The Taepodong-2 was not an ICBM. It's the space launch vehicle and Taepodong-1 was an earlier, clearly failed attempt. I believe someone made the Taepodong names up, and a decade or more ago we all assumed these were long range missiles rather than something to launch a satellite from.
True the line between space launch and ICBM seems really thin but this is really a rocket that needs weeks of launch preparation, can be fired from a single place and would only be usable as a really weak single shot, suicide first-strike. Thus the immediate military value is zero. What works and is what US and Russia did is the other way around : you can use an ICBM for space launches.
What's the percentage in desktop users? By very roughling adding up the mobile browsers figures (i.e. I didn't bother to sum up every 0.06% there) and removing them the 7% figure is turned to over 16%. If say 1 billion desktops access the web that's not a small figure. Ok tone that down a bit, then Firefox perhaps has up to 100 million users.
Yep I have buddies with cable at home and it's good, but 30 megabits down and a few up. The low latency is the most noticeable thing, web pages load as if it were on a LAN and that's hugely better. But I doubt they will be in a hurry to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 or a european equivalent.
Historically though, antenna TV was the norm for the vast majority of the population, even at the turn of the century. There was a fad of building cable TV in the 80s and 90s but that's in specific neighborhoods and some public subsidized housing. Then there was a fad of satellite TV (digital) in the 90s and 2000s which allowed a similar selection of many channels without the need for infrastructure. Later still, TV over DSL is very popular, starting from the mid 2000s.
So the cable infrastructure isn't there:) and what's left is to bring fiber. Perhaps in some cases fiber to the building, then very high speed and low range VDSL would be a good idea. But that has never been in the news. I'm a believer at least in rural fiber. Yes it's useful and cheap there and there is a demography problem there as farmers are aging and everybody left. They should be scrambling to bring fiber there, it should be profitable and yet another capitalist crisis is looming because investors have too much money and nothing worth investing into.
Well, as a desktop user I'm used to the higher reliability of Ubuntu / Mint and debian made some bad moves before already : - Debian 6 : to protect your freedom, no wifi drivers are included. (Gave away a desktop that it turns out couldn't access the Internet) - Debian 7 : no official desktop anymore. Well, there's Gnome 3 but why would you put that on an i486 distro? - Debian 8 : why should I care? Buying a graphics card for getting drivers that play better with a 3D desktop is asking a bit much. But if I come across a 256MB computer I'll sure install text-mode debian and raw lxde on that. It is a bit late, though, those perfectly working Pentium III / BX chipset PC went into the trash.
France. I should have been clearer maybe, it's POTS lines and the filters/splitters, but I believe the ISP may not bother providing the plain voice service.
You mean, they want to run VoIP over IP? How rude. At&t should allow for a dedicated low bandwith link with end-to-end connection, so you can run your VoIP without bad quality, jitter and lost packets.
I run Firefox "Developer" edition (formerly Aurora, i.e. alpha) with "Electrolysis", and it's satistfying. I feared it would be a RAM hogging and that my process list would be polluted by a ton of "firefox" processes but what actually happens is you have "Web Content", "firefox" and "plugin-container" (in descending order of RAM use).
Page rendering is not super fast but the old issues of everything slowing down even text input are gone. When I first started using it I even thought the RAM use was rather low (for a browser) and that it seems better at freeing memory. So far so good, regarding the tech. UI-wise I at least still have the menu bar and the title bar. On Windows I don't know how you get the frigging title bar back! Should be in the basic options. So, don't use Windows. That said the way of acting like Gnome developers sucks. I should be able to e.g. disable pictures even if I don't use the setting and if it would "break" the web.
These days in my country at least the router/modem provided by the ISP has a connector to plug an old (or new) land phone in, but it goes over VoIP. You have an RJ11 to phone plug adapter if needed. "Real" POTS is something you would have to look for, likely from the former monopoly ("historical") operator. Or maybe in a few areas left where things still have to go through the historical operator even when your ISP is something else.
