That's incredibly optimistic of you to think we'll only have to deal with said president one term. We had to deal with bush and obama 8 years a peice, when neither was all that great in the first place.
Well I recall about early 2003 when the Democrats were on the campaign trail prior to the party elections, they kept throwing around "3 million jobs lost" seemingly every other minute, and said it was all Bush's fault. That made no sense to me though because of two things: The first tech bubble was during Clinton, and was in the middle of crashing just as Bush took office. Then shortly after that, 9/11 happened, which made things worse.
However the economy turned around by 2004, and those 3 million jobs AND SOME, had returned. That wasn't because of Bush however, it was just our old friend the business cycle. But nonetheless, when the economy isn't doing shitty, presidents tend to (but not always) get reelected.
I don't think it will be that bad, but yeah I think there will likely be a simultaneous collapse of both real estate bubble 2.0 AND tech bubble 2.0. Neither of these bubbles are as big as the ones that preceded them though, so we'll probably see a simple recession.
And because people like to blame the president for recessions (even though it's never actually been the president that caused it,) whoever wins the next election will be a recession president, and unless there's a significant turnaround in that time, they'll be a one term wonder.
They only officially allow a few limited partners to use those APIs (they aren't in the public SDK), but in practice you can certainly write an app that uses them.
And for what reason do they do this? They say they want developers to come to the platform, yet they make it an even worse version of Apple's walled garden.
Anyways OpenVPN isn't the only case. I don't recall the specific app, but I remember a while back a bunch of Windows Phone fans were raising a shitstorm on some developer's forum because the developer wouldn't add a big feature to the WP version of the app that was present on Android/iOS, and the developer responded that they can't add that feature because the OS doesn't support it.
This didn't satisfy the WP fans though, they kept railing against them anyways saying it was just some kind of excuse to "hold back" the platform (much as they always accuse others of doing, i.e. carriers, Google, etc, both of which are silly considering that Google gets plenty of Nexus device sales without carrier involvement and Google can't "hold back" the platform, especially given that Microsoft provides alternatives for all of Google's services.)
Well, yes Google wants to hurt competitors market share but lets not forget about Microsoft. Lumia is doing terrible a few years on. Microsoft has made headway in the Tablet market and the new Surface Pro is being raved about. I'd say Google would be more worried about Microsoft building a device that is on par with Surface Pro but as a mobile phone.
That's kind of an apple's and oranges comparison. The Surface Pro (I own an SP4 by the way) is more of an ultraportable laptop than a tablet. Or rather, it doesn't really run the kind of apps you'd want from a tablet. But again, it's wonderful from a portability perspective.
That said, if they tried to push it to a phone, they'd experience the same amount of fail that they've been experiencing this whole time, especially given that their UWP app API is limited and it sucks. Try creating an OpenVPN client for example -- you can't because it's literally impossible to create on a Microsoft phone. That, plus a lot of other apps and features just can't be done on it because Microsoft doesn't implement even half of the API features found in Android/iOS and refuses to allow the use of an NDK to fill those gaps.
And no, Continuum won't resolve the later, even if the phone could run plain old x86 Win32 apps. Nobody wants to carry around a dock with associated adapters, keyboard, and mouse in their pocket just to run desktop apps on a phone grade CPU/GPU on the off chance that they might find a comfortable chair and monitor (or tv) to connect it to wherever they happen to be. It's better when it's all just self contained, like the Surface tablets are.
Google has stated that they don't like SD cards because they create problems from a platform reputation perspective. Apparently it's really common that people use shitty SD cards in their devices, which cause apps to frequently crash when they need to read/write to them.
My only concern with Google taking the bottom to top approach is that they might piss off a lot of OEM partners by competing directly with them. Microsoft did that, and they have basically trashed consumer adoption of their own platform as a result.
Usually for this kind of stuff people are wanting it for gaming. Given that a lot of the "load" times these days are work for the GPU, I'm not sure you'd see a massive improvement.
