Commodore USA were as dodgy as you like. Reproduction cases were nice and all that, but they were kitting them out with substandard miniature PC boards and shipping them with Linux, a Commodore-skinned desktop and a couple of emulators and calling the whole lot Commodore OS. Apparently they had problems overheating, gaming sucked on their underpowered boards and because they didn't ship with Windows, and they cost far more than your typical off-the-shelf Dell. They're a pretty sad chapter in the Commodore / Amiga epilogue, and shouldn't really be thought of as any way related to the original company.
This. For once, maybe look at how other civilised countries deal with guns. Ireland, for example, makes it extremely difficult for a civilian to own a gun, so nobody does. There are still murders carried out using illegally-held guns, and many people in Ireland would be of the opinion that there is a gun problem there. Yet, the number of gun-related deaths per capita is ten times lower in Ireland than the US. Could it be that the difficulty in obtaining firearms has some sort of effect on their availability to criminals? Crazy thought, I know.
Specially trained police officers having guns is very different to the average Joe with a chip on his shoulder and a social security number having guns. I'd have thought that was obvious, but gun fans always surprise me by being consistently oblivious to the obvious.
I often stayed behind at school to get time on the BBC Micro they had and try out all the BASIC I'd learned from library books. Eventually I got my very own computer, a second-hand Atari 800XL, and started re-learning everything again for that. On the surface it was similar (like most 8-bits I guess), but the Atari BASIC always felt a little bit behind the BASIC on the C64 and BBC at the time. Learned some assembly, how to smooth scroll, do funky rainbow effects and even wrote a primitive paint package that could load and save 16-colour bitmaps to tape. It eventually developed a problem with the SIO port, effectively rendering it useless, and then I moved onto the Amiga, which I still have today and run all the time, expanded with 20 years of funky hacks and add-ons.
I recently unearthed my cassette tapes of code for the Atari and recorded them as a WAV file so they could be converted to tape images for an emulator. Surprisingly, most of the recordings survived and worked first go. Scary seeing my code from so long ago again!
It's up to Britain to prevent immigrants it doesn't want, not France. And don't forget, Britain already had 100% control over immigration from outside Europe - leaving the EU won't change the number of immigrants from outside the EU one bit.
Because then it wouldn't be leet enough for them and they wouldn't be able to pick up chicks with their hax0r terminal skillz.
This is one of the things that annoys me too. I use Mint the whole time, and while it is lovely and user-friendly 95% of the time, I still find myself Googling for solutions to strange problems like not being able to save a custom resolution setting, only to find dozens of condescending forum posts on similar subjects pointing out that I obviously hadn't run [insert several cryptic terminal commands] before trying to do what I wanted to do.
Ooh, no, I actually like PHP, but then again I learned ARexx many years ago and in a number of ways it's quite similar. Definitely agree on the JS front though, it feels like a dodgy experiment that got out of control and now we can't stop it.
You'll probably find then that the site content won't load until the ads have loaded. Some sites I've come across already do that, so if one ad is taking a long time to render, you have none of the actual text you want to read.
One of the reasons for using ad blockers is to prevent the ads from even being downloaded, thus speeding up page loading and reducing data usage for people who are restricted. If the ad is downloaded and just not shown to the user, it would be undetectable to the site but would also negate those two benefits entirely.
The pound lost ground against all currencies - it was the one that was devalued, the Euro (and most other currencies) stayed pretty much where they had been.
Under my desk at home I have 4 towers, all connected to a Dell U2410 via a KVM. Two of the towers are fairly standard "PCs", one running windows 7 for my photography, gaming and some development, the other running Linux Mint for most other day-to-day things. The next tower is an AmigaOne G4 running AmigaOS 4.1, which I use for listening to music and some development. And the last is a beast: An old Amiga 1200 installed in an old AT-style PC case. It has a 68060 CPU at 66MHz with 256MB of RAM, SCSI host for the drives, PCI bus expansion fully loaded with a Voodoo 3-3000, network card, sound card and TV tuner, and various other bits and pieces added over the past 20 years or so. It's fun to see the old girl outputting Workbench at 1920x1200 and still relatively useable:)
All of the towers have two internal hard drives for backup of critical stuff (yes, there are also backups separate from the machines...)
