Never ceases to blow my mind when people outside the US think 10 miles is a commute. I am not criticizing, it is just an interesting divergence of viewpoint.
Perhaps it's because roads in a lot of places are not very straight or even particularly smooth so that means a journey will take longer. Also, in 1980's UK, probably most house-holds only had one car, so being forced to buy a car to get to work is another expense. And fuel costs more in the UK. Oh, and also, driving a manual car with a little 1.3litre straight-four manual transmission versus (say) a 3 litre v6 automatic probably makes a journey seem a bit longer too. Especially with the rain druming on the roof... the whole fucking way. And back again!:D
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum manual used to have a program you could type in called Pangolins that did the same.... must admit, I was impressed with the "learning" part of that!
Declare the copper thieves terrorists and have them shot.
Firm but fair!
I do seriously think that any crime that is an attack on "infrastructure" should be punished more harshly though, so phone lines/exchange equipment, and also things like train signalling cables which also happens (in the UK anyway).
should we setup a separate email address at google for each vendor account we create?
You don't already use an alias? username+vendor@gmail.com
Surprising how many scripts tell you that this is not a valid email address.
Seriously!! I keep thinking I should set up a "shame" website to list sites that do stupid validation like this. There must be loads of devs using the same borked regex and it pisses me off no end!
and they are part owners of private prisons so they even make bank off of the prison time as well.
Yeah, they should be sued for insider trading! or something!
Seriously though, is $183K a reasonable price for what they needed doing? It sounds a tad expensive to me, so it would be interesting to know who created that invoice.
If you skim through the iFixit photos quickly (like I did), then this one kind-of-sort-of looks like someone lifting the lid on a record player.
(In case the link doesn't work, it's the picture for Step 8 on the iFixit website)
Some banks in the UK do that as well, but it requires you to type an 8 digit number from the card reader into a text box on the website.
But at least these are completely separate from the computer (don't require ActiveX or anything) and they're standardised too so you can use the card reader from one bank, with a completely different bank.
the horror! just imagine if one of those made it to the real world.
at least the archives is doing humanity something good.
I noticed the other one was all tied up. Anyone think to ask why it was tied up? I suspect either to prevent it from getting loose, or some kind of weird ritual to prevent the MS employee within from being able to escape.
So what they're saying is that we can use replacement printer parts to make guns?
Exactly this. And also, off the shelf ink jet printers can be used to make deadly Ink-Jet-Guns and even worse, off the shelf laser printers can be used to make even more deadly Laser-Guns!
Luckily, Lego are producing super leet policemen to tackle these futuristic meanaces, and being leet, will likely be considerably more technologically clued up than the GMP, who, let's be honest, look like a bunch of complete tits.
I personally don't mind Unity, I can pretty much work with whatever desktop is installed by default, as I use the apps and not the shell. So long as I can switch easily between apps, who cares.
I'm similarly non-fussed about the desktop since I've never really been a desktop power user anyway - as long as I can get to the things I use, I'm good.
However, I used to have a Gnome desktop where things were easy to find, and things worked reliably and I could resume from hibernate/suspend without X getting stuck and clocking 100% CPU.
So the thing that's making me consider switching is simply that Ubuntu isn't all that reliable any more, probably because much of the desktop code is now immature, but also because even running an LTS version, these bugs *never* get fixed.
Here's an example bug - super-W should spread the windows out, but often when you use it first windows fly off screen and unless you catch it in time by quickly unspreading, you'll loose them for good.
It's a really shitty bug from a user perspective because it means I fear loosing work (I do understand there are workarounds, but these are not ideal and not good for non-technical users). I also find it grating that this (and loads of other bugs) must be encountered by lots of users, and since it isn't being resolved, I have to conclude that the people resolving things are not using LTS versions - otherwise they'd be driven mad by it. Just like the end-users are now!
Re screen size, TFA mentions an ASUS ChromeBox, although I can't find any detail about it yet, but hopefully it'll be VESA mountable to keep things tidier.
One possible snag with using older kit is that you also need to cover microcode in any devices connected to them, so you also need to obtain old but still working floppy/optical/hard drives - otherwise, hypothetically, a modern storage device might modify anything it thinks looks like executable!
