Go do a sfc/scannow and a dism/online/clean-image/checkhealth?
You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)
I would not count on that - once users understand you can actually change the OS without buying a new box, and then undo the changes when it hurts they may start asking other questions too!
Google put their balls to the wall and make a solid desktop version of Android complete with a full replacement for X
You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.
If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!
For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).
You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.
Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?
Most workplaces use a PC for
a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).
Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.
Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.
"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools.
Hint: Get out of the damned basement!
Some people do not manage remove servers over long periods.
You install three identical servers: one running the public facing web server, one running the database server, connected by a separate, private network. The third one is available for the new version of the software to be installed, and then activated. Once the software is upgraded on all three, you keep it runnning as a hot standby. If reliable service to clients is not worth more than the cost of running a hot standby, you probably would not have any servers in a colo.
Then why would anyone put in the not-atypical 60-hour work week or do tasks they didn't want to do?
Because they have to eat and pay the rent. Here in London, because both major parties believe a housing shortage will help them*, and lies about it, rents are often more than 50% of salary.
It is not easy to get a job. If it was, things would change fast - mostly imigration would increase to bring in even more people who don't understand the cost of living until too late.
Conservatives thing rising prices will make existing home owners vote for them as it makes them "richer".
Labour think housing shortages will make those in social housing more desperate to vote for them.
Some people can actually think past the next quarterly report.
High frequency traders are busy looking at the next 1 second's report. If they can buy AFTER they sell by taking advantage of the fact that two different trading platforms do it two different ways, then there is a serious risk that the dollar will be toast
No one cares if it takes one second longer to log in to a.NET system.
Quite a few people care that there are traders who probably have devoted weeks to figuring out how to sell the entire content of Fort Knox, and buy it back one second later (or earlier, according to which time standard you are using) at half price.
It won't matter when you get scammed by the market traders who use the discrepancy to steal your entire pension fund/house/car or anything else tied to "the system". Yes, planes may crash becaose of a 1 second error in interpreting GPS signals, and possibly even ships run aground.
I care about these things. It seems like some other people do too.
The solution is, of course, "international agreement" on how to handle the issue. Does not matter which approach, so long as everyone agrees on it. Good luck with that one.
Surely this sets a precident: the laws against theft seriously damage the profits of the average prospective pick-pocket. They must be illegal too! Not to mention the impact of the public smoking ban.
To hell with it! The Mafia cannot be made illegal - it would be a crime!
Google needs to implement a "nerdsearch" feature, where they actually do what you ask, with quotes and -/+ operatore, etc
They also need a "Do not put any commercial results in here - I am not planning to buy anything, and have no intention of clicking on anything that looks like an advert - and I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SWITCHING TO BING" option.
If I have a cake, and share it between zero people, how big is each person's slice?
The answer is "that was a dumb question"
You cannot share a cake between zero people. The cake may be still whole, but no person has a part of it of any size. Maybe they "could" have a part of almost any size, but that was not the question. (Maybe it should have been, but in that case, you have to provide for different max and min answers, and should have asked the question differently ).
What is the answer to x/0? The answer is "you have got the question wrong!" - otherwise known as Error: divide by zero.
How you report a divide by zero error, is of course somewhat context dependent. Silently ignoring it could well be the right approach if decoding VoIP. If controling a driverless truck - probably is not .
Conclusion: Yes, after rather more than 70 years of computing, we actually have got this one right!
My laptop has a fingerprint scanner, but I have stopped using it because its faster to type the password in! - 8 characters, mixed case, with numerics. Because I type a lot, and scan my fingers rarely.
Might be OK on a touch phone, where typing is a painful process. Mine doesn't have a fingerprint scanner, and AFAIK, none of the ones with removeable batteries and SD cards do, so it is not an issue I am likely to encounter.
In reality, the hardened, central hub that shares the same hacked router credentials and NSA back door with the rest of my home.
Nope - the answer is not there.
IoT is the best known way to donate all your privacy to the lowest scum on earth - by which I mean all of them collectively, not the exact lowest - exactness will be missing.
Wealth is not like a cake, which is there to be shared out equally or otherwise. Wealth is created, and those who creat it get the lion's share. The economy is like a fire: if you take way the hot coals at the centre, it goes out. It is in the interests of rich people for poor people to have money: rich people get what the poor spend, just as the poor get what the rich spend. You might want to read up on the French Revolution of the English Civil war to see what happens when the poor start taking - it does not end well for the poor.
I am not saying there is not a problem, or that it is not getting worse: the issue is that we have created an economy that is designed to promote (pay for) large numbers of people doing factory/office work, which can be done by robots/computers instead. The last thing we need is the Socialist Worker's "fight for the right to be exploited". Unions leaders want more factory jobs, because it means more union members.
