I see ads before almost every video, no matter how long it is. A few times I got ads much longer than the video itself. And I'm not even watching music videos. For music I already have Amazon Music and I don't care much about the videos.
Are you saying they'll frustrate me even more than this? Some of the ads I even watch once - if I'm interested, and they still flood me as much as they do my friend who snipes the skip button.
My second monitor isn't just a side show. It's an alternate primary, depending on what I'm doing. I don't want to look at my left monitor temporarily while I'm focused on the right. E.g. I have an applet that tells me if my Caps Lock is pressed because my laptop doesn't have a Caps indicator light at all.
And I don't recall very well, but I think maximised windows behave differently on the second monitor in regards to title bar and menu bar than they do on the first. I have a hazy memory of being unable to get the close/max/min triplet because it wasn't shown at all on the second one.
Can I infer that you actually think that there should be a keyboard control to open up the window control menu, so that the keyboard alternates there are actually useful?
Alt+Space does open the window control menu, but there are no one letter selectors in it, thus pressing "x" doesn't "maximize" and one has to use the arrow keys to select the option instead.
Can I get the top bar mirrored on both of my monitors like I want yet? I tried plug-ins, but they are all in the "kinda doing what I want, but not really" category, so I installed Unity 7 on my Ubuntu 17.10 after about a month of trying to use Gnome Shell. Also: Alt+Space, X you *expletive removed*.
Eircode assigns one post code per address. Yes, you have your own post code and you don't need to be Richie Rich. Talk about browsing a database by index key.
Hoping the aliens interpret the weird etched lines correctly, they'll see two individuals with two arms, two legs, one head each and come by to get further details about such strange animals.
If they misinterpret, they'll see the head of the one of the left is between its legs, and ask why the one on the right has such big eyes towards the upper end. They'll also wander why the one of the left has its ciliated antenna at a right angle - ask if it was caught while feeding, or if it's a reproductive organ in aroused position.
Spring creators around the world say "it's about fucking time somebody did something for us". Now they can make springs large and small with the ease of technology, and step out of the stone age.
Back in the day coLinux looked interesting, but it didn't get much love from the community. What Microsoft is doing here feels like coLinux. If anything, they put up the white flag and surrendered, and may as well keep whatever territory they got left. If people keep booting into a Linux desktop one day they may not boot back.
I've been running Linux natively for years now, and I am no longer capable of using a Windows computer properly. Back in the day I was a Windows user, sharing my computer with my family, I always kept an eye out for things that could run Linux on my Windows box without swapping hard drives or fucking around with LILO (yeah, long time ago), especially after reinstalling Windows erased the bootloader.
Cygwin sucked, so I didn't use it. MinGW was better in a few places, and sucked more in others. The suckiness was pretty much based on the fact that it was a GNU environment on a Microsoft platform. Square hole drilled in a round peg with a grenade launcher.
I made the split towards native Linux when I got my own laptop that I didn't share with anybody and never looked back except to confirm that I may turn to stone if I keep looking. All my proper jobs have been mainly on Desktop Linux (with that one time when they gave me a Mac and I had to use Xcode).
Thanks! That's it! I found this PDF of the Starfish book.
At page 198:
"There is no pilot. It's a smart gel."
"Really? You don't say." Jarvis frowns. "Those are scary things, those gels. You know one suffocated a bunch of people in London a while back?"
Yes, Joel's about to say, but Jarvis is back in spew mode. "No shit. It was running the subway system over there, perfect operational record, and then one day it just forgets to crank up the ventilators when it's supposed to. Train slides into station fifteen meters underground, everybody gets out, no air, boom."
Joel's heard this before. The punchline's got something to do with a broken clock, if he remembers it right.
"These things teach themselves from experience, right?," Jarvis continues. "So everyone just assumed it had learned to cue the ventilators on something obvious. Body heat, motion, CO2 levels, you know. Turns out instead it was watching a clock on the wall. Train arrival correlated with a predictable subset of patterns on the digital display, so it started the fans whenever it saw one of those patterns."
"Yeah. That's right." Joel shakes his head. "And vandals had smashed the clock, or something."
Google still won't bring up the book even with "smart gel" instead of "AI" in the search terms...
Now what is that story where an AI is trained to turn the air on in an alien(?) train station when the train enters the platform? I can't find it on Google.
