Chrome has failed in this manner for lots of people. No problem with the os. Rather, a problem with, after moving the old files, trying to install a new set of files in the previous occasion - it fails.
Turns out the Opera installer hung up (because it launched 4 instances of itself for some strange reason, so it hung up). Killing all but one install processes let opera complete, but I'm not really impressed with the finished product. On another note, removing google drive really speeded up the machine. Considering I don't even use it, it shouldn't have been such a bandwidth hog for several minutes after boot.
Remember all those jokes about how it says "My PC" because Bill Gates thinks he owns it? Google is, more and more, the new Gates. Oh well.
And no, just describing it is not adequate to convey what happened.
That's debatable. Millions of Americans saw Terminator 2. Millions of Americans watch endless torture porn movies, and have for decades now. I don't, so I can't name names, but I would bet money that one of the mutilation/murder franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween/Friday the 13th) has depicted burning a person to death, in detail.
There's a difference when you know in the back of your mind that it's fake, and when you are very much aware of it being real.
Totally rational to be cheesed off with a company that continually announces vaporware (Android execution environment that after being several years late, got cancelled, various phone deals that never came about, including the failed crowd-sourced Edge, which was going to have a sapphire screen (good luck with that), Ubuntu TV, which was just a re-branding of the independent open source project that got Linux running on Samsung TVs, Ubuntu Tablets (the online stores I checked out have dropped them for Android and Windows, and there are no places carrying them in a city of 4 million).
As I wrote elsewhere, the price isn't even competitive. Do you really want to pay $230 (+ shipping, since it's made in Spain) for a phone that has an oddball 560x940 screen? That's not even 10% more pixels than those ancient 800x600 monitors.
So what? In the US you can get away with very outrageous lies unless the person you libeled has tons of money to sue (Carroll Burnett vs National Enquirer) to set the record straight - and even then, they don't care - it's part of the cost of doing business as usual.
The old Midnight Magazine (now defunct) used to make up stories that were unbelievable, like alien abductions. In one case, they clamed a 101-year-old woman had just given birth. They gave her name and state. Of course it was all made up, so they were surprised that there actually WAS a 101-year-old with that name in that state. They were sued, and figured they'd just draw it out until she died. At 105, she was still kicking, and got her judgment.
Stupid idea. People use desktops for completely different reasons than phones. And we can already run apps on smartphones and tablets, so Canonical is again walking backwards.
It's actually quite good because it forces you to stick to the original spec. If you read the 1400 comments on Kickstarter, a LOT of people are really angry because they've changed the specs just as they were supposed to start shipping product.
People have figured out that they knew long before they announced the change that they were not going to ship in time but kept lying about it right up until the end.
Also, since they're now including DRM. that's become another flash point. The commenters lay it all out pretty well. The Matchstick sounds like it's being run by the Matchstick Men. Accusations of fraud, bait-and-switch, lots of demands for refunds, being in bed with content providers...
I switched to Chrome a month ago when Firefox began logging me out on certain subdomains. Then Chrome crapped itself on a silent update as I put my machine to sleep. The error log makes it clear what happened, but after 2 install attempts (one of which worked until I closed the browser), time to try something completely different. So guess who's surprised that the latest IE actually works okay? Never thought I'd see the day.
So now I use a combination of IE and Firefox. And I have Firefox loaded on my phone as well as Chrome.
Why didn't I try Opera instead? I would have, but it failed to install. C'est la vie.
I think the apologists for the terrorists and Islamic extremists should definitely watch all the burnings, stonings, beheadings, and rapes. Apparently words aren't enough.
Problem is they'd probably get off on them. If they're still justifying this crap after everything that's happened, they're psychopathic narcissists.
We all know what happened. It was adequately described. Fox New just panders to the warmongers among us and is trying to rile them up.
It wasn't just Fox. Staid button-down CBC, not noted for sensationalism, also made the decision to air the video during the evening broadcast. And no, just describing it is not adequate to convey what happened.
Showing the video on TV (I saw it on the national news at 10) had a huge impact. Very negative for ISIS, because it forced all the moderates to take a hard-line position against ISIS. Also, for many people who have gotten the "sanitized" view until now, this made it real. There's not too many (if any) shades of grey any more.