BIOS no longer exists at all in modern systems. If you look at its limitations, (which modern OSes had to work around) it's kind of ridiculous that it lasted as long as it did. You have UEFI which is modular (and contrary to popular belief, UEFI has nothing to do with a graphical shell or boot code signing, rather those are optional modules that most motherboard manufacturers include, the first to make their product shiny, and the later because IT Security professionals have been wanting it as a means of eliminating boot code malware; you can load your own keys if you want, and because MS signing keys are so common they're often included by default.)
UEFI remains compatible with things that need BIOS by including a module (often called Compatibility Support Module) that adds archaic crap like certain interrupts if the OS needs them and POST if any hardware you have needs that. Protip: If your setup doesn't need any of that crap, turn off the BIOS compatibility module and you get a faster boot speed.
Then modify it to "almost every other day" if you prefer that expression. You're still raiding considerably more than a casual raiding group. And 4 days versus the 5 days other raiders were doing? Not casual, sorry, no matter how much you want to believe it.
Honestly why are you so retarded? Even 4 out of 7 days in a week is just over half, not "almost every" by any measure, and a typical week was 3, which is less than half, even further removed from "almost every." Also this is past tense, I haven't done any raiding in over 4 years, and for the most part haven't even touched the game since then (only played for all of about 4 months within that 4 year span, and it wasn't even a continuous 4 months.)
You may not have been a cutting edge progression raider, but you were not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual.
Stop with the faggotry please; you're not fooling anybody.
Note on that page how they no longer support "EOL chipsets" even though they work fine in windows 8 and 10 if you simply use an older driver that doesn't care about what OS version you have. If you use a newer one though, the driver throws a code 10 error so it won't work, unless of course, it detects a non-EOL chipset.
I don't know why this is happening to USB to Serial drivers, of all things, because even worse shit happens with Prolific chipsets. Prolific did a hardware refresh and then instantly obsoleted all of the previous generation chips. Otherwise not a problem, except if you use Windows 8 or newer then the fucking driver they issue causes a code 10 hardware. If you use an older on 8 or newer then they work fine, but stupid Windows Update keeps replacing it with the bad driver unless you use a bit of ini file hackery.
What makes this worse than the FTDI situation is that Prolific is doing it to their own hardware to force you to buy a new one.
No, I'm sorry, but your definition of casual is raiding almost every day?? (or night, if you prefer to put it that way...)
Since your Broca's area is obviously made out of dog shit, let me put it in more direct terms: I pretty clearly stated it was 4 days at the start of a raid tier, and 3 days afterwards. That isn't anywhere close to being every day.
with a third for old content larks.
We didn't even do old content. Once a new raid tier came out, we completely abandoned the last tier.
Microsoft does give a version of Office 365 away for free for anyone. Its way wayyyy better than Google Docs
I don't know about features (I only use the most basic of features in office apps) but I've found Google Docs to have far more polish. That is, it seems faster, objects seem to go where you intend them easier, and it's also easier to figure out how to do what you're trying to do.
I'd be surprised if Trump even has a PR team. He basically just says what's on his mind (instead of the usual canned responses politicians typically give) and people either fawn over it or they go ape shit.
Strange as it seems (because you can't go thirty minutes without hearing or reading his name sometimes) his campaign is spending hardly any money, so I'm not sure what kind of a PR team he could even hire with such a paltry sum. Very well disproves the notion that money buys votes. If it did, then Hillary should win by a landslide while Trump should be dead last even among Republicans.
The guild I was in was Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then 3 hours each day except when content was on farm we'd finish early on Sunday, (Tuesday is reset day) so anywhere from 7-12 hours a week. At any rate, they were all nights that you had to go to work the next day so you weren't going out late anyways, but still annoying after a while.
The non-casual guilds meanwhile had a typical schedule of 5 hours per day for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
With as much as I hate centurylink, their PrismTV is actually pretty decent in this regard. It comes free with fiber internet at my apartment, so I don't watch it very much, but it's entirely IP based (I have it running through my own Asus router running Tomato firmware) the channel changing is virtually instant (no 2-3 second wait time of cable) and when it's off it barely consumes any power at all. The HDD in the main unit only spins up occasionally when it's recording something.