Some people just want to have their video up, hoping to get more hits than their last rubbish concert video.
I like to think it's also for improving the experience for people at the concerts, who have paid good money to be there. It's mega annoying to be in a crowd with a sea of fully lit LCDs in front of you, blocking the view. Not everyone is six foot six and able to see over that sea, and anyway, in the dark they're very distracting.
Picasa doesn't interfere with your existing photo organisation; it complements it. You can drag and drop your photo files all you want, and Picasa automatically and transparently follows suit. And editing a file in Picasa never affects the original photo either unless you explicitly tell Picasa to save the changes to the original photo. All original photos are kept too so there's never a fear of an accident. It's clear you haven't actually used Picasa because you don't have a clue about the basics of how it works. Crop an image and you can still go back to that image 5 years later and undo the crop. I've done it, it's wonderful.
Most other "organisers" are the opposite - they dictate how you organise your folders, and lose track when you move a photo manually, and I've never liked that approach. I want to organise my extensive library my way, and Picasa lets me do that without getting in the way.
For me, it's a fantastic tool for quickly finding photos with a certain person in them. Even finding photos of someone who hasn't been tagged yet only takes seconds, and that's with a library of over 100,000 photos. If you don't like using keywords, just stick them in a folder with whatever name you like and Picasa will still show that up in searches. For example, searching for a face with the keyword "2014" will find all photos containing the selected face with a datestamp in 2014, as well as any stored in a folder called "Holidays 2014". Super handy. Or, if you tag someone's name you don't even have to select the face, just use their name as a keyword.
Why not just disable the compromised functionality? There's always the fallback functionality of the PIN code, so why not just disable the fingerprint sensor and related functions?
Bricking a phone that's reported stolen and bricking a phone that still 99% works and is still in its original owner's possession are two very different things.
Indeed, and I'm pretty sure if nuclear war broke out that the operators of the facility wouldn't be too worried about some switches looking worn once they still worked - there would be more pressing matters to worry about. But in the interest of preservation, every effort should be made to ensure the site is preserved in its original state.
At 34 years of age, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Wii U. I have a PC as well for the big titles like Fallout 4, Elite: Dangerous and so on, but the Wii is getting a lot of play with games like Pikmin, Bayonetta and Mario Kart, not to mention all the Wii games that work 100% with it. It's also not just for the kids, with games like Mass Effect 3 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution available, and Project Zero coming out soon. Skyward Sword for the Wii is great on it and I'm really looking forward to the new Zelda release next year.
But the problem is that the kids won't appreciate it if they can't play with their PS4 or XBOne owning friends, so it all comes down to what they're expecting from a system.
Yep, absolutely, I'm sure plenty of corners were cut and we'll hear more about that angle in time. But there has to be something pretty spectacular wrong with a plane's structure for it to fall apart in mid-air - such things are unlikely to crop up overnight.
But I'm not sure what this entire thread has to do with anything - Russians versus Americans in the space race? What the hell?
Not sure what relevance your post has, considering that it wasn't a Russian-built plane. It wasn't even Russian-registered or owned. It was an Irish plane leased to a Russian airline. What has Russian technology got to do with it at all?
In my last job I worked on the development of a medical diagnostic instrument. While not immediately life-threatening if compromised, lots of patient details could be stored on the system with no encryption. Now, it wasn't normally networked, so to get the information you had to stand in front of it. But here's where it got interesting: you could create an account to give yourself access to the data, and only a password was required - no username. Just one single string of characters. And because that was the case, you couldn't use the same password as anyone else. If you tried, it would actually give you the error message "Password already in use"...
What?
Not to mention that the admin passwords were the same on all instruments...
The downside of not being networked was that the OS was never updated. There were Windows 2000 machines, and XP machines with no service packs at all. Generally computers on these systems were kept far longer than they would be in most other industries. This did give some other instruments a bit of an advantage through obscurity however - I'm sure there are fewer people around able to crack a 486 running a customised QNX kernel setup than able to crack a pre-SP1 XP box...