I read that as wildlife threatens power and water to San Francisco. Here I was with images of Bison with Bazookas. Maybe I should lay off the coffee a bit on Sundays.
Nope, you were correct the first time. This is what it has come to, and now it's them or us!
A lot of this I would say isn't Microsoft's fault for the failures.
I'm not sure I'd forgive them for anything really, but one thing really stands out - it's Windows 8.
Windows is MS's core product - the one thing they really don't want to screw up. They've already had a misstep with Vista, so they know how important it is right? And Windows 7 has been well received across the board and has proven itself to be a solid product - even here people don't really slag it off! And yet, unbelievably, MS still managed to screw this one up with Windows 8.
Windows 8 seems to be the same solid OS that Windows 7 was, with further refinements/improvements. And then totally messed up with the Metro UI. And whilst I appreciate what they were *trying* to do by unifying their new and legacy interfaces, they should've realised it wasn't working before Win8 was released. And once they'd made that mistake, they should've better resolved it for 8.1 - but they've failed once again.
So whilst I could go through the entire portfolio of train-wrecks, it seems unnecessary - just look at Windows 8 to see how MS almost seem to deliberately trip themselves up.
One bright spot is Apple blatantly ripping off Metro for iOS 7, which is both a compliment to Microsoft and a way Apple may lose market share in portables.
There's a few things that MS have done that are fairly good. The UI for WinMo 7 / 8 is good; they're looked at the rest of the market, and they've genuinely tried to improve on that. Equally, the XBox Kinect was an innovative product that truly deserves credit.
And yet, once these products finally reach market, once upper management have decided how the market should be segmented, how the product will be marketed, it turns to shit. And that's the kind of "magic" that Ballmer brought to the table. That's what he did best... screw things up.
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You could try halogen bulbs - I'm really picky about the type of light I like, but I find these are a drop-in replacement for incandescents.
Never ceases to blow my mind when people outside the US think 10 miles is a commute. I am not criticizing, it is just an interesting divergence of viewpoint.
Perhaps it's because roads in a lot of places are not very straight or even particularly smooth so that means a journey will take longer. Also, in 1980's UK, probably most house-holds only had one car, so being forced to buy a car to get to work is another expense. And fuel costs more in the UK. Oh, and also, driving a manual car with a little 1.3litre straight-four manual transmission versus (say) a 3 litre v6 automatic probably makes a journey seem a bit longer too. Especially with the rain druming on the roof... the whole fucking way. And back again! :D
;)
We're not jealous by the way!
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum manual used to have a program you could type in called Pangolins that did the same.... must admit, I was impressed with the "learning" part of that!
Declare the copper thieves terrorists and have them shot.
Firm but fair!
I do seriously think that any crime that is an attack on "infrastructure" should be punished more harshly though, so phone lines/exchange equipment, and also things like train signalling cables which also happens (in the UK anyway).
should we setup a separate email address at google for each vendor account we create?
You don't already use an alias? username+vendor@gmail.com
Surprising how many scripts tell you that this is not a valid email address.
Seriously!! I keep thinking I should set up a "shame" website to list sites that do stupid validation like this. There must be loads of devs using the same borked regex and it pisses me off no end!
and they are part owners of private prisons so they even make bank off of the prison time as well.
Yeah, they should be sued for insider trading! or something!
Seriously though, is $183K a reasonable price for what they needed doing? It sounds a tad expensive to me, so it would be interesting to know who created that invoice.
If you skim through the iFixit photos quickly (like I did), then this one kind-of-sort-of looks like someone lifting the lid on a record player.
(In case the link doesn't work, it's the picture for Step 8 on the iFixit website)
You mean you meant 5.4?
UK keyboard default
If your-country != default, you change it. What's so hard?
Who wooshes the watchers though?
For a split-second after I read the headline, I thought it meant the torch had been taken, as in stolen, whilst out on it's space-walk.
So lets pretend that that's what it really meant because it makes for a more interesting topic!
Some banks in the UK do that as well, but it requires you to type an 8 digit number from the card reader into a text box on the website.
But at least these are completely separate from the computer (don't require ActiveX or anything) and they're standardised too so you can use the card reader from one bank, with a completely different bank.
>and a human-sized Clippy costume
the horror! just imagine if one of those made it to the real world. at least the archives is doing humanity something good.
