Relax...it's part of Yahoo's "Value Added" program where your sensitive account details are safely stored where everyone can freely access them. Just be glad they aren't charging extra for this feature.
If there's more than one of you, you're part of a very quiet group.
That's exactly it- we're the ordinary gun owners, not the wild-eyed bunch screaming at the top of our lungs about how "the gub'mint gonna be comin' fo ouah gunz!!"
But I know a lot of liberal people and a lot of them own guns. A lot of them.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
That's me.
I could pay for any movies, books, music, etc that I want, but in most cases I'm just not that interested. I'm not the average "consumer", driven to see every movie, every album, every whatever. I'm not terrorized by the urge to buy. On the rare occasions I do want something and feel it's worth it, I'll pay for it but most of the time I'm just not interested.
If there was a service that I could pay to screen out the endless stream of mindless pop-culture horseshit out of my awareness, I'd fuckin' pay for that in a heartbeat. I'd literally pay money to never hear another word about Kanye West or his bloated wife with a giant ass that blots out the sky.
I'd pay not to hear about the newest sneaker, TV show, boy band, diet, movie star, or self-important windbags pontificating on what he or she thinks everyone else should do. I'd also pay to avoid hearing rabid SJWs tell me how I'm the root of all evil for being white and male.
I'd pay not to see ads about the latest products that "everyone" needs to own RIGHT NOW. I'd pay never to hear another budding movie star's opinion on anything, ever.
Show me that service and I'd whip out my credit card so fast that you'd hear a sonic boom as it left my wallet.
Seeing that there's no longer a militia needed to repair foreign invaders, the 2nd no longer has justification.
I think you're being sarcastic but in case you're not, the 2nd Amendment isn't just about "foreign invaders". It's not about hunting, either. It's about self defense, and that includes defending oneself from an out-of-control, oppressive government as well as threats from outside the country.
So what if people die that might have been able to save themselves, you were a proper liberal!
I'd consider myself extremely liberal and I own guns. Lots of guns, include the "terrible awful scary black guns" (AR-15, etc) as well as Glocks,.45s, various 9mm's, etc etc. I've also carried daily for 30+ years. You'd be surprised how many "liberals" like and own guns. Please don't paint us all with the same, broad brush.
Same here. I've never had a Prime shipment (or any Amazon shipment, for that mater) arrive late. Prime is always 1-day free shipping or 2-day free shipping, and so far they've always been spot-on.
Who (i.e. what customers) asked for this un-feature to be thrust upon us consumers?
"Please remove the headphone jack so I'm forced to buy new hardware" said no one, ever.
I can pretty much guarantee that no customer ever asked for this "feature". As for their remark that it was "courage", that's utter bullshit.
Storming the beach at Normandy took courage. Running into a burning building to save someone is courage. Martin Luther King Jr. standing up for equal rights was courage. Jacklyn H. Lucas, who jumped on two grenades to save his buddies showed courage.
Removing a fucking headphone jack from a phone doesn't quite cut it in my book, sorry.
It's possible to do, but you'll need a fair bit of gear and expect your first few batches to be defective or die soon after powering up.
There are lots of youtube videos that show how it's done, but many of them leave out critical bits of info. As a project in tech school my lab partner and I built a working vacuum tube (we all had to), but we had all the gear we needed and lots of instruction. Even then it was difficult to get t right, lots of failures and lots of "sort-of-working" tubes.
So it can be done, but it's not some wham-bam kind of thing. Ypu're not going to do it in an afternoon, and you sure as shit won't get it right the first time, lol. Ask me how I know.
Expect to invest considerable time and money in getting the gear and experience necessary to produce usable tubes. You have a lot to learn and a million little details to get right, every one of which is either outright tube-killer or produces a tube that initially works but that fails within hours or days. The worst part is if you need more than one tube (like for a stereo amp). Even with carefully-matched components, your finished tube's characteristics will vary A LOT from tube to tube. Again, ask me how I know.:)
You might save yourself a lot of heartache by using old, failed tubes as the base from which to start, unless you want to blow your own glass. Alternatively, get some stock glass tubing and use it to make tubes that will work, but might not be aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Bake the glass (and all the components) thoroughly before assembly to drive out impurities like cleaning residue, fingerprints, etc.