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Commodore USA were as dodgy as you like. Reproduction cases were nice and all that, but they were kitting them out with substandard miniature PC boards and shipping them with Linux, a Commodore-skinned desktop and a couple of emulators and calling the whole lot Commodore OS. Apparently they had problems overheating, gaming sucked on their underpowered boards and because they didn't ship with Windows, and they cost far more than your typical off-the-shelf Dell. They're a pretty sad chapter in the Commodore / Amiga epilogue, and shouldn't really be thought of as any way related to the original company.
This. For once, maybe look at how other civilised countries deal with guns. Ireland, for example, makes it extremely difficult for a civilian to own a gun, so nobody does. There are still murders carried out using illegally-held guns, and many people in Ireland would be of the opinion that there is a gun problem there. Yet, the number of gun-related deaths per capita is ten times lower in Ireland than the US. Could it be that the difficulty in obtaining firearms has some sort of effect on their availability to criminals? Crazy thought, I know.
Specially trained police officers having guns is very different to the average Joe with a chip on his shoulder and a social security number having guns. I'd have thought that was obvious, but gun fans always surprise me by being consistently oblivious to the obvious.
I often stayed behind at school to get time on the BBC Micro they had and try out all the BASIC I'd learned from library books. Eventually I got my very own computer, a second-hand Atari 800XL, and started re-learning everything again for that. On the surface it was similar (like most 8-bits I guess), but the Atari BASIC always felt a little bit behind the BASIC on the C64 and BBC at the time. Learned some assembly, how to smooth scroll, do funky rainbow effects and even wrote a primitive paint package that could load and save 16-colour bitmaps to tape. It eventually developed a problem with the SIO port, effectively rendering it useless, and then I moved onto the Amiga, which I still have today and run all the time, expanded with 20 years of funky hacks and add-ons.
I recently unearthed my cassette tapes of code for the Atari and recorded them as a WAV file so they could be converted to tape images for an emulator. Surprisingly, most of the recordings survived and worked first go. Scary seeing my code from so long ago again!
Or when a constitutional change requires it.
It's up to Britain to prevent immigrants it doesn't want, not France. And don't forget, Britain already had 100% control over immigration from outside Europe - leaving the EU won't change the number of immigrants from outside the EU one bit.
Because then it wouldn't be leet enough for them and they wouldn't be able to pick up chicks with their hax0r terminal skillz.
This is one of the things that annoys me too. I use Mint the whole time, and while it is lovely and user-friendly 95% of the time, I still find myself Googling for solutions to strange problems like not being able to save a custom resolution setting, only to find dozens of condescending forum posts on similar subjects pointing out that I obviously hadn't run [insert several cryptic terminal commands] before trying to do what I wanted to do.
Yes. So much this.
Ooh, no, I actually like PHP, but then again I learned ARexx many years ago and in a number of ways it's quite similar. Definitely agree on the JS front though, it feels like a dodgy experiment that got out of control and now we can't stop it.
I genuinely still get scary flashbacks when I see someone mention Matlab anywhere. *shudder*
You'll probably find then that the site content won't load until the ads have loaded. Some sites I've come across already do that, so if one ad is taking a long time to render, you have none of the actual text you want to read.
One of the reasons for using ad blockers is to prevent the ads from even being downloaded, thus speeding up page loading and reducing data usage for people who are restricted. If the ad is downloaded and just not shown to the user, it would be undetectable to the site but would also negate those two benefits entirely.
The pound lost ground against all currencies - it was the one that was devalued, the Euro (and most other currencies) stayed pretty much where they had been.
And plenty old enough to drink in Europe ;)
Under my desk at home I have 4 towers, all connected to a Dell U2410 via a KVM. Two of the towers are fairly standard "PCs", one running windows 7 for my photography, gaming and some development, the other running Linux Mint for most other day-to-day things. The next tower is an AmigaOne G4 running AmigaOS 4.1, which I use for listening to music and some development. And the last is a beast: An old Amiga 1200 installed in an old AT-style PC case. It has a 68060 CPU at 66MHz with 256MB of RAM, SCSI host for the drives, PCI bus expansion fully loaded with a Voodoo 3-3000, network card, sound card and TV tuner, and various other bits and pieces added over the past 20 years or so. It's fun to see the old girl outputting Workbench at 1920x1200 and still relatively useable :)
All of the towers have two internal hard drives for backup of critical stuff (yes, there are also backups separate from the machines...)
