It makes excellent use of screen space on netbooks, and overloads almost every combination of arrow keys and meta keys to do something nifty like merge window into half the screen, or move it to another workspace, or switch viewing workspaces. It uses fairly low RAM, and CPU resources. I use a 2 GB RAM (1 GB is ZRAM'd) laptop with a CELERON processor and until I fill up the RAM, it's snappy. I run apache. I do development work in C/C++/D/Python and more. I take business notes and do recordings. I play old windows games like Fallout 1 and 2 with Wine. All from my crappy little laptop.
I FINALLY get used to this damn thing after Canonical is like "fuck what you want, you'll use Unity, you bitch, because IT'S BETTER." and now we find out that "better" means "whatever I like today (and maybe not tomorrow)." By switching back to GNOME they've basically lost any good faith that they knew what they were doing when they selected Unity.
Whoever is making decisions at Canonical, they're complete morons. They have no real plans. And they don't understand their users at all. (Like their insane Ubuntu-integrated Amazon adsense debacle.)
Everyone knows, rule by witchhunt creates the best workplace and products.
People look back on history condescendingly about the Salem Witch Trials and "how could people be so ignorant." Then you look at what's happening right now. There's some biological / social urge to "Weed out the aliens/different/toxic entity" within an organization.
There's no difference. There's no moral high ground. The same justifications only a different set of victims this time around. History repeats.
The hippies that used to protest their clean cut bosses are now the ones crushing the minorities. History repeats.
Guess you guys shouldn't have given up your guns, eh?
I'll never be able to figure out how liberals think gun ownership is pointless when you have a police force (actual US supreme court justice dissenting opinion in D.C. v Heller), but at the same time think the police force is inept and the bastion of racism and sexism.
Which is it? Can we depend on them or not? Why would you take all the guns away from people, and then give them to the people accused of shooting blacks for fun? Wouldn't it make more sense to give citizens the right to defend themselves--even from corrupt cops and corrupt "institutions"?
You say that, but the definition problem with INS is dead reckoning. Error accumulates unless you have a known landmark to reference. Change your flight path one degree, and over the course of TENS OF MILES, how far off would you be? I don't have the trig out right now. But I can confidently tell you, it's a substantial number.
So while a nuke would certainly do damage to whatever it hits, we'd really need to pull out the math to see whether INS alone is enough to hit a city / state / country or it'll just falling into the ocean and nuke some dolphins. (Good, because I for one, don't welcome our potential finned overlords.)
BREAKING NEWS: Deep anonymous Trump department insider leaked new information by directly releasing info on Trump's Twitter. In fact, the leaker may have been the President himself, proving the administration is corrupt all the way to the top.
The leaks indicate that Trump has "plans" to continue his presidency instead of voluntarily resigning, proving that he is worse than Hitler.
The GPS system is also controlled by... the USA. Which can be shut off or reduced accuracy for an area. Which in fact, they actually did for years and only somewhat recently was "military-grade precision" actually given to consumers. Bill Clinton ended it in 2000. It's called "Selective Availability." But they can re-enable it at any time should some dumbasses in North Korea decide to use GPS.
Technically, they said "they would never use SA again." But does anyone really believe that? ONE area where the USA just says "Screw it. We'll tap everyone's phones but we wouldn't dare shut off this gigantic array of satellites WE build, run, and support, if someone was using them to nuke us."
Now, perhaps they might try using the Russian equivalent, GLONASS, system. But Russia knows how to leverage itself. If they knew NK was using GLONASS, they would USE that leverage to bargin. But they (and China) wouldn't just let NK start World War 3. It's about letting assholes get away with "as much as possible" to gain leverage but never letting them "actually do something bad" because then the leverage disappears and the entire political climate changes. (That is, Russia and China don't want WW3 unless they know they can win it and not be crippled for a hundred years afterward.)
Actually, MSPaint is being discontinued and people still love it.
Then again, MS broke it in Windows 7 and literally never fixed it since then. Go ahead, zoom 2x or higher, and try and adjust the canvas size by shrinking it inward. The second you let go, it actually shrinks further in.
Also, Microsoft discontinues SUPPORT of products before they even discontinue them. Everything has to be Office 365. Got Office 2010? It'll work with CRM 2016. Except it won't, because you need the CRM Plugin for Outlook which DOESN'T support 2010.
