If there were only four ISPs left down there, you'd be seeing ads gloating about being "Voted top-5 in the nation!" from all of them.
Like how Bell up here is advertising being the "fastest ranked" mobile network. WTF does that even mean when most people have no useful way of comparing?
At this point I'd settle for Groove being able to play the music in my collection. When I added the collection to Groove, about five albums out of around 1000 actually showed up.
I was sort of expecting it to be unable to play FLAC files, but there are a lot of plain old MP3s in there too.
I've had bad experiences with all the Win10 apps I've tried: Mail, Wunderlist, and now MS To-Do. All three just stop communicating with the Internet for updates after a couple of days. Mail and the Win10 version of OneNote are missing so many features I expect to have, too...
Weather works fine, but I never leave that running.
Win10 and its "native" apps continues to feel half-done and half-assed.
Most people never expand their hardware, they buy a machine, use it as-is for a few years then throw it out and replace it with a newer one...
Apparently the poster does, since they mentioned this. Personally, I'm really fond of upgrading RAM myself, replacing the hard drive when it fails (or I need more storage, which is probably more likely with SSDs), or the battery when it inevitability loses its ability to hold a charge.
Well what updates would you like it to have? There's been nothing really compelling added for years to any os...
I'd be happy if Apple would stop breaking things that developers need. valgrind has been broken for two major OS X (err, sorry, "macOS") releases now, for example. Apple's major innovations on Mac appear to be pointless rebranding, grafting a tiny, pointless iPad to the top of the keyboard, and selling outdated hardware at premium prices.
I do like the TouchID system though, that's great for security.
I can't wait for the new MacBook Pro that'll just be an iPad Pro connected to an iPad (for the keyboard) by an expensive hinge.
I don't understand why the TLAs don't just sponsor a free cloud backup system; it could even be encrypted, using one of the possibly back-doored encryption standards. People would love it.
Be sure to put "supports" in quotes; VisualStudio's C standard support is terrible. Our project is C99 and we have to use clang or gcc from MinGW for our Windows builds because Visual C can't handle the code. We're not even doing anything weird.
I really wish PC laptop makers would stop with these ridiculous low-resolution screens. Especially up here in Canada, it's difficult to find laptops with reasonable resolutions... so many 15+" 1366x768 and 17" 1600x900 displays, both labelled "HD" or something to trick stupid people.
Either stop making these horrible things, or let me easily search for models based on actual screen resolution rather than just size.
I was hoping this would let me use my phone or a tablet as a touch pad for the Windows machine. This seems less usable than the touchscreen that it seems to require.
Governments and financial institutions are definitely interested, but it's probably a 5-7 year project for big orgs, similar to the Y2K problem but without a definite goal post. Current best guesses are thinking we'll see a "useful" quantum computer by 2026, but that can't take into account any breakthroughs that might happen.
Other nice things about being on Mac are that you're not distracted by popular video games anymore, and you don't have to worry about new hardware making your laptop obsolete, since Apple seems to have completely abandoned their computer business a few years ago...
On the third hand, it's really freakin' annoying that I don't use any of the apps you've listed, and yet I've got three messenger apps open at all times (BBM, Hangouts, Slack), with Signal on there as well (although texts are rare for me).
At least I can run Hangouts and Slack on my laptop too, but man, I miss the days of being able to communicate with "everyone" using one app, even if it needed several connections.
Laptop's got Adium running for IRC and XMPP as well. At least those are the open standards, but it's still at least three messenger apps going.
Get off my lawn, etc. but I remember how irritating this was the first time around with MSN, GTalk, AIM, and all the others.
This is exactly why I keep using the 'Desktop' version of Wunderlist, and why I bailed on Win 10's Mail app after a couple of hours.
Open my laptop, and suddenly part of the UI for the running UWP doesn't work anymore... just a white strip along the left-hand side. That never goes away.
Exactly the same symptom in both cases, so I'm thinking it's the UWP side-bar of useless icons part of the UI. Very irritating.
Classic zip files are limited to ~2GB (or ~4GB if your implementation is using 32-bit unsigned int). I can't remember 100% but it might also be limited to ~65,000 files per archive, too.
If Dropbox attempts to build the entire.zip in memory before sending it over the wire, you could be hitting RAM limitations on the server. If Dropbox builds the.zip on disk before sending it, you might be running into a connection timeout.
A tarball would be a better solution in this use case, but Windows is the problem there; it can't cope with them by default. Be nice if they had a "No, really, I can deal with a tarball." setting.
GP's best option is probably just to install Dropbox (maybe in a VM if they don't have a supported OS handy) and let it download the files. Or attempt to mirror the download page with recursive wget or something.
There was an awesome port of this to Atari ST and Amiga in the early days; you used the new-to-most-people mouse to move around and accelerate/decelerate.
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We've gotten a couple of Dell Precision 5520s here with Ubuntu pre-installed; they seem really good.
Their Thunderbolt dock thing seems a bit flakey in Linux (well, Arch mostly) though. Luckily the Precision 5520 has more than one port.
If there were only four ISPs left down there, you'd be seeing ads gloating about being "Voted top-5 in the nation!" from all of them.
Like how Bell up here is advertising being the "fastest ranked" mobile network. WTF does that even mean when most people have no useful way of comparing?
At this point I'd settle for Groove being able to play the music in my collection. When I added the collection to Groove, about five albums out of around 1000 actually showed up.
I was sort of expecting it to be unable to play FLAC files, but there are a lot of plain old MP3s in there too.