It also takes away the "come fight with us it's a glorious adventure" angle for recruiters, when potential recruits hear only universal condemnation, and (unless they're already beyond reach) even their gut tells them this is wrong.
Plus it's given more legitimacy to bombing the crap out of ISIS.
The real problem is that so many people, even here on Slashdot, are in denial of the new reality, and will stay so until it happens to them. They have this idea that, worst case scenario, they can always go into consulting or developing mobile apps. There isn't enough demand for everyone to do that now, and it's only going to get worse.
Better to take the life lessons learned from paying your dues and putting it to work doing something different once the idiocy of the development process has sucked the blood out of you.
Stuck for ideas? Get an old Yellow Pages and look through it. This will show you what other people are doing in areas you have never even considered.
I miss the days of "real headphones", complete with acoustic ear pads. Ear buds just don't do it unless you really jack up the volume, so you're going to miss the nuances anyway.
But seeing as you want to use the 70s, how many females are prepared to sit at home and learn to code? Not many. Girls / woman have just as much access to the same tools, tech and information as those born with a penis, they choose not to access it.
In the '70s nobody had a PC. The original PC - the IBM 5150 - was only released in 1981. Before that, most consumer computers were pretty much sold as expensive toys. So pretty much NOBODY was learning how to do serous coding except at the universities. There was no Internet, and CompuServe was expensive at $10/hr (more like $30/hr In today's terms) for 1200/2400 baud dial-up. So the vast majority of the population had zero access to sit at home with a computer and learn programming in the '70s.
So spare us your stereotyping bullshit. Five decades of school, college and business data shows us the choices made by most females is that they aren't interested in learning how stuff works, and how to pull it apart, change it and rebuild.
So all the female surgeons who patch people together just don't exist? Female doctors? They'll outnumber men in a couple of years. They make a mistake, you can die. A programmer makes a mistake... oh well, it's not a mistake, it's a bug, and we'll patch it - maybe. Or you can buy the new version in a month.
Also, in the 70s, the gender divide in uni computer classes wasn't that big. Ditto for programmers in industry - it was a woman who gave me a copy of the manuals for the IBM 360 she programmed at work. Yes, programmed. Not "operated." You know, assembler, a real programmers language?
So what happened between 1970 and today that made the field unattractive to women? Deteriorating work conditions, the "macho" attitude of new entrants into the field, worsening pay discrimination, the toxic "death march" that has become the norm... no wonder most women leave the field by 40.
The interesting thing is that men are now experiencing the same "out by 40" problem thanks to ageism and cheap younger workers eager to do whatever it takes to "live the dream."
99.9 % of the programmers today couldn't code like woz did. They don't have a clue about what goes on under the hood. The industry today expects garbage that will be patched on the fly over and over and over, because it's more important today to ship crap early and often, using easy languages like php and java.
Presently 12% of men older than 45 in the US, by US Census data, have never married and will never have kids.
So much for the idea that the gay/lesbian population is only 1%-2%. Better make it easier for same-sex couples to adopt...
Nope, just ugly.
So where do all the ugly people come from, if ugly people don't reproduce? After all, the slogan of Molson's Brewery was "Molson's - Helping ugly people have kids since 1786"
All joking aside, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's also a really shallow way to judge people.
Now, back to my point: It's been said for a long time that the official stats have probably underestimated the LGBT population, in part because of public attitudes. Why is it so unacceptable to consider that this might be an additional data point considering the change in public attitudes, especially in the last generation?
Because to be really good at programming takes an almost obsessive devotion to honing your craft at a young age, and girls are far too social to spend their summers in front of a computer in the basement.
Stereotype much? How about the programmers who only got their first access to a computer as adults? It's not like Woz or Jobs grew up with computers as kids...
Comment on wage suppression is spot on. These fuckers are evil. There's an agenda here, like they know they can hire women at 76% the cost of a male.
The idea is to suppress EVERYONE's wages by increasing the overabundance of programmers even more. I'm just glad my daughters didn't follow me into the field.
