The full scale of the problems doesn't begin to show up until you begin to use win10 as a power user.
It's an okay system for a secretary for using MS Office and maybe an invoice program.
It's a bad system for a developer who needs to write embedded C, crosscompile for 5 different embedded platforms, support 20 various embedded protocols, often involving weird hardware plugged into the PC. The backwards compatibility modes are dodgy at times, the system poorly manages a large number of programs including multiple IDE,
It's an absolutely abysmal system for someone working in show business. Imagine your laptop driving the scene lighting and sound system starts a mandatory round of updates mid-way through the concert.
It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
"double the distance between our galaxy and our nearest neighbors in about 10 billion years." - except we won't, because the two galaxies are gravitationally bound and the bond overcomes space expansion.
It only works between superclusters of galaxies.
The analogy of "dots on expanding balloon" is inaccurate. It's more like blotches of dried, hard glue - each blotch being a supercluster. The space expands in between them, they drift apart, but each blotch remains roughly the same size.
My phone is Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. It cost me 650PLN. The only Motorola phone of corresponding specs (2GB RAM, octa-core, dual sim, SD slot) is Motorola Moto G4 Plus. 1100PLN.
So - yes, you can get all that stuff from a decent Motorola phone, for about twice the price.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. I was comparing it to Samsung Galaxy Note J5, which was released at about the same time, is a really popular dual-sim phone nowadays, and costs about the same.
I installed the official Europeized MIUI from https://miuipolska.pl/download... following the procedure on the site (place the file in/sdcard, rename it to update.zip, reboot holding volume down, pick "English", "Install update.zip to System One")
The original's English support was... uh, "scarce". Like, the message is in English, but buttons what to do with it are in Chinese. I probably could use the in-system "Updater" app, but all system app names were in Chinese, so I couldn't locate it;) Now Chinese still peeks out from obscure corners of the system (some pre-installed apps in disused folder) but the system is 99% in English.
I didn't try loading any other ROMs. What I have already exceeds my expectations. MIUI has some quirks that take getting used to, but once you do, it's really no worse than anything you can get elsewhere; plus I always (in the past) found 3rd party ROMs fail to support some most obscure features like the FM radio or the Infrared, while the official one covers 100% of what the hardware provides - and really doesn't restrict anything that usual stock ROMs restrict.
I got a Xiaomi phone recently. At first I was a little wary, but it grew on me immensely.
First - it comes pre-rooted. The built-in "Security" app can be used to simply grant root to any app that requires it. The bootloader is fully unlocked too, if you choose to replace the whole OS.
Then - Extras. Dual Sim, SD slot, FM radio, and all the typical essential goodies, plus some extras like gyroscope. A HUGE battery. IR sensor/LED for using as remote. A normal, generic earphones jack. Decent camera and a strong LED which you can use as a flashlight without installing 3rd party apps or risking damage.
And then a similar Samsung of the same release date and the same price has half the features. Xiaomi has roughly 2x the screen resolution (although not AMOLED), 8 cores instead of 4, 2GB RAM instead of 1.5, twice as much flash.
With entering the western markets en masse, I imagine Root and unlocked bootloader will get the axe first. Then the price will get jacked up to match phones of similar amount of features.
That wasn't the question. Considering the expected level of intoxication (causing difficulty writing) you'd *want* that notification. Whether it would do you any good is an entirely different matter.
[Clippy] "GPS positioning indicates you've spent past 4 hours at an establishment known to serve liquors, and you seem to be texting a contact named 'ex'. Would you like me to assist you in editing the text message?"
You're excluding a good deal of decent free apps. AdAway, blocks ad hosts at the hosts file. It's funny how some apps squirm and complain that the ad hosts appear to be down.
Well, try doing this on an old Android phone with a poor network coverage.
I'll bet you they will take you several minutes at the very least.
They fail to load. They fail to load the script. Then they fall back to script-less version. Then once you finally solve it and submit (and wait a good minute to load), you are presented with a textarea filled with gibberish you are supposed to copy&paste into a field below. And submit again.
At which point your network lease expires, you're assigned a new IP, and you must start from scratch.
I'm fairly sure the captchas are computer-generated (with Google hoping nobody has as advanced algorithms as they do), because they contain typically computer-related errors.
The "Type the number in" with photo of a building number, shot at an angle, tilted, cropped a little. The number was something like 7375, with the top dash of the first "7" trimmed away by the edge of the picture - but judging by the curve, the tilt, being identical to the second "7", I was confident that was the number.
But no, that answer wasn't accepted. To computer image vision, that's clearly a 1373 and I guess that would be accepted as the captcha answer.
This happens on a more or less regular basis. You shouldn't guess what the actual number is. You should guess what the current, faulty photo makes the number look like. "8" partially obscured by the edge of the building? You'd better type "3", despite the "3" right next to it uses a different shape.
