UEFI is just a new standard of firmware that replaces BIOS. It does many things better than BIOS. It's why your new PC boots so fast. It gives hardware OEMs the ability to add pre-OS drivers for different hardware. Largely, it's a good thing.
"SecureBoot" is just a module for EFI that (poorly) attempts to prevent boot loader rootkit hacks. A lot of people like to bitch and gripe about SecureBoot because Microsoft played with the idea of requiring it to be there in order to run Windows 8+, but you can still load Windows through the good' ol EFI Compatibility Service Module. Oh, and you can disable it on basically any motherboard I've ever seen, including ones from OEMs like Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Many people were afraid that SecureBoot would require a 'jailbreak' of an EFI PC in order to load whatever OS you want on it, and these rumors are completely unfounded except for in the most marginal circumstances. Just turn it off if you want to do any of that.
If you didn't recognize it because you were too busy being a partisan hack, the 'shredding the constitution' bit was me making fun of the idiot talking heads on Fox News and conservative talk radio, not me actually claiming that shredding the constitution is actually happening.
Bending it to new lows? That's been happening for decades by BOTH parties, if you hadn't noticed.
how about we do something about nutjobs getting homicidal? You seem to have left that solution out, in favor of leaving the homicidal nutjob out there, looking for a gun you've made marginally harder to get.
So, a mass shooting that has now been labeled as terrorism happens in the state with the strictest gun control laws available in the US, and the answer is... more gun control laws?
For the nth time, KILLERS DO NOT CARE ABOUT FELONY WEAPONS CHARGES. They are either too stupid and think they will not get caught, or they are smart enough to realize that the life sentence (if they are lucky) they will receive for killing someone makes the felony weapons charge completely moot. And, we all know that by definition, criminals always follow laws.
More gun control in the State of California will only serve to restrict people who already follow the laws, who isn't really of concern here. How about instead of passing more laws that make you feel better but do absolutely nothing to solve the problem, we instead pass some laws to provide funding to diagnose and treat the mentally ill?
I'd be happy if we could close up Trump in some way.
How the hell is he still leading the field on the Republican side? Is this some vast right wing conspiracy to get Hillary elected so they can have 4 more years of 'shredding the Constitution' and 'destroying America' rhetoric?
Signed, A registered Republican who votes for sane candidates... when there are any.
So do this: 1. Reschedule for "later" 2. Delete the C:\$Windows.~BT folder and all of it's contents 3. Create a file at C:\$Windows.~BT so that the automatic downloader cannot create the directory to download that shit into. It will error and die. 4. Continue using your legacy version of Windows.
I've never understood the boot time argument in the post-Windows Vista world. You do that, what, once a day, maybe? For most people that don't shut down or reboot unnecessarily, it's once a week or so. You just saved 30 seconds out of a week. Who gives a shit?
Unfortunately, I still have two uses for Windows: 1. Games. Yes, many of these can be played on Linux now, but the drivers are still shit, and take a performance hit universally over what you get on Windows. 2. Windows Media Center. It's one of the few things Microsoft actually did well, so they had to kill it. Unfortunately, it's the only DVR software I can use with Time Warner, because Time Warner are asshats and abuse the shit out of the 'CopyOnce' CCI flag, so everything that legally can be encrypted, is.
If there was a solution for #2 that didn't include some snarky "just stop watching TV" horseshit, I'd live with the performance gap of #1 just to be done with Microsoft.
I do too. One title is called "Windows Media Center" and it's the only roll-your-own-DVR that works with Time Warner due to Time Warner's abuse of the CopyOnce CCI flag.
Guess I'll never run Windows Update on that box ever again.
Yeah, because absolutely no good has come from NASA, ever. Absolutely no materials science or technology that allows for more efficient food production to "feed the children". Definitely not things like weather satellites or GPS - those are complete boondoggles that have absolutely no effect on modern agriculture.
People like you would still have us using oxen to plow fields, and then bitch that so many still go hungry.
I read it as NASA not getting out of the ISS altogether - they're getting out of doing the supply stuff themselves. They want to pass that business along to private, and spend their time doing actual research and exploration.
If you don't like the CPUs that Apple uses now, feel free to go back to the mobile PowerPC G4 of 12 years ago. IBM wasn't going to make a low-power G5, because they just couldn't do it, and the POWER6 next-gen CPU family was going to be even more wattage thirsty.
This is why Apple jumped. PowerPC was a dead end for applications that didn't involve the cooling capacity of a data center.
No, but you did miss the part where you're being way too literal; and how the phrase "top secret" has come to mean much more than just a classification by the US Government in common language like 30 years ago.
