I've never found a UPS useful. I used to buy them, but this always happened:
* Power went out * UPS didn't quite come up in time * Computer reset * UPS now was happy to provide power for my computer to boot
I've tried very expensive and very cheap - they just don't work for computers in my experience, and the batteries need replacing every couple of years, and are difficult to dispose of.
"UPS didn't quite come up in time"? WTF? I've never had a UPS do that, and I"m on my third one in 12 years.
Unless we provide them with access to old games, how will they ever sympathize with the pain we went through? Trying to kill the pterodactyl in Joust, or the robot dragon boss at the end of Super Zaxxon?! Or the absolute terror upon seeing Sinistar appear on the screen, "RUN, COWARD!" "I HUNGER. *RAWWWWR!*"
Unless we make them experience these things for themselves, it'll be just like when the vets returned from VietNam, "You don't know man, you weren't there!"
The first few thousand all signed up within a day or so of each other in this valiant effort to combat trolls IIRC. I actually thought it would work too. Hahaha.
I didn't bother getting an account at first as there wasn't any benefit to it. Then the "first post" shitheads started up and I figured it was worth a shot. Unfortunately, the initial moderation system was the last time they tried innovating anything at/.:(
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Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!
If the (admittedly stupid) last sentence of the submission hadn't been present, would you still be complaining? They're improving the speed of js by doing some interesting stuff - what's wrong with that?
Renewable is going nowhere until they're at parity.
No amount of greenwashing and tree hugging circlejerking will change the fundamental economics of this.
The problem here is you're not comparing apples to apples. The 'cost' of fossil fuels doesn't include environmental cleanup that isn't necessary with renewables. It also doesn't take into account the real cost - when you take out all the tax incentives for fossil fuels, the math becomes quite different.
Also, the cost of fossil fuels will continue to go up due to environmental laws and more difficult to process sources (like tar sands), fighting unnecessary wars to secure foreign oil sources; meanwhile, while the cost of renewable technology keeps going down.
I just got back from watching the simulcast, and it was so fantastic, I can hardly see straight!
"Inhaler!"
My favorites: The "War Doctor", the Brigadier's daughter, Dr Who - King of England(!), Gallifrey Stands!, and my VERY favorite, the "Curator". Holy crap, I wasn't expecting the Curator!
I have a: TRS-80 model III 2 Commodore 64s Mac SE/30
I'm proud of my little collection. I wish I could find a PET.
I've got:
Tandy Model 102 (new in box!) Tandy CoCo 3 (new in box!) 2 Commodore 64s Commodore 64C Commodore Amiga 1000 Apple//gs (ROM3, with TransWarp accelerator)
I have a TI PEB waiting for a TI 99/4a to connect it to.
Still haven't decided on which old Atari I want. Probably an 800.
I'd *love* to get a working IMSAI 8080, but I can't justify the kind of money that purchase would require.
It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.
And somehow we geeks expect people like our parents and non-technical people to be able to navigate this kind of thing.
I maintain mission-critical enterprise software, and that sounds like a pain in the ass to me. Your average user is going to have no frigging idea what any of that means and give up and go back to IE.
You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing.:)
LOL, but now I still need to figure out how the hell to upgrade from 9.0.1, which seems to be proving quite annoying. The built in mechanism seems useless.
It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.
Ahh, the Firefox user equivalent to the IE user still using IE 6. We (the web dev community, in general) are going to leave you behind, so don't complain if things don't work right.
In fairness, Firefox version numbers have become meaningless to many of us over the last few years unless you pay really close attention.
I'm apparently running 9.0.1, but when I tell it to apply it's update it just restarts and doesn't actually do anything and leaves me with the exact same "Apply update" button in the help > about.
So I have no idea of what version I'm running in relation to anything else, don't seem to get updates when I tell it to, and have no trust in a piece of software which auto-updates itself quietly behind the scenes and do not want that.
So if the goal was to make something less confusing and easier to use and keep track of... from my perspective, that's not working well at all.
