It is true that 8.1 is 'good' but it's a moot point, windows 8 has already ruined anything starting with 8.
The user interface being set automatically to a touch interface on devices without any touchscreen is idiotic. The problem is the low tech users who still have trouble with basic things like how to start a program, what is a program, what is a web browser, how to plug in the mouse, how do I download the interwebs, all that.
It's a moot point, everyone is moving to tablets and wifi. The only people who need or use anything more than a tablet are business people, businesses, and content creators. Everything else is going to cloud and content consumption. You no longer need a PC just to do email, texting, chat, and content consumption.
Since desktop/laptop is being relegated to content creators and business, the level of competency is rising for the typical user of laptop/desktop. The only 'real' difference between 8 and 8.1 is making it easier to ditch the interface, and with a stronger user that is a moot point, 8 and 8.1 are both in the crap category, making win10 'good'.
People ARE using windows 8, in that they buy a machine with it on there already, discover it is crap, whine and complain, and then let it sit and rot and use their tablets instead.
Those who DO buy windows 8 and use it are those 'power users' who put on 'classic start' or have a touch interface, and/or discover some way to use the windows 8 interface with a mouse/touchpad.
BTW I am a huge TG fan, to the point that my ringtone is the TG intro music. I have all the episodes and have watched all of them repeatedly. I have several of the presenter's other works as well. I wish I could have some day actually attended a taping but...
My favorite is 10:4, the Botswana ep where Hammond drives Oliver across Africa, which is, by the way, their favorite adventure as well.
Sadly my wife and kids can't stand the show. Oh well. It is and will continue to be my thing, even if there are no more. It was a special thing, everyone knew it, and I doubt it will ever be recreated unless the lads find a new home elsewhere.
I saw a rumor where they were being courted by Netflix? Wouldn't that be something?
He is Boorish and bigoted against American vehicles.
Richard Hammond could carry that show all by himself. James May would be a perk.
Clarkson likes some Fords and likes the most recent Corvettes.
He doesn't like American cars because he's British, don't take it personally. The British assume they invented the world and that it revolves around them. Probably something about having once been a big empire, dunno.
it was getting a bit repetitive - go abroad somewhere with 3 knackered cars, try to cross a river/desert, end up doing roadside fixes, one presenter gets left behind, bang into each other a bit, blah blah.
very formulaic, like ramsey's hotel hell or even the a-team.
And yet it's produced better and is more entertaining than just about anything else not on AMC.
So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.
I'm ashamed to say I had not heard any of that. Source?
Fire the American hosts (do that in any case), hire the British ones then never let them review an English car (because they obviously can't do that objectively).
Good idea but that's still the BBC, who just fired him.
The only other form it has existed in was cancelled, and the only reason the franchise survived was because they relaunched it with Clarkson. It has yet to be proven that any other form of the show could succeed in the UK without him... particularly if the three hosts end up going elsewhere to host a similar show. Many viewers could consider such a successor show to be "the real Top Gear" even if it had a different name on a different network.
I foresee them getting welcomed warmly to another organization. And that they will ensure that Jezza ALWAYS is fed promptly.
I saw the recent YT clip where May said they were a package deal and that he had to quickly go make a Ebay posting to sell his Ferrari. I'm sure he was only half joking...
Look at Final Gear; it's actually a more informative show than Top Gear, but almost nobody knows about it.
Sorry to see Jezza go, but the BBC did the right thing.
I think you mean fifth gear, not final gear.
Final gear is a fan website that posted links to the torrents of all top gear/ fifth gear episodes and after several years of providing links got a nasty C+D letter from BBC or a BBC surrogate organization.
Otherwise, you are 100% right, copies of TGUK that try to be TGUK fail, because what TGUK is (WAS) wasn't the result of them trying to be that way, that's just the way they were.
If we go back and watch the show starting at season 2 up to the current season we see that the show evolved into what it is known for, and it took years to get there. For several seasons it wasn't just about 3 middle aged blokes falling down and cocking about.
My personal take is that the BBC had no choice but to sack Clarkson, it truly is his fault. The only question is whether he (to some extent, or subconsciously) wanted to be forced to stop doing the show because otherwise there was no way he could bring himself to stop.
I foresee the three to do some work together on their own or under some other organization.
