Since feature updates seem to be effectively 10.xxx upgrades, I suspect at some point everyone has to click that feature update button to stay supported. Just a guess, but we see the same thing with other OS/Software worlds. Of course, I suppose a person could go un-patched and happily at risk.
On the other hand, twice now the feature update has messed up my wife's machine, forcing me to either rebuild or back-out. At least on the last update I was able to recover from a prior point in time.
She is so frustrated she's ready to go Apple. And honestly, I don't blame her.
So this feature of optionally delaying feature updates is welcome.
If you went back to the 80's and 90's high quality audio equipment really made a difference. A Nakamichi cassette deck killed the competition, assuming your ears wanted more than loud, which about 80% of the population just wanted loud.
Today MP3 sounds quite good at 160kbs or above, assuming the original recording was done well.
My point in this case is a high bit rate MP3 (320kbs) country album I purchased just 6 months ago, please no snide remarks about country, and the recording quality was horrible. The voices were over-driven and distorted.
The outside of the recording studio fad is killing quality. Do I think FLAC is better than MP3, maybe when transcoding to another medium such a as CD, another MP3 (lower bit rate), or an ogg format.
I happen to be a fan of HDTracks where they remaster albums and yes the quality is much improved to the discerning ear.
I suspect poor sales of the Impala and Cruze had a lot to do with it. Plus GM's pursuit of cheap.
Impala - $40K for a common package. Though listed as a larger car than the Camry, Mazda 6 or Altima. Those are about $10K less and let's face it, the Camry shows up on the "cars most likely to last 200K" list. The Impala doesn't. When I saw the price of the Impala I had to ask "what were they thinking?"
Cruze - not sure on price. I was considering it, but until 2018, it wasn't exceptional in quality or style. Compare that to a similarly priced Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Toyota and it will probably get outshined.
What they did stick with is the Spark - made in Korea, I think they are sticking with the Sonic - I believe made in Michigan. I see it as these are both very cute cars and probably still move in sales. For me the only hold back on those is the quality issues. When I get to that point of buying another car, if the Sonic is still made in the U.S. it will be on my list.
My suspicion is we will see new small models coming from Mexico where steel tariffs won't exist and labor is quite cheap.
However, let's be honest, SUV's are selling well and today's fuel prices are encouraging that trend to continue.
People you do business with don't have to be sitting in the EU when they visit your site for you to be liable.
A EU citizen sitting in Starbucks in the US is equally as protected as if they were sitting in France.
Also, if you stored the shipping label to let's say...send them a package to their vacation home in Iowa, you're still liable... as long as they are EU citizens.
If all you do is Geo-fence, you're already not going to make it.
I assume since NYC is suing the oil companies, none of the politicians have driven a car, ridden a bus or used any kind of electricity that was produced from anything but clean energy.
Also, please make sure those windmills and solar panels were produced and delivered using clean-energy.
Don't get me wrong, I buy into clean energy, but come on...
If this device can be completely turned-off and not auto-magically get turned on again, yes.
I've thought for awhile the convergence of Smartphone technology and laptop would happen in a real way... eventually.
What I think will happen? This will go over well and I bet I see this floating around soon... if the price is right.
My experience. Yes, my kids use Google Docs/present/etc. in grade and high school.
As soon as they move into College, MS Office is a must. Suddenly, the Chromebook/Linux Box ceased to be as useful as there are formatting issues galore when converting to PowerPoint and Word. Though I did find the latest version of Libreoffice has improved, but still not perfect.
I've used the Web Office 365 for Word and PowerPoint. Using Firefox on Linux to do office documents and powerpoint presentations is not anything near an equal experience to the real product.
As far as Libreoffice, documents are fine, but the presentation software is no-where close?
I use mass transit and I mean I have for years. The apology actually makes sense to me, as in mass transit, being early can be worse than being late.
As a rider we often plan our arrival to the stop based on the bus or train being on-time. Now, if the bus or train is late, we stand and wait the extra one to five minutes. In my case, missing the bus/train could mean standing from 20 to 45 minutes waiting for the next to arrive, if there is a next one.
So, in my case, I'd rather the bus/train be 1 minute late rather than 1 minute early, as do most of the experienced riders on my route.
I totally agree with your statement. Please use version control and project control.
I've seen something similar to that, someone surviving on self copies.
However, I got bit by a bad backup policy at a company once. Because it was dev, they only kept 30 days of backups onsite and offsite. One of the admins accidentally dropped the project containing my code, yes software that was promoted to production. Thirty days later - no code.