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Chrome has failed in this manner for lots of people. No problem with the os. Rather, a problem with, after moving the old files, trying to install a new set of files in the previous occasion - it fails.
Turns out the Opera installer hung up (because it launched 4 instances of itself for some strange reason, so it hung up). Killing all but one install processes let opera complete, but I'm not really impressed with the finished product. On another note, removing google drive really speeded up the machine. Considering I don't even use it, it shouldn't have been such a bandwidth hog for several minutes after boot.
Remember all those jokes about how it says "My PC" because Bill Gates thinks he owns it? Google is, more and more, the new Gates. Oh well.
And no, just describing it is not adequate to convey what happened.
That's debatable. Millions of Americans saw Terminator 2. Millions of Americans watch endless torture porn movies, and have for decades now. I don't, so I can't name names, but I would bet money that one of the mutilation/murder franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween/Friday the 13th) has depicted burning a person to death, in detail.
There's a difference when you know in the back of your mind that it's fake, and when you are very much aware of it being real.
Totally rational to be cheesed off with a company that continually announces vaporware (Android execution environment that after being several years late, got cancelled, various phone deals that never came about, including the failed crowd-sourced Edge, which was going to have a sapphire screen (good luck with that), Ubuntu TV, which was just a re-branding of the independent open source project that got Linux running on Samsung TVs, Ubuntu Tablets (the online stores I checked out have dropped them for Android and Windows, and there are no places carrying them in a city of 4 million).
As I wrote elsewhere, the price isn't even competitive. Do you really want to pay $230 (+ shipping, since it's made in Spain) for a phone that has an oddball 560x940 screen? That's not even 10% more pixels than those ancient 800x600 monitors.
So what? In the US you can get away with very outrageous lies unless the person you libeled has tons of money to sue (Carroll Burnett vs National Enquirer) to set the record straight - and even then, they don't care - it's part of the cost of doing business as usual.
The old Midnight Magazine (now defunct) used to make up stories that were unbelievable, like alien abductions. In one case, they clamed a 101-year-old woman had just given birth. They gave her name and state. Of course it was all made up, so they were surprised that there actually WAS a 101-year-old with that name in that state. They were sued, and figured they'd just draw it out until she died. At 105, she was still kicking, and got her judgment.
Stupid idea. People use desktops for completely different reasons than phones. And we can already run apps on smartphones and tablets, so Canonical is again walking backwards.
People have figured out that they knew long before they announced the change that they were not going to ship in time but kept lying about it right up until the end.
Also, since they're now including DRM. that's become another flash point. The commenters lay it all out pretty well. The Matchstick sounds like it's being run by the Matchstick Men. Accusations of fraud, bait-and-switch, lots of demands for refunds, being in bed with content providers ...
They never heard of the RCA engineering principle - once it works, start taking out parts until it stops working.
Maybe somebody will see the lack of apps as a problem and make an app for that? Oh, wait ...
Well, it wasn't clear what exactly is different about development. The phone and UI did look really nice though.
The phone is WAY overpriced for what it offers. For $230 US? With only a 940 x 560 screen? What is this - 2010?
So now I use a combination of IE and Firefox. And I have Firefox loaded on my phone as well as Chrome.
Why didn't I try Opera instead? I would have, but it failed to install. C'est la vie.
More likely pixel dust ...
Before the pilot burned to death video: "A limited measured response is indicated."
After the pilot burned to death video: "Nuking's too good for them. Get out the mustard gas."
I think the apologists for the terrorists and Islamic extremists should definitely watch all the burnings, stonings, beheadings, and rapes. Apparently words aren't enough.
Problem is they'd probably get off on them. If they're still justifying this crap after everything that's happened, they're psychopathic narcissists.
We all know what happened. It was adequately described. Fox New just panders to the warmongers among us and is trying to rile them up.
It wasn't just Fox. Staid button-down CBC, not noted for sensationalism, also made the decision to air the video during the evening broadcast. And no, just describing it is not adequate to convey what happened.
It also takes away the "come fight with us it's a glorious adventure" angle for recruiters, when potential recruits hear only universal condemnation, and (unless they're already beyond reach) even their gut tells them this is wrong.
Plus it's given more legitimacy to bombing the crap out of ISIS.
