I was talking about upgrading to Windows 7, not from Windows 7. If you have XP, Vista, or anything older, you can't upgrade for free to neither Windows 7 nor Windows 10. And if you have Windows 8.x or Windows 10, you can't go back to Windows 7 without a paid license. For some, 8-10 to 7 is the upgrade.
The "moronic part of our population" think they are far more capable at controlling a vehicle than they really are. I'd rather have them rely on a rather effective semi-autopilot than drive like the morons they are. And BTW, if you assume that the moronic part of the population includes most of it, statistically, you are likely to be part of it.
It seems that UFS at least gets rid of that useless DRM in SD cards. SD means "secure digital" with "secure" meaning DRM. And not only it is an unwanted feature for most users but it also wastes a significant amount of space (10% according to Wikipedia).
If you want and ad blocking Chrome you have the option of using #NoChromo or, if you have a Snapdragon SoC, a CAF Chromium build like RSBrowser. CAF Chromium has the added bonus of being significantly faster than vanilla Chrome.
I hope it is your own truck. Because otherwise, you will be tracked even more than in the office. GPS tracking devices are becoming the norm and they are probably considering microphones and cameras too.
Uber is not ride sharing. Ride sharing is when I intend to go from A to B and I accept to take you with me with or without financial compensation. Uber drivers have no intention doing the trip for themselves, they only do it for you in exchange for money. Unless you are using UberPool, they don't even take other passengers along the way. There is absolutely no sharing involved. If you don't want to call it taxi, call it "chauffeur" or "car with driver" service but not ride-sharing. Real ride-sharing services exist, and they don't look at all like Uber. The difference being that the driver decide on the time and destination and the price is much lower since the driver is not expected to make a profit.
Food can be genetically modified for taste, it is just that it is not what the food industry is looking for. They want high yield, good preservation, safety and an attractive look to the potential buyer. Taste is an afterthought.
It is not even a disaster for the EU. Don't forget that GB isn't in the eurozone and Shengen. They never played along with the rest of the EU. The French considered an exit for a long time but even now that is probably the time where a "frexit" is the most appealing, the majority wants to stay. In fact only the Front National wants France to leave the EU, and they will never win the elections.
Yes there is. There is a VR section on PornHub. There is still not much because it is a new thing and it requires significantly different filming techniques.
In France, when an operator installs broadband in a building, after 6 month, he must allow competitors to rent the lines for a regulated price. This was done to avoid the situation where some buildings had fiber from multiple operators where others had nothing. It can be useful as a way to prevent the landlord-isp-tenant conflict since once the building is cabled, there is no need for other operators to access it.
BTW, this rule didn't prevent operators from investing and I would't be surprised if it was a EU-wide decision.
Google Keep is nice but I noticed a big flaw. If you accidentally delete the content of a note (not the note itself) on the Android app, there is no way to recover it. It can happen if you select a large amount of text and press a key. The note is almost immediately synced and Android has no "undo". Also there are no convenient backup options.
So, you shouldn't use it for notes that you actually want to keep...
How about decriminalizing drug use, like in Portugal? Decriminalization doesn't mean legalization. It just mean that you aren't going to jail for drug use. You can still get an administrative punishment, like a small fine, which can be waived it you show that you are willing to do something about it, like following an addiction treatment.
At work we have an decades-old Oracle database, with constraints turned off and the inevitable inconsistencies. Ask anyone who has to work on it : "terror database" would be an worthy name.
Now they just raise the prices on select items far above the price of their competitors, then only sell it to you for the normal price if you hand over your personal data.
Just go to the competitors. You don't have to buy everything at the same place.
Why should I switch my iPhone to an Android phone again?
It probably doesn't matter to you now because you already bought the iPhone but the obvious answer is to save money. The cheapest iPhone is $400 but $700+ is more common. With Amazon's offer, you can get a $50 smartphone. Not the same market at all.
A bit off topic but the picture in TFA representing said nucleus seems to be moving even though it is not, like some kind of optical illusion. Did anyone else noticed this?
The "secret criteria" is probably along the lines of "criteria X statistical significance is 0.02456 and a weight of -0.12466 improves the predictions by 0.03154". The criteria is probably not secret but rather completely opaque for the human mind.
In Europe, the standard for video is PAL, which is 25/50 Hz. The standard for film is 24 Hz. As a result, when it came to video, most movies were sped up 25/24 to match the standard. This kind of manipulation is becoming obsolete now that TVs can work at the proper refresh rate. A 1.04x speed up is probably not what the author had in mind but it is still a speed up.
Hate to tell you this, but there isn't a single person named "hackers" here.
We're talking about many thousands of vastly different people with wildly different mindsets on any subject you can think of.
Sure, but I assumed we were talking about the usual "black hat" motivated by financial gain. And I think GP referred to them too "Real shitstains who would throw a puppy off a bridge for a quarter". I suppose that, for example, a hacker using exploits to reveal the wrongdoings of a hospital is not what GP had in mind. About hackers killing people, we often here stories about how they could kill but very few, if any, actual cases. So I assumed that in general, hackers aren't killers.
It is not much more horrible to attack the healthcare industry than any other. Hackers aren't after human lives, it attracts too much attention and doesn't pay well. They are after your bank account, and emptying your bank account from a hospital is not worse than emptying it from an e-commerce site.
The real evil here are all the people who legally exploit the system by overpricing essential drugs, equipment and services because the insurance will pay, insurance themselves for changing monster premiums for said monster fees and paying only after being threatened by a lawyer, who is the final link of this rotten chain.
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I was talking about upgrading to Windows 7, not from Windows 7.
If you have XP, Vista, or anything older, you can't upgrade for free to neither Windows 7 nor Windows 10.
