I just did a migration for a Windows 7 customer to a new Windows 10 machine. Manually get all of the accounts and settings on the new system set up like the ones on the old system. Copy over all the data folders. Change over from the old Windows Live email setup to the new Windows 10 Outlook that won't import Windows 7 mail archives and with the People contacts application that doesn't work. Then for the hard part: wait while user thrashes through every file cabinet and closet box looking for his software install discs so I can reinstall the applications. In three cases, download a trial-mode application copy from the company site and wait while user calls Support to wheedle for a usable copy of a license key that he last used eight years ago. Elapsed time, about five hours.
Now a Münchner were to migrate from an old Mac to a new Mac, all he needs to do is unmount the up-to-date Time Machine backup drive from the old machine, plug it into the new machine, click on Migration Assistant, and go pour a Spaten Optimator while it sets up the new machine to be just like the old machine, including all the installed applications.
"Why? ISTR Apple has never had a single iOS compromise unless it was a jailbroken device."
Because the mindset here is that living in daily fear of the next ransomware attack is for some reason preferable to Apple's walled garden. I myself am happy in the walled garden so long as there are still apps for all my use cases.
Their argument is that if ticket resale were allowed, "speculators" would buy up all the tickets to games and concerts and sell them off at exorbitant prices.
Here in Arizona, ticket resale for any event from a string quartet to the Super Bowl has been legal for years, and I have not heard of a single case of market distortion caused by ticket hoarding for resale. There are even special resale areas near stadiums where ticket resellers gather.
Given this open market situation, no reseller wants to take on the risk of monopolizing blocks of event tickets that they may suddenly find they can't sell. Rather than trying to be better at judging the market than the event promoters themselves, they make lesser but certain money on the brokerage spread, providing a resale market for people who cannot make use of a purchased ticket when their plans change. http://cronkitenewsonline.com/...
Arizonans wish we had jurisdiction to provide a resale market for all those non-refundable airline tickets that people have to throw away when something comes up and they can't make a flight. Airlines would be able to sell non-refundable flights without needing a tribunal to read doctor's notes and listen to endless sob stories. AT the same time, passengers would be able to recoup part of their loss for a foregone flight. Can we get the new DOT to take another look at this idea?
Though the majority of cancers overall occur in old age, a lot of them also strike during reproductive years. Just look at all the cancers that home in on female plumbing.
Right now the 'common speed' (including the windage cops give you in most states) is limited by human mental processing speed and reaction time. When automated cars take over and all the "manual" cars have aged off the road, I can see a Great Speedup taking place as traffic reaches the maximum rate that physics and passenger comfort will allow. We will have to hash over such questions as, will passengers tolerate 1G cornering if cars can be designed to safely do it?
Automated vehicles scrupulously obey speed limits and traffic signage, which is why human drivers find the current beta cars annoying in traffic. And I'm talking about situations where an upgrade on the Interstate has a clearly labeled climbing lane that trucks are restricted to. Examples are I-17 southbound from Camp Verde, AZ and northbound from Black Canyon City.
Usually it's a Warren Buffet backed organization trying to mess with anything that could interfere with his rail investments. Automated trucks would fit the bill.
It will be easier to implement automated trains than automated trucks. And no more stoned train jockeys plowing through signals.
"Long-haul, on the other hand, makes a lot more sense for self-driving vehicles, especially if they're basically limited to the interstate highway system as a limited-access freeway model. "
In particular, a robot trucker will be less concerned with penis size than its human counterpart. A robot driver, grinding up a grade at 21 mph, is not going to leave the dedicated Trucks Only lane to vainly try passing a 20 mph truck, thereby blocking a long line of cars which could have passed by.
But now she will nag you to get back to the Thai escort spam emails you have been getting. She will also keep reminding you to make your mortgage larger.
Power and real estate are cheap in Phoenix and it doesn't have earthquakes. It also lacks the taxes and regulations that have made it impossible to do business in California.