Getting a good, clean vacuum is absolutely critical. It's got to be free of oil mist, particulates, etc etc. This is harder than it sounds. Fashioning a good "getter" and flashing it inside the tube is also tricky. The "getter" helps remove any stuff that outgasses after you've sealed the tube, and it's vital to do it properly.
With all that said, I'll admit, it's pretty damn satisfying to *finally* power one up and have it work.:)
And Satan Nutella or whatever the fuck his name is gets another raise. Too bad about those people losing their jobs and all, but hey, they were just lowly employees anyway. They can sleep under one of the dumpsters behind the Microsoft office.
Microsoft said it will "unify some engineering positions,"
"Nearly 400 Jobs To Be Impacted"
"Rightsizing", "downsizing", "compressing employee counts", "unifying positions", "jobs being impacted"
FFS you fucking weasels, just admit you're going to fire a bunch of people. You're not fooling anyone with this manager-speak. Whoever came to work and rejoiced when they heard that their position was being "unified" or "impacted"?
I hear what you're saying, but I think it's pretty funny. China tried this and all it did was spawn a billion new VPN services and spurred a million hackers to invent ways around it. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve and doesn't prevent anyone from doing anything.
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What they're doing is trying to build up a case for a national firewall a la China
They can build as many cases as they want, but the technology is so far ahead of them that they're just wasting their time and, in fact, just making the "problem" worse. It's like scooping up a cup of the ocean and claiming that it proves you can hold back the tide.
Many cheap tablets including a lot of Asus kit are Atom CPU running android on an x86. Apps are java (or art or dalvik or whatever), they are not native apps but JIT compiled bytecode. So yes, apps will run on android on whatever platform, with few exceptions.
Interesting...so just to be clear, I could install Android-x86 and then download apps from an app store and run them as-is, more or less? No recompiling or code changes?
I mean, obviously my PC doesn't have some of the hardware for specific apps (like a compass or flashlight), but stuff messaging and other apps would run and function?
Okay, maybe this is a dumb question, but what runs on Android-x86? I haven't heard much about this, but it sounds interesting.
Does it (can it) run all the usual Android apps that you'd normally run on an Android phone?
Is it a touch-optimized OS or a mouse & keyboard-centric OS, or a bit of both?
I see from the comments that it's maybe meant for kiosk-type applications, but could this be a general purpose OS for home use? (Assuming there are applications that would make it useful in such a setting.)
I know there are sound, photo editing, and office-productivity type apps galore in the Android and Google Play store, but would this be something that people could use those for in a home environment for typical tasks?
The A-10 and the F-15 are arguably the two greatest airborne weapons platforms ever built. They have long, well-proven track records showing that pound-for-pound no other pair of aircraft can match, period. They worked so well that we had to dream up some ridiculous bullshit reasons to replace them.
Time and time again the A-10 has shown that it is the single most effective ground support plane ever built, and the F-15 is still patrolling the skies shooting down everything that's dumb enough to fly up to challenge it. The Israeli version of the F-15 rivals both the F-22 and the F-35, and in a protracted fight would probably wipe them from the skies while the F-35 pilot was busy rebooting his flight computer.
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Thank you for calling ITI Advanced Combat Systems
Please press 1 if you are in a combat situation other wise please hold for the next technician... beep Please in put your mission number... beep boop beep booop beeep boop beep boop beep beeep boop boop beep boop beep Mission verification complete we will now transfer you to a support technician... (...hold music...)
Thank you for calling ITI my name is nahmeed how may I be helping you?
