As someone writing from a Linux Mint Laptop carrying a BlackBerry Classic I'm pretty much OS agnostic as long as the tool does what I need it to do. I keep an Android phone on the side to play that one game that just runs too slow on the Classic. Except for Android there aren't many Linux distros that are touch friendly that I'm aware of. Windows 10 is actually a pretty good amalgam of desktop/touch.
When I can get a Windows 10" tablet and matching keyboard for less than $250 I don't see the need to get an Android or Chrome tablet at all anymore. Since I upgraded to Windows 10 it's actually a very capable device. And with a full size USB 3 port I can connect a port replicator and use it as a desktop replacement as well.
What I found most humorous was when I was working for a Delphi remanufacturing shop. GM's Delphi A/C Delco design engineers actually baked dummy circuits into their ECM's. They did nothing but if a component in the circuit went bad the entire unit failed. I think I repaired more dummy circuits than actual working circuits on that ECM.
In many cases some of the hardware may as well be potted in a solid brick of opaque epoxy, for all the good it'll do you to try to get at the actual hardware.
Actually there are numerous industries (auto being one) that do this very thing with their proprietary electronics.
There was a feature in OS/2 where you could create a desktop folder and categorize it as a workspace. Anything you put in this folder would open when the folder was opened. From text files to applications. Somebody has to have replicated that functionality on an existing platform...
Not sure if you are trolling or asking but since you brought it up I can say I've been using Waterfox as my primary browser for the last two years and it works well. I tend to run with upwards of 12 to 15 tabs at a time and it is quite responsive but does on occasion lose its connection to the network and require it be restarted to restore the connection. But since both Chrome and Edge no longer support NPAPI I suspect I'll be using it for the foreseeable future. At least until all my favorite web sites stop using features that require it.
While purely anecdotal I had the displeasure of supporting a large bank call center which used IBM 15" CRT displays. When I say large we had at least two thousand monitors of this make. Almost on cue they would fail within a couple of months after the warranty expired. Since it seemed a bit suspicious I did some research and discovered I was not alone in my suspicions. It was determined there was in fact a single resistor in one of the main circuits that would burn out almost as if it was designed to last only so long.
I have a desktop with three monitors at my desk and a Winbook TW100 10" Windows 10 tablet I take with me to remote into the desktop. Not nearly as much horsepower as a SP3 but it is adequately smooth when doing office activities. And at $200 (right at $200 if you add the matching keyboard case) it won't break the bank.
I purchased the WinBook TW100 (10" tablet) in December and it works well for an under $200 tablet. I added the $49 WinBook keyboard which brought the total to just over $200.00. It won't win any marathons but with 2GB RAM and 32GB SSD (~25GB are left after Windows) it gets the job done. The key items that sold me on it were the full size USB 3 port that can be used while the micro-USB port is being used as a charging port (I don't know why more OEM's don't understand I still need to use the USB while I'm charging sometimes) and a micro-SD slot to put all your files on instead of the tiny SSD. It came with Windows 8.1 but upgraded painlessly to Windows 10. It actually runs very smoothly on Windows 10. I have had a BlackBerry PlayBook (Extremely nice WebOS like experience and the best browser of any tablet of that era), numerous Android tablets (Still have an original Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 10), and a couple of iPads and this is hands down my favorite tablet to date. Since it is running Windows (Yes you can install Linux on it if you want to!) I can install all my existing software. And for less than $200 you also get a free year of Office 365 use.
BINGO!
The West Texas plains were a boon to wind prospectors. Every energy company with any renewable aspirations bought/leased a patch of land and threw up a wind farm. Just one problem...nobody lives in West Texas. It's open range for hundreds of miles. The very conditions that made wind possible left a very real problem. All that electricity needed to get to Dallas but the power line to Dallas was at capacity. All those wind turbines producing electricity and nowhere to send it. Storage tech was prohibitively expensive (If electricity is selling for $0.09 kWh storing it at $0.10 kWh doesn't make financial sense.) so into the earth all that electricity went. So ERCOT set out to build more capacity around 2008. Those lines went live in 2013. Combine that with technology making CSP even cheaper and you've got the next gold rush on your hands.
The Verge is a creation of bloggers who want to be called journalists leaving AOL (Engadget) to write stories that interest them and the discussions usually center around fellow "journalists" critiquing their efforts. After several movie "reviews" that basically laid out all the plot points in the summary and a bizarre editorial about the many layers of depth in Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe I stopped frequenting the site altogether. They probably got tired of all the people commenting about their lack of journalistic ethics.