There is a part of me that is considering dropping Comcast service once this whole repair effort is complete (costing them $5-10k)... however they (unfortunately) provide the fastest internet for the price... when it works.
And this is why Comcast is the biggest ISP. And why they are so thoroughly hated by so many people.
I wonder how many millions in cash is stolen every day in similar schemes.
Well, watching drugs inc episodes apparently ripping people off is a viable business model in the drug industry.
You got the distributors and dealers of good dope, dealers of crappy dope, then the dealers that sell fake dope, the dealers who steal dope from other dealers to sell, and the gangs who just rob dealer stash houses for the cash and whatever dope is on hand.
So, an online 'marketplace' specializing in illegal black market goods is no different than maneuvering in the real world black market, it isn't too hard to get ripped off in either world.
I imagine if they stole $12mil in bitcoins that is but a fraction of business that went through there, just a snapshot of any one day.
Tell her to follow her interests and learn on her own. Make her geek education her own responsibility and not that of schools and universities. Tell her that the ability to learn on your own, and to learn about things that interest you, are what makes all the difference.
For geeks, that's probably the most important thing.
If she's only in 6th grade now, she likely will be following a career that will follow the mentor/protege apprenticeship and entrepreneurship model, and not the go-to-college-get-a-job model. She will have to be self driven to become an expert in her field.
Let's reply to my own comment and talk about the ethics of blocking all adds all the time.
There are websites / blogs I go to that rely on ads to keep going. The operator spends massive amounts of his time and money running the website. I didn't even KNOW he had ads on it until one day he commented that he changed his ad stream. I felt bad.
But I didn't enable ads on his site.
What percentage of people even KNOW you can block ads?
What percentage of people who DO block ads flip the switch and kill the "unobtrusive" ads?
How long will the ad supported model on the internet continue to work?
I can click a 'switch' and turn off 'acceptable ads' and it's been that way for a long time now.
So maybe it IS news because I didn't know/realize/take the time to think about the fact that they make money off this.
Good for them. They deserve to eat too. Adblock Plus is reliable and makes the internet tolerable and safer. Letting through some 'GRAS' ads for cash is fine with me. As long as there is a switch where I can turn them off too...
the AC's extension of the analogy is actually really good - It's probably a pretty good way of looking at encryption, VPN, and TOR.
Say it's really really cold out, like an "arctic vortex" kind of condition, which is the state of the internet right now with surveillance and monitoring.
So everyone needs to wear their ski masks to go out, if they're smart. So it would be wrong to prevent people from walking around in ski masks.
But someone... likely there IS someone... is up to no good who is ALSO wearing a ski mask.
And I bet you have throwing stars and walk around pretending you are a ninja too.
No one said if you use TOR you would be a criminal. They said criminals use TOR so governments dislike it. Now, do you think the corner drug store clerk doesn't like you walking in wearing your ninja mask? I would bet he has no problem with you personally, just when you dress up like a crook trying to rob the store.
ok, lets continue the analogy.
If I walk into a store wearing a ski mask, and don't take it off, I think it would make most people nervous. It's strange behavior.
If I visit a website using TOR, what happens? For one, they won't know who I am unless I have cookies or log in.
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I see your point, and I like it.
It is true that 8.1 is 'good' but it's a moot point, windows 8 has already ruined anything starting with 8.
The user interface being set automatically to a touch interface on devices without any touchscreen is idiotic. The problem is the low tech users who still have trouble with basic things like how to start a program, what is a program, what is a web browser, how to plug in the mouse, how do I download the interwebs, all that.
It's a moot point, everyone is moving to tablets and wifi. The only people who need or use anything more than a tablet are business people, businesses, and content creators. Everything else is going to cloud and content consumption. You no longer need a PC just to do email, texting, chat, and content consumption.
Since desktop/laptop is being relegated to content creators and business, the level of competency is rising for the typical user of laptop/desktop. The only 'real' difference between 8 and 8.1 is making it easier to ditch the interface, and with a stronger user that is a moot point, 8 and 8.1 are both in the crap category, making win10 'good'.
People had to use it for it to count.
People ARE using windows 8, in that they buy a machine with it on there already, discover it is crap, whine and complain, and then let it sit and rot and use their tablets instead.
Those who DO buy windows 8 and use it are those 'power users' who put on 'classic start' or have a touch interface, and/or discover some way to use the windows 8 interface with a mouse/touchpad.