Look buddy my radar is froze up and I'm dodging a couple of MIGs at the moment how about you fix this thing so I can take these suckers out.
I'm sorry to hear about that sir what ITI system are you calling about? The radar!! I understand sir but we have a lot of radar systems do you know the model number? No!... its the radar in the f-35.
Ok very good sir I can look that up. please hold... (...more hold music...)
Sir you still there ?? Yes I am I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to shake these MIGs. Thats fine sir, can you tell me what firmware revision of the radar you are using?
What?? I don't know all I know is that its stuck with the same blips thats been on the screen for the last 15 minutes and nothing has changed. Look just log in and fix it.
I would be happy to be helping you sir. Let me know when you have landed the plane and come to a full stop and all weapon systems are in their safe position.
Are you kidding me?? I can't land this plane right now this MIG will make mince meat of me once I stop evasive maneuvers!
Ah I see sir unfortunately I can not help you until the planes is at a full stop and all weapons are safe.
Is there any thing else I can be doing for you?
Yeah how about you.... BOOM*&@*shzzzzttzzzzzzztzzzztzssssssstssssss
Sir hello are you there? Hello sir?? Thank you for calling ITI I hope you found this session helpful please reply to the survey at the end of this call. have a good day
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Relax...it's part of Yahoo's "Value Added" program where your sensitive account details are safely stored where everyone can freely access them. Just be glad they aren't charging extra for this feature.
If there's more than one of you, you're part of a very quiet group.
That's exactly it- we're the ordinary gun owners, not the wild-eyed bunch screaming at the top of our lungs about how "the gub'mint gonna be comin' fo ouah gunz!!"
But I know a lot of liberal people and a lot of them own guns. A lot of them.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
That's me.
I could pay for any movies, books, music, etc that I want, but in most cases I'm just not that interested. I'm not the average "consumer", driven to see every movie, every album, every whatever. I'm not terrorized by the urge to buy. On the rare occasions I do want something and feel it's worth it, I'll pay for it but most of the time I'm just not interested.
If there was a service that I could pay to screen out the endless stream of mindless pop-culture horseshit out of my awareness, I'd fuckin' pay for that in a heartbeat. I'd literally pay money to never hear another word about Kanye West or his bloated wife with a giant ass that blots out the sky.
I'd pay not to hear about the newest sneaker, TV show, boy band, diet, movie star, or self-important windbags pontificating on what he or she thinks everyone else should do. I'd also pay to avoid hearing rabid SJWs tell me how I'm the root of all evil for being white and male.
I'd pay not to see ads about the latest products that "everyone" needs to own RIGHT NOW. I'd pay never to hear another budding movie star's opinion on anything, ever.
Show me that service and I'd whip out my credit card so fast that you'd hear a sonic boom as it left my wallet.
Seeing that there's no longer a militia needed to repair foreign invaders, the 2nd no longer has justification.
I think you're being sarcastic but in case you're not, the 2nd Amendment isn't just about "foreign invaders". It's not about hunting, either. It's about self defense, and that includes defending oneself from an out-of-control, oppressive government as well as threats from outside the country.
So what if people die that might have been able to save themselves, you were a proper liberal!
I'd consider myself extremely liberal and I own guns. Lots of guns, include the "terrible awful scary black guns" (AR-15, etc) as well as Glocks, .45s, various 9mm's, etc etc. I've also carried daily for 30+ years. You'd be surprised how many "liberals" like and own guns. Please don't paint us all with the same, broad brush.
"YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site"
TRANSLATION:
"YouTube Is Looking for Suckers To Work For Free"
Microsoft actively taking steps to lock out a competing OS from installing? Shocking! *cough*
Wow, such selection. Are any of them porn sites?
Same here. I've never had a Prime shipment (or any Amazon shipment, for that mater) arrive late. Prime is always 1-day free shipping or 2-day free shipping, and so far they've always been spot-on.
I wish I was rich enough to throw away $69 billion worth of something.