There are games that are crap as games but have good story. It's far better to watch a commentary-free LetsPlay for free than to pay $60 and trudge through repetitive gameplay for the good cutscenes.
For example, Special Forces: The Line. Crap gameplay. Awesome plot. It's much better to watch a pro beat the game than play it yourself.
*shrug* Installed Gentoo on 486 a good couple years ago. The compile+install updates process couldn't keep up with new updates. By the time prior updates compiled and were installed there were more new pending updates than before.
If instead of cron, I'd write "while `true` ; do emerge world ; done" I'd still never catch up with all the updates.
Thing is - what if they cabinet contains items that are illegal under an entirely different set of laws than the current case? In this case I'd be simultaneously prove my innocence in the current case and thoroughly incriminate myself in something entirely different. Or can I somehow force the prosecution to completely ignore everything contained within that doesn't pertain to current case?
Thing is you can be convicted for specific instances of software piracy: Application X, market value $x, fine $x. You can't be convicted "for software piracy in general". They need concrete proofs of concrete violations, and these reside on the disk. General admission won't be enough.
There is no child porn on this drive. But there is software, which I have purchased legally, but don't possess the proofs of purchase; they've been lost during a move a year ago. Currently, the copyright-related laws take the approach 'guilty until proven innocent' upon discovery of such software - without proof of purchase I'm automatically assumed to have obtained it illegally. Therefore revealing contents of the drive would incriminate me on a case entirely unrelated to the current one, and in an especially unfair way since despite being innocent I'd be required to prove my innocence, and unable to do it, proclaimed guilty.
Energy is definitely gravitational mass; a body of high kinetic energy exhibits more gravitational pull than the same body at rest.
Is it inertial mass? Well, I'm not sure, but supposedly the energy-derived mass *is* indistinguishable from other forms of mass so I'd find it surprising if it wasn't inertial. Of course rest mass of a photon would be zero... but can we even discuss a photon at rest?
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Wouldn't it be able to detect weaker events if they happen closer to us?
Naked women are okay for the Muslim, "sluts will get what's coming to them".
Anonymous should be posting pictures of the most delicious bacon dishes.
The full scale of the problems doesn't begin to show up until you begin to use win10 as a power user.
It's an okay system for a secretary for using MS Office and maybe an invoice program.
It's a bad system for a developer who needs to write embedded C, crosscompile for 5 different embedded platforms, support 20 various embedded protocols, often involving weird hardware plugged into the PC. The backwards compatibility modes are dodgy at times, the system poorly manages a large number of programs including multiple IDE,
It's an absolutely abysmal system for someone working in show business. Imagine your laptop driving the scene lighting and sound system starts a mandatory round of updates mid-way through the concert.
It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
Actually, following some leaks, decompilation, forgotten debug symbols etc, full source of Minecraft is available. Not legally, but still.
"double the distance between our galaxy and our nearest neighbors in about 10 billion years." - except we won't, because the two galaxies are gravitationally bound and the bond overcomes space expansion.
It only works between superclusters of galaxies.
The analogy of "dots on expanding balloon" is inaccurate. It's more like blotches of dried, hard glue - each blotch being a supercluster. The space expands in between them, they drift apart, but each blotch remains roughly the same size.
My phone is Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. It cost me 650PLN.
The only Motorola phone of corresponding specs (2GB RAM, octa-core, dual sim, SD slot) is Motorola Moto G4 Plus. 1100PLN.
So - yes, you can get all that stuff from a decent Motorola phone, for about twice the price.
The Chinese government will have way less ability to abuse my private data than my own government.
err, holding volume up :) Volume down enters fastboot.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. I was comparing it to Samsung Galaxy Note J5, which was released at about the same time, is a really popular dual-sim phone nowadays, and costs about the same.
I installed the official Europeized MIUI from https://miuipolska.pl/download... following the procedure on the site (place the file in /sdcard, rename it to update.zip, reboot holding volume down, pick "English", "Install update.zip to System One")
The original's English support was... uh, "scarce". Like, the message is in English, but buttons what to do with it are in Chinese. I probably could use the in-system "Updater" app, but all system app names were in Chinese, so I couldn't locate it ;) Now Chinese still peeks out from obscure corners of the system (some pre-installed apps in disused folder) but the system is 99% in English.
I didn't try loading any other ROMs. What I have already exceeds my expectations. MIUI has some quirks that take getting used to, but once you do, it's really no worse than anything you can get elsewhere; plus I always (in the past) found 3rd party ROMs fail to support some most obscure features like the FM radio or the Infrared, while the official one covers 100% of what the hardware provides - and really doesn't restrict anything that usual stock ROMs restrict.
I got a Xiaomi phone recently. At first I was a little wary, but it grew on me immensely.