The only thing that saved my behind was the fact that I'd backed it to a a CD ROM right before prod. Thank goodness I didn't totally trust the system. We copied them back from "my backup" and I raised hell to the point they agreed to do aged backups for all open system projects.
Another reason to do remote disconnected version control and backups - ransomware.
Out my way, that is very true. All of my kids were initiated into the Google system since 5th grade. My older kids talked about how slow and terrible the windows PC's were, there are a few left. Then they started getting Chromebooks, complaints gone and for $100 they have a machine dedicated to them and they're pretty fast.
They charge the machines maybe twice a week and the biggest complaint now is broken buttons, screens.
I don't see it becoming a loyalty to the Operating System (OS)
It's going to be more about the Office Suite and other tools used in school.
For many, MS Office was introduced in school. Decision makers chose it for the their offices. It is that brand loyalty that has stuck until today. Now the younger generation are using Google Docs on Chromebooks as well as other available editing tools often outside of what we have come to know as the common suites. As soon as someone says, "Hey, I don't need the Photo Suite on a Mac, the one in xxx is good enough." Apple and Microsoft know they are in trouble.
Chromebooks do a beautiful job of making those tools easy to use and in general life easy.
The other vendors know that as well for their "key" suites. But what they are all ignoring is the near zero maintenance of the Chrome OS. Suddenly, the school can live on one IT person or possibly even less to support the student population. That is huge in itself.
It auto-updated on one of my older machines and it came back with no issues, as I suspect hundreds of thousands or millions of other machines have done.
I'm curious if the manual install is bypassing some checks that the automated is performing, thus the alert.
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Same reason for us. Movies not normally available to stream. Many of them are classics.
Since feature updates seem to be effectively 10.xxx upgrades, I suspect at some point everyone has to click that feature update button to stay supported. Just a guess, but we see the same thing with other OS/Software worlds. Of course, I suppose a person could go un-patched and happily at risk.
On the other hand, twice now the feature update has messed up my wife's machine, forcing me to either rebuild or back-out. At least on the last update I was able to recover from a prior point in time.
She is so frustrated she's ready to go Apple. And honestly, I don't blame her.
So this feature of optionally delaying feature updates is welcome.
Former audiophile here.
If you went back to the 80's and 90's high quality audio equipment really made a difference. A Nakamichi cassette deck killed the competition, assuming your ears wanted more than loud, which about 80% of the population just wanted loud.
Today MP3 sounds quite good at 160kbs or above, assuming the original recording was done well.
My point in this case is a high bit rate MP3 (320kbs) country album I purchased just 6 months ago, please no snide remarks about country, and the recording quality was horrible. The voices were over-driven and distorted.
The outside of the recording studio fad is killing quality. Do I think FLAC is better than MP3, maybe when transcoding to another medium such a as CD, another MP3 (lower bit rate), or an ogg format.
I happen to be a fan of HDTracks where they remaster albums and yes the quality is much improved to the discerning ear.
Okay - launch into your tirades!
I suspect poor sales of the Impala and Cruze had a lot to do with it. Plus GM's pursuit of cheap.
Impala - $40K for a common package. Though listed as a larger car than the Camry, Mazda 6 or Altima. Those are about $10K less and let's face it, the Camry shows up on the "cars most likely to last 200K" list. The Impala doesn't. When I saw the price of the Impala I had to ask "what were they thinking?"
Cruze - not sure on price. I was considering it, but until 2018, it wasn't exceptional in quality or style. Compare that to a similarly priced Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Toyota and it will probably get outshined.
What they did stick with is the Spark - made in Korea, I think they are sticking with the Sonic - I believe made in Michigan. I see it as these are both very cute cars and probably still move in sales. For me the only hold back on those is the quality issues. When I get to that point of buying another car, if the Sonic is still made in the U.S. it will be on my list.
My suspicion is we will see new small models coming from Mexico where steel tariffs won't exist and labor is quite cheap.
However, let's be honest, SUV's are selling well and today's fuel prices are encouraging that trend to continue.
Change Agent by Daniel Suarez -- fictional story that highlights the elements of genetic editing. You'll see CRISPR edits referenced in modern times.
The Code Book by Simon Singh -- history of Cryptography
Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
many others.
Here you go: https://puri.sm/
Agreed - it would mean that cameras collect both visible and infrared pictures as signatures.
Check out the bidefender box 2.
People you do business with don't have to be sitting in the EU when they visit your site for you to be liable.
... as long as they are EU citizens.
A EU citizen sitting in Starbucks in the US is equally as protected as if they were sitting in France.