The way I remember it the AI is trained, and then left alone and does a great job until one day when it kills all the passengers because it didn't turn the air on. The reason was that the station clock was broken. The AI didn't learn the train-at-platform correlation, but rather the wall clock schedule (I guess those trains were never early or late).
Touch typing is for wimps. And I am a card carrying member of the Touch Typing Wimps Club. You can (try to) pry it out of my cold dead hands.
I also have trouble touch typing on Mac chiclet keyboards. Something's not right about the spacing of the keys, but I didn't try to scientifically figure out what. It feels like the keys are ever so slightly further apart than what I'm used to and I end up pressing in the gaps between the keys.
Drop npm. Use yarn. It has a lock file, it's quick, doesn't DoS the DNS until it decides to timeout, it doesn't take half an hour to install the packages in Gitlab CI, and it feels professional... Yarn is just lovely.
Use your allowance in 5 microseconds. Zero to $5000 bill in half a minute.
That's what I'm expecting to be the next generation of mobile Internet. I mean, they still brag about "loads of data" next to 500 MB/month allowance, and still have 100 MB/month of data "as standard" everywhere. I don't remember if they also advertise 4G next to those allowances, but it's not impossible.
How do you mine this thing? Do you need a true to the word Mining Rig (TM) and go on location?
Draw one barrel of oil out of the ground, the state takes it and gives you one Petro in exchange. Then the Petro is backed by thin air and popular confidence like any fiat currency, except it's on a blockchain and you can see when the government printer is working really hard.
Now... getting currency issued when you produce a thing and put it on the market is something on the back of my mind (but how do you value stuff?). And have currency destroyed when the product is taken off market. My gut feeling is that the equations would look the same as they do for "currency as a mean of exchange", but with different dynamics that I'm unable to imagine just yet. The Petro though seems to do just half of that.
You'd think that on diversity issues (or any social issue for that matter) there is no profit to be made or lost and that everybody would put their best tactics forward for everyone to use and receive praise for being at the forefront of equality. But no... Let's send the lawyers in. We shall have great diversity, but everybody else can suck it.
Maybe they secretly wish for an outside diversity agency or charity (paid for by anybody else but them, the government if possible) keeping an eye on their policies and making sure everything runs smoothly. Then they cry government encroachment, of course.
Citation needed, because as I see it the only thing the GPU makes can do is up production. That function tends to infinity though. The more they make, the more the miners buy, the more the price goes up, the more the price of crypto is inflated, go to 10.
Because unless the headless cards are priced the same the miners will just buy the cheaper one. And if that cheaper one is a full video card, guess who now has boatloads of headless stock nobody wants (alternatively, there is _still_ a shortage of video cards). And if they're priced the same, then just use the increased production capacity to build full cards anyway. Even when priced the same, the miners might still buy the full cards because they can be sold again later (even if it's after the crash and it's at a fraction of the purchase price), while a video card without an output is pretty much worthless outside of mining - maybe SETI would buy them at a fraction of the price, or just offer to take them off your hands.
Short of selling pre-built mining rigs - thus saving the need to research on how to build one, I don't see how headless cards would help in any way.
iOS 11 broke Spotlight. I used to drag down from the top, type the app name, and it was given to me. Now even if I type the exact name I'm not guaranteed that I'll be offered it, or, sometimes, any apps. I have to remember where the heck I put it on the springboard now, and even if I do it still take me a bit of time to go to it.
Find out what went wrong there and you might find a can of worms that begs opening.
Same company would probably very quick to release a press released saying "Look, our stuff works on Linux!" if anybody reverse engineered their protocol with zero input from them.
Can I get one with a reduced database containing just my friends and people I've met a few times? I need the thing to project a HUD onto my retina and tell me who they are and maybe some metadata about what they do and how we met. People don't like it when I walk past them like they don't exist, and I don't realise I'm doing it.
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I see ads before almost every video, no matter how long it is. A few times I got ads much longer than the video itself. And I'm not even watching music videos. For music I already have Amazon Music and I don't care much about the videos.
Are you saying they'll frustrate me even more than this? Some of the ads I even watch once - if I'm interested, and they still flood me as much as they do my friend who snipes the skip button.