Corporations are USUALLY owned by shareholders not individuals. And such is the case of Smart City so it would likely be THESE people who were held accountable.
But in this instance there are two perpetrators. The ad aggregator and the web site you visit. There are web sites I simply do not visit any longer because they insist on the IN YOUR FACE popups every time I visit. As long as a web site chooses not to use one of the offending aggregators they won't run afoul of their visitors.
This reads like the cliffhanger at the end of the original TV Batman. "Will Evil Mediacorp be devoured by the ungrateful, greedy, gluttonous masses bent on destroying the world?" "Tune in next week to find out" "And now a word from our sponsors" The truth is they overstepped their bounds by making the ads overt and invasive and that created a backlash. On TV the media is controlled but web sites the user can control what parts he wants and what he doesn't.If you ease up on the IN-YOUR-FACE popup, flash, loud noises ads the majority of people will never even consider an ad blocker because those unobtrusive little banners aren't bothering me at all. But media companies never take the advice and are now paying for their arrogance.
I ask because I'd wager at least half of the advertising on the TV are by insurance companies. Geico, Progressive, State Farm, Farmers, and the list is endless. Not only do they advertise aggressively they advertise to different demographics on the same network. Geico has their 15 minutes and the Cave Man and their Gecko and they even spun off the pig from a previous campaign into one of his own. Progressive has Flo and now they have introduced the Box. I say all that to point out that advertising in prime time is EXPENSIVE! If they are spending that much money on advertising then how much are they making in profit that they can afford to air three 60 second spots in a 30 minute time span? I won't shed a single tear if they are forced to charge less for insurance.
Then you've never played a FPS on a PC. It would be one thing if the key could be disabled while you are doing a specific task but short of editing the registry it just sits there...mocking you; Waiting for just the right moment when you line up your shot and BAM your looking at the desktop.
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As someone writing from a Linux Mint Laptop carrying a BlackBerry Classic I'm pretty much OS agnostic as long as the tool does what I need it to do. I keep an Android phone on the side to play that one game that just runs too slow on the Classic. Except for Android there aren't many Linux distros that are touch friendly that I'm aware of. Windows 10 is actually a pretty good amalgam of desktop/touch.
When I can get a Windows 10" tablet and matching keyboard for less than $250 I don't see the need to get an Android or Chrome tablet at all anymore. Since I upgraded to Windows 10 it's actually a very capable device. And with a full size USB 3 port I can connect a port replicator and use it as a desktop replacement as well.
What I found most humorous was when I was working for a Delphi remanufacturing shop. GM's Delphi A/C Delco design engineers actually baked dummy circuits into their ECM's. They did nothing but if a component in the circuit went bad the entire unit failed. I think I repaired more dummy circuits than actual working circuits on that ECM.
In many cases some of the hardware may as well be potted in a solid brick of opaque epoxy, for all the good it'll do you to try to get at the actual hardware.
Actually there are numerous industries (auto being one) that do this very thing with their proprietary electronics.
Well that's only logical. In an EU model the passenger would be in the US driver's seat!
There was a feature in OS/2 where you could create a desktop folder and categorize it as a workspace. Anything you put in this folder would open when the folder was opened. From text files to applications. Somebody has to have replicated that functionality on an existing platform...
This keeps getting modded as Funny but little does /. realize Snufu is a legal clerk for the RIAA's law firm and was being quite sincere.
Not sure if you are trolling or asking but since you brought it up I can say I've been using Waterfox as my primary browser for the last two years and it works well. I tend to run with upwards of 12 to 15 tabs at a time and it is quite responsive but does on occasion lose its connection to the network and require it be restarted to restore the connection. But since both Chrome and Edge no longer support NPAPI I suspect I'll be using it for the foreseeable future. At least until all my favorite web sites stop using features that require it.
While purely anecdotal I had the displeasure of supporting a large bank call center which used IBM 15" CRT displays. When I say large we had at least two thousand monitors of this make. Almost on cue they would fail within a couple of months after the warranty expired. Since it seemed a bit suspicious I did some research and discovered I was not alone in my suspicions. It was determined there was in fact a single resistor in one of the main circuits that would burn out almost as if it was designed to last only so long.
Not a paid shill!
So you're an unpaid shill then?
I kid, I kid.
I have a desktop with three monitors at my desk and a Winbook TW100 10" Windows 10 tablet I take with me to remote into the desktop. Not nearly as much horsepower as a SP3 but it is adequately smooth when doing office activities. And at $200 (right at $200 if you add the matching keyboard case) it won't break the bank.
