Opera 12.16 date back from 7/2013 and that was pretty much when real Opera browser came to an end. 12.17 was kind of an odd release. It came out well after the Chromium-based Opera was out, and basically only fixed SSL. It was nice of them to do that, I certainly didn't expect them to release any patches for Opera 12 at that point. It's interesting though that they still list it as the "stable" release, with Opera 35 as a "beta".
I do have to admit though, if you want to use a Blink-based browser but don't trust Google, it's probably the best of the Chrome-alternative browsers. At least on Windows, it's too bad that they no longer support Linux.
Exactly. Most likely scenario for dealing with North Korea would be to gain air superiority and then level the country with conventional bombs. I don't see their Cold War era hardware putting up much a fight, and in a few days you'd have all the targets that you would have nuked taken out anyway. I don't think the US would want to escalate any situation more than it had to by using nuclear weapons. I'm sure China would not appreciate the US setting off nukes in a neighboring country, and Russia isn't that far away either.
The only reason I can see why the US would nuke North Korea is if we thought they were going to strike again immediately, and dropping a nuke on their launch site would be the fastest way to take it out. Even in that case, we'd hit only the launch site, and with a warhead just powerful enough to get the job done.
Considering the problems the genuine Asus boards have given me over the years, I can only imagine how terrible Asrock must be. I'd take my changes with ECS first.
So what are you saying? That the Iraq war wouldn't have been pointless if the Syrian war was inevitable and that Daesh would have formed anyway? You're argument is complete nonsense.
Solar powered airplanes don't fly very fast, nor can they carry a lot of cargo. You can fly with solar power, but you're not going to be able to power a plane similar to a 747 with solar power.
1. Buy a Windows 10 notebook with Windows 10 Pro, and downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1. Some vendors offer laptops already downgraded for you. Be careful not to install the telemetry updates.
2. Buy a notebook and install your favorite flavor of Linux. Make sure the processor supports virtualization. Buy Windows 10 and stick it in a virtual machine, and firewall the shit out of it on the Linux side, or even deny it all network access if it doesn't need it. You could also play the same games with running a downgraded Windows 7/8.1 installation in a VM.
I actually ran Vista on a Dell Dimension with 1.25GB of ram for several years. Contrary to what a lot of people claim, it was just fine. It certainly wasn't the speediest experience, but it ran acceptably. Said computer actually holds my personal best uptime record for Windows, of 497 days. There's actually a bug in Vista/7 that crashes the TCP/IP stack after 497 days, which is caused by the same thing that takes Windows 95 down in 49.7 days) After that I celebrated by installing Debian on it (I had actually decided to install Linux on it some time ago, but after realizing how long it had been running already I put if off in the interest of seeing just how long it would go, which ended up being almost a year).
At the same time they could have written the system in such a way that it didn't use 2.7GB while updating.
Well, the fix is to release another service pack for Windows 7. I'm sure the biggest reason for the problem is the sheer number of updates Windows Update has to juggle now. But Microsoft has decreed that there will be no more service packs for Windows 7, so the problem is only going to get worse unless Microsoft changes their mind and/or fixes Windows Update on Windows 7. Both of which seem unlikely, as I'm guessing that Microsoft would rather people move off of Windows 7 to 10.
Admittedly, I don't notice it as much on Windows 7 systems that have 16GB of ram, but Windows Update will bring a laptop with 3GB of memory to its knees.
It might be a bit harsh to call Slackware, Gentoo, SUSE, Arch, etc. "niche", but I do agree that the majority of Linux installations are either from the Debian lineage, or the Redhat (Fedora) lineage.
In terms of performance/watt, a Core i7 stomps all over ARM. Intel just needs very low power x86 chips that also have acceptable performance. They aren't quite there yet, but they're getting closer.
You also have to deal with the speed of light. At 3GHz, light will travel about 1cm. You'll note that's on the order of the size of a CPU die. So go much faster than that, and you run into problems with the time it takes signals to travel across the die and keeping the whole CPU synchronized. So you either have to deal with those issues, or continue to shrink the CPU die.
I don't know if I would say Cyrix was faster than Intel. They could beat Intel in some benchmarks, as they had a very good integer unit. But their FPU was garbage, and anything FPU intensive Intel absolutely stomped Cyrix. Cyrix liked to use the performance of their integer unit to calibrate their "PR" system. Sure, maybe their 6x86 PR200 could perform as well as a Pentium 200 in some situations, but in others it struggled to keep up with a Pentium 75. I know my Cyrix 6x86 PR200 would struggle to do anything else while playing back a MP3 file in Windows. The K6-200 could play back the MP3 file with hardly an impact on anything else.
It's not like they have someone physically dialing your number. They have a computer doing it. It basically costs them nothing to have a computer harass you by calling your number every day for years.
When caller ID first came out, we were promised units that would have capabilities to have both a blacklist, and a whitelist.
Not even sure how that would work, as the caller ID isn't transmitted until after the first ring. I know people have cobbled together solutions (I used to do something similar before I dropped my landline), but they still had the problem where the phone would always ring once before the call got "blocked".