I think I gave it a shot. Just like in their screenshot, the second monitor does not get:
- tray icons
- power / logoff / settings icon
- clock
My second monitor isn't just a side show. It's an alternate primary, depending on what I'm doing. I don't want to look at my left monitor temporarily while I'm focused on the right. E.g. I have an applet that tells me if my Caps Lock is pressed because my laptop doesn't have a Caps indicator light at all.
And I don't recall very well, but I think maximised windows behave differently on the second monitor in regards to title bar and menu bar than they do on the first. I have a hazy memory of being unable to get the close/max/min triplet because it wasn't shown at all on the second one.
Can I infer that you actually think that there should be a keyboard control to open up the window control menu, so that the keyboard alternates there are actually useful?
Alt+Space does open the window control menu, but there are no one letter selectors in it, thus pressing "x" doesn't "maximize" and one has to use the arrow keys to select the option instead.
Can I get the top bar mirrored on both of my monitors like I want yet? I tried plug-ins, but they are all in the "kinda doing what I want, but not really" category, so I installed Unity 7 on my Ubuntu 17.10 after about a month of trying to use Gnome Shell. Also: Alt+Space, X you *expletive removed*.
Eircode assigns one post code per address. Yes, you have your own post code and you don't need to be Richie Rich. Talk about browsing a database by index key.
Hoping the aliens interpret the weird etched lines correctly, they'll see two individuals with two arms, two legs, one head each and come by to get further details about such strange animals.
If they misinterpret, they'll see the head of the one of the left is between its legs, and ask why the one on the right has such big eyes towards the upper end. They'll also wander why the one of the left has its ciliated antenna at a right angle - ask if it was caught while feeding, or if it's a reproductive organ in aroused position.
Spring creators around the world say "it's about fucking time somebody did something for us". Now they can make springs large and small with the ease of technology, and step out of the stone age.
Back in the day coLinux looked interesting, but it didn't get much love from the community. What Microsoft is doing here feels like coLinux. If anything, they put up the white flag and surrendered, and may as well keep whatever territory they got left. If people keep booting into a Linux desktop one day they may not boot back.
I've been running Linux natively for years now, and I am no longer capable of using a Windows computer properly. Back in the day I was a Windows user, sharing my computer with my family, I always kept an eye out for things that could run Linux on my Windows box without swapping hard drives or fucking around with LILO (yeah, long time ago), especially after reinstalling Windows erased the bootloader.
Cygwin sucked, so I didn't use it. MinGW was better in a few places, and sucked more in others. The suckiness was pretty much based on the fact that it was a GNU environment on a Microsoft platform. Square hole drilled in a round peg with a grenade launcher.
I made the split towards native Linux when I got my own laptop that I didn't share with anybody and never looked back except to confirm that I may turn to stone if I keep looking. All my proper jobs have been mainly on Desktop Linux (with that one time when they gave me a Mac and I had to use Xcode).
Apple: iTunes LP doesn't make us money, never really did, so we'll ditch it
News hack: OMG Apple is exploding!
How does that even hint at Apple stopping sales of music?
Thanks! That's it! I found this PDF of the Starfish book.
At page 198:
"There is no pilot. It's a smart gel."
"Really? You don't say." Jarvis frowns. "Those are scary things, those gels. You know one suffocated a bunch of people in London a while back?"
Yes, Joel's about to say, but Jarvis is back in spew mode. "No shit. It was running the subway system over there, perfect operational record, and then one day it just forgets to crank up the ventilators when it's supposed to. Train slides into station fifteen meters underground, everybody gets out, no air, boom."
Joel's heard this before. The punchline's got something to do with a broken clock, if he remembers it right.
"These things teach themselves from experience, right?," Jarvis continues. "So everyone just assumed it had learned to cue the ventilators on something obvious. Body heat, motion, CO2 levels, you know. Turns out instead it was watching a clock on the wall. Train arrival correlated with a predictable subset of patterns on the digital display, so it started the fans whenever it saw one of those patterns."
"Yeah. That's right." Joel shakes his head. "And vandals had smashed the clock, or something."
Google still won't bring up the book even with "smart gel" instead of "AI" in the search terms...
Now what is that story where an AI is trained to turn the air on in an alien(?) train station when the train enters the platform? I can't find it on Google.
The way I remember it the AI is trained, and then left alone and does a great job until one day when it kills all the passengers because it didn't turn the air on. The reason was that the station clock was broken. The AI didn't learn the train-at-platform correlation, but rather the wall clock schedule (I guess those trains were never early or late).
