This raises a question -- every time a new version comes out, Microsoft claims that it's faster than the previous version, but in actual practice it runs slower on the same hardware and generally needs much faster hardware to perform adequately. What's up with that? Is Microsoft using an uncommon definition of "fast"?
I think the reason people are pursuing stolen phones on their own is that the police is going to do absolutely zero about the situation after filling out the incident report, unless the phone happens to show up in some huge haul of stolen goods. The police are not going to raid a house to recover your stolen iphone. It's just not that important to them. (But important enough, apparently, that some law enforcement are lobbying for a manufacturer's kill switch but that's a different discussion.)
If you need an incident number for your insurance, the police will provide that. If you need them to go to that jerk's house and get your phone back, they are not going to do that. It really is that simple.
True, XP 64 bit support was iffy at best, and that was the reason I finally upgraded to 7. But we have three other machines that still work fine but would run slower on 7. Yes, 7 runs better on modern hardware. But there's all that non-modern hardware out there that still does the job it was purchased for, and I'm not quite ready to contribute those to landfill yet.
The thing it, XP is still useful, it's still in a lot of embedded systems, it runs on machines that later versions of Windows won't run well on, and in many situations it does the job. As far as security issues, being Windows, it has security issues by definition, just like every other version of Windows, past and future.
There's something about this that I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around. We (the collective "we" of businesses and individuals still using XP) are stupid for not giving wads of cash to Microsoft when Microsoft says to do so? And Microsoft is stupid for choosing to patch a vulnerability in a half billion PCs?
I agree. The way I put it to friends was that the show went through a period where it was was in danger of becoming "the sheldon show", and that's where I'd find something else to watch. But fortunately, they pulled a little way back from that particular abyss about the time they introduced Amy. Sheldon went back to being mostly clueless, but in a more relate-able way.
The strength of the show I think is that the geeks do grow over time, albeit slowly. Just as geeks do in real life, albeit slowly.
...but anyone can say "I think I smelled something" or words to that effect.
Example: I used to work a contract in a different city, coming home (200 miles one way) on weekends. Often I'd be on the road either going to work or coming from work in the wee hours -- 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM. I got pulled over often. The cop would check my papers and let me go.
When I asked why I was pulled over, they'd say "you were weaving" or "you did not signal a merge when your lane ended". (Which I don't believe you're required to do but I didn't argue.) Finally, when the same cop realized he had pulled me over three weekends in a row at 2:00 AM, he admitted they pull lone vehicles over during the wee hours "just to check them out", and they can always find some excuse to pull someone over if "they needed checking out".
There's a small additional step from there to "I smell something" or...what is the latest law enforcement tool?... oh yes, "I observed debris".
My original point is that in a world where anyone can phone in an anonymous tip that leads to a vehicle being pulled over or a cop at someone's door, it inevitably follows, at least in some police departments, that cops will be phoning in their own anonymous tips. That the tip has no relation to the actual stop is a bonus. It only means the tip can be pretty much anything.
missile_guidance.exe has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
I've got this hankerin' to call 911. This law could get repealed mighty quick if it's senators and congressmen getting pulled over from anonymous tips.
That was my first thought. It might be time for some civil disobedience.
you can port that number to anything of your choosing:)
google voice is especially nice, since you can make your phone carrier a commodity via forwarding. IE: port primary number to google voice, get burner/landline whatever, and then just have google voice forward your primary number to whatever number you get from the new provider. it breaks caller-ID and confuses people regarding your callback number, but it's a small price to pay.
Small anecdote: I was using straighttalk wireless, and had an issue with their soviet era website (I have zero patience for companies that make it difficult for me to pay my bill.. seriously, i'm fucking trying to give you my money.. ). So, thanks to call forwarding I was able to drop them post-haste and switch to a different provider without losing a beat (or worrying about notifying people of a number change.).
The thing that worries me about porting to Google Voice is the articles that Google is going to kill Voice in the near future and bring some or most of the features into G+. Whether it's still useful for my purposes will depend on what they do with the changeover. What they did with Latitude made that feature unuseable and we ended going to a different solution. So I'll wait and see and take another look post-transition.
Again, it must depend on the area. Wife has an (older) Roku downstairs, and daughter has a blu-ray player with netflix upstairs, and they can stream simultaneously with no issues. The only time this is not true is if I'm downloading something massive.
I dunno, it must depend on the area. I got FIOS from Verizon when it first became available, and when they sold it to Frontier (apparently because Verizon Wireless wanted to enter into a business deal with Comcast) the only thing that happened to us is that the customer service became more responsive and more pleasant to talk to. What I've seen is that the "minimum" speed keeps going up (probably pressure from Comcast cable modem) and our cost has not increased.
Mind you, I do not buy cable TV from Frontier (or anyone). These days, cable TV is an unnecessary expense. I only get internet and phone. (And the land line is also unnecessary, really. I only keep it because we've had the same phone number since the late eighties.)
If you don't want to buy one, you can rent a log splitter in many areas. Moreover, as someone else pointed out, a hydraulic log splitter works with knotted up wood, not just the very easy to split wood in the example.
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This raises a question -- every time a new version comes out, Microsoft claims that it's faster than the previous version, but in actual practice it runs slower on the same hardware and generally needs much faster hardware to perform adequately. What's up with that? Is Microsoft using an uncommon definition of "fast"?