True.
I vaguely recall him saying a recent hopped up mustang was fun, not that he thought it was 'good'. Hammond was drooling tho.
lol.
Man I'm gonna miss that show. Good thing I've got them all.
BTW I am a huge TG fan, to the point that my ringtone is the TG intro music. I have all the episodes and have watched all of them repeatedly. I have several of the presenter's other works as well. I wish I could have some day actually attended a taping but...
My favorite is 10:4, the Botswana ep where Hammond drives Oliver across Africa, which is, by the way, their favorite adventure as well.
Sadly my wife and kids can't stand the show. Oh well. It is and will continue to be my thing, even if there are no more. It was a special thing, everyone knew it, and I doubt it will ever be recreated unless the lads find a new home elsewhere.
I saw a rumor where they were being courted by Netflix? Wouldn't that be something?
He is Boorish and bigoted against American vehicles.
Richard Hammond could carry that show all by himself. James May would be a perk.
Clarkson likes some Fords and likes the most recent Corvettes.
He doesn't like American cars because he's British, don't take it personally. The British assume they invented the world and that it revolves around them. Probably something about having once been a big empire, dunno.
A lot of people forgot that BBC had no choice. Clarkson reported himself, and BBC has to literally break their own rule to not fire him.
Clarkson lose, May and Hammond lose. BBC lose, the audience lose.
Nobody wins.
We will win if/when they are back to cocking about on some other network or on a film of their own making.
it was getting a bit repetitive - go abroad somewhere with 3 knackered cars, try to cross a river/desert, end up doing roadside fixes, one presenter gets left behind, bang into each other a bit, blah blah.
very formulaic, like ramsey's hotel hell or even the a-team.
And yet it's produced better and is more entertaining than just about anything else not on AMC.
And this is hardly the first time Clarkson has behaved like this, he was already on "final warning" after a string of other incidents.
He probably should have molested a bunch of kids instead. Then the BBC would have kept the entire incident covered up.
this needs to be rated higher. ^^^^^^
So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.
I'm ashamed to say I had not heard any of that. Source?
oh, wait, here http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-...
ouch.
Are people really going to miss yet another totally fake show pretending to be reality?
this one, yes.
Fire the American hosts (do that in any case), hire the British ones then never let them review an English car (because they obviously can't do that objectively).
Good idea but that's still the BBC, who just fired him.
The only other form it has existed in was cancelled, and the only reason the franchise survived was because they relaunched it with Clarkson. It has yet to be proven that any other form of the show could succeed in the UK without him... particularly if the three hosts end up going elsewhere to host a similar show. Many viewers could consider such a successor show to be "the real Top Gear" even if it had a different name on a different network.
I foresee them getting welcomed warmly to another organization. And that they will ensure that Jezza ALWAYS is fed promptly.
I saw the recent YT clip where May said they were a package deal and that he had to quickly go make a Ebay posting to sell his Ferrari. I'm sure he was only half joking...
The new show, on a new channel, will be either called "Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear" or something meta-descriptive like "New Best Car Show"
highest cog
max sprocket
three blokes falling down
captain slow's road show
so-called top so-called gear
Look at Final Gear; it's actually a more informative show than Top Gear, but almost nobody knows about it.
Sorry to see Jezza go, but the BBC did the right thing.
I think you mean fifth gear, not final gear.
Final gear is a fan website that posted links to the torrents of all top gear/ fifth gear episodes and after several years of providing links got a nasty C+D letter from BBC or a BBC surrogate organization.
Otherwise, you are 100% right, copies of TGUK that try to be TGUK fail, because what TGUK is (WAS) wasn't the result of them trying to be that way, that's just the way they were.
If we go back and watch the show starting at season 2 up to the current season we see that the show evolved into what it is known for, and it took years to get there. For several seasons it wasn't just about 3 middle aged blokes falling down and cocking about.
My personal take is that the BBC had no choice but to sack Clarkson, it truly is his fault. The only question is whether he (to some extent, or subconsciously) wanted to be forced to stop doing the show because otherwise there was no way he could bring himself to stop.
I foresee the three to do some work together on their own or under some other organization.
Since when did poor become a minority?
I could make a comment about how, since 0bama, poor is the majority -
but I won't.