Now having a black spot on your screen counts as a status symbol. Coming up next: pyrite-plated anything.
Touch typing is for wimps. And I am a card carrying member of the Touch Typing Wimps Club. You can (try to) pry it out of my cold dead hands.
I also have trouble touch typing on Mac chiclet keyboards. Something's not right about the spacing of the keys, but I didn't try to scientifically figure out what. It feels like the keys are ever so slightly further apart than what I'm used to and I end up pressing in the gaps between the keys.
Drop npm. Use yarn. It has a lock file, it's quick, doesn't DoS the DNS until it decides to timeout, it doesn't take half an hour to install the packages in Gitlab CI, and it feels professional... Yarn is just lovely.
No ideas needed. It was tried in the past in the forms of FAT, even though FAT itself is owned by dear leader Microsoft rather than a public asset.
Use your allowance in 5 microseconds. Zero to $5000 bill in half a minute.
That's what I'm expecting to be the next generation of mobile Internet. I mean, they still brag about "loads of data" next to 500 MB/month allowance, and still have 100 MB/month of data "as standard" everywhere. I don't remember if they also advertise 4G next to those allowances, but it's not impossible.
How do you mine this thing? Do you need a true to the word Mining Rig (TM) and go on location?
Draw one barrel of oil out of the ground, the state takes it and gives you one Petro in exchange. Then the Petro is backed by thin air and popular confidence like any fiat currency, except it's on a blockchain and you can see when the government printer is working really hard.
Now... getting currency issued when you produce a thing and put it on the market is something on the back of my mind (but how do you value stuff?). And have currency destroyed when the product is taken off market. My gut feeling is that the equations would look the same as they do for "currency as a mean of exchange", but with different dynamics that I'm unable to imagine just yet. The Petro though seems to do just half of that.
And when you can't find what you're looking for then you go to Microsoft ReSearch to try again? And then you go to Google and never come back.
You'd think that on diversity issues (or any social issue for that matter) there is no profit to be made or lost and that everybody would put their best tactics forward for everyone to use and receive praise for being at the forefront of equality. But no... Let's send the lawyers in. We shall have great diversity, but everybody else can suck it.
Maybe they secretly wish for an outside diversity agency or charity (paid for by anybody else but them, the government if possible) keeping an eye on their policies and making sure everything runs smoothly. Then they cry government encroachment, of course.
Citation needed, because as I see it the only thing the GPU makes can do is up production. That function tends to infinity though. The more they make, the more the miners buy, the more the price goes up, the more the price of crypto is inflated, go to 10.
Because unless the headless cards are priced the same the miners will just buy the cheaper one. And if that cheaper one is a full video card, guess who now has boatloads of headless stock nobody wants (alternatively, there is _still_ a shortage of video cards). And if they're priced the same, then just use the increased production capacity to build full cards anyway. Even when priced the same, the miners might still buy the full cards because they can be sold again later (even if it's after the crash and it's at a fraction of the purchase price), while a video card without an output is pretty much worthless outside of mining - maybe SETI would buy them at a fraction of the price, or just offer to take them off your hands.
Short of selling pre-built mining rigs - thus saving the need to research on how to build one, I don't see how headless cards would help in any way.
iOS 11 broke Spotlight. I used to drag down from the top, type the app name, and it was given to me. Now even if I type the exact name I'm not guaranteed that I'll be offered it, or, sometimes, any apps. I have to remember where the heck I put it on the springboard now, and even if I do it still take me a bit of time to go to it.
Find out what went wrong there and you might find a can of worms that begs opening.
Same company would probably very quick to release a press released saying "Look, our stuff works on Linux!" if anybody reverse engineered their protocol with zero input from them.
Can I get one with a reduced database containing just my friends and people I've met a few times? I need the thing to project a HUD onto my retina and tell me who they are and maybe some metadata about what they do and how we met. People don't like it when I walk past them like they don't exist, and I don't realise I'm doing it.
Woosh?
Hmm... That is an interesting question, so I went to Google "gasoline fuel cell".
This is what I found:
Gasoline Fuel Cell Would Boost Electric Car Range
WSU researchers develop fuel cells for increased airplane efficiency
It looks like there are serious people working on it, but there's still a way to go.