2 years ago I bought an HTC for the very reason that there wasn't any lockdown on it. So why is it that they now want to lose me as a customer ? I don't understand that.
I have around 3 months stock of 'normal' food, partially in a very large freezer.
Completely useless in the event of power going out for more than 24 hours. Which is very likely in many circumstances that don't even reach the 'disaster' level: storm the downs the power lines, fire at the plant, lack of fuel for the plant due to political reasons, sabotage...
I've got a M1 rifle, a 12 gauge pump and a Colt Python as personal weapons.
That and a backpack full of gear I can live out of and a 4x4 that's already been up the Rubicon trail many times.
Pretty typical answer... Just talked with someone who was in Japan last week and in the US during a major storm couple years ago (Virginia I think, with long power outage and plenty of damage). She said the people behaved very differently, in the US everybody elbowing each others to get anything and everything from the stores as fast as possible. Very orderly in jp in comparison.
Ok, capitalism, blah, blah, blah... but can anybody tell me WHY are companies allowed to buy other companies ? I mean if the owners/investors in company A want to purchase (stock in) company B and make them work together, then go for it; but I don't understand why a company should be allowed to purchase another one.
We now have four rectors that needs to be cooled down, built in and kept under close watch for a couple of hundred thousands of years.
Even if those reactors melt down, which they haven't yet, they'll probably stay contained (3m of concrete underneath), and from there it would be about 10 years before access for scraping them would be possible, similar to TMI. The reactors themselves are a problem, but not the BIG problem. The pool with the spent rods is, like the summary says.
SFR (in France). 1GB cap, but degrades to lower speed above that. Changing the referrer field in Firefox when using the phone as a modem is real hackdom, yessir.
2 years ago I got an Android phone on my own (not through my Operator). I called them to add 'data' to my plan and they wanted to know if it was an iPhone or an Android as they had 2 different plans. They were the same price so I investigated a bit. It turns out that they block http requests if the referrer field doesn't contain 'Android'. Like that's gonna stop me from using the phone as a 3G hotspot for the rest of the bus, right.
Is it just an impression, or has hard drive technology hit some kind of ceiling. Those two 3TB drives have been available for over a year and there's no other identical or bigger model on the horizon. It used to be that you had a 50% increase every 6 months On the one hand I have a hunch that all the 5Tb pre-series and 10Tb prototypes are going to Google data warehouses, on the other hand I think that research budgets now go to SSDs. So what gives ?
Side story: 5 years ago my Windows system drive started clicking and whirring. I though "OK, when this dies I'm moving over to Linux". I needed a good excuse to make the transition, but the damn thing took more than 2 years to die ! Maxtor: not only do they die on you, but they make you hold your breath.
How is that different from keeping your home backup at work (or at some friend's place) ? Need a quick transfer: login, mount the drive, scp. Need the full backup: put the drive in the car and go home. I don't see the need for a external company.
It gets better as you scroll down:
Activities: Smokeing Weed
Interests: Drinking
No, I'm not even making this up. At least it was a welcome laugh in the midst of all the news from Japan.
No more than half what the case may bring ? That would cut short a lot of frivolous suits. I mean it doesn't make sense that the guys who 'handle the paperwork' get more money than what the whole thing is about.
You've never tried this, have you? The sort of person who is easily frustrated by technology but has been barely getting by on windows gets utterly enraged when presented with different UI paradigms. I know because I tried this "fix" a couple of times for people. The problem isn't that either UI is too difficult-- the problem is that you're dealing with somebody who is utterly refusing to learn anything, and handing them a new OS is asking them to learn quite a few things all at once.
You're mostly wrong. Couple years ago I gave all the family members whose PCs I support a clear choice after the Nth virus wave of the year: either I get you on Linux, or you get a Mac. My sister got the Mac and is happy about it (so happy indeed that she's now completely turned over to the iDarkside, iPhone, iPad, etc), the others chose Linux.
I installed KDE with the Redmond theme: some didn't notice for 3 weeks that it was different (while using it daily for mail, scans, web, office) ! There's only one family member I'm still dithering about: after 10+ years of use, she still can't understand the difference between left-click and right-click and goes in panic mode if the desktop picture changes... So I'm not eager to do ANY change unless the computer dies hard.
OK, it's not the technology, it's the interactivity. The article makes that clear. I'm surprised that this is considered news, though. It's the reason I can sleep after cycling but not after fencing.
There are plenty of studies that show it's not the activity but the light from the screen. The blue light actually: there are even some apps that will redden your screen to avoid this problem.