I noticed the other one was all tied up. Anyone think to ask why it was tied up? I suspect either to prevent it from getting loose, or some kind of weird ritual to prevent the MS employee within from being able to escape.
So what they're saying is that we can use replacement printer parts to make guns?
Exactly this. And also, off the shelf ink jet printers can be used to make deadly Ink-Jet-Guns and even worse, off the shelf laser printers can be used to make even more deadly Laser-Guns!
Luckily, Lego are producing super leet policemen to tackle these futuristic meanaces, and being leet, will likely be considerably more technologically clued up than the GMP, who, let's be honest, look like a bunch of complete tits.
I personally don't mind Unity, I can pretty much work with whatever desktop is installed by default, as I use the apps and not the shell. So long as I can switch easily between apps, who cares.
I'm similarly non-fussed about the desktop since I've never really been a desktop power user anyway - as long as I can get to the things I use, I'm good.
However, I used to have a Gnome desktop where things were easy to find, and things worked reliably and I could resume from hibernate/suspend without X getting stuck and clocking 100% CPU.
So the thing that's making me consider switching is simply that Ubuntu isn't all that reliable any more, probably because much of the desktop code is now immature, but also because even running an LTS version, these bugs *never* get fixed.
Here's an example bug - super-W should spread the windows out, but often when you use it first windows fly off screen and unless you catch it in time by quickly unspreading, you'll loose them for good.
It's a really shitty bug from a user perspective because it means I fear loosing work (I do understand there are workarounds, but these are not ideal and not good for non-technical users). I also find it grating that this (and loads of other bugs) must be encountered by lots of users, and since it isn't being resolved, I have to conclude that the people resolving things are not using LTS versions - otherwise they'd be driven mad by it. Just like the end-users are now!
Makes you wonder how many other times has this been done where the crooks got away scott free and the bank just didn't want to go public about it?
Makes me wonder how many times it happened and the operator who's login was used got the blame.
Re screen size, TFA mentions an ASUS ChromeBox, although I can't find any detail about it yet, but hopefully it'll be VESA mountable to keep things tidier.
One possible snag with using older kit is that you also need to cover microcode in any devices connected to them, so you also need to obtain old but still working floppy/optical/hard drives - otherwise, hypothetically, a modern storage device might modify anything it thinks looks like executable!
I read that as wildlife threatens power and water to San Francisco. Here I was with images of Bison with Bazookas. Maybe I should lay off the coffee a bit on Sundays.
Nope, you were correct the first time. This is what it has come to, and now it's them or us!
Yeah I thought that was a nice touch. So they just want robot gardeners then?
A lot of this I would say isn't Microsoft's fault for the failures.
I'm not sure I'd forgive them for anything really, but one thing really stands out - it's Windows 8.
Windows is MS's core product - the one thing they really don't want to screw up. They've already had a misstep with Vista, so they know how important it is right? And Windows 7 has been well received across the board and has proven itself to be a solid product - even here people don't really slag it off! And yet, unbelievably, MS still managed to screw this one up with Windows 8.
Windows 8 seems to be the same solid OS that Windows 7 was, with further refinements/improvements. And then totally messed up with the Metro UI. And whilst I appreciate what they were *trying* to do by unifying their new and legacy interfaces, they should've realised it wasn't working before Win8 was released. And once they'd made that mistake, they should've better resolved it for 8.1 - but they've failed once again.
So whilst I could go through the entire portfolio of train-wrecks, it seems unnecessary - just look at Windows 8 to see how MS almost seem to deliberately trip themselves up.
One bright spot is Apple blatantly ripping off Metro for iOS 7, which is both a compliment to Microsoft and a way Apple may lose market share in portables.
There's a few things that MS have done that are fairly good. The UI for WinMo 7 / 8 is good; they're looked at the rest of the market, and they've genuinely tried to improve on that. Equally, the XBox Kinect was an innovative product that truly deserves credit.
And yet, once these products finally reach market, once upper management have decided how the market should be segmented, how the product will be marketed, it turns to shit. And that's the kind of "magic" that Ballmer brought to the table. That's what he did best... screw things up.
The markets already agree with that. MSFT is up 9% on the news!
Hear, hear!
They should probably rebuild Skype as an HTML5 app with WebRTC! It'll never happen though 'cos that's not what MS does is it.