You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing.:)
My only concern is people deliberately not keeping up with the times; it harms everyone. IE 6 held those of us in the industry back for FAR too long; we're just now beginning to catch up in being able to implement modern web standards. We just dropped IE 7 support at work a month ago. *sigh*
I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway.
I understand and generally agree with your comment, but new and/or trendy doesn't always mean "better", even if the Firefox developers want it to and/or think it does.
"New and/or trendy"? Implementing support for updated web standards is not the same as being 'trendy', and that's what the concern here is. Ignore the trendy nonsense as you will, but you really WANT support for web standards.
It's not a threat, I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway. Things will start to break (if they aren't already). I think Firefox 18 is probably the oldest version of FF I'd use at this point, if I were a general user.
Ahh, the Firefox user equivalent to the IE user still using IE 6. We (the web dev community, in general) are going to leave you behind, so don't complain if things don't work right.
Agreed, lived here for almost 20 years, and I've had ISDN/IDSL and DSL on Qwest or Frontier (sucks) living in major suburbs of Seattle. I'm on comcast now and I dont want to ever go back. Plus the digital cable is better than Frontier anyday.
I never tried Frontier, but Qwest's speeds are pathetic. DSL speeds worse than cellphone connections! The worst one I've ever used was Broadstripe. Criminally incompetent. *shudder*
Seattle's connectivity is pretty abysmal, unless you live in the tiny areas of downtown Seattle serviced by CondoInternet.net. Other than that, you're lucky if you can get Comcast (trust me, there are FAR worse ISPs than Comcast).
Are we sure he's talking about the updater? There's also the option "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" at the bottom of the Settings page. I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
Well hell, that's even easier to change the setting of than the updater. Either way, it seems a massive overreaction to the problem.
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I've never found a UPS useful. I used to buy them, but this always happened:
* Power went out
* UPS didn't quite come up in time
* Computer reset
* UPS now was happy to provide power for my computer to boot
I've tried very expensive and very cheap - they just don't work for computers in my experience, and the batteries need replacing every couple of years, and are difficult to dispose of.
"UPS didn't quite come up in time"? WTF? I've never had a UPS do that, and I"m on my third one in 12 years.
Unless we provide them with access to old games, how will they ever sympathize with the pain we went through? Trying to kill the pterodactyl in Joust, or the robot dragon boss at the end of Super Zaxxon?! Or the absolute terror upon seeing Sinistar appear on the screen, "RUN, COWARD!" "I HUNGER. *RAWWWWR!*"
Unless we make them experience these things for themselves, it'll be just like when the vets returned from VietNam, "You don't know man, you weren't there!"
The first few thousand all signed up within a day or so of each other in this valiant effort to combat trolls IIRC. I actually thought it would work too. Hahaha.
I didn't bother getting an account at first as there wasn't any benefit to it. Then the "first post" shitheads started up and I figured it was worth a shot. Unfortunately, the initial moderation system was the last time they tried innovating anything at /. :(
Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!
Careful there, kid. :)
If the (admittedly stupid) last sentence of the submission hadn't been present, would you still be complaining? They're improving the speed of js by doing some interesting stuff - what's wrong with that?
Also, my (mostly) hydropower-sourced electricity here in Seattle is billed at 4.75 cents per kWh. :)
Renewable is going nowhere until they're at parity.
No amount of greenwashing and tree hugging circlejerking will change the fundamental economics of this.
The problem here is you're not comparing apples to apples. The 'cost' of fossil fuels doesn't include environmental cleanup that isn't necessary with renewables. It also doesn't take into account the real cost - when you take out all the tax incentives for fossil fuels, the math becomes quite different.
Also, the cost of fossil fuels will continue to go up due to environmental laws and more difficult to process sources (like tar sands), fighting unnecessary wars to secure foreign oil sources; meanwhile, while the cost of renewable technology keeps going down.
I just got back from watching the simulcast, and it was so fantastic, I can hardly see straight!
"Inhaler!"