We need to have an economy that pays for (values) other activities which are less dependent on large, hierarchical corporations. Oh yes, we already have one: its called "the Internet" anyone can Ebay anything (of Fiverr, or whatever). However, assuming we actually want more children (not venturing an answer on this) we probably need to pay more in welfare payments to mothers so we are not in the situation where we are paying mothers so they can pay baby minders and go to work at minimum wage jobs, leaving men unemployed.
Why are footballers so highly paid? Because people value wasting their lives in front of the TV very highly. There is a lesson here, I just don't quite know what it is!
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I use UltraSparc you insensitive clod!
unless you were born yesterday.
Rational explanation for phenomenon has been found. News at 10.
Is FUD OO? Is there a compiler for Linux? Enquiring minds need to know!
In the same sense that burglars and their victims have a relationship?
What is wrong with the traditional "selling souls to the devil?"
You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)
Your million is safe. No one is ever going to release a "Hookers and Blow" version of their OS.
In the same sense as: Sure we have a Quality Plan - unfortunately it focusses on delivering poor quality!
I would not count on that - once users understand you can actually change the OS without buying a new box, and then undo the changes when it hurts they may start asking other questions too!
You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.
If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!
For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).
You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.
Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?
Most workplaces use a PC for
a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).
Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.
Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.
"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools. Hint: Get out of the damned basement!
They though "websites-that-suck.com" was a training manual.
Some people do not manage remove servers over long periods.
You install three identical servers: one running the public facing web server, one running the database server, connected by a separate, private network. The third one is available for the new version of the software to be installed, and then activated. Once the software is upgraded on all three, you keep it runnning as a hot standby. If reliable service to clients is not worth more than the cost of running a hot standby, you probably would not have any servers in a colo.
Because they have to eat and pay the rent. Here in London, because both major parties believe a housing shortage will help them*, and lies about it, rents are often more than 50% of salary.
It is not easy to get a job. If it was, things would change fast - mostly imigration would increase to bring in even more people who don't understand the cost of living until too late.
Conservatives thing rising prices will make existing home owners vote for them as it makes them "richer".
Labour think housing shortages will make those in social housing more desperate to vote for them.
Unfortunately. 90% of the world uses an unreasonable system: "Windows". and 1% is out to exploit this f@$# up.
High frequency traders are busy looking at the next 1 second's report. If they can buy AFTER they sell by taking advantage of the fact that two different trading platforms do it two different ways, then there is a serious risk that the dollar will be toast
No one cares if it takes one second longer to log in to a .NET system.
Quite a few people care that there are traders who probably have devoted weeks to figuring out how to sell the entire content of Fort Knox, and buy it back one second later (or earlier, according to which time standard you are using) at half price.
I care about these things. It seems like some other people do too.
The solution is, of course, "international agreement" on how to handle the issue. Does not matter which approach, so long as everyone agrees on it. Good luck with that one.
To hell with it! The Mafia cannot be made illegal - it would be a crime!
They also need a "Do not put any commercial results in here - I am not planning to buy anything, and have no intention of clicking on anything that looks like an advert - and I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SWITCHING TO BING" option.
The answer is "that was a dumb question"
You cannot share a cake between zero people. The cake may be still whole, but no person has a part of it of any size. Maybe they "could" have a part of almost any size, but that was not the question. (Maybe it should have been, but in that case, you have to provide for different max and min answers, and should have asked the question differently ).
What is the answer to x/0? The answer is "you have got the question wrong!" - otherwise known as Error: divide by zero.
How you report a divide by zero error, is of course somewhat context dependent. Silently ignoring it could well be the right approach if decoding VoIP. If controling a driverless truck - probably is not .
Conclusion: Yes, after rather more than 70 years of computing, we actually have got this one right!
Might be OK on a touch phone, where typing is a painful process. Mine doesn't have a fingerprint scanner, and AFAIK, none of the ones with removeable batteries and SD cards do, so it is not an issue I am likely to encounter.
Nope - the answer is not there.
IoT is the best known way to donate all your privacy to the lowest scum on earth - by which I mean all of them collectively, not the exact lowest - exactness will be missing.
What is your position on Zombies?
I am not saying there is not a problem, or that it is not getting worse: the issue is that we have created an economy that is designed to promote (pay for) large numbers of people doing factory/office work, which can be done by robots/computers instead. The last thing we need is the Socialist Worker's "fight for the right to be exploited". Unions leaders want more factory jobs, because it means more union members.
We need to have an economy that pays for (values) other activities which are less dependent on large, hierarchical corporations. Oh yes, we already have one: its called "the Internet" anyone can Ebay anything (of Fiverr, or whatever). However, assuming we actually want more children (not venturing an answer on this) we probably need to pay more in welfare payments to mothers so we are not in the situation where we are paying mothers so they can pay baby minders and go to work at minimum wage jobs, leaving men unemployed.
Why are footballers so highly paid? Because people value wasting their lives in front of the TV very highly. There is a lesson here, I just don't quite know what it is!
In the future, the future will be obsolete.
C with Emacs on BSD will never die!
Because it is the undead