No, I think it's a "Tag is a little out of their element if they already can't keep up with demand, at a rate of 0.9% of one of their competitors" argument. It was just the Apple watch that he mentioned - no mention of Samsung, Motorola, or LG.
This just in: electronics manufacturers are better at manufacturing electronics at scale than boutique mechanical watch makers.
I hadn't even heard of this thing before seeing TFS, because I largely don't care about smart watches. But you're right - that's hideous. I'll keep my Movado.
The problem being that there appears to be no rhyme nor reason to the three words being used for squares in contiguous space. Use their website to look at a few squares that are all part of the same piece of property - it appears to be completely random.
I'm never going to tell someone that they can find my driveway at 'slope.radioactive.massaging' because they have no fucking clue what that means to anything but this database. Whereas if you tell them some thing like '390 SE Hawthorne St.' they can at least have a clue depending on how the city and addressing scheme works.
and by "hoverboard technology" the writer actually means "cheap chinese knockoffs with bad wiring"
By the way, why the fuck are we calling these things 'hoverboards' when there is absolutely no hovering involved? It's a segway without the handle thing, and less capable.
Yeah, except these are knockoff devices, with unsafe electrics.
Some idiot falling off his stupid not-a-Segway isn't what the concern here is. The concern is same idiot plugging it in to charge, and burning down his apartment complex because it's a cheap knockoff that was wired by an incompetent, and has batteries with known failed cells that rupture when bumped around too much... you know, kind of like when an idiot falls off his stupid not-a-Segway.
Not yet practical to bring to market? You mean that entire cities, or at least skate parks aren't paved with superconducting magnetic blocks and massive LN reservoirs?
That's a pretty interesting interpretation of "not yet practical"
Then we wouldn't even have to worry about things like legroom, and carry-on space - it would be an airline's wet dream because they could just stack people like firewood in there.
I'm now imagining a Rube Goldberg system of belts and rollers that would be used at an airport to move around whole cabins of people to airplane chassis, and giggling.
So how would the airport personnel get away with running a cabin of people underneath the baggage train, like they do with luggage?
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UEFI is just a new standard of firmware that replaces BIOS. It does many things better than BIOS. It's why your new PC boots so fast. It gives hardware OEMs the ability to add pre-OS drivers for different hardware. Largely, it's a good thing.
"SecureBoot" is just a module for EFI that (poorly) attempts to prevent boot loader rootkit hacks. A lot of people like to bitch and gripe about SecureBoot because Microsoft played with the idea of requiring it to be there in order to run Windows 8+, but you can still load Windows through the good' ol EFI Compatibility Service Module. Oh, and you can disable it on basically any motherboard I've ever seen, including ones from OEMs like Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Many people were afraid that SecureBoot would require a 'jailbreak' of an EFI PC in order to load whatever OS you want on it, and these rumors are completely unfounded except for in the most marginal circumstances. Just turn it off if you want to do any of that.
If you didn't recognize it because you were too busy being a partisan hack, the 'shredding the constitution' bit was me making fun of the idiot talking heads on Fox News and conservative talk radio, not me actually claiming that shredding the constitution is actually happening.
Bending it to new lows? That's been happening for decades by BOTH parties, if you hadn't noticed.
Now go away and let the adults talk.
how about we do something about nutjobs getting homicidal? You seem to have left that solution out, in favor of leaving the homicidal nutjob out there, looking for a gun you've made marginally harder to get.
So, a mass shooting that has now been labeled as terrorism happens in the state with the strictest gun control laws available in the US, and the answer is... more gun control laws?
For the nth time, KILLERS DO NOT CARE ABOUT FELONY WEAPONS CHARGES. They are either too stupid and think they will not get caught, or they are smart enough to realize that the life sentence (if they are lucky) they will receive for killing someone makes the felony weapons charge completely moot. And, we all know that by definition, criminals always follow laws.
More gun control in the State of California will only serve to restrict people who already follow the laws, who isn't really of concern here. How about instead of passing more laws that make you feel better but do absolutely nothing to solve the problem, we instead pass some laws to provide funding to diagnose and treat the mentally ill?
I'd be happy if we could close up Trump in some way.
How the hell is he still leading the field on the Republican side? Is this some vast right wing conspiracy to get Hillary elected so they can have 4 more years of 'shredding the Constitution' and 'destroying America' rhetoric?
Signed,
A registered Republican who votes for sane candidates... when there are any.
So do this:
1. Reschedule for "later"
2. Delete the C:\$Windows.~BT folder and all of it's contents
3. Create a file at C:\$Windows.~BT so that the automatic downloader cannot create the directory to download that shit into. It will error and die.