Well for one thing, being able to buy from anywhere in the world will automatically mean "priced the same".
Any distributor would like to be able to segment the market so they discriminate on price if it could, but in the digital market that's a mug's game. You're right - digital content will, over time, tend to be priced the same everywhere, but I consider this a feature, not a bug. An author's cut of the digital pie, be it an expensive hardcover or a cheap paperback was no larger than it is now in the days when publishers controlled physical book markets - when digital prices get cheap, it's happening because the costs of physical distribution and middleman profit have been shaved out of the system.
Just for a moment, imagine that you are a creator of digital work that could be sold online, rather than being an AC troll. What possible reason would you have to prevent anyone, wherever they might be located in the world, from buying it?
"Ask most neighbors of air bnb rentals how they feel about having a different stranger live next to them every few days."...Say people in an urban area where they don't know their neighbors anyway. NYC regulations make it impossible to build any new housing units other than condos for the super-rich, so subletting apps are a natural way for the proles to eke out more living space.
If a city doesn't want to deal with this, then start making it easier to put up new apartment stock.
Yes, being in defense work made it more difficult than fir mist, because he needed a security clearance. The extreme vettting (as we call it today) this required would not apply to most tech workers.
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this will happen more and more often. The Republicans will just find new ways to lie to their selves that AGW doesn't exist.
May your bridge be wiped out by a jökulhlaup.
Let's all take a moment to remember (and laugh at) Microsoft's attempts to foist upon the world a smartphone that ran Windows.
To Microsoft's credit, it did usually start on the third pull.
I just did a migration for a Windows 7 customer to a new Windows 10 machine. Manually get all of the accounts and settings on the new system set up like the ones on the old system. Copy over all the data folders. Change over from the old Windows Live email setup to the new Windows 10 Outlook that won't import Windows 7 mail archives and with the People contacts application that doesn't work. Then for the hard part: wait while user thrashes through every file cabinet and closet box looking for his software install discs so I can reinstall the applications. In three cases, download a trial-mode application copy from the company site and wait while user calls Support to wheedle for a usable copy of a license key that he last used eight years ago. Elapsed time, about five hours.
Now a Münchner were to migrate from an old Mac to a new Mac, all he needs to do is unmount the up-to-date Time Machine backup drive from the old machine, plug it into the new machine, click on Migration Assistant, and go pour a Spaten Optimator while it sets up the new machine to be just like the old machine, including all the installed applications.
It's not Linux they object to, so much as devices that use electricity. They are hoping to standardize on cuneiform pressed into clay tablets.
It's a trap!
And hopefully not of the Deccan kind.
Nobody is going to be launching a campaign to, for example, drive the kea to extinction
Except maybe tourists who have had to pay up to fix rental cars that the little buggers have stripped.
Have NZ's scientists ever figured out what alpine parrots are building out of all those wiper blades? Do they have a secret base somewhere?
"Why? ISTR Apple has never had a single iOS compromise unless it was a jailbroken device."
Because the mindset here is that living in daily fear of the next ransomware attack is for some reason preferable to Apple's walled garden. I myself am happy in the walled garden so long as there are still apps for all my use cases.
Their argument is that if ticket resale were allowed, "speculators" would buy up all the tickets to games and concerts and sell them off at exorbitant prices.
Here in Arizona, ticket resale for any event from a string quartet to the Super Bowl has been legal for years, and I have not heard of a single case of market distortion caused by ticket hoarding for resale. There are even special resale areas near stadiums where ticket resellers gather.
Given this open market situation, no reseller wants to take on the risk of monopolizing blocks of event tickets that they may suddenly find they can't sell. Rather than trying to be better at judging the market than the event promoters themselves, they make lesser but certain money on the brokerage spread, providing a resale market for people who cannot make use of a purchased ticket when their plans change.
http://cronkitenewsonline.com/...