A while ago there was a/. story about a guy would couldn't talk his neighbors in turning their music down at night, so he got some _really_ powerful electromagnet coils, put them on his wall opposite their speakers, and ran all king of signals through them. After a while they stopped.
When I was a kid / teen, everybody knew who the bullies were, except the teachers. I never understood why they couldn't see it and act on it. Are bullies more subtle than I remember or do teacher avoid the issue by turning a blind eye ? If they spanked a bully once in a while, there wouldn't be any. I know, my bullying for being a geek stopped for good the day I hit back. If only I'd done that a decade earlier...
So when technology replaces low-education workers, like robots replacing chain workers, it's fine. But when it replaces educated people, somehow it's not such a fine thing anymore ? I guess this article has been written by... well you can figure it out by yourself.
The deep issue is the increase in productivity. Science fiction writers of the golden age did forecast a year 2000 where we'd all be working 2 hours a week and enjoying life the rest of the time. But what we got is a world where some people (CEOs, top-notch contractors...) work like crazy and get heaps of money while the rest get an unemployment check to keep them quiet. Can't we do better than that ?
Most people can't be bothered to learn how to use software applications so everybody should dumb-down to their level!
Yes. Ever wonder why Apple products are popular?
I can understand selling 'simple' computers that work well. What I can't understand is making it impossible for power users to have the options they need. Or only if they purchase a paid app, or compile it themselves (Fink). I've used Mac 3 times in my life for about a year (1988, 1995 and 2001) and each time they made me want to gnaw my foot off by the amount of artificial limitations. And also the fact that Mac users find it absolutely normal to pay extra for an 'app' that does something absolutely elementary that was possible with DOS 1.0.
With about 150 widows that reopen automatically from my last session, the last time I saw my desktop is about 3 years ago, so I'd say that's a good idea.
Guess I'm lucky to use IceWM which still works the way it worked ten years ago - and I find that a good thing.
That's the good thing with Linux, plenty of window managers to chose from. There are plenty of interesting contenders, like Awesome and others which are really different.
I don't care that they want to do that. What I care about is that with Gnome, as usual, there won't be a simple setting somewhere to bring back those options. That's why I cannot stand Gnome. Sometimes it's very nice, like the customized versions for NetBooks, but the default version for PCs which has NO option to tweak it (unless you count recompiles which are worse than Windows registry edits) make it so that I don't and won't use it.
On the other hand after 4 years of use at home and at work I still have no idea what half of KDE's options are for...
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But Republicans want to get rid of this law that makes it illegal for our businesses to bribe foreign officials.
So why do they accept bribes from lobbyists in the form of campaign donations ?
2 years ago I bought an HTC for the very reason that there wasn't any lockdown on it. So why is it that they now want to lose me as a customer ? I don't understand that.
I have around 3 months stock of 'normal' food, partially in a very large freezer.
Completely useless in the event of power going out for more than 24 hours. Which is very likely in many circumstances that don't even reach the 'disaster' level: storm the downs the power lines, fire at the plant, lack of fuel for the plant due to political reasons, sabotage...
Mod me troll. I don't care.
I've got a M1 rifle, a 12 gauge pump and a Colt Python as personal weapons.
That and a backpack full of gear I can live out of and a 4x4 that's already been up the Rubicon trail many times.
Pretty typical answer... Just talked with someone who was in Japan last week and in the US during a major storm couple years ago (Virginia I think, with long power outage and plenty of damage). She said the people behaved very differently, in the US everybody elbowing each others to get anything and everything from the stores as fast as possible. Very orderly in jp in comparison.
...are those who USE this algorithm.
Ok, capitalism, blah, blah, blah... but can anybody tell me WHY are companies allowed to buy other companies ? I mean if the owners/investors in company A want to purchase (stock in) company B and make them work together, then go for it; but I don't understand why a company should be allowed to purchase another one.
Sorry, that's what I get for writing comments before breakfast...
We now have four rectors that needs to be cooled down, built in and kept under close watch for a couple of hundred thousands of years.
Even if those reactors melt down, which they haven't yet, they'll probably stay contained (3m of concrete underneath), and from there it would be about 10 years before access for scraping them would be possible, similar to TMI. The reactors themselves are a problem, but not the BIG problem. The pool with the spent rods is, like the summary says.
SFR (in France). 1GB cap, but degrades to lower speed above that. Changing the referrer field in Firefox when using the phone as a modem is real hackdom, yessir.
Correct, it's long been like this for extraditions. Ever heard of an US citizen being extradited to another country to face charges ?
2 years ago I got an Android phone on my own (not through my Operator). I called them to add 'data' to my plan and they wanted to know if it was an iPhone or an Android as they had 2 different plans. They were the same price so I investigated a bit. It turns out that they block http requests if the referrer field doesn't contain 'Android'. Like that's gonna stop me from using the phone as a 3G hotspot for the rest of the bus, right.