My favorites: The "War Doctor", the Brigadier's daughter, Dr Who - King of England(!), Gallifrey Stands!, and my VERY favorite, the "Curator". Holy crap, I wasn't expecting the Curator!
Honestly, I'd be happy with just a C variant with built-in string support.
Doesn't D have that?
I have a:
TRS-80 model III
2 Commodore 64s
Mac SE/30
I'm proud of my little collection. I wish I could find a PET.
I've got:
Tandy Model 102 (new in box!) //gs (ROM3, with TransWarp accelerator)
Tandy CoCo 3 (new in box!)
2 Commodore 64s
Commodore 64C
Commodore Amiga 1000
Apple
I have a TI PEB waiting for a TI 99/4a to connect it to.
Still haven't decided on which old Atari I want. Probably an 800.
I'd *love* to get a working IMSAI 8080, but I can't justify the kind of money that purchase would require.
Too dumb to use AdBlock Plus, also too dumb to hide that fact. #epicfail
And somehow we geeks expect people like our parents and non-technical people to be able to navigate this kind of thing.
I maintain mission-critical enterprise software, and that sounds like a pain in the ass to me. Your average user is going to have no frigging idea what any of that means and give up and go back to IE.
Yup.
LOL, but now I still need to figure out how the hell to upgrade from 9.0.1, which seems to be proving quite annoying. The built in mechanism seems useless.
It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.
In fairness, Firefox version numbers have become meaningless to many of us over the last few years unless you pay really close attention.
I'm apparently running 9.0.1, but when I tell it to apply it's update it just restarts and doesn't actually do anything and leaves me with the exact same "Apply update" button in the help > about.
So I have no idea of what version I'm running in relation to anything else, don't seem to get updates when I tell it to, and have no trust in a piece of software which auto-updates itself quietly behind the scenes and do not want that.
So if the goal was to make something less confusing and easier to use and keep track of ... from my perspective, that's not working well at all.
You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing. :)
My only concern is people deliberately not keeping up with the times; it harms everyone. IE 6 held those of us in the industry back for FAR too long; we're just now beginning to catch up in being able to implement modern web standards. We just dropped IE 7 support at work a month ago. *sigh*
Feel free to use Chrome if you want.
I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway.
I understand and generally agree with your comment, but new and/or trendy doesn't always mean "better", even if the Firefox developers want it to and/or think it does.
"New and/or trendy"? Implementing support for updated web standards is not the same as being 'trendy', and that's what the concern here is. Ignore the trendy nonsense as you will, but you really WANT support for web standards.
Oooh, web monkeys scare me. :)
It's not a threat, I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway. Things will start to break (if they aren't already). I think Firefox 18 is probably the oldest version of FF I'd use at this point, if I were a general user.
Ahh, the Firefox user equivalent to the IE user still using IE 6. We (the web dev community, in general) are going to leave you behind, so don't complain if things don't work right.
*turns knob up to 8*
Ready Player One...
0.005 defects per thousand lines times 400,000 lines gives a total defect count of 2.
So where did the other 994 defects come from?
They were in comments.
Nuclear winter is coming? :/
Agreed, lived here for almost 20 years, and I've had ISDN/IDSL and DSL on Qwest or Frontier (sucks) living in major suburbs of Seattle. I'm on comcast now and I dont want to ever go back. Plus the digital cable is better than Frontier anyday.
I never tried Frontier, but Qwest's speeds are pathetic. DSL speeds worse than cellphone connections! The worst one I've ever used was Broadstripe. Criminally incompetent. *shudder*
Seattle's connectivity is pretty abysmal, unless you live in the tiny areas of downtown Seattle serviced by CondoInternet.net. Other than that, you're lucky if you can get Comcast (trust me, there are FAR worse ISPs than Comcast).
How is this canon faithful if Chekov is alive ten years after Voyager returned home? Time travel? Suspended animation?
Are we sure he's talking about the updater? There's also the option "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" at the bottom of the Settings page. I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
Well hell, that's even easier to change the setting of than the updater. Either way, it seems a massive overreaction to the problem.
Is turning off the updater such an arduous task?