BTW grandma has had a DECT cordless for a while. Also, a permanently seated laptop (where there used to be a videotex terminal) that still feels new even though it's perhaps eight/nine year old. Grandma seems to keep stuff in amazing working order and cleanliness (e.g. a vacuum from the 70s) not necessarily clinging to old stuff. Why throw away something that isn't even 20-year-old?, lol.
How many people choose using these browsers instead of just using them because they're the default? e.g. Opera Mini will be found on phones with limited CPU/memory and bandwith, perhaps some embedded devices. Includes so-called "feature phones". UC browser might be the default on a lot of phones in China etc. for all we know.
The one that is unequivocally not a default browser is Opera Mobile : it comes in at 0.02% only!
Add to that that many people don't install any applications at all, or a handful ones. Some use an Android phone without using a Google account. (e.g. one of my friend, on whose phone I will install Firefox browser when we get to it)
That'd be high specs for that little OS. But expensive for a toy. Also, it's boring not to have a stylus. 4" Firefox OS smartphone, I've tried. Lacks a stylus and a bit tiring to hold the thing, as there is no stand. No apps is a feature. Well, the LCD screen sucks too (perhaps high end LCD is fine. Non-LCD would be better). I'm not used to these little stupid mobile things. Perhaps someone one day will have the brilliant idea to put left/right cursor keys on the virtual keyboard so you can go back and correct part of a URL.
Apart from that, the instant you turn the Firefox OS phone on (without outdated version of the OS) you are instantly treated with respect and data-leaking crap such as network, GPS etc. is opt-in. Thus I'd be curious in an Ubuntu Phone tablet.
What a pain it was to convert a BASIC game from bottom-up to top-down. In the end that game never worked on my computer anyway. Should have gone for a rewrite:)
It is available if you don't mind it being a symmetric 2 Mbps, or "up to" 5 Mbps. Bond four phone lines if you can afford it, but that's some hundreds euros/dollars a month.
Too damn expensive. If you can get cable internet that's highly asymmetrical but with 3 Mbps upload, that wouldn't be bad. We just need fiber, alas fiber suffers from what I'd call the "last 100 meters problem", not just the last mile problem. As a society we're too cheap to wire the flats and homes themselves even though there is fiber lurking everywhere.
32bit Windows version might have a bit better luck, you might try running an XP driver under 7 32bit although playing with the USB stack or an on-board USB controller in that way may be ugly or bork things horribly.
There is minimal work to do, likely : adjust the input volume or gain (and maybe output volume on what plays the cassette) till you like how it sounds. Has to be mentioned since by just leaving the volume at 100% you might have very easily avoidable saturation, excessive noise.
Seems to me that people that are easily upset are a bunch of narcissistic idiots, middle class man-children that feel extremely entitled (to the wealth of their parents) and that grew up in a culture that continually glorifies violence (known as television, movies and law enforcement of the United States)
Such self-centered jerks have the requisite personality to be scammers, thieves and drug addicts. When you call their bullshit they'll make threats to you, that's how a scammer reacts when their would-be prey isn't buying in. Such a person likely used to make threats to his parents during childhood / early adulthood to get whatever they wanted (be it jet ski vacations or not having to eat their beans)
That's why placating narcissists of that nature doesn't work at all. They'll just scam you or throw their tantrums or embarass you, treating you just like they did to their parents. The use of Facebook (or perhaps other platforms easily tied into your real identity) doesn't help. The easily-upset idiot is rewarded (with social links, favors, even sex) for being narcissistic or adopting the right groupthink and having the right superficial behavior.
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The Taepodong-2 was not an ICBM. It's the space launch vehicle and Taepodong-1 was an earlier, clearly failed attempt. I believe someone made the Taepodong names up, and a decade or more ago we all assumed these were long range missiles rather than something to launch a satellite from.
True the line between space launch and ICBM seems really thin but this is really a rocket that needs weeks of launch preparation, can be fired from a single place and would only be usable as a really weak single shot, suicide first-strike.
Thus the immediate military value is zero. What works and is what US and Russia did is the other way around : you can use an ICBM for space launches.
