False, meat production is responsible for around 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Stop mixing up your feelings on your personal food choices with what is required of our species to actually survive the coming centuries.
The Picasa Desktop Picture Viewer is excellent, starts up extremely fast and is visually pleasing while supporting a whole host of formats. If they're dropping it from their products list at least open source this component.
There's nothing strange about the lack of updates, anyone having read the Winamp forums (alive through all this) knows that they had to remove large parts of the AOL code and had already announced a very tentative 2015 re-release date. They've started alpha builds recently, so everything is proceeding smoothly.
Ever heard of different needs of different people? When you temporarily need a tab for later you keep it open that is why tabs exist, having multiple web pages organised and instantly available instead of hidden behind layers of clicks. If you've ever done extensive online research on a subject out of personal curiosity tab multiplication is a normal process and tab groups are a great way of going about it. Mozilla barely advertised the feature and hid it in a corner of the customisation UI with no way for the casual user to discover it, of course it did not gain traction. I use it regularly and am frankly sad to see it go as it was just a case of badly advertised features.
There's an ongoing trend with technologies that are somewhat similar to sci-fi tropes but do not do what those devices do that is worrying these days, recent examples:
1. Hoverboards that require metal surfaces instead of floating over anything (you know, hover?)
2. Tractor beams that are actually high intensity wave generators, need a medium to travel through and do not have anywhere near the level of power and flexibility an actual tractor beam has (it's not even a beam!)
This is not to diminish the achievement of the existing technologies but please stop calling them by the wrong names.
Google should really start providing a search context or search persona system that allows you as the user to explicitly specify what sort of results you're looking for (e.g. programmer, chemistry student, hipster trash) as well as a plain no filter bubble option. I'm also encountering issues such as those pointed out by OP.
After Windows 8 and MS gutting so many important sub-systems to fast-track release on mobiles and tossing out decades of UI design guidelines to only produce pathetic unusable interfaces (with bad documentation) to seem touch-oriented and competitive, Windows 10 might be the only chance MS ever gets at keeping its crown in the OS space. People have options now although most will stick with Windows 7 or whatever bespoke solutions they are using. Sure, MS is expanding into services and trying to get a cross-device strategy working (with some encouraging signs) but it never achieved success on mobile. If it cannot provide a true desktop experience it may just fall flat in promoting its other product lines that generally rely on developers using its platform end to end. By now most UI designers hopefully realised touch and desktop are two paradigms so chimera interfaces missing critical options and properly designed workflows like Win8 are something to avoid. We do live in a strange age where the technological capability exists but many of the designers and builders making use of them have forgotten about things like reliability, privacy, security and giving control to the user, hopefully things change.
Firefox has this add-on called Quickdrag (there are some clones around but this one is clean, small and simple) with a very basic premise but it's one of the greatest speed boosters I've ever had the pleasure of using: drag and drop any piece of text and it automatically launches a search on the search engine enabled in the search bar. If it's a link, it'll open a new tab with the link as URL. It's so simple to use but is a huge time saver. A few things to bear in mind however: since it hasn't been updated in quite a long time one of its functions which saves a dragged and dropped image (not being captured by javascript that is) doesn't work and you must manually disable adware using the last option in its option menu.
There was another small fusion reactor claim earlier this week, what with quantum computing work progressing steadily and finally seemingly positive news on the fusion front it looks like we're heading towards some major shifts in how the world runs within the next decades!
What I'm more concerned about is how much of this "test data collection" program will accidentally end up in the final build as one of the many undocumented functions in Windows.
I've been wanting this information for ages, thanks! Also, will be quite interesting to use this information in some upcoming C++ classes I'll be teaching.
Which is exactly what I ended up doing, XP is not worth the bother anymore, it is completely outclassed by modern operating systems as far as the consumer space is concerned. Any enterprise solution relying on it really needs an upgrade, it's become clunky and is limiting progress to continue supporting XP, even MS breaks XP compatibility for XP in VS2013.
The very fact that I mentioned the SATA drivers already answers the less savory part of your comment, meaning I know and tried injecting them and even then no dice. That's something "Anyone with a brain" can deduce from the sentence.
The other funny thing is that to get root access or flashing custom firmware to one's Android device instead of using the term rootkits and exploits it's called "rooting", it's the same problem either way: no major mobile platform is truly open, no matter what the marketing departments of said platforms spin it as. This whole scene reminds me of the early PC era where Apple was locking off its platform and dominating sales until IBM came and invented the open PC architecture that we all use today (although it became itself a locked-in vendor until the clones took it out of the consumer space with MS supporting both sides of the playing field). Although with the standardisation of component suppliers, SoC featuresets and form factors I do think the day of the modular smartphone/tablet is nearer than many would usually expect, then we'll probably be able to breathe more freely.
Actually that's one of the reasons why I would not recommend anyone with a PC produced in the past 5 years to even consider XP as a main OS outside of a virtual machine, there just aren't any drivers for it! I tried installing it on a fairly recently purchased desktop and the lack of SATA drivers and other installation issues ended up messing up my recovery partition. XP is just popular for compatibility with old hardware and software as far as I can see, I think that for the vast majority of consumer users, 7 is a much better choice as it has matured and is not only a better user experience but has definite security, usability and productivity features built in (and funnily enough part of that comes from a shared kernel with Vista and the software compatibility established over 2006-2009).
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False, meat production is responsible for around 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Stop mixing up your feelings on your personal food choices with what is required of our species to actually survive the coming centuries.
Well said, bravo! Bravo!
The Picasa Desktop Picture Viewer is excellent, starts up extremely fast and is visually pleasing while supporting a whole host of formats. If they're dropping it from their products list at least open source this component.