Is it just an impression, or has hard drive technology hit some kind of ceiling. Those two 3TB drives have been available for over a year and there's no other identical or bigger model on the horizon. It used to be that you had a 50% increase every 6 months On the one hand I have a hunch that all the 5Tb pre-series and 10Tb prototypes are going to Google data warehouses, on the other hand I think that research budgets now go to SSDs. So what gives ?
Side story: 5 years ago my Windows system drive started clicking and whirring. I though "OK, when this dies I'm moving over to Linux". I needed a good excuse to make the transition, but the damn thing took more than 2 years to die ! Maxtor: not only do they die on you, but they make you hold your breath.
How is that different from keeping your home backup at work (or at some friend's place) ? Need a quick transfer: login, mount the drive, scp. Need the full backup: put the drive in the car and go home. I don't see the need for a external company.
It gets better as you scroll down:
Activities: Smokeing Weed
Interests: Drinking
No, I'm not even making this up. At least it was a welcome laugh in the midst of all the news from Japan.
No more than half what the case may bring ? That would cut short a lot of frivolous suits. I mean it doesn't make sense that the guys who 'handle the paperwork' get more money than what the whole thing is about.
You've never tried this, have you? The sort of person who is easily frustrated by technology but has been barely getting by on windows gets utterly enraged when presented with different UI paradigms. I know because I tried this "fix" a couple of times for people. The problem isn't that either UI is too difficult-- the problem is that you're dealing with somebody who is utterly refusing to learn anything, and handing them a new OS is asking them to learn quite a few things all at once.
You're mostly wrong. Couple years ago I gave all the family members whose PCs I support a clear choice after the Nth virus wave of the year: either I get you on Linux, or you get a Mac. My sister got the Mac and is happy about it (so happy indeed that she's now completely turned over to the iDarkside, iPhone, iPad, etc), the others chose Linux.
I installed KDE with the Redmond theme: some didn't notice for 3 weeks that it was different (while using it daily for mail, scans, web, office) ! There's only one family member I'm still dithering about: after 10+ years of use, she still can't understand the difference between left-click and right-click and goes in panic mode if the desktop picture changes... So I'm not eager to do ANY change unless the computer dies hard.
OK, it's not the technology, it's the interactivity. The article makes that clear. I'm surprised that this is considered news, though. It's the reason I can sleep after cycling but not after fencing.
There are plenty of studies that show it's not the activity but the light from the screen. The blue light actually: there are even some apps that will redden your screen to avoid this problem.
A while ago there was a /. story about a guy would couldn't talk his neighbors in turning their music down at night, so he got some _really_ powerful electromagnet coils, put them on his wall opposite their speakers, and ran all king of signals through them. After a while they stopped.
When I was a kid / teen, everybody knew who the bullies were, except the teachers. I never understood why they couldn't see it and act on it. Are bullies more subtle than I remember or do teacher avoid the issue by turning a blind eye ? If they spanked a bully once in a while, there wouldn't be any. I know, my bullying for being a geek stopped for good the day I hit back. If only I'd done that a decade earlier...
The deep issue is the increase in productivity. Science fiction writers of the golden age did forecast a year 2000 where we'd all be working 2 hours a week and enjoying life the rest of the time. But what we got is a world where some people (CEOs, top-notch contractors...) work like crazy and get heaps of money while the rest get an unemployment check to keep them quiet. Can't we do better than that ?
Most people can't be bothered to learn how to use software applications so everybody should dumb-down to their level!
Yes. Ever wonder why Apple products are popular?
I can understand selling 'simple' computers that work well. What I can't understand is making it impossible for power users to have the options they need. Or only if they purchase a paid app, or compile it themselves (Fink). I've used Mac 3 times in my life for about a year (1988, 1995 and 2001) and each time they made me want to gnaw my foot off by the amount of artificial limitations. And also the fact that Mac users find it absolutely normal to pay extra for an 'app' that does something absolutely elementary that was possible with DOS 1.0.
KDE decided that icons are unnecessary
With about 150 widows that reopen automatically from my last session, the last time I saw my desktop is about 3 years ago, so I'd say that's a good idea.
Guess I'm lucky to use IceWM which still works the way it worked ten years ago - and I find that a good thing.
That's the good thing with Linux, plenty of window managers to chose from. There are plenty of interesting contenders, like Awesome and others which are really different.
So basically they are reinventing Awesome...
On the other hand after 4 years of use at home and at work I still have no idea what half of KDE's options are for...