CHrome and Edge are rolling release just like Firefox.
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What's the percentage in desktop users?
By very roughling adding up the mobile browsers figures (i.e. I didn't bother to sum up every 0.06% there) and removing them the 7% figure is turned to over 16%.
If say 1 billion desktops access the web that's not a small figure. Ok tone that down a bit, then Firefox perhaps has up to 100 million users.
a PC isn't able to know if a floppy was inserted into a drive, hell it can't even know if the floppy drive is connected or not hahaha.
As far as I know it did nothing, but there was a cool message left by the author in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.
Well it was "cool", and it was warm too. Thanks, buddy! I wish you could reply in my /usr/bin now.
Yep I have buddies with cable at home and it's good, but 30 megabits down and a few up. The low latency is the most noticeable thing, web pages load as if it were on a LAN and that's hugely better. But I doubt they will be in a hurry to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 or a european equivalent.
Historically though, antenna TV was the norm for the vast majority of the population, even at the turn of the century. There was a fad of building cable TV in the 80s and 90s but that's in specific neighborhoods and some public subsidized housing. Then there was a fad of satellite TV (digital) in the 90s and 2000s which allowed a similar selection of many channels without the need for infrastructure. Later still, TV over DSL is very popular, starting from the mid 2000s.
So the cable infrastructure isn't there :) and what's left is to bring fiber. Perhaps in some cases fiber to the building, then very high speed and low range VDSL would be a good idea. But that has never been in the news.
I'm a believer at least in rural fiber. Yes it's useful and cheap there and there is a demography problem there as farmers are aging and everybody left. They should be scrambling to bring fiber there, it should be profitable and yet another capitalist crisis is looming because investors have too much money and nothing worth investing into.
Well, as a desktop user I'm used to the higher reliability of Ubuntu / Mint and debian made some bad moves before already :
- Debian 6 : to protect your freedom, no wifi drivers are included. (Gave away a desktop that it turns out couldn't access the Internet)
- Debian 7 : no official desktop anymore. Well, there's Gnome 3 but why would you put that on an i486 distro?
- Debian 8 : why should I care? Buying a graphics card for getting drivers that play better with a 3D desktop is asking a bit much. But if I come across a 256MB computer I'll sure install text-mode debian and raw lxde on that. It is a bit late, though, those perfectly working Pentium III / BX chipset PC went into the trash.
Talk to AMD, yes. They sell 4GHz CPUs that lose to Intel's 3GHz CPUs.
France. I should have been clearer maybe, it's POTS lines and the filters/splitters, but I believe the ISP may not bother providing the plain voice service.
You mean, they want to run VoIP over IP? How rude.
At&t should allow for a dedicated low bandwith link with end-to-end connection, so you can run your VoIP without bad quality, jitter and lost packets.
Can't speak for netflix but SD video is definitely worth watching. Who cares? A computer monitor isn't a giant TV.
I run Firefox "Developer" edition (formerly Aurora, i.e. alpha) with "Electrolysis", and it's satistfying. I feared it would be a RAM hogging and that my process list would be polluted by a ton of "firefox" processes but what actually happens is you have "Web Content", "firefox" and "plugin-container" (in descending order of RAM use).
Page rendering is not super fast but the old issues of everything slowing down even text input are gone. When I first started using it I even thought the RAM use was rather low (for a browser) and that it seems better at freeing memory.
So far so good, regarding the tech. UI-wise I at least still have the menu bar and the title bar. On Windows I don't know how you get the frigging title bar back! Should be in the basic options. So, don't use Windows. That said the way of acting like Gnome developers sucks. I should be able to e.g. disable pictures even if I don't use the setting and if it would "break" the web.
These days in my country at least the router/modem provided by the ISP has a connector to plug an old (or new) land phone in, but it goes over VoIP. You have an RJ11 to phone plug adapter if needed.
"Real" POTS is something you would have to look for, likely from the former monopoly ("historical") operator. Or maybe in a few areas left where things still have to go through the historical operator even when your ISP is something else.
