Trump has benefited enormously from the media. He wouldn't likely be where he was if CNN hadn't been following him around for the last fifteen months. If anything, the media is guilty of giving the impression that he had a chance, because drama sells copy.
Or it could just be that having the media treat Trump as a serious candidate was part of the plan all along: https://t.co/OaUjtFkKWg (warning: PDF file)
Except that this is a different email story. Some more of Clinton's campaign staffers had their emails hacked and released, not Clinton's unauthorized server back from when she was Secretary of State. Not that most people know or realize that there's any difference.
Of course, we know nothing of the universe where a simulation might be running. Our universe seems incredibly vast to us, but perhaps compared to the universe where the simulation is running it is tiny. But we don't know any different, because we only know our universe. It would be very much like how a super advanced civilization in our universe might decide to simulate a galaxy. To the inhabitants of the simulation, they would think that the their galaxy-sized universe (still a very big place) is too large to simulate, even though it is something around 1/100,000,000,000 the size of our universe.
That's a good idea, but all it's going to take is one application in the toolchain to move to a subscription model or otherwise decide it's not going to run without being able to contact some server on the internet. This may include the operating system itself the way things are headed. At that point it may not matter if you've frozen a VM in time, because you can't do the same for the internet.
I'd make sure to test those VMs and make sure everything still works offline when you've denied them internet access.
I've found flash drives that have been sitting for more than a few years are usually unreadable. The media is fine - you can reformat it and it'll work just fine. It's just the flash cells lose their charge after a while when the drive is unplugged so the drive basically erases itself. Supposedly the problem is worse with newer types of flash. I've heard that some SSDs have shelf lives measured in months if they are offline.
Probably your best bet for long term offline storage of digital data is optical media, and I don't really trust that either.
One very simple option would be to simply use a photo editing program and put the text right on the image. Or if you don't want to put the text on the image, add a border and put the text under the image (or above it, or whatever). You could even use an easy to OCR font, and be very consistent with your placement and things like the format of the dates if you wanted to make it easy for someone to recreate the metadata in the future by OCR'ing the images.
I don't know why others here don't do the same thing. Amazon has lost me over their poorly implemented and run "Marketplace" mess. Newegg is coming very close (I still shop there, but much less than I used to). When I want to deal with sketchy sellers shipping from who-knows-where, I'll go to eBay where at least things seem to be somewhat under control.
The other thing to try (on Windows) is the 64-bit version of Pale Moon. I don't know there's something goofed up in the 32-bit builds, or websites react differently when it sees the x64 in the user agent, but the 64-bit version of Pale Moon works a lot better with streaming video than the 32-bit build.
This of course won't help much if you're on 32-bit Windows, or need Flash for some reason.
The idea would be the ability to have long-duration self-sustaining electric power at anchor. Firing the engines would be done only when you needed to move and the engines sized for minimal fuel consumption -- there's a lot of recreation trawlers with top speeds of 9-10 knots off single engines capable of a few thousand mile ranges on full fuel tanks.
I'd put sails on the boat too. That way if things got really bad and you couldn't count on getting fuel you'd still be able to go places. The other system you might want would be some kind of desalinization system, even though it would likely be a power hog, but having your own source of clean drinking water may be invaluable.
Otherwise, the owner might as well have just rubbed the flash drive on the outside of the box.
Well, then the obvious solution is to rub the flash drive everywhere, and then put it in the jar. The problem with this is that 1) electronics are everywhere, and 2) unlike something like an illegal substance, it's not illegal to have electronics or flash memory. So if I want to hide an electronic device from this dog, I'll just make sure that everything smells like an electronic drive.
Of course, the other way to hide it is to place it someplace that already smells like electronics, not in a jar with other stuff. I'd probably tape it to the bottom of the microwave or something. Another possible good hiding place would be in a car which nowadays is crammed full of electronics.
And if the landing had gone as planned, the lander would have had plenty of sunlight to work with. And in that situation I'm sure the same people who are now complaining about the lack of an RTG would instead be bitching about the lander carrying a heavy, expensive, and unnecessary RTG that could have been used for something else. Besides, if the lander did put down in the intended location, its likely fate would have been to be cooked to death by the Sun after a few months. A RTD that producing several hundred watts of heat that cannot be shut off would have just hastened its demise.
That's because the Mac Mini uses mobile processors, and most (all?) mobile Core i5's are dual core with Hyperthreading. The real fun is that the lower-end mobile Core i7's are also dual cores with Hyperthreading. I'm not even sure what the difference is supposed to be between those and the mobile i5's, except perhaps a bit more L3 cache.