Most new houses nowadays are gigantic. I'm not sure why. But if you don't want a gigantic house, it seems you either buy something that's 50+ years old, or a townhome. For $160k I'm sure you could build a very nice, modest house. My guess is that the banks probably don't like financing something like, though if you're paying cash then it won't matter.
It doesn't generate a whole lot of electricity to begin with. My guess it's a mix of "so people think we're green" and "it looks cool" than something practical.
If you want to see hate from Porsche owners, try driving a 924. Driving the first Porsche with a water-cooled engine, you'll get a lot of flak. Even more so if you have one of the automatics (another first with the 924). Most of it comes from the posers driving 911's. The guys driving the 356's are a lot more chill.
Not necessarily. They can be more secure by stripping out components that might have security holes in them. Like, say, an integrated Flash player. They can add in things like built-in ad blockers. Or not trust certificates from issuers who have issued bad certificates the past, such as Comodo.
And then there's security through obscurity. Some potential attacks might not know what to do with a browser that identifies as "Chromodo" or "Oprah" browser. And even something as simple as recompiling the browser could defeat some attacks that depend on something being at a certain memory address.
Though most of these browsers seem to sell privacy more than security, mostly by stripping out things like Google's tracking.
Chromium is the open-source base for Chrome. There aren't really releases for it like Chrome. Most Linux distros will have a package for it, but on Windows you pretty much have to seek out and download one of the snapshots which isn't something most casual users are going to do*. So I'd assume anyone who has Chromium installed on Windows probably knows what they are doing.
*Or download someone else repackaging of it, like Chromodo.
Because Trump would push the big red button and not even think twice about it. Of course, on the other side, remember the codes will probably be too difficult for Hilary, so she'll just email them to herself...
Microsoft has been pulling more and more firewire support with each version of their OS, so I doubt it. If anything, I bet Firewire works better in Vista than it does in 10.
Supposedly the real dirty secret is that the motor itself is fine (well, maybe not in the case of said Carrier's with the water problems) but usually it's some shitty control board buried somewhere in the housing that's actually failed. If you have some electronics knowledge, you can crack them open and get them running again for a few bucks in parts.
My house is now 21 years old, with all original HVAC and appliances. I'm really dreading when they start to go out, as I can guarantee that none of the replacements are going to last 21 years. At least the government dropped the requirement at the last minute that any replacement furnace would have to be a high efficiency one. That would have been an expensive retrofit.
Well, the other thing is that something made before WWI is almost certainly not plastic. If it's made before WWII, it's probably not plastic. If It's made after 1970 and could be made out of plastic, it's probably made out of plastic.
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Opera 12.16 date back from 7/2013 and that was pretty much when real Opera browser came to an end. 12.17 was kind of an odd release. It came out well after the Chromium-based Opera was out, and basically only fixed SSL. It was nice of them to do that, I certainly didn't expect them to release any patches for Opera 12 at that point. It's interesting though that they still list it as the "stable" release, with Opera 35 as a "beta".
I do have to admit though, if you want to use a Blink-based browser but don't trust Google, it's probably the best of the Chrome-alternative browsers. At least on Windows, it's too bad that they no longer support Linux.
Exactly. Most likely scenario for dealing with North Korea would be to gain air superiority and then level the country with conventional bombs. I don't see their Cold War era hardware putting up much a fight, and in a few days you'd have all the targets that you would have nuked taken out anyway. I don't think the US would want to escalate any situation more than it had to by using nuclear weapons. I'm sure China would not appreciate the US setting off nukes in a neighboring country, and Russia isn't that far away either.
The only reason I can see why the US would nuke North Korea is if we thought they were going to strike again immediately, and dropping a nuke on their launch site would be the fastest way to take it out. Even in that case, we'd hit only the launch site, and with a warhead just powerful enough to get the job done.
Considering the problems the genuine Asus boards have given me over the years, I can only imagine how terrible Asrock must be. I'd take my changes with ECS first.
So what are you saying? That the Iraq war wouldn't have been pointless if the Syrian war was inevitable and that Daesh would have formed anyway? You're argument is complete nonsense.
Solar powered airplanes don't fly very fast, nor can they carry a lot of cargo. You can fly with solar power, but you're not going to be able to power a plane similar to a 747 with solar power.
1. Buy a Windows 10 notebook with Windows 10 Pro, and downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1. Some vendors offer laptops already downgraded for you. Be careful not to install the telemetry updates.
2. Buy a notebook and install your favorite flavor of Linux. Make sure the processor supports virtualization. Buy Windows 10 and stick it in a virtual machine, and firewall the shit out of it on the Linux side, or even deny it all network access if it doesn't need it. You could also play the same games with running a downgraded Windows 7/8.1 installation in a VM.
I actually ran Vista on a Dell Dimension with 1.25GB of ram for several years. Contrary to what a lot of people claim, it was just fine. It certainly wasn't the speediest experience, but it ran acceptably. Said computer actually holds my personal best uptime record for Windows, of 497 days. There's actually a bug in Vista/7 that crashes the TCP/IP stack after 497 days, which is caused by the same thing that takes Windows 95 down in 49.7 days) After that I celebrated by installing Debian on it (I had actually decided to install Linux on it some time ago, but after realizing how long it had been running already I put if off in the interest of seeing just how long it would go, which ended up being almost a year).