You can thank me later.
There is a part of me that is considering dropping Comcast service once this whole repair effort is complete (costing them $5-10k)... however they (unfortunately) provide the fastest internet for the price... when it works.
And this is why Comcast is the biggest ISP. And why they are so thoroughly hated by so many people.
I wonder how many millions in cash is stolen every day in similar schemes.
Well, watching drugs inc episodes apparently ripping people off is a viable business model in the drug industry.
You got the distributors and dealers of good dope, dealers of crappy dope, then the dealers that sell fake dope, the dealers who steal dope from other dealers to sell, and the gangs who just rob dealer stash houses for the cash and whatever dope is on hand.
So, an online 'marketplace' specializing in illegal black market goods is no different than maneuvering in the real world black market, it isn't too hard to get ripped off in either world.
I imagine if they stole $12mil in bitcoins that is but a fraction of business that went through there, just a snapshot of any one day.
... there is no honor among thieves.
When oh when are we going to have an ETHICAL and MORAL bitcoin black market service?
Come on! It's like it's just a bunch of criminals doing this stuff.
Wait...
Come on, people, this is SLASHDOT!
What mail server software did she use?
What kind of hardware?
How much ram? Disk?
What kind of internet did they have? Just one ISP? Two? Three? What kind of hardware used for firewall and ISP rollover and/or load balancing?
What kind of backup and redundancy? External disk? Redundant server? Offsite? Cloud? What kind of malware protection?
THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING! There are tons of other websites and blogs to bitch at each other about politics.
I've got one geeky daughter and one not as geeky.
Tell her to follow her interests and learn on her own. Make her geek education her own responsibility and not that of schools and universities. Tell her that the ability to learn on your own, and to learn about things that interest you, are what makes all the difference.
For geeks, that's probably the most important thing.
If she's only in 6th grade now, she likely will be following a career that will follow the mentor/protege apprenticeship and entrepreneurship model, and not the go-to-college-get-a-job model. She will have to be self driven to become an expert in her field.
I don't understand this 1Tbps thing. Can someone tell me how fast it is in movies per second?
The proper unit on /. is library of congress per fortnight, but in 2015 it should be measured in netflix movies at 1080 resolution.
Well, I guess my comment is worth 5 karmas.
Let's reply to my own comment and talk about the ethics of blocking all adds all the time.
There are websites / blogs I go to that rely on ads to keep going. The operator spends massive amounts of his time and money running the website. I didn't even KNOW he had ads on it until one day he commented that he changed his ad stream. I felt bad.
But I didn't enable ads on his site.
What percentage of people even KNOW you can block ads?
What percentage of people who DO block ads flip the switch and kill the "unobtrusive" ads?
How long will the ad supported model on the internet continue to work?
Are we killing the internet by blocking ads?
So... this isn't news?
I can click a 'switch' and turn off 'acceptable ads' and it's been that way for a long time now.
So maybe it IS news because I didn't know/realize/take the time to think about the fact that they make money off this.
Good for them. They deserve to eat too. Adblock Plus is reliable and makes the internet tolerable and safer. Letting through some 'GRAS' ads for cash is fine with me. As long as there is a switch where I can turn them off too...
(Generally Regarded as Safe)
the AC's extension of the analogy is actually really good - It's probably a pretty good way of looking at encryption, VPN, and TOR.
Say it's really really cold out, like an "arctic vortex" kind of condition, which is the state of the internet right now with surveillance and monitoring.
So everyone needs to wear their ski masks to go out, if they're smart. So it would be wrong to prevent people from walking around in ski masks.
But someone ... likely there IS someone ... is up to no good who is ALSO wearing a ski mask.
What do you do?
And I bet you have throwing stars and walk around pretending you are a ninja too.
No one said if you use TOR you would be a criminal. They said criminals use TOR so governments dislike it. Now, do you think the corner drug store clerk doesn't like you walking in wearing your ninja mask? I would bet he has no problem with you personally, just when you dress up like a crook trying to rob the store.
ok, lets continue the analogy.
If I walk into a store wearing a ski mask, and don't take it off, I think it would make most people nervous. It's strange behavior.
If I visit a website using TOR, what happens? For one, they won't know who I am unless I have cookies or log in.
Will they freak out? Will they be nervous?