I just hope that they put the Thinkpad retro into production. It's kind of looking doubtful, but there is a rumor is that it will show up in 2017 to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the Thinkpad.
If you're on Windows, you can try Waterfox instead of going through the hassle of compiling it yourself. As a bonus, a bunch of the less-desirable features that Mozilla has been shoving into Firefox are removed.
On Linux, I would assume most users aren't using Mozilla's binaries (rather they would be using binaries compiled by the maintainers of their distro). Even so, I'd use IceCat (IceWeasel) as it also strips out some of the crap I don't want built into my browser.
Or use Palemoon instead, which doesn't seem to have issues with memory leaks as far as I can tell.
The idea behind those model names is to emphasize the brand, not the model. So you're not supposed to say you're driving a A4 2.0T, but an Audi. Or you don't say you drive a MKT, but a Lincoln, or a LS460, but a Lexus, or a Q50 but an Infiniti. Making a big deal out of the model itself is for less prestigious brands such as Ford or Toyota with their Mustangs and Camrys. Or so the theory goes.
Actually, Infiniti had a pretty good naming system until they totally messed it up. The series were all letters, G, J, M, Q, etc. The second letter, which was always X if present, meant it was a SUV. The next two digits were the engine displacement. Sometimes there was an extra letter at the end, 't' for touring, 'x' for all wheel drive on the non-SUVs, but that was relatively uncommon.
For example. G20t - G series, 2.0 L engine, touring. G35x, G series, 3.5 L engine, all wheel drive. The G series has also had 3.7 L, and 2.5 L engines, so you'll see G20's, G25's (rare), G35's, and G37's running around. I30 - I series, 3.0 L engine. It was basically an upgraded Maxima, so when Nissan changed the Maxima from a 3.0 L to a 3.5 L, the I30 became the I35. M35 - M series, 3.5 L engine. If you upgraded to the 4.5 L engine, you actually got a M45. QX56 - Q series SUV, 5.6 L engine. JX35 - J series SUV, 3.5 L engine. and so on. Until they changed their naming system, the only vehicle that didn't fit was their first SUV which was the QX4 (actually had a 3.5L engine).
Then they totally messed it up with the Q-nonsense. I still don't know what they were thinking.
From an intellectual standpoint, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the first couple of seasons where Gene Roddenbury was in charge. Though admittedly the execution of many of those episodes was pretty terrible, including Troi on the bridge purely for the eye candy.
I did enjoy the one where the Enterprise D got a guest captain for a week, who pretty much told Troi to put on her goddamn uniform.
One of the things I noticed about TNG is just how inconsistent the main female characters were. They'd be a strong independent character one episode, followed by an episode where they once again fall for the love interest of the week. I got the impression that writers really didn't know what to do with them half the time.
It's not surprising that Enterprise scored so badly. Whereas Troi and Crusher did have some good episodes in TNG, it seemed that the only reason T'Pol and Hoshi existed was give the male demographic something to look at.
Don't forget the (mostly older) computers that will fail installing Windows 10 if the USB ports are enabled in BIOS. Only way to get Windows 10 installed is to burn to DVD. Luckily once you get past the install you can turn on USB again.
I do believe that's the last time I've used an optical disk to install an OS. I've finally gotten to the point where all the computers I regularly use can boot from USB.
Or just insulate the house better. When the temperatures are in the 40's - 50's around here, my house stays comfortable just by the people in it and the waste heat from appliances and electronics. I really don't even need a furnace until the outside temperatures are cold enough that a heat pump (that vents into the outside air) starts becoming ineffective.
Not so much with airships. The age of airships is long over and despite the occasional attempt to bring them back, it will probably never return. The Hindenburgs-class of airships still stands as the largest airships ever built and it's likely that record will never be broken.
Actually, quite the opposite. The cost of Helium depends not on how rare it is, but how much it costs to extract it from the ground. Since it's actually a byproduct of natural gas production, the cost of extracting it is cheap (basically, free) and the main cost is actually the cost of separating it from the methane, storage, and transport. Because of this, a lot of helium isn't even captured and instead is vented to the atmosphere, where it eventually escapes to space. Why? Because capitalism. It's not profitable to capture it, so it's not captured. Nevermind that it's a non-renewable resource used for many important applications that has no substitute available. So Helium is cheap, until all of sudden it won't be.