BUT WAIT. It also only supports IE10 and IE11. No Edge browser. Wait. WHAT? (And God forbid they support competitors browsers on this thing called The Internet which is supposed to be designed for compatibility.) Even funnier is, when we were supporting a client, we had to escalate to the (India) Microsoft CRM team, who then instructed us to "Try using it in Chrome" when IE kept breaking.
Microsoft is a complete shitshow of compatibility. Half of it is intentional, the other half is their company is in complete disarray. Every year I support their products, I lose a little more respect for them. I have written page-long replies on Slashdot before detailing my horror with their lack of actual compatibility between products. (Like how you can make textfields in SQL that are too long that will crash Microsoft's import/export tool. So you can basically never migrate certain databases without insane workarounds like 3rd-party ODBC drivers.)
Like... what the hell is going on in Canada? And how long are Canadians going to stand around before they burn the place down and put this thing called a reasonable "Bill of Rights" into their constitution.
Because it's pure insanity to allow a party to directly inspect a defendant's property (as opposed to having the police / third-party investigator do it).
For every attack people put on the USA (and many are warranted), I look over at the UK and Canada and watch back in horror as their civil liberties are worth less than the paper they aren't printed on.
...on my Android phone. Except my phone is full, so every update... I have to delete another app, or clear the cache for it to download.
It's !#@$!ing pathetic.
I've got maybe 4 apps that aren't stock on my phone. It runs slow as piss compared to the two years ago when I bought it used. A freakin Samsung S5. You know... an "enterprise model / top-of-the-line" phone when it came out. No Facebook. Nothing. Just Google's, T-Mobile and Samsung's defaults.
"Maybe you just need to upgrade."
Bull. Shit. It's got a quad-core CPU and a GPU that would make my netbook cry, and yet... somehow... my Linux laptop sits there, every day, just as fast. And my phone keeps getting slower. Same websites. Same hardware (from purchase date). And yet... mysteriously... it keeps getting slower.
I would not be surprised at all if there's some planned obsolescence at play. I've seen countless stories of people "reseting to factory default" their phone or tablet, and then once it installed all the normal updates... it's slow as mud again. It shouldn't take me 7+ seconds to load my bloody GMAIL app on a quadcore ghz CPU. It's _e-mail_. It's practically a word processor without the word processing.
Then again, it's probably just a conspiracy theory. It's not like large corporations have ever colluded to bypass things like environmental regulations to increase profit.
The onscreen surface keyboard is actually pretty nice. The special characters aren't as hidden as they are on Android/iOS so you can... you know... actually TYPE a password or directory/url in a reasonable time.
Everything else about that closed-shit-system however... not so nice.
p.s. Fuck Microsoft for selling Windows RT tablets... and then discontinuing their support immediately.
>I want one standard for charging, and one type of connector, so I can drive up to any charging station without worrying about it being the wrong kind.
While clearly that's ideal. I'm not sure how hard it would be. I mean, some cars will be able to charge faster than others. So even if the charger "knows" the maximum rate, the charger may not be rated as high and it'll still charge slower. And this is assuming all vehicles are running the exact same voltage at the connector and converting it to what they need. Except that could also be a PITA because then the internal voltage converter is going to have to take up weight, may be physically large, and is an additional conversion efficiency loss (read: lots of heat).
I'm sure a "best compromise" can be made. But it's certainly not a simple endeavor. We don't know what electric cars are going to be like in 2030, or even 2020. What if a new battery technology comes out (with drastically different charging profile / voltage / current ratings) and all our chargers are "adapted" to lithium-ion? We'll need another "compatibility layer" on top of the existing one which could be another source of inefficiency (supporting "new" chargers and "old, 2017" chargers requiring separate large DC-DC transformers). Who knows.
Whatever "standard" comes out really needs to be a group effort with FORWARD compatibility as a key.
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I keep saying this: Unity isn't half bad.
It makes excellent use of screen space on netbooks, and overloads almost every combination of arrow keys and meta keys to do something nifty like merge window into half the screen, or move it to another workspace, or switch viewing workspaces. It uses fairly low RAM, and CPU resources. I use a 2 GB RAM (1 GB is ZRAM'd) laptop with a CELERON processor and until I fill up the RAM, it's snappy. I run apache. I do development work in C/C++/D/Python and more. I take business notes and do recordings. I play old windows games like Fallout 1 and 2 with Wine. All from my crappy little laptop.
I FINALLY get used to this damn thing after Canonical is like "fuck what you want, you'll use Unity, you bitch, because IT'S BETTER." and now we find out that "better" means "whatever I like today (and maybe not tomorrow)." By switching back to GNOME they've basically lost any good faith that they knew what they were doing when they selected Unity.