I've had bad experiences with all the Win10 apps I've tried: Mail, Wunderlist, and now MS To-Do. All three just stop communicating with the Internet for updates after a couple of days. Mail and the Win10 version of OneNote are missing so many features I expect to have, too...
Weather works fine, but I never leave that running.
Win10 and its "native" apps continues to feel half-done and half-assed.
It's No Security Anymore isn't it?
Based on the current set of changes to LinkedIn, the "new and improved replacement" will be a half-assed version of Twitter, for business.
Apparently the poster does, since they mentioned this. Personally, I'm really fond of upgrading RAM myself, replacing the hard drive when it fails (or I need more storage, which is probably more likely with SSDs), or the battery when it inevitability loses its ability to hold a charge.
I'd be happy if Apple would stop breaking things that developers need. valgrind has been broken for two major OS X (err, sorry, "macOS") releases now, for example. Apple's major innovations on Mac appear to be pointless rebranding, grafting a tiny, pointless iPad to the top of the keyboard, and selling outdated hardware at premium prices.
I do like the TouchID system though, that's great for security.
I can't wait for the new MacBook Pro that'll just be an iPad Pro connected to an iPad (for the keyboard) by an expensive hinge.
I don't understand why the TLAs don't just sponsor a free cloud backup system; it could even be encrypted, using one of the possibly back-doored encryption standards. People would love it.
Be sure to put "supports" in quotes; VisualStudio's C standard support is terrible. Our project is C99 and we have to use clang or gcc from MinGW for our Windows builds because Visual C can't handle the code. We're not even doing anything weird.
I really wish PC laptop makers would stop with these ridiculous low-resolution screens. Especially up here in Canada, it's difficult to find laptops with reasonable resolutions... so many 15+" 1366x768 and 17" 1600x900 displays, both labelled "HD" or something to trick stupid people.
Either stop making these horrible things, or let me easily search for models based on actual screen resolution rather than just size.
Bought my wife an ASUS VivoBook yesterday that (happy surprise!) came with the Signature Edition of Windows 10.
Can confirm, Candy Crush is there and the OS also automatically logged her into some sort of Skype preview.
With typical up-stream home internet speeds, the thing won't even be done its butt sync before then.
I was hoping this would let me use my phone or a tablet as a touch pad for the Windows machine. This seems less usable than the touchscreen that it seems to require.
Maybe 2017 can finally be the Year of PC-BSD on the Desktop!
Obviously we feel the same way. :-)
Governments and financial institutions are definitely interested, but it's probably a 5-7 year project for big orgs, similar to the Y2K problem but without a definite goal post. Current best guesses are thinking we'll see a "useful" quantum computer by 2026, but that can't take into account any breakthroughs that might happen.
Some people are already working on cryptosystems that won't be vulnerable to attacks by quantum computers; my company is one of them.
If you're interested, look into hash-based signature schemes, lattice-based cryptography, error-correcting-code-based cryptography, isogenies, and multivariate cryptography.
Just imagine the glories of "Twitter for Skype" and "Twitter for Skype for Business"! The synergies will be paradigm shifting!
Other nice things about being on Mac are that you're not distracted by popular video games anymore, and you don't have to worry about new hardware making your laptop obsolete, since Apple seems to have completely abandoned their computer business a few years ago...
Pale Moon on Android supports plug-ins. uBlock Origin almost makes mobile browsing bearable.
On the third hand, it's really freakin' annoying that I don't use any of the apps you've listed, and yet I've got three messenger apps open at all times (BBM, Hangouts, Slack), with Signal on there as well (although texts are rare for me).
At least I can run Hangouts and Slack on my laptop too, but man, I miss the days of being able to communicate with "everyone" using one app, even if it needed several connections.
Laptop's got Adium running for IRC and XMPP as well. At least those are the open standards, but it's still at least three messenger apps going.
Get off my lawn, etc. but I remember how irritating this was the first time around with MSN, GTalk, AIM, and all the others.
This is exactly why I keep using the 'Desktop' version of Wunderlist, and why I bailed on Win 10's Mail app after a couple of hours.
Open my laptop, and suddenly part of the UI for the running UWP doesn't work anymore... just a white strip along the left-hand side. That never goes away.
Exactly the same symptom in both cases, so I'm thinking it's the UWP side-bar of useless icons part of the UI. Very irritating.
Don't forget Canada, we've been on the USTR's list of evildoers for ages.
Americans need to learn the difference between communism and socialism. They're not the same thing.
Former Info-ZIP maintainer here!
Classic zip files are limited to ~2GB (or ~4GB if your implementation is using 32-bit unsigned int). I can't remember 100% but it might also be limited to ~65,000 files per archive, too.
If Dropbox attempts to build the entire .zip in memory before sending it over the wire, you could be hitting RAM limitations on the server. If Dropbox builds the .zip on disk before sending it, you might be running into a connection timeout.
A tarball would be a better solution in this use case, but Windows is the problem there; it can't cope with them by default. Be nice if they had a "No, really, I can deal with a tarball." setting.
GP's best option is probably just to install Dropbox (maybe in a VM if they don't have a supported OS handy) and let it download the files. Or attempt to mirror the download page with recursive wget or something.
There was an awesome port of this to Atari ST and Amiga in the early days; you used the new-to-most-people mouse to move around and accelerate/decelerate.
So many hours went into that in the mid 80s...
They should rename it "Adblock Plus Ads".
uBlock Origin woooooo!