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Even if you do, all you really need to do is upgrade the GPU and that 2012 machine is good to go in 2016 for almost any game you would want to play.
Though I do realize you are talking about laptops here, where that (usually) isn't an option.
Actually, I'd rate Windows 8.1 as the fastest. Windows 10 is noticeably slower, but still faster than Windows 7. Kind of a bummer about the UI though.
Do you really want the nuclear launch codes in the hands of someone who is "extremely careless"?
Or it could just be that having the media treat Trump as a serious candidate was part of the plan all along: https://t.co/OaUjtFkKWg (warning: PDF file)
Except that this is a different email story. Some more of Clinton's campaign staffers had their emails hacked and released, not Clinton's unauthorized server back from when she was Secretary of State. Not that most people know or realize that there's any difference.
Of course, we know nothing of the universe where a simulation might be running. Our universe seems incredibly vast to us, but perhaps compared to the universe where the simulation is running it is tiny. But we don't know any different, because we only know our universe. It would be very much like how a super advanced civilization in our universe might decide to simulate a galaxy. To the inhabitants of the simulation, they would think that the their galaxy-sized universe (still a very big place) is too large to simulate, even though it is something around 1/100,000,000,000 the size of our universe.
That's a good idea, but all it's going to take is one application in the toolchain to move to a subscription model or otherwise decide it's not going to run without being able to contact some server on the internet. This may include the operating system itself the way things are headed. At that point it may not matter if you've frozen a VM in time, because you can't do the same for the internet.
I'd make sure to test those VMs and make sure everything still works offline when you've denied them internet access.
I've found flash drives that have been sitting for more than a few years are usually unreadable. The media is fine - you can reformat it and it'll work just fine. It's just the flash cells lose their charge after a while when the drive is unplugged so the drive basically erases itself. Supposedly the problem is worse with newer types of flash. I've heard that some SSDs have shelf lives measured in months if they are offline.
Probably your best bet for long term offline storage of digital data is optical media, and I don't really trust that either.
One very simple option would be to simply use a photo editing program and put the text right on the image. Or if you don't want to put the text on the image, add a border and put the text under the image (or above it, or whatever). You could even use an easy to OCR font, and be very consistent with your placement and things like the format of the dates if you wanted to make it easy for someone to recreate the metadata in the future by OCR'ing the images.
I don't know why others here don't do the same thing. Amazon has lost me over their poorly implemented and run "Marketplace" mess. Newegg is coming very close (I still shop there, but much less than I used to). When I want to deal with sketchy sellers shipping from who-knows-where, I'll go to eBay where at least things seem to be somewhat under control.
The other thing to try (on Windows) is the 64-bit version of Pale Moon. I don't know there's something goofed up in the 32-bit builds, or websites react differently when it sees the x64 in the user agent, but the 64-bit version of Pale Moon works a lot better with streaming video than the 32-bit build.
This of course won't help much if you're on 32-bit Windows, or need Flash for some reason.
I'd put sails on the boat too. That way if things got really bad and you couldn't count on getting fuel you'd still be able to go places. The other system you might want would be some kind of desalinization system, even though it would likely be a power hog, but having your own source of clean drinking water may be invaluable.
Not to mention the Flash installer also bundles Chrome.
I don't actually have Flash installed anymore.... can't say I really miss it.
Well, then the obvious solution is to rub the flash drive everywhere, and then put it in the jar. The problem with this is that 1) electronics are everywhere, and 2) unlike something like an illegal substance, it's not illegal to have electronics or flash memory. So if I want to hide an electronic device from this dog, I'll just make sure that everything smells like an electronic drive.
Of course, the other way to hide it is to place it someplace that already smells like electronics, not in a jar with other stuff. I'd probably tape it to the bottom of the microwave or something. Another possible good hiding place would be in a car which nowadays is crammed full of electronics.
And if the landing had gone as planned, the lander would have had plenty of sunlight to work with. And in that situation I'm sure the same people who are now complaining about the lack of an RTG would instead be bitching about the lander carrying a heavy, expensive, and unnecessary RTG that could have been used for something else. Besides, if the lander did put down in the intended location, its likely fate would have been to be cooked to death by the Sun after a few months. A RTD that producing several hundred watts of heat that cannot be shut off would have just hastened its demise.
That's because the Mac Mini uses mobile processors, and most (all?) mobile Core i5's are dual core with Hyperthreading. The real fun is that the lower-end mobile Core i7's are also dual cores with Hyperthreading. I'm not even sure what the difference is supposed to be between those and the mobile i5's, except perhaps a bit more L3 cache.