"New cloud provider guy says those other cloud provider guys are no good"; film at 11.
Who (i.e. what customers) asked for this un-feature to be thrust upon us consumers?
"Please remove the headphone jack so I'm forced to buy new hardware" said no one, ever.
I can pretty much guarantee that no customer ever asked for this "feature". As for their remark that it was "courage", that's utter bullshit.
Storming the beach at Normandy took courage.
Running into a burning building to save someone is courage.
Martin Luther King Jr. standing up for equal rights was courage.
Jacklyn H. Lucas, who jumped on two grenades to save his buddies showed courage.
Removing a fucking headphone jack from a phone doesn't quite cut it in my book, sorry.
It's possible to do, but you'll need a fair bit of gear and expect your first few batches to be defective or die soon after powering up.
There are lots of youtube videos that show how it's done, but many of them leave out critical bits of info. As a project in tech school my lab partner and I built a working vacuum tube (we all had to), but we had all the gear we needed and lots of instruction. Even then it was difficult to get t right, lots of failures and lots of "sort-of-working" tubes.
So it can be done, but it's not some wham-bam kind of thing. Ypu're not going to do it in an afternoon, and you sure as shit won't get it right the first time, lol. Ask me how I know.
Expect to invest considerable time and money in getting the gear and experience necessary to produce usable tubes. You have a lot to learn and a million little details to get right, every one of which is either outright tube-killer or produces a tube that initially works but that fails within hours or days. The worst part is if you need more than one tube (like for a stereo amp). Even with carefully-matched components, your finished tube's characteristics will vary A LOT from tube to tube. Again, ask me how I know. :)
You might save yourself a lot of heartache by using old, failed tubes as the base from which to start, unless you want to blow your own glass. Alternatively, get some stock glass tubing and use it to make tubes that will work, but might not be aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Bake the glass (and all the components) thoroughly before assembly to drive out impurities like cleaning residue, fingerprints, etc.
Getting a good, clean vacuum is absolutely critical. It's got to be free of oil mist, particulates, etc etc. This is harder than it sounds. Fashioning a good "getter" and flashing it inside the tube is also tricky. The "getter" helps remove any stuff that outgasses after you've sealed the tube, and it's vital to do it properly.
With all that said, I'll admit, it's pretty damn satisfying to *finally* power one up and have it work. :)
Me and a few programmer buddies of mine could have built this thing for a couple of million or so, and it would have WORKED.
As a long time, fairly hard-core, Emacs user (since the '80s) have have to ask: Seriously, why?
Because they were so excited that they could, they never stopped to ask if they should.
In Linux I use nano. It's not as full-featured as some of the other text editors but it's lean and clean and does what I need.
So Emacs includes "a full-featured WebKit port that can allow you to browse the internet and watch YouTube inside Emacs."
This is a joke, right? I know it's not April 1st yet, but this has to be a joke.
Someone tell me this is a joke, because I don't think a text editor should be able to browse the web and play Youtube videos.
Now if it could retrieve hourly weather reports from Jupiter, that would be a must-have feature.
Is there anybody who makes significant use of hardcopies anymore?
Other than tens of millions of people all over the wold, no.
Yes it does, given the choice any rational person excusing masochists would prefer the painless death
The thing is that I'm not rational when it comes to the extermination of the human race.
And apparently you can't distinguish between what I said, which is "not too concerned", and "not concerned at all", you dumbfuck.
And Satan Nutella or whatever the fuck his name is gets another raise. Too bad about those people losing their jobs and all, but hey, they were just lowly employees anyway. They can sleep under one of the dumpsters behind the Microsoft office.
Microsoft said it will "unify some engineering positions,"
"Nearly 400 Jobs To Be Impacted"
"Rightsizing", "downsizing", "compressing employee counts", "unifying positions", "jobs being impacted"
FFS you fucking weasels, just admit you're going to fire a bunch of people. You're not fooling anyone with this manager-speak. Whoever came to work and rejoiced when they heard that their position was being "unified" or "impacted"?