The downside is that live TV isn't buffered, but since I pretty much never watch live TV (or TV in general for that matter) I don't particularly care.
So losing his account could either mean he contemplated suicide, or alternately he blinked, looked around, and realized that perhaps he should shower, shave, and dust five years worth of Cheetos dust off himself and he lived happily ever after.
I kind of felt that way when I quit WoW on my own accord.
Or rather, it felt nice not having to make excuses to not go out 4 nights of the week because I was too embarrassed to admit that the real reason I didn't want to go out was because my raiding guild required 80% attendance. And that was even for what was a casual raiding guild that only did about 12 hours a week; I can't imagine what it must be like to go with a "hardcore" raiding guild that does 25+ hours a week (strangely enough, such a guild was only barely ahead of our guild in raid progression.)
I'm not sure why I did it for as long as I did either, because I really didn't care for PvE, and I originally joined WoW for PvP.
Umm...Why would I be Satya? If you read my post history, I'm a pretty big critic of Windows Phone. It's biggest problem is that it's just not relevant...to anybody...And that starts with its UI. A few years back, somebody at Microsoft created this blog post:
It's a well written post, with a few wonderful examples of why information overload is bad. Even with their UI talent knowing information overload is a real problem, they go and create a UI that looks like this:
Slashdot Mirror
That's incredibly optimistic of you to think we'll only have to deal with said president one term. We had to deal with bush and obama 8 years a peice, when neither was all that great in the first place.
Well I recall about early 2003 when the Democrats were on the campaign trail prior to the party elections, they kept throwing around "3 million jobs lost" seemingly every other minute, and said it was all Bush's fault. That made no sense to me though because of two things: The first tech bubble was during Clinton, and was in the middle of crashing just as Bush took office. Then shortly after that, 9/11 happened, which made things worse.
However the economy turned around by 2004, and those 3 million jobs AND SOME, had returned. That wasn't because of Bush however, it was just our old friend the business cycle. But nonetheless, when the economy isn't doing shitty, presidents tend to (but not always) get reelected.
I don't think it will be that bad, but yeah I think there will likely be a simultaneous collapse of both real estate bubble 2.0 AND tech bubble 2.0. Neither of these bubbles are as big as the ones that preceded them though, so we'll probably see a simple recession.
And because people like to blame the president for recessions (even though it's never actually been the president that caused it,) whoever wins the next election will be a recession president, and unless there's a significant turnaround in that time, they'll be a one term wonder.
Obviously the state should count all of the coin-toss delegates and split them between the tied candidates.
Isn't that process up to the democratic party?
Who cares, Hillary has already reached her term limit.
They only officially allow a few limited partners to use those APIs (they aren't in the public SDK), but in practice you can certainly write an app that uses them.
And for what reason do they do this? They say they want developers to come to the platform, yet they make it an even worse version of Apple's walled garden.
Anyways OpenVPN isn't the only case. I don't recall the specific app, but I remember a while back a bunch of Windows Phone fans were raising a shitstorm on some developer's forum because the developer wouldn't add a big feature to the WP version of the app that was present on Android/iOS, and the developer responded that they can't add that feature because the OS doesn't support it.
This didn't satisfy the WP fans though, they kept railing against them anyways saying it was just some kind of excuse to "hold back" the platform (much as they always accuse others of doing, i.e. carriers, Google, etc, both of which are silly considering that Google gets plenty of Nexus device sales without carrier involvement and Google can't "hold back" the platform, especially given that Microsoft provides alternatives for all of Google's services.)
Well, yes Google wants to hurt competitors market share but lets not forget about Microsoft. Lumia is doing terrible a few years on. Microsoft has made headway in the Tablet market and the new Surface Pro is being raved about. I'd say Google would be more worried about Microsoft building a device that is on par with Surface Pro but as a mobile phone.