I purchased the WinBook TW100 (10" tablet) in December and it works well for an under $200 tablet. I added the $49 WinBook keyboard which brought the total to just over $200.00. It won't win any marathons but with 2GB RAM and 32GB SSD (~25GB are left after Windows) it gets the job done. The key items that sold me on it were the full size USB 3 port that can be used while the micro-USB port is being used as a charging port (I don't know why more OEM's don't understand I still need to use the USB while I'm charging sometimes) and a micro-SD slot to put all your files on instead of the tiny SSD. It came with Windows 8.1 but upgraded painlessly to Windows 10. It actually runs very smoothly on Windows 10. I have had a BlackBerry PlayBook (Extremely nice WebOS like experience and the best browser of any tablet of that era), numerous Android tablets (Still have an original Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 10), and a couple of iPads and this is hands down my favorite tablet to date. Since it is running Windows (Yes you can install Linux on it if you want to!) I can install all my existing software. And for less than $200 you also get a free year of Office 365 use.
BINGO! The West Texas plains were a boon to wind prospectors. Every energy company with any renewable aspirations bought/leased a patch of land and threw up a wind farm. Just one problem...nobody lives in West Texas. It's open range for hundreds of miles. The very conditions that made wind possible left a very real problem. All that electricity needed to get to Dallas but the power line to Dallas was at capacity. All those wind turbines producing electricity and nowhere to send it. Storage tech was prohibitively expensive (If electricity is selling for $0.09 kWh storing it at $0.10 kWh doesn't make financial sense.) so into the earth all that electricity went. So ERCOT set out to build more capacity around 2008. Those lines went live in 2013. Combine that with technology making CSP even cheaper and you've got the next gold rush on your hands.
Full disclosure, I work for Nextera Energy. Parent company of Lone Star Transmission who operates a stretch of those transmission lines.
Meanwhile Nokia has submitted its application for "Good News Everybody!"
What, no COBOL?
You meant that humorously but there is evidence it's star is on the rise.
I suspect the results aren't balanced since Exploding Kittens came out this year.
The Verge is a creation of bloggers who want to be called journalists leaving AOL (Engadget) to write stories that interest them and the discussions usually center around fellow "journalists" critiquing their efforts. After several movie "reviews" that basically laid out all the plot points in the summary and a bizarre editorial about the many layers of depth in Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe I stopped frequenting the site altogether. They probably got tired of all the people commenting about their lack of journalistic ethics.
Corporations are USUALLY owned by shareholders not individuals. And such is the case of Smart City so it would likely be THESE people who were held accountable.
You wrote this from your Faraday cage with tinfoil on your head didn't you?
But in this instance there are two perpetrators. The ad aggregator and the web site you visit. There are web sites I simply do not visit any longer because they insist on the IN YOUR FACE popups every time I visit. As long as a web site chooses not to use one of the offending aggregators they won't run afoul of their visitors.
I agree about TV but like I said they controlled the medium.
This reads like the cliffhanger at the end of the original TV Batman. "Will Evil Mediacorp be devoured by the ungrateful, greedy, gluttonous masses bent on destroying the world?" "Tune in next week to find out" "And now a word from our sponsors" The truth is they overstepped their bounds by making the ads overt and invasive and that created a backlash. On TV the media is controlled but web sites the user can control what parts he wants and what he doesn't.If you ease up on the IN-YOUR-FACE popup, flash, loud noises ads the majority of people will never even consider an ad blocker because those unobtrusive little banners aren't bothering me at all. But media companies never take the advice and are now paying for their arrogance.
Oh, there are people doing it they just have the law on their side.
I ask because I'd wager at least half of the advertising on the TV are by insurance companies. Geico, Progressive, State Farm, Farmers, and the list is endless. Not only do they advertise aggressively they advertise to different demographics on the same network. Geico has their 15 minutes and the Cave Man and their Gecko and they even spun off the pig from a previous campaign into one of his own. Progressive has Flo and now they have introduced the Box. I say all that to point out that advertising in prime time is EXPENSIVE! If they are spending that much money on advertising then how much are they making in profit that they can afford to air three 60 second spots in a 30 minute time span? I won't shed a single tear if they are forced to charge less for insurance.
I never understood the hate for the Windows key.
Then you've never played a FPS on a PC. It would be one thing if the key could be disabled while you are doing a specific task but short of editing the registry it just sits there...mocking you; Waiting for just the right moment when you line up your shot and BAM your looking at the desktop.
And those who use an MVNO and don't know how to set their APN are already safe!