BTW grandma has had a DECT cordless for a while. Also, a permanently seated laptop (where there used to be a videotex terminal) that still feels new even though it's perhaps eight/nine year old. Grandma seems to keep stuff in amazing working order and cleanliness (e.g. a vacuum from the 70s) not necessarily clinging to old stuff. Why throw away something that isn't even 20-year-old?, lol.
How many people choose using these browsers instead of just using them because they're the default?
e.g. Opera Mini will be found on phones with limited CPU/memory and bandwith, perhaps some embedded devices. Includes so-called "feature phones".
UC browser might be the default on a lot of phones in China etc. for all we know.
The one that is unequivocally not a default browser is Opera Mobile : it comes in at 0.02% only!
Add to that that many people don't install any applications at all, or a handful ones. Some use an Android phone without using a Google account. (e.g. one of my friend, on whose phone I will install Firefox browser when we get to it)
Ha! you don't know how to use the three sea shells!
LOL when seeing toggle buttons I sometimes wonder if the devs have a weird sense of humor. Is it turned on or turned off? hmmm.. uhhh..
When you plug a fourth kettle in, an ominous voice descends and tells you : YOU NEED TO CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!
That'd be high specs for that little OS.
But expensive for a toy. Also, it's boring not to have a stylus.
4" Firefox OS smartphone, I've tried. Lacks a stylus and a bit tiring to hold the thing, as there is no stand. No apps is a feature. Well, the LCD screen sucks too (perhaps high end LCD is fine. Non-LCD would be better). I'm not used to these little stupid mobile things. Perhaps someone one day will have the brilliant idea to put left/right cursor keys on the virtual keyboard so you can go back and correct part of a URL.
Apart from that, the instant you turn the Firefox OS phone on (without outdated version of the OS) you are instantly treated with respect and data-leaking crap such as network, GPS etc. is opt-in. Thus I'd be curious in an Ubuntu Phone tablet.
What a pain it was to convert a BASIC game from bottom-up to top-down. In the end that game never worked on my computer anyway. Should have gone for a rewrite :)
It is available if you don't mind it being a symmetric 2 Mbps, or "up to" 5 Mbps.
Bond four phone lines if you can afford it, but that's some hundreds euros/dollars a month.
Too damn expensive. If you can get cable internet that's highly asymmetrical but with 3 Mbps upload, that wouldn't be bad.
We just need fiber, alas fiber suffers from what I'd call the "last 100 meters problem", not just the last mile problem. As a society we're too cheap to wire the flats and homes themselves even though there is fiber lurking everywhere.
God told to run only in 640x480 with 16 colors and get rid of memory protection. USB isn't necessary in any way either.
32bit Windows version might have a bit better luck, you might try running an XP driver under 7 32bit although playing with the USB stack or an on-board USB controller in that way may be ugly or bork things horribly.
There is minimal work to do, likely : adjust the input volume or gain (and maybe output volume on what plays the cassette) till you like how it sounds. Has to be mentioned since by just leaving the volume at 100% you might have very easily avoidable saturation, excessive noise.
Seems to me that people that are easily upset are a bunch of narcissistic idiots, middle class man-children that feel extremely entitled (to the wealth of their parents) and that grew up in a culture that continually glorifies violence (known as television, movies and law enforcement of the United States)
Such self-centered jerks have the requisite personality to be scammers, thieves and drug addicts. When you call their bullshit they'll make threats to you, that's how a scammer reacts when their would-be prey isn't buying in.
Such a person likely used to make threats to his parents during childhood / early adulthood to get whatever they wanted (be it jet ski vacations or not having to eat their beans)
That's why placating narcissists of that nature doesn't work at all. They'll just scam you or throw their tantrums or embarass you, treating you just like they did to their parents.
The use of Facebook (or perhaps other platforms easily tied into your real identity) doesn't help. The easily-upset idiot is rewarded (with social links, favors, even sex) for being narcissistic or adopting the right groupthink and having the right superficial behavior.