Arizonans wish we had jurisdiction to provide a resale market for all those non-refundable airline tickets that people have to throw away when something comes up and they can't make a flight. Airlines would be able to sell non-refundable flights without needing a tribunal to read doctor's notes and listen to endless sob stories. AT the same time, passengers would be able to recoup part of their loss for a foregone flight. Can we get the new DOT to take another look at this idea?
You ought to tweet that.
Automated vehicles annihilating cyclists who blow through stop signs and signals? This tech continues to spark off unexpected benefits.
Though the majority of cancers overall occur in old age, a lot of them also strike during reproductive years. Just look at all the cancers that home in on female plumbing.
It was bad enough in plants. Anyone who eats GMO salmonella gets what they deserve.
This will also kill Luddites, by selecting them out of the population. Our cancers get treated while theirs don't.
Right now the 'common speed' (including the windage cops give you in most states) is limited by human mental processing speed and reaction time. When automated cars take over and all the "manual" cars have aged off the road, I can see a Great Speedup taking place as traffic reaches the maximum rate that physics and passenger comfort will allow. We will have to hash over such questions as, will passengers tolerate 1G cornering if cars can be designed to safely do it?
Automated vehicles scrupulously obey speed limits and traffic signage, which is why human drivers find the current beta cars annoying in traffic. And I'm talking about situations where an upgrade on the Interstate has a clearly labeled climbing lane that trucks are restricted to. Examples are I-17 southbound from Camp Verde, AZ and northbound from Black Canyon City.
Usually it's a Warren Buffet backed organization trying to mess with anything that could interfere with his rail investments. Automated trucks would fit the bill.
It will be easier to implement automated trains than automated trucks. And no more stoned train jockeys plowing through signals.
"Long-haul, on the other hand, makes a lot more sense for self-driving vehicles, especially if they're basically limited to the interstate highway system as a limited-access freeway model. "
In particular, a robot trucker will be less concerned with penis size than its human counterpart. A robot driver, grinding up a grade at 21 mph, is not going to leave the dedicated Trucks Only lane to vainly try passing a 20 mph truck, thereby blocking a long line of cars which could have passed by.
Cortana doesn't compensate you with sex.
But now she will nag you to get back to the Thai escort spam emails you have been getting. She will also keep reminding you to make your mortgage larger.
Power and real estate are cheap in Phoenix and it doesn't have earthquakes. It also lacks the taxes and regulations that have made it impossible to do business in California.
Repug
What are you, 12?
This is why we would would prefer discussing technology to politics in this forum.
Well for one thing, being able to buy from anywhere in the world will automatically mean "priced the same".
Any distributor would like to be able to segment the market so they discriminate on price if it could, but in the digital market that's a mug's game. You're right - digital content will, over time, tend to be priced the same everywhere, but I consider this a feature, not a bug. An author's cut of the digital pie, be it an expensive hardcover or a cheap paperback was no larger than it is now in the days when publishers controlled physical book markets - when digital prices get cheap, it's happening because the costs of physical distribution and middleman profit have been shaved out of the system.
Just for a moment, imagine that you are a creator of digital work that could be sold online, rather than being an AC troll. What possible reason would you have to prevent anyone, wherever they might be located in the world, from buying it?
When I encounter geoblocking of content that I subscribe to legally at home, I pirate it. I support paying artists, not nonfunctional middlemen.
"Ask most neighbors of air bnb rentals how they feel about having a different stranger live next to them every few days." ...Say people in an urban area where they don't know their neighbors anyway. NYC regulations make it impossible to build any new housing units other than condos for the super-rich, so subletting apps are a natural way for the proles to eke out more living space.
If a city doesn't want to deal with this, then start making it easier to put up new apartment stock.
"or back in the day when it was called a Winchester."
In my mainframe days, the Winchester was 'the drive that won the West.'
Yes, being in defense work made it more difficult than fir mist, because he needed a security clearance. The extreme vettting (as we call it today) this required would not apply to most tech workers.