The real problem is that so many people, even here on Slashdot, are in denial of the new reality, and will stay so until it happens to them. They have this idea that, worst case scenario, they can always go into consulting or developing mobile apps. There isn't enough demand for everyone to do that now, and it's only going to get worse.
Better to take the life lessons learned from paying your dues and putting it to work doing something different once the idiocy of the development process has sucked the blood out of you.
Stuck for ideas? Get an old Yellow Pages and look through it. This will show you what other people are doing in areas you have never even considered.
I miss the days of "real headphones", complete with acoustic ear pads. Ear buds just don't do it unless you really jack up the volume, so you're going to miss the nuances anyway.
But seeing as you want to use the 70s, how many females are prepared to sit at home and learn to code? Not many. Girls / woman have just as much access to the same tools, tech and information as those born with a penis, they choose not to access it.
In the '70s nobody had a PC. The original PC - the IBM 5150 - was only released in 1981. Before that, most consumer computers were pretty much sold as expensive toys. So pretty much NOBODY was learning how to do serous coding except at the universities. There was no Internet, and CompuServe was expensive at $10/hr (more like $30/hr In today's terms) for 1200/2400 baud dial-up. So the vast majority of the population had zero access to sit at home with a computer and learn programming in the '70s.
So spare us your stereotyping bullshit. Five decades of school, college and business data shows us the choices made by most females is that they aren't interested in learning how stuff works, and how to pull it apart, change it and rebuild.
So all the female surgeons who patch people together just don't exist? Female doctors? They'll outnumber men in a couple of years. They make a mistake, you can die. A programmer makes a mistake ... oh well, it's not a mistake, it's a bug, and we'll patch it - maybe. Or you can buy the new version in a month.
Also, in the 70s, the gender divide in uni computer classes wasn't that big. Ditto for programmers in industry - it was a woman who gave me a copy of the manuals for the IBM 360 she programmed at work. Yes, programmed. Not "operated." You know, assembler, a real programmers language?
So what happened between 1970 and today that made the field unattractive to women? Deteriorating work conditions, the "macho" attitude of new entrants into the field, worsening pay discrimination, the toxic "death march" that has become the norm ... no wonder most women leave the field by 40.
The interesting thing is that men are now experiencing the same "out by 40" problem thanks to ageism and cheap younger workers eager to do whatever it takes to "live the dream."
99.9 % of the programmers today couldn't code like woz did. They don't have a clue about what goes on under the hood. The industry today expects garbage that will be patched on the fly over and over and over, because it's more important today to ship crap early and often, using easy languages like php and java.
Wos was involved with computers from the age of 21. Not a child in any state.
Programmers who got their first computers as adults don't exist. If you were a real programmer you'd know that.
So where did the first computers come from?
Presently 12% of men older than 45 in the US, by US Census data, have never married and will never have kids.
So much for the idea that the gay/lesbian population is only 1%-2%. Better make it easier for same-sex couples to adopt ...
Nope, just ugly.
So where do all the ugly people come from, if ugly people don't reproduce? After all, the slogan of Molson's Brewery was "Molson's - Helping ugly people have kids since 1786"
All joking aside, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's also a really shallow way to judge people.
Now, back to my point: It's been said for a long time that the official stats have probably underestimated the LGBT population, in part because of public attitudes. Why is it so unacceptable to consider that this might be an additional data point considering the change in public attitudes, especially in the last generation?
Because to be really good at programming takes an almost obsessive devotion to honing your craft at a young age, and girls are far too social to spend their summers in front of a computer in the basement.
Stereotype much? How about the programmers who only got their first access to a computer as adults? It's not like Woz or Jobs grew up with computers as kids ...
Presently 12% of men older than 45 in the US, by US Census data, have never married and will never have kids.
So much for the idea that the gay/lesbian population is only 1%-2%. Better make it easier for same-sex couples to adopt ...
Comment on wage suppression is spot on. These fuckers are evil. There's an agenda here, like they know they can hire women at 76% the cost of a male.
The idea is to suppress EVERYONE's wages by increasing the overabundance of programmers even more. I'm just glad my daughters didn't follow me into the field.