That's kind of an apple's and oranges comparison. The Surface Pro (I own an SP4 by the way) is more of an ultraportable laptop than a tablet. Or rather, it doesn't really run the kind of apps you'd want from a tablet. But again, it's wonderful from a portability perspective.
That said, if they tried to push it to a phone, they'd experience the same amount of fail that they've been experiencing this whole time, especially given that their UWP app API is limited and it sucks. Try creating an OpenVPN client for example -- you can't because it's literally impossible to create on a Microsoft phone. That, plus a lot of other apps and features just can't be done on it because Microsoft doesn't implement even half of the API features found in Android/iOS and refuses to allow the use of an NDK to fill those gaps.
And no, Continuum won't resolve the later, even if the phone could run plain old x86 Win32 apps. Nobody wants to carry around a dock with associated adapters, keyboard, and mouse in their pocket just to run desktop apps on a phone grade CPU/GPU on the off chance that they might find a comfortable chair and monitor (or tv) to connect it to wherever they happen to be. It's better when it's all just self contained, like the Surface tablets are.
Google has stated that they don't like SD cards because they create problems from a platform reputation perspective. Apparently it's really common that people use shitty SD cards in their devices, which cause apps to frequently crash when they need to read/write to them.
My only concern with Google taking the bottom to top approach is that they might piss off a lot of OEM partners by competing directly with them. Microsoft did that, and they have basically trashed consumer adoption of their own platform as a result.
I said certain interrupts, dingus. For examples, see interrupts 13h interrupt 10h, both of which are no longer relevant.
It's rather shocking that APK wasn't the first to post in this discussion.
Usually for this kind of stuff people are wanting it for gaming. Given that a lot of the "load" times these days are work for the GPU, I'm not sure you'd see a massive improvement.
That's what I love about running in ESXi: Just take snapshots before you do anything big.
Speak of which, I wonder if I could brick the UEFI in my hypervisor? Must find out...
BIOS no longer exists at all in modern systems. If you look at its limitations, (which modern OSes had to work around) it's kind of ridiculous that it lasted as long as it did. You have UEFI which is modular (and contrary to popular belief, UEFI has nothing to do with a graphical shell or boot code signing, rather those are optional modules that most motherboard manufacturers include, the first to make their product shiny, and the later because IT Security professionals have been wanting it as a means of eliminating boot code malware; you can load your own keys if you want, and because MS signing keys are so common they're often included by default.)
UEFI remains compatible with things that need BIOS by including a module (often called Compatibility Support Module) that adds archaic crap like certain interrupts if the OS needs them and POST if any hardware you have needs that. Protip: If your setup doesn't need any of that crap, turn off the BIOS compatibility module and you get a faster boot speed.
Then modify it to "almost every other day" if you prefer that expression. You're still raiding considerably more than a casual raiding group. And 4 days versus the 5 days other raiders were doing? Not casual, sorry, no matter how much you want to believe it.
Honestly why are you so retarded? Even 4 out of 7 days in a week is just over half, not "almost every" by any measure, and a typical week was 3, which is less than half, even further removed from "almost every." Also this is past tense, I haven't done any raiding in over 4 years, and for the most part haven't even touched the game since then (only played for all of about 4 months within that 4 year span, and it wasn't even a continuous 4 months.)
You may not have been a cutting edge progression raider, but you were not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual. Not casual.
Stop with the faggotry please; you're not fooling anybody.
Apple didn't invent it either, they just bought the company that did.
So, your problem may well be that you have a counterfeit "Prolific" chip that Prolific's driver no longer plays nice with.
No, that's not the problem at all. You can read yourself from Prolific's website:
http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/...
Note on that page how they no longer support "EOL chipsets" even though they work fine in windows 8 and 10 if you simply use an older driver that doesn't care about what OS version you have. If you use a newer one though, the driver throws a code 10 error so it won't work, unless of course, it detects a non-EOL chipset.