It's not actually funny.
I hear what you're saying, but I think it's pretty funny. China tried this and all it did was spawn a billion new VPN services and spurred a million hackers to invent ways around it. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve and doesn't prevent anyone from doing anything.
-
What they're doing is trying to build up a case for a national firewall a la China
They can build as many cases as they want, but the technology is so far ahead of them that they're just wasting their time and, in fact, just making the "problem" worse. It's like scooping up a cup of the ocean and claiming that it proves you can hold back the tide.
Many cheap tablets including a lot of Asus kit are Atom CPU running android on an x86. Apps are java (or art or dalvik or whatever), they are not native apps but JIT compiled bytecode. So yes, apps will run on android on whatever platform, with few exceptions.
Interesting...so just to be clear, I could install Android-x86 and then download apps from an app store and run them as-is, more or less? No recompiling or code changes?
I mean, obviously my PC doesn't have some of the hardware for specific apps (like a compass or flashlight), but stuff messaging and other apps would run and function?
Okay, maybe this is a dumb question, but what runs on Android-x86? I haven't heard much about this, but it sounds interesting.
Does it (can it) run all the usual Android apps that you'd normally run on an Android phone?
Is it a touch-optimized OS or a mouse & keyboard-centric OS, or a bit of both?
I see from the comments that it's maybe meant for kiosk-type applications, but could this be a general purpose OS for home use? (Assuming there are applications that would make it useful in such a setting.)
I know there are sound, photo editing, and office-productivity type apps galore in the Android and Google Play store, but would this be something that people could use those for in a home environment for typical tasks?
Agreed.
The A-10 and the F-15 are arguably the two greatest airborne weapons platforms ever built. They have long, well-proven track records showing that pound-for-pound no other pair of aircraft can match, period. They worked so well that we had to dream up some ridiculous bullshit reasons to replace them.
Time and time again the A-10 has shown that it is the single most effective ground support plane ever built, and the F-15 is still patrolling the skies shooting down everything that's dumb enough to fly up to challenge it. The Israeli version of the F-15 rivals both the F-22 and the F-35, and in a protracted fight would probably wipe them from the skies while the F-35 pilot was busy rebooting his flight computer.
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Thank you for calling ITI Advanced Combat Systems
Please press 1 if you are in a combat situation other wise please hold for the next technician...
beep
Please in put your mission number...
beep boop beep booop beeep boop beep boop beep beeep boop boop beep boop beep
Mission verification complete we will now transfer you to a support technician... (...hold music...)
Thank you for calling ITI my name is nahmeed how may I be helping you?
Look buddy my radar is froze up and I'm dodging a couple of MIGs at the moment how about you fix this thing so I can take these suckers out.
I'm sorry to hear about that sir what ITI system are you calling about? ... its the radar in the f-35.
The radar!!
I understand sir but we have a lot of radar systems do you know the model number?
No!
Ok very good sir I can look that up. please hold ... (...more hold music...)
Sir you still there ??
Yes I am I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to shake these MIGs.
Thats fine sir, can you tell me what firmware revision of the radar you are using?
What?? I don't know all I know is that its stuck with the same blips thats been on the screen for the last 15 minutes and nothing has changed. Look just log in and fix it.
I would be happy to be helping you sir. Let me know when you have landed the plane and come to a full stop and all weapon systems are in their safe position.
Are you kidding me?? I can't land this plane right now this MIG will make mince meat of me once I stop evasive maneuvers!
Ah I see sir unfortunately I can not help you until the planes is at a full stop and all weapons are safe.
Is there any thing else I can be doing for you?
Yeah how about you.... BOOM*&@*shzzzzttzzzzzzztzzzztzssssssstssssss
Sir hello are you there?
Hello sir??
Thank you for calling ITI I hope you found this session helpful please reply to the survey at the end of this call. have a good day