I just hope that they put the Thinkpad retro into production. It's kind of looking doubtful, but there is a rumor is that it will show up in 2017 to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the Thinkpad.
If you're on Windows, you can try Waterfox instead of going through the hassle of compiling it yourself. As a bonus, a bunch of the less-desirable features that Mozilla has been shoving into Firefox are removed.
On Linux, I would assume most users aren't using Mozilla's binaries (rather they would be using binaries compiled by the maintainers of their distro). Even so, I'd use IceCat (IceWeasel) as it also strips out some of the crap I don't want built into my browser.
Or use Palemoon instead, which doesn't seem to have issues with memory leaks as far as I can tell.
The idea behind those model names is to emphasize the brand, not the model. So you're not supposed to say you're driving a A4 2.0T, but an Audi. Or you don't say you drive a MKT, but a Lincoln, or a LS460, but a Lexus, or a Q50 but an Infiniti. Making a big deal out of the model itself is for less prestigious brands such as Ford or Toyota with their Mustangs and Camrys. Or so the theory goes.
Actually, Infiniti had a pretty good naming system until they totally messed it up. The series were all letters, G, J, M, Q, etc. The second letter, which was always X if present, meant it was a SUV. The next two digits were the engine displacement. Sometimes there was an extra letter at the end, 't' for touring, 'x' for all wheel drive on the non-SUVs, but that was relatively uncommon.
For example.
G20t - G series, 2.0 L engine, touring. G35x, G series, 3.5 L engine, all wheel drive. The G series has also had 3.7 L, and 2.5 L engines, so you'll see G20's, G25's (rare), G35's, and G37's running around.
I30 - I series, 3.0 L engine. It was basically an upgraded Maxima, so when Nissan changed the Maxima from a 3.0 L to a 3.5 L, the I30 became the I35.
M35 - M series, 3.5 L engine. If you upgraded to the 4.5 L engine, you actually got a M45.
QX56 - Q series SUV, 5.6 L engine.
JX35 - J series SUV, 3.5 L engine.
and so on. Until they changed their naming system, the only vehicle that didn't fit was their first SUV which was the QX4 (actually had a 3.5L engine).
Then they totally messed it up with the Q-nonsense. I still don't know what they were thinking.
From an intellectual standpoint, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the first couple of seasons where Gene Roddenbury was in charge. Though admittedly the execution of many of those episodes was pretty terrible, including Troi on the bridge purely for the eye candy.
I did enjoy the one where the Enterprise D got a guest captain for a week, who pretty much told Troi to put on her goddamn uniform.
One of the things I noticed about TNG is just how inconsistent the main female characters were. They'd be a strong independent character one episode, followed by an episode where they once again fall for the love interest of the week. I got the impression that writers really didn't know what to do with them half the time.
It's not surprising that Enterprise scored so badly. Whereas Troi and Crusher did have some good episodes in TNG, it seemed that the only reason T'Pol and Hoshi existed was give the male demographic something to look at.
Don't forget the (mostly older) computers that will fail installing Windows 10 if the USB ports are enabled in BIOS. Only way to get Windows 10 installed is to burn to DVD. Luckily once you get past the install you can turn on USB again.
I do believe that's the last time I've used an optical disk to install an OS. I've finally gotten to the point where all the computers I regularly use can boot from USB.
Or just insulate the house better. When the temperatures are in the 40's - 50's around here, my house stays comfortable just by the people in it and the waste heat from appliances and electronics. I really don't even need a furnace until the outside temperatures are cold enough that a heat pump (that vents into the outside air) starts becoming ineffective.
Not so much with airships. The age of airships is long over and despite the occasional attempt to bring them back, it will probably never return. The Hindenburgs-class of airships still stands as the largest airships ever built and it's likely that record will never be broken.
Actually, quite the opposite. The cost of Helium depends not on how rare it is, but how much it costs to extract it from the ground. Since it's actually a byproduct of natural gas production, the cost of extracting it is cheap (basically, free) and the main cost is actually the cost of separating it from the methane, storage, and transport. Because of this, a lot of helium isn't even captured and instead is vented to the atmosphere, where it eventually escapes to space. Why? Because capitalism. It's not profitable to capture it, so it's not captured. Nevermind that it's a non-renewable resource used for many important applications that has no substitute available. So Helium is cheap, until all of sudden it won't be.