And if you have Windows 8.x or Windows 10, you can't go back to Windows 7 without a paid license. For some, 8-10 to 7 is the upgrade.
The "moronic part of our population" think they are far more capable at controlling a vehicle than they really are. I'd rather have them rely on a rather effective semi-autopilot than drive like the morons they are.
And BTW, if you assume that the moronic part of the population includes most of it, statistically, you are likely to be part of it.
It seems that UFS at least gets rid of that useless DRM in SD cards.
SD means "secure digital" with "secure" meaning DRM. And not only it is an unwanted feature for most users but it also wastes a significant amount of space (10% according to Wikipedia).
If you want and ad blocking Chrome you have the option of using #NoChromo or, if you have a Snapdragon SoC, a CAF Chromium build like RSBrowser.
CAF Chromium has the added bonus of being significantly faster than vanilla Chrome.
I hope it is your own truck. Because otherwise, you will be tracked even more than in the office. GPS tracking devices are becoming the norm and they are probably considering microphones and cameras too.
Uber is not ride sharing.
Ride sharing is when I intend to go from A to B and I accept to take you with me with or without financial compensation. Uber drivers have no intention doing the trip for themselves, they only do it for you in exchange for money. Unless you are using UberPool, they don't even take other passengers along the way. There is absolutely no sharing involved. If you don't want to call it taxi, call it "chauffeur" or "car with driver" service but not ride-sharing.
Real ride-sharing services exist, and they don't look at all like Uber. The difference being that the driver decide on the time and destination and the price is much lower since the driver is not expected to make a profit.
Well, according to the HR department of my company, "dinosaurs" are in high demand right now.
Food can be genetically modified for taste, it is just that it is not what the food industry is looking for. They want high yield, good preservation, safety and an attractive look to the potential buyer. Taste is an afterthought.
It is not even a disaster for the EU. Don't forget that GB isn't in the eurozone and Shengen. They never played along with the rest of the EU.
The French considered an exit for a long time but even now that is probably the time where a "frexit" is the most appealing, the majority wants to stay. In fact only the Front National wants France to leave the EU, and they will never win the elections.
Yes there is. There is a VR section on PornHub.
There is still not much because it is a new thing and it requires significantly different filming techniques.
In France, when an operator installs broadband in a building, after 6 month, he must allow competitors to rent the lines for a regulated price. This was done to avoid the situation where some buildings had fiber from multiple operators where others had nothing.
It can be useful as a way to prevent the landlord-isp-tenant conflict since once the building is cabled, there is no need for other operators to access it.
BTW, this rule didn't prevent operators from investing and I would't be surprised if it was a EU-wide decision.
Google Keep is nice but I noticed a big flaw.
If you accidentally delete the content of a note (not the note itself) on the Android app, there is no way to recover it. It can happen if you select a large amount of text and press a key. The note is almost immediately synced and Android has no "undo". Also there are no convenient backup options.
So, you shouldn't use it for notes that you actually want to keep...
The Windows 7 upgrade isn't free unfortunately.
How about decriminalizing drug use, like in Portugal?
Decriminalization doesn't mean legalization. It just mean that you aren't going to jail for drug use. You can still get an administrative punishment, like a small fine, which can be waived it you show that you are willing to do something about it, like following an addiction treatment.
At work we have an decades-old Oracle database, with constraints turned off and the inevitable inconsistencies.
Ask anyone who has to work on it : "terror database" would be an worthy name.
Now they just raise the prices on select items far above the price of their competitors, then only sell it to you for the normal price if you hand over your personal data.
Just go to the competitors. You don't have to buy everything at the same place.
Why should I switch my iPhone to an Android phone again?
It probably doesn't matter to you now because you already bought the iPhone but the obvious answer is to save money.
The cheapest iPhone is $400 but $700+ is more common. With Amazon's offer, you can get a $50 smartphone. Not the same market at all.
I guess that gets the price of a surface pro 4 down from "insanely overpriced" to "absurdly overpriced".
That's still a step down from "ludicrously overpriced".
A bit off topic but the picture in TFA representing said nucleus seems to be moving even though it is not, like some kind of optical illusion. Did anyone else noticed this?
But I spend too much time on Slashdot.
There is a whole generation of kids who learned English as non-native speakers through video games.
The "secret criteria" is probably along the lines of "criteria X statistical significance is 0.02456 and a weight of -0.12466 improves the predictions by 0.03154". The criteria is probably not secret but rather completely opaque for the human mind.
In Europe, the standard for video is PAL, which is 25/50 Hz. The standard for film is 24 Hz.
As a result, when it came to video, most movies were sped up 25/24 to match the standard. This kind of manipulation is becoming obsolete now that TVs can work at the proper refresh rate.
A 1.04x speed up is probably not what the author had in mind but it is still a speed up.
Hate to tell you this, but there isn't a single person named "hackers" here.
We're talking about many thousands of vastly different people with wildly different mindsets on any subject you can think of.
Sure, but I assumed we were talking about the usual "black hat" motivated by financial gain. And I think GP referred to them too "Real shitstains who would throw a puppy off a bridge for a quarter". I suppose that, for example, a hacker using exploits to reveal the wrongdoings of a hospital is not what GP had in mind.
About hackers killing people, we often here stories about how they could kill but very few, if any, actual cases. So I assumed that in general, hackers aren't killers.
It is not much more horrible to attack the healthcare industry than any other.
Hackers aren't after human lives, it attracts too much attention and doesn't pay well.
They are after your bank account, and emptying your bank account from a hospital is not worse than emptying it from an e-commerce site.
The real evil here are all the people who legally exploit the system by overpricing essential drugs, equipment and services because the insurance will pay, insurance themselves for changing monster premiums for said monster fees and paying only after being threatened by a lawyer, who is the final link of this rotten chain.