Well, the fix is to release another service pack for Windows 7. I'm sure the biggest reason for the problem is the sheer number of updates Windows Update has to juggle now. But Microsoft has decreed that there will be no more service packs for Windows 7, so the problem is only going to get worse unless Microsoft changes their mind and/or fixes Windows Update on Windows 7. Both of which seem unlikely, as I'm guessing that Microsoft would rather people move off of Windows 7 to 10.
Admittedly, I don't notice it as much on Windows 7 systems that have 16GB of ram, but Windows Update will bring a laptop with 3GB of memory to its knees.
It might be a bit harsh to call Slackware, Gentoo, SUSE, Arch, etc. "niche", but I do agree that the majority of Linux installations are either from the Debian lineage, or the Redhat (Fedora) lineage.
In terms of performance/watt, a Core i7 stomps all over ARM. Intel just needs very low power x86 chips that also have acceptable performance. They aren't quite there yet, but they're getting closer.
You also have to deal with the speed of light. At 3GHz, light will travel about 1cm. You'll note that's on the order of the size of a CPU die. So go much faster than that, and you run into problems with the time it takes signals to travel across the die and keeping the whole CPU synchronized. So you either have to deal with those issues, or continue to shrink the CPU die.
I don't know if I would say Cyrix was faster than Intel. They could beat Intel in some benchmarks, as they had a very good integer unit. But their FPU was garbage, and anything FPU intensive Intel absolutely stomped Cyrix. Cyrix liked to use the performance of their integer unit to calibrate their "PR" system. Sure, maybe their 6x86 PR200 could perform as well as a Pentium 200 in some situations, but in others it struggled to keep up with a Pentium 75. I know my Cyrix 6x86 PR200 would struggle to do anything else while playing back a MP3 file in Windows. The K6-200 could play back the MP3 file with hardly an impact on anything else.
It's not like they have someone physically dialing your number. They have a computer doing it. It basically costs them nothing to have a computer harass you by calling your number every day for years.
Not even sure how that would work, as the caller ID isn't transmitted until after the first ring. I know people have cobbled together solutions (I used to do something similar before I dropped my landline), but they still had the problem where the phone would always ring once before the call got "blocked".
Most new houses nowadays are gigantic. I'm not sure why. But if you don't want a gigantic house, it seems you either buy something that's 50+ years old, or a townhome. For $160k I'm sure you could build a very nice, modest house. My guess is that the banks probably don't like financing something like, though if you're paying cash then it won't matter.
It doesn't generate a whole lot of electricity to begin with. My guess it's a mix of "so people think we're green" and "it looks cool" than something practical.
If you want to see hate from Porsche owners, try driving a 924. Driving the first Porsche with a water-cooled engine, you'll get a lot of flak. Even more so if you have one of the automatics (another first with the 924). Most of it comes from the posers driving 911's. The guys driving the 356's are a lot more chill.
You've got the functionality nailed down, but it'll still somehow manage to use a gig and half of ram to do it.
Generally speaking, as long as you don't install Flash or Java, and stay away from IE (especially IE6 and IE7) you'll probably be okay. But why?
Not necessarily. They can be more secure by stripping out components that might have security holes in them. Like, say, an integrated Flash player. They can add in things like built-in ad blockers. Or not trust certificates from issuers who have issued bad certificates the past, such as Comodo.
And then there's security through obscurity. Some potential attacks might not know what to do with a browser that identifies as "Chromodo" or "Oprah" browser. And even something as simple as recompiling the browser could defeat some attacks that depend on something being at a certain memory address.
Though most of these browsers seem to sell privacy more than security, mostly by stripping out things like Google's tracking.
Chromium is the open-source base for Chrome. There aren't really releases for it like Chrome. Most Linux distros will have a package for it, but on Windows you pretty much have to seek out and download one of the snapshots which isn't something most casual users are going to do*. So I'd assume anyone who has Chromium installed on Windows probably knows what they are doing.
*Or download someone else repackaging of it, like Chromodo.
Because Trump would push the big red button and not even think twice about it. Of course, on the other side, remember the codes will probably be too difficult for Hilary, so she'll just email them to herself...
Microsoft has been pulling more and more firewire support with each version of their OS, so I doubt it. If anything, I bet Firewire works better in Vista than it does in 10.
Supposedly the real dirty secret is that the motor itself is fine (well, maybe not in the case of said Carrier's with the water problems) but usually it's some shitty control board buried somewhere in the housing that's actually failed. If you have some electronics knowledge, you can crack them open and get them running again for a few bucks in parts.
My house is now 21 years old, with all original HVAC and appliances. I'm really dreading when they start to go out, as I can guarantee that none of the replacements are going to last 21 years. At least the government dropped the requirement at the last minute that any replacement furnace would have to be a high efficiency one. That would have been an expensive retrofit.
Well, the other thing is that something made before WWI is almost certainly not plastic. If it's made before WWII, it's probably not plastic. If It's made after 1970 and could be made out of plastic, it's probably made out of plastic.