Also, if you stored the shipping label to let's say...send them a package to their vacation home in Iowa, you're still liable
If all you do is Geo-fence, you're already not going to make it.
My guess is a lot of them are quite old - 10+ years.
Even in Linux, at some point the hardware is just too outdated.
I ran into a similar issue on an old AMD machine in another distro. Changed a kernel option to noapic and it worked.
I assume since NYC is suing the oil companies, none of the politicians have driven a car, ridden a bus or used any kind of electricity that was produced from anything but clean energy.
Also, please make sure those windmills and solar panels were produced and delivered using clean-energy.
Don't get me wrong, I buy into clean energy, but come on...
If this device can be completely turned-off and not auto-magically get turned on again, yes. I've thought for awhile the convergence of Smartphone technology and laptop would happen in a real way ... eventually.
What I think will happen? This will go over well and I bet I see this floating around soon ... if the price is right.
My experience. Yes, my kids use Google Docs/present/etc. in grade and high school.
As soon as they move into College, MS Office is a must. Suddenly, the Chromebook/Linux Box ceased to be as useful as there are formatting issues galore when converting to PowerPoint and Word. Though I did find the latest version of Libreoffice has improved, but still not perfect.
PDF's are often blocked by systems. Plus they frequently specify doc/docx so they're automated scanning systems can work.
I've used the Web Office 365 for Word and PowerPoint. Using Firefox on Linux to do office documents and powerpoint presentations is not anything near an equal experience to the real product. As far as Libreoffice, documents are fine, but the presentation software is no-where close?
I use mass transit and I mean I have for years. The apology actually makes sense to me, as in mass transit, being early can be worse than being late.
As a rider we often plan our arrival to the stop based on the bus or train being on-time. Now, if the bus or train is late, we stand and wait the extra one to five minutes. In my case, missing the bus/train could mean standing from 20 to 45 minutes waiting for the next to arrive, if there is a next one.
So, in my case, I'd rather the bus/train be 1 minute late rather than 1 minute early, as do most of the experienced riders on my route.
I've worked with people from so many nationalities across the world. Something like this is truly amazing and a great step forward.
My daughter bought a Pixel. It's pretty.
It has hardware flaws (easily cracked board), crashes.
That makes a great device for $600
Maybe they can fix the HTC garbage. My other daughter has an LG Nexus, that's a decent product for 1/2 the price.
If they buy HTC, good luck.
I totally agree with your statement. Please use version control and project control. I've seen something similar to that, someone surviving on self copies. However, I got bit by a bad backup policy at a company once. Because it was dev, they only kept 30 days of backups onsite and offsite. One of the admins accidentally dropped the project containing my code, yes software that was promoted to production. Thirty days later - no code.
The only thing that saved my behind was the fact that I'd backed it to a a CD ROM right before prod. Thank goodness I didn't totally trust the system. We copied them back from "my backup" and I raised hell to the point they agreed to do aged backups for all open system projects.
Another reason to do remote disconnected version control and backups - ransomware.
Web Browser: FireFox
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome default is okay
IDE: gedit
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: Libreoffice
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: RhythmBox
Photo Viewer: gThumb
VR is driving the PC Market (at least the power segment)
Improved resolution 4k, UHD are also driving improvements. Modernization of the monitor (not 1080p) is also helping.
Out my way, that is very true. All of my kids were initiated into the Google system since 5th grade. My older kids talked about how slow and terrible the windows PC's were, there are a few left. Then they started getting Chromebooks, complaints gone and for $100 they have a machine dedicated to them and they're pretty fast.
They charge the machines maybe twice a week and the biggest complaint now is broken buttons, screens.
I don't see it becoming a loyalty to the Operating System (OS)
It's going to be more about the Office Suite and other tools used in school.
For many, MS Office was introduced in school. Decision makers chose it for the their offices. It is that brand loyalty that has stuck until today. Now the younger generation are using Google Docs on Chromebooks as well as other available editing tools often outside of what we have come to know as the common suites. As soon as someone says, "Hey, I don't need the Photo Suite on a Mac, the one in xxx is good enough." Apple and Microsoft know they are in trouble.
Chromebooks do a beautiful job of making those tools easy to use and in general life easy. The other vendors know that as well for their "key" suites. But what they are all ignoring is the near zero maintenance of the Chrome OS. Suddenly, the school can live on one IT person or possibly even less to support the student population. That is huge in itself.
It is the tool loyalty, not the OS.
It auto-updated on one of my older machines and it came back with no issues, as I suspect hundreds of thousands or millions of other machines have done.
I'm curious if the manual install is bypassing some checks that the automated is performing, thus the alert.