First - it comes pre-rooted. The built-in "Security" app can be used to simply grant root to any app that requires it. The bootloader is fully unlocked too, if you choose to replace the whole OS.
Then - Extras. Dual Sim, SD slot, FM radio, and all the typical essential goodies, plus some extras like gyroscope. A HUGE battery. IR sensor/LED for using as remote. A normal, generic earphones jack. Decent camera and a strong LED which you can use as a flashlight without installing 3rd party apps or risking damage.
And then a similar Samsung of the same release date and the same price has half the features. Xiaomi has roughly 2x the screen resolution (although not AMOLED), 8 cores instead of 4, 2GB RAM instead of 1.5, twice as much flash.
With entering the western markets en masse, I imagine Root and unlocked bootloader will get the axe first. Then the price will get jacked up to match phones of similar amount of features.
That wasn't the question. Considering the expected level of intoxication (causing difficulty writing) you'd *want* that notification. Whether it would do you any good is an entirely different matter.
Hello, I just took a big dump on the hood of your car. In other news, though, I stopped pissing on your door.
(see how not-entirely-evil am I now?)
[Clippy] "GPS positioning indicates you've spent past 4 hours at an establishment known to serve liquors, and you seem to be texting a contact named 'ex'. Would you like me to assist you in editing the text message?"
You're excluding a good deal of decent free apps. AdAway, blocks ad hosts at the hosts file. It's funny how some apps squirm and complain that the ad hosts appear to be down.
Aero2 BDI.
Its numerous disadvantages are offset by one significant advantage: It's free.
Well, try doing this on an old Android phone with a poor network coverage.
I'll bet you they will take you several minutes at the very least.
They fail to load. They fail to load the script. Then they fall back to script-less version. Then once you finally solve it and submit (and wait a good minute to load), you are presented with a textarea filled with gibberish you are supposed to copy&paste into a field below. And submit again.
At which point your network lease expires, you're assigned a new IP, and you must start from scratch.
I'm fairly sure the captchas are computer-generated (with Google hoping nobody has as advanced algorithms as they do), because they contain typically computer-related errors.
The "Type the number in" with photo of a building number, shot at an angle, tilted, cropped a little. The number was something like 7375, with the top dash of the first "7" trimmed away by the edge of the picture - but judging by the curve, the tilt, being identical to the second "7", I was confident that was the number.
But no, that answer wasn't accepted. To computer image vision, that's clearly a 1373 and I guess that would be accepted as the captcha answer.
This happens on a more or less regular basis. You shouldn't guess what the actual number is. You should guess what the current, faulty photo makes the number look like. "8" partially obscured by the edge of the building? You'd better type "3", despite the "3" right next to it uses a different shape.
There are games that are crap as games but have good story. It's far better to watch a commentary-free LetsPlay for free than to pay $60 and trudge through repetitive gameplay for the good cutscenes.
For example, Special Forces: The Line. Crap gameplay. Awesome plot. It's much better to watch a pro beat the game than play it yourself.
*shrug* Installed Gentoo on 486 a good couple years ago. The compile+install updates process couldn't keep up with new updates. By the time prior updates compiled and were installed there were more new pending updates than before.
If instead of cron, I'd write "while `true` ; do emerge world ; done" I'd still never catch up with all the updates.
Are they really at liberty to do so? Can the court or the law somehow guarantee that?
Thing is - what if they cabinet contains items that are illegal under an entirely different set of laws than the current case?
In this case I'd be simultaneously prove my innocence in the current case and thoroughly incriminate myself in something entirely different. Or can I somehow force the prosecution to completely ignore everything contained within that doesn't pertain to current case?
Thing is you can be convicted for specific instances of software piracy: Application X, market value $x, fine $x. You can't be convicted "for software piracy in general". They need concrete proofs of concrete violations, and these reside on the disk. General admission won't be enough.
I wonder how it would go:
I plead the fifth.
There is no child porn on this drive. But there is software, which I have purchased legally, but don't possess the proofs of purchase; they've been lost during a move a year ago. Currently, the copyright-related laws take the approach 'guilty until proven innocent' upon discovery of such software - without proof of purchase I'm automatically assumed to have obtained it illegally. Therefore revealing contents of the drive would incriminate me on a case entirely unrelated to the current one, and in an especially unfair way since despite being innocent I'd be required to prove my innocence, and unable to do it, proclaimed guilty.
Energy is definitely gravitational mass; a body of high kinetic energy exhibits more gravitational pull than the same body at rest.
Is it inertial mass? Well, I'm not sure, but supposedly the energy-derived mass *is* indistinguishable from other forms of mass so I'd find it surprising if it wasn't inertial.
Of course rest mass of a photon would be zero... but can we even discuss a photon at rest?