Some people just want to have their video up, hoping to get more hits than their last rubbish concert video.
I like to think it's also for improving the experience for people at the concerts, who have paid good money to be there. It's mega annoying to be in a crowd with a sea of fully lit LCDs in front of you, blocking the view. Not everyone is six foot six and able to see over that sea, and anyway, in the dark they're very distracting.
Picasa doesn't interfere with your existing photo organisation; it complements it. You can drag and drop your photo files all you want, and Picasa automatically and transparently follows suit. And editing a file in Picasa never affects the original photo either unless you explicitly tell Picasa to save the changes to the original photo. All original photos are kept too so there's never a fear of an accident. It's clear you haven't actually used Picasa because you don't have a clue about the basics of how it works. Crop an image and you can still go back to that image 5 years later and undo the crop. I've done it, it's wonderful.
Most other "organisers" are the opposite - they dictate how you organise your folders, and lose track when you move a photo manually, and I've never liked that approach. I want to organise my extensive library my way, and Picasa lets me do that without getting in the way.
For me, it's a fantastic tool for quickly finding photos with a certain person in them. Even finding photos of someone who hasn't been tagged yet only takes seconds, and that's with a library of over 100,000 photos. If you don't like using keywords, just stick them in a folder with whatever name you like and Picasa will still show that up in searches. For example, searching for a face with the keyword "2014" will find all photos containing the selected face with a datestamp in 2014, as well as any stored in a folder called "Holidays 2014". Super handy. Or, if you tag someone's name you don't even have to select the face, just use their name as a keyword.
Why not just disable the compromised functionality? There's always the fallback functionality of the PIN code, so why not just disable the fingerprint sensor and related functions?
Well then all it has to do is stop *that* component from working, and fall back to PIN unlocking. Simple.
Bricking a phone that's reported stolen and bricking a phone that still 99% works and is still in its original owner's possession are two very different things.
Indeed, and I'm pretty sure if nuclear war broke out that the operators of the facility wouldn't be too worried about some switches looking worn once they still worked - there would be more pressing matters to worry about. But in the interest of preservation, every effort should be made to ensure the site is preserved in its original state.
At 34 years of age, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Wii U. I have a PC as well for the big titles like Fallout 4, Elite: Dangerous and so on, but the Wii is getting a lot of play with games like Pikmin, Bayonetta and Mario Kart, not to mention all the Wii games that work 100% with it. It's also not just for the kids, with games like Mass Effect 3 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution available, and Project Zero coming out soon. Skyward Sword for the Wii is great on it and I'm really looking forward to the new Zelda release next year.
But the problem is that the kids won't appreciate it if they can't play with their PS4 or XBOne owning friends, so it all comes down to what they're expecting from a system.
Yep, absolutely, I'm sure plenty of corners were cut and we'll hear more about that angle in time. But there has to be something pretty spectacular wrong with a plane's structure for it to fall apart in mid-air - such things are unlikely to crop up overnight.
But I'm not sure what this entire thread has to do with anything - Russians versus Americans in the space race? What the hell?
Not sure what relevance your post has, considering that it wasn't a Russian-built plane. It wasn't even Russian-registered or owned. It was an Irish plane leased to a Russian airline. What has Russian technology got to do with it at all?
In my last job I worked on the development of a medical diagnostic instrument. While not immediately life-threatening if compromised, lots of patient details could be stored on the system with no encryption. Now, it wasn't normally networked, so to get the information you had to stand in front of it. But here's where it got interesting: you could create an account to give yourself access to the data, and only a password was required - no username. Just one single string of characters. And because that was the case, you couldn't use the same password as anyone else. If you tried, it would actually give you the error message "Password already in use"...
What?
Not to mention that the admin passwords were the same on all instruments...
The downside of not being networked was that the OS was never updated. There were Windows 2000 machines, and XP machines with no service packs at all. Generally computers on these systems were kept far longer than they would be in most other industries. This did give some other instruments a bit of an advantage through obscurity however - I'm sure there are fewer people around able to crack a 486 running a customised QNX kernel setup than able to crack a pre-SP1 XP box...