4. Continue using your legacy version of Windows.
I've never understood the boot time argument in the post-Windows Vista world. You do that, what, once a day, maybe? For most people that don't shut down or reboot unnecessarily, it's once a week or so. You just saved 30 seconds out of a week. Who gives a shit?
Unfortunately, I still have two uses for Windows:
1. Games. Yes, many of these can be played on Linux now, but the drivers are still shit, and take a performance hit universally over what you get on Windows.
2. Windows Media Center. It's one of the few things Microsoft actually did well, so they had to kill it. Unfortunately, it's the only DVR software I can use with Time Warner, because Time Warner are asshats and abuse the shit out of the 'CopyOnce' CCI flag, so everything that legally can be encrypted, is.
If there was a solution for #2 that didn't include some snarky "just stop watching TV" horseshit, I'd live with the performance gap of #1 just to be done with Microsoft.
I do too. One title is called "Windows Media Center" and it's the only roll-your-own-DVR that works with Time Warner due to Time Warner's abuse of the CopyOnce CCI flag.
Guess I'll never run Windows Update on that box ever again.
Yeah, because absolutely no good has come from NASA, ever. Absolutely no materials science or technology that allows for more efficient food production to "feed the children". Definitely not things like weather satellites or GPS - those are complete boondoggles that have absolutely no effect on modern agriculture.
People like you would still have us using oxen to plow fields, and then bitch that so many still go hungry.
I read it as NASA not getting out of the ISS altogether - they're getting out of doing the supply stuff themselves. They want to pass that business along to private, and spend their time doing actual research and exploration.
If you don't like the CPUs that Apple uses now, feel free to go back to the mobile PowerPC G4 of 12 years ago. IBM wasn't going to make a low-power G5, because they just couldn't do it, and the POWER6 next-gen CPU family was going to be even more wattage thirsty.
This is why Apple jumped. PowerPC was a dead end for applications that didn't involve the cooling capacity of a data center.
No, but you did miss the part where you're being way too literal; and how the phrase "top secret" has come to mean much more than just a classification by the US Government in common language like 30 years ago.
No, I think it's a "Tag is a little out of their element if they already can't keep up with demand, at a rate of 0.9% of one of their competitors" argument. It was just the Apple watch that he mentioned - no mention of Samsung, Motorola, or LG.
This just in: electronics manufacturers are better at manufacturing electronics at scale than boutique mechanical watch makers.
I hadn't even heard of this thing before seeing TFS, because I largely don't care about smart watches. But you're right - that's hideous. I'll keep my Movado.
The problem being that there appears to be no rhyme nor reason to the three words being used for squares in contiguous space. Use their website to look at a few squares that are all part of the same piece of property - it appears to be completely random.
I'm never going to tell someone that they can find my driveway at 'slope.radioactive.massaging' because they have no fucking clue what that means to anything but this database. Whereas if you tell them some thing like '390 SE Hawthorne St.' they can at least have a clue depending on how the city and addressing scheme works.
That's no moon...
Could easily be post-gres-quell as well.
And there's the issue.
and by "hoverboard technology" the writer actually means "cheap chinese knockoffs with bad wiring"
By the way, why the fuck are we calling these things 'hoverboards' when there is absolutely no hovering involved? It's a segway without the handle thing, and less capable.
Yeah, except these are knockoff devices, with unsafe electrics.
Some idiot falling off his stupid not-a-Segway isn't what the concern here is. The concern is same idiot plugging it in to charge, and burning down his apartment complex because it's a cheap knockoff that was wired by an incompetent, and has batteries with known failed cells that rupture when bumped around too much... you know, kind of like when an idiot falls off his stupid not-a-Segway.
Not yet practical to bring to market? You mean that entire cities, or at least skate parks aren't paved with superconducting magnetic blocks and massive LN reservoirs?
That's a pretty interesting interpretation of "not yet practical"
Then we wouldn't even have to worry about things like legroom, and carry-on space - it would be an airline's wet dream because they could just stack people like firewood in there.
Because you can't just replace the jetway with this thing, and then load it into the airframe?
It's existed for a long time: here is a photo of the SIV-B booster for Apollo 7 being delivered to the Johnson Space Center from the "Super Guppy" cargo craft NASA uses.
I'm now imagining a Rube Goldberg system of belts and rollers that would be used at an airport to move around whole cabins of people to airplane chassis, and giggling.
So how would the airport personnel get away with running a cabin of people underneath the baggage train, like they do with luggage?