Whoever is making decisions at Canonical, they're complete morons. They have no real plans. And they don't understand their users at all. (Like their insane Ubuntu-integrated Amazon adsense debacle.)
You uh... didn't actually read his letter, did you?
Because he's got a Ph.D in biology. ... and worked as a scientist at... MIT.
And his memo is also backed by four different scientists who reviewed it.
http://quillette.com/2017/08/0...
Goddamn science and their facts backed by peer-reviewed research!
Except he filed an national labor board complaint. If they had retaliated against him for that at a previous incident, that's illegal.
So grab some popcorn 'cuz this is gonna be fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Everyone knows, rule by witchhunt creates the best workplace and products.
People look back on history condescendingly about the Salem Witch Trials and "how could people be so ignorant." Then you look at what's happening right now. There's some biological / social urge to "Weed out the aliens/different/toxic entity" within an organization.
There's no difference. There's no moral high ground. The same justifications only a different set of victims this time around. History repeats.
The hippies that used to protest their clean cut bosses are now the ones crushing the minorities. History repeats.
Guess you guys shouldn't have given up your guns, eh?
I'll never be able to figure out how liberals think gun ownership is pointless when you have a police force (actual US supreme court justice dissenting opinion in D.C. v Heller), but at the same time think the police force is inept and the bastion of racism and sexism.
Which is it? Can we depend on them or not? Why would you take all the guns away from people, and then give them to the people accused of shooting blacks for fun? Wouldn't it make more sense to give citizens the right to defend themselves--even from corrupt cops and corrupt "institutions"?
But if it's man, like Hulk Hogan's sex tape, it's "journalism." And Slashdot curators don't give two shits.
You say that, but the definition problem with INS is dead reckoning. Error accumulates unless you have a known landmark to reference. Change your flight path one degree, and over the course of TENS OF MILES, how far off would you be? I don't have the trig out right now. But I can confidently tell you, it's a substantial number.
So while a nuke would certainly do damage to whatever it hits, we'd really need to pull out the math to see whether INS alone is enough to hit a city / state / country or it'll just falling into the ocean and nuke some dolphins. (Good, because I for one, don't welcome our potential finned overlords.)
We basically said the same thing.
What's next?
BREAKING NEWS: Deep anonymous Trump department insider leaked new information by directly releasing info on Trump's Twitter. In fact, the leaker may have been the President himself, proving the administration is corrupt all the way to the top.
The leaks indicate that Trump has "plans" to continue his presidency instead of voluntarily resigning, proving that he is worse than Hitler.
Fake News at 11.
Uhhh, GPS chips are required by law to disable for altitudes and velocities common for missiles.
http://gizmodo.com/5824905/you...
The GPS system is also controlled by... the USA. Which can be shut off or reduced accuracy for an area. Which in fact, they actually did for years and only somewhat recently was "military-grade precision" actually given to consumers. Bill Clinton ended it in 2000. It's called "Selective Availability." But they can re-enable it at any time should some dumbasses in North Korea decide to use GPS.
Technically, they said "they would never use SA again." But does anyone really believe that? ONE area where the USA just says "Screw it. We'll tap everyone's phones but we wouldn't dare shut off this gigantic array of satellites WE build, run, and support, if someone was using them to nuke us."
Now, perhaps they might try using the Russian equivalent, GLONASS, system. But Russia knows how to leverage itself. If they knew NK was using GLONASS, they would USE that leverage to bargin. But they (and China) wouldn't just let NK start World War 3. It's about letting assholes get away with "as much as possible" to gain leverage but never letting them "actually do something bad" because then the leverage disappears and the entire political climate changes. (That is, Russia and China don't want WW3 unless they know they can win it and not be crippled for a hundred years afterward.)
How will Nissan survive both ENGINEERING and MARKETING their cars?!
Those are two different skills!
It's insane. I can't choose to "not work" with my coworkers because IT'S MY GODDAMN JOB TO WORK WITH THEM.
..the faults only happen for people with massive parallel loads.
You know... the main reason people buy the CPUs.
100% right. Everything from a Russian newspaper is propaganda.
Unlike our own press which is never propoganda. Also, the Iraq war never happened.
Open source always means no privacy violations!
Just ask Canonical!
Actually, MSPaint is being discontinued and people still love it.