There's nothing strange about the lack of updates, anyone having read the Winamp forums (alive through all this) knows that they had to remove large parts of the AOL code and had already announced a very tentative 2015 re-release date. They've started alpha builds recently, so everything is proceeding smoothly.
There's a reason you're an anonymous coward, whining like that could probably be heard from the moon.
Ever heard of different needs of different people? When you temporarily need a tab for later you keep it open that is why tabs exist, having multiple web pages organised and instantly available instead of hidden behind layers of clicks. If you've ever done extensive online research on a subject out of personal curiosity tab multiplication is a normal process and tab groups are a great way of going about it. Mozilla barely advertised the feature and hid it in a corner of the customisation UI with no way for the casual user to discover it, of course it did not gain traction. I use it regularly and am frankly sad to see it go as it was just a case of badly advertised features.
There's an ongoing trend with technologies that are somewhat similar to sci-fi tropes but do not do what those devices do that is worrying these days, recent examples: 1. Hoverboards that require metal surfaces instead of floating over anything (you know, hover?) 2. Tractor beams that are actually high intensity wave generators, need a medium to travel through and do not have anywhere near the level of power and flexibility an actual tractor beam has (it's not even a beam!) This is not to diminish the achievement of the existing technologies but please stop calling them by the wrong names.
Thanks, does this refer to some older form of RAM too?
I found information on PC100 but what's korr?
Google should really start providing a search context or search persona system that allows you as the user to explicitly specify what sort of results you're looking for (e.g. programmer, chemistry student, hipster trash) as well as a plain no filter bubble option. I'm also encountering issues such as those pointed out by OP.
After Windows 8 and MS gutting so many important sub-systems to fast-track release on mobiles and tossing out decades of UI design guidelines to only produce pathetic unusable interfaces (with bad documentation) to seem touch-oriented and competitive, Windows 10 might be the only chance MS ever gets at keeping its crown in the OS space. People have options now although most will stick with Windows 7 or whatever bespoke solutions they are using. Sure, MS is expanding into services and trying to get a cross-device strategy working (with some encouraging signs) but it never achieved success on mobile. If it cannot provide a true desktop experience it may just fall flat in promoting its other product lines that generally rely on developers using its platform end to end. By now most UI designers hopefully realised touch and desktop are two paradigms so chimera interfaces missing critical options and properly designed workflows like Win8 are something to avoid. We do live in a strange age where the technological capability exists but many of the designers and builders making use of them have forgotten about things like reliability, privacy, security and giving control to the user, hopefully things change.
They switched it off when they got noticed, then when it cooled down came back :p
Firefox has this add-on called Quickdrag (there are some clones around but this one is clean, small and simple) with a very basic premise but it's one of the greatest speed boosters I've ever had the pleasure of using: drag and drop any piece of text and it automatically launches a search on the search engine enabled in the search bar. If it's a link, it'll open a new tab with the link as URL. It's so simple to use but is a huge time saver. A few things to bear in mind however: since it hasn't been updated in quite a long time one of its functions which saves a dragged and dropped image (not being captured by javascript that is) doesn't work and you must manually disable adware using the last option in its option menu.
Have seen their fair share of star-eating monsters, the one in All-Star Superman comes to mind (forgot its name).
There was another small fusion reactor claim earlier this week, what with quantum computing work progressing steadily and finally seemingly positive news on the fusion front it looks like we're heading towards some major shifts in how the world runs within the next decades!
What I'm more concerned about is how much of this "test data collection" program will accidentally end up in the final build as one of the many undocumented functions in Windows.
I've been wanting this information for ages, thanks! Also, will be quite interesting to use this information in some upcoming C++ classes I'll be teaching.
Strangely enough that seems to match the aftermath of my own fight against depression, thanks for the insight on how antidepressants work.
Which is exactly what I ended up doing, XP is not worth the bother anymore, it is completely outclassed by modern operating systems as far as the consumer space is concerned. Any enterprise solution relying on it really needs an upgrade, it's become clunky and is limiting progress to continue supporting XP, even MS breaks XP compatibility for XP in VS2013.
The very fact that I mentioned the SATA drivers already answers the less savory part of your comment, meaning I know and tried injecting them and even then no dice. That's something "Anyone with a brain" can deduce from the sentence.
Even rats want Pentium Inside?
The other funny thing is that to get root access or flashing custom firmware to one's Android device instead of using the term rootkits and exploits it's called "rooting", it's the same problem either way: no major mobile platform is truly open, no matter what the marketing departments of said platforms spin it as. This whole scene reminds me of the early PC era where Apple was locking off its platform and dominating sales until IBM came and invented the open PC architecture that we all use today (although it became itself a locked-in vendor until the clones took it out of the consumer space with MS supporting both sides of the playing field). Although with the standardisation of component suppliers, SoC featuresets and form factors I do think the day of the modular smartphone/tablet is nearer than many would usually expect, then we'll probably be able to breathe more freely.
Actually that's one of the reasons why I would not recommend anyone with a PC produced in the past 5 years to even consider XP as a main OS outside of a virtual machine, there just aren't any drivers for it! I tried installing it on a fairly recently purchased desktop and the lack of SATA drivers and other installation issues ended up messing up my recovery partition. XP is just popular for compatibility with old hardware and software as far as I can see, I think that for the vast majority of consumer users, 7 is a much better choice as it has matured and is not only a better user experience but has definite security, usability and productivity features built in (and funnily enough part of that comes from a shared kernel with Vista and the software compatibility established over 2006-2009).
If I had any moderator points, I would upvote you, well said!
"Anonymous coward" or not, you sir/madame have just done the internet a great service. More GoG is always good, even Time magazine thinks so! Proof: http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/50-best-websites-2013/slide/gog-com/