...) the reality is she can't sell them (the price would tank if she tried) and if the company goes bankrupt, and Forbes thinks it's very, very, likely it will, then as an ordinary shareholder she'll be last in line to get paid. Bondholders, preferred stock holders, and even the credit card company are ahead of ordinary shareholders when it comes to being paid back after a company is liquidated.
I want to know when they're going out with the S-100 drivers for my Horizon Northstar.
I wouldn't consider "Continuing to run it with Windows 7" "junking" the laptop...
There have been times in the past that the latest version of Mac OS X wouldn't run on six year old Macs. I can't say if that's the case today or not, but I certainly wouldn't switch to Apple just to be sure that I can run Mac OS X 10.17 on a 2016 Mac mini in 2022.
I'm still of the opinion it's too early. Most of the performance issues seem to be fixed (it no longer takes 2-10 seconds to get the notifications sidebar to appear, for example), but the system still crashes more often than Windows 7. There's the forced updates and autorebooting thing. And, of course, there's that security thing...
I would strongly suggest that if you migrate to Windows 10, you do it on a fast, high memory, machine. 8Gb should be considered the minimum.
On the other hand, if you're using a Skylake chipset, remember Microsoft has publicly announced it will only have limited Windows 7 support for that, so you may find yourself stuck with 10 anyway.
If you do install it, I would strongly advise you to install Windows 10 Professional, which is the least crippled "consumer" Windows. By "crippled" here, I mean "least likely to slow down to a crawl installing updates when you don't want it to, followed by an unavoidable-in-practice reboot. The options right now are:
- Insider Windows - free, but regular reboots and the installation of software that may literally never have been properly tested.
- Windows 10 Home - $100 or an existing Windows 7-8.1 Home license - automatically reboots at least once a week, and installs the latest version of everything whether you want it to or not.
- Windows 10 Pro - $200, or an existing 7-8.1 Pro license - only automatically reboots if it installs security updates that requires a reboot. You're not required to install the latest version of everything, only security updates.
I would hold off until late June, then install Windows 10 Pro. Install all updates. Turn off the privacy invading options. Turn off Cortana. Select "Notify to Install" and "Defer upgrades" in Settings -> Update and Security -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options. And remember: you can revert back within a month of the install if it turns out to be a terrible mistake.
10 looks nice, but it was rushed out, and it shows.
Try copying your Users\{username} folder to a network share (as one does occasionally to back it up) and you'll be surprised at the number of times it cannot copy files because of length. The problem isn't usually the files you made yourself, but the \Games\Electronic Arts\Sid Meier's Civilization VIII Domination of Earth Edition\Saved Games\Automatically Saved Games\2016\January\11\10\President Abraham S. Lincoln United States of America\1048AD\Map\0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001.svdmap type files whose names are auto generated. This, incidentally, means the best user name to set up a new computer with is one character long (if Windows allows that, I have no idea, never really thought about the implications until now.)
"Really? If you have a problem with bash, how do you cope with Word with all its keystrokes? Or even the comments box on Slashdot? I think that you are making this out to be a much bigger problem than it really is."
(The problem isn't with the RegEdit UI, it's the fact a setting is buried somewhere in massive block of tens of thousands (maybe millions?) of entries, only barely made slightly easier to navigate through a hierarchy that only sometimes makes sense.)
No, but NetBSDs 3 through 6 do put up dialog boxes in turn "offering a free upgrade", "recommending a free upgrade", "Click the X at the top right of the window to upgrade", and then, finally, "Upgrading to NetBSD 7 because you weren't around to tell me not to".
Geez, COBOL? OMG that's sooo 1960s. They need to upgrade to something modern instead... like...
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Muhwahhaahahahah!
FWIW, Windows 10 tells you that it's going to back up the operating system you have and let you revert (as long as it's within one month) during the install. It also "reminds" you post-install that the old OS is there taking up space, and recommends you delete it if you have no plans to switch back.
So they're not hiding the feature.
(The above should not be taken as apologism, as I think they've truly crossed the line over the last couple of months. They should be taken to court over this.)
It seems a hell of a lot of deflection is going on here. I'm kinda guessing that "Big Tobacco" is such a bogeyman, the vaping community doesn't want to believe that any money they spend on liquids goes to it.
Based upon what I see, it looks like nicotine is being extracted from tobacco for vapers. If that weren't true, then the argument that "Big Tobacco" sees this as something they're scared of seems ludicrous because there's absolutely no reason why they can't enter the same market - with the huge advantage of money, experience, and an unlimited supply of tobacco.
You guys are going to have to do more than handwave and change the subject if you're going to convince me.
Actually yes, you're right on the former, I do occasionally drink, so I was wrong there.
Caffeine - if decaff coffee tasted like regular coffee I'd probably drink that. I've switched where possible to decaff colas etc. I don't like the effect on me, and I only deliberately use it when I need to use it medicinally - ie certain types of headache, or just keeping myself awake.
The links I'm seeing online (and I admit to not being an expert, so there may be a better thing to Google than "synthetic nicotine") seems to suggest that the latter is considered unfit for human use. It's made, but generally used as a pesticide. Suppliers actually seem to consider the rumor they use synthetic nicotine as an insult.
Supposedly vaping nicotine generally comes from plants, though not necessarily tobacco (I'm having difficulty finding information specific on this point.)
Disclaimer: Not a vaper. Have never cared for (recreational) drugs so no interest beyond thinking it's an interesting use of technology.
OK, so who supplies it? I thought Nicotine was pretty rare outside of tobacco.
I'm missing this one - the tobacco industry presumably supplies the nicotine that's vaped by these things, why would they be against it, especially as it's probably the only form of non-prescription nicotine that's likely to still be legal in 20-30 years? (And probably the only form that could grow the market, as - exploding E-Cigs aside - it deals with most of the health and social issues.)
Fire Stick seems to be a fairly walled off device. Android is at least neutral, with apps for, for example (since you brought it up) pretty much all the streaming services bar Microsoft and Apple's (and I suspect a Microsoft streaming app for Android will exist in time.)
Whether there's a significant advantage over a Roku stick though is another issue...
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And when you pay below that cost, you're effectively asking for a handout, for the employee and their friends or family (or, in some cases, the government) to subsidize your business.
If you can get a robot to do the job, good for you. People will earn good wages designing and building those robots, and maintaining them, and programming them, and so on.
In the Hulk Hogan case, yes, he's enabled the lawsuit, but he's actually ensured the lawsuit is aimed at bankrupting Gawker rather than maximizing damages for Hogan - for example, withdrawing motions that would have ensured Gawker's insurers paid out. So while technically he's enabled a lawsuit to go ahead that might have been justified, he's ensured that neither party will see "justice" in any reasonable sense of the term.
In the Shiva "I invented email" Ayyadurai case, pretty much anyone can see that the case is a fake lawsuit created from nothing. Ayyadurai didn't invent electronic mail, and it's not libel to point that out. Thiel is enabling a groundless lawsuit to take place. That's not right.