Then again, MS broke it in Windows 7 and literally never fixed it since then. Go ahead, zoom 2x or higher, and try and adjust the canvas size by shrinking it inward. The second you let go, it actually shrinks further in.
Also, Microsoft discontinues SUPPORT of products before they even discontinue them. Everything has to be Office 365. Got Office 2010? It'll work with CRM 2016. Except it won't, because you need the CRM Plugin for Outlook which DOESN'T support 2010.
BUT WAIT. It also only supports IE10 and IE11. No Edge browser. Wait. WHAT? (And God forbid they support competitors browsers on this thing called The Internet which is supposed to be designed for compatibility.) Even funnier is, when we were supporting a client, we had to escalate to the (India) Microsoft CRM team, who then instructed us to "Try using it in Chrome" when IE kept breaking.
Microsoft is a complete shitshow of compatibility. Half of it is intentional, the other half is their company is in complete disarray. Every year I support their products, I lose a little more respect for them. I have written page-long replies on Slashdot before detailing my horror with their lack of actual compatibility between products. (Like how you can make textfields in SQL that are too long that will crash Microsoft's import/export tool. So you can basically never migrate certain databases without insane workarounds like 3rd-party ODBC drivers.)
...disturbing.
Like... what the hell is going on in Canada? And how long are Canadians going to stand around before they burn the place down and put this thing called a reasonable "Bill of Rights" into their constitution.
Because it's pure insanity to allow a party to directly inspect a defendant's property (as opposed to having the police / third-party investigator do it).
For every attack people put on the USA (and many are warranted), I look over at the UK and Canada and watch back in horror as their civil liberties are worth less than the paper they aren't printed on.
...on my Android phone. Except my phone is full, so every update... I have to delete another app, or clear the cache for it to download.
It's !#@$!ing pathetic.
I've got maybe 4 apps that aren't stock on my phone. It runs slow as piss compared to the two years ago when I bought it used. A freakin Samsung S5. You know... an "enterprise model / top-of-the-line" phone when it came out. No Facebook. Nothing. Just Google's, T-Mobile and Samsung's defaults.
"Maybe you just need to upgrade."
Bull. Shit. It's got a quad-core CPU and a GPU that would make my netbook cry, and yet... somehow... my Linux laptop sits there, every day, just as fast. And my phone keeps getting slower. Same websites. Same hardware (from purchase date). And yet... mysteriously... it keeps getting slower.
I would not be surprised at all if there's some planned obsolescence at play. I've seen countless stories of people "reseting to factory default" their phone or tablet, and then once it installed all the normal updates... it's slow as mud again. It shouldn't take me 7+ seconds to load my bloody GMAIL app on a quadcore ghz CPU. It's _e-mail_. It's practically a word processor without the word processing.
Then again, it's probably just a conspiracy theory. It's not like large corporations have ever colluded to bypass things like environmental regulations to increase profit.
The onscreen surface keyboard is actually pretty nice. The special characters aren't as hidden as they are on Android/iOS so you can... you know... actually TYPE a password or directory/url in a reasonable time.
Everything else about that closed-shit-system however... not so nice.
p.s. Fuck Microsoft for selling Windows RT tablets... and then discontinuing their support immediately.
You sound like you don't like drag queens very much. That's not very progressive.
>I want one standard for charging, and one type of connector, so I can drive up to any charging station without worrying about it being the wrong kind.
While clearly that's ideal. I'm not sure how hard it would be. I mean, some cars will be able to charge faster than others. So even if the charger "knows" the maximum rate, the charger may not be rated as high and it'll still charge slower. And this is assuming all vehicles are running the exact same voltage at the connector and converting it to what they need. Except that could also be a PITA because then the internal voltage converter is going to have to take up weight, may be physically large, and is an additional conversion efficiency loss (read: lots of heat).
I'm sure a "best compromise" can be made. But it's certainly not a simple endeavor. We don't know what electric cars are going to be like in 2030, or even 2020. What if a new battery technology comes out (with drastically different charging profile / voltage / current ratings) and all our chargers are "adapted" to lithium-ion? We'll need another "compatibility layer" on top of the existing one which could be another source of inefficiency (supporting "new" chargers and "old, 2017" chargers requiring separate large DC-DC transformers). Who knows.
Whatever "standard" comes out really needs to be a group effort with FORWARD compatibility as a key.
It's been an open and "closed" issue for years. YEARS.
Duh.
You want to know the information that's never abused, and never hacked? The _information you never gather._
...stop crashing my file explorer in Windows 7 with their crappy API hooks.