I don't know why this is happening to USB to Serial drivers, of all things, because even worse shit happens with Prolific chipsets. Prolific did a hardware refresh and then instantly obsoleted all of the previous generation chips. Otherwise not a problem, except if you use Windows 8 or newer then the fucking driver they issue causes a code 10 hardware. If you use an older on 8 or newer then they work fine, but stupid Windows Update keeps replacing it with the bad driver unless you use a bit of ini file hackery.
What makes this worse than the FTDI situation is that Prolific is doing it to their own hardware to force you to buy a new one.
No, I'm sorry, but your definition of casual is raiding almost every day?? (or night, if you prefer to put it that way...)
Since your Broca's area is obviously made out of dog shit, let me put it in more direct terms: I pretty clearly stated it was 4 days at the start of a raid tier, and 3 days afterwards. That isn't anywhere close to being every day.
with a third for old content larks.
We didn't even do old content. Once a new raid tier came out, we completely abandoned the last tier.
Microsoft does give a version of Office 365 away for free for anyone. Its way wayyyy better than Google Docs
I don't know about features (I only use the most basic of features in office apps) but I've found Google Docs to have far more polish. That is, it seems faster, objects seem to go where you intend them easier, and it's also easier to figure out how to do what you're trying to do.
So anybody could get it for free except people like Abraham and Moses?
I'd be surprised if Trump even has a PR team. He basically just says what's on his mind (instead of the usual canned responses politicians typically give) and people either fawn over it or they go ape shit.
Strange as it seems (because you can't go thirty minutes without hearing or reading his name sometimes) his campaign is spending hardly any money, so I'm not sure what kind of a PR team he could even hire with such a paltry sum. Very well disproves the notion that money buys votes. If it did, then Hillary should win by a landslide while Trump should be dead last even among Republicans.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
The guild I was in was Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then 3 hours each day except when content was on farm we'd finish early on Sunday, (Tuesday is reset day) so anywhere from 7-12 hours a week. At any rate, they were all nights that you had to go to work the next day so you weren't going out late anyways, but still annoying after a while.
The non-casual guilds meanwhile had a typical schedule of 5 hours per day for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
With as much as I hate centurylink, their PrismTV is actually pretty decent in this regard. It comes free with fiber internet at my apartment, so I don't watch it very much, but it's entirely IP based (I have it running through my own Asus router running Tomato firmware) the channel changing is virtually instant (no 2-3 second wait time of cable) and when it's off it barely consumes any power at all. The HDD in the main unit only spins up occasionally when it's recording something.
The downside is that live TV isn't buffered, but since I pretty much never watch live TV (or TV in general for that matter) I don't particularly care.
Usually when I think of Anonymous, this is what I really think of:
http://i.imgur.com/Wng3qhv.jpg
So losing his account could either mean he contemplated suicide, or alternately he blinked, looked around, and realized that perhaps he should shower, shave, and dust five years worth of Cheetos dust off himself and he lived happily ever after.
I kind of felt that way when I quit WoW on my own accord.
Or rather, it felt nice not having to make excuses to not go out 4 nights of the week because I was too embarrassed to admit that the real reason I didn't want to go out was because my raiding guild required 80% attendance. And that was even for what was a casual raiding guild that only did about 12 hours a week; I can't imagine what it must be like to go with a "hardcore" raiding guild that does 25+ hours a week (strangely enough, such a guild was only barely ahead of our guild in raid progression.)
I'm not sure why I did it for as long as I did either, because I really didn't care for PvE, and I originally joined WoW for PvP.
Umm...Why would I be Satya? If you read my post history, I'm a pretty big critic of Windows Phone. It's biggest problem is that it's just not relevant...to anybody...And that starts with its UI. A few years back, somebody at Microsoft created this blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thinku...
It's a well written post, with a few wonderful examples of why information overload is bad. Even with their UI talent knowing information overload is a real problem, they go and create a UI that looks like this:
http://in4mactiondotcom2.files...
Now look at Android's stock UI, which has these variations depending on OEM:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...