"backed by millions of dollars from the federal government"
I think the reason people are pursuing stolen phones on their own is that the police is going to do absolutely zero about the situation after filling out the incident report, unless the phone happens to show up in some huge haul of stolen goods. The police are not going to raid a house to recover your stolen iphone. It's just not that important to them. (But important enough, apparently, that some law enforcement are lobbying for a manufacturer's kill switch but that's a different discussion.)
If you need an incident number for your insurance, the police will provide that. If you need them to go to that jerk's house and get your phone back, they are not going to do that. It really is that simple.
True, XP 64 bit support was iffy at best, and that was the reason I finally upgraded to 7. But we have three other machines that still work fine but would run slower on 7. Yes, 7 runs better on modern hardware. But there's all that non-modern hardware out there that still does the job it was purchased for, and I'm not quite ready to contribute those to landfill yet.
The thing it, XP is still useful, it's still in a lot of embedded systems, it runs on machines that later versions of Windows won't run well on, and in many situations it does the job. As far as security issues, being Windows, it has security issues by definition, just like every other version of Windows, past and future.
There's something about this that I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around. We (the collective "we" of businesses and individuals still using XP) are stupid for not giving wads of cash to Microsoft when Microsoft says to do so? And Microsoft is stupid for choosing to patch a vulnerability in a half billion PCs?
I agree. The way I put it to friends was that the show went through a period where it was was in danger of becoming "the sheldon show", and that's where I'd find something else to watch. But fortunately, they pulled a little way back from that particular abyss about the time they introduced Amy. Sheldon went back to being mostly clueless, but in a more relate-able way.
The strength of the show I think is that the geeks do grow over time, albeit slowly. Just as geeks do in real life, albeit slowly.
I've got a script to identify social memes:
wget knowyourmeme.com | grep -i "$1"
Haven't done a lot of debugging yet.
Thanks, that's very good to know. I don't think I need that at the moment, but if I ever do I'll know what to look for.
Example: I used to work a contract in a different city, coming home (200 miles one way) on weekends. Often I'd be on the road either going to work or coming from work in the wee hours -- 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM. I got pulled over often. The cop would check my papers and let me go.
When I asked why I was pulled over, they'd say "you were weaving" or "you did not signal a merge when your lane ended". (Which I don't believe you're required to do but I didn't argue.) Finally, when the same cop realized he had pulled me over three weekends in a row at 2:00 AM, he admitted they pull lone vehicles over during the wee hours "just to check them out", and they can always find some excuse to pull someone over if "they needed checking out".
There's a small additional step from there to "I smell something" or ...what is the latest law enforcement tool?... oh yes, "I observed debris".
My original point is that in a world where anyone can phone in an anonymous tip that leads to a vehicle being pulled over or a cop at someone's door, it inevitably follows, at least in some police departments, that cops will be phoning in their own anonymous tips. That the tip has no relation to the actual stop is a bonus. It only means the tip can be pretty much anything.
missile_guidance.exe has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
But in this case, they did search. "I think I smell something".
No, don't go after Senators' spouses and children, go after their mistresses. Really hit them where they live.
> if it can be anonymous....then the police can phone in their own tips!
And that's the whole point.
These days, all you have to say is "I think I saw a gun".
Mod up.
There's a price for civil disobedience, but sometimes it's necessary.
Also, near the entrance to grocery stores.
> Be sure to use a payphone.
How about a burner phone?
I've got this hankerin' to call 911.
This law could get repealed mighty quick if it's senators and congressmen getting pulled over from anonymous tips.
That was my first thought. It might be time for some civil disobedience.
you can port that number to anything of your choosing :)
google voice is especially nice, since you can make your phone carrier a commodity via forwarding. IE: port primary number to google voice, get burner/landline whatever, and then just have google voice forward your primary number to whatever number you get from the new provider. it breaks caller-ID and confuses people regarding your callback number, but it's a small price to pay.
Small anecdote: I was using straighttalk wireless, and had an issue with their soviet era website (I have zero patience for companies that make it difficult for me to pay my bill.. seriously, i'm fucking trying to give you my money.. ). So, thanks to call forwarding I was able to drop them post-haste and switch to a different provider without losing a beat (or worrying about notifying people of a number change.).
The thing that worries me about porting to Google Voice is the articles that Google is going to kill Voice in the near future and bring some or most of the features into G+. Whether it's still useful for my purposes will depend on what they do with the changeover. What they did with Latitude made that feature unuseable and we ended going to a different solution. So I'll wait and see and take another look post-transition.
Again, it must depend on the area. Wife has an (older) Roku downstairs, and daughter has a blu-ray player with netflix upstairs, and they can stream simultaneously with no issues. The only time this is not true is if I'm downloading something massive.
I dunno, it must depend on the area. I got FIOS from Verizon when it first became available, and when they sold it to Frontier (apparently because Verizon Wireless wanted to enter into a business deal with Comcast) the only thing that happened to us is that the customer service became more responsive and more pleasant to talk to. What I've seen is that the "minimum" speed keeps going up (probably pressure from Comcast cable modem) and our cost has not increased.
Mind you, I do not buy cable TV from Frontier (or anyone). These days, cable TV is an unnecessary expense. I only get internet and phone. (And the land line is also unnecessary, really. I only keep it because we've had the same phone number since the late eighties.)
If you don't want to buy one, you can rent a log splitter in many areas. Moreover, as someone else pointed out, a hydraulic log splitter works with